City Council — February 25, 2026

I would like to call to order the February 25th, 2026 meeting of the Camarillo City Council. The sanitary district, the library board and the successor agency to order. Would you conduct a roll call? Madam Clerk?

Yes, Mayor and Council, we have two matters on closed session. The first one is existing litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9 D1. It's the OPV Coalition versus Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency. The second matter is anticipated litigation pursuant to government code section 549569.9D2 and there's one matter, and if there's any reportable action I'll make that report.

We will reconvene the February 25th, 2026 Camarillo City Council Sanitary District Library Board and Successor Agency meeting. Let the record reflect that all council members are present and I'm going to ask Council Member Trimbley if he would please lead us in the pledge.

Would you please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?

And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under

God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Are there any changes to the agenda? Seeing none we will move on to Our first presentation, and I'm going to read this from the chair here. Tonight we are honored to recognize and thank Kevin Jorgensborg for more than 19 years of dedicated service to the city of Camarillo. Kevin began his career in June 2006, just before the completion of the Camarillo Public Library and quickly became instrumental in shaping and maintaining the facilities and fleet that serve our community every day.

He oversaw significant projects including the Camarillo Ranch barn retrofit, renovations at City Hall, the Corporation Yard, the Council Chambers and the fleet garage, and the installation of the police department generator. He led space planning efforts across departments and modernized facilities to meet the city's evolving needs. When challenges arose, Kevin consistently rose to the occasion responding to late night security calls leading the City Hall fire recovery in 2023 and coordinating emergency repairs with professionalism and steady resolve.

Kevin strengthened the organization through long-term planning, helping develop the city's ADA and facility reserve studies and initiating a preventative maintenance program that elevated standards citywide. Under his leadership, the Facilities Division grew in staffing and expertise guided by a culture of trust, accountability, and teamwork. In fleet services, Kevin ensured regulatory compliance, supported the transition to zero-emission vehicles and maintained careful oversight of his budgets.

Though based at the corp yard, Kevin remained visible and accessible throughout the organization supporting departments in community events alike and above all demonstrating a deep commitment to this city and its people. On behalf of the City Council, city staff and the entire Camarillo community we extend our sincere appreciation for Kevin's exemplary service and dedicated leadership and offer our very best wishes for a well-earned retirement. And now Kevin I'm going to invite you up in front of the city seal Are you happy, Kevin?

I'm very

happy. Are you going to miss us at all? Yes, of course. All right. Well, congratulations on a well-earned and well-deserved retirement. Obviously the city thinks very highly of you and I'm sure you think very highly of the city. We appreciate all of your efforts. We appreciate your hard work. We appreciate the team that you assembled to keep our buildings open and operating, our vehicles open and operating. And with that I thank you. And before I give you this, I'm going to ask any of the council members if they have comments who'd like to go first? Mr. Kildee.

Um, I always liked you Kevin cause your first name That was excellent. There was a song that kind of starts off, you picked a fine time to leave me Lucille and I'm gonna say that to you because I don't know where I'm going to get my information about Notre Dame football now You were the walking encyclopedia for my knowledge about Notre Dame. All kidding aside, Kevin, you did a great job. You are a delight to work with.

You're knowledgeable and hardworking and you've made my life as a council member easier because of you and many of your colleagues that are here with you tonight. I think it speaks volumes about And I've been through a few of these. When somebody retires, how many of their colleagues are here to kind of support them? And there's a whole bunch that's really neat about Camarillo when we get a retiree. A lot of times, a lot of the colleagues are here as well. So wish you nothing but the best in retirement.

Hope you're not going to be a stranger. I want to thank your family and your significant others for sharing Kevin with us all these years. I know it was a tough job, it's not an 8-5 job in any stretch of the imagination here but it never went unnoticed. We were always thankful for the job that you did and I think if you look at our facilities in Camarillo They're pretty darn good, and a lot of the credit goes to you and your efforts. So good luck in your retirement. I wish you nothing but success. And give me a text or something. Let me know how the Golden Domers are doing, OK?

All right. Thank you.

I'm going to be uncharacteristically succinct. When we agree with what our fellow council members have said, we just typically say ditto and I will say ditto. I will add though that Kevin, I think your level of effort day in and day out has just been exemplary and I agree when you see this many city staff who are here to wish you the best in retirement that's just speaks volumes so thank you.

