City Council — October 21, 2026

I'd like to call to order this regular meeting of the Santa Paula City Council. This Wednesday, October 21st 630 p.m. in Santa Paula City Council chambers. We'll start off with an invocation we have Kay Wilson-Bolton.

staff, Public Works, first responders, our Recreation Department personnel and our City Council members. Takes many hands and many talents to keep this train on the rails. Lastly, please don't leave us without 24-hour emergency medical care and adequate hospital services. Let county leadership value the lives of people in our valley as much as they do in their own.

Thank you for the local leaders that continue to fight for these services. It takes supernatural grace to help us to be exceptional in the ordinary tasks of life. Living like saints feels impossible. Help us, and especially me, to remember that great work is done in those ordinary tasks and they count for all eternity. I know you have faith in us to do that.

I bless your name dear Lord and I thank you for your love that extends to everybody always. I pray in Jesus' name, amen.

Councilor Moranelis would you read us the Pledge of Allegiance?

Right hand over your heart. Ready, begin.

Thank you for the public for joining us here this evening, sorry we're just a few minutes late. If anybody needs equipment to listen to the council meeting in Spanish please approach Julie or Tracy. Okay, Madam Clerk would you please conduct a roll call?

No.

Very good thank you. Public comment these are going to be general public comment I have one two three four speaker cards and then madam clerk if we have anybody waiting on online or in zoom let me know Okay, so I'm gonna call the names and the person that's going to be after three minutes each. This is general public comments first will be Richard Abbott followed by Tiffany Orr.

Well good evening ladies and gentlemen of the council Mr. City Manager and Mr. Mayor well I should have been here at five o'clock to address the animal issues but I was at the Metropolitan Simulcast Opera wonderful opera but I would have Preferred to be here. Anyway, so I got nothing to say really. I've loaded enough information on you about the cruelty of the glue trap and I don't have more to say on that. You have enough information to make a humane decision all of you.

And my only question is why haven't you already done it? But that will come up at another time. So if anybody wants to give me a telephone call Mr. Mayor and their opinion of why we still have this infernal device in our city, beautiful I'd love to hear from you. You don't even have to identify yourself just give me the message leave a message on my machine.

I really work by telephone. I was dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century so Technology, but cell phones fine. So anybody wants to call me up? Call me up my numbers on that slip of paper Appreciate your time. All right. Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. Abbott next we have Tiffany or who'll be followed by Judy rice

Hi, my name is Tiffany Orr and I am the vice president of the 400 mobile home for Craig Drive. I'm here just to remind you guys and I have reminded you guys for the last year-and-a-half and this is something that should have been dealt with a long time ago because I have mentioned it many times in the record for the City Council meeting that Measure P was in 1992.

And I know this because I had literally moved into the Mobile Home Park in June and it was on the ballot in November. I have mentioned it many, many times but it took a year-and-a-half and our meeting in August before anybody of the city figured out that we have to go look at that. So what we're asking you guys is to please pull that proposition up because it was voted on by the city And it won and that's part of our rent control.

I've lived there for 34 years and we have never, if I would have known 34 years ago that we would be dealing with this right now, I would have pushed for a lot more stuff back then because it's coming to the end of the year. And come March, the owners are gonna start putting in another application and then we're gonna be screwed again. So thank you very much.

Thank you, Ms. Soar.

All

right we have Judy Rice who will be followed by Gladys Valdivinos

I think you all know who I am. I am disappointed in all of you. You publicly announced that you all opposed Proposition 43. It's not your place to sit up there on a council and tell the taxpayers how you're going to vote, because you have influenced everyone out there. That's not your place. Anyway, I'm embarrassed and ashamed of all of you. So that's all I have to say. Thank you very much, and I think you voted wrong.

Thank you, Judy. Next we have Gladys Valdovinos.

