City Council Meeting: May 19, 2025

uh recording in progress by spearin council we are live. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the MAY 19th regular meeting of the city council passing the city council. Why don't we start with the roll call customer call comes from our hampton blessed and honored to be here. COUNCILMAN Jones here, COUNCILMAN Lyon here from madison here. COUNCILMAN Massouda here, vice mayor riva's here and mayor quarto is absent. There's a quorum of the council present. Um, council member cole, would you like to meet us in the pledge of allegiance pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which is as one nation under GOD, indivisible with liberty and justice for all we have to serve ceremonial items tonight . Our first item is a proclamation for older americans month. So this is a proclamation for mayor gordo who would like to acknowledge the contributions of older individuals that older individuals have made to the economic well-being of our nation, their civic leadership and mentoring our expanding elder population profoundly impacts every facet of our lives and it is important to ensure senior citizens in our community enjoy active, productive, healthy lives and do so independently, safely and with dignity. So the city of pasadena joins the national tradition of designating the month of MAY as a time to celebrate the contributions of older americans and rededicate our efforts to better serving their needs on behalf of the city council. Mayor gordon does hereby proclaim that the month of MAY in the city of pasadena is older americans month and expresses appreciation for the continuing contributions of the city's older residents to our community and recognizes that they are vital and a growing part of our city. And I believe we have several folks to accept the proclamation and the certificate we have l\lia lopez senior commission staff dony lorence senior commission chair and katie brandon senior commission member. And so why don't I get that out ? Sorry. Oh and please go. Hello my name is chelsea mason and I am a member of the city of pasadena senior commission and I am speaking tonight on behalf of our chair donny lawrence on half of the city of pasadena senior commission i think vice mayor riva's mayor gordo and the city council for their recognition of this national observance. Pasadena is indeed a city with tremendous resources for our older population from the programing at the pasadena senior center, the facilities at huntington hospital, the community building at pasadena village are many parks and recreational facilities and our vibrant arts and culture community opportunities and support for older pasadena abound. On wednesday we will showcase these resources at our fourth annual event pasadena celebrates older americans month and I'll have katie brandyn, my fellow commissioner and executive director of pasadena village share those details. Thank you commissioner mason. I have been honored to serve on the senior commission for the past four years and to be executive director of pasadena village and I'm grateful for this opportunity to address the council. We hope all of you plan to join us on wednesday from ten to one at victory park for pasadena celebrates older americans month. This is our fourth annual collaboration between pasadena village, the senior commission and the pasadena department of parks recreation and community services. The eden fires which impacted our entire community highlighted the need for older adults to be connected to trusted resources as we recovered together both in rebuilding and healing, we all will need opportunities for connections and support. Each year hundreds of older americans attend this event to connect with over fifty businesses and organizations and this year will be no exception. We anticipate over 500 people to join us at the victory park on wednesday. This event is only possible because of the public private partnership between the city pasadena village, other nonprofit organizations and the businesses that come together to support the amazing older americans who reside, work and play in our city. We have garnered support from home instead pasadena ucla health villa gardens and other generous sponsors totaling over twenty thousand dollars to cover the cost of the event. The tents and the tables complimentary food resource bags and promotion and other costs. I wanted to let you know that the businesses who support this event and who serve the older adults in our community are truly partners in this event. For example, rick holiday who's here with us today is a medicare broker. He not only contributes to the event but he spent hours stuffing the 300 resource bags to give away to all the attendees. Yes, all the attendees who come on wednesday also hannington health who's one of our sponsors printed the senior resource guide that was developed by the senior commission at no cost to the city or to us and we'll bring them and the registered nurses to give free health screenings on wednesday. So thank you, vice mayor us and mayor gordon estancia and each of you are council members for recognizing the older americans who are critical to the fabric of our community and for joining us and promoting passantino celebrates older americans month that is designated for them and in celebrate of them and their contributions to this great city , sandra van, thank you. I don't think that's true. Thank you again and we'll see you all next on wednesday. So we have one more proclamation and I will invite director of parks recreation services cocoa production. This is a proclamation for national water safety month which is very timely given the warm weather and the summer coming and kids out of school. So this is another proclamation from el gordo this evening relating to water safety swimming can play a vital role in maintaining good physical and mental health, building social connections and enhancing quality of life. And it is important for families and individuals of all ages what are owners of private pools, users of public swimming facilities or those visiting recreational swimming areas to understand the importance of water safety rules. Drowning is often caused by inadequate swimming skills, lack of supervision and hazardous swimming conditions is a leading cause of unintentional injury related deaths worldwide water safety awareness and basic swimming skills are crucial to anticipating and avoiding and surviving common drowning situations as well as recognizing and providing assistance to those in need and therefore on behalf of the city council on behalf of mirando, we are pleased to proclaim the month of MAY 20 month MAY twenty twenty five in pasadena as national water safety month . Would anyone like to speak? Yes please. Thank you vice mayor city council members kenny james requestion administrator three very important people here with us today I'd like to bring up one is gretchen who is the aquatic supervisor. The other one is alex who is a senior lifeguard. And then we also have louise who was a senior lifeguard. They are very instrumental in ensuring the safety and the excitement of everyone that participates in our aquatics program. So I'd like to bring gretchen up to say a few words on behalf of receiving this award. Thank you. City council first we would like to thank you. The aquatics program for recognizing water safety awareness month. We also want to let you know