City Council Meeting: December 11, 2023

Welcome everyone. It's good to see so many familiar faces including our mayor bill bogarde and claire who are here with us today. I'd like to welcome all of you to the DECEMBER 11 twenty 23 meeting of the city council. And as we know this is the reorganization meeting. So we'll start with calling a roll COUNCILMAN Roehampton blessed and honored to be here casimira jones here castrilli care customer madison here, COUNCILMAN Massouda here, customer service here. Vice mayor williams here, mayor gado here. There's a quorum of the council PRESIDENT. MR. Williams, will you lead us in the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under GOD, indivisible with liberty and justice for all who follow that script. Yeah. So again, welcome everyone to the council's reorganization meeting as a reminder on DECEMBER 12th 2022 the city council took action and we are here consistent with that action to conduct the council's appointment of a vice mayor. So today we acknowledge the service first of vice mayor williams and I personally want to say that MISS Williams has done a tremendous job of serving as vice mayor. There are a lot of meetings that happen throughout the region often in the middle of the day at inconvenient times such as sanitation district and other regional meetings that the public doesn't hear about. And MISS Williams has represented the city well and pinch hit for me on more than one occasion, often at the last minute. And so I very much appreciate vice mayor williams service to the city as vice mayor. I've heard feedback from many throughout the region related to her attendance at those meetings and I can assure you that all of the feedback has been very positive and people mentioned to me how well our city is represented at those meetings. So thank you for doing that and for serving your constituents and the city of pasadena in general so well so there are a number of presentations will and will start in order with enrique robles from the office of congress member judy chu, welcome. Hello council hilden again my name is enrique with congresswoman judy chu, your district chief of staff and I'm here I want to echo what the mayor gordon said. Uh, vice mayor, we see you everywhere. You always do an incredible job. Just this last friday you were foothill transit making your way all out there to cavite, west covina and then have to come back out here to pasadena to serve your constituents here so it's never easy to be a council member. I see the work we all do and when you have the title of mayor in your title vice mayor, it's just everyone expects you to fix every single problem. So I appreciate what you do and on behalf of congresswoman judy chu, I'd like to present you a certificate of congressional recognition. You should probably just stay down there. Next we'll hear from dominick correy with senator anthony porton tinos office. Good evening, mayor and council members. My name is dominick coyne. I'm here on behalf of california state senator anthony to and I would also like to ditto and say congratulations for the last year and on behalf of the california state senate, I am honored to recognize your contributions to the city of pasadena. Your leadership as vice mayor has been continual inspiration to those who have worked alongside you and this recognition as I direct reflection of your hard work and dedication to our city best wishes and all your future endeavors and I know I can recall says we see you everywhere and now hopefully you get a little break now that you're not vice mayor but can mamady I think the only person more than everywhere is that important. You know and steve, we know you become a vice mayor. You're going to do great things . thank you. And next we'll ask marie hickinbotham from assembly member holden's office to step forward. Thank you, mayor and city council and members of the community. I am pleased to be here on behalf of assembly member chris holden to recognize felicia williams, a friend and a colleague for the great service that she provided to the city of pasadena during her term as vice mayor and to thank her for that service and to wish you well in her future endeavors. Thank you very much, felicia. Well, which way thank you. Next I'd like to ask jens weedon, ceo, the rosebowl operating company. Thank you, mayor and council vice mayor along the same theme of being everywhere while the rosebowl stadium doesn't move around L.A. County. You do I think you you win for most steps around the rose bowl event. Vice mayor williams is is probably the the person I see most in the most random places in a good way at any event she'll be anywhere from down on the field to on top of the building talking to the officers, asking them what they're doing up there. So I shire council and the and the people in pasadena that she's doing a very good job understanding the operation of the rosewarne. I know she's done that as vice mayor. I also like to congratulate steve madsen on becoming vice mayor who is the rboc appointee on the rboc. But before that I'm going to hand over a gift here and we we decided to ask we asked the clerk what color you're going to wear today and we bet on red so we wanted a match so here you go. Thank you. Next, mike ross who's ceo of the personal center operating company mayor and council members mike ross with the peacock we're here both nas and kristin to present a small gift to council member williams who is a was a long board member and also a great supporter of the peacock. And I also want to think council member madison who was a twenty year member of our board and we wish him well as vice mayor. Congratulations next from the past the community access corporation pkc george falardeau stauncher. Well we'll come back and the next one is for me so this next gift is from the city council and I'm honored to present it to our friend and colleague felicia williams. As I mentioned, you know, I've called on felicia many a time to represent the city in my stead when I've been unable to make a meeting because I can't be everywhere at at the same time. And she has very gracious and gracefully taking the challenge. And so I personally want to say thank you for your service to pasadena. Thank you for your willingness to take on so many challenges when I can't be at different places. You've done so very elegantly and very ably in representing us, particularly at some of the regional meetings that we're called upon to attend and so on behalf of the city council we'd like to present to you a small token our appreciation. This is a vaisse and that is presented to you for your service as vice mayor of the city and I'll just read what it says with great full appreciation from your council colleagues for your leadership presented DECEMBER 11th, 2023. Thank you , vice mayor williams and I'll invite you to say a few words, ok? Thank you to everyone who's here and thank you for the wonderful gifts our operating companies are kind of our unique part of pasadena and so I appreciate working with them all the work they do for a pasadena citizens and thank you to the council for your gift. You know, I actually I actually wrote a really kind of happy happy joy joy speech today but this is going to be a different speech and for those of you who know me, I keep real I sort of just tell the truth and so this will be from my heart today is a very sad day in pasadena in the past vice mayor has