City Council — September 28, 2026

Hello all, good evening and welcome to the Carpinteria City Council meeting. Today's date is September 28th, 2026 and I will request a roll call please.

Thank you Mayor Alarcon, council members. The council met in closed session to discuss one matter with legal counsel regarding anticipated litigation and there is no reportable action this evening thanks great

Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And the first two items on our agenda are very exciting. We will first recognize the retirement of Michael Hickey who has been our part-time crossing guard for 40 years. For over 40 years, 42. Michael Hickey if you'd like to come on up and stand at the podium while I read the recognition. So in honor of your retirement and in recognition of over 40 years of dedicated and exemplary public service to the City of Carpinteria, since joining the city as a part-time crossing guard in September 1984 you have faithfully served the Carpinteria community with professionalism dedication and unwavering commitment. Through your care and vigilance, you have helped ensure the safety and well-being of generations of students including mine while making a lasting and positive impact on countless families throughout our community.

On behalf of the City Council staff and community we extend our sincere appreciation and best wishes for a happy and fulfilling retirement. Congratulations and thank you for all of your service.

Thank you everybody, thank you Carpinteria. If you see me around town say hi everybody I miss all the people that I crossed over the years I miss the friends I made over at least of the last couple years and please say hi to me when you see me thank you very much I'd like to thank my family for being here tonight and I'm not going to introduce them and thank you very much Why don't you name a ball, a street after me

please? Thank you. And before what I'll do next is just open up public comment. Is there anyone in the audience? I have no speaking... Public comments for this. Anyone via Zoom?

Mayor, we have no raised hands.

I will officially close public comment and ask Michael Hickey along with any family members you'd like to take a photo with us in the front

Look over at these guys first. All right, I've got two. Okay, everybody hold tight. We'll do one, two and three there Okay and now this one.

The next item on our agenda is a 10-year service award to Marisol Smith, who is our Associate Planner. I will first open up public comment. I do not have any speaker slips. Do we have anyone via Zoom?

Mayor, we have no raised hands.

Okay, I will close public comment and ask that Marisol come to the podium while I share a few nice words about you. So your service embodies the values of our organization, significantly contributing to our mission and goals leaving a lasting impact on our community. And thank you for your outstanding service and continued dedication to the city of Carpinteria.

Thank

you. And Mayor if it's

okay staff has some comments as well?

Absolutely!

Thank you Mayor Alarcon, council members.

So

Marisol joined the city back in 2016 as an assistant planner and she was promoted in 2021 to associate planner position that she continues to serve in today The title, I think, belies a little bit of how much she brings to the table. There's a lot of work that Marisol does behind the scenes to keep our department running that is not reflected in the associate planner position that she officially holds. So not only does she work on planning cases like the rest of our planners but she's also instrumental in helping complete a lot of the technology work for our department so single-handedly or nearly single handedly been our point person developing our new permit software with GovWell and getting that off the ground. She's also doing a lot of work on a near weekly basis behind the scenes to help us get our agendas up online and published out to the community for our various public meetings, and she also does a lot of work up at the front counter to be one of the faces of the department and one of those faces that the public interacts with on behalf of our department regularly And I can say just on behalf of our team, we really appreciate your dedication and your commitment and everything that you bring to our department.

And we're happy to be able to recognize you for 10 years of service. Thank

you. Would you like to say a few words? I'm good. Thank you. OK. We'll take a photo in the front. We'd love for you to join us.

All right. Thank you very much.

We will now

Well good evening everybody, Madam Mayor, Council Members. Carpinteria staff and Carpinteria community members. It's good to see everybody feel like I haven't been here for a couple months, which is actually true so it's good to see everybody here tonight. Let me start off by, I'm going to kind of consolidate it for you here because it's been a long two months.

So for July and August of 2026 we have a revolver that was found wrapped inside a paper bag inside someone's trunk who was unaware it was there. Not sure who it belonged to so we have no information on how it got there. We have a suspicious circumstance where somebody reported a 9mm round lodged into the pavement at a crosswalk at Carp and Palm Avenue. So we just collected the bullet and sent it off, but we have no information other than that.

We have at least two reports of counterfeit $100 bills being passed out at local businesses. In one case, the suspect pushed the owner out of the way as the owner attempted to detain the suspect for responding deputies. The suspect was located nearby by deputies walking in the area and arrested for burglary and for battery of the owner. Stolen vehicles, we have five reported stolen vehicles within the city of Carpinteria for the months of July and August.

