City Council — October 7, 2026

Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, let us pray. Heavenly Creator we are gathered here to thank you and to humbly ask for your continued blessing for our community. We have encountered many difficulties and conflicts and yet we continue to be a beacon around the world Empowered us with a strength, humility and wisdom to seek the goal of all of us. We pray for the upcoming election.

For the opportunity for individuals to directly express their voices in how we are governed. We pray that everyone will vote after studying and pondering the propositions and those seeking office. We pray for all our men and women in uniform that are serving here and abroad, that they will return safely to their homes and families. We pray that our city will continue to thrive and to attract welcome new businesses that will enhance the economic health of our community.

And Father we ask you to share those blessings with those in need. Help us to see Our Lord in the poor The marginalized and to respond with love and kindness. And finally, we remind ourselves that we must never grow weary of doing what is right. Amen.

Thank you, Deacon Al Galeen. Please remain standing if you are able to. Council Member Chavez would you lead us in the Black Salute? City Clerk Tracy girl, would you please do a roll call?

Good evening. From what I've observed, Dan Singer has been a knowledgeable effective and successful city manager. In fact the City of Santa Paula shared this in a press release dated July 1st 2026 quote making marking more than seven years of service to the City of Santa Paula Mr. Singer has led the city through pandemic the establishment of new revenues devoted to city services and the acquisition of the historic Union oil building He has served this community and has been at the helm during a time of exceptional growth, which is honorable and commendable. Let me repeat that, honorable and commendable.

Sounds pretty glowing to me. And then I read that his contract is set to expire and will not be renewed. Why? In a letter published in the August 5th Santa Paula Times, Peggy Kelly, editor and publisher asked the council to abide by California governmental code number 54957 which reads, the legislative body of any local agency shall publicly report any action taken in closed session And the vote or abstention on that action of every member present.

To my knowledge, this was not done at the meeting when it was decided that Dan Singer's contract will expire on its own terms on June 30th, 2027 and will not be renewed. Again I ask why? Instead the city is going to step into the unknown and spend thousands of our taxpayer dollars In search of a new city manager. I think this is an unwise decision, a waste of time energy and our taxpayer dollars.

Each of you, members of the Santa Paula City Council, Mayor Juarez, Vice-Mayor Crosswhite, councilmembers Chavez, Cornejo and Ornelas need to let us your constituents know why Mr. Singer's contract was not renewed. In addition if you are going to go ahead with a search and there are no viable candidates then I urge you to extend Dan Singer's contract for two more years thank you

Thank you, Councilor Sleszczyn. We have now Steve Werner followed by Daniel Melendez.

Good evening my name is Steve Werner I'm here again in front of you to talk about the RV parking issue because I want to keep it in front of everyone's eyes because it's definitely a quality-of-life issue for a growing number of us have been putting together a group and it's getting pretty big and nothing's been done They say that there's supposed to be a workshop happening. There were three items in front of us that there was supposed to be a workshop for. I've seen no workshops for anything, so I've cleared my October calendar. I'm ready for a workshop get together put this together so we can go on and not have to worry about if we're going to get more violations in our mailbox. I know there's a pause on it right now but I would like that to be finalized so there's no more violations.

So thank you

Thank you, Mr. Werner. Next we have Daniel Melendez who will be followed by Gladys Valdovinos. Okay all right thank you Mr. Melendez. We have now Gladys Valdovinos and then no one after that unless we have somebody on social media or in Zoom

Good afternoon City Council. My name is Clarice Valdovinos and I'm the president of the 400 Craig Drive Mobile Home Owners Association. I'm here today because I'd like to thank the city of Santa Paula and City Council, and thank you for the attention you've given the mobile home ordinances, the mobile home ordinance, and we look forward to the next City Council meeting. Thank you.

All right, thank you Clarice Valdovinos. City Clerk Grove, do we have anybody waiting on Zoom to come on board?

No Mayor.

