City Council Meeting: January 31, 2022

Untitled 1

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

THE SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING FOR JANUARY 31, 2022 AT 4:00 P.M. WILL TAKE PLACE SOLELY BY VIDEOCONFERENCE/TELECONFERENCE.

City Council Meeting Policy:

www.cityofpasadena.net/city-clerk/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/City-Council-Meeting-Policy.pdf

In order to facilitate public participation at meetings held solely by electronic means, the City will accept public comment in the following manner:

1. During the meeting, members of the public may provide live public comment by submitting a speaker card prior to the start of public comment on that item, at the following webpage:

www.cityofpasadena.net/city-clerk/public-comment

If a public comment speaker wishes to speak on more than one agenda item, please indicate so on the online form (multiple item speakers will be handled according to the process posted

on the agenda and as specified in the City Council meeting policy). Public comments are limited to 3 minutes each, and the Mayor and City Council may limit this time if reasonable under the circumstances.

2. Speaker Card Help Line : If a public comment speaker needs assistance in completing a speaker card, please call the City Clerk’s Office at: (626) 744-4124. Help line

will open 30 minutes prior to the posted start time of the meeting.

After submitting a public speaker card, join the virtual meeting after the published start time with a computer, other electronic device, or by telephone. The same name or telephone number on the Speaker Card should be used for the virtual meeting in order to locate and unmute the speaker.

Your phone call to the City Council meeting will be recorded as part of the City Council meeting. By staying on the line and making public comment during the City Council meeting, you are agreeing to have your phone call recorded.

Computer or electronic devices, join the meeting at:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/161482446

Telephone only dial-in: 1-669-900-6833, Meeting ID: 161 482 446

3. Members of the public may submit correspondence of any length prior to the start of the meeting, at the following email address:

correspondence@cityofpasadena.net

Correspondence will be forwarded to the City Council prior to the start of the meeting, posted online, and made part of the legislative record for the item.

LIVESTREAM WITH CAPTIONING IS AVAILABLE AT

WWW.PASADENAMEDIA.ORG ,

AND ALSO AT

WWW.CITYOFPASADENA.NET/COMMISSIONS/AGENDAS ,

TO HEAR A LIVE SPANISH TRANSLATION OF THE MEETING (LISTEN ONLY), PLEASE DIAL-IN 10 MINUTES PRIOR TO THE MEETING (4:20 P.M.):

TOLL-FREE DIAL-IN: (888) 585-9008

PARTICIPANT PASSCODE: 739-142-091, THEN #

IF YOU NEED A REASONABLE MODIFICATION OR ACCOMMODATION PURSUANT TO THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT

BECAUSE YOU ARE UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE ELECTRONICALLY AS SET FORTH ABOVE, CONTACT THE CITY CLERK’S OFFICE

AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AT (626) 744-4124 OR

CITYCLERK@CITYOFPASADENA.NET .

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

LA REUNIÓN ESPECIAL DEL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DEL 31 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 4: 0 0 P.M. TENDRÁ LUGAR ÚNICAMENTE POR VIDEOCONFERENCIA/TELECONFERENCIA.

City Council Meeting Policy:

www.cityofpasadena.net/city-clerk/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/City-Council-Meeting-Policy.pdf

Para facilitar la participación del público en reuniones realizadas únicamente por medios electrónicos, la Ciudad aceptará comentarios del público de la siguiente manera:

1. Durante la reunión, los miembros del público pueden hacer comentarios públicos en vivo presentando una tarjeta de oratoria antes del inicio del comentario sobre el artículo que se está tratando en el siguiente sitio web:

www.cityofpasadena.net/city-clerk/public-comment

Si un orador de comentario público desea hablar sobre más de un artículo del orden del día, le solicitamos que lo indique en el formulario en línea (los oradores sobre artículos múltiples se manejarán según el proceso publicado en la agenda y lo especificado en la política sobre las reuniones el Consejo Municipal). Los comentarios públicos se limitan a 3 minutos cada uno y el Alcalde y el Consejo Municipal pueden limitar este tiempo si lo consideran razonable para las circunstancias.