In one case, deputies found the vehicle as it was driving, conducted a high-risk stop and arrested the suspect who had a felony warrant from LAPD for a case regarding a stolen vehicle. So go figure on that one. Possession of nitrous oxide, a juvenile was detained after acting suspicious and trying to elude deputies and changing his shirt in attempt to hide from them. He was found to be in possession of nitrous oxide. He was cited and released to a responsible party. And then in another case we actually found three tanks of nitrous oxide inside a vacated hotel room.

I'll touch on that a little bit more later. We had a warrant arrest, the suspect was detained after being reported from looking into parked cars in a parking lot. And he was found to have an outstanding no bail warrant out of San Bernardino, he was arrested and extradited We have a possession of narcotics for sale and possession of a handgun during a traffic stop. Deputies located approximately two ounces of methamphetamine, 12 pre-packaged baggies of methamphetamine, a loaded handgun with the cereals altered. The driver was a convicted felon and subsequently arrested. And there was two other persons in the vehicle, two female suspects that were cited.

We have a residential burglary between the hours of noon and 2 p.m., where unknown suspect or suspects entered the home through an open window, stole jewelry in high-end purses. No surveillance system so we have no other suspect info in that case. And then I will move on to, again just to remind you that we don't have numbers yet because our systems are not compatible. So I'm still waiting on that. I don't have a date yet when we're going to have updated numbers.

Nothing for community outreach. The chief's message, I have a couple things here first obviously call 911 in any emergency and the non-emergency dispatch number 805-683-2724 that's for any stale cases or where there's no threat of violence or harm to anyone Talking about the stolen vehicles, I'd just like to remind people to lock your doors and do not leave your keys inside your vehicle. Many of these stolen vehicles are crimes of opportunity where the criminal walks past an unlocked vehicle and keys inside and without advanced planning they see an easy target and on the spur of the moment they'll take your car that's happened quite a few times so just be cognizant of that try to keep yourself from being a victim Something that I want to mention is early morning joggers.

I get to work very early in the morning and my routine is, I kind of drive through the town to kind of see how everything is especially on our major streets. A lot of joggers out there in the morning which is a good thing however you'd be surprised at how many people are wearing dark clothing So please, I just want to stress that there's dangers of low visibility in vehicles. So running before sunrise means drivers, delivery trucks and other etc may not see you as easily so there's an increasing risk of getting hit by a car. Also sleepier distracted drivers. A lot of people may be just getting off work or just getting up is still tired as well This could be a major hazard during dawn hours, so be visible. Some people have the little lamp light on that's good too but then they're totally dark.

So sometimes I'm driving down and if they're running together i see these two headlights bouncing in the thing and I'm really not sure to make of it but then it's two individuals. I would say put a reflective vest on or some reflective clothing with your upper body and maybe on your shoes and stuff. I just want to try to avoid a bad accident, so I see this almost every day. So please put something reflective on so when the driver's coming they can see you from a distance.

We talked about nitrous oxide. There's many tobacco and smoke shops sell nitrous oxide canisters, often called whippets or brand names like galaxy gas while legally marketed as a culinary tool for making whipped cream they're frequently sold for recreation inhalation due to rising health risk and use by minors many cities and states are actively banning or restricting these sales in local smoke shops So be leery of that. This seems to be kind of coming on mainly with the youth, right?

And how they appeal to it, they'll put out sweet flavors. Tanks are sold in like varieties of cotton candy and strawberry splash. They'll put bright packaging resembles mainstream candy or energy drinks. There's social media trends where viral videos popularize inhaling the gas, called laughing gas or NOS. And it's pretty easy access. These tanks are widely available online in local smokes or vape shops so sometimes with minimal age verification and you have to be 18 years old in California to possess. I did have some, I don't think anybody can see but I did have some photos here that kind of show you the marketing.

And then our e-bike and our bicycle safety update. We had a Goleta motor come in and conduct e-bike and bicycle safety operation we gave on one day in six hours, we gave 13 citations to minors 10 of them was for no helmet Two was for not stopping at a stop sign and one was for no license driving an illegal electric motorcycle. I want to remind everybody that the e-bikes without pedals, just the pegs, that's an electric motorcycle and those are illegal to be on the roadway period and we will tow it so...

