 to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, another God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So that will take us to additions and deletions for the agenda. Do we have any today? Staff has one change this evening to the agenda. Item nine C has been pulled from the agenda. Staff has notified individuals who reached out to the city with public comment, as well as updated the website and our agenda mailing list. Great, thank you. That'll take us to item three for presentation. Good evening, Mayor, Council members. I get the privilege to introduce to you Casey Anderson, who is Recreation's new coordinator and will oversee classes, promotions, and the community center. Casey is from Chico, a city where she graduated from in June of 2022 with a double major in politics and legal studies. At 15 years old, Casey earned an American Red Cross lifeguard certification and began working at a local swimming pool in Chico during high school. After living in Santa Cruz, Casey was employed by county parks at the Simpkins Family Swim Center as head lifeguard where she worked until joining the city. During her time with the county, Casey realized how much she enjoyed providing individuals with recreational opportunities and is excited to be part of the Capitola Recreation team. Council, additionally, I would like to comment that the recent storms has given Casey the opportunity to shine. During Casey's time with the county, she worked as a CZU shelter worker and has been a huge asset to the city as we opened the shelter, as we changed the community center into a shelter. As we have been quickly responding to the dynamic work created by the storm, she has proven resourceful and dedicated to service. Recreation is happy to have her as part of our team and we look forward to what Casey will contribute to the city. And so I present to you, Casey Anderson. Good evening, mayor and council members. First off, I want to say thank you to Niki for introducing me and also just being a great support system as I have started my role the past couple of months. Also, I just wanted to say, I'm really excited to see where this role takes me. The past couple of weeks has really shown me how much of a team the city of Capitola is and I'm really excited to continue on in the future. Thank you. Wonderful. Thank you, Casey. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome, Casey. Thank you. And what a time for you to start. We appreciate your efforts and no time like the present. Thank you. Thank you. All right. And then do we have a report on closed session? Good evening, mayor and council members in Capitola community. A closed session was had on the item on the agenda and direction was given to staff. On the items on the agenda there were three closed sessions and direction was given to staff. Thank you. Awesome. Thanks. And also staff, do we have any additional materials? So we will move to oral communications. This is by members of the public. So these, any of these communications are to address the city council on any consent items on tonight's agenda or any topic that is not on our general government section. The council and mayor Kaiser may please the council. My name is Steven Woodside. I just came off shoveling sand into sandbags along the river where I spent most of my life and just want to thank the staff, the entire Capitola staff for doing such an outstanding job during the recent floods. We're not over it yet, but I just wanted to come and express my gratitude to all of you. Thanks. Thank you. Is there anybody else in the public? Interwebs? Nobody has anything? We can go to staff and city council comments. You have. Yeah. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. First I just wanted to do a little bit of a brief explanation about why I am holding a portable mic right now. It isn't actually a game show. With the recent weather that we had, we had multiple power surges through City Hall and unfortunately it cooked a couple of these guys. For the time being, we're having to make do with a portable mic and then I'll be sharing with the city clerk later on this evening. And then secondarily, we'll be talking more about the storm. So I will. Absolutely. I just want to again thank staff for all their hard work over the last week or so since the storms and all of the community members who have wanted to volunteer and provide donations that have reached out to find out how they can be a part of the recovery here in our town. I also want to thank the Community Foundation for their work in managing the financial donations. I met last night with the steering committee that's looking at how these financial donations will be distributed to our community members and our businesses. And as of last night, there was an initial commitment of $100,000 to come into our city, the first round of which will be four grants for food service businesses specifically. And I think that those were some of the hardest hit in our village. There will be some steering committee members in the village hopefully tomorrow, but definitely very soon for business owners to get information about how they can apply for this funding. And if anyone has any questions or it doesn't see a business representative or isn't reached out to, please don't hesitate to reach out to me and I would be happy to connect you with the right person. That's awesome information. And yeah, just going off that, we had a pretty interesting visit on what day was that instead of Tuesday of the governor. And that was really, really cool to have the support, not only from our local people, but from the higher ups. And again, just wanna echo what Kristen said too. It's been really amazing to work with such amazing staff members that we have in the city and our community members as well. So for all of you people that have stepped up, thank you so much. So we can go to consent items. The consent items are enacted by one motion in the form listed below. So no separate discussion if any council member wants to pull a consent item or make a motion. I assume we'll have consent items eight, A, B, and C. All second. Great, we have a motion and a second. May we please have a roll call. That passes unanimously. We'll move on to nine, which is general government. We have nine A, which is our staff update on the winter storm event. Our recommended action here today is to receive the update. And oh, fun stuff regarding the winter storm. Great. All right, thank you mayor. What if you end the slide show and start over? We can still see it this way though, too. I mean, we can. Supposed to run through all of these though. For your opinions, everyone. I'm sorry about this. We're trying to. Are we getting feedback? We're in business people. Wow. After all these years, you think we're gonna share a screen, but new challenges. Okay, Alexander, how does that look on Zoom for you? It doesn't look great. I can see the. It just doesn't look full screen, but it did earlier, right? Because I'm seeing the slide and some buttons and then the next slide in the corner. But at a couple points, it looked full screen to me after I thought you put display settings initially. I think the issue we're having is, that I can't simultaneously put it up on the big screen correctly and show it to you correctly. So at this point. Okay. Yeah, that was, I think it was biting us there. So we're just gonna go with this and. Oh yeah. Well, that looks good. Apologize for the minor delay. Interesting that we have the Zoom share screen up there. Just as a bit of a reminder for everybody, because I know this has been a bit of a blur. It was on the fourth is when we made it that the declaration for emergency in the city of Capitola. And we also issued an evacuation order that afternoon for the lower village due to distort this when we got hit. Thankfully, the rain event was anticipated that night and that day didn't really come to pass at that point, but the swell did. This swell did significant damage to the city. City Council, we held a special meeting the next day. City Council ratified the emergency order. And then again on the seventh, we began preparing for additional rain in a significant way for a station on the bridge closed during the day through traffic. And we also ordered an evacuation that morning in the capital village in coordination with the county EOC. We had our emergency shelter open whenever we had the evacuation orders in place. And then on the 10th, we got a visitor by gathering news from their news. This is the evacuation zone. I think everybody's aware. It was focused on the sort of lower river view section as well as the village. What we have done overall in the storm since the last update is we obviously had the visit from the governor. We saw the president declare a FEMA emergency as well. We've been tracking expenses and employee hours hoping, thinking, planning on reimbursement of FEMA and Cal OES. We've been coordinating with the county office on emergency services as well as Cal OES to submit our initial estimate expenditures and costs. In addition, we filed the claim with our insurance carrier problem. Next item, we've covered by each staff member. It can kind of go through with what they've been working on. Nikki, you're up. Great. Good evening again, mayor and council members. So to report on the shelter, as you know, we established the shelter in coordination with the county to provide mutual aid for the second row of the storms. As of this morning, we had three attendees that have been the same three attendees that we've had all week. And we had worked on an agreement with the county that they were providing our overnight staffing and then the city has been doing staffing during the day. In my regular check-in this morning with the county EOC, we had a conversation around the available resources that and other shelters and we're very aware from the beginning that the capitol shelter was never really set up to be a long-term shelter. It was always temporary. And so we needed to find better long-term accommodation for the three attendees. And so with that and communicating with them, we've identified that they chose to go ahead and elect to relocate to the fairgrounds and as of May today, posted that the shelter had its 24-hour notice and that we will be closing it as of May tomorrow. There's still a lot of materials that are the counties that will be remaining in the shelter for a couple of days until the county is able to coordinate a pickup of those materials. Sorry, I'm not