[ PRESENTATIONS Introduction of New City Employee National Police Week Proclamation National Public Works Week Proclamation Drowning Prevention Awareness Proclamation]

DON'T SEE OUR CITY ATTORNEY AT THE MOMENT. SO I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED WITH OUR PRESENTATIONS. AND FIRST UP WE HAVE AN INTRODUCTION OF A NEW OR PROMOTED CITY EMPLOYEE. AND CHIEF LAUTERBACH WILL TAKE IT FROM HERE. GREAT. THANK YOU MAYOR. YES I KNOW IT SAYS NEW CITY EMPLOYEE, BUT THIS IS A NEWLY PROMOTED EMPLOYEE TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THAT IS LIEUTENANT MATT SHARLAND. SO I'D LIKE TO CALL HIM TO THE PODIUM WHILE I DO AN INTRODUCTION. SO LIEUTENANT SHARLAND STARTED HIS CAREER WITH THE CITY OF CYPRESS 13 YEARS AGO, AFTER COMING TO US FROM THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, WHERE HE BEGAN HIS LAW ENFORCEMENT CAREER. MATT HOLDS A

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BACHELOR'S DEGREE FROM CAL STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH, A MASTER'S DEGREE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO, AND HE ALSO POSSESSES HIS SUPERVISORY POST CERTIFICATES THROUGH THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. MATT WAS RECOGNIZED IN 2017 AS OFFICER OF THE YEAR, AND HE HAS WORKED SEVERAL ASSIGNMENTS WHILE HERE AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, INCLUDING DETECTIVES, SUPERVISOR, DETECTIVE BUREAU, AS WELL AS PATROL, AND HE IS CURRENTLY ASSIGNED TO THE OPERATIONS DIVISION AS THE LIEUTENANT IN CHARGE OF OPERATIONS THAT OVERSEES ALL OF PATROL AND EVERYTHING THAT'S RELATED TO EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO THE 911 SYSTEM. SO IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE TO PROMOTE MATT. THE POSITION BECAME AVAILABLE IN DECEMBER OF LAST YEAR WHEN WE HAD A COUPLE RETIREMENTS, AND FOR OUR ORGANIZATION IN DECEMBER, WE PROMOTED SEVERAL SUPERVISORS, AND IT WAS TRULY A GREAT HONOR TO PROMOTE MATT AND BRING HIM ON TO OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM, TO CONTINUE THE STRENGTH OF OUR TEAM AND CONTINUE MOVING THE DEPARTMENT FORWARD. SO WITH THAT, MATT, I WANT TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS AND WELCOME TO THE POSITION OF LIEUTENANT.

WELL, THANK YOU, CHIEF. THANK YOU FOR THE INTRODUCTION AND FOR THE OPPORTUNITY. I'D ALSO LIKE TO EXTEND MY GRATITUDE TO THE CITY MANAGER AND OUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY. IT'S TRULY A PRIVILEGE TO SERVE SUCH A GREAT COMMUNITY, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY AND THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE CYPRESS POLICE DEPARTMENT. IN MY NEW ROLE AS A POLICE LIEUTENANT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. LIEUTENANT, WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO COME FORWARD FOR A PHOTO WITH THE COUNCIL? I KNOW I GOT ONE WITH YOU AT THE BADGE PINNING, BUT IT'D BE GREAT TO GET A GROUP PHOTO. SO. NO, NO. ALL RIGHT. ONE, TWO.

THREE. PERFECT.

[ REPORT OF CLOSED SESSION / WORKSHOP City Manager/City Attorney]

MR. CITY ATTORNEY, CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE US THE REPORT OF CLOSED SESSION AND THE WORKSHOP WHEN YOU HAVE A MOMENT? THANK YOU. CERTAINLY, MAYOR. AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL AND ALL THOSE PRESENT. THE CITY COUNCIL MET INITIALLY TO DISCUSS TWO WORKSHOP ITEMS. THE FISCAL YEAR 2025 2026 PROPOSED BUDGET, IN WHICH THE CITY COUNCIL RECEIVED A BUDGET OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCING BUDGET DECISIONS TO BE PRESENTED TO THE CITY COUNCIL AS PART OF ITS CONSIDERATION OF THE BUDGET TO BE APPROVED, AS WELL AS THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AND DETAILS OF INCLUDED PROJECTS AND SOLICITED CITY COUNCIL INPUT ON STREAMLINING OPTIONS FOR CITY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS. THE CITY COUNCIL ALSO MET IN CLOSED SESSION, AS PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED ON THE ITEM OF CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL LEGAL COUNSEL. ONE ITEM OF ANTICIPATED LITIGATION UNDER THE HEADING OF INITIATION OF LITIGATION, CITY COUNCIL HELD A DISCUSSION AND NO FURTHER REPORTABLE ACTION WAS TAKEN. THAT CONCLUDES THE REPORT. MAYOR. THANK YOU. SO NEXT UP, WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION FOR NATIONAL POLICE WEEK. I DON'T MEAN TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT, COUNCIL MEMBER MINIKUS, WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO READ THIS PROCLAMATION FOR US? OKAY. YEAH. OUR MEMBERS PLEASE.

ME ME ME ME ME. OKAY. NATIONAL POLICE WEEK, MAY 11TH THROUGH THE 17TH OF 2025. WHEREAS THE CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HAVE DESIGNATED MAY 15TH PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL DAY AND THE WEEK IN WHICH IN WHICH MAY 15TH FALLS AS NATIONAL WEEK, NATIONAL POLICE WEEK, NATIONAL POLICE WEEK, PAYING SPECIAL RECOGNITION TO THOSE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE LINE OF DUTY FOR THE SAFETY AND PROTECTION OF OTHERS. AND WHEREAS THE MEMBERS OF THE CYPRUS POLICE DEPARTMENT PLAY AN ESSENTIAL ROLE IN SAFEGUARDING THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF ALL CITIZENS HERE IN THE CITY OF CYPRUS. AND WHEREAS IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ALL CITIZENS UNDERSTAND THE DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, HAZARDS AND

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SACRIFICES OF THEIR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND THAT OUR PEACE OFFICERS RECOGNIZE THEIR FUNDAMENTAL DUTY TO SERVE BY SAFEGUARDING LIVES AND PROPERTY, PROTECTING CITIZENS AGAINST VIOLENCE AND DISORDER, DEFENDING THE INNOCENT AGAINST DECEPTION AND SHIELDING THE VULNERABLE AGAINST OPPRESSION, ALL WHILE UPHOLDING THE BADGE AS A SYMBOL OF PUBLIC FAITH AND TRUST. WHEREAS THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE CYPRUS POLICE DEPARTMENT UNCEASINGLY PROVIDE A VITAL PUBLIC SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF CYPRUS CITY COUNCIL DOES HEREBY PROCLAIM THE WEEK OF MAY 11TH THROUGH THE 17TH, 2025 AS NATIONAL POLICE WEEK AND ENCOURAGES EVERYONE TO OBSERVE NATIONAL POLICE WEEK WITH APPROPRIATE CEREMONIES AND OBSERVANCES IN WHICH EVERYONE MAY JOIN IN COMMEMORATING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, BOTH PAST AND PRESENT, WHO, BY THEIR FAITHFUL AND LOYAL DEVOTION TO THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES, HAVE RENDERED A DEDICATED SERVICE TO THEIR COMMUNITIES AND IN SO DOING HAVE ESTABLISHED FOR THEMSELVES AN ENVIABLE AND ENDURING REPUTATION FOR PRESERVING THE RIGHTS AND SECURITY OF ALL CITIZENS. DAVID BURKE, MAYOR, CITY OF CYPRUS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. COUNCIL MEMBER. IN A MOMENT, I'M GOING TO INVITE OUR CHIEF AND POLICE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL FORWARD FOR A PHOTO. I JUST WANTED TO SAY, I THINK ALL OUR DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVES KNOW HOW APPRECIATED AND BELOVED YOU ARE, NOT JUST BY OUR COUNCIL, BUT BY OUR RESIDENTS. I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS KNOCKING ON DOORS IN 2022, I WOULD ASK PEOPLE WHAT ISSUES WERE ON THEIR MIND, WHAT THEY LIKED ABOUT CYPRUS, WHAT THEY WANTED TO CHANGE. AND I GOT SO MANY COMPLIMENTS ABOUT THE RESPONSIVENESS AND ATTENTIVENESS OF OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY. PLEASE JOIN US IN THE WELL FOR A PHOTO.

I FEEL LIKE ONE OF THOSE. ALL RIGHT. OKAY. ONE. TWO THREE. GOOD.

OH, SURE. THAT MAKES SENSE. THANK YOU. WELL, STICK AROUND FOR A MOMENT. SO MAY 18TH TO MAY 24TH IS ALSO NATIONAL PUBLIC WORKS WEEK. AND JUST AS I HEARD A LOT OF GREAT THINGS FROM OUR RESIDENTS ABOUT OUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, I KNOW HOW MUCH OUR RESIDENTS APPRECIATE OUR PUBLIC WORKS TEAM FROM BELOW THE GROUND. THE DIRTY PART OF PUBLIC WORKS WITH THE SEWERS AND UTILITIES TO OUR ROADS, WHICH I KNOW MANY RESIDENTS CONSIDER THE PRIDE OF ORANGE COUNTY TO THE LANDSCAPING AND GREENERY THROUGHOUT THE CITY. WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE THE HIGH QUALITY PUBLIC WORKS TEAM THAT WE DO HERE IN CYPRUS, AND SO I'LL JUST READ. SO NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF CYPRUS CITY COUNCIL DOES HEREBY DESIGNATE THE WEEK OF MAY 18 TO 20 FOURTH, 2025, AS NATIONAL PUBLIC WORKS WEEK AND URGES ALL CITIZENS TO JOIN WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATION AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN ACTIVITIES, EVENTS AND CEREMONIES TO RECOGNIZE THE SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS THEY MAKE TO PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL HEALTH, SAFETY AND ADVANCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL. SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR AND ANY OTHER PERSONNEL FORWARD FOR A PHOTO WITH THE PROCLAMATION. ALL RIGHT. READY? ONE. TWO. THREE. GOOD.

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OH, WAIT. THERE'S MORE. ALL RIGHT, ONE MORE FOR NOW. SO ALSO, THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ONE IS MAY TO AUGUST 2025 IS CONSIDERED DROWNING PREVENTION AWARENESS SEASON. AND IF YOU'VE GOT LITTLE ONES LIKE I DO, YOU KNOW HOW INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT IT IS TO BE SAFE AROUND WATER TO GET THOSE SWIMMING LESSONS IN EARLY AND JUST BE MINDFUL. THERE ARE SOME GREAT RESOURCES OUT THERE ONLINE. THERE'S VIDEOS AND ALL SORTS OF INFORMATION YOU CAN CHECK OUT. BUT WHAT I'D ASK IS JUST THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE CHILDREN GRANDCHILDREN IN YOUR LIVES, JUST TAKE A LITTLE TIME TO THINK ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT THEY'RE IN AROUND WATER, MAKING SURE IT'S SAFE FOR THEM, AND MAKING SURE THAT YOU HAVE ALL THE RESOURCES THAT YOU NEED TO PROTECT THEM. AND NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRUS PROCLAIMS ITS PARTICIPATION IN THE ALWAYS WATCH THE WATER AND NEVER SWIM ALONE. 2025 CAMPAIGN. COMMENCING IN MAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH AUGUST, THE CITY COUNCIL URGES ALL FAMILIES, PARENTS, RESIDENTS, SCHOOLS, RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, BUSINESSES AND HOA'S TO BECOME PARTNERS IN PREPAREDNESS BY ENHANCING THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF WATER SAFETY MEASURES AND DROWNING PREVENTION STRATEGIES. ARE THERE ANY REPRESENTATIVES TO COME? OCFA. THAT'S CORRECT. MR. SHEETS, WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME FORWARD FOR THE PRESENTATION? OUR ORANGE COUNTY FIRE AUTHORITY DIVISION CHIEF, MATT SHEETS. LET ME SAY ANYTHING. I'M SURE HONORABLE MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS OF THE STAFF AND MEMBERS AUDIENCE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUPPORTING DROWNING AWARENESS. UNFORTUNATELY, OVER 4500 PEOPLE DIE EACH YEAR OF DROWNING IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. OVER 100. THERE WERE OVER 105 DROWNINGS IN CALIFORNIA LAST YEAR. EXCUSE ME, 105 DROWNINGS IN ORANGE COUNTY LAST YEAR.

UNFORTUNATELY, 52 OF THOSE RESULTING IN DEATH. IT'S STILL A LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FROM CHILDREN UNDER THE AGES OF 1 TO 5 IN ORANGE COUNTY. IT IS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE PREVENTED WITH PROPER EDUCATION. A COUPLE TIPS WE'D LIKE TO GIVE OUT FOR FOLKS IS WITH CHILDREN. IF THEY CAN'T SWIM, LET NEVER LET THEM OUT OF ARM'S REACH. JUST BE UNSUPERVISED. UNFORTUNATELY, MOST CHILDREN WHO DIE FROM DROWNING ARE WITH TWO ADULTS AND WERE LAST SEEN WITHIN THE LAST FIVE MINUTES. SO ADULTS ARE HOME. THIS IS HAPPENING, WHICH IS VERY UNFORTUNATE. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SAFETY BARRIERS AROUND YOUR POOL AND MAKE SURE THEY'RE LOCKED. AND WE ALWAYS EMPHASIZE ALWAYS HAVE A WATER WATCHER. SO IF YOU'RE HAVING A PARTY OR A BARBECUE, PUT ON YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY POOL. HIRE. A LIFEGUARD DOESN'T NEED AN ADULT TO WATCH THE CHILDREN AT ALL TIMES. FOR ADULTS, NEVER SWIM ALONE. LEARN HOW TO SWIM. OVER 40 MILLION AMERICAN ADULTS DON'T KNOW HOW TO SWIM, SO IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO SWIM, IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO TRY AND ALWAYS LEARN CPR TO HELP OUT. SO WE APPRECIATE THE TIME AND THE RECOGNITION. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. ONE. TWO THREE. GOOD. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. OKAY. THAT BRINGS US TO ORAL

[ 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 COUNCIL MAY NOT ENGAGE IN A DISCUSSION WITH MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC DURING THE MEETING. PLEASE COMPLETE A SPEAKER'S CARD TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL IN PERSON, OR FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS AT THE END OF THE AGENDA AND WAIT TO BE CALLED ON BY THE MAYOR OR CITY CLERK TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL VIRTUALLY IN PERSON. COMMENTS WILL BE CALLED ON FIRST. OKAY, FIRST UP IS JOSHUA SHAFER, FOLLOWED BY BOB YOUNGSMA. THANKS. HELLO MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, IT'S GREAT TO BE SPEAKING TO YOU TODAY. I'D LIKE TO CONVEY MY GRATITUDE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT ON AGENDA ITEM 16. AND I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT I BROUGHT TWO MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO SPEAK WITH ME, AND THEY'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ABOUT WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT TO US, AND WHY WE SUPPORT IT, AND

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WHY DURING THESE TIMES, WE NEED TO, YOU KNOW, STAND TOGETHER AND RECOGNIZE THINGS AS SUCH. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. OKAY. BOB YOUNGSMA, FOLLOWED BY RABBI STEVEN EINSTEIN. WELL GOOD EVENING, I'M BOB YOUNGSMA, RESIDENT OF CYPRESS. ONE OF THE THINGS I'M BRINGING UP IS YOUR MINUTES THAT ARE QUITE OLD, THAT YOU'RE APPROVING. YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN ON IN MY LIFETIME ON COUNCILS, I'VE BEEN ON BOARDS, I'VE BEEN ON COMMITTEES, AND I'VE DEALT WITH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. EVERY TIME I WENT TO THE MEETING, WE HAD THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING. THEY WERE READ, WE DISCUSSED IT, AND WE MADE DARN SURE THAT IF THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THOSE MINUTES THAT WERE WRONG, WE CORRECTED IT. WHEN YOU'RE TWO AND THREE AND FOUR MONTHS OUT ON YOUR MINUTES, WITH SOMETIMES TWO MINUTES PER MONTH, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO REMEMBER WHAT YOU DISCUSSED AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE IT CORRECT. IT'S ONLY GOING TO BE CORRECT BASED ON WHAT HAS BEEN PUT IN BY SOMEBODY ELSE. THAT'S WRONG. AND TO ME, IT'S UNACCEPTABLE BECAUSE THOSE RECORDS NOW COULD BE INCORRECT OR PEOPLE ARE BELIEVING IT MEANT SOMETHING ELSE THAT IT DIDN'T MEAN. I THINK YOU NEED TO FIX THAT. YOU SHOULD HAVE THE MINUTES EVERY TIME YOU COME TO A MEETING AND CORRECT IT. I DID GO TO THE WORKSHOP TODAY. WORKSHOP WAS QUITE INTERESTING. I THINK MATT DID A GREAT JOB TRYING TO DO WHAT HE WAS DOING, BUT THE ONE THING I DIDN'T LIKE IS YOU'RE TRYING TO GIVE MORE POWER TO THE MANAGER. IT'S THE COUNCIL'S JOB. YOU DON'T KEEP GIVING IT AWAY. THAT'S JUST WRONG. I'VE BEEN IN THE BUSINESS LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW YOU DON'T START HANDING DOWN TO THE EMPLOYEES YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, BECAUSE NORMALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS SOMETHING GOES WRONG. AND YEAH, IT'S LEGAL. I ALREADY HEARD THAT. BUT SOMETHING CAN GO WRONG. AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO THEN? YOU KNOW, IT'S YOUR JOB. YOUR JOB IS TO DO IT. IT'S NOT HIS JOB. AND ANYBODY THAT TELLS ME IT'S GOING TO SAVE 8 TO 12 WEEKS TELLS ME THAT'S A MANAGEMENT PROBLEM. I'VE BEEN IN THE CONSTRUCTION WORLD SINCE I WAS 18 YEARS OLD. I MANAGE MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BUILDINGS AND SIGNED MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACTS. I HIRED AND FIRED PEOPLE. IF SOMEBODY TOLD ME BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T GET THE INFORMATION BACK TO ME IN 8 TO 12 WEEKS FOR SOMETHING I NEEDED, I WOULD FIRE THEM INSTANTLY BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. THANK YOU. RABBI STEVEN EINSTEIN, FOLLOWED BY SANDY LESTER. HI. GOOD EVENING, MR. MAYOR, AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. I'M GOING TO SPEAK ONLY BRIEFLY. SANDY IS GOING TO GIVE A LITTLE MORE OF THE BACKGROUND OF NUMBER 16. AND THANK I'D LIKE TO THANK COUNCIL MEMBER FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. I'M ADDRESSING YOU AS THE SENIOR RABBI OF ORANGE COUNTY. AND ALSO, I HAVE TO TELL YOU, IT'S A GREAT JOY FOR ME TO ADDRESS THIS PARTICULAR COUNCIL. I I'VE SPOKEN TO MANY OVER THE YEARS, BUT THIS ONE IS VERY SPECIAL BECAUSE WHEN WE FIRST MOVED TO ORANGE COUNTY, MY FAMILY AND I LIVED HERE IN CYPRUS. SO IT'S KIND OF A HOMECOMING. SANDY'S GOING TO GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND, BUT I WILL TELL YOU WHY. I THINK IT'S PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT FOR THE CITY COUNCIL TO ADOPT THIS PROCLAMATION. VERY SADLY, OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, THERE HAS BEEN A RISE IN HATE IN OUR COUNTRY, IN OUR COUNTY, AND I DARE SAY, EVEN HERE IN THE LOVELY CITY OF CYPRUS, HATE AGAINST VARIOUS MINORITY GROUPS IN PARTICULAR, BUT SPECIFICALLY, WE'VE SEEN A TREMENDOUS SPIKE IN ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE FACT THAT YOU, AS THE ELECTED LEADERS OF THE CITY, WILL MAKE A PROCLAMATION OF APPRECIATION OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, I THINK WILL MEAN A GREAT DEAL. AND SO I WOULD ASK YOU TO GIVE THIS SERIOUS CONSIDERATION AND YOUR ASSENT. THANK YOU. SANDY LESTER, FOLLOWED BY ED KRAMER. GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION OF A PROCLAMATION BY THE CITY OF CYPRUS, RECOGNIZING MAY AS JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH.

