[Captioner] 19:00:45 STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, [Captioner] 19:00:46 INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND [Captioner] 19:00:53 JUSTICE FOR ALL. [Captioner] 19:00:53 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:00:54 ROLL CALL, PLEASE. [Captioner] 19:01:03 >> COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN, [Captioner] 19:01:03 PRESENT. [Captioner] 19:01:06 COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN, HERE. [Captioner] 19:01:11 COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL, OH, [Captioner] 19:01:11 HERE. [Captioner] 19:01:12 COUNCILMEMBER KENG, HERE. [Captioner] 19:01:14 VICE MAYOR SHAO, PRESENT. [Captioner] 19:01:17 MAYOR MEI, HERE. [Captioner] 19:01:19 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU SO [Captioner] 19:01:19 MUCH. [Captioner] 19:01:20 I WANTED TO SHARE THAT [Captioner] 19:01:21 COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN WILL BE [Captioner] 19:01:22 JOINING US THIS EVENING VIA [Captioner] 19:01:22 ZOOM. [Captioner] 19:01:25 AND THERE ARE VACANCIES ON OUR [Captioner] 19:01:26 BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND THE [Captioner] 19:01:27 CITY CLERK'S OFFICE ACCEPTS [Captioner] 19:01:29 APPLICATIONS FOR THOSE POSITIONS [Captioner] 19:01:30 THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, AND IF [Captioner] 19:01:31 YOU'RE INTERESTED IN LEARNING [Captioner] 19:01:32 MORE ABOUT THOSE, PLEASE SEE OUR [Captioner] 19:01:36 CITY WEBSITE AT WWW.FREMONT.GOV [Captioner] 19:01:37 UNDER OUR BOARDS, COMMISSIONS [Captioner] 19:01:40 AND COMMITTEES PAGES OR CONTACT [Captioner] 19:01:44 THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE AT [Captioner] 19:01:45 510-284-4060. [Captioner] 19:01:47 EMAILS SUBMITTED TO THE CITY [Captioner] 19:01:48 CLERK'S OFFICE ARE COMPILED AND [Captioner] 19:01:49 DISTRIBUTED TO THE CITY COUNCIL [Captioner] 19:01:52 AND CONSIDERED PART OF THE [Captioner] 19:01:52 PUBLIC RECORDS. [Captioner] 19:01:58 AND IT'S PART OF OUR CITY AGENDA [Captioner] 19:01:58 AND PLACED ON FILE. [Captioner] 19:01:58 I WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THE [Captioner] 19:02:01 MEETING WILL GO UP UNTIL 11:30 [Captioner] 19:02:02 P.M. THIS EVENING IF NEEDED. [Captioner] 19:02:04 WE WILL ALLOW FOR 30 MINUTES OF [Captioner] 19:02:05 GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT AND IF [Captioner] 19:02:07 THERE ARE ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS [Captioner] 19:02:09 FOR ORAL COMMUNICATIONS FOR [Captioner] 19:02:10 NON-AGENDIZED ITEM AFTER THE [Captioner] 19:02:11 INITIAL 30 MINUTES, WE'LL TAKE [Captioner] 19:02:12 THOSE SPEAKERS AT THE END OF [Captioner] 19:02:13 MEETING IF TIME REMAINS. [Captioner] 19:02:15 I WILL NOW TURN THE MEETING OVER [Captioner] 19:02:17 TO OUR CITY MANAGER, KARENA [Captioner] 19:02:18 SHACKELFORD, TO MAKE ANY [Captioner] 19:02:19 ANNOUNCEMENTS AND TO INTRODUCE [Captioner] 19:02:20 HER STAFF AT THIS TIME. [Captioner] 19:02:20 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:02:22 >> City Mgr. Shackelford: THANK [Captioner] 19:02:22 YOU, MAYOR MEI. [Captioner] 19:02:23 GOOD EVENING. [Captioner] 19:02:25 GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF THE [Captioner] 19:02:25 COUNCIL. [Captioner] 19:02:28 WITH US THIS EVENING ARE MY [Captioner] 19:02:30 COLLEAGUES, RAFAEL ALVARADO, [Captioner] 19:02:33 CITY ATTORNEY, ALSO WE HAVE [Captioner] 19:02:35 ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, DINA [Captioner] 19:02:36 LEWIS, AND CITY CLERK, SUSAN [Captioner] 19:02:36 GAUTHIER. [Captioner] 19:02:39 BY WAY OF ANNOUNCEMENT, I WOULD [Captioner] 19:02:42 LIKE TO SHARE A COUPLE OF EVENTS [Captioner] 19:02:42 THAT ARE COMING UP. [Captioner] 19:02:46 ONE IS THAT ON JUNE 26TH AT [Captioner] 19:02:48 10:00 A.M., WE'D LOVE FOR YOU TO [Captioner] 19:02:50 JOIN US AT THE FREMONT DOWNTOWN [Captioner] 19:02:52 EVENT CENTER FOR THE STATE OF [Captioner] 19:02:54 THE CITY, WHERE MAYOR MEI WILL [Captioner] 19:02:56 BE SHARING SOME INFORMATION WITH [Captioner] 19:02:58 THE PUBLIC ABOUT THINGS THAT THE [Captioner] 19:03:00 CITY HAS BEEN UP TO OVER THE [Captioner] 19:03:01 LAST YEAR AND CONTINUING. [Captioner] 19:03:06 WE ALSO HAVE A FAMILY RESOURCE [Captioner] 19:03:09 CENTER RESOURCE FAIR ON FRIDAY, [Captioner] 19:03:11 JUNE 7TH, FROM 3:00 P.M. TO 7:00 [Captioner] 19:03:15 P.M., AND THAT WILL BE IN THE [Captioner] 19:03:15 FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER PARKING [Captioner] 19:03:15 LOT. [Captioner] 19:03:18 AND FINALLY, I'D LIKE TO SHARE [Captioner] 19:03:22 THAT ON JUNE 15TH, THERE WILL BE [Captioner] 19:03:23 A FREMONT PRIDE FAIR AT THE [Captioner] 19:03:25 FREMONT MAIN LIBRARY FROM 10:00 [Captioner] 19:03:26 A.M. TO 2:00 P.M. [Captioner] 19:03:27 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:03:35 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU SO [Captioner] 19:03:35 MUCH. [Captioner] 19:03:35 AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO SEE IF [Captioner] 19:03:38 THERE'S A MOTION FOR CONSENT [Captioner] 19:03:41 CALENDAR ITEMS, ANYONE WANT TO [Captioner] 19:03:43 PULL ANY RECOMMENDATION OR [Captioner] 19:03:44 ITEMS, FROM THE COUNCIL? [Captioner] 19:03:45 COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN? [Captioner] 19:03:46 >> Councilmember Salwan: MOVE [Captioner] 19:03:46 CONSENT. [Captioner] 19:03:48 >> Mayor Mei: WE HAVE TO ALSO [Captioner] 19:03:50 SEE IF THERE'S ANYBODY FROM THE [Captioner] 19:03:52 PUBLIC WHO'D LIKE TO PULL THE [Captioner] 19:03:52 CONSENT. [Captioner] 19:03:52 NO? [Captioner] 19:03:53 OKAY. [Captioner] 19:03:54 SO WE HAVE A MOTION BY [Captioner] 19:03:56 COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN AND [Captioner] 19:03:58 SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER COX. [Captioner] 19:04:02 SO IF WE COULD HAVE A ROLL CALL [Captioner] 19:04:02 VOTE, PLEASE. [Captioner] 19:04:06 >> COUNCILMEMBER COX, YES. [Captioner] 19:04:08 COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN, AYE. [Captioner] 19:04:12 COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN, AYE. [Captioner] 19:04:18 COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL, [Captioner] 19:04:18 AYE. [Captioner] 19:04:18 COUNCILMEMBER KENG, AYE. [Captioner] 19:04:20 VICE MAYOR SHAO, AYE. [Captioner] 19:04:22 MAYOR MEI, AYE. [Captioner] 19:04:26 SO THE CONSENT CALENDAR PASSES [Captioner] 19:04:28 UNANIMOUSLY, AND NEXT I'D LIKE [Captioner] 19:04:29 TO SHARE SOME CEREMONIAL ITEMS [Captioner] 19:04:29 THIS EVENING. [Captioner] 19:04:33 AND WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION FOR [Captioner] 19:04:35 PRIDE MONTH AS WELL AS -- WE'LL [Captioner] 19:04:37 START WITH THAT FIRST, AND I [Captioner] 19:04:37 BELIEVE ACCEPTING FOR THAT THIS [Captioner] 19:04:40 EVENING WILL BE A HUMAN [Captioner] 19:04:41 RELATIONS COMMISSIONER, KAREN [Captioner] 19:04:41 STILLER. [Captioner] 19:04:43 SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO JOIN ME AT [Captioner] 19:04:44 THE DAIS. [Captioner] 19:05:30 I DON'T SEE THE REPRESENTATIVE [Captioner] 19:05:31 FROM HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION, [Captioner] 19:05:33 SO WE'LL START WITH THE OTHER [Captioner] 19:05:33 ITEM 1ST. [Captioner] 19:05:41 THERE SHE IS. [Captioner] 19:05:47 NO, IT'S OKAY. [Captioner] 19:05:49 I WAS GOING TO SAY WHY DON'T WE [Captioner] 19:05:52 TAKE A MOMENT -- NO WORRIES. [Captioner] 19:05:53 COME ON OVER! [Captioner] 19:05:59 SO THIS IS A PROCLAMATION IN [Captioner] 19:06:00 RECOGNITION OF PRIDE MONTH. [Captioner] 19:06:03 AND SO I'M VERY APPRECIATIVE [Captioner] 19:06:05 THAT KAREN STILLER FROM OUR [Captioner] 19:06:06 HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION HAS [Captioner] 19:06:06 JOINED US. [Captioner] 19:06:13 WHEREAS, THE CITY OF FREMONT IS [Captioner] 19:06:13 STRENGTHENED BY THE RICH [Captioner] 19:06:14 DIVERSITY OF ETHNIC CULTURAL, [Captioner] 19:06:16 RACIAL, GENDER, AND SEXUAL [Captioner] 19:06:18 IDENTITIES OF ITS RESIDENTS; ALL [Captioner] 19:06:21 OF WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE [Captioner] 19:06:23 CHARACTER OF OUR CITY; AND [Captioner] 19:06:24 WHEREAS, THE CITY OF FREMONT [Captioner] 19:06:26 PROCLAIMED MAY 17 AS [Captioner] 19:06:29 INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST [Captioner] 19:06:30 HOMOPHOBIA, TRANSPHOBIA, AND [Captioner] 19:06:32 BIPHOBIA; WHICH STATES THE HUMAN [Captioner] 19:06:34 RIGHTS OF LGBTQ+ PERSONS ARE THE [Captioner] 19:06:37 SAME AS HUMAN RIGHTS TO WHICH [Captioner] 19:06:40 ALL PERSONS ARE ENTITLED; AND [Captioner] 19:06:41 WHEREAS, THE CITY OF FREMONT HAS [Captioner] 19:06:44 A LONG-STANDING TRADITION OF [Captioner] 19:06:45 UPHOLDING THE DIGNITY OF THE [Captioner] 19:06:46 INDIVIDUAL, SUPPORTING LEGAL [Captioner] 19:06:47 EQUALITY AND FAIR TREATMENT FOR [Captioner] 19:06:50 ALL CITIZENS, ENSURING THAT ACTS [Captioner] 19:06:51 OF DISCRIMINATION AND HATRED [Captioner] 19:06:54 WILL NOT BE TOLERATED, HAVING [Captioner] 19:06:55 EARNED 92 OUT OF A POSSIBLE 100 [Captioner] 19:07:00 POINTS ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS [Captioner] 19:07:02 CAMPAIGN’S MUNICIPAL EQUALITY [Captioner] 19:07:03 INDEX; AND WHEREAS, FOR MANY [Captioner] 19:07:05 YEARS, THE HUMAN RELATIONS [Captioner] 19:07:06 COMMISSION HAS ORGANIZED AN [Captioner] 19:07:07 OFFICIAL CITY OF FREMONT ENTRY [Captioner] 19:07:08 AND PARTICIPATED IN THE SAN [Captioner] 19:07:13 FRANCISCO PRIDE PARADE; AND [Captioner] 19:07:14 WHEREAS, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN [Captioner] 19:07:15 THE CITY OF FREMONT, THE HUMAN [Captioner] 19:07:16 RELATIONS COMMISSION WILL [Captioner] 19:07:18 CO-HOST THE FREMONT PRIDE FAIR [Captioner] 19:07:19 WITH THE FREMONT MAIN LIBRARY ON [Captioner] 19:07:21 JUNE 15, 2024, WHICH IS [Captioner] 19:07:24 RESPONSIVE TO THE NEEDS AND [Captioner] 19:07:29 INTERESTS OF THE LOCAL LGBTQIA+ [Captioner] 19:07:33 COMMUNITY THAT WILL REACH ALL [Captioner] 19:07:38 AGE GROUPS, FROM YOUTH TO OLDER [Captioner] 19:07:43 ADULTS; AND WHEREAS, AS A [Captioner] 19:07:43 COMPASSIONATE SANCTUARY CITY, [Captioner] 19:07:45 THE CITY OF FREMONT RECOGNIZES [Captioner] 19:07:46 THAT RESIDENTS HAVE A RIGHT TO [Captioner] 19:07:47 IDENTIFY AS GENDER [Captioner] 19:07:47 NON-CONFORMING, INCLUDING [Captioner] 19:07:48 NON-BINARY AND GENDER FLUID, [Captioner] 19:07:49 HAVE ALL-GENDER INCLUSIONS IN [Captioner] 19:07:50 PUBLIC FACILITIES, AND [Captioner] 19:07:51 CONTINUALLY RECEIVE THE SUPPORT [Captioner] 19:07:52 AND RECOGNITION THAT GENDER [Captioner] 19:07:55 NON-BINARY PEOPLE DESERVE. NOW, [Captioner] 19:07:56 THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF [Captioner] 19:07:58 THE CITY OF FREMONT, PROCLAIMS [Captioner] 19:08:02 JUNE 2024 AS PRIDE MONTH IN THE [Captioner] 19:08:03 CITY OF FREMONT AND ENCOURAGES [Captioner] 19:08:04 EVERYONE IN OUR COMMUNITY TO [Captioner] 19:08:06 CELEBRATE THE SPIRIT AND [Captioner] 19:08:07 DEDICATION OF THIS VIBRANT [Captioner] 19:08:08 COMMUNITY BY RAISING THE PRIDE [Captioner] 19:08:10 FLAG, COMMITTING TO JOIN PRIDE [Captioner] 19:08:12 EVENTS, IN WHATEVER CAPACITY [Captioner] 19:08:14 AVAILABLE, THROUGHOUT THE MONTH [Captioner] 19:08:15 OF JUNE, AND PARTICIPATE IN [Captioner] 19:08:16 OTHER ACTIVITIES WHICH CELEBRATE [Captioner] 19:08:21 THE HUMAN SPIRIT. [Captioner] 19:08:22 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. [Captioner] 19:08:22 [APPLAUSE] [Captioner] 19:08:40 >> SO ON BEHALF OF THE FREMONT [Captioner] 19:08:40 HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION, [Captioner] 19:08:42 THANK YOU, MAYOR MEI, THANK YOU, [Captioner] 19:08:42 CITY COUNCIL. [Captioner] 19:08:44 I AM HONORED TO ACCEPT THIS [Captioner] 19:08:45 PROCLAMATION FOR PRIDE MONTH. [Captioner] 19:08:47 SO WE ARE PROUD OF OUR CITY'S [Captioner] 19:08:49 COMMITMENT TO ELEVATING THE [Captioner] 19:08:52 VOICES OF THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNITY [Captioner] 19:08:53 MEMBERS WHILE ACKNOWLEDGING [Captioner] 19:08:54 THERE IS ALWAYS MORE WORK TO [Captioner] 19:08:54 DO. [Captioner] 19:08:56 NOW I'M ALSO THRILLED TO TELL [Captioner] 19:08:58 YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THIS [Captioner] 19:09:01 FIRST EVER PRIDE FAIR THAT WAS [Captioner] 19:09:03 JUST ANNOUNCED. [Captioner] 19:09:05 SO THIS IS TAKING PLACE ON JUNE [Captioner] 19:09:08 15TH FROM 10:00 A.M. TO 2:00 [Captioner] 19:09:09 P.M. ON THE GROUNDS OF THE [Captioner] 19:09:13 LIBRARY, SO BOTH IN THE [Captioner] 19:09:14 LIBRARY'S -- THE PARKING LOT AS [Captioner] 19:09:16 WELL AS INSIDE. [Captioner] 19:09:19 AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE REALLY [Captioner] 19:09:22 THRILLED BECAUSE FOR A NUMBER OF [Captioner] 19:09:25 YEARS, THE HUMAN RELATIONS [Captioner] 19:09:28 COMMISSION AND THE CITY HAS [Captioner] 19:09:28 PARTICIPATED IN THE SAN [Captioner] 19:09:29 FRANCISCO PRIDE MARCH. [Captioner] 19:09:32 WHICH IS A WONDERFUL WAY TO COME [Captioner] 19:09:33 TOGETHER AND CELEBRATE [Captioner] 19:09:33 COMMUNITY. [Captioner] 19:09:36 HOWEVER, YOU KNOW, WE THOUGHT IT [Captioner] 19:09:37 WOULD BE GREAT TO ACTUALLY BRING [Captioner] 19:09:40 IT BACK HOME THIS YEAR AND DO [Captioner] 19:09:43 SOMETHING HERE IN SOUTH COUNTY [Captioner] 19:09:43 FOR OUR COMMUNITY. [Captioner] 19:09:44 SO THIS, I'M REALLY THRILLED [Captioner] 19:09:44 ABOUT. [Captioner] 19:09:47 SO THIS REALLY ELEVATES THE [Captioner] 19:09:49 VISIBILITY OF PRIDE IN OUR CITY [Captioner] 19:09:51 AND CONNECTS PEOPLE TO SERVICES [Captioner] 19:09:52 AND TO EACH OTHER. [Captioner] 19:09:54 SO IT REALLY IS A [Captioner] 19:09:54 COMMUNITY-BUILDING EVENT. [Captioner] 19:09:56 SO AT THE FAIR, THERE WILL BE A [Captioner] 19:09:59 VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES REALLY [Captioner] 19:10:00 ENCOMPASSING THE SPIRIT OF [Captioner] 19:10:02 PRIDE, SO WE INVITE THE [Captioner] 19:10:03 COMMUNITY TO COME LEARN, BOND, [Captioner] 19:10:08 GROW TOGETHER THROUGH SOME FUN [Captioner] 19:10:10 ACTIVITIES LIKE DRAG STORY TIME [Captioner] 19:10:11 AND SQUARE DANCING. [Captioner] 19:10:14 THERE WILL BE DRAG BINGO, OTHER [Captioner] 19:10:16 GAMES, LIVE ENTERTAINMENT, AND [Captioner] 19:10:18 OF COURSE FOOD FROM FOOD TRUCKS. [Captioner] 19:10:20 THERE WILL ALSO BE A YOUTH [Captioner] 19:10:22 SERVICES PANEL DISCUSSION FOR [Captioner] 19:10:24 FAMILIES TO UNDERSTAND MORE [Captioner] 19:10:25 ABOUT SERVICES AVAILABLE TO [Captioner] 19:10:25 YOUTH. [Captioner] 19:10:32 AND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO ENGAGE [Captioner] 19:10:34 WITH LGBTQIA+ SERVING [Captioner] 19:10:37 ORGANIZATIONS AND DO RAPID HIV [Captioner] 19:10:39 AND HEP C TESTING PROVIDED BY [Captioner] 19:10:40 BAY AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH. [Captioner] 19:10:44 SO THIS IS OPEN TO EVERYONE, TO [Captioner] 19:10:46 ALL AGES, AND PLEASE JOIN US. [Captioner] 19:10:46 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:10:52 [APPLAUSE] [Captioner] 19:10:56 GLRCHLT THANK YOU SO MUCH. [Captioner] 19:10:58 I ALSO WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE, I [Captioner] 19:10:59 KNOW THAT ONE OF OUR [Captioner] 19:11:01 COUNCILMEMBERS WORKS WITH BAY [Captioner] 19:11:03 AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH AND BAY [Captioner] 19:11:05 AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH HAS ONE OF [Captioner] 19:11:07 THE FEW TRANSGENDER TREATMENT [Captioner] 19:11:09 PROGRAMS THROUGH TRANS VISION, [Captioner] 19:11:11 SO WE APPRECIATE THE PARTNERSHIP [Captioner] 19:11:12 AND RESOURCES HERE IN OUR CITY [Captioner] 19:11:12 OF FREMONT. [Captioner] 19:11:17 NEXT IS RECOGNITION. [Captioner] 19:11:21 WE ARE JUST PAST ASIAN HERITAGE [Captioner] 19:11:22 MONTH, AND FOR THE SECOND YEAR, [Captioner] 19:11:24 WE'VE HAD AN ANNUAL ASIAN [Captioner] 19:11:26 HERITAGE FESTIVAL IN OUR [Captioner] 19:11:26 DOWNTOWN EVENT CENTER. [Captioner] 19:11:30 AND I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN AN [Captioner] 19:11:31 EFFORT THAT WAS OF A LOT OF [Captioner] 19:11:32 INTEREST FOR THE DIVERSE [Captioner] 19:11:32 COMMUNITY. [Captioner] 19:11:34 FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, [Captioner] 19:11:37 FREMONT IS HOME TO BEING THE [Captioner] 19:11:38 SIXTH LARGEST ASIAN POPULATION [Captioner] 19:11:40 IN THE UNITED STATES, AND ALSO [Captioner] 19:11:43 THE LARGEST PERCENTAGE OF A CITY [Captioner] 19:11:44 IN THE UNITED STATES. [Captioner] 19:11:47 AND SO WE ALSO THINK IT'S [Captioner] 19:11:48 IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT [Captioner] 19:11:51 THERE IS A DIVERSITY IN [Captioner] 19:11:53 DIASPORA, SO THESE AWARDS ARE [Captioner] 19:11:56 AWARDED TO THE ORGANIZERS FOR [Captioner] 19:11:58 THIS EVENT, AND THIS WAS HELD AT [Captioner] 19:12:00 OUR DOWNTOWN EVENT CENTER AND [Captioner] 19:12:01 DESPITE THE RAIN AND SOME OF THE [Captioner] 19:12:02 CHALLENGES WHICH IS THE ONLY [Captioner] 19:12:05 TIME WHERE IT WAS RAINING THAT [Captioner] 19:12:08 WEEKEND, WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE [Captioner] 19:12:10 THAT SUCCESSFUL EVENT, AND I [Captioner] 19:12:11 ALSO WANTED PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT [Captioner] 19:12:13 BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE FUNDING [Captioner] 19:12:14 THINGS WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT [Captioner] 19:12:15 LATER IN BUDGET, THIS WAS [Captioner] 19:12:18 SEPARATELY FUNDED ENTIRELY BY [Captioner] 19:12:20 FUNDRAISING EFFORTS FROM THESE [Captioner] 19:12:20 ORGANIZERS IN THE GROUP. [Captioner] 19:12:23 SO IT DID NOT UTILIZE OUR CITY'S [Captioner] 19:12:23 MONEY. [Captioner] 19:12:25 SO I'D LIKE TO PRESENT THESE [Captioner] 19:12:25 CERTIFICATES AND I'D LIKE TO [Captioner] 19:12:28 CALL THE INDIVIDUALS UP FOR THE [Captioner] 19:12:28 RECOGNITION. [Captioner] 19:12:32 AND SO FIRST, WE HAVE ALEX WOO, [Captioner] 19:12:33 IF YOU'D LIKE TO COME AND JOIN [Captioner] 19:12:34 ME UP HERE. [Captioner] 19:12:38 AND IF YOU WANT TO JUST STATE [Captioner] 19:12:39 REAL QUICKLY FOR ONE OR TWO [Captioner] 19:12:40 MINUTES ABOUT YOUR ORGANIZATION, [Captioner] 19:12:41 THAT WOULD BE GREAT. [Captioner] 19:12:41 >> THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:12:52 NEXT IS JACK MA. [Captioner] 19:12:58 I THINK YOU'RE FROM THE SAME [Captioner] 19:12:58 ORGANIZATION. [Captioner] 19:13:08 >> THANK YOU, MAYOR MEI. [Captioner] 19:13:10 THANK YOU, CITY COUNCIL. [Captioner] 19:13:15 WE ARE HONORED TO PARTICIPATE [Captioner] 19:13:18 AND ORGANIZE THIS FUNCTION, [Captioner] 19:13:22 WHICH IS -- PRIMARY PURPOSE IS [Captioner] 19:13:23 TO UNITE THE ASIAN COMMUNITY, [Captioner] 19:13:26 BUT IT ACTUALLY IS A CITY-WIDE [Captioner] 19:13:29 ACTIVITY, AND WE'RE SO HAPPY [Captioner] 19:13:31 THAT PEOPLE WHO CAME HAD ENJOYED [Captioner] 19:13:32 IT, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS RAINING. [Captioner] 19:13:37 BUT I REPRESENT THE HONG KONG [Captioner] 19:13:40 COMMUNITY CENTER IN FREMONT, AND [Captioner] 19:13:44 THEN WE HAVE THE HONOR TO WORK [Captioner] 19:13:49 WITH THE INDIAN PLANNERS, SO IT [Captioner] 19:13:50 WAS A SUCCESSFUL EVENT. [Captioner] 19:13:50 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [Captioner] 19:13:53 [APPLAUSE] [Captioner] 19:14:04 >> I DON'T SEE RAH [Captioner] 19:14:10 JESH VERMA BUT ALSO RAH JESH [Captioner] 19:14:13 Verma, VIDYA SETHURAMAN [Captioner] 19:14:14 and RITU MAHESHWARI. [Captioner] 19:14:16 I ALSO WANTED TO NOTE THERE WERE [Captioner] 19:14:20 OTHER GROUPS THAT WERE PRESENT, [Captioner] 19:14:21 VIETNAMESE, KOREAN, JAPANESE, SO [Captioner] 19:14:22 WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE. [Captioner] 19:14:23 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:14:42 >> SO THANK YOU, MAYOR MEI AND [Captioner] 19:14:46 COUNCILMEMBERS FOR THE HONOR AND [Captioner] 19:14:47 RECOGNIZING OUR HERITAGE. [Captioner] 19:14:49 FREMONT IS A MELTING POT OF [Captioner] 19:14:50 DIVERSE COMMUNITIES AND [Captioner] 19:14:54 PROACTIVE DIVERSITY INCLUSION [Captioner] 19:14:55 AND POLICIES OF CITY COUNCIL. [Captioner] 19:14:58 IT HAS HELPED TO BECOME THE [Captioner] 19:14:59 SAFEST, HAPPIEST AND BEST CITY [Captioner] 19:15:00 TO RAISE FAMILIES. [Captioner] 19:15:04 WE LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUOUS [Captioner] 19:15:06 PARTNERSHIP IN UNITING [Captioner] 19:15:07 COMMUNITIES TOGETHER, SO THANK [Captioner] 19:15:10 YOU SO MUCH, MAYOR MEI, FOR [Captioner] 19:15:13 MAKING IT HAPPEN, AND WE REALLY [Captioner] 19:15:13 APPRECIATE IT. [Captioner] 19:15:15 [APPLAUSE] [Captioner] 19:15:48 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU ALL FOR [Captioner] 19:15:49 JOINING US FOR THIS DISCUSSION [Captioner] 19:15:51 AND FOR RECOGNITION. [Captioner] 19:15:54 I WOULD LIKE TO SAY NEXT ON OUR [Captioner] 19:15:55 AGENDA ITEM WILL BE PUBLIC [Captioner] 19:15:56 COMMUNICATIONS, BUT WHILE WE'RE [Captioner] 19:15:57 CALLING UP SOME OF THE SPEAKER [Captioner] 19:15:59 CARDS, WHICH ARE ITEMS THAT ARE [Captioner] 19:16:03 NON-AGENDIZED THIS EVENING, [Captioner] 19:16:04 INCLUDING CEREMONIAL ITEMS, I [Captioner] 19:16:07 ALSO WANTED TO THANK -- THIS [Captioner] 19:16:09 WEEKEND WE HAD A CHANCE AS A [Captioner] 19:16:11 COUNCIL TO RECOGNIZE ONE OF OUR [Captioner] 19:16:14 LONG-TIME INSTITUTION, WHICH IS [Captioner] 19:16:16 THE AFRO AMERICAN CULTURAL [Captioner] 19:16:17 HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THEIR [Captioner] 19:16:19 50TH ANNIVERSARY, AND SO IN [Captioner] 19:16:21 PARTICULAR, MISS JEANNE [Captioner] 19:16:22 FICKLAND, AND I'M JUST SO PROUD, [Captioner] 19:16:24 I KNOW THERE ARE MANY [Captioner] 19:16:25 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS THAT ARE [Captioner] 19:16:26 OUT IN OUR COMMUNITY, SO WE'RE [Captioner] 19:16:27 VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THEIR [Captioner] 19:16:29 INCREDIBLE DEDICATION FOR 50 [Captioner] 19:16:32 YEARS AND GIVING OVER $240,000, [Captioner] 19:16:34 I THINK, IN SCHOLARSHIPS, WHICH [Captioner] 19:16:34 IS VERY IMPRESSIVE. [Captioner] 19:16:36 SO THANK YOU FOR THAT [Captioner] 19:16:36 PARTNERSHIP. [Captioner] 19:16:39 DO WE HAVE THE SPEAKER CARDS [Captioner] 19:16:39 NOW? [Captioner] 19:16:43 >> YES, WE HAVE FOUR FOR PUBLIC [Captioner] 19:16:43 COMMENT. [Captioner] 19:16:44 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY. [Captioner] 19:16:44 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:16:44 OR FIVE NOW. [Captioner] 19:16:47 >> STILL FOUR. [Captioner] 19:16:47 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY. [Captioner] 19:16:52 COULD WE DO TWO MINUTE FOR EACH [Captioner] 19:16:53 OF THE SPEAKERS? [Captioner] 19:17:02 >> THE FIRST SPEAKER IS BEN [Captioner] 19:17:03 YEE. [Captioner] 19:17:09 AND FOLLOWING BEN YEE IS KELLY [Captioner] 19:17:09 ABREU. [Captioner] 19:17:16 THEN GABRIEL SILVA AND ROSIA [Captioner] 19:17:16 SILVA. [Captioner] 19:17:17 >> THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:17:19 MY NAME IS BEN YEE. [Captioner] 19:17:20 I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU, [Captioner] 19:17:22 MAYOR MEI AND TO THE CITY [Captioner] 19:17:24 COUNCIL, FOR BEING SUPPORTIVE OF [Captioner] 19:17:27 THE ASIAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND [Captioner] 19:17:29 HAVING THE CERTIFICATES FOR THE [Captioner] 19:17:31 FIVE INDIVIDUALS THAT HELPED [Captioner] 19:17:33 REALLY HARD BECAUSE I WORKED [Captioner] 19:17:34 VERY CLOSELY WITH THEM TO MAKE [Captioner] 19:17:35 SURE THAT THIS HAPPENED. [Captioner] 19:17:40 AND AS YOU HEARD, WE MADE SURE [Captioner] 19:17:41 THIS WAS TOTALLY SELF-FUNDED, [Captioner] 19:17:43 NOT A PENNY WAS NEEDED BY THE [Captioner] 19:17:45 CITY AND WE MADE SURE TO MAKE [Captioner] 19:17:45 THAT ALL HAPPEN. [Captioner] 19:17:47 BUT I ALSO WANTED TO THANK SOME [Captioner] 19:17:48 OTHER INDIVIDUALS AND KEY [Captioner] 19:17:52 SPONSORS THAT MADE THIS EVENT [Captioner] 19:17:52 VERY SUCCESSFUL. [Captioner] 19:17:55 THE FIRST PERSON -- I KNOW HE'S [Captioner] 19:17:59 NOT HERE BUT IT'S DR. JOPRA. [Captioner] 19:18:01 WITHOUT USING HIS ORGANIZATION [Captioner] 19:18:02 AND NON-PROFIT, WE WOULD NOT [Captioner] 19:18:03 HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SPEED-TRACK [Captioner] 19:18:04 THE APPLICATION PROCESS. [Captioner] 19:18:07 ALSO WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE [Captioner] 19:18:08 ACKNOWLEDGE OUR MAJOR SPONSORS, [Captioner] 19:18:11 THE FIRST ONE IS FREMONT BANK, [Captioner] 19:18:14 AND AUDI, AND THEN THE LAST ONE [Captioner] 19:18:16 IS BILL SINODINO FROM BILLY [Captioner] 19:18:17 ROY'S. [Captioner] 19:18:18 WITHOUT THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT, [Captioner] 19:18:21 WE WOULD NOT NOT BROKE EVEN AND [Captioner] 19:18:22 ACTUALLY HAD SOME MONEY LEFT [Captioner] 19:18:25 OVER SO WE COULD ACTUALLY GET [Captioner] 19:18:27 READY FOR NEXT YEAR AND AS [Captioner] 19:18:29 YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD FROM MAYOR [Captioner] 19:18:30 MEI, WE'LL MAKE SURE NEXT YEAR [Captioner] 19:18:32 WE'LL HAVE IT LATER IN MAY SO [Captioner] 19:18:34 HOPEFULLY IT WON'T RAY THAT [Captioner] 19:18:35 PARTICULAR DAY BUT WE HAD [Captioner] 19:18:36 PROBABLY OVER A LITTLE OVER 500 [Captioner] 19:18:37 PEOPLE THAT SHOWED UP THAT [Captioner] 19:18:38 PARTICULAR DAY, EVEN THOUGH IT [Captioner] 19:18:39 WAS POURING RAIN. [Captioner] 19:18:41 SO JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU ALL [Captioner] 19:18:43 FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT, AND TAKE [Captioner] 19:18:43 CARE. [Captioner] 19:18:52 >> Ms. Lewis: NEXT SPEAKER, [Captioner] 19:18:53 KELLY ABREU. [Captioner] 19:19:03 >> THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:19:06 THE LAST BUDGET MEETING, SOME [Captioner] 19:19:07 COUNCILMEMBERS EXPRESSED [Captioner] 19:19:08 DISAPPOINTMENT THAT THERE'S [Captioner] 19:19:11 LITTLE OR NO ATTENDANCE AT [Captioner] 19:19:12 BUDGET MEETINGS. [Captioner] 19:19:13 THEY'RE DISAPPOINTED THAT THE [Captioner] 19:19:15 PUBLIC DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE [Captioner] 19:19:17 NUMBERS, AND I DON'T DISAGREE. [Captioner] 19:19:21 THE NUMBERS ARE BORING AND UNTIL [Captioner] 19:19:23 JUST RECENTLY, THIS COUNCIL WAS [Captioner] 19:19:24 LULLED TO SLEEP AND BARELY KEPT [Captioner] 19:19:27 THEIR EYES OPEN DURING BORING [Captioner] 19:19:28 BUDGET PRESENTATIONS. [Captioner] 19:19:30 THEY HAD ALMOST NO QUESTIONS. [Captioner] 19:19:33 BUT THIS COUNCIL WAS ELECTED TO [Captioner] 19:19:34 OVERSEE CITY FINANCES. [Captioner] 19:19:36 THAT'S WHY THIS COUNCIL HAS [Captioner] 19:19:37 INDEPENDENT AUDITORS TO ENSURE [Captioner] 19:19:39 THE ACCURACY OF FINANCIAL [Captioner] 19:19:39 REPORTS. [Captioner] 19:19:42 AND DEDICATED SALES TAX [Captioner] 19:19:44 CONSULTANTS, VERY SPECIALIZED, [Captioner] 19:19:46 TO ENSURE THE RELIABILITY OF [Captioner] 19:19:48 SALES TAX REVENUES, EVEN THE [Captioner] 19:19:50 ONES THAT ARE FILED WITH THE [Captioner] 19:19:51 STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT [Captioner] 19:19:53 OF TAX AND -- YOU HAVE FULL [Captioner] 19:19:56 ACCESS, YOU HAVE SPECIALIZED [Captioner] 19:19:56 AUDIT CONSULTANTS. [Captioner] 19:20:03 SO THEN EVEN FOR THE PAST [Captioner] 19:20:04 BUDGETS, NOT THE UPCOMING [Captioner] 19:20:06 BUDGET, FOR THE PAST BUDGET, [Captioner] 19:20:08 THIS COUNCIL FAILED TO ASK [Captioner] 19:20:09 QUESTIONS LIKE WHY DID [Captioner] 19:20:13 EXPENDITURES JUMP 17% IN FISCAL [Captioner] 19:20:13 YEAR 2023 COMPARED TO THE [Captioner] 19:20:14 PREVIOUS YEAR? [Captioner] 19:20:16 17% IN ONE YEAR. [Captioner] 19:20:21 YOU KNOW, PREVIOUS YEARS, WERE [Captioner] 19:20:22 GOING UP LITTLE BY LITTLE AND [Captioner] 19:20:23 LAST COUPLE YEARS, GONE UP [Captioner] 19:20:25 LITTLE BY LITTLE, BUT THAT ONE [Captioner] 19:20:27 YEAR, 2023, BOOM. [Captioner] 19:20:29 DID YOU GIVE OUT 17% PAY [Captioner] 19:20:29 RAISES? [Captioner] 19:20:32 DURING THE NEW CONTRACT THAT [Captioner] 19:20:34 TOOK