Regular Council Meeting

and I'm going to call this meeting order. MADAM Clerk, would you please take roll call for the councilmember voting no here. Councilmember drew here. Councilmember prospector mayor pro tem pimentel here, mayor boyle here. Thank you, MADAM Clerk. I'm going to start with the invocation led by pastor jonathan elmore of the bridge church. Following that we'll have the pledge of allegiance led by councilmember bovino. Please rise as always. Just wanted to thank you for giving us the time this prayer for our city. I'd like to open up some prayer . Thank you for this council lord are public servants here in el segundo we just pray a covering of wisdom clarity through decision making today GOD and lord we just you for our teachers or firefighters police force GOD that protect our city invest in the next generation with these students for it and and I pray specifically for the families in el just I pray that you would protect these kids as they continue to grow and learn and become for adults that to give back to lord we love you GOD be with us in this time you know we pray amen. All right. Place your hand in the heart ready? Begin pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic religious affairs one nation under GOD, indivisible with liberty and justice for all . All right. We've got a bunch of special presentations and got a bunch of kids outside that have accomplished some amazing things. Hopefully all I see is the jennings is bringing them in. I believe we're going to start out with a very important announcement and. Our person is going to read this one. Yeah. So we're excited to to say thank you and to DR. Mills more superintendent bill second unified school district. She's been at the school district for ten years and has done amazing things and has been a to the city a partner team to all of us individually and a friend and she has really led the change in our school district and really set us up for new heights and I just can't thank her enough for everything she done for our students and our community. So we want to honor DR. More. Does anyone want to say anything else before I bring her up? The ten years that you served in our school district we're crazy right. We went through covid. There was a lot of things you kept a level of professionalism . You were you were easy to communicate with. I want to thank you because we trust you with our children. Our most valuable and I just want to thank you for the service and dedication given to our small town. thank you, councilmember baldino anyone else I would like to say you're a shining example not only of incredible school but also amazing trojans. So you very much DR. Moore for you've been a great partner to the city and having served on the city and schools subcommittee for the entire time I've been up here in council since 2016 we've done some amazing things together. We've had some hard conversations and they've come out with great results thanks to you and the school leadership. So thank you for all your years of service. Much appreciate it. So DR. Moore, would you like to come up and say a few words and then we'll give you a quick check? It has been my express honor serve the school district and I am extremely touched by the council's show of honoring me this evening el segundo unified district serves as a shining example of excellence in public education and I hope all of the families attend our schools realize what a gift it is to live in this community. I spoke to DR. Jason johnson this afternoon and told him you better take good care because this is a very special place and I said I know everybody says that about that place but I said this is a very special place so it doesn't happen by one individual it happens by an entire team and so I have been blessed to have amazing classifieds, talented teachers, hard working and dedicated side administrators and rockstar cabinet team. So and for of us I have four past and present members here. DR. Bill watkins was one of the original five who hired me ten years ago and I will always be grateful to those folks to given me that opportunity and then of course PRESIDENT Beachley and members wheaton and glynn are here as well. So I have great support with my school board as the city manager gets great support from the city council. So thank you for this honor. I am truly touched a lot of your children who have attended our schools and it's just been a wonderful partnership working with the city and the school district to accomplish great things together so. Thank you. Went to a photo shoot you a photo document? Yes. Real. So melissa's not going very far. She's actually joining the ed board so she'll be joining us to help keep an eye on what's going on at the schools and help raise funds for the schools. That's great . I he will come on . We better excuse I'm sorry we're going to sneak in here for all right couple for me though. Sure cause you go uh well thank you so much much I new mexico great customer by has got another announcement as well. All right. It's my great honor to read this proclamation about national public works week . We depend on our public works department almost every day. They are incredibly responsive and I couldn't more proud of the work that they do therefore whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure facilities and services that are of the vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to the public health high quality of life and well-being of the people of el segundo. And. Whereas, these infrastructure facilities services could not be provided without the dedicated effort public works professionals who are engineers, managers and employees at all levels of government and the private sector who are responsible for improving and protecting our nation's transportation drainage systems water supply, water treatment and distribution system sanitary sewer collection systems, solid waste collection systems, maintenance of public buildings and other structures and facilities essential for our citizens. And. Whereas, it is in the public interest for citizens, civic leaders and the children in el segundo to gain knowledge of and maintain an ongoing interest in the understanding of the importance works and public work programs in their respective communities. And. Whereas, the 2024 marks the 64th annual national public works week sponsored by the american public works association slash canadian public record association. Now therefore the mayor and members of the city council of the city of el segundo hereby designate the week of MAY 19 through 20/25 2024 as national public works week and urge all citizens to join with representatives of the american public work association slash canadian public works association and government agencies and activities events and ceremonies designed to pay tribute to our public works professionals, engineers, managers and employees and to recognize the substantial contributions they make to protect our national health, safety and quality of life. And we, MR. Patrick graham are one of our fantastic maintenance workers. He's going to accept this award. MR. Graham you want to come on up? Come on a couple. Bring them all up please . Thank you. Oh, I mean oftentimes we feel undervalued or underappreciated but it's small, you know, gestures like this like they go a long way to helping the public works staff do what we do. So thank you. Thank you. we got to work on that often is