[ ORAL COMMUNICATIONS ON AGENDA ITEMS (Three minutes per speaker. The City Council may adjust the time allotted per speaker.) The public may address the City Council on agenda items prior to any action taken. Although Council Members may provide brief responses, the City Council may not engage in a discussion with members of the public during the meeting. Please complete a Speaker's Card to address the City Council in-person. Please follow the instructions at the end of the agenda and wait for the Mayor/City Clerk to call on you to address the City Council virtually. Speakers providing in-person comments will be called first. Members of the public are encouraged to communicate with the City Council via email at adm@cypressca.org or by calling 714-229-6699.]

COMMUNICATIONS ON AGENDA ITEMS. THE PUBLIC MAY ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL ON AGENDA ITEMS PRIOR TO ANY ACTION TAKEN, ALTHOUGH COUNCIL MEMBERS MAY PROVIDE BRIEF RESPONSES, THE CITY COUNCIL MAY NOT ENGAGE IN A DISCUSSION WITH MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC DURING THE MEETING.

PLEASE COMPLETE A SPEAKER'S CARD TO ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL IN PERSON, AND PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS AT THE END OF THE AGENDA AND WAIT FOR THE MAYOR OR CITY CLERK TO CALL ON YOU TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL VIRTUALLY. SO IF YOU LIKE TO FILL OUT A CARD, PLEASE FILL ONE OUT AT THE BACK OF THE ROOM THERE AND BRING IT FORWARD. AND I KNOW WE HAVE SOME COMMENTS FOR OUR PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS, AND I'M GOING TO RESERVE THOSE FOR DURING THE PUBLIC HEARING. SO WE'RE GOING TO JUST GO WITH OTHER AGENDA ITEMS. FIRST. LET'S START WITH MARILYN REEMS, FOLLOWED BY OH.

FOLLOWED BY JOHN PETE. GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MEMBERS. I'M GOING TO BE PRETTY BRIEF, SHOCKING I KNOW. I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS ITEMS EIGHT AND NINE, AND ALTHOUGH IT'S HARD FOR ME TO IMAGINE THAT I'M ANYWHERE CLOSE TO BEING A SENIOR CITIZEN BECAUSE I'M ONLY GOING TO BE 75.

SO. AND WHAT I LOOKED AT IS BOTH OF THOSE ITEMS, BOTH THE COLLEGE, THE NORTH ORANGE COUNTY COLLEGE DISTRICT OR WHATEVER THAT THE SENIOR CENTER AND ALSO THE TRANSPORTATION FOR SENIORS IS SO IMPORTANT. I MEAN, I'M SO BLESSED THAT I HAVEN'T NEEDED IT YET, THE TRANSPORTATION STUFF, BUT I LIVE IN A SCENE. YOU KNOW, MOST OF YOU KNOW, I LIVE IN A SENIOR COMMUNITY. AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE PEOPLE IN THEIR 90S AND THAT KIND OF SERVICE IS SO INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE.

SO I'M PROUD. IT MAKES ME PROUD TO BE A RESIDENT OF CYPRUS AND TO SEE THE HEARTFELT EFFORTS THAT ARE MADE TO TAKE CARE OF SENIORS IN THIS IN THIS CITY. IT'S REALLY RATHER AMAZING. SO I JUST WANTED TO PLUG THAT. I KNOW YOU DON'T. YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S NO BUDGET CONCERNS AT ALL. IT FOR EITHER OF THOSE ITEMS, WHICH IS I. SO I CAN'T IMAGINE YOU VOTING NO ON THOSE. I'LL BE WATCHING. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU JOHN PETE FOLLOWED BY DOCTOR FRANCIS MARQUEZ. ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JOHN PETE.

I'VE LIVED IN CYPRUS A LONG TIME. I COME HERE TONIGHT TO SPEAK ON ITEM 18. I WANT TO CONGRATULATE PETE GRANT ON HIS TEN YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE CITY AND ALL THAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED ALONG THE WAY. SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT PETE BROUGHT TO THE CITY, WHICH I WHICH I'VE CONTRIBUTED TO HIS SUCCESS AND THE SUCCESS OF THE CITY, INCLUDE HIS WORK ETHIC, HIS ABILITY TO THINK STRATEGICALLY, HIS WILLINGNESS TO TACKLE PROBLEMS HEAD ON, HIS WILLINGNESS TO TRY NEW IDEAS AND THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX, HIS ABILITY TO BUILD STRONG RELATIONSHIPS AND STRONG PARTNERSHIPS WITH PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS, AND VERY IMPORTANTLY, WITH THE CITY COUNCIL. AS A MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL, I APPRECIATED PETE'S WILLINGNESS TO LISTEN TO MY IDEAS AND TO LOOK FOR WAYS TO BRING THOSE IDEAS TO LIFE. I APPRECIATED HIS KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE, AND I FREQUENTLY RELIED ON HIS EXPERIENCE IN DETERMINING THE BEST WAY FORWARD ON GIVEN SITUATIONS. WE DIDN'T ALWAYS AGREE, AND I APPRECIATED HIS WILLINGNESS TO HAVE AN HONEST DISCUSSION IN HOPES OF FINDING THE BEST SOLUTION. OVER

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THE PAST TEN YEARS, A LOT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED IN CYPRUS. I BELIEVE THIS IS A RESULT OF THREE FACTORS THE STRONG, SMART, CAPABLE, HARD WORKING TEAM THAT PETE CREATED IN HIS STAFF, PETE'S LEADERSHIP AND THE STRONG PARTNERSHIPS. THE STRONG PARTNERSHIP THAT HE BUILT WITH THE CITY COUNCIL. TOGETHER, THIS GROUP ACHIEVED AMAZING RESULTS. NEW PARKS THAT CREATED A HOME FOR TWO OF OUR LARGEST YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS AND ELIMINATED HIGH CRIME AREAS IN THE COMMUNITY. THE SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER THAT NEARLY DOUBLED THE CULTURE OF CYPRUS WITH TRADER JOE'S AND THE NEW HOME FOR EL ZARAPE. YOU CAN LAUGH. YOU CAN LAUGH. THIS IS EASY. IT'S LIGHT HEARTED INVESTMENTS IN OUR CITY WITH A NEW POLICE STATION, MAJOR UPGRADES IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER, AND MAINTENANCE OF THE FINEST ROADS IN ORANGE COUNTY, THERE WERE MORE ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT CAN BE MENTIONED IN A SHORT TIME. BUT BEFORE I GO, I WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT CHARACTER TRAITS THAT I'VE SEEN IN PETE THAT ARE NOT COMMON ENOUGH IN PEOPLE. COURAGE AND LOVE. MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT PETE MARRIED THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, EMILY, A FEW YEARS BACK, AND EMILY HAS THE MOST AMAZING, THE MOST AMAZING SON YOU WILL EVER MEET. OWEN IS A VERY REMARKABLE YOUNG MAN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS. MY WIFE AND I HAVE A SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD OF OUR OWN. WE KNOW HOW HARD IT CAN BE TO RAISE A SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD. WE'VE WORKED WITH SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN FOR MANY YEARS AND HAVE SEEN THE IMPACT IT HAS ON FAMILIES. RATHER THAN RUN AWAY FROM THE CHALLENGES OF SPECIAL NEEDS. I MENTION THIS BECAUSE PETE RAN TOWARDS THE CHALLENGES OF SPECIAL NEEDS IN MARRYING EMILY AND HAS BECOME A WONDERFUL FATHER, A WONDERFUL PARENT, AND A ROLE MODEL FOR OWEN. OF ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT PETE POSSESSES, I THINK COURAGE AND LOVE ARE HIS GREATEST. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. DOCTOR FRANCIS MARQUEZ, FOLLOWED BY HUNTER GRIFFITHS. GOOD EVENING. COUNCIL MEMBERS, MAYOR BURKE AND STAFF. I CAME HERE TO SPEAK TONIGHT REGARDING ITEM 18, AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU TO RECONSIDER MOVING FORWARD WITH ITEM 18. I JUST WANT TO SAY I'M HERE TONIGHT TO SPEAK FROM THE HEART. I'VE ON MY FOUR YEARS ON THE COUNCIL. I SPOKE OUT TO PROTECT RESIDENTS. I SPOKE OUT AGAINST THE COUNCIL MAJORITY WANTING A CNG FUELING STATION AND A TRASH TRANSFER STATION AT THE PUBLIC WORKS YARD THAT WOULD HAVE HARMED PEOPLE. THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE RESIDENTS IN THAT AREA. AND I THINK IT'S CRITICAL THAT I SPOKE OUT AND WE WERE ABLE TO STOP IT. AT THE BEGINNING OF MY TERM, I DID THIS AND I PUT MY CREDIBILITY ON THE LINE TO PROTECT RESIDENTS. NO ONE ELSE, THE MAJORITY ON THE COUNCIL AT THAT TIME WERE NOT CARING ABOUT THE RESIDENTS IN THAT AREA. AND IN FACT, THEIR MIND WAS MORE ON ENRICHING THE TRASH VALLEY VISTA AND COMPANY AND I, I DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS RIGHT. FINALLY, LATER ON THAT YEAR, WITHIN A YEAR AND A HALF, WE THOUGHT WE HAD STOPPED IT WHEN I WAS ON THE COUNCIL, THANKS TO STACY BERRY. WELL, WE FIND OUT THAT TRASH WAS BEING DUMPED IN THAT AREA, WHICH IS NOT ZONED. RESIDENTS DID NOT KNOW THAT THE CITY MANAGER IS HERE TO PROTECT RESIDENTS, TO PROTECT OUR HEALTH. I GREW UP HERE, YOU KNOW, I WAS A CHILD HERE, WENT THROUGH SCHOOL HERE. YOU KNOW, I WOULD HAVE WANTED THAT SAME PROTECTION. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE TITLE ONE SCHOOL, KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. YOU KNOW THAT IT'S LOW INCOME STUDENTS THAT WOULD HAVE BEAR THE BRUNT OF THAT, YOU KNOW, HAVING TRASH IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. AND THANKS TO TIM URINE FOR SENDING ME THE VIDEO. I WAS FORCED TO GET ON CAMERA. HE CALLED ME AND SAID, WOULD YOU GET ON CAMERA? CHANNEL FIVE SHOWED UP AT MY HOUSE TONIGHT, TODAY, AND I NEED YOU TO TALK TO THEM. I DID THAT, I SPOKE OUT AND PUT EVERYTHING ON THE LINE TO PROTECT RESIDENTS. IT WASN'T AN EASY THING TO DO. I WAS HARASSED FOR IT. YOU KNOW, THE COUNCIL MAJORITY WENT AFTER ME FOR IT. YOU GUYS KNOW I'VE BEEN CENSURED TWICE. MY SALARY WAS TAKEN FOR THREE MONTHS. THESE ARE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG HERE. I STOOD, I SAT ON THAT DAIS IN THAT CHAIR FOR FOUR YEARS, RAISING MY HANDS IN THE AIR TO EVERY RESIDENT TO PAY ATTENTION. YOU KNOW, MR. GRANT DIDN'T CARE ABOUT RESIDENTS. IN FACT, HE HALTED ME FROM DOING MY WORK. WHEN I COMPLAINED, HE RETALIATED AGAINST ME AND TOLD ME THAT I COULD ONLY CONDUCT BUSINESS THROUGH THE CITY MANAGER BECAUSE I WENT TO HR TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HIS HARASSMENT AND THE HARASSMENT OF COUNCIL MEMBERS. THAT WAS TURNED ON ME AND WAS TURNED ON ME AND IT A WOMAN OR ANYBODY SHOULD NOT HAVE TO GO DIRECTLY TO THEIR HARASSER TO COMPLAIN AND TO PUT THEIR

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CREDIBILITY AND, YOU KNOW, THEIR LIVES IN DANGER. PLEASE FINISH. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

HUNTER GRIFFITHS, FOLLOWED BY TOM MOORE. GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL AND MR. MAYOR. HOW ARE YOU GUYS DOING? WE'RE DONE IN QUESTION. I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF SUPERVISOR JANET NGUYEN TO ALSO HONOR CITY MANAGER PETE GRANT FOR HIS TEN YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE CITY OF CYPRESS AND ITS RESIDENTS. I BELIEVE WE HAVE AN OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE THAT WAS DROPPED OFF THIS EVENING. BUT ON BEHALF OF THE SUPERVISOR, WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO FOR THE CITY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. TOM MOORE. ESTEEMED MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. GOOD EVENING. AS A RESIDENTS OF CYPRESS FOR 60 YEARS, MY ROOTS RUN DEEP WITHIN THIS COMMUNITY. IT WAS MY DISTINCT PRIVILEGE TO HAVE WITNESSED FIRSTHAND THE DEDICATED LEADERSHIP OF CYPRESS LONGEST SERVING CITY MANAGER DARRYL ESSEX IN 1979. DURING MY FORMATIVE YEARS AS A FILM STUDENT AT UCLA, I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRODUCE SEVERAL PROMOTIONAL FILMS FOR OUR PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT. IT WAS DURING THIS TIME THAT I CAME TO KNOW MR. ESSEX AS A MAN, DEFINED BY AN UNWAVERING PRINCIPLE AND PROFOUND CHARACTER. TONIGHT'S AGENDA INCLUDES A RESOLUTION TO, QUOTE, APPLAUD THE TENURE OF OUR CURRENT CITY MANAGER, MR. PETER GRANT. THE VERY NOTION OF CELEBRATING MR. GRANT'S SERVICE STRIKES ME AS DEEPLY INCONGRUOUS. ALLOW ME TO ILLUMINATE THE STARK CHASM THAT SEPARATES THE LEADERSHIP, STYLES AND ETHICAL CONDUCT OF MR. ESSEX AND MR. GRANT DURING HIS REMARKABLE 34 YEAR STEWARDSHIP. MR. ESSEX TENURE REMAINED UNTARNISHED, UNTARNISHED BY CONTROVERSY. IN CONTRAST, THE PAST FIVE YEARS UNDER MR. GRANT'S DIRECTION HAVE BEEN MARKED BY TROUBLING INCIDENTS. OUR CITY ATTORNEY WAS INSTRUCTED BY MR. GRANT TO THREATEN A YOUNG WOMAN WITH LEGAL ACTION FOR EXERCISING HER FUNDAMENTAL FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. MR. GRANT ALSO ATTEMPTED TO MARGINALIZE A DULY ELECTED MEMBER OF OUR CITY COUNCIL BY REFUSING TO ALLOW HER TO MEET WITH MR. GRANT, AND EVEN MORE BRAZENLY, WITH CYPRESS DEPARTMENT HEADS. MULTIPLE FORMER COUNCIL PEOPLE HAVE CONVEYED TO ME, QUOTE, IF YOU'RE NOT ALIGNED WITH THE MAJORITY, GRANT WILL DELIBERATELY SIDELINE YOU. AN EFFECTIVE AND RESPECTED CITY MANAGER SERVES AS A UNIFYING FORCE, WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH AND, CRUCIALLY, LISTENING ATTENTIVELY TO ALL STAKEHOLDERS, NOT MERELY DEVELOPERS AND THE PREVAILING POLITICAL FACTION. THE RESIDENTS NORTH OF LINCOLN WERE LIKELY EXPOSED TO DANGEROUS TOXINS BECAUSE OF THE TRANSFER OF VALLEY VISTA TRASH. DESPITE THEIR PLEAS, THIS OCCURRED FOR FAR TOO LONG UNDER MR. GRANT'S WATCH. IT SHOULDN'T TAKE A LOCAL NEWS STATION TO FORCE A CITY MANAGER TO ACT EMPATHETICALLY AND ETHICALLY REGARDLESS. REGRETTABLY, I TOO, HAVE BEEN A RECIPIENT OF MR. GRANT'S APPARENT DISREGARD AND LACK OF EMPATHY. I SENT EIGHT, I SENT EIGHT EMAILS FOR EIGHT YEARS IMPLORING HIM TO ENSURE THE PLANTS AROUND MY HOUSING TRACT WOULD BE IRRIGATED IN THE WINTER. HE IGNORED MY ENTREATIES, AND A QUARTER MILE PLANTS NOW MUST BE REPLACED AT GREAT COST. IN MY VIEW, A CITY MANAGER SHOULD WORK FOR EVERY CITIZEN AND EVERY ELECTED CITY COUNCIL MEMBER. MR. GRANT HAS IGNORED A CRITICAL TENET OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO REMAIN DETACHED FROM POLITICALLY MANEUVERING. HIS ACTIONS IN ATTACKING A YOUNG WOMAN'S CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH ALONE SHOULD HAVE WARRANTED HIS IMMEDIATE DISMISSAL. THEREFORE, I STAND BEFORE YOU TONIGHT NOT ONLY TO URGE YOU TO VOTE AGAINST THIS TRANSPARENTLY CYNICAL POLITICAL CHARADE WHOSE SOLE PURPOSE IS TO OBSCURE THE DETRIMENTAL IMPACT MR. GRANT HAS HAD ON OUR CITY, BUT ALSO TO IMPLORE YOU TO DEEPLY CONSIDER SEEKING A CITY MANAGER WHO EMBODIES THE EXEMPLARY QUALITIES OF MR. ESSEX, A LEADER WHO HELD THE WELL-BEING OF OUR CITIZENS IN THE HIGHEST REGARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND THOUGHTFUL CONSIDERATION. ALL RIGHT, SO IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A FEW MORE SPEAKER CARDS. LET ME JUST MATCH THEM TO THE ITEMS, OKAY. IT'LL BE MEGAN MARTINEZ KING, FOLLOWED BY BROOK NAVARETTE. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS MEGAN MARTINEZ KING. I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE WOMEN'S CLUB OF CYPRESS, AND I WANTED TO CONGRATULATE MR. PETER GRANT ON HIS EXCELLENT SERVICE TO OUR CITY. AND I REALLY WANT TO ECHO MR. PETE'S COMMENTS EARLIER ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, BECAUSE NOT ONLY HAVE I BEEN ABLE TO SEE MR. GRANT AS A DAD, BUT ALSO AS A FRIEND TO A LOT OF MEMBERS OF THE SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY, INCLUDING MY SON. HE'S ALWAYS BEEN HAD THE BIGGEST HEART, SO I JUST WANTED TO CONGRATULATE YOU. IT'S NOT AN EASY JOB AND IT'S A THANKLESS JOB. I DON'T THINK ANYBODY CALLS YOU TO SAY THINGS ARE WORKING WELL AND RUNNING WELL, SO WE

