 Let me call this session of the Santa Cruz City Council on February 28, 2023, to order and ask the clerk to call the roll. Thank you, Mayor, Council Member Newsom. Present. Brown. Here. Council Member Watkins is currently absent. Brunner. Present. Calentary Johnson. Present. Vice Mayor Golder. Here. And Mayor Culey. Here. Having established a quarter, we'll move forward on our agenda today. I am going to ask for public comment, either from anyone who is with us today or is online, who would like to comment on the closed session agenda. While folks may be thinking about that, we have on our closed session agenda four items. One relates to labor negotiation, one to anticipated litigation, one to existing litigation, and one regarding a number of liability claims. This would be the opportunity if you wish to address the council on these closed session items to do so. Ms. Bush, do we have anyone online with us? Nobody with their hand up. No. No one with their hands up. And I'll make one more call here. It doesn't appear that we have anyone with us in chambers today. We wish us to make comments on closed session. That being the case, what we will do is we will adjourn into closed session to take up those items. We will return and report on those, and we will return on at or before 2.45 p.m. This afternoon we stand in recess into closed session. The hour of 2.45 p.m. having arrived, we will resume our work as the City Council on February 28, 2023. The clerk will call the roll. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Newsome. Present. Brown. Here. Council Member Watkins is currently absent. Brunner. Present. Senator Johnson. Present. Vice Mayor Golder. Here. And Mayor Cooley. Here. We, what we are going to do now is a sad but important moment for us. As many of you know, some years ago, but too fresh in our memories was the loss of Butch Baker and Elizabeth Butler to Santa Cruz police officers in the line of duty, which still has cleaved a space in our hearts in this city. We love them. We love the work that they did, their families. And we are going to have a moment of silence for them. But just before we do that, I would invite the Chief to the microphone for a moment, sir. Good afternoon, Chief. Good afternoon, Mayor. Mayor Keely, Council. Thank you for taking the time to honor both Butch and Elizabeth. As you know, we had a wonderful ceremony for them on Sunday. And I just really want to acknowledge the support from the community. It really means a lot to our department and our staff to stay strong. You know, February 26, 2013 changed a lot of lives forever. And so we try to recognize the families of Butch and Elizabeth and support our staff that some still struggle. So it's real, but the support makes all the difference. So I appreciate this time and all of your support. Thank you. Those who are able, if you would stand for a moment of silence. And bless you, Butch and Elizabeth. We are on item number five, which is another sad moment, but important moment of recognition. This is the marking the one-year timeframe following the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army and government. This city has a close and enduring relationship with Ukraine. One of our sister city relationships is with Alushda, which sadly at this moment is under Russian occupation. Tatiana Burdak was kind enough to contact our city and the office of the mayor to request that we adopt a proclamation recognizing the terrible pain and suffering that the Russian government has inflicted upon the people of Ukraine, men, women, and children, civilians, as well as combatants. And for us to take a moment and really think about what that means. And I would like to walk down here and present to Tatiana a proclamation from the city and invite you to make some remarks, if you would. Thank you very much. My name is Tatiana Burdak. I am a second generation Ukrainian-American and a local Santa Cruz resident. I am here as a citizen and representative for the Ukrainians living throughout Santa Cruz County and for the displaced Ukrainians now living here, caused by this horrific and unprovoked invasion. My story is like many other Ukrainians in the diaspora. I grew up going to Ukrainian Saturday School, singing folk songs around a bonfire, Ukrainian dancing, playing Ukraine's national instrument, the bandura, making progies, halipsi, borsh, doing shots of vodka at the dinner table, and delighting in all the delicious food ways passed down from my ancestors. And in these past 369 days, I now understand that my childhood and upbringing was a carefully contrived preservation strategy from generations of ancestral oppression and genocide to keep our Ukrainian identity, language, culture, and art from being eradicated. The last year has shown the relentless will and unwavering spirit of Ukrainians. And the world has witnessed our determination to defend our freedoms, democracy, and independence. Thank you, Honorable Mayor Keeley and Santa Cruz City Council for this proclamation of solidarity with Ukraine. And thank you to every single person in our community that has shown and continues to express their support in the last year. I see Ukrainian flags throughout neighborhood streets on my walks. I've seen local businesses donate their profits to humanitarian aid in Ukraine. And so many of you have stepped in to support Ukrainians in any capacity. We see you. We thank you. And we love you. Please continue to amplify the voices of Ukrainians. And share and support Ukrainian dance, art, and food as a form of activism, resistance, and cultural preservation. And much like my family's history, I'm determined to keep them alive and well here in Santa Cruz, too. Slava Ukrainy Heroyam Slava, glory to Ukraine and glory to the heroes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for being here. We are on item number five, presiding officer announcements, there are none to be made. Statements of disqualification, this would be the opportunity for council members who may have a disqualifying circumstance to make that announcement. Seeing and hearing none, we will move to additions and deletions to the agenda. Do we have additional documents or items, Mr. We do not. Thank you very much. Mr. Kandadi, this would be the opportunity for you to report on any reportable closed session items. Yes, good afternoon, Mayor Keeley, members of the City Council. This afternoon, the council met in closed session at 1.30 in the courtyard conference room to consider the following items. Item one was a conference with labor negotiators. The council met with its negotiating team concerning three bargaining groups, the police officers association, police management association, and SEIU temporary employees. Item two was a conference with legal counsel involving anticipated litigation. Council received a report from the city attorney's office on one potential litigation item. Item 3.1, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation, the case don't morph the wharf versus the city of Santa Cruz was removed from the agenda prior to the meeting and was not discussed. Item 3.2, case of destiny, Rogers versus Nicole Adamo at all, currently pending in the Santa Cruz County Superior Court. The council by motion approved unanimously a direction to the city attorney's office to file a cross complaint in that case against a current defendant Santa Cruz Pacific associates. Item 4 was a conference with legal counsel concerning liability claims. The claimants were Mochi Zhu, Josiah, Justin, Gran, April, R, Laird, capital insurance group, and Brian, Todd, Shulman, there was no action taken on those claims, but they are also listed on your afternoon consent calendar for council action. That concludes my report. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ms. Bush, do you have any reports up to date to our meeting calendar? I do not. Thank you. Members, we are on the consent agenda. This is an item which includes a wide range of items. This is council agenda item 7 through 20 on our agenda, which will all be taken up in one motion. Unless one of those items is pulled by a council member. By the way, thank you for coming. You really don't need to stay with us. But thank you very much, and God bless Ukraine. Thank you. This would be the opportunity at this moment for anyone who wishes to comment on our items. We'll get to that in just a second. I want to see if any member of the city council wishes to pull an item from tonight. Excuse me, this afternoon's consent agenda, Ms. Brunner. Certainly. Certainly. Go ahead. Why don't you go ahead and do that now. Item number 12 on the consent agenda is the living wage rate annual prescription for fiscal year 2024 under the finance department. We received some correspondence from a member of the public regarding a statement that living wage is falling behind the actual minimum wage changes and is asking that we increase minimum wage based on CPI. But my understanding was that our living wage is well in excess of the minimum wage. So I just wanted to get that clarity if someone from finance department could speak to that. Good afternoon. Can you hear me okay? Yes, thank you. Good afternoon, Mayor and council members. Elizabeth Millby, purchasing manager in the finance department. I think it's important to make the distinction in answering the question that came in between the living wage annual prescriptive index update that applies to contracts with the city of Santa Cruz that are over $10,000 and the statewide minimum wage rate, which is something that is controlled at that state level. Our living wage rate currently is at $20.22 is what's put before you for this increase. And then $22.06. The minimum wage rate at the state level is at $15.50. So we are above that rate. Thank you so much. Thank you. Councilmember Calantari-Johnson, I believe you had an item about which you had a question. A comment. A comment, certainly. Should I go now? All right. So this is on item nine, which is authorizing authorization for application and acceptance of California interagency council on homelessness grant funds for encampment resolution funding program round two. I just wanted to thank staff for working on this application. I was pleased to see that we're continuing our work and helping those who are unhoused in our community. I mean, I know we're working across the jurisdictions in our county and hoping that we're encouraging other jurisdictions to provide similar crisis support. And in that vein, I would like to ask that we invite county staff to speak to some of their work and specifically implementation of some of the state legislation that's come down and specifically care courts that we all have to abide by very soon here. So a request to invite county staff to come and present us with the implementation plan and other efforts around crisis response to unhoused. At a future meeting. At a future meeting, not today. Very good. Thank you. Well, let's entertain that. Sounds wonderful. And that will be added as additional direction on this item. We will request that in a timely manner. Very good. Thank you. Miss Brown. I would I would echo those comments from my colleague council member Calentary Johnson. And I also just wanted to ask on this one because I it wasn't clear to me how much we're applying for. And I just wanted to I imagine that it's in process. And so I don't need a definitive answer there, but I just wanted to see if we could get a sense of, you know, what what's going into that application. Not a real detailed overview, but just. Well, good afternoon. Thanks. Good afternoon, Mayor and members of the council. I'm happy to provide a little more insight on that. Yes, we didn't have it available at the time of the agenda reports. The application we were seeking $6.2 million over two years. And really the crux of the funding request is to support our outreach team and to provide underwrite approximately half of the shelter costs the city overlook, as well as augment that with case management that would be provided by a nonprofit organization. Thank you so much. Anyone else on the consent agenda? This would be the opportunity for anyone to address the council on any item on the consent agenda. Let me ask if there's anyone with us in chambers this afternoon who would like to do so. Seeing and hearing none, Ms. Bush, do we have anyone online who wishes to do so? Nobody currently with their hand raised. We do have people. Okay. But, but perhaps not on this item. All right. Very good. The appropriate motion would be to adopt the consent agenda with the additional direction provided by Ms. Colantari Johnson. Is there such a motion? Motion by Ms. Watkins. A second by Ms. Colantari Johnson. Is there a debate or discussion seen and hearing none? We will move to a vote and the clerk will call the roll. Councilmember Newsom. Aye. Brown. Aye. Watkins. Aye. Brunner. Aye. Colantari Johnson. Aye. Vice Mayor Golder. Aye. And Mayor Culey. Aye. Motion carries by unanimous vote and so ordered. We are on item 21 and this is a excuse me for just a moment, just for a moment, please. Thank you. We are on file item number 21 and 22. These are public hearings on file item 21 and 22 on our agenda. If anyone wishes to address us on either of these items, this would be the opportunity to do so. Seeing and hearing no one present in council chambers, let me ask if members have questions or comments on either of these two items. Seeing and hearing none, Ms. Bush, do we have anyone online who wishes to make comments? We do not. A motion to, we will close the public hearing the matters back before the council. Is there a motion to approve? I'll move the public hearing consent agenda. Ms. Brown moves the public hearing portion of the consent agenda, which is items 21 and 22. Is there a second? There is a second. I second. By council member Brunner. Is there debate or discussion? Seeing and hearing none, the clerk will