not good we get to work on the often appreciated not underappreciated so thank you for that thank you for being here yeah because you got big we go a little further thank you so much. You can you can give us you for my director here. Yeah here we go. Yeah. Want to go more? Oh thank you so much. You I think thank you. Thank you. Thank thank you. Thank you the all right whereas asian american pacific islander heritage month is observed nationwide throughout the month of MAY in recognition the positive influence and numerous contributions of our asian american pacific islander communities and our state and country and asian american and pacific islander visit work and live in el segundo and have contributed to our city's rich history culture and public service. And. Whereas, we are reminded that we must celebrate our diversity and our differences as. They make us a richer community and we celebrate the importance of of inclusion building a more diverse, equitable and inclusive future. El segundo and. Whereas, we recognize and confront racism hate of all kinds against asian americans and pacific islanders and recognize the structural discrimination prejudice and injustice experienced by the aapi community any increased levels of harassment, discrimination and violence perpetrated on the aapi community due to bigotry. Now therefore on this 21st day of MAY 2024, the mayor and members of the city council do hereby proclaim the month of MAY 2024 as asian american pacific islander heritage month and the community to join the celebration of the aapi heritage month. Kristen bell thank you. Good evening everyone. I'm kristen bell. Iliana ten year residents parent of two also candle boys and chair of the city's diversity equity and inclusion committee and I appreciate council for recognizing aapi month which I say for short so there's a saying in that culture that loosely translates as small but mighty so a condo as a city is small but mighty a community. Here we make up about ten 11% of the residents just 9% of L.A. County. But we make both large small contributions in many ways. So have leaders like rob bonta, who's our california's attorney general and even as a giants fan I feel pride when looking at the contributions of dodgers manager dave roberts and then with our future our next generation making history like max lewis slappy, kobe lee and my son len and salazar who make up a quarter of the world series championship team who succeeded with the leadership of our coaches including api community eddie lee so I just wanted to say thank you for recognizing us for seeing us and I look forward to work with you all and with the dga committee to give visibility, opportunity, representation and a voice to everyone especially those who feel marginalized and unseen. So thanks again, thank you. Hey, what's the same smile but I can't pronounce it properly. The lady I gave it to you later on that and thank you very much. It's good. A round of applause. Yeah, it's a photo . Oh, okay . Oh yes, absolutely photo of a photo of you. Thank you so much. I think you see . All right, next up we have the proclamation for lgbtq plus pride month which it's my to read and the proclamation reads as following. Whereas the city of el segundo cherishes the value and dignity each person and recognizes and appreciates the importance of the and the respect, equality and freedom. And. Whereas, all are welcomed in the city of el segundo to live, work and play and every individual and family deserves a place to call home where they're happy and supported by friends, neighbors and community leaders. And. whereas, the city of el segundo denounces prejudice and unfair discrimination based on age, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, marital status, national origin, sexual or physical attributes as an affront to fundamental principles. And. Whereas, the lgbtq plus community has worked tirelessly for respect and equality continues to celebrate authenticity, acceptance and love and. Whereas, pride month began in JUNE of 1969 on the one year anniversary of the stonewall uprising new york city after lgbtq plus and ally friends rose up and fought against harassment and discriminatory laws that have since been declared unconstitutional and the city of el segundo celebrates and appreciates the cultural, civic and economic contributions of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender plus community which our social welfare. And. Whereas, it is imperative that people in our community regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression feel valued, safe, empowered and supported by their peers and community leaders. Now therefore on this 21st day of MAY 2024, the mayor and members of the city council the city of el segundo, california I hereby proclaim JUNE 2024 as lgbtq plus pride month and also gonzo and encourage all residents to celebrate progress towards justice, equality and liberty in the plus community and to join us in the fights that remain to be won the city council the city of el segundo further calls residents and employees of el segundo to observe 2024 as lgbtq plus pride month in honor of our lgbtq plus employees and visitors and to the contributions they continue to make to our community so behalf of the city of segundo we have director of parks and rec ali mancini to accept this proclamation. MRS. Mensah yes. Honorable mayor members of the council as an openly lgbtq a in the city staffer I want to thank the city council recognizing the many historical accomplishments of the lgbt community. I'm very, very proud to work for a city that understands the importance of not just accepting diversity but celebrating it and all of the work that the city council supports towards further expanding our efforts for equality and inclusion for all that live work and play here this means a great to me and to the members of the community and I want to thank you. Thank you. Don't go too far. I do photo oh oh right. Here we go. Couple photos of everybody. Here we go. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much . All right, next up we have council member giroux recognition. just wait for the noise and if the hockey team is going to take a it looks like like they could just do . I figured there'd be some lights and some walkup music, but now I got anybody in. All right, this is a present to you. I say congratulations to the junior kings 14th for clinching first place in the california state championship. I tell you the amazing the amount of the amount of championships and cif and titles and things have come out of this community in the past less than a year has been incredible what an outstanding accomplishment and an incredible achievement apparently thrilling game with the junior kings over st lawrence steal with a score of 4 to 3 such dedication and teamwork have truly paid off. Wishing you all continued success on and off the ice and I'm going to announce the players I think you already have your accommodations but if you could probably have a step up here or how do you want to do this up to the front. Up front. All right. All right I hope I got your names right. I asked your parents so if I'm wrong it's because they were wrong or I forgot. All right, gus alkire hi. Ben stein, dominic cisneros, tyler conti, nicolas davalos. Barrett donovan. William guard. jake frankel. Wyatt francis damon harper fearon kneeling campbell leto luca lira markowski kara jason pierce. Marco teich