City Council — July 7, 2026

I would like to note that the interpreter for this evening is Ashley Arcenia. Please raise your hand and ask for a listening device if you would like interpretation services, agendas are now available in Spanish and are provided on white paper in the back of the council chamber. I'd like to call this meeting to order for the City Council meeting of July 7th, 2026. Madam Clerk can you please call the roll?

City Attorney Mr. Watson would you like to give the closed session report?

Absolutely Madam Mayor with respect to items 3a through 3d instructions were provided to the negotiators or in that attorneys in various cases nothing further will be reported

thank you we will now present a proclamation proclaiming July 2026 as Recreation and Parks Month in the city of Santa Maria Whereas recreation and parks programs, facilities, open spaces, public art and community events are essential to the quality of life in the city of Santa Maria. The City of Santa Maria Recreation and Parks Department provides opportunities for residents of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to gather play learn celebrate volunteer and build meaningful connections with one another.

And whereas recreation and parks support physical and mental health, youth development, senior engagement, cultural enrichment, environmental stewardship, neighborhood pride, and overall community wellness. Santa Maria's parks, sports fields, trails, community centers, open spaces, public arts, special events, and recreation programs contribute to a vibrant welcoming and connected community.

And whereas recreation and parks month is celebrated each July across the nation to recognize the value of recreation in parks and the important role they play in strengthening communities. Recreation and Parks Month is celebrated each July across the nation to recognize all of their Their value and the important role they play. Whereas the city encourages all residents to visit local parks, participate in recreation programs, attend community events, enjoy public art and celebrate the many ways recreation and parks enhance everyday life in the City of Santa Maria.

Now therefore I, Alice M. Patino, Mayor of the City of Santa Maria hereby proclaim the month of July 2026 as Recreation and Parks Month in the city of Santa Maria and encourage all residents to recognize and celebrate the people programs places and partnerships that make recreation and parks an important part of our community Witness thereof, I've signed the hand cause a seal of the city of Santa Maria to be affirmed. This affix this day of the 7th of July 2026 and here to receive this is the Baza family.

Thank you. Thank you. And a good evening to you, Madam Mayor and City Council members. We'd like to thank you for the honor of accepting the Proclamation for Recreations and Parks. This is meaningful to us and to our family because we are regulars in all these programs. My wife Nadia My oldest, Elizabeth, Jasmine and John. And I'm invested in my family and have invested with all you guys.

My girls have done the CERT program. That did for Jasmine last year we did it I recognize them from that program that they did. It's a awesome program that teaching first aid they gave him all their tools my daughters have and little brush fires have been there Active on those, on their first aid and everything that they have there. They kept that with them and we'll probably... And just like anything else you have to continue doing it so you just like first day you have to keep doing it every few years. So awesome with all the programs. We've done the Ocean Pines Camp with the smorg from what the grant? They did that a couple of years ago. We've done the family camp With the leadership programs that they have here at Tebo Maldonado. I have my oldest daughter so she learns how to do presentations and speak, you know what I mean?

So eye contact and everything so she's doing that right now with Barbara. And so we're involved We were here just a couple of weeks ago for the swim. So they're in Swim Club, all three of them. We're here with Mike right here at the Paul Nelson so they do swim year-round. They've been doing it since COVID. We started with the swim lessons that you guys offer make it affordable for those swim lessons that I don't think you can find anywhere else You know, I grew up in the five cities. I know over there you got to pay an arm and a leg to get any kind of swim lessons so they started with that when they were four or five and then went to swim club.

They're also doing soccer club. They are doing all three of them doing soccer and in between in school, you know, they're doing volleyball. So my thing is keep them off, excuse my language, the darn devices and keep them Active in sports, keep them active and everything for them to learn. We have to invest in our community and Santa Maria I give you my hats off on you guys have a lot of programs, a lot of stuff you guys they're always reaching out from the city Trying to get the kids in to do programs. They have stuff you guys send them to Santa Barbara, horseback riding, the trails, bike riding, go see the stars. There's so much we just I mean I could go on for days but thank you guys and we understand the budget. We know what happens when they're trying We have to invest in our kids.