EFFECT JULY 1ST, 2022? [Captioner] 19:20:35 I DON'T THINK SO. [Captioner] 19:20:36 I DON'T THINK SO. [Captioner] 19:20:38 I DON'T THINK IT WAS 17%. [Captioner] 19:20:40 IT WAS 17% SPREAD OUT OVER THREE [Captioner] 19:20:40 YEARS. [Captioner] 19:20:46 AND WHY DID IT JUST JUMP UP AND [Captioner] 19:20:46 STAY UP? [Captioner] 19:20:47 AND WHY ALL AT ONCE? [Captioner] 19:20:49 WHY NOT SPREAD OUT OVER THREE [Captioner] 19:20:49 YEARS? [Captioner] 19:20:50 WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? [Captioner] 19:20:52 WITH THE BUDGET? [Captioner] 19:20:52 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:21:08 >> Ms. Lewis: GABRIEL SILVA AND [Captioner] 19:21:10 THEN ROSIA SILVA. [Captioner] 19:21:17 >> CAN WE GET ALLOWED A FEW MORE [Captioner] 19:21:18 MINUTES TO TRANSLATE? [Captioner] 19:21:23 >> Mayor Mei: JUST CONFIRMING [Captioner] 19:21:24 THIS IS FOR ORAL COMMUNICATIONS, [Captioner] 19:21:26 NOT FOR THE AGENDA ITEMS TODAY? [Captioner] 19:21:28 >> Councilmember Cox: THEY NEED [Captioner] 19:21:28 TRANSLATION. [Captioner] 19:21:30 >> Mayor Mei: I KNOW, I'M JUST [Captioner] 19:21:31 -- ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT [Captioner] 19:21:32 SOMETHING NON-AGENDIZED? [Captioner] 19:21:33 >> IT IS AGENDIZED BUT THEY HAVE [Captioner] 19:21:37 TO GO BACK TO WORK SO THEY [Captioner] 19:21:38 WANTED TO LEAVE THE PUBLIC [Captioner] 19:21:39 COMMENT NOW. [Captioner] 19:21:39 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY. [Captioner] 19:21:41 I'M FINE WITH THAT THEN, THERE'S [Captioner] 19:21:42 TWO SPEAKERS. [Captioner] 19:22:54 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, MY NAME IS [Captioner] 19:22:56 ROSIA SILVA, I WORK AS A JANITOR [Captioner] 19:22:58 FOR SWA SERVICES GROUP. [Captioner] 19:23:00 PREVIOUSLY I WAS PART OF A [Captioner] 19:23:00 UNION. [Captioner] 19:23:02 DURING MY TIME WITH ABM, I [Captioner] 19:23:03 RECEIVED UNION BENEFITS SUCH AS [Captioner] 19:23:05 HEALTHCARE, SICK DAYS, SENIORITY [Captioner] 19:23:06 AND REGULAR PAY INCREASES. [Captioner] 19:23:08 HOWEVER, AFTER THE COMPANY [Captioner] 19:23:10 SWITCH, I ALONG WITH MANY OF MY [Captioner] 19:23:11 COLLEAGUES LOST MOST OF THESE [Captioner] 19:23:11 BENEFITS. [Captioner] 19:23:13 THIS HAS SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED [Captioner] 19:23:15 OUR FAMILY'S QUALITY OF LIFE. [Captioner] 19:23:18 HEALTHCARE IS THE MOST CRUCIAL [Captioner] 19:23:18 BENEFIT FOR US. [Captioner] 19:23:20 WE HAVE FAMILIES THAT LIVE IN [Captioner] 19:23:22 THE BAY AREA, A VERY EXPENSIVE [Captioner] 19:23:23 REGION, WHERE WE PAY THOUSANDS [Captioner] 19:23:26 OF DOLLARS IN RENT AND HUNDREDS [Captioner] 19:23:26 FOR GROCERIES. [Captioner] 19:23:29 THE $600 HEALTHCARE PLAN OUR [Captioner] 19:23:30 COMPANY OFFERS IS [Captioner] 19:23:31 UNSUSTAINABLE. [Captioner] 19:23:34 WE DILIGENTLY MAINTAIN THESE [Captioner] 19:23:35 CITY BUILDINGS AND WE HOPE THE [Captioner] 19:23:36 CITY OF FREMONT WILL SUPPORT US [Captioner] 19:23:39 IN RETURNING BY ENDORSING A [Captioner] 19:23:40 RESPONSIBLE CONTRACTING POLICY. [Captioner] 19:23:40 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:23:49 >> Ms. Lewis: NEXT SPEAKER, [Captioner] 19:23:49 AURORA HERNANDEZ. [Captioner] 19:23:53 FOLLOWED BY JAY SWAB. [Captioner] 19:25:51 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, ESTEEMED [Captioner] 19:25:51 MAYOR AND COUNCILMEMBERS. [Captioner] 19:25:55 I AM AN EMPLOYEE AT SWA HERE IN [Captioner] 19:25:55 THE CITY OF FREMONT. [Captioner] 19:25:57 MY COLLEAGUES AND I ARE [Captioner] 19:25:59 APPEARING BEFORE YOU TODAY TO [Captioner] 19:26:00 STRONGLY ADVOCATE FOR THE [Captioner] 19:26:02 IMPLEMENTATION OF A RESPONSIBLE [Captioner] 19:26:03 CONTRACTING POLICY. [Captioner] 19:26:05 THIS POLICY WOULD ONLY ALLOW [Captioner] 19:26:06 COMPANIES WITH COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 19:26:09 BARGAINING AGREEMENTS TO BID FOR [Captioner] 19:26:10 CLEANING SERVICE CONTRACTS. [Captioner] 19:26:14 CURRENTLY, I AM IN A CHALLENGING [Captioner] 19:26:15 SITUATION AFTER UNDERGOING [Captioner] 19:26:17 SURGERY A FEW MONTHS AGO, I AM [Captioner] 19:26:19 NOW IN THE PROCESS OF RECOVERY. [Captioner] 19:26:20 THE ONLY REASON I COULD AFFORD [Captioner] 19:26:22 THE SURGERY WAS BY QUALIFYING [Captioner] 19:26:23 FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL [Captioner] 19:26:23 ASSISTANCE. [Captioner] 19:26:24 UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS THE ONLY [Captioner] 19:26:26 TYPE OF MEDICAL SUPPORT I AM [Captioner] 19:26:26 ELIGIBLE FOR. [Captioner] 19:26:29 DESPITE EARNING ENOUGH TO NOT [Captioner] 19:26:31 MEET THE STANDARD INCOME [Captioner] 19:26:33 REQUIREMENTS FOR REGULAR MEDICAL [Captioner] 19:26:34 ASSISTANCE, I DO NOT EARN ENOUGH [Captioner] 19:26:35 TO COMFORTABLY AFFORD THE [Captioner] 19:26:37 HEALTHCARE INSURANCE PROVIDED BY [Captioner] 19:26:38 SWA, WHICH AMOUNTS TO BETWEEN [Captioner] 19:26:40 500 AND $600 PER PAYCHECK. [Captioner] 19:26:44 THIS FINANCIAL BURDEN IS [Captioner] 19:26:45 EXASPERATED BY THE ABSENCE OF A [Captioner] 19:26:46 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT [Captioner] 19:26:48 THAT GUARANTEES WAGE INCREASES. [Captioner] 19:26:50 MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES ARE [Captioner] 19:26:52 SIMILARLY STRUGGLING, SOME HAVE [Captioner] 19:26:53 UNDERLYING HEALTH CONDITIONS AND [Captioner] 19:26:55 HAVE HAD TO BEAR SIGNIFICANT OUT [Captioner] 19:26:57 OF POCKET EXPENSES FOR MEDICAL [Captioner] 19:26:58 TREATMENT. [Captioner] 19:27:00 DESPITE OUR DEDICATION TO [Captioner] 19:27:03 MAINTAIN THE CLEANLINESS OF CITY [Captioner] 19:27:04 BUILDINGS SUCH AS THOSE HERE IN [Captioner] 19:27:06 FREMONT, WE DO NOT RESERVE [Captioner] 19:27:07 ADEQUATE HEALTHCARE COVERAGE OR [Captioner] 19:27:08 WAGE INCREASES. [Captioner] 19:27:10 ESTABLISHING A COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 19:27:11 BARGAINING AGREEMENT WOULD [Captioner] 19:27:13 EMPOWER US, THE WORKERS, TO [Captioner] 19:27:16 NEGOTIATE FOR ESSENTIAL BENEFITS [Captioner] 19:27:18 -- AND ULTIMATELY A BETTER [Captioner] 19:27:18 QUALITY OF LIFE. [Captioner] 19:27:20 FOR OURSELVES AND OUR [Captioner] 19:27:20 FAMILIES. [Captioner] 19:27:21 THANK YOU SO MUCH. [Captioner] 19:27:29 >> Ms. Lewis: NEXT SPEAKER, JAY [Captioner] 19:27:32 SWAB, FOLLOWED BY GOLDEN SHO. [Captioner] 19:27:36 >> GOOD EVENING, [Captioner] 19:27:36 COUNCILMEMBERS. [Captioner] 19:27:43 I AM ALARMED AT THE STATE OF THE [Captioner] 19:27:44 CITY AND THEIR FINANCES. [Captioner] 19:27:49 AND WITH THAT, I HAVE SOME [Captioner] 19:27:50 SUGGESTIONS. [Captioner] 19:27:55 I HOPE YOU MAY TAKE INTO [Captioner] 19:27:55 CONSIDERATION. [Captioner] 19:28:03 THAT THERE BEING [Captioner] 19:28:04 APPARENTLY A $37 MILLION [Captioner] 19:28:05 OVERPAYMENT TO THE CITY BY THE [Captioner] 19:28:07 STATE WHICH APPARENTLY MAKES UP [Captioner] 19:28:07 10% OF THE GENERAL FUND. [Captioner] 19:28:14 WE NEED TO GENERATE MORE SALES [Captioner] 19:28:14 TAXES. [Captioner] 19:28:17 UNFORTUNATELY THE SHORTFALL THAT [Captioner] 19:28:19 WE HAD WITH SALES TAXES HAS BEEN [Captioner] 19:28:23 THE CLOSING OF WAL-MART, THE HUB [Captioner] 19:28:24 HAS BEEN SOLD. [Captioner] 19:28:28 MISSION VALLEY, THE ANCHOR STORE [Captioner] 19:28:30 THERE CLOSED, WHICH WAS [Captioner] 19:28:30 LUCKY'S. [Captioner] 19:28:32 FREMONT BOULEVARD BETWEEN [Captioner] 19:28:34 CENTRAL AND PERALTA, A SLEW OF [Captioner] 19:28:36 SMALL BUSINESSES FOR THE CITY [Captioner] 19:28:41 THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE CITY FOR [Captioner] 19:28:43 YEARS, DECADES, ARE NOW GONE. [Captioner] 19:28:50 WE SHOULD CUT BACK ON HEALTH AND [Captioner] 19:28:53 HUMAN SERVICES IF IT'S SALARIES, [Captioner] 19:28:54 AND THAT KIND OF GOES ACROSS THE [Captioner] 19:28:54 BOARD. [Captioner] 19:29:00 THE FACT [Captioner] 19:29:05 THAT THE CITY GAVE OUT 17% [Captioner] 19:29:07 INCREASES, ALTHOUGH THAT'S OVER [Captioner] 19:29:09 A TWO-YEAR PERIOD -- MAY I HAVE [Captioner] 19:29:09 AN ADDITIONAL MINUTE? [Captioner] 19:29:11 I HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO MY [Captioner] 19:29:12 SUGGESTIONS. [Captioner] 19:29:18 >> Mayor Mei: YOU CAN SUBMIT THE [Captioner] 19:29:20 ITEMS SEPARATELY BUT ACTUALLY [Captioner] 19:29:21 THE ITEM IS GOING TO BE A [Captioner] 19:29:22 SEPARATE AGENDIZED ITEM FOR [Captioner] 19:29:23 BUDGET. [Captioner] 19:29:25 >> OKAY. [Captioner] 19:29:29 SO I CAN SPEAK AGAIN? [Captioner] 19:29:29 >> Mayor Mei: YOU CAN SPEAK AT [Captioner] 19:29:30 THAT TIME FOR TWO MINUTES. [Captioner] 19:29:32 BUT THAT'S WHY I WAS TRYING NOT [Captioner] 19:29:33 TO STOP YOU BECAUSE ACTUALLY [Captioner] 19:29:34 YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE [Captioner] 19:29:36 SPEAKING UNDER THIS AGENDA ITEM [Captioner] 19:29:37 BECAUSE IT'S AGENDIZED. [Captioner] 19:29:42 >> Ms. Lewis: NEXT SPEAKER, [Captioner] 19:29:44 GOLDEN SHO, THE LAST SPEAKER FOR [Captioner] 19:29:44 PUBLIC COMMENTS. [Captioner] 19:29:47 >> Mayor Mei: AGAIN JUST TO [Captioner] 19:29:48 CLARIFY, PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE FOR [Captioner] 19:29:49 ITEMS THAT ARE NOT AGENDIZED [Captioner] 19:29:49 THIS EVENING. [Captioner] 19:29:50 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:29:54 >> GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, VICE [Captioner] 19:29:55 MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. [Captioner] 19:29:58 SO I AM HERE TO SPEAK ON BEHALF [Captioner] 19:30:00 OF ALL THE RESIDENTS FOR CITY OF [Captioner] 19:30:01 FREMONT FROM THE LAST MEETING [Captioner] 19:30:04 AND I UNDERSTAND THAT WAS A VERY [Captioner] 19:30:05 TOUGH TIME AND I'M SORRY THAT [Captioner] 19:30:06 HAPPENED TO ALL THE RESIDENTS [Captioner] 19:30:08 AND I UNDERSTAND THE TOUGH TIMES [Captioner] 19:30:08 YOU'RE DEALING WITH. [Captioner] 19:30:10 BUT I JUST WANT TO ADDRESS AND [Captioner] 19:30:12 POINT OUT SOME ITEMS THAT [Captioner] 19:30:16 BECAUSE BASED ON THE BEHAVIOR [Captioner] 19:30:16 EXHIBITED DURING THE COUNCIL [Captioner] 19:30:18 MEETING IT'S KIND OF CONCERNING [Captioner] 19:30:19 WHAT THEY DID. [Captioner] 19:30:20 BUT YEAH, PEOPLE DO GET TO [Captioner] 19:30:21 EXPRESS THEIR FRUSTRATION AS WE [Captioner] 19:30:22 HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH. [Captioner] 19:30:25 IF THEY DON'T FEEL SAFE THEY [Captioner] 19:30:26 HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE A [Captioner] 19:30:27 COMPLAINT AND MAKE A REPORT BUT [Captioner] 19:30:29 SOMEHOW WE DO WANT TO EQUITABLE [Captioner] 19:30:30 TO EVERYBODY AND WE DO NOT WANT [Captioner] 19:30:32 THOSE GUYS TO KEEP COMING BACK, [Captioner] 19:30:35 GETTING MAD, GETTING AGGRAVATED, [Captioner] 19:30:36 WHERE IT ELEVATE TO MORE SERIOUS [Captioner] 19:30:38 ISSUE THAT IS MUCH A SAFETY [Captioner] 19:30:39 CONCERN, BECAUSE SAFETY CONCERN [Captioner] 19:30:41 IS ALWAYS AN IMPORTANT THING, [Captioner] 19:30:42 WHETHER A PUBLIC MEETING, [Captioner] 19:30:44 ASSEMBLY MEETING OR CITY COUNCIL [Captioner] 19:30:44 MEETING. [Captioner] 19:30:46 AS ON BEHALF OF THE CITY COUNCIL [Captioner] 19:30:48 RESIDENTS, I JUST HOPE THAT [Captioner] 19:30:49 THEY'LL UNDERSTAND FROM WHAT I'M [Captioner] 19:30:50 SAYING TODAY THAT THEY'LL LEARN [Captioner] 19:30:51 SOMETHING, DEFINITELY THAT'S [Captioner] 19:30:52 SOMETHING THEY SHOULD NOT BE [Captioner] 19:30:55 TRYING TO DISRESPECT AND GET [Captioner] 19:30:58 MORE TIME OR ACT IN MORE [Captioner] 19:31:01 AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, BUT WE HOPE [Captioner] 19:31:03 EVERYONE LEARNS, YEAH, THERE'S [Captioner] 19:31:04 TOUGH TIMES, WE HAVE TO LIVE [Captioner] 19:31:06 THROUGH IT AND LEARN HOW TO COPE [Captioner] 19:31:08 WITH THE TOUGH TIME AND BE [Captioner] 19:31:10 PATIENT AND WE NEED TO LET THE [Captioner] 19:31:11 CITY OFFICIALS DO THEIR JOB AND [Captioner] 19:31:13 GIVE THEM TIME, AND THE BEST [Captioner] 19:31:15 THING IS, I'LL SUGGEST PEOPLE [Captioner] 19:31:16 JOIN AN ASSOCIATION, CREATE A [Captioner] 19:31:18 GROUP WHERE WE CAN ALL ORGANIZE [Captioner] 19:31:19 AND GATHER TOGETHER AND THINK [Captioner] 19:31:20 ABOUT PLANS. [Captioner] 19:31:23 BUT JUST NOT COMING BACK AND [Captioner] 19:31:23 CAUSING A PROBLEM. [Captioner] 19:31:25 THAT'S ALL I HAVE, AND THANK [Captioner] 19:31:25 YOU. [Captioner] 19:31:27 AND THIS IS MY STATEMENT FOR [Captioner] 19:31:28 BOTH MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, VICE [Captioner] 19:31:30 MAYOR AND THE CITY RESIDENTS OF [Captioner] 19:31:30 FREMONT. [Captioner] 19:31:30 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:31:35 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:31:36 ARE THERE ANY OTHER PUBLIC [Captioner] 19:31:37 SPEAKERS AT THAT TIME? [Captioner] 19:31:38 >> Ms. Lewis: THAT WAS THE LAST [Captioner] 19:31:39 SPEAKER. [Captioner] 19:31:39 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:31:42 AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO CLOSE [Captioner] 19:31:44 PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS. [Captioner] 19:31:47 ORAL COMMUNICATIONS. [Captioner] 19:31:50 I WILL GO TO THE NEXT ITEM, ITEM [Captioner] 19:31:52 5A, THE PROPOSED ANNUAL [Captioner] 19:31:55 ASSESSMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR [Captioner] 19:31:56 2024/25 FOR LANDSCAPING [Captioner] 19:31:58 ASSESSMENT FOR DISTRICT NUMBER [Captioner] 19:32:00 88, AND I'M GOING TO TURN THIS [Captioner] 19:32:03 OVER TO VICE MAYOR YANG SHAO, [Captioner] 19:32:05 AND I KNOW FOR MYSELF AND ALSO [Captioner] 19:32:06 COUNCILMEMBER RAJ SALWAN, JUST [Captioner] 19:32:08 TO CLARIFY, WE ARE GOING TO NEED [Captioner] 19:32:10 TO RECUSE OURSELF AND TO EXPLAIN [Captioner] 19:32:11 FOR THAT IS BECAUSE WE LIVE IN [Captioner] 19:32:11 THOSE DISTRICTS. [Captioner] 19:32:14 SO WE CAN'T BE PART OF THIS [Captioner] 19:32:15 CONVERSATION OR DISCUSSION [Captioner] 19:32:18 BECAUSE IT PERTAINS TO OUR OWN [Captioner] 19:32:19 PROPERTIES. [Captioner] 19:32:22 >> Vice Mayor Shao: THANK YOU, [Captioner] 19:32:22 MADAME MAYOR. [Captioner] 19:32:26 SO RIGHT NOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT [Captioner] 19:32:27 ITEM 5A, PROPOSED ANNUAL [Captioner] 19:32:32 ASSESSMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR [Captioner] 19:32:33 2024/25, LANDSCAPING ASSESSMENT [Captioner] 19:32:35 DISTRICT NUMBER 88. [Captioner] 19:32:37 MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THERE [Captioner] 19:32:39 WILL NOT BE ANY PRESENTATION. [Captioner] 19:32:44 HOWEVER, OUR INTERIM MAINTENANCE [Captioner] 19:32:45 OPERATION DIRECTOR, LE SEAN [Captioner] 19:32:49 BUTLER, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF [Captioner] 19:32:50 MAINTENANCE AND BUSINESS [Captioner] 19:32:53 OPERATIONS KELLY KING AND PARK [Captioner] 19:32:56 SUPERINTENDENT JUAN BARAHAS WILL [Captioner] 19:32:58 BE AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS. [Captioner] 19:33:04 FIRST ANY QUESTIONS FROM [Captioner] 19:33:04 COUNCILMEMBERS? [Captioner] 19:33:07 NO? [Captioner] 19:33:10 I WILL THEN OPEN THE PUBLIC [Captioner] 19:33:10 HEARING. [Captioner] 19:33:13 CITY CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE [Captioner] 19:33:16 NAMES OF SPEAKERS AND WE'LL [Captioner] 19:33:17 START THE TIMER FOR EACH [Captioner] 19:33:17 SPEAKER. [Captioner] 19:33:18 ARE THERE ANY SPEAKERS? [Captioner] 19:33:22 >> Ms. Lewis: NO SPEAKERS FOR [Captioner] 19:33:22 THIS ITEM. [Captioner] 19:33:23 SHAO THANK YOU THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:33:28 IN THAT CASE, I WILL CLOSE THE [Captioner] 19:33:32 PUBLIC HEARING. [Captioner] 19:33:35 ONCE AGAIN, ANY QUESTIONS AND [Captioner] 19:33:36 COMMENTS FROM CITY [Captioner] 19:33:36 COUNCILMEMBERS? [Captioner] 19:33:46 IF NOT, MAY I ENTERTAIN A [Captioner] 19:33:46 MOTION? [Captioner] 19:33:54 >> YOU TURNED IN A CARD FOR 5B, [Captioner] 19:33:54 NOT 5A. [Captioner] 19:33:55 >> ALL RIGHT. [Captioner] 19:33:57 >> Ms. Gauthier: SORRY. [Captioner] 19:33:58 >> Councilmember Cox: YES, MR. [Captioner] 19:33:59 VICE MAYOR, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE [Captioner] 19:34:00 A MOTION. [Captioner] 19:34:00 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:34:05 MOTION BY CITY COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 19:34:06 TERESA COX, ANY SECOND? [Captioner] 19:34:07 >> Councilmember Cox: I WOULD [Captioner] 19:34:09 LIKE TO MOVE AND ACCEPT THE [Captioner] 19:34:10 STAFF REPORT AS WRITTEN. [Captioner] 19:34:11 >> Vice Mayor Shao: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:34:14 THAT'S THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR. [Captioner] 19:34:16 DO I HEAR A SECOND? [Captioner] 19:34:21 SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 19:34:22 TERESA KENG. [Captioner] 19:34:23 LET'S HAVE A ROLL CALL VOTE, [Captioner] 19:34:24 PLEASE. [Captioner] 19:34:27 >> Ms. Lewis: COUNCILMEMBER COX, [Captioner] 19:34:27 YES. [Captioner] 19:34:32 COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 19:34:33 SALWAN. [Captioner] 19:34:34 COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN, AYE. [Captioner] 19:34:37 COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL, AYE. [Captioner] 19:34:40 COUNCILMEMBER KENG, AYE. [Captioner] 19:34:42 VICE MAYOR SHAO, AYE. [Captioner] 19:34:45 WITH TWO MEMBERS OF THE CITY [Captioner] 19:34:49 COUNCIL RECUSING THEMSELVES, [Captioner] 19:34:51 THIS MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. [Captioner] 19:34:57 I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE THE MAYOR [Captioner] 19:34:57 TO BE BACK. [Captioner] 19:35:31 AND I WILL RETURN THE FLOOR TO [Captioner] 19:35:31 MADAME MAYOR. [Captioner] 19:35:32 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:35:36 NOW WE'LL RETURN TO ITEM 7B, [Captioner] 19:35:38 WHICH IS THE FIRST PUBLIC [Captioner] 19:35:40 HEARING ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL [Captioner] 19:35:44 YEAR 2024 AND 2025, REGARDING [Captioner] 19:35:45 THE PROPOSED OPERATING BUDGET [Captioner] 19:35:48 AND ALSO JUST TO CLARIFY -- OH, [Captioner] 19:35:48 5B. [Captioner] 19:35:49 SORRY, YES. [Captioner] 19:35:52 BUT ANYWAYS, WE WILL HAVE A [Captioner] 19:35:55 PRESENTATION FROM OUR FINANCE [Captioner] 19:35:56 DIRECTOR, DAVID PERSSELIN, WHO [Captioner] 19:35:57 WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS, [Captioner] 19:35:59 AND THEN ALSO JUST TO LET THE [Captioner] 19:36:01 PUBLIC KNOW, WE DID HAVE A [Captioner] 19:36:02 COMMUNITY SURVEY, AND SO FAR [Captioner] 19:36:04 WE'VE HAD 41 RESPONDENTS. [Captioner] 19:36:07 I WOULD LOVE FOR MORE PEOPLE TO [Captioner] 19:36:07 PARTICIPATE. [Captioner] 19:36:08 THERE WERE SOME QUESTIONS THAT [Captioner] 19:36:10 CAME UP ABOUT PAST BUDGETS, AND [Captioner] 19:36:15 PLEASE NOTE THE PAST [Captioner] 19:36:17 BUDGET IS OUT THERE. [Captioner] 19:36:19 THERE'S ALSO PEOPLE THAT ASKED [Captioner] 19:36:22 FOR BREAK DOWN BY DEPARTMENT AND [Captioner] 19:36:23 THAT IS ALSO IN THE DETAIL [Captioner] 19:36:23 BUDGET. [Captioner] 19:36:25 THERE IS A SUMMARY FOR THOSE WHO [Captioner] 19:36:27 ALSO ASKED FOR CONSOLIDATION ON [Captioner] 19:36:29 ONE PAGE, SO THERE IS A ONE-PAGE [Captioner] 19:36:30 SHEET ON THAT AND THERE'S ALSO, [Captioner] 19:36:32 LIKE I SAID, THE DETAIL [Captioner] 19:36:32 BREAKDOWN. [Captioner] 19:36:34 THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT SCORE [Captioner] 19:36:36 CARDS AND WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE [Captioner] 19:36:37 THOSE, AND I'D HAVE TO DEFER TO [Captioner] 19:36:39 THE CITY MANAGER AND TO THE CITY [Captioner] 19:36:42 STAFF, BECAUSE NOT JUST FOR [Captioner] 19:36:43 OBJECTIVES, THEY WERE ASKING [Captioner] 19:36:44 QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE [Captioner] 19:36:46 RESULTS OF THE FUNDING, AS WELL [Captioner] 19:36:50 AS SPECIFICALLY TO HNC AND ALSO [Captioner] 19:36:50 HOMELESSNESS. [Captioner] 19:36:56 WILL THERE BE A PRESENTATION [Captioner] 19:36:57 THIS EVENING? [Captioner] 19:36:59 NO? [Captioner] 19:37:00 >> City Mgr. Shackelford: NO, [Captioner] 19:37:01 DAVE IS JUST AVAILABLE FOR [Captioner] 19:37:02 QUESTIONS IF NECESSARY. [Captioner] 19:37:05 AS FAR AS THE SCORECARD IS [Captioner] 19:37:07 CONCERNED, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF [Captioner] 19:37:07 PERFORMANCE MEASURES THAT WE [Captioner] 19:37:10 REPORT OUT IN THE BUDGET ON AN [Captioner] 19:37:10 ANNUAL BASIS. [Captioner] 19:37:13 THOSE SPECIFIC ONES THAT YOU [Captioner] 19:37:15 MENTIONED, I'M SURE THEY'RE IN [Captioner] 19:37:16 THERE, BUT THOSE ARE NEWER ONES, [Captioner] 19:37:19 SO I WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK AND [Captioner] 19:37:24 CHECK, BECAUSE OF THE [Captioner] 19:37:27 DELAY IN -- I'M SORRY, I LOST [Captioner] 19:37:29 MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT -- THE DELAY [Captioner] 19:37:30 THAT WAS CAUSED BY THE PANDEMIC [Captioner] 19:37:32 AS FAR AS THE HNC WAS CONCERNED, [Captioner] 19:37:34 THAT WOULD BE A NEW MEASURE FOR [Captioner] 19:37:34 US. [Captioner] 19:37:35 >> Mayor Mei: SURE. [Captioner] 19:37:37 WOULD DIRECTOR PERSSELIN LIKE TO [Captioner] 19:37:38 COME TO THE DAIS OR THE TABLE, [Captioner] 19:37:38 IF YOU DON'T MIND? [Captioner] 19:37:41 BECAUSE I THINK THERE MAY BE [Captioner] 19:37:42 SOME QUESTIONS FROM THE [Captioner] 19:37:42 COUNCIL. [Captioner] 19:37:45 I SEE SOME OF THE COUNCILMEMBERS [Captioner] 19:37:47 HAVE THEIR BUTTONS PUSHED. [Captioner] 19:37:49 ALSO IF YOU CAN LET ME KNOW IF [Captioner] 19:37:50 COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN HAS [Captioner] 19:37:51 ANYTHING BECAUSE SHE'S ON ZOOM. [Captioner] 19:37:54 I WILL CALL FIRST SPEAKER, WHICH [Captioner] 19:37:54 IS COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL. [Captioner] 19:37:58 WAIT ONE SECOND, IF YOU DON'T [Captioner] 19:37:59 MIND, UNTIL DIRECTOR PERSSELIN [Captioner] 19:37:59 MAKES IT. [Captioner] 19:38:04 IT TO THE TABLE. [Captioner] 19:38:05 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:38:06 >> Councilmember Campbell: THANK [Captioner] 19:38:06 YOU, MAYOR MEI. [Captioner] 19:38:07 I JUST WANTED TO ASK A QUESTION [Captioner] 19:38:08 ABOUT THE SURVEY SINCE YOU [Captioner] 19:38:09 MENTIONED IT. [Captioner] 19:38:15 THERE WAS A LOT OF COMMENTS ON [Captioner] 19:38:18 THE SURVEY ABOUT VIDEOS AND [Captioner] 19:38:19 WEBINARS AND IN-PERSON [Captioner] 19:38:19 PRESENTATIONS. [Captioner] 19:38:23 IS THAT SOMETHING THAT THE CITY [Captioner] 19:38:25 WILL CONSIDER OR MAYBE I SHOULD [Captioner] 19:38:26 REPHRASE THE QUESTION. [Captioner] 19:38:30 BASED ON THE INFORMATION THAT [Captioner] 19:38:32 WAS GATHERED, IS THERE ANY [Captioner] 19:38:35 ACTION PLAN OR SUGGESTIONS OR [Captioner] 19:38:36 RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW WE MIGHT [Captioner] 19:38:40 BE ABLE TO FULFILL SOME OF THE [Captioner] 19:38:43 QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW WOULD YOU [Captioner] 19:38:44 LIKE TO -- WHAT FORMAT WOULD YOU [Captioner] 19:38:47 LIKE, AND THEY MENTIONED [Captioner] 19:38:49 WEBINARS, IN-PERSON VIDEOS, [Captioner] 19:38:50 YOUTUBES, THOSE KINDS OF [Captioner] 19:38:50 THINGS. [Captioner] 19:38:57 >> City Mgr. Shackelford: SO WE [Captioner] 19:38:58 WILL CONSIDER ALL OF THE [Captioner] 19:38:59 RESPONSES THAT WERE RECEIVED IN [Captioner] 19:39:00 THE SURVEY. [Captioner] 19:39:01 IT JUST CLOSED YESTERDAY, SO I'D [Captioner] 19:39:04 LIKE TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO [Captioner] 19:39:06 DO A DEEP DIVE INTO IT AND [Captioner] 19:39:08 REVIEW IT WITH THE TEAM, SO [Captioner] 19:39:11 UNFORTUNATELY I'M NOT PREPARED [Captioner] 19:39:12 TO ANSWER THAT SPECIFIC [Captioner] 19:39:14 QUESTION, BUT AGAIN, WE WILL [Captioner] 19:39:16 CONSIDER ALL OF THE INFORMATION [Captioner] 19:39:19 THAT WE RECEIVED, AND WE DO [Captioner] 19:39:21 APPRECIATE EVERYONE WHO HAS [Captioner] 19:39:21 RESPONDED. [Captioner] 19:39:21 >> Councilmember Campbell: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:39:23 I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT IT JUST [Captioner] 19:39:25 CLOSED YESTERDAY, SO THAT KIND [Captioner] 19:39:26 OF MAKES SENSE AS TO WHY WE [Captioner] 19:39:27 DON'T HAVE A PLAN SO FAR. [Captioner] 19:39:35 THAT'S ALL THE QUESTIONS I HAVE [Captioner] 19:39:35 AT THIS TIME. [Captioner] 19:39:35 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:39:37 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:39:40 NEXT CLARIFYING QUESTIONS OR [Captioner] 19:39:40 COMMENTS ON THIS IS [Captioner] 19:39:41 COUNCILMEMBER COX. [Captioner] 19:39:44 >> Councilmember Cox: THANK YOU [Captioner] 19:39:44 VERY MUCH. [Captioner] 19:39:49 I DID WANT TO DO A FOLLOW-UP [Captioner] 19:39:51 QUESTION, AND AS WE'RE TAKING [Captioner] 19:39:55 ANOTHER LOOK AT THE BUDGET [Captioner] 19:39:59 AGAIN, I WANTED TO FIND OUT IN [Captioner] 19:40:01 THE FOLLOW-UP QUESTION WAS THAT [Captioner] 19:40:03 DOES OUR BUDGET -- I KNOW THAT [Captioner] 19:40:06 THERE WAS SOME TALK ABOUT -- [Captioner] 19:40:08 LAST TIME I ASKED THE QUESTION [Captioner] 19:40:10 REGARDING ANY TYPE OF DECISION [Captioner] 19:40:12 BEEN MADE THAT'S BUILT INTO THE [Captioner] 19:40:16 BUDGET AT THIS TIME FROM LAST [Captioner] 19:40:20 MONTH, THAT INCLUDED THAT [Captioner] 19:40:22 OUR POLICE OFFICERS WOULD BE -- [Captioner] 19:40:24 WOULD THERE BE ANYTHING [Captioner] 19:40:25 CONSIDERED FOR ANY TYPE OF [Captioner] 19:40:29 RECRUITING BONUSES, BECAUSE AS [Captioner] 19:40:30 I'VE DONE SOME MORE RESEARCH [Captioner] 19:40:31 SINCE THE LAST TIME WE'VE HAD [Captioner] 19:40:32 OUR MEETING, WE'VE HAD TWO [Captioner] 19:40:38 CITIES THAT HAVE OFFERED 10% [Captioner] 19:40:42 IN HAYWARD OR 5% IN LIVERMORE, [Captioner] 19:40:44 SO I WANTED TO FIND OUT WITH THE [Captioner] 19:40:45 CURRENT BUDGET, WAS THERE ANY [Captioner] 19:40:46 OTHER CONSIDERATION BEING [Captioner] 19:40:48 CONSIDERED AS WE HAVE THIS WEEK [Captioner] 19:40:50 AND NEXT WEEK TO CLOSE OUT ON [Captioner] 19:40:51 THE BUDGET. [Captioner] 19:40:52 AND WHAT'S THE STATUS ON THAT? [Captioner] 19:41:02 >> City Mgr. Shackelford: THOSE [Captioner] 19:41:05 SPECIFIC ITEMS ARE NOT PART OF [Captioner] 19:41:08 THE EXISTING PROPOSED BUDGET AS [Captioner] 19:41:09 PRESENTED AT THIS POINT. [Captioner] 19:41:13 BUT I AM VERY -- LOOKING VERY [Captioner] 19:41:16 MUCH FORWARD TO TALKING WITH YOU [Captioner] 19:41:17 AND YOUR COUNCIL COLLEAGUES [Captioner] 19:41:19 ABOUT SOME OF THOSE ITEMS IN THE [Captioner] 19:41:23 VERY NEAR FUTURE, AND [Captioner] 19:41:25 TO THE EXTENT THAT WE NEED TO [Captioner] 19:41:26 AMEND OUR BUDGET OR, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 19:41:28 DO SOME OTHER THINGS BUDGETARILY [Captioner] 19:41:31 THAT REQUIRE COUNCIL ACTION, WE [Captioner] 19:41:32 WOULD COME BACK TO YOU WITH [Captioner] 19:41:32 THOSE ITEMS. [Captioner] 19:41:36 BUT WE ARE DEFINITELY AWARE OF [Captioner] 19:41:38 THE ENVIRONMENT AND CONSIDERING [Captioner] 19:41:39 SOME OF THOSE THINGS AS WELL. [Captioner] 19:41:42 >> Councilmember Cox: OKAY. [Captioner] 19:41:44 I'M CONCERNED BECAUSE OF THE [Captioner] 19:41:47 NATURE OF ALL THESE DIFFERENT [Captioner] 19:41:51 RISES OF LUCRATIVE OFFERS EACH [Captioner] 19:41:54 WEEK, YOU KNOW, AS WEEKS GO BY [Captioner] 19:41:55 THAT WE COULD BE LOSING SOME [Captioner] 19:41:58 MORE POLICE OFFICERS, AND I'VE [Captioner] 19:42:01 SEEN IT ACROSS MULTIPLE [Captioner] 19:42:02 COUNTIES, THAT THAT'S HAPPENING, [Captioner] 19:42:04 AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF [Captioner] 19:42:07 THERE'S SOME WAY WE COULD GET [Captioner] 19:42:09 SOME UPDATES SOONER THAN LATER [Captioner] 19:42:11 BECAUSE WE'RE AT THE END OF THIS [Captioner] 19:42:12 MONTH OF JUNE THAT EVERYTHING [Captioner] 19:42:15 HAS TO BE FINALIZED AND ROLLED [Captioner] 19:42:16 UP AS OUR CITY BUDGET. [Captioner] 19:42:20 SO WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE THAT [Captioner] 19:42:22 BECAUSE I SEE IT AS IN SOME OF [Captioner] 19:42:24 OUR AREAS IN FREMONT THAT WHEN [Captioner] 