City Council — May 12, 2026

You. you Yeah. All right, I will now call to order this meeting. Will the City Clerk please call roll?

Council Member Adam.

Here.

Council Member Newman. Here. Council Member Gutierrez. Here. Mayor Pro Tem Engler.

Here

and Mayor Taylor

here. Alright next is our closed session Miss Noonan will you please announce tonight's closed session

Thank you, Mayor Taylor. We have five items tonight. The first four are pursuant to Government Code Section 54969A on existing litigation. First one is Keyes v. Thousand Oaks. Second one is Nayvilla v. Thousand Oaks. Third one is Ranch Thousand Oaks MHP v. Thousands Oaks and the fourth one is GI Industries v. Thousand Oaks. And then the final closed session is anticipated exposure litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.921 case.

Thank you and we have no speakers on these items so we will go into closed session. We'll see everyone in an hour.

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All right, we're going to get started. We are back from our closed session. Ms. Nunez is there anything we need to cover? Nothing to report. All right if you are able can you please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? Right hand over your heart ready begin. I

pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands All right. All

right, and we are going to be moving item 13a fiscal year 2025-26 community events grant recommendations and that's gonna be moved up on the agenda and heard following consent calendar And before that, we are going to do our special presentation. So I'll come up here and give me one second. I snuck it up here. All right, our first presentation this evening, I would like to welcome Dorothy Hatfield, Chair of the Council on Aging along with other Council on Aging Commissioners who are here with us tonight.

How are you? Do you guys want to come join us? We'll make it a party up here. I am proud to present you with this proclamation on behalf of the entire City Council, designating May 26 as Older Americans Month. The City of Thousand Oaks includes a growing number of older Americans who contribute their time, wisdom and experience to our community. We recognize that older adults play a key role in the vitality of our neighborhoods, networks and lives.

Additionally the City Council wishes to express a great amount of appreciation for the council on aging, for representing our adult community and a commitment to supporting other adults. So here number one is our proclamation which I will present to you and then two Dorothy if you would like to speak and share any remarks?

Mayor and City Council members, on behalf of the Council on Aging and older adults throughout our community I'd like to sincerely thank the City Council for this proclamation recognizing Older Americans Month. First established in 1963 by John F Kennedy, Older Americans Month honors the contributions achievements and lasting impact of older adults in our communities This year's national theme, Champion Your Health, highlights the importance of wellness prevention and making informed choices that support healthy and independent aging. Here in our community we see that spirit every day through our contributions of older adults and through the work of organizations like Senior Concerns and the Global Adult Community Center Along with the Council on Aging efforts to connect older adults and families with information, resources and referrals through our resource directory, our volunteer fair and other community outreach.

We're honored to accept this proclamation and look forward to continuing this important work together for the benefit of our older adults and their families. Thank you.

Can we give them a round of applause please? And can I invite my council up for a photo? Would you guys like to take a photo with us? We'd love to. Great! I will follow you. Okay.

You're welcome.

All right, our second presentation this evening is Building and Safety Month. I would like to welcome Community Development Director Kelvin Parker, Teo Franchu, and Deputy Community Development Director for Building Services to the podium. Building and safety is something every city should prioritize, and I'm especially grateful for our staff who works diligently to ensure it is a top priority for our city.

With that, I would like to present this proclamation, and would you guys like to share anything?

Thank you Mayor. I'll just take a moment to say thank you to Council and the community, it is truly a pleasure to serve in this capacity. It's one of our passions in life and with that I'll cede the microphone to Teo Franco, our building official who has truly dedicated his life to this craft.

Thank You Mayor Taylor for this proclamation and for recognizing the importance of building safety In protecting our community, this is heavy. Our theme Build to Last reflects the strength of our buildings and structures as well as the dedication of the professionals who work every day to uphold safety and resilience on behalf of our building services team thank you for your support and for celebrating Building and Safety Month with us

And just to go off script for a second, and I'll speak for every council member here because I know that they would agree with me. Our staff does such a phenomenal job and something that I'm very thankful for is I sometimes will text Kelvin randomly with an issue connect him with somebody in the community And he makes us look so good. The report I always get from whoever I'm connecting him with is, oh my gosh, he was responsive, gave me everything I needed to know. So we're really blessed for you guys. I need to be careful if I throw you into the mix, you'll get random texts as well. But thank you guys so much. We appreciate you. Can you guys jump up for a photo? Let's do it.