that we practice water safety every second of every day that we are at the pool. It is not just for one month. We would also like to encourage all of you to come and visit the city pools especially the summer. The other thing is we would also like to have you come and take swim lessons. Our rates are very affordable and we offer ranging from a parent and me class where the participants are the parent and the child can be six months up to three years old for tiny tots which is from three or four years old. And we also offer american red cross learn to swim program and the levels that we offer from one to five. Also during the summer we offer recreational swim daily monday through saturday and recreational swim is free to the public. The honorable john jay kennedy paul is the only poll currently that we have running year round and those same programs are offered there. We also offer lap swim water exercise and in the summer water polo and swim team. So hopefully we will see you all there. Thank you again. Let's all make a splash and see what the pool vice maybe recognize just to say something about water safety so perfect. I just want to thank our parks and recreation team for everything that they do for our children and our community especially as it relates to water safety. I do have to testify. I mean I testified that my niece who comes from maryland every year well actually she's my great niece which is actually kind of funny I think about it. She came she comes from maryland every year for the summer and two years ago I signed up to take swimming lessons with the with the team over at the our parks and recreation and within four or five lessons she knew how to swim and now she's actually a competitive swimmer in maryland with her with her middle school . So I just want to thank them for that no one so I could say that for sure. I know someone has gone through this one lessons and it succeeded and excelled but also the fact that there are a lot of pools in the city of pasadena and it's super important for our residents to know I mean our codes have been updated and they're updated all the time. And so if your pool does not have the proper security around ,I encourage you as an individual to our property owner to make sure that you do have the secure gates covers over your pools to prevent drowning because as I mentioned that our water safety press conference on was that last thursday I think last thursday christina alvarado from the rose bowl aquatic center mentioned in which I didn't really think about is that drowning is silent. You don't hear that if someone could drown and in the time that it takes you to send a text message so while you're out and you always going to be hot weather, there's going to be tons of time to be in the pool. Please make sure that you have the appropriate protections around your pool but also make sure that yes, all that is monitoring your pool because we don't want to be the story. We don't want to be the statistic. We want to make sure that our young people have that opportunity not just young people but older people as well. I learned how to swim at old age myself. I thank you all for the work that you do and more kudos to you and continue to to perpetuate water safety for all. Thank you. Thank you council member before we move on to public agenda public comment on items not on the agenda I just want to briefly apologize for the late start time we were in closed session for several hours two hours I think we ended up going at this point there is no reportable action though all three items a through c word and with that we will turn to public comment. We have twelve cards for public comment on matters not on the agenda. So two minutes for everybody. Nickless meal reverend r. Chase hector agree duno and then soma's are if you hear your name please step forward nicolelis are you here ok and reverend MARCH\ so you here like hector I goodenow ok go ahead two minutes I'll ring a bell when you have thirty seconds left. Thank you. Hello city council. My name is nick and I'm a resident of the district seven and a member of the palestinian community. I'm here to ask to the city council jarndyce the divestment from caterpillar, chevron and boeing in a fire and police retirement system fund we are witnessing crimes against humanity unfold in palestine. Estimates the number of palestinians killed during the ongoing zionist genocide in gaza range from at least fifty thousand to over 200000 since OCTOBER seven, 2012. Three recent years have been the deadliest in recorded history for palestinians living in the west bank as illegal settlements and attacks intensify across the region. This did not begin recently palestinians have lived under systems of apartheid and ethnic cleansing instituted by the israeli state for the last seventy seven years. These systems are supported by companies in the united states which provide the materials used to murder and displace civilians. Caterpillar manufactures armored bulldozers used to level homes. Boeing builds two thousand pound bombs that have been dropped on hospitals and chevron provides the fuel for genocide by investing in these companies, the city of pessina is investing in genocide, apartheid and ethnic cleansing of the palestinian people. In 1988 the passing the board of directors forced the police and fire pension board to divest from companies doing business in apartheid south africa. Last year the city council called for a cease fire of the ongoing genocide in palestine. I respectfully ask the board to maintain this tradition of moral clarity by making responsible reasonable steps towards divesting from caterpillar, chevron and boeing in the fire employees retirement system fund. Thank you. Reverend mark che's father hector. I don't know if I'll buy some za then dodd tarifa anybody else that I called and state your name somma. Ok, greetings of peace. My name is after last time I was here I was expecting to speak for three minutes and I was asked to make it a minute and I left very disappointed thinking that I have failed my family so I came back here. No papers are speaking from my heart. You wonder why I meant that I failed my family. I am for myself and my family were not even given that minute my cousin arthur who was bombed along with his in-laws who are seeking shelter in a house was not given that minute. They had to collect whatever is left of his body along with his in-laws put them in a plastic bag to bury them. My other cousin yusef who is a prominent dentist again wasn't given that it I couldn't get him out when I was trying to get my family out of gaza but he didn't want to leave his father or his mother and he wasn't given that when him and his father were looking for apartment to find a shelter and they were bombed he was killed along with his father along with his uncle when israel targeted his father who was the head of pediatric surgery at one of the hospitals in gaza. So those minutes are important. My voice here is important because the money that is invested in this company along with other companies that are participating in the genocide in gaza is blood money. I don't think the citizens of pasadena who are getting benefit from this investment would want blood money going to their retirement. So I ask the city to consider and I have an and I and I make myself available I want to know why you haven't allowed us to put it on the agenda, why you haven't supported us in