City Council — February 11, 2026

I would like to call the February 11th, 2026 meeting of the Camarillo City Council. The CSD and the SA to order will the city clerk please call the roll?

Yes, Mayor and Council we have one item on closed session conference with legal counsel existing litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9 D1 and it's one matter the OPV coalition versus Fox Canyon groundwater management agency and if there's any reportable action I will make that report.

Good evening, we will reconvene the February 11th meeting of the Camarillo City Council CSDNSA. Let the record reflect that Vice Mayor Martinez Bravo joined us in closed session at 445 p.m., and let the record reflect that all council members are currently present. I'm going to ask the vice mayor to lead us in the flag salute.

Please stand Right hand over your heart. Ready, begin.

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Thank you, Vice Mayor. Are there any changes to the agenda for this evening? Hearing none or seeing none we will move forward. Madam Clerk, do we have any public speakers for items not on the agenda?

Yes Mayor. I received four requests to speak tonight if you'd like to speak but haven't submitted your name please see staff in the foyer. For City Council policy 1.05 each speaker is limited to three minutes. The city council will receive general public comment for maximum of 20 minutes which typically allows for up to seven speakers Speakers who sign up during the 20-minute public comment period but are not heard within that time will be given an opportunity to speak following the completion of action on all other agenda items. The City Council may not take action on matters raised during general public comment, but may briefly respond, seek clarification or refer matters to staff as permitted by government code section 54954.3 Your time will be displayed with the video on the displays.

When your time is up, the microphone will be muted and

Good evening. Good evening, Mayor and Council. It is an unusual and surprising pleasure to be speaking first this evening but I take no pleasure in what i must say you have all heard by now you've heard from many of us and you will doubtless hear from many more Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has been acting like a military occupation in this city, in this state, all over this nation.

Abducting, torturing and otherwise maltreating virtually anyone they meet. The question now before us is not what has happened nor why for this is well known to all But what will the city government do to protect its people from this intrusion? What shall we do to hold out against the invader? I give you this question to consider. I realize there can be nothing being done tonight or here, nor are admitted to be done.

And yet, I expect to see that question answered in the future and that presently. Thank you. That will be all.

Thank you.

Joseph Dubinsky?

Dab Zinski Good evening, my name is Joseph Dubczynski Jr. I am a resident of Camarillo. I'm here to give you the latest numbers on abductions within the 805 Area Code. As of this morning at least 1,596 individuals have been abducted by ICE out of that 842 are in Ventura County and 451 have been in Camarillo. The lack of action by the City Council is deafening and it grows more every day.

Oxnard and Moorpark are working towards establishing stakeholders committees, I hope Camarillo plans to engage in that kind of behavior as well. The immigrant community in Camarillo needs to know that they have not been abandoned by this city council. Just this morning, emergency services arrived again at Cortez Circle taking yet another person to the hospital after maltreating the person after they picked them up this morning we believe in Caleta.

That brings it up to at least two this year where emergency services has been needed but apparently according to Julia Brownlee, the chief there said that it's perfectly normal to have 23 emergency visits in a year at an ICE facility Fryoff has lately been saying that we're a nation of laws, but I'm starting to question that. Camarillo Police Department and Ventura County Sheriff's Office came out to harass protesters outside of 321 Cortez Circle. On the third time they came out, they towed one of the persons' cars, searched it and then escalated the situation by just generally pissing that guy off for crimes that I've actually reported to the sheriff's office and still haven't heard back on yet. I don't know why I bother reporting anything to the police if I never get a call back.

But maybe we're not a nation of laws, maybe we're a nation of rights. And I'm starting to question that too. Two Santa Barbara volunteers that were down here this week got pulled over outside of Santa Rosa Technology Magnet School first for quote obstructing or impeding an investigation by following observing and observing a nice agent. And then later it was revised to just an infraction that they weren't going to enforce.

By the way, that's not the first time they've been outside of school. They actually stashed a raid vehicle on Berry Street which is about a block from PVSEA one morning. The Santa Barbara Independent is investigating now where police abrogates First Amendment rights to follow observe and report on law enforcement. For the record, not a single federal agent has been credibly assaulted in Ventura County and certainly not by volunteers or the community organizations that I am a part of. I can't say the same of ICE agents on us, of course.

