City Council Meeting: June 2, 2025

recording in progress king let's go ahead and call the meeting to order. Ok, we're going to call the meeting to order if I could ask everyone to take their seat if you have one. Good evening, everyone. This is the JUNE 2nd twenty twenty five meeting of the passing the city council and we'll start with the calling of the roll. MR. Clark. Thank you, mayor council member call present COUNCILMAN Hampton is here but in the back he'll come in. COUNCILMAN Jones is absent. COUNCILMAN Lyon here. COUNCILMAN Madison is absent. COUNCILMAN Massouda here, vice mayor reeves here. Mayor gordo's here. There's a quorum the council present key. MR. Cole, if you lead us to pledge of allegiance. Thank you, mayor. Can already begin 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. I have it. Do you want me to so item fourteen and seventeen. Yeah well the clerk is going to make some announcements related to the agenda as I move down to the podium so items fourteen and seventeen item fourteen is the among the watershed park annex area the buildings within the proposal for that that item has been pulled and will return to the council in the future meeting and also item seventeen the ordinance for adopting the protections there will not be a sufficient number of council members here to act on that because the mayor and one other council member is recused to the will only for council members. So that item will be deferred until there is a full form of the council. Here are a full ok mayor. If you don't on item fourteen I was wondering what is the the timeline to bring about hopefully within the next one or two meetings we just need to secure some information from documents I should say from the county, make sure that we have a complete package. Thank you. Ok, next we will do a ceremonial matter and this is the gun violence awareness day proclamation. If I can ask lola and christy zamani from day one I'm sorry lola ausborn from parks she used to call you lola from parks and kristie's running from day one to step forward as we all know, gun violence touches every segment of our society, impacts people of all ages and disproportionately affects communities of color. It increases the probability of death in incidence of domestic violence and places children and young people at increased risk of physical harm. We've seen gun violence throughout the country and the threat of gun violence caused major problems in our communities and watched as survivors victims of gun violence forever suffer as well in the aftermath and so I'm proud to declare today gun violence awareness day and as an effort to reduce gun related crimes and bring awareness that if you own a gun be careful with it. Follow all of the recommendations in the rose and know that you are dealing with a an instrument that could at any given moment cause death or destruction and so the city supports continued state wide efforts to strengthen gun safety laws and educate the community on safe gun storage and therefore on behalf of the city council I do hereby proclaim JUNE six twenty twenty five in pasadena as gun violence awareness day and urge all citizens, businesses, organizations and agencies to work collaboratively to reduce gun violence in our community. Lulla ausborn I just wanted to thank the mayor and city council members one for wearing your orange pins, orange ties. I really appreciate that for acknowledging that and acknowledging the importance of this for nine years in the city of pasadena. I like to introduce nalley who is representing day one. Thank you, lola. Natalie salazar I'm the chair of the board for day one pasadena also the director of los angeles crime stoppers. We're thrilled today to be able to accept this proclamation. We have our youth advocates with us here and our staff at day one. They're coming off a great success yesterday of the daina market. Over three thousand people out. great to have that many community resources and collaborative events going on. Unfortunately we're coming off the aftermath of a horrible weekend of gun violence and that causes even more attention to what we're looking at here in our city of pasadena and the san gabriel valley. As you know, day one coordinates with over 50 different nonprofits to try to bring resources to work with our youth. We're so proud of our youth advocates that are going to be the future leaders here for pasadena. It's critical that we continue with these efforts. We know that next friday will start national gun violence awareness day. It will be the entire weekend and we're happy that our parks all four of them will be participating on friday and making sure that people are wearing orange. And if you are unaware of that orange is the color that was selected because it's what hunters wear to make sure that they are safe from targets. So again, when we're looking at everything that we can do to prevent gun violence, to support our youth and community members, we appreciate the actions of the council today. Thank you very much. Thank you to the advocates and our staff as well. Going to do stand one with seventeen's so we have a pretty packed agenda tonight but we also have 17 speakers for matters not on the agenda. our rules here council are we take the first twenty minutes of public speakers for matters not on the agenda for public comments not on the agenda and then resume it afterwards. But I think we can offer one minute to each speaker who would like to take it now if you'd like two minutes you can wait and we'll resume public comment for matters not on the agenda after we complete the agenda is business. So if you hear your name the clerk will call names and lots of four or five if you hear your name please form a line in the front and you'll have one minute or again you can wait till the agenda is complete. Yeah. Yes. You're late. Yeah it all depends. You went off for item fourteen . That matter was pulled you have the right to give your public comment tonight if you would like or reserve until the next meeting when the matter comes up ok with that DR. Gilbert walton emily fernandez patricia than old denham. So DR. Gilbert walton please step forward. Thank you. And then if you've heard your name please step forward into a line behind MR. Or DR. Walton emily fernandez, patricia in olden denim. DR. Walton, welcome. I'm DR. Gilbert walton. I'm a longtime resident of pasadena since nineteen eighty eight and district two. I am the chairperson for 17 hours ap and I'm a board member on the center for restorative justice but I'm speaking as an individual tonight and basically what I wanted to do was encourage the city of pasadena, the city council to divest from any business that would support what is happening in israel now I am very much moved by the fact that we've had several instances of genocides in world war two in cambodia, in rwanda and now essentially a probable genocide in israel. It is a great distressing to me that the victims of the genocide in world war two are now the perpetrators and that the united states which were heroes in world war to now contributing material support and as a physician whose found it very difficult to deliver care and emergency room settings, I can only imagine what it's like to deliver that here in the west bank. DR. Walter, is your time has expired. Thank you. Emily fernandez followed by patricia followed by old denim than alan shay. Hello my name is emily fernandez and