City Council — August 25, 2026

Good evening. Welcome to the regular meeting of Guadalupe City Council, Tuesday August 25th. May we have roll call please?

I want to give the condolences to the excuse me, the Velasquez family. Amy Velasquez passed away August 10th and longtime resident of Guadalupe.

Good. Item four. I'll go ahead and read that. Agenda at this time, the council will review the order of business to be conducted and receive requests for or make arranged announcements regarding any changes in the order of business. Any council person want to change order of business? Jean, you good? Moving right along item number five is community participation. I have three requests to speak. The first is Ms. Virginia Navarro.

Hi, my name is Virginia Navarro. I am the team leader for the Day of Hope here in Guadalupe. Our team is Team Guadalupe and it will be tomorrow from 7 till about 11 or 12 and we will be on the side of the cemetery There's where the church used to be at. We'll be right there, we will be right sideways from the American Legion because the post office is where we usually are at so we're not going to do that this year. So we're going across the street and next in the block over and we will be doing the Pasadena homes also the entrance so make sure you get your money ready for tomorrow Yeah, thank you. Okay, thank you, Virginia.

Next individual who wishes to speak, Mike Rocklin?

We're broadcasting correct? After a previous subsidy of approximately $650,000 for water treatment and before the paralysis of the Royal Theatre project, which had a generous funding, these public comments They intend to shed some light on the situation, if possible. From a certain perspective, the City Council is responsible for managing the grant writer subvention and the contractors They played different roles in the events that led to the interruption of the works.

El Concilio carente de conocimientos sobre la construcción y excesivamente dependente de los procedimientos administrativos destinó fondos desmesurados a un diseño inicial. Tras optar finalmente por un resultado menos ambicioso, aprobó Without questioning, a supervision of the project is unfeasible for remote work as well as offers and practices from contractors that were unfeasible.

Two examples of this are La compra de sillas nuevas y la fabricación de una réplica de marquesina, letrero, marquee antes de haber realizado la adecuación estructural del propio edificio. Sin mala gestión fue tan grave que cabría preguntarse algo afuera de normal Por otro lado, la falta de conocimientos de construcción, the grant writer, quedó patente en su intento de supervisar las obras desde Sacramento mediante correos electrónicos, reuniones por Zoom y grabaciones con drones.

Lo irracional de esta práctica puede ilustrarse con uno de los muchos ejemplos posibles al rehabilitar un edificio de ladrillo no reenforzado. La práctica habitual consiste en anclar las paredes, el tejado, el techo y la base fundación.

Mr. Rockton you've got 30 seconds to wrap it up please All right, next individual is to speak. What I see Mira Baylor

Good evening Mayor and members of City Council. I'm here tonight because I continue to have serious concerns about accountability openness in the financial direction of the city of Guadalupe Every other city department links its monthly status reports as part of the council agenda. Why does the city administrator's office not do the same? At a time when Guadalupe is facing significant financial challenges, the public should not have to work this hard to understand what is happening inside City Hall. At the last meeting, the Public Works update also stated that approximately 600,000 in reimbursable grant expenditures have been recovered. Which projects are these funds associated with? Why wasn't that information included in the report?

Why has there not been more information provided to the community regarding the termination of the Royal Theatre project and what happens next? This is one of the largest public projects in Guadalupe's recent history, yet the community has received remarkably little information about how we got here and what the financial consequences are. We also need clear answers regarding the approximately $5 million in state funding associated with the Royal Theatre. Has the state of California formally agreed that Guadalupe will not be required to reimburse the roughly $3 million already spent on the project now that it's been terminated? Has the state agreed that the remaining approximate $1.5 million can be retained and spent by the city, if so under what conditions?

These are statewide taxpayer dollars and if Guadalupe is allowed to continue to use these funds for a now terminated project, there should be significant public oversight to ensure that every dollar is spent in a manner consistent with the public benefit and intent outlined in the original funding agreement. These questions are especially important because Guadalupe's in a shocking financial position.