SINCE ITS FOUNDING OF THIS COUNTRY, JEWS HAVE MADE A SUBSTANTIAL AND IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICA. JEWS DID NOT COME TO THIS COUNTRY AND EXPECT TO BE TAKEN CARE OF.

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RATHER, THEY CAME TO THIS COUNTRY AND EMBRACED IT, CHERISHED IT, CONTRIBUTED TO IT, AND ENHANCED IT. IN FACT, IN 1790, GEORGE WASHINGTON SAID TO THE JEWS OF NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, THE UNITED STATES, WHICH GIVES TO BIGOTRY NO SANCTION TO PERSECUTION, NO ASSISTANCE REQUIRES ONLY THAT THEY WHO LIVE UNDER ITS PROTECTION SHOULD DEMEAN THEMSELVES AS GOOD CITIZENS IN GIVING IT ALL. ON OCCASION THEIR EFFECTUAL SUPPORT. THE JEWS TOOK THAT PROMISE TO HEART AND HAVE BEEN KEEPING THEIR END OF THE BARGAIN. BEING GOOD CITIZENS, JEWS HAVE MADE CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICS, THE MILITARY, ENTERTAINMENT, MEDICINE, ACADEMIA, ART, AEROSPACE, ARCHITECTURE, AGRICULTURE, FINANCE, LAW, FASHION.

ESSENTIALLY, IN EVERY AREA OF AMERICAN LIFE, YOU CAN FIND JEWS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS LOCALLY. JEWS HAVE ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO ORANGE COUNTY PEOPLE LIKE JOSEPH EICHLER, DAVID MARCUS, AND MEL MERMELSTEIN ARE JUST A FEW WHO HAVE GIVEN GREATLY TO ORANGE COUNTY. DESPITE THE CURRENT MEDIOCRE RISE IN ANTI-SEMITISM, JEWS ARE NOT DETERRED FROM THEIR COMMITMENT TO BE GOOD CITIZENS AND TO MAKE THIS COMMUNITY A BETTER PLACE, INCLUDING ONE FREE BIGOTRY AND PERSECUTION FOR ALL PEOPLE, INCLUDING FOR THOSE THAT HATE THEM. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. AND KRAMER. HELLO MAYOR COUNCIL, THANKS FOR LETTING ME SPEAK. I'D LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM SEVEN AND 13. ITEM SIX ON THE SURVEY. I DON'T THINK WE ASK ON OUR SURVEY WHETHER THE RESIDENTS APPRECIATED HAVING OUR LAST VOTE FOR A TOWN CENTER OVERTURNED BECAUSE THE CITY MANAGER COULDN'T PLAN FORWARD ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE A SURPRISE OF 3500 UNITS UNDER RENA. I THINK THE PLAN WAS JUST TO OVERTURN THE VOTE, BECAUSE IT'S EASY TO SEND OUT A BUNCH OF GLOSSY GREEN FLIERS WITH TREES ON THEM AND SAY MONEY FOR SCHOOLS AND HAVE THE RESIDENTS VOTE AGAINST THEMSELVES, BASICALLY. SO WE LOST OUR TOWN CENTER AND WE LOST OUR DENSITY RESTRICTIONS ON LARK AND I, I DON'T SEE I SEE REACTIVE PLANNING IN THE CITY. THE MANAGER JUST WON AN AWARD, WHICH I HAD TO STAY HOME BECAUSE NOTHING I WAS GOING TO SAY WOULD HAVE ANYTHING I WAS PROUD OF. BUT THE REACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF CITY PLANNING HAS CAUSED US TO LOSE 300 ACRES OF LARK. HALF OUR SCHOOLS DISTRICTS. WE'VE TURNED THEM INTO HOUSES AND ATHLETIC FIELDS, HAVE GONE INTO OUR CITY PARKS BECAUSE OF LACK OF COORDINATION BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE SCHOOLS. WE COULD HAVE FUNDED NEW FIELDS IN OUR SCHOOLS HAD WE HAD COLLABORATION THERE.

SO NOW I LOOK AT THIS ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, WHERE WE'RE CONSOLIDATING THE PLANS, WHICH MAY BE A GOOD IDEA. WE'RE DOING IT WITHOUT A CEQA. WE'RE DOING IT WITH, I THINK, WITHOUT HAVING AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STUDY DOING A NON WHATEVER IT IS. AND I DON'T WHAT I DON'T SEE IN THERE IS INDUSTRY AND COMMERCIAL GIVING UP ANYTHING FOR RENA. I DON'T SEE THE CITY MANAGER OR ANYBODY PUTTING ANY CLAUSE IN THERE THAT SAYS THE TWO AREAS THAT CAN HAVE DISTRIBUTION CENTERS, THAT THERE'S ANY LIMIT ON, THAT WE JUST PUT IN 150 TRUCK BAYS IN A DISTRIBUTION CENTER ON PARK PLAZA OR PLAZA. SO I DON'T SEE ANYTHING IN THIS NEW PLAN THAT REQUIRES THEM TO PUT A LITTLE BIT FOR THE NEXT RENA ALLOTMENT OF 5000 HOMES. IT'S ALL COMING OUT OF RESIDENTIAL, AND I DON'T SEE ANY RESTRICTIONS ON THINGS LIKE DISTRIBUTION CENTERS. SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE I'D LIKE TO SEE INDUSTRY GIVING UP SOMETHING FOR RENA. THANKS. OKAY. DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER IN-PERSON SPEAKER CARDS FOR AGENDA ITEMS? OKAY, OKAY. DO WE HAVE ANY VIRTUAL SPEAKERS THIS EVENING? YES, MR. MAYOR, WE HAVE. TWO HANDS RAISED ONLINE, ONE BY LIZ SPENCER AND

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ONE BY MELANIE NAGPAUL. OKAY. LIZ SPENCER, IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, YOU'RE FREE TO COMMENT. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? YES. OKAY. LOVELY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING ME SPEAK. AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PUBLIC SERVICE. I DID WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ITEM 16. SO FIRST LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF. I'M LIZ SPENCER, I'M THE CEO AND CO-FOUNDER OF AMP LEGACY, AND WE'RE A CONSULTANCY IN ORANGE COUNTY THAT AIMS FOR COMMUNITY BETTERMENT AND SOCIAL IMPACT. SO THESE TYPES OF PROGRAMS FOR US ARE NOT JUST MOTIVATING AND WONDERFUL IDEAS, BUT WE WORK WITH MANY CITIES.

AND I CAN TELL YOU, MANY OF THEM DON'T HAVE THEM. THEY HAVEN'T EVEN CONSIDERED THEM. SO I COMMEND YOU ON EVEN PUTTING IT ON THE DOCKET. SECONDLY, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE DIVISIVE TIMES AND WE HAVE 100,000 ESTIMATED JEWISH RESIDENTS IN ORANGE COUNTY ALONE, PROBABLY MORE.

THAT'S AN ESTIMATE. AND THERE HAS BEEN A RISE IN ANTI-SEMITISM. AND I DON'T WANT TO BRING TO LIGHT ANY OF THESE, YOU KNOW, NEGATIVE ISSUES. BUT WHAT I DO WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS WHAT WE DO. AND THIS IS NOT SOME SORT OF SALES PITCH. I KNOW THAT'S NOT ALLOWED, BUT WE ACTUALLY WORK WITH CITIES ALL ACROSS THE BOARD BECAUSE COMMUNITY BETTERMENT AND SOCIAL IMPACT IS A VERY WIDE UMBRELLA. AND SO WE'RE ABLE TO SEE WHAT WORKS IN PARTICULAR AREAS AND DIFFERENT SECTORS THAT COULD WORK WELL FOR THE CITY OF CYPRUS. THAT BEING THE CASE, ONE OF THOSE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAD CONSIDERED, WHICH WE HAVEN'T PUT INTO PLACE YET, IS A WIN WIN WIN SCENARIO WHERE IF AND WHEN YOU GUYS DID DECIDE TO HAVE THIS INITIATIVE GO FORWARD, WHAT WE COULD DO IS, YOU KNOW, ENROLL. WE HAVE A PROGRAM WHERE WE COULD ENROLL MANY SMALL BUSINESSES THAT ARE INVOLVED WITH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OR THAT ARE SMALL BUSINESSES RUN BY JEWISH COMMUNITIES AND GET THEM INVOLVED WITH FUNDING, WITH SIMPLY OFFERING SOMETHING NEW AND INTERESTING, LIKE A COUPON FOR SOMETHING NEW WITHIN CYPRUS AND OUTSIDE OF CYPRUS. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, HAND THAT OVER IN COLLABORATION WITH CITY, AMONGST OTHER WAYS, TO PROMOTE IT. WHAT THAT ENDS UP DOING IS INCREASING SALES TAX REVENUE, INCREASING VISIBILITY AND, YOU KNOW, ACCOLADES FOR THE CITY OF CYPRUS AS A LEADER. AND ALSO IT DOES GARNER MEDIA COVERAGE, ALL OF WHICH WE CAN HELP WITH. SO AGAIN, THIS ISN'T ME SAYING, HEY, PLEASE CONNECT WITH US SO WE CAN DO THIS FOR YOU. THIS IS ME SAYING IT'S A GREAT IDEA. WE CAN HELP AND WE CAN MAKE IT GO BEYOND JUST A COMMEMORATIVE MONTH AND MAKE IT A PROGRAM THAT HELPS THE CITY AS WELL. AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING ME SPEAK. OKAY. THANK YOU. NEXT UP, I BELIEVE YOU SAID MELINA NAGPAUL. HI MOLLY NAGPAUL FOR I'VE BEEN A RESIDENT OF CITY OF CYPRUS SINCE 1991. I WANTED TO SPEAK ON NUMBER 16, ONE, THREE, FOUR AND FIVE. I WILL START BACKWARDS BECAUSE I'M MORE EXCITED ABOUT NUMBER 16 THAN I AM ABOUT THE OTHER ONES. FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PUTTING NUMBER 16 ON THE AGENDA AND CONSIDERING IT. I HOPE THAT IT'S NOT JUST A CONSIDERATION AND THAT EVERYBODY WILL TO HAVE THE JEWISH HERITAGE MONTH PERMANENTLY ESTABLISHED IN THE CITY OF CYPRUS. I'M GLAD TO SEE THIS HAPPEN. SINCE IN 2021, 2022, 2023, INCLUDING 2024, THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL AND SOME OF THE REMAINING COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT ARE CURRENTLY SITTING ON THE DAIS HAD NOT HAD VOTED AGAINST IT AT THAT TIME, SO I AM AT ONE PART, HAPPY TO SEE THIS HAPPEN NOW AND EXCITED TO SEE THIS HAPPEN NOW, CONSIDERING THAT WE NEED IT SO MUCH. ADDITIONALLY, IN TERMS OF NUMBER 16, I'M HOPING THAT THE COUNCIL IN THE FUTURE WILL ALSO CONSIDER ASIAN AMERICAN FUNDS BLACK HISTORY MONTH, AS WELL AS LGBTQ RECOGNITION AND HERITAGE MONTH AS WELL. BUT FOR NOW, I'M EXTREMELY HAPPY TO SEE THAT WE ARE MOVING FORWARD, EVEN THOUGH IN THE PAST YEARS IT HAD BEEN VOTED DOWN FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS IN TERMS OF NUMBER THREE AND

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FOUR, AGAIN AGAINST IN THE SAME LIGHT. I AM VERY EXCITED TO SEE THE RECOGNITION OF ALL OF THESE THREE AREAS. THE PUBLIC, WORKFORCE OR PUBLIC WORK, THE POLICE RECOGNITION AS WELL AS WATER SAFETY. I WANT TO NOW TURN TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE, WHICH SPECIFICALLY HAS TO DO WITH I BELIEVE IT'S THE APPROVING OF MINUTES FOR ONE OF THE MINUTES. IT HAS TO DO WITH SPECIAL MEETING ON APRIL 16TH. I BELIEVE IT HAPPENED. I JUST WANT TO KNOW MORE. I'M HOPING THAT THE CITY WILL DISCLOSE THIS, EVEN THOUGH THIS WAS IN THE SPECIAL MEETING IN CLOSED SESSION. SPECIFICALLY CALLS FOR. IN IN INDEMNIFY OR I THINK IN LAYMAN'S TERM IT'S TO SUPPORT OR TO. REALLY PAY FOR DAMAGES OR HARMS DONE IN SOME WAY TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBER AT THAT TIME HOLDING THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER SEATS. PLEASE FINISH YOUR THOUGHT, MISS NAGPAUL. SURE. JOHN P AND MAYOR MORALES AT THAT TIME FOR PAYING PAYING THEM SOME TYPE OF FEE FOR THAT. WHATEVER LAWSUIT THAT WAS HAPPENING. SO I'D LIKE TO KNOW. I'M HOPING THAT THE CITY WILL WILL MAKE THOSE FUNDS AND HOWEVER MUCH THAT THEY ARE BEING REIMBURSED FOR, AVAILABLE FOR THE PUBLIC. BUT THANK YOU FOR NUMBER 16. ALL RIGHT. DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER HANDS RAISED, MADAM CITY CLERK OKAY. MOVING ON TO

[ 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.]

THE CONSENT CALENDAR. ALL ITEMS, 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. I WOULD LIKE TO PULL ITEM NUMBER EIGHT. DO ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES WISH TO PULL AN ITEM OR HAVE QUESTIONS OR REMARKS ABOUT AN ITEM? OKAY.

SEEING NONE, I MOVE TO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS ONE THROUGH SEVEN AND NINE AND TEN.

I'LL SECOND THE MOTION. THAT MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. OKAY. AT I'M GOING TO MOVE UP.

[16. Consider a Proclamation Recognizing May as Jewish American Heritage Month Agendized by: Scott Minikus, Council Member Recommendation: Consider a proclamation recognizing May as Jewish American Heritage Month.]

ITEM NUMBER 16. COUNCIL MEMBER MONICA'S REQUEST, WHICH IS CONSIDER A PROCLAMATION.

PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING MAY AS JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH COUNCIL MEMBER. SINCE YOU AGENDIZED THIS ITEM, THE FLOOR IS YOURS. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. YEAH, JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH IS SOMETHING DEAR TO ME. AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, NOT ONLY DO I, I KNOW MANY PEOPLE OF JEWISH DESCENT HERE IN THE CITY, BUT ALSO ACROSS THE COUNTRY. IN 2023, I WAS BLESSED, QUITE HONESTLY, TO TRAVEL TO ISRAEL, WHICH SOLIDIFIED MY CONNECTION WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY WHAT THEY'VE GIVEN TO US, NOT JUST RECENTLY, BUT THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND TIME DATING BACK 2000 YEARS. AND I'M REALLY HONORED TO BRING THIS PROCLAMATION FORWARD AND ASK FOR MY COLLEAGUES SUPPORT ON THIS. AND IF I CAN GET A MOTION. I'LL SECOND THE MOTION. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. WE NEED TO VOTE. YES. THAT MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY, PLEASE. OKAY. AND I'D LIKE TO COUNCIL MEMBER MINIKUS TO PRESENT THE PROCLAMATION. SURE. YEAH. AND ANY COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES WHO WOULD LIKE TO COME FORWARD FOR A PHOTOGRAPH, PLEASE DO.

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YOU? THINK SO? YEAH. YEAH. OKAY. THAT BRINGS US TO OUR PUBLIC HEARING. ITEM NUMBER 11, ADOPT A

[11. Adopt a Resolution Establishing the Graham Street Underground Utility District No. 1 Prepared by: Nick Mangkalakiri, Director of Public Works Recommendation: 1. Approve the City Engineer's Report for the Graham Street Underground Utility District No. 1; and 2. Adopt the attached Resolution establishing the Graham Street Underground Utility District No. 1.]

RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING THE GRAHAM STREET UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICT. NUMBER ONE.

MR. MANGKALAKIRI, TAKE IT AWAY. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. I AM PLEASED TO PRESENT A PROPOSAL. EXCUSE ME. I'M SORRY, I MADE A MISTAKE. THAT'S RIGHT. MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD DISCLOSE AT THIS TIME COMMUNICATIONS WITH ANYONE RELEVANT TO THIS PUBLIC HEARING ITEM. DOES ANYONE HAVE SUSPICIOUS OR CLANDESTINE COMMUNICATIONS THEY'D LIKE TO DISCLOSE? OKAY. SEEING NONE NOW, MR. MANGOLD, CAN YOU TAKE IT AWAY? THANK YOU, MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. TONIGHT, I AM PLEASED TO PRESENT A PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH THE GRAHAM STREET UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICT NUMBER ONE, A PROJECT THAT WILL LEVERAGE 1.7 MILLION IN EXPIRING RULE 28 WORK CREDITS. THE RULE 28 PROGRAM WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, THE CPUC, TO HELP LOCAL AGENCIES CONVERT OVERHEAD UTILITIES TO UNDERGROUND SYSTEMS AND AREAS THAT PROVIDE BROAD PUBLIC BENEFIT, SUCH AS CIVIC AREAS OR AREAS WITH HIGH PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC. PUBLIC WORKS HAS WORKED CLOSELY WITH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON, IDENTIFY A PROJECT THAT MEETS THAT SPECIFIC CRITERIA AND TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 28, AND THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL UNDERGROUND SEVEN UTILITY POLES AND OVERHEAD WIRES ALONG THE EAST SIDE OF GRAHAM STREET FROM ORANGE AVENUE TO ROUGHLY 1200 FEET SOUTH OF ORANGE AVENUE. THIS IS A HIGHLY VISIBLE CIVIC AND RECREATIONAL AREA, AND WILL IMPROVE THE AREA'S ESTHETICS AND REDUCE VISUAL CLUTTER. THE MAP THAT YOU SEE UP THERE, IT'S ACTUALLY TURNED NORTH. THIS TO THE LEFT SO YOU CAN SEE ORANGE AVENUE RUNNING NORTH SOUTH GRAHAM STREET AND THEN THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND THE OAK KNOLL PARK JUST NEXT TO THAT DISTRICT. THIS EFFORT IS FULLY FUNDED THROUGH RULE 28 CREDITS PROVIDED BY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON. THERE WILL BE NO FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION REQUIRED FROM THE CITY OR AFFECTED PROPERTY OWNERS. AND THE CITY ENGINEER'S REPORT CONFIRMS THE PROJECT'S ELIGIBILITY AND SCE WILL BE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND COORDINATION WITH OTHER UTILITIES. IF APPROVED, THE PROJECT WILL MOVE INTO THE DESIGN AND PRE-CONSTRUCTION PHASE WITH ESTIMATED COMPLETION AT THE END OF LATE 2028. TONIGHT, WE ARE RECOMMENDING THAT CITY COUNCIL APPROVE THE CITY ENGINEER'S REPORT AND TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH THE GRAHAM STREET UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICT NUMBER ONE. AND WITH THAT, I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE. OKAY. DO ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? OKAY. SEEING NONE, ARE THERE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO COME FORWARD AND SPEAK ON THIS PUBLIC HEARING ITEM? OH, OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING NOW.

DOES ANYONE WANT TO COME FORWARD? SEEING NONE. CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. ANY ANY COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS AT THIS TIME? OKAY, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION ON THE ITEM. I MOVE. ANY MORE THAN THAT? YEAH, YEAH. ENTERTAIN THE MOTION IF IT'S MOVED. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION.

YES. OKAY. I'LL SECOND. THAT. MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. NEXT UP, NEW BUSINESS ITEM NUMBER 12,

[12. Approve the Expansion of Cypress University's Next Up! Business Growth Program Prepared by: Alicia Velasco, Planning Director Recommendation: 1. Appropriate $80,000 from General Fund reserves set-aside for economic development to the Next Up! Business Growth Program; and 2. Authorize the expansion of the Next Up! Business Growth Program to fund up to 32 eligible businesses.]

APPROVE THE EXPANSION OF CYPRESS UNIVERSITY'S NEXT UP BUSINESS GROWTH PROGRAM, PREPARED, PREPARED BY PLANNING DIRECTOR ALICIA VELASCO. THANK YOU VERY. DO I HAVE TO HIT THE BUTTON? PERFECT. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. WE DO HAVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION ON THIS ITEM, BUT I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO THE CITY'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER TO PRESENT.

