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The City Council convened on October 20, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. for a regular meeting, later recessing into four General Improvement District (GID) sessions. The council approved consent agenda items, adopted multiple proclamations, and took significant actions on the 2027 city budget, Downtown Development Authority budget, an expedited affordable housing review policy, naming of the 701 Pocket Park, and positions on several state and local ballot measures. Public input featured strong support for naming the park after Rosabella Luera and for endorsing a child care tax.
Clerk back, could we please get a roll call? Mayor Tapia Vega? Here. Mayor Pro Tem Barnes. Good evening. Counselor Bullier? Here. Counselor Friedland. Counselor Gallego. Good evening. Counselor Gianola. Here. And Councillor Genesis. Here. Maybe we have a question. Mayor I move to excuse Councillor Friedman. Second. We have a motion and a second to excuse Councillor Friendland from the meeting. Any discussion on this motion? All those in favor say aye. Anyone opposed to say no? None opposed. That passes unanimously. Okay. We will begin tonight with public input. Before we do, I got a call before we got here today, so I just want to clear a few things up because it might be a little confusing. There was a public hearing at the last meeting, and a lot of people wanted to speak about one particular subject that was for the budget. And there's four public hearings at this meeting. However, uh, just to be clear, if you do want to speak to any of the city budget items, the best time to do that is now during the public input. So just hopefully that clears things up. But as usual, if you want to speak tonight, fill out one of the speaker request forms. And speaking of five minutes, this is about equity and making sure everybody gets the same exact amount of time, regardless of who you are. So at the five minute mark, I will ask you to speak and we'll move on. Stop and we'll move on to the next speaker. If you are like me and you have no idea what five minutes feels like without a clock in front of you, don't worry, there is one in front of you. If you look down and to your left, you will see exactly how much time you have left. And if you're not here today, but you still want to address counsel, you still want to be on the record, you can call us. That phone number is on our website. We'll begin tonight with Frank Archelletta. Mr. Mayor, Council, and staff. As a historian, I appreciate counsel. Give me the opportunity to share the dark history of Lafayette. First of all, I'd like to thank Roy Johnson for submitting the name for the Rosabella Park to the City of Lafayette. Also, what I have here is a letter from the youth advisory board, and also on the back is the results from the survey on the two pages. You can go over those at your own discretion here. Also, the community survey results from the park, the name at 701 South Public Road, Rosabella Park received the strongest overall support by the citizens for character and identity, 258 votes.