City Council — February 24, 2026

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I will now call to order the City Council meeting. Will the city clerk please call roll?

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Mayor Taylor.

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Council Member Newman is participating remote in tonight's meeting pursuant to the Brown Act requirements, I must ask Council Member Newman is there anyone who is 18 years or older with you in the room?

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Thank you. Tonight we have one closed session case. Ms. Noonan will you please announce tonight's session?

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All right thank you guys. We appreciate that. Tonight we have a special presentation and I would like to welcome Moorpark College President Julia Socanu to the podium. Dr. Socanu is here this evening to give us an update on the college. Great to have you here, and thank you for your continued work expanding opportunity in our community.

Thank you so much, Mayor Taylor, the City Council staff, members of the audience. I appreciate the opportunity to share with you the work that we're doing at Marquardt College. First of all, I do want to tell you that I have with me this evening members of our campus community. I have our trustee. Trustee Lou Lictle is here with us. I have members of my team from our foundation as well as from our business office.

The most important thing I will share with you this evening is the fact that you have the best community college in the nation in your community. That's the first thing I'm going to share with you that I believe is significant. The other significant data point is that all are welcome at Montauk College, And you see who we serve. That data sort of shows not only the diversity of our student population in terms of first-generation college students, in terms of students who are younger, who are dual enrollment students. We share information with you in terms of our adult learners and our campus community.

And what you will notice is also that we're a majority minority institution. How do we serve our students? We do it through dual enrollment. We're doing it through a PACE program, which is for adult learners. 335 of our students are actually adults who are taking classes exclusively online and getting degrees from Montauk College. We have 25 degrees which you can earn exclusively online.

We have hybrid instruction, certificates, associate's degrees and bachelor's degrees And we also do, through our district office, just-in-time training for workforce. So we're here for the city, we're here for the community in a variety of ways in which you need us. The data you see on screen right now is actually Thousand Oaks specific data and what I'd love to call out here is the fact that It is not only varied, but that you have 392 of the students at our college from Thousand Oaks are first-generation college students. They're the first in their families to go to college. They're the first in their families to pursue a degree opportunity and that is dynamic. That is how we grow the community and that is how we build capacity and wealth put people in careers that allow them to not only support their families, but to add and communicate with the community in ways in which invests in its success.

What you will also see is that Stiles & Oaks, actually the Conejo Unified School District sends us one of its highest numbers of students that come to more of our college's dual enrollment students. And actually part of that is a tradition that our trustee started when he was at the school district here. So again, we serve folks of all ages. We serve folks from all backgrounds and importantly enough 12.36% of the students at Marquardt College live in Thousand Oaks. 392 of those are dual enrollment students as I said earlier.

The college is doing well. We're growing by 4% in comparison to last spring and what is important is that we are increasing our fall to spring persistence rates, which tells you that students are staying with us, they're getting the degree or they're staying with us and working towards getting the degree. What is also important for you to know about Mopar College is that we have a high transfer rate. We're known for our transfer. 89% of the students who apply to a CSU get in, 89% of our students who apply to a CSU at first try get in at that first try. With UC's last year 359 students applied to a UC 529 got accepted. That is an 80% acceptance rate to a UC school which is incredible.

As you know, we're an Aspen Prize finalist and we've been an Aspen Prize finalists for the last two cohorts. And when you look at the data, the Aspen Prize finalists are the top 10 community colleges in the nation. When you compare the success rates of the students who were in that finalist cohort institutions and their transfer to four-year institutions, Montpellier College students exceed them, exceed them, the top ten community colleges in the nation by 13 percentage points.

Similarly, when you look at those students when they transfer to a university and look at the time to completion and we look at the six-year time to completion, Mopar College students exceed those students in the top ten community colleges in the nation by 16% percentage points. This is your local community college at work. The next slide just shares with you the institutions to which our students transfer and who we work with Why do we have such successful transfer programs? Because we have a culture of transfer. Our understanding is that we need to make it easier for students to transfer, and how do you make it easier for students to transfer? Well, you provide them honors programs so they can get into an honors pathway which allows them to get into an institution like UCLA.

