Sound check, sound check, sound check.

Okay, let's go ahead and get started.

Councilmember Bowen.

Okay, the time is 702, and I am calling to order this San Leandro City Council meeting.

Hello.

Hello.

In order, please.

Thank you so much.

At this point in time, uh we are going to have some new citizens lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

So if I could have our new citizens come forward, and they can come with their teacher and whoever wants to join them, but come forward.

Ms.

Lamb, if you could bring them forward.

And then Madam Clerk, if you could turn on the microphone right there at the podium.

What do you want us?

Right there by the microphone.

And then if you're able to stand, please do so.

And you guys just begin and we will follow.

Okay.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you very much for doing that.

You can have a seat and we will recognize you a little bit more fully in just a minute.

Councilmember James Aguilar.

Present.

Councilmember Victor Aguilar.

Present.

Vice Council Member Bowen.

Present.

Councilmember Simon.

Present.

Vice Mayor Vivos Walton.

Present.

And Mayor Gonzalez.

Present.

Now tonight we have the appointment and squaring in of a new member to the recreation and parks commission.

I'd like to move this item up here into section four where we do recognition, especially leaving it way down at the bottom during action items.

Any concerns?

Seeing none, we will make that adjustment to our amendment uh to our agenda.

City of San Landro conducts orderly meetings to fulfill its mandate, discriminatory statements or conduct that would potentially violate the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and or the California for Employment and Housing Act, California Penal Code Sections 43 or 415 are per se disruptive to a meeting and will not be tolerated.

Please see the City Council handbook and city council meeting rules of decorum for more information.

At this point in time, Madam Clerk Clerk, your announcement.

If you would like to make a public comment during the meeting, you can do so in person or via Zoom.

If you are present at the meeting, please complete a speaker card and submit it to the city clerk before the item is presented.

Then wait for public comment on that item to be called.

If you wish to participate in public comment via Zoom, you can use the raise your hand tool when the item is called.

During the public comment session, speakers will be invited to speak and we'll have a set time to share their comments.

If you have not had the opportunity to speak during the initial 30 minute period, there will be another chance to do so after item 12, City Council reports.

Okay, at this point in time, I believe there is nothing to report out of closed session, but I will go to city attorney to confirm.

Thank you, Mayor.

You are confirmed.

No reportable actions were taken in closed session.

Okay, thank you.

So at this point in time, let's go to item number four.

This is where we moved our first item 10A into the section on the appointment.

Uh City Clerk Bunting, would you please proceed?

Thank you.

Mayor and Council, before you this evening, this item is a motion to appoint Emilio Pinonez to fill the district three vacancy on the recreation and parks commission after the city council votes and makes the appointment.

Um, Emilio, if you're here, um that would be um in just one moment.

Thank you.

And with that, I'm available with any questions.

Any questions?

Okay.

Do we have any public comment on this item?

Do we need to take public comment on this item?

We do.

Okay, please proceed with any public comment that we might have.

Uh no public comment on this item, Mayor.

Okay.

Uh, do I have a motion, please?

Councilman Regular.

Uh James Aguilar.

No.

Victor Aguilar.

I'd like to move this item.

Okay.

Uh, Vice Mayor.

Second.

Thank you.

Any further discussion?

Seeing none, please vote.

All votes are in.

And the motion carries unanimously.

Emilio.

Sorry.

Just raise your right hand.

Okay.

I please state your name.

I, Emilio Pinones.

Do solemnly swear or affirm.

Do swallownly swear or for affirm.

That I will support and defend.

That I will support and defend.

The Constitution of the United States.

The Constitution of the United States.

And the Constitution of the State of California.

And the Constitution of the State of California.

Against all enemies.

Against all enemies.

Foreign and domestic.

Foreign and domestic.

That I will bear true faith and allegiance.

That I will bear true faith and allegiance.

To the Constitution of the United States.

To the Constitution of the United States.

And the Constitution of the State of California.

And the Constitution of the City of California.

That I take this obligation freely.

Without any mental reservation.

Without any mental reservations.

For purpose of evasion.

Or purpose of evasion.

And that I will well and faithfully discharge.

That I will well and faithfully discharge.

The duties upon which I'm about to enter.

The duties of which I'm about to enter.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

So for those of you that are out there, we certainly appreciate the volunteerism, and we encourage everyone to consider serving on one of our commissions.

Thank you, Emily, for stepping forward.

Uh to do this.

Now we've got two proclamations and a recognition.

So as part of the agenda, we will begin by declaring May as Mental Health Awareness Month.

We will then proceed to declare May as Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and then we will receive a generous donation from the Rotary Club.

Okay, let's begin with Mental Health Awareness Month.

Julia Liao and Tu Quak.

Okay, so we're gonna do this.

If you can look this way.

So I'm gonna read along and you can follow if you'd like.

There you go.

Here we go.

So whereas mental health is an is essential to our overall health, and the importance of attending to it has become even more pronounced over the last few years.

And whereas nearly 58 million American adults live with some form of mental illness, where they experience anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, or others.

And whereas many people with mental health issues may not know how to access resources for their needs, and stigma or fear of discrimination, keep many who would benefit from mental health services from seeking help.

And whereas the city of San Leandro supports efforts to address mental health and the emotional well-being of individuals and at-risk populations and favors legislation to strengthen such services.

Now, therefore, I, Juan Gonzalez III, mayor of the city of San Leandro, do hereby proclaim the month of May 2026 as mental health awareness month in the city of San Leandro.

And do call upon our community to increase awareness and understanding of mental illness, to reduce stigma and discrimination towards mental illness, and to promote appropriate and accessible services for all people with mental illness.

Thank you for being here with us.

Yes, please.

Under the who's gonna use that.

It's okay.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor Gonzalez and Council members.

Just with a little bit.

My name is Milee.

I am the program director for the dental residency at Asian Health Services.

And on behalf of Asian Health Services, we want to thank the mayor, the city, council members, and the city of San Leandro for this important recognition.

We are honored to be here today because we recognize that there is an incredible need for not only dental but also mental health services in the city of San Leandro.

We are proud to say that we are one of the first integrated dental and mental health clinics in the country.

We are also the first dental teaching health center in the state of California.

Our new clinic is just right across the street, right next door to TOS, so you can stop by and say hi to us.

Our clinic includes four dental specialties and a licensed clinical social worker supporting our patients.

We started the dental mental health model because as dentists, we saw an increasing number of patients who were struggling with depression, suicide, and domestic violence.

I recall seeing having a patient who is struggling with depression, and um she had just lost her adult daughter.

Um she was experiencing severe anxiety during a routine dental clinic cleaning.

It wasn't because she was being at the dentist, but just rather she was still mourning her daughter.

Um I shared this with our licensed clinical social worker, and she was able to reach out and um get her the assistance that she needed.

Our dental clinic opened on December 4th, 2024, which is two full-time dentists, myself included, and we are now fully staffed with four to six general dentists and specialists on any given day.

Our specialties include pediatrics, oral surgery, periodontal surgery, and endodonics.

We provide care to medical patients who would otherwise have difficulty finding dental offices that accept their insurance, especially specialists.

We currently have about 2,000 active patients from zero to 100 years old, and this accounts for about 6,000 uh visits in the past 16 months alone.

So we provide basic dental services as well as crowns, uh, root canals, extractions, including wisdom teeth, dentures, and implants, and we are excited to have our dental residents join us this July.

So we cannot have been able to provide such wonderful services for the community without your support.

Thank you so much again, Mr.

Mayor, Council members, and the city of San Leandro for this great honor.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

This kind of innovation in the city of San Leandro.

What was it?

First in the whole state of California.

I love it.

City where innovation flourishes.

Okay, we will move to our second proclamation, declaring May as Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month here in the city of San Leandro.

If I can have everyone from the Vietnamese American Community Center of the East Bay, come on up.

This is your time.

So we've got Ms.

Hen Li, the instructor of all of these wonderful new citizens.

And we're going to give you this proclamation for all the great work that you're doing.

Come on over so that everybody has space.

There you go.

Come on up.

Perfect.

Thank you for being here today.

So I'm going to let you tell all of your story, but just for the for people to recognize out there that you've helped over 500 students.

Yes, approximately.

On their pathway to citizenship.

Yes.

That's amazing.

Thank you.

And when you were young and came over here to the United States, I was young.

I was in the city of Houston when there was a large group of Vietnamese Americans that came to the United States back in the 70s.

And to think that you know we have grown up together, apart, but yet together.

And I'm so excited about uh having you here today.

I want to say I was very young.

You were very, very young.

I was young.

You are very young.

Whereas Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month is a month to celebrate and pay tribute to the contributions of the AAPI community to American history, to society and culture.

And whereas President Obama issued presidential proclamation 8369, proclaiming May 2009 as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

And whereas Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders comprise many different ethnicities and languages, and their many achievements embody the American experience.

And whereas Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are leaders in all aspects of American life, including government and industry, science and medicine, arts and armed forces, education, and sports.

And whereas San Leandro community has greatly benefited through the cultural richness, diversity, and generosity of its local Asian American and Pacific Islanders, and celebrates their contributions through various public programs and events each year.

Now, therefore, I Juan Gonzalez III, mayor of the City of San Leandro do hereby proclaim May 2026 as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the City of San Leandro and do call upon residents to actively appreciate and to celebrate both their AAPI neighbors and more broadly AAPI culture and heritage.

Thank you for being here.

Hi, good evening.

My name is He and Eva Gonzalez Lam.

I am an attorney.