All right thank you and if there's anybody else that wants to speak please submit a public speaker card thank you. We're going to

I just wanted to say thank you so much for having our team come today, this evening. We really appreciate it. Our girls have worked super hard to where they're at now. We are a new team to Santa Paula We emphasize all ages from 10 to 14 every Friday. And Saturday, we have exhilarating training. These girls that are behind me and there's some more that are missing have put in the work for the last eight months together and we won our Super Bowl representing Santa Paula.

So it's a big accomplishment. The head coach Eric Veloz, my husband. He is not here today he's working night shifts but I'm here on his behalf we have our general manager George Romero and all of our girls we want to make ourselves known here and you know it's free of cost of coming to play with our team yeah

Real quick, this is a good public service announcement time. So could you just give us a quick overview of what it took for them to get here? How it started how many games if you

at first Since I said we're we've been an established team for eight months prior to that It was my husband my two daughters We were formally given the name of the 49ers with NFL League and We had a bunch of different girls that were on the team, and we wanted to say to ourselves what can we do to bring Santa Paula to be represented. So George our general manager and his daughter and we have a lot of of their girlfriends, they decided hey let's form a team and let's unite. So we established our team with NFL flag representing Lady Raiders and we won every single game but one. And then when we got to the championship, we won it fair and square. We were playing against some high schoolers so our girls range from 10 to 13. So it's, you know we memorize what were our opponents and we came out strong in the end.

You guys want to show your rings? The ones that brought it today? So I mean it's a big accomplishment, but these girls they put in the work. They are dedicated 100%. They are really what's the word I want to use? My husband, he bleeds for these girls day in and day night. Changing the playbook every single night what can benefit our center, our quarterbacks, our receivers. He is the heart of this whole foundation and without any of these girls behind us and their family members that have put in the hours we wouldn't be here.

So thank you so much.

Well thank you and when did the championship game take place?

It took place in August. August 23rd, we won 24 to 20 so it was a tight game.

All right. And we apologize for the lateness, but we wanted to make sure one that summer breaks were over and able to get everybody here and even so we're missing your husband.

Yes, and we got offered a date by Pedro, but we got offered play at the SoFi Stadium which we were just at. So we do appreciate you bringing us back out here

today. Sure absolutely. Before we give certificates any of the young ladies want to say anything? Be on TV? Bring the microphone down

first. I just wanted to say thank you and sorry, I'm nervous. Yeah, just thank you for letting us come over here and letting us represent Santa Paula.

Thank you.

I just wanted to say thank you for letting us be here and giving these certificates to us because we worked hard for it.

I just wanted to say thank you for our coaches who brought us here from the very beginning. They're loving and sweethearts that brought us to where we are. Everyone on the team has gone better than they began. I just want to give my shout out to our coaches, not just the team because a team has obviously coaches that make us who we are and make us how much better we are. Brought us from one end to now and I just wanted to say thank you.

I just wanted to say thank you for letting us be here today. I want to give a shout out to my mom, my stepmom and my dad. I am so thankful for my dad for letting us be the ladies that we are and spending so much time with us and being with us and training us. And I want to give a shout out to my mom for supporting me throughout this whole journey. She's not a football fan but she will be now because she's with me.

I just want to give a shout out to my stepmom because she's a team mom and she does a lot of stuff for us.

Hi, I just want to say thank you for letting us come and thank you for the awards that you're about to give us and thank you to the coaches that helped us improve a lot better than we were before.

Thank you so much also Pedro For always taking care of our team and having faith in all of us.

All right, so I have... Is that everybody? That's it. Okay, so what we'd like to do is read the certificate that is the same for all the... Oh, is there one more?

Go Jessie!

Oh

yeah. I just wanted to say thank you for letting us come here and using your time.

