City Council — July 7, 2026

Welcome back. Open session. July 7th, 2026 641 roll call please.

Yes, Mayor. The City Council met on the two items on the closed session agenda with the exception of on item number one, Councilmember Bridge did not participate because he owns property within 500 feet of the properties that we were discussing in that item and on item number two, Councilmember Bridge also did not participate because of a financial interest he has Very good. Invocation.

and his staff and our interim fire chief. Lord, we thank you for the men and women who rush into danger on our behalf. So I'm asking for your divine protection upon all of us For your wisdom and your insight. Help us to be able to cooperate with one another, and we can achieve great things together. So I ask that your blessings be upon this meeting, upon our city.

Watch over us. We give you thanks for all things in your name, I pray, and you agree in the Father's name. Is that an amen? Amen. Very good.

Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Ready? Begin. I

pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Councilmember Paul take evaporated. You waiting for applause or something coming back in here? We're waiting for you. You're up. Councilmember Ball will give a certificate of appreciation to Anne McCarty

Sorry I had to escape, I forgot my notes in my car so I apologize for that. Excuse my absence. I just want to say first before I make too long of a speech sorry I had to run to my car it was all the way in the back getting old. I'm here to celebrate somebody very very important and special to our community raise your hand if you've heard or know Anne McCarty Anne McCarty, I got to know her maybe five or six years ago.

I just decided to run for city council and started to plug in and learn about all the extra things, all the supplemental work that people throughout our community do every single day to support a community that often needs them but we don't always hear about that. Anne has been, I believe doing the job of Executive Director at the North County Rape Crisis Center since 2015. I believe she's been involved with that entities for 32 years.

Gosh, that's a lot of work and I can't imagine the stories that she's had to endure, the trauma that she's had to witness I want to to resources and ways to recover and to better their life moving forward. Aside from helping those that are in need, they try to get out ahead of this by getting out into schools and educating young people and children about how to treat one another How to use respect with each other. And I think her thoughtfulness and her big picture thinking has done miracles in this city that has needed that type of work so much. So before I go on too far, I want to give Anne and anyone else that's representing the North County Rape Crisis Center a chance to say a few words. I just think at the very least, and we're so sorry that you're retiring.

It's not fair. You should stay around for many, many more years but I understand the circumstances that make you ready to hang up your coat and pass on the baton to the next person. You've kept your eye on something so important, and that is what can we do to help the least among us in some of their darkest times. And I want to thank you for your leadership, the example that you've set for many people in our community, and the education that you've given to so many about the issues That we don't always see when we drive around town. So I just wanted to say personally, thank you for educating me on all of the good work that you do and thank you for helping so many thousands of people in this community for so many years. We're so grateful if you would come up, I've got a certificate for ya from the city and I'd love for you to say a few words if you would.

Anne McCarty everyone.

Oh, one more time at this microphone. I've thought a lot about what I wanted to say tonight and first and foremost I want to say thank you. Thank you for the recognition. I'm humbled by it. You know it has been an interesting and fulfilling career over the last 32 years with the North County Rape Crisis and Child Protection Center. In 1994 when I started, we had only lived in Lompoc for about 13 months.

We arrived in 1993 Having been in Minot, North Dakota for 10 years and coming here I knew that I wanted to do something different. I wasn't quite sure what that was but when I found it I knew that I was home and that's what the center has become to me over the last 32 years One of the things that strikes me the most about this community are the times that we come together and the times that we divide.

And as I leave, and as And thinking about where the city is going, I hope that that divide closes. Because our people deserve better, our people deserve more and our survivors that we work with each and every day need a city that rallies behind them. And before I came here tonight, I read something that Lompoc Police Department had posted where they were appreciating the work of a witness that stepped up and helped someone.

And that's what we all need to be as a community. We all need to be active bystanders that aren't afraid to step in and help our police force and help our fire department and help our city officials I look at myself as a leader in this community, and I always want better for the people. But I also want better for my staff. I call them my staff still, even though as of a week ago today they aren't my staff.