call the roll. Council member Newsom. Aye. Brown. Aye. Watkins. Aye. Brunner. Aye. Colantari Johnson. Aye. Vice Mayor Golder. Aye. Dean Mayer-Cue. Aye. Motion carries and so ordered. Members, we are on item number 23 under general business. This is West Cliff Drive update temporary traffic control efforts and traffic control next steps. We have items in our packet on this item. Members of the public, you can access that. We have with us Ms. Schmidt and Mr. Nguyen, who will be presenting on this item. Good afternoon. Thank you, Mayor. We are trying to get the presentation set up so we can also see the tiles. I'm Laura Schmidt, your assistant city manager. And with me co-presenting today is Nathan Nguyen, your public works director. Thank you so much for having us. We are very excited to give you an overall update on West Cliff as well as seek your direction and approval for some specific next steps for West Cliff. One of the things that we're doing as an internal city wide team is approaching West Cliff holistically as one of our great city treasures and an asset. And it's not a public works issue. It's not a climate issue. It's not a recreation issue. It is an asset and something that we want to make resilient and accessible to all. So the team has been amazing in changing our paradigm and shifting in this regard. And when we step back and look at what has happened with the end of December and early January atmospheric rivers and the resultant surge and damage to our West Cliff area, we realize that we needed to really take an integrated and collaborative approach to West Cliff. And you'll notice that we consciously in the agenda report and starting to move forward refer to it as West Cliff. And then we have specific actions and projects related to the road will refer to it as West Cliff Drive. So West Cliff is extremely critical and important to us as a community and it has changed with the extensive damage that happened as a result of the storm surge. We cannot promise nor would it be responsible for us to say that it is going back to be the way that it is changes the foot. And the damage that happened was so extensive that we hit thresholds that we weren't expecting to hit for several decades. And those thresholds are triggering actions that we thought we had longer to take. So now that we're in this situation, we're going to have to balance a lot of competing needs and interests and make some difficult choices. And I like to use the word choices versus decisions because decisions are definite, but choices can be definite, but they also give us the ability to learn from the choice and make adjustments and do what we need to do next. Because as we've seen Mother Nature doesn't really give us the time sometimes to be able to say, OK, this is the path, this is where we're going. Well, that may not work out given what happens with an atmospheric river or any other natural erosion or are important or devastating climate event that may happen. So with this integrated collaborative approach, we are stepping back and saying, what are the main things that we need to keep top of mind? We have safety, we have accessibility to the area. And as you saw from the previous slide, that could be resonance, that could be vehicle, that could be pedestrian and that can be bike. So there's a lot of different ways to access it and for recreation or other uses. We have to consider the environment, we have to consider the community of West Cliff and those neighbors and those neighborhoods immediately adjacent. And the fact that there are a lot of people coming from that community and outside of the community and over the hill and from other countries to be able to recreate and enjoy this amazing space that we have. And then as I said earlier, it is basic transportation and it is a way from getting from point A to B as well. So that is, I think, the best description that we were trying to convey to the council and the community of how we're approaching West Cliff as an overall project and a gem to be able to figure out how we keep this accessible and resilient over the next decades. And with that, I'll talk about the scope of what the work looks like for us. In your agenda report, we've broken it up into four different areas just for ease of conversation. We have an emergency protective measure that we have to put in place as a response to the damage that happened in West Cliff and on West Cliff Drive. So we need your after the fact ratification of that emergency protective measure. Additionally, because of the extensive damage, there are a lot of emergency and urgent repair and recovery work that need to happen. And that will be described as well. And then within that urgent response, we are also asking for council direction on the possibility of a one way pilot for West Cliff. Additionally, moving forward items, areas three and four pathways and road map and a prioritized plan. Those are more forward looking. So the first two are immediate response and urgent response and the next ones for the pathways and options and a prioritized plan. That takes the legacy of all the master planning and decades of resiliency work, transportation work and general plan work to be able to put it all together. This is where we are now, given these very intense, destructive storms that we experience and how do we move forward and how do we fund that in a methodical, planful way. So that's how we're going to break up the conversation with you all today. For the first two items, I'm going to hand it over to Nathan. And then keep in mind, these are very tactical things that we need to talk about in the public works space. And that is not all that is West Cliff. And then we will transition to the bigger picture, longer term strategic road map and pathways process and the prioritization of a plan to move forward after that. With that, I'm going to hand it over to Nathan. Miss Schmidt. Thank you, Mr. Nguyen. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon, Mayor, council members, members of the public. Nathan Nguyen, public works director. Thank you, Laura for the introduction. I started off with the first slide and I wanted to take us back. To the recent atmospheric river storms, swell events that occurred both on December 31st and on January 4th and subsequent events that happened after that. Because of those recent events, West Cliff sustained quite a bit of damage in particular on if you can view on the slide here at sites locations. Number two, number three, number five and number six. This image actually comes to us from USGS. They've been partners with us. They were actually able to take an aerial photo image before and after the storm events. And so they gave us a rough estimation of how much riprap was displaced with those recent storm events. So as you can see on the slide there, roughly 5,000 tons of riprap were displaced as a part of those recent storm events. A few of those locations received sustained extensive damage because there was no coastal army. We actually had three projects in our CIP to perform revetment projects out there that were supposed to be reformulated this summer, potentially into the next year, but unfortunately Mother Nature came quicker than we could get those projects implemented. So that's kind of the current situation that we have on West Cliff. And as a part of that emergency response effort, the emergency protection measures that Laura had mentioned, we, Public Works, along with other city staff, Parks and Rec, and it's been a collaborative effort to put out those protective measures to essentially put water barriers around some of the failures around West Cliff and to reopen it to the public, which is what you currently see on this next slide here. So these are the emergency temporary traffic control measures that were put in place around the middle of January. Essentially what we've done here is to do a one-way vehicle traffic on Westbound from Columbia to Woodrow on West Cliff. The Bethany Curve Covert was not originally in our CIP project, but it did sustain quite a bit of damage. And so going out there with structural engineering team or geotech that we also had on board, we decided to close that to the public, but still keep it open for two-way pedestrian and bicycle traffic. The other location that's shown in purple here is still open to the public, to the homes adjacent to West Cliff right there, but of course the vehicle traffic has to stop at Bethany Curve Covert. We've instituted a temporary traffic control plan with detour signs to detour the public onto Almar Street and Delaware Street, as well as onto Woodrow and Pelton. So that's currently what's in place today. With that, I think we'll hand it over back to Laura. Thank you, Nathan. So part of the action today is to have you ratify this emergency protective measure that is on this slide, as well as potentially give us direction for a next step underneath the emergency or urgent recovery and repair work. So in this I chart, at the top part of it is the emergency protective measure that is currently in place. That was the preceding slide, and we're seeking your ratification that is okay at this point. On the next bar chart, the emergency or urgent repair work and federal funding, that is just an indication for you that we have started that work as of January and staff across the city, be it Parks and Rec, Public Works, Fire, the City Manager's Office, and Finance, are in the process of filing all of the paperwork that we need with the federal agencies in order to get approval for the work done, as well as to be eligible for reimbursement later. So that process is ongoing. It's already started. It will take months and probably even years for us to complete that. It's a lot of fun. The other consideration for you that staff is asking for direction as part of this recovery work, given the extensive damage and the exceeding of those thresholds and having hit triggers that we thought were decades away, we now have a very different physical structure out there in West Cliff, and we're asking for your direction to pilot a one-way. So to move away from the emergency protective measure and actually do a pilot of a one-way on West Cliff. So we're seeking Council direction to be able to do that. We have already reached out to the California Coastal Commission, and they graciously agreed to meet with us last week, and they had given us direction that we could do the one-way pilot underneath an emergency coastal development permit. So with that direction, if you launch us today, we could then go to the Transportation and Public Works Commission with an informative sharing and getting feedback from the Transportation and Public Works Commission. Since it's an emergency coastal development permit, I'll call that an ECDP, we do not have to go to the Planning Commission. We could do the design through community outreach, engineering, professional services support, staff expertise, and then return to you, Council, for approval of a design and next steps in May. So that's the overall process that we're seeking your feedback on. As far as the community outreach and the one-way pilot itself, we have left the direction open to have you direct us as staff to go out and explore, look at basically looking at best practices, having staff weigh in and amalgamate and consolidate all of the different master points that are out there, use engineering services, consulting work, and then community outreach to inform the path of the one-way and the design and the parameters of it. So that's why it is worded the way it is today. How do we get community outreach for this potential one-way pilot? We have designed community connection paths. We have existing pathways where we have a lot of our staff who already go to different avenues, whether that's Tiffany talking to existing groups in our community, whether that's our participation on existing boards and commissions and other agency work. We will continue to leverage those. We will add pop-ups to that, where especially our transportation staff will be out there on West Cliff and on West Cliff Drive and some handing dandy like bright yellow fluorescent vests so they're easily identifiable to be able to speak to the community in-site and in there and be available for questions and answers and also go out to neighborhoods and smaller groups and speak with them directly. We're also going to be doing surveys and taking advantage of basically any ad hoc mechanism that we think can leverage a direct conversation with the community. So that's what we're calling the community connections. In addition to that, we will be doing specific community outreach events and we want to do those minimally to in March. Should you give us this direction to do the one-way pilot and then working with the input and feedback through the connections and those specific events to be able to work with the engineering consulting firm to put together some options and a design, go back to the community for a checkpoint in May prior to then coming to council for the actual review of the design with you. So that is overall what we're looking at at a high level for the community outreach piece of it. I also put on this chart just as an informational context piece for you, the fact that throughout this process staff will be actively and avidly meeting with community with regulatory partners whether that's the California Coastal Commission, my chair just dropped like I'm not short enough as it is with the California Coastal Commission, with Army Corps of Engineers, with FEMA and anybody else that we can talk to to get some help and insight as to how to best go about these changes. So that's ongoing work that happens day in and day out. And then also I have the California Coastal Commission meetings because we very much appreciate their partnership and they meet once a month and should we need to be able to go to them for because