You're very welcome. Is that everybody sure? Yes. Alright, okay. So this certificate is worded the same, but it has a different name. And what we'll do is we'll read it and then we'll have you come up here and we'll give you your certificate. We'd like to take a picture first with the young ladies at one, and then we'd like to recognize the staff. Okay, Certificate of Recognition presented to Lexi Iwany Romero, Super Bowl champion, Lady Raiders flag football.

In recognition of your outstanding achievement as a member of the Lady Raiders flag football team, winning the Super Bowl at Ventura College. Your dedication, teamwork, perseverance and commitment throughout a challenging journey have brought pride and honor to our community. This historic accomplishment reflects your hard work on and off the field and sets a lasting example for future generations of Santa Paula athletes.

This is signed by me, Carlos Ward Mayor. Today October 7th 2026 so that we have one for Lexi Juani Romero Then we have Jalene Gonzalez Okay, we'll save that for her And we have Miranda Gonzales Josie Romero Athena Carrasco. Veronica Vasquez. Abbey? Abbey. Abbey, sorry. Galeen? Jesse Ramirez. Brooklyn Bellows. Charisma Bellows. It appears. Oh, here

it is.

I'm scared here. Cruz Mivelos? Sorry. There you go. They hid yours on me. And Kimmy Veloz. Oh wait, wait. What about... Are we missing one?

She's part of our team.

Oh then, I'm sorry.

She can come up but she wasn't on the Super Bowl with

us. Okay, let's have the council stand up and be recognized. Stand up with these ladies. Why

don't we just take a

picture here?

We can sit on either side.

Brooklyn, you got to open it up.

Jesse open it

up. Ready? One, two, three. Perfect. I'm

going to

go in here too.

Thank you so much.

All right, let's stay here for a second. Now we're going to call up the coaches and other staff. There's other actually designations so... So these are awarded differently so we're going to read each one. This is a certificate of recognition presented to Eric Velos, Super Bowl champion Lady Raiders flag football. In recognition of your outstanding achievement as the head coach of the Lady Raiders flag football team, winning the Super Bowl at Ventura College. Your dedication, teamwork, perseverance and commitment throughout a challenging journey have brought pride and honor to our community. This historic accomplishment reflects your hard work on and off the field and sets a lasting example for future generations of Santa Paula athletes. Carlos Suarez, Mayor of Santa Paula October 7th 2026.

Eric if you would join us up here?

This is a certificate

of recognition presented to Cesar Preciado, Super Bowl champion Lady Raiders flag football in recognition of your outstanding achievement as the defensive coach of the Lady Raiders flag football team winning the Super Bowl at Ventura College. Again, the last paragraph is worth reading again. Your dedication, teamwork, perseverance and commitment throughout a challenging journey have brought pride and honor to our community. This historic accomplishment reflects your hard work on and off the field and sets a lasting example for future generations of Santa Paula athletes.

So Cesar Preciado?

He is also working late tonight as well. But George will take his award on his behalf. That's his son-in-law.

Hold on, so then we got another one. Certificate of Recognition presented to George Romero. Super Bowl champion Lady Raiders flag football in recognition of your outstanding achievement as the general manager of the Lady Raiders flag football team winning the Super Bowl at Ventura College. Your dedication, teamwork, perseverance and commitment throughout a challenging journey have brought pride and honor to our community. This historic accomplishment reflects your hard work on and off the field and sets a lasting example for future generations of Santa Paula athletes.

And last but certainly not least, and I'm sorry. I thought you were one of the students. I thought they might have mixed them up. So

certificate

of recognition presented to Kimmy Bellows.

Thank you.

Super Bowl champion Lady Raiders flag football in recognition of your outstanding achievement as a team mom, videographer of the Lady Raiders flag football team winning the Super Bowl at Ventura College. And again your dedication teamwork perseverance and commitment throughout a challenging journey have brought pride and honor to our community this historic accomplishment reflects your hard work on and off the field and sets a lasting example for future generations of Santa Paula athletes. Carlos Suarez Mayor October 7th 2026 Let's take another quick picture with and if you would please Okay, they'll take

it

Thank you

guys, thank you so much.