Well, I think between the number of Kevins and the number of Davids in the city we're in a competition here. But Kevin there were three words that were utilized to describe you it was building trust accountability and hard work And I agree with every one of those words. In addition, I will add happy because although I've only been here for about three years going on my fourth, every time that I encounter you, you always seem so happy and grateful to be here. And we are extremely happy and grateful that you served the city in this capacity and you really left a mark to into who Camarillo is, and we will be forever grateful for that. So thank you so much for all of your work and invite us to the retirement party. I always offer that.

Thank you.

Council

Member Santangelo. Thank you Mayor. Kevin, as an elected when I'm out in the community, I often get thanked for how well run this city is. And I usually say It's really not me. It's people like you who put their heart into the job and make this city what it can be, and you have literally left your mark on this city because of the infrastructure projects and how much you've done to help build this city to what it is today. So thank you so much, and good luck to what you have in your future.

Testing. Now, Kevin, you get something that is very, very rare. There's only like eight or nine people in the well maybe a few more in the history of the city to get the city tile. So, Kevin on behalf of the city we want to present you with this city tile that has your dates of service on it and I know Michelle You're

welcome, thank you.

Now Kevin it's your turn

Thank you, Dave, City Council members and staff. It was an honor to work here. I felt that fortunately I had the budget to do what I wanted to do. And I was given freedom to do what I wanted to do without anybody looking over my head so it was very important for me to have that trust in order to do my job. To my fellow staff members out there, I really appreciate you guys. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have a job since facilities need people without people in our facility. So I really appreciate it. Thank you.

Madam Clerk, are we doing the public comments on non-agendized items before the presentations?

Yes, it's a time to do general public comment. And I do have two people signed up for that. The rules are you'll be called up and you're given three minutes and you'll see your timer with your up on the corner in the TV screen. And then when we move on to next person, the microphone will be muted. So the first person is Spencer Ritchie. Can you come on up?

Welcome, Spencer.

Hi. OK. Hello, my name is Spencer Ritchie. I have a few concerns. One is the eternal one that you as your as a city council are not doing anywhere near like, you're pretty much doing nothing in your power to put your foot down against ice and what they're doing. And yeah, So that'll be hopefully I'll sit on all your consciences until you do actually do something.

And then the second concern, I had is so all the agenda item public comments are just being pushed the end of the agenda items now okay and then three There is no, like I am so frustrated. So I work at the senior center one day a week and my shift ends at 445 which you'll notice is before the end of the regular workday. My, I work Thursday afternoons However, I cannot take a route bus that will take me home to within walking distance of my house in Mission Oaks because the last bus that goes from the Senior Center to Mission Oaks it stops there at four.

Which I understand is when the Senior Center closes however that's a whole hour before you know the rest of the community center closes and at the same time this city has not yet beefed up It's either it's bus routes or it's dollar ride paratransit services. So for the past, you know... It is very common for me now to have to beg a ride home off my co-workers because I can't get a dollar ride home. Obviously, I can't take the route bus home and And I do not think that as an adult who is clearly able to work in the community on my own, I should have to make my family come and pick me up.

And I shouldn't have to be spending half what I make on ride shares either like this is... And the city doesn't offer And our second person is Claudia.

I haven't been here for the beginning of the year, but that's because I started into employment. I'm now officially staffed with 805 UndocuFund which I am here to share our minimum numbers of kidnappings in the Central Coast, Ventura County and Camarillo. These numbers are again minimum because they're only numbers that we know of there are probably more out there that we are not aware of.

For the Ventura County area, we have 850 minimum kidnappings. For Camarillo specifically, we have 452. 335 of those are from Glass House because even though the city doesn't say that unincorporated is Camarillo it's still a Camarillo. And the remainder of those numbers, 117, a majority are from 321 Cortez where the ICE facility is located here in town. For the Tri-County San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura County we have a minimum of 1,647.

Those are families that have been separated, breadwinners that have been taken so we're just here to remind you that that's consistently going. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

That's all I have.

