Oct 15, 2024 6:00 PM - Redding City Council - Regular Meeting

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We have created government to serve our lives. Often in our daily lives, we lose our purpose and direction. But in this place, we ask that you open our eyes so that we might see what is best for the people. Not just the business interests or the interests of the residents, but all of the people. Bless each city council person as they take up the mantle of leadership and decision making. Allow their minds to be open to new possibilities, new directions, while they remember the positive outcomes of the past. Bless each member of the public that has business before this body. May they have peace in their hearts and clarity of tongue. So as we move forward in this meeting, we give thanks to everyone that made it possible, our dedicated city workers that toil for the benefit of each of us, all of our city's volunteer organizations and participants, as well as our businesses and residents. We are blessed to share this space. In closing, we hold that this meeting will be successful using any and all measures that a person wishes to apply while upholding the very tenets of. For the people and by the people. Thank you, God. Amen. >>I having come back from closed session, we have no reportable action. Correct. Okay, thank you. And now we'll do roll call. >>[ ROLL CALL ] >>I believe we have two a which is mayor's proclamation. Are we heading down to the down there or am I doing it from up here? Oh, I have to give to anybody. Is somebody here to accept it? I think we have plaques, right? Is there somebody here for the world rotary from world? Yes. Yes. Oh, there you are. She kept going, ah. So we'll give you have a representative that wants. Can we all come? Of course. Thank you guys for all being here. Look at this. All five rotaries, right? Look at that. Thanks for being here. Wow. Great to meet you all. Thank you so much for being here and for what you do. We have all five represented, all of our five rotaries. Just say yes. Just say yes. Just say yes. That's awesome. All right. Well, we are super grateful for you coming here to recognize World Polio Day. I will not read this entire thing, however, because I would rather have you talk. I do want to point out that polio cases have dropped 99.9% since 1988. And I think that that is a worthy cause to go after that 0.02% to make sure that it actually ends that suffering. So thank you so much. On behalf of the mayor, I want to present you with this and then also to allow you, if you want, to say a few words. Well, thank you. Yes. We really appreciate the honor and the recognition that your city has bestowed upon Rotary. Rotary's effort to eradicate polio has seen tremendous successes. We're not there yet. Our goal is to make the world polio free. But when we started this endeavor back in the eighties, there was roughly 350,000 children paralyzed every year, a thousand cases per day of polio. And because of rotary's efforts, this year, there's only been 38 cases of polio in the entire world. So rotary is doing some great work. Yes. Thank you. And we're not. We're not done yet. We still have a little ways to go, but we're gonna get there. And we appreciate all the support shown by the city. Redding, thank you very much. >>Does anybody else want to speak before? Sure. Yeah. And because two is always better than one, we are also going to proclaim today, the October 23 through the 31st, 2024, as redhead ribbon week. So my red ribbon. Don't say that five times fast. Are my red ribbon. Folks here. Hi, there. Hello. Okay, so this is a proclamation. Whereas alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and abuses have reached a pandemic stages in California and throughout the United States. And whereas recent reports indicate that drug use and abuse begin at an early age, and the challenge to give our youth a chance to be free of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs has never been greater, Shasta county chemical people, partners for a drug free community, coordinated with Shasta County Red Ribbon celebration to offer our citizens the opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to healthy, drug free lifestyles. So we want to recognize this week as Red Ribbon Week, you guys are all going to, right at the end of this week, down to a conference, a youth conference down at. You're going to suffer at Disneyland. I know that. I know that because my daughter is also going. So we really appreciate what you do for the youth here. We thank you for all of you guys that are stepping up to be examples and thank you. We want to honor what you're doing and give you this proclamation. So, yeah, thank you very much. We appreciate you doing this. And I actually did bring some red ribbons, so if you remember to wear them October 23 through the 31st. It's really important that our young people see that we model what we say and that we're trying to be a community that is drug free. And we have young people here today who, as she said, we're going down to a conference, leaving Friday morning, driving them down, 12 hours worth of driving and back. So Monday, we're going to be pretty tired, but they're going to be very active when they come back on their campuses. So we're very proud of them. And can we get a picture? Yes. It's an organization. Yeah. Okay. >>Okay. Item 2C is a presentation by Shasta county assessor recorder Leslie Morgan, providing the office of Shasta County Assessor recorder's annual report for 20, 24, 25. >>Hi. Good evening, mayor audethe, council members, Leslie Morgan, Shasta county assessor recorder. Such a pleasure to be here today. I love being here when you guys have presentations, too. So my rotary group, my kids group, that helped us with sober grad. Woohoo. To our community. Anyway, so each year, as we close the roll, I put together a statistical report so that I can share it with each of the agencies as well as the citizens. This report is available in a PDF format on our website. And so my goal here today is to kind of breeze through it to explain what information is out there. Feel free to stop me at any time because I'm not going to read the words on there verbatim, I'm not going to cover every number on there verbatim, but I basically want everybody to know where the information is. But again, stop me if you have questions. The green one in the middle or the arrows on the side. Okay, perfect. So, of course, we start with our table of contents. We'll be going through each of this. We have a couple of introductory letter and responsibilities of the assessor, but all of the information in those two portions we're going to cover, as I share with you, what's within the report itself. Next we have an organizational chart of both departments. So essentially I have my department with a couple of deputies. We have a very large appraisal staff. All the green managers on the right side are all of our appraisers that support the functions and then our support staff to them as well as our recorder staff mapping transfers as we get into the assessment role. And I might need to put on my glasses and make sure I can read some of this as I go along. One of the things you can see here in the report, I have a breakdown of the cities just in terms of the summary aspect of them and then the