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WHAT IS HAPPENING? I KNOW THEY'RE OUTTA HEALTH CONTROL.[1. CALL TO ORDER]
WE PROCEED, I'M GONNA REQUEST THAT THE INTERPRETER TAKE A MOMENT TO EXPLAIN THE KNIGHTS, UH, INTERPRETATION SERVICE THAT WE OFFERED AT THIS EVENING.THANK THE FOLLOWING WILL BE AN ANNOUNCEMENT IN SPANISH.
YOU GONNA HAVE BE QUIET TO HEAR AND THANK YOU, MAYOR.
AS A REMINDER, IF WE COULD SILENCE ALL, UH, CELL PHONES OR ANY OTHER DEVICES IN THE CHAMBER, THAT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
LIKE TO CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER.
UH, A LIVE WEBCAST OF THE MEETING CAN BE VIEWED ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE.
AND IF YOU ARE WATCHING LI UH, VIA, UH, ZOOM, VIEWING THE SPANISH VERSION OF THE MEETING, INTERPRETER INSTRUCTIONS WILL APPEAR IN THE CHAT BOX AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN.
FOR THOSE WHO PREFER TO SIT IN THE CHAMBER, HEADSETS ARE AVAILABLE TO PROVIDE LIVE SPANISH TRANSLATION, PLEASE SEE THE CITY'S CLERK DESK TO CHECK OUT A HEADSET.
THE NOTICE AGENDA AND INFORMATION ON THE CITY OF NASHVILLE CITY'S WEBSITE INFORM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT THEY MAY SUBMIT A GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT OR A PUBLIC COMMENT ON A SPECIFIC AGENDA ITEM A NUMBER OF WAYS, EITHER IN PERSON IN THE CHAMBER BY SUBMITTING ONE OF THE SALMON COLORED REQUESTS TO ENTER COMMENT QUEUE.
I'M GONNA GET THAT RIGHT YET, UH, OVER TO OUR CITY CLERK'S, UH, DESK OR VIA ZOOM BY REGISTERING ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE AND RAISING A HAND DURING THE ITEM TO COMMENT OR EMAILING NO LATER THAN FOUR HOURS BEFORE THE MEETING.
ALL WRITTEN COMMENTS RECEIVED ARE DISTRIBUTED TO THE CITY COUNCIL PRIOR TO THE MEETING AND PUBLISHED ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE IF RECEIVED BY THE DEADLINE.
WITH THAT, CAN WE HAVE ROLL CALL PLEASE? THANK YOU.
PLEASE STAND FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
REMAIN STANDING FOR THE INVOCATION.
WOULD YOU READY TO BEGIN? I PLEDGE TO PRIDE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
IT'S MY PRIVILEGE TO PRAY FOR EACH OF YOU EVERY DAY, AND IT'S A JOY TO BE HERE TONIGHT.
FATHER, I THANK YOU FOR THESE MEN AND WOMEN THAT HAVE DEDICATED THEIR LIVES AND THEIR TIME TO NATIONAL CITY.
I THANK YOU FOR THE CARE AND CONSIDERATION THEY GIVE TO EVERYONE WHO HAS A NEED.
AND I PRAY BLESSING UPON THIS MEETING TONIGHT, LORD, THAT THEY WOULD HEAR THE NEEDS AS THEY ARE PRESENTED.
GIVE THEM WISDOM BEYOND THEIR OWN.
FATHER, MAY THEY HEAR FROM YOU BEFORE THEY MAKE DECISIONS.
THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF LIVING IN NASHVILLE CITY AND FOR ALL THEY DO TO MAKE IT WONDERFUL FOR US.
BLESS AND REWARD THEM FOR THE TIME THEY SERVE IN JESUS TIME I PRAY.
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WE'RE NOW GONNA HEAR, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS ON ITEMS AND MATTERS THAT ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA.AND, UM, SO WE'RE GONNA ALLOT EACH PERSON, UH, TWO MINUTES.
AND, UH, WE DO HAVE A GOOD NUMBER OF SPEAKERS.
AND SO, UH, IF YOU WOULD OKAY.
SHELLY'S GONNA START WITH THE ZOOM.
HI, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS FROM THE HARMS ASSOCIATED WITH MARIJUANA USE.
AS MARIJUANA BECOMES INCREASINGLY NORMALIZED, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE CONTINUE TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE RISKS, ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
A RECENT REPORT FROM THE DEA NOTES THAT CANNABIS CAN IMPAIR PERCEPTION, COORDINATION, LEARNING, ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSES, AND PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE.
THESE EFFECTS ARE PARTICULARLY CONCERNING FOR ADOLESCENTS WHOSE BRAINS ARE STILL DEVELOPING.
THE REPORT ALSO STATES THAT LONG-TERM MARIJUANA USE CAN LEAD TO PHYSICAL DEPENDENCE, WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADDICTION.
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THE REPORT FURTHER NOTES AN INCREASING NUMBER OF EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS INVOLVING MARIJUANA EDIBLES.MANY EDIBLE PRODUCTS CAN EASILY BE MISTAKEN FOR ORDINARY FOOD ITEMS, CREATING RISKS FOR ACCIDENTAL CONSUMPTION BY CHILDREN, AND RESULTING IN PREVENTABLE MEDICAL EMERGENCIES.
ADULTS CAN MAKE THEIR CHOICES REGARDING DRUG USE, BUT WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT YOUTH AND CHILDREN ARE PROTECTED FROM EXPOSURE, NORMALIZATION AND ACCESS RESEARCH CONTINUES TO RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF EARLY MARIJUANA USE, ON ATTENTION, MEMORY, MOTIVATION, ACADEMIC SUCCESS, AND MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES.
I ENCOURAGE THE CITY TO CONTINUE INVESTING IN YOUTH PREVENTION PROGRAMS, PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS, AND POLICIES THAT REDUCE YOUTH EXPOSURE TO MARIJUANA MARKETING AND RETAIL ENVIRONMENTS.
I AGREE THE CITY SHOULD ALSO SUPPORT STRONG SAFEGUARDS AROUND EDIBLE PRODUCTS AND CONTINUE MONITORING TRENDS RELATED TO YOUTH, YOUTH USE AND ACCIDENTAL POISONINGS.
PROTECTING CHILDREN IS SOMETHING WE CAN ALL RALLY AROUND.
IT SIMPLY REQUIRES US TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT DEVELOPING BRAINS ARE UNIQUELY VULNERABLE, AND THAT PREVENTION REMAINS ONE OF THE BEST INVESTMENTS WE CAN MAKE IN THE HEALTH AND SUCCESS OF FUTURE GENERATIONS.
MY NAME IS BECKY RAP, AND TONIGHT I WANTED TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION ON AN IMPORTANT PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY LAW THAT GOVERNOR NEWSOM SIGNED ON AUGUST 31ST.
AND THAT'S ASSEMBLY BILL 2, 2, 4 9.
THIS LEGISLATION STRENGTHENS PROTECTIONS FOR CHILDREN BY ADDING, I'M SORRY, BY ADDRESSING MARIJUANA ADVERTISING AND PACKAGING THAT USES CARTOONS, CHILD ORIENTED IMAGERY, CANDY, AND SWEETSS, OR PRODUCTS THAT MIMIC ITEMS PRIMARILY MARKETED TO CHILDREN.
BUT I BELIEVE OUR CITY CAN GO A STEP FURTHER.
RESEARCH HAS FOUND THAT EXPOSURE TO MARIJUANA ADVERTISING IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHER ODDS OF MARIJUANA USE AMONG ADOLESCENTS.
AND BILLBOARD ADVERTISING IS ONE OF THE FORMS OF ADVERTISING SPECIFICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH CURRENT MARIJUANA USE.
SO WHY ARE WE PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM MARIJUANA ADVERTISING ON PACKAGING WHILE ALLOWING MARIJUANA ADVERTISEMENTS ON BILLBOARDS THROUGHOUT OUR CITY? UM, A BILLBOARD DOESN'T HAVE AN AGE RESTRICTION.
A CHILD DRIVING TO SCHOOL SEES THE SAME ADVERTISEMENT AS AN ADULT, WE SHOULD NOT BE NORMALIZING AN ADDICTIVE DRUG IN THE PLACES WHERE OUR CHILDREN LIVE, LEARN, AND PLAY.
I'M ASKING THE CITY TO BUILD ON AB 2, 2, 4, 9 BY REMOVING MARIJUANA BILLBOARDS FROM OUR CITY AND ENDING THE NORMALIZATION OF MARIJUANA THROUGH PUBLIC ADVERTISING.
IF WE'RE SERIOUS ABOUT PROTECTING CHILDREN, THE PROTECTION SHOULD BE EXTENDED BEYOND THE PACKAGING TO THE ENVIRONMENT WE CREATE AROUND THEM.
GOOD EVENING, NATIONAL CITY, UH, CITY COUNCIL.
I CAME THIS EVENING AS A PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATOR AND A PARENT OF YOUNG ADULT SONS.
I AM MOST CONCERNED ABOUT THE CITY'S POT SHOPS.
I CONTINUE TO BE VERY UNEASY ABOUT THE YOUNG ADULT POPULATION AS THEY JOURNEY INTO ADULTHOOD, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE RECENT NATIONWIDE HIGHLY RESPECTED 2025.
MODERATING THE FUTURE SURVEY RESULTS CAME OUT AMONG OTHER ITEMS. IT STATED THAT CANNABIS USE, WHETHER IT'S OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS OR PAST 30 DAYS OR DAILY USE REMAIN AT THE RE AT RECENT HIGHEST LEVELS EVER RECORDED AMONG ADULTS AGES IN THE AGE GROUP OF 19 TO 30 YEAR OLDS.
AND WITH THIS COMES AN INCREASE OF DIAGNOSIS OF CANNABIS USE DISORDER.
CANNABIS USE DISORDER IS A MENTAL HEALTH CONDITION IN WHICH YOU HAVE ISSUES, FULFILLING RESPONSIBILITIES AT WORK, SCHOOL, OR HOME DUE TO CANNABIS USE.
OTHER SYMPTOMS OF CANNABIS USE DISORDER INCLUDES PROBLEMS WITH MAINTAINING RELATIONSHIPS AND THE WORSENING OF CURRENT AND ONGOING PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS LIKE DEPRESSION OR ANXIETY.
SO I'M MOST CONCERNED ABOUT THE VERY VISIBLE PRESENCE OF MARIJUANA STOREFRONTS HERE IN OUR CITY.
AFTER ALL, ROUGHLY TWO THIRDS OF CALIFORNIA CITIES PROHIBIT RETAIL STOREFRONTS ALREADY.
THANK YOU FOR HEARING MY CONCERNS THIS EVENING.
I'M HERE AS A MEMBER OF THE COUNTY TOBACCO FREE COALITION BECAUSE YOU ARE A TOBACCO SENSITIVE COMMUNITY HERE AND ALERT TO THE RISKS AND HARMS OF TOBACCO AND NICOTINE PRODUCTS.
AS DEMONSTRATED BY OUR EXCELLENT NATIONAL CITY TRL, I'M PLEASED TO
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REPORT THAT GOVERNOR NEWSOM HAS SIGNED AB 7 62 PROHIBITING THE MANUFACTURER AND DISTRIBUTION OF DISPOSABLE SINGLE USE NICOTINE VAPES AS OF JANUARY, 2027, AND THEIR SALE AS OF 2028.SO WE CAN ENFORCE THAT NOW IN OUR CITY.
THIS IS GOOD FOR PUBLIC HEALTH ENVIRONMENT AND WASTE DISPOSAL COSTS.
DISPOSABLE VAPING PRODUCTS OR MASS MARKETED DEVICES THAT DIRECTLY TARGET USE AND CONTRIBUTE TO NICOTINE DEPENDENCY.
ABOUT 500,000 ARE TOSSED DAILY FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL AND MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE.
DISPOSABLE FAS ARE A HAZARDOUS WASTE CONCERN CONTAINING NON-REMOVABLE LITHIUM ION BATTERIES, ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT BOARDS AND TOXIC LIQUID NICOTINE RESIDUE.
MILLIONS ARE IMPROPERLY DISCARDED INTO MUNICIPAL TRASH STREAMS, STORM DRAIN SPEECHES AND PARKS, POSING AN ENVIRONMENTAL THREAT AND A FIRE HAZARD IN MUNICIPAL WAKES, TRUCKS AND RECYCLING FACILITIES.
THIS BILL, BY ELIMINATING SINGLE USE VAPES AT THE RETAIL LEVEL, WILL PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY'S HEALTH, REDUCE MUNICIPAL WASTE MANAGEMENT COSTS, AND PREVENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION IN OUR WATER.
I WANT TO SUGGEST THAT WE SHOULD ALSO PURSUE THE PROHIBITION OF SINGLE USE MARIJUANA VAPES, WHICH ARE ALSO WIDELY AVAILABLE AND EQUALLY HARMFUL TO HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND POSE COSTLY HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL PROBLEM.
AND MAYOR, THAT CONCLUDES OUR COMMON SENTIMENT.
YOU WANT TO START CALLING FROM THE AUDIENCE? YES, I'LL DO THAT.
UH, TED GODSHAW, FOLLOWED BY GUILLERMO GARCIA, FOLLOWED BY PURITA JAVIER, TED GOTCH HERE.
YOU GAVE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR THEIR AMBULANCES.
YOU COULD HAVE BOUGHT OR HELPED SEVERAL 12 UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEXES AND CONVERTED THEM TO HOME OWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES INSTEAD.
AND YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN YOUR MONEY BACK IN, IN A LOT QUICKER TIME.
BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT ELSE WE HEAR ABOUT IN THE NEWS.
WE KNOW YOU HAVE THE UNIONS BACKING YOU.
YOU VOTED TO PASS GOVERNMENT MONEY ON FOR THE APARTMENTS OWNED BY THE BUILDING TRADES, AND YOU VOTED FOR BIG PAY INCREASES FOR THE NATIONAL CITY EMPLOYEES.
YOU NOW POLITIC WITH BIG MONEY IN YOUR POCKET.
I THINK YOU VOTED TO NOT LIMIT CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ORGANIZATIONS.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE, MR. BUSH IS NO DIFFERENT.
YOU ALL VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO GIVE BIG PAY RAISES.
I WANT TO, I WANT TO KNOW ACTUALLY WHY THE UNIONS DON'T SUPPORT YOU ALL.
MR. BUSH TRANSPARENCY AND MR. RODRIGUEZ ACCOUNTABILITY.
YOU'VE JUST TRIED TO CARVE OUT DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE POWER SYSTEM IN NEW YORK, IN, IN NATIONAL CITY.
SORRY,
MR. BUSH, YOU SAY YOU'RE FOLLOWING THE STEPS OF MR. MORRISON, BUT SO IS MR. RODRIGUEZ.
YOU'RE BOTH IN THIS RACE BECAUSE IT OFFERS YOU A CAREER, A JOB WITH BENEFITS.
MR. MORRISON IS YOUR ROLE MODEL IN THAT RESPECT.
AND I HAVE A 30 SECONDS TO SAY.
YOU'VE SAID YOU'VE MADE MISTAKES, MR. NTO WAS RIGHT, BUT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE LOOKED LIKE A PATTERN, A PATTERN OF NOT ANALYZING THINGS COMPLETELY.
AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY ABOUT YOU.
I I MEAN, I'VE KNOWN YOU SINCE YOU RAN THE FIRST TIME AND YOU'VE LET US DOWN.
I'M LOOKING FOR AN INDEPENDENT THINKER FOR MAYOR GUILLERMO GARCIA, FOLLOWED BY PURITA JAVIER.
I AM A NATIONAL CITY RESIDENT, SHAI ALUMNI AND A US ARMY VETERAN.
I CAME HERE TO SPEAK REGARDING AN INCIDENT.
IT HAPPENED A LITTLE BIT OVER A WEEK AGO, AND IT HAS TO DO WITH THE NCPD AND A VERY, UH, SENSITIVE TOPIC REGARDING MENTAL HEALTH.
THE REASON I'M HERE IS TO SHOW MY APPRECIATION FOR, FOR THE NATIONAL CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR DEALING WITH ME AS A VETERAN, A COMBAT VETERAN AT THAT I WAS A MACHINE GUNNER, SO I KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO GET SHOT AT AND RUN TOWARDS THE BULLETS.
RIGHT? THE NATIONAL CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS SHOWN ME MORE DIGNITY AND RESPECT AS A HUMAN BEING THAN THE ACTUAL VA
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WHO HAD PIERCED ONE OF MY VEINS.NOT AT AN ANGLE, BUT STRAIGHT ON PURPOSE.
RIGHT? BUT SPECIFICALLY, I'M HERE TO, UH, GIVE THANKS TO OFFICER ALVARDO.
SHE HERSELF IS A FORMER US ARMY VETERAN, HAS EXPERIENCED HERSELF WEARING THE UNIFORM AND NOW CHOSE TO WEAR ANOTHER UNIFORM.
I CALLED DISPATCH AND I, I, UH, I, UH, I SAID I WANTED SUICIDE BY COPS.
OFFICER ADO CALLED ME RIGHT AWAY, DEESCALATED THE SITUATION.
LIKE THAT SITUATION ABOUT TO GET DEESCALATED RIGHT AND RESPECTFULLY RIGHT CA CALLED ME AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, UH, I STARTED POPPING PILLS.
HER FAST CRITICAL THINKING, HER TRAINING AND HER PAST MILITARY EXPERIENCE LED HER TO SAVE MY LIFE.
BY THE TIME SHE HAD GOTTEN THERE, I HAD DRANK ALREADY.
AND, UH, YEAH, THANK YOU TO, TO HER COMMANDING OFFICERS AND SUPERIORS.
SHE MORE THAN DESERVES A PROMOTION.
'CAUSE SHE HAS A TRAINING AND HAS SHOWED IT.
REGARDLESS OR NOT, IF YOU WIN, MAYOR OR NOT, DUDE, MARCUS BUSH, YOU'RE IN A MEETING HUMAN BEING FOR HELPING A VETERAN OUT OR SOMEONE IN YOUR DISTRICT.
SO WHETHER YOU WIN OR NOT, YOU ALREADY WON IN LIFE FOR BEING AN AMAZING HUMAN BEING.
F**K WHAT THEY GOTTA SAY, BRO.
JAVIER, HAVE YOU A YEAR OF CERAMICS, K TOXICITY LOCATED, UM, AND OUR, AND OUR OPERATED SINCE 1984 AT THE PRESIDENTIAL, OR NOT PRESIDENTIAL, BUT ENTIAL ZONE COMMUNITY.
WE, UM, SOUGHT REPRESENTATION WITH POLICE AND LOW FALL, BUT THE CITY, COUNTY, A PC AND SAND SINCE 19 20 20, 20 21.
AND NEXT THAT, UM, CENTER FOR THE WITHDRAWAL, THERE'S, UM, IT'S HELD TO, UH, BULLETIN OF 2020.
THAT THREE, UH, THE ICS AND AND MINUTES, UH, REDUCES TAX TOXIC CITY PASSION.
AND, UM, AIR WELL WITH THE OWNER.
CESAR JAVIER, THE LONG ONE YES.
HAVE TO, OR NO, THIS IS WHAT WE GET YOUR MONEY.
WE BEGGED A PCD TO ADDRESS OUR COMMUNITY CONCERN.
WE WROTE A LETTER TO THE OWNER.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT? I WAS RESTRAINED
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RECEIVING AS A VIOL PERSON RIGHT NOW, I AM STILL RESTRAINED.I CANNOT GO TO THE CITY HALL BECAUSE I TOLD THEM THE TRUTH THAT THEY SHOULD BE APPREHENDED, INVESTIGATED, AND TO THE FULL EXTENT OF LAW PUNISHED.
BUT THOSE WORDS ARE SOFT WORDS.
WHAT I SAID WAS, THUS RECOURSE DIVINE INTERVENTION.
AND YET THEY STILL NEGLECT AND IGNORE US.
AND SO WE WISH AND DREAM THAT IT SHOULD NOT HAPPEN HERE.
BECAUSE ALL PLANNINGS, ALL IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAMS IS FOCUSED.
THE FORAY IS MAN'S HEALTH AND LONGEVITY.
PUBLIC SAFETY, PUBLIC WELFARE.
THOSE CANDIDATES FOR MAYORAL POSITION.
WHERE IS
I WAS A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER HERE.
I ALMOST GOT IT BECAUSE THE LIEUTENANT SAID, COME TOMORROW, SHOW ME YOUR NATURALIZATION.
YOU ARE IN, YOU'LL BE SENT TO THE ACADEMY.
WE PRAY AND WORK TOGETHER FOR HUMANS.
I'LL GO BACK TO THE ZOOM AND THEN GO BACK TO THE IN PERSON COMMENT.
I AM A COUNTY AND STATE ADVOCATE FOR HOMELESSNESS AS WELL AS HOUSING.
UM, I'D LIKE TO REMIND EVERYBODY OF SOMETHING.
UM, IN MANY STATES, WHEN YOU FALSIFY ACADEMIC DEGREES, IT IS A PUNISHABLE OFFENSE.
WHEN IT'S A GOVERNMENT JOB WORKING FOR A CITY OR A STATE OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT POSITION, IT IS CONSIDERED A CRIME.
IT VIOLATES FEDERAL LAW AGAINST MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.
JOSE RODRIGUEZ, A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, DECIDED TO WRITE A BARBARIC AND TERRIBLY WRITTEN LETTER, UM, ATTACKING MARCUS BUSH AND HIS PERSONAL WELLBEING.
AFTER WORKING SIDE BY SIDE WITH HIM, IN MANY OCCASIONS, I WAS SICKENED TO MY STOMACH TO SEE HOW HE WAS, SEE ACTING AS IF HE WAS MIGHTIER AND BETTER THAN THE CANDIDATE THAT WAS ALSO RUNNING WITH HIM.
INSTEAD OF UNDERSTANDING THAT EACH PERSON HAS A RIGHT TO THAT OPPORTUNITY, HE WAS INSULTING AND HE WAS TRASHING A VERY RESPECTED GENTLEMAN.
THE OTHER PART THAT REALLY UPSETS ME IS THIS IS A CRIME.
THIS IS WHY HE NEEDS TO STEP DOWN.
HE MADE UP THE FACT THAT HE HAD A LICENSE.
HE NEVER CORRECTED IT WITH THE CITY.
AND THEN WHEN IT'S FOUND OUT BY A LOCAL NEWSPAPER, HE ACTS LIKE IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL.
HIS BEHAVIOR IS ABSOLUTELY A BIG DEAL, WHICH IS WHY I'M REQUESTING THAT PEOPLE THAT HE STEPS DOWN AND CITY COUNCIL HERE, THE ESTEEMED CITY COUNCIL, AS WELL AS THE MAYOR, REQUEST HIM TO STEP DOWN UNTIL HE GROWS UP ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN YOU LIE, HOW CAN WE EVEN TRUST YOU REGARDING THE PEOPLE AND THE CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY AND OUR EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AND THE WELLNESS OF A BEAUTIFUL SMALL TOWN.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR, OKAY, MARY, WE HAVE PAUL ROBOWSKI, FOLLOWED BY LILY ARMENTA, FOLLOWED BY RANDY CASTLE SALGADO.
COUNSEL, MAYOR AND ALL THE OTHER HUMANS.
PAUL KOWSKI HERE, LONGTIME NC RESIDENT AND DIEGO STATE GRADUATE.
UM, COUNCIL MEMBER JOSE RODRIGUEZ IS A LIAR.
IT IS DOCUMENTED AND THAT DOCUMENTATION IS REALLY, UH, KIND OF A PORTAL INTO THE PAST THAT MATTERS.
YOU KNOW, HE WAS WILLING TO LIE EVEN WHEN IT WAS UNNECESSARY
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IN ORDER TO TAKE, I MEAN, REALLY THAT LIKE FIRST LITTLE BABY STEP, YOU KNOW, AS A CAREER COMPROMISED POLITICIAN.UM, HE OF COURSE ONE OF THE, THE, THE BIGGEST EXAMPLES OF THAT.
HE ROLLED WITH THE LIE THAT, UH, DISGRACE FORMER MAYOR NICK AND ZZA WAS AN NC RESIDENT IN ORDER TO ELEVATE NICK TO PORT COMMISSIONER.
AND OF COURSE, THAT THAT PARTICULAR MOMENT WAS ABSOLUTELY DIRECTED BY THE OUTSIDE SPECIAL INTEREST THAT DO THE COMPROMISING.
SO, JUST ONE MORE EXAMPLE, OF COURSE, OF THE THE LAUNDRY LIST OF LIES.
HE MUST RESIGN AS COUNCIL MEMBER AND WITHDRAW HIS MAYORAL CANDIDACY.
LILY ARMO, FOLLOWED BY RANDY CASTLE SALGADO FOLLOWED, FOLLOWED BY DELISE VAN.
OKAY, WHEN I STARTED NATIONAL CITY, NATIONAL CITY RODRIGUEZ, CLAIM S DEGREE ON APPOINTED APPLICATIONS, NATIONAL CITY.
LUISA, CAN WE HAVE THE TRANSLATION, PLEASE? YOU'RE MUTED.
UM, AND, UM, COUNCIL MEMBERS, NATIONAL CITY IS MAKING, COULD, COULD WE GET THE VOLUME UP PLEASE? BIGGEST CLAIM.
SDSU DISPLAY ON APPOINTED APPLICATIONS.
NOBODY WANTS TO SEE OUR CITY ON THIS KIND OF INFORMATION.
NATIONAL CITY IS A COMMUNITY, A WORKING COMMUNITY.
WE DO NOT, YOU DO NOT NEED A UNIVERSITY TITLE TO HAVE VALUE AND SERVE AS A LEADER.
WHAT YOU NEED IS HONESTLY AN INTEGRITY.
THE CANDIDATE JOSE RODRIGUEZ INDICATED HAVING A DEGREE FROM SDSU OFFICIALLY AT THE CITY IN 2016 AND 2019.
HIS CAMPAIGN NOW RECOGNIZES THAT HE DID NOT FINISH THAT CAREER.
SO THEN I ASKED WHY SAY SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT NECESSARY TO SAY.
AND I ASKED THE CITY, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS? IF AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT HAS INCORRECT INFORMATION, IS THIS GOING TO BE CORRECTED? IS THIS GOING TO BE INVESTIGATED? OR, UM, SIMPLY, IF NOTHING, YOU'RE GONNA ACT LIKE NOTHING IS HAPPENING, BUT SOMETHING IS HAPPENING.
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GOING DOWN.IN 2024, MY DAUGHTER AND I WERE HERE TALKING TO YOU, AND EVERYTHING ENDED WITH CENSORSHIP BECAUSE YOU SAID THAT EVERYTHING HAD TO DO WITH, UH, VIOLATIONS.
THAT'S WHY OUR CITY HAS THE RIGHT TO ASK WHAT ELSE ON PUBLIC REGISTRY NEEDS TO BE VERIFIED.
WE NEED HONESTY AND INTEGRITY AND WE DON'T NEED THIS KIND OF INFO, UM, ANYMORE.
WE DON'T NEED THIS KIND OF, UM, ATTITUDE ANYMORE.
THANK YOU, RANDY CASSO SALGADO, FOLLOWED BY DELISE VANN, FOLLOWED BY KAREN MC MCMANUS, COUNCIL MEMBER MAYORS.
THIS ISN'T ABOUT WHETHER JOSE RODRIGUEZ HAD A COLLEGE DEGREE.
THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING SHAMEFUL ABOUT NOT FINISHING COLLEGE.
PEOPLE WORK, RAISE FAMILIES, FACE HARDSHIPS, AND PUT EDUCATION ON HOLD EVERY DAY.
THE ISSUE IS WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS.
JOSE RODRIGUEZ REPRESENTED AN OFFICIAL NATIONAL CITY DOCUMENT THAT HE HAD EARNED A BACHELOR DEGREE FROM SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY.
HIS OWN CAMPAIGN ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HE DID NOT EARN THAT DEGREE.
AND THIS WASN'T SIMPLY ONE ENTRY ON ONE DOCUMENT.
THE REPRESENTATION APPEARS AGAIN YEARS LATER.
THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS SO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND.
NATIONAL CITY DIDN'T REQUIRE A BACHELOR DEGREE FROM HIM.
AND JOSE HAS REPEATEDLY ASKED VOTERS TO JUDGE HIM ON HIS MERIT, HIS EXPERIENCE, HIS QUALIFICATIONS, AND HIS RECORD.
