Mar 19, 2024 6:00 PM - Redding City Council - Regular Meeting

all right, let's begin our city council. Let's all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. >>I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >>Please stay standing for vacation Pastor David Stein from Bethel Church. >>Good evening, Madam Mayor, distinguished council members, our city leaders as well as our community members, on behalf of the faith as well as business communities, it's really an honor to open this meeting with prayer. I came across a scripture this week that felt appropriate for going into spring here it says Psalm 65, nine through 11. You care for the land and water it you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain for So You have ordained it. You drench its furrows and level its ridges. You soften it with showers and bless its crops. You crown the year with your bounty and your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65, nine through 11. Let's pray. Father, as we gather as one city this evening, we pause to acknowledge your presence with us and your abundant blessing upon us. Thank you, Lord, we come together with hearts with open hearts recognizing the responsibility entrusted to us to support our leaders, our city and our beloved community. We ask that you grant us knowledge and wisdom as we deliberate the matters that affect the welfare of our citizens, guide our city leadership, that they may be filled with divine understanding mixed respect and empathy for one another. Thank you, Lord for all of our civil servants. Thank you for their hard work and their sacrifice. May you continue to bless them and their families. May your generosity give each of them wisdom and discernment to skillfully govern the people of our city. Father, we ask that you give our mayor our city council or city manager, city leaders and city staff wisdom to solve problems. We ask that you would continue to bring order, stability and prosperity to our community. Bless the residents of our city with unity and peace that we may work together for the betterment of this community we all call home. As we begin this meeting, may your guidance and grace be upon us all. It's in your name we pray, Amen. >>We will do a roll call. >>[ ROLL CALL ] >>Okay, now have a presentation from the film Shasta to provide your Annual Report. >>Good evening, everybody, thank you so much for allowing me to come and speak tonight. So, I, we have a video for you that has a collection of 34 productions that filmed last year so we did a little sizzle reel to kind of give you some visuals of things that are filming in our area [ VIDEO PLAYS ] >>Okay, we're gonna try this again. There's always something going on with our presentation memory here. Sorry about that. I don't know what it is. But so just as a reminder of our primary purpose as the film commission is to promote economic development to our community by being the primary contact between the film industry and our, our region. So we're the first point of contact, and we basically work with them from start to finish, while they're considering filming in our area, through to following up with them for getting links for productions as they release and sharing that information. So we, we work with them for very long time, from start to finish, generally. So hopefully, our efforts helped to improve the quality of life for our community. Some of the services that we have with our various contracts, we maintain affiliations with key industry organizations. And so you can see five represented here and basically they are from statewide in California to international organizations. And what they do is make sure that we stay connected, educated and have opportunities to connect with the film industry for our primary points of contact. And that they know that we are a legitimate, credible resource here in our community. We represent an industry events and meetings. And so you can see here some of the events that we attended in 2023. There's a magazine that we distributed to everybody tonight, and that is from the California on location award show. I have the privilege of chairing that event. And it gives us a really great opportunity to build relationships with studios with award winning location managers, many of which we invite up to come on fam tours. Those are familiarization tours, and we have another one scheduled in May that has, we're going to have 10 award winning location managers and we draw that list from our relationships that we're building during that particular show. But we attend other events and meetings and do as much as we can to be present building relationship and hopefully drying them back here to our region to film. The reports that we give quarterly are, you know, we're staying connected with productions after they film to see how many days they were in our area, what types of expenses they they had while they were here. You know how many nights they stayed with lodging properties. And that's important because a lot of our funding comes from lodging fees He's, you know, basically. So we want to make sure that we're reporting back information that is valuable for people and then also doing the grand, you know, how many people