City Council — March 4, 2026

which is affordable and a path forward to fair housing. And we pray for the farm workers who provide food for our tables and across the nation. We pray for our mayor For all the city officials, and in particular for this assembled council. We are grateful for these leaders who serve our community along with the staff who support them. We pray for the agenda set before them this evening.

May our work this evening benefit the people and future of this community in the weeks going forward. And we pray this evening for all those in harm's way and impacted by the violence in our world. May all beings be safe, may all beings be at peace and may it be so. In the name that's all, all that's holy. Amen.

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be out. Let me check that. Okay. Madam Clerk could you roll call please?

all present

thank you very much okay at this time we're gonna have public comment just a reminder if you have cell phones to please put them on silent or turn them off I'll be limited to three minutes each if it's in English and Spanish will allow for three minutes each first will be Sitlali Salgado and it'll be followed by Amalia Ochoa

I believe those are on certain items, not on the regular general.

Okay no regular comment?

I've received none for regular comments.

Okay my apologies do we have any regular public comment? Okay my apologies okay so we're gonna move on to presentations first is going to be crisis intervention training officer of the year Robbie Mann chief Aguilar presenting

Good evening Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council and our viewing audience and our men and women of the Santa Paula Police Department viewing are here present tonight. I'm here to honor Officer Robbie Mann of the Santa Paula Police Department on his awarding the 2025 Crisis Intervention Team Officer of the Year Award. Robbie can you come on up? On February 24th, Ventura County Behavioral Health gathered with all of us officers and deputies from throughout the county.

Every year this program recognizes those officers from these law enforcement agencies that's for basically patrol officers who have developed skills above and beyond to handle crisis intervention due to the officer's exemplary communication empathy outreach and de-escalation skills Since 2001, the Ventura County Law Enforcement Crisis Intervention Team has been a collaborative effort between six local law enforcement agencies. The Sheriff's Office, Ventura Police Department, Oxnard Police Department, Simi Valley Police Department, Port Hueneme Police Department and our Santa Paula Police Department as well as Ventura County Behavioral Health, social services entities throughout Ventura County, the medical community and also the local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Through extensive training in the use of strategies and techniques intended to decrease the intensity of a situation, the Crisis Intervention Team program in Ventura County assists first responders to be able to safely respond to crisis calls for service. Reduce use of force incidents and compassionately connect people with services while avoiding incarceration.

It's good to note that we have a crisis intervention training program here in the county, and nearly 100% of all patrol officers in Ventura County have been trained in a 40-hour course to identify skills to be able to address those with developmental disabilities and identify other issues for those who have mental illness. So I'm glad tonight to present to you Officer Robbie Mann and on February 20, I think it was February 24th.

He received this award and they presented him with the plaque and I'll read it to you. Officer Robby Mann, Santa Paula Police Department for serving the community in crisis situations with exceptional care and compassion. Ensuring the safety of themselves and others while embodying the mission and goals of the CIT program and training. I want to congratulate officer Robby Mann and let everybody know that all our patrol officers display this type of train every day on the streets To use appropriate judgment and to provide de-escalation skills to better serve our community. So congratulations to Officer Mann.

Speech, speech, a few words Mr. Officer Mann? If not comments from council?

Hello, I just want to say thank you to Chief for bringing the recognition here so that everyone can see. Every interaction I've had with you has been great. You've always been very respectful and I really appreciate you and the work that you do here in town. So keep doing it. Thank you very much for being here.

We have some great individuals serving our community and you're one of them. And so thank you, Officer Mann for your service to our community. It's much appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Thank you. Likewise, Officer Ban, I really appreciate all you do for the department and for our community and I thank also the department for supporting such a highly skilled person that will keep our community safe and it shows also how important you are to our community and the department as well so we're just really pleased and very happy for you. Congratulations!

I heard firsthand, it was sent a video from a local resident of you in action. And they were actually shocked. They were really like wow this person really has a talent You took a crisis situation and you turned it around, and you were just being human. You were just seeing the other side as being human, and they saw you the same way, and you were able to calm that situation down at the Carl's Jr., so thank you for what you do. And I know you have some fans in here. Would you introduce this to some of your family? Because they're also part of what makes you who you are.