WELL, WHEN YOU RUN ON MERIT AND TRUTHFULNESS OF THE CREDENTIALS YOU PRESENT BECOMES PART OF THAT MERIT.
YOU CANNOT ASK THE PUBLIC TO JUDGE YOU BY YOUR QUALIFICATIONS AND THEN TELL US IT DOESN'T MATTER WHEN ONE OF THOSE QUALIFICATIONS YOU CLAIMED WASN'T ACTUALLY EARNED.
AND WHEN THIS BECOMES PUBLIC, RESIDENTS DIDN'T INITIALLY GET AN APOLOGY DIRECTLY FROM THEIR COUNCIL MEMBER, WE GOT AN EXPLANATION FROM YOUR CAMPAIGN.
PUBLIC TRUST DOES NOT BELONG TO POLITICIANS.
IT BELONGS TO THE RESIDENTS WHO LEND THEIR TRUST TO THEM.
IF CITY EMPLOYEES CAN FACE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR PROVIDING FALSE QUALIFICATIONS AND OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, ELECTED OFFICIALS SHOULD NOT EXPECT A LOWER ETHICAL STANDARD.
AND I BELIEVE THIS COUNCIL HAS A RESPONSIBILITY HERE AS WELL.
THE COUNCIL SHOULD FORMALLY CENSURE COUNCIL MEMBER RODRIGUEZ FOR MAKING FALSE REPRESENTATIONS ON CI OFFICIAL CITY DOCUMENTS.
THIS COUNCIL HAS USED CENSURE BEFORE WHEN IT BELIEVED THE CONDUCT OF ONE OF ITS MEMBERS WARRANTED FORMAL CONDEMNATION.
IF C MEANS ANYTHING, THEN HONESTY WITH THE PUBLIC AND HONESTY ON OFFICIAL CITY DOCUMENTS SHOULD CERTAINLY MATTER.
JOSE IS NOW ASKING NATIONAL CITY TO TRUST HIM.
DELISE VAN, FOLLOWED BY KAREN MCMANUS, FOLLOWED BY OZZY MEN.
I'M AN AUTHOR AND A POET, AND I LIVE IN NATIONAL CITY.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT, UH, AS A COMMUNITY, I THINK IT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF US TO HOLD EACH OTHER ACCOUNTABLE WHEN WE MAKE MISTAKES AND WHEN WE'RE NOT HONEST WITH WHAT WE'RE DOING, NO MATTER WHAT IT IS, IF IT'S NOT TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY, UH, PLEASE DON'T DO IT.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE ALL TOGETHER, IS TO ACTUALLY BE HELPING EACH OTHER SURVIVE.
'CAUSE IT'S HARD ENOUGH AND WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES, SO LET'S TRY TO FIGURE OUT SOMETHING WHERE WE ACTUALLY HELP EACH OTHER AND INSTEAD OF TRYING TO HURT EACH OTHER AND STAB EACH OTHER IN THE BACK.
'CAUSE IT'S, IT, THAT'S HOW YOU END UP DESTROYING EVERYTHING.
KAREN MCMANUS, FOLLOWED BY OZZY MENEZ, FOLLOWED BY ED NIETO.
GOOD EVENING MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY MANAGER.
MY NAME IS KAREN ZAKAR MCMANUS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE N CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
AS PROMISED, I'M HERE TONIGHT TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE REGARDING THE GROSS RECEIPTS TAX INITIATIVE.
OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS, THE CHAMBER HAS PARTICIPATED IN NUMEROUS MEETINGS WITH THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, PEDRO GARCIA AND LOCAL BUSINESS LEADERS TO HELP ESTABLISH THE BUSINESS AD HOC, UH, COMMITTEE.
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, OUR GOAL HAS BEEN TO BRING BUSINESSES OF ALL SIZES TO GET COLLABORATE WITH THE CITY AND IDENTIFY SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS THE PROJECTED BUDGET DEFICIT.
HOWEVER, I WOULD LIKE TO CLARIFY, I WOULD LIKE TO SEEK CLARIFICATION FROM THE CHAMBER'S ROLE MOVING FORWARD.
IT WAS OUR UNDERSTANDING BASED ON
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PREVIOUS CITY COUNCIL DIRECTION, THAT THE CHAMBER WOULD NOT ONLY ASSIST IN THE FORMATION OF COMMITTEE, BUT ALSO WOULD BE A PART OF THE PROCESS.INSTEAD, WE HAVE FOUND OURSELVES ON THE SIDELINES AS OBSERVERS, RATHER THAN PARTICIPANTS AS THE RECOGNIZED VOICE OF THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
WE BELIEVE THE CHAMBER CAN PROVIDE VALUABLE INSIGHT AND SERVE AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE BUSINESSES AFFECTED BY ANY FUTURE POLICY DECISIONS.
I'M ALSO CONCERNED BY THE INTRODUCTION OF A SEPARATE TAX INITIATIVE, WHICH COLLABORATE, UH, COLLABORATIVE DISCUSSIONS ARE STILL UNDERWAY.
MANY BUSINESSES HAVE DEDICATED CONSIDERABLE TIME AND EFFORT IN WORKING IN GOOD FAITH TOWARDS A SOLUTION AND THE INTRODUCTION OF A COMPETING PROPOSAL RISK UNDERMINING THE PROCESS BEFORE IT HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SUCCEED.
FINALLY, I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DID NOT ADDRESS THE COMMENTS MADE BY A COUNCIL MEMBER STATING THAT THEY HAVE QUOTE, ZERO FAITH IN THE ABILITY OF THIS COMMITTEE OR THE MAJORITY OF THE CURRENT COUNCIL TO PUT ANYTHING ON THE BALLOT AND ALLOW VOTERS TO MAKE THIS DECISION.
FRANKLY, MANY BUSINESS OWNERS VIEW THESE REMARKS AS A SLAP IN THE FACE.
NATIONAL CITY'S BUSINESS COMMUNITY IS MADE UP OF HARDWORKING PROFESSIONALS, INNOVATORS, ENTREPRENEURS, AND EMPLOYERS HAVE BEEN WHO HAVE INVESTED THEIR LIVELIHOODS IN THIS CITY.
THESE ARE VERY, THESE ARE THE VERY PEOPLE WHO CREATE JOBS.
GENERATE ECONOMY ACTIVITY AND SUPPORT THE CITY.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
OZZIE MENEZ, FOLLOWED BY ED NIETO.
GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL WITH CHES OZZY.
MENES IS HERE WITH, UH, THE NATIONAL CITY HEALTH CULTURA COALITION REPRESENTING MUNDO GARDENS.
I WANNA START BY SAYING THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER MOLINA, VICE MAYOR BUSH AND CITY MANAGER SCHULTZ, UM, EACH HAVE BEEN HOSTING TOWN HALLS AND COFFEE WITH THE COMMUNITY.
UM, CREATING SPACES WHERE RESIDENTS CAN COME AND TALK TO YOU DIRECTLY IN A SETTING THAT INVITES CONVERSATION IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF ACCESS THAN THIS PODIUM.
WE APPRECIATE IT, AND WE ENCOURAGE THE CITY TO KEEP INVESTING IN THAT KIND OF DIRECT CONTACT.
ON THAT SAME SPIRIT, I WANT TO EXTEND AN INVITATION.
THE NATIONAL CITY HEALTH CULTURA COALITION IS HOSTING A CANDIDATE FORUM NEXT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15TH, FROM FIVE TO 7:00 PM AT HOLLYWOOD GARDENS AND LEARNING CENTER.
WHAT MAKES THIS ONE DIFFERENT IS THAT THE YOUTH LEADERSHIP GROUP FROM HOLLYWOOD GARDENS WILL BE HOSTING AND MODERATING IT.
THERE ARE YOUNG PEOPLE FROM NATIONAL CITY ASKING THE QUESTIONS THEMSELVES ABOUT THE ISSUES THAT AFFECT THEIR FAMILIES AND NEIGHBORHOODS.
WE WOULD WELCOME ALL OF YOU THERE.
I THINK MOST OF THE CANDIDATES HAVE CONFIRMED.
UM, AND WE WOULD WELCOME YOUR HELP GETTING THE WORD OUT TO THE RESIDENTS.
UH, BASED ON WHAT PEOPLE WERE SAYING HERE, HOW MANY WAYS CAN YOU STICK YOUR FOOT IN YOUR MOUTH, JOSE? INCREDIBLE.
YOU WANNA BECOME MAYORS, THE COMMON THREAD, AND ALL THESE PEOPLE LYING AND COMING FORTH WITH THE COMMENTS IN THE BLT, THE CITY'S PULLING.
ONE WAY, YOU'RE PULLING THE OTHER WAY.
INCREDIBLE, I HEAR, IS TO TALK ABOUT THE LIFE, THE DEGREE.
IT'S ABOUT DELIBERATELY MISLEADING PEOPLE WHO DEPEND ON THEIR, ON YOUR WORD.
IT MEANS HAVING COMPETENCIES, COMPETENCY, AND LEADING.
YOU DON'T HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE, YOU DON'T HAVE THE SKILLS, YOU DON'T HAVE THE JUDGMENT TO THE, TO THE JOB.
DISHONESTY, CAMOUFLAGES A RESPONSIBILITY.
NOW THAT HE'S DONE THIS, NOW THAT THE CITY ATTORNEY'S SEEING THIS, NOW THAT THE CITY MANAGER'S SEEING THIS, WE HAVE A POLICY IN ETHICS.
NOW, WHAT WE DON'T EXPECT IS PEOPLE TO JUST LOOK THE OTHER WAY.
LOOK AT THE SKY, LOOK AT YOUR COMPUTER, AND NOT DO ANYTHING PEOPLE ARE FED UP WITH THAT.
WE NEED TO TOP START WITH THE TOP DOWN AND START TAKING ACTION AND SHOW EXAMPLES OF WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
THE NEXT CITY EMPLOYEE WHO MAKES AN APPLICATION, HE GETS A LIE.
THE NEXT CITY EMPLOYEE WHO FILLS OUT A TIME SHEET, HE GETS AWAY AND LIE.
AND WHAT'S HE GONNA SAY? HEY, THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER GOT AWAY WITH A LIE.
WHY CAN'T I GET AWAY WITH THE LIFE? THIS IS ABOUT ETHICS AND SETTING EXAMPLES.
IT'S MAYBE JOSE'S A MODEL OF WHAT NOT TO DO.
UH, WE HAD ONE WRITTEN COMMENT FROM KELLY MCCORMICK AND THAT CONCLUDES GENERAL REPUBLIC COMMENT.
[6.1 Introduction of New Hires and Promotions of City Employees]
WE GO INTO, UH, PROCLAMATIONS AND RECOGNITION, AND WE DO HAVE OUR INTRODUCTION OF NEW HIRES, AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE ONE INDIVIDUAL[00:40:10]
AND ROOM.UM, I AM REALLY HAPPY AND PROUD TO PRESENT, UH, A PROMOTION IN THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT, UH, THIS EVENING OF ANNA YELLY LUNA HERNANDEZ.
UM, A LITTLE BACKGROUND ON ANNA YELLY, AND I THINK, UM, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS? ANNIE YLI, WHILE I'M, YOU WANT TO COME UP? I'LL, WHILE I'M DOING YOUR BIO, UM, SHE'S JOINED US HERE TONIGHT, SO IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE, UH, THE FOLKS THAT WE'RE RECOGNIZING.
ANNIE YLI GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO WITH A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY AND A MINOR IN BUSINESS ECONOMICS.
SHE BEGAN HER HR CAREER, UM, AT THE SAN DIEGO HOUSING COMMISSION, WHERE SHE GAINED EXPERIENCE ACROSS VARIOUS AREAS OF HR, INCLUDING RECRUITING, ONBOARDING, BENEFITS, HR OPERATIONS, UM, BEFORE JOINING THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY, A COMMUNITY WHERE SHE GREW UP, UM, AND ATTENDED SCHOOL.
AND I UNDERSTAND THERE'S A PICTURE SOMEWHERE OF HER AS A LITTLE GIRL WITH THE MAYOR THAT SHE WON'T SHOW US.
BUT, UM, GREW UP HERE AND, UH, HAS BEEN HERE A LITTLE OVER A YEAR WITH HER CAREER AT NATIONAL CITY, REALLY MAKING A BIG DIFFERENCE IN THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AND, UH, OWNING OUR BENEFITS END TO END.
UM, SHE'S CURRENTLY CONTINUING HER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH UCSD EXTENDED STUDIES WHERE SHE'S PURSUING AN HR MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE.
ANNIE YELL'S, EXCITED TO CONTINUE BUILDING HER CAREER WITH THE CITY AND CONTRIBUTING TO A PEOPLE-CENTERED HR DEPARTMENT.
SO JOIN ME IN CONGRATULATING ANNIE, YELL ON HER WELL-DESERVED PROMOTION.
UM, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY MANAGER AND MEMBERS OF THE, OF THE PUBLIC.
THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE BEING PART OF THIS CITY WHERE I HAD A, WHERE I FEEL LIKE I HAVE A PURPOSE OF SERVING AND SUPPORTING OUR EMPLOYEES AND COMMUNITY.
UM, IT TRULY MEANS A LOT TO BE ABLE TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY WHERE I ONCE CAME TO SCHOOL AND WAS I GREW UP IN, UM, I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO GROW IN MY CAREER WITH THE CITY AND LEARNING MORE AROUND FROM THOSE AROUND ME AND BRINGING MY EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION, AND PASSION, UM, TO DEDICATED TO THIS, THIS COMMUNITY.
SO THANK YOU AGAIN AND, UH, FOR THE SUPPORT AND, UM, THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.
[7.1 Preparing for El Niño - A Citywide Approach to Storm Preparedness and Response]
WE GET INTO, ON OUR PRESENTATION IS OUR PREPARATION FOR EL NINO.WHO'S GONNA KICK THIS ONE OFF? UH, GET MY MASK OFF HERE AND I'LL, OKAY.
I'LL, UH, JUST GIVE AN INTRODUCTION QUICK.
UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, UM, WE HAD AN INTERDEPARTMENTAL TEAM, UM, PREPARE, AND I WANNA SAY, UH, THE WORK THEY DID IS, IS VERY IMPRESSIVE.
UH, WHO PREPARED THIS REPORT AND WILL BE PRESENTING IT THIS EVENING? UM, YOU KNOW, CITIES TYPICALLY, UM, DESIGN AND BUILD, UH, STORM WATER INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD, UH, EVENTS.
AND AS WE KNOW, A HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD EVENTS ARE SOMETHING THAT HAPPEN ANNUALLY NOW.
IN FACT, WE ARE EXPERIENCING THOUSAND YEAR FLOOD EVENTS, UM, ON A FREQUENT BASIS.
UH, SO, UM, WITH THAT BACKGROUND, YOU KNOW, IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT AS, AS CITIES, NOT JUST NATIONAL CITY, BUT CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE STRUGGLING, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO REPLACE HUNDRED YEAR, UH, SYSTEMS TO ACCOMMODATE THOUSAND YEAR EVENTS.
UM, JUST THE, THE DESIGN, UH, EFFORT TO DO THAT, THE LAND THAT'S NEEDED TO DO THAT, AND THE COST TO DO THAT, UM, IS, IS OVERWHELMING.
UH, SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT AS A COMMUNITY, NOT ONLY THE CITY IS, IS REACHING OUT AND, AND BEING PREPARED THE BEST WE CAN, BUT WE'RE ALSO, UM, ADVISING COMMUNITY MEMBERS HOW THEY CAN PREPARE INDIVIDUALLY, UH, FOR THEIR, THEIR PROPERTIES.
SO, UM, EMERGENCY, UH, MANAGER, UM, WALTER EDIA IS GOING TO KICK THIS OFF.
GOOD EVENING MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC CITY STAFF.
UH, TODAY YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR A PRESENTATION FROM VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS THAT, THAT HAVE BEEN COLLABORATING FOR THE LAST, UH, FEW WEEKS.
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IN REALITY, SINCE 2024, UH, I PERSONALLY, ALONG WITH ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC WORKS, HAVE BEEN WORKING CONSTANTLY ON NOT ONLY TRYING TO RECOVER FROM THAT FLOOD EVENT THAT WE HAD, BUT TO BETTER OUR SITUATION IN THE, UH, CITY.AND THIS PRESENTATION IS, IS REALLY A, A, A SYNOPSIS OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING, UH, OVER THE LAST, UH, COUPLE YEARS.
SO, WITH THAT, I WANTED TO, UM, TAKE US BACK A LITTLE BIT, IF I CAN MOVE THIS THING.
UH, THIS IMAGE, I ACTUALLY WENT BACK INTO MY EMAILS AND I FOUND THIS, UH, IT WAS A SUNDAY ON JANUARY 21ST WHERE THEY WERE FORECASTING WHAT THE RAIN WAS GONNA BE FOR JANUARY 22ND, WHICH WAS MONDAY.
AND IF YOU, AS YOU CAN SEE, THEY WERE ESTIMATING AN INCH, INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN IN A 24 HOUR PERIOD FROM MONDAY MORNING TO TUESDAY MORNING.
AND THE REALITY IS, WE KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED.
UM, WE LOOKED AT MORE THAN THREE INCHES OF RAIN IN A THREE HOUR PERIOD, AND EVENTUALLY HAD MORE THAN FOUR INCHES OF RAIN IN A 24 HOUR PERIOD.
UM, AND UNFORTUNATELY, YOU KNOW, MOTHER NATURE DIDN'T, UH, PAY ATTENTION TO THESE FORECASTS.
BUT THE REALITY IS THAT WE AS A COMMUNITY HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS SITUATION, UM, SINCE THEN.
AND THIS IS WHAT THIS PRESENTATION IS ABOUT, FOR US TO CONTINUE TO NOT FORGET WHAT HAPPENED AND TO BECOME BETTER IN OUR RESPONSE, UH, CAPABILITIES.
AND THIS PROCESS FOR ME HAS ACTUALLY STARTED, UH, AROUND THIS TIME LAST YEAR WHEN, UH, WE STARTED, UH, HAVING EOC SECTION TRAININGS, THE EMERGENCY OPERATION SECTION TRAININGS WHERE WE WERE TRYING TO GET EVERYBODY TO A CERTAIN LEVEL.
AND THAT RAN FROM SEPTEMBER ALL THE WAY TO ABOUT MAY.
WE HAD AN EXERCISE, WE HAD, UM, UH, UH, UH, A MOCK, UH, PRESS CONFERENCE WHERE QUESTIONS WERE ASKED AND, UH, INDIVIDUALS HAD TO RESPOND UNDER PRESSURE.
UM, AND NOT ONLY THAT, WE CONTINUE TO, UH, MAKE OUR EFFORTS KNOWN.
UM, WE HAVE WORKED WITH THE NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES JURISDICTIONS TO COME UP WITH BETTER PLANS.
UM, AND PART OF OUR PRIORITIES HAVE BEEN, UH, REALLY TO TRY TO MINIMIZE OUR IMPACTS FROM ANY TYPE OF, UH, AN EVENT, PARTICULARLY FLOOD EVENTS.
UM, AND ALSO WANT TO PREPARE OURSELVES, OUR INFRASTRUCTURE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE STORM DRAINS ARE CLEANED OUT, UH, PRIOR TO AN EVENT.
AND TO HELP RESIDENTS TAKE ACTION, UH, NOT ONLY TO PROTECT THEIR HOMES, BUT TO PROTECT THEIR FAMILIES IN GENERAL.
THE RESPONSE PRIORITIES, UH, UM, OBVIOUSLY WE ARE ALWAYS PRIORITIZING LIFE SAFETY AND, YOU KNOW, PROTECTION OF PROPERTY.
UH, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN RECOVER QUICKLY, BUT WE ALSO WANT TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE ESSENTIAL SERVICES, UH, DURING AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER, UH, THE INCIDENT OCCURS.
AND WE DO THAT BY COORDINATING THROUGH OUR EOC, UH, WHERE WE BRING, UH, HEADS OF OUR DEPARTMENTS TOGETHER TO PLAN AND PRIORITIZE WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN AND WHAT, UM, NEEDS, WHAT RESPONSE WE NEED TO PROVIDE.
AND THEN FINALLY, OUR RECOVERY PRIORITIES.
UH, WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING TO ASSESS OR DAMAGE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
'CAUSE FASTER THAT WE CAN ASSESS DAMAGE, THE FASTER WE CAN GET INTO THE QUEUE TO START RECOVERING OUR COSTS.
AND DOCUMENTATION IS A VERY BIG PART OF THAT.
UH, DEBRIS REMOVAL IS A HUGE PART OF RECOVERING FROM A FLOOD EVENT.
UM, AND THAT'S, UH, VERY IMPORTANT WHEN IT COMES TIME TO DOCUMENT WHAT WE DID AND GET RE RECOVERY.
'CAUSE IN, IN MOST INSTANCES, INCIDENTS OR DISASTERS, DEBRIS MANAGEMENT IS YOUR BIGGEST COST.
SO OUR, OUR CITY OBJECTIVE IS REALLY, UH, FOR RESIDENTS, UH, TO STAY INFORMED AND BE
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PREPARED AND TO STAY SAFE.SO AS FAR AS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS CONCERNED, LIKE I SAID, SINCE 2024, UH, WE WERE, UH, TRAINING OUR EMPLOYEES IN OUR EOC ON HOW TO ACT IN THEIR ROLES IN THE EOC.
UM, WE RECENTLY, UH, EARLIER THIS YEAR RECEIVED A GRANT, UH, FROM THE SAN DIEGO, UH, REGIONAL FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION TO EN ENHANCE OUR CAPABILITIES IN THE EOC.
AND WE WERE STILL WORKING ON THAT.
SANDBAGS ARE CONTINUE TO BE OUR EMPHASIS TO PROVIDE SANDBAGS TO THE RESIDENTS OF NASHVILLE CITY, AND ALSO TO PROVIDE THEM WITH SAND.
UH, WE RECENTLY RECEIVED 700 SANDBAGS FROM EDCO AND THOSE SANDBAGS, WE ARE GONNA BE PROMOTING THEM ON AUGUST 10TH AT OUR, UH, FIRE OPEN HOUSE.
AND THEN WE WILL BE DISTRIBUTING THOSE SANDBAGS AND SAND ON AUGUST 24TH, WHICH IS A SATURDAY.
UH, I BELIEVE IT'S FROM SEVEN TO TWO, 10 TO TWO 10 TO TWO 10 TO TWO.
AND I HAVE BEEN LEADING A, UH, COMMITTEE ON THIS DISASTER DEBRIS, UH, MANAGEMENT PLAN.
IT'S A COMMITTEE MADE UP OF, UH, MERCY MANAGER FROM CHULA VISTA, UH, ESCONDIDO AND HEARTLAND, UH, ORGANIZATIONS WHERE THEY'RE USING NATIONAL CITY'S DISASTER PLAN, A DEBRIS PLAN TO MAKE IT A TEMPLATE FOR THE OTHER CITIES.
I I'M HOPING TO FINISH THAT PLAN SOMETIME, UH, THIS MONTH OR EARLY NEXT MONTH, AND DISTRIBUTE THAT TO OTHER SMALLER CITIES.
THE CITY OF, OF SAN DIEGO AND, AND THE COUNTY ALREADY HAVE THEIR OWN PLANS, BUT THERE ARE OTHER CITIES THAT ARE SIMILAR LIKE ME, WHERE ONE TIME, ONE STOP SHOP AND
BUT WE'LL ALSO BE TAKING THE PLAN AND, UH, PRESENTING IT TO OUR OWN, UH, EOC STAFF SO THAT THEY, UH, ARE AWARE OF THE PROPER, UH, PROPER PROCEDURES ON HOW TO HANDLE DEBRIS AND DOCUMENT WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO THAT WE ARE VERY SUCCESSFUL IN OUR REIMBURSEMENT PROCESSES.
UH, SHELTER READINESS, UH, EARLIER THIS SUMMER, UH, COMMUNITY SERVICES AND ENGINEERING PUBLIC WORKS.
AND MYSELF, WE MET WITH THE AMERICAN RED CROSS, UH, REGARDING THE CAMACHO GYM AS A SHELTER LOCATION, WITH THE IDEA THAT ONCE THE, UH, UH, LAS PALMAS POOL, UM, CONSTRUCTION IS COMPLETE, THAT WE WOULD USE THEIR NEW FACILITIES, UH, TO SHOWER IF WE NEEDED TO, UH, YOU KNOW, OVERNIGHT GUESTS, THEY CAN USE THAT FACILITY.
UM, AND THE RED CROSS IS, IS VERY EXCITED.
THEY ACTUALLY WANT TO COME OUT.
THEY'VE BEEN HASSLE ME FOR THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS TO SCHEDULE SOMETHING.
UM, BUT THEY OFFICIALLY WANNA MAKE THAT A SHELTER LOCATION SO THAT, UM, WE CAN USE IT.
TEAM RUBICON AND, UH, COUNTY CERT, UH, THEY HAVE BEEN PUTTING ON CLASSES.
WE'VE SENT OUR OWN CERT MEMBERS TO SEVERAL OF THOSE CLASSES, AND THAT CONTINUES, UM, HERE IN NATIONAL CITY.
AND THEN THERE'S METRO ZONE PARTNERS, UH, EMERGENCY MANAGERS FROM THE METRO ZONE HAVE BEEN MEETING.
A LOT OF THE MEETINGS ARE REGARDING THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND, UH, WHAT'S HAPPENING, UH, WHAT WE'RE EXPECTING.
UM, WE'RE, WE'RE, THE WEATHER SERVICES IS SAYING THAT WE'RE, WE SHOULD EXPECT WETTER, WE WETTER CONDITIONS AND, UH, WARMER CONDITIONS FROM NOVEMBER TO ABOUT APRIL TIMEFRAME.
SO, UM, WE'VE BEEN MEETING WITH THEM ON A, ON A, A WEEKLY BASIS EVERY TUESDAY, AND I THINK THEY HAVE ON FRIDAYS, UH, MEETINGS.
AND THEN, UH, POST STORM RESPONSE.
UH, LIKE I SAID, UM, IN ANY DISASTER, ONE OF THE BIGGEST EXPENSES IS DEBRIS REMOVAL.
UM, DAMAGE ASSESSMENT IS A BIG PART OF THAT TO KNOW WHAT HAS BEEN DAMAGED, AND THEN, UH, FIGURING OUT WHO'S GONNA ACTUALLY DO THE WORK.
BUT THAT PIECE IS TIED TO THE PLAN.
IF I GET THE PLAN COMPLETED AND GET EVERYBODY TRAINED UP ON HOW TO DO IT, UH, WE SHOULD BE SUCCESSFUL.
UM, AND AS FAR AS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REALLY COORDINATES A LOT OF WHAT YOU'RE GONNA HEAR TONIGHT.
BUT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECES IS OUR PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, WHICH IS PROBABLY MORE IMPORTANT THAN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
AND THAT'S, UH, I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO MARTHA FOR THAT.
MARTA JUAREZ, ACTING DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC
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WORKS AND CITY ENGINEER, UM, MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY MANAGER, UH, COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND, UH, COLLEAGUES HERE.WE'RE REALLY, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY WORKING HARD TO GET READY FOR MY SLIDE HERE, UH, TO GET READY FOR THE STORM, RIGHT? EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT EINO, WE'VE HEARD ABOUT, UM, OUR NEIGHBORS TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH AND INLAND.
YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S GETTING READY.
AS WALTER MENTIONED, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF COLLABORATION, A LOT OF INFORMATION SHARING.
UM, TODAY I JUST WANNA START WITH A REALLY QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE CITY STORMWATER SYSTEM JUST TO GET, GET THIS TOP OF MIND.
SO THIS IS WHAT OUR STORMWATER SYSTEM IS COMPRISED OF.
UM, AND IT IS MAINTAINED AND OPERATED BY OUR STREETS AND WASTEWATER DIVISION PRIMARILY.
OF COURSE, IN THE EVENT OF A STORM.
UH, YOU CAN SEE EVERYONE IN OUR DEPARTMENT ROLLING UP THEIR SLEEVES, UM, FROM ALL DIVISIONS HELPING OUT HOWEVER, HOWEVER, IS NECESSARY.
BUT EFFECTIVELY, OUR STORMWATER SYSTEM IS A HUNDRED PLUS YEARS OLD.
SO PARTS OF THE CITY HAVE VERY OLD INFRASTRUCTURE.
OTHER AREAS ARE NEWER DEVELOPMENTS, AND THEY'VE BEEN, UH, UPGRADED OVER THE YEARS WHERE POSSIBLE, OR, OR, OR AS NEEDED OR AS AS, UM, AS IDENTIFIED IN OUR CIP PROJECTS OVER THE YEARS.