kayla thomas them head coach ron but assistant coach erik anderson assistant coach terrance kneeling just a couple of acronyms and what they mean ellery pierce and team rapid manager daniel donovan congratulations coaches do you want to say anything up there about your team favorite I try to speak again I know you guys hopefully you heard me thanks again for the invite again this team to go I think that I was lucky enough to have this great group kids to really let me coach them and it was as a coach I know they always say enough is like playing but I never had so much fun being with this. It was a joy to get to the rink every day and you know, I feel incredibly lucky and just again ,I'll never forget this group and I look forward to seeing where they go from here. But again thank you boys and para especially everyone yeah again from the bottom of my heart I really appreciate it being a coach. It was a blast so thank you again and look forward seeing you if you felt good. Yeah if you can stay back there we get some kneeling in the front we go sleep. All right, all right, all right. We'll see what we can do. You mean we can't? Yeah, we can move it a little bit but it's the slr is there. but I got super wide angle lens so hopefully we can get everybody. Okay, here we go. Everybody just look at the camera. Couple shots. Okay and stay there because I like you for your family. Be able to take some photos too. So please stay there so you just you know, just an excuse to play in the inline league. I was asked to add a pair of you know if I got a nice job out and you know there was a time when the inline hockey out at richmond with the foam pads it's come a long way all right last but certainly not least we have another council mergers that I mean the hits just don't keep like they don't what am I trying to say here? They they keep on coming banks had so many champions here it's amazing and this one really is important to me because I was involved there was so and one of the coaches lance is a neighbor of mine and you know I coach together we coach girls together many moons ago and now to see your daughter grow up tiana and the team it's amazing what you guys have done and you know what else is cool about this is while so realized I don't know maybe 810 years ago nationally that they were losing players to club teams they really need to ramp up their game and so it's really excited about this. These players are a travel team within a while so region 92 and they went on to actually win the entire western state championships which is the first that's hard up by the way just to get through and sectionals on a plane. So I got I can remember you know first you play here, then you go to riverside. That's hard enough. I've coached those teams in riverside pouring rain for multiple days and we come home with the winds and you guys have managed to do it. You've got to be ladies have done a tremendous job with the help of your coaches. So we're really excited for you and the future of soccer in this incredible city. Congratulations. Let's give them a big round of applause and we have will do the same as councilmember jourdain. Well, when I announce your name please come up and we do a group presentation of the coaches, say a few words. Okay. All right. First up, brooke lipschitz, goalkeeper yeah. And keeper olivia torres, riley stebbins nikki byrne, our chloe fitzgerald, gianna and aja tina or gianna? Gianna oh, I wasn't even looking over the ballpark. Close enough. Okay, I'll it right riley stewart hannah bostrom madison leech fire elliott ashlynn ward eleanora gormley delilah perez and andre winkle and then let's not forget the coaches jordan stewart, brendan gormley and lance bostrom you guys congrats. Police say a few words coaches right now first and only I know you guys are leaving me up there to hang. Uh, I can talk about the team for hours. I know you guys are busy and I've got other things to discuss so I'll try and keep it short. Um, I think oftentimes when you have all-star success it's because you kind of catch lightning in a bottle. You have, you know, a month or so to work with the team it clicks, you go, you perform, you the winner, you lose. Right? I think the difference with this team and what makes me so proud is that when you go back you've been working at this for a while four or five years we've been chipping away at it . I think in el segundo in particular every team starts with the idea they want to try and beat manhattan beach and get out of the double. You did that. But here's the thing not in our first go around though. So that's what makes this team so special different I think than most kind of all-star that get put together. We had a run at it back. They were you ten. We didn't make it past manhattan beach. We came back we worked, we got stronger. We went again at them at you 12 beat manhattan beach I think five you didn't didn't realize north redondo were going to be there and so they ended up it that north redondo team went on to win states and beat us in the final locally three two so we knew we were that close came back you 14 right worked hard again came back a third and final time ran through play in combined score 27 zip I think was the so we took care of two manhattan beach teams north redondo south redondo hawthorne went to section and around the table that section as made it to the final where we played alhambra and unfortunately we lost unfortunately in the final of section tough weekend my kid riley broke her leg in the first game pouring down rain like you said the whole weekend just brutal weather so I think emotionally drained, physically drained. We went in against alhambra, dropped the ball, they beat us. They took their chance and beat us and then somehow, someway we ended up with a wild which I've said for years I've watched other teams get wild card opportunities and there's been a part of me that's always kind of felt a little I wouldn't really wanna ever want a wild card. I want to win it the right way happily took the wild card went to western state where then ran the table again so alhambra in the final flipped it the way we were supposed to so appreciate you guys taking the time to show appreciation them and recognition for what they've done because this is not a three or four week thing. This has been going on for four years and if there was ever a team that was deserving of some recognition it's this group right here. So I appreciate you guys giving all all right. A couple of photos here but this makes an appearance and starts to graduations. It's amazing. And you beat alhambra. I got to wait for her and I'm very glad you got everybody now. Oh, I thank you very much for. What if you want my parents if you to come up and let her a podium you want to I know I'm booking this trip when. I wasn't even close. It is good. You said you said yeah. So real fast. One other thing about the travel team program that you were talking about drew, there's 7 to 8 teams within el segundo region two now that our travel teams and we have already seen some of those other ones come real close so don't be surprised to be seeing a few more teams in the next few years that are a result of the travel team program taking on western states championship ships as well. So awesome. Thanks coach. We're going to be in high school over the next 12 to 24 hours, right? I high school stuff step two yeah yeah break again how about that goalkeeper 20 740 against what