MINUTES
CITY OF DELANO
CITY COUNCIL – REGULAR MEETING
October 20, 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 5:36pm), Bryan Osorio, Salvador Solorio-Ruiz
Council members absent: None
OFFICIALS PRESENT
City Manager Reyna, City Clerk Chavez, City Attorney Hensley, Finance Director Lara Rios, Chief of Police Nicholson, Human Resources Director Zamudio, Interim Community Development Director Dowling (via teleconference), Public Works Director Nunez, City Engineer Rodriguez, Transit Manager Alapisco, Fire Chief Crist, Economic Development Specialist Fernandez and IS Coordinator Reyes
PRESENTATIONS AND AWARDS
• Mayor Morris presented a retirement plaque for Sgt. Richard Stites • Mayor Morris presented Proclamations for Domestic Violence Awareness Month October 2025
ITEMS FROM THE PUBLIC
1. Pastor David Vivas – “Fourth annual Veterans Day parade. And so we'd like to invite the entire community to come out and honor our veterans first responders, emergency personnel, these individuals, our unsung heroes, these people put their lives in harm's way and so we want to make sure that we do our part here in our community to recognize these individuals this year. The Grand Marshall is Gerald Ross Hampton. He is a veteran with the United States Navy. He also served in the Navy during Vietnam era and so he put in his time and returned home in 1968. He is a graduate from Delano High School. So, this is this month through December. It's been busy here in Delano and we've had a couple of parades already. So again, on behalf of the Delano Hometown Heroes, we invite you if you'd like to participate and be in the parade as well, you can obtain an application from one of us members and we'll be more than happy to forward it to you.
But again, we want to show our expression of appreciation to all of these individuals that we consider heroes and many of 'em unsung heroes. So thank you very much.”
2. Annette Salim-Wesir – “Good evening. My name's Annette Salim-Wesir. My address is four 10 Main Street here in Delano and also myself on behalf of the Delano Hometown Heroes Committee of Delano. We'd also like to remind you about attending to our parade November 1st, but also be able to attend our Grand Marshall Hometown Heroes Breakfast, which is free to all veterans non-veterans is $10. And at that time we'll be honoring Ross Jr Hampton. And so we'd like to welcome 'em, all of you and invite you to come to our breakfast on that day, especially when it's our time to be able to honor those that have served, those that have put their lives on the line to make sure that we're protected, to make sure that we have the freedom that we have today to do the things that we're able to do. And the breakfast will be starting at 6:30 to 8:30 and the parade will start at 10:00 AM and if any we have veterans, if you want to honor in honor of, in memory of if you're a veteran, you can be in our parade. If you have someone who may have been passed on that you would like to put up a picture of them on a thing and put it in a truck or to walk in our parade, you're more than welcome to. And even those that are watching any veterans that we have, they're more than welcome to participate in our parade and in our breakfast. Thank you.”
3. Claribel Gutierrez – “Good evening, mayor, Madam Mayor, past mayor and everybody else of that matter, but on behalf of the Assemblywoman, Dr. Bains and the Harvest Committee and the Veterans Committee, it's an honor the past Mayor Alindajao, and the committee took on to bring this recognition to our hardworking veterans that because of them we are enjoying the fruit of their labors today. So, Annette and Pastor Vivas said, well, we welcome you guys at El Rey from 6:30 to 9 o'clock to have the breakfast. It's going to be 10 o'clock. Oh, you guys are welcome. And then we are going to head up to the parade, which it starts at 10, hopefully properly. But thank you for allowing us to be of service. Thank you for recognizing that it's not only about one person, it's about all people and the city of Delano, I honestly say that we are a different breed because we honor all people from the Filipino committee that just passed the Harvest Holiday, the veterans and the harvesting. So everything in between. So Delano should be proud of themselves for making sure that you guys are everybody's business, making sure that everybody gets honored in all areas of our residence. Congratulations to you guys.”