And I, on behalf of VASEP, I would like to thank you, the mayor, the city councils in the last two years for giving us an opportunity and support us through our citizenship program.

We provide citizenships in four different languages English, Chinese, Vietnamese, and also Spanish now.

I believe in the last two years, um at least 60 students or 60 new citizens came out from the uh senior center that's um provided by this um the city of San Leandro.

So thank you very much for your support for our program.

And as an immigrant and a naturalized citizen myself, I want to say that.

Yes, it's the immigrants that make America great.

Amen.

So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take a picture with all of us.

Yes, yes, yes, here you go.

Did you get yours?

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Okay, Rotary.

Celebrating 100 years in San Leandro.

You know, when it's time to offer help to the community, Rotary is there.

Rotary is there here in San Leandro and really throughout the world.

It's a long tradition.

Come on up, everybody.

That's a hundred years.

And I think your official date is in October.

Is that right?

You're gonna have a big gala or something like that.

So be sure and get you a really big big proclamation then.

Come on.

Come on, come on, Rotary Rotary.

In fact, you're invited.

I'm invited on the 15th.

I'm sure the whole town's invited.

It's gonna be quite the celebration.

So at this point in time, there you go.

Get on in there.

Here we go.

It's my understanding that Rotary has been working hard.

And that they have tried to find some way to make a big impact in the city of San Leandro.

And in particular, they have found a way to help drive big change down at the marina, if I understand that correctly.

So I'm gonna pass the mic.

I think it's to you, Mr.

Cornelis, or who am I passing to?

To Jin Hua?

There we go, our president.

Get the president, Brent Center, right here.

All right, again.

So here we go, Jen.

Tell them what's all about.

Okay, okay.

Uh my name is uh Jinhua Su.

I am the current president of the uh Rotary Club of San Leandro.

Uh like to just uh say good evening to honorable mayor Juan Gonzalez, honorable vice mayor, Riveros Walton, uh Councilmember uh Bolt, Councilmember Simon, Councilmember Aguilar, Councilmember Aguilar, Councilmember Bowen, City Manager Cameron, City Attorney P.

Roda.

Thank you for having us.

Um I'd also I just want to say it's been a true honor uh uh serving as president currently, and uh just it's been an honor serving alongside and continue to serving alongside so many uh talented, selfless and generous individuals and Rotarians here in the in this uh organization.

Uh just want to recognize a few of our Rotarians here, specifically Herb Ritter, district governor who manages over uh 70 65 to 70 clubs in our district.

Diane Dorn as well, Lieutenant Governor.

Uh we have uh incoming area governor at Hernandez.

Wow.

Incoming president, Kenneth Pond.

Yeah, thank you.

Uh so you know what is Rotary?

I get this question all the time.

You know, Rotary is about making connections, both uh business, personal, it's about uh camaraderie, it's about uh most important about philanthropy, uh, community service, volunteerism.

But you know, uh rotary is really a global network of we have uh you know a hundred well, I'm sorry, 1.2 million members around the world.

Uh Rotary Club is one of the most honored, most respected service organizations in the world.

Again, we have over 1.2 million members, and that's that's gonna be your neighbor, your friends, leaders, problem solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change around the world in our communities and ourselves.

We have seven key areas peace, disease prevention, water, health, education, local economies, and the environment.

So we're about service above self.

That's one of our mottos.

We also another uh one of our models is people of action, and so that these models drive our uh humanitarian projects.

Uh, we're about bringing together leaders to exchange ideas and take action.

We're about ethical leadership, promoting high ethical standards in all professions.

We're about global impact, addressing issues such as polio eradication, cervical cancer, clean water education worldwide, specifically as it relates to uh youth leadership education, uh peace education, and um also uh polio eradication, which I mentioned.

I think there's only two countries left, and I think it's the intention of the Rotary Club to eradicate uh polio completely.

Um the Rotary Club of San Leandro, we're again we were formed in night, I think 1926.

That's I believe December 1926, so that's gonna be a hundred years, and so again, we all invite you to our uh gala, which will be October 15th.

That's quite a country club.

And let's see, what else?

We have about 35 members, and our members volunteer and do community service projects in San Leandro, impacting hundreds of residents.

And uh we currently also have uh various international projects.

We give out uh about $30,000 a year to about a dozen or or more uh local uh nonprofits ranging from homeless shelters to battered women's shelters to Chicana Literacy to uh you know uh resiliency gardens and and so on, and we also have international projects.

Uh we've done uh cleft palette lip, clef lip and cleft palate surgeries for Guatemala children in Antigua and all around Guatemala.

We also have a youth leadership program in the rural areas of Honduras, and we're now embarking on another project to build out kitchens at a government school in Hyderabad, India.

Uh so it's our intention to continue with these projects, and now uh before yeah, but before I pass it to the next speaker, uh I just want to say again it's it's it's our honor uh and and privilege to offer up this uh the these these monies and funds for the project, and I just also want to recognize um parks and rec director Vicente Suniga and Jennifer Aleta, Parks and Landscape Manager.

And without further ado, I'll pass it on to Ivan Cornelius, uh Rotary Elder and Statesman and past district governor, yeah.

When he says elder, he means it's 1926 is 100 years ago.

Can you hear me now?

Online.

I want you to know that 100 years goes by really fast.

Of those hundred years, I've been in Rotary 61 years.

Whoa.

My role here today is just to share with you a little bit of microcosm of what rotary is in this community, and I can tell you this community means a lot to me.

I've been here since I was six years old.

Rotary, 61 years, so you can do the math.

1939, I was born.

Rotary in the community.

I think the biggest impact, and our biggest contributions in this community, quite frankly, have been youth.

From the get-go, 1926, there were 21 Rotarians, and the first thing they did was sponsored the first Boy Scout troop here in San Leandro, all about kids.

The first Cub Scout troop in San Leandro.

And then, of course, there wasn't much going on in the first 25 years, as you know, there was a little war before the 1926, and there was a big war after 1926, and in between they had a depression.

So Rotary really didn't get started until after the war.

After the war, this community has benefited to the tune of well over a million dollars in contribution in charities to the local charities here in the town.

One of our biggest contributions in this community has been our relationship with the boys and girls club.

Originally it was a boys' club, and as a matter of fact, in 1944, 45, we actually purchased some property on Davis Street, and we gave that to the Boy Scouts as their place for them to meet.

And subsequently, they found some other opportunity.

And in 1947, they chartered the first boys' club.

Yeah, they didn't believe in having girls in a club at that time.

Anyway, the first boys' club.

We have had that relationship from the very get-go in 1947.

I think we made a contribution of 150.

Well, I mean I can remember at six years old.

I was at that building.

I tell my Rotarians, and I said the only thing I remember about the boys club, it smelled like gym socks.

Anyway, we still meet at that boys' club.

It's a boys and girls club now, and it's on the corner marina and uh San Leander Boulevard.

And it's on the corner marina and uh San Leander Boulevard.

What a magnificent structure.

The other paradox, I mean irony is the CEO of that boys and girls club from that little thing that smelled like a boys uh gym sucks.

Excuse me.

The CEO of that boys and girls club was a Rotary Youth Exchange student sponsored by our club.

That CEO of that boys and girls club is a past president of our rotary club.

That CEO of that boys and girls club.

It came from an organization that used to be Ren, because I was on the board by one checkbook.

That organization now has 450 employees.

That organization caters to almost seven thousand students after school programs.

That organization, the main building is a teen center, a dream that even our rotary club had when we tried to convert a part of that old building.

The other thing that this club is notable for our relationship with the Davis Street Family Resource Center.

What a contribution to this community.

President of that organization almost 30 years or more was Rose Pedelia Johnson.

Rose couldn't make it tonight because her daughter's having chemotherapy.

I don't know how many turkeys we bought for Thanksgiving.

It seems like forever.

But I I could go on, but I think the thing that you need to know is that our rotary club started a healthcare clinic there.

And our uh rotary club created a free dental clinic there.

We made the contributions, we got the materials, uh, and that today has become uh a full-fledged medical clinic to serve the needy people here in San Leandro.

God bless them.

And I'll tell you, it's uh it's heartwarming to see the results and to go to that organization to see what they're doing.

Anyway, I was told I had two minutes, but uh Jin took more than two minutes, so I still I stole some too, Mayor, but uh forgive me for that.

But anyway, we've g still give scholarships to San Leo High School students every year.

We take uh a minimum of 30 students a year on a two-day, two-night snow trip every year.

Um, and I could go on, but it gives you an idea.

There is a rotary club in San Leandro.

This is awesome.

All right, we do our picture, check for the presentation.

Okay, this is this is a gift to the entire city of San Leandro, City Council.

Would you like to come on down?

City manager, city attorney, anyone who wants to be in this picture, y'all get in this picture.

Y'all come now.

We have to explain what the check is for.

Okay, okay.

Is everybody there that wants to be there?

Oh, we're here.

I don't know.

One, two, three.

Oh, more photos, more photos, more photos.

Yeah, more, more, more.

Three, two, one.

Yeah.

Yes.

Just mayor.

So just in case anybody didn't hear, hasn't read the agenda, this is all for exercise equipment down at the marina.

Give it up one last time for Rotary.

Thank you.

Yeah, let me have it there.

Okay, so at this point in time, we are going to move on to item number five, our consent calendar.

Would any council member like to pull anything?

If not, I will go to public comment on this item.

Seeing none, we will take public comment on our consent calendar.

Mayor, we have not received any comment cards for the consent agenda, and there's no hands raised online.