UM, IT'S COMPRISED OF 855 STORM DRAIN INLETS, OR MORE COMMONLY KNOWN AS CATCH BASINS OR, OR CURB INLETS.
UM, IT'S 19 MILES OF CHANNELS, INCLUDING SIX MILES THAT ARE WITHIN THE FEMA, UH, FLOOD MAP ZONES.
WE HAVE OVER 40 CROSS GUTTERS AT 1700 FEET THAT WE NEED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN ON A REGULAR BASIS.
AND WE HAVE TWO STORM STORM DRAIN PUMP STATIONS LOCATED ON THE WEST SIDE, UM, THAT WE MAINTAIN AND OPERATE, AND THAT WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT CONTINUE TO WORK PROPERLY SO THAT WHEN THERE IS RAIN ON THE ROADS, THE WATER GETS PUMPED, LIFTED TO A HIGHER GROUND.
UM, JUST SHOWING A COUPLE OF IMAGES HERE, A FEW IMAGES HERE THAT REPRESENT SOME OF THOSE ELEMENTS OF OUR STORMWATER SYSTEM.
UM, UH, OVER ON THE LEFT, YOU SEE THAT, THAT'S A NEW BOX CULVERT THAT WAS INSTALLED AS PART OF ONE OF OUR RECENT CIP PROJECTS ON PARADISE VALLEY ROAD PLAZA.
UM, UH, TO THE LOWER LEFT, YOU SEE A, A A A GRATE THAT'S, UH, AT, ACTUALLY AT PRIVATE PROPERTY AT WELLS FARGO.
THERE'S AN INLET THERE, UM, WHERE WE RECENTLY FOUND, AND THIS CONNECTS TO THE UPPER RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE SLIDE HERE, WE RECENTLY FOUND, UM, FOLKS, WE HAVE UNHOUSED ENCAMPMENTS THROUGHOUT OUR STORMWATER SYSTEM.
SO, UH, YOU SEE A PICTURE THERE.
THAT IS ONE, ONE OF THE EXAMPLES OF WHAT WE DEAL WITH IN AN, ON AN ONGOING AND CONSTANT BASIS.
IT'S A CHALLENGE FOR OUR TEAM.
WE WORK CLOSELY WITH OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES, UM, AND OUR HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAM AND PD.
UH, BUT THIS IS, THIS IS ONGOING.
UM, YOU SEE THAT SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
WE WORK ALL YEAR LONG, BUT ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ARE, UM, AWAITING STORMS COMING, RIGHT? WE NEED, WE NEED THAT SPACE TO BE CLEARED FOR THE WATER TO FLOW THROUGH.
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER PICTURES ARE JUST SOME EXAMPLES OF OUR CONCRETE LINE CHANNELS, OUR NATURAL CHANNELS, UH, THAT COMPRISE OUR STORM DRAIN SYSTEM, AS WELL AS, UM, THAT'S, UH, LOWER RIGHT HAND SIDE IS THE CHANNEL AT WALMART.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF, OF ONE OF THOSE ENTRY POINTS TO THE CULVERTS.
UM, REALLY THE GOAL, UM, AS WE PREPARE THE PRE-STORM PREP IS REALLY TO READY OUR STORM WATER INFRASTRUCTURE, SO THAT, AND OUR CITY FACILITIES SO THAT THEY PERFORM OPTIMALLY.
AND WE'RE DOING ALL OF THIS BEFORE THE STORM, OBVIOUSLY DURING THE STORM, WE'RE HERE, IT'S ALL HANDS ON.
DECK DAY OR NIGHT, WHATEVER TIME IT IS, OUR TEAM SHOWS UP.
THESE ARE SOME OF, AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE DOING THROUGHOUT ALL OF THE DIVISIONS OF OUR DEPARTMENT.
UH, ONE BIG IMPORTANT PIECE IS EDUCATION AND OUTREACH.
UH, WE'RE WORKING ON, UH, PREPARING LETTERS THAT WILL GO OUT TO APPROXIMATELY 1000 PARCEL OWNERS, UH, WHICH ARE PARCELS THAT ARE LOCATED WITHIN THE 100 AND 500 YEARS FLOODPLAIN, AND THAT'S HOW THEY WERE DEVELOPED IN THE CITY.
UM, SO THAT IS ONE THING WE'RE DOING.
WE'RE WORKING VERY CLOSELY AS WELL, OBVIOUSLY WITH OUR PIO TO GET ALL OF THIS INFORMATION OUT THROUGH VARIOUS MEANS AND METHODS, SOCIAL MEDIA, WEBSITE, EVENTS, ET CETERA.
BUT WE ARE GOING TO DO A TARGETED MAILING HERE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS AS WELL, IN CASE FOLKS ARE UNAWARE THAT THEY HAVE A BUILDING OR A PROPERTY WITHIN THE FLOOD PLANE.
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SURPRISE, BUT WE ARE GONNA DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE HAVE THE INFORMATION AT THEIR FINGERTIPS.UH, THE STORM PREP EVENT, WALTER ALREADY MENTIONED, UH, THIS HAS BEEN AN INTERN DEPARTMENTAL COORDINATION.
OUR DEPARTMENT IS PLAYING A, A KEY ROLE IN THIS AS WELL.
OF COURSE, UH, WE PROCURE, UH, SAND AND HELP WITH PROCURING, UH, BAGS, ET CETERA, BUT ALSO, UM, WE'LL BE THERE FOR ANSWERING QUESTIONS, INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC, ET CETERA.
UM, ALSO OUR, WITHIN OUR ENGINEERING DIVISION, WE ARE CONTINUOUSLY WORKING ON CIP PROJECTS AND DEVELOPMENTS, UH, MANAGING ALL THE PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, ENSURING THAT THOSE PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS THAT ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION ARE READY FOR THE STORM THAT THEY'RE FOLLOWING.
THEY'RE COMPLYING WITH REGULATIONS TO ENSURE THAT THEY HAVE THEIR BMPS IN PLACE FOR STORM WATER.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, THROUGH THE PERMITTING PROCESS, WE ALWAYS IDENTIFY, UM, DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE GONNA BE, UM, IN THE FLOOD HAZARD AREAS, ET CETERA.
THAT'S WAY BEFORE THE STORM, OBVIOUSLY.
UM, EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS, WE ARE, UH, ENSURING THAT WE'VE, UH, MADE ADVANCED PURCHASES THAT WE'RE PREPARING WITH OUR TOOLS, OUR EQUIPMENT, OUR SUPPLIES, AND OF COURSE OUR PEOPLE SO THAT WE'RE READY FOR THAT RESPONSE.
THIS INCLUDES HEAVY EQUIPMENT, UM, PUMPS, THE SIGNS, THE SANDBAGS, ET CETERA.
UH, FACILITIES DIVISION, OF COURSE, TAKES CARE OF OUR 20 PLUS CITY OWNED BUILDINGS WHERE WE PROVIDE PROGRAMMING, WHERE OUR EMPLOYEES WORK, OUR COLLEAGUES WORK, AND, UH, ENSURING THAT THOSE ARE IN GOOD CONDITION.
THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, OLDER BUILDINGS, RIGHT WITHIN OUR, UM, PORTFOLIO OF, OF ASSETS.
AND SO MAKING SURE THAT THAT'S IN AS GOOD SHAPE AS POSSIBLE.
PRIOR TO THE STORMS, UH, PARKS CREW IS FOCUSED ON IDENTIFYING AND TRIMMING OR REMOVING TREES, UH, WHERE NEEDED, AND ALSO, UH, WHERE THERE'S HAZARDS THAT WE CAN, WE CAN FORESEE AND, UM, CLEARING ATHLETIC FIELDS, ET CETERA.
AND OF COURSE, THEY PLAY A KEY ROLE IN THE RESPONSE AS WELL.
UM, CONTINUING WITH THE PRE-STORM PREPARATION, WE HAVE A BIG ROLE IN THIS, OF COURSE, IS, UM, AND I'LL SAY THIS PART, THE INSPECTION, MAINTENANCE AND CLEANING AND REPAIRS OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE, STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE, WHICH INCLUDES, UM, 15 PRIORITY AREAS THAT ARE ON A CONTINUOUS REVIEW, ESPECIALLY WHILE THERE IS RAIN IN THE NEAR FORECAST.
BUT THAT, THAT INCLUDES, UM, ALL OF THE, THE WHEAT ABATEMENT, THE CLEARING, THE REMOVING OF DEBRIS, ET CETERA, FROM OUR, OUR NATURAL CHANNELS, OUR CULVERTS, OUR CONCRETE LINE CHANNELS, INLETS, GUTTER, STORMWATER PIPES, ET CETERA.
AND THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE DOING JUST, YOU KNOW, IN A REACTIONARY WAY THAT HAPPENS ALL YEAR LONG, BUT IT'S BEEN ON A SPECIAL PRIORITY SINCE AUGUST SO THAT WE CAN DO THE BEST THAT WE CAN TO GET THESE AREAS READY, UH, BEFORE HEAVY RAIN SHOWS UP AS FAR AS THE, UH, POST STORM.
OH, AND ONE OTHER THING I DO WANNA MENTION IS THAT WE ARE ALSO WORKING VERY CLOSELY, OBVIOUSLY OUR INTERNAL PARTNERS, OUR COLLEAGUES IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS, EXTERNAL PARTNERS, YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH ECHO AND, AND OTHER UTILITIES IN ADVANCE, UH, MAKING SURE WE HAVE CLOSE COMMUNICATION.
WE HAVE THE RIGHT CONTACT FOR WHEN THE EMERGENCY, UH, ARISES.
UM, AND ALSO THE OTHER AGENCIES INTERAGENCY COORDINATION WITH MTS, WITH CALTRANS, WITH THE COUNTY, WITH CITY OF SAN DIEGO, ET CETERA, WHEREVER AS NEEDED.
SO THAT IS ONGOING AS WELL AS PART OF OUR PRE-STORM PREP, POST-STORM RESPONSE.
YOU ALL KNOW WHEN THE STORM HITS, UM, IMMEDIATELY AFTER THERE'S A LOT OF CLEANUP.
UM, WE'VE, WE'VE GOT OUR CREWS, UM, ON, ON THE READY.
WE HAVE STANDBY FOLKS AND, AND EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THEY AS PUBLIC SERVANTS ARE READY TO, TO COME IN, UH, WHEN NEEDED.
AND SO THAT'S CLEANING UP THE STREETS, THE SIDEWALKS, THE CHANNELS, REMOVING DOWN TREES, ET CETERA, WHATEVER IT TAKES.
UM, AND THEN WE MOVE INTO EMERGENCY REPAIRS, UH, TO STABILIZE FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
UM, THAT'S TYPICALLY THE FIRST COUPLE OF WEEKS, UH, WE'RE IDENTIFYING ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO GET IMMEDIATE ATTENTION.
AND THEN OF COURSE, THE PERMANENT REPAIRS THAT, UH, WALTER DID ALLUDE TO AND WE WORK CLOSELY WITH, WITH HIM.
AND, UM, IT BECOMES A, A PARTNERSHIP THAT'S, UM, MULTI-MONTH FOR COLLABORATION WITH FEMA, CALLO, ES, UH, CALTRANS, OTHER AGENCIES AS WELL FOR THE LONGER TERM PERMANENT REPAIR PROCESS.
UH, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, COUNCIL STAFF, AND THE PUBLIC.
MARTIN REEDER, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
WE HAVE A, UH, ASSIST ASSISTIVE ROLE, MOSTLY WITH OUR COMMUNITY OR, UH, COMMUNITY AND HOMELESS OUTREACH,
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UH, FOLKS, UH, A LOT OF THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN SAID, BUT, UH, WE ALREADY DO ROUTINE INSPECTIONS OF THE CULVERTS AND DRAINAGE SYSTEMS AS PART OF OUR REGULAR ACTIVITIES, ALTHOUGH THOSE ARE NOW WEEKLY, AND WE WILL INCREASE THE FREQUENCY AS NEEDED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CHECK ALL OF THOSE AREAS AND LOW LYING AREAS FOR ANY, UM, ANY ENCAMPMENTS THAT WE CAN DEAL WITH AND FOLKS THAT WE CAN HELP.WE COORDINATE WITH PUBLIC WORKS AND PD, AS HAS ALREADY BEEN MENTIONED WITH REGARD TO, UH, DEBRIS CLEANUP, UH, MOSTLY ASSOCIATED WITH HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS AND SO FORTH.
WE WILL ALSO BE DOING, AS WE DO, UH, AS OFTEN AS WE CAN, ANY SEVERE WEATHER OUTREACH, IF WE KNOW THAT SOMETHING BAD IS COMING, WE'LL DO OUR VERY BEST TO CONTACT THOSE FOLKS AND LET THEM KNOW THE SEVERITY AND THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE SITUATION SO THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO GET TO SAFETY.
AND WE CAN ALSO IN INSPECT, MAKE SURE THAT ANY, UH, ANY FACILITIES ARE NOT, ARE NOT BLOCKED IN ASSOCIATION WITH PUBLIC WORKS AND SO FORTH.
AND ALSO, WE, WE OBVIOUSLY WILL BE, UH, AS WE ALL ALWAYS TRY TO DO, IS TO GET FOLKS INTO, UH, OUTREACH, TO GET THEM OUTREACH, UH, FOR PLACEMENT IN HOUSING SITUATIONS, EITHER WITH THE SHELTERS OR THE, THE LIGHTHOUSE, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEREVER OPEN BEDS ARE GONNA BE AVAILABLE.
SO THAT'S OUR PRE-STORM PREPARATION, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, FAIRLY SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DO MOST OF THE TIME.
UH, WITH REGARD TO POST-STORM RESPONSE, WE'D OBVIOUSLY DO FOLLOW UP SAFETY SWEEPS TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE AREN'T ANY PEOPLE REMAINING OR THAT ARE NOT COMING BACK STRAIGHT AWAY TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S STILL REMAIN SAFE AND OUR FACILITIES REMAIN SAFE.
UH, OTHERWISE, UH, WE'RE ALSO GONNA TALK ABOUT HOUSING, BUT I, I WILL DEFER TO OUR HOUSING MANAGER, ANGEL PALMER FOR THAT.
GOOD EVENING, ANGEL DE PALMA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER WITH THE NATIONAL CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY.
SO I WILL START OFF BY SAYING THE HOUSING AUTHORITY CAN STRENGTHEN FLOOD PREPAREDNESS EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND LONG-TERM RECOVERY BY COORDINATING PEOPLE, FUNDING AND PARTNERSHIPS ALONG WITH OPERATIONAL PLANS.
AND THE 2024 FLOODS SHOWED US A LOT THAT IT WILL DEPEND EARLY ON OUTREACH, UH, CLEAR DEFINED ROLES AND AGREEMENTS THAT ARE READY TO ACTIVATE.
I'LL WALK YOU THROUGH SOME PRACTICAL STEPS THAT WE PLAN TO TAKE NOW TO SUPPORT RESIDENTS MORE EFFECTIVELY AND DEPLOY OUR RESOURCES MORE QUICKLY.
REGARDING SUPPORT, OUTREACH, AND CLEANUP EFFORTS.
FIRST, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY WILL FOCUS OUR OUTREACH SUPPORT AND PROGRAMS, UH, FOR STORM PREPARATION, CLEANUP ACTIVITIES, AND THE GREATEST, UH, FLOOD RISK AREAS.
THIS MEANS PRIORITIZING VULNERABLE RESIDENTS, INCLUDING PEOPLE WITH ACCESS, MOBILITY, AND MEDICAL ISSUES, AND THE GREATEST SPECIAL NEEDS WORKING DIRECTLY WITH OUR MOBILE HOME PARK OWNERS AND MANAGERS.
SO INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE CAN REACH RESIDENTS QUICKLY.
VOLUNTEER GROUPS ARE ALREADY BEING RECRUITED AT THIS TIME AND ORGANIZED.
WE PLAN ON LEVERAGING OUR FUNDING STRATEGICALLY ACROSS THE FULL DISASTER CYCLE.
SO INSTEAD OF TREATING EVERY ACTIVITY AS A SEPARATE EFFORT, WE WILL BE PROACTIVE IN MANAGING OUR FUNDS.
SO POTENTIAL INVESTMENTS INCLUDE FLOOD AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS, NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUPS, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, AND SANDBAGGING PREPAREDNESS FUNDING WILL BE PAIRED WITH SUPPORT SERVICES AND RECOVERY RESOURCES.
SO RESIDENTS WILL RECEIVE BOTH IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE AND A PATH TOWARDS STABILIZATION WHENEVER POSSIBLE.
WE WILL ALIGN OUR FUNDING RESOURCES TO REDUCE A DUPLICATION OF EFFORTS, FILL GAPS IN FUNDING WHENEVER POSSIBLE FOR OUR CITY SERVICES.
AND, UH, FOR ALL OF OUR LIMITED LOCAL RESOURCES, UH, JUST LIKE WE DID WITH OUR 2024 FLOOD RECOVERY EFFORTS, WE WILL WORK WITH THE SAN DIEGO VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN, IN DISASTERS, WHICH IS SD VOAD AND FEMA.
UH, THROUGH THESE PARTNERSHIPS, WE WILL STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY RELIEF PLANNING AND CONNECT RESIDENTS WITH SERVICES, CASE MANAGEMENT, AND OTHER COMMUNITY BASED ASSISTANCE.
AND SO WE'VE ALREADY MET WITH THEM FOR, UM, WE'VE ALREADY HAD OUR FIRST MEETING WITH THEM.
UH, SO WE'LL CREATE A CLEAR REFERRAL PROCESS FOR OUR DISASTER IMPACTED HOUSEHOLDS SO THEY CAN NAVIGATE, UH, MULTI DISCONNECTED SYSTEMS. OUR GOAL WILL BE TO HAVE COORDINATED RECOVERY, A CO A COORDINATED RECOVERY NETWORK.
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GOALS, SHARED INFORMATION, AND FEWER SERVICE RECOVERY GAPS.WE WILL WANT TO, AGAIN, HAVE, UM, SOME SORT OF INTER MUNICIPAL, UM, WORKSHOPS.
SO WE HAVE, UM, SOME SORT OF SHARED, UM, RESOURCES LIKE WE DID IN THE 2024 STORMS. UM, SO WE'LL WORK TOGETHER AT THE STAFF LEVEL WITH OUR NEIGHBORING CITIES, UH, CITY OF SAN DIEGO, AND, UH, THE COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO AND CITY OF CHULA VISTA TO IDENTIFY SOME COMMON CHALLENGES, OPERATING PROCEDURES, AND HOW WE CAN SUPPORT EACH OTHER.
WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT PIGGYBACK, UH, TO, WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT EXISTING AGREEMENTS, AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE ABLE TO SAVE SOME ADMINISTRATIVE TIME AND PIGGYBACK ON SOME OF THOSE AGREEMENTS THAT ARE ALREADY THERE.
SO WE WILL NOT, UM, NEED TO DUPLICATE ANY EFFORTS.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, IN THE 2024 STORMS, UH, WE WERE NOT ABLE TO RECOVER $363,000 IN FUNDS.
AND SO, UM, THIS TIME IF WE ARE ABLE TO BETTER PREPARE, UH, AND AS, UH, WALTER SAID, DOCUMENT ALL OF OUR EFFORTS, UH, WE CAN, UM, YOU KNOW, BETTER BE PREPARED, UM, TO RECOVER ALL OF OUR, OUR FUNDING THIS TIME AROUND, UM, WITH THE STORMS. SO WITH THAT, WE, UH, PLAN TO HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, PREPARE ALL OF OUR, OUR STAFF, UM, ON THE CITY SIDE, UH, BOTH ADMINISTRATIVELY AND IN THE FIELD WITH, UH, RELOCATION PLANS.
UH, SO THAT WOULD INCLUDE DOCUMENTATION, REQUIREMENTS, TRANSPORTATION, UH, WHAT TEMPORARY LODGING WOULD LOOK LIKE, UH, RESIDENT COMMUNICATIONS AND, UH, WHERE, UH, THEY CAN, UH, WHERE OUR RESIDENTS CAN ACCESS WRAPAROUND SERVICES.
UH, SO WITH THAT, I WILL JUST CLOSE THAT.
UH, WE, UM, DO PLAN TO, UM, YOU KNOW, TRY TO RESPOND FASTER, REDUCE ANY CONFUSION THAT MAY BE OUT THERE.
SO, UM, THE NEXT FLOOD HAS LESS OF AN IMPACT ON OUR RESIDENTS AND STAFF SO THAT THE CITY CAN FULLY RECOVER ALL OF OUR COSTS AND THERE'LL BE LESS OF AN IMPACT.
SO, UM, WITH THAT, I'LL PASS IT ON TO FIRE.
GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND CITY STAFF, UH, URA FIRE CHIEF OF YOUR NATIONAL CITY CLASS ONE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
AND, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO, OUR BENEFIT THIS TIME AROUND IS THE ABILITY TO PREPARE.
AND YOU'VE HEARD FROM OTHER, OUR OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS.
AND WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IS A REALLY A WHOLE CITY APPROACH BECAUSE WE LEARNED DURING OUR LAST, UH, LOCALIZED EVENT THAT IT REALLY TAKES MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE CITY TO, TO HAVE AN ADEQUATE AND, UH, UH, WELL, AN INADEQUATE AND TIMELY RESPONSE.
SO YOU'VE HEARD FROM O OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND, UH, WE LOOK AT IT FROM THE FIRE SIDE AS IN THREE PHASES, RIGHT? THE PRE-PLANNING, WHICH IS KINDA WHAT WE ARE DOING RIGHT NOW AMONGST OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE LAST EVENT AND HOW WE CAN BETTER PREPARE CERTAINLY OUR EMERGENCY RESPONSE WHEN AND IF NEEDED, AND WALTER TOUCHED ON IT EARLIER, THE RECOVERY PIECE.
UM, YOU KNOW, WALTER HAS BEEN WORKING ON THE RECOVERIES FROM THE STORMS OF TWO YEARS AGO.
SO THAT'S A BIG COMPONENT OF, OF HOW WE PREPARE TO, TO BETTER SERVE OUR, OUR COMMUNITY.
UH, SO HOW DO WE GO ABOUT DOING THAT FLOOD AND SWIFT WATER READINESS? SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE LEARNED, UH, DURING THE 22 FLOODS IS THAT, ALTHOUGH THAT WAS A LOCALIZED EVENT, UH, WHAT WE'RE EXPECTING IS MORE OF A REGIONAL APPROACH.
SO WE KNOW THAT WE CANNOT REALLY RELY ON OUR, OUR OUTSIDE PARTNERS.
AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE WE HAVE FIRE ENGINES FROM VIEJAS CASINO AND FROM ALPINE RESPONDING TO A MEDICAL AGENT DURING, UH, THAT FLOOD EVENT BECAUSE WE WERE OVERWHELMED.
SO WE NEED TO BE BETTER PREPARED INTERNALLY, AND I'LL TOUCH ON SOME OF THOSE STAFFING COMPONENTS LATER ON.
SO WHAT, WHAT WE HAVE DONE THERE IS WE'VE SENT TWO OF OUR MEMBERS TO A STATEWIDE TRAINING ON JUST THAT COMPONENT ON, ON THE SWIFT WATER TO REALLY DEAL WITH THE CHANNELS VERSUS THE STANDING WATER.
THEY BROUGHT BACK INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT AND BETTER TRAIN OUR PERSONNEL AND HOW TO REALLY ADDRESS THAT, UH, APPROPRIATELY.
UH, ANOTHER ONE THAT WALTER MENTIONED WAS STRENGTHEN INCIDENT MANAGEMENT PLANNING.
AND THAT'S THROUGH OUR EOC INTERNALLY WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB OF, OF REALLY, UM, TRAINING ALL OF OUR DIRECTORS AND OURSELVES ON, ON HOW TO MANAGE, UH, AN INCIDENT OF THAT SCALE.
AND WALTER HAS DONE A, A FANTASTIC JOB ALONG WITH ALL OF OUR EOC MEMBERS AND REALLY, UH, GEARING UP
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THAT, THAT SKILLSET TO BE BETTER PREPARED.AND AS WALTER MENTIONED, WE WERE FORTUNATE TO RECEIVE A GRANT TO UPGRADE REALLY, UH, EQUIPMENT THAT WAS, THAT THAT HAS BEEN OUTDATED IN THAT EOC.
SO WE ARE, WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT, AND WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO PLACE EMPHASIS ON TRAINING CITYWIDE STAFF TO BE ABLE TO COLLABORATE AND, AND, AND RESPOND APPROPRIATELY.
UH, THE PRE-PLANNING, AGAIN, PRE PRE-PLANNING OF THREATENED AREAS THROUGHOUT NATIONAL CITY AND LINCOLN ACRES.
I THINK WE ALL KNOW BEING HERE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, WHAT ARE OUR, OUR, OUR USUAL, UM, AREAS OF, OF CONCERN, BUT WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB AND GET OUT THERE EARLY AND TAKE A LOOK AT THINGS THAT, THAT MIGHT HAVE CHANGED IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, RIGHT? VEGETATION ON HILLSIDES, NEW CONSTRUCTION, UH, THINGS OF THAT NATURE TO BE, TO BE BETTER PREPARED, TO HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE WE MIGHT HAVE THOSE PROBLEMS AND THEN BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO THERE TIMELY AND ACCORDINGLY.
UM, AREAS OF THAT MAY EXPERIENCE DEBRIS, FLOW AND LANDSLIDE.
WE HAD A FEW OF THOSE DURING THE STORMS TWO YEARS AGO, SO WE'RE BETTER PREPARED TO, UH, TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND ADDRESS THAT.
WALTER MENTIONED SOMETHING THAT HE IS TAKING THE LEAD IN THE COUNTY IN NATIONAL CITY'S DISASTER DEBRIS PLAN, SOMETHING THAT HE'S SHARING ON A COUNTY WIDE LEVEL.
AND REALLY, MY, OUR HATS SHOULD GO OFF TO WALTER FOR THOSE EFFORTS.
HE'S BEEN WORKING DILIGENTLY ON THE LESSONS THAT WE LEARNED, UH, TWO YEARS AGO.
SO WE'RE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE WALTER, AND HE REALLY HAS BECOME A COUNTY LEADER IN, IN REALLY THAT COMPONENT IN DISASTER PREPAREDNESS.
SO WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE WALTER, UH, INCREASED STAFFING.
SO I JUST, I KIND OF TOUCHED ON THAT, RIGHT? WE DID, WE RELIED ON OUTSIDE PARTNERS DURING THE, THE, THE STORM TWO YEARS AGO, WE HAD COMPANIES AND, UH, LIFEGUARD, UH, CREWS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY.
IN THIS PARTICULAR SCENARIO, WE'RE EXPECTING A REGIONAL, YOU KNOW, UH, INCIDENT THAT MIGHT HAPPEN DURING HEAVY RAINS, HIGH TIDES, AND, UH, AND HEAVY RUNOFFS.
SO WE NEED TO BE BETTER PREPARED INTERNALLY.
SO WE WILL DEVELOP STAFFING PATTERNS WHERE WE CAN UPGRADE OR UP STAFF SOME OF OUR, OUR RESERVE FIRE ENGINES AND BRING FOLKS IN.
AND, AND THOSE, THOSE TRIGGERS NEED TO BE PRESET AND, AND DETERMINED, AND THEN WE HAVE TO REALLY STAND BY THOSE, BY THOSE PLANS.
AND WE'RE IN THE, IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THAT RIGHT NOW, LOOKING AT, UH, HOW WE WILL ESTABLISH TRIGGER POINTS BEST BASED ON WHETHER IT BE A FORECAST OF RAIN FALLING OUT, COATING WITH COIN, ALSO COATING WITH HIGH TIDES, AND LOOKING AT ALL THE, THE REALLY ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS THAT MIGHT IMPACT THE SEVERITY OF THE STORM TO DURATION OF THE STORM, THE WIND.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL THOSE FACTORS, AND AS A COUNTY, WE'RE DOING A FANTASTIC JOB.
WE, WE HAVE A COUNTY OES, UH, COMPONENT THAT ALL OF YOUR, ALL OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS HERE IN THE COUNTY, ALL 18 OF US, WORK TOGETHER IN COLLABORATIVELY AND AREAS THAT MIGHT NOT HAVE THE, THE SIGNIFICANT THREAT INLAND AREAS, UH, VERSUS COASTAL AREAS.
