MINUTES
CITY OF DELANO
CITY COUNCIL – REGULAR MEETING
September 2, 2025
CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Morris called the meeting to order at 5:15 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers, 1015 – 11th Avenue.
INVOCATION
Pastor David Vivas offered the invocation.
FLAG SALUTE
Council Member Solorio-Ruiz led the flag salute.
ROLL CALL
Council members present: Liz Morris, Mario Nunez, Joe Alindajao (arrived at 5:51 pm), Bryan Osorio, Salvador Solorio-Ruiz (departed at 6:50 pm)
Council members absent: None
OFFICIALS PRESENT
City Manager Reyna, City Clerk Chavez, Assistant City Attorney King, Finance Director Lara Rios, Commander Bautista, Human Resources Director Zamudio, Interim Community Development Director Dowling (via teleconference), Public Works Director Nunez, City Engineer Rodriguez, Transit Manager Alapisco, Recreation Manager Batth-Chavez, Economic Development Specialist Fernandez, Economic Development Specialist Flores and IT Manager Enriquez
PRESENTATIONS AND AWARDS
• Presentation of Kern Council of Governments (Jay Schlosser, Executive Director) • Mayor Morris presented a Proclamation for a Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Delano Grape Strike to Arleen (Filipino American National Historical Society/Delano)
ITEMS FROM THE PUBLIC
1. Roberto Ibarra – “Hello, good evening. My name is Roberto Ibarra, Delano resident. I'm just come to my mind came a few years ago that somebody came in here and said that the city had projects about new developments and so far I haven't seen anything. The bridge on the, what is on the garces? I guess it was going to be whitened. Nobody has touched it and things that they were talking about, railroads and stuff like that. Nothing has happened. So was I came to say, I came to ask you. Well, I come to ask you what's the status? Are we just going to be throwing asphalt on, tar on the asphalts just to keep us quiet down? I mean you guys, I'm asking the new generation who wants to be somebody? One of you wanted to be for the assembly, I believe. And the other one wants to be a supervisor, board of supervisor. And if you have nothing to back you up, who's going to, where are you going to get your votes? Come on. You need to act up.
Otherwise, you're going to come up and go like nothing. So I suggest you please get on the ball and have something to back you up. I have a question on the things that I have seen on the city, is littered with trash is the containers that is used for, I'm going to say the Starbucks, the drinks that they do, they drink, once they're done, they toss 'em out, whatever. And one day in less than one day, I fill up a can of those things. Vase I they called ‘vasos.’ I filled and I took him to the recycle center. I said, I help you recycle this. No, that's trash. You could just dump it on the dumper dumpster right there. And I did a whole can. I guess I did a city a favor. The other thing is when are we going to get the railroad tracks commuter train from Delano to Bakersfield or to Fresno.
Nothing is moving. Okay. So that's another thing. The gentleman that came in forward says something that about Delano growing up 30 to 40 years. I heard that. Five years, 10 years ago and I still haven't seen anything. Okay, so…”
2. Eva Madrigal – “Good afternoon. My name is Eva. My address is 420 20th Avenue, Apartment 11 here in Delano. I am here because I'm having some issues with some tickets from the city. I would like for you guys to help me because I know in some way I have some fault. Since I don't have my permit to sell yet. But only, but I only want you guys to know that I'm doing my job. I'm not stealing anything or selling drugs or anything like that, I'm only working. I'm Stressed out really anguished for what's happening. I received two tickets. Today. I have one pending in court.
I had a court hearing yesterday, but since there was a holiday there was no hearing. So I don't know if there's a way for you guys to help me. I really ask you. I don't think it's right that every 15 days or so they're giving me a ticket. And I'm sure that I have to keep working. I don't like, depending on anyone, not the Government or anyone else. I like doing my job to keep moving forward. I hope you guys can help me and I'll thank you a lot. Thank you so much.”
3. Gloria Herrera – “Good evening. Gloria Herrera, 51 9th Avenue. I'm here to thank City for fixing the streets on the west side, but I have a little problem. They fixed the street, ninth Street from Ellington or Clinton. And that looks fine because that part, they did it before they did from Clinton towards Albany, the 9th Street and that street, they did it. The last work that they did, it was August 20th, but I think they did what they call it, I think repaving. And it's already been 13 days. And I think that in mix the materials the right way because it still loose. When you drive, you can see that the marks, the tire marks stayed on and you back up, especially around where I live, if you back up, I have to back up in my driveway. And when you turn your tires, that stuff still goes all over the tires and it's loose. It's mushy and it's all over the streets so you can see. So I think they need to go and check what they need to do because it's messy.”
CONSENT AGENDA
1) Authorization to waive the reading of any ordinance in its entirety and consenting to the reading of such ordinances by title only
2) Warrant Register in the amount of $3,770,029.34
3) Minutes of regular Council meeting of August 18, 2025 4) Minutes of regular Pension Committee meeting of May 13, 2025 5) Adopt resolution extending the Police Officer Hiring Bonus Program, through fiscal year 2025-26 (Resolution No. 2025-67)
6) Adopt resolution extending the Public Safety & Communications Dispatcher I Hiring Bonus Program (Resolution No. 2025-68)
7) Adopt a Resolution Revising the Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy for the City of Delano (Resolution No. 2025-69)
8) Acceptance of the 2024 Various Streets Slurry Seal Project and authorizing the filing of the Notice of Completion
9) Approval of Agreement with Cornerstone Engineering, Inc. for Civil Engineering Services for the Flood Study at the City’s Voice of America property for $119,200.00 and authorization for the City Manager or her designee to execute the same and any other documents needed to carry this project to completion (Agreement No. 2025-69) 10) Approval of purchase of one (1) new 2025 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, from Hedrick’s Chevrolet in the amount of $51,857.51 and authorizing the City Manager, or her designee, to execute all required documents (Agreement No. 2025-70)
11) Award of contract for the replacement of a new Bauer CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) compressor unit, including an upgraded priority fill panel, new storage vessels, and the removal and proper disposal of the existing obsolete CNG compressor to Renewable Fuels, Inc. of Paso Robles, CA in the amount of $562,882.40 (Agreement No. 2025-71) 12) Approval of Agreement with Veronica Tam & Associates for the preparation of the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 2026-2030 Consolidated Plan and 2026 Annual Action Plan (Agreement No. 2025-72)
13) Approve revised apportionment from the California State of Good Repair and authorize the city manager to execute any action necessary for obtaining financial assistance.
