City Council — February 3, 2026

Good evening, I just want to call the meeting to order for the Oxnard City Council on Tuesday February 3rd 2026. Madam Clerk may we have the roll call and posting of the agenda please?

The agenda for this meeting was posted in the kiosk at City Hall, the Oxnard Public Library, the city administrative offices and on the city's website on

Thursday

January 20th. And the amended

agenda on

Wednesday January 28th. Thank you.

We will take public comments on the closed session agenda. Can the city attorney please provide a statement prior to closed session, please?

Thank you Mayor. The City Council will recess to a closed session pursuant to government code section 54956.9 subdivision D1 to confer with its attorneys. The matters being discussed are Marquez versus City of Oxnard and Gold versus City of Oxnard. The City Council will also recess to a closed session pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9, Subdivision D4 based on existing facts and circumstances to decide whether to initiate litigation in one potential case.

Thank you Mr. Fisher. Madam Clerk do we have any speakers for public comment on the closed session items?

Excuse me, Mayor and Council Members. We do not have any public speakers for closed session in person or virtually for closed session. Thank you.

Thank You Madam Clerk we will recess at 5 p.m.. We will begin with an appointment item followed by the regular council meeting thank you Good evening, everyone. The City Council had just emerged from closed session. I will ask our city attorney Mr. Fisher for any announcements to make. Thank you, Mr. Fisher.

Thank you Mayor. There are no actions to report out of closed session however the council took up items C1 and C2 and after the open session business is completed we will reconvene to close session to take on item C3.

Thank You Mr. Fisher We will now

Mr. Mayor we're going to invert the order and start with IT.

Okay then we will start with We'll start with you. Go ahead, sir.

Are we all set?

Yes.

Good evening Mayor Pro Tem and council members. Rob Rubin CIO for City of Oxnard. Today I'd like to walk through a presentation for IT. DAO if we can bring that up. There we go. Okay

let's

switch to the next slide here. So this deck may look a little familiar. I borrowed it from our HR organization, who I thought did a terrific job and I thought that their colors on the slides and the layout of the template were useful so rather than reinvent something, I stole it from them with their permission but I just wanted to give the shout out that this was not original but hopefully some of the content

is. In education we say we adapted it Mr. Rubin.

Fair, that sounds better doesn't it? But mine's going to be more honest. All right, so by the numbers we also support all 1,875 Oxnard employees whether they're full time or part time. We have three divisions in IT and those divisions are and we'll go through in more detail what they do but they are business engagement, solutions delivery, and infrastructure and cybersecurity.

And we have a total of 39 IT staff positions, of which 32 are currently filled. So go to the next slide. Our overall priorities for those of you who heard me speak in closed session is that our number one by far is defend the city. So we are primarily looking to make sure that we put all the safeguards in place to make sure that we are As well protected as we possibly can be for cyber attack, and also including for defending the city would be what we call keeping the lights on. So making sure all the cities networks and production systems and software are running and running properly.

Our second, I would say our second priority in the list of priorities is what we call organizational or departmental alignment. So this is meeting with department heads on a regular basis and understanding what's most important to them and make sure that we are aligned to their highest priorities. And I'll get into a little bit more detail of what that looks like and how we do that.

And this is under the strategic priorities of the city for organizational effectiveness. So I'd like to drop in and talk a little bit about the first division, which is the Business Engagement Division. This name is something that I borrowed from or adapted from my life in the private sector. So business engagement is a discipline of three main functions within it. One of them is what we call business relationship management, second is project and portfolio management and then business analysis and process improvement. Let me tell you a little bit about those but overall the goal of the Business Engagement Division It's a bunch of big words, but what it really means is that we need to stay connected with our customers and in our case for IT as an internal organization.

Our customers are the departments and staff across the city as our primary customers, so we need to stay aligned with them and so the way we do that is we meet with the department heads on a regular basis in addition to all the project work that we do with them. We meet with them at a strategic level where we look at all the systems that are their systems and how those systems have been running since the last time we met. So part of that overall goal was to keep What I would call a confession where we talk to each of the department heads individually and their staff, and we go through and look at what system broke since the last time we met.