Okay, so I'll close public comment and come back to council member Victor Aguilar.

Thank you very well.

Consent calendar.

Okay, so I have a motion by Councilmember Victor Aguilar.

Councilmember James Aguilar.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'd like to second.

So we've got a motion by Victor Aguilar with a second by James Aguilar.

Both council members, honorable council members of this city council.

At this point in time, do we've got any further discussion seeing none, please vote.

All votes are in, and the motion carries unanimously.

I do not believe that we've got any item six, but I'm just going to look to my right and to my left.

Nothing on under item six.

We have not come to the time of our agenda where folks from the public can comment on items that are not on our agenda.

Do we have anyone who would like to speak on something that is not on our agenda?

Mayor, we have not received any comment cards for items.

Uh looks like we have one comment card from uh in the room, and there is currently one hand raised online.

Proceed in the room first for non-agenda items.

Uh Darling.

Changed this.

Being old in a renewed city.

San Leandro.

How would you tell it's renewed?

One way is because the mayor is using technology that's up to date and not just a speech.

It's involved.

It's encouraging, and I'm old.

Uh where Spouts is, there needs to be some help.

Um I called the police department the other day, and I got this impression there's something wrong with these kids, what they're doing.

And then I find the evidence afterwards that I've called the police department.

Our superintendent of schools, and my opinion from listening to further things, um, is that he lives out of county.

He doesn't know the streets.

He doesn't know what these kids do after school.

He's got to hurry home to his teenager.

That I think there should be more constructive interplay between the city, the city councils, and so that the kids are not so rampant.

Um an old lady, but these kids, when I say, you know what?

It was a year ago when things got whacked in my face, and they're down at McDonald's with a plastic thing that's nerf stuff.

But until I got close, I didn't know it was a nerf thing.

But they had 14 that the San Leandro um uh uh newspaper, and now eight pages said is illegal in California.

We need to educate the people in San Leandro better.

I will just tell you this that the country of Denmark, how they vote and other things goes through the library cards.

Thank you.

Mayor, that is our only comment card from in the room.

So we'll close public comment in person, move online to open public comment there.

Our first online speaker is Douglas Spaulding.

Good evening.

Hello, San Leandro.

Uh it's election season.

I'm reminded because there are all kinds of announcements uh in my email and other otherwise that uh that uh you know, mail in ballots were were mailed out to us today.

Uh on the ballot here in San Leandro is Measure F.

I discovered by going to the excellent city clerks page on the city website.

And just to remind you all, because we we we haven't talked about it.

I guess my question is uh what are you, the city council doing to promote measure F.

This is the one that calls for district elections uh per the California Voting Rights Act.

And what that will mean is that each of the six districts, each of the council persons for the six uh city council districts will be elected by only by those people in that specific district.

No longer will they be elected citywide.

Only the mayor's office will be elected citywide.

Uh I'm uh I'm in favor of district elections.

Um I think that it will encourage more people to uh to run for office.

I think you know, the more the better.

Uh it it promises uh you know greater representation because you won't need as much money to run a citywide campaign.

You won't have to knock on as many doors and send out as many mailers and and all that kind of stuff.

So I I think it's really uh uh really a it's really time.

Uh our our school district has district elections.

Uh next door in San Lorenzo, there's there are district elections.

Our Loma is now in the process of adopting district elections.

So it's time for C.

Leandro to do the same.

And if we fail to pass this measure, it doesn't mean that we're going to avoid district election.

It just means that now we're going to face an expensive lawsuit with all likelihood of losing and lining up with district elections anyway.

So let's let's just go forward and do it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mayor, there are no more hands raised on.

Closing public comment online.

At this point in time, we'll go through our agenda.

There is no public hearing today, nor are there informational presentations.

So we're going to move to our action item.

We have taken 10A at the beginning under the recognition section.

So let's move to 10B presentation on the biannual budget.

We have Director Nicole Gonzalez here to guide us through this.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor, uh, members of the city council.

The item before you this evening is the uh amendment to the mid-cycle fiscal year 2027 budget.

Okay.

Uh this is just a reminder of where we've been.

It's been a quite a process with our mid-cycle uh fiscal year 27 budget.

Um, we are here tonight um for adoption here in May of uh 2026.

Um it's been a long road.

We appreciate the work that um has been done by our staff to get us to this point, the conversations and direction that we received from council, um, and of course um our opportunity to work with the committee community on these recommended changes.

So changes that took place as a direction from council was the elimination of the economic development studies in fiscal year 27 and 28 for cumulative reduction of 100,000.

Um we are also including um the reduction in the business incentive program.

So originally it was uh proposed to be eliminated.

Direction from council was to retain um 25,000 in 2027, an additional 25,000 in 2028 for a total of 50,000.

So again, as a reminder, um, just on the changes in revenue, uh, this slide here will represent in column D the net changes to the projected revenue.

Um we are projecting a little less uh than a million dollars in uh original uh projected revenue.

Again, uh this is a net change of the total expenditures and um transfers uh in comparison to the fiscal year 2027 adopted with a net change of 1.7 million reduction.

And then as a reminder, one of the things that we talked about along the process of the budget um were the need for critical uh uh critical needs for infrastructure, one of them being the CAT RMS.

Um, and so in addition to the adjustments to the proposed adjustments for the general fund this evening, we're also are uh looking for authorization from the council to amend the information technology fund, which would take into consideration some reductions uh to services that provides the general fund, but also counting for the uh CAT RMS um uh capital infrastructure project.

Similarly, um the painting and roof replacements will be funded in the facilities maintenance fund.

And so that is captured here and is also in the resolution seeking uh uh increase in appropriation um in the facility maintenance fund of 1.6 million.

Uh furthermore, uh there was further discussion on the support from general fund transfers to other capital funds.

Um, in that amount, it was a reduction of a million dollars.

And so again, seeking um in the resolution uh a change in adjusted appropriation for the capital fund of uh a deduction of a million dollars.

And then lastly, just uh looking again at the tenure forecast.

When we take into consideration everything that um we've discussed and gone through over the last several months, again, focusing on line 29, you'll see that the city is meeting its 20% and really exceeding its 20% uh reserve policy for economic uncertainties.

And so, as a reminder, uh, in past projections, before we did all this work over the last several months, we were projecting a very different picture.

Um, we were essentially not meeting that 20% goal in fiscal year 2027.

Um we were um below um uh that economic uh uncertainty by 2030 in the negatives, and then by 2032, the city was looking to project to have negative cash available.

And so this is a very different picture than what we are looking at even in June of 2026.

Again, acknowledging the great work that staff has done, the input um in review from our community, and then the support and direction that we receive from council.

Um and so just wanting to make sure that we're we're constantly providing this as a as a point for for the council, but for the community as well, that we are monitoring um our general fund and the health of the general fund so that we have long-term fiscal stability and sustainability.

With that, um we are seeking um approval from council uh to approve the resolution amending the fiscal year 2027 budget, including both the revenue and expenditures appropriations.

Okay, so what we'll do is we'll take any clarifying questions at this time, then we'll go to public comment, then come back to council members.

Councilmember Bolt, please.

Yes, thank you.

Um appreciate presentation, but more importantly, you wanted to reiterate what you said, all the hard work that staff is doing to make sure we're getting to the spot we need to be at.

Um I want to point out in in the file 26191, I think it's page seven where it talks about the painting of uh uh city hall and the marina community center.

We said it on the day of when we talked about uh appropriate a million dollars.

If we could divide that up in between the two years, I don't know if we need a motion or what to make this happen, but I'd like to split that up so that we're doing 500,000 in one year, 500,000 in the next.

I mean, it it helps us in the budget to do that.

It's kind of like when you do your dental work, you know, you do it at the end of the year, so you have two balances to go off of.

So I want to make sure we're not forgetting.

So I think that that's a the question is to achieve that end.

Would we need a motion?

Yeah, what do we need to do to make this?

So when we get to the discussion part of this, you could make a motion to make that recommendation.

Okay.

I was just making sure that we're not going down that path, and I'm not stepping on anybody's toes.

I want to make sure we're going down a path.

Well, that topic was discussed at the last meeting.

Three.

And I think that this reflects the consensus of the council, but you are always welcome to make a motion.

Seeing no other questions, I have one question.

The IT slide that had the IT uh IT information technology.

I just want to make sure that I understood this correctly.

So that's slide number six.

The decrease of 543082 is the same as before, or this is a new number.

This is the same number that has been presented before.

Thank you.

Yes.

That's all.

At this point in time, we will go to public comment on this item.

Mayor, we have received three comment cards uh from within the room, and there's currently one hand raised online.

Okay, let's go ahead and take our online hand, and then we'll come back in person.

So we're opening public comment online.

Our online speaker is San Leandro Chamber of Commerce.

Hi, good evening, everybody.

It's Emily Grego, president of the present CEO of the San Leandro Chamber of Commerce.

I wanted to say thank you to uh Councilmember Bowen and uh Bolt for doing some work on these budget cuts around the business incentive program.

Appreciate that.

Uh still very concerned about the cuts being made to the downtown ambassadors and the third party um cleanup uh company that helps with encampments.

All of that is incredibly important to uh community feeling safe and clean and for businesses wanting to be here and employees wanting to work here.

So I just concerned about that.

I don't know if this budget is going to come around again in two years, and then maybe some of that funding is is comes back to us.

I feel like once you cut something from a budget, it's gone forever.

And so I'm just very concerned about that.

Um, of course, I also do see that the chamber's budget is cut somewhat as well.

