City Council — August 17, 2026

Good evening and 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?

Here.

Council Member Lopez? Here. Council Member Perez? Here Mayor McQueen-Lachon? Mayor McQueen-Lachon? Sorry here. Let the record reflect that Mayor Pro Tem Hernandez is absent

Okay, great. Thank you. We'll now hear public comments related to the closed session item. Comments will be limited to three minutes and we have a total of 10 minutes for closed session comments. If you are participating in the Zoom please use the raise hand feature. Madam Clerk are there any public comments?

We have two in-person public comments. The first one is Chris Bates followed by Anai Carter

Madam Mayor, members of the council, city staff. First some simple math. Person A makes $100 a day and person B makes $1,000 a day and both receive a 10% increase although the percentage increase is the same person B still receives more money so why would their increase need to be a higher percentage? Last year, the City told our bargaining team that there was only 2% available for SEIU that year and to expect none the next. Our team understanding the city's financial situation accepted that in good faith only to learn that another bargaining unit, the PD got 6% over the same time frame Despite already being significantly higher paid.

We were told that was because the police rearranged their budget, cut their unfilled positions and that the increase was paid for by this. We rearranged our budget lost positions and delayed projects but that money went to the general fund not to us both units made cuts but only the members of one felt the pain We are not here today to ask that we be paid the same as every bargaining unit. We are not here today to say that we must have the same level of perks as every bargaining unit, but an equal percentage increase in salary is a reasonable ask. Even with that, we still receive a smaller piece of the pie.

Thank you for your time.

Good evening all, mine will be quick and simple. As you know SEIU members have been working without a contract for almost two months During that time we have still shown up and daily operations have continued with good faith The past tentative agreement was voted down but continued negotiations were not The fiscal director was able to give us a current budget presentation and we were able to comprehend the city's concerns.

We understood the city says resources are limited, but the presentation gave us reason to believe there may be room for further negotiation. We are not asking for council to negotiate contract tonight. We are asking council to allow the people at the negotiating table enough authority and flexibility to reach one. Thank you. That concludes public comment.

Great, thank you. Mr. City Attorney can you please read the closed session item into the record?

Yes, we'll be going into closed session tonight regarding two matters. Both of which are a conference with labor negotiators pursuant to government code section 54957.6. The first is with the SEIU Service Employees International Union 721. The second would be regarding the unrepresented management and professional employees. Both will be represented by the agency by James Vega, the city manager and Charles Peretz, the deputy city manager with Frank Lee, the human resources risk manager And we'll report back if there's anything to report.

Everyone, we're going to call to order the City Council regular meeting. So we're going to call it to order at 632. Please stand for the flag salute. Council Member Lopez if you could lead us.

Right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin.

of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. Okay, Madam Clerk please take a roll.

Council Member Gama? I'm here. Council Member Lopez? Here. Council Member Perez? Here. Mayor McQueen-Lajon? Here. And let the record reflect that Mayor Pro Tem Hernandez is absent.

Great thank you and we will now move to Council Member Gama for the inspiration.

Thank you. We just concluded Parks and Recreation Month, I believe. It's the month of July and our Parks and Recreation Department has been very inspirational and I want to highlight some of the youth engagements that they've Enacted Six years ago. We had a change of management in parks and recreation and since that time there's been an explosion of youth engagements and I have a challenge for everybody in this room I'm gonna run through these and my hope is that each and every one of us gets a smile on her face Okay, so here we go Touch a truck touch a truck is something that I think the city of Port Hueneme Parks and Recreation Department Invented and others now are doing it throughout the county And it's a wonderful event if you haven't been to it, and we'll be having it again.

I think in October Here's some more truck. You can see that the kids are super engaged, super involved and one of the things that we know is that when you engage youth at a young age you're creating potential successful people. Holiday season in Port Hueneme is another big engagement. We have a tree lighting ceremony, we had a pancake breakfast this year. Again, we even have snow in Hueneme if you could believe that and the kids get to sled on snow and we do lighting, we do coloring. And we also have a senior holiday luncheon which is really fun and very well attended. And again this is all being done by our Parks and Recreation Department.