71% of the students who go through Montauk College's honors program get into UCLA at first try. We have an Aspen Transfer Success Program that allows our students who want to and who want to go to the highly selective research institutions, Aspen supports us. They support those students by providing them workshops. They support those students by providing them mentorships at the universities and as such they get into those universities. What is very important in terms of our transfer culture is that we invite universities to come on campus and conduct admissions opportunities for students. And we have onsite, on-the-spot admissions with CLU, with California Lutheran, with CSUCI, La Verne, Grand Canyon, Woodbury and a couple of other universities.

You know about accolades. I'm not going to sort of talk you through those, but the important pieces of information that you need to know is that as a result of these accolades funding organizations, as a result of these accolades transfer institutions seek us out and seek our students out. So that's our transfer success. The other part of our success is about workforce development and workforce success.

The next two slides share with you the partnerships that the college engages in so as to effect success. So there are partnerships with education, there are partnerships with our municipal partners of which you're one of them, there are partnerships with our financial institutions There are partnerships with community-based organizations, as well as industry partners. And so you will see that some of these individuals are vendors. Some of them are internship sites for our students. Others provide us scholarships. Others work on advisory committees so that we can have the best curriculum and we can have the most up to date equipment. And yet others, like the Navy Base of Ventura County work with us so that our students actually get the opportunity to intern with them and intern to work.

Intern to full-time employment. Like the Navy Base of Ventura County some of our employers actually pay for their employees to come and study at our institution while they work with them. Takeda Pharmaceuticals located here in Thousand Oaks is another institution, another organization that we partner with that not only provides internship opportunities that lead to full-time employment but they support us through labs. They support us through equipment and they support us by having their employees teach for some of our college.

Internships are important and the feedback we get from our students about the internships is that it prepares them to go into high wage, high demand careers. And in so doing they have an upper hand and employers also recognize that. I want to share with you that not only are we transferring students to universities and not only are they getting employed, but our students are also starting their own businesses. So you will see the reference to game design over there. Two of our students have games, video games that are now being prepared for marketing to the general public.

The competencies and skills that they pick up at More Park College lead them to career success. At the end of within a year of completing their degree at Mopar College. This is the result of a study that was done by the College Futures Foundation, where they looked at students 15 years after they left institution and tracked their success over that time frame. I've shared with you that we offer internships. I've also shared with you that our students are doing exceedingly well in professional capacities. Our nursing student have 100% completion rate on NCLEX. And similarly, with our radiology students, they have a 91% completion rate and pass rate, sorry.

We're very excited about that. But what we're also excited about is the fact that we've just been approved for a bachelor's degree in cyber defense network operations. If you are concerned about the safety of your information, if you are concerned about the potential for cyber terrorism, You know that we need to have individuals who are not only trained, but who are trained at institutions that have the integrity and that have the recognition. And Mobile College is recognized by the NSA as a center of excellence and thus our students get additional training and our faculty get additional training so they can be competitive in the workplace.

The other thing that's coming up at Montpellier College this year, and particularly at the end of the summer is a summer concert series. Last time I was here with you, I shared with you that we were looking to build an amphitheater. $60 million. Well, $60 million doesn't drop in your pocket unless one of you has that and you want to share that with us. But it doesn't drop in your pocket just like that. So our foundation has raised funds and we've purchased a temporary amphitheater stage, and that amphitheater stage will start hosting concerts as probably as early as August of this year through the fall.

This will be the beginning of our 60th year. Moorpark College turns 60 next September, and so we are using the opportunity of our 60th year to showcase the stage and bring in high-quality entertainment to the communities that we serve. We are your local community college. We are partners in advancing the economic success of the city of Thousand Oaks and families, and the industry, and the businesses, and the community-based organizations that you serve. Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to speak with you this evening. I appreciate it, and I don't take it for granted.

