City Council — 2020-02-11

Order of the Ojai City Council, welcome everybody. I see we have a full house this evening as usual. Will the clerk please call the roll?

staff report on that and then maybe do a quick approval on that?

Okay. Which item is that, number six? Number

six the historic resident because... Anyway we just have a request for doing that. Okay

there's no objection.

Yeah we had promised that this would be first if you're sure that the other item won't take more than a minute

With your support, I'm sure there'll be no problem.

I think we made an in-depth discussion here. If

it

isn't

a long discussion, we'll continue the item.

Are there any other adjustments to the agenda? If not, okay the agenda is approved and we will take up that item quickly at the beginning of the session. Right now we have a presentation from the Harrison company. Nan are you going to do that?

Good evening Mayor, Councilmembers, staff, sheriff. I understand you're new to the welcome aboard right? Excellent thank you my name is Bill Camarillo I reside in Camarillo California believe it or not and I am the CEO of Agriman. We have been your organics waste recycler in partnership with the Harrisons for decades and here to tell you a little bit about what's going on in the waste industry, we've had quite a few legislative bills passed that have completely disrupted the waste industry And we've also had a lot of challenges with the whole recycling of cardboard and plastic and bottles and containers that Mike Harrison's gonna fill you in on because of our relationship with China, and what they're willing to take from our recycling containers anymore.

But I'm gonna focus on the organics fraction. There's a bill that you may know about or may not know about but you will it's called SB 1383. And many people think it's a recycling bill or diversion bill from the standpoint of actually recycling something when it's not. It's actually a short-lived climate pollutant that was adopted as part of AB 32, which was the greenhouse gas emission reduction bill. So as part of the climate change bill they decided to go after five major industry sectors that being energy, transportation Wastewater, waste and agriculture. Those are the primary generators of methane in the atmosphere and carbon emissions that we're going to reduce CO2 emissions in the atmosphere so that bill was passed in 2006 and here we are you know 14 years later and since then we've done a lot of things to change how we buy our electricity and change the vehicles were having to use today and change the fuel or having to use today and And how we create food and how we manage water.

Whether you believe in the bullet train or not, that's being paid for too through that whole program and the whole cap-and-trade was the let's use a carrot that didn't work and now we're bringing down the hammer so SB 1383 is the result of the waste industry CalRecycle Not passing effective bills to mitigate methane from landfills. So because of all the organic waste that goes to landfills and gets covered up with no oxygen, we end up producing methane. And even though they have great capturing systems there still is anywhere between 25-40% fugitive emissions from landfills.

And now because of the technology of NASA and JPL with the satellites, I can actually see where all the methane's at. And it's around the cows in landfills. So we're next on the horizon. And just wanted to let you know we have some projects we've been working on for a decade so having some vision in the future to make sure we protect the cities we serve to be in compliance. We have been permitting the Lima Era Commercial Compost Center since 2011 And we think we're maybe another couple years away and might be just on time with that project. So it was a good thing we got started, as you know permitting anything in Ventura County just takes a long time.

We also invested in a food waste to animal feed project in the city of Oxnard that took us a couple years to also be able to convert food waste into animal feed for pigs, chickens, cows, dogs and cats so We're using food waste at the best and highest use for that part of it. So also what's changing is how we're going to collect the food waste, it's in the trash stream. The Harrisons are working on some new strategies on how to collect all that food waste along with all of the compostable items so I know you probably go to a lot of restaurants in town where they're now starting to use compostable plates cups to go containers We're having to figure out how we're going to get composted along with the food waste, the green waste, the wood waste, the biosolid wastes, the dairy manure wastes, liquid wastes.

You name it if it's organic, it's now gonna have to be composted. Many big institutions like Amgen and Thousand Oaks have gone to zero waste and really only have a recycled container and a compostable container, no trash containers. The new SoFi Stadium down for the Rams in Englewood's doing the same thing. Some cities are going completely to try and get to zero waste by certain date frames but at the end of the day it's really California has decided that California can do better And wanted to take the lead on climate change and the waste industry is up for the task, but you're now talking about moving 23 million tons of organic waste that's currently going into the landfills to compost centers.