I am a professor at boston university college, advisor of the environmental sustainability club and my students work closely with the anti-war club as well and I'm here with pasadena for palestine and I am pretty nervous to be up here and it's I don't want to um I don't know at the crackdown on the freedom of speech and I don't want to offend my birth my uh oh I'm just I had a two minute speech so anyways I just really just hearing them talk about gun violence up here just now we have people gunned down in gaza every day and we just want to make sure that that we stand up, that we speak up that even if we're nervous or scared or worried that we are saying that this kind of violence is not ok. So thank you patricia for by old ann dunham then ellen shay, the reverend charles marks. Patricia, welcome. Good evening council members. My name is patricia and I'm a palestinian christian. I have lived in pasadena for over thirty two years. My mother's side of the family lives in the west bank and my father's side are survivors the nineteen forty eight nakba when hundreds of thousands of palestinians were forcibly displaced and thousands were killed that trauma didn't end in nineteen forty eight. It continues today as palestinian have been living under a brutal israeli military occupation for decades, denied home denied their basic human rights and subjected to unspeakable violence and now forced starvation. Well over fifty fifty four thousand palestinians have been killed and at least seventeen thousand of them are children every day I watch in horror as entire family bloodlines are erased off the civil registry. Last week DR. Alaa nejad, a pediatric doctor, lost nine of her ten children and her husband from an israeli airstrike on her home while she was working at al nasser hospital in gaza city. her last surviving son remains in critical condition. This is not this is just one of the many heartbreaking stories . Please diversed please. Thank you. Thank all in denim followed by ellen shay followed by reverend charles than rene gonzalez. And if you hear your name, please work your way to the front of the room. We want to get as many people as we can and good evening everyone and I don't really have to explain I'm here and we'll take a real short for some reason the safety meeting was canceled two days after he told me was going to happen and we were going to be discussing maybe three nine two on that new was canceled. I don't know why and I don't know when it's rescheduled or whatnot. We do have to we do have to handle this because this situation is not going to go away and it's not going to be handled right until we look at the whole picture and I want to be in on the discussion that everyone else seems to be avoiding it. But this is a situation we have to deal with. There are so many other things I'd like to discuss with the city. The that could help the city with this and one thing I'm stuck on and for some reason you guys seem to be running from it and I've once again this agenda is so we can talk about it because no one has yet been able to show me any imminent danger from someone running away from you and that's the key thing no one's been in imminent danger of someone running away from you as fast as they can if any. You can show me that you think MR. Mayor, the next public safety meeting is JUNE 18th and it should be on that agenda. Yeah. Then it would be helpful to clarify to the folks that are speaking on the atrocities in gaza to let them know that this is going to be agenda in a finance meeting as well. And so not to stop anybody from speaking today but I think it'd be helpful to let to know what date or give an idea of when it will be placed on the work that we discussed clerc to identify the dates and or in a location as well. Thank you. Hi my name is alan shore. I want to thank all the council members gordo for this opportunity. I hope that this council stick with their agenda items because we have a lot of agenda item on board going forward. One of them is to initiate some type of plan of action for people who lost their homes, especially in district four. They have the highest number. We were at a county town hall meeting last week. We asked what would be the resolution to help those who pass burned down and yet they can run the risk of having liabilities even though the house is free and clear now if they were going to rebuild I think those things need a special look into especially after we learned that the brookside country club got two point six million for net around property after the fire. I think the least we can do is look into providing some reserve. MR. Shea, your time has expired for those who are in harm. Reverend charles on agenda JUNE 17th and in city is chambers. I'm charles marx, PRESIDENT Of altadena and presbyterian minister. I'm here today to ask the council gentiles for discussion on whether the police and firemen's retirement fund is violating the city's rules on ethical investment by retaining investments in boeing, caterpillar, chevron which are all benefiting from the relentless 19 month israeli assault on gaza in JULY. Twenty twenty four presbyterian's gathered and five delegates voted to divest from israeli bonds that they own presbyterian church representing this denomination there are three of them here in the past in the area and they represent they represented a nomination that pursues peace in israel and palestine by engaging with contact with corporations who are ethically responsible investment of church funds and courage. The city council of pasadena to do the same. Thank you. Thank you, rene gonzalez followed by robert schaefer and jeff justice. Donny gonzales gonzalez. Well, good evening, mayor. Council members some I just want to ask that the language for measure I nj we revised to look for any language that will give the city authority to ask for more taxpayer accountability on the spending on pasadena unified school district. I believe that the spending it's been corrupted by you know, benders that are abusive and they have a very high markups in the contracts are seem very high. So I just want to look for more accountability on taxpayer money. Thank you. Robert schaefer followed by jeff justice anthony hayden lam MR. Schaffer, welcome. Hello counsel. My name is robert schafer. I'm a south pasadena resident. I both work in pasadena and my student at pcc in my request that the council take up the issue of divestment from companies complicit in israel's military occupation of palestinian territories. I'd like to emphasize the stakes for why this is a necessary and urgent request according to leading public health researchers at brown university and lancet medical journal, the more accurate number of those killed in gaza by all causes being the proliferation of disease, famine and direct violence could be well over three hundred and thirty five thousand as we speak, divestment from israel this moment means an investment in peace. Thank you. thank you sir. Chief justice followed by dunigan lammed and heavenly used in sofia molik. Please don't allow doctors in pasadena to deny medical care to patients who want to decline to sign arbitration agreements. Arbitration agreements take away a patient's right to have a lawsuit. I made it to forty years without ever having to sue a doctor. I hope I never do but if I ever am a victim of a doctor's negligence I would like to have the right to sue and not be to be