county total. You can see that last year we had a growth of 4.86% and I've put in the graphs in a little bit different format for everybody. So you can see that there's a large portion of our parcels are in the unincorporated area where the largest portion of our values of course within the city of reading itself. And that's just because that's our major city of course in terms of what's behind the number. What I found a few years ago is that it's kind of nice to see what's causing those changes year over year. And this year I did have to adjust a little bit as well because on the bottom of the chart, the roll growth by type, it's broken out into new construction. So as people are adding to their values, changes of ownership, the prop 13 base year, that's just going to be our CPI adjustments from year to year. And again, I'll explain that a little bit as we go through and then the prop eight market review. So that's when the market declines in value. We do a reanalysis so that the property owners get the benefit of a lesser valuation based upon the current market value. After that I break down the totals in two different ways. So in the city and unincorporated areas, as you see the city of Anderson and city of Redding, we have a little bit of graphics there so you can see where those areas are, what is involved and you can see that 4.72% was the city of Redding's overall increase in the valuation. Of course we have the city of Shasta Lake and the unincorporated area as well. And if you totaled all those together, as you saw in that first graph, they're going to equal our assessment roll total. In addition to that, because of how the property taxes are utilized at both a local level and statewide level, because the majority of our taxes do go to schools, I have a breakout by our larger school districts. So gateway, Anderson, Dunsmere, Fall River, Shasta and Red Bluff. And these are the jurisdictions that, of course, very much depend upon the property taxes. So we do try to make sure that breakout is in there so that they can see their calculations separated. So in terms of what happens in the state of California, the California Constitution establishes that all taxables accessible unless it's specifically, specifically exempted. So with those exemptions, some of them are for qualifying uses such as our religious scientific hospitals, and others are just for like our homeowners exemption. If you live in the home that you own as your primary residence, you qualify for a homeowner's exemption. So always like to touch on that because we always have property owners who reside in the home they own, but they don't yet have that homeowners exemption on there. We include that with all of the tax bills. If somebody doesn't have that already, please get that into us so we can apply that to your valuation. Might only be $70 a year, but it's $70. It should be in your pocket and not ours. In addition to that, there's a large number of 100% service related disabled veterans exemptions in our county. So as we work closely with the veterans affairs to make sure that those exemptions are applied as well with the valuation. As far as the everything's taxable unless exempt. What used to happen before 1978 was that all property was taxed at its current market value each year. But what Prop 13 did was it provided a couple different protections for property owners. One, it said that you can only be taxed at 1% on a statewide basis unless you have voter improved indebtedness. Usually that is our school bonds, things of that nature. It also said that you can't get your base year can't increase by any more than 2%. So if the CPI goes up 5%, 10%, whatever it is, it can't go up by any more than 2% per year, but it can go down, and you'll see that as well in some of the graphs we provide later. So essentially every property owner in our county, in our state has those protections of Prop 13 with their valuations. What Prop 13 did beyond that, though, was it created this element of supplemental assessment. So what that means is if you have a property owner who's owned a home for a number of years and now they sell it, depending on the timing of the year, we have to do a prorated adjustment for one or two years, depending on the time period, to make that adjustment to the current market value of that new property owners tax bill. So we handle those supplementals in our office. A lot of times that's when we hear from people, when they get that supplemental assessment for that new construction, for that change of ownership. And that's what we're there for, is to help people understand that they'll get those notices from us, reach out to us. If you've ever seen, seen that come through and you're not sure what it means, you're not following the numbers, reach out, we'll help you through that. In addition, we used to have what we would refer to as Prop 38, Prop 58, but it was a parent child transfers. And there were a couple changes that happened in 2020 with Prop 19. And what that did is it added a couple things that I know I was being asked about in our local area as well, and that was the base year transfer. So now not only can you transfer your base year of one home to a different home, but you can transfer it to a home that's higher in value than we adjust for the difference. You can transfer it between counties. Intergenerational transfers are still valid if you occupy the home and your child's going to occupy the home. So we process those through, we get those transfers. Right now, Shasta county probably sees an equalized version of how many transfers are going out of the county, how many are coming in. But we do see that that affects our market as well, because we do see Bay Area transfers coming up here. We have a great place to retire, and we also see some of our property owners going to other areas as well. So that was something that property owners like to take advantage of. And again, trying to highlight some of those things where we might have people listening who have questions, reach out to us. If you're in the midst of that and you have questions. I touched on proposition eight when I discussed the value changes a little bit. But in explanation of that, the graph on the bottom shows you how in, I know the numbers are pretty small, but essentially, if you recall 2005, when the market was booming, 2006, and then it kind of bust and dropped out. So that big gap you're seeing between the blue line and the red line at the bottom, that's when we were at our peak of the market, had dropped those valuations from what people had bought those homes for. And we were very proactive. We ran all the queries so that we could get those values adjusted on behalf of our property owners. Over time, as you can see, those numbers are coming back together. What that represents is as the market value is getting closer and closer to the base year, value and more of those values have been restored. So right now we only have 3343 records still having a prop eight value. A market value assessment as opposed to their base year value, will never be zero. There's always other reasons behind properties that may have a prop eight reduction on their property, but you can see that the majority of that bust that we experienced in 2008 has recovered. In terms of right now, the Prop 13 is protecting them. Again, even