Thank you, I appreciate that. Unfortunately my family wasn't able to make it here tonight.

Yeah, my law enforcement family always

showing support. Always.

Well the good thing is they can watch it on TV. And again, this council is so supportive of the police department and you for these efforts. You know when somebody's in a crisis they don't realize they need to help and they won't realize it till after the incident is over but you know you make a difference to them whether they're gonna be okay or not. So thank you for everything that you've done everybody else that's CIT trained as well. So thank you if it's okay we'd like to come down take a picture with you.

Can the officer,

yeah.

We can't see you Okay.

Council, I just want to say thanks again for recognizing the great work our officers do each and every day. And I thank the men and women of the Santa Paula Police Department for continuing to make our communities safe.

Thank you, Chief, very much. And thank you for all your officers as well. I've had a request from our city clerk to change item 6B, second annex presentation and switch with item 60, community and development department quarterly report. So if that's OK with the council? OK. Who do we have presented at that community development quarterly report Mr. Singer? Oh there you go, Mr. Mason.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. This is the Community and Economic Development Department's quarterly report going from October 2025 through January 2026 Just quickly wanted to go through some of the division activity, but before one thing I did want to kind of recognize and celebrate. We have a relatively new employee. Eileen Ramos has been with our department as a community development technician for nine months and she was acknowledged as employee of the quarter and employee of the year after having been here nine months. And a lot of that Is based on her customer service skills, but it's rare that you have somebody that's been with the department. That short that we actually have people that have either written letters or emails to say how impressed they are with how she's dealt with them at the counter because a lot of times people aren't as open To encouragement or kudos.

But anyway, we've had 35 active planning projects a little bit down from the last quarter and same with the commercial business license and home occupation permits were about half of where we were last time on business licenses I think we had 12 last time and home occupation we're at 10 and then six planning applications keeping in mind we went through the holidays so I think we had about 14 last time around Building and safety, 60 plus. I would say plus because sometimes we're closer to 70 and a lot of that has to do with what we'll talk about a little bit later is the harvest development and how many homes are going up so quickly there. We've got three staff that are out there at least half the day just doing inspections on what's getting built right now.

And then code compliance 15 inspections weekly and some of that has to do with That trip back and forth from actual development, catching things that are in the field that are either health and safety issues or just code violations. And the real focus we are on right now is health and safety issues. In the future, in the next coming weeks, we're gonna be looking at recreational vehicle storage and looking at being able to provide some outreach on helping people be in compliance with that.

Also, I don't think I mentioned this before but one Saturday a month we have our code inspector is here on Saturday. So which is really helpful. A lot of things happen on Saturdays because they know that we're closed. But just a heads up to folks out there will be out there and please come in and get your permits if you're going to build something And also when we have special events, we make sure that we have staff available to just make sure that things are operating safely. Whether they're generators or just activities in the street.

Economic development, we're collaborating with City Manager's Office PBID and the Chamber of Commerce. We've had in this process, we've had two business round tables, did a brokers round table... My

apologies James

Thank you. Sorry, we did a broker's roundtable last month and we're working with the PBID and the chamber on other project coordination and that's the business connect once a month we're meeting with businesses within the community to develop outreach done outreach to Phantom Works and Hive Autonomous Autonomic Innovation Center, and we'll be meeting with them in the next couple weeks.

Doing outreach, I did outreach to the brokers. Also doing outreach to businesses now with a draft business attraction toolkit. We've got some framework of what businesses are looking for and how Santa Paula fits that. We want to have conversations with businesses to make sure that's on point so we can use that as a marketing opportunity to bring businesses into Santa Paula. Housing and Homelessness Spirit Harvard Shelter, we've been working closely with them With the county and with Fillmore on their payments in accordance with our memorandum of understanding and payment schedule with them. But we're also looking at a longer term sustainability model, and we'll be bringing that to council.