denied. If you do allow them at least give patients the right to opt out within 30 days or something like that which is common. A lot of arbitration agreements and at the very least mandate that they disclose that they have arbitration mandates if they will refuse to see a patient before we give them our private information. The other day I was at a doctor's appointment signing up and then on a tablet not physical paper. I get the fourth sign up document on the tablet and it forces me to sign arbitration if I want to see that doctor I had to leave this also happened previously with the cardiologist. When you have heart issues and you want to go see a doctor you don't have time to get there and be surprised with the sneaky arbitration thing and then leave and then say ok, now I've got to try to find another one. This practice should not be allowed. Thank you very much. Thank you, MR. Justice. Dony hanlan heavenly hues I think left but I think she'll come back to feel malique then danio yariv then angela choung counsel I'm doing lam pasadena resident in district five. I'd like a quote from a post by ken orphan why is palestine so important to me palestine doesn't matter more than ukraine or myanmar, kashmir or congo. It matters because the western nations are the primary engine of this genocide. If you care about western values of liberty, justice, human rights, palestina the issue due process free speech, international law palestine is the issue the right to food, clean water, medical care. Palestine is the issue not demolishing people's homes, moving them into concentration camps or starving them into submission. Palestine is the issue agenda is this issue council and divest from chevron, caterpillar and boeing. Thank you heavenly hues. I see heavenly excuse me how heavenly hues. Yeah I know I see how much this is a huge welcome by your molik. Hello my name is heavenly hues I am co-founder and executive director of my tribe is so good to see each and every one of your faces today I will say I was a little caught off guard with what was said today by mcgarrell when we were taken off no.14 but I did come over come this morning excuse me this afternoon to talk about dinner juneteenth I want to stay focused really quick on joy resilience in community in celebration. I want to act last year we did ask that the juneteenth flag be raised here in pasadena. My understanding is that that was going to happen and I have not heard much conversation about that this year. So JUNE 19th is really close and so I'm excited to if we could get a response about will the flag juneteenth flag be raised here in pasadena dinaw, juneteenth is on JUNE 14 twenty twenty five. I'm so thankful for rhythms of the village side street project serge stars altadena rising denay united metropolitan flintridge and of course my tribe rise putting on a fabulous orchid a fabulous celebration for juneteenth saturday at metropolitan baptist church. It will be from ten thirty to three thirty. Everyone is invited. Thank you. Thank you MISS Hughes. Sophia molik followed by danielle yariv and angela chung than marlene benites warlick. Welcome nita's sorry about that. Hi everyone. My name is sophia and I'm a student and active member and current PRESIDENT Of the anti war club. I'm here today to urge the city of pasadena to divest from oil and weapons manufacturing. Divestment is something that has been extremely successful in the past and student led as well as for that has very successful for the apartheid of south africa's divestment. Multiple cities and universities have divest is showing us how and that it is possible nyu, harvard, yale other use and uses and some cities that were able to divest include portland, hayward, richmond and alameda. Divesting is a moral issue. Don't let pasadena's money be blood money. And lastly, if you are here because you care about life and hear that pasadena's money is not creating the destruction of life, please stand. Thank you. Thank you daniele grieved and angela chan and marlene benitez the era of markarian. Hello my name is danielle yariv. I'm an israeli american who's lived in pasadena since nineteen sixty four. My father is a professor at cal tech and actually fought in the war in nineteen forty eight that created israel. I've been a lifelong member of the pasadena jewish temple and so I was brought up very pro zionists but I I feel very strongly about the divestment issue when I was in college we were asking the university to divest over apartheid and I think it is one of the most effective peaceful ways to stand up for international humanitarian law and the geneva convention. So even though we're a city, every drop counts, every divestment issue leads to a more likely outcome. so I really want you to take this issue seriously and I'm proud to be one of thousands of jews who feel that way. Thank angela chung followed by marlene benitez followed by erev markarian was not here. It must be this anita oops. Hold on a second. Hello. Good evening. I am a pasadena's special needs mother district five. I'm here to us not to close roosevelt elementary. It's not just about the building. This was a hub for individuals with disabilities where they were fully included with their neurotypical peers to access their education and let's not erase the students. Excuse me ma'am. Sorry lady. There's a public hearing on that item later on in the agenda and I'm so glad you brought that up because as a special needs person and family member we asked to have this pushed off because of the arrangements we have to make that was not taken into consideration. I can't be here eleven o'clock at night. I have to pay a caregiver I have just one more thing to say. Thank you. It won't be part of the record though so you need to I can submit because I can submit it in writing and it can be part what do go ahead and finish and then send it. Thank you maracatu and send it to the city clerk basically I wanted to just wait before i was interrupted. Let's not erase the history and I say this as a special needs parent. It's not funny sir. This is this is a life of people that have to access our community. So I'm here in favor of the historical landmark. It's not funny as a representative, a professional you should not be conducting yourself that way. It was it was it you actually laughed. It's not funny, sir. He wasn't reacting to but you know what? He's on tv and his facial expressions. I apologize. No, I'm sorry. I'm just sorry. I apologize or error of markarian followed by randol lamphere by william mangum this morning. You're welcome. Hello. Thank you. My name is out of my kaixian. I am an environmental scientist and steward of the royal suko. I just wanted to come up here on behalf of creek and ask why item number fourteen was pulled last minute. It is disappointing because of the attendance we have from the community members. Raise your hand if you're here with creek and how soon can it be re agenda ised. Thank you. Thank you randall randall lamb followed by william mangharam followed by charles thomas council members as you heard my name is randall heine lamb. I come to you today with a heavy heart and the tragic hate crime that occurred in boulder yesterday and the shooting deaths of a young jewish couple on the cusp of marriage in dc that in the last two weeks are crimes to be mourned and punished or the perpetrator perpetrators given treatment as appropriate. Truly these acts have set