Today there's not enough infrastructure. The important part of SB 1383 that needs to be said is it is an unfunded mandate. And there are penalties and there is no off-ramp for the penalties. In the AB 939 bill, there was a good faith effort that basically said hey if you tried and you have all the programs in place and you don't make your diversion rates we're going to give you a pass. In this bill, there is no good faith effort and it's because it's being driven by the California Air Resources Board who's in charge of AB 32 so we have to have all these programs in place by 2022 And the penalty phase begins in 2022. You're going to have to put ordinances in place to mandate the producers of organic waste to follow the rules, and you can't actually charge penalties to cover the penalties that could be fined of the producers until 2024.

So all of this has to happen by 2025? Which doesn't seem like very far away. 2022 is only 22 months away, we're going as fast as we can on infrastructure to support Ventura County. We currently manage all 10 cities in the county with Harrison's on the west side and waste management on the east side in the city of Oxnard collecting its own waste. But agriment is also in 15 counties throughout the state managing over 300 cities today.

Agriment was born right here in Ventura County We're all a family and friends business. And we're pretty excited about the future, but it is a big challenge and we can't do it by ourselves. Collaborating with waste haulers in the cities and the communities on how we're going to get this done is going to be really important. So I just wanted to make sure you know we had a chance to speak to you about what's going on in the waste industry Because it's going to be a big lift and no one company can do it by itself. So I think with that, I'll stop Mike Harrison Is here to talk about the recycling side and Harrison's and what they're doing on the collection side It's gonna show you a real cool video about Gold Coast

Sounds like you're not prepared to handle a All the food waste. So you're asking the cities if I understood you to have ordinances or there are people in Ojai who are trying to collect food waste and they actually have a bicycle compost service where you put out your Thank you very much. Yard space to compost to do so so that that waste doesn't go into the Into the garbage stream if I understood you correctly, right? That's what you're asking for and And those that don't have the yard space if they live in an apartment or whatever They can use a compost service

correct. They'll use the Harrison's will provide the service for collection and I didn't

but wait I

do

you have that now

Um, do you have any pilot programs going on in Ojai today? They do have some food waste pilot programs going today. The infrastructure we're hoping will be built by 2022 when the law kicks in and we're pushing the county so I guess if I had an ask If you see Mike Powers anytime soon, tell him to hurry up. We've been at it a long time. It'd

be my pleasure.

OK, perfect. I have his cell number if you need it. But no, I don't want to miscommunicate on the ordinance piece because all jurisdictions are going to have to have some sort of organics ordinance within the city that says you have to recycle your organic waste. Because if the city doesn't meet the mandate, the jurisdictions are responsible for the penalties.

And you're going to want some mechanism to pass those on to the generators, to make sure that they stay in compliance with you. To support the state's efforts so yes sir.

I just want to point out already asked a city attorney to be looking into Thank you. is to mandate that the food be turned over to a food bank's alternative human consumption with enough lead time before expiration dates. And he's been looking into whether or not we can have the authority to do that at the ordinance level in terms of diversion as more efficient, in terms of beneficial use to human use before it has to go to animal use and composted use.

So here's the good news. It's already in SB 1383. It required to be done.

So we need to implement that

in our ordinances. You need to implement that, it's part of the food recovery to feed hungry people and the Harrison's in Agraman self-funded with the county a grant to CalRecycle to help them get a food recovery program going. Require the

retailers to notify prior

to expiration

to pick it up so it can

be used. Restaurants, supermarkets, to get that food to the kitchens so they can distribute it

to

those

in need. Much better to do

it that way. It's in the ordinance, I mean it's in the

law But we need to implement that in our ordinance, right? Okay. And then two more other points I wanted to make you know what bothers me about the state county etc is you know things like the landfill gas well uh you know i'm on the board for the VRSD that administers the total landfill and as you know they tried to make beneficial use of the landfill gas but because it's so contaminated with siloxan It's impossible to do, and the state is doing nothing in terms of supporting research statewide to figure out how to remove that contaminant. So it can be used for beneficial

uses.