All these juveniles are eligible for the Carpinteria Restorative Justice Program, where they attend a free class that focuses on e-bike or bicycle safety and operation. So everybody there has that opportunity and I know that the city's actively reaching out to the parents and getting them set to go to this class. And with that, I just want to remind you that Avocado Festival is this weekend so we're looking forward to seeing everybody out there. Please come up and say hi. I'll be out there all three days and we're looking to having a great time. And that's end of report.

All right, thank you. Do we have any questions for the chief? OK, no questions. I will open up public comment. I do not have any speaker slips for this item. Do we have anyone via Zoom?

Mayor, we have no raised hands.

I will close public comment. Thank you for your report. We will now

Daisy. Good evening Mayor Alarcon. Hello staff, hello council, hello staff. I'm going to take a page out of City Manager Ramirez's book tonight and remind folks that there is a lot more in my report online then I'll kind of go through tonight and there will be, there's a lot of links so I'm going to kind of rattle through a lot of opportunities and there's a lots of links in that report that people can click through if they're interested in any of these things.

Alrighty, so to start off with there are really no meaningful updates on the unincorporated housing in Carpinteria. We're kind of in this hurry up and wait phase. There are three projects and they're all either no application is submitted or staff is working through the applications and awaiting feedback. The second item is Winter Storm El Nino Prep. This continues to be a big priority for the county, so on October 1st there's going to be a virtual meeting on El Nino prep. There's gonna be a panel of about...

last I checked I think it's about eight different agencies that will be commenting on the preparations. This meeting was getting so big, in fact, that they've now changed it to a live stream on YouTube. So there'll be a live stream on YouTube in English and in Spanish. And folks are encouraged to submit questions by tomorrow at three o'clock. So there's a link on another page in here about that, but tune in it will also be on YouTube so anybody can watch it if you can't make it on October 1st and again there are loads of resources on the county storm preparation website. If you just type in Santa Barbara County Storm Prep into Google you should be met with A whole bunch of links for real-time data, basin cameras, storm prep checklists.

Finding out if you're in a flood zone where you can find sandbags all sorts of stuff so El Nino is definitely top of mind. Moving further down, RVs on the 192 has been a problem that we've heard about pretty much since we've taken office and I'm sure before that so the Board of Supervisors did pass a parking resolution on August 25th requesting Caltrans to ban overnight parking on 192 specifically This is between Linden and further down, it's escaping me at the moment but much further down.

I want to say closer to Lions Park and there are links of the maps and resolution you can look at that. I will say this is a Caltrans road, so it is the responsibility of Caltrans to put in the signs. So we are going to wait and see how that goes. But the first step was the county requesting that they do that. So that has been checked. I wanted to emphasize that CHP and the sheriffs kind of they patrol different parts of that road. So for illegal camping you can call the sheriff's office that they requested after dusk please And you can call their non-emergency dispatch at 805-683-2724.

And for abandoned vehicles or vehicles that have been parked there for 72 hours, you can call the CHP. So their non emergency dispatch is 805-770-4800. So kind of a funky road with a lot of jurisdictions but there's a lot of eyes on it. Okay, moving along. We've gotten a lot of questions about what is happening at Santa Claus Beach So I wanted to let you know that That started September 1st and this is a project of the county it is not part of Caltrans It's not part of the freeway expansion project This is the Santa Claus Lane street scapes and coastal access improvement project It's a four-phase project that will last a long time. The first phase was the bike path and the parking, that was completed last fall. This phase is to increase public access to the beach so they're creating this really beautiful crosswalk to get to the coast.

So no more having to, well you could scramble over the rocks if you want to I guess but there'll be an option if you don't wanna do that So that has started, it's an $11 million project. It's paid for through state inter-regional transportation improvement project funds and that should last hopefully up to summer of next year and not through the summer so they're really trying to get it going now.

So that is what's happening over there. Something kind of exciting that's happening, that's being piloted in Carpinteria is the public health department. The clinic over here is piloting the food as medicine program. This is being spearheaded by one of the pediatricians over there Dr. Liana Napolis She has secured a grant for $25,000 and she's partnering with the Carp Children's Project and the organic farm, Farm Cart Organics, excuse me. Across from the clinic so that pediatricians can write prescriptions for whole foods and fruits and veggies in the form of a voucher so that their patients can go get some food over at the farm cart. So it's very exciting and Dr. Nopoulos is definitely looking for more support, so if anybody is interested you can get in touch with her and her contact info is in this update.