ICE cannot be trusted period at this point they have lied for over and over on video their word isn't worth anything anymore and at least OPD has started to push back against that rather than believing whatever they're saying when they call up the police for help. I'm hoping we can figure out how not to I hope we can figure out at some point not to harass the protesters who are outside of Cortez Circle because litigation is expensive. Thank you.

Good evening Mayor, Council. Once again I'm Spencer Ritchie and this evening I have a few different concerns. One how long has it been city practice that people who make public comments at the meetings can only do a general comment or comment on any of the agenda items not both apparently? I was only told that when I tried to sign up for the, you know, for my public comment stuff outside. And is there any particular reason why that rule's in place?

And then the second concern I have is to... Wow. So apparently Starting in July, the Brown Act is going to require things like live translation and closed captioning of city council meetings and stuff. And especially the remote public comments, those are going to start being required by law under the updated Brown Act starting this July. What a shame it is that Camarillo and probably a whole bunch of other cities, they went out of their way to dismantle that public comment like remote public comment infrastructure.

You know, after it was you know after the COVID shutdowns ended only to have to reimplement it again to comply with the Brown Act starting this July. I just find it funny that's a lot of time wasted on stuff that should have already been in there in the first place and then my third concern is again with the whole like ICE vehicles and stuff they're like you know three concerns my 3A is What is so hard about, you know, arresting in reality kidnapping people putting them in your car and then keeping them in a facility such as the one at 321 Cortez.

without doing anything to them that requires them be taken to the hospital and ambulance. And then two, so ICE has a lot of infrastructure at its disposal and it clearly cares. It clearly does not care about transparency. With all of its dodgy lack of recording in surprise transporting of those it's holding And it also we have, we know about instances of like sexual abuse and stuff happening under ICE. You know who else that applied to?

Jeffrey Epstein. To be okay with what ICE is doing is to be okay with what Jeffrey Epstein was doing. Thank you. Have a nice evening.

Thank you Spencer.

Derek Porter.

Honorable members of the City Council, thank you for the opportunity to speak today. I am a concerned resident of our community and I'm here to urge you not to renew the city's contract with Flock Safety for their automated license plate reader cameras. For those unaware, Flock Safety operates a network of automated license plate reader cameras installed at fixed public locations throughout Camarillo. These high-resolution cameras capture images of passing vehicles automatically reading license plate numbers along with details like the vehicle's make, model, color and other visible characteristics such as bumper stickers or roof racks et cetera all day and night using AI learning for accuracy When a vehicle passes by, the system logs the date, time and location of each sighting and uploads this data to FLOC's cloud-based platform ostensibly for security in aiding in crime investigations.

This data is stored centrally often for extended periods and can be searched nationwide by participating law enforcement agencies. These systems while marketed as tools for safety pose grave risks to our privacy freedoms and public funds risks that far outweigh any purported benefits These cameras create a dragnet surveillance grid that tracks our every move without consent or oversight. Every license plate scan is uploaded to Phlox cloud servers, building intimate profiles of our lives where we worship, where we protest, or seek medical care.

As experts have noted, this allows inferences about our political views, religious affiliations or private activities violating the Fourth Amendment's protections against warrantless searches as affirmed in the Supreme Court's Carpenter decision. In our city residents are unknowingly subjected to constant tracking. We deserve better than a system that treats us all as suspects.

Moreover, the effectiveness of these cameras in reducing crime is grossly overstated While FLOC boasts about solving cases, the reality that mass surveillance tools like this are ripe for abuse. Used to stalk individuals, intimidate political opponents or target vulnerable communities. Police have exploited them to monitor gun shows, political rallies or even personal vendettas as seen in cases where officers access the hundreds of times for non-official reasons and for what? No clear reasons have been given have been shown to reduce crime. Instead, it fosters perverse incentives that erode public trust.