those values might be greater than that. Outside of the real property area, we have our business and personal property. So what happens is all of our businesses, you know, their computers, their desks, up to their large manufacturing equipment, those are all accessible under our business and purpose personal property section, as well as boats, airplanes, tractors, et cetera. We also in this area, unfortunately, have seen a number of fires. The last major fire that we've seen in the area was the Carr fire. And so I've provided some of those statistics on the restorations. Of those, you can see that we still have 295 Carr fire claims that haven't been restored. The property owners still have the right to get those rebuilds done and restore that base year value because there's no punishing them for the fact that they have to rebuild at current value. They still get that base year value protection. Our assessor's team, I have to tell you, I can't be more proud of our assessor team and the service they provide to this county. We all, I mean, you are our friends, families and neighbors, and we know that no matter who you are, what the case may be, when you come into our office, we're there to provide that service. Whether it's our mapping staff who works on our maps that go into the GIS layer for the county, our support staff, our recorder staff recording your deeds. Our purpose is our customer service. We take a lot of pride in the fact that we are members of this community and we help each other through that. As you can see in the numbers, our numbers really don't change a lot over time. We still have 41 staff on the assessor side, recorder side, they have dropped out a little bit, but that's just because recordings are down. But again, just can't say how much we're there for you. And you can see that in these next couple slideshow. I have to brag on staff. When we compare our numbers in Shasta county to the statewide numbers, what you'll see is that the state board of equalization is the state department agency over the functions of what we do in the assessor's office. So they do surveys of the counties to make sure your practices are well established, that you're following the guidelines of the revenue and taxation codes to give you recommendations. Even so, that's one of the things that counties really appreciate, is somebody taking a look at it and saying, hey, you might want to try to implement this process or think about this thing. So with our surveys and our samples, you can see that our statistical numbers in terms of cost per assessment and then our actual assessment appeals, we continue to be efficient with our staffing, with our resources. And the last time we were sampled, we had a 99.76% accuracy. I can't get a lot closer to 100 than that. So property taxes in general, they are the single largest source of discretionary income for the county and the local jurisdiction. You know, like I said, the 1% that all goes out to the state, there's about 6% that comes back to the city agencies. You guys probably know those formulas better than me. About $0.13 on the dollar goes back to the county. And then at the county level, in terms of where those property tax dollars go, that's the dollar in the area to the side, because as a statewide, the largest portion goes to the school's eraft revenue augmentation funds. And then once it gets to the county level, the largest portion of that, of course, does go to support sheriff law enforcement, those kinds of things, where, at least in our county side, that's where those tax dollars go. You guys probably have your own statistics on where that tax dollar goes for you. The state Board of Equalization does also process some of our, you know, railways. Anything that crosses the borders of multiple jurisdictions, they do. Those assessments and those allocations go out to the counties individually. So the graph that you see there shows that the BoE assessments increased by the 8% in 2004, where the local level was the 4.8%. But those fluctuations are a bit different than the county in terms of the way they do the value calculations. That's why you see they can be a little bit more volatile in terms of how they equalize from year to year. At this point, we're going to transition into the recorder side of the office. And one of the most important things that I think doesn't always get understood is the role that the recorder plays in a property owner's ability to prove the ownership rights to that asset, which to some people is the most important thing they own, which is their home. And so without the records that we maintain into perpetuity, our records go back to the establishment of the county in 1850, you don't always get the ability to have that title, that title transfer record. I mean, not documents don't have to be recorded, but when they're recorded, it definitely protects people, and the majority of the transfers do, in fact, get recorded with the office. It is a race to record state. So it's always in the best interest of a property owner to have those transferring documents recorded. You can see in the numbers and that the last year we had kind of a low number with our interest rates, with where we were, a lot of what we saw on the assessor side was the maintaining of valuations. That's why we didn't have another increase in those prop eight reductions, but we still have less transactions. We are hoping that now that some of these interest rates are going down, that we'll start seeing an uptick in the recorded documents, eventually more transfers. I mean, I think we're all hoping for that as a society that will get out of this time period and will recover. We also collect the documentary transfer tax at the point of recording, so those dollars are distributed back to each of the jurisdictions. You can see that for the city of Reading, that was $378,643 in documentary transfer tax that was distributed to. We also have the building, Homes and Jobs act, which we refer to as SB two. What that is, this is a $75 fee on a certain set of documents that's just allocated out to the state, and the state then distributes that back to the local jurisdictions for housing development. The district attorney, we collect a fraud fee so that if somebody feels that they've been defrauded in some way, we help fund a position so that they can go look into that, do those investigations, and we work with them. If those cases, if we see something, something came through, a property owner's mentioning it to us. We always get those referrals out to the district attorney because we want their concerns to be taken seriously. As mentioned, our records are there for the title searches. They're available to the public. I will say that, you know, over the years, there's always been concerns. It's kind of a double edged sword when records are that public, because we all have seen the unfortunate realities of, you know, a judge's child, you know, being killed in their home. So there are laws that have come into place trying to make those protections in place, whether it's for our sheriffs or our judges, our law enforcement of whatever means. Right now, our records cannot in any way because of these protections. We can't post the names and addresses online. We get asked that question a lot because you can go online in other states, you can type in