Ballet classes, who would have thought in the city of Port Hueneme there's an active ballet program? But there is. And the little girls and guys really like to dance it up. I think they performed at our holiday luncheon. Pancake Breakfast was a hit again. This was another event that we hadn't done before and it was very well attended. A lot of kids and it was really great.

See splash color dash. I mean look at all these engagements, so I would be I would have to estimate that we've had probably 22,000 or more Engagements and I picked that number because that's the population of the city of Port Hueneme over the last six years And so we've really gone out and done some innovative things in there, and this is one of them There's two things that I didn't get photos on, and that's s'mores at the beach and movies at the beach. Now, the movies at the beach and the movies in the parks is another example of high engagement, and we're probably in the thousands of participants there. But 5K is a wonderful event for kids.

Easter extravaganza, another wonderful time for kids. And we have petting zoo and just all these great little activities to again engage our kids, engage them with the community, bring them into the parks which we've renovated are looking great. Again, I like to try to focus on seeing kids smile and the kids just have a great time even when they're waiting in line.

More egg extravaganza. So there's a couple things I didn't get pictures of and like the kite festivals another new thing where kids are coming out and flying kites, s'mores on the beach, the pumpkin free pumpkin giveaway. Our parks. Parks make life better and we've just rejuvenated our parks, so we got a lot of kids playing in the parks every day which is wonderful And this was our grand opening at Miranda Park Memorial Day and Veteran Days again This is our Parks and Rec Department working really hard to bring good programming to the city It's really important We moved it to the pier. We get great attendance We invite our Navy partners and other partners in the county to come and join with us. We really appreciate them coming out, moving it to the beach I think was a really great idea.

And then we lay a reef of course we have the paddle outlet by the lifeguards which is really nice. This one who could forget the parade? Come on everybody loves a parade right? And this is a super relevant, we lost Orvin Carpenter. He was our Grand Marshal at the parade and we had two Grand Marshals at the parade and the other one was Tony and Barbara Volante and we lost Tony recently too so.

There's another picture of our paddle out, and so I say the inspiration comes from Parks and Recreation team. And I wanna thank them for all the effort they do to create engagement with the youth of our community. And think our community is way better because of them.

Great, thank you Council Member. We'll move to Mr. City Attorney please provide the closed session report?

There was no reportable action in tonight's closed session.

Okay, we'll move to public comments not related to the agenda items Are there any public comments? We'll have three minutes for each comment and if you're participating on zoom Please use the raise hand feature madam clerk any public comments

Yes, we have several in-person public comments first is Becky Bruning followed by Mark Petrosso

Good evening Mayor, Council Members, staff and audience. My name is Becky Bruning and I'm here representing Roquepee Outdoors tonight. Last month Kevin and I took three interns to Florida and we ended up with two sponsors out of that trip so it was a fantastic trip for us and this Sunday we will be out at the end of Hueneme Pier 8 to 11 for our family fish day.

Thank you.

Mark.

Good evening Madam Mayor, members of the council and city staff. My name is Mark Petrasso I am a full-time year round resident at Surfside 4 that's the condo complex across from the pier Tonight i'm here to talk about what's been an increasing risk to public safety that's happening in that parking lot at the pier During the day it's a beautiful beach and a beautiful park and a parking lot that's Been packed this year, bringing great revenue to the city.

At night it becomes an entirely different story. At night it turns into the Port Hueneme version of the Pomona Raceway where people are burning out in the parking lot doing donuts in the parking lot revving their engines very loud To me that's an increase to public safety those folks are not stunt drivers and they're not professional drivers And if they're driving like that in a parking lot with other participants and also spectators, there's a real good chance somebody could get hurt and hurt badly.