Doctor, thank you so much for being here. Having an option is a... Yeah, thank you. Having a community college option for our kids, especially one that's excelling is really valuable for us. So thank you for your work and thank you for the presentation tonight. Thank you so much. All right next up is public comments. Will the City Clerk please announce them?

This is the time and place for public comments. Speakers are requested to state their community of residence for the record. 11 individuals have requested to speak pursuant to council standards, speakers are allowed three minutes. The yellow light displays when you have one minute remaining.

All right, we are gonna start with in-person tonight and then we'll move over to Zoom. You have three minutes. I won't be harsh but if you see the lights go on, we would just ask that you wrap it up at that point. We're gonna start tonight with Larry Potishman and then after Larry will be Diana Marquez.

My name is Larry Potishment from Thousand Oaks The undocumented in Ventura County are a significant part of the economic growth of our region, which I'll briefly detail for you. They contribute $3.3 billion annually to Ventura County GDP, which is over 10% of the county total according to Jamshid Damui, professor and director of economics at CLU. Through all their economic activity each employee generates about 45K in total tax revenues for various government levels and services They contribute about $175 million to Social Security and the employers add $157 million, none of which these documented ever receive because they're ineligible for Social Security.

But the ICE effect on businesses as well as the undocumented has been devastating. In a February 9th report, the LA County Department of Economic Opportunity and LA County Economic Development Corporation released a report Analyzing the economic impacts of federal immigration enforcement activities on small businesses, workers and communities. Some of these business disruption statistics in the report include 3.7 million reported business losses in just three months from July to September 2025.

82% of businesses surveyed reported negative impacts from immigration enforcement. 51% reported decreased customer traffic, 33% of employers said workers were afraid to report to work and 59% of employers expressed concern about maintaining their workforce. So as businesses lose customers and workers to ICE raids we're experiencing significant economic and business impacts But beyond these repercussions, please consider the devastating effect of breaking up families with long histories here on the wives and children of those left behind.

Over 78% of the undocumented in Ventura County have been in the US for over 10 years and 30% have been here more than 20 years. Approximately 32% of Hispanic or Latino children live with undocumented parents. And since less than 10% of those arrested have violent criminal records, what's the benefit of these arrests? What's the point? It's hurting families, businesses and the economy.

I encourage the City Council to consider all options you have available to you to slow or stop these raids and to help these victims. In conclusion, we need to invest in real humane solutions. Pathways to amnesty and stability that keep families together instead of pouring billions into detention systems, tearing parents from their children, undermining constitutional protections and normalizing cruelty.

Thank you.

Next up is going to be Diana. Following Diana will be Shannon Anderson.

So this weekend, well first of all I'm going to say that I am Diana Marquez. I am a proud daughter of immigrant parents. This past weekend I attended my last uncle's funeral where we were watching movies, family movies of 35 cousins growing up together in Boyle Heights With seven uncles and aunts watching over us, laughing and playing with us as we were growing up.

And my father was the oldest of those children. He was born in the United States and he brought his mother here, and then he sponsored each and every one of his siblings to come here so that they could become citizens. All of those aunts and uncles raised 35 children that all went on to college, have gone on to become doctors, engineers, and highly successful professionals.

These days, our society doesn't allow that pathway for citizenship. These days we are using immigrants as if they were slave labor. It benefits the economy of the United States And it is unjust to the people of Mexico. This was Mexico, our people lived here first. Our families were divided by a border from a war that was unjust. Fought not only by Mexicans, but by Irish who saw the injustice of that war and fought for Mexico. Went AWOL against the United States of America because they saw that they were fighting for the wrong side.