And I believe we've been a great partner to the city.

And so I hope that you know, as times get better, maybe we see this funding coming back.

But if you all and the ARU, I don't want to be remissed about the ARU.

Those are the downtown ambassadors, um, ARU and the cleaning really add to the community just feeling safe where businesses want to be, where people want to come out and shop.

And so I'm I'm concerned with those cuts.

I hope there's some more discussion this evening around them.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mayor, there are no more hands raised online.

So we'll close public comment online and come into the room.

Opening public comment here.

We receive three speaker cards, and those are from uh Brody Scotland, Shaylani Alex, and Alana Miller.

And you guys can go ahead and come just come up to the front row right here so that your walk is a little shorter.

Hi, I'm Brody Scotland with the Arts Culture and Library Commission.

The staff report recommends eliminating the library art grant funds, and that's a bummer.

Perhaps you've enjoyed the lovely mural at Jupiter Corner at Bethel Community Church on Bancroft, or the butterfly mural just installed downtown, funded by the art grants.

Local author Rose Whitmore was able to complete her first novel with funds from this program.

It's being published in 2027.

We are making a difference in our community with these grants, and thank you for previously funding them.

In 2024, the budget for the art grants was 80,000.

This year it was down to 30,000.

If this passes, it will be zero dollars.

I know that everyone's got to tighten their belts, but that's not a belt tightening measure.

We just won't have a belt.

That is a zero dollar vote for funding arts and culture in our community.

That's a zero dollar investment in artistic improvements in our city.

That's a vote of no confidence for artists that they're bringing economic benefit and other value to the city.

I just received an invite to participate in San Leandro's place branding exercise.

The invite said the goal of the place brand is to help us better position the city as a great place to live, work, visit, and invest in.

I think art is essential to all of those things, and I bet arts and culture will feature prominently in our eventual place brand.

I don't want to lose the momentum we've built and the hard work we've done.

The city used to pay a consultant close to 10,000 to manage the prior art grant program, and now it's all done in-house.

For my day job, I help manage an art grant program, and I provide my expertise for free here after busting my hump all day, because I want to live in a city where kindness matters, volunteerism matters, and art flourishes.

Please reconsider cutting that $30,000.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next speakers are Shaylani Alex and Alana Miller.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

My name is Shaylani Alex, and I serve as a commissioner on the San Leandro Arts, Culture and Library Commission.

It's an appointment I'm honored to hold thanks to this council.

I'm here to address the proposed elimination of library public art funds.

While I understand the need to balance a constrained budget, I want to highlight that this is a high-leverage investment, one that represents well under one-tenth of one percent of the city's total budget, yet produces returns in threefold economic activity, community well-being, and civic identity.

Studies from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis and Americans for the Arts show that arts and cultural industries annually contribute over a trillion dollars to the total U.S.

And at a smaller scale locally, even modest public arts investments can generate noticeable returns through increased foot traffic, audiences spending money and nearby local businesses, and support for working artists.

But beyond economics, public art carries clear social values.

It can increase library visitation and encourage people to stay longer, ease stress and strengthen a sense of belonging in shared civic spaces.

These are things that square um squarely fall in alignment with some of the things we're celebrating this month as well.

So protect those values while respecting our fiscal realities.

I might offer the following suggestions.

First, does this need to be a full elimination or is a partial reduction possible?

And then second, and also in partnership with you, how can we use those preserved funds to leverage external matching funds and partnership opportunities to amplify city dollars so that we don't have to disrupt any plans and goals around the general fund.

As a commissioner and active worker in the arts and culture spaces, I'm personally committed to strong stewardship of this investment.

While elimination of this funding may create minimal short-term savings, it does not um it actually does risk long-term cultural, economic, and civic loss that is far harder to rebuild once it's gone.

I respectfully urge city council to preserve public art funding as a small but high impact investment in San Leandro's continued vitality.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

The next speaker is Alana Miller.

All right, good evening, City Council and Mayor.

My name is Alana Miller, and I have the honor of serving as the chair of the San Leandro Arts, Culture and Library Commission.

Um I'm here tonight to ask the city council to not eliminate the ongoing budget for the arts and culture grants program.

Over the past three years, the San Leo Art San Leandro Arts and Culture Grants Program has been a testament to the city's commitment to creating a more vibrant, connected, and beautiful community.

The grant program is part of our cultural infrastructure.

It has enabled artists, makers, and culture bearers who live in San Leandro to practice their crafts and build creative capacity within their communities.

The impact of these grants can be seen and experienced all around in murals, art classes, mosaic, dance and music performances, all these free and open to the public.

This has fostered creativity and innovation, skill sharing, and making San Leandro a place where artists and art lovers want to live.

Despite the achievements of this program, each year its funding has been reduced.

After 2027, its total funding will be zero dollars.

We are only asking for the budget to sustain the current 27,000 a year grant program and keep this momentum going.

I asked the city council to keep the arts and culture grant program in the budget for 2027 and beyond.

By backing the grants program, you send a clear message that art is integral to the city, not an optional nice to have.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mayor, there are no more comment cards.

So we'll close public comment and come back to council members for discussion.

We will begin with Council Member Bolt.

I was going to start with the motion, but now I'm seeing it light up, so I will pull myself out.

Thank you very much.

Let's just have some discussion before we go to a motion.

Thank you.

Councilmember Bowen.

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

Um we have absolutely had a lot of conversations about this budget.

And I really appreciate the conversations that this council has been able to have, and obviously the finance committee and all of the thought that's gone into this.

And I will say, and I can imagine the rest of my colleagues feel the same way, but every time we work through the process, I go home and I'm like, oh my God, I should have really advocated for this more.

What if I would have done that?

And I go back to our retreats and a very clear decision for us that we were going to really be what's the word?

Um have strength in sticking to trying to balance this budget and looking through the lines of fiscal responsibility so that we don't have to make real hard cuts further along, not to say that any of the things that we're doing now are not hard.

Um I really, really hate that we are cutting library hours, although it's going to be up on the whole because we made a decision to give access to folks with another library, which is absolutely wonderful, but it's you know, it's that the balance of it.

And I really wish we could not only fund the um ambassador program but extend it down further on 14th Street and so many things we've talked about, and then obviously hearing um from our public commenters today.

Yes, like I want to fund all of that.

Um what I would say is that hopefully this is that where we stay.

And that I know that this council, in the comments that we've made and in the work that we do in the in when we leave the these chambers is really to promote these programs because this is what the community wants, and this is what makes San Leander really wonderful.

Leander really wonderful.

So I think the push is going to be on us to somehow be creative in whatever we can to try to support additional funding that is not out of the general fund so that we can balance this budget.

But I would say I I support the budget as presented so that we can move um forward with this so that come July 1st we can be in in a good place.

Um, but I think the direction certainly for me is to if there's any money, um, certainly some of the the uh programs and cuts that have been um uh floating through these conversations, I think staff have noted and is really important for us because I think so many of the things that we've talked about really speak to um uh not just the nice to have because I understand it's not infrastructure necessarily or it's not public safety, but it's the things that like make a community thrive, right?

It's the things that actually are like the root causes of so many of the things that we're trying to address.

So, you know, I just this is this is a hard decision, but I think that it's getting it's helping us as a city be in a better place.

And I I don't know if um did you if um the finance director wanted to respond.

If you'd like to weigh in on this or anything else.

Thank you.

Um I did just want to provide a little bit of context about the uh mini grant arts for the arts program.

Um director of of the library, Brian uh Simmons did provide some additional opportunity for funding for 2027.

Uh so through a combination of some carry-forward uh dollars as well as some gift uh funds that we have, we will have enough funding in 2027 to fund that program uh just through a different form of funding, as you mentioned.

So it won't be necessarily purely general fund, but it will be a combination of some carry-forwards from other programs this year, and then some gift funds that the city has received.

Was there anything that you needed to elaborate on that?

Please proceed.

There you go.

Um, I absolutely love that, and just want to reiterate that.

Let's do that for opening the library on Mondays again and maybe even Sundays, just throwing that out there.

Really, really want that to happen in the Safety Ambassador program.

And if I can I just want to clarify something for safety ambassadors, my recollection is that's in the future.

Is that this year?

It's being considered uh potentially next biannual budget 28-29.

So it does not include it as a reduction in this budget.

So specifically for 29, so not for 28, but for 29 fiscal year ending 29.

For the downtown ambassadors program, correct.

There's proposed reductions for consideration in both 28 and 2020.

Thank you very much for clarifying.

Um Vice Mayor, please.

Okay.

Thank you.

Um, I did have that as one of uh the kind of clarifying points and to kind of add some more context, but it's also my understanding that it the funding remains um flat.

There is there's no cut, but the funding remains flat for the ambassadors.

That is correct.

And I think some of the uh what um what we have all received via email um is around not including a colour increase.

Um, and so we are committing to funding the ambassador program at the current rate, uh, but needing to make the tough decision of not including a colour, but continue to fund the position as the the in the same amount, so to speak.

Um I I just serving in the finance committee, um we've had a lot of really tough conversations, both as a council during our strategy uh meeting in in March and even before that, as um then director UN finance director UN kind of rang the bell um several years ago, even uh when I was first onboarded to the council um in 2024.

Um staff has been ringing the bell on the the impending fiscal situation that we are we are looking at.

And there's a couple of things that I want to highlight.

One is that I am despite the cuts, and I I do want to clarify that every single department is making significant cuts in relative to their overall budgets.

Some of the departments are small, um, like HR.