And what happened? What are we doing about it? And how are we going to prevent that from going forward? So we try to always start those kinds of sessions with what went wrong, and then let's go to what's going right. But our philosophy in the IT organization, and it's my personal one is run with bad news, walk with good news. So accountability and transparency are our primary importance. And to build the trust for our departments, that's how we do business.

Project management and portfolio management. Project management is our delivery arm. How do we deliver the projects that the city needs? And the portfolio management is how do we prioritize everybody's work and the main priority prioritization mechanism we use again, is what we would call a force rank so each of the department heads when we meet with them, we look at all their stuff, all their projects and we have them tell us this is the most important, this is number two, this is number three And then we align our resources to their highest priority needs, to ensure that we stay aligned. So we meet with them regularly to make sure that we're not coming out of alignment. Sounds simple but a lot of organizations don't do that and you end up with IT doing its own thing or people not getting the most important stuff done.

So that's how we address that business analysis and process improvement group. These are the folks that meet on a more detailed level get the requirements for the project come up with ideas for how to make processes better and look for better outcomes, and work with the customers also. Our customers for testing the changes that we've made or the systems that we've implemented.

The second arm is the solution delivery division. This is frequently referred to as software or applications team. We use a fancier term because it's more fun But delivering the solutions. So this has got three main groups, it's got the GIS group that's the team that does all the mapping and the asset management of the various city assets that are mapped then in the systems and producing the maps that the city and citizens use We have the applications development and support team, so this is how we either build or buy or decide which systems to buy if we're going to buy them. And then install them and get them integrated with our-with the rest of the city systems.

And then the data management and analytics is a fairly new arm of the solution delivery. In that group their intent is to do a more formalized data Making data into information so that it's actionable, so that we can use it to make good decisions. A couple of fun facts. Oh, did I? You know what? There we go. That's that that I just talked about. So sorry. I've got to get better. I'm doing it here and not there. Couple of fun facts about the Solutions Delivery Division for GIS. We map over 1,200 miles of roads The GIS team handles over 800 different, 800 service requests or tickets that were able to close in last year. So these are service requests or incidents and then we have 700 sorry 676 maps supported by the GIS team including over a thousand unique map layers.

The applications development support fun fact is there's over 350 applications that are used across the city so it's a lot to keep track of And for data management and analytics, we have over 450 distinct databases across the city. The next and last of the three groups, Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Division. So this has three groups to it as well. Service Desk, so these are folks you call when you have a problem. They get cell phones set up, they get computers set up, they help get accounts set up.

And if you have a problem that's the number you call And they're kind of our first line of defense for solving problems. The next group is the infrastructure and network engineering, so this is the team that keeps all the buildings and all the different systems connected. So that's all the hardware and the cloud infrastructure for where we keep all of our data in our systems.

And the last one is the cybersecurity team, which is the team that I highlight frequently but it's...that's a team but the cyber security is a mindset that we use across all of IT. So it's not just the team that reviews software for is it safe or looks at monitoring dashboards to see like are we getting cyber attacks or anything like that. It's also a mindset across this, across the IT department.

And then a couple of fun facts about that. On the service desk side, we have 1,100 or over 1,100 end devices, so PCs, laptops. We have 1,300 mobile devices and there's 23 city buildings that have networking and related infrastructure. We have more city buildings than that but those are the ones that are internetworked. On the infrastructure and network engineering side, there's over 300 servers and 200 network devices.

And for cybersecurity we average about 25,000 cyber attacks a month so good thing we have some pretty good defenses in place. I wanted to hit on just a couple of recent accomplishments then I'll close out. On the infrastructure side that team is focused in a very large part on making enhancements for our cybersecurity. As I talked about a bunch of times, we also are undergoing a large scale program called infrastructure modernization where we look at a number of older systems in the city that are making sure that we're swapping them out for new and supported systems.

We have a PC refresh cycle that every year we change out approximately 20% of the city's PCs on a five-year cycle. We talked a little bit about that A few months back when we talked about the hardware and the vendors that we use for hardware. But, we do that to make sure that we're using current and currently supported equipment so that again from a cyber perspective that helps make sure that we've got well protected equipment.