AND HIS NAME IS CHRISTOPHER WONG. THANK YOU. HI. GOOD EVENING. SO THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. I'M VERY EXCITED TO BE HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE I GET TO SHARE SOME GOOD NEWS WITH YOU. AND I THINK WE COULD ALL USE SOME GOOD NEWS. SO I FIRST USED CYPRESS UNIVERSITY HAS BEEN EXTREMELY

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OKAY. I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA ITEM. I'LL SECOND. THAT MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ITEM 13, RECEIVE AND FILE THE RESULTS OF THE 2025

[13. Receive and File the Results of the 2025 Community Survey Prepared by: Alisha Farnell, City Clerk Recommendation: Receive and file the results of the 2025 Community Survey.]

COMMUNITY SURVEY PREPARED BY OUR CITY CLERK, ALICIA FARNELL. ONE MOMENT, MR. MAYOR.

OKAY. GOOD EVENING, MR. MAYOR. AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. TONIGHT, WE HAVE DOCTOR TIMOTHY MCLARNEY HERE IN ATTENDANCE TO PROVIDE US WITH THE FINDINGS FROM THE 2025 CYPRESS COMMUNITY SURVEY. AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO HIM. THANK YOU. WELCOME, DOCTOR MCLARNEY. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR. MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, TIM MCLARNEY, PRESIDENT OF TRUE NORTH RESEARCH. WE ARE FIRM THAT OVER THE LAST 20 PLUS YEARS HAS SPECIALIZED IN WORKING WITH CITIES AROUND THE STATE AND USING SURVEYS LIKE THIS TO DEVELOP HELP THEM DEVELOP A STATISTICALLY RELIABLE UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMMUNITIES AND THE CUSTOMERS THAT THEY SERVE. TODAY, WE'VE DONE OVER

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1500 RESEARCH STUDIES FOR PUBLIC AGENCIES. ABOUT 500 OF THEM WERE SIMILAR TO THE TYPE OF COMMUNITY OPINION SURVEY WE'RE CONDUCTING. OR I'M GOING TO BE SHARING WITH YOU HERE TONIGHT. AND I'VE ALSO HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING THE CITY OF CYPRESS RESEARCH PARTNER ON THIS WOULD MAKE THE THIRD COMMUNITY SURVEY DATING BACK TO 2018. AND SO I MENTIONED THAT BECAUSE IN TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION, WE'RE NOT ONLY GOING TO BE ABLE TO SHOW YOU THE RESULTS OF THE 2025 SURVEY, WE ALSO HAVE WHERE WE HAVE COMPARABLE QUESTIONS, DATA GOING BACK TO 2018. I WELCOME QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL AS I GO THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION ALONG THE WAY AT THE END, WHICH WHICHEVER IS YOUR PREFERENCE? MAYOR. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. OKAY. SO BEFORE WE DISCUSS THE ACTUAL RESULTS, IT'S HELPFUL TO TAKE A MOMENT TO REVIEW THE METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY OR HOW WE WENT ABOUT CONDUCTING THE SURVEY. WHEN YOU'RE DOING A STATISTICALLY RELIABLE SURVEY, THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION YOU NEED TO ASK YOURSELF AT THE BEGINNING OF THAT STUDY IS, HOW ARE WE GOING TO SELECT THE PEOPLE THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING TO IN PART OF THE SURVEY? YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE DOING 400 OR 500 OR 600 INTERVIEWS AS PART OF A SURVEY LIKE THIS, AND YOU'RE TRYING TO EXTRAPOLATE TO TENS OF THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS, THE KEY IS MAKING SURE THAT YOU HAVE A RANDOM SAMPLE. WE USE WHAT'S CALLED A STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLE, WHERE WE DIVIDED THE HOUSEHOLDS IN CYPRUS GEOGRAPHICALLY FIRST AND THEN RANDOMLY SELECTED THOSE, AND THEN FROM THERE APPENDED CONTACT INFORMATION TO THE SAMPLE AND THEN RANDOMLY SELECTED ADULT RESIDENTS. WHAT THIS ALLOWS US TO DO IS TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THIS REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE. IT'S RANDOM, BUT IT ALSO ENABLES US, AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH DATA COLLECTION, TO CLOSELY MONITOR HOW OUR SAMPLE IS LINING UP IN, ACCORDING TO WHAT THE CENSUS TELLS US, THAT THE POPULATION IN CYPRUS IS DISTRIBUTED LIKE. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THAT TABLE TO THE RIGHT. WE DID A VERY GOOD JOB AT THAT. WE'RE BASICALLY WITHIN 1 OR 2% IN EVERY ONE OF THOSE SUBCATEGORIES. SO NOT ONLY ARE WE RANDOM, WE'RE EVERY ADULT RESIDENT HAD AN EQUAL PROBABILITY OF BEING SELECTED. WE WERE ALSO MONITORING AS WE WENT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE REALLY CLOSELY ALIGNED. AND THAT'S REALLY THE KEY TO MAKING SURE THAT THESE SURVEYS ARE STATISTICALLY RELIABLE AND REPRESENTATIVE. ONCE WE HAVE SELECTED OUR SAMPLE, USE THREE DIFFERENT RECRUITING METHODS EMAIL, TEXT AND TELEPHONE. THE EMAIL AND TEXT INVITATIONS HAD A HYPERLINK. EVERYONE'S PIN PROTECTED SO THAT ONLY THOSE RESIDENTS THAT WERE RANDOMLY SELECTED AND INVITED TO TAKE THE SURVEY COULD DO SO, AND THEY COULD TAKE THE SURVEY. ONE TIME, ONLY FOLKS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE ONLINE OR BY TELEPHONE, WHICHEVER WAS THEIR PREFERENCE, AS WELL AS IN EITHER ENGLISH, SPANISH, OR KOREAN, DEPENDING ON WHICH LANGUAGE THEY PREFERRED. NOW WE HAD SET OUT TO DO AND CONTRACTED TO DO 500 COMPLETED INTERVIEWS, AND WE WALKED BACK IN THE DOOR WITH 675. SO CYPRUS HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF THOSE COMMUNITIES THAT I THINK WHEN THE CITY HAS GONE OUT AND ASKED RESIDENTS TO SHARE THEIR OPINIONS ABOUT THEIR COMMUNITY AND ABOUT THE CITY'S PERFORMANCE, THE PARTICIPATION RATE IS HIGHER HERE THAN WHAT WE WOULD NORMALLY ANTICIPATE. AND SO WE GET TO PASS THAT ALONG BACK TO THE CITY BY HAVING MORE COMPLETED INTERVIEWS THAN WE HAD SET OUT ORIGINALLY UNDER THE CONTRACT. WITH THAT SOMEWHAT LARGER SAMPLE SIZE, WE HAVE AN OVERALL MARGIN OF ERROR DUE TO SAMPLING OF PLUS OR -3.7% AT THE 95% CONFIDENCE LEVEL. WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE CAN BE 95% CONFIDENT THAT THE RESULTS I'LL SHARE WITH YOU TONIGHT ARE WITHIN 3.7% OF WHAT WE WOULD HAVE FOUND HAD WE SPOKEN WITH ALL OF YOUR ADULT RESIDENTS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. OKAY, FOR THIS, I'M GONNA HAVE TO START WEARING GLASSES. SO WE OPEN UP WITH SOME HIGH LEVEL QUESTIONS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SURVEY, WHERE WE ASK RESPONDENTS TO KIND OF COMMENT ON CYPRUS AS A COMMUNITY. HOW DO THEY RATE CYPRUS AS A PLACE TO LIVE, AS A PLACE TO RAISE A FAMILY, AS A PLACE TO RETIRE, ETC? AND SO FOR EACH OF THE DIMENSIONS YOU SEE THERE ON THE LEFT, WE JUST ASKED FOLKS TO RATE THAT ON THE SCALE OF EXCELLENT, GOOD, FAIR, POOR OR VERY POOR. AND YOU CAN SEE HERE THAT CYPRUS GETS VERY HIGH MARKS FOR AS A PLACE TO LIVE AND AS A PLACE TO RAISE A FAMILY, AS WELL AS THE OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE THAT WAS 90% EXCELLENT OR GOOD, 87% AND 87% RESPECTIVELY. THE RATINGS GET A LITTLE SOFTER FOR CYPRUS AS A PLACE TO RETIRE, AS A PLACE TO WORK, ALTHOUGH YOU WOULD NOTICE, PARTICULARLY ON THAT, AS A PLACE TO WORK, YOU HAVE A VERY LARGE PERCENTAGE, 33%, ABOUT A THIRD OF THE SAMPLE WHO DON'T KNOW. RIGHT. AND THAT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR WORK RIGHT NOW. THEY MAY BE RETIRED. AND SO THAT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF HOW THEY RATE THE COMMUNITY.

NEXT SLIDE. SO AFTER THAT WE ASK INDIVIDUALS TO SORT OF OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS. THE FIRST OF WHICH IS WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT CYPRUS? THE CITY GOVERNMENT SHOULD SEEK TO PRESERVE IN THE FUTURE. SO WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT LIVING HERE THAT YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE IT STAY THE SAME INTO THE FUTURE BY OPEN ENDED? WHAT I MEAN IS THAT WE ASK THAT QUESTION AND THEN WE'RE QUIET. THEY GET TO TELL US OUR OWN WORDS, WHAT IT IS THAT COMES TOP OF MIND TO THEIR TO THEM ABOUT WHAT IT IS THAT THEY LIKE MOST ABOUT THE COMMUNITY. WE THEN GO BACK AND REVIEW THE VERBATIM RESPONSES, AND WE GROUP THEM INTO THE CATEGORIES THAT YOU SEE HERE. SO CONSISTENT WITH THE MAYOR'S COMMENT EARLIER ABOUT KNOCKING ON DOORS AND HEARING A LOT ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY AS BEING A POSITIVE IN CYPRUS, WE SAW THAT HERE AS WELL. ABOUT ONE OUT OF FOUR

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RESPONDENTS MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THE COMMUNITY, LOW CRIME RATE AS A THING THEY LIKE MOST ABOUT CYPRUS, FOLLOWED BY PARKS AND RECREATION AREAS AT 18%. THAT'S A CLEAN, WELL MAINTAINED CITY. SOMETHING ABOUT THE LANDSCAPING AND THE TREES AT 14%, YET ABOUT 13%, WE WEREN'T SURE. AND THEN THE FINAL ONE IN THAT TOP FIVE IS THAT IT'S A QUIET, FRIENDLY TOWN AND FAMILY ORIENTED WHEN YOU GO BACK OVER TIME, AS I MENTIONED, WE HAD TWO PRIOR SURVEYS GOING BACK TO 2018. FOUR OF THE FIVE TOP RESPONSES HAVE BEEN THE SAME EVERY YEAR, SO RESIDENTS ARE PRETTY CONSISTENT ABOUT WHAT IT IS THAT THEY LIKE ABOUT THE COMMUNITY. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO HAVING LEARNED WHAT IT IS THEY'D LIKE TO PRESERVE, WE ALSO FOLLOWED UP WITH AN OPEN ENDED QUESTION ABOUT WHAT IT IS THAT THEY'D LIKE TO CHANGE TO MAKE CYPRUS A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. SO IF THEY COULD CHANGE ONE THING, WHAT WOULD THAT BE? WHAT IS REALLY STRIKING ABOUT THIS SLIDE IS THAT THE NUMBER ONE RESPONSE IS NOT SURE. CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING. THE SECOND ONE IS NO CHANGES. EVERYTHING IS FINE. IF YOU COMBINE THOSE TWO TOGETHER.

YOU HAVE 35% MORE THAN A THIRD OF RESIDENTS THAT WHEN YOU HAND THEM A SOAP BOX, YOU SAY, STAND UP ON THAT SOAPBOX AND TELL US ONE THING WE CAN DO TO MAKE THE COMMUNITY A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE. THEY'RE STUCK FOR AN ANSWER, RIGHT? THAT IS THE IDEAL SORT OF RESPONSE THAT YOU'D LIKE TO HEAR TO THIS QUESTION. BEYOND THAT, YOU SEE ADDRESSING HOMELESS ISSUES, ABOUT 7%, LIMITING GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AT 7%, IMPROVING PUBLIC SAFETY, CRIME, DRUGS, SOMETHING IN THAT ORDER, AROUND 6% ON DOWN. SO IT'S ALSO KIND OF STRIKING THAT THERE ISN'T A SPECIFIC ISSUE FOR WHICH MORE THAN 7% OF RESPONDENTS HAVE TOP OF MIND. RIGHT? I HAVE ASKED THESE QUESTIONS, AND IN SOME COMMUNITIES, I'VE HAD ONE TIME WHERE IT CAME BACK, 60% OF THE PEOPLE SAID THE SAME THING. SO THAT IS A BURNING, BURNING ISSUE, RIGHT? IN A COMMUNITY OF TOP OF MIND, 60% OF PEOPLE SAY THE SAME THING HERE. YOU DON'T HAVE A SINGLE SUGGESTED RESPONSE THAT'S MORE THAN 7%. AND THAT ALSO SAYS THAT YOU'RE DOING A GOOD JOB AS A CITY, BALANCING YOUR RESOURCES AND TAKING CARE OF ISSUES. AND WHEN YOU GET LITTLE FIRES STARTING, YOU PUTTING THOSE OUT BECAUSE THERE ISN'T SOMETHING YOU'RE NEGLECTING. BECAUSE IF YOU WERE NEGLECTING SOMETHING, IT WOULD SHOW UP ON THIS KIND OF A QUESTION OKAY. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO THIS SLIDE IN SOME WAYS IS ONE OF THE MORE IMPORTANT IN THE SURVEY AND IN THE FULL REPORT. AND IT'S THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION GENERALLY SPEAKING ARE YOU SATISFIED OR DISSATISFIED WITH THE JOB THE CITY OF CYPRUS IS DOING TO PROVIDE CITY SERVICES? BECAUSE WE'RE ASKING THEM TO SHARE THEIR OPINION OF THE CITY'S PERFORMANCE OVERALL. RIGHT.

WE'RE NOT NARROWING IT TO STREETS AND ROADS OR POLICE OR FIRE. IT CAN BE SORT OF THOUGHT OF AS AN OVERALL PERFORMANCE RATING FOR THE CITY, AND YOU SEE THAT YOU'VE GOT ABOUT EIGHT OUT OF TEN RESPONDENTS IN 2025 SAYING THAT THEY ARE GENERALLY SATISFIED WITH THE CITY'S PERFORMANCE. PROVIDING MUNICIPAL SERVICES. YOU HAVE ABOUT 12% WHO ARE DISSATISFIED AND THEN YOU'VE GOT ABOUT 10% THERE. IT'S THE 8.6 AND THERE'S A LITTLE BLACK BAR RIGHT ABOVE IT THERE. YOU ADD THAT UP, IT'S ABOUT 10%. WHO SAID NOT SURE, PREFER NOT TO ANSWER. SO WE SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A DECLINE HERE FROM WHERE WE WERE IN 2022. BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF DECLINE IN THE SATISFACTION. THERE'S ALSO A LITTLE BIT OF DECLINE IN THE DISSATISFACTION. AND THEY ROLL UP INTO THAT GRAY BAR ABOVE, WHICH IS THE NOT SURE. SO WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER PERCENTAGE. WE WEREN'T SURE THIS CYCLE A LITTLE BIT LOWER IN TERMS OF HAVING AN OPINION ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, SATISFIED OR DISSATISFIED. WHEN YOU ISOLATE THE FOLKS WHO ARE SATISFIED AND YOU LOOK AT THEM ACROSS SUBGROUPS OF CYPRUS RESIDENTS, THERE'S A LOT OF SORT OF CONSISTENCY ACROSS THE BOARD WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT, REGARDLESS OF HOW LONG THEY'VE LIVED IN THE COMMUNITY, WHETHER THEY'VE GOT CHILDREN IN THE HOME AGE, ALL OF THESE VARIOUS DEMOGRAPHICS, THAT SATISFACTION RANGE FROM A LOW OF 74% TO A HIGH OF 92% FOR ALL BUT ONE OF THE SUBGROUPS. AND SO THAT'S ALSO NICE TO SEE THAT NOT ONLY YOU GET A KIND OF A HIGH MARK OVERALL, THAT WHEN YOU DIG INTO IT AND LOOK AT IT AT THE SUBGROUP LEVEL, YOU'RE ALSO SEEING THAT KIND OF HIGH LEVEL ACROSS ALL THESE DIFFERENT SEGMENTS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO THAT LAST SLIDE WAS ABOUT THE CITY'S OVERALL PERFORMANCE. HERE WE UNPACK THE CITY'S PERFORMANCE INTO 14 SPECIFIC SERVICE AREAS. AND THOSE ARE ALL THE ONES YOU SEE THERE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SLIDE. AND FOR EACH WE ASKED THAT SAME QUESTION OF, GENERALLY SPEAKING, ARE THEY SATISFIED OR DISSATISFIED WITH THE CITY'S EFFORTS TO PERFORM THIS PARTICULAR SERVICE AREA? AND WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS THAT WHEN YOU UNPACK THIS, ALL BUT ONE OF THE ITEMS HAD AT LEAST 75% OF RESPONDENTS WITH OPINIONS SAYING THEY WERE SATISFIED WITH THE CITY'S EFFORTS TO PROVIDE THAT SERVICE. MANY OF THEM ARE UP IN, YOU KNOW, IN THE SORT OF HIGH 80S TO LOW 90S, TOP OF THE BOARD PROVIDING FIRE PROTECTION, EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. 97% OF RESPONDENTS SAID THAT THEY WERE SATISFIED WITH THE CITY'S PERFORMANCE IN THIS EFFORT IN THIS AREA, FOLLOWED BY KEEPING PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES CLEAN AND ATTRACTIVE, AND THEN HOLDING SPECIAL COMMUNITY EVENTS. BUT AGAIN, AS YOU GO DOWN THE LIST, VERY HIGH PERCENTAGE OF FOLKS SAID THEY'RE SATISFIED AT EACH ONE OF THOSE. WHEN YOU GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST, THERE'S ABOUT THREE

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THAT STAND OUT AS HAVING SOMEWHAT SOFTER SATISFACTION RATINGS, AND THAT IS ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS, MANAGING GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND MANAGING TRAFFIC IN THE CITY. I WILL POINT OUT THAT WHEN WE SEE THOSE ITEMS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST, WHAT YOU TEND TO FIND ABOUT THOSE ITEMS IS THEY ARE THINGS THAT THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE FULL CONTROL OVER, RIGHT? WHEN YOU LOOK AT A LOT OF THESE OTHER ITEMS, THIS IS ALL WITHIN THE CITY'S CONTROL AND PURVIEW. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS, THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH AS A CITY THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT THAT. SAME THING WITH MANAGING GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AND THEN MANAGING TRAFFIC CONGESTION. SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT YOU CAN'T FULLY CONTROL. YOU CAN ONLY TRY AND STEER AND MANAGE. I WILL ALSO SAY THAT THERE WERE TWO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THESE RESULTS COMPARED TO THE LAST CYCLE, AND ONE WAS MANAGING TRAFFIC CONGESTION SATISFACTION WENT DOWN ABOUT 5% THERE, BUT THEN THE ONE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS SATISFACTION WENT UP 6%. SO IT'S STILL AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST, BUT YOU'RE SEEING HIGHER SATISFACTION WITH THE CITY'S EFFORTS IN THAT AREA. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. OKAY. SHIFTING GEARS, WE ASKED INDIVIDUALS HOW SAFE THEY VIEW THE CITY OF CYPRUS AS A PLACE TO LIVE. AND ONE OF THE NICE CHANGES THAT WE SAW BETWEEN 2022 AND 2025 IS THAT, I MEAN, IN 2022, WE STILL HAD AN INCREDIBLY HIGH PERCENTAGE OF FOLKS RATE THE CITY AS A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE IN 2025, THOUGH, YOU SEE, THERE'S A STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THE PERCENTAGE WHO NOW RATE THE CITY AS VERY SAFE, RIGHT? THAT THAT LITTLE DAGGER ACROSS SYMBOL NEXT TO THE 58.3 REPRESENTS A STATISTICALLY STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT CHANGE WHEN COMPARED TO THE LAST CYCLE. NEXT SLIDE. SO THE CITY OF CYPRUS, LIKE ALL CITIES, HAS A LIMITED BUDGET AND PROBABLY A SEEMINGLY UNLIMITED LIST OF THINGS YOU COULD SPEND IT ON. AND SO YOU'VE GOT SET PRIORITIES. AND SO WE LIKE TO TAKE AN OPPORTUNITY IN THE SURVEY TO PRESENT TO RESIDENTS OF THE CITY A SERIES OF THINGS THAT THE CITY COULD SPEND MONEY ON IN THE FUTURE AND ASK THEM, HOW WOULD YOU PRIORITIZE? SHOULD THIS BE A HIGH PRIORITY FOR FUTURE CITY SPENDING, A MEDIUM PRIORITY OR LOW PRIORITY? AND WE ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO RECOGNIZE THAT NOT EVERYTHING CAN BE HIGH PRIORITY. SO IT INTRODUCED A LITTLE BIT OF A SENSE OF COMPETITION INTO THE QUESTION ITSELF. AND SO WHEN YOU STACK UP THESE PARTICULAR ITEMS AND ASK FOLKS TO TELL US WHERE THEY WOULD RATE THESE, MAINTAINING STREETS AND ROADS IN GOOD CONDITION, THAT WAS BY FAR THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY, PARTICULARLY WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PERCENTAGE YOU SET A HIGH PRIORITY FOR FUTURE CITY SPENDING, FOLLOWED BY PROVIDING SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS TO ENCOURAGE MORE KIDS TO WALK, BIKE TO SCHOOL, AND THEN REFURBISHING AND IMPROVING AMENITIES AT EXISTING COMMUNITY PARKS AND ON DOWN FOR THE ITEMS THAT WERE TESTED THIS CYCLE, AS WELL AS LAST CYCLE, THERE WERE NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES. AND SO THE PRIORITIES AS WE SEE THEM TODAY IN 2025 ARE FOR THOSE THAT WE ALSO TEST IN THE LAST CYCLE ARE THE SAME.

