MINUTES
City of Guadalupe
Regular Meeting of the Guadalupe City Council
Tuesday, March 28, 2023, at 6:00 pm
City Hall, 918 Obispo Street, Council Chambers
1. ROLL CALL:
Council Member Christina Hernandez
Council Member Gilbert Robles
Council Member Megan Lizalde
Mayor Pro Tempore Eugene Costa Jr.
Mayor Ariston Julian
The mayor called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. All the members were present. (Note: the abbreviation, "CM" for "Council Member" will be used in these minutes.)
2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
3. MOMENT OF THANKS, APPRECIATION OR CONDOLENCES.
Mayor Julian asked for a moment of silence for the 26+ lives lost in the hurricanes of western Mississippi and Alabama. Condolences and best wishes for their recovery. Also, to the Covenant School in Nashville where three young nine-year-old children and three adults lost their lives. And to the 35 who perished in a detention center in Juarez, Mexico.
4. AGENDA REVIEW
There were no changes to the agenda.
5. COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION FORUM
Charlene Estabillo: "Mayor, City Council and Staff, two weeks ago, there was the dedication to my husband, Ron Estabillo - the Boys & Girls Club Ron Estabillo Club House. At that time, I did thank the City and the Boys & Girls Club for such an honor for Ron and to us. But I did want to come tonight to personally thank the City because if it wasn't for all of you and the Boys and Girls Club, this never would have happened. It is such an honor to us and to Ron. He loved his city, his community, and the kids. That's what life was all about for him. You can ask anybody about Ron...this town was his life. I just feel so honored to have his name placed on the Boys & Girls Club for him. I was told that if they ever built a new building, it would continue to be the 'Ron Estabillo Clubhouse'. I just want to personally thank all of you for the participation you gave and for your help to have that all happen.
Thank you very much."
March 28, 2023 City of Guadalupe Council Meeting Minutes Page 1 of 12 Mayor Julian commented, "Behind every good man is a better woman and family.. There was word that after he left us, they wanted to name O'Connell Park after Ron, the auditorium after Ron...they probably wanted to name Guadalupe after Ron. All of us here have been touched by what he has done, and you all have done in support of the kids in Guadalupe. That clubhouse being named after him really indicates his importance to Guadalupe and the community and always will be. We appreciate you coming here tonight. When we had a ceremony in his honor in the auditorium it was packed. That speaks highly of him and his family. He came back to make sure the youth prospered by his hand on everyone. So, thank you for coming here tonight." Jose Romo: "I'm the owner of Romo's downtown. For the last couple of years, there's been an issue of leaving cars parked in front of my business all day and all night. I'd like to see you extend the two- hour parking signage towards my business to help me out. Right now, it stops at 8th and Guadalupe Streets." Mayor Julian said, "The two-hour parking...but no one pays attention. Not even the business owners. They don't even adhere. We'll let Chief Cash deal with this issue or have the City Attorney look at our ordinance." CM Lizalde said that we're noticing a trend here. Mr. Romo added, "People park there and just leave. They live in the general area. We need to protect the businesses as the city grows."
Albert Nunez, Jr.: "The Rancho de Guadalupe Historical Society would just like to thank the City and the community for supporting our Treasure Sale last. I don't have the exact figures on what was made, but 1 do know we were successful and that we did better than the year before and we will continue to grow. Also, I want to thank the City for working with Hannah and Mayra who were wonderful for my working on the display case. We got a lot of valuable feedback which encourages me for May, Asian-American Pacific Islander Month, and September, for Hispanic Heritage Month, and then for October, Filipino Heritage Month. Thank you for the support there. Also, we want to thank Mayor Julian for your generous donation of woodwork to auction off at the Treasure Sale. It was really successful, and we really appreciated your support... whether you're leading the city against national disaster, or distributing food at our food bank, it is a testament to your leadership and that you have our back. It's always nice to know. So, thank you so much." The mayor said, was teamwork. Thank you for what you do for the Historical Society and for the display case here at City Hall. For many years it was void of what this community is all about. So, thank you for your work."