And for our final presentation this evening, I would like to welcome up Public Works Director Nada Haddari. The Public Works Department will be hosting their annual open house at the city's Municipal Center in Newberry Park on May 19th and 20th to celebrate National Public Works Week and I would like to encourage everyone to attend this event it's going to be a blast and to learn more about the amazing work that the city's largest department does day in and day out And with that, give me one second.

There he is, he snuck up on you. All right buddy I'm going to invite you to say something. You want me to hold this while you do? Sure. Okay.

Yeah, thank you Mayor Taylor and the entire council for all of your support across the year throughout the year on all of the different programs and projects that the Public Works Department is able to perform and accomplish for the community. We take pride in the services we provide the community in providing many of the essential life services life safety and essential water wastewater transportation lighting landscape solid waste and many other programs for the community and the community relies on a day-in and day-out basis As the mayor mentioned, we're having our open house next week on Tuesday and Wednesday. We've already got about 1,500 sign-ups so that we're very proud of that but there's still some spaces available at toaks.gov slash PWW for public works week if you are interested in attending and once again thank you for recognizing the value of Public Works I really appreciate it thank you very much all

right last one if you guys want to join me for a photo

Bring down the cavalry.

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public comments. Will the city clerk please announce public comments?

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

Thank you, and I'm gonna call the in-person speakers first and then we'll follow with our speakers on Zoom. So first up is, I hope I'm pronouncing this right, Margo? Margo! There we go.

Hello, Mayor and City Council members. My name is Margo and I'm a long time resident of Thousand Oaks. I'm also a mother. I wanted to bring awareness to something I recently learned that shocked me a few weeks ago. I was asked by a fireman if I knew how to open up my electronic car manually in case it went down electronically and I couldn't open my door. And to my dismay, I did not know how to do so. It shocked me so much because I have a six year old son and I've been driving him around for the last four years in a vehicle that I did not know how to get out of.

So I decided to start asking the community, I probably asked probably 100 people within a few days if they knew how to get out of their electronic vehicles or things like that and come to find out many people do not know how to get out of their car if it went down you know in case of an emergency. We have fire drills, we have earthquake drills. We have all kinds of drills. We even go on an airplane to show us how to put an oxygen mask on but we don't do car exit safety so it would be really good I think for maybe because these electronic vehicles are new kind of cars and these modern ones are coming out with the manual levers that are not visible.

So it's important I think people need to know where these manual levers are Our children also need to know how to get out of our cars because if the parent doesn't know how to get out of the car, the child doesn't know how to get out of the car. And then what about the teenagers that drive electric vehicles? So I just wanted to bring that to your attention and that's all I have.

Thank you. Thank you for sharing that with us.

Can I ask a question of our speaker? Sure go ahead. Is this information generally available where did you find out about it?

It is, you have to look it up. You have to look on a manual but it's just not freely talked about. These levers are not visible in cars and so the fact that I didn't even ask the question that I assumed I knew my car would work in case it went down. I did not even think about it going down with no electronics. So I just found that a lot of people in the community, it's the same thing. They're not thinking that and they had no idea they had a manual lever.

So they were very happy to hear that they could get out of the car just in case the battery went out. So

let's do a little public safety because you and I have electric cars, do you want to mention if you have a Tesla how you get out?

Yeah go ahead.

I'll say, because I actually had one of these scares four years ago. But basically it is hidden where your normal hand is. It's kind of around the bottom and you can feel it once your hand goes back there but it is hidden and I never thought of it until you mentioned that. Thank you so much for sharing. I so appreciate that.

You're welcome absolutely thank you.