Hello. Good evening honorable City Council members, City Mayor Juarez. My name is Gladys and I am a member of President of the 400 Craig Drive Mobile Homeowners Association. I am here representing the mobile homeowners as we urge city council to please provide a response to residents as the November deadline approaches. We would like to keep this fresh in the minds of the City Council and on the Rent Review Commission to make sure that they understand how important it is for us, the mobile homeowners, and make sure it's not forgotten.

We want it to be kept fresh in the minds of the people who have knowledge on what's going on as we further go onto the issue. It's a concern. At the special meeting at the community center on August 25th, in addition to having the Rent Review Commission adopt administrative improvements to the rent increase application process, council also did something else. Council members asked what steps could be taken to have the mobile home rent stabilization ordinance amended as soon as possible and what other cities have done in similar situations?

Councilmember Chavez posed some very specific questions at the end of the meeting. What have been the responses to those questions? And is the city going to make sure that the Rent Review Commission meeting takes place before Thanksgiving so that the improvements and procedures can actually take effect before the new corporate buyers of mobile home parks in town start submitting a new round of applications for massive rent increases in 2027?

We ask this because we want to make sure that the city leadership understands that delaying on these changes will cost hundreds of homeowners thousands of dollars in skyrocketing space rents. If you and the Rent Commission don't act soon, you are really hurting our families. This is why we urge City Council to please provide a response to mobile homeowners as November Thanksgiving comes up.

Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.

Thank you Ms. Valdovinos and that concludes our general public comment, we're going to move on now to item number seven.

Mr. Mayor I have a point of inquiry for the City Attorney. Sure. When do we expect to get a response to the question that was posed almost two months ago regarding the moratorium?

So to answer the question that came, we need to pull Measure P. We've requested Measure P through a public records request through the county. The information that they have provided back to us today does not include the actual language of Measure P so if anyone has it in their files you know I know it's a big ask but we are doing our best to find what that language actually says because without that I can't advise legally what things can be done and what have to be avoided Diligently, we're doing that. We're also opening storage units and boxes to dig back. We haven't found it yet.

We've gotten copies of sample ballots. We've gotten the vote tallies, those type of things but there's not the actual language that was contained in Measure P so we're still looking for that but that's the update I have for now.

Okay, so the next item will be items 7a rehabilitation project status update on SR 150 But I also have one speaker card with the request to seed for Do the speaker want to speak before the presentation or after? Okay, I received your email today and I responded that I would make a decision when we got here this evening and it would be Well, I have a little bit of time left as mayor and I don't want to set an un unjust precedents for my successor, so I will allow one person to cede their time to you giving you six minutes.

But then that person has to be present in the room and then there's two other people that can either pick up your notes and continue or You know you can finish after six minutes okay? That's Mark Kretzsch Kretschmer all right okay, so we'd like to have the presentation first Mr.. Stringer who's going to be presenting that

We have representatives from Caltrans with us that will be doing that.

Good evening Mayor, Vice Mayors, Councillors, Mr. Singers and the public. My name is Dan Tran I am the project manager for this SR 150 pavement preservations projects and upgrade pedestrians I'm the project manager for this pavement preservations and upgrade pedestrian facilities from Bridge Road at the west end to SR 126 at the east end. And it's about no over 3 miles.

And first of all, I'd like to say thank you for having the countering teams here at this council meetings. We appreciated this opportunity to provide projects updates And also the remaining outstanding items. What are the timeline to complete the projects? So we're here to work with the city, to help with the city and collaborate with the cities to deliver the projects, complete project scopes.

So right now we also like to You know, work with construction and expedite the process as much as we can. So at this moment when the project is completed it will have some improvement to safety The also the right quality and comforts will increase their skid resistance to restore skid resistance, and also reduce vehicular wear and tears. So, and with that 6062 new curb ramps completed It will meet the federal requirements, the slope that requires and it will provide a much better accessibility for the wheelchairs.

So here in constructions I'd like to introduce my team. Sameer Nadari he is the office engineering engineers and he'll be presenting their PowerPoints, the rest of the PowerPoints. And then I also have Suri Bostrom is the office chief in constructions.