back the cause of justice for all people of israel and the palestinians. But I'm also mourning the nearly three hundred gazans that you probably haven't heard about who were killed yesterday. And while the horrors of boulder are front page news, the palestinian victims are rarely mentioned and so it's because of the focus on hate of individuals whether they be jews or arabs, muslims or christians that we're in this problem here today and we are supporting that with our money that goes to chevron that goes to caterpiller and that goes to boeing. And so I respectfully ask that this council agenda this issue and act according to the ethical guidelines that you've already established. Thank you, william mangum followed by charles thomas than isabel lozano. MR. Mayor, fellow council and ladies. Jessica, good evening. As you know, I made several presentations before and MR. Mayor approximately two months ago you indicated you were expecting your report in regard to the fire department's performance. Where do we stand on that, sir? The I think the ninth. The ninth and I think you next monday, sir. Next monday. Right. We'll be looking forward to it and I make request that it appear on the council's agenda it will be it will be very good. Thank you very much. Thank sir charles thomas followed by isabel lozano. Yeah. Thanks for the time. So when we have an agenda item and we pull the community together some of these people are we have three young people from here. Can you guys from the yard please stand up these young people that are about to graduate? I have some of my employees here. Albay employees please stand up . Some are being paid some or not. Some are volunteering. I just want to make sure that if an item gets pulled half an hour before the meeting that somehow you notify us so that we don't have to, you know, rally around all our resources to get folks up here. It's difficult it's very difficult getting folks out and getting rides and making sure they can see how politics work here in the city. I appreciate that we saw I I well I'm hoping that they get another opportunity to see the better side of how politics work around here. I know we're doing the best that we can so we'd appreciate it if we knew when it was going to be put back on the agenda so we can have the folks here and we'll get out of your way for now because there's a big item also here we'll reach out and on behalf of the council, you know, we apologize that the un had to be polled well, we're going to put our heads together tomorrow will communicate to MR. Thomas and others who are present if you want to be notified directly, just leave your information with the sergeant at arms and we can do that tomorrow. Thank you. Okay, let's go and again our apologies to all of you. Isabella zano one second. MR. Lozano, what's your does he want to ok, isabel lozano and then porfirio froster. Go ahead. Could you give me their mayor victor go to the vice premier vice mayor just revised estimate city council members and members of the audience. My name is isabel lozano. I am a former rosevelt elementary student and although I do not have any cognitive a physical disability, I am grateful to GOD to have had a chance to be a part of the roosevelt community. We're at an early age. I learned to embrace all the students I brought about from all intensities and with all the different needs how me to be compassionate towards other people and to be thankful to GOD for my health. i am very happy that the school is nominated and after reading the historic context I felt even more proud to be a former rosabeth student. I'm here to support the historic landmark nomination of roosevelt, a school that just like the thousands of special children that experience this educational setting since it reopened in nineteen fifty I will carry deep forever in my heart. Thank you for your kind attention and consideration, MR. Thank you MISS School. MISS Isabel um if you could submit to city clerk at city of pasadena donette then we can have that as part of the record. Thank you. I will make this a practice every time a young person comes up to the podium. But um I gave my first um maybe your first and last that way. Well, she has to go oh my goodness. That's not something I had to do when I was a student in our high school. She's sorry. Not at all. I just wanted to make I didn't mean to bring the meeting to to a halt but um the first public speech I gave my life was a junior um speaking to the board of education about the potential closure of our high school where I was student body vice PRESIDENT And um one of the members of the school board told me that I was an important young punk who didn't know what I was talking about and that would probably have been the end of my interaction with politics, government and civic life except that the person whose plan was that I had criticized uh chased me down the hall, someone who we all know uh ramone cortinas um he was an assistant superintendent and he he said to me you're the reason we have schools and you come back and keep speaking up until people listen to you with respect and that changed my life and I just want to know that you spoke very well whether people agree with you or disagree with you. Um, you spoke from your heart and I hope you will stay involved. MR. Froster feel thank you perfidia for also passing a resident. My family's been in pasadena since 1929 on the trail boss our bonaventure's and we no into the fifties of thousands if we go back in our history one of the oldest groups that does environmental outdoor education and we're looking for a collaborative and I know one I shouted out for a time and it's been a long time and whoremonger for us we want to be a partner with you. We want to we want the rfp to fly. We want it to be as fast as we can. We have a lot of things on the fire right now and just like you know, when you when you let the fire burn it'll go out and so we have a lot of people that are interested in helping us and do this within the community and to be a partner with pasadena. So I hope that we can get a time certain I hope this isn't going to be months away. Appreciate you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Joe stupe is not on the virtual meeting that completes public comment on matters not on the agenda. Thank next item. I have something. Yeah, go ahead and step forward if you submitted card yadin just we'll track it down first . I just wanted to ask really quick to agenda is after action report of the my name is yadi and I'm requesting again to submit to for the city council to agenda is a report on the in response and again asking the city to do a task force to do that. I think that and we have a lot of civil rights issues that are happening all over the the country and even in the united states and so please consider protecting the privacy of our citizens. Thank you. Yeah, you do have a card but it's for 10, 11 and 12. So sorry we didn't see the other one. Ok, please tell us your name. My name is maria nlb. Now I'm parishioner at all saints church. I'm palestinian born and raised in palestine. I'm also armenian. I'm perplexed as to why the council would recognize the armenian genocide that killed all my family on my mother's side except for my grandmother grandfather but that the council would not recognize the genocide that is now killing my community in palestine. Should I tell my palestinian nieces that their suffering is less