of regulation and process to get approval for something, we have these bytes at the pie. And we also have a backlog of quite a long list of California Coastal conversations to have outside of West Cliff. So we have the general plan, we have ordinances, we have other projects that are going on that all those need to go to Coastal as well. So just wanting to put that together as context. Nathan, anything to add here? If I may, I just wanted to add that under the ECDP and working with Coastal Commission it does allow for a pilot program that isn't static. It would allow for staff, if approved today, to proceed with the pilot program that we could work with various designs or ideas through the process. So it's not just one design that has to be implemented and stay that way. Underneath that emergency permit there is a lot of autonomy which was built into that. Great. Additionally, as we move into those more forward-looking aspects of our scope that I spoke about, I wanted to give you an idea of the process that we're envisioning for the pathways and road map. One of the things that we've also done is hired a partner in this journey, their Farallon strategies. So they are very much focused on climate change and marrying their knowledge of climate and helping communities be more resilient. And they're also not just scope of resiliency, but they also understand a lot about funding channels and mechanisms and creatively being able to tap into the horsepower of other agencies and the regulatory world that is out there and helping us navigate that a little bit more easily. So I just wanted to put that plug in there that we are working with Farallon. So the context that we have to operate under and carve out this journey has regulations a lot. There's regulations, it seems like, every turn. And then we also have, how do we fund this? So we have a small request of you, and it doesn't seem small, but 700,000 in the context of the damage at West Cliff and the existing work that we want to do, it is small. So we also need to figure out in the long term how to fund all of this and then be able to put together pathways and a prioritized plan that we know could get knocked asunder through natural erosion and these terrible weather events that we're continuing to experience. So anything that we put in front of you has the cortisol that we're probably going to be back when something else happens and it's exhausting, but it's also something that we know that we have to deal with in this environment. So how does all of that, how do those constraints and the world and the context that we have to operate within, what are we doing? So we're taking all the thought input that is out there and that is some multi-decades of existing master plan work and that comes out of many departments, be it Parks and Rec, Public Works, our Climate Action Program. We have a lot of great work and knowledge in our master plans to be able to leverage. So we combine that with our community group feedback and thoughts and our individual community members with our staff subject matter expertise and the knowledge of our regulatory partners, partnering with other agencies and how they need to go about their work and what is important to them as well as our legislators. So all of that information and those thoughts we put together and we develop prioritized needs and requirements that are updated given the damage in our existing world that we have to work in and then we define the projects and we take those projects and we then have to prioritize and funnel them further. So we have a set of prioritized West Cliff projects that we go after and we put timelines and action plans associated with that. So that's the process. You're like, okay, Laura Schmidt, how long is that going to take? This is just a view of the first six months. So right now we are in the data gathering phase that started in January shortly after the storm events and the surge and that'll go through the middle of March. We have already started the community connections and the community outreach event. The first one was on February 13th. Our formal community connections with our pop-ups and our surveys will start in early March, especially should you give us direction on the one way. But this other process related to pathways and prioritize plan has to happen regardless of one way. So the community outreach here happens in addition to the one way community outreach that we do. So we're trying to spread our staff across both of these Gantt charts essentially. So on the community outreach events related to the roadmap and the planning piece of it, we are targeting to do that monthly and align them with key milestones, either draft input into a draft deliverable review of a draft deliverable and are just something critical that is coming up and we will try as much as possible to align those with a touch voice with a more formal structured event monthly. That's the goal. Doing all of that, doing that work in February, we've already started it. We want to come out with some recovery pathways and options by the middle of May. Then in the middle of May, we transition to a prioritize plan and more detailed ways about what plan and prioritize projects are we going to go after, the order that we're going to go after them in and how we believe we can fund them. And that will take us through the end of August. And then the fund of the implementation of all of that begins. But we will continue to do all of the repair work that has to happen, that Nathan outlined earlier, with those sites that were listed in the damage of the flyover thingy. Thank you, Ariel. Very good, thank you. So that will all happen and that will take us through the end of August. And then on the horizon, we have feedback on that prioritize plan so that will be in the follow-on Gantt chart of going back out to the community that this is what we think we want to do and then at probably somewhere around a 10-year planning horizon with a funding and a rollout. So that's kind of where we are right now. That's what your amazing West Cliff team has been looking at. So we're asking for a council action today to receive this update, to retroactively approve the traffic emergency protective measure that we put in place that Nathan outlined in that gray PowerPoint slide. We're asking you to direct us to do a one-way pilot and return in May with the design and plan. And we're asking you to fund out of our general fund stabilization reserves a seed project in fiscal year 2023 immediately for this West Cliff work. And we will use part of that seed funding of that $700,000 to release step six, which is an RFP for engineering and design services related to the one-way pilot to be able to help us go out, gather data, and work with our staff and a professional services consulting firm to be able to put forth to the community and back to you at the end of May a design and a plan to do the one-way pilot. And with that, I'll ask you what questions you have. Ms. Schmidt, Mr. Nguyen, thank you very much for an excellent presentation. Let me see if there are questions and comments from council members, Ms. Brunner. Thank you. My question is when you return in May for approval with a design and plan, would that include a length of time for the pilot program? Yes. Thanks, council member Brunner. Yeah, I believe we would propose a time frame at which we would want to institute that plan. And my other question is would that plan and community outreach also include we received a lot of correspondence from the public with concerns on the other streets and how a one-way traffic flow would affect those other streets around that area. And so that would all be included in the design and plan. That's correct. As we develop a plan for a one-way pilot, we would incorporate data collection points on the side streets and most likely institute also traffic calming measures in conjunction with the one-way pilot. With the pilot itself, we want to be able to collect that data to actually determine the impacts on the neighboring streets and form decisions later as since, again, this is a pilot that we can make changes further down the road. And I was remiss in highlighting the traffic calming measures. It is definitely present in the agenda report and we are looking at a one-way pilot holistically. It is not just from one point to another on West Cliff Drive. It is inclusive of the impact of that one way to the surrounding neighborhoods and the traffic calming to put in place to be able to alleviate the changes. Thank you. Council Member Brown. Thank you. And thank you for the response to that question. I also wanted to ask about that and so I'll just follow up and ask in terms of, because we are getting a lot of communications about this and some of them are very specific to particular blocks and some of it's just more general. In terms of making sure that those data points get into your calculus as you're figuring out the plan and traffic calming measures, signage, other things, should we just be sending you those forwarding to those messages? I did forward one, I thought, oh, you got it, right? I wasn't sure if you would get them as well, which ones you get, so should we just keep sending you messages like that that can be helpful for addressing concerns of the neighbors? That's a great question, actually, and I apologize, we didn't include it in this presentation, but we do have a new website that was developed in response to the emergency protective measures that were installed, so cityofsandexruse.com slash Westcliff Traffic Controls. On that webpage, we've designed it so that we've put the latest information on the current events that have happened on Westcliff and there's actually at the bottom of that page a way for you, a public to provide input and that can be collected in an organized manner. Great, so also promoting that and getting that out to constituents when they communicate. This is the page that Nathan is talking about. The other thing that we are going to do and publish out the change to is we're going to create another option underneath here, so right now I have a question and I have a comment, we're going to add a box for traffic calming specifically so that we could weed those out easily. So those requests will be able to be able to just parse them off so we can look at those specifically. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation and the work you've done so far on this. No, it's not an easy task. So, I'm glad you talked about some of the specific ways of community outreach. I know that some community members and neighbors that are impacted didn't know about this agenda item. So I'm wondering if, so this is a question and comment and maybe direction, but can we do direct mail to the residents that live in the impacted streets? Rather than putting something out on the social media that is we're going to do this town hall or this community, can we have direct mail to make sure that the residents on the impacted streets are, know about any of the events that will come up? I think the short answer to the question is yes. I think we can definitely add that as part of the outreach that gets performed with regards to a potential one-way pilot. We can look at the number of streets. We send out mailers quite often for projects and so we can definitely incorporate that. Do you need that as part of a direction or is this conversation enough? I think this conversation is enough. Let's see. I think pretty much asked my question that we have been getting a lot of specific suggestions on traffic calming strategies and I'm definitely not a traffic engineer so I don't know what's feasible, what's not, but some of these seem really great. Speed bumps on certain streets or forming cul-de-sacs or putting a water barrier, putting up no thorough street signs. So as we get these, as we get these, I know we can direct folks to the website, what is the best mechanism for us to connect directly and make this part of our efforts. And do you need direction today with some of these specific suggestions? I don't know if we necessarily need the specific direction to take in public comment. We do that quite often with a lot of the products that we have. I would, the traffic engineering team is most likely going to lead the effort as getting the consultant on boarded and so in addition to the website, we'll probably direct that type of comments to our traffic engineering team so they can collect that information and then when we bring back a proposed project we can have the comments included and then what's being proposed and then of course we talk about the pluses and minuses of why we're proposing a particular design. And so some of these measures seem like there are more immediate asks and not to be, not to wait until May. So, we have to be very careful of the circumstances. Currently there's nothing to find yet as far as beyond the emergency protective measures that we've put in place in addition to the detour sighting that's out there now. We've done some initial data collection which Laura had on her slide where we're going to collect the amount of traffic that we're seeing on these other local streets but what we're asking for is a process so that we can really make these proposed different designs with these informed with the data that we collect. And I would just add as with any urgent request that a council member or the mayor may get from a community member just funnel it to the department head so if it is related to traffic and streets I would say send that to Nathan and he can be the clearing house to determine is it feedback for a one way feedback for something else in the public works area is it urgent that sort of thing so I would use Nathan as the clearing house. Sorry. I may come back to this during the discussion because there are some specific directions that we've been asked to explore. And then could you speak to any potential impacts on emergency response if we were to move forward with a pilot one way? You know, fire and police going out because someone has fallen off the cliff. So any design that public works puts together in conjunction with the community and the engineering consulting firm has to be able to accommodate the through traffic of public safety so it has to be informed by that and that is a baseline given for us. Okay, last question can you provide a little bit more specificity around the 700,000 and what that would be used for? Sure. I'm happy to kind of elaborate more on the cost estimate that was developed. So as a part of the emergency protective measures that are in place now we're roughly estimating around 200-250,000 just for the water barriers and the striping that was installed last January. So when we extrapolate that and we start looking at a little bit more about how long West Cliff is where these limits might go we roughly came up with a number of around 500 to 600,000 for these additional protective measures. So in addition to that when we talk about professional consulting services looking at a contract that may end up being 12 to 24 months and you're looking about the amount of time and effort for the engineering and consulting staff and so we roughly estimated that at about one to 200,000 so that's how we came up with that. Thank you. Council Member Watkins. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation. My colleagues asked a lot of the questions that I had. I think just building on the question around the funding I see in the account we have 1.4 million in that specific reserve and I'm wondering if you have and maybe Matt city manager at that level budget to expand that will go quick given some of the concerns and some of the issues that keep arising in our community and so are there other reserves or what should we be thinking about in terms of funding in addition to that? Thanks for the question Vice Mayor Watkins or excuse me Council Member Watkins and I'm sure Laura will have some thoughts on this as well but this is absolutely initial seed money to get some of these initial remediation projects in place part of that consulting funding will be going towards bringing Feralon on board who will be helping us with a number of the federal funding pathways that we're going to be exploring so we can leverage this to the full extent and then as part of our CIP and capital prioritization work as we move into the fiscal year 24 budgeting West Cliff will absolutely be part of that conversation as well. I think for us to really move some of the larger scale projects we're talking about here as we take a more comprehensive view of West Cliff as a recreational area it's really going to require a multi-jurisdictional multi-agency effort including federal state and local funding streams so we will be exploring all of those opportunities. Sorry I think I misread it it's a use 1.4 an expenditure and that's only 700,000 from the general fund correct? That's what the budget adjustment request has with the other amount coming from the funding. I'm just trying to understand the funding and then also the amount that we have currently in the state stabilization fund. Maybe I'll call Elizabeth Cable our finance director go for it Elizabeth. Hi Elizabeth Cabell finance director so right now we have in our stabilization reserve we have a couple of different we have about 7.3 million in what we refer to as our emergency reserve and then we also have a pension that's part of that so what we're asking is for 700,000 to come out of that emergency reserve piece and go over into the general fund and then so that's the basic funding that's where it's going to come from and then that will go into the CIP fund because that's where the actual expenditures are going to occur. And I think the other thing to keep in mind is the years of recovering the funds from the federal side of funding we will recover some of the funds not all of them. So the total expenditure is actually 700,000 although it says on the budget adjustment request it's 1.4 I'm just trying to understand. That's correct and I don't know if Elizabeth is still on but the way the form is set up is that the request is still for 700,000 and I can see how the total expenditure is 1.4 million there but the request is only for 700. Elizabeth explain that. Elizabeth she's looking at the actual attachment. Yeah the actual VA itself that's attached to the staff report. Part of it is the way that we do the accounting for the project expenses and so the total expenses so we have the money coming it's the same 700,000 that's coming out of the stabilization reserve and then going into the general fund and then there's also a transfer from the actual expenditures are happening in the CIP fund so you're seeing two expenses you're seeing one expense for the transfer from the stabilization into the CIP and then you're seeing another expense where they actually spend the money on the project. That's why it looks like 1.4 but it's really 700. Okay thank you for explaining that that form I think I guess my other question is sort of around the data gathering and my understanding is how I'm hearing it from you both is essentially there's going to be two components one what you're learning right now or have been learning over the past several months in addition to what we already know in terms of former plans or existing plans that we have on the books and I guess my question is in regards to when is that accurate and I think it is but if you have anything more to add around sort of the data gathering I'd love to hear it and then the second part of the question is in regards to existing reports that we already have are those still relevant I think we had designed reports or planning in a different time in terms of storms of the past and not necessarily the storms of the future and I'm wondering if there is it sort of maybe an overlay or an opportunity for an overlay of some scientific additional data and information to help us think holistically about what to expect in years to come so I think on the tactical data gathering piece of it public works has already put in place I call them bump bumps because when my car drives over the court it goes bump bump Nathan what's the actual name of those just a traffic counter yes they've looked at me in project meetings going Laura bump bump really but you know what they are right the bump bumps yes so they've already put some of those in place additionally with the engineering design work that will happen they will also do additional data gathering as far as traffic patterns and what is currently happening out there and then we're also looking at other places like ways and being able to get data from other sources that will help inform where people are going ways will only get the vehicle piece of it but other mechanisms need to be able to get us bike and pet information as well so there's that tactical data gathering there's the community events and the community ongoing collaborations and communications that will do so there's those pieces of it and I think related to your question about our existing body of master plans and other work some of it's relevant and some of it's not and that's one of the things that we're working with Farallon to wade through is to figure out which pieces are still informative and can help guide us on pathways and choices given what our current environment looks like and which ones aren't so we need to go through that reconciliation process and reconcile it and demystify it and then put it together additionally we need to explore the state federal local funding mechanisms using other interagencies cross agency teams that there's one that Farallon talked to us about from the Department of Water where they have these strike teams that are across agency and thinking creatively how do we use that for this case and we're also quite frankly trailblazing in a lot of ways of putting together these long term this long term project in response to these very damaging natural events so it's a lot of fun but a lot of data that needs to be put together. Yeah I appreciate that and I think what I'm also maybe suggesting or if there's an opportunity is to think about how to overlay that with projections right I think we have our current situation we've had our past situation and then now we have an accelerated climate situation and so how are we projecting the extreme circumstances versus what I think we had in terms of this longer kind of runway to make some of these changes happen given what we have coming so yeah no I appreciate the clarification thank you. Welcome. Thank you. Council Member Golder. Thank you guys very much as you can imagine I've had a lot of community outreach living in the District 6 neighborhood now where all the affected parts of the road are and so I have a few questions that came to me from the community and one of them was around the storms from 82-83 that some of us remember and people are asking because people have told me I was too young to remember the damage extent but I was told the damage was worse to Westcliffe and people are asking me how much did that cost at the time just for scale and knowing that it took a couple years to repair but it lasted 40 years at least so I'm just wondering. I don't know the answer to that question but we can come back to find that answer. I know it's kind of specific. Another one actually came to me from a high school student that we met yesterday and this one was they saw your presentation and they appreciated that the city was ready to pull the trigger on the repairs for two of those spots and were disappointed the repairs hadn't happened in time and asked are there other critical infrastructure currently at risk in the city because of deferred maintenance that we should be worrying about are there other spots on Westcliffe or other I know it's kind of a little off topic but we need a study session maybe a study session I mean so the short answer to that is yes every city and every county in our country has deferred infrastructure and maintenance that has gone by the wayside one of the major projects that Elizabeth is leading as the finance director is a long-range financial plan and part of that long-range financial plan is not just the sustainability of our operations but it is how do we fund our ongoing capital investment program I think at my last memory over 300 million dollars in our CIP list and we have been funding 1 to 5 million dollars per year so we need a structural shift in the way that we fund capital investment and how to do that in the long run for the city but it's a similar situation we are not alone in this every city in the country has this issue and public works parks and rec every department prioritizes and really goes after every budget year the major issues and we are doing our best to address those and try to get them fixed before something happens and so I think to that since it appears that Westcliffe is one of the most beloved treasures that many people in the community hold to their heart they walk, run, ride, bikes surf, drive, whatever have we given thought on ways that we can help fund long-term maintenance and without dipping into the general fund and looking at alternative revenue sources Mr. Huffaker this is the fun part that Laura was talking about but there are a number of pathways that we are already starting to explore things like infrastructure financing districts parking benefit districts obviously the federal and state funding that's already been referenced and so I think there are going to be a number of opportunities we explore from a sustainable funding standpoint that we will be excited about because it will mean that we will be able to make some investments along Westcliffe that we have frankly struggled to deal based on limited resources so that will be part of the conversation part of this multi-department effort so that we have other folks including Bonnie Lipscomb and her team with Economic Development that have done quite a bit of this work in other ways of really prioritizing Westcliffe as we move through these opportunities and identify other funding sources and potentially an additional demand on the general fund thank you and I think everybody can appreciate the collaboration between all of the departments and definitely the community too there are people coming together who might have completely different opinions about which way Westcliffe ultimately ends up but I'm just wondering in terms of community outreach how are you going to balance the voices of the neighbors who use Westcliffe as a arterial street to get to and from wherever they're going and the people that live on the neighborhood streets in there and then the people that may become just to enjoy it for the day or people that come from outside the county or visitors from all over the globe how are we going to balance everybody's input in developing future plans that's a great question I appreciate that I think the part of the process is going to be keeping everyone informed and up to date about where we're at the decision points that are coming up the data that's been collecting presenting it back to you all the community so that we can again collectively make these decisions together when we talk about I said earlier that a proposed plan would come out it's just a proposal at that point based on data that we've gathered it's really similar to a lot of the challenging projects that we have citywide where there's competing interests but we want to be able to make sure that we're collecting everyone's comments and then providing that back to you all so you can see the feedback and then providing a recommendation on how to move forward one of the things historically that we've struggled with in this space is making those hard choices so one of the challenges for the team and for the