April through May, we're looking at finishing up what that looks like so we should be coming back within that time period to council to discuss that process. And then a lot of collaboration with affordable housing developers. Because we've done Red Tail and People Self Help, there's a lot of folks that are kind of coming out of the woodwork that do affordable projects and they're really interested in Santa Paula which is good news that the process has been good for those companies and the word's getting out that we're a good place to do business especially for housing development.

And then communication with two other developers along the Santa Paula Street corridor for more market rate housing and affordable housing along that corridor right by the bridge. Have still working with BendPak. What I've heard is they initially were looking at relocation and kind of divesting of some of their properties here, but it looks like they're staying need to meet with them to find out what their actual Long-term plan is with Santa Paula.

Santa Paula Materials Stone Yard, which used to be Action Pack, which is at the end of Lemonwood off of Dove Court, they're expanding. Need to get a better picture of what they have now. They've got kind of high-end stone that they're selling in that facility. Those who go out to the west side of town have seen the Bender Farms building, which is under development. They're getting ready to just put the roof on it and they're getting ready to put windows and doors in that building and start the parking lot.

And there's talk of doing basically a replica of the same building right next door to that, which would give us about three-and-a-half acres of industrial development under two roofs. And then Santa Paula Self Storage, not maybe the most exciting project but the way it was done was done so well. I mean it's a class A storage facility. It's been done both inside and outside, a great facility.

Downtown activity across the street from Glen Tavern, Good Orchard Cafe is still under construction as is the housing adjacent to that in the old Faulkner Hall which is 20 affordable units. And then Cosina 1912 just got approved through Planning Commission for their conditional use permit for spirits and entertainment so they'll be doing They have a wine and beer license, and right now they're going to be doing improvements with just the plumbing and interior improvements that will allow for them to have a bar in that space.

But still a restaurant with just those that service available. Still I think all the council is familiar with what's happening Medical office or medical hospital facility on the east end of town. It's a continued conversation, but both staff and in many cases counselor at as many tables as we can to be a part of what the future is for health care within this valley and especially within Santa Paula McGillic Finch property, which is basically right next to the Redtail development. They are coming in this month with the conditional use permit for a shopping center. All shopping centers require a conditional use permit and that's 113,000 square foot shopping center and just had this week more conversations on the East Triangle piece that we talked about electric vehicle charging some retail development and we're working on both a purchase and sale agreement, and a development agreement that we'll be bringing to council probably within the next 60 days.

Real quick on housing development right now lots sold to builder in phase one into 12 1261 so at 700 and actually were at 702 homes sold right now and 648 closed. And not only is the site grading infrastructure for phase two, which is the foothill development but models are in and houses are going up I think they're under development with 120 homes right now And yesterday, we had the Santa Paula Creek Bridge.

I don't think you'd call it a ribbon cutting. I think maybe dirt throwing? Groundbreaking, yes. So that's exciting and appreciate the comments from both mayor and city manager. This is what connects this city as one city. I like the line, The Tale of Two Cities. This is one city now and that's exciting. Then the independence project actually show you here Foothill, I talked about 554 homes is the purple outlined area. And then the red outlined area which is right across the street from the regional sports park and adjacent to where the bridge will go is 298 units which will include some retail and some work live space also so The purple is under development The red is currently getting ready to submit plans They just went through Planning Commissioning Council for the map for that development And that is an aerial looking back over that foothill development.

For those who haven't had a chance to get out there, the models are gorgeous it's a great opportunity to see just a new level of housing here and I just realized this week that when I looked at the models that they're not even the ones that are all the way up on the hill which we'll be looking probably at Hawaii by that point so really beautiful views And that this, that foothill is seven phases and they're doing four phases right now. So there's a lot of different types of product within there with their own park space within the middle of that. So it's going to be exciting.