OKAY, SO NEW TO THE 2025 SURVEY. WE HAD SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT COMMUNITY EVENTS. AND FOR EACH OF THE EVENTS THAT YOU SEE THERE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SLIDE, WE SIMPLY ASKED RESPONDENTS FIRST TO TELL US WHETHER THEY AND OR SOMEONE ELSE IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD PARTICIPATED IN THAT COMMUNITY EVENT IN THE PAST TWO YEARS. CONSCIOUS ON THE GREEN AND THE CYPRESS COMMUNITY FESTIVAL BOTH NETTED ALMOST A HALF OF RESIDENTS SAYING THAT THEY AND OR SOMEONE IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD PARTICIPATED IN THAT EVENT, FOLLOWED BY THE CYPRESS RUN AT ABOUT 24%, THE HOLIDAY SING SPRING EGG HUNT. SALUTE TO AMERICA ON DOWN. ON THE NEXT SLIDE, FOR THOSE RESPONDENTS WHO INDICATED THAT THEY ARE A MEMBER OF THEIR HOUSEHOLD HAD PARTICIPATED IN THE EVENT, WE SIMPLY ASK THEM TO TELL US HOW THEY WOULD RATE THEIR EXPERIENCES AT THAT EVENT ON THIS SCALE OF EXCELLENT, GOOD, FAIR, POOR OR VERY POOR. AND ACROSS THE BOARD, WHAT YOU FIND IS THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR THOSE WHO ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE IN THE EVENT, THEY HAD VERY POSITIVE THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THESE EVENTS. TOP OF THE LIST 93% RATED AS EXCELLENT OR GOOD.

THEIR EXPERIENCE AT THE HOLIDAY SING WOMEN'S CONFERENCE CYPRUS RUN ON DOWN. I MEAN, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE ITEMS HAD AT LEAST 84% OF FOLKS SAY THAT THEIR EXPERIENCES WERE EXCELLENT OR GOOD. SO FOR THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO ATTEND THOSE EVENTS, THEY'RE HAVING A GOOD TIME.

OKAY, SHIFTING TO COMMUNICATION, I'VE GOT A COUPLE MORE SLIDES ON ON THESE AND THEN I'LL MOVE ON TO CONCLUSIONS. THE AREA OF SORT OF CITY RESIDENT COMMUNICATION AND HOW RESIDENTS RECEIVE THEIR INFORMATION. THIS IS PROBABLY THE AREA WITHIN THESE SURVEYS. AND I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR OVER 20 YEARS. THAT HAS HAD THE MOST CHANGE OVER TIME, RIGHT? WHY? BECAUSE THE SOURCES THAT WE USE FOR INFORMATION HAVE REALLY CHANGED WITH THE ADVENT OF THE INTERNET AND THEN THE ADVENT OF SOCIAL MEDIA. THIS IS ONE OF THESE THINGS WHERE EVERY TIME WE COME BACK, THINGS SEEM TO BE SHIFTING AROUND A BIT. SO WE FIRST WANT TO GET A HANDLE ON IN THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENT, WHAT INFORMATION SOURCES ARE CYPRESS RESIDENTS TURNING TO? FOR INFORMATION ABOUT CYPRESS NEWS, INFORMATION AND PROGRAMING? THERE'S A LOT GOING ON THIS SLIDE, BUT BASICALLY THE DARK

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BLUE BAR IS 2025. THE LIGHTER BLUE BAR IS WHERE WE WERE TWO THREE YEARS AGO IN 2022. AND AT THE TOP OF THE LIST, THE MOST COMMON RESPONSE WAS THE CITY'S NEWSLETTER, THE PROGRESS, AT 45% IN 2025, SAYING THAT THEY PEOPLE MENTIONED THAT, FOLLOWED BY THE CITY'S WEBSITE, STREET BANNERS AND AN EMAIL NOTIFICATION FROM THE CITY. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF MOVEMENT IN THE LAST THREE YEARS. WE'VE HAD SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN THE PERCENTAGE MENTIONING THE CITY NEWSLETTER, STREET BANNERS, DIRECT MAIL AND THE CITY'S INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT. WE HAVE SEEN SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS IN THE PERCENTAGE MENTIONING THE CITY'S FACEBOOK PAGE. SO YOU'RE SEEING THE SHIFT FROM FACEBOOK TO INSTAGRAM, A FLIERS AND BROCHURES AT PUBLIC LOCATIONS, LOCAL NEWSPAPERS, COMMUNITY EVENTS AND CABLE CHANNEL 36. SO GOOD. GOOD SNAPSHOT ON KIND OF WHERE YOU WERE THREE YEARS AGO AND WHERE WE ARE TODAY. IN TERMS OF THE SOURCES YOUR RESIDENTS ARE TURNING TO. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, ANYTIME THAT WE SEE THAT CITY SPONSORED SORT OF OR CITY HOSTED COMMUNICATION CHANNELS ARE AT THE TOP OF THE LIST IN TERMS OF WHERE RESIDENTS ARE TURNING FOR THEIR INFORMATION, THAT TENDS TO, IN OUR EXPERIENCE, CORRELATE WITH GENERALLY POSITIVE SATISFACTION RATINGS FOR THE CITY'S COMMUNICATION EFFORTS. AND SO WE DID ASK RESPONDENTS WHETHER OVERALL, THEY'RE SATISFIED OR DISSATISFIED WITH THE CITY'S EFFORTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH RESIDENTS THROUGH NEWSLETTERS, THE INTERNET, LOCAL MEDIA AND OTHER MEANS. AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, THERE WAS AN UPTICK IN TERMS OF OVERALL SATISFACTION BETWEEN 2022 AND 2025, DRIVEN BY THIS STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THE PERCENTAGE WHO SAID THAT THEY WERE VERY SATISFIED. I WILL SAY THAT IF YOU TAKE THIS KIND OF SLIDE AND YOU MOVE IT BACK OVER TIME FOR A LOT OF CITIES, WHAT IT IS THE STAIRCASE DOWN, RIGHT? THAT SATISFACTION RATINGS BACK WHEN WE ALL READ THE SAME NEWSPAPERS, WE ALL WATCHED THE SAME TV SHOWS, LISTEN TO THE SAME RADIO STATIONS. INTERNET DIDN'T EXIST, SOCIAL MEDIA DIDN'T EXIST. YOU TENDED TO HAVE HIGHER SATISFACTION RATINGS WITH CITY COMMUNICATION BECAUSE IT WAS EASIER IN A LOT OF WAYS TO GET TO RESIDENTS, BECAUSE YOU KNEW THEY WERE ALL IN THOSE THREE CHANNELS. TODAY, WITH THE PROLIFERATION OF ALL THESE VARIOUS INFORMATION SITES, IT'S REALLY HARD, EVEN THOUGH CITIES ARE DOING A LOT MORE TO COMMUNICATE. YOU'RE ALSO CLIMBING A MUCH STEEPER HILL THAN YOU WERE BEFORE, RIGHT? AND SO IT'S NEAT TO SEE THAT YOURS HAS TICKED UP SINCE 2022. THAT ISN'T THAT TELLS YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE SWIMMING UPSTREAM AND YOU'RE SWIMMING FASTER THAN, THAN THE STREAM ITSELF IS GOING THE OTHER WAY. SO NICE JOB. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO WE DID. KEEPING IN LINE WITH THE COMMUNICATION TOPIC, WE ASKED INDIVIDUALS IF THERE'S A PARTICULAR TOPIC OR ISSUE THAT THEY'D LIKE TO RECEIVE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT FROM THE CITY. YOU CAN SEE HERE THE RESPONSES AMONG THOSE WHO SAID YES, ABOUT A QUARTER WERE INTERESTED IN INFORMATION ABOUT PLANNING DEVELOPMENTS, ZONING OR LAND USE. THAT WAS THE TOP TOPIC, FOLLOWED BY MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SORT OF THE SAFETY RELATED ITEMS OR CRIME ACTIVITY OR OR REPORTS OR SOLUTIONS IN THAT AREA, AND THEN ALSO ROAD WORK CONSTRUCTION, TRAFFIC CONTROL, THOSE ARE SORT OF THE TOP THREE TOPICS. OKAY. SO NEXT SLIDE. SO WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN I GO INTO DETAIL IN THE FULL REPORT. AND SO I'LL TRY AND BE A BIT BRIEF HERE. THE FIRST THING I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THOUGH IS THAT ANYTIME YOU DO THESE SURVEYS IT'S ALWAYS A SNAPSHOT IN TIME. AND IT'S A REFLECTION OF KIND OF THE PERIODS THAT HAVE LED UP TO THAT POINT. RIGHT. AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PAST FEW YEARS, THERE SEEMINGLY NO SHORTAGE OF THINGS OUT THERE, SORT OF MACRO LEVEL EVENTS THAT WOULD CAUSE PEOPLE TO BE GRUMPY. RIGHT? WE'VE SEEN HIGH INFLATION, HIGH INTEREST RATES, HIGH MORTGAGE RATES, SKYROCKETING INSURANCE COSTS. I MEAN, EVERYTHING AND I MEAN JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING IS PARTIZAN, RIGHT. AND THERE'S SORT OF THIS LOUD NARRATIVE, PARTICULARLY LATELY, ABOUT HOW GOVERNMENT'S THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION.

WHEN YOU HAVE THAT KIND OF MACRO LEVEL ENVIRONMENT, IT HAS A WAY OF GETTING PEOPLE A BIT GRUMPY, PARTICULARLY WHEN THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. AND I MENTIONED THAT BECAUSE DESPITE ALL OF THAT GOING ON, THE CITY OF CYPRESS HAS TURNED IN ANOTHER STEADY POSITIVE REPORT CARD IN TERMS OF YOUR PERFORMANCE AND MEETING RESIDENTS NEEDS. RIGHT. AND SO AND WE SAW THAT IN A NUMBER OF KEY AREAS, ALL THE BULLETS YOU SEE THERE AT THE TOP IN TERMS OF HOW THEY VIEW THE COMMUNITY, HOW THEY VIEW THE CITY'S PERFORMANCE AND PROVIDING MUNICIPAL SERVICES. OVERALL, YOU HAD 75% OR MORE OF RESIDENTS SAYING THAT THEY WERE SATISFIED WITH THE CITY'S PERFORMANCE. IN 13 OF THE 14 SERVICE AREAS WE TESTED, WE SAW A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN YOUR HANDLING OF HOMELESSNESS IN THE COMMUNITY OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS, AS WELL AS A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN RESIDENT COMMUNICATION. AND SO IT, YOU KNOW, A REPORT CARD IN MANY WAYS, YOU CAN THINK OF THIS AS A REPORT CARD IS SORT OF A REFLECTION OF HOW CHALLENGING

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WAS THE PERIOD YOU JUST CAME THROUGH. AND I THINK IN A LOT OF RESPECTS IT WAS A CHALLENGING PERIOD. AND YET HERE YOU ARE WITH A POSITIVE REPORT CARD. SO I CAN PROMISE YOU THAT WHEN YOU GET NUMBERS LIKE THAT, THEY ARE EARNED. THEY ARE NOT GIVEN. RIGHT. AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS, IF YOU AS A CITY WERE NEGLECTING A CERTAIN AREA OR NOT PERFORMING WELL IN A CERTAIN AREA, AND YOU GO OUT TO THE COMMUNITY AND YOU SAY, HOW ARE WE DOING? THEY ARE MORE THAN HAPPY TO TELL YOU WHERE IT IS THAT YOU'RE STUMBLING, RIGHT? AND SO WHEN YOU GET A SOLID REPORT CARD LIKE THIS, IT'S REALLY A REFLECTION OF VERY GOOD LEADERSHIP AS WELL AS VERY GOOD EXECUTION ON THE PART OF THE CITY. SO YOU SHOULD PAT YOURSELF ON THE BACK FOR THAT. LIKE ANY SORT OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION STUDY, IT SHOULD BE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW ARE WE DOING TODAY, BUT ALSO HOW ARE WE DOING OR HOW COULD WE DO BETTER IN THE FUTURE. RIGHT. IT'S A SOLID REPORT CARD, BUT THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. AND SO THOSE ARE THE AREAS BELOW THAT.

PRIORITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES AREAS BASED ON THE SURVEY. IF YOU LOOK ACROSS ALL THE QUESTIONS, THESE ARE THE AREAS WHERE WE SEE THAT THERE'S SORT OF EITHER THE BEST OPPORTUNITY FOR IMPROVEMENT OR RESIDENTS HAVE IDENTIFIED THAT THIS IS AN AREA THAT WE'D LIKE THE CITY TO PRIORITIZE MOVING FORWARD. AND SO WITH THAT, LET ME GO AHEAD AND END MY PRESENTATION. I WELCOME QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL, IF THERE ARE ANY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. DO ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? COUNCIL MEMBER PETE. WELL, FIRST OF ALL VERY NICE JOB. SO THANK YOU FOR PRESENTING. AND WE ALWAYS KIND OF WONDER I, I THINK WE AGREE. YOU KNOW, IT'S A GREAT CITY TO, YOU KNOW, WORK LIVE PLAY. AND ONE OF THE REASONS WE DO THE SURVEY IS SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ON TRACK, ETC. NOTHING ALARMED ME WHEN I LOOKED AT THE WHOLE REPORT. IT WAS VERY LONG, BY THE WAY, BUT I READ THE WHOLE THING. THE THING THAT I DID OBSERVE WAS KIND OF THE NO COMMENT. SOME OF THE INCREASES IN THE NO COMMENT OR UNSURE OR WHATEVER IT IS, WHICH HOW ARE THOSE ITEMS COUNTED INTO LIKE A PERCENTAGE. SO ON A COUPLE ITEMS, THERE ARE SOME.

WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE SERVICES, WE HAD ALL THE SERVICES. WE ALWAYS ZERO OUT THE. I'M NOT SURE BECAUSE IT VARIES BY ITEM AND IF THE GOAL IS TO COMPARE THE ITEMS, WE WANT TO COMPARE AMONG THOSE WITH AN OPINION. AND SO YOU'LL SEE CERTAIN SLIDES WHERE THERE WILL BE NO GRAY BAR.

RIGHT. BECAUSE OF THAT. AND THEN THERE'S OTHER CASES WHERE WE SHOW IT BECAUSE WE AREN'T SO MUCH COMPARING ITEMS ACROSS A LIST AS WE ARE COMPARING THIS QUESTION OVER TIME. AND AS YOU SAW, FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE COMMUNICATIONS ONE, WHERE, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A LITTLE MORE GRAY THERE THAN THAN THERE WAS BEFORE, THIS OVERALL SATISFACTION WAS A LITTLE MORE GRAY THERE. THAT'S GOING TO VARY YEAR TO YEAR, BUT WE'LL WANT TO KEEP AN EYE ON IT. IF FOR SOME REASON THAT GOES UP AGAIN THE NEXT CYCLE, RIGHT, AS OPPOSED TO SHRINKING BACK, THEN WE'LL KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON IN THAT ITEM. WE CAN DIG A LITTLE FURTHER. OKAY? OKAY. THE SURVEY ITSELF, I KNOW YOU HAD SOME. I'VE NEVER SEEN THE SURVEY ACTUALLY. WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE I'VE NEVER BEEN ASKED TO FILL IN THE SURVEY, BUT THE SURVEY ITSELF I SAW PROBABLY HAD SOME OPEN SPOTS. RIGHT. SO IF THEY IF THEY HAD HEY, IF THERE'S ANYTHING MORE WE CAN DO, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? AND THEY COULD FILL IN A NARRATIVE. IS THAT CORRECT? YEAH. WE HAD SEVERAL THREE DIFFERENT OPEN ENDS IN THE SURVEY WHERE THEY HAD A CHANCE TO TELL US IN THEIR OWN WORDS, YOU KNOW, AND MAKE COMMENTS IN THEIR OWN WORDS. AND SO WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION.

OKAY, OKAY. AND THEN I GUESS I ALWAYS LIKE TO COMPARE WITH OTHER CITIES OR, OR THINGS THAT YOU'VE DONE. HOW DOES CYPRUS IN YOUR OPINION BASED ON THESE RESULTS PLUS OTHER IS IT IS IT SIMILAR IN TERMS OF THE TYPE OF FEEDBACK, IN TERMS OF THE TYPE OF ISSUES, CLEARLY BETWEEN MANAGING TERRIFIC AND THE CITY TRAFFIC? I THINK THAT'S A BIG THING. MANAGING GROWTH IS ALWAYS A BIG THING IN MOST CITIES. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT STANDS OUT THAT'S MAYBE UNIQUE TO CYPRUS? YOU KNOW, I THINK JUST OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THAT STRIKES ME ABOUT YOUR RESULTS, AND AGAIN, I'VE HAD A CHANCE TO DO THIS FOR A LOT OF CITIES IS OFTENTIMES YOU'LL GET KIND OF AN OVERALL, HOW SATISFIED ARE YOU IN THE MOMENT WE GET INTO THE SPECIFIC SERVICES? THERE'S A PRETTY GOOD SLOPE TO THAT LINE, RIGHT. LIKE YOU'RE DOING WELL UP HERE. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU MIGHT HAVE A COLLECTION OR 5 OR 6 AREAS AT THE BOTTOM WHERE RESIDENTS ARE ARE LESS HAPPY. RIGHT? YEAH. YOUR CHART DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THAT. YOUR CHART.