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 $2,836,157.09
3) Minutes of regular Council meeting of October 6, 2025 4) Minutes of regular Planning Commission meeting of September 10, 2025 5) Minutes of regular Community Law Enforcement Liaison Board meeting for July 17, 2025 6) Donation of five (5) surplus Ford Explorer Police Vehicles to Sister City Tangancícuaro, Michoacán, Mexico (Resolution No. 2025-80) (Agreement No. 2025-99) 7) Approval of a Landscape Maintenance Agreement with Caltrans for portions of state right of way on Garces Highway, Ellington Street, Fremont Street, and the roundabout at the Garces Highway and Browning Road intersection and authorize the City Manager or her designee to sign any documents needed to complete this project (Agreement No. 2025-92) 8) Award of the “2025 Randolph Street & County Line Road Powerline Undergrounding Project” to JM Pipeline Construction Inc. in the amount of $68,500.00, and authorization for the City Manager or her designee to sign any documents needed to carry this project to completion (Agreement No. 2025-93)
9) Approval of an Electrical Facilities Cost Sharing Agreement with Caltrans for electrical facilities on State Route 99 and State Route 155 and authorization for the City Manager or her designee to sign any documents needed to complete this project (Agreement No. 2025- 94)
10) Resolution finding that a local emergency has existed within the City, authorizing contracting without the need for bidding pursuant to Public Contracts Code § 22050 and awarding the project to JM Pipeline Construction Inc. for $350,000.00, and associated actions (Resolution No. 2025-77) (Agreement No. 2025-95)
11) Approve the sale of two surplus lawn mower units previously used for golf course maintenance to Delano Golf Management Group, LLC for the amount of $17,000. The amount will be deducted from the current maintenance agreement with the company (Agreement No. 2025-96)
12) Award of Contract to ENS Electric for electrical and lighting improvement for the Parks Rejuvenation Project in the amount of $217,086.80 (Agreement No. 2025-97) 13) Approval of a Cooperative Agreement with Caltrans for $350,000.00 for oversight of the Project Study Report for the High Street Flyover Project and authorize the City Manager or her designee to sign any documents needed to complete this project (Agreement No. 2025- 98)
14) Resolution of the City Council of the City of Delano declaring various vehicles and equipment as surplus and authorizing staff to dispose of same by public auction (Resolution No. 2025-78)
Motion was made by: Solorio-Ruiz to approved items 1–14 on consent items; 2nd by: Alindajao
Vote: 5-0
Ayes: Morris/ Nunez/Alindajao/Osorio/Solorio-Ruiz
Nays: None
Absent: None
Abstentions: None
PUBLIC HEARING
15) Adoption of City of Delano 2023-2031 6th Cycle Housing Element Update & related actions: General Plan Amendment No. GPA 2025-001 and an ordinance to amend the Delano Municipal Code, including amendments to the Official Zoning Map to rezone properties in the City (Zone Amendment No. ZONE-25-0001), in order to adopt and implement the Delano General Plan 2023-2031 Housing Element (Resolution No. 2025-79) Mayor Morris opened the public hearing.
Staff report provided by Interim Community Development Director Dowling and Jason Wasmund, Consultant from Bowman.
Mayor Morris opened public comment.
Clemente Cruz – “My name is Clemente Cruz. I live on 2315 Milano Street right behind site ‘A’. Would these apartments be a two story apartments or three story apartments?” Consultant Wasmund – “There is no current, there's no plan yet development proposal for any of the sites.” Clemente Cruz – “Oh, okay. If anything is billed, I would like to have a block privacy wall just in case to have privacy behind my backyard. That's something that I would like for it to happen. Okay, thank you very much.”
Mayor Morris closed public comment.
Council Member Osorio – “So I think my questions would be directed to you perhaps. I think the first question I have is regarding the question that a gentleman made. Is the privacy wall something that is incorporated as a condition here or is that when there's a development?” Consultant Wasmund – “It's when there's a development proposal.” Council Member Osorio – “Alright. Is there a way for us to remember this comment in case we're not sure?” Consultant Wasmund – “Well, when there is a development proposal, there generally is a public hearing which will provide neighbors an opportunity to comment on the development proposal and typically perimeter walls are typically a standard feature of development projects in general.” Council Member Osorio – “Thank you.”
