[00:11] Speaker 1: Good evening. I'm calling to order the regular meeting in the Rio Vista City council on Tuesday, March 17 at 6pm Roll call, please.
[00:20] Speaker 2: Mayor Okamura.
[00:21] Speaker 1: Here.
[00:21] Speaker 2: Vice Mayor Do.
[00:22] Speaker 3: Here.
[00:22] Speaker 2: Council Member Donnelly.
[00:24] Speaker 4: Here.
[00:24] Speaker 2: Council Member Duke.
[00:25] Speaker 5: Here.
[00:26] Speaker 2: Council Member Stanish.
[00:27] Speaker 4: Here.
[00:28] Speaker 1: Please join me in the pledge.
[00:32] Speaker 6: I pledge allegiance to the flag of
[00:35] Speaker 1: the United States of America, to the
[00:37] Speaker 6: republic for which it stands.
[00:46] Speaker 1: Great. Thank you. Right. We have no closed session reports today and so we're going to move on to presentations. So I'm very excited to proclaim this month Red Cross Month. And today we're going to have Solano county volunteer Elizabeth Ames with us. I'm going to and I'm going to read the proclamation and then allow you to say your words of wisdom. Red cross month March 2026 whereas in March we celebrate American Red Cross Month by honoring our neighbors who make its humanitarian mission possible in Rio Vista, California. Every day their acts of kindness change lives, bringing relief, comfort and hope when help can't wait. This compassionate spirit runs deep in our community just as it has for 145 years through the American Red Cross. And whereas today, kind hearted individuals in our community step up through the Red Cross in Solano county to provide a beacon of hope for our neighbors in need. Through their voluntary and selfless contributions, they make a life saving difference in people's darkest hours. Whether it's delivering shelter, food and comfort during and after disasters, providing a safe life saving blood supply for patients facing conditions like cancer treatments, childbirth complications and traumatic injuries, assisting military members, veterans and their families with 247 global support or empowering individuals with skills like first aid, CPR and disaster preparedness education that save lives. And Whereas last year In Solano County, 220 Red Cross volunteers helped 74 families affected by home fires, providing emotional support, addressing immediate needs and helping families recover with emergency financial assistance or Community Resources. 506 community members served through home fire and disaster preparedness education, collected 336 units of life saving blood, hosted 17 blood drives, provided international humanitarian aid and supported 571 military members and their families. And whereas these collective efforts are a powerful reminder that the strength of our community lies in our shared commitment to one another. As we mark Red Cross Month, let's celebrate our local heroes and resolve to continue lifting each other up so no one faces an emergency alone. Now therefore, I, Edwin Okamura, Mayor of the city of Rio Vista, on behalf of the City Council, do hereby proclaim March 2026 as Red Cross Month and encourage all citizens to reach out and support this organization and its noble humanitarian mission presented this day of March 17, 2026.
[03:43] Speaker 2: Good evening, Mayor.
[03:44] Speaker 1: Picture time.
[03:45] Speaker 2: Oh, picture.
[03:49] Speaker 7: I'll have it. Thank you.
[04:10] Speaker 2: Good evening, Mayor, council members and everyone here tonight. Happy St. Patrick's Day. My name is Elizabeth. I'm a resident of Rio Vista and I adore our community. I'm also a nurse and a disaster health service volunteer for the Red Cross. It is truly an honor to accept this proclamation recognizing March as American Red Cross Month. Many people don't realize that 90% of our workforce are volunteers. These are everyday people who step up to help others during some of their hardest moments. We don't just respond to disasters. We also help people prepare before they happen through programs like Sound the Alarm. We install free smoke alarms in homes to help save lives. We also host blood drives and provide education on how to prepare for emergencies like earthquakes and floods. Things like creating a go bag, making a plan and knowing where to meet your family members or your loved ones. We hold many free events to recruit volunteers and to provide training, including hands only CPR classes. And these are all free. When disasters do happen, our volunteers are there providing food, shelter and support to help families recover and move forward. On behalf of the American Red Cross, thank you for this recognition and thank you for supporting our mission to help people in need.
[05:30] Speaker 4: Great.
[05:30] Speaker 1: Thank you. Okay, Mark's not here. Well, I'll read it. Okay. So we had. Mark Roseman was going to accept his proclamation on Education and Sharing Day. But I will read it. March 29th.
[05:52] Speaker 6: Oops.
[05:53] Speaker 1: Yeah, March 29th. Education and sharing Day. Whereas, the basis for the continuity of any society is education. And in the great city of Rio Vista, the education of our youth is a priority. And whereas in order to achieve its highest goals, education must not only impact knowledge, but also teaches students how to live. Forming and strengthening their moral character to make a better life for themselves as individuals and for society as a whole. Imparting moral and ethical values that have been the bedrock of society since the dawn of civilization. And whereas. A global spiritual leader and leading advocate for the advancement of education, the Rabbi, Rabbi Menahem M. Schneerson of Righteous Memory, stressed that a moral and ethical education empowers every individual to develop their full potential in making the world a better Place. And whereas March 29, 2026 will mark 124 years since the Rebbe's birth. And this year marks the 75th anniversary of his leadership of the Shabad Lubavitch movement. Shabad is an acronym of three Hebrew words. For wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. The name Lubavitch comes from the city which served as the movement's headquarters for over a century and means City of Love. Of all the ethical values which inform our civilization, none is more important than love. Love of wisdom, love of our fellow men, and love of our Creator. These values have guided the Shabbat Lubovitch movement throughout its history and are the essence of education at its best. And we should be certain to pass on this precious heritage to all young Americans. And whereas Education and Sharing Day is observed each year on the Rebbe's birthday in recognition of his outstanding and lasting contributions toward the improvement of education, morality, and acts of charity around the world. A day to pause and reflect on our responsibility to ensure our youth have the foundation necessary to lead lives rich in purpose and fulfillment through service and good works. Now, therefore, I, Edwin Okamora, Mayor of the city of Rio Vista, on behalf of the city council, do hereby proclaim Wednesday, March 29, 2026, to be education and Sharing Day in the city of Rio Vista. And call upon government officials, educators, volunteers, and citizens to reach out to those within our communities and work to create a better, brighter, and more hopeful future for all presented this 17th day of March, 2026. So we'll send this off. Great. Now. Okay. And I'll open these items, these presentations up for public comment. See, none of Close public. Okay, please. Oh, well, that's you. You made it first.
[09:06] Speaker 2: Do you need a.
[09:08] Speaker 5: Do you need.
[09:08] Speaker 1: I have a blue pen. Wow. I'm being embarrassed in front of our entire community. Just.
[09:17] Speaker 2: I mean, I live, too.
[09:18] Speaker 7: Absolutely. We're good.
[09:20] Speaker 1: And thank you for the reminder.
[09:26] Speaker 2: Thanks.
[09:26] Speaker 1: I'm gonna sign this other one. Okay. I'm good now. Thank you. Thank you for the catch. I'm now going to open this up for a public comment limited to three minutes. And this is for any item that is not on our agenda. And I have one here with Chandra Drury. Just make sure, please, the green lights on.
[09:51] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[09:51] Speaker 1: Thank you.
[09:53] Speaker 2: Can you hear me?
[09:54] Speaker 1: Yeah, we can.