Thank you so much for your time. Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it. And when my husband's in town, I'll have him walk to you as well. Congratulations! Thank you so much. Thank you so much.

Yeah, everybody if everybody could just stand by for just one minute the council would like to make some comments All right, so you know what we're gonna do

real quick

is

Thank you, everyone.

You know, as soon as I get their words people are all like, I gotta go home. But no, we think it's time for our council to if they have comments to state on this historic moment. So Council Member Chavez?

Thank you Mayor Juarez and our youth are the heart of our community. And every time I come home I see the girls practicing late and there is such dedication and you guys have such a positive spirit so just keep it up And you're an example for so many of our young people. And this is your city hall, so never thank us because this is your house. Okay Raiders?

Thank you! Thank you.

Council Member Conell

Just real quickly just congratulations again to you all it's an amazing feat in eight months to win the Super Bowl So I think that's awesome and just onward and upward and just keep doing what you're doing Thanks to you all and I love your logo

Thank you all for being here and like Councilmember Chavez said, don't thank us. We're just normal people like you guys

We're up here because we're representing all of you. So I'm a mom of three girls, I love seeing that we have a team of girls that's playing a sport that's not so conventional for us girls to play. So, I love seeing it keep doing it. I have a soon-to-be 13 year old, I already showed her your picture I saw on Facebook she's cheering right now but I hope that she takes the leap and decides to join you guys too. But thank you coaches, thank you parents, thank you everybody who encourages your girls to do what they're doing. And eight months is a very short amount of time for you to go from not playing flag football to winning the Super Bowl so you girls should be very proud of yourselves. That certificate you're holding is a really cool thing to have but the memories you guys are making together you get to have for the rest of your life.

So congratulations keep doing what you're doing and I can't wait to see you guys win another one! I see it. I see it. So congrats to the parents for the work you're doing, congrats to you girls for the way you carry yourselves. Again as a girl mom apparent period, I'm really proud of you all and it's really exciting to see Santa Paula being represented in something that again is not so conventional. So it's really exciting.

Thank you. My son-in-law Eric, too bad he's not here. But if you guys ever have the opportunity to go see him and practice, you'd be amazed. I see them, their drills, memorizing all their plays, going out there performing. They have come a long way but he has put this together and I really admire him for that.

I'll make sure to tell him when I see him again. But for me, I don't know where do they practice and what time? I know Friday and Saturday

but... On Fridays we are at the Limoneira Harvest Park where the soccer fields are at from 530 to 730. And now my husband's also purchased six tower lights on the field because there is no lights there so everyone is safe. And then on Saturday we practice At the Harvest, right at the smaller park. McKevitt Park excuse me from 7 a.m to 9 a. m. Like I said if anyone wants to we have people coming from Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, from the Avenue, from Port Hueneme.

Lexi comes from Hawaii so she'll be deploying with her family to San Diego so we have a lot of girls coming All the way just to play with us.

That's awesome, congratulations!

Thank you guys.

I'm just, we're really proud of you as a community. Like not just us as a council but the community is really proud of you and it's an honor for us to get to recognize you all and for your accomplishment. And we're just really grateful for your family members that have supported you through this and your coaches and all of the long hours that all of you Have put in to reach this accomplishment and like others have said in such a short amount of time We're really excited to see what you're gonna do next. So

the

future is

bright

And well, and also finally again I mirror what all my colleagues have said but you guys did a fantastic job. It's an honor to honor you this evening and the coaches and moms for everything that you do. The people that aren't here that also deserve a great deal of gratitude is your parents, family members that support you. I'm sure they're watching you on TV right now so anyway give them thanks for us as well. Thank you very much.

We're going to lose like 80% of the room now. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank

you, have a good night.

Carlos, take care of him.

Thank you so

much, have a good night everybody.

Could you pass that to Tracy? Well, certainly not as exciting but very informative.