City Attorney Hensley – “So the only proviso to that at this point in time is that Sacramento has been passing a number of bills in the last few years that make it more and more, well it allows for building by right under different circumstances where the city has virtually no say in the development and we're seeing more and more of that every year. And so I don't know at what point in time there might be a very large development that Sacramento basically is exempted from any planning approvals by the city, but it does happen, so.”
Council Member Osorio – “Great. Thanks for insight. Another question I have is there was a draft that was submitted last year and then there was a recommendation by HCD to revise it. Was that related to the shortfall of low-income housing units or were they different revisions that needed to be addressed?” Consultant Wasmund – “Yes, definitely. It was basically determined through back and forth with HCD that there indeed was a shortfall in the city of affordable housing units and that the affordable, you couldn't group too many affordable housing on one property. So we had to identify new sites in the city in order to locate potential affordable housing.”
Council Member Osorio – “Got it. Thank you. And my last question here is, so there were nine original sites that were considered for affordable housing rezoning and then five moved ahead. You mentioned at the beginning of your presentation, two submitted objections and so those were removed. What happened to the other two? Were they just not eligible”
Consultant Wasmund – “They were just not appropriate. They were not as appropriate as the five sites that we did end up with.
Council Member Osorio – “Got it. Thank you. No further questions. And just my last comment here is I think it's great that we move forward so that we can have the city of Delano be eligible for funding that could make this a reality of meeting the housing need.” Council Member Solorio-Ruiz – “I had one question, if you don't mind just standing up there, and I'm not sure if there's an appropriate response for it, but just a thought that I had. How do we measure the success of the housing element plan? Is it units built versus not built? How does that work at the end of the day? Do we go and say, well, it's not really and how long until we submit another housing element plan?” Consultant Wasmund – “The housing element will be submitted every eight years, and so there'll be a new housing element for 2031 through 2039, and basically every city is required to send to the state an annual report of progress on the housing element, and that's due April of every single year. So, you'll be able to measure the progress on implementing the programs and building units in that annual report.” Council Member Solorio-Ruiz – “Okay. Thank you. And other than that same sentiments, I think that we should absolutely move forward and it sounds like it's been a extensive long process also getting community input, so thank you for that as well. Rezoning to multifamily residential affordable housing, that's important.
And so as we know in the state of California, we are backtracked in terms of the amount of housing that we need. We need more of it, we need to build. And so this is one way to rely on that. So thank you.” City Attorney Hensley – “There's a resolution in ordinance. So there's a resolution of the city council, of the city of Delano, California approving general plan amendment number GPA 2025 dash 0 0 1 to adopt the Delano general plan 2023 through 2031 housing element and finding the action to be exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act, which is ready for approval.” Motion was made by: Solorio-Ruiz for approval of resolution; 2nd by: Osorio
Vote: 5-0
Ayes: Morris/Nunez/Alindajao/Osorio/Solorio-Ruiz
Nays: None
Absent: None
Abstentions: None
City Attorney Hensley – “Next is the introduction of an ordinance to the City of Delano California approving amendment to the zoning code to establish the affordable housing overlay zone and implement the ministerial review of affordable housing projects and amendment to the official zoning map zone amendment number zone 25-0001 to implement the Delano general plan. 2023 through 2031 housing element is ready for introduction.”