listening. Thanks. I've also been working on volunteer coordination and it has been out now for almost a week that we are interested in knowing contact information for any individuals that would like to be part of a volunteer initiative in order to help those that have been affected by this disaster, particularly the village. And so far we have approximately 130 individuals that have emailed or called in and some of those individuals also identified that they are part of a small group of individuals. So that's probably a much larger number. Staff is at the moment considering maybe the weekend of January 20th, however there is a conflict with the time. So trying to identify a date still proves a little challenging because we wanna make sure that whatever we do does its purpose and provides support and healing for the individuals in a safe environment that is more of community building. So staff is looking toward some community partners that might be able to help in the coordination of this and council can expect more information on that. Good evening, mayor and council. I'm here to just provide a little overview of kind of what the police department did over the last week or so. When the evacuation orders were finally issued, our staff was ready to go out and put the notices out. We did make personal contact with all the residents and businesses that were evacuated. So we had a team of officers go out and begin a systematical check in and check, they would check with each person, get a name, phone number if they're gonna, what their plans were, if they're gonna stay, if they weren't gonna stay. And we worked through, like I said, within a matter of just an hour and a half or so, about 400 addresses. And we did that when the evacuation order went into place and we had the weather event. And at that point, there were some distractions. We basically provided security, kept the public back and then maintain that security to allow our public works crew in order to do the cleanup that they needed to. And so most of that fencing has been removed. There is still an area that's contained. We continue, when we were in an evacuation zone, we had a security that was out there. We continue to patrol it as we kind of ramp up or ramp down. We just assess the needs there. If we do an order, we would bring in the security as well. And then we also stand up our evacuation center. We've also been coordinating with the businesses and residents that have been impacted just trying to get them the information and provide that conduit between the city and the community. And again, we're just continuing to provide security. We do, when we were really active during the event, we actually had a staff member that was up at the EOC that was providing information to us and our local EOC here. And so as we're doing that now, we can do a little bit remotely now. So we're able to tune into those weekly, or it's daily updates. They kind of, as like I said, we're in a phase right now where they've kind of ratcheted down. But as we see this next event that's coming tomorrow, we have another one. We'll kind of, we kind of ramp back up our efforts there. So again, as we look at this, we're adjusting, we're gonna have a high tide tonight. We're just continuing to monitor it. Like I said, if we do start doing evacuations, we just have things in place where we'll put someone up at the EOC. We'll do our evacuation notices, stand up our center. So that's where we're at. Like I said, I think the city manager said, we're not through this. We still have a couple more events that we're taking my, we're keeping an eye on right now. So we're continuing monitoring it and we're here for the community. So thank you. Good evening there, council members. To reiterate what the city manager and chief down that you said we are not over this, we're expecting a high tide early this morning and high surf for the weekend. And so we are very much still on high alert over in public works. Current actions that we have beyond just our regular storm drain cleaning and monitoring is we have pissed off the Esplanade to through traffic. So we have the fence protection for the businesses to do the work that they need to do. We've provided dumpsters for them to do the work that they need to do and still have public pedestrian access to the area. We're actively monitoring debris both in the creek and in our other waterways on the removing potential obstructions. You probably saw the crane that we had out on the Stockton bridge to remove some of those obstructions earlier this week. Our crew very impressively cleaned up a lot of the debris in the village. It was ready to reopen within a day and a half to get residents and our businesses, the ones who were able to enter the residents and businesses back in there. I'm very proud of our crew and the work they've been doing. We continue to monitor erosion, particularly on cliff drive and deep over. We have a couple of areas that are blocked off so the public can't get to them. I frankly would expect more erosion over our next few storm events and so actively monitoring that situation. With the view pathway was severely damaged and remains closed and will remain closed for quite some time. And like I said, there's been a lot of down trees, down power lines, PG&E has been really impacted and kind of slow to get out to everyone. And so our crews can't get in to remove trees and open up roads till PG&E tells us we're all safe. So I would expect that to continue with the ground saturation and the storms we're expecting in the near future. As far as the milling damages we have so far, there's quite a bit beyond just obviously our poor, poor wharf. We have damaged to quite a few other municipal facilities. These are really, really rough estimates. This is what was provided to Cal OES view of the county. I would expect these to go up as they are further assessed and we get kind of more detail of what's going on with those. But it will definitely be over $2 million worth of damages to our facilities. And I'm happy to answer any questions you may have particularly on any of these items. Good evening, Mayor and Count Foo. I'm going to report out on the building department, our building inspector and our building official have been extremely busy working with all of the businesses along the Esplanade as well as homeowners throughout the Venetian and on the second stores of the Esplanade. We've been making a lot of progress. I want to thank PG&E actually for all of their today. When I went through the village I felt like every fifth parking space had a PG&E truck in it. So they've been working diligently out there and the coordination efforts between our building official and PG&E especially TJ Welch has been amazing. So over the past two days we've really been focused on electrical, getting electrical back on the grid and then today that transferred into gas. So doing testing to ensure the gas lines, pressure testing to ensure gas lines are safe before they are allowed to have gas back into each structure. So we've continued to work after the direction you gave us last Friday of no cost inspections and no cost building reviews. We've put that into place. We're also doing emergency work. So for any testing or the inspections that are happening, we're on site right now. We're not requiring that they come to the front desk and get their permit ahead of time when they're ready for an inspection. We'll take in their permit at that time. So we're allowing emergency work without giving permits ahead of time as long as there's communication and rather than when our building official and Eric Martin have been amazing and on the ground working with all of the business owners and residents. Also this yesterday I attended a countywide business assistant meeting. Assistance meeting that was actually an aftermath of COVID. We were gonna report back and like following up on COVID and then we said, well, it's time for us all. Everyone was back on that call and talking about next steps also in our BIA meeting just hearing that the businesses want the messaging out there that a significant portion of the village is open. So we talked about that at our regional, at our countywide business meeting and as soon as we get past these next two storms, everyone's gonna make sure to update their messaging to get that out there for the county. Next slide, please. So in terms of numbers, right now for residential structures, we have 15 yellow tags. We actually had to add the renew ones to cliff drive yesterday because of erosion issues with a few homes there and one active red tag at the Venetian. All of those mean that they're not allowed to occupy the residents, but yellow tags you can go in and do a certain amount of work whatever specified on your yellow placard. And then for commercial structures, we started off with, I think it was four red and six yellow and now they're all in yellow status. Everyone's allowed to do work and they continue to go through the process. So we've made great progress with electric. We're now focused on gas. There has been, there's some larger impacts to sewer that we're hearing about, but the plumbers are working on gas, sewer and water in combination. So we are going to do emergency permits for sewer, allow them to do the work and then we'll inspect the work once it's installed. So that's progressing in movement. So that's my update. I'm happy to answer questions. Thank you. Thank you. Any council questions for anybody? I have a couple of questions. The first one is, has the evacuation zone changed at all at this point? Should we have to evacuate again? So currently we're in still in a warning with, so we work with the county. They have the program that's called zone haven and the city's broken up into four basically zones. They're very broad. And so unfortunately it's the best messaging that we have right now. So the current, it's still in a warning zone right now. So we're not in an evacuation order or anything like that. It's still in a warning just with these upcoming events. So that's the current status that we're at right now. So the E029, the village, is still under evacuation warning at this point. And are we sharing any of our resources at this point with any other cities or across the county to pop up or anything like that? I know that we're, like I said, we're embedded in the EOC. So we haven't been asked for any resources. The only resources that we were asked for was to stand up our shelter as a regional resource. And so that's the current. Great. That's it. Thank you. Are we gonna see the crane come back after this is coming storm? Is there any talk of... I think we need to evaluate how effective we think it was. And then in addition, I think we just wanna keep an eye on the forecast. I mean, it'll come down to a day where we see five inches of rain in the forecast. The hills are saturated. I think you'll see the crane come back. But in lieu of that, we don't have that kind of forecast in the future right now. The surface of what has been worried for a while. Yeah. And just for the public's information, when we move into an evacuation order, is that coming from the city or is that coming from the EOC? So evacuation orders in the city are governed by our operation here. Okay. Great. Those are all my questions. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. So there was a mention about the expectation that there's gonna be additional erosion as we go into the next storm system. And every time I walk past Britannia, I look at the trees behind the Swanson parking lot that are like on the side of a cliff. And I'm really concerned that one of those has kind of come down. Have we coordinated with Swanson at all to see if they're still allowing people to park there? Do we have any control over the safety? You know, would we have any liability even though that's not technically our property? I'm just, every time I walk by there, I think how have those trees not come down yet? Sort of start. That is private property. We do have a responsibility to be in the city to protect and identify damages, you know, potentially dangerous conditions. So we can take a look at it and see if we can have somebody evaluate the safety of those trees and see whether or not they're stable. Okay. Thank you. I had a question for Nikki, and she's still here. You don't probably have to come all the way. People have told me they tried to leave messages about volunteering and were unable to do so. I just wanted to free address that. Yes, councilman. Thank you for asking. We did have a situation where because we had been previously on the winter break and city offices were closed, there was a way message that was set and it had been set to not have voicemails be left. And as soon as we made that switch, people were able to leave voicemails and the emails were always coming through those. So we had a lot of people that had tried to leave a message at the community center. We're not able to leave that message and then went ahead and emailed me directly saying I couldn't leave a message. So hopefully we have gotten most of those individuals that were not able and they're on our list. If there is anybody else out there or anyone that you know of, I encourage you to go ahead and our heads have them send me an email. We love to add them to our list. Thank you, Nikki. Yeah. I have a question. Sure. Have we been able to do any preliminary inspections on the wharf? Well, again, so the wharf currently is inaccessible. We have had drone footage of very good drone footage from some volunteers for the wharf and have had our wharf consultant who had been working on our greater project farm improvements, examine those videos. We do have them coming out next week. So we will have the professionals to evaluate the wharf during the next week, but we have done some preliminary, which is where that estimate has come from. That million dollar repair estimate has come from. I think unfortunately tonight, the surf is large again with a high surf warning. We're probably gonna get more damage tonight. Perhaps. Unfortunately. Great. Any more questions? Good. Okay, we can go to public comment if there's any out there or any on Zoom. What a great personal time to have and what an incredible city manager I think he's been just a fabulous job too. So has to all of you can't believe how those city crews have just been cleaning everything up. I'm Susan Cherry, I'm the CEO of the Community Foundation, and it's been my pleasure to work with your team to start a small business grants program. Initially, it will be published just under closed food services businesses. That was a decision made by a group of capital residents and business owners last night to narrow it. We're making $100,000 available next week in our first round. We are actively raising money at the Community Foundation, so we hope that more funds will be available soon and then we'll release another round of grants. We're also working with our community resource centers, with those as one in Capitola, is the Community Bridges LIGO Family Resource Center and 17 in Capitolo. Residents of Capitola lost their housing or lost wages. Even if not as a capital of employees have lost wages due to the store owners, they can go to a resource center, call it a resource center, they'll go through a very big assessment and get referred for one time direct cash assistance. That assistance will be prioritized with people who have first lost housing and wages, then lost wages, then lost housing and then lost wages. So we'll really focus on a lot of residents that currently have needs for assistance because of the level of damage their houses have happened until we are able to raise more money, though. This is what we're gonna do first. And also, we have policy holders who's available to help residents with vegan applications when those become available again with insurance claims to make sure that they're able to get all those residents that we do from their insurance. So we're trying to get resources up and running as quickly as possible. We think that family resource centers are the easiest way for our capital residents to go and the smart grid process for businesses will be not really involved. We should have decisions made by the end of next week and get funds to this subject anyway. So happy to answer your questions, but just to know we're grateful for all the connections that the city staff and council have made to make sure that the community foundation's work is really going to do what our community wants. Yes, thank you so much. Excuse me. Could you reiterate where the family resource center is? Yeah, the vital thing in the resource center is closest to Capitola and Silicon Valley. It's located right off 17th and Capitola Road. Okay. And then that intersection where Ferrell's done it from White House to Black House School. Great. And some people can follow. And it has a policy when White if they have mornings, to when one would probably wrap them to the family resource center, that's what I was suggesting, which is a family resource center. Great. And then, I know Kristen had mentioned earlier about figuring out how to apply for your funding. Is that on your website or? It's not yet. We're going to meet with the assistant government district tomorrow morning. A lot of gales, caseries, and ham, veggie gales. And we'll talk with business owners directly about it. And then, I saw some help from Jay Jackson and others to help you some door-to-door outreach about that. We think that there's far, far fewer resources than our people who will want them. So we're not going to do a huge broadcast of the application process right now. We'll just go door-to-door, really truly door-to-door. And I can send that only to the application if you have business owners. But it's just a super simple rule of farming. We shouldn't take them very long. Great. Well, thank you so much. Susan, your work has really helped us out a lot. And I think some other council members might have questions or comments. Mayor Keisler, if I may, I know this is off the cusp and generally we don't speak to our public for questions. But I think this is really important. Susan, can you tell us a little bit more? I've seen some information about the flood recovery info sessions. Is that what you were talking about with the gales tomorrow at four? Is that something different? I'm sorry, that was a response to that question about how businesses will know how to apply for businesses. That's my way of the business and community district. The other seminars we have, one today at four, those are close to my community bridges. There'll be another one tomorrow at four. But we can make sure. It sounds like you have the flyers about that. Those are close to my community bridges. They run most of the family resource that was in town and through the action board will actually be giving out the draft assistance as well as in the policy holder. As I mentioned, it can help residents with insurance claims and eventually fuel it for the time it takes. So it's really helpful just to get a sense of, like, what should I do? How do I sign up to have volunteers help clean the mud of my drive? I think we know how do I get money because I lost my wages because I have a dishwasher. So it's just being a practical way to get to help people with fund. The ones that are being hosted by our friends at community bridges. Great, thank you so much. Yeah, come back, Mr. Woodside. Thank you. Just a quick question with respect to the river path. I noticed on one of the slides that there's an estimate of damage to the river path. Is that the path that begins right at the Eastern foot, crossing private property, but it's publicly accessible and then extending all the way up to public property. I think at the very end, that's what you're referring to. So the question I guess is, how do the homeowners along the way coordinate so that whatever we do to the path, it comes back in a usable manner. And I suppose many of us know who to talk to, but maybe for the general public, we don't all know. So. Thank you. Our public works director can push us in the right direction. So any resident on that review pathway can definitely contact me directly to coordinate any repairs or fixes. Because yes, definitely our intention is to have that whole pathway back open to the public, both the private property site and the public property site. So anyone can directly contact me and in the coming days we'll be directly contacting the residents. But then the short term, we haven't quite had time to get to that yet. Great, thank you. Any other public comments? Okay, great. I can take it to council comments. Is that, yeah, I do. I just wanted to first thank Captain Ryan for getting the information out on our social media regarding the evacuations and the entire team for really getting the info out to the entire public. I'd really like to see that again happen over the weekend and to continue to notify the rest of council on what's going on. And generally we see