For years, community members including myself have warned the city that this was headed down an unsustainable path. Yet even after the collapse of the Royal Theatre Project and in the face of massive budget shortfalls I've seen very few outward signs at this council or city administration with the exception of the financial director fully understand the severity of the situation or have a comprehensive plan to address it.

Even more frustrating is that community members with professional experience and a willingness to help have repeatedly offered their support only to be ignored or dismissed Council Member Villegas has repeatedly spoken in favor of fewer committees and less oversight. I believe Guadalupe needs the exact opposite. When a city is financially healthy and functioning well, perhaps you can debate whether additional oversight is necessary but when a city is facing circumstances like Guadalupe greater public scrutiny and independent oversight are not inconveniences they're necessities Outside of two members of this council, I've seen very little willingness from the leadership of Guadalupe to publicly accept responsibility for how Guadalupe has arrived here.

The Council shouldn't just be getting staff reports and approving what's put in front of you. You're elected to ask questions especially when things don't add up. We need for you to push for answers, understand where our money is going and hold both city staff and yourselves accountable when things go wrong. Continuing the same approach that created these problems will only keep Guadalupe on the same unsustainable financial path it's been on for the last decade. The community deserves clear answers, transparency and leadership willing to acknowledge what went wrong and change course. Thank you very much.

All right, we'll now go to item six. Ceremonial calendar proclamation regarding the centennial celebration of the Cardona Club in America. Just a few words in the 1920s and 30s there was a large Filipino population here in the city of Guadalupe and actually there's two hundred year celebrations that progressive Marong is having a 100-year celebration, too. So without further ado, Mili, will Gilbert Panda, Sonia, Julian Vea, and Edgar Santana please come forward to the podium?

Nikki, if you want to come here and shoot that way. OK. I'm going to read that and Miss Villegas will actually hand out. And one of the reasons both Amelia and I, there's 53 founders for the Cardona Club of America and her father and my father were one of the founders many years ago before our time. And thank you for being here to accept this. Centennial Celebration Proclamation 1926-2026, Centennial Celebration of the Cardona Club in America.

Whereas for 100 years the Cardona Club in America has preserved the rich heritage traditions and values of the people of Cardona Rizal while promoting unity service and cultural pride among Filipino Americans And whereas the city of Guadalupe holds a special place in the history of the Cardona Club in America as the early site of early gatherings of Cardona immigrants and as a community that has supported the club for generations.

Whereas, in 1947, the first organized gathering of the Cardona immigrants was held in Guadalupe convening a convention youth basketball tournament and fundraising barbecue for all community residents at Leroy Park And whereas the First Cardona Convention emphasized the firm principles of the Founding Fathers to remain united, help one another and never forget the spirit of brotherhood among them.

And whereas the City of Guadalupe is proud to present this Centennial Proclamation in honor of its founders, recognize the accomplishments of past generations and inspire future generations to continue a legacy of unity, service, community pride and contribution of Filipino Americans. Whereas the City of Guadalupe, in recognition of the Carnota Club in America's 100-year centennial celebration hereby honors the club, its members and all those affiliated with the organization on occasion of historic centennial celebration dinner and dance to be held Sunday September 6th 2026 at the Filipino Community Hall in Santa Maria.

I therefore be absolved by virtue and authority vested in me as mayor on behalf of the city City Council, City of Guadalupe. I do here proclaim September 26 as Corona Club in America Centennial Celebration Month in the city of Guadalupe. So thank you for being here. Speech? No speech?

Thank you.

Let's see. Is Fernando in? Fernando, is he? Come on up. What a long speech. How you doing?

Oh, pretty

Guadalupe. Certificate of appreciation The City of Guadalupe proudly presents its appreciation to Fernando Capodapo Manu Copado. We serve in recognition of your dedicated service to the City of Guadalupe and it's you for serving as the liaison between the city and the Little Giants. It takes a lot to get out there, we appreciate you doing that.

He wants to say some words come on up.