served for two years but as many of you know, my second year as vice mayor was taken away by a man who felt that he was entitled to serve as vice mayor for a second time. Even though this was my first time I never grew up feeling entitled to anything. my parents told me that I always had to work for everything so I capitulated to his request. And then a couple of weeks ago at the christmas tree lighting five year old girl walked up to me and she asked if she could get her picture of the vice mayor and her mom said one day you could be vice mayor and I thought not another man takes it away from her. Over the past year as vice mayor I've worked with mayor of mayor gordo and we've had a lot of fun as well. I've attended numerous events. I hosted a domestic violence awareness month event which is when the first ones that we've had in pasadena to bring awareness to the issue I hosted women's history month and a self-defense class for women and I rode for the first time in the black history parade since we haven't had one for a couple of years. I've also led difficult council meetings, really contentious meetings in the mayor's absence and ensuring that everybody's voice was heard and that the council could reach a decision that's not easy to really move the council towards a decision and navigated that. And I do that on the burbank airport and I feel that I've done a good job. I've also been available what their council members were not to ensure that the city was well represented regionally and you had very good remarks on that mayor. I have proven to the men and the one woman who said that I did not have enough experience to be vice mayor for a second year I've proven them wrong and now at the end of my short term I'm sad. I'm not just sad to end as vice mayor but I'm also sad that the pasadena that I knew growing up doesn't seem to have changed much. One of my favorite quotes comes from st. Augustine and the quote is hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage, anger the way things are and the courage to see that they do not remain the same the speeches, the anger and now we need to see the courage, the courage to ensure that a city council is 50 percent women or more my hope the courage to teach young girls and women to stand up for their right to be here and use their voices to make change and the courage to tell our young people that just because you're different it doesn't mean you get treated differently. So here's to pasadena. I hope that we can stop looking and acting like we did in the 1980s. And here's to courage. Thank you. So the I will now entertain a motion to adjourn this council sini dear and that essentially says that the council as we know it is adjourned and then we will take the issue vice mayor so move mayor second its motion and a second are there objections? I see no objection. The council is adjourned. Scindia and we opening up to council comments if any member of the council has comments see no comments I have about that speech I'll say that for sure. I remember the day that you became vice mayor and had a conversation with you. Vice mayor williams call you guys periosteal because I believe that you should as you two years and I told you our second you if you mention I understand maybe there was pressures or a way you felt about something but I do think that there was an opportunity and I did say I was going to support you 100 percent. I still support you 100 percent. So I think you did an amazing job as vice mayor. I don't think anybody as far as experience goes no one has experience for a job that they've never done before and for the vice mayor I came out of the vice mayor and I was the vice mayor during corbett so I had a but since we all bitter speeches I'm like you know, I'm looking around like all these people can't MISS An election year like all of the folks came and brought certificate's I guess the year I came there like that didn't have a tara but it is an election year. I get it all out. All the politicians out there nice certificate's. I appreciate that they all running for something everybody but I but what I do want to say that I do think that you should have your two years and I did tell you that I would sacking you or moshing because I think you should have used two years I still think you should have you two years and I thought that because I didn't get two years because we had a covid year and so as one council member I still believe that you do your two years and I don't know how I don't know we previously voted on that and you were fine with that at the time and maybe things have changed and I understand that that's that's life one day you're somewhere in the next day you're somewhere else. It hasn't changed for me. I still do believe that you are do the two years because had covid I didn't have go I did have koban at some point but I had to call one year. I think we all go but it was during the cold war years and experience for any young lady, any man, anybody here I don't I think that is a barrier that people put upon other people that are afraid to do something themself or a way to give an excuse for not selecting someone so for any young person who is watching today or anybody who was in the audience thinking about a dream that they MAY have, I would say the way I want to say it but I'm not going to say it that way. So duckett, you know, do it that's I mean that's not a bad way to say I'm just saying you just got to do it and I think you should be the vice mayor for four two years and this wasn't a conversation you had today. I didn't know that you were going to give that speech. I've always felt that way and if the incoming vice mayor would be graceful enough to say, you know, he agrees as well but I did vote on that. i'm not the one to pull back vote but it was a decision that at the time was a decision you were you agreed upon and I didn't necessarily agree upon the decision but because you did I supported it. So I'm grateful for your service. You did an amazing job as everybody spoke about. I mean an amazing job. You were literally literally everywhere as the I mean during cold it it was not hard to be on every phone call. Was it hard? But you were definitely everywhere and and you did an amazing job and you represented pasadena and I know that you will continue to represent pasadena in a very fine way and I know that pasadena is no longer the eighties. I know that because look at the look at the electorate in this room. This is no longer the eighties. So I stand with you. I'm always with you. I have you have my support just like I would support any of my colleagues in this room. There was a decision that was made I voted on the decision and I just felt like I wanted to give you the speech that you did an amazing job. But I also wanted to be be very clear that if our colleague decides he would like to give you that extra year I would support that. But because I already gave my vote and supported the original that's that's where I'm at and I want to be public about this. I don't want to have to tell you this behind closed doors anything like that. So I love you. I love everyone who was here in this room today and anybody who is thinking about doing something do it and never let anyone tell you that experience is a reason why you can't do it because no one has experience for something they never done. Thank you. Thank you for your your speech today, MISS Jones. Thanks. And I just want to echo