Coronado, California

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We don't have any ceremonial presentations today, so we'll go straight to item four, which is our consent calendar. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, no items that I want to remove, but I would like to add item eight C resolution to extend a local emergency declaration in the city of Coronado due to impacts from cross border water pollution. Alrighty. Thank you. Council members, are there any other items you'd like removed or added to the consent calendar? Okay, seeing that, are there any members of the public who would like any items removed from the consent calendar? We will do public comment on the consent calendar. So, let's go ahead and do that public comment now. Are there any members of the public who would like to address council on items on the consent calendar, including eight C? I understand there was an individual. Do you want to go ahead? Mayor, we have two submissions for consent. Okay. Mila Albertson. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor. My concern is that I am very sure. I find the price that the private community is coming to us for a while. I have to spend a lot of time with the public comment. All of the utilities, et cetera, here. To me, it's just, you know, I'm looking at it. Thank you. All that is developed is really prices, prices, prices, more than just a million. All righty, thank you for your comments. Before we go forward with further public comment, City Manager, do you have a brief comment on that? I do. Thank you, Mayor Duncan. Thank you, Ms. Albertson. And on that purchase, we did have an appraisal, and this was the appraised value. Thank you. Mr. Mayor? Yes, ma'am. I'm sorry. I should have disclosed. I did the first time this came up. I own property that is within 1,000 feet of this unit, but not within 500. So I have done the analysis, and I have no conflict of interest in voting on this item. All righty, thank you for that before we vote. I thought there was another member of the public who wanted to speak. All right, thank you. Afternoon. Yeah, when you speak, try to point the mic. It's a directional mic, so it'll work perfectly if it's pointed right at you. Thank you. Can you hear me? Yeah, perfectly. Oh, good. Come on. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So we're going to go to regular public comment now, which is for members of the public to address city council on any matter not listed on the agenda . You can come up to the podium. You'll have up to three minutes. Please give your name and limited comments. Before we do that, council member Downey has a public comment she'd like to make. Yes. I realize this crowd is the perfect crowd to hear my pitch. I am in charge of the 4th of July patriotic home front judging. And I'm hoping all of you are getting your bunting out and your sparklers or whatever you do to make your house ready for 4th of July. So I have a brochure up on the screen. It has a QR code. We just need you to let us know you want us to come by your house. There's prizes for the grand prize winner and nice plaques for the people in the top 10. So I'd really love all of you to enter yourselves or if you have a neighbor that loves to do this, go knock on their door, say let's enter. We don't judge anybody that doesn't enter. And there's no prize if you don't enter. So I would encourage everybody to do so. I put several of these flyers on the back table there. So if you have any questions, feel free to contact me, but it should all be in the information on the flyer and when you hit the QR code. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. And it answers my question. I was wondering when the deadline was to enter. And as it says on the flyer, it's June 23rd. So it's about six days from now. And my understanding is it's a pretty simple online application. All righty. Thank you for that. Now we're ready for any members of the public who would like to speak. Clerk, you have a list. Yes. I have seven. Mayor, Michelle Bailey. Hi. And one. Afternoon. Good afternoon. Are you still there? Yes. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Are you still there? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. And our next speaker will be Mila Albertson. We're having some microphone issues, so Bianca is just trading out. Can you bring the stand-up with it? Mila, you're up. Hi, Ken. Hi. Hi. Okay. So last Friday's paper had an article about the Brown Act and us now having to register in advance to speak before the city council. The implication in the article was that we had to do it days in advance, whereas when I got here today, there's a form, fill it out, speak. And that anyone can speak about any subject without having a whole group come up and monopolize one presentation. Although, when we've had things about the Kays Park and the dog park and the dog fence, we've had multiple people express their opinions. I'm not sure how this is going to work, but I'm hoping that everybody that is speaking, except for those that are here to get funding for the next fiscal year, have registered to speak and say what they want. I'm not sure that everyone will know that they're going to speak in advance. And I don't always speak. I just wait until I hear what other people have to say to share any thoughts I might have. But if this is going to work, and I think it will in many ways, you know, we all do it. I also want to thank our three female members of the City Council, Ms. Stewart, Ms. Downey, and Ms. Purvis, for providing written reports on your activities. It really helps to