Thank you for the time and hosting us here today to allow us to go over the project. As Dan mentioned, this project is mostly a pavement project and it will improve the ride quality. It will reduce the noise of the cars both for the driver and for the public significantly And there are lots of additions for traffic safety that are included in this project. The scope of work of this project, everything is included here. It boils down to these six items that we already mentioned and went over mostly.

Some of them are added and some will be added by the end of the project. As Dan mentioned, the project starts at the intersection of the connector from 150 to 126 and it will continue all the way to Post Mile 31.33 of State Route 150 which is right by the bridge road. Right now, the project is suspended. There are multiple reasons for it. We broke it down to three general reasons so we can present those to you.

One of those reasons is some improvements that City is planning to add to this project. These improvements are three of them. There are three improvements, one is additional improvement... I'm sorry. The three reasons that we have the project suspended right now is one, the improvement from the city, two for the enhancement of the quality and extending the life expectancy of the project and also improving as-built and as-is plans.

First, the reason that the project is suspended as of right now is the city is adding eight more care brands. That weren't included in the project and are within the limits of the city, not Caltrans' right-of-way. City also including traffic safety electronic to the city. There will be added flashing beacons and also there will be new crosswalk markings We are in conversation with the city, and we are hoping that this conversation be finalized by December.

So all of the improvements to be added to the project. These improvements ultimately will benefit the public and constituent and resident and whoever travels on these roads. The second reason is after we started the contract, during the construction, we noticed that the road has significant damage. The performance of the project started with 6.2 lane miles of good condition and 0.2 miles of poor condition.

After we started the contract, during the construction we realized that the damages were much severe which appeared after the project was awarded to the contract. From our studies We realized that most of these damages are caused by recent rainstorms, mostly came after 2023. And the heavy traffic that followed for the construction and improvement that we made mostly I believe that all of you guys noticed landslide at Bridge Road that closed the road. All of those traffic and heavy equipment that we had to mobilize, hauling away all of the dirt and bringing in material put more stress on the road than it wasn't designed for.

These issues were noticed after we started the project as they're getting worse every day. And since it happened, we are redesigning the road. The redesign of the road will increase the thickness of the RHMA. RHMA is rubberized hot mixed asphalt which increases the longevity and also increases the ride quality. This is one of the cross-sections of the new design, which increased the thickness of the RHMA.

In some locations we're going to have a full digout and replace the whole structural section of the road, which is going to increase the life expectancy of the project. And in turn you're going to see us less. It's going to postpone the next construction that we are going to have for the road. The other issue that we encountered during the construction was lots of utilities that weren't marked by any of the as-built plans.

Before the project, we did potholing. We did 230 potholes and in 110 of them, we positively identified utilities. After the construction On most of the curb ramps after excavation and in lots of locations that we had to excavate for trenching, to install new conduits. We found new lines and all of those lines either we have to relocate them or redesign our project to go around them. That's one of the reasons that we had to suspend the project as of right now to address these issues.

Rest assured that all of this is being taken care of, and we are planning to start work around December after our cooperative agreement with the city is finalized and all of our redesign is completed. And unfortunately, we cannot start before then. This is a timeline of the remaining of the project. We are estimating to start traffic signal and electrical from middle of December and complete them by April of 2027 From April to June of 2027, we're going to work on the ADA care plans and at the same time be going to work on street lights, street signs.

The paving going to start around the middle of June and going to continue by until end of July of 2027. That will be a fast process when we start, and please accept my apologies it's going to be a noisy construction. We will monitor all of the noise levels and be going to adhere to all of the standards that we have to. Caltrans does have a unit for noise and vibration, and we will monitor the noise not to exceed the defined levels.

Striping going to start after that, and will be started and completed on August of 2027. After August of 2027 when we are done with all of the striping, the project will be concluded. We will go through our review process and acceptance of the project. We estimate that process take until December, until November of 2027. During that time we might have punch list if you find something during our review that we don't like or it's not per our standards, we will mobilize the contractor again to address all of those deficiencies.