Let's not forget the costs. Renewing this contract means pouring taxpayer dollars into expensive subscriptions and data extensions up to $3,300 per camera for longer storage while FLOC profits as a data broker Bridging for time here, cities across the country are not renewing their contracts. And just for the record this camera is not on it's just a prop just to if anybody feels uncomfortable with it that's exactly the point so I'll just end there thank you very much.

Thank you any more Madam Clerk?

One more speaker Blanca O.

Welcome Blanca

Hello. I already submitted a public comment online that you all should have received, so I'm going to try to spend my time here reading one of those letters that I referenced for the public. These are letters that have been written by children who are currently detained in ICE facilities and I'll do my best because this is an interdependent ship Hello, my name is Ariana. I'm 14 years old and I'm from Honduras.

I've been detained for 45 days and I have never felt so much pain of so much fear to go to a place as I feel here every time I remind myself that I Once I go back to Honduras, dangerous things could happen to my mom and my younger siblings. My younger siblings haven't been able to see their mom in more than a month. They are very young and you need your parents when you're growing up. Since I got to the center All you will feel is sadness and mostly depression when people have their, the longest will be, oh.

Their courts, the longest that they will last is 15 minutes and our rights are not being provided. Arrests are happening when people don't even have any Other arrests are happening illegally. It's sad to hear that people's cases are being denied and are getting sent back to their country, places where they're escaping from and are lacking protection and want to feel safe.

Not a lot of people know what is happening in the centers where immigrants are placed And I haven't been getting any school time. Every single person in here had their jobs, had their lives and aren't any danger to this country. I've been in this country for almost seven years, and in those seven years my mom and I have found a home and had made a bigger family. I have never been separated from my siblings, and it's honestly sad because they are little and they need their mom and their sister.

Yeah, they're with their dad but it's different from being with my mom. Since the day my mom and I get detained in Manhattan, New York, my life was instantly paused. From my knowledge, you can't be under custody for more than 15 or 20 days. While here in Daly Immigration Center people have been in this place for seven months, five months, four to two months. It's not fair that ICE officers are not following the laws.

All kids...

Thank you Blanca. Madam Clerk?

There are no more speakers.

Thank you very much. We will move on to Council Staff and Intergovernmental Reports, and at this time I'd like to recognize President of Moorpark College Dr. Julius Sukenu. And if I misspoke your last name please correct me doctor.

Thank you so much Mayor Tennyson, City Council members, staff. I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you this evening about Moorpark College, your local community college and what we're doing to not only grow the economy of our county but to support civic engagement. I'm going to run through some slides for you just to sort of tell our story and tell how that story is adding value to the lives of your constituents. So, the first data point you see here is who we serve and what you see is that all are welcome at Mopar College. What you will also see with this is that the average age of our students is not 17 or 18 years old. It's about 24 years old, but that has been increasing over the years and then many of our students are actually adults who are returning to the workplace or in some cases they're incumbent workers.

This is Camarillo-specific data. The one data point that is not on there is that 17% of our students from Camarillo are actually first generation college students, so what you will see here is that 8.5% of students at Montpellier College come from Camarillo. Camarillo has the benefit of actually all three colleges in our district serve this city and its surroundings, so you get all of the VCCD. What you will also see there is the breakdown of the students and their ethnicity, where they come from. And also what programs they're part of at our college. So 181 dual enrollment students, 50 students who are in an access program. Those are students with disabilities.

And then we have students who are veterans, 25 of our students from Camarillo are veterans. So this is Camarillo specific data. I will skip that one. That just tells you the cities we serve, you'll notice that your number four on that list of cities that we serve and I'm very proud to tell you that we're growing by 4%. So from spring to spring, we increased our enrollment by 4%, the year before that, we increased our enrollment by 9% so we are doing well One of the reasons why we're doing well is really about the transfer and the incredible transfer opportunities that students get by coming to Montauk College. So what you see here is an illustration of that. 88% or 89% of our students are accepted into the CSUs at first try, look at our UC data 659 students applied 529 were accepted and in terms of that rate that's 80% acceptance rate What is equally as important is that, as an Aspen Prize finalist, we are in an extremely exclusive group.

