City Council — May 18, 2026

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Welcome to the City Council meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order, the time is now 530. Madam Clerk please take roll.

Council Member Gama?

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Council Member Perez?

Here.

Council Member Lopez?

Here

Mayor Pro Tem Hernandez? Here and Mayor McQueen-Lejeune?

Here We'll now hear public comments related to the closed session. Madam Clerk are there any public comments?

No public comments for closed session

Great Okay, mr. City attorney please read the closed session item into the record

Thank You madam mayor we will be going into closed session this evening pursuant to government code section five four nine five six point nine Regarding the potential initiation of legality litigation Persec pursuant to subsection d1 of the government code We will We will not be disclosing the nature of that case due to open session discussion, potentially prejudicing the agency's position in such litigation. And there is only one matter tonight.

Great thank you. Are there any members with a conflict of interest as it relates to the listed closed session item?

Madam Mayor, I live over 500 feet from the property and less than 1,000 feet from the property so I don't have a material conflict per se or interest in in the property but an abundance of caution I'm going to recuse myself.

Good evening and welcome to the City Council regular meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order, the time is now 630 and we will stand and will be led by Mayor Pro Temp, the flag salute.

Madam Clerk, please take roll. Council Member Goma?

Here.

Council Member Lopez? Here. Council Member Perez? Here. Mayor Pro Tem Hernandez? Here and Mayor McQueen-Lejeune?

Here We will now hear our inspiration from Council Member Lopez

Thank You mayor honorable council members staff community leaders neighbors friends Every evening as the sun dips below the horizon here at Hueneme Beach, we are reminded of the vast ocean that stretches out before us. For centuries, this same ocean has served as a bridge. It is a bridge of courage, a path of destiny and the common thread that connects the history of Ventura County to the vibrant cultures of Asian and Pacific Islanders.

As we gather to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month which Council Member Gama will recite. We are not just looking back at history books, we're looking back at a very fabric of our own community. A story of the American and Asian-American Pacific Islander heritage in Ventura County is one of the profound resilience unmatched work ethic, quiet triumphs decades ago at the hands of early Asian immigrants that helped transform the Oxnard Plain and Ventura County into an agricultural powerhouse, cultivating the very soil we walk on today.

They face monumental hardships, systematic barriers and social isolation yet they chose to dig their roots deep into the county trusting that future generations would blossom. And blossom they did right here in a friendly city. Looking at Hueneme today our unique identity is profound shaped As we step into service, we see the heritage alive in our neighborhoods. Our local, our small businesses are civic leadership.

We see it in the classrooms. We see it in our hospitals. We see it in our educators that inspire the next generation. We sit in the halls of our city governance where diverse voices ensure that everybody has a seat at the table. As a profound home to naval-based Ventura County, our ports have long been a launching pad for our heroes for generations. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have sworn the uniform of the United States Armed Forces with distinction. They have served as sailors, soldiers, civil servants on our bases protecting freedoms abroad while building a better community here at home.

They have proved that patriotism isn't defined by their last name or their place of birth, but the weight of their commitment to our fellow citizens here at Port Hueneme.

Thank you. Thank you for the wonderful inspiration and we'll now move to our city attorney with a closed session report.

Yes there's no reportable action from closed session.

Great thank you. We'll now hear public comments not pertaining to the items on the agenda. Madam Clerk are there any public comments?

Yes, Madam Mayor first up is Lori Hoskins

Good evening City Council. My name is Lori Hoskins and I provided you with some pictures I live at 481 fourth place and I've been here importing me for 25 years now And I've always lived across from an empty lot a year ago They started building on that lot We never complained about them starting before 7 o'clock in the morning. They would work all crazy hours. They have now built five apartments and they have these LED lights that light up The entire street. I can understand that at a grocery store, I could understand that in a mini mall but not across the street from residents.

It is so bright and you will see that in those pictures as you're walking down the street you can see a line of just the light. Even the neighbors around me have commented to me just because I asked them it's only been on for one week and it's crazy I have to like block my windows It is so harsh. And they can tilt them, but they're kind of tilted out towards the street. So I did talk to the owner and he didn't tilt one of them a little bit around.