what COUNCILMAN Rampton said isomura ,I see you're powerful. You're an intelligent black woman and you know I support you and I think you've done a wonderful job as being vice mayor of this city. I wasn't here to further vote but I think you've you've earned it and you've done a great job and so I think, you know, never let anyone tell you that you can't do something because I believe that you can achieve it. Right. And this is I think this is your your motivation and your encouragement to just keep going forward and you know, I'm sick and I wasn't to say anything but seeing, you know, tears in your eyes I mean it just takes me back to times when I've seen my wife cry or I've seen my mother cry and to see those tears it hurts me too . But I just want you to know that you can achieve anything you want and you already know that I don't have to tell that to you but I just just let you know that I see you too. Thank you, MR. Madison. noelle reserve my comments don't take the next step. Any other comments? I think I think we're there. MR. Anderson, did you want to make comments? Certainly, mayor. Why don't I want to keep this an upbeat evening and I think I want to start by saying that it's such an honor for me to become vice mayor. I was vice mayor before you'll recall the discussion that we had a year ago and I was the vice mayor for mayor bill bogarde who is, you know, a role model and a mentor to me as is his wife clare. And that was a tremendous honor. And you know, mayor gordon, you and I have served together for many, many years and it'll be a tremendous honor to serve as your vice mayor as well for both of view it's a little bit like being the maytag repairman because you both show up to everything and of course the real I think the role of the vice mayor is to represent the mayor when he can't be there and you both seem to show up at everything which is is great. I want to introduce some other important people and this is always risky because of the the possibility you'll MISS Someone. But my family first and foremost julianna couldn't be here because she's in washington, D.C. You know, I fell in love with somebody who's even busier than I am which is saying something about my son julian madsen is here and my former field rep takako suzuki is here and my current field rep justin chapman is here and I think everyone on this council knows that it sort of takes a village to have a council member serve. You need a support of your family, of your field rep of the staff at large and none of your colleagues at work. You know our charter calls for part time citizen volunteers, if you will. We receive a stipend but we're not full time politicians and we ask a lot of the people around us to do what we do. I do want to say that the discussion I'm a bit surprised at the comments tonight because the discussion last year and I would recommend to everyone who's heard the remarks tonight to please go back and look at the agenda and the minutes from a year ago that was actually the sad day because that was the day that our colleague and friend john kennedy his reelection was certified that day even though he had passed a few months earlier and that was one of the catalysts for a discussion about charter reform ,about what the the appropriate mechanisms are. You know, my thing was we had never had in our history ever not once a freshman council members serve as vice mayor but that wasn't all. It was also the fact that it was supposed to be the most senior council member and apparently there was this understanding that if you had already served that you couldn't serve again, which is nowhere in the charter, nowhere in any adopted policies or procedures. and as we talked that out and this is one of the reasons I'm so surprised it was actually council member williams who suggested a compromise and then ultimately council member hampton made the motion and council member williams seconded for the action that we're implementing here tonight. So I hope that it's not politics. I know people are under stress from the political season. Six of the eight of us are up for reelection next year and I know that's a stressful time but we'll get through that. It's an honor to serve mayor honored to serve this great community and look forward to continuing to serve and bringing the benefit of my experience and the wisdom that I hope I gained in my time here to assist you and all the members of the council. Thank you. Ok, and so with that when mayor just one other data point that I forgot and that is that you know, the charter calls for one year terms of vice mayor. As I recall we've had a practice because of the election cycles of just saying well let's just do it for two years. But that was also part of the discussion and I hope the charter reform task force looks at this and maybe provides us with some potential rules or regulations around that or even charter reform. You know, if there's a question about that because we shouldn't be left guessing about things like that. thank you. Ok, thank you, vice mayor of madison for those comments. I just want to be very clear that's what I said this is the agreement that was agreed upon and unless you want to make the change, I want to be willing to to change the vote that I already previously made. And you were right. I did make that motion but that was because I had the support of the then vice mayor vice mayor williams to do so without the two years. So thank you for the rehash of that. I was trying you eloquently said it a lot better than I think than I was when I was talking. But yeah, you had the whole data in the background of it. But yes, I do remember that. Ok, so that then completes this matter and we will adjourn you know, just move on to the one to the regular meeting, ok? And we'll move on to the regular business of the council. I want to thank everyone who's taking the time to be here today and participate in this meeting again. Thank you, mayor bogarde for your service. I tell people that everyone has a mayor including the city mayor and my mayor is always bill beaugard. So thank you for your service and for being here today. So we'll move on to the regular business, the council and public comment on matters not on the agenda. Start with public comment for matters not on the agenda. so the public comment for matters not on the agenda we have to speak or submitted. Alan shay, are you here? Alan shay? Oh ok. And in olden denim give a second to I see I see them right now so MR. Shea, welcome to for public comment on matters not on the agenda. Two minutes go ahead. First of all, I'd like to thank the city of pasadena and to share all the love I have for it and wish everybody merry christmas. Happy new year since hopefully this will be the last session today I want to celebrate what pasadena has done for me as a individual and I start with my childhood in jackson, mississippi in nineteen sixty three watching the tournament of roses on the television and my mother making the decision that she's going to move her ten kids to pasadena, california and that she did because of the tournament of roses and the red and white beauties that was shown we moved to pasadena and the love of pasadena was also reinforced by kappa alpha psi, the red and white of kappa psi. That's my fraternity. It was also further enjoyed by my high school rivalry against the red and white at the bulldogs. But last and not least, what I like to share is that we