that on our own personal social media but it'd be nice to get the information direct from staff. I also really want to say thank you a day and a half of cleanup that is unreal and it is hands down a remarkable expression of community and hard work from our city and our staff. And I really, really, really am so grateful for all of that work that all of you have done and continue to do. I know that you're working 24 hours around the clock and answering personal emails and phone calls from not just us from the community and it doesn't go unnoticed until I just really want to express my gratitude. To all of you here, our department heads as well as the staff who are still out there cleaning up, preparing for the storms ahead and to our public also for non-stop emailing. I'm sure all of us about how they can help. We live in a very special community and I'm just so honored to be part of it. So thank you to everyone. Great. I'd like to be a comment. I want to say thanks to the city manager, all the staffers, the police department. I've got phone calls from people actually all over the world just talking about Capitola and how remarkable we all came together and just being the newcomer. It's really great to see and I'm glad to be part of it. Thank you. Thank you. I'll just echo the thanks again to city staff and all the volunteers and our community members and again specifically to the city manager. I think I've probably called or texted like four times a day since the storm. I imagine everyone else up here probably the same. So thank you for being responsive to us as we attempt to be responsive to the community in addition to all of your responsiveness to the community. Emily, that goes for all of you and thank you so much. Great. Alan Sandert, do you have any comments? Nothing that hasn't come together. Look out for each other as a response to the city was just amazing to see. So I think it's great. So wonderful thing to see that these family members how far community really is. Yes, definitely. And I will obviously be behind all of those comments as well. I think that we need to stay strong too. So make sure everybody is being nourished. I know a lot of local restaurants and things have fed a lot of our workers and that any more support in that way is going to be huge especially as we move forward with some impending weather. So hopefully we can stay strong and don't lose faith and thank you everybody. It literally takes a village. I don't know if we need a roll call for this. Okay, no vote on that. So just again, thanks everybody. I don't know what's happening to my voice, sorry. We can move on to item nine being which is the regional bike share contract. The recommended action is to authorize a city manager to execute a five-year professional services agreement would be recycled for the regional bike share program. Give us a second. We're gonna try a different technique on the Zoom share. We did it. Yeah, good here too. Great job. And it seems like this mic works. Oh, excellent. Okay, well I'm really excited to bring this item forward to you tonight. The regional bike share has been a long, it's been a long time in the making. So please slide please, June. So we've got three documents. We've got a bicycle plan for the city of Capitola, a general plan and then also our climate action plan. And within all three plans there is direction to collaborate towards bike sharing and more emphasis on sharing. And there's goals towards getting more ridership of bikes in order to decrease our impact on the CO2 emissions. So the direction is there within those guiding documents within the city of Capitola. Next slide please. A little bit of background. When I was putting together a slide and looking back to when did we really launch this? It was back in 2018. When we first went to city council, it was in the fall of 2018 to ask, should we get involved in bike share? At this time, the city of Santa Cruz had jump bikes had been launched. It was a successful program and we got direction from city council to yes. Let's move forward, but let's do it right. So we from there, we updated our municipal code in order to put in place protections to make sure that any bike share future bike share program come in and there'd be one contract with the city of Capitola and to make sure there was direction or guidance on how to park a bike where bikes can be ridden on that side of the street and who can utilize sidewalks. So we updated our the bicycle rules with throughout Capitola in 2019. Then we published an RFP in collaboration with the county. Unfortunately, there were no viable options in terms of a no cost solution to no cost contract for the city. So we ended up and then COVID hit. So at that point, we took a break in 2021. Actually later in 2022 a group of us started talking during COVID and discussing the possibility of a few of the entities working together and then we decided let's reach out to everyone in accounting and by 2021 we had a small working group for a regional bike share. We published an RFI to get information on what what providers could provide in terms of a whole system. And then once we got the findings of the request for information, we published an RFP. We had quite a few responses to our RFP. We moved three groups and part of that interview was actually riding bikes and getting out there part of our homework. And in the end we selected B-Cycle as the top. Next slide please. The key components that our regional group is looking for was a bike-only system. There was quite a few that came for with scooters and bicycles. We wanted a single vendor for the whole region. We were looking at hybrid docked or dockless systems and I know our city council is very interested in docked but on a regional scale we were not all around on that. Also we wanted a third party owned and operated and to have no cost to the jurisdiction and also that they have a local team in order to manage the bicycles and B-Cycle fits all of these. Next slide please. This is just an image of the bicycles that they'll be providing for the city. Also the docking stations, they have a nice clean look. In terms of the bicycles, they do do some, they get an insignia as they had an art project of the baskets having a certain data contest I believe for artwork on the bikes. So they might be more colorful than this but this is the actual product that we'll be getting. And I should mention that Oliver Davis and Brian Conga are on the Zoom call tonight from B-Cycle and they can answer any questions you have regarding the bicycles. Next slide please. So next I'm gonna go into the contract. So a contract requires that the city council be approved of the contract and tonight we're asking for approval of a five year agreement with B-Cycle. The system is a docked system. It's region wide, there'll be 660 e-bikes and then for every e-bike they install two docks so 1320. In Capitolo, we are slotted to have a minimum of 50 e-bikes and 100 docks. Within the contract there's the option to go up to 2000 bikes region wide so we could end up if it's very successful in Capitolo getting more bikes. The bikes are accessed through an online app. There's no cost to major restriction and then after the first two years there was a possibility of revenue share based on how much revenue the bicycle is making. Next slide please. For consumer protections, this was one of my focuses within the contract was to ensure that our consumers are protected. So we have a maximum price increase limits for the first two years they cannot increase the price. After the first two years there was an allowance for up to 10% per contract year or 3% less CPI, whichever is less. Also there are maintenance and repair standards within the contract, customer service, response times, standards for making sure bikes are available to customers, requirements for safety and education to for consumers and then also performance standards for the individual bicycles. The cost associated with this, one of the reasons why we chose B-Cycle was because the costs were very, very much better than the other proposals. The walk-up pass is $7 per each 30 minutes. So this is a person that does not have a monthly or annual pass. It's just $7 per 30 minutes with a daily maximum of $75. Monthly you can get a pass for $30 for unlimited 30-minute trips and then if you go over the 30 minutes it's an extra $3 per 30 minutes and then an annual pass for $1.50 with that same extra $3 for any time over 30 minutes. And then there's bulk member pricing programs for low-income students and UCSC has been working with B-Cycle and they're working on getting better pricing for their students but they're also putting money towards the program the university is in order to decrease that pricing for students. Next slide please. The timing here, B-Cycle, when we first interviewed them and throughout the process has said we like to make sure our system is installed right and make sure that all of our docs are in the correct location. So it does take time as they study where the bikes are being taken from and deposited. So the first rollout is for UCSC and the city of Santa Cruz within six months and then the rest of the region for Capitola, Watsonville, Cabrero College and the county of Santa Cruz will be within 18 months. So we're looking towards 2024 about early or throughout the summer. Next slide please. Next slide. And then, back one, sorry. So in terms of next steps I'll be coming back to you. We've been doing some work with B-Cycle and internally looking at locations for docking stations. So they're gonna be within our right of way and we're just looking for areas that will work with them. So Oliver is on the call and he plans on coming out in the near future to help us with location. So this is just our first look at locations but it will be fine tuning this and getting it back to the city council for approval. And then any larger, if they have any signs or anything like that, that would go to Planning Commission. Next slide. So tonight I'm asking for you to authorize the city manager to execute a five-year professional service agreement with B-Cycle for the regional bike share program. With that I'm available for questions and as I said, Oliver Davis is on the Zoom call with us and Brian Conger with B-Cycle. Thank you. Any council questions? Yes. Is this, what happened to the county-wide effort to have all the same, is this the same thing? This is, okay, so the, in the report where it shows all the different information that this company and