City Council — May 20, 2026

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. May it be so in the name of all that is holy, amen.

Amen. Council Member Nellis would you lead us in the plexiglass?

I pledge

allegiance to the flag 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 welcome everyone. Madam Clerk could you please do a roll call?

I'm here.

this evening.

Thank you, our Attorney Monica Castillo do we have a closed session report?

Yes, thank you mayor. I'm going to report on a closed session held on May 14th. There's a special meeting that was a closed session under public employee performance evaluation pursuant to government code 54957B1 title city manager 2026 review there are no reportable actions taken at that meeting the other Closed session report is from today's closed session.

The council recess in a closed session to discuss item 4A on the special agenda, conference with real property negotiators pursuant to government code 54956.8 The property located at East Southeast of how like drive and telegraph road. And it's a triangle property agency negotiator with James Mason, the negotiating party is Xavier Megan under negotiation was price in terms of payment. The 2nd item that was enclosed session was also a real property transaction. Conference of real property negotiators pursuant to government code 50956.8 for property located at 180S South Palm Avenue, the agency negotiator was James Mason and negotiating party is Farmer's Irrigation Company. Under negotiation was price in terms of payment. There are no reportable actions under any of those closed session items.

Thank you very much for that closed session report. We have one public comment, if there's anyone else who would like to speak please approach the clerk and fill out a public comment card. This is general public comment we have Gladys Valdovinos.

Dear City Council, city staff and city attorney We are the, my name is Clarice Valdovinos and I'm the president of the 400 Craig Drive Mobile Homeowners Association. We are here this afternoon because we want to express our sincere gratitude for giving the mobile homeowners an opportunity to provide their input and for collaborating with CAWS and the Homeowners Association to organize the forums.

Your leadership and dedication to our community are greatly appreciated. We want to thank Mr. Mason, Ms. Castillo and the translator for narrating the forums, receiving community input, reviewing the statistics of the resident surveys, having an expert, and for reviewing the ordinance to all of the homeowners. We also want to thank the city staff for taking the step of ensuring that all mobile homes received a notice in the mail to the second community forum in a timely manner.

The community forums were a great success Our communities have been providing their input. Both forums filled the community center. There were about 150 residents from all of the parks who attended the first forum on short notice, and hundreds of residents who attended the second forum. This shows a great support from the community and their sharp attention to what's going on as what is written in the ordinance directly affects our living conditions in the park and value of our homes.

Hundreds of homeowners from all seven parks attended the two forums, and a show of hands endorsed this proposal. Because of your efforts, the families in our neighborhoods now are better informed about what is needed in the Mobile Home Rent Stabilization Ordinance. According to the survey more than three-fourths of the homeowners have lived in the parks for over 10 years.

I know that balancing the needs of a growing city is no small task and your work does not go unnoticed by the thousands of residents who live in mobile home parks that you serve in town. We want to urge the City Council to schedule the City Council workshop on the ordinance amendments as soon as possible so that a strong ordinance can be in place by the fall before parks can submit applications for the next round of rent increase applications.

So please schedule the City Council workshop as soon as possible. All mobile home parks are expecting a postcard notice of the City Council workshop in the mail, as it was mentioned in the community forum. Thank you again for listening to the needs of our community and for your continued public service. Please let us know how we can support it in the future. Thank you. God bless.

Thank you.

Mr. Mayor I had a quick question. Sure. Just if the city manager, if he wouldn't mind doing your report providing an update regarding Timeline in terms of what your would be well, we would be expecting That'd be a great thing.

Thank you All right. Thank you Okay, move on to set presentation 7a public works recognition

week. We do have one more. Sorry. It's just turned in

Thank you very much so we have another general public comment Carl Lawson getting names from Lawson

Good evening Good evening, honorable mayor and members of the council. My name is Carl Lawson. I last addressed you, I believe in October-November regarding the Mobile Home Rent Stabilization Ordinance and at that time suggested that recommended that the city do conduct public outreach to see what kinds of amendments might be in the city's interests and the interest of the public for this ordinance.