are a family and a community that we should embrace our true staples that we have partnerships and I just want everybody to know that the tournament of roses made my entire childhood dream into reality so I can run for mayor. So thank thank you. Next the next speaker is old denham. MR. Denham. Welcome. Aldan I will make a real short because we got a lot of people in there I know you got a little bit of time I would like to discuss the good, the bad and the ugly but we're going to talk about the good first I guess and and I want to say hey man, I really appreciate what's going on and I keep you alive. We got the boy scouts up there in a place it really looks good, really looks good but they only were able to cover the front and I would like to see the city help those guys get the rest of it. That is really good and it's for the boy scouts. It's for the city also. You know me I come in to try and represent the truth. I come in here, represent a problem that we had three years I've been coming in here for three years and I still feel we need to get a copy of our stories. We know you can't do it so we're working work with you on getting the charter changed and I just wish everybody had upcoming new year's a great new year's from pasadena and I'm looking for some changes and I'm expecting from guys who I know you all know right from wrong and you know the wrong that's and let's see if we can straighten it out. Hey, I appreciate you all and your hard work. Let's keep it up for the next year. Thank you, MR. And then keisha keisha williams, are you are you in the audience dishes with williams williams welcome. Ok, so I wanted to say thank you especially you and you for what you guys put together and had the meeting I had the meeting with the officials so I want to say thank you because we we came to some sort of agreement and it's good, you know so I did want to say that and then another thing I wanted to speak on I'm not from pasadena but my heart goes out to like homeless anything to do with mental health, anything to do with helping others and I do have some ideas on the homelessness and I have some friends that could help like fix that. So I did leave you mayor victor I did leave you a message earlier. So call me. All right. Thank you. MISS Williams will do based on the speaker card submitted that the q that completes public comment on matters not on the agenda I'm in no fashion just to address some of the public comments, one of the public comment was about the zabulon center and the work that is happening happening there. There's about just update the community members. There is about a million and a half dollars I believe of city funds going into the caribbean center for roof repairs and bathroom upgrades as well as potentially some kitchen upgrades and things inside the center. so I didn't want to just let the residents that I'm seeing a lot of the change up there that we are 100 percent supporting that and I think the cabinets and there's doing a great job at the in the front in the boys the boys boy scouts of america doing an amazing job doing that work up there. So I'm glad that I was brought . Thank you, MR. Hampton. So that brings us to the consent calendar. Is there a sweet motion on the consent calendar item five was pulled or was a quote request and council member jones to discuss item five the hold item five MR. Massouda, I got one question for item number twenty two for the public works. Ok, well hold item five and twenty two from sweet motion is there motion to move the remainder of the consent move rests second and seconded are there any objections consent calendar is approved and we'll start with MR. Missoula's question item five no MR. Council member joneses I'm sorry MR. Jones this question I'll let him five I replied yes thanks mer and marvin. You know I made inquiries and I think the mayor did too about our stockpile of transformers back in SEPTEMBER. And so I just want to know what is our current stockpile? How long will it last? I know some utilities free covid they stockpile transformers for about six months and then folks stockpiling it for two years. What is our current stockpile? You're correct. marvin moon, assistant general manager for part delivery for water and power our our practice covered was about a six month supply of transformers. Our practice right now since the lead time for those have gone from low in one year to five years with the average being two to three years we're going for a two year inventory recovery that would have been about two to three hundred units. Right now we're about 650 ideally would be around eight to nine hundred and I know we can't tell the future but is that going to be enough or should we we're we're really good with those three types of transformers we use and we're really good in the overhead type. We get it from primarily a company from south korea which is keeping the underground surface mount which is what this item addresses that'll get us to about 75 percent of our two year goal. Ok, thank you. I'll move to prove the staff report. Ok, thank you mayor. Ok, sorry there was a motion to approve in second life and then item eight was a discussion and finance and that should have been removed from this agenda tonight. So I guess we need they did vote to approve. I need a motion to reconsider. Go look item eight so motion to reconsider item eight motion to hold on a second sorry the second we didn't vote on item five yet. you should just ask if there's any objections to item five, ok and then we could go to any objections item five c none that matters approved. Thank. And now we'll turn to a motion for reconsideration item eight motion to reconsider item eight are second second let's move the seconded any objections see no objections then that matter let's motion to reconsider the motion to reconsider was approved so that there is no action on item ok so we'll hold item eight. I don't know what item will come back to the finance committee. Jan wasn't yes. What you could you repeat that michelle we couldn't hear what you're saying over here the motion to reconsider was approved therefore the approval on consent for item eight was withdrawn, was reconsidered. So now if the council wants to vote on what to do with item eight, you can or the city manager has indicated that there is just table to table. The finance committee asked for it to come. Yeah. Stable for the moment and we're not going to go out again tonight. Ok, thank you mayor. So next item twenty item twenty two. Thank you. Sorry MR. Ambassador. Thank you mayor. As you know we've been waiting for pickleball in the fourth district and it's going to be coming in over here park and thank you, tony, for being here and moving that along. So my one question is when do you estimate the pickleball to be completed? So good evening, mayor mayor city council tony almost public works director. If awarded we expect to start construction in FEBRUARY of next year and be done by JUNE of next year. Thank thank you. Is that a motion to move item twenty two ok motion to move item twenty to the second so moved moved and seconded and any objections seen on that matter is now approved. Now that brings us to item three no public comments on twenty two no correspondence no ok brings us to item twenty four and this is an authorization for three contract awards for broker listings. MR. City manager our director of housing bill wong will kick off this presentation