somebody's name, and you can see their deeds, and you can see where they live. So that's the biggest reason why I bring that up, is we are restricted by those laws in place. If anything, I think there's been more concerns coming in. I know there's been new federal laws. Last year, there was a piece of legislation that came through, and we're anticipating more, but right now, our documents are still available to the public. We have a lot of people who have access. Our title companies have access to our documents, and you can come in and do that research at our counters at any time. But for those who may have concerns, the names and addresses are not posted online for the general public. In addition, the recorder's office maintains the vital record. So we are where you go to get your marriage, birth, death certificates. If that took place in Shasta county, if it's outside of Shasta county, you have to go to that jurisdiction or to the state agency, for example. If it's a vital record of some sort, sometimes you can get those directly from the state. But our birth, death, and marriage certificates, you can see, have really stayed stable over time. We only saw one little unfortunate peak in 2000 with our death records, but really, they, you know, people are still having babies and getting married, so keeps everything going. The last thing I point out in here is that a couple years ago, what passed was AB 1466, and what that was was a law that mandated that we remove the restrictive covenants, modifications from our records. So we are proactively looking through our older documents, looking for language where, you know, things were, statements were made. You know, you have to be caucasian to live here or something like that. And we are redacting those. The original document is in place. We are recording new documents with that language redacted that way, if a property owner wanted that record, and they really just. They don't want to see that illegal language. That's not allowed anyway. They can get a redacted version of that. We've done 286 as of that date. Because our staffing was short last year, we weren't able to be as proactive during last year's cycle, but we are back on that project now, and we're hoping to get all of those removed from our records to be in compliance with this new law. That's my offices. Do you guys have questions? Thank you very much for that. Does anybody have. Oh, Council Marzano. Mm hmm. Thank you, mayor. Can I go back to your page five? I just want to make sure I understand it. Taxable values, Anderson up 5.12%. Redding, up 4.72%. Shasta Lake is up 6.6%, and the unincorporated area is up 4.3%. So property values are going up in Anderson more so than they are in reading. Is that what I'm seeing? Well, this is a year over year, so it could be a number of different things. So whether it's the new construction, so the increases outside of the 2% cap for base year transfers, any new construction increases typically greater than that, the new sales. So if there's been more sales of real property, those will be increases typically greater. In addition, it can be businesses, an increase in businesses, anything of that sort. And you have to remember that they're a smaller role. So smaller numbers, the same number would be a smaller percentage increase in the city of Redding as opposed to the city of Anderson. Okay. Thank you. Very thorough report. I like it. Oh, council member Johnson, see if my mic. There it is. All right. I was curious. We've had a lot of Adus built. Do you think that's had an impact on what you've seen with property values or reassessments or what would you say the impact might be? So the Adus are treated just like new construction. So if you built a garage, we would add for the value of that garage separately, then, you know, your house value is going to stay the same. We're just going to increase it for the value of that garage. So the ADU is treated the same way. So there is going to be that value increase. We don't necessarily. So what we have to do is we have to look at it for what that, what value that building structure adds to the overall sale as well. So, so, yeah, it's going to increase it. I do not have statistics on how many Adus we've seen in the last year, but that's a really good point for me to maybe start putting that in for the documentation to at least kind of give, give you guys an idea of what we're seeing and that, you know, there were restrictions initially in terms of, you know, the agencies had to go through their procedures and how they're going to do those allowances. But we handle that through the permit and then treat it as a new construction. So will it take about a year for that to be reassessed? If I built an ADU this year, would it be reassessed sometime mid next year or immediately or how do you guys do that? So what happens is I'll kind of explain the role year. So January 1, 12:01 a.m. january 1 is our lien date. We close the roll for that lien date period on June 30. That's the tax bill that comes out now. So everybody who just got their tax bill is based on a value for January 1. So I explained that part first because prior to that roll close in June, we're still working on the 2023 transfers. So after we close the roll June 30, we start processing the transfers or new construction that took place place between January and May. We consider those our dual period supplementals. So we start processing those, and then our goal is to get the rest of them done by. So we finish those sometime around the end of October, and then we'll get the rest of them and any market adjustments done by the next June. So the quick answer. That wasn't the quick answer, but the quick answer is yes, it can be a year later. Okay. I also say that that's not necessarily typical of all counties. There are counties who are three years behind in their supplementals. Twelve months out, and they're processing their changes of ownership. We just happen to be able to be very efficient with our staff, and we are up to date and current. >>All right, last question. I promise. No worries if I were to come and meet with you, or maybe you could send me a report. Do you show anything that can break down reading specifically by year over year change in different types of properties, say residential versus commercial or industrial, and what we've seen in value increases or decreases or even activity that might be happening in that way? >>So what we do have is the land use types. So we would be able to give you the assessment role values for city of Redding. They're easily identifiable by the tax rate areas. I could likely, I was trying to think if I have anything specifically to that level of detail. I don't know that I have any of those specifics in an existing query, but it could be made available fairly easily if you want to shoot us an email and what kind of time period, because we do have the assessment roles for prior years as well. We could either give you the mass amount of data for each of those periods, explain what each of those are so that you can manipulate it however you want to see those numbers, or we can put together kind of a generic reporting type of chart. If you wanted to see something more just in a spreadsheet type of format, I could get something like that together. >>Great. Fantastic. Thank you. >>So I