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October 22, 2020 Fresno City Council! Among the items are 7-11 across form Roosevelt High; Proclamation to name road into Sunnyside High after the late Principal Tim Liles; Councilmember Bredefeld asks for Council suppport on Proposition 20; $125,000 for Advanced Peace;

$100,000 for environmental study for SE Fresno soccer fields:park; Proclamation of “Breast Cancer Awareness; acquisition of former Fresno Bee building. #Fresno @CMACTV Watch live at 9 am cmac.tv/gov/

Among the Consent Calendar items: 1-E Actions pertaining to the installation of Immaculight-Illumipure ultraviolet disinfecting fixtures at various Parks, After School, Recreation and Community Services facilities: 1. Adopt finding of Categorical Exemption of the California

Environmental Quality Act Guidelines 2. Approve a change order to construction contract with Alliance Building Solutions, Inc. utilizing CARES funding in the amount of $991,000 to provide and install 200 Immaculight-Illumipure ultraviolet disinfecting fixtures at various Parks

1-G *Amending the uncodified ordinance to adopt changes and additions to the official list of designated special speed zones for various streets within the City of Fresno pursuant to Section 14-1501 of the Fresno Municipal Code

1-H
Authorizing a grant application to the California State Department of Housing and Community Development (California HCD) for funding under the CalHome Program and execution of a standard agreement and other required program documents for the repair, rehabilitation or

replacement of manufactured homes in the City of Fresno.

1-K *Appropriating $125,000 for the Fresno Advance Peace Project Agreement (Requires 5 affirmative votes)2. Approve Agreement with Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission in the amount of $125,000 for violence reduction services for the Fresno Advance Peace Project

Approve a Consultant Services Agreement with De Novo Planning Group for environmental assessment services related to the proposed Southeast Fresno Regional Park and Soccer Complex in an amount not to exceed $100,000

1-L Approve the appointment of Sabrina Kelley to the Housing Authority Board.
1-P Approve the appointment of Sherry Neil to the Fresno Regional Workforce Development Board

1-M *appropriating $19,000 for the Faith Based Partnership Amended Agreement (Requires 5 affirmative votes) (Subject to Mayor's Veto); 2. Approve Third Amendment to Agreement with Fresno Pacific University's Center for Community Transformation (CCT) in the amount

$18,000 and an additional $1,000 for reimbursement of meeting expenses, for a total amount not to exceed $69,000 for services under the Mayor's Faith Based Partnership Council.

1-0*Actions pertaining to the acquisition of 1625 G Street

1-Q*Supporting California's Proposition 20 on the November 2020 Ballot sponsored by Councilmember Bredefeld

1- RApprove an agreement with Olympic Property Services, LLC., for Chinatown area clean-up, not to exceed $250,000

1-U Initiating a Text Amendment to the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Fresno to Amend Chapter 15, of the Fresno Municipal Code relating to the Sale of Alcoholic Beverages for Offsite Consumption and Section 15-6704 relating to Food and Beverage Sales definitions.

Esparza and Chavez calling in for the meeting. Arias, Soria, Caprioglio and Bredefeld in person. 1-L ,1-O, 1-Q (Prop 20 part. Bredefeld wants to keep on agenda but Arias wants it off. Karbassi in favor of Prop 20 but not part of Council); 1-T (hotel only 39th amendment part), 1-N

Tabled by @esparza_nelson. Questions on disinfectant for Parks as Karbassi doesn’t know how much CARES dollars are left but it is time sensitive.

Proclamation of “Breast Cancer Awareness by @Esmeralda_Soria and @PaulCaprioglio “early detection is important and also effects men. Susan G Komen website has info. “ Caprioglio: “Common among women so we need awareness.His now 94 year old mother had breast cancer. She never gave

and is a warrior “. 35 years that this is breast cancer awareness month. Next: @MayorLeeBrand Proclamation of “Richard Dale Keys Sr. Day” Mayor's Office and Councilmember Karbassi Brand: on numerous boards including EOC, Ethics studies at Fresno State. Karbassi:relies upon, in-

sightful. Thanks him for all he did. Caprioglio: please adjourn in his memory. Soria: she served with him on EOC board and he took her under his wing. He helped fight poverty and was a role model.

Proclamation for “Domestic Violence Awareness Month sponsored by Arias and Karbassi. Karbassi: shelter in place has led to an increase in domestic violence. Arias: thanks to Marjoree Mason Center. His family has used their services. They are a great Neighbor. Nicole from Mason

Center has seen an increase during Covid 19 and Fresno has highest rate in California.

1-L Sabrina Kelly continued Fresno Bee continued. Board Members comments: Chavez: thanks family of Tim Liles and the youth that has requested naming the road after Principal Liles. @GarryBredefeld Prop 20 rolls back definition of crime. Chief Hall is in favor of this. Nonviolent

definition. Lessens (correction: Hall against Prop 20) violence. We need to have consequences. This council has decided not to support this. CHP, DA Smittcamp against this. She says Newsom released prisons to reduce Covid. Rampant crime in our city due to this says Bredefeld.