Thank you. We will move on to item D, we're going to have a state of the region report from the Ventura County Civic Alliance and I'd like to invite David Marinoff

Thank you Mayor Tennyson, members of the Council, staff, Commander Tennyson and the audience. I'm David Marin with Ventura County Civic Alliance. Every two years we publish this report and we are able to go around and share this with the general community because of the generosity of our sponsors several large ones, Ventura County Community Foundation, The Community Colleges of Ventura County California Resources, County of Ventura, Cal State Channel Islands, Lee Manera, the Port of Wainimi and also the Office of Education. So thanks to their generosity we can really share this around the county. Some highlights about the state of the region, The Civic Alliance as I said it's published every two years. We do list all of our sources in the back if anyone wants to dig deeper page 113 For members of the audience or anyone watching at home, you can read this or download it online at civicalliance.org and The Civic Alliance is a neutral unbiased 501c3 nonprofit.

So some highlights, this is not in the report. We could not include population stats because of the government shutdown when we were publishing the report but Camarillo your population over the last few years slightly higher you can see several cities have all declined including Oxnard there This is a little bit more detailed. So the County of Ventura, the green bars are the total population for that community, the county in this case and the blue is just the number zero to 17, our young people. So you can see that from 2017 to 2024 we lost 10,000 total residents in the County of Ventura. However, we lost 20,000 young people so that means our 16 and 17 year olds aged out of that chart And we're not replenishing it with enough young people.

I'm going to come back to that point over the rest of the conversation, but you can see the average age in Ventura County continues to get older. Here's what it looks like for the City of Camarillo. So on the good news is City of Camarillo is pretty much held even on the under 18s 14 500 The adults did go up a little bit. You're doing much better than other counties and you can see that the median age actually came down a bit before going back up, but 41.2 is much higher than the county average of 39.6 or just an older community.

Some highlights from the report, agriculture. Strawberries continue to be our top crop, $700 million. Agriculture is about a two billion dollar industry and one thing to keep in mind it's 3.3% of our economy in this chart but over the years it was much higher 5%. So our economy has grown but ag has stayed flat at about 2 billion and we all know it's very difficult water, labor, pest, the different things that make it so difficult to grow here in Ventura County Community engagement, you're elected officials so I'd like to share the stats about registration. Blue is Democrats, red are Republicans, green is the no party preference. So over the last 23 years, the Democratic registration went up slightly but the Republicans took a large hit across the time frame.

Most of those that they lost went to no party preference. And by city, so Camarillo is actually the closest as far as between Republicans and Democrats. There's only about a 3% differential between Dems and Republicans. Dems are the plurality in Camarillo. Simi Valley is the only city in the county that has a plurality of Republicans. And Oxnard and Ojai have actually a majority Democrat. Of course that's registration and not voter turnout.

So we have a lot of data in the report, some new numbers. If you're familiar with our older reports about nonprofits, we rank them as far as top assets, top revenue. But this chart I'd like to show because up here you can see that there's about 11,000 employees who work in the nonprofit sector in Ventura County. So I think we tend to take that for granted how many people are making up that safety net for us.

In the economy section, this is a difficult chart. There's several pages of this for goods producing service providing and government. The takeaway and you've heard me those of you who have been here two years ago we are seeing high paying jobs in areas like financial activities 112,000 IT 100,000 but those are the industries where we're losing workers We're gaining workers in areas like leisure and hospitality, but that pays a lot less. So certainly we need to recruit higher paying jobs. We need to retain those companies that are here now that are providing those high-paying jobs.

This is an overall growth in our economy sort of similar to the national gross domestic product If you're familiar with this from other reports or you go back and look, you'll see completely different numbers. And that's because every time we produce this report, we restate everything in inflation adjusted dollars. So you can see that back in 2007, we peaked at about a 72 billion dollar economy. We sank after the Great Recession. We sort of plateaued there. We came back a little bit, then we had the pandemic that dropped us back down but we still have been right around the 65 million 62 million while many other regions of the state and the country have seen significant growth so Ventura County just hasn't been able to get a burst of growth.

And that could portend problems if we have another recession, because we just don't have enough of those kind of industries that we want. Taxable sales Camarillo continues to do very well. Of course the outlet malls there was a little bit of a drop their auto sales certainly helps Ventura Thousand Oaks and Oxnard. Oxnart obviously as city manager and others would say it's the Amazon effect as far as how much sales tax they're collecting through that city.