I just want to note that during the suspension of the project we received some tickets from their constituents, mostly residents of the city. And we did look into all of those and addressed all of those in our best ability as cost effective as it was possible for us. One of those issues were brick sidewalk work, some street sign installation and temporary covers on the care ramps.

Some of these we have to remove again and replace. We just placed them to ensure that the public is happy with the way it is, and also to keep the functionality of all of the assets that we had to remove or replace or modify during this contract. These are some of those items before and after. We had one of the tickets was from one of the residents that I'm going from left to right.

My left? Your right. They didn't like the way that Break work wasn't completed, we mobilized a contractor and replaced the break work. We had a ticket from a resident asking for installation of the street signs. We were planning to complete those at the end of the project but we honored that ticket, mobilized a contractor and completed all of the permanent street signs that we could place and are not going to be demolished.

Also there were some temporary care ramps that we had to remove for the construction. There are utilities found under them, therefore we cannot put the permanent pair design construction in place. Therefore we just covered it for now until we finalize all of the plans so we can come back and complete those. In the meantime, while the project is suspended we are here. We do listen and any concerns that you might have please feel free to reach out to us We will address all of those.

Mr. Mark Bishop is here with us, he's one of our public information officers. I can provide you with a different link as well that you guys can reach out to us anytime 24-7. We will review your ticket, your concerns and we will address them. Thank you.

All right so I have The primary speaker card, Mark Kretschmer. Mark you have three other residents that have submitted public comment cards. One can cede time to you, Kay Wilson-Bolton, Scott Benigar and Ryan Harrison so please come up and speak six minutes and then at the conclusion of your six minutes either the other two speakers may continue with your notes.

And

then who would you like to see time

Scott

or Ryan?

Scott.

Okay, thank you

So Thank You Mr. Mayor. Thank you council. Thank you Caltrans for coming Presentation and we appreciate the street plans. Thank you for installing those they're missing from about nine or ten intersections last few months ago Couple questions that would be great to hear is will the presentation that Caltrans gave be shared with the public and is there any chance that this, the dates that you gave will be delayed due to funding. So two things to kind of throw out there.

I'm representing a number of concerned community members we felt it was most productive to compile a report with pictures that Rather than having 20 people in line making various comments. To be clear, this is a Caltrans issue as the city has no jurisdiction my comments are directed to Caltrans six months ago your Caltrans contractor basically abandoned their work of replacing handicap ramps at intersections along SR 150 Even during construction, some of these sidewalks were left demolished and sat unrepaired for six months at a time. Including a major intersection at SR 150 in Santa Paula Street as well as SR 150 in Santa Barbara Street.

They were always quick to demo and extremely so to build. Where was the project management? Why demo before you have a plan? I brought these concerns to your PIO in April. In June, she replied that Caltrans would provide a press release with an update. No release has been provided to the public. I've offered my report to you. Council will share a copy with

It's the one you sent in the email, right?

Yes. Same one I sent in the email. So lots of pictures wanting to give you lots of feedback, wanting to give Caltrans lots of feedback. We'll share a copy with them and the first picture... And we hear that you're going to be paid again so that's all good news because we didn't know, right? We haven't had a report but before... You have another year before you did that.

Do you just have some serious issues of striping that's just missing So there's areas where the center line is completely gone. There's areas where the fog line has gone. You have a crosswalk, a major crosswalk at Virginia Terrace that looks like this. Now that's one of the ones that's going to get lighting. Sorry. If that's gonna... I get that we're gonna get lighting at some point for that but right now to get us through next year this is a huge safety hazard.

Someone's gonna get killed at this intersection if you go to the next page You have a great intersection up the road that isn't lit, but it has not just white lines and yellow lines to really highlight the fact. It's also reflective. It has reflective beads so at night you see that crosswalk. Ventriloquist Terrace, you can't see at all. There's also lots of areas where the ramps have been installed but Um, kind of required yellow truncated domes which provide detectable warning service for the blind or missing. So I don't know if the contractor paid for that. If we paid the contractor for that it needs to be installed.