I heard that incredible. Yeah well done. My GOD. You know how to do. That concludes our special presentations for so we're we're moving on to public communications. madam clerk. Do we have anyone with the surname cards? Yes, sir. We have three people so far. First up is anya goldstein . Hi. Good evening. Council members and executive staff. My name is sonia goldstein and I'm a resident homeowner small business owner and member of the sweat equity alliance. Our racial justice community group here in town. I learned that you're planning to interview tomorrow. Exactly. To community members for the two open seats on the dga committee and that one of these two candidates as you drank a draft of it. This is shocking to me because MR. Markovich ran for school on an explicitly anti-dean platform. I've emailed each of you the links to each of the following publicly available quotes. MR. Markovich has said quote can call it the I and it sounds nathan fluffy inclusion. It aims to get equal access to all groups and that very good but it's actually destructive. She also said if parents are not happy with any direction that the school is taking be it crt dei or anything I invite you to vote for me. She said dei claims to guarantee fair treatment and opportunity to all. Sounds nice but what it aims to do is place race into every lesson works to divide children. as you all know dei committee was formed and this is straight from the city's. After quote el segundo residents shared their concerns about local racial diversity issues inclusion treatment by police. Experiences at local schools and other matters during several community in response to the tragic murder of george floyd in 2020. The purpose of the dei committee again quoting the website is quote to inspire and activate efforts to integrate diversity equity and inclusion into city of el segundo decisions. Service delivery and policies to improve the well-being of the entire el segundo community . MR. Baskerville is proudly A.D. I if you appoint her to this committee you're sending the message once again that this council wants to help or die efforts in the city. Thank you. Thank you, MS. Goldson next up john pike ever ever . Good evening, mayor boyles mayor pro tem pimento city council and city staff. My is john pike and tonight I'm here to comment on some of the developments that came of the excuse me strategic planning session on APRIL 30th. Now last year at the 2023 strategic planning session you the city council discussed revised the ordering and wording of the city's top five goals the city's number one goal for the past few years has been to quote enhance customer service diversity and inclusion and communication at the 23 strategic planning session you the city council all agreed to keep enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion as part of the city's number one goal then meant a lot to me to see that you went even further when COUNCILMAN First said quote and on the whole dei component it's not just let's look at static and say okay tick a box we've completed it. It's an infusion in a mindset and I think the challenge is constantly pushing ourselves to ensure that it becomes a a mindset so it should come as no surprise that I was disappointed when at this year's planning session you all agreed remove the language diversity equity and inclusion language from goal number one. That goal was rewritten from enhance customer service diversity equity inclusion and communication to deliver solution solution oriented customer service and proactive communications to our members of the community. It would be one thing if the city had presented key progress indicators the past year that showed progress toward the dei goal like they did customer service and communication but none were provided. Then when it came time to see if the council wanted to stick with enhancing as part of its top five goals this time around COUNCILMAN Pathetic who last year again spoke about the importance of championing design mindset across city departments said I do struggle with the word because what does that mean? And then by the end of the meeting diversity equity inclusion language was gone from the city's goal. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't disheartening to see a sitting member ask what equity means after it's been a part of the city's number one goal since 2021 and after the city installed committee the year prior in 2020. And look I'm not here to shame anyone for not what a certain term means but I think we need to be more proactive in our efforts to understand words and terms like this especially when they've been priority as top goals and initiatives for the city. I know it can be confusing. I mean why equity and not equality? And here's a quick example I've been coaching track and field for the last year and we give everyone on the team running shoes. Equality would be giving everyone same pair of running shoes but some people prone or some people over prone pronation and they need a more supportive shoe so they'll get a different shoe. That's what equity is recognizing that everybody's needs are little different and trying to meet that and obviously the stakes can a lot higher than what running shoes you wear in the context of the I think that help illustrates the key differences between the two and why it's for why it's important for a city to approach policies and procedures in a way that is equitable for all. The school board and superintendent moore were here earlier tonight and I think they do an excellent job of that on this front. One of the mantras they say a lot is working to ensure all students feel seen heard and loved. That's what it's all about. These proclamations tonight for pride and asian pacific islander heritage month are represented of that for sure. But they're only a start call it the I call it seen or heard loved whatever it is just please don't lose the intention behind the words and terms when crafting and executing policy so that everyone can feel welcome here in el segundo. Thank you. Thank you MR.. Next we have ryan. Hello kyle romney. Kojo. Thank you. You guys probably know I'm here because been emailing you and this is not as serious as the previous discussed but I'm here to discuss the parking situation on illinois. I wrote a little something I came to talk about the parking situation in illinois that's repetitive what I just said. I figured after all the emails we've exchanged you to see what I look like in person though I apologize for that. There's a unique frustration in driving home each night and seeing the parking that you're used to parking have a 2 hours. Let me stick to what I wrote. There's a unique frustration in driving home at the end of the day and realizing you can no longer park where you have been used to parking and instead have to go to a different neighborhood where compounds that known that your old parking spots are not being used by anybody else they just sitting there bored. Nobody can park there now at least not for than 2 hours and that includes overnight and all of our emails I haven't heard who's benefiting from this as far as I know is. It's just a total loss all around. Even you unfortunately lose because you have to read emails from people like me all the time. So please repeal the pilot program or make the west side of illinois open to parking for with permits. Thank you. Thank you, sir. That's it for public comments. Okay. City manager I