They're our new executive director Dr. Nydia Delgadillo's staff and through her leadership and the leadership of all the other employees at the Rape Crisis Center they're going to continue to move the Rape Crisis Center forward and provide high quality services to survivors of sexual assault child abuse and human trafficking within our city and within our valley.

But as Jeremy said, education is also important and that's where we need for all of you to rally behind us and help us continue to educate the community. If you belong to an organization have the Rape Crisis Center come out and give a presentation If you belong to a service club, have them come out and give a presentation. Talk to your children's teachers if we aren't in that school make sure that we get there Once again, I say we.

This will forever in my heart and in my soul be my center and my community. And as my husband and I leave the area because we are leaving, we are moving back home to our home state of Virginia where we came from, where we were born and raised. I'm gonna be following Lompoc because my heart is here, because my people are here I'm going to miss the city. I'm not going to miss any of y'all, but...

I'll miss Stacy. But I will miss this city and I do appreciate this recognition so very much, so thank you.

All right. So real fast, I just wanted to recognize tonight's meeting for those people who are ready for tonight this is what we've got so we got a lot to get through and with that City Manager report. Thank you

Mayor I wanted to start it out with thanking everybody for coming out to the Flower Festival. Also want to congratulate our mayor getting first place in the floats, good job!

Yeah look at that and all my helpers had a lot of helpers.

Also wanted to thank Parks and Rec division for putting together and hosting the fantastic community event this year for the Fourth of July really good high turnout also wanted to thank the Valley Thank you. Thank you to the medical center for passing out helmets to our community members it was a great celebration. Parks and Rec movie in the park- we got some coming up next will be Saturday July eighteenth at Ryan Park- hoppers moving.

And it's a family events are remembering no vaping smoking all those things not supposed Our staff has put together a calendar of a lot of fun things to participate. The theme this year is Power of Parks and Rec, so keep an eye out. We also have some free public swim which will include next Tuesday July 14th. We've got some things going on at the library. We're in the middle of our summer reading challenge program.

We got 802 participants with 256,138 hours. Our goal is 400,000 so we're well on our way. Also got some other things. We've got team dessert and pizza party this Thursday from 2 to 3. So fun things happening there. Wanted to thank the Beautification and Appearance Commission for this year's Inaugural Window Decoration Contest. It was the first year, we had 29 nominees.

The best overall was Fountain Square, first place for Lompoc Valley Florist, second place for First American Title, and third place for River's Edge Pet Lodge. Yeah, great way to celebrate in spirit. I also want to make an announcement. We got a million dollar grant from BSEC, the California Board of State and Community Corrections. This is to help mitigate for legalization for use impact for merit cannabis.

It's great opportunity for us to propose potential resource officer at the Lompoc Valley Middle School and I can update you guys as we move forward with that grant. Want to take a minute to talk about some of the things that we did on 4th of July for enforcement. The police department handled 337 total events, of those 337, 189 were fireworks calls. We're going to get some I just want to thank fire and police for working this weekend.

So just to respond to the city manager, I had multiple, multiple, multiple calls of people that were terrorized and traumatized by this event. They had calls where they called PD, didn't get a response. One lady with her pet ended up having to take it to an emergency vet hospital, and granted the dog was so traumatized but let me just say this He was out of control.

I don't know what you have this many officers working why we only got four tickets, I don't know why I'm not gonna tell you guys how to do your job. didn't see it. They're very, very upset.

Well I feel their pain.

Were you here sir?

I had the same problem

in Lompoc.

Now if I could finish we had 337 calls for 6 officers to handle in the evening after 7 o'clock. 5 earlier in the day. They are delayed because our heaviest time was from 8-10. 84 calls came That's almost one call every minute.

I feel you, I hear you, I know.

We respond to them but they stack up we get to them as we can.

So Santa Maria they're saying they wrote 60 tickets? They went out with a small task force and wrote 60 tickets.

They wrote 80 tickets.