All right next up we have Sandy Gill.

Hello Mayor and City Council members and everybody else. I live in Ranch Mobile Home Park right over on Los Feliz and I'm just here, three of my compadres are because Harmony that owns our park sent us a notice, I guess you'd call it. They want to raise our space rent by $586 and some odd cents on top of the usual yearly increase that'll hit us in November.

80% senior citizens, and I'm pretty sure that the majority of us senior citizens are living on Social Security. Some might have other small income from different areas but it's going to either put us all out on the street, the majority of us or else I don't know what we're gonna do because none of us can afford that large of an increase in space rent We don't own the property, our homes just happen to sit there and that is just a monstrous amount to all of a sudden throw at us out of nowhere.

So I just wanted to make you all aware and I know that the commission upstairs is going to have a hearing on this next month And they're going to make the decision whether it's going to be allowed or not. And then if we don't like their decision, we will be back in force Protest, protest and hopefully get it lowered changed thrown out something. I mean that's just a ridiculous amount to expect senior citizens who've lived there. A lot of them have lived there for well over 20 years and they're in their 80s late 80s 90s we just can't afford that so I just wanted to make you all aware to be prepared in future if the Commission's decision doesn't go our way Thank you very much.

Thank you, Sandy.

Next up we have Jack.

All right, good evening council members. I'm a 20 year old resident of Thousand Oaks and I recently toured Washington DC with a group of young scholars to learn about our nation's founding history and the Library of Congress was just one of the many impressive places that I visited It serves as the research arm of the US Congress and is recognized as the National Library of the United States. It houses a vast collection of resources for anyone and everyone to learn from. There I got to see incredible artifacts of history, including the Magna Carta. And here is a sampling of what I observed just from walking through the lobby. Take a look at this.

The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows his handiwork. Here's another one. One god, one law, one element and one far-off divine event to which the whole creation moves. And here's my last one I have for now What does the Lord require of thee but to do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God? This is just a small example of the biblical scripture carved into the beautiful decor of that lobby. Wherever I went in D.C., our Creator, God and the faith of our founding fathers was everywhere. Did you know that there are more sculptures of Moses in DC than there are of George Washington In the chamber of the House of Representatives, a sculpture of the face of Moses stares directly at the president when he addresses Congress.

Here's a photo of it. That's a photo of the face of Moses right there. And it's important to note that our national motto, In God We Trust is prominently placed over the speaker's rostrum in the House chamber as well. It is the history and tradition of America to acknowledge God in our government institutions. I represent the future of this city and I beg forth to move that our national motto be prominently displayed in our City Hall. Thank you.

And then we will now move to our Zoom speakers, and we will start with Paul Sinacore.

Hello, thank you council for having me today. I am here on the behalf of the ranch as well. Can everyone hear me okay? Yep, we can hear ya. So I am in favor of the last attendee that stated their case. You know, I'm an early career professional. I'm a first-time homebuyer and the expectations of this park definitely has me at ends and it is truly unreasonable so i do hope that it is thoroughly reviewed there are many things about this park that can Boil one's blood, so to speak that I don't need to get into today. But it is very troubling as we sit here and recognize Older Americans Month and what that could do to the primary residents of this park.

So just noting that again, it's difficult for them in their stages of life. It's also difficult for me in my early career development and also first time home by. So thank you for hearing me.

Thank you Paul. All right, next up is going to be Kathy Hodge or Hodge. I'm sorry about that if I mispronounced it.

Hi, I'm Kathy Hodge and good evening everybody. I've lived at the ranch for 10 years. I am in my 70s however I have a very serious lung disease and I was recently retired reporting analyst from a local software company Very successful company based right here in Thousand Oak. I am going to give you a number because the reporting analyst should do that, but I'm also going to say something in memory of my mother who for many years of her life was a gangster and I'm going to bring her perspective to the matter just a little bit.