community and for the council too is we are going to have to make some hard choices but given what happened with the atmospheric rivers we do have to make choices so it is sometimes going to come down to making a difficult choice and going down that route and pivoting and doing something and we will not be able to keep everybody happy well said and I have to say ultimately if we do nothing we'll have nothing it will literally disintegrate into the ocean so we have to make some decisions thank you councilmember Watkins thank you for those questions I just remembered I had a couple of follow-ups in regards to the community information sharing are you open to other opportunities and suggestions or are those set at this point the one that comes to mind was Santa Cruz county and the other question I had was in regards to the series of competitions and events that are held on Westcliff I don't know if you have consulted with some of the organizing folks with those or how that is also factored into some of the planning knowing that that is a very highly utilized stretch of our community for events and competitions and runs and such like that I think it is a huge part of our community and our tourism events and competitions and runs and such like that it's definitely a consideration and parks and rec parks and rec as a department is heavily involved with the integrated team and if any council member has additional information sharing opportunities feel free to email Eric Smart she is our communications manager extraordinaire for the questions or comments from council members this would be the opportunity for the public to provide us with your input and it is very likely in my correct Ms. Bush we have some folks online as well what we are going to do is we will take people we will alternate between someone here in our chambers and then someone who is online let me note for you that prior to today's meeting we received a request from save west cliff to have extra time for their presentation that has been granted save west cliff will be permitted up to 10 minutes and Mr. Bob Goldbeck also made a request for extended time so instead of the normal 3 minutes Mr. Goldbeck will receive 5 minutes good afternoon my thinking cap there we go Nicholas Whitehead we don't want any heavy vehicles on this temporary road they could really present a danger you don't want heavy vehicles going through the neighborhood so it's a bit of a conundrum there how about a toll road a dollar a shot for everybody driving on there to pay for some of the cars we pay at the end of the drive I'm just joking but seriously I think I can think of 3 departments of the state of California that have a vested interest in having this road done properly the tourism and visitor promotion department of state the commerce department of state because our local economy depends on this there may be others but those ones do stand out I think honestly the federal army engineers or the states equivalent the national guard engineers they ought to be doing this they ought to be handling this construction if we have to carry the burden with private engineers and that's going to be very costly so I think that should be an option that should be considered thank you thank you Mr. Whitehead we're going to take one of the folks who is online then we'll take another person who's here in chambers with us this afternoon Miss Bush hello am I on thank you yes good afternoon okay yes my name is thank you for this opportunity to speak my name is Bob Goldbeck and my wife Jennifer and I live at the corner of Oxford and Woodrow so we're kind of speaking for the neighbors here that puts us one block up from the West Cliff Drive closure at the Bethany Curve bridge so we're kind of near ground zero or at ground zero so I'm here to speak about then so the nitty gritty are the negative impacts of the closure on traffic to the neighborhood here and the need for additional traffic calming measures particularly a lot of us neighbors are asking for a cul-de-sac arrangement on Oxford way and the other side streets perhaps Alta and Plateau is after the January's term of course and the closure at West Cliff Drive the drivers spontaneously had to find their own detours and they just took the closer side streets initially that was up to Pelton and then they took Oxford now they can come down West Cliff to Woodrow and come up but they still take Oxford the same the same kind of default detour that started originally and that's still what's going on so when Nathan knew his great presentation did mention that they came up with a detour plan but now it's supposed to send people up Woodrow to Delaware these big arterial streets and then down Almar around the closure that's a great plan those arterials designed to handle a lot more traffic than these little side streets and the intersections are set up for people to get past each other with that kind of volume of traffic the problem is there's signs up but people that just aren't paying attention for whatever reason so even though there are signage for this new detour plan it's not what's happening on the ground people are still in large measure taking the shortcut through Oxford Way which is of course a small side street it was never meant to handle this kind of volume of traffic particularly its intersection with Woodrow a small side street arterial intersection drivers basically when there's congestion in the morning or in the afternoon commute or at sunset draws a huge stream of traffic to Westcliff they are all trying to cram through a little intersection turning left in front of each other traffic comes to a standstill as drivers run the stop signs in their confusion in their hurry it's a pretty dangerous situation sitting right here we hear the honking hear the hear the brakes hold on just a second Mr. Colbeck we are going to now add the rest of your time there we go please proceed to pace thank you the point is it's a big mess it's not safe for motorist bicycles or pedestrians and what we're suggesting then is that the city institute calming measures that require that use physical barriers my point being that the drivers are not paying attention to signage there's even a road close sign at the detour on drivers at ALMAR as they come down Westcliff the ALMAR they're told to turn left while I sat there for about 11 minutes the other day took videos most of the drivers swerve around that road close sign decide that there are local traffic I guess which by the way sends them in the pathway of people short cutting the other way westbound on Oxford and then they continue on to Oxford way so they're not paying attention to the signs telling them to go up Woodrow to Delaware and they're not really paying attention to the signs telling them to go up ALMAR Delaware for most east and westbound traffic are ignoring the signs so we are asking for cul-de-sacs then mainly at Oxford way which bears the greatest burden but I understand that Alton and Plateau are also seeing short cutters for their street there is a crosswalk for the Bethany curve green belt that crosses all those streets that would be the natural place I think to put barriers to create cul-de-sacs to preserve access for residents to their homes and coastal access to the David Way area which I think the coastal condition is concerned about but it would stop the short cutting so that's what we're asking for here please we don't want to wait Mr. Goldbeck thank you for your thoughtful testimony we appreciate that Mr. Ramadan good afternoon sir good afternoon Mayor Keely and council members thank you for the opportunity to address the council on this important topic of the future of Westcliff our group Save Westcliff six weeks ago and has grown quickly to 514 members we have prepared two documents for your consideration today you should have received them via email on Sunday and I'm just going to hold them up so that you can visualize this I'm sure you got lots of other documents in the last 24 or 48 hours but there's two we did receive those those were distributed to all council members thank you so much and for those of you in attendance today or those participating virtually you can actually download these documents at savewestcliff.com and if you click on the blog section you'll be able to access them the first document is a presentation called Save Westcliff Briefing which outlines who we are our mission and our approach the second document specifically on item 23 today personally we would like to touch on highlights from the briefing presentation as you've heard the damage caused by the storm on January 5th had an impact on our collective psyche the video of the storms ravaging Westcliff are posted on our website you can hear the raw emotion from people watching waves breaking over their road in the aftermath of the storm Save Westcliff was founded and it tapped into something our community was feeling that is Westcliff is more than a road with pipes under it it is a living ecosystem with a very rich history our Westcliff recreational area is about park lands surf breaks bike paths walking trails access points a scenic drive beaches kelp beds seals sea otters endangered species and the sheer joy of a vantage point across one of the world's wonders Monterey Bay and yes like Yosemite it has a road through it we launched our Save Westcliff campaign on January 17 in the weeks that followed thousands of people have viewed our website more than 500 as I mentioned have joined our mission local press began covering our movement which led to statewide news coverage and a New York Times article this national attention raises the stakes for all whether we like it or not Santa Cruz will be an example of how a community and its city response we can either run from it or embrace this opportunity it's our choice and as Hillary Bryant reminds us if we do nothing we will have nothing we believe we need a new more holistic approach a we the community mindset an inclusive circle driven by structured processes to explore and find solutions we're encouraged to see the early signs of this approach with the inclusion of the Westcliff recovery pathways and roadmap processes outlined in today's agenda documents and outlined by the city staff earlier we can draw strength and inspiration from other communities such as the Highline in New York LA River Lands End in San Francisco each of these projects started with a foundation of deeply understanding community needs and then reimagined parklands to meet those needs we hope this Westcliff recovery pathways and roadmap process follows a similar path and builds a strong community foundation and also moves us from the short term focus of quote protecting the road to a longer term view of protecting the recreation area as a whole and as Sarah Gerhardt describes in her video we need these transformative places in our lives Westcliff is where we come to to clear our heads seek healing with mental health challenges find peace or inspiration enjoy dozens of activities such as walking surfing, biking swimming and share experiences and stories with our friends and family Westcliff is a very special place we need to save her and we need to restore her we ask everyone to join this mission and to start by considering what our children and grandchildren are going to need in 50 years and then we can work back from there now we would like to invite Sean Burns who's the coordinator of the Santa Cruz World Surfing Reserve to read our letter to council thank you good afternoon hello Mayor Keely and the Santa Cruz City Council members this letter is to commend the city's work in response to the damage caused by the storms in January and to please vote to support the six proposed recommendations to continue this effort it is clear that even simply addressing the immediate repairs will far exceed what our general fund can manage we commend city staff for using this moment to push for maximum funding through FEMA and FHWA programs and all other sources we continue to encourage to council and community to think long term sea level rises accelerating and we must think beyond the band-aids and immediate repairs our hope is that the Westcliff Recovery Pathways and Roadmap is a strategic overarching look at the entire resource which considers transportation the neighborhood impacts and access to recreation while also recognizing that Westcliff is our most iconic park we are grateful that the proposal also focuses on enhancing the participation of the community in the process this is an essential consideration if we're to find solutions on our coast that work for all we must protect this vital piece of coastline for future generations this requires action without action we will continue to watch Westcliff disappear we look forward to collaborating with the city on this critical effort to preserve this treasured coastline if you'd like to read this letter or learn more please go to savewestcliff.com Mayor Keely and council members thank you for allowing us to share our mission to save Westcliff we look forward to working with you city staff nonprofits and community members to achieve this goal thank you well thank you very much and thanks to you save Westcliff for your organizing and caring so deeply about this important not only roadway but destination in our community thank you very much for that let me see Ms. Bush do we have someone else online good let's go to them now yes hello this is Garrett reading over all the letters sent in it's fairly obvious 95% of the people are oblivious to how hugely consequential a premature dispassionate decision of managed retreat really is I suspect they are distracted from it by an easy out carrot of removing a car lane and a selfish desire for more play space I personally don't care if all of Westcliff becomes that one way play space as long as Oxford fair and Plateau has barrier dead ends if they are needed one way will make