Motion was made by: Nunez to approved items 1, 3–11 ,13 on consent items; 2nd by: Solorio-Ruiz
Vote: 5-0
Ayes: Morris/Nunez/Alindajao/Osorio/Solorio-Ruiz
Nays: None
Absent: None
Abstentions: None
Item No. 2 pulled by: Roberto Ibarra
Reason for pulling item: “Hello? I don't have to say my name again. I just want to know why that money, where is it going, how it's going to be used on number 12, please? No, excuse me. Number two. Number two. I don't have to jump to number 12 yet, do I? Okay. Number two. I'd like to see that that money, it's where is it? 3 million or where?”
Staff report provided by City Manager Reyna.
Motion was made by: Solorio-Ruiz to approved item 2 on consent items; 2nd by: Nunez
Vote: 5-0
Ayes: Morris/Nunez/Alindajao/Osorio /Solorio-Ruiz
Nays: None
Absent: None
Abstentions: None
Item No. 12 pulled by: Roberto Ibarra
Reason for pulling item: “I just want to know information because any new housing that is coming up, I don't know if it's for what, under income, if it's just low income or what it's for.” Mayor Morris – ”Well, that isn't what's on the item. It's approval of agreement with Veronica Tam and Associates for the preparation of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, which is HUD a consolidated plan and the 2 20 26 annual action plan. So do you have any question on that? Particular…” Roberto Ibarra – “Is it going to be for low income, like I said, low income or to get people out of the less people getting kicked out of their houses so they can be able to afford their own low income house leaving.” City Manager Reyna – “Honorable Mayor, although it is HUD and HUD does down for Urban Housing and Urban Development, this is not necessarily for that. This is entitlement CDBG funding that the city receives annually. The consolidated plan is a five-year plan that tells HUD how we're going to spend as the city, the funds that are HUD funds. So it doesn't have anything to do with housing per se, it's just from the Housing and Urban development. The city is to have a public participation meeting where we do take the feedback from residents as to where they would like to see those funds go to. But there are only certain eligible things that are eligible to be funded.”
Motion was made by: Solorio-Ruiz to approved item 12 on consent items; 2nd by: Nunez
Vote: 5-0
Ayes: Morris/Nunez/Alindajao/Osorio /Solorio-Ruiz
Nays: None
Absent: None
Abstentions: None
PUBLIC HEARING
14) Approval of the City’s 2024-2025 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (Resolution No. 2025-70)
Mayor Morris opened the public hearing.
Staff report provide by Economic Development Specialist Flores.
Mayor Morris opened public comment.
No public comment.
City Manger Reyna – “Honorable. I will just mention again, for the benefit of the public, this is what is the after, as counsel just approved the consolidated plan, this CAPER is a report on that plan. So you guys are approving in the last item, the one that Mr. Ibarra brought up. That's the CAPER that's going to be the consolidated plan that's going to be done for the next five years. This CAPER is reporting on what has been done in the last year.”
Mayor Morris closed public comment.
Council Member Osorio – “I have none. I have no questions. But just for the public to know that this funding went towards the domestic violence shelter, the gymnasium on 11th Avenue towards infrastructure and public facilities and just to the overall administration of this grant. And so thank you for the report and thank you for the city for executing this.” Motion was made by: Solorio-Ruiz for approval;
2nd by: Nunez
Vote: 5-0
Ayes: Morris/Nunez/Alindajao/Osorio /Solorio-Ruiz
Nays: None
Absent: None
Abstentions: None
15) Resolution of Initiation of Annexation and Pre-Zoning Ordinance related to Pre-Zoning Application No. 25-0001: A request to (i) pre-zone an approximately one-acre parcel (APN 521-040-37) from the Kern County Highway Commercial (CH) zoning district to the City of Delano Industrial (I) zoning district, and (ii) pre-zone an approximately eight-acre parcel (APN 521-120-09) from the Kern County Exclusive Agriculture (A) zoning district to the City of Delano Industrial (I) zoning district. Staff has determined the project to be exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) pursuant to Section 15183 of the CEQA Guidelines (Projects Consistent with a Community Plan, General Plan, or Zoning) Staff recommends this item be continued to September 15, 2025, in order to address advertising requirements
Matter was continued to September 15, 2025.
REGULAR AGENDA
16) Discussion on Department of Environmental Health concerns regarding the Senior Program at the Jefferson Center
Recreation Manager Batth-Chavez – “Good evening, honorable mayor and members of the city council.
Please bear with me. I'm going to provide some historical context. I wanted to have a report to address some of the issues that have been brought up by the seniors these past few months. So just starting from the beginning. Prior to 2013, the City of Delano had two senior centers. We had one at the Ellington Center and one at Jefferson. Now, at that time, the one at Jefferson, we actually had staff on site. We had, it was a full commercial kitchen. So all the meals were prepared on site and distributed to not only the seniors at the Jefferson Center also delivered to Ellington and also the homes. It was fully staffed. We had a part-time delivery driver. We had Leo Cuevas who was the senior center supervisor and a registered nutrition. So he was the one that made the menus, did all the ordering. Unfortunately, in 2013, the Jefferson Center burnt down. So, at that time, all the seniors, thankfully there was space were located, relocated to the Ellington Center, the ones that were attending the Jefferson and there was space. Since there was no kitchen, the county of Kern were the ones started to provide the meals. We went ahead and contracted with them. The money comes through them. We were the ones as a city taking on that responsibility. Now we don't have a kitchen. So the lunch service was provided. So then during the reconstruction, it took a few years. During that time, the director of Aging adult services told me, we cannot service two senior centers. To us it's irrelevant. If you want senior center at Ellington or Jefferson, just pick, but we cannot service two, only one. Then I got with the City Manager and I said, let's let the seniors choose which senior center, which, where do they want to be located? Thanks to Transit, Viviana, we had a bus, bus over all the seniors so they can have a tour of the Jefferson Center. And then we asked them to vote. Well, you can guess which center they wanted. Obviously they chose the Jefferson Center.