know, rather than just rattling off a couple of things that you did the last couple of weeks, meeting with the various agencies that you do, and talking about things that have happened recently. Thank you. All righty, thank you. Todd Little. Good afternoon, Mayor and City Council members. Afternoon. I'm Todd Little, the Executive Director of Discover Coron ado. I wanted to share with you an update from the latest meeting of our Advisory Board on June 3rd. With fiscal year 27 just a couple of weeks away, they elected officers for leading the organization moving forward. Reena Clancy will stay on as Secretary. Carlos Rodriguez, the new General Manager of the Coronado Island Marriott Resort, will be our Treasurer. Marco Tabat of the Hotel Del Coronado will serve as our Vice Chair. And Claudia Ludlow of the Gloria Bay Inn will serve as our Chair in fiscal year 27. The Advisory Board for Discover Coronado is a combination of seasoned veterans, small business owners, representatives of local organizations, and hoteliers that are now new residents of Coronado Island. They are looking forward to the new fiscal year and the opportunities that lie ahead. Thank you. Thank you, Todd. Jamie Hartnett. Hi there. I'm Jamie Hartnett, the President of the All-Volunteer Coronado Fourth of July Board of Directors. Mayor Duncan, City Council members, City Manager friend. I'm here with a reminder to the community that, as you can see on our website, we're just 18 days out from the 4th of July. So we've got a big day planned. We're in production. There's a lot going on. And once again, I'm here to let everyone know that the day full of events cannot take place without the support from community volunteers. Let's take a look at the day's events. If you don't mind, could you go to the events tab? I'll go through this quickly. But you know that we have a parade at 10 o'clock. And before that, we provide entertainment for those who have been waiting for the parade to begin. We have music. We have games. And we have all sorts of family fun. At 10 o'clock, the 77th annual parade will take place. We hope that that will be about a 2-hour and 10-minute parade. Right now, the entries are in. They're looking spectacular. Everyone will see a parade that they'll be proud of to be in Coronado. After that, we have a little thing that goes on at Star Parks where that Adrian Empire and the Star Wars people get together for a photo op. Last year, Tina Friend volunteered to help us over there. And she got to witness that firsthand. It's kind of a hidden gem activity, but we hope more will check it out. At 2 o'clock, we have the Frog X parachute demonstration. And then we head back to Spreckles Park, and we have Kat D ugaw performing Disney songs and some K-pop songs. And then we have an afternoon of rest, and then we go into the fireworks at 9 o'clock at night. It takes about 155 volunteers for this to happen. We're short on volunteers. NASCAR kind of swooped in and grabbed a lot of the volunteers that we normally get from the military. And I think we all know that the military volunteers like to get a certificate of volunteer hours, and they're kind of checking that box by volunteering for NASCAR. It's not our same weekend. We're not competing with them on the same day, but we're competing with them for volunteer hours. So we're still working on that, and we're doing the best we can. Anyone who can volunteer, I just urge you to take a look at our website, coronado4thofjuly.com. Go to the volunteers page. Take a look at the many roles that are available, and grab one today or grab one tomorrow. Please don't wait until the 3rd of July. Help us out in that way so that we're not worried right up until the last minute. And I'll remind you that while we have a full day of events planned, the volunteer shifts are one hour, two hours here, three hours there. Some of them take place before the actual 4th of July. So please help us out if you can. And just real quick, too, we're still looking for funding help through sponsors and donors. We have a new category called the Patriot Sponsor this year . And in order for a community member to be recognized in our social media and in our printed parade program, we'd need all of those donations to come in by this Friday. So please take a look at our website for that information as well. I'll be here for the duration. If anyone has any questions or wants to talk to me about volunteering, I'd love to. All righty. Thank you for all your hard work. Really appreciate it, and everybody else involved. Thank you. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure. Appreciate it. Looking forward to it. Ella Mathis. Good afternoon. All right. Hello, Mayor, Council Members, City Manager, and Coronado citizens. Before I begin tonight, I would like to say that the event I'm going to talk about is not a city-sponsored event, nor is it affiliated with the City of Coronado. It is simply an opportunity to learn more about an issue affecting Coronado. And with that being said, citizens Amy Stewart, Kelly Pur vis, and I will be hosting a community forum tomorrow evening about an issue that affects everyone here, shore line preservation. The free educational forum will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Nautilus Room in the Coronado Community Center, and we will feature four expert speakers who will discuss topics ranging from shoreline monitoring to sand nourishment and d une restoration, along with a little bit of history about our Coronado shoreline. If you are interested in attending, we have a QR code that you can RSVP. And again, the community forum is free