with along with the staff. Thank thank you very much, MR. Mayor. Members of city council. So the we have before you a recommendation for three real estate brokers to assist the city in the disposition of and of caltrans homes that we anticipate acquiring from from caltrans. So we will I'll turn it over to caroline nelson who's a program coordinator who's heading up this this project for a brief presentation. Tell him welcome. Yep. Got it. Sorry everybody. Good evening. mayor city council caroline nelson with the housing department and this is a contract award for broker listing services with compas formerly dc partner padley mutual realty consultants and sotheby's international realty. Some background caltrans acquired approximately four hundred and sixty four hundred sixty four sorry four hundred sixty properties in the fifties, sixties and seventies in pasadena and surrounding communities for the construction of the S.R. 710 north project the roberti act establish priorities and procedures for the sale of surplus caltrans owned properties along the 710 corridor senate bill nine five nine amends the roberti act and gives the city purchase priority for vacant caltrans homes located along the 710 corridor in its borders under sb nine five nine the city has the right to purchase vacant properties at the original caltrans acquisition price. The properties need to be used for affordable housing or the net sales proceeds from the market sale must be used to create or preserve affordable housing if the properties are sold at market proceed are used to finance affordable housing at a three to one ratio for every market home sold units funded with caltrans net proceeds are required to meet state prevailing wage requirements. Caltrans offered the city 17 vacant properties via a formal notice of soliciting and issued on JULY six twenty twenty three the city responded on JULY twenty fifth indicating its interest in all seventeen properties. Four of the properties have been identified for potential affordable homeownership. The remaining thirteen are proposed to be sold at market market buyers will be required to execute a performance deed in order to ensure that the properties are maintained brought up to code and occupied in a timely fashion. The city released an rfp for broker listing services on JULY 7th. The rfp closed on JULY twenty fifth outreach included notification via the city's open gov procurement system that reached over twenty seven hundred vendors along with outreach to the pasadena foothills association of realtors which has approximately two thousand members and pasadena heritage pasadena now also featured the rfp in an article that was published JULY 17th. Missing items from the original submissions were accepted during a limited window that was held from OCTOBER 30th to NOVEMBER 6th a total of thirty five proposals were received. Two were disqualified for failure to provide threshold documentation. The other thirty three were reviewed and scored by an evaluation panel. The top three scoring proposals are recommended for award the evaluation criteria included cross departmental input, the evaluation panel was composed of cross departmental staff including planning staff from the design and historic preservation section from the city managers office. That evaluator is a licensed real estate broker and from the housing department. State law prohibits gendered racial preferences in public contracting local passing businesses and small micro businesses that are certified at the state are each eligible for five points. The criteria also included documented experience with the sale of historic properties. Caltrans identified the twelve of the properties are historic. All twelve of these historic properties are proposed to be sold at market. All are contributing properties to either the marketplace historic district or the pasadena avenue historic district. Both of these districts are listed on the national register and notable architects represented include green include green and green. Four of the properties MAY be individually eligible for listing on the national register of historic places and pasadena heritage has further identified the three of the properties MAY potentially be eligible for a historic preservation easement. Proposers were asked to provide addresses and dates of sale for any designated or contributing properties previously sold. The evaluation criteria was as follows. Responsiveness of proposal received up to ten points. Background and relevant experience received up to twenty points proposed solution which in this case was a marketing and sales strategy for two sample properties received up to thirty points cost proposal received up to twenty points. Local pasadena businesses received five points. State certified small or micro businesses received five points. Proposers with historic property experience received ten points. Mayor just point of order. Excuse me for interrupting but this is all in the staff report . I'm glad we covered the fact that this is in the seven ten corridor and all but I wonder if we could just go to questions. I think this is also like the third time we've had this on our agenda and the report has improved each time. I'm certainly pleased with it now. So apologize to the presenter I will go to questions. Yeah ok, so MR. Hampton. Yes. Thank you. So this is true that this has been in the report a couple of times on the agenda in I did think that this was an opportunity to really engage some of our local smaller realtors because there's a lot of realtors out here, a lot of brokerage firms in the city of pasadena. But the fact that we have seventeen homes and we're giving all of the work to three brokerage firms to me seem to been unfair, especially when it comes to, you know, just spreading the the wealth around all of our our firms are and also engaging in I would say communities that don't typically always get that engagement or know about these opportunities or know about the homes that are for sale. But staff was gracious enough to reopen it and have people look at their I guess their applications and they did submit updates to the applications business. Oh excuse me. I'm losing my voice. It doesn't sound like any of those firms were able to rise to the occasion. But I do want to say that there were a couple of red flags that came up during my conversations with staff as well as part of the criterion for selling these homes. One of the criterion was you had to have had to have experience with experience. This is the theme of the day experience with selling historic work homes and none of the homes are actually deemed historic. Maybe two of them are deemed to store by the state of california state of california standards. So I thought that was an unfair criterion that still a criterion to this day I am prepared to move forward with this but I do think that what we should have done in the first place and I'm going to just say this this is what I've told the city manager as well as the housing director well we should have done is just put the houses on the market and whoever comes to us with the best proposal I mean it's going market rate anyways. Whoever comes to us with the best proposal then we take in whoever the realtor is we we just take it at face value that way versus saying that these are the the three real estate firms that will be working with because a smaller firm would have had an equal