I just think being directly across from this it is just so bright. I would invite you all to take a drive down there and take a look at it because I don't think it's something that should be in a residential area. And it doesn't match anything on either street around it. Thank you.

Mayor if I may, so I took a quick look and I know it's not on the agenda so we can't necessarily discuss but don't. I believe these were installed by the developer or property owner so we could ask our community development department to take a look and make sure that they've installed everything according to plan. So we'll have them follow up.

Thank you

Michael Jude Murphy

Good evening, Port Hueneme City Council members. Thank you for allowing me to speak once again to you this evening. I spoke to you last on June 17th of 2024 on the pride flag requesting and proposing a ballot initiative for flagpole display in Port Hueneme be brought before the people of Port Hueneme obviously that did not happen Now, I have a bunch of issues with the government speech aspect of our city flagpole that honors the personal preference of a few in a declining population.

I believe flying the pride flag over our city and perhaps in our children's classrooms is not education but indoctrination. Train up a child in a way they should go and when they're old, they will not depart from it I've lived in Port Hueneme for over 45 years. All my kids attended Hueneme schools, elementary through high school. So standing behind the pride flag, as you are, there are new necessary risks and liabilities to consider that will affect the city in the future ahead.

In fact a growing number of youthful transitioners describe precisely the alarming medical complications and physical pain that come with unneeded puberty blockers and surgery on healthy bodies. Young detransitioners have also begun to win costly medical practices, lawsuits against doctors who perform transgender procedures. The Texas Attorney General announced on Friday a significant $10 million settlement with Texas School Children's Hospital in Houston over that hospital's long practice of harming minors with cross-sex hormones and transgender surgeries.

from the Crime Prevention Research Center. Transgender shooters commit disproportionate shares of mass public and active shooting attacks, in 2024 for active shooters at least 12 times their share of the population. Now, the Associated Press states that there's no incredible rise in transgender shooters and Snopes concludes mass shooters are not disproportionately transgender contrary to claims.

But they compound the problem by not only failing to adjust for transgender share of the population but also much broader definition of shootings than that the FBI would use. Robert Dargan, 2026. Jesse Van Rusteler, 2026. Mia Bailey, 2025. Robert Westman, 2025 Audrey Hale, 2023. Three more things right? You can go ahead and finish your sentence thank you so much.

Anderson Lee Aldrich 2022 Alex McKinney 2019 and Scotia Mosley 2018 please Don't put that flag up there. It doesn't represent everybody in our community. I know it's a good thing. Yes, great Thank you for your comment Ask the people of poor me

Joey Jimenez. Thank you

Thank you, thank you for having me. Mayor McQueen-Lejeune, Mayor Pro Tem Hernandez, council members, staff and esteemed audience. I'd like to discuss two topics tonight the first one being Hueneme Sister Cities membership. I want to encourage you no no I don't want to encourage you I want to inspire you to become members of the Hueneme Sister Cities program not only would it benefit us but it'll benefit you as well and that includes law enforcement right It'll benefit both of us in confirming the relationship we have in support of one another.

Second topic on hand is our Hueneme Sister City's counterpart, Puerto Vallarta, is coming to visit us in July. They will be here July 1st through July 8th. They'll actually be in Santa Barbara for seven days but they've managed to carve out one day, July 5th, to come and visit Port Hueneme. So again I want to encourage you, I want to invite you and inspire you to come and join us for the festivities. It starts at 830.

We're having a lunch slash brunch, we're going to have dinner. Come and introduce yourselves or let us introduce you. Share a smile, share laughter, share conversation. Get to know the folks that we call family and friends over the last year-and-a-half. One thing I do ask is, I would like to ask for a confirmed headcount as soon as possible. As the luncheon and the dinner does require confirmation headcount so we can square away those reservations. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

I can't tell you where but lunch will be over at Genmai Sushi and then dinner's TBD.

David Scribner?

Good evening. I have three things on my list to talk about today, the first one is to thank the Port Hueneme Police Department we have had a series of break-ins at the RV lot at Surfside Village they've been actively trying to do what they can to help Monday I was sitting at my computer. I happened to wake up early the alarm went off I looked at our cameras and we got the same guy who robbed us a month ago.