1,200 community colleges in the United States. They identify the top 200 community colleges and then they invite those colleges to apply for a million dollar prize. We have been in the top 10 of that price selection twice now. And if you look at our data, you will see that in terms of transfer to four-year institutions Moorpark College in comparison to the finalists, so those are the top 10 community colleges in the nation. We outbid them if you look at the data point. Also we look at our students after they leave us and they compare our students to students from other top ten institutions and again you see our completion rates at universities that have professional schools and again we outbide them. That is your local community college at play Our transfer review, you can see where our students transfer to and you can see what degrees we have available and certifications we have available.

I should add to that that we have two bachelor's degree one in biomanufacturing and the other which will tell a little bit later in cyber security and network defense operations. So why do they transfer? And how come they're so successful in transfer? We have an honors program that has a 71% success rate of students getting to UCLA. So three out of five students who apply to UCLA from Montpellier College are in our honors program, getting their first try. You see that we are members of the Aspen Transfers Network? That transfer network is designed to enable students to go to the most prestigious and exclusive institutions in the country. We mentor those students in partnership with those institutions, and we get them to go there.

Then we get on-site admissions, so those universities that you see there accept students on our campus. Students come in, they meet with them and they accept them right on the spot. That is an incredible opportunity for our community and for our students. And then also we have a very vibrant transfer center at Mopar College. It is important to realize that we're partners in the economic development and economic growth of our service area. So what you see here are businesses, they are employers who hire our students, the employers at which we place our students in internship opportunities, the employers who work with our faculty and our staff to build curriculum that is responsive to industry needs.

There are organizations that our students volunteer at, there are places where our students transfer to. And so when we talk about collaborations and partnership this is what we mean. One of the important pieces of my presentation today is to see how we are contributing to the workforce success of our students and the communities that we do serve. So you will see there, I identified that a good chunk of our students get full-time employment. Some of them before they complete at the institution and others after they do so. Those programs that you list there have direct pathways from institution to work, direct pathways.

What you will also see there is that we have really invested in making sure that as many students as possible and those who want to can get paid internships. So, we've applied for grants that support our students so that we can pay the employer to take our students. As you know, many students cannot afford to intern for free and so giving them that opportunity is another way to create equity and access to work through Internship opportunities. Here's some feedback what we've got from students who participate in our internships at the college and again, what you will notice there is that it gives them opportunity to practice their skills before they start full-time work When we talk about workforce success, we should also note that many of our students either own their own businesses or they start their own businesses.

I will give you an example of two of our students in our game design program. Those students now have submitted games that are being prepared for publication by two very well-known game design companies in the LA area. We're proud of that. Similarly, we have partnerships with the Navy Base of Ventura County, with Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Bank of America and Wildlife Games. Not just in terms of hiring our students but they come and they work with our students look at their portfolios do interviews with them so that when they go for that job so that when they apply for that job They are ready. They also made commitments to us, the Navy Base of Ventura County has made a commitment to us so that we have a partnership with them where they pay their civilian employees who need the training to come to Montauk College.

Again, we're partners, we're collaborators in the success of the economy of Ventura County. So, 88% of our former students are former career education students. You may know them as voc tech students. They're employed full time. 83% of those students are working a job closely related to their field of study. So we don't educate people to be in fields of study that are not necessarily connected to the degree of study that they pursued at the college.

That is an example of the good counseling and academic advice in a career exploration office that we offer at Mopar College. You should also know that the College Futures Foundation ranked Mopark College seventh in the state among community colleges, and students who come to Mopark College increase their salaries by 37% within a year of completion at the college.

300 of our local employers participate in internships and engaging partnerships with the college. And you see there, the 227 students who are participating in internships. And then you see the pass rates for the nursing exam as well as for a radiology exam. Now add to that paramedics and ENT degree completion rates as well. So what you see is that we are educating people not into poverty, but we're educating them into successful careers and successful lives in Ventura County and beyond. Mostly in Ventura County.