So that's the number one concern is the increase to public safety. The number two concern is it's impeding the quality of life not only for Surfside 4 residents but for everybody on Surfside and Surfside Drive where they also perform their stunts late in the evening The other thing that's been occurring at the beach, not necessarily now but it still occurs more at the 4th of July is the constant setting off of fireworks which is very dangerous to the folks that are doing that and you can only keep up so much trying to catch those folks.

So those are the public safety and noise concerns that I have and you know I don't know what the city can do I'm a retired municipal finance executive. I was in your world for 30 years, I understand Our police department is professional Everyone I've ever encountered in public is courteous and not only acts like a professional police officer but also a neighbor But I'm sure that their resources are stretched a tad thin So if we could do something to increase patrol in that parking lot in the evening, one option is the use of a decoy surplus police vehicle that could park in that parking lot.

Nobody's going to take the time to see if there's somebody in that they're just going to see that it's there and then they'll move on and hopefully not get hurt or hurt anybody else So I wanted to bring this up. I thank you for your time and thank you for all you do for the city. Good evening.

Thank

you

Next is Josie Gonzalez on just

one second

Yeah, we may have other comments on that topic but I will just note up front and I think the council is aware that we have worked with the police department on trying to make sure we have some regular patrols on Sunrise. There's been some posts on Facebook and things where we've actually been able to impound vehicles and things like that. And so we put a focus on that and on the fireworks and then I did meet with the police department Over the last couple weeks, and we are talking about using some decoy vehicles So we are sort of aware and working with the Police Department. I'm trying to come up with some ideas as well But I'm sure we'll have other comments on that topic.

Great. Thank

you Josie Gonzales and Kim Pika you would be after Sorry

Thank you for your attention, and I would like to echo some of the sentiments of the last speaker. My name is Josie Gonzalez, and I'm also a resident of Surfside 4. So I'd like to address the many city ordinances that are being violated every day and how they have a tremendous impact on our sanity. But I also would like to make some recommendations for you folks. I know that the police department is short staffed, so I have some recommendations That you folks can implement now. So related to the ordinances that are being violated, 4,009 disturbances any unruly noise no tooting blowing or sounding of any auto sirens signals or noise making devices I think the other speaker talked about the speeding cars The amplified noise is a big, big problem.

So ordinance 3436 states no amplified noise. There's loud music not just at night there's music on the pier, on the beach, on the parking lot I mean, I love mariachi music. I just went to a mariachi festival in Albuquerque a few weeks ago but I don't want to hear loud mariachi music all day long and particularly not late in the evening so then there are parking lot related violations 4 0 1 8 says no loitering between 10 p.m and dawn, and then 40 19 m no parking of any vehicle outside of the time in hours posted that means after 10 p m after 10 p p m it's like a full parking lot over there and no engaging in riotous and boisterous language no speeding And a favorite one of mine that I have complained about in writing and personally here before you is no motorized vehicles on the pier, including bikes and scooters.

Thank you for passing an ordinance related to that about a year ago but there still is a big issue. And these motorized e-bikes and so forth it's not just a problem here in Port Hueneme. I hear about it, I read about it Throughout the United States and New York City. And it really is a serious health concern. There are children on that pier, there's elderly, there's folks in wheelchairs. It's an accident waiting to happen.

So what are my recommendations? I think the public needs to be aware of these ordinances. They need to know that first of all, these ordinances exist. The no amplified noise is an ordinance that exists. That there are consequences for the violations of these ordinances and then you have to articulate what are these consequences So there's community outreach, there is just- Finish

your sentence.

I sure will and then there's inadequate signage, completely inadequate. I've got some pictures of the signage relating to the motorized vehicles but it's completely

faded. Thank you so much

Good evening, everyone. I don't want to hound on this issue but I think both these speakers really gave you a picture of what's happening and lived here since the 80s. It's living at the beach, you expect noise, you expect to have fun and the things you presented that's what we love, the races The kids at the beach, the surfers, the fishermen are phenomenal. You know we love our people, we love our community but the nighttime 10 to dawn it's truly a problem I'm not saying that to be annoying or picky It's become scary. I have video for you guys if you'd like to see them I will show them to privately but you can tell where I live so I don't want them public Lots of photos, scary stuff going on there's it's not just the noise and the revving Explosions and our animals are freaking out, but we're having fireworks thrown at our places now We're having Drug deals there's cabs in there with people going in and out of those cabs.