I called Police department they immediately showed up five minutes later grabbed the guy And followed through with getting all the video evidence, and I was just totally impressed by the professionality of these people their response It turned out luckily that this happened during shift change So we just didn't have three people. We had a bunch of guys there and they Got this guy, and he's hopefully gonna be prosecuted so I'm just really impressed by their behavior and their professionality so Thank you Two other issues Were getting an awful lot of big trucks speeding and running red lights at the corner up here again It's an ongoing problem. It seems like it gets put down and starts up again, but there are these guys running red lights They're going through this intersection at 40 45 Somebody's gonna get killed again you know the incident where they these trucks hurt somebody over in Oxnard actually killed him we had the 2019 incident were Truck driver was a drunk running in red light Didn't even have a valid license and he's still running big rigs full of bananas in our city.

So I Don't know what to do about that other than to encourage the I would like to say the port would help they haven't been very helpful with it They're just gonna wash their hands and say that's not a problem so it comes down to I think asking for more Traffic enforcement The last part is at the corner of Ventura Road and Surfside Drive, when you make a right-hand turn there's a yield little thing there that's getting increasingly dangerous.

We need to stop sign there. Cars come and they rush through there really quickly Most people don't by the way, these are most of the truck drivers are fine. Most of the drivers are fine But there are people who speed through there and it's right where everybody walks across the street out at the crosswalk So you can't see these people coming Somebody is going to get hurt so we'd really like to encourage You to think about putting a stop sign there just slow things down a little bit That's it. Thank you.

Thank you

That concludes public

comment Great, thank you. We'll now move to the agenda. May I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda? Move to approve. Second. Great. Madam Clerk please take roll.

All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Hearing none motion passes unanimously.

Great is there any conflict of interest for any of the items on the agenda tonight? No? We're going to move to our presentations. First, we have a presentation of awards for the officer of the year and support services of the year if we can have the chief come up to the podium if he's here and so we'll turn it over to you for now.

Good evening everyone. We have two presentations, yes the Support Services Employee of the Year and the Department's Officer of the Year as you know we also do a Supervisor of the Year and Dispatcher separately I'm excited to say that in our Support Services Employee of the Year Two employees got the most votes and they got the same number. So we get to celebrate two this year.

What's even more exciting about that is the two employees in the support services world that got the votes are your two parking enforcement officers. Welcome back to the police department. Clarissa Vasquez and Rachel Perez, and I'm going to talk about Rachel first. And if you recall, they were under community development. We brought them back over a year and a half ago or so and they've done very well adapting back into the police department and embracing the team concept we have at the PD.

So for Rachel she came to work for the city in 1998 And I love it how Rachel says, I came here in 98 and she says, I've proudly served the community for over 27 years. She'll get into her explanation on it but she's very proud of what she does and it is a difficult job to do parking. And when I say our parking personnel are being recognized you all know that that is a difficult job and it is busy job and there's more they do behind the scenes Rachel has great focus on assisting the public.

We got to change up how they did things when they came over and she was one that embraced the communication part, education part in getting to do some police work in between parking enforcement She enjoys helping citizens, and that's the quiet stuff you may not always hear or see about. You may hear the one person who is upset about getting a ticket that day or something else but you don't see the quiet humble part of their job that they do. And Rachel does a lot of that throughout the day.

She takes great pride in serving the city and being part of the team. I want to read a couple of comments. Remember, this was voted in by their peers, their co-workers, all their co-workers in the police department. And some of the comments for Rachel are, Rachel, in my opinion is by far the most capitalized consistent employee I have ever worked alongside here on Hueneme PD.

She comes to work on time, gets through her day working consistently every single shift. Another co-worker, Rachel will go above and beyond her job working to keep the city safe by calling in suspicious vehicles and subjects. Finding things that might need somebody to check the well being on somebody and anything else that seems concerning in the field so they're out there for parking but it's an extra set of eyes and she has the police radio right in front Another one, Rachel continues doing her job to the best of her ability even when she has a difficult confrontation with a citizen.

