City Council — June 3, 2026

I'd like to call to order this regular meeting of the Santa Paula City Council. This Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 here in the council chambers. First thing if you are able to stand please do so we will have our invocation and this will be by Carolyn Bjerke thank you

Good evening, let us pause for a moment of prayer reflection before we begin. As we gather here may those gathered be guided by wisdom humility and a commitment to the common good. May we listen carefully speak thoughtfully and remember the people all the people whose lives are touched by the decisions made in this room And may the efforts of this evening contribute to a stronger, more just and hopeful community for all. May it be so. Amen.

Madam Clerk, would you please do roll call?

at time of roll call.

Thank you. Just for the public's information there are Spanish translations. Julie and also please if you would if you have cell phones if you would silence them or put them turn them off thank you Councilor, do we have a closed session report?

Yes Mr. Mayor this evening council recessed into closed session under item 4a in the special meeting agenda public employee performance evaluation pursuant to government code section 5 or 957 b1 title city manager there's no reportable action thank you

Thank you very much. We have public comment next, which is item number six. I have submitted two cards here. One's from Gina Mathwin and the other is Linda Basin but I understand both of you want to either combine your time so you have three minutes each, six minutes total however you'd like to do it. So please come on up. Thank you. Does that set to six or do we have to do twice?

It's perfect. We even have it right in front of us.

And you did give us a handout? Yes. Okay, thank you.

Good evening, mayor and council members and staff. We come before you as a small representation of a neighborhood in Santa Paula that we all know is very unique but with its uniqueness comes some unique challenges so we put together a presentation for you to help you see our concerns and hopefully will be able to come to some kind of changes to help make our neighborhoods safer.

So we're requesting that the speed limit be lowered to 15 miles per hour rather than 25. And there's a variety of reasons, but the largest one is the safety factor.

I'm sorry to interrupt. Madam Clerk, the timer is not set.

So the streets in our neighborhood are extremely narrow and a lot of them extremely blind. In fact, we have a couple of streets that are very narrow and blind in certain spots. They're approximately 75 to 100 years old which explains a lot right? And in today's street planning they would be double the width in most cases And it presents a lot of very dangerous situations for us. We also have a lot of heavy vegetation, as you know in the neighborhood so between those two factors there's a lot of safety concerns. So again on page one you'll see that we have no street lights except for four on Say Road.

We have no sidewalks and we only have two streets with a little bit of a shoulder for people to regress to Um, we have many streets with obstructions of sight preventing adequate stopping distances. We have again extremely narrow streets, Laurel, Fern Oaks, Woodland, Los Robles, parts of Forest Sensei just to name a few and we have several blind spots on curves and intersections so our question is do these streets Street widths meet the standards for sufficient horizontal sight distance, or are they substandard and a danger to the citizens at the speed rate that is existing?

We – our streets are so heavily used by pedestrians, which is a wonderful thing. People come from all across town. Citizens share in our enjoyment of the neighborhood. Sometimes they drive and park. Other ones just walk from adjacent neighborhoods. And we have many, many walkers of all ages, all the way from babies up to 80 year olds and more. We have strollers, sometimes double strollers, sometimes strollers with babies, sometimes strollers with dogs.

We have joggers that run through our neighborhood We have, okay let me regroup. We also have many large families with many kids playing and some of those kids move about the neighborhood for classes because they're homeschooled. They have classes in different locations around the neighborhood so they're moving around the neighborhood a lot. There's also you know kids trying to play because again there's no sidewalks and places for them to play so they're going to play in the streets when they can.

We have we've given you a map that kind of gives you an idea. And again, this is just the page four. This is the one that we the ones that we happen to know about those little pink stars are stars where there are multiple family members or their children in those homes. We also have to the side some of the average widths of the streets. Again, kind of the standard when I looked it up for the state and the county is approximately 40 feet wide streets and you can see that our averages are way below that. The range went from the narrowest spot at 14 foot barely to like 22 foot at the widest so we're significantly below that.

