Okay, welcome. Well, welcome back for us to be regular schedules. Council meeting of July 27. May we have a roll call please. Council Member Brooks, Council Member Clark, Council Member Peterson, and Mayor Kizer, and Vice Mayor Brown is absent. Thank you. And would you all join in the Pledge of Leads? Thank you, everybody. And do we have any additions or deletions to the agenda? Staff has no changes to the agenda this evening. Great. And may we please have a report on closed session? The City Council met and reviewed the items listed on the closed session agenda. They gave direction to staff and took no reportable action. Great, thank you. And additional materials this evening. Staff distributed additional materials relating to item 7F. There were updated attachments. Item 8C received two emails. Item 8E received three emails. Item 8F received three emails. All of the additional items for these four different council items were included in the agenda packet online and in the hard copy available at the back of the room and were sent to the City Council in advance at the meeting. Great, thank you. Brings us to oral communications. This is time for members of the public to address the City Council on any consent item on tonight's agenda or any topic within the jurisdiction that is not on our regular agenda. Do we have any members of the public that wish to speak? Seeing none in-house. Is there anybody online? There is nobody with their hand raised, Mayor. Thank you. Any staff comments? I don't think we have any comments this evening. Okay. And any comments from Council? I apologize. I was eyeballing our Chief of Police who might have an announcement. Come on down. And what I'll say as we work this way up, I'm really excited that I just saw a post of this event in English and Spanish for our community members. So thank you. Perfect. How's that? I just want to talk about this coming Tuesday, August 1st is going to be National Night Out at Jade Street Park. We've got a lot of activities. Activities were going to bring some hot dogs and hamburgers and grill those up and great activities. So that is Jade Street Park this Tuesday, August 1st from 5 to 7, Jade Street Park. So thank you. That's it. I'd like to volunteer and help you cook the hot dogs. We'll see you there. Be careful. Eyes. Yeah, I'd like to mention someone and organization out in the community, random acts of capital kindness. This past week, they did a great job of taking care of the Depot Hill and Grand Avenue project that needed something to be done about it. And they stepped up and took care of it with the help of bug works. So good job by all. Yeah, great collaboration. Thank you. Any other comments? All right, that takes us down to consent items. So all of these items listed under consent will be enacted in one motion in the form listed below, unless any council member wishes to pull an item. Anyone move the consent. I would like to make a motion to approve the consent items. Second. Great. First and a second. Maybe we have a roll call please. Council Member Brooks. Council Member Clark. Aye. Council Member Peterson. Aye. Aye. Passes unanimously. We'll bring us to our general government and eight a this evening is the state budget update from Senator John Laird. Welcome. Thank you very much. And it's great to be here. And at one point I was mayor of Santa Cruz and if we had ever had a normal communications that brief, we would have thanked God. Has it never happened? I would like to make a brief update and some of which you know, and then if there are any questions, because I know this is a brief amount of time, but last year. It was the busiest year I had ever had in state government between Dablo Canyon and saving Watsonville Hospital and 20 bills and a climate package and education budget and a whole host of things. And I was so excited this year about being able to decide what I wanted to work on and then Mother Nature arrived. And so in January in a 10 day period, I was at 10. In those 10 days I was at 22 sites in this district that were in essence disaster areas. And I was here with a number of you and the city manager. I was here a few days after the Wharf and the restaurants and saw what you really needed. And I think we didn't think we were going to get much in the budget this year because of sort of the deficit the state shows. And some of us really advocated for our districts. And in my case, it was really trying to get things for storm damage or where there were impacts from the storm. There was a levee that was notched in San Luis Obispo when I got money there to help that we had trouble in the Salinas River with flooding. The Carmel River went into homes and we got money to help plan for that. And in Pajaro we got money to continue to help the people that were evacuated at the fairgrounds. There was West Cliff and the things going on in Santa Cruz, but I think one of the biggest chunks was to the city of Capitola and it was for two things. It was for the Stockton Avenue Bridge, which took a hit but is still structurally okay. And for the Wharf. And I know you need whatever help you could get. And so it's a million dollars between those two things. And just I was pleased to be able to do that in this. And one comment and I want to thank the mayor and the city manager because this weekend we had some Senate staffers here and we met with them and went through a state of what is happening post storm. And I sort of talked about the fact that you have some tough decisions here to make and and one of them is is that I had the misfortune. The mayor had the misfortune of getting elected becoming mayor and having one of the biggest disasters in modern capital history while she was just minding her own business and trying to do the job. And I was on the Santa Cruz City Council for six weeks when we had the hundred year storm. And that was the one where 75 foot Redwood trees came down the river and battered down the Soquel Avenue Bridge. And so the city over 10 years and the city manager gets as much credit as the council members of the mayor at the time. We did all four bridges in Santa Cruz we arched them. And so in this storm that was really resilient. Nothing was going to happen. And yet who didn't count trans and so the highway one bridge which is the first one on the San Lorenzo River when you hit town in the first two atmospheric rivers. It was closed for two days while they had a crane remove all the debris and then they couldn't keep up with it and it flooded back into places there. And I know you had trouble with stock and the Soquel in Central Soquel Bridge really went back and the mobile home park was mudded out and water was into businesses. And it's a really difficult thing because those bridges that are really flat or aren't arched are not necessarily climate resilient for these storms. And I think the reason you're in a tough position is everybody in this town loves that bridge and they love it as a historic icon and they love it the way it is. But over time it's going to be a problem and you're going to have a tough decision about what to do because it's going to be that iconic status versus the safety of it flooding back and catching things in atmospheric rivers that we may have more frequently. And so the state budget is such that the highway money. You would have to compete if you want to fix for example the Caltrans bridge in Santa Cruz you would have to compete against the highway widening or a road upgrade or other things in the current budget configuration. So this year as a result of the storms Caltrans has separated out a billion dollars. That will be for resiliency of infrastructure and a hearing I said that's really good. I appreciate that step but we could use it all in my Senate district and there's 40 Senate districts and so appreciate the start but there is really a need for it. And I think that's the thing we're going to want to work with over time and I got a very good explanation from your city manager about the wharf and what needs to be done. And I think over time I'll be happy to work with state agencies if there's future things with the state budget. Although if we keep having budget years like this one we'll have to figure it out somehow. And yet it was a pleasure to be able in a tough budget year to be able to help you. And I think we're going to now just have to work going forward to make sure that that we can do it on a broader basis and make sure that that you actually got enough that you needed. And I know Jimmy Panetta's been really helpful and Donna Addison's been involved and that's been good. So just wanted to report on that and it's nice in a tough budget time to actually have some good news. And if there's any brief time I would be happy to answer any questions that you might have. And I appreciate the capitol hat. I wasn't going to wear it right now but I'm glad to have it. Yeah, are there any questions? There is a gift for you, Senator. Okay, so we will go to item 8b Children and Youth Bill of Rights. The recommended action tonight is to adopt a resolution adopting the City of Capitola Children and Youth Bill of Rights. Good evening Honorable Mayor and City Council members. This evening staff has brought for your consideration the City of Capitola Children and Youth Bill of Rights. As a reminder during the budget goal-setting workshop in May, the City Council directed staff to prepare a Children and Youth Bill of Rights. Staff researched and modeled this bill from similar initiatives from local jurisdictions and elsewhere around the state. Adoption of this resolution and bill will signal the City of Capitola's commitment to ensuring that the needs of our youth are always a top priority. For additional context, Capitola does currently offer several youth programs including programs like Camp Capitola, the Junior Guards, and several after-school programs. The City also partners with the Youth Action Network in Santa Cruz County and provides around $60,000 in grant funding via the early childhood and youth community grant programs. Children and youth are often one of the most vulnerable groups in our community. Research shows that California ranks poorly and sometimes among the worst in the nation in categories like economic, educational, health, and overall well-being. In Santa Cruz County, 27% of children are food insecure and 47% are eligible for free and reduced lunch programs. 43% of teens report using alcohol or drugs and almost one-third of our kids have experienced depression. These issues are sobering from an emotional perspective and they're costly too. In 2019, the country spent $408 billion on children's issues, which was almost 10% of the budget. And while the federal budget expands, youth supporting programs can be the first to fall behind. Over the next decade, all categories of youth spending, except health, are expected to decline relative to GDP. So staff recommends adoption of this bill of rights to formalize our commitment to the children in our community now and years into the future. So with that, staff recommends the City Council adopt a resolution adopting the City of Capitola Children and Youth Bill of Rights. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any questions? Okay. Any public comment on this item? Anything online? We don't currently have any speakers with their hands raised, Mayor. Can go back to council deliberation or a motion. So I am really excited about seeing this come forward today. This is an extension of a countywide effort for every city and the County of Santa Cruz to adopt the Children's Bill of Rights. I'm going to begin with the City of Santa Cruz and the County followed into and here we are with our City of Capitola being presented with it today. This is also part of the initiative of the Children's Network where Council Member Clark is my co-chair or my alternate on and the Children's Network is a group of electives and community members coming together to identify the needs of our youth in the community. And with that work came together 10 initiatives, 10 Youth Bill of Rights that we can focus on. So some of the work I've done, I actually had a meeting this afternoon right before here, was to prioritize and identify how we wanted to move forward with this. Because it's one thing for it to be on paper and then it's another thing for it to actually be meaningful for our youth in our community. So I'm happy to make a motion to adopt the Bill of Rights with the addition of adding a $2,000 stipend for students who participate as our liaisons. So Council Member Brown who is in here this evening, when she first came on board she asked or we adopted that there would be youth representatives for all of our commissions. And it really hasn't really set off too well and we're trying through the Children's Network to come up with creative ways to incentivize more youth participation. And so I'd like to invest some of our dollars. So I'd like to make a motion to just add in a $2,000 stipend for any youth participation and more to come on the Children's Network of what that would look like. And I'm looking over at Tamara who's our attorney today who's might be whispering whether I can even in fact make this motion because she's whispering pretty quickly here. We'd need to do a little bit of research to ensure that the way that we roll that out is legal, but we can come back to it. Yeah, legal. But we can come back to the Council with a proposal to make that happen. Okay, so then my motion I'll withdraw that motion and make a motion that we adopt tonight's item with the with staff coming back with some sort of financial investment or incentive for more youth participants. And I'd second that motion. Great. We have a first and a second. Maybe we have a roll call please. Council Member Brooks. Council Member Clark. Aye. Council Member Peterson. Aye. And Mayor Keiser. Aye. Thank you. Passes unanimously. Take us to item 8C. Tonight we're talking about the Jade Street Park Universal Playground Project. The recommended action tonight is to approve the final concept design for the Jade Street Park universally accessible playground project. We have Director Khan presenting. Good evening Mayor Council members. We are pleased this evening to bring you the final conceptual design for the universally accessible playground at Jade Street Park. Next slide please. Just a very brief background since we have talked about this several times but this playground is to replace an existing playground constructed 1999 and somewhat revised in 2007 with an inclusive play area. On the consent calendar tonight you all approved an MOU with the Friends of County Parks or a fundraising campaign for this project. On February we executed an agreement with Verde Design to do the community outreach efforts and the conceptual design of this project which was presented to you all in June. You gave us some feedback and we are back this evening with our final design for this project. So with that I'm going to toss it over to Todd Young of Verde Design to go over the elements of this final concept plan. I'm Todd Young with Verde and we're going to walk through some of the changes and amendments that we made to the plans since our last meeting in June. So we'll talk a little bit about the project and the process that we went through to get here and also the concept plans and then we have an enhancement plan as well. So the universal design is about accessibility making more opportunities for the larger community within the park and also allowing for different levels of opportunities within the park. So we did our outreach where we listened to the community. We started with a listening exercises where we gathered information as to what the park should be and what the community felt like was appropriate for the spaces. Then we gave several options. We used surveys, pop ups and community meetings. We came together with two different alternatives. We got feedback from the community on that and presented to the council in June a preferred alternative and now today we're going to go with a draft final alternative. So here we are with concept plan. In here you can see we've simplified the entrance. We're maintaining the existing access points. We are still creating an entry plaza. That entry plaza that leads to the main access way for the playground where we split the spaces in the 5 to 12 on one side and the 2 to 5 play area on the other. And then it ends in a note where we have another gathering space and then connected to the other access points around it. We've circled the play areas with a nice group of trees. We're trying to get some shade into the play area and also create that edges and confinement so that the user group can really feel like they're in an enclosed space with a sense of place. This is not a very big difference from the other one.  We reduce a little bit of the square footage of the play area itself. We consolidated and simplified some of the play equipment on this space, but we try to keep to the true nature that we proposed at the previous meeting. In this, we've got a large swing operation on the 5 to 12. We've also got spinners, rockers. We've got a composite play structure in the 5 to 12 area and then a ship structure in the 2 to 5 area. We've got a slide mound where kids can roll up with a wheelchair or walk up the hill and then slide back down, so we've got an elevated area for the 2 to 5 play area. We also have maintained some of the sensory things such as the music notes. We've also preserved the sensory garden aspect of it, so you've got that as a feature of the park at this stage. And then let me go to the next slide. We'll go into some of the details. So here's the arrival where we keep the entry. We have a monument sign. We have a picnic table there. And we also have some seating, so we have created that little entry node or arrival space. Then we maintain an iconic structure which is all accessible with ramps to all the different decks and slides. And that's for the 5 to 12 play area. There's an image of what it might look like when we have this lighthouse style structure.  There'll be a swing set with three different types of seating in it, belt swings, toddler swings and also the support straddle. We've got the rocker element which accommodates several children at the same time in different mobilities, so you can stand on it or sit in it. We've got the roll on, zero edge, inclusive whirl, and also another spinning element where all kids can use it in different fashions. And without being able to differentiate what each ability is of each student or child, they get to play on the features evenly. And then the 2 to 5 has this strong concept of the ship where it's all ground activated so everyone can use it without limitations as far as their abilities, whether they're wheeling or with walkers or total able bodied. Other features of the 2 to 5 are the cozy dome. We've got spring riders and then we've got that slide mound that I mentioned before where you've got multiple opportunities to be able to climb up it with either hand grips or holds or a gentle slope, but you can also slide down it with two slides. Here's an image of the different types of components, the spring rider, the cozy dome, the different slides, and also there's a countertop in there as well and a children's style and size. The music has been preserved. We have a sort of like a marimba kind of a piece of equipment and also percussion. And in that area in the South Plaza we preserved a game table and also a family table. And then this brings us to the enhancement. So that is our base project, which fulfills all the needs for an accessible community. But if we wanted to use the same footprint and put a little bit more emphasis in it, if fundraising is available, I've highlighted the different items here and I'll go through those different elements. But it's using the same footprint. We've just rearranged and economized some of the spaces in between a little bit better. So we've got the top swing, a cyclone spinner, a revue rock bouncer, another spinner, a roller slide for the two to five area, kinder bells for the music, and a five to 12th spinner as well added to it. As well as a group area that you can see in the South Plaza, there's a group picnic area, which we had made into a landscape area in the more economical version. Banner poles are things that capture the wind, so you can see that, feel it. It's great with sensory, so we had one in the base, but we have three in the enhanced version and also additional game tables. Here's that equipment. So with the enhanced plan we have one more toddler slide or swing, I'm sorry, but we still have three bays, so it accommodates it in both plans. Other equipment is the cyclone spinner, which is a good feature. It creates a lot of energy and excitement on the playground. The bouncer, which is in the two to five play area, the kid force spinner, which is also in the two to five play area. Then we would add a roller slide to the two to five and take out one of those straight slides. And in the music zone, we would add the kinder bells. And for the five to 12, we'd add the twist spinner. And all the plans will maintain the communication board. Those are the banner poles. These are the sensory items and also those musical items. The pollinator garden will remain in all of these versions with also the exterior walkway around the playground area so that the rest of the community can enjoy a walk and engage with nature as well. And the materials would remain to be concrete for all the hardscapes and the resilient rubber surfacing for the play areas. And we would have a fence that encloses the entire play area for the children and the parents and caregivers to secure the space. Materials for the basic plan would repurpose the existing benches. The new tables would be new. And for seating elements, they could either be made out of concrete or stone. And that's it. I'll take questions. Thank you. Yeah, I just had a quick question about the last slide. Is that showing all of the seating that is going to be available? Or is this showing like possibilities of seating? We have this version. We have the tables, picnic tables. We have the game tables. Those are all the plans. The only difference would be the benches themselves if we repurpose the old benches or if we provide new one with the enhanced plan. And what about like the rocks and concrete structures? Are those included in the basic plan? We have one seat pad, whether it be concrete or rock. It's still flexible at the conceptual level, but we do have one of them in the base plan. Okay. And the advanced plan? Enhanced. Is that going to include more seating? Yes, it includes more. The group picnic area is the biggest change between the two because there's no group picnic area. In the base plan, we have three picnic tables that are scattered around the site. One in the front where you enter. One at the seating node by the 5 to 12 and one at the south plaza. But if we do the enhanced plan and get the funding for it, we can do a group picnic area that would be a group of picnic tables in addition to the others. Thank you. So much. Can you tell me about the interactions you had with other experts around the, I think the last time you presented, I suggested talking to like county parks friends and some of the partners that we have just going to know more about the play structures better than I do and the design. Did you have any conversation with them about the items that you presented? We did have feedback from them and those were included in here. One of them was that previously we had the play structure. Some of the area was accessible and one of the platforms wasn't. We removed that. There was some other climbing features that were highly prized by the community, but in balancing out the needs of the universally accessible, we interchanged it with other options. And that's where the cyclone spinner comes in as well as an option because it is all inclusive where before we had a climbing kind of wall, which was more limiting. So some, some children would not have the ability to use that. So they were part of the, the input that we received and it was related in this.  