were hired, how much money is it actually leaving in our community. We're responsible for all of our collateral that we design and, and put out there and placing publication or placing advertisements in publications. And we'll get a little bit more of that stat on this slide. So we also have an E newsletter, hopefully, everybody received our E newsletter that we sent out yesterday, which had a lot of information, exciting information about projects that are being released theatrically, which is always exciting, even if it's on a small scale, we love when things get into theaters. And then also some local screenings and premieres where we're going to have, you know, different panels and opportunities to hear directly from those that filmed in our area, and a lot of other opportunities. So we're very excited about all of this things as well. This is just to show our current program partners. So we did start as film Shasta, just exclusively record representing Shasta County, that brand is still very strong. We are we represent also Tehama County and Yuba and Sutter counties. And so you can see the breakdown of funding, while majority of benefit is still going to Shasta County and particularly into, you know, drilling down into reading. So one of the nice things about having choose reading as a partner is they help fund a local incentive program. And so it helps to incentivize productions to stay in reading hotels. So we're very grateful for their support and the reading chamber support. So we did highlight these metrics a little bit in the video, but I want to re circle back to them. So last year, we had 54 productions that actually filmed in our area, we responded to 123 new inquiries. We had reported 34 projects that either released or were reported, sometimes productions are slow to let us know when something releases. So we do our best to get that information as soon as they come out. But sometimes, so anyways, 34 for last year, 13 166, room nights, 255 shoot days. And basically the return for our community was around $2.9 million. So we were down slightly last year. While not slightly we were down, we were down a bit last year. A large part of that had to do with the sag strikes, believe it or not, because when you have sag projects, they come in and they're spending a lot more money even if they're not here as long. And so we did have a couple projects that were delayed, but we are anticipating that they will be here this year. So I expect we're gonna have another really good year, this year. I did want to just acknowledge that Fairest well films was recognized as a winner at Cannes Film Festival, probably everybody's aware of this, but just in case, that's a really, really big deal. So we're very excited and proud of them for that. Our goals for this year, obviously, we always want to increase production, we always want to have that local economic impact be rising. So that is continuing to be our our goal every year that will be our goal. We're going to continue to be attending events and advertising where it makes sense to do so. We're always looking to add resources on our websites. So local businesses, locations, local crew and cast. We're always looking to add so and then we have a couple local screenings, as I mentioned in the in our newsletter that went out. But we do have a couple next month. So those are featured here. And yeah, we're always we are still for Shasta County, specifically, we're down still from pre COVID levels of funding. But thankfully, with our partnerships that we have, you know, we haven't seen a significant drop in services that we've been able to provide. So yeah. So that is our presentation for tonight. And I definitely want to still acknowledge my team. So Lorna normally comes and does our quarterly presentations and, and Kate has done those in the past Kate's in LA now, which actually is a great asset. So she does remote work. And then if we have things that we need her present for in LA, we have a built in person down there too. So that's working out really well. I couldn't let her go. So I don't know if anybody has any questions, but I'm happy to answer anything. >>I don't have any questions, Sabrina. But thank you so much for all that you do your passion for film and the community and we all benefit from that and excited to see what happens this next year. Thank you. >>Thank you. okay item to be is the mayor's proclamation declaring March 2024 as Red Cross month in the city of Redding? Evening Okay, hello. All right. Whereas American Red Cross Gold Country region has a long history of helping our neighbors in need by delivering shelter, care and hope during disaster, making our community safer through its life saving home fire campaign, teaching skills that save lives and supporting military veterans and their families and WHEREAS 90% of our volunteers perform our critical work and provide shelter, food, health and mental health services during disasters, and WHEREAS American Red cash teaches preparedness and health and safety services to save lives, and in the city of reading the contributions of local Red Cross volunteers give hope to the most vulnerable in their darkest hours and WHEREAS the work by the city of reading Red