We, I looked by the way and I don't think I see the city engineer here but I was looking for what's called the ultimate street right of way and widths map but I couldn't find it anywhere for Santa Paula. But it would tell us what the street standards are. All I could find like I said was for the state of California and the county of Ventura. There's lots of ways to solve these issues but from what we can figure out and then we what we've experienced the best way would be to lower the speed to start with. I think she's going to continue with more of our

Yeah, I'm just gonna add on this. So we did an average of what car widths are. So car widths are 6.5 to seven feet wide and so if our street is only 17 feet wide and you have cars going both ways and you have cars parked on the side of the street, we have no place to go. I mean it's literally there's no sidewalk and we end up jumping out of the way often which I have.

This is I think a pretty comprehensive map What those arrows show are, those are the main streets where we have people speeding and they're going well above 25 miles an hour. So it's just a note. Okay so I'm going to go to page 5 and this is concerns and issues. Many drivers drive dangerously fast at all hours of day and night and many drivers respond abusively. I have yelled like slow down not doing any kind of sign or anything and they will stop get out of the car give me a nasty sign in front of their children They've also cursed me just for asking them to slow down in our neighborhood. I mean, it's really disheartening.

We shared concerns at multiple neighborhood watch meetings. We brought this up. We shared concerns and requested this change at the City Street Safety Committee 18 months ago. Gina and I attended that. We didn't get any, we requested some information and we didn't get any response back. Many residents have experienced or witnessed dangerous or near accidents. One of our neighbors son's bicycle was hit. He wasn't injured but I mean it was still a close call so the question is, is the speed limit of 25 miles per hour meeting the current standards for safety? Or is it substandard and a real danger to the citizens? I'm going to go to page 6.

So, 128 residents of the Oaks have signed... It's not a petition but a signature thing to say that in support of reducing the speed I left it at home and my husband is bringing it so we can provide that. We have it, so we can provide that to you. So we have a... And that's not getting everybody. That was just like going to the neighborhood party that we had and then just going online saying we have this petition. It's not a petition but this signature and we have 128 signatures.

It's a big number in our neighborhood, and a lot of them are with children. We're making requests again hoping to prevent a tragedy in this neighborhood. In addition the neighborhood request safety signs such as children at play residential neighborhood reduced speed. I mean that would help if people saw that. I'm just going to tell you a story. I was walking down Say Road and there was a little boy lying in the middle of the

street. I think your six minutes have expired? Yeah, we do have the information here for you.

One more bullet from June 2nd of 2024 to August 30th 2025 there were 13 reported vehicle versus pedestrian accidents in Santa Paula of these 11 injuries and one death that's the Santa Paula figure in one year. Thank you

very much

Mr. Mayor, I have a question. Go ahead of course. Just for follow-up could we ask that we get an update from the City Manager at some point since they've gone to the process of going 18 months ago to the Public Safety Committee? Yeah. And then for our legal counsel in terms can you just reiterate if this council takes action in future agenda items what would that process look like to put this item on a future agenda? Can you just inform the public what that would look like?

So the City Council has adopted a policy where items that are not time sensitive, so they don't need action within the next 45 days. Those items have to be submitted through a request form that's sent to the city manager and that is reviewed for basically what anticipated time is needed, what anticipated staff is needed. And then that is placed on a future agenda under the topic of future agenda items and then at that time the council determines whether to place it on a future agenda where staff would then prepare an item.

And if it's something that's urgent, that we determine is urgent and we have consensus. We can do it by verbal? Is that correct?

Correct you would do that during your future agenda items.

I would also just point out that, uh, I believe state laws have changed since the time that this was brought up at the safety committee. So there might be an opportunity to take this information, take the petition and go back to the committee and our city engineer to examine whether there's some different conditions that we could take a look at.

Well thank you for your comment. Thank you for the advice. I did write jot down some notes and that is it sounds like you've already gone through your neighborhood watch address it there You've gone to the Traffic Safety Committee, which again takes into consideration not only speed limits but also speed humps. And I know there's some on, say, road. I don't know when was the last time they had a traffic survey there and you know once they do a traffic survey look at the 85th percentile and see what the traffic flow is there and perhaps that can be done Facilitate with the traffic safety committee meeting to determine whether or not the speed limit should come down and lastly I think Probably what you you've already done some of the legwork, but you could also approach our public works director Our economic development director and also the traffic Safety Committee because some of these appear to be environmental engineering And of course the residents themselves so that's some direction for you

I have all kinds of things I'd love to say, but since this is not an agendized item maybe staff can follow up with them and see what we can do.