meaningful or that it is meaningless while the suffering of armenian is not? What good is a recognition of genocide if only done when it's politically safe? What good is it doing for your soul when you participate in genocide by opposing or blocking divestment, corrupt power and fear wants you to think you could do very little council members rest assured you can do a lot. You have good power. You have influence and we are all here to remind you that you could exercise and we have hope in you. Thank you. Public comment for matters not on the agenda. Next we'll turn to the consent calendar and I'll entertain a sweet motion just maybe before we take that motion for the minutes for MAY 5th that are on the agenda for approval. There was a slight amendment on page fourteen to note that you and the vice mayor recused themselves from the street lighting and electrical underground program consideration. We were a little too specific in that so that has been changed. Thank you. Sweet motion. There are speaker cards for item five. I don't see any others will hold that item. There's the motion for everything about moving there. mr. Massouda moves in the second scampton seconds and are there any objections to this motion, MR. Cole? And not an objection but item one which included a an attachment of some two hundred pages seems to me to be a more consequential issue than simply being incorporated into consent calendar item as as we all know, last year the city council approved a an increase in our sewer rates citywide fairly substantial one because we had fallen behind in collecting enough resources to keep up with sewer maintenance in our city. I just don't feel comfortable rubber stamping something that I have not had a chance to pore through two hundred pages worth of of back up material. So I'm wondering if this could be referred to a municipal services committee. I have no reason to suspect that this is anything other than good policy and good practices. But if it has to come to us for approval I would like that approval to be informed approval versus blind approval is going to has this gone through? This is pedestrian and sidewalk essentially improvements is my understanding. Uh, no I'm sorry but I'm looking at the wrong one. Ok, sir. Good evening council. My name is greg devane and public works director. This item has a due date to be uploaded to the water board. It's already a little bit late . i'm pushing it a little more. It's probably fine. It's late right now. Sooner's better yet again. I have no lack of confidence in our staff other than that I'd like to approve I'd like to have some understanding of what we're what we're looking forward to in investment in our sewer system and the this matter if you can just briefly describe it craig's public understand as an operator of a wastewater infrastructure system, we're required by the water board to have a sewer system master plan and management plan which we have which we do have and this organization also requires an update every three years of an audit and an update. That's what this document is. They review our plan. They make recommendations for changes. They audit were that everything is is up to date with the proper names and contacts, the equipment we have our spill history it's it's it's a regulatory requirement. And what's the process for what you describe the process for the approval of development and approval of the master plan agencies throughout california almost exclusively hire consultants to develop a sewer system master plan what it involves in is the evaluation of the sewer, the wastewater system we have the history of spills our capital budget where money should be spent moving forward to mitigate spills. The entire intent is to run a system that doesn't pollute or contaminate. it's a very long document but it just has all the steps to follow in a spill. It has recommendation for how to handle any kind of sewer emergency who's who who has different roles, who's the legal responsible entity which in passing as a city engineer just covers a whole bunch of emergency response procedures and operational guidelines to mitigate the risk of spills. I don't have a concern sending this to municipal services but this is part of a bigger plan. I'm just responding to the you know, approving it the blind or rubber-stamp. It's not either blind approval or rubber stamping it and a lot of work goes into the development of the master plan. Rubber stamping is your word, MR. Mayor. I thought you said I did not bother you did it did you did ok so and so it's it goes through it goes through a long process. The master plan was developed in twenty nineteen correct. And so this is giving effect to it so I don't mind bringing to this I think we should take the action as part of our approved plan and then maybe bring the master plan to municipal services for just for a briefing of the committee given we have new members on the committee as well. I'm not going to argue with you, mayor either way. Either way I just I will I will abstain on approval. It says adopt a resolution approving the updated sewer system management plan and authorize legally responsible officials to certify and submit to the california state water resources control board. I'm I'm not prepared to offer enough to to do that. But if the majority wants to go for it, I again I have great faith in our staff and the process simply that I think that to get two hundred pages of documents with no presentation in the consent calendar item um doesn't accord with my sense of trust but verify I'm good with the plan. I'd like to make a motion to move approve of this item with the with sweeping it you we got to keep the stuff moving so so I'm good either way but I was I was remiss not in not pulling it. I had actually forgotten because I was going to talk to council member jones about whether we had time to do it at masc. I didn't know about the deadline if we need to get it in and we're we're up against a deadline I'm fine with kind of looking at it after the fact but I did I had a similar the staff report told us that a plan exists but nothing about what's in the plan and it was attached in a in a drive. But I I will I started the first couple of pages and it was like this is going to be a little deep for me so just a summary of kind of what's in our plan and you know, if it has budget implications and it it matters in part because you know, we've deferred sewer maintenance for a long time in the past. So you know, I would want to ask is does this have more deferral in it? Are we are we more proactive about maintenance? I do have actual questions about the the substance of the plan. I'm not so hung up on the order. I assume we will approve. We have to have a plan. We will approve one. We get amended if we wanted to but but they we do need a presentation. Sure. We can certainly bring the master plan in is this management plan both to me? You know, I hesitate a little bit because COUNCILWOMAN Jones isn't here but whenever it fits into the work plan he has a work plan set for masc but we could certainly make the request and hear as soon as the committee is available. What's the the life term of the plan along or just required to do audits and updates every few years because it's forever it's not like the housing element that has no ok ok so it's an evergreen plan. Ok actually let me take that back. They were required to do audits and updates every few