I have Irish blood in me because of that. My whole family does. Nobody in the United States is an American. There's no such thing except for the natives, and yet the rest of us are treated so unjustly. We've talked about the economic impact of the immigrant community. We've talked that over and over again, and I thank Larry for bringing it up again, but it's falling on deaf ears.

MAGA supports ICE, and ICE is taking on Nazi tactics against our people. And if you don't see that, all I can say is none are so blind as those who won't see not those who can't. Those who won't. How far back does MAGA want to take us? Back to the 1400s, the 1600s? How far back? To make America great again? No. We should be looking to the future for the American promise.

Following Shannon will be Clint Foltz.

Hi, good evening council members. My name is Shannon Anderson. I'm a volunteer with 805 UndocuFund and I just want to start by thanking you for all of your efforts so far on behalf of immigrants in our community for the donation to the Ventura County Community Foundation as well as the placement of red cards at the counters here in City Hall I know that you're very limited in what you're able to do since these are matters that are dictated at a federal level, but I did want to appreciate and recognize you for what you have done.

I also wanted to express my appreciation for the presentation about Moorpark College. I believe that higher education has always been important, but right now is particularly important as we realize how critical it is in educating our citizenry to become informed voters who can make discerning decisions in the voting booth. So I'm really proud to have that community college here in our backyard and grateful for the work that it does.

So that said, I wanted to update everybody on what our local ICE agents have been up to lately. So I'm gonna drop some things in the overhead projector.

TOTV there's something to show.

Thank you. So these are a couple of vehicles that were on the road today, driven by ICE agents as they drove through Ventura County looking for people to detain. There are a series of five black Pathfinders that were recently purchased that you can see on the roads now. The one that you can see in the picture I believe has a Nevada license plate. Also be on the lookout for one with a Florida license plate, as well as vehicles with no license plates.

The other vehicle is a Silver Expedition with an obscured license plate with a bubble cover. If you see these vehicles, you can call our hotline at 805-870-8855. There's another item TOTV. Okay, thank you. So these are the four other vehicles that were roaming our county today. You can see a white Dodge Durango with no license plate. You can see a new Jeep Laredo also with no license plate.

You can see an older model of Jeep with a bubble cover makes the license plate difficult to read. And then that last one is a Silver Explorer. So again, if you see any of these vehicles or you think you see them, you can call or text our hotline at 805-870-8855 and we will send patrollers to respond and make sure that the community is protected and safe. And if we can't do that, we will document what takes place. Thank you so much for your time.

Hello, my name is Clint Fultz and I'm a resident of Thousand Oaks. I'd like to address some of what was said during the public comment period at last City Council meeting. A few of those comments were dismissed as hyperbolic by other speakers and I'd like to express my concerns. It's undeniable that our community is being affected by masked ICE agents who often refuse to identify themselves and drive unmarked cars erratically through our streets. They operate without community oversight and are a threat to public safety. Across the U.S., ICE is engaged in the practices of illegal racial profiling, warrantless arrests, and detaining suspects including U. S. citizens without cause.

This all goes far beyond immigration enforcement. According to one report, out of 379,000 arrests only 8,700 of them were suspected gang members or suspected terrorists. That's a mere 2% of arrests. 98% of those people arrested were terrorized without reason. Our Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights are being violated oftentimes just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

People are being held often without access to lawyers, held for days or weeks after judges have ordered them released. Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,000 times since October that the current administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully. People including children have been physically and sexually assaulted, denied adequate food and water, and at least 31 reported deaths of detainees has occurred.

And now ICE plans to spend $38 billion to acquire warehouses across the country and retrofit them into immigration detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people. How would you feel if one of the warehouses in our community was converted into a concentration camp? Andrea Pitzer, author of the book One Long Night A Global History of Concentration Camps available at The Thousand Oaks Library defines concentration camps as mass civilian detention without real trials targeting vulnerable groups for political gain based on ethnicity race religion or political affiliation other than for crimes committed.