19:42:26 WE CALL FOR SERVICE OR HAVE [Captioner] 19:42:28 SOMEONE COME OUT TO CHECK [Captioner] 19:42:29 SOMETHING THAT COULD BE OF A [Captioner] 19:42:32 DANGEROUS NATURE, SUCH AS WE'VE [Captioner] 19:42:35 HAD INSTANCES OF REPORTS OF [Captioner] 19:42:36 DIFFERENT THINGS HAPPENING IN [Captioner] 19:42:40 AREAS THAT ARE VERY SUSPICIOUS, [Captioner] 19:42:41 THAT WE REALLY NEED TO MAKE SURE [Captioner] 19:42:44 THAT WE HAVE SERVICES PROVIDING [Captioner] 19:42:46 THAT, AND IN THE SENSE OF HAVING [Captioner] 19:42:49 AN ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR POLICE [Captioner] 19:42:51 OFFICERS AND MAINTAINING OUR [Captioner] 19:42:54 SERVICE AND CLOSING THE GAP [Captioner] 19:42:56 THERE, SINCE WE LAST REPORTED [Captioner] 19:42:59 FROM OUR BOARD CITY COUNCIL [Captioner] 19:43:02 RETREAT, IT WAS UP THERE IN THE [Captioner] 19:43:03 30s, AROUND 30 VACANCIES. [Captioner] 19:43:05 SO I HOPE TO HAVE SOME [Captioner] 19:43:08 DISCUSSION ON THAT SOONER THAN [Captioner] 19:43:08 LATER. [Captioner] 19:43:10 >> City Mgr. Shackelford: MOST [Captioner] 19:43:11 DEFINITELY, AND WE REALLY [Captioner] 19:43:12 APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT [Captioner] 19:43:14 THAT, AND BE ASSURED THAT WE ARE [Captioner] 19:43:16 CONSIDERING A NUMBER OF [Captioner] 19:43:18 RETENTION AND RECRUITMENT [Captioner] 19:43:19 STRATEGY, AND AGAIN, WE DO LOOK [Captioner] 19:43:20 FORWARD TO SPEAKING WITH YOU AND [Captioner] 19:43:21 YOUR COUNCIL COLLEAGUES ABOUT [Captioner] 19:43:24 THAT IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE. [Captioner] 19:43:27 >> Mr. Persselin: JUST A POINT [Captioner] 19:43:28 OF CLARIFICATION. [Captioner] 19:43:29 AS THE CITY MANAGER SAID BEFORE, [Captioner] 19:43:31 WE CAN COME BACK AND AMEND THE [Captioner] 19:43:33 BUDGET AT ANY CITY COUNCIL [Captioner] 19:43:33 MEETING. [Captioner] 19:43:38 SO IT ISN'T THE CASE THAT IF YOU [Captioner] 19:43:40 DON'T ACT BEFORE NEXT WEEK, [Captioner] 19:43:40 THERE'S NOTHING THAT CAN BE [Captioner] 19:43:41 DONE. [Captioner] 19:43:43 >> Councilmember Cox: RIGHT, [Captioner] 19:43:44 BECAUSE YOU'LL TAKE IT THROUGH A [Captioner] 19:43:47 VOTE AND THEN PROVIDING THAT IT [Captioner] 19:43:48 PASSES, THEN IT WOULD BE AMENDED [Captioner] 19:43:49 AT THAT TIME. [Captioner] 19:43:50 >> Mr. Persselin: CORRECT. [Captioner] 19:43:52 AT ANY CITY COUNCIL MEETING. [Captioner] 19:43:53 >> Councilmember Cox: OKAY. [Captioner] 19:43:56 I HAD A SECOND QUESTION. [Captioner] 19:43:56 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:44:00 THE SECOND QUESTION IS THIS. [Captioner] 19:44:04 IN LIGHT OF YES, WE DID HAVE A [Captioner] 19:44:09 REDUCTION IN OUR [Captioner] 19:44:11 HOMELESSNESS, I'M CURIOUS TO [Captioner] 19:44:13 FIND OUT AS I LOOK ACROSS OTHER [Captioner] 19:44:14 BUDGETS FROM COUNTY TO COUNTY, [Captioner] 19:44:16 CITY TO CITY, THERE SEEMS TO BE [Captioner] 19:44:17 STILL AN INCREASE IN [Captioner] 19:44:21 HOMELESSNESS CLEAN-UP, AND BEING [Captioner] 19:44:25 ABLE TO KEEP THAT [Captioner] 19:44:26 ONGOING IN THE FREQUENCY. [Captioner] 19:44:29 BASED ON WHAT WE HAD FROM LAST [Captioner] 19:44:30 YEAR, I KNOW THIS IS KIND OF [Captioner] 19:44:31 ROLLED UP INTO A HIGHER NUMBER [Captioner] 19:44:36 TO THE $264 MILLION, BUT OF THAT [Captioner] 19:44:39 PORTION THAT'S DEDICATED FOR THE [Captioner] 19:44:40 SPECIFIC DEPARTMENT THAT'S [Captioner] 19:44:42 CARRYING THAT OUT, IS THERE -- [Captioner] 19:44:43 HOW MUCH OF AN INCREASE FROM [Captioner] 19:44:45 LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR ARE YOU [Captioner] 19:44:45 ALLOTTING? [Captioner] 19:44:47 ON AVERAGE? [Captioner] 19:44:50 WHAT ARE YOU ANTICIPATING? [Captioner] 19:44:52 >> Mr. Persselin: SO THE [Captioner] 19:44:54 PROPOSED BUDGET INCLUDES AN [Captioner] 19:44:57 INCREASE IN THE BUDGET LINE FOR [Captioner] 19:44:58 HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT CLEAN-UPS [Captioner] 19:45:00 THAT'S PAID THROUGH THE [Captioner] 19:45:01 INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT [Captioner] 19:45:01 FUND. [Captioner] 19:45:05 I THINK THE DOLLAR AMOUNT IS [Captioner] 19:45:06 SOMEWHERE AROUND $282,000. [Captioner] 19:45:10 AND IT WILL PAY FOR MORE [Captioner] 19:45:12 FREQUENT CLEAN-UPS. [Captioner] 19:45:14 >> Councilmember Cox: THAT JUST [Captioner] 19:45:16 SEEMS QUITE LOW WHEN I LOOK AT [Captioner] 19:45:17 SOME OTHER BUDGETS FROM OTHER [Captioner] 19:45:21 CITIES THAT ARE MUCH MORE -- [Captioner] 19:45:23 SMALLER THAN OURS AND THEY HAVE [Captioner] 19:45:25 THAT AROUND THAT NUMBER, SO I'M [Captioner] 19:45:28 CONCERNED THAT THAT MAY NOT BE [Captioner] 19:45:28 ENOUGH IN THAT AREA. [Captioner] 19:45:34 AND SOME AREAS, IT'S OVER A [Captioner] 19:45:36 MILLION, SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE [Captioner] 19:45:39 -- IS THIS SOMETHING FROM THE [Captioner] 19:45:40 282 THAT YOU HAVE THAT NUMBER, [Captioner] 19:45:42 HOW MUCH WAS THE DIFFERENCE FROM [Captioner] 19:45:44 LAST YEAR BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAD [Captioner] 19:45:46 TO AMEND THE CONTRACT BY ANOTHER [Captioner] 19:45:49 $100,000 THIS PAST YEAR AT [Captioner] 19:45:49 LEAST. [Captioner] 19:45:52 IS THAT CORRECT? [Captioner] 19:45:54 >> Mr. Persselin: I DON'T KNOW [Captioner] 19:45:54 IF THERE'S SOMEONE FROM [Captioner] 19:45:57 ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES ONLINE. [Captioner] 19:45:59 I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ORIGINAL [Captioner] 19:46:00 AMOUNT OF THE CONTRACT IS. [Captioner] 19:46:03 >> City Mgr. Shackelford: [Captioner] 19:46:03 RIGHT. [Captioner] 19:46:05 I DON'T SEE ANYONE FROM [Captioner] 19:46:07 ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES ONLINE, [Captioner] 19:46:12 BUT THE 282 THAT DIRECTOR [Captioner] 19:46:15 PERSSELIN JUST REFERRED TO IS IN [Captioner] 19:46:16 ADDITION TO WHAT WAS ALREADY [Captioner] 19:46:18 THERE, SO IT'S NOT A TOTAL [Captioner] 19:46:21 CONTRACT AMOUNT OF 282 AN WE'RE [Captioner] 19:46:23 PROBABLY NEARING -- I DON'T HAVE [Captioner] 19:46:27 THE EXACT NUMBER, 5 OR $600,000 [Captioner] 19:46:28 PROBABLY FOR -- [Captioner] 19:46:29 >> Councilmember Cox: OH, OKAY, [Captioner] 19:46:30 WELL, THEN THAT MAKES SENSE. [Captioner] 19:46:31 >> City Mgr. Shackelford: BUT WE [Captioner] 19:46:32 CAN GET THAT NUMBER TO YOU, THE [Captioner] 19:46:34 SPECIFIC NUMBER TO YOU QUICKLY. [Captioner] 19:46:36 >> Councilmember Cox: THAT WOULD [Captioner] 19:46:36 BE GREAT. [Captioner] 19:46:38 AND IF WE COULD JUST SHARE, [Captioner] 19:46:39 LIKE, WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL [Captioner] 19:46:40 CONTRACT AND THEN WHAT WERE SOME [Captioner] 19:46:42 OF THE OTHER AMENDMENTS THAT [Captioner] 19:46:44 WERE DONE TO ADD TO THE FULL [Captioner] 19:46:45 TOTAL, THAT WOULD BE VERY [Captioner] 19:46:45 HELPFUL. [Captioner] 19:46:46 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [Captioner] 19:46:52 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:46:54 ARE THERE ANY OTHER CLARIFYING [Captioner] 19:46:54 QUESTIONS? [Captioner] 19:46:56 SEEING NONE AT THIS TIME, IF WE [Captioner] 19:46:58 COULD CALL ANY SPEAKERS ON THIS [Captioner] 19:46:58 ITEM? [Captioner] 19:47:00 >> Ms. Lewis: WE HAVE FOUR [Captioner] 19:47:00 SPEAKERS. [Captioner] 19:47:01 FIRST, KELLY ABREU. [Captioner] 19:47:06 FOLLOWED BY STEVE SCALLA, THEN [Captioner] 19:47:08 JOANN SCHWOB, AND THEN ONE [Captioner] 19:47:09 ANONYMOUS SPEAKER. [Captioner] 19:47:21 >> SO AT THE LAST BUDGET [Captioner] 19:47:23 MEETING, THIS COUNCIL WAS TOLD, [Captioner] 19:47:26 QUOTE, THAT CITY-WIDE VACANCY [Captioner] 19:47:27 SAVINGS IS THE DIFFERENCE [Captioner] 19:47:30 BETWEEN OUR BUDGETED PERSONNEL [Captioner] 19:47:32 EXPENDITURES AND WHAT WE [Captioner] 19:47:32 ACTUALLY SPENT. [Captioner] 19:47:35 THIS IS BASED LARGELY ON CURRENT [Captioner] 19:47:37 AND PROJECTED VACANCIES. [Captioner] 19:47:39 AND REMEMBER THAT CHART THAT I [Captioner] 19:47:42 JUST EMAILED ALL OF YOU THAT [Captioner] 19:47:44 CITYWIDE SAVINGS HAVE TRIPLED IN [Captioner] 19:47:47 THE LAST TWO YEARS. [Captioner] 19:47:48 TWO YEARS AT AROUND $20 MILLION [Captioner] 19:47:51 AND ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AT AROUND [Captioner] 19:47:51 $7 MILLION. [Captioner] 19:47:55 THAT'S A TRIPLING OF CITYWIDE [Captioner] 19:47:55 VACANCIES. [Captioner] 19:47:58 LAST YEAR AND THEN THIS YEAR [Captioner] 19:48:00 COMING RIGHT UP IN THE UPCOMING [Captioner] 19:48:00 BUDGET. [Captioner] 19:48:02 NOW THE FINANCE PEOPLE ARE [Captioner] 19:48:04 BANKING ON THAT $20 MILLION OF [Captioner] 19:48:05 CITY-WIDE SAVINGS TO KEEP A LID [Captioner] 19:48:08 ON THE OPERATING DEFICIT WHILE [Captioner] 19:48:11 THE CITY COUNCIL, COUNCILMEMBERS [Captioner] 19:48:13 HERE, ARE ASKING HOW CAN WE FILL [Captioner] 19:48:14 THOSE VACANCIES? [Captioner] 19:48:18 YOU KNOW, HIRE MORE POLICE, [Captioner] 19:48:19 WHATEVER, 272 -- WHATEVER IT IS, [Captioner] 19:48:20 IN ORDER TO DELIVER MORE [Captioner] 19:48:22 SERVICES TO CITY RESIDENTS? [Captioner] 19:48:26 DO YOU SEE THE DISSIDENCE, THE [Captioner] 19:48:26 COGNITIVE DISSIDENCE HERE? [Captioner] 19:48:28 REGARDLESS, THE CITY IS TALKING [Captioner] 19:48:30 OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF ITS MOUTH [Captioner] 19:48:30 BECAUSE THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT [Captioner] 19:48:33 IS HOLDING OUT FALSE HOPE FOR [Captioner] 19:48:33 REDUCING VACANCIES. [Captioner] 19:48:38 QUOTE, 24/25 MIGHT GIVE US AN [Captioner] 19:48:39 OPPORTUNITY TO REDUCE THOSE -- [Captioner] 19:48:41 TO GET OUR STAFFING UP TO THE [Captioner] 19:48:42 AUTHORIZED POSITIONS, AND THEN [Captioner] 19:48:43 HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE READY TO MOVE [Captioner] 19:48:45 FORWARD AND BE SUCCESSFUL IN [Captioner] 19:48:46 INCREASING STAFFING IN FUTURE [Captioner] 19:48:46 YEARS. [Captioner] 19:48:46 END QUOTE. [Captioner] 19:48:49 SO YOUR BUDGET PLANNERS ARE [Captioner] 19:48:52 DANGLING THE PROSPECT OF FILLING [Captioner] 19:48:54 VACANCIES WHILE AT THE SAME TIME [Captioner] 19:48:56 THEY KNOW THAT THEY'RE OFFERING [Captioner] 19:48:57 AN EMPTY PROMISE THAT THEY KNOW [Captioner] 19:48:59 THEY CAN'T DELIVER. [Captioner] 19:49:00 THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU CAN KEEP A [Captioner] 19:49:02 LID ON THAT OPERATING DEFICIT IS [Captioner] 19:49:04 TO MAINTAIN A SKY-HIGH LEVEL OF [Captioner] 19:49:05 VACANCIES. [Captioner] 19:49:07 $20MILLION A YEAR. [Captioner] 19:49:08 IT'S THE ONLY WAY. [Captioner] 19:49:10 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:49:19 >> Ms. Lewis: STEVE SCALA. [Captioner] 19:49:24 >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL, MADAME [Captioner] 19:49:24 MAYOR. [Captioner] 19:49:28 A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR THE BUDGET [Captioner] 19:49:29 PRESENTATION, AND I'VE BEEN KIND [Captioner] 19:49:30 OF LOOKING AT THIS FOR A BUNCH [Captioner] 19:49:30 OF YEARS. [Captioner] 19:49:36 ONE, CAN YOU PROVIDE MATRICES [Captioner] 19:49:39 THAT GIVE THE REVENUE OBTAINED [Captioner] 19:49:42 PER PERSON AND COMPARED TO OTHER [Captioner] 19:49:45 CITIES SIMILARLY LIKE YOU DID ON [Captioner] 19:49:47 PAGE 250 FOR STAFFING PER [Captioner] 19:49:47 CAPITA? [Captioner] 19:49:52 WE SEE THAT WORK TOWARD THE [Captioner] 19:49:54 BOTTOM OF THE LIST COMPARED TO [Captioner] 19:49:55 OTHER CITIES SO WHY ARE WE ON [Captioner] 19:49:55 THE BOTTOM? [Captioner] 19:49:58 ARE WE PAYING SIGNIFICANTLY LESS [Captioner] 19:49:59 PROPERTY TAXES? [Captioner] 19:50:02 DO WE GET FEWER PROPERTY TAX AND [Captioner] 19:50:03 SALES TAX DOLLARS BACK FROM THE [Captioner] 19:50:05 STATE FROM OTHER CITIES? [Captioner] 19:50:07 WHAT ARE SOME OF THE REASONS, [Captioner] 19:50:07 RIGHT? [Captioner] 19:50:09 SO YOU COULD -- I'M SURE YOU [Captioner] 19:50:10 HAVE THAT DATA, IF YOU CAN GIVE [Captioner] 19:50:11 IT AND PRESENT IT, THAT WILL [Captioner] 19:50:14 HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT'S [Captioner] 19:50:15 DRIVING THE BUDGET IN FRONT OF [Captioner] 19:50:15 US. [Captioner] 19:50:19 IN MANY OF THE STAFFING [Captioner] 19:50:20 DECISIONS WE HAVE TO MAKE. [Captioner] 19:50:21 OTHER COMMENT. [Captioner] 19:50:24 THIS ISN'T JUST A BUDGET. [Captioner] 19:50:25 IT'S ALSO A DOCUMENT WHERE YOU [Captioner] 19:50:27 GIVE THE GOALS OF THE CITY, OF [Captioner] 19:50:29 THE DEPARTMENTS, AND REVIEW THE [Captioner] 19:50:30 MATRICES. [Captioner] 19:50:34 AND AS PART OF GOALS, I'D [Captioner] 19:50:35 ESPECIALLY LIKE TO SEE A BOLD [Captioner] 19:50:37 DISCUSSION OF ASPIRATIONAL [Captioner] 19:50:39 GOALS, AND WHAT ADDITIONAL [Captioner] 19:50:41 ACTIONS CAN BE DONE TO IMPROVE [Captioner] 19:50:42 METRIC PERFORMANCE. [Captioner] 19:50:45 WE SEE COMMENT THAT THERE ARE [Captioner] 19:50:46 MANY UNMET NEEDS THROUGHOUT THE [Captioner] 19:50:48 CITY, BUT WE DON'T HAVE THAT [Captioner] 19:50:50 MANY SPECIFICS OF WHAT COULD BE [Captioner] 19:50:51 IMPLEMENTED IF WE HAVE MORE [Captioner] 19:50:51 FUNDS. [Captioner] 19:50:53 HERE'S AN EXAMPLE. [Captioner] 19:50:57 EVERYBODY WHOSE -- VIBRANT [Captioner] 19:50:58 BUSINESSES IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS [Captioner] 19:50:59 AND DISTRICTS, WARM SPRINGS [Captioner] 19:51:02 INNOVATION IS ONE OF THEM, BUT [Captioner] 19:51:05 THEIR RETAIL SPACES, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 19:51:07 JUST NEXT TO THAT NEW BRIDGE IN [Captioner] 19:51:08 WARM SPRINGS THAT HAVE BEEN [Captioner] 19:51:09 EMPTY FOR TWO YEARS. [Captioner] 19:51:11 I'LL SUGGEST WE NEED TO DO [Captioner] 19:51:12 SOMETHING BOLDER FOR ECONOMIC [Captioner] 19:51:15 DEVELOPMENT TO FILL THOSE RETAIL [Captioner] 19:51:17 SPACES AND INCREASE THE VIBRANCY. [Captioner] 19:51:20 SO MAYBE WE NEED TO DISCUSS [Captioner] 19:51:22 SOMETHING LIKE TAX BREAKS FOR [Captioner] 19:51:24 SMALL BUSINESSES TO START [Captioner] 19:51:24 BUSINESSES. [Captioner] 19:51:26 BUT WE NEED IDEAS LIKE THAT. [Captioner] 19:51:26 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:51:28 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU VERY [Captioner] 19:51:29 MUCH. [Captioner] 19:51:32 NEXT SPEAKER? [Captioner] 19:51:37 >> Ms. Lewis: [Captioner] 19:51:38 JOANN SCHWOB. [Captioner] 19:51:39 >> THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:51:45 THE CITY OF FREMONT, WE NEED TO [Captioner] 19:51:46 PROMOTE OUR ASSETS THAT WE HAVE [Captioner] 19:51:47 IN THIS CITY. [Captioner] 19:51:53 WE ARE FALLING SHORT ON [Captioner] 19:51:54 FUNDS. [Captioner] 19:51:58 BUT WE CAN FLIP IT [Captioner] 19:52:02 AROUND BY JUST A FEW SIMPLE [Captioner] 19:52:02 TRICKS. [Captioner] 19:52:08 WE SHOULD [Captioner] 19:52:09 FIRST CONDUCT AN EMPLOYEE [Captioner] 19:52:09 AUDIT. [Captioner] 19:52:13 ACCORDING TO CITY DATA, THERE [Captioner] 19:52:16 ARE 996 EMPLOYEES ON CITY OF [Captioner] 19:52:16 FREMONT PAYROLL. [Captioner] 19:52:21 I HAVE SEEN THIS LIST AND THERE [Captioner] 19:52:23 ARE DUPLICATIVE NAMES ON THAT [Captioner] 19:52:23 LIST. [Captioner] 19:52:28 SOMEONE IS GETTING A CHECK, [Captioner] 19:52:30 WHETHER IT'S JOHN, JOE JR., OR [Captioner] 19:52:35 MR. JOHN JOE, OR [Captioner] 19:52:38 MR. JUNIOR II, THEY'RE ALL THE [Captioner] 19:52:38 SAME PERSON. [Captioner] 19:52:41 CHECKS ARE BEING ISSUED, THAT IS [Captioner] 19:52:42 A CONCERN AND I THINK IT SHOULD [Captioner] 19:52:43 BE LOOKED INTO. [Captioner] 19:52:48 BUT BACK TO PROMOTING OUR [Captioner] 19:52:48 ASSETS. [Captioner] 19:52:53 WE NEED TO GENERATE [Captioner] 19:52:55 MORE SALES, RETAIL BUSINESSES [Captioner] 19:52:56 TO GENERATE SALES TAXES. [Captioner] 19:53:03 WE SHOULD TABLE ANY FUTURE [Captioner] 19:53:07 OR SOON TO BE TABLE ANY [Captioner] 19:53:11 EXPENDITURES FOR IMPROVEMENTS. [Captioner] 19:53:15 WE NEED TO CUT SALARIES, [Captioner] 19:53:17 ESPECIALLY CITY COUNCIL, ONCE [Captioner] 19:53:19 AGAIN LET ME GO ON RECORD BY [Captioner] 19:53:24 SAYING THAT THIS IS A GENERAL [Captioner] 19:53:25 LAW CITY, WE ARE GOVERNED BY [Captioner] 19:53:30 THE STATE CONSTITUTION, WE ARE [Captioner] 19:53:33 NOT A -- SORRY, I LOST THE [Captioner] 19:53:33 TERMINOLOGY. [Captioner] 19:53:37 CITY COUNCILMEMBERS SHOULD ONLY [Captioner] 19:53:40 BE GETTING $800 A MONTH EACH AS [Captioner] 19:53:44 OPPOSED TO -- NOW WE'RE [Captioner] 19:53:48 PAYING -- [INAUDIBLE] [Captioner] 19:53:50 >> Ms. Lewis: NEXT SPEAKER IS [Captioner] 19:53:51 OUR ANONYMOUS SPEAKER. [Captioner] 19:54:07 OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS OUR [Captioner] 19:54:08 ANONYMOUS SPEAKER. [Captioner] 19:54:18 >> Mayor Mei: ACTUALLY WE HAVE [Captioner] 19:54:19 ANOTHER TWO SPEAKERS. [Captioner] 19:54:25 >> GOOD EVENING, [Captioner] 19:54:25 COUNCILMEMBERS. [Captioner] 19:54:26 I'M A RESIDENT HERE. [Captioner] 19:54:32 AND I'M HERE FOR A [Captioner] 19:54:36 CONCERN THAT I WOULD LIKE OUR [Captioner] 19:54:38 COUNCILMEMBERS TO AUDIT FREMONT [Captioner] 19:54:41 PD'S BUDGET, BECAUSE I FEEL THEY [Captioner] 19:54:43 ARE OVERSPENDING THEIR BUDGET IN [Captioner] 19:54:46 HARASSING ME AND MY FAMILY IN [Captioner] 19:54:49 DRONES AND PLANES AND VEHICLES, [Captioner] 19:54:51 MOTORCYCLE AND OTHER PEOPLE THEY [Captioner] 19:54:52 HAVE RECRUITED TO HARASS AND [Captioner] 19:54:54 TARGET MY FAMILY AS WHAT I THINK [Captioner] 19:54:57 IS A HATE CRIME, AND THAT IS [Captioner] 19:54:59 BEING DONE FOR THE REASON THAT I [Captioner] 19:55:01 HAVE FILED MISCONDUCT REPORT [Captioner] 19:55:03 AGAINST THE FREMONT POLICE [Captioner] 19:55:05 DEPARTMENT AND CITY OF FREMONT [Captioner] 19:55:07 WHERE I HAVE FILED CLAIM AGAINST [Captioner] 19:55:09 THEM, SO I THINK THAT THE BUDGET [Captioner] 19:55:12 THAT THEY ARE USING NOW IN [Captioner] 19:55:14 RETALIATION IS TO HARASS ME AND [Captioner] 19:55:15 MY FAMILY, AND I'M WONDERING HOW [Captioner] 19:55:17 COME THEY HAVE MILLIONS OF [Captioner] 19:55:20 DOLLARS TO COME AND HARASS ME IN [Captioner] 19:55:22 VEHICLES AND PLANES AND DRONES [Captioner] 19:55:24 AND WHATNOT, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE [Captioner] 19:55:27 THE MONEY TO SUPPORT OUR LOCAL [Captioner] 19:55:29 ANIMAL SHELTER THAT SUPPORTS [Captioner] 19:55:32 THREE CITIES, NEWARK, FREMONT [Captioner] 19:55:32 AND UNION CITY. [Captioner] 19:55:34 AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO REQUEST [Captioner] 19:55:37 MY COUNCILMEMBERS TO INCREASE [Captioner] 19:55:42 THE BUDGET OF TRI-CITY ANIMAL [Captioner] 19:55:44 SHELTER, BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS [Captioner] 19:55:46 SEEM TO REJECT ANIMALS, THEY [Captioner] 19:55:48 DON'T WANT TO SUPPORT ALL THE [Captioner] 19:55:50 ANIMALS THAT WE ARE -- SO I [Captioner] 19:55:52 WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THAT [Captioner] 19:55:54 PLEASE INCREASE THE BUDGET OF [Captioner] 19:55:55 TRI-CITY ANIMAL SHELTER, HAVE [Captioner] 19:55:57 MORE STAFFING, HAVE THEM RUN [Captioner] 19:55:58 FULL TIME SO WE CAN HELP OUR [Captioner] 19:56:00 ANIMALS IN THE CITY AND DECREASE [Captioner] 19:56:02 THE BUDGET AND AUDIT THE BUDGET [Captioner] 19:56:03 OF FREMONT PD WHO ARE ABUSING [Captioner] 19:56:06 THEIR POWER TO HARASS REGULAR [Captioner] 19:56:08 CITIZENS WHO HAVE TAKEN FIRST [Captioner] 19:56:09 AMENDMENT AND EXERCISED THEIR [Captioner] 19:56:11 RIGHT TO REDRESS THEIR GRIEVANCE [Captioner] 19:56:12 IN RETALIATION, THEY HAVE [Captioner] 19:56:15 ATTACKED ME AND MY FAMILY 24/7, [Captioner] 19:56:19 AND WHERE THE MILLIONS OF [Captioner] 19:56:20 DOLLARS ARE COMING FROM [Captioner] 19:56:21 TAXPAYERS' POCKETS. [Captioner] 19:56:21 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 19:56:24 >> Ms. Lewis: WE HAVE ONE LAST [Captioner] 19:56:25 SPEAKER, GOLDEN SHO. [Captioner] 19:56:29 >> ALL RIGHT. [Captioner] 19:56:32 SO BASED ON WHAT I'M GOING TO [Captioner] 19:56:34 SPEAK OF FOR THIS AGENDA ITEM [Captioner] 19:56:36 WITHOUT THE PREVIOUS FOUR [Captioner] 19:56:38 SPEAKERS SPOKEN ABOUT THE [Captioner] 19:56:38 REVENUES AND BUDGET SPENDING. [Captioner] 19:56:40 SO CITY OF FREMONT, YOU GUYS [Captioner] 19:56:41 NEED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. [Captioner] 19:56:44 AND MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION TO [Captioner] 19:56:47 SPEND YOUR BUDGET AND YOUR [Captioner] 19:56:47 REVENUES. [Captioner] 19:56:51 AS YOU HAVE TO USE YOUR MONEY [Captioner] 19:56:53 WISELY, DO NOT MISUSE FUNDS. [Captioner] 19:56:53 AS THE MONEYS AND REVENUE COME [Captioner] 19:56:56 FROM ALL TAXPAYERS THAT ARE [Captioner] 19:56:57 RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF [Captioner] 19:56:59 FREMONT, AND EVEN THOUGH SINCE [Captioner] 19:57:01 FREMONT IS VERY BIG, MILES TO [Captioner] 19:57:03 COVER AND WE HAVE A SHORTAGE OF [Captioner] 19:57:04 MANY STAFF FROM DIFFERENT [Captioner] 19:57:05 DEPARTMENTS, ESPECIALLY THE [Captioner] 19:57:07 POLICE, THEY HAVE LIKE 210 [Captioner] 19:57:08 OFFICERS AND THEY'RE SHORT ON [Captioner] 19:57:08 60. [Captioner] 19:57:10 WE NEED TO FIND WAYS TO RECRUIT [Captioner] 19:57:10 MORE PEOPLE. [Captioner] 19:57:12 BUT WE'VE GOT TO MAKE THINGS [Captioner] 19:57:14 FAIR, STILL WE HAVE TO GO [Captioner] 19:57:16 THROUGH THE LAW THAT ONCE AN [Captioner] 19:57:18 OFFICER GRADUATES FROM THE [Captioner] 19:57:20 ACADEMY, HE HAS TO GO THROUGH [Captioner] 19:57:22 TRAINING AND PROBATION WHICH IS [Captioner] 19:57:24 SOMETIMES HARD FOR THEM BUT WE [Captioner] 19:57:26 DON'T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN BUT WE [Captioner] 19:57:29 DO NEED ENOUGH STAFF TO SUPPORT [Captioner] 19:57:31 COMMUNITIES TO CLEAN UP THE [Captioner] 19:57:32 HOMELESSNESS, DEAL WITH CRIME, [Captioner] 19:57:33 AND ALSO WE WANT PEOPLE TO BE [Captioner] 19:57:35 TREATED WITH EQUITY, SO THE [Captioner] 19:57:37 MONEY SHOULD BE SPENT THE RIGHT [Captioner] 19:57:38 WAY AND SPENT APPROPRIATELY. [Captioner] 19:57:41 DON'T MISUSE THE FUNDS, SPEND [Captioner] 19:57:43 THE MONEY IN WAYS THAT YOU'RE [Captioner] 19:57:47 DEFINITELY PAYING EQUALLY, [Captioner] 19:57:49 SOMETIMES -- BUT WE WANTED TO BE [Captioner] 19:57:51 PAID EQUALLY AND HAVE THEM TREAT [Captioner] 19:57:54 PEOPLE NICELY AND ALSO TRY TO [Captioner] 19:57:55 HAVE THE POLICE SERVICES LIKE [Captioner] 19:57:59 DEFEAT ALL THE CRIMES TOWARDS [Captioner] 19:58:00 OUR COMMUNITY RESIDENTS AND THE [Captioner] 19:58:00 CHILDREN WHO ARE YOUTH IN THE [Captioner] 19:58:01 CITY OF FREMONT. [Captioner] 19:58:04 SO PLEASE, THINK ABOUT SPENDING [Captioner] 19:58:05 THE MONEY THE RIGHT WAY. [Captioner] 19:58:06 THAT'S ALL I'M GOING TO SAY. [Captioner] 19:58:14 >> Mayor Mei: I BELIEVE THAT WAS [Captioner] 19:58:15 OUR LAST PUBLIC COMMENT UNDER [Captioner] 19:58:15 THIS ITEM. [Captioner] 19:58:17 I'D LIKE TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC [Captioner] 19:58:19 COMMENT PERIOD FOR THIS ITEM, [Captioner] 19:58:21 AND I'LL TURN IT BACK TO OUR [Captioner] 19:58:23 COUNCILMEMBERS FOR CLARIFYING [Captioner] 19:58:23 QUESTIONS. [Captioner] 19:58:27 AND THIS IS, AGAIN, FOR THE [Captioner] 19:58:28 PROPOSED NEW BUDGET, AND I'LL [Captioner] 19:58:29 START WITH COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 19:58:29 SALWAN. [Captioner] 19:58:32 >> Councilmember Salwan: THANK [Captioner] 19:58:32 YOU, MADAME MAYOR, AND THANK [Captioner] 19:58:34 YOU, MR. PERSSELIN, FOR THE [Captioner] 19:58:35 DISCUSSION AND ANSWERING THE [Captioner] 19:58:36 QUESTION, I SHOULD SAY. [Captioner] 19:58:41 SO COULD YOU MENTION -- KELLY [Captioner] 19:58:43 ABREU WAS MENTIONING ABOUT THE [Captioner] 19:58:45 17% JUMP IN 2023. [Captioner] 19:58:49 ANY EXPLANATION ON THAT? [Captioner] 19:58:55 >> Mr. Persselin: I THINK WHAT [Captioner] 19:58:57 MR. ABREU IS DOING IS COMPARING [Captioner] 19:59:00 AN ADOPTED BUDGET NUMBER WITH A [Captioner] 19:59:01 FINAL BUDGET NUMBER. [Captioner] 19:59:05 YOU'LL RECALL THAT FISCAL YEAR [Captioner] 19:59:07 22-23 WAS THE YEAR IN WHICH WE [Captioner] 19:59:10 RECEIVED A LOT OF SALES TAX [Captioner] 19:59:10 REVENUE. [Captioner] 19:59:12 AS IT TURNS OUT, SALES TAX [Captioner] 19:59:13 REVENUE IN PART THAT WAS [Captioner] 19:59:14 OVERPAID BY THE STATE. [Captioner] 19:59:18 DURING FISCAL YEAR 22-23, WE [Captioner] 19:59:19 CAME BACK TO COUNCIL TWICE. [Captioner] 19:59:22 FIRST AS PART OF THE YEAR-END [Captioner] 19:59:25 REPORT FOR THE PRIOR YEAR, WE [Captioner] 19:59:28 NOTED TO COUNCIL THAT WE WERE [Captioner] 19:59:29 RECEIVING A LARGE AMOUNT OF [Captioner] 19:59:32 SALES TAX REVENUE, HIGHLIGHTED [Captioner] 19:59:36 THAT WE WERE UNSURE ABOUT THE [Captioner] 19:59:37 FUTURE, AND RECOMMENDED THAT [Captioner] 19:59:38 THE CITY COUNCIL INCREASE THE [Captioner] 19:59:40 BUDGET UNCERTAINTY RESERVE BY [Captioner] 19:59:42 $2.5 MILLION, WHICH THE CITY [Captioner] 19:59:42 COUNCIL DID. [Captioner] 19:59:46 WE CAME BACK AGAIN AT MID YEAR, [Captioner] 19:59:48 AGAIN NOTED THAT WE WERE [Captioner] 19:59:50 RECEIVING UNUSUALLY HIGH AMOUNTS [Captioner] 19:59:53 OF SALES TAX REVENUE, [Captioner] 19:59:54 RECOMMENDED THAT THE CITY [Captioner] 19:59:58 COUNCIL USE THAT FOR ONE-TIME [Captioner] 19:59:59 PURPOSES, AND THE CITY COUNCIL [Captioner] 19:59:59 DID. [Captioner] 20:00:02 SO YOU MAY RECALL THAT THE CITY [Captioner] 20:00:05 COUNCIL AMENDED THE ADOPTED [Captioner] 20:00:07 BUDGET TO MOVE A LARGE AMOUNT OF [Captioner] 20:00:09 MONEY TO THE CAPITAL [Captioner] 20:00:09 IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM. [Captioner] 20:00:13 THE CITY COUNCIL ALSO [Captioner] 20:00:15 ESTABLISHED A RESERVE FOR [Captioner] 20:00:15 UNFUNDED LEAVE LIABILITIES. [Captioner] 20:00:18 WE ALSO USED SOME MONEY TO [Captioner] 20:00:19 STABILIZE THE RISK MANAGEMENT [Captioner] 20:00:21 FUND, ALL ONE-TIME USES, AND [Captioner] 20:00:25 THEN FINALLY, THE CITY COUNCIL [Captioner] 20:00:27 AT A LATER MEETING APPROVED THE [Captioner] 20:00:30 USE OF, AGAIN, SOME OF THOSE [Captioner] 20:00:33 EXCESSIVE REVENUES TO PAY DOWN [Captioner] 20:00:33 OUTSTANDING BONDS. [Captioner] 20:00:39 SO IF YOU TAKE THE ADOPTED [Captioner] 20:00:40 BUDGET, WHICH DID NOT [Captioner] 20:00:43 CONTEMPLATE ALL OF THOSE [Captioner] 20:00:44 REVENUES AND COMPARE THAT WITH [Captioner] 20:00:47 THE FINAL BUDGET, WHICH DID [Captioner] 20:00:50 CONTEMPLATE ALL OF THOSE [Captioner] 20:00:52 REVENUES, IT OF COURSE IS MUCH [Captioner] 20:00:52 HIGHER. [Captioner] 20:00:54 WE HAVE MORE MONEY, WE RECOGNIZE [Captioner] 20:00:55 THE REVENUE, AND WE APPROPRIATED [Captioner] 20:00:55 IT. [Captioner] 20:01:00 SO THAT'S WHAT ACCOUNTS FOR [Captioner] 20:01:02 THE LARGE INCREASE THAT I THINK [Captioner] 20:01:04 MR. ABREU WAS POINTING TO. [Captioner] 20:01:05 >> Councilmember Salwan: THANK [Captioner] 20:01:05 YOU. [Captioner] 20:01:08 AND THEN ON THE WARM SPRINGS [Captioner] 20:01:09 DEVELOPMENT, HOW MUCH PERCENTAGE [Captioner] 20:01:11 OF PROPERTY TAX IS STILL [Captioner] 20:01:12 OUTSTANDING ON THOSE 4,000 [Captioner] 20:01:12 UNITS? [Captioner] 20:01:17 IS IT 70%, 80%, OR HOW MUCH IS [Captioner] 20:01:21 STILL LEFT TO BE BUILT OR [Captioner] 20:01:22 GET ONLINE WHERE WE CAPTURE [Captioner] 20:01:23 THAT PROPERTY TAX? [Captioner] 20:01:26 >> Mr. Persselin: I DON'T KNOW. [Captioner] 20:01:29 WE COULD PROBABLY DO SOME SORT [Captioner] 20:01:32 OF ESTIMATE, BUT AS YOU MAY [Captioner] 20:01:33 KNOW, THE WAY THE COUNTY [Captioner] 20:01:37 ASSESSOR DEALS WITH PROPERTIES [Captioner] 20:01:39 THAT ARE UNDER DEVELOPMENT, THE [Captioner] 20:01:40 ASSESSOR WILL RECOGNIZE PARTIAL [Captioner] 20:01:44 VALUE OF NEW CONSTRUCTION YEAR [Captioner] 20:01:44 BY YEAR. [Captioner] 20:01:48 SO IT'S SOMETIMES REALLY [Captioner] 20:01:50 DIFFICULT FOR A MULTI-YEAR [Captioner] 20:01:54 DEVELOPMENT LIKE THE ONE IN WARM [Captioner] 20:01:55 SPRINGS TO KNOW HOW MUCH OF IT [Captioner] 20:01:57 REALLY IS CURRENTLY ON THE TAX [Captioner] 20:01:57 ROLL VERSUS NOT. [Captioner] 20:02:03 BUT WE COULD -- I CAN WORK WITH [Captioner] 20:02:06 OUR DEVELOPMENT STAFF TO TRY TO [Captioner] 20:02:07 ESTIMATE HOW MUCH IS STILL OUT [Captioner] 20:02:07 THERE. [Captioner] 20:02:09 >> Councilmember Salwan: WOULD [Captioner] 20:02:10 BE GOOD TO KNOW. [Captioner] 