City Council — May 11, 2026

Hello all and welcome to the Carpinteria City Council meeting. Today is May 11th, and I

Mayor, we have no raised hands.

I will close public comment and bring it back to the council for a motion.

I move to adopt the proclamation designating May 2026 as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the City of Carpinteria.

Second.

We have a

first and a second. All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Motion passes, and with that we will read the proclamation and we will begin with Councilmember Mayer

Whereas Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is a time to recognize the significant contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, AAPI, who serve as leaders in business, government, law, education, science, athletics, the arts, and many other fields. And to acknowledge the challenges including discrimination and violence that the AAPI community has faced and continues to face in the pursuit of equity and inclusion. And

whereas in 1978, a joint congressional resolution established what was then known as Asian Pacific American Heritage Week to commemorate two historical milestones in Asian Pacific American history, the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States on May 7th 1843, and the contributions of Chinese workers to the construction of the transcontinental railroad completed on May 10th, 1869 and

whereas generations of brave women and men made the journey across the Pacific Ocean in search of better lives and opportunities for their families. And in doing so contributed significantly to the economic prosperity and cultural fabric of communities across California and the United States

Whereas according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community is 6.4% of Santa Barbara County's population and...

Whereas Carpinteria's history is deeply connected to Asian American families who were instrumental in the early development of agriculture in the Carpinteria Valley and who played a vital role in the founding and growth of the Carpinteria community

Now therefore the City of Carpinteria, the City Council of the City of Carpinteria hereby declares the month of May as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the city of Carpinteria and calls upon all residents to join in honoring and recognizing the rich heritage history and ongoing contributions of the AAPI community. And I'll look to the clerk. Do we have a specific individual who received this proclamation?

Oh, we do mayor. I believe it's um It's Vin.

Oh Perfect welcome Vin. Thank you

awesome Mayor Alarcon vice mayor Solorzano council member Clark council member mayor council member Nomura My name is Vin Bennett and on behalf of the AAPI communities of Carpinteria and Santa Barbara what an honor it is once again to be We celebrate this month as a symbol of strength, resilience and culture. We are proud of those that came before us and paved our way. Our roots stay true to who we are and our identities are governed by these cultural upbringings. They shape the way we see the world and the way we interact. The stories that we share with one another have a familiarity that gives us comfort and gives us hope for the future.

I recently attended the Festival of Books and was proud to see the numerous representations of Asian American and Pacific Island authors. They talked to the people about their inspirations for their superhero protagonists, and referenced themes native to their experiences. It was absolutely uplifting to see this in the forefront of such a highlight event. May we continue to support and celebrate each other in recognizing the diversity of our heritage, in support of the AAPI community. May we listen and may we retell our stories so that we may always remember the blessings we are to one another. We are grateful for this recognition. Thank you

Thank you and with that we invite you and whoever else would like to take a photo with us in the front.

Okay, I did want to introduce Tama Takahashi who is a visual artist in Santa Barbara she'd like to just take a few moments to say a few words if that's okay? Absolutely!

I am Tama Takahashi, a visual artist and I have to say it was so touched by the reading of the proclamation. I spent the last many months getting ready for a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara. So I've been kind of immersed in all the sadness around My family having been in camp. And so to hear these words, I just think back that my father's family would have been really touched and gratified for that. So thank you.

I'm sorry, I didn't expect this at all to be so emotional. I wanted to say that my show opens June 7th at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara and it's in the small Norton Gallery in conjunction with Arte del Pueblo. And I have several events going on with that. They're large-scale photographs of Minidoka Concentration Camp, two sculptural pieces and a video installation.

And there's gonna be an artist walkthrough on June 27th with me. And then in July 18th we have a Minidoka survivor, camp survivor and former park ranger from Minidoka. And also an activist from Nikkei Progressives coming to the museum to do a panel discussion. So I hope that you'll come and see the show, and thank you again. Thank you.

Ready? One, two. This is this camera. It's

important.

Thank you.

Yes, absolutely.