There's some nefarious things happening So just wanted to add that also we've spoken I'm so pleased to have spoken with the chief and he's unbelievably supportive We're just trying to figure out what will work I'm the empty cars will be noticed immediately just putting that out there These guys are there's lots full and there's lots going on. So Not to belabor this issue, but it is truly a problem And we're getting a little bit nervous that it's gonna become bigger and bigger and bigger So thank you again for your time and attention

Thank You

David Scribner and then Dede Beeman

Good evening. Three things I'd like to talk about, so I've got to do it real quick. So the first one is the truck traffic and the speeding at Hueneme and Ventura Road is getting completely out of control again. These trucks are charging through that intersection 40 plus miles an hour. Speed limit's 30 there. I live in Surfside Village, I'm close to that. I haven't seen any enforcement.

I can't even remember when I saw somebody being pulled over for any of this. We've had a series of really bad accidents at that corner. Some of them cars, some of them trucks were headed for another disaster here if something doesn't happen so Would really encourage stronger enforcement, start pulling these people over, writing them up. Whatever you can do, I don't know.

Second thing, we had a slight discussion of this already. The e-bike stuff is getting to be kind of problematic at this point. Unfortunately like with most things technology outpaces society's ability to figure out what to do about it and we now have most people riding around on e-bikes are quite fine they don't present a problem But the scooters now go 30 miles an hour. A lot of these e-bikes will do 30, 40 miles an hour. People are speeding up and down the bike paths.

The other day some woman was walking on the bike path by a Anyway ahead of me and this guy chases through there on an e-bike almost runs her dog over she Says something to him and he cusses around flips her off and keeps going I mean, so you have a minority of people who need to be contained somehow And I'd really urge a speed limit On how you enforce it by the way But a posted speed limit that says you can't go faster than 10 miles an hour on the bike path or the promenade Okay The other let's give me the other thing is we're having some difficulty with these young kids on pulling wheelies and charging people on the bike path They come right at you that in doing a wheelie. They pull away at the last second If they feel like you're going to get run over Nobody's run me over yet, but I've had some close calls So I would think maybe some ordinance that says you can't do wheelies on The bike path.

Anyway, last thing Miranda Park had its issues It's been cleaned up and we're in a lot better shape right now And a big part of it is they put up gates So at night the ten o'clock or nine o'clock the gates get shut and we don't have people hanging around in that park I think that would really work well at parking lot a and Save some money because you don't have to pay police to follow up on it Thank you

Good evening. Good evening Mayor, council members and staff. My name is DeeDee and I have lived in Port Hueneme the last 13 years. I saw an endorsement for Council Member Hernandez and it caused me to think. Council persons need to have good judgment and need to keep personal feelings out of the public square When Councilmember Hernandez filed a small claims defamation suit against Chief Michael Federico, she filed her claim in the wrong venue.

Most people know small claims is generally intended for straightforward monetary disputes rather than complex litigation. Ms. Hernandez's public filing included Chief Federico's home address Under California law, a police officer's home address is protected from unauthorized disclosure. It is my understanding that California law requires a judge's permission to disclose the personal information of Chief Federico in the worst case scenario such as such disclosure could cause harm to our chief and his family Either Ms. Hernandez did this intentionally or did not understand what she was doing, regardless she placed our chief in danger and the rest of our community.

Whatever the case was with her intentions it shows extremely poor judgment Persons with poor judgment should not be in positions of power as it puts our community at risk. It concerns me that Ms. Hernandez allows her personal bias to interfere with her judgment. We need council members who are focused on what is best for the city of Port Hueneme. Regardless of her intentions, being malicious or not, her actions show she has extremely poor judgment.

Poor judgment is not a quality we need in our city council members. With regards to the endorsements Ms. Fernandez has received, are those endorsements encouraging her poor judgment? Thank you.