Another housing project Topa Vista Villas. Initially they came in with 112 units, portions of it at four stories. We asked them to do something... actually everything we've asked them to do they've followed through on and the one thing they did was they did outreach to residents and businesses within that area prior to any type of submittal or anything to get a feel for where people were They adjusted that project from 112 units to 90 and to three stories instead of four stories, just based on that. And so we'll see where we end up as far as timing on right now I just had a meeting with them today on them getting their application together. So we'll be working with that project and that's an affordable project really focused a lot on seniors people with disabilities and unhoused they've got about half of those units will be one bedrooms And the other benefit I think people will feel good about is with that reduction, they're keeping the same number of parking.

So they're going to be over parked as a development too. That's just a quick overview of the number of units that we have both underway and proposed But of all those, we've got plus or minus 350 affordable units and that's everything from transitional units for the unhoused to workforce type housing so and more to come. Some of the market rate things projects that we're talking to They're all looking at building an affordable portion in their projects, which is kind of new for us to start to have a market rate with affordable built into it especially for for sale projects.

I talked a little bit about Lemonwood before with what's going on there but there's significant movement and business and vacancies and that the three really are Abriza which is 92,000 square feet on five-and-a-half acres That's available now. I've been talking to brokers on that. ARP is getting ready to do an expansion of about 12,000 square feet and BendPak again we're going to work with them and see how much they're going to retain here as far as space and if we can look at being able to fill out the rest of however they land as far as what's available to fill that with gainful employment And then downtown development working with the P bid doing outreach to businesses and facade improvement program, which has been.

A long time in the process, but the first projects are getting underway next week. So that'll be exciting and following those projects we're going to be doing outreach to several of the other applicants that didn't have complete applications. And we're gonna work with those who have completed projects to do a workshop and around table to be able to explain process, lessons learned and help people get complete applications so we can help them through the process.

And then a lot of discussion through our standing committee in economic development and from council on vacancy and PBID on vacancy especially in downtown properties. And that's going to be wrapped into our municipal code update in the second quarter this year. So probably in the next 60 days And then business outreach, I mentioned already Business and Brokers Roundtables and Business Connect.

One thing that I did want to mention about the brokers roundtable real quickly, I asked the question what can we do as far as a city and what are the challenges that they're experiencing? And what found is downtown, we have a lot of vacancy. And there are a lot of, probably about five buildings right now. There are businesses and restaurants in the county that are looking at our downtown and really want to be downtown. And what they're gauging is this is the development and the growth within this community and that disposable income when to pull the trigger. They don't want to be so early that they struggle. Restaurants a tough business to be in, but the good news is there's a lot of people looking at us. So once we hit that threshold whatever that is the key is this communication with the brokers and those businesses so they know real time what's happening in this community so they'll want to be here when they're available Other activities, just talking about some of the committees that we work with.

Affordable Housing Trust Fund Oversight Committee. That Topa Vista project will be coming back to them requesting assistance either through a loan or development impact fee loans. And then Mobile Home Rent Review Committee we just met last week and will be talking about ordinance tonight. Economic Development Standing Committees met, Cannabis Standing Committees met I've been meeting regularly with the Heritage Valley Tourism Bureau trying to revamp that, reboot that and some exciting things coming with that. I think we'll probably do at some point an update to Council on where that's going because there are some interesting things happening as far as collaboration between Bear with the county, Fillmore and the city.

A lot of lease and sales agreements going through right now which we've been working on And then finally, I serve as chair of the board for the Housing Opportunities Board. And I think that's it for now. I'd be glad to answer any questions about what's going on.

Thank you Director Mason. Question from Councils for Mr. Mason? Director Mason? Thanks for all the information

you've given us especially about housing. want to create a good quality of life in our community. You mentioned, I have four points that I'd like for you to provide some insight on. The first one is you mentioned the some sort of RV compliance can you share a little bit about what the problem is and why we're doing

that? It really starts with, we've went about four and a half years without a code officer. So we had people subbing in as they could but also not having the certification to be able to write citations and things like that. That being said, we have some things in our ordinance that unilaterally across the city, we have a lot of violations. And RVs, recreational vehicles is one of those. There are setback requirements.