And as you already noted there's lots of issues with the roadway as is here's a giant pothole right before the 126 so we really want your maintenance crew to continue to fill potholes maintain this road as we wait for it to be repaved. You kind of already hinted at the asphalt that was put right by the Santa Paula Rose Garden and this is kind of a, right by the train depot, this is an area that's used for filming. It's a very nice part of town and now it's kinda just blotted with a bunch of asphalt and it's unfortunate that we're gonna have to wait another year for that The next page is just north of Park Street, which I know the city is repaving park and orchard.

But it's clear to me that the gutter that was put at park is way too high. And so you have your sign. I'm not sure why there's a lane closed at all there but this signs been there for over a year with this lane closed. You have all this vegetation that has grown in the gutter because at Park Street, you created a dam and water is just backing up. So you can even see a picture of the guy's driveway that he has to go through There's really an issue here that needs to be dealt with.

I know the city engineer might be looking at this, I know Public Works might be looking at this because there needs to be what you guys are doing on Orchard and Park needs to work with what they're doing on the highway. And that same kind of condition at Orchard Street. Thankfully, yesterday granite showed up and removed all the stormwater blockages. And so when it rained today the water could get in the drain. So I'm glad that they paid attention to that fact. It was a concern of mine.

And then further up the highway almost to just past Amber there's just a pile of trash on the side of the road that I think is like some of the temporary ramps and stuff But I don't think is going to be even usable when you get to ramp. You guys can pick that stuff up and get it out there once again, I Don't feel that if this was happening in the city of Ojai which 150 goes right through If if Ojai looked like this, I I think Caltrans would be told to take care of it We're the City of Santa Paula even though we are a working-class city We should not be treated this way so I really I'm glad that you came and gave a presentation, but I wish you would have given the community an update six months ago when the contractor just left.

OK. If you could wind down your comments? Are you done? Sure. Did you want the other two speakers to continue where you left off, Mr. Kretschmer? I

think the last thing that I can say is can we get a written response to these comments? Can we get something in writing from Caltrans? That's something I would ask for. Thank you.

Thank you Mr. Kretzmer. City Manager, if we could request from Caltrans to maybe honor that and what they can provide. The two I heard was the information on this or they want a copy of the PowerPoint as well as the funding issues apparently with Caltrans. All right. Thank you for your presentation. Appreciate you being here and of course the speakers, we appreciate it as well. Comments or questions from council?

Just want to say thank you to Mark and the residents for putting such a comprehensive, detailed photos and everything. It's really helpful. And yeah, thank you Mr. Mayor for asking the city manager to follow up with the written response request.

Thank you. You know, I live up on Ojai Road and the pictures that you showed tonight, I see them every day several times a day and quite frankly it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing to drive up and see the condition they're in but one night because of signage where it says no parking they're falling over, the signs are gone people are parking and almost got into a head-on collision one night because somebody parked and as I went around my car was coming down the lanes were not clearly marked and delineated this is really a safety hazard so Vice Mayor.

Well, first of all, thank you. I know I had spoke with our rep at Caltrans and we came up with this idea of having you all come and do this presentation. And so we're very grateful for that presentation. I don't know if there's one of you that could answer. Is it possible to make that PowerPoint available? Because I think that was really helpful. So, I don't know if that...I mean other than having people go back and watch the video, I don't know if that's something that you could share. Okay awesome! And then do you anticipate that there will be a press release that sort of summarizes some of this that'll be forthcoming that we could share with the public? I know we have a newsletter so I don'y know if Okay. For for those at home who couldn't hear me said that they could do that.

And then in terms of in the interim, I don't know if there's one of you that could speak to like between now and when it actually gets paved. Are there some additional safety striping or things Those are going to become even more difficult to see. And if you don't have an answer right now, if that's something that you all could look into because I get you don t want to spend money and then just pave over it. I do get that. There are sections of that that are a little challenging to see so I don't know if that's something you want to get back to us or if there's someone that could speak to any of If you could do it with the mic though, please.

