City Council — May 5, 2026

Hi, good evening. I just want to call the meeting to order for the Oxnard Council for Tuesday May 5th 2026. I would like to make it clear for the record of this meeting, and it should be reflected in the minutes that at least a portion of this City Council meeting is conducted pursuant to California Government Code Section 54953 parentheses B. In that Mayor Pro Tem Teran is participating remotely from the Holiday Inn Express in Visalia-Sequoia Gateway by IHG in accordance with the Brown Act.

The teleconference location has been identified on the agenda for this meeting. Madam Clerk, it would be appropriate at this time for you to conduct a roll call and posting of the agenda after which we will confirm certain matters for the record. Thank you.

Councilwoman Basuah? Here. Councilmember Peralo? Here. Councilwoman Perez? Here Councilwoman Rodriguez? Present. Councilman Starr?

Here

Mayor Pro Tempteran? Mayor McArthur?

Here.

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 April 23rd. I would like to request that Mayor Pro Tem respond to the following questions. Mayor Pro Tem can you hear me well? Yes. Were you able to hear our proceedings Do you have a copy of the agenda for this meeting?

Yes.

Have you posted the agenda at the location where you are located?

Yes

Is your location reasonably accessible to the public such that any member of the public could participate in this teleconference from your location if he or she wished to do so?

Yes

is there any member of the public there with you?

No

Who would like, okay. Thank you. And then I would like to advise the mayor and the council members that any votes taken must be taken by roll call. Thank you.

The next item on the agenda is an appointment item scheduled for 530. I apologize, we ate a little bit into your time for six minutes so we'll add that at the end. This is from the Culture and Community Services Department. This subject entails Senior Services Commission annual report. The recommendation's that the City Council one receive the Senior Services Commission annual report and two present a proclamation designating the month of May 2025 as Older Americans Month And for that, I'd like to call up Senior Services Commission Chair Ms. Alice Sweetland who is already up who will make the presentation. Thank you, Ms. Sweetland.

Thank you. Make sure I can hear me

okay?

Mayor McArthur and City Council members it's a pleasure to be here again to tell you what we've been up to with senior services And we have a PowerPoint to present to you. Thank you for the opportunity to present this. Tonight, we'll highlight the program services goals and accomplishments. OK now I'm supposed to run this. Let's see how I do. Oh it's over here!

So we are so happy we now have seven commissioners. We have a full complement You can see each of the districts they're from, and they're sitting here on the front row. So we're just delighted. Should I introduce each one of them? Do you know them? Okay. We have Linda Calderon first and Lupe Reyes and Magdalena Good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us tonight.

Okay, let me get organized here. We meet the second Tuesday of each month at the Jocelyn Lawn Bowls. Two months out of the year we go to other senior centers. We meet at South Oxnard Center one month and then we go to Laconia one month and we like get in there and see what the other centers look like. So according to census data, approximately 23.3% of Oxnard residents are age 55 and older. So almost a quarter of Oxnard is over 55. It's about 46,813 people.

This demographic is a significant and growing portion of our community often termed as the silver tsunami And the aging population continues to grow faster than the total population. These are all the baby boomers that, and that trend reflects the term silver tsunami based on current projections. Oxnard could have between 55 and 60 thousand residents, 55 and older by 2030. This growth highlights the importance of keeping senior services a priority while also expanding services programs and support systems for older adults. So we recently had a survey, and hopefully we came out on top as far as needs for our seniors.

So we have four Senior Centers. We have the Colonial Center The Wilson Senior Center, South Oxnard Senior Center and Palm Vista. Each center has an amazing staff who provide programming, social opportunities and access to services that support healthy aging. And our mantra is to age in place. We hope that we can provide services so that our seniors can age in their own homes, activities that will keep them invested in our community.

The activities that we offer are varied. We have pool, bingo, quilting and if you notice the Star Wars quilt here that's from our ladies at the South Oxnard Center they made that quilt just for today and I'm not sure about the baby blanket and the little cap is that from SOC 2? From Wilson They have a group of knitters and crocheters at the Wilson, so they're always doing something fun.