REMEMBER, WE SAW THAT EVEN THE LOWEST ITEM ON THE LIST HAD, I THINK, 75% OR SO OF RESIDENTS SAY THAT THEY WERE SATISFIED. AND SO THAT'S A GOOD THING. I MEAN, THAT SHOWS YOU THAT YOU'RE DOING A GOOD JOB BALANCING YOUR RESOURCES ACROSS ALL THOSE VARIOUS SERVICE AREAS. SO THAT'S GREAT. YOU KNOW, THE HOMELESSNESS HAS TICKED UP A LITTLE BIT AS AN ISSUE AS IT HAS AROUND THE STATE, BUT IT'S STILL AT A AT A PRETTY MODEST NUMBER HERE OVERALL IN TERMS OF THE PERCENTAGE OF RESIDENTS WHO ARE BRINGING IT UP TOP OF MIND. WHEN ASKED KIND OF WHAT WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES FACING THE CITY AND YOUR AND YOUR OVERALL SATISFACTION RATING WITH HOW YOU AS A CITY ARE DEALING WITH THAT ITEM IS NOT ONLY MORE POSITIVE THAN WHAT WE OFTEN SEE, BUT IT

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ALSO INCREASED IN TERMS OF SATISFACTION BETWEEN YOUR LAST SURVEY AND THIS SURVEY. AND SO, I MEAN, THOSE ARE ALL GOOD COMPARISONS. SO THAT'S WHAT I SEE. AND I'M NOT SURE YOU COULD ANSWER THIS, BUT I'M GOING TO ASK IT OKAY. ON THE CHART THAT HAD THE HERE'S ALL THE DIFFERENT EVENTS THAT WE HAVE WITHIN THE CITY. AND THE TWO MOST POPULAR ARE THE ONES THAT ARE THE LONGEST TERM IN THE CITY. RIGHT? THEY'VE BEEN AROUND FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. THE OTHER ONES, SOME OF THEM ARE NEW IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS. SOME OF THEM WE'VE RESTARTED AFTER COVID, THINGS LIKE THAT. DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS OR FEEDBACK OF HOW WE CAN PROMOTE SOME OF THOSE? IS IT IS IT A COMMUNICATION THAT THEY JUST DON'T KNOW ABOUT THEM OR OR ANY THOUGHTS ON ANYTHING THAT YOU'VE KIND OF PIECED TOGETHER? AND IT WOULD BE HARD FOR ME TO ANSWER THAT BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT COMMUNICATIONS YOU'RE DOING. I WOULD SAY THIS, THAT SOME OF THE MORE POPULAR ONES ARE ALSO ONES THAT, YOU KNOW, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, THE CYPRUS RUN, RIGHT? IF I WERE A RESIDENT OF CYPRUS, I'M NOT RUNNING RIGHT. SO I'M I MAY WATCH, RIGHT? BUT I GUESS I'M GETTING CHASED. I'M NOT RUNNING. RIGHT. YEAH. AND SO OR, YOU KNOW, THE EGG HUNT THAT TENDS TO BE FOR YOUNGER FAMILIES. AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PARTICIPATION RATES THERE, THERE'S SORT OF A DEPENDING ON HOW NARROW THE ISSUE IS. RIGHT. RIGHT. OR THE EVENT IS YOU CAN EXPECT YOUR PARTICIPATION IS GOING TO BE LOW OR IT'S THE CONCERTS IN THE PARK. AND THE COMMUNITY FESTIVAL IS SORT OF FOR EVERYBODY. RIGHT? THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO GET THE MOST TURNOUT. RIGHT. AND FOR THOSE YOU HAD, ABOUT HALF OF RESIDENTS SAY THAT THEY PARTICIPATED IN THOSE EVENTS IN THE LAST TWO YEARS. YEAH. AND THOSE ARE THE LONGEST ONES. I MEAN, THE ONE I GUESS I'M REALLY INTERESTED IS SALUTE TO AMERICA, WHICH IS KIND OF NEW. SINCE 2019. WE HAVE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THAT COME OUT TO THAT. AND IF, IF, IF THE AMOUNT THAT'S ON THERE IS CORRECT. AND AGAIN, IT'S A SMALL POPULATION, I GET IT. THEN PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE OF CYPRUS ARE COMING BECAUSE THERE ARE CLEARLY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AT THAT PARTICULAR EVENT AND VERY POPULAR AND VERY WELL ATTENDED. AND THAT'S POSSIBLY THE CASE. I MEAN, DEPENDING ON HOW YOU'RE HOW OTHER CITIES AROUND YOU ARE CELEBRATING THAT VERSUS CYPRUS, IT MIGHT BE THAT YOU ARE PULLING IN RESIDENTS FROM WHICH IS OKAY. SO WELL, VERY NICE JOB. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. EXCELLENT JOB. I WAS A SKEPTIC GOING INTO THE MEETING, BUT AFTERWARDS I WAS LIKE, OKAY, THIS IS THIS IS THE RIGHT PICK FOR CYPRUS. I, I ESPECIALLY LIKE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO LOOK AT TRENDS FROM YEAR TO YEAR. I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT ONE OF YOURS, THE PERCEIVED CITY SAFETY BY STUDY YEAR. IT SEEMS THAT PEOPLE IN IN CYPRUS ARE FEELING MORE SAFE IN 2025 AND 22, BUT I THINK AND TWO, 20, 20, 22, WE MIGHT HAVE SAW A DROP IN PERCEIVED SAFETY FROM 2018 TO 2020. WE DIDN'T ASK IT IN 18. OKAY. AND SO THAT WAS A THAT WAS A QUESTION THAT WE WAS NEW IN IN 2022. AND SO WE JUST HAVE THAT COMPARISON THE LAST THREE YEARS OKAY. AND OUR OTHER CITIES ALSO FEELING THE SAME WAY. ARE THEY FEELING MORE SAFE THIS YEAR VERSUS 2022? I CAN'T IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A MIXED BAG TO BE HONEST. PART OF THE THING WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SAFETY IS YOU SORT OF LOOK AT THE CONDITIONS.

ONE ONE THINGS WE HAVE SEEN IS THAT THERE IS SORT OF A CORRELATION BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU'RE A COMMUNITY THAT HAS A LARGE HOMELESS POPULATION AND THEN THEY ARE LOCATED IN PARKS, FOR EXAMPLE, OR OTHER PUBLIC AREAS VERY VISIBLE, THAT ALSO TENDS TO IN THE PUBLIC MIND, GO ALONG WITH CONCERNS ABOUT SAFETY. RIGHT? THEY ALL SORT OF GO TOGETHER. AND SO WE HAVE SEEN HERE IN CYPRUS JUST ALTHOUGH THE WE SAW THAT THE SORT OF SATISFACTION WITH HOW THE CITY ADDRESSES HOMELESSNESS HAS IMPROVED IN THE LAST THREE YEARS, THERE MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT OF A BUMP ASSOCIATED WITH THAT BECAUSE AGAIN, FOR SOME PEOPLE, THOSE TWO THINGS GO HAND IN HAND. THANK YOU. AND THEN MY NEXT QUESTION IS ACTUALLY FOR THE CITY. I, I AS A RESEARCHER, ONE OF MY BIGGEST RED FLAGS. BUT YOU KNOW, MY BIGGEST CONCERNS IS JUST RESEARCH FOR RESEARCHERS SAKE. YOU KNOW WHAT. WHAT DO WE GET OUT OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS.

SO I DO WANT TO CHALLENGE THE CITY AND, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO COME UP WITH A NEXT STEP, LIKE WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE FOR ONE OF THESE I THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING WAS THE I DON'T HAVE IT WITH ME, BUT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT RESIDENTS WOULD WANT. AND THAT'S SOMETHING I CAME ACROSS QUITE OFTEN ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHEN THEIR STREET IS BEING BLOCKED OFF OR WHEN THERE'S CONSTRUCTION OR ANY KIND OF MAJOR THINGS THAT KIND OF A LOT OF NOISE, YOU KNOW, THAT WILL AFFECT WAKING THEM UP IN THE MORNING. SO, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT KIND OF REALLY AFFECT THEIR DAY TO DAY LIVES. I KNOW IT'S YOU HAVE WE HAVE TO STRIKE A BALANCE BETWEEN MAINTAINING, YOU KNOW, QUALITY OF LIFE VERSUS, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH INFORMATION. AND SOME PEOPLE, SUCH AS I COULD, I COULD LIKE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE A DISTRICT BY DISTRICT EMAIL OR A TEXT JUST INFORMING THEM, YOU KNOW, KIND OF LOCAL

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EVENTS OF THAT AREA. SO THAT'S SOMETHING I WOULDN'T MIND US TAKING A LOOK AT IN THE FUTURE.

WHEN IS WHEN ARE THESE GOING TO BE POSTED ONLINE? I SAW IT'S ON THE AGENDA. IS IT GOING TO BE POSTED ON OUR JUST LIKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT? THE REPORT ITSELF IS INCLUDED WITH THE AGENDA REPORT. TONIGHT. WE'LL HAVE A DEDICATED PAGE ON THE WEBSITE FOR IT. WE'LL PUSH IT OUT THROUGH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS. IT'LL BE HIGHLIGHTED IN THE PROGRESS. WE DID IT THREE YEARS AGO. WE HAVE A PRETTY DIALED IN EXTENSIVE CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE THE RESULTS AND TO ADDRESS YOUR YOUR LAST COMMENT, YOU'LL SEE COUNCIL MEMBER THAT THESE PRIORITIES, THESE OPPORTUNITIES INFORM OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING. THEY INFORM THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE MAKE IN THE BUDGET. THEY INFORM THE TOPICS THAT WIND UP IN OUR NEWSLETTERS AND COMMUNICATION.

THAT'S THE REAL PURPOSE OF IT. NOT TO SEE WHAT LETTER GRADE WE RECEIVE FROM THE COMMUNITY, ALTHOUGH THAT'S USEFUL. AND WHEN YOU GET THE SORTS OF GRADES CYPRUS DOES, IT FEELS GREAT. BUT IT'S ANOTHER IMPORTANT DATA POINT FOR YOUR PROFESSIONAL STAFF AND FOR THE COMMUNITY'S ELECTED LEADERSHIP TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE DEPLOY RESOURCES. AND AS WE DISCUSSED IN THE BUDGET WORKSHOP EARLIER TODAY, THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE DO EVERY YEAR. THIS IS ONE OF THE WAYS WE FIGURE OUT WHERE WE THINK THE DOLLARS OUGHT TO GO. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU BOTH. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. YES. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION AND THE WORK, AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO SHARING THE RESULTS MORE THOROUGHLY WITH THE COMMUNITY. WONDERFUL. THANK YOU. MAYOR, COUNCIL. CITY MANAGER. ITEM NUMBER 14. ADOPT

[14. Adopt the Strategic Plan and Six Month Objectives Prepared by: Peter Grant, City Manager Recommendation: Adopt the Strategic Plan and six month objectives.]

THE STRATEGIC PLAN IN SIX MONTHS. OBJECTIVES PREPARED BY CITY MANAGER PETER GRANT, MAYOR, MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL. THERE'S A REASON THIS FOLLOWS. AFTER THE COMMUNITY SURVEY FOR THAT WILL BECOME OBVIOUS AS WE DISCUSS SOME OF THE OBJECTIVES. BUT ON APRIL 16TH, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW, THE CITY COUNCIL SPENT ABOUT SIX HOURS WITH THE EXECUTIVE TEAM IN A STRATEGIC PLANNING WORKSHOP WHERE WE DISCUSSED STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES, THREATS OVER THE PAST SIX MONTHS AND THE FUTURE SIX MONTHS AND IDENTIFY OBJECTIVES. PART OF OUR WORK PLAN THAT ADVANCE THE CITY COUNCIL'S FIVE STRATEGIC GOALS. WE DO THAT EVERY SIX MONTHS.

WE'VE DONE IT EVERY SIX MONTHS FOR TEN YEARS. AND AS I JUST MENTIONED, COUNCIL MEMBER CHANG, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT PART OF HOW WE FIGURE OUT WHERE CITY RESOURCES ARE ALLOCATED, THE STRATEGIC PLAN OBJECTIVES THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN ITSELF ARE, IN ADDITION TO THE HARD WORK THAT THE FOLKS THAT WORK FOR THE CITY DO DAY IN AND DAY OUT. THIS IS ON TOP OF POLICE OFFICERS PATROLLING THE COMMUNITY. PUBLIC WORKS, MAINTAINING OUR FACILITIES, OUR REGULATORY DEPARTMENTS DOING THEIR WORK IN THE BACK OF HOUSE, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE AN EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT CORPORATION. IT'S THE SECOND MOST IMPORTANT THING I THINK THE CITY COUNCIL DOES THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE YEAR, THE FIRST BEING THE BUDGET, ALL OF THE OBJECTIVES THAT ARE LIKE YOUR CHILDREN. I LOVE THEM ALL EQUALLY, BUT A COUPLE THAT I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT I THINK ARE REALLY IMPORTANT, OR THAT SPEAK TO SOME OF THE THINGS YOU SEE IN THE COMMUNITY SURVEY THAT WE'RE ALREADY ADDRESSING. WE ARE WORKING ON AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT, CHRIS, YOU MADE A PRESENTATION EARLIER TODAY, AND ALICIA ARE INCORPORATING SOME REALLY MIND MELTING TECHNOLOGY IN THAT WILL HELP US SUPPORT THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY BETTER. IT WILL HELP US SCOUT AMENITIES FOR THE COMMUNITY BETTER, AND IT WILL HELP RETAIN AND PROMOTE THE SUCCESS OF THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE ALREADY IN THE COMMUNITY.

OVER THE WEEKEND, WE GOT TO OPEN UP ARNOLD CYPRESS PARK AND THAT WAS AMAZING. AND WHEN YOU SEE THAT PARKS ARE. IF I'D KNOWN YOU WERE, CLAP WOULD HAVE HELD UP THE JERSEY. BUT WHEN YOU SEE HOW IMPORTANT PARKS ARE FOR THE COMMUNITY, IT'S REALLY EXCITING TO POINT OUT THAT WE HAVE THE KICKOFF STAGE OF PLANNING THE EXPANSION OF THE SYCAMORE PARK IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS. THAT WAS AN ACQUISITION THE CITY COUNCIL WAS ABLE TO MAKE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, USING THE CITY'S ACCUMULATED RESERVES. IT IS INCREDIBLY UNUSUAL FOR A BUILT OUT COMMUNITY TO BE ABLE TO EXPAND A NEIGHBORHOOD PARK LIKE THAT. WE'RE REALLY, REALLY EXCITED TO WORK WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT SURROUNDS IT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO TURN THAT PARK INTO THE VERY BEST PARK IT CAN BE. AND THEN IN THE PUBLIC SAFETY THEME, THE CHIEF AND JEFF'S TEAM AT THE SENIOR CENTER HAVE BEEN WORKING ON A CRIME AND FRAUD PREVENTION PROGRAM AT THE SENIOR CENTER THAT IS GOING TO KICK OFF IN JUNE. AND IT SPEAKS TO, I THINK, SOME OF THE THINGS YOU HEARD IN THE PRESENTATION FROM THE COMMUNITY SURVEY ABOUT THE CITY COUNCIL AND YOUR DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS SORT OF LOOKING AT THE HORIZON AND FIGURING OUT WHAT DOES THE COMMUNITY NEED US TO DO TO SUPPORT IT BEFORE THAT NEED REALLY PRESENTS ITSELF? WE'RE TRYING TO GET AHEAD OF A TERRIFYING WAVE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DRIVEN SCAMS THAT ARE GOING TO TARGET OUR SENIORS, AND WE'RE LUCKY TO HAVE THE RESOURCES AND THE EXPERTISE AND

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THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE CONNECTIONS WITH OUR SENIORS AND OUR RECREATION COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT TO CREATE AN OBJECTIVE LIKE THAT AND TO ROLL IT OUT. WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT IT WITH YOU WHEN IT'S DONE. BUT THOSE ARE JUST A COUPLE OF HIGHLIGHTS. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THE COUNCIL MIGHT HAVE, OR LISTEN TO YOU TO TALK ABOUT WHAT YOUR FAVORITE PARTS OF THE STRATEGIC PLANNING WORKSHOP WERE, AND THEN WE LOOK FORWARD TO DOING IT AGAIN WITH YOU IN OCTOBER. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED BETWEEN NOW AND THEN AND THE OBJECTIVES THAT WE'LL TACKLE OVER THE SIX MONTHS AFTER THAT. THANK YOU AND MY COLLEAGUES. HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? COUNCILMEMBER CHANG? YEAH, DURING OUR DURING OUR SIX HOUR MEETING, THERE'S SOME, SOME, SOME ITEMS THAT WE HAD DISCUSSED ABOUT POSSIBLY TALKING ABOUT. NOW, I THINK THIS IS A GOOD TIME FOR UNDER MAINTAIN HIGH QUALITY AND HIGH VALUE SERVICES FOR THE COMMUNITY. THERE'S A RECOMMENDED SCOPE OF WORK FOR A THIRD PARTY REVIEW OF THE SOLID WASTE FRANCHISE. BONNIE, COULD YOU I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS A GOOD TIME. DO YOU WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU HAD IN MIND? I, I DON'T I'M NOT SURE ABOUT WHAT WE HAD AND WHAT WE'RE EXPECTING FROM THIS REPORT, WHETHER IT'S NECESSARY AND I GUESS JUST A BASIC BALLPARK FOR THE COST THAT WE'RE EXPECTING FROM THIS. OKAY. AND I CAN'T NAME THE COST BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IT YET, BUT THE RECOMMENDATION I HAD MADE IS THE WASTE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT THAT WE HAVE IS THE LARGEST OF ANY CITY. ANY CITY HAS THAT. IT'S THE LARGEST ONE FOR ANY CITY. WE'VE HAD OUR AGREEMENT IN PLACE FOR TEN YEARS, AND WE HAVE IT IN PLACE FOR ANOTHER 12 OR 13, 12, I GUESS IT IS FOR THIS YEAR AS PART OF THAT. AND IT SPECIFICALLY IS FOLLOWING UNDER THE MAINTAIN THE HIGH QUALITY AND HIGH VALUE SERVICES FOR THE COMMUNITY IS TO SAY HOW WELL ARE OUR SERVICES? ARE THEY COMPLYING TO THE CONTRACT? ARE THEY DOING WHAT THEY SAID THEY'RE GOING TO DO? AND ARE ARE THE SERVICES THAT THEY SAID BASICALLY COMES DOWN TO WHAT THE SERVICES THAT THEY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO DO, ARE THEY DOING THEM OKAY. AND THE REASON I SAY THAT IS THERE'S A LOT OF COMMUNICATION AND MISCOMMUNICATION. IF YOU WANT TO SAY REGARDING THE WASTE HAULER, OKAY, THAT'S NOT WHY I'M DOING THIS. I'M DOING THIS BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO BE IN THE LONG HAUL FOR ANOTHER 12 YEARS. AND I REALLY WANT TO KNOW, ARE THEY DOING WHAT THEY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO DO? NOW WE GIVE THEM THEIR ANNUAL CPI. WE I BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE. BUT WE SAID LET'S GET AN EXTERNAL COMPANY JUST LIKE WE DO WITH ORGANICS. SO FOR SOME OF YOU MAY NOT BE AWARE, WHEN WE PUT TOGETHER ORGANICS AND IMPLEMENTED THAT LITTLE GREEN BUCKET THING, WHEN WE PUT THAT TOGETHER, WE HAVE A FIRM THAT BASICALLY SAYS, HOW ARE WE DOING TO THAT? AND IT IDENTIFIES ANY OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE NEED TO DO BECAUSE WE'RE NOT IN COMPLIANCE OR WE NEED TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS. OKAY, I'M KIND OF SAYING THE SAME THING WITH THE BASIC CONTRACT. LET'S TAKE A LOOK. I KNOW THERE'S A QUESTION ABOUT DO WE GET ENOUGH OF THIS OR TOO MUCH OF THIS OR WHATEVER? I'M JUST LOOKING SAYING, ARE THEY DOING WHAT THEY SAID THEY'RE GOING TO DO AND WORK CLOSELY WITH VALLEY VISTA IN TERMS OF HOW ARE WE DOING AND HAVE AN EXTERNAL FIRM TO REALLY CONFIRM THAT. SO IT COMES BACK DOWN TO IS THE SERVICES. IT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE TO OUR RESIDENTS AND FOR OUR RESIDENTS. I'M LOOKING TO SAY NOT ARE THEY HAPPY? I'M LOOKING AT SAYING WITH WHAT WE'VE AGREED, ARE THEY DOING WHAT WE WHAT WE HIRED THEM TO DO? AND IF NOT, WE SHOULD HAVE CORRECTIVE ACTIONS IN PLACE. OR IF THERE'S OTHER THINGS, THEN WE SHOULD SAY WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN THE IN THE CONTRACT GOING FORWARD. SO THAT'S WHY I PUT IT OUT THERE IS TO REALLY, I'LL CALL IT DO A MIDPOINT REVIEW IN TERMS OF HOW WE'VE DONE IT. WE'VE NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE. SO IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD TIME TO BE ABLE TO DO IT.

BEING THAT WE JUST KIND OF CELEBRATED THE TEN YEARS. SO THE FIRST SCOPE OF WORK IS WE'RE NOT WE'RE NOT ALLOCATING ANY MONEY. OKAY. THE FIRST SCOPE OF WORK IS REALLY TO SAY, WHAT IS IT THAT WE WANT THEM TO LOOK AT? AND DON'T JUST SAY, OH, HERE'S A BLANK SHEET OF PAPER. NOW GO DO IT. WE'RE GOING TO SAY SOME SPECIFIC THINGS THAT WE WANT THE AUDITOR TO LOOK AT. AND THAT'S WHAT'S REALLY BEING PROPOSED TO COME FORWARD IN JULY IS TO SAY, OKAY, HERE ARE THE 15 ITEMS. WE WANT YOU TO GO OUT AND DO AN AUDIT TO SAY, HOW ARE WE DOING TO THOSE ITEMS? AND WE DETERMINED WHAT THOSE ARE. OKAY, THERE MAY BE SOME THINGS WE'RE NOT THAT INTERESTED IN, RIGHT.