You said you did include that. Yes, communication board is part of the project base or enhanced. There were a few more slides. I'm so sorry. No, it's quite all right. Great time to ask questions. I don't think we have any more questions. If you want to get back to what you were doing, that's quite all right. So the last fun part is the cost estimate for this project. So the last time we brought this project to council, we went over the current allocations that we have for this project. The last fiscal year, this fiscal year and what we expect from the fundraising campaign. In addition to some of the feedback that we received from council, another piece of feedback was to design a project within the allocation that we had. So we did reduce the footprint of the project. And we still have a total estimated cost above our current allocation and balancing the requests from council and to get a functional playground. This is a lot of the cost. I would say about 50% of the cost of the project is in the site work. So that's the way you get the bulk of your reduction is reducing the scope of the size of the playground. And so we did do that to get closer to what we have budgeted for this project. But to reduce it anymore would make it very difficult to expand in the future to have our base and enhance plan. So let's make it too tight to put in any more structures in the future if we were to have more fundraising. So that is how we come up with our shortfall of $345,000. Next slide please. So the anticipated schedule of this project, assuming that the final design is approved this evening, we would start fundraising with the county park friends that's expected to be 12 to 18 months in duration. And at the end of that we want to have a bid ready project. So when we've reached about 75% of the fundraising goal, we would come back to council for an amendment to our contract was very designed to do the plan specifications and estimate for a constructible project in hopes of starting construction in spring of 2025. So along the way, we would give you future council updates regarding fundraising efforts, including seeking funding for that $345,000 funding gap, depending on how fundraising is going. And then the amendment that I mentioned to the Verdi contract and the recommendation this evening is to approve the final conceptual design and both Todd and I are available for questions. Thank you. That was me. Do we have any other follow up questions? Go ahead. I'm just curious, do we need to approve either the basic or the enhanced design at this time or is that a decision we can make a later date? That would be a decision for a later date depending on fundraising. The goal would be to get to the base plan and we get a huge funder or you want to allocate more money to the project then we can make the decision at when you're doing the final design. And what is the deadline for making that decision, I guess, approximately? Because depending on how successful and how quick the fundraising takes place. Okay. Got it. Thank you. Great. Thanks. Any public comment on this item? Anybody here? Hi. Hi. Great. Thank you. Well, thank you, Council and staff for your vision and putting this project together and making sure that it moves forward. Dan Haley and a volunteer at the county park friends and we're going to begin the fundraising campaign tomorrow. And if you happen to be around today, there was a wonderful presentation on off the lip radio with council member Brooks and Tricia Wiltshire who's the campaign manager. I think we'll be able to do that on Santa Cruz waves. So if you go to that web page or if you go to that Facebook page and see it there play and then tomorrow we'll start fundraising an artist. I think with the nature of the conversations we've had with the owner so far. We will be able to achieve the $1 million goal. He'll probably won't get as many large gifts as we had anticipated originally, but there'll be a strong grassroots campaign for smaller and medium sized gifts. So I think we'll have some success there. So the website. If you are interested in giving is county park friends.org and then let's forward slash Jade Street Park and that's not street spelled out its ST Jade Street Park. And if you have any questions, feel free to contact me and we'll be back to you with periodic updates as we move forward. So thank you. Great. Thank you. Hi. Thank you for having us tonight. My name is Lisa Harvey during and I am a community member here. I'm also part of the capital, the Aptos rotary, and so I'll be helping with some of the fundraising for this project. This project is really important to me. My daughter Kayla was born with a pretty severe civility at birth in 2005. She was diagnosed right at birth with a form of muscular dystrophy called myotone dystrophy. We moved together to capital as she started kindergarten for better opportunities for inclusive environment rate programs here. And so we left right here up on Canmar. And, you know, we really enjoyed it. Kayla loved this area. She was a student at Soquel Elementary where at that point I kind of fought for her because I really felt like the classroom she was in was not a great setting. And so she moved her to a fully inclusive setting and then she went and attended New Brighton Middle School. She really loved that too. She became a part of that community. The kids all got to know her, got to understand what it's like to have differences. And, you know, they really, they accepted her as one of their peers. They may have always understood what was going on with her, you know, her physical limitations, but she really became a part of that classroom and she just loved school. So this universally accessible project is so important for kids like Kayla for typically developing, you know, peers. It's so important for everybody to have one place to play. I've been to so many playgrounds with Kayla where she used to walk her or wheelchair, or sometimes could walk a little bit, but, you know, they're full of bark and things that were just completely impossible for her to navigate. And it broke my heart as a mom. So Kayla passed away at the end of eighth grade. And tomorrow would be her 18th birthday. So I just want to say, sorry, I'm really grateful for all of you for looking at this project and how important it is for this community. I think it's long overdue for capital to have a park that includes all of us, including elderly and, you know, it's not just for the kids. So thank you so much. And really appreciate your time. Thank you for your story. I appreciate it. Are there any members in the public seeing nobody else? Is there anybody online? There are no members at their hands raised. Great. Thank you. We can come back to council for any further deliberation. This is, this is exciting. You know, this is good stuff that we're doing here today. Just to recap on our consent agenda, this that to begin this agenda on our consent agenda. We actually approved the fundraising partnership with county parks and friends, which was the first step to moving this forward. And so I'm thrilled that we have them as a partner because of the work and their dedication. Not just to this project, but to Leo Taven. This park is not just for our youth, our community members. This is for the entire county and, and all of the surrounding areas. So there's, there's not many. This would be number two. And I'm kind of looking over at this is number two in the entire county that word. This is the for us. So it's, it's, it's pretty significant. I love the conceptual design. I think as we fundraise more than a million dollars and I'm looking at all of our partners here today who will go online and fun and donate tomorrow when it goes live. Please do. We need this. Capital needs this our county needs this. So I would like to make a motion to direct staff to prepare a final concept plan for consideration for tonight. I'm reading the wrong one because I'm too excited about this approve the final conceptual design for the Jade Street Park universally accessible playground project. I'll second though. Great. We have a first and a second. I just want to say thank you for everybody that has put work into this project. As you can see, it's very important and I'm excited to see what fundraising efforts we can get. I want to echo what Council woman Brooks said about fundraising anybody that's out there we welcome it. This is our time to become more inclusionary and really spearhead these movements that hopefully will ripple out into other communities. So with that, maybe please have a roll call. Council member books. Council member Clark. Hi Council member Peterson and Mayor Kaiser. Hi. That passes unanimously. Thank you so much. So we'll drop down to eight D we're on the community center renovation project. This is our budget update. So tonight the recommended action is to receive the update on the external funding sources for the community center renovation project and authorize the amendment and to the professional services agreement with Boone low. Ratliff architects in the amount of 374,000 for final design documents bidding support and construction administration community center renovation project. And we're back. Good evening again. We're back early with update on the community center reservation renovation project next slide please. So just as a brief reminder, the community center is under a long term new agreement with the so called union school district. As part of that updated agreement, there are infrastructures improvements that are to be completed within four years. So we're back in November 2026 and those are the improvements on the top half year screen. And then the ancillary improvements on the bottom off of the screen or improvements that the city and 10 is to complete as well that we're a part of that agreement. Next slide please. So at the last council meeting with Boone, Boone low Ratliff architects we presented the proposed plans. All of the in ancillary and infrastructure improvements, including the sound dividers between the walls and general upgrades to the office staff and then the a single user restroom and upgrade to the kitchen. Next slide please. Also included were improvements to the exterior of the community center new paint new sighting new roof. Next slide please. Also included were some upgraded outdoor spaces which are not part of the use agreement but somewhat critical to the continued use of this as a updated community space. Next slide please. So with that we also received a cost estimate as discussed it was quite a bit over what the total projected costs were for this project. We also received a cost estimate for the project and to return to council in September with additional information. So it is July. Next slide please. We received a million dollars in the state budget for this project through the natural. So we received a million dollars in the state budget for this project through the natural. So we received a million dollars in the state budget for this project. So we received a million dollars in the state budget for this project through the natural resources agency. So while that doesn't close the gap of the full budget for this project, it does significantly impacted. Also staff has looked into other external funding sources specifically the community development block grant and then the statewide parks revitalization program or prop 68. Prior to this meeting but after publishing of the packet that neither of these programs are going to have a call to project this year, which is very unfortunate. Both of those projects though do look like they will have calls to projects in 2024 and generally grants like that you need a shovel ready project so something that is fully designed and ready to be dead. And next slide please. So with that we've been talking to our project architect and have divided this project into phases. So phase a being those improvements that are required by the long term use agreement to be completed within the four years and phase B to be those ancillary improvements. There are a few improvements in phase a that are ancillary improvements but that are so affected by the infrastructure improvements that doesn't really make sense to do them in phase B. Next slide please. So here is our budget for fun different funding scenarios so currently we have enough budget with the million dollars from the state budget to complete phase a so all of those required infrastructure improvements. Phase A and B has a