We have the Lotteria. We have our gardening that's right next to Lawn Bowls behind the senior center or Senior Services Office and we have seniors that grow their Produce there. That's my neighbor, Liz Garner, who is a really successful gardener. And then Pinnacle and just all sorts of games that they play. We hope that you will join us for lunch. Each of the commissioners is inviting their city council person to come to the Wilson Center and enjoy lunch. And you can see all this activity that's going on We have special events, the end of summer carnival and wellness fair which was lots of fun. I went to that well every year I go to it. The Dia de las Muertes which is at the Carnegie.

Well I don't know what's a Carnegie library? What's it called now Carnegie? Art museum. It'll always be the library to me. Mexican Independence Day Our Halloween dance and then the Christmas parade. And Gloria, Massey, Chenae and I got to ride in this vintage car. And it was just lots and lots of fun. So we have holiday party, Valentine's time party, luau party, Thanksgiving, and all our seniors dressed to the nines they just love the activities.

A lot of them don't have family around so this is their family We have excursions. We have a new van purchased for the cultural and community services, so we're able to send three vans on these excursions. The seniors pay their way but we provide the transportation. Memorable trips including the Santa Paula mural walking tour And then we have exercise programs. We have Zumba, yoga for health, wellness and we've started evening programs so some of the seniors that are still working they can come to the senior centers and participate in evening classes.

So a year of growth engagement enriching experiences for our senior community So, our RSVP program you're probably very familiar with is Retired Senior Volunteer Program. All these acronyms get so confusing but it's a national program and people volunteer as an RSVP member and they contribute to the community in many meaningful ways including visiting and assisting homebound seniors, tutoring and mentoring youth Councilman Torillo loves to hear about their contribution because if they were paid by the hour, it would be a great drain on the city's coffers.

Really happy that our RSVP program is so successful. And they have an annual luncheon, and that picture is last year we got Mayor McArthur to come and rub elbows with us. So we had lots of fun. They have 59 new volunteers in 2025, and they contributed over 45,562 hours which is a lot The volunteers lead bone builder programs, a walking group. As I said they support homebound seniors, tutor youth so we have a little intergenerational program going there.

It's just a win-win for the seniors and the community. So our Senior Nutrition Program is probably the highlight of Senior centers, they prepare the food at the Wilson Kitchen and it's the meals are designed by a dietician. So it's the proper amount of protein and vegetables and not too much salt whatever. And so we have congregate meals hot nutritious meals served from 1130 to 12 every day at three senior centers. So they serve at the Wilson, Palm Vista and the Colonial Center. We have to put the meals in a van and take it over to the other centers.

We also do home delivered meals for seniors that are home bound and they can't get out so they bring frozen meals and they can pop it in their microwave or whatever. And for that, adults that are 60 years of age and older, and the total meals for the homebound seniors is 44,144. That's both of them combined isn't it? Yeah, that's the congregate and the home delivered meals so if you know somebody who needs a meal congregate or home-delivered they can call the senior nutrition coordinator and we do that in conjunction with or cooperation with the Ventura County Area Agency on Aging.

So these are our partners, we get help from these different SCAN and Humana and the Palms of Bonaventure, Walgreens, Oxnard Fire Department Oxnard Police, Dignity Health. And they all do things for us for various events and we appreciate our partnership with them. So this is one of the highlights for me is celebrating seniors who turn 100 or older. And we've visited I don't know how many this past year but here's just an example Margaret Tatum, and you may know her daughters Daisy and Jeannie Tatum. And Margaret turned 100, oh it was the grandest celebration just...and then Maria, let's see Maria Consuelo blah blah blah she has about four different names. And she was turning 103 and we went to her house All her family was there, her four sons.

And then V.J. Nickelberry and he lives at Glenwood and we went to see V. J. Nickelberry and

Uncle-

Pronounce that again? Anyway that was at Mercy House. Mercy Housing on 5th Street. And he didn't say a lot, but he was very, very happy. And then the last picture is Sally Varela. And when I went to her house, I said, is your mother home? She's the most youthful 100-year-old lady I've ever seen. So anyway, we have a lot of fun. As many commissioners as possible come. Councilman Turan has come, mayor McArthur has come to some of the celebrations. So we really celebrate our 100 year old seniors, recognizing them reminds us of the lasting contributions older adults make to Oxnard and most of them have grown up in Oxnard they've worked here Sally Varela used to work at Santa Cruz market and then she went to Mayfair market They're just wonderful people.