This council pulled this. Crime doesn’t affect us. Karbassi: we can all take a moment to calm down as it was my comments he was referring to. Propositions are either /or. Makes us divisive. I have come out in favor of Prop 20 on my own time not here. Crime has doubled in my

district. We need to do something about it. Verified gang leaders need to go to prison as their are victims. We can’t wait until November election. People don’t want division. Next: he was able to tour food bank and are making changes due to Covid. Diaper Bank so people can

work but if they don’t have diapers for their babies they can’t work. @PaulCaprioglio Thanks City Manager for their hard work in District 4. Prop 20 agrees with Karbassi. Karbassi not only raised issue but did something about it. @Esmeralda_Soria Pooch Parade in Tower will be

live streamed from Tower District. Procurement Workshop October 28 at 2 pm. This will help provide jobs locally. Survey link on her website on parks. Please fill out! Community health days includes masks; flu shots. @drarambula559 staff have helped as well. Central Valley Blood

Bank is low on supplies. Next month Soria and @AnnalisaPerea are sponsoring blood donation at Gazebo Gardens and include a raffle. Arias: final budget will be October 29th beginning at 9 am. Washington DC /Sacramento is not the cause of all our problems and they won’t be the

solution to all our problems. A forum on increase crime will be held next Wednesday 4 pm -6 pm. PD responds to crime but community’s responsibility to prevent it. @esparza_nelson wants to increase Parks allocation from $5 million to $6 million and add to budget. Will vote on this

Next Thursday morning. Consent Calendar: Chavez recuses himself on 1-K. Esparza pulls 1-U. Bredefeld recuses on 1-T. Votes NO on 1-K. Pulls 1-R and 1-V and 1-W. Soria: pulls 1-F. Arias: pulls 1-M

@LovesMercy Brandi: wants more funding for housing and doesn’t want all of that to be on outskirts only. Blackstone housing is important and puts people close to services. D’Aungillique Jackson: list of demands to go to black community from Covid dollars. Interested in where

this goes. (Short one councilmember to vote on consent calendar. Karbassi is now back). 1-F design of generator replacement. Soria: is this general fund $$? A: Scott Mozier of Public Works says funded from other fund. It is spread across lots of departments including Measure C,

gas tax too. Soria: grants to cover these types of items. Did we explore that venue?Mozier: Cal OES Grant is being looked at but we need to spend the dollars first. Approved 1-M 1-M *appropriating $19,000 for the Faith Based Partnership Amended Agreement (Requires 5 affirmative)

H. Spees: covers expenses to help Faith based organizations help community and advise Mayor. FPU would organize meetings and they then let mayor know. 60 home repairs on West Side. Holiday Tips when donating food on holidays to Homeless that didn’t contradict Poverello House.

Sacred Streets trained 50 churches to meaningful work for homeless. We are over The $50,000 originally awarded. This new money will go to this center. We think it is worth the cost as it has generated many hours of work. Karbassi: this is a lot of money but we are getting lots of

bang for our bucks. Spees: has provided good distribution during this pandemic. Also we have heard from Sihk and Muslim communities on their threats they have perceived. Arias: can this group meet next Wednesday at our forum on reducing crime? Approved

1- RApprove an agreement with Olympic Property Services, LLC., for Chinatown area clean-up, not to exceed $250,000. Bredefeld wonders is that limited to $250,000 or can it be more? Counsel: yes any contract can be raised by this council at anytime. Bredefeld: this same company

was awarded on. 4-3 vote to clean freeway even though they were more expensive and provided less service. Why wasn’t this Chinatown contract out out to bid? City Manager: not sure why. City can do this cheaper internally. Prevailing wage on this asks Bredefeld? A: yes it does.

Arias: makes motion to approve. Gets second. Council wanted freeway cleanup to keep jobs local. Company came back with more clean up plus bonding is twice what is required by City. City has had 2 years to clean Chinatown and it hasn’t been done. Sanitation is overwhelmed. When it

is requested to pick up trash and can take 8 days. Meanwhile other trash piles. Bulk items are contracted out to private firms to pick up appliances. This is intended to be an immediate solution to this. When Santa Clara St was cleaned up homeless moved to Chinatown and they have

have taken the brunt. $40 million housing project in Chinatown but it is near a fire hazard due to this trash piling up. Fulton and Tower get weekly clean up. Chinatown has been given years to be cleaned up. Karbassi: more mixed use in Chinatown before 2009 recession. Bredefeld

interjects it is his turn. Mozier: PBID for Fulton helps with clean Up along with TIGER grant obligations. Jim Schaad:freeway contract increased due to increased services. That is a good thing. Additional funding is what makes it work. City could clean it up now that there is

more funding. We could start October 15th but we are surprised this showed up on the agenda. City Manager Quan: Arias is on record saying city staff did a great job on Santa Clara. Arias: that wasn’t a favor to me. That was after a huge pile. Bredefeld: gets mad he doesn’t get

the floor. Bredefeld yells at Caprioglio for laughing. Bredefeld tells him he is part of swamp and the corruption here and on this contract. Caprioglio tells Bredefeld he can resign anytime if he doesn’t want to be part of this. Karbassi apologizes to public for this. Arias calls

for a five minute break for everyone to calm down. (Bredefeld wanted the floor back but Caprioglio called for the question at hand to be voted on and that is when the council got testy with each other).