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REALLY APPRECIATE YOU AND THAT IS ALL. THANK YOU SO MUCH. BROOK. NEVER READY FOLLOWED BY GREG WADE. HI. MY NAME IS BROOK NEFERTITI AND I'M A RESIDENT OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS. I WASN'T PLANNING TO TALK TONIGHT, BUT I CHANGED MY MIND. I'M HERE ON AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 18 IN REGARDS TO OUR CITY MANAGER, PETER GRANT, AND MY THOUGHTS ECHO THOSE OF FORMER COUNCIL MEMBER JOHN PETE. AS I SAID LAST TIME I SPOKE ON THIS TOPIC, I'M AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY CRITICIZER, BUT I'M ALSO AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY APPRAISER AND I KNOW THAT I MYSELF HAVE BUTTED HEADS WITH MR. GRANT BEFORE, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, HE'S HIRED TO MANAGE THE CITY AND TO DO HIS JOB. AND THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT FINANCIALLY WE'RE SOUND, OUR SAFETY IS SOUND, AND I DON'T SEE A LOT OF PROBLEMS. I SEE A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH OTHER CITIES. IS HE PERFECT? NO, BUT HE'S REALLY, REALLY GOOD. SO BE THANKFUL THAT YOU DON'T HAVE THE DRAMA THAT OTHER CITIES DO. BUT THAT'S IT. THANK YOU. OKAY. GREG. WADE. HELLO. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME SPEAK. I'M GREG WADE.

I'M THE PRESIDENT FOR 2025 OF THE FRIENDS OF CYPRESS LIBRARY CLUB. AND SO I'M NOT HERE TO THANK MR. GRANT, BUT I'LL THANK HIM ANYWAY. BUT I AM HERE TO JUST REMIND EVERYBODY WHAT A GREAT LIBRARY WE HAVE AND ALL THE GOOD THINGS THEY DO. AND AS A CLUB, WE'VE SET ASIDE $2,500 THIS YEAR FOR TO SUPPORT THE LIBRARY OF THINGS, WHICH IS A NEW PROGRAM THAT THEY'VE GOT AT THE LIBRARY WHERE THEY PURCHASE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, PARK PASSES, OUTDOOR GAMES, EVEN SOME KITCHEN EQUIPMENT SUCH AS RICE COOKERS AND VARIOUS THINGS FOR PEOPLE TO CHECK OUT AND USE. AND OUR REQUEST WAS JUST TO TALK TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND SEE IF THEY'D BE WILLING TO MATCH OUR OUR BUDGET OF $2,500 TO SUPPORT THE LIBRARY THINGS IN THE LIBRARY. SO THAT'S MY REQUEST.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY, MADAM CITY CLERK, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER SPEAKER CARDS FOR IN-PERSON SPEAKERS? OKAY. CAN WE CHECK IF WE HAVE ANY HANDS RAISED ONLINE? THERE ARE NO HANDS RAISED ONLINE. OKAY. I DO SEE A HAND OUT IN THE AUDIENCE. YES. IF YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT, YOU'RE WELCOME TO MAKE A PUBLIC COMMENT. AND CAN YOU PLEASE JUST STATE YOUR NAME? SO WE. MY NAME IS LETICIA FRANCO. I'M A CITIZEN. I'M A RESIDENT OF CITY OF CYPRESS. THIS IS MY FIRST TIME ATTENDING A MEETING HERE. I'M VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY, BUT I ECHO A LOT OF WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SHARED. I AM ONE OF THE RESIDENTS IN THE LOW INCOME AREA OF CYPRESS, AND MY CHILDREN DO ATTEND THE CLARA KING, AND THOSE ISSUES THAT WERE BROUGHT UP WOULD DEFINITELY AFFECT ME AT A PERSONAL LEVEL. SO I REALLY WOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE A FACE TO THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE AND CONSIDER OUR PAIN IN THAT PROCESS. AND ASIDE FROM THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION SPEEDING ISSUES. PEOPLE DRIVE EXCESSIVELY FAST. I LIVE OFF OF WALKER, AND IT'S VERY I MEAN, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO GET OUT IN THAT, YOU KNOW, IN THE PEAK OF TRAFFIC IN THE MORNING OR IN THE EVENING, JUST IN THE LAST. THIS THIS YEAR ALONE, THERE'S BEEN AT LEAST TWO ACCIDENTS IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF MY HOME. AND I'M VERY CONCERNED THAT, YOU KNOW, IN THE FOUR YEARS I'VE LIVED THERE, THERE WAS EVEN A DEATH NOT YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU GUYS COULD REMEMBER I THINK IT'S ORANGE AND WALKER. AND THAT HAD TO DO WITH THE DUI. BUT NONETHELESS, THE VELOCITY THAT PEOPLE TRAVEL IS A PROBLEM THERE. AND I DON'T KNOW IF I'VE SEEN OUR NEIGHBORING CITIES SUCH AS LA PALMA. THEY HAVE THOSE FLASHING ALERTS WHEN YOU'RE SPEEDING. I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IF WE CAN FILE A MOTION TO PURCHASE A COUPLE OF THESE OR RENT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ISSUE IS IF IT'S A RENTAL OR, BUT TO HAVE THOSE BECAUSE I THINK THEY REALLY WOULD, AND ALSO TO REALLY REACH OUT TO OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT TO BE MORE VIGILANT AND MAYBE USE RADARS OR WHATEVER TO ENFORCE THE, THE, THE VELOCITY. IT IS A CONCERN. THERE'S BIG CHUNKS OF THE STREET WHERE THERE'S NO IMMEDIATE CROSSWALK, SO PEOPLE JAYWALK A LOT BECAUSE THERE'S NO EASY ACCESS TO, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE STREET THAT THEY NEED TO CROSS, EITHER BECAUSE THEY LIVE ACROSS THE STREET AND THERE'S NO PARKING ON THEIR SIDE. THERE'S SECTIONS THAT DO

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NOT ALLOW PARKING. SO PEOPLE HAVE TO FIND PARKING ACROSS THE STREET AND THEN MAKE THEIR WAY HOME. AND SO THAT'S A CONSTANT ISSUE THAT I SEE, YOU KNOW, A VERY DANGEROUS AREA TO CROSS.

AND I THINK THERE'S OTHER OTHER STREETS IN OUR CITY THAT ARE ALSO I'VE NOTICED PEOPLE LIKE SPEED. I'M GOING AT THE SPEED LIMIT AND PEOPLE HONK AT ME BECAUSE I'M GOING TOO SLOW IN THEIR IN THEIR EYES. BUT I'M ACTUALLY LIKE DOING WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. SO IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO DRIVE AT THE SPEED LIMIT BECAUSE PEOPLE WANT TO SPEED. AND SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE BRING THIS TO YOUR ATTENTION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND THIS BEING YOUR FIRST MEETING, I JUST WANT TO MAKE CLEAR WE CAN'T TAKE ACTION ON SOMETHING LIKE THAT AT THIS MEETING, BUT WE'LL DEFINITELY CONSIDER YOUR COMMENT. AND THEN IF YOU WANT TO REACH OUT DIRECTLY, I THINK ALL OF OUR CARDS ARE BACK THERE WITH OUR EMAIL ADDRESSES. IF YOU WANT TO DETAIL SPECIFIC INTERSECTIONS OR AREAS OF CONCERN. WONDERFUL. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND IS IT AN OPTION TO REQUEST THROUGH THROUGH THIS PROCESS A LIST OF ALL THE ACCIDENTS FROM LIKE A CERTAIN PERIOD BACK WITHOUT HAVING TO PAY OUT OF POCKET FEES? I CANNOT AFFORD IT JUST TO THAT ILLUSTRATE LIKE STATISTICS, RIGHT? HOW MANY ACCIDENTS HAVE WE EXPERIENCED IN IN THESE SECTIONS WHERE I'M TRYING TO LIKE MOTION TO, TO ALERT OR BRING SOME SPEEDING, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THOSE SIGNS ARE, WE'RE NOT REALLY SUPPOSED TO KIND OF GET INTO IT NOW, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN GET BACK TO YOU ABOUT FOR SURE. I CAN JUST SAY, MAYOR, TO THE EXTENT THAT THE MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC OR ANY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC WANTS ANY PUBLIC RECORDS, THEY CAN GO TO THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE OR FILL OUT THE FORM, I BELIEVE IT'S ONLINE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT INFORMATION. MISS FRANCO, MAY I ASK THAT YOU FILL OUT A CARD? I DON'T BELIEVE YOU FILLED OUT A CARD. FILL OUT A CARD AND MAYBE GIVE US YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION. YES. THANK YOU.

COUNCIL MEMBER MINIKUS, DID YOU WISH TO SPEAK? I IT'S CONCERNING THE CONSENT CALENDAR. OH, OKAY.

WE'LL GET THERE JUST MOMENTARILY. THANK YOU. OKAY. IF THERE ARE NO OTHER SPEAKERS,

[ CONSENT CALENDAR All matters listed on the Consent Calendar are to be approved with one motion unless a Council Member requests separate action on a specific item. Council Members voting no or abstaining on a Consent Calendar item may do so without removing the item from the Consent Calendar.]

WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE CONSENT CALENDAR. ALL MATTERS LISTED ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR ARE TO BE APPROVED WITH ONE MOTION. UNLESS THE COUNCIL MEMBER REQUESTS SEPARATE ACTION ON A SPECIFIC ITEM. COUNCIL MEMBERS VOTING NO OR ABSTAINING ON A CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM MAY DO SO WITHOUT REMOVING THE ITEM FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR. COUNCIL MEMBER MINIKUS. THANK YOU. AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 13. THE WARRANT REGISTER INCLUDES ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFER NUMBER 16873, IN THE AMOUNT OF $341.78 AS REIMBURSEMENT FOR MEDICAL COVERAGE I'M ENTITLED TO RECEIVE AS A CALPERS ANNUITANT IN VOTING FOR ANY MOTION TO APPROVE THE WARRANT REGISTER. I AM NOT VOTING ON ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFER 16873 FOR THE REASONS I HAVE JUST DISCLOSED. THANK YOU.

OKAY, DO ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES WISH TO PULL AN ITEM OR ASK QUESTIONS OR MAKE REMARKS ABOUT A CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM? ALL RIGHT. SEEING NONE, I MOVE TO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS ONE THROUGH 13. I'LL SECOND THAT. OR MOTION. YEAH, WE GOT IT. BE SURE TO LOCK IN YOUR VOTES. THAT MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. OKAY. NEXT UP, OUR FIRST OF TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS

[ PUBLIC HEARINGS (Three minutes per speaker) The public may address the City Council on public hearing items prior to any action taken. Although Council Members may provide brief responses, the City Council may not engage in a discussion with members of the public during the meeting. Please complete a Speaker's Card to address the City Council in-person. Please follow the instructions at the end of the agenda and wait for the Mayor/City Clerk to call on you to address the City Council virtually. Speakers providing in-person comments will be called first. Council Members should disclose communications with anyone relevant to a Public Hearing item.]

TONIGHT. ITEM 14, APPROVE THE BUSINESS PARK MODERNIZATION AND INTEGRATION PROJECT. MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD DISCLOSE AT THIS TIME COMMUNICATIONS WITH ANYONE RELEVANT TO THIS PUBLIC HEARING ITEM. MR. CITY ATTORNEY, CAN I ASK YOU? I HAVEN'T ASKED THIS BEFORE. WHAT EXACTLY MAKES SOMEONE RELEVANT TO A PUBLIC HEARING ITEM? GOOD QUESTION. THANK YOU MAYOR. IN RESPONSE, IT'S GENERALLY IF YOU'VE HAD COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE APPLICANT OR PERHAPS ANY COMMUNITY MEMBER ABOUT THIS PROJECT THAT IS. RELEVANT TO WHETHER IT'S A SUPPORT OR OPPOSITION, IF IT'S JUST INFORMATIONAL, THAT NEED NOT BE DISCLOSED. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY IS JUST WITH THE APPLICANT. OKAY. THANK YOU. MAYOR PRO TEM MEDRANO. SO JUST LET ME LET ME FURTHER CLARIFY. FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE COUNCIL MEMBER CHANG AND I, WE HAD A TOUR OF THE GOODMAN FACILITIES. IS THAT SOMETHING OR AND CITY MANAGER AND I MET WITH WARLAND TO INTRODUCE OURSELVES.

IS THAT NEED TO BE DISCLOSED OR IS THAT THAT TYPE OF DISCLOSURE IS CUSTOMARY? OKAY. YOU DISCUSSED THE SPECIFIC PLAN. YEAH. YEAH. WE DIDN'T REALLY DISCUSS THIS SPECIFIC PLAN. WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THE 42 YEAR PARTNERSHIP. YEAH. AND THEN OH SORRY. WERE YOU GONNA SAY

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SOMETHING COUNCILMEMBER. WE DID WE DID ASK FOR YOU. WE DID ASK FOR HIS WHAT? HE THOUGHT ABOUT IT. THE MODERNIZATION. JUST STATING THAT YOU TOURED THE SITE AND HAD A SHORT DISCUSSION WITH THE APPLICANT AND, AND A REPRESENTATIVE FROM MORELAND SUFFICES. OKAY. AND THEN JUST ONE MORE THING. I SHARED THIS ALSO WITH CITY MANAGER AND ALSO DIRECTOR OF PLANS THAT I RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM MORELAND SAYING, HEY, WE'RE IN SUPPORT OF THE PLAN. SO I FORWARDED THAT ON. SO JUST TO DISCLOSE THAT TO OKAY, SO I THINK THAT'S MAYOR PRO TEM MEDRANO'S DISCLOSURE TO ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE SIMILAR DISCLOSURES. COUNCIL MEMBER MINIKUS. YEAH, SIMILAR CONVERSATIONS WITH WARLAND. AND ALSO, I TOOK A TOUR OF THE GOODMAN PROPERTY AS WELL.