Or has been yelled at she never stops working and that is Rachel Unfortunately, Rachel could not be here with us tonight But I do just want to repeat for Rachel the message She continues to purvey and wants you guys to know is she's very proud of her role here in Working for the city and being part of the community very much. So so that is for Sports Services employee of the year Rachel Perez Now Clarissa doesn't get off that easy. She gets to come stand here while I talk.

Come on up. Neither one of these two, they are so humble and they don't want the limelight but they're heroed amongst their peers so we're happy this is your moment. So our other sports services employee of the year is Clarissa Vasquez and she started with us as a police explorer back in 2016 She's been part of the team for a long time. And then she started working for the city in 2022 in her role in Park Enforcement, total of four years now.

She attended Oxnard and Ventura Colleges obtaining an Associate's Degree in Administration of Justice and in Spanish. She didn't stop there. She also graduated from Cal State University Los Angeles in 2022 with a Bachelor's in Spanish Now, she's furthering education at Cal State University Northridge and pursuing her masters in Spanish with a focus on translation interpretation. I cannot tell you how much we utilize that with her on patrol.

She is constantly getting pulled off of her job to come help translate and it is so much appreciated. And now that you're refining that even more, it's going to be great probably get used over in the city hall side Her goal is to become a full-time police officer with us here at Hueneme PD, which finishes up all her studies. So I told you a little about the role with Rachel. You have the same thing here and you have this constant they show up, they check in, they handle business and they hit the field.

It's not just parking enforcement that they're doing, especially now that they're under the police department. They are helping with our traffic collisions. They're helping when we have crime scenes and we need stuff shut down. They are helping handle some of the lesser calls. If they're on scene first, it's something that they can visually see that it's clear and everything is okay. They can cancel the officers and that is Clarissa. We don't even have to call her anymore. She jumps on the air or if she hears an officer has an arrest and there's another call pending and there's going to be a car towed or something, she will go over and relieve the officer so they can take their arrest where she'll clear the officers from something so that they can go handle a call and she'll take over the stuff after the bad guys are gone.

So, she does that a lot. So much so that you can see why the team is nominating these two for all the stepping up they do in between their normal role. Some of things said about Clarissa is I love that one person just sent in the bullet points. Hardworking, always willing to help And the tow form that we use, that takes a while to fill out unless you're really good at it. The tow form is called the CHP 180.

They called her the CHP 180 wizard. So when an officer's trying to make an arrest or something she'll show up take it out of their hand do it real quick while they finish searching the suspect put him in the car she saves them a lot of time Here's another one. Clarissa has helped locate vehicles of interest for patrol and participates in department events such as Special Olympics torch run, 5k color run and traffic details She's dedicated and a hard-working employee and consistently shows a strong desire to learn and improve And the last one, she is incredibly hardworking and balances the need for her enforcement in educating citizens when appropriate.

We do get our compliments, the good compliments when they're like your parking person was so helpful to me at the beach today and explained everything and it's usually Clarissa. So we appreciate that. She is well regarded by her peers and I've heard nothing but positive comments about those who work with her. Ladies and gentlemen Your other support services employee of the year, Clarissa Vasquez.

Both of them so humble. Do you want to vote over this one? So we're going to do comments. Comments or photo first?

We have comments. I was hoping that we can just do both presentations and then take all the pictures together if we can do that, just for time's sake. So if you want to just have a seat really quick, if you're not going to speak. And then we'll have... Can we do comments? We can do comments and then

go first. Clarissa, being recognized by your peers and the key words, dedicated, hardworking, always on time That's amazing. Four years doing support services, you're the behind-the-scenes person and I know that Parking Enforcement could be a very tough department and I commend you for your work and thank you. Thank you for your dedication.

So it's been a really long time since we heard something positive about parking enforcement. And that is a testament to Chief and the parking or the traffic division that we have now in the training, and then both yours and Ms. Perez's ability to wanna change and incorporate and just blend in and take on whatever it is, the new things that were happening. So I just wanna tell you that I'm so grateful to hear these good things because As you know, there's a lot of awful things that we hear about parking enforcement. There are social media groups dedicated to hating parking enforcement. So I just want to thank everyone who is involved with this for the great stuff that's coming out of parking and keep up the great work and will welcome you as a police officer can't wait for that how much time?