So it's very important to everybody. And I speak for all the families, we do soccer and I'm signing up all the girls from their teams to go to these events, to do first aid, to do everything that they offer for them to do better. So we're doing as much as we can and you guys are awesome for having all those programs I work for Pacific Petroleum and John Hoeklander is a big investor. He donates bathrooms, just got to speak what it is you know like that guy gives to our community here at Santa Maria baseball everything he does so we just everybody's put in you know Put in there just a little bit of sand into the pot and make everything happen. But yeah, we are very, very grateful to the recs and parks, everybody that works there. Been awesome.

And when they told me I go, this is a walk in the park. It's what we do. We're all in. We're all in this together and they have a new fields. They're going to be opening up the next few years Awesome get the kids, you know give everybody opportunity You know I grew up in the five cities, you know, I grew up in the 80s we didn't have you know, we don't have all that But you know, but yeah. So I'd like to thank you guys. Thank Barbara. Thank everybody at the city and for everything and for mayor for making everything happen and all you guys that work together with them. Appreciate it.

And yeah.

Mr. Baza we have to put you guys on a commercial because that is great. Thank you so much. And you kids don't know how lucky you are to have a mom and dad that want to encourage you to do different things and enjoy the city. I know we have a lot of programs, but a lot of times kids will say there's nothing to do here and there is so much to do. Yeah,

thank

you again

mayor. I would like to thank the family as well because the programs are there but if we don't have the families that are pushing the children to be involved then they sit at home on the devices and I want to say I really like your messy shirt They won today, huh? Yeah. That was close.

Thank

you

guys. And that soccer I think is just captivating everyone even if you're not a soccer fan. I mean yeah I can't wait till it's over because I'm not getting a good night's sleep but it's so... It is. You have to watch it all. Yeah thank you.

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Thank you. I have seven requests to speak and Guinevere Cannon followed by Eileen Armijo, followed by Esther Jensen. Good evening Miss Cannon.

I missed your meeting on the proclamation for the Gay Pride Month because I would have actually stood against that. My question is, how many votes did you get on that? Are you voting between the City Council members or is all the city voting on this gay pride month? And how do you do proclamations? Like the one you just did I think was great. It's going to help children, but this one I don't believe. I know for a fact that this is not a good proclamation because once you start doing proclamation like the LGBT You come up with, someone comes up with another proclamation that puts you either deeper in the mud.

At some point, someone has to stand up in the city council whether it be here myself and I will continue to stand up. That's some of the things that you proclamate should not be put into existence like this one here. Because once you do that, what's going to happen next? You might have a pedophile who says I want a pedophile month in September, October. We got to really stop the, I call it sin.

I mean we pray every evening before we start this section and what we're praying, I'm hoping we're praying to God. And if we are praying to God, we want to do righteousness We don't want to continue to proclimate things that are sin. And this is sin. Yes, everybody has an equal right and one thing the government, the city council, no one can tell anyone who they are.

I'm black okay? That's not going to change. No matter who makes a proclamation. I mean, the next proclamation could be white. We just have to take some time to think about what we're doing especially in this city. Do we need to use funds to have these proclamations that are ungodly? No, we do not. We need to use the funds for safety. There's about 112,000 people in this city and it's getting larger And the safety needs to be with fire department, law enforcement, ICE, sheriff, the state patrol.

Because once a week there is someone out there drunk and they're driving. There needs to be more law enforcement for this city and I think that's something that goes by the ear. It's not really taken to. I take it too because I drive every day, five days a week up and down the freeway. And there is always someone who is driving recklessly. You don't drive reckless because you are driving recklessly. You drive recklessly either under the influence and there was a lot of that here on Broadway.

Look at the young people that lost their lives because someone in the car was drinking I do look at the police reports. Lots of DUIs, that means there needs to be more law enforcement.

Thank you, Mrs. Cannon. Appreciate your comments.

Okay.

Eileen Armijo followed by Esther Jansen followed by Cilla Feliz Villarreal

Okay, my name is Eileen Armijo and I live in La Maria Senior Mobile Home Park. I was encouraged last week when I went to the planning council meeting and they passed to come to City Council a thing for the senior overlay of mobile home parks Our mobile home park is a senior and it's not set up to have children in it. You have people who can't afford to move out of there, and they bought their mobile homes to live in peace the rest of your life.