funding gap of about $2.7 million. The final design cost there the $374,000 is the amendment that you are considering this evening. This is a bit more than anticipated at the onsite of this project for several reasons. One is the phasing of this project. Another reason to do is the scope of this project has increased because of additional improvements that need to be done. And then also this project now requires the approval of the division of state architect which is typically just for school sites. But since we're getting money from state parks it's also required for all state parks project so it's another round of review that wasn't anticipated for this project. Next slide please. So with that the recommended direction or action is to authorize the amendment for the professional service agreement with the low rat lift architects and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Any questions? Council. Jessica do you need Council's direction to still seek additional funding sources for any other shovel ready project like the CDBG grant funding and like for us to move forward to still try to access those funds in addition to this project. Staff still intends on it when they have the call to projects to do those. I will say that this project ideally is constructed in the fall. So that would push us into another into another year. So that would give us a whole year to continue to seek funds just because fall there's less activity at the community center. And then my second question in regards to the design with low rat lift architects. Are they is this going to come back for us to look at more design elements to kind of coincide with the park because they're doing some sort of will it be matchy. So the outdoor spaces would be revised on the side that is facing the park to make sure that those do go together. So yes we would bring that back to council for all of the outdoor. Yes with the final design. Any other questions? We can go to public comments on this item. Anybody in house. There are no speakers with their hands raised. Okay, we can bring this back to council. Any further comments or deliberation. I guess all I would point out is that we're going to have a challenge here for us. You know, unfortunately we found out this week that CDBG was not going to open up this year. We've been hopeful that we could put in a major ask in CDBG to try to fund close this gap. So the good news is that we're, you know, we have a phase a that's really close to budget at this stage and would get us what we need to get done in the lease. But we're going to have to all kind of keep our thinking gaps on and look for the funds under every rock that we can try to figure out how to get to that fully funded project because it's an important facility. And I think at the end of the day just doing the bare bones to it wouldn't be very much the community would feel like all of the stuff that the community would feel is in those that later phase. And so I think, you know, it's going to be a challenge, but I think we can do it. It's just going to have to be some tough decisions and, you know, you have to keep our eye out for those grants. And is there any, there's no like fundraising opportunities or like that without require, obviously, a group to start that. It might, it might, and there might be some without a group potentially. You know, that is that is a rock that I'm looking under as well. You know, at this point we do have two major campaigns going in this community so initiating a third major campaign against doing that at this stage. But you know, there may be an individual donor out there who's interested in kind of being a benefactor for the city and getting their name on the community center. So there's certainly opportunities that we're exploring. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. I'm just thinking about our partnership with Soquel. Does this coincide with the timeline that we initiate or initially agreed upon with the school district for completion? So at this time, we still have a really good buffer before that four years is up that we were supposed to have the infrastructure. There will come a point that we will need to start the project to meet that but we are not close to that. And then because of the additional funding coming in for a war for the playground and even for this particular project at mid-year budget, will you be presenting to us and I'm just being facetious here really. But I'm guessing you'll bring this back to council for mid-year budget so we can decide how to allocate any dollars we have or need to move around. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly right. We're going to be talking about the war for shortly. The war, if I think by the time we get to the mid-year project, will be a well-enough-developed project that will know how much of the contingency might be left to that. On that, we give us the opportunity to look at potentially reallocating. Would you like to make a motion? I'll move to authorize amendment one to the professional services agreement with Boone Low, Radcliffe Architects, and the amount of $374,000 for final design documents building, bidding support, and construction and administration for the community center renovation project. All right. I'll second it. Great. First and a second. And may we have a roll call, please? Council Member Brooks. Hi. Council Member Clark. Hi. Council Member Peterson. Hi. And Mayor Keiser. Hi. Thank you. Passes unanimously. We will go to item 8e. This is our much anticipated Capitola Wharf enhancement project preliminary conceptual design item. The recommended action is to direct staff to prepare a final concept of that design for the consideration of the city council at the August 24th meeting for the Capitola Wharf enhancement project. So known as C-Web. And you get to still be here. Yes. Good evening again. This is a progress report on this project. As you mentioned at the next meeting, we'll be bringing a preliminary cost estimate and incorporating any feedback you may receive from the council tonight. These plans that were in your packet and also included in this presentation are public. They were displayed at the Wharf to Wharf this last Sunday at the volunteer group's booth in the Esplanade. And with that slide. Thank you. So the Capitola Wharf enhancement project is a group of community members. It is enhancements to our current resiliency project that is fully budgeted and has a contract signed and is getting ready to get started in the next month or so. It is for new and upgraded amenities to the Capitola Wharf and they had set an initial fundraising goal of $250,000. And may this city would under contract with our design group to do a preliminary concept plan and some public outreach for this project. And in June 2023 council approved an agreement with the Wharf to Wharf race to be the administrator of the donations for this project. So on June 7th 2023 a community being was held at New Brighton Middle School. It was very well attended. There was approximately about 50 people. There's also a survey put out by the C-Web community group that received hundreds of responses, which is really very impressive for this type of project. Through a small group brainstorming exercise feedback was gotten back from the community. The overall was that people really liked the feel and theme of the Wharf as it is. That there's opportunity for more color and they really don't like anything that reads so-called at all. Next slide please. What was that last one? Southern California. Okay. That's a very strong preference for not Southern California. So this is the concept board that came out of this community meeting. In the next slides I will have some zoomed in images of this that I will describe to you. So this is our current entranceway. We have our iconic capital Wharf. But then we also have a bunch of stuff in front of the Wharf from different councils, different times the Wharf's been renovated, different funders, recreational signage, warning signage. And so this is really an opportunity to clean this area up. Next slide please. So with that, that number one and number 11 are this cleanup. It's to consolidate all the required signage onto a board and then to refurbish the capitol archway with something that is still like the iconic arch but a little more artful. Other improvements to the entranceway include pavers to kind of give an entrance and then a medallion on the pavers, which is a public art opportunity. And then also in this picture you can see the little fish and so these are tiny little fish that are throughout the wharf that leads you to some of the educational panels and other items on the wharf. All of those are also public art opportunities where we can contract with a local artist to really get the final design of those elements. Next slide please. So this is also a rendering of this so you can see how the arch is still there looks very much like the iconic arch but kind of has piling underneath to bring more color. So very lovely. Next slide please. Other general amenities would be updated lighting and seating. No intense intensity of use increase there just kind of like for like swap just nicer looking amenities opportunities for educational signage for things like binoculars and then also places for art specifically are for those who have donated to this effort. Next slide please. Also then at the end of the wharf there is an opportunity for shade there is no shade at the wharf right now. So strange structure people tend to hang out at the end of the wharf so that was it was envisioned there and then also an updated fish cleaning station. Something that is outside the scope of probably this fundraising effort but something that had a really strong preference and all the feedback received received from community was the ability to have a shower at the head of the wharf for beachgoers that are more that area of the beach over there by Hooper's Beach to be able to rinse off and go on to the wharf or go on into their day into the Esplanade. So this is in the concept plan but not really anticipated to be executed with this fundraising campaign. Next slide please. And then one add on that staff had to this concept plan was to do something about the entrance to the wharf so right now it kind of looks like a private driveway. This is not the most updated picture there are some trees there that are now gone that will be replanted with this vision. But there's definitely opportunities here for enhancements to tie it into the overall look of the wharf perhaps columns that look the same as the arch columns or some kind of monument sign that really show here's our wharf. This is the vibe turn here. Next slide please. So with that, the recommendations have staff prepare a final concept plan for consideration by council in August 24, we would come back with a cost estimate. And I believe there are also members of the C web team here as well may have a comment and I'm happy to answer anything or any questions on this one. Great. We can start with council questions. A comment. It's helpful. I was a little bit confused with the picture that shows the area between the bathroom and the street. It's in green. Can you go back a few slides more anything. Right. One before we get right there, bottom, bottom left hand corner. Is that to grade or is that down at beach level. In other words, that little air with public art display is. So this is a conceptual design, not an engineer design so that would have to be determined. I'm likely not, it would probably not be to grade because it would wash out with heavy storms, but that is not some this is a concept so it is not been designed. So just nice picture. Yes. Thank you. Any other public comments. Good evening. Jerry Johnson with the C web of fundraising group. I just wanted to just publicly thank Jamie and Jessica and Chloe who have been actively involved in the whole process of pulling this together and working with our and it's been great. I'd also like to publicly thank Warf to Warf especially Scott McComble, who is an instrumental in working with us with the Warf to Warf last weekend and ongoing their commitment to helping us do fundraising. And so that was really it but just wanted to again thanks staff for all their help. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anybody else that wishes to speak or anybody online. Good evening. I'm skip Allen, a professional mariner and Taylor. I'm a little confused about what enhanced on lighting a means, and I am strongly opposed to increase a lighting on the warf. It will hinder a night vision. It will confuse bird on my duration. And I do not see the purpose of increased lighting. But if it's light or light, I would remind that there is currently pictures out there that have been in place for a long time, and they do provide the necessary safety. What I'm asking is that as the proposal of moves forward that the city council and public works keep in mind the capital codes, which speak to outdoor, a lighting, and the preservation. Of night skies on the warf, and there shall not be glare on the beach from the warf. So I'm all for updating the fixtures, but I really am opposed to increased or colored lighting or blinking lighting or anything that is going to possibly have unintended. Effects on birds and other sea life. When up being watched on the warf. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else in house, or anybody online. There are no speakers with their hands raised. Great. I can bring this back to council. Any other comments? First, can we have the address or see address the enhancement, the definition of enhancement. In regards to the lighting. So it was to replace the fixtures. So and I definitely would keep in mind the type of bulb that's in there because I'm sure it won't be the same type of bulb that is in the current fixture for that to not have any intensity of use but yes by enhanced we mean enhanced fixture not more. And we will remain up to code and the other response that I might offer to one of the comments issued about the shower is that while the final elevation of the shower. If we're even going to do it hasn't been identified. You know, I would just remind everybody that, you know, the definitions, for example, are many feet below the elevation of the warf. So there's a fair amount of elevation there that could be. We could experiment with if we were examining that opportunity. So my additional comments is first. Thank you. Thank you so much for putting this group together. It definitely is. It helps all of us to in the design element. One of the things I shared with council at our last meeting is that I was working with the Noah's Monterey Bay National brain sanctuary foundation sanctuary. A staff on looking for potential funds to support the educational component of your the conceptual design design presented today. What I'd like to see it and as an add on to this project is a kiosk where some of those educational design components could be added. Where I think I'm obviously I don't have the map of them of the warf and the are. RPM. That's the name. Our rm rpms or cars, isn't it. Could help us with maybe some design or some design elements. I know that even some kiosk can act as storage. And that could maybe benefit us and our staff. I think it's a really good idea to be built in and if see what is inclined to working with the Noah folks, I can also help connect the two of you. They they've offered funding and supporting the signage of part of this as part of this project. Great. I'd like to add to the comment. There are people that are still coming to me today that are interested in wanting to do things for the warf. Just continue before we get to the final final keeping our open minds and see what we can bring working with C web in the city. There's several people out there that I don't think have been heard yet. So we can continue moving forward and with all these great ideas. Keep that in mind. Yeah, I just I want to say I'm excited about this project. I think we like sort of that. The little fish scavenger hunt. I think that's a great idea. The binoculars for sure. And yeah, any, any public art, any local artists that we can get involved, I think would really also enhance this project. All right, so we have a motion on the table. I would like to direct staff to prepare a final concept plan for the capital or warf enhancement project, including a kiosk location and design created by RMM. Just confused about the kiosk part of it. Yeah, so right now in the design that was presented there isn't a kiosk. And so I would like RMM to include it include one. Because there are several ideas that like I said, people are still coming to us now that we probably need to incorporate. But yeah, as we move forward, if we just keep our minds open and hopefully we get the funding and get a lot of good things. And on that, I'd like to second the motion. As a point of clarification, are you amending Councilmember Brooks's motion? Oh, I was just adding to it. So you are. No, I was just adding my comment to it. I'm sorry. Okay, great. So the motion is to. The only addition here is the kiosk. Right. Okay, great. Motion in a second we can have a roll call. Councilmember Brooks. Councilmember Clark. Councilmember Peterson and Mayor Kaiser. I passes unanimously. Thank you everybody. That will take us to eight F the capital road pavement rehabilitation project. So our recommended action tonight is to approve the plan specifications and construction budget of. Yes, I'm reading the right one. 1.7 for the capital road pavement rehabilitation program adopt a resolution amending the budget. And authorize the department of public works to advertise for construction bins. I'll hand it back over to Ms. Conn. Last one. Good evening. Next slide please. So the capital road pavement rehabilitation project goes from the city limits at 30th Avenue to 40 through the 41st Avenue intersection. As you know, capital road is a principal arterial roadway in the city with poor pavement condition. The P and P that the council approved in 2022 and the fiscal year 2324 budget includes the real habilitation of the section of roadway in 2023. Staff has received or the city has received a grant of $227,000 from the RTC. And this money is specifically to rehabilitate the 41st capital road intersection. Next slide please. So there are several improvements included in this project, the major one being the pavement improvement. This is significantly more than anticipated when this project was budgeted. We anticipated a two inch millon fill and it's a four inch millon fill. So that is grinding double the amount of pavement off of the street and putting double the amount of asphalt back into the street. So that increases the cost quite a bit. The road is in pretty poor shape and it is an arterial roadway. So we want it to last for at least 15 to 20 years after these improvements. Next slide please. Other improvements include pedestrian improvements using thermal plastic striping for all crossings, thermal plastic glass a lot longer than paint for striping and then updating a lot of the ADA curb ramps. These are not included in this particular bid package for approval this evening. Our upgrades to some of the push buttons, particularly at the Claire's and 41st intersections and a tree removal near the Claire's intersections. This contract is for the roadway. Those other elements of the project will be completed but under different electrical and tree removal contracts. Next slide please. And then bicycle improvements. So this is looking at 30th Avenue. The striping is very bare there right now just worn over the years. So it would include green thermal plastic striping to show the transition of the bike lane to go through that intersection then also white striping just to get people into the turn lanes. Next slide. The major improvement to bicycle bicycle issues will be at the 41st Avenue intersection. So to that end a striping alternatives analysis for the improvement of the function and safety of that intersection for bicycles and vehicles was completed by Kim Lee Horn over the past few months. There really are limited options to improving this due to the intersection geometry and just the real estate we have at the 41st and Capitol Road intersection and many of the alternatives resulted in it. More congestion or decreased level of service or really no improvement to bicycle safety. So we took all of those alternatives to the RTC bicycle advisory committee who is a really we are required to go to because of the funding but also just a really great group of bicycle users to help us identify a preferred alternative. Next slide please. So the two real improvements that we could make to this intersection for bicyclists are cross bike intersections and bike boxes are probably more familiar with bike boxes there's a few of those around the county. The issue with bike boxes is that really you have to restrict right turns on red. As you can see from the example there on the right like if someone you can't really turn right there without potentially hitting the bicyclists so there's no right turn on red, which increases congestion in the intersection. The other design alternative across bike intersections which really show motorists and bicycles where bicycles will be going through intersections but then that really doesn't provide any benefit to a bicycle is turning left. So both have pluses and minuses and next slide. So what we turned up with was kind of a hybrid of both. So this slide there is a blow up on the next slide is just to kind of get you oriented via top right corner there is the Whole Foods parking lot and so up and down is 41st and left right is a Capitola Road. Next slide. So zooming in we have our cross bike markings and then going on Capitola Road east and west have our bicycle improvements with the bike boxes. So going eastbound towards like our community center or sorry westbound towards the community center. There is enough room there to separate out the lanes so right now there are three lanes there is a left a left through and a right through. This would separate out that right through to a through lane and our right lane. So you're able to have the bike box and then a right lane that doesn't need a no right on red because it is a dedicated right turn lane. Going eastbound we don't have that kind of real estate to separate out the lanes there so out of this project there would be one no right turn on red in this intersection so going from a Whole Foods towards them all on Capitola Road. I will say that is really tight as it currently is and it's very hard to make a right turn on red if anyone is in front of you in the intersection. Basically not really feasible so that's not a huge change in use and doesn't really register on the increasing congestion in the intersection. Next slide please. So the fiscal impact of this there's the transportation grant we had budgeted in this year's budget measure D and SB 1 money for this project. As mentioned earlier the rehabilitation of this project is significantly more than we had estimated that the onset. Fortunately there's also budgeted in fiscal year 2324 general pavement maintenance in the CIP budget. It is proposed here that we move all of that money to fund this project this project is estimated at $1.7 million. That money was intended to move up some of the streets and our pavement maintenance program for next year into this year. So that would not be happening with this project however it doesn't it would keep us on track of the original goal of having those streets that we had identified for fiscal year 2425 and 2425 with the measure D and SB 1 money that we'd be getting in that fiscal year if that makes sense. Next slide please. So the recommendation here would be to approve the PS&E for this project advertise for construction bids and to adopt a budget resolution and I am available for any questions. Thank you. Any questions from council. Yeah, thanks. If we could go to I believe it's slide number eight with the bike intersection. I just want to make sure I understand so is there just the green painted line or like the internal square. That's physically going to be that right with thermoplastic. Yes. Okay. And that's a designated to go through. Cool. Yeah, thanks. That was my only question. Oh actually I have another unrelated question. A question about the electrical and free removal contracts and if we have a timeline for that as we got an email saying that that was alerted to us out there were like 88 issues in April and I just wanted to check the status on those improvements. Sure. So the tree will be removed by an arborist prior to the construction of the project because you need the tree to remove so then you can grind out the roots that remain on the push buttons would happen afterwards so the way the geometry is of the intersections right now all of those 88 ramps are going to be replaced so you want to replace the ramps first and then reset the push buttons. I'm anticipated with that one that we just add push buttons leave the ones that are inside the pole the signal poles would remain and then we'd run an electrical line to have just a standalone push button for those intersections that are hard to access. And we have a timeline for that will be immediately after the project is the hard escapes are completed. And sorry I just want to remind to try to limit our comments to what's on the agenda today but if you are interested in that update then perhaps we can invite staff to come back with more detailed information on the electrical since I don't believe that's a part of this project. I think I'm satisfied with that. Okay. Square box picture can you bring that back up. I'm just curious why you were going really fast on north and south and trying to catch up with it in my brain. I think I'm there. I'm just curious why the bike box on the left bottom this bigger one isn't an alignment with the bike lane that's to its right. You see so the so they could just turn right and they have to like go around. You do see a higher up higher. The cap road.  