to the public. You may not associate Coronado with sand erosion, especially because our North beaches are some of the widest beaches in the region. However, Coronado has lost 81 feet of beach in the last 22 years, and a study found that Coronado's beaches are er oding at a faster rate than any other beach in San Diego County. The problem is most evident on the beach south of the jetty at the Dell, known as Stan's Beach, although you may also know it as South Beach or Shipwreck Beach. The goal of this event is to host an educational discussion about the challenges we are facing and explore what some potential paths could look like moving forward to preserve our shoreline. Long-term coastal erosion could soon pose serious threats to citizens, where seawater will soon compromise sidewalks, parking lots, roadways, and other key infrastructure. Combined with the upcoming El Nino, it is essential that we are proactive, not reactive. We would love to see you all there to learn about and advocate for Coronado's future. Thank you all for your time, and we hope to see you at the community forum, Saving Stands Beach, tomorrow evening at 5 .30 p.m. in the Nautilus Room. Thank you. Thank you. Lorraine Herman. Apologies for taking your time twice. That's fine. You're welcome to speak. Thank you. Please. I wanted to say again, our balcony in El Camino, where we 're located looks over towards here. And I wanted to speak briefly to the lights over the swimming pool. They were installed about a year ago. They're on, or were on, until about 8 o'clock at night. And they go directly towards the Shores buildings. So on the 1800 block of the Shores buildings is getting light that is coming straight in. We're on the fourth floor. It's coming straight into our condo. I think maybe you could aim the lights down. My husband and I are both big believers in dark skies, that we used to be able to see the stars at night, and used to be able to go out on the beach at Coronado and see the stars at night. Could I ask that possibly the lights be adjusted so that they are focused downwards rather than outwards, please? And the other thing is I picked up the packet for tonight and discovered that the Village Theater is closed. And I just wanted to express how sorry I am to hear about that. We love that theater. And I hope there's some way to rescue it. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. We'll take a look at that. James Murphy. Evening, sir. James Murphy, 411 D Avenue in Coronado. Also owns some real property right next door at 405407 D Avenue. I love this city. You can go by my house, my craftsman, and the Art Deco steamboat right next to it, and you'll see just how much I love this city. My family's been here since the 1800s. The house I'm living in is at Craftsman that is at 411 D Avenue. And I am here today to talk about the gas station, some of the other things going on in my neighborhood. So back during the Constitutional Convention, somebody asked Ben Franklin, do we have a republic or do we have a monarchy? And he replied, a republic if we can keep it. And I'd like to take something you have in your bio, Mr. Fleming. And it was Coronado, a special place. And you want to keep it a special place. And I'd like to say, in Coronado, do we have a special place or are we just another Mission Beach or Pacific Beach ? And I have some, I have a lot of experience in Mission Beach and Pacific Beach and what goes on there. I worked there for 20 years as a lifeguard with the city of San Diego. Here in Coronado, do we have a special place or do we just have another Mission Beach? So my grievances, and you can call it the errands, the grieving, it's like they had on Seinfeld or what they did against the crown. And then this time, it's not the King George, but it's against the crown, this crown city, which is Coronado. In the last five days or thereabouts, as we near the 4th of July, I've had booze bottles left that I've had to clean up by my trash cans on 4th Street, which is very concerning because now they're selling liquor at the gas at the liquor store, or liquor at the gas store, whichever way you want to look at it. I've also had my neighbor catch on film, somebody urinating in my alley by my gate after parking at the gas station, coming over, urinating, and then coming back. And then my neighbor had to call the police for a vagrant in the alley in the same place. So those are the things that happen in Mission Beach and Pacific Beach, not Coronado. And if I say to you right now, party time, alcohol, what would you think of? Would you think of Mission Beach, Pacific Beach, or Coron ado? Well, if you said all three, you're right, because the new gas station has had to sign up for three weeks. They didn't even get their ABC license until about, well, three weeks before they even could open. They already had to sign up. And it says party time liquor, and they have a beer cave in the place. That's not Coronado. I know Coronado. I remember Lamb's Market. I remember Free Brothers Market when I was eight years old in 1968 when we moved back from my dad, retired from the military. It's not Coronado. I hope we can change that. I hope we can do some things. I'd love to get involved, and I'm going to reach out to every single one of you on an individual basis. I'm going to ask you to come sit on my porch and see what goes on in that neighborhood. It's not the bandstand at the park, but it's a real regal porch. So thank you. All righty. Thank you, sir. No other submitted requests. Okay. Are there any other members of the public who want to address us? Any non-agenda items? Okay. Seeing