So then they moved over and unfortunately they were probably there a few years. And then COVID hit. So in 2020 we were faced with COVID. Everything shut down. The only thing that was provided, the county was still providing meals, but they were to grab and go outside. The center wasn't open for any lunch service activities and they stayed closed for maybe about two years. And mind you, we were asking the county, when can we open? The seniors want to go inside and they're saying, we haven't heard from the State of California only because the seniors are such a vulnerable population. They didn't want to take the risk of anybody getting sick. Then at that time, during that time, I talked to the City Manager and we're like, okay, we understand the isolation is a huge thing for seniors. So then my staff and I, Rosa Lugo is actually the assigned supervisor for the Jefferson Center. We provided some activities outdoors such as outdoor fitness classes to have them get moving. We also did some pumpkin painting outside just to provide something for them. We were not able to go into the building. Then slowly as we got the notice to reopen, they started phasing us in, okay, hey, you guys can go in once a week. Okay, then two times and then open completely, which we did during this time from the burning of the building to now, there was a staff member that actually is no longer the city, oversaw the senior centers, senior center. As I said, there was a full-blown department. Everything was there. So then I went to the City Manager and said, you know what? I already dealt, have the seniors there. I can oversee the department, we can take over, we can look at the activities. We voluntarily said, ‘Hey, let's look at how do we bring activities for the seniors.’ So prior to COVID, the only activity that was really being held was bingo. And the seniors were doing it themselves. It wasn't staff. They were actually playing bingo for money. During this time, we realized I, well, it's not allowable. You need to kind of go through the gambling commission and you also need a permit from the city of Delano Muni code chapter six. Bingo and any license for any type of game of chance has to have a permit and only can be designated to certain organizations such as nonprofits, senior centers, but they have to be a nonprofit 501(C)(3). We do not have an organization such as that. So then we decided, okay, well what are we going to do? So, then Rosa and I brainstormed and said, you know what, let's ask our Zumba instructor, why don't we offer Zumba gold? Get the seniors moving.
Okay. So we put that on the calendar for twice a week and then Rosa's like, ‘Hey, I know they're dancing somewhere. Gentlemen, don't want to dance. Maybe I can talk to Katia. We can do strength training.’ Perfect. Brought the chairs. Let's do the strength training. So that way there was three fitness classes.
Okay, two days to go. Then we're like, ‘Hey, we'll bring out games, puzzles’. Then one of the seniors, Henrietta, she's like, ‘I'll host Arts and Craft.’ Perfect. Let us know what you need. We supply all the supplies for Arts and Craft. Then they're like, ‘Hey, we want to do line dancing.’ Perfect senior led line dancing. On top of that, we offered a senior prom over the years, Christmas dinners and dances and Valentine's dinner and dances. So I just wanted to kind of go through the contractual, the historical context of where we are today. And I also wanted to pull up, I know there's been questions about some donations and funding and if you can pull that up please so I can go over it. So, if you look at this budget, you will see that the actual allocated budget in the City of Delano budget for the seniors is $2,000. That is it. The majority of every other expense actually comes from the recreation department. And like I stated, it was something that we stepped up voluntarily. Me and my staff, we wanted to provide programs for seniors for health, not isolation. Getting them moving, getting them going. The nutrition program, thankfully is not in the budget because the grant funding actually comes from the county and that's contracted out to the elementary school district. So $2,000. I know there have been questions about donations from wonderful. Now this annual budget is for the last 12 months, we received two checks, one for $700 from Wonderful Giving, and another $200 in the last 12 months. So, $900 in donations. And then I will go over the expenses. If you look at the monthly potluck allowance, City Manager a few years ago, kindly, kindly stated there was complaints about the food being bad before we went to the district. So she says, Hey, you guys are having your potluck. The city can maybe provide $75. So we allowed that Potluck supplies, we also provide, provided plates, silverware, anything they needed for the potluck, the city provided in addition to the coffee time supplies, coffee creamer, sugar, cups, et cetera, stirs once again, we purchase. Now at times we get coffee donations. Thank you Council Member Nunez and some other Coffee donations, but aside from the donations, those are the expenses. Also, bingo supply. So the question of Bingo came up of how do we handle bingo. So we did research, other senior centers had a gambit, some did penny bingo, some did grocery Bingo. There wasn't really money bingo unless it was like I stated, licensed and permitted. So this was after COVID and there was a toiletry hygiene drive that was spearheaded by Council Member Osorio. So we had a lot of shampoo and laundry soap and items, and I said, you know what? I would want a big thing of laundry soap. So those are the prize. We say our staff will handle the bingo and we'll go ahead and have prize bingo. So we'll do it once a week and then we'll have prizes. Once that ran out, then we started to either purchase prizes or ask for donations.
Activity supplies, like I’d mentioned, arts and crafts, oh gosh, cornhole, anything. They really required.
Darts, we supplied. And then if you look down the fitness classes, Zumba Gold and strength training also.
That's the cost for instructor to provide three classes a week. Horseshoe Pits, Council Member Alindajao, those are the horseshoe pits. That was the cost. Last but not least, staff time. If you look at the staff time, it's about $43,000 once again from recreation staff that my staff that we take from recreation to make sure that the senior center is open from nine to one Monday through Friday. And sometimes we even have to have two staff members. So that being said, and I do want to note that the seniors don't pay for anything. Everything is provided by the city. We don't ask them for anything. We don't ask for a donation.
Everything that came out of the activities came from recreation. There was no mandate from council, no mandate from City Manager. It's something we took on because we knew it's important, right? There are citizens, they're seniors. So I wanted to state that. So the issues, two changes have been made in the past few weeks past, and the seniors are not happy about it. One of the changes, they would have a monthly potluck, and at that time that was to celebrate birthdays and to bring food and have cake. Well, it was getting to the point that food wasn't being brought in just for potlucks. It was almost like a daily potluck or Hey, it's my birthday, can I bring this dish? So we're like, yeah, it's getting out of hand. Even a senior hat my staff had to throw away, there was some ‘pan de sal’ ham and cheese sandwiches that had mold on them. And so my staff was like, oh, throwing them away. So then I was like, okay, is there any regulation? Let me check. The older Americans Act, right where the funding comes from, the county. Is there anything here that says they're getting a lunch? They're getting a meal. It's not like we're not providing them coffee, meal and activities. So I started doing a little research. I actually consulted legal and also the health department and I was told, no, do not. I highly recommend that the city does not support bring any outside food that is not from a regulated facility because you are going to open yourself up to liability if a senior gets sick. Right? Or had they have allergies, God forbid, California Health Code 114021 is what he quoted. I have all the notes. I said, okay. And I said, what about can they have it inside? What about my staff said, Nope, you don't even know anything about it. Oh, okay. Plates, forks, Nope, nope, nothing. Well funding, nope. Remove yourself completely. If you want to be not held liable for anything that happens. If you cannot trace that food back to a regulated facility, do not allow it.