think the comment from the guys I would like to address anything that was before we turned over to the city manager. I just don't one expletive explicitly has the D.A. Language still in it the strategic plan I mean we were explicit with that last meeting. We never removed it for the mayor and I know I think that we can have it in later published online. I mean it's still there. Yeah, it's still in fact we will be bringing the final version to the council for adoption and I think next month, you know, I just want the other half of the last part of that conversation at the meeting the library was explicitly to keep at it. So just have no fear. You have document that way. Okay. Just just for the record MR. Big rivers in the minutes didn't reflect that. MR. What's yeah, that language was contemplated with the what he read but I think we ended on leaving diversity equity inclusion in and I remember that because I was thinking that's not the greatest grammar because we're saying drivers oriented customer service and diversity equity and inclusion and communication it didn't flow so we were trying to make it flow. Yeah. So we do have that language still in there but it might be a little bit different. It flows right thank you MISS Was just one thing on the on the first comment just when it comes cvs anyone can apply or to be interviewed it is I think there's certain you know you got to live here or work here or be here but in the end anyone has the ability to apply for any convention they want that's not not mean that you're going to be chosen for that commission. But we do have an policy as far as who gets to to interview. But thank you for your comments. Thank you. City manager yes, I made just a comment on the third speaker about the permit the the the preferential parking zone three pro program we have we have received numerous emails regarding that program. As you know we were to we were the pilot program was going to be was going to be in existence for a year we reduced that to six months we were taking in all of the feedback we're getting as we roll the program out and in fact the the police department extended the grace period through the end of MAY initially we were going to do that earlier. We extended that through the end of MAY for enforcing the two hour parking restriction. So we will be monitoring and coming back and if we have to come back sooner than six months well you know, whatever the council's desired but right now we're we're taking all the data in and we'll be presenting the results the pilot program to you in that period of time. Thank you. City manager all right. We are moving on to by the way thank you for coming in and expressing your comments and the emails all of you thank you . All right. Item a procedure a real quick order of business. We're going to up we have MR. Lanier volunteer for park vista development. We're going to move item 23. It'll be right after consent. MR. Mayor, want one one last thing on public comment is there a messaging component we certainly hear from from people who are in the community but there's other people who are the parking zone who I don't think or is involved necessarily know happening. is there any public communication piece outward that we're doing just, you know, have to come up and describe it just is there something we can point people to because we get yes, extension of the grace period that the city manager talked about has been posted the city website and social media and police department website and it's all all the emails I receive I respond so we are publicizing oh no I just didn't know we have some some older residents aren't as active online and I, I happen to run into one and get 20 good minutes of of my very input so if there was a way where we did a posting or place like actual putting things in the mail to them or a hard copy describing the program I took the liberty of forwarding a few of the emails to to the individuals who did the petition and let them know what's going on and and they were shocked to see the of some of the some of the members of the of the neighborhood and their comments so I have forwarded some of these emails so I'm I just I just meant to notify somebody who lives there and all of a sudden they wake up next to our park and it goes in and they haven't been a party to the robust dialog is any way that that we are letting them we don't do that yeah okay there's no normal for communication thank you for that. Yes we will make sure we do that and maybe we post something the on the new signs right you know some type of flier or who to contact it that reminds me do the employers in the area that are generating the typically generate a lot of parking with employees or tenants are they that we communicate directly to some of the employers that have been affecting this zone if not we should consider that as well. Employees last places of business with tenants so I can say we could do that. We could include that as part of the initiative. We can do that. Okay. Thank you very much, MR. Sussman. Okay. We we have item eight procedural motions read all ordinances and resolutions the agenda by title only do we have a motion to do so so moved thinking is driven. It was second. Second all right I was a favor I have zero thank you any polls I consent wow. Okay do I have a motion to consent so move first second greg, I was in favor. I got to get that in quick five zero. Thank. All right. We're going to move up item 23, item 23 is a the also going senior citizens housing corporation board annual report updating funding for reserves. This is MR. Lane. Thank you for your leadership having been a liaison with this committee, this is a really amazing asset that our predecessors had the vision to create with some tax surplus dollars many years ago was money well spent. Incredible. So thank you for your leadership and volunteering your time. Appreciate it right now. It's my pleasure, drew you asked me to join this board in 2018 so it's been a fun year run so far. Sorry about that. No, no, I read about smith in there. She doesn't get I'm going to go through this quickly because there's no bad news just background senior living facility owned by the city sells condo since built in 797 units markets are for new rentals are pegged at 60% of market rate for units turnover per year approximately 5% of the tenants are not paying 50% of market rate. So what we're seeing is there are large numbers of tenants who have been there for many, many years with a bit of background rent increases. One or 2% have been passed annually in the last 15 years except for two years. We are delighted have paulson the city finance director and I apologize if I screwed up your title and alliance assume the director of public works working us and the cabinet group in particular in your cabinet to figure out what needs to be spent when and then how does that work in terms of the budgets and we are we are very grateful for their partnership. We had a major plumbing project expected to happen 2223 which has been pushed out to 2325 sorry 2034 and 2033 this was a working with alliance to figure out okay what has to happen when that's about $1.3 million so we've pushed it forward but added about 5% to it so that we cover for inflation we the good news financially stable came through covered intact. The bad news none challenges I know right I usually come up here like beating you guys up we have over $6 million for the projects identified