So when we're looking at a proportional cut um versus the larger departments, they're looking at a significant cut as well, even though the number itself is not that large, but the department is small.

But what I am proud, at least for this budget, and this is why we have to make all these really hard decisions, is that we're protecting jobs this year.

No one is getting let go because of our budget situation.

I'm really proud of that.

It is something that we had to at least for me, it was a priority that I um kept present and in the front of my mind, and it was something that I wanted to make sure that we protected people's jobs in Sal Leandro because the people who work here actually provide the services that we all need.

Um it is not technology that does it, it's people.

It's people who provide services.

And that's that's something that I'm uh particularly proud.

Um, despite the really heavy and difficult cuts that we have had to make.

Um I'm proud of that.

Um regarding, and I'm just gonna drill down into some of the um items that were brought up by some of the public speakers.

The third-party encampment cleanup, um, essentially what it does is although it is a reduction in the appropriation, it the new number is actually reflective of what we actually spend year over year in third-party encampment cleanup.

So unless encampments increase, we will continue to see the same level of service.

So, really what we're looking at is right-sizing the appropriation to ensure that it actually is reflective of the usage.

Um, we talked about the ambassadors, the ARU, um, that's the alternative response unit that several of my colleagues have been bringing up through the months.

Um, and that I I know is um we worked really hard to get it off the ground and hats off to the fire department and to um all the other kind of integrating uh departments that help make the ARU a success.

Um it is something that we're keeping an eye on.

And um, although it is not slated to be to have a reduction, an overall reduction this year, um, we do have to find some bridge funding um over the next um biannual budget.

Um it's something that um not only does it um help the downtown businesses and the people who come to downtown, but I'm particularly proud of the lives that it has changed of the people who are served by the alternative response unit and my gratitude to the staff um who make this again people who make this program work and who make this program effective.

So thank you.

Um I just want to end with um my gratitude to the council.

Uh we all have things that we deeply care about and that we advocate.

And um we um I am particularly grateful for your all, y'all's partnership um as we kind of navigate this this particular year.

Um we are this is not the end of it.

We are looking at the next biennial budget also with cuts.

So we're gonna have to look deeper and we're gonna have to think again about prioritizing.

This is just a one-year budget, and we're gonna do this all over again for the next biannual budget.

Um my gratitude to the finance team and to all of the department heads who um have brought us to this point.

Uh my gratitude to the community who shows up and um elevates the priorities uh of what you want to elevate.

And um it is hard for me to do this.

Um but um uh thank the community for coming out uh both online and through the forums and all the meetings that we've had.

Um and I will close with that.

Thank you.

Councilmember Bolt, please.

Uh yes, thank you.

And I again I agree with everything that was just said, and and the only thing I was gonna add to Councilmember Bowens was a a ARU.

And I know you've talked about that, so it's important to you, but then Vice Mayor did it.

So good job.

Sometimes it takes me a couple of times around the box to find the address, but I always find the address.

Am I asking for something wrong when I'm saying divide these two up?

Now that I'm thinking about it, this is a biannual.

Am I screwing?

Am I can you speak to that, please?

Sorry.

Um, what I would say is if we split it up, it's not something that the city could necessarily afford.

It does change the projection for the city.

The city has the ability to pay for that now.

Um, and so changing um the direction and splitting it, it actually may not um be as cost effective.

Um, obviously, also when you are bidding for additional more than one project, it could uh uh count for some savings rather than bidding for two individual projects.

Um I don't necessarily have all those levels of details.

Um I am not an engineer, but I do know economies of skills essentially as you're bidding for two projects rather than one, there may be some savings associated with mobilization.

Um, but um essentially it is in the budget this year because it is something that we can afford, and it's currently in the second part of our two-year, and then next year we will come to you with a uh proposed uh new two-year biannual budget.

I just want to say, Director Marquises basically said the same thing about getting a discount when you bid both at one time.

And so I'm gonna withdraw my suggestion to make it two parts.

I'm not gonna have two people telling me one thing and me do that something different.

So I I withdraw that and I support the okay uh budget as is.

So any other uh questions or comments?

Okay, so I'm gonna weigh in with mine quickly.

Um first, just I agree with everything that everybody has said, big picture.

Um I think another thing that I will highlight is unlike some cities, we have not requested a salary give back or a salary increase deferral from our employees.

There are cities that are doing that.

We have not done that.

So if there is someone front and center in terms of maintaining our culture of dedication to our employees, who, as you saw from State of the City, are doing some really great stuff.

We really do put our money where our mouth is.

We don't just talk about it, we recognize the contribution that they are giving us.

Um, the second thing is that I will be at some point in the future specifically making a proposal that any excess funds that we receive go to those deferred capital investments for every single dollar that we're not spending on repairing the roof that leaks into our buildings for every single dollar that we're not spending on the roads, the roads are getting worse at an individual road level.

We need to start addressing those hundreds of millions of dollars.

And the other place would be um, I would be open to going directly to um unfunded pension liabilities.

Those are the two things that pose the greatest risk to us to the long-term financial stability of this city.

Um that being said, I do want to talk about what our public commenters came to speak about.

Because I do think that it's interesting that at a time when we are looking to cut historically, what always gets cut is the arts.

Arts suffer any time that there are budget cuts.

And they suffer it dramatically.

And it hadn't really dawned on me that the number used to be like 100K or 80k or something like that.

I think when the Library and Arts Commission were merged, it was 150 for a year.

Uh and then it went down to 30,000.

And now we're really talking about zero.

And the reason that it's zero and not the 20,000, that's something about where we allocate some money is because the staff report makes it very clear.

We are eliminating.

It doesn't say we're making an adjustment.

It says we will be eliminating.

And that's just a fundamentally a really bad place to be.

Uh, the more that I think about it.

Um, do I think that everyone should take a decrease relative to two years ago or three years ago?

Yeah, absolutely.

So, you know, sorry guys.

I I can't say that we're gonna go back to uh 100,000.

It's just it's just impossible as far as I'm concerned.

But I I really struggle that when we're not even in crisis yet.

We're not in crisis, and yet we're completely eliminating those grants.

Uh, having driven down Bancroft to go down to um Jefferson Elementary, the fact we have a giant mural directly across the street from a school that brings joy and sunshine to students every single day when they're dropped off at school.

That's just amazing.

I think it's just amazing.

The fact that you go downtown and where you used to look at a nasty trash enclosure.

Now you see a beautiful butterfly mural exhibit.

I think that's fantastic.

To me, that's that's incredibly valuable.

When we talk about things like mental health investment and stuff like that, that is mental health investment.

So the only thing that I would propose different from everything we've done, because we've done slicing and dicing and all that kind of stuff, and I was in finance with vice mayor and who else isn't finance.

Is that you, Councilmember Aguilar?

Uh, Victor Aguilar.

Um, I mean, we we did a lot of cutting.

It was very painful.

Um, but it didn't quite dawn on me how significant the arts have already taken it.

Um, and so to go to zero really fundamentally bothers me.

So the the only thing that I would propose is that we keep that $30,000 going forward, that that is the direction that we have to have something dedicated to that.

So we can continue to add just a little bit of art in our city year after year.

We're not talking about millions of dollars, we're not talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars.

We're just talking like about $30,000.

And I am good in math.

Someone gave some math up there, the math was not right.

It's not less than 1%.

It's not less than a tenth of a percent.

It's like two one hundredths of one percent.

It is tiny what we're doing now, and I think that we can at least keep what we're doing.

So that would be my recommendation by council members that we adopt the budget recommendation as is, but we make sure that 30,000 is currently going remains.

Council member Bolt.

I'll second that.

Okay, at this point in time, we've got a motion by Gonzalez, a second by Bolt.

Any further discussion?

Please vote.

All votes are in, and the motion carries unanimously.

Okay, at this point in time, we'll go to our next item on the calendar, which is I believe Mr.

Pirota, City Attorney Pierota, leading us through item 10 COVID.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, City Clerk Bunting.

This is uh a presentation with actions, counsel on SB 707 implementation, the meeting disruption policy and language access policy.

I'm Richard P.

Yorotta, your city attorney.

We'll recap uh what we've done so far related to SB 707, a summary of the key provisions of the new legislation that went into effect January 1st, 2026, and also has provisions going into effect July 1st of this year.

We have recommendations from the rules committee to the full council and an overview of the proposed policies that were also vetted by the rules committee.

In short, SB 707 expands mandatory hybrid public access for city council meetings.

Uh recall that uh, especially during during the pandemic, we went to virtual meetings under the emergency declaration, and it worked.

We had Zoom meetings, and we've since instituted hybrid Zoom meetings for council meetings.

SB 707 has made that mandatory.

We have remote attendance flexibility allowances for council members and other members of boards and commissions.

We'll talk about that some more, as well as mandatory language access outreach requirements.

Staff has recommendations that are focused on meeting legal requirements without adding significant resource costs.

And that's a key driver and consideration.

We'd like for you to consider throughout the presentation.

Here we are in the process of the implementation of SB 707's requirements.

The assessment phase has uh was finished.

We are now in the framework framework phase where we're establishing governance uh with direction from the rules committee that's already occurred, and now here before you all on the city council.

Uh after the framework phase, we will go into the infrastructure phase, which has already been starting to be planned, where we're configuring meeting rooms and technology, updating internal procedures, and training staff and presiding off training training staff, presiding officers and presiding officers.

Uh, we're going to start implementation for the July 1st items of the legislation, of course, in line with the law, and we will continue to monitor and adjust and return to council as needed with refinements or budget requests.