Thank you. For that proclamation I would also like to thank the City Council on behalf of the Japanese community in Carpinteria. I am also the president of the Santa Barbara Japanese American Citizens League so it's very touching this area here has a very rich heritage of Japanese taking leadership roles including me being the second mayor which was amazing because back then there was a lot of prejudice and I would say discrimination, so it's surprising that we would have had a mayor so early in our history.

So thank you very much for that.

We will now

I'm here. We have no Zoom speakers.

I will close public comment and bring it back to the council for a motion.

I move to adopt the resolution congratulating Dr. Jim Campos upon being named Carpinterian of the Year for 2025 and congratulating Valeria Galilea Pulido upon being named Junior Carpenterian of the Year for 2025.

I'll second that.

We have a first and a second all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? None, motion passes and we will begin reading the resolution with Councilmember Mayer

And this is a resolution of the City Council for the City of Carpinteria congratulating Dr. Jim Campos upon being named Carpinterian of the Year for 2025, whereas Dr. Jim Campos is a proud native of Carpinteria and a lifelong member of this community having been raised and educated within the Carpinteria Unified School District and

Whereas Dr. Campos has demonstrated outstanding dedication to the cultural and civic life of Carpinteria through his service as a board member of the Alcazar Theater, The Carpinteria Art Center and The Rotary Club of Carpentria Morning and...

Whereas his commitment to preserving local heritage is exemplified through his leadership and volunteer service with the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History ensuring that the city that the valley's cultural legacy remains accessible to all and

Whereas Dr. Campos has served as an educator, historian, mentor and civic leader whose work has strengthened the community across generations and...

Whereas during his distinguished career in education he developed the Early Childhood Learning Program at Calina School and secured a Title VII grant to establish a Spanish-English Immersion program later recognized in the Harvard Review opening doors for generations of bilingual students and fostering inclusivity and

Whereas he has generously contributed his time and expertise by writing for the museum's Grapevine Bulletin, the Coastal View News and Carpinteria Magazine. And by co-authoring two pictorial history books that preserve and celebrate this story of Carpinteria and...

Whereas as a founding member of the Carpinteria Cultural Foundation, he has worked to promote community history through educational materials, murals and storytelling initiatives that honor the Valley's diverse heritage and...

Whereas his extraordinary contributions have been given voluntarily, driven by a deep love for Carpinteria and a steadfast belief that the community's history belongs to everyone. Now therefore be it resolved that the above recitals are true and correct and incorporated herein by reference." And although Dr. Jim Campos was unable to make it here tonight we were able to celebrate him and acknowledge all of his accomplishments during the Carpinteria Community Awards Gala.

And with that, we will also recognize our Junior Carpinterian of the Year and we will begin reading this resolution with Councilmember Mayer.

Whereas Valeria Galilea Pulido is the proud daughter of immigrants who came to Carpinteria with little more than hope and an unwavering belief in the power of hard work to build a meaningful future, and.

Whereas through her upbringing Valeria learned that true impact is not measured by personal gain but by the lives one uplifts and that her responsibility is not only to succeed but to contribute to a more just compassionate and unified world, and whereas during her

time At Carpinteria High School, Valeria has consistently exemplified the highest qualities of the community's youth including academic excellence, leadership, integrity, resilience and a genuine commitment to others. And

whereas Valeria has raised the academic and professional standard among her peers inspiring those around her while providing a steady enthusiastic and authentic leadership presence that naturally earns the respect of others and

Whereas beginning in her sophomore year, Valeria set and achieved ambitious goals for earning exclusively A and A-plus grades while undertaking one of the most rigorous academic schedules available with demonstrating extraordinary discipline focus and maturity.