years. The overall master plan does need to be redone. It's I can't remember oh the lifespan of it it does need to be a new brett Mce acting city engineer for the record it is every six years that that has to be renewed and readopted. So the last time we did the adoption was in DECEMBER of twenty nineteen. Ok, so we'll we'll so there's a motion to move forward and then bring it to mfc for for a briefing and an update. I think that's a good suggestion. Good process oser second ok moved and seconded any objections MR. Goldstein's ok fine but you had a motion for the remaining of this then the remainder of the suite pelander motion except for item five suite motion we have a motion it was made by COUNCILMAN Masuda seconded vice mayor riva's to approve all consent items with the amended item nine a and accept item five. Any objections? No they are approved. You want to go to item five for the for the public comment? Why don't we turn to item five for purposes public comment sunia, welcome. How long please? Two minutes. Good evening. Respectfully we need a lot more transparency regarding funding for our unsheltered residents. This item relates to one part of fiscal year twenty twenty six measure funds the one point three million of measure a continuum of care funds which staff says will be used for homelessness, homelessness prevention time limited subsidies, housing navigation and emergency shelter on its face. This doesn't include interim housing. The critical housing are unsheltered folks need from the day they leave life on the street to permanent housing which can be well over one year. Other cities are providing funding for that type of housing through motel marsalis's etc. Our city only provides motel vouchers for some for a few nights here and there and the bad weather shelter the second part of measure money is the local solutions fund. The council already approved spending that money for those already housed with federally subsidized emergency housing vouchers. The federal government will stop subsidizing those vouchers after the DECEMBER so the second part of measuring money will not help our unsheltered folks at all. The third part of measuring money mentioned in the staff report will be passed through the burbank glendale pasadena regional housing trust staff reports that this money can be used for construction of affordable housing, affordable housing preservation, tenant protection and support and technical assistance. There's no mention of developing any interim housing . Please ask the housing department staff directly what funds from measure a or any other source mentioned in its proposed twenty twenty six budget is earmarked for developing meaningful interim housing for over three hundred unsheltered residents and not just motel vouchers for some for a few nights here and there then vote to appropriate sufficient funds for that purpose for fiscal year twenty twenty six. Thank you. thank you MR. The the city does make significant investment in housing I think we spend forty six million dollars a year on housing but the the interim housing is a challenge for for every community across the county and I would say to you the state and so it is something that maybe the housing trust misread us can can look at. I know when I was a member of the housing trust we had a few discussions about interim housing and I'd be interested to know where we are. Absolutely. And as MR. Burton mentioned a little over five I say five point seven million is coming through the housing trust to be allocated between burbank and pasadena. But it MAY be helpful perhaps that adtech at some point soon to just have a briefing from housing on measure ray what the different funding sources are, what can be used for what just so we're all on the same page and it is so new. Yeah, there is that gap there. Ok, thank you. Uh with that uh that completes our comment on item five zero motion nine five motion move approval moved their second seconded any objections. See none of the matters approved. Now we will turn to item eleven I'm sorry ten ten. This is the information the presentation is the informational presentation on the twenty twenty four year end review and ongoing work by the police department chief. Well so good evening MR. Mayor and by members of the council evening. This is actually a combination report to the year end report for twenty twenty for the police department and a year to date twenty twenty five actually until MAY 15th of twenty twenty five I report on statistics from the police department. I gave this presentation to the cpac in its entirety takes about an hour and 45 minutes. We're going to significantly come in under that time frame here today and give a few minutes to go over some highlights and then open it up for questions. We included the presentation for you so that if you had questions we could go directly to those. Uh, as I said, this is the informational presentation of the twenty twenty four year end review and ongoing work by the police department in twenty twenty four we had just come off of a strategic planning session and moved into the transformation of the organization through contemporary rebranding where the palestinian police department underwent significant transformation while maintaining its commitment to public safety. The symbolic shift in our department's visual identity and transitioning badges and patches from traditional gold and blue to navy blue and platinum represents more than just an esthetic change. We consider it platinum using our service we felt that that was the most immediate way for the public to recognize that we are willing to change and make some adjustments in the way that we conduct our business as it sometimes difficult for the internal changes to be seen on its face. This marks revolution as a modern law enforcement agency one that embraces innovation while maintaining our unwavering commitment to serving and protecting our community. Throughout twenty twenty four we focused on bridging gaps with our community while enhancing our operational capabilities through visionary leadership and strategic advancement. A little bit about the priorities we identified what we considered to be some major priorities although there were many more than this. These were the highlights we wanted to make sure that community engagement partnerships was first and foremost in our mind crime reduction as always an enhancement of quality of life are significantly at the top of every list from our strategy and all of our service enhancements. Employee wellness is a major issue. You'll see some things in twenty twenty five coming out that's it will demonstrate significant work over the last year and a half in the area of employee wellness. The three improved is very important to the police department. We've talked about it before education, engineering and enforcement making education the go to first move to solve problems then looking at engineering solutions before we move on to enforcement and hoping that enforcement in most cases can be the last resort certainly emergency emerging police technology, effective decision making employee buy and certainly the rebranding required that and embrace and personify the tenets of the past in a way after setting those is our priorities. Some of our achievements, some of the things we're very proud of as the department leadership developed that strategic plan, we're still in the midst of finalizing