COUNCIL MEMBER CHANG SAME. I ALSO TOOK A TOUR WITH GOODMAN. AND ONE MORE THING. THIS PERSON SITS RICK ELLISON. HE SITS OBVIOUSLY ON THE ONE OF THE AGENCIES THAT WE WORK WITH FOR CUSHMAN. SO HE WAS THERE AND HE ALSO BRIEFLY SPOKE TO US. WE DIDN'T TALK MUCH ABOUT THE PLAN, OTHER THAN HE SEEMED TO BE A BIG SUPPORTER OF ALL THE GOOD WORK WE'RE DOING HERE IN CYPRESS. ALL RIGHT. I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH A LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE FROM WARLAND. IF THAT'S ALL OF OUR DISCLOSURES, LET'S MOVE INTO OUR PRESENTATION OF STAFF REPORT FROM PLANNING DIRECTOR ALICIA VELASCO. THANK YOU. AND GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, AND MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE. SO FOR THIS PROJECT, THOUGH, I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT THE CITY IS THE APPLICANT, RIGHT. THERE'S NOT AN ADDITIONAL PRIVATE PARTY. THIRD PARTY APPLICANT. RIGHT. THIS IS A CITY INITIATED GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT, AN ORDINANCE TO ADOPT THE BUSINESS PARK, THE CYPRESS BUSINESS PARK SPECIFIC PLAN, AND AN UPDATE TO THE MUNICIPAL CODE AND THE ADOPTION OF AN INITIAL STUDY AND NEGATIVE DECLARATION. SO BEFORE WE DIVE INTO THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF THE PROJECT, IT'S IMPORTANT FIRST TO PICTURE THE AREAS THAT WE REFER TO AS THE CYPRESS BUSINESS PARK. THE BUSINESS PARK IS GENERALLY LOCATED ALONG KATELLA AVENUE, STARTING EAST OF SYMPHONY STREET AND STRETCHING TO THE CITY'S BORDER AT NORTE, AND THEN ALONG VALLEY VIEW STREET FROM CERRITOS AVENUE DOWN TO ORANGEWOOD.

ALTOGETHER, THE ENTIRE BUSINESS PARK COVERS NEARLY 700 ACRES. HOWEVER, THE WARLAND CYPRESS BUSINESS CENTER SPECIFIC PLAN THAT AREA IS NOT A PART OF THIS PROJECT, SO ONLY THE AREAS THAT ARE OUTLINED IN RED ON THE MAP ARE INCLUDED IN THE NEW CYPRESS BUSINESS PARK SPECIFIC PLAN, AND IN TOTAL, THAT COVERS ABOUT 450 ACRES. THERE ARE CURRENTLY FIVE EXISTING SPECIFIC PLANS THAT WILL BE COMBINED INTO THE NEW CYPRESS BUSINESS PARK SPECIFIC PLAN. THESE PLANS WERE ADOPTED BETWEEN 1978 AND 1994, AND THAT'S IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE CITY'S TRANSITION FROM FARMING TO COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT. SO AT THAT TIME, THE FOCUS WAS ON GREENFIELD DEVELOPMENT ISSUES SUCH AS PARCEL SIZE, STREET DESIGN AND NEW INFRASTRUCTURE. NOW THAT THE BUSINESS PARKS ARE FULLY BUILT OUT, THAT FOCUS NEEDS TO SHIFT. AND TODAY WE ARE MOVING FROM THOSE DEVELOPMENT CONCERNS TO OPERATIONAL NEEDS. THINGS LIKE WHERE DO TRASH ENCLOSURES GO AND WHERE THEIR COMPACT PARKING SPACES SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT BE PERMITTED. AND IF THEY ARE, HOW MANY? BECAUSE AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THE ECONOMIC AND REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT HAS CHANGED A LOT OVER THE PAST 40 YEARS. AND WHILE THE BUSINESS PARKS REMAIN STRONG, THE LANGUAGE AND STANDARDS IN THE PLANS ARE OUTDATED AND UNCLEAR. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, MANY OF THEM STILL REFER TO ARCHITECTURAL COMMITTEES AND APPROVAL PROCESSES THAT NO LONGER EXIST.

THIS CAUSES CONFUSION FOR BUSINESS OWNERS AND CAN CREATE THE PERCEPTION THAT CYPRESS ISN'T AS BUSINESS FRIENDLY AS IT ACTUALLY IS. ANOTHER CHALLENGE THAT WE FACE IS INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE PLANS. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, GOING BACK TO MY COMPACT PARKING IN THE CYPRESS CORPORATE CENTER SPECIFIC PLAN, IT IS PERMITTED. BUT JUST ACROSS THE STREET IS THE LESS SPECIFIC PLAN WHERE IT'S NOT PERMITTED. AND THAT'S SIMPLY BECAUSE THAT SPECIFIC PLAN WAS WRITTEN IN 1978, AND COMPACT PARKING JUST WASN'T A THING, RIGHT? SO. OH, I DID NOT MEAN TO DO THAT. BEYOND INCONSISTENCIES, SOME OF THE CURRENT STANDARDS ALSO CONFLICT WITH STATE LAW, AND A BIG ONE IS LANDSCAPING. OH, YOU KNOW WHAT? IT'S MY PAD. SORRY. OKAY. LANDSCAPING. THE EXISTING SPECIFIC PLANS REQUIRE CERTAIN PLANT MATERIALS THAT ARE THAT NO LONGER MEET CALIFORNIA'S DROUGHT DROUGHT TOLERANT REQUIREMENTS. AND IN MANY CASES, YOU CANNOT EVEN BUY THOSE PLANTS ANY LONGER

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IN THE STATE. SO RIGHT NOW, WHEN A PROPERTY REDEVELOPS THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, THEY FOLLOW THE STATE RULES. THEY DO NOT FOLLOW THE RULES OUTLINED IN THE SPECIFIC PLAN. SO IF WE WANT THE CYPRESS BUSINESS PARKS TO CONTINUE HAVING THAT COHESIVE, ATTRACTIVE LANDSCAPING, WE NEED TO ADOPT REGULATIONS THAT MEET BOTH STATE LAW AND ALSO COMPLEMENT THE CITY'S EXISTING LANDSCAPING AMENITIES. AND THEN FINALLY, THERE'S JUST OTHER INCONSISTENCIES ACROSS THE FIVE SPECIFIC PLANS WHEN IT COMES TO LOADING SOLID WASTE AND PARKING, LIKE I MENTIONED, AND CLEANING UP AND MODERNIZING THESE REQUIREMENTS IS CRITICAL TO KEEPING CYPRESS COMPETITIVE AND BUSINESS FRIENDLY MOVING FORWARD. SO RECOGNIZING THESE LONG TERM CONCERNS, IT WAS A STRATEGIC PLAN OBJECTIVE OF THE CITY COUNCIL TO UPDATE THE SPECIFIC PLANS. THE BUSINESS PARKS ARE A MAJOR DRIVER OF CYPRESS ECONOMIC SUCCESS. THAT'S WHY CLEAR, EASY TO FOLLOW REGULATIONS ARE SO IMPORTANT. AND THEY HELP KEEP CYPRESS KNOWN AS A BUSINESS FRIENDLY CITY AND ENCOURAGE NEW BUSINESSES TO CHOOSE CYPRESS. THIS WAS A TEAM EFFORT. IT INVOLVES CITY PLANNING STAFF, OUTSIDE PLANNING EXPERTS, BUSINESS PARK PROPERTY OWNERS AND THE CITY COUNCIL'S BUSINESS PARK ADVISORY COMMITTEE, WHAT WE CALL BPAC FOR SHORT. THE BPAC WAS MADE UP OF SIX REPRESENTATIVES, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, BUSINESS PARK, PROPERTY OWNERS AND BUSINESS OPERATORS, SO THE BPAC PROVIDED NECESSARY INSIGHT AND HELP GUIDE THE DOCUMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT STAYED ALIGNED WITH THE NEEDS OF THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.

BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, I GENERALLY SIT IN AN OFFICE, RIGHT? SO KEEPING THESE OBJECTIVES IN MIND, THE NEW BUSINESS PARK SPECIFIC PLAN CREATES A MODERN, UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE BUSINESS PARK. THE DOCUMENT IS ORGANIZED INTO SIX CHAPTERS. IT OUTLINES THE CITY'S VISION, SETS CLEAR LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS, AND ESTABLISHES STRAIGHTFORWARD PERMIT PROCEDURES. WITH THE NEW SPECIFIC PLAN, THERE BE CONSISTENT DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS ACROSS THE BUSINESS PARK COVERING PARKING, LOADING, SIGNAGE, LANDSCAPING AND OTHER DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS, AND HAVING ONE SET OF CLEAR, CONSISTENT RULES IS A POWERFUL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOOL THAT HELPS CYPRESS PUT ITS BEST FOOT FORWARD AND ATTRACTS NEW BUSINESSES TO THE COMMUNITY. IMPORTANTLY, I DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS. THE NEW PLAN HELPS THE CITY MEET ITS HOUSING OBLIGATIONS, HOUSING ELEMENT OBLIGATIONS CYPRESS HAS ONE REMAINING SITE TO REZONE FOR OUR HOUSING ELEMENT, AND THAT'S THE PROPERTY AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF KATELLA AND SYDNEY STREET, WHERE MITSUYA WILL BE LOCATED, SO THAT SITE WILL LIKELY REMAIN COMMERCIAL FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. BUT THIS PLAN WILL ALLOW FOR MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT SHOULD COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL USES BE NEEDED AT THAT SITE IN THE FUTURE. AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT THE CITY COMMITTED TO THE STATE TO DO. SO ON THIS SLIDE, YOU SEE A LOT OF WORDS, BUT YOU DON'T NEED TO READ IT ALL. THE POINT IS BIGGER THAN THIS. BUT THE KEY TAKEAWAY IS THAT THE PROPOSED ORDINANCES WILL PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN PROHIBITING LOGISTICS FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY. SO RIGHT NOW, THE CITY'S MUNICIPAL CODE DOES NOT CLEARLY DEFINE EITHER DISTRIBUTION, USES OR LOGISTIC FACILITIES. SO THIS CAN CREATE A GRAY AREA, A POTENTIAL LOOPHOLE WHERE THESE TYPES OF OPERATIONS COULD TRY TO THE CITY. SO WITH THE ADOPTION OF THE PROPOSED ORDINANCES, DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES WILL STILL REQUIRE CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL OF A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT, AND LOGISTICS FACILITIES WILL BE PROHIBITED OUTRIGHT. SO THESE NEW DEFINITIONS WILL MAKE IT ABSOLUTELY CLEAR WHAT IS AND IS NOT PERMITTED IN THE CITY. THE NEW SPECIFIC PLAN WENT THROUGH THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT REVIEW PROCESS. CONSIDERING THE PLAN GENERALLY JUST UPDATES PROCESSES AND DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, IT WAS FOUND TO HAVE NO EFFECT ON THE ENVIRONMENT. ALL THE COMMENTS ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW WERE RESPONDED TO IN A DOCUMENT AND POSTED ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE.

THE PROJECT ALSO WENT BEFORE THE AIRPORT LAND USE COMMISSION, WHERE IT WAS FOUND TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE AIRPORT ENVIRONS AND ACT FOR THE JOHN FOR JOINT FORCES TRAINING BASE.

THE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE WAS POSTED AND PUBLISHED AS REQUIRED, AND SEVERAL LETTERS OF SUPPORT FOR THE PROJECT WERE RECEIVED AND ATTACHED TO THE AGENDA REPORT. IN CONCLUSION, THE NEW SPECIFIC PLAN CONSOLIDATES FIVE OUTDATED PLANS INTO ONE STREAMLINED DOCUMENT.

THE PROJECT INCLUDES A GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT TO REMOVE OUTDATED REFERENCES TO THE OLD

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PLANS, ALONG WITH AN ORDINANCE UPDATING THE PARKING REQUIREMENTS AND DEFINITION SECTION OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE. THERE'S NO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FROM THE NEW PLAN, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THESE CLEAR, CONSISTENT DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS ARE A VITAL ECONOMIC TOOL FOR THE CITY'S BUSINESS PARK. THEREFORE, IT'S RECOMMENDED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPT A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT AND INTRODUCE A FIRST READING. THE TWO PROPOSED ORDINANCES, ADOPTING THE PLAN AND AMENDING THE MUNICIPAL CODE. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. DO ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS THEY'D LIKE TO MAKE AT THIS TIME? OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER CHANG, THANK YOU, ALICIA, FOR THE WONDERFUL PRESENTATION. I, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DID FOR THIS. COMING UP WITH THIS DOCUMENT, I CAN TELL A LOT OF THOUGHT WENT INTO THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF LAND THAT THAT EXIST ON THESE PROPERTIES, AND I WOULD ACTUALLY BE IN FAVOR OF FURTHER CONSOLIDATION DOWN THE LINE, ESPECIALLY WEST OF WALKER. WHAT HAPPENS IF A PROPERTY MOVES LIKE IF COTTONWOOD CHURCH, IF THEY MOVED AND YOU WANTED TO MAKE CHANGES TO HOW WE DESIGNATE THAT LAND, HOW WHAT WOULD THAT PROCESS LOOK LIKE? RIGHT. SO COTTONWOOD CHURCH IS IN ITS OWN ZONE WITHIN THE SPECIFIC PLAN BECAUSE IT OBVIOUSLY HAS REGULATIONS WHICH PERTAINS TO ASSEMBLY USES.

THAT'S WHAT WE CALL RELIGIOUS FACILITIES. ANYWAYS, ANY CHANGE WOULD NEED TO COME BACK BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL AS A SPECIFIC PLAN AMENDMENT. OKAY. THANK YOU. THAT WAS MY ONLY QUESTION.

COUNCIL MEMBER PETE. WELL, FIRST OF ALL, GREAT JOB PULLING THIS TOGETHER. I I'M NOT I'M NOT SURE. IT TAKES A LOT OF DETAILED WORK TO BE ABLE TO PULL THIS THING TOGETHER. IT IS VERY THOROUGH. ONE QUESTION, AND THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE TOPIC AROUND THE CITY, AND YOU KIND OF HIGHLIGHTED IT IN YOUR YOUR DEFINITION OF LOGISTICS. AND I BELIEVE THAT WAS SOME OF THE TOPICS THAT YOU ALSO WERE TALKING TO WALNUT ABOUT. AND MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ALIGNMENT IN TERMS OF SOME OF THE LANGUAGE. SO WHAT DID WE HAVE BEFORE? YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS BEEN IT'S NEVER BEEN ALLOWED. RIGHT. BUT I KNOW THERE SEEMS TO BE EVERY TIME SOMETHING LIKE THIS COMES UP, IT BECOMES A KIND OF AN ISSUE. SO WHAT WAS IT BEFORE VERSUS WHERE WE'RE GOING NOW. RIGHT. SO CURRENTLY LOGISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION ARE NOT DEFINED IN THE MUNICIPAL CODE. RIGHT. SO WE HAVE NOT HAD A LOGISTICS USE PROPOSED A LOGISTICS USER HAS NOT HAS NOT COME TO THE CITY, BUT BY THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT DEFINED IN AND LISTED IN THE PERMITTED USE, THAT DOES MEAN IT'S PROHIBITED. BUT NOW THAT WE HAVE THESE DEFINITIONS CLEARLY EXPLAINING THIS IS WHAT IS A WAREHOUSE, THIS IS WHAT'S DISTRIBUTION AND THIS IS WHAT'S LOGISTICS. WE WOULD TAKE A BUSINESS PLAN AND SEE WHERE IT FALLS AND THEN DETERMINE, OKAY, YOU NEED A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FROM THE CITY COUNCIL. OR LOOK, YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY PROHIBITED. AND THEY CAN SEE THAT FOR THEMSELVES IN BLACK AND WHITE OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THAT'S IT. VERY NICE JOB. THANK YOU. I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS PERHAPS. SO I DO APPRECIATE THE FURTHER FLESHING OUT OF THE DEFINITIONS OF LOGISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION. I KNOW IN AN EARLIER DRAFT WHEN WE HAD A BRIEFING, THOSE WERE A LITTLE SHORTER. AND I THINK IT'S THE CHANGE THAT I SAW, I THINK IS BENEFICIAL TO GIVE IT MORE DETAIL. YOU KNOW, NO DEVELOPER WOULD EVER COME TO THE CITY AND SAY, HEY, I'M HERE TO PUT IN A LOGISTICS FACILITY, RIGHT? AND SO IF A DEVELOPER TRIED TO SAY THEY WERE DISTRIBUTION, BUT THERE WAS PERHAPS A GRAY AREA WHERE MAYBE THEY'D BE CONSIDERED DISTRIBUTION, MAYBE THEY'D BE CONSIDERED LOGISTICS, WHO MAKES THE CALL AS TO INTERPRETING WHAT CATEGORY THEY WOULD FALL UNDER? WELL, THAT ITEM WOULD COME TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT. RIGHT. AND AT THAT POINT, THE COUNCIL COULD PUT CONDITIONS ON THE PROJECT TO ENSURE THAT IT REMAINS A DISTRIBUTION FACILITY AND DOESN'T FALL INTO, LET'S SAY, A THIRD PARTY LOGISTICS FACILITY. IF IT DID, AFTER IT RECEIVED CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT APPROVAL, WE COULD BRING THE CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR REVIEW AND EITHER NEW ADDITIONS PLACED ON THAT BUSINESS OR REVOCATION OF THEIR PERMIT. SO THERE'S A PROCESS FOR THAT. SO IF A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT WERE ISSUED SAYING THIS IS A DISTRIBUTION FACILITY AND THEN WHATEVER IT IS OPENS AND THERE'S OUTCRY AND PEOPLE ARE CLAIMING THIS IS CLEARLY LOGISTICS, THERE'S A PROCESS WHERE WE COULD CONCEIVABLY REVOKE THAT PERMIT. IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND THEN I KNOW