divesting from this company is make a time and I will meet with you and I hope that you will put ah thank you, reverend schaefer. Go ahead. Oh well good evening council. Thank you for your patience. My name is reverend marc anthony chase, one of the pastors at all saints church just across the street which is your district brother justin. So it's good to see everyone this evening we sing a song. The reason I'm late is I just put my two little boys to sleep and we sing a song to them every night that they go to bed and the song is twinkle twinkle little star. Don't ask me why we sing that they like that but that song it's a great song and that song takes us a little less than a minute to sing over our children and when I sing that song after I sing it I pray for them to have a great night's sleep and I pray for all the children all over the world that need a safe and great sleep who might not get one and we pray for the children of gaza and in that one minute that we sing that song my mind often goes to the devastation that is being wreaked on the children of gaza as we're singing that song twinkle twinkle little star as we look up and see stars in our backyard. Well, the stars that you can still see here in los angeles county there are children, innocent kids in gaza who are looking up and not seeing stars but who are looking up and seeing bombs, who are looking up and seeing fighter jets, who are looking up and seeing machines and weapons of war that are financed with not only our taxes but the things that we've invested in so tonight we are asking not just for a city council to help divest but to invest in the humanity of the city of pasadena to invest in our hearts, to invest in our souls, to invest in peace and not war, to invest in the best of ourselves and not the worst of ourselves. So as you divest also here the opportunity that is there to invest to invest in our souls, our hearts and in peace. Amen. thank you. Summers are or actually is hector guardado hector is not here. Ok, we'll skip him some followed by DR. Lena al-sarraf then robin thicke, thank you council members for recognizing older americans and very recently arab american. As a young girl I would have never thought that there would be a month or events for me in recognizing who I am where an ethnicity where our ethnicity isn't necessarily on our sleeve. So growing. I always felt that there was a bit of a more subconscious racism because people don't know where you're from so we hear a lot more and so I'm honored that we're doing that and I invite you for us to be a part of it next year. I just came from west L.A. We had a festival I heard that older americans have a of all I'd love to do that as well. I am a palestinian, a resident. I live in bungalow seven. I am also a financial advisor at ubs wealth management. I've been working with the markets and investments for over twenty one years and I'm part of the pta at field elementary chinese school. I'm a homeroom mother. I've also done swim lessons at robertson. I'm a part of the community for at least I can say and downstairs in the bathroom I saw a girl with her name in arabic. Her name is elizabeth and we're part of the community as well and what I love about arab-american heritage month is that it represents us as a community and what I would ask for you to do is to represent us as a community when it comes to divestment. How many people in a room in an organized fashion please raise your hand if you would like city council to divest how many of you are pasadena resident keep your hands up. So that is about 70, 80, 80 percent of the room and I think we've been here for four weeks out. So we ask you I implore you to use your job as representation in representing us in agendas. I think the opportunity to divest with that I also invite you I to if five of you want to meet others we'll have five of you we won't volume all of us come to my house. I have a pool. It's safe. We will have tea, tea and canopy which is a palestinian dessert. We would love to eat with you to see how we can help rectify this and make sure that you have the opportunity and the power to represent the citizens and 70 percent of the people in this room who would like us to divest from arms to hurting people and to represent our people. Thank you. DR. Lina al-sarraf and robin athea on shey aldan denim yadi and then sofia alvarado and heavenly hues if they're online. Thank you. Go ahead. Good evening. just to bring it to your attention, APRIL was american awareness sorry genocide awareness month as well. Dear vice mayor and city council members I'm a pasadena resident living in district four and a physician working at a community health clinic. I'm asking the council members to agenda is the city's divestment from caterpillar, boeing and chevron. I'm also asking any member of this chamber recuse themselves for any conflict of interest and have other council members collectively support this request. Good governance involves being responsive to the needs and request of constituents and being accountable and supporting the rule of law and human rights in all its dealings there should be ethical guidance for pension investments and funds and it should be invested consistent with our values that align with our principles. The concept of six degrees of separation plays out as I relate to you that my nieces and nephews have extended family in gaza and my friends as well who have lost too many members for someone to lose in their lifetime. We are all interconnected. The moral injury that's affecting us all especially our youth including our students have a profound impact on witnessing the atrocities in gaza and the thousands who are suffering and causing our future generation to experience disillusionment when we stand by and do nothing in the midst of a genocide, let us stop the propaganda of gaslighting and understand that the children of gaza are like the children of pasadena innocent and deserving of dignity, safety and a promising future. My daughter's question themselves and state that any one of us could be in their situation. This is the minimum that we are requesting council members at this time to agenda the discussion and respond to our collective request. Thank you. Thank you rahmati for by alan shepard and ellen dunham yadi sofia alvarado and emily hughes. My name is rob mathias. I am an ordained minister theology professor member past mennonite church resident of pasadena. I was here at the last meeting and didn't have time to finish my comments. I want to add to my faith tradition I don't know what faith traditions you're a part but my faith tradition like most say that when there is horrendous evil taking place we have a moral obligation to do what we can. I am not under the illusion that you can solve the atrocities that are taking place day by day in gaza, the starvation that is taking place ,families that are picking up body parts of children. But you can do something and so what I'm asking you to do what you can do and collectively as we do what each of us can do, we will get we will make a change. we can make a difference. So I ask you I don't know what your moral system is but I ask you to check your moral compass and do the courageous thing, do the moral thing and don't let anybody's retirement account get patted on the dead bodies of palestinians. Thank you alan shey followed by all the denim yarded and sofia alvarado and emily hughes alan hello. Or members