So, we have goals every year and we were in the technology education goal phase two this year. We've done research and created a list of independent living facilities in Oxnard for seniors and I'm turning that over to Our city manager and Brenda Lopez, so they can see what we offer. We have monthly senior health presentations and we try to improve the signage and accessibility of our senior centers and that's an ongoing goal because our parking lots are pretty rough for our handicapped seniors it makes it hard to get in and out We're working with Public Works to correct that.

And we also have to keep in mind our long-range goal of building a new senior center, and we visited that. We've talked about it, and then we took it off the agenda, but we're putting it back on. We're going to build this beautiful senior center. We have the spot on 5th Street. We have the architectural renderings, and hopefully with your support We will get the Senior Center built in my lifetime, I hope.

So this is our tech education it's called Cyber Seniors. And our instructor is Tristan, who is amazing and the most patient person in the world. And so he gets a group of seniors and they come with their iPads and their iPhones and their laptops and they all have questions and he can answer all of them. He's just amazing. So he's at the Wilson Center and the South Oxnard Center.

Yeah even TV remotes He knows it all. But the unfortunate thing, he only speaks English and Mandarin. He does not speak Spanish but he manages to communicate well. And these are the when I told you we did a survey these are the senior housings independent living senior houses in Oxnard and some of them aren't just for seniors but the veteran housing Dolores Huerta Gardens just opened, and Casa de Carmen just opened last week. And that's not just seniors but there are a lot of seniors that live there and a lot of seniors that live in Casa Aliente.

So okay our monthly health presentations we have a new group that comes love on a leash and they bring their dogs in and so Everybody loves dogs. They say when you pet a dog, your blood pressure just kind of drops. So caregivers in Oxnard receive guidance and senior services for key topics including stroke prevention, grief counseling, Alzheimer's awareness, mental health and diabetes education. St. John's does a wonderful job of sending nurses over to help with medical guidance and I told you we worked. So, we started with the Wilson Center and we have signs now so everybody knows because they drive down C Street and they didn't know that our senior center was there so now they can see the Senior Center at Wilson and will do similar to SOC or South Oxnard Center We are on social media.

We're on Facebook, we're on Instagram so check us out and we're on the Oxnard Recreation website. So if you want more information there is our phone number 385-8019. Our hours of operation for our senior services office is 8 a.m to 5 p.m and we have an email seniors at oxnard.org presentation. Do you have any questions?

I just wanted to quickly take the moment to thank all of the senior service commissioners for all the work that you do. I know I had a couple of folks come to my community meeting at Southwinds, so it was really great to kind of hear some feedback and get some input from community members there and just wanted to extend the invitation that I'd love to come by for a luncheon or if there's any kind of events that are happening, feel free to send them my way. And looking forward to continuing to see the work that you all are doing.

Everything we do is fun so plan on having fun when you come have lunch.

I recommend the Zumba class.

I don't know. That's hard work.

Go ahead, Councilwoman.

Yes. I just have a quick question. I know in one of your slides you shared that 368 local seniors making a difference. When you say there's 59 new volunteers doing 45,000 plus hours, how many is that total? So 59 new ones in 2025 because that's quite a lot. We have 368.

Sorry. 368 seniors who participate in RSVP.

Correct, so they participate and you have 59 new volunteers correct? Doing 45,000 plus hours which is amazing I'm just wondering what the total volunteer workforce is.

Good evening Mayor Pro Tem and council members to answer your question The RSVP program currently has a total of 368 registered volunteers. Of that, the new number is 59 that we've acquired in the last fiscal year, the last calendar year.

Well I just want to thank everybody for giving their time. I think it really matters you know today is actually my uncle's 90th birthday and yeah so um my dad is somewhere in the middle and he's 84 but I appreciate the work that it takes, the patience and the diligence. So I just think keep on moving and it all matters. Thank you all so much for the good work and thank you for the ladies stepping up to the commission to participate. And I also really appreciate how hard you're trying with the names. I know that somebody's name and their identity is very important. So thank you for your attempt and keep working on those names.

