City Council — September 9, 2026

Good evening. I would like to call the regular meeting of the Camarillo City Council, Camarillo Sanitary District and Successor Agency for September 9th, 2026 to order. Madam Clerk if you would be so kind as to call the roll.

Thank you.

Oh here let me hold this while you bring out your speech.

Should I hold it for ya? My arms are still long enough. Mayor Council members, honored guests and fellow citizens. My name is Rich Tesco. I'm the captain of the Camarillo Citizen Patrol. It is my great honor to humbly accept this recognition For the citizen patrol, Camarillo Citizen Patrol of 50 years of dedicated volunteer service to the City of Camarillo and the Camarillo Police Department. On behalf of our present team of volunteers and those who have served before us You're giving more than 188,500 documented hours of selfless service to the betterment and the safety of our community incorporated and unincorporated over the past 50 years. We thank you for this honor.

I just have to be a little self-deprecating. When Citizen Patrol started, I had a full head of dark brown curly hair Two fellow council members had full heads of hair too and so look what you've done to us Come on Rich on behalf of the city Congratulations, thank you. And here's to somebody in this audience maybe one young person out there being here in another 50 years to recognize 100 years of service.

Councilmembers, hold on don't leave we're gonna make fun of you. Anybody have anything to say? Councilmember Santangelo

I just want to thank you and thank all of you for your time and dedication, and your public service. Your service – volunteers have a very special place in my heart, and especially those that do it for our public safety and the betterment of our town. So thank you all and congratulations. Thank you.

Thank you again to each and every single one of you for providing as a collective this wonderful service for longer than I've been alive. So that in it of itself is meaningful, right? But more than anything, I really appreciate each and every one of you. Every person in this community has different talents and the fact that you're able to bring your skills and yes your care and your love I've personally benefited from your volunteerism when I've been out on vacation and you go in and check on our homes.

And I just had a neighbor who moved in, and I told her all about it, and she was from the LA area, and she was really, really happy that we have this type of service here in the city of Camarillo. So congratulations but more than anything thank you muchos gracias from the bottom of my heart.

I just want to thank you. Thank everybody, all the citizens of 50 years made 10,000 hours when do you sleep? Do you get a chance to sleep at all? I'm telling you great. You know, not go unnoticed. It's a very important job that all of you are so willing to do so freely and I really appreciate it. Our residents really appreciate it, the city appreciates it and keep going. It's a great organization and all of you make it such so again thank you very much.

This is kind of personal for me my dad who I miss every day was a volunteer for the Marin County Sheriff's Office for 20 years after he retired and he spent 20 years doing much of what you're doing although principally was in office Behind the scenes. And I know that each and every one of you spends just an extraordinary number And we all benefit from that. I mean, like Maria, I was out last week and one or I know at least two of you were by our home.

And the reason why Camarillo is the community that it is both from a public safety standpoint as well as from a caring standpoint is because of people like you. So thank you from the bottom of my heart and we really appreciate what you are doing. And 50 years is a hard number to wrap my head around, I am substantially older than that but it is deeply appreciated what you do and by the way you're retired this is your schedule so you are giving of your time and your talents to do this so it's deeply appreciated

Now I'm going to put our police chief on the spot and ask him to say a few words since the citizen patrol is one year younger than him.

Thank you, Mayor. I'm going to keep it short and sweet because I think our city council is very eloquent in what they said. City of Camarillo Citizen Patrol, you know how we feel about you. You know how much we appreciate what you do for us every day in helping to keep our community safe. You are like family to us and we love each and every one of you and we appreciate all the contributions you make to the police department in the city of Camarillo so thank you.

Citizen Patrol, you can stay. We have just an exciting agenda if you'd like to hang around. Oh hold it, you have to go on patrol. Yeah thank you. Thanks Ridge.

public comment is limited to 20 minutes accommodating about six to seven speakers. Each speaker will have three minutes when your time expires you will be muted and

Welcome Blanca.

