City Council Meeting: July 18, 2022

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pribumi mayor city council where live. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the JULY 18th. Twenty two twenty twenty two the city council and we will begin by calling. Thank you mayor. Council member hampton has not yet arrived. Council member kennedy here, COUNCILMAN Madison madison nick katsuo massouda here I just spent oh here we go again. Sorry. No problem. COUNCILMAN Massouda here customer service here. COUNCILMAN Williams here. Vice mayor wilson here. Mayor gordon here. There's a quorum of the council present. MISS Williams, can I ask you are leaders in the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under GOD indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Ok, we have fairly full agenda this evening but I'd like to start with the ceremonial matter and ask that our guests from volkswagen in pasadena be brought on rich wilson. This is part of our legacy business celebration. Rich mr hampton is now here rich high along victor in a long time since archaeology's it's been a long time you have not aged at all to today we are pleased to recognize volkswagen pessina as a legacy business in nineteen fifty seven trends ocean volkswagen opened at the corner of colorado and craig a few years later there was talk about the city developing an automobile north of foothill and at sierra madre prompting the store to move to its current location. One thirty north sierra madre boulevard with the hope that it would be at the entrance of the new auto mall. But the concept was never developed. Rich wilson purchased the business in nineteen ninety three and now known as valleywag in pasadena. The store has seen several remodel and significant business growth over the last thirty years. Volkswagen passing is currently undergoing a four billion dollar renovation to create the lighthouse. They're all electric vehicle showroom and also installing artificial turf drought tolerant landscape and heat resistant glass for the showroom floor. Volkswagen passing is one of the top ten producing stores in the nation consistently being recognized as a model dealership and winning many industry awards. Rich wilson and his wife barbara have been very active members of the community contributing countless hours and funding for many nonprofits in pasadena, including stars formerly the lake avenue community foundation, the salvation army, the boys girls club and many youth sports programs congratulate to volkswagen pasadena for over sixty five years of business and for your commitment to our community best wishes and continued success. Congratulations to you rich. Are many of you? Well some of you MAY know that rich and bavand attended at least two of us on this call know that rich barb and I attended college together and were friends in college and the two of you well I think the last time I saw you guys besides the stars that was the date of graduation ceremony. So that's in the early 90s just as you purchased the dealership. So congratulations to both of you and thank you for your commitment to basuki rich. Did you want to say a few words? Thank you. Thank thanks, victor. It's been a real interesting process to watch the growth of the city in the last twenty years. I have to say that it's not getting any easier to work. There's a lot of people involved but I will say that people like ruth martinez really do make it possible she's our go to when we have questions. She's the one that can help us talk to the right person and in fact last even came out to our dealership for someone to see what we've some of the issues that we were talking about. So while it's difficult on one side it feels like the city has put in place some measures that help businesses get through the process. So I appreciate that very much and I love cassidy. so glad to be here. Well, thank were we appreciate your business and your friendship capacity to please say hello to all of your employees and toubab thank them on the behalf of the passenger community and the city council. We will do it. Thank you very much. Thank you for recognizing it. We appreciate it. Thank you. Good to see you. Ok, next we next we move on to the consent calendar public comment I'm sorry public comment but public comment for matters not on the agenda. Thank you, mayor. We have three public comment cards admitted although two of the individuals have not yet checked in. We'll call hiram cormier jr followed by alan shay who hasn't checked in or michael williams who hasn't checked in. MR. Cormier JR. Please go ahead . Yeah, I'll just make it fast. It's the same as he's always I'm just calling to let you know that there are people in this world who still care about this case even though it's been two years. Mourning is permanent. Rephase armony especially when somebody is murdered especially in the manner that adding mcclain was murdered even now you guys don't care. It doesn't mean that his family is not affected and even if there was no human being on this planet who you know, was not calling you to do something about this, it still wouldn't matter. you still need to have something done. So I know there in the last meeting I believe it was cynthia said the city is going to close its investigation in the coming weeks before the end of the month I believe and I'm anticipating you know, the council will get off because that's what they always do on. But regardless, I still call for the cops to be fired and yeah, so that's pretty much it ,bro. Yeah. Thank you very much. Thank you, MR. Cormier. We do have allen shay now and we do have michael williams so allen shay and followed by michael williams MR. Shea, welcome to our sixth summit. There you go. You have three minutes. Go ahead MR. Allen, I saw you on mute but we don't hear you. We'll put you back in the room meeting. We'll call michael williams and then try you again in a second michael MR. Williams, MISS Go ahead right