Motion was made by: Nunez for approval of the introduction of an ordinance; 2nd by: Solorio-Ruiz
Vote: 5-0
Ayes: Morris/Nunez/Alindajao/Osorio/Solorio-Ruiz
Nays: None
Absent: None
Abstentions: None
16) Resolution declaring the condition of the property located at 320 10th Avenue to constitute a public nuisance pursuant to Civil Code Section 3749 and Delano Municipal Code Sections
7.32.010 & 7.32.015, ordering the abatement of said nuisance, and authorizing the City Manager to cause the nuisance to be abated should the property owner fail to do so (Continued from October 6, 2025 Council Meeting)
City Attorney Hensley – “The next item, 18 or 16, I'm sorry. The property owner has entered into a compliance agreement with the city, and so we're asking this public hearing be continued. Dis abatement public hearing for the 320 10th Avenue property be continued to the November 17th meeting.” Motion to continue matter to November 17, 2025 Council Meeting was made by: Alindajao; 2nd by: Osorio
Vote: 5-0
Ayes: Morris/Nunez/Alindajao/Osorio/Solorio-Ruiz
Nays: None
Absent: None
Abstentions: None
REGULAR AGENDA
17) Update on the Commercial Façade Micro Loan Program
Staff report provided by Economic Development Specialist Fernandez.
Council Member Alindajao – “I think it's a great program. I think the spirit behind the program was to foster growth in downtown Delano and to move that forward. I know other parts of the city are being developed and growing and advancing. I don't want to leave. I don't think any of us want to leave downtown behind. It was brought to my attention that the technicalities of the initial facade program that were implemented, adopted and implemented, only covered technically Main Street itself, which doesn't make any sense to me because we considered, I don't know if, does anybody remember Crunch Funckle? I'm old or other stores along a block, east or west of Main Street. All those stores and areas were considered downtown, but under the current facade program, they're not considered downtown and therefore do not apply for the facade program. So my proposal for discussion and adoption today is to include one block east of Main Street, both west and east, keep the $100,000 that have been dedicated to the facade program and increase the single loan amount to $20,000. And so we can either do a $10,000, a $100,000 cap or a $20,000 per loan. Still the $100,000 gap, there's been some interest. There's actually one now new business that is starting and what I think is still downtown Delano, it's off of Main Street on 11th and main, about two or three doors west of the Wells Fargo Bank. And they were interested in the facade program, the microloan program as startup money to help launch that business. However, because of a technicality, it doesn't qualify for that program. So that's my proposal.” Mayor Morris – “Those businesses downtown. Are they mostly owned by people that live out of the city or out of Delano?”
Economic Development Specialist Fernandez – “Yes.”
Mayor Morris – “Have they been notified the program?”
Economic Development Specialist Fernandez – “Well, when we did outreach, I mean we went business to business and we had tenants, so we gave them the information. Some of them reached back out, but mostly it was just the tenants at the moment, they're out of state or the property is on a trust, so we weren't able to contact the owners, just the tenants. And then pretty much the feedback that we received, it's placed on the staff report. Those were the most common comments that we received. And I put them from most frequent to least whenever we did our outreach to try and see why nobody applied for the program.”
Mayor Morris – “Yeah, because a lot of those business owners out of sight out of mind, they're not here to see what those buildings look like and they really don't care to invest any money there. It's kind of sad.
And then the owner or the owner of the business, they're saying, well, this building's not mine. Why should I invest money into it? So I know that creates a real problem for this particular program.” Council Member Alindajao – “I forgot to mention one other thing, if you don't mind. I mean, the original spirit of it was a facade program, but I understand that, well, I'm not sure if it's originally built as part of the original program was not just to include other things beyond the facade improvement, but as startup capital for businesses that want to start a business in the downtown area. So I don't know if the program includes that already or we need to adopt that.”
City Manager Reyna – “Honorable council member. Once upon a time, and this was many, many years ago, the city did have a downtown improvement program to where we did do that. We lent it for capital inventory tables, chairs, I want to say it was actually a gym with gym equipment. The only concern with that is that that tends to walk away should the business fold. And that's exactly what happened. Business folded, the equipment is what the city purchased and the equipment walked away. So, what we do now is we do something that is affixed to the building so that it improves the downtown, it doesn't walk away and the improvement stays whether the business stays or goes. So that's what the modification has been. And then also, I just wanted to make the correction as of the last meeting, council did vote to cut the $100,000 that was allocated to the facade program down to $50,000. So, you currently have $50,000. We certainly could do, we could increase it to the $20,000 and see if we get two loans for the rest of this fiscal year, and then again look at supplying it with the full $100,000 for the next fiscal year. So that's something that we could look at.”