And tourism, so Camarillo isn't quite as much tourism as places like Ventura and certainly Ojai but it's been stable, so that's positive. The Ojai numbers are off the charts there and that is the Ojai Valley in effect. When you can charge that much per night, you're really bringing in money. I would say to Camarillo's benefit though, it's great that we don't rely on a single source like Ojai does.

Education, I talked about the decline in the young people. This chart shows you the projections for enrollment. So the green is the higher grades nine through 12, blue is K through eight and you can see that we are just projected to decline. And just for a little information up here 1973 50 years ago, we had 419,000 residents We've doubled that in the last 50 years and we're starting to go down. But just keep in mind, we doubled in 50 years but if you look at the number of students, 50 years ago we were around 107,000 today we're around 122,000. We barely added 15,000 even though we doubled the size of our county so This is just obviously serious issues for most of our counties. Here's how it looks in the different school districts. Oxnard Union High School, the top line there is 2021-22 and the blue line on the bottom is 2024.

So the Oxnard High School District dropped from 18,000 to 16,900 Now, when you first look at Pleasant Valley Elementary it actually looks pretty positive. Like there's been some growth and that's great but Pleasant Valley Elementary or Pleasant Valley School District has more of these virtual charters than any other school district so they have a lot of students who really do not attend school. It's just they are the governing board for certain virtual academies. So when you take out those charter students Their enrollment also has declined from about 5,700 actually I should say increased slightly to 5,800. Now I'm often asked when I show this chart well isn't that because all of the parents are taking their kids out of public schools putting them in private schools or deciding to homeschool them and so although it's not in your reports I put in this chart showing that even the private schools have seen a decline over the years So it's not homeschooling, it's not private schools.

It's a lack of babies. That's why our schools are seeing these kind of challenges. There's a lot of data in here showing every school district in the county and every school as far as measuring how many of the students either met or exceeded the state standard for English in this example. And there's also math in there so you can see that when you give all these students the scores and they're averaged and well, they're adjusted across all of the boundaries for every school site and every class level We have a range of accomplished schools and schools that are doing a little less. Pleasant Valley actually is doing fairly good, I mean none of the schools get anywhere near 90%, but even across the county none of our schools are really getting anywhere near 100% students meet or exceed the standards.

So a lot of data there for you to look into. Land use and housing, so housing starts are up a little bit. We had the highest total since 2017. Homeownership in Camarillo continues to be a nice almost two thirds. So very positive for stable neighborhoods. The median housing price did go up to 1.1 million in June. It's always important to know which month we do the comparisons which was a hefty increase from 925,000 although it seems like numbers are starting to flatten out Apartment rents, very expensive across the county. Camarillo's no different. I'm gonna try to hustle through the last of these slides. Interestingly, Camarillo has the second highest water use per capita in the county for whatever reason that is. It's usually the warmer wealthier areas with the larger lots like Westlake and Thousand Oaks.

Port Hueneme and Oxnard are very low because they're sort of near the coast. So interesting data. This is the statistic that reinforces my points about the declining enrollment, the lack of children. Back in 1990 we had 19 births per thousand residents here we are in 2023 almost half 10.2 so and I say it to every council every group I speak to I mean there must be policies we can look at to make Child care more affordable is $15,000 for a toddler. Can we have easier regulation so families can create child care centers in their homes? Can we and EDC and First Five are all trying to work in these areas Can employers like yourselves and others offer more family-friendly services, flexible hours for young families? But we really have to find a way to have a recruitment campaign to tell young people that Camarillo or Wainuiomi Oxford, these are the places to come to raise your family.

And I think that's going to be an ongoing challenge until we do something about it. We included cancer rates. Interestingly, Ventura County is a little higher on these cancer rates when you look through it and if you look at the other large counties, you'll see that some of them are coastal. I don't know if that has any correlation or if that's just any causation or if it's just correlation.

Some people might argue we have higher rates because we have better detection. We have better doctors. That's one I can't answer. Is it better doctors finding the various cancers? Or do we just have much higher incidence? Ventura County continues to be the safest large county in the state. Very good news, Camarillo continues to be very good on the crime. Commander Tennyson and all of the team that are working in that area doing a great job. We did have an increase in violent crime.