WE'LL BE ABLE TO, TO DEVELOP PLANS WHERE THEY CAN ASSIST US THROUGH AUTOMATIC AID AGREEMENTS, UM, YOU KNOW, EXPANDING COMMUNITY RISK REDUCTION THROUGH EDUCATION.
I KNOW THAT, UH, STEPHANIE WILL TOUCH ON THAT, SO I DON'T WANNA ELABORATE TOO MUCH ON THAT, BUT THAT'S CERTAINLY A COMPONENT THAT WE CAN DO IN PRE-PLANNING AND, AND REALLY EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ON, UH, SHE'S DONE A FANTASTIC JOB ON, ON WHAT SHE'S POSTED ON THE WEBSITE, AND THAT'S JUST THE BEGINNING ON HOW WE GET OUT THERE.
AND YOU'VE HEARD FROM THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS AS WELL WHAT THEIR EFFORTS ARE GONNA BE IN OUTREACHING THE COMMUNITY, OUTREACHING THE PUBLIC, OUR BUSINESS OWNERS TO BETTER BE, TO BE BETTER PREPARED, UH, FROM A WHOLESOME ENVIRONMENT ONCE, UH, ONCE THE EL NINO COMES.
RIGHT? YOU KNOW, WE'RE HEARING, WE'VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT EL NINO FOR, FOR A WHILE.
THE, THE WATER THIS MORNING WAS AT 74 DEGREES, WHICH IS EXTREMELY WARM FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR.
SO THE REALITY IS, UH, IT'S HIGH CONFIDENCE.
OES HAS DONE A FANTASTIC JOB OF REALLY SHARING INFORMATION AT A STATEWIDE LEVEL WITH ALL THE, WITH ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS, US BEING PART OF THAT.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, AS, AS YOU KNOW, GOVERNOR, THE GOVERNOR HAS DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY FOR CALIFORNIA.
SO THAT'LL ALLOW US TO TAP INTO RESOURCES THAT, UH, WILL BE PRE-STAGE OR PRED IN CASE THAT, UH, THE, THE POSSIBILITY OF A LARGE STORM IS UPON US.
AND THEN I, I TOUCHED ON IT BRIEFLY, DEVELOPED FORECAST BASED TRIGGER POINTS, RIGHT? WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB OF THAT.
AND LAST YEAR, WE, OR TWO YEARS AGO, WE HAD THE CONVERSATIONS, AT WHAT POINT DO WE MAKE THE SANDBAGS AVAILABLE BASED ON WHAT FORECAST THE RATE OF RAINFALL? SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THOSE TO HAVE A MORE, I THINK, ACCURATE APPROACH OF, OF WHEN WE MAKE THOSE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.
WE DON'T WANNA WAIT TOO LATE, BUT THEN AGAIN, WE DON'T WANT TO CREATE PANIC.
AND CERTAINLY THE, THE TRAINING OF THE, WELL, THE INFORMATION SHARING WITH THE PUBLIC WILL BE A BIT A BIG COMPONENT BECAUSE AS, AS WE ALL KNOW, YOU KNOW, THE, THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE IS, IS, IS THE HOMEOWNER.
AND OUR, OUR JOB, OUR RESPONSIBILITY IS TO LET THEM KNOW, UH, IN WAYS BY WHICH TO IMPROVE, PROVE THAT.
AND STEPHANIE, WE WILL TOUCH ON THAT.
AND THEN, UH, OBVIOUSLY THE, THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE, THAT'S WHAT WE DO, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOOD AT.
I MENTIONED THE CLASS ONE COMPONENT.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE VERY PROUD OF WHAT WE DO AS AN AGENCY, AND THEN WE'RE LUCKY TO HAVE, UH, MR. MR. AMITY WALTER, BECAUSE THE RECOVERY COMPONENT,
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UH, SHOULD WE NEED TO GO DOWN THAT ROAD IS A VERY LENGTHY COMPONENT.AND WALTER DOES A FANTASTIC JOB.
UM, AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO WHOMEVER'S NEXT, ACTING, ACTING CHIEF SULLIVAN HERE.
GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, COUNCIL STAFF, AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
MY NAME IS CHRIS SULLIVAN, UH, CAPTAIN WITH THE NASHVILLE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT.
UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE LOOKED AT IN PREPARATION FOR THIS, LEARNING FROM, UH, THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST, BUT IS COLLABORATIVELY WORK WITH OUR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT IN CLEARING OUT THE TUNNELS AND ENCAMPMENTS AND LIKE OUR, MY COLLEAGUES HAVE SAID TODAY, AND HAVE REITERATED IT'S WORKING WELL WITH EACH OTHER, NOT ONLY WITH SPECIFIC DEPARTMENTS, BUT WITH EVERYBODY ON THEIR TEAMS. AND I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE REALLY WANNA BRING TO THE TABLE IN THIS, IN THE PREPARATION PHASE, IS HAVING THE ABILITY TO TALK WITH EACH OTHER AND THE DEPARTMENTS WORKING IN, UM, CONJUNCTION WITH THE END GOAL, AND OBVIOUSLY WORKING WITH PUBLIC WORKS, MAKING SURE THAT WE AND OUR TEAMS DEPLOY OUR RESOURCES PROPERLY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN, UH, UTILIZE THE RESOURCES TO ACCOMPLISH THAT GOAL.
WE ALSO WORK WITH CODE ENFORCEMENT AND THE HOME TEAM TO RAISE AWARENESS WITHIN OUR UNHOUSED POPULATIONS OF THE RISKS OF THIS.
NOW, AS WE'VE TALKED BEFORE, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN, BUT WE PREPARE FOR IT.
AND I THINK THE PREPARATION PHASE IS HUGE AS, UH, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS SAID, TRYING TO PROVIDE OUTREACH AND JUST LET PEOPLE KNOW THE DANGERS OF, BUT ALSO MAKING SURE THAT EVERYBODY IS SAFE.
AND THAT'S, I THINK, WHERE THE, THE COLLABORATION COMES AND, AND BECOMES HUGE.
SO WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DURING A MAJOR INCIDENT, WE, WE'VE, WE'VE LEARNED IN THE PAST, AND I THINK WE'VE GOTTEN REALLY GOOD AT WORKING WITH OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT, OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, OVER ON THE OTHER SIDE, WHERE WE'VE DEVELOPED A UNIFIED COMMAND SYSTEM, AND WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS, WHEN THERE'S A MAJOR INCIDENT THAT HAPPENS, WORKING TOGETHER IS PARAMOUNT.
WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE'RE DOING.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, THE CITY HAS BEEN DOING IS, AND SPEARHEADED BY, UH, WALTER M, IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL GET TOGETHER AND WE DO THIS PRACTICE.
UM, WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE INCREASING OUR STAFF TO MAKE AVAILABLE THE ADDITIONAL OFFICERS AND RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE.
WE CAN SOMETIMES BECOME A LITTLE BIT, UM, POSITIONED IN CERTAIN AREAS, BUT BY BRINGING ON ADDITIONAL STAFFING, WE CAN ACTUALLY DEPLOY OUT PROPERLY.
AND I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS.
SO WE SHIFT FROM NORMAL POLICING TO EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND PUBLIC SAFETY.
NORMALLY, WHEN WE HAVE SOME TYPE OF A MAJOR INCIDENT, WE ALWAYS HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMUNITY IS STILL PROTECTED.
WE STILL RESPOND TO THESE 9 1 1 CALLS.
SO BRINGING IN ADDITIONAL OFFICERS AND ADDITIONAL STAFFING FOR THAT, WE'RE ABLE TO ASSIST WITH AREAS THAT OTHER DEPARTMENTS MAY NEED US.
IF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT NEEDS US IN CERTAIN AREAS, WE STILL HAVE TO BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO THE RESIDENTS OF THIS COMMUNITY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE PROVIDED THE SERVICES THAT THEY NEED.
ANOTHER THING THAT WE'VE, WE'VE DONE ROUTINELY IS TRAFFIC CONTROL AND KNOWN FLOODED ROUTES.
WE TRY TO THINK AHEAD OF CERTAIN AREAS IN FLOOD ZONES, AND SOMETIMES WE'LL STAGE OFFICERS THERE TO JUST TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PUBLIC CAN BE SAFE AND MAYBE NOT TRY TO GO THROUGH IT, BUT ALSO TO PROTECT EVACUATED AREAS AS, AS WE'VE LEARNED IN THE PAST, WHEN WE HAVE TO EVACUATE PEOPLE, FIRE DEPARTMENT WILL CALL US AND SAY, WE HAVE TO EVACUATE CERTAIN AREAS.
AND A LOT OF THE TIMES WE'LL HAVE TO HAVE OFFICERS THERE TO ASSIST WITH THAT.
SOMETIMES THE PEOPLE THEY WANNA PROTECT AND STAY IN THEIR HOMES, BUT IT'S SAFETY THAT, THAT WE HAVE TO THINK OF AS PARAMOUNT.
WE CAN ALWAYS COME BACK AND TRY TO DEAL WITH THE AFTERMATH LATER.
BUT SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC IS, IS, IS NUMBER ONE, UH, MAINTAINING ADEQUATE POLICING FOR OTHER EMERGENCIES AND CALLS FOR SERVICE IN THE COMMUNITY, AS I TOUCHED ON, UH, UH, EARLIER.
BUT, UH, UTILIZE OUR UPGRADED DISPATCH SYSTEM TO PROVIDE UP-TO-DATE MESSAGING TO OUR COMMUNITY.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I REALLY, UH, I REALLY WANTED TO IMPRESS UPON THIS IS GOING TO SOME OF THESE PREPARATION MEETINGS.
AND WE DID TALK ABOUT HOW WE ARE, UH, LETTING THE PUBLIC KNOW ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IS MAKING SURE PEOPLE ARE AWARE.
AND I THINK THAT A LOT OF THE CAMPAIGNS THAT WE TRY, UH, AND I BELIEVE OUR COLLEAGUES ARE GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT IN A LITTLE BIT, IS HUGE.
AND THAT'S THE, THE, THE RESPONSE THAT THE POLICE IS GONNA HAVE.
WHO AM I CHANGING IT TO? PI ROLLS BACK OVER HERE, IF I, MAY I HAVE ONE.
BUT, UH, THE OPEN HOUSE IS THIS SATURDAY, OCTOBER THE 10TH.
SO JUST WANT TO CLEAR THAT POINT.
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GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, COUNCIL CITY STAFF, AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.I AM THE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER AND MANAGEMENT ANALYST IN OUR CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE.
OBVIOUSLY MY COLLEAGUES HERE, AND WE ALL KNOW THAT COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC INFORMATION IS VERY CRUCIAL WITH STORM PREPAREDNESS AND ALL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS.
UM, THE KEY MESSAGING THAT WE ARE GOING TO USE TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IS, UM, KEY.
SO SOME OF THE KEY MESSAGING HAS BEEN FLOATED AROUND HERE TODAY THAT WALTER MENTIONED.
IT'S, UM, NATIONAL CITY B STORM READY.
THAT'S ACTUALLY THE URL OF OUR WEBSITE.
IT IS NATIONAL CITY CA.GOV/B STORM READY, STAY INFORMED, BE PREPARED, AND STAY SAFE.
UM, AND LASTLY, PREPAREDNESS IS A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY.
TOGETHER WE CAN HELP NATIONAL CITY BE STORM READY, PART OF OUR PRE-STORM COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGN THAT I WILL BE PUSHING ON SOCIAL MEDIA, ON OUR WEBSITE, AND IN PERSON AT COMMUNITY EVENTS, WHICH I'LL TOUCH ON HERE SHORTLY.
THE EDUCATIONAL PART IN PART OF COMMUNITY RISK EDUCATION, UM, ARE THE COLLATERAL MATERIALS, OUR FLYERS, PROVIDING CHECKLISTS TO RESIDENTS, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, TIPS, AND SHARING RESOURCES.
WE'LL ALSO BE HIGHLIGHTING WHAT WE ARE DOING HERE AT THE CITY, SUCH AS, UM, FIRE EVENTS OR FIRE PREVENTION EVENTS, THE FIRE OPEN HOUSE EVENT, AND OUR PUBLIC WORKS AT WORK, UM, IN THE CITY CLEARING THOSE CHANNELS.
NEXT IS OUR WEBSITE, WHICH HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED.
IT'S A CENTRALIZED HUB WITH ONGOING INFORMATION.
SO THIS WILL HAVE TIMELY AND ACCURATE DATA FOR OUR RESIDENTS, FOR BUSINESS OWNERS, AND EVERYONE IN NATIONAL CITY.
IT IS A CENTRAL PLACE WHERE WE HAVE, UM, PRINTABLE AND SHAREABLE INFORMATION AND FLYERS.
THIS IS JUST A SNIPPET OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
THAT TOP BANNER THERE WILL ROTATE FROM ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
UM, WE HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT EL NINO IS, UM, HOW IT CAN AFFECT NATIONAL CITY INFORMATION FOR RESIDENTS, HOMEOWNERS, UM, AND THEIR PROPERTY, HOW TO PREPARE PROPERLY, AND ALSO FOR BUSINESSES, UM, WHO TO CALL IN AN EMERGENCY SITUATION, WHAT CLASSIFIES A NON-EMERGENCY.
THERE'S EXAMPLES OF THAT AS WELL.
WE ALSO LINK TO THE C CLICK FIX APPLICATION, UM, ENCOURAGING THE PUBLIC TO USE THAT BEFORE THE STORM AND AFTER, UM, TIPS FOR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS, AS I MENTIONED.
AND THEN ON THE BOTTOM THERE, WE HAVE, AND YOU CAN'T SEE IT IN THIS SNIPPET HERE, BUT THE STORM PREPAREDNESS EVENT THAT WE ARE HAVING ON THE 24TH FOR RESIDENTS TO GET THEIR SANDBAGS TO INTERACT WITH OUR STAFF, ASK QUESTIONS.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES ON THIS PAGE HERE, SUCH AS ALERT SAN DIEGO, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE PUSHING HEAVILY FOR RESIDENTS TO SIGN UP FOR IN ORDER TO RECEIVE EMERGENCY NOTIFICATIONS FROM ALERT SAN DIEGO, WHICH IS A COUNTYWIDE SYSTEM THEY HAVE TO PRE-REGISTER.
SO WE'LL BE PUSHING THAT NOTIFICATION TO RESIDENTS.
WE ALSO HAVE A FEMA, UH, FLOOD MAP ON THE WEBSITE, AN SDGE OUTAGE MAP, THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
THERE'S ALSO A GENESIS APP, WHICH IS ANOTHER EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM.
UM, AND THEN ON THE SITE, WE ALSO JUST HAVE OTHER MATERIALS, GRAPHIC CHECKLISTS FROM SOME OF OUR, UM, COUNTY AND STATE RESOURCES.
NEXT, I HAVE, UM, ENGAGING AND PREPARING RESIDENTS THROUGH OUR CITY SPONSORED EVENTS.
SO THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY IS THIS WEEKEND AT OUR FIRE OPEN HOUSE, AND WE HAVE BEEN, UM, PUSHING THAT HEAVILY ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
UM, WALTER WILL BE HAVING A TABLE AT THE EVENT, UM, UNDER THE CERT BOOTH, AND WE WILL BE, UM, PROMOTING OUR WEBSITE AND THIS BE STORM READY CAMPAIGN, AS WELL AS THE STORM PREPAREDNESS EVENT ON THE 24TH.
UM, WE'LL ALSO BE HAVING AN IPAD THERE FOR RESIDENTS TO SIGN UP ON THE SPOT FOR THAT ALERT SAN DIEGO NOTIFICATION.
AND WE'LL ALSO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR RESIDENTS TO PRE-REGISTER FOR SANDBAGS AT THE EVENT ON THE 24TH, SO THEY CAN DOWNLOAD THE GOOGLE QR CODE, PUT THEIR INFORMATION, THEIR ADDRESS, SO THAT THE EVENT ON THE 24TH GOES A LITTLE BIT SEAMLESS, MORE SEAMLESS, AND, UM, WE CAN GET AS MANY RESIDENTS, UM, AS
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POSSIBLE AT THAT SANDBAG EVENT.WE'LL ALSO BE PROMOTING THE EVENT AT ONGOING EVENTS SUCH AS OUR CITY MANAGERS FRIDAY COFFEES, THE COMMUNITY CLEANUP EVENTS.
THE NEXT ONE IS IN NOVEMBER, UM, AND ALL OTHER CITY SPONSORED EVENTS.
AND IN THE FUTURE, WE WOULD ALSO BE OPEN TO HOSTING SOME SORT OF COMMUNITY WORKSHOP TO FOR FURTHER EDUCATE THE PUBLIC, UM, SUCH AS INVITING THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TO COME AND GIVE A PRESENTATION TO OUR RESIDENTS.
THAT'S ALSO SOMETHING THAT WE CAN LOOK INTO AND PROVIDE.
UM, LASTLY, I HAVE, UM, ACTIVATING OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
I'M NOT SURE IF YOU GUYS HAVE SEEN, UM, ACROSS THE FREEWAY SIGNS.
WE, WE HAVE BEEN SHOWCASING OUR FLU VACCINE CLINIC, OUR FIRE OPEN HOUSE.
WE'RE REALLY HOPING THAT THOSE ARE GETTING THE WORD OUT TO AS MANY RESIDENTS AS POSSIBLE.
UM, I'LL BE PROVIDING OUR LOCAL PARTNERS WITH READY TO SHARE MATERIALS, SUCH AS, UM, OUR PARTNERS AT THE CHAMBER MILE OF CARS, SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE.
UM, SO PROVIDING THEM WITH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLKIT SO THEY CAN ALSO POST OUR BE STORM READY CAMPAIGN, OUR STORM PREPAREDNESS EVENT, UM, AND ALL ONGOING STORM READINESS MATERIALS.
AND, UM, LASTLY, IT'S JUST WORKING WITH OUR OTHER COMMUNITY PARTNERS AT THE, THE COUNTY, THE CITY AND STATE LEVEL.
I, I'M IN PART OF THE, UM, PIO REGIONAL GROUP, AND WE JUST HAD A MEETING ABOUT AINO LAST WEEK, AND EVERYONE'S VERY HELPFUL.
EVERYONE'S VERY COMMUNICATIVE.
WE'VE ALL BEEN WORKING COLLABORATIVELY.
UM, I ACTUALLY JUST CALLED THE SANMAR MARCOS EMERGENCY MANAGER TO GET SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR STORM PREPAREDNESS EVENT, WHICH WE'LL BE IMPLEMENTING AT OURS.
UM, SO REALLY JUST EDUCATING THE PUBLIC, UH, TAPPING INTO OUR RESOURCES AT THE LOCAL AND STATE LEVEL TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR RESIDENTS ARE EDUCATED AND INFORMED.
AND LASTLY, WE HAVE OUR FLYER HERE FOR THE UPCOMING EVENT, WHICH IS ON THE 24TH, AS WE MENTIONED, FROM 10 TO TWO, WE'LL BE AT THE NATIONAL CITY PARKING LOT ADJACENT TO THE BASKETBALL COURTS.
RESIDENTS ARE ALLOTTED FIVE SANDBAGS PER HOUSEHOLD.
UM, WE WILL BE HAVING SOME CERT VOLUNTEERS THERE TO HELP WITH THE SANDBAGS AS WELL AS, UM, CITY STAFF.
AND THAT IS ALL WE HAVE FOR YOU.
THESE, SO SPECIFIC QUESTIONS OF THE, UH, PRESENTATION.
THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY FOR, UM, THIS INFORMATION.
I, I KNOW THAT WE'VE BEEN AWAITING THIS INFORMATION.
YOU KNOW, WE HEAR VERY OFTEN THAT IT'S GOING TO BE A ROUGH WINTER, SO KNOWING THAT OUR CITY STAFF AND, UM, YOU KNOW, ARE PREPARED, PREPARING AS BEST AS POSSIBLE, JUST AS IT WAS MENTIONED, WE CAN'T PREDICT THE FUTURE.
OF COURSE, WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN, UM, BUT WE CAN PREPARE FOR, UH, AND, AND TAKE IN THE LESSONS LEARNED FROM, UH, THE PAST.
UM, I, I THINK I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS, BUT MS. STEPHANIE, I DID WANNA CONFIRM THE, UM, THE ONE SLIDE THAT YOU SHOWED WITH A SNAPSHOT OF THE WEBSITE IS THAT ALSO TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH OR EVEN TOOK ON.
SO THERE IS A FUNCTION ON OUR WEBSITE WHERE THE ENTIRE WEBSITE CAN BE TRANSLATED TO ANOTHER LANGUAGE.
IT'S LIKE A GOOGLE WIDGET ON THE TOP CORNER.
UM, SO THAT IS HOW IT WOULD BE TRANSLATED.
I DO HAVE SOME INFORMATION THAT I AM PUSHING OUT IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH, SUCH AS THE, THE BANNER UP TOP.
SO SOME OF THOSE MAIN FLYERS WILL HAVE BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
UM, THAT WAS ANOTHER THING THAT WAS BROUGHT UP IN THAT REGIONAL MEETING THAT I WAS IN.
OUR CITY AND COUNTY PARTNERS DO HAVE THE STAFF AND RESOURCES TO TRANSLATE TO MANY OTHER LANGUAGES.
SO I WILL BE TAPPING INTO SOME OF THEIR FLYERS TO ABSOLUTELY ADD TO HERE AS WELL.
UH, YES, IF, YOU KNOW, IF WE, WE DON'T NEED TO REINVENT THE WHEEL, IF THERE IS INFORMATION FROM OTHER SOURCES THAT WE CAN DIRECTLY, UH, PRESENT TO OUR RESIDENTS, I WOULD HIGHLY ENCOURAGE THAT WE DO THAT.
UM, AGAIN, WE'RE OPERATING UNDER OUR LIMITED RESOURCES, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT, LIKE, JUST AS EACH OF YOU STATED REGIONALLY, EVERYBODY IS PREPARING FOR THIS.
SO I THINK, UM, SOUNDS LIKE WE ARE ON THE RIGHT PATH.
SOUNDS LIKE WE ARE CONNECTING WITH THE PEOPLE REGIONALLY THAT WE NEED TO CONNECT WITH.
I DID WANNA GIVE A SHOUT OUT BECAUSE I REMEMBER SO CLEARLY IN MY MIND FROM 2024, UM, THE TEAMS THAT HELPED AT THE TIME, MR. WALTER DY MENTIONED TEAM RUBICON, THE COUNTY CERT TEAM, THE RED CROSS.
I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT THOSE RESOURCES ARE, UH, AGAIN, AVAILABLE.
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UH, HOPEFULLY IT ISN'T A DISASTER AS IT WAS IN 2024, BUT TO KNOW THAT WE ARE THINKING AHEAD AND, AND BEING BETTER PREPARED, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT DOES GIVE ME A LITTLE BIT OF PEACE.YES, APPRECIATE STAFF FOR THE DETAILED, UH, PRESENTATION AND THE PLAN.
I THINK OVERALL, THIS IS REALLY GOOD INFORMATION.
I JUST HAVE A, A FEW QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS, AND I FEEL LIKE I'M MISSING SOME DETAILS OR AT LEAST MAYBE UNDERSTANDING OF, UM, SOME OF THE SPECIFIC AREAS THAT ARE CHALLENGING THE CITY.
UM, SO I, I THINK IF WE HAVE MORE MAPS OR AT LEAST, UH, UNDERSTANDING OF THE GEOGRAPHIC AREAS AND SOME OF OUR STAFFING BUDGET IMPACT.
UM, SO JUST KIND OF TAKE A STEP BACK.
UM, AND I APPRECIATE VICE MAYOR BELINA BRINGING THIS UP, BUT I WAS JUST READING A, UH, REPORT.
AND THIS IS FROM THE EUROPEAN CENTER FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECAST, WHICH IS ONE OF THE, UH, PREEMINENT FORECASTING AGENCIES THAT DO THESE, UH, LONG RANGE AND SHORT RANGE FOR, UH, FORECASTS.
AND SO FROM DECEMBER TO MARCH, THE FORECAST IS PROJECTING MORE THAN TWO AND A HALF TIMES THE NORMAL RAINFALL IN SAN DIEGO REGION.
SO THAT'S DEFINITELY, UH, CONCERNING.
SO I'M NOT SURE WHICH, IF IT'S, UM, WALTER OR, UM, OR, OR ANYONE ELSE ON FIRE, BUT THE, UM, IN TERMS OF THE MAPPING SO THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY, OR AT LEAST I UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BIGGEST DANGER AREAS IN THE CITY ARE.
UM, SO WE HAVE THE FEMA FLIP PLANE MAPS, BUT DO WE HAVE MAPS THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO THE JANUARY 20, 24, 1000 YEAR FLOODING INCIDENT? BECAUSE THE FEMA MAPS, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, ARE FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND ARE KIND OF AT THIS LARGER SCALE, HIGHER LEVEL AREA, AND DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THE DETAILS OR THE GRANULARITY, UM, OF THE, OF KIND OF SPECIFIC INCIDENTS.
AND SO I'D BE INTERESTED TO KNOW, JUST BASED ON THE JANUARY 20, 24, UH, FLOODS AS KIND OF A BASELINE, WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
SO DO WE HAVE THAT FOR, FOR MAPPING? I SEE MARTHA.
SO AFTER THE STORM IN JANUARY, 2024, UH, WITHIN A FEW MONTHS AFTER THAT, WE DID COLLABORATE ON A LOT OF MAPPING AND SORT OF, UH, MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACKING, RIGHT POST STORM.
SO WE DID MAP ALL OF THE AREAS THAT WERE REPORTED AS HAVING HAD FLOODING, UM, AND DAMAGE, ET CETERA.
WE DID WORK ALSO WITH, UH, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WITH THE HOUSING GROUP, WITH, UM, OUR EMERGENCY MANAGER AND, AND ENGINEERING DID GET A GIS LAYER.
UM, NOT SURPRISINGLY, IT IS OVERWHELMINGLY RIGHT ON TOP OF THE FLOODPLAIN.
SO VERY FEW AREAS THAT WERE OUTSIDE OF THAT, THAT ARE REALLY MORE, UM, YOU KNOW, BE, UH, I'LL, I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF, OF AREAS WHERE YOU SAW SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING THAT WOULD NOT HAVE FIT WITHIN THE FLOODPLAIN, UM, MAPPING, UM, ARE WHERE, LIKE THE INLETS WERE, WHERE THERE'S LIKE SEVERE IMPACT, SEVERELY IMPACTED PARKING IN THE AREA, LIKE THE HIGHER DENSITY AREAS, FOR EXAMPLE, AND ALL OF THE CURB INLETS GET COVERED UP WITH CARS, RIGHT? AND SO THE WATER CAN'T FLOW INTO THE INLETS, YOU GET THE WATER, YOU KNOW, KIND OF STAYING AROUND THE, THE STREETS, ET CETERA.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE STARTED DOING PROACTIVELY JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO, WE IDENTIFIED IT AS A, A PRE-STORM PREP ACTIVITY, IS THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY RED CURVING THE INLETS, RIGHT? SO THAT WHEN THERE IS STORM, AND NOT ONLY SO THAT OUR, OUR CREWS CAN GO AROUND AND ACTUALLY SEE IF THERE'S DEBRIS, SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT'S CLOGGING, BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, AND CLEAN THEM UP, BUT ALSO SO THAT THE WATER CAN FLOW FREELY INTO THOSE INLETS.
SO THE VERY FEW EXAMPLES WHERE WE DID SEE SOME OF THE, THE FLOOD CLAIMS THAT CAME THROUGH, AND WE, WE DID GET THAT DATA, UM, WERE, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE BELIEVE BECAUSE OF SOME OF THOSE THINGS.
SO WE'VE, WE'VE CAMERAED AREAS WHERE WE, UM, HAD SOME OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE WATER STAYING AROUND LONGER, RIGHT? BECAUSE OF THE, THE ROUTING ISSUES.
UM, BUT, BUT OVERWHELMINGLY IT CORRELATES TO THE FLOODPLAIN, THE LOW LYING AREAS THAT WE ARE AWARE OF.
AND LIKE I SAID, THE MAPS OF FEMA MAPS ARE, YES, THEY'RE, THEY'RE CONSIDERED TO BE STATIC, BUT THEY'RE ACTUALLY ONLINE, THEY'RE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC, AND THEY DO HAVE, UM, UPDATES, RIGHT? SO AS DEVELOPMENT HAPPENS, UM, THESE MAPS MAY HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN 2013 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT OFFICIALLY, BUT AS DEVELOPMENT HAPPENS AS, UM, THERE'S REVISIONS, SO IT'S SOMETHING CALLED, UM, A LETTER OF MAP REVISIONS, UM, THAT HAPPENS THROUGH A FLOOD AREA HAZARD MAP PROCESS, UM, THAT GOES THROUGH FEMA.