just had a question about SB nine and splitting parcels. I don't know if we're having that happen and how if that's going to be something that gets added to what it does to values. And I'm not recalling specifically what SB nine. >>It's the splitting of parcels. So if you have a parcel, you can split it, I think, up to four onto one. So it's about giving people more specific ability. So that's to split it and subdivide it into multiple parcels. So because for us, splitting a parcel, dividing it up between the value allocations, is not a big deal. We've split parcels, splits, combos. That's kind of our thing. So as anybody gets a split approved, because on your end, you're talking about what the mandate is for you to do approvals for those splits, I'm assuming. I'm just curious about the value. When you split those, what are the values? So what happens is, if it's in a split, you have $100,000 value on the land allocation, you know, another 100,000 on a structure. What we do is we look at the parcel before, and then after we do a value allocation of the land to each of those parcels. So if they're not like and similar, like four equal sized, we would have to split it up differently than just divide it by four. But the appraiser looks at that. They do the value allocation, and then they make that determination as to where the structure value goes, and they get that structure value allocated to the specific parcel where that structure now resides. So if you're in the primary house and you put an ADU, and then you split that parcel. So now there's two parcels there. Do you get your then lower assessment on your taxes for your house parcel because now it's worth less? Yeah. Okay. Anything that happens with the split, we look at all the allocations to each component of value to make sure it's appropriately. So I'm assuming that's not happening a ton here. Well, right now. So the ability to sell an ADU is something that has to be approved at a local level as well. I can't recall of a specific situation where I recall that that's been done here because there's elements that have to be in place, because then when you parcelize it, it has to be parcelized more like a condo. So we have to have that plan that's also been recorded, submitted, recording. So that would go through our recorders so that we can see exactly how that adjustment is being made. And then the ADU becomes its own parcelized value. Almost as though it's just a tiny home on a tiny lot type of thing is basically what's going to happen. But the jurisdictions have to make that decisions as to whether or not they going to allow those separate sales or do they just become a component of that original home. And I think you're going to have property owners looking at it both ways where they might want to sell it out. But others who are like, well, now if it's sold out, then the original property owner may not have as much control over what happens with that unit that's in their backyard 10ft off their property line. So those are all decisions that the agencies make. And for us, it's just, I'm just curious how often that was happening. It's, it's, it's pretty new law. I just didn't know. Yeah, we were saying that I don't recall of a specific situation with the particular parcelizing of an ADU, especially because Adus are, are kind of a newer thing as well. But again, I do think that's something I need to start including because it is something newer that we're all experiencing in different ways now. >>Thank you. >>You're very welcome. >>Appreciate it. Of course, that it, I think that's it. Thank you. All the nerds are really excited about numbers. Okay. Okay, the rest of you went to the bathroom. Okay, so we're gonna go to public comment. Okay, so city council will allocate up to maximum three minutes per speaker for 30 minutes total at the beginning of the meeting for public comment for non agendized matters within the city's jurisdiction, I will determine the order of the speakers. If 30 minutes is not adequate, we have three, so we should be good on that. The remaining speakers will address the city council at the time. Okay, so we're going to start with Henry Miller, Marianne Nobman, and Ann Connors. >>Good evening. Matter of fact this morning, Tom, up here just making public comment, but this one really hit home plate. You know, home run, like I was going to the fleet week in San Francisco Bay area and for the American Legion. Now, one of the things is that you could drive the boundary and risk having your car stolen, broken and whatever. Or you could take the public transportation like Amtrak or call flex bus, which is like greyhound. Actually their partner. The problem is this. Redding is between two major cities, Sacramento and Portland. So the buses and the train come 03:00 in the morning, 230 in the morning, 1230 in the morning. And one of the things is this is the Redding area bus authority shut down the bathroom. So we have people sitting around say, hey, where's the restaurant? I say, you know what? All the store closed. Let's don't get caught in decent exposure. That's one, two. Long term parking. Now, I don't know if your wife or your husband like to pick you up early in the morning. They say, you know what? Don't you just hit the car and park in the long term? The only long term parking we have right now that is feasible is the airport. Other than that, I actually call around, including the hospital, where they have public parking. I said, do you guys have long term? No. So now I'm stuck where I could park my car next to the train station or the bus station, if we just have open one lot for long term, and here it is, you have the security to provide, make sure that transient people or those people who just hanging around move on. But we cannot even, those who have tickets, we can even stay. So, for example, if I arrive 03:00 in the morning and I'm looking for a bathroom, so I'll go high in the woods, or I have to wait until 4 hours in the morning before the regional bus open up. But the problem is this. The security said you had to move on. Well, I just got off the bus and I'm waiting for tomorrow morning, and I'm a single man. Time went quick, huh? You have 30 more seconds. Make it quick. What I'm trying to say is if we could open one lot for long term parking by the train station or the bus station. Well, basically it's, you know, less than a block and a half, I think we could solve a lot of problems for a lot of people and maybe a port, a party somewhere. Because I'm telling you what I just cannot see me driving down to the Bay area every month because it's a long drive and also it's not safe. Thank you. Thanks, Henry. Marianne. My name is >>Marianne Nobman, and I was born and raised in the Bay area. And I moved to reading in 2003 because it was so beautiful up here. And that was the only reason I moved up here. I want to say how much I appreciate all your hard work in making this town such a great place to live. We're very fortunate to be surrounded by all of our mountains and our lakes and our beautiful river. I'm in awe most of the time when I'm here. Over the past three years, I've been traveling to the desert for the winter, and I noticed down there the roads were really pristine. And I kept thinking, wow, I want the roads and reading to look like this. Well, when I came home this year, to