[09:55] Speaker 2: Okay, great. Well, good evening. My name is Chandra Drury, and I am the program coordinator for River Wind River Adult School here in Rio Vista. And I'm here to give you a quick update on what Wind river is doing this year. As you may know, Wind River Adult School offers adult learners in the River Delta Unified School District who haven't finished their high school or who haven't finished high school the opportunity to earn their high school diploma through our online program. This allows working adults to progress at their own pace. Around their busy schedules and the program is free. We are also offering free English classes for non native speakers. These in person classes are offered two evenings a week right here in Rio Vista. We are also excited about the success of our Forklift certification class which allows adults the opportunity to become OSHA Certified in forklift operation using our forklift simulator as well as with real world experience on our full sized forklift. But the main reason I'm here is to announce our upcoming job fair. Building on the success of last year, we will be holding our second annual community job fair on Saturday, May 16th. As you may remember, we organized a local job fair at the Veterans hall. We had approximately 100 local residents come through looking for employment last year. The city participated with booths representing various departments including police, fire and public works. We are hoping that you will consider participating again this year. We are also hoping to get support from Rio Vista Chamber and the Downtown Association. Our goal is to help local job seekers find local employment opportunities. This cuts down on Highway 12 traffic and helps keep the tax revenue within our community. I know that some of the council members have connections to the Chamber and to the Downtown association, so I'm hoping that you can help us with this. In addition, we are also working on participation from the Solano Workforce Development Board. Again, the date is Saturday, May 16 and it's from 10am to 1pm at the American Legion Veterans hall on St. Francis Way. I want to thank you for your time for this and we hope that you guys will participate.
[12:22] Speaker 1: Great. Thank you very much. And we will connect you with those groups. I think I have that other group. No, thank you very much. And I believe we have one more public comment, do we not?
[12:36] Speaker 5: We do. I like Medea. Would you like to stand up?
[12:44] Speaker 1: Can I.
[12:44] Speaker 5: Do you mind if I come to the podium so I can properly introduce her?
[12:51] Speaker 1: You may do a give a speech as well.
[12:56] Speaker 5: I'll make sure to keep to my three minutes. Thank you. I am happy to announce our new HR manager. As you may recall, with the departure of our former City clerk, we reorgan organized administratively and recruited for a human resources manager. It took a bit to fill the position, but we're very, very happy with the selection. Mediha has been on for about a week, so we're very happy. She's done a really good job reorganizing her office as well. And she's an exceptional cook. Had our first potluck and she made biryani. And so I think we have a contender for future food competitions within the city. And so if you know us here at City hall, we like food. So with that, please help me welcome Medea to Rio Vista. We're really happy to have her.
[14:00] Speaker 1: Welcome.
[14:06] Speaker 7: Thank you.
[14:07] Speaker 1: Any words? You don't have to. I'm just teasing you.
[14:13] Speaker 4: I'm very excited to be here and to be joining the team at the cdf.
[14:18] Speaker 1: We have Vista, so really looking forward to working with everybody.
[14:21] Speaker 6: Great.
[14:21] Speaker 1: We're excited as well. I know that Christina is probably a little nervous now because I think she's won the last two cooking competitions, so that.
[14:29] Speaker 7: That's good.
[14:29] Speaker 1: There's a challenger, so. And I've never been invited to do that, so watch out.
[14:35] Speaker 2: Definitely.
[14:35] Speaker 1: Okay.
[14:36] Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
[14:37] Speaker 6: Thank you.
[14:39] Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to see it. Looks like we have one other public comment. Chrissy Langloy, please unmute.
[14:48] Speaker 8: Hello, council. I would prefer to be down there in person, but I just unfortunately was not able to make it, so. So if you can bear with me, I just wanted to step up and give Mr. Malcolm and his field staff a huge round of applause. They have worked so diligently and hard on Egbert Field and they did so many maintenance. They did so much maintenance down there on the snack bar, on the field, on the trimming, on the dugouts. It looked beautiful for opening day. They've worked so hard with little league and our schedules and our teams, and it's just they did such a great job that you guys need to know about it. If you haven't been down to the field yourself to see it, I definitely wanted to let you guys know about what a great job they've done, the compliments that were received on it. Ms. Miller did a fantastic job. For those of you don't know, she was our guest for. For opening day and she threw out the first pitch of the season. And I am proud to say she threw it right over the plate like a girl and straight into that catcher's mitt. Did a fabulous job. We are very excited for this season. I believe we have about 60 games on our Little league roster this season, and about 40 to 45 of them are being played right here at Egbert Field. So we're really looking forward to this season and we just want to thank Rio Vista, the city of Rio Vista, and all of the support that they are giving Rio Vista Little League this season and the backing that they're giving us. So thank you.
[16:34] Speaker 1: Thank you. And I have to say that I saw a picture post post throw and I had to zoom in because I didn't quite Recognize our city manager wearing shorts and she had a haircut. So I'll look for any more public comments. Seeing none, I'm going to close public comments and move on to disclosure of any ex parte communications. Seeing none, we'll close that item and move on to consent items. Items. Purpose of consent. The consent calendar is to group items together which are routine or have been discussed previously and do not require further discussion. Of course, anyone in the audience or anyone online could pull any item that they're interested in having further discussion. Council member has pulled 6.06, so we will see if there's a motion from 6.01 through 6.05 and 6.07 after I take public comment. See no public comment. I'm going to close public comment and then bring it back for a motion on 6.01 through 6.05 and 6.07, and then we'll go to 6.06.
[17:45] Speaker 7: I'll make the motion.
[17:46] Speaker 1: Thank you, Council member Duke.
[17:48] Speaker 6: I'll second.
[17:48] Speaker 1: Thank you, Vice Mayor. Roll call.
[17:53] Speaker 2: Council member Duke.
[17:54] Speaker 7: Yes.
[17:55] Speaker 2: Vice Mayor Dulk.
[17:56] Speaker 3: Yes.
[17:56] Speaker 2: Council member Donnelly.
[17:57] Speaker 4: Yes.
[17:58] Speaker 2: Council member Stanish.
[17:59] Speaker 3: Yes.
[18:00] Speaker 2: Mayor Okamura.
[18:01] Speaker 1: Yes.
[18:02] Speaker 9: Great.
[18:02] Speaker 1: We will now move on to 6.06. Councilmember Stannish, did you want to open comments?
[18:12] Speaker 9: Actually, I was hoping that the applicant would be here so that I could ask him a question, but he's obviously not here, so I'm not going to be able to get my question answered.
[18:21] Speaker 1: Okay.
[18:23] Speaker 7: No, I don't see him online.
[18:27] Speaker 1: Mr. Tom Watson. Okay. He's not here, so I will bring open this item up for public comment unless there are any other comments questions. Okay. See? No comments. I'm going to bring this item back. 6.06. Approval of the mayor's nomination of Thomas Watson for appointment to the Parks and Rec Commission to serve the remainder of a term ending January 1, 2027. Thank you, Councilmember Donnelly.
[19:00] Speaker 7: I'll second.
[19:02] Speaker 1: Thank you, Council member Duke. Roll call.
[19:04] Speaker 2: Council member Donnelly?
[19:06] Speaker 4: Yes.
[19:06] Speaker 2: Council member Duke. Yes. Council member Stanish.
[19:09] Speaker 9: No.
[19:10] Speaker 2: Vice Mayor Do.
[19:11] Speaker 3: Yes.
[19:12] Speaker 2: Mayor Okamara.
[19:13] Speaker 1: Yes. Okay. Thank you very much. He is appointed. 1. No. We'll move on to action items. We have two items. We'll start with 7.01. City manager contract.
[19:25] Speaker 5: Thank you, Mayor. I'll take this one on. Presented for you tonight is consideration of a contract amendment and resolution adopting the amended and restated agreement for the City manager, Christina Miller. Ms. Miller has been the city's city manager since June 26, 2023. Since that time, she has not received any type of cost of living adjustment or compensation increase. Upon a performance evaluation by the city council of Ms. Miller's work these past couple of years, the council concluded that she has been performing at an excellent level. The staff report contains some representative accomplishments that she has facilitated, so I'll go over a couple of them. For example, she led the passage of the 1% sales tax measure, also known as Measure K. She led the passage of significant water and sewer rate increases in implementation after they had not been increased for a very long time. She led the identification of a $3 million grant to support street improvements. She led the approval of the social media policy that the council has since adopted, and so forth. The annual salary that is proposed in the resolution and set forth in her agreement would change her compensation from 2, 115, $15,000 to $230,000. And by comparison, the city manager in Dixon makes $282,000, a little bit more than that. The city manager in Suun City makes a little over $294,000. The city manager in Venetia makes a little over $236,000. And the city of Vacaville city manager is makes $301,000. So in addition to that increase, starting July 1st of 2027, she would receive a 3% annual COLA adjustment. Additional changes include her life insurance increasing from $25,000 to $100,000. She currently has a six month severance clause in her existing contract. This change would continue to have a six month severance but add health coverage during that six months paid by the city. The term of the agreement has been proposed to be extended to June 30, 2031 and all other terms remain the same. I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.