I'll just say that, um, I hope the city can get the program going again next year. There was 65 registrants I think there was 12 bonds parent volunteers. It was very nice seeing families, be able to experience team sports here in Guadalupe that it was cost them $0 to have fun and do something good. And I just hope that they can bring it back because Guadalupe is an underserved community and the youth deserves an outlet to do something positive.

And that's all.

I just want to say thank you, Mr. Cofaldo for your leadership, for your dedication this summer. You brought joy to many youth and he actually knew all the youth names. If they didn't show up, he was like where are they at? And so I really want to thank you for bringing joy to our youth this summer. They had so much excitement. They learned so many different skills. So thank you so much. And I know that audience wanted to give you a round of applause. So thank you again.

And we want to do that here. Thank you. All right,

Thank you Guadalupe City Council members for placing us on your agenda and making time to hear the results of our youth listening roundtable sessions. We are both representatives of All About Youth Santa Maria Lompoc, formerly Women's March Santa Maria Valley. And you'll hear why we decided to shift our focus from women to youth. And even though these listening roundtables were held in Santa Maria, we know that they included young people from Guadalupe as well who go to Santa Maria high schools and Mayor Pro Tempore Cristina Hernandez was at this event as well, and we thought it was time to present the results and that you would find them useful in Guadalupe.

Next slide please.

Oh I'm sorry you went one slide too far. Thank you. So this is what we're going to be going over in our presentation today, we are going to be starting with acknowledgements about our presentation and then we are going to go into our original 2024 Youth Roundtable listening sessions the what why when where who of how the original event happened? We are going to talk about some of the notes and limitations of the data that we gathered and then we are going to get into the actual data and then leave the open question of where All About Youth should go from here.

That was Ivy Cochran-Murthy, by the way. My name is Lata Murthy and as evident by the silver in my hair I am not a youth of any location and the youth that participated in these roundtables were between the ages of 14 and 30 So I come to you and present today, not as an authority on youth, but simply a messenger who listened to what they had to say.

And the acknowledgement that I would like to make is that although I am between the ages of 14 and 30, and I live in the Santa Maria area. I am not representative of most Santa Maria youth. I actually live in Orkut, not Santa Maria. And I am not Latina or native Spanish speaking like most of the youth of Santa Maria are and so I do not want to present myself as an expert on Santa Maria youth when giving this presentation. I'm just here to be a messenger

Yes, we're here to present what you've shared with us. Next slide please.

So the original event was round table listening sessions with Santa Maria youth ages 14 to 30 and why we picked that age range we will get into later. We had six adults, so adults being people who are over 30 years of age all of them members of Women's March Santa Maria Valley which is what we used to be and we had one adult per table of youth and then all of the youth were asked 12 questions in both English and Spanish which we will show those questions on screen based on a winter 2023 input session with Santa Maria youth in the public And then those adult table group facilitators noted down the youth responses in both English and Spanish. And then those results are what we are presenting today.

So these are the 12 questions that were asked at the round table listening sessions. We're not going to go over all of them because they're very long, but they're up there if anybody would like to take a picture or record them on this is what we asked. We started with just identifying ourselves and introducing ourselves and then talking about generally what we liked the most about living in Santa Maria and what we liked the least and then we got into more specific concerns that ended up becoming our data.

So the reason we did these round table listening sessions is that I was surprised to find out the median ages of this region. The median age of Santa Maria residents is 29 years old, the median age of Guadalupe residents is younger at 28.2 years old. These are median ages not mean ages meaning that the population here is very young and yet I don't think they get enough representation in our regional organizations, in positions of power and in politics. And so we wanted to make their voices heard to those of you in these positions. And we thought by focusing on youth, we would also be able to find out about other identities and experiences because of course, age overlaps with other social identities. As Ivy said most youth in Santa Maria and in this valley right are Latina, Latinx.

And so we're also getting a good cross section of the population ethnically racially and in terms of gender when we focus on youth This event happened the youth listening roundtable sessions on a Saturday, January 20 2024. From 11am to 4pm. It did not occur over all five hours this was one to two hours of the event, and the rest was dedicated to other youth centered events, a raffle tamale or tamal lunch tamales from Beth's Tamales.