Thank you. And was remiss not to mention that the staff they do it all. do what we can, but we have a fabulous staff. We have Renee Raigstraw and Pam Morrison. And Terrell, you know Terrell? He's our

boss. I

thank all the volunteers, everybody that is involved. I've been to some of your events, it's been awhile, but I know when you have the luncheon for the volunteers it's tremendous. But I want to assure you, Ms. Wheatland, the Senior Center will get built in your life and my lifetime.

My lifetime?

No. I'm pretty old. There has been no act by this council to take anything away from Senior Center. It's still on board. The deadline and the date, I don't have yet but...

Okay well we're moving forward.

Is the Orcas group still up?

No, we had it disbanded because it was costing Thank you.

Yes, thank you very much. And thank you Miss Sweetland for the presentation as always very well represented by you and I think that's why they keep you on his chair because you just do such a big job and I have to wear a brag tag for that because you are district two resident and My continued appointee and I have to thank the late Supervisor Carmen Ramirez, former Mayor Pro Tem Carmen Ramirez for appointing you as well. You've done some amazing work so please do not sell yourself short on that. I also want to echo what my colleagues have said in thanking the commission for dedicating their time to really spearheading a lot of these efforts and highlighting the many efforts that are happening by so many volunteers and our staff who are working with them For any of my colleagues on the dais, if you have not yet had a chance to go to any of the senior centers or any of their events or activities I highly recommend it.

There's just so much great stuff that's going on. I know that we've mentioned a number of times in this council but Even just the socialization, the physical activity and also the emotional benefits, social-emotional benefits that our seniors get from participating in these things are immeasurable. And the way that they really are measured is in quality of life and the number of years that they spend with that quality of life. So I wanna just thank you all again for all of the work you do And I just did some quick math on it from what i see on the 45,562 volunteer hours. It looks like that's about the equivalent of almost 22 full-time positions and even if we paid those volunteers current minimum wage in the state of California that's almost $800,000 worth of volunteer work that's happening and I just want to thank you all because The work you do truly is exemplified by the good quality work that comes out of it and the services that our seniors receive.

So thank you to all the volunteers and thank you to our staff who coordinate it so I look forward to joining you all for lunch later this month.

Got it on my calendar yeah. The volunteer hour The independent sector estimates the value of a volunteer hour is $34.79 per hour, more than minimum wage. So based on that number of hours it would be about one and a half million dollars that is contributed as far as labor and time so pretty good.

Thank you, Ms. Sweetland and Maggie thank you for being part of this group now and all the volunteers I echo what the Mayor Pro Tem has said and I hope you don't mind Ms. Sweetland too I was at an event where I heard that many of you may not know but the Lion Inn Hospital I was born in

Long Beach

hospital and

now it's a historical monument.

It was a great celebration. They just celebrated 25th

I'm sorry the rest of you couldn't make it, but it's right there on 5th and H Street. It's a wonderful community for seniors and low-income families. I

love the historical aspect of it where they were able to preserve his office in some other areas there on this site. We have a proclamation for you, Ellis, and your team And I'll just read it, whereas the President of the United States and the Governor of California have officially proclaimed May as Older Americans Month in recognition of the many contributions made by our residents 55 years of age and older.

And whereas the Oxnard City Council wishes to celebrate those older adults who provide immeasurable contributions to our community. And whereas the Oxnard City Council encourages the city's Utilize and enjoy the services and programs offered by the city's senior services programs. And whereas these services and programs assist in allowing many older adults to remain independent in their own homes and communities while maintaining their dignity and self-determination, and whereas this year's theme, Champion Your Health highlights prevention, wellness, and personal responsibility as cornerstones of healthy aging, and whereas the City Council Oxnard commends the Senior Services Commission for its advocacy and its involvement with the seniors of our community in providing and enhancing the seniors services and programs.

And whereas older adults of Oxnard are recognized and acknowledged for their experience, their knowledge expertise and numerous contributions which enhance and enrich the quality of life offered to all residents of the city of Oxnard. We hereby proclaim May 2026 is Older Americans Month.

How are you? Good to see you.

And you're also a newly appointed, right? Yes.

Magdalena

Tapia. Magdalena, mucho gusto.