[22:11] Speaker 1: Great. Thank you for the report. Start with questions.
[22:14] Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry. There's 1 Correction. Section 2 of the Agreement should reflect an effective date of March 17, 2026 and not her original contract date.
[22:31] Speaker 1: Great. Thank you.
[22:36] Speaker 4: March 26th.
[22:39] Speaker 6: Today's date.
[22:40] Speaker 1: Right today.
[22:41] Speaker 6: What is today's date?
[22:44] Speaker 5: March 17th, 2020.
[22:47] Speaker 1: Great. Thank you. Any questions? Okay, I'm going to open this item up for public comment. See none there. I see none online. I'm going to close public comment and bring this item back. I'll start by saying, and I think I speak for everyone. They can speak as well, but we've been, or I've been exceptionally happy with everything that you've done with our city. And furthermore, this doesn't even talk about the big elephant in the Room. I mean, you're. You're not getting paid extra to be working on California forever, which I think by your own assertions, probably like 25% of your job. So kudos to you. You've done a fantastic job and deserve every penny. So thank you. Any other comments? Start over here.
[23:33] Speaker 7: No, I agree with everything you just said.
[23:38] Speaker 9: My comment is going to be that Christina hasn't received a raise in three years. And even if you were to take the. The $15,000 that were upping her now, it still wouldn't be anywhere near the 3% that she would have normally gotten. So we appreciate you approving this contract and us approving it for you, so thank you.
[24:02] Speaker 3: I just really appreciate the last few years, the direction the city's been going. We've been really proactive after it, just not to knock prior city managers, but it just always felt like we were reactionary or kind of more day to day. And it's just now we're doing things on a strategic plan. We're proactive and, you know, we. We all know she could go somewhere else and she's working here at a discount, essentially, and so very happy to have her. And just when we were talking with her, we kind of, during the evaluations, we had this genuine sense that she really wanted to be here. And so that's something that really stood out and so appreciate that she really goes out in the community to our events and participates, and so just we're fortunate to have her.
[24:50] Speaker 4: And I would just concur that. And just add to that great comments by our vice mayor that, like the mayor Mount in the county and in other cities and such, and you have a great reputation, you know, with our partners in the county. And I really, really appreciate the, the working relationship that we've, you know, been able to build. So thank you.
[25:18] Speaker 1: Great. Well, thank you again. I'm going to accept a resolution of the City Council of the City of Rio Vista amending the city manager employment agreement.
[25:27] Speaker 9: I'll make the motion.
[25:28] Speaker 1: Great. Thank you, Council member Stanish.
[25:30] Speaker 4: I'll second it.
[25:31] Speaker 1: Thank you, Council Member Donnelly. Roll call.
[25:34] Speaker 2: Council member Stanish?
[25:36] Speaker 3: Yes.
[25:36] Speaker 2: Council member Donnelly?
[25:37] Speaker 4: Yes.
[25:38] Speaker 2: Council member Duke?
[25:39] Speaker 1: Yes.
[25:39] Speaker 2: Vice Mayor Dolk?
[25:40] Speaker 3: Yes.
[25:41] Speaker 2: Mayor Okamura?
[25:42] Speaker 1: Yes. All right, pass it unanimously. Congratulations. We sure do. We'll start piling it on tomorrow. All right, let's move on then to 7.2 tot fund alternative uses.
[26:09] Speaker 5: Thank you, Honorable Mayor. Council. At the previous city Council meeting, the city Council decided that they wanted to look at other options for utilizing the $30,000 in TOT funds that are allocated per year, there is $10,000 that's allocated towards the existing TOT grant and so that leaves the remaining $20,000 for discussion tonight. Staff asked the council members individually to provide their ideas. They were provided in the staff report as bulleted and I know some of the council members may want to make an expanded presentation, but I'll go through them individually and I'm happy to answer any questions to the extent that I understand the proposal. The first proposal is to utilize the funding to support data analytics to identify economic development opportunities and analyze success of city sponsored events or marketing campaigns. Second idea is to utilize the funds to support a contract with a social media consultant to assist the city with outreach and promotion of city sponsored events. It's an idea to advertise in print media promoting Rio Vista as a destination for fishing, water sports, etc. A proposal was made to utilize the funds to for Highway 12 branded wayfinding signage such as art, billboard, an electric screen etc etc in both directions to direct tourists downtown. There's a proposal to create a digital community engagement platform that strengthens the democratic process through inclusive and equitable participation by embracing diverse languages and abilities and the central centralization of communications and engagement tools to keep residents engagement informed and continuously engaged in projects. There's a few platforms that were suggested such as Engagement hq, Go Vocal and Hive Bright. There's a proposal to utilize the funds to replace the light pole banners downtown on a quarterly basis, potentially with seasonal themes such as snowflakes for winter, California poppy for spring, red, white and blue for summer and leaves for fall to install banners along the lights on Highway 12. There's a proposal to utilize the funds for a sign for advertising Rio Vista on top of City hall and or on the water side. There's a proposal to use the funds to paint the army base water tower with Rio Vista's name on it to spruce up the public boat launch to replace landscape plants, trees and trees that have perished on the promenade. There's a proposal to utilize the funds to develop a parking lot for the promenade with lighting and trash cans. There's a proposal to utilize the funds to contribute to the downtown lighting project. The proposal to utilize the funds for a digital sign for community events at the y on Highway 12 and there's a proposal to utilize the funds to support a yifty Shop local program whereby consumers purchase a gift card online that if approved, is then matched by the city to support the recirculation of dollars within the local economy. I'm happy to answer any questions of the Council. You certainly can choose one or more of these concepts to explore further. And then at that point, staff will provide a full report with an analysis for your consideration. So this is really just to get more feedback from you tonight.
[30:39] Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. And then I believe we have somebody online. I knew that data analytics would be a little abstract to many people, so I asked Gannon Placer AI, which is. Or Placer AI, which is a data analytics company, to give a short presentation.
[30:59] Speaker 10: Thank you, Mayor Akamura.
[31:00] Speaker 1: Oh, please.
[31:04] Speaker 10: Thank you, Mayor. It's good to see you again, Council. Thank you for having me. My name is Gannon Lavins. I'm with Placer AI and I have a brief presentation prepared for you today over slides. So if you're not familiar, Placer AI is a location analytics platform. We use mobile data on a macro level to give information on any physical location in the United States. Our business has two major pillars that we work off of, and those pillars are privacy and accuracy. And they're very much tied together. So on a privacy and accuracy standpoint, our data comes from third party mobile applications. We have created exclusive partnerships with them and they are all the types of applications that require opt in location sharing from their users. Now, with these partners, we've created a sample size of nearly 30 million devices. So it's about 10% of all the phones in the country. We take that data, we put it into our algorithm and extrapolate information on the broader public. Now, it's important to note that our data is contractually obligated with our partners to be scrubbed from any personal information before it even comes our way. So all we are receiving is latitude, longitude and timestamps, and there's a lot of information that we can get from just those three things. Now, if anyone offered me a million dollars right now to get any personal information on a single individual, I simply could simply could not do that. Right. We do not work with law enforcement. We do not give information on individuals or on anything that we consider a sensitive point of interest.
