City Council Meeting: July 10, 2023

progress ok welcome everyone to the monday JULY 10th twenty twenty three meeting the passing the city council and we will start with a calling of the roll county council. Our hampton was honored to be here councilor jones here, councilor lyon here. COUNCILMAN Mason here. COUNCILMAN Massouda here. COUNCILMAN Reavis here, vice mayor williams here, mayor gordo here. There's a quorum of the council present. Great. And I'm going to ask our tony award winning guest to lead in the pledge of allegiance any of the united states of america and for which it stands one nation under indivisible with liberty and justice for all. So it's kenny that's kenny james. You're doing the proclamation. I'm part of. So first I'm going to ask kenny james to join me and we can present the city's proclamation for passing as parks and recreation community services department and their promotion of physical emotional mental wellness through organized fitness play activities and special events and sports and this activity also supports passing as economic vitality. And so I'd like to congratulate our our parks staff for parks that make a better life our program that we learn more about so congratulations and thank you for your good work next I'd like to ask the ceo and board chair of the senate playhouse to come and join me. Many, many of you come on up here today and dennis and and er dennis and er ambacher and let me just say what a tremendous honor it is to first have the passion of playhouse to be a part pasadena I think we all understand the rich history the tradition, the it's it's truly a star in in pasadena and beyond. And so now to have you bring home our first ever tony award is an incredible achievement that we should all be very proud of. I'd like to thank the pasadena community for supporting the passing of playhouse because it couldn't be done without the community support that it takes to keep the playhouse going both physically as well as programmatically. And you have done a tremendous job. All of you have done a tremendous job of ensuring that this great treasure in our city continues to contribute to pasadena and our rich culture and history here and to all of you who are supporters of the playhouse. Thank you. On behalf of residents pasadena on behalf of the full city council for supporting such a great institution and now we get to have our own tony award it spins I didn't realize it spins so thank you and congratulations to see if it was just a few words. Thank you mayor. We are so lucky to be making theater and creating a cultural institution in this great community and to have elected officials around us city employees who care so deeply about cultural institutions that and we all have a great understanding that a community that is safe that is healthy for everyone is great. But to make a truly great community we need great cultural institutions. And just a few years ago the playhouse was in danger of not being around and in fact mayor chernick from before my very first meeting my first week we had an emergency meeting about is this going to make it? Are we going to make it and we made it I think an award like this was not actually in our minds at that time just surviving was and we did it the way the playhouse has always done it. The pasadena community in 1917 the community made the pasadena playhouse and the twenty four in 1924 they raised the money to build the building we're in today. It's always been rooted in our community so we think everyone in the community, our staff, our board of trustees, all of our supporters and donors that gilmore brown, the man who founded playhouse said this building on the dedication day will be a living force in the community and we try to live up to that every day. So thank you very much. Thank you, MADAM Chair. Ok, well again thank you for and congratulations to each of you and all of you collectively for what a tremendous accomplishment and what a just to receive a tony award in the city of pasadena. I think the entire city considering that it's all because of your hard work and the hard work of all of you who support the passing of playhouse. Thank you. . And those of you that are standing, please feel free to fill in the empty seats that are now available up at the front. First come first serve. I'm going to I think I failed to give the parks after staff an opportunity just to tell us a little bit about what's happening. So if they'll come back up and just feel the community and what it means to have parks. Thank you, mayor mcginn. Kenny james, acting deputy director for the parks recreation community services department. Again, we're here to celebrate parks mayfly better mayor council members. We gave you guys a backpack that gave you one these fabulous t-shirts. We hope that you guys are aware we also gave you guys water bottles and a couple other things. What we're doing is encouraging people to come out and participate in park activities. We have a special program we do call parks after dark and I'm going to turn over to pam cantarell and she'll talk a little bit about that program. Thank you. so we're excited to announce we are actually going on to our twelfth season of parks after dark. So every year right after the fourth of JULY we will bring an array of activities for the whole family to enjoy. We kicked off our first activity last week with the parks after dark festival and softball tournament where the pasadena police department played against the community team as well as parks and rec played against the city manager's team. In addition to that we also offer movies on friday so we're playing movies like the super mario brothers. Let your space jam super pad's minyans. We also have an opportunity for some adults participate to participate in soccer leagues, basketball on saturdays we have what's called aqua boogie nights where we're going to have music in the villa park pool with a light show. Hopefully you guys can come out and join us and you guys are receive this flier as well in your goody bag. Thank you. Yes. So next we have an introduction by MISS Williams. Thank you, MISS Williams. And then we have an in memory of for MR. Jones. Thank you so much mayor and council. I would like to introduce our summer intern. Her name is zoe frederick. She'll come to the podium. I'll join you. so zoe is a rising senior at marshall fundamental and she's our third intern that we've had in this office and so she wants to learn more about city government and I think michelle boundary's is going to take you to court in a good way to watch what the city attorney's office does if you want to say a few words, we're really proud to have you in our office and you can also stay for the meeting and see how the public process works. Um, thank you for this opportunity. I'm very excited to be working with all of you. Um, I've been interested in law and city government for quite a while so this is an excellent opportunity for me to learn about that and I can't wait. Thank you. Ok, MR. Jones. Thanks, mayor. Today I asked my colleagues to adjourn in the honor of the remarkable life of mrs dixon. Some of the community refer to her as mother dixon. She lived to an extraordinary one hundred and one years old. Her unwavering commitment to the well-being of others has left a lasting mark in our community. She worked as a caseworker for L.A. County department of social services for fifty years and so I used to joke with