Council Member Alindajao – “Sure. And the program, I think is on a demand basis. It doesn't seem like people are knocking their doors down for these programs, but the whole purpose is to invite entrepreneurs, new businesses to open a business downtown. I think we want to create a more vibrant downtown business other than the other parts of the city that are developing and growing. So that's my proposal.”
City Manager Reyna – “We had offered to have, again, a sign program where it would have the business name, all the signs would be uniform, something to kind of bring the downtown together if you will. You could go to a city like Solvang and it's all Danish now. We're not Danish, but it could still have a common look that would identify this barbershop and that bakery and this store all kind of having that same familiar look in the sign business sign. But that was something that they really were not interested. I think they did share with staff some things that were important to them, and I'm sure you'll see it in your staff report. They did want the trees out in front to be trimmed so that their existing sign could be seen. They also wanted for employees not to park in the front. They wanted for employees to be required to park in the back, and so therefore maybe like a two hour maximum parking that could be enforced. So that of course it would discourage employees, but it would allow customers enough time to do their business.
Then I want to say also, was it the homeless? That was the other issue. They wanted to discourage for the city to discourage the homeless from continuing to walk the streets during the evening hours. So those were some things that they did mention were important to them.” Council Member Osorio – “And I think I can comment next, mayor. So yeah, I think on the note that the city manager mentioned, I do want to acknowledge these additional concerns as they are concerns that I've heard as well related to tree maintenance, parking, availability, homelessness impacts. That said, I think the strong point the Council Member Alindajao makes is that we don't want to forget downtown, especially as development on the west side on Willems continues to expand. I want to make sure that we're also doing our part to add any incentive that we can to improve the outlook in downtown. I think the one suggestion I would make is if we increase it from $10,000 that we possibly increase it to $15,000 so that maybe up to three maximum awards can be made compared to possibly two max awards and then one small award. But just as a suggestion, pending other council members' comments.” Mayor Morris – “Any other comments?”
Council Member Solorio-Ruiz – “Sure. I could chime in. So thank you for your efforts as well on this. It's unfortunate we didn't get any buy-in. So looking at the grant at the loan, there is an interest rate that we have, right? That's a payback.”
Economic Development Specialist Fernandez – “Yes. 3%.”
Council Member Solorio-Ruiz – “3%. Does it work or is it in our purview? Are we able to do no interest for a certain time? That's a great question. Yeah, because I think the concerns that are in here, I think a lot of it too is I think just the idea of a loan itself I think might be scary for some of those folks. And especially with 3% is actually pretty good. But of course for some it just might be in general, and I'm thinking more far out there along the lines, if we still don't get a buy-in more from folks, where do we see this going?”
City Manager Reyna – “If I could suggest that we do expand the boundaries because just like councilor Linda Howell said that there is an interested business on 11th, we do know that if we expand the boundaries north, we will also gain another business that is interested. Maybe having two could generate more word of mouth, sometimes business to business. Maybe we could start by expanding the boundaries and increasing the loan amount and then we could report back and see how those two businesses are going through the process. Certainly, try to expedite it, make it as simple as possible for them to get those loans and implement those improvements.”
Council Member Solorio-Ruiz – “Absolutely. I would be in favor of that as well.” Council Member Osorio – “I would be in favor of expansion as well.” Council Member Solorio-Ruiz – “Yeah, expanding boundaries to the north. And then the other thing that I wanted to ask was if down the line we see that folks aren't getting buy-in or we're not getting a lot of buy-in because I think we hear a sentiment on the council, but also in community about lacking downtown Main Street area. And of course I don't think that's our fault as we know folks who own those areas or not. Some of them, most of them are not from here. Is there a possibility where we provide some of these amount of monies in the form of a grant and not a loan in the future if we see that there's no buy-in for the loan? How does that work?”