I also checked with the district checked with the food services director. Yep, same thing. So when the switch happened, sometimes the seniors were using the fridge at the senior center. They were saying, sorry, no co-mingling, you cannot put anything in there. This is for us, for the district. Also, they prevented anything during lunch service. No other food can be served or consumed. So those changes, so when we met with the seniors, we explained, okay, well how do we do this? You can have a potluck.
Unfortunately, it has to be outdoors. We as a city can't have it indoors. They were upset. Second, this other change was I explained, I know we provided Bingo four times a month. Unfortunately, we have to cut back to once a month. And the reason being is that I am short two part-time staff members. And the council mandate was, ‘Hey, you got to focus on competitive sports.’ And we're doing that. We have 300 kids in baseball. So all of our staff, I mean before where you may have one or two, we have two fields we're using. So staff time priority was there. So the seniors are still getting all their activities just bingo down from four to one and the outside food, those were the two changes. Arts and Craft is still going. We still have Zumba, we still have strength training. We still provide the Dignity Health screenings that is all still intact. So I just wanted to present that in. Are there any questions? Liz Morris – “Appreciate, no, thank you. We appreciate your presentation.” Mayor Morris opened public comments.
Assistant City Attorney King – “And honorable Mayor, just for members of the public, just to remind you, the city typically limits public comment to three minutes and maximum of 15 minutes per subject if the council wishes to enforce that 15 minutes.”
Pastor David Vivas – “Good evening, pastor Dave Vivas. I do not participate at any of these activities at the senior citizens, but in looking at the regulations, and the attorney may want to address this, but I am looking at the Title VI, and this has to do with gaming rooms. This is specifically under that category. So gambling establishment. This is not a gambling establishment. So it appears that this is a stretch. So under gaming room, this is an activity for the seniors and even in the city of Delano, under the senior's definition of what is done there, the city actually does say bingo is one of the activities which has been ongoing. And so this is not a gaming room, so it's a stretch. So I am a little concerned about that, taking it to that extreme. I don't, this is just an activity for the seniors. So maybe some clarification would be in order. Thank you.”
Sally Dominguez – “You have to give our name. Sally Dominguez, 722 Randolph Street here in Delano.
Okay. So I had stuff written down, but I'm not, I don't need it because it's not fair for us to have bingo once a month. Really? If donations, the prices they give us are from the Dollar store unless they get donations from somewhere else. So, if it comes down to us buying a prize to give out for bingo, we can go to the dollar store and pick something up as the food. No one has ever gotten sick there. As for Zumba, someone fell. Why did they not stop Zumba? That's a liability. Also, they're focused on the food that we bring in. And I even asked, can we bring food, store bought food? And I was told no, because they can't follow back to where it came from. I said, we buy a cake at Walmart, you can find out that it's from Walmart, so that's not fair. We can buy our own food and take it in. So I'm just upset because of what they're doing. People play bingo, it stimulates their mind. We're older and there are some people who have no one else except that senior center and they appreciate their birthday month celebration. And there's no reason that we need to sit outside in the heat to celebrate someone's birthday. So that's all I've got to say. I just don't think it's fair what they're doing to the seniors. And if it comes down to buying Dollar Tree gifts, we can do that. Thank you.”
Fernando Bravo – “Hi, my name is Fernando Bravo. I want to add on that bingo situation. Like you said, it's prize is bought from the Dollar Tree or dollar stores. And according to Sumeet, she said it's coming out of their budget, recreational budget. That's not true. Those prizes that we are getting, they're from WellCare Insurance and Valley View Care, and they're supplying the prizes. And as far as her saying they're short of staff, it takes one person there that sets up the Bingo machine, the TV and turns it on, turns it on, and game's over, go to another game. But yet the winner, the prizes are awarded by the sponsors. Also, the opportunities here for the seniors have become much less and not much more, much more. And as far as September's calendar, all she's got is that one day Bingo and nothing but Zumba. And also they missed the healthcare screening. If you notice mayor, I gave you a copy, there's nothing in there that states that Dignity Healthcare screening. So there's a lot of issues that we want to address, but our main concern is the potluck. People have not gotten sick from food that we take. And I'm sure ex Mayor Alindajao, how you ate one time, didn't you at our potluck? I'm sure you did. And Did you get sick? No.
And I'm sure. I'm sure, here in the office up here. You guys have a break room? You guys food up there? Donuts. Cookies. Maybe in the Christmas time, Tamales. You guys get sick? No, but why are you guys always picking us? I mean, we're grownups. We don't need a babysitter. So that's all I've got to say, but please help us out. Let's not get rid of our activities. We're there, we're seniors and we look forward to that. A lot of people, seniors do. You're senior too, right? So, well that era, remember dancing.” Gloria Rodriugez – “I just wanted to allude to your presentation on your website on the senior community program. You list all of the information on there as games, Billiards, bingo, strength building, karaoke, potlucks, and much more. That's on your website and my comments. Oh, Gloria Rodriguez, 2118 Oxford Street, Delano. I went to the senior center this morning to do a little survey. There were 32 seniors present and although more came later, my survey addressed those 32 of the 32 seniors that were there. 14 seniors live alone with no one else. Two are in wheelchairs. Three need to use walkers, four need to use a cane. There are also a few there that have trouble walking. What I'm getting at is that potlucks are held everywhere, including here in the City of Delano school offices all over, including our hardworking workers that harvest our fruits. And I've been coming to the senior center for a little over three years and it is a welcoming place to do Zumba. I go for Zumba and strength building three times a week. I'm there faithfully since I started three years ago, strength building and we've added line dancing and to socialize and to get to know one another. Yes, we bring snacks and so those of us that have fruit trees, we bring fruit from our trees for everyone to share. And of course we have our monthly birthday celebration, potlucks for everyone having a birthday that month is honored and recognized. Everyone looks forward to these potlucks and it gives a chance for those who live alone to be recognized on that day. We also hold a raffle of various gifts donated by some of us seniors and we use that to raise money so we can provide a field trip or treat everyone to pizza. We do that once in a while. This year our trip was to Olvera Street and that was used providing this money. Now you are telling us we have to hold Pollocks outside the senior center building back in May or June. You provided us with the list of rules and regulations for this senior center, but none of the issues of potluck was not mentioned at all. We were told that we could continue our potlucks and sacks, but we have to clean up after by the table by 11 and that we can complied. We now want you to use, you now want us to go outside for our potlucks and you continue to give us a $75 potluck allowance. By doing this, you have not taken into consideration some of the limitations such as the two seniors that are in wheelchairs, the three that need walkers and the four that use a cane as well as many others that have trouble walking on uneven grass. And with the hot weather coming and winter just around the corner, that means coldness, possible fog and rain we would endure. Would you put your parents through this? I don’t think so.” Andy Laeno – “My name is Andy Delano. I live at 1502 Belmont Delano. I've been here, lived here all my entire life, okay? And I'm donating my time to this lady.” Gloria Rodriugez – “I would continue that when we put together new rules, when you put together new rules and regulations that you provide all seniors with the written document explaining the change and why it has to be. And that document also be translated into Spanish. I also ask that you take care of your seniors. You will be there one day. We have worked long and hard in our life and now we just want to enjoy our golden years. Consider what we want and need and what you can do to make our daily visits to the senior center more enjoyable for us. Thank you for your time.” Fernando Bravo – “I also want to add our air conditioner there at the seniors. Went down twice back, I think about two years ago and then it went down this year in, you see it went down in July. July 16th. And I mark out all the days here end of the July and August. It was down for a month and we returned to the seniors on the 18th of August and we suffered all the time. And when the COVID hit too, that was even worse when we were getting our food outside at 105 degree weather. And you guys want to tell us about, you guys care about the environment, us getting sick, people may be getting a heat stroke. What is it? Do you guys really care about us?”