CONSENT CALENDAR
The following items are presented for City Council approval without discussion as a single agenda item in order to expedite the meeting. Should a Council Member wish to discuss or disapprove an item, it must be dropped from the blanket motion of approval and considered as a separate item.
A. Waive the reading in full of all Ordinances and Resolutions. Ordinances on the Consent Calendar will be adopted by the same vote cast as the first meeting unless City Council indicates otherwise.
B. Approve payment of warrants for the period ending March 20, 2023.
C. Approve the Minutes of the City Council regular meeting of March 14, 2023.
March 28, 2023 City of Guadalupe Council Meeting Minutes Page 2 of 12 D. Adopt, on the second reading, Ordinance No. 2023-509 amending the City's zoning ordinance (Guadalupe Municipal Code Chapter 18) to rezone various properties to achieve consistency with the adopted 2042 General Plan Land Use Diagram and other amendments to the zoning ordinance.
E. Adopt Resolution No. 2023-21 authorizing the filing of a claim with the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments for allocation of Transportation Development Act (TDA) funds for fiscal year 2023-2024.
Adopt Resolution No. 2023-22 approving a one-year contract extension with Santa Maria Organization of Transportation Helpers Inc. (SMOOTH) for transit services, with a rate adjustment of 10.5%.
G. MONTHLY REPORTS FROM DEPARTMENT HEADS
1. Public Safety Department:
a. Police Department report for February 2023
b. Fire Department report for February 2023
c. Code Compliance report for February 2023
2. Human Resources report for February 2023
3. Recreation and Parks report for February 2023
4. City Treasurer's report for December 2022, January 2023 Motion was made by Council Member Costa, Jr. and seconded by Council Member Lizalde to approve the Consent Calendar. 5-0 Motion passed.
7. CITY ADMINISTRATOR REPORT: (Information Only)
Mr. Bodem reported the following:
Tomorrow, 3/29/23, he will be attending a meeting of Northern County Housing Affordability Forum in Santa Maria from and after that meeting, he'll attend the "Crossing the Street Infrastructure Forum" meeting.
EMC Planning Group (with the City staff blessing/recommendation) to nominate them for the 2023 Central Coast Planning Awards this year. EMC's nomination has won the 2023 Planning Award pertaining to the City of Guadalupe 2042 General Plan. The award was for a Comprehensive Plan Award: Small Jurisdiction. All levels of awards (Excellence and Merit) are eligible to proceed to the American Planning Award (APA) California Award nomination process. They will also be submitting the project for an award at the State level once nominations are open.
Housing Cycle 6 Element Update: This was a housing item that was not completed by EMC and needed further funding that we used ARPA funds to pay for a consultant, Dr. Cornelius Nuworsoo of March 28, 2023 City of Guadalupe Council Meeting Minutes Page 3 of 12 Cal Poly. A rough draft of the HE chapters has yet to be completed for his final review prior to submitting for the City's review. The HE deadline is June 2023.
CM Lizalde asked for an update on the commercial property at Pasadera, whether it's moved up or pushed back. Mr. Bodem said, "Everything is hinging on the market, infrastructure... more to do with market interest and underground lines, costs associated with that. Not ready yet. It will be once we get things together relating to the signaling and crossing issues. On Monday, we're meeting on to talk about how we can work with the railroad and the bridge and all that." CM Lizalde also thanked Mr. Bodem for the Social Media Policy update. Mr. Bodem said that Hannah Sanchez is working on that policy.
Mayor Julian commented more on the commercial area at Pasadera. He said, "Five-to-eight years ago, DJ Farms asked PG&E to do a study for electrical. The cost was $10,000 just to do the study.
The word is that it will cost $1M to bring power into that development. Cal Trans and the railroad have to get together. SBCAG's pushing plans to meet with Cal Trans, and they want to meet with us so we can get an update where they are. Every time there's a change in their staffing, the plans go on the backburner causing delays. Craig Smith wants to move forward. Without the crossing in southern Pasadera and no building going on, we're looking at 340 homes. There were plans to move City Hall there. We said 'no' that we'd stay here but they provide us with that money which is $3M.