Okay, I'm going to kind of zip through some opportunities. There's a lot happening in the next two weeks that I think is relevant to Carpinteria. So the first one is that there's a Coastal Resources Mitigation Fund grant that is open. This is from the county and they're funding projects that protect and enhance coastal resources so To be considered for funding, these projects have to have a relationship to coastal resources but they can be located in or outside of the coastal zone and most importantly these are eligible for public agencies, municipalities, special districts and non-profit organizations. So those grant proposals are due November 23rd but there are two informational meetings One is tomorrow at 10 a.m on Teams, and there's another one on Thursday at 3 p.m on Teams.

I mentioned the El Nino Prep meeting on October 1st, so we won't cover that again. Another October 1st meeting, Beach Smart is having a community conversation around Ash Avenue Beach. So this will be happening on Thursday, October 1, 530 to 7 at the Carp Vets Hall and it's to discuss beach nourishment related to Ash Avenue Beach in Carpinteria. They just had one today that was all about The Miramar and the beaches surrounding Miramar, that was really great. And a lot of community input and hopefully they'll be taking that feedback and incorporating it in the new plan. So the communicate... the community meeting will be all about how to how to keep the beach nourished with sand, and what constituents or community members are looking for.

So that meeting is on Thursday at October 1st, Vets Hall. Please just show up! I wanted to remind everyone that ballots are going out. So, October 5th is when all of any registered voter if you're a California registered voter you're getting your ballot in the mail so keep an eye out for that and ballots must be postmarked on or before election day and received by November 10th 2026. So the message is going out is to please please please Vote, vote early and you can drop it into any of the ballot boxes. There's one right over here on the street right outside City Hall and there's plenty of links for registering to vote checking your voter registration And all sorts of information on the elections and what you can expect All righty moving right along We've also had some folks reach out about The siding, the railroad signing project that has been proposed over by Padero Lane.

So on October 12th there's going to be a virtual community meeting is being put on by Losan who is the organization that is handling These This this proposed siting project so I won't go too far into what that project is. I think we've already talked about it before There's information in this report But the idea is that there was a recent tree study done to see what the impacts of this sighting would be on the trees and the neighborhood and The results came back that it would be a huge project. So the LOSAN team is evaluating what it would look like to shift that project and before they go into that, they'd like to share the updated tree study and where they currently are in the project with community members so that is going to be Monday October 12th at four o'clock.

That is a Zoom meeting as well And the last opportunity that I think is relevant to Carpinterians is October 14th, is the California Fish and Game Commission's final hearing on the proposed Mesopshino Marine Protected Area right off the coast here. There have been many hearings about this over this year. I believe last year, this proposal has been in the works for a long time along with 15 other MPA's as they're commonly called.

Notably, so this Fish and Game hearing is October 13th through 16th. It's in Sacramento but they will have Zoom participation and notably the petition from a shop channel is called 2023-29 MPA underscore AM2. They don't make it easy to find but it is on October 14th. It is item number 33 And you can submit written comments. The deadline is tomorrow at 5 p.m., if you want those comments posted with meeting materials, or you can send out what they call supplemental comment deadline, supplemental comments which means that they are provided to the commissioners but they're not part of the meeting materials so that will be, that deadline's October 8th And of course, we encourage everyone to attend the meeting and they do anticipate a lot of public comment not just on this item but on many, many, many MPAs throughout California.

So they have opened up a pre-registration for public comment that will be available to sign up for when you want to make a comment and that'll begin September 30th until noon. So anybody that wants to comment I would definitely suggest pre-registering The last thing I want to mention is there are some there aren't a lot of Board of Supervisors meetings left, there's only seven I believe for the rest of the year but some upcoming items that I believe would be of interest are There's an item on boat wrecks and County beaches this is an informational item with the goal to That our office is bringing forward with the goal to try and find some dedicated funding for cleaning up boat wrecks that we anticipate are going to happen during El Nino.

That's happening on the 6th of October, and then October 20th there is an oil spill contingency plan that's being presented by our fire department, there's an inclusionary housing ordinance amendment that's coming. That's all about affordable housing and then on November 17th the Santa Barbara County indigent care program will be covered so there's a lot happening in the next month and I'm sure when I come back they'll do plenty more.