Other activities as well, the listening roundtable sessions were the main focus and we're approximately an hour and a half. There was also a resource table fair with local organizations there. You might ask why it has taken us so long to put together this data and present it to you? And it would be a very valid question. We are not in a designated nonprofit. We are all volunteers who did this In addition to our full-time work and school. And so it took quite some time to put it together, but this is why we're going to excuse me local organizations and presenting this data particularly youth centered organizations. So we can find out what's changed and what stayed the same since that time. And since a change in our national political administration

happened at Sheppard Hall at the Santa Maria Public Library. And when we originally debuted these results just a couple months ago, we once again did it in Sheppard Hall at Santa Maria Public Library with Beth Samales again.

So let's start getting into the data. There were 28 participants total, most of them within that age range of 14 to 30 years old. However we did have a few participants who are above the age of age of 30. Mostly parents who have their own table and we asked them the same question about their children and other youth. Not all the tables got to all of the questions presented earlier, and many chose to skip the first question on youth organizations and affiliations no names were collected. to keep the data as anonymous as possible.

So that's why we don't have demographic information and affiliations on the majority of participants, but based on the rest of the information gathered, we can safely assume that most of the 16 were also high school students and Allan Hancock Community College students.

So, as with any statistical survey or anything where you're gathering data we do have some notes and limitations on the data that we gathered. First of all our sample of people was very much a convenient sample of we did not go out and specifically curate a sample to perfectly be representative So the participants may not be perfectly representative of Santa Maria youth. Also because of each table group facilitating their own questions at their own pace, not all of the table groups were able to get to all of the questions especially the questions toward the end.

And there's also just some disclaimers regarding accuracy. Once again, all the groups facilitated their discussions in different ways and the adult facilitators took down notes in different ways and then those notes were interpreted and turned into data. And so there are some discrepancies between the original notes that were taken and how they were interpreted in the final data.

And finally, it's important to know it's in red at the bottom that these results present the number of times that a key issue concern or organization was mentioned not the number of youth who mentioned it. So when it says that like economic concerns came up 17 times, that means that it was mentioned 17 times not that 17 youth mentioned it

So the first set of data based on one of the initial questions is what you participants appreciate most about living in Santa Maria, and on top with about 11 mentions. Yes, 11 mentions is resources opportunities and programs. Some were mentioned specifically like the Santa Ynez Tribal Resource Center. This is not surprising if you consider that nonprofits and philanthropic giving and donations make up a large part of the regional economy. On the Central Coast, which I've heard called a nonprofit corridor. And this is not lost on you.

They participate in these they benefit from them, they and their families, and you also see their friends people in community. At 10 mentions and that often overlaps with the resources, opportunities and programs. That's often where youth are making friends meeting people and building community Next slide. Now getting into some of the concerns. First, we grouped together several under social and cultural concerns because they all fit.

And the highest you will see there at 14 mentions is racism, racial discrimination and self-segregation by race and ethnicity. And this was coming from predominantly Latina, Latinx, Latino, Latina youth who also included indigenous Mixteco youth. And so they found that there was segregation within the community itself, and that some chose to separate themselves from others based on ethnicity or based on race. This also overlapped with the 12 mentions of schools and education Including college in the mentions of teachers who did not share students race and ethnicity being discriminatory towards them according to the perspective of the youth participants.

Yes, next slide please thank you. When talking about economic concerns, the biggest thing that came up was housing and homelessness with 18 mentions and then from there was jobs employment and farmworkers rights which are very intertwined considering that most of the youth who came have family who are farm workers. And then 10 mentions of the cost of living, and it's important to notice just how intertwined all of these are essentially and it's very interesting that poverty was only mentioned directly three times however all of the below our effects of poverty.

They are all very intertwined housing and homelessness and cost of the cost of living is going to impact housing and homelessness, and it's going to impact jobs and employment.

And sometimes these were concerns that affected the youth families or parents, not themselves directly. And of course, all of these are connected as Ivy was saying. Oh this one is yours too. Infrastructure. Yep.