That's based on occupancy for each of those homes. So, you don't get any money unless those homes are built. That ties into commercial development, too. And big supermarkets won't come in unless there are more people. We have 8,500 now and that's a lot of people." There was a meeting last Friday with the County Supervisor, County staff, Rep. Carbajal's staff, etc. to talk about the flooding issue. Shannon Sweeney said, "They talked about mostly short-term but some long-term ideas on how to address flooding. It was good to know that the county is having conversations with the Bureau of Reclamation to limit Twitchell Dam releases below their contractual amounts to help protect downstream infrastructure, including facilities in the City of Guadalupe. It was good that Carbajal's rep was there at the meeting to discuss funding. Mayor Julian added that the County put out a report on 'Guadalupe 2010 Flood' which highlights issues same as now. He also mentioned that Mr. Lupe Alvarez, prior mayor, had gone to Washington, D.C. to lobby for monies to extend the levee. The mayor asked that the report be copied and distributed to the council. Mr. Bodem to follow through.
Janice Davis gave an update on Finance: "The "window" in the Finance Department will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. We're still in the middle of implementation but close to being done... that will have someone on the phone and the window at the same time. We'll put this information at the bottom of the billing, notices on window and doors, as well as on our voicemail message. Tyler conversion is almost done. It'll be the first or second week in April before going live. The final draft of the audit will be finished this Friday. The audit report will be scheduled for the 4/11 agenda." Mr.
Bodem added, "The State Controller's Report was completed. We're looking at the 23/24 budget now." Then the mayor said, addressing Ms. Davis, "You came in the middle of a lot that was going March 28, 2023 City of Guadalupe Council Meeting Minutes Page 4 of 12 on. Thank you for putting a handle on all of that. Especially, with people asking why the office is closed. So, thank you and the staff for moving on that." CM Hernandez asked, " Is there any update on Pioneer Street? I know the school had to move the bus stop route and they're waiting on that pavement road." Ms. Sweeney said, "I need six (6) working days with no rain. With the continuing storms, we don't see that happening until well into April."
Mr. Bodem asked Ms. Sweeney to talk about our water supply. Ms. Sweeney said, "The City has two supplies of water: local ground water and purchased State water. The last three (3) years we've used ground water because we've had limited availability of State water. If we get our full allotment, 100 percent, that's about one-half of our water supply for the year. State issued a 75% allocation last week." She added, "There was a gentleman who spoke on February 28th and said there were a lot of complaints about the water. It would be good if people called about water issues. Once we heard there was a problem, we decreased use of State water, changed the blend to improve the quality of the water. Ground water and State water taste different but both are perfectly safe to drink." CM Lizalde said, "Thank you for the update. Sometimes, community members may be hesitant. The more we can reiterate who to call and when to call when something is happening, that's always a positive thing to have out there." Ms. Sweeney said again to call if there are water issues so they can deal with the issues. CM Hernandez asked for the phone number to report water complaints. Mr. Bodem said he'd get that number to the Council.
8. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORT: (Information Only) Chief Cash reported the following:
I sent out a notice that FEMA approved Santa Barbara County's Emergency Operational Plan with the Guadalupe annex. The Santa Barbara County Mitigation Plan was finally approved which was a two-year process. That makes all of Santa Barbara County eligible for FEMA funding.
We've been contacted by a lot of residents and GBA requesting we do emergency preparedness training. We're trying to put together something that's workable but that depends on staff, supplies, etc. We've never been registered as a certified "CERT" trainer site but now we are registered and are getting that. CERT stands for "Community Emergency Response Team". There is one trainer in the Fire Department and we're getting more to have residents prepared for earthquakes, flooding, with necessary supplies, etc...to be ready for an incident. Volunteers stepped up. This Thursday, we're putting together an auxiliary program to be able to call on resources during a crisis. That's part of the 'After Action Plan'. It's going to be centered on our residents having that training and be able to assist during an emergency."