Singer? It's a hard act to follow. There's a lot our department got done but nothing seems to rise to the level of winning a Super Bowl, right? So I'm not going to give too much attention to the report because you have it in front of you. But let me just highlight a few things that we've been Hard at work participating in between the months of May through August.

As you know we helped deliver the Athens negotiations to you along with your subcommittee, have been working with spirit on what was supposed to be a possible transition that didn't come about but a lot of time and effort was put into it And we've been participating in a lot of the forums and meetings around the eventual, what looks like the closure of the Santa Paula Hospital.

Significantly, on our legislative affairs side we worked with our congresswoman in Washington D.C., and it looks like we've secured possibly as much as 1.1 million dollars for our police department and public safety. Unfortunately the feds have postponed the adoption of their budget so our request is in the federal budget but we won't know until the budget's actually approved and signed by the president whether or not those funds will come our way end of winter.

We're busy sending a lot of letters of support and advocacy on the city's behalf and on the council's behalf, and our public information officer slash deputy city manager and our fellows have been hard at work sending out a number of kind of campaigns around advocacy efforts and some fundraising and some community service announcements We've done 15 press releases, had 5 employee newsletters, had 4 community newsletters and created and distributed numerous social media posts.

There's been a lot of employee engagement efforts underway over those four months and also our management fellows when we now have a full complement Have been very supportive of things like the business roundtables and our monthly newsletters, as I mentioned. Our military banner program and other projects. HR has been active in recruiting for new positions and also doing a lot of employee trainings and what we call lunch-and-learns.

Those are all identified for you in the report. We successfully recruited a new community and economic development specialist, a management analyst in housing. You'll get to hear from her. Gloria Para in a little bit, new recreation program coordinator, new police officer position and an associate engineer in our public works department. And our IT has been busy as well as you'll see on the report.

And finally, happy to report we're very close to getting our gates in our parking lots and all of our key cards implemented. Our IT department have been helping to get that underway for us. 17 different city council agendas and minutes, two bid openings. A number of postings, 171 public records requests in just a four month period. So you may recall I reported to you that last year we hit a record of 400 requests in the year and we're now far in excess of that and the years not over so really overwhelming.

The elections are upon us, so our clerk's been very busy helping with that and facilitating that process which will conclude after November 3rd. But her job and Tracy's job won't conclude because then there's the seating of new elected officials and the swearing in and all of the things that come with the reporting of that. That kind of concludes our summary. Happy to answer any questions that Council might have.

Thank you, Mr. Singer. Any questions of the City Manager?

I have a couple questions. In the report you mentioned the recruitment under Public Works of an associate engineer. How many positions are currently open for in Public Works?

We have just filled, and it wasn't in this report but we've just filled a street supervisor. So we have assistant public works director slash city engineer position that's open. We have two street maintenance worker positions that are open and I think that might be it? I'm looking at our public works director. He's looking at our finance director. I'm pretty sure that's it our fleet division is now fully staffed And are your administrative positions? I think are fully staffed oh Yes, yes, I'm sorry we also have two Positions in our water division that are open

and then a follow-up question was and I'm sorry that a lot of the people had left on Because they were coming here to hear about the mobile home park.

Yeah,

is this where you can mention something about

I'd be happy to and I'll ask our new interim city attorney to do some of that but we you know we're aware that there's Opportunities both to come back to the council with a modified ordinance, even if that's somewhat narrow. As well as discussions about better researching what was the measure P ballot measure that kind of created the ordinance that we've been living with. So we're looking to research that so we better understand exactly what that language marries us to. But Kellen do you want to add anything?

Yeah, so the first thing we're doing which we started earlier this week trying to get measure the actual language of measure P because that will actually dictate what your hands are tied to and what we can potentially craft as changes to that without having to go back to the voters. So once we have the actual language I'll be able to look at what is permitted legally because it's going to be very dependent on how strict that language is, or it might be it was written broad enough that we can do quite a bit of things. So we're trying to get that. It's from I think 92 so we are probably gonna have to go to the clerk or dig through our records to get that but that's underway to be able to bring something back.