And I want to commend the staff And the city attorney, Mr. Mason particularly. I did attend the second workshop that Ms. Valdovinos just referred to. I was one of the individuals who participated in the two hearings that you're all very familiar with and it is very heartening to see a city take seriously its obligation to solicit input from members of the community.

The workshops, as she indicated, were very well attended and the city staff put on a truly excellent presentation. Mobile home rent stabilization is a system of administrative law. It's hard to distill it down to a few PowerPoint slides to explain to the general public but Mr. Mason and Ms. Castillo did a superb job on that. I won't repeat what Ms. Valdivino says about what's needed, and I believe she gave you a handout of the points there.

But in the follow-up to the question that was just made about the timeline, I do have a handout here where we have summarized what we believe to be—and I'll give these copies to the City Clerk for distribution—the timeline that is necessary That is necessary for the city to follow if it is going to truly make changes that will take effect before the next round of rent increases can be applied for, which is in this fall. For the 2027 rent increases and I urge you to take a look at that handout and basically boils down to this.

The second reading on any amendments has to take place if it's going to be in effect for next year by September of this year And we are, there's several reasons for that having to do with both state law and what the current ordinance says. And I've outlined those in that document which I just presented. And we look forward as representatives of the association representing the mobile home residents and as someone who personally knows that it's very important for the city to have an ordinance that protects the city's interests Reduces, minimizes possible legal exposure and litigation costs. We will continue to offer suggestions and to work with you but we do request as Ms. Valdivino said that the City Council session to study specific proposals more than just bullet points, specific proposals be scheduled as soon as possible.

And we thank you very much for your time and consideration

Thank you very much, Mr. Lawson. City Manager, it might be prudent for our staff to utilize a backward timeline or reverse calendar so we make sure if we have timelines in the future that we anticipate any meetings or potential outreach that we need to do. All right, thank you. Okay, that's all our public comment.

I'm sure Mr. Goodman will say a few words but mostly the intent was to have the council's recognition of our department and he can share with you the series of events that they're, the internal celebrating

that's going on this week. Very well then let me read the proclamation this is National Public Works Week May 17th through May 23rd 2026 advancing quality of life for all Whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure facilities and services that are of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities, and to the public health, high quality of life, and well-being of the people of the city of Santa Paula. And whereas these infrastructure facilities and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of Public Works personnel who are engineers, managers, and field employees Who are responsible for building, improving and protecting our water supply, water treatment, solid waste systems. Roads, storm drains and other structures and facilities essential for our community.

And whereas the quality and effectiveness of these facilities as well as their planning design and construction are vitally dependent upon the efforts and skill of public works professionals. And whereas the effectiveness and efficiency of Public Works Department depend Greatly on public awareness, appreciation and understanding of the essential services performed by the qualified and dedicated personnel who serve our community. And whereas it is in the public interest for the residents, civic leaders and children in the City of Santa Paula to gain knowledge of and to maintain an ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of Public Works and Public Works programs in their respective communities. And whereas the year 2026 marks The 66th annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Association.

Now, therefore be it resolved that the City Council of the city of Santa Paula does hereby proclaim the week of May 17 through the 23rd 2026 as national public works weeks and do hereby call upon all Santa Paula residents businesses and civic organizations to pay tribute for 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.

The city further dedicates this National Public Works Week to Joe Byrum in recognition of his selfless and meaningful service and contributions to the City of Santa Paula. Dated this 20th of May, 2026 Carlos Suarez Mayor of the City of Santa Paula. Congratulations Dale Goodman to your Public Works Department

Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council Members. I was fortunate to become involved in public works about 25 years ago. Kind of fell into it. I didn't even know that there was such a thing and then I was asked to work as a contract employee for a city in public works and I really found a home someplace where I felt really good about what I was doing because I saw the impact immediately My labors on the citizens of a community and their welfare.