Santa Barbara County Emergency Operations Center...at a meeting with over one hundred people, we got a lot of accolades saying, "we want to use that model (Guadalupe)." We don't have a model...people just came... we're putting one together a model now so that we'll be prepared. The March 28, 2023 City of Guadalupe Council Meeting Minutes Page 5 of 12 mayor added, "There's a woman who lives in Pasadera, Grace B., who had contact with the Presbyterian Church in Nipomo. They were the first to ask what we needed. There's a list of people and resources that helped with all of this."
REGULAR BUSINESS
9. Budgetary appropriation to fund the Emergency Preparedness Coordinator position.
Written report: Michael Cash, Director of Public Safety Recommendation: That the City Council adopt Resolution No. 2023-23 appropriating funding to the Police's budget for the Emergency Preparedness Coordinator position subject to a successful promotional recruitment process.
Chief Cash gave a brief background on the item. He said, "We're looking for funding for an internal promotional process. We had done an external recruitment process, and there were external candidates who dropped off. I redirected an internal employee to help during emergencies. If internal recruitment is successful, it will add $5,000 to the budget; if not, we'd need to come back to the council. But we want to open it up to any internal candidates." Mayor Julian said, "There are a lot of components here. Todd approved the process for the internal recruitment. I've never seen a resolution with such detail. To get to the point, we're looking at the $5,000 for this fiscal year?" City Attorney Sinco said, "No, the additional $5,000 would be ongoing." Mr. Bodem asked, "Code enforcement is important. How would that be managed?" Chief Cash said, "The Fire Department still has a portion of code enforcement. We'd push code enforcement back to the Fire Department. The current incumbent does long-term investigations. If those issues come up, then, as a police department, we'll pivot and handle those issues. We had a meeting last week with staff and FEMA. We're on a good course for recovery of funds. The part that we're working on is through mitigation to protect infrastructure and to be able to get funding to protect infrastructure from future funding aspects. So, we're dealing with three fronts: recovery of funds, mitigation to build infrastructure and long-term ways to deal with actual flooding. That internal person has been our go-between with FEMA to be able to process the necessary paperwork. We don't have additional personnel to handle all of this." Ms. Sweeney said it would cost between $40K to $250K for mitigation projects we need to consider for future protection. Chief Cash said that in 2010, almost exactly the same thing happened.
Mr. Bodem asked, "One question from residents will be what will this person do in non-emergency times on the down times?" Chief Cash said, "A resident recently asked when they can get trained.
We need trainers and it's easier to have them in-house than to go outside to bring people in to be trained. So, one is training our residents and the other is building our infrastructure. Everyone here saw that we didn't get assistance relief for almost two-to-three days from outside the city. Everyone else was having the same issues. How do we sustain ourselves during an emergency? Having this person would deal with training on a yearly basis, help to build infrastructure, and help with grants from FEMA and elsewhere to get supplies. There's another component we need to consider. That's March 28, 2023 City of Guadalupe Council Meeting Minutes Page 6 of 12 our animals and for our seniors. A lot of times they get left out when these emergencies happen.
We have a lot of people that need assistance who are homebound. We'll be dealing with that at a meeting on Thursday building that infrastructure. How do we address that? We do that with food, but a lot of people can't get out so how do we address them?" Training and building that infrastructure are what this person will be doing on a regular basis in order for us to sustain ourselves."
Mayor Julian said, "Code enforcement. On the February report, there were three (3) code enforcement issues...one was for 72-hour parking. My concern is that when people talk about trailers and 72-hour parking, and we see in the report that there was only one in the whole city, that's not true. If the Fire Department gets these duties, we need to listen to what people are saying in terms of code enforcement."