her that the the cowpunchers formula was two and a half fifty not fifty years and beyond her professional contributions she she extended her impact to our community as a foster parent. She opened her heart and her home to over one hundred foster children. I know just last year we celebrated her 100th birthday at the mayor and I think council member hampton attended as well. So I'd like us to all cherish her memory and just strive to make a positive impact as she did on our community and thank you. Thank you. Council member jones and on behalf of the full city council, we will adjourn her memory and her many contributions to our to our community. Thank you for bringing that forward. Next we'll go to matters I'm sorry to public comment for matters not on the agenda it seems we have twelve cards at the moment and so I'm going to ask people to try and stick with the two minutes so we can move on to the council's regular agenda. If you would like more than two minutes we can grant that at the end of the meeting and we'll take it on a case by case basis. Otherwise please try and stick to the two minutes. First speaker is jay jorgensen followed by sam bernt followed by alan shay stormwind. There's thirty seconds left. You'll hear a bell but go ahead so all you have a picture in front of you or should as was communicated I mean that's not even a partial of the items the city municipal workers deal with on a regular basis that can be found on any sidewalk here, any garbage can anywhere in the city that doesn't include the products in your own office. You are all directly in criminal negligence, occupational health and safety of california statutes as well as federal statutes to protect yourselves from any onus of proof to prove that you were not intentionally harming people. And everyone in this office and everyone here and everyone of your staff where is the msds sheet for this item? Where's the media ice sheet for this item? Where is the sheet for the water that you're consuming right now because as of twenty seventh of last month water power tested the power at bonds on colorado and found that there were several items that cause physical harm to the public. I just confirmed again that with the water and power amy george that those items aren't even being reviewed. They don't investigative glyphosate or roundup is present in the water. They don't investigate that hormones or other things are present in the water. They identified that bacteria is present in the water which is being spread and disseminated on seven different systems out throughout the city . That wastewater also goes back down into that groundwater. It comes right back up so also contains pharmaceuticals, chemical, nuclear and biological agents which you're pumping out in criminal negligence a dereliction of your duty in conjunction with that hazardous communication standard in conjunction with the prop sixty five legislation in conjunction with the california civil code seventeen ninety three point two. These are consumer goods. We are all consumers of these waters up those products we bathe in them. We feed our kids with them. You have wards of the state currently in detention. You were poisoning that water that you're drinking that not furthermore I can't legally throw any of these items in the garbage they contain biological ,chemical and nuclear agents throwing those items in the garbage which means milk, alcohol, all kinds of things that are in regular household throwing those items in the garbage. Is it a federal offense there are many federal offenses. First, the intention to release a biological or chemical or nuclear agents knowingly or otherwise. So when your garbage men come along and take these things up, these municipal workers, the staff of the city, you were potentially you were putting in that harm you're jeopardizing. I also stuck with the fire chief. They have no statute for the water that they are being subjected to use for their bathing, for their washing, for their cooking in their facility. Nor do the police no one seems to have this including the water department themselves don't have the investigation. You are legally obligated to provide that for our workforce's for all places of employment. Well, every person in the city is their own employer or could be and we require the safe facilitation of services in order to conduct business in order to make taxes so that you can go to work. You every single one of you is negligent. You chose to be on that street . You chose to be there. I'll in second that was communicated out and I'll take my full three minutes. Thank you. Every one of you chose to be you volunteered to be there to protect these people to do a job at the expense of the taxes that you take as a disabled homeless person who has to now pay for additional services. I'm not getting the services that I paid for with the taxes that I paid for. I'm not getting what it it doesn't cost me physical injury or harm your opinion water that's causing physical injury harm to the community that causes acute long term effects, that's crimes against humanity . And I really I know that I'm about to right out of time because it's egregiously that the criminals can look and act as you're behaving. Try to act so glorious and astute well while remaining intentionally willfully ignorant of the topic I've communicated to your office specifically since the sixth of last month in conjunction with the lawyers who facilitated that request water and power to test the water. Your three minutes has expired. Thank you. I've entered the information into court into the record that will be used against you in a court of law in the future. I encourage you. Thank you, sir. And again make no thank you for your comments. Next speaker train next speaker. Thank you. Sambor hello. Welcome. Hey, it's good to see you all. My name is simper and take it by him pronounce on a member of the stakeholder technical advisory group for the integrated resource plan. As state members we have spent the last eight nine months deep into the integrated resource planning erp publicly criticize the carbon free scenarios of the irp as being largely differentiated where we expect they MAY not produce workable results as they do not take into consideration the key issues that we've identified publicly with you all in response to this pwp passi you want to empower has said it was yes city council that the scenarios irp are intended to produce building blocks. So you put them together to create a working plan that the council will then have the opportunity to put together into a plan that achieves the carbon goal which again thank you so much for making historically though this building blocks thing has not been the case. In fact typically what happens is the city council has provided recommendation little room for in-depth discussion let alone go back or request updates to build its plan with the building blocks. But this is a historic year. You all have made history by acknowledging a climate emergency and setting justifiable policy to decarbonize our electric grid. As such, the city council must be provided sufficient time to ensure your policy goals met. So I ask how is the city council expected to weigh key policy considerations, build a workable plan with the building blocks scenarios and make a decision that meets your goal when there is only one plan to council meeting about one month before the state mandated deadline we are setting up