in the replacement reserves that's developed by the city to be accomplished by 2035 including our forecast percent increase for all of our expenses. But we've changed water to 5% because we've been seeing that running higher if you will. So here's the net of it park vista under current and plans and using the senior housing fund five of four controlled by the city not by us will stay within the city finance recommended reserves until 2034 and then fall below recommended reserves. We're talking ten years out but you can change how looks and let me take you through how I'll point you to line 63 now so this is an instance one assumes a 2% cost cpi and thousand dollars for the city alone in 2024 if you look moving further out we come into the red in 2034 that is in terms of the reserves by way I believe that in the next few days and next week or so that the city is going to be looking at the total and that there is $20,000 that was gifted moved into the final four funds. We appreciate that that that will pass on JUNE 4th and that you will continue to to do so unless you continue to do so though we find ourselves in this situation we're very grateful to paul for having worked out some other options financials to assumes a 2% cpi and $200,000 annually from the city. If you look at the bottom line it's all black. So if the city continues contribute to $2,000 a year to the city owned building or put it into the final four funds only place that's currently being used for park vista, then all of our expenses will be covered. You MAY not like this map but call 100 units $2,000 a year. That's $2,000 per resident per year which to me if we're talking about is our parents grandparents loved ones cherished people in the community. It doesn't seem to be too to ask so I request the city is to add $2,000 per year to the five or four reserves to cover future needs and stay within reserve guidelines established by the city. If that is not something that is palatable to this council or you want to do in perpetuity then we ask what other options? But this is the best news we've had for a long time. That's it. Thank you very much. For you I know that when my mother got it there was a two and a half year wait for her. Get in there. What's the waitlist like now? I think it's about a year, year and a half right now it's actually better and that's wifi because raised rents we gave yeah we give you guys 30 to raise rent. Yeah. So we have the authority to rent raise rents percent without coming to you we can go higher we choose to because we look at these are people who have been here let's just clarify for current residents we can go up 2% and we know that there are a lot of people who've been in there for a long time frankly, don't have a lot of money. What we have done though is increase new people who are coming in with 60% of market rate and that has changed the formula you will so that we are in better shape. The reality is that 4% moving out four units moving out every year, sometimes more brings in more revenue when new people come in at 6% of market rate. Thank you any questions? No, it's just this wonderful news. Thank you. And I'm glad that solved the plumbing issues and we're the this is very well done because this is this picture didn't look this five years ago. It certainly did not. And just to clarify we haven't solved the plumbing as we push the poor person out. Yeah but if if city council this one in the future will continue adding $200,000 to the five or four funds we be in good shape. So the 200,000 is already in the budget? Yes. Okay. Yeah. so that's my question. Well okay thank you. 2033 the hundred $4,000 we spent a year on the parking garage comes out of the budget because the lease will be up so the control over is a cost neutral to park vista. Right. I like your thinking. Say you are $17,400 a month of rent on the parking garage will cease in 2033 because that's on our 30 year leases on that so that comes up with this. We want the two of those dollars commitment can come off of the books and be replaced by like for like it would be it would be cost neutral to us. Excellent. So we've got this year hopefully taken care of so the nine more years you know trying to get ourselves in great shape for 2033, 2034 and beyond I we're planning to lose 2034. I talked I look to license for that yeah how did we get that's the question I have how did we extend another ten years in the life of the plumbing? What changed for us? You go ahead. Yeah. So it's straightforward. The the reserve study said this is what the normal life should be and we had experts come in through the last and his team to review what does need to change what what does need and frankly there were a number of items that got pushed out so it's it's just a matter of do you think your dishwasher is going to last ten years? Sometimes it last 15, sometimes it's 20 in this case it's the more heavily used got thank you. Okay so before any further questions okay before we have the resume file of course but also provide staff direction to the senior citizens housing corporation board's request for an allocation of $200,000 per year to the fund 504 which is the reserve to cover future needs of park resident here that establish guidelines and some would like to move approval. I have further discussion like to move through but I also want to recognize the committee that says that these are volunteers who sit on this committee and really care about our seniors and want to make sure that we have a place for our seniors to live and have a great place. So just thank you to all of you for giving up your time and being committed to the city. Thank you for that. We appreciate it. Thank you. Councilmembers first we have a second body on second grade I was in favor I assume. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you also for moving me up. Thank you. Okay. Item 19 also going to firefighters association amendment to the city contributions for calpers medical premiums. We have director of H.R. Rebecca reddick. Thank you. Many members of the council the item tonight before you is a successor the memorandum of understanding email you between the city and the firefighters union. The city and association had a mutual interest in reaching an an expeditious agreement and that was to improve recruitment and retention in all ranks which includes captains, medics, engineers, firefighters and with that I'm pleased to share that we were able to reach an agreement in under one month. So with that I'd just like to briefly go some go through some of the highlights of the new mru. It is a four year and one month agreement ending in JUNE 30th of 2028. There is a slight increase the paramedic incentive pay that was currently being received fire captains, fire engineers and firefighters with medical licenses it is a flat dollar amount that was 7.6% of base which was increased to 8% but it still remains a flat dollar amount through life of the contract. The biggest change there really is that this agreement includes paramedic incentive pay to people who are paramedics which is a pretty common practice in other agencies with fire departments. And considering that there is a medical shortage right now, that will be something that will really help us retain a recruit medics in the future. The other item in here is the elimination of the education incentive pay. We had two tiers of education incentive one for people that were deemed peppers under