Great, thank you. Did you have something? Go

ahead. So I'll just reiterate since there were multiple speakers on the parking lot A topic so I just want to reiterate that we have talked recently about the use of decoy vehicles so I'll follow up with the police department on that and then we'll also follow up on other measures that can be looked at for that area. Okay,

thank you. Thank you. So we're going to move onto the approval of the agenda for this evening. May I have a motion and a second for the approval?

Move to approve.

Second. Great, thank you Madam Clerk please take roll.

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

Great do we have any council members that have a conflict of interest to disclose for any of the items on the agenda if not we're going to move on to presentations for the first presentation we have our deputy city manager Charles Peretz Mr. Peretz is coming for the quarterly employee recognition.

Good evening Mayor, Council Members, members of the public, City staff. Tonight we gather for our latest quarterly employee recognition where we celebrate the dedication and commitment of our employees. Two employees were scheduled to be recognized this evening, both for reaching the milestone of 30 years of service with the city. Unfortunately our Public Works Director Fred Camarillo is ill today and unable to be recognized tonight.

We look forward to finding a future date to recognize Fred. The other employee who's celebrating 30 years of service with the city is Brian Fomenko To share more about his career with the city and his contributions, we have Deputy Public Works Director Charles Cable. And I'll invite Charles to come up and speak a little bit about Brian.

Good evening Mayor, Council Members and the general public. I've had the opportunity to work with Brian Fomenko for eight years now and it's been a pleasure working with him as you all know he led the charge on the Ventura Road force main break emergency disaster that we had a couple years ago One thing that's very special about Brian Fabenco is that he actually is a resident of the city, so he cares. He gives 110% of his time and effort for the city. So it's been a pleasure working with him and I know Brian has some prepared remarks that he's gonna read if you wanna come up, Brian?

So serving the city of Hueneme for the past 30 years has been more than a career. It's a privilege and an honor for me really. What I always appreciate about Hueneme, it's a small town, it's close-knit atmosphere. It reminds me where I grew up in Hawaii to beach community where people they know each one another they look out for one another and they take pride their home their hometown Over the years, the people I've worked with have become like family.

We support one another. We work as a team. We share committed servicing...share commitment to serving our community. Some of the most rewarding parts in my career so far have been helping residents problem-solving and completing projects that make a difference in the quality of life for our community like the Forest Main Project for instance Port Hueneme is more than a place where I build my career. It's a place where I bought a house, raised my family.

I like being a part of the community and I'm proud to serve that community. I'm grateful for the relationships experiences and opportunities these 30 years have provided and I look forward to continuing to serve the community and contributing to the future of Port Hueneme for many years to come. It has truly been an honor to serve this beautiful city by the sea.

Great, thank you. We have a certificate for you and then we're going to come down and take a photo.

One, two, three. No? Oh, OK.

We usually take the opportunity to have some words. Did anybody want to have any words? Go right ahead Council Member Lopez.

Brian, what an honor to recognize your work. Incredible 30 years of service to our city when people see our community running smoothly day in and day out there's leadership behind their managing all that so The coordination behind the scenes of our public works program, tremendous. Your commitment represents an enduring commitment to our residents. Our staff and the long term well-being of our city.

So congratulations on a job well done, and we look forward to your continued service. One quick question, who was here? Because you and Fred are

like... I got six months on him.

Yeah that's probably why Fred no showed because he didn't have time. But thank you.

Yes, Brian. You are one of the rare employees that has an enormous amount of institutional knowledge and just a jack-of-all-trades. And I remember when James first started, one of the things he was talking about is who stuck out as employee? Who were the important ones? And you were the first person that I mentioned to him that we need to keep a hold of and keep in our city so whatever we need to do, we need to make sure that you stick around for a little bit longer. I know you were looking to retire about that time but It would be such a waste to see you go with the amount of things that you have in that brain of yours, that you've been able to help with our city. So I thank you so much for sticking around.