Property crimes did decrease a little bit. In your reports you'll see that juvenile crime has actually crept up across the county. Surprisingly male and female juvenile crime is up And wrapping up here's food shares doing a lot of work in Camarillo 946,000 pounds homelessness is steady domestic violence little higher than some of the other cities. It was the highest in four years And transportation, we continue to see people working at home even though the pandemic is over. So we're still seeing and this just shows us how we sit compared to all the other counties. And with that thank you for your indulgement a little extra sorry about that.

Thank You David any questions for Mr. Maron? Councilmember Santangelo

I didn't have any questions, but thank you for being here. I really appreciate it and I look forward to getting this every two years so thank you.

Mr. Kildee? Yeah David thanks um for being here i always look forward to you sharing this data and you've done this a while David is there anything that you can come up with that we can do to try to work on, I don't want to say improving our numbers but maybe some things that we can do here. As we all know you kind of round up the usual suspects. You know we all know it's an expensive place to live. We all know that child care is very expensive but one of the things that i think a lot of folks have tried to do is bring higher paying jobs here to try to mitigate some of these issues. Is there anything that you can come up, maybe that we ought to be doing that or not? Or something in the next time when you come here that we've really tried to double down on this and the numbers have shown that at least there's been an effort in that.

So a couple of quick thoughts so each of the cities most of them at least have economic development managers who are working to recruit those jobs I'm not sure how We have a strategy across the county. Have we decided or should we decide that maybe Simi Valley gets the finance companies and Camarillo sort of focuses on the pharmaceutical related industries, Oxnard works on manufacturing? It's not just Camarillo advocating for themselves and other cities, but could there be more of a collective effort? And I think the county sort of thinks about doing that. Um, I do think it'd be great if the city managers when they have their meeting could maybe tackle something like childcare. Could all of the cities get together and figure out can we improve things in those areas because some cities, some counties are obviously doing much better.

The other area that I think we could do an even better job on It's not just recruiting those large well-paying jobs, but doing something to retain, to recognize, to acknowledge the companies that we have here. Could Meissner have a award given to them or other things that would actually mean something to some of these companies? But it's great that Meissner is here in Ventura County. Are we doing everything we can to get rid of any sand in the gears so that they can continue to grow and excel And what about all the other large companies, Flynn Road and otherwise? So yes it's great to be going out to L.A. County and other places to try and get companies but let's not lose anybody we have. Thousand Oaks very blessed to be able to have Amgen grow and add a $600 million facility.

But Camarillo is just as great a place to live and work as Thousand Oaks or there are other companies that Maybe we could get them to invest more here for other reasons. So I would say trying to figure out a comprehensive strategy working with EDC, first five on child care, how can we lower cost improve regulations make it faster for these? A lot of times it's just a mother who's decided to do it but overwhelmed with all the regulations so I'd say some kind of team to help them get that through And another idea is more of the center, so a child care center on Flynn Road. It would still charge people but we have people in Camarillo who get up in the morning drive their kids to Thousand Oaks to a childcare center and then drive back here or maybe to Oxnard for their jobs.

So if we could have child care centers closer to where all the jobs are, that also might be an inducement. That makes it a healthy way to attract companies to come here because we are focused on their young people and their families. Those are some ideas off the top of my head.

Thank you. I always look forward to reading this. I appreciate you and your team's effort if you could pass that along.

Even though my first name's not Kevin? You're allowed, David.

I said there was a competition between the Davids. David thank you so much. I did have a question regarding the cancer rates. I know that's in new addition to the information that you're providing. How did you gather that information?

So the data comes, I believe from the California State Public Health Department. They produce these data on a variety of statistics and it's in the sources. And then what we did though because there are so many counties, we just tried to look at the top 20 or 19 whatever number it is and see where Ventura County ranked. Now there are many cancers listed on their website. It's not too hard if I recall To understand their website, you can put in and say well do it just by males just by females. We did that females for breast males for the prostate but there's a lot of cancers that Ventura County wasn't so high up on. So we just decided to go with the top three breast cancer prostate and leukemia and then overall all cancers. One other quick point, the report is listing incidence which is different than prevalence so if a hundred people moved from LA today and had leukemia that would not change our stats because they already have it.

Incidence is the number of people within a given period of time that come down with the cancer. Prevalence is just how many people overall have that cancer.