First I want to start by reporting numbers. As of September 7th, in Camarillo alone 519 people have been abducted by ICE. So since our last meeting when many community members came out to speak against ALPRs and mass surveillance, I learned that this council also recently approved a drone first responder program that will cost Camarillo taxpayers $2,838,742.

I feel this council did this community a disservice by not providing a more meaningful public forum or discussion, especially considering the community backlash and criticism you've already received over FLOC and ALPR's. I was confused and concerned about how an item with such a significant price tag involving AI and aerial surveillance of our city could move forward without more of us knowing about it.

I reached out to Council Members Martinez-Bravo and Santangelo for more information. Martinez-Bravo told me that she would get that information to me, but never followed up. Council Member Santangelo did respond and provided me the DFR presentation and directed me to the May 13th and June 10th meetings. I watched them both. I could not find a DFR discussion on May 13th. I did find the presentation and discussion on June 10th, I watched Council Member Tremblay questions to Commander Tennyson which focused largely on cost and the justification that spending on AI and drone technology could ultimately save money by reducing the need to pay for staffing and sworn officers I think that's an interesting perspective and I believe the union representing our deputies should be paying close attention to it.

Councilmember Santangelo was the only member to ask a question about privacy, and Councilmember Martinez-Bravo did not ask a question at all. I point this out because in my view, this council is not doing enough due diligence when approving this technology. This is incredibly sophisticated technology with enormous implications for privacy policing and the future of our law enforcement workforce. Yet at times it appears that this dais does not fully understand the technology it's approving.

Maybe it is a generational issue, but I find it telling when Mayor Tennyson compared implementing DFR to his experience years ago implementing nighttime helicopter operations. This is AI-powered surveillance technology not a helicopter. We need council members to understand the gravity of the technology they are approving and the checks that they are signing. And finally after our last meeting even... It became even more apparent how little control this Council actually has over their flock contract When Council Member Santangelo asked the City Council whether Camarillo could create its own policy governing the use of flock cameras, we learned that we cannot. As a contracted city, we apparently only could pay for it and that became even more concerning when we learned that VCSO independently changed its flock oversight from daily audits to weekly audits without informing this council or these taxpayers funding the surveillance That is not meaningful oversight.

If our role is to simply write the checks, then I think this council needs to seriously ask itself what exactly are we paying for and what control do we actually have over it? Thank

you. Matt O'Neill followed by Brian Barreto

Welcome sir!

Thank you thank you All right, good evening Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Members. My name is Matt O'Neill. I was here a couple of weeks ago for the robust CalPERS discussion. I'm here tonight to kind of follow up on that discussion. I understand that last meeting it was a receive and file kind of conversation. So I'm here tonight to kind of ask you all to formally put something on the agenda whether it be a town hall like was suggested last meeting Or if it's just a greater conversation on alternative vendors to flock as was brought up by multiple council members.

I think you all have seen that there is a general distrust for flock safety, I think you've seen that your constituents don't trust this technology. And I think that it calls for action. I think you all have a duty, an obligation to move forward and start making progress on either changing the vendor who provides ALPR services or removing ALPRs altogether. So that's my comment. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Brian Barreto followed by Spencer Ritchie.

Welcome sir.

Good evening. Thank you, Mayor and members of the Council. My name is Brian Barretto and I serve as the External Affairs Manager for California American Water. We are one of the water utilities that provides water to the residents businesses and commercial entities here in the city. I'm here to share that California American Water has recently updated our emergency response plan Our ERP outlines how we protect, operate and restore service in our water systems during an emergency. It covers critical system components, reporting and notification procedures, security protocols, response actions and the use of the standardized emergency management system within the incident command framework.

The priorities of our ERP are to first protect human life, followed by protecting the environment, property and maintenance of essential water systems during an emergency. While we hope these plans are rarely needed, our responsibility is to be fully prepared in the event of an emergency. Our plan ensures we can respond effectively and maintain or restore service including providing backup water supplies when necessary.

We value our partnership with the community and California American Water remains committed to serving the safety and resiliency of our water systems. California American Water welcomes ongoing coordination with the city and staff, and if you would like information about our plan please don't hesitate to call me or contact me via email. I can be reached at brian, B-R-I-A-N.