We don't have walkways on our streets. We don't have open areas for playgrounds. It's not set up for, and we did not plan for it to be An all age community. It's something that we can retire in, in peace and if the park owners rent us a mobile home lease that we can't afford to move out of to be a senior park and they change it to an all-age park, we lose our affordability. We lose our peace and quiet as we age.

So I hope you consider passing this ordinance of a senior overlay so that seniors can be comfortable at where they're at. Thank you. Thank

you. Esther Jensen

Good evening, Mayor Patino, council members, staff and citizens of Santa Maria. My name is Esther Jensen. I'm a resident of the La Maria Mobile Home Park here in Santa Maria. I was happy to have been at the planning commission last week when the community development group presented their report on senior mobile parks It passed by a vote of five to zero in favor of senior parks, remaining senior parks.

I've lived in La Maria for 30 years. I hope you will also pass the keeping senior park, a senior park only we love being together as a family and helping each other when issues arise And we hope that you will vote to make this possible finally. It is so hopefully that we will have issues, one issue solved and more to resolve that it is with rent increases. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Esther. Next is Stella Feliz Villarreal followed by Brandon Feliz Villarreal. Followed by Dina Ray Sorry's.

Good evening Mayor Patino and members of the council. My name is Stella Felix Villarreal, and I live on Cesar Chavez Drive in District 1. I'm here about the decision to rename Cesar Chavez Drive, and I want to set the man aside for a moment because my concern tonight it's not about him. It's about how this City Council is treating the people who live on that street.

You sent a survey to all 60 households You asked us what we wanted and we answered. Nearly 80 of us signed our names to say please don't do this, not because of politics but because every one of us will have to change our address on our bank accounts, our vehicle registration, our trusts, our insurance, our subscriptions and a dozen other documents that tie our lives together. You asked, we answered and then the answer was set aside.

I'd ask each of you, what is the point of consulting residents if their near unanimous response changes nothing? This rename is estimated to cost about $26,000. I want you to picture that money as what it could be instead. Our street runs right past Tommy Coons Junior High Kids cross it every day for $26,000. We could have speed humps. We could have crosswalks. We could have safety improvements that protect children on the very same street.

I am asking you to weigh a new sign against a child's safe walk to school And if the standard now is that we remove honorees who are accused of wrongdoing, then I ask you to apply that standard honestly. Santa Maria has streets named for explorers tied to the violent conquest of Native peoples. We have a street that may honor John Sutter whose statue Sacramento removed for enslaving and abusing Native Americans.

We have one for Woodrow Wilson whose name Princeton stripped for resigrating the federal government. If wrongdoing is a rule, where's the policy that applies to all of them? Singling out one street against the resident's wishes isn't a principle, it's a headline. So I'm asking you to do one of two things. Honor the survey and keep the name or if you truly believe conduct should govern our street names pause tonight and write a real uniform policy that applies to every commemorative name in this city before you change a single one Either way, please put that 26,000 towards keeping our kids safe. Thank you.

Thank you. Brandon

Villarreal.

When do I start? Hello, Mayor and Council Members. Brandon Felix Villarreal here. I am writing as a resident of Cesar E. Chavez Drive and a Santa Maria resident in District 1 as well to formally oppose the decision to rename Cesar E. Chavez Drive and to ask the council to reconsider its course. My objection rests on three grounds none of which depends on relitigating the legacy of the man for whom this street was named in 2002.

First, the Council solicited resident input and then disregarded it. City staff surveyed all 60 households on the affected block. The response was overwhelming and nearly unanimous. Residents do not want the name changed. Approximately 80 signatures were gathered in opposition. Their reasons are practical and serious. A street name change forces every household to update addresses on bank accounts, vehicle registrations, insurance policies, trusts, deeds and recurring accounts at real personal cost and inconvenience.

When a governing body invites the people most affected the way in receives a clear answer and proceeds anyway it undermines the public's trust that participation matters. Second, the expenditure is poorly justified against neighbourhood's actual needs. The rename is estimated to cost the city approximately 26 grand. That sum would deliver far more public value if directed to safety infrastructure on the same residential corridor, speed humps, crosswalks and traffic calming particularly given the streets proximity to Tomakoon Junior High School and the children who cross it daily. I respectfully ask the Council to weigh a symbolic change that residents oppose against tangible safety improvements that residents would welcome.