How long before that happens? Oh wow so very soon well thank you. Thank you for your dedication to our city

Yeah, I've interacted with you a lot at the beach. And you know, I just see it how good you are to the folks out there and having that. A pleasant attitude versus ticket, ticket, ticket. So I think it's really made Hueneme Beach more attractive for people and I'm just so impressed with the trajectory that you're on. And I look behind you and I see these other police explorers that I know of other success stories. back on the wall and see our current police officers. And we have something really special here, and it's because of people like you. Just keep working hard. I just can't wait to see you with a badge.

Thank you.

Thank You Clarissa for your good work. I'm glad that you're putting your education to work and to our benefit. I hope you're getting a bilingual bonus if not it should be. And I know you have a very difficult job out there and you take a lot of abuse sometimes, you and Rachel. And I want you to know that I am a fan of yours and I'm a fan of Rachel's and I'll always go to bat for you guys. Not literally but I will always support the two of you out there in the job that you do. I have a lot of respect for what you do and the bravery that you display and the courtesy you display and the professionalism that you display.

In action, I had a neighbor whose car was, his windshield was smashed or his side window was smashed. He was very upset. I don't think he called police right away but Rachel was patrolling and he had left his vehicle, I guess. And he was on his phone, he was walking down the street and she actually stopped and looked at it and noticed what had happened and called it in.

That was very admirable on her part. I was really proud to see her do that, so the both of you keep up the good work. Very happy to see what you're doing out there.

Yeah, I'll just say ditto and congratulations on your award and let Rachel know we appreciate all the work that both you and her are doing and congratulations to you both.

Thank you. Now for your Board of Police Officer of the Year. Our officer of the year is Christopher Tarrio. Now, Tario was my first Academy graduate police officer that I got to swear in as your Police Chief almost three years ago. And he's been here for those three years and then more than that with his academy time. Chris came to us here at Hueneme PD as a former custody deputy with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office. He has a strong background in law enforcement and he was raised in the heart of California, Central Valley and his journey led him to Santa Barbara City College which then led him to getting his degree in criminal justice which led him to the sheriff's department and then when he got his choice of agencies to apply for he came here.

And we're lucky to have him. And during his time here at PHPD, he quickly established himself as a dedicated street patrol officer and true team player. He has faced some incredibly dangerous situations and he has shown true courage and bravery every time. Last year, he was selected to be an Explorer Advisor for our Explore Program. He provides mentorship and guidance to our police explorers, as you can see back there in the back of the room.

I cannot express enough how important that role is because they're guiding not only just our future officers but the future members of our community to make them more professional and dedicated people. And he is a true standout in that role with our explorers. In addition to being selected for our 2026 Officer of the Year by his peers this year, he has also just received the 2026 Mad Mothers Against Drunk Driving Award for having the most DUI arrests of our patrol officers.

Just goes to say how dedicated and hardworking he is. So amongst the comments, I pulled some of them. I tried to pull the top three to read back to you and he had so many. This was a very strong vote for Chris to get this award. Amongst them was Officer Tarrio represents the very best of our department through his professionalism, dedication, friendliness, loyalty and his commitment to the citizens of our community. He serves as a benchmark for our entire department Another one, Officer Tarrio's commitment to service in his work with the Police Explorer Program has been recognized and described as exceptional. I cannot tell you enough the influence he's made with the advisor team and everything he's doing for them.

Another one, Chris Torrio has integrity is dependable humble respectful and has a great attitudes towards police work and shows his quick wit and sense of humor. It's very true he makes me laugh quite often. His quick wit and sense of humor when interacting with his peers and the public And it is nice to back him up on a call once in awhile, and you get to somebody's door and he's already got them chuckling in a difficult moment. So that is one of his superpowers, is that quick wit.

He is always dedicated to the mission of the Port Hueneme Police Department and his character, attitude towards police work, strong work ethic, mentorship, commitment to the community make him the most deserving of being named Officer of the Year. Ladies and gentlemen, Officer Chris Tarrio, your Officer of the Year.