It so happens that as I sit here if I pay $500 a month land rent And I am going to they're going to add this 582 or 586. it's gonna go up to about 1743, five years out because there's 10% raise per year etcetera and then if the monthly rent Is now the way it is right now five years out, it only goes up to about eight eighty six. So the difference of five years out is eight hundred and fifty seven dollars a month not five hundred and eighty two dollars a month. I'm only projecting five years because of the serious illness that I have. It's unlikely I'll be worrying about rent. Uh, more than 5 years from now maybe I will but. Um, I can afford it. I'm a retired computer programmer and there were the princes and princesses, I suppose of the working class in terms of benefits and retirement.

But I do want to say that there's another perspective to consider in the matter of ranch. of Harmony Communities. I am not, I'm using the word gangster and I'm not accusing them of any particular crime but my mother's perspective is interesting. The predator you know is the top of the food chain they're destined to win and the predator has to sneak up on the prey and that's okay and decency is just a cloak people don't really behave like that so forth and so on. You can hear it in any good film more.

I think that in this case they create uncertainty around the rent and when someone comes in to buy a home They consider the rent and their mortgage, right? And so that's how they figure out if they can buy the home. By creating uncertainty, they make the value of my home go down when they raise the rent, they decrease it. So they create an atmosphere of uncertainty. And for gangsters, uncertainty is good. It's a mirror image of certainty in the planned community and the legal economy, as if certainty is good. In the illegal economy, uncertainty who did what to whom? Oh that's uncertain exactly what's going to happen well will surprise you.

And this kind of thing of bringing this up such an outlandish rent raise might not be their goal. Their goal might be to make it just uncertain so the homes are less valuable therefore harmony communities or the owner become the buyers they'll step in like heroes and say well we'll buy it from you And then they have more control taking the units off the rental market for a while, having a vacancy and then able to rent it at any price that they want because it's no longer under rent control. I think these are matters that you should consider in your planning and I appreciate it.

Thank you. Sorry to cut you off and really hoping that you were here much longer than five years.

Thank you.

Does City Manager have any comments?

Just really quickly on the electric car item, I dropped a note over to our communications folks. They'll work with our fire partners and we'll see if we can get some promotional videos up on that and also I know Chief Parris will have a briefing piece sent out to the patrol deputies on that piece as well so it's good call-out and I'll hand it over to Tracy on mobile home park.

Right, so first of all obviously I want to thank you all for coming down here tonight. Yes the city did receive an application by the owner to increase their rent significantly and the city is currently processing that application. It will be scheduled for a hearing before the Planning Commission and if you haven't read our municipal code I encourage you to do so because that sets forth the process for the hearing and also the type of evidence that the Planning Commission will take into consideration in determining whether or not It's a valid and legally justified rent increase. Now, I know that the notice that you received indicated that the hearing was in June. I was advised today that that hearing is likely going to be moved further out and so all of the residents will be receiving notice on when the hearing will be.

At this hearing, I just want to make it very clear that every single resident has a right to be heard at this hearing. And that's really important for you all to know as well. So thanks.

Thank you Miss Noonan. And now moving over to consent calendar, does anyone have any questions or would anybody like to pull any of the items? All right hearing none would somebody like to move the consent calendar?

I'll move the consent calendar.

Thank You Mr. Adams we have a motion will City Clerk please prepare the vote

And that motion passes five to zero. All

right, next up is tonight's committee report. Presenting the report is Community Funding Review Committee Chair Kyle Rohrbach and Vice-Chair Kate Marley. Good

evening Mayor Taylor, council members, city staff I am joined with a vice chair Kate Marley It is my pleasure to present the Community Funding Review Committee's recommendations for the City's Fiscal Year 2026-27 Community Events Grant, also known as the CEG grants. The fiscal year 26-27 general fund budget provides $100,000 for the city's CEG grant program. So consistent with the program guidelines, $90,000 is available through the annual grant funding cycle application process and then $10,000 is retained for future off-cycle funding requests.