20:02:14 AND HOW ABOUT PROJECTS LIKE [Captioner] 20:02:15 SABERCAT, ONE THAT WAS KIND OF [Captioner] 20:02:16 ABANDONED, ARE WE STILL [Captioner] 20:02:17 COLLECTING PROPERTY TAXES FROM [Captioner] 20:02:22 THAT OR -- [Captioner] 20:02:24 >> Mr. Persselin: SO IF THE [Captioner] 20:02:26 DEVELOPMENT HASN'T REALLY MOVED [Captioner] 20:02:27 FORWARD, THE ASSESSMENT WOULD [Captioner] 20:02:27 NOT HAVE INCREASED. [Captioner] 20:02:34 SO WE'RE COLLECTING PROPERTY [Captioner] 20:02:36 TAX ON THE ASSESSED VALUE OF [Captioner] 20:02:38 THAT PROPERTY AS IT CURRENTLY [Captioner] 20:02:38 IS. [Captioner] 20:02:44 SO IF THE DEVELOPMENT DOESN'T [Captioner] 20:02:46 MOVE FORWARD, WE'RE NOT LOSING [Captioner] 20:02:46 ANYTHING. [Captioner] 20:02:49 WE'RE JUST NOT GAINING [Captioner] 20:02:49 ANYTHING. [Captioner] 20:02:50 >> Councilmember Salwan: OKAY. [Captioner] 20:02:53 AND THEN OVERALL, HOW SATISFIED [Captioner] 20:02:55 ARE YOU WITH THE RESERVES THAT [Captioner] 20:02:57 WE HAVE AFTER WE PAY BACK THE [Captioner] 20:02:57 STATE? [Captioner] 20:03:01 WOULD YOU CONSIDER THAT A [Captioner] 20:03:01 HEALTHY RESERVE? [Captioner] 20:03:03 >> Mr. Persselin: YEAH, I THINK [Captioner] 20:03:03 SO. [Captioner] 20:03:05 YOU KNOW, AS I NOTED IN THE [Captioner] 20:03:08 PROPOSED BUDGET PRESENTATION, [Captioner] 20:03:10 THE CITY COUNCIL, IN ADDITION TO [Captioner] 20:03:12 -- AS I NOTED EARLIER, [Captioner] 20:03:14 INCREASING THE BUDGET [Captioner] 20:03:17 UNCERTAINTY RESERVE TO $12.5 [Captioner] 20:03:20 MILLION IN FISCAL YEAR 22-23 [Captioner] 20:03:23 CAME BACK AT THE BEGINNING OF [Captioner] 20:03:24 THIS FISCAL YEAR, INCREASED THE [Captioner] 20:03:26 BUDGET UNCERTAINTY RESERVE TO [Captioner] 20:03:27 $20 MILLION, AND THEN AS PART OF [Captioner] 20:03:29 THE MID-YEAR REPORT, FURTHER [Captioner] 20:03:30 INCREASED TO $30 MILLION. [Captioner] 20:03:36 BASED ON THE INFORMATION THAT [Captioner] 20:03:37 WENT INTO THE PROPOSED BUDGET, [Captioner] 20:03:40 WE'RE ASSUMING RIGHT NOW THAT [Captioner] 20:03:42 WE'RE GOING TO FINISH THE YEAR [Captioner] 20:03:43 WITH A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN $24 [Captioner] 20:03:46 MILLION OF THAT STILL INTACT. [Captioner] 20:03:50 AS I NOTED, BECAUSE NEXT [Captioner] 20:03:52 YEAR IS A -- ESSENTIALLY A [Captioner] 20:03:54 ONE-TIME TAKEAWAY BY THE STATE [Captioner] 20:03:55 FOR SALES TAX, WE ARE GOING TO [Captioner] 20:03:57 BE USING A LOT OF THAT BUDGET [Captioner] 20:04:00 UNCERTAINTY RESERVE TO BALANCE [Captioner] 20:04:00 NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET. [Captioner] 20:04:04 WE ANTICIPATE FINISHING THE YEAR [Captioner] 20:04:05 WITH ABOUT $6 MILLION REMAINING [Captioner] 20:04:06 IN THE BUDGET UNCERTAINTY [Captioner] 20:04:06 RESERVE. [Captioner] 20:04:10 I'LL NOTE THAT BEFORE WE BEGAN [Captioner] 20:04:11 INCREASING THE BUDGET [Captioner] 20:04:14 UNCERTAINTY RESERVE [Captioner] 20:04:16 SYSTEMATICALLY A FEW YEARS AGO, [Captioner] 20:04:18 FOR MANY YEARS, IT WAS AT $3.6 [Captioner] 20:04:18 MILLION. [Captioner] 20:04:23 SO WAS THAT THE RIGHT AMOUNT? [Captioner] 20:04:25 MAYBE, MAYBE NOT, BUT THE IDEA [Captioner] 20:04:27 IS TO REFLECT THE AMOUNT OF [Captioner] 20:04:30 UNCERTAINTY IN OUR REVENUE [Captioner] 20:04:30 FORECAST. [Captioner] 20:04:32 THE FACT THAT THE SALES TAX [Captioner] 20:04:34 ISSUE HAS NOW BEEN IDENTIFIED [Captioner] 20:04:35 AND IS BEING DEALT WITH BY THE [Captioner] 20:04:37 STATE, PROBABLY SIGNIFICANTLY [Captioner] 20:04:39 REDUCES THE AMOUNT OF [Captioner] 20:04:42 UNCERTAINTY IN THE FORECAST, [Captioner] 20:04:42 ALTHOUGH OBVIOUSLY IT DOESN'T [Captioner] 20:04:44 TAKE IT AWAY COMPLETELY. [Captioner] 20:04:45 >> Councilmember Salwan: OKAY. [Captioner] 20:04:45 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:04:50 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:04:52 NEXT FOR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS, [Captioner] 20:04:52 COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL. [Captioner] 20:04:57 >> Councilmember Campbell: THANK [Captioner] 20:04:57 YOU. [Captioner] 20:04:58 THANK YOU, MAYOR MEI. [Captioner] 20:05:00 I JUST HAVE A QUICK FOLLOW-UP [Captioner] 20:05:03 QUESTION, ACTUALLY TWO. [Captioner] 20:05:04 VACANCY SAVINGS. [Captioner] 20:05:10 MR. ABREU ALLEGED THAT WE MAY BE [Captioner] 20:05:10 INTENTIONALLY NOT FILLING [Captioner] 20:05:12 POSITIONS IN AN EFFORT TO BE [Captioner] 20:05:15 ABLE TO OFFSET OUR DEFICIT THAT [Captioner] 20:05:18 WE WERE GOING TO BE FACING. [Captioner] 20:05:20 IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE ARE [Captioner] 20:05:24 NOT ACTIVELY SEEKING STAFF TO [Captioner] 20:05:25 FILL THESE POSITIONS? [Captioner] 20:05:28 BECAUSE YOU'VE BASED YOUR BUDGET [Captioner] 20:05:30 ON THE PROJECTED NUMBER OF STAFF [Captioner] 20:05:31 THAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE, SO [Captioner] 20:05:34 YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHETHER THAT [Captioner] 20:05:36 PERSON OR PERSONS WILL BE HIRED [Captioner] 20:05:38 THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, SO AT THE [Captioner] 20:05:39 END OF THE YEAR IS WHEN YOU COME [Captioner] 20:05:41 UP WITH YOUR VACANCY SAVINGS. [Captioner] 20:05:41 IS THAT CORRECT? [Captioner] 20:05:49 >> Mr. Persselin: SO WHEN WE'RE [Captioner] 20:05:50 DEVELOPING THE BUDGET, WE [Captioner] 20:05:51 ESTIMATE WHAT WE THINK THE [Captioner] 20:05:54 VACANCY SAVINGS WILL BE FOR THE [Captioner] 20:05:56 NEXT YEAR BASED ON WHAT WE'RE [Captioner] 20:06:01 CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING AND WHAT [Captioner] 20:06:01 WE CAN SEE IN THE ENVIRONMENT. [Captioner] 20:06:06 MR. ABREU WAS POINTING OUT A [Captioner] 20:06:08 TREND, WHICH IS THAT FOR MANY [Captioner] 20:06:10 YEARS, THE CITY HAD A MUCH LOWER [Captioner] 20:06:14 LEVEL OF VACANCIES THAN IT [Captioner] 20:06:14 CURRENTLY DOES. [Captioner] 20:06:19 OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, WE'VE [Captioner] 20:06:21 EXPERIENCED A MUCH HIGHER LEVEL [Captioner] 20:06:23 OF VACANCIES AND A MUCH MORE [Captioner] 20:06:26 DIFFICULT RECRUITING [Captioner] 20:06:28 ENVIRONMENT, AS HAVE MANY [Captioner] 20:06:29 BUSINESSES AROUND THE COUNTRY, [Captioner] 20:06:32 AND AS A RESULT, WE'VE [Captioner] 20:06:34 SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED OUR [Captioner] 20:06:36 ESTIMATE FOR VACANCY SAVINGS. [Captioner] 20:06:39 WE INCLUDE VACANCY SAVINGS IN [Captioner] 20:06:41 OUR PROPOSED BUDGETS BECAUSE WE [Captioner] 20:06:44 KNOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE VACANCY [Captioner] 20:06:45 SAVINGS EVERY YEAR. [Captioner] 20:06:48 IT'S A NORMAL PART OF CONDUCTING [Captioner] 20:06:48 BUSINESS. [Captioner] 20:06:52 AND I THINK THE COUNCIL WOULD BE [Captioner] 20:06:55 DISAPPOINTED IF EVERY YEAR, WE [Captioner] 20:06:56 PRETENDED LIKE WE WEREN'T GOING [Captioner] 20:06:58 TO HAVE THAT SAVINGS AND DIDN'T [Captioner] 20:07:00 SPEND THAT MONEY TO PROVIDE [Captioner] 20:07:01 SERVICES FOR THE COMMUNITY. [Captioner] 20:07:04 SO WE'RE MAXIMIZING THE AMOUNT [Captioner] 20:07:06 OF SERVICES THAT WE CAN PROVIDE [Captioner] 20:07:09 FOR THE COMMUNITY BY ESTIMATING [Captioner] 20:07:11 SOME LEVEL OF WHAT WE THINK ARE [Captioner] 20:07:11 REASONABLE VACANCY SAVINGS. [Captioner] 20:07:15 GENERALLY SPEAKING, WHAT HAPPENS [Captioner] 20:07:16 AT THE END OF THE YEAR WHEN I [Captioner] 20:07:18 REPORT BACK AS PART OF THE [Captioner] 20:07:21 YEAR-END REPORT IS THAT WE HAVE [Captioner] 20:07:22 UNDERESTIMATED THE VACANCY [Captioner] 20:07:24 SAVINGS AND THAT WE FIND [Captioner] 20:07:28 OURSELVES WITH ADDITIONAL [Captioner] 20:07:29 RESOURCES BECAUSE OUR SAVINGS [Captioner] 20:07:32 HAVE EXCEEDED WHAT OUR ESTIMATE [Captioner] 20:07:32 WAS. [Captioner] 20:07:35 I WOULD NOTE THAT THE CITYWIDE [Captioner] 20:07:36 SAVINGS ESTIMATE THAT SHOWS UP [Captioner] 20:07:40 IN THE BUDGET ALSO INCLUDES SOME [Captioner] 20:07:41 ESTIMATE FOR NON-PERSONNEL [Captioner] 20:07:42 SAVINGS AS WELL, BECAUSE WE [Captioner] 20:07:44 TYPICALLY WILL HAVE SOME LEVEL [Captioner] 20:07:48 OF NON-PERSONNEL SAVINGS ALSO. [Captioner] 20:07:50 SO IT REALLY IS A COMBINATION [Captioner] 20:07:52 BUT THE MAJORITY OF IT IS INDEED [Captioner] 20:07:53 VACANCY SAVINGS. [Captioner] 20:08:03 >> Councilmember Campbell: AND [Captioner] 20:08:07 TO COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN'S [Captioner] 20:08:09 QUESTION ABOUT THE RESERVES, IT [Captioner] 20:08:14 LOOKS AS THOUGH WE STILL HAVE [Captioner] 20:08:16 OUR CONTINGENCY RESERVES, [Captioner] 20:08:18 ALTHOUGH OUR BUDGET UNCERTAINTY [Captioner] 20:08:22 WILL BE AT $6 MILLION, AT THE [Captioner] 20:08:26 END OF OUR FISCAL YEAR, NEXT [Captioner] 20:08:31 YEAR, WE STILL ARE GOING TO [Captioner] 20:08:34 HAVE ALMOST $50 MILLION IN SOME [Captioner] 20:08:35 SAVINGS THAT WE COULD POSSIBLY [Captioner] 20:08:35 USE IF WE NEEDED TO. [Captioner] 20:08:38 IS THAT CORRECT? [Captioner] 20:08:39 >> Mr. Persselin: YES. [Captioner] 20:08:43 SO THE CITY COUNCIL HAS A POLICY [Captioner] 20:08:47 OF FUNDING A CONTINGENCY RESERVE [Captioner] 20:08:48 WHICH IS SEPARATE FROM THE [Captioner] 20:08:50 BUDGET UNCERTAINTY RESERVE EVERY [Captioner] 20:08:53 YEAR AT 16.7% OF BUDGETED [Captioner] 20:08:55 EXPENDITURES AND TRANSFERS OUT [Captioner] 20:08:55 IN THE GENERAL FUND. [Captioner] 20:08:59 THAT RESERVE IS REALLY INTENDED [Captioner] 20:09:02 TO ADDRESS THINGS LIKE NATURAL [Captioner] 20:09:04 DISASTERS, LIKE THE $3.4 MILLION [Captioner] 20:09:06 THAT WE ALLOCATED FROM IT IN THE [Captioner] 20:09:07 CURRENT FISCAL YEAR TO DEAL WITH [Captioner] 20:09:10 THE WINTER STORMS' DAMAGE, SO [Captioner] 20:09:12 YES, THAT WOULD BE AVAILABLE AT [Captioner] 20:09:13 THE END OF THE NEXT FISCAL [Captioner] 20:09:13 YEAR. [Captioner] 20:09:15 WE HAVE NO PLANS TO SPEND THAT [Captioner] 20:09:16 DOWN. [Captioner] 20:09:18 >> Councilmember Campbell: AND [Captioner] 20:09:22 DO YOU THINK THAT'S A HEALTHY [Captioner] 20:09:25 AMOUNT FOR ANY EMERGENCIES THAT [Captioner] 20:09:26 WE MIGHT HAVE OVER THE NEXT [Captioner] 20:09:27 YEAR? [Captioner] 20:09:31 >> Mr. Persselin: SO WE'RE [Captioner] 20:09:38 BASING THAT ON THE GOVERNMENT [Captioner] 20:09:40 FINANCE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION, [Captioner] 20:09:42 IT'S REALLY AT THE BOTTOM OF [Captioner] 20:09:43 THEIR RECOMMENDED RANGE FOR [Captioner] 20:09:43 RESERVES. [Captioner] 20:09:49 YOU KNOW, IF WE HAD A [Captioner] 20:09:51 CATASTROPHIC ISSUE, THEN I DON'T [Captioner] 20:09:51 KNOW. [Captioner] 20:09:54 BUT WE WOULD PROBABLY BE IN A [Captioner] 20:09:55 SITUATION LIKE WITH COVID, WHERE [Captioner] 20:09:58 WE WOULD BE RECEIVING FEDERAL, [Captioner] 20:09:59 STATE, OTHER ASSISTANCE. [Captioner] 20:10:04 SO 16.7% OF BUDGET EXPENDITURES [Captioner] 20:10:06 AND TRANSFERS OUT EQUATES TO [Captioner] 20:10:08 SOMETHING LIKE 2 1/2 MONTHS OF [Captioner] 20:10:11 OPERATING EXPENSES AND IT SEEMS [Captioner] 20:10:13 LIKE A PRETTY REASONABLE LEVEL [Captioner] 20:10:13 OF RESERVES. [Captioner] 20:10:17 >> Councilmember Campbell: THANK [Captioner] 20:10:17 YOU. [Captioner] 20:10:24 >> Mayor Mei: ARE THERE ANY [Captioner] 20:10:26 OTHER CLARIFYING QUESTIONS ON [Captioner] 20:10:26 THE BUDGET? [Captioner] 20:10:26 OKAY. [Captioner] 20:10:28 WELL, I'LL ASK SOME QUESTIONS [Captioner] 20:10:28 NOW TOO. [Captioner] 20:10:31 I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME [Captioner] 20:10:32 CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE TAXES [Captioner] 20:10:34 AND I WAS WONDERING FOR THE [Captioner] 20:10:35 CHANGES IN THE BUDGET FOR THOSE [Captioner] 20:10:36 OTHER YEARS, FOR VACANCIES AS [Captioner] 20:10:38 WELL AS THE COST INCREASES, I [Captioner] 20:10:40 KNOW THAT DURING THE PANDEMIC, [Captioner] 20:10:42 WE CERTAINLY SAUDI CREASE IN [Captioner] 20:10:46 TERMS OF THE HIRING BECAUSE OF [Captioner] 20:10:49 MANY PEOPLE REMOTELY WORKING AND [Captioner] 20:10:51 WE WERE ALSO TRYING TO KEEP OUR [Captioner] 20:10:52 BUDGET IN TERMS OF THE VACANCIES [Captioner] 20:10:53 WEREN'T AS EASY TO FILL. [Captioner] 20:10:56 DO YOU THINK THAT THAT WOULD [Captioner] 20:10:57 ALSO ATTRIBUTE TO SOME OF THE [Captioner] 20:10:59 INCREASES THAT WERE BEING CITED [Captioner] 20:11:01 EARLIER, FROM 2022 TO 2023? [Captioner] 20:11:08 >> Mr. Persselin: I REALLY THINK [Captioner] 20:11:09 THAT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT [Captioner] 20:11:11 WE SPENT IN 2023 VERSUS WHAT WE [Captioner] 20:11:14 SPENT IN THE PRIOR YEAR WAS [Captioner] 20:11:16 BECAUSE WE HAD A LOT OF WHAT WE [Captioner] 20:11:18 NOW KNOW AS ONE-TIME REVENUE. [Captioner] 20:11:19 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY. [Captioner] 20:11:21 AND DO YOU THINK WITH THAT [Captioner] 20:11:22 ONE-TIME REVENUE, I KNOW WE WERE [Captioner] 20:11:24 JUST TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE [Captioner] 20:11:25 IMPACTS FROM THE SHELTER IN [Captioner] 20:11:28 PLACE AND WE ARE WAITING [Captioner] 20:11:29 REIMBURSEMENT, I KNOW THIS HAS [Captioner] 20:11:31 BEEN ASKED BEFORE IN THE PAST, [Captioner] 20:11:32 BUT DO WE HAVE ANY IDEAS IN [Captioner] 20:11:34 TERMS OF HOW MUCH FUNDING WE [Captioner] 20:11:37 COULD STILL HAVE POSSIBLY AS [Captioner] 20:11:38 REIMBURSEMENT TO US FROM FEMA [Captioner] 20:11:39 AND SOME OTHER AREAS? [Captioner] 20:11:41 I KNOW THAT THESE ARE NOT AS [Captioner] 20:11:43 PREDICTABLE, BUT DO WE HAVE ANY [Captioner] 20:11:46 IDEAS AND IS IT INCLUDED IN THE [Captioner] 20:11:46 FORECAST? [Captioner] 20:11:49 >> Mr. Persselin: SO FEMA HAS [Captioner] 20:11:52 NOW WHAT THEY CALL OBLIGATED ALL [Captioner] 20:11:55 OF THE REIMBURSEMENT FOR THE [Captioner] 20:11:55 COVID EMERGENCY. [Captioner] 20:11:58 SO AS I THINK I'VE NOTED BEFORE, [Captioner] 20:12:01 WE'VE PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED [Captioner] 20:12:02 SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND [Captioner] 20:12:02 DOLLARS. [Captioner] 20:12:08 WE HAVE ANOTHER SEVERAL HUNDRED [Captioner] 20:12:09 THOUSAND DOLLARS OBLIGATED, [Captioner] 20:12:11 WHICH MEANS THAT THEY'VE AGREED [Captioner] 20:12:13 TO PAY TO US BUT WE HAVE NOT YET [Captioner] 20:12:16 BEEN PAID, AND ALL WE WILL HAVE [Captioner] 20:12:17 RECEIVED CLOSE TO A MILLION [Captioner] 20:12:21 DOLLARS FROM FEMA FOR COVID [Captioner] 20:12:22 REIMBURSEMENT, WHICH IS MOST BUT [Captioner] 20:12:25 NOT ALL OF WHAT WE REQUESTED. [Captioner] 20:12:29 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY. [Captioner] 20:12:30 >> Mr. Persselin: THE WINTER [Captioner] 20:12:32 STORMS, WE HAVE RECEIVED [Captioner] 20:12:33 REIMBURSEMENTS THERE AS WELL, [Captioner] 20:12:35 BUT MANY OF THE PROJECTS FOR THE [Captioner] 20:12:39 WINTER STORM DAMAGE [Captioner] 20:12:42 ARE WHAT THEY CALL MITIGATION [Captioner] 20:12:42 PROJECTS. [Captioner] 20:12:46 SO THESE AREN'T JUST SORT OF -- [Captioner] 20:12:48 REPAIR THE WALL THAT FELL DOWN [Captioner] 20:12:48 TYPE PROJECTS. [Captioner] 20:12:51 THESE ARE THINGS THAT ARE [Captioner] 20:12:53 INVOLVING PUBLIC WORKS [Captioner] 20:12:55 ENGINEERING STAFF AND WORKING [Captioner] 20:12:58 WITH CONSULTANTS TO COME UP WITH [Captioner] 20:12:59 LONG-TERM CONSTRUCTION PROJECT [Captioner] 20:13:00 PLANS. [Captioner] 20:13:02 SO WE'RE WORKING WITH FEMA RIGHT [Captioner] 20:13:05 NOW TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT [Captioner] 20:13:07 WHAT THOSE COST ESTIMATES ARE, [Captioner] 20:13:09 BUT WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE A [Captioner] 20:13:10 TOTAL COST YET FOR FEMA. [Captioner] 20:13:13 SO I'M NOT REALLY IN A POSITION [Captioner] 20:13:16 TO PROVIDE AN ESTIMATE BECAUSE [Captioner] 20:13:17 WE HAVEN'T SPENT THE MONEY YET. [Captioner] 20:13:19 FOR A LOT OF THOSE PROJECTS. [Captioner] 20:13:21 AND WE HAVEN'T EVEN SCOPED THEM [Captioner] 20:13:21 YET. [Captioner] 20:13:22 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY. [Captioner] 20:13:24 BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WE HAD SOME [Captioner] 20:13:26 IMPACT THIS PAST YEAR FROM THAT, [Captioner] 20:13:28 SO I JUST WAS TRYING TO FIGURE [Captioner] 20:13:30 OUT IF WE ATTRIBUTED THAT TO THE [Captioner] 20:13:30 BUDGET. [Captioner] 20:13:32 I THINK THAT'S ALL THE [Captioner] 20:13:33 CLARIFYING QUESTIONS I HAVE. [Captioner] 20:13:35 I KNOW WE HOPE TO HAVE MORE [Captioner] 20:13:37 INSIGHTS AS WE MOVE FORWARD NEXT [Captioner] 20:13:39 WEEK, AND THEN ALSO THERE ARE [Captioner] 20:13:40 SOME POSSIBLE OTHER ITEMS THAT [Captioner] 20:13:42 COULD COME UP FOR DISCUSSION [Captioner] 20:13:44 THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED BY BOTH [Captioner] 20:13:44 THE COUNCILMEMBERS. [Captioner] 20:13:47 I KNOW WE'VE ALSO HAD THE [Captioner] 20:13:47 CONVERSATION, I WOULD LIKE TO [Captioner] 20:13:49 MAKE SURE THAT COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 20:13:50 KASSAN DOESN'T HAVE ANY OTHER [Captioner] 20:13:51 QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS BECAUSE I [Captioner] 20:13:51 CAN'T SEE HER. [Captioner] 20:13:54 >> Ms. Gauthier: SHE DOES NOT [Captioner] 20:13:56 HAVE HER HAND RAISED AND SHAKING [Captioner] 20:13:56 HER HEAD NO. [Captioner] 20:13:58 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY, THANK YOU SO [Captioner] 20:13:58 MUCH. [Captioner] 20:13:59 AND SO WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO [Captioner] 20:14:01 MORE OF THOSE COMMENTS BECAUSE I [Captioner] 20:14:04 KNOW WE HAD SOME SUGGESTIONS [Captioner] 20:14:06 EARLIER FROM A SPEAKER ANIMAL [Captioner] 20:14:09 CARE AS WELL AS -- WE'VE ADDED A [Captioner] 20:14:10 VETERINARIAN, I BELIEVE, TO [Captioner] 20:14:10 ADDRESS THAT CONCERN. [Captioner] 20:14:11 SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. [Captioner] 20:14:15 COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN, ONE OTHER [Captioner] 20:14:15 QUESTION. [Captioner] 20:14:17 >> Councilmember Salwan: NO [Captioner] 20:14:18 QUESTION, JUST A QUICK COMMENT. [Captioner] 20:14:19 I JUST KIND OF SKIMMED THROUGH [Captioner] 20:14:22 THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE [Captioner] 20:14:22 COMMUNITY. [Captioner] 20:14:25 SOUNDED LIKE SOME PEOPLE LIKE [Captioner] 20:14:28 THE CURRENT FORMAT, SOME WANTED [Captioner] 20:14:31 LIKE VIDEOS, SHORT VIDEOS OR [Captioner] 20:14:34 SOCIAL MEDIA, AND SOME WERE [Captioner] 20:14:36 LOOKING FOR MORE LIKE WEBINARS [Captioner] 20:14:40 OR THINGS LIKE THAT, SO I [Captioner] 20:14:46 THINK WITH TODAY'S FOLKS HAVE [Captioner] 20:14:47 LIMITED ATTENTION SPANS, WE [Captioner] 20:14:49 SHOULD LOOK AT SMALL VIDEO CLIPS [Captioner] 20:14:50 JUST TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC. [Captioner] 20:14:54 WITH MANY OF US, WE'VE BEEN HERE [Captioner] 20:14:56 FOR -- BUT DEFINITELY LISTEN TO [Captioner] 20:14:57 SOMEBODY LIKE DAVID, YOU NEED TO [Captioner] 20:14:58 LISTEN VERY CLOSELY BECAUSE [Captioner] 20:14:59 THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION [Captioner] 20:15:00 BEING CONVEYED. [Captioner] 20:15:02 AND NOT ONLY JUST THE MACRO [Captioner] 20:15:05 INFORMATION, BUT ALSO MICRO AS [Captioner] 20:15:06 WELL AS OUR CITY AND WHERE WE [Captioner] 20:15:08 ARE RELATIVE TO EVERYTHING. [Captioner] 20:15:10 AND I THINK FOR THE BENEFIT OF [Captioner] 20:15:13 THE PUBLIC, IT WOULD BE NICE FOR [Captioner] 20:15:15 THEM TO KNOW BIG PICTURE, WHERE [Captioner] 20:15:18 DOES OUR MONEY GO, WHERE DO OUR [Captioner] 20:15:19 REVENUES COME FROM, HOW ARE WE [Captioner] 20:15:19 DOING? [Captioner] 20:15:21 I THINK WE NEED TO SEE MORE [Captioner] 20:15:21 INFORMATION. [Captioner] 20:15:24 I THINK MISINFORMATION OR LACK [Captioner] 20:15:27 OF INFORMATION, I THINK WE NEED [Captioner] 20:15:28 TO DEFINITELY WORK TOWARDS THAT, [Captioner] 20:15:29 SOY INK THIS HE WITH SHOULD [Captioner] 20:15:31 DEFINITELY TRY TO COMMUNICATE IN [Captioner] 20:15:34 AS MANY CHANNELS AS POSSIBLE. [Captioner] 20:15:35 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:15:37 I KNOW THERE WERE COMMENTS [Captioner] 20:15:40 EARLIER REGARDING RETAIL, [Captioner] 20:15:41 BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [Captioner] 20:15:41 TEAM. [Captioner] 20:15:42 I KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF EFFORTS [Captioner] 20:15:44 IN THOSE AREAS, BUT IT IS GOOD [Captioner] 20:15:46 TO CLARIFY FOR SOME PEOPLE WHY [Captioner] 20:15:48 SOME BUSINESSES HAVE CLOSED OR [Captioner] 20:15:50 SHUTTERED OR MOVED AWAY AND WHY [Captioner] 20:15:52 SOME ARE COMING, AND SOME OF [Captioner] 20:15:53 THEM ARE NOT WITHIN THE CITY'S [Captioner] 20:15:55 CONTROL, BECAUSE THOSE ARE [Captioner] 20:15:55 INDIVIDUAL PRIVATE PROPERTIES. [Captioner] 20:15:58 AND CERTAINLY WE'VE CREATED A [Captioner] 20:16:02 VERY DETAILED PLAN IN THE PAST [Captioner] 20:16:03 REGARDING OUR SMALL BUSINESSES [Captioner] 20:16:05 AS WELL AS THE BUSINESS RECOVERY [Captioner] 20:16:06 MODELS, SO IT MIGHT BE GOOD JUST [Captioner] 20:16:08 TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE AS TO [Captioner] 20:16:09 WHAT'S HAPPENED SINCE THEN [Captioner] 20:16:11 BECAUSE FOR A WHILE, THERE ARE [Captioner] 20:16:13 CERTAINLY SOME THAT HAVE [Captioner] 20:16:14 SHUTTERED, AND RETAIL IS [Captioner] 20:16:16 CHANGING NOT JUST HERE IN [Captioner] 20:16:17 FREMONT, BUT THROUGHOUT THE [Captioner] 20:16:18 ENTIRE REGION AND THE UNITED [Captioner] 20:16:19 STATES BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT [Captioner] 20:16:21 THINGS HAVE SHIFTED TO ONLINE [Captioner] 20:16:22 AND ALSO SOME OF THE DIFFERENT [Captioner] 20:16:23 MODELS OF PURCHASING, SO IT'S [Captioner] 20:16:26 NOT JUST UNIQUE TO OUR CITY [Captioner] 20:16:27 WHERE YOU'RE SEEING RETAIL [Captioner] 20:16:28 CHANGE IN THE TRADITIONAL [Captioner] 20:16:29 SHOPPING MALLS AND THINGS HAVE [Captioner] 20:16:31 CERTAINLY BEEN IMPACTED [Captioner] 20:16:32 THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE STATE AND [Captioner] 20:16:33 CERTAINLY HERE IN THE REGION. [Captioner] 20:16:35 BUT IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR US TO [Captioner] 20:16:37 BE ABLE TO HAVE SOME ECONOMIC -- [Captioner] 20:16:38 PERHAPS THAT'S SOMETHING WE [Captioner] 20:16:39 BRING IN TO A STUDY SESSION. [Captioner] 20:16:40 AND SAME WITH THE BUDGET. [Captioner] 20:16:42 I'M NOT AGAINST THAT IDEA. [Captioner] 20:16:44 I KNOW IN THE PAST -- BUT WE [Captioner] 20:16:46 HAVE THESE MEETINGS, THE PUBLIC [Captioner] 20:16:48 WILL COME AND I'M NOT SURE THAT [Captioner] 20:16:51 -- IT HELPFUL TO HAVE THE VIDEOS [Captioner] 20:16:53 ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND THAT'S WHAT [Captioner] 20:16:54 WE WOULD LIKE THEM TO [Captioner] 20:16:56 PARTICIPATE IN THE BUDGET, AND [Captioner] 20:16:59 THEN OTHER METHODOLOGIES, WE'VE [Captioner] 20:17:01 TALKED ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT [Captioner] 20:17:02 PARTICIPATORY BUDGET, THEN [Captioner] 20:17:03 PEOPLE HAVE TO BE MORE INCLUSIVE [Captioner] 20:17:07 IN TERMS OF UNDERSTANDING, AND I [Captioner] 20:17:08 JUST WANTED TO COMMENT REAL [Captioner] 20:17:09 QUICKLY, NEXT WEEK MAYBE WE [Captioner] 20:17:10 SHOULD HAVE SOME OF THE [Captioner] 20:17:11 DEPARTMENT HEADS HERE FOR THAT, [Captioner] 20:17:16 BUT LIKE IN THE QUESTION OF THE [Captioner] 20:17:20 ENCAMPMENT CLEAN-UPS, [Captioner] 20:17:22 BECAUSE WE'RE -- I'VE SEEN THE [Captioner] 20:17:24 CLEAN-UP IN PARTICULAR AT HIISH [Captioner] 20:17:25 AND HORNER, THEY'VE GONE FROM 11 [Captioner] 20:17:27 VEHICLES DOWN TO 2 WHEN I LAST [Captioner] 20:17:28 LOOKED AT IT THE OTHER DAY. [Captioner] 20:17:30 I KNOW THERE'S SOME THAT ARE [Captioner] 20:17:31 ALSO IN THEIR COMMUNITY PARKS. [Captioner] 20:17:35 I KNOW EVEN HERE BY OUR HNC, [Captioner] 20:17:36 I'VE SEEN SOME OF THOSE CHANGES [Captioner] 20:17:36 HERE. [Captioner] 20:17:38 WITH EACH OF THOSE ASSOCIATED [Captioner] 20:17:39 COSTS, THERE'S IMPACT IN TERMS [Captioner] 20:17:42 OF WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT WITH OUR [Captioner] 20:17:43 HOMELESSNESS STRATEGY PLAN. [Captioner] 20:17:46 I THINK THAT WAS UNDER STRATEGY [Captioner] 20:17:49 .5 OR THE FOCUS AREA AND UNDER A [Captioner] 20:17:51 MAINTENANCE PLAN BUDGET, THE [Captioner] 20:17:53 ENCAMPMENT COST, SO THAT WAY [Captioner] 20:17:54 MAYBE WE COULD HAVE SOME OF THE [Captioner] 20:17:55 ANSWERS AVAILABLE FOR THE [Captioner] 20:17:56 QUESTIONS HERE. [Captioner] 20:17:57 >> City Mgr. Shackelford: [Captioner] 20:17:59 REGARDING ENCAMPMENT CLEAN-UPS, [Captioner] 20:18:03 MY STAFF TELLS ME THAT THE COST [Captioner] 20:18:07 WAS INCREASED FROM $1.25 MILLION [Captioner] 20:18:07 TO $1.4 MILLION. [Captioner] 20:18:09 AND THAT WAS PER COUNCIL ACTION [Captioner] 20:18:12 THAT OCCURRED ON APRIL 16TH. [Captioner] 20:18:21 >> Councilmember Cox: WHEN WE [Captioner] 20:18:22 AMENDED THE CONTRACT AT THAT [Captioner] 20:18:22 TIME? [Captioner] 20:18:23 >> City Mgr. Shackelford: [Captioner] 20:18:23 CORRECT. [Captioner] 20:18:24 >> Mayor Mei: I WAS GOING TO [Captioner] 20:18:27 SAY, IT WAY MORE THAN $200,000. [Captioner] 20:18:28 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:18:28 COUNCILMEMBER COX? [Captioner] 20:18:29 >> Councilmember Cox: THANK [Captioner] 20:18:30 YOU. [Captioner] 20:18:32 I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU [Captioner] 20:18:36 TO OUR CITY STAFF, AND ALSO TO [Captioner] 20:18:38 OUR LEGISLATORS ON THE FEDERAL [Captioner] 20:18:40 AND THE STATE SIDE WITH [Captioner] 20:18:44 CONGRESSMAN RO KHANNA AND ERIK [Captioner] 20:18:46 SWALWELL, AS WELL AS [Captioner] 20:18:48 ASSEMBLYMEMBER ALEX LEE AND [Captioner] 20:18:52 SENATOR WAHAB, AS NOTED IN YOUR [Captioner] 20:18:54 REPORT THAT WE GOT CLOSE TO [Captioner] 20:18:55 ALMOST $5 MILLION FROM THEIR [Captioner] 20:18:56 HELP AND HELPING US BE ABLE TO [Captioner] 20:18:58 MOVE FORWARD HERE IN FREMONT. [Captioner] 20:19:01 WHETHER IT WAS ON THE COMMUNITY [Captioner] 20:19:02 PROJECT FUNDING, WHETHER IT WAS [Captioner] 20:19:06 ON THE AUTOMALL CENTER OR EVEN [Captioner] 20:19:07 OUR POLICE COMMUNITY CAMERA [Captioner] 20:19:09 EQUIPMENT THAT WAS NOTED, AND [Captioner] 20:19:11 EVEN TOWARDS OUR CENTRAL PARK [Captioner] 20:19:14 AND OUR COMMERCIAL DISTRICT WIFI [Captioner] 20:19:16 TO NAME A FEW PROJECTS, BUT [Captioner] 20:19:17 THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT ARE [Captioner] 20:19:18 GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO [Captioner] 20:19:22 HELP US WITH SI STAFF, WITH OUR [Captioner] 20:19:24 STATE LEGISLATORS AND -- TO HELP [Captioner] 20:19:25 US MOVE FORWARD BECAUSE IT'S [Captioner] 20:19:28 GOING TO TAKE A LOT OF CITY, [Captioner] 20:19:32 STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDING TO [Captioner] 20:19:33 KEEP US MOVING FORWARD, BUT I [Captioner] 20:19:34 JUST WANT TO THANK ALL OF US [Captioner] 20:19:36 THAT ARE HELPING US TO MOVE [Captioner] 20:19:38 FORWARD BECAUSE THIS BUDGET IS [Captioner] 20:19:41 NO JOKE, AND I KNOW THAT OUR [Captioner] 20:19:45 AWARD WINNING FINANCE TEAM IS [Captioner] 20:19:46 PROVIDING A LOT OF THE DETAILS. [Captioner] 20:19:49 THERE'S MORE TO COME AND AS [Captioner] 20:19:50 THINGS GET ADJUSTED, I [Captioner] 20:19:52 UNDERSTAND WE WILL BE MAKING [Captioner] 20:19:54 BUDGET APPROVE WILLS, BUT I JUST [Captioner] 20:19:55 WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL [Captioner] 20:19:56 OF THE CITY STAFF. [Captioner] 20:19:58 IT'S NOT JUST FINANCE, IT'S THE [Captioner] 20:20:00 WHOLE ENTIRE FREMONT TEAM THAT [Captioner] 20:20:01 HAS HELPED TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. [Captioner] 20:20:05 AND WHETHER WE HAD TO HAVE OUR [Captioner] 20:20:06 LEGAL PERSON LOOK AT THE [Captioner] 20:20:07 FINANCING, MAKING SURE IT'S BEEN [Captioner] 20:20:09 BLESSED, TO OUR CITY MANAGER, [Captioner] 20:20:13 BUT I WANTED TO THANK ALL THE [Captioner] 20:20:15 EFFORTS OF KEEPING US MOVING [Captioner] 20:20:15 FORWARD. [Captioner] 20:20:17 I SEE A LOT OF OTHER CITIES ARE [Captioner] 20:20:20 EVEN MAKING SO MANY MORE DRASTIC [Captioner] 20:20:22 CUTS TO THEIR BUDGET AS WE READ [Captioner] 20:20:26 