the iap council meetings to ensure you have the adequate time to be given information the opportunity to provide input and if needed require revision such that you can ensure your policy goals. Thank thank you mr bernard. Next speaker alan shay followed by aldan followed by claudia fung mr jay welcome. Thank you. Mira gaudio and city council members as I have come before you every meeting since the chamber opened this year regarding changing the charter how imperative it is it is necessary and I think the city of pasadena missed a great opportunity to be leaders here in southern california in the wake of what happened in lancaster where the sheriff's department through an elderly woman down captured on footage on video and yet when chief luna stepped up he could not affirm that he was going to take the appropriate action even in the wake of video that egregious this is an opportunity for this council member or this council to take hold that we've got to make changes and you need to agenda is the item of changing the charter. That's why I come before this this council every monday you're hosting a public comment. Last but not least, I would like to recognize my family on business the little red hen they're celebrating your fiftieth anniversary in business serving almost everybody in the past in the area and that shows consistent and commitment to both altadena and pasadena and the vested interests we show as a family to this community in hopes that these leaders here pick up on that. Thank you. Thank you, MR. Speaker. Aldan denham followed by alton denham followed by claudia fong ,followed by carl sulkin, followed by lauren corey. MR. Denham, welcome. Welcome. I want to ask you everyone a respectful hello and it's not easy to be respectful in here because we've been fighting this battle but anthony playing for three years now and we get no action. But I know the struggle that we we were in right now it's not just about anthony mclain. It's about the systemic racism in this country and is it is a struggle and I'm besieging all of you struggle with this especially my brothers over here. I want someone to stand up. You see I'm wearing my john lewis shirt and he was a stand your kind of guy and that's what we want out of you. You don't want to fight for us people that we like you and put you in here. We get the heck out of here. We want you out, ok? And that's what that's the reality of it. We want somebody in here who's going to fight for right. I've been coming I've been coming to these and speaking at these meetings for three years now just trying to get you to do the right thing and you know me I come in and I'm not representing a political group or any group. I come to represent the truth and each and every one of you know who that is and that's what I asked I asked the truth to be said on the table and dealt with this kind of hard for is kind of hard for me to maintain my composure because I'm so passionate about this. I what I want to catch you all out trust me I say that because it seems as though you're sitting here doing nothing but after a year and a half of of of dunstone that you begin you're actually pleading with you to do the right thing. That's all we would ask them to do the right thing we haven't gotten to yet. it's it's a shame. But like I say it's a struggle. Frederick douglass said there's no progress without show and we're in the struggle. We've been my people I've been in the struggle for a long time. We're fighting for liberty and justice for all and it's hard for me to pledge allegiance when I say liberty and justice for all when I know that's never happened. So I'm just I'm calling on each and every one of you. I'm calling on your conscience to do the right thing. You know, this young man died needlessly and even worse than that even worse than him dying needlessly rather than doing the right thing. Someone in in our city chose to cover it up, hide it. They planted the we know that in a police department we have to address all these things and I say the way we address them put the truth on the table and let's deal with and even even every one of you have ever seen the footage. You know that boy was killed unnecessarily and yet no one has been held accountable for it. The city is paying out seven point five million dollars for I'm to take the one man made and that man is still on our books and I know you call my time right now so respectfully back out because there's nothing I can say that hasn't been said before. But I will say this ben crump came here and he told you all as he say say no more. Look at the video. say look at the video. The video speaks the truth. Thank you, MR. Dunn. And that's what we need to deal with the truth. Stand up my soldiers, be a soldier, stand and fight for the people who put you in here or we get you claudia fun bauby self-control by lauren corey MR. Funk, welcome. Good evening mayor and council members. My name is claudia funk and I'm a member of pasadena one hundred I'm also a concerned resident of district seven and our plan last week the record for the hottest day on earth was broken three times. It's sure to be broken again in JANUARY twenty twenty three you the governing body of this city wisely decided to declare a climate emergency and resolved to source one hundred percent of pasadena's electricity from carbon free sources by 2030. The integrated resource plan smalling should be completed by AUGUST. Unfortunately you will only receive a presentation of the irp on NOVEMBER six just a month before the planned state filing date. I'm not a member of the stack like my good friend sam bernt but I did substitute for him on MAY 17th pdv U.B. Began that meeting by stating that implementing the 2030 goal was part of the irp process. Yet later in the meeting when suggestions were made about demand reduction to reach that goal they said that was policy which they don't do although they certainly have made policy recommending like the rollback of the watering restrictions which you all sensibly voted down distributed generation storage demand response rate equity and an upgrade to the goodrich substation are all vital elements for meeting the 2030 goal which the irp has thus far neglected. It is only fair that you have more than a month to examine these and consider the quote policies that pwp will not explore in order to meet your goal. This matters. I respectfully respectfully ask that you move up the irp schedule to ensure that you have adequate time to receive information, provide input and direct revision as appropriate. Thank you speaker carl sulkin all by for you followed by anthony musso's followed by for the past nine months residents and reps from so many groups have spoken in this chamber as well as at the mercy iac sierra club audobon naacp religious organizations citizens climate lobby to name a few they have supplied overviews of our climate crisis as well as small mountains of science based evidence. This was so that we as a city with our own utility company could make a transformative and feasible shift in our energy sourcing and consumption. Everybody knows that the irp process is complex as are the evaluations of the scenarios and the decisions that follow your decision will be with us for decades yet our utility company has calendared their presentations to limit any pasadena governing body from having adequate GOD forbid ample time to comprehend then question the scenarios where is the time for you to