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THE CITY DOES, UH, HAVE SOME INVOLVEMENT IN OR, OR OVERSIGHT.UM, ALL OF THAT ACTUALLY SHOWS UP IN THOSE FEMA MAPS, THOSE THAT ARE ONLINE NOW.
SO YOU COULD SEE WHERE THERE'S BEEN REVISIONS, ET CETERA.
SO THERE IS MAPPING UPDATES THAT HAVE HAPPENED MORE RECENTLY AND THEY'RE AVAILABLE THERE.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR MM-HMM
SO I I APPRECIATE THAT, MARTHA.
UM, AND SO IF STAFF, I DON'T KNOW THROUGH THE CITY MANAGER OF STAFF, COULD EVEN PROVIDE THOSE, UH, MAPS TO US.
SO IS THIS, THIS IS FOR AT LEAST FOR, BASED ON THE 2024 FLOODING, THIS IS CITYWIDE, RIGHT? I KNOW MOST OF THE FLOODING WAS IN DISTRICTS, UH, TWO AND THREE, BUT THIS IS FOR THE ENTIRE CITY, CORRECT? YES.
UM, EFFECTIVELY, PARADISE CREEK, WHICH STARTS ON THE NORTHEAST END OF THE CITY BOUNDARY WITH SAN DIEGO, RIGHT? PARADISE CREEK, OVER OFF OF PARADISE VALLEY ROAD, IT RUNS THROUGH THE ENTIRE CITY.
YOU SEE THE CHANNELS, SOME OF THEM ARE CONCRETE LINES, SOME OF 'EM ARE NATURAL, A LOT OF IT IS UNDERGROUND, GOES INTO COLBERTS AND PIPES UNDERGROUND, AND THEN YOU SEE AT DAYLIGHT PLACES LIKE WALMART AND THE PARK, AND THEN EVENTUALLY PARADISE CREEK PARK.
SO IT, IT RUNS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
IT IS, UM, ONCE YOU LOOK AT A MAP, WHICH WILL BE, UM, LINKED, IS IF IT ISN'T ALREADY, YEAH, IT MIGHT BE ALREADY.
UM, WE'VE BEEN COLLABORATING THE PAST FEW WEEKS TO ENSURE, YOU KNOW, IT'S A, IT'S A LIVING, BREATHING WEBSITE THAT WE'RE ADDING INFORMATION TO.
SO, UM, THAT IS VERY, UH, VISIBLE THERE.
YOU SEE, IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE SNAKY, YOU KNOW, S SHAPE THROUGH THE CITY THAT GOES FROM NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST.
SO I WOULD JUST ASK THAT AND MAYBE, UH, IF WE CAN HAVE ANOTHER, MAYBE IT'S A MONTH, DEPENDING ON HOW BAD THIS IS LOOKING.
MAYBE WE EVEN GET, UH, MONTHLY UPDATES, UH, ON THIS.
BUT I WOULD LOVE FOR THE PRESENTATION TO INCLUDE THAT KINDA MORE VISUAL, THE MAPPING, SO WE CAN SEE FROM A HIGH LEVEL WHERE THE PROBLEM AREAS WHERE THE, THE, THE DANGER AREAS ARE.
BUT I'LL GO AHEAD AND LOOK AT THIS MYSELF.
SO I APPRECIATE STAFF ARE GIVEN THE UPDATE THERE.
AND THEN THE NEXT QUESTION ON COMMUNICATION, SO I THINK THIS MORE FOR STEPHANIE.
SO, UH, HEARD THAT RES, SO I HEARD YOU THAT RESIDENTS HAVE TO PRE-REGISTER TO GET THE ALERTS, BUT DO WE HAVE ANY SYSTEMS IN PLACE WHERE THE ALERTS CAN BE MORE PROACTIVE, UM, AND PARTICULARLY THOSE THAT LIVE IN THOSE IDENTIFIED, UM, FLOODPLAINS.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, IS THERE LIKE A TEXTING PROGRAM OR ALERT FOR THOSE, THOSE, THOSE RESIDENTS AND SOMETHING WHERE THEY DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO PRE-REGISTER? YEAH.
UM, TECHNICALLY YOU DON'T HAVE TO PRE-REGISTER, UH, FOR ALERT SAN DIEGO.
UM, BUT IT'S BETTER THAT YOU DO, UH, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A, A HOME, UH, PHONE.
UM, BUT THERE IS GENESIS, UH, GENESIS ALERT IS A PROGRAM WHERE, UH, WE CAN GEOCODE, UH, GEOFENCE A LOCATION AND AREA.
AND IF IT'S A LIFE THREATENING, UH, SITUATION, WE CAN, UH, PRETTY MUCH, UH, CRAFT A MESSAGE FOR ANYBODY WHO'S GOING THROUGH THAT AREA WHO HAS A MODERN DAY CELL PHONE.
UH, EVEN THE OLD PHONES WILL, WILL POSSIBLY GET THE MESSAGE, AND AS LONG AS THEY'RE IN THAT AREA, THEY'LL GET THAT TEXT, UM, AND BE NOTIFIED THAT THERE IS A SITUATION AND, AND IT'LL GIVE THEM ACTIONS ON, ON WHAT TO DO.
SO IF WE WERE TO GET A FORECAST, I KNOW SOMETIMES WE DON'T GET THESE WARNINGS, BUT SAY IT'S 24 HOURS AND THERE'S A BIG STORM COMING, SO DOES THE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE HAVE, ARE WE ABLE TO PROACTIVELY ALERT THE RESIDENTS ABOUT THE DANGERS THAT ARE IN THOSE FLIP LANE AREAS? IT HAS TO BE A LIFE SAFETY SITUATION.
UM, AND THAT WAS WHAT, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? BECAUSE THAT'S VERY BROAD.
SO I THINK I WOULD THINK THAT YES, THEY ARE A LIFE SAFETY SITUATION, RIGHT? UH, IT, IT, IT, MIKE, THANKS.
IT WOULD DEPEND ON THE NATURE OF HOW TO BE DEFINED IN THE EMERGENCY SORT OF SITUATIONS.
THE ALERTS WILL GO OUT AUTOMATICALLY, UM, WHEN THERE'S FLOODING IN DIFFERENT AREAS, NOT JUST GENESIS, BUT, UM, THE REGIONAL ALERTS, RIGHT? DON'T WE HAVE THE REGIONAL ALERTS, WALTER? YEAH, I, I THINK IN 2024 THEY SENT OUT A A, THERE WAS A BLANKET, UM, THERE WAS ALERT, BUT THE GENESIS THAT WALTER IS TALKING ABOUT ALLOWS US MORE SPECIFIC TO DO IT HERE IN NATIONAL CITY.
THE ISSUE IS THAT OUR RESIDENTS HAVE TO HAVE THE APP.
SO IF YOU HAVE THE APP AND A PHONE AND YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE APP, IT'S AMAZING.
AND THAT WOULD BE, UM, I THINK, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER BUSH WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, THAT WILL BE SPECIFIC AND ALLOW US TO HAVE CERTAIN AREAS.
IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S COMING, WE CAN ALERT THAT THROUGH OUR GENESIS APP.
AND, AND, BUT, BUT THAT HAS TO BE, SO IN ORDER TO
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HAVE THAT KIND OF PROACTIVE ALERT, THE RESIDENTS HAVE TO DOWNLOAD IT, NOT NECESSARILY THEY CAN DOWNLOAD, LET'S SAY, FOR THEIR HOUSE OR FOR THEIR SCHOOL OR FOR, YOU KNOW, HUSBAND OR WIFE'S WORK.AND IF A MESSAGE WENT TO THAT AREA, THEY WOULD GET NOTIFIED WHEREVER THEY ARE.
BUT IF THERE WAS GEOFENCE AROUND A CERTAIN LOCATION AND YOU END UP DRIVING BY IT AND AN ALERT AND YOUR CELL PHONE GETS THAT, YOU'LL GET A TEXT KIND OF LIKE A, A AMBER ALERT KIND OF A SITUATION WHERE IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE IN A PARTICULAR AREA, YOU'LL GET THAT MESSAGE, LITERALLY FLASH ON YOUR PHONE AS A WARNING OR WHEN THE FLOODING HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.
UM, SO COUPLE THINGS THERE TO COUNCIL MEMBER BUSH.
SO WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL IN OUR MESSAGING FOR ONE.
UM, AND ONE OF THE INTENTS OF OUR PRE-PLANNING FOR THE, FOR THE UPCOMING EL WOULD BE TO DO THE EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT, RIGHT? WHEN WE REACH OUT TO THE PUBLIC, WELL, WELL AHEAD OF THE STORM AND LET THEM KNOW THAT, HEY, AS YOU HEAR STORMS ARE APPROACHING, START PAYING ATTENTION A LITTLE CLOSER ATTENTION.
AND THEN, UH, WHAT WALTER IS MENTIONING IS, IS CERTAINLY NOT SOMETHING THAT OUR PD DOES AS WELL, IS, UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE WARNINGS, WATCHES, AND SO ON AND SO FORTH, RIGHT? AND, AND, AND WHAT THOSE MEAN.
SO THE, THE EFFORT WILL BE TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AHEAD OF TIME.
AND ONCE WE ARE INTO A, A WATCH VERSUS A WARNING, THEN YOU START PAYING CLOSER ATTENTION.
AND IF A FLOOD IS IMMINENT BASED ON WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THAT LOCALIZED LEVEL, THEN THAT ALERT GOES OUT TO THAT GEOFENCED AREA.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WILL BE DOING PROACTIVELY, BUT WE HAVE TO BE VERY, VERY CAUTIOUS ON HOW AND WHEN WE DO THAT.
UH, YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE, UH, YOU DON'T WANT TO CRY WOLF, RIGHT? THAT'S THE ONE CRY, CRY WOLF.
IS THAT THE ONE I, I FORGET, BUT ANYHOW, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? YEAH.
UH, SO, SO YEAH, IT HAS TO BE VERY FOCUSED, VERY INTENT, AND VERY DELIBERATE AND, AND THE MESSAGING AT, AT, AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME.
BUT OUR EFFORTS ARE GONNA BE WELL BEFORE THAT WHERE WE START TO REACH OUT TO THE PUBLIC AND LET THEM KNOW THAT, HEY, EL NINO'S COMING.
UH, I THINK, UH, COUNTYWIDE, WE DO A GOOD JOB OF SHARING THAT INFORMATION, NOT ONLY WITH REGULAR NEWS MEDIA, BUT NOW WITH, WITH SOCIAL MEDIA, ET CETERA.
AND ONCE YOU KNOW THE, THE RAIN START AND PEOPLE ARE HOPEFULLY PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION TO THEIR PARTICULAR AREAS AND THE AREAS THAT WE KNOW ARE A HIGHER HAZARD, THEN WE, WE WILL BE ABLE TO ACT PROACTIVELY AT THE CORRECT MOMENT.
BUT YEAH, THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, IT'S, IT'S DIFFICULT, CAN BE VERY DIFFICULT.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT GOES ALONG WITH THAT IS ENCOURAGING THE PUBLIC TO REALLY UTILIZE ESTABLISHED METHODS BY WHICH TO COMMUNICATE THEIR EMERGENCIES, RIGHT? SO, UM, I THINK CHRIS MENTIONED IT EARLIER, YOU KNOW, THE POLICE HAVE TO CONTINUE DOING THEIR REGULAR POLICE WORK.
WE HAVE TO CONTINUE DOING OUR REGULAR EMERGENCY RESPONSE WORK.
SO IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE PUBLIC TO BE ABLE TO REACH OUT TO US APPROPRIATELY TIMELY, AND THAT'S TO ESTABLISH COMMUNICATION METHODS LIKE 9 1 1, ET CETERA.
BUT YEAH, IT'S, UH, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE WORKING OUT AT THE COUNTY, ACTUALLY STATE LEVEL ON WHEN TO REALLY, AND WE'RE DOING A MUCH BETTER JOB ON, ON, ON WARNINGS AND WATCHES AND WHAT ZONES NOW THAT WE HAVE A NEW ZONING AREA.
SO IT'S, IT'S MUCH EASIER TO DO.
UH, BUT WE HAVE TO BE VERY, VERY CAUTIOUS ON WHEN WE DO THAT.
AND HOPEFULLY THE PUBLIC WILL BE WELL, UM, INFORMED PRIOR TO THAT POINT, OR THEY'LL AUTOMATICALLY HAVE, YOU KNOW, THAT INCREASED, UH, ALERTNESS TO WHAT MIGHT BE COMING.
SO, AND FINAL QUESTION TO THE CITY MANAGER.
SO JUST KIND OF IN ALL OF THIS, DO WE HAVE ALL OF THE FULL STAFFING AND THE BUDGET FOR ALL OF THIS PREPARATION? FOR THE PREPARATION? UM, I WOULD, YES, FOR, FOR THIS, I WOULD, I WOULD SAY PRESENTATION, UM, FOR THE PREPARATION, YES.
FOR RESPONSE TO AN ACTUALLY EVENT, IT'S GONNA DEPEND ON THE SCOPE OF THE EVENT.
THIS IS ONE OF THE CRITICAL REASONS WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE RESERVES.
AS, AS WALTER MENTIONED, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALREADY GOT, UH, EMERGENCY DECLARATION BY THE GOVERNOR.
UM, THERE'S HIGH LIKELIHOOD IF WE HAVE A MAJOR EVENT THAT WE'LL HAVE A FEDERAL, UM, EMERGENCY DECLARATION THAT WILL KICK IN, UM, THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REIMBURSEMENT THROUGH FEMA.
AND THAT'S WHERE IT'S EXTREMELY CRITICAL THAT WHEN WE STAND UP OUR EOC, WE HAVE PROPER STAFFING, TRAINED STAFFING, THAT OUR DOCUMENTATION
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IS PRECISE, THAT IS GOING TO BE THE KEY FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES.BUT WE FIRST HAVE, WE FIRST HAVE TO BE ABLE TO PAY FOR THE EXPENSES AND THEN GET REIMBURSED.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO HAVE THAT, UH, RESERVE BALANCE.
SENIOR MANAGER, IF I MAY ADD DOUG, UH, IF TO ADD TO THAT COMMENT THEN FROM THE CITY OF MANAGER.
SO TODAY I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH ONE OF OUR OES REGIONAL CHIEFS, AND WE HAVE DONE WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR THIS HEAT WAVE, RIGHT? SO WE PRE-POSITIONED EQUIPMENT AND PERSONNEL HERE IN THE COUNTY IN CASE THE FIRE BROKE OUT.
THOSE, THOSE, UH, THAT EQUIPMENT AND THOSE PERSONNEL ARE FUNDED BY THE STATE.
AND THAT OPPORTUNITY WILL ALSO EXIST FOR US DURING, UH, AS A RESULT OF GOVERNOR NEWSOM'S, UH, DECLARATION OF AN EMERGENCY FOR THE EL NINO.
SO IF WE DO AS, AS, AS OUR CITY MANAGER MENTIONED PROPER DOCUMENTATION AND TRAIN OUR FOLKS, WE WILL BE ABLE TO CAPTURE THOSE DOLLARS IF AND WHEN THE TIME IS NEEDED.
SO INSTEAD OF JUST RELYING INTERNALLY ON, SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, SAN DIEGO COUNTY FIRE AGENCIES TO RESPOND, WE CAN, UH, REACH OUT TO OES, THERE'LL BE A SCORING CRITERIA BASED ON WHAT IS FORECAST, AND THEN BE ABLE TO TAP INTO THOSE STATE DOLLARS TO BRING IN RESOURCES TO REALLY, UH, KEEP US FROM HAVING TO UP STAFF ADDITIONAL ENGINE COMPANIES OR RESCUE COMPANIES, WHICH AGAIN, WOULD BE DRAIN ON THE GENERAL FUND, RIGHT? SO WE WILL BE EXPLORING ALL THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL AS WHAT WALTER DOES WITH A, WITH GRANT FUNDING.
SO THERE ARE OPTIONS, UH, THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO US TO MINIMIZE THE FINANCIAL IMPACT.
AND CERTAINLY WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO BE SURE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO REALLY JUSTIFY THE NEED AND HAVE ALL THE PROPER DOCUMENTATION IN ORDER.
AND AS, UH, AS, AS OUR CITY MANAGER MENTIONED, THE THE DOCUMENTATION PIECE IS, IS CRITICAL FOR THAT.
AND WALTER, AGAIN, DOES A FANTASTIC JOB AND THAT AS WELL AS OUR OTHER CITY COHORTS THAT, UH, ARE, ARE WELL VERSED IN THIS.
SO HOPEFULLY THAT CAN ALSO ADDRESSES THE, THE FINANCIAL IMPACT PIECE.
UM, THANK YOU TO STAFF FOR, UM, THIS, UH, PREPAREDNESS PLAN.
UM, STAY INFORMED, BE PREPARED, STAY SAFE.
UM, APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT, UH, WE ARE MORE PROACTIVE IN, UH, MAKING SURE THAT WE MITIGATE THOSE, UM, THOSE SITUATIONS.
UM, AND ALSO WE ARE MORE, UM, ALERT IN, IN, UM, REACHING OUR OWN HOUSE WHO, UM, ARE LIVING IN THOSE CULVERTS TO INFORM THEM THAT THEY'RE, IT'S NOT SAFE FOR THEM TO STAY THERE.
UM, DURING THOSE TIMES, UM, WORKING WITH OUR, UM, WITH OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES, SOMETIMES OUR RESIDENTS CANNOT UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE TO WORK WITH CALTRANS TO BE ABLE TO, UM, TAKE CARE OF, OF THE SITUATION.
SO JUST APPRECIATE HOME TEAM AND, UH, PUBLIC WORKS, UM, ALWAYS, ALWAYS.
AND, AND OF COURSE, OUR, UH, PD FOR ALWAYS MAKING SURE THAT WE EDUCATE OUR, OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR RESIDENTS.
AND I ALSO, UH, WANTED TO SEE THIS OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
YOU SAID, MS. STEPHANIE, THIS IS GONNA GO OUT, UM, TO OUR COMMUNITY, SO THEN AT LEAST THEY HAVE THIS INFORMATION, THEY HAVE ALL THAT, THAT WE ARE PREPARING OURSELVES, UM, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, TO, TO MITIGATE ALL THIS, UM, EL NINO THAT, THAT ARE, THAT'S THREATENING US, LIKE RIGHT NOW.
WE'RE, WE WANTED JUST TO, UM, KEEP OUR RESIDENTS SAFE, BUT INFORMING THEM, UM, THE EDUCATION THAT WE PROVIDE THEM IS REALLY KEY, JUST LIKE WHAT YOU SAID TO HOW WE, UM, RELAY THIS INFORMATION TO THEM.
UH, THANK YOU TO STAFF FOR PREPARING.
I KNOW THAT IT'S BEEN A, IT'S BEEN A LOT OF WORK TO GET TO THIS POINT, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE AVOID 2024 AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND DO, UH, OUR DUE DILIGENCE AND ANTICIPATION.
I DO HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS REGARDING, UH, SOME OF THE PROCESSES MENTIONED.
SO, UM, UH, IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, ESPECIALLY IN A, IN A, UH, EMERGENCY SITUATION, COMMUNICATION IS CRITICAL.
UH, UM, AND SO I DID HEAR SOMETHING ABOUT THE LINES OF, UH, MAILING INDIVIDUALS.
UM, UH, I, I SUPPOSE A QUESTION I WOULD HAVE IS, UH, WHEN WE'RE MAILING FOLKS, ARE WE MAILING THEM IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES IN, IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, TAGALOG, SEEN AS THEY ARE THE DOMINANT LANGUAGES IN THE CITY? THE LETTER THAT WE ARE PREPARING WILL ACTUALLY GO OUT ONLY IN ENGLISH, BUT WE WILL HAVE A QR CODE THAT WILL MAKE THE VERSION AVAILABLE, UM, IN, IN SPANISH, AND, UM, PRIMARILY IN SPANISH.
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REALLY, THAT IS THE, THE SECOND LANGUAGE THAT WE HAVE TYPICALLY PROVIDED INFORMATION IN.UM, AND THAT'S, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, THE LETTER IS ONE LAYER, RIGHT? AND IT IS ONLY GOING TO ALL OF THE PARCELS THAT ARE WITHIN THOSE FEMA MAP, UH, 105, 500 YEAR STORM AREAS, RIGHT? THE MAJORITY OF THE INFORMATION IS REALLY GOING OUT THROUGH ALL THESE OTHER MEANS, THROUGH THE EVENTS, THE OUTREACH, THE SOCIAL MEDIA, THE WEBSITE, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
THE LETTER IS REALLY, UM, JUST ONE LAYER, AND IT'S VERY SPECIFIC TO PROPERTIES THAT ARE IN THOSE AREAS.
I, I UNDERSTAND, I, I DO FIND IT CRITICAL TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, GOING FORWARD WE INCLUDE ALL OF THE LANGUAGES.
THERE'S, UH, SO MANY PEOPLE WITHIN THE FLOOD ZONE THAT ARE MONOLINGUAL SPANISH SPEAKERS THAT I PERSONALLY DEALT WITH, SOME EVEN MONOLINGUAL TAGALOG SPEAKERS.
SO MAKING SURE THAT WE COMMUNICATE WITH OUR TAXPAYERS IS IMPORTANT IN, IN THEIR OWN NATIVE LANGUAGE.
UM, SO IF, IF, UH, ANY CHANGES COULD BE MADE, I THINK I WOULD RECOMMEND THOSE IN ANTICIPATION OF SENDING A MAIL PIECE, WHICH I UNDERSTAND IS VERY EXPENSIVE MM-HMM
SO, UM, TRYING TO HAVE IT IN MULTI-LANGUAGES I THINK IS CRITICAL.
HOW MANY PROPERTIES FALL UNDER THAT, UM, CATEGORY? BY THE WAY, DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA OF HOW MANY HOUSEHOLDS? UM, YES.
AND IT'S, I, I CAN'T SPEAK TO HOUSEHOLDS SPECIFICALLY.
AND SO I, I DON'T KNOW, SOME OF THEM MAY BE MULTIFAMILY PARCELS, ET CETERA.
SO I CANNOT SPEAK TO FAMILIES OR NUMBER OF POPULATION.
I CAN ONLY SPEAK TO PARCELS BECAUSE IT'S A MAPPING EXERCISE.
AND SO IT WAS APPROXIMATELY 450, UM, I HAD THE NOTES EARLIER, BUT, UM, IT'S A, IT'S, LET'S JUST SAY ABOUT 500 THAT ARE THE, IN THE 100 YEAR FLOOD ZONE, AND ABOUT ANOTHER 500 THAT ARE IN THE 500 YEAR FLOOD ZONE.
SO, SO AS, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE 100 YEAR IS, IS A HIGHER PROBABILITY EVENT.
A 500 YEAR FLOOD ZONE IS, YOU KNOW, AS YOU GO HIGHER, IT'S LESS LIKELY THAT PARCELS WILL FLOOD IN THAT NEXT, UM, SWATH OF LAND, BUT IT IS STILL MAPPED.
SO THE 100 AND THE 500 YEAR ADD UP TO ABOUT A THOUSAND PARCELS RIGHT? IN THE CITY.
UM, AND WHAT HAPPENS IN A PARCEL, UH, SO I'M THINKING OF LIKE SUMMER CREST APARTMENTS, WHICH WERE PARTLY FLOODED, THE, UH, PARK VILLA APARTMENTS, THE NORTH HIGHLAND APARTMENTS, THE HAPPY HOLLOW SITE, SOME OF THE KEYSTONE SITES, ARE THOSE CONSIDERED INDIVIDUAL PARCELS, OR HOW DO YOU, 'CAUSE THERE'S, YOU KNOW, IN SOME CASES THERE'S A HUNDRED UNITS, RIGHT? MM-HMM
MOBILE HOME PARK, THERE'S A HUNDRED UNITS.
OH, HOW DO WE KNOW HOW MANY HOUSEHOLDS ARE WITHIN THE PARCELS? WE DON'T KNOW.
THE, THE, THE HONEST ANSWER IS WE DON'T.
SO AGAIN, IT'S A MAPPING EXERCISE THAT WE CAN FOLLOW YEAH.
AND SAY IN THESE PARCELS, THIS IS THE ADDRESS THAT'S LISTED.
THE IDEA OR THE EXPECTATION IS THAT IF IT IS AN APARTMENT COMMUNITY, IT'S NOT GOING TO EVERY INDIVIDUAL AID, YOU KNOW, 80 APARTMENT UNITS, THAT IT'S GOING TO THE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY.
AND THAT THE INFORMATION GETS DISSEMINATED.
SO WE ONLY HAVE THE TOOLS THAT WE HAVE.
UM, AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE BROADER COMMUNICATION IS GONNA HAPPEN THROUGH THE INFORMATION, THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, AND, AND THAT, UM, MORE DEMOCRATIZED, UM, INFORMATION SHARING THAN, YOU KNOW, THE, THE LETTER IN THE MAIL THAT, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY SOME PEOPLE WON'T EVEN OPEN.
BUT WE, WE HOPE THAT THEY WILL.
AND I'LL ADD TO THAT COUNCIL MEMBER, SOMETHING THAT WE ALSO DISCUSSED IS USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO HAVE SOME PAID ADVERTISEMENT TO REACH SOME OF THOSE PUBLICS SPECIFICALLY IN THE FLOOD AREA.
UM, SO WE CAN GEO-FENCE PAID, UH, MESSAGING TO THOSE RESIDENTS AND THOSE BUSINESS OWNERS TO SHARE SOME OF THAT KEY MESSAGING TO THOSE PEOPLE IN, IN THOSE LOCATIONS AS WELL.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER IDEA THAT WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING.
UM, ASIDE FROM THAT PHYSICAL LETTER THAT THEY WOULD RECEIVE, I, I APPRECIATE IT.
UM, I LIKE TO ENCOURAGE US TO ALSO WORK WITH THE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANIES BECAUSE I CAN UNDER, I THINK SOME DO A VERY GOOD JOB OF DISSEMINATING INFORMATION AND SOME DON'T.
AND, AND UNFORTUNATELY WE HAD THE EXPERIENCE OF HAVING, UM, UH, ONE OR TWO COUNTERPRODUCTIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH MANAGEMENT THAT, UH, DID NOT MAKE THE SITUATION LIGHTER ON DOZENS AND DOZENS AND DOZENS OF FAMILIES.
SO I THINK, I THINK THEY NEED TO BE INCLUDED AS A PART OF THE SOLUTION IF WE'RE ONLY PROVIDING INFORMATION TO THEM, AT LEAST THAT IS BEING MAILED.
UM, AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE US TO TRY TO LOOK AT WAYS THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY MAIL TO EVERYBODY THAT LIVES THERE, RIGHT? I MEAN, WHICH KIND OF MAKES SENSE IF SOMEBODY'S HOUSE OR APARTMENT WAS FLOODED AND IT'S IN A PARCEL, OR THERE'S MULTIPLE PEOPLE GOT FLOODED, THINKING
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OF WAYS TO MAIL SOMETHING TO THEM INDIVIDUALLY, I THINK WOULD BE WISE.SO IT'S SOMETHING I WOULD ENCOURAGE US TO, TO LOOK AT AND SEE IF THERE'S A MECHANISM FOR US TO, TO DO THAT.
BUT I DO THINK IT'S VERY PROACTIVE AND IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING WE HADN'T DONE BEFORE.
SO, SO THANK YOU FOR THAT AND FOR THINKING ABOUT IT.
UM, THE OTHER PART, UM, DO WE HAVE A LIST OF INDIVIDUALS WHO EXPERIENCED FLOODING IN 2024 THROUGH THE CITY? THEY APPLY FOR COUNCIL RODRIGUEZ BENEFITS, RIGHT? UH, ANGEL DE PALMER, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.
UH, WE DO HAVE A LIST OF EVERYBODY.
UM, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY DID TRACK AND, UM, YOU KNOW, CONDUCT OUTREACH TO EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL AND NATIONAL CITY.
UM, AND THAT WOULD JUST BE RENTERS.
IT WOULDN'T BE, UH, AND SOME HOMEOWNERS, UH, WHO DID, UM, YOU KNOW, WANT ASSISTANCE AND THAT WOULD BE A GOOD AMOUNT.