It's just seems larger than where it aligns. Yeah exactly where your little thing goes. How does that work? Oh I see. I do see what you're saying. So I guess yes that would the bicycles would have to shift right they would wait in the bike box on the right side of the bike box but then to get into that green lane to cross the intersection right that would be a shift to the right. Does that impede on the sidewalk at all and pedestrian.  The bike does have to go far right. I mean there's got to be a reason they push it that far out is it just to utilize. You're looking at the exact thing. Yes no I see what you're saying and that can definitely be revised. I assume it's at the standard but that is something we can look at closer. Yeah I'm just curious what should up so far. I think there's an opportunity there to exit so the black striping there for the pedestrians is in white but it's for the purposes of visualization it's in black that could be longer and then push the bike lane further into the intersection the green crossing. I'll let you process if that even is needed to do. I was just curious thank you. And then the no right on red is that is that going to be at all hours of the day. Okay. That no right on red is probably the largest sort of change motorists would notice right with this intersection and what we're talking about is if you're driving down cap road towards. Yeah going towards Santa Cruz before you get you know you've just gone past all foods and well as far as goes on your right. In general I feel like if there's one maybe two cars is all you can squeeze by. So would we start that before the project in order to get people like up to speed or we're just gonna do it all at once. I just know about Claire's it's like it's still an issue like people still don't obey that or notice that it's there so. I mean any time you shift lanes or make some kind of intersection change it's going to take people time I would say if it became an issue we could do some enforcement up there for the no especially the no right turn on red. Okay. Cool. Thank you. I think we can go to public. If anybody in house wishes to speak. Come on up. He prepared my comments before hearing about the push buttons but it's a little confusing whether the entire budget is going to go to paving or and the electrical will just happen at some point so if it's okay I'd like to read my comments entirely. Happy 33rd anniversary to the ADA Americans with disabilities act. The official anniversary was yesterday, but I'm still celebrating. My name is Marianne a her and I work in Capitola. My friends who work in cap who live in Capitola are not able to be here because they have to be home to meet their caregivers who have set schedules. But I'm representing their comments to you about traveling in mobility devices on Capitola road between 30th and 41st avenues. Karen, Pam, Stephanie, Ryan, Deborah and Jonathan want you to know that there are difficulties with crossing Capitola road that I don't see addressed on the paving improvement plan on the website. But maybe it's available elsewhere. I haven't researched entirely on our on our part months ago we've submitted hazard reports to the SCC RTC and Capitola Public Works about the following points. First, my friends are very, very grateful for your plans to pay part of Capitola road. On her way across Capitola road at Claire Street to go shopping Karen has had to go out of the crosswalk so that her wheelchair does not get stuck in the potholes. They're in that are in the middle of the crosswalk. She appreciates the paving part of the plan. Second, the signal buttons or APS or difficult to reach on Capitola road, Capitola road and nearby and I am thinking that the paving and the curves and everything might change. So to do them electricity and conjunction makes sense to me but I'm nobody to reach some of them from their chairs either their feet hang out over the curb and into the street because they have to get close to the button. Or if they have the mobility they have to turn their chairs at an angle. So I hope that's considered with these new curbs. Karen's feet hang out over the curb putting her at risk for being hit by right turn drivers. I have pictures of that if anyone's interested. Third, the old signal buttons at some locations may require more than five pounds of pressure to push. Okay, so I will just say that Stephanie really values the walk audible walk signals because she has to watch for cars and look at that. And I think it's a mistake unless you have already it sounds like you probably have that to approve a paving plan without first reviewing the ADA title to that requires improving accessibility. The work is performed at a location. We noticed on 41st Avenue at least one recommendation was not not followed. And we hope this isn't repeated on Capitola road. Thank you very much for your care. Thank you very much. If anybody else in house that wishes to speak, or anybody online. We don't have any of their hands raised mayor. Great. Back to council. Any further comments or questions? Question that maybe we can bring back later. It's interesting to it doesn't but what our best practices are what we have throughout the city for. No, I don't. I think it would be nice for all of us to have it. So with that, I'm happy to make a motion to pass staff recommendation. My internet is loading right here and I know you don't like as possible. Oh, do you have something to add to what you said if we're bringing it back issues. The person's comment about not following their recommendation on another project that if you could just address that back. Thank you. Thank you. So I'd like to make a motion to approve the plan specifications and construction budget of $1.7 million for the Capitola road pavement rehabilitation project adopt a resolution Joe your heads in the way amending the fiscal year 2324 budget and authorize the Department of Public Works to advertise for construction bids. Thank you. Oh, my head and I'll second that. Multi tasking. Wonderful. We have a first and a second maybe have a roll call. Council member Brooks. Hi, number Clark. Hi, Council member Peterson. Hi, and Mayor Kaiser. Hi, that passes unanimously. It'll take us to item eight G city council appointments to advisory bodies. The recommended action is to appoint members of the public to the city of capital arts and cultural commission and the historical museum board. Thank you, Mayor. And with that, I'd like to relieve Jessica. That was a long run. Good evening, Mayor and city council members. Tonight we are consideration. We have two appointments for unscheduled vacancies on the art and cultural commission and the historical museum board. Government code 54974 governs the vacancy notice process for unscheduled vacancies and as a reminder and unscheduled vacancy occurs. The city council member leaves their term early versus the regular appointment process. For these two vacancies we published a notice in the newspaper as well as several social media and online postings. We received a total of five applications for the two vacancies. And the city clerk's office is currently recruiting for an additional vacancy on the art and cultural commission that will be processed separately. We received four applicants. This unscheduled vacancy is for a term expiring December 31st of 2024. The applicants were reviewed in accordance with the commission bylaws and the applicants had to attend a meeting for the commission and the commission makes a recommendation. The historical museum board has an unscheduled vacancy for a term expiring June 30th of 2024. And they received one application which was reviewed in accordance with their board bylaws. The art and cultural commission recommends appointment of Jennifer major. The one of the four applicants that was received and reviewed and for the historical museum board they recommend appointment of Brian Legakis. Excuse me if I pronounce that incorrectly. And so the recommended action this evening would be to appoint one member of the public to the art and cultural commission for a term expiring December 31st of 2024. And one member of the public to the historical museum board for a term expiring June 30th of 2024. And for your convenience I'll just put the names back up of the applicants that we received. I'm available for any questions if you have them. Anybody wish to speak from the public? Seeing none. Anybody online? We don't have any speakers with their hands raised, Mayor. Thank you. Okay we'll come back to council. Do we have any comments or motions? I guess is there a way for the people who applied who were not selected to be involved? Are there any opportunities of getting on voting membership or something along those lines? I'm on the art and cultural commissions may make an answer that. There are plans. There's probably another vacancy coming up and we would like to get them all on board eventually. Yeah, there's definitely plans. Thank you. So just another point. Applications remain on file with the city for a one year period. So if anyone who didn't get appointed in this cycle as I mentioned, there's another upcoming vacancy that we're currently recruiting for and that will be brought before council once the recruitment period ends. And so there will be another opportunity for a member of the public to be appointed. They can also apply to join other commissions. We notify them of the appointment process after the council makes the decision and they're welcome to apply to other groups if there are vacancies. And then these meetings are Brown Act meetings. Some members of the public can always attend a meeting and comment because the meetings are open to the public. Thank you. All right. Would we like to make a motion? I'll move to make a motion. First that we appoint the art and commission art and cultural commissions choice and a firm major. And then the history museum board, their applicant, Brian, the Gakas. I'll second that. Great. We can do them together. Okay. Thanks. All right. We have a roll call please. Council member books. Council member Clark. Hi. Council member Peterson. Hi. Council member Kaiser. Hi. Great passes unanimously. So that'll take us to our last item, which is nine, which is the adjournment. Thank you everybody for joining us this evening. We again have a little hiatus so we won't be back until August 24th. Here in chambers. So we'll see you then. Thank you everybody for the support and volunteer work and lots of great things going on in the city. So. That's off. All right. Good evening.