Whereas Valeria has actively contributed to her school and community through numerous extracurricular and service activities, including serving as a four-year cheerleader and a leader at the CHS Mini Warrior Cheer Camp. Mentoring youth in her church as a confirmation peer leader, participating on the Youth Advisory Board, founding and presiding over the CHS Wellness Club, serving as Secretary of AVID competing on the CHS mock trial team where she earned honorable mention and as best defense attorney and participating in the Girls Inc. Eureka program, and

whereas Valeria's achievements including receiving the Girls Inc. National Scholarship Being named Homecoming Queen and delivering a TED-style talk at Pepperdine University on microaggressions reflect not only her individual excellence, but also her deep gratitude and connection to the community that supported her. And

whereas Valeria has expressed her commitment to carrying forward the values of her family and community stating that her accomplishments belong to those who supported her and that she seeks not only to grow but to uplift others wherever she goes. Now, therefore be it resolved the above recitals are true and correct and incorporated herein by reference. And the Carpinteria City Council hereby recognizes and commends Valeria Galelea Pulido as a 2025 Junior Carpenterian of the Year honoring her outstanding achievements exemplary leadership and unwavering dedication to her community. Welcome Valeria and congratulations!

And you are more than welcome to come to the podium and share a few words.

Good evening Mayor Alarcon, fellow City Council members, everyone here tonight and everyone here tonight that's here to support me such as my family and wonderful folks at the Carpinteria Community Association I am grateful beyond measurement to be named this year's Junior Carpinterian of the Year. This honor truly humbles me because it would have not been possible without the people who have known me best and has supported me from the start. To feel this kind of support from my own community, the mentors who have cheered me on, taught me and shaped me is something I'll carry with me forever.

That's exactly what makes Carpinteria so special. It's tight-knit, generous, supporting and deeply kind To everyone, and I'm so proud to call it home. I promise to carry the Carpinteria spirit with me into every community I enter such as this fall where I will attend Mount St. Mary's University in Los Angeles majoring in political science with a minor in pre-law as an honors student and a recipient of the President's Award A huge thank you to the Carpinteria Community Association, not just for this honor but for believing that the power young people have to change our world and entrusting that power in me.

So a thousand thank yous for inviting me as well. Thank you.

Valeria we'd love to take a photo with you and anyone else who you would like to invite up?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, mom's phone first. The most important one. Wonderful. Thanks so much. Congratulations.

I would also like to congratulate and acknowledge the parents for Valeria, so thank you very much for your leadership and your guidance. Appreciate it very much. I can tell you right now they're hardworking people, extremely hardworking people. Keep track of them. They take care of my house. We're next door neighbors, so thank you very much for that.

We will now

Good evening Madam Mayor, Council Members. I am not Tim Gray but i will be introducing to him but I wanted to embarrass him a little bit because he does have particular spotlights that like to showcase. Yes it's his 10-year service and on behalf of his family friends as well as his co-workers congratulations Tim. Started out as a maintenance worker one position in 2016 and got promoted to maintenance worker number two position in 2021.

And since then he's done outstanding work, it's not just the routine work like other public works maintenance workers have are doing around town for the community but he also as part of the Public Works Department team as well as our emergency management Team that he has been involved or participated in a lot of the first responding are especially us as public works first responders Tim has been through the Thomas fire the debris flow of 2017 2018, of course kovat 19 pandemic in 2020 2021 and the more recent winter storm events of 2023 2025 So he is one of the workers out there cleaning our storm drain systems before winter events and also our Public Works first responder. And without further ado, I'd like to invite Tim and his family over for his recognition.

Thank you

Yeah, this was a thank you for the acknowledgement I Just want to say that. I love the town. I love taking care of it getting a little emotional It's just been great. It opened up a lot of doors. I was a Cub Scout Master for, I think, eight years. Right now currently coaching Little League even though my son is 18 and he's actually my assistant coach so we've been doing that a couple years so it's been fun. Just getting involved in the city has A joy just to represent the city when tourists or even locals approach me and ask me questions. It's just kind of like, what's the word I'm looking for?

Just being able to help guide people in certain directions. Like, hey where's the best coffee? So I'll tell them but I won't say it out loud right now. Just stuff like that and then my crew there's only about five of us and we're really tight and working with them has been really good and I don't know what else to say just thank you.

