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Council is back at 1:37 from Lunch break

3-B Actions related to Senate Bill 1383 - California's Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy: 1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15308/Class 8 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines 2. ***BILL - (For introduction)

Amending Chapter 6, Article 2 of the Fresno Municipal Code, relating to waste collection and disposal (Subject to Mayor's Veto) 3. ***RESOLUTION - Authorizing submission to CalRecycle a Notification of Intent to Comply with the mandates of Senate Bill 1383 to achieve the organic

waste reduction goals established in Section 39730.6 of the California Health and Safety Code (Subject to Mayor's Veto) On Zoom:@LisaYFlores1 Encourage City to work with greening of Fresno too. More trees.

This item is follow up to last weeks workshop. APPROVED 6-0 with Karbassi missing

3-A WORKSHOP - Pavement Management Presentation

City owns Asset Value of $4.5 B in road network. Perhaps larger than most California Counties have. What condition are the street in? Network PCI=60 which is FAIR 1/3 of streets are in good shape but a third is in poor.PCI 90 =a newly paved road PCI = 75 is need of Slurry. PCI=60

is beginning to fall apart. PCI 40 has cracks to bottom. PCI=20 would have to tear out the road completely. Difference of North and South of Shaw are about the same. Fresno is about the same compared to rest of Valley. Clovis is PCI 72. Statewide is 66. Fresno County is below 60

Next five to 10 years roads need to be repaired before it gets more expensive. Recommend preserve the good roads we do have as it is more expensive to do it later.City spends $12M for roads now. To get Arterials to 70 with neighborhoods at 65. If we fund at $12M

average will be 43 in ten years.Unfunded maintenance may not be able to fix if we wait until 10 years. Construction costs will only go up. If road is stabilized at PCI 60 will take $47 M a year.To improve arterials to 70 & 65 for neighborhoods will be $100M(!)The

existing $12 M funding levels is insufficient.Measure C will sunset in 3 years too.Need to go to cost effective. Perhaps new subdivisions may need to pay for their roads. @D7Esparza that is sobering news. @kmkarbassi Informative. Nice to know we are above the State average.

Surprised the North/South divide is the same. Community Facility District (CFD) in new subdivisions include asphalt maintenance? Mozier:YES and no general funding used. Karbassi:so how do we tackle this backlog? A:SB 1 was only there to staunch the flood.Oakland had PCI 40.

They passed a parcel tax. some rural areas let there roads revert back to gravel as they were really just a long driveway. Education of public of what types of roads are acceptable. Recycling road material. @LuisCha70215912 What is the life cycle of a road to go from each level?

A:20 years in an arterial and 30-40 for a neighborhood level. Roads were designed for one garbage truck a week. Now we have three trucks a week with recycling, yard waste too. @MiguelArias_D3 100% of failed roads are south of McKinley? A:there may be a failed roads mixed in with

good roads and will have a blue/green color. Arias:i have three sections and Chavez one. Mozier:Money is not available and not even in pipeline in next 5 years. Arias:Investing in youth will lower incarceration. Yet we invest in law enforcement. With roads we invest in newer

roads to prevent them from deteriorating. But roads that are 40 years from being repaired are told they are too expensive to fix. A:spend some on failed roads near schools and the like. Mozier:15% fund spent on preventive. 66% on mill/repaving. Annexed roads are repaired by HOA

or brought into CFD. City is responsible for arterials at Veterans Blvd. Cal Trans for onramps etc.County maintains Grantland south of Shields.Arias:if we expand outside of our city limits it then competes with the other road needs. County keeps 68% of property tax so when we

annex we actually lose money. Measure C renewal:Has Mayor and Administration taken a position? White:Mayor won't be in favor if the funding formula is the same. He wants to focus on neighborhood streets over new freeways.Arias:road to the bottom if we continue with Measure C as

it currently is. It will eventually bankrupt us. I have had to replace my motor mounts/struts due to poor roads. First St road fails South of Tulare. Limiting diesel trucks to certain roads as they deteriorating our roads. @Esmeralda_Soria We have a deferred maintenance problem.

Not just roads but citywide assets. Mozier:CBDG, Fresno COG, Measure C are other sources. $18 M are spent on other road items like sign painting, street signals, concrete repair from tree damage. This is on top of the $12 M to repair the road itself.