everyone, all the other cities got it. Yep. So who has, in the contract does it authorize or does it say who's authorized to say we can remove a dock? Is that under our purview? Like if we have issues with the location after a year or so and we start getting complaints about it or is that up to the vendor? So we would be issuing revocable encroachment permits so it would be through our normal revocable encroachment permit process in which the permit itself is revocable so if there were issues we could work with B-Cycle to modify where the location is. And can you tell me a little bit about the process to complain, to give feedback? If there were, you know, is that coming to the city? Is that going straight to the vendor? How do we, how would we approach that? The complaints would go straight to the vendor. So, but I'm sure as city staff we will be getting phone calls as well. But there'll be phone numbers on the bicycles and on the docking stations informing the public of how they can contact B-Cycle to put in a complaint and then they'll report out to us and let us know of issues and also the public is welcome to of course reach out to our city staff and let us know if there's any issues. Can you tell me a little bit about the dump being, you know, a bike is dumped in a spot and staff gets a call so that our public works generally is more easily, more easily to get a hold of them versus sometimes a vendor. Can you tell me about how you, I'm sure you talked about it, so. Sure, well one reason why we selected B-Cycle is because the bicycle has to be docked at the end of the ride and it has to, it has to be parked in one of the docking stations. So if someone were to rent a bicycle and leave it somewhere they would be paying a really large fee to B-Cycle. So, and they'll also get notifications on their phone. I can let Oliver probably speak to this but I think the rider will get notifications that you have to return the bike to a dock. So the beauty of this system is that they do have to be docked if they were to leave a bicycle somewhere. Oliver, could you explain what would happen then? So first of all our intention would never be to try to charge some of the full price of the bike without actually doing the steps of reaching out to them and trying to get the bike back. That's really not, would be our only focus is can we get our bike back if so? We don't remind the business of trying to charge anybody for the full price of the bike. With that said, there are, there's gonna be times where people leave bikes in places that affect, like you get more information there about the works. We will have a full staff team that is able to field those calls, take care of it themselves. If, and we will have, we will have ways of working, we're working with several jurisdictions on kind of what the outlaw is right now for people to reach our team directly. And so that means we don't take care of that. Yeah, like you said, it's, there are ways of, if you don't dock a bike, if you don't dock a bike, we do within a certain period and reach out to, whether we're at it, there are also, we'll use some sort of, we don't have active GPS, there's several bikes, but we do have some tracking devices where we can find where bikes are lost and we can track them back. Oliver, you just mentioned having staff available. Do you have a, do you have staff here in Santa Cruz County available at this time? Good question. So we actually were just finalizing our agreements. That kind of gives us to go ahead to hire staff. We're hoping to accept an offer, our first offer to the general manager that previously was working for the jump system. So we're looking at doing that really quickly, but we can go on the path for staff to take care of. So yes, answer your question. So this question's for Katie before we enter an agreement, Oliver mentioned that they're still working out some kinks in terms of process for picking up and things like that. Have you discussed that with the team on agreeing on something that's, that they're not quite ready for, but if we were to approve this evening and they're not quite all set up, do we have maybe a timeline or should we wait? I hope you guys talked about this at all. So I think we're in a really good position where we'll be in phase two of the rollout. So phase one is UCSC and the city of Santa Cruz. So as much as we'd like to have bikes as soon as possible, I think they'll be working out a lot of the logistics of the system while doing the installations with UCSC. They're hoping to have their system in by summer in the city of Santa Cruz. So by the time we will be entering, we'll get our installations in 2024 when they'll definitely have staff, they'll have their local staff in place. That is part of the contract that they have the local staff in place in a local warehouse. So I feel confident by the time one to phase two all the kinks will be worked out. Mayor, this is my last question. Thank you. So why would we enter them into a five-year contract now rather than waiting to see have you to buy such a long contract? Well, basically we're a smaller city and it's, we wanna be involved in this contract and by joining it now, we definitely have a seat at the table. I think I would accurately be speaking for B-Cycle and saying that the majority of their profits, they expect at UCSC, city of Santa Cruz, where there's a much bigger population, but they're willing to do this regional contract where there's bikes dispersed throughout the region. And I think we all realize that we wanna be involved and this is the time to be to be signing the contract so that we're all in this together. So with our partners who have. Mayor Keiser, I'm so sorry. As a follow-up then, this is for Samantha. Is there a clause in the contract where we all should things go sideways in a year or by 2024 if we learn something that doesn't go all with UC Santa Cruz or if we were to approve this this evening? Yeah. Well, thank you. And I guess I'll add it without penalty or what is the penalty? I'm looking at the contract now. All of the attorneys for all of the agencies met multiple times about this contract. So it's been a while since we did that. So give me just a second. Yes, there's a termination clause here. Yes, so the answer is yes. There's a termination clause. It allows us to terminate after a 90 day notice asking to cure the issue that's moving to the termination. Without penalty or with penalty? Give me just a second. I can't imagine there's a penalty because we're not paying anything for the contract but give me just a second. The penalty was also, sorry to interrupt. It's after the second year, it's a 90 day notice of termination of the contract. That's right, after the second year we have 90 days notice of termination. And I don't see a penalty in here. No, we can terminate for convenience which means basically any reason. Great, thank you. I have just a couple of questions. First is cost. It seems like for students, younger people who don't have bicycles or whatever, it seems a little bit high. For tourists, I'm sure they'll be used by the tourists here. But the cost is an issue. And also, where are we gonna put the docking stations? If there's a nuisance and businesses don't like the location of them, how easy is it for us to move the docking stations? How long will we be able to work on finding those locations for the docking stations? So first, for cost. Within the contract, there's a requirement that they work towards creating a program for low income, so at a lower cost. Also, special pricing for students. So that we did agree on. And in the past, I think they've worked with libraries to create special cards for undocumented folks or people without phones to be able to access the bicycles. So I think they've had some good partnerships with libraries to make that special cost put them in place so everyone has access. In terms of the docking, the locations, that will be coming to the city council. So I will be bringing you a large map of where we are working very closely with our public works director and staff to identify locations and also work with Oliver. He knows what the cycle needs in terms of making, of locating a successful station. So there'll be a lot of work done up front to make sure we're not placing them where they don't belong. And there was initial review back when we were considering going into contract with Jump back in 2019. So we've done some preliminary work on it, but now once we have a contract, we'll really be getting into the final details. Jump, another reason we're impressed by their product is because of the way they can tie into different surfaces. So in areas that we might have pavers, they have a special way to tie into pavers where they have asphalt, there's a different treatment for asphalt. So, and then maybe Oliver or Brian, if you could talk about, if you did have to remove a docking station, what does that take? How often does this come up? And how do you react to those requests? Oh, Brian, you might be muted. We're taking really really good into that. So first, we're going to need removal of docks. We've designed it to actually be really easy to install and really easy to take out. They're less than initials that we're drawing in for each dock. Again, if you can't remove, it takes us usually less than 30 minutes to install a station. They are individual docks that are usually concrete, and we can also do asphalt in our base plates. So, yeah, thanks for your question. Anytime we, if there is a need to remove a station, we're used to knowing that it's not a problem for us. Just in terms of cost, we've been thinking a little bit about as well. And before we kind of, we operate in Santa Barbara as well. So we're trying to hope some statistics just to be able to kind of share what costs in Santa Barbara was like for us in the past year. So we know that the cost structure is the same in Santa Barbara that we're using in Santa Cruz. That's why I bring it up. But we looked at annual members along with local members and like I said, the cost structure was the same. The annual and monthly members, they accounted for 72% of all rides in that system in 2022. And the average cost per trip is actually only, it was $2 maybe cents. Per trip, it was a lot more cost effective than kind of what you saw, but the walk-in password is $7 per 30 minutes. Okay. Then we can go to public comment. There's any members of the public? Sorry, I had a question. Oh, sorry. You're all the way over there. Yeah. Yeah. For any