We have interpreters who are interpreting the meeting.

Like Shamim said in the presentation we work with the community. We are not tied to the timelines in the project especially when there's something that safety related so yes we are committing that we're going to look at all these pictures where they review the project again and if there is anything that we can do in the time being just to get Things looking better and safer. We'll try to take care of it as much as we can.

We would very much appreciate that. Wait, I don't know if it's you or someone else added a couple other questions. Let's see wait maybe I didn't. Oh, just a comment. Maybe it's a question actually but I'm going to do it as a comment. Last time Caltrans repaved that road somebody had the bright idea to change where the turn lane was and we had to change it back so down where when you're going south on the 150 10th Street towards the 126 they had tried to change which lane was the turn lane in which way it wasn't We just don't want that to change again. It needs to stay the way that it is. They tried to change it so that instead of the left lane being just a turn lane and the right one being straight, they trying to change it. So it was the opposite.

So you were trying to turn and go straight in the same Lane and it backed up really bad and they had come out and changed it. Problematic. So just a note. All right. I think those are the main things, but really do appreciate you all coming out here and your partnership. And we're very grateful that you're working with us to get those flashing pedestrian beacons.

That is something that's really important. We have a lot of elementary school kids that cross back and forth across there going to school in the mornings and in the afternoon. So we're very grateful that you've been working with us on that project. It's gonna be a really important Part of the improvements. So grateful that you're going to look at all of the images and the public's concerns and Hopefully there's some of those you can get some responses to and then if we could get a press release and some interim Improvements, I think that that would go a long way. So thank you

Councilmember O'Connell

Thank you. I would just like to reiterate what Vice Mayor Crosby has said as well, we appreciate your working with the city on the cost savings for us to be working with you and grant it to do the crosswalks that we need for the safety particularly because of the schools and the safety there. That's really important but in the meantime our frustration is that it creates a more unsafe situation in the meantime so anything that can be done To keep that area safe as the project proceeds, we really appreciate it. We really need that.

Thank you.

Anyone else? And again I also thank you for your time you spent this evening and the time you're going to spend looking at this. I would encourage you, please if the rain, it's supposed to stop in 14 minutes. But please if you get a chance drive up there tonight when it's raining and look at the conditions that night and it's a lot more dangerous at night than it is during the day with the street clearly not marked and not being able to see. And especially most of the people who live here know the traffic pattern but somebody coming new to town going to Ojai, it could be a scary situation so again thank you very much for your time this evening. All right, and with that

evening. I'm six foot but not 6'6". All right this is great, I'm gonna itch my nose with it. Hi, good evening Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council, staff members, members of the public. Tonight I have the privilege to go over third quarter call data also great news about the new fire station and I'll talk a little bit about El Nino especially with the rain we're having today. This is my clicker.

And please feel free if you see any graphics that you have questions feel free to raise your hand or interrupt me. This last quarter we had a little bit of a spike in call volume up 14 percent I will speculate, my own personal opinion is probably one of the hottest summers we've had and I think that would lead to a lot of the increase in medical calls. If you look at the bottom 11.8% increase on medical related calls Overall for the year our call volume is up 3.6%. That is about normal countywide about three percent for all the cities in the district Wildfires, we had three which is an increase of 50%. Structure fires were down a little bit and other fires were way up but that can be as much as a warming fire in the river bottom or it can be rubbish on the side of the road or in a park.

So other fires doesn't necessarily mean a wildfire. On the far right there you can see our medical calls are about 76% of the calls we run and 100%, I'm sorry Sick persons calls are about 100 of those, and that's down 12%. This is a statistic that has stayed the same every single presentation I've had with you. As compared to the other seven cities in the district and unincorporated area, you account for approximately 5% of the calls.