Thank you. And I'd like to read what's on your certificate, and then invite you to take a photo with us. So your service embodies the values of our organization, significantly contributing to our mission and goals, leaving a lasting impact on our community. So thank you for your outstanding service and continued dedication. And it shows just in the short amount of time that we put you on the spot.

With that, we'd love to take a photo with you.

The official one.

I'd also like to take public comment on item number three. I do not have any speaker slips. Do we have anyone via Zoom?

Mayor, we have no Zoom speakers. I will close public comment.

We will move on to item number four which is a proclamation designating May 17th through the 23rd I'd like to open up public comment. I do not have any speaker slips Do we have anyone via zoom

there? We have no raised hands

I will close public comment and bring it back to the council for

a motion. I Move to approve the proclamation designated May 17th through 23rd 2026 as National Public Works Week

second,

we have a first in a second all those in favor.

Aye

Any opposed motion passes And we will begin reading the proclamation with Council Member Mayer.

Whereas National Public Works Week is an annual observance to celebrate the tens of thousands of individuals who work on public works, including infrastructure facilities and services that are vital to sustainable and resilient communities and support health safety and quality of life across all of North America. And

whereas public works could not be provided without the commitment dedication and technical expertise of the public works personnel employed at all levels of government in the private sector To plan, design, construct, operate and maintain the nation's transportation infrastructure, public facilities, public spaces, public services, public resources and conservation and fleet and equipment. And

whereas in 1960 the United States Senate adopted a resolution affirming the first National Public Works Week and

Whereas in 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed the Presidential Proclamation of National Public Works Week and...

In 2003, President George W. Bush defined through Homeland Security Presidential Directive 8 the term first responder to also include public works personnel and

Whereas as first responders in accordance with H.S.P.D. 8, Public Works personnel are among those responsible for the protection and preservation of life property evidence and environment during those critical early stages of incidents response and

whereas in November 2017 the Board of Directors of the American Public Works Association Passed a motion to launch a campaign to promote public works personnel as first responders and approve the adoption of the Public Works First Responder Symbol, shown herein.

Whereas on May 11, 2020 the Carpinteria City Council designated the Public Works First Responder Symbol as shown herein as a permanent official City of Carpinteria symbol for City Public Works personnel in acknowledgement of their duties as a first responder to be affixed to city public works personnel uniforms vehicles and equipment and

Whereas as first responders City Public Works personnel were called upon to respond to emergencies including the COVID-19 pandemic and winter storms and

whereas the year 2026 marks a 66th anniversary of National Public Works Week and is sponsored by the American Public Works Association and Canadian Public Works Association and

Whereas it is in the public's interest for the Carpinteria community to gain knowledge of and to maintain a progressive interest and understanding of the importance work, of Public Works.

Now therefore be it proclaimed the Carpinteria City Council does hereby designate the week of May 17th through the 23rd 2026 as National Public Works Week in the city of Carpinteria

Thank you Madam Mayor, Council Members on behalf of the Public Works Department and city staff. This does mean a lot to us as public works professionals and like you've read in the proclamation it is the 66th anniversary of National Public Works Week and this particular theme of this year Like all the other themes in past years, but this theme acknowledges the roots of service that runs deep in public works and it was propelled or is propelled by public works innovations that help communities including the Carpinteria community.

Evolve into places where people can live lives of purpose and possibility. So that is the theme Rooted in service and powered by community and for us its root in service empowered by Carpinteria community so with that I like to introduce the two Polar Works personnel or staff Would like to receive the proclamation on behalf Of city staff, thank you

Would you all like to say a few words as well or just take a photo?

Well, first of all congratulations Tim on the work anniversary. Tim's a fantastic worker it's always a good time working with him and he's always bringing such a positive perspective to the department so really appreciate having you and talking about public works and what we do just on the day-to-day around town aside from having major emergencies like the Thomas Fire or the Woolsey fire. I worked in Thousand Oaks during the Woolsey fire and know how wild it can be for people those are the extremes but even the day-to-day going around and picking up tree limbs from wind or cleaning storm drains during the rain, the residents here have been super supportive of us and really appreciative of us just being out there and part of Public Works is responding to every little thing as fast as we can.