traffic worse and less safe the study is an expensive perfunctory one since the one way decision really seems already decided complete with a fix all a baseline study and I'd rather see that money go to actual Westcliff stabilization efforts as a first priority instead make no mistake managed retreat is the most radical no choice last resort drastic cliff erosion adaptive strategy ever button run is only rational for beneficial to use any other adaptive strategy like seawall armoring but because the city doesn't have the cash age because of its endless profit spending habits missed priorities running accounts down to zero while demanding sacrifice like blowing money prioritizing theoretical climate change stuff to no real benefit or analysis of the risk while doing little to nothing to practically prevent known immediate threats here we are now with playtime priority the question that needs an honest answer is do you want to cheapskate surrender other citizens homes to the sea any faster than will eventually occur a la pacifica by under prioritizing cip optimal fixes of any minor loss of roadway and instead appeasing site seers creating more traffic congestion everybody knows the hydrodynamics of wave reflection intensification have always produced huge waves in waterspouts at the locations that failed the armoring there was relatively minor compared to the seawalls that have been built to protect the apparently higher priority parking lot I would mention manage retreat is highly unpopular once houses start falling into the sea and pacifica citizens recall dump the entire city council and purged all references to management treat for cliff erosion strategy from the city unicode and the city was held responsible for all the demolition costs which amounted to half their budget in the past the city needs to fix that road and do a lot better engineering next time a fortuitously reimbursable opportunity to do this probably exists let's not be stupid seek all that disaster money even if you have to borrow some temporarily to better protect delaying the thermonuclear politics of manage retreat the approach given as to one time triggers this radical plan coastal surrender action is not so simple calculation then some rah-rah crisis your crap entering a number into a spreadsheet thank you mr. philip anyone else with us in chambers who wishes to provide oral comment on this item miss bush do we have anyone else with us we'll go to that person then city council thank you so much for having me my name is nairie i'm a resident in the circles by west cliff good afternoon thank you i supported one way west cliff these storms have definitely presented a pivotal moment for the future of our streets we can't keep the status quo where cars take up the most space and present a real danger to people recreating this is our opportunity to really transform west cliff into a vibrant people first space where everyone can enjoy walking biking and rolling in different forms i'm hearing a lot about the traffic and what do we do about the cars and these hard decisions but really the question shouldn't be why what should we do about all these cars and the people who want to drive west cliff it should be how can we encourage people to be less dependent on cars and visit this space via public transit by biking walking etc and for those that are driving and do need to drive and taking alternative routes along west cliff what are some solid physical traffic calming measures to prioritize the safety of neighbors along west cliff as well thank you so much for letting me speak and that's my comment thank you thank you very much good afternoon mr. Maverick mr. mayor certainly council people for having this hearing i'd like to just read a letter that which was a response by me to other neighborhood people and then elaborate a little on it if you don't mind i hope i stay within my time my position is clear regarding west cliff becoming one way i am happy with the existing configuration but the winds of changes shift for climate adaption or any other reason the larger community promotes a one way on west cliff i want to instill in the planning design the need to retain two way traffic on west cliff between the dream in and house point a roundabout at this point will allow traffic to return and greatly lower the volume of auto traffic proceeding and needing to sift through the neighborhood two way traffic for this stretch will allow flow from the opidon proposed project and the church to proceed back towards the destination otherwise the flow onto pelton into the neighborhood and the inevitable will be inevitable and our ongoing need to protect butterfly habitat and other habitat will be undermined so the reason i'm going ahead of the community process is i think park commission california parks commission needs to be brought into the discussion because if we were to do a roundabout very attractive somewhere near lighthouse point or its beach it'll deal with a conflict that you've introduced actually because when we did the opidon project which is going to have immense effect in traffic and also church traffic i'm going to introduce into this we specifically the planning commission conditioned a no right turn out of the parking lot onto pelton and the city council heard the appeal and they endorsed that now to turn one way to turn light house into one way it's a contradiction because the entire motivation of that was to redirect traffic back onto west cliff in addition to what i've just said is the Nicholas came up with at the beginning presentation the amount of trucks involved in this huge project need to go somewhere and if we make west cliff one way we are definitely promoting a huge impact into the neighborhoods and this runs contrary to the decision by the planning commission as well as the city council so once again i'm suggesting that we reach out to California state parks and see if we can take a little bit of land to create a roundabout and that this be a consideration if it was one way past that point that would be a good trial the last thing is pilot or trial it's a lot harder to pull back from that and to put it into place you create a constituency that will support whatever the pilot project introduces thank you very much thank you sir Bonnie excuse me miss bush can we go to another person online thank you good afternoon good afternoon once more thank you good afternoon thank you city council mayor vice mayor thank you for hearing me out i live in the affected area of the corner of oxford and david way and i appreciate all the work that's being done and consideration and outreach i just want to speak to the experience that's taking place in my neighborhood um and in my opinion there should be priorities of what's happened immediately which in my experience is that there's been a great deal of increased risk and danger in that area where traffic is being diverted down oxford and david versus long term plans like the one way and large traffic changes that the whole community has to weigh in on and it's going to take quite a while to implement and to consider in our neighborhood there has been the attempt to divert traffic up to delaware from woodrow and down to almar but as one of my neighbors already spoke to that has been largely ineffective and we're having a really horrible experience ever since the closure with the noise the car parades the stop sign running a lot of people seem to speed up once they get away from the beautiful scenery of west blip and basically try to race back to their chosen path so our neighborhood is suffering and i'd just like to ask for a faster path towards some traffic calming measures to try to actually enforce the intended pathway that we're trying to send traffic because as of right now it's not working and it's unsafe for kids it's unsafe for walkers it's unsafe for bicyclists it's just become a very dangerous situation so that's my experience and i hope you all take that into consideration as this moves forward thank you very much for calling in we appreciate your participation anyone else with us in chambers this afternoon someone familiar with our chambers for sure i may not have been here for the last eight years good afternoon Ms. Robinson thank you i appreciate this conversation that i'm learning about i had no knowledge of this agenda item until late on the weekend and i'm not one that wants to go around and ask my neighbors do they know about it do you know about this potential of a one way pilot there's a lot i've got on my plate and i want other people to be able to find out but i remember a colleague on our council that always reminded us notice who's not in the room notice who's not making comments in letters to the council i felt that that same experience existed when you're going through the process of the actually the adaptation plan that needed to happen that's before the coastal commission now and i had to insert myself in that to ask how you're getting that neighborhood input i've done a deep dive with the letters that have just come in they just arrived and i've looked at the extra ones and there's just misinformation happening because i even read in those that people are saying go ahead with this this pilot program you've already the council's already voted on these are just inaccurate statements and then i'm looking at the staff report which i'm used to having really thorough information in there when you're asking when the council's being asked to do these recommendations that i do know i've been at a couple meetings where staff has already stated what the pilot program looks like and where it states from this point to this point in terms of streets on west cliff but it's not in here i completely appreciate and support what's happening for the neighborhoods most affected by the emergency that's taken place and the incredible work that staff has done in the emergency setting and the recommendations that council needs to do for that that pilot program in a in essence is the one way and i hope that that's the direction that the council takes because that needs to you could see the impacts that they're already having and they're describing them to you we're listening to them and that's just a very short segment i feel like other considerations right now are jumping ahead and i don't think that the council i don't know i'm concerned about that because i made a couple phone calls on my own block that will be incredibly impacted and they have no knowledge of today's conversation and no knowledge of the consideration of a pilot program i know there's supposed to be future robust conversations but this feels like this train's already on the track and most everyone is unaware and they're back at the train station not knowing there's a train that's already left so i just need to make that comment because it has me disconcerned to a degree that i wouldn't normally say that but i'm trusting that we've got the right people in the room to do the right things so i appreciate your time thank you mayor appreciate your participation miss bush thank you miss bush good afternoon good afternoon good afternoon am i on now yes you are thank you for joining us you're you're on i hate this system i lived two and a half blocks from westliff it's been my pleasure to live here for over 20 years and of course i love it i certainly appreciate a lot of things that have been said but i'm a little alarmed that some of the people who were talking have clearly not walked or biked along there the city had to do something have to set up a temporary warmway system if they didn't want things crashing directly into the ocean so some of the people just don't seem to realize that um the signage is not entirely clear a simple sign that says detour that way is not very instructive it wouldn't be that difficult before the summer season gets going to have signs that say detour due to westliff damage via Delaware something like that something along those lines that would make it a little clearer certainly i feel for the people in the oxford neighborhoods and they think any kind of temporary traffic calming would be great but here's what i want to say it's really nice walking along westliff with less traffic it's wonderful that path that was six foot wide was horrible it was really hard with bikes and dogs and kids and a much wider path will be a real asset to the community um thank you for your hard work on this very thorny process thank you thank you very much anyone else with us in chambers this afternoon who would like to make comment on this item this would be your opportunity john good afternoon nice to see you sir been a minute i didn't say i couldn't at all which is nice anyway just want to make a quick comment about some of the notices that we got our neighbor down the block down the stairs our neighborhood is heavily impacted every time there's surf or there's good beach that's fine everybody should have access to the beaches and part of what we got early in this process was a traffic design plan that rerouted all of westliff and the highway street that was rather upsetting to us to say at least 20,000 cars a day coming up a small residential street we were told by staff that that was not supposed to be in the plan and don't worry about it but once you see it in a plan you have to worry about it so i think that the traffic concerns here are going to be the real difference between making it a success or not because i don't know the exact number of cars a day that's a lot of cars thank you sir miss bush three more all right good afternoon online you are now ready to go good afternoon thank you very much for allowing me to speak my name is glint siler i am a resident and i am on the river path and as one of my neighbors said earlier i am on ground zero i will keep it short i just want to emphasize a sense of urgency my takeaway from the earlier presentation was that there is not any more