Key provisions of SB 707.

There are three different categories of legislative bodies to which SB 707 applies.

And these are all changes in the Brown Act, if that wasn't made clear.

SB 707 amended the Brown Act.

And the rules apply differently depending on the type of legislative body, council, standing committee, or boards and commissions.

What is important, I think, in sort of the immediate sense, and we received questions from council members about this as well, is that SB 707 makes permanent rules related to legislative body members yourselves, use of social media.

And the slide says that yourselves, as members of legislative body, shall not directly respond to any communication on an internet-based social media platform, such as Facebook, Instagram, et cetera, regarding a matter that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the legislative body that is made, posted, or shared by any other member, one of your fellow council members of the legislative body.

This includes comments like emojis.

Excuse me.

This includes comments, likes, emojis, and reposts.

Essentially, what this means is that, for example, let's say Vice Mayor Varus Walton makes a post on Facebook and Councilmember Bolt responds to it by liking it or putting a thumbs up emoji to it or whatever, another emoji that makes that shows agreement.

That's prohibited.

You should not do that amongst yourselves as legislative body members under this law and this rule.

Naturally, it's to prevent the appearance of a seriatum or serial meeting amongst the council that did not happen or decision or discussion occurred outside of an open and notice meeting such as this one.

Great question from Councilmember James Aguilar regarding what about a repost?

Well, what if Councilmember James Aguilar posts something and Councilmember Victor Aguilar po uh reposts it?

That is also prohibited.

So just keep that in mind as well.

What if the city, however, puts out uh a post on Facebook advertising a city event or a calendar of some kind?

Obviously great.

That is not, of course, the city is not one of you all.

This a law is a between legislative body members.

So you can repost that particular uh city issued or city created post.

Where we want it to be careful, so there's a natural nuance as to this, is that if a member of the public posts something and there are comments below that post, that comment section.

If you comment to it, a fellow council member, and this is an original comment to someone else's post, not one of your member fellow members' posts, but a member of the public, not on the council, and someone makes a post, a comment to that residence post, you again, this law then applies.

You can't repost it, you can't like it, you can't like the council members' comment.

You can like the community members' comment, but the council members' comment, as we all understand in the cascade of the comments of that post should not be liked, emoji.

I think I just created a new word, emoji, um, et cetera.

I can stop there and ask there any questions, or we can keep going, Mayor, if you'd like to.

Do we have any questions?

Can begin with Council Merbolt.

I I think you answered it, but I want to be extremely clear.

If the city posts something, date, you know, something's going on, one council member reposts it.

Yeah.

That's that post.

Yeah.

And then I'll just say me.

I I see the same city post.

I can then repost the cities, even and we're both reposting.

Yes.

But they're the cities.

Correct.

We haven't created a serial.

Great question.

Thank you.

But to be clear, these are posts about subject matter within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council.

Yes, Mayor.

So for example, if we're putting up a post that says, wow, what a great cherry festival.

Presumably anybody could repost that or like that.

Yeah, I think that's fine.

It has nothing to do with a matter such as our uh the budget decision that we're making.

Right.

Has nothing to do with some legislation that we're considering.

It's just celebrating the city of San Leandro.

I think that's fine, Mayor.

Yes.

Because I think the nuances of what I've seen from council members, that's what I see.

I see people liking each other's that something good has happened in the manor.

The swim team is some doing something and we're just celebrating, uplifting the entire city.

The other question that I have is with respect to personal accounts, as opposed to city accounts.

So I've got my own Facebook as a person, and I've got my mayoral Facebook.

Uh I am assuming that what I do with my personal Facebook, I can do period full stop with no control.

This is a this is very great question again, but I do believe that if you are using your personal for city business reasons.

Let's assume that I'm not, right?

That's why I have a mayoral Facebook and a mayoral Instagram.

Yeah, I think that then as long as it's a very clear line that this is about Juan Gonzalez resident, private citizen.

Yes.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Seeing then, if you would proceed.

Thank you.

This is a mandate.

I, as I said before, there's a hybrid public participation requirement, which we're doing right now.

Is virtual participation is required for the public through a platform such as Zoom or Teams.

We must adopt disruption and continuation policy.

If we do so because it's now mandated that we have this virtual participation.

If the meeting is disrupted, that's like tech top the technology of the meeting, the Zoom or the teams, um, goes out, is unavailable.

Then the meeting must pause and it can pause for up to one hour for access for disruptions for the disruption while good faith efforts are taking place to restore access.

Of course, if within the first three minutes we resume the Zoom access, then we don't have to wait that full hour, of course, to resume the hybrid meeting.

So our policy does reflect that.

It's just logical that that would be the case.

However, if the meeting does cannot be brought back online within that hour, there are certain findings that the council can make to continue the meeting and continue its business without the virtual participation and some findings that will be have to be made.

Uh, we will, of course, work for that to never ever happen because we do enjoy, I think, and the public really really does participate in our hybrid meetings and virtual meetings, and it's been helpful.

Here's an option that was created by SB 707 where we have a hybrid public participation option that's applicable to boards and commissions, where virtual participation by the public at boards and commissions would be available under SB 707.

The cost to do so right now is estimated to be 30,000 to 150,000, and that goes to the upgrading, et cetera, and the staff time to staff those boards and commission meetings, which currently meet uh in person without a virtual option.

There is a mandate for agenda translation.

City council meeting agendas must be translated into applicable languages.

In San Leandro, we use the American Community Survey, which is reputable and used by many other jurisdictions.

In San Leandro, Spanish and Chinese are what the American Community Survey says are the languages we must translate our agendas to.

Not each and every backup document, staff report or study that we attach, just the agenda titles, the 20 or 30 or so words that inform the public and gives a reasonable person the opportunity to understand and participate in the meeting if they want to, through a virtual or in person.

So the related meeting information must be posted prominently online.

What that means is that we have to post that the agendas are available in Spanish and Chinese, in Spanish and Chinese on our main website.

Go here and it's translated to get to our agendas.

We have a mandate to outreach and do reasonable efforts for city council meetings to encourage participation by groups that don't traditionally participate in city council meetings.

That means that we do public posting on our boards, our outside boards, our outdoor boards here at City Hall, for additional translations.

I believe also they're available at the libraries as well.

And assist with meeting translation and interpretation at meetings which we already do and provide a means translated again in the agendas to contact the city clerk's office to request translation and interpretation for our meetings.

SB 707 also provides an option for fully remote member participation for eligible bodies, and the eligible bodies are a finite list and they're listed on the uh slide.

The ineligible bodies would not be able to have fully remote member participation.

And that is because of the unique subject matter of those particular bodies, and they are listed here.

There's an option for fully remote member participation for council standing committees, your finance committee, your uh facilities and transportation committee meeting, and your rules committee meeting.

However, there are certain requirements.

All of the council members have to participate remotely if they are located in San Leandro from locations within San Leandro that are accessible to the public and allow members of the public to go to that location and participate remotely.

We would have this room and the city clerk would be here to take public comment for members who want to come here.

And again, this is for your standing committee meetings where the three of you are on the standing committee.

For boards commissions, all members may participate remotely without providing the address of their physical location.

But then again, that is also not recommended by staff because right now of the costs associated with implementing that.

And that council authorization would be required for that particular for a high fully remote member participation.

Like I said, that one physical meeting location, typically right here where the city clerk would be, would be open to the public with one staff person to receive public comment at a static location.

And the council has to adopt findings every six months that fully remote member participation is uh permitted.

What the Brown Act SB 707 also did was codify the just cause circumstances and clarify them in SB 707 in the Brown Act.

And just cause circumstances we know for this body allow remote attendance by one of you by a legislative body member if they have these particular bullet pointed needs or issues for the meeting.

What this essentially means is that you don't have to publish your address, your static address in the agenda before the meeting, and you would be able to attend the meeting without publishing your address where a member of the public could go and participate in the meeting at an ADA accessible location wherever you are in the world.

It's got to be a static location.

But you are only limited, you are limited to appear remotely under the just cause reasons that I list here for a maximum of seven meetings a year because this body, the city council meets three or more times per month.

And of course, for other bodies that meet five meetings per month, it's a little bit less.

So just cause is really about exceptional or emergency circumstances.

If you recall, if there was an emergency circumstance, the council actually had to vote to allow you to participate remotely if it was an emergency circumstance.

That particular requirement was removed from the Brown Act by SB 707 so that it's just you announce why you're attending remotely, and then you just attend.

There's no city council approval required.

This is a busy slide, I understand.

I'll just leave this up here for a moment because there were this the rules committee vetted all of these issues and made recommendations and provided feedback to the full council here and now for you all to consider.

Decision point one.

We already do hybrid participation.

We support Zoom and Teams.

And we did consider landline telephone as backup call-in, but we do have a landline telephone here in the room, and they can you the members of the public can use the telephone numbers that are provided in the Zoom invitation.

Disruption policy, we have that policy drafted, it's been presented, it's in the agenda.

Um, excuse me, it's in the year packet.

We implement uh what do you do about implementing hybrid public participation for all legislative bodies?

The rules committee was supportive of staff's recommendation to take no action at this time regarding boards and commissions.

There was an interest in hybrid public participation for council standing committee meetings, and there was a request for additional information on potential costs.

Language access policy, that policy uh was um is a mandate and is presented at this meeting's uh in this meeting's packet.

Simplifying public comment.

There was rules committee discussion about whether to rely on prior subcommittee, city council standing committee comments, or continue taking comments at both levels, both at the standing committee and at city council meetings.