Council is back. Arias: calls for public comment. Bredefeld wants the floor. @LisaYFlores1 there are fires in Chinatown. Also Council needs to behave. You represent me. Next: D’Aungillique Jackson: council needs to be better. Bredefeld wants to speak but Caprioglio calling for

his resignation doesn’t help. Next: Sam Frank: city employees don’t like to see contracts famed out to private firms. Bredefeld asks for floor back. He says we got this new contract just yesterday. Analysis shows city staff can go this for cheaper than Olympic. ($250,000 v $70000

). Contract from Olympic is half of what they asked for in September. Public dollars should go out to bid. $143,000 now after originally $250,000. This is about giving lucrative contracts to friends. Council acts like big protector of public dollars. This is public corruption.

Karbassi asks Arias if he wishes he had a mic cutoff switch. He apologizes to public for council for getting heated. Chinatown has always been a focus of his. Chinatown has been hit by recession and HSR construction. How many months is Operation Clean up? Schaad: unsure.

Karbassi: how long until Chinatown gets service? Contract number was lowered and I would think Bredefeld and administration would be happy about that but i guess not. Arias: Bredefeld comments had lots of inaccuracies. City staff proposed only two hours of pressure washing.

Arias: if we can do RFP then let’s do that. Quan: is the RFP comment an attack on administration? Aris calls for vote. Approved 6-1 with Bredefeld voting NO. 1-T Karbassi wants to table this so we know exactly how much CARES dollars are left? Approved to table 6-0-1 with

Bredefeld preciously recused from it. 1-U Initiating a Text Amendment to the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Fresno to Amend Chapter 15, Article 27, Section 15-2706 of the Fresno Municipal Code relating to the Sale of Alcoholic Beverages for Offsite Consumption Esparza wonders if

can table this so we don’t hurt attracting healthy grocery stores. Asks Chavez for a month to compile data. Chavez agrees to table and work with Esparza on it. Bredefeld: when will this be brought forward? This is important. Not sure what else needs to be added. Chavez: text

amendment takes a bit of time so we can work on this. Bredefeld: we all agree we don’t want liquor stores to proliferate in neighborhoods but we don’t want to hurt grocery stores. Esparza: just wants to prevent a future problem. This still allows lessening liquor stores to occur.

1-V why are we extending this? asks Bredefeld Soria: this waives fees so developers can fill in gap so they can be built in disadvantaged communities. Bredefeld agrees. Approved

3-A Authorizing and directing Finance to decline City participation in the optional federal payroll tax deferral program Bargaining Units/employees were reached out to but no interest occurred. Approved.

4-A *Approving the honorary street name change designating Lane Avenue in Southeast Fresno to also be known as "Liles Avenue" at the entrance to Sunnyside High School.Chavez:received over 1200 emails from youth asking for this. Thanks them and Tim’s brother Ron for his help.

It will be called Tim Liles Way!! Approved.

Arias: we will go to Closed Session. Public portion will resume at 1:30 pm for Consideration of Conditional Use Permit Application located on the northwest corner of North Cedar Avenue and East Tulare Street which is the proposed 7-11 kiddy korner to Roosevelt High.

1:30 ***Consideration of Conditional Use Permit Application No. P20-00545, located on the northwest corner of North Cedar Avenue and East Tulare Street (Council District 7) - Planning and Development Department.

Applicant wants to ask for a continuance on this item. Representing applicant is Bonique Emerson with Precision Engineering. Wants to continue due to some recent information. @esparza_nelson would like the public to speak on this today still

Frank on Tulare St asks clarification on continuance requested by applicant? A: Yes. Next: Larry Lopez who is athletic director at Roosevelt High. 7-11 has tried to work out a Partnership to build a scoreboard at Riders field. Rarely have a dance after games as we have to play

all games away from campus. @esparza_nelson asks applicant what is the new information ? A: we want to put our best foot forward on this. Esparza: November 5th is next scheduled meeting to meet on this. Approval to move it to the 5th 6-0-1 as Caprioglio has a medical appointment.

Next item in 15 minutes. Bredefeld recuses himself from it due to Housing Authority aspect of it.

Special emergency meeting.
2:00 Arias: use Housing Authority to bring $22 million for homeless. Spees: project State’s Homekey t help cities purchase and convert hotels into permanent housing. City will need to add $5-6 million over 5 years. This is a non-binding until next

next meeting but Housing Authority has a deadline to purchase these. @PressedTinP of Housing Authority says via zoom: an exciting partnership with city. Arias has championed this and this is one time funding source for this. This will help women and children living in the hotels.

We know this feels rushed but will give State assurance we are moving in the correct direction. Approved 5-0 with Bredefeld recused and Caprioglio absent. Council now goes into Closed Session.

NOVEMBER 5, 2020 - 9:00 A.M. MEETING NOVEMBER 12, 2020 - NO MEETING NOVEMBER 19, 2020 - 9:00 A.M. MEETING NOVEMBER 26, 2020 - NO MEETING

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