80 tickets, 80, I'm wrong, 80 tickets!

And they had two-thirds more people on the streets than we did. They used their code enforcement and they used their rangers Which we don't have.

It really is, whatever happened here was really... I'm not going to tell you how to do your job. The public sees it as unacceptable.

Mr. Mayor, I am a little disheartened as your Chief of Police to feel like I have to defend your department.

You're what?

I'm a little disheartened that I have to defend this police department to this council when you know how many people we have and how many calls came in. It's disheartening.

And I'm not saying, again, I'm not trying to tell you guys how to run your department. I read that the drone, you guys didn't get the drone because somebody was late in asking for the drone? That was in the weekly city manager report? Correct.

Yeah, that's right.

Okay. I'm just saying we are willing up here to put the tools out there. I get it, you guys were busy. I would like to get these guys the ticket. So they would stop doing what they're doing. But if we don't write any tickets, they're not learning. They're not. And I know you had a lot of phone calls. I get it. You had a lot of things to do. But we put the money out there to do this.

And... I mean, I know it was a rat race and a war zone. I'm telling you what the public is saying and I'm sure you guys have read the forums too and seen what's going on. The people are irate about this. They are. I don't know what else that we can do for this. I get it, you had a lot of calls and if we'd start nailing these guys maybe we wouldn't get more calls.

We had 69 normal or what would be considered a standard call-for-service normal criminal activities that we have to investigate. We had 148 fireworks calls on top of that. 69 is a busy day at another 148 is an extremely unmanageable day So we did the best we could, and I'm sorry that the community suffered the way they did. Next year will be completely different. We'll have drone as first responder out there. We were hoping it would be in place this year, it just didn't work out logistically.

But we're not happy that the things happened that they did but we need the community to help us too when you call in illegal fireworks don't give us a general area give us the actual address let us get over there You know if your neighbors are doing it, we need to work together with this community. That's the only way we're going to fix this problem.

Yeah, for that lead in minor pretty minor but the last session we agreed to have a schedule come back on the municipal code. I didn't see that get pulled on the upcoming agenda could you take a look at that and perhaps next time we have a session we can have a review of that schedule?

Talk about the contract with the code.

Well, the contract was a piece of that because that's two years long so we were just going to get a schedule as to how we were going to update the municipal code.

I'm caught up now.

Yeah,

we can work on that. It's on number 2?

Okay well that's item 2 but it didn't carry the schedule so I just want to make sure that doesn't get lost The last meeting we kind of finished up with the water loan from the solid department and I believe now staff will concur with my statement that we have a structural problem in the water department. Would you please put it on your agenda to look at? And then the last item for this morning, this afternoon is In the solid waste, we went over the organics and I believe staff will now agree that it's not a state mandate.

And perhaps we could look at a more business-friendly approach rather than no notice inspections and perhaps have scheduled inspections? Could you look at that?

Yeah, I think we had some emails back. I don't know if Mike, if you want to comment on an approach for that. Thank you.

Yeah, so I wasn't going to say anything but again. I was outside on July 4th, and maybe a few of you were as well. But if you walked outside, as soon as it got dark enough, if you just stood still for a few seconds and looked around the city, you'd see a lot of illegal fireworks going off every 10 seconds or so. So police chief, if you would, let's hypothetically say that we got six calls for fireworks and two or three calls for regular incidents in the first ten minutes. Eight o'clock, you get those calls.

I appreciate the scapegoating that's going on here. We do not have enough officers per capita in our city. We haven't for a long time to manage the regular call volume that we have, not to mention what happens on July 4th. No defense of us not trying to do the best that we absolutely can. Santa Maria did 119 citations the year before this one they're down to 80 I'm really glad that they had the resources to do that, but I'm not sure I'm seeing a correlation between people not using fireworks anymore because somebody around the corner may have got a citation.

