Special City Council Minutes
February 3, 2022
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CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING OF FEBRUARY 3, 2022
CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Walker called the meeting to order at 6:04 p.m.
ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Mayor Walker, Mayor Pro-tem Untalon, Councilmember Martinez, Tipton and White ABSENT: None
STAFF: City Manager Wood, City Attorney Cochran, IT Director Espinosa, City Clerk Rathbun GUESTS: Beatriz Diaz, Andrew Sandoval, John Huerta, Jr.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
All recited the Pledge of Allegiance.
PUBLIC HEARING
SECOND PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING POTENTIAL COMPOSITION OF TRUSTEE AREAS PRIOR TO DRAWING OF MAPS, PURSUANT TO ELECTIONS CODE SECTION 10010, SUBDIVISION (A)(1)
Presentation was given by Dr. Daniel Phillips, NDC.
Mayor Walker opened the public hearing at 6:31 p.m.
Beatriz Diaz stated that she was 100% support of district elections and would like the Mayor to be voted by all the residents.
Andrew Sandoval, LULAC, stated that this was the first of a series of meetings that would be taking place. He stated that the City was asked to provide information in Spanish; however, it had not and asked City staff that the information be provided in Spanish. He stated that at the last meeting, Mayor Walker recommended that the Mayor be appointed by the City Council or that it be a rotating Mayor; however, he would not recommend this process. He asked the people of Greenfield to get involved and that the City provide the district process materials in Spanish and that this hearing be redone with the documents be available in Spanish.
John Huerta, Jr. gave his input regarding neighborhoods and communities of interest and recommended that the area of 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, downtown area and possibly 9th Streets bordered by Apple and Elm Avenues would be a neighborhood as well as the northwest area between El Camino Real to the west of 13th Street and bordered by Walnut Avenue and Oak Avenue; and another one south of Elm could be combined with another district.
Councilmember Martinez stated that she would like to hold off at this time and have another hearing in order to have the information provided in Spanish. Mayor Pro-tem Untalon agreed. City Attorney Cochran recommended that there be some discussion regarding the issues so that decisions could be made because of the strict timeline.
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Mr. Sandoval recommended that another hearing to be provided to include the entire community.
There was discussion among Dr. Phillips and the City Council regarding the potential districts, tools available to the public and the number of desired potential districts. The City Council recommended that the downtown area be represented by more than one Councilmember; have 3 maps for both 4 and 5 districts and that the City offer at least 2 mapping tools and an additional pre-map hearing.
Mayor Walker closed the public hearing at 7:44 p.m.
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned at 7:45 p.m.
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Mayor of the City of Greenfield
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City Clerk of the City of Greenfield
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