planning or have you worked with businesses to put a box on private property as well because it seems to me that one of the major uses of a biker program would be going to different businesses or work or shopping. I was surrounded by a total of more than 41 times than the court or which I think would be a really useful option for this type of service. Yeah, that's a great question. We definitely do, and that's our goal in our plan. It's each individual station, or each each time you have to work with a private individual on stations, we have to do the contracting of all individually, right? So if we were to work with 10 different private amenities for 10 different stations, and Capitola, for example, those are 10 different contracts, whereas if we were just with the city right away up front, we can get a whole lot of options for stations. So that's what we're doing right now, Katie, is trying to figure out where the stations we go and fill in the gaps with private companies, and that's our intention. Got it. Let's see. Let's hear for you. And I'm going to just say I'm really excited about this program, a long time for, actually, I don't know if it's ever gonna be a great service. I was looking at concerns about the, said about this for 30 minutes, and we can't find a way to communicate those prices for low income, especially those who may not have the ability to pay the $30, $150 for a subscription to access those cheaper prices. And I was curious, do you have any ideas about how much the low income I see might be or what that might look like? So looking at our contracts, it says that we have to work that out. I don't have it, we don't have that predict today. So you might agree with me like that in the other city at this time. Thank you. Is my audio working? Yeah, or no? Yes. Sorry about that. Sorry for that. In Santa Barbara, which is pretty much the price and structure of the online percentage group, we have the same structure being due, we have a low income pass in the Santa Barbara market. That's a $25 pass for unlimited 60-minit trips. Do you get over that? I mean, that's just an example of one that is in a market and similar in terms of just how we face the program. So I think that could be something that would be, you know, just a starting point, something that we can currently be in a very similar market. I believe Katie referenced our partnership with libraries on the run market. So in our Madison, there's this kind of program, which is where I'll run as an optimal system. And also in our Nashville system, we partner with the library branches, which basically it involves, we have a hard-fired e-card, which anybody can really check out with their library card. And that hard-fired e-card is what allows them to access the system. So they don't need to have a credit card. They don't actually need to sign up. It's just a system that you have to replace and merge with the libraries to provide basically a very low barrier access. We also love that partnership because it is oftentimes communication needs on people with a library for information and it's a trusted source of information. So for us, that's a great thing to be part of the work with so that people who will oftentimes have questions, keep going and get information and have access to a computer to learn more about the program. But then also directly get a free pass on the piece of the partnerships that we've set up in similar markets we operate. Okay, and are you aware of any business that is to offer a multi-same for employees or any discounts? Yeah, that's something to be part of the work. Yeah, we do have programs similar to that. A lot of that comes down to, with the general manager that will be hiring, they would be, that would be, they're her view to really be the point person for interested businesses. And like I mentioned, Santa Barbara is a similar program. We have business S options there. And those are really oftentimes more closer to business centers and spaces. Two comments asked with our local lead manager of the program. Great, I just have one last question for you. And I have another question for staff. I'm assuming I haven't seen another biker program. You won't be offered an helmet, is that right? Is it? We do not have a part of me that needs to be provided as a helmet. We need a lot of not to rent. We do strongly encourage, we use helmets on the area. We're a part of our current company, so we're only directed by track bicycle. So track is the manufacturer of the bikes and they obviously, if people are familiar with that company, we have bike shops and retailers in the area. So along the other markets, oftentimes what we also do is encourage public uses, partnering with local retailers, directing people where they can purchase helmets and in some cases giving helmets away as promo kind of events and events. So that's just something that we're looking at from a safety perspective. True, I think that would be really important to have some public outreach on each side of the city to encourage people to wear helmets. Council Member Peterson, I just wanted to let you know that they also, they have a, they're working with ecology action. So they, they're partnering with them in terms of safety and getting the, you know, to, for safe practices and bicycle riding. So that, that was put together as part of the RFP and proposal, part of the proposal. So that's exciting for us to, you know, we've got local feet on the ground with safety measures. Thank you. And, you know, my last question was, I was curious if all of the cities in the county are also reaching a positive contract with E-Cycle or that number of years between the fact that a lot of them. And the standard PSA agreement. So there's been kind of a joint negotiation effort, which is across the jurisdictions. So right now all of the jurisdictions are working off of the same model of public professional services agreement, which is the one on the unique access to, there might be some very, very slight modifications to some of just, you know, we're trying to be consistent wherever we can, but, you know, the intention is that the vast majority of the agreements will be the same across markets, if you can adjourn. Good, thank you. Thank you. Did we have any public comment? Yes, thank you. Program, although it sounds like a long wait for us 2024. I have three questions and I'm just going to tell you all three questions and then you can answer them. One of them is, do you have some statistics, statistics about the trips are typically 30 minutes or they're 45 minutes, something like that? Another question is there an age requirement to be able to use the bikes? And my last question is, what happens if I'm on my bike and I get a flat tire? I'm going to try and answer some of those questions if that would help. Yes, please. Just a moment, I'm going to try and see if I can pull that very many. I'll answer that, but the general term, the majority of trips are still going to be short trips. So specifically the, by the time the membership passes is only a 30 minute trip. So a lot of those trips, remember, specifically our very point A to point B type trip under 30 minutes, I'm happy to follow up with more specific trip length, metrics, and I think probably keeping some more than we would live in our Santa Barbara system, which is currently marketed in some ways. But most members trips under 30 minutes, if you're looking at the lock off casual passing, those are going to be closer towards the 60 minute mark in terms of overall duration. Those might be a little bit more of a recreational ride. So more common than they might go over that 30 minute threshold. But happy to follow up with more detail somewhere if that would be helpful. There's something in question, the link was about the age restriction, and I apologize, I want to say that our standard is, if someone here is based on the system of the word supporting, but 15 years is our typical requirement for somebody to rent a bike, because there's a user dream that they have to sign off for. So that's at least for the age requirement for somebody to go through our user agreement. If somebody's under that age, they can have, they're starting to sign off on that on every half, which could allow them to be younger, but at least our standard is that 18 would be the age to sign off on the user agreement. The third question was if you would get a flat tire while you're riding. We designed the bike in a way that we try to negate that as much as we can, and use a very kind of stick tire walls to be resistant to a lot of crucial facts, and we do have crews that go out and regularly maintenance the bikes, but it is something that can happen, does happen over the thousands of trips will be generated. The fact that what happened while you were on your bike, the simplest thing to do would be as if you're when you're on a station, if you can return it to the station, and in notify us, you'll be certainly able to adjust your trip, feel a refund in that instance. It's not possible to get a bike back to the station because of the flat. We are planning on bikes for Santa Cruz, we have a secondary cable lock, which would be intended to use for short-term convenience to temporarily secure the bike, so another option would be to secure the bike using the secondary cable lock, get a traditional bike rack, call in, or text our customer service support line, and then just start to monitor where you left the bike and we can have our in-city crew get that bike up and adjust it. Great, thank you so much. Any other, yeah, Mr. Wilk? Wilk here, I'm glad you're allowing questions. I guess I don't have a comment, I have a question in it. It's along the lines of the helmet. So I can envision wanting to rent this spontaneously, right, so you're saying, oh yeah, let's just get out of here, grab a bike, but I'm not gonna have a helmet with me. So the question is, what is the law on helmet requirements as happy motorcycle helmet because it's an electric bike, and what is the fine if I get busted by driving one of these things without a helmet? So I guess that's a question more of the police department, but I'd like to have a sense of when I can use these and when I can't, especially if I don't have a helmet. Well, Chief Respond, thank you. So I know, you know, helmets are required for anyone that's under 18. Adults, it's a recommendation. There is a couple of things, I believe that there is a meaning code and you can actually issue a citation. So we have a meaning code violation and the