And you can't

put it in the pipeline either.

But in Europe they do. Right. Okay? And the third thing is don't forget the super emitter sites that the satellites have said. It's not just landfills, it's also like the compressor station on the avenue and some of these oil and gas fields are also big super

emitters. Fossil fuels,

right.

Okay, do we have Mr. Harrison in the wings?

Thank you I'm around and happy to answer questions and I'm easy to get a hold of Bill at Agriment.

Thank You bill a lot to digest Mr. Mayor Johnston council members staff Mike Harrison from EJ Harrison I'm their engineering manager and I reside in Camarillo as well Just to talk about there was a brief presentation, I'm not going to talk about that today hopefully you can get a printout of it and read it at your leisure but Just to talk about kind of where we've been and where we're going and what we're trying to do just to keep you up-to-date.

And as Bill said, we're excited to be here and we're excited to work with the City of Ojai in making sure that you're in compliance with all these new regulations which are somewhat daunting. So Bill laid out a bunch of stuff and it seems like wow! Where are we at? What are we gonna do? But from Harrison, we've been around forever. You know us We've always been in front of regulation and Regulation is still hitting us every day and we're still dealing with it every day. We have great strategic partners and agriment and Gold Coast and That's not going to quit that's going to continue forward and we're gonna make sure that all your needs are met for compliance with these regulations So Gold Coast, for instance is Back in 1990 or even before they started recycling and they got in compliance with 939 before the regulation of 22,000.

So this is no different we're doing everything we can to get everybody in compliance with these new regulations and we have no other intention to keep you and keep us in compliance going forward so We're going to show you a brief video of what we've done at Gold Coast Recycling. The basic message for dry recycling is to keep recycling, don't quit. We have never thrown anything away and we don't intend to throw anything away and that's the message that should be presented to anybody who has that question.

Back before China in their crisis, we were already planning a new facility that would allow us Keep up the best we can with being able to sell recyclables to the marketplace unfortunately, the marketplace has been in foreign markets but that is what it is and were able to still keep up with the improvements that we've made so I know we're short on time. So I don't want to delay and we're here to answer questions but Note that we're here for you and we're excited to continue to work with you in the city to keep this effort going. Do not stop recycling, that is the message period whether it's dry wet or anything in between So let us show this video so you can see what we've done. It might seem kind of hard to see, but it's a business that processes a lot of material every day.

1,600 tons a day go through this facility. So if we could start the video and I'll step aside. Thank you.

Ever wonder what happens to the things you put in your recycling container? They come here, to Gold Coast Recycling and Transfer Station. The 7.8 acre facility is located on Colt Street in Ventura. Gold Coast recycles more than 90,000 tons of materials each year Recyclable items include paper and magazines, glass containers, plastic containers numbered 1 through 7, metal containers, aluminum foil and cardboard.

Since its opening, Gold Coast Recycling has recovered thousands of tons of fiber materials saving millions of trees. In its three-decade existence, Gold Coast has worked to comply with the state's mandated diversion goals, diverting more than 600 million tons of recyclable waste from the landfill. General Manager George Harrison credits the cooperation of everyone involved for the company's successful recycling efforts.

He said, quote, Recycling numbers have dropped in the state and the costs of recycling have risen. But Gold Coast remains committed to meeting the difficult state-mandated recycling goals. All materials trucked to Gold Coast are loaded onto our multi-million dollar, state of the art sorting system which uses screens and air technology to help filter out non-recyclable materials and to sort the recyclables.

Once sorted and separated, the clean recyclables travel up a conveyor belt to be baled. The baled materials are then trucked to markets. In recent years, Gold Coast has added cutting edge automated sorting systems This includes the latest commercial model that is a foot wider, more heavy-duty, has two more picking stations and a second baler. These innovations allow Gold Coast Recycling to recover an additional 20,000 tons per month.