reach out to independent experts for explanations as well as for advice? If this issue was about major traffic routes or major changes in p usd or resolving the seven debacle, would you allow only one month from hearing essentially the the final report to the week you actually make the decision? Even two months is a short window yet marginally better. I know you are swamped yet to get an early grasp. A few could attend the easy or messy presentations as audience require cliffe versions of the scenarios in writing so you can look at the often cited building blocks your decision will be with us for decades. Thank you. Carl salkin anthony so by jt calm. Hi. So my name is carl salkin and I'm here as a member of pasadena one hundred as co-chair of the social justice committee of pasadena jewish and center and as a member of the stanford and I'd first like to introduce our pasadena one hundred co members here and those who have responded to our call. Will you please stand? Thank you and I'd like to say just two very brief things. First of all, are I going to reemphasize the need that you will have to take adequate time to review the proposal that will come before you? i have spent what, eight months understand it's been a wonderful graduate education in electric power and in political power as well. And I'd like to say that while I sympathize with the pasadena water and power staff and with the consultants who are on board of things have changed considerably. And while we're all learning together, I would say that when this comes to you you have a long learning curve to also engage and that the more time you have to study this review and ask for revisions, the better the chances that we'll meet the policy goal that you set of DECEMBER thirty first twenty twenty thirty or carbon free electricity. I would also like to make one other point and that is that the landscape has changed dramatically to larry lake hasn't been around for a long time. If you look at the videos on the east coast where you see towns isolated by floods or you look at texas and arizona and the incredible heat waves that they are undergoing, these are very different times we can't based what we're doing for the future on the past and that's a problem with all of us who have had our education in these subjects quite a while ago. So please remember how long it's going to take all of you and all of us to catch up to speed to reach that a central goal for the future. Thank you, anthony mannus next followed by followed by jt pa followed by donald followed by jose munoz then flavio andreotti and then skylar gary. Well good evening. It's great to see you all. I usually by here I'm representing making housing and community happen and I usually come before you to urge you to do more for affordable housing. But this evening I'm here to thank you for what you've accomplished. You are our city is really a leader in affordable housing throughout the whole thing gabriel valley and really beyond so our organization decided to have a bus tour and invite all of the one hundred and fifty seven leaders in the san gabriel valley elected officials to come on our tour. About fifteen or sixteen have responded from ten different cities. They're coming to our city to learn from us how we reduced our homeless count by 50 percent, how we have become a leader in affordable housing and they want to model and learn from us. So we're doing we have six more spaces left and I want to particularly thank mayor gordo and he was very supportive of the salvation army project and that's where our tour is going to start and we're inviting him or a city manager or anybody who could represent our city and welcome these city officials who are coming to our city to learn from us so that we can spread the good news that affordable housing benefits communities. It's not something to be afraid of. Some cities from frade believe so. thank you all and I encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity. I've learned a lot just doing the research on what we've accomplished in the city regarding affordable housing. We can all learn from each other and do more in the future. So thank you again. Thank MR. And MRS. J.T. For all by don riddell for by jos\ munoz followed by flavio andrade, skyler gering what council? I'm here to discuss artificial intelligence A.I. Is going to take all of our jobs and render us useless and I for one am stoked. I hate jobs. I had a job once and everyone there talked in weird voices A.I. Is going to eighty six all of that but but we'll still need money. That is why I'm asking the government to step up and make sure we're breaded. We are proposing a small payment plan or a small piece of tanji a month for every citizen so we can party and work hard and enjoy our free time now we can't afford to just sit back and have a bus through and not have a plan. We got to make sure people have food and houses so we can party and rage in peace. So instruct I to pay all of us and you dudes can retire gracefully before you get replaced and we'll see you at the beach. The bonfires will be epic. Everybody will be hot. Martin luther king, thank you don riddell. i think we're we've gone over the twenty minute that we set aside so with the next speaker can keep their comments to the two minutes or under that be great next. Otherwise you have to come back at the end of the meeting. Sir welcome godo in the city council for me to speak tonight. I'm standing here before tonight because I stand with the rookie officer I think restoril I think because of ab twenty six she has the right to intervene when she feels that there's a excessive force being used. I don't think that it was right for her to be suspended. I think that you should invite the honorable chris holderman to come to his chambers which was his chambers before you to explain ab 26 now some of my colleagues disagree with me but always wanted to ask some some officers when they abused me why they pardoner would allow for for them to use force and they never intervene or try to stop it. But when the officer intervened on an excessive force, that's a good thing. I think we should have diversity on the police force that we need women. We need african americans, we need white and we need latinos and other other minorities because just one on one race is it's just not good. I yield my time. Thank you, sir. Jos\ munoz followed by flavio andreotti followed by skyler geering. MR. Munoz. good evening mayor city council. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. I speaking on behalf of my crew over here our contract is over on JUNE 30th. We're in the sanitation department and the reason we're here is our contract negotiators are not doing well . The main thing is one of the things that happened with cauvin it kind of opened up everything regarding the facts are that when most of you were at home taking care of your families, there were three departments that needed to be here, one in order. But the fire department we needed the fire department. We need the police department and you need us to be here to make sure that everything was cleaned up, pick up all the trash and in that period time when we were doing our work, a lot of people desire to be become chefs contractor gardeners. We picked up more than we ever had in the past and we showed up without hesitation. We picked up everything ok and last month we had our quarterly meeting with our department and they were praising us that we were the only city that were able to pick up all three commodities and bulky items throughout the pandemic. Ok, but then you turn around and you guys give us this offer that doesn't make no sense. We've earned it. We've worked really, really hard to continue to pick up for our residents and just let you know is that you know, while you guys were at home we're out here and we could have easily picked up the virus and taken it home and like I'm a single father with a son. I know that other guys here have elderly parents and we still showed up to work and it's really unfair what you guys are offering us. We're not asking you for a favor. We're asking you to approve. We're asking for because we have deserved it and we have earned it simple as that. We have I think one of the problems is is that when you look at sanitation we feel like we're the stepchildren of the city, we get pushed to the side when the pandemic was happening everything was good. But now that everything is back to normal we've been forgotten again and I don't think that's fair. Ok, and we're really frustrated with the whole situation and part of the thing is sanitation department take that out of your mind. I think this is probably one of the problems I don't work for the sanitation department. I'm not a trash man. Ok, none of us are ok. We work for the city of pasadena in public works on the recent recovery and recycled department and we're heavy truck drivers so please put that in your mind and please approve our what we're asking for because we're not asking for much but we can speak about the cost of living. We're not allowed to compare ourselves to other cities. mr. Munoz, your time has expired up to second. Sure. Ok, we can't we can't speak about that but we have that's part of it. We all know the cost of living has skyrocketed and of course you can't compare to another city because we're the best. This crew might not be perfect but we're the perfect team bottom line and I'm proud to be a part of this team. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Let me just say on behalf of the council on behalf of the community that we do appreciate the service past, present and future very much. I know a lot of you and I know how hard you work, MR. Graddy. I so I want to say I appreciate you guys like them. I do appreciate you guys. You guys are the ones busting your. You guys are the ones walking around MR. Indrawati, if you'll direct your comments to the council I am so like I said, I appreciate you guys because unlike them they're just going to give all that away. You know? But I appreciate you guys at the end of the day I really do so what I said just last month we're here talking about both of us. This is for you guys bonuses audacity. Remember that remember we're talking about the you get you're confusing character. I'm going to bring you the agendas you guys career next month, you know? so my thing is is that you guys are sitting here allocating money even to el monte police department. You guys aren't doing that. Yes. You you're not getting the money the police department money to stay take care of the rose bowl. The rose bowl has enough money you can to me. So why are you guys not paying these hardworking men that live in your city, tyrone like we're talking about this water we're talking about justin jones. Don't you work on water? You should know about this, right? It's sad to see like all the stuff that these people are bringing to our dinner table and you guys are just smirking or looking in your little baggies and aw come on, it's all like that. Come on. I like for reals I'm really serious. I'm not going to stop and I suggest to all of you guys we all team up, we fill this up and we sir please don't interrupt the speaker. They're not going they're not going to back down yet I'm saying so we should work together as residents and you guys as workers and we come in here trust me they're going to have to vote yes, they just did it. I was in court for trial for riding my bike allegedly on the side of the road. You guys wasting your money on that? Give it to them. You know, and then do you know the news that little the new intern I really want you to know that at the end of the day that's what they were doing. They're wasting money. MR. Indrawati, I hope you realize this really work correctly. MR. Drake, thank you for your comments. Skylar gering followed by michelle martin as the last speaker skylar gering oh is a virtual yes. We can't go ahead. Right. I too would like to express my concern about the irp is central to the city council has presented the results of the irp modeling many times instead of building blocks that the council will put together to build strategy and creating policy to achieve a zero carbon future is no small path. There are numerous facets to consider great equity storage and distributed generation yet the members are left with very little time to deliberate on this important work. I would like to remind the council when they were recently presented with a geothermal contract with only hours left to accept as an attendee of that city council meeting that was afrox situation filled with uncertainty and our city deserves better than for all of our energy decisions to be made on such a hasty timeline, I would like to advocate for the council to request additional earlier meetings with pwp to begin planning our city's energy future. Thank you very much. Thank you. last speaker the last speaker is michel martin this morning. Welcome. I honorable COUNCILMAN. I just wanted to put in my information today just to I don't know if you're going to get to the topic or not but there was a project that was to be built on lake street and I just wanted to put in a formal opposition to it for today. So I don't know if I was going to come up on today's agenda meeting but I just wanted to put in a record that I oppose that project what project it was supposed to be for a mixed use project partially residential. It was originally a restaurant. I just saw it on passing on lake avenue. So that's why I wanted they said it was supposed to come up on today's agenda but I don't know if that's actually going to be in tonight's agenda or not talking about the one for oneself lake mayor, I believe it's in closed session this evening. Yeah, it's that's a closed session on the closed session. Oh, I see. Ok, is it said that we had a chance to speak about it so that's what I was. We'll accept your comments. Ok, I appreciate it. Thank you for a great day. Thank you. And that completes public comment on matters not on the agenda. Ok, next we'll take up the consent calendar with everything except for items three and eight mir. i also request that we pull thirteen ok I just learned that my law firm MAY have taken on a legal matter for lafsky very recently and ok I don't know any details but in the interest of caution I'm going to recuse myself understood so as to avoid any appearance of impropriety. Thank you. And MR. Jones that statement yeah. I'll recuse myself from item three and eight because I am an employee of L.A. County public works and that is contracting with L.A. County. It works ok, although it's a public agency and I don't think there's an issue but I understand the like MR. Madison, the caution being exercised and so we will take up everything except on the consent calendar thirteen three and eight and and allow the two members to recuse themselves for those matters. Is there a motion on