Yeah, that was my following question in terms of the when the data is collected. That number is based on where the person resides, not where not the city where they're diagnosed necessarily

correct. You would have a huge number in places like Azusa or City of Hope as if it was that way. So now it is based on residence

OK and do you does the data show at all? If there are certain populations? Is

that what you mean as far as ethnicity

Or yeah, or even like workforce. Like I'm thinking like I work with the farm working community and we get quite a bit of children and farm worker parents diagnosed with cancer.

Some of the data as I recall is broken out by ethnicity but not occupation.

Got it.

And Vice Mayor if you want to look at that stat or you have questions about it, you know how to reach me, I'd be happy to help answer any further questions. Thank

you

so

much. If that's something

you wanna dive into.

Yeah absolutely thank you so much appreciate it.

Mr. Tremblay. Thanks, Mr. Mayor David thanks as always this is a really well received and deep dive into the data we use it all the time it actually precipitates all kinds of conversations at meals and elsewhere you know when I can say well go to page X and the state of the region report will be here so I really wanted to thank you and I also wanted to acknowledge It's on page five.

Both your executive committee and the advisory support, and then the writing by Tony Biasatti at Ventura County Star. He's been doing this now for goodness... How many years? Since I think it was his sixth one. Sixth one. So it's extremely well done, and I know Colleen Kaysen is doing the editing so... Yeah, it's great to have an editor. They do a great job in addition to Mustang Marketing. So all of the folks together, it's a whole team that does this. So thank you again. It's really well done. I will share

the council's remarks with the board. Well received. Thank you.

David, thank you and I just want to say the kickoff event six weeks ago now? Early November. Was it that long ago? Time flies when you're having fun. But it was very informative, it was a little bit longer than your presentation tonight but I'd urge the council in two years if you have an opportunity to attend that event and get a lot more information plus the panel discussion they always have is useful so thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you David

Okay, we will go to item E and I guess we're going to have our Assistant Library Director Lisa Given give us the presentation this evening. Welcome!

Hello good evening Mayor David Tennyson and library trustees. I'm Lisa Given, Assistant Library Director for Camarillo Public Library. Black History Month is observed for the month of February and recognizes the various contributions talent and influence of black educators leaders and artists To kick things off, Russell Fisher Business Services Coordinator Megan Profeta reached out to the founder and director of Project 50 to curate a special selection of 10 books plus a bonus read by Project 50 founder and director Dexter Nunnery. These books are located upstairs on the second floor and inspire all readers regardless of their background to explore reflect and be inspired by the stories of resilience and triumph that the authors have to offer.

Since it debuted this month we've had 128 views of the reading list The library invited Ina Buckner Barnett, known as the Sunshine Storyteller to lead a music and movement activity for children that promoted the African and Black American storytelling traditions. 26 people attended. Fourteens licensed cosmetologist Shanae Ralph shared the rich history and cultural significance of braiding and locks.

Afterwards 11 people were able to receive hands-on braiding instruction. For adults, we welcomed Ventura County Research Library docent and researcher Andy Ludlam who presented stories of African-American voices from Ventura County. Later this week, California State University Channel Islands English professor Raquel Baker will lead a discussion on black speculative fiction.

These activities play a role in supporting the City of Camarillo's strategic plan by providing opportunities to foster an inclusive and accessible environment for all. That concludes my presentation and I'm happy to address any questions.

Anybody have any questions for Lisa? Comment?

No questions, just a comment. I mean thank you for all the programming and thank you for highlighting Black History Month this month. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Now we will move on to council comments. I'm going to ask Council Member Trimbley to kick this off if he's ready.

Sure thanks Mr. Mayor. For meetings attended since February 11 February 12 with Metrolink, their customer appreciation day in Simi Valley. On February 17 the Fox Canyon GMA Fiscal Committee. On February 18 I had a board meeting for CASA California Association of Sanitation Agencies. February 19th with Metrolink on its strategic business plan. On February 23-24 until late yesterday afternoon and I just returned today From CASA's policy forum in Washington, D.C., I personally had three separate meetings with EPA staff primarily regarding state revolving fund and federal WIFIA loan programs looking ahead to our wastewater treatment plant rehabilitation or new plant in a few years.