My own life almost ended on Hidden Pines Way due to a collision caused by a teenage driver, which could have been impeded by said tangible safety improvements. Third, the action applies an inconsistent standard. If the governing principle is that city will remove honorees associated with serious wrongdoing, that principle must be applied transparently and uniformly not selectively to whichever name draws current attention Santa Maria streets honor numerous figures who by today's standards are the subject of well-documented controversy. Explorers and conquistadors connected to colonial violence against indigenous peoples like Columbus, Balboa, De Soto, John Sutter whose Sacramento statue was removed in 2020 over his enslavement and abuse of Native Americans as my mother already mentioned, and Woodrow Wilson whose name Princeton University stripped in 2010 over his segregation record.

Singling out one street over allegations that are posthumous and have not been tested in any court while leaving these untouched is not a coherent policy. It is an ad hoc response. I therefore respectfully request that the council take one of the following actions. Honor the resident survey and return the current name, or pause the renaming and direct staff to develop a written uniformly applied commemorative naming review policy with clear criteria and a public process before changing any street name in the city. And third reallocate the funds budgeted for this rename to neighborhood safety improvements on the affected corridor.

I appreciate the difficulty of the questions before you and ask only that the care be reflected in the final decision. Thank you.

Thank you. Dena Rae Soares, followed by Ed Carcari, followed by Jaime Flores.

Good evening Mayor Patino and city council member. My name is Dena Soares. I just want to thank everybody for all the attention to the homeless. We really appreciate it. There's just a few things going on. I guess a few individuals are getting A little harassed by the park rangers. I don't have that encounter, but they're kind of trying to find places to reside at. A little extra work would help. Even over at Santa Maria PD, I see you guys are doing your building over there.

Maybe some of the homeless people could do just like pipe fitting or do a little roustabout for you out there. I don't know what that entails, you guys are remodeling out that? I just hope it has a good standing out. I think it's doing a great job, Dennis. There are just a few bathrooms that are not open. Fuente Vista, Armstrong and the kids are going there pretty regularly and a lot of family members and parents. And I try to go out there to each one throughout the summer. I know we have over 30 parks. They're looking really good. Everything looks great but I think some of the restrooms could be updated. The one going over by Walmart actually where the skateboard park is never opened. I go there periodically during different times.

I guess we have a few different locations for the homeless. I know we have facilitated a lot of them. Linda and Fred on Thursday, they've been putting in for three or four years. We saw their showers at Cornerstone Park. And you know, I think we're trying to alleviate That was all the building going on here in Santa Maria. I think the upgrades in the apartments are great and with the Hope Village, I think that's going over real well. I was just told about one in San Luis Obispo I might go check out but I think all in all I think we're doing well here guys have a great year okay thank you for being here.

Thank You Ms. Sorry Ed Carcari followed by Jaime Flores Good evening, Mr. Carcari.

Good evening Madam Mayor, Councilmembers, City officials my name is Ed Carcari I run a few events in town and some media and I want to talk about the event specifically the Christmas Parade which no offense to Jaime but the Christmas Parade by far is the best parade in the city. I do events and I've been doing them for about almost 40 years in this city and I absolutely love events not just because that's where I make my money but because one thing we found about events you bring people together And regardless of their backgrounds, how they vote, their color, creed or culture.

They come together and they see each other as humans and it's an awesome thing to get neighbors together and they become friends. And each year the Christmas parade and I know I've spent 20 years working with The rodeo parade, it's a struggle to make it all work and what we do in Rotary, we have four groups. Thank God if we don't pay the bills then the rotary groups come together and they pay the bills if we're short and we've been short quite a few times this year were not we're very pleased about that but if there was a way that we get lesser fees And it was two things have to happen for me for this to work. One, it has to be fair to the police department. I wanna make sure they get taken care of because we love our place.

And second, I don't wanna see the taxpayers have to pick up the dime for this. If those two things can happen and we can get lower fees on these, the parades and events boy, I think it's a home run and I'd really appreciate it. But most of all thank you each of you for being invested involved in our community and making it better. I appreciate your work thanks.