The growing system of detention camps in the U.S. fits this definition. The first concentration camps was built in Cuba in 1896, not long after the U. S. established concentration camps in the Philippines. Later, the US interned Japanese residents in camps which were described by Presidents Roosevelt and Harry Truman as concentration camp. What we are seeing in this present day, this growing network of concentration camps is a continuation of this dark history.

I ask that the council and members of our community love thy neighbor, do whatever is legally permitted to stop these atrocities and hold ICE accountable before the situation grows any worse. Thank you

Next up is going to be Laura Tribble. Following Laura will be Wren Schwinn. I am going to say this, I run the risk of it not being perceived well so my apologies but for the applause we just ask because we have a lot of speakers tonight if you guys don't mind wave your hands but just so we can make sure everybody gets their moment to talk and we get everything accomplished but we thank you. We are very glad you guys are here speaking

Thank you, Mayor Taylor and thank you council members. My name is Laura Tribble and I'm a resident of Thousand Oaks. And I want to begin by grounding this discussion in facts and not fear. Earlier this year the Atlantic reported that the per capita crime rate of federal border enforcement officers was higher than the per capita crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States. That comparison was drawn from years of arrest and misconduct data. Yet despite that reality, undocumented immigrants are the ones treated as a public safety threat. They are detained and separated from their families and targeted by sweeping enforcement.

And Monday in testimony before Congress, a former ICE official described internal directives that encourage agents to push legal boundaries prioritizing arrest quotas and rapid removals over constitutional safeguards He testified that agents were pressured to make arrests even when probable cause was questionable and restraint amongst agents was discouraged. That was not just concerning, it was alarming because the lawlessness is not theoretical. It's happening here in our streets.

Federal courts have repeatedly found that the Department of Homeland Security practices have violated or infringed at least six constitutional amendments. These are not allegations, these are judicial findings. First amendment through surveillance and retaliation against journalists protesters and people documenting enforcement The Fourth Amendment, through warrantless stops and prolonged detentions without probable cause. And the Fifth Amendment, through denial of due process and family separations without individualized determinations. And the Sixth Amendment, through interference with access to counsel.

And the Eighth Amendment, through prolonged detention in inhumane conditions and documented medical neglect. And the Fourteenth Amendment, though racial profiling and discriminatory enforcement. We are not talking about isolated mistakes. We are talking about patterns that federal courts have already ruled unconstitutional, and some of the people being stopped here in the Conejo Valley and questioned our citizens and their minors, and people are harassed for proof of citizenship because they do not look white.

How can we call this public safety? When federal agents operate outside constitutional guardrails it erodes trust and destabilizes families and makes communities less safe, not more. Our city has both a moral and legal responsibility to protect the constitutional rights of everyone within our jurisdiction. That means ensuring city resources are not used to assist in unlawful detentions, and it means demanding transparency, and it means standing clearly on the side of the Constitution. And this is not about partisanship. This is about the rule of law.

If we truly believe in the Constitution, then we have a duty to defend it. And I urge this council to take meaningful action and support any local policy brought before you that protects our constitutional rights and addresses these serious concerns. And, I am a volunteer from 805 Madaki Fund, and we come to these meetings to make sure everyone here knows that we are there looking out for our citizens. Thank you. All

right next up is Wren, and then following Wren will be Joel Harbison.

Hi, my name is Wren Schwind. I'm a resident of Newberry Park for over 20 years. I was checking out the Thousand Oaks City website and I was reading the Our Vision statements where it says a tight-knit community where people of all ages, stages of life and backgrounds can thrive in a suburban family friendly environment It also states residents and visitors alike value the safe, welcoming family-friendly atmosphere.

There's also Thousand Oaks City guiding principles that state family friendly community with a high quality of life accessible to all An inclusive and welcoming community that embraces ethnic, racial, age, gender, disabled and special needs, sexual orientation, religion and economic diversity. Diverse and resilient economy. A city that recognizes its role as a leader in Conejo Valley, Ventura County and Southern California region. These are all wonderful things and it makes us all very very proud of our city.