Thank you for the opportunity to share this information with you tonight and thank you for your support.

Welcome Spencer.

Hello. All

right welcome I good evening all you again, I'm Spencer Ritchie I'm a lifelong Cameron and with that I have a few concerns as usual. So one. Which you know kind of makes me want, which you know actually makes it itchy. Even less logical understandable that you're spending so much of the city's money on not only our Alper cameras, which by the way there's 25 flock ones and then 12 CalPERS from other brands bringing the city sold to 37.

But also, again with Camarillo paying multiple millions of dollars over the next eight years for the VCSO to get some shiny new Axon drones. Which by the way another thing these drones do is when people make emergency calls or talk to them for that reason or whatever reason that all the calls are not only recorded but transcribed using AI, which makes them again yet another massive privacy risk.

And so going back to the Citizens Patrol Council like Again if you have them and you know clearly our city's been incredibly safe. And you don't even like you know that all theft court or thing that you keep using as an example as to you know why there needs to be offered even in mission oaks. Like even then like staff sat in that area worse like we're rare enough that you know it made the it may it's made the news every time one has happened so again camera was safe before all this, you know all per drone garbage and then the other thing to So not only are we not safe because our state California voted for Harris in 2024, but Harris also won in the city of Camarillo. Which means there is nothing that automatically keeps us safe from whatever violence this administration wants to inflict around and after the midterms.

Are you going to make the Citizens Patrol help with that? Thank you have a nice evening.

Thank you.

Sid Harth-Milbrotra

Welcome. Good afternoon, Council. Today I have nothing of my own to say and nothing exactly urgent but something in honor of a sad anniversary 20 years ago 25 now with an essay written on the occasion a few anniversaries ago by the great essayist Wendell Berry his comments on that dreadful day And I would like to read some of them now The time will soon come when we will not be able to remember the horrors of September 11th, 2001 without remembering also the unquestioning technological and economic optimism that ended that day.

The optimism resting on the proposition that we were living in a new world, a new economy that would grow on and on bringing a prosperity of which every new increment would be unprecedented. The developed nations had given the free market the status of a god and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands and communities, forests, wetlands and prairies, ecosystems and watersheds. They had accepted universal pollution and global warming as normal costs of doing business.

There was, as a consequence, a growing worldwide effort on behalf of decentralization, economic justice and ecological responsibility The events of September 11 make that effort more necessary than ever. We must recognize our mistakes. We did not anticipate anything like what has now happened. We did not foresee all our sequence of innovations might be at once overridden by the invention of a new kind of war that would turn our previous innovations against us, discovering and exploiting the debts and dangers we had ignored.

Nor did we foresee the weaponry and war science we market and taught to the world become available not just to recognize national governments, but also to fanatical groups and individuals whose violence though never worse than that of nations is judged by the nations to be illegitimate. We now have a clear inescapable choice We can continue to promote a global economic system of unlimited free trade among corporations, held together by long and vulnerable lines of communication and supply, protected by a hugely expensive police force worldwide. And such a police force will be effective to the extent it oversways the freedom and privacy of the citizens of every nation.

Or, we can promote a decentralized world economy with the aim of assuring to every nation and region a local self-sufficiency in life supporting goods. This would not eliminate international trade but would tend toward a trade in surplus after the local needs had been met. One of the gravest dangers to us now second only to further attacks against our people is we will attempt to go on as before whatever the cost in freedom and civil rights without self questioning or self criticism or public debate

There are no more speakers.

Thank you. With that, we will move on to Amanda Fagan with BCTC to give us a report on the U.S. 101 Improvement Program. Welcome.

Good evening, Mayor Tennyson and members of the City Council. My name is Amanda Fagan and I serve as the Director of Planning and Sustainability for the Ventura County Transportation Commission. I greatly appreciate the opportunity to be here this evening to share with you a little information about arguably one of the most important transportation projects for our county in a generation.