We've also rolled out MS Office to everybody this year. And we've also implemented a network operation center, so this is a real time 24-7 monitoring system that is looking for any not only the cyber issues, we already had that but then this network operation center is the arm that monitors if a server is running out of space or if it's CPU is running high or things that are unexpected before a problem happens, we're trying to anticipate them early.

And then last on the application side, a few examples. I'll give you many more when we get to the budget later in the year and we sort of review the highlights for the year but working in conjunction with the police department to implement the Peregrine data integration and operations platform Finance working with credit card processing fees and implementing that.

Back to the police for upgrades to their 9-1-1 dispatch and record management system. Fire department implemented, we implemented a document management system with fire department. We assisted the police department with the drones as first responders. And we've made a number of GIS systems and applications in database upgrades. That's what I have for you tonight. If you have any questions?

Go ahead. Thank you, Mr. Rubin. Much appreciated on the overview for the work that your department does and all your teams. I just want to thank you for the posturing that the IT Department has done for cybersecurity. I think that that's one of the weakest points in security is the human factor in that And even with my comfort level and things technology related, I know I've even had to reach out to you sometimes with is this a legitimate email or I got this text message. It seems suspicious, but I want to make sure this didn't really come from our team. And so I just want to give my thanks to you and the folks who work with you on that because it's helpful to have folks in the know who are able to guide us in this. And again there is 1200-1300 other people who rely on you.

I recognize that. So I know it's not a small charge.

My pleasure.

Thank you.

Thank You Mayor Pro Tem. Any other comments or questions? Good.

Yes, on your page 50 slide the cybersecurity along with Mayor Pro Tem we get approximately 25,000 cyber attacks per month. To me that's staggering. Can you determine if it's pretty much the same people continually or is it random?

You know our protection defenses see that and it's common for any website or any externally facing organization to have high cyber attacks Most of those are pretty easy to defend, so we don't bother trying to figure out who it is because it's just like a fly. You just swat it away. So most of those kind of things, we really don't need to know who it was because it's coming in such a way that it just clearly violates a rule that gets sort of defended right at the borders.

So yeah, we would only really be examining detailed attacks if they were if they were getting a little further. But our outer defenses right now have been working really well, so we haven't really need to get very thorough in examining where these things are coming from. At $25,000 you kind of need to let the system do its deal, right? Thank you very much.

Any other questions or comments? I appreciate the presentation. Thank you very much. My pleasure, thank you. City Attorney, are you going up next?

Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of the council. I'm Steve Fisher City Attorney presenting on the city attorney's office for you this early evening. So if we could bring the slide up thank you. So our office is staffed with eight attorneys and support staff. We provide legal counsel to the entire city organization And I'd like to divide what we do into three major categories, the transactional open meetings and records in litigation.

And I'd like to bring up Assistant City Attorney Elma Caron to talk about the transactional category.

Good evening council members, Assistant City Attorney Elle McCarran and I'm going to go over to our next slide here. So this slide goes over basically our six general categories of the transactional work that we do and so you can see on there the categories contract review ethics advice day-to-day legal support everything that you would expect from essentially a general counsel and then following up We're going to get in depth on some of our contract and legislative work that we do for the city.

So, the City Attorney's Office, we create these city-wide contract templates, the professional service agreements, the on calls, the general service, the fleet maintenance agreements, public projects, design build agreements, amendments. You guys have all seen them coming to council for your approval. engage with support staff, city departments and other agencies and third party vendors to create a series of what I call one-off agreements. And these would be your sewer use agreements, cell tower agreements, interagency agreements, development agreements and franchise agreements as well as utility agreements.

We also prepare draft and assist departments in preparing and excuse me here ordinances and resolutions. And in 2025, we assisted and drafted 20 ordinances and we completed 75 resolutions. For 2026, we have about 21 ordinances in the queue so you'll be seeing a lot more of those over the next year and ordinances require a lot of thought and care. We have to interface with the public, we have to look at what other agencies are doing, we have to make sure that we're within the confines of the law, and we have to get buy-in from all of our departments that will be having to abide by or enforce these ordinances.