Yeah, the first time I went out to lunch with James Vega. I said there's this guy Brian you kind of get to know Brian Brian's been here Brian knows everything lives in the community and he's a friend of mine So yeah, it's been a pleasure Gaining knowledge through you. It's been a pleasure being a friend of you and Jessica we go way back in those regards and It's hard to fathom 30 years in one city working, working and still working. But the knowledge that you've gained is so valuable to us. So I think maybe we can keep you around for 10, 20 maybe?

Congratulations, thank you for your friendship and thank you for being a employee of the City of Port Hueneme.

Yeah, the one thing that I think about, so you've been here 30 years have you always lived in Port Hueneme?

No, I moved up here when I took the job

Oh, okay. Okay. I was thinking about the time 33 years taking the one to work back and forth and it finally said you know you've traveled this road for 33 years right but at 30 years what a what a awesome accomplishment to be at any job for 30 years and so I think James and I were talking the other day and when you said there was just a handful of employees that actually lived in the city and so i didn't know you were one of them but i'm glad you are so congratulations All right, well thank you so much. Thank you.

Okay we're gonna move to presentation B that's the Hueneme Beach Festival recap and presentation by our Police Support Service Manager Frank Montelago

And just before Frank gets started, I'll just note that as a reminder we also have the council had actually included in our Citizens Advisory Council work plan that each year after the beach festival Beach Festival will be presented and reviewed to the committee as well. So obviously today we wanted to give a recap and then we can take feedback and everything, but I just wanted to note that there will be another sort of public conversation and opportunity for feedback from the public and from the Citizens Advisory Committee. With that, I'll hand it over to Frank Monaloco.

Good evening Madam Mayor, City Council members and city staff. We're here tonight to just go over a quick recap over this year's Hueneme Beach Festival. So here you'll see, we updated our banner from last year that we've used for the past several years. You have photos of two artists that we had from Led Zeppegin that was here this year and the Danza from our local church at Mary's Heart of the Sea that danced on Saturday One thing we added this year because of the World Cup, and you can see in the top of town photo was we added two video screens in anticipation of the soccer game. So we did live stream the two quarterfinal games on Saturday during the festival. And then we had Ellis Bryant our country singer those there and then just the entry photo of the festival Again, you'll see the Ferris wheel in lot C, the carnival rides.

And another thing we added this year was the St. Anthony's school dance hip-hop team came out and danced. It was their first official performance this year so I thought they did a very good job and performed for the crowd. They had like about a 10 minute dance that they did so it was pretty good for them. And then once again we partnered with Club Cabana Beach Soccer. So while the festival was going on, on the beach we had I believe it was like about 88 soccer teams that competed that weekend during...on that Saturday of the festival.

So to the main important thing, so the financials for the festival. So this year, the festival total expenses ran at $105,432.37. The city contributed $35,000 in sponsorship money that was donated to the festival. We ended up at $27,650. The Explorers sponsored as well, $4300. Carnival donation from our carnival ride this year were up and we got 16,000 $785, and then vendor fees collected for that be your arts and craft booths, your information booths, and your food booths was $22,300. So we ended up with a surplus of $603 this year for the festival.

And this being our 30 years, so we've averaged for the past three years about 100 to $105,000 is what it seems to be the average to run the festival when you include all the expenses This year we did have 10 music acts that performed over the past, over the two days where last year I believe we only had eight. So we added more music as well. We and I think we kind of expanded the variety because we had country, we had reggae, we have salsa, we have norteño banda and then we had rock with Liz Eppigan and then the mariachi outlaws were like a rock in Spanish and manazo. I think we diversified as far as the music genre this year.

And then what we want to go over then is also our poster contest winners that submitted their posters throughout all of Ventura County. We submitted to all the school districts this year, and then all the schools that participated submitted their posters. There was a committee that selected the posters, and our first winner was Noah Gill from St. Anthony School. He was a third grader at the time. He'll be starting fourth grade this Wednesday so if he could come up for his His presentation and then our sponsor again for the third year in a row is Lujan Transportation. So I'm going to have Jackie and Jeanette come up to present the check and Noah's framed photo.