The rules committee recommendation was to take public comment at both.

And finally, authorizing members of eligible bodies to be fully remote.

Staff recommended taking no action at this time as it could require additional expenses for the city to do so, and the rules committee was supportive of staff's recommendation.

The meeting disruption policy is presented to you as well.

I'm sorry, in your packet, and we recommend adoption of that.

It requires again a recess of at least one hour if service is disruptive is disrupted.

The meeting may resume before the one hour has finished if service is restored or after the one hour if certain findings are made.

And finally, we codified the language access policy as required by SB 707.

So staff recommends the city council adopt the proposed resolution that approves the city council meeting disruption policy and the city council meeting language access policy.

Thank you very much.

Do we have any public comment on this item?

Mayor, we have not received any comment cards, and we currently have uh one hand raised online.

Let's take the public comment online.

In person is open and closed.

Our online commenter is Alvaro Ramos.

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Okay.

So uh one of the questions that I really thought of when I was looking at this was um, you know, sort of what's coming to my mind is the compliance with uh the American um Americans with disabilities act.

Um I don't know if if that's sort of like somehow outside of like, you know, you're talking about language access, but um you didn't there wasn't like a percentage of the city's population of how much is um for example American sign language.

So um that's uh something that I'm always thinking about because um I you know I don't have a disability, I don't know what that lived experience is like, but um I uh I also want to recognize that you know it's it's uh it it it it can be really difficult to to even get into a meeting, quite frankly.

Um so I'm always thinking about you know um what what is like the what kind of things could be done regarding like you know um assisted technology um and issues like that um and um I did like seeing um the consideration of like technology failure uh as an issue.

I do think you know if your internet gets interrupted, the computer stops working, then you know you're gonna need a telephone as a backup.

Um I think that um the other thing that I I just find kind of annoying a little bit is uh the remote attendance by the Brown Act.

I just feel like I just feel like it should be unlimitedly unlimited remote access.

Uh I think that's a change that should happen.

I know that um there have been things going back and forth with state bureaucrats and the governor about like we want to be remote, and and no, we don't want to be remote, but the governor is out doing who knows what.

So, you know, that I think it would be more forward-looking if it was unlimited.

Thank you.

Your time has elapsed.

Mayor, there are no more hands raised online.

So we'll close public comment and come back to councilmember questions, discussion, dialogue.

Councilmember Bolt.

Thank you.

Just on that last comment by the from the public.

Is there a limit when we notice that we're gonna be, for instance, when I'm doing work in a different state and I have to is there a limit to those?

No.

For the we'll call it the traditional teleconference rules, there's no limit.

How many times you can do it during emergency circumstances when we do not provide an address that there's a limit.

Seven times, that is correct.

Okay.

And then thank you.

I just wanted to make sure on that.

And then last.

That's a huge gap.

30,000 to 150,000.

That feels very like eh, just throw some numbers out.

I I'm really interested because we get it all the time, especially at um the facilities one where in like, oh, this needs to be online, or we need to be able to participate remotely.

I'm interested, I don't want to add to our budget right now and you know, go 150,000 into making it accessible.

But my question is if we were to put it on on YouTube like this is tonight, but there's no public communication back and forth because I believe that's where the dollars come in, is when we're allowing people to participate remotely.

But if they could just watch it, is that illegal?

To just post it and let it play, and then they can't participate that way.

Is that is there something wrong about that?

No, that's not illegal to do.

And the meetings are simulcast on Zoom.

Um, and then I do they're not.

No.

I mean on Zoom.

We I mean we have a live Zoom, but they're not on the city council is gonna let's just clarify the record very quickly.

Uh city manager, please.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you, Councilmember Bowl.

The only meetings that are on Zoom are um the city council meeting, like the one we're in right now.

Councilmember Boe, I think you're referring to the city council standing committee meetings.

Those we do not stream those.

We have a voice recording for those meetings so it's it's it's available at a later date.

Yes, it is available on our website with the agendas and the minutes.

Is there a benefit?

Maybe there's not even a benefit then to having it in the moment.

If they can't participate, I mean it just gives them the option to hear it an hour earlier or something.

So maybe that's not even worth the effort.

Okay, yeah, that's all I got.

Councilmember Simon, please.

Uh yeah, my comment is somewhat in line with Councilmember Boltz.

I get a lot of comments from uh my commissioners as well as just members of the public who would like to have more access to these meetings.

For example, the CPRB meeting, um, arts commission meeting.

They would like to have remote access.

Um a lot of people travel, they go to work, and they would like to participate, they they cannot, or the public would like to listen in.

Um but I understand there's a cost impact.

I understand that's not that's why we're not doing this, is because there is a cost impact.

That's my understanding.

Uh I'm curious back to the 30 to 150,000.

Is there I mean, can we explore if there's any more uh cost efficient ways to allow access?

Maybe there's newer technology out there or something, um, because I know there's a great benefit to it, and I know we're not doing it because of the money, but if there is a more efficient way to do it, I think there's a lot of value.

So I'm gonna bring that.

I think that's intended like for city manager as opposed to a legal question, is that correct?

Uh let's start with city manager.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you, Councilmember Simon.

Um, technology-wise, is as you can see, we have the technology to run the meetings virtually as we're doing right now.

It's staff capacity.

And so we you would need someone to do the meeting on the virtual side.

So there's a there's that person who's managing the room, the in-person public commenters, the presentation, all of that, but someone else has to make sure that the virtual side is working for uh boards and commissions.

That person right now isn't there because it's an we don't need to fund a staff person to be present at the meeting to do that work.

If the council directed us to do that, now we have to fund a person to do that work, or individuals to do that work.

Councilmember Simon, I'm assuming you wanted to continue.

Yeah.

If it's a staff issue, I'm just hoping you know, someday technology with AI or something could help us with this.

I don't know if it exists now, uh, but I would really hope that sometime we could find some other options because I think there's a great benefit there.

Thank you.

Councilmember Bowen, please.

Thank you.

Um, we have uh the rules committee having a lot of very nuanced questions about all of these rules that kind of went in circles, but really did help us understand what was happening because it can get very complicated.

So thank you, City Attorney, for helping us walk through that and city clerk as well.

Um I just wanted to make a motion to adopt resolution to approve the city council meeting disruption and meeting language access policies and to add chapters 14 and 15, respectively to the city of San Leonard Administrative Code Councilmember James Aguilar.

Mayor, all second.

So we got a motion by council member Bowen with a second from Councilmember James Aguilar.

I did have a couple of questions and then I'm supportive ultimately, but I do want to have a couple of questions answered quickly.

Did it do we have any other speakers?

Uh seeing none, I'm gonna ask my questions for the boards, um, boards and commissions in particular.

If they were to permit remote locations, they the individuals would not have to permit public comment from those remote locations.

Is that correct?

That's correct.

Okay, thank you.

Um if the remote if the hybrid option went down, so suppose that we did it for these boards and commissions.

So suppose we did it for these boards and commissions.

If the hybrid hybrid option failed, would they also need to wait to continue their meeting, or could they continue?

No, they would have to wait.

They would have to wait.

Okay, thank you.

And then the last one.

I know we had a discussion at rules about the telephone option.

And I've heard some nuanced things, I just want to try to button it up nice and tight.

As I understand it, for our city council meetings, we have chosen an AV audiovisual option.

And I think in particular, we use Zoom.

By virtue of having publicly agendized that as our remote participation method.

It's my understanding that if Zoom went down, we could not switch to the telephone option because the announced method is our method.

That is correct.

So if the Zoom went down and we were not able to recover it within that one hour period, the council would be able to make findings to continue the meeting without using any virtual option.

Okay.

Um that's all that I've got.

Thank you, council members, for your thoughts on this.

Thank you for the rules committee, because I know I think this went twice through rules, if I remember correctly.

And so it was good to get unanimous guidance out of rules to adopt staff's recommendations.

So at this point in time, we've got a council, we've got a motion from council member uh Bowen with a second from Councilmember James Aguilar.

Please vote.

All those are in, and the motion carries unanimously.

Okay, coming to item 11.

I don't believe we have any council requests to schedule agenda items.

Are there any announcements from council members?

Beginning with council member Bowen.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, just want to share a few quick things.

On Thursday, I attended a really informative um East Bay Division meeting for um Cal Cities, and the topic that um we chose to discuss was on e-bikes.

And I just wanted to share some information about that with the rest of the council because I think it's something that's gonna keep coming up.

Um just this week, uh mother in Orange County was um uh charged with involuntary manslaughter because her um child um ran into an elderly person, and that person unfortunately passed away.

Um it's obviously um, you know, not it's um something that's coming up more, and that was the point is that um in certain communities, and I've not heard as much in San Leandro, um, but I know that obviously it's it goes within jurisdictions or across jurisdictions and and is is problematic.

Um, but e-bike ridership is up, but what we basically learned we were able to hear from both the transportation committee um committee, because there are no less than 12 bills going through the state legislature right now regarding this in terms of um any sort of regulation and also to do with um uh um enforcements uh and also to just figure out who's responsible for what because it is happening in cities, but then is it the manufacturers?

Is it the parents?

Is it police that can um uh follow up with any sort of enforcement?

And so I will say that it was incredibly uh insightful.

There's a 200 um page slide deck that we were given by um the expert we heard from the Maneta Institute that I'm happy to share with the rest of the council and staff, so they have it.

Um that's it's an interesting read.

Obviously, 200 slides is a lot.