Thank you! Do we have any questions

from council?

Thank you. Thank you for your report. Do you have any updates on red tail or where can you tell us where that's at?

Application has been kind of pinging back and forth with county staff. Um, and I believe city staff is working with them as well on some projects, but nothing meaningful since the last time I was here. Um, the last update was, was that they are continuing to, um, address the feedback from the County Planning Department. They're continuing to address feedback from County Public Works They're continuing to work with the Housing Authority, which is the main public entity that's pushing this project forward. This is a public housing project through the Housing Authority.

They as I mentioned last time they have signaled that they're willing to have a community meeting about the about the project and where they are. The Housing Authority to provide information, frequently asked questions. I've given them a frequently asked questions list that I hope that they are filling out and have asked them to share multiple projects of the project plan as it is now the traffic study and the evacuation studies so They, I haven't seen them yet but there's no update since the last time I was here. But hopefully that's all coming and yeah hopefully there's a much better update next time.

Thank

you.

A quick follow-up question. I remember last time you had mentioned that Supervisor Lee might be holding his own community meeting even though the project is not yet in any way moving forward but just so that community members could express some of the concerns they're feeling now. Is that something where you're looking at some potential dates?

Yes, I want to be careful to say it's not necessarily beneficial to have Supervisor Lee hold the meeting because he's not the one that has all the answers. So I'm hoping that the Housing Authority is the one that can put this on the calendar. We are asking them to please do it before the end of the year. I think that's a fair request so that that's what we're working on is trying to get the Housing Authority and the The developers to come together and provide that information ahead of time So people can really look at it and dig into it and then have a community meeting shortly thereafter where the questions can be asked in I'm not the one that has to constantly tell people, I'm sorry. I'm not sure. So hopefully that meeting will have the right people in the right room to answer those questions.

That's great. Thank you.

Any other questions? OK. No questions. We do have a handful of public comments so stick around please. Thank you. Yep. I will open up public comment Mr. Carl Zonkin. Welcome.

I'd like to cede to Betty Jefferson

please. Welcome, Ms. Jefferson.

Thank you very much for your interest in bringing this topic up again because as you heard, they are working with staff. So it is moving and we're very concerned. I'm Betty Jeppesen, I'm speaking against Red Tail. The project should not be built and you do have the power to stop it. The Red Tail is going to have to apply for permits and easements from you as the city manager reported last month And you have the right to protect your citizens and either deny entirely the request for those permits or easements, or make requirements to protect Carpinteria. The infrastructure and the budget.

If it gets too expensive Redtail will leave. Redtail does not care if its demands would be too expensive for Carpinteria's infrastructure or budget they want their profit so they will go if they don't get a profit Red Tail does not care if there's only one emergency exit. They do not care if they put all the residents at Casitas Village in danger, that's 280 units allowing five people occupancy per unit equals 1400 people plus all of the residents of Villa Del Mar across Baylord which are three bedroom units Please look at the facts. Red Tail is most, at most providing a few workforce housing units and the rest of the 196 proposed units over 150 units will be astronomically expensive. This is not affordable housing. The entire Casitas Village and Villa Del Mar are your affordable housing workforce units, and you would be putting them in danger if you allow this development to proceed.

They are proposing to take the driveway that Casitas Village owns behind Birch Alley, Birch Street residence. This is not as they'd like to call it a street. They even call it by a name. It is not a named street across Baylor there is a street with a name but not behind our units this is a driveway it's not even an alley It is the only way for people to back out of their garages and driveways and get out of there. So they have shown us at meetings that they propose to divert that driveway, and make it impossible to turn for our people to go into Baylor. And then they want to take it if we won't give it to them, they'll want to take it by eminent domain Funnel all the people down Poplar. Poplar is very narrow It's it used to have parking on it, but it doesn't anymore because it's really narrow If you have time, please go look at poplar and Casita's village does remain the least expensive two-bedroom condominium development in the area for people to buy Parking is already too dense.

Am I out of time? Parking is already too dense because this housing area is occupied by workers, adding cars for an additional 196 units would be unsupportable and finally Redtail should not be allowed to have a place on the City of Carpinteria's website Do all developers get a spot on your website? I don't think so And I think they should not have one either. Thank you. Thank You Mr. Bisson

Mr. James? I apologize, I can't. Yes. Mr. James Knuckles, welcome.