We're approaching an important milestone in that project, and that's release of the draft environmental document for public circulation. The Ventura County Transportation Commission, or VCTC is the regional transportation planning agency serving Ventura County. Responsible for planning, programming and providing transportation programs and services countywide.

For the US 101 Improvement Project, VCTC is the lead sponsor and in partnership with Caltrans, the cities of Camarillo, Thousand Oaks, Oxnard and Ventura and the County of Ventura. The project study area extends from Moorpark Road in the city of Thousand Oaks through the cities of Camarillo and Oxnard to State Route 33 in the city of Ventura. US 101 is the major north-south coastal route that connects our northern, central and southern parts of the state.

Regionally, the US 101 connects Ventura County with our neighboring counties in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. And locally, the 101 serves as both regional connection across our cities and also our main street, connecting our communities with one another and serving as a critical link in a resilient transportation system. Over half of the Ventura County's jobs and residents are located within the three-mile corridor along US 101.

Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. The one oh one has been identified as the highway network's greatest area of need with aging infrastructure no continuous alternate routes peak period While several options for travel within the corridor do exist, including single occupancy vehicle travel on the freeway as well as transit and rail. Providing an additional option of an HOV lane would enable travelers to opt out of congestion which is listed as a key action in the Caltrans Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure.

In collaboration with Caltrans and our local partners, VCTC has long taken a regional multimodal approach to finding solutions to congestion on the 101 and to planning for the future of our transportation system. At each step along the way, VCTC has actively engaged local stakeholders and the public. Beginning with the 2013 Comprehensive Transportation Plan, VCTC identified US-101 as the roadway network's highest priority within the region.

Caltrans prepared a project study report in 2013 and VCTC and Caltrans entered into a cooperative agreement in 2016 to initiate the project approval and environmental document phase of the US-101 Improvement Project. VCTC brought on a consultant team in 2018 to initiate the environmental study. VCTC also undertook the US 101 Communities Connected multimodal corridor study, which evaluated options for enhancing modes of travel beyond the freeway and completed a freight corridor study to better understand how goods move throughout our county.

VCTC also collaborated with the Ventura Council of Governments, with support from a regional early action planning grant from SCAG to develop the Ventura County VMT adaptive mitigation program which established VMT analysis methodology and mitigation tools tailored to Ventura County and our unique land use context and transportation system. Within the project area, US 101 generally consists of three general purpose or regular lanes in each direction.

Auxiliary lanes are located at certain locations. There are no existing HOV lanes located within Ventura County. The defined purpose of the project is to improve traffic conditions by improving trip reliability, achieving regional HOV connectivity, supporting regional prosperity and improving efficiency of the public transit system. The overarching project need is to improve trip reliability and traffic operations.

Initially, a list of alternatives was developed through the Caltrans Project Study Report. Recommendations from the project development team and from public input received during the public scoping process. Alternatives were compared to project purpose and need and to the traffic engineering and environmental criteria. The Project Development Team, or PDT, which is made up of representatives of BCTC, Caltrans, the County of Ventura and the four corridor cities evaluated the suite of alternatives.

When compared to the recommended criteria some alternatives were found to result in higher levels of environmental and property impact for little or no improvement in freeway and local roadway operations compared to other alternatives. Those that performed better were selected to be included in a final set of alternatives, to be studied in further detail in the environmental document.

Alternatives that were evaluated range from a no-build scenario to several high occupancy vehicle lane configurations, a reversible lane, elevated transitway, general purpose lanes and a combination of lane configurations. This slide got moved around in my presentation, forgive me. I've already talked about the purpose and need But three alternatives were ultimately approved by the project development team for further study. The no-build alternative, one HOV express bus lane with auxiliary lanes and one HOV express bus lane with auxiliary lanes and design variations.

I'll describe each of these in a little bit more detail. First, the no-build alternative is used as a baseline against which other alternatives can be measured. It represents no further improvements on the 101 and allows decision makers to compare the impact of the build alternatives to the impact of doing nothing. Alternative two adds an HOV lane for carpools, van pools and express bus service in each direction on US 101 from approximately Moorpark Road to California Street.