Um, but uh what we were able to glean out of the conversation was one, how important it is to um um work on the short of legislation that will pass that is seemingly very far off into the distance because it's very complicated.

Um, but and also funding is an issue of anything that we want to get done.

There's gonna be a lot of pushback because can we afford to the state or cities afford to do it?

But around education with the school district and with the parents, Cal Cities has resources for that.

Danville has been working a lot on this, but really so that both um your consumers, parents buying e-bikes, understanding what exactly they're buying, because a lot of times we think they're e-bikes and they're actually e-moped, they're just basically mopeds, or they can be easily increased in speed.

Um, so just thinking through um how we can sort of be on the the front side of this, because I think that it will become more problematic as we go.

So I want to share that.

And then I also really was um really uh to today's beginning announcements and recognition was really sweet.

It felt like we were uh uplifting three really great organizations in the city.

So in particular, obviously the fact that it's mental health um month and especially for the APHPI community, something that is often unsaid is really important and to have agent health services right across the street and and their expansion and programming has just been really phenomenal.

Um then also to to do the Pledge of Allegiance um with the um with our newest citizens was wonderful.

I remember going through that process and being naturalized.

I actually, my first job out of college was to teach citizenship classes at a nonprofit for refugees.

So um that that work is really um important and uh especially during a time when when we think about immigration, it's not always the most positive.

Um it's really nice to know what it the immigration and naturalization services is really about and about really kind of uplifting the community that is that is so enriched by um immigrants in our community.

And also, I always I forgot the last time um to announce it, but I always want to uplift the San Leandro food pantry.

And so if you want to donate to them because the increase in prices of everything, including gas being always 21% more, is really making it very difficult for people to be able to decide between getting to work and getting food.

And so the number of people that are going to the Alameda Um San Leandro Food Pantry and Alameda Um food pantry is is continues to rise.

So please do what you can to support them.

We'll continue with Councilmember James Aguilar.

Thank you, Mayor.

Just a couple of updates on my end.

Um last month and this month so far, I've been meeting with the directors of the city's departments, and I'm continuing to meet with directors of every one of them.

Um, and each meeting has been really, really exciting.

It's been an opportunity to pop around the city and city hall um to get to know what their challenges are.

What are they facing and what are they also celebrating at the same time?

Um, I also attended the Lend Foundation's Beyond Backpacks Gala on Friday, the 24th.

And I uplift that because I think it's call out that there are spaces where city leaders definitely can gather to support our public schools.

And so if it's an organization that I want to uplift, it's Land Hand Foundation, and they are really awesome.

And I think Supervisor Tam for the invite to attend.

Um, also attended the State of the City address beside Councilmember Bowen on the 28th.

Um, and I really want to congratulate the mayor on a fantastic address uh that really balanced the amazing progress that our city is making, but also showing that there are some realities that we face and challenges that we have ahead.

Um, and so that's kind of some a couple of things I wanted to uplift.

Um, and I think that that's all I have for this evening.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you.

We'll proceed with Vice Mayor.

Um, a couple of events that I wanted to highlight that I attended uh since the last meeting um was the law enforcement memorial ride that the police department hosted last week um in honor of um fallen um police and um service animals um who served the police department.

Um it was a it was a truly touching event um with a delegation that is riding thousands of miles.

I forget how many miles uh mayor mayor also attended that event.

Um, and um it was a truly touching event.

Also, just um hats off to the recreation team who put together uh very well attended Cinco de Mayo event.

Um, and it's always a joy to see the mariachi singing and getting the crowd kind of warmed up for the baile flor flor clórico uh by Costa de Oro.

Um it's always such a joy to see young people um enjoying, and I also wanted to highlight one of the mayor's comments at the Cinco de Mayo celebration um was that there were folks from other cultures that came to that event to experience it and listen to music and listen and watch young folks dance.

Um so that was uh touching.

And then finally, um I attended the Rosales sister uh scholarship gala.

Um uh this is uh foundation that was born out of necessity uh from the Rosales sisters, and um, which one of them lives here in San Leandro and they provide scholarships uh for students going to college and university.

Um and it's always as a person who has dedicated the majority of their career to access and post-secondary and higher education now more than ever, um, we need folks to step up and provide support to young people who are looking to advance their careers and their lives through post-secondary education, whether it's through a community college, a trade um, or uh traditional college degree, um, ultimately we're all learners and we're lifelong learners.

Ultimately, we're all learners and we're lifelong learners.

And that's something that the uh Rosales Scholarship is able to provide these young folks.

Um, and those are uh just the highlight of some of the events that I attended since our last meeting.

Thank you.

Councilmember Victor Aguilar.

Uh thank you, Mayor Gonzalez.

On uh just wanted to report that on April 8th.

Uh I attended the 1146 meeting of the Board of Trustees for the Alameda County Mosquito Abatement District.

We um inducted uh new participant, a new trustee, his name is Ted Kinch from the city of Piedmont.

Uh we also um approved the LED light upgrade.

And we also pointed um a colleague to the Hayward Area Shoreline Planning Agency called Haspa.

I also uh we we did not have any West Now virus to report at the time, but we did get emails from Al Mini County Mosquito Abatement District that there was a bird that tested positive for West Now virus recently.

So um that would that happen in New York.

Um, but we currently have no one that tested positive for West Now virus.

So that can that concludes my report.

Thank you.

Well, thank you.

So at this point in time, I'll see no more hands.

I will proceed.

Uh some of the things that I attended, uh, got to celebrate with the Bamboo Advanced Beauty College on their seventh anniversary.

Very touching story about a Vietnamese immigrant who basically built a beauty school uh from scratch.

And uh the school teaches in multiple languages, not just Vietnamese, including Spanish.

Um SLPD was awesome to attend the swearing in, if only for briefly uh to see so many families, to see so many uh individuals celebrating um the swearing in of new officers and the awards that officers are receiving for some of their hard hard work.

Um, life-saving.

It was a life-saving recognition award, which I thought was just very, very touching.

Arbor Day, thank you, Parks and Rec staff for your wonderful Arbor Day celebration, the tree planting.

There's a pocket park at the corner of Wicks and a Merced.

And there's some additional work to be done, but just to see so many students from uh from Madison Elementary, they're planting trees with their class, learning about nature, getting their hands dirty, making a difference in their world.

I won't say anything about state of the city other than please go watch it online.

It's on YouTube, and you can see all the great things that are happening in the city, and then some I think I called it hard truth.

Uh we talk about some of the tough stuff that needs to be discussed.

Uh saw great collaboration between the San Leandro Art Association and Evergreen Nursery.

And I love any time that we can highlight collaboration in our city between businesses and nonprofits, it's something that's really important to celebrate.

And so I would encourage other businesses and nonprofits out there to find ways to continue that collaboration.

I know we've got some restaurants downtown that are very good about sharing some of their uh hard-earned dollars when organizations like uh Boosters or others come and they have a special night, you eat in, you eat in.

I think Roundtable is doing one right now.

Sons of Liberty has been very good, and there are many other businesses.

Uh so thank you to our businesses who collaborate.

Most recently, Evergreen Nursery.

On May Day, I had the opportunity to attend both the career day at the high school and then the construction trades workforce initiative.

Now, that's particularly important because here within the city of San Leandro, there are three sites, two established and one nascent, where young people are receiving the benefits of that early training.

So when it's time to take the uh apprenticeship entrance exam, so that they can be mathematically prepared and actually be all firing on all cylinders when they go to take that test.

And so a lot of thanks to uh CTWI for all the work that they're doing uh in various places in the country, but particularly here in the city of San Leandro.

Um for the only thing I'll add on Cinco de Mayo, very impressed by the professionalism of the city staff.

Everything was beautiful.

The tables were covered.

I mean, it was just it was a class act.

So thank you.

Not only was a music fantastic, I really, really enjoyed both the Mariachi and and the dancing um, that wreath ceremony.

That was a number one class class stuff uh for the police department.

And then uh two last things, Delane's Nail Care did a community event in downtown San Leando, taking literally our most vulnerable residents and offering them free foot care.

And they did it for two days in a row.

We had a number of community sponsors who came together to support her in this vision that she had said there is no reason why if you are 65 years old and overweight and can't reach down and take care of your feet that you shouldn't still receive the care that you need.

They did some pre-diabetes screening on site and and other things.

So it's just very grateful to see that here in the city of San Leandro downtown.

So for all that's being that's happening here in the community certainly I am very grateful.

We do not have a meeting next week I think we've become accustomed to work sessions on the second Monday of the month.

We do not have one this coming week our next meeting is on Monday that's a Monday right Monday May 18th.

And so with that the time is officially whoops that you're getting the eye please proceed.

Thank you, Mayor and I promise you it's not on purpose.

I just forgot as we're talking about community events and businesses it triggered things that I wanted to mention especially because we're not going to have the meeting next um week and also music are coming up this this weekend but I just wanted to shout out the AAPI fest that's being put on downtown by the downtown district which is going to be the first time they're doing one specifically for the API fest which is going to be fantastic.

So that's this Friday from 4 p.m to 9 p.m downtown and then the other thing that's um very it's also food related but the taste of Asia is also happening this month and so it's really an opportunity to be able to explore all of the different API A and H P I restaurants that we have in town and we have many and so this information is on our um our city's socials and then also I think um easily um you can find it on the um the chamber website as well definitely get out there and enjoy some of our fine dining and we'll see you next Friday as we celebrate our second Friday going into full swing with the AAPI Fest.

Our time is officially 902 and we are adjourned