I want us to be careful we should be building a solid plan on how to sustain efforts on July 4th and the week surrounding that over time But if the city is expecting us to have absolutely no fireworks and it's the police's fault that we have them, I hope that you understand that the amount of calls that come in on that day Even if we had the whole department staffed up, we might still be challenged. So in all fairness I'd love for you guys to do more. I'd love for code enforcement to be a lot bigger and beefier than it is right now in the city. I would love us to have eyes and ears everywhere that we could legally to try to catch some of these folks but as far as I understand Police Chief, unless we witness something happening or someone gives you specific visual evidence that something occurred it does make it quite difficult for you to arrive after the fact and give a citation.

Is that correct?

That's correct.

So again I thank you for your hard work. We still need to do a lot better but I appreciate all the hard work that our first responders did on July 4th. It's a day they have to miss with their families to be here to patrol our city so thank you for your hard work

Another question for the city manager. What's going on with the RV parking signs?

Let me see if Craig, can you give us an update on where we are with the signs?

So we've been coordinating with the county and with Caltrans over the last few months. And at the moment, we're finalizing what Caltrans needs to do their traffic ops approvals for specific locations for those signs.

So where are we? A week away? Two weeks away? How long are we away?

I would say probably at least a few weeks if not more on the Caltrans process.

Did you guys reach out and contact that Caltrans

Deputy

Director? Yes. Because when I talked to him he hadn't heard from you guys yet, so...

Yeah, I think I got that contact two weeks ago.

Okay. You said he would help expedite it so you could get it through the process.

Yeah, thank you for that.

Okay. I have another concern. Have you guys written the railroad about the Laurel and O Street big asshole that's there?

Letter hasn't gone out yet, but that's on my desk.

You got it out?

No, it has not gone out yet, but that task is on my desk.

All right. I know there's just a lot of people getting injured their tires in that hole so sooner than later please. I have another question. This is regards to the fire department's contract You guys are still honoring this contract, correct?

Yeah. The first year has already gone by and the second year starting July 1st.

So we have one more year left on the contract?

Yes sir.

The curiosity is it seems like you guys are paying on the contract, correct? Yeah. Okay, so you haven't defaulted? There was a section in there about the 5% increase in sales tax and then they would get from 3% to 5%. Did that happen?

I don't know. Bob do you know if that happened? Mr. Garz?

It didn't happen last year. We haven't received all the funds yet for this year, so we haven't determined that yet. Could you speak up Bob?

I

couldn't hear you. I'm sorry. We haven't been able to determine that for 2026 yet but we did not for 2025.

We'll get our sales tax results all the way out to August before they true it all up.

Okay. Yeah, the last numbers I got on 25 are $30,331,000 and you were stating if it went to $33 million then they would go from 3% to 5%. So another question, the retention incentives in there that if they've been there for five years is 2,500 and they've been there 10 years it's 5,000. Ten plus years at 7,500 you guys are paying on those retention? The Okay.

And the 5% for MA, MS four years and a BS or BA is six years and AAS for nine years? You're still honoring all of that. Okay. And skill certification everything that's in the contract. All right so my question is why does it apparently appear that they're asking for an opener and they have one year left on the contract? Mind you the contract wasn't signed by me as the previous mayor and the previous council but Is there something going on that we have not been advised to of why with this contract?

I think the Chief Shea did a good job of updating you guys on where we are with fire and all their concerns, and that's about all I could add to that.

But you're honoring everything when one year left on a contract correct?

Yes

sir. That's kind of my concern there. Then I had one last thing that's been brought to my attention by several people and they're finding it very difficult to deliver oil, hazardous waste. I've had several people tell me you make an appointment it makes it complicated. One sign says you have to be there by 1 o'clock another sign says by 2 o'clock is there a way we can maybe because I guess several of the automotive dealers don't take oil anymore?

And I've already seen oil containers next to garbage cans. So we're gonna start seeing people dump illegally if we can't figure out a way maybe to embrace it a little bit more, to get your people's used motor oil?

Yeah we can update them. Mike if you have any update about how they're doing. I just know my wife went out there and did something this week and she didn't have an issue or anything but we can check in make sure our signage is aligned and make sure...