I should say I've been going before the L.A. County board now I'm here so city council members I'm here asking to agenda as usual the same items I've been asking but more so one that I requested last week which is the pasadena community restorative investment initiative and that is for all of the residents that have been impacted by the eden fire who has not been able to find sources to assist them in rebuilding their house or finding residence and or have not been able to find sources of revenue to get back on track because of lost jobs and things of that nature. And I believe that the city has an obligation to make sure its residents are put back on good standings with their finance with their attempt to get their lives back together in the leadership here needs to show that and if I MAY say to the vice mayor because we came out of the northwest commission we are certainly the area that is impacted other than the fifty houses up in hastings ranch area and I've been working closely with a lot of the residents up there and they do need a lot of additional help and interest and we have not had any type of real initiative or plan of action and that is what this city council should do is initiate a true plan of action and if so we have one ready for so we can start getting busy. So thank you. Thank you all in denham followed by yadi densify albarado and heavily huze if they're on online. Good evening ladies. And gentlemen of the council MISS And I'm just here tonight anyway I'm not going to go over to atlanta mcclain anything again tonight because I understand we're having a safety meeting wednesday night correct. And is it it is going to be on the agenda the a b three not to the mayor. Oh it is I believe is currently scheduled on the agenda. Ok, I'm on leave alone until we go out and see what goes on. But I would like to mention something I'm I'm that's actually it's in your district just now I stay in one of the housing that is supplied by union station by you and say we've got some issues and problems going on there right now. I don't want to go over all but some of the things is we've been there for over a year and some of the amenities that the city is paying for to pay for we're not getting and that's that's it. That's and I'm not wanting to try going all of that right now but I've talked to just and I like to talk to you soon to see if we could solve one of the things is yeah, it was it was the planning was never planned for adequate parking in these places was 70. There's a 70 partners in it. Only thirty three park parking which was going to create a problem down the road. But right now it's not bad. But what happened is because they have a commercial building in the front that they can't because they didn't have part of what the city is now taking over that place for some one of their programs or something. But at the same time they've they've restricted half of the parking which we already don't have enough and they're starting to tell some people and there's some problems I'm not having a problem but some of the other people are having problems because they're visitors come here in the cars . There should be someone looked at to work toward a reasonable situation that I said the problem is already caused because of the planning they didn't plan for adequate parking and now they're making the people there suffer because of something needs to be done to address. And I thank you for your time and I'm sure you'll see me again, haven't you yadi? Followed by sofia alvarado then having to use hi there. I just wanted to again ask for the item discussing the desire to be a jarndyce at the public safety meeting. Um it's been almost half a year and there hasn't been a public conversation about the actions that the city took and what will be done moving forward. And I say this not only on my behalf of my neighbors like bill magnon who can't be here because they are displaced and are not living in the city and um also just to ask that the city do their best to respond to the public records we can request that I've made relating to the fire and not to unnecessarily stonewall or give me up just like blanket denials of my request. Thank you. Ok, uh so alvarado's on the q what about uh heavenly hues maybe my tribe raised I don't like that no. Uh that completes public comment on matters not on the agenda. Thank you. Uh city clerk I see customer calls. Thank you. Go ahead. Um can I confirm that uh my request last week under our council rules of conduct to put this item of our city's rules about human rights and investment. The agenda is for the finance committee can confirm because I've heard from the finance director um that we would be moving forward with that. Can we publicly confirm that? I would like to staff I saw a message from you today on that topics are left to staff to confirm, uh, matthew hoffman, the inspector if he has more information on that request the email I sent council member call to request what specific information that he wanted if and when it came back to the committee. um, but it's not my place to set the agenda for the committee meetings. It's up to the committee chair and I believe the council has a process for, uh, requesting items that they would follow that I'm not a part of. You know, that's uh, council resolution uh ninety seven sixteen and uh on page five it's is there are several ways to place an item on the agenda . Number three is by any member of the city council submitting a request for an agenda item to the mayor or city manager which I did last week with the timing to be determined based upon the orderly placement of the item for consideration. So I don't see that there's any question that I have a right to put something on the agenda. The question really is timing. So I just want to confirm that that everyone is understanding MADAM City attorney so I'm on that committee as well and I I have that same understanding and you did make that request I believe you've made this request now twice and from my understanding it was supposed to come on the agenda after the after we discussed the budget is what I thought was going to happen. But if the city manager or the assistant city manager tell us exactly when if you need to be a second to if there needs to be a second because there's four members of this committee there needs to a second to put this item on. I'm happy to do that for a finance meeting. I this is a discussion I mean ultimately it's the will of the firefighters retirement fund. Correct. We make decisions for the firefighter every time I fight fire with fire and police fire ,police what they do they make their own determined determination. Yeah, but I hear the request and I heard the request and I will follow up with the mayor who serves as chair of the finance committee and work on timing when it would be when it would appear I do believe the next finance committee does have to deal with budgets by the city departments that report through finance committee. But I will confer with the mayor on timing. I I understand and respect the process and I'm just confirming that that is the process and obviously there's a sense of urgency about the budget. There's also a sense of urgency about some of the things happening in our world. Thank you, miguel, for confirming that it is with staff and also the mayor will address it when he returns that that I will confer with the mayor upon his return and discuss timing of that request to