So that's something that we push and Tim is very good about when I if we, if I send him on something he's there within a couple minutes. I mean we're fortunate that Carp is not very big so we can get everywhere fairly quickly but it's really great to go out to these you know resident requests like tree down or storm vents plugged and having people be appreciative of the fact that we're there and um you know it's like Tim said it's not really just a job. I mean it's it's a good feeling to go out there and see the residents Proud to see us out there. So I appreciate that.

Ready? One, two.

I just want to say give my also my appreciation to our public works staff. I know that You each one of you is kept very very busy out there in the community And I'm I know that some community members appreciate it very much and others aren't able to show their appreciation Because you guys are always moving around to the next the next thing So thank you for having such a small but very very mighty team that's taking care of the city. We appreciate it very much

Thank you and those are kind words I'll relate to the actual people who actually work out in the field, but thank you

We will now

I'm here. We have no zoom speakers. I will close public

comment

Hello Council Member and member of the public. I'm pleased to introduce our newest member of the Administrative Services Department team, Kelly Guevara. Kelly brings accounting and payroll experiences and holds a Bachelor of Science from in business administration from the USC Channel Island. In the role of accounting technician, she will be primarily performing accounts payable, accounts receivable along with just other duties to support the department such as payroll and budget adjustments So with that, actually this is Kelly's second week. I forgot to mention that and she's doing a great job so far. So I'm happy and excited to be working alongside her. Do you have anything else, Sue? You want

to add? Thank you Pam. Good evening, City Council. I'm really grateful for this opportunity and I'm excited to continue my career and learn a lot about government accounting so thank you. I appreciate it.

Thank you.

We look forward to working with you.

We will now move on to public information reports and announcements, and we will begin with the Sheriff's recap.

Good evening Madam Mayor, Council Members, Carpinteria City staff, community members of Carpinteria. Thank you for having me. For the month of April I have a recap here regarding the deceased body found at San Ynez Avenue at The Dead End there an extensive investigation by detectives determined it was a suicide. The decedent was not local he was actually a missing person out of Carlsbad and there will be no further investigation and nothing for our community members to worry about In the 1400 block of Azalea Drive, we had a burglary.

Deputies responded for report of an unknown subject inside the reporting party's garage. Prior to deputies arriving, the subject was confronted by the homeowner and the suspect fled the scene. Deputies located the subject at a nearby intersection where the homeowner positively identified the suspect and he was arrested and booked into jail for burglary. At the Carpinteria Post Office, we had an individual that sent three envelopes with separate paper checks at the drop box on 4-626 and then on 413 she checked our online banking app and discovered that two of those checks had been cashed under different names than were previously addressed.

One was changed for the amount, the fraudulent checks totaled $15,671. And we actually had multiple reports of this this month so I want to just make everybody be aware if you're dropping off at the post office, you may not want to do that quite yet here in Carp. We saw the similar activity in Montecito 8-10 months ago. So I'm kind of concerned that now it's going to happening here.

Drop box. At Linden and Ninth Street, we had an unruly subject brandish a knife at a business after throwing chairs around. He was subsequently chased out of the location and went to a nearby business armed with a knife in hand. He eventually dropped the knife and was subdued by patrons. Moments before deputies arrived he was eventually arrested and transported to the main jail.

And then we had a couple scam reports. One was the victim deposited 7,000 into the bank account of a scammer she met online. And then another one, the victim was defrauded out of $2,000 when the caller said that the victim had a warrant for her arrest and needed to pay money. The victim paid 2,000 via Zelle before realizing it was a scam. And the caller said he worked for Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office and gave the name of Sergeant James Smith. We do not call people like that. We do not have your zealous money so please do not fall for that if you do get a call something similar Hang up immediately and you could call the sheriff's office and then a deputy or dispatch will tell you that's a scam.