I've loved being in public works, and I work with a bunch of people here in the city of Santa Paula who also love being in public works and working for the benefit of the citizens of this community. We've had a few celebrations already this week we're going to have a few more. And this year, as you mentioned in the proclamation, this year's Public Works Week was dedicated to Joe Byram.

One of our employees who dedicated in excess of 16 years to serving the City of Santa Paula and Public Works. Besides being a great employee he was just a really fine person And I had the pleasure of serving with him for about a year and a half, and he is greatly missed by everybody. And so I appreciate him being mentioned and this being dedicated to him. I shouldn't have talked about it.

But I want to express the gratitude of the employees in the Public Works Department for the opportunity they have to serve and for the support they receive from you as a council, and from the city manager, and other members of city staff. It's greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Thank you. Comments from Council?

Just thank you for what you do and for what everyone in the department does, and all the years they've served here in Santa Paula. And thank you for sharing with us. That's it. I appreciate your hard work.

Thank you. Anyone else?

I mean, if I'll just add you know the public works department are the ones that are in charge of a lot of the things that those of you watching at home or in this room care about your water your sewer your streets. Right like a lot of those fundamental things are I mean you do more than that too but Those are some of the things that folks sitting at home will go, oh yeah I want my toilet to flush and I want that to go away. Right? Like some of those fundamental things that we take for granted are the things that your department is responsible for. So thank you.

We're just so excited about giving the department the resources and the tools you'll need because I know you're going to have a very busy summer. Yes. And the community is going to be watching out All that amazing activity is coming to fruition because of their tax dollars and their support of Measure R. So thank you to your department, and we're looking forward to where we're going to be in six months from now. Looking back and saying these last few years have been such a wonderful opportunity for the city to revitalize itself. So thank you and your department for doing that work and leading that effort.

Thank you. And it was my honor and privilege to mention Joe Byram being honored in this proclamation. He meant a lot to a lot of people. I knew him for a long time, and seeing him get a little emotional shows how much of a family you all are. So thank you. I'd like to take a picture with you and have the council join me?

There we go.

Thank you very much. The next item 7B, the Santa Paula Water Recycling Facility Resiliency Project presentation has been pulled so we're going to move on to 7C, the 2025 Housing Element Annual Progress Report. So thank you Mr. Mason

Good evening, Mayor and Council. In 2022 our required

housing element will be submitted to the Department of Housing and Community Development. And annually, we are to provide a report to the Department of Housing and Community Development. So just wanted to provide a summary of just the activities that have been put into place since then as far as development and policies in alignment with that. With those requirements, one thing I did want to highlight about the report.

What is required to report to HCD is very convoluted and very extensive. But one thing I just really want to give a shout out to the state. This has been in this state for 15 years and there's been a lot of challenges working with the State of California coming from another state. And HCD, I've seen a marked difference in just their customer service and working through this process. They've been extremely helpful because it was a little challenge to get through our housing element but where they are on this end of it? I'll have my third call with them tomorrow just working through process and making sure that we're in alignment with what they need so It's refreshing to see government help government in the way that they're doing it.

But in any event, main thing I want to talk about is our requirements you'll see within the staff report is a total of 657 units and really what that comes down to as a city we don't build housing But we have the opportunity to be able to put processes in place that provide a smoother entitlement process to ensure that we can meet housing requirements. Regional housing needs assessment through skag and that says what we should have based on our population. But what's more important as a policy body, and as administrators of a city understanding where our needs are within this community to ensure regardless of what the state says that we're meeting the needs of the population that we have. And I'm just really excited to say based on the numbers that are required, we're two years into our process and where we're headed right now based on what's in the pipeline and what's been completed.

We're well ahead of schedule. A lot of that has to do with the last few affordable projects that we have and obviously what's happening at Harvest is meeting all of our market rate development demands. There is one gap that doubt we really need to work on And we've heard that from council and we've heard that from community. And that's the missing middle, workforce housing. We need a continuum of housing from transitional housing for those that are unhoused to luxury housing and everything in between so people have the opportunity to move through that process.