police the matter on the finance agenda. Thank you. I believe that completely concludes public comment on matters not on the agenda. Yes, so we're moving on to oh, I'm sorry. I can't remember yes. During the public comment there were a couple of items that came up and I think one is going to be coming to msfc which is the underground and the that's going to come to us. Oh oh I think it didn't come up but I know that that's where we need to be listening to. Yeah yeah. I'll come up in the wildfire mitigation plan and either our next special meeting or reoccurring meeting after that. Perfect. And then the other item was it maybe we could get a memo from the planning department that would go out to the city council the whole or at least to MR. Say to let him know exactly what we were doing for all of the residents that lost their housing during the fire. We have done quite a bit for our residents. I don't know that we put it all together but we certainly can and we certainly are prepared to make a presentation on our efforts relating to the fire. I think some committee meetings have been canceled or you know, we weren't able to present yet but we are prepared to make that presentation as soon as you know there's room on the agenda perfectly. And then I just had one item that has I would have done it at the end of the meeting but unfortunately I won't be until the end of the meeting is the reduction in fees for single family permit fees we're staff at with that you don't have to answer that right now but you know, because it is a work in progress where the request and I've been looking at what other jurisdictions are doing and it's always far more complicated than that at first blush. And so we're trying to work through to see if we can bring something forward for the council's consideration. Perfect and just for clarity, anybody watching that was for victims of the environment. Thank you. Thank you for hampton and I believe now that concludes public comment on matters on the agenda and we will move on to the consent calendar. Yes. For consent item number seven and consent item number twelve a the minutes for the fifth city council and successor agency. Those two items are being held. They'll come back in the near future. We do have public comment on items one two, four and ten on consent and I can report that the city clerk's office received one letter advocating for item one the city clerk's office received one letter advocating for the city to implement a comprehensive privacy program and for item to the city clerk's office received one letter expressing concerns with the staff recommendation. Those letters were posted online. Distributed to the council are part of the record for those two items. So do you want to do the public comment and then we do the sweep motion or yeah. Why don't we start with public comment. So yadi has a speaker card in four one, two and ten. So you have two minutes for the three items. Hi, I'll be really quick. So you guys got my written communication about my concerns about item one am I in the grave cybersecurity and privacy concerns there was actually wasn't an rfp scoring rubric touched the agenda that I was unable to look at that but I think that now more than ever again I want to really ask that the city consider establishing a comprehensive privacy program, especially now that we're going to be collecting massive amounts of data and are going to be a target for ransomware and cyber attacks and the research on it it's just very obvious on on things like am I and a number 10 is actually really interesting that the grant for the police department actually has to do with surveillance technology but it didn't go to public safety and it didn't go to the police oversight committee. I don't understand the shotspotter didn't go to the to the police oversight and it was because the oversight body was new cell site simulator didn't go and this is yet another time when surveillance technology is not coming before the oversight bodies. It's like is it on purpose or it's making a mockery of the system and the process and why is it going through the finance department instead of policy? It's either money or policy. Why did go to public safety? It has to do with public safety because it's for acquiring more cameras and there is no rationale attached to this grant on why there's going to be cameras in district four right on the streets that I drive on every day. I'm just going to dance class. I'm not burglarizing people's homes. You guys are basically ok like massive surveillance and the chief of police said that he wants to bring pr cameras across a whole city. I just don't understand how this can be acceptable and how this is like coming directly to city council on consent without any input from the community or a heads up and it's buried in there that is very, very concerning and I really want to ask that you kick this back to the proper committees and let it go over to the police oversight body. Thank you. So newburn on item number four . Good evening in fiscal year twenty twenty six the city will receive different pots of measure funding including less than a million in what's called local solutions funding. But that money will be earmarked solely for those who are already housed with emergency housing vouchers. None of that money will go for housing or or services or in housing and it won't even cover half of the funding needed for all those housed with those vouchers. The city will also receive one point thirty two million in measure a comprehensive homelessness services funding. But that's the same amount that the city was allotted under as your age no more. finally the city anticipates receiving one other pot of measure money but there isn't even a ballpark right now and there's no commitment to using that money to house our in-house. Of course I don't oppose continuing the vouchers for those who are already getting those but there should be red alarms going off everywhere the federal government is no longer going to fund the vast majority of our housing department's budget as it's been doing for years. There's a desperate and urgent need for appropriations to house our own house residents from the general fund, from the operating reserve, from the emergency reserve and from the ten million dollars in additional revenue from twenty twenty five. It's nowhere listed on all those items that are going to be one time funded. Thank you. That completes public comment on the consent calendar. Cancel relion. I see your first thank you. I did have a question about item number ten so why didn't it go through the committee system like it like most requests would this this one went through the finance committee at the last meeting and that's why you see on item and it starts with the finance committee. So it did go through finance and we don't take it to more than one committee because of the brown act. We don't want to create a consensus. So it went through finance and my understanding is that the alpe went to the technology subcommittee of cpac back in OCTOBER of twenty twenty three . They have not called it up to the end entire cpac for discussion but it was presented back in APRIL back in OCTOBER of twenty twenty three to the subcommittee on technology and why finance because they're not typically the committee with jurisdiction over the police department. I believe it was because it's a change in the budget appropriate and so for that reason when we