none, we'll go ahead and close public comment for the members of the public. Are there any members of council who have a public comment? All right. Seeing none, we're going to go ahead and move forward. Item number six on our agenda is a city manager update. Do you have an update today, city manager? She does not? Okay. General business will begin with item 8A, council reports on interagency assignments. I know there were three submitted, as was pointed out, by Mrs. Albertson. Is there any other council members who want to do a report out, or those are welcome as well to do one? Council Member Downey, we'll start with you. I just... And then Council Member Fleming, I believe. Oh, no. Okay. Sorry, Council Member. Go ahead. I just wanted to provide further information on the report that I did. I represent the city at the Metropolitan Transit Systems Board of Directors, and we had a very interesting month in the last couple of meetings. To make a long story short, after two years of reaching out and getting input from our riders and the public, the board had adopted in April that we were going to raise the rates, but we were going to raise them in phases, so it wasn't such a shock up front. First time we'd raised some of them since 2008, and we're in a budget crisis at the moment. We are not able to meet our long-term goals. So the staff at MTS have done a lot of work. They've figured out ways to try and trim some routes down that we had duplicates of. We did everything we could to lower the expenses, but we still aren't meeting our goals. Well, sadly, the month after we voted to do that, and it was sent to the San Diego Associated Department of Governments, and the Department of the San Diego has the authority over rate changes for both MTS and North County Transit District, and it goes to the Transportation Commission at San Diego to ultimately approve them. Our board at MTS met, and different people came to that meeting than the one that had approved the initial screening and the proposal to raise rates, and they said they did not want to operate a budget for next year that included raising rates, which was a shock to everybody since we already voted to do that. We'd studied it for two years, and the riders told us, we know you have budget constraints, but we don't want you cutting more routes. Just raise the rates a little bit so that we can continue to function as a transit organization for all of the county. Unfortunately, there was enough board members that were concerned that people couldn't pay those increased rates that were in our most needy riders, and so we did not pass a budget. Those of us that know, when you work in government, you have to have a budget. Come July 1, no budget, everything stops, nothing will work , there'll be no buses, no trolleys, no nothing. So we had an emergency meeting we called, and we did a workshop. We reviewed all of our options going forward. That was on Thursday, and we're coming back on next Thursday, this Thursday, coming up two days from now, and we are approving a budget that, again, does not at the moment fully raise rates, even though the Friday after our meeting, Sandegg approved the rate hike that we'd initially studied and the public gave us input on. So I'm sure it's confused the public to no end. Short answer, and that's why I want to explain this, short answer is Sandegg approved the rate increases. And so what the MTS board was asking staff to look at, and we'll get a report probably in August or September, saying, "Is it possible to freeze the rates for the lowest income riders?" So right now we're only raising their daily rate by a 50 cents a day or a dollar in a couple of years. We are asking staff to review whether or not we cannot raise those rates, put a freeze on that raise, but raise all the other ones for people that aren't in the lowest income bracket. I personally don't know that we're going to be successful doing that because we don't even know how many of those people are. We don't know if many of them are already getting the lowest rate because they already meet our qualifications for lower rates at MTS, but we are studying it and something will come back. But I just want everybody to know, we have a budget, so MTS will be operating on July 1, thank heavens. We will approve that on Thursday to confirm there will be a budget and people will get paid and they'll show up with buses and trolleys. But it's still going to be a long-term effort because we still haven't met the delta that we have in long-term budget and budget planning. I have to say, I believe it was a good example of how government should work. So when I go back on Thursday, we're going to work on that, how to make it better. But I just want to let everybody know, buses will still be running July 1, even though we had that short period here in Coronado where we didn't have a 901 for three weeks. But now finally everything is back up and running. The summer shuttle is running. It's been very successful. So thank you all. And there's still open places for people to comment on what you think the future of transit should be. So I encourage you to go to the MTS website and make your views known. Thank you very much. Thank you, Councilmember. Any other Councilmembers have any report outs? I'll do just a brief couple of comments on a couple of things. One is I'm sure the public knows it's been incredibly busy. We've been incredibly busy lately with the NASCAR planning and the event coming up. So we've been meeting and working on that constantly. We're hoping it goes very well. I'm sure we'll all have to have some patience. I am