the remainder of the consent calendar move approval of the remainder seconded by MR. Kline, seconded by MR. Reavis MISS Reavis somebody will give it to jones you jones all right. So so moved by MR. Lyons, seconded by MR. Jones. Any objections to the motion seen on those matters are approved now we will take items three and eight together, three and eight together together. Ok, allow MR. Jones to step out. Is there a motion on three and eight questions or comments? MR. Asuda, I have a question on eight I want to know what that portion of altadena drive is. It's it's in the fourth district and I just want a description that director of public works is so good at getting the mayor and city council. So the portion altadena is a section that's north of new york and then where the street bends on the north side, that's the limits of it. That's the property. The boundary line of the city is right down the middle. So we're paying for the east half and the county is paying for the west half. Ok, thank you. And we got the supervisors check when she was here earlier today. So with that, are you prepared to move the matter? Yes, I am. Ok, second and seconded any objections? See none. That was for three endi MR. Massouda ok so seconded by rivas on three and eight that is reflected MR. Jones was abstained because of yes we are yes and so that is approved now we'll take up item thirteen and I'll step out of the room. No thank you MR. Madsen to step out of the room out of an abundance of caution and go thirteen thirteen and for item thirteen is there a motion to approve when MR. Hampton seconded by MR. Massouda any objections to that to the motion see none that matters approved and congratulations to all who are involved on all these issues. But it's good to see the ball bouncing back so terrifically. by the way, ok, with that we move to let's move to the ordinance before we get to that we can discard the ordinance or approve the ordinance I should say this was an ordinance that was introduced by council member hampton and unquantified ordinance of the city of pasadena extending certain land use related guideline deadlines for entitlements granted in compliance with title seventeen the zoning code title sixteen subdivisions. Oh I'm sorry go ahead to adopt council member hampton yes. Councilor jones yes. Councilor lyon yes. Councilor madsen yes. Councilor massouda yes. COUNCILMAN Riva's yes. Vice mayor williams yes. Mayor gordon yes. Ordinance is adopted unanimous. Thank you. That matter is approved and now move to move on to the main event and this is item sixteen the I'm sorry fifteen brookside golf course improvement project and we'll start by thanking everyone who's made the time to to give input either in writing or email or telephonically. I know the matter's brought up at the rboc and so I'll ask mr madsen to introduce the matter and then introduce rboc staff and we'll take it from thank you very much mayor and joe madison, some of you MAY know is our represent the council's representative to the rosebowl operating company. So mayor, as I think we all know the rboc considered the matter and then determine that it should send the matter to the city council for a variety of reasons including the financing that's involved in this proposal comes as the fruits of a long effort to identify potential uses in the rboc venue if you will. The rboc considered a variety of of items some of which thankfully were left on the cutting room floor, some of which were discussed thoroughly and this is really emerged as a as a strong positive way but with some impacts obviously not requiring a secret report but one thing just in terms of process is I know the staff gents weedman is here, our ceo and he has other staff with them and he has a presentation. But I would like to flag just two things and ask my colleagues maybe for some direction right at the outset friday at five thirty one pm you know, it's hard for me to believe that was casual or accidental. We received a fifty page letter from council from the lba raising a host of new issues. I know I didn't see that until today and that was the thrust of my comment was that I think it's bad form to deliver something after the close of business on friday. So I didn't see it until today I doubt well I just don't know whether others have had a chance to carefully review it and then the other is that there have been some questions raised about the financing aspects. So one option might be to hear a very brief presentation from the rboc staff and then tabled the matter, if you will, and then studied the financial aspects that have been raised the questions and then also have legal counsel analyzed the 50 page comment that seems intended to create a record that we didn't sort of consider which of course wouldn't be true in whatever direction we went in but so that's just a thought about giving us some direction er councilor medicine as a representative of that area as well I was thinking out of that as a motion because I was going to ask for this to be tabled tonight anyhow. I think that there needs to be a little bit more outreach. A lot of the emails that I've received in correspondence I've received from residents are concerned about what the layout is, what this miniature golf looks like. Some of the emails that I've received I made it seem like this was going to be opening up a amusement park in the royal and I think that just there needs to be a little bit more outreach and then also I didn't see that letter as well from the lba. And so I think that the presentations should still move forward there because I think that will help with educating and letting people know what this is supposed to be. But I think that there's a little bit more work that rboc has to do to, you know, get the word out to the residents so they can make an informed decision. Thank you. Thank you both. Let's let's go ahead and welcome the PRESIDENT Of the rboc, mr nataline and the general manager. Gentlemen, you the comments and the will be a little briefer and perhaps we were we MAY have been before but mr mayor, members of the city council city manager, senior staff steve nataline, PRESIDENT Of the rose bowl operating company I am joined today by a couple of other board members rafael henderson, vice PRESIDENT Of the board, richard shamal treasurer of the board. Michael hurley and if I missed somebody coming in, I apologize. Also joined by several members the rboc staff for tonight as well as general manager and ceo. Gentlemen, before I get into the comments about the family golf, I wanted to publicly acknowledge the efforts of the rboc team, the rboc staff to put on a great event JULY 4th a wonderful soccer match, record setting attendance, soccer match fireworks show and understand a reasonable impact on the neighborhood not zero impact but a reasonable impact. So I wanted to congratulate the team on the rboc council member madisen mentioned we've gone through a very long process to identify the original or I should say new revenue sources to support the stadium and to support the golf course. A multi-year effort we started off with somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred and twenty projects narrowed down to twenty that were more thoroughly study and we believe this one is a very strong project that should go forward . we base that and we're excited about this for three reasons. First, it is a use that is consistent with the current uses the central arroyo