Cross volunteers to prevent and alleviate human suffering is vital to strengthening our community's resilience. And this month is dedicated to all those who continue to advance the noble legacy of American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, who lived by her words, you must never think of anything except the need and how to meet it and WHEREAS American Red Gold Country region and local partners continue working to install smoke alarms in underserved communities and provide immediate help to those who experience a home fire and WHEREAS American Red Cross Gold Country region and local partners facilitate services to our armed forces and their families and WHEREAS everyday people in our community depend on the American Red Cross whose life saving mission is powered by the devotion of volunteers Jen generosity of donors and partnership of community organizations. Now therefore, as mayor of the city of Redding, I do hereby proclaim March 2020 For as American Red Cross month in the city of Redding, and urge all citizens to support this organization and its noble humanitarian mission in Redding. Thank you. For you, thank you so much. [ APPLAUSE ] >>All right, 2c where your mayor's proclamation declaring March 2024 Also the adverse childhood experiences, experiences, resilience and hope Awareness Month in the city of Redding. Presented to strengthening families Collaborative for our northern region center first five Shasta pathways to Hope for Children northern Valley Catholic social services once a play Shasta County Office of Education, Shasta County Probation, Chester County Health and Human Services public health, Chester County Health and Human Services behavioral health and social services jazz Headstart and youth option Shasta. I'm going to be so good at reading. Hi. Okay, let's hear how great you are a proclamation of the Mayor of the City of Redding California proclaiming March 2024 as adverse childhood experiences aces resilience and hope Awareness Month whereas aces and trauma have been identified as one of the major public health issues in California and the United States in the research confirms with scientific evidence that trauma during development increases the risk of physical, mental and behavioral problems later in life; and WHEREAS, Shasta County, including the city of Redding has a higher level of aces in the statewide average and adverse childhood experiences including experiences and children prior to the age of 18 years of physical and emotional neglect physical, and sexual abuse and household dysfunction, including an incarcerated relative substance use divorce, domestic violence and mental illness the Strengthening Families collaborative, foreign northern regional center first five Shasta pathways to Hope for Children northern Valley Catholic social services once a play Shasta County Office of Education, Shasta County Probation, Chester County Health and Human Services, public health Shasta County Health and Human Services behavioral health and social services Shasta Headstart, youth OSH option Shasta, so many people that love our kids, was established in 2012 with the mission of strengthening families to overcome adversity by building hope and resilience. And whereas the Strengthening Families collaborative meets monthly to support and promote resilience and hope in the city of Redding, and Shasta County, and now therefore, as mayor of the city of Redding, I do by here proclaim March 2020, for as aces resilience and hope Awareness Month in the city of Redding strongly supports the efforts of strengthening families collaborative to build a healthy community of strong and resilient families and increase public awareness. Thank you so much for what you do. >>Thank you very much. [ APPLAUSE ] >>Oh, that's a good ideas. I even wore tall shoes, I have to say, because I've been here before, thank you all very much for recognizing this month. I, sometimes I I worry about how our community is developing in terms of families and children. And you've heard me up here before we talk about the youth in our community. COVID took quite a beating for our youth, and I have with me, Mike Freeman here, who's going to be the new superintendent of Chester County Schools. And he knows in particular, how difficult times are for our kids. When times are tough for our kids, they're tough for their parents. And one of the things that we are all about is strengthening families. So that's the name of our organization. And of course, I could say the 11 names of the organizations that belong to that organization again, but I'll pass. And so we have really focused on adverse childhood experiences. And not just those experiences, but the community and what the community likes, what the community can do, what the community is making efforts for, towards building those strong families. And towards as a result, building families that work with those kids. So thank you for thinking about this. We really do appreciate it. And you'll see us again. Thank you. >>Thank you. >>Thank you, Mike. [ APPLAUSE ] >>Public comment. Pursuan to the Brown Act, city council cannot take action on public comment items the City Council will allocate up to a maximum of three minutes per