Suzanne Villaruz – “Suzanne vs. 1808 Terrace Drive. Sumeet, thank you for an excellent report. It was thorough. It was succinct. And I'm questioning the Department of Environmental Health because I have had to deal with many, many, many a food booth outside and putting food outside for seniors unless you have the appropriate freaking fly protecting screening is not safe or approved by the environmental health. So by telling these folks go out there, they have to rent a out of their money and put up screen netting and go on the screen netting and serve their food. So, the environmental health isn't telling you the whole story. They're telling you what they want them to do. They what would be nice and it's probably not something they can afford or they're willing to do it. Educate them on what they can bring in and share to the public. They are public people. The event I asked you to come to, everyone had to get a food permit to be there. The food permit does not take long. It's education and they can serve to the 266 people who have RSVP'd to come to our event. And these booths are coming from Bakersfield, from Fresno. They all had to pass the training from environmental health. Susie is her name and she can tell them exactly how they can serve food outdoors if that's necessary. They can do it indoors. Had you included a commercial kitchen like the original building did because that's where you could have taught them how to prepare their own meals in a commercial kitchen or to observe someone preparing their meals in a commercial kitchen. But that insurance coverage on the building, as I understand it was not there to cover restoring that kitchen, which was planned for by Arnie's friend Kent Mickelson 5,000 years ago. So, there are ways that we can do this and that can happen for them because they can't have a potluck outdoors. It's just the fly activity in this area is atrocious and that's why that's what makes food service unsafe outdoors. Thank you.” Recreation Manager Batth-Chavez – “I just wanted to address a couple of comments that were made, pastor, I actually have the code here for Bingo. I'll be more than happy to share it with you. It is in our municipal code. It's aside from the gambling there was specifically for Bingo games. The code, I'm sorry, cite the code if you don't mind. 6.09.190 all the way to 6.09.280. Yes, those are the costs. Also, there was a change in format from the calendar from August to September and activities. So no activities were removed except for the bingo from four times a month to once a month. As for the Dignity Health screening, unfortunately Dignity Health canceled on us this month. They had a conflict with the vaccine clinic. I had that email. I'd be more than happy to forward you that email. So that is why the Dignity Health screening was not on the schedule. They will be back next month. They're there every single month. And then when the AC went down, it was very unfortunate. Trust me, my personal AC went down last year in my house, so I know unfortunately the AC has gone down the last few years during peak season in July and it just takes a long time for parts to come in to get evaluated. I'm pretty sure the buildings department was working on getting that fixed. We wanted that more than anybody else. But during that time, the lunch program was not interrupted. The district gladly did the grab and go lunches.
The seniors were still transported to the senior center via transit. And lastly, they still had Zumba and strength training. We just had it at the Ellington gym. So, we tried to, during that time, provide as many services and amend that we could that I do also want to state just to maybe educate everyone, other senior centers charge for activities. Everything is for free. Zumba, I mean strength training. There are senior centers that we've checked that do not allow any food from the outside. Some do now I've told 'em, you can bring food in for yourself if you maybe have diabetes. I understand that you may need some sugar leveling out the insulin. We understand others don't even allow that. So, we did check around. I also have the notes, I'd be more than happy to share. And like I said at this time, the fact that there was no direction from counsel for actually a senior center budget, we stepped up. I feel like we do offer a lot of activities for them at no cost. And unfortunately, with the impending measure, sunset, all those may not even be there because we're going to have to start looking. So I'm just saying it may get worse. That's all I'm saying. But I will entertain. Any questions?”
Council Member Alindajao – “I'll a few questions. In terms of the potluck and the food limitations we're citing to what county and state law? In terms of senior centers specifically?” Recreation Manager Batth-Chavez – “No, because it's a food facility because we offer food there.” Council Member Alindajao – “I see.”
Recreation Manager Batth-Chavez – “Yes. That's why it's a food facility that is offering food. That's what it's pertaining to.”
Council Member Alindajao – “And is there a workaround if seniors brought food from an established restaurant or whatnot? Is that allowed or how does that work?” Recreation Manager Batth-Chavez – “There is. So it's not that. It's not prepackaged food. The problem is this, sometimes people bring prepackaged food that's old. It looks like there's a pie. I don't know if the pie is old from a week ago. It looks like it. We don't inspect it. So that is the issue. Like I said with the ol, I'm sure the sandwiches were brought at our thing, but either they were molded or they had been at someone's house. So that's the concern with those.”
Council Member Alindajao – “And I apologize if I'm, no, I'm a little slow, but I'm trying to figure out what is the violation of the infraction of bringing food? Is it any food whatsoever? Whether it comes from a restaurant, someone's home, a commercial establishment.” Recreation Manager Batth-Chavez – “The health inspector? The issue? So what the health inspector stated that if you cannot trace it back to a facility, you yourself personally can't verify where it was from.