Next, we review every single agenda item that comes to you guys at council and committee. We are one of four departments in the city that review everything and we are looking for legal compliance with the Brown Act and making sure that everything that should be there is there. And we do that in conjunction with the City Manager of Finance and the City Clerk.

And last but not least, we draft lots of legal advice. Lots of opinions. We interpret city code state code and we assist with a lot of public requests complaints demands you name it when we are there like Rob. We also are a general council for a city of 1,800 employees give or take. We serve 33 different client departments and within those departments they're broken down even further into many divisions so we've got quite a bit of work coming through our office and now I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to my colleague Jason.

Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of the council, Assistant City Attorney Jason Zaragoza. So as Elle said I'll be talking about our compliance with our open meetings laws as well as the California Public Records Act. So we provide advice on Brown Act related issues. As you know that is our Open Meetings Law that requires public posting of our agendas as well as the opportunity for the public to participate in these discussions with issues that come before you.

So we not only provide Brown Act advice to the City Council, but also to all of our citizen advisory groups in the city. Right? So everything from our Parks and Rec Commission to our Arts Commission to the committees that you all have as well and our Planning Commission. In addition to your kind of day-to-day Brown Act compliance issues that we address, we also provide training to our various CAGs as well on the Brown Act.

But as we like to say the Brown Act is a floor not a ceiling so it provides minimum state requirements for compliance with state law. The City Council in 2019 adopted the Sunshine Ordinance that requires our agendas to be posted 12 days in advance of a meeting seven days in advance of committee meetings, as well as the meetings of other policy bodies. So your CAGs etc., and then we also have Measure M adopted by the voters in 2020 so we provide compliance with that as well.

In addition to Brown Act related issues, as Elle briefly stated, we also provide conflict of interest advice to our public officials Whether it's compliance with government code section 1090, so you cannot be financially interested on both sides of a contract. Common law conflicts of interest as well as political reform act issues and we seek advice or assist you all with seeking advice from the FPPC, the Fair Political Practices Commission when necessary.

In addition to that, we provide compliance advice with the California Public Records Act which is the California's equivalent to FOIA, the federal law on the disclosure of records. We are required as a public agency to make public records available to members of the public upon request either for inspection or providing the records and the statute lays out you know there is a timing aspect temporal aspect to that as well In 2025, we assisted with processing 1,210 California Public Records Act requests. That does not mean that there were just 110...1,210 items. Many of these requests contain multiple subparts right? So one request might really seek 10 different record series 12 different record series or whatever We switched to the Next Request California Public Records Act portal last year that allows members of the public to log on to a website, submit a California Public Records Act request and then our public records advocate seeks those records from various departments.

They come back to us eventually for review for potential exemptions because the California Public Records Act contains many exemptions as you can imagine confidential information or communications between our attorney's office and our clients Medical information, utility billing information. There's a number of exemptions under the Act so it's necessary for us to review many of those requests and we don't have that much data for this year but I can tell you from January of last year we had received 63 California Public Records Act requests in January of this year alone we received 121 Public Records Act requests and we assist with compliance and review of each of those items. And with that I'll kick it back over to Al.

And I'd like to talk to you about the other category that we handle, and that's litigation. And so we do have a limited in-house litigation capacity. We are currently in the process of building that up with our two new deputy hires. So we do have a lot more staff and attorney level staff that is experienced in litigation. So we're very excited about that. And so right now we have processed, this is looking back for 2025. We've processed 123 subpoenas. We have approximately 21 active litigation matters that are being handled by the city attorney's office or in conjunction with special and outside counsel and those run the gamut from writs contract disputes eminent domain sorry, groundwater and water rights just to name a few of those categories.

In 2025 the office handled 11 employment related matters arbitrations per board matters and then we are currently overseeing outside counsel on 38 separate public liability cases and that's about it for litigation

Good evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of Council. Deputy City Attorney Andrew Gonzalez in addition to the information that Al provided the city attorney's office helps city departments prepare for administrative hearings and also represents city departments in administrative hearings. The city attorney's office has been involved with 33 administrative citation hearings in fiscal year 2024-2025 As an example of a Just Cause Eviction Ordinance administrative hearing, in July 2025 the City red-tagged the property due to an electrical fire.