CEG funding provides for community arts and cultural activities, and events that take place within the boundary of the city. And for school performance groups representing the city at competition events located outside the city. Qualifying programs must provide a benefit to the community they serve in a wide cross-section of Thousand Oaks residents. The application period was open from January 26th to February 26th. The application was available on the city's website, email notifications were sent to applicants from the previous grant cycle, a press release was issued, an email regarding the grant program was sent to the Conejo Valley Unified School District and it was advertised in the January and February issues of the City Scene Newsletter.

The city utilized social media to notify the community of the grant opportunity. City staff held an application workshop on February 3rd via Zoom for all community groups and non-profit organizations interested in applying for the grant. The workshop was recorded, and remains available on the dedicated Grant Opportunities webpage on the city website. This cycle, the City received 30 eligible applications. The Community Funding Review Committee members independently evaluated the applications using predetermined scoring criteria based on requirements in the grant application.

On April 8th, 2026 CFRC met to discuss the combined committee member scores of the applications Because total funding requests exceeded the available $90,000 budget, the CFRC reviewed the rankings and finalized an equitable allocation methodology. And so tonight, the CFRC recommends awarding grants in the amount of $89,954 to 27 programs. And there's a list here in front of you on the screen. These are the 27 organizations being recommended for funding.

The represented events and programs meet the CEG criteria and will benefit the community, and a wide cross-section of residents. And so the recommendations are before you, specifically the CFRC recommendations are before you and we recommend that City Council award the fiscal year 26-27 community events grants as presented by the committee with the total award being $89,954.

And with that, that concludes my presentation. I'm available, Sarah Mayles is available and Vice Chair Kate Marley's available for any questions or thoughts or concerns. Thank you.

Any questions from council? Thank you for the presentation. You're welcome, thank you. And we have no speakers so Mr. Newman.

Thank you, Mayor. I move item 13A based on the recommendations.

Thank you sir. City Clerk can you prepare the vote?

Council Member Engler?

Yes.

Thank you and that motion passes five to zero.

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, fiscal year 2026-27 Community Development Block Grant Action Plan. Speakers are requested to state their name and community of residence. Two people have presented speaker cards and pursuant to council standards speakers are allowed five minutes. The yellow light displays when you have one minute remaining.

Thank you, and presenting the item tonight is Community Development Analyst Karen Ponce. And available for questions we have Community Development Director Kelvin Parker, Planning Manager Kristen Rice and Senior Analyst Lynn Oshita. Take it away.

Good evening, Mayor and City Council. This is the city's annual public hearing on the proposed use of the Community Development Block Grant or CDBG funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development or HUD. The CDBG funds will be used to benefit lower income Thousand Oaks residents. City staff is requesting Council approval on the 2026 City BG Action Plan.

All documents were prepared in consultation with the public and local stakeholders, and a copy of the draft document was posted to the city's website and at City Hall for public review prior to tonight's meeting. The city's CDBG allocation is tied to the federal budget and may fluctuate from year to year. On April 3rd of this year, HUD confirmed the City's 2026-27 CDBG entitlement allocation in the amount of $663,654.

An additional $16,044.87 in prior year funds is available for reallocation resulting in a total available CDBG funds of $679,698.87. Staff requests authorization for the City Manager to make any necessary adjustments to the proposed budget should HUD revise the city's final entitlement allocation. The 2026 CDBG Action Plan was prepared with community outreach.

A Community Needs Assessment and Notice of Application was conducted for 70 days. During this period, the City solicited public input and applications from community stakeholders for potential CDBG-funded activities. The city received a total of 15 applications, 10 for public service and 5 for capital projects. A draft document was posted on the city's website and at City Hall for 30 days of public review.

The staff report includes the updated action plan summary. All comments that were received during this period in addition to comments that are heard tonight will be included in the final action plan document and submitted to HUD This slide shows the breakdown of the CDBG budget. As you can see, the funds are focused on housing rehabilitation and public service.

Given limited funding and a competitive process, not all applicants could be recommended. The committee's recommendation focused on organization with demonstrated readiness, operational capacity and experience meeting federal grant requirements to help ensure successful program delivery and minimize compliance risk to the city with HUD. The multi-family rehabilitation activity will benefit 72 low income units. This activity involves improvements at the Bella Vista Apartments where many mansions will complete the renovation and replacement of walkways.