Mucho gusto. Nice to meet you. Hi. Gabby,

nice to meet you.

You all in the middle please. Thank you. I feel small. You feel

small? Happy Cinco de Mayo. Okay. Do we wait back? This one? Or this one, or this? Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, you're going to have lunch with us? Yes!

Thank you so much. Oh, socorros!

Yeah, yeah.

Really? I don't see it. I think my family...

Gloria, thank

you so much for

all your efforts. I know we're in a long list of

people who are doing this. I want to recognize a lot of challenging students right now. Yeah, they're at the Capitoline and Montclair. It's good exercise.

Mayor.

Thank you so much. You know, just a lot of celebrities back then would make the drive from L.A. to come to Dr. Schwartz Hospital.

But what they did, they knocked on others' doors and decided maybe

that wasn't such a good idea.

Maybe that wasn't such a good idea? Yeah! I could do that! They used to, back in the day, they used to give them... Yeah, yeah! It was incredible.

Mayor and council members, just for the record there were no public comments for this item. Okay?

Thank you.

We're on page three.

Yeah.

Okay.

So I just want to call the meeting to order for the Oxnard City Council in this special meeting for the Oxnard Housing Authority for Tuesday, May 5th, 2026. I also would like to make it clear for the record of this meeting and it also should be reflected in the minutes that at least a portion of this city council meeting is conducted pursuant to California Government Code Section 54953B and that Mayor Pro Tem Gabe Teran is participating remotely from the Holiday Inn Express in Visalia.

In accordance with the Brown Act, the teleconference location has been identified on the agenda for this meeting. Madam Clerk it would be now appropriate for you to conduct a roll call and posting of the agenda after which we will confirm certain matters for the record.

The agenda for this meeting was posted at the kiosk at City Hall, the Oxnard Public Library, the city administrative offices and on the city's website on Thursday April 23rd. I would like to request that Mayor Pro Tem respond to the following questions. Mayor Pro Tem can you hear me well?

Yes.

Were you able to hear our proceedings on this end up until now?

Yes

And do you have a copy of Have you posted the agenda at the location where you are located?

Yes.

Is your location reasonably accessible to the public such that any member of the public could participate in this teleconference from your location if he or she wished to do so? Yes, is there any member of the public there with you who would like to participate in the public comment portion of this meeting?

Not at this time no

I would like to advise the mayor and the council members that any votes must be taken by roll call. Thank you.

Thank you everyone.

Good evening, Mayor and members of the City Council and neighbors. My name is Alejandro Sandoval and I want to take Councilwoman Rodriguez and Oxnard College Trio Program for this incredible honor and opportunity to be here. Growing up in Oxnard, I learned early that our community is built on grit. My journey hasn't always been a straight line like many families here we've faced our shares of obstacles financial hurdles balancing work and school, or navigating the educational system.

But those challenges don't stop us. They become the fuel and they teach resilience that isn't just about surviving but looking towards the future not the past. Currently as an Oxnard College student I'm working towards my future in a medical field. I spent countless years in high school looking at careers in medicine becoming part of clubs and joining multiple sports, diving deeper into the sciences preparing for next steps in my academic career.

Whether that's in the future attending a Stanford lab at the School of Medicine this summer I carry the values of our city with me and the commitment to serve the relentless work ethic looking ahead towards my goal to transfer to university where I can continue my path towards becoming a cardiologist I want to take the skills that I've learned and eventually bring it, my expertise back to a community like ours.

Especially after I got to meet most of our amazing community through volunteering at countless hospitals and non-profit clinics or being part of a great program such as Trio Upper Bound where I met the trio team who mentored me into applying for colleges and for the academic rigor of college. In addition to always being a supportive and welcoming to any student.

Oxnard is not just where we are from, it's the foundation that makes us capable of going anywhere. Thank you for believing in my story and for everything you do to support students of this great city.

Just

a few words. So Alejandro is like first in his family to pursue higher education, he mentions the TRIO programs and that's for students who maybe don't have that solid pathway and my very first interaction with Alejandro I was at the transfer center working for the college and he was still a high school student trying to figure out how do I get to that end goal? And I just I really appreciate how he's always taking initiative and very perseverant and when not life doesn't turn out as we want it to just pivot and shift gears. So I know he's going to make it far, and I appreciate how much pride he has in being an Oxnard student. And wherever he goes, he'll make us proud.