Thank you. Jaime Flores followed by Todd Ventura.

Good evening Mayor Patino, council members thanks for having us. My name is Jaime Flores and tonight I am here representing Elks Lodge 1538. I have some of the officers from our lodge and my co-chair we both run the Santa Maria Elks Rodeo Parade. I want to start by giving a big thank you to Santa Maria Police Department specifically Chief Williams for working with us this isn't an issue that was just recently brought to the police department's attention as chairman for the last five years i have been pretty vocal about the amount of fees that we have to pay for the services. However, we also understand that public safety is item number one on our agendas and we understand that costs go up and we understand that things just will continue to happen that way.

We are a lodge of almost 4,000 members 99.8% of us are volunteers, including all of us up here today and it is our job to put on a major event for this community which includes the rodeo and the parade. We have a major economic impact on the community and one of the biggest things that we are super proud of is that every dollar that goes into the parade is fundraised by our committee And when the bills are paid and whatever's left over, it goes back to the committees of The Lodge. It goes back to the non-profits and organizations within this community. And unfortunately in the last couple years we haven't been able to do that. So today we're asking that you consider a creative solution around the fees specifically to the police services that we have to incur With the amount of people that we see for the parade, we understand there's a specific requirement of law enforcement officers that need to be out there.

And I feel if we can all work together to a better and more creative solution, we can find ways to save that money and allow us to give back to our committees within The Lodge and within our community. I was advised to ask for a special exception, and I'm going to go ahead and do that tonight. If it's favorable, great. If it isn't, I completely understand. But if the Council would consider backdating the reduction in fees if it's approved to May 29th—that would be the day before our parade happened—we would greatly appreciate it.

Hopefully going forward we can work together to see these fees reduced. I thank you for your time.

Thank you Todd Ventura

Thank you Honorable Mayor, Council Members. Thanks for having us this evening. Sorry for my casual look here I'm trying to run a fair. So I'm Todd Ventura and currently on the board of the Chamber of Commerce, the Econ Alliance and the 37th District Agricultural Association which is the Santa Maria Fair Park and I'm currently the interim CEO of the fair. So we have a busy time and I'm very thankful first of all to the city for the chief of fire over there who's been out to the fair several days helping us out. Chief Williams has sent a great crew out to us to keep the fair safe, and we love having you on the property. I think the presence is tremendous within our community. It's far better than having the people who are under the jurisdiction of the Fair Park which is actually the CHB Having the SMPD there is far, far better for us.

They know the people of the community. They know where the issues are. They can spot the concerns before they walk through the gate and oftentimes deal with them. And that is very, very beneficial as opposed to having a state entity. And while we are a state entity at the Fair Park, we don't receive any funds from the State of California at all. All of our funding comes from what is happening at the fair park, whether it's interim events, fairs, strawberry festival, whatever the case might be. So I echo the sentiments of Mr. Carcari and Mr. Flores both on 13B that's coming up on your agenda. And it makes a tremendous difference within our community to be able to put on these types of events. If you went to the North County Economic Forum just a few weeks ago at Hancock College, they talked about how our county in the north end particularly is going to be growing exponentially compared to the South County and other areas.

Duh, that kind of makes sense right. This is the population base soon this will be the voter base uh the economic base I believe is already there from a tax perspective and so um you know all of those things make a lot of sense as we continue to grow we need to continue to build our infrastructure safely and we need to be able to put on events for recreation for the residents of Santa Maria the valley in the surrounding areas And that's best done with local agencies. Chief Dandridge and Chief Williams are the two I'm specifically speaking about now, their entities are very very important to us in keeping our public generally safe. The events that all of us put on greatly add to the economy of the North County and really the county entirely because our fair is actually the Santa Barbara County Fair which runs all the way to Carpinteria and you know actually picks up Napomo and Arroyo Grande and we're very proud of that As is our strawberry festival, it's also growing.

So I'd ask that you please consider the fees as closely as possible and maybe again to echo Mr. Flores' words if we can come up with creative solutions, I think it would be a tremendous help for us so I greatly appreciate that but I'm going to one-up Mr. Flores backdate everything to the 1st of April because the Strawberry Festival is in April. And I want part of that money savings if it's going to come up, so please consider to the first of April and I'd be really happy about that and I'll just add madam if I could just have a couple more seconds come to the fair it's gonna be great it's absolutely different and reimagined Chief Dandridge has been there I know several of his members have been there they're big soccer fans by the way and come to the fair and enjoy it thank you very much.