I would highly recommend that we not allow it. That's what I was told. Now I know we've had a potluck there for Thanksgiving and it was with the district. We know where it was prepared. So we've allowed a potluck as that. Now, if someone wants to come in and says, Hey, council member Nunez, I want to bring pizza from Little Caesars, maybe we would allow it. But I stated it kind of gets into a frenzy of like, okay, where is it from? How do we know? There's so many nuances to it.” Mayor Pro Tem Nunez – “Can you explain what a regulated facility is? I think that well more people will understand a little bit easier.”
Recreation Manager Batth-Chavez – “Absolutely. It's a facility that actually passes all or abides by all the health rules, right? Because they're food handlers, so you have to wash hands. There's certain criteria, forgive me, I don't know all the rules for the food facility, but there's certain criteria. Even restaurants meet, they get their letters, they have to get inspected. So that is what they're saying. If you don't know if it's coming from somewhere, you can't take it back to. I wouldn't recommend it. So when you're bringing something from your house, no, I mean there's no rules. There's no way to trace it that.
No, unfortunately. Unfortunately. So…”
Council Member Alindajao – “It sounds like the food that's allowed is somewhat discretionary, right? Because some food you allow and some you don't. Is that accurate?” Recreation Manager Batth-Chavez – “Yeah. So what was happening was we were having a potluck once a month. This was something that was grandfathered in prior to recreation overseeing the senior center.
Correct. So they were having a potluck, but what was happening, we were noticing, we're like, okay, one potluck, you can bring a cake, we'll help. What happened was they were starting to bring food almost every day. And like I said, we were noticing issues with the food being molded and then we're like, hey.
They're like, well, I want to bring a cake for this person. I said, we have to be equitable. There is a potluck. We want to make sure that the cake is to celebrate everyone. So that was one of the issues we're like, there's going to be one. And then so when we looked into it, Hey, how can we regulate this? Is there anything that says can we regulate to one? Because like I stated, there was no stipulation. They were bringing food in on their own from my understanding and sharing. Now we do allow them to the site council, they do sell sodas and snacks prepackaged that they are allowed to do. They're allowed to sell those, but it was getting too much and only because there is food provided there, they are getting a meal.
So they're getting a meal and coffee.”
Council Member Alindajao – “So on these situations in potlucks, let's say that where seniors want to bring food in, what an approval system help with that, regulate that kind of activity?” Recreation Manager Batth-Chavez – “I would say I would the discretion of the council. I mean, this is what I stated. This is what the health department is recommending. Staff is recommending not having any outside food that to come in, however, to…”
Mayor Morris – “Only if it comes from a reputable boot handler or say a pizza place that has a license, right? Or who has a license or somebody who has a license already.” Recreation Manager Batth-Chavez – “But I can give you another example. So transportation of the food.
That's also an issue. I know we receive donations from, sometimes we get donations. That was one of the reasons we were getting donations from right? Rice and beans and buckets. And they're like, oh, for the seniors. And we're like, wait, what? And there was milk that was donated from, oh, we have from here.
Here's milk. The food services director said, throw out that milk. We cannot pass it out. So even just the transportation of the food too. I mean if it's hot or cold food, not dry goods. For example, somebody wants to donate pasta. We're like, okay, that's allowable dry goods. Hey, I want to donate notebooks. But we were getting all those donations from food that were left over from other lunch places. And so we had to, that's one of the other reasons that we had like, okay, how do we say no to this and not this? So let's look into it. That's where the conversation began. In talking to the health department, talking to legal and looking at what should we or shouldn't we do in the eyes of the law. Nobody wants the seniors to be outside. I understand that. Obviously, we've shown that we have activities except the horseshoe pits. I want from them if they want to play that outside. Yes, but we've shown that. But like I said, the staff's recommendation is to not allow it. However, it's a discretion of the council if there's a policy that needs to be set.”
Council Member Alindajao – “In terms of the county, you're saying using the word they don't recommend something or another is there some law or rule that prohibits it? Recreation Manager Batth-Chavez – “Yes.”
Council Member Alindajao – “Okay. So it's not just a recommendation, it's a prohibition.” Assistant City Attorney King – “Prohibition, Honorable Mayor, members of the City Council, David King on behalf of the city attorney's office, in addition to what staff has said? Yeah, it's the health and safety code. It's section 114021, and then a food facility is specifically defined in 113789. It is a prohibition for any homemade goods to be served at a food facility.” Council Member Alindajao – “I just was a little thrown off by the word recommendation because that doesn't seem to have the legal force that a prohibition might have.” Assistant City Attorney King – “Okay. I think there might be a little bit of wiggle room, but from our office's perspective, the city council should just be aware that the city would have liability if someone were to get sick or God forbid someone has a food allergy and then something served to them and then they suffer a severe health issues. So, the city, because we're involved and because we're distributing the food, we're endorsing the food. And the idea is that if we are following the food retail code, we would know what's being served, what's in what the ingredients are, where it's coming from, versus allowing senior citizens to bring food from home. We don't know how it's been prepared. We don't know what ingredients have been used. We don't know how long the food has been sitting for a while.” Council Member Solorio-Ruiz – “Okay. Can I put in my 2 cents in? Yes. Okay, perfect. Thank you. I don't have any questions Samit, but I do have some on this topic. And quite frankly, some of you may agree, some of you may disagree, but looking at, and I've said this time and time again that I believe that in these matters and situations, I believe that it is outside of the scope of the city council. We are on the city council to deal with policy, to deal with infrastructure, to deal with housing, not to decide whether we allow Little Caesars to Eden at the senior center. So with that, to preface that, I want to of course express gratitude to yourself, to your team, who is fantastic. And as you mentioned, taken this on years back and quite frankly I think has done a great job. With that said, nothing is perfect. We can always improve. We can always better. I also want to provide of course, gratitude to the seniors who spoke today. I think that really, let's walk into this with good intention. Our staff wants to make sure that you leave that facility the same way that you entered healthy with all limbs attached, et cetera. And so let's please walk into this in a good way. I do not believe it is the intention of our staff to do this in a malicious way, to do this, in a way to retaliate. I do believe that there are protocols in place, there are regulations in place for a reason, of course with recommendation by legal. And so we must believe in that. If we do, if we don't, then I think that's troubling this item. Also on the agenda, there is no action for it, meaning we do not vote on anything tonight. It is just a discussion, but also of course, information as I mentioned, things can get better. I'm open to continuing to have those conversations maybe. Of course, I always understand as well that staff's door is always open. The City Manager's always there as well to hear people's concerns. And if we can change things and make it better, then let's try to, and I think that that's what, as I mentioned in the beginning, I feel like this is not the avenue that we should dictate, but that doesn't mean that we can't have an opinion. And so I request all of you to keep having conversation in good faith and next thing, when we pass the measure and get more funds into the city and we need everybody's support in that, then of course, hopefully then we can talk maybe about upping the senior budget, maybe even departing from the current staff who are doing it now and doing it differently. What I'm saying is that the possibilities are endless but be part of it. Let's not come into this with negativities or egos, but with good hearted faith that hopefully we're all in this together to make our senior services better and to make sure that we're all safe and that we're all well. And so those are my comments tonight on this matter. But thank you again.” Council Member Osorio – “Yeah, thanks Mayor. First of all, thank you Ms. Batth-Chavez for your presentation. I think what I would want just to confirm so that folks who are in doubt of this, and I think it was already mentioned by Council Member Solorio, this was not an action taken up by you or your team.