CM Lizalde asked, "That was my concern, too, in reading the report. Also, we're doing internal recruitment. Are we shifting things, creating a vacancy that is also vital? I'm a huge supporter of hiring from within. This code enforcement position is so public, and we've had such an issue with code enforcement, it does raise the question of are we promoting someone based on experience when that position really hasn't been tended to publicly? That's a concern. The current incumbent in code enforcement position doesn't have all the requirements for the current position. That concerns me. Are we just promoting someone who hasn't had a chance to fulfill the requirements of their current position, whether it was due to Covid, delays in training? Those are some of my concerns. What types of candidates are we hiring? What sort of vetting are we doing? Are we just putting someone there because we need someone there or are we doing our due diligence to find the right candidate to invest our limited funds? I definitely think the position is needed. But / am very concerned with this particular proposal and how this is shifting those positions. I don't see a win in there for me." CM Hernandez added, "It just feels like there's another pothole that we're creating. Is it financially feasible to sustain this position long-term?" Janice Davis said, "With the current budget now, it's already constrained. I don't have the figures going forward to say whether this will cause an issue. I just don't know. Right now, doing the mid- year review.../ don't have that in front of me so maybe I can come back with the correct answer. As far as I know, I don't think that it's feasible this fiscal year, but we can consider for next fiscal year." City Attorney Sinco added, "At the council meeting before, there was a request to hire two (2) police officers and Emergency Preparedness Coordinator and keep the code enforcement position. The Council said there was no budget for that request. I believe, though, there was some direction to try to do something along these lines, especially for the Emergency Preparedness Coordinator position.
This is a proposal for a way for the Council to fund that need if that is the high priority. In the staff report, code enforcement remains a high priority. There will still be a way to continue code enforcement If the code enforcement candidate was successful with this internal promotion. I don't think there's any other internal candidate, but I'm not sure. If the Council wants to go externally, and an external candidate is hired, there'd have to be funding or we'd have to lay someone off.
That's not really an option that was pushed. But you just can't do both this year and not ongoing, March 28, 2023 City of Guadalupe Council Meeting Minutes Page 7 of 12 at least as far as we know. I just wanted to explain what we can do given the constraints." CM Lizalde then added, "And maybe that's the answer right now. If this is the best that we can do given the constraints, maybe we need to wait until next fiscal year. We're going to be prepping the budget for the next year and this is something we can think about." The mayor said, "Looking at the budget, we projected $100,000 for cannabis that we didn't yet. For train-the-trainer, can this person step in? Santa Maria ha a part-time emergency trainer who trains the community." Chief Cash responded, "Yes, anyone in that position would be trained to give training. The internal person has been to some of the schools that do the training, and I've given that person training. Santa Barbara County Office of Emergency Services has helped this internal person, too." l
Mayor Julian said, "We have three (3) months remaining in this budget here. We've heard from the Finance Director that it's touchy in terms of where we are now. I don't want to be in a position where we say that we should have waited until our numbers come in." CM Lizalde then said, "We don't want to rush the candidate who has only been doing this for a short time. The duties on the job description...it's not just training community members. There are other things that this person would be responsible for. Does this internal person have previous experience or is this new to them? Does this person have the experience, not the current event, but previously that this job title requires?" Chief Cash said, "Has some experience but I'm going to be there. If the internal person is not hired, nothing will get done. There's a lot of internal training assistance in the office. This is being handed off by a lot of other people who are helping to bring this along because this has to be done. If we don't have somebody there, that ball stops." CM Hernandez questioned if all the duties and responsibilities for code compliance now fall on the Fire Department. Chief Cash said, "That's what would happen. This is not new to them. When we brought this person over, the Fire staff are still doing day-to-day code compliance. The code compliance/enforcement person does long-term investigations." CM Lizalde said, "We know code compliance needs attention. Is the Fire Department taking it all in? Is that realistic? The code compliance position was created to take off of the Fire Department. Is that history correct?" Chief Cash said, "Some of that is. When you say, 'code compliance', a lot of that was done by our police officers. We're now down to three (3). With the limited officers, that's where you see a lot of the drop going on. We don't have personnel to handle a lot of these things.
Police officers have been doing code compliance." CM Lizalde then said, "So, does the code compliance do the backfill when we're short on officers to give citations? You said this main focus is long-term investigations." Chief said, "He does it all, but his main focus is long-term." CM Lizalde said that when we see the numbers so low, that's concerning.
CM Costa, Jr. said, "Make the emergency preparedness position a 'trainee'. The internal person has to be trained. We should have a 'trainee' job title." City Attorney said, "If you're suggesting a lesser position, we don't have a classification for that, if that's what you're suggesting." CM Costa, Jr.