BUT THERE MAY BE SOME REALLY HOT BUTTONS THAT WE REALLY WANT TO ADDRESS. SO THAT'S WHAT THAT'S WHAT I SAW IS REALLY SAYING HAVE A THIRD PARTY DO AN ASSESSMENT, JUST LIKE WE DO ON ORGANICS WASTE. AND THAT ORGANICS WASTE HAS BEEN VERY VALUABLE BECAUSE THEY'VE COME BACK, THEY'VE IDENTIFIED SOME CORRECTIVE ACTIONS WHICH HAVE NOW BEEN CORRECTED. AND SO IT KIND OF HELPS US A LITTLE BIT ON THE BIG PICTURE IN TERMS OF HOW WE'RE DOING. OKAY, SIR. YEAH, I LIKE

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THE COMMUNITY SURVEY. YEAH. WELL THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF WHY I PUT IT OUT THERE. THANK YOU. I GUESS MY NEXT QUESTION WILL BE DIRECTED AT THE CITY I. MY UNDERSTANDING, AT LEAST FROM MY EXPERIENCE, WE USUALLY HAVE, AT LEAST AT THE COUNTY LEVEL, WE WOULD HAVE A CONTRACT MANAGER OR CONTRACT MONITOR THAT WOULD OVERSEE THE CONTRACT AND MAKE SURE MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW THERE ARE VENDOR OR CONTRACTOR ISN'T IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ACTUAL CONTRACT THAT'S DRAFTED.

AND SO I'M, I, I'M NOT SURE, BUT I ASSUME THAT CYPRUS HAS SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN PLACE. SO I DO WONDER IF WE IF THIS WOULD THERE'S THERE'D BE A LITTLE BIT OF OVERLAP BETWEEN WHAT THE OUTSIDE MONITOR WOULD CONTRACT MANAGER WOULD DO VERSUS WHAT WE WOULD DO. GO AHEAD. THE SOLID WASTE FRANCHISE IS ADMINISTERED BY OUR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. THE LEVEL OF REVIEW IS I UNDERSTOOD THE COUNCIL DECISION AT STRATEGIC PLANNING IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE EITHER THE RESOURCES OR THE EXPERTISE TO CONDUCT IN-HOUSE. GIVEN THE LENGTH OF THE AGREEMENT, AS WE NEAR ITS MIDPOINT, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. AND I AGREE THAT THIS IS A REASONABLE THING FOR THE CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER, AND TO THE POINT THAT COUNCILMEMBER PETE MADE THE STRATEGIC PLAN OBJECTIVE IS SIMPLY FOR STAFF TO RECOMMEND A SCOPE OF WORK TO THE CITY COUNCIL. SO WE'D RETURN WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PARTS OF THE SOLID WASTE FRANCHISE FOR REVIEW BASED ON OUR EXPERIENCE ADMINISTERING IT IN COMPLICATED AGREEMENTS LIKE THAT. THERE ARE ALWAYS SOME SECTIONS THAT YOU'VE GOT TO SORT OF CREATIVELY WORK WITH YOUR PARTNER TO ADMINISTER.

YOU WANT TO CLEAN THAT LANGUAGE UP. WE'D ALSO LOOK AT OTHER CITIES THAT HAVE CONDUCTED SIMILAR REVIEWS TO IDENTIFY THE AREAS OF THEIR AGREEMENTS THAT THEY REVIEWED. TALK TO SOME OF THE FIRMS THAT WE MIGHT RECOMMEND CONTRACTING WITH TO SEE WHAT THEY'D RECOMMEND. BRING THAT SCOPE BACK TO YOU, GET YOUR FEEDBACK, AND IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU WANTED TO GO FORWARD WITH AT THAT POINT, WE'D ISSUE A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS OR REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS TO IDENTIFY FIRMS WHO ARE CAPABLE AND EXPERIENCED DOING THAT SORT OF WORK, AS WELL AS WHAT THE COST WOULD BE. AND THEN BEFORE ANY CONTRACT WOULD BE AWARDED TO CONDUCT THAT REVIEW, IT WOULD COME BACK TO CITY COUNCIL AGAIN. SO MAYBE YOU THINK OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE AGREEMENT THAT WE DO DAY IN, DAY OUT IS A, YOU KNOW, AN ANNUAL VISIT TO YOUR DOCTOR VERSUS A ONCE EVERY FEW YEARS THOROUGH PHYSICAL. OKAY. AND DO YOU GUYS HAVE A BALLPARK ESTIMATE OF HOW MUCH YOU THINK THIS CONTRACT MIGHT BE? NO, IT'LL DEPEND ON THE SCOPE OF WORK THAT THE CITY COUNCIL ULTIMATELY ASKS US TO GO TAKE TO MARKET. BUT WE WOULD COME BACK WITH PROPOSALS, HOPEFULLY FROM MULTIPLE FIRMS, AS WELL AS A RECOMMENDATION AS TO WHICH FIRM WE THINK REPRESENTS THE BEST COMBINATION OF EXPERTISE AND COST TO UNDERTAKE THE REVIEW. I'D ALSO SUGGEST THAT WHENEVER WE WORK ON THE SCOPE, NOT ONLY SHOULD WE GET SOME INPUT FROM VALLEY VISTA, BUT I THINK IT'S IN THEIR INTEREST. I THINK IT'S IN ANY WASTE HAULERS INTEREST, NO MATTER WHO THE PARTNER FOR THE CITY IS TO SUPPORT THIS KIND OF INITIATIVE, BECAUSE I'M SURE THERE ARE PARTS OF THE AGREEMENT THAT ARE DIFFICULT FOR THEM, AND HAVING THEM REIMBURSE THE CITY FOR SOME OF OUR COSTS WITHOUT HAVING ANY CONTROL OVER THE SCOPE OF WORK OR WHO THE CONSULTANT IS, MIGHT BE SOMETHING WE COULD DO TO MAKE IT LESS EXPENSIVE FOR THE CITY.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. I HAVE A COUPLE COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS. ONE, TWO ITEMS I THINK THE COUNCIL DISCUSSED PREVIOUSLY ABOUT POTENTIALLY BEING IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN THAT AREN'T IN THERE. ONE WAS TO CONSIDER CHANGES TO OUR COMMENT STRUCTURE, PUBLIC COMMENT STRUCTURE TO WAS CONSIDER OPTIONS FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM AND IMPROVING TRANSPARENCY. THEY'RE NOT IN THERE FOR REASONS I PREFER NOT TO GET INTO, BUT I'M PLANNING ON BRINGING BOTH OF THOSE FORWARD AS AGENDA ITEMS ON MY OWN IN THE FUTURE. ONE QUESTION I HAVE IS I KNOW THAT THERE'S ONE STRATEGIC PLAN OBJECTIVE. WHERE WAS IT PERTAINING TO THE CITY BRANDING, LOGO DEVELOPMENT? AND I WANTED TO ASK. WE'VE CONDUCTED A SURVEY ABOUT THAT, AND I CAN'T RECALL THE COUNCIL GETTING ANY RESULTS OF THAT SURVEY. SO I JUST WANTED TO TOUCH BASE ON THAT. HAVE WE GOTTEN THE SURVEY RESULTS YET? I BELIEVE OUR CONTRACTOR HAS. THAT SURVEY HAS CLOSED, BUT THEY'RE STILL DOING INTERNAL SURVEYS. SO I BELIEVE THE INTENT IS TO COMPILE ALL OF THE INFORMATION TOGETHER SO THAT IT'S A COMPLETE PICTURE OF BOTH EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL FEEDBACK. OKAY. AND SO WILL WE GET TO SEE THE PUBLIC FEEDBACK ON ITS OWN. I WILL CONFIRM WITH THEM AND GET BACK

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TO YOU. I DON'T KNOW OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND I BELIEVE THE INTENT OF COLLECTING THE FEEDBACK WAS TO INFORM THE CREATION OF SEVERAL LOGO OPTIONS, AND THEN THOSE WOULD GO BACK OUT TO THE PUBLIC FOR THEIR INPUT ON THE OPTIONS, AND THEN THAT WOULD GO TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR FINAL APPROVAL. OKAY. YEAH. THANK YOU. I JUST THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE THE RESULTS BEFORE WE KIND OF GET TO THE ITEM. AND THEN ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT I HAD RECOMMENDED IN HERE WAS. RECOMMEND A COMMUNICATION POLICY TO THE COUNCIL. AND ESSENTIALLY THIS WAS I WANTED TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING TO CLARIFY. WHEN CITY COMMUNICATIONS GO OUT, WHO'S SPEAKING? IS IT THE COUNCIL? IS IT THE MAYOR? IS IT THE CITY MANAGER? HOW IS IT APPROVED? THINGS LIKE THAT. AND IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN, IT SAYS THAT THE WHO WILL TAKE THE LEAD ON THAT IS THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CITY CLERK. BUT GIVEN THAT THIS WAS AN ITEM I PROPOSED, AND I'VE SPOKEN WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY ABOUT A LITTLE BIT, I WAS HOPING THAT I WOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE THE LEAD ON IT AND WORK WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY AS NEEDED, IN PART BECAUSE I JUST THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE COUNCIL INVOLVED IN CRAFTING THIS POLICY. SO IF THAT'S OKAY WITH MY COLLEAGUES, I JUST LIKE TO CHANGE THE WHO ON THAT ONE. SO I GUESS I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO DO THAT IF ANYONE WILL. SECOND THAT, I'LL SECOND THE MOTION.

COUNCILMEMBER PETE. YOU KNOW, WE HAD A LENGTHY DISCUSSION DURING I APOLOGIZE, ALICIA, WHERE WE WERE SUPPOSED TO DO SOMETHING. SORRY, I JUST HAVE A COMMENT. OH, YEAH. BECAUSE WERE WE GOING TO VOTE OR I APOLOGIZE, WE HIT THE BUTTON PREMATURELY. BUT I JUST WANTED SOME CLARIFICATION.

IF WE IF WE WERE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD, WAS THAT A VOTE JUST ON THAT PARTICULAR OBJECTIVE OR.

OH, I CAN YEAH. WHY DON'T WE LIKE COUNCIL MEMBER PETE SPEAK AND THEN WE CAN CLARIFY THE NATURE OF THE MOTION OKAY. YEAH. OKAY. THANK YOU. WHEN WE WERE IN OUR OUR STRATEGIC OFFSITE, IT BECAME VERY CLEAR THAT A CITY STAFF MEMBER NEEDED TO OWN, OKAY, NOT A COUNCIL MEMBER, WHICH IS, WHICH IS WHICH IS KIND OF KIND OF WHY MAYBE SOME OF THE THINGS DIDN'T HIT THIS MARK, BUT COULD BE ADDED AS AN AGENDA ITEM. WITH THAT, HOWEVER, I SEE NO REASON WHY YOU COULDN'T BE PART OF THAT TEAM IF YOU WANT TO BE PART OF THAT TEAM. I JUST THINK IT NEEDS TO BE LED BY A CITY PERSONNEL AND THE CITY CLERK AND THE CITY MANAGER, BUT THERE SHOULD BE NO REASON OF WHY. MAYOR, IF YOU CHOOSE TO BE A PART OF THAT, THAT YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF IT. SO THAT'S MY GENERAL COMMENTS. COUNCIL MEMBER MINIKUS IN HISTORICALLY, WHEN THE CITY PUTS OUT A MEDIA POST OR ANYTHING, IT'S GENERALLY DONE WITH THE INTENT THAT IT'S THE CITY, NOT THE MAYOR OR LEGAL COUNSEL THAT'S PUTTING IT OUT. IT IS A MESSAGE FROM THE CITY AS A WHOLE, NOT JUST FROM THE MAYOR OR THE CITY ATTORNEY. ALL RIGHT. WELL, FOR THE SAKE OF CLARITY, THEN I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO.

INCLUDE MYSELF IN THE GROUP THAT WORKS ON THIS COMMUNICATION POLICY AND APPROVED THE REST OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN, AS IS. I'LL SECOND.

THAT MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. ALL RIGHT. ITEMS REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR. I REMOVED

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ITEM EIGHT, MAPLE GROVE SOUTH SHADE STRUCTURE. SO WHAT THIS IS THERE IS A PICNIC TABLE AREA AT MAPLE GROVE SOUTH PARK. THERE'S ALSO A PLAYGROUND AT THE PARK. THIS ITEM IS TO INSTALL A SHADE STRUCTURE OVER THE PICNIC TABLE AREA. GENERALLY, I'M SUPPORTIVE OF ADDING SHADE TO OUR PARKS AS I THINK EVERYBODY KNOWS. HOWEVER, I THINK THAT DOING THIS PROJECT IN THIS MANNER IS NOT THE BEST WAY TO POTENTIALLY GO ABOUT IT. FIRST AT THE MAPLE GROVE SOUTH PARK, BOTH THE PICNIC AREA AND THE SHADE PICNIC AREA AND THE PLAYGROUND AREA NEED SHAPED. I TOOK PICTURES, I WAS THERE RECENTLY. YOU CAN SEE THEY'RE RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER. NEITHER OF THEM HAS SHADE

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OVER IT. I WAS THERE ON A FRIDAY OR A WEEKDAY AT 11 A.M. THE SHADE OR THE SUN WAS JUST BEATING DOWN ON THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT, AND MANY OF THE SLIDES WERE TOO HOT TO USE.

ALREADY AT 11 A.M. IN ON A WEEKDAY IN MAY, SO I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW HOT THEY'RE GOING TO BE ON A DAY IN JULY OR AUGUST. I'VE GOT PHOTOS FOR MY COLLEAGUES. YOU CAN JUST SEE THE SORRY, I'M PASSING THEM OUT. I'LL HOLD THEM UP TO THE CAMERA. YOU CAN SEE WE'VE GOT THE PLAYGROUND AND THE PICNIC AREA BOTH IN THE SUNLIGHT. YOU CAN SEE NOTHING BUT SUN ON THE SLIDE AND ON THE OTHER SLIDE. ONE OF THE SLIDES HAD A CRACK IN IT. AND SO GIVEN THAT BOTH THESE AREAS NEED SHADE, IF WE WERE GOING TO PICK JUST ONE, IN MY OPINION WE SHOULD PICK THE PLAYGROUND AND NOT THE PICNIC AREA. BECAUSE IF YOU'RE HAVING IF YOU WANT TO EAT AT PICNIC TABLES AND THERE'S NO SHADE, YOU CAN USUALLY JUST MOVE UNDER THE TREES AND PUT DOWN A BLANKET OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. IF YOU WANT TO GO ON SLIDES AND THERE'S NO SHADE, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER OPTION. IT'S JUST YOU CAN'T USE THE PLAYGROUND. ANOTHER ISSUE IS IF WE'RE JUST PUTTING IN KIND OF A SMALL 20 BY 20 SHADE SAIL, WHICH IS THE PROPOSAL, WE'RE NOT GETTING VERY GOOD BANG FOR OUR BUCK. THE CURRENT PROPOSAL IS TO SPEND $80,000 FOR A 20 BY 20 SHADE SAIL, WHICH IS 400FT■!S.

THAT'S $200 PER SQUARE FOOT OF SHADE SAIL. WE WOULD GET MUCH BETTER VALUE BY SHADING A MUCH LARGER AREA. FOR EXAMPLE, I WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT LEXINGTON PARK, WHERE WE INSTALLED SEVEN SHADE SAILS OVER THE PLAYGROUND. ALL OF THEM WERE MUCH BIGGER THAN THIS ONE, AND WE PUT IN OVER 8000FT■!S OF SHADE, SAIL FR $268,000. SO THERE WE PAID $33 PER SQUARE FOOT OF SHADE SAIL.

THIS PROJECT IS PROPOSED $200 PER SQUARE FOOT, SO TO ME, WE'RE JUST NOT GETTING A GREAT VALUE IF WE DO IT THIS WAY. AND IF WE'RE GOING TO SHADE THE PICNIC AREA, WE MIGHT AS WELL CONSIDER SHADING THE PLAYGROUND AREA WHICH IS RIGHT NEXT TO IT. THAT WOULD LOWER OUR COST PER SQUARE FOOT DRASTICALLY AND REALLY ENHANCE THE OVERALL QUALITY OF THE PARK. ANOTHER ISSUE IS THESE 20 BY 20 SHADE SAILS. UNFORTUNATELY, THEY THEY DON'T NECESSARILY PROVIDE ALL THE SHADE WE NEED, JUST EVEN OVER A PICNIC AREA. I JUST HAPPEN TO BE AT EVERGREEN PARK THIS WEEKEND FOR MY FRIEND'S KID'S BIRTHDAY PARTY, AND IT WAS A HOT DAY. THIS IS WHAT THE PICNIC AREA LOOKED LIKE WITH THE SHADE SAIL OVER IT. WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS THERE'S FOUR PICNIC TABLES. ONLY ONE OF THEM IS COMPLETELY IN THE SHADE. ONE OF THEM DIDN'T HAVE ANY SHADE ON IT. TWO OF THEM WERE PARTIALLY NOT IN THE SHADE, AND SO EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE MULTIPLE KIDS BIRTHDAY PARTIES AT THE PARK, NOT A SINGLE PERSON WAS SITTING AT THE PICNIC TABLES BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO HOT.

EVERYBODY WAS UNDER THE TREES, SITTING ON A BLANKET. THEY BROUGHT THEIR OWN CHAIRS. SO EVEN IF SOMETIMES YOU HAVE A SHADE SAIL, IF IT'S NOT BIG ENOUGH, IT'S NOT KIND OF HAVING THE INTENDED EFFECT. SO WHAT I SEE HERE IS PROPOSING $80,000 EXPENDITURE ON A SMALL SHADE SAIL. AND WE'RE NOT EVEN CAN'T BE CONFIDENT THAT IT'LL HAVE THE INTENDED IMPACT. I THINK WE CAN DO A LOT BETTER THAN THIS FOR RESIDENTS. AND SO HERE'S WHAT I'M PROPOSING. I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD AWARD THIS CONTRACT TODAY. I'D LIKE TO DIRECT CITY STAFF TO COME BACK TO US WITH A PROPOSAL OR TWO TO SHADE BOTH THE PICNIC AREA AND THE PLAYGROUND TOGETHER, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT WE WANT THE SHADE TO BE BIG ENOUGH TO REALLY HIT THOSE AREAS THAT WE WANT IN THE SHADE.