Probably from a health and safety perspective, probably the most important thing is people can't be living in an RV. If you have family visiting and they're there for the weekend or for a few days that's something but we have several situations where people have been living in RVs for months or years on end which is not safe or legal so we want to be able to A provide people with what the ordinances and what their requirements are but also provide them direction on what they can do to come into compliance and that's everything from Those steps are is where it can be parked, how it can be parked and providing.

information on facilities within the area. I think we came up with about 15 facilities within 20 miles radius of Santa Paula that have spaces for RV boats and any type of recreational vehicles, so that's the goal. We're going to systematically go through the city and provide a letter that identifies what the code is, what the opportunity is as far as to come into compliance, and who to talk to on that, and then with that list of places to park But we want to, we're going to start on the west end of town and slowly work through town because I don't know what the reaction is going to be. We've had some other things and it's people, it's been a mixed bag sometimes people are scared or frustrated or angry but I think the main thing is we want to be here to help and give them the guidance of how they can come into compliance

And then just to follow up, can you show the screen that has all the upcoming units that are going to be available? I think it's that one right? The one after.

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Yes. You know all these are coming at different times in the upcoming months and years. How are we facilitating this growth to the needs of addressing safety, traffic flow? What is a process that you're using to navigate through these challenges?

Yeah I think really good question. I think the best thing for the community to know is there's a lot of things going on but it's these are and a lot of them are happening organically But we're aware of how all these things are going on. And this is an interdepartmental collaboration, for instance street improvements and pavement. And our plans for that are public works department but all those are adjacent to these residential developments. So there's some requirements on these developers to do improvements. But I think probably the best thing kind of learning from the pavement management plan is for us to be able An overview of what changes are going to happen over time because as this development happens, street improvements are going to happen which is going to be another disruption.

in addition to the development. So it's helping people understand how to navigate and what the timing is on things so that there's certainty of what's happening, and again to underscore we are aware of what's happening and we're choreographing it. It's not just happening and we're surprised this is a little bit of growing pains but we're working through it but I think the public communication is going to be a big piece

I do want to say thank you to everybody involved with ensuring that there's a diversification of housing. So we have affordable, we have apartments at general market rate, condominiums, single family, high-end medium range. There's something for everybody and I think that's unique for this city to be able to take a leadership role in ensuring that we provide housing opportunities to the community With that, I know you forgot to mention that there is a assistance program available. Could you mention that to the residents who are interested in home ownership?

Yeah, there's two things. One is in the harvest development, there's a public benefit housing program and that's assistance for people that are in public service and that's anything from teachers to doctors, nurses public employees at any municipal, county or state agency. So there's an assistance program for that. But on top of that the organization that is managing that for us My Way Home which used to be the Ventura County Community Development Corporation They also provide many assistance programs for first-time homebuyers. So in coming, I'm trying to think here probably May June we're going to be looking at doing some type of a first time home buyer fair so people can understand where the opportunities are there's so many resources out there For a first time home buyer, just real quickly.

If you haven't bought a home, if you bought a home in seven years or more, you qualify as a first time home buyer or if you've never bought a home and in that framework there's anywhere from 100 to $150,000 in grants and forgivable loans available for first time home buyers but you've got to know how to navigate that and My Way Home is one organization that can help people with that.

And given to council members comment, the diversity of the housing we have. Even for sale product it provides just about something for everyone so we're really excited about that. Other council?

Okay thank you Director Mason. We did move item 6C forward so now I'll go back to item 6B boy which is secondhand smoke presentation and that will be by Ricardo Soto and Leslie Resendiz

And we were going to have our translator come out to help translate for them. And we're unable to put a PowerPoint up for them, so they're going to wing it and I'm sure they're going to do very well.

Okay all right thank you

Good afternoon, Mayor and members of the City Council. My name is Leslie. I am a resident of Santa Paula and part of the resident group that has been working on this campaign to eliminate secondhand smoke in our city. Today I'm accompanied by my colleague Don Ricardo. We are here to share with you what we have done and what we are asking you to do to make our community healthier.

First we would like to share a little bit about the history of this campaign. In 2018 and 2019, three observations were made of parks in our city. We counted and collected tobacco product waste from October 2018 to March 2019. The Resident Leadership Academy was held there. We learned strategies for creating healthy changes in our community. In April 2019, the students made a presentation during the City Council meeting. They also spoke during the public comment period about their observations regarding tobacco product waste.