the central arroyo is pasadena's entertainment recreation center. It's it's the heart for those things the central arroyo has aquatic center and tennis courts and soccer fields and tennis courts to golf courses and running you know, the running loop and the bike. And this will add to that we feel that the renovation of the driving range and the modern mini golf is complementary to that. Second, the family golf project will make money after expenses and debt. It's estimated to generate a million two per year once the debt for the construction with construction loans made two point four million per year. These are dollars that will be used to help maintain the stadium on the golf course, pay the debt for the pavilion and help protect the general fund from having to do so. The third reason we're excited about this is that it's a project that will bring new users to the to the arroyo and that's very important. It's called family golf for a reason. It's not an accident. We think this will bring families into the arroyo. We think this will bring nontraditional golfers into the area. People who are attracted to say the top golf model this is not top golf but people who are attracted to that. We feel that'll bring more people to the to the royal. We love our traditional golfers but we think we can add more users into the into that area and we're very excited about that. So for those reasons the rboc is recommending this project I understand it MAY get table and with that I'll turn it over to cogens. Thanks, steve. Mayor council thank you for having us today. I'd also like to acknowledge we have some legacy board members in the room today. We're very lucky to have cherished central royal rosebowl stadium national historic landmark that has private individuals that care so much and I think that's that shown today by the turnout. We always talk about how the rose bowl puts people in seats and that did so today and I think all of you should be proud of that. People really are proud of what the central arroyo is right now and really want to protect to make sure it's there for future generations. And as we've discussed before, we had rboc understand that what sets us apart is our setting. We understand we're not going out. So if I sophi stadium, we are in the most competitive stadium market in the country and if we lose what sets us apart are setting we lose everything. So we welcome the opportunity to talk today and in the future and make sure that we have a thorough dialog because this needs to be something that pasadena wants and that the community wants. We're not in a position where we can or want to force anything on anyone. You should also be very proud that you have probably the most successful municipal golf course in the country between municipal golf doing over one hundred and fifty thousand rounds a year. The music festivals, the tailgating, the cultural events that take place on the golf course and on our grounds it is it is a model it was discussed earlier that some cities are coming in to learn about how to build more affordable housing or to get people into homes. People come to us all the time and ask how we're able to do so much with the grounds that we have and and that's important to us and we have a fiduciary responsibility. We came in front of you just about a year ago and the picture was not great for the rboc. We showed up close to 25 million dollar loss over the next five years and we were tasked with going out and finding new revenues ways to try and minimize that. I'm happy to say that we have turned that around. We've turned that into a place where we are going to be profitable within the next couple of years and we are going to continue to focus on new ways new revenue streams, not just family golf. Since meeting with you, we've done many things just today sb 96 passed the tax committee not with a nine no vote in sacramento. The tibbett is a wonderful opportunity for us to create tourism in the city. We worked multiple agreements with our tenants to result in millions of dollars of new net revenue for the rboc. This is important because these net revenues are not just about balancing our budget. We all of us own one hundred year old national historic landmark that's in need of massive capital investment not just for fan amenities but to make sure that it's safe and that it's secure. These funds enable us to focus on the really important work of investing back in that stadium that we're all so proud of. So we appreciate your time today with that I'm actually going to hand the next portion over to eddie farrell at with place and they helped us with the secret report that we're going to go through the day. So I go through some slides and then after that myself and brandon fox, director of golf operations have come back up to show a video that hopefully gives a little bit better color of what this could look like down in the central arroyo and then we'll open it up for however counsel I can deal with it. Thank you. Welcome debbie. Hello. Thank you. Just just a point of order, mayor. So are we tabling this or are we going through the whole presentation? Are we deciding today? I think we're going go through the presentation as part of the outreach process and then see where we find ourselves. But it sounds like at least two members of the city council whose districts are directly impacted are requesting more time so let's let's go through the presentation as part of the outreach efforts and I would be the third to request that there are a lot of land use questions that I have that didn't seem to be answered by the report. So I would like a chance for staff to actually answer those when they come back. So one of one of the things that we MAY do is I'm sorry I really me taking the presentation allow questions to be put forth and then charge the staff with coming back with answers to those questions. Ok, maybe you're ok. Thank you. Council members. Mayor again my name is addie farrell. We've kind of met your introductions here. I must place works. I've been assisting the rose bowl operating company for the last two years and getting through the california environmental quality act or sequoia process for the family golf project. So what I'm going to go through this evening is just an overview of the secret process that was conducted will walk a little bit through the findings of the initial study and mitigated negative declaration which was the type of secret document that was prepared. We will walk through the project description some of the key environmental topics that were addressed in the sequel review and then we conducted a response to comments process and document that has been shared with all of you which we'll talk through the outreach efforts and then brandon is going to run through some of the concept ideas behind family golf. So just to start off again, the rosebowl operating company did prepare a mitigated negative declaration that is supported by a thorough comprehensive initial study that evaluates the impacts associated with this project from construction all the way through long term operation. It was circulated for a 45 day public comment period from JANUARY 17 to MARCH 3rd of this year which exceeds the traditional thirty days that is usually used for public comment periods for an mmd. So the remedy includes again a project description and then the bulk of the document really focuses on the environmental assessment of course. And there are