Hoarding conditions and multiple people not providing a termination notice. As a result of that, valid just cause reason was required here specifically a 60-day notice and relocation assistance should have been provided because of this the city issued citations for violations of the Just Cause Eviction Ordinance. The property owner as a result Appealed the citation and the case proceeded to an administrative hearing. The hearing officer upheld all of the violations, determined the displaced individual qualified for no fault termination, and ruled that the tenants are entitled to $5,000 relocation assistance.

The relocation payment was paid to tenants and the case was closed. This just shows an example of the importance of administrative hearings in our office assisting here, the housing department for this specific situation. Gun violence restraining orders are also known as GBROs. The city attorney's office works with the Oxnard Police Department to obtain gun violence restraining orders when appropriate to help protect residents of Oxnard. GBRO is a complicated process that a limited number of individuals, including law enforcement officers can file which requires clear and convincing evidence to obtain. A GBRO is a court order designated temporary restraining order that prevents someone who is considered a danger to themselves or to others from having firearms or ammunitions.

A GVRO can last from one year to five years. There also is the option of renewing a gun violence restraining order if the individual shows that they're a danger to themselves or others within the time period of the order. In partnership with the Oxnard Police Department, the City Attorney's Office has filed 23 gun violence restraining orders in fiscal year 2024-2025.

An example of a gun violence restraining order is shown by on October 20th 2025 I appeared for the Oxnard Police Department at a gun violence restraining order hearing against respondent who called 911 claiming that there was someone inside of his residence armed with a firearm Causing respondent to arm himself with a loaded firearm. Three of respondents roommates were at the residence at the time of this incident, a total of nine officers including two sergeants initially responded and found no such person inside the resident armed with a firearm.

Officers observed respondent to show signs and symptoms of being under the influence of a controlled substance, and later located a small plastic container with a white powder-like substance residue suspected to be cocaine at the residence inside of a gun safe that respondent agreed to let the officers inspect. The judge then granted my five year gun violence restraining order That expires on October 20th, 2030 given that the respondent displayed paranoia erratic behaviors and objective signs of being under the influence of a controlled substance when he claimed that there was someone inside of his residence armed with a firearm causing him to arm himself with a loaded firearm posing a danger to both himself and all of his roommates at the residence.

Additionally, the Oxnard Police Department issued citations for violations of Oxnard City Code Section 7-320 and 7-320A. Oxnard City Council approved these October 1st 2019. The city attorney's office has bi-monthly meetings with the Oxnard Police Department and various Oxnards service providers such as One Stop with the goal that the chronic offenders receive services before even thinking of filing a misdemeanor complaint In partnership with the Oxnard Police Department, the City Attorney's Office files misdemeanor complaints for chronic offenders of these sections. The goal here of filing these complaints is not punitive. It is so the defendant receives services.

One option to provide services through filing a misdemeanor complaint is judicial diversion. If a judge orders judicial diversion, the defendant will be given a period of time typically about six months to continuously attend services that are agreed upon at the hearing such as housing services, at which time if they successfully follow the judicial diversion terms, the case will be dismissed at that point. In fiscal year 2024 to 2025, the City Attorney's Office has filed six new quality of life cases, resolved four successful judicial diversion cases and has 14 pending quality of life cases that were previously filed. Sometimes these individuals don't show up at court so it goes out to warrant In addition to that, there is code enforcement warrants during fiscal year 2024-2025.

The City Attorney's Office has filed four inspection warrants and one abatement warrant. Additionally, one new inspection warrant was filed at the very end of December.

That concludes our presentation and as you can see, the city's attorney's office covers a lot of ground in different areas. Not just what you see with you and I interacting during your meetings or your committee meetings with the other attorneys that staffed those meetings. Lots of other work going on and we'd be happy to entertain any questions.

Thank you Mr. Fisher. Are there any questions or comments? Go ahead Council Member Parnell.