Similarly in October 2019, Residents from the working group gave a presentation and provided public comments on observations they had made in the city. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic activities had to be put on hold. In 2024, the working group met again to restart the campaign. They conducted another survey and made observations in the city

Thank you.

Good afternoon, my name is Ricardo Soto. I'm here to complement a part of what my colleague said about data comparison. Now we would like to present the comparison of the data that came together. Garbage and rubble. In terms of observations, three sites were made again in 2019 and two more places were added. The Ryde Park and Tingle Park. Del 8 hasta abajo.

Aquí los números nos muestran que se observó menos basura en el 20-25. Pero hay que tomar en cuenta un detalle muy importante, que en el 2019 no se hacía mantenimiento en los parques tan seguido. Ahora se limpia todos los días. Encuesta opinión del público. En cuestión de encuesta comparando las respuestas se pueden ver la comunidad que aún apoya aún más el aumento, el apoyo que quiere a la ciudad libre de humo de segunda mano ¿Por qué importa? Déjenos decirles porque esto es importante información. Comunidad y salud, nosotros queremos que la comunidad saludable en especial tener un ambiente saludable donde puedan crecer nuestros niños y poner un buen ejemplo para nuestros adolescentes. Queremos que nuestra ciudad tenga un buen aspecto. Queremos que cuando comparen nuestra ciudad con otras En el condado o en el estado seamos una ciudad ideal.

Las cuestiones de salud como las calificaciones de control de tabaco en California, ahorita Santa Paula contiene un F. ¿Qué se debe hacer? Con toda la información venimos a hacerle un pedido Peticiones de residentes. Le estamos pidiendo mínimo estas cosas para optimizar la salud en nuestra comunidad. Ahorita no se va a poder abrir la pantalla sobre, iba a leer una aspecto pero no pudieron abrir la pantalla.

Estos son unos ejemplos que sabemos que el Departamento de Salud puede proveer a nuestra ordenanza completa La Secretaria Municipal, Julie Lutz, recibió paquetes informativos por cada miembro del consejo así como el administrador municipal y la abogada municipal con más información y recursos sobre este tema. Gracias por su atención.

Information of comparison. Now we would like to present to you the comparison of the information that we gathered. A trash, a butt litter and question of the observations that we did. We went back to the three sites that we did in 2019 and we added two more places The park, Railroad Plaza and Teague Park. Right here the numbers show that we observed less trash in 2025 but we have to take into consideration one very important detail that in 2019 they did not do any maintenance to the parks as often.

Now the parks get cleaned every day. Surveys and public opinions. According to the survey, comparing the answers we can see that the community gathers That they want a free city of secondhand smoke. Why does it matter? Let me tell you why this is important information. Community and health, we want a community, a healthy community especially to have a healthy environment where our children can grow And set a good example for our teens.

We want our city to be clean and we also want that when our city gets compared to other counties or states, we would be an ideal City in question of health. As income in ingratiating of tobacco control in California. Right now, Santa Paula has enough. What should be done? With all this information we come to ask resident requests We are asking a minimum of small things to optimize health for our community.

I was going to show you something on the screen, but I guess we won't be able to see that. These are some examples, but we know that the Health Department can provide some examples of the complete ordinance. Thank you.

Right now, Ms. Isabel is going to send the information so you can all have it.

And thank you Ms. Resendez for your presentation as well.

And Mayor, if I could bring to your attention they did leave a packet on the dais for each of you with quite a bit of information.

Yeah, it's unfortunate that you all didn't get to see the pictures because when they did the presentation before because I've been asking for this ordinance to come back since 2018 and 2019 when they did the presentation before. But Mr. Singer or Attorney Castillo do you have a rough idea of when we're going to get to that section of the ordinance? Because we're going through the process of updating our municipal code and that will be one of the sections that we come to. Do we have any idea when we're gonna get to that?

Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council and the public, the city attorney and I anticipate doing a public workshop on the topic as opposed to just incorporating it into our ordinance update. And we've projected that to occur probably around May or June this year.

So I hope that we can get the information to our folks that gave the presentation today.

Once we have a date, we'll be advertising it and other entities also aware of...

Yeah one of the things that they brought that you all didn't get to see was last time when they did the presentation they actually had giant glass jars of cigarette butts that they had gathered from underneath the play equipment in the parks So that was part of the reason why I had asked for this item last time, because it was very impactful seeing like this is where our kids are playing.

So anyway, I look forward to that workshop and I do hope that we can specifically invite the folks who gave the presentation in addition to our general public outreach so thank you.

Any other comments? And again, we apologize it's taken this long. I remember that presentation as well and it's impactful to watch that. All right thank you. We're going to move on now. We would normally go to City Council reports and City Manager's report but to be respectful of many people that are here for items 10a, b, and c, I'd like to at least move forward with the consent calendar. I don't know if there is anything anybody would want to pull on that.

Yes, I did just want to point out for the council that our human resources administrator Has put out a slight revision to the resolution Approving one of the modifications to the position and so I just wanted to be sure when you Adopt the content calendar that you're doing. So with the revised resolution unless you have any questions about okay Everybody get a chance to see that

revision

I'd like to make a motion, Mr. Mayor. Go ahead,

Council Member Chavez.

Approval

of the consent

calendar with appropriate corrections.

And there was also correction in the minutes as well?

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it. Yeah, that's been captured all.

Yes, those were also put out for you. Thank you. So it's been moved approval of the consent calendar by Council Member Chavez. Is there a second?

Second.

And seconded by Council Member Cornejo. Any discussion? If not, all in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right, thank you. It passes. I do want to before we go on to the action item, I do want to inform the public that we have lost a couple of prominent and well-known Santa Paula residents one being Anthony Tony Diaz and all he was a long time obviously a family man for many years in business owner and also Raymond or as people know Mr. Ray Frutos so tonight will be adjourning tonight's meeting in their memory and in their honor. So now we'll move on to action item 10a Adoption of urgency ordinance and introduction of a non-urgency ordinance to regulate successive rent increases, and we have several public comment under 10a. We're gonna call for those first.

We'll start with seat Lally Salgado. Mr. Mayor can we do the presentation

first so that might be information that would make helpful?

All right very good all right So that presentation is going to be by Monica Castillo our City Attorney. Thank you

Yes, thank you Mr. Mayor, Council Members, the public. This evening council will consider the adoption of an urgency ordinance and a companion non-urgency ordinance that would regulate successive rent increase applications that a mobile home park could file. So this item arose out of the Housing and Homelessness Standing Committee It was referred to the council, and then at your last meeting this body discussed whether to adopt an urgency ordinance.

At the time of the meeting it was a bare-bones kind of ordinance for council discussion that bare bones ordinance generally said The application cannot be filed again after 12 Input from different parties and have made changes to that ordinance that you will see in front of you tonight in your packet. And I will also be proposing later today additional changes following the posting of this agenda.

So, to start what you have in your packets Is the urgency ordinance. I'll start with the urgency ordinance. This would prohibit a park owner from filing a new application within 12 months of a prior application, which denied an application seeking substantially similar relief based on substantially same facts if one of two circumstances apply. The prior application was decided on the merits or the decision is under judicial review.

And the ordinance describes what a decision on the merits is and it does not include one that's based solely on procedural grounds. For example, the application was incomplete or the application missed a deadline. Something just purely procedural is not an applicant decision on the merits but there is We have. Included an exception to this 12 month general prohibition on a serial application. This is required that we're trying to honor the case law which.

We need to allow up Park owners opportunity reason opportunity to seek what is called What's turned from the unusual circumstances exception is now that it allows a park owner to apply for rent increase to obtain a fair return only if there is a, quote, material change in circumstances arising after the prior decision but before the 12-month period ends. Um, so a material change in circumstances means a substantial change affecting the park owner's entitlement to adjust and reasonable return under the ordinance.