All right thank you. Okay next we have a public comment just general comment public comment Richard Rudman

Good evening Mayor Juarez, Vice-Mayor Crosswhite, council members staff and fellow Santa Paulans. I'm Richard Rudman the vice president of the Aviation Museum of Santa Paula board this Sunday June 7th our three museums the Agricultural Agriculture Museum of Santa Paula the Aviation Museum in Santa Paula and our Santa Paula Art Museum are together again promoting their first Sunday activities Highlights this Sunday will be the Kids Art Fest at the art museum, at the Cole Center next to the art museum on 10th Street.

Free flights for kids between 7 and 18 years of age and a trial appearance of the Santa Paula Farmer's Market at the airport on East Santa Maria Street at the Aviation Museum. The Aviation Museum is open on Sunday between 10 AM and 2 PM The Art Museum's Cole Creative Center is open on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and the Agricultural Museum is open between 11 a. m. and 5 p. m.. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Mr. Rodman. Next we go onto item 7, 7A Arbor Day Poem Contest winners, and we have Parks and Rec Director Greg Barnes.

Thank you Mayor, Vice-Mayor, Council. I'm pleased to be in front of you this evening to celebrate our poem contest winners. As you know we celebrated Arbor Day this year on April 24th partnered with the school district in Glynn City it was a nice event and we have an annual tradition Reading a poem and this year we decided we were going to extend that and actually have a poem contest if you will. We had an elementary school division, middle school and high school divisions if you will. We received 30 entries overall and our three winners of each category are here this evening with us.

Olivia Johnson, who's the elementary school winner participant. Millie Figueroa from Isbell Middle School representing the middle school division and then Stephanie Moreno from the high school and all three of them were our poem winners. I would like to invite them up if it's okay with council to share their poem

Absolutely.

OK, so they're going to read their poem and then after that we do have certificates and some things from them to congratulate them on their accomplishments. So first I'd like to call up Olivia Johnson to come share her poem.

Greg?

Do

I just read it? Trees. The sun glimmered through the trees, lighting a patch of grass. With little flowers upon the green around, around circled the bees. The rest of the forest left unseen. Sprouted about on the forest floor, little mushrooms red and white not yet seeing the light waiting their turn to grow and sprout but out of the forest come little feet prancing dancing through the creek around around the sticks and stones knowing that she is not allowing Alone, knowing that in every pine cone or little nest she is none less. For here she is meant to be. She has come to talk to the trees.

Next will be Millie for middle school

The trees we need. The tree leaves moving back and forth, birds chirping, squirrels climbing. All of a sudden, a huge chop echoes. Trees falling one by one. But why? The air we breathe slowly disappearing. Trees help in so many ways. Animals, homes, shade and food. Let's come together plant trees. One tree is one big difference. Instead of chopping the trees let's save our trees.

And then I'd like to invite Stephanie Reno up to share her poem.

Thank you, trees. Trees come and they go. Trees always give and barely receive. Thank you, trees for the benefits you leave. Oh sweet memories you contribute to give. Leaves of all colors, oh sweet shade. Thank you for the oxygen you leave as humans each day receive. Trees come and they go. Deforestation, what a villain you are! All the gases from each car, all is deadly like a cigar. Trees oh trees people just watch from afar shedding tears so bizarre what an event so subpar Why cry when we can help? Arbor Day, what a help! All the hands that work. What improvement? Zero irk. Trees come and they go. Trees don't stay forever but memories do. Thank you trees for everything the community will help out. Happy Arbor Day

So again we just want to congratulate them, their original poems. But also I want to congratulate them on their willingness to come up and do public speaking because that's a challenge as well right? And they all showed up to do that so Mayor we have some certificates and if you'd like to come down and present them with your certificates and things.