speaker for 30 minutes total at the beginning of the meeting for public comment for non agenda is managed within the city's jurisdiction. The mayor will determine the order of speakers if 30 minutes is not adequate to accommodate all the individuals who have submitted a speaker request form to the city clerk. The council will trail this item to the end of the open session agenda. The remaining speakers will address the city council at that time. Do we have any public comment? Well, okay. We will move to the consent calendar. The consent calendar contains items considered routine and are 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 and submitted to the city clerk before the consent calendar is considered. It shall be the prerogative of any council member before the consent can calendar is acted upon to comment on an item respond to any public comment on an item request the record reflect an abstention or a vote on an item or remove an item and place it on the regular portion of the agenda for delivery of a staff report and our extended discussion or deliberation. Does anybody wish to make a motion? >>I'd be happy to make a motion to approve the Consent Calendar. >>Second. >>We'll take a vote all those in favor? >>Aye. >>Any opposed? None. Okay. We will move to item 9.2. E. Consider the homeless housing assistance and prevention program around five joint application action plan and memorandum of understanding. >>Thank you, Honorable Mayor, Members of the Council all take this item at least in the beginning and if there's lots of detailed questions I may have to phone a friend. So this item as you noted is relative to the homeless housing assistance and prevention program, otherwise known as h Hap. This is the fifth round of a tap funding and This is the first round that the city is operating as an administrative entity to the continuum of care, which I will refer to as the COC moving forward. A Chat five is actually a bit different than the other rounds that preceded it, in that there was legislation that was produced that requires a more regional approach. And so, as the council knows, the COC that operates in the city of Redding's jurisdiction is the NorCal COC which consists of seven counties around us, Shasta and north, so del Norte to the east and wraps around to CRS. So there are seven total counties that operate collectively as the NorCal COC. We as of last September operate as the administrative entity to the COC, which means that we work on behalf on behalf of the COC on all things fiscal and administrative. So we run their meetings, we are in charge of the funding streams, we issue contracts, and we monitor and follow up on those contracts to ensure that all of the applicants are doing what they're supposed to do in accordance with those agreements and with in accordance with the grants that we are tracking. Under that H AP five regional approach, there was a requirement to have two things signed by all of the entities. One is a MOU, and the other is agreeing to a regional action plan. Interestingly, no cities within that geographic area have to actually sign on to the MOU or the plan only the counties and the COC. So those are the only entities that actually sign on to the MOU, and agree and approve the plan. We've attached the plan for you. And you had obviously an opportunity to review that and we can answer any questions you like. And also attached to your staff report was the memorandum of understanding, which sets forth some requirements for each of the entities for instance, counties has specific entities, and then COC are sorry, regulations they have to follow COC has elements that they have to follow. And then we as the administrative entity, have to agree that we're going to manage these programs in a prudent manner. So what's before you today is actually just authorizing staff to submit this regional plan. It is not your plan, you're not approving the plan, simply submitted on behalf of the COC who has already approved the plan. Anecdotally this morning, both Siskiyou County and Lassen County also approve that plan. And we expect the other counties with the exception of perhaps Shasta to approve that plan early in April. So the other element is that you actually authorize me to sign the MOU as the administrative entity which just ensures that we agree to administer the program, as expected by the state of California. So the items that are before you tonight really are just to authorize staff to submit this plan, which has been worked on by the regional entities, the COC and the counties and to authorize me to sign the MOU. And submit that in addition to that, you'd make findings associated with the various environmental requirements from both a NEPA, which is the federal form of environmental clearance, and Sequa, which is the state of California's form of environmental clearance. The total funding amount associated with this grant is over $7 million in its entirety, the amount of that money that would be administered by the city of Redding is 3.8 6 million plus. So that is what the item is before you tonight. And as I noted, if you have some detailed questions that I can't answer, we do have some folks in the audience that can help