So unfortunately, Councilmember Pen Rose is not able to attend anyway.

Councilmember does notify us that she will be in remote for just call us into this issue.

So the attorney have their neighbor.

And we provide a form of the board attendance in person, and the number of time is the audio and the video technology.

In addition, council members may only use just college provisions two times per year, given that there are four council members here in person tonight, and that this is only the first time in 2025 that council members and has attended the vote in the first call.

Council members are also going to attend the locally.

Yes.

Here may have council.

So I agree.

So the first time is uh to the suppliations and presentations and the presentation.

Mr.

Mayor was uh obviously was uh discussion the last meeting where we were talking about the gateway project, and we have a group of uh leader representatives that are working on a lot of issues for the two people who are downtown, and I think they're a teacher to talk about the number of happy talking about.

Thank you so much.

And that's the is representing the NATO association.

Thank you so much.

So it is time to present on the work that we've had for putting in the last four or five months.

Um we want to say thank you to council member Patrick who brought us all together.

So how this group came to be in the representative.

Um we represent is the four main organizations that do work of any kind on the main street of separate um individual events.

So we've got our wonderful happening unification committee who is represented by Cameron Palmer, the coastal chamber of our is represented by myself, Mr.

Lynn, the downtown association, which is represented by Colleen and Betsy, and the city, which is represented by Council Member Patrick Lowe Johnson.

Our mission is to bring together these organizations in a way that they've not been brought together in quite a long time, if ever.

We all have played a different part on helping Main Street be an economic place for both residents and tourists, but we've always stayed in our separate silos.

And thanks to the help of Councilman Patrick, we were able to come together and turn that into one giant silo.

Currently, there are eight areas that we have been focusing our work.

So the first and foremost is a blight ordinance.

And this is working, all of these projects are working with the city, and we are here to help with the pieces that the city could use some advice on or some help with the manpower so that staff does not have to spend time that they can use better elsewhere.

So we've got the light ordinance, street sweeping, sidewalk cleaning, compact parking stalls for some parts of Main Street, wayfinding signage, street cold banners, map kiosks, and the street trees and flowers.

Together we think all of these projects will make downtown vibrant as it works towards the street skates master plan.

Here is just a small snapshot of what we have been working on in each of these eight categories.

I do want to recognize that this is only a small sliver of the poodles and poodles of papers that we got back at home base.

So thanks to the city, there is a draft flight ordinance that is being worked on right now, and we look forward to that coming forward to council so that the city can look at properties like the old coastside publishers building and the 7-Eleven dumpster area that seem to be prone to lots of garbage collection or just really bad wear and tear due to neglected buildings, and help to clean those up.

Currently, downtown is starting to suffer from what is called broken window syndrome, which is where once a window is broken, then more windows become broken because it slowly becomes more and more than normal.

It was a study I believe in 1954 about case.

So we are trying to help avoid the broken windows and wall light spread.

The next is the street sweeping.

So we're not exactly sure what the difference is over the last couple of years, but the leaks and the debris on the streets has gotten way out of hand.

And unfortunately makes the street look quite dismal at its height.

We have been working with the city to identify the problem, and some of that relates to cars being parked on the sides of the road, where the street sweepers come by, where the street sweepers are going, and so on.

So we have been working with city staff to identify those issues, and then we are hopeful that an ordinance will come forward to do what other cities have been known to do, which is put signs up that street sweeping is happening at a certain time, and that cars can't be parked there, just to ensure that the streets are first get to them.

Along with the street sweeping, also the sidewalks have been suffering.

We have been working with the city to identify what some of the major issues are.

The biggest one being recruiting trees.

We have not identified what a solution may look like because people love the trees and obviously topping them all down is not going to be a way forward.

But unfortunately, they made quite the mess and actually tends to look like a thumb on the street, which is not what we are trying to look like to our tourists and residents.

So we are working with the city to identify possible solutions and possible solutions like eco-friendly power washing.

So we do understand that you can't just get out there with a regular little pressure washer, but there are California and City organizes that need to be adhered by.

So we are very grateful to Moz for helping us figure out that, and once we know what the cost is, we would do some kind of easy to see how we can make that happen.

And then a fun idea is that once we start getting these things handled, we are going to be asking the individual shop owners to maintain the front of their shops, and we are going to create an award that we hope to give out at future city council meetings for shops that are looking forward to restaurants or businesses that are looking particularly awesome and we can celebrate how we do it for it.

Next up is the compact parking salt.

So one thing that came up quite often during the streetscapes masters plan, is that the parking on Main Street is a difficult connector.

And when it gets brought up to make it parallel, people get very upset.

So one thing that came up this year in the city's priority session meeting was the idea of some of the tighter main street blocks to mark them as compact so that at least certain areas are safer for people to go through to hopefully stop as many blender vendors as we see from people pulling out and trying to get around a ranch truck that is slipping out very far.

So we are working with the city to create, to research and create an ordinance for turning those into compact stalls, and then we don't lose any parking, we just shift it.

And then working with the city on some parking signs to let people know about the parking on other parts of the streets.

And the next step which came up at our last meeting was the wayfinding sign.

And so we have been working together to create some ideas that we can then bring to the city and the different groups, agriculture advisory committee, planning committee, and the community to start the conversation on what people want to see from the signs, both in design and style.

After much research and discussion, the brand for downtown and for signage, not only would make it easier for future signage to be made without having to start from scratch, but they're also will make it easier for people to identify way-finding signage versus parking signage and so on, based on their design, and it will all be a cohesive if there's two record designers on the commission, so the Lord knows we want to make sure it was.

Or getting us ready to help me have part of it.

Next, the project that we have been spending the most amount of time on is the tree pole banners.