2. Línea de ayuda de la tarjeta de oratoria pública :

Uh uh uh uh good evening everyone. Welcome to the JANUARY 31st twenty twenty two special meeting of the past and the city council the council did meet at 4:00 P.M. In closed session and there's no reportable action with regard to this special meeting. You all recall that this meeting has was create was made a special meeting in order to for the council and the public to be able to address questions that involve policing policies and procedures members of the council have asked as well as members of the public have asked that we hold this special meeting and here we are. So item nine on our agenda is that item intended clarify what the council's jurisdiction is and in many cases isn't what the council is legally authorize to do under its charter, under state law and within the confines of constitutional constraints and constitutional law. And so we'll look forward to that presentation. So why don't we go ahead and call the meeting to order with the calling of the road? Thank you, mayor. Councilor hampton, nice to be here. Councilor kennedy. Yeah. Councilor madsen, your customer mr your customer service here cast member williams is absent vice mayor wilson er mayor here there's a quorum of the council present lask our sergeant at arms terminal to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Sergeant to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under GOD indivisible with liberty and justice for all sergeants and next will go directly to the consent calendar. There are oh I'm sorry. Thank you. Before we move on to the consent calendar, we do have some announcements and request to adjourn in memory of two very important pasadena and contributors to pasadena. The first is and I really regret to inform the council and the community of the passing of our friend and colleague betty hope a long time pasadena resident and community volunteer who passed passed away in JANUARY for twenty JANUARY 1st. Twenty twenty two betty served as field representative to former council member katie Nanak served as a deputy to mayor bill bogarde during fifteen years of working with mayor beaugard she provided advice on trends and developments in the city and represented the mayor at meetings. Businesses of businesses, neighborhoods, arts and other associations she performed her duties with commitment, competence and good judgment and only me described as excellent and at the same time served as director and adviser and a volunteer for several pasadena organizations. Her record service with the city's exemplary betty served on the boards. Many civic organizations including the army center for the arts five acres and the the community foundation, the ywca of pasadena pacifica's college and children school education foundation and the pasadena respiratory health foundation among others. She was also advisor on the advisory board for the past the senior center friends of the leavitt pavilion, the community foundation, walton and walton school that betty was a member of the community benefits committee unturn hospital served as PRESIDENT Of the pass to child health foundation and as a member of caltech's committee for the protection of human subjects. She was recognized by bill esperanza's services as a guardian angel and by huntington hospital as PRESIDENT Circle donor. But he was an extremely valuable contributor to pasadena and offered a thoughtful and fair approach to community issues. She worked to improve our community to countless hours of dedicated support and enhance the reputation of the city among the greater community by giving over time to these sources that was unique in her ability to gain confidence and friendship of all persons with whom she worked, she was truly an inspiring model for all engaged in public service and will be greatly missed. I think we would be remiss if we didn't address the fact that what about all of her duties and responsibilities and a very calm, fair and elegant manner and is truly one of the most elegant pasadena that I've ever had the opportunity to work with inside or outside of city hall. I'm proud to call her friend as I know many people in this group said and so I announced little councilor in that he's a member of also that to report on the passing of the more long time united methodist MISS Minister, civil rights activist and pastor and businessman who passed on JANUARY twenty six twenty twenty two at the ninety six pastor moore was a long time united methodist minister civil rights the same businessman who planned his autobiography on the road to civil rights at age nine nearly sixty years ago pastor moore was one of twenty eight methodist church in mississippi that signed a statement opposing the continuation of a segregated society. Some some of the signings were locked out of their churches, received death rates after signing and many ended up leaving mississippi and headed california as pastor moore did after ministering at palmdale united methodist church and central valley united methodist church. Pastor moore retired in nineteen seventy and he and his wife nellie created two successful companies in pasadena more vendy and tournament souvenirs. They sold the business and retired in nineteen ninety seven but that didn't stop pastor moore from continuing a life of service dedicated to promoting civil rights and social justice. He remained active in the ministry and was actively involved in a variety of civic and charitable organizations in our area and in twenty nineteen he and his wife of seventy three years nellie along with congressman adam schiff were honored by act for their decades of ethical leadership in and around the city. Nellie passed in FEBRUARY and customers supplied by his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. He lived a long rich life filled with service to others into his faith and on behalf of a grateful community. He too will be very, very missed. And again, another friend and