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IN CONSOLIDATING THE FIVE SPECIFIC PLANS, SOMETIMES THEY DIDN'T ALL HAVE THE SAME EXACT CRITERIA. AND SO ONE OF THE MATTERS I SPOKE WITH A REPRESENTATIVE FROM MORELAND ABOUT WAS THE WAREHOUSE PERMITTING AND IN I THINK MOST OF THE SPECIFIC PLANS, THAT WAS JUST A PERMITTED USE. BUT IN AT LEAST ONE OF THEM, IT WAS A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT. AND SO IT WOULD HAVE COME BEFORE THE COUNCIL. AND SO I WANTED TO ASK WHAT WAS THE WHY STAFF RECOMMENDING THAT THOSE ANY PROPOSED WAREHOUSE FACILITY NOW IS A PERMITTED USE RATHER THAN A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT. RIGHT. SO IN IN THAT SPECIFIC PLAN WHERE IT SAYS WHERE DISTRIBUTION IS A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT. SO IT'S NOT CLEAR IN THAT SPECIFIC PLAN WHERE THAT LINE IS. AND WE DON'T HAVE DISTRIBUTION EVEN DEFINED CURRENTLY. RIGHT. SO THAT CREATES SOMEWHAT OF A GRAY AREA AT THAT POINT TOO. AND RIGHT NOW AS I HAD MENTIONED, THERE ARE 700 ACRES OF BUSINESS PARK WITHIN THE CITY OF CYPRESS IN 670 ACRES. WAREHOUSING IS A PERMITTED USE. IT IS ONLY ON THOSE PROBABLY 25 OR SO ACRES WOULD THIS GRAY AREA EVEN EXIST. SO WE WOULDN'T WANT TO TAKE AWAY THE EXISTING WAREHOUSES. CURRENTLY THEY'RE PERMITTED. IF WE TURN THAT INTO A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT, THAT WOULD MAKE ALL THE WAREHOUSES NON-CONFORMING WITHIN THE CITY. RIGHT. AND WE HAVEN'T HAD AN OPERATIONAL ISSUE WITH THEM. YOU KNOW, THE BUSINESS PARKS FUNCTION FAIRLY SEAMLESSLY WITH THE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS. SO WE WOULDN'T WANT TO MAKE ALL THOSE BUSINESSES NONCONFORMING WHEN WE DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE AT THIS TIME. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND THEN, YEAH, I THINK MY LAST QUESTION IS, SO WITH THE NEW DEFINITIONS IN PLACE, YOU DON'T SEE ANY RISK THAT A DEVELOPER COULD COME FORWARD WITH WHAT THEY DESCRIBE AS A WAREHOUSE PROJECT. BUT IN REALITY, IT'S MORE OF A LOGISTICS OR DISTRIBUTION FACILITY. YOU THINK THE DEFINITIONS ARE SORT OF CLEAR ENOUGH TO PREVENT THAT? I DO, I DO, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO THINK OF THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE ALSO TAKING THE RISK TO LEASE THESE SPACES, RIGHT? THESE THESE BUILDINGS ARE 50,000 100,000FT■. THEY'RE PUTTING IN 20 MILLION IN TENANT IMPROVEMENTS. THEY ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE ABIDING BY ALL OF THE RULES, BECAUSE THAT IS A MAJOR FINANCIAL INVESTMENT FOR THEM. AND THEN TO TRY TO COME IN AND SAY, WE'RE JUST A WAREHOUSE AND THEN RISK THEIR OPERATION AND THEIR PERMIT TO HAVE TO COME BACK TO A CUP, YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO PUT 20, $40 MILLION OF CAPITAL ON THE LINE LIKE THAT. OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND AS I SAID, I APPRECIATE THE FURTHER FLESHING OUT OF DEFINITIONS. I KNOW IF YOU JUST LOOK UP THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIKE LOGISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION ONLINE, IT IS NOT EASY TO FIND ANY SORT OF CLEAR ANSWER. I THINK IT'S A FLUID SITUATION. AND SO I KNOW IT'S NOT AN EASY TASK, AND I APPRECIATE THE UPDATED DRAFT ON THAT. COUNCIL MEMBER MINIKUS THANK YOU. YEAH, FIRST AND FOREMOST, I JUST WANT TO SHOUT OUT TO THE WORLD INVESTMENT GROUP FOR THEIR SUPPORT WITH THIS ENDEAVOR AS WELL. YOU MENTIONED THAT EVERYBODY CAME TO THE TABLE ON THIS, AND IT WAS THROUGH THAT COLLABORATIVE EFFORT FROM EVERYBODY INVOLVED. THAT IS THE SUCCESS THAT YOU'VE MADE. THIS PLAN TURN OUT TO BE ONE THING I WANT TO TOUCH ON, JUST FOR CLARITY, IN THE POTENTIAL MIXED USE PART WHERE 24 HOUR FITNESS IS AT AND MATURE. CAN YOU GIVE US A TIMELINE ON POSSIBLY. WHEN THAT WOULD TURN OVER IF EVER, RIGHT? RIGHT. SO THE PLAN WILL ONLY ADD RESIDENTIAL AS AN OPTION FOR DEVELOPMENT, SO IT COULD NEVER BECOME A MIXED USE SITE. RESIDENTIAL WILL JUST IS ANOTHER OPTION FOR USES THERE. MITSUYA HAS PROBABLY A TEN YEAR LEASE. I KNOW 24 HOUR FITNESS HAS TEN MORE YEARS ON THEIR LEASE. THEY PROBABLY HAVE OPTIONS TO RENEW. YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, BUT IT IS A COMMITMENT, YOU KNOW, THAT THE CITY MADE TO THE STATE AND THE HOUSING ELEMENT THAT THAT SITE WOULD BE IDENTIFIED. AND THANK YOU FOR THAT. I JUST WANTED TO TOUCH ON THE FACT THAT THAT'S PROBABLY NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT IT IS A POSSIBILITY YEARS AND YEARS, DECADES, POSSIBLY DOWN THE ROAD.

THANK YOU. OKAY. AT THIS TIME, I WILL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE THE PUBLIC TO COME FORWARD AND SPEAK ON THE ITEM. I DO ALREADY HAVE TWO. OH DID YOU? I DO ALREADY HAVE TWO SPEAKER CARDS. AND SO WE'LL HAVE GEORGE O'HARA FOLLOWED BY MARK ARMBRUSTER.

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THANK YOU. MAYOR BURKE, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, SIR. IT'S GOOD, IT'S GOOD. OKAY. MY NAME IS GEORGE O'HARA, AND I'M THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CYPRESS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BOARD. I'M HERE TO EXPRESS OUR SUPPORT FOR THE CYPRESS BUSINESS PARK SPECIFIC PLAN. WE AGREE WITH THE PLAN'S SIMPLIFICATION AS IT REPLACES FIVE SEPARATE PLANS. WE APPLAUD THE MODERNIZATION OF THE PLAN, AS ELEMENTS OF THE PREVIOUS PLANS ARE ALMOST 50 YEARS OLD. WE RESPECT THE INCLUSION OF THE MOST AFFECTED PARTIES IN THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, INCLUDING WARLAND INVESTMENTS COMPANY, CYPRESS LAND COMPANY AND THREE MEMBERS OF THE CYPRESS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BOARD. WE APPRECIATE THE DESIRE FOR HARMONY WITH RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS AND BELIEVE THE PLAN'S PROHIBITION OF LOGISTICS OPERATIONS REFLECTS THAT DESIRE. WE EXPECT THE PLAN WILL HELP REDUCE THE HIGH RATE OF OFFICE VACANCIES, WHICH AFFLICTS NOT JUST CYPRESS, BUT ALL OF THE COUNTY AND STATE. SINCE THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC. IN CONCLUSION, THE CHAMBER'S VALUES ALIGN WITH THE PLAN'S VISION TO SUSTAIN THE AREA AS A DYNAMIC, INNOVATIVE AND VIBRANT HUB THAT ATTRACTS TOP INDUSTRIES, FOSTERS ECONOMIC GROWTH AND CREATES JOB OPPORTUNITIES. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. MARK ARMBRUSTER, THANK YOU, MAYOR BURKE AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. I'M MARK ARMBRUSTER. I REPRESENT CYPRESS LAND COMPANY, WHO IS ONE OF THE MAJOR PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE BUSINESS PARK. AND I'M HERE TO ALSO STRONGLY SUPPORT THE CITY AND THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT'S PREPARATION OF THIS MODERNIZATION PLAN FOR THE FOR THE BUSINESS PARK. I THINK IT WAS A DIFFICULT TASK BRINGING ALL PARTIES TOGETHER AND DIFFERENT SPECIFIC PLANS TOGETHER, MERGING THOSE AND COMING HERE, I THINK WITH UNANIMOUS SUPPORT FOR THIS. ALSO NOT TO AGE MYSELF, BUT I WILL. BUT BACK IN THE 1980S, WHEN THE SOME OF THE ORIGINAL SPECIFIC PLANS WERE CREATED, I WAS VERY MUCH INVOLVED IN THAT PROCESS. ON BEHALF OF CYPRESS LAND COMPANY. SO I WAS VERY INVOLVED IN THE WRITING AND WORKING WITH THE CITY AND, AND THE OTHER BUSINESS OWNERS ON CREATING THOSE. AND AS YOUR PLANNING DIRECTOR STATED IN HER PRESENTATION, I THINK IT WAS IT'S VERY TRUE THAT WHAT EXISTED THEN THERE WERE STRAWBERRY FIELDS AT VALLEY VIEW AND KATELLA, AND SO OUR CLIENT WANTED TO CYPRESS LAND, WANTED TO REMOVE THOSE STRAWBERRY FIELDS AND BUILD WHAT HE'S DONE TODAY. AND SO THAT WAS DONE. BUT IF YOU CAN IMAGINE DRAWING UP PLANS BACK THEN FOR STRAWBERRY FOR PROPERTIES THAT WERE STRAWBERRY FIELDS, WHICH WERE IS MUCH DIFFERENT THAN HAVING A SPECIFIC PLAN. NOW THAT WE'RE IT'S BASICALLY FULLY BUILT, ALMOST FULLY BUILT OUT. THERE ARE DIFFERENT LANDSCAPING STANDARDS, DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS FOR USES AND ALL OF THAT. AND I THINK THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, AGAIN, HAS DONE AN OUTSTANDING JOB IN BRINGING THIS ALL TOGETHER. AND THIS WILL, I THINK, HELP PAVE THE FUTURE SUCCESS FOR CONTINUED SUCCESS OF THE BUSINESS PARK. BE VERY IMPORTANT WHEN NEW TENANTS COME IN THAT WHERE THERE'S CLARITY IN WHAT CAN AND CANNOT BE DONE. SO AGAIN, WE STRONGLY SUPPORT THE BUSINESS PARK MODERNIZATION PLAN. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. ARE THERE ANY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO'D LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? OKAY.

SEEING NONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC. OH. FRANCIS MARQUEZ, THANK YOU. I JUST HAD A QUICK QUESTION. SO I LIVE OFF OF VALLEY VIEW AND ORANGEWOOD, AND I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHETHER ANY RESIDENTS INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS OR WILL THEY BE REACHED OUT TO SO WE KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING. I THINK THAT'S A QUESTION THAT A COUNCIL MEMBER CAN ASK OF STAFF IN OUR NEXT SEGMENT. OKAY. THANK YOU. WOULD ANY OTHER RESIDENTS LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM OR ANY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC? OKAY, THEN I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASK THE CITY COUNCIL IF THERE ARE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS. OKAY, I'LL GO AHEAD AND ASK THE

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QUESTION THAT FRANCIS MARQUEZ ASKED ABOUT OUTREACH TO RESIDENTS OR BEING INFORMED ABOUT THIS PLAN OR THE IMPACT ON THEIR COMMUNITY. RIGHT. SO THE NEW SPECIFIC PLAN DOES NOT CHANGE ANY OF THE SETBACKS ALONG THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS, DOES NOT CHANGE THE HEIGHT LIMIT, NOR DOES IT CHANGE THE LANDSCAPING REQUIREMENTS, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT ARE ALONG THAT STANTON STORM CHANNEL. SO FROM THE IMPACTS ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD, NOTHING IS CHANGING FROM THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS PER SE. THIS PROJECT DID GO THROUGH THE PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS. IT WAS NOTICED 20 OVER 20 DAYS AGO. IT WAS PUBLISHED IN THE PAPER. SIGNS WERE POSTED ALONG KATELLA AVENUE NOTICING OF THE PUBLIC HEARING. AND THERE IS A DEDICATED WEB PAGE OF THE PROJECT. OKAY. THANK YOU. DO ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? OKAY, THEN I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. I'LL MOVE THE ITEM. SECOND, AND THEN BEFORE THE ROLL CALL, WE'LL HAVE TO READ THE TWO ORDINANCE TITLES THAT ARE BEING INTRODUCED. SO PLEASE BEAR WITH ME. GO RIGHT AHEAD. THANK YOU. MAYOR. THE CITY COUNCIL IS CONSIDERING THE ADOPTION OF TWO ORDINANCES, AND FOR THE PRIOR ITEM APPROVED UNDER THE CONSENT CALENDAR, THESE ARE BEING READ BY TITLE ONLY AND FURTHER READING IS WAIVED. THE FIRST ORDINANCE IS ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS, CALIFORNIA, REPEALING THE LUSK CYPRESS INDUSTRIAL PARK SPECIFIC PLAN. CYPRESS CORPORATE CENTER MASTER PLAN. CYPRESS. CORPORATE PARDON ME. CYPRESS CORPORATE CENTER, AMENDED SPECIFIC PLAN MCDONALD CENTER, AMENDED SPECIFIC PLAN.

CYPRESS VIEW LIMITED SPECIFIC PLAN, AMENDED AND RESTATED. CYPRESS BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CENTER SPECIFIC PLAN, AND CYPRESS BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CENTER SPECIFIC PLAN. AMENDMENT 19 DASH ONE AND ADOPTING THE CYPRESS BUSINESS PARK SPECIFIC PLAN AND ADOPTING A NEGATIVE RIGHT NEGATIVE DECLARATION. AND THEN THE NEXT ORDINANCE IS AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SUBSECTIONS 2.06.050 COMMERCIAL OFF STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS 2.07.050 INDUSTRIAL OFF STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS 3.14.050.

DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS FOR PARKING AND 6.31.020 DEFINITIONS OF SPECIALIZED TERMS AND PHRASES OF APPENDIX ONE. ZONING OF THE CYPRESS MUNICIPAL CODE TO UPDATE OFF STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS AND DEFINITIONS PERTAINING TO BUSINESS PARK LAND USES. THAT CONCLUDES THE RECITATION OF THE TITLES. THANK YOU, THANK YOU AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE OUR MOTION. AND SECOND. IS A ROLL CALL VOTE.