And that includes getting an answer to the question of the moratorium right?

Yes correct.

Okay and then my final question is Do you know when we will expect to see the employee survey results that were going to become, come to council?

From the employee engagement.

Yeah.

Yeah, we delivered those to council I think in January.

But there was going to be a presentation done by the consultant regarding the results of that.

A public presentation?

Yeah. Okay. That was part of the... do you know when that's slated to

happen? No it was not on my radar screen. My apologies, I did not know that that was an expectation.

Yeah

Thank you any other questions for the city manager Okay, seeing none that's a receiving file so we'll go ahead and accept it next We

Good evening, Mayor and City Council. My name is Beatriz Jimenez and I am the Assistant Finance Director for the city of Santa Paula. And today I will be presenting the Department Activity Report for our department. Beginning with accounts receivable Council receivable is responsible for preparing invoices and receiving funds for various payments to the city, for items such as transient occupancy tax, rents for city-owned properties, billing for COBRA, sorry about that. Billing for COBRA retiree health special events and permits during this quarter AR was also able to get caught up on all state and county reporting Next is our licensing, which is in the lighter workload of business licensing. Staff continues to process monthly dog license renewals.

Daniel is also working on processing renewals, payments, answering questions and issuing business licenses as needed. Because we are in the lighter phase of licensing this has allowed Daniel more time to help with our utility billing staff And our finance director on special projects that we previously have not had the capacity to do. For example, he's been able to assist UB as they've received a higher call volume due to the water division swapping out meters. Daniel is also able to assist with more of the technical and analytical questions as he's been in that position for a longer time about four years on and off.

He's also been able to help create training materials for his position which will discuss further when we get to staffing changes. For accounts payable, our Accounts Payable Accounting Specialist processes disbursements to cover the financial commitments of the city. In this four-month period she has processed almost 5,000 invoices totaling $22 million. The biggest expenses in this time frame include $6.1 million in payroll related expenses such as retirement taxes and benefits. This amount is higher than normal due to our yearly Unfunded accrued liability contribution, this year coming out to 3.3 million.

$8.9 million in bonds and loan payments, $3.4 million in insurance costs, $205,000 in legal costs, $1.7 million for utilities and sewer operating costs, $420,000 in groundwater pumping charges, and $2.9 million for professional services including work done related to capital improvement projects. She's also responsible for reconciling the monthly warrants and check register that is presented to council.

Purchasing has processed over 129 new purchase orders and 59 carryover purchase orders. Purchasing has also continued to provide support to various departments with regarding bid requirements, responses and answering staff's question relating to the fiscal year end process around POs and carryovers. Utility billing continues to work with residents on creating payment arrangements for delinquent accounts and working with customers to prevent shutoffs when possible.

The amount of notices sent, as well as the amount of physical shutoffs conducted remains consistent across the period neither increasing nor decreasing substantially from month-to-month. Payroll continues to train new staff on the time entry process She also handles multiple retroactive calculations for pay increases in the period as needed. With the start of the fiscal year in July, we entered year two and our last year of our current MOUs. Apparel ensured that all of these changes in relation to the MOU happened smoothly and with no disruption to staff.

She's also successfully processed quarterly reports related to state and federal reporting. For staffing changes during this four month period, there have been some changes within the finance department structure. We welcome to board two people in different positions but there are no new faces. In July we had an accountant position that was reclassified to a management analyst.

This position was created in order to help the growing needs of both the city and the department. In August, Finance along with the help of HR performed an internal recruitment for an open accountant position that became vacant last May with the retirement of a long-time employee. And we're happy to announce that this recruitment was successful and Daniel started on Monday as our newest accountant.