Not everything that comes here is recyclable. Oftentimes trash comes mixed in with recyclables thus requiring inexpensive rerouting to the landfill. That's where you come in! Our goal is for all residents to put nothing but recyclables in their recycling containers, thus saving time and money. China, which controlled 86% of the recycling market has quit accepting recyclables.

Gold Coast Recycling has found other markets for the materials processed here. With recycling in a downed market, the cost to divert materials from already overcrowded landfills has risen Things you should not put in your recycling container include plastic bags, bubble wrap, styrofoam, hazardous waste, medical waste, oily waste, pesticides, dead animals, tennis shoes and food waste.

Please make it your business to be an active and informed participant in your waste disposal – in your home and at your business. The future depends on you!

I have one more question. Can I ask you a very basic question? If the bottle is plastic and the cap is metal, are you supposed to take the cap off? For example when there's a bottle or jar with two different... And I googled it and I got conflicting results.

So the answer is no, you do not have to remove it. The process goes through a very complicated process of breaking bottles and separating those materials so you don't have to necessarily do that. You can. If it doesn't get broken with the bottle or if it does get broken in the bottle, it will go through a series of systems that will separate and suck out that cap through magnets and other means.

But it's okay to take it off then?

Sure

Okay, doesn't clog up the machinery

And no it does not. No we like bottles and we like recyclables going through the machine what we don't like is things that shouldn't go through the machine like hoses and engine blocks and All the other things that we see Anything else Mike I have nothing else. We're here for questions, we're excited to work with the City of Ojai. We're ready to go for the future. We've already been doing this for many years. We've been in front of regulation and we're going to continue to do the same thing. We are going to continue to do the right thing and help you do the right thing. I think we

have one more question.

So I just want a statement first of all I want to thank Nan and I want to thank you Mike and just your company is so progressive and so forward-thinking so ahead of the game And as a county and as a community, we just need to say thank you more often. Thank you.

Thank you. And help us develop these ordinances.

Seriously. We are here and we're ready to climb the hill, the big hill that we all have to climb. It's still coming.

Thanks very much for coming down and sharing that with us. Okay under... Let's see, I guess we can start with our public communications before we go. You have some cards there? This is the time when we for items not on the regular agenda that the public has the opportunity to address the council. Council can take no actions on things that are not on the agenda, but we will listen and refer it to staff where appropriate.

And because of the number of cards we have I'm going to ask everybody if they could keep their comments to two minutes a piece so let's start. Garrett Clifford? Are you out there Garrett? And Ron, the librarian. So Lord knows you're on deck.

Hi, my name's Garrett Clifford and I'm with Ojai Trees. And I just wanted to thank everyone for the decision about Tree City USA and getting us back on track. 2009 we got it, we obtained it. In 2010 we lost it but nobody really understood that we lost it. The sign stayed up so glad to hear that it's back on track and we're going to get there. February 22nd we're planting trees And if you want a tree or if you want to volunteer and come plant with us, trees at OjaiTrees.org Let us know we can still get you a tree the deadline is Monday to order and You can come join us on the 22nd. It's a great experience. We even serve lunch

Thanks Garrett, okay Ron you're up and Brian Aiken you're on deck

All right, thank you so much members of council. My name is Ron Solorzano I'm the regional librarian for the Ojai Valley and just a quick update for you on some of the things we have going on at the library in the coming weeks. I want to start by saying that next week on Wednesday February 19th Don Iwerks is going to visit the library to present his latest book titled Walt Disney's Ultimate Inventor, The Genius of Ub Iwerks. The subject of the book is Ub Iwerks, Don's father who was a self-taught animator and Disney icon who became the first to animate Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

Then on Friday, February 21st at 1230 p.m., we are going to have children's book author and illustrator Dana Simpson who is going to visit the library for a special presentation for young readers and their families. Simpson is the award-winning author of the wildly popular Phoebe & Her Unicorn graphic novel series so that should be a lot of fun. Then later in the month, we're going to have Attorney Frederick Siegenfeld of Segalaw who's gonna visit the library on Wednesday February 26th to talk about protecting your loved ones yourself and your assets with a presentation that's gonna discuss advanced health care directives wills and trusts probate and more.