OH, ARE WE NOT? THAT MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. ALL RIGHT. WELL TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE.

THAT BRINGS US TO OUR SECOND PUBLIC HEARING OF THE EVENING. APPROVE A TENTATIVE TRACT MAP FOR A 26 UNIT TOWNHOME DEVELOPMENT AT 4872 LINCOLN AVENUE. MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD DISCLOSE AT THIS TIME COMMUNICATIONS WITH ANYONE RELEVANT TO THIS PUBLIC HEARING ITEM. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING TO DISCLOSE? OKAY. SEEING NONE, WE HAVE ANOTHER PRESENTATION FROM OUR PLANNING DIRECTOR, ALICIA VELASCO. YES. THANK YOU. SO FOR THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING THIS EVENING, I WILL PRESENT THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AT 4872 LINCOLN AVENUE, WHICH CONSISTS OF A TENTATIVE TRACK MAP AND AN AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING AGREEMENT.

THE PROJECT CONSISTS OF 26 TOWNHOMES AND A TENTATIVE TRACK MAP TO SUBDIVIDE THE PROPERTY.

THE SITE IS LOCATED ON WITHIN THE LINCOLN AVENUE SPECIFIC PLAN. OF THE 26 UNITS, THREE OF THEM WILL BE SET ASIDE FOR HOUSEHOLDS IN THE MODERN INCOME AFFORDABILITY BRACKET. SO BY PROVIDING THE AFFORDABLE UNITS, THE PROJECT IS ELIGIBLE FOR A STATE DENSITY BONUS CONCESSION AND WAIVERS TO THE CITY ZONING REQUIREMENTS. IT ALSO REQUIRES THE CITY AND THE APPLICANT TO ENTER INTO AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING AGREEMENT. THIS IS AN AERIAL IMAGE OF THE SITE. AS MENTIONED, THE. THE ADDRESS IS 4872 LINCOLN AVENUE. IT'S LOCATED BETWEEN A SIMILAR CONDOMINIUM DEVELOPMENT TO THE WEST AND A CAR DEALERSHIP. THE PROPERTY ITSELF IS SLIGHTLY LESS THAN ONE ACRE,

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AND IT'S CURRENTLY A LANDSCAPE SUPPLY COMPANY. THIS SLIDE DEPICTS A RENDERING OF THE PROJECT. IF YOU WERE ON LINCOLN AVENUE LOOKING EASTWARD. THE BUILDINGS ARE THREE STORIES IN HEIGHT AND HAVE A MEDITERRANEAN DESIGN. THIS IS A VERY SIMILAR DESIGN TO OLSEN'S OTHER PROJECT ON LINCOLN AVENUE, OVER BY THE POST OFFICE, AND ALSO THE EXISTING DEVELOPMENT PATTERN IN THE AREA. ON THIS SITE IS THE. ON THIS SLIDE IS THE PROPOSED SITE PLAN. THE PROJECT CONSISTS OF THREE BUILDINGS WITH GUEST PARKING IN THE CENTER. THE SITE HAS ACCESS FROM BOTH LINCOLN AVENUE AND BISHOP STREET. THE PROJECT INCLUDES BOTH COMMON AND PRIVATE OPEN SPACE AMENITIES FOR THE RESIDENTS. THIS TABLE DETAILS THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS. THE PROJECT DOES MEET MOST OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LINCOLN AVENUE SPECIFIC PLAN. HOWEVER, THERE IS AN INCREASE IN DENSITY OF THREE UNITS THROUGH THE STATE DENSITY BONUS LAW. THE PROJECT DOES REQUIRE ONE WAIVER TO REDUCE PARKING A PRIVATE OPEN SPACE FROM 200FT■!S PER UNIT TO 98FT■!S PER UNIT. BUT ASIDE FROM THESE REQUESTS, THE PROJECT COMPLIES WITH ALL THE OTHER DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, INCLUDING HEIGHT, SETBACKS AND PARKING. HERE, THE PROJECT ELEVATIONS. EACH UNIT HAS AN ATTACHED TWO CAR GARAGE. THE UNITS ARE BETWEEN 2 AND 3 BEDROOMS AND RANGE FROM 1200 TO 1700 SQUARE FEET. THE PROJECT INCLUDES TWO ENTITLEMENTS, A DENSITY BONUS AND A TENTATIVE TRACK MAP TO SUBDIVIDE THE PROPERTY. THE PROJECT IS REQUESTING A CONCESSION TO INCREASE THE DENSITY FROM 30 UNITS PER ACRE TO 32.9 UNITS, WHICH TOTALS THREE ADDITIONAL UNITS. THE APPLICANTS ARE ALSO REQUESTING A WAIVER OF REDUCED OPEN SPACE, AND ALSO TO REMOVE THE CITY'S PARK DEVELOPMENT FEE FOR THOSE AFFORDABLE UNITS ONLY. THESE REQUESTS DO ALIGN WITH STATE DENSITY BONUS LAW, WHICH AIMS TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THOSE AFFORDABLE UNITS BY PROVIDING REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY IN EXCHANGE FOR THE CONCESSION AND WAIVERS, THE APPLICANT AND THE CITY WILL ENTER INTO AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING AGREEMENT. THE AGREEMENT WILL SPECIFY THE CONCESSIONS AND WAIVERS GRANTED, THE AFFORDABILITY LEVEL AND TERM, AND A MARKETING PLAN FOR THE UNITS. IT WILL ALSO ENSURE THAT THE AFFORDABLE UNITS ARE DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE DEVELOPMENT AND WITH FINISHES COMPARABLE TO THE MARKET RATE. UNITS. IT TRAFFIC ASSESSMENT WAS PREPARED FOR THE PROJECT. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONTRIBUTE 175 DAILY TRIPS, WITH TEN IN THE AM PEAK HOUR AND 13 IN THE PM PEAK HOUR. PROJECTS THAT CONTRIBUTE LESS THAN 50 TRIPS IN A PEAK HOUR ARE CONSIDERED INSIGNIFICANT, AND THIS PROJECT IS EXEMPT FROM CEQA REQUIREMENTS. AS INFILL DEVELOPMENT. THERE HAS BEEN PUBLIC OUTREACH REGARDING THE PROJECT. THE APPLICANT HOSTED A COMMUNITY MEETING EARLIER THIS MONTH, AND PUBLIC HEARING NOTICES FOR TONIGHT'S MEETING WERE MAILED AND POSTED AS REQUIRED, AND NO RESPONSE HAS BEEN RECEIVED TO DATE. WITH THAT. THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION, AND IT'S RECOMMENDED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPT A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE TENTATIVE TRACK MAP AND CONFIRM THAT THE PROJECT IS EXEMPT FROM CEQA REQUIREMENTS, AND THEN AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING AGREEMENT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. DO ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ON THE ITEM? COUNCIL MEMBER PETE, THIS IS JUST ONE MINOR QUESTION. I WAS LOOKING AT YOUR TRAFFIC SUMMARY. IT'S HARD TO TELL, BUT CAN THE WHERE THE STREET IS GOING TO BE? OF COURSE. CLEARLY THEY CAN EXIT RIGHT OUT AND GO LINCOLN, CAN THEY GO LEFT AS WELL? OR IS THERE A BARRIER THERE? IT'S HARD FOR IT'S HARD FOR ME TO TELL.

NO, THERE IS A BARRIER THERE. RIGHT TURN ONLY. OKAY. SO FROM A TRAFFIC STANDPOINT, WE'RE REALLY REFERRING TO GO MORE TOWARD THE RIGHT AREA OF GOING, I GUESS EAST FROM LINCOLN. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ANSWER MY QUESTIONS. COUNCIL MEMBER MINIKUS. THANK YOU. BUT IF THEY WENT OUT, BISHOP IS THAT THAT'S AN ALTERNATIVE STREET. THEY CAN GO DOWN. RIGHT. STILL HEADED EASTWARD. OKAY. YEAH. SO THEY'RE GOING TO. YEAH. AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH LINCOLN IN GENERAL IS THAT THERE'S THAT CENTER MEDIAN THERE. SO THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMENTS. ALL RIGHT I WILL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. I INVITE THE PUBLIC TO COME FORWARD AND SPEAK ON THE ITEM.

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DO ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? SEEING NONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. DO ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE ADDITIONAL COMMENTS? AFTER ALL OF THAT PUBLIC HEARING COMMENTARY? OH, NOTHING SPURRED YOUR IMAGINATION. OKAY, AND I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. I'LL MOVE THE ITEM. I'LL MOVE THE ITEM. I'LL SECOND IT. THAT MOTION

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CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. OKAY. ON TO NEW BUSINESS. APPROVE AN INCREASE IN THE CITY'S, OR APPROVE AN INCREASE TO THE GENERAL LIABILITY COVERAGE. SELF-INSURED OR SELF-INSURED RETENTION PREPARED BY OUR CITY CLERK. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. OKAY, THIS ITEM BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING IS A RECOMMENDATION TO INCREASE THE CITY'S GENERAL LIABILITY, SELF-INSURED RETENTION FROM ITS CURRENT AMOUNT OF $150,000 TO $300,000, EFFECTIVE JULY 1ST, 2025. JUST A BIT OF BACKGROUND FOR YOU. THE CITY HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF CALIFORNIA INSURANCE POOL AUTHORITY, COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS CPR, SINCE IT WAS FOUNDED IN 1978, AND CPR IS A JOINT POWERS AUTHORITY PROVIDING POOLED INSURANCE PROGRAMS TO 14 MEMBER CITIES THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, WHICH CYPRUS IS A MEMBER. AS PART OF THIS POOLED GENERAL LIABILITY PROGRAM, ALL CPR MEMBERS MAINTAIN WHAT'S CALLED A SELF-INSURED RETENTION, WHICH IS EFFECTIVELY LIKE A DEDUCTIBLE ON OUR PERSONAL INSURANCE POLICIES. SELF-INSURED RETENTION IS COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS SIR. SO JUST SO YOU KNOW, I MAY SAY, SIR, AND THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. WE'RE ACRONYM HEAVY IN CITY GOVERNMENT AS WELL AS IN INSURANCE. SO AS I STATED STATED, THE CITY'S SELF-INSURED RETENTION IS EFFECTIVELY THE CITY'S DEDUCTIBLE FOR ALL GENERAL LIABILITY CLAIMS THAT WE RECEIVE. THE CITY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CLAIM PAYMENTS MADE WHICH FALLS WITHIN THAT THRESHOLD. SO ANYTHING UNDER $150,000 CURRENTLY IS PAID BY THE CITY. IF ANY EXPENSES ARE INCURRED ABOVE THAT RELATED TO A CLAIM THAT WOULD BE REIMBURSED BY CPR AT THIS TIME. SO CYPRUS IS CURRENT, SIR, AS I MENTIONED IS 150,000. THIS AMOUNT WAS SET IN 1986 AND HAS NOT CHANGED SINCE THAT TIME. CYPRUS. CYPRUS, SIR IS THE LOWEST OF ALL CPR MEMBERS AND IS ACTUALLY BELOW THE MINIMUM AMOUNT APPLIED TO ALL CPR MEMBERS. AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE IT WAS WE ADOPTED IT SO LONG AGO, IT WAS GRANDFATHERED IN, AND ANY OF THE NEWER MEMBER AGENCIES IN CPR ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SELECT A SIR, LOWER THAN 300,000 AT THIS TIME. THERE'S ONLY ONE OTHER MEMBER IN CPR WHO WAS ALSO GRANDFATHERED IN, AND THEIR SIR IS 250,000. AND THAT'S THE CITY OF YORBA LINDA. SO IF THE CITY'S SIR HAD GROWN WITH INFLATION OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS SINCE IT WAS FIRST ADOPTED BY CURRENT DOLLAR AMOUNTS, IT WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY $430,000. SO JUST SO YOU'RE AWARE AND THEN, ALTHOUGH NOT THE CASE IN CYPRUS, WE'VE BEEN PRETTY FORTUNATE WITH OUR GENERAL LIABILITY CLAIMS OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, CALIFORNIA'S PUBLIC AGENCIES HAVE SEEN SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN INSURANCE LOSS AND PREMIUM COSTS DUE TO HIGH JURY VERDICTS, LARGE SETTLEMENTS, AND RISING LEGAL DEFENSE COSTS. AS A RESULT, A NUMBER OF INSURANCE CARRIERS HAVE WITHDRAWN FROM THE STATE AND ARE NO LONGER PROVIDING COVERAGE HERE IN CALIFORNIA TO PUBLIC AGENCIES. THIS HAS OBVIOUSLY REDUCED COMPETITION AND INSURANCE CAPACITY THROUGHOUT THE STATE, AND IT HAS CAUSED PREMIUMS TO INCREASE OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, AND THE COVERAGE LIMITS HAVE BEEN SHRINKING. SO FOR THIS UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR, 2526, CPR IS PROJECTING ITS OVERALL GENERAL LIABILITY PREMIUMS WILL INCREASE BY 25%, AND THAT'S ACROSS ALL ITS MEMBER AGENCIES. SO ONE OF THE OPTIONS, BECAUSE THIS IS SUCH A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE, WHICH WE ALSO HAD A LARGE INCREASE LAST YEAR, CPR DOES PROVIDE ITS MEMBERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO EVALUATE ITS CURRENT SAR AND MAKE CHANGES IF THEY SO CHOOSE, JUST LIKE IF YOU

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WERE TO HIRE THE DEDUCTIBLE ON YOUR PERSONAL INSURANCE POLICIES AND TO REDUCE PREMIUM COSTS. THE SAME CONCEPT APPLIES HERE FOR THE CITY'S GENERAL LIABILITY PROGRAM. SO AS PART OF THAT EVALUATION, THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT AND MY OFFICE WORKED WITH CPR TO EVALUATE OUR CURRENT SAR POTENTIAL SAVINGS FROM INCREASING THAT, SIR AND THE CITY'S TEN YEAR LOSS HISTORY. SO OUR THE CURRENT CPR MEMBERS HAVE ASSESSORS THAT RANGE FROM $150,000, WHICH IS US TO A MILLION. AND CYPRUS HAS THE LOWEST. SIR, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, AND OTHER CITIES HAVE ALSO BEEN CONSIDERING INCREASING. THE CITY OF LA HABRA INCREASED THEIR SIR A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, AND IRVINE JUST RECENTLY APPROVED AN INCREASE TO 500,000, WHICH WILL BE EFFECTIVE JULY 1ST. SO ALTHOUGH SO IN EVALUATING THIS THIS CONCEPT AND LOOKING AT OUR LOSS HISTORY, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT PAST LOSSES DON'T NECESSARILY PREDICT FUTURE LOSSES. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN HAVE A GREAT HISTORY FOR TEN YEARS AND THEN SOMETHING LARGE HAPPENS ONE YEAR. THERE'S REALLY NO WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE, OBVIOUSLY. SO THAT'S THERE IS A INCREASED RISK IN INCREASING OUR SIR. HOWEVER, BASED ON OUR HISTORICAL LOSS HISTORY, WE REALLY THINK THAT THAT RISK IS LIMITED AND THAT THE POTENTIAL FOR SAVINGS OUTWEIGHS THAT RISK. AND ■SO. WE EVALUATED OUR PREVIOUS TEN YEARS AND WHAT OUR LOSSES WOULD HAVE BEEN IF WE WERE AT THAT INCREASED $300,000 DURING THAT TIME. AND WHAT WE FOUND WAS THAT WE ONLY HAD THREE LIABILITY CLAIMS THAT EXCEEDED OUR SIR, DURING THAT TEN YEAR LOSS HISTORY. AND IF WE HAD BEEN AT THE $300,000 LEVEL, WE WOULD HAVE ONLY INCURRED AN ADDITIONAL LIABILITY COST OF APPROXIMATELY $186,000, WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN OFFSET FAR OFFSET BY OUR PREMIUM SAVINGS IN THOSE YEARS. SO BASED ON THAT INFORMATION, WE ALSO LOOKED AT CPR ESTIMATES FOR THIS COMING FISCAL YEAR OF WHAT OUR PREMIUMS WOULD BE IF WE CONTINUE TO STAY AT THE $150,000, SIR, AND WE WILL BE EXPERIENCING A 17% INCREASE FROM THE CURRENT YEAR, WHICH IS WOULD BE $657,000, AND IT'S A 37% INCREASE FROM FISCAL YEAR 2324.