Hello, I'm Jim Knuckles. I'm here to talk about the grossly inadequate parking that Red Tail intends to provide for their development. According to the Baylor Avenue evacuations assessment prepared by Red Tail, Red Tail intends to provide 297 parking spaces for 196 units. That works out to one and a half parking spaces per unit. Casitas Village and Villa Del Mar each provide two off-street parking spaces per unit.

Even with that, the street parking is completely saturated. That's street parking on Baylor Avenue, Birch Street, Hickory Street, Poplar Street, Palmetto Street, Jacaranda, and Via Real. Red Tails proposes 1.5 parking spaces per unit with no additional street parking, and that is grossly inadequate. If the Red Tail units have two cars per unit then Red Tail will be 100 parking spaces short.

That's 100 cars forced out onto streets where the parking is already saturated. There are over 2,000 people already living in the Baylor Avenue area. The population of Carpinteria is about 14,000 people. That means one in seven Carpinteria residents are going to have to suffer because Red Tail won't provide adequate parking. One in seven Carpinteria residents and for what? For about 40 affordable housing units.

There's no reason at all why one in seven Carpinteria residents should have to suffer for a handful of affordable housing units. There's no reason why thousands of Carpinteria residents should have to suffer so that this developer can make a bigger profit. Red Tail needs to provide adequate parking for their development, and I hope you will tell at Red Tail to fix their parking.

Thank you.

Comments Mr. Nichols? Miss Cindy Marcus welcome

Thank you. The two people who just spoke basically said mostly what I would say also, that there is not adequate parking and the streets are packed. People park in the alley because they can't- the fire lane because they can't find parking which is extremely dangerous We have tried to you know, get them towed or you know something I mean if there's a fire the fire trucks can't get in there but the tow trucks won't come If they do the people come out and there's like fights going on and it's very very dangerous so to add more problems to an already difficult situation is really unacceptable and the City of Carpinteria needs to address that because it's already really, really bad.

And I mean the fire lane is part of the alleyway And so if there were a fire, not only can't the people who live on that alleyway because that goes into their garages won't be able to get out. But if there are more people trying to get out of there nobody will be able to get out it'll be gridlocked And so that also needs to be addressed. They're trying to take it by eminent domain, but that's crazy. I mean, it's not a public street. It's not a street at all. It'a driveway. And so there are so many dangers that are not being looked at that it's kind of scary in case of an emergency if somebody has a heart attack or whatever.

If there's anything... There's cars parked along That alley because they can't find parking on the street So I hope that the city will deal with this in some way and if Redtail doesn't have enough parking You know what's going to happen. They're going to try and find parking on the street, and they're going to be parking in places that they shouldn't which is extremely dangerous so I really hope that the city will take a look at what's going on there and not give them the permits or the easements or whatever they are requesting because your job is to protect the citizens of the city as it is now not to add more trouble to those people So thank you very much.

Thank you for your comments.

Miss Tristine Rainer, welcome.

Thank you. I was a bit disappointed to find out that there's no progress on setting up a meeting and getting information to the residents and the stakeholders, uh, that the red tail in development will affect. Um, I think that, um, what we were told that at the housing authority and that red tail will take on that responsibility, seems that Supervisor Lee is really not responding to the stakeholders' request that he set up such a meeting.

To suggest in Daisy's report that Supervisor Lee has no information on what has been submitted to the county. I find that a bit irresponsible. What about the traffic and safety report? The copy that we were able to get a copy of is incomplete And grossly misleading. And I want to state here that one of the things that it says is that the study was done during the prime time hours of traffic in the Casitas Village area, however I, which would be in the evening or in the morning when people are going and coming from work.

However, I saw him working and I took a picture which has a time stamp on it and it was on a Tuesday at 2.30 p.m.. So I feel that before this goes too far and misrepresentations of reports are accepted by the county who are not listening to us, and we have no voice with. That since this will come to you in terms of the streets and the safety and infrastructure, that we get on top of this before it's too late.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. I do not have any other speaker slips for this item, do we have anyone via Zoom?

Mayor, we do have one raised hand, Andy Patrick. Andy, go ahead. Andy want to unmute yourself? Andy are you there? All right, well he's not responding there.