So what's coming up at Montparn College? Well... As I said earlier, we have a bachelor's degree in cyber defense network operations that will start this fall. The degree was approved by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges on January 23rd and we are getting ready to roll out that degree program in this fall semester. We know that for every single job that is available, actually every 750 jobs that are available there's one person in cybersecurity. So when you think of the security of your data, when you think of the companies that serve you and the security of that data we need more people in that industry this program will help do that should also know that our program is identified by the NSA as a center of excellence in training for cybersecurity Also coming to Mopar College in this summer actually, late summer is a fall concert series.

I probably shared this with you last year when I was here that we're looking to build an amphitheater on campus. It's $60 million. We don't have $60 million as of yet but we have a concept and so the proof of concept is to begin delivering those concerts at the college this summer. Mopar College Foundation has had the opportunity of getting funds to support that And we're very proud of the fact that come this summer, we will bring high-quality entertainment to Ventura County outdoor venue. That seats about 4,000 people and we hope that you will come join us for some of those concerts.

Okay so that is my presentation but before I end, I want to introduce you some people from Mapa Culture here with me this evening. Some of them are residents of Camarillo. So we have here my Vice President of Business is Dr. Jennifer Clark We have from our Montpellier College Foundation, we have Lisa Grissner. And my advancement and chief financial officer for our foundation, operations officer is Debbie Clyde.

These folks are here to tell you and to acknowledge that Montpellier College is invested and committed to the city of Camarillo but we're also invested into and committed to the families that we serve in Ventura County. And we thank you for the opportunity to serve your students and to serve your families.

Thank you very much, Doctor. Any comments or questions for the good doctor? Vice Mayor?

Doctor Sequan thank you so much for being here it's always a treat when you come here and just wherever I see you I know you're so present throughout the community Excellent work with so much that you're doing. So kudos to you and to your entire staff and team. One of the questions that I had regarding the transfers was, is there a dominant major that you're seeing in terms of those who are transferring to UCLA and maybe other UCs? Yes,

yes. So the largest degree majors at our institution business psychology and general studies. Most of our students are transferring to UCLA, so if you're looking at the UCs, they transfer in the sciences. So they're transferring pre-med students, they're transferring into law schools or pre-law and a lot of our students are transferring to computer science and they're transferring to the networking program. So that's why we're aligning our associates degree to those degree pathways.

Okay thank you.

Thank you.

Mr. Tremblay

Thanks, Mr. Mayor. Doctor, thanks for being here again. I just echo my colleagues' comments. It's great to see you here. I had a couple of questions for you but before I start full disclosure our youngest attended Moorpark College about 10-11 years ago had an absolutely terrific experience matriculated on to a CSU and is doing very well and he had a terrific education at Moorpark so we are really pleased his mom and I were really pleased so thank you And thanks for all your staff for that. Two questions for you, the slide on the articulation agreements now 10 or 12 years ago when he went through Moorpark, he could automatically if I understood it correctly matriculate to either at that point it was UC Santa Barbara or Cal State Long Beach if he fulfilled certain conditions and grades and classes But the slide said, and then UC was the same as CSU.

But the slide said that I think it was 529 applied or 659 applied, 529 were accepted. Can you clarify that for me? If they meet certain conditions are they in or do they just have to apply?

Right, so there's two data points here. So one is for CSUs. So we have an agreement with the California State University where there's something called the ADT. So it's the Associate Degree for Transfer. So if somebody has an associate degree for transfer And they complete that associate degree at a California community college, they get to transfer to the CSU. Now with that transfer, they get into the university. There's no guarantee they will get into a particular program but they automatically get into the university so that's where the CSU. With the UCs we have something called a tag agreement which is an opportunity for our students to apply early, and it's available to all community colleges as long as institutions continue to build a relationship to support that effort.

And those students then apply to the TAG. So what you see there is those students who applied to the TAG and then got into the UC as a result of that agreement.

I know that you spend a lot of time, as does the community college district. Making sure that you are in alignment from an economic development standpoint with the Ventura County local economy and businesses and supply. That statistic of one for 750 resonated with me. Does Moorpark College, do you do that specifically as Moorpark College or do you do that in concert with the Ventura County Community College District, or both?