my surprise, you guys had fixed a lot of the roads, and I was so happy. And every day when I drive around, you're fixing another road. And so I just want you to know that I appreciate it very much. And I want to say that I'm very grateful that you guys come here and work for us and do everything you do. So thank you very much. >>Thank you. Thanks, Marianne. We're going to have a moment of reflection for such positivity. Thank you. Thank you. I'm just going to soak that up. >>Hi, my name is Ann Connors, and I just wanted to come and also say thank you for something. Several years ago, I lived in Redding, and the trash reu solid waste came and did my little bin. And I went out here to get it, and it wasn't empty. So I got in my car and I drove down there. I saw him and I waved. I stopped and I told him it needed to be re emptied or whatever. He goes, I'll handle that. He says it needs a bonk bonk. I'll come back and bonk, bonk for you. So turned around and came back, got my bin, bonk bonk. It was perfect. We were friends thereafter. It was so great. Okay, then fast forward a few years, like right now. And a couple of months ago in a new subdivision I lived. The same exact thing happened. And I just want to tell you how I'm amazed at the service really we reu provides for us. Because this time, same thing, it didn't empty. And I called and the girl, I told her everything. And I said, I think it needs a bonk bonk. And she said, hang on. And she called and she came back and she said, she's already left your subdivision, but she's going to come right back and do that bonk bonk for you. Sure enough, she did not. Just really. I mean, how many places get that? I just want to say thank you. It's just. Appreciate it. Thank you. >>You want to. You can thank the public works director. He's seated in the back there. Mister Webb, why don't you stand up so the people that you recruited can bonk bonk you? So, Ann, maybe you should submit a name for one of our name. The trucks. One of our solid waste trucks. We could call it the bonk bonk. >>Yeah, that'd be great. That'd be good. We'll just do a shameless plug for the city fair, which is on the 19th, from 10:00 a.m. to 02:00 p.m. we will be naming some of the city's trucks and vehicles and such. And bonk bonk seems like would be a good one, so make sure you guys go to that. Okay? On that happy note, we are going to roll into the consent calendar. The consent calendar contains items considered routine and or which have been individually scrutinized by city council members and are anticipated to require no further deliberation. If a member of the public wishes to address an item on the consent calendar, please fill out a speaker request form, which I have, if it is the prerogative of the council members before the consent calendar is acted upon to comment on an item or to respond to any public comment on an item. Three, request a record reflect an extension, an abstention on an item or an a vote or four, remove an item and place it on the regular portion of the agenda for delivery of a staff report and or extended discussion or deliberation. We have one comment on 411 B. Are you, we'll have you come and Henry and give your comment. Yes, 411 b. Back to the parking again. You know, I'm looking at this, and one of the things I noticed is the maximum hour parking. And I don't understand why we sometimes restrain the parking to only 2 hours. Sometimes when you need a little bit more, for example, not in this particular location, but I have parked my cardinal and I noticed next thing is beyond 2 hours and I have to run out and move my truck just over and then pay again. And I figure if we could sort of like, have the Redding downtown parking program, expand the program, look at the maximum number of hours and two, maybe make it more friendly for people who are out of town or those who want to stay a little longer without worrying about parking. That's all. But everything else is good here. Okay. Thank you. We're always looking for input on that. And I will just also, I don't see any cowboys here, but they are getting their on item 411 B, they are getting their cowboy pancake breakfast. Having the free parking is now in the books after this. Okay. I know. Yep. Yep. Fantastic. Okay, so does anybody have any. Yeah. Councilmember Mezano. >>Thank you, madam mayor. I'm 401 B. I don't want to pull it off. I just have a comment. The city's position to support a proposition 36, very important proposition for those watching tonight and those in the audience. Several weeks ago, I was testifying in front of a joint session of the assembly and the Senate on the public safety, quite a robust discussion took place there. Prop 36 is designed to fix prop 47. It's going to make stripper penalties for those dealing in drugs like heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine, and PCP. And as a former law enforcement officer, those are all nasty drugs, and the people that are dealing in them need to be locked up for a longer time period. It's also going to offer the opportunity to those that are addicted to go to a drug court. And basically, if they attend a treatment program and successfully graduate, the government will sponge their record and they can get a new start on life. And so I applaud them for that, and I'm encouraging everyone to support Prop 36. Thank you. >>Okay. Councilmember Johnson, >>I'd like to. I'm going to vote nay no on 4.1 a. You know, it's, you know, basically that proposition or resolution. Sorry. Is essentially saying, you know, what's, what's done in the legislature or what laws are applied to us here in municipalities would be also applied to the legislature and at the state level. And I agree with this resolution as it pertains to CEQA and the Political Reform act. But I. I don't think the Ralph M. Brown act would be beneficial at that level when you have caucusing. And I think it's a far from perfect act as it stands to that kind of restricts collaboration within legislators. So I don't think that that should be applied. So I'll vote no on that one. I will also be voting no on 4.1, a relative to a legacy resolution. So we have individuals who will be going down and representing the city. And so as. There you go. As the council votes tonight, that will be the direction to the council member and how they are to vote at the League of cities. >>Okay, does anybody else have any commentary on anything? Okay, then we'll look for a motion. >>I'd be happy to make. I'll make a motion to accept the consent calendar. >>Second. >>We have a first and a second. All those in favor? >>Aye. >>Any opposed? Okay, we will move to our public hearings. So public works, we will have a public hearing to consider resolution approving city of Redding's capital improvement plan for fiscal year 23 24 to 28 29. Director Webb. >>Good evening, honorable mayor and council. This evening I'll be providing a brief yet thorough presentation regarding the capital improvement plan, and then I will also be available for questions afterwards. So you might be asking, what is a capital improvement plan? Why we would bring that to it. Before you this evening, what recent projects have been completed that were in previous capital improvement plans, what the funding summary looks like in this capital improvement plan, and how this ties back to our general