Community outreach, we had none for our chiefs message again called 911 for any emergencies and non-emergencies. The non-emergency dispatch 805-683-2724 deputies gave out 12 illegal camping citations this month. There have been a lot of recent complaints about the illegal camping in the city of Carpinteria And one of those illegal campers who was cited multiple times under a fictitious name, was subsequently arrested for using that same name that she used previous times. But they couldn't get the spelling right so she ended up being arrested and proved to have a warrant for her arrest for similar behavior in the city of Santa Barbara.

DUIs, we had seven DUIs this month. Some were over twice the legal limit and one was actually over four times the legal limit. And many of these DUI calls come in and we've discussed this before from reporting parties people that see suspicious driving or potential drunk driving so I would just urge the community to please continue to call that in Because a lot of times that's what leads us to these DOIs. And we had somebody who was like 0.36, which I don't even know how they're driving at that blood alcohol content.

And then for our e-bikes, which is an ongoing issue. Deputies towed two illegal e-bikes, which are electric motorcycles this past month. So again I would just ask people to do your homework before purchasing your children the e-bikes. The cost to get one out of tow we actually had somebody in today getting one out of tow and it's probably going to be about 7,800 because for a minimum they're going to be held 48 hours.

And sometimes you may not with these illegal e-bikes you may not get them back at all so just be aware of that before you go purchasing the ones the ones with the pegs only are totally illegal for public roadway and that's all I have and i'm under report oh also The Santa Barbara County District Attorney is making it a little easier to report suspected scams.

So they launched a new email address, reportfraud at countyofsb.org where the public can now send information about suspected scams. That's reportfraud at county of sb.org. The DA's office said there is no required format for the email, but encourages people to provide as much detail as possible. Things like dates and times, contact information used by the suspect or the scammer, and any screenshots, emails, text messages, or transaction records.

And then for those who prefer not to use the email, the District Attorney's Office also operates a scam hotline at 805-568-2442 a scam hotline at 805-568-2442. End of report.

Thank you for your report, any questions?

Yeah I just to clarify the post office thing it's uh it's you're in reference to the drop box out by the curb it's still safe to go inside and drop in there?

I would think it would be I mean I'm not gonna you know that's where they reported draw at the drop box I don't know at what point there's Being jeopardized from the drop box or inside. I don't know so, but I would just be leery of the drop box That's we got multiple reports of dropping mail off at the drop box

Okay, thanks councilmember Clark. I was there shortly I guess after this it happened and they had told me it was safe if I took stuff inside

Any other questions yes

Real quick, at the last meeting I brought up a question regarding human trafficking if that was an issue here in town. I understand there was a slight incidence here something happened a little while ago How safe is the community right now? Is this something we should be aware of or alerted to?

This is a pretty safe community, I would say. There's always going to be instances like the situation we had which I'm not going to get into but I will say this is a very safe community probably one of the more safer communities that I've ever worked so I'm pretty comfortable. I think I would feel very comfortable if I was a citizen here or a community member

Sounds good. They only bring it up because we're on one of the major corridors of California

There's a lot that goes through here, you know So on the 101 I mean there's a lot that passes through here its main destination is probably not Carpinteria

Okay

Any other questions? Yes.

If I could add just as well, we're talking about safety there were a couple of reports that I provided to the council this last week regarding e-bike accidents between youth on bikes versus cars and in both of the incidents the driver was not at fault it was The e-bike riders, and there was one I don't think I passed along to the council yet. Now this Saturday there was two youth double riding on an illegal e-bike near 5750 Villarreal. They also hit a vehicle and required one of the parents to take one of the youth to the hospital.

There was also a hospital visit in the other one so really just want to continue to encourage people to ride safely.

Regarding the e-bikes and just the, I know we've been, we launched the, we created the new ordinance. We've launched an outreach campaign. Are we keeping track? I know we're having, receiving some reports of e-bike accidents but do we have a tally right now of how many accidents we've had maybe in the last like three months? And if we don't now maybe that's something that we can have on hand moving forward.

Yeah, Mayor Olicon. I don't know that number right off the top of my head. I think it's probably three or four accidents.