So that's one thing we're really going to focus on this year is opportunities to be able to fit that missing middle. We've talked to a lot of people that are professionals At the city in other agencies within the area, and they fit right within that gap. They don't qualify for housing assistance, and they don't make enough to be able to buy a new house or even afford an apartment so this is going to be a really important piece for us to hit.

So just some of the numbers to hit on we hit 57 certificates of occupancy in 2025. One thing I wanted to highlight because we had a meeting today with harvest. They've already sold 18 homes in the new development, and they had their first CFO on that development which is kind of insane because it just started the middle of last year. Right now, as I mentioned us hitting our arena numbers.

The Citrus Flats development the Red Tail project that was scheduled to be open for leasing November 1st of this year they will start leasing June 1st of this year what we did to kind of preface that We did outreach through our newsletter on our website and social media to the community. And prior to them opening up for applications, we were able to get information out to the community and they got 700 applications within that first week. So at this point there are over 2000 applications for 298 units so it's going to be very interesting in fact last week I was out with staff doing inspections on some of the buildings and somebody actually pulled up into the driveway and said, where's the leasing office? So it's definitely not gone unnoticed.

So that's something that we had tested out after what happened with people self-help realizing we want to provide more access to people within the community and understanding that there's housing available So as we have more units come online, that's the process that we're gonna follow. We're gonna do extensive community outreach and provide people with Foresight that these things are happening and what they can do as far as filling out applications to be in the queue.

And just to kind of wrap around that fair housing law, we can't make anything that's being developed exclusive to Santa Paulans but that doesn't preclude us from being able to do early outreach to Santa Paulans to help them be able to take advantage of these new developments. One thing I can wrap into this also is what we've done as far as ADU coming into alignment with the ADU requirements of the state, accessory dwelling units.

That we put accessory dwelling unit templates on our website where people can come in and actually choose from five different models and be able to fast track a project by picking one of those models and not having to go through a building process Which saves them not only architecture and design costs, but also the time that it takes to have a project happen. Another piece that we did submit to HCD is that we are working on extensive development ordinance update which includes our mobile home rent control ordinance.

Our outreach is another major portion of our annual report. That's our connection with our community and I've said this to staff, I've worked in six other cities and I've never had a city where we've had this much of a close relationship with the community and being able to have the responses that we have On things I mean just as mentioned earlier, to have 150 160 people show up on a Sunday to a meeting.

That's for a whole city of our size that that's a good and that was basically one third of our mobile home population showed up for that so i'm excited about what we can do together As a community to make some of these things happen. And because ultimately, regardless of what HCD requires our ordinances serve people and if they're part of the process it better serves them so I'm really excited about that aspect of it.

I think this is really important. The other thing I did want to mention is We're going to continue to advocate for housing, again that fulfills that whole continuum because people will have an opportunity to move up as they have opportunities within our community. I have a lot of conversations about how much housing is being built. And I just want to be sure that people understand that there's a lot of things, both policy-wise and administratively, that we work on beyond housing to ensure that there's a balance.

And other things are coming. More retail is coming, more jobs are coming, and we're working on all those things because the community ecosystem requires all those things for us to be happy Healthy and sustainable. I'd be glad to answer any questions or go into any more detail on the report, but basically The takeaway is we're way ahead of schedule and I'm excited about where we're headed from the standpoint of what our requirements are

All

right Thank You director Mason councilmember Chavez.

Thank you It's it's great to see how much progress has been made for those that don't know Santa Paula for 30 years didn't grow stay the same And that had an impact on our ability to deal with our everyday challenges from fixing our streets. We didn't have the revenue to do it and The fire department got annexed, the property tax base left. And so it was the wisdom of councils previously to bring development into the community and so harvest that entire community that was not part of Santa Paula that was annexed through a process and so we've been growing in our boundaries have been growing. So I think one of the challenges is you have Since it's such a complex issue, not everybody can wrap their...

They just see what they see in front of them. So for instance one of the things that you mentioned was the impact that there is going to be availability for folks to move into Redtail in June compared to the timeline of November. That's one and the other one is The bridge and the development at Harvest, these things are all going to come sooner than later. How are you going to navigate those things? Because obviously some of the infrastructure and in particular the corridor to get to Harvest currently is just one way in one way out.