someone who contributed greatly to pasadena. And so I would ask that we adjourn tonight's meeting in memory of betty hall and pastor in the mayor if I MAY please MR. Kennedy, mayor, I want to join with your comment related both to civic leader betty hall and particularly to reverend inmind moore who serve for many years on the board of the national association for the advancement of colored people as well as just establishing strong relationships in the african-american community in pasadena not behind the scenes but on the front lines joining locked in armed fighting for social justice, economic justice and human rights, he was someone who cared about the least of these in our community and in part I think that because like my mother hailing from mississippi, he also held for mississippi and when you find someone of good character from mississippi, you never forget them and so we will never forget reverend inmind moore and his partner MRS. Moore for what they've done for pasadena, what they've done for greater pasadena, which includes the unincorporated area of altadena. So thank you, mayor gordon for taking the time to acknowledge reverend inmind moore and betty hope for their service to our great city. Thank you, MR. Kennedy. Vice mayor wilson. Thank you, mayor and certainly certainly very appropriate to recognize both these two pillars of our community. I did know very well but I did in benmore in ninety six years and bit of a role model for many of us. His wisdom, his gentle nature, his fearlessness I think those are all things that I know I was always impressed by and when I spoke to him he lived in district seven of cordoba. I see him walking in occasionally offering him a ride and I'm deeply saddened by his departure at a person in our history and saddened to lose. And so thank you for recognizing. Thank you very much wilson and MR. Kennedy with that again we will adjourn in memory of of betty inman at the end of the meeting and let me just say if there was a model for field deputies and field representatives and how we should work with the community, betty hosts certainly embody that and I had the opportunity to work with her for a number of years and she really served as a mentor to me and to all people reps represent so well adjourn in her memory and pastor morris, thank you. Ok, so let's move on now to the consent calendar and start with we reported out of communications. Yes. Thank you mayor for item five we received three letters expressing concerns and or disappointment with the proposal proposed integrated resource plan power plan update and an advocate for the city to contribute to the solutions that are needed to stop the destruction of the environment and address climate change and provided comments on the matter for item number nine. The city clerk's office received twelve letters providing comments including advocating for the city manager to amend the oas policy demanding the termination of officers involved in the shooting of anthony mcclain and accountability to the in the palestinian police department. Those correspondance were posted online distributed to the council in our part of the record for tonight's meeting as a friendly reminder to council and the public. As the mayor stated, this is a special meeting. No public comment is limited to items on the special meeting agenda also as was the practice last week when members of the public are speaking I will ring a bell once when 30 seconds remain on the public comment on the on the persons time remaining on their public comment and then I will notify them when their time has expired. Also members of the public are reminded that they shall direct comments to the body as a whole and not to staff individual members of the body or the public any person making personal pertinent or slanderous remarks about members of the body staff or the public or who shall become boisterous or threatening or personally abusive of the body staff or members of the public shall be asked by the mayor to cease and desist such activity and MAY be requested or required to leave the meeting in the event the behavior continues to disrupt the meeting proceedings in terms of speakers we have speaker cards submitted for items one two, three and five on consent. So one, two, three and five on consent and then we have a number of cards related item nine. Yes. And so I am going to ask the speakers to stick to the subject matter of the item that they are wishing to speak to if you wish to speak policing matters then item nine we will ask you to speak there. So for those why don't we take a sweep motion and hold items one, two, three and five in all the sweep motion for the balance with the consent calendar come moved to a second seconded roll call so is on consent items four and six is the sweep motion. COUNCILMAN Hampton yes. Four six and seven sorry MR. Yes. Councilor kennedy yes. Member madison yes. Cast member asuda yes. Customer service yes. Cast member williams is absent vice mayor wilson yes. Mayor gordo yes. Motion not opposition and let's start with public comments related to item one and this is a vacation of easements nine nine five oneself oaks. So this person jenay lennix put in for one, two and three so we would ask her to speak on all three. Ok, during her public comment, MR. Lennox, if you'll address the issue of the vacation, the selection of the calipers retirees and also the contract with creative partners and in and when we get to item three, I'll vice mayor to address that matter. So I think for all of the audience and I only have a minute and then thirty seconds and your time of starting your time is starting now. All right. So it doesn't really make sense. We should actually get more time if we're going to speak on some of the items. But ok, I first want to address that. We absolutely need justice for anthony mclean as we're going into the ramify. If you stick to the issue of allocation, if you'd like to speak on police matters, that's item