fill out that detail. So with that, I'll conclude my comments and see if there's any questions from the council. >>Does anybody have any comments? No? Do we have public comment? Wow, this is gonna be a fast night. Okay, we will take a vote then. All those in favor. Oh, somebody has to make a motion. Boy. I got a little too excited. I take it back. Would anybody like to make a motion? >>I'd be happy to make a motion. I thank you, city manager for clarifying. Clarifying this. We are acting as my understanding from your comments that we were acting as the entity. That's the admin entity. We're not necessarily approving this particular plan for city of Redding and whether or not city of Redding determines to go after this funding after this is approved. We'll that will come back To this council, is that correct? >>That is absolutely correct. So, after the COC begins to administer and we actually issue what's called a NOFA, or a Notice of Funding Availability, the city will then determine whether or not it wants to apply for those funds at that time. >>All right, thank you. In light of that, I'd be happy to make a motion to approve 9.2 e staff recommendations with the with the four proposed actions. I'll second. >>All right, so we'll vote. All those in favor? >>Aye >>Opposed?We'll move on to 9.5 E. Consider reading electric utilities quarterly financial report and industry activities update. >>I'm just to introduce himself but assistant director Joe Bowers. >>Assistant director Joe Bowers, Assistant Director of the Resources Division. So Good evening, Madam Mayor Council. It's my privilege to report our second quarter financial report. So that's the six months ending December 31 of 2023. Just share some highlights here. For the first six months, we saw increased retail sales above budget due to increased demand. So about 2% above budget. We did see increased wholesale activity due to portfolio management and real time optimization. We did see increased power supply costs, but part of that was due to the increase in wholesale sales. But net total revenues and total revenue be less the increased power supply costs were about $1 million better than planned. overall expenditures for Oh nm, were about 14%. Below budget, I do want to point out that the second bullet there, some of the savings are just delayed expenditures that will pay in the future. So not all of it will be realized. And then cash reserves are at 107 days of cash on hand, which is in within the council's reserve policy. I want to share this this is from or at least a projection is from the biennial budget that was presented to council. Last summer, we plan on hitting about $31 million of cash or unrestricted cash at the end of this year. It looks like that we're going to come in actually above that, which is good news. Part of that is increased power sorry, the beat on power supply and savings on Oh Nm. I will say that the largest contributor to the decrease in unrestricted cash is inventory, an increase in inventory related to our capital plan, and restrictions related to inventory. On order, we have about $10 million of inventory that's on order. Just brief legislative update. So the state legislature is primarily focused on the budget shortfall. We're pretty interested in this. Because historically, when the state has budget shortfalls, they start to find creative ways to pay for the programs that they want to run. And sometimes that ends up having utilities pay for these programs. So we're watching that kind of in line with the state regulations, they're looking at the cap and trade regulations. As time goes on, they really reduced the number of allocated allowances to utilities or other emissions generators, like a steel mill or something like that. And over time, they reduce those, which naturally pushes up the price. And that is a set of capping overtime, the price goes up, they're looking at perhaps reducing that going forward, which would increase the cost of those also reduce the amount that they plan on allocating to us in the future, which would force us to actually go by allowances, which is in effect, just an emissions tax. They like that because that tax then pays for some of the state programs like high speed rail, federal, both parties we have here primarily focused on the presidential election, not related to federal legislation, but just federal operations we are participating actively in the Bureau of Reclamation is review of the long term operations of the Central Valley Project. As everyone's aware, they're removing dams on the Klamath, which reduces the amount of water and sometimes during parts of the year that flows down the Klamath and so there may be interested in holding back more water in the Trinity and then having it go down and ending up in the Klamath to help with those with the fish, which means less water would be diverted to go through car Spring Creek ultimately through Keswick, which reduces hydropower generation, which then we would have to go buy replacement power for. So that's a pretty big cost exposure for us. Just looking Forward, I've showed shared this before, there's kind of a lot going on. The blue shaded part is kind of an average water year for the last 30 