UH, SO, UH, WE DO HAVE A LIST OF, UM, ALL OF THOSE, UH, RESIDENTS AND, UM, AND JUST, UH, TO COMMENT ON WHAT YOU WERE SAYING ABOUT OUTREACH, UH, TO ALL OF THE OWNERS IN THE FLOOD PLAIN ZONE, UM, AS WE WERE JUST SITTING HERE, AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO.
WE CAN MAIL ALL OF THE, UM, HOMEOWNERS IN THE FLOOD PLAIN ZONE.
WE, UM, CAN ACCESS, UH, A MAILING LIST.
UM, AND SO, UH, THAT'S SOMETHING WE WILL DO.
UH, WE HAVE A, UM, GRANT THAT WE CAN ACCESS, UM, IF WE, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST WORK TOGETHER, UM, TALKED ABOUT DURING MY PRESENTATION, JUST KIND OF LEVERAGING SOME FUNDS THAT WE HAVE IN KIND OF GETTING CREATIVE.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE WILL, WE WILL DO.
AND I WOULD ALSO, UM, ENCOURAGE US AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS TO, TO INVOLVE AS MUCH COMMUNITY AS POSSIBLE.
AND I UNDERSTAND SOME, UH, WONDERFUL COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT ARE HERE THAT WERE CRITICAL IN HELPING PEOPLE, UM, DURING THAT TIME AND, AND THEREAFTER AND HELPING FIX THEIR HOME.
SO I'M, I'M NOT TO POINT YOU OUT, I'M LOOKING AT YOU ANDREW, UH, BUT I UNDERSTAND COMMUNITY HAS ALSO HAD A SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS THAT ARE ALREADY ONGOING IT TO PREPARE WITH, UH, COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
AND, SORRY, I MISSED THE MEETING.
I THINK IT WAS SATURDAY, WAS IT SATURDAY? THE FIRST ONE? SATURDAY.
BUT THEY HAVE ONGOING MEETINGS, SO I ENCOURAGE US TO COLLABORATE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE ON THE GROUND DOING THE WORK AND HELPING, UH, COMMUNITY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
UM, AND, UH, AND LASTLY, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS ALSO, UM, POINTING TO THE RESERVE'S COMMENT.
UM, UH, I DON'T REMEMBER, UH, WHO MENTIONED THIS, BUT SOMEBODY AT SOME POINT MENTIONED DURING THE FLOODS IN 24, UH, ASKED ALL OF THE, UM, TENANTS TO JUST RECORD EVERYTHING, MAKE SURE TO TAKE PICTURES AND RECORD IT.
AND, AND ALL THAT WAS INSTRUMENTAL FOR PEOPLE TO ACTUALLY GET SUPPORT FROM FEMA.
AND, AND, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T KNOW WHO STARTED SPREADING THE WORD, BUT IT WAS SO IMPORTANT.
AND, AND I, YOU KNOW, I WAS, IT WAS HEARTBREAKING TO SPEAK TO PEOPLE AFTER THE FACT THAT DIDN'T RECORD ANYTHING AND, AND LOST ALL THEIR POSSESSIONS, BUT THEY COULDN'T PROVE IT.
AND, AND THAT WAS SUCH A KIND OF HEARTBREAKING MOMENT FOR SO MANY FAMILIES.
AND THEN THERE'S OTHER FAMILIES THAT REALLY JUST DOCUMENTED EVERYTHING THEY POSSIBLY COULD, AND THEY GOT REIMBURSED BY FEMA AS A RESULT.
AND SO, UH, IT WAS HELPFUL FOR THAT FAMILY, BUT ALSO IT WAS HELPFUL FOR US AS A CITY BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S A THRESHOLD WE NEEDED TO MEET AND, UH, YOU KNOW, ONCE THAT THRESHOLD, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THE FIGURE AMOUNT WAS, BUT YEAH, IT WAS BASED ON, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, UM, DAMAGE AMOUNT, THEN WE WOULD ACTUALLY BE ELIGIBLE FOR THOSE FUNDS.
AND SO IT WAS, IT WAS CRITICAL TO WORK WITH COMMUNITY, HAVE THAT INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH US, AND, AND THEN REALLY HAVE A TOTAL PRICE TAG OF THE DAMAGE THAT THIS COST.
AND, AND, AND ONLY THEN WOULD WE BE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE FEMA FUNDS.
SO HAVING THAT ONGOING DIALOGUE WITH COMMUNITY IS, IS CRITICAL.
AND IT'S WHY, UM, ENCOURAGE US TO WORK WITH OUR LOCAL NONPROFITS THAT ARE ALREADY DOING THIS WORK.
BUT, UM, UH, I UNDERSTAND OTHER CITIES THAT ARE ALSO DOING VERY SIMILAR THINGS AND HAVING SIMILAR PRESENTATIONS.
AND, UH, IT IS, IT IS, UM, VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.
AND, UH, IF THERE'S INDIVIDUALS WITHIN MY PARTICULAR COUNCIL DISTRICT, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THAT INFORMATION TO BE ABLE TO BE PROACTIVE AND REACH OUT TO THEM IN ANTICIPATION OF THIS.
UM, YOU KNOW, ANY POTENTIAL STORMS. UM, YOU KNOW, THE BEST WE COULD DO IS BE AS PREPARED AS POSSIBLE.
AND SO, UH, PLEASE LET US KNOW HOW WE CAN BE HELPFUL THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
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BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE WORK.THE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE LOOK BACK A LOT ON THE, UH, THE STORM OF JANUARY 24, AND THAT'S A CASE STUDY.
UM, AND I SAY THAT FROM A SIMPLE STANDPOINT.
UM, THE WHOLE THING WITH WEATHER AS, AS SCIENTIFIC AS WE ARE COMPARED TO SOMETIME IN THE PAST, UH, IS STILL VERY UNPREDICTABLE.
UM, IF I REMEMBER RIGHT, THE NIGHT BEFORE, WE WERE TOLD THAT THAT STORM WOULD BE UP TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAIN.
AND, UH, UH, WHAT, UH, WHAT NOBODY KNEW IS THAT THERE WAS GONNA BE A VERY NARROW BAND OF, OF, OF PARTICULAR WEATHER THAT WAS GONNA COME RIGHT ACROSS CORONADO, RIGHT ACROSS THE BAY, AND THEN RIGHT BETWEEN OUS CREEK AND NORTHERN NATIONAL CITY AND GO ON UP THROUGH THERE.
IF THAT WOULD'VE WENT UP, THE, THAT SAME NARROW BAND HAD WENT UP SWEETWATER VALLEY, IT WOULD'VE BEEN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FLOOD SITUATION.
IF WE HADN'T HAD A SEVEN FOOT HIGH TIDE AT THE SAME TIME, IT WOULD'VE BEEN A MUCH DIFFERENT SITUATION BECAUSE WE HAD MASSIVE FLOODING.
AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE MOMENT THE TIDE WENT DOWN, EVERYTHING FLUSHED RIGHT OUT.
WATER DIDN'T HAVE ANY PLACE TO GO.
PEOPLE WERE CLAIMING THE STORM DRAINS WERE PLUGGED UP AND EVERYTHING ELSE ON THE, THE WATER HAD NO PLACE TO GO 'CAUSE IT WAS SEVEN FOOT HIGH TIDE.
SO, I MEAN, EVERY, EVERY CONDITION'S GONNA BE DIFFERENT OR IT COULD HAVE BEEN INFECTING DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND, BUT A MORE LIKELIHOOD FROM WHAT THEY'VE SEEM TO BE SAYING IS THAT THIS IS GONNA BE MORE WIDESPREAD.
WE WON'T SEE A NECESSARILY A FREAK THING, KINDA LIKE WAS AT, BUT THIS WILL BE MORE WIDESPREAD.
SO JUST AS THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IS LOOKING AT PRE-STAGING EQUIPMENT, EVERYTHING ELSE, WE NEED TO DO THE SAME THING AS INDIVIDUALS WITH OUR HOUSEHOLDS.
UH, HOW MANY, I REMEMBER A FEW MONTHS AGO WHEN THE FIRST HEAT WAVE HIT, EVERYONE RAN DOWN TO WALMART TO GO GET A FANS.
IT WAS EMPTY SHELVES, THEY WERE GONE AND NOTHING FLAT.
'CAUSE EVERYONE WAITED AT THE LAST MINUTE TO GRAB 'EM.
SO WE NEED TO, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE'S A LOT, BEEN A LOT OF TALK ABOUT THIS, BUT IF WE WAIT UNTIL IT HAPPENS BEFORE WE START DOING ANYTHING, IT'S GONNA MAKE IT MUCH HARDER ON OUR RE UH, THE CITY RESOURCES AND OUR EMERGENCY RESOURCES TO TRY TO DEAL WITH ALL THIS THING.
IT'S, IT'S LIKE THE SAME THING.
I MEAN, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT WAS WHEN PEOPLE WERE TEXTING LIKE CRAZY AND PUTTING ON FACEBOOK, WHERE CAN WE GET SANDBAGS KIND OF LATE NOW,
UM, AND SO THE, UH, SO THAT'S ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS COMING UP ON THERE WAS THE 24TH, ISN'T IT? 24TH ALREADY GIVING ALREADY IN PREPARATION, GIVING OUT SANDBAGS.
SO WE'RE NOT WAITING UNTIL THE RAIN STARTS BEFORE YOU START DOING IT.
AND, UH, THAT WAY WE'RE PREPARED.
AND IF NOT, WE DON'T GET ANY RAIN.
IT AIN'T GONNA HURT ANYTHING, UH, TO BE PREPARED.
AND, UH, SO ANYWAY, UH, GREAT WORK FROM STAFF AND, UH, WE WILL SEE WHAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT THIS, THIS WINTER'S GONNA BRING US.
AND, UH, MAYOR, WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM.
CAESAR JAVIER, FOLLOWED BY CYNTHIA QUINONE, FOLLOWED BY OZZY.
OKAY, TWO MINUTES PREPARATION TIME.
WE MUST DECLARE THAT EL NINO HAS GROWN UP.
IT'S NOT ONLY ABOUT FLOODING, BUT THE NATURAL TREMOR UNDERNEATH THAT WOULD CAUSE THIS WETNESS.
AND IT'S COMING AND WE ARE IN DIRECT DIRECTION.
IN FACT, WE ARE ALSO DOING THE RIGHT THING.
WE'RE GOING AROUND WHERE TO ATE.
MR. JAVIER, PLEASE TALK INTO THE MICROPHONE.
I, I WAS CARRIED BY BEING A, A, A TEACHER.
SO, WHILE THE ANALYSIS FOR TWO MINUTES, WHERE IS THE COMMAND CENTER? CITY MANAGER, WILL YOU BE OUR LEADER? ARE WE ORGANIZED?
SPEAR HEADED, INCLUDING THE STOP.
ARE WE GOING TO THE TRIBAL WHERE IT IS ON HIGHER GROUND OR IN NATIONAL CITY CRITICAL STAGES.
BEFORE, DURING, AFTER ONE LIQUID.
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HELP OFFICE.HOW MUCH MONEY DO WE HAVE, SIR? HOW, HOW MUCH OR HOW MANY TROOPS THAT WE COULD DEPLOY IN CASE BASICALLY DURING, WILL YOU BE THERE, SIR? BUSH, THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT WITH YOU.
CYNTHIA ES FOLLOWED BY OZZY MENEZ, FOLLOWED BY JOANNE FIELDS.
GOOD EVENING MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY STAFF, AND ALL HERE TONIGHT, YOU KNOW ME, CYNTHIA FULLER ES NATIONAL CITY RESIDENT LANDLORD HEALTH ACTIVIST, AND NOW YOUR NEWEST PLANNING COMMISSIONER.
I'VE BEEN ACTIVE IN LOCAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE FOR NEARLY 19 YEARS FROM THE, UM, THE TWO 2007 WILDFIRES WHEN I WAS FEEDING SAN DIEGO HOUSEHOLDS EVACUATED TO QUALCOMM THROUGH THE JANUARY, 2024 FLOODS WITH NATIONAL CITY HOUSEHOLDS AND MORE SHELTERED IN HOTELS, UH, FOR MONTHS.
I KNOW FIRSTHAND THE IMPORTANCE OF OF PREPAREDNESS CRITICAL EFFECTIVE RESPONSE DOESN'T HAPPEN WELL WITHOUT THIS.
THE VITAL WORK NOW UNDERWAY BY WALTER AMITY AND OTHER CITY STAFF WITH YOUR APPROVAL IS ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT.
TOGETHER WITH THAT OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS LIKE OLIVE WOOD AND MUNDO GARDENS, UH, OPERATING AS THE SOUTH BAY RESPONSE TEAM.
ALSO KEY IS TIMELY ACCESS TO EMERGENCY FUNDS AND OTHER RESOURCES WHICH DEPEND ENTIRELY ON GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY DECLARATION.
AS WE COLLECTIVELY FACE THE RISK POSED TO OUR COMMUNITY BY THE SUPER EL NINO.
WHAT WE DO NOW WILL MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE.
I WANTED TO EXPRESS MY SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR THE SCHEDULING OF TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION AND ALL THE, AND, AND FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF ALL THE VITAL INTERDEPARTMENTAL WORK IT REPRESENTS.
I CERTAINLY HOPE YOUR SUPPORT WILL INCLUDE IMMEDIATE APPROVAL OF EMERGENCY DECLARATION, ENSURING NATIONAL CITY JOINS THE STATE, COUNTY, AND OTHER CITIES IN OUR REGION, DOING THEIR BEST TO BE READY FOR WHATEVER COMES IN THE MONTHS AHEAD.
WITH EL NINO ALREADY HERE, WE CAN'T WAIT.
PLEASE DO AN EMERGENCY OF, UH, DECLARATION APPROVAL, IF NOT TONIGHT AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY.
OZZIE MENEZ, FOLLOWED BY JOANNE FIELDS, FOLLOWED BY ED NIETO.
HELLO AGAIN, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
I WANNA SHARE WHAT MUNDO GARDENS AND OUR PARTNERS HAVE BEEN DOING ON THE GROUND.
WE HAVE BEEN ORGANIZING STORMWATER SATURDAYS WHERE VOLUNTEERS COME OUT AHEAD OF THE STORMS TO PICK UP DEBRIS AND TRASH BEFORE IT ENDS UP IN THE STORMWATER SYSTEM.
THIS IS WORK THE COMMUNITY IS ALREADY DOING, AND IT DIRECTLY REDUCES WHAT THE CITY HAS TO DEAL WITH WHEN THE RAINS COME.
WHAT WE WOULD WELCOME IS WORKING WITH THE CITY TO FOCUS THAT EFFORT WHERE IT MATTERS MOST ON THE HOTSPOTS THAT KEEP GETTING ILLEGALLY DUMPED ON OVER AND OVER.
LET'S SHARE INFO, STRATEGIZE AND WORK TOGETHER TO KEEP OUR COMMUNITIES CLEAN AND SAFE.
UM, THE PIECE WE WOULD ADD IS WHAT COMES AFTER OUR APPROACH IS BEAUTIFICATION.
BECAUSE A SITE THAT GETS CLEARED AND LEFT BARE GETS DUMPED ON AGAIN WITHIN WEEKS.
A SITE THAT GETS PLANTED, PAINTED, OR ACTIVATED HOLDS, THAT IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SITE BEING EMPTIED AND A SITE BEING CHANGED.
WE HAVE SEEN IT WORK AT MAT WITH DOCUMENTED REDUCTIONS ON IN ILLEGAL DUMPING AND IN THE PUBLIC HAULING COSTS THAT COMES WITH IT.
LET US PARTNER WITH THE CITY IN IDENTIFYING THOSE REPEAT HOTSPOTS, LINEUP OR VOLUNTEERS TO PICK UP DEBRIS AHEAD OF STORM SEASON TO BRING THE BEAUTIFICATION PIECE IN BEHIND THE CITY'S WORK SO THAT THE SITE HOLDS RATHER THAN FILLING BACK UP BEFORE THE NEXT STORM.
MUNDO GARDENS AND OUR PARTNERS ARE READY TO WORK ON THIS.
JOANNE FIELDS NIETO, FOLLOWED BY ANDREW B BENES.
I'M JOANNE FIELDS, GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR OF THE ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER INITIATIVE.
I APPRECIATE THE PROACTIVENESS AND THE PRESENTATION THAT WE RECEIVED, UM, FROM EACH OF THESE DEPARTMENTS, BUT I STILL DON'T FEEL, UM, CONFIDENT WHEN IT COMES TO OUTREACH OF REACHING OTHER COMMUNITIES THAT DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH AS THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE OR DON'T SPEAK SPANISH.
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YOU LOOK AT THE CENSUS NUMBERS, A THIRD OF YOUR COMMUNITY SPEAKS FILIPINO OR FILIPINO DESCENT.WE DON'T RUN TO SHELTERS RIGHT AWAY.
WE RUN TO OUR FAMILY AND NEIGHBORS FOR SHELTER.
I WAS PART OF THE SOUTHEAST EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM THAT AFTER WEEKS THAT THEY CANNOT HOLD THREE FAMILIES IN ONE HOUSE THAT HAS BEEN FLOODED.
WHERE DO WE GO? HOW DO, HOW DO WE MAKE A CLAIM? THERE WASN'T ANYONE ACTIVELY OUTREACHING IN OUR COMMUNITY.
THEY WERE THERE FOR THE FIRST DAY.
THEY MIGHT'VE BEEN THERE FOR THE FIRST WEEK, BUT MONTHS AFTER, THERE'S STILL PEOPLE TRYING TO PUT THEIR CLAIM IN.
SO I DO WANT TO ADVOCATE STRONGLY THAT FILIPINO IS NOT LEFT OUT, OTHER LANGUAGES IN THE COMMUNITY, DON'T GET LEFT OUT.
I WOULD ENCOURAGE OUR PIO TO LOOK AT HOW THE OUTREACH IN THE COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO IS CONDUCTED WITH THE REGISTRAR OF VOTERS AND LOOK AT THE LANGUAGES THERE TO SAY, JUST CLICK ON A WEBSITE ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH.
WHEN OUR COMMUNITY ISN'T ALL COMPUTER LITERATE, IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
WHEN I HEARD YOU SAY THAT, IT'S EXPENSIVE TO PRINT, THANK YOU COMMENT.
IT'S MORE EXPENSIVE TO TRY TO CLEAN UP A MESS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED.
ANDREW EZ, FOLLOWED BY SHERRY GOGI.
UH, JOANNE SAID WHAT I WANT TO SAY VERY WELL.
UM, I, I, BUT I WANNA COMPLIMENT, I COULD TELL YOU GUYS PUT A LOT OF, A LOT OF EFFORT IN THIS PLAN, THIS PRESENTATION AMONGST THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS.
BUT FROM THE STANDPOINT OF A CITIZEN WHO REMEMBERS THE 2024 DEBACLE THAT WE HAD, HANDLING THE SITUATION, COMING TO HERE, TO THE COUNCIL MEETINGS, AND NOT GETTING CLEAR ANSWER OF WHAT THE, WHAT CAN BE DONE, WHO'S RESPONSIBLE, WHO'S IN CHARGE, WHO'S THE VOICE, WHO TO TALK TO, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE THE THINGS I, I HOPE DON'T HAPPEN AGAIN.
BUT I CAN TELL YOU BASED ON THE PRESENTATION THAT WAS GIVEN HERE, IT WOULDN'T SURPRISE ME THOUGH.
I WANT YOU ALL TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME AND LOOK AT THIS.
LOOK, I'M SURPRISED YOU GUYS HAVEN'T TAKEN A LIST OF ALL THE BAD THINGS THAT HAPPENED AND DID A RISK ASSESSMENT TO MAKE SURE ALL THOSE ADDRESSES, ALL THOSE ISSUES WERE ADDRESSED FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE CITIZENS WHO HAD PROBLEMS AND COULDN'T GET ANSWERS AND GOT MISINFORMATION FROM THE SAME COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT WERE HERE.
I HOPE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.
ANDREW BEEZ, FOLLOWED BY SHERRY GOGI.
UH, VICE MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.
THANK YOU CITY STAFF FOR PREPARING OUR COMMUNITY FOR THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF EL NINO.
MY NAME'S ANDREW BEEZ, VICE CHAIR OF SAN DIEGO VOAD.
I WAS THE RESOURCE COORDINATOR FOR THE 2024 SAN DIEGO FLOOD DISASTER CASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR TWO YEARS.
I WANNA ENSURE THE COMMUNITY THAT SAN DIEGO VOAD IS HERE.
I APPRECIATE OUR PARTNERSHIP AND WE WILL, AND WE WILL BE PREPARED TO SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITIES IN THE EVENT OF A DISASTER.
ON BEHALF OF JANICE LUNA RENOSO, MUNDO GARDENS IS CONTINUED STORM WATER SATURDAY CLEANUPS THROUGHOUT NATIONAL CITY WITH A STARTING POINT AT, UH, MA ON THE CORNER OF PALM AVENUE DIVISION EVERY SATURDAY, THROUGHOUT OCTOBER.
THESE CLEANUPS WILL HELP BEAUTIFY OUR COMMUNITY AND GIVE RESIDENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO PARTICIPATE DIRECTLY IN PROTECTING OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS.
GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL STAFF.
FIRST OFF, I WANT TO THANK THE WALTERS REPORT AND THE CITY STAFF AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, POLICE DEPARTMENT.
I WAS ONE OF THOSE FLOOD VICTIMS. WE LOST EVERYTHING WE HAVE.
AND NOT TO BELITTLE REPORT 'CAUSE I'M NOT DOING THAT, BUT IT'S REALLY HARD TO PREPARE FOR THIS.
THERE'S NO REPAIRING, SO WE'RE HOPING TO DO THINGS.
ONE THING IS FIVE SAND PACKS WOULDN'T HAVE DONE NOTHING FOR MY HOME OR MOST ANYBODY ELSE'S.
AND THE SAND WAS, WE RAN OUTTA SAND A COUPLE TIMES WHEN WE NEED TO GET SANDBAGS.
SO YOU NEED TO REALLY WORK ON THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE 'CAUSE YOU'RE GONNA NEED MORE SAND.
UM, WE ACTUALLY HAD TO GO TO SPRING VALLEY AND A FRIEND OF OURS GOT
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US SOME BAGS FOR ANOTHER RAIN THING WE HAD OVER THERE.BUT THAT BEING SAID, THE GRATE THAT YOU HAVE ON PLAZA AND PARADISE VALLEY ROAD PAST MY HOUSE A LITTLE BIT, THERE'S A, THERE'S A, UM, VACANT LOT THERE THAT THEY WERE USING IT FOR SOMETHING ELSE.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT CITY PROPERTY OR NATIONAL CITY OR SAN DIEGO, BUT NOW IT'S GETTING A LOT OF TRASH.
WE NEED TO GET THAT 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT CAME TO BLOCK OUR GRATE THAT YOU REMOVED.
BUT THERE'S STILL ANOTHER GRATE, WHICH IS ONLY 50 YARDS FROM MY HOUSE THAT NEEDS TO BE REMOVED BECAUSE THAT GRATES NEVER RAISED AND ALL THAT TRASH NEEDS TO GO.
SO IF YOU CAN LOOK INTO THAT, I'D APPRECIATE THAT.
WE HAVE ONE COMMENT ON ZOOM, ICA WESTIN.
UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE, UH, PRESENTATION, UH, ESTEEMED CITY COUNCIL AS WELL AS, UH, UH, MAYOR AND STAFF.
UM, I REMEMBER THOSE BARBARIC RINGS AND YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW WHAT WE'RE SEEING HAS A LOT TO DO WITH OUR NEGLECT OF THE, UH, ENVIRONMENT.
UM, I, I'VE HEARD, I'M EXCITED TO KNOW AND SAY THAT I WILL BE VOTING THIS GENERAL, UM, ELECTION IN NATIONAL CITY.
UH, I DEFINITELY FEEL THAT WE COULD GET A STRONG VOLUNTEER BASE IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT THE LANGUAGE, UH, BARRIERS THAT ARE NECESSARY ARE ADDRESSED.
UM, HAVING WALKED NATIONAL CITY FOR, UH, DAVID ALVAREZ THREE TIMES, AND, UM, BEING IN THAT AREA ALSO, UH, MARCUS BUSH AND ALSO CARING ABOUT THE COMMUNITY DEEPLY, YES, I WAS VERY, UH, ENCHANTED TO FIND OUT THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY IS VERY, UH, STRONG AND CONNECTED AND BEING ABLE TO USE, AND I HOPE I SAY THIS CORRECTLY, TAL UH, IS A VITAL LANGUAGE SINCE THAT IS A VERY PRESENT LANGUAGE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, AND CAN I SUGGEST POSSIBLY IF MAYBE, UH, THERE'S A VOLUNTEER BASE THAT WE COULD GO AHEAD AND CALL AND GET MORE SANDBAGS SO PEOPLE CAN BE MORE PREPARED AND FEEL THAT THEY'RE SAFE.
BECAUSE WHEN THOSE FLOODS COME IN OR THAT HEAT COMES IN, I KNOW MORE THAN ANYBODY WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LOSE SOMETHING, UM, LOSE SOMEBODY YOU CARE ABOUT.
UH, SO I, I WOULD REALLY LOVE TO HELP IN THAT EFFORT.
UH, SO PLEASE TAKE MY NAME DOWN TO HELP IF NE IF, IF I CAN, IF I'M ALLOWED.
YES, MAYOR, THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT.
[8. REGIONAL BOARDS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS]
NEXT WE WILL BE GOING ON TO OUR, UH, REGIONAL BOARDS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS.I'LL START DOWN HERE ON MY LEFT.
I DO HAVE A REPORT FROM SANDAG.
UM, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS LAST MET ON SEPTEMBER 25TH, AND WE TALKED ABOUT SEVERAL ITEMS. THE ONE THAT I'LL SPEAK OF TODAY IS THE EXPRESS SYSTEM UPDATES THAT WE RECEIVED.
UM, THE EXPRESS SYSTEM, OF COURSE, IS A NETWORK OF HIGHWAYS, INCLUDING THE FIVE AND THE 8 0 5 LOCALLY.
UM, THE EXPRESS SYSTEM INCLUDES MANAGED LANES, TRADITIONAL, UH, HOV LANES, WHICH ARE HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANES, TOLL ROADS, EXPRESS LANES, TRANSIT LANES.
UM, AND WE SPOKE ABOUT HOW WE ARE MODERNIZING THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TECHNOLOGY THAT IS AVAILABLE TODAY.
SO, UH, BRIEFLY I WILL MENTION THERE ARE 12 PROJECTS THAT ARE A PART OF THIS MODERNIZATION.
UM, AND THEY ARE FROM A VARIETY OF STAGES FROM DESIGN TO COMPLETION.
THE PROJECT LOCALLY THAT IS FULLY FUNDED FOR CONSTRUCTION IN FALL OF 2027 NEXT YEAR IS THE 8 0 5 SOUTH SEGMENT, WHICH WILL CONVERT 11.5 MILES OF EXISTING HOV LANES TO EXPRESS LANES ALONG THE I 8 0 5 BETWEEN PALOMAR TO MARKET STREET.
AND IT IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION IN WINTER OF 2028 AND BE COMPLETED FALL OF 2031.
SO IF YOU ARE A TRAVELER ON THE 8 0 5, YOU WILL NOTE, UM, THE CONSTRUCTION THAT IS HAPPENING.
I WANNA REITERATE, THIS IS NOT HIGHWAY EXPANSION.
THEY'RE NOT MAKING THE, THE FOOTPRINT OF THE HIGHWAY OR THE FREEWAY LARGER.
THEY ARE, UH, CONVERTING EXISTING LANES TO LANES THAT WILL BE USED IN A MORE EFFICIENT WAY.
AND I HAVE, UM, A TON OF NOTES.
I LOVE THIS STUFF, UM, ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN HOV LANE AND AN EXPRESS LANE.
I WON'T TAKE THE TIME TO BELABOR IT HERE, BUT IT IS VERY INTERESTING.
SO LET ME KNOW IF YOU'D LIKE SOME MORE INFORMATION.
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ALRIGHT.YES, REAL QUICKLY, A REPORT FROM, UH, REGIONAL SALT WASTE ASSOCIATION.