In terms of how you do that kind of outreach. My thought is you do both right?

Yes so um the colleges of the Ventura County of which there's three of us uh we work together and in working together we Build partnerships with the organizations, with the businesses, with the industries that are in our service area. So we have within our district office a particular division that works on economic and workforce development. And so there is that very robust sort of umbrella And then each of the campuses has career programs that work directly and sometimes in tandem with the district office to make sure that we meet the needs of those industry partners. So there is a unified approach to it, so that if a student goes to Montauk College and they're interested in working in dentistry, we don't have a dental program but Oxnard College does.

So there's that partnership. And for students who are interested in the animal care program, who go to another institution, they come to us and we're able to support that work. So we see ourselves as one unit and we're part of that really vibrant unit that supporting the economy of Ventura County. That's great.

Thank you. Thanks for all your good work.

Mr. Kildee? Yeah thanks for being here Dr. Churliss. I think I had mentioned I'm a graduate of Moorpark College back in the day Great, great community college back then and it's even better now. I commend you and your staff and all the students that are there. I do have a couple questions. I'm pleased to see that transfers into CSUCI as well and I know you're working very closely with them to improve that and expand that but another question I have is I believe I read that the average age, I believe is 24 years old. Was that correct? A little different back when I was there as Sarah can you expand a little bit about is there some trends that's happening to that or has that been a trend that's been going on for several years?

Yeah very good question thank you so much Council Member Kildee. Moabat College has been traditionally a transfer institution. So a lot of students come in right out of high school they take the two years sometimes a little more than that and then they go into university Thank you. No college experience but are yearning to do so. We have employers who want to see their employees with credentials and so we've worked really hard at beginning to build our outreach to adult learners, so we're working with the adult schools. We've worked really hard to build outreach to businesses and industries so they see us as a training site. So there's that piece. And then the largest growth that is actually happening in the college is teenagers 15 to 18 year olds, because they are at the high schools and we're doing a lot more work with dual enrollment.

So because we do a lot more with dual enrollment, the last year's growth has been really in adult teenagers, high school kids. In some cases I mean this is middle schoolers who are taking classes of the college so that that has When I first started at MOPAC in 2007, the average age was like 21. It was 20-21 and now it's 24. I can bet you that when we run the data for this academic year when it's over be close to 27 and we're really opening our doors. We also know that this is a county that, you know, it's flat growth so part of it is to look at who our next group of students will be. And there are adults who want to continue their education

And then your amphitheater, what was the cost that you're projecting of that again?

This is a cost from about two years ago. It's $60 million and so we are raising funds to do that but in the time being, we will start this summer series and we hope that it will not only be proof-of-concept but that folks will see and they'll come to it and they'll get used to it and they'l support us and they invest in us and that it will become part of the reasons why people come to Ventura County I'm part of the reason why the college is a destination.

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every year that you're here thank you very much. Thank you sir.

Ms.

Santangelo?

Thank You Mr. Mayor. I don't have any questions for you I just want to thank you. I look forward to being here every year and telling us about all the wonderful things happening at your campus. I'm especially really encouraged to hear that enrollment is up. That's really good news so keep up the good work.

Thank

you so much appreciate it Thank you, Doctor. I appreciate the community colleges of Ventura County as I understand they are now called instead of the Ventura County Community College District. I started my post high school education as a young Marine stationed at The Port Wainimi CB base way back in the day at Ventura College. So it started my post high school education, which continued on to CSU.

I appreciate everything that I've seen and heard about Moorpark College. I serve on the regional defense partnership. And I know there is a pipeline of internships and I believe some credentialing or certificate programs Naval bases Ventura County is the single largest employer in the entire county. I also have gone back to Washington D.C. with RDP and I believe there's relationships with the various Department of Defense offices in Washington, DC that are helping fund some of these internships if you could talk about that just a little bit?