How are we gonna mitigate that?

The reality is best case scenario, there are externalities that we don't have control over and things will happen as they happen. And based on land use, we don't have the luxury of telling somebody that you can't develop it if they're entitled to. So we do the best we can in collaborating between community development and what's happening and what's happening as far as our capital improvement plan.

The good news is the gaps between what's And where there's some challenges are months instead of years. So that's one good thing about a city growing as fast as we have, but you hit on one thing that's really important. We do have a lot of development, but almost everything we have moving forward is infill and that growth that we have what's going to be critical residential development is great, but without the jobs and without retail The revenue isn't necessarily there. So that's one time revenue with residential, long time revenue with employment and retail so that's what's going to help us not only expand what we have as far as infrastructure but maintain it. But I guess the main answer is the good news is we're talking about a month Months difference versus years difference in being able to upgrade infrastructure because it's already in our CIP and the bridge I believe last we heard was probably next spring.

Summer, spring summer Next year and you've hit on a topic that will be really part of the workshop that we'll do this summer about How our growth is also being accompanied by infrastructure and services and changes so that the impacts to quality of life don't erode.

Find out where in the timeline we're going to be discussing how all these moving parts are kind of coming together so that the community knows there are going to be some growing pains, but we're going to come out of that through effective planning and public education and information regarding what they're going to see at the end of that. So thank you for that.

I appreciate the comment because it's a conversation I have with residents weekly. Thank you.

Just one question, so when will we have to be starting planning for our next housing element?

Given our last cycle probably next year. But the conversation I'm having tomorrow with HCD that'll be a part of that too. Thank you. Thank

you. Just as a follow-up real quick, because most folks don't know that the housing element is tied to a mandate in terms of what cities are expected in terms of the responsibility to provide some basic needs and basic needs include housing. So can you explain a little bit about how that works so the public can understand that decisions are made through collaborative processes but also through policy?

Yeah, well said. Our housing numbers and our requirement to do an eight year cycle of a housing element which is basically a part of our general plan Is a state mandate and the numbers that are assigned to each city or a state mandate and not meeting those numbers as I mentioned earlier. We don't necessarily have the ability to build the number of units that are required within the housing element, but we are required to provide land entitlements and ordinance in process that ensures if someone comes into want to develop within the community That that can happen. We have to show that there is a path and a pipeline and a fast track if somebody wants to do that, and benefit other pieces of that include things like accessory dwelling units people that are building a mother-in-law's or expanding units within their house those count also But if we don't meet those requirements, that could have an impact on grants and funding and availability of support from state funding for other projects.

Not just housing but infrastructure, parks, and other things like that.

And then just again Mr. Mayor a follow-up because we talked a lot about this part of town right? And a lot of folks have been wondering about Kmart And how those numbers play into this, are they there yet? No.

No and Kmart is a little bit out there but that will still be within our cycle and that's actually had a conversation with them today about looking at That missing middle that I talked about and that's really where their focus is going to be so that's A big assistance for what both our numbers and our needs within this community

I mean, I know we were very excited about the development next to Teague Park for instance. How is that?

It's moving ahead again not again but with affordable housing it's characterized as lasagna layers and layers of partnerships and layers and layers of funding so they're in probably the middle stages of completing funding for that project

And how many units, approximately?

They're looking at 90 units on that site. Mostly focused for unhoused seniors and people with disabilities.

And it's in front of a shopping center where people could walk. It's next to a park.

Close to schools.

Those are the ideal environments we're trying to create in terms of our spaces. So thank you for that.

Anyone else? Some things are beyond our control as you mentioned. The Kmart property as Councilmember Chavez mentioned, it's really up to the developer what they're going to build. We're mandated to do RENA for lower and affordable housing but again it's up to the developer what they want to build there. You mentioned about the middle ground we're missing whether it be the affordable or the workforce housing how do we work towards that in your opinion? to develop that, to move forward with that.