[32:41] Speaker 1: Our.
[32:41] Speaker 10: Our data, because we work also in the private sector, we also have a lot of ground truth data that we can test it against to prove out our accuracy. So our data comes out pretty consistently to about 93 to 98% accurate on a consistent basis. I work with cities and DMOs counties and chambers of commerce all across the Pacific Northwest, providing.
[33:03] Speaker 1: Stop you for a moment, please.
[33:04] Speaker 6: Of course.
[33:06] Speaker 1: You said there was going to be a presentation.
[33:08] Speaker 10: Yes.
[33:10] Speaker 1: It's not sharing.
[33:11] Speaker 10: I apologize. Let me see,
[33:24] Speaker 1: Is it Sharing now it is okay.
[33:27] Speaker 10: Thank you for the correction, Mayor. So yes, as I said, our data is tested pretty consistently. Comes out to 90 to 98% accurate. I work with civic organizations across the Pacific Northwest, so cities, counties, chambers of commerce, demos, helping them on a variety of different things. Now, the typical nine to 10 ways that we help our city customers are with things like retail, retail analysis and recruitment, event analysis, travel and tourism, helping them estimate sales tax, giving them great information on things like transportation, parks and open spaces, different pieces of infrastructure. We help with marketing and reports. We help with business attraction and workforce analysis, Covid recovery, supporting local businesses as well as just, you know, making decisions with your budget as far as what things are helping the city the most and what things are helping the city city the least. Now, I prepared an event analysis for you today on the Vista Bass Derby, Bass Derby and festival From I believe October 10th to the 12th last year. I can see that during those three days we had about 18000 visitors that do not live in the city or work in the city that came about 20000 times. So some people were returning and came more than once. Based on this visitor journey, we can see here that nearly 60% of those people stopped at a restaurant or a business of some sort on their way to the festival, and about 50% stopped at a business on their way home. So this, this indicates that there was a pretty strong economic impact of this particular event. So with Placer, we can give you information on events like this basically three or four days after they happen. We can also show you where all these people came from to come to the event here today. Now, on a more macro level, we can show you visitors over the past year. So I can see that in the past year we had about 507,000 unique individuals and on average each of those individuals came about three times. So when in town we can see that their favorite locations that weren't chains were there. A supermarkets, Burgerlicious, the Point Restaurant and Rio Vista Farms. Obviously, these are all screenshots of our platform put into our PowerPoint presentation to keep this brief. As far as attracting business and economic development, there's a lot of information we can do that can help you with a retail recruitment type process. As an example here, I ran a retail leakage report for you all. This only took me about a few minutes to run. I turned off chains and this shows all the places that your residents have left the city and to go and shop or dine at. So I can see as an example, Flying J Travel center and Lone Tree Thai cuisine were two standouts that a lot of people left the city for. I pair it with other information. I can see things like our total and supply, total supply and demand for the city. So I noticed that there is an unmet demand of about $8 million for gasoline stations. There's about $12 million of unmet demand for restaurants. And when I pair this with things like our psychographic data, I can see that there is, you know, a lot of demand for sort of high end eating in the city. Right. We can see veggie burgers, wine with dinner, fat free, semi vegetarian, healthy snack eaters, fast forward fast food avoiders. These are all things that we have seen a strong indication of for the residents of your city. If I look at modes of transportation, I can see new car buyers, auto club members, turbocharged drivers, not a lot of electric drivers or ethanol hydrogen vehicle drivers. So this is showing me that there are a, you know, a high percentage of people in the city that love their cars, typically drive gas powered engines. Right. So combined together with these three slides, we can see that the data is suggesting that maybe a healthy sit down restaurant or a high end gas station would be something that would be successful in the city. So just a few examples of the type of data that we can provide here. Like I said, we have about 2,000 civic customers at this point. One of them is Fox Lake, Illinois. They recently used our data to attract, I believe, what, $335 million of new development in the city. So, you know, using our data to make your argument with commercial real estate, real estate retailers, the like can be very powerful. So limited time today, I'm only scratching the surface. Happy to answer any questions here. We would love a chance to work with Rio Vista on our end. And Mr. Mayor, as we've discussed as well, we can provide certain pricing incentives to help, you know, not take up too much of your budget as well.
[38:27] Speaker 4: Great.
[38:27] Speaker 1: Thank you very much for the presentation, Gannon.
[38:29] Speaker 10: Of course.
[38:30] Speaker 1: Okay. On that, I'll. Anyone would like to ask any questions before we open up for public comment and then after that we'll bring it back. I had. I have some questions if you guys don't. No questions. Okay, so I have a question on a number of the items that were put on the list. Some of them seemed to me, and maybe you could help me out with them, are great ideas, but it seemed like they would potentially fall under different budgets. For instance, I think that there's a great suggestion about an online digital community which would have given us Data insight into water rates and. And whatnot. And you could survey the community. Community. Right. But that. That would potentially fall under another budget, would it not? Like we are planning to do an ERP solution for the city and it seemed like. Seems like that would be a nice tie into that. So that's. That's one of them. And then plants on the promenade. I absolutely support any plants on the promenade and along the frontage, but it seems like that would be under Parks and Rec potentially. Or could it be.
[39:41] Speaker 5: Not sure if that's a common or question. But I mean, it could be perceived as, you know, an attraction tool. If the promenade is more beautiful, it's an extension. Certainly not from that.
[39:56] Speaker 1: But I was looking at larger buckets of money versus 20,000.
[40:00] Speaker 5: Sure. So this is a smaller bucket of money
[40:06] Speaker 1: and we have roughly a million over there.
[40:08] Speaker 5: Sure.
[40:09] Speaker 1: Right. Okay. And then the last one is the parking lot idea. I. It would be nice to have a parking lot where I rolled my car over some concrete. But that probably would be under a different budget as well, would it not?
[40:25] Speaker 5: The existing $20,000 available is not sufficient to pave that parking lot.
[40:32] Speaker 1: And it could potentially be taken from another budget.
[40:36] Speaker 5: It could be taken from the park and rec development impact fees that have been acquired. Certain.
[40:46] Speaker 4: And the parking lot that's currently used, that doesn't have the hazards in it. That's not. That's county property. The one that's right up against the.
[40:56] Speaker 6: Do we gross county don't test private.
[41:01] Speaker 4: No, not the. Not the dirt. The paved area that's up by Highway
[41:05] Speaker 6: 12 and the got the private property. That's dirt. You've got our parcel and you've got Simpsons Parcel.
[41:14] Speaker 4: And then the elevated parking lot that's right up against highway. Oh, okay.
[41:21] Speaker 6: Most of his Caltrans.
[41:22] Speaker 4: Okay.
[41:24] Speaker 6: Okay.
[41:26] Speaker 1: Thank you. So if there are no questions, I'm going to open up for public comment. Looks like we have one public comment online. Roxanne Stahls Donnelly.
[41:38] Speaker 5: Hello.
[41:38] Speaker 2: Thank you for taking my comment. I was just wondering if this particular organization also works with chambers of commerce.
[41:48] Speaker 1: Yes.
[41:53] Speaker 2: Thank you.
[41:55] Speaker 1: Pamela Rice, please. Price, please. Sorry, Please unmute. Thank you.
[42:06] Speaker 4: Can you hear me?
[42:07] Speaker 1: Yes, we can. Thank you.
[42:09] Speaker 4: I just, you know, I really appreciated
[42:11] Speaker 1: the presentation that was just shown by Gannon with Placer AI and I just really appreciated all the information. So my question is, is this something a company that the city is looking
[42:25] Speaker 2: at to possibly do some business with
[42:28] Speaker 1: or was it just for the. The information and the analyzing the data? Great, thank you. We have a bunch of proposals on our, our list to make decisions on where we want to spend. This $20,000amount of money that was originally generated through tot funds and data analytics was one of the suggestions. And for people to better understand the capabilities we asked them to come speak. So thank you. Thank you for your question. So if we go. Well, I'll take suggestions, I'll go through my comments. I don't think that I really want to go through every single one of them. And every single one of us go through every one of them. We probably want to. You have some we think might be the best ones.