IF WE ARE TO APPROVE THE LOWER, EXCUSE ME, THE INCREASE IN THE SIR, WE WOULD LOWER OUR ESTIMATED PREMIUMS TO 485,000. SO THAT IS A LITTLE LESS THAN $200,000 SAVINGS FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR. AND WE BELIEVE THAT OUR SAVINGS IN THIS FISCAL YEAR, AS WELL AS FUTURE FISCAL YEARS, WE COULD USE THOSE TO OFFSET ANY LOSSES THAT WE EXPERIENCE. AND GIVEN THE CONTINUED RISING LIABILITY COSTS AND THE POTENTIAL COST SAVINGS, WE'RE RECOMMENDING THAT THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVES INCREASING THE CITY'S SIR TO $300,000, EFFECTIVE JULY 1ST. AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL THE INFORMATION. DO ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM? OKAY. YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE IT'S A DELICATE BALANCE TO TRY AND ASSESS RISK AND LOOK AT PAST HISTORY AND CALCULATE. AND ALL YOU CAN DO IS SORT OF MAKE YOUR BEST GUESS OF WHAT'S GOING TO MAKE SENSE FOR THE FUTURE. BUT I HAVE NO REASON TO DISAGREE WITH THE RECOMMENDATION THAT YOU'VE MADE. SO UNLESS MY COLLEAGUES HAVE COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS, I'M HAPPY TO MOVE THE ITEM AT TO APPROVE THE RECOMMENDED CHANGE.

I'LL SECOND. THAT MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. OKAY. ITEM 17 APPROVED FISCAL YEAR 2025 AND 2026 AND FISCAL YEAR 20 2627. NONPROFIT GRANT AWARDS PREPARED BY OUR DIRECTOR OF RECREATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES, JEFF DRAPER. THANK YOU. MAYOR. AS YOU MAY REMEMBER, ABOUT A MONTH AGO, THE CITY COUNCIL ACTUALLY HELD A WORKSHOP ON THE NONPROFIT GRANT REQUESTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025 THROUGH 2027. AND AFTER RECEIVING INPUT FROM COUNCIL, OUR RECREATION TEAM, WE WENT

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BACK AND INPUTTED THE INFORMATION THAT WE RECEIVED FROM COUNCIL. AND TONIGHT WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION FOR CONSIDER FOR YOUR CONSIDER CONSIDERATION.

PERFECT. SO AT THE AT THE WORKSHOP WE COVERED A NUMBER OF ITEMS. ONE WAS THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION POLICY, WHICH ESTABLISHES A FORMAL AND FAIR METHOD FOR CONSIDERING SUPPORT TO EACH ONE OF OUR NONPROFIT GROUPS HERE IN THE CITY. WE DO THIS EVERY TWO YEARS. THE POLICY ALSO ESTABLISHES A 55% RESIDENCY RATE FOR NOT ONLY THE PARTICIPANTS, BUT FOR THE EXECUTIVE BOARD TO BE CONSIDERED HIGHEST PRIORITY. IT SETS A LIMIT ON THE NUMBER OF FACILITY USES THAT EACH ORGANIZATION CAN RECEIVE, AND THEN IT ALSO ALLOWS THE CITY TO SUSPEND FINANCIAL AND IN-KIND SUPPORT. IF WE HAVE ANY FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS OR IF THE ORGANIZATIONS HAVE A MAJOR CHANGE IN THEIR TYPE OF OPERATIONS. WE ALSO LOOKED AND TALKED ABOUT THE BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY. A LOT OF THESE NONPROFIT GROUPS PROVIDE GREAT SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY. THEY HELP EXTEND THE RECREATION SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY. SO YOU HAVE OUR YOUTH SPORTS GROUPS WHO OFFER BASEBALL, SOCCER AND SOFTBALL LEAGUES. YOU HAVE COMMUNITY EVENTS LIKE THE CYPRESS COMMUNITY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION. YOU HAVE OUR ARTS PROGRAMS, WHICH HAS AN ART ART SHOW AND ART GALLERY, AND THEN ALSO WORKSHOPS. AND THEN WE HAVE GROUPS WHO OFFER OLDER ADULT PROGRAMING AND MORE SO AFTER RECEIVING REQUESTS FROM THESE ORGANIZATIONS, OUR RECREATION TEAM IS GOING TO DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS TO PRESENT AT COUNCIL HERE TONIGHT. AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THOSE, WE DEVELOP OUR RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON A NUMBER OF FACTORS, INCLUDING WHAT'S THE BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY, FINANCIAL COSTS AND POTENTIAL AND POTENTIAL REVENUE LOSS TO THE DISTRICT, NONPROFIT NEED AND FINANCIAL CONDITION RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS, AND THEN PREVIOUS SUPPORT THAT CITY COUNCIL HAS GRANTED IN PREVIOUS CYCLES. AND THEN WE GO TO THE VALUE OF SUPPORT. SO EVERYTHING THAT WE THAT WE ARE BEING REQUESTED OF, WE THEN ASSIGN A MONETARY VALUE TO THAT MONETARY VALUE MAY CHANGE YEAR OVER YEAR BASED ON A NUMBER OF FACTORS, INCLUDING OUR MASTER FEE SCHEDULE, WHICH HAS A BUILT IN CPI, INCREASES ANY STAFFING INCREASES THAT THAT ARE ALLOWED. AND THEN WE ALSO LOOK AT THE ACTUAL USAGE THAT THEY'VE USED IN PREVIOUS YEARS. SO AS GROUPS, IF THEY SAY THEY'RE GOING TO USE 15 ROOM USES AND THEY ONLY USE SEVEN, WE TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT WHEN WE LOOK AT THE MONETARY VALUE AS WELL. IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE BEFORE WE GET INTO THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT UNLESS THE GROUPS REQUEST DIDN'T REQUEST A CERTAIN ITEM OR A TYPE OF SUPPORT IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE TO THEM, ALL OF THE ORGANIZATIONS ARE RECEIVING AT LEAST THE SAME SUPPORT THAT THEY RECEIVED IN PAST FISCAL YEARS. SO WITH THAT SAID, THIS YEAR WE HAD 19 ORGANIZATIONS WHO APPLIED FOR SUPPORT FOR THE 2527 FISCAL YEARS. AND THERE'S THREE TYPES OF SUPPORT THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO REQUEST. SO THEY HAVE DIRECT FUNDING, WHICH IS A STRAIGHT CASH GRANT. THEY HAVE CITY STAFF EXPENDITURES, WHICH ALLOCATES THE LIMITED NUMBER OF STAFF HOURS THAT WE HAVE. AND IT REALLY PULLS STAFF AWAY FROM OTHER CITY INITIATIVES OR PROJECTS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON.

AND THEN WE HAVE FEE WAIVERS FOR ATHLETIC FACILITY USE, USE OF EQUIPMENT AND TEMPORARY USE PERMITS. SO WITH THAT, WE HAD A TOTAL OF EIGHT ORGANIZATIONS WHO APPLIED FOR DIRECT FUNDING. THEY REQUESTED $109,000. AND TONIGHT WE'RE RECOMMENDING THREE OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVE DIRECT FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $14,000. THOSE ORGANIZATIONS ARE THE CYPRESS ART LEAGUE FOR $1,500 FOR THE TWO YEAR PERIOD, AND THAT WILL BE FOR THE PROMOTION OF ART OF THE ARTS.

$10,000 TO THE CYPRESS COMMUNITY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION AS THEY PUT ON THE ANNUAL EVENT. AND THEN ONE THING THAT WE HEARD FROM CITY COUNCIL DURING THE WORKSHOP WAS A $2,500 MATCHING GRANT TO THE FRIENDS OF CYPRESS LIBRARY, AND THAT WILL BE TO STAY HERE AT THE CYPRESS LIBRARY FOR THEIR LIBRARY OF THINGS, TO HELP THEM PURCHASE SOME OF THE INSTRUMENTS OR PARK PASSES OR THINGS THAT MR. WADE HAD SPOKE ABOUT EARLIER TONIGHT. MOVING NEXT TO CITY STAFF EXPENDITURES, WE HAD EIGHT ORGANIZATIONS WHO REQUESTED STAFF SUPPORT. WE ARE RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF ALL OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVING THAT JUST UNDER THE AMOUNT OF $400,000, AND THEN FOR FEE

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WAIVERS, ALL 19 ORGANIZATIONS REQUESTED FEE WAIVERS. SO WHETHER THAT BE FACILITY, ATHLETIC FIELD FACILITY OR FACILITY USE EQUIPMENT WAIVERS, TEMPORARY USE PERMITS, WE ARE LOOKING AT SUPPORTING MOST OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS, AT LEAST TO THE LEVEL THAT THEY'VE RECEIVED IN PREVIOUS YEARS. THERE IS ONE GROUP THAT WE DON'T RECOMMEND FOR FUNDING AND THAT IS SCOUTING AMERICA, AND THAT WAS ONLY BECAUSE IT WAS AN INCOMPLETE APPLICATION. THEY DID NOT TURN IN THEIR APPLICATION IN ON TIME. ALSO TOO. YOU CAN SEE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE WORKSHEET RIGHT THERE, THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF AN UNANTICIPATED FUNDING. AND WE'RE RECOMMENDING TO PROVIDE THE CITY MANAGER ABOUT $4,000 FOR THE TWO YEAR PERIOD, $2,000 ANNUALLY FOR TO ASSIST ORGANIZATIONS WHO MEET THE TENANTS OF THE POLICY AND THEIR PROGRAMS WILL FURTHER RECREATION CAUSES. BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE AT THIS POINT. SO WE MAY HAVE A NEW ORGANIZATION THAT FORMS SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO WE ARE LOOKING AT AT LOOKING WE'RE LOOKING AT ALLOCATING ADDITIONAL $4,000 OVER THE TWO YEAR PERIOD. SO WITH THAT, OUR OVERALL RECOMMENDED SUPPORT TOTALS JUST UNDER $1.5 MILLION TO PROVIDE NONPROFIT GROUPS THE SUPPORT NEEDED TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THE ENHANCEMENT OF RECREATIONAL AND PROGRAMS TO OUR COMMUNITY.

SO WITH THAT, OUR RECOMMENDATION TONIGHT IS TO APPROVE $1,499,839 FOR THE NONPROFIT GRANT REQUEST PROGRAM FOR FISCAL YEAR 25, 26 AND THEN 2627. AND THAT CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER. THANK YOU. JOINING MY COLLEAGUES HAVE COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM. COUNCIL MEMBER CHIANG. THANK YOU. FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO SINCERELY, SINCERELY THANK ALL THE NONPROFITS WHO APPLIED FOR THIS GRANT. CYPRUS WOULDN'T BE THE COMMUNITY IT IS WITHOUT YOUR INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS. AND WHILE WE ARE DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR EVERYTHING THAT THE CITY AND CITY STAFF PROVIDE, IT'S REALLY THE LOCAL NONPROFITS THAT ARE ABLE TO STEP IN AND FILL ANY GAPS IN SERVICES THAT EXIST OR AND ALSO HELP CREATE A SENSE OF IDENTITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. ONE THING I WAS LOOKING AT IS THE DROP IN DIRECT FUNDING, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'VE EXPRESSED IN, IN, IN OUR CLOSED GROUP. AND I DON'T THINK IT'S THE I WANTED TO AVOID THE PRECEDENT OF PROVIDING DIRECT CONTRIBUTIONS TO NONPROFITS, AND I WOULD LIKE THE CITY TO CONTINUE EXPLORING ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF ADDRESSING THOSE NEEDS WITHOUT ACTUALLY GIVING DIRECT CONTRIBUTION. THERE'S SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T QUITE SIT WITH ME, DOESN'T QUITE SIT WITH ME. WELL, IN TERMS OF GIVING MONEY, YOU KNOW, LIKE GOVERNMENTS GIVING MONEY OUT TO NONPROFITS. AND IT FEELS LIKE IT'S A LITTLE BIT BEYOND THE SCOPE OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. THAT BEING SAID, I'M I'M HAPPY WITH WITH ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS, ESPECIALLY THE DIRECT FUNDING. ONE I DO WANT TO NOTE, I'M ALSO ON THE LIBRARY BOARD. AND SO WE GET UPDATES FROM OUR ORANGE COUNTY LIBRARY. AND WE ARE FACING A CUT FROM THE FEDERAL LEVEL WHEN IT COMES TO MONEY THAT GOES TO THE LIBRARIES. AND ONE OF THOSE IS THE LIBRARY THING. SO THEY SHOULD THEY THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE THE LIBRARY THINGS WILL RECEIVE A CUT FROM FEDERAL FUNDING BECAUSE OF THE. BUT THE STATE IS OUR STATE IS SUING THE FEDERAL LEVEL TO ADDRESS THAT. ALSO, I DID ASK IF YOU GUYS I WAS ALSO A LITTLE BIT WORRIED ABOUT THE TWO YEAR CYCLE FOR NONPROFITS. SO IF THERE'S ANY NEW NONPROFITS THAT, YOU KNOW, JUST MISSED IT OR, YOU KNOW, WANT TO REQUEST SOMETHING LIKE, LIKE A ROOM IN OUR COMMUNITY CENTER, PLEASE REACH OUT TO THE CITY MANAGER. I'M HOPING THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THAT WE CAN ACCOMMODATE TO. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, MR. DRAPER. ONE COMMENT AND ONE QUESTION. SO JUST ONE COMMENT IS THIS WEEKEND I HAD THE PLEASURE OF JUDGING AN ART COMPETITION HOSTED BY THE CYPRUS ART LEAGUE, AND IT WAS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. I CAN I URGE YOU TO CHECK OUT THEIR ALL THE DIFFERENT ARTWORK AND THE WINNERS. AND THE REASON I BRING IT UP IS BECAUSE WHEN I WAS SPEAKING TO SOME OF THE ARTISTS AFTER THE COMPETITION WAS OVER, ONE OF THEM EXPRESSED TO ME JUST

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HOW GRATEFUL THEY ARE THAT THE CITY OF CYPRUS SUPPORTS THEM THROUGH OUR NONPROFIT GRANTS PROGRAM, BY LETTING THEM USE THE COMMUNITY CENTER, LETTING THEM USE OUR FACILITIES, THEY SAID.

IN OTHER CITIES, THEY CHARGE US X $100 PER MEETING AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND FOR A LOT OF THESE NONPROFITS, IT'S NOT EASY FOR THEM TO RAISE MONEY. IT'S NOT EASY FOR THEM TO FIND VOLUNTEERS. AND SO I THINK THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT THING THAT WE DO, AND I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE LENDING THE SUPPORT THAT WE DO TO OUR LOCAL NONPROFITS, BECAUSE I THINK THEY PROVIDE SO MANY VALUABLE SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY. MY QUESTION IS, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY. I KNOW THAT THERE WAS THE $4,000 DISCRETIONARY, I GUESS, FOR THE CITY MANAGER TO APPROVE. I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT IF NEW APPROPRIATIONS REQUESTS CAME FORWARD FROM A NONPROFIT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS CYCLE, THAT THAT HAD TO COME BEFORE THE COUNCIL.

AND SO MAYBE I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED, BUT CAN YOU CLARIFY THAT FOR ME, PLEASE? SO ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE REQUEST OR RECOMMEND THE $4,000 IS IT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE IN THE PAST, AND TYPICALLY THE REQUESTS ARE MINOR IN NATURE. IF THERE IS SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, IF A GROUP WANTS TO USE A ROOM, THAT'S SOMETHING TYPICALLY THAT THE COUNCIL WOULD ENTRUST THE CITY MANAGER AND MY DEPARTMENT WITH TO MAKE THAT CALL. IF THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WAS GOING TO EXCEED THAT OR, YOU KNOW, WE FEEL THAT SHOULD BE COMING TO COUNCIL, WE WOULD MAKE SURE THAT WE BROUGHT THAT TO COUNCIL. TYPICALLY, THAT WOULD JUST BE FOR THE BIGGER REQUESTS.