And that's one of the things in an entitlement process when there is no entitlement process when someone is outright entitled to develop a property it's about building a relationship and helping them succeed based on market. A really good example is the Red Tail Project they came in with a requirement to do 15% affordable And initially it was going to be a market rate project and they're like, we'll try and figure out what we want to do with that. They looked at the market and looked at the need and said we're gonna do 60%. And so I think it's being able to make sure that they're doing a market study and we're working collaboratively.

We have to do a transaction with a developer But we need to build a relationship and be able to, because sometimes they're here and they're gone. We're still here so we need something that's sustainable for our community and we need to be able to relay that to them. All right, thank you.

Any other questions? Director Mason, thank you very

much. Go ahead. There's been a lot of talk about workforce housing in particular in the education sector for instance. Have that evolved any further than just the concept? Are we seeing things or trends happening in other parts of the county Regarding focusing on maybe supporting those in education with housing that's essential.

We're seeing a few projects throughout the county both on Education related properties and on faith-related properties that are getting developed. So, that may be something in the future depending on what we have as far... Again, infill is where our future is so those are some things that we're going to need to look at as far as both of those areas, faith based properties and education based properties.

Director Mason, thank you very much for that presentation. We now move on to City Council reports. We'll go ahead and start with the council member Chavez. You did turn in a your written report is anything when you want to add or elaborate?

I did. I'm just gonna have a couple of highlights. First is well one I think we were all in attendance at the best of the Heritage Valley and I know it's referred to as a heritage value, but that's not really an organic name. I always like to call it the Santa Clara River Valley because people's connection and roots are with the Santa Clara River community throughout the valley. But it was great to see our community out in full force, and so many businesses from across the valley received recognition. And it's such a feel-good opportunity for people to come together. So it was great to participate in that and have strong support from City Council and the community. And congratulations to those at the Chamber of Commerce for making sure that event took place and brought a lot of positive energy to our community.

The second thing I wanted to mention is obviously there's things that the city promotes and puts out there, and I want to make sure that at times we reiterate the importance of being ambassadors for these things. So one of those things happens to be the City of Santa Paula recently launched a campaign to restore the historic farm worker monument And so I invite everyone to if you're not on the newsletter, please sign up. Go to our website.

The monument is something very special to our community here and it represents the hardworking contributions of those in the farm worker community and however it is in need of desperate repair. So you can actually buy a brick and support it through a donation. That's my brick dot com slash farm worker. And it's just a way for all of us to come in and support the farmer community and all those have contributed themselves in their lives to the betterment I do wanna let's see, I do want to mention that there's so much activity going on We're glad to see Cruise Night come back, our Chamber Awards. We have a State of the City coming up and the summer is really sizzling in Santa Paula so I encourage everybody to support us as best as possible. We have a lot of opportunities on our Main Street, a lot more options for folks and so please help us build a stronger support and brand for our community and thanks to those that are helping bring community and people and other neighbors from from around Ventura County to Santa Paula to get to know us.

And the last but not least, I would be remiss if I didn't wish two born and raised Santa Paulans who celebrate birthdays today. I wanted to acknowledge Eric Veloz and Brittany Botts and everybody who celebrates today and the whole month of May. That's my report.

And my spouse Heidi Juarez.

And Heidi Juarez. Thank

you. Vice Mayor Crossway?

All right. And now I'm competing with fire trucks. All right, so I will start with, I attended the grand opening of the Cardinal Closet. So there's a similar closet at the middle school and now there is one at the high school. It was like the other ones it was provided or created to provide essential Items like clothing, shoes and toiletries to students in need.

There are opportunities to donate gently worn teen friendly clothing or they also have a the Santa Paula Cardinal closet has a wish list on Amazon and you don't have to buy items from Amazon but that was a convenient place for them to list items That they desire for the closet. And so it's a mixture when you walk into it, it looks like you've stepped into a downtown business. They've got it set up really cute and there's jewelry and there's brand new pants and shirts and jackets and all kinds of things in there. So It's a new space that just opened this month and they're looking to members of the community to make donations for them to help keep it going.