opportunity as a as a bigger firm would have. But that's not the direction staff was wanting to take were willing to take. So we are where we are today. I still this is a missed opportunity to engage some of the smaller firms and some smaller businesses actually pasadena based businesses, the businesses that are selected today are are all in the stock exchange so I just want to mention that and I'm either way it sounds like the council is ready to move forward with is do we even have the properties at this time? No, we do not. Ok, so I just don't understand what the rush is if we don't have the properties prejudice my and so I mean if you guys want to vote on it I just want to make my comments known and I will not be voting in favor of this because I think that there's an opportunity that we've missed a major missed opportunity but I do once again value staff time and also I'm grateful that they reopened it and ask people to reapply. Why not reapply but to update their proposals and I'm very grateful for that in the queues ,MR. Madison. Thank you, mayor. I mean I had some of the same concerns maybe not the exact as council member hampton but I think the the realization is as I understand there's a listing broker who list the home for sale and we brokers we can't list a home for sale. We can't organize open houses. We're just not equipped to do all that. We need to have a listing broker do that and then there's a selling broker and I think if the selling broker who essentially represents the buyer please correct me if I get any of this wrong then they share in that commission the selling broker can be any broker in our community and I think this is from that first tranche 17 homes. Right. Five up to five to each of these these firms these aren't great firms. I don't think they're all in the stock exchange. I'd be surprised if if penner padley our local brokers are on a stock exchange. It's the it's the firm of no no dc penner's well berkshire hathaway oracle anyway I mean I take your side that they're they're well established and they're not one individual who's sort of being a broker what have you but you know it's tough because there are a lot of names that are behind those top three that we all know and know would probably do a great job. So there are a hundred and five homes total. I don't know if we have a sense yet. It's been hard enough to get the first seventeen moving but there will be other opportunities and I just think we have to be ready once we have the title to the seventeen because what what hangs in the balance is affordable housing and making those homes you know occupied owned you know homes are like you know organisms almost they need to be you know living to to thrive and a number of these homes are not. So I support staff's recommendation even though I did have concerns. I appreciate your putting the percentage and that was one of the things that was missing from the first I think there was a discount from what maybe the normal percentage is. So I'd move the staff recommendation. I just want to challenger and you're thinking and I'm just saying not challenge it in the way of me being competitive but outside thinking individual and organization entity can list their property. You don't have to have a listing agent. You don't I don't know you do not have that listing agent to list but we're not we're not members of the mls. You don't have to be that's what I'm trying to say. You do not have to be ok. That's all just a sale by owner. Those are listed on the mls. That's not my understanding. You can list your myself by owner on mls. It's just a click and I could sell my own home if I want to. it's a state law so I just that's and entities can do the same thing so I just want to just bring that to your attention and also out the box thinking to our staff because some people have that thought that this is the way it's done and that's not necessarily just because it's the way is done that doesn't necessarily mean that's what it has to be done just for just for the record, MR. Penner is asking a resident oh yeah. Well I I didn't just agree that so so there's a motion we need we have an executive suite you can get a second then we can get the second is the beginning of a long process motion in the second allen shay is submitted to speaker hart on the side of MR. Shea. Welcome back. I thought the runway was for the bulldogs by the way for well actually is if you really want to know the truth. But no, it's really to celebrate my fraternity kappa alpha sign corp they are going to do a celebration tonight so we're going to have some fun. But I really agree with COUNCILMAN Hampton. He's brought up a very pivotal concern and the reason why it should be thoroughly considered is because of the issue at hand which is to correct them wrong. If I'm if I'm following this whole process of those that lost their homes and trying to make sure some equitable impact happens with brokers and small businesses that happen to have the opportunity to participate with this and he is brought to light that that's not the case. so and listening to what COUNCILMAN Hampton brought up, it should be something that should be thoroughly evaluated so that we don't have to look back and say we took a wrong move and if we're not pressed for time it could be vetted out and I share this because I am a real estate broker. I've been a broker for almost 30 years. I've had my firm like in cordova and I've never had the opportunity to work with the city other in with the housing department of finding affordable housing for low income and homes for people who need shelters. Those are the things that I started with with joe brownfield back in the early 80s and lola osborne. So I just share this with you because it needs to be thoroughly vetted so we don't run into the problem some thirty years later like we're doing now. So thank you. Thank you, MR. Long. I just like to mention that one of the three recommended brokers is a microbe is a certified small business. All three are local passing businesses and that entity mutual reality is also minority owned. Thank you mayor. That completes public comment on this item. I just would like to note a couple of minor edits to the title under no. Two words says michael. It should say michael slaughter mutual realty consultants then in recommendation number three it says michael slaughter, broker and mutual realty consultants. So adding the words consultants and making sure that the last name slaughter is correctly noted in the title of the agenda item. Those are the edits that the maker of the motion might just incorporate in his motion. Please thank ok with that there's a motion and a second are there objections? No, no. MR. Anderson, you heard the edits that were to the title those are ok. Yes. Well you have technical corrections. Yes, ok. Were those accepted by the secretary the technical corrections? Yes. Yeah, yeah. Accepters. Ok, motion and a second any objections. Thank you. I see MR. Pavi also in the audience also a long time businessman and thank you. So with that item twenty five moves to item twenty five this is an amendment to the police department's fiscal year twenty twenty four operating budget. This comes by way of finance committee and available to either make a presentation or answer questions as manager bilger sofie this is this was buried at finance committee and comes with the recommendation of the finance committee. MR. Jones, did