And I appreciate all that you do for the residents of your city to make sure that we follow these principles and vision So, how can you help your Thousand Oaks families and their children who are not criminals from being terrorized and living daily lives of fear? I do appreciate that you hand out the red cards. At City Hall, giving information on residents and their rights.

Maybe we could give that to the ICE agents that come around in the city so that they would also know the rights of the people. Our city's economic health also very much depends on our Latino residents. So as a Thousand Oaks City, let's make sure that we keep on our path and stay on the right side of history. Thank you.

My name is Joel Halverson, an American citizen and legal resident of Thousand Oaks. The previous Thousand Oaks City Council meeting held on February 10th was the very first council meeting I attended. I was invited to join with my patriotic brothers and sisters from Patriot Academy. I left frustrated and stunned by the lack of logic, common sense, and fiduciary restraint shown not only by my neighbors but some of you on the council.

I appreciate our neighbors from 805 Undocufon being here, exercising their First Amendment right to peacefully tell us about federal agents in our area arresting illegal aliens. We need to give them credit for not being out there rioting and obstructing those federal agents like they have in Minnesota. However repeatedly they called the arresting of these illegal aliens kidnapping and in the famous words of the prophet Inigo Mendoza, I do not think that word means what they think it means I remind the Council, a kidnapping is an unlawful restraint of a person.

An arrest is an unlawful taking of a person by the justice system. The rhetoric of kidnapping or likening Thousand Oaks to Nazi Germany is not helping defuse the situation they seem to claim is causing crippling fear. They are feeding into that fear with inaccurate words. Whether intentionally or not, I suspect it is. The council needs to understand the correct terminology to accurately reflect what is happening.

Finally Council Member Report by Robert Engler brought bad news about the funding the state will be providing or maybe not during his trip to Sacramento to discuss e-bikes. Council Member Engler mentioned a cost-neutral program to raise taxes to offset the dwindling revenue from gas tax. This dwindling, he noted, is caused by the increase in use of electric vehicles and cars becoming more efficient.

Council Member Engler wants to shift that income stream to a more realistic approach. Are you serious? You sound like the Surgeon General complaining about the loss of tobacco tax sales. How long have progressives been regulating everything from light bulbs to shower heads, to toilets, to stoves we can install in our homes? Even the type of cars we can drive.

And when we're successful in reducing our water, electricity or gas, bureaucrats find new inventive ways to raise our taxes, or as you call them revenues. How about we try to reduce the city's budget by rooting out waste and fraud like our neighbors in Minneapolis or the use of doge?

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Next up, we have Michael Steele.

Good evening. I figured the last time, I didn't do justice for my attire so I'm just going to do a quick spin for the camera so that way everyone can see. Please vote for Steve Hilton for Governor. Thank you for that moment. So with that being said, I want to thank the previous gentleman for addressing this. Because the group 805 UndocuFund appears to have some kind of warped education about words and meaning, so I wanted to also lend credibility to the previous speaker. When they address things like kidnappings those are actually lawful arrests and lawful deportations of people who shouldn't be here. Now somebody earlier was speaking about constitutional rights Now, if you are a legal citizen within this country then you have rights. If you criminally entered this country that makes you a criminal.

You don't have rights now during the Biden administration there was 20 million more than 20 million illegals who were paid to enter our country among those were 300,000 undocumented children who went missing and I don't hear anyone from 805 undocufined talking about that with all their empathetic hearts however Among them was also cartels who are active in California and Texas and other states converting residential neighborhoods to toxic grow zones and chemical laboratories. Now my mom migrated here from Colombia, that would be a South American country for those of you who don't understand. You have two ways to enter the U.S., there is no third option.