This was something that was passed on or strongly urged by a county public health official. And so it's not that you or your team want to prohibit this type of distribution of food, bless you, but that it's for the understanding of making sure that the individuals who use your facility, who partake in these potlucks that they are taking care of and the city is not liable for any potential health issue. Is that correct?” Recreation Manager Batth-Chavez – “That is correct.”
Council Member Osorio – “And so understandably, I could see why seniors who partake in these activities would be upset, but again, this is not a decision of the city. It is a decision of the city to make sure that we are not putting the city at a liable point. But it is not that we're trying to just remove one particular perk, one particular benefit that's been offered previously. And so to me that's the balance. It's not that we're trying to take away anything from what's going on, but more so trying to address an issue that has been identified and is now on record through the communications with the public health department. That said on the second point, so food was one issue that was brought up. Second point about bingo, I know staff capacity being one of the limitations for making this a weekly recurring, weekly activity. For myself, I'd be in support of scaling this back up once you are able to have that staff capacity, which again, we're currently not at. So this isn't the end all conversation. And that's a theme that I think I'm hearing from my colleagues, but it's more so we're working with what we got. But this is not a closed door. This is more so where we're at the crossroads, just trying to take care of the constituents and residents who use your services and your Jefferson Center. And also making sure that the city is not liable for any decisions that have been highlighted already. And I think that's all I wanted to share, Mayor.” Council Member Alindajao – “Just a few comments. Thank you, Mayor. We can all focus on what's wrong, but I think we can focus on what's right and there's a lot of good and right things about what's happening at the senior center when you talk about a budget that it's only supposed to be $2,000 and now we're at 80,948 all for the benefit of the seniors. That is a big positive. And so yes, we can focus on what we're not getting or what's missing, and we can keep talking about that and working towards a place where maybe we can add some services, some activities. But I think a lot of great things are happening at the senior center. And I appreciate Sumit and all the staff and Mr. Bravo and all the seniors that are here present. I think it's a team effort. We're all working together to make it a healthy and fun environment for our seniors. And I want to continue to do that. But there are, the law is the law. And this counsel, at least for my seat, I'll speak for myself, we're not going to enact any changes of laws that circumvent the law itself. We're not going to make a law to defeat another part of the law. That's just not going to happen.
We're here to abide by the law, to enforce the law, and if there are things that we can do within the law to make our wishes and desires work, then we're going to be open to that. But let's keep talking about it.
Let's keep working together on it. That goes for the food issue, the bingo issue. But I think at the end of the day, I'm really pleased with the commitment when Mr. Bravo asked, do you care about us? I think I have 80,948 reasons why I say the answer is yes, we do care about you and we want to continue to invest in our seniors. And it's not money we're spending, it's money we're investing. And so thank you all of y'all for being here and we appreciate you and thanks.”
Gloria Rodriguez – “Just one question. Can a waiver, can a waiver that will sign by how the seniors to release the city from any liability, liability, is that possible that we could have that done to continue our potluck.”
Mayor Morris – “I don't know. Dave, can you answer that question?” Assistant City Attorney King – “Honorable Mayor, I don't know my mayor, members of the council, we could have a waiver. It would be from a practical perspective, somewhat difficult to enforce if someone was there who hadn't signed the waiver, maybe eats and I'd rather not spend a whole lot of time on this in public session, but a waiver might not fully protect the city, so there are limitations to waivers.” Mayor Pro Tem Nunez – “Yeah, I just want to reiterate most of what everybody's been saying up here on the board. And I try to go to the senior center at least once or twice a week, and Gloria, Ms. Gloria Rodriguez did remind me, I did make my mom a promise that I would do everything to take care of everybody out of the senior center before she passed. And this is one of those things that we have to do.
We have to follow the law. I understand this environmental health stuff is not something we want to hear.
It's not only affecting the seniors, it's affecting everybody else who's involved or wants to be part of the senior center. There's so many things that we don't like that changes. And as we get older, it's harder for us to accept change. I don't seriously like it. I don't like it at all. There's a reason why I'm no longer a police officer because I didn't like the change it was coming or how people were acting around us and not respecting or demeaning what at least I thought was demeaning. You sit back and look and understand and you understand what people are talking about. You're like, oh, okay, I get it. I understand. All I've seen here, with the exception of the no inside potlucks and dropping bingo to once, nothing else has changed out at the senior center. And as times get better, things will get better and more things will be added. Like Council Member Alindajao wrote, we have a budget of $2,000 and we were gracious enough for wonderful to give an additional $950, yet we're spending over $80,000. That's not even counting transportation that the city is using. Viviana is doing everything in her world to find funds and get stuff to go to the fair, to use the buses to go to the fair, to pick up seniors when we can. Sometimes it's not perfect that the buses aren't available all the time, but she makes an effort to have some kind of bus service available at least every day the senior center is open. I know we talked about throwing everybody out.
We're not throwing anybody out, we're not changing anything. We as a City Council, voted several months ago, probably over a year ago that the senior center, the Jefferson Center will be before the seniors Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. It would open from nine to one o'clock. And at one point, Sumeet and staff looked at staying open later and the entire time that stayed open later, nobody showed up, but they continued to keep it open later during these hot months when the AC went out and the center wasn't available because of the ac and we couldn't have anybody in there, the Ellington Center was made available and was told to your reps to, if you guys want to go to the Ellington Center in the meantime, you're not outside. You can whatever programs were going on at Jefferson, you can have those programs that Ellington meantime, this AC gets fixed. One of the complaints, well, there's no restrooms, there's only one restroom. That's why we don't want to go over there. When you were sitting at the park there, one restroom only available to you and it was outside. So we're not treating you like little kids.