Thank You Director Barnes what I'd like to do is have the council see if they have any words for these courageous students

I just wanted to say, I'm very impressed with all of your poems and it's very touching for me. One that to hear you recite them, I think there's something really special about everyone getting to say their poetry in their own voice and so that was really a special thing. And I'm so grateful that you were courageous and confident and came up here and read those and shared those with us So I'm just really grateful for each and every one of you for coming in and sharing that with all of us. And for writing those poems in the first place, so thank you all so much. I think our future is bright.

Thank you, Mayor. A lot has already been said to the same but they do say that the greatest fear that people have is public speaking so you're on your way if you can handle doing this, that you've overcome a fear that most people have. It's wonderful that you have come to speak for us. Arbor Day and the trees in our community are very important to us, and we have a policy of for every tree that we have to remove or that dies, we replace it with two. And we work very hard towards that goal to make sure that we have our Our canopy in our city and all of that green. So having the spirit of our youth writing poetry about that really helps, and it shows that you're connecting with the community that we wish to have for our residents. I just congratulate you all.

Well, first of all thank you for your courage to be able to come to your city hall and you're also on television so this is going to be a memory you will be able to keep for the rest of your life. And look back one day and say wow I came here and inspired the entire community of Santa Paula and so keep doing what you're doing because you are the future and you give us hope. So thank you for using spoken word as part of expressing your feelings and your connections to nature and our trees. Thank you.

So Olivia, and is it Noe? Noe. Is one of them Noe or Zoe? Olivia and Millie. Millie! Okay, Olivia, Millie and Stephanie. Thank you very much for reading your poems and equally exciting was the day, the Arbor Day event at Glen City School when either the students there read them in person or they couldn't be there, they had somebody read them. It really added a special dynamic to the day to go over Celebrate Arbor Day on our fifth year being a tree city, having the trees being planted and your poem being read in honor of those trees being planted. So thank you at this point we'd like to come down and we'd be honored to take a picture with you so

Thank you.

And of course, thank you to all the parents that helped make this happen. Mr. Barnes is going to give you a little gift basket. Thank you again. Do they have to stay for the whole meeting or do they get to go home and relax now?

I invited them to stay but I left it up to their...

Okay well thank you. You're very welcome.

Good

night, thank you. Thank

you. You're very welcome. Take care.

Yeah.

All right, thank you now we

Yes, and thank you for letting me steal Fabian's thunder for a second. I just wanted to take a minute to thank the council. I know it's normally the department heads that do these presentations but I could not have asked for a more perfect segue. The same courage that it takes to speak publicly continues, that nervousness continues as you grow so we're really trying to provide our staff opportunity to get this practice in front of you The next two department reports will be presented by our assistant finance director, so we're going to rotate staff who's interested and in those levels that can present. So thank you.

Thank You Director Ramirez.

And just a little warning that I am getting a little bit over a cold. So if I sound a little nasally or you can't understand me, just let me know. I'll try to speak as clearly as I can. Good evening Mayor and City Council. As you said my name is Fabian Castellon. I'm an accountant here in the finance department. Today I'll be presenting the Department Activity Report for the period of January to April of 2026 Beginning with our accounts receivable department, business as usual. Accounts receivables responsible for preparing invoices and receiving funds for various payments to the city for items such as our transient occupant tax, rent for the city-owned properties, as well as providing billing for COBRA and retiree health billing.

And during this quarter they were also responsible to make sure that the CDBG loan recipients received their 1099 forms and filing them with the IRS Our licensing department, which was heavily focused on processing the license renewals in this period. It's the second busiest time of the year for them. The first being the previous period when they actually sent out those renewals. So now they were in charge of processing those renewals The period began on January 1st of 2026 and the licenses were deemed delinquent as of February 10th, 2026. So they were busy making sure to get everything done within that period and they also continue to process the monthly dog license renewals as well.

Can we stop right there for a quick sec? Yes. Can you share a little bit about the dog licensing Renewals and how that's been going. I know there's been some

challenges. For the most part, as far as I know they just continue with the monthly renewals so every dog license is on an annual basis I believe.

Correct. And I think the question in particular that you were referring to were some of the issues that we had with renewal notices and the information related to where people could renew, a lot of that was cleared up once we were no longer contracting with SPARC. That's because of their own personnel changes. We're having a lot of delays in getting that information That was sent to that agency, forwarded on to the city. So because the city didn't have it we didn't have the renewals in the system so folks were saying what do you mean I already renewed?