you? Yeah, thanks mayor. And I just want to first compliment the city manager and the police chief and their team for moving so quickly on this. You know, as you know, we had a shooting in washington park and communicated with the city manager and the police chief as to what could we do immediately. And we had the community meeting with the residents and the residents wanted more lighting in the park and more cameras and you know, I'm told that we're working on that and doing an assessment and perhaps funding for that and they also wanted more park safety specialists and I know that now this will bring our fees for park safety specialists to twelve, correct? Yeah, so bring it to twelve. So I just want to compliment the team for working so fast on this and when it's ready I'd like to make the motion to approve it. I think it's I think we're ready for the most thank you motion this indecision increase resources for the police department to ensure park safety. I recall a point in time I want to say thank you to the police chief for I recall a point in time when we try to add resources to the police department particularly specifically for more park safety specialist and and the answer was we don't need them. I think we can look back and say that that was not the correct decision to arm I'm sorry advice. We absolutely needed them and so I'm glad to have our police chief in our city manager prioritize this matter because we do need more parks safety specialists in our parks. So thank you. And mayor, if I can merely and you know what I think the police department for working so quickly with me on this adding the additional resources I want to be clear it's for all parks though there will be assigned on those parks that need the special support number one or number two. It will allow us to expand the hours they can be there later at night to keep our parks safe for the community. Thank you. Yes, but the one the one thing that we talked about finance that I'd like to highlight is the possibility of using a park ranger classification for the late night hours at the park the wee hours of the night a ranger classification is defined in the penal code would be different in that you know, they are allowed to be are still allowed to do the interpretive park work that a park safety specialist does but also would have more tools at their disposal or in the wee hours of the night when the parks are closed maybe there's still activity going on and so I think we we should consider that going forward and I'll ask the city manager and the police department to to consider that as well for the future because I don't think twelve is enough in terms of 24 hour coverage and the number of parks that we have. Ok, MR. Hamdan. Yeah, thank you. I'm very supportive of this. i do think maybe this is a discussion for public safety committee and if we have answers to these questions I'm please feel free. How many volunteers do we have for the police department? We have over 50 volunteers. How many volunteer vehicles do we have for the police department? I don't have that number on top of my head. Those are white vehicles. Yes, they're all white. Ok, because we have quite a few volunteers in cities like oklahoma where they had a lot of violence in their parks. They utilize their volunteers in this capacity as well. And the volunteers most of those volunteers, all of residents that have a intimate relationship with the city and in the users of the parks I think there's an opportunity that's being missed here and I've been saying this for the past eight years that we're not utilizing our volunteers in a way especially in our parks and in other areas because they are they have radios, don't they? They do. But are volunteers pretty much deliver our council packages and they go to coffee events and that's great. But I think that there's other ways we can utilize volunteers and I think our our volunteers based on the volunteers I've spoken to would be really interested in, you know, stepping been doing some of that work. Our public safety officers are unarmed just like our volunteers are unarmed and I do really think there's opportunity. We're missing that opportunity and there we have a new police chief and hopefully our new police chief will look into that opportunity. We need to hire buy more vehicles so that we can have more volunteers on the street. We got 50 people ready to work for free so we might as well use this lot utilize. And so as we're looking at our parks safety specialists and just safety in general of our community, I think that we really need to utilize volunteers. I think invading I do think we need to be careful in that regard in the the distinction that comes to my mind is, you know, when we have safety specialists there these are these positions are identified in the penal code. Yes. And they receive eight thirty one eight thirty two 832 training training to be able to serve in a capacity that they serve to be able to issue citations as well. I just want to be clear I'm not suggesting that we use our volunteers as police officers obviously just in the last year as extra eyes. Right. And they have a radio and if they see something that seems to place they can let the professionals that are trained to do that to do that work. I just want to caution us about you know, there's a there's a very bright line between policing and volunteer in some communities. do use volunteers to take down reports to serve as eyes and ears to have a presence. But I'd be very cautious about crossing the line into the eight 32 type duties and responsibilities and I just if I could I'm not suggesting you're you're you you would have us do that. But can I just for clarification, we do have our volunteer program more than 50 volunteers but we have volunteers and then we have volunteers who receive additional training who can provide who go out on patrol and provide the eyes and ears for law enforcement. Right now there's a lot of time on some of the business districts because of the heavy shopping times. So they do do that but we do have officers that can do that and they can check the parks out as well. One question is how can a reserve program do we have it's not quite as robust as it once was, right. We've we've diminished quite a bit the volunteering time that's required is is difficult for some people some professionals who do it as a part time job or sorry as a volunteer position. So it's not to where it was once and I think that's across the profession. Yes, general. Yes. Ok, MISS Williams, thanks. Mayor did ask the question during finance committee about how the the park officers are going to be allocated and we do in our district we have jefferson and mcdonald park and it would be nice according to council member hampton's comments to have people there periodically just looking out and I think that our residents would really appreciate that so that we can prevent something that happened. So expanding that volunteer base and looking for ways to just have sort of frequent patrols through park or walks through walking through the park would be I think really helpful and our volunteers do do they they are available for and should be utilized for that I believe now the the volunteers I mean the the park safety specialist specialists have limited peace officer recognition limited well on their duty powers. Yes. They can make arrests that that type of stuff. And so the volunteers that we