years. And you can see the current, this kind of called out there, that blue line of 38.7 inches for the water year. And it says 94% of average for the state, which doesn't sound great. But when I get to the next slide, you'll see that you got Shasta at 113% of historic average, you got Folsom at 115 pneumonias at 136. Trinity at 107. So we entered the water year with the reservoirs fairly full. So even with an average water year, it was like we were starting on third and the hydro years looking really great. You can see that that actually provides like a cooling effect on almost all energy products, whether it's market purchases that we wanted to make, and we didn't want to run the power plant, or if we had to buy natural gas to run the power plant. It just provides that cooling effect. You can see, I don't know if this is gonna work here. But you see those two big spikes in the middle where actually power prices stayed above that trendline for a while, was during last fiscal year, when we had a drought, we had to go buy replacement power replacement gas. And honestly, if you guys recall, but last year, we actually spent $12 million on purchasing replacement power because of the drought and not having that hydro. And we were saved, you know, because of the cdpa settlement proceeds where we didn't have to do a temporary surcharge or something like that for the drought like many utilities, did. You yeah, those are the this is the this is the period of time I'm talking about. And then we entered into this year. And you can see that it's kind of coming down. Where before for, you know, a good year, it was way up here. And it doesn't seem like a lot. But you know, a 50 up to an 80 That's $30 a megawatt hour, that's three cents a kilowatt hour when our rates are 15 cents. That's like 20% of our power prices. So it's a pretty big impact on our utility. I've shared this before aging infrastructure, we do have a pretty aggressive capital plan where we've doubled our capital investment plan for the next five years compared to previous five years. And just sharing with you that the products for distribution utilities remain really elevated. And again, I think I mentioned that we have about $10 million of inventory on order. This was the financial plan that we presented last year, the 2024 through 2028, the 2024 and 2025 rate increases were approved, we did plan to I'll say utilize or burn or draw down our reserves by about $20 million this fiscal year and end the day or in the year with about 80 days of cash on hand. But it is looking better. You know right now we're at 107. We do have some pretty good tailwinds with with power supply, that we might end up closer to 100. The good news with that is what it might mean is that we have a lower debt issuance in 2025. Because if you recall, the idea was to draw down reserves as we heavily invest in capital and then reimburse ourselves in 2025. For that, to bring our reserves back up here through the period of time and staying within the council's reserve policy of 75 to about 180 days of cash on hand. So we are going through an update of this five year plan every year we update our load forecast, we are seeing and I've been here. Now eight years and every single year, our load has declined unless it was a really hot year, a brief period during COVID. And I'm starting to wonder if we've hit bottom because what we did see is despite like a normal weather year, we did see about 2% increase in demand for power. So that's being incorporated into our load forecast. As I talked about with base resource, our run of the river base resource contract is doing well with hydro, and that has a cooling effect on all for workers for power, our capital plan implementation, we've started to do that we actually have contract crews on our system, we've seen the pace of that we've seen what the materials are, is providing better visibility on the cost and the priorities. We're now under contract with all of our labor groups, which is providing better estimates on our future personnel costs. And we have a bit of now launch point for our cash reserves. So we're making all of this into an update to our five year plan that when we present our third quarter report in May that we'll be able to provide that to which will give you a better idea of when we plan to actually issue debt, how much that might be if our rate forecast needs to be modified and things like that. So tonight, the recommendation is to accept our quarterly financial report and industry activities update. And then any questions? >>Does anybody have any questions or comments? >>I don't have a question. Mr. Bauer, thank you. That was a great presentation. I want to thank you and your staff for just diligently looking at every source of revenue. I think it's wonderful that our revenues gonna be a little bit higher, and we won't have to issue as much debt that's going to be good for us long term. So I just appreciate the diligence and caring for what we want our most important assets that we have in the city. Thank you. >>I had a question. What do you think is contributing to the increase in load? >>The car washes, >>The car washes? It's actually said that all the chargers on hilltop? >>No