But the city didn't have that information. It is now all coming to the city so we've got it cleared up and we also had as you know lots of staffing changes and what Fabian I don't think we mentioned in this staff report but the new position that we hired Also got vacated in December so we had to again rotate staff. So we're finally settled in we have Daniel back in that position He's the one that has been in that position for years specifically with dog and business licenses, so he has a greater familiarity with it So we're becoming on a much more Stable stance

Thank You In regards to accounts payable, in this period from January to April they processed just under 4,000 invoices totaling about 6.5 million. Some of our bigger categories of spending are 2.2 million in payroll expenses which is retirement taxes benefits, 6.6 million in bond and loan repayments, 234,000 in legal costs, 488,000 in groundwater pumping cost 1 million in utility and sewer operational costs. 742,000 in regards to professional service agreements and 1.7 million in construction payments.

And they also processed and issued N99 forms to the vendors that receive them. Purchasing process over 70 new purchase orders and continues to provide support to departments with regards to bids, bidding requirements and responses. Utility billing, which is a bit of a change which will you'll be we'll be seen later with the staffing changes But they do continue to work with residents in regards to payment arrangements and preventing shutoffs whenever possible The amount of notices sent and quantity of shutoff still remains fairly consistent with the previous period payroll continues to train new staff on the time entry process and Processing payroll in a timely manner. We've all gotten paid in in the every two weeks as we're supposed to And the successfully processed quarterly reports related to state and federal reporting, as well as the year-end reporting and filing W-2s with the IRS.

Oh, my slide didn't come up right. I'm sorry. In regards to staffing changes so we do have a new accounting specialist Suyappa Vega who started in February of 2026 and we did unfortunately have one retirement with our other accountant Wendy Morris our longest tenure employee retired after 20 years with the city And as far as duties goes, as you heard Socioapa Vegas is now going to be in charge of utility billing which Daniel was previously in charge of. And Daniel Blanco will be returning back to business licensing and dog licensing which is the position where he had the experience before.

Oh there it is. As far as other activities, the department assisted with the Spirit of Santa Paula payments which was under the Accounts Bill portion in the amount of about $130,000. We have officially closed the RDA fund in this period. We assisted with the Waste Management Franchise Agreement and are diligently working towards reconciling our liability accounts.

And lastly, assisted the City Manager with researching alternative fuel providers for the city And with that ends the presentation I want to open the floor for any additional questions

Thank You. Mr. Castillo any questions from Council? I just have a customer John

you said that we were consistently have had Pretty much the same pattern in terms of the utility bills that are delinquent How is the partnership with Community Action in regards to trying to get any resident that's past due, to get some utility assistance through the LEAHAB program?

So I do believe the assistance for the most part is over at the moment. Most of the assistance that we provide is trying to get customers on payment arrangements just so they can avoid shut off and not having water discontinued but unfortunately since That assistance is no longer available. That's pretty much the extent of what we can work with customers with.

And are we seeing an increase or it's pretty much?

It's it's pretty consistent. I asked Daniel since he was the one doing the utility billing for this period And he said the shutoff notices and shut off amounts not necessarily that it's always the same people, but it's kind of a mix of you know recognizable names that unfortunately do have trouble or but the actual number of accounts is usually within a pretty consistent range and

All right. Other questions? Go ahead.

I'll just ask one question because there was the notice, I believe it was on this last bill cycle, there was a little note and if you wanted to say something in case someone didn't read their little notice on the bill or if they weren't sure what it was about, if you wanted to say some more about that.

Which notice, Sarah? That is just something that we do annually, I believe.

For anyone there who's sitting at home who didn't read their bill it's the winter. He's gonna explain what the winter average means.

So the winter average consumption our sewer is a bit strange if you've never really looked into it but in that we base the sewer consumption based on the winter average which was statistically The lowest months of water consumption for customers in the city and that gets applied year round. So instead of being charged whatever water you actually use through the meter to your sewer as well, we take the average of your lowest for the entirety of the year.