AND I SUSPECT IF WE GET THOSE BIDS, WE WILL END UP WITH SOMETHING THAT PROVIDES A LOT MORE SHADE AT A SUBSTANTIALLY LOWER COST PER SQUARE FOOT, AND REALLY ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OUR RESIDENTS. AND SO I THINK THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SEE IF THERE'S AN

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ALTERNATIVE OPTION THAT MIGHT BE BENEFICIAL BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD. SO I'LL MAKE A MOTION IN A MOMENT. BUT COUNCIL MEMBER MINIKUS, I SEE YOU HAVE A REQUEST TO SPEAK. THANK YOU. AND COUNCIL MEMBER IF I MIGHT, TWO TWO POINTS OF CLARIFICATION. ONE THE PROJECT THAT'S ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR TONIGHT IS THE REPLACEMENT OF A PREVIOUS WOODEN SHADE STRUCTURE AT THE PARK THAT HAD TO BE REMOVED BECAUSE THE TERMITES, ONE AND THE TERMITES ALWAYS EVENTUALLY WIN. IT'S NOT THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW FACILITY. TWO JUST AS A CAUTION, THE AMOUNT OF CONSTRUCTION COSTS INCREASE THAT WE'VE SEEN SINCE LEXINGTON PARK WAS CREATED IS ASTRONOMICAL. AND WHILE THERE MAY BE SOME ECONOMIES OF SCALE FOR A LARGER INSTALLATION, I WOULDN'T EXPECT, AND I SORT OF LOOK TO NICK FOR A BODY LANGUAGE REACTION THAT THE NUMBERS THAT WERE TRUE, EVEN AT SCALE AT LEXINGTON, ARE UNFORTUNATELY LIKELY TO BE WHAT WE'D FIND IF WE WENT BACK OUT, REDESIGNED AND REBID THE PROJECT. AND I DON'T OFFER THAT AS A REASON TO DO OR NOT TO DO IT. JUST EXPECTATION SETTING. YEAH, I THINK WE UNDERSTAND THAT PRICES HAVE CHANGED A BIT SINCE 2020, BUT I ALSO THINK, HOW'S IT GOING TO HURT TO GET ANOTHER OPTION THAT'S POTENTIALLY LESS EXPENSIVE PER SQUARE FOOT? COUNCIL MEMBER MINIKUS. THANKS. JUST CURIOUS, NICK, WOULD YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW WHEN THE CURRENT PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT IS GOING TO BE REPLACED? AND IF WE MOVE FORWARD WITH PERHAPS DAVID'S SUGGESTION, WOULD WOULD THAT IMPACT THE SHADE AT THE FOR THE NEW EQUIPMENT, IF THAT MAKES ANY SENSE. YOU DON'T WE DON'T HAVE THE ACTUAL YEAR SET JUST YET. WE ARE STILL EVALUATING THAT IF WE ARE TO PUT THE SHADE STRUCTURES IN NOW, THAT WOULD LIMIT DIFFERENT POTENTIAL DESIGN OPTIONS FOR THE FOR THE FUTURE PLAYGROUND. WE WILL HAVE TO WORK AROUND THE EXISTING FOOTINGS NOW FOR THE SHADE STRUCTURE, AND ALSO LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT FALL ZONE REQUIREMENTS. NORMALLY TO BE ABOUT SIX FEET AWAY FROM ANY POST FOR ANY SLIDES, THINGS FALL DIFFERENT FALL AREAS. AND THIS IS ONE OF MY CONCERNS WHEN WE SPOKE ABOUT THE AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE, WAS THAT PUTTING PUTTING SHADE STRUCTURES IN PLACE, IN CONTRAST WITH CHANGING OUT ANY NEW PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT, BECAUSE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT DOES EVOLVE OVER TIME, THAT TO NICK'S POINT, THAT IT'S GOING TO LIMIT OUR ABILITIES TO OFFER PERHAPS BETTER SERVICES TO THE KIDS AND THE FAMILIES HERE IN THE CITY. AND DOING THAT. AND I'LL JUST I'LL JUST LEAVE IT AT THAT. SO. COUNCIL MEMBER PETE, THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. YEAH, MY COMMENT IS SIMILAR, BUT I'M LOOKING AT THE PARKS LIST AND THE MAPLE GROVE SOUTH PARK WAS BUILT OR I GUESS PUT TOGETHER IN 2002, 2003. OKAY. AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT AND AGAIN, WE CAN'T DO ALL PARKS AT THE SAME TIME.

AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS WOULD FALL IN THE PRIORITY. I THINK WE AGREED THAT WE PROBABLY IF WE'RE GOING TO PUT SHADE STRUCTURE OR WE PROPOSE TO DO THAT, WE PROBABLY WANT TO LOOK AT IT CONSISTENT WITH WHEN WE GET NEW EQUIPMENT. OKAY. AND SO BACK TO I THINK WHERE THE QUESTION MAYBE THAT COUNCIL MEMBER WAS ASKING IS IF THAT FALLS INTO SOMETHING, MAYBE WE BACK TO YOUR POINT IS HOLD OFF DOING THE PICNIC BENCHES RIGHT. AND LOOK AT THE TOTAL STRUCTURE, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. I DON'T KNOW, IT DOES. AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE GO THERE OR ANYTHING, BUT I SEE IT AS A, YOU KNOW, IN THE NEXT YEAR OR SO OR TWO YEARS, WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO BE REPLACING THAT EQUIPMENT OR DOING SOMETHING TO THAT EQUIPMENT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. SO, SO IF, IF IT MAKES SENSE FOR US TO WITHHOLD DOING ANYTHING, I'M NOT SURE IT DOES, BUT BECAUSE RIGHT NOW YOU'RE RIGHT, WE'RE ENTERING SUMMER AND PEOPLE AREN'T GOING TO SIT AT THOSE BENCHES IF THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO SHADE. AND THEY ALSO WON'T PLAY ON THE PLAYGROUND. IF THERE'S NO SHADE, IT'S TOO HOT. SO YEAH, AND I KNOW I SEE YOU ALSO ON DECK, BUT YEAH, I'M GLAD WE'RE BRINGING THIS UP BECAUSE THIS HAS KIND OF BEEN A POINT PEOPLE HAVE BROUGHT UP TO, YOU KNOW, THROW SHADE ON THE IDEA OF HAVING THIS AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE AND INSTALLING SHADE STRUCTURES AT THE PLAYGROUNDS. AND CERTAINLY WE'RE MINDFUL THAT WE KNOW IF YOU INSTALLED A BRAND NEW SHADE STRUCTURE OVER A PLAYGROUND, AND THEN YOU WANTED TO REPLACE THAT PLAYGROUND WITH A TEN FOOT TALLER ONE THE NEXT YEAR, THAT WOULDN'T BE VERY SMART, BUT I WOULD. I WOULD URGE MY COLLEAGUES IN IN THE FUTURE, IF YOU WANT, GO TAKE A LOOK AT

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MAPLE GROVE SOUTH. WE'RE WE'RE WAITING ON SORT OF THE FINAL PROCESS AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE ON OUR PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS. BUT MY OPINION, BASED ON JUST BEING THERE A FEW TIMES AND TALKING TO SOME RESIDENTS WHO LIVE THERE, IS I DON'T THINK THIS PARK WOULD MAKE SENSE AS ONE WHERE WE NEED TO EXPAND THE FOOTPRINT OF PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT OR ADD SUBSTANTIALLY TALLER PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT. I THINK THE RESIDENTS SEEM PRETTY HAPPY WITH THE FOOTPRINT THAT THEY HAVE, AND SO I'M NOT PARTICULARLY CONCERNED THAT THIS WOULD BE A SITUATION WHERE WE'D INSTALL SHADE, AND THEN IT WOULD PREVENT US FROM DOING SOME SORT OF STATE OF THE ART PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT THAT WE WANT TO DO. BUT AGAIN, I THINK THE PRUDENT COURSE OF ACTION MIGHT BE TO JUST WAIT A LITTLE BIT AND SEE WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS WE HAVE FROM THE AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE AND THE RECREATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMISSION. AND A COUPLE OF MONTHS, COUNCIL MEMBER CHANG. NO, I'M ACTUALLY IN AGREEMENT WITH WITH ALL OF YOU. I, I THINK WE SHOULD WAIT AND SEE WHAT WHAT THE BIG PICTURE PLAN IS FOR WHEN WE'RE GOING TO UPDATE THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT. AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN JUST DO IT ALL IN ONE TIME. SO I'M AGREEING WITH YOU ALL. ALL RIGHT, WELL, THEN I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO MR. CITY ATTORNEY. WHAT DO YOU THINK WOULD BE APPROPRIATE? POSTPONE THIS ITEM OR. WELL, IT SEEMS AS THOUGH POSTPONING IS NOT QUITE THE ACTION. IF YOU'RE ASKING TO HAVE PUBLIC WORKS, REVISE THE PLAN TO INCORPORATE THE LARGER IDEA. SO MAYBE A DIRECTION BACK TO CITY STAFF TO REVISE THE PLAN TO, AS YOU MENTIONED, INCORPORATE THE PLAYGROUND AREA. YEAH. OKAY. SO I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO DIRECT CITY STAFF TO GET BACK TO US WITH A, A PROPOSAL THAT WE CAN POTENTIALLY PUT OUT TO BID TO SHADE BOTH PICNIC AREA AND THE PLAYGROUND AREA. THAT'S. SORRY. SORRY, MAYOR. AT THE SAME TIME, I DON'T WANT TO TAKE OVER THE WHAT THE COMMISSION THE RECS WAS IN TERMS OF PRIORITIZING THE PLAYGROUND.

SO I DON'T WANT US TO KIND OF MOVE THIS UP BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NOW. SO IS THERE A WAY THAT WE CAN JUST, I DON'T KNOW, POSTPONE INDEFINITELY OR JUST NOT DO IT? YOU CERTAINLY YOU CAN NOT DO IT. IT'S ALWAYS ONE OF THE CHOICES BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL. AND I THINK YOU'VE GOT ON YOUR SPECTRUM, YOU HAVE DON'T DO ANYTHING. MOVE FORWARD WITH JUST SHADING THE PICNIC AREA AND THEN WAIT FOR YOUR SUBCOMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION TO COME BACK TO TALK ABOUT SHADING THE PLAYGROUND. YOU COULD THEORETICALLY WAIT TO SHADE EVERYTHING UNTIL YOUR SUBCOMMITTEE WORK IS DONE, AND THEN LOOK AT A PROJECT THAT WOULD INCORPORATE A NEW PLAYGROUND AND SHADE OVER THE NEW PLAYGROUND AND THE PICNIC AREA. RECOGNIZING THAT IF THIS PROJECT DOESN'T MOVE FORWARD, THE PICNIC AREA WILL REMAIN UNSHADED FOR, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY 18 MORE MONTHS. BUT BETWEEN THE TIME THAT WE GOT THROUGH DESIGNING, BIDDING, GOING, GOING THROUGH THAT WHOLE PROCESS AGAIN, HOW COULD IT BE 18 MORE MONTHS IF WE HAVE THE PROPOSAL? RIGHT NOW, I'M DESCRIBING A SITUATION IN WHICH WE WOULD BE DESIGNING A NEW PROJECT THAT INVOLVED SHADING THE PICNIC STRUCTURES, INSTALLING NEW PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT, BECAUSE THIS EQUIPMENT IS CLOSE TO END OF USEFUL LIFE, AND ALSO SHADING THAT, I THINK. AND I LOOK FOR JEFF OR NICK TO TELL ME IF THIS IS WRONG, THAT THE TWO ASSETS OPERATE AND CAN BE SHADED INDEPENDENTLY. AND SO TO THE OTHER POINT, THE MAYOR MADE THE COUNCIL'S RECOMMENDATION THIS EVENING COULD BE A LARGER OR AN ALTERED SHADE SAIL SO THAT THE SHADING FUNCTIONED, YOU KNOW, MAYBE A LITTLE MORE LIGHT. THE CLAMSHELL SHAPES THAT YOU SEE AT LEXINGTON PARK THAT PROVIDE A GREAT MORE SHADE THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE DAY. BUT I WOULD IMAGINE THE CLOSER WE BRING THAT FABRIC TO THE GROUND, THE MORE LIKELY IT IS TO GET VANDALIZED.

SHENANIGANS. DOT DOT DOT. BUT REALLY, WHATEVER THE COUNCIL'S PLEASURE IS, WE'LL FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO IT FOR YOU. IF THE PROJECT GETS BIGGER OR DIFFERENT THAN THIS, AND YOU'LL NEED, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE'LL NEED TO INCORPORATE IT INTO THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR FISCAL YEAR 2526 AND FIGURE OUT WHAT KNOCK OFF OR KNOCK OUT EFFECTS THAT HAS ON THAT PLAN. YEAH, WELL, I THINK THE SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS IN TWO MONTHS, I FEEL LIKE WE COULD GET A PROPOSAL TO SHADE THE ENTIRE AREA NOW OR SOON. AND THEN WHEN WE HAVE THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE SUBCOMMITTEE, WE'RE READY TO HIT THE GROUND RUNNING ONE WAY OR ANOTHER PRETTY QUICKLY. SO, NICK, IF COUNCIL DIRECTION IS TO DEVELOP A PLAN TO SHADE AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG IN WHAT YOU JUST SAID, MR. MAYOR, THE PICNIC AREA AND THE EXISTING PLAYGROUND STRUCTURE, HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE TO BID THAT OUT AND COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL? AND THAT IS NOT REPLACING THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT, CORRECT. WE'RE JUST PUTTING IT OVER THE EXISTING TO BID THAT OUT. AND

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COME BACK WITH CONTRACTS FOR AWARD. WE'RE LOOKING AT, I WOULD SAY, AT LEAST THREE, FOUR MONTHS. OKAY. AND SO WHAT'S THE WHAT'S THE MOST TIME CONSUMING PART OF THAT. BECAUSE I KNOW I THINK IN THIS AGENDA ITEM, YOU PUT THIS ITEM OUT TO BID TWO WEEKS AGO AND IT'S HERE ON THE AGENDA NOW SIX WEEKS AGO. OKAY, MAYBE I MISREAD, BUT SO WITH THIS LARGER SCOPE, WE WOULD HAVE TO PROBABLY ENGAGE WITH A DESIGNER TO HELP US IDEALLY LOCATE WHERE THE FOOTINGS WOULD GO. THIS SHADE STRUCTURE FOR THE PICNIC SHELTER IS A VERY SIMPLE FOUR POST TWO SHADE STRUCTURE WITH A LARGER AREA WILL HAVE MUCH MORE FOOTINGS INVOLVED, DIFFERENT POST PLACEMENTS, DIFFERENT DESIGN ELEMENTS. SO WE PROBABLY WOULD ENGAGE WITH A DESIGNER TO HELP US DESIGN THE LAYOUT IN A WAY THAT WOULD STILL ALLOW US SOME FLEXIBILITY IN THE FUTURE TO REPLACE THE PLAY EQUIPMENT IN THE FUTURE. SO WE WOULD HAVE TO ENGAGE WITH THE DESIGNER, COME UP WITH A DESIGN PLAN, AND THEN BID THAT OUT. SO IT ACTUALLY MAY COULD TAKE A LITTLE BIT LONGER, DEPENDING ON THE SIZE AND SCOPE OF THIS PROJECT. OKAY. THANK YOU. I MEAN, I THINK WE SHOULD GET STARTED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. SO I MOVE TO DIRECT STAFF TO GET BACK TO US AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, WITH PLANS TO SHADE THE ENTIRE PICNIC AND PLAYGROUND AREA AT MAPLE GROVE SOUTH. COUNCIL MEMBER MINKUS. KEEPING IN MIND, NICK, THE CURRENT PROJECTS YOU GUYS HAVE GOING ON RIGHT NOW.

WHAT WHAT I'M HEARING DAVID SAY IS THAT TO STOP EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING NOW TO HANDLE THIS PROJECT. FROM A MANAGEMENT, FROM A MANAGEMENT POINT OF VIEW, WHAT DOES THAT DO TO THE OTHER PROJECTS? IF YOU STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING NOW TO FULFILL WHAT DAVID'S PROPOSING. WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT THE CURRENT WORKLOADS. YOU KNOW, THIS PROJECT WAS ALREADY ON OUR SLATE TO TACKLE FOR THIS CURRENT YEAR. THE DESIGN WAS ALREADY COMPLETED. BUT NOW IF WE'RE GOING BACK TO DESIGN, ESSENTIALLY A NEW PROJECT THAT WOULD TAKE AWAY FROM OTHER PROJECTS THAT WE MAY HAVE TO DEFER, OTHER PROJECTS TO A LATER DATE. AND ARE THOSE SOME OR ALL OF THOSE PROJECTS HIGH PRIORITY FOR THE CITY? DO THEY INVOLVE LIKE CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? IT'S A MIX OF BOTH. SOME ARE CRITICAL AND SOME ARE JUST REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING STRUCTURES THAT THAT NEED TO BE REPLACED. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. SO I'VE GOT A MOTION TO DIRECT STAFF TO COME BACK TO US WITH OPTIONS TO SHADE THE ENTIRE PLAYGROUND. DO WE HAVE A SECOND OR SUGGESTIONS TO MODIFY THE MOTION, OR ARE WE JUST GOING TO DO NOTHING? WHERE ARE WE AT? I'M GOING TO MAKE A COUNTER MOTION TO DO NOTHING. OKAY. WELL, THAT'S I GUESS THAT'S NOT REALLY A COUNTER MOTION. YEAH. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT, KYLE? AT THIS POINT, IF THERE ISN'T A SECOND, THE FLOOR IS OPEN FOR A NEW MOTION. SO YOU COULD JUST PRESENT A NEW MOTION IF THERE ISN'T A SECOND TO THE MAYOR'S MOTION. YEAH. CAN I CAN I JUST ASK MY COLLEAGUES, WHAT'S THE HESITANCY TO TRY AND GET THE BALL ROLLING AND PROVIDE SHADE IN OUR PARK? COUNCIL MEMBER PETE. YEAH, IT'S NOT A IT'S NOT A HESITANCY, BUT WE HAVE THE COMMISSIONERS DOING A SPECIFIC ACTIVITY THAT YOU'VE ASKED THEM TO DO ACROSS OUR PARKS TO RECOMMEND SHADE STRUCTURES. I THINK DOING THIS AND PUTTING SAYING, OH, WE'RE GOING TO GO DO IT AND GET A, GET A QUOTE IS KIND OF USURPING THEIR EFFORTS. AND I THINK, LET'S LET THEM COME BACK WITH A RECOMMENDATION.

THEY'RE GOING TO SEE WHAT YOU SAW, I WOULD GUESS, AND THEY'RE GOING TO SAY SOMETHING'S WRONG HERE, RIGHT. AND THEY'RE GOING TO POSSIBLY COME BACK WITH A RECOMMENDATION. SO I, I'D HATE TO HAVE US USURP WHAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY DOING. AND I THINK IT IT SO MY RECOMMENDATION, I GUESS MY MOTION WOULD BE IS MAYBE NOT DO NOTHING BUT BASICALLY SAYING, HEY, LET'S LET'S I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAY MOVE IS IT I WANT TO PUT THIS ITEM IN THE FUTURE. OKAY. AFTER WE HAVE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE COMMITTEE AND COMING BACK IN TERMS OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, AND THEN WE CAN SAY, OKAY, THEY DIDN'T ADDRESS THIS, BUT WE STILL THINK IT'S IMPORTANT OR WHATEVER. SO I'M JUST SUGGESTING IS JUST MOVING IT OUT PROBABLY TILL. OH WELL, THE REPORT FROM

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THAT AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE IS DUE JULY 14TH OR BE ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA FOR JULY 14TH. THE ONE THING I GOT TO LOOK TO NICK FOR HERE IS THE BID PRICE PROBABLY WON'T HOLD THAT LONG, RIGHT.

IT'S GOOD FOR 90 DAYS WITH THE BID OPENING. I THINK IT WAS APRIL 23RD, SO IT'LL BE PRETTY CLOSE. WE COULD TALK TO THE CONTRACTOR TO SEE IF THEY CAN HOLD THEIR PRICE, BUT THAT'S A BIG, BIG IF, RIGHT CAN I? SO I THINK ONE THING I'M CONFUSED ABOUT IS I'VE GIVEN YOU ALL PICTURES OF A PLAYGROUND THAT DOESN'T HAVE A STITCH OF SHADE OVER IT. WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR THE REC COMMISSION TO TELL US THAT WE CAN'T OBSERVE WITH OUR OWN EYES? LIKE, I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. I'M SORRY. AND I DON'T MEAN TO PUSH. PUSH SO HARD, BUT, YOU KNOW. AND I WASN'T EVEN GOING TO BRING THIS UP, BUT THIS IS ALSO A SERIOUS PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE. AND I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYONE'S AWARE OF THIS. I WASN'T AWARE OF THIS. INFANTS AND TODDLERS ARE INCREASINGLY SENSITIVE TO UV RADIATION. AND THEY'RE VULNERABLE TO SKIN DAMAGE CAUSED BY IT. ONE STUDY FOUND THAT UV EXPOSURE TO DURING A PERSON'S FIRST 18 YEARS OF LIFE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FOR CAUSING SKIN CANCER AND SKIN DAMAGE. WE WERE ALREADY PLANNING TO SHADE THIS PICNIC AREA. I JUST I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S WHAT LEVEL OF SERVICE WE'RE TRYING TO DELIVER TO OUR RESIDENTS. IF WE'RE JUST GOING TO SIT HERE AND DO NOTHING, KNOWING THAT WE CAN POTENTIALLY IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE, SAFETY OF OUR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN. AND LOOK, IF THAT'S WHAT THE MAJORITY OF YOU WANT TO DO, THAT'S THAT'S WHERE WE ARE. BUT IT JUST SEEMS SO OBVIOUS TO ME THAT ASKING STAFF TO GET BACK TO US WITH INFO SO WE CAN MAKE A DECISION COULDN'T HURT IN ANY WAY. ARE YOU NEXT COUNCIL MEMBER PETE? I THINK I'M GOING TO STICK WITH MY RECOMMENDATION, WHICH IS LET'S LET THE COMMISSIONERS DO THEIR JOB AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO COME BACK WITH. I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH, YOU KNOW, KIDS ACTUALLY PLAY AT THIS PLAYGROUND VERSUS 3 OR 4 OTHERS. THAT MAY BE RECOMMENDATIONS. SO MY THOUGHT IS WE GAVE THEM A RECOMMENDATION OR WHAT WE'RE ASKING THEM TO DO. LET'S LET THEM DO THEIR WORK AND COME BACK TO US. AND I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE TRYING TO KEEP THE BALL ROLLING SO THAT WE CAN GET, YOU KNOW, ELIMINATE A MONTH OR TWO OF THE TIME. I GET THAT, BUT THIS MAY NOT BE THEIR HIGHEST PRIORITY.