So infrastructure and environmental concerns was a very interesting discussion that we had. This is coming from the perspective of youth many of whom could drive but were not regularly driving because they could not afford cars. And so for the most part they were either walking or biking to get where they needed to go. And so some of this when they're talking about traffic and traffic infrastructure, they're talking about it from the perspective of what they experienced through their parents. But when they're talking about transportation infrastructure which came up 13 times, they are talking about making Santa Maria into a more bikeable walkable city with more infrastructure that is friendly to people who can't afford cars because that is a majority of the youth population And this comes up with traffic because they also want safer roads, but generally they want it to be safer for pedestrians and bikers.

Oh yes, we also talked a lot about the Santa Maria Regional Transport System, the SMRT buses that come around and talking about because in 2024 those had been fairly recently implemented. And so it was a very interesting discussion to have and a lot of youth found them to be a good idea but found that they also were not reliable enough for them to use regularly

Health concerns, of course overlap with safety and all of the specific health concerns overlap with each other. But the one mentioned the most was drugs and alcohol with one youth participant saying that there had just been some overdose victims in their high school bathroom that very week before our round table listening sessions. And connected to that, of course is stress mental health self-esteem and confidence safety and improved healthcare.

So one of the final questions that we got to was asking youth how they wanted us to take this data and then create change in the community. And by far, the biggest thing that came up was that they wanted us to share these results with the city and county officials and local government, the people who could actually make change at a systemic level in the community, which is part of the reason why when we debuted these results, our event was part of the America 250 celebration That was being organized by the Santa Maria City government at the time we did it in the hope that Santa Maria city government officials would show up at the event, and this would put under their radar. Unfortunately it didn't.

Um, so we are continuing to go around the next biggest thing that came Sharing these with you through schools and with community and community organizations, which is why we have been contacting. And going around and giving this presentation in an interactive format to community organizations especially those that work with youth so that we can share those two community organizations and youth. And why we are also coming to places like here at City Council meetings because we want to share this with the local government even though we were unfortunately not able to get them at our original event.

Next slide. One of the things proposed in one of the questions at the listening roundtables, something that I had been thinking about is having monthly intergenerational talking circles in different cities of the region including Guadalupe where once a month we meet at a local coffee shop and both those over the age of 30 and under And youth and others come together and start to make connections and talk about local issues, and how they can help and support each other when you were asked if this interested them.

All and all parents said yes, they would be interested in participating in these however transportation again was came up as a concern.

And so the question that we would generally like to ask to our audiences and to our community is where we should go from here as an organization, All About Youth. On May 30th of 2025, we had the all about youth retreat in which a group of our members and a group of Santa Maria youth who were not at our round table listening sessions went up to Camp Ocean Pines in Cambria and we spent today relaxing and getting to know each other and talking about what all about youth could do for the community Because there are many community organizations in Santa Maria specifically, and we do not want to compete with those other organizations we want to be able to work with them.

So the biggest thing that came up when I'm at that retreat was tutoring the youth fair said that the biggest service that we could provide to Santa Maria youth would be regular tutoring from either adults or college students who could help out students in school because that's where they felt their biggest concerns were. We also talked about becoming a volunteer support organization and establishing connections between youth and the already established Santa Maria organizations, so the organizations that need volunteers and the youth who want community service hours and want to volunteer we can help form those connections.

And we also talked about being a quiet space for youth at local events. In Santa Maria, and probably here in Guadalupe too there are a lot of community events we do Downtown Fridays the Pride Festival, and those tend to be very loud very energetic events, and youth especially often need a quiet space while in those kinds of events where they can decompress and so we talked about becoming that and setting up a tent where you can go in and spend some time specifically decompressing from the very loud very stimulating environment.

But all of this has to exist within the context of the fact that we are entirely a volunteer organization and all of our members are full-time students or have full time jobs. And so there is a limit to how much we can do, but we want to be able to find that nook of what we can provide to the community.