IN THE PAPER EVERY WEEK AFTER [Captioner] 20:20:27 EACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING, I'M [Captioner] 20:20:29 TRACKING TO SEE THE IMPACT, BUT [Captioner] 20:20:31 I'M REALLY VERY GRATEFUL FOR US [Captioner] 20:20:32 TO BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD AND [Captioner] 20:20:34 EVEN WITH SOME OF THE THINGS WE [Captioner] 20:20:34 DO HAVE. [Captioner] 20:20:36 THERE'S ALWAYS AREAS OF [Captioner] 20:20:37 IMPROVEMENT, AND WORKING [Captioner] 20:20:38 THROUGH, AND THEN ALSO WE'RE [Captioner] 20:20:40 LIVING THROUGH CHANGES OF COMING [Captioner] 20:20:42 OUT OF COVID, GOING THROUGH [Captioner] 20:20:45 WINTER STORMS, NOT ONCE BUT [Captioner] 20:20:47 TWICE BACK TO BACK, ALL THE [Captioner] 20:20:49 OTHER THING, AND WE'VE GOT AGING [Captioner] 20:20:50 BUILDINGS AND THINGS WE HAVE TO [Captioner] 20:20:53 DEAL WITH, PLUS VACANCIES AND [Captioner] 20:20:53 HIRING PRACTICES. [Captioner] 20:20:55 BUT THAT'S JUST THE CYCLE OF [Captioner] 20:20:55 GOVERNMENT. [Captioner] 20:20:57 SO -- BUT JUST WANTED TO THANK [Captioner] 20:20:58 EVERYONE FOR THEIR EFFORTS. [Captioner] 20:21:01 AND OUR STATE LEGISLATIVE AND [Captioner] 20:21:03 OUR FEDERAL, AND OF COURSE ALL [Captioner] 20:21:04 OF US CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS [Captioner] 20:21:05 TRYING TO WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE [Captioner] 20:21:06 THINGS HAPPEN. [Captioner] 20:21:06 SO THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:21:08 FOR EVERYONE. [Captioner] 20:21:11 >> Mayor Mei: NO, I THINK THAT [Captioner] 20:21:12 JUST TO CLOSE ON SOME OF THAT, [Captioner] 20:21:14 THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT [Captioner] 20:21:15 FEDERAL POLICIES THAT ARE COMING [Captioner] 20:21:16 UP AND THERE ARE PROS AND CONS [Captioner] 20:21:17 RIGHT NOW IN TERMS OF THE [Captioner] 20:21:19 BUDGET, BECAUSE THE STATE ITSELF [Captioner] 20:21:21 IS STRUGGLING WITH BALANCING ITS [Captioner] 20:21:24 BUDGET AND I'M CERTAINLY [Captioner] 20:21:27 IMPRESSED AND THANKFUL THAT [Captioner] 20:21:30 THERE IS -- IN THE LEAGUE OF [Captioner] 20:21:31 CITIES, I KNOW COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 20:21:32 SALWAN SERVES ON THE EAST BAY [Captioner] 20:21:34 FOR THAT AND ALSO OUR [Captioner] 20:21:35 COUNCILMEMBER DESRIE CAMPBELL [Captioner] 20:21:36 HAS BEEN AT SOME OF THE STATE [Captioner] 20:21:39 LEVEL IN TERMS OF FOCUSING ON [Captioner] 20:21:40 GETTING THAT ADVOCACY. [Captioner] 20:21:42 IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US, THAT'S [Captioner] 20:21:44 WHY WE DO MAKE THOSE EFFORTS AND [Captioner] 20:21:46 OUTREACH AND I KNOW THAT IN [Captioner] 20:21:50 SPEAKING ON MY VISITS TO [Captioner] 20:21:53 CONGRESSMEMBER SWALWELL AND [Captioner] 20:21:56 ALSO CONGRESS MEMBER KHANNA, [Captioner] 20:21:58 WHETHER IT'S ADVOCACY THROUGH [Captioner] 20:22:00 THAT OR ENSURING THAT THE [Captioner] 20:22:02 FEDERAL LEVEL THAT SECRETARIES [Captioner] 20:22:05 ENCOURAGE OR CONTINUE THESE [Captioner] 20:22:08 VOUCHERS THAT ARE -- I KNOW WHEN [Captioner] 20:22:11 WE TALKED ABOUT THE HOMELESS, [Captioner] 20:22:14 GETTING THE SUPPORT WE NEED SO [Captioner] 20:22:15 THE DOLLARS CAN COME DIRECTLY TO [Captioner] 20:22:16 US, I MEAN, THAT'S WHERE A LOT [Captioner] 20:22:17 OF THE PUSH HAS BEEN AT THE [Captioner] 20:22:19 FEDERAL, STATE AN LOCAL LEVELS [Captioner] 20:22:20 FROM THE CAL CITIES, IS MAKING [Captioner] 20:22:21 SURE THE DOLLARS COME DIRECTLY [Captioner] 20:22:22 TO US. [Captioner] 20:22:23 AND THAT MADE A TREMENDOUS [Captioner] 20:22:26 DIFFERENCE FOR US IN OUR [Captioner] 20:22:26 HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE AND OUR [Captioner] 20:22:28 ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE [Captioner] 20:22:29 RENTAL ASSISTANCE. [Captioner] 20:22:32 BECAUSE OTHERWISE IF THE MONEY [Captioner] 20:22:35 HADN'T COME DIRECTLY TO OUR [Captioner] 20:22:39 CITY, WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE [Captioner] 20:22:40 COUNTY LEVEL TO BE DIVIDED AND [Captioner] 20:22:41 AT THAT POINT, WHEN IT WAS [Captioner] 20:22:43 LOOKING AT THE RESTRICTION OF [Captioner] 20:22:45 ONLY $500,000, NOT ONE CITY [Captioner] 20:22:47 WITHIN THE ALAMEDA COUNTY WOULD [Captioner] 20:22:49 HAVE GOTTEN A DIRECT [Captioner] 20:22:49 ALLOCATION. [Captioner] 20:22:51 AND THAT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE. [Captioner] 20:22:54 IT JUST US MORE CONFIDENCE AND [Captioner] 20:22:55 STABILITY IN THE BUDGET AND THE [Captioner] 20:22:57 ABILITY TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE [Captioner] 20:22:57 PROGRAMS. [Captioner] 20:23:00 SO I'M HOPING WE'LL HEAR MORE [Captioner] 20:23:03 FROM SECRETARY BECERRA FOR [Captioner] 20:23:04 HOMELESSNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH [Captioner] 20:23:07 AND FOR PLAFER, I'M WAITING TO [Captioner] 20:23:09 HEAR BACK ON HOUSING VOUCHERS [Captioner] 20:23:10 WHEN WE TALK ABOUT AFFORDABLE [Captioner] 20:23:12 HOUSING PLANS AND OUR HOUSING [Captioner] 20:23:13 ELEMENT IS GOING TO BE CRITICAL [Captioner] 20:23:15 PIECE THAT WE CAN CLOSE ON IT, [Captioner] 20:23:17 AND THE OTHER PIECE, WHICH WE [Captioner] 20:23:19 JUST CELEBRATED MEMORIAL DAY, [Captioner] 20:23:21 THOSE TWO WORDS SHOULD NEVER GO [Captioner] 20:23:22 TOGETHER, VETERANS AND [Captioner] 20:23:23 HOMELESSNESS, SO THAT SPECIFIC [Captioner] 20:23:24 PROGRAM, I'M HOPING THAT WE DO [Captioner] 20:23:25 GET SOME FUNDING FOR THE NEXT [Captioner] 20:23:25 YEAR. [Captioner] 20:23:30 SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO WORK ON [Captioner] 20:23:31 THAT AND I APPRECIATE OUR [Captioner] 20:23:33 LEGISLATIVE POLICY AND I KNOW WE [Captioner] 20:23:34 HAVE A NEW ANALYST IN THAT FIELD [Captioner] 20:23:36 TO HELP US IN ADVOCATING FOR [Captioner] 20:23:38 THOSE CHANGES, AND I THINK THAT [Captioner] 20:23:39 IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE, SO [Captioner] 20:23:40 FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE ON THE [Captioner] 20:23:42 COUNCIL AND ALSO OUR PUBLIC, IF [Captioner] 20:23:43 YOU THINK THAT THERE'S SOME [Captioner] 20:23:45 POLICIES THAT COULD POTENTIALLY [Captioner] 20:23:47 IMPACT US AND I'VE SEEN SOME [Captioner] 20:23:49 THAT COULD BE PUNITIVE TO US [Captioner] 20:23:50 DEPENDING ON HOUSING ELEMENTS [Captioner] 20:23:52 AND FINES FOR US THAT WE [Captioner] 20:23:53 COULDN'T ATTRIBUTE, SO THAT WHEN [Captioner] 20:23:54 WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR BUDGET [Captioner] 20:23:55 RIGHT NOW, I MEAN, PLEASE THINK [Captioner] 20:23:56 ABOUT THOSE, BECAUSE SOME OF [Captioner] 20:23:59 THOSE POLICIES THAT ARE BEING [Captioner] 20:24:01 PROPOSED, IF THEY GO THROUGH, IT [Captioner] 20:24:03 ALLOWS PEOPLE TO FINE US A [Captioner] 20:24:05 SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT PER MONTH PER [Captioner] 20:24:07 CITY FOR HOUSING ELEMENT DELAYS, [Captioner] 20:24:09 AND THOSE ARE NOT WITHIN OUR [Captioner] 20:24:09 PURVIEW SOMETIMES. [Captioner] 20:24:13 WE ENTITLE PROJECTS BUT WE CAN'T [Captioner] 20:24:15 BE RESPONSIBLE IF THEY ARE NOT [Captioner] 20:24:17 BUILT AND THAT COULD IMPACT OUR [Captioner] 20:24:17 BUDGET SIGNIFICANTLY. [Captioner] 20:24:19 SO PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE [Captioner] 20:24:21 THESE LETTERS AND OUTREACHES [Captioner] 20:24:22 FROM -- I GET THEM FROM U.S. [Captioner] 20:24:23 CONFERENCE OF MAYORS AND [Captioner] 20:24:26 NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES, AND [Captioner] 20:24:28 ALSO CAL CITIES, WHEN YOU SEE [Captioner] 20:24:30 THOSE ALERTS, PLEASE RESPOND [Captioner] 20:24:31 BECAUSE OUR LEGISLATORS ARE [Captioner] 20:24:34 WAITING TO HEAR FROM US AND THAT [Captioner] 20:24:35 DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE ON THEIR [Captioner] 20:24:36 DECISION. [Captioner] 20:24:37 SO WITH THAT, THANK YOU, [Captioner] 20:24:38 DIRECTOR PERSSELIN, AND THANK [Captioner] 20:24:39 YOU TO CITY MANAGER, AND IF WE [Captioner] 20:24:40 COULD JUST MAKE SURE FOR THE [Captioner] 20:24:42 FINAL MEETING -- OR ALSO I'D [Captioner] 20:24:44 ENCOURAGE ANY OF THE COMMUNITY [Captioner] 20:24:46 MEMBERS AS WELL AS OUR [Captioner] 20:24:46 COUNCILMEMBERS IF THERE'S [Captioner] 20:24:47 SOMETHING THAT WE'RE SEEING OR [Captioner] 20:24:49 WOULD LIKE TO GET MORE DETAIL ON [Captioner] 20:24:51 TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT [Captioner] 20:24:53 PEOPLE HERE AND ON CALL, I THINK [Captioner] 20:24:54 THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR US, [Captioner] 20:24:55 AND GET THE QUESTIONS IN AHEAD [Captioner] 20:24:56 OF TIME IF POSSIBLE. [Captioner] 20:24:57 >> City Mgr. Shackelford: [Captioner] 20:24:59 DEFINITELY GETTING THE QUESTIONS [Captioner] 20:25:00 AHEAD OF TIME IS VERY HELPFUL, [Captioner] 20:25:03 AND JUST AS A REMINDER, I WAS [Captioner] 20:25:04 REMISS IN NOT STATING THIS [Captioner] 20:25:06 EARLIER IN THE MEETING, BUT ALL [Captioner] 20:25:08 OF THE DEPARTMENT HEADS ARE [Captioner] 20:25:09 ONLINE AND AVAILABLE FOR [Captioner] 20:25:10 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. [Captioner] 20:25:15 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:25:20 THANK YOU SO MUCH, DIRECTOR [Captioner] 20:25:20 PERSSELIN. [Captioner] 20:25:25 NEXT ON OUR AGENDA ITEM IS [Captioner] 20:25:27 COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN'S REFERRAL, [Captioner] 20:25:29 AND IF SHE'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE [Captioner] 20:25:29 HER REFERRAL ITEM. [Captioner] 20:25:33 AND I BELIEVE WE HAD SPEAKERS [Captioner] 20:25:35 FOR THAT EARLIER. [Captioner] 20:25:35 >> Councilmember Kassan: THANK [Captioner] 20:25:35 YOU. [Captioner] 20:25:38 I JUST WANTED TO EXPLAIN THE TWO [Captioner] 20:25:38 PARTS. [Captioner] 20:25:43 SO PART 1 IS [Captioner] 20:25:45 RELATED TO SOMETHING THAT [Captioner] 20:25:46 HAPPENED BACK IN 2019, AND THAT [Captioner] 20:25:49 WAS THAT WE STARTED USING A NEW [Captioner] 20:25:53 JANITORIAL CONTRACTOR CALLED [Captioner] 20:25:54 SWA, AND THEY WERE NOT -- THEY [Captioner] 20:25:57 DID NOT -- THEY DID NOT HAVE A [Captioner] 20:25:58 UNIONIZED WORKFORCE AND WE [Captioner] 20:25:59 STARTED TO HEAR A LOT OF [Captioner] 20:26:01 CONCERNS FROM THE WORKERS THAT [Captioner] 20:26:04 THEY WERE NOT -- MANY OF THE [Captioner] 20:26:06 WORKERS HAD MOVED FROM THE [Captioner] 20:26:07 PREVIOUS CONTRACTOR WHERE THEY [Captioner] 20:26:09 WERE IN A UNION AND HAD GOOD [Captioner] 20:26:11 BENEFITS AND SALARIES AND THAT [Captioner] 20:26:12 CHANGED WHEN THEY WENT TO THE [Captioner] 20:26:17 NEW CONTRACTOR, AND SO WE [Captioner] 20:26:21 DECIDED TO AMEND THE CONTRACT SO [Captioner] 20:26:22 THAT ALL OF THE WORKERS WHO HAD [Captioner] 20:26:23 BEEN AT THE PREVIOUS EMPLOYER [Captioner] 20:26:26 COULD CONTINUE THEIR BENEFITS [Captioner] 20:26:28 THAT THEY HAD FROM THE PREVIOUS [Captioner] 20:26:29 EMPLOYER, BUT NOW THAT IT'S BEEN [Captioner] 20:26:31 SEVERAL YEARS THAT HAD PASSED [Captioner] 20:26:32 AND THERE'S BEEN A FAIR AMOUNT [Captioner] 20:26:33 OF TURNOVER, MY UNDERSTANDING IS [Captioner] 20:26:36 THAT MOST OF THE WORKERS DO NOT [Captioner] 20:26:40 HAVE REALLY DECENT BENEFITS AT [Captioner] 20:26:42 ALL, AND AS YOU HEARD A LITTLE [Captioner] 20:26:43 BIT TONIGHT ALREADY, MANY ARE [Captioner] 20:26:44 STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET. [Captioner] 20:26:47 AND SO THE PURPOSE OF THE FIRST [Captioner] 20:26:50 PART OF THE REFERRAL IS TO [Captioner] 20:26:53 ENSURE THAT GOING FORWARD, THE [Captioner] 20:26:56 JANITORS THAT CLEAN OUR CITY [Captioner] 20:26:58 FACILITIES ARE PAID PREVAILING [Captioner] 20:27:00 WAGE, WHICH DOES INCLUDE HEALTH BENEFIT. [Captioner] 20:27:03 AND THAT WE CONTINUE TO MAKE [Captioner] 20:27:06 SURE THAT THAT'S THE CASE GOING [Captioner] 20:27:06 FORWARD. [Captioner] 20:27:08 THE SECOND PART IS LITTLE BIT [Captioner] 20:27:10 BROADER AND ASKS THAT WE HAVE A [Captioner] 20:27:11 RESPONSIBLE CONTRACTING POLICY, [Captioner] 20:27:16 AND THERE ARE SOME [Captioner] 20:27:19 EXAMPLES, I RECEIVED SOME RFPs [Captioner] 20:27:20 FROM MOUNTAIN VIEW AND PALO ALTO [Captioner] 20:27:21 AND I JUST WANTED TO QUICKLY [Captioner] 20:27:22 READ THE LANGUAGE OF THOSE. [Captioner] 20:27:25 SO MOUNTAIN VIEW, IN THEIR RFP, [Captioner] 20:27:29 THEY SAY, THE CONTRACTOR'S [Captioner] 20:27:31 EMPLOYEES SHALL BE COVERED UNDER [Captioner] 20:27:31 A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [Captioner] 20:27:31 AGREEMENT. [Captioner] 20:27:33 THE CONTRACTOR'S EMPLOYEES [Captioner] 20:27:35 PERFORMING SERVICES SHALL BE [Captioner] 20:27:36 PAID NO LESS THANT PREVAILING [Captioner] 20:27:37 WAGE AND BENEFITS. [Captioner] 20:27:43 AND THEN FOR THE CITY OF PALO [Captioner] 20:27:47 ALTO, THEIR RFP SAYS THE [Captioner] 20:27:47 PROPOSER HAS TO PROVIDE A [Captioner] 20:27:48 CERTIFICATION THAT THEY HAVE [Captioner] 20:27:50 ENTERED INTO A COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 20:27:51 BARGAINING AGREEMENT OR THAT [Captioner] 20:27:55 THEY HAVE A PLAN TO ENTER INTO A [Captioner] 20:27:55 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ATBREAMENT [Captioner] 20:27:57 BY THE DATE OF THE CONTRACT. [Captioner] 20:28:01 AND THEY ACTUALLY DO WANT TO SEE [Captioner] 20:28:02 THE NAME OF THE UNION [Captioner] 20:28:03 REPRESENTING THE EMPLOYEES WHO [Captioner] 20:28:04 WILL BE PERFORMING THE [Captioner] 20:28:04 SERVICES. [Captioner] 20:28:06 SO THERE IS SOME PRETTY GOOD [Captioner] 20:28:10 PRECEDENT IN OTHER CITIES TO [Captioner] 20:28:13 REQUIRE THAT JANITORS GET [Captioner] 20:28:15 COVERAGE UNDER A COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 20:28:16 BARGAINING AGREEMENT AND THAT [Captioner] 20:28:17 THEY GET PAID PREVAILING WAGE [Captioner] 20:28:19 AND I DON'T THINK WE WANT TO GO [Captioner] 20:28:21 THROUGH THAT SITUATION AGAIN [Captioner] 20:28:23 WHERE WE FOUND THAT THE WORKERS [Captioner] 20:28:26 THAT WERE CLEANING OUR [Captioner] 20:28:27 FACILITIES WERE HAVING MAJOR [Captioner] 20:28:30 HEALTH CRISES AND UNABLE TO PAY [Captioner] 20:28:34 FOR THEIR HEALTHCARE, REALLY NOT [Captioner] 20:28:38 LIVING IN A WAY THAT ANY OF US [Captioner] 20:28:40 WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE WORKERS IN [Captioner] 20:28:41 OUR CITY BEING TREATED. [Captioner] 20:28:42 SO THAT'S THE REASON FOR THE REFERRAL. [Captioner] 20:28:43 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:28:46 >> Mayor Mei: ARE THERE ANY [Captioner] 20:28:47 SPEAKERS OR COUNCILMEMBERS FOR [Captioner] 20:28:48 THIS ITEM? [Captioner] 20:28:49 >> Ms. Lewis: WE HAVE ONE [Captioner] 20:28:51 SPEAKER, MR. JOHN HINDS. [Captioner] 20:28:57 >> HELLO, EVERYONE. [Captioner] 20:29:01 WHEN YOU HAVE A FIDUCIARY [Captioner] 20:29:02 RESPONSIBILITY, WHEN YOU HAVE [Captioner] 20:29:04 BEEN ENTRUSTED WITH MANAGING [Captioner] 20:29:07 OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY, THE USUAL [Captioner] 20:29:09 EXPECTATION IS THAT YOU WILL TRY [Captioner] 20:29:11 TO GET BEST VALUE, BEST OUTCOME [Captioner] 20:29:14 FOR THE PEOPLE YOU REPRESENT. [Captioner] 20:29:16 WHO IS THAT? [Captioner] 20:29:19 IN THE WORDING OF THIS PROPOSAL, [Captioner] 20:29:20 WE SEE PREVAILING WAGE OR [Captioner] 20:29:20 ABOVE. [Captioner] 20:29:25 NOW, IF WE WOULD REPRESENT THE [Captioner] 20:29:29 RESIDENTS HERE, THAT SHOULD [Captioner] 20:29:33 BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO GET [Captioner] 20:29:35 BEST VALUE FOR EVERYTHING IN THE [Captioner] 20:29:36 BUDGET. [Captioner] 20:29:38 DO WE TELL THE PURCHASING [Captioner] 20:29:40 DEPARTMENT TO ALWAYS SELECT THE [Captioner] 20:29:41 HIGHEST BIDDER? [Captioner] 20:29:43 NO, WE DO THE OPPOSITE BECAUSE [Captioner] 20:29:47 WHEER TRYING TO GET BEST VALUE. [Captioner] 20:29:49 WHEER TRYING TO THE WAY IT READS [Captioner] 20:29:53 NOW IT SOUNDS LIKE WE PRESENT [Captioner] 20:29:56 THE PROVIDERS OF THE MORE MONEY [Captioner] 20:29:58 FOR THE SAME VALUE WHICH WILL BE [Captioner] 20:30:00 A VERY DIFFERENT GOAL. [Captioner] 20:30:04 SOMEONE COULD TRY TO THREAD THE [Captioner] 20:30:08 NEEDLE ILLOGICALLY AND CLAIM [Captioner] 20:30:09 SOMEHOW WE'RE COVERING BOTH [Captioner] 20:30:10 ENDS. [Captioner] 20:30:13 BUT NO, THIS IS A SIMPLE PRICE [Captioner] 20:30:14 NEGOTIATION AND WE WOULD BE [Captioner] 20:30:16 TAKING THE SIDE OPPOSITE THE [Captioner] 20:30:16 CITY. [Captioner] 20:30:18 I'M SURE THIS IS NOT WHAT WE [Captioner] 20:30:19 MEANT TO DO. [Captioner] 20:30:21 SO PLEASE FIX THE WORDING AND [Captioner] 20:30:23 PLEASE REMEMBER WHOM WE [Captioner] 20:30:23 REPRESENT. [Captioner] 20:30:23 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:30:26 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:30:32 ARE THERE ANY CLARIFYING QUOAS [Captioner] 20:30:34 OR COMMENTS FOR THE STAFF? [Captioner] 20:30:38 ON THIS ITEM? [Captioner] 20:30:41 EXAK. [Captioner] 20:30:42 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 20:30:43 THANK YOU, MAYOR MEI. [Captioner] 20:30:45 I DID GET QUITE A FEW OF MY [Captioner] 20:30:48 QUESTIONS ANSWERED THROUGH THE [Captioner] 20:30:48 QUAFNED PROCESS. [Captioner] 20:30:52 I JUST WANT TO TOUCH ON -- Q&A [Captioner] 20:30:52 PROCESS. [Captioner] 20:30:54 I JUST WANT TO TOUCH ON A COUPLE [Captioner] 20:30:55 OF THINGS. [Captioner] 20:30:56 ONE IS IN THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT [Captioner] 20:31:00 THAT WAS PROVIDED, I SEE THAT [Captioner] 20:31:05 THERE IS A 4% CONTRACT INCREASE, [Captioner] 20:31:08 YEAROVER YEAR FOR THE [Captioner] 20:31:08 CONTRACT. [Captioner] 20:31:11 I WANT OWED TO KNOW IF THESE 4% [Captioner] 20:31:14 YEAR OVER YEAR INCREASE IN THE [Captioner] 20:31:16 CONTRACT WAS PASSED ON TO THE [Captioner] 20:31:17 EMPLOYEES, WAS DESTINY OF THAT [Captioner] 20:31:17 AMOUNT? [Captioner] 20:31:20 I GUESS THERE'S SOME -- OH, WE [Captioner] 20:31:23 DO HAVE SOMEONE HERE? [Captioner] 20:31:25 >> Karena Shackelford: YES, [Captioner] 20:31:28 DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS [Captioner] 20:31:30 KELLY KING IS HERE TO ANSWER [Captioner] 20:31:32 SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS. [Captioner] 20:31:32 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 20:31:34 HELLO, MR. KING. [Captioner] 20:31:35 >> Mayor Mei: WELCOME. [Captioner] 20:31:43 >> Councilmember Campbell: IS [Captioner] 20:31:46 IT GREEN? [Captioner] 20:31:48 >> NO, I'M -- [Captioner] 20:31:48 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 20:31:50 IT'S THOUGHT WORKING? [Captioner] 20:31:50 >> NO. [Captioner] 20:31:59 >> Mayor Mei: THAT IS [Captioner] 20:31:59 WORKING. [Captioner] 20:32:01 >> OKAY, SO CORRECT. [Captioner] 20:32:02 THE CONTRACT HAD AN INCREASE [Captioner] 20:32:05 BASE OWED ON CPI ANNUALLY. [Captioner] 20:32:10 AND THEN THE -- IN NOVEMBER OF [Captioner] 20:32:14 '23, THE UNION MET, SEIU MET [Captioner] 20:32:18 WITH SWA AND THOUGH ACTUALLY ARE [Captioner] 20:32:20 COLLECTIBLE BARGAINING NOW AND [Captioner] 20:32:22 THEY AGREED TO PASS ON, THERE'S [Captioner] 20:32:25 A WAGE RATE FOR THE STAFF [Captioner] 20:32:26 STARTING JULY 1. [Captioner] 20:32:27 >> Councilmember Campbell: OH, [Captioner] 20:32:28 OKAY. [Captioner] 20:32:32 SO -- BUT IN THAT CONTRACT, IT [Captioner] 20:32:35 LOOKS AS THOUGH THE JANITORS ARE [Captioner] 20:32:38 CURRENTLY BEING PAID BETWEEN [Captioner] 20:32:41 $16.50 TO $17.50. [Captioner] 20:32:45 WHAT IS THE PREVEILING WAGE, I [Captioner] 20:32:50 COULDN'T FIND THAT FOR THE [Captioner] 20:32:52 JANITORS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT. [Captioner] 20:32:53 DO YOU KNOW? [Captioner] 20:32:55 >> YES, THE NEW WAGE RATE ON [Captioner] 20:32:58 JANUARY TORTS WILL BE $18.54 AND [Captioner] 20:33:01 THE PREVEILING WAGE IS ABOUT [Captioner] 20:33:01 $20. [Captioner] 20:33:06 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 20:33:11 THAT IS ABOUT AN $8.TBOIR [Captioner] 20:33:12 DIFFERENCE? [Captioner] 20:33:13 >> $1.TRICK. [Captioner] 20:33:14 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 20:33:16 SORRY, I DID IT BARK WARDS, SO [Captioner] 20:33:19 IT'S ABOUT $1.46 DIFFERENCE. [Captioner] 20:33:21 SO WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IS THAT [Captioner] 20:33:23 EVEN WITHIN THE CONTRACT THAT WE [Captioner] 20:33:27 HAVE NOW, THE BILL RATE IS $ [Captioner] 20:33:29 $27.11. [Captioner] 20:33:31 SO THERE'S ACTUALLY, I DON'T [Captioner] 20:33:35 KNOW, $10.61 MORE THAT [Captioner] 20:33:37 WERE BEGINNING TO THE [Captioner] 20:33:39 CONTRACTOR, OVER WHAT WE'RE [Captioner] 20:33:41 PAYING THE JANITORS. [Captioner] 20:33:45 >> THAT IS CORRECT. [Captioner] 20:33:46 >> Councilmember Campbell: TO [Captioner] 20:33:46 THIS POINT. [Captioner] 20:33:49 BUT WE COULDN'T GIVE THEM THAT [Captioner] 20:33:51 DOLLAR EXTRA TO GET THEM AT THE [Captioner] 20:33:55 PREVAILING WAGE? [Captioner] 20:33:57 >> SO THIS CONTRACT WAS, IN [Captioner] 20:34:00 2019, IT WAS SET, SO THEY SET [Captioner] 20:34:02 THE WAGE RATE, WE SET THE FEES [Captioner] 20:34:02 FOR IT. [Captioner] 20:34:04 AND SO TO DO THAT I WOULD THINK [Captioner] 20:34:07 WE WOULD BE COMPELLED TO OPEN [Captioner] 20:34:08 THE CONTRACT BACK UP. [Captioner] 20:34:10 AND SO WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE [Captioner] 20:34:13 TWO MORE YEARS AFTER THIS YEAR. [Captioner] 20:34:13 >> Councilmember Campbell: BUT [Captioner] 20:34:16 YOU HAVE A THREE -- YOU GOT [Captioner] 20:34:16 THREE OPTIONS. [Captioner] 20:34:19 SO AT THE END OF THIS YEAR, YOU [Captioner] 20:34:20 GOT -- [Captioner] 20:34:20 >> CORRECT. [Captioner] 20:34:21 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 20:34:23 THREE MORE OPTIONS TO -- [Captioner] 20:34:26 >> THREE MORE OPTIONS, CORRECT. [Captioner] 20:34:27 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 20:34:29 THREE ONE-YEAR OPTIONS AVAILABLE [Captioner] 20:34:29 TO US. [Captioner] 20:34:30 >> YES. [Captioner] 20:34:31 CAZ I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE [Captioner] 20:34:34 OUT IF WE -- SO THE ONE THAT [Captioner] 20:34:39 ENDS IN JUNE, AND [Captioner] 20:34:43 I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF WE [Captioner] 20:34:45 EXERCISED THE OPTION SINCE IT [Captioner] 20:34:48 END OWED? [Captioner] 20:34:50 >> ALREADY EXERCISED THE [Captioner] 20:34:50 OPTION. [Captioner] 20:34:51 >> Councilmember Campbell: WE [Captioner] 20:34:52 ARE GOING TO INCREASE THE [Captioner] 20:34:55 JANITORS TO $18.54 AN HOUR. [Captioner] 20:34:56 >> THAT'S CORRECT. [Captioner] 20:34:57 >> Councilmember Campbell: AND [Captioner] 20:35:00 DOES THAT MEAN ARE WE GOING TO [Captioner] 20:35:03 INCREASE OUR BILL RATE? [Captioner] 20:35:07 >> WHATEVER -- SO IT'S [Captioner] 20:35:11 CONTRACTUAL, WHATEVER THE CPI [Captioner] 20:35:13 RATE IS IT'S GOING TO BE THAT [Captioner] 20:35:14 RATE. [Captioner] 20:35:15 >> Councilmember Campbell: 21 [Captioner] 20:35:17 PLUS 4%? [Captioner] 20:35:17 >> THAT'S CORRECT. [Captioner] 20:35:18 >> Councilmember Campbell: I [Captioner] 20:35:19 SEIZE, OKAY. [Captioner] 20:35:21 AND KNOWN SOME OF THE QUESTIONS [Captioner] 20:35:25 THAT WE -- THAT WERE ASKED [Captioner] 20:35:29 -- IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO -- [Captioner] 20:35:31 BUT YOU SAID THEY WERE -- THIS [Captioner] 20:35:32 IS PROBABLY A NEW POINT BECAUSE [Captioner] 20:35:34 I THINK I JUST HEARD YOU SAY [Captioner] 20:35:38 THEY ARE ENTERING INTO A [Captioner] 20:35:39 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT [Captioner] 20:35:39 NOW? [Captioner] 20:35:42 >> CORRECT, THEY ARE. [Captioner] 20:35:42 >> Councilmember Campbell: ALL [Captioner] 20:35:46 RIGHT SO THAT WOULDN'T -- THAT [Captioner] 20:35:47 PARTICULAR QUESTION WOULDN'T [Captioner] 20:35:48 APPLY. [Captioner] 20:35:51 SO IN THIS COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 20:35:53 BARGAINING, WE HEARD THIS [Captioner] 20:35:54 EVENING FROM A COUPLE OF STAFF [Captioner] 20:35:56 WHO WORKED THERE AND I'VE TALKED [Captioner] 20:35:58 TO A COUPLE OF THE STAFF AS [Captioner] 20:35:59 WELL, THAT WORKED THERE. [Captioner] 20:36:01 IT'S THE HEALTH BENEFITS. [Captioner] 20:36:04 IS THERE GOING TO BE ANY CLAUSE [Captioner] 20:36:07 IN THERE TO ENSURE THAT THEY [Captioner] 20:36:11 HAVE ADEQUATE MEDICAL INSURANCE, [Captioner] 20:36:13 AFFORDABLE AND ADEQUATE MEDICAL [Captioner] 20:36:14 INSURANCE? [Captioner] 20:36:17 >> SO THEY HAVE A WAGE AND [Captioner] 20:36:20 THOUGH HAVE A CHART FOR HOW THEY [Captioner] 20:36:22 PAY PEOPLE OUT, SO THAT THE [Captioner] 20:36:25 COMPANY PAYS 70% OF THEIR -- OF [Captioner] 20:36:26 THE BENEFITS AND THEN THE [Captioner] 20:36:29 EMPLOYEE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR [Captioner] 20:36:29 30%. [Captioner] 20:36:31 AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S [Captioner] 20:36:32 DIFFERENT PLANS, THERE'S A [Captioner] 20:36:35 CAFETERIA PLAN WHERE YOU CAN DO, [Captioner] 20:36:37 YOU KNOW, GOLD BRONZE SILVER. [Captioner] 20:36:40 SO MOST SELECT A BRONZE AND [Captioner] 20:36:42 KNOWN IT'S BASED ON AGE. [Captioner] 20:36:44 SO THE OLDERS THE EMPLOYEE THE [Captioner] 20:36:47 MORE EXPENSIVE IT IS. [Captioner] 20:36:49 SO IT'S THE -- I HAVE THE RATES [Captioner] 20:36:51 HERE BUT IT'S ABOUT FOR A [Captioner] 20:36:53 50-YEAR-OLD, THAT WOULD BE $140 [Captioner] 20:36:53 A MONTH. [Captioner] 20:36:55 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 20:36:57 THEY WOULD HAVE TO PAY? [Captioner] 20:36:59 >> OUT OF POCKET. [Captioner] 20:37:00 >> Councilmember Campbell: OUT [Captioner] 20:37:04 OF POCKET, WHAT WAS THE [Captioner] 20:37:08 500, 600 THEY WERE TALKING [Captioner] 20:37:10 ABOUT? [Captioner] 20:37:12 >> THE EMPLOYEE PAYS 60% OF THAT [Captioner] 20:37:13 COST. [Captioner] 20:37:14 I SUPPOSE IT COULD BE. [Captioner] 20:37:16 IF SOMEBODY WAS IN THE GOLD PLAN [Captioner] 20:37:18 AND GIVE ME A SECOND, I'LL LOOK [Captioner] 20:37:19 IT UP. [Captioner] 20:37:20 SCHZ THIS WOULD CERTAINLY BE [Captioner] 20:37:22 NEGOTIATE OWED DURING THE [Captioner] 20:37:23 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PROCESS. [Captioner] 20:37:25 SO THAT'S YOU KNOW PART OF THE [Captioner] 20:37:27 REASON WHY THE EMPLOYEES HAVE [Captioner] 20:37:28 BEEN PUSHING FOR THIS. [Captioner] 20:37:30 SEIU HAS BEEN PUSHING THE [Captioner] 20:37:32 CONTRACTOR FOR THIS. [Captioner] 20:37:35 SO BETWEEN SEIU AND THE [Captioner] 20:37:37 CONTRACTOR, THEY CAN HAVE THOSE [Captioner] 20:37:39 DISCUSSIONS AND DETERMINE WAGE [Captioner] 20:37:42 RATES, HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, AND [Captioner] 20:37:43 THINGS OF THAT NATURE. [Captioner] 20:37:44 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 20:37:46 YEAH, I UNDERSTAND THAT. [Captioner] 20:37:48 BUT THAT WOULD -- THEN THAT [Captioner] 20:37:52 MAKES ME CURIOUS AS TO, THE [Captioner] 20:37:53 EMPLOYEE IS NOT AWARE THAT [Captioner] 20:37:56 THEY'RE GOING THROUGH A [Captioner] 20:37:57 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT [Captioner] 20:37:59 THUS THEY CAME DOWN HERE AND [Captioner] 20:38:00 TALKED TO US? [Captioner] 20:38:01 >> Karena Shackelford: TO MY [Captioner] 20:38:02 KNOWLEDGE THE EMPLOYEES ARE [Captioner] 20:38:03 AWARE THAT THEY ARE GOING [Captioner] 20:38:05 THROUGH THIS BARGAINING PROCESS [Captioner] 20:38:07 AND IT IS ALSO MY UNDERSTANDING [Captioner] 20:38:10 THAT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SWA [Captioner] 20:38:12 AND SOME OTHER JANITORIAL [Captioner] 20:38:14 COMPANIES THAT DIDN'T HAVE [Captioner] 20:38:15 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS [Captioner] 20:38:17 HAVE ALREADY ENTERED INTO THEM. [Captioner] 20:38:19 AND SO THEY ARE WORKING ON THEM [Captioner] 20:38:20 HERE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AT [Captioner] 20:38:21 THIS POINT. [Captioner] 20:38:22 >> Councilmember Campbell: SO [Captioner] 20:38:27 WHAT IS THE SECOND QUESTION [Captioner] 20:38:28 THAT COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN IS [Captioner] 20:38:31 ASKING US IF WE'RE ALREADY [Captioner] 20:38:33 THERE, TO CREATE THIS [Captioner] 20:38:35 RESPONSIBLE CONTRACTING [Captioner] 20:38:35 POLICY? [Captioner] 20:38:37 IS THAT SEPARATE FROM WHAT WE'RE [Captioner] 20:38:40 TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW? [Captioner] 20:38:45 WITH SWA? [Captioner] 20:38:47 >> Karena Shackelford: I'LL [Captioner] 20:38:48 LET COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN CLARIFY [Captioner] 20:38:49 THAT. [Captioner] 20:38:50 >> Councilmember Kassan: THANK [Captioner] 20:38:51 YOU. [Captioner] 20:38:52 SO YEAH, ONE THING I JUST WANT [Captioner] 20:38:55 TO MAKE SURE WE'RE SUPER-CLEAR [Captioner] 20:38:59 ON IS PREVAILING WAGE DOES HAVE [Captioner] 20:39:00 CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO [Captioner] 20:39:01 BENEFITS. [Captioner] 20:39:03 SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT [Captioner] 20:39:04 IN ADDITION TO JUST SAYING THAT [Captioner] 20:39:06 THERE SHOULD BE A COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 20:39:07 BARGAINING AGREEMENT THAT WE DO [Captioner] 20:39:11 ALSO SAY THAT PREVAILING WAGE [Captioner] 20:39:13 IS PAID. [Captioner] 20:39:17 IT SEEMS LIKE THE REGULAR WAGE [Captioner] 20:39:19 ISN'T FAR OFF FROM PREVAILING [Captioner] 20:39:20 WAGE. [Captioner] 20:39:22 MY UNDERSTANDING THAT SOMETHING [Captioner] 20:39:23 WE DON'T HAVE IN PLACE WE DON'T [Captioner] 20:39:26 REQUIRE WHEN WE CONTRACT WITH [Captioner] 20:39:27 OUTSIDE, YOU KNOW, BUSINESS OWES [Captioner] 20:39:30 TO PROVIDE SERVICES -- [Captioner] 20:39:32 BUSINESSES TO THE CITY TO [Captioner] 20:39:33 PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE CITY. [Captioner] 20:39:34 SO IN THE FUTURE WE WOULD [Captioner] 20:39:36 REQUIRE SOME OF THOSE BASIC [Captioner] 20:39:37 SAFETY NOTES FOR THE WORKERS. [Captioner] 20:39:39 >> Councilmember Campbell: BUT [Captioner] 20:39:41 WOULD THAT REQUIRE THAT WE'D [Captioner] 20:39:43 HAVE TO CHANGE OUR MUNICIPAL [Captioner] 20:39:45 CODE IS THAT WHAT I GOT IN [Captioner] 20:39:46 ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IF WE [Captioner] 20:39:50 WERE TO DO THAT, MR. ALVARADO [Captioner] 20:39:50 ? [Captioner] 20:39:56 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: TO [Captioner] 20:40:02 IMPLEMENT THE LOLL POLE THAT [Captioner] 20:40:04 IMPLEMENTS PART 2 OF [Captioner] 20:40:05 COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN'S REFERRAL, [Captioner] 20:40:08 IT WOULD REQUIRE AN UPDATE TO [Captioner] 20:40:09 SOME OF THE GUIDELINES REGARDING [Captioner] 20:40:11 OUR FINANCE, OUR PURCHASING [Captioner] 20:40:12 ORDINANCE. [Captioner] 20:40:12 >> Councilmember Campbell: I [Captioner] 20:40:13 SEE. [Captioner] 20:40:14 OKAY THOSE ARE ALL OF MY [Captioner] 20:40:15 QUESTIONS FOR NOW. [Captioner] 20:40:17 I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAYBE ASK [Captioner] 20:40:18 SOME MORE IN A MINUTE. [Captioner] 20:40:19 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:40:20 >> Mayor Mei: SURE, THANK [Captioner] 20:40:20 YOU. [Captioner] 20:40:22 NEXT IS COUNCILMEMBER COX FOR [Captioner] 20:40:24 CLARIFYING QUESTIONS. [Captioner] 20:40:25 >> Councilmember Cox: THANK [Captioner] 20:40:25 YOU. [Captioner] 20:40:28 I WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT WHEN [Captioner] 20:40:30 THE SOLICITATIONS ARE GONE OUT, [Captioner] 20:40:32 DO YOU SPELL OUT ABOUT HEALTH [Captioner] 20:40:35 BENEFITS, IN THE SOLICITATION [Captioner] 20:40:36 ORIGINALLY? [Captioner] 20:40:39 IS THIS SOMETHING THAT IS GOING [Captioner] 20:40:43 TO BE STANDARD IN TERMS OF [Captioner] 20:40:45 OAFERG HEALTH BENEFITS OR WAGES [Captioner] 20:40:46 PLUS LONGEVITY PAY? [Captioner] 20:40:50 ARE THESE THINGS THAT ARE [Captioner] 20:40:54 SHOWN AS PART OF THE [Captioner] 20:40:55 EXPECTATION WHEN YOU GO OUT FOR [Captioner] 20:40:59 A SOLICITATION? [Captioner] 20:41:02 >> SO I MEAN I'LL JUST SAY THIS: [Captioner] 20:41:05 WHEN WE WITNESS OUT NOT THE [Captioner] 20:41:08 SURFACE AGREEMENT IN 2019, YOU [Captioner] 20:41:09 KNOW, IT WAS COMPETITIVELY BID [Captioner] 20:41:12 AND THEN THE CONTRACTOR BEFORE [Captioner] 20:41:14 WAS A UNION SHOP AND THIS ONE [Captioner] 20:41:16 JUST HAPPENED TO NOT BE. [Captioner] 20:41:18 IT WASN'T A QUALIFYING [Captioner] 20:41:19 QUESTION. [Captioner] 20:41:21 IT WAS MORE ABOUT WHAT -- WE DID [Captioner] 20:41:22 A SCOPE OF SERVICE. [Captioner] 20:41:24 WHAT SERVICE ARE YOU GOING TO [Captioner] 20:41:26 PROVIDE, AND KNOWN YOU KNOW, AT [Captioner] 20:41:28 THAT POINT IN THE SCOPE THEY [Captioner] 20:41:29 WOULD TELL US WHAT THEY WERE [Captioner] 20:41:30 PAYING THEIR EMPLOYEES. [Captioner] 20:41:33 BUT REAL THAT AGREEMENT [Captioner] 20:41:34 HISTORICALLY HAS BEEN WITH THE [Captioner] 20:41:38 COMPANY AND THE EMPLOYEE. [Captioner] 20:41:38 >> Councilmember Cox: OKAY BUT [Captioner] 20:41:40 IF YOU ARE GOING IDENTITY IN [Captioner] 20:41:42 SOLICITATION YOU WOULD DEFINE [Captioner] 20:41:43 THAT WE WOULD EXPECT YOU TO [Captioner] 20:41:47 OFFER THE EMPLOYEES WAGE, YOU [Captioner] 20:41:49 KNOW, BENEFITS, YOU KNOW, FOR [Captioner] 20:41:52 YOU GET THE COMPETITIVE WAGES, [Captioner] 20:41:56 IT'S TIED TO CPI, THE CONSUMER [Captioner] 20:42:00 PRICE INDEX AND THEN YOU ARE [Captioner] 20:42:03 LOOKING AT THE BENEFITS THAT [Captioner] 20:42:04 WOULD BE HEALTH DENTAL VISION [Captioner] 20:42:07 ALL THOSE TYPE OF THINGS ROLLED [Captioner] 20:42:08 IN THERE AS YOU GO ON A [Captioner] 20:42:08 SOLICITATION. [Captioner] 20:42:10 BECAUSE THEY USUALLY FROM MY [Captioner] 20:42:12 EXPERIENCE ARE WORKING ON PUBLIC [Captioner] 20:42:14 PROCUREMENT USE HAVE TO HAVE IT [Captioner] 20:42:16 SPELLED OUT OR SOME OF THE [Captioner] 20:42:19 DETAILS AS YOU LOOK AT WHAT IS A [Captioner] 20:42:20 COMPETITIVE BID IN ROLLING OUT [Captioner] 20:42:22 THE COST NUMBERS FOR ANY TYPE OF [Captioner] 20:42:28 SOLICITATION. [Captioner] 20:42:29 MAYBE IT'S DIFFERENT WAYS, [Captioner] 20:42:30 DIFFERENT PLACES. [Captioner] 20:42:31 >> SURE. [Captioner] 20:42:33 RIGHT NOW, CONTRACTS LIKE THE [Captioner] 20:42:34 JANITORIAL SERVICES AT ISSUE IN [Captioner] 20:42:37 THIS REFERRAL GO THROUGH THE [Captioner] 20:42:41 PURCHASING ORDINANCES, [Captioner] 20:42:42 COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT [Captioner] 20:42:42 PROCESS. [Captioner] 20:42:43 BUT THAT CURRENT PROCESS DOES [Captioner] 20:42:47 NOT ADDRESS PREVAILING WAGE OR [Captioner] 20:42:49 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AS [Captioner] 20:42:50 MENTIONED IN THE REFERRAL. [Captioner] 20:42:52 SO IF THE DIRECTION OF THE BODY [Captioner] 20:42:55 IS TO CREATE STANDARDS THAT MEET [Captioner] 20:42:56 MINIMUM PREVAILING WAGE [Captioner] 20:42:59 REQUIREMENTS OR COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 20:43:00 BARGAINING PROCESSES, THAT WOULD [Captioner] 20:43:01 HAVE TO BE DEVELOPED. [Captioner] 20:43:03 SO WE'D NEED DIRECTION FROM [Captioner] 20:43:04 COUNCIL THIS EVENING AND THEN WE [Captioner] 20:43:06 WOULD COME BACK WITH MORE [Captioner] 20:43:07 INFORMATION ABOUT HOW WE COULD [Captioner] 20:43:09 IMPLEMENT THAT MOVING FORWARD. [Captioner] 20:43:10 >> Councilmember Cox: OKAY, [Captioner] 20:43:11 LET ME ASK IT THIS WAY. [Captioner] 20:43:13 DO WE HAVE AN OWNERS THAT SPELLS [Captioner] 20:43:15 OUT WHAT THE MINIMUM WAGE IS [Captioner] 20:43:17 HERE IN FREMONT? [Captioner] 20:43:18 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: WE DO [Captioner] 20:43:20 HAVE A MINIMUM WAGE ORDINANCE. [Captioner] 20:43:21 BUT THAT IS A SEPARATE CONCEPT [Captioner] 20:43:23 FROM PREVAILING WAGE. [Captioner] 20:43:26 SO WE DON'T HAVE PREVAILING WAGE [Captioner] 20:43:26 REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS TYPE OF [Captioner] 20:43:29 CONTRACT AS IT STANDS. [Captioner] 20:43:30 >> Councilmember Cox: OKAY, [Captioner] 20:43:32 THERE'S A DIFFERENCE, OKAY, [Captioner] 20:43:32 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:43:38 >> Mayor Mei: COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 20:43:39 SALWAN. [Captioner] 20:43:40 >> Councilmember Salwan: MADAM [Captioner] 20:43:42 MAYOR I DON'T HAVE ANY [Captioner] 20:43:42 QUESTIONS. [Captioner] 20:43:44 I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S APPROPRIATE [Captioner] 20:43:48 TO GO INTO COMMENTS OR -- VERSUS [Captioner] 20:43:53 VERSUS. [Captioner] 20:43:54 >> Vice Mayor Shao: I HAVE [Captioner] 20:43:56 SOME QUESTIONS. [Captioner] 20:43:56 >> Commissioner Ramamurthi: [Captioner] 20:43:58 VICE MAYOR SHAO. [Captioner] 20:43:58 >> Vice Mayor Shao: FIRST OF [Captioner] 20:44:01 ALL, NOT PAYING PREVAILING WAGE [Captioner] 20:44:04 TO JANITORS, IS THAT A VIOLATION [Captioner] 20:44:06 OF ANY GOVERNMENT CODE OF THE [Captioner] 20:44:09 STATE OF CALIFORNIA? [Captioner] 20:44:11 >> NOT FOR JANITORIAL, NO. [Captioner] 20:44:12 >> Vice Mayor Shao: OKAY, [Captioner] 20:44:13 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:44:17 ALSO, BY NOT PUTTING IN [Captioner] 20:44:21 THIS REQUIREMENT OF COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 20:44:25 BARGAINING, FOR THE BITTERS, IN [Captioner] 20:44:27 OUR -- BIDDERS IN OUR CITY [Captioner] 20:44:29 ORDINANCE, DOES THE CITY OF [Captioner] 20:44:31 FREMONT VIOLATE ANY GOVERNMENT [Captioner] 20:44:35 CODE OR FEDERAL LAW OR ANY OTHER [Captioner] 20:44:37 REGULATIONS? [Captioner] 20:44:38 >> NO. [Captioner] 20:44:40 >> Vice Mayor Shao: OKAY, BY [Captioner] 20:44:44 ADDING THIS REQUIREMENT SO THAT [Captioner] 20:44:49 BIDDERS HAVE TO MAKE SURE THEY [Captioner] 20:44:52 HAVE THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [Captioner] 20:44:55 AGREEMENT WITH THEIR EMPLOYEES, [Captioner] 20:44:59 WILL THAT INCREASE THE COST OF [Captioner] 20:45:04 ALL THE CONTRACTS OR THE [Captioner] 20:45:07 SERVICES THAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR [Captioner] 20:45:11 TO BE PROVIDED TO OUR [Captioner] 20:45:11 RESIDENTS? [Captioner] 20:45:13 >> YES. [Captioner] 20:45:13 >> Vice Mayor Shao: OKAY. [Captioner] 20:45:14 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:45:17 AND OF COURSE THE LAST ONE, EVEN [Captioner] 20:45:18 YOU ARE NOT WORKING IN OUR [Captioner] 20:45:19 FINANCE DEPARTMENT, ARE YOU [Captioner] 20:45:22 AWARE THAT THE CITY OF FREMONT [Captioner] 20:45:25 ONE WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT [Captioner] 20:45:29 BUDGETING ARE FACING A BIG [Captioner] 20:45:30 CHALLENGE THIS YEAR NEXT YEAR [Captioner] 20:45:32 AND THE YEAR AFTER WHEN WE HAVE [Captioner] 20:45:35 TO PAY FOR OR PAY BACK THE SALES [Captioner] 20:45:37 TAX THAT THE STATE GOVERNMENT [Captioner] 20:45:39 GAVE US IN MISTAKE? [Captioner] 20:45:40 >> I AM AWARE. [Captioner] 20:45:41 >> Vice Mayor Shao: THANK [Captioner] 20:45:41 YOU. [Captioner] 20:45:45 THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO ASK. [Captioner] 20:45:47 >> Mayor Mei: COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 20:45:51 KENG, CLARIFYING QUESTIONS. [Captioner] 20:45:52 >> Councilmember Keng: THANK [Captioner] 20:45:54 YOU MADAM MAYOR. [Captioner] 20:45:57 CAN I ASK TO SHARE WHEN THE [Captioner] 20:45:58 CURRENT CONTRACTING PERIOD IS [Captioner] 20:45:59 ENDING? [Captioner] 20:46:01 >> THE FIRST FIVE YEARS WILL END [Captioner] 20:46:02 ON JUNE 30th. [Captioner] 20:46:04 AND THEN THERE ARE THREE ONE [Captioner] 20:46:05 YEAR OPTIONS AFTER THAT. [Captioner] 20:46:07 SO WE ALREADY SIGNED THE [Captioner] 20:46:08 AGREEMENT TO DO THE ONE YEAR [Captioner] 20:46:10 OPTION STARTING JULY 1 AND KNOWN [Captioner] 20:46:12 WE WOULD HAVE TWO MORE OPTION [Captioner] 20:46:12 YEARS AFTER THAT. [Captioner] 20:46:14 SO I MEAN IN THEORY IT WOULD [Captioner] 20:46:16 CLOSE IN 20 TWOAF. [Captioner] 20:46:17 >> Councilmember Keng: I SEE. [Captioner] 20:46:19 SO THE FINGERTIPS OPTION HAS [Captioner] 20:46:21 ALREADY BEEN SIGNED RIGHT? [Captioner] 20:46:22 >> YES. [Captioner] 20:46:23 >> Councilmember Keng: SO THE [Captioner] 20:46:25 CURRENT CONTRACT IS GOOD UNTIL [Captioner] 20:46:26 NEXT -- [Captioner] 20:46:29 >> JUNE 30th OF 2025. [Captioner] 20:46:30 >> Councilmember Keng: GOT IT, [Captioner] 20:46:31 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:46:33 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 20:46:34 CLARIFYING QUESTIONS, [Captioner] 20:46:34 COUNCILMEMBER COX. [Captioner] 20:46:35 >> Councilmember Cox: THANK [Captioner] 20:46:35 YOU. [Captioner] 20:46:37 I HAD A FOLLOW UP QUESTION AND [Captioner] 20:46:39 THAT IS RIGHT NOW, JUST TO MAKE [Captioner] 20:46:42 SURE I HEARD IT RIGHT, WAS THAT [Captioner] 20:46:44 THERE IS A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [Captioner] 20:46:47 AGREEMENT WITH SWA AND THE [Captioner] 20:46:50 EMPLOYEES, SO THEY HAVE FORMED [Captioner] 20:46:54 THEIR OWN -- FORMED AN SEIU-U [Captioner] 20:46:58 HW CHAPTER THERE AT SWA [Captioner] 20:46:59 ? [Captioner] 20:47:00 >> CORRECT. [Captioner] 20:47:04 SO THAT WAS, AS OF NOVEMBER '23 [Captioner] 20:47:09 THOUGH SIGNED WITH SEIU, USWW [Captioner] 20:47:10 . [Captioner] 20:47:11 >> Councilmember Cox: DID THEY [Captioner] 20:47:12 PROVIDE A COPY OF THAT CONTRACT [Captioner] 20:47:13 TO THE CITY? [Captioner] 20:47:14 >> THEY DIDN'T. [Captioner] 20:47:16 I DIDN'T ASK FOR IT BECAUSE HE [Captioner] 20:47:17 WAS JUST INFORMING US. [Captioner] 20:47:19 SO I MEAN WE COULD GOAT THE [Captioner] 20:47:20 CONTRACT IF WE NEED IT. [Captioner] 20:47:21 >> Councilmember Cox: OKAY. [Captioner] 20:47:23 BECAUSE THAT IS ON THEIR [Captioner] 20:47:24 WEBSITE, THAT THEY ARE LIST [Captioner] 20:47:28 WEDNESDAY SEIU, UHW. [Captioner] 20:47:30 THEY'RE LISTING AS A MEMBER OF [Captioner] 20:47:33 THE UNION TO REFERENCE THAT [Captioner] 20:47:35 THERE IS SOME FORM OF A [Captioner] 20:47:36 COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT. [Captioner] 20:47:37 AND UNDER THAT COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 20:47:40 AGREEMENT WOULD SPELL OUT, YOU [Captioner] 20:47:41 KNOW, ALL THE THINGS THAT WOULD [Captioner] 20:47:43 BE ESSENTIAL TO MAKE SURE THAT [Captioner] 20:47:46 THE WORKERS ARE GOING TO GET [Captioner] 20:47:50 PAID RIGHT, ALSO GET ENTITLED TO [Captioner] 20:47:52 THE INCREASES, PLUS THE HEALTH [Captioner] 20:47:54 BENEFITS, LONGEVITY PAY IF [Captioner] 20:47:57 THAT'S IN THAT CONTRACT AS [Captioner] 20:47:57 WELL. [Captioner] 20:48:00 AND YOU KNOW EVEN PAY FOR [Captioner] 20:48:00 EDUCATION. [Captioner] 20:48:02 THERE IS A LOT OF THINGS THAT'S [Captioner] 20:48:03 ROLLED UP INTO THAT AGREEMENT [Captioner] 20:48:06 THAT PROBABLY BE VERY HELPFUL IN [Captioner] 20:48:06 THE DISCUSSION. [Captioner] 20:48:08 BECAUSE IF WE'RE LOOKING AT [Captioner] 20:48:10 TRYING TO TURN IT INTO A DRTING [Captioner] 20:48:12 POLICY, IT'S REALLY -- [Captioner] 20:48:14 CONTRACTING POLICY IT'S REALLY [Captioner] 20:48:17 THE MEMBERS THAT WILL FOR THE [Captioner] 20:48:18 UNION WITH THE EMPLOYER TO LOCK [Captioner] 20:48:20 DOWN THAT TYPE OF AGREEMENT AND [Captioner] 20:48:24 THAT THE LIBERTY USED WOULD BE [Captioner] 20:48:26 SUPPORTIVE IN HOPING TO FORM AND [Captioner] 20:48:27 DEVELOP THE CONTRACT THAT WOULD [Captioner] 20:48:29 BE INVOLVED IN THE COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 20:48:32 BARGAINING AGREEMENT, VERSUS IN [Captioner] 20:48:35 OUR CONTRACTING POLICY IF [Captioner] 20:48:38 THERE'S SOMETHING THAT I'M [Captioner] 20:48:41 MISSING AT THIS POINT THAT, YOU [Captioner] 20:48:43 KNOW, WE WOULD WANT TO UFG WE [Captioner] 20:48:45 ARE PAYING WAGES, WE'RE MEETING [Captioner] 20:48:47 WHAT IS SPOALD OUT IN -- AS WE [Captioner] 20:48:49 GO OUT FOR CONTRACTS. [Captioner] 20:48:53 BUT NOT NECESSARILY TRYING TO [Captioner] 20:48:56 MAKE IT THAT EVERY DRT CONTRACT [Captioner] 20:48:59 HAS TO HAVE A COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 20:48:59 BARGAINING AGREEMENT. [Captioner] 20:49:00 THAT'S THE PART THAT I'M TRYING [Captioner] 20:49:01 TO FIGURE OUT ABOUT THE OTHER [Captioner] 20:49:04 PART OF THE REFERRAL, IS THAT [Captioner] 20:49:07 MAYBE I SHOULD ASK OUR [Captioner] 20:49:09 COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN, IF SHE'S [Captioner] 20:49:12 TRYING TO ASK THAT WE PUT A [Captioner] 20:49:14 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT [Captioner] 20:49:16 REQUIREMENT CHANGING THE [Captioner] 20:49:18 ORDINANCE, CHANGE THE ORDINANCE [Captioner] 20:49:20 TO HAVE A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [Captioner] 20:49:22 AGREEMENT FOR EVERY CONTRACT [Captioner] 20:49:24 GOING FORWARD IN -- GOING [Captioner] 20:49:26 FORWARD IN THE CITY OF FREMONT, [Captioner] 20:49:27 THAT'S THE PART THAT I'M TRYING [Captioner] 20:49:29 TO UNDERSTAND, WHAT IS THE PART [Captioner] 20:49:32 2 OF HER -- [Captioner] 20:49:33 >> Mayor Mei: COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 20:49:34 KASSAN I KNOW YOU HAVE YOUR HAND [Captioner] 20:49:35 RAISED. [Captioner] 20:49:37 WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADDRESS THAT? [Captioner] 20:49:37 >> Councilmember Kassan: YES, [Captioner] 20:49:39 WHAT I'M SUGGESTING IS A [Captioner] 20:49:40 RESPONSIBLE BIDDING POLICY [Captioner] 20:49:42 SIMILAR TO WHAT OTHER CITIES [Captioner] 20:49:45 HAVE THAT I MENTIONED, PALO ALTO [Captioner] 20:49:46 AND MOUNTAIN VIEW. [Captioner] 20:49:48 I DID ALSO WANT TO MENTION [Captioner] 20:49:51 SOMETHING ABOUT THE PART 1, AND [Captioner] 20:49:53 THAT IS, THAT JUST BECAUSE THEY [Captioner] 20:49:55 HAVE THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [Captioner] 20:49:55 AGREEMENT DOESN'T MEAN THAT [Captioner] 20:49:58 THEY'RE GOING TO RECEIVE [Captioner] 20:49:58 BENEFITS. [Captioner] 20:50:00 I MEAN A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [Captioner] 20:50:02 AGREEMENT IS SIMPLY JUST A [Captioner] 20:50:04 REQUIREMENT FOR A NEGOTIATION [Captioner] 20:50:05 BETWEEN THE COMPANY AND THE [Captioner] 20:50:06 WORKERS. [Captioner] 20:50:07 THERE'S NO -- NOTHING THAT SAYS [Captioner] 20:50:10 THAT THEY WILL ULTIMATELY END UP [Captioner] 20:50:11 WITH BETTER BENEFIT. [Captioner] 20:50:13 SO WE ALREADY HAVE THESE [Captioner] 20:50:14 REQUIREMENTS WHEN IT COMES TO [Captioner] 20:50:17 OTHER TYPES OF CONTRACTS LIKE [Captioner] 20:50:18 PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTS. [Captioner] 20:50:19 AND I THINK THERE'S NO REASON [Captioner] 20:50:22 WHY WE SHOULD TREAT JANITORS ANY [Captioner] 20:50:23 DIFFERENT FROM CONSTRUCTION [Captioner] 20:50:23 WORKERS. [Captioner] 20:50:25 I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT [Captioner] 20:50:27 ANYONE WHO WORKS FOR OUR CITY IS [Captioner] 20:50:29 ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, LIVE A LIFE [Captioner] 20:50:32 OF DIGNITY AND PAY FOR THEIR [Captioner] 20:50:34 HEALTH CARE. [Captioner] 20:50:36 SO THAT'S WHAT THE FIRST PART IS [Captioner] 20:50:36 ABOUT. [Captioner] 20:50:38 THE THE SECOND PART IS I [Captioner] 20:50:40 UNDERSTAND MAYBE A BIGGER LEAP [Captioner] 20:50:43 AND WILL REQUIRE SOME SIMILAR [Captioner] 20:50:44 RESEARCH TO LOOK AT WHAT OTHER [Captioner] 20:50:46 CITIES HAVE DONE AND TO SEE IF [Captioner] 20:50:48 WE MIGHT NEED TO AMEND OUR CITY [Captioner] 20:50:48 CODE. [Captioner] 20:50:52 BUT I THINK AT A BEAR MINIMUM WE [Captioner] 20:50:57 BARE MINIMUM MAKE SURE [Captioner] 20:50:58 THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING IN [Captioner] 20:51:00 OUR COMMUNITIES ARE ABLE TO LIVE [Captioner] 20:51:02 A HEALTHY AND DECENT LIFE. [Captioner] 20:51:04 JUST BECAUSE THERE IS A [Captioner] 20:51:07 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT [Captioner] 20:51:08 DEFINITELY DOESN'T GUARANTEE [Captioner] 20:51:09 THAT. [Captioner] 20:51:11 >> Councilmember Cox: ISN'T [Captioner] 20:51:13 THE EMPLOYER REQUIRED TO SPLIT [Captioner] 20:51:15 CERTIFIED PAYROLL RECORDS TO THE [Captioner] 20:51:18 STATE FOR REVIEWING AND [Captioner] 20:51:20 APPROVING BECAUSE THEY SUBMIT [Captioner] 20:51:20 THAT ELECTRONICALLY. [Captioner] 20:51:23 IS THAT COVERED IN THIS CASE, [Captioner] 20:51:24 I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND SOME OF [Captioner] 20:51:26 THE PIECES HERE. [Captioner] 20:51:28 OR IS THIS THROUGH THE [Captioner] 20:51:28 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, [Captioner] 20:51:30 COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE? [Captioner] 20:51:32 >> YES, THERE IS SOME REPORTING [Captioner] 20:51:36 THAT HAPPENS THROUGH THE TIR, [Captioner] 20:51:39 STATE DIR, IT IS NOT APPLICABLE [Captioner] 20:51:41 TO JANITORIAL SERVICES BECAUSE [Captioner] 20:51:43 JANITORIAL SERVICES ARE NOT [Captioner] 20:51:46 APPLICABLE TO PREVAILING WAGE [Captioner] 20:51:49 UNDER STATE LAW, IT'S EXEMPT. [Captioner] 20:51:50 >> Councilmember Cox: SO WHO [Captioner] 20:51:51 ELSE MONITORS IT, THAT'S THE [Captioner] 20:51:53 QUESTION IF IT'S NOT THE STATE? [Captioner] 20:51:57 NOBODY ELSE IS MONITORING IT? [Captioner] 20:51:58 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: WHO [Captioner] 20:52:00 ELSE MONITORS WHAT? [Captioner] 20:52:01 >> Councilmember Cox: OUTSIDE [Captioner] 20:52:03 THE UNION THE SEIU WOULD BE THE [Captioner] 20:52:05 ONES MORNING THE CONTRACT AND IF [Captioner] 20:52:07 THEY'RE GOATING PAID [Captioner] 20:52:08 ACCORDINGLY, IS THAT WHAT -- [Captioner] 20:52:10 SINCE IT'S NOT A PREVAILING [Captioner] 20:52:11 WAGE, IT'S NOT A PUBLIC WORKS [Captioner] 20:52:12 CONTRACT, I'M JUST TRYING TO [Captioner] 20:52:14 FIGURE OUT WHO ELSE WOULD BE [Captioner] 20:52:16 RESPONSIBLE FOR AUDITING THE [Captioner] 20:52:18 RECORDS. [Captioner] 20:52:19 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: IS [Captioner] 20:52:21 THAT CONTRACT BASED UPON [Captioner] 20:52:21 EXISTING PRACTICE OR ARE YOU [Captioner] 20:52:23 ASKING IF WE WERE TO IMPLEMENT A [Captioner] 20:52:25 PREVAILING WAGE CONTRACT HOW [Captioner] 20:52:27 WOULD WE MONITOR THAT? [Captioner] 20:52:27 >> Councilmember Cox: NO [Captioner] 20:52:29 BECAUSE A PREVAILING WAGE IS [Captioner] 20:52:30 ALREADY COVERED THROUGH THE [Captioner] 20:52:32 STATE OF CALIFORNIA DIR. [Captioner] 20:52:35 BUT IF WE RIGHT NOW, WHO IF THEY [Captioner] 20:52:37 GO -- THEY WENT INTO AGREEMENT [Captioner] 20:52:40 SINCE NOVEMBER 2023. [Captioner] 20:52:42 AND IF SOMEONE COMES AND SAYS [Captioner] 20:52:46 I'M NOT GETTING PAID OR MY [Captioner] 20:52:49 PROPER WAGE RATE, THEN WHO WOULD [Captioner] 20:52:53 BE THE RESPONSIBLE PARTY TO HELP [Captioner] 20:52:56 THEM AUDIT AND MAKE SURE THERE'S [Captioner] 20:52:58 COMPLIANCE? [Captioner] 20:53:01 AS IT IS RIGHT NOW, AS IT IS [Captioner] 20:53:02 RIGHT NOW. [Captioner] 20:53:04 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: FOR [Captioner] 20:53:05 CONTRACTORS AND POSITIONS [Captioner] 20:53:08 SUBJECT TO PREVAILING WAGE LAWS [Captioner] 20:53:11 DIR HAS A ROLE IN ENFORCEMENT. [Captioner] 20:53:13 JANITORIAL SERVICES ARE EXEMPT [Captioner] 20:53:15 AND THEREFORE NOT MONITORED IN [Captioner] 20:53:18 THE WAY THAT SOME OTHER OF OUR [Captioner] 20:53:19 PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTS WOULD [Captioner] 20:53:19 BE. [Captioner] 20:53:20 IN THE FUTURE IF WE WERE TO [Captioner] 20:53:23 IMPLEMENT A PREVAILING WAGE [Captioner] 20:53:25 REQUIREMENT WE'RE REALLY GOING [Captioner] 20:53:26 ABOVE WHAT THE STATE [Captioner] 20:53:27 REQUIREMENTS ARE AND IT WOULD BE [Captioner] 20:53:29 DETERMINED HOW WE WOULD MONITOR [Captioner] 20:53:30 ENFORCEMENT. [Captioner] 20:53:31 >> Councilmember Cox: IT [Captioner] 20:53:32 SOUNDS MORE IT WOULD BE THE [Captioner] 20:53:34 UNION, THE SEIU WOULD BE [Captioner] 20:53:35 FOLLOWING UP TO AUDIT THE [Captioner] 20:53:39 RECORDS TO MAKE SURE THAT THINGS [Captioner] 20:53:40 ARE ACCORDINGLY TO THE [Captioner] 20:53:40 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [Captioner] 20:53:40 AGREEMENT. [Captioner] 20:53:49 OKAY. [Captioner] 20:53:53 >> Mayor Mei: SO I WANTED TO [Captioner] 20:53:54 COMMENT ON A COUPLE OF THINGS. [Captioner] 20:53:56 I WOULD LIKE TO ASK SOME [Captioner] 20:53:57 CLARIFYING QUESTIONS. [Captioner] 20:54:00 ONE, MY UNDERSTANDING AND I WAS [Captioner] 20:54:04 HERE IN 2019, I KNOW PEOPLE [Captioner] 20:54:06 WORE TALKING EARLIER THIS [Captioner] 20:54:07 EVENING ABOUT BUDGET AND PAST [Captioner] 20:54:08 PRACTICES. [Captioner] 20:54:10 AND I KNOW WE'VE HAD MY [Captioner] 20:54:11 UNDERSTANDING AT THAT TIME WHEN [Captioner] 20:54:13 I'D ASKED ABOUT THIS FOR THE [Captioner] 20:54:16 CITY MANAGEMENT, HAVE WE ALWAYS [Captioner] 20:54:20 USED ONLY UNIONIZED SHOP OR [Captioner] 20:54:22 SPECIFICALLY I THINK WE'VE BID [Captioner] 20:54:24 OVER THE YEARS, I MEAN, BOTH [Captioner] 20:54:26 BECAUSE I THINK WHEN WE LOOKED [Captioner] 20:54:27 AT THE CONTRACT ONE OF THE [Captioner] 20:54:28 QUESTIONS THAT WE DID ASK WAS [Captioner] 20:54:29 SPECIFICALLY ON HEALTH CARE AT [Captioner] 20:54:30 THAT TIME. [Captioner] 20:54:32 AND SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT [Captioner] 20:54:33 TO CLARIFY ON THAT, PAST [Captioner] 20:54:36 PRACTICE AND WHAT WE'VE DONE. [Captioner] 20:54:37 >> Karena Shackelford: WE'VE [Captioner] 20:54:40 HAD HAD A COMBINATION OF [Captioner] 20:54:45 JANITORIAL PROVIDER [Captioner] 20:54:49 S, SOME WITH COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 20:54:50 BARGAINING AGREEMENTS LIKE NOW [Captioner] 20:54:52 AND SOME WHO HAVEN'T. [Captioner] 20:54:53 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY. [Captioner] 20:54:56 AND WITH THE SERVICES, I KNOW [Captioner] 20:54:57 THERE WAS A SPEAKER EARLIER [Captioner] 20:54:59 TALKING ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY AND [Captioner] 20:55:01 WHO WE'RE BARGAINING WITH OR [Captioner] 20:55:02 AGAINST OURSELVES IN SOME OF [Captioner] 20:55:03 THESE CASES. [Captioner] 20:55:05 IN TERMS OF IF WE'RE LOOKING AT [Captioner] 20:55:07 THIS I KNOW WE HAD MADE THE [Captioner] 20:55:09 ADJUSTMENT FOR THE PREVAILING [Captioner] 20:55:11 WAGE AND KNOWN ASK PEOPLE TO [Captioner] 20:55:14 WORK WITH COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, [Captioner] 20:55:15 SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS. [Captioner] 20:55:16 IN PARTICULAR IF I RECALL FOR [Captioner] 20:55:17 THE HEALTH CARE ONE OF THE [Captioner] 20:55:19 BIGGEST STICKING POINTS IS THAT [Captioner] 20:55:22 THEY WEREN'T GETTING KAISER, [Captioner] 20:55:24 BECAUSE IT WAS STILL KAISER BOTH [Captioner] 20:55:26 WAYS BUT THE BIGGEST STICKING [Captioner] 20:55:28 POINT IS WHETHER IT WAS FRONT [Captioner] 20:55:29 LOADED OR BACK LOADED. [Captioner] 20:55:31 THAT WAS THE BIGGEST QUESTION. [Captioner] 20:55:33 WASN'T WHETHER THEY WERE GETTING [Captioner] 20:55:35 REIMBURSEMENT, THE PLANS WERE [Captioner] 20:55:37 WHETHER THEY PREPAID IT AND [Captioner] 20:55:40 WHETHER THEY HAD TO SUBMIT FOR [Captioner] 20:55:40 REIMBURSEMENT. [Captioner] 20:55:43 THAT WAS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE [Captioner] 20:55:44 ORE QUESTION AT THAT TIME. [Captioner] 20:55:47 TYPICALLY EVEN IF IT IS [Captioner] 20:55:49 PREVAILING WAGE DO WE WITH OUR [Captioner] 20:55:51 PUBLIC WORKS ENTER INTO HOW A [Captioner] 20:55:56 CONTRACTOR WITH US FAILS THE [Captioner] 20:55:57 HEALTH CARE AGREEMENTS, AS LONG [Captioner] 20:55:59 AS THEY ARE PROVIDING HEALTH [Captioner] 20:56:01 CARE AGREEMENTS AND IT IS [Captioner] 20:56:03 SIMILAR AGREEMENTS, DO WE SAY [Captioner] 20:56:04 YOU HAVE TO PREPAID THE [Captioner] 20:56:06 AGREEMENTS OR DO YOU GET [Captioner] 20:56:08 REIMBURSEMENT, DO WE DICTATE? [Captioner] 20:56:10 IT IS INTERESTING BECAUSE THE [Captioner] 20:56:11 QUESTION ISN'T WHETHER YOU ARE [Captioner] 20:56:12 GETTING THE SAME SALARY OR [Captioner] 20:56:14 GETTING THE SAME BENEFITS. [Captioner] 20:56:16 IT IS KIND OF LIKE THE BOARD [Captioner] 20:56:17 POLICIES VERSUS THE [Captioner] 20:56:18 ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS [Captioner] 20:56:19 RIGHT? [Captioner] 20:56:21 SO DO WE AS A RECIPIENTS OF THE [Captioner] 20:56:24 SERVICES THEN GO INTO THE [Captioner] 20:56:26 NEGOTIATIONS SPECIFICALLY ON HOW [Captioner] 20:56:27 THE HEALTH CARE AND OTHER THINGS [Captioner] 20:56:29 ARE BEING DELIVERED, IS WHAT [Captioner] 20:56:31 