[43:19] Speaker 4: Yeah. And then you had some that were sort of crossed out just.
[43:22] Speaker 1: Yeah, well on my list. But that doesn't necessarily. I'm just.
[43:25] Speaker 4: I guess because the budget when.
[43:27] Speaker 5: Oh yeah, certainly. So you could move potentially some of these to consider during the budget process if that's what you would like.
[43:38] Speaker 1: I would like to. Because some of them aren't going to be there.
[43:42] Speaker 7: We clearly sign is really a great idea. We talked about that. But that's going to be a lot more than $20,000 for a sign down at the 12.
[43:51] Speaker 1: That is correct. Yes.
[43:56] Speaker 4: We already addressed the sign on top of city Hall. We were presented with a presentation. The lettering and the sign design and all of that were not big enough. And in order to have one large enough to be read from the river.
[44:10] Speaker 6: Sure.
[44:10] Speaker 4: It was not feasible.
[44:12] Speaker 1: Right. Why don't we do this then? I don't know any of whether any of these are going to be financially viable under $20,000, quite frankly. So why don't we kind of discuss the things that we think are good ones and then you could take a list and then we could whittle down based on financial what we have as well. We also don't know we're going to get back from sending out the for applications for the rest of the tot. So that fund may be larger. We don't know if we're going to agree to what is sent in either. So we have to kind of keep it open ended. So since I have the mic, I'll start out. I think the data analytics I think is a fantastic idea from the perspective of economic development, long term economic development. Because I feel like the purpose of this TOT funds is to attract people from outside of our community into the community, not for people within our community that already know the great things that we have here. Social media as well, I think is a good one because I think it could be shared across all of the various. Across the various organizations that we have so service organizations that are going to do an event like Bass Derby Festival, they would utilize the social media expert that we bring on. It would be purely on a contract basis. So it would be pay for performance, if you will, or something similar to that. Print ads, I think is a good idea. But I think on the other hand, I think it's an expensive way to reach people given that social media is so prevalent today. So Highway 12 electronic board. I still support that because I think there's another one that said digital sign on Highway 12. So I think it's a plus. There's definitely a plus on that. It's just a cost issue. Online digital community. I said I think it's a great idea. I think I, I really do want to do that. I want to automate as many things as we can in our city. I think that's a different budget. That's my opinion though. Light pole replace light pole banners. I think that's always good to keep them fresh. So that's a good one. Install Highway 12 banners. I'm not sure the effectiveness just because I think that's. It's on the highway and people driving 45 miles an hour, I'm not sure they're going to be seeing them. So true.
[46:27] Speaker 4: And they should be driving 35 remaining
[46:30] Speaker 6: issues with that too, with Caltrans.
[46:32] Speaker 1: Okay. So anyway, I put that. I'm going over the ones that I, I like in particular. I highlight. I'll just go to them. The data analytics. Social media. Highway 12 electronic board replace light pole banners. Digital. Well, that's the same one. And then the. Oh, that was. It plants on Promenade, but that was. I think that could be a different budget.
[46:52] Speaker 5: So would it be helpful in terms of narrowing things down for each council member potentially to find to announce their top three or top five and then staff will track it to help kind of whittle it down.
[47:06] Speaker 1: I'll start with. That was more than what she said. Five.
[47:10] Speaker 5: Three or five. Yeah. So what are your top five?
[47:13] Speaker 1: If you want me to do three, then I'd say data analytics, social media and electronic billboard, which I know is more, but.
[47:22] Speaker 6: Okay. Okay.
[47:24] Speaker 3: So I kind of gravitated to a couple things and one of which the mayor just talked about and that's social media. So I like, I like the idea of that one. Just any, any type of engagement with our community and the digital community engagement platform was one of the things that I had sent in. But the other thing that I really think we've always been lacking on and it's actually which is going to be Highway 12. Just people traveling through our city. We're not, we're not grabbing them. And actually just with the recent news of our project being delayed and the funding might be shifted, I really think it's something we need to take a hard look at. So any, any of those on there, you know, the, the wayfinding, the digital sign, those things. I really think those types of things we should prioritize. So, yeah, those should be about three
[48:18] Speaker 6: or four right there.
[48:20] Speaker 5: Did you say the digital community engagement platform is one of those top.
[48:24] Speaker 3: And I understand the mayor's concern on that too. That was just kind of. That may be a pretty large project. I'm not sure what the budget is on that.
[48:32] Speaker 5: So, yeah, the concept is that we would get your priorities and come back with a more detailed proposal.
[48:42] Speaker 1: Okay. Sarah
[48:45] Speaker 4: Councilman, Council member.
[48:46] Speaker 1: Dolly, you're a friend too. So.
[48:53] Speaker 4: So I do. And I, I really appreciate the presentation on data analytics. It's really impressive the amount of, you know, data that can be captured that we could use, you know, for the future. I mean, we're always trying to answer this, you know, and I'm using like AI, like, how many people, you know, does it take to support a bowling alley? How many, you know, population. How many people does it take to support this? And, and, you know, been talking that way. But this is the kind of thing that can really, you know, back us up and also show us where people are coming from and visiting. So I really like that we didn't talk about how, you know, how much it would be. I have to say that walking in, I had this very much idea, like we've spent a lot of money on consultants and, you know, on, on economic development plans. And, you know, we have several of them that we're supposed to be operating from. But. And I saw this in that, in that idea. But I think that this actually would do more like support what we already have in place, you know, back up what we already have in place. So I do like that as a, you know, a top of the line. And I've also been one to think that we need somebody who's sort of just handling our social media overall. So that's on there for me. And you know, based on the family business, I like signs. And I think we had talked about this. You know, there's a, it combines two of these for signage and, and such, but also just getting rid of the banners on the fence. You know, it's kind of low visibility, but also sort of a cluttered look up there at the park. And so this is something that I think could really, you know, help elevate that whole thing. Of course. So I'm. These aren't any of my ideas, but I'm just hoping that some ideas like sprucing up the boat launch and also, like I said, replacing the plants and sprucing up the promenade and such, those are places, you know, that I walk through every day and see visitors to our community and the notion, you know, not throwing shade on public works at all, but the, the boat dock is really in disrepair. Not like the physical Botok, but just the area around there. And every, every day it's full of, you know, boaters. Every weekend it's. It's overflowing with boaters. Those are people that are visiting us and, and parking there. And, you know, there's a lot that we can do there. And I've tried to put that out to several of our non profits, you know, as very much fitting their mission statements. There's been no taker. So, you know, hopefully we can get together with some of those folks and, you know, do some of those, those projects.
[51:45] Speaker 1: Great, thank you. You mentioned signs where you. Are you talking about the banners?
[51:50] Speaker 4: No, the, you know, Highway 12. Yeah. Electronic down here. And then that's something that we can use. You know, we can add that for digital signed. We can use that for community events. Right. And also, you know, little league signups and, you know, all those things because I think that's a great thing to do.
[52:10] Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, Council member Stanish. I was going to say, Walt, I'm
[52:17] Speaker 9: kind of a visual kind of person and I agree with Rick. I think Highway 12 should definitely have a lighted sign and I like the light pole banners downtown changing quarterly. And I, I also, I also agree with the mayor about the data analytics, but like, it's hard to, to pick these because we don't know what the cost is. And I, and I think we're kind of under the eight ball on that one. So I wish these would. Had costs attached to it so we could kind of pinpoint it a little bit better. But
[52:56] Speaker 10: the,
[52:58] Speaker 9: the signage for me is, is, is the biggest thing, the Wayfair signs as well. So.