March 28, 2023 City of Guadalupe Council Meeting Minutes Page 8 of 12 added, "What I'm saying is that this individual has to be trained. We're going to be paying for an increase, a promotion, when this person still has to be trained. If that's the case, we should be looking at doing a 'trainee' title." CM Lizalde added, "We're paying at a journey level. The internal person doesn't have the experience." Chief Cash, "We have police officers. They all start off as trainees but they're police officers. If they come in, they have to be trained in how we do things.
Everyone will be a trainee. Will there be different levels? Of course." At this point, Mr. Bodem suggested a combination of code enforcement and emergency preparedness. City Attorney Sinco said, "That's a valid point. I did propose early on in looking at this to have two (2) part-time positions, equivalent to a full-time position. It was a proposal, but the Chief didn't think it was viable. It is possible to create a new position, half-time code enforcement and half-time emergency preparedness. There'd be different pay rates for each function, or a blended rate but we could explore. If you want us to do more work on that and come back, we could do that with some numbers and a proposal." Mr. Bodem suggested leaving at the same pay rate for emergency preparedness.
CM Lizalde said that there are more options to explore fiscally, more research to do and getting back.
Mayor Julian said, "I think what CM Costa, Jr. mentioned as far as a 'trainee' position. When a police officer comes in, they already have P.O.S.T. training. They're ready to go...they have the training where this position is going to ramp up. We know who we're talking about. This individual is important to the City of Guadalupe. He's done well dealing with the disaster, being able to speak Spanish and connecting with people being there on the front lines. You're not going to find anyone more able to take the position. It's just the training component." Chief Cash said, "Our last Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, I trained him for five (5) years prior. I taught at the Emergency Preparedness Academy in Maryland, and I sent him there. Only a few people have gone there. If you look at all the emergency preparedness staff in the County, they're getting on-the-job training. No one's really gone to an academy like the police or fire go to an academy. They're all civilians with all on-the-job training. Anyone who came here would have to go through the training.
I'm not specifically advocating for a certain individual. I'm advocating for assistance. If we don't have someone there helping to shepherd some of this stuff through, it's going to fall through the cracks."
The mayor said, "To Todd's point, there needs to be a blended job/amount. This person is stepping up, going out and getting these certificates and training. It's going to take more than the current level in terms of what we're paying. I think a blended amount and with Finance's look at the budget, and what that might be with a blended role, then once fully engaged with training, then move to have that person handle community training. But this should go back to staff to look at everything.
There are a lot of moving parts to this. We don't want to disregard code enforcement which is important to the City. In this manner, it will give us that bridge between keeping code enforcement working with the Fire Department still and having the trainer. The job announcement for the Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for Santa Maria shows prior experience in the field of emergency preparedness required. The individual we're talking about doesn't have that yet... looking at the next fiscal year regarding training and pay." March 28, 2023 City of Guadalupe Council Meeting Minutes Page 9 of 12 CM Robles asked about the timeframe for the emergency preparedness academy. Chief Cash said, "It's a two-week academy but it's not offered until the latter part of the year." CM Robles then said, "A blended job seems realistic but the budget's just not there." Then Chief Cash said, "I want to be fair to the person who's there now. That person is doing the job now without being additionally compensated. I'm trying to train that person and that person understands that. But eventually I have that person go back to their regular duties in your code enforcement job." CM Lizalde said, "This is a civilian position. My concern is when we're doing hiring practices, this individual hasn't been able to complete getting certificates for their current position, not for any fault, just that there aren't any certificates yet." Chief Cash said, "I specifically put the Santa Maria code enforcement position. We asked more than what was really required." CM Lizalde then asked, "I'm looking at our job description and there are specific requirements for certifications. We have to abide by those requirements. We can't omit certain requirements after we've hired someone. Now, we're going to another recruitment where this person will potentially have additional requirements that need to be obtained. That's a lot to take on...complete what they already started and ask them to take on almost another full-time job with responsibilities and take on training. Is that realistic for an individual who hasn't, through no fault of their own, obtained those initial certifications and will not be able to obtain those? The internal person was hired in 2021 but hasn't obtained the necessary certifications. I just want to be very transparent that we have good hiring practices in place so that on paper, we can say that this individual met these requirements...that within one year, these certifications were obtained, etc. There's no bias or that we let this person in because they've been a longtime employee and we get caught in poor hiring practices. Need to be careful if we're looking at blending positions or we're doing other things that we're mindful of that because this is all public and that will come under the microscope." Chief Cash said, "I want to put this on the table. A lot was pushed back because of Covid. A lot of people couldn't get those certifications, training or anything. Now with Hancock and a few others, it is priority... who gets the priority for the limited classes and trainers right now. For the '832', police and security are in the forefront now. For the code compliance officer, I've talked with the academy people to help me find a slot for them. I'm on a wait list like everyone else. Can those be completed? Yes, we're now on a trajectory and we can start planning. We have the same issue with our police officers who have to go to Fresno for their training because they can't get the classes here. And some of those were pushed back."