That concludes our presentation. We thank you for listening We thank the youth who participated, and we are happy to address any questions. And that is also our organization's email address. Thank you very much. I

had a question or comment. This was in Santa Maria. What about any thoughts about doing it here in Guadalupe?

Yes, certainly we could. We did do this with some grant funding at the time and we thought about applying for more for this but that's also the idea behind the intergenerational coffee talks or sessions once a month. And we could do that in Guadalupe Cafe here, for example and bring together not only youth but also older community members to talk about these issues and what needs to change locally.

Have you connected with the Boys & Girls Club, Vincent and Guadalupe?

What we did, they were actually one of our tables at the event but we should reconnect with them. So thank you for mentioning them.

How about Hancock

College? We did try connecting with them for the original event. We didn't get much of a response then but now Ivy is a student there and I am teaching a class there so another good time to try to get them involved as well. Thank you for the ideas.

They actually had a high school class here at the Senior Center where they had classrooms. And to me, that would be a good place to interact with intergenerational individuals too because the classroom is set up still and it'd be nice to have that as a setting. It's a city building so it'll be easy to make arrangements and then a school of course dealing with the school district to see what they have A lot of work that you've done and appreciate that, and bring this to us. Any questions from the committee?

Thank you so much for uplifting youth voices now more than ever we need to ensure that those youth are on the table. So thank you for the work.

Thank you. All right. Next item is a consent calendar. Judy will you read that?

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 disprove 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 ordinance and resolutions. Ordinances on the consent calendar will be adopted by the same vote cast at the first reading unless City Council indicates otherwise. B, ratify payment of warrants for the period ending July 31st, 2026 and August 7th, 2026. C, approve the minutes of the City Council regular meeting of August 11th, 2026.

Thank you. Wishes of the Council, would anyone like to pull an item for further discussion? Gene? Any public comment on pulling any of these items? Do I have a motion to approve the consent calendar? I'll second. Any discussion? All those in favor of the motion say aye. Aye. Thank you Judy, thank you all. Next item is management report city administrator information only Mr.

Trujillo.

Good evening Mr. Mayor, council members, staff, community members. So we're gonna get started with the park. That's the big one around the corner. People walking by and taking a look, you can see that a lot of the trees and plants are in. They received another shipment today because we did reject some last week. They started putting in a little bit of ground cover, something like gorilla hair kind of barky stuff. So that's moving along pretty well We're doing a final walkthrough and a punch list this week to see if there's anything that's going to need repair before the opening next week. They're gonna start cleaning up later this week and paving the parking apron off at night. That'll be this week also, and then probably striping the parking lot around Monday if they're not able to do it Friday.

The ribbon cutting is on September 4th at 12 noon. To go along with that, we have a meeting set up with Dr. Hendel from the school because there is a big mural portion to go with this project and that includes a whole slew of specific items that are involved whether it be Japanese, Filipino, Mixteco, Mexican all kind of blended together that is supposed to highlight the whole culture of the community from beginning to current. So we're gonna try to work with them to get some of the teachers and some of the students involved from all the schools to come out and do some more work on, I think it's a one-two.

Three main walls in the skate park around the ADU that kind of pokes out. So, you know it's not something that has to be done before the park opens obviously but it's going to be something that takes a little bit more planning and depending on how winter is this year with what's projected it could push out into next summer probably before anything actually kinda gets solidified.

The Amtrak They're doing a lot of their work over there right now. A lot of the parking area, the underground work, they poured a lot of the curbs to kind of block it all in before they started laying all their base and everything. It's allowing them do a lot other underground work and then continue to make progress there with the Royal Theater. We kinda have like a two page punch list kinda just Pretty much everything that was talked about before with the safety and site security of the location, weather protection, grading and backfill on the site.

Restoring some of the street areas that were dug up and getting them all back to where they're supposed to be, the structural building work, and on and on and on. We're still waiting on contact from the contractor for a cost And we're waiting on the contractor to provide us with a July pay statement. So because of that, I don't have any costs for you guys tonight but it's looking like we're gonna use up everything that's left. That's kind of the goal realistically to use up all the CAC funds and get that facility to a point We can preserve it until we can actually go at this project the right way.