Can we extend hours because you have to make an appointment to deliver oil.

I know a lot of the AutoZone some of them stopped taking oil so it does put a little bit more demand and we may have to open up at more hours but we can look into that

Is there a way that you think we can make it longer? I mean, one o'clock or two o'clock. That's pretty early for people. I think to get the oil we don't want him to start doing the wrong thing with it so you can look into that. Okay. Anybody else any other questions for the city manager? Councilor Ball.

Quick question and City Manager you can answer Fire Chief Shea if I may. You came and spoke with us maybe a month ago, told us about the situation at the fire station. You used the term strained. Has anything changed since that report?

No sir we continue to be strained. That's no sir, we continue to be strained.

Can you give me a quick synopsis of what the term strained means in the context of the Fire Department?

A number of things, we are strained in our ability to staff all of the apparatus that we generally intend to including two engines on the rescue truck. At this point during the rescue brownout we are reduced to two fire engines only which leaves two apparatus to take any emergency call within the city and leaves our ability to handle a third or concurrent call delayed, or with reliance on Santa Barbara County Fire or Vandenberg Fire.

In other ways, we are strained in our ability to staff company officers in addition to driver operators. For example, in the past week, we've had to use battalion chiefs, four-sided battalion chiefs, to act on a captain company officer rank on the fire engine because of our lack of company officers for the time. So we are in a period right now where We are very strained for all the examples that I explained on May 5th. And we do have a plan in place to overcome these challenges, but we continue to be burdened by additional vacancies and upcoming retirements and our ability to retain employees in the fire service long enough so that they can promote within their ranks.

Sir? Anybody else? Let me go with a quick question on that. I just read through the vacancy report for positions other than Fire Chief, we're not advertising any other positions in fire. Is there a

reason for that? Yeah, I think Kevin don't we have four that are just about done with the interim training so it will be closer to fully

staffed? That's correct. Since May 5th, we have our latest hiring of four new firefighters. They are completing their in-service training this Friday and will be able to staff engines starting on Saturday. That will bring our normal staffing numbers back to almost normal with the exception of the fire chief, but does not give us the ability because a lack of driver operators. So we underfilled our driver operator positions with firefighters with the anticipated goal of getting our staff trained and able to operate the equipment. But at this point, we are behind the curve. And so we're operating in the department with six engineers instead The nine that we're supposed to have.

Let me ask you a question, I noticed recently you guys had to respond all the way down deep in Highway 1 with the Tesla on fire and you just had gone to the homeless shelter out here. You probably would've gone anyways but this regional dispatch, we've increased the amount of territory significantly all the way out to Jalama Beach and almost to Las Cruces

We've been within an agreement, an auto aid agreement with Santa Barbara County Fire for 15-25 years which does have a district so to speak of our territory that we would respond to and for the most part Our responses outside of the city limits remain the same. There isn't really a tremendous amount of call volume outside of the city limits except for on Highway 1, the bridge house like you mentioned And typically, as I've said before, Highway 1, Station 51 right down the road here is the closest fire engine to the highway. And typically those commuters on the highway are either from Lompoc or they're coming to visit Lompoc and so the ability to get the closest fire apparatus down the highway to me is an important thing that we're able to provide as a cooperator within that system.

Maybe we should recommend the county puts a station over there. All right?

That sounds

good to me. Well, keep your eye on that if that's something that we can recuperate some funds for from the county. I'm not opposed to asking for it. Now, we have four county parks we take care of. Ocean Park, Miguelito Park, Santa Rosa Park and Olama Park. So, I mean... I talked to one county supervisor and say if it's burdening maybe we should be paying you guys more money and I think that's the right answer.

Thank you guys. All right, with that we'll move on to public comment on consent calendar. The, let's see.