chargers? Definitely. What we saw last summer, is that the Chargers saved down by the sundial bridge there, there's a heavy utilization of those. And I'm kind of excited to see as we enter into the tourism season, this coming this summer. Yeah, we know what happens on hilltop with all those Tesla chargers and things like that. But it's it's the load growth is kind of organic across all customer classes, it's not in a specific spot. Residential is using a little more so it's commercial. So we've had some new homes come, we've had some new businesses, you know, being some investment in our in our area and infill. So I don't have I can't point to a specific one. But chargers are definitely we saw that last year pickup, okay. And I do want to share it because councilmember winter, you mentioned about looking for all sources of revenue. So I'm just going to share something that we don't typically share. But it's, they're pretty humble people, and they're not going to tell you about it. But we had planned to run our power plant in December in January and burn natural gas. And the folks down at the power plant who actively manage our portfolio and actively trade entered into agreement because we're going to be running at only running one of our units, we entered into an agreement to purchase additional natural gas to run two on one and then sell that excess power to a Counterparty. And by running two on one, you actually are more efficient. And in doing so. And we're actually able to run two on one more efficiently you get dispatched up and down in the markets. And we made the forward sale for the power simultaneously. So it wasn't speculating. And it kicked off about a million dollars. And that dollars goes back into our reserves and then keeps rate down. And that happens all the time by those people. So >>Well done. >>Thank you. I have another question. I think it'd be interesting to know where you're seeing those cost pressures. For in the supply chain. I know there was an item we approved on the consent calendar for doing refurbished transformers, which isn't something typically are you? Does, we usually buy new Transformers so and I just I appreciate that your staff is looking at every option, just like we're buying refurbished, solid waste trucks. Now we're buying refurbished transformers. So just if you could just share where are some of those cost pressures hitting us where we didn't anticipate for equipment. >>So, specifically for equipment like line equipment, I think we've brought to council where in our plan, we had assumed that say, a line truck that cost $240,000. And, and we plan to replace that in 10 years. And we assumed like a 4% escalation that the price of that would go up every year. So when we went to go purchase it, we expected to spend about $300,000. And maybe we get it in six to 12 months. So when we go to order it, it's nearly half a million dollars. And so it's in the line equipment, it's in the Transformers is the typical transformer that you'd buy to serve four or five houses. You know, that was $4,000. And you could it was readily available. And now it's $20,000. And we're ordering Korea. So it's kind of just everywhere. >>Thank you. Thank you for looking for every opportunity to save a penny. >>Thank you. >>I had one question, sir. This is a practical question. I don't have a Tesla. But if I did, and I went to go charge it at Turtle Bay and one of the charges was broken. Who would I call? And what's the process to get that fixed? Because I as I recall it one time one was broken? >>Do you know or if you just made the phone call? No, we're very aware of that. It's been something that we're struggling with? >>Does the city have a responsibility to fix it? Or do you have to call an outside contractor? >>Right, so we own it and then we pay for a service agreement. There's somebody that came out to fix it. And then when they came out to fix it, they found out the other one that was paired with it was actually broken. Nobody knew that it took several months to get them out here. It turned into a public works project I believe so it's just take it's one thing after another with that. We do know that the state is very interested in charger uptime. You know, when you go to a gas station, you expect it to work. So there's certainly here certain here legislation about cities have to get them on or not cities, but those who own chargers have to have them on, you know as percentage of an uptime or an uptime percentage. And so that will help us I guess, have the hammer to do things faster. >>So it's a work in progress. >>Yeah, yeah. And I apologize. Did you do you have a Tesla? >>No, I do not. Maybe other people in the room do but I don't. I don't have an extension cord long enough for where I drive. >>We're very aware of it and we're not happy about it. >>All right. Do we have a motion? >>I'll be happy to make a motion to approve staff recommendation. >>I will second. >>Right. All in favor? >>Aye Any opposed? Thank you. We will move to item 11. Council travel. Anybody been traveling? Okay, we'll move to item 12. Any suggestions from council members related to potential topics for future city council meetings? Anybody? No. Okay. Well, with that we are adjourned.