City Attorney Hensley – “Well, we have to be somewhat concerned about gift to public funds, which is why it's a loan program and there's a benefit back to the city. But as we explore these issues and whether there's buy it or not, we can look at how creative we can be while staying within the rules or laws.” Council Member Solorio-Ruiz – “You will. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, absolutely. And then also when it comes to, because of course some of you might have gone, but I work in Visa and their downtown is great. It is really, really great. You could walk down there and there's a lot of, there's a nightlife, et cetera, you name it. And I think that that's what we should, our purview should be at. And of course, that's difficult in the realms that we have and the power that we have. But if we can play with that and see what do we have? I know before a couple years back, there was some comments about maybe even seeing our regulations and seeing if certain buildings there are not abiding by our codes, if our theaters that are there that are run down, if they're not providing abiding by our codes to look and see if we can incentivize folks or even push them to fix their property and even of course, apply to this. But I'll be in favor of the expanding the boundaries as well as increasing the amount 10 to 15K.” City Manager Reyna – “I would suggest too that if council is looking at a grant program that maybe we explore that before we move forward with the two businesses that are taking on the loan. So if we can do a grant, then we give them the option of taking the grant as well instead of, oh, you paid, but that was before we got any interest. And now…”
Council Member Solorio-Ruiz – “Yeah. Well that's my comment. If the counsel wishes to pause this and see if we can through legal to see if they can make this into a grant form, I'm more than happy to do that.
But of course it's up to the discretion of the majority.” Council Member Alindajao – “One of the other, well, my original thought was forgivable loans for an extended amount of time at the business was well the organization or the business state and business for five years or longer, that then the loan would be forgiven. I'm not sure if that's the way it's written now.” City Manager Reyna – “The last payment, sir, is forgiven.” Council Member Alindajao – “The last payment.”
City Manager Reyna – “So they pay for four and then the last payment is forgiven.” Council Member Alindajao – “Okay, so four years are, they're paid at the 3% interest and the bid is okay. And that's an incentive for some businesses to take advantage of the loan program. And at 3% in today's market rate, I think it's great and some should take advantage of it of that, but so I'll wait until Councilman Nunez has comments and then I'll make a motion.” Mayor Pro Tem Nunez – “I just think we should just expand it into the $15,000 and see what kind of interest we get. If we don't get any interest, then we look at other options in the future. Let's give these people an opportunity. They're ready to move now and they want to work on it now and they understand what that it's already doing. Why not just expand and look at the $15,000.” Mayor Morris – “You, any comments you want to…”
Council Member Alindajao – “Yeah, I'll make a motion. Mayor. I'm making a motion to modify the microloan program to, I think the current cap is 50,000 to increase the cap to 60,000 and the per loan limit, increase it from 10 to 15,000 as well as expand the spend the coverage area of the microloan program to include one block east of Main Street. And I'm not sure which, on the north end, right there was an expansion, a block. Is it five or two blocks? One. Increase the coverage of the microloan program, not just one block east and west, but one block to the 14th Avenue to cover other businesses that may qualify for the microloan program. And then at today's closing on my comments, I'm going to ask that later at a different meeting, we place on the agenda the issues of parking, parking ordinance and parking issues in downtown Main Street, homeless issues at a later date.
Motion was made by: Alindajao for to modify micro loan program to increase the cap from $50,000 to $60,000, increase the per loan limit from $10,000 to $15,000, as well as extend the coverage area one block east and west of Main Street, one block north to 14th Avenue and one block south to 8th Avenue;
2nd by: Nunez
Vote: 5-0
Ayes: Morris/Nunez/Alindajao/Osorio/Solorio-Ruiz
Nays: None
Absent: None
Abstentions: None
DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS
No items.