plan and other documents. So those are the areas that I'm going to touch on this evening, if I can get this thing to work here. There we go. So what is the capital improvement plan? Essentially, it is a summary of all of the projects, capital projects, I should say, that the city has intent on building within a five year plan. So this, the current version that we're talking about adopting today is the 2023 through 2028 CIP, and it includes projects for all disciplines or departments. So that would be fire, police, police, parks, public works, all the utilities within public works, REU, the whole department. So as you can imagine, there are a number of projects within there. Again, this is a five year program. It's prepared by the city's engineering division, and it is a requirement of government code 66002, which essentially ties back to the development impact fee program. This is something that, that each city is required to do if they have a development impactee program, which we do. Why bring this to city council? Well, one, we need it to be adopted by council for it to be relevant. And prior to bringing it before this body, we did present this to planning commission back in April, where planning commission confirmed that the projects listed in the document were in compliance with the general plan, which director Pagan and his team recently updated. Other reasons to have a CIP in reality, it does make good business sense. It helps us line out projects that line up with our vision, ties back to our general plan, and it really serves as a planning level document for the city for years to come. You might be asking yourself, how has the CIP helped us lately? We threw a number of projects here that came off of previous cips that have recently been completed. I'm sure that each of you, as well as members of the community, recognize some of these projects. We've had road and bridge projects on Churn Creek, Marigali, which I tend to pronounce incorrectly all the time. We've had a south Bonneville roundabout. We've had improvements along Bocelli. We've had downtown streets improvements. We've had railroad crossing improvements along Shasta Street, Placer street. We've done pavement preservation, lighted crosswalks. We've had utility projects, including pipe replacements, lift stations. We've had a number of projects for community service. So director mene and his team pool, Salt Creek Park, Skate Park, a number of projects for director Zettel in the electricity arena, as well as projects out at the airport. And all of those projects had been previously identified in the than prior cips. You might be asking, well, how many projects are in the CIP and what is the value? It is a pretty staggering number, if you think about it, because it is a five year look at, again, capital projects for the city. When we add all of them up, they total roughly $720 million. So this is a big planning level document for the city, and we use this to guide the projects that we move forward. They are comprised of roughly 38 funding sources. So as you can imagine, there are a number of colors and pots of money that the team is constantly juggling to fund these projects. And then one other thing I thought I would mention here on this slide is we have identified $720 million worth of projects. However, we really have about $460 million of funding available for those projects. There's roughly about $260 million needed in order to complete all of the projects in this capital improvement plan. And we're constantly pursuing grants and other funding sources to fill that need. So we do strive in these cips for the first two years for those to be projects that are actually fully funded. That way that lines up with our budget and the budget cycle. That way those projects can actually get to construction with years three, four and five, those projects being the ones that may be partially funded or looking for complete funding. And you can see here on the right, we do have a diagram showing a split of where the funding is coming from. And you'll see that utility rates are by far the largest at roughly $360 million. You see impact fees there at just under 13. You see about 34 million coming from the state for local funds, for roads. And you'll see general general fund in there a little bit as well. So moving forward, you also might ask yourself, what are the project areas that are included and how do they break up? And so this diagram is really meant to show you a breakup of where all those projects are within the the five years. And you'll see, I'll just rough quickly run through this. You'll see that there's approximately $170 million of water projects in the plan. Roughly $121 million of wastewater, 104 in streets, there's about four in storm drain, 13 in solid waste. Fire has identified $26 million worth of projects. REU has roughly 65 million community services, 30 and airports, 190. And again, I want to stress that this does not mean that funding sources have been secured for each of these. This just means that there have been some needs identified of which not all the funding has been secured. What do we have coming? Well, I've grabbed a few projects that are, that are recently or that will be coming out shortly. One of which that we're excited about is our Victor Cypress active transportation project that is located along Victor, starting its Hartnell running up to Cyprus and then down Cyprus a little bit. It will include a layout very similar to what you see here on your screen, including a roundabout at the Victor Cypress intersection. So we're very excited about this project moving forward and getting to the finish line and getting that built so that that will happen. There we go. A few other projects I might highlight, and I'm just going to run through these pretty quick. So we are excited about our old Oregon trail widening safety project that should be constructed next year. We recently received bid results for that. Again, I just mentioned the Victor and Cypress ATP project. We have a systematic intersection safety lighting project which was approved this evening on set calendar, which is a project where we're going to upgrade all of our intersection lighting throughout the city. We have widening going on, on old Alturas right now, just east of the bridge that's being widened. We have a left turn project throughout the city. And then we also have a roundabout down at the Chern Creek rancho Victor area. So that would be east of the I five South Bonneville interchange. We have a number of what I would call multimodal projects that have been identified that we're currently working on or will be completed here soon, including Trinity Street, California Street, Oregon street, or one of my personal favorites, the Butte street boogie, as well as a number of projects including ongoing sidewalk and Ada improvements, where we try and focus our efforts to make improvements around town. And then we also have our neighborhood traffic calming effort where we have a process established where if neighborhood, if individuals from a neighborhood initiate a study, we have the ability to go out and implement traffic calming measures. If certain criteria are hit. Again, I'm going to try and go through these quick. We have a number of. We have a widening project on Airport Road. We've got our annual pavement