And that was actually heavily requested by the community during our last rate study and the one prior to that. They said, you know I'm using more water during the summer and it's not really sewer related so the closest we could get to other cities use is that winter average consumption. We also included it thanks to the fellows Nicole for including it in the city newsletter. So we're trying to advertise that as much as possible.

Yeah, because previously what happened was you just got however much water went through you got charged an equal amount all year long on sewer. And so this was an attempt since we don't know exactly how much water goes into the sewer it was an attempt To only charge people for the water that's directly going into the sewer and not for the water in the summer. That's just going on to the plants and not going into the sewer, so that way you were only being charged for what you were using.

And most customers do benefit from winter average unless they do have a leak within that time frame but in those cases we if they notice it and they're like hey why is my sewer consumption so high? We'll usually look back and recalculate the average to exclude any leaks or abnormalities as well

Any other questions? Okay. If not, thank you Mr. Castillon that this is a receiving file for the January 2026 to April 2026 Activity Report from the Finance Department.

Thank you.

You're very welcome We

Thank you Mr. Mayor, Council Members it's always a pleasure to be here and bring this report to you and the citizens of the community I'm used to seeing it projected up on the front wall so I'm just going to do the best that I can without turning my head. So this is a quarter, we call this a quarterly report but it's not really quarterly, we're doing them every four months now so it's just an activity report moving forward and we made the old guys over in the public works department, we made an effort to use the new formatting And it was very challenging for us. I think if we had just turned it over to the young guys, they probably could have knocked it out really quickly. But we did the best we could.

So let's see. Just for an overview of some of the things I'm going to talk about, consultant contracts that we deal with, solid waste and recycling, wastewater, water, streets, fleet. And then the SoCal Edison microgrid incentive program that we've been involved in for about a year. And capital improvement program, active projects and payment management plan.

So we'll start out with solid waste and recycling. Athens, of course, provides our solid waste and recycling service collection and hauling within the city. And during this period of time... I guess it better do this. It's not going to do itself. So weird. During this period of time, Athens collected over 7700 tons of solid waste and 3200 tons of organic waste and recycling materials.

This shows a five-month period is actually just a four month period. They also did a lot of outreach within the community which they usually do. They did a lot of assessments Site visits and trainings. They hosted a household hazardous waste, e-waste and compost giveaway event on April 18th and did significant outreach to restaurants and multifamily dwellings and schools.

Some of the community participation that they were involved in was the Boys and Girls Club dinner. Santa Paula Chamber, they're involved with the Santa Paula Chamber, Leap Lab, the Ag Museum and the Santa Paula Art Museum among other things. So they are very busy in the community and we appreciate their efforts to participate. Wastewater phase one installation of the blowers at the plant, at the wharf has taken place. So the first blower has been installed and the second blower is... The installation is still occurring that started in May it should be complete at any time And that'll be really good to have that all renewed and ready to go.

The city, along with MKN, the engineering firm that helps us oversee the wharf, and Larry Walker & Associates, we met with the Regional Water Quality Board to discuss our chloride compliance efforts during this period and gave them our findings based on our testing, which is done rarely. Larry Walker and associates also looked at those findings and then they went to Some local dialysis clinics, which are notoriously high producing of chlorides into the wastewater system. And they did some testing at those sites and found that yes in fact they were putting a lot of chloride, a lot of salts into the water, into the wastewater stream. In one location they were using 80 pounds of salt a day uh... to treat their water that's a lot of chloride going into our system which uh...

drives up our are numbers when we do our our testing so we we took we discussed what we should do too to mitigate that issue and so we're still working on that working on i'm getting those two dialysis clinics onto a pretreatment program which is normal thing in any community that handles its own waste uh... wastewater is to have pretreatment for any commercial users of the system that could be introducing things that are difficult to treat at the plant.

Chloride isn't normally one of those things, but fats and things like that come from restaurants are a problem. Other industrial components are a problem. But in this case salt is our biggest problem. So we're looking at that, how to get them onto a program and how to further reduce our chlorides. It's important that you know that we're getting very close to meeting the requirement of the state with regard to our chloride limit which is 110 parts per million and we're hovering around 112 so we're getting very close and we feel like with If we can get these dialysis clinics on to the pretreatment program so that all that chloride isn't going into our system, we can probably drop another five points which would get us below the maximum that's been imposed by the state.