nine. Otherwise this is the irp item to the application of a property and a contract with resulting from an rfp but the contract with rfp ok I'm sorry I'm a little confused so I'm only speaking I'm not all of the items that I originally said are going to be speaking on tippity which yes which one which number three and three. Ok ok the contract the so so on item three we were saying that we are rejecting you guys hiring the city manager who is a pro cop. That is not what the city needs right now. We need someone who is radical and also needs someone who is going to put the items that the people want on their agenda. Obviously someone who is procomp is going to be extremely biased but they're not going to do what the people want. obviously we need to happen immediately and need that happen now. So we are rejecting this person who no one knows about who is just not even part of the the city. So we are rejecting and that is my comment on that. Ok, the why don't we turn to item three? Yeah. Item the speakers actually incorrect about what this item represents. This is simply an alternative device mayor to introduce it. This is simply a contract to continue the search for the next city manager and is not as the speaker mistakenly states a rejection or the hiring of individual it's yeah w brown is a company that will assist us in the search for the next city manager and this this word comes to the council as the result and I'm speaking specifically about item three as the result of the the work of an ad hoc committee that was chaired by vice mayor wilston and consisted of council members riva's kennedy and MR. Massouda and I want think the ad committee for doing the work of going through brp applications and bringing us this recommendation. Vice mayor wilson, would you like to introduce the matter this is item three. Yes, mayor, thank you very much indeed. You said I did want to acknowledge the work of the committee staff. There was an rfp responses were submitted and reviewed by the staff. we the committee reviewed all the responses, two of which we brought in for interview and actually were impressed with the finalists and after extensive conversation and through interviews we unanimously recommend the hiring of wibc p as the executive recruitment firm to help us source and hire the next city manager. Thank you. With that I'm happy to move this item. Ok, more public comment. So yeah, there's more public comment on item three and just so the public is aware of the process now moves into its next phase should this contract be approved there would be an ad hoc committee of of four other members of the council who would simply review together with staff the names of applicants that are brought forward applicants to the city manager position, those applications will be reviewed by the ad hoc committee and then interviews would be set up recommended to be set up. The interviews would be conducted by the full city council not the ad hoc committee but the full city council will conduct interviews as we've done in the past. Mr hampton is wbc p who is I'm sorry let me just ask this myself who is the organization or firm that hired the last city manager that we hired for the last city enter was someone else? This is not the same firm. I just want to make sure that ok then I will vote in favor as an individual. i'm blanking on name but it was no you don't have to say it now it's totally fine. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't the same firm that we used for the last three or four city managers. No thank you. Yeah I would add there that there are empty spots does include some aspect community engagement and outreach and yes that needs to be further articulated but it was an important part of their proposal and we specifically asked about various strategies they intend to use and there will be a community engagement component as the vice mayor points out and again that was I would assume scored very highly by the ad hoc committee. Let me turn to the city manager. I just add to that you they did say that they would be in touch with council members to get advice on what community groups or individual need to be included in that. So you will be hearing from the they should this pass this evening you will be hearing from a search company as they craft that public outreach policy and the city manager also informs me that this is the first time back to MR. Hampton's question this is the first time we worked with vcp. So it's for certain a different company than the last time around MR. Ok, so coming public comments speakers on item three are hyrum cormier jr, carolyn maloney, camille lewis. So bring in up there's also sarah britney and karina and adriana as well and kate macinerney on three MR. Corbey harami hoping you have a minute thirty go ahead on item three. Ok, so yeah so is the company I looked on the site that was leaked or whatever and so it looks like a lot of people in that company have some trouble from meetings. It says very little about racial justice. It's very little about economic justice, et cetera and so forth. Are you guys like to pretend you guys believe in? But if that's the case and they have those meetings and if there's actually a former officer or some former officers within that firm, what type of city manager do you think they are going to hire? We need an independent city manager who is going to actually hold police accountable if you guys refuse to do it. And by the way, you do have the power to do that. But if that's the case and then you talk about throughout the hiring process they're going to give input to the council and to the community. What kind of community members do you want to hear from? Because when it comes to the public first of all, I see people within the box, you know that that in itself shows that you guys do not want to hear people you limit their time. You mash up all of their public comments, promotional items. It's a one time it makes no sense and then you don't