And then the last thing I wanted to mention, we've actually already begun this series but we're going to resume on Monday February 24th with our new Monday matinees at the Ojai Library. We're screening films from this year's award season nominees and winners and each screening starts at 1130 a.m., again the next one is going to be Monday February 24th and every week thereafter for another five weeks we're gonna show a different film.

So if you have any questions, just feel free to reach out to me. If you have any suggestions about programming you'd like to see. Of course we're continuing our story times or continuing our book club, our ukulele club and all of that so drop by the library and see what we have going on. Thanks so much.

Thanks Ron. Brian you're up and Dr. Serino?

Hello, Council.

You're on

deck. I'm here with my museum hat on. The Ojai Valley Museum recently opened a new exhibit, 22 Miles, Ojai Valley Landscapes featuring artwork of the valley by the fine artists from throughout Southern California. The opening reception on February 1st was extremely well attended with more than 450 people. Is that a record? Yes, maybe a double the record. People visiting the museum in two hours.

Third Friday on February 21st we'll highlight the exhibit also featured live music by Babette and Bob between 530 and 730. Family Fun Day Sunday is a new monthly program with free admission on the last Sunday of the month. It kicked off in January with 101 children and adults having fun with bubbles led by our own Dennis Shives. You can imagine how much fun that was. On February 23rd is Hands-On Fast Crafts, it's a drop-in program between one and three come any time during that with the children in your life to bring to enjoy making crafts at the museum thank you all

Thanks Brian. Dr. Serena.

Good evening. I'm Dr. Sirena Pellarolo and I am here to thank you for the wonderful courts that you have offered us, the pickleball players, to play as much as we can. We have been displaced from other courts so we're thrilled to be playing here. Many of you have been there and most of the courts are being used regularly every day on Saturday mornings they're packed And we really want to continue playing there because it's an incredible resource for many of the players. I would say that it's an intergenerational sport, but most of our players are seniors so it's a great resource and I also want to commend our Leader and coach Tim Kraut who has spearheaded this project and from the goodness of his heart And it's a wonderful resource for the community, and I hope that we still have them to continue playing.

Thank you

Thank You Christian Bell Europe and Ron McCray you're on deck

Good evening. I'm here to also thank the council very much for the restoring the pickleball courts around the block here It's a tremendous difference in my life and my husband's limited activities But also a tremendous asset to the community and we're grateful Really deeply grateful. Thank you very much.

Thank You Kristen Ron McRae with Tim crowd on desk

I'd also like to talk about the pickleball court. It was put in there, I suppose without any of the approval of the neighbors or any of the property owners or anything. The pickleball popping is unbelievable. I live down the street now and you can't You can't relax without loud popping noise going on all the time. The more, the pickleball people of the club they were talking about wants more and more people to come in there and this demonstration gardener that they're using wasn't meant for that as far as I'm concerned it's supposed to be a quiet place They continue on getting more and more people in there. It's going to be like a circus there, you know? It's going to be popping and people will looking for parking it's it's unbelievable that noise Your brain cannot get used to this popping noise I live down the street I can go in my house And I can close all the doors and the windows and I can still hear that popping thing it's it goes on all the time now the pickle people Or ask, will they minimize this stuff?

Yeah sure they will. Their response is no they can't because that pickleball would ruin their game. They've got to have that noise even if they could minimize it how would they police it people are still going to come in there and make that loud noise and It's going to be disturbing to the neighbors. They're not supposed to be there on Sunday last Sunday they were over there all day long They were playing and screaming and yelling and singing and having a son on a Sunday morning, you know You can't even stay in your house. It's all these people Live just closer than I do right across the street and I talked to several of them. That's just so annoying There's no sense that they have to have to be there there. There's the Soule Park it has a Place that they can go.