Somebody was talking about economic disparities for businesses did any of you stand up for businesses that were shut down during COVID? If not, you have no place to speak. People are talking about our constitutional rights being violated as they are standing here today. I don't know how your personal constitutional rights were violated. Please explain that to me the next time you're talking.

Somebody else was mentioning Nazi tactics. That is a huge conflation of what's going on. That's federal law enforcement doing their job and arresting people that should not be here and those that might be next to them might also have entered the country illegally but they are targeting criminals So finally somebody asked me, love thy neighbor. If you came here and are here legally, you are my neighbor. Thank you for the time.

All right now we're going to be moving over to Zoom. First speaker is Rosanna Guerra.

Good evening, Mayor Taylor and City Council members. My name is Rosanna Guerra and I'm a longtime resident of the city of Thousand Oaks. My husband and I selected Thousand Oaks to purchase a home and raise a family because of the quiet neighborhoods excellent schools in the feeling of community. I've come before you many times to discuss the changes in our community due to the infiltration by federal officers of the Immigration and Custom Enforcement Agency.

At the time, I was instructed to contact my congressional rep. I did that and I'm happy to say that action was taken to hold a press conference outside the detention center and an inspection as well with a determination to abolish The practices of the recent administration with regard to enforcement. So why am I still before you? Because I am fearful of the safety that their practices impose upon our community.

Testimony on Monday, February 23rd before the Senate Oversight Committee by a former trainer outlines a risk that is posed by their methods of operation. What you may not know is the following since the new administration has taken effect. Training hours for new cadets has been reduced by close to half, from 548 hours to 240. No classes on the constitutional requirements for their job.

Reduced classes on firearms training and the use of force taught by the legal department. No classes on how to use our firearms correctly and safely. No classes on how the Constitution works and limits to their authority. Classes on rights of protesters was cut down from two hours to ten minutes. Cadets are not taught how to be objectively reasonable. These are some of the points, which means we have armed cadets without any type of adequate training posting risks to all our communities.

This should be alarming to all of you. My ask is simple, to compose a group of community members, stakeholders and clergy That periodically reports directly to City Council on the methods of operation by ICE, so that intervention and documentation takes place at the city level. This documentation by community-minded stakeholders and citizens will be the assurance needed to safeguard against restrictions on our rights and on unlawful uses of force.

Thank you.

Next up we have Danielle Bloom or Blum, excuse me. She's not on. Okay moving on we will go to Milo Wagner.

Yes this is Milo Wagner I'm a 20-year resident of Thousand Oaks. I worked as a molecular biologist, the economic engine that is California from the people in the fields that make us an agricultural powerhouse to the laboratories that create intellectual value and make us a technology leader These are the people that feed the economic engine of California. These are not invaders, these are our neighbors.

Our constitutional rights are being violated, as the whistleblower testified in Congress. They are deliberately ignoring our constitutional rights. They're shooting American citizens in the streets and then clapping and comparing it to a video game. And these knee-bending bootlickers Dare to say we're questioning their professionalism and dare to compare them to Nazi Germany, please get a grip.

Billionaires are making millions warehousing people and they're celebrating. We're building concentration camps in America. I'm a US military veteran. I fought for freedom for this country not the freedom to make concentration camps. Thank you.

And last but not least, Kinsey Flame.

Hello everyone I hope i'm on the right item and i'm not here to talk about e-bikes don't be shocked My name is Kinsey Flame. I'm a Thousand Oaks resident, small business owner and a mom raising kids in this community. And I'm here tonight to support Fur and Feathers Farm Stand not just because it sells eggs and baked goods but because it represents something bigger. It represents the kind of neighborhood we all say we want. We talk a lot about community. We talk a lot about supporting small business We talk about teaching our kids initiative, responsibility and hard work. And when someone actually does those things legally, transparently and with care we put up roadblocks.