Need to maximize our dollars wherever they are from such as ARPA.@gregorybarfield Mozier is leader in where these possible sources may come from. White:this is a good tool. It will help us decide where those dollars should be spent. Development is not paying their way and County

revenue sharing doesn't provide enough. CFDs have to make up that loss.Mozier and Public Works do a great job leveraging other dollars. Mozier:we have a map of where sidewalks are missing. Arias:No neighborhood left behind was borrowing from bonds. It seemed like by the time the

bonding was paid for it was time to start again. Mozier:it still was less expensive to pay financing on the bond v. road deteriorating. Arias:thank you for making road pavement interesting! END OF WORKSHOP

Unscheduled Communications. Speak in favor of Tower District and to use City's Zoning rules to keep Adventure Church from using Tower Theater. They have connected with White Supremacists. Council has been silent. They have terrorized local school board. Council is letting this

to happen as long as they are acting as a church. @laurasplotch on Zoom:I have been targeted by extremists. We have to get restraining orders. Tower Theater is the heart of our home. I wish the
City would fall in line and help us out. We need the City to step up by buying the

theater and letting the proper group to run it. @JanineNkosi of Faith in the Valley: ARPA Special meeting undercuts the public process.This was created at the last minute. Meet people where they are at whether they are at church, community groups. Outside meetings are hard for

them to get too. The ARPA survey only had 900 people respond out of a town of 500,000.We also need a special meeting on housing. Robert McCloskey:Special ARPA meeting is last minute and has no attachments. @LisaYFlores1 Where are the Districts meeting outreach? 900 people on a

survey is not a survey. It is a party. Where are the procedural policy for HART team but we don't have one. Council is not listening to the community.We can lessen your burden. For shame.

SPECIAL MEETING:
Consider the 54th amendment to the Annual Appropriation Resolution (AAR) to appropriate FY 2022 General Fund surplus to various departments and purposes (requires 5 affirmative votes)
White:we reviewed what we spoke about at last week's meeting. Arias:we have

enough funding for the housing in the pipeline. White:we can't use ARPA on roads itself.Debt for existing fleet. it worked until the mid 80's when interest outpaced inflation. This will help decrease our debt which auditors will like as a good faith effort. Barfield:motorcycles

are a budget as you go. White:median island, street sweeping .Arias:Business corridor include downtown, kings canyon, Airport and Blackstone but not enough for median maintenance. White:Community Sanitation Fund pays for median is no longer sufficient to keep it going.

White:$64 M remaining balance to have Council make recommendations on after May. Soria:Community tells her small businesses behind on their rent. They cannot be evicted at this time. Is this a time for Mayor to help these who have been effected by COVID? White:we are open to this

discussion. Arias:These budget recommendations are what the community has been telling us:Parks, Essential Pay, reinvesting in neighborhoods, rental relief. All while doing the every day things at the City. This does not include the next round of budget. I ask our friends,

community, and critics to be patient. We are also creating more housing. Public Comment:@LovesMercy Brandi:ARPA does belong to the community. Community input is needed for those who are struggling. We need to let people really say what they want before allocating these funds.

Marisa:We really want to engage our community but the comment feature for this Special Meeting was disengaged after 2 minutes of going live. We are asking for engagement. So far it has been demoralizing. A parental approach.Complete neighborhoods are desired. Alexandra Alvarado

of @FaithInFresno I have been saddened as to the community that have been left out of this process.It is hard to access these documents, have people wait for these meetings. Please meet the people where they are at. Survey lumped housing and public safety. We hear

items at Council that goes on and on but the items people want to have doesn't happen or little discussion. @LisaYFlores1 the city is not ready for the newly homeless as rent rates keep increasing and rental moratorium ends. This last minute Special meeting is shady. If we are

only going to do the bare minumum standard than just say it. Ruben Espinosa:frustrating about the ARPA funding. We have been trying to engage the youth. No way they can make these meetings. They have creative plans for ARPA dollars that won't only helping them but everyone.

We need housing stability.This council is setting Youth to pour their hearts out but only see council to go the opposite way. @LuisCha70215912 i want people to know we had a workshop with 3 hours of public input, district meetings, safe route to schools, rental assistance, food

distribution etc. I want public to know we have engaged. For some it will never be enough and I understand that. Soria:CARES Act we listened to public and partnered with CBOs to due the work needed during pandemic. We have made significant inroads for housing, parks, that occured

because this Council and mayor were ready but mainly as we heard from the public.We gave unprecedented funding for South Fresno.White:the council engagement is the most I have ever seen in my time in this building.APPROVED 5-0

Council going to Closed Session now. FEBRUARY 24, 2022 - NO MEETING
MARCH 3, 2022 - NO MEETING
MARCH 10, 2022 - 9:00 A.M.
MARCH 17, 2022 - NO MEETING
MARCH 24, 2022 - 9:00 A.M.
MARCH 31, 2022 - NO MEETING

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