Alternative two would also include adding auxiliary lanes between certain on-and off ramps where they improve the flow of traffic on the freeway. Alternative 3 is similar to alternative 2, providing the HOV lane on the freeway from Moorpark Road to near California Street. It also includes design variations that improve the freeway alignment on the Conejo grade, improves a southbound bottleneck near Dawson Drive and ends the northbound HOV lane south of California Street to improve operations.

Project alternatives avoid the need for a full acquisition of homes or businesses, provide thousands of construction jobs and maintain existing lanes during construction. The project will be constructed in phases over a 20-year period to minimize the disruption to the transportation system. Both build alternatives improve traffic operations compared to the no-build alternative and include improvements to 14 intersections, also providing reliable trip times in the high occupancy vehicle lane.

Alternative three performs slightly better than alternative two reducing the average travel times density delays and travel speed. For example, both Alternatives 2 and 3 reduce the average vehicle hours of delay by more than half for both the 2040 build-out and the projected 2060 operations. So since its implementation in 2020, Senate Bill 743 has changed how lead agencies are required to evaluate transportation impacts under CEQA with a goal of better measuring the actual transportation-related environmental impacts of any given project.

Estimated VMT for this project is based on model runs from the Ventura County Transportation Model conducted for the project. The project is estimated to generate an increase of 0.7% more VMT compared to the no-build scenario. Although the US 101 Improvement Project began in 2018, before agencies were required to analyze transportation impacts according to the VMT metric, VCTC developed a program of mitigation strategies to address this impact in VMT.

The program has been developed in a holistic way to improve the corridor and meet community needs. It includes a suite of multimodal projects, such as development of affordable workforce housing in high transit areas, multimodal transportation improvements, mobility hubs, transit and vanpool programs, bicycle and pedestrian improvements, and bicycle programs such as bike sharing and bike training.

The mitigation program will commit a total of $243 million to multimodal projects in the corridor, or around 20% of the total project cost. So VCTC's policy for many years has been that the US-101 project is to be the top priority for allocation of Surface Transportation Block Grant, or STBG and State Transportation Improvement Program, or STIP funds. We also continue to seek state and federal grants to fund the remainder of project costs.

So the commission has assembled a sort of piggy bank of STBG and STIP funding available for the first phase of construction. Potential early action projects will be determined based on cost effectiveness to provide the highest level of benefits with the least costs. We're now approaching the public circulation phase of the project, which will be followed by the selection of a preferred alternative and development of the early action phasing strategy.

Then adoption of a final environmental impact report and environmental assessment and final project report by the end of 2027. Public circulation of the draft environmental document is anticipated to occur later this month, beginning on September 30th with public hearings scheduled for November. Actually all of the public hearings will be held in November and we have finalized these dates and the public hearing will be held in Camarillo on Wednesday, November 18th at the Camarillo Library.

We'll also be holding a virtual public hearing on Saturday, November 14th from 1030 in the morning until noon. So the tentative circulation dates are September 30th through December 7th. The draft environmental document will be available for public review electronically via our project website, which is OurFuture101.org. Public comments are due by 1159 on Monday, December 7th And of course, all of this information will be included in all of the public notifications with the release of the environmental document.

We will be using our existing social media and Web page resources to provide updates I guess handle whatever you call it, Our Future 101. And our website again is ourfuture101.org We'll also be mailing notifications to all businesses and property owners within one mile of the corridor. So about 75,000 of our friends and neighbors will be receiving a notice, a printed notice by mail of the release of the environmental document as well So at this point, we're just trying to get the word out as broadly as we can about the upcoming environmental document.

And also just saying thank you to our partners in the project development team. The City of Camarillo staff has been particularly engaged throughout the process and we really appreciate their commitment to this project. So again, thank you for your time and I'm happy to answer any questions you

might have. Thank you. Any questions for Amanda? I

have a

question.

The project report

gets signed out at the same time as the draft environmental document, so by the end of 2027 we will have a final project report, final environmental impact report and environmental assessment adopted by our commission and accepted by Caltrans. So at this point we're in the draft environmental document stage which also means that the draft project report gets completed at that same time.