here. Me? Yes, go ahead. Three minutes. MR. Williams always I'm calling for I'm calling for the firing of the officer that killed anthony maclaine's and that were involved in his murder in the correct cover up that is currently going on. It should it should elicit alarm to you what is going on with this case. But it obviously does and obviously doesn't seem like anyone but counselor council member hampton cares even though what is the inside out of this case is and why this case is so important to people and why even after two years you're still getting calls, letters, other things asking for you all to make a decision that should have been done a long time ago? It just it's just a part of your duty. It's part of your duty to make sure that a the public is informed about what's going on here in pasadena that includes police that are going out of policy that are still on our streets, that have been on our streets walking around for almost two years even though they are we're under criminal investigation and they should and already fired for policy violations. Those are things that you should let the community know about should also as a community know about what is going pasadena when it comes to the police because you all certainly seem like you're not going to hold them accountable . You're not going to have them answer for actions that they take because this is the third time in ten years that we've had a black man murdered by the pasadena police when their circumstances were police acted outside of the purview of the policy that you all or previous council people have helped create and have done nothing of substance to make sure that those things don't happen again and they continue to continue to happen again and again and again here in pasadena. I'm working and doing this work . I've heard of stories even before kendrick mcdade of even before leroy barnes of pasadena police officers murdering black people and getting away with it and it's cycle it just continues to keep happening and keep going on because nobody in this council cares to set an example and that is that MR. Williams, your time is fired time of the year the city of pasadena thank you to the officers. Thank you. We'll try alan say again star six time mute allen on your phone. There you go. Three minutes go and you hear me? Yes, we can go ahead. Three minutes. Good afternoon. Mayor quarto and city council members as you are very well aware these calls are going to continue no matter if it's one person or forty. I think it's sad that the leadership here is not taking the appropriate actions to really set a standard because you're too afraid to take the actions you're going to let your citizens see that you are going to continue to reinforce systemic racism in this city, especially you victor. And I'm going to start calling you out on this because we need to we heal our community, victor. We really do. And you're the man who can do it. That's why we got behind you got an office. That's what needs to be done more. Moreover, with cynthia courage she indicated in the last meeting that the investigation was being detained because the extra information that was provided by the da's office and report I would appreciate if you spell out what that is and why and I would ask that you actually defer this so that our new city manager could have fresh eyes instead of trying to sweep it under the rug before he comes in so that we can have that opportunity. And I hope this council actually take this to heart because if you don't it's going to continue to show systemic racism and if you keep thinking it's just going to forded waita, it's that cynthia is not victor and it's not our city attorney. These things are not they're going to come up even more so as we continue to go forward. This is the time to heal the community, do the right thing. Just get some clarity about we're asking victor anybody this this should be a no brainer. It should be a no brainer. Michelle fonderie for you to to make sure that this is what happened to protect your community, protect the city not not those who work as employees. We love our police department and don't get me wrong I love them but they have to be held accountable and if you don't do this trust me just cause you're not going to stop they're going to actually again escalate when we get our new manager in office and I guarantee you that less and that's why I said let's let's end it now we asked the very first time when we called in to bring a resolution to it and you guys didn't almost two years ago we're back at that same point almost exactly two years. So I would appreciate yes. Hold it off until the new city manager get into office, MISS Curtis, and let a fresh eyes make that decision. Thank thank you. That completes public comment on matters not on the agenda. Thank you. And that brings us to the consent calendar and we have one public comment we'll call erika tamlin to speak on item five of the consent was tamlin. Welcome this tamlin. Thank you. Actually item five was an error. I'm going to be speaking on item six for which I also submitted speaker card. Ok, thank you. So there are no public comments on the consent calendar so if we can all ask the council for a sweep motion on the consent calendar so it moves second move by vice mayor wilson seconded by MISS Williams although I think MISS Williams was first so there's a motion in the second and local council member hampton yes. Councilor kennedy. Yes. Councilor madison yes. Councilor massouda yes. Council yes. Yes. Council member williams. yes. Vice mayor wilson yes. Mayor gordon yes. Motion is approved without opposition. So we do have public hearings however because they're significant there's significant number of comment cards and number six and they're at five thirty so and they're at five thirty and we give the time specific we'll take other items and try to get through the agenda leaving that matter for the main event together with the housing