Wonderful. Alejandro, do you have any of your family members here or a teacher? Anybody?

Currently not the only person that I brought with me is my girlfriend Hannah. Is she supporting?

I'm going to tell his mom, by the way.

That's wonderful. It's always inspiring as you can see there's a lot of young people here today we're celebrating Challenge High School various programs at Challenge High School as well as Pacifica but I tell you many of us here on this council really are staunch supporters of youth. are definitely the future of our country and our community. You must be doing exceptional work if the councilwoman elected you to come here and be recognized, so great job, Alejandro.

We have a certificate for you if you and your girlfriend would want to come up and receive it, okay? And we'll take some photos for you.

Thank you.

He just shared with me that he just got selected to do an internship at Stanford, to do research at Stanford which is amazing. You should have said that! He'll make us very proud.

And I told his girlfriend that she selected well, right? He's going places. This next item, we're going to command the Pacifica Girls wrestling team of the girls here. Yeah, you hear? Maybe they're outside. We're going to start with the Pacifica Girls Wrestling Team which coach Jorge Bautista. First one's a wrestling team. We're going to do the wrestling team first, yeah.

And then right after the wrestling team we're going to be doing the Chattanooga High School mock trial team and for that we've got the Channels high school cheerleaders that are gonna cheer on all the various recipients. Right Ms. Ramos? We're gonna... Yes! Right yes. And as the wrestling team is making their way up Let me tell you about the girls wrestling team from Pacifica High School.

This year, 2026, the Pacifica Girls Wrestling Team won the CIF Southern Section 4 Division 3 Dual Meet Championship with a victory over Elsinore High School 47-36 This happened on February 5th, 2026. The Tritons showcased incredible determination and skill winning eight out of 14 matches with meaningful contributions from Saima Bazil and Anali Martinez helping them secure their second straight section title We also want to acknowledge Melody Hernandez, Samia Bazile and Cherie Anzures for their exceptional accomplishment as Channel League champions.

Additionally we extend our congratulations to CIF placers Cherie and Samia as well as CIF Eastern Division champion Ashley Magdaleno who achieved fourth place Cherie earned third place as the SSCIF Masters Tournament and Samia Bazile was a finalist. Both Cherie and Samia participated in the California State Meet with Samia finishing in fifth place, remarkable!

We are incredibly proud of the dedication, perseverance, and efforts of all these students. Their outstanding performances are testament to their hard work and the unwavering support of their coaching staff Led by head coach Joe Rodriguez and assisted by Kehlani, Wagstaff, Alex Lara, Javier Bautista and Cesar Gonzalez. So let's not mess around with them right all these wrestlers.

It really is you can see look at our council it is full of young students, young student athletes their parents we also going to acknowledge the challenge mock trial team their decathlon team We're just so proud of our students and where they're going. You know, Oxford is the 18th largest city in California and we have just remarkable students supported by parents who give tremendous sacrifices in the profound impacts that our educators and our academic leaders have on these young students. So really when Javier reached out to me and informed me about their win this year without hesitation, we certainly want recognize them, and I know that your principal from Pacifica High School is up here.

And I mean Pacifica is just you guys were dominating right in sports Chris? Just another one yeah my goodness that's just remarkable so without further ado let's give it a big round of applause for the Pacifica high school wrestling team And I'm going to turn it over to your principal if you want to say a few words and pass it to your coaching staff, if they want to say anything.

Thank you Mayor McArthur yes it does make us very proud as you look in this room you see a lot of students from our great city here of Oxnard. As another person I live reside here in Oxnard it makes me proud to call these young Students up here, they're a principal. I am very proud of our coaching staff but as I see, I also was an assistant principal at Channel Islands at one point so it's good to see Raiders up here as well and it's just amazing to see our students in the City of Oxnard making their city proud, making their schools proud, making their community proud I'm very proud of Pacifica High School. Yes, we've been accomplishing a lot over the last several years but to us it's not just about winning titles and championships in athletics, it's about giving back to the community.