The proposed CDBG funding amount is for $175,000. The single family rehabilitation activities are expected to benefit 25 low income households. To carry out these activities, both Habitat for Humanity and SAFE are recommended to receive CDBG funding for their respective mobile home rehabilitation programs. The SAFE program will focus primarily on major system improvements utilizing contractor labor and their work includes HVAC replacement, roofing, and water heater replacement.

Habitat for Humanity's program will provide a wider range of rehabilitation improvements utilizing volunteer labor, which will perform works such as window and door replacement, lighting, flooring, plumbing and electrical work. The city received 10 public service applications with requests totaling over $242,000 exceeding available funding. This slide shows the four recommended agencies their program activities and proposed CDBG funding allocations.

These programs are anticipated to benefit more than 600 low-income Thousand Oaks residents This action plan includes funding for program administration to support staff costs associated with managing the city's CDBG program and ensuring compliance with applicable HUD requirements. The action plan also includes funding for the Ventura County Fair Housing Program, which provides fair housing services that are available to benefit residents of Thousand Oaks.

Tonight, staff is requesting that the City Council find the proposed activities to be exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act or CEQA. With city council's approval, the County of Ventura will submit the finalized 2026 CDBG action plan and grant agreement to HUD. This concludes staff presentation and staff is available to answer any questions. Thank you.

Thank you for that presentation. Do we have any questions? Mr. Newman.

Thank you, Mayor and thank you very much for your report. I noticed the total amount of the planned ask of HUD this year is almost $700,000 and that's quite a bit higher than I think it was around 555 last year, is that correct?

It was around 648 last year.

Okay, so it's but including the administrative costs 648? Right. Right okay. It's still quite a bit higher though this year 698 versus 648. I'm glad to see that income of that increase correct now in terms of the organizations that were chosen do i understand correctly that having a track record of winning grants was one of the criteria

That is correct.

Okay, very good and also that they have a track record of executing in this community and that they would minimize the risk of falling out of compliance. Those are all things that HUD looks for in making grant awards?

Yes, that's

correct. And just to clarify my final question, just to clarify on what we're voting on tonight This is a set of asks of the federal government. It is not itself an award, we hope that everything we ask for will be awarded but what we are voting on tonight is what our ask will be correct?

That has already been set by HUD. The amount was given to us on April 3rd, so not given but announced.

I'm sorry but for that amount we're voting tonight on how we allocate that who were apportioning that amount? Yes

yes

that is correct. Very good thanks very much

Mr. Adams? Thank you, Mayor. Just out of curiosity, Senior Alliance for Empowerment is going to receive a grant and it's said on the report here that to rehab 15 units with those 15 years having to be at Ranch Mobile Home Park or do we know?

As of right now we don't have which units are going to be worked on as we review and finalize the grants. That's when we go over which units are going to be rehabbed.

Okay, so we have 15 units we have yet to allocate Where those 15 will be, I get it. Correct. I just bring it up because in the past RANCH has been a perennial recipient worthy recipient of some of these CDBG funds so just curious to see where they might be going thank you All

right we have no other questions we'll move to our public speakers now and first up we have Martha Shapiro

Good evening Mayor, Councilmembers and City staff. My name is Martha Shapiro and I'm the Director of Programs for Senior Concerns. And I really just want to sincerely thank the city council for your continued support of the Senior Concerns Meals on Wheels program. For many older adults in our community Meals on Wheels is far more than a meal delivery service. It provides nutrition, safety checks, social connection and peace of mind for older adults who may otherwise be isolated or struggling to remain independent in their homes.