Thank you! That concludes public comment.

Moving on. Madam Mayor, I also have to just ask somebody on Zoom if they wanted to speak to hit star 9 to raise their hand and I don't see that they are so we don't have anybody on Zoom.

So before we proceed I'd like to announce a correction to the consent calendar item 11 D has been pulled by staff

Do you want me to read that title, Madam Mayor? Please. 11-D1 was adoption of a resolution authorizing the submission of an application for the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Fiscal Year 2026 Technology and Equipment Program grant.

Thank you. Okay. Anyone have items they wish to pull for discussion? Do I have a motion to approve?

So moved.

I have a motion and a second, any discussion? Hearing none, Madam Clerk can you please call the roll?

the staff report? Yes, Madam Mayor. Madam Mayor, members of the city council, the request before you tonight is to make various appointments to vacant positions on the Black Block Grants Advisory Committee, Downtown Revitalization Committee, Central Coast Commission for Seniors Area Agency on Aging, Library Board of Trustees and Measure U Citizens Oversight Committee I'll present the committees one at a time for consideration of the appointments and the City Council's ratification.

The Block Grants Advisory Committee has a total of five vacancies. At this time, staff received applications from the five incumbents, Mackenzie Greeley previously nominated by Mayor Patino, Isaias Bierman previously nominated by Mayor Pro Tem Flores, Cory Mills nominated by Council Member Aguilera, Esther Costler previously nominated by prior council member Escobedo which is now Councilmember Bathia's appointment and Jose Ramirez, previously nominated by Councilmember Soto. Two additional applications were received from Eva Avila and Hugo Rios. The appointments will serve a term of three years each ending in July 2029. Each council member has a nomination to this committee.

Following the nominations appointments will be confirmed by the mayor and ratified by the City Council. Madam Mayor if you want to start? Thank you.

Mayor Pro Temploris do you have a nomination?

Right. I have not met with Isaiah, so I'd like to wait until I meet with him.

That's

okay Madam Mayor?

Thank you. Council Member Aguilera do you have a nomination? No. Okay. And...Council Member Batalla do you have a nomination?

No I don't.

Council Member Soto do you have a nomination? For

block grants? Yes I'd like to nominate Eva

Avila. And I will second that. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll?

Mayor Patino, you have your income at Mackenzie Greeley. Oh, I'm sorry, I

forgot mine. Yes, I will nominate Mackenzie Greeley

And do you want to make that first motion or do you want to go with Soto and then yours?

Pardon?

Do you want to go with Soto's motion? Yes.

Yes, I second that.

Okay.

So Council Member... I have a question So the incumbents are listed. I nominated Corey Mills already, so I just want to confirm that she still remains.

You had appointed her to a term that was only until July 2026. Now it's for an additional three years, so she had to reapply. OK. Do you want to appoint her? Yes.

Thank you. Did Mr. Berumen or who else? Esther Acosta apply, reapply?

Yes they all reapplied. Oh they all reapplied okay yes

okay. Okay

so I have... So I would thank you Madam Mayor so I'd like to appoint Jose Ramirez.

Okay And so then we just have Mr. Battaglia. Did you want to wait till next time? Yeah, I'll wait. Okay. So we have four applications that have been nominated and I will do the second on all but mine. So I have Soto and

Patino. Right.

We have Aguilera and we have Flores.

Are

you gonna read the downtown? Okay, go ahead and read that

Downtown Revitalization Committee, the appointments for this committee is one appointment by the Planning Commission and one appointment by the Recreation and Parks Commission. The Mayor then appoints the two and it's confirmed by the City Council. The Recreation and Parks Commission appointed Rebecca Carey and the Planning Commission appointed Isabel Blanco. The Mayor will have the opportunity to make the two appointments and the appointees will serve a term of 2 years ending July 2028. Following the nomination, appointments will be confirmed by the Mayor and ratified by the City Council.

Both the incumbents have already been appointed. So that's Rebecca Kerry and Esau Blanco.

And I will nominate both.