I'd like to thank each and every one of you that made a presentation here. As a council member, and I'm sure the rest of my council members get the same information, there are certain individuals, some elected in this community, that continually complain about the public records not getting what they want. And I appreciate the individual that does that work. Why was a decision made to bring someone on board to specifically handle public records requests?

Well, it was largely volume driven and maybe Jason you can chime in as well. But the amount of the records requests have they've grown over the past few years and frankly lately becoming more and more complex with the advent of artificial intelligence helping people in making those requests and sometimes making them as complicated as they can get.

Okay

thank you.

This and I do appreciate the difference in discrepancy January 25 January 26 double numbers With respect to the other issue that came up about gun violence Is there an opportunity you could put restraining orders is there an opportunity when somebody has the mental? There's something wrong To confine them The

gun violence restraining order specifically prohibits the individual from having either a firearm and a firearm and or ammunition. In the scenario that you provided, if there was a scenario where an individual was saying that they were going to harm themselves we could move forward with a restraining order so that they could not move forward with that. They would be prevented from having firearms from one year to five years.

So that's the purpose of the GVRO I think what you're referring to is something that the DA's office would address with Incarceration or a commitment of somebody for some mental health services. That's not what our office addresses.

With respect to the gun restraining order, do we have the ability as Oxnard to go into an address and see if there is guns there like probation department?

After we received the restraining order or the facts leading up to the restraining order. So I understand

that there is a restraining order against person from having a gun

so we have

the ability go into the home find out if there is a gun?

So no, unless details come out where the police department is informed that they have a firearm what happens once you get the gun violence restraining order it goes into a clit system which is nationwide to alert any officer This individual should not have firearms in addition to that if we know that they have a registered firearm They need to provide that information To the court at the time of the hearing

Thank you, and my last question is page 40 of the thing and again appreciate your responses. I am aware of a residential In Cabrillo neighborhood that has an issue with hoarding problem, but the individual has gotten senior services protection from the county. How does it work when we have a problem site address and all of a sudden they have protection from the county for senior services whose authority rises to the top?

Well so for at least the purposes of going in with an inspection are you going towards the warrant portion forcing

them

to clean up Well, so we could not force them to clean up with an inspection warrant first We need to go forward with an inspection warrant Receive details based off that inspection warrant if they are in violation from any section of our code And if that ends up being the case we can go forward separately with an abatement warrant I think that's that's what you're getting. That's what I believe yeah, so that is an option

okay? Thank you very much again. Thank you all from the attorney's office. I appreciate the work the City Attorney's Office is doing thank you

Just a quick question, Mr. Gonzalez and I think Councilor Perrello alluded to it as well. If somebody is worried regarding gun violence restraining orders if somebody is concerned about an individual's current mental state or mental health or their just general demeanor or even a person who's concerned about themselves how do they initiate that process? Who do they contact? Is it Oxnard PD or how does someone Start that process if they're concerned about someone who has access to firearms.

From the city's perspective, we would have to go through the Oxnard Police Department because there is a small list of individuals that can move forward with a gun violence restraining order. One of them is a law enforcement officer but if you're asking separate from the city, there is a laundry list of other individuals that can move forward but the city's doing it and it has to go through the police department first.

Okay, thank you. And so just wanted that for the public if someone is concerned about somebody's current state and they know that person has access to firearms, you know? It sounds like we should contact the police department to express that concern and they can evaluate that potential process. Is that right? Yes, that's correct. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. Any other questions or comments? Okay. Thank you everyone from City Attorney's Office. Thank you very much for this wonderful presentation Alex, I'll turn it over to you next.

Thank You Mr. Mayor so we did get a bit of a late start the city manager's department presentation takes an hour But if I sit here, I'll get through in 15 minutes. How is that? Diego can you bring up the slides please So as a reminder, we've been conducting these series of departmental workshops and we still have a few more to do To Inform the Council and the public and re-inform of the essence of what our departments do. So these are not meant to be detailed whatsoever, they're much too brief for that.

Like the majority of cities in California we operate as a general law city under the council manager form of government. Almost all cities in California operate under these rules So our part of the org chart you can see here, we have one city manager, two assistant city managers and a deputy city manager. And we oversee almost all of the city's departments. We have a city treasurer and a city clerk that while the individuals are elected, the city manager is responsible for the staff as part of the administration.