that as we move forward and close to some of the international events that will be taking place here but certainly took the contemporary rebranding seriously and created a plan moving forward strengthening workforce through new team members during the year we have 62 background investigations training division implemented a comprehensive agency training plan I'm sorry securing over 67000 in post reimbursements for members of the public post means police officer standards and training is a commission throughout the state that governs our law enforcement and other achievements with community relations action receiving national recognition for neighborhoods usa for the citizens police academy and spanish. Our folks went down to texas to receive that award. We're very proud of that. It is the first of its kind also engaged in launch books and cops within pasadena public libraries I my command staff and the rest of the police department including volunteers regularly go down to the libraries to read with the young kids books of our choice and we get an opportunity to interact in the libraries. It's very, very fulfilling and one we're very proud of pasadena. We had our inaugural camp pasadena day a full day with some kids from from middle school that we took up to magic mountain for a full day of fun and frolicking a couple of more achievements traffic section implemented the final 3d taser I'm sorry laser fracks and reconstruction is essential to making sure that we are as detailed as possible in dealing with our traffic collisions and collision data traffic section also hosted the community motorcycle academy to promote riders safety street crimes unit recovered forty three firearms and made 124 gang and narcotics related arrests. They are part of our contemporary rebranding. We brought the street crimes unit to do our gang enforcement a little bit in the street, crime enforcement a little bit differently. So instead of being heavy handed we wanted to make sure that we were using more of a a specific approach more like a doctor using a scalpel to kind of find what the problems are, cut them out and then make sure we're not adversely impacting the rest of the community. We're very excited when two of our robbery homicide detectives received the poleaxed turian award for saving I'm sorry for solving the los angeles the angeles crest highway murder case which led to resolving another homicide in rancho palos verdes. You MAY remember that case very important. It was our guys who solved both of those cases. We're very proud of them. Fleet operations added a new police fleet sergeant. It was a position that we hadn't had prior. What that sergeant does is expedite the the roll in and roll out of our vehicles and all the tech associated with our fleet and fleet management. It's been a success and we hope to continue and maybe even enlarge that that group the last page of the acknowledge I'm sorry for the achievements technology enhancements included the implementation of a geo doj mandated revision of the repair application cell site simulator and more floc alpro cameras for an enhanced system development is underway for an active intelligence center. All of this began back in 2024 also introducing a cutting edge tool such as the observation tower, 3d crime scanner etc. Technology technological capabilities include a lot of our body for cameras and all the associated attachments and metric systems. It should be noted that among the eden fire destruction was a significant loss of the police training facility. It did burn down and the equipment at that police range that we had at that station included some of our taser upgrades and all of our equipment. We had a commitment from taser and they have fulfilled replenishing those assets for us to things we needed to make sure we did when we went through this program was the structural change and a cultural change. I'll briefly go through the structural changes that we undertook. We wanted to make sure that we had a robust promotion and hiring process. We've completely changed the process to include a department interview that allows for more fairness instead of the historical kind of you know, if you know somebody you get selected that kind of thing we wanted to make sure that we were bringing people through a much more fair process and it's been successful reorganization has taken place. We felt that we needed to kind of revitalize flatten out the organization a little bit. We were successful in getting some of those done and I'll answer questions on that later if there are any acquisitions, the cpac, the ipa, the public safety recommendations are all part of things that we have to to work on and we're glad that we get an opportunity to work through the public safety committee and work through cpac in acquiring different types of equipment and things that we MAY need in the furtherance of our mission. We also had the opportunity to implement some of the recommendations for moyar that were directly in line with our contemporary regarding piece. One of those elements was the field training program. We definitely focused on that. One of the things we did was a field training program assessment. We brought in an outside facilitator and consultant to evaluate our field training program. We scored very well but there were some things that we needed to get fixed and I will be bringing those to cpac as we apply those fixes to our field training program again investigated relationships partnerships are extremely important so we made sure to make a stay connected to our state, local and federal partners in furtherance of the palestinian mission. As I said, the cultural change was important. We set expectations right from the get go. We made sure that from the perspective of of demographic parity that we were looking at how we were recruiting and where we were going to grab our folks to be the next the next group of people working for a palestinian police department. And I'll discuss a little bit of that when we get to recruitment superior community engagement that's been a must for us. I think that we've been able to experience a lot of compliments with regard to block walks and some of the other things that we've been able to do to get out and connect with the community internally from historical paralysis was a big cultural change we had you know, the one thing the police officers hate more than things changing is for things to stay the same and unfortunately we just never happy whether whichever way it goes. And so we had to add that part of our culture that allows us to embrace change and we started implementing those changes so that we wouldn't stay stuck in the past we have a mindset that history is great, tradition is great as long as it doesn't get in the way of progress. Fut. Planning became our mantra service imperatives were also implemented and predictive policing and data driven responses became the way that we deal with statistics analysis for deployment et cetera through our crime I move over to some of the cat incidents, go through it very quickly JANUARY 1st twenty twenty fourth through fifteenth of twenty five of these will be the cat incidents four per year. What cat stands for is computer aided dispatch. This is the method by which we tabulate how many calls for service we MAY get and whether they are citizen initiated or officer initiated and you can see here for the years twenty five, twenty four and