even listen to the real conversation what they really do go through the issues the city manager has to take charge of that impacts our lives. The people that were related to live in pasadena and those of us who live there ourselves you don't listen and that's the point. It's like we're banging our head against the wall because these meetings where a lot of people frankly don't engage in politics is neither. MR. MR. Hyrum, don't help. Your time has expired to talk. We're just the spark plug that firm do not hire. And for the record, MR. Is incorrect. The firm will not be hiring anybody. It's the city council who does the hiring this firm maybe simply assist us with the logistics of the hiring process but it's the city council who will do the hiring, the interviewing and the hiring and I'm told that neither of the principals who are assigned by the firm have ever worked in policing. So again, incorrect point there. I'd also add that we did evaluate the two finalists based off the diversity of a candidate pool and they provided statistics and this group frankly was a standout and majority of the applicant pool was from diverse communities and we thought they had a very robust strategy for filling that pipeline. So I carried a lot of weight in our consideration. Carolyn maloney followed by camille lewis, followed by sara . You have a minute? yeah, this is kathy cohen and I'd like to say I I the other thing that they have a diverse strategy and they have the candidates they select are diverse and they go about this but I would like to believe you in particularly the vice mayor I would like to but you haven't proven to have any concern about them and select committee that that went around the agency. I'm just I have no confidence and so I really hope that you looked at that agency and said how are they going to ensure different types of diversity? And I look at look at how they lean, how they where they come from, how are they going after their potential candidates because while they don't hire them, they're presenting every candidate that you get so they need to have a very robust strategy that is creative and that hasn't been heard of before and that isn't just like hey, we checked off a box we're doing with the what everyone says and yeah, you know, we have a problem in pasadena. We have a problem. You guys have said mitsos like communistic kendrick dave anthony mclean we have a problem. That's what everyone but we have to do better in hiring a city manager and I really hope that you guys explain how how essential this is. Escalona, your time and expired have failed so many times before going to me. Lewis by sarah followed by britney polic followed by korina. Ok, bye bye. adriana batiste MISS Lewis, you have hello. If you give me a little bit can you hear me we can one thirty seconds go ahead. Ok I would like to speak on item number three we objectiveness hiring agency for the new city manager of whom the public has never heard of until now has propolis employees and isn't even basson southern california item number nine regarding officer involved shooting killing people on the job is not doing a good job. Item number nine alert. We're going to have separate public comments so please keep it to item three please. Ok, so yeah. What are you guys doing hiring an agency to find a city manager who propolis we want justice for anthony mcquain. Your city has a major issue killing black and brown people. This is not ok. Yes. You've hired some like agency to find a city manager who's probably going to be properly is not and you're probably hired an agency that's not even based in southern california find the city manager for passacaglia. We want justice for you. All of the people that were murdered by pasadena police. You have a major problem. Not having this meeting in person is not going to make your problem better. Put your drink down. That is so rude. Wow. You can't drink anything. All the people that were murdered by the pasadena city, please. Oh GOD, you're so smug. Seriously, your time is up. Your time has expired. Thank you. Anything it's so respectful if you will stick to you think you time's up era followed by britney pollack followed by cryonic followed by adriana batiste followed by kate macinerney one in thirty seconds go ahead. Yes hi. Hello. I just want to start off by saying thank you for itemizing officer involved shooting at the beginning of the meeting you spoke of several civil rights activists. I just want to point out that us community members calling in are also activists were demanding rights for black and brown residents of pasadena to feel address item three the contract I am I thank you for it. Ok, ok. Thank you. So we're calling and demanding justice for black and brown residents of pasadena such as anthony mcclain and jay thomas . If you really value civil rights then you'll listen to what we have to say. We demand that you hire a city manager who will prosecute racist killer cops. We constantly state that you cannot fire these cops yourself. You can hire someone who can if you really value civil rights. Thank you. Won't make it ok for officers to kill people and still keep their jobs because they would giacomino get murdered in front of the children inside his home. Those cops are still on the job. If you guys really stand for civil rights, they go hire city manager who also does thank you. Black lives matter. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Brittany pawlak followed by cryonic. Bye bye. Adriana batiste fabricate macinerney all complete item three and we'll have item five as well as possible hear me. Yes we can. One minute. Thirty seconds. Go ahead. Thank you. I'd like to highlight some of the points that other folks have made and in particular the first person who spoke haraam he was trying to tell you all something and we can see on the zoom that you mayor are talking to other people while people are giving public comments. This is so disrespectful. Why do you all even