planned traffic calming measures until the pilot proposal in may and as my neighbors on oxford have also mentioned the area around park we are under siege and we need immediate traffic calming measures we cannot wait for a proposal in may but i just want to emphasize that there's a real sense of urgency here and i would appreciate some attention to that i know that it's a complicated situation but the residents here really are under siege with all the traffic and we need more than just a few detour signs we do need armor and cul-de-sacs and barriers that's really i just wanted to re-emphasize that well thank you very much for participating thank you for your contribution in that regard you see one more time let me check to see if there's anybody with us in chambers first in line thank you good afternoon my name is Nancy and i live on woodrow avenue at oxford way i'm asking that priority be given to mitigating the impact of traffic on the neighborhoods adjacent to west cliff sooner rather than later in addition to determining how to proceed with west cliff drive we also have an obligation to maintain the integrity, safety and quality of life for the residents in adjacent neighborhoods following with the impact of increased traffic volume, vehicle noise loud radios, repeated traffic violations such as running stop signs and seating and in the last two, see seven weeks we've had two accidents at the corner or the intersection of woodrow and oxford way the city's west cliff drive management and adaptation plan shows that on average there are thousands of vehicle trips made on west cliff drive each day and in the last two months it's proven that a large majority of these vehicles are now moving to smaller side streets including oxford way, alta, plateau and clark and this is in complete disregard of the city's detour plan and signs those residing those residing on oxford way and other adjacent streets it's being clear that signage is not working and that something more is required most drivers who are going both westbound and eastbound west cliff regularly ignore all the detour and road closure signs the only thing that appears to detour vehicles are actual physical barriers such as the large orange water barriers that are closing west cliff at the Bethany green belt oxford way neighbors requested a meeting with city staff in late January to talk about the issues that we were experiencing and why the detour plan was not working and I want to say thank you to the staff it was a really good meeting and we appreciated the staff's participation however I do want to point out that following the meeting the staff walked with a small group of neighbors down oxford way from david way to woodrow avenue and during that short period of time we were able to observe examples of every one of the issues that had been raised during the meeting I asked that the city council make a moving detour traffic off of the smaller residential streets onto the larger arterial roadways including woodrow avenue almar and delaware avenue as a priority and I thank you for your consideration in this matter thank you very much one more time back out here to the folks who are with us this afternoon miss bush back over to our callers online good afternoon person on the line good afternoon all good we can hear you now my name is kim dean and I live on the corner of oxford way and david way and I like to share a segment of a letter that I sent to city council yesterday I live here for the last few years with my husband and elementary school aged children and I'm writing in regards to the significant residential impacts caused by the closure on west cliff I've witnessed as well as video evidence from my security cameras the exponential increase in vehicle traffic on david way the increased traffic comes with more noise pollution, speeding and other traffic violations namely ignoring the stop sign at the intersection of david way and oxford way just scanning my security camera footage from this morning nearly 90% do not come to complete stop this has always been a problem at that intersection but when multiplied by the increased number of vehicles it has greatly increased risk of accidents and eroded the safety of this small residential street my kids can no longer ride their bikes in front of the home and are unable to play with balls in case they run into the street and this has caused the impact on our family itself the signage directing drivers to take detours from west cliff down almar and delaware are mostly ignored despite the signs and our small street is severely impacted by the increased traffic we want to have a safe and peaceful living environment for our family and pushing much of the traffic of west cliff onto our small street is not sustainable nor conducive with raising of family as I've been sitting here listening to this meeting itself and looking out my window I've witnessed several people running the stop sign at the corner david and oxford I don't know if it's possible to put up some type of traffic video camera because I believe that we could probably generate much of the string of that type of traffic on video camera if that would be helpful but I just don't know any way to make this corner safer for not just the residents but even people who are driving by to visit west cliff I had a neighbor yell at a driver the other day because they almost ran over their dog as they were driving down oxford and so the issues with the street safety is really my biggest concern and I hope the city council can help with this thank you very much I believe miss bush we still have one is that right let me make sure mr. stoner thank you wandered in a little bit come on plenty of time you're a timely fashion come on in love to hear your comments I have more than three minutes so I'm going to keep it short thank you for your time councilmember mayor I'm just going to backtrack here because I had a lot more to talk about but in 1997 and 1998 I was appointed by the mayor and city council to the west cliff drive task force I don't know how many of you read a report and we were tasked with solving some problems on west cliff five public citizens I was one of them three park commissioners three parks and rec I'm a little out of breath because I had to park away and run over here anyway we took surveys different times of the day different days of the week different months of the year started in 97 finished in 98 the predominant use of west cliff was 90 percent automobile we had 24 other types of uses of the at that time it was a designated bikeway and we decided to make the path a multi-use path we there was all kinds of uses we had horseback riders anything under 10 we didn't document but the predominant use was automobiles but there was a group that was pushing the one way now I like this plan with the west cliff but I don't like the one way aspect of it especially from bay to Columbia there's no erosion along that section so why do you want to waste the money and close that make it one way I thought it had to do with the one way where the erosion actually happened and to roll back the clock in 82 83 the El Nino winner I was here three times as much damage on west cliff as we have now and I've tried to listen to some of your presentation but I figured I better come down here because the TV froze okay thank you for your time appreciate it Kim thank you for all of your good work in the community over the years very much appreciated Miss Bush one more is that it good we have one more person online good afternoon I've also been trying to unmute them but they haven't I see okay okay so remember to unmute yourself here and we are ready for your testimony good afternoon I'm going to give you about five more seconds not trying to rush you but three seconds two seconds we can all run a four minute mile the way I count and one second and we are finished all right I apologize to you for whatever happened there anyone else in chambers wish to provide testimony seeing hearing none the matter is back before the council the mayor will recognize a council member for a motion Vice Mayor Golder thank you so having met with people in the community I'm going to be strict about this I'd like to make a motion I don't want to be that person I don't be that guy I sent my motion to Bonnie I'd like to I'll start reading it I'd like to make a motion to receive an update citywide work citywide west cliff work and retroactively approve the design and installation of traffic striping and signage for emergency protective measures on west cliff drive I would like to make a motion to review to the January 23 storm damage and direct staff to coordinate work including community outreach to determine a pilot one way traffic control options and neighborhood calming in and around west cliff storm damage area between Columbia Street and Almar Avenue during repairs return to council in May and I would do that under amendments approval to pilot west cliff drive with one way automobile traffic options two way bicycle and pedestrian access neighborhood traffic calming measures and monitoring plan in and around Columbia Street Almar Avenue and Delaware Avenue and adopt the resolution amending the 23 budget to appropriate 700,000 in the general fund stabilization reserve to a west cliff resiliency and accessibility project and the authorization to advertise and award professional services to design west cliff drive pilot project with neighborhood calming in and around Columbia Street Almar Avenue and Delaware Avenue the city manager is hereby authorized to direct and execute contract the contracts in a form approved by the city of Termini the public works director and wait public works director is authorized to change orders within the approved budget is there a second all second motion and a second by councilmember commentary Johnson Ms. Golder you can open on your motion okay so as I was saying I think that this is a great opportunity to try the one way and I think starting with the level of urgency with what's happening around the affected neighborhoods and I'm wondering if we could move the timeline and maybe have an emergency meeting of the transportation and public works or planning commission and do a more expedited outreach just to get some traffic calming and I don't know if that's possible and so if it's not possible it seems like what you're going to be doing is potentially offering an amendment based on the response from Mr. Nguyen and Ms one of the other if you wish to comment on this happy to jump in in response to that the emergency protective measures temporary traffic control plans that were in place are again an immediate response to the needs that are being addressed with recent failures now the expansion of that temporary traffic control plan is partially what we're seeking with the pilot of the one way but we can also expand upon the temporary measures meaning adding additional signage exploring traffic calming measures we still would need funding to do those type of measures but you know what's before you tonight is to explore take this opportunity now to explore what could be done with West Cliff as we've had discussions through the many plans that we've discussed or brought before council in years past so giving that opportunity to collect that data to help us again make these informed decisions about what it might look like so you think the May timeline is that's what I'm trying to understand is so with respect to the Vice Mayor's question about advancing or retarding the process that I think was the core of her question the May return to council was dependent upon our need to go out to RFP for engineering services to be able to put the design of the plan together to be able to do the process and even then we abbreviated the response time to the RFP so that is how that is baked in to be able to select a vendor go through the process and then do the data collection the outreach and then return to council with the design based on that response from staff would you like to make additional amendments to your motion not at this time Ms. Brown thank you I guess I'm trying to follow up on the question to send your response Mr. Wynn to see if there's a way to think about addressing the matter of hearing I think what you're saying is additional traffic I don't know if hardening of the side streets or sign it I mean signage doesn't seem to be working but maybe better signage whatever those you all know what those measures might be if some of that can happen in the interim because I understand the plan is going to take time and RFPs and all that but they have to be part of the plan you know they can happen in the interim I guess so is that a possibility and if so do you need more direction do you need money what is it that we would need to do to make that happen thank you for that question Mr. Brown in decoupling essentially what's been installed and the expansion of what we're seeking I think we can take the two different timelines that we're talking about and have a more immediate look for other measures that can help mitigate the issues that some of the local neighborhood traffic or neighborhood is seeing enforcement could also be a part of that component as well and so that would be one track that could happen more immediate especially given the response that we're hearing from the public today but also that we're also wanting to explore keeping that on the table as far as what else could be the future for Westcliff. I had a yeah similar comment question because we heard some very specific streets that have been impacted by Oxford Alta Plateau David Way and some specific suggestions with the water barriers and not a thorough street so and I'm not an expert and I don't know if those are the most effective ways to do it so I would look to you all but same as council member Brown if we can and I don't know if we need to have a friendly amendment