And then on another note, met with Central Coast Processing. They are getting ready to start harvesting. So the smell was probably going to kick up a little bit, but to go along with that they've been going through and sealing their buildings as they're able to empty them. They're throwing a lot of spray foam filling gaps they got some people coming out to redo the roof trying to sell their facility up But what they're also going to do, and what they're working on is they have that corner lot on 166 and Obispo in design with a planner. And then once that is done they are going to start shopping it around for some sort of grocery and possibly fast food.

Also to go along with that, two weeks ago I was contacted by a developer who's wanting to bring up fast food chain to Guadalupe if they can find land. I pushed them to Craig over with DJ Farms to see if maybe they're willing to start developing some property out there on 166. We'll see how that goes. And then we were also contacted by a developer that wants to bring a hotel to Guadalupe. Get your room in and suites, and a steakhouse. So Guadalupe is kind of people are noticing things that are going on.

I don't foresee anything happening super quick but people are watching the hotel guy said that he scouted Guadaluable for eight months before coming into office and making contact so People are seeing it as a, you know, like an untapped resource. Not really understanding how it hasn't developed into a local beach town like everything else around here. So that's kind of where we're at now.

Any questions?

Did we find out if we're going to have to send back any of the money We didn't find out. No, we don't have to turn back any money. Oh, so we okay? So that's the answer is no correct. Okay. Thank you.

Can I go off that question? Are we going to foresee this to be like a standalone item on the agenda just the Royal Theatre just because there's so many questions and just to have it down just give a full overview. So we're not going back and forth with so many questions. Just give information to the general public what

this looks like. I would probably foresee it as being Um, like an informational item if that's what you're meaning versus something that gets briefed on every time.

Informational I think the public

is just

asking

it will be a lot easier to produce information that way versus trying to think of things that you guys You know, I'm kind of giving you guys a quick and dirty versus in depth details so Something that's kind of maybe in the consent calendar or something just permanent. I could see that going into future

And then you shared that there's going to be some art going on at the La Sumo Jerez Park. Can you share information about the artist? Is that a local artist or what does that look

like? No, we're meeting with the schools to get the students involved.

So there'll be no artists to lay out the design?

We're going to try to get the school art teachers. Stephanie Krause has been mentioned as an artiste of high standards.

Well, that makes me happy.

Yes. In our grant doc it specifies that we have to make contact with the schools. How do we go after that? Is kind of a, you know, I think it gives us 24 months to complete the artwork. So first step reaching out to schools and then I'll reach out to Roberto at the Boys & Girls Club because I think that's somebody that should be involved also. Well,

I do know the artist Ms. Krause to be very respectable and to meet the community where they're at when it comes to art cause I think it has to be carefully designed.

Yeah. And I think this will be the first time community art Well, besides the last project she just did on 9th Street I think since you know 166 was done back in what the late 90s or whatever. It

was Paco Park that was done too.

Paco?

Yeah. With the high school, Rigetti High School. But there's, there's talent out there and there's the kids want to do things so. Yeah, so

that's you know in our future. Okay,

my last question.

Yes ma'am.

You did share a lot of information but there's not a written report. Can we have a written report at the next council meeting? Just because you shared information and it would be very helpful.

Okay.

Thank you.

Got nothing to do here.

Yeah, you know it's just one more thing. Yeah there's a lot of

moving. Just a little bit on ribbon cutting we met with the chief Roberto and who else was there? Anyway we talked about ribbon cutting because once the ribbon is cut they're putting up A plastic shield around, not a shield but fencing around the grass area because the grass is sod and it takes about three months to mature so they're going to block that all off. Everything else is going to be available.

Go ahead you want to?

Yeah sorry I forgot to mention that yeah so the ribbon cutting we have the ribbon we have the scissors the contractors bringing out water and snacks and that whole shebang there also They are taking down the fence in the morning. The big fence that's around, right? That'll be gone in the morning and then directly after the ribbon cutting and they're going to start putting into cyclone fence to go around everything.