vehicle code also has a violation for like, in those they're underage. But clearly, bicycle helmets are required if they're underaged. Thank you so much. Are there any other public comments? Thank you. We can go to council comments or motion. Yes. The button you get to report a mechanical issue with the bike, rather than having to call or tax department position, which in my experience is always very tedious. We do, that's great that we do not only have like a single button to push the department position, but we do have, we can access a reported issue. It might be a couple of clicks involved, but it was more support thing. So you don't necessarily need a live agent to take your report and pass it on and then on that channel use a monitor by the whole technicians team. Thank you. I'm prepared to make a motion. I wanna stress that we continue though to look at ensuring that if there's use of underage and whether it's in, I'm gonna get the right, B cycles, language or our language if someone of underage is utilizing the bike and what our safety precautions are for helmets. That's about me and whether we need to adjust our munico to save. It's inclusive of a, you know, for these e-bikes or whatever it may be. I wanna make sure that we address that. But while moving forward with authorizing the city manager to execute a five year professional service agreement with B cycle for the regional bike share program. And that's my motion. Thank you. Seconded by council member Peterson. Can we have a roll call please? That passes unanimously. We had item nine C removed from the agenda this evening. So we'll be moving on to nine D, which is the city council appointments to see advisory bodies. The recommended action is to appoint city council representatives to remain, to remaining county and regional boards and support a, oh my God, I can't read and appoint members to of the public to the city of County advisory bodies. Do we have a, I don't know what happened. Thanks for hanging on. Okay. Good evening, Mayor and council members. Just wanna verify that councilor Peterson, can you see the screen okay? Well, we are back here again after a brief hiatus from the last meeting to review and make appointments to the city council representatives on county and multi-jurisdictional boards and commissions, as well as make appointments of members of the public to the city's advisory bodies. We previously reviewed the capital representation on these groups on December 8th and the city council elected to make appointments to some of the county and multi-jurisdictional boards and commissions, as well as the planning commission. Tonight we'll review their main review appointments and as we move through the presentation we will pause to allow time for council deliberation and action. So the city of capital is represented on various multi-jurisdictional advisory bodies by members of the city council. These boards and committees are established by other codes or bylaws. As I mentioned on December 8th, the city council reviewed and made appointments to four of these groups. Tonight for your consideration is approval of representation on at least five of these groups. We've also included representation on the criminal justice council. On the criminal justice council has a representative that will not expire until 2023. However, the council may elect to change the representation based on a review of tonight's meeting. So at this time, I would ask that the council review and make appointments to the first five groups. The next meeting dates are listed on the screen as well as current representatives. Okay, so thank you. Advisory council of the area agency. I think one note I would like to name for this group in particular, I did inquire with the clerk of the board for that group. The representative for the advisory council of the area agency on aging does not need to be a council member. It is their recommendation that it continues to be a council member. However, a member of the public can be appointed to represent capital on this body. Did we have anyone who was interested? Shaq said he might remain. I spoke with council, former council member McCran. And he has indicated that if the council would so choose, he would serve. I'm okay with that. Yeah, me too. All right, great. Thank you, Mr. Bertrand. Sanitation, that's a double open seat. Correct. This one will require a primary appointment and an alternate appointment. If anyone wants to take a stab at it. Okay. Don't jump up. How do we, how do we know about this if nobody wants to? Well, one suggestion could be you could figure out which ones people want to be on and then you could draw straws for the others. Okay. Okay, so do we want to table that one until we figure out what other people's interests are? Sure. Okay. Financing, we've got council, Vice Mayor Brown and then we need an alternate. Any interest in an alternate? I would like to be the alternative if Vice Mayor Brown. Yeah, sounds good. Thank you, Council Member Cook. The integrated place management task force group previously had a staff member as the primary representative that staff member has retired from the city of Capitola. Public Works Director Jessica Kahn has been working with the group in the in-home. So we recommend that she continue to work with them as the primary. However, council member is appointed as the alternate member. Okay. And... I'm happy to be the alternate member. And Director Yer, okay, staying on. Okay, thank you, I appreciate it. Are we gonna fill it in as we go for now? We have the screen sharing. Okay. It's gonna be challenging for me to switch. No problem. I will review the motion. Okay. At the end. I take the notes. And then the Library Advisory Commission has a, oh, that's experience. So the Library Advisory Commission is a citizens commission, represent each one of the jurisdictions appoints somebody. Michael Termini is our current appointment. He's indicated he's interested in serving again. Okay. Great. And the criminal justice. I've really enjoyed my time on the criminal justice council, but I feel like Council Member Clark having the expertise and experience at what you better serve. And then Mayor Kaiser, if you don't mind, I would be happy to take over as an alternate. Yeah. I'm gonna go to Instagram again. Okay. Okay, great. So sanitation. Let me look at that date real quick, if you don't mind. What is the typical meeting cycle? Do we know? I don't know how many a year. I don't know how many a year. You can see the meetings are usually during the lay-afternoon. Is it in the district? It is comprised of the rest of the Board of Supervisors of the League, and the Capitola City Council. What do they do? Well, sewer and water. Sewer. Well, I'm already on the flood control district. I guess I could join this one too. Okay. Sign me up. I'll be your alternate. Thank you. You're welcome. So to recap, for the advisory council, the area agency on aging, former council member Bertrand will continue to serve as the appointee for Capitola. For the sanitation district, as primary member, we have Vice Mayor Brown, alternate, we have Mayor Kaiser. For the library financing authority, as our primary member, we'll have Vice Mayor Brown with council member Clark serving as alternate. For the Integrated Waste Management Task Force, we will have Public Works Director Jessica Kahn and Alec Dinda-Pierson as the alternate, or Council Member Peterson as the alternate, excuse me. For the library advisory commission, we'll continue to have Michael Tremini serve as the appointee for Capitola. And for the criminal justice council, we'll have council member Clark and Vice Mayor Brown. At this time, staff will recommend a motion to approve these appointments. Great. I'll take a motion to pass these. I'll second. Great. We have a motion to say something. No, I have no second to say anything. We don't need public comment on the street. Yeah, we do. Oh, we do, yeah. So before we go further, why don't we reach out to the public for their comments? Our next speaker is on Zoom. Before we did that, we had a motion and a second on the tables. So why don't we do a roll call? Council Member Brooks? Aye. Council Member Clark? Aye. Council Member Peterson? Aye. Vice Mayor Brown? Aye. Mayor Heizer? Aye. That also passes unanimously. That was 9D, which takes us to... Wait, we have more bodies. More bodies? Oh, no. I'm not doing that. I'm really rushing things. So the next part of this presentation is going to focus on these city's advisory bodies. And so Capitol has established multiple city advisory bodies that assist and advise in formulating policy for the city. Appointments are made depending on bylaws or the municipal code. So previously on December 8th, the city council reviewed and made appointments to the Planning Commission in accordance with Capitol Municipal Code. Tonight we'll review the remaining four bodies that need appointments made. The city clerk's office received seven applications for new appointees to these bodies and eight requests for reappointment. These bodies allow members of the public to participate in city government as volunteers, and they are really valuable for feedback and communication between city members of the community and staff. The advisory bodies listed on the screen are the ones that currently have vacancies. There is a difference between regularly scheduled vacancies and unscheduled vacancies, occur when a member of an advisory body quits or leaves their term early, and then regularly scheduled vacancies are when vacancies term out. So each person is appointed for a set term, and then when the term expires, we need to reappoint them or appoint somebody else to fill that position. So as you can see on the screen, there are four bodies with remaining terms that need to be filled. We're gonna move through each of these bodies and we will make a motion for each of them in turn. So we'll take pauses in between. The first one is going to be the Arts and Cultural Commission. So as you can see here, we have three members who are seeking reappointment and two members who have resigned. So this leaves two vacancies, and for those we received one new applicant. So for the Arts and Cultural Commission, staff recommends making four appointments. So bear in mind there are three members who have requested reappointment and there's one person who has requested appointment to this group. All four of these terms will expire in December of 2024 as it's a two-year term. Would you like me to return to the previous? Please, thank