[53:04] Speaker 6: Okay.
[53:04] Speaker 1: And just for clarification, I think we'll take all the ideas and we will assign it for the next round. Right. Okay.
[53:13] Speaker 7: Yeah. I was impressed with the data analytics presentation. That is a wealth of information that we wouldn't normally have. I think you actually said recently that there was some survey and looked like a Thai restaurant Would do really well in town. Right, right. So you wouldn't normally know that unless you went out and pulled everyone with,
[53:31] Speaker 4: you know, I'm one of those people going to that.
[53:33] Speaker 7: Me too.
[53:34] Speaker 1: Me too.
[53:37] Speaker 7: So I thought that was great. And like, and like said that we don't know how much that is. So I don't know if that's $50,000 or $10,000 or. You know what I'm saying? So how do you keep it under
[53:47] Speaker 1: wraps until we negotiate?
[53:49] Speaker 9: It's a thing.
[53:51] Speaker 4: Kind of give them our budget.
[53:52] Speaker 7: And then since I'm on social media a lot, answering a lot of questions that the, the community has and I try and stop misinformation before it starts to trickle. So I'm on there a lot and I'm posting links to information, I'm posting events. And it would be great to have somebody doing that besides a couple of us. That would be fantastic. Because I think social media just all I have to do is spam something out and you get the restaurants just fill up. And so it's a really big missed opportunity, I think, to not really take full advantage of social media. The sign on the 12, I mean, ever since I moved here, I thought this sign that's out there doesn't do anything because by the time you see it, you're already turned. And so something down there, anything that will get people pointed toward the downtown that they don't even realize that we have a downtown. I like the banners on the poles out here. I think that just something to perk up the town. We're going to have the lighting. I think that and the banners would be really nice. I still like that yifty program. Even though you're saying that the money is to bring people from out of town here, I think it's also to promote commerce here in town and keep dollars in in town. So I, I mean, I know it's $20,000 and I was thinking like a $5,000 initial test balloon and see how that would go with say a $100 limit on a gift card. And it keeps people shopping local. It helps the businesses, it helps the customers in town. And I don't think this money is just to bring people in. I think it's to promote commerce within our own city. So I still am interested in that. And so that's 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5.
[55:40] Speaker 5: I hit my limit.
[55:43] Speaker 1: Great. Well, thank you everyone for the feedback, I think. Can I ask, can I ask you a question?
[55:49] Speaker 3: Is that on the data analytics, you don't have to Convince me on the value, because, yeah, I could go on and on. I use some of that for my business as well. The reason I left it off is what my question is and what my concern is, is you can have all the data, you know, in the world, but if you can't implement it or you don't have the staff to implement it. So I guess that would be my question was what would it take to so there.
[56:12] Speaker 1: Well, I think there's a couple of angles. Immediately you think about all the events that we have here. He went through extensive modeling to show us what kind of data we could pull from that. And so I think that helps with getting advertising dollars in for those events, because they could say, hey, we had 18,000 people that showed up at this event. This many people. We could. It could help us determine what types of food people are eating. And then as well, obviously when we bring on an economic development person, that's going to be a huge valuable tool to them. We're already talking to some. We've spoken with some consultants, and that's the big hurdle that we have, is that, hey, we want to. We need to have more than just, you know, something on paper. Well, we want to see actual meetings happen. And so this will enable them to see exactly which direction they should go.
[57:04] Speaker 4: And so I have a question on that. Along those lines, where you finish? Okay. I would think it would also hopefully be a tool. You know, we have a lot of events on the calendar, and I think it could be a tool that the groups that are doing those events, you know, if they see that they're not getting those numbers that, you know, it's just. Just. It's not a thing anymore. Right. So, you know, that they. They could put their energies and their efforts into fewer and. And better, you know, events. Right. Because they cost money. They cost the city money, you know, to do so.
[57:43] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[57:43] Speaker 1: And I spoke with them about this. You could pull historical data, so you could pull data for the last three. Last three. Bastard. For instance, and you say, hey, you know, in this particular year, that's when we decide not to have the carnival anymore. Look what happened to the numbers. It went up or went down or stayed the same.
[58:01] Speaker 4: In their defense, they didn't decide not to have a.
[58:04] Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, fair enough. Yeah. I mean, it just didn't happen. So. But you could make determinations on how you run your. How you run your program. So it sounds like a lot of people are in support of the social media as well. I think those two coupled together may be a Powerful, maybe pretty powerful.
[58:20] Speaker 5: So would you like me to summarize the top so the top four that we received feedback on were the data analytics tool, the contract with the social media consultant, Highway 12, branding, wayfinding signage such as a billboard, electronic screen, and the replacement of the light pole banners. Those were the top four that had multiple council members and support.
[58:52] Speaker 1: Sounds right. Okay. Did you need further guidance?
[58:58] Speaker 5: No. So what we'll do from here is we'll take this information and provide a more comprehensive proposal for the Council to consider with costs in greater detail.
[59:08] Speaker 1: Great. Thank you very much. So I'll close that item and we'll move on to informational items. 8.01 I did public comment okay, so 8.01 update on progress on app 45 Main street oh yeah.
[59:28] Speaker 6: Honorable Mayor and Council this is information An Update on the Community center the city continues to make targeted improvements to the community center located 45 Main street to enhance functionality, safety and overall usability to facility. Staff has engaged with a variety of community stakeholders over the past year including meetings with the Downtown association to discuss the previous completed wall and floor improvements as well as potential future upgrades to the Community Center. Additional conversations with other community groups will be scheduled to further discuss future needs and potential uses for the center. Acoustical panels were installed on January 27, 2026. The installation is significant a significant improvement to sound quality within the main hall, reducing echo and enhancing the space for meetings, events and community gatherings. The items below were approved in the fiscal year 20252026 budget and have been designated by staff as priority improvements to address operational needs and enhance the building's aesthetics. Number one would be a main roll up door replacement that faces Main Street Removal of the existing main roll up door Framing modifications to accommodate the new door system Installation of a temporary security panels during construction, interior and exterior finish work Installation of a new automatic roll up glass door. This improvement will enhance the building street presence, improve natural light and provide improved accessibility and functionality for events. Number Number 2 Office Area Exterior Passage door Installation of a new exterior passage door from the office area to the outside that would need cutting of the existing concrete curb to eliminate the trip hazard, Framing modifications, finish work and painting. This improvement enhances safety and ADA accessibility and provides improved egress from the outside area. Number three is exterior window modifications, a new window installation Removal of select exterior siding, framing modification to align two windows with existing exterior window elevations, siding patching and finish work and then the window installation. This modification will improve architectural consistency and overall exterior appearance of the Community center and Number four would be the interior pass through door opening modification. Modifications of existing path through door opening between the rooms. Framing adjustments, Sheetrock and paint and installation of a double solid core doors with panic hardware. This improvement will improve the sound separation, operational flexibility and security between the interior spaces. And at this time we either have or obtaining bids for all four items. And I'll take any questions.
[62:20] Speaker 1: Very exciting. Start with questions. Okay, thank you.
[62:25] Speaker 3: I asked one and this might be like a semantics or wording question but. So it says removal of select exterior siding and then also siding patching and finishing work. And so can you explain that a little bit better as far as what we're going to be doing to the outside walls?
[62:40] Speaker 6: There's two windows that we would like to move up. So all the tops windows line all the way down main street in a line of the top of the sliding glass door. So there'll be some sighting modifications there. And we need to pull back a little bit of the. Call it tin siding to get the windows installed and provide some framing we need. Okay. And then put it back together. Okay, fantastic. Thanks.
[63:06] Speaker 1: Please. Council member Donald.
[63:10] Speaker 4: So just a clarification. We had heard before when we were on this subject that we had to have both spaces. So this is, you know, both spaces available because of egress and the fire department, you know, pointed that out to us.