They should use that one, you know, I don't know why they're obsessed for this area It's not for this area the people around it I'm a real estate broker and I've been there here for 25 years And I know darn well That property is going down in value for sure if no one wants to move into an area with that kind of noise. It's fun Yes, I know it's fun but not here Tim

crowd may I ask a question as a city manager?

When we

hear from the public,

when we're done. We have one more and then you can ask the city

manager.

Good evening council, staff, congratulations all day on your job. What I like about this sport besides being the fastest growing sport in the nation it's fun, it's energetic, it's invigorating, it' exciting and it has allowed me to meet over 100 people in this community that I wouldn't otherwise have met I've come to know them personally. We have different backgrounds, but yet we still have fun when playing together.

Thank you for allowing us to play here and allowing the community to come together. Thank you,

thank you. I got one late from Dale Dale come on down and then Susan

Thank You Dale Hanson I live in the city I'm happy that there's a pickleball court where these people can have so much fun And I know it is fun as I walk by there, and I'm glad that they can socialize But it is disturbing the peace for the people who live there Now I'm a real estate agent, and I know that if I were going to sell I don't have a listing on any of the houses in that area but if I did I Could not sell it today for what it could have sold for two months ago before the pickleball court was there This is a major problem for the neighborhood And it's not something where you have any piece at all in your home It just goes on and on when summer comes they're gonna be there late in the evening. So So, I mean, I think that...I know Soul Park's a ways out of town but there is Pickleball Court there.

I'm told so you have to pay to get in well These people are paying dearly for their value of their homes. I mean something has to be done about it It's just not right Thank You

Okay, thank you Dale. Okay Susie you had a question for staff?

My question is this I know it's not on the agenda So we can't debate how to resolve the conflict but was there an understanding that they were not to play on Sunday

We've never There was no restriction on playing on Sunday

Okay, because if there was I was good.

There's not currently I guess one of the things we can talk about at a future meeting is what okay? What rules we'd want to put in place

so we can assure the public that this will be

mm-hmm It's going to return it a future counseling

Thank you

Okay, the next item is the consent agenda do There any

I like to move approval of the consent calendar second

Okay, this is moved and seconded. Is there any objection to approving the consent calendar? If not so ordered We will go to item number six and I understand we're waiving the staff reports So let's see

We just need a motion to approve I

think you have to open the public hearing Yeah that's right And then we can have a motion to approve I believe

Okay, so the public hearing is now open. Do we have any cards? We do have some cards. Okay, Brian Akins with Craig Walker on deck. I would like to

share a little information

about the Perkins-Baker residence

so

the public can learn something about the home and the remarkable couple who live there. To begin with, the home is a beautiful example of 1920s Tudor Revival architecture. It was designed by William Edwards, a well-known Santa Barbara architect who designed many important buildings in Santa Barbara. One of his first partners was a young Wallace Sneff who later designed the Ojai Valley Country Club, the Libby Stables and the Ojai Valley School.

After the Santa Barbara earthquake in 1925, Edwards designed many of the Spanish storefronts we still see along State Street. He and his second partner Joseph Plunkett designed the Arlington Theater, the Santa Barbara Airport Terminal, the National Guard Armory and many fine homes in Montecito. As far as we know, the Perkins-Baker residence is the only home Edwards designed in the Ojai Valley. As beautiful as it is, the home's architectural significance is matched by the importance to Ojai of its original owners, Franklin and Margie Perkins.

The Perkins were a young, wealthy couple who came to Ojai in 1923 when Franklin was 28 and Margie was 26. Like many wealthy Easterners they came to Ojai on account of Franklin's poor health. They lived at the Bristol Cottages while their home was constructed. Franklin served as the general contractor and the builder was Sam Hutterberg who designed many other beautiful homes and buildings around Ojai.

The Perkins Baker Home is located next door to the Libby home, although Mr. Libby died shortly after the Perkins moved in. Inspired by Libby and in spite of his own illness Franklin jumped into community affairs playing an important role in the development of the community and the modernization of the town. He served on several community boards where he took a hands-on approach to improving several local institutions.