Yes so thank you I appreciate Mr. Mayor your calling out that we One of the things that we've been doing, and this is really kudos to Chancellor Rick MacLennan, my boss and our leader. And Chancellor MacLennan when he came in, he realized very quickly that the Navy base is not only the largest employer in the county, but that there was ways in which all three colleges could support the training and the professional needs of folks who work there. And mostly who are civilians. And so it was an opportunity for us to gather together and identify first of all map where those partnerships could be And then identify what resources could need to go into those partnerships.

And then work on both ends, to build a plan of action that then led to and as you articulated very well opportunities for internships for our students. So students in engineering technology, students in computer networking systems engineering, students in our business program, students in our design program have been interns, and from the data point that I'm remembering from my memory we have about eight individuals over the last two years who have been interns who have gotten employment there. So part of our work is to not only be—and that's just Mopar College and my sister colleges also have the same relationship and they have similar data—our responsibility is to not only be available to the Navy base but to be available to the families of the folks who are at the Navy base.

And so building that really concrete relationship has been a goal of our college district, and I'm very glad that not only is it showing some yielding some benefits, but part of what it yields is an opportunity for our students and much more likely among our faculty to work with the experts at the Navy base and build curriculum that is responsive and reactive and that is then being supported through federal funding.

It's my understanding from our monthly meetings at our RDP, from the various laboratory commands that about 90% of the interns from the various community colleges in Ventura County end up gaining full-time employment. And these are not entry level jobs. They're jobs that pay very well and have great promise moving forward. So thank you very much for the work you do with the bases and the opportunities you create for young people to stay in Ventura County and work at the Navy bases, and with some of the defense contractors and partnerships that the Navy has. So thank you very much. I appreciate you being here. Thank you very much. Appreciate

it.

Time for Council comments. I believe I'm going to start with the Vice Mayor this evening.

Thank you Mayor. Let's see here, so just for the community's awareness I was a few minutes late to our closed session because I was providing a presentation at the Ventura County Community Foundation regarding the Neighbor Support Fund which the City of Camarillo endorsed. January 29th, moving on to our meetings. I attended the mobile home land rent ad hoc and this was with the land owners and that meeting was with of course staff and Council Member Santangelo. February 3rd, I attended the mobile home land rent ad hoc as well but this was with the homeowners and this was with Council Member Santangelo as well for that ad hoc committee February 4th, I attended a CSUCI site authority introductory meeting with their new general manager Mr. Troy Brown.

It was actually really great meeting and I'm really excited and look forward to that relationship. He has a very strong, strong background in municipal governance and city partnerships. And so I think he's really well positioned to contribute meaningful value to the CSUCI site authority. So I'm very excited about that. February 4th, I met with three Camarillo constituents representing 805 UndocuFund and that included one staff member and two volunteers. Thank you so much for your thoughts. February 6th, They are a medically supportive foods local provider and they also support our local economy because they are located in the city of Oxnard. They employ over 250 locally hired people in their hospitality team, and 105 of those actually work on the site at their Oxnard facility.

They service the residents of Camarillo N-U-R-I-F-O, nerifo.com. It was a great tour and they invited anybody else who wanted to go visit just take a warm jacket because you go into the freezers and you'll freeze. February 10th I attended the, which was yesterday actually, I attended the Camarillo Library's jazz concert put on by the excuse me put on by the Camarillo High School band.

I am very biased because my son plays for the band, but they really do such a wonderful job and they sounded great. They also included like an Afro-Cuban music. And so the teacher noted that this was a similar genre that we heard at the Super Bowl. So we didn't have Bad Bunny, but it was still fun. And that's all that I had.

Thank you, Mr. Kildee. All right so February 5th I attended a BRSD board meeting also I had the pleasure of being introduced to a gentleman that opened up a new business in Camarillo it's a tiki restaurant on the boulevard And always want to give a shout out to a new business in Camarillo. I've not had the opportunity to go visit that restaurant, but if you do, I hear it's beautiful state of the art inside there may be some individuals here tonight that have been there or not but wish him nothing but success and if he have an opportunity to frequent his restaurant I'm sure he'd really be appreciative of it. There's nothing like it that I'm aware of in our city and perhaps not even quite in the county, but always like to see somebody open up a new business.

So that's all I have tonight.

Thank you Mr. Tremblay.