element after that . So why don't we move first to the item eight item eight which is the mid-term report on the interim report on the work of the early child development and early learning task force. We have the chair of the task force dr vera bigness and we present to report welcome and thank you for your work. Thank you dr victus. Yes, good afternoon. Good afternoon. Mayor gado, members of the city council hold on one second. I don't know that it's on. Is it on. It's on and I believe the the the participants over resume can hear her well ok but go ahead mr barker. Vagueness and I'll start again. Good afternoon mayor gado, members of the city council and city manager. Thank you for this opportunity for us to give a mid-term report and to introduce pat bouy who is working in a consultative role with us in this task force. Some of those of you who are on the council in 2015, the members that participate in development policy system in the beginning months that work she is someone who has spent her life really working with early childhood and is now project leader on a national project is funded by the dorset foundation that focuses on early childhood outcomes. So this will provide you with an update on our task force on intel development by way of introduction on just to remind you that 2015 you put your policy in to request basically a revision of the twenty year old child care policy and by that time child care on the two thousand fourteen fifteen with what you to know about child development science policy was based on science at that time the needs of our children study best practices. The country had extensive input from early learning of child care professionals. State and community also passed a resolution in MARCH 2015 that was the solution and support capacity to become an early city by the year 2025. That policy is the heart and soul of that policy seven years ago focused on what we call the building blocks today search for elements that surround the creation of the office of the child that was intended to support the work of the office policy. So we find ourselves today of two thousand and twenty two have experienced tremendous disruption pandemic and other social and economic factors. The needs of our children have not changed at all. they are positive most today require more support than ever. The effects of the pandemic impact without exception in our city community service either supporting children, families of it's not by accident that the members of our task force are directors of childcare centers starting next year to come don. We all talked about the children, the problems in the black community which things real quick. Yeah, that'll work the and and so the focus was really on school aged children. I'm not sure how much focus there was on the youngest children in our families. So we have through child care directors and they have spoken passionately about what they experienced with these youngest children in our community and their families. They struggled with economic instability. They struggled as they told it families with both mental and emotional health issues. They struggled with trying to find a way to deal with their children at home who were learning remotely and also having these youngest children. One of the aspects about the difficulties that people did not recognize is the actual hard effects on the child care workers. I mean this goes without saying that they are front line essential workers and what they experience not only in an economic way but in a both a a mental and emotional health stability. I think they've still not overcome that. They also struggled with the fact that they're they've lost acquired gold today with our families and our youngest children is to help them with information to understand what is accessible for them in order to have support, to have services and they weren't able to do this very well during the time of the pandemic. They talk to us about the disparities in child care support and opportunities for the lowest income children and also for those who had language, language, second language and and not very stable home lives. They talked about the social justice issues, economic instability, health disparities ,the fact that it was more than just language in for all for learners it was about cultural programs for all learners and they also talked about the cycle of violence and its effect on the children and families. And so in FEBRUARY of this year you approved a task force, the goal of which was to revise a policy along with a number of expectations in our work plan and this evening we're anxious to share with you our progress to date the process of analysis and discussion that we have used the keester stages and framework we believe are key for us to achieve the vision start by looking at the policy goal, the general goal of the policy are that it should reflect the current understanding of what best promotes positive child outcomes. this policy should create an opportunity to bridge and focus the efforts of multiple sectors not only early childhood education, child welfare, health, law enforcement and community building. And the policy should also create the conditions for a more comprehensive and effective approach to improve children's life and lifelong health and well-being and the role of the task force as you define it for us on FEBRUARY 28. This was our work plan and I won't repeat all of it but we were required to review the implementation of the of the plan looking at five five year goals and benchmarks that we can present for you to look at the supports that had been approved before for the office of the young child to look at the manner in which we integrate early childhood policy not only into city departments but also to an external community and to recommend opportunities along a number of fronts and that's in the slide before you and that's what we're working on and we're doing so in a way that I think is very