Thank you for clarifying that. And given that it's such an extensive project, like a 20 year project, what can the city of Camarillo residents expect in the next? Do you have that information of what we can expect in terms of construction in the next couple of years?

So we have programmed for the first phase of construction to begin in 2031, which may sound like a long time from now. But in the transportation planning world that is like tomorrow. So once we do public circulation and go through the process of finalizing environmental documents and adopting a preferred alternative, we'll also be developing and finalizing that initial phase of construction.

So, and that would then begin in 2031. I do anticipate that the city of Camarillo is likely to be included in that first phase.

Okay thank you so much and the next question is, I saw that there were multiple community outreach public hearings will Spanish

translation be available at any of them or all? Yes, Spanish translation will be available at all of the public hearings. Okay thank you so much. Thank you

Comments? Mr. Tremblay.

Thanks, Mr. Mayor. So Amanda thanks. Excellent presentation so I'm privileged to represent this council on the VCTC on the commission and we're lucky to have Amanda as our director of planning and sustainability. This draft EIR is a long time coming. This has been going on for... And that's not intended as a critique it's just it's a complicated subject And the development of the alternatives has been a complicated subject.

For those of you who may be monitoring this meeting, I would encourage you to please provide comments to the draft EIR. They will be seriously reviewed and responded to. A couple of notes. You'll note that putting aside the no-build alternative for Alternative 1, the range of cost between Alternative 2 and Alternative 3 is $1.8 billion to $2.2 billion. And when you lay alongside that, the amount of available dollars right now and these are 2026 dollars. They're not they're not dollars for example in 2031 or 2050 is 218 million.

So that represents approximately just less than 10% of the cost for alternative three. So one of the primary challenges for this project is going to be where is the money gonna come from? in order to build this project. And it's a sorely needed project because we've got to move people and we've got to move goods and services, et cetera. So one of the real challenges here is again going to be how do we raise the money in order to do that?

And grants, some of that money will come from the state. Some of that money may come from the feds possibly One of the difficulties practically speaking for Ventura County is it is the only, Amanda you've got to correct me if I go astray here. It is the only county in Southern California that does not have a dedicated portion of the sales tax for transportation costs and I'm not advocating it what I'm merely doing is pointing out That many other counties, so if you've been up to Santa Barbara County recently, you'll notice all of the freeway construction that's been done.

The sales taxes that are used there are used to leverage grant funding from the feds and from the state. We don't have that in Ventura County, we've done quite well so far but we're also looking at a huge project. So I don't know what's going to become that has been defeated twice I think at the polls. Again i'm not advocating it but what i'm pointing out is the major challenge ahead We're going to be talking about a project that needs to A primary challenge. So anyway, Amanda thank you for a good presentation that gave the overview and I would really encourage anybody out there who has been listening to this who has a chance to look at the draft EIR please respond so thanks Mr. Mayor

Thank you. Mr. Kildee. A lot of my comments, Councilmember Tremblay has said that I was actually a representative of VHD and in Camarillo for several years ago when we first started talking about this. The only thing I could say is to add on what Councilmember Trembley and The vice mayor Martita has all said that make a comment on this is the time. Sorely needed, I know one person kind of coined the phrase many years ago we have the Camarillo crawl here so anything we can do to try to improve traffic is much needed again as my colleagues have stated the proof is in the pudding how do we fund this? We've got all put our Our heads together and try to fund this very needed project. But I want to commend you and VCTC for moving this forward, we've come a long way in a relatively short time.

I know these are extremely complicated issues but it's very necessary so keep us informed. Anybody out there that wants to make a public comment, this is the time. Hopefully hopefully we can get something done to improve traffic in Ventura County. So again thanks for your presentation.

Thank you so much.