We're not demeaning you. Highly respect each and every one of you because if it wasn't for our seniors, our cities are not what they are. Our seniors got us where we're at, our kids in school will get us to the next step. Thank you. Thank you for everything you've done for us to get us here. But understand we have rules and regulations that we have to follow that we cannot change.” Mayor Morris – “I'll make my statement now at this point, my name is Liz Morris and I'm a senior. Okay? Believe me, you guys are my friends and there's nothing more that I want for the seniors in our community to be happy and to thrive. I love it that you guys get together and socialize together because I really think that's really healthy for us. That's a way for us to stay young and a way to socialize and visit and reminisce about all the things we do and did. But there are rules, and it's not like when we talk about potlucks, like you have a potluck at your house and everybody brings something. Okay, let's get together and we all have a good time. But when you talk about a city and you talk about the liability, I mean your friend, if he gets sick at your house, he's not going to say, Hey, I'm going to sue you because I got sick at your party because the potato salad was spoiled or whatever else. But when you come and bring a potato salad to the center and someone gets sick, well, who's liable? The city is liable. And we're not talking little money. I mean, we're talking big money. They're going to come to us and say, Hey, I'm going to sue you for thousands of dollars, not just a hundred bucks or something like that. We're talking big money and that's where we stand. That's why we have to stand or abide by the rules. We want all of you to be healthy and stay healthy. And that's why we have to follow the regulations and the rules. It's not that we want to deprive you of the things you guys want to do, by all means. I mean I'm all in for a anytime because they're fun. That's just the way it is. But unfortunately, we have to abide by what the law says and the rules say because we are a city and it's just bigger than having a potluck at your house. And so with that, I know we want to provide you with as many programs as we can, allowing with our budget that we have. And hopefully, like I said, like Councilman Solorio said, maybe once we get a measure passed that we can afford to offer you some of the other programs that you guys want to see. But right now, and we can increase maybe that budget just a little bit. But right now we don't know what's going to happen yet.
Okay? So we're hoping that's something will come out of the new initiative or the measure “B” so that we can make that happen for you. But believe me, all of us here are all for you guys. We really are. We concerned and we know how healthy it is we all of you to get together. And we don't want to stop dancing because I know that's where we come from. We came from those times when we all used to get together and that was our pastime. We danced and we played music and we all had a real good time. And we want to keep that going because that's what we like. That's what we like to do, and that's what we're used to and that's what makes us happy. And we want to keep doing that. We want to keep doing that. But there is a limit and there things that we can do, but we're certainly try to come out of our way any way that we can to accommodate you, some way to make those things happen. And so that is my view at this point.” Recreation Manager Batth-Chavez – “Thank you for your support and thank you for allowing us to continue servicing the seniors. Appreciate it.”
DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS
No items.
COUNCIL STATEMENTS AND REPORTS
Council Member Bryan Osorio – “Just briefly as folks are walking out, I know others expressed gratitude, but do want to express gratitude to our folks here who showed up and gave public comments on any of the agenda items this evening. And just a reminder that while we are limited on this particular subject, we hope that we can continue improving and offering the best services that we can. On that end, I also want to thank the Chamber of Commerce for some of the events some of us recently attended. There was a state of the city that was hosted. I want to thank our City Manager, the police chief, Mayor Morris, for representing us that night. And congratulations also to the finalists of the different categories that they had. There were also a couple of grand openings. The ones that I attended were for Cali Brews, which has reopened under new management on Wooloomes Avenue and the reopening of Burger King on Girard Street. I think that's it for you, mayor”
Council Member Alindajao – None.
Council Member Solorio-Ruiz – Left at 6:50pm
Mayor Pro-Tem Nunez – None
Mayor Morris - “Okay. I just have a few things I wanted to share with you. We have a Walmart reopening bringing cutting on the Friday morning at eight o'clock at Walmart. And if you've been in a Walmart store, they have revamped everything in the store. It looks fabulous. It really doesn't look good. And so if you haven't been in there, make an effort to go and take a look at the store and come out to the ribbon cutting.
Because I was teasing with some of the managers out there and I said, they ready for Target. They just kind of smile at me. Also, this Saturday is going to be Tiny Tots. Okay, Harvests Holidays is kicking off their festivities and this is the first their event that they're having. So these are kids that are from three years old and I believe Ricardo's daughter, right? Yes. So we'll be anxious to get there and see that event. They are so much fun. They really are fun. We go watch and it's a whole new program because they do a little piece of talent and they do a little dance number and it looks like a whole a facility. So come out and support them with that. I have to say that we are also keeping off our Measure “B” campaign. And so went this morning to the Alliance to pick up that in for Measure “B” and I, good sleep last night. Today I was thinking about, I remember that I was supposed to be at Community Alliance at seven o'clock in the morning, and I'm thinking that last night was Sunday. So at 11 o'clock I'm thinking, oh wait a minute. Sunday, tomorrow's Community Alliance at seven. So at 11 o'clock I'm out there. I said, I better take some notes. So, I present in the morning and then I had this dream that because I couldn't go to sleep until about 4:30 in the morning and 4:30, I could only half an hour to sleep because I had to get up at 5:30, get ready as it was. I got up late about six 10 or something like that. I said, man, I better get over there and get myself ready. But in that time, that hour that I slept, I breathed that. I went that I was a Community Alliance and I fell asleep and the community lights me and the chief got there and the light that turned off, the lights on me. And I got up and I said, what happened? And he said, the meeting's over because you fell asleep. And so I said, wait a minute. How am I going to get this message out? I got to talk to people. How am I going to get this message out? And that's when I woke up. I go, dang. But anyway, we got the message out. So just to let all of that, we are getting started on this campaign. We have some offers for some donors who are willing to help us out. So we're happy about that. And so we're all on board and it sounds very positive about it. So we're hoping it goes well for us. And with it, I don't have anything else to share with you.”
CLOSED SESSION
No items.
RETURN TO GENERAL SESSION
ADJOURNMENT
Moved by Nunez seconded by Alindajao and unanimously carried 4-0 to adjourn the closed session meeting at 7:06 pm.
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Ricardo G. Chavez, City Clerk