Mayor before we start on public comment I need to make a couple comments about recusals so for on item number one on the consent calendar there is a check from the city to Mr and Mrs Reardon that is a tenant of Mayor Mosby and therefore a source of income From participation in that approval of one check in item number one, in item number 10, Councilmember Bridge has a financial interest in the potential outcome of that agenda item and therefore will be recusing himself from that item. Also on I will be recusing myself as well from that item.

Because all of these are located on the consent calendar, those individuals do not need to leave the room but because

All right, so I'm gonna read this long lengthy list of items and then we'll go through the process. But we have approval ratification of expenditures for payroll June 5th, 2026 at 2.156 million. A voucher register from May 25th to 29th of $296,000. Another voucher registered June 1st through 5th for 1.47 million. Another voucher from June 8th to 12th of 565,000 Number two is adoption of ordinance number 1746.26 approving zone change for certain properties on West and East Ocean Avenue. Number three is adoption of ordinance 1747.26 amending municipal code to define ornamental flagpole and clarify building permit requirements.

Number four is award a contract for vehicle lubricants to Safety Clean Systems Incorporated, $374,000 shall not exceed. Number 5 is Approval of Fiscal Year 2027 Revolving Purchase Ordering to Increase Fleet Maintenance Vendors Fuel Suppliers. Number 6, Adoption of Resolution No. 682926 Approving and Authorizing Amendment No. 1 to Project Agreement California-Oregon Transmission Project between and among the transmission agency of Northern California and its members.

And that's a rough contract to get through wasn't it? Number seven is adoption of resolution number 683026, adopting the plans and special provisions awarded in contract for construction approving supplemental appropriations for project number FY25LF1 Lompoc Landfill Gas Collection and Control System. Cost a lot of money to have your own landfill, that's for sure.

Number eight is the introduction of ordinance number 174826 submitting Lompoc Municipal Code 1312 cross-connection to reflect newly adopted state regulations and standards outlined in the State Water Resource Control Board's Cross Connection Control Policy. And number nine is adoption of Resolution 683426 declaring the results of the consolidated primary election held on Lompoc June 2nd, 2026.

Number 10 is to approve professional service agreement with RSG Incorporated for comprehensive review of city's energy and water rebate conservation program. Number 11 is approval amendment for professional service agreement GLI Capital Group incorporated DBA Public Knowledge LLC, formerly Civic Initiative LLC, procurement support services to increase compensation for 89,250 bucks to 203,500 bucks and extend the term To December 31st, 2026.

Adoption of Resolution Number 6833, Princeton's 26 appropriating funds. Number 12 is award of contract purchase order an amount of 1.253 million to twin company for the purchases of a solid waste landfill division replacement bulldozer which I found out was not in the capital improvement plan so I don't know if we need to update modify on that. I did find it deep inside Budget, right? That was a capital project. Right?

Number 13 is a word of invitation to bid number 3107 renovation of college skate park improvement project to JJ Fisher construction corporate in the total amount of 3568 million dollars and direct the city manager execute the construction contract authorize the community development direction execute change order awarding the contract purchase order an amount of hundred eighteen thousand dollars to Great Western Recreation for the purchase of mural wall.

Attached to the skate park, adoption resolution 683-126 approving supplemental appropriations of well more than a million dollars for supplemental appropriations. So project we've been waiting for six years, $5 million for a skate park so the people say we aren't spending money for the kids or big kids. And that's the lucky 13 items. With that, we'll open that up to public comment. When do I want me to go? Now we've got to do Zoom and phone call-ins.

Anybody rising for public comment on the first 13 items they read in? Come on down.

City Council, Mayor, thank you for your time this evening. My name is Robin Dunitz and I'm here in support of the city staff recommendation for item number 13 on the agenda, the appropriation of funds for College Park and award of the contract. This park holds a special place in my heart for many reasons. but probably most of all because of so many treasured memories and friends made at the park.

At the request of the Youth Commission, I became a part of the initial effort to have a skatepark built back in the day and so I remember the dream for College Park was not just a skatepark that was built in 2000. The vision was to have a place centrally located in Lompoc for families to gather, to enjoy outdoor activities. Yes, skateboarding was to be a primary focus at this park but picnicking and other activities were envisioned as well.