you. Do we need public comment on each of these bodies? City Attorney, City Manager, do we need to take public comment on each of these appointments to each? So like before I make a motion to appoint this person, this person, this person, do we need to go out to public comment? It's gonna be the microphone by the presentation computer right there. It's a wild night. So what I would recommend is similar to what you do with the last portion of the presentation, deciding, every time you take action, a vote you need to take public comment. So you can just get consensus on who do we appoint, go to the next body, get consensus, and then when we get to the very end, make a motion to approve all the things we just agreed on and then take public comment. That's for the motion. That's for me to do it, that's probably the most efficient approach. I'll turn the wheel, you could vote on each body, which would take public comment four times. So it's the mayor can decide that that's likely the most efficient route. Yeah, let's go with that route. Great. In that case, we're gonna go ahead and move on to the next group, which is the Commission on the Impact Feedback on the first one. So I think we're gonna like, yeah, say let's appoint these people if we all agree, we'll move on, but we won't actually vote until the end. Can we do it that way? Is that a mayor? That's what I understand. Okay, can do it. Okay, yeah. Let's do it. Okay, so I'd like to suggest moving forward with the three seeking reappointments as well as Mr. Wolk for this particular Arts and Cultural Commission. And that's just my comment before we go out to public comment. It's just my comment. That's okay with me. Okay, great. Everyone, cool. In that case, we will go ahead and move on to the Commission on the Environment. I will make the motion and then go at the very end of all four groups. So for the Commission on the Environment, this is a body that has four people seeking reappointment. It's a two-year term. There's also one new applicant. So there are five total applicants for four spots. Staff recommends making four appointments for terms expiring in December of 2024. You have a selection of five people who are volunteering to serve on this committee. My comment would be to appoint the Meredith Keith, Jason Sheperson, Michelle Birdsoft, and Anthony Lassener. Lassener for this particular commission. That's my comment on the Commission on the Environment. Do we know the new applicant? Anthony would be my appointee. Oh, okay, fine. Oh, I see. Okay, okay. Is this a, so in that case, isn't it just Alexander and Joe that get to choose the new appointments since Brooks Brown and, oh, that looks like these are based on specific people. Right. So for this group, we do have a council representative to this group, and I believe it's Mayor Kaiser. So the remaining four members of the council would each get one. Oh, I see. So Alexander, Joe, Yvette, and myself need to choose our own individual. Correct, because your previous appointee's terms expired. Okay. So it's time for a new person. As they know, I didn't know. Yeah, I apologize. My comment would be to move forward with Michelle again, who's seeking my appointment. Thank you. And I'll stick with Jason Sheperson. Thank you. The next group is going to be the Finance Advisory Commission. So for this group, we have two members who are seeking reappointment, and we have three positions that did not apply for reappointment and need to be filled. And one of those is Council Member Peterson C, which he vacated when he accepted his position on the city council. For this group, he received five new applicants, as well as the two who are seeking appointment. So it's a, there's an active decision to be made here between all of the seven people who wish to serve. Right. Yeah. Staff recommends making five appointments to the Finance Advisory Committee. The terms will expire in December of 2024. So we got you have two people who are seeking reappointment and five people who are seeking appointment. Madam Mayor. So you may recall that the Finance Advisory Committee, it's bylaws, the mayor and vice mayor, service members of the Finance Advisory Committee, and then the other three members in the council point to the fact. Yes. But there's language I believe that says that if the mayor and vice mayor don't want to serve, other people can step in. So my understanding is, is that Council Member Brown and Council Member Peterson are the council's representatives. So the other three of you then would be able to choose among the applicants to appoint. Thank you. I believe my appointee may apply to Anthony Robeye. So I'll stick with that, please. Can we go back to the name, just so, I mean, I know I'm not appointing, but those are the names of the new applicants. I couldn't get it all to fit on one slide here, but we have the two people who are reapplying and then the five new. I would like to make my appointment as Michelle Kaufman. That's what mine was going to be. Do I still yours? That's all right, I'm just going to put it back up. I have, who are the ones? Can you go back to the, can you go back to the name? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All those seeking an appointment? She is. Yes. I'd like to have rare as my appointee. I don't wish to. Great, I think that's all you need. So then there's one other nuance here. I'm sorry, were you about to... Two more spots, I need to be filled. And those are the business representatives, right? Correct. And who are the applicants for the business representative position? I have to pull up the applications really quickly. You're like, you want one man as I do that. And is that an entire council consensus or is that still just the people? That's the people that's us. Well, one of the business reps is seeking an appointment, right? Yeah, maybe I have to switch my, Oh yeah, cause you made a miracle. Okay. While you're waking that up, I have a question. Do we still have a student rep on finance? Do we have any student supply for finance committee? Or are we gonna advertise for that again? We did not receive any student applications for the finance advisory committee. I mean, don't believe there are any current student members on the finance advisory committee. There is one, yeah. Is he still there? Oh, well, I don't know. Do they have, do they have terms on their appointments? Students? So they go to college? I don't believe they're voting members. They're ex-officials. Yeah, so they're not voting members. It's a little bit different. Good refresher. Wait, so it's Michelle. Is it the same young man that's been on it for like four years? Yes. Wow, that's impressive. We have to convince people up here to be on the finance advisory committee. So the fact that he's been there for four years is quite impressive. No offense, Jim. So one option would be, you may remember that we expanded the number of business representatives recently. This last year, I think it was on the finance advisory committee. Right. Do you know that Michelle called? I think Michelle, no? It's not business. Okay, if we bounce back to the last slide, we could see who the current business representative was, who is seeking reappointment. So both of our business representatives are not seeking reappointment because one of them was appointed to council. Councilman Pearson was a business representative and then Alexandra Dale did not apply for reappointment and she was the other business representative. And that was the newly appointed business representative during the last appointment cycle to the FAC. Got it. So we may need to continue improvement for the business representative. In the past, we've worked with the Chamber of Commerce on that one. So should we move? On the applications, I can see that the applicants did not specify whether they were business or at-large. Of the new applicants, Diana Varkatos is a retired member of the community. Enrique Domo is a member of the community that he did not indicate if he was a business representative. Michelle Kauffman applied as an at-large member, she didn't indicate at-large. Dana Masso, who did not indicate whether or not she was a business representative or an at-large member. And Peter Wolk is also at-large and indicated such on his application. So it sounds like what we need to do is continue to advertise for business representative and we can reach out to the Chamber of Commerce because I think historically the Chamber of Commerce would nominate an individual for us to appoint. I'm reading Diana's notes. Okay, yes, sorry. Yeah, I think we can we appoint what we already discussed and then go back out for the business representatives? Okay. That brings us to the last group of the evening, which is the Historical Museum Board. The current composition of the board shows that there are two members who resigned creating unscheduled vacancies and we did receive two applications for this board and then new applicant names are listed on the screen. I say that we appoint the two new people who want to be on the board. Yeah, absolutely. Roger, we might. So to recap, the appointments made so far through Council's recommendation, beginning with the Arts and Cultural Commission, we have the reappointment of James Wallace, Kelly Zunder and Roy Johnson and the appointment of Peter Wolk. With the Commission on the Environment, we have the reappointment of Michelle Barrett-Huff-Wall, Peter Wolk, Anthony Woller, I'm sorry, Anthony Lasseniere and Jason Shepardson. And then for the Finance Advisory Committee, we have the appointment of Anthony Wolvai, Michelle Kaufman and Laura Elioto and for the Historical Museum Board, we have the appointment of Enrique Delmau and Roger Wyant. So at this time, staff recommends making a motion with an integral comment. Paul, please. Action. Yes. Thank you so much. We have public comment. Anything else? No speakers on Zoom. Perfect. Council, do we have a... I'll move approval of the recommended appointments to the City Advisory Bodies. I'll second it. Great. We have a motion and a second. May we do roll call, please. Council Member Brooks. Aye. Council Member Clark. Aye. Council Member Peterson. Aye. Vice Mayor Brown. Aye. And Mayor Keiser. Aye. That passes unanimously. Do we have anything else? Lovely. Okay, well, thank you, everybody, for hanging in there this evening. We can go to item 10, which takes us to adjournment. So this meeting is adjourned. Be safe out there. Yeah. It's been done. 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