I would say at least in...I think it's more prevalent in the past three months than it has been so it looks like it's ramping up so I don' have an exact number but I would say at least three or four in the past three months. I can ask our analysts to see if we can get that.

Perfect

thank you

Any other questions?

On that, I'm wondering if maybe on a quarterly basis or some sort of reporting amount of time we could get a little bit of information on citations also for e-bikes. Are kids getting cited or I don't want to single them out as kids, but are e our bicyclists being cited for You know under our new ordinance

so I could tell you that There might have been a couple but we're we were not really into that phase yet So it's been very minimal. So But if what we've towed more ebikes than we given Violations for those citations before I could tell you that for sure.

That's all I mean it's helpful to know right

But once we get into that phase, I'm sure there'll be no shortage

for

sure Great any other questions? No questions. Thank you for your report.

Thank you. Thank you

We will now move on to the first district supervisors report welcome Daisy and

Good evening Mayor Alarcon, hello council, hello staff, hello public. Okay so my report will start with housing in unincorporated Carpinteria not a lot of updates nothing to update on Van Wingerden nothing to update on the Cravens Lane The Baylord Project, the next joint meeting between representatives from city staff, Carp Summerlin Fire County and the Redtail applicant will be happening on May 28th.

And then immediately following that meeting, there is another meeting between the Casitas Village HOA board and the Red Tail applicant. And this time including representatives from FIRE as well. This project still has two open applications which they...the county has indicated they cannot process to open applications so They still have their by right application through the rezone process and the sequa, excuse me, the builders remedy application as well. So two open applications they'll have to pick one to move forward with.

Speaking on behalf of Fire Marshal Lomonaco, he said that what he requested from them was a full fire evacuation traffic study and he hasn't gotten that back so he's waiting on that. And he had a lot of questions based on the initial proposal that he saw and so the applicant is still working through those things. So those are the notes from Fire Marshal Lomonaco And last time I was here and many times have been here. There's been talk of development impact fees and how that could they typically go to the county when it's projects on County property, but considering the nature of this project being really not on many If any county roads. What that could look like in terms of impact fee sharing so public works County Public Works team has indicated that they are open to discussing what a sharing could look like but much further down the line, let's say even after a single application is moving forward with the project but we do recognize Uncommon nature of this project in the county but mostly using city public works and infrastructure.

So it's my specific housing update As it pertains to the rest of the county, but will also be affected here. Last month the Board of Supervisors passed a locals first marketing requirement for any new housing built so the new ordinance mandates that developers target local renters or buyers for 12 weeks before expanding their marketing campaigns broader than that and it also requires developers to report on the number of locals in their residence once the project has reached 90% occupancy. So that was a major win when it first came to the board, it was proposed as a three-week marketing campaign and so it got expanded to 12 weeks.

So that's super exciting and hopefully we're helping more locals stay here and local families stay here. So that's my housing update. Do you want to ask questions now or should I keep moving on?

Just a real quick question. I think we Good time to do this one when it said when you say local How is that measured within a county because it's a county piece of property or is it? Located within a certain specific region or area

they're hammering that out what local means this is coming the so the There's there's a lot of legality around I'm looking at Council over here because there's a lot of legality over Marketing campaigns and who you can rent to and who you cannot rent to So defining what a local is is going to be part of the process of when this gets implemented Thank

you.

There are

ideas

though

I also had a question about that. So in terms of the local buyers first campaign, that's just for marketing right? In other words if somebody gets wind of the available rental space or property who is not a local they can still get Apply for those positions.

Yes, I would assume but the idea is to really give What will be defined as a local the heads up on Through social media through outreach that sort of thing So the details are being hammered out as to what that looks like, but the board unanimously passed Wanting that to be an initiative Thank you Okie dokie, moving on to cannabis updates. So there's not much to update other than when I came here last I said that nine of the operators in the Carpinteria Valley had been given notices of intent to revoke their licenses Two of those nine, their equipment was installed and compliant. So those letters were rescinded. And then one of those operators did not have an operational license so the license letter was retracted and an advisory letter was issued in its place.