THEY MAY SAY THERE'S THREE OTHERS. AND WHEN WE LOOK AT COST AND OR TIME, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE PRIORITIZING BASED ON WHAT THE RECOMMENDATION IS. SO I WOULD SAY LET'S MOVE IT OUT TO JULY 14TH AND THEN WE'LL DECIDE. COUNCIL MEMBER MINIKUS. TWO POINTS. NUMBER ONE, ABOUT ABOUT THE STUDY YOU JUST COMMENTED ON. I'M NOT SAYING THAT THAT'S NOT TRUE, BUT I THINK PARENTS ARE SMART ENOUGH TO PROVIDE THEIR CHILDREN WITH SUN PROTECTION, KNOWING IF THEY'RE GOING TO BE OUTSIDE. AND NUMBER TWO, I THINK. YOU'RE SO FOCUSED ON ON GETTING THIS DONE AND ACCOMPLISHED. BUT I THINK WHAT YOU'RE YOU'RE NOT HEARING IS THAT THERE IS CASCADING EFFECTS ACROSS THE CITY THAT NICK JUST SPOKE TO, THAT THE CITY MANAGER JUST SPOKE TO ABOUT POTENTIALLY COSTING MORE, JUST ALL THESE ADDITIONAL FACTORS THAT COME INTO IT. I APPLAUD YOUR PASSION FOR THIS. I DO, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I DON'T THINK IT'S THE RIGHT TIME TO DO THIS.

AND I WOULD HAVE TO AGREE WITH COUNCIL MEMBER PETE'S MOTION. COUNCIL MEMBER CHANG. THANK YOU.

FOR ME, IT'S A MATTER OF LIMITED RESOURCES AND WHAT WE CAN GET WITH OUR MONEY. WE'RE RIGHT NOW WE'RE LIMITED TO ABOUT $450,000 A YEAR STARTING IN. I THINK WE HAD BUDGETED FOR 2027, 2028, AND THAT WAS ONLY TO REPLACE ONE PLAYGROUND A YEAR. THAT WAS OUR PLAN, RIGHT? TO REPLACE ONE PROGRAM A YEAR AND PLAYGROUND A YEAR. THE PROBLEM IS THAT MOST OF OUR PLAYGROUNDS WERE REPLACED, LAST REPLACED BETWEEN 2003 AND 2008. SO IT'S ABOUT WE'RE COMING UP ON THE 20 YEAR MARK. AND THAT'S ALSO THE USEFUL LIFE OF MOST OF OUR PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT. SO FOR ME, I, I DON'T

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KNOW ABOUT I DON'T THINK IT'S ONE OF OUR MOST USED PARKS. I THINK OUR BIGGEST ONES ARE, OF COURSE, OUR REGIONAL PARKS AND OUR BIGGER COMMUNITY PARKS. AND ANY OF THE PARKS WITH PLAYGROUNDS. SO I MEAN, WITH PARKING. SO THAT'S LIKE OAK KNOLL PARK, YOU KNOW, AND THEN WE OF COURSE, WE HAVE THE ACP AND LEXINGTON, AND AFTER THAT WE HAVE OUR SMALLER PARKS WITH WITH PARKING LIKE EVERGREEN PARK AND VETERANS PARK. AND WHAT'S THE ONE ONE OF THE I FORGOT WHAT OUR OTHER PARKS WITH PARKING ARE. BUT THOSE, THOSE THOSE ARE THE PARKS THAT I WOULD PRIORITIZE PERSONALLY. BUT I DO WANT TO LEAVE IT UP TO OUR AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE AND ALSO OUR OUR RECREATION COMMISSION TO, YOU KNOW, DEVELOP A PRIORITY LIST, COME UP WITH WHERE WE WANT OUR MONEY TO GO. YOU KNOW, WE DID GIVE THEM A LITTLE BIT OF LEEWAY. YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY WE DON'T HAVE TO BE JUST LIMITED TO 450 K FOR OUR NICER PARKS, ESPECIALLY OAK KNOLL PARK. IT'S PRETTY BAD TOO. YOU KNOW, THERE'S RUST. LAST TIME I WENT, THERE'S ON THE LITTLE A LITTLE SWING SLIDE. THERE'S LIKE THERE'S A BOLT MISSING AT THE TOP. AND SO I THINK THERE'S QUITE A FEW PLAYGROUNDS THAT YOU KNOW, ARE, ARE, ARE IN NEED OF ATTENTION AND MONEY. AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHY I WANT TO MAKE SURE TO PRIORITIZE OUR PARKS. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANKS.

I GUESS WE'RE DOING NOTHING THEN. SO. ALL RIGHT, IF I MAY JUST CLARIFY, I BELIEVE COUNCIL MEMBER PETE, DID YOU HAVE A MOTION? YEAH. SO MY MOTION IS TO IS IT MOVE AND NOT MOVE BUT TO CONTINUE THE CONTINUE. THANK YOU TO JULY 14TH. CONTINUE TO JULY 14TH AND THEN RECONSIDER IT AT THAT TIME BASED ON THE COMMISSIONER'S INPUT BACK TO US. SO REFER BACK TO THE COMMISSION.

YEAH. YEAH. SO REALLY IT'S GETTING THE COMMISSIONER'S INPUT. THIS 1ST MAY BE THE TOP OF THE LIST, I DON'T KNOW. OR IT MAY HIT THE LIST THAT WE WANT TO DO, BUT LET'S PUT IT BACK ONTO THAT AGENDA SO THAT THEY COME IN AND PRESENT TO US. AND THEN WE CAN DECIDE, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE NIT SAY WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO IT OR IT IS, AND LET'S FIGURE OUT HOW WE DO IT. AND SO THAT'S MY THOUGHT. AND THAT WOULD INCLUDE THE SUGGESTION BY THE MAYOR TO SHADE. ABSOLUTELY AS WELL. YEAH. THE PARK AS WELL AS OTHER PARKS. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU. I'LL SECOND THE MOTION. THAT MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. ALL RIGHT. TO BE CONTINUED. NEXT UP IS ITEM

[15. Consider an Ordinance Updating Municipal Code Sections 2.2-11 and 2-2.20 Relating to Voting Procedures in City Council Meetings Governing Abstentions and Reconsideration Prepared by: Fred Galante, City Attorney Recommendation: Consider approving the First Reading of an Ordinance, by title only, updating Municipal Code sections 2.2-11 and 2-2.20 relating to voting procedures in City Council meetings governing abstentions and reconsideration.]

15. CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE UPDATING MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS 2.2, DASH 11 AND 2.2 OR 2-2.20 RELATING TO VOTING PROCEDURES IN CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS, GOVERNING ABSTENTIONS AND RECONSIDERATION.

I BELIEVE THIS IS MY ITEM. SO IF I COULD MAYOR THE CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERED AT ITS MARCH 24TH MEETING AN OPPORTUNITY TO. REVISE THE CURRENT ORDINANCE THAT HAS A PROVISION THAT VARIES FROM THE TYPICAL ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER PROCEDURES THAT APPLY WHEN THERE ARE ABSTENTIONS TO A VOTE, NAMELY, UNDER ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER THAT THE CITY ADOPTS AS ITS PROCEDURAL RULES GOVERNING CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSIONS AND ACTIONS. AND ROBERT'S RULES ESSENTIALLY SAY AN ABSTENTION BASICALLY DOES NOT COUNT. IT DOESN'T COUNT TOWARDS THE MAJORITY. IT DOESN'T COUNT TO THE TOWARDS THE MINORITY. IT'S SIMPLY A NON VOTE. THE CURRENT LANGUAGE IN THE CITY'S ORDINANCE AT SECTION 221. PARDON ME 2.2. IF I HAVE IT RIGHT. 11 ESSENTIALLY SAYS THAT IF A PERSON ABSTAINS, THAT IS COUNTED TOWARDS THE MAJORITY. AND THE. THAT IS A VARIANCE FROM THE ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER. WHAT I ALSO HEARD AT THE MARCH 24TH MEETING AND WAS DIRECTED BY COUNCIL, IS TO, FIRST OF ALL, CHANGE THAT TO COMPORT TO ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER. BUT SECOND, HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A PERSON THAT ABSTAINS TO REQUEST RECONSIDERATION OF AN ACTION. CURRENTLY, THE WAY ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER WORK IS THAT THE ONLY COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT ARE ENTITLED TO REQUEST RECONSIDERATION OF AN ITEM ARE THOSE THAT VOTED WITH THE MAJORITY OF THAT ITEM IN THE MAJORITY. SO THIS WOULD EXTEND THAT RULE UNDER ROBERT'S RULES

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OF ORDER TO APPLY TO ABSTENTIONS. WITH THAT, I AM HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

COUNCIL MEMBER PETE, THANK YOU. I NEED SOME CLARITY. SO THANK YOU FOR UPDATING THE ORDINANCE.

I THINK, MAYOR BURKE, YOU HAD ASKED FOR CONSIDERATION FOR SOME ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE. CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND WHY WE WOULD NEED TO DO THAT, RATHER THAN JUST FOLLOWING THE ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER? WHAT'S YOUR WHAT'S YOUR THOUGHTS THERE? LET ME PULL IT UP. DOES ANYONE ELSE WANT TO SPEAK WHILE I'M PULLING IT UP? I GOT ANSWERS. OH, I THINK I'VE GOT IT. AND MAYBE JUST TO FILL SOME SPACE. FROM WHAT I RECALL, MY THOUGHT WAS JUST ALLOWING A MEMBER WHO ABSTAINS FROM DECIDING THEY WANT TO CHANGE THEIR MIND. RIGHT? WE WERE THINKING, IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, INSTEAD OF HAVING TO WAIT TILL THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING TO REQUEST A NEW MOTION, THAT IF FOR SOME REASON, WHOEVER ABSTAINED COULD JUST DO IT THERE, THAT WAY THEY COULD TALK IT OVER RIGHT NOW INSTEAD OF HAVING TO WAIT THE LAST TIME. SO JUST JUST A WAY TO SAVE TIME. SO FOR CLARITY, FOR TIMING WISE. SO THERE'S A MOTION. SOMEONE ABSTAINS. THEY HAVE THE RIGHT WITHOUT EVEN THIS LANGUAGE TO BE ABLE TO RECONSIDER THEIR VOTE. IS THAT IS THAT A CORRECT STATEMENT? SO LET ME BREAK IT DOWN I SAY RECONSIDER. THEY COULD SAY OOPS, VOTED THE WRONG WAY. I THINK IN THE TIMELINE OF VOTING, IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN MIND WHAT RIGHTS A COUNCIL MEMBER HAS. IF THERE IS A PRESENT ITEM THAT'S BEING VOTED UPON, AND LET'S SAY IT ENDS UP BEING A22 VOTE AND ONE PERSON ABSTAINS BEFORE YOU MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM, YOU, ANY COUNCIL MEMBER CAN SAY, YOU KNOW I ABSTAINED ON THIS ITEM. BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM, I'D LIKE TO CHANGE MY VOTE. THAT'S NOT A MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION BECAUSE IT'S STILL ALIVE. ITEM MOTIONS FOR RECONSIDERATION REALLY PERTAIN TO A MATTER THAT IS BROUGHT UP LATER ON THE ON IN THE AGENDA. AFTER YOU'VE MOVED ON FROM AN ITEM AND SOMEBODY HAS A CHANGE OF HEART AND SAYS, MR. MAYOR, I KNOW AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE ON ITEM TEN. BACK ON ITEM EIGHT, I VOTED TO ABSTAIN ON AN ITEM. I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER. AND IF THAT MOTION GETS A SECOND AND A MAJORITY APPROVAL, IT BECOMES LIVE AGAIN. SO IT'S AS IF YOU'RE VOTING ON THAT ITEM. AGAIN. THAT IS A CLASSIC MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION. THE UNDER ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER, THE ONLY FOLKS THAT CAN VOTE TO MAKE THAT MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION ARE THOSE THAT VOTED IN THE IN THE MAJORITY, WHETHER THAT'S TO REJECT THE ITEM OR TO APPROVE THE ITEM, WHATEVER THE MAJORITY IS CAN MAKE THAT MOTION. SO I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER CHING BROUGHT UP A REALLY GOOD POINT THAT AT A FUTURE MEETING, THE QUESTION IS WHETHER A MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION IS APPROPRIATE.

TECHNICALLY, IT IS NOT. A MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION SHOULD BE DONE AT THE MEETING BEFORE THE ACTUAL MEETING IS ADJOURNED THAT EVENING. AND THERE ARE REASONS TO DO THAT. FIRST OF ALL, IT'S ON THE AGENDA. SO FROM A BROWN ACT STANDPOINT, FOLKS THAT DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DIDN'T COME TO SEE THAT ORIGINAL ITEM WOULDN'T HAVE THE BENEFIT OF THAT INFORMATION.

SO THAT'S WHY THE GENERAL RULE UNDER ROBERT'S RULES IS YOU HAVE TO MAKE A MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION CONSIDERATION AT THE SAME MEETING. BUT I JUST WANTED TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, BEFORE YOU MOVE ON TO AN ITEM, YOU CAN ALWAYS CHANGE YOUR VOTE AND SAY, MADAM CITY CLERK, I, I PUT IN ABSTENTION, BUT I ACTUALLY WANT TO VOTE THUS AND SO. AND BEFORE YOU MOVE ON THAT THAT'S ALWAYS A RIGHT A COUNCIL MEMBER HAS. IT'S REALLY ONLY AFTER YOU MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM THAT WE THE ISSUE OF MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION IS RELEVANT. SO FOR CLARITY AND I THINK THIS IS THE WAY IT'S WRITTEN IS IF SOMEONE DOES HAVE A CHANGE OF HEART, THREE, THREE THINGS DOWN AND SAY, HEY, I WANT TO RECONSIDER AND OPEN THAT UP, THEY CAN ONLY DO IT DURING THAT MEETING, CORRECT. AND NOT THE NEXT MEETING AND SAYING, HEY, LAST MONTH I DID THIS RIGHT.

OKAY THEN I HAVE NO FURTHER QUESTIONS. THANKS. ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? OKAY. IS

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ANYONE GOING TO MAKE A MOTION OR. I'M I'M SORRY, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE. DOESN'T HAVE AN ORDINANCE NUMBER. BUT THE ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 2-2. 11 AND 2.2-2 AS WRITTEN. I'LL SECOND THAT. OKAY. AND IF I COULD JUST READ THE TITLE BEFORE THE VOTE. YES, I'M GOING TO MAKE A SUBSTITUTE MOTION. OKAY. SO. I'M NOT OPPOSED TO RECONSIDERING THE WAY WE COUNT ABSTENTIONS, BUT IN HAVING A NUMBER OF RESIDENTS REACH OUT TO ME AND REFLECTING ON THE WAY THAT OUR COUNCILS FUNCTIONED HERE THE PAST FEW YEARS, I DON'T SUPPORT MAKING THIS CHANGE AT THIS TIME.

NOW, WE'VE ALL DISCUSSED THIS ISSUE THOROUGHLY. WE ALL UNDERSTAND WHAT A YES MEANS, WHAT A NO MEANS, WHAT AN ABSTENTION MEANS. SO I DON'T THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE ANY MORE CONFUSION LIKE THERE HAS BEEN IN THE PAST. AND THE REALITY IS THAT THE CITY COUNCIL HERE THE PAST FEW YEARS HAS FUNCTIONED IN A VERY CONTENTIOUS AND PARTIZAN WAY. AND TO ME, THAT'S SORT OF BEEN THE DOWNFALL OF AMERICAN POLITICS THE PAST DECADE OR SO IS JUST IN ANY GOVERNMENT BODY, ELECTED OFFICIALS FROM ONE PARTY BY DEFAULT SEEMING TO OPPOSE ANY IDEA FROM SOMEONE IN THE OTHER PARTY. AND I THINK THAT'S ESPECIALLY TROUBLING AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, WHERE THE ISSUES WE DEAL WITH ARE NOT PARTIZAN, IN MY OPINION, AND I DON'T WANT TO ENABLE THAT SORT OF PARDON AND OBSTINANCE PARTIZAN OBSTINANCE HERE IN CYPRUS. AND LET'S JUST BE REAL ABOUT WHY THIS CHANGE IS BEING CONSIDERED THIS DECADE. THIS RULE HAS BEEN IN PLACE FOR DECADES. MAYOR PRO TEM MEDRANO HAS ABSTAINED FROM SOME VOTES, AND THOSE VOTES HAVEN'T GONE THE WAY SOME PEOPLE WANTED. AND SO THIS IS REALLY, IN MY OPINION, JUST A REACTION TO A ONE TIME SITUATION RATHER THAN A SOLUTION TO A LONGTIME PROBLEM. SINCE NONE OF US, YOU KNOW, HAD AN ISSUE WITH THIS UNTIL VERY RECENTLY. SO I'M GOING TO MAKE A SUBSTITUTE MOTION TO LEAVE THE MUNICIPAL CODE AS IS WITH REGARDS TO HOW ABSTENTIONS ARE COUNTED, IS THERE ANYONE WHO WILL SECOND THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION? ALL RIGHT. SEEING NONE, I GUESS WE GOT THE MAIN MOTION.

WITH THAT, I WILL READ THE TITLE OF THE ORDINANCE INTO THE RECORD. THE CITY COUNCIL IS CONSIDERING THE FOLLOWING ORDINANCE BEING READ BY TITLE ONLY AND WAIVING FURTHER READING. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS TWO, DASH 2.11 AND 2-2. 20 OF THE CYPRESS MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO VOTING PROCEDURES IN CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS GOVERNING ABSTENTIONS AND RECONSIDERATION. THANK YOU MAYOR. THAT MOTION CARRIES WITH FOUR YES VOTES AND ONE NO VOTE BY MAYOR BURKE. ALL RIGHT. THAT BRINGS US TO OUR SECOND ORAL COMMUNICATIONS PERIOD. THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE COUNCIL MEMBER REPORTS AND REMARKS AND ITEMS FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION. WE'RE ON THE HOME STRETCH. I WANT TO SAY ONE THING BEFORE WE GO. SO THIS IS THE STAGE OF THE MEETING WHERE HISTORICALLY, THINGS CAN GET A BIT TESTY. AND INSTEAD OF BEING RESPECTFUL AND FOCUSING ON THE ISSUES, YOU OFTEN HEAR PERSONAL ATTACKS AND ACCUSATIONS. SO I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE TO PLEASE TRY AND AVOID THAT TONIGHT. DESPITE OUR DIFFERENCES, WE'RE ALL HERE BECAUSE WE CARE ABOUT THE CITY OF CYPRESS. BY AND LARGE, IT'S A WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE AND THERE'S REALLY NO REASON FOR INTENSE ANIMOSITY IN THESE CHAMBERS TO TARNISH OUR CITY'S REPUTATION. AND I ALSO WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT EVERYONE HERE HAS AN IMPORTANT LIFE OUTSIDE THESE CHAMBERS. WHERE HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS TO CARE FOR JOBS, FRIENDS, AND I HOPE WE CAN TREAT EACH OTHER IN A WAY THAT IT DOESN'T MAKE IT HARDER FOR ANY OF US TO BE GOOD PARTNERS OR GOOD PARENTS, OR DO OUR JOBS PROFESSIONALLY OUTSIDE OF THESE MEETINGS WHEN IT'S OVER. SO LET'S TRY AND TREAT EACH OTHER

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WITH RESPECT TONIGHT. SECOND, ORAL COMMUNICATIONS. FIRST UP IS DAVID ECK, FOLLOWED BY LINDA STOCK. GOOD EVENING MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU

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