excited that the first day, Friday, is a celebration primarily for active duty military to attend. I believe they received almost all the tickets except for the 1,000 tickets that we were able to give away to Coronado citizens for free. So that's the race on Friday at 4:00. Saturday, we have a race at 2:00 p.m. and Sunday, we have the big cup series race at 1:00. So I will be relieved on Sunday evening at the concert in the park when we are done with all of the events. But I do feel some happiness, not just for the military celebration and the historical nature of it, but also, I think, for our businesses and restaurants. We have that type of influx of cash hopefully will help keep them in the business for us year-round as well as through the summer. So just wanted to mention that. Yes, we did have a SANDAG Executive Board meeting a week ago, Air Pollution Control District Board meeting that I was at, as well as the SANDAG Board of Directors meeting. I'll do a more thorough report out at our next meeting. But that's all I have to say now. Anybody else have anything before we move on to our big event of the evening? All right. Thank you. Let's go ahead and move forward with Item 8B, which is the review and allocate the fiscal year 2026-2027 Community Grant Program Awards. We're going to review and approve funding allocations for that year. Senior Management Analyst Kelly Maples will give us a staff report. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, everyone. Tonight we have our annual review of the Community Grant Program and the proposed funding allocations for fiscal year 26-27. I'll be making a brief presentation to provide an overview of this year's process, the applications received, and the funding options before you this evening. All right. I always like to begin this presentation with a slide like this because it serves as a reminder of the tremendous impact this program has on our community. The City Council very generously allocates more than $1 million each year to support local nonprofit organizations. The images shown here represent many of the organizations and programs funded through the Community Grant Program last year. Every grant that the City Council supports is a program, service, or event that contributes to the amazing quality of life we have here in Coronado. It's truly a one-of-a-kind program. There are very few cities in the region and beyond that supports their nonprofit communities at this level. And through this program, the City helps keep Coronado culturally vibrant, supports important social services, it strengthens our local economy, and enhances the overall sense of community that makes Coronado such a special place to live, work, and visit. And so with that, we'll move on to this year. So for a little bit of background, since the year 2000, the City Council has awarded grants to local nonprofit organizations through this Community Grant Program. In 2019, the City Council adopted policy number 28, which formalized the Community Grant Program by establishing the application process, evaluation criteria, review procedures, and overall framework for the program. Last year, in 2025, the City Council approved an expedited process in recognition of the significant amount of staff time and administrative effort associated with the traditional annual grant review cycle. That expedited process proved to be successful. So on February 3rd, 2026, the City Council approved continuation of the expedited framework for this year's cycle. The expedited framework consists of two components. We have our renewal consideration grants and our mini grants. Following that February 3rd meeting, renewal instructions and mini grant applications were released on February 13th. And all of the letters of intent, program updates, and mini grant applications were due on April 19th. Per policy 28, community grant funding is set at 1.35% of general fund revenue for this fiscal year, resulting in a total of $1,202,000 available for allocations that are available in the grant program. We'll begin with the renewal consideration grants overview. So organizations were eligible for renewal consideration if they had received community grant funding for the same program for two or more consecutive years. Eligible organizations were required to submit a letter of intent along with a program update, which was intended to provide counsel and the public with a brief overview of the funded program, including how prior grant funds were used and the outcomes achieved within the community. For this year's process, staff utilized the fiscal year 25- 26 approved allocations as the baseline recommendation. So this approach was discussed with counsel during that February 3rd meeting and reflects the funding priorities established during last year's allocation process. In total, there are 24 renewal consideration grants before you this evening, totaling $961,149 in renewal funding. I also want to note that both the KMAC Foundation and the Coronado Junior Arts League became eligible for renewal consideration this year after receiving funding for the same program for two consecutive years. The KMAC Foundation elected to participate through the renewal process and the Coronado Junior Arts League did not submit a letter of intent or program update by that April 19th deadline and therefore was not included in the renewal consideration process for this year, but the organization has since submitted a public comment for City Council's consideration this evening. This slide contains the detailed renewal grant table, which is also included in your agenda packet. The table