[63:24] Speaker 6: So it was talked about a while back about a barn door. But which creates issues for us because if something were to happen it doesn't have panic hard work. It's closed, you can't get out. So that door, if we were to put a door in there, has to have panic hardware in that situation.
[63:42] Speaker 4: So.
[63:43] Speaker 6: So close the door and separate the two. But if something happened the people on the concrete side would be able to push the doors open and get out. Because today there's no access doors to the outside.
[63:54] Speaker 4: Okay.
[63:54] Speaker 6: So only on the wood side.
[63:56] Speaker 4: So I guess my question. I'm. I'm understanding that these improvements that we're talking about will, will solve that problem because there will be an exit on the concrete side.
[64:05] Speaker 6: There still won't be. There is. I have thoughts. There's. There's a roll up door they make that would replace the back door that has an exterior exit built into it. It's really nice. But that could be installed there that would help the fire issues we have.
[64:23] Speaker 4: Yeah. Okay. So that's a good idea. But it's not in this.
[64:27] Speaker 6: It's not in this this. But right now.
[64:29] Speaker 4: But it's on your mind for a future improvement because I really think that that would. Would be great. It would, you know, would have it so that, you know, sometimes people could be using one side, some people using the other.
[64:40] Speaker 6: We need exits for people.
[64:42] Speaker 4: Of course. Yeah. But I'm just saying that it kind of just expands the. The use of the space. If we can have two separate spaces
[64:49] Speaker 6: when we want improvements. You know, we talked about putting a door over there, but that's. We. I think it's a lot more money. Just because you'd have to tear up the wall.
[64:58] Speaker 4: Sure. Yeah.
[64:59] Speaker 6: And that back door also needs to be replaced and they make a door that would replace that that has an exterior door built into it.
[65:07] Speaker 4: Right. Okay. Thank you. That's all I had.
[65:10] Speaker 1: Great. A follow up to vice mayor's comment on the exterior siding. You're going to roll back some of that. The metal as little as possible. Is it going to be. It looks like it's pretty ratty all around. The entire building is.
[65:28] Speaker 4: It is.
[65:29] Speaker 6: There's. There's some that's in really good shape like around the senior center and there's some that is really ratty where cars have hit it and it's. It's pulled up at this moment. We're not planning on replacing that. But again, it's another idea.
[65:44] Speaker 9: Okay.
[65:46] Speaker 6: We'll have you know, they. That sighting is pretty available. So if we need to replace it, it can be replaced.
[65:54] Speaker 1: I like the idea. Draw their eyes to the nice glass roll up door and then they won't notice their rattiness.
[66:02] Speaker 4: It's vintage.
[66:04] Speaker 1: It's vintage. Fair enough.
[66:05] Speaker 4: We have one more. Did you have something?
[66:07] Speaker 1: I just had a comment that I think I've been reading that it suggested that the improvements we're doing is taken away from our youth. And I think that's furthest from the truth. In fact, both those spaces, by separating those spaces, we're going to be able to have more youth activities in there. Both girl scouts and boy Scouts right now. Lease it out or they rent it on a regular basis, I believe. I don't. We. We should probably run a list at some point. Yeah. Once a week. So it. It's absolutely not closed to youth. It was just that particular.
[66:40] Speaker 3: Just a little league meets there too.
[66:42] Speaker 6: Yeah. So other youth organizations.
[66:44] Speaker 1: Right. Yeah. Thank you.
[66:46] Speaker 6: We have a full schedule in the community.
[66:48] Speaker 1: It's really exciting.
[66:49] Speaker 6: With the point closed. We're booked.
[66:51] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[66:53] Speaker 6: Great.
[66:53] Speaker 1: Did you have comments?
[66:54] Speaker 4: I had one.
[66:54] Speaker 6: Thank you.
[66:56] Speaker 4: A pet peeve. It's not on here and we can just think about it for the future. But we have like obvious bathroom windows on Main Street. And often there's, you know, toilet paper and cleaning products stacked in those windows. So just some idea in the future, you know, removing them, not picking the stuff out, but, you know, just. Yeah, something. Something that, that makes it not looks so much like a bathroom on Main Street, I guess, you know, and make that improvement tomorrow. Well, I know we've. We remove it all the time and it just keeps coming back. So I'm just. So my idea is like something more, more permanent so that, you know, there was something across there that just, you know, you couldn't, you couldn't see that, elevating the windows, you know, something like that.
[67:44] Speaker 6: So.
[67:44] Speaker 1: Yeah, good comment. Thank you. All right, I'm going to open this item up for public comment, if I didn't already. No, no public comment. So close public comment. And there's no action here. So thank you for the report. Appreciate it. And now we're going to move on to updates regarding California Forever, if any.
[68:08] Speaker 5: Thank you, Honorable Mayor and Council. The City Clerk is going to share a slide. On March 5, I had a conversation with Gabe Metcalf of California Forever regarding potential development in and around the direct periphery of Revista, and there's nothing notable to report. There was also an email that was circulated today, you may or may not have have seen it, that references the reimbursement agreement that the city has entered into with California Forever. It is true that the city has entered into a reimbursement agreement that was considered by the City Council in a public meeting. I think perhaps what may be unclear is that each scope of work has to be individually approved by the potential application applicant, which is California Forever. And thus far, we only have one scope of work that's been approved, which was to negotiate the MoU. And as you know, the MoU has since been rescinded because of unsuccessful negotiations in that way.
[69:21] Speaker 1: Any questions? Comments? I'll make a comment. Additionally, in that letter, it mentioned that it talked about in discussions regarding infill projects within our city, made another. A number of other references, but of course, we've been talking about infill projects for well over a year at this point, and so there's not been any movement in that area. It was primarily to talk about the North Bay opening, which all of us already know it did open, and we are thankful for their support in helping to make that happen. But with regards to any of the other projects, nothing has moved forward.
[69:55] Speaker 4: So you have a. I do.
[69:58] Speaker 1: Reading it.
[69:59] Speaker 4: Okay, I'm reading it. Let's See, we've signed a reimbursement agreement with the city of Rio Vista to start exploring what smart growth would look like in Rio Vista. But they do say including bring bringing better retail services and tax revenue to the city. So a little bit of an overstatement I would say.
[70:20] Speaker 1: Well, we're hoping that it works out. Yeah. So any other comments? Okay, then we will move on to your report of public comment after I take public comment. You get caught on that one. Every time I see no public comment, I'm a close public comment. And now I'm ready for the city manager's report.
[70:46] Speaker 5: Thank you honorable mayor and council. We do have an acting police chief, Sergeant Pontecorvo for the time being while Chief west is out on leave. So you will be seeing him attend city council meetings until Chief west returns.
[71:06] Speaker 1: Welcome.
[71:10] Speaker 5: I surprised him. And then if you have not heard, Caltrans will be replacing channelizers from Druin drive to Highway 13 on Highway 12 from March 23 to March 28 from 68 between 6am and 4pm so it's during, you know, normal business hours. So if you can in any way work around that, I suggest that you do so for expedia. Expediency. We are getting close in terms of Brand Ranch. So that is exciting. That's a proposed development project within the city for planning commission and city council consideration. We are. Recruiting for the community services officer position. We've conducted interviews and we have a candidate under background check. And then we are accepting applications for a part time account clerk. The General Plan 2045. It will be considered by the city council on April 7th. And then thanks to the rate payers supporting the increase in wastewater rates which was one of the tough projects we had to tackle. Hydroscience has completed 50% of the design for the wastewater consolidation project which includes a number of significant upgrades to the city's wastewater collection system including design of approximately 17,000 linear feet of new sewer force main and gravity sewer at various locations within the city between the beach plant and Airport Road. New and replacement lift stations on Beach Drive, second Street and River Road. Upgrades to the Marina lift station to pump to the Northwest wastewater treatment plan plant collection system instead of the beach wastewater treatment plant collection system. Modifications to the Vineyard Bluff standard sanitary sewer force main and design of a new 12 inch water main on North Front Street. And for those that I know, the council is very well aware of this. But since we do have an audience that we don't always have appreciation. We are unique in Rio Vista, very unique in that we operate two wastewater treatment plants. That is extremely uncommon. And then lastly, we are still advertising for student scholarships. So if you know any students, please encourage them to apply. Details are on the city website. We're offering $1,000 to a student in Rio Vista. Thank you.