COUNCIL STATEMENTS AND REPORTS
Council Member Bryan Osorio – “Yeah. Just very quickly, this past weekend I participated in the Filipino weekend parade with Mayor Morris and we both also attended the opening ceremonies. It was really great to see the amount of folks partake in this. And as speakers mentioned, it's great to see Filipino weekend back.”
Council Member Alindajao – “Unfortunately, this is probably the first Philippine weekend that I had to miss. It's probably been, I don't know. I don't think I've ever missed one, but my oldest son got engaged this weekend. We had a good reason to be gone this weekend. I'm excited. First kid sending him off to marriage.
So I'm excited about that. Other than that, I don't have any other.” “I wanted to officially ask about the parking issue, downtown parking. Oh yes. We placed on the next agenda and discussed if it may include an ordinance change some ideas about controlling parking in downtown. That's been a complaint for Oh yeah. Ever. Decades. And I don't know if that includes parking meters. I don't know if that might include the dedicating the traffic enforcement officer to that particular area of the city. But that's something that we really need to do to support our businesses downtown in terms of parking and then also the homeless issue. I don't know what the issue, if we can get a state of the issue with homelessness in downtown. Thank you.”
Council Member Solorio-Ruiz – “Yes, I want to, I attended the National Night out with our Delano pd. I believe I saw Vice Mayor Nunez there. Thank you to our Delano Police Department for continuing to build on that trust. Also. I didn't attend, but I saw and I heard that it was a hoot, the Delano career and resource fair. So thank you for your efforts and all you do on that. And to make sure that we get folks hired in not only our sector of the city, but in various sectors. So I appreciate you doing those efforts. I also saw a great turnout at the Filipino weekend, thank you to the Philippine weekend committee and their members for their efforts on that. And then I also wanted to remind folks of the Delano PD trunk retreat that's happening on October 30th from five to eight, I believe here. The same area down Main Street. And just wishing everyone a happy Halloween. I'm like, it's already the end. It's going to be the end of October, which is wild. But hope everyone has a safe Halloween with their loved ones, with their kiddos. And that's all on my end. Thank you.”
Mayor Pro-Tem Nunez – None.
Mayor Morris - “You might doesn't want to think anymore. You have something going on every day, I'm sure. But I want to commend all say to the staff of Philippine weekend for their success in their event this past weekend. And it was pretty exciting because they changed their whole venue to Memorial Park and it's unbelievable how many people were there. But it was great. Great to see everyone come out and support them. And the other thing I have is that I did go to California League of Cities or Cal Cities now, as they call it a week ago, and participated in a lot of the workshops there, as well as a lot of great motivational speakers that we there. And so I recommend to my colleagues, if they could come next year and invite you to come, it was in Long Beach this time that normally they'll change the venue or they'll have it in Sacramento or San Diego or some other place. But it's great to go there and be part of that legislative program and to really network with the people that go there. Meet so many people from so many different cities, and everyone has their own situations of how they handle things. And those are the things that you want to do when you go as you network with other people to find out what working for them well in their city and get different ideas from them. And was it the workshops? And I did pick up something from there that I did want to share, and I'm going to have that printed up for all of you so you could see. But it was a flyer on governance and I want to share that with you because it had dealings with city council and how we deal with people, what we can do as council members and to handle people who are maybe unruly in the audience and what the city manager can do and how we can all work together. So, I will get that out to you and share that with you. But do consider going to Cal League of Cities and be part of that event that affects all of us as it affects all cities in state of California. Believe me, we are all different and we gather so much information from other cities. And again, you've mentioned all the other things that are happening this month. We hope to see all of you there to support many of those events in our community. It's going to be a busy holiday start here for us and start in October. There seems to be something every weekend going on. So be part of our community and support other organizations that are doing things to happen in the city. And I think that's all I have at this time.”
CLOSED SESSION
No items.
RETURN TO GENERAL SESSION
ADJOURNMENT
Moved by Solorio-Ruiz seconded by Nunez and unanimously carried 5-0 to adjourn the closed session meeting at 6:36 pm.
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Ricardo G. Chavez, City Clerk