twenty one topics that are required by sequoia that we evaluate. So those are all addressed in this document and there's a series of technical appendices that have been shared with you all as attachment a which you have and we will walk through a little bit of that here. I just so to start off with a project description so the the mmd the mitigated negative declaration contains a thorough project description that contains all elements from construction again through operation of the proposed family golf improvements project and clearly delineates the area in which any physical changes would occur and it does meet the requirements of the school guidelines in the statute for what should be contained in a project description. It also allows us to conduct a thorough review of what the environmental assessment could be. So there's really two main components of family golf. The first is focused on the driving range and the second is the modern miniature golf concept. So we'll walk through those the first around the driving range, the existing driving range. I forgot my little pointer. I don't know if there's oh ok. So as most of you are probably where it doesn't go through the tv but that's ok. The existing driving range is kind of oriented from an e to w hitting alignment just north of the rose bowl there are twenty hitting bays at the driving range and it is surrounded by a series of polls that support netting that has all been there for decades. So the the project involves reorients taking the driving range from that east west hitting to a south to to north hitting position and and would expand the number of hitting bays from twenty to sixty. The driving range project also includes the realignment of the netting and poles that are required to be around the driving range. There would be a total of fifty six poles that that support the new netting that would be around the driving range 20 of those are existing poles that already exist and then the rest would just be new additions and of those poles there are fourteen poles that were evaluated to contain lighting to to light the driving range for the extended hours which we'll talk about in in just a little bit and the lighting is is shown to be at about sixty feet in height on top of an average pole height of about 90 feet. All of the improvements would be on about 16 acres of the existing driving range consistent with those uses that have been there for many years. The driving range would also include some technological improvements including a top tracer or similar type technology which allows for instantaneous statistical feedback and you can track your ball as you're hitting from the driving range all intended to enhance the player experion. So in addition to the driving range there is a modern miniature golf component that would be included that would be associated that would be located on the western side of the driving range will show that in just the next slide here I would include the addition of the thirty six family friendly miniature golf course on approximately one acre again with all within the existing footprint of the golf course uses its location was chosen because it is in proximity to existing safe paths of travel to and from the clubhouse to and from the adjacent parking areas with safe and lit travel pass the design of the miniature golf course would incorporate an arrangement of pathways and landscape elements. There would be no structures that would be greater than eight feet in height and just reflecting on your observation earlier, it's really intended to just be a reflection of the larger golf course. It is not a themed design or attraction that is proposed. So the project also includes replacement turf, artificial landscaping, some improvements to the irrigation system and and electrical systems to commit to excuse me connect the miniature golf site. Can I ask a question just about replacement turf? Is that artificial turf or is that just regular grass? It would be artificial turf and grass. The driving range would have turf thanks. Yes. So again the project is intended to serve the existing demand of golfers who use the driving range primarily there's an existing weight of often more than an hour for golfers who are already out at the driving range to come up and access the facility. So this is intended to really serve the existing demand and the existing recreational users that are present in the central area. There would be no new staff additions that would be necessary to support the facility. The hours would be extended until 10 o'clock at night but all of that would be managed within the existing rboc staff. There would be no conflict with the other operational needs of the golf course or the stadium. Obviously that's of key importance. The rboc staff that they could manage this facility alongside all of the other activities that take place on the golf course regarding construction activities once there is a final design and approvals construction would occur over approximately eight months for the driving range and then the miniature golf would follow that at about four months. And the rboc has been undertaking this environmental review at this time of concurrent with their request for funds and a substantial allocation of public funds even though they're not yet ready to break ground because there is enough information as you just see in our project description to really understand and define and evaluate what the impacts of this project would be. The project would also ultimately also be subject to the city's design review process identified in pasadena pasadena municipal code to ensure that the project is compatible with the policies and objectives of the arroyo seco design guidelines and ultimately the rboc would be requesting a conditional use permit following final design and going through that process at which time the city could either rely on this amended and sequoia process to make your own findings and decision or you could amend the amended if there's any changes that would need to be included. However, this this environmental document is really addressed really addresses kind of a maximum extent of what this project could be. So this is a map here of a project site you can see in the red boundary there that's the maximum extent of where we evaluated impacts in this ammend. There's not going to be ground disturbing activities all over this whole area but it does it was allowed intended to allow us to evaluate kind of again that maximum area of potential impacts. So the study area is very comprehensive and it encompasses a broad area that allows us to address all reasonably foreseeable direct and indirect environmental impacts. So all of these graphics, by the way, are in your attachment a and the initial study so this is another figure here that shows what that reoriented layout of the driving range would be. Again, it's just shifting right within that existing footprint of where the driving range already has existed for many years. And you can see just to the west of it in that orange shaded area is the location where the miniature golf would be is roughly one acre. so while we don't know exactly where all of the 36 holes would go within that little orange box, it's a fairly defined area that is internal to the golf course not adjacent to the residences this is another image in the mmd that shows kind of a three dimensional view of what the the poles and netting heights could loo