AND I WILL SAY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT REPORT, WHEN I HAD TO DRIVE UP TO ESCONDIDO FOR THAT MEETING LAST THURSDAY MORNING, AND I WAS STUCK IN TRAFFIC GOING ALL UP THE 15 AND THE HOV LANE WAS RIGHT NEXT TO ME, AND IT WAS MOVING REALLY WELL WITH ALL THOSE PEOPLE, THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONLY ONE PERSON IN THE VEHICLE AND IT WASN'T AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE.
SO, WELL, MAYOR, THAT'S ACTUALLY THE POINT TO THE EXPRESS LANE IS, UM, CHANGING THE PATTERNS THAT PEOPLE EXPECT ON AN HOV LANE TO AN EXPRESS LANE AND TAKING CARE OF THAT PROBLEM.
I I JUST WANT TO GET A LITTLE FLASHLIGHT WITH A RED LIGHT AND THAT I COULD BLINK AND MAKE IT, MAKE 'EM THINK THEY WERE GETTING PULLED OVER, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER,
BUT ANYWAY, UH, BUT, UH, WE DID HAVE OUR, OUR, UH, QUARTERLY MEETING UP AT, UH, ESCONDIDO ON, UH, LAST THURSDAY.
AND BASICALLY WHAT WE DEALT WITH WAS, UH, SB 1383, WHICH IS THE, UH, OH, UH, ORGANIC WASTE.
AND, UH, YEAH, I'VE SEEN MARTHA THERE SHAKING, YOU KNOW, NODDING HER HEAD AND, UH, UH, AND, YOU KNOW, ALL THE THINGS GOING ON THAT BECAUSE AS I SAY, THE STATE IS MAKING ALL KIND OF REQUIREMENTS ON ALL OF OUR PROVIDERS, NOT ONLY HOUSEHOLD WITH HOUSEHOLD, UH, UH, YARD WASTE AND ALSO YOUR FOOD WASTE, BUT ALL OF THE GROCERY STORES AND THE RESTAURANTS AND, YOU KNOW, YOU NAME IT, UH, GOING, GOING RIGHT ON THE LIST OF ALL OF THE, THE WASTE THAT CAN BE USED IN SOME CASES, REUSABLE FOOD ALSO.
AND, UH, CATEGORY CATEGORIZING, ALL THAT.
SO THEY'RE GETTING A LOT MORE STRICT ON THAT, TRYING TO KEEP ALL THAT STUFF OUT OF THE LANDFILL.
AND REMEMBER IN OUR CASE HERE IN SAN DIEGO, WE'RE KIND OF UNIQUE IN THIS SAN DIEGO REGION AND THROUGH RISA IS THAT ALL THE ORGANIC WASTE AND YARD WASTE THAT IS NOT REUSABLE, IT GOES INTO BIO DIGESTERS.
IT DOESN'T GO TO THE LANDFILL, AND IT COMES OUT IN TWO FORMS. IT COMES OUT IN EITHER METHANE GAS AND ARE, UH, ALL OF OUR TRASH TRUCKS, THAT'S HOW THEY'RE RUNNING IS ON THAT GAS.
AND SO IT'S BEING REUSED AND THE REMAINDER OF IT IS FERTILIZER.
AND SO IT KEEPS IT OUTTA THE LANDFILL AND GETS AND JUST, AND, AND DOES A REUSE OF IT.
UM, SO THAT WAS, UH, ON THAT, UH, IT WAS ALSO MY LAST MEETING WITH RISA.
AND SINCE WE WILL NOT HAVE ANOTHER ONE UNTIL, UH, JANUARY, AND, UH, SO I WILL BE OFF RISA AT THAT POINT.
AND SO THIS WAS, UH, I WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF RISA.
UH, AT THAT TIME IT WAS CALLED, UH, SWA AND THEN NOW IT WENT OUR SWA AND UH, UM, BUT THAT WAS BACK IN 93.
SO, UH, UH, 33 YEARS ON, ON THAT BOARD AND, UH, PROVIDING LEADERSHIP AT THAT BOARD FOR THAT TIME.
AND SO IT WAS, UH, UH, KINDA INTERESTING FIND BEING ON THE, THE, GOING FROM THE BEGINNING UNTIL, UNTIL THIS POINT.
AND, UH, THEY DID HOLD A, A, A LUNCHEON FOR ME AFTERWARDS AND EVERYTHING.
MAYOR, WE HAVE ONE COMMENT FROM CAESAR JAVIER ON THIS ITEM, ALTHOUGH I'M NOT SURE IF HE'S STILL HERE.
AND, UH, I THINK SHE'S GONNA LOOK TO SEE IF HE'S OUT THERE IN THE HALLWAY.
[9. CONSENT CALENDAR]
GONNA GO INTO CONSENT CALENDAR.WE'RE GONNA DO A LITTLE DIFFERENT NIGHT.
THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT WAYS TO DO CONSENT CALENDAR, BUT SINCE TONIGHT WE'VE GOT, UH, PEOPLE PULLING ON EVERY ITEM ON CONSENT CALENDAR.
SO WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO, WE'RE GONNA GO DOWN EACH ONE OF THEM AND LET EVERYBODY COME UP AND SPEAK TO THEIR ITEM.
THEN AT THE END, THEN, IF THE COUNSEL WANTS TO PULL ANY ONE OF THOSE ITEMS, THEY CAN PULL IT AFTER WE'VE HEARD EVERYBODY SPEAK.
OKAY? SO IT'S GONNA BE A LITTLE, LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
SO WITH THAT, UH, WE'LL LET YOU START OUT WITH, UH, 9.1.
I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE'S SPEAKING ON THAT ONE OR NOT
OKAY, WELL, WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT ONE THEN.
BE YOU HAD A SPEAKERS FOR EVERY, IF EVERY NUMBER, BUT, OKAY.
FOR 9 0 5 IS FOR THE, IS FOR THE, FOR THE LAWYERS.
A NEW THING FOR LIEBERT, CASSIDY AND WHITMORE.
UH, FOR, IT'S GOING FROM 250,000 TO 300,000.
THE ASSOCIATES GET 300, $310 AN HOUR, AND THE PARALEGALS GET $185 AN HOUR.
AND THIS IS SIMILAR TO THE ONE SEPTEMBER 1ST MEETING FOR BURKE WILLIAMS AND STEVENSON, 250,000 MAXIMUM, WHERE THIS IS 300,000.
AND THEIR ASSOCIATES GET 3 55.
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1 78.UH, SO I, THIS IS THE, THIS IS THE AMBULANCES.
UH, THIS IS A QUITE A, THIS IS QUITE OF A, QUITE A, A LARGE EXPENSE.
AND IT'S FOR FIVE AMBULANCES AND SOMETHING, THE BID WAS WAIVED FOR $1,400,000.
AND IT'S GOING TO BROWN, NORTH BROWN NORTHWEST INCORPORATED.
AND SHANNON, WILLIS, WASHINGTON.
AND THE CORRESPONDENCE IS JAMIE JEREMY DAY.
THAT'S ON THE, THAT'S ON THE THING.
WHAT MAKE ARE THE AMBULANCES FORD RAM GMC, OR FREIGHT LINER? AND THE NEXT THING I ASK, THE NEXT QUESTION I ASK, THE NEXT QUESTION I ASK ARE THE GAS, DIESEL, OR ELECTRIC? BECAUSE THE, THE PRICE, THE PRICE LIST.
THE PRICE LIST START AT HONEY 1000 AND GO TO 400, 450 5,000 FOR BRA BRAWN NORTHWEST INCORPORATED.
AND THEY NOT ONLY MAKE, THEY MAKE PRISON TRANSPORT VEHICLES, AND SOME OF YOU PEOPLE MIGHT BE IN THEM.
UH, MAYOR, ACTUALLY, THE REMAINING COMMENTS ARE THOMAS REICH.
NINE POINT 12 MR. DO YOU PRACTICE THOSE OR DO THEY JUST COME NATURALLY? THOSE ONE LINERS.
DO THOSE COME NATURALLY TO YOU OR DO YOU PRACTICE THEM? I CAN'T HEAR YOU.
I, I CAN'T HEAR YOU DO WHAT DO ZINGERS DID YOU IT'S ON, IT'S ON MARCHES.
THEY DIDN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION.
WHERE ARE THEY FORD OR THEY ARE THEY, ARE THEY FORD, FORD, FORD, FORD, FORD.
ARE THEY DIESEL? THEY'RE DIESEL, GAS, GAS, GAS, GAS.
MR. WRIGHT, YOU CAN COME BACK UP NOW, YOU CAN GET INTO YOUR OTHER ITEMS. WHICH ARE THE, UH, THE WARRANT, THE WARRANTS? YES.
FOR THE WARRANT REGISTERS, YES.
AND I CAN GET RID OF THEM IN THREE MINUTES.
UH, FOR REGISTER FIVE, THE GARLAND COMPANY ROOFING FOR THE MARTIN LUTHER.
MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTERS 226,000.
THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA RECEIVED 126,000 FOR ANIMAL CARE.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK RECEIVED 3,351,000 FOR RDA TAP.
THE CITY ATTORNEY, THE CIVIC LAW GROUPS, RECEIVED 62,000 CHEN RYAN ASSOCIATES FOR THE BAY SHARE PARKWAY.
THE PAYROLL FOR, FOR FORT ING WAS 1,903,000.
THE AP GENERAL CORPORATION RECEIVED $350,000 FOR LAS PALMAS POOL IMPROVEMENT, ADMINISTER ADMINISTER WORKERS' COMP WORKERS' WORK, SHERE CONFERENCES, AND ACCOUNT REPLENISHMENT.
173,000 CITY ATTORNEY LEGAL SERVICES, 48,000 MAINTENANCE FOR THE KIMBALL PARK KIMBALL HOUSE MUSEUM.
$5,000 FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES PROJECT PROFESSIONAL RECEIVED 179,000 FOR 10 ITEMS, MOSTLY FOR THE SEWERS.
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IT, IT, UH, IT HAD A $91,000 EXPENSES ENGINE ENGINEERING PUBLIC WORKS FOR THE ENTERPRISE FLEET MANAGEMENT, $30,000 FINANCE.THE BANK OF CALIFORNIA GOLD BONDS OBLIGATION REFUNDINGS 370,000, SECTION EIGHT PAYMENTS, 1,457,000 FLOCK SENTRA, 272,000 FOR FLOCK YEAR.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PPE TRAFFIC COAT PAINTS, CLEANING PANTS, CLEANING FOR FIRE, POLICE ACCIDENT ENTERPRISE TASER, BATTERY PACK, $3,700.
UH, THE POLICE, A-R-G-I-S-E-S-O-N FISCAL YEAR 27 27, 890 5,000.
I MEAN, THAT'S SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE POLICE.
UM, AND MR. REC THERE ONE MORE.
MY EXPERIENCE WITH COMPUTERS, THEY'RE NOT EASY TO USE.
THEY, THEY SHOULD, THEY SHOULD BE PAID ON SUCCESSFUL COMPLETIONS, NOT ATTEMPTS FOR 20,000, 40 FOR 29,000.
YOU GET ALL THE DATA YOU WANT, BUT NOT WHAT YOU NEED
THEY OFFER A WRITTEN COMMENT IN THIS COMPUTER WRITTEN COMMENT.
NOW, WILL YOU NEED A PASSWORD OR YOUR PRIVACY STATEMENT WHERE YOU HAVE COOKIES? I THINK COMPUTERS ARE RIGGED FOR SOME REASON.
THE COMPANY WANTS EXPENSE, KEEPS, WANTS TO KEEP THE EXPENSES LOW.
SO MAKE IT SO, MAKE IT, MAKE IT TROUBLESOME FOR THE OPERATOR AND TIME CONSUMING TO COMPLETE THE TASK.
THROUGH MAYOR, THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT.
THAT IS ALL THE COMMENTS THAT WE HAVE ON THE, UH, CONSENT CALENDAR.
UH, ANY ITEMS THAT, UH, COUNSEL WANTS TO HAVE PULLED.
OTHERWISE, WE'LL CONSIDER IT AS CONSENT.
YOU SAID 9, 3, 6, 7, AND EIGHT.
I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE REMAINING, THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS. I SECOND THAT.
COULD YOU, YOU PUSH YOUR BUTTON.
SHOULD PUSH IT ON YOUR BUTTONS.
SO YOU KNOW THE DISCUSSION, PLEASE VOTE.
MOTION TO APPROVE UNANIMOUSLY.
[9.3 Amending a Restricted Grant Agreement with the State of California Department of Transportation for the Clean California Local Grant Program for the National City Eastside I-805 Community Greenbelt Project CIP No. 22-09.]
9.3.MR. MAYOR, JUST WANTED TO COMMENCE STAFF FOR THIS, UM, ALMOST COMPLETED PROJECT.
UM, THE, UH, NATIONAL CITY EAST SIDE IO 8 0 5 COMMUNITY GREENBELT PROJECT.
UM, THIS IS THE PROJECT THAT, UH, WAS IMPLEMENTED THAT HAS IMPLEMENTED A GREENBELT CONNECTING THE NEIGHBORHOODS ON THE EAST SIDE OF INTERSTATE 8 0 5 NORTH OF DIVISION STREET TO ALTOON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, RANCHO DEION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, EL TOON PARK, AND LOCAL SHOPPING CENTERS.
PROJECT IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDE NEW PAID PATHS FOR BIKE AND PEDESTRIANS, TRAFFIC, CALMING MEASURES, LIGHTNING LIGHTING, LANDSCAPING FENCING, EDUCATIONAL SIGNAGE, AND A PEDESTRIAN PLAZA WITH THE PUBLIC ART ELEMENT OF THE, OF THE, ON THE CORNER OF EUCLID AVENUE AND PLAZA BOULEVARD.
PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE FILIPINO AMERICAN HERITAGE IN NATIONAL CITY.
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK PUBLIC WORKS, UM, DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC WORKS FOR THEIR PARTNERSHIP WITH CALTRAN AND, UH, CLEAN CALIFORNIA GRANT THAT HAD PROVIDED US, UM, THAT GRANT TO ACCOMPLISH, UM, THIS, UH, ELON PARK THAT IS NOW BEING ENJOYED BY OUR COMMUNITY IN THE EAST SIDE.
AND IF YOU WILL LOOK AT THE BACKGROUND, ONLY $20,000 OF IN KIND WAS USED BY OUR PUBLIC WORKS AND ENGINEERING TO, UM, ALMOST COMPLETE THIS PROJECT.
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CHAIR.[9.6 Notice of Decision – Planning Commission Decision of a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) and Tentative Parcel Map (TPM) to convert a four-unit housing development to condominiums located at 327-333 Laurel Avenue.]
OKAY.THIS IS NO DECISION PLANNING COMMISSION DECISION ON CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.
TENTATIVE MAP, UH, CONVERTING A FOUR UNIT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT INTO CONDOMINIUMS. MR. CHAIRMAN, I JUST WOULD LIKE TO COMMEND THIS PROJECT, UH, FOR HOME OWNERSHIP.
UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS BUILDER THAT IS REALLY EMBRACING HOME OWNERSHIP.
THAT'S OUR PROGRAM IN OUR CITY.
AND WITH THAT MR. CHAIR, I SO MOVE.
SEEING NO OTHER DISCUSSION, PLEASE VOTE.
MOTION TO APPROVE UNANIMOUSLY.
[9.7 Notice of Decision – Planning Commission Decision of a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) and Coastal Development Permit (CDP) for Auto Body Repair and Paint (Caliber Collision Center) to be Located at 402 West 35th Street, Suites A & C.]
NEXT WE HAVE 9.7 NOTICE OF DECISION PLANNING COMMISSION DECISION CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT, COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT FOR AN AUTO BODY REPAIR AND PAINT.THAT'S CALIBER COLLISION CENTER.
MR. CHAIR, I KNOW THAT, THAT THIS HAS BEEN DILIGENTLY STUDIED BY OUR PLANNING, UM, AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, UM, DEPARTMENT, BUT I JUST, I JUST HAD A MEMORY AND I KNOW THAT I SAID TO C-M-N-C-A THAT I'M NOT GONNA PULL ANYTHING, BUT IT, IT REMINDED ME WHEN IT COMES TO THE AMORTIZATION IN THE WEST SIDE.
SO I JUST WANTED THAT RECORDED.
SO THEN WE, WE HAVE NO, UM, WE'RE ALL CLEAR WITH THIS PROJECT.
IF YOU, YEAH, I CAN ADDRESS, UH, YOUR CONCERNS.
SO, MOST OF THE CONCERNS WITH AMORTIZATION ARE TO DO WITH THE WEST SIDE SPECIFIC PLAN AREA, WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY BETWEEN I FIVE AND WHERE WE ARE NOW.
THE EXISTING CALIBER COLLISION IS IN THE INDUSTRIAL ZONE ON THE WEST SIDE OF FIVE, WHICH IT IS ALLOWED USE IN THAT ZONE WITH A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.
HOWEVER, THIS PARTICULAR ONE IS GOING TO CLOSE AND RELOCATE COMPLETELY TO 35TH STREET, WHICH IS SOUTH OF THE SWEETWATER RIVER, UH, ALSO WEST OF, OF THE FIVE IN A PREDOMINANTLY HEAVY COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL AREA.
SO WE HAVE AN MOTION AND A SECOND FURTHER DISCUSSION.
MOTION TO APPROVE UNANIMOUSLY.
[9.8 Notice of Decision – Planning Commission Decision of a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) for Off- Sale Beer, Wine, and Distilled Spirits at a Convenience Store Located at 2945 Highland Avenue.]
NOTICE DECISION PLANNING, COMMISSION DECISION OF CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT OFF SALE, BEER, WINE, AND DE SILL.IS THAT A, A CONVENIENCE STORE LOCATED? 29.
I KNOW THIS IS ANOTHER THING THAT HAS BEEN DILIGENTLY DONE, BUT THIS IS ACROSS THE SCHOOL AND WE HAVE, I WANTED IT RECORDED AS WELL THAT THIS IS NOT 600 FEET FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL.
UH, IF YOU'D LIKE ME TO ADJUST, THE 660 FOOT 660 FEET IS IN THE, IS IN THE CODE IN GENERAL RELATED TO, UH, FACILITIES THAT SELL ALCOHOL.
IF IT'S A PRIMARY USE THAT SELLS ALCOHOL LIKE A LIQUOR STORE THAT ONLY, OR A CRAFT BEER STORE, ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
IT MUST BE 660 FEET FROM A, UH, AT LEAST THAT FROM A, A SCHOOL, A PUBLIC SCHOOL.
IF IT IS AN ANCILLARY USE, SUCH AS A MARKET IN THIS CASE, WHICH IS ACCESSORY TO A GAS STATION, OR FOR EXAMPLE, A RESTAURANT THAT SELLS ALCOHOL.
THOSE TYPES OF THINGS MAY BE WITHIN 660 FEET WITH A, WITH AN APPROVED CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.
SO WITH THAT CLARIFICATION, MR. CHAIR, I, I SO MOVE 9.8.
MAYOR, BEFORE YOU MAKE, UH, BEFORE YOU MAKE THE, SORRY, FINISH THE MOTION.
THERE'S PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM IF IT WERE PULLED.
WELL WE HAVE, WE CAN STILL DO THE PUBLIC.
YOU HAVE A MOTION? DO WE HAVE A SECOND ON THE MOTION? SECOND.
WE CALL IT THE PUBLIC COMMENT.
SO, OH, CAN WE PUT, PUT YOUR BUTTONS BACK IN? WE'RE NOT, WE CAN'T.
SO, OF OTHER COMMENTS, PLEASE VOTE.
UH, THAT FINISHES US OFF WITH, UH, THE CONSENT CALENDAR THEN.
[10.1 Public Hearing (Second Reading): Ordinance for Adoption – Industrial Wastewater Pretreatment per Metropolitan Sewerage System Administrative Agreement No. 1.]
WE GO TO TWO CON, UH, CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARINGS.UH, THESE ARE BASICALLY ADMINISTRATIVE, UH, PUBLIC HEARING.
UH, NINE POINT, UH, 10.1 IS THE SECOND READING IT'S ORDINANCE FOR ADOPTION INDUSTRIAL, UH, WASTEWATER PRE-TREATMENT, UH, PER MINITER, UH, METROPOLITAN SEWAGE SYSTEM, ADMINISTRATIVE AGREEMENT NUMBER ONE.
I'LL GET THAT ALL THAT SENTENCE OUT THERE IN A MOMENT.
AND, UH, I DUNNO IF THERE'S ANYTHING ADDITIONAL FROM STAFF.
THERE IS NOTHING ADDITIONAL, BUT HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU
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MAY HAVE.WITH THAT, UH, I WILL, UH, OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
DO WE HAVE ANY SPEAKERS ON THIS ITEM? NO, THERE ARE NONE.
MAYOR, I MAKE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
UM, SO YOU, NO DISCUSSION, PLEASE VOTE.
MOTION TO APPROVE UNANIMOUSLY.
WHAT IS YOUR PLEASURE, MAYOR? I MAKE A MOTION TO, UH, ADOPT THE ORDINANCE AS LISTED IN OUR AGENDA ITEM.
WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
[10.2 Public Hearing – Amendment of Chapter 10.70 (Police Regulated Businesses) and 10.79 (Massage Establishments) of the National City Municipal Code Related to Massage Establishments.]
NEXT WE GO TO, UH, 10.2.THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING, UH, AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER, UH, 10.70 POLICE, UH, REGULATED BUSINESSES, AND 10.79 MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENTS OF THE NATIONAL CITY MUNICIPAL CODE RELATED TO MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENTS.
ANYTHING EXTRA ON THIS ONE? I KNOW WE'VE HEARD ABOUT THIS ONE.
WITH THAT, I WOULD OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
DO WE HAVE ANYONE SPEAKING ON THIS ITEM? THERE ARE NONE.
MAYOR, I MAKE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
SECOND THAT MR. CHAIR, HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
MOTION TO APPROVE A UNANIMOUSLY.
UM, THE NEXT, WHAT IS YOUR PLEASURE, MAYOR? I MAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE ORDINANCE AS STATED IN OUR STAFF REPORT.
DO WE HAVE A SECOND? I SECOND THAT.
[11. CITY MANAGER’S REPORT]
NEXT WE GO ON TO CITY MANAGER'S REPORT.UH, JUST A CO COUPLE ITEMS. UH, MR. MAYOR.
UM, FIRST, I, I DID ATTEND THE, UH, LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES, UH, CONFERENCE, UM, A WEEK AND A HALF AGO NOW, UH, IN ANAHEIM.
UH, WELL AT THE CONFERENCE, I, I ATTENDED THE SAN DIEGO IMPERIAL COUNTY DIVISION LUNCHEON.
UH, THE OPENING GENERAL SESSION, UH, SESSIONS ON CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE, UH, INITIATIVES TO ATTRACT AND SUPPORT BUSINESSES.
GLASSES ARE FOGGING, UH, STRENGTHENING, UH, SYSTEMS USING DATA AND, UH, DELIVERY, DELIVERING EFFECTIVE SERVICES WITH LIMITED RESOURCES, REVITALIZING DOWNTOWNS.
AND THEN, UH, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AS THE CITY'S VOTING DELEGATE.
UM, JUST A, A BIT OF INFORMATION ON, ON SERVING AS THE CITY'S VOTING DELEGATE.
IN ORDER TO, UM, HAVE A QUORUM, UH, TO VOTE ON THE RESOLUTIONS THAT THAT WERE PRESENTED.
UH, THERE HAD TO BE TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY THIRTY FOUR DELEGATES PRESENT.
SO, UM, AS IMPORTANT THAT WE, WE MAKE SURE WE HAVE A VOTING DELEGATE, UH, GOING TO THE CONFERENCE IN THE FUTURE.
UH, AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE THE COUNCIL TO DO THAT.
THERE'S A LOT OF REALLY GOOD SESSIONS AT, AT THE CONFERENCE, SO IF YOU'RE AVAILABLE IN THE FUTURE, I WOULD, I WOULD ENCOURAGE THAT.
UM, THE FRIDAY WHILE I WAS AT THE CONFERENCE WAS MY 100TH DAY, UH, AS A CITY MANAGER.
AND I'M HAPPY TO SAY THAT I HAVE, UH, COMPLETED, UM, MOST OF THE ITEMS ON THE 100 DAY PLAN.
THE GOAL SETTING RETREAT, WHICH WE PUSHED OUT TO, UH, JANUARY AFTER THE, UH, ELECTION AND THE NEW COUNCIL TAKES OFFICE, AND THEN ESTABLISHING A, UM, PERFORMANCE DASHBOARD.
UH, THAT'S GONNA TAKE A LITTLE BIT LONGER, UH, TO, TO DO THAT.
AND WITH THE FOCUS ON THE, UH, BUDGET DEFICIT, UM, THAT REALLY HAS TO COME FIRST.
UH, THE LAST ITEM THAT I'D LIKE TO COMMENT ON, WE HAVE HAD TWO MEETINGS OF THE BUSINESS LICENSE TAX REFORMED AD HOC ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
UH, THERE ARE 12 MEMBERS OF THAT COMMITTEE.
SEVEN OF THOSE MEMBERS WERE RECOMMENDED BY THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
FIVE MEMBERS, UH, WHO EITHER VOLUNTEERED OR WERE IDENTIFIED BY CITY STAFF.
AND I BELIEVE MOST, IF NOT ALL COMMITTEE MEMBERS ARE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEMBERS.
UH, DURING THE TWO MEETINGS, I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS ARE COMMITTED TO IDENTIFYING A SOLUTION THAT WORKS FOR BOTH THE CITY AND BUSINESSES.
AND, UM, I GUESS THERE'S A TESTIMONY TO THAT OR DEMONSTRATION OF THAT.
UM, THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AGREED TO MEET WEEKLY WITH THE GOAL OF DEVELOPING A RECOMMENDATION
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BY LATE NOVEMBER.SO NOT ONLY, UH, DO WE HAVE DEDICATED BUSINESS MEMBERS PARTICIPATING ON THE COMMITTEE, UM, BUT THEY ARE COMING TO THE TABLE WITH A REAL COMMITMENT TO HELP THE CITY AND TO DO IT IN A TIMELY MANNER.
SO, UM, AND CONGRATULATIONS, UH, CITY MANAGER ON YOUR 100 DAYS.
IN TERMS OF THE, UH, BUSINESS LICENSE TAX COMMITTEE, I DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT, UM, NATIONAL CITY CHAMBER, CEO, KAREN MCMANUS, UM, SAID ABOUT SOME OF THE OUTREACH OR JUST HER, THEIR LEVEL OF ENGAGEMENT, IF THEY AREN'T OR IF SHE WASN'T ABLE TO SPEAK AT, UH, THAT PARTICULAR MEETING.
SO I THINK OVERALL IT'S BEEN GOOD AND THERE'S BEEN, UH, PROGRESS THERE, BUT IF YOU ALL, IF WE CAN HAVE YOU ALL MEET AND KIND OF WORK OUT ON SOME OF THE OUTREACH IN TERMS OF THEIR ABILITY DURING THOSE MEETINGS, ESPECIALLY THE CHAMBER.
BECAUSE AS I RECALL, OUR DIRECTION AS A MAJORITY WAS FOR THE CHAMBER TO BE THAT LEAD ORGANIZATION.
AND SO IF THE CEO OF THE CHAMBER ISN'T ABLE TO SPEAK AT THAT MEETING, OR, UM, AS I UNDERSTAND IS, WAS CLAIMED, UM, SO THAT THAT WASN'T AT LEAST WHAT I INTENDED.
BUT, SO IF WE COULD JUST WORK THAT OUT.
UM, BUT I DO THINK IT'S MADE SOME PROGRESS.
AND FROM WHAT I'VE HEARD, UH, FROM THOSE MEETINGS, WHICH I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO ATTEND, I THINK THERE'S BEEN SOME GOOD MOVEMENT AND GOOD DISCUSSION.
AND I DO WANNA GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO, UM, TO PEDRO, UH, GARCIA, BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE WAS SOME REALLY GOOD COLLABORATION AND COMMUNICATION THERE WITH HIM AND THE OTHER STAFF WHO'S WORKING ON THIS.
UM, BUT IF WE CAN WORK THOSE THINGS OUT WITH THE CHAMBER, AND I DID GET SIMILAR COMMENTS FROM SOME OF THE OTHER MEMBERS.
I DO UNDERSTAND THE NEED TO NOT, LIKE YOU SAID, TO NOT HAVE A HUGE GROUP AND MAKE IT MORE MANAGEABLE.
BUT I JUST WANT TO ALSO ADDRESS, UM, KAREN'S CONCERNS BECAUSE THE INTENT WAS FOR THE CHAMBER TO BE KIND OF THE LEAD.