YOU'RE ASKING BECAUSE WE'RE NOT [Captioner] 20:56:33 DIRECTLY CONTRACTING, WE'RE NOW [Captioner] 20:56:34 ENTERING INTO THE SPECIFIC [Captioner] 20:56:36 NEGOTIATING RELATIONSHIP. [Captioner] 20:56:36 >> Karena Shackelford: IT [Captioner] 20:56:38 WOULD BE VERY UNUSUAL FOR US TO [Captioner] 20:56:40 DO THAT. [Captioner] 20:56:42 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY SO WE DON'T [Captioner] 20:56:44 NORMALLY DO IT FOR OTHER [Captioner] 20:56:44 GROUPS. [Captioner] 20:56:46 SO IF WE WERE TO HAVE THIS TYPE [Captioner] 20:56:47 OF AGREEMENT HOW WOULD THIS [Captioner] 20:56:49 IMPACT US IN TERMS OF OUR FUTURE [Captioner] 20:56:49 RELATIONSHIPS? [Captioner] 20:56:51 BECAUSE I MEAN THIS IS SOMETHING [Captioner] 20:56:52 THAT WE HAVEN'T HAD -- AND I [Captioner] 20:56:53 THINK MY UNDERSTANDING AT THAT [Captioner] 20:56:56 TIME WHAT STAFF REPRESENTED TO [Captioner] 20:56:57 US IS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THE [Captioner] 20:57:00 SCOPE OF WORK, WE'RE LOOKING AT [Captioner] 20:57:02 THE COVERAGE, WE'RE LOOKING AT [Captioner] 20:57:03 WAGES AND WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT [Captioner] 20:57:05 HEALTH CARE IS ALSO BEING [Captioner] 20:57:06 PROVIDE OWED BUT WE DON'T GO [Captioner] 20:57:08 INTO THE WEEDS AND THAT WAS IF [Captioner] 20:57:09 BIGGEST CONTENTION ISSUE AT THAT [Captioner] 20:57:15 TIME. [Captioner] 20:57:17 >> Karena Shackelford: SO I'LL [Captioner] 20:57:19 RESPOND TO THAT BY SAYING THAT [Captioner] 20:57:22 IF YOU ALL WORE TO MOVE FORWARD [Captioner] 20:57:24 WITH THIS REFERRAL, OR DIRECT [Captioner] 20:57:27 STAFF TO DO FURTHER RESEARCH ON [Captioner] 20:57:30 THE REFERRAL AND WHAT ITS [Captioner] 20:57:33 IMPACTS TO OUR CURRENT, OUR [Captioner] 20:57:35 EXISTING BUDGET IS, OUR STAFFING [Captioner] 20:57:37 LEVELS AND SUCH THEN WE COULD [Captioner] 20:57:39 COME BACK WITH THAT MORE [Captioner] 20:57:39 DETAILED INFORMATION. [Captioner] 20:57:41 BUT AT THIS POINT WHEER NOT [Captioner] 20:57:44 PREPARED TO -- WE HAVEN'T FULLY [Captioner] 20:57:46 EVALUATED, YOU KNOW, THE [Captioner] 20:57:49 IMPLICATIONS IN THEIR ENTIRETY [Captioner] 20:57:51 IN ANTICIPATION OF UNDERSTANDING [Captioner] 20:57:52 WHICH DIRECTION YOU ALL WERE [Captioner] 20:57:54 GOING TO GO IN TONIGHT. [Captioner] 20:57:54 >> Mayor Mei: SURE. [Captioner] 20:57:57 AND I REMEMBER CORRECTLY FROM [Captioner] 20:57:59 THE NEGOTIATION WE HAD THE THREE [Captioner] 20:58:01 YEAR EXTENSION. [Captioner] 20:58:02 PART OF THE CHALLENGES WHEN YOU [Captioner] 20:58:04 LOOK AT ANY BUDGET IS UNEEPPED [Captioner] 20:58:07 IMPACTS, WHETHER IT'S COST OR WE [Captioner] 20:58:08 CERTAINLY NEVER EEPPED THE [Captioner] 20:58:09 PANDEMIC. [Captioner] 20:58:11 SO THAT'S WHY WHEN WE TALKED [Captioner] 20:58:13 ABOUT THE BUDGETING ASPECTS AND [Captioner] 20:58:15 I KNOW DIRECTOR PERSSELIN WAS [Captioner] 20:58:18 TALKING ABOUT THIS, WE TRY TO [Captioner] 20:58:22 PLAN FOR UNANTICIPATED ASPECTS. [Captioner] 20:58:24 WE WILL BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT [Captioner] 20:58:25 SOMETHING UNANTICIPATED AND TRY [Captioner] 20:58:26 TO ADDRESS IT LATER. [Captioner] 20:58:28 I THINK LOOKING AT THE POLICY [Captioner] 20:58:29 MAKES SENSE. [Captioner] 20:58:30 I'D LOVE TO SEE THE CONTRACT [Captioner] 20:58:32 JUST TO MAKE SURE FROM THAT [Captioner] 20:58:34 PERSPECTIVE WE ARE BEING [Captioner] 20:58:35 EQUITABLE AND UNDERSTAND A [Captioner] 20:58:37 LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE HEALTH [Captioner] 20:58:37 CARE. [Captioner] 20:58:40 I'D ALSO LIKE TO ASK AND IT'S AN [Captioner] 20:58:41 INTERESTING QUESTION, MAYBE WE [Captioner] 20:58:42 HAVEN'T THOUGHT ABOUT IT, WHEN [Captioner] 20:58:44 WE LOOK AT SOME OF THE DIFFERENT [Captioner] 20:58:45 CONTRACTS WE HAVE ESPECIALLY IN [Captioner] 20:58:47 THE TIME FRAME WHEN WE LOOKED AT [Captioner] 20:58:49 SOME OF THE OTHER EMPLOYEE [Captioner] 20:58:50 GROUPS IN PARTICULAR, THE LAST [Captioner] 20:58:51 TIME THAT WE MADE THE [Captioner] 20:58:53 NEGOTIATIONS I BELIEVE IT WAS [Captioner] 20:58:54 FOR THREE YEARS. [Captioner] 20:58:56 AND IF WE WERE TO IMPLEMENT [Captioner] 20:58:58 SOMETHING DIFFERENTLY HERE, IN [Captioner] 20:59:00 TERMS OF THIS WOULD BE A LONGER [Captioner] 20:59:01 CONTRACT, OR REOPENING A [Captioner] 20:59:03 CONTRACT, WHAT DOES THAT DO FOR [Captioner] 20:59:04 THE OTHER BARGAINING GROUPS? [Captioner] 20:59:07 DOES IT IMPLEMENT OR IMPACT ANY [Captioner] 20:59:10 SORT OF ME TOO CLAUSE? [Captioner] 20:59:12 EXPH WE DON'T HAVE ANY ME TOO [Captioner] 20:59:15 CLAUSES IN OUR CURRENT [Captioner] 20:59:15 CONTRACTS. [Captioner] 20:59:18 FOR THAT VERY REASON. [Captioner] 20:59:19 >> Mayor Mei: THAT'S GOOD TO [Captioner] 20:59:20 KNOW. [Captioner] 20:59:21 I KNOW THAT EARLIER THIS [Captioner] 20:59:23 EVENINGS ONE OF OUR FELLOW [Captioner] 20:59:23 COUNCILMEMBERS, COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 20:59:25 COX, ALSO ASKED ABOUT ONE OF THE [Captioner] 20:59:27 GREATEST CHALLENGES WE'VE HAD [Captioner] 20:59:30 WHICH IS PUBLIC SAFETY AND OTHER [Captioner] 20:59:32 AREAS AND CERTAINLY NOT JUST [Captioner] 20:59:33 UNIQUE TO THE CITY OF FREMONT [Captioner] 20:59:34 BUT THROUGHOUT THE STATE. [Captioner] 20:59:35 AND TRYING TO RECRUIT IN THOSE [Captioner] 20:59:37 AREAS AND THE COMPETITIVENESS OF [Captioner] 20:59:38 THAT. [Captioner] 20:59:39 SO FROM MY PERSPECTIVE IT IS NOT [Captioner] 20:59:42 THAT I WOULDN'T BE SUPPORTIVE OF [Captioner] 20:59:43 UNDERSTANDING IT BUT I THINK IT [Captioner] 20:59:46 WOULD BE UNWISE TO ADOPT A [Captioner] 20:59:49 POLICY THAT WOULD BE IMPACTING [Captioner] 20:59:51 WITHOUT NOLG THE FULL BREATH OF [Captioner] 20:59:53 SOME OF THE AREAS WE WERE [Captioner] 20:59:56 LOOKING FOR THIS EVENING. [Captioner] 20:59:58 IN LOOKING FOR A FULL REPORT OUT [Captioner] 21:00:00 ON THIS I'M SUPPORTIVE OF. [Captioner] 21:00:02 IN TERMINATION OF ADOPTING, WHEN [Captioner] 21:00:03 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT AREAS WE ARE [Captioner] 21:00:05 TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE I KNOW [Captioner] 21:00:07 THAT COUNCILMEMBER COX HAS OFTEN [Captioner] 21:00:08 STATED WE DON'T WANT TO ADOPT [Captioner] 21:00:09 SOMETHING WHEN WE DON'T KNOW [Captioner] 21:00:11 ABOUT THE BUDGETARY IMPACTS. [Captioner] 21:00:12 I'M MORE INTERESTED IN GETTING A [Captioner] 21:00:16 REPORT BACK ON THIS, FOR ME TO [Captioner] 21:00:20 MAKE THE ADOPTION FIRMLY [Captioner] 21:00:20 TONIGHT. [Captioner] 21:00:21 COUNCILMEMBER SHAO. [Captioner] 21:00:22 >> Vice Mayor Shao: THANK YOU, [Captioner] 21:00:23 MADAM MAYOR. [Captioner] 21:00:25 I WAS A BIT CONFUSED. [Captioner] 21:00:26 NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT [Captioner] 21:00:27 BARGAINING GROUPS. [Captioner] 21:00:29 BUT THEY ARE OUR CITY EMPLOYEES. [Captioner] 21:00:30 >> Mayor Mei: RIGHT. [Captioner] 21:00:32 THAT IS TRUE. [Captioner] 21:00:33 >> Vice Mayor Shao: THE [Captioner] 21:00:34 DIFFERENT BARGAINING GROUPS. [Captioner] 21:00:38 BUT HERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE [Captioner] 21:00:42 CONTRACTORS EMPLOYEES, I THINK [Captioner] 21:00:43 THE CITY MUST HAVE A TREMENDOUS [Captioner] 21:00:45 AMOUNT OF ENERGY AND RESOURCES [Captioner] 21:00:47 TO LOOK AFTER ALL THE [Captioner] 21:00:50 CONTRACTORS. [Captioner] 21:00:51 BECAUSE THEY'RE MARKETS. [Captioner] 21:00:53 IT IS THE PURE RESPONSIBILITY OF [Captioner] 21:00:55 THE BIRDER OR THE CONTRACTOR, [Captioner] 21:00:59 AND THEIR EMPLOYEES, TO REACH [Captioner] 21:01:00 CERTAIN LABOR AGREEMENT. [Captioner] 21:01:04 WHETHER THEY OFFER HOUSE [Captioner] 21:01:08 BENEFITS, OR HOW MANY PERCENTAGE [Captioner] 21:01:11 OF THE PREMIUM THE EMPLOYEE [Captioner] 21:01:13 PAYS, THE EMPLOYER PAYS AND THE [Captioner] 21:01:15 EMPLOYEE PAYS, IS ALL BETWEEN [Captioner] 21:01:16 THEM. [Captioner] 21:01:20 WHY WOULD THE CITY THEN GIVE [Captioner] 21:01:24 SOME KIND OF INSTRUCTIONS, SAY [Captioner] 21:01:28 HEY IF YOU DON'T PAY YOUR [Captioner] 21:01:29 EMPLOYEES HEALTH BENEFIT THEN [Captioner] 21:01:30 WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET YOU BID [Captioner] 21:01:34 FOR THE CITY BUSINESS. [Captioner] 21:01:35 I'M IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. [Captioner] 21:01:39 I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, MOST OF [Captioner] 21:01:41 THE PRIVATE COMPANIES, THE [Captioner] 21:01:44 EMPLOYEES HAVE TO PAY FOR [Captioner] 21:01:45 CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF THE HEALTH [Captioner] 21:01:46 BENEFIT. [Captioner] 21:01:48 REGARDLESS OF THE INDUSTRY. [Captioner] 21:01:50 SO THIS IS THE REAL WORLD. [Captioner] 21:01:54 AND I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY, [Captioner] 21:01:58 OVER HERE, WE WOULD TREAT THE [Captioner] 21:02:01 EMPLOYEES OF A CONTRACTOR THE [Captioner] 21:02:04 SAME AS OUR CITY EMPLOYEES. [Captioner] 21:02:06 THEY WILL COME TO JOIN THE CITY [Captioner] 21:02:07 GOVERNMENT, WE HAVE VACANCIES, [Captioner] 21:02:09 THEY ARE FREEZE TO APPLY. [Captioner] 21:02:12 NOBODY WOULD PREVENT THEM THERE [Captioner] 21:02:13 DOING THAT. [Captioner] 21:02:17 BUT NOW, SINCE WE ARE TALKING [Captioner] 21:02:19 ABOUT A DIFFERENT GROUP, I DON'T [Captioner] 21:02:21 THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE THE SAME [Captioner] 21:02:24 TREATMENT AS OUR CITY EMPLOYEES, [Captioner] 21:02:27 REGARDLESS IN THOSE CITY [Captioner] 21:02:29 EMPLOYEES BELONG TO WHICH [Captioner] 21:02:30 BARGAINING UNIT. [Captioner] 21:02:31 THAT'S MY QUESTION. [Captioner] 21:02:35 >> Councilmember Cox: THAT'S [Captioner] 21:02:36 NOT A QUESTION. [Captioner] 21:02:37 THAT'S A STATEMENT. [Captioner] 21:02:39 WHAT'S YOUR QUESTION? [Captioner] 21:02:39 >> Mayor Mei: WELL, THE [Captioner] 21:02:41 QUESTION IS TO I GUESS THE CITY [Captioner] 21:02:43 MANAGER, WHETHER OR NOT WE WOULD [Captioner] 21:02:46 HAVE THE BANDWIDTH, IT SOUNDS [Captioner] 21:02:48 LIKE WHAT HE'S ASKING TO TAKE ON [Captioner] 21:02:50 A DIFFERENT ROLE THAN WHAT WE [Captioner] 21:02:50 CURRENTLY HAVE IN THE [Captioner] 21:02:51 NEGOTIATIONS. [Captioner] 21:02:52 >> Karena Shackelford: THE [Captioner] 21:02:55 CITY DOES NOT CURRENTLY HAVE THE [Captioner] 21:02:59 BANDWIDTH TO DO WHAT VICE MAYOR [Captioner] 21:03:02 SHAO WAS STATING IN HIS [Captioner] 21:03:02 COMMENTS. [Captioner] 21:03:03 AND, YOU KNOW, BACK TO THE POINT [Captioner] 21:03:05 THAT I MADE A MOMENT AGO. [Captioner] 21:03:08 IF YOU ALL WERE TO YOU KNOW MOVE [Captioner] 21:03:10 FORWARD WITH THIS OR WANT MORE [Captioner] 21:03:12 INFORMATION ON IT, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 21:03:13 THEN WE WOULD BE ABLE TO SAY, [Captioner] 21:03:17 YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE [Captioner] 21:03:21 TO REVIEW THE PERILS OF YOU KNOW [Captioner] 21:03:23 -- THE PAYROLLS OF CERTAIN [Captioner] 21:03:25 CONTRACTORS OR TAKE ON [Captioner] 21:03:27 ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITY WHERE [Captioner] 21:03:28 OUR CONTRACTORS ARE CONCERNED I [Captioner] 21:03:30 CAN TELL YOU RIGHT NOW THAT THAT [Captioner] 21:03:32 WOULD REQUIRE, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 21:03:34 ADDITIONAL STAFFING, YOU KNOW, [Captioner] 21:03:36 WHO HAVE THE EXPERTISE TO DO [Captioner] 21:03:38 THAT TYPE OF WORK. [Captioner] 21:03:41 SO -- BUT I CAN'T PROVIDE YOU [Captioner] 21:03:43 WITH ANY SPECIFIC DETAILS AT [Captioner] 21:03:45 THIS MOMENT. [Captioner] 21:03:46 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:03:50 COUNCILMEMBER COX. [Captioner] 21:03:51 >> Councilmember Cox: THANK [Captioner] 21:03:52 YOU. [Captioner] 21:03:56 ONE OTHER [Captioner] 21:03:58 THOUGHT THAT -- I'M JUST [Captioner] 21:04:00 LOOKING AT THE BIGGER PICTURE, [Captioner] 21:04:00 RIGHT? [Captioner] 21:04:01 THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [Captioner] 21:04:03 AGREEMENT IS ONE THING BETWEEN [Captioner] 21:04:04 THE EMPLOYEES BEING ALLOWED TO [Captioner] 21:04:06 BE IN AN ENVIRONMENT TO FORM THE [Captioner] 21:04:08 UNION, GOAT THEIR BENEFITS, GOAT [Captioner] 21:04:10 ALL THE THINGS THAT THEY ARE [Captioner] 21:04:13 ENTITLED TO WHICH SWA IS A [Captioner] 21:04:13 PRIVATE COMPANY. [Captioner] 21:04:15 NOT THE CITY OF FREMONT. [Captioner] 21:04:17 EACH THOUGH THEIR PLACE OF [Captioner] 21:04:19 LOCATION IS HERE IN A GOVERNMENT [Captioner] 21:04:22 FACILITY, BUT AS LONG AS I SEE [Captioner] 21:04:27 IT AS WE ARE AT OPEN [Captioner] 21:04:31 AGENCY THAT EMBRACES AND [Captioner] 21:04:32 SUPPORTS UNION AND EMPLOYEE [Captioner] 21:04:34 RELATIONS, HAVING THAT IN OUR [Captioner] 21:04:37 CONTRACT, THAT'S VERY HELPFUL, [Captioner] 21:04:40 THAT YOU'RE FREE TO FORM UNION. [Captioner] 21:04:42 THE BIG ORE PICTURE IS, IF [Captioner] 21:04:46 THERE'S ANY WAGE THEFT [Captioner] 21:04:48 OCCURRING, THERE IS AN AVENUE IF [Captioner] 21:04:52 THE EMPLOYEES ARE FEELING THEY [Captioner] 21:04:54 ARE NOT GETTING PAID THEIR DUE [Captioner] 21:04:56 THEY GO TO THE STATE OF [Captioner] 21:04:57 CALIFORNIA UNDER THE LABOR [Captioner] 21:04:59 ENFORCEMENT THAT FOLLOWS UP ON [Captioner] 21:05:01 WAGE THEFT PREVENTION, AND THEY [Captioner] 21:05:05 WILL GO AND FOLLOW UP WITH THE [Captioner] 21:05:08 STATE OF CALIFORNIA RESOURCES, [Captioner] 21:05:09 TO FILE THE COMPLAINTS. [Captioner] 21:05:13 BECAUSE THE OFFICE OF THE LABOR [Captioner] 21:05:15 COMMISSIONER KEEP RECORDS OF [Captioner] 21:05:16 WAGE THEFT VIOLATORS. [Captioner] 21:05:18 AND IN OUR CONTRACT, YOU WOULD [Captioner] 21:05:20 NATURALLY OR IN OUR SOLICITATION [Captioner] 21:05:23 YOU WOULD NATURALLY SAY THAT IF [Captioner] 21:05:25 YOU, YOU KNOW, COMMITTED ANY [Captioner] 21:05:27 TYPE OF WAGE THEFT FIVE YEARS [Captioner] 21:05:28 FROM THE DATE OF WHEN THE [Captioner] 21:05:30 SOLICITATION WAS FIRST ISSUED, [Captioner] 21:05:32 AND ALSO DURING THE CONTRACT [Captioner] 21:05:34 PHASE OF AWARD, YOU WOULD BE [Captioner] 21:05:38 ABLE TO IDENTIFY IF THEY'RE [Captioner] 21:05:40 WORKING THROUGH RESOURCES [Captioner] 21:05:42 THEY'RE ALREADY EXISTING TO SAY [Captioner] 21:05:44 OKAY THERE WOULD BE A CHECK TO [Captioner] 21:05:48 DO A WAGE THEFT CHECK WITH OUR [Captioner] 21:05:49 CONTRACT BEFORE IT'S AWARDED [Captioner] 21:05:53 THAT THAT PERSON IS CLEAR WITH [Captioner] 21:05:55 THAT PRIVATE COMPANY THAT WON [Captioner] 21:05:55 THE BID. [Captioner] 21:05:57 THEY WERE WHATEVER, THE BEST [Captioner] 21:06:00 BASED ON THE BEST VALUE, THE [Captioner] 21:06:01 SLOAKS CRITERIA THAT'S [Captioner] 21:06:02 IDENTIFIED IN THE COMPETITIVE [Captioner] 21:06:04 SOLICITATION. [Captioner] 21:06:07 TO ME THAT'S MUCH MORE USEFUL [Captioner] 21:06:09 THAN HAVING SOME SORT OF WAGE [Captioner] 21:06:11 THEFT POLICY COMING OUT OF THIS [Captioner] 21:06:14 TO MAKE SURE THAT WE MONITOR [Captioner] 21:06:15 VENDORS THAT COME AND DO [Captioner] 21:06:16 BUSINESS WITH THE CITY OF [Captioner] 21:06:19 FREMONT THAT THEY'RE NOT [Captioner] 21:06:21 VIOLATING AND NOT PAYING THEIR [Captioner] 21:06:24 EMPLOYEES CORRECTLY. [Captioner] 21:06:26 AND ADDITIONALLY, THERE IS OTHER [Captioner] 21:06:28 THINGS THAT THEY DO DISCOVER AND [Captioner] 21:06:30 KEEP RECORDS ON BECAUSE I IN MY [Captioner] 21:06:33 OWN OUTSIDE OF TREATMENT I HAVE [Captioner] 21:06:34 DISCOVERED VENDORS THAT HAVE [Captioner] 21:06:37 COMMITTED NUMEROUS TBRUN VENDOR [Captioner] 21:06:39 WAGE THEFT VIOLATIONS AND THAT [Captioner] 21:06:41 ALL COMES UP WHEN YOU'RE ASKING [Captioner] 21:06:42 FOR INFORMATION ABOUT A [Captioner] 21:06:43 PARTICULAR VENDOR. [Captioner] 21:06:47 TO ME, THAT WOULD SEEM MORE OF [Captioner] 21:06:50 A LOGICAL HAVING SOMETHING AS [Captioner] 21:06:52 GENERAL AS THAT, I GET A LITTLE [Captioner] 21:06:53 WORRIED WHEN WE TALK ABOUT [Captioner] 21:06:55 GETTING INTO THE EMPLOYEE AND A [Captioner] 21:06:58 THIRD PARTY THAT'S AS OUTSIDE OF [Captioner] 21:07:02 THE STCH AS A PROBLEM, BUT THERE [Captioner] 21:07:05 IS WAYS THAT COULD BE MITIGATED [Captioner] 21:07:06 THROUGH THE EMPLOYEES KNOWING [Captioner] 21:07:08 THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CALL THE [Captioner] 21:07:09 UNION WHICH IS THE SEIU AND THEY [Captioner] 21:07:11 DO HAVE THEIR OWN LABOR [Captioner] 21:07:13 COMPLIANCE INSIDE OF THE SEIU TO [Captioner] 21:07:15 FOLLOW UPPER ON THESE TYPE OF [Captioner] 21:07:17 THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING. [Captioner] 21:07:18 AND I JUST -- I'M A LITTLE [Captioner] 21:07:20 CONCERNED FOR US GETTING INTO [Captioner] 21:07:24 THE MICRO-DETAIL OF ROLLING OUT [Captioner] 21:07:26 A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [Captioner] 21:07:28 AGREEMENT AND, THANK YOU MAYOR [Captioner] 21:07:30 FOR REFERRING BACK TO MY BUDGET [Captioner] 21:07:32 IMPACT, PEOPLE IMPACT, [Captioner] 21:07:33 RESOURCES, PLANNING, ALL THOSE [Captioner] 21:07:34 TYPE OF THINGS. [Captioner] 21:07:36 BECAUSE WHAT IS THE ULTIMATE [Captioner] 21:07:38 GOAL FOR DOING SOMETHING LIKE [Captioner] 21:07:38 THIS? [Captioner] 21:07:40 IS THAT THE AGREEMENT IS TAKING [Captioner] 21:07:42 CARE OF THE WORKERS. [Captioner] 21:07:43 AND THAT'S COVERED BY THE [Captioner] 21:07:43 UNION. [Captioner] 21:07:46 WHEN YOU JOIN THE UNION YOUR [Captioner] 21:07:47 DUES FROM THE UNION PAY FOR [Captioner] 21:07:49 LABOR COMPLIANCE. [Captioner] 21:07:51 IT PAYS FOR MAKING SURE PURE IN [Captioner] 21:07:52 A SAFE ENVIRONMENT, YOU'RE [Captioner] 21:07:54 GETTING THE WAGES THE THINGS AND [Captioner] 21:07:55 THE UNION WOULD HAVE A COPY OF [Captioner] 21:07:57 THE CONTRACT, OF THE COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 21:07:59 BARGAINING AGREEMENT THAT WAS [Captioner] 21:08:02 SIGNED AS EACH UNION MEMBER [Captioner] 21:08:03 JOINS, THEY HAVE THE OPTION TO [Captioner] 21:08:05 EITHER PAY FOR THE DUES TO BE [Captioner] 21:08:07 ABLE TO ENTIRETIED TO JOIN THE [Captioner] 21:08:08 UNION OR NOT. [Captioner] 21:08:09 BUT THEY STILL HAVE THE [Captioner] 21:08:12 PROTECTION THAT IF YOU ARE AN [Captioner] 21:08:15 EMPLOYEE AS SEIU UNDER THE [Captioner] 21:08:17 CLOARVEG UNIT WITH SWA THOSE [Captioner] 21:08:18 THINGS ARE ALL SPELLED OUT IN [Captioner] 21:08:20 THE CONTRACT. [Captioner] 21:08:21 AND IF THEY ARE NOT PAYING THE [Captioner] 21:08:23 RIGHT MONEY KNOWN YOU CAN GO [Captioner] 21:08:24 THROUGH THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA [Captioner] 21:08:25 OR CAN YOU DO THROUGH THE UNION [Captioner] 21:08:29 TO FILE THE COMPLAINTS OF NOT, [Captioner] 21:08:30 YOU KNOW, GETTING YOUR FAIR [Captioner] 21:08:30 SHARE. [Captioner] 21:08:32 AND THAT'S WHERE THE UNION [Captioner] 21:08:36 STANDS FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE [Captioner] 21:08:37 JANITORIAL STAFF THAT WOULD HAVE [Captioner] 21:08:40 SOMEONE ELSE TO HELP INVESTIGATE [Captioner] 21:08:41 AND STAND WITH THEM. [Captioner] 21:08:43 MY CONCERN IS THAT SINCE WE'RE [Captioner] 21:08:45 THOUGHT THE DIRECTOR EMPLOYEES, [Captioner] 21:08:47 WE'RE JUST THE PLACE OF WORK, [Captioner] 21:08:49 THE SITE WHERE WORK IS BEING [Captioner] 21:08:53 PERFORMED, IT, YOU KNOW, THERE [Captioner] 21:08:56 IS THE LIABILITIES REALLY WITH [Captioner] 21:08:58 SWA TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY COVER [Captioner] 21:08:59 ALL THOSE TYPE OF THINGS WHEN [Captioner] 21:09:03 THEY SIGN THE CONTRACT WITH THE [Captioner] 21:09:05 CITY AND BEING ABLE TO CARRY OUT [Captioner] 21:09:06 CERTAIN THINGS. [Captioner] 21:09:10 BUT IT'S UP TO THE EMPLOYEES AND [Captioner] 21:09:12 THE AGREEMENT THAT'S SIGNED. [Captioner] 21:09:13 BUT THERE'S DIFFERENT CHANNELS [Captioner] 21:09:15 TO SOLVE THAT BECAUSE WHEN YOU [Captioner] 21:09:16 GO THROUGH THE COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 21:09:18 BARGAINING UNIT, WHAT ARE YOU [Captioner] 21:09:19 REALLY -- IT IS MORE OF THE [Captioner] 21:09:21 INDIVIDUALS THAT SIGN THE UNION [Captioner] 21:09:24 PAPER TO JOIN, THAT THEY GET THE [Captioner] 21:09:25 BENEFITS THAT ARE BEING [Captioner] 21:09:26 MONITORED. [Captioner] 21:09:28 AND THE PART THAT I JUST WANT TO [Captioner] 21:09:32 MAKE SURE AS A CITY THAT WE HIRE [Captioner] 21:09:33 VENDORS THAT THEY ARE NOT ON THE [Captioner] 21:09:35 BAD LIST OF WAGE THEFT. [Captioner] 21:09:36 THAT WOULD BE MY CONCERN. [Captioner] 21:09:38 AND THAT WOULD BE EASILY [Captioner] 21:09:39 AVAILABLE THROUGH THE STATE OF [Captioner] 21:09:40 CALIFORNIA. [Captioner] 21:09:43 BUT IT IS A MATTER OF REGULAR [Captioner] 21:09:46 PURCHASING CHECK BOX, ADD ONE [Captioner] 21:09:49 CHECK BOX TO DO THAT VERSUS [Captioner] 21:09:50 MONITORING A CLOARVEG [Captioner] 21:09:50 AGREEMENT. [Captioner] 21:09:52 SO THAT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF [Captioner] 21:09:53 THINKING ABOUT THIS. [Captioner] 21:09:54 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:09:55 I THINK COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN HAS [Captioner] 21:09:57 HER HAND RAISE OWED TOO. [Captioner] 21:10:01 RAISED [Captioner] 21:10:02 TOO. [Captioner] 21:10:02 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:10:03 >> Councilmember Kassan: I DID [Captioner] 21:10:05 WANT TO MENTION THAT YES THEY DO [Captioner] 21:10:06 CURRENTLY, THEY ARE REPRESENTED [Captioner] 21:10:09 BY A UNION AND THEY HAVE A [Captioner] 21:10:10 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT [Captioner] 21:10:12 BUT THAT'S NOT ALWAYS [Captioner] 21:10:13 NECESSARILY GOING TO BE THE CASE [Captioner] 21:10:14 IN THE FUTURE. [Captioner] 21:10:16 THIS WHOLE PROBLEM START OWED IN [Captioner] 21:10:19 2019 WHEN WE'RE TOLD WE HAD TO [Captioner] 21:10:23 SELECT SWA, BECAUSE ON ALL THE [Captioner] 21:10:26 MEASURES WE PUT INTO THE RFP [Captioner] 21:10:28 THEY WERE THE MOST RESPONSIVE [Captioner] 21:10:29 LOW COST BIDDER AND THEY WERE [Captioner] 21:10:31 NOT OUNION SUNSHINE. [Captioner] 21:10:33 SO THAT IS GREAT THAT THERE IS [Captioner] 21:10:34 CURRENTLY A UNION REPRESENTING [Captioner] 21:10:36 THE WORKERS AND THOSE HAVE [Captioner] 21:10:38 ENTERED INTO A COLLECTIVE [Captioner] 21:10:39 BARGAINING AGREEMENT. [Captioner] 21:10:40 THAT IS NOT ALWAYS GOING TO BE [Captioner] 21:10:41 THE CASE. [Captioner] 21:10:42 FIRST OF ALL THERE IS NO [Captioner] 21:10:44 GUARANTEE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO [Captioner] 21:10:46 GET DECENT HEALTH CARE BENEFITS [Captioner] 21:10:47 JUST BECAUSE OF THE UNION AND [Captioner] 21:10:48 SECOND OF ALL THERE IS NO [Captioner] 21:10:50 GUARANTEE THAT IN THE FUTURE WE [Captioner] 21:10:51 WOULDN'T CONTRACT WITH A [Captioner] 21:10:52 NONUNION SHOP. [Captioner] 21:10:54 SO I THINK REQUIRING A [Captioner] 21:10:55 RESPONSIBLE BIDDER POLICY TO [Captioner] 21:10:59 ENSURE THAT WE DO ALWAYS WORK [Captioner] 21:11:01 WITH BUSINESSES THAT ARE PAYING [Captioner] 21:11:03 DECENT WAGES AND WILLING TO [Captioner] 21:11:04 ENTER INTO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [Captioner] 21:11:07 AGREEMENTS IS SOMETHING WE NEED [Captioner] 21:11:08 TO CERTAINLY CONSIDER. [Captioner] 21:11:13 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY, THANK [Captioner] 21:11:13 YOU. [Captioner] 21:11:16 NEXT IS COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN. [Captioner] 21:11:16 >> Councilmember Salwan: THANK [Captioner] 21:11:18 YOU, MADAM MAYOR AND THANK YOU [Captioner] 21:11:20 MY COLLEAGUES AND ALL THE GREAT [Captioner] 21:11:22 SPEAKERS, THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT [Captioner] 21:11:23 DISCUSSION ON ALL ASPECTS. [Captioner] 21:11:25 I REAL DON'T HAVE ANY [Captioner] 21:11:26 QUESTIONS. [Captioner] 21:11:28 JUST IN GENERAL I THINK THE [Captioner] 21:11:29 JANITORS ARE DOING A GOOD JOB. [Captioner] 21:11:31 THEY KEEP OUR FACILITY CLEAN AND [Captioner] 21:11:33 FUNCTIONAL. [Captioner] 21:11:34 AND I WOULD BE WILLING TO [Captioner] 21:11:36 SUPPORT THIS REFERRAL. [Captioner] 21:11:39 AND I'D BE WILLING TO SECOND IT [Captioner] 21:11:40 IF COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN WANTS TO [Captioner] 21:11:42 MOVE THIS FORWARD. [Captioner] 21:11:45 I DO REALIZE THAT THERE ARE WAYS [Captioner] 21:11:47 TO PHASE IN INCREASES. [Captioner] 21:11:49 THERE IS ALSO DIFFERENT WAYS OF [Captioner] 21:11:52 DOING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. [Captioner] 21:11:54 SO IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE AS [Captioner] 21:11:55 RIGID. [Captioner] 21:11:57 AND STAFF CAN EXPLORE SOME OF [Captioner] 21:11:57 THOSE OPTIONS. [Captioner] 21:12:00 THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY ON THIS [Captioner] 21:12:02 AND I'M HAPPY TO SECOND THIS AT [Captioner] 21:12:04 THE RIGHT TIME. [Captioner] 21:12:05 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:12:05 >> Mayor Mei: COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 21:12:06 CAMPBELL. [Captioner] 21:12:07 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 21:12:08 I'LL BE RELATIVELY BRIEF. [Captioner] 21:12:10 I DO BELIEVE THAT THE CITY HAS [Captioner] 21:12:12 THE RESPONSIBILITY IF IT'S GOING [Captioner] 21:12:13 TO CONTRACT OUT WITH [Captioner] 21:12:15 CONTRACTORS, TO ENSURE THAT [Captioner] 21:12:17 THEY'RE USING PUBLIC FUNDS THAT [Captioner] 21:12:21 SUPPORT THE INTEGRITY OF FREMONT [Captioner] 21:12:24 AND THE CITY OF FREMONT. [Captioner] 21:12:26 SO BY DOING SO WE SET THE [Captioner] 21:12:26 RULES. [Captioner] 21:12:29 WE GET TO SAY IF YOU ARE GOING [Captioner] 21:12:31 TO WORK WITH US, HERE'S HOW WE [Captioner] 21:12:33 WOULD EXPECT FOR YOU TO BE ABLE [Captioner] 21:12:38 TO TREAT YOUR EMPLOYEES AND HAVE [Captioner] 21:12:40 THE -- HAVE SOME STANDARDS BY [Captioner] 21:12:45 WHICH WE WOULD LIKE OUR CITY [Captioner] 21:12:49 FUNDS, OUR SALES TAXES AND [Captioner] 21:12:51 ALL OF THE MONEY THAT WE GET TO [Captioner] 21:12:54 BE USED WITH CONTRACTORS. [Captioner] 21:12:56 SO I DO BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE A [Captioner] 21:12:57 RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT IN TERMS [Captioner] 21:12:59 OF INTEGRITY. [Captioner] 21:13:01 I WOULD BE WILLING TO SUPPORT [Captioner] 21:13:02 THIS TOO. [Captioner] 21:13:03 I WAS A LITTLE CONFUSED BECAUSE [Captioner] 21:13:06 I ORIGINALLY HEARD THAT THEY [Captioner] 21:13:09 WERE CURRENTLY WORKING ON A [Captioner] 21:13:09 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT [Captioner] 21:13:10 AND THEN I HEARD IN NOVEMBER [Captioner] 21:13:12 THEY GOT A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [Captioner] 21:13:13 AGREEMENT. [Captioner] 21:13:16 SO I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY. [Captioner] 21:13:18 THEY ACTUALLY ARE UNDER A UNION [Captioner] 21:13:21 AT THIS TIME? [Captioner] 21:13:24 >> Councilmember Cox: 2023. [Captioner] 21:13:24 >> Councilmember Campbell: I [Captioner] 21:13:28 THINK I SAW SEIU -- [Captioner] 21:13:30 >> Mayor Mei: SEIU. [Captioner] 21:13:30 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 21:13:33 SEIU, OKAY, SO THEY ARE [Captioner] 21:13:34 CURRENTLY UNDER THEM. [Captioner] 21:13:37 AND I DID HEAR THAT THEY DO HAVE [Captioner] 21:13:38 HEALTH INSURANCE. [Captioner] 21:13:41 IT DEPENDS ON WHICH PROGRAM THEY [Captioner] 21:13:42 DECIDE TO CHOOSE. [Captioner] 21:13:46 AND IF THEY CHOOSE THE CADILLAC [Captioner] 21:13:47 VERSION THEY HAVE TO PAY A [Captioner] 21:13:48 LITTLE BIT MORE. [Captioner] 21:13:49 RIGHT, OKAY. [Captioner] 21:13:52 SO I AM -- I JUST WANT ONE MORE [Captioner] 21:13:54 POINT OF CLARIFICATION. [Captioner] 21:13:56 BECAUSE I'VE BEEN WILLING TO [Captioner] 21:13:57 MAKE A MOTION RIGHT NOW BUT IT'S [Captioner] 21:13:59 NOT MY REFERRAL. [Captioner] 21:14:01 I WANT TO UNDERSTAND POINT 1 A [Captioner] 21:14:02 LITTLE BIT BETTER. [Captioner] 21:14:07 IN TERMS OF THE PREVAILING WAGE [Captioner] 21:14:08 PROVISION THAT WE'RE TALKING [Captioner] 21:14:09 ABOUT. [Captioner] 21:14:11 YOU SAID THAT THEY WERE GETTING [Captioner] 21:14:13 A RAISE AND THEY WOULD BE [Captioner] 21:14:15 GOATING A RAISE EFFECTIVE JULY [Captioner] 21:14:17 1st THAT WILL PUT THEM AT ABOUT [Captioner] 21:14:22 $20 AN HOUR. [Captioner] 21:14:23 >> NO. [Captioner] 21:14:25 $18.54. [Captioner] 