identifies each organization, the associated program, the fiscal year 25-26 approved allocation, any requested modifications, and then finally the foremost right column is the proposed fiscal year 26-27 award. Two organizations requested modifications as part of this year's process. Emerald Keepers requested an additional $2,500 in support of San Diego Climate Week as part of its Youth Services Leadership Development and Engagement Grant. And then Music of Vitality requested consideration of increasing its main stage and school program grant from $15,000 to $27,000 following a reduction in funding during last year's allocation process. The proposed award column reflects the fiscal year 25-26 approved allocation amounts and does not incorporate those two requested increases. As always, the City Council retains full discretion to adjust any of these funding levels as part of tonight's deliberations. Again, the proposed renewal consideration funding total is at $961,149. Moving on to the mini-grant program. The mini-grant process provided opportunity for organizations to seek funding for discrete programs, activities, or events that are not eligible for the funding . Organizations were permitted to submit one application with a maximum request of $15,000. This year we received 13 mini-grant applications requesting a total of $184,170. Of those applicants, six organizations have previously participated in the community grant program, while seven organizations are participating for the first time. And those seven organizations are marked on the slide with a little asterisk. Now, moving on to the funding. Kelly, let me ask you a quick question before you go on. I just want to make sure I'm clear that the organizations applying for mini-grants, none of them are applying for renewal grants. Is that correct? There's no crossover. There's no crossover. Thank you. Thank you. Please continue. All right. So this slide here has option one, which is outlined in your staff report. And here's kind of the full table. So under this option, all renewal consideration grants would be funded at their fiscal year 2526 approved allocation levels. And all mini grant requests would be funded at 100% of the requested amount. So with funding everything in totality, this would result in total community grant allocations of $1,145,319, leaving 56,681 remaining for city council consideration. Should council wish to do so, those remaining funds could be distributed during tonight's discussion. We also have, this slide is just a little bit different, believe it or not. It shows option two, which is what we have referred to as the established program funding approach. And so under this option, it would again, um, accept all renewal consideration grants to be funded after fiscal year 2526 approved allocation levels. But then the mini grant funding would prioritize organizations with demonstrated prior participation in the community grant program or that have experienced prior council support. So this would include, uh, Camp Abel, the Coronado Hospital Foundation, COSA, PAWS, Storytellers of San Diego, and the Coronado Community Theater. Under this approach, option two total allocations would equal $1,051,149, leaving, uh, just over $150,000 available for again, council, um, consideration. This option, unlike option one provides council with an additional opportunity to have a more in depth discussion regarding funding priorities for the seven new applicants and to determine whether and how any remaining funds should be allocated. Again, both options are intended to serve as starting points for council discussion and city council retains full discretion over all final funding decisions. Um, one quick, quick slide here on kind of looking ahead, um, as noted in the staff report, staff anticipates evaluating the outcomes of the expedited framework following the completion of this grant cycle. And staff's plan is to return to the city council either later this year or early next year to discuss potential longterm updates to policy 28, including a possible consideration of a multi-year grant approval framework informed in parts by elements of this expedited process. Um, no action is required on this item this evening, but I did want to note that staff is continuing to evaluate, uh, the grant program and any opportunities to improve it. So with that, uh, that'll bring us to our recommendation before you this evening, which is to review and improve funding allocations for the fiscal year 26, 27 community grant program. Again, city council retains full discretion to allocate funding, um, as it deems appropriate. Um, as it's, uh, the recommendation options presented tonight are intended, uh, to provide a reasonable starting point for your deliberations. I'm happy to answer any questions at this time, and I will be in the staff seat there with the funding spreadsheet. So we'll see real time adjustments, um, during your, your deliberations. Thank you. Alrighty. Thank you for your report. Does council members have any other questions before we move forward from the presentation? Um, the presentation. Okay. Seeing none. Thank you, Kelly. Appreciate it. We'll now open public comment for this item. Um, every organization will have three minutes to speak. We're going to go ahead and go in order of, uh, the spreadsheet. So, um, do you want to announce each one as we go forward? And again, you don't have to speak and you can retain the right that if you do not speak, um, we can, if we decide at the council level to potentially make changes, we'll give you an opportunity to speak at that time as well. I'm