Here's an interesting slide. It kind of lets you see two-year synopsis. You can see the increases in call volume. So there's where we are now at 762. And you kind of look back and see what our busiest times are. This next slide will also break down the quarters, and there you go. You have the quarters, a four-year span in each of the quarters together. You can see kind of that quarter three has a spike except for year 25 is kind of an anomaly.

Bottom left is a heat map where the calls are accounted for Even though we had an increase of calls, it still averages about eight a day in the city limits. Both of our fire stations will respond outside city limits so that those calls are not included in the total call data. Top right is kind of an interesting graph is what are our busiest times of day if we have calls? So during the day between 8 and 6 is busy but two peaks are at 7 o'clock and 10 o'clock And bottom right, we have the quantity of calls we have. If you see where it says laser, that's not a visual light laser, it's a low acuity support response. That means we're sending our ladder truck on calls that we don't want to put our ambulance or our engines on. So it'd be like a ringing alarm or an elevator, stuck elevator call, just public service calls.

Here's the type of medical aids broken down. by percentages. So the number one call we run are sick person and definitely higher when it's really hot out. This slide here will let you see our increases and decreases, and this is just as in a quarter so from quarter two to three. Large increase in assaults from nine to 24, traumatic injuries and lacerations had a jump Medical arms had a huge increase, that is people who wear like the life alert medallions and they can signal that. So that could be a lot of your elderly are having problems with the heat and heart problems at a large increase.

Any questions so far? Yes, go ahead.

Thank

you. When you're talking about traffic accidents in the city limits does that include the 126

It does to a certain point, to the limits.

Okay so because I would think that with all the traffic issues we've had that would increase that as well and it's in city but is that state or State Highway?

We still consider it for our response

area. Okay thank you

All right, the great news. Before you jump to the great news... Go

back. Is there a way to tell how many of these calls go to our local hospital versus go to another medical center?

I can get that data for you. There'll be a lot of factors involved in it. So type of calls. Certain hospitals are not set up for stroke Or if you are a trauma patient, if you meet trauma criteria, you're either going to VCMC or Robles. Those are the only two trauma centers in the county. So there's a lot of different variables. Patient requests can be one. We can transfer all the way to Kaiser and Woodland Hills when people ask for it.

If you want, I can get that data for you but just bear in mind there's a lot of variables.

I

think

it's helpful for us as we're talking about the closure of a hospital what's going to be the impact on our local residents and accessing medical services.

And the great thing that we have here in town is we have a rescue ambulance with the fire department now so not only do you have AMR, the private provider playing transport with transport, we also have a backup with county fires has its own ambulance with fire medics on it And they do carry whole blood which no other agency does.

Thank you, Chief.

And I know we've asked this generally in the past and certainly don't want to put any more on you but any way to correlate how many of these are attributed to the unhoused in our community?

I do and I give that data to the City Manager and to James.

Okay thank you

It would be call volume not specifically medical calls. All right, now good news. Okay, let me just talk for a second Julie thank you we are close we are within knock on wood 30 days of entering believe it or not the fire department has to get permits as well. We have an elevator inside the station And we can talk about that while we are mandated to have an elevator.

But we're waiting on a permit process. We've done our final walkthrough and have given the contractors a punch list, so we're just wrapping it up. All said, Julie, we'll do the grand finale.

OK, and I will close off your PowerPoint to be able to go to the video for you. I'll bring it back up.

The volume, no? We can sing to it.

Can you sing to that?

Something triumphant. That's like the Death March

from Star Wars.

It

has no volume I think. This is from our drone so...

Oh there is no volume okay. Yeah

this is a good 360 of the scope of the project Could you

just remind the public about the Museum piece to this. Yeah, so if you

look on the the bottom right on the first and the front we call the a-side that bottom right apparatus door the old I believe it's a seagrave and Steve Lasney would kill me but I might be like a 1928 or in the 30s seagrave antique fire engine will go in there We also will have display cases glass display cases with memorabilia from both Ventura County Fire and Santa Paula In that so it will be kind of a museum that will be open for the public. So really cool.