change the budget it goes to finance. But ok, without commenting on the substance of it because I don't I haven't learned enough about the substance of it is it does have bigger implications than the budget when we're talking about surveillance technology and probably merits a public conversation before we before we take it up especially on consent. So I would be inclined to send it to somebody to have a conversation about it depending on what committee would be appropriate. We already did send it to the finance minister for members on the committee. So did finance have a conversation about the policy implications and the and the privacy implications? Yes, they had a presentation in that presentation is linked to your agenda report and they had a fairly robust discussion among the committee. i don't recall the vote. I think it was it was on a presentation here. There's a presentation if you would like that maybe implicit is maybe we looked at the presentation. Um, I know councilor hampton in the committee on ask your questions on a different item before we go to the it was on this item as well and I was just wondering was there a time line that we need to accept these these dollars or could it go to the ceo? I mean sorry the city has the capacity there's a lot of acronyms at suppose the and then come back to us. I looked at the department presentation. Yeah. Perhaps we should just have the presentation and then information on the time line. Good evening. My spare members of the council I do have lt sandy silver who did the presentation last thursday finance committee. He's ready and prepared to do a presentation tonight and if you do decide that we need to go back to the full kaposi, I think that we will be ok. I don't think there's a timeline from what I know now but territory what city manager marquez we did go to cpac with it with a subcommission. At no time did they ask for us to bring it to the full commission. Sammy was our vote out of that subcommission? No, just a presentation and then they have the right to pull it and ask for us to present at a full commission and that didn't happen although if that's what this body desires we could go to the full cpac in that small committee. How many people are part of that committee or how many commissioners are part of that committee that's ad hoc so it's less than a quorum of the full body. So I think I guess my question is how many people were at the meeting? I don't know how many at that meeting. Just just a point of order. Vice mayor, we pull in ten discussing it or what are we doing? Perhaps we should just pull this item and is there a motion on the rest of the consent calendar? Oh, I had a question about item four but I am in favor of item number four. I just wanted to comment ok, why don't we go ahead and move the rest the consent and you can ask your comment after this. Is there is there a motion on the balance of the consent calendar? Was MR. Council member and made the motion certainly and this is removing item seven item item seven has removed an item twelve a the minutes for the MAY 5th twenty twenty five city council and successor agency minutes removed. Thank you. They have been pulled. They'll come back in a future date and now item ten and we list the items that were approving please that is one through six eight nine eleven twelve a except for the MAY 5th meeting and then twelve b so we have a motion a second four that any objections I have oh I just have a comment item one if that's alright if that's in order go ahead. Item one commits us to spend I think over the next three years um two point four dollars million with consultants who will help us implement the automated meter installations. It's a cornerstone of conservation time of use rates, modern ability to accurately track electric and water usage . I certainly support the concept but it's a sixty million dollar investment to put to replace our existing meters with new meters and that's just the estimate now and and there are privacy implications whether real or not they need to be addressed because people have concerns where we're going to be you know, there'll be questions about who gets them when and and time of use rates and I I will come as no surprise that I'm sometimes skeptical about consultant contracts. So I think that we we need to be really paying attention to this. So I would just suggest that mse take this up as a topic. I don't object to moving forward tonight on this concept called right. But this is a big deal and I think the council needs to be tracking and aware and providing oversight and guidance on this vice mayor, if I MAY. Yes, please. So council call you're saying to bring the topic to masc would approve the contract as it is and then the larger technology discussion about privacy is already scheduled to come to mse and we'll discuss that larger contract that msi that's great. Perfect. Thank great. So on the motion. Any objections seen on the motion passes mr abbott are you in the queue for I was in the queue for comment. I'm always in all those so I read item number for four very brief overview item ten presentation. So should we go to item ten and just go ahead go ahead with your comments. So item four you know as we've all heard, you know there's going to be some significant changes in our federal funding in the way we receive the dollars if we receive dollars cetera. Right in our housing department as mentioned eloquently by mr we're not potentially going to receive some of ese dollars anymo. And so I know that we're having discussions in or budget. Has that been contemplating our budget for ou housing departmentor this year le h this year budg is based on grants and llars that we wer expecting to get. We my not get tho dollars any more so have we alred our projections r our housing partment? And sohat's my question. I dot know if thisis maybe this is is is discussion board buthis is a budget discussion but I'm hoping that this is our presentation whn it comes to us. What is our aernative plan? I thi it's important qstion th you're asking. U know, I've been very d self in matthewhawkes work have beenvery clear abo the uncertainty tha we're facing. And so what we're presenng is the budget is our bt estimate and o what our current revees and the how we would proam those revenues going foard. I made comment at o point to recognize tat even though we do an nual budget, we alws revisit the buet throuout the year and think given the uncertainties wee seein coming out of ou federalpartners thatwe MAY if we get parcular news about a funding sream that we we expecting that doe't materialize, we wod certainly come back an offer rommend recommendationsased on how w would address tat revenue, that expected venue that is nowa shortfall. So it going to ben ongoing thing unfortutely I think throughout theear we'reoing to have to probably pay tha as we see how things py out in this new administration. So in our buet and this can be a discussion wh wehave the larger disussion if there are this that our hoing department think that we MAY not get anymo, I think tt should be intified when presenting te housing department budget even though we're stil planning on geing thos things. Ut if we tink we mightot get them, we should put bracks around those nbers to y where arewe going to get thesefunds from or ho are weoing to continuethese services ors there a way to augment these servics with somethinglse? Ihink the residentshould l