You've never been in one of those situations where you might be at like a basketball court or something.  And y'all having a good time. And then somebody comes up to you on one of the old heads and says, hey, man, back in my day, I used to shake people on the court and you know what, I still got it. Or even if they come up on the football field and say, ooh, I used to beat more some people with one hand but I can still do it. As a matter of fact, I can relate to that experience because when we hosted a flag football game a couple of years back, I felt like I still had it. And I did, but I was actually really tired too. I was good for like a good six, seven plays and I had to come out because I just, I was winded. But Eric Guetto, Eric Guetto seems to be that old head right now that's saying, I still got it. And he is gonna be coming out of retirement to join a team that he played for before and has some success with before. And that is the, no, not the charger. That is the Baltimore, no, not the Ravens. That is the Rams. And you know the Rams, the Rams are down a couple of safeties with injury and another one is in the concussion protocol. So I guess the Rams figured, man, why not? What's the worst that could happen? And you know what? I honestly, I ain't even mad at them but I am concerned for them. And the reason that I'm concerned for them is because I didn't really get to watch Eric Guetto much as a Ram. Only that game where the Ravens blew them out and then Lamar threw that Jackson five touchdowns on. But anyway, besides that, I didn't really get to watch Eric Guetto in detail much as a Ram. But I do remember him thoroughly as a Raven. And the thing about Eric Guetto, one thing what a lot of Ravens fans do without even noticing that they do it, they say, oh man, this player, and it'll be while the player is playing or it'll be toward the end of a season. They'll be like, oh man, this player, he needs to come back as a coach. He needs to come back and coach whatever his position group is. I think he would be great at it. And what they do when they say that is that's their indication like, oh man, this player can't play no more. This player ain't really got it like that no more. And so many of them do it and they don't even realize what they're doing. They said it about Eric Guetto. They've said it about Jimmy Smith. They've said it about Mark Ingram. They've said it about so many different players. Oh, that player needs to come back and be a coach. They only say that when a player is, not even just past his prime, but when they're well past their prime and it's like, okay, this is, yeah, this ain't working no more. And they said it many times about Eric Guetto, but me from my personal experience viewing Eric Guetto, the smarts were there. This guy was maybe the smartest person on the field when he played for the Ravens defense. This guy just got it. He had the leadership. He had the smarts. He knew what was happening before it happened. We saw it so many times with Eric Guetto, so many times, but his body just couldn't keep up. His body couldn't hang. His body just couldn't make the play. He wouldn't know where the play was going and you would see the effort. He would be trying, but he just couldn't get there. And that's why Ravens were like, look, sorry, we gotta let you go. And Eric Guetto even said, hey, if I ain't playing for the Ravens, then I'm retiring. It's it. I'm not playing for anybody else. I'm calling it quits. Raven said, okay, we'll call your bluff. And he ended up signing with the Rams. But then that's okay, because I know players are people. A lot of people forget that these NFL players, they are people too. They're human beings. So when they say stuff like that, I don't really believe them, but I don't get mad at them. Why?  They get caught up with the emotion. They love these teams as they play for. They love the players that they play with. And they get caught up in stuff like the Anquan Bowden did the same thing with the Ravens.  But if I'm not playing for the Ravens, then I'm retiring. I ain't playing for nobody. They traded them to the 49ers for like a six round draft pick. So anyway, and he played, but anyway, with Eric Guetto, this is gonna be interesting to see. And the world's gonna get to see it too. Well, the world's gonna get to see every playoff game cause none of them are gonna play at the same time and they're all gonna be nationally televised. But this one is on Monday night football. Monday night football.  But it's very important that the Rams, their defensive coordinator, it's important that whoever's calling the plays on defense that they do their best to put Eric Guetto in positions to succeed. Don't put too much on his plate. It's been two and a half years since he's played. I think his last season was 2019. So it's been a little while, it's been a little while. So it's, but it's important that they do not put too much on his plate. It is so important. He is, again, very smart, very smart guy, but at the same time, he's been out of football for a while, not saying that he will have lost his smarts. Cause I don't think you lose your football smarts. If anything, you gain even more cause you'll see an outsider's perspective. And I'm sure Eric Guetto, we know he did a lot of film study when he was an insider, but now as an outsider, he can look at things from an even broader viewpoint. But anyway, it's just important that they put him in the right position.  They're gonna go after. So again, it's important. Now Eric Guetto might be like, Hey, I'm refreshed. Oh, I feel good.  But when he gets that first tackle, when that person initiates contact with him for the first time, cause practice is one thing. He gonna get that in practice over these next couple of days.  Today is Wednesday, you got Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So you got a little bit of time to get some contact then. Don't, don't do too much contact cause you don't want to get fined by the NFL. I know as a Ravens fan. Hop on, does it. But anyway, you, where Eric Guetto, man, is, I can't wait to see how this thing goes really. I'm hoping for the best for him. I really am. The teams that my Ravens are out, teams that I would like to see when it all would either be the Rams or the Packers. I would love to see either one of those two teams win it all. Rams or the Packers.  But it should be a fun playoffs. Got some good matchups this weekend. So it should be a really good time. And then our first historic, first Monday night football playoff game. So anyway, like Eric Guetto is no longer when it comes to being in the NFL, I'm out.


Now, civil society organisations, CSOs that converge on Benisi to their dosed capital have won that the current model of advisements by international oil companies operating in the Niger Delta will cause local communities to lose economic power. The duty conclusion at a civil society round table on IOC divestment from the Niger Delta organised by the environmental right action Friends of the Earth, Nigeria. Some of those that spoke at the convening, including Friday Ogeraki, former adosthead house of assembly member and Prince Bab's power precedents of the Ose Communities Network of Nigeria. Ogeraki described the vestments by the IOCs as a strategy of using and dumping off the people of the oil-bearing communities and their environments are the decision of the oil firms to leave the region without remidating for oil pollution with tantamount to sucking the juice from a fruit and leaving the chaff behind. In a similar vein, Paweru noted that the joint venture agreement between the Nigerian government and the IOCs is better described as profit sharing without accountability and responsibility to the local communities. Earlier, area foreign executive director Chima Williams said that the round table on investment was a continuation of a process that they had commenced to interrogate the reasons the IOCs suddenly started the investment process. Children's state must seek for the incentivisation of the oil companies to divert from onshore and invest in deep offshore. If there should be an incentive for such investment, it should be that there is already a guaranteed process of reclaiming our environment and restoring it to what it was before these diversity entities began operations. We have always known that Paweru drives the oil economy in Nigeria. It's profit. Profit. Not the people. Not how the people who benefit from what ordinarily is God people's blessing. But it's no common problems. No commanding policy. There are commanding agents. Deep shallow is not there. So when they get to the deep offshore, they don't do business and they have destroyed the environment, destroyed everything.