This does mean we have vacancy for our accounting specialist position And we will begin open recruitment soon. However, given the timing of how long a recruitment typically takes, we will be looking for TEM help to help out immediately with the clerical aspect of business license renewals. Daniel has been able to help create training materials for this position to allow for a smoother transition.

And for other activities and achievements, we're close to finalizing the audit for fiscal year 24-25 We're also working towards reconciling our liability counts, which will allow us to get caught up on our developer deposits. The finance department is also assisting the water division on utility billing-related projects such as contacting customers on getting caught up with a backflow devices testing that are overdue and we're working on closing fiscal year 26 in completing all needed journal entries in order to be prepared for our upcoming audits.

We're also assisting the Parks and Rec Department to reconcile current and upcoming filming as well as special projects. And lastly, finance is working with the Admin Department to reconcile ARPA funds in order to make some final adjustments and re-appropriations to meet that timeline and close a project in early December of 2026. And with that I'll conclude the presentation.

Thank you for your presentation. Is there any questions for our Assistant Finance Director Beatrice Jimenez? Council Member Grinnell?

Thank you. I'm not sure you can answer this, but I'm noticing that the insurance cost for that quarter was $3.4 million. Is that unusual? Is that due to settlements? That can't just be What we pay for insurance.

It is a yearly cost so it would show up in this quarter versus any other time of the year I'm sure there was some type of increase but I'm hoping Christy can add a little bit more.

There was an increase, we addressed it in a previous quarterly report. I believe there was across the board and different cities there was an average of what a 20% increase then? 22% increase so there's a lot of factors that go into it Not only our cost, but the pool costs. So yes, there's definitely been an increase in insurance costs

And then this is a general question also Who tracks when we submit our? special assessments like PBIT to the county for billing I know Not this year, but a prior year we almost missed getting it on the assessment. So is that a particular file or it's something that you have? How is that tracked?

So when you say tracked in terms of whose responsibility is it is a joint responsibility between the finance department and I feel like that's really not a joint responsibility between the finance department and the divisions that are in charge over their roles. PBID, we have the DCM being the point person. The CFD, we have Will Den as the administrators. The GAD and Hillsborough districts, we have Public Works as the administrators.

The one year that we missed it was the first year for PBID. I think at the time staff wasn't as familiar with the requirements and the deadlines since then. We in finance have made it a mission to make sure that that does not happen again. So we initiate the conversations and we bother people, and we say as a reminder if this does not happen because at the end of the day if the PBIT assessment does not go on to the property tax roll, we still have to build those things. And that is a lot of work for finance to do so we never want to be put in that position again.

And for that reason I don't say that it falls on us as the responsibility to be the responsible ones, but we are kind of the alarm clock for those who are responsible. So as

long as there's some sort of tickler or tracking mechanism, that's the main thing. All right. Appreciate that. Thanks. Thank you.

Any other questions? I have a question real quick. Go ahead Council Member Chavez.

Can you remind us how many months someone has to be past due before shut off happens?

It has to be 60 days past the due date.

And you had mentioned that you didn't see any significant trends from month to month. But compared year-to-year, what are we seeing in terms of shutoffs? And the reason why I'm saying is because affordability has been an issue and utility bills because they're not... They're kind of used as a delay payment in order to pay other bills. Are we seeing any of that in terms of impacting shutoffs for people that are past due?

I didn't ask that question to Daniel, to be honest with you. I asked about during the quarter but not about year-to-year.

And I can answer just having been here for years. There is no significant increase, in fact we're doing better now than pre-COVID times and I think a lot of that has to do with one we are seeing we have been told some checks from Community Action so there may be additional assistance that is being provided there. We also have found great success in our payment plans. So when people can't pay, we offer them the opportunity to stretch that out over a large period of time and that's been very helpful for people.

All right. Well Beatrice Jimenez, thank you for your report. Chris Ramirez, thank you for assisting her. This will be received and filed for the May 2026 through September 26 quarterly report We now move on to City Council reports if we could start off with councilmember Chavez if you have something to I saw you submitted a written but