So I'm going to pause here and just give everyone a sense of all the work that happens. And as you've been listening to these various workshops in all the departments, so look at the departments we have here. Housing, Community Development, Police, Human Resources, Finance and IT Public works, fire, cultural and community services. What does that say? Communications.

And disaster preparedness. I need more new glasses. So just the amount of work every day on a daily basis in this city probably 10,000 actions whether it's a paper transaction an electronic one In-person interaction with a member of the public, business meetings what have you. So many things happen on a daily basis to keep this city, this town running every day 24 7 and if you think about it in other segments of the community a lot of these departments are their entire Their entire lines of business is on their own.

Whether it's a law firm, an engineering firm, a planning firm, an HR firm, a tech firm, and IT firm and what have you. So the amount in the diversity of the work that we perform for this city is pretty extraordinary. And that all needs to be coordinated And they all have to collaborate. They all, for the most part, have to share the same resources in order to get what they need to get done accomplished for this community.

And with regard to our staff, the amount of training and experience and education and knowledge and wisdom they have is enormous when you add it all together. So just I want you all to appreciate how much that happens. But on a day-to-day basis, many of you and many of us just focus on the issues of that day. But remember in the background, all this happens all the time. It's pretty an amazing body of work that is collected into one organization.

So what do we do? We oversee day-by-day We do our best to implement the City Council's policies. And this is, again, all these workshops are designed to lead up to later this spring when we will be asking you to update the City Council's priorities for the community. Of course, we manage the budget. There is community business outreach. It's a series of things that we do working with our various partners both in the private sector and other institutions in the public sector.

A couple of things I want to highlight here in terms of our responsibility over all the departments is leadership. That is, for any organization, leadership is the most important thing. More so than technical expertise, more so than education, more so than training, more so than everything. The rise and fall of any organization of any size comes down to leadership.

And then my favorite area, landmine detection. And this is natural in an organization of this age. You're always going to find out, uncover problems from the past, some recent and some decades ago. And when you do, you simply have to address it head on. We also do the communications and marketing A series of community events, legislative services, neighborhood services and a whole lot of project management. There's a whole list here as we stated in the video.

Please look at this if you're interested and you can look at the PowerPoint one slide at time or in the video you can actually press pause. There's just a lot happening across the city. Many of these things our office needs to coordinate And some of it is interesting and a lot of fun. Some of it is quite boring but necessary, but we have to do it all. This is interesting. I think most local governments have the same thing, but that's the progression of our website. So you can see most recently it's up-to-date and modern like most cities, but as you can see not long ago it looks like the original Craigslist Crowded, cluttered, difficult to navigate but making progress.

There is actually new state law that has more demands on how our websites need to interact for the public so we're gonna get on top of those new requirements for this year. Increasing our attraction on social media as much as we all love social media It's a tool, so we try our best to use it as pragmatically as we can. Lots of highlights about what our office has been able to accomplish over the years again just view this hit pause many more Some highlights of some of the large grants that we have received over the years to add to our local resources, to provide programs and services for the community.

Again, just so many to go into. Very proud of a lot of this work. I hope people will take the time to look at this to get a bigger picture of everything that we do as a city here And then, of course, we have a lot of challenges recently and ahead of us. In the video I actually tried playing that thinking music from Jeopardy!, but it didn't record. Somehow the YouTube gods knew not to play that music. So again this is online please take your time and go through this, there's a lot. There's a lot. And these are just the highlights.

And that is to say there's always much, much more. And that's it. That was a fast one-hour presentation. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Wynne. Any questions or comments? Madam Clerk, do we have any public speakers on any of the appointment items?

Mayor and Council Members, we do not have any public speakers for the appointment item in person or virtually. Thank you.

Thank You Madam Clerk Good evening everyone it's at this time that I want to call The meeting to order for the Oxnard City Council for Tuesday February 3rd 2026 Madam Clerk may we have the roll call and posting of the agenda please?

Council Member Peralta The