Any other comments from Amanda? I will just say they're nice calling it the Camarillo Crawl. I call it the 101 parking lot, and I'm just sad that I'll be 90 years old before I see any improvement on it but a much-needed project. Hopefully we can find the money without ever discussing sales tax increases but you know as Councilmember Kildee said the proof will be in the pudding whether or not we can get funding for it but thank you for a great presentation

Thank you so much and thank you for the opportunity. I have been giving this presentation quite a bit with my little roadshow, and I apologize. You'll have to hear it twice in one week. But again, I appreciate the opportunity. And I think if the whole community is tired of hearing me talk about this project by the end of November, I will have done my job. So thank

you. Thank you.

Now

it's time to move on to council comments. Council member Santangelo?

Thank you, Mayor. Let's see, I'll be quick. On August 27th, I attended the Economic Development and Land Use Committee. On September 2nd, I attended the Berry Street Ribbon Cutting, the Berry Street Housing Project Mini House. And on September 3rd, I attended CPA Board of Directors and that's all I've got.

Vice-Mayor?

Thank you, Mayor. On August 27th I also attended the Economic Development and Land Use Committee with Councilmember Santangelo and September 2nd I also attended the Berry Street Housing Project, the ribbon-cutting and I'm just super grateful to all of our partners, to our staff who helped to move this forward to the vision that we all had at the committee level then moving that up. Having seen that project from the beginning when I came on to council and now to the ribbon cutting was extremely rewarding and it was extremely rewarding because there are real people in our community who will benefit from this, and I'm just very grateful for that work.

And September 3rd, I also attended the Information Technology and Facilities Committee with Councilmember Tennyson. And then just really quick on the comment from Ms. Ortega, I know I responded indicating yes we can get that information to you and I apologize if that information was or that message wasn't clear. I'd appreciate it if staff who was copied on there can just get this information to the resident that she's requesting And in addition, I wanted to take this time to invite our community to come together for a very, very special fundraiser in memory of Lisa Alonso's birthday and the Lisa Alonso Memorial Scholarship on Wednesday, September 23rd. It will be a council day but the fundraiser is actually from 9am To 10pm at cronies and it can be a dine in or take out just mentioned the Lisa Alonso memorial scholarship.

And since 2022, the Lisa Alonso Memorial Scholarship has been helping graduates of Camarillo High School to pursue higher education. And Lisa was a beloved Camarillo resident who had a deep passion for helping underserved youth and believed that every young person should have the opportunity to pursue their dreams through Education and I know her legacy lives on through the scholarship.

Her legacy not only lives on through the scholarship but also through her husband, Isaac Alonso who has also found a very special way to keep her memory alive while also giving back The Ventura County community and Camarillo included. Now that Isaac is retired, he has become a familiar face on social media through his very positive restaurant reviews where he has thousands of followers.

And under his handle, he visits local restaurants, provides his experiences and the business owners have Then reported that they've had so much more business because of his reviews. So that's, you know something that he enjoys and it's definitely supporting and helping our local business in our community when I last spoke with Isaac, he shared something that really touched me which was he said that Lisa loved going out to eat and enjoy the experiences at our local restaurants and he feels like she still a part of all this. So that was extremely heartwarming to know I know my kids even follow him under the handle fatlivesmatter805 on TikTok and social media. And as a parent, I know how much our local youth enjoy following Isaac and his adventures and it's wonderful to see him using his platform not only to support local businesses and our local economy, but also to carry forward the legacy of someone he so deeply loved.

So please join us again at Cronies on September 23rd from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., and mention the Lisa Alonso Memorial Scholarship. Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. Kildee?

Oh, thank you. I as well attended the Berry Street ribbon-cutting. Kind of one of the neat things about that is that I talked to the president of the company and they used a lot of recycled material in the construction of that. A lot of plastic bottles were made—were used in the construction of that so not only it's a good thing to do that but it's also very environmental friendly and sensitive as well.

I also September 3rd, I did attend an inter-regional sand board member district meeting on again September 3rd. So that's all I have. Thank

you sir. Mr. Tremblay? Thanks Mr. Mayor very briefly meeting since August 12th but since I was not at the August 26 council meeting August 17 on the Healthy Camarillo initiative August 18 of the OPV large water users meeting and on August 19 And then we'll have a meeting with the city council and a Metrolink board of The ad hoc fuel engine committee meeting that's it.