utilize on would not have those same correct. And that's important both not just because of the duties and responsibilities that we ask them to take on but also important in terms of protections for the individuals themselves under the law and also for the city's own protection in terms of liability. And so again, I just want to be careful about using volunteers in a way that begins to blend beelines because the city then takes on the liability as do the individuals. Right. So taking on that liability already I think you're trying to craft out something right now that is more disgusting diving into but we have volunteers and people that are willing to support and serve the city. I think we should lean on the people that are willing to support and of the city and if we give them radios to do that so that the professionals who have that license to give certain citations or whatnot, we should be doing that because right now our neighbors are the ones in the parks calling the police or saying, you know, I can't get the service. I'm not seeing anybody here what not if we had a volunteer there and had a direct dispatch to a police officer. I think the response should be, you know, if they're trained to do look out for things, the response be lot quicker than a resident saying all this is happening and then you've had a video that you got a video of that you know. So I think that this is a discussion for public safety. I don't want to belabor this because there's a lot of people here for another matter but I'm supportive of this. I don't think you has been moved and seconded are there any objections? No objections. That matter is approved. Thank you. Next we go to item twenty six and this is the adoption and approval of the twenty twenty three power integrated resource . MR. City manager. Thank you. and unfortunately general manager jackson couldn't be here with us today but I believe the presentation will be made by members of his staff coming to the right now including assistant general manager kelly when welcome good evening. My name is robert castro. I'm the resource planning manager for pasadena water and power and I come before you today to seek approval and adoption of the twenty twenty three power integrated resource plan for irp. Let's talk about how we got here today. We had our initial mce meeting OCTOBER 10th and then a subsequent one in NOVEMBER and we had a third msfc meeting earlier this month and we're here today hopefully for adoption at city council on the left we'll see the agenda for today. The first five bullets will be in my presentation and the last bullet will be addressed by an outside independent review the energy and environmental economics organization to weigh in on the transport parents and the efficacy of the irp we put for you today key takeaways from the irp is that it satisfies this body's resolution nine nine seven seven objectives. It does show multiple pathways to carbon free by 2030 it meets all S.E.C requirements and guidelines for integrated resource plan compliance. It exceeds state mandates and it has concrete's specific details for each year in the implementation plan. let's do I think it'd be useful to talk about a comparison of goals of the goal that we are committed to making as passantino water power carbon free by 2030 in alignment with the resolution nineteen seventy seven we'll look left at the federal goal which allows assumes that allows some carbon emitting resources and that is subject to 2050 is when that goal needs to be met. The second tranche is the mountains in the middle and that is represented by the state of california's goals of espie one hundred which calls for carbon neutrality by 2040 five L.A. Dwp has looked for that same goal but it has accelerated this carbon neutrality to twenty thirty five. Smite has accelerated this to twenty thirty. These goals allow and assume carbon fitting resources such as natural gas for reliability and pasadena will exceed these espie one hundred goals by its point in twenty twenty eight. So again modern twenty thirty L.A. Dwp in twenty thirty five pasadena will reach these espie 100 goals by twenty twenty eight. However pasadena goals are much more ambitious than that. Pasadena is looking towards twenty thirty and it exceeds and transcends spu one hundred goals. Pasadena is one of the only utilities in the nation to have these goals that does not allow any carbon emitting resources at any hour in any day. So contrast that with the previous traunch that allows for it's a zero carbon plan. Espero one hundred is a carbon neutral plan. Some would describe it as carbon free on an annual basis. The pasadena plan is carbon free on an hourly basis excuse me robert. I just wanted to explain what smuts stands for sacramento municipal utility district. Thank you so much. Some key metrics that pasadena has currently we have one of the lowest residential rates compared to our neighboring utilities. For example, we look at all the peo use to the right on the on the bottom we're much cheaper than the iou's excuse investor owned utilities on the right we're also more we're more inexpensive than L.A. Dwp, glendale, anaheim, riverside. At the same time pasadena has one of the best reliability metrics in the nation on our average frequency of outages is about one outage every four years. Very impressive on a national and even a regional basis. The development the irp encompassed a number of objectives pasadena has accomplished all of these objectives and is recommending this irp for approval and adoption this meets all requirements for compliance filing to the S.E.C. As well as plans multiple approaches to source one hundred percent carbon free electricity by the end of twenty thirty in alignment with the resolution nine nine seven seven towards this goal we contracted with the alliance for cooperative energy services acs to do the modeling. We also contracted with e three as mentioned before to perform an independent review to make sure the maximum transparency and best utility practices are made and they'll be making a presentation following my presentation in the OCTOBER mfc meeting pasadena provided a detailed presentation of the irp plan that included a flexible plan including multiple pathways to the nine nine seven seven goal staff also presented forecasted costs and their estimated impacts on customer rates. Mse directed pasadena to come back with waypoint to evaluate the progress and make potential adjustments towards our goal in twenty thirty. So the next meeting in NOVEMBER pasadena outlined the twenty twenty gateway point framework that aligns with carbon free scenario number two which by the way is the most decarbonizing decarbonizing in the irp and the twenty twenty eight waypoint provides for potential review and integration of new and emerging technologies while at the same time dovetailing into the next irp the twenty twenty eight irp which is mandated every five years the msci came back with a few other directives including the incremental twenty twenty six point so this additional waypoint would evaluate the goodrich upgrades needed to increase our import capacity from our kaso balancing authority some other in DECEMBER we came before this before the msci and they recommended approval of the irp to this body but they asked for some additional items that one item one we create a future dashboard to track the city's progress. Second, the capacity to conduct a two year