At the policy forum, the presentations included topics on both congressional priorities as well as stakeholder priorities. And that ran the gamut from PFAS and what to do relative to PFAS liability, federal financing of water projects, wastewater treatment projects, cybersecurity which is a real concern for everybody at this point And then also CASA's priorities including extending the length of NPDES permits, National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permits from five years to ten years. We're hoping that gains some traction in Congress we believe it is so that's it for me.

Thank you Councilmember Santangelo

Thank you, Mr. Mayor I'll be quick on February 19th. I attended the CPA Executive Committee February 25th today was the Investment and Finance Committee and then after that I had the CPA Finance Committee. It's finance day today And that's all I've got thank

you Councilmember Kildee

yes February 19 they attended a BRSD board meeting February 25th, today I attended the Investment and Finance Committee meeting with Ms. Santangelo and I just want to end again. I want to thank Kevin Georgesburg for his 19 years of service to the city and I can remember when Kevin was hired and he did a yeoman's job and he was delightful to work with so that's all I'm going to say tonight

Vice Mayor Martinez Bravo.

Thank you mayor February 19th I attended the economic development collaborative meeting and then also along with my colleagues February 21st to the 24th, I also traveled to Washington DC along with Mayor Tennyson Council Member Tremblay and city staff to attend the CASA conference which is the California Association of Sanitation agencies and we were also able to participate in multiple legislative meetings with Senator Schiff's office, with Senator Alex Padilla and also Congresswoman Julia Brownlee.

And so we sought congressional support for our wastewater treatment plant which is going to be the most expensive capital improvement project in our city's history. So definitely need that continued support support for the deteriorating Las Postas Bridge, which in the past Congresswoman Brownlee has been very supportive. And also our Forest Main Resiliency Project pump stations, water wells and modernization of our emergency radio network.

And in addition, as Congresswoman Julia Brownlee is retiring from Congress. We also took the opportunity to thank her for her tremendous support to the city of Camarillo over the years, as well for her accessibility, for always being there and for her strong presence I want to thank the congresswoman for her steadfast advocacy on behalf of She continues to work hard and intends to see that the city's requests are met throughout, she'll work hard to get those met through the end of this Congress.

She also indicated that she has a strong working relationship which we see and we have seen throughout the years here with the city and she has appreciated over the years so much of that. So I am just very, very grateful for all of her work. And that is all that I have, thank you.

Thank you. On February 14th, I was invited to represent the city at the Ventura County Chinese American Association's New Year's celebration, the year of the horse and a lot of times when we go to these Events were there for half an hour, 45 minutes make a presentation and walk out. The entertainment was so thrilling and it was a fantastic atmosphere. It was about a three-and-a-half hour, three hour and forty five minute. We have a very vibrant Chinese community in Ventura County and in Camarillo.

The Chinese culture and the production of our Chinese Americans here is something worthy of celebrating, and if you get a chance look next year. It's quite a show and a lot of fun. February 19th I attended a conference, a half-day conference at Cal Lutheran University titled California's Housing Crisis Roots of the problem and what lies ahead, very informative conference.

And I gave staff copies of the 158 page report and I'm sure they will share it with the rest of the council on February 19th. I attended the Ventura Council of Government's Admin Committee meeting that evening. I attended an RDP event to bid farewell to our 25 year executive director for the Regional Defense Partnership And then again with Vice Mayor Martinez-Bravo and Councilmember Tremblay. I was in Washington, D.C., but I will point out that Councilmember Trembley was there wearing his hat as the president of the California Association of Sanitation Agencies and did not participate in any of the briefings or meetings that Vice Mayor Martinez-Bravo and I had so There was no Brown Act problem. He did his thing, we did ours.

We were well received at the legislative offices and hopefully we will get some of the requests honored that we made of our three federal legislators and that is it. Any changes to the consent calendar? Seeing none, Madam Clerk do we have any public comments on consent calendar?

Yes I do have one person that signed up under consent calendars Spencer Ritchie but I don't see Spencer.

Okay we will move on any questions from council? I'll move

the approval of

consent.

We

have a motion and a second

and that passes unanimously

Thank you with that

Good evening mayor and council members. Tonight staff recommends adoption of a resolution amending home occupation permit fees to better match the actual cost of service and reduce barriers for home-based businesses so under the California constitution regulatory and user fees may not exceed So staff conducted an early targeted review, even as we're preparing a broader user fee study because home-based businesses are an important entry point for local entrepreneurship.