Good evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Temp, Council Members. Good evening to the community. I just wanted to say thank you for being here. Thank you Chief. Thank you to all my team members, all my partners, all my mentors that are back there. Every sergeant and every senior officer has mentored me over the last three years Friends that are here, I just wanted to say thank you.

My biggest thing in policing is always like my parents always told me is use the golden rule, treat everybody like the way you want to be treated and most importantly thank you to my fiancee Paige back there she's a partner to a police officer and I can't thank her enough for what she does for me The who I am and how I've gotten here is thanks to her for everything, and also thank you to the Explorers for being here. And yeah, thank you to everybody appreciate it

Officer Tarrio, congratulations. Amongst a group of polished professionals you stand out as the 2026 Officer of the Year. This is a testament to your dedication to the community and just to hear what they say about you it's just mind-blowing that we have you here in our city and thank you for your service

So being a police officer, as you all know is a never ending changing thing that happens every single day. You never know whether your life's in danger or what situations you're going to be in and I know that you've experienced that firsthand so I want to thank you for you being here and your support to the city and your dedication as a police officer. And we have some great mentors on the back. We have a lot of officers who are retiring and so the ones that are left To raise up the younger ones as officers, I think we're all in good hands. And I appreciate their dedication to training you and for your wife or your fiance soon-to-be wife.

Police officers aren't the only ones who sacrifice as a wife of a police officer. I understand that as well and it's scary being married to a police officer when things happen that are outside of our control and You know what happens from day to day But I just want to thank you for choosing to serve our city and we have a great Police Department, and we have great Protectors so thank you

Thank you is that your father back there

No, it's one of my previous partners.

Oh Okay. All right. Well, thank you for coming. I noticed that she heard that she worked for the Sheriff Department and so That's awesome and to Clarissa back there three years Three short years as you could be officer of the year Officer Tarrio's lead in them, you know just looking at your smiling faces and Just tells me that we have a really, really good program here. And I appreciate everybody and especially appreciate you in three short years being our officer of the year. Thank you

Congratulations Chris for being officer of the year. I'm looking at the explorers at the back of the room and how they've been standing at attention the entire time and I noticed that before I heard the chief mentioned that you are one of their advisors and so I can see the good job you're doing keep up the good work thank you for your service to our community

Yeah, I'll just finally say one of the greatest gifts when it recognitions when it comes to anyone is to be selected among your peers. And so which tells me you've been doing a great job and so we appreciate the work that you've done for the city and the work that we know you're going to continue to do for us keep us all safe. So thank you so much for that. And we're gonna move on to some photos. Yes.

And so we'll take a photo of you first. You have family, any family you might have then we'll have the members of the PD and Explorers come up and then Clarissa will have you come up after with your family.

She's also a phenomenal photographer.

Thank you.

Okay, we're going to move on to our second presentation of the National Public Works Week proclamation. An annual update from... We're gonna have our proclamation from Councilmember Perez but we're gonna welcome who's already at the podium so go ahead with that proclamation

Thankfully it's short National Public Works Week proclamation rooted in service powered by community May 17th through 23, 2026. Whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure facilities and services that are of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to public health high quality of life and well-being of the people of the City of Port Hueneme.

And whereas these infrastructure facilities and services cannot be provided without the dedicated efforts of public works professionals who are engineers, managers and employees at all levels of government and the private sector who are responsible for rebuilding improving and protecting our nation's transportation, water supply, water treatment and solid waste systems, public buildings and other structures and facilities essential for our citizens.

And whereas it is in the public interest for the citizens, civic leaders and children in the city of Port Hueneme to gain knowledge of and maintain an ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of Public Works and Public Works programs in their respective communities. Whereas the year 2026 marks the 66th Annual National Public Works Week, sponsored by the American Public Works Association.