So if you know anyone who would be interested in supporting that, it's a great effort that they're doing there at the high school. I also think we were all at the Chamber Awards which also featured the best of so I won't say a whole lot more about that. I have had a very busy month with the Southern California Association of Governments. Before the annual conference, I did a mobile tour We went to see the link multipurpose bike out in Palm Desert area. It links multiple communities that goes between them and people can ride along the flood channel and it was so I went did that. And then we visited as these farms, which is doing or as Aussie Crops is figs, or dates? No. Dates. Not figs. Dates.

But they also have a number of other things and they work with school districts to get local produce into schools. So anyway it was a really cool place to go visit. It's really a passion project for them. And then we had the annual conference in General Assembly where I was voted officially first vice president by the General Assembly of the Southern California Association of Governments.

At that meeting, Lucy Dunn who it was her last meeting as our business representative gave a report on what they're seeing in trends not what's projected but what they're seeing in trends for what jobs are being replaced by AI and this study was actually done by Anthropic which is an AI company And they were very concerned by the trends that they were seeing, because the jobs that are already being replaced were not the jobs that they had expected. They tend to be older female college educated jobs and part of how they did the study was that they looked at what questions were their AI models being asked to do?

And so they can see in some of these areas like lawyers, financial analysts, software developers, computer programmers, customer service, data entry, medical record specialists, market analysis jobs. A lot of those people are using AI to generate a lot of that content and so they were very concerned by their own research on given what impact it's starting to have now What impact will it have in the future. So there's a report out if anyone is interested in reading more I could get that to you.

I also went up on last Tuesday not yesterday last Tuesday. I was up in Sacramento SCAG sponsored the Latina Action Day and conference So I went to the conference portion and then as the Southern California Association of Governments, we did legislative visits with Assemblymembers Bennett and Irwin. And then I spent the last two days out in Washington DC. I got up at 2.30 West Coast time to travel back here so I could be here tonight. We did a couple of days of advocacy around We were out advocating for the importance of that. By this time Over $2 billion in funding that had been allocated and we're now.

Less than 2 years from the games, and we're still asking for less than that amount as the gap funding to get us over the line so. We will continue and there's other many other many transportation agencies that are also joining in that call they need to bring in over 1700 buses from around the state because enough funding didn't come in early enough to actually purchase buses or trains And so they need to be able to borrow stock from around the country. And in order to finalize those agreements, they need to know that money's going to be coming in to cover them. So that was a big issue that we were talking about.

And then also there's a Senate Housing Act and the House recently made changes and so it's looking like it's probably gonna go to conference. We were supportive of the Senate's version. There are some things in the House version That we're not so excited about and so it'll be interesting to see how that gets worked out between the two houses. And then the last thing is, uh, the Clean Power Alliance had their annual rate setting approach will officially adopt rates at the next meeting but we chose to go with the approach that keeps the historic comparison rates as we've been trying to do over the last several years. So it will keep The lean product will continue to be cheaper than Edison. The clean will be on par with Edison and the green will be at a slight premium to Edison, and then customers who prove that they're low income get the green rate for the clean price so they will pay no more for clean power than they would if they were a customer of Edison.

That's what I got. Thank you.

Thank you very much Vice Mayor. Council Member

Nellis? Well, like all of us up here I was at the Chamber Awards also and it was nice to see everybody and catch up with some people I hadn't seen in a while and nice to see the different businesses get recognized I do want to give a shout out to Javier Manzanares. He's our animal control officer, one of the neighborhood cats unfortunately got hit by a car and it was right outside my driveway and so I went on the city website and it took me a little bit but I found the email for Animal Control so I emailed and I just wanted to share how amazing this gentleman is within 20 minutes I had gotten a response an animal had been picked up Less than 20 minutes. So I want to thank him for his hard work and being so responsive and even sending a follow-up email, like making sure that I knew that the animal had been picked up and if I needed anything else just to reach out.