sorry, clerk, please go ahead. Thank you. Um, may I first have, uh, classics for kids if they are here? Coronado Chamber of Commerce. And for the record, you don't have to use your entire three minutes. Please come on up. It's, it's good to see you. I would like to say most of you, if you've appeared here and done public comment, you know, usually if you go a little bit long, I almost let everybody go a little bit longer. And once I do that, anybody else who does that, of course I treat them the same. But tonight we are going to try to stick to the three minutes. You'll see the red light come on at the podium when you're done. So your time has not started. It starts now. Good evening, everyone. Um, Mayor Duncan, members of the city council and city manager. My name is Rena Clancy, executive director of the Coronado Chamber of Commerce. And I will not be taking my three minutes. I'm going to say thank you so much for always all of you up here on the dais advocating for our businesses and putting Coronado first. In the last couple of weeks with the approval of the information hub and some of the conversations that we've had, we've really gotten a chance to really see eye to eye in a lot of our topics. I think that, um, the chamber, with all of our changes downtown, with our, uh, empty storefronts and the ones that we're working to fill, um, we really see, we're very, very optimistic about working together and moving forward in a very exciting, positive and collaborative way. So thank you for always supporting us, supporting our dozen ribbon cuttings and supporting our businesses. We often hear from our small business owners, um, some that are uptown that are having some issues, some that are downtown, um, that we always have a really positive impact with, um, working with our council. So thank you for taking time of day to work with our businesses, to really get to know them and know their issues and working really hard to, um, advocate on their behalf as well, um, with the chamber. So I want to go before you today, um, to thank you for the, um, business advocacy grant, for the holiday parade and tree lighting grant, and to also really address our, um, visitor center website grant tonight. Um, it's no secret that we have had some, uh, issues with this. It's seven years old, which, um, at this point, um, it feels like when you have a really, really old car with many , many miles on it, you're pouring, um, money into something . However, we are feeling very optimistic that with the, um, with the information hub that we've discussed that we are going to have a brand new product this year. So I did want to clarify that with this, it will continue to go toward the, um, the website, but it will be on a brand new product with new footage, new everything, um, in collaboration with Discover Coronado for, um, everything that we discussed a couple of weeks ago, as you, um, recall . And, um, it's just something that's going to be truly transformative. We need it. It's that time. It's time for us to have a brand new product, something that really serves the community in a much, um, more grand way. Uh, something that's just has a lot less bugs in it, something that's more beautiful and easy to use. And so we're very excited to, um, collaborate with Discover Coronado on that. And, um, that, uh, is something that I wanted to make sure that we addressed, uh, today is that it's something that we are aware of and something that we know requires, um, more capital and more, um, collaboration. And we're very excited to improve that and present something that we're all really, really proud of. Thank you so much. Thank you. And, um, I'm sorry. What's. Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you, Clark . I just wanted to say something. Go ahead, Raina. You can leave. It's okay. I just want to say that that, um, sorry for that confusion, uh, that any applicants here, you can present. It's up to you if you want to stay. I'd recommend you stay in case council members decide they're interested in changing the grants or doing something. So you could have a potential to be here for questions if we have them for you, but we want to go ahead and go through the list with the comments now, and then we'll start going through the grants at the council level. Next, please. Uh, Coronado community bands. Okay. Uh, Coronado floral association. Uh, Mayor Duncan, city council members and city manager office. Thank you again for the opportunity to address you regarding the annual community grant program. My name is Kelly Kendorf and I am the current president of the Coronado Floral Association. In 2027, we will celebrate the 105th annual Coronado flower show. This year, our organization made a concerted effort to strengthen relationships with our local community partners, both during the flower show and throughout the year. The spirit of connection is one of my favorite things about being a part, being a part of Coronado and our desire to come together as a community, support one another and create something meaningful, meaningful. Several hundred volunteers work tirelessly year round to make the flower show a success, ensuring that this cherished tradition can continue for another 105 years. We also placed a strong emphasis this year on fiscal responsibility. The city's grant generously covers our tent expenses, which are the most critical component of the show, obviously providing the infrastructure that makes the event possible. We explored alternative tent providers. However, no other company has the capacity to meet the unique needs and scale of the flower show other than Rapha el's. We