This isn't a corporation, this is a family. This is a small stand on wheels. This is someone who followed the process, got the license, worked with the city and invested her time money and heart into something positive. As a mom I think about what our kids are watching. They're watching to see whether effort is rewarded or discouraged. Whether building something is worth it. Whether community support is real or just something that we say. A neighborhood farm stand doesn't hurt a community, it strengthens it It creates connection. It gives neighbors a reason to stop, talk and know each other.

It makes our city feel human. Thousand Oaks has always been a place where families and small businesses can thrive. This is exactly the kind of entrepreneurship we would be encouraging not making harder I respectfully ask that you approve this permit and allow this family to continue contributing to the community they love Some of the other local moms who could not be here and wanted to share their support as well. Megan O'Weager, Angela Iglesias, Angela Spruill, Heather Mandap, Debbie Flintner, Summer Lingardia, Sarah Hollis and Brandy Kitali. I hope that you guys allow us to keep this wonderful farm stand and keep making our community a kind community that is human and has these kinds of things because if their neighborhood won't let it send them to mine.

Thank you, Kenzie. Thank you to all the speakers online and here tonight. Does the city manager have any comments?

Yeah, just very briefly. The farm stamp item mentioned by the last speaker that is an administrative hearing item that's being run by the Community Development Department. And as with all things there is a process and so that is going through that particular process but that is not in front of the City Council tonight.

Thank you. Next is consent calendar. Does anyone have any questions or would anybody like to pull any items? Can I get a motion?

Move the consent calendar.

Thank you, we have a motion. City Clerk can you call the vote?

and that motion passes five to zero

All right, and I'm going to just mention this to Council Member Newman. As we start moving into the public hearings if you have any questions just put up the hand wave and I'll just be monitoring it so I can get you so that you could speak if there's anything. Appreciate that

thank you

Mayor. No problem next up is our public hearing will the City Clerk please open the hearing?

Hearing advertised as required by law is open to consider agenda item number 10A, accessory dwelling unit regulations update MCA 2025-7003. Speakers are requested to state their name and community of residence. One person has presented a speaker card in pursuant to council standards. That speaker is allowed five minutes. The yellow light displays when you have one minute remaining.

Thank you. Presenting the item tonight is Community Development Technician Matthew Mateo.

Good evening, Mayor Taylor and fellow members of the council. Staff will be presenting tonight's item on the Municipal Code Amendment. Just for some overview this presentation will cover the item requests, some background information, summary of new state legislation as well as summary of ordinance amendments followed up by City Council compliance and general plan consistency concluding with staffs recommendation The request before you is as mentioned previously to amend and update Article 45, the Accessory Dwelling Unit Ordinance to align with recent changes of state law to address comments provided by the California Department of Housing and Community Development.

As well as other changes for clarity, consistency, and readability. To provide some background for you all to this request, the city's ADU ordinance was recently updated in February of 2025. The ordinance was then submitted to the California Department of Housing and Community Development, HCD on March 5th for review. Months later in September HCD provided findings on the ordinance which required revision.

Additionally, in October 2025 the governor signed four new AD related bills. Assembly Bill 462 which actually became effective October 10th of 2025 as an emergency measure. Assembly Bill 1154 Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 543 all of which have become effective January 1st of this year On January 26th, planning staff presented the proposed updated ADU ordinance to the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission's staff report included an analysis of the proposed updates and statutory changes to the city's current ADU regulations with relation to the recently adopted bills.

Following publication of the Planning Commission notice of hearing one public comment of opposition was received and after deliberation Planning Commission voted to recommend approval motion passed 4-0 vote with one commissioner absent Provided as a table summarizing what each new bill incorporates and alters from existing language. Assembly Bill 462's main provisions relate to disaster affected areas for which the governor of California has declared a state of emergency for. It allows for a detached ADU to receive a certificate of occupancy prior to their primary dwelling, as well as clarifying ADU approval processes within coastal zone jurisdictions which is not applicable to the city of Thousand Oaks.