I UNDERSTAND THE MEMBERSHIP HAS, UM, HALF OF THE MEMBER, UH, HALF OF THIS COMMITTEE ARE MEMBERS OF THE CHAMBER, BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE, UH, CHAMBER, CEO FEELS LIKE THEY HAVE A VOICE.
AND SO IF WE COULD WORK THAT OUT, WE WILL BE, UM, COMING BACK TO THE COUNCIL, UM, OCTOBER 20TH MEETING TO GET CLARIFICATION ON THE DIRECTION, BECAUSE THAT IS, THAT WAS YOUR ORIGINAL, UM, COMMENTS.
BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT THE COUNCIL DECIDED.
THE COUNCIL DECIDED THAT THE CHAMBER SHOULD BE INVOLVED.
AND LIKE I SAID, IT IS NOT HALF THE MEMBERS ARE CHAMBER MEMBERS.
I THINK THEY'RE ALL CHAMBER MEMBERS.
AND I, I THINK WHERE THE CONFUSION IS, THE COUNCIL DIDN'T SAY THE CHAMBER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HAS TO SERVE ON THE COMMITTEE.
THAT'S LIKE SAYING THE CITY OF NASHVILLE CITY ISN'T THE MAYOR, IT'S NOT ME, IT'S THE COMMUNITY.
SO WHEN I LOOKED AT THAT, WHEN I HEARD THAT MY INTERPRETATION WAS CHAMBER MEMBERS AND THE COMMITTEE IS FULL OF CHAMBER MEMBERS, SO I'M, I'M GONNA COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL AND GET CLARIFICATION BECAUSE I LOOKED THROUGH THE READ THROUGH THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING.
WHAT, BECAUSE THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION AFTER YOUR INITIAL, UM, I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER IF IT WAS A MOTION, BUT YOUR INITIAL INPUT ON IT, THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT THE FINAL OUTCOME SHOULD BE.
SO I NEED CLARIFICATION ON THAT.
UM, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THE COMMITTEE IS, IS FOCUSED.
I THINK IT'S THE RIGHT SIZE WITH ABOUT 12 MEMBERS.
UM, SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN COME BACK AND GET CLARIFICATION.
MY, SO I DID MAKE THE MOTION AND I THINK THAT, SO MY INTENT WASN'T IT TO BE MEMBERS.
I THINK WHEN THERE'S ANY ORGANIZATION, YOU WANNA GET THE HEAD OF THE ORGANIZATION AND THE STAFF.
BUT I THINK IF I'M GOOD WITH THE ADDITIONAL CLARIFICATION ON THAT.
SO, UM, BUT I THINK IT'S GOOD TO HAVE ONE CENTRAL POINT, JUST LIKE IF IT WERE THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY, I, I DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT IT WOULD NECESSARILY BE THE MAYOR.
IT WOULD BE THE CITY MANAGER REPRESENTING THAT.
SO IT'S KIND OF, I, I THINK IN TERMS OF ORGANIZING, THAT'S WHAT I HAD IN MIND AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT, OR THAT'S WHAT I HAD TRIED TO COMMUNICATE.
BUT, UH, I'M GOOD WITH HAVING THAT ADDITIONAL, UH, COMMUNICATION ON THE 20TH.
AND THEN IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT COULD BE WORKED OUT BEFORE THEN I THINK THAT WOULD BE GOOD.
HAVING SAID THAT, I THINK THERE'S BEEN GOOD PROGRESS ON THAT.
SO I APPRECIATE THE CHAMBER OF THE BUSINESSES THAT HAVE WORKED THIS OUT.
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IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION TO GET, UM, REFORM MEASURE POTENTIALLY ON 2027 BALLOTS.SO I APPRECIATE THE CHAMBER FOR WORKING ON THIS AND THE BUSINESSES FOR OPERATING GOOD FAITH.
UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE WORK ON THAT CITY MANAGER, UH, YOURSELF AND YOUR STAFF.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO ALSO ENCOURAGE US TO INCLUDE OUR THREE, UH, PRESIDENTS OF OUR BARGAINING UNITS WITHIN THAT CONVERSATION.
SEEN AS I, I'M SORRY I COULDN'T QUITE HEAR YOU.
OUR THREE BARGAINING UNIT MM-HMM
OUR THREE UNITS, UH, PD, FIRE AND SCIU TO BE PART OF THAT CONVERSATION, SEEN AS THEY WOULD BE, UH, THE MOST IMPACTED BY ANY OF THE BUDGET CHANGES BECAUSE MOST OF THE FUNDING WE UTILIZE IS FOR PERSONNEL.
SO I, SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE THIS TO BE INCLUDING THEM AS WELL.
WELL, I I DON'T THINK THIS GROUP IS DEALING WITH THE BUDGET.
THIS, THIS GROUP ISN'T DEALING WITH THE BUDGET.
THE, THE, THE BARGAINING UNITS DO HAVE OPPORTUNITIES INTERNALLY TO BE ENGAGED IN THE BUDGET DISCUSSIONS.
WE ARE, WE ARE OFFERING THAT THIS ADVI ADVISORY COMMITTEE IS TASKED WITH IDENTIFYING OR CREATING A RECOMMENDATION TO BACK TO THE COUNCIL ON THE BUSINESS LICENSE TAX REFORM.
I DO FIND IT CRITICAL TO INVOLVE OUR CITY WORKFORCE IN THOSE DISCUSSIONS AS WELL.
UM, UH, SEEN AS MANY OF 'EM LIVE HERE IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND SO I, UH, YOU KNOW, IT IS A SUGGESTION THAT I WOULD HAVE FOR THEM TO BE INCLUDED IN THE CONVERSATION.
I WOULD BE O JUST, I WOULD BE OPEN TO THAT.
IN TERMS OF THE 20TH, THAT WASN'T THE ORIGINAL MOTION.
AND I THINK AS A CITY MANAGER STATED THAT WAS MORE, THAT IT'S MORE FOR THE EMPLOYEE GROUPS, A BUDGET FUNCTION AND NOT FOR THE BUSINESS TAX LICENSE BECAUSE THE BUSINESS TAX LICENSE IMPACTS DIRECTLY THE BUSINESSES AND NOT DIRECTLY THE WORKERS.
IT INDIRECTLY IMPACTS THE WORKERS.
BUT I DO THINK IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT, GIVEN SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT I'VE HEARD OF THE WORKERS AND SOME OF THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS I THINK OF THAT, I DO THINK IT WOULD BE USEFUL TO ENGAGE THEM.
I JUST DON'T KNOW AT WHAT LEVEL WOULD BE APPROPRIATE.
AND I DON'T KNOW ABOUT EXPANDING THIS MORE FOR THAT, BUT I HEAR WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER RODRIGUEZ IS SAYING ABOUT ELISE, THE, I, UH, TRANSPARENCY OR OUTREACH.
I JUST DUNNO WHAT THAT'D LOOK LIKE, BUT I'D BE OPEN TO HAVING THAT DISCUSSION ON THE 20TH.
I, I WANNA BE CAREFUL THAT WE DON'T MM-HMM
UM, GET TOO FAR INTO THE DISCUSSION HERE AND YEP.
SO, UH, THIS IS A REPORT AND LET'S, LET'S ALRIGHT.
[12.1 POLICY NO. 105 REQUEST - Suspension or Elimination of Council Budgets Requested by Councilmember Bush and Vice Mayor Molina]
WE GET DOWN TO ELECTED OFFICIALS REPORT BEFORE WE DO THE INDIVIDUAL REPORTS, WE HAVE 12.1.THIS IS A, UH, POLICY 1 0 5 REQUEST FOR THE, UH, UH, TO PUT ON A FUTURE AGENDA, THE SUSPENSION OR ELIMINATION OF COUNCIL BUDGETS.
AND SO, UM, SO WE COULD HAVE JUST A VERY BRIEF REPORT ON IT 'CAUSE WE CAN'T DISCUSS IT TONIGHT, BUT JUST, UH, YEAH, WE DO HAVE SPEAKERS.
BUT JUST A VERY BRIEF REPORT ON, ON JUST THE ESSENCE.
AND I CAN ALSO LET THE CITY ATTORNEY IF THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
BUT BROADLY SPEAKING, I WANTED TO HAVE A DISCUSSION.
I WOULD LIKE THIS BROUGHT BACK AT THE NEXT, UH, COUNCIL MEETING TO LOOK AT REDUCING, ELIMINATING, SUSPENDING DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR OUR COUNCIL BUDGETS, GIVEN THAT WE DO HAVE A BUDGET CRISIS AND THERE'S A LOT OF ISSUES WITH OUR BUDGET THAT I NEED, UH, OUR OWN BUDGETS I THINK WE NEED TO WORK OUT.
SO, UH, GIVEN THAT THERE'S PERSONNEL ISSUES AND OTHER ITEMS THAT I THINK THE CITY ATTORNEY CAN GO INTO, UH, I WOULD, UH, I WOULD MAKE A MOTION TO PUT THIS ON THE AGENDA FOR THE, UH, NEXT MEETING SO THAT WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS TOWARDS THIS ISSUE.
YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING OR NOT? OKAY.
NO, AT THE TIME WE HAVE A DISCUSSION ON IT AND I CAN ADDRESS PERSONNEL LABOR AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE, OF THE, UH, 1 0 5 REQUEST.
THERE IS A MOTION PUSHING THE BUTTON.
OH, WELL, WELL, NO, YOU GOTTA, YOU GOTTA PUT HIM FOR YOUR SECOND WELL, DON'T YOU.
SO WE HAVE A, OKAY, LET'S HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT AND IF THERE'S ANY OTHER COMMENT ON THE COUNCIL.
WHAT DO WE HAVE? JOANNE FIELDS FOLLOWED BY NIETO, FOLLOWED BY RANDY CASTLE SDO.
I APPRECIATE THAT THIS IS BEING BROUGHT FORWARD SO THAT THERE CAN BE A HEALTHY DISCUSSION ON THE POSSIBLE SUSPENSION OR EVEN ELIMINATION OF THIS.
UM, ESPECIALLY DURING THE TIME WE NEED TO CLOSE
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THE BUDGET GAP WHEN WE HAVE THE HARD DISCUSSIONS OF WHERE THESE CUTS, UH, SHOULD BE.AND, UH, ASKING FOR DEPARTMENTS TO LOOK WHERE TO CUT.
UM, I APPRECIATE THAT YOU'RE LOOKING TO CUT IN YOUR OFFICE FIRST, BECAUSE EVERYONE IS GONNA MAKE A SACRIFICE.
EVEN IF THE BALLOT MEASURE THAT WAS GETTING TRIED TO PASS AND GET ONTO THE NOVEMBER BALLOT, THOSE REVENUES WOULD NOT CONTRIBUTE TO CLOSING THE GAP THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW.
SO HAVING THIS DISCUSSION AND HOPEFULLY MOVING FORWARD WITH MAKING THOSE CUTS, WHETHER IT IS A HUNDRED PERCENT, 50%, WHATEVER THE, WHEREVER THE DISCUSSION LEADS, I APPRECIATE THAT IT IS GOING ON TO, UM, NEXT COUNCIL MEETINGS DOCKET, SO THAT YOU CAN START, UM, CLOSING THAT BUDGET GAP.
I THINK THIS REQUEST HERE SHOWS AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF A SERIOUSNESS, THE SENSITIVITY YOU GUYS ARE FEELING, AND, UH, RESPONDING TO OUR DEFICIT PROBLEM.
WE NEED THE $400,000 BE USED FOR A LOT BETTER SERVICES THAN WHAT WE'RE SEEING THAT'S BEING USED FOR RIGHT NOW.
PURELY FROM A AUDIT TRAIL STANDPOINT, I'VE ASKED MANY TIMES, WHAT VALUE ARE WE GETTING OUT OF THIS? WHAT'S THE OUTCOME? AND IT'S NEVER BEEN CLEAR.
YOU KNOW, IT'S LED TO MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT EVEN YOUR OWN ACCOUNTING SYSTEM THAT'S HALF PUT IN ACCOUNTING FOR PROJECTS THAT YOU, EFFORTS THAT YOU HAVE PEOPLE WORKING ON.
AND THEY DON'T HAVE ANY, THERE'S NO OUTCOME, NO PROJECTS, NO VALUE THAT'S BROUGHT THROUGH HERE.
AND WE SPENT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS EVERY YEAR.
YOU HAVE FOUR OF YOU THAT'S 400,000 AND WE'VE DONE THIS THE FOURTH TIME.
THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OVER THE YEARS THAT WE'VE HAD THIS.
SO THIS IS AN APPROPRIATE, UH, MOVE I THINK TO SHOW THAT YOU HAVE, UH, AN OPEN MIND TO MAKE THE, THE, THE, THE CRITICAL DECISIONS THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE TO ADDRESS THE BUDGET DEFICIT.
AND YOU GOTTA HAVE, YOU GUYS HAVE TO MAKE A LOT MORE DIFFICULT DECISIONS THAN THIS SHALL SHOW.
STEP UP AND SHOW IT BY EXAMPLE BY WILLING TO CUT YOUR OWN BUDGET.
RANDY CASTLE SALGADO FOLLOWED BY THOMAS RE, LATE NIGHT TONIGHT, GUYS.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I SUPPORT THE POLICY 1 0 5 REQUESTS MOVING FORWARD.
UM, AND TAKING ANOTHER SERIOUS LOOK AT THE INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL BUDGETS.
AKA, THE SLUSH FUNDS NATIONAL CITY IS FACING A SIGNIFICANT BUDGET DEFICIT WHEN WE'RE ASKING FOR OUR UNIONS, OUR DEPARTMENTS, OUR BUSINESSES, EMPLOYEES, RESIDENTS, TO ALL MAKE DIFFICULT CHOICES.
THOSE CHOICES SHOULD START HERE ON THE DAIS.
UM, THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN CONCERNS ABOUT HOW THE FUNDS HAVE BEEN USED AND WHETHER SOME EXPENDITURES ARE TRULY NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE, ESPECIALLY DURING A FISCAL CRISIS.
THIS ISN'T ABOUT ELIMINATING ESSENTIAL CONSTITUENT SERVICES, IT'S ABOUT LOOKING AT THE SPENDING, SEPARATING WHAT IS NECESSARY FROM WHAT IS DISCRETIONARY AND DETERMINING WHAT THIS CITY CAN ACTUALLY AFFORD.
UM, IF WE EXPECT OUR COMMUNITY TO HELP SOLVE THIS DEFICIT, OUR ELECTED LEADERS NEED TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE.
I DON'T COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THIS, BUT I THINK THERE'S A DANGER OF HAVING THE, THE COUNCIL MEMBERS CUTTING THE BUDGET.
AND DO YOU WANT, DO YOU WANT TO BE THAT ACCOUNTABILITY? THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE TO, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE TO DECIDE.
THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT OF ALL THE SPEAKERS.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSIONS? MR. RODS? I, I KNOW WE CAN'T DISCUSS THE MERITS OF IT, BUT I DO HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS SEEN AS IT'S BROUGHT UP DURING THIS TIME.
UM, ARE WE ANTICIPATING SAVINGS FROM THIS? I WOULD.
I CAN ONLY SPEAK TO, WE DON'T KNOW UNTIL WE'D HAVE A DISCUSSION, YES OR NO.
YES, WE'RE POTENTIALLY, POTENTIALLY, YES.
AND WHAT WOULD THE SAVINGS BE IN? WE DON'T KNOW, BUT I ESTIMATED THAT IN THE, UM, IN THE FORM
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FOR A COMPLETE ELIMINATION.WE ALSO, I THINK THAT WILL COME IN THE LATER DISCUSSION WHEN WE HAVE OPTIONS FROM STAFF.
I'M LOOKING AT THE FORM RIGHT NOW, ESTIMATED TWO TO 300,000 IN SAVINGS POTENTIALLY.
AND THOSE SAVINGS CURRENTLY, HOW ARE THEY BEING SPENT? HOW WOULD THEY, HOW WOULD WE SAVE THAT MONEY? I THINK WE WOULD NEED TO DO A DEEPER DIVE AND WE WOULD NEED TO LOOK AT THE ACTUALS FROM THE COUNCIL BUDGETS, WHICH WOULD COME IN A LATER DISCUSSION.
WE DISCUSSION NOW? I THINK IT'S A LEGITIMATE QUESTION.
I MEAN, I'M, I'M SIMPLY ASKING HOW THE MONEY WOULD BE SAVED.
IF IT WOULD BE SAVED CUTTING POSITIONS, THEN SO BE IT.
BUT I I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY HOW THAT WOULD
THERE COULD BE A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT COULD BE CUT TWO TO $300,000 IN BANNERS.
OKAY GUYS, I, I THINK WE REALLY GOTTA CUT IT BECAUSE THAT'S, THIS IS THE 1 0 5 SITUATION.
WE, WE, WE EITHER DECIDE TO PUT IT ON THE AGENDA SO WE CAN HAVE DISCUSSION.
BUT WE CAN'T DO THE DISCUSSION AT THIS POINT.
AND AS A QUESTION, IS THERE A REASON FOR THE URGENCY ON THE ISSUE? YES.
WE HAVE A BUDGET DEFICIT AND THAT WAS STATED IN THE REPORT.
DIDN'T SAY IT WAS AN EMERGENCY URGENT.
IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD HANDLE RIGHT AWAY, GIVEN THAT WE'RE IN THE BUDGET DEFICIT.
BUT IT WASN'T URGENT TO PUT AN INITIATIVE ON THE BALLOT TO HELP ADDRESS OUR BUDGET ISSUE.
THAT IS NOT RELATED TO THIS ISSUE.
AND WE ALREADY DISCUSSED THAT.
SO I THINK WE'RE GETTING OUTSIDE OF THE SCOPE OF THE AGREEMENT.
COUNCIL MEMBER, IF YOU WANT TO APPROVE THIS FOR DISCUSSION, LET'S APPROVE IT FOR DISCUSSION.
BUT OTHERWISE, SOME OF THESE, THAT, THAT PARTICULAR QUESTION WAS NOT RELATED TO THE SCOPE AND DID NOT HAVE A NEXUS TO WHAT WE'RE DISCUSSING.
AS MATTER OF FACT IT'S STATED ON HERE.
WHY IS IT APPROPRIATE FOR THE TIMING? BECAUSE A CURRENT BUDGET DEFICIT SEEMS SIMPLY HYPOCRITICAL TO SAY THAT THIS IS URGENT.
BUT PLACING INITIATIVE ON THE BALLOT, JOSE, JOSE, EVEN IF WE WOULD'VE EXCUSE TAX ON THE BALLOT, WE WOULDN'T HAVE COLLECTED UNTIL 2028.
THAT IS DISHONEST POINT OF DISCUSSION WHEN WE HAVE DISCUSSION.
I WAS SIMPLY, I'LL GO AHEAD AND MY TIME.
THAT'S ENOUGH MATTER WHAT I WAS ACTUALLY SPEAKING COUNCIL, I WE'RE DISCUSSING.
I'M, I'M SIMPLY GOING SAY IT SEEMS VERY HYPOCRITICAL, BUT, AND I WILL BE VOTING AGAINST ITEM.
CLERK, UH, CLERK SCHAFFEL, WERE YOU TRYING TO SPEAK? AH, I JUST, I JUST MENTIONED THAT WE DO NEED TO CALL A VOTE.
UM, THERE WAS A MOTION AND A SECOND MADE ON THIS ITEM.
I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR, UM, LEGAL LEGALITIES ON THIS MATTER.
THAT WOULD BE PART OF THE DISCUSSION.
THAT WOULD BE PART OF THE DISCUSSION.
WITH THAT WE DO HAVE A MOTION.
CAN YOU SET IT FOR THE VOTE? 'CAUSE IT'S NOT, THERE IT IS.
MOTION APPROVED BY FOUR TO ONE VOTE WITH COUNCIL MEMBER RODRIGUEZ.
NEXT WE GO WITH OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS REPORT.
I'LL START DOWN HERE ON MY LEFT.
UM, I WANT TO THANK, UH, TREE SAN DIEGO AND ALSO OUR CITY STAFF.
UM, AND MY ASSISTANT GIOVANNIS, THEY HELPED PLANT 30 TREES THIS WEEKEND.
WE HAD, UH, 20 VOLUNTEERS FROM TREE SAN DIEGO COME OUT, PLANTED TREES OVER BY SWEETWATER HEIGHTS PARK, WHICH IS, UH, OFTEN NEGLECTED PARK.
UM, THERE'S STILL VERY OLD TREES THERE, BUT, UH, WE WENT AHEAD AND PLANTED 30 TREES.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CITY STAFF FOR HELPING PRE DIG THOSE HOLES.
IT WOULD'VE BEEN DIFFICULT IN A HUNDRED DEGREE WEATHER TO DIG, UH, 30 HOLES.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THAT WORK IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.
AND, UM, UH, THE FEW RESIDENTS THAT WERE THERE WERE VERY HAPPY AND GRATEFUL THAT OUR CITY IS REINVESTING BACK INTO, INTO OUR PARKS.
RECOGNIZING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, 2026 AS FILIPINO AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH AND CELEBRATING THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF FILIPINO AMERICANS AND THEIR IMMENSE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNITED STATES.
WE SHOULD CONTINUE THE EFFORTS TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF FILIPINO AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE BECAUSE THE ROLES OF FILIPINO AMERICANS AND OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR HAVE LARGELY BEEN OVERLOOKED IN THE WRITING, TEACHING, AND LEARNING OF THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
IT IS IMPERATIVE FOR FILIPINO-AMERICAN YOUTH TO HAVE POSITIVE ROLE MODELS TO INSTILL THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EDUCATION COMPLIMENTED BY THE RICHNESS OF FILIPINO-AMERICAN ETHNICITY, THE VALUE OF THE FILIPINO-AMERICAN LEGACY.
AND ITS ESSENTIAL TO PROMOTE THE UNDERSTANDING, EDUCATION AND APPRECIATION OF THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE FILIPINO AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES.
WE RECOGNIZE THE CELEBRATION OF FILIPINO AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH IN OCTOBER, 2026 AS A, AS A TESTAMENT TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF FILIPINO AMERICANS.
A TIME TO REFLECT ON AND REMEMBER THE MANY NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS
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THAT FILIPINO AMERICANS HAVE MADE TO THE UNITED STATES.AND A TIME TO RENEW EFFORTS TOWARDS THE RESEARCH AND EXAMINATION OF HISTORY AND CULTURE AS TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES TO LEARN MORE ABOUT FILIPINO AMERICANS AND TO APPRECIATE THE HISTORIC CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE FILIPINO AMERICANS TO THE UNITED STATES.
AND URGES THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES TO OBSERVE FILIPINO AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH WITH APPROPRIATE PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES.
AND, UH, MAYOR ALSO ON, SAT ON OCTOBER 17TH, SATURDAY FROM 12 NOON TO 5:00 PM AT ALTOON PARK COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO.
THE OFFICE OF SUPERVISOR DISTRICT ONE, PALOMA GUEN PARADISE VALLEY HOSPITAL IS, UH, PROVIDING HEALTH AND WELLNESS FESTIVAL DURING THAT TIME.
UM, UH, I DO HAVE A COMMENT TO MAKE, UH, REGARDING, UH, TRUE ACHIEVEMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND, UM, HOW THEY SHOULD BE COMMENDED.
IT IS WITH A GREAT PLEASURE THAT I UPLIFT OUR VERY OWN DEPUTY CITY CLERK BIS.
TANYA HUSSEIN, OUR DEPUTY CITY CLERK, HAS COMPLETED HER BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE FROM A SU GRADUATING WITH HONORS MAGNA CU LAUDE.
BUT THAT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MS. TANYA.
TANYA HAS BEEN ACCEPTED INTO THE MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAM WHERE SHE WILL CONTINUE TO EXPAND HER KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE AND FURTHER PREPARE HERSELF FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER IN HER PROFESSIONAL CAREER.
TANYA'S EFFORTS WILL BENEFIT THIS, UM, CITY HALL HERE.
CITY HALL, AND I AM THRILLED TO CONGRATULATE HER.
MS. TANYA, I AM HONORED BY YOUR PROFESSIONALISM, YOUR INTELLIGENCE, AND YOUR SINCERE DEDICATION TO NATIONAL CITY.
AND I VENTURE TO STATE THAT MANY OTHERS ARE JUST AS THRILLED.
I JUST, I, I WANNA JUST SAY 'CAUSE THAT WAS TOTALLY IMPROMPTU.
I APPRECIATE IT SO MUCH, VICE MAYOR, YOU KNOW, UM, BUT NO ONE ACHIEVES ANYTHING WITHOUT PEOPLE BEHIND YOU.
MY HUSBAND WHO MADE SURE I ATE, I SLEPT, I COMB MY HAIR EVERY DAY,
IT DEFINITELY, YOU KNOW, WORKING LONG HOURS AND HAVING STUDIES AND ACHIEVING MAGNA C*M LAUDE WAS NOT EASY.
UM, SO I APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S SUPPORT AND ESPECIALLY SHELLY, WHO IS LIKE FAMILY TO ME.
HER SELFLESS LEADERSHIP AND HER CONSTANT ENCOURAGEMENT FOR ME HAS BEEN LIFE CHANGING.
AND SO I APPRECIATE EVERYONE HERE IN MY NATIONAL CITY FAMILY.
IT'S MEANT A LOT TO ME AND I'VE ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE OF IT.
AND YOU KNOW, A LOT OF HARD WORK INVOLVED IN THAT AND YOU THINK YOU'D GET ENOUGH POLITIC POLITICAL SCIENCE AND STUFF, YOU JUST BEING AROUND US, UH, AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
BUT, UH, BUT YOU, YOU PERSEVERED THROUGH ALL THIS THAT MUCH MORE.
HOPEFULLY WE GOT A LOT TO LEARN FROM YOU.
DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? NO, THAT'S ALL.
UH, JUST REAL QUICKLY, JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS.
UH, UH, YOU MENTIONED ABOUT BEING UP AT THE LEAGUE OF CITIES.
UH, BUT UH, EARLIER THIS EVENING WE HAD IN THE BACK OF THE, UH, THE AUDITORIUM, JIM MC DAPPER, WHO WAS FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE CALIFORNIA LEAGUE OF CITIES.
AND HE WAS, UH, UH, HE WAS HONORED THERE WITH THEIR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.
AND SO, UM, DIDN'T WANNA RECOGNIZE HIM, BUT HE, HE ALREADY LEFT OUT.
UM, AND, UH, BECAUSE AT, AT THE TIME I WAS DOWN AT A CONFERENCE CALLED WEBTECH, WHICH IS ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITES.
UH, AND, UH, THE, UH, ONLY PROBLEM WITH IT WAS THAT IT WAS, UH, UH, IT, THEIR EXHIBIT HALL, WHICH THEIR EXHIBIT HALL IS TO ME IS BETTER THAN THEIR CLASSES.
I MEAN, BUT THEIR EXHIBIT HALL IS A MILE LONG.
THE BUILDING, THE EXHIBIT HALL ITSELF IS ONE MILE LONG.
AND, UH, UH, SO A LOT OF WALKING ONLY PROBLEM IS ONE DAY INTO IT.
I BLEW OUT A TENDON IN MY LEFT ANKLE.
AND, AND SO I, I I, MY LEFT, MY LEFT LEG WAS USELESS FOR A FEW DAYS AND TODAY IS ABOUT THE FIRST DAY I'VE ACTUALLY BEEN ABLE TO KIND OF WALK HALFWAY NORMAL WITH IT.
AND, UH, SO I, UH, MY FAVORITE CONFERENCE DIDN'T END UP BEING QUITE AS FAVORITE AS I, AS I WANTED IT TO BE.
UM, ALRIGHT, SO, UH, UH, I THINK THAT'S ABOUT IT.
YOU CAN TELL ALL THE GREAT THINGS THAT WE DID IN THIS SESSION.
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GO PADRE.THEY ARE LEADING AT THE MOMENT.
AND, UH, SO THERE IS, WHO KNOWS, MY SEAT IS EMPTY.
AND ANNIE SAID THERE MAY, THE SUN MAY COME UP TOMORROW.
UM, EXCUSE ME, THAT, UM, WITH THAT, EXCUSE ME, GOT CHOKED ON A COUGH DROP GETTING IT, AND I GOT CHOKED ON A COUGH DROP.
UH, WITH THAT, UH, WE ARE ADJOURNED TO OUR NEXT, UH, UH, REGULAR MEETING, WHICH WILL BE ON THE, UH, THE 20TH.