CITY OF FERNDALE – HUMBOLDT COUNTY CALIFORNIA – U.S.A.
AGENDA – SPECIAL MEETING
Location: City Hall
834 Main Street
Ferndale, CA 95536
Date: October 27, 2025
Time: 3:15 pm
Posted: October 23, 2025
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1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER – Mayor
2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIENCE
3. ROLL CALL –City Clerk: Mayor Cady; Councilman Lund; Councilwoman Fisk-Becker, Councilman Jorgensen, and Councilman Ostler.
4. BUSINESS
a. Resolution 2025-26 Approving Intermittent Vehicular and Pedestrian Traffic Control and Parking Closures on Main Street for Specific Dates and Times for the Filming of a Motion Picture .................................. Page 3
5. PUBLIC COMMENT ON CLOSED SESSION ITEM(S)
6. ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION - STARTS AT 3:45
7. CLOSED SESSION BUSINESS
a. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Title: City Manager
b. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE APPOINMENT
Interim City Manager
c. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
Agency designated representatives: Ryan Plotz, City Attorney; Randy Cady, Mayor Unrepresented employee: Acting City Manager/City Clerk
8. REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION
9. ADJOURN
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Section 1
CALL MEETING TO ORDER
Section 2
PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE
Section 3
ROLL CALL
Section 4
BUSINESS
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Meeting Date: October 27, 2025 Agenda Item Number 3.a
Agenda Item Title: Resolution 2025-26 Approving Intermittent Vehicular and Pedestrian Traffic Control and Parking Closures on Main Street for Specific Dates and Times for the Filming of a Motion Picture
Presented by: City Manager and/or Dark Light, LLC Representatives Type of Item: x Action Discussion Information
Action Required: No Action x Voice Vote Roll Call Vote
RECOMMENDATION
1. Approve Resolution 2025-26 Authorizing the Intermittent Vehicular and Pedestrian Traffic Control and Limited Closure of Parking on Main Street between Brown Street and Ocean Avenue for the dates and times requested for the Filming of a Motion Picture.
DISCUSSION:
Staff will do an oral presentation at the meeting.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Unknown at this time.
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Cover Letter from Dark Light, LLC
2. Resolution 2025-26
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DARK LIGHT
13195 Cheltenham Drive, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
[email protected] / 213-925-8705
Kristene Hall
City of Ferndale
PO Box 1095
Ferndale, CA 95536
October 20, 2025
Dear Ms. Hall:
We have completed our first week of production on DARK LIGHT and have had a wonderful time so far making the film in Ferndale. Many thanks to your oTice and the City Council for your support.
We are writing at this time to request additional parking and traTic control on Main Street as we continue shooting the film. Beginning on Friday, October 24, we will move inside the Valley Grocery at 339 Main Street and our shooting will be much more contained. However, in some scenes, we will see out onto Main Street and need to control some of the parking and traTic for continuity reasons. Since we shoot the scenes out of order, it’s necessary to keep what is seen on Main Street consistent with what has already been established. For that reason, we are requesting the following:
No Parking Intermittent Tra0ic Control
Friday, Oct 24 10:30pm – 5am
Monday, Oct 27 3:30pm – 9pm 3:30pm–7pm and 8-10pm
Tuesday, Oct 28 2:30pm – 6:30pm 3:00pm – 6:30pm
Wednesday, Oct 29 12:30pm – 2:30pm 1pm – 2:30pm
Friday, Oct 31 2:00 am – 6:00am [Nov 1]
Monday, Nov 3 5:00pm – 2:00am
Tuesday, Nov 4 3:30pm – 4:00am 4pm – 10pm
Wednesday, Nov 5 5:00pm – 11pm 5:30pm – 10:00pm
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Notes
1. The Intermittent TraTic Control is diTerent from the street closures that the City Council approved in Resolution 2025-22. Since we are not actively working in the middle of the street, we do not need to completely close the 300-block of Main Street. We only need to control the traTic during filming takes. Flaggers from Stop And Go TraTic Control, our approved TraTic Control vendor, would hold or divert traTic for 1-3 minutes at a time only when actively rolling camera. The street would be open more than 90% of the time during the requested Intermittent TraTic Control periods.
2. Most of the requested No Parking and Intermittent TraTic Control periods are after the vast majority of Main Street businesses are closed. In addition, all of the Friday No Parking requests are late in the evening after most Main Street activity has subsided, so we expect that we will not interfere with any community activities.
3. We are aware of the Ferndale Frightfully Fun Monster Mash Block Party activities organized by the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, October 29 from 5-8pm. Since our requested No Parking and Intermittent TraTic Control is in the early afternoon, we will not interfere with any of those activities. (We probably will be finished before 2:30pm, but are requesting traTic control until that time to allow for a little bit of margin.) We would also not have to modify much of the Halloween decorations and would be able to restore everything before 3:30pm on Oct 29.
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4. We may be able to limit the No Parking posting to a smaller area than we’ve requested for the past week. Based on what the camera will see, we can limit the No Parking posting to the area depicted below:
We realize that any small disruption can be inconvenient for the residents and businesses of Ferndale, so we truly appreciate how accommodating the community has been of our presence during filming. In advance of meeting with the City Council, we will reach out to the aTected businesses again to get their feedback. We look forward to discussing our request with the City Council soon.
Best,
Matthew Hsu
producer
October 27, 2025
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RESOLUTION NO. 2025-26
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FERNDALE
AUTHORIZING INTERMITTENT TRAFFIC AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC
CONTROL AND CLOSURE OF SOME PARKING AREAS ON MAIN STREET FOR SPECIFIC DATES AND TIMES FROM OCTOBER 27, 2025-NOVEMBER 5, 2025 FOR
THE FILMING OF A MOTION PICTURE
WHEREAS, Dark Light, LLC is currently filming a motion picture in Ferndale and wishes to extend the closure of Main Street to parking and vehicular traffic; and WHEREAS, the extension will be for specific dates and times from October 27th – November 5, 2025; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary, in order to film scenes from inside Valley Grocery, and to maintain consistency in the scenes, to alter and/or temporarily pause vehicular movement on portions of Main Street, from Brown Street to Ocean Avenue and,
WHEREAS, no filming activities will occur in the street during the intermittent closures for safety reasons; and
WHEREAS, the requested traffic control will be limited to a 3-minute maximum hold time for vehicular and pedestrian traffic; and
WHEREAS, the noted traffic control and intermittent closures shall be exempt from the City of Ferndale Use Permit Application as currently required in the Zoning Ordinance.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Ferndale that Main Street, from Brown Street to Ocean Avenue, have a closure with intermittent traffic control with a maximum of 3-minute hold times on Main Street for the following dates and times:
Monday, October 27th 3:30pm – 10:00pm
Tuesday, October 28th 3:00pm – 6:00pm
Wednesday, October 29th 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Tuesday, November 4th 4:00pm – 10:00pm
Wednesday, November 5th 5:30pm – 10:00pm
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Chief of Police is hereby empowered and instructed to strictly enforce this Resolution, and that this Resolution shall not be effective, with respect to the State of California, Department of Transportation, without prior approval, in writing, from the Department of Transportation when and to the extent required by the vehicle code of the State of California.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Ferndale on this 27th day of October 2025, by the following vote:
Ayes:
Noes:
Absent:
Abstain:
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Randy Cady, Mayor
Attest:
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Kristene Hall, City Clerk
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Section 8
CLOSED SESSION BUSINESS
Section 5
PUBLIC COMMENT OF CLOSED SESSION ITEM(S)
Section 6
ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION
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Section 8
REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION
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Section 9
ADJOURN
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