also carefully reviewed every line item in our Raphael's party rentals contract, and we were able to reduce expenses this year by about 5%. We are once again requesting that the city continue to fund this essential tent expense. All other flower show costs are covered through admission revenue, membership dues, sponsorships, and fundraising efforts. For the past four years, we have requested a modest 3% to 5 % increase to account for the uncertainty of the timing as the grant is awarded in the summer, and we don't get the bill until April. However, because of the savings achieved this year, we are requesting that our grant remain at its current level. This will allow us to absorb any unforeseen cost increases from Raphael's in 2027, while continuing to demonstrate our commitment to responsible financial stewardship. Thank you for your continued partnership and support of the Coronado Flower Show. Your investment helps preserve one of Coronado's most treasured traditions and ensures that it remains a source of community pride for generations to come. Thank you. Thank you. Coronado, 4th of July. Hi there. Jamie Hartnett, President Coronado, 4th of July. I left my notes at home, but I just wanted to take a minute to say thank you for the support, along with the city services and public works and everything provided by the city. This partnership makes the wheels go round for Coronado, 4 th of July. And I will just mention that as far as funding goes, everything is more expensive now. And many of the entries that we ask to come that we know the community loves, and we know they love them because being the president of Coronado 4th of July is like being your HOA president. Everyone wants to tell you what they think about the 4th of July, which I appreciate that. And I listen to everyone. But they want bands and they want equestrians. Bands and equestrians. We can't get all the military bands we want every year because they're required to go to other locations. They just, they all just can't keep coming to Coronado. So we go out and we look for all the bands we can get, all the equestrians we can get, but they have other options. So sometimes we give them a little something for gas money, for trailer rental or something like that, in order to secure the position for them to come to our 4th of July celebration. So that we have those numbers and those exciting entries. So I just wanted to point that out and also mention that the community donations, the community sponsorships are totally meaningful and help us run the big day in alignment with what we get from the city. So again, thank you so much for the support and I'll be here to answer any questions. Thank you. Coronado historical association. Coronado historical association. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Honorable mayor and members of the city council and city manager friend. Uh, my name is Vicki stone and I'm proud to stand before you tonight on behalf of the Coronado historical association. I'm here to express our deepest gratitude for the city's continued grant funding. This vital investment does something truly extraordinary. It ensures that the Coronado museum remains free to all museum studies throughout the U S show that removing admission barriers is the single most effective way to foster both civic pride and participation. Thanks to your partnership. We are able to offer this open access while maintaining our status as a blue star museum dedicated to our military community and military families. Less than 20% of museums nationwide achieve this standard. Your support ensures that Coronado residents have a nationally recognized museum right in our own backyard. Your support of our community heritage and history was on full display with our recent premier exhibition. Remembering D-Day from the front lines to Coronado's backyard. Because of our high professional standing, we were able to secure 21 stunning historic artworks on loan directly from the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, D.C. This exhibit brought world-class culture to Orange Avenue, showing that Normandy invasion through the eyes of Navy combat artists. But the heartbeat of the exhibit really was a local, the late Staff Sergeant Tom Rice, a beloved Coronado local and 101st airborne paratrooper. This exhibit reminded us all of the profound military sacrifices woven into our city, drawing thousands of visitors and supporting our downtown economy. Beyond D-Day, your operational support ensures our galleries remain dynamic year-round. Currently, we are celebrating a century of service, 100 years of the Rotary Club of Coronado. This exhibit highlights our 2024 designation as the official repository for the Coronado Club's records. Moving 100 years of service above self out of private gar ages and into CHA's professional climate controlled archives , so that they are protected for generations to come. City support over the past decade has allowed us to develop these repository relationships throughout the community. So we're grateful. And if you haven't seen the exhibit yet, it's going to close after NASCAR on Sunday, the 21st. So please stop by this week. Simultaneously, we are showcasing the Green of West Plaza, 90 years of the Coronado Lawn Bowling Club. This bilingual English and Spanish exhibit highlights a sport where men and women of all ages and backgrounds compete on an entirely equal platform. Museums are the keepers of a community soul through the exhibits you fund. CHA doesn't just display the past. We nurture the civic and cultural fabric of Coronado today. So we thank you, City Council