thoughtful and very deliberative. One of describe the framework of the first policy is that of what we call the systems approach. And what we meant by that was we wanted our policy to focus on stakeholders who come together, work together, who share the vision and contribute to children's health and well-being. And so we first asked the task force to think about this and did that framework of a systems approach to the policy into what we wanted to see happen for our youngest children and families and the city is the leader that still hold and they said unanimously yes. We then began to look at the revision. Mm hmm. Like this ok, we then looked at the building blocks but we didn't call them building blocks. We call them the core elements in one of our task force members very astute director of a child care center reminded us that we needed to keep this very simple and very clear and we've done that as we've progressed and the task force members, you know, understood that they needed to look at each of the core elements and decide are these standalone? Are there are there ways that they could be combined in order to keep it simple and clear and effective? And so that's what we have been doing and that's been as we are to played our role. Yeah. And so you have a list the task force members, they are an extraordinary group of people whose life work in many ways has been devoted to children. The youngest children zero to five and their well being. There are parents who represent the diverse needs of our community. We have a research expert and efren aguilar who is the director of the ucla center for healthier children families and communities. we have three child care directors. We have DR. Murray palsson who is a chief of pediatric at ucla usc keck as well as a chief psychologist at children's hospital DR. Diane philippos in um director of a wellness at cal state northridge very, very active in child care and early childhood matters throughout the state and other members in our community and they are terrific I need to say and very thoughtful people. And so as I introduce them to you by way of this, I hope someday that you can meet them in person. Good evening, everybody. Bowie as varied traduce me earlier and I just wanted to give you a quick status, right. This is a midterm report so we have had six meetings to date and as you can see there's the dates of the meeting and basically as barbara expressed and told you, we started with actually looking at what was the charge of the task force at hand, what was the existing policy that they were to reflect on and look at? For some it was brand new policy to them. Others had actually been part of the formation of the earlier policy. So it was really a ground setting. We then looked at and asked the public health department to share with us their data the data that they did have available of the status of children in pasadena. Now we took a look at the data that inform the policy in 2015 and how has that what of the trends, ben? Right. How is that data shifted from twenty fifteen until now? As best as we have it, the health department is still pulling together some key data related to the pandemic and impact of the bendemeer on young children and families which they will be revisiting with us again. But we use that to then think about and talk about what were some of the national trends, what was actually what might have shifted in the conversation from 2015 to what do we actually have now and what is holding forth in terms of the science of the approaches for early childhood and the federal policy and state policies, city policies where where is the field headed? We then took that and reflected and ask as we said, ask people to look at the old policy with that lens of do these policy elements still hold true given what we actually know today and the status today and if they hold to are we putting in the right priorities so folks have actually come together and had that level of conversation. We have revisit each of the policies in terms of the building blocks and then move to really take a look at the vision and say is this vision compelling? Does it still hold true and how does it actually inform the master plan? So this is the status, right. And basically what we did within each of those meeting topics over is going to come to and share with you some of the reflections in some of the changes that you will be seeing in much more formal way as we head towards culminating in our task. So I mentioned how we focused on systems approach and as we looked at the revision of the core elements we looked at one and two together and no one was the elements of an aligned system for young children and the building block number two was partnerships and collaboration and the task force members felt there was a need to recognize the important building and sustaining partnerships and they also felt very strongly that it had to be with a very clear purpose in mind. And so we are combining these two core elements and it was suggested by one of our task force members that we look at it in this way linked in aligned and vision and linked in action and there is a kind of frame today that's used in the health care industry which is called no wrong door which remains an approach to ensure that children and families can access what they need when they need it. And so in this aligned and vision linked and action, a consensus was reached that building and sustaining partnerships is critical. They feel very strongly that the role of the city as a convener of the larger community is necessary to build and maintain these partnerships and a shared commitment to the vision. They stayed and emphasized that the city should take also on the role of catalyst for new approaches and ideas to take root. And finally the city should work to share what is being done and learned throughout the city stakeholders. One of the problems that confronted the child care centers and workers during the pand