the cap system so that people hired after JANUARY 1st of 2013 and that was under one system and then people who are classics, people who are before 2013 they were paid different amounts their education incentive. So eliminating the education incentive and including the pay of bachelors degree from captain for all ranks into base pay so that will be included into the base pay there will be no separate extra educational pay that item there is valued at 3.2% the next are the cost of living adjustments the cost of living. The first one is not until JULY 1st of this year and it 5.3% and then there are other cost of living adjustments effective JULY 1st of 2025, 26 and 27 and those are 3% 2% and 2% respectively. The health insurance we have been trying to get all of our bargaining units on the same amounts for health insurance increase currently the firefighters association is at 1700 dollars per month for calpers medical so that would increase to $50 upon approval and adoption of the the new contract and then it would fall in line with all the other bargaining units which is a $50 increase each year on JANUARY of 25, 26, 27 and 28 the other piece in here economically is a voluntary binding arbitration agreement. So in exchange for members finding a voluntary arbitration agreement they can receive up $10,000. It is paid into installments one payment of $5,000 upon signing of the agreement then another payment 30 days after signing the agreement. And for people that are newly hired this provision is available to them on a voluntary basis. However they are not eligible to participate in the program until after they successfully complete probation. There are three other items which are not financial necessarily but they are important to mention we have included as we've done with other bargaining units cash out provisions for vacation leave that comply with irs constructor receipt doctrine where they have to declare in the year prior what they want to sell out in the following year and it made in two payments one in JUNE and one in DECEMBER. You cannot sell out you sell back vacation in excess of what you would have earned in that calendar year. We also have this new contract the force higher one write down provision where employees that are rehired they are only able to work down one rank. So currently if you are a captain you are able to work down to ranks which means you could work down as a captain, you could work down as a firefighter. This would mean that if you're you can only work down as an engineer or you can work down as a medic would not be able to work to brings down and then the last provision that's important to mention is the vacation leave accrual maximum of two years and no additional payments for any amount that would be accrued over the maximum that would become effective JANUARY 1st of 2025. With this item I have two resolutions one to prove that amelia itself but then as you know calpers requires an amendment and a resolution approve the extra $50 for the pimco amount. Thank you, MRS. Drake. Any questions? Comments? Oh, okay we've got city attorney if you could read the title we will then consider it option mayor and council a resolution approving the memorandum of understanding between the city of el segundo and you're also going to fire fire firefighters I f local 3682 bargaining unit is ready for adoption. Thank you sir. I would like to move approved some thank you. Second I'll be no second build building on second all those in favor I zero thank you there is one more resolution resolution facsimile employer contribution under the public employees medical medical and hospital care act and legal amount for employees and annuities with respect to we are going to recognize the employee organization so therefore else again no firefighters is ready for adoption. I like the group so move you to during the first person on the second group thank you all those in favor I was your thank you was recognized as a lot of work thank you the firefighters association thank you the city staff the attorneys involved. Thank you. thank you. I'm not going to stay up. Okay. Yes. I don't want any changes in the title and classification specification for community cable program specialist and building safety manager and the accompanying resolution basic salary ranges. Thank you so. This item is basically revisions to the job spec revisions to the job title for these two positions the community cable program manager to media specialist that is a represented position so did have to send the job description to the to see if they wanted to meet and confirm impacts of the changes they were in agreement with the changes that were proposed so that's why I'm able to bring it to you tonight for approval the building and safety manager to the building official that is an unrepresented position it did have significant changes to the job description which I worked with director michael allen both of these because there is a title change in it it requires a resolution so that we can be in compliance with calpers the rules on publicly available pay schedules. Great. Thank you. If there are no questions I can take the first to title changes as one motion any questions or comments I just have a comment and I just want to thank human resources kind of going through and looking at this aggressively even though we've always had this job position, do we still need it? How can update it so that it fixes what we need right now as a city? And I just want to thank you for putting that effort out there to make sure that we're not just filling positions that are antiquated but we're continuing looking at the level of service we want to provide and what resources we need from a city to provide those services to our communities. So this is important work that you do and I'm sure it's grueling too to go through it all but I appreciate it does take time but I believe that we should put the time in upfront before we do a recruitment to fill something and then have someone get in the position and it's not what they thought. So and the updating of the titles these are more attractive and they're more you know, newer terms they include cable specialist. Correct. So thank you can I go that I don't want to belabor it but there's 30 employees in L.A. County who cannot get promoted because they cannot type the requisite number of words per minute because they're classified as a type of specialist. Still there's an enormous number of employees staying ahead of it is is not glamorous work but laudable work. And I appreciate it the the building official job description one of the updates to that was in education experience alternative for people who if they've been a building inspector for a long time they MAY not have a bachelor's degree but they will have several certifications that would be equivalent that so that is something that we also looked at. Great. There's nothing further with someone like to move through both title changes together as one motion so moot thank you the second second okay I was in favor I was there and next we have a resolution establishing the basic salary ranges for the media specialist and building official city attorney. Would you please read the mayor and council a resolution establishing basic salary ranges full time job classifications is ready for adoption as we move approval to the second second grade I was in favor I zero. I thank you MRS. Reddick mayor if I might on the consent