BUT FOR SOMETHING SMALL FOR $4,000, YOU KNOW, $2,000 ANNUALLY, IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE COUNCIL IS TYPICALLY ENTRUSTED US WITH. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND ONE QUICK SUPPLEMENT TO MR. DRAPER'S ANSWER. THOSE ARE IN-KIND OR STAFF RESOURCES. THAT DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY DOES NOT EXTEND TO DIRECT SUPPORT OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. THAT THAT DOES CLARIFY IT A BIT. COUNCILMEMBER MINIKUS, THANK YOU. I WOULD ALSO GUESS IT ALSO DEPENDS ON OR HAS TO DO WITH THE TIMELINESS OF REQUESTS. SOMETIMES IT THE REQUEST COMES UP IN BETWEEN COUNCIL MEETINGS AND THAT WOULD DELAY THAT PROCESS EVEN FURTHER. YES, THAT IS CORRECT. ALL RIGHT. ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? OKAY. IF NOT, THEN I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE A NONPROFIT GRANT AWARDS AS RECOMMENDED. SECOND. AYE. MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. OKAY. THAT BRINGS US TO ITEMS FROM CITY

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COUNCIL MEMBERS RECOGNIZE CITY MANAGER PETER GRANT FOR HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND SERVICE TO THE CYPRUS COMMUNITY. AGENDIZED BY BONNIE PETE. THANK YOU. MR. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. I HAVE A SHORT PRESENTATION. I GAVE IT TO ALICIA AND I'LL GIVE YOU GUYS ALL A COPY HERE. YEAH. I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY ARE THERE, BUT I WANT TO KIND OF SET THE STAGE HERE A LITTLE BIT WHEN, WHEN PETE I'M GOING TO SAY PETE FROM NOW ON. BUT WHEN PETE TALKED ABOUT HIS TOP TEN LAST YEAR, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND I HADN'T, I DIDN'T KNOW HE HAD BEEN WITH THE CITY FOR TEN YEARS. BUT SINCE THEN THERE WAS ALSO A RECOGNITION FOR 25 YEARS AS PUBLIC SERVICE. AND THAT WAS UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL CITY MANAGER ASSOCIATION. AND THEN AS WELL AS MORE RECENTLY, CONCLUDING HIS YEAR LONG PRESIDENCY ACROSS THE CITY MANAGERS OF ORANGE COUNTY. AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A JUST A GOOD IDEA TO PROVIDE SOME RECOGNITION. AND I THOUGHT I COULD TALK ABOUT IT, BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS EASIER JUST TO DO A BRIEF PRESENTATION HERE. PETE IS THE NINTH CITY MANAGER, AND HE FOLLOWED AFTER 13 YEARS. HE FOLLOWED THREE CITY MANAGERS OVER 13 YEARS. NOW, TYPICALLY I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO THE DETAILS OF THAT. HE ALSO WALKED INTO A FAIRLY NEW COUNCIL. THERE WERE TWO THAT HAD BEEN ON THERE FOR TWO YEARS AND THEN THREE BRAND NEW MEMBERS. SO HE WAS WALKING IN AS A NEW CITY MANAGER, A NEW CITY COUNCIL AS WELL. SO THIS, THIS PRESENTATION AND WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS, IS ACKNOWLEDGING AND RECOGNIZING PETE FOR HIS LEADERSHIP. BUT I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T SAY IT ALSO COVERS ALL OF CITY STAFF, THE PRIOR COUNCILS, THE CURRENT COUNCIL COMMISSIONERS, ETC. BECAUSE WHAT YOU WILL SEE

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IN THIS PRESENTATION IS REALLY JUST A SYNOPSIS OF EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE HAPPENED OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS. AND THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN A IN A VACUUM. OKAY. SO I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW. AND SO THIS WAS DONE TOTALLY BY ME OKAY. SO THERE'S NO PUBLIC FUNDS. NO ONE HELPED ME PUT IT TOGETHER. AND YOU WILL PROBABLY SEE THAT BY THE PRESENTATION AS WELL. SO ANYWAY, BUT I BUT WHAT REALLY HELPED IS IF ANYBODY EVER WANTS TO LOOK UP HISTORY, GO TO THE CIPS, GO TO PAST MEETINGS, EVERYTHING IS THERE. SO I DID A LITTLE BIT OF HOMEWORK THAT WAY.

SO LET'S GO TO THE SECOND SLIDE. SO THE FIRST THING IS AS I SAID WHEN PETE WALKED IN, WAS REALLY BUILDING A STRONG TEAM. AND ABOUT HALF OF THE TEAM WITHIN THE CITY WAS ALREADY IN PLACE OR WAS IN A POSITION TO BE PROMOTED. OKAY. AND THE OTHER HALF WERE CAME ON A LITTLE LATER IN TIME. BUT IT BECAME A TEAM AND THIS TEAM WORKED TOGETHER AND HAS DONE AN ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING JOB FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS. AND THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH HERE.

THIS NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT PETE BROUGHT TO THE CITY WAS STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP. AND HE BROUGHT THE STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS, WHICH WE STILL USE TODAY. AND IN DOING THAT, HE BROUGHT THE COUNCIL TOGETHER WITH STAFF AND REALLY ALIGNED WHAT THE CITY WAS DOING, WHAT THE OBJECTIVES WERE GOING TO BE, WHICH OF COURSE, IN TURN HELP WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO AS A BUDGET, IN TERMS OF WHAT KIND OF MONIES, WHAT THE CIP LOOKS LIKE AND LONG, LONG TERM.

SO IT REALLY DID HELP BRING EVERYBODY TOGETHER. AND I THINK I CONTINUE TO GET THAT REINFORCED WHEN I SAW THAT IN OUR RECENT STRATEGIC MEETING AS WELL, AND THE GOOD DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD ACROSS THE CITY COUNCIL AND STAFF. NEXT ONE PLEASE. SO THE FIRST ONE I TALK ABOUT IS INVESTED IN IN POLICE DEPARTMENT. SO WITHIN THE TEN YEARS TWO HE HIRED TWO FIRE.

EXCUSE ME. FIRE CHIEFS. LET'S MAKE TWO POLICE CHIEFS. ROD COX HAD BEEN IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR SOME TIME AND WAS PROMOTED IN 2015. AND THEN SUBSEQUENT WHEN HE RETIRED, WE HIRED MARK LAUTERBACH AND HE HAS BEEN WITH US SINCE 2021. WE HAVE EXPANDED OUR COMMAND STAFF. ONE OF THE THINGS IS REALLY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR POLICE OFFICERS AND GIVING THEM SOMETHING THAT THEY CAN ASPIRE TO, AND IT REALLY HAS HELPED, I BELIEVE, WITH RETENTION AS WELL AS PROVIDED OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR POLICE OFFICERS. THE STATE OF THE ART POLICE STATION WE TALKED ABOUT A LITTLE BIT EARLIER IN OUR MEETING, AND IT IS SOMETHING TO REALLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND PEOPLE BE PROUD OF, OF WHERE WE'RE GOING TO WORK. AND THEN THERE'S NEW EQUIPMENT, TECHNOLOGY, AND OUR CURRENT COUNCIL HAS APPROVED SOME OF THOSE THINGS EVEN IN THE LAST SIX, 12 MONTHS. SO BUT THE BIGGEST THING I LOOK AT IS WHAT IS THE METRIC SAY. AND SO WE ALL KNOW IN 2024, CYPRUS WAS THE 19TH SAFEST CITY IN CALIFORNIA. AND THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT IS KIND OF WHAT I'M SAYING. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THIS STORY EVERYBODY KNOWS AS WELL THE REIMAGINED PARKS AND FACILITIES. SO IN OVER THE TEN YEARS WE HAD THREE NEW PARKS.

MACKEY PARK WHICH IS OVER OFF OF WALKER, ALONG WITH THE HOUSING COMMUNITY THAT USED TO BE AN OLD SCHOOL THERE, LEXINGTON, WHICH I THINK WE ALL ALL KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THAT IS. DONATED PROPERTY FROM LOS RACETRACK AND THEN AS WELL AS ARNOLD CYPRESS PARK, WHICH EXCITED TO HEAR WE'RE GOING TO BE ATTENDING THAT GRAND OPENING NEXT WEEK. AND ON TOP OF THAT, WE ALSO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPAND, REALLY, SYCAMORE AND HAD THE FORESIGHT OF BUYING THAT HOME THAT WAS THERE AND PROVIDING US AT SOME POINT IN TIME IN THE FUTURE AS TO WHAT THAT EXPANSION MIGHT LOOK LIKE. AND THEN TWO OTHER THINGS IS REALLY THE COMMUNITY CENTER AS WELL AS THE SENIOR CENTER IS UPDATING SOME OF THE FACILITIES, PUTTING NEW EQUIPMENT IN AS WELL. AS I LISTED HERE, THE PARK UPGRADES WITH THE BATHROOMS, ETCETERA, AND THE SNACK BAR AND LIGHTING AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. SO WE'VE REALLY MADE SOME BIG, SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS IN OUR PARKS AND FACILITIES. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. I ONLY LISTED THIS ONE, WHICH IS PARTNER WITH OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY. AND IF YOU DON'T RECOGNIZE THAT, YOU MAY NOT SEE IT FROM UP ABOVE OKAY.

THIS IS THE SQUARE. AND THIS PROPERTY BECAME AVAILABLE EARLY 2000. I BELIEVE IT WAS SOMETHING IN THAT ORDER. AND I LOOK AT THIS, THIS PICTURE AND IT'S A IT'S AN ACTUALLY BEAUTIFUL PICTURE. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT IS, YOU KNOW, WE THE CENTER OKAY. GOT THE 2024 AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION HOUSING INNOVATION AWARD. HILTON HOMEWOOD SUITES RECENTLY GOT THE BEST NEW HOTEL IN THE HOMEWOOD SUITES DIVISION WORLDWIDE FOR 2024. THERE'S BEEN A NOMINATION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF SHOPPING CENTERS EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNITY, AND WE GOT A TRADER JOE'S. OKAY, SO I KNOW THAT'S A THAT'S A PLUS FOR MOST OF US,

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BUT I'D BE I'D BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T TALK ABOUT SOME OF OUR SMALL BUSINESSES AS WELL. AND ONE OF THE THINGS IS WE HAVE A LOT OF SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AND ONE OF COVID ESPECIALLY REALLY HURT ALL OF OUR BUSINESSES, BUT ESPECIALLY SMALL BUSINESSES. AND I APPLAUD THE CITY FOR WHAT THEY DID. THEY PROVIDED GRANTS. THEY THEY CALLED FOR GAVE SOME FEES.

THEY PROVIDED CREDIT CARDS TO INCENTIVIZE, YOU KNOW, EMPLOYEES TO COME BACK INTO THE OFFICE.

THEY DID SOME KIND OF TRAINING NOW TO HELP SOME OF THESE BUSINESSES BECOME MORE PROFESSIONAL. SO WE'VE REALLY STEPPED UP. I MEAN, THIS HAPPENS TO BE A GREAT EXAMPLE AND I LOVE THE PICTURE, BUT WE'VE DONE A LOT WITH REGARDS TO OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY. AND I DIDN'T PUT THE PLAN THAT GOT APPROVED TODAY. BUT THE WHOLE PLAN WAS AN EXCELLENT EFFORT AS WELL. KEEP GOING, ENHANCE OUR INFRASTRUCTURE. AND I WAS I WAS I DON'T KNOW WHO I WAS TALKING TO THIS MORNING, BUT THIS KIND OF JUST HAPPENS. OKAY. YOU DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT THE INFRASTRUCTURE UNTIL IT DOESN'T WORK. OKAY. BUT A COUPLE OF THINGS. YOU DEFINITELY NOTICE THE STREETS. SO CONTINUING ON, WE'VE DONE A GREAT JOB CONTINUING ON. THE CENTERPIECE THERE IS PROVIDING SOME INNOVATION OF HOW WE DO OUR BATHROOMS IN SOME OF OUR BATHROOMS OR IN OUR PARKS. LED LIGHTING, REPLACING SIDEWALKS, AS WELL AS THE LIGHT AT CYPRESS HIGH SCHOOL, AS WELL AS SOME OF THE BEACONS AROUND SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE A EASIER CROSSWALK FOR THE THINGS. SO INFRASTRUCTURE IS A KEY PART, BUT SOMETIMES WE FORGET EXACTLY WHAT IT'S THERE.

KEEP GOING. BUILDING COMMUNITY I HAVE SAID FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, IF YOU ASK ME, IS CYPRUS IS A REALLY GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHAT COMMUNITY LOOKS LIKE. AND SO A COUPLE OF THINGS I JUST HIGHLIGHTED HERE IS THE SALUTE TO AMERICA. I BELIEVE IT WAS 2019 TIME FRAME OKAY. BUT THAT WAS AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF TRANSITIONING AWAY FROM SOMETHING WE WERE DOING WITH LOS ALAMITOS TO DOING SOMETHING FOR OURSELVES. AND IT HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS. IT HAS BROUGHT OUT THOUSANDS OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN THE 4TH OF JULY. THE RIGHT SIDE THERE. I'VE HEARD MANY, MANY COMMENTS FROM OUR RESIDENTS. THIS IS A MADE IN CYPRUS ELEMENT, AND WE'RE HIGHLIGHTING COMPANIES THAT MAKE PRODUCT IN CYPRUS. AND WE WANTED TO BE ABLE TO HELP OUR RESIDENTS REALLY UNDERSTAND THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY IS A KEY PART OF OUR, OUR, OUR COMMUNITY AS WELL AS YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT'S MADE HERE. AND THIS ONE, I CHOSE ROLLS-ROYCE BECAUSE I USED TO WORK WITH ROLLS-ROYCE. BOTTOM RIGHT CELEBRATES CYPRUS. WE CHANGED EVERYTHING TO OCTOBER, RIGHT. AND THERE'S PROS AND CONS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN OCTOBER. BUT IT HAS REALLY HIGHLIGHTED THE CELEBRATING THE CITY OF CYPRUS AND EVERYTHING WE DO IN CYPRUS. AND THEN OF COURSE THE COMMUNITY SURVEY. AND I'M ANXIOUSLY AWAITING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE NEXT SURVEY THAT COMES OUT. BUT AGAIN, POSITIVE RESULTS WITH, YOU KNOW, 90% PLUS FOR COMMUNITY SATISFACTION AND QUALITY OF LIFE. NEXT, PLEASE SUPPORTED NEW HOUSING PROJECTS. THIS WAS FUN.

THE RENA OKAY, I'LL START WITH THAT. IT'S A LITTLE BOX ON THE RIGHT, BUT I APPLAUD AGAIN ALICIA, YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR EVERYTHING YOU DID ON THAT AND GETTING IT APPROVED VERY EARLY ON. AND I KNOW THAT WASN'T AN EASY, EASY PROJECT, BUT I ALSO HIGHLIGHT SOME OTHER NEW PROJECTS THAT YOU SEE IN THERE THAT WERE BUILT OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS. WE'VE GOT OVATION, WE'VE GOT WESTMONT, WE'VE GOT ACADIA, WHICH ARE THE APARTMENTS OVER IN THE SQUARE, AS WELL AS OXFORD ROW, WHICH IS THE HOUSES AND THE HIGH ENERGY, THE SOLAR ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES THAT ARE RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET. SO AGAIN, GREAT, GREAT PROJECTS. THERE'S MANY MORE. THOSE ARE JUST I HIGHLIGHTED. LET'S KEEP GOING. I PUT THIS ONE HONESTLY LAST. AND MATT I TOLD YOU I WAS GOING TO PUT IT LAST OKAY. BECAUSE TO ME THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT RIGHT. HOW ARE WE DOING AS A CITY. AND WE HAVE INCREASED OUR FINANCIAL STRENGTH OVER THE TEN YEARS. AND THROUGH COVID, YOU WILL SEE THAT THERE WASN'T A HICCUP BY EVERYTHING THAT WE HAD TO DO AND THE THINGS WE HAD TO DO WITHIN OUR CITY. WE USED OUR MONEY WISELY. WE DIDN'T DO THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, WASTED MONEY OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. BUT WE GREW OUR RESERVES OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS, $50 MILLION.