[74:13] Speaker 1: Thank you for the report. Can you tell me the. For the channelizers. It was March 23rd through what?
[74:19] Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's in. The weekly update from last Friday and I'll continue to post is from March 23rd to March 28th. So a six day period. So it's a Monday to Saturday from 6am to 4pm thank you.
[74:38] Speaker 7: I think Caltrans has signs, electric signs already that have the information on it. Don't. I thought I saw them.
[74:44] Speaker 1: No one reads.
[74:46] Speaker 7: I didn't.
[74:47] Speaker 5: It's needed, but it will be inconvenient. Yeah.
[74:53] Speaker 1: Questions? No questions. Okay. All right. I'll open this item up for public comment. Seeing none. I'll close that and we'll come to 9.02 city council reports.
[75:10] Speaker 3: I'll just make a quick comment. So we. I think Ms. Slang Lloyd's mentioned earlier we had our opening day for little league and it's always a fun event. This year was exciting because I think the last two years were rained out and this year we had about 80 degree weather. 85 degree weather was nice. But a lot of people have to step up to make that event happen. We had, you know, realistic fire, police, Montezuma. We had lions. There was a lot of other people involved. But what I really wanted to comment was the field. We've done so many improvements on that field just over the last two or three years and we get to travel around the county and we truly do have one of the nicer fields out there. And I say this a lot too, with our pool, my son's on baseball and sharks. And so with our pool, we have one of the nicer pools in the area as well. So I just really always want to make that comment. Our public works just does a fantastic job, but we really kind of are spoiled. We have some good fields in certain areas.
[76:10] Speaker 1: So great to hear.
[76:11] Speaker 3: Thank you for that.
[76:15] Speaker 4: Thank you. That's great. How many kids anymore? So it's always good to hear about what they're doing. I just wanted to report that I attended the chamber of commerce members meeting. Can I. That was a while back, but I just. If you haven't been into the Chamber of Commerce recently, that's all spruced up, paint, new flooring, you know, they're working on some new furniture. So really nice space. They're also working on being open on Saturdays looking for, you know, volunteers to help out with that. I was at the Seraptima 70th anniversary gala. Really well done event. It was great teamwork. One of the things that I know that they did was in order to do that event and maximize for their scholarship funds, they had a lot of sponsors for different aspects. So, you know, for paying. Paying for the food. So it wasn't just ticket sales. And I thought that was really impressive, you know, to work it that way. I attended yesterday the Tripart, I think I'm saying it right, Advisory board and that is part of Capsilano. Folks from Capsilano, their Lived experience committee folks were already were there. And then the current provider for the continuum of care, so met over in Fairfield. There's been reports and in the Fairfield and all the papers about, I would say a pretty dysfunctional group right now. So it was good to get together with the folks who are all the stakeholders and talk about how conversations, you know, need to be happening and just everybody working together rather than in their little. Their own silos. And then we have the 2.0 of the same meeting because everything was continued from Capsilano's last meeting. That'll be happening this next week. Just have to leave, I guess a little later so I don't get caught in the traffic going over to Fairfield. So thank you.
[78:24] Speaker 6: Great.
[78:25] Speaker 1: Thank you very much for your conscientiousness on the Capsilano since I served on that and I'm very helpful, thankful that you do now. So this past week I attended the Solano County Water Agency meeting, also the Solano Transportation Authority meeting. And then I was honored. I was nominated and then selected to attend the state, well, the National Security Forum, which is in Alabama. The Air Force, Travis Air Force nominated me and I'm going to be heading on over in May. So I'll be missing that first meeting, I believe. Also this Friday I'll be attending the state of the base, which is always a pretty exciting event because they go over all the data on how much economic benefit they provide to the county. And it's always great looking at these, all these cool people in uniforms, men and women, by the way. And then of course, everyone else is welcome here. You just need rsvp. That's my report. Councilmember Stanish.
[79:27] Speaker 9: Yeah, last Monday I attended a mosquito abatement meeting and they collect larva samples from certain ponds every year and on an ongoing basis. And unfortunately, the larva samples more than doubled from last year. And it's probably due to the warmer temperatures this year, but we won't have a really good handle on it probably for another couple more months on where we are with the mosquitoes. I attended an STA transit and rideshare goals and review objectives. And unfortunately, 99% of it doesn't affect Real Vista, but there's that 1% that does. So, Greg, not showing up, you didn't really miss much. And then one more thing. Christina kind of alluded to it a little while ago, but I want to thank the Red Cross. Usually when you get presentations and receive the proclamation, usually they just leave. I don't know why you guys stayed, but thank you. We appreciate it. We appreciate it. Thank you. And that's my report.
[80:39] Speaker 1: Thank you.
[80:41] Speaker 7: I also attended the Sauroptimus 70th Gala. It was at the Monarch. And I just have to just give a shout out to the Monarch. They've, like, up their game. I think actually since the point closed, they've given a lot more banquets there. And the golf course is looking beautiful. So if you haven't been out there, you should stop in and sit outside and enjoy it. They've really improved a lot from where they were. I also attended Little League opening day and I looked around for Christina Miller and I thought, she's here. But she had a new haircut and I just didn't even recognize her until somebody said, well, there she is right there. But that was a great, great day. I wore my Giants gear and all that, and I bought my ticket for the Rio Vista Fire Department Hot shots Casino Night, April 11. So I have that. I have my carabingo on Friday night. So I've been out buying tickets and that's it for me.
[81:34] Speaker 1: Great. Thank you for the report. I'm going to open those items up for public comment now. See, none. I'm going to close public comment and I'm going to move to 10 city council future agenda items down here. No, I have one. Okay. Council members.
[81:53] Speaker 4: Donnelly, I'm going to talk trash.
[81:54] Speaker 1: Okay.
[81:57] Speaker 4: So literally, we don't have an ordinance currently on the books. I just like us to look at that. About where we're keeping our. And of course, I'm not talking in HOA communities. I'm talking about, you know, core. There's a lot of trash cans blocking sidewalks. You know, there's 10 to, you know, 15 of them at some of our apartment buildings. There's trash cans on front lawns, on front porches. You know, so, you know, if we can look at that. Look at what other communities are doing. You know, we. We need more multifamily housing. And we. This is one of the things that people bring forward as to why they don't want that in their neighborhood. You know, brings down the property values, blah, blah, blah. But, you know, there's ways to do it. We can all get along, but we need to take care of our trash. Thanks for the blowing all over the street, too.
[82:56] Speaker 1: Okay, that wasn't meant to be an agenda item. It was meant to be a.
[83:01] Speaker 4: To that item.
[83:04] Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
[83:04] Speaker 5: I think the request is to have staff draft an ordinance that regulates the placement of trash.
[83:10] Speaker 1: Okay. Do we have one? We do not. Okay.
[83:15] Speaker 4: That's what I said.
[83:16] Speaker 1: Okay. I thought we might have one. Is there consensus?
[83:22] Speaker 7: Yes. That's why I moved to an HOA because I lived in a neighborhood in Vacille where people just left their garbage cans everywhere. And I said I'm going to move to a place that. That can't happen. Okay, so I hear you completely.
[83:33] Speaker 1: So when we pass ordinance, you can move back downtown. Okay, so there's consensus. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. Good idea. And I'm going to move to number 11 now. Adjournment. Thank you. We're going to close this meeting in 7:23.
[83:55] Speaker 2: It.