know as a council membe I should know exact this a well. It's justt's just like or nking regular I an like as all of us are all younow, we have our own person finances . Right? If something stops ming in, you try to figur out other way to makep for your qlity f life. So we need to ma sure that our qualit of programs are still goingp. And so I know this is a deeper discussion f our housing department but I'm just hoping that wh presenting to use have a understand front of what we y or MAY not be getting and I ca show you that it's ourntent to tell y as much as weknow, as transparently we know it, as sn as we know it theerfect thank you. And that's on a tax agenda tomorrow yes, I is again tomorw. Absolutely. For nowreturning to aid I cou just that is also a regula agenda item on the legislati policy agenda. In other wrds, this isn't le the weatr or somethin where itust changes and w're subjct to the tohe blowing wds. You know, these a decisions made by the federal gornment and the fedal government is not justhe executive brah legislative branchnd the judicial branch. And near a I can tell, two out of three disree with the executive branchin terms of cutting all of these importa progra for communities lke oursnd also I'veaid before, this isn' like laesse. Ts isn't philahropy. This is r money. California has not my lifetime I don'telieve has ever receivedback fromashington what weend to washingto every yar. So think wuldn't wanto give the wng message to our communitythat we're going to idly b and st take it we're goin to continue to ght to have a fair share of our federal ta dollars returned t our comnity for those that need it andthat's fair and I don'tisagree with that. What I'm basically myomments are we should derstand what we MAY ormay not be getting and like you said, we have to fght to get thos dollars ut we're not going to lee anybody behind w we are trying to fighto get those dollars andhat's what I wt to make vy clear is th wrever we get tho dollars from we need toontinue to keep these proams going and if we have fight to to get those, fi. But tere are a lot of people that are going t be left behind as we' waiting on this fight inhat fight could ke yearsnd years and yea. But t people that recei these tse dollars that we help don'thave the years gre points om both council members wil that will be pa of our lrger budget discuion for sure. Ando we're turnin to item 10. Guess we'll go aead and have that bri presentation by smara mbers of council,ther ficials, mmunity members an residents. Good evening. My name is lieutena sam desalvo and'mere to talk about thedward burns memoria jus assistance grant that we g for thirty fo thousand three hundred nine dolrs to leaseapproximate 10 ceras. If you can goto the next slide please. The pposedection is exempt from sequoh. Thiss to authorize th city managero accept the grant and t amend the padena police department's fcal year twenty twenty fiveperating budget by recogning the revenueor thirty four thound three ndred ninety. If you cod go to the next sde please. Edward burns memorl aistance grant has been awarded to thes approximately 10 elcock isommonly known as t automated license pate reader meras. His grant ws awarded for chnology that would assi ith investigationso deter rime, prevent cre if the recommendati was for chnology that coulde used regionally. If you're not aware this data can b used by our regnal partners and it accessible through softwa. He boston pice department has identified the need for camerasnd the need is I alliae with our missi to increase pubc safety through technology. If we cou go to the next slide pease mcflynn yep. That one. How doesur technology prevt and eiminate crime? It's actuall twocomponents to it the protive approach is reatime crime alertso law enforcemt for eample like ston vehicles or vehcles th have fugitive holes on I e immediaalert to the pasadena lice department it also has rl-time alertso law enforcement wh vehicles associated to abducted or issing such asamber alerts o silver alert. Again, thi provides immeate alged us there wa a qestion hat came up earlr appromately how many how ma crimes that th has assisted us in last yr it has been approximatel20 to 25 difficult ces or more actlly vehicles that w have recovered. The rean why I have to sy at is there'sot a good query butn that we could srch. We have to go one by one. So there's a lotof cases that it hasaided in investations and recovery of stolen vehicle the instigation component is alsoit provides cminal inrmation that woul generate almost imediately and actionable lea that can result in qck apprehension and recoveryof crucial evidence. F we ca go to theext slide plse someof the questions that come up wth approx is officers photogphed. No it's not. It's actually the re of the vehicle th's photographed as it's drivingway from the inteection. Ere's a picture o the owerpoint slide thas curreny projected their license plate is captured. The locationf the vehicle, the inteection date andime cor and you can model of the vehicle. That's the ly area that's captured. There is facialecognition used in this fromhese cameras because as mentioned, faces are photographs. It's usuall the rear of the vehle that's photograhed and there is no traffic enfcement do from this data r do we sharehis data with anythird party company orith the v for registration rposes or anything like tha if yo go to the next slide, these are som of the theseare me of theurrounding region partners thatlready had this technolog this tchnology is not w to us. We have approximately seventy eht cameras alread in place in nineteen diffent locations ande are lookingfor such gran for the chief's vion of having real ime, realime crimes and then o day and having such camas is the backbo of the real real time crime cter. If he could goto the next sle please the thes are the three intersectis that were selected to pla thaten to twelve camera that is approximated thate will get from this ount of money. The three intsections are san gabrieloulevard and coloro boulerd, los lobos anue and ange grove boulard, altana drive and footll boulevard is this tse intersections we selected by the criminal iestigations division detectis and effect is condered were traffi flow iness and egress t the city an crime statisticvehicle uld go to thenext slide. Is grant received this gra three times in prr years in twenty tnty three we ceived it twice on was forty threethousand three hundre irty four dollars. We purhased same infrastructure toe used for de-escalion training by our ficers. T was purcsed onpril 1st. Twnty twenty five unfortunately mostf you might know that or range suffere a lotf damage wit the fires so we han't been able toet up the structu. The structure isafe but once the rae is up and runng MAY be able to use the stcture for training. Um te other twey twenty three gra for forty thousand two hundred thty three was used for puhase of concealae audio recording devices d a device known to form toe used by th crisis negotiatio team. The phon we ha since we purchasedt approximately a year agowe have not used it as of yet twenty twenty two we receive foy three thousand fo hundred thirty fr for an x-ray machine fm vehicles and fentanyl test ki. The x-ray macne we have used pproximately 12 tim. It's ao directly related to e seizure of apoximately two hundred twentyne thound six hundred one dollars. He was also used in a homicide case wher we wil be able to sear for a hidden gun if he