21:14:27 JUST TO MAKE SURE. [Captioner] 21:14:28 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 21:14:30 18.54, I'M SORRY, YES. [Captioner] 21:14:32 AND THAT THE PREVAILING WAGE WAS [Captioner] 21:14:33 20. [Captioner] 21:14:34 >> CORRECT. [Captioner] 21:14:35 >> Councilmember Campbell: AND [Captioner] 21:14:36 DO YOU KNOW HOW OFTEN THEY [Captioner] 21:14:38 ACTUALLY GET SALARY INCREASES? [Captioner] 21:14:40 >> SO AT THIS POINT MY [Captioner] 21:14:40 UNDERSTANDING WITH THIS NEW [Captioner] 21:14:44 CONTRACT IS ANNUALLY NOW THEY'LL [Captioner] 21:14:48 GET RAISES BASED ON CPI IS MY [Captioner] 21:14:49 UNDERSTANDING. [Captioner] 21:14:51 BUT AGAIN I HAVEN'T READ THEIR [Captioner] 21:14:52 CONTRACT EITHER SO I DON'T KNOW [Captioner] 21:14:52 STILL. [Captioner] 21:14:53 >> Councilmember Campbell: THE [Captioner] 21:14:55 CONTRACT WITH THE SEIU. [Captioner] 21:14:55 >> CORRECT. [Captioner] 21:14:56 >> Councilmember Campbell: SO [Captioner] 21:15:00 THAT PART IS PRETTY MUCH UP TO [Captioner] 21:15:04 SWA AND SEIU, SO WE'RE REALLY [Captioner] 21:15:07 KIND OF OUT OF THAT PART OF IT. [Captioner] 21:15:08 >> TRUE. [Captioner] 21:15:08 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 21:15:09 CORRECT, OKAY. [Captioner] 21:15:11 AND WE'VE ALREADY ENTERED INTO [Captioner] 21:15:12 THE FIRST OPTION SO THERE'S [Captioner] 21:15:14 REALLY NOTHING THAT WE COULD DO [Captioner] 21:15:16 NOW, THE STAFF DOESN'T RECOMMEND [Captioner] 21:15:17 WE REBID THIS CONTRACT OR [Captioner] 21:15:19 ANYTHING LIKE THAT? [Captioner] 21:15:20 >> CORRECT. [Captioner] 21:15:21 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 21:15:22 OKAY. [Captioner] 21:15:24 SO WHAT -- OUR HANDS ARE REALLY [Captioner] 21:15:26 TIED AND WE CAN ONLY REALLY LOOK [Captioner] 21:15:27 TO THE FUTURE OF WHAT WE WOULD [Captioner] 21:15:29 LIKE TO BE ABLE TO DO IN THE [Captioner] 21:15:30 FUTURE. [Captioner] 21:15:31 OKAY? [Captioner] 21:15:31 >> SURE. [Captioner] 21:15:32 >> Councilmember Campbell: ALL [Captioner] 21:15:32 RIGHT. [Captioner] 21:15:34 SO I WOULD BE WILLING TO ASK [Captioner] 21:15:36 STAFF TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT A [Captioner] 21:15:38 REASONABLE CONTRACTING POLICY [Captioner] 21:15:41 THAT MAY INCLUDE PREVAILING [Captioner] 21:15:42 WAGES AND HEALTH CARE AND SOME [Captioner] 21:15:44 OF THOSE OTHER THINGS AND WHAT [Captioner] 21:15:46 THAT MIGHT COST US OR HOW THAT [Captioner] 21:15:50 MIGHT IMPACT THE CONTRACTORS [Captioner] 21:15:54 WHEN WE ARE -- BECAUSE I DID [Captioner] 21:15:55 SAY, IN ONE OF THE QUESTIONS [Captioner] 21:15:57 THAT I ASKED, THAT IT MAY BE A [Captioner] 21:16:01 SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN COST FOR [Captioner] 21:16:03 THE OVERALL CONTRACT. [Captioner] 21:16:04 >> Mayor Mei: IT WOULD BE. [Captioner] 21:16:04 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 21:16:05 ITSELF. [Captioner] 21:16:08 SO HOW WOULD WE BE ABLE TO [Captioner] 21:16:10 AFFORD IT IF WE -- AND SO THOSE [Captioner] 21:16:12 WOULD BE MY CONCERNS IF WE WERE [Captioner] 21:16:14 TO MOVE TOWARD WITH THE [Captioner] 21:16:16 MUNICIPAL CODE REQUIREMENT. [Captioner] 21:16:25 >> Karena Shackelford: GO [Captioner] 21:16:25 AHEAD. [Captioner] 21:16:27 I'LL SPEAK LATER. [Captioner] 21:16:28 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: AND [Captioner] 21:16:30 IF I MAY OFFER AN OBSERVATION. [Captioner] 21:16:32 A PROCEDURAL OBSERVATION. [Captioner] 21:16:34 >> Mayor Mei: SHE'S MADE A [Captioner] 21:16:34 MOTION. [Captioner] 21:16:37 THERE IS A MOTION AND SECOND, IT [Captioner] 21:16:39 SEEMS LIKE. [Captioner] 21:16:40 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: MAY I [Captioner] 21:16:42 MAKE AN OBSERVATION? [Captioner] 21:16:44 >> Mayor Mei: GO AHEAD. [Captioner] 21:16:47 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: THE [Captioner] 21:16:51 REFERRAL COULD SHOW THAT THE [Captioner] 21:16:53 COUNCIL IS TAKING AN ACTION, IT [Captioner] 21:16:55 IS IMPORTANTTO TO SEE IF THAT IS [Captioner] 21:16:57 THE CASE OR YOU ARE ASKING TO [Captioner] 21:16:59 COME BACK WITH INFORMATION ON 1 [Captioner] 21:17:00 AND 2. [Captioner] 21:17:01 ON BOTH OF THOSE THERE IS [Captioner] 21:17:03 INFORMATION THAT THE COUNCIL [Captioner] 21:17:05 COULD FIND USEFUL IN DEVELOPING [Captioner] 21:17:06 ITS CONCLUSIONS ON 1 AND 2. [Captioner] 21:17:09 SO FOR EXAMPLE THERE WOULD BE A [Captioner] 21:17:11 COST DELTA BETWEEN A CURRENT [Captioner] 21:17:13 WAGE AND A PREVALIDATES WAGE ON [Captioner] 21:17:15 A CURRENT CONTRACT AND OFTEN [Captioner] 21:17:16 PART 2 -- [Captioner] 21:17:17 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 21:17:19 HE'S TALKING AND SOMEBODY HAS [Captioner] 21:17:19 THEIR MICROPHONE ON. [Captioner] 21:17:21 COULD YOU PLEASE NOT TALK OVER [Captioner] 21:17:22 HIM. [Captioner] 21:17:23 THANK YOU SO MUCH. [Captioner] 21:17:24 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: AND [Captioner] 21:17:26 PART 2 IT MAY REQUIRE ORDINANCE [Captioner] 21:17:28 AMENDMENTS AND CHANGES TO OUR [Captioner] 21:17:29 ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDELINES. [Captioner] 21:17:31 ALL RIGHT? [Captioner] 21:17:33 I CERTAINLY CAN'T SPEAK FOR THE [Captioner] 21:17:34 CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE BUT ON THE [Captioner] 21:17:35 CITY ATTORNEY SIDE PARTICULARLY [Captioner] 21:17:39 ON THE LEAVE SIDE IT -- [Captioner] 21:17:41 LEGISLATIVE SIDE, IT WOULD BE [Captioner] 21:17:43 IMPORTANT FOR US TO EXPLORE THE [Captioner] 21:17:45 REFERRAL, THERE ARE TWO CITIES [Captioner] 21:17:47 MENTIONED AND TO COME BACK WITH [Captioner] 21:17:48 A ROAMTION IN TERMS OF HOW WE [Captioner] 21:17:50 WOULD PROCESS OUR OWN LOCAL [Captioner] 21:17:52 POLICY, IT MAY REQUIRE AN [Captioner] 21:17:54 ORDINANCE AMENDMENT, IT MAY [Captioner] 21:17:57 REQUIRE ORDINANCE ADOPTION [Captioner] 21:17:59 GUIDELINES, AND IT MIGHT BE [Captioner] 21:18:01 IMPORTANT TO PUT THAT TOGETHER [Captioner] 21:18:02 FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION. [Captioner] 21:18:03 >> Councilmember Campbell: I'D [Captioner] 21:18:05 BE OPENING TO EXPLORE WHAT THAT [Captioner] 21:18:05 WOULD LOOK LIKE. [Captioner] 21:18:09 I DIDN'T ACTUALLY INTEND TO HAVE [Captioner] 21:18:10 THIS BE OVER WITH. [Captioner] 21:18:11 I REALLY WANTED IT TO COME BACK [Captioner] 21:18:14 AND HAVE US HAVE A LOOK AT IT. [Captioner] 21:18:16 PARTICULARLY AS IT IMPACTS US [Captioner] 21:18:17 FISCALLY. [Captioner] 21:18:23 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY, SO WE HAVE [Captioner] 21:18:25 CLARIFICATION ON THAT MOTION. [Captioner] 21:18:28 I KNOW THAT WE ALSO HAVE OTHER [Captioner] 21:18:30 SPEAKERS BUT I WANTED TO SEE, I [Captioner] 21:18:32 THINK WE HAVE CLARIFICATION AND [Captioner] 21:18:33 DOES COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN HAVE [Captioner] 21:18:34 HER HAND RAISED? [Captioner] 21:18:35 NO. [Captioner] 21:18:35 OKAY. [Captioner] 21:18:37 SO WE HAVE CLARIFICATION TO [Captioner] 21:18:40 SUPPORT THAT. [Captioner] 21:18:43 AND COUNCILMEMBER SHAO, OR VICE [Captioner] 21:18:45 MAYOR SHAO DID YOU WANT TO [Captioner] 21:18:46 SUPPORT THAT? [Captioner] 21:18:47 >> Vice Mayor Shao: NOTICE ON [Captioner] 21:18:48 THE CONTRARY. [Captioner] 21:18:49 I HAVE A QUESTION. [Captioner] 21:18:52 IF SAY THE FUTURE BIDDER HAVE A [Captioner] 21:18:53 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT, [Captioner] 21:18:55 DOES THAT MEAN THAT ANY BIDDER [Captioner] 21:18:59 HAS TO HAVE A UNIONIZED [Captioner] 21:19:01 EMPLOYEE BODY TO WORK FOR THAT [Captioner] 21:19:02 BIDDER? [Captioner] 21:19:05 OTHERWISE IT WOULDN'T BE [Captioner] 21:19:06 DISQUALIFIED FROM ANY BIDDING. [Captioner] 21:19:08 THAT'S THE CLARIFICATION I WOULD [Captioner] 21:19:10 LIKE TO SOAF. [Captioner] 21:19:11 >> Karena Shackelford: THAT [Captioner] 21:19:11 WOULD BE CORRECT. [Captioner] 21:19:15 SO IF WE WERE TO IMHEMENT THESE [Captioner] 21:19:15 RECOMMENDATIONS THEN THAT WOULD [Captioner] 21:19:17 BE THE CASE. [Captioner] 21:19:20 >> Vice Mayor Shao: SO JUST TO [Captioner] 21:19:22 THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE THOI% [Captioner] 21:19:24 OF THE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS IN [Captioner] 21:19:26 THE -- 90% OF THE CONSTRUCTION [Captioner] 21:19:28 WORKERS IN THE BAY AREA IS NOT [Captioner] 21:19:30 UNIONIZE OWED, IS NOT A UNION [Captioner] 21:19:31 MEMBER. [Captioner] 21:19:33 BY HAVING THIS REQUIREMENT, THAT [Captioner] 21:19:37 WOULD BE UNFAIR TO ANY PRIVATE [Captioner] 21:19:41 BUSINESS THAT WOULD LIAR [Captioner] 21:19:43 UNIONIZED WORKERS AND THAT [Captioner] 21:19:47 CERTAINLY IS NOT THE EP [Captioner] 21:19:50 OGEE THAT THE CITY OF FREMONT [Captioner] 21:19:52 SHOULD HAVE IF THE CITY [Captioner] 21:19:54 GOVERNMENT UPHOLDS ITS [Captioner] 21:19:54 INTEGRITY. [Captioner] 21:19:56 SO THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO SAY. [Captioner] 21:20:00 ALSO, LET'S SAY [Captioner] 21:20:05 APART FROM SERVICES, IF THE [Captioner] 21:20:11 PROSECUTOR PROCURE [Captioner] 21:20:15 LATTER OF THE -- PROCURER [Captioner] 21:20:17 WANTS TO BUY 1,000 COMPUTER [Captioner] 21:20:19 SCREENS FROM THE MARKET, DO THEY [Captioner] 21:20:25 HAVE TO ASK THE MANUFACTURER DEL [Captioner] 21:20:27 OR LE THRVETIONOVO OR ANY OTHER [Captioner] 21:20:32 BRANDS, ARE YOU SURE EVERY [Captioner] 21:20:33 SCREEN IS MADE BY A UNION [Captioner] 21:20:35 WORKER OR NOT? [Captioner] 21:20:39 DO WE HAVE TO ALWAYS LIMIT OUR [Captioner] 21:20:41 CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, OR OUR [Captioner] 21:20:45 MATERIAL PURCHASES, TO THE [Captioner] 21:20:51 UNIONIZED EMPLOYEE [Captioner] 21:20:55 CONTAINING BIDDERS? [Captioner] 21:20:57 I DISCUSS WANT TO SEE IF WE ARE [Captioner] 21:21:01 GOING THROUGH A STEEPING SLOPE. [Captioner] 21:21:05 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY. [Captioner] 21:21:05 COUNCILMEMBER KENG BECAUSE I [Captioner] 21:21:10 HAVEN'T HEARD FROM YOU. [Captioner] 21:21:10 >> Councilmember Keng: THANK [Captioner] 21:21:11 YOU, MADAM MAYOR. [Captioner] 21:21:13 I WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF HAVING [Captioner] 21:21:15 STAFF LOOKING INTO THE OTHER TWO [Captioner] 21:21:17 CITIES MENTIONED HAVE ON THIS [Captioner] 21:21:20 POLICY THAT WE ARE INTERESTED IN [Captioner] 21:21:21 ADOPTING. [Captioner] 21:21:23 I OWN A SMALL BUSINESS AND I [Captioner] 21:21:25 KNOW THAT WE HAVE THE MINIMUM [Captioner] 21:21:26 WAGE REQUIREMENT BOTH OUR CITY [Captioner] 21:21:28 AND OUR STATE. [Captioner] 21:21:31 BUT I DON'T JUST PAY MY CITY -- [Captioner] 21:21:35 I MEAN MY IMPOSE THE BEAR [Captioner] 21:21:37 MINIMUM BECAUSE I CAN. [Captioner] 21:21:41 I HAVE GIVEN THE JANITORS [Captioner] 21:21:43 THAT ARE CLEANING OUR BUILDINGS [Captioner] 21:21:46 ARE NOT OUR DIRECT EMPLOYEES BUT [Captioner] 21:21:47 MANY OF THEM HAVE WORKED FOR US [Captioner] 21:21:49 AND CLEAN OUR BUILDINGS FOR MANY [Captioner] 21:21:49 YEARS. [Captioner] 21:21:52 SO I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, IN [Captioner] 21:21:53 THE EXPENSIVE, EVEN THOUGH, YOU [Captioner] 21:21:57 KNOW, OF COURSE WE ARE -- IN [Captioner] 21:21:58 BUYING PRODUCTS WE CAN LOOK FOR [Captioner] 21:22:00 IT, YOU KNOW WE WANT TO LOOK FOR [Captioner] 21:22:03 THE CHEAPEST PRODUCT THAT [Captioner] 21:22:05 OPERATE, THAT PERFORM THE SAME. [Captioner] 21:22:07 BUT IF YOU ARE DEALING WITH [Captioner] 21:22:10 PEOPLE, THEY -- WE KNOW THAT, [Captioner] 21:22:12 YOU KNOW, IN OUR CITY EMPLOYEES, [Captioner] 21:22:13 WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR [Captioner] 21:22:15 EMPLOYEES ARE HAPPY. [Captioner] 21:22:19 BUT AND ALSO IN THE SAME TOKEN [Captioner] 21:22:21 , OUR PEOPLE THAT ARE WORKING [Captioner] 21:22:24 FOR US, I THINK, WE CAN ALSO [Captioner] 21:22:28 LOOK INTO HAVING THEM BE PAID [Captioner] 21:22:29 EQUIVALENT WAGE. [Captioner] 21:22:32 SO I'M HAPPY TO SUPPORT AND HAVE [Captioner] 21:22:33 STAFF LOOK INTO SOME OF THE [Captioner] 21:22:34 OPTIONS. [Captioner] 21:22:36 >> Mayor Mei: SO COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 21:22:38 KENG YOU'RE SECONDING. [Captioner] 21:22:39 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:22:41 IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE [Captioner] 21:22:41 SECONDING. [Captioner] 21:22:44 WHO MADE THE MOTION? [Captioner] 21:22:45 COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL. [Captioner] 21:22:46 COUNCILMEMBER KENG IS [Captioner] 21:22:46 SECONDING. [Captioner] 21:22:49 IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE [Captioner] 21:22:49 SUPPORTIVE. [Captioner] 21:22:50 >> Councilmember Keng: THAT'S [Captioner] 21:22:52 FINE. [Captioner] 21:22:54 >> Karena Shackelford: CAN WE [Captioner] 21:22:55 CLARIFY EXACTLY WHAT THE MOTION [Captioner] 21:22:58 REQUEST SOME RAFAEL RAISE OWED A [Captioner] 21:23:00 VERY GOOD POINT A MOMENT AGO. [Captioner] 21:23:01 >> Councilmember Campbell: I'M [Captioner] 21:23:03 SORRY MR. ALVIRDA, I THOUGHT I [Captioner] 21:23:04 WAS CLEAR THAT WE COULD EXPLORE [Captioner] 21:23:06 BOTH OF THESE OPTIONS. [Captioner] 21:23:08 AS YOU HAD MENTIONED AND JUST [Captioner] 21:23:12 COME BACK WITH TO US WITH YOUR [Captioner] 21:23:15 FINDINGS . [Captioner] 21:23:15 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: YES [Captioner] 21:23:17 IF YOU WOULD LIKE I CAN TRY TO [Captioner] 21:23:18 SUMMARIZE WHAT I THINK MY [Captioner] 21:23:20 UNDERSTANDING IS OF THE MOTION. [Captioner] 21:23:21 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 21:23:23 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:23:23 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: IT [Captioner] 21:23:25 WOULD BE THAT THE CITY COUNCIL [Captioner] 21:23:26 IS DIRECTING STAFF TO DEVELOP A [Captioner] 21:23:28 STAFF REPORT TO ADDRESS THE [Captioner] 21:23:31 PROCESS AND IMPACTS OF [Captioner] 21:23:31 IMPLEMENTING, YOU KNOW, THE [Captioner] 21:23:33 PREVAILING WAGE CONCERN IN [Captioner] 21:23:36 NUMBER 1 AND A RESPONSIBLE [Captioner] 21:23:40 CONTRACTING POLICY IN NUMBER 2. [Captioner] 21:23:40 >> Councilmember Campbell: [Captioner] 21:23:42 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:23:43 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:23:45 SO WE HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND. [Captioner] 21:23:46 AND DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO [Captioner] 21:23:46 CLARIFY? [Captioner] 21:23:50 OR DID YOU WANT TO -- [Captioner] 21:23:51 >> Councilmember Cox: I DID [Captioner] 21:23:52 WANT TO -- THANK YOU MAYOR. [Captioner] 21:23:54 I DID WANT TO GET A [Captioner] 21:23:54 CLARIFICATION. [Captioner] 21:23:56 ON THE CONTRACT POLICY WE ARE [Captioner] 21:23:59 ONLY GOING TO LOOK AT PREVAILING [Captioner] 21:24:01 WAGE, WE ARE NOT EXPLORING OTHER [Captioner] 21:24:03 THINGS IN THE OTHER CITIES [Captioner] 21:24:07 CONTRACTS, I JUST WANT TO MAKE [Captioner] 21:24:08 SURE UNITING THE SCOPE OF WORK [Captioner] 21:24:09 THAT WE ARE DIRECTING STAFF TO [Captioner] 21:24:11 COVER. [Captioner] 21:24:11 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: THE [Captioner] 21:24:13 SECOND PART OF THE REFERRAL [Captioner] 21:24:16 SOUTHBOUND TO -- IT WOULD BE TO [Captioner] 21:24:18 DEVELOP A STAFF REPORT THAT [Captioner] 21:24:19 EXPLORES THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A [Captioner] 21:24:21 RESPONSIBLY CONTRACTING POLICY, [Captioner] 21:24:22 THAT INCLUDES A REQUIREMENT [Captioner] 21:24:24 SIMILAR TO THAT OF OTHER CITIES, [Captioner] 21:24:26 SUCH AS MOUNTAIN VIEW AND PALO [Captioner] 21:24:29 ALTO, THAT FUTURE BIDDERS HAVE A [Captioner] 21:24:32 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT, [Captioner] 21:24:34 COVERING EMPLOYEES SERVICING THE [Captioner] 21:24:34 CITY OF FREMONT. [Captioner] 21:24:36 SO WE WOULD DEVELOP INFORMATION [Captioner] 21:24:38 TO THE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER BASED [Captioner] 21:24:40 UPON EXISTING POLICIES OF THOSE [Captioner] 21:24:42 CITIES, HOW WE CAN IMPLEMENT -- [Captioner] 21:24:44 WHAT THE IMPACTS ARE OF [Captioner] 21:24:45 IMPLEMENTING THAT LOCALLY AND [Captioner] 21:24:46 WHAT PROCEDURES WE WOULD HAVE TO [Captioner] 21:24:48 USE TO DO SO. [Captioner] 21:24:49 >> Councilmember Cox: OKAY SO [Captioner] 21:24:51 IT WOULD BE IS IN THERE AND [Captioner] 21:24:53 THEIR AGREEMENTS WOULD BE [Captioner] 21:24:55 POPPING UP TO EXPLAIN WHAT THAT [Captioner] 21:24:58 WOULD MEAN TO US AND THE [Captioner] 21:24:58 IMPACT. [Captioner] 21:24:59 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: YES, [Captioner] 21:25:00 WE ARE SIMPLY USING THE LANGUAGE [Captioner] 21:25:02 IN THE REFERRAL AND WE'RE GOING [Captioner] 21:25:03 TO DEVELOP A STAFF REPORT THAT [Captioner] 21:25:05 ADDRESSES THOSE POLICIES AND [Captioner] 21:25:06 WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE [Captioner] 21:25:08 POTENTIALLY LOCALLY IF THE [Captioner] 21:25:10 COUNCIL WERE TO DESIRE TO MOVE [Captioner] 21:25:11 FORWARD. [Captioner] 21:25:11 >> Councilmember Cox: AND [Captioner] 21:25:13 COULD THERE BE A PART THAT WOULD [Captioner] 21:25:14 BE LOOKING AT WHAT WE HAVE [Captioner] 21:25:18 CURRENTLY WITH GOATING A COPY OF [Captioner] 21:25:20 THE COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT THAT'S [Captioner] 21:25:21 CURRENT TO THEN COMPARE IT TO [Captioner] 21:25:23 THESE OTHER CITIES SO WE KIND OF [Captioner] 21:25:27 GOAT AN IDEA WHERE THINGS FALL? [Captioner] 21:25:28 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: [Captioner] 21:25:29 THAT'S NOT PART OF THE CURRENT [Captioner] 21:25:30 MOTION. [Captioner] 21:25:31 >> Councilmember Cox: OKAY. [Captioner] 21:25:32 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: BUT [Captioner] 21:25:33 YOU KNOW IF IT'S JUST A MATTER [Captioner] 21:25:35 OF GATHERING INFORMS I'M SURE [Captioner] 21:25:36 THAT WE COULD TRY TO TRACK THAT [Captioner] 21:25:40 INFORMATION DOWN. [Captioner] 21:25:40 >> Councilmember Cox: COULD WE [Captioner] 21:25:42 HAVE A TRENDILY MOMENT TO SEIZE [Captioner] 21:25:45 IF WE COULD GET A COPY OF THE [Captioner] 21:25:46 CURRENT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [Captioner] 21:25:49 AGREEMENT TO BE ABLE TO -- [Captioner] 21:25:50 >> Karena Shackelford: WELL I [Captioner] 21:25:53 THINK MR. KING ALREADY SAID THAT [Captioner] 21:25:55 WE COULD REQUEST A COPY OF [Captioner] 21:25:55 THAT. [Captioner] 21:25:57 THERE IS NOT A PROBLEM. [Captioner] 21:25:58 >> Councilmember Cox: OKAY, I [Captioner] 21:26:00 JUST WANT OWED TO MAKE SURE TO [Captioner] 21:26:02 GET A COPY INSTEAD OF DOING THE [Captioner] 21:26:03 RESEARCH, DOING THE COMPARISON, [Captioner] 21:26:04 I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND [Captioner] 21:26:06 THE SCOPE OF WORK AND LOOKING AT [Captioner] 21:26:07 THE BASELINE OF WHAT BEE MIGHT [Captioner] 21:26:08 HAVE CURRENTLY AND COMPARING IT [Captioner] 21:26:11 TO THE OTHER CITIES AS WHERE THE [Captioner] 21:26:13 CAPS GAPS ARE, THE GAP [Captioner] 21:26:13 ANALYSIS. [Captioner] 21:26:15 SO -- I DIDN'T WANT TO ASSUME. [Captioner] 21:26:17 I JUST THOUGHT I'D ASK. [Captioner] 21:26:17 >> Karena Shackelford: [Captioner] 21:26:18 UNDERSTOOD. [Captioner] 21:26:19 THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:26:19 >> Councilmember Cox: THANK [Captioner] 21:26:21 YOU VERY MUCH. [Captioner] 21:26:22 >> The Clerk: MAYOR, [Captioner] 21:26:23 COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN'S HAND IS [Captioner] 21:26:26 RAISED AGAIN. [Captioner] 21:26:26 >> Mayor Mei: COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 21:26:27 KASSAN. [Captioner] 21:26:27 >> Councilmember Kassan: THANK [Captioner] 21:26:27 YOU. [Captioner] 21:26:29 SO I DO SUPPORT THE IDEA THAT [Captioner] 21:26:32 IT'S BECOME A REFERRAL TO DO [Captioner] 21:26:33 SOME RESEARCH ON THESE TOPICS. [Captioner] 21:26:35 BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE [Captioner] 21:26:37 THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT BOTH OF [Captioner] 21:26:38 THE ITEMS. [Captioner] 21:26:42 BECAUSE FROM WHAT I HEARD, [Captioner] 21:26:46 CITY ATTORNEY [Captioner] 21:26:51 ALVARADO, GETTING A REPORT [Captioner] 21:26:51 BACK. [Captioner] 21:26:53 I'M SURE WE WANT TO FOCUS ON [Captioner] 21:26:55 ITEMS 1 AND 2 IN THE REFERRAL. [Captioner] 21:26:57 >> Cty. Attny. Alvarado: YES, [Captioner] 21:26:59 BOTH ITEMS ARE PART OF THE [Captioner] 21:26:59 MOTION. [Captioner] 21:27:01 I WAS RESPONDING TO A QUESTION [Captioner] 21:27:02 REGARDING THE SECOND PART. [Captioner] 21:27:03 >> Councilmember Kassan: GOT [Captioner] 21:27:05 IT, OKAY THANK YOU. [Captioner] 21:27:09 >> Mayor Mei: OKAY SO WE HAVE [Captioner] 21:27:10 A MOTION AND SECOND. [Captioner] 21:27:12 CAN WE HAVE AN OVERALL CALL VOTE [Captioner] 21:27:14 PLEASE. [Captioner] 21:27:14 >> The Clerk: COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 21:27:15 COX, AYE. [Captioner] 21:27:19 COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN, NAY. [Captioner] 21:27:20 COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN? [Captioner] 21:27:23 AYE. [Captioner] 21:27:25 COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL, AYE. [Captioner] 21:27:28 COUNCILMEMBER KENG, AYE. [Captioner] 21:27:29 VICE MAYOR SHAO. [Captioner] 21:27:30 NAY. [Captioner] 21:27:32 MAYOR MEI. [Captioner] 21:27:33 >> Mayor Mei: NAY. [Captioner] 21:27:35 SO THAT STILL PASSES THOUGH, [Captioner] 21:27:37 WITH THE MAJORITY -- I'M TRYING [Captioner] 21:27:38 TO REMEMBER, I APOLOGIZE, I [Captioner] 21:27:40 BELIEVE THAT PASSES WITH FOUR, [Captioner] 21:27:42 THREE, YES, WITH COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 21:27:48 SALWAN, VICE MAYOR SHAO, MAYOR [Captioner] 21:27:49 MEI VOTING NO. [Captioner] 21:27:51 BUT IT DOES COME BACK. [Captioner] 21:27:51 THANK YOU SO MUCH. [Captioner] 21:27:54 SO I THINK WE'RE EVERY ON [Captioner] 21:27:54 TIMING. [Captioner] 21:27:55 AND -- REFERRAL. [Captioner] 21:27:57 OH YES I APOLOGIZE, I STILL HAVE [Captioner] 21:27:58 A REFERRAL. [Captioner] 21:28:00 YES. [Captioner] 21:28:02 SO THE REFERRAL IS FOR [Captioner] 21:28:03 APPOINTMENT TO THE ADVISORY [Captioner] 21:28:08 BOARD AND IT'S FOR CHRISTINA S [Captioner] 21:28:13 SCHWANDT FOR GEORGE [Captioner] 21:28:15 W. PATTERSON HOUSING BOARD AND [Captioner] 21:28:17 EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK STAFF [Captioner] 21:28:19 MEMBER THE RECOMMENDATION. [Captioner] 21:28:20 >> SO MOVED. [Captioner] 21:28:21 >> SECOND. [Captioner] 21:28:23 >> Mayor Mei: MOVED BY [Captioner] 21:28:24 COUNCILMEMBER COX AND SOAKED BY [Captioner] 21:28:25 COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN. [Captioner] 21:28:26 PLEASE VOTE. [Captioner] 21:28:28 ROLL CALL VOTE PLEASE. [Captioner] 21:28:28 >> The Clerk: COUNCILMEMBER [Captioner] 21:28:31 COX, AYE. [Captioner] 21:28:34 COUNCILMEMBER SALWAN, AYE. [Captioner] 21:28:38 COUNCILMEMBER KASSAN, AYE. [Captioner] 21:28:40 COUNCILMEMBER CAMPBELL, AYE. [Captioner] 21:28:42 COUNCILMEMBER KENG, AYE. [Captioner] 21:28:44 VICE MAYOR SHAO, AYE. [Captioner] 21:28:46 MAYOR MEI, AYE. [Captioner] 21:28:47 >> Mayor Mei: SO THE MOTION [Captioner] 21:28:48 PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. [Captioner] 21:28:51 CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW [Captioner] 21:28:52 COMMISSIONER OR THE [Captioner] 21:28:55 REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE GEORGE W. [Captioner] 21:28:56 PATTERSON HOUSE ADVISORY BOARD. [Captioner] 21:28:58 SO WITH THAT, I KNOW WE'RE OVER [Captioner] 21:29:00 ON TIME ALREADY, AND SO I'M [Captioner] 21:29:04 GOING TO -- COUNCILMEMBER SHAO [Captioner] 21:29:07 DID YOU HAVE A REPORT OUT? [Captioner] 21:29:08 >> Vice Mayor Shao: YES BY THE [Captioner] 21:29:12 HANDBOOK I'M DIRECTED TO PROVIDE [Captioner] 21:29:13 A REPORT OUT. [Captioner] 21:29:16 AFTER I ATTENDED THE NEW YORK [Captioner] 21:29:20 CITY EXPO, THE USA EXPO [Captioner] 21:29:23 IN NEW YORK CITY LAST WEEK, I'M [Captioner] 21:29:26 GLAD TO ANNOUNCE THAT ON MY [Captioner] 21:29:26 OBSERVATION CITY OF FREMONT IS [Captioner] 21:29:28 STILL TAKING THE CUTTING EDGE IN [Captioner] 21:29:31 OUR EFFORTS TO MAKE OUR CITY [Captioner] 21:29:33 SMART AND SMARTER. [Captioner] 21:29:35 FOR EXAMPLE, WE'RE THE PIONEER [Captioner] 21:29:39 IN THE DRAW AS THE FIRST [Captioner] 21:29:40 RESPONSE PROGRAM WHICH SETS A [Captioner] 21:29:41 VERY GOOD EXAMPLE FOR THE OTHER [Captioner] 21:29:42 CITIES. [Captioner] 21:29:45 HOWEVER, I ALSO REALIZE THAT WE [Captioner] 21:29:47 HAVE MISSED A LOT OF [Captioner] 21:29:51 OPPORTUNITIES TO USE THE [Captioner] 21:29:52 EXISTING RESOURCE ET CETERA TO [Captioner] 21:29:56 HELP US, FOR EXAMPLE,ER GO, [Captioner] 21:30:00 , ERGO PROVIDES A SERIES [Captioner] 21:30:02 OF FREE TOOLS THAT WOULD HELP [Captioner] 21:30:06 CITIES TO PREVENT FLOOD AND [Captioner] 21:30:07 WILDFIRE. [Captioner] 21:30:10 THEY ALSO HAVE A GREEN LIGHT [Captioner] 21:30:13 PROJECT WHICH WOULD HELP CITIES [Captioner] 21:30:15 TO FURTHER MODERNIZE THE TRAFFIC [Captioner] 21:30:19 LIGHTS TO PREVENT TRAFFIC [Captioner] 21:30:23 CONGESTION [Captioner] 21:30:24 . [Captioner] 21:30:27 ALSO THEY HAVE THE COUNT TO HELP [Captioner] 21:30:32 THE TREE COUNT OF A CITY TO HELP [Captioner] 21:30:34 THE CITY BECOME GREENER. [Captioner] 21:30:36 WE CAN CERTAINLY APPROACH GOOGLE [Captioner] 21:30:38 TO SEE HOW WE CAN FORM SOME [Captioner] 21:30:40 COLLABORATION AS THEY HAVE [Captioner] 21:30:41 ALREADY HELPED FOR EXAMPLE THE [Captioner] 21:30:45 CITY OF SEATTLE, CONGRESS IN THE [Captioner] 21:30:47 STATE OF OHIO AND SO ON AND HAVE [Captioner] 21:30:51 MADE A LOT OF ACHIEVEMENTS. [Captioner] 21:30:52 SO THIS IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING [Captioner] 21:30:54 WE HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO. [Captioner] 21:30:55 HOWEVER HAVING SEWED THAT I'M [Captioner] 21:30:57 NOT SURE WHETHER THE GOOGLE [Captioner] 21:30:59 EMPLOYEES ARE UNIONIZED OR NOT. [Captioner] 21:31:01 IF THEY ARE THOUGHT UNIONIZED [Captioner] 21:31:03 THEN THE CITY OF FREMONT WILL BE [Captioner] 21:31:06 PREVENTED FROM HAVING A CONTRACT [Captioner] 21:31:10 WITH THEM, HAD WE DECIDED TO [Captioner] 21:31:12 MOVE ON AND ADD THIS [Captioner] 21:31:13 REQUIREMENT. [Captioner] 21:31:15 THAT CERTAINLY WOULD BE TAKEN [Captioner] 21:31:18 INTO CONSIDERATION FOR FUTURE [Captioner] 21:31:22 EFFORTS TO MAKE OUR CITY SMARTER [Captioner] 21:31:24 BUT NOT DUMBER. [Captioner] 21:31:26 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [Captioner] 21:31:27 >> Mayor Mei: THANK YOU FOR [Captioner] 21:31:27 YOUR COMMENTS. [Captioner] 21:31:29 I WILL MENTION VERY QUICKLY [Captioner] 21:31:30 THAT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT IT [Captioner] 21:31:32 IS GOOD THAT WE HAVE THESE [Captioner] 21:31:33 CONFERENCES AND I APPRECIATE [Captioner] 21:31:36 THAT YOU PARTICIPATED FOR [Captioner] 21:31:37 NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES WHICH [Captioner] 21:31:40 IS A GREAT ORGANIZATION AND [Captioner] 21:31:42 THOUGH ARE CELEBRATING THEIR [Captioner] 21:31:43 100th ANNIVERSARY AND THEN ALSO [Captioner] 21:31:44 LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES. [Captioner] 21:31:47 I WILL SAY, I SOANT A MESSAGE [Captioner] 21:31:50 OUT TO BECAUSE I FLO THAT THERE [Captioner] 21:31:54 IS A GOVIA PROCESS WHICH HAS [Captioner] 21:31:56 COME IN FOR SAN JOSE AND THAT IS [Captioner] 21:31:58 EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE TALKING [Captioner] 21:31:59 ABOUT WHICH TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE [Captioner] 21:32:01 AND THAT ONE IN PARTICULAR I'M [Captioner] 21:32:02 INTROAFTED IN POSSIBLY GETTING [Captioner] 21:32:03 FEEDBACK IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE [Captioner] 21:32:05 OF THE FACT THAT IT'S REGIONAL [Captioner] 21:32:07 SPECIFIC TO OUR AREA, THE BAY [Captioner] 21:32:07 AREA. [Captioner] 21:32:11 SO WITH THAT, I WILL THEN [Captioner] 21:32:13 ADJOURN THE MEETING AT 9:30. [Captioner] 21:32:14 THANK YOU SO MUCH.