Under his leadership, the Ojai Library went from the small wooden structure that still sits on the corner of Lyon and Aliso streets to the present Spanish style building on Ojai Avenue designed by Carlton Winslow. Frank was chair of the building committee that constructed the current Presbyterian Church on the corner of Foothill and Aliso, also designed by Winslow.

He was a founding director of the first Ojai Fire District. He also served on the boards of the Ojai Tennis Tournament, the Community Arts Association, The Red Cross and the Ojai Community Chorus. Franklin wrote a popular weekly column for the Ojai under the name Harlequin and published a booster book called Ojai, The Beautiful. This was all over a period of four or five years since Franklin died in 1929 at the age of 35.

But Margie picked up the ball, continuing in Frank's position on the library board. She was also instrumental in the founding of the Ojai Arts Center in 1939, the Monica Ross School in 1940 and the Ojai Music Festival in 1946. She inspired many women in the Ojai Valley to serve their community including my own mother who was friends with Margie during the late 1950s and early 60s.

In 1975, Margie Perkins Baker sold the house and moved to Santa Barbara with her second husband Morgan Baker. Since then it has been the home of two Hollywood stars Denny Miller who played Tarzan and Peter Scolari of the TV show Bosom Buddies Today the home is owned by Tracy Albert and Carrie Pearlman, sitting over here. Tracy serves on the Ojai Museum Board and the couple recently opened the house to the public as part of the festival's 2019 Holiday Home Look-In. How amazing is it that they have decided to landmark the Perkins Baker residence?

As a city landmark, it will inspire others not only through the beauty of its 1920s Tudor Revival architecture but also through the story of Franklin and Margie Perkins who as a young couple did so much to bring Ojai into the 20th century. Thank you.

Okay, Brian were you going to cap that off?

Yeah I just wanted to do one quick addition because somehow Craig forgets to mention this. That Denny Miller was also the Gorton's fisherman and so I brought Denny tonight so that he could oversee this historic event with us. Think about fish sticks.

They're turning around so they can see it.

So Denny Miller as well as What Greg mentioned also was the Gordon's fishermen think of them when you're getting fish sticks over there at Vaughn's Again as it said we the Historic Preservation Commission voted unanimously to recommend this to the council both as a historic landmark number 28 and also for Recognition for the Mills property. We're happy to have the owner here and Showing their support because as Councilman Haney asked if If the owners want to do this, then I want to do this and that's why they're here is to show that support for For your taking this up tonight. So I'm just gonna leave Danny there just for a minute There we go

Okay, thank you Brian.

By the way it says to my friend David Mason that's where

we got it. That was all the cards we have so I'll close the public hearing.

I'd like in a spirit of gratitude to the owners really for to approve make a motion to approve the designation and also do approve a motion to enter into the Mills Act historically.

Is there second to that?

No

second. Moved and seconded any discussion? If not, I guess we call the roll on that. Mr. City Attorney? Yes. Will the clerk please call the roll?

22 years!

This is the ATP project number two on the agenda and... So

Mayor just one quick thing before we start

okay

I just wanted to demonstrate this pink bracelet that my granddaughter gave me today for Valentine's Day And I come in this, in offering this debate on ATP with joy and love and happiness. And let's all express ourselves the way that we can and conduct ourselves to the best of our ability. Let's not fight over this. This is just a discussion tonight.

You must be anticipating something Randy. Okay, we staff report mr. City manager

and I have just I have a brief introduction But I want to hand it over to our public works director Greg Grant in a moment He has a couple slides to go through but just a brief introduction as far as noting that this is the 35% design review its on the agenda tonight to basically go through the project and identify the priority projects and our portions of the project.

At this time, there's a $2.5 million construction grant. There are $2 1⁄2 million in first-priority items so we are anticipating that the costs for those items will be covered by the grant. And with that I'll hand it off to Greg to walk through that.

All right, good evening mayor and council. I was just getting ribbed by a few people outside because they were Saying that I'm the first public works director that has stayed this long in persevere because it was actually To this point