couldo to the nextlide please. The seion will amend t bostonpolice department is ur operating budgety cognizing revenue d approiating thirty four thousand three hundred nity in the general fu. Therere nonticipated ssible costs suchs maintenance and suport like I mentioned, thiss technology that we'reoing to be leasg so a vendor tt we choos except all thes cost that' all for my prentation if you have any her questions. Thank you for your presentation before jump to customer comment I just wanted t brief state my undstanding we have ben using the alps fo a number of years now I u recall when wetarted it I know since've been on the council is come before at leastnce not twicelready. It's the fixed cameras,the pools I knowwe have had for more than a yr. Thers two companies at use vigilant a iorget the name of the other cpany and but we've also hadur cameras on our ptrol vehicles for aery long timend I'm guessing over five yrs it's quite while. Yeah. I don't call what specifically itwas which one of thos that came it must have been inwenty twenty two twenty twen three we had a very rust discussion. I remember a lt of the coern wa about the agreeme we had with other agenes on how data would b shared because iknow me psonally at leasty thought were my privacy concern. I've always ewed this distinctly from th cell se mulator which is pentially pulling dat fromyou when you'ren your home or somewhere were you wouldn't expect butou're not in puic where thiss you know, you're drivng on a public road. But when tha data is aggregated I can present very stron privacy concernsnd we nt to make sure we understand whohat data is bein shared th. Ando I know we had that dcussion several yea ago. It MAY have been tinking back n the timene before the cpa was u and running andully staffedwhich was unfortunat and so I understand tir technology committeeid address it some point in twenty twen three. T I would hope at some point they hav a fuller discussio and we love to get the input a well. Ihink that's importt for an sort of technolo that we now that we havehis body that we hear fromhem, hear their concern make sure they're incorporad addressed throug the deptment's policy and the deptment and so th councils fully informeds well wen we're making the decisis so I appreciat your yr presentation and'll turn now to council mmbers. Liutenant silva, ho are you? Good, thank thankou for your report. Do you keep trkf the stolen vehicles, ssing persons in other cme statisticsnd report to the council from fm this from ts program? We haven't don that before, sir. We al on te softwarepp there is rely no easy way to checkhere he h many cars went thugh there and w many we were actlly able to apprehend the onl way I was able t get tha2 number is actually going by cse by case by case andooking foreywords and pulling itut. Our crimeanalysis and I are cuently working on I to look for otr crimes that youknow what assted in ay vestigations and als leads but the twent one number I a number that I g right now. But know it'sgoing to be a lot more an that when you have aicense plate reader, do u keep a recordf of of the past license reers? Yes, guys. Very, very good recordeeping soe of the data you saved and not only th data whenever th offics access the dat there islso a very good audit tra so not randoml anyone can go an excess office goes in excess records wch officer accessed in and I'm not sure I they ve ithere if there's an incident numr or a case number that' directly attached to it, I would ha to do researchn that. T normally that'sthe dit trail so we kw who has gon an accessed it andhow it's how 's beenused and that's that's w it's actually ued by allur partners in surrouing agencies too. So for exple, like the case is usedf data if theres a crime involving homicide even in anoer city or L.A. Tenity and be able to run that licen plate of the vehiclehat was involv in the homicide ande find several hi of a license ple reer in let's say alhambra or gldale then it gis us a real good idication, you kno ths person isprobably living or has somekind of direct ties glendale and tt area and it wou help detectes to kd narrow wn thepprension ofuch suspects. Thank you, lutenant line. Thank youoth, mam. Ust toake sure undeto the presentation correctly, thesyem is only gathengthe externally identifiabe iformation on vehicle that I c e standing on a streetcorner. N you hp her the car? Yes. Licens plate? Yes make of the r? Es. Nohing about the no faci cognition the diver know nothing abo the iternal at's happeningnside the car nothi and like th weust always told t us is that al th inrmation that's beg gathered there' reay no expeation of privay bause nybo the puic has th abily to see the lcens pla, se the car adgo on likehat. All h do is he jst ss h, this car at this da time went troug this intersecon. That' it. Ok, and went the c see their subcommtee d they di't call it a yes ok, grea ank you cnciln hamon. , iss there a moon then on itemen I'll mo in send . Are tre anybjections see on t motion pses thank y. We'reere to yes wre now going mov on to item thirtee yes I doant to ma mention of somethi tough moving forwardfe hav the fl cpa look at anyechnology befo it comesto theounl that would b gatly apeciated becausehe nxt time sometng like th comes and goest esn't come thi I won beble to sportn at. Well it di go to b it di't g to the fu bod so I apprecte tt it did go throu th committee bt if the who comttee can lookt it tank agre think th timingmayave been oddith en tis wen the cmission was establish an so it'd be great for an ne technology t go through t coission fir. Ths wver has been eentily in use fo several years now andso it's it wou still be GOD f them to to evie it. I ree that's th puose of the commison s yeah. And we can d tat. Thnk you so mch. So moving to item thieen. Thank you dirtorfinance matthe hawkswort can we me this prentaon? Than you. Goo eving. Vic mayor and city unci befo the counl tnight is tep one of aprovg the annua schule of tax, fs and charges t state goverentode requires to ho a public eting followed by puic hearing thublic heang is schedul toe nducted on jun 2nd under t old operatingbudg format. He public meetg wld be par of our joi finance comtte city council etin andhene'd host the blic hearing at a regular counci meeting. So since wee ge to the subcoitte structuree just post thiss o of the regular cociltems of cose is the public commen we wouldtaket if there's counl put we would te it but we'll beeeki actual apoval and revie of the fee schedulen jne 2nd. Ank you forhat nd understandthetaff's recoendation is jt t jus erything based cpi an soe'll be reewin that the subancef it on jun 2nd. That'sorrt. Wre alowed bylawas there are rtai taxes that w cant just. Grea any qestions, uncilor lane? Gohead stne quickuestion. I think it' quick. I am I ght the day bore I as he in vid era we reducedsomef the es nd ofcross theoard. That's crect on e general feechede we ich is anher iem that wll ce before the unci in JUNE we did reduc th number of the fees onthe general fee schede a then some tse taes, fees and arge I lieve businessicen taxn rticular the cncilchose noto impose a cpi ireas duing the at lst t first ye of covidnd we'vetarted applying I agn. Coect. We've be applying the c to t schule of tax an fee andcharges since is the general f shedule where t cncilhas a more diretion. Every decisio tha we do a costf svice study we determi wh cost revery woul be and thenheouncil ften sets a e lowerhan at a