Okay I will close public

comment. There it goes. He made it just in time. Available for public comment on this? Yeah I'm so sorry. First district supervisor's

report. No I really just this is for representative Lee. I mean we appreciate your restaurant knowing that you live here and you're among us etc but like show up I'm sorry, but you know what? We are in a crisis. I know that a lot of us don't want to say that this is a crisis, but I'm calling it a crisis and representative me with all due respect to your representatives who you're providing here today which I respect Like, show up. Where are you? What do you think? What are you saying? What are you doing? What are you proposing?

Get with the program here! I'm sorry people but so much of what is going on right now in Carp is so ingenial. It's so nice. Everybody is being so nice. I'm sorry but we are not in a nice phase This is a phase where we need to understand what the hell one another are doing and come up with some real plans. So representative Lee, where are you? That's what I have to say. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

And Mayor that concludes Zoom comment.

OK. I will officially close public comment. Daisy, I don't know if there's any final remarks on your end

Just to say thank you for all the public comments and we heard them, and thank you. Thank you.

Perfect, thank you. And thank you for that report. I will ask... You know the last few times we've received updates has been through this report so I'll look to staff and of course if there's consensus among the council if we can be apprised of updates Is there consensus among council members? Yep. OK, great. I also think if...I don't know if we want to have a conversation about that now but if we should consider in the future a letter encouraging a public meeting before the end of the year? I'll just throw that out there. I

don't know that. A letter and that would be to Supervisor Lee? Mm-hmm. I would agree with that it seems like we've been hearing from a lot of residents who really want to at least be heard even if there isn't any action that can be taken yet so I agree with the idea of the council sending him a letter Okay,

is there anyone else on the council who would agree with that?

Yes.

Yes okay so there's consensus does the city staff need additional direction in terms of the letter itself and the contents?

Mayor Ellicott I think we're clear on it sounds like you're looking for a letter coming from your council in support of Supervisor Lee's office taking the lead and helping organize a community meeting about the Red Tail Baylor project

We will now

move on to item number six, which is the City Manager's Report.

Thank you Mayor, Council, community members. Again as always we don't cover every item in the City Manager Staff Report so I encourage people to read that there are helpful links and then if the council has any questions or would like us to agendize any of the items to discuss further always happy to do that As always, I'll be joined by a few different people assisting me with these topics. And I'm going to start off with Assistant City Manager Ryan Kentz who's going to give us some updates on recruitments and also on capital improvement projects.

Thank you Michael. Good evening Council, Mayor. Yeah just a quick updates couple quick updates on recruitments so right now we have five open positions at various stages of recruitment the Public Works Director is out and recruitment does remain open until it's filled. We also opened up the Human Resources Risk Manager position that is now open and available for applicants. The deadline is October 6th The accounting specialist slash the accounting technician, we have made a final selection there and we're currently conducting a background check.

The building official, we actually had the final interviews today and so we're in the process of making a final selection. And then the engineering technician, final selection has been made and we are currently going through background check for that position as well. I just want to clarify again that these recruitments are not adding to the city's overall staffing levels. The vacancies are from existing positions that were approved by City Council.

The human resources position was filled through the reallocation of an existing position as it was approved by the City Council at our last meeting. Moving on to capital improvement projects, just a couple updates. On the Franklin Creek Trail project construction continues to progress. Grading and utility work are now complete. Retaining walls are expected to be finished by the end of September.

The concrete trail surface is scheduled to be poured in October and then the project remains on track we've had no delays and that is scheduled to be completed in December The realigned sidewalks for the Carpinteria High School Crosswalk Improvement Project, those sidewalks along 192 and the trail along Franklin Creek Trail are now complete. The new crosswalk is also in place and being used. We're awaiting delivery and installation of the Hawk system. That is the overhead signals that alert motorists and require vehicles to stop when pedestrians are crossing the remaining underground utility work is temporarily on hold pending resolution of a change order with the contractor. We have an expected completion date of end of the calendar year, so by this end of December we were hoping to have this project completed.

That's it for public works unless you have any questions.

Questions? No questions, thank you.

I'd now like to turn it back to our Community Development Director Nick Bobroff to give updates on development applications

Thank you, Michael. Council, I have just two updates on here for you this evening. The first one is to share the Planning Commission's upcoming October 5th agenda. When we published the City Manager's Report, we had two items on the agenda. The St. Joseph's Church item has since been removed at the request of the church. They've asked to postpone their hearing until November 2nd.