preservation project. We have a number of bridges. We have old alturas over Cherng Creek currently under construction. We have Eastside Road, a bridge over Olney Creek that should be in construction here very soon. Hopefully. We have a Sacramento Avenue over Olney Creek. And then we have a slew of other bridges you'll see down there at the bottom, Canyon Hollow, west side Road and Canyon Road over acid. And then last but definitely not least, we have a number of projects out at the airport, including the Runway rehabilitation project, and then hopefully soon a new terminal design and construction, as well as a parallel Runway. And I just selected some of the more key projects out of the CIP to really illustrate to this group that there are a number of projects within the CIP, and it is a very important document for the city that really drives all of the capital investments that we should be making, regardless of funding source, because a number of these projects could be funded from development impact fees, they could be funded from dedicated funding. They could be funded potentially from general fund or other sources grants. It really is just meant to capture all of the capital improvements that we're pursuing. We have a number of trails, parks here, park projects as well. Shastina Ranch, Caldwell Park, Panorama, South City park. Great projects director Mendy and his team were collaborating with and then some of director Zettel's projects. We got the Zeb stuff. We have some communications projects, fiber, obviously. We have projects where we're upgrading our poles and transformers. And then we, obviously, we also have our stuff out at the solid waste facility, the transfer station, pavement, and a new materials recycling facility. Boy, the list keeps going. We've got a number of wastewater, storm drain and water projects. I'm just going to skip over this one quickly. And then last but not least, we have police and fire. This is one I wanted to highlight quickly. Chief Ann Lanningham isn't here this evening, but his office did recently receive a report, I believe Nichols, Melbourne and Rosetto prepared that where they looked at all of the fire facilities throughout town, and there were quite a few needs that were identified in that report. And I would say that the fire need has really jumped up in magnitude, both scope, scale and cost, from what is shown in this. And I would anticipate that next year's CIP, we see a dramatic jump in the need for fire. If I recall correctly, the fire need in this document was somewhere around $26 million. And I would anticipate that the fire need next year to go up considerably based on that report. So with that, I am available for any questions that you have. >>Vice Mayor Winter. >>Thank you, Director Webb. I have a few questions for you. We had a, you know, I had a pretty good conversation about this last week about the need for us to invest heavily. We have a lot of pressing needs on infrastructure so that we prevent infrastructure failure. And, you know, I'm by trade, I'm a nurse practitioner. I'm in medicine. So I know that an ounce of prevention is way less painful and way cheaper than a pound of cure. So I just wanted to maybe have you speak of that. You know, I know it's. It's better for us to replace a pipe before it bursts at a million dollars as opposed to paying for it when it bursts and then the additional damage and paying 1.5 either way, we pay, but then we pay more. Pay more if we. If we wait. So you gave me some examples of an area where we have some failing culverts. Could you speak to that about how if we don't replace that, what that's going to do to sunken roadways and the increasing costs that will incur or some other examples of where we're in imminent need for infrastructure repair? >>Absolutely. So, yeah, when you and I spoke last week, one example that I used was on the northern portion of old Oregon Trail. We have two existing culverts that are by far at the end of their useful life. They're corrugated metal pipe, steel culverts. The bottom or the invert of the culvert in the engineering world has completely rotted away. And these culverts are located in a seasonal channel that only carries water during the winter. So normally this wouldn't be too big of an issue. However, these corrugated metal pipes, when they lose their invert or the bottom, they really lose all of their structural capacity to be able to hold the material above it, which just happens to be the roadway. And so this, of course, is of concern to myself and my team, and we're evaluating, you know, how do we ensure that this roadway stays operational and functional? How do we prevent it from developing a sinkhole and still allow folks to use that road and get to their homes and businesses and everywhere that they need to go? And so those become the hard decisions that we're weighing out of, is how do we fund these unmet needs, if you will, as they become available or we become aware of them. >>Thank you. And we, you put in your report, I think, that you put a million dollars for streets. But if I remember right, Mister Tippen, I think you said we need something like 10 million a year for streets for the next, I don't know, foreseeable future. So, like 1 million is like. Doesn't really. >>Yeah, I can speak to this, and obviously, city manager Tippen can chime in if he chooses fit. Right now, in my opinion, based on the condition of our roads, and remember, we have over 900 lane miles of roads and roughly 60 sq. Mi. Our pavement condition index is in the fifties, which that's a scale from zero to 100. And that is not a good score, and we're lagging behind a number of the cities that we compare ourselves to when we look at our overall pavement condition index. What really alarms me is we want to be in a position where we're keeping good pavement good. And although I appreciate the comments that we received earlier, we still have a lot of work to get where we need to be, which, like you were describing, is right now we need to probably spend an additional $10 million per year on specifically our roads just to start chipping away to get where we need to be in ten or 15 years. Because if we do not, those roads are going to fall apart at such an accelerated rate that we're going to have no choice but to replace them at a much more expensive cost. As well as when we start having to completely replace the roads, it will be far more impactful to the businesses and residents that live alone alongside them. Because you can imagine if we had to completely replace a road from the virgin soil supporting the base and asphalt and everything else, that's far more intrusive than performing pavement preservation. So if I'm solely wearing my pavement hat, we would want to live in a world where we're keeping good pavement good, and living in a PCI score of, in the low eighties, 81 to 85, where we're providing chip seals, slurry seals, we're doing thin overlays, and we're not letting our roads deteriorate to a point where we have to completely remove and replace them, which is, again, extremely costly and extremely impactful to the community. Okay. And so our issue then is, of course, funding. For all of you out there in the audience, we don't have fees for roads, so we exist basically on what the state gives us from the gas tax, and then what we might get fro