The water system, the water division. We have a really strong team in the water division and that hasn't always been the case but our chief water system operator has done a great job in helping these other water system operators achieve a lot as far as certifications go so we're really excited about that. In this city we have five wells six pump stations Which help increase pressure in the system.

Three treatment facilities, 13 storage reservoirs and about 100 miles of pipeline in the ground. And that pipeline some of it's a hundred years old so some of it is really old and some of its of course newer as some of it is really new because It's in neighborhoods that have just been built last five years But across the city, we have problems. And you'll see in the activity where we've done a lot of down at the very bottom, the period activity 43 service valve and mainline leaks were repaired during this period. So that's 10 a month, 10 leaks that require going out and digging up roads in order to take care of those repairs. We reached a couple of miles or a few milestones. Peck Road water line project was completed Really important to the city, Canyon Booster Rehab project is underway at this time.

Park and Orchard, the mainline replacement for the water and the sewer mains that project will be underway next week so we're excited about that. We had the pre-con on Monday and they're ready to roll with that project and of course when all of that underground work is done In any storm drainage that needs to be repaired, when that's done then we'll go in and put new asphalt down. And it will look like a neighborhood in East Area 1 because everything will be new so we're excited about that.

We've had a, there's an issue with cross connections occurring in jurisdictions. We're trying to make sure that doesn't happen here and so we have a cross connection control plan that has been drafted and it's being reviewed and working toward completion. Cross connection is when you accidentally hook up or introduce sewage into your water system Somehow, you accidentally connect one system to the other.

That's always bad. It results in a lot of sick people and so it's something we really work hard to avoid. Another great thing that's happened is that the 330 zone booster station and tanks over in East Area 1 are online now and are actually serving customers that have purchased homes up in the Foothill neighborhood and are living there And at the same time, the sewer lines up in that area are now online and being used. So that's another big milestone for the division and for the city.

397 million gallons of water were produced during this period. 1,250 plus work orders were processed. 420 customer service request orders were processed. New meters were installed or replaced and 375 samples were taken from different locations And that's all governed by the state. And so samples have to be taken and sent to labs, and then all those findings go off to the state so that we can continue to provide water for citizens.

Streets, probably the most important thing to know about streets at the moment and during this period of time is we went from having a supervisor and four employees for roads maintenance workers to no supervisor and just two maintenance workers. And so it was a very difficult four months for this division They still got a lot of things done, managed to stay safe.

And you can see some of the things that they helped the police department or the fleet maintenance with the pickups and drop-offs of police vehicles. Took down and set up numerous events in the city. Cruise night, closures for road work etc., ground down trip hazards, painted curb. They were out there working as much as possible. There were times when we had just one person at work because someone would call it though the other person would call in sick and so under those circumstances they can't be out in the right of way And so the fact that they got as much done as they did is kind of a testament to how hard these people work and how willing they are to get out there and do the things that need to be done.

Fleet maintenance, also a crew that has been shorthanded and was shorthanded during this period of time. We have three mechanics, a supervisor and two mechanic twos. And one of those mechanics has been out for about a year at this point. And so we've been working with sometimes just one mechanic for days and even weeks at a time. Not safe, especially they can't even put a truck up on a lift and work on it or a vehicle on a lift and work on it if they're there by themselves. And so it's very limiting as to what they could do. And yet they still managed to get a lot done. Some things had to be sent out to be repaired at other locations because one mechanic simply could not get everything done that had to be done.

So we're working on getting that crew back up to its full complement. And likewise with the streets crew, we have done a recruitment process where we're going to start reviewing the applicants and see where we can go with both of these divisions in public works. You can see that just by the numbers, how many vehicles they serviced and how many service orders they dealt with.

The SoCal Edison microgrid incentive program, this represents a lot of work, over a year's worth of work going back to shortly after I arrived when SoCal Edison put out an opportunity for cities to do what's called a microgrid, which basically is set up of solar panels and batteries that can back up a specific site. So you have a power grid just for that site, a microgrid.