agenda item number nine that was the item on the downtown specific plan if the court could just that on those items that the mayor mayor pro tem sustained like they do I guess because of their conflicts of interest in the mayor I'm sorry on the matter of hers the mayor I was appointed on that one so if I remember in a power play I shorthanded 2 to 1 thank you for clarifying. Thank you for getting that. Okay. Item 21 which is the united states department of homeland security 2023 urban area security initiatives grant program award in award agreeing with the city of los angeles and I see chief's I'll rodriguez approaching the podium sir good evening again MADAM Mayor pro tem council so what we're looking for today is to for you folks to allow us to accept a grant that we received we initially applied for this grant in OCTOBER of 2022 in NOVEMBER of 2018 we approved DECEMBER of 23 we were told you need to start to look for the vehicle that you want to want to select and use it. Wasn't until APRIL where they came forward with the actual contract for us to look for this approval of the vehicle. The vehicle itself is called a rescue vehicle met cat that could be used for situations in which we believe we are technically in a GOD forbid you have a citizen and or a officer who's been shot this is the best way we can use to get to that person to avoid any further injuries. In addition that we've used a vehicle similar to this about 25 times since 2021, this vehicle is going to be the first in the south bay region which also has firefighting capabilities in the event that there is somebody who has a fire in a position advantage us, we're going to do everything we can to save lives that's what we're trying to do here also this vehicle is currently housed. It's a regional asset that's redondo beach. If we had an immediate situation that we needed this type of vehicle today right now you take 30 minutes to an hour to get that vehicle. If we were to purchase this vehicle here it would be here in our city and we can immediately get to that car and that vehicle it in a tactical situation to make sure we render people safe. The money again is going to come from the grant which to ward us roughly $251,000 and the remaining which could range anywhere from ten to under 50,000 roughly would our asset forfeiture funds and that's going to come from the department of treasury asset forfeiture funds which we have already in place that fund has about $500,000 in it would use that money to get to secure the purchase of that vehicle. The other issue is we're dealing with a time crunch, if you will if we don't accept this grant soon, we're at a time crunch because we need to have that vehicle in hand by JANUARY 26 the vehicle will take about ten months to a year to build. So not until we have that vehicle can we say we have it and we start getting the reimbursements for the actual vehicle itself. Any questions? I'm sure there are a lot yeah, I have a couple of questions. What you mentioned that I think you said chief, how times have you used a similar vehicle if you're going to what were the of that situation was I don't have it every situation I can tell you there was an incident that I've been made aware of that happened on grand beach and center street a vehicle of that sort was used and it was necessary when it's going to be used in the future. that's unpredictable given the nature of the work that do that can be needed today and any time now. So it's used a lot when we're doing search warrant services either in the city or outside the city or helping our regional assets. It can be used at that particular time and in a like when we came from santa monica ones we have on there just we didn't know what in the region given that some of our cities are so small in any of the 18 cities in L.A. County, how many of these would you expect to have and I like the county of L.A. These particular vehicles it's hard to say sometimes you need multiple similar type of vehicles in an operation. I guess what I'm getting at is no opportunity to should manhattan beach or some other neighbor that's in close proximity for. Again, this is the only vehicle that's going to have the firefighting capabilities to be used as an ambulance if we need to rescue personnel or even duty members who are unsafe have been injured, this will allow us that capability do that. Other agencies do have it. Like I mentioned, there's one in redondo beach. My understanding is manhattan beach is trying to get one too. But again, you're also going to be looking at time length it takes for them to get their personnel to get that vehicle here. This affords us the ability to get that vehicle on scene immediately because of a lot of our swat members are embedded with patrol so we can have that vehicle out there to keep our officers safe and our community be safe immediately. Okay. Last question I think ramon, if you can use the asset for your forfeiture funds for this, what would be your second favorite or most application of those funds to protect our citizens? Well, again, this was we were specifically for this rescue vehicle if we were not grants I am talking about just the asset for it because we're some of the funds were used in our pocket asset forfeiture. So when you think about just those dollars what next it is what will be the best use of those funds or it's hard to say some of that be the technology stuff we talked about earlier as far as the area of the funds we do have a that's already buried within the money that I'm really seeing that there. So other than that there's not much that I'm looking at at this point but in understanding what the swat team needs right now to keep our community safe, this is one of the things that they said was paramount for us to have. Thank you. You're welcome. Any comments, questions, concerns mean we have significant armored assets, right? We have a humvee. We spent $300,000 a few years ago on a swat vehicle a is this super force how do we choose which vehicle to use for what the humvee is not adequate to do what we're trying to get to . In other words, there's not enough room here. We have somebody we're trying to rescue and he also trying to do life saving efforts. You can't do that necessarily the humvee whereas in this mid cap vehicle, the rescue vehicle ,there's plenty of room to do that. And as I mentioned, we do have fire department personnel who are medically trained to provide that immediate to people to try to save a life. I mean I don't doubt that it's it's a good for its use but we're allocating most of this as grant money but but the other chunk of this is is our asset forfeiture. These are our high impact low frequency events and. I think when the mayor was talking about things you could use the money for if we used asset forfeiture money toward some the vehicles we replaced earlier in the year we'd be on marked vehicles. We spent a lot of money on would that have freed up money for some of the technology pieces that we're trying to budget for? So I don't I mean I'm sure, we'll buy this vehicle. I don't doubt that we will because we've already gone through the grant. There's lots of grants out there. I question the wisdom of us going for a exquisite platform like this for scenarios that are vanishingly rare. We have other vehicles that I mean the number of times our officers draw their weapons is mercifully very low and there are certainly scenarios for this but they're not scenarios that