Unfortunately that vision was never realized and the park was never expanded past the first build in 2000. However, today we have the opportunity to honor that vision. I understand the situation of appropriating additional funds is not ideal but we don't live in an ideal world. What we do have however is a grant supporting the expansion of this park which would allow it to serve many more people in the community as well as rebuild and update Escape Park that is over 26 years old and in need of some TLC.

We also have the funds available which have been set aside specifically for park development to meet the funding needs so that the project can proceed. For these reasons, I ask you to vote to support staff's recommendation as outlined for College Park. We have the ability today after more than 26 years from the initial dream to make College Park what it has always aspired to be.

Please don't squander this opportunity. Thank you.

Anybody else? I know it's been a long weighted journey and thank goodness for Prop 68 grants. Seeing nobody else rise, how about Zoom cell phones?

Mayor Mosby there is no virtual comment at this time. Are

we good? City Attorney would you alright?

No, nobody via phone.

We have new state laws, so we have to Zoom and phone call in. With that, I'll close public comment and bring it back to the Council. Deliberation question? Council Member Bridge.

I would like to see Item 13 pulled.

Approved consent.

Minus item 13. Minus 13. And 13 will be a separate discussion immediately before second oral communications. Go ahead and vote. Consent calendar is passed as 5-0. Moving to staff presentation announcements, presentation on policing in the valley.

Good evening, Council, Mayor, public. So this was a presentation... This was a request brought back as the council had requested in the last meeting to update you on the status of the request by Solvang and Buellton to evaluate whether or not it would be affordable and even an option for them Using the City of Lompoc Police Department to police in their communities.

There is no formal contract at this point, there are no signed terms. Nothing has been other than this presentation has been shared with either of those communities. Solvang initiated a proactive exploration of a potential city-to-city law enforcement service agreement with Lompoc Police Department. The Lompoc City Council Directs the next steps after this presentation.

With approval, staff will engage in formal talks with Solvang and Buellton and we will develop an official numbers back contract with them. So for the last better part of 40 years those communities have been policed by the Sheriff's Department. This isn't about Any negative events that they've experienced with them, it really is about are there options and is it affordable to consider?

So Solvang in their process to date has been approved by their council to negotiate an optional one year sheriff's extension effective July 1st 2027 should it be necessary. That's in case we want to move forward, and it may take a little bit more time to get the staffing and equipment and everything in place. Both Solvang and Buellton have requested a proposal from the city to evaluate the cost and service levels associated with police services.

So the idea is this. This is a 100,000 foot look at what we can do if we were to move forward. These would be contract cities. This would be services that we would provide to those communities. I don't look at it as a larger police department. I look at it as service that we're offering. The valley staffing would look Similar to this, depending on how negotiations go and what those two communities would be asking for and what ultimately we would be able to provide. But as it stands right now, we believe that we can provide a lieutenant to act as the basically onsite management of the contracts with both those communities and represent the chief of police when I could not be present should they need me. We would be able to provide four police sergeants, four police corporals, 12 police officers, a motorcycle, a community service officer and a police records technician.

The squads would look like this. It would be exactly the same setup that we currently run 7-7. Each squad would have a sergeant, a corporal and three officers. Again 100,000 foot look we may get to a different number depending on how negotiations go. There are additional positions, shared costs. So the chief of police salary would be shared, police captain would be shared, professional standard sergeant, police dispatcher, property evidence technician and the IT systems administrator and there probably are some within the city that will also be shared depending on how involved they would be in this process.

And again I want to remind and make sure That the council and the public understands no formal negotiations has started at this point. We won't do that until we get approval from the council There are some, if this was to move forward, startup investments that would need to be negotiated with those communities. We would need marked patrol vehicles, unmarked detective vehicle and car officer technology, firearms, protective gear, human resources support and training, and administrative overhead and radio infrastructure. That is one number that we don't currently have yet.