Mayor Julian reiterated, "This needs to go back to staff. There have been a lot of comments from both the Council and staff. Look at a blended position, training requirements, trainee issue, financial side, etc. Get some numbers. It's pretty complex right now." It was the consensus of the City Council to have City staff review options on this issue. No motion was made on Resolution No. 2023-23.
March 28, 2023 City of Guadalupe Council Meeting Minutes Page 10 of 12 The mayor said that he appreciates the Council's discussion and staff's responses on this matter to let the community see that we're staying on top of this.
10. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
CM Lizalde noted that the Social Media Policy is scheduled on the 4/11/2023 agenda.
City Attorney Sisco: Code compliance issue to be scheduled for the 4/25/2023 agenda.
11. ANNOUNCEMENTS - COUNCIL ACTIVITY/COMMITTEE REPORTS
Mayor Julian: SBCAG has 12 members on the board. Wherever a meeting is, by order of the State, they have to have a majority of directors at one particular site. Can still zoom meetings but you have to give specific information on your location. This would also include APCD and Cal Vans...any County or committee meeting. There's a lot coming down with the Brown Act.
Regarding the flood victims, Mireya Pina from the Little House at the Park, received monies from, I believe, the Santa Barbara Foundation. People involved with the flooding received $1500 each about a month ago. There are still issues ongoing. There was a resident who returned and had a car that wasn't working and said it would cost $3,000 to fix. At the barbecue fundraiser held by the Knights of Columbus, $8,000 was raised. Little House by the Park and Family Services will be cutting checks for $500 each to the flood victims. A lot of them are just starting work now. A lot weren't working as of last week. Almost all now have housing. One family will be moving to a home. They're all in a safe place now. A special food distribution was held with four (4) pallets for the flood victims. Both the Fire and Police Departments helped. Also, ten individuals from families involved in the flooding helped. They took food home for those who were working. So, they're helping each other out which is nice to see.
CM Hernandez: At the recent dodgeball tournament, Christina was named "Dodgeball Tournament Champion. Earth Day is April 22nd. . We'll be partnering up with Community Cleaners and will be out in Guadalupe from 9am to 11am. Judy Baca was awarded the National Medal of Art. Some of her paintings are hung here at City Hall.
CM Robles: Boys & Girls Club have a teen night this Thursday, 3/30. Free membership will be given for the first twenty-five attendees, between ages 13-18. Bonsai Class at the Cultural Center, every third Sunday of the month. Wrestling is in its second week of practice. There is a novice Paso Robles tournament on April 8th with about twenty-four kids, 6-7 girls. They're learning about discipline, nutrition, and body exercises.
CM Lizalde: I saw the April Parks & Recreation newsletter came out online. Softball is coming. Thank you to Gilbert Robles and other adults who are taking on wrestling. That's just not a sport. There's a lot of interaction with adults for those youths and they're learning a lot of wonderful skills. So, thank you for doing that for our youth.
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12. ADJOURNMENT
Motion was made by Council Member Lizalde and seconded by Council Member Costa, Jr. to adjourn the meeting. 5-0 Motion passed. The meeting was adjourned at 7:26 p.m.
Prepared by: Approved by:
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Amélia M. Villegas, City Clerk Ariston Julian Mayor
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