I don't know if we can get a quick photo with

Noah.

Noah, can we go in the front?

One,

two, three. Good job Noah. Yes, we have two more recipients to make it easier. Then at the time our junior high school winner is Sergio Martinez he is now a freshman in high school but he was attending Oshimi Junior High so Sergio if you could come up please? One, two, three. Thank you. And then our high school winner from Oxnard High School, Elsie Belayo. If you could please come up please?

One, two, three.

Thank you. And then back to the festival. So we had here's a list of all of our sponsors, a lot of returning sponsors and some new sponsors again Skunk Masters and Viper Security. They're a co-owned company so they donated the security costs for the festival with like about $17,000 this year. So that was covered by them for their contributions Kona Big Wild Eve was a beer sponsor, the Port Hueneme POA, Renewal by Anderson, Garnita the Brother, Ventura County Coast, Hyatt Vacation Club, EMT Standby, Darvick Productions, Plaza Liquor, Vallarta Supermarket was a new one. Again Lujan Transport, the Port of Hueneme and the Wilderness Willham provided once again the parking lot for us for all our residents for the beach festival this year And then recommendations, so staff recommends that the 2027 Hueneme Beach Festival date be held on July 10th and 11th which would be the weekend after the 4th of July.

And we will as a staff will continue to explore new options for the festival. At this time I'll take any questions.

Are there any questions? Anyone have any questions? No questions. Thank you so much for your

work.

Looking forward to your report when you come back. Okay, we're going to move on to the consent calendar. The consent calendar will be enacted in one motion unless someone asks to pull an item but before we get there do we have any public comments for the consent calendar?

No public comments for consent.

Okay, any items to pull from the consent calendar? If not is there a motion and a second? Second. Great thank you. Madam Clerk please speak.

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

Great thank you we're going to move to our public hearing item number six And that's to adopt a resolution finding the project categorically exempt from the California, from CEQA. Finding the project consistent with the city's certified local coastal program and applicable public access policies of the California Coastal Act and providing special use permit number PHSU 26-9 As an appealable local coastal development approval authorizing the Port of Hueneme, Oxnard Harbor District to conduct the 2026 annual Port of Hueneme Banana Festival vintage car show including a temporary waiver for beach parking fees. Madam Clerk do you have proof of publication as required by law and a complete file of reports and exhibits?

Yes madam mayor.

Great will staff please present the report

Good evening mayor members of the council and the public who's still here. I'm Tricia Meyer, I am the community development director And I'm happy to present this item to you It's a fairly straightforward request an event special event permit requests for the ports long-standing banana festival That's going to be held on September 26 2026 The proposed event is generally the same as it's been in past years the one notable Exception to that is that they are expecting about 50% more attendees, up to 15,000 people over the course of the day for the entire event.

Other than that what we're looking at is very similar to what we've seen in the past. The one-day event runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., It includes the vintage and classic car show, closure of Surfside Drive and South Market Street. And then I guess last year they added a DJ booth and stage at Wharf Plaza. And so they intend to do the same thing this year in addition to having some folks that are playing some acoustic music that kind of move in and out of the car show area.

One distinction from prior years is the scope of the city's review. So, the majority of the Banana Festival occurs on the Port property, the Port-owned property and that area is covered by the Ports Master Plan which is certified by the California Coastal Commission and so for that reason, the City's approval tonight is limited to the areas that are on City-owned property and that's primarily that vintage car show and the closure of the streets and then the use of the City Beach parking lots. and then also Wharf Plaza.

The next slide actually shows a better view of that area, you can see up there that they're going to be putting in the K-rails on the south side of Surfside Drive and then also north of the entrance to the port area and the Sunkist lot. You can see Wharf Plaza up there with DJ and the stage facing north And then they've got some locations where they have a shuttle coming through to pick up boats at the beach parking areas. But this gives you kind of a good view of what's happening on the actual city property.