NOW, GRANTED, THAT HELPED US TO INVEST IN CYBER PARK AND TO GIVE US SOME OTHER THINGS TO INVEST IN INFRASTRUCTURE. WE DO STILL HAVE THE LOWEST SALES TAX POSSIBLE IN ORANGE COUNTY. BOTH THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL AS WELL AS THE CURRENT COUNCIL, WORKED ON THE PENSION LIABILITY TO GET THAT FUNDED BY 2030 AND THEN JUST THE MULTIPLE AWARDS AND AGAIN, THAT THAT IS BY THE TEAM AND EVERYTHING MATT, YOU AND YOUR TEAM HAVE DONE OVER THE YEARS. SO LET'S KEEP GOING.

THERE ARE SOME LETTERS OF RECOGNITION. I'M NOT PLANNING TO READ THESE, BUT I DO HAVE THEM.

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WE HAVE TWO FORMER MAYORS, ROB JOHNSON AND MARY ELLEN YORK, THAT GAVE US LETTERS, AND WE ALSO GOT ONE FROM FIRE CHIEF BRIAN FENNESSY, CYPRESS SCHOOL DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT AND PRESIDENT MEGAN MARTINEZ FROM THE WOMEN'S CLUB OF CYPRESS, AS WELL AS CYPRESS COLLEGE PRESIDENT SCOTT THAYER. I ALSO NOTICED I CAME TO THE DESK HERE, SO GEORGE FROM THE CHAMBER GAVE US A LETTER AS WELL AS A CERTIFICATE, AND I HAVE SOME CERTIFICATES AND PLAQUES FROM SENATOR STRICKLAND AS WELL AS SUPERVISOR NGUYEN. SO WITH THAT, I BELIEVE THAT'S CONCLUDING MY MATERIAL. AND THERE WILL BE A COFFEE TABLE BOOK THAT YOU WILL GET AGAIN, NO FUNDS BY THE COMMUNITY. IT'LL JUST BE A COFFEE TABLE BOOK THAT YOU CAN OPEN IT UP ANYTIME AND SHARE IT WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. SO ANYWAY, THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION AND I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE COUNCIL PICTURE WITH MR. GRANT AND OF COURSE OUR CITY ATTORNEY. I'D LOVE TO HAVE STAFF A PART OF THAT AS WELL, IF YOU DON'T MIND. YOU'RE ALL STILL HERE. PLEASE. OKAY, LET'S DO IT.

ALL RIGHT. COME ON. KIDS. YES. YEAH, YEAH. GO AHEAD. A COUPLE. OF.

30. WELL, I DO WANT ONE WITH YOU. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.

ALL RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT. YEAH. YEAH, YEAH. MY GRANDSON. ALL RIGHT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. 123.

PERFECT. OF THE ASSEMBLYWOMAN. THE ASSEMBLYWOMAN REALLY WANTED ME TO MAKE SURE AND BE HERE.

AND, BONNIE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING US KNOW OF THE CELEBRATION. SHE THE ASSEMBLYWOMAN, REALLY APPRECIATES YOUR COOPERATION WITH OUR OFFICE AND THE STATE ASSEMBLY FOR ALWAYS WORKING WITH OUR OFFICE, COMING TO OUR COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS. WE JUST HAD THAT CITY MANAGER ROUNDTABLE AND YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND VOICE REPRESENTING SOUTH CYPRESS.

WELL, WE GREATLY APPRECIATE IT BECAUSE AT THE END, YOU WERE THE VOICE FOR YOUR COMMUNITY. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, PETER. AND WE HAVE A CERTIFICATE OF CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR MILESTONE.

OKAY. ONE, TWO THREE. THAT'S. IT, MR. CHAIRMAN. OKAY. I. CAN GET MORE PICTURES.

RIGHT NOW. OKAY. IS THERE ANYTHING I. YEAH. WE'RE GOOD. WE JUST KIND OF MADE ME REALLY

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PROUD. ON. YEAH. SO. YEAH. YEAH. YEAH. SO. WELL, I.

[ ORAL COMMUNICATIONS (Three minutes per speaker. The City Council may adjust the time allotted per speaker.) The public may address the City Council on any item within the subject matter jurisdiction of the City Council. Although Council Members may provide brief responses, the City Council may not discuss nor take action on items that are not on the agenda. Please complete a Speaker's Card to address the City Council in-person. Members of the public are encouraged to communicate with the City Council via email at adm@cypressca.org or by calling 714-229-6699.]

OKAY. THAT BRINGS US INTO OUR SECOND ORAL COMMUNICATIONS PERIOD. FIRST UP IS DEBORAH MORSE. DON'T GO. I'M LIKE BEST FOR LAST. RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR BURKE. AND HONORABLE COUNCIL AND CITY STAFF AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. AND I WAS GOING TO SAY TO THE POLICE OFFICER HERE, MY NAME IS DEBORAH MORSE. I'M A COMMUNITY OUTREACH ADVOCATE FOR ALZHEIMER'S, ORANGE COUNTY AND GERONTOLOGIST. ALZHEIMER'S. ORANGE COUNTY IS THE LARGEST DEMENTIA SPECIALIZING OR COMPANY SPECIALIZING IN DEMENTIA. EXCUSE ME? DEMENTIA CARE. WE'VE BEEN AROUND SINCE 1983 SUPPORTING FAMILIES COPING WITH DEMENTIA, HELPING THEM TO EXPAND KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROFESSIONALS, AND WORKING TO FUND RESEARCH UNTIL WE FIND A CURE. THE REASON WHY I'M HERE THIS EVENING IS TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW THAT ALZHEIMER'S. ORANGE COUNTY IS SERVING YOUR COMMUNITY, INCLUDING YOUR SENIOR CENTER, WHERE WE PROVIDE WORKSHOPS AND SUPPORT GROUPS. I WANT TO GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF LITTLE STATISTICS. 163,000 ADULTS RIGHT NOW IN ORANGE COUNTY ARE SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA. 10,000 BABY BOOMERS ARE ENTERING INTO RETIREMENT. HARVARD HAD A STUDY THAT SHOWS. AND BY 2030, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE MORE PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 65 THAN UNDER 18. AND BY 2050, 41% OF OUR POPULATION COUNTRYWIDE WILL HAVE DEMENTIA.

THIS IS HUGE. WHAT WE DO IS WE GO OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY, WE PROVIDE RESEARCH AND WORKSHOPS AND EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES. AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE ALL PART OF.

FUNDING. FUNDING FOR YOUR SENIOR CENTERS, SENDING FUNDING FOR ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS, WHICH WE HAVE ONE IN GARDEN GROVE. BUT OTHER THINGS THAT WE DO, WE PROVIDE KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION AND REFERRALS TO THE COMMUNITY, SUPPORT FOR CAREGIVERS AND LICENSED WITH LICENSED CLINICAL STAFF. WE HAVE 40 SUPPORT GROUPS IN THE COMMUNITY. INTERFAITH RELIGIOUS SERVICES POLICY FORMING ACTIVITIES, EDUCATION FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS. AND WE ARE VERY, VERY ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY WITH LEGISLATION. WE WORK WITH THE COUNCIL ON AGING, THE ORANGE COUNTY AGING SERVICES COLLABORATIVE. WE'RE ALSO WORKING WITH THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ON THEIR MASTER PLAN.

AND I KNOW I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME. ANYWAY, TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT, PLEASE CONSIDER THIS. AND THIS IS NOT EVEN ON HERE. WHEN YOU HAVE DEVELOPMENT PRODUCT PROJECTS THAT ARE COMING UP LIKE THIS, PLEASE CONSIDER SENIORS. CONSIDER THE NEEDS OF THESE SENIORS. WE NEED TO HAVE MORE LOW INCOME HOUSING. WE RIGHT NOW WE HAVE OVER 3,600,000 SENIORS THAT ARE ON MEDICAID IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AND WE CERTAINLY NEED YOUR SUPPORT. SO THANK YOU. AND BY THE WAY, I HAVE A LITTLE BAG HERE. IF YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION, YOU CAN TAKE A LITTLE BAG. THANK YOU.

YOU CAN GIVE THAT TO OUR CITY CLERK. THANK YOU. OKAY. NEXT UP IS DOUG DANKS, OUR FORMER PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. AFTER MY DEPARTURE, I WAITED PATIENTLY. I NEVER EXPECTED TO RETURN HERE. SOME RECENT COUNCIL MEMBER COMMENTS CAUSED ME CONCERN. I'M DOUGLAS DANCE WITH 32 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, 23 IS DEPARTMENT HEAD UNDER SEVEN CITY MANAGERS AND 28 COUNCIL MEMBERS. 20 YEARS AS A DIRECTOR SERVING CYPRESS. I SPEAK FROM DEEP EXPERIENCE. AS FOR THE CITY MANAGER RECOGNITION, IN MY OPINION, THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD FIRE THE CITY MANAGER FOR CAUSE. THIS OPINION STEMS FROM ALLEGED UNLAWFUL ACTS OF MISCONDUCT

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DURING MY TENURE. EXCUSE ME, THIS IS COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE. THESE COMMENTS SHOULD NOT BE MADE IN A PUBLIC SETTING. TO THE EXTENT YOU'VE GAINED SOME INFORMATION, MR. DANKS, THAT YOU ARE NOW SHARING, OR TO THE EXTENT THAT THERE IS ANYTHING CONTAINED IN AN AGREEMENT, I WOULD I WOULD CAUTION YOU NOT TO MAKE THOSE COMMENTS. OKAY. I'M MY AGREEMENT, PER RECENT STATE LAW, SAYS NOTHING PREVENTS EMPLOYEE FROM DISCUSSING OR DISCLOSING INFORMATION ABOUT UNLAWFUL ACTS IN THE WORKPLACE, SUCH AS HARASSMENT, DISCRIMINATION OR CONDUCT EMPLOYEE BELIEVES IS UNLAWFUL. I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE, I THINK YOUR AGREEMENT ENCOMPASSES EVERYTHING YOU WERE JUST MENTIONING. TO THE EXTENT THERE ARE ANY FUTURE ACTIONS. I CAN UNDERSTAND YOUR COMMENT. THAT IS MY ADVICE TO THIS COUNCIL NOT TO ALLOW THAT COMMENT ANY FURTHER COMMENTS TO THE EXTENT THEY WERE GAINED DURING MR. DANK'S EMPLOYMENT.

OKAY, SO. YOU'VE HEARD THE CITY ATTORNEY'S WARNING, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO PREVENT A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC FROM SPEAKING. SO, MR. DANKS, YOU'RE FREE TO COMMENT. YOU HAVE YOUR THREE MINUTES AS YOU SEE FIT. I'M NOT GOING TO CONTINUE BASED UPON THE CITY ATTORNEY'S COMMENT BACK TO ME TO EXPRESS MY FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT, TO SPEAK HERE IN FRONT OF THE COUNCIL. I'M ALLOWED TO HAVE OPINIONS. I'M ALLOWED TO BRING FORWARD WHAT I BELIEVE IS CONDUCT. IF HE'S SAYING ANYTHING THAT I EVER LEARNED WAS CONFIDENTIAL, THEN I WILL STOP. BASED UPON WHAT HE HAS JUST SAID TO ME. I PROVIDED MY SUGGESTION AND EXPLANATION. I'M HAPPY TO DESCRIBE IT FURTHER. SIR, ARE YOU SAYING HE'S NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE A COMMENT? I'M THERE. THERE'S A CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT. TO THE EXTENT THAT HE VIOLATES IT, IT IS UP TO HIM TO PROCEED. AND TO THE EXTENT ANY DAMAGES RESULT, IT IS UP TO THE CITY TO CONSIDER WHAT ACTIONS THEY MAY TAKE. I CAN'T GO INTO FURTHER SPECIFICS, UNFORTUNATELY, NOT IN A PUBLIC SETTING. OKAY. IT'S YOUR DECISION WHETHER YOU'D LIKE TO SPEAK. I'M NOT GOING TO BASED UPON WHAT THE CITY ATTORNEY SAID, I'M NOT GOING TO CONTINUE WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY. I DO FEEL FIRST AMENDMENT WISE AND WITHIN MY AGREEMENT, BUT I'M GOING TO RESPECT THE CITY ATTORNEY'S DISCRETION HERE.

OKAY. IS THAT THE END OF YOUR COMMENT OR DO YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL REMARKS? I HAVE NO ADDITIONAL COMMENTS. OKAY. I FEEL, MR. CITY ATTORNEY, SHOULD WE TAKE A RECESS AND CONFER ABOUT THIS? I'M A LITTLE YOU COULD CERTAINLY ADD A CLOSED SESSION BASED ON INFORMATION THAT JUST AROSE TONIGHT. TO DISCUSS THIS. I WHETHER THE COUNCIL FINDS IT URGENT IS ANOTHER MATTER. A CLOSED SESSION FOR WHEN? YOU COULD FIND THAT THERE IS AN URGENT NEED BASED ON WHAT WAS PRESENTED. I KNOW MR. DANKS HAS LEFT, SO THERE'S NO IMMINENT ADDITIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENTS THAT I ANTICIPATE WILL OCCUR. SO I COULD PROVIDE THE COUNCIL CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION, BUT NOT HERE. NOT HERE. OKAY. I WILL. DID YOU RECRUIT HIM TO COME HERE? I'M JUST CURIOUS. I WILL GIVE THAT SOME THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT THE CITY ATTORNEY HAS SAID ABOUT. CAN WE TAKE A FIVE MINUTE RECESS? IS THAT ALL RIGHT? WELL, WE'RE ALMOST AT THE END OF THE MEETING, BUT SHOULD. SURE WE CAN. WELL, DO YOU WANT TO TAKE A RECESS? DO YOU GUYS WANT TO TAKE A RECESS? NO. MR. DINKES HAS ALREADY LEFT. OKAY. WE DON'T NEED A RECESS NOW. WELL, YOU'RE NOT REALLY THE ONE WHO DECIDES. DOES ANYBODY ELSE WANT TO TAKE A RECESS, OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO KEEP GOING? GOOD. WELL, THIS IS. IT DOES INVOLVE SO MANY FACTORS THAT I'M KIND OF INEXPERIENCED.

YEAH, SURE, SURE. THIS INVOLVES SO MANY FACTORS THAT I'M KIND OF INEXPERIENCED WITH. AND IT DEFINITELY REQUIRES LEGAL MATTERS THAT I'M NOT BRIEFED ON. SO THE CONSERVATIVE SIDE OF ME WANTS TO GO AHEAD AND SAY, LET'S HOLD OFF ON MAKING ANY COMMENTS UNTIL WE BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO BE IN A CITY WHERE PEOPLE CAN EXPRESS THEMSELVES. HOWEVER, THERE ARE AGREEMENTS THAT PEOPLE ARE ENTERED INTO THAT EXISTED WAY BEFORE I WAS INVOLVED, AND SO IT WOULD BE ARROGANT AND IGNORANT OF ME TO GO AHEAD AND COMMENT ON STUFF THAT I AM NOT KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT, AND SO I MUST ACT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS AT THIS TIME, AND HIT PAUSE AND MAKE NO FURTHER COMMENT. I THINK

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PUBLICLY UNTIL WE GET MORE KNOWLEDGE, BECAUSE THIS INVOLVES A LOT OF FACTORS THAT ARE WAY BEYOND WHAT I'M KNOWLEDGEABLE OF. YEAH, I DON'T I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO COMMENT ON ANYTHING.

SO SORRY. I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE WE ARE IN THE AGENDA. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS.

OKAY. SO YEAH, I THINK PERHAPS YOU'RE MAYBE I CAN WE CAN CONSIDER POTENTIAL CLOSED SESSION OR SPECIAL MEETING, BUT NOT RIGHT NOW. DOES THAT SOUND REASONABLE? I WILL PROVIDE THE COUNCIL COMMUNICATION EXPLAINING THE ISSUES, AND WE CAN, YOU KNOW, THE MAYOR CAN DECIDE TO PROCEED WITH CALLING A CLOSED SESSION OR WE CAN DISCUSS THAT FURTHER. YOUR ANALYSIS. ALL RIGHT. DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO'D LIKE TO SPEAK? OKAY. THAT BRINGS US

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