I think that's what you were maybe trying to go for is to add that in the interim that we address those specific needs in the next I don't know two to four weeks let me pause for just a moment here I want to make sure that if that is an offer of an amendment that Ms. Bush has got that amendment do you have that I have the time for you to catch the where you place is this I don't know if it's needed that's a question if I may chime in real quickly mayor as you all weigh in on potential friendly amendment what I would just add and I appreciate the question council member Callentary Johnson and Nathan did a good job of speaking to what I would also add is I'll give a shout out to our transportation team that sit in the back row with us today but Matt Starchy and Claire have already been meeting regularly on site with neighbors in response to requests that are coming through and so you're welcome to make it as a friendly amendment as you would like I would just say that we continue to be committed to making interim changes in response to concerns that are being raised as we work through the process for the pilot itself so that work is ongoing we will continue to expedite those projects as best we can again taking a comprehensive look at how each one of these changes has ripple effects on the neighborhood as a whole and so that's what the team has been doing then let me ask Ms. Brunner is the maker of that potential friendly amendment is that sufficient or would you like to have the amendment sufficient okay motion as stated with the changes by the vice mayor in her motion let me see if there are other questions are there other questions Ms. Brunner so my question is if you could pull up the motion again there was some red line items that councilmember vice mayor Golder included and it makes it a little more specific based on some of the input we've received is there anything that falls out of those areas that's not included and should be because prior to those red line items it was just around the west cliff storm damage area now we're narrowing it down between certain streets and I just want to make sure that we're not leaving anything out that was intended to be in there I appreciate the question councilmember Brunner I think the additions that are being made do restrict the study that we'd like to perform on west cliff we want it to be much more robust with not just the streets that have identified here in red but into the neighborhood streets themselves we would expect and plan on doing traffic counts all the way through all the different neighborhood streets all the way up to Delaware streets so Oxford, Alto, Bato, etc as we look at expanding or exploring I should say a one-way pilot on west cliff the changes that I see before us today or right now do really narrow I believe narrow that focus down and so I think we would like to keep the options open by not narrowing by those streets with these motions and so that would be the request by staff thank you anyone else on this item I was going to entertain a friendly amendment to that number three please offer it to remove the red line streets that are listed there and just keep it around the west cliff storm damage area I'm going to say the ruling on this is that in my judgment that's a substitute motion that is not a motion to amend unless the general lady sees it as a motion to amend no she doesn't accept it as a friendly amendment if you would like to make a substitute motion you're free to do so I would like to make a substitute motion as stated here on the screen would this be an accurate way to characterize it you're moving the staff recommendation it's everything however she does let me just finish I want to make sure I understand you're moving everything that was in the recommendation except the red lines only on number three that's your substitute motion is there a second hearing none the substitute motion fails for lack of a second we're back on the motion in chief is there further debate or discussion on the motion one other recommendation last time I suggested enforcement I was the first one that got pulled over for running the stop sign but can we get some people to do enforcement out there for running stop signs and I'll stop costs like 300 bucks per ticket and that can help fund some of this I mean we would work with SCPD to determine their capacity to come out and do traffic calming or enforcement as a part of the detour that's been put in place and so we can definitely seek that I don't want to speak for SCPD as far as their workload and what can and can't be done at this time Mr. Hufford you have comment on that I concur with Nathan's comments but we have been hearing increased reports of folks running the stop signs and obviously concerns expressed this afternoon about the safety risks that this is in the neighborhood so I'll have a chat with Chief Escalante about how we can do some focused enforcement in those areas thank you sir further debate or discussion seen and hearing none the clerk will call the roll on the motion Councilmember Newsom Brown Watkins Brunner Callentary Johnson Vice Mayor Golder I and Mayor Culey Motion passes unanimously and so ordered we are on item number 24 this is a resolution to enact parcels at 538 Center Street into Parking District number one and a resolution to accomplish that good afternoon how are you thank you how are you good to see you how are you judge a couple days you may furrow your brow and wonder why maybe she was elevated to the court by the governor but she was actually a judge of the clam chowder cook I know you were worried there for a moment good afternoon I'm Claire Globley transportation planner this is the item before you returns from the notice of intent that you saw at the last council meeting it's a quick cleanup item to annex in three parcels to the downtown parking district so that the Cavalry Church affordable housing project can move forward with all of their entitlements get their APN numbers and other necessary cleanups if you have any questions I'm available Questions or comments anyone looking around no questions or comments matters in order I'll make the motion there is a motion second by Ms. Brown public comment we'll get right there this is the opportunity to come in on this item before we go to a vote seen and hearing none matters back before the council debate and discussion seen and hearing none we are I think what we will do bear with me for just a moment we are only on the resolution very good this will be sufficient we can do it on one motion clerk will call the roll who is the maker the maker was Mr. Newsom the second was Ms. Brown Councilmember Newsom Brown Vodkins Brunner Vice Mayor Golder Mayor Culey motion passes and so ordered we ask if there is any further business to come before the council this afternoon or this evening seen and hearing none a motion to adjourn we do have oral communications we do have oral communication anyone with us this evening this afternoon wish to provide oral communication please come forward and Ms. Bush while the gentlemen is coming forward anyone online we do good afternoon Mayor City Council I'm concerned about the lack of representation the fact that we have three powerful organizations that the public knows nothing about they're not taught about any of this in either your grade schools, high schools or colleges one is AMBAG AMBAG is a regional agency that is funded by the United Nations in the World Bank it's called COGS Council is a government they're no more than a Soviet and if your chamber is like the Board of Supervisors or the other 13 cities in three counties just in AMBAG area alone you're not reporting to the people all the activities that go on and you do not and you refuse to pay for community TV to address this the other powerful organization is a common cause it was a Rockefeller family put that together it's called California Forward the co-chair of that is Leon Panetta who gave military and policy information to a red Chinese communist spy called Hugh Delacy and you've got two monuments on the courthouse steps relating to him the third one is Civonomics which was put together by as you can see this city council as was Mr. Don Lane who gave the key to the city of this city to communist Angela Davis when she was she had run for vice president of the communist party under with Gus Hall who called for the butchering of Christian children which is not unlike the cremation of care which is done through Bohemian Grove Bohemian Grove is an extension of the Commonwealth foundation which has had number of few people as guests and the Commonwealth foundation together with Irvine and Packard Packard is a member of the Trial Arrow Commission Irvine also funded the California Forward which is in compared to a magazine talking about disorder along with the Revolutionary Communist Party and the Communist Party itself talks about California Forward as being involved with that the keynote speaker about five seconds that was three minutes okay thank you if you wanted to take couple seconds and wrap up that's fine okay thank you very much anyway I think it's really important that people get the information through community TV know the interest in the huge powerful groups behind these regional organizations a cog a council government is no more than a Soviet so please press on representing government thank you thank you very much anyone else with us wish to please come forward good afternoon good afternoon Mayor Keely and council members my name is Ron DeRena and my daughter were the victims of severe domestic violence in this community 4,000 children a day are being family court kidnapped by corrupt judges who are violating our rights secured by the Constitution three of these children were videotaped in one neighborhood three blocks away from each other those videos have gone viral around the world and have been seen over 30 million times and I'm very deeply disappointed by the lack of empathy by this council city staff here every time I've tried to seek help I have this document that is a representation of then Mayor Brenner and Coonerty making a statement that if we saw teachers or police officers or security guards grabbing and violently removing kids like this there would be serious consequences but to date nothing has happened and as of now there are two more children in Utah who are barricaded in their home trying to avoid removal by violence with police officers to take them to reunification camps I have sought help from Mr. Hefaker who is in charge of our wing of VAWA here but all my emails and points of contact have been categorically ignored I've done records request to find out what the VAWA funding is and to date I've received no receipts for that even though I passed I've been learning about the city structure and government structure and I understand that everybody is supposed to have faithful performance bonds it's in your city charter section 1301 and California state law requires bonds to be held under 1450 to 1460.1 inclusive to include crime insurance policy employee dishonesty insurance and a faithful performance bonds but I've been told that none of you hold those and no city members do so I would like you to explain why none of you are bonded and why nobody is helping me with this problem of getting these children rescued thank you thank you Ms. Bush anyone else online thank you good afternoon the person online good afternoon yes hello this is Garrett again California has ended its COVID emergency declaration today as of February 28th there certainly are cities in California that have already lifted emergency declarations like Long Beach I have no idea what's your excuse maybe you like the emergency powers there is really no excuse next meeting while the COVID emergency is over it's time to give that up I would mention Biden plans to sell out the sovereignty of the United States to the wannabe globalist by joining a pandemic giving the WHO authority in matters of pandemics to control U.S. policy response including your doctor's treatment government regulations such as lockdowns and vaccine mandates global supply chains and monitoring and surveillance of populations you should consider opposing that as if everybody's freedom and health appended on it when it comes up as it will I'll bet you won't while the COVID emergency has been 21 the enormous excess death rate of young working people despite or because of the all too coincident vaccine mandate rollout has not ended maybe removing the stale COVID emergency status will help combat the unnecessary potentially deadly vaccinations of young working people as that is to me the likely cause of excess deaths I'll comment on commission appointments of last meeting that section F in the ordinance your proof has no place in statutory law and I mentioned Texas has recently banned DEI consideration in all hiring we should too implied bias in hiring was removed in symphony additions by using blind additions excluding other relevant aspects of the person playing symphony cause body musicians are extraordinarily rare and the last way to assemble an orchestra would be loaded according to demographic quotas nobody would pay to hear that mediocrity the only diversity I care about is the sum total diversity of thought ability knowledge and skill a candidate possesses to perform the duties of commissioner at a standard protected that's not three minutes is it sir that was that was two minutes which is communication is too I see I got it you did down to while you missed a good part then oh well maybe next time thanks thank you anyone else anyone else with us on our communication seen and hearing none a motion to adjourn would be in order shockingly the vice mayor moves for adjournment and miss brown seconds non-debatable those in favor signify by saying aye opposed motion carries its award we stand adjourned here we go Gary Richard Arnold he was