twenty three we've broken it down on the spreadsheet there as to what the calls are this year to date we are at thirty seven thousand four thirty one calls for service. Last year we finished with a whopping 103 thousand calls for service. I'll take any questions on that once we get to the end you'll see here in the next chart down the pit stops a pit stop is just a pedestrian contact. They can happen in any way. It could be a detention. It could be just stopping to talk to somebody. But there they're calculated as pedestrians just simply so we can tell the difference between that and traffic stop and then the block walks are listed on the tab below that arabs responses. This is simply a chart that tells how many calls for service we had with our air service. You can see that we spent a lot of time in the air and we've had a lot of fruitful returns with our aircraft program. You can see the numbers there that have led to directly to arrest with air assets being in effect. One of the elements that came out of cpac was a recommendation to make sure that we were calculating and documenting whenever we pointed a gun at someone and so we did that we implemented and started keeping track of that. That's what you'll see in this chart here. It talks about gun point. The gop stands for gun point and there's two categories. One is without a report so let's say it was some type of incident where we pointed our gun, maybe a burglary report where we were walking with our guns out and it turned out not to be a burglary that would not be a report per say but we still had to tabulated so they would clear it as a gun without report call and then the one below that is anything that has a documented report. So if there was a crime or an arrest or something like that that would be documented. You can see those numbers listed there. The next page you see repeat data. You MAY be aware the racial identity profiling act is something that we have to we are required by law to to maintain data and the data has to do with racial and ethnic makeup of those people that we are coming in contact with right now requires us to do that with our folks that we come in contact with investigations and stops. I think there MAY be some updates to that moving forward depending on whether the stop was initiated by the officer or whether it was initiated by a call for service, et cetera. So we MAY see some changes and that as we move forward. But these are the numbers as they stand now and I'm sure there'll be some questions on that when we get through the end. The next page is some of the reporting data citations just gives you a basic breakdown of citations and how many of those we had and the next is very important to most people. It's really important to me an unfortunately we've increased our response times rather than decreased our response times even though it's by seconds that we've increased our response times. We are working to get those response times down closer to three minutes, four minutes and thirty seven seconds is not bad. That's about an average for cities our size but that's not going to be conducive to the way we want to conduct our business. Our goal is to make sure that our technology, our deployments and the way that we dispatch our folks gets our people from time to dispatch to call in next to and close to three minutes. So we're working on getting that. But this gives you the breakdown of the service areas and it gives you the basic response times and then averages it out. We'll skip past the district map, move on to the incident use of force. You can see here it gives a total of the number of incidents and then breaks down how many statistically how many times we've used force. One of the important categories will be the fourth one down. The fourth wall down was this traffic stops resulting in use of force very significant especially in the conversation of paetec stops you see in twenty twenty five so far we've had one use of force and twenty all of twenty twenty four we had one use of force and in twenty twenty three we had no uses of force that related to traffic stops the next is a breakdown of the use of force demographics. It's simply tells you based based on race and gender those portions of the community that have been engaged or that we have engaged with a use of force and so in 2025 the use of force by race and gender we had fifteen males, three females in twenty twenty four by gender we had thirteen males and two females and in 2023 fourteen males and females. I don't know why the numbers are so consistent. We really don't set out to make it that way but it looks like they're consistent in that regard and then we have the top three as it relates to the racial data down down in the chart below. Chief, I apologize for interrupting but twenty twenty five is only four and a half months is that correct? Up to MAY 15th yes. So the last two years we were thirteen fourteen and three two and two but we're four and a half months and we're matching last year and the year before. Yes sir. Well I would that would mean that we're more than doubling the number of use of force this year so far. I have to check on the numbers to make sure but I'll get back to you with an answer on what that means. I'd have to do an evaluation. I'm not sure what along those lines I. I recall a discussion a a few years back where we were being where we were looking at the categorical use of force different than other uses of force. And I'm curious to know whether these are category goal, what type of use of force these are categorical uses of force. But as I look at the twenty twenty five I think this MAY be an error. So that's why I need to get back to ok so these are categorical. Yes. The next page is the community demographics taken from the census so it's just to provide an optic of what it is that we have in our makeup within the city of pasadena. Right. The next few pages are recruitment events. They were included in this year's report to simply show the robust robust efforts at reaching out and going out to different types of events to look for the folks that are going to make up the next generation of of police personnel in the city of pasadena. If there are any in there that are concerning to anyone, we'll take some questions at the end. But we really like what we've done with the recruitment effort because we've kind of changed the game. We're not using the spider web effect. You set up a booth and hope the flies fly into it. It's not bad anymore. It's now an active recruiting element and our folks in our employment services are doing an excellent job at really trying to diversify and going out and finding people in other states, places where we might not normally recruit english departments in colleges, things like that. we want people who can write in those kind of things. So we're looking at places that we probably previously and we're now looking. Next up is the classification data for the people that we've hired. It just essentially shows the numbers based on gender and race. The folks that that we have hired over the course of the year and that has continued on the hired page which is the next one over if you go to page twenty five that shows the police management demographics and it shows the makeup of the management team by race and gender and I believe that by looking at this chart you can tell that there is a significant diversity within the management components in the comma