Now therefore be it proclaimed that the City Council of the city of Port Hueneme does hereby designate the week of May 17th through 23rd, 2026 as National Public Works Week and urges all citizens to join with representatives of the American Public Works Association and government agencies in activities, events, and ceremonies designed to pay tribute to our public works professionals Engineers managers and employees and to recognize the substantial Contributions they make to protecting our national health safety and advancing quality of life for all Hey over

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All right. Good evening mayor mayor pro tem members of the council audience and staff It's been a year since our last update so I'll try and get through this kind of quickly. I know we have a long evening, so Here's what we've been working on over the last year. As you all know, we just recently finished the Hueneme Bay Alley resurfacing project that went fairly smooth. We had a few complaints but overall it went really well. Hopefully the residents there appreciate the work that was done and I know they'd been anxious to get it completed For a while now, so hopefully that keeps them happy for the short term at least.

We also did resurfacing project over in Surfside Village You can see there on the left There's a picture of kind of what? The streets were some areas of the streets look like before it was done and then you can see after On the right hand side there what it looked like afterwards I know that job went really well, too. So hopefully that will serve for many years before we have to go back in and do anything over there and We're currently doing the water tank project over at the Water Agency. You have some photos there of what the interior of the tank looked like once we got on the inside there, so they are in the process of going through and refurbishing what needs to be done and then also They'll go ahead and coat the tank and that will keep us good for several years We have an annual program where we go and do the school crossing upgrades.

That one's a little bit interactive, I don't know if you caught that but what it looked like before they did it and what it looks like now rather than paint it they tried out using the thermoplastic this year. It's more visible supposed to last longer so it looks really nice and will continue to keep that ongoing program Bulker and Miranda Park as you know, they both got new playgrounds the streets division assisted with trying to cut costs down on that and Took out demolished the old playground equipment and our engineering group designed all the new sidewalk area there. It was in pretty bad shape And it also made it ADA compliant Excuse me, additional ADA updates that we're doing. You can see there's some work being done on the curb ramps.

As we get into certain areas when there's they're In need of replacement, we're going ahead and the crews are Demolishing the stuff and then reasphalting and we have a contractor come in and do the curb ramps But that's an ongoing thing that as we get to areas where we're replacing those. We're making those ADA compliant The fuel tank replacement. I know this has come to you guys Before we have the tank out of the ground which was required by December 31st, so we didn't incur any Fines for not having it out of the ground We're currently have the tank Being manufactured it should be here sometime in June We'll be going out to bid very shortly and we'll Hopefully get that back in the ground so we can get off of having to go off-site for fueling Not only is it more expensive.

It takes up staff time having to drive back and forth So we're anxious to get that back in the ground and back in operation. I The annual creek clearing as you all know, that's a major drainage channel for us. So Keeping that Creek clear is important It's an annual project that we do and we've cleared quite a bit of reeds out of that Creek over every year they grow back very fast Wastewater side, this is some pictures here that are showing two of our lift stations had their wet wells redone which is where the pumps actually sit inside there.

And the pumping takes place but going ahead and getting those rehabilitated which preserves the life of the structure and prevents us from having to go and actually redo the entire thing So, it's a cost savings and it extends the useful life of the original structure. The Turf Turnkey project, which you see sitting out in front here. We got a $700,000 grant for that and they're done with City Hall or moved on to Miranda Park now.

They still have more work to do there but City Hall seems to be looking nice as the plants get bigger too. It looks more filled in at first I was like oh. But it's starting to grow and it looks nice Similar to the wet well rehabs, we do rehabs on our manholes as well to preserve the structure. Saves money, helps prevent service interruption so we have a program that annually we are going throughout the city and getting a number of those done each year and our streets crew helps with these in doing some of the surface work that way we don't have to contract that out One thing we hadn't included in any of the years in the past is we wanted to make sure that we shined on our administrative staff.

Claudia is in the top left, Jocelyn on the top right, Evelyn there in the center and Sherry on the bottom right. Literally you can see it says there that they're connective tissue of the department and it's true. Everything starts with them and ends with them because they're issuing the things to get done and then they're closing everything out tracking receipts We're going through and entering everything in our software system, so yeah. Without them things would be infinitely more difficult, so we appreciate them and wanted to make sure we highlighted them. We had one camera shy person, Nivella, but she is also a part of that group.