It's about teaching our students here resilience but most of all Making an impact in the community because it's not just athletics, it's about academics and it's more about citizenship. Building relationships and this is just a testament of what our coaches do for our students and the importance of lifelong relationships like you and I have Mayor McArthur. And again, it feels really good to see the accomplishments of our amazing student-athletes up here and as we say at Pacifica, it's good to be a Triton.

Pass it right here to Bautista, he's one of our oldest coaches up here in the wrestling program.

I'll hand it over to Coach Joe Rodriguez right now. He's the girls' head coach, but the coaching staff works as a team. We work with the parents. They're a crucial part of our success for this year and last year. Last year, the boys won the TIF championship. This year was the girls' turn. We have the majority of the team coming back next year so we hope to be back here next year to be recognized again. It's...we set that standard high at Pacifica High School for all our athletics, for everything we do at Pacifica, so hopefully we'll be invited back next year and I'm going to pass it over to Head Coach Joe Rodriguez.

All right, guys. Thank you guys very much for your support. I'd like to say that compared to last year's this team we didn't even wrestle any championships last year. For this year, I had a bunch of new kids, new girls. It was freshmen and sophomore heavy, a few juniors and a couple seniors. So this is a very young team looking forward to what we're going to do next year. I think it's going to be bigger and better. And I expect to kind of keep winning this year in and year out as long as they stick to the program and high school. Scholarships are everywhere for these girls so if you have a young girl, little sister somewhere that's ready to come out wrestling is a great opportunity not only for just academics and sports but for scholarship opportunities out there so again this is not the end this is just the beginning of us winning championships here and I look forward to the next few years thank you

So we're going to call the young ladies by name and then I think the mayor wants to hand you a certificate. Emily Gallegos. We have a certificate for assistant coach Javier Bautista, assistant coach Alex Lara Malaya Saipali. I'm not sure, Saipali? I'm sorry for the last name. Ayanna Silva. Isabella Trejo Dominguez. Kiara Vences. Gabriela Villega. Jacqueline Almanza.

Gabriela Cervantes. Anai Martinez. Natalie Juarez. Samaya Bazile. Isabella Martinez. Alessandria Venegas. Shari Ansouris. Eileen Ayala. We have a crowd, Aileen. Sarai Dominguez. Enani Gomez. Melody Hernandez. Ashley Magdaleno. Aaliyah Maestas. Citlaly Rojas. So, Assistant Coach Kalani Wagstaff. And Head Coach Joe Rodriguez.

Okay, cut. Count of three, no blinking. One, two, one, two, three, no blinks. One, two three, one, two three.

Right here with me guys.

All

right,

felicidades. Congratulations everybody!

Do you want to say the next one? Oh yeah, can you bring it

in? I'll read it out. So I apologize, but we missed a student. Alana Fregata you do not go unnoticed. Thank you so much for your hard work on the mat and off the mat.

We will be sure to have your certificate ready for you at City Hall, so maybe we can pick it up or get it to one of your coaches. Thank you.

And if you would just bear with me before we get to Challis High School, we're going to call up Lillian. Also Tammy with the Ventura County Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League if they're here. Also Dr. Yu with the Ventura County Chinese American Historical Society And also the Asian Pacific Islander American Association at California State University Channel Islands to accept.

We have proclamations proclaiming May 2026 as Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Asian-American and Pacific Islanders This month is to celebrate and pay tribute to the contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to the American history, society into our culture which is prevalent here in the city of Oxnard. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have distinguished themselves as leading researchers in science, in medicine, in technology, innovative farmers and ranchers Distinguished lawyers, judges and government leaders in the arts, literature and sports as war heroes who defended our country from fascism and peacetime healthcare heroes.

And Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders comprise many ethnicities and languages and their many achievements embody the American experience. Today over 20 million Asian American and Pacific Islanders live in the United States And through their action, make America a more vibrant, prosperous and secure nation. The contributions of the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders continue to enrich our culture here in our beautiful city of Oxnard.

It is my absolute honor as the mayor of this city to proclaim Asian American-Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2026. Thank you. Hello everyone, my

name is Brandon Langford. I'm the director of housing and residential education at California State University Channel Islands and I serve as the staff co-chair for the Asian American Pacific Islander Association. I'll let my faculty co-chair introduce herself