After a three-week visit, the hashtag only in Minnesota Monument has not only left Bemidji, but left a mark in the history books. The only in MN Monument arrived in Bemidji on June 25th and was the centerpiece for the big celebration that honored Bemidji as the best Minnesota town by Minnesota Monthly Magazine. Thousands of local tourists took their pictures with the monument and used the hashtag only in MN earlier today because Bemidji received word that Bemidji is poised to be the second most popular destination for the monuments thus far. So now, Visit Bemidji is asking for everyone's help. So what we're asking is to get help from our community. If you have taken a photo by the hashtag only in MN Monument, we would like you to upload that using the hashtag only in MN and tag that with different friends and family members that you have so that it can at the very end here go viral and really accelerate Bemidji to become the number one destination for the monument. So we're asking everyone if they can get behind that and drive it by the end of this weekend. So it's a challenge to the community to really get behind that and once again put Bemidji as best MN town. Now it's a close race to become number one. Bemidji's monument stop is only second to the Super Bowl. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


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Well, hello friends and welcome back to my channel today I wanted to share a binder that I actually got last month, but to be honest I just haven't had time to film this yet. This is from Chrissy and Designs. This is the celebrations collection for 2019 I'm not sure if she still has these on her website.  I think I don't know I mean she does something different every year But usually at the end of the year she comes out with these exclusive binders Which are amazing and beautiful and it's very themed with monthly holidays and things like that Like I said before I'm a huge fan of Chrissy and Designs. This is my like regular Chrissy and Designs binder and Yeah, I mean to say I'm a fan is probably like an understatement, but I've actually weeded down my collection a lot I'm just saying a lot But if you guys are interested in seeing my Chrissy and Designs collection I believe that there is a video up on my channel and I will link that for you guys and then over here are some of her Ones from Michaels, so she's actually in Michaels stores now, which is kind of awesome She's got way more than that in Michaels, but that's just the ones. I decided to a purchase So anyway, you actually get a binder with this It's a really pretty binder and it has a sticker on the spine that says Chrissy and Designs celebrate your life in 2019 with a little planner Steve and Then your front cover, so let's just walk through this together I know a lot of you are curious about this binder and what it had entailed with it so the first page is just a celebration page and Looks like it has like 2019 2020 a bunch of different little things birthdays Anniversary celebrate and then there's like a happy holidays greetings a bunch of little steves and then like packages and balloons and things Which are cute and then we've got more a celebration Surprise and then we've got winter spring summer fall and then some different colors, which is nice And then these kind of like I don't I think these are supposed to be like little photo boxes or something like that And then I like this cheers to the weekend because it's currently the weekend when I'm filming this So love that and then these are all these really cool doodles that I believe that Cindy Gunter Baldo did for Chrissy and Designs. I will link her YouTube channel for you guys she does a lot of lettering and Really awesome stuff on her channel and she's absolutely amazing and I love her so hi Cindy if you're watching But I absolutely love these doodles So many different fun things that you could incorporate throughout the year like travel I voted a little groom and bride if you're going to a wedding a little road trip actually Fun fact, I think I'm gonna go on a road trip this summer So maybe I'll have to use this little guy very fun and it's gonna be like an adventure kind of road trip So I don't know we'll see we'll see details haven't been ironed out yet, but I think this summer I'm gonna go on a road trip But lots of different holidays and you know just just great things Especially if you don't want like a full sheet of something if you're like hey I don't get invited to a lot of weddings like a lot of my friends already married You know you might not want a full sheet of like wedding stuff, but like having a couple of these It's just like just perfect for the year You know and then we've got some planner Steve little boxes and like planner Steve little characters Oh my gosh, this is probably like that's so cute. That's like that's the one I'm just like drawn to so freakin cute and lots of really fun ones a little shopping one a little cooking one Wow, this one's hilarious with like all the packages in the presents You could use that like on a birthday or maybe when you go a little hog wild at the mall or something or for me It's Amazon whatever. Oh, and then these are really cool It's all the like hello, and then the cord coordinating months Can't talk today clearly and then these are like the coordinating seasons and then different holidays throughout the year like Mother's Day Hanukkah Thanksgiving Halloween Ramadan winter like all the different fun things so loving that and Then we've got all the different dates in here So I love that she does this now where it's like New Year's Day January 1 Good Friday is April 19 Earth Day is April 22 So kind of like takes the guesswork out of it and you could actually like place them in your planner Before you need you know like before the month begins or before the week begins or whatever So it's kind of nice to know when those are Especially if you've got something that maybe you want to do for that day Like maybe Mother's Day or Father's Day you have like a celebration or like if you've got kids and you've got like a teacher Appreciation day and you want to get like a little gift card or something like that for the teachers It's just you know nice to know when that is. Oh more of these fun things perfect So we've got lots of fun ones in here like Labor Day. We got Daylight Savings, which is always awesome Always takes me a while to figure out Daylight Savings and not like figure it out But more like get myself back on track. I don't know Daylight Savings always just whether we're moving forward or backward It doesn't matter. It like takes me like three days at least minimum to just like get my life back I don't know why we've got Bosses Day, Election Day, Veterans Day Like lots of different fun things which is awesome and then the next page are just like random days So we've got like Pride Month, National Sticker Day, Popcorn Day, Black History Month Send a card day lots kind of random like the Super Bowl, Pie Day, Pet Day, that's exciting International Women's Day, Nurses Day lots of different things and then on the bottom here just to celebrate every day And then celebrate so these would be kind of fun if you were like going to a party or maybe you just had a good day that day Who knows and then more fun ones. So we've got like Nurses Week Cheesecake Day I mean who doesn't want to have cheesecake day and junk food day. There you go. There's a National Planner Day Oh my gosh, I did not know these things. Yeah, lots of fun things. Ooh, Donut Day. That's exciting. Oh nine years of CAD Wow That's awesome. So May 19th is nine years of Christian designs. That's pretty awesome Congratulations, Kristen, if you're watching this, that's that is no small feat. That's amazing So yeah, but these are so cute and then we've got some seasonal pages It looks like so this is the winter page, which I love these colors She kind of gets like different colors every year in this Celebration Spinder Which I really really like that she kind of mixes it up a little bit But the colors are just always like so perfect for the season or the celebration or whatever it is That she's kind of conveying on here. So I just love how these colors work together I love this kind of dark maroon with the snowflakes. I live in Minnesota So it does snow here during the winter and it's actually really cold right now And we're in January at the moment as I'm filming this so yeah nice and cold snow day I'll definitely use that because I it's always snowing here. It seems like So yeah, that's very cute. I just love these colors together I think this is so so nice and then we've got spring which spring in Minnesota is still kind of like winter Unfortunately, but we see the end of it. So that's always nice But um, yeah, we get these really pretty springy colors lots of different like lawn Things even though in Minnesota, we can't do anything with our lawns maybe until like May ish Usually and there has been snow in May before in my lifetime, which is just no fun But whatevs but yeah, this is really pretty I love these little flowers and all of the pastels are really really nice We've got summer which is awesome. We don't really have beaches here. Well kind of I mean we have lakes But we don't have like a true ocean beach if you will but loving these kind of more bolder pastel colors Very very nice and all the fun summer things that we can do Fall is probably my favorite just because fall to be honest. I like these colors the most I seem like So like once October hits then I'm like into like the oranges and the yellows and the dark maroons and things like that in my planner Even though if you guys actually watched my what was it the 2018? I think it was like the last video. I put up one of the last videos I kind of went through my planner from last year and like I totally failed by the way I'll link a card up above here if you all are interested in watching it. But yeah, I love the fall colors They're some of my favorites They're actually some of the hardest to find in some like planner shops too So when I do find things that are fall colors, I'm just like buy all the things on Etsy, you know But yeah, love these colors. I think this coordinates so incredibly well with a lot of the other things that I have and You know, I just I just love fall. I just love the crispy air. Oh, this is really cool I actually just had my birthday. So this is a problem, you know, maybe I'll use this for my birthday spread I don't know maybe hmm anyway, but love the cheerful colors This is such a nice little thing. I love my little planner Steve right there That's so fun. And I love the little candles so you can put like your age if you want to or maybe you could lie about it I mean, whatever. It's alright and loving like the little cake and the little steves with the little Noisemaker things so so good. Nice. Oh, and then we got a new year one Oh, these are really cool with like the little countdowns with the little ball drop thing very cool and then oh, I like that she does this for like 2020 because I have not planned for this past New Year's week yet. Maybe I'll be doing that after this I'm not sure But yeah, these are really really cute and I love the colors the colors She picks out are just so interesting and I like that. So then there's like a Valentine's one I probably I don't know. I don't know if I would use this one I'm not in a relationship or anything and it's just seems kind of cheesy to do this because I'm not like really into Hearts and things but that's just my own personal thing I might actually give this sheet away to somebody that might use it in my planner group It's the Minnesota planner addicts if you ever want to join us for some fun But yeah, we do like de-stashes and stuff like that So maybe I'll pull this one out and give this to somebody that would really really like it and appreciate it Before February starts, but still love it. It just you know wouldn't be something I would like particularly plan for but I do really enjoy this my heart beats for you Like a beat instead of beats anyway Kind of fun. Oh, I like this one st. Patrick's Day. This is fun for March love green Green is one of my favorite colors. Actually, my favorite color is like white But that doesn't really like constitute a color because I'm like super neutral person But if I have to pick a color green all the way. So yeah, but I love this This is super cute and love the little like Leprechaun Steve, which is super fun. And then ooh, these colors are really nice for 4th of July kind of more of a darker tone, which is really cool Love that and 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays So I'm definitely gonna use this and then we've got Halloween. Oh, these colors are really interesting for Halloween this year Nice. This blue is actually like really pretty with this color palette. I like that a lot Nice, nice. This is really cool. I actually really like this little sticker. It says trick-or-treat fun fact I didn't have hardly like any trick-or-treaters this year So I had to bring in like all of my trick-or-treat extra candy to work the next day It didn't get eaten but um, yeah, it was it was a little sad So I didn't have as many trick-or-treaters as I had had the year before so I don't know Maybe I won't participate in trick-or-treating this next year All right, and then we have like a Thanksgiving one So we've got like turkey day gobble-gobble love these colors. They're so nice and Oh, I like the little bake like the little Baker Steve. That's really cool And then over here We've got a bunch of like little headers for the month more headers and then birthday and celebrate so you could like Say if it's like your mom's birthday or something you put birthday and then mom or you know Like a co-worker birthday or something that you might need to like keep on your calendar, which is nice More of these which are like a little celebrate page again Love these like little like hearts and fun little functional things so so nice And then that is it that is what is in the new celebrations binder for 2019 I hope you guys enjoyed the video if you did make sure to give it a thumbs up If you'd like to see more planner content from me feel free to subscribe I don't have a specific posting schedule But I will get back on track with doing some more plan with me's and other planner related videos And you can always check on my channel because I have lots of different playlists for planner things if you are so inclined to take a peek So anyway, that's gonna be it. Thank you guys so much for hanging out with me again The link to the Christiane designs website will be down below for you guys Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one. Bye guys