Programs like this are essential to preserve dignity and quality of life for some of our most vulnerable residents I especially want to recognize and thank the council for this past year for ensuring the resources to cover the CDBG funding. That demonstrated a strong commitment to protecting critical services even during funding uncertainties. Your leadership ensured that older adults did not experience any interruptions in support, and that speak volumes about the Council's priorities and values. Thank you for continuing to invest in programs that strengthen our community and support aging with dignity in Thousand Oaks. I appreciate your partnership with Senior Concerns, and your ongoing commitment to the residents who rely on these services every day.

Thank you.

Thank you Martha. And next up we have Kristen Risk.

Hello, can you hear me okay?

Yep.

Okay. My name is Kirsten Rizic and I've come to provide input in the Community Development Block Grant Action Plan as an employee of Turning Point Foundation. Turning Point Foundation is a non-profit providing shelter, housing, and services for community members of Ventura County with mental health challenges including those who are homeless. As an employee of Turning Point Foundation, I agree with the City's contribution to continue to improve the numbers of homeless because homelessness continues to be a high priority.

The City's efforts over the last few years have been paying off. Based on the preliminary results of the 2026 Homeless Point in Time Count There was a 46% reduction in homelessness in the City of Thousand Oaks over the last year, which is significant. The recommended action plan this year also supports a variety of housing types and supportive services so we anticipate this plan to continue the city's success in reducing homelessness.

For this reason, we recommend implementing the action plan as recommended. It takes a great deal of supportive services such as housing navigation, health navigation and case management to support community members in their transition out of homelessness. We are happy to see community members getting what they need to move out of homelessness, resulting in a significant decrease in homelessness.

Turning Point Foundation is thankful for the city's past support and looks forward to continuing to serve Thousand Oaks residents in the future. Thank you.

Thank you. Would staff like to respond to any of the comments? Okay. No comments. Thank you council no additional All right, I will now close the public hearing and would anyone like to make a comment or motion? Mr. Adams

Well I think we did this every year, right? It's the annual event and I can't tell you how important these community development block grants are to low income housing, Bella Vista, Senior Alliance for Empowerment, Habitat for Humanity because it's really our line of defense against homelessness. And believe me, it's a lot less expensive to keep people in their homes than to try to start from scratch where they have no home at all. So this money is very well spent and I'm happy to move what would that be? 10A with the three staff recommendations.

Mr. Newman.

Thank you, Mayor. I want to endorse 100% what my colleague Councilmember Adam just said. These are essentials of shelter food services without which not only these residents in need but we as a community would be much worse off without. I can't emphasize strongly enough the point Councilmember Adam made that If we think this is a lot of money, and I do think $700,000 is a lot of money.

But think some more about how much more it would cost us in social services, in health care, in the criminal justice system, in law enforcement, all sorts of other kinds of problems we would get into. This is a very, very good investment in the well-being I'm delighted to support it. And I'm even more delighted to see that even at this time of challenges to budgets at every level, that we are actually increasing the size of this total ask this year, the total grant package is actually about 5% greater than it was this time last year.

So happy to support those. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor and I agree with my colleagues 100%. The only thing I would like to add is one of our public speakers mentioned the result of years of work toward our homeless populations in town was a 46% decrease in the point-in-time count year to year That can change, I understand. But that's the result, I believe of a lot of work that has gone from the city, from the county into intervening with folks who find themselves without a house and I think as my colleagues pointed out our repair of different low income housing locations Helps people stay in but if they do fall out we are there to try to help them as well And I appreciate the funding from CBTG and the city's commitment to using it for these purposes

All right, we have a motion we please prepare the vote

Mr. Engler

yes

Thank you, and that motion passes five to zero. All

right next up does City Manager have any announcements for us?

Yeah, thank you Mayor Taylor. Our next City Council meeting will be on the 19th of May which is next week. That evening we'll have a couple special presentations, Trail Education Days and Edison will be presenting their scholarship award. We have a department report that will be the calling of the November 3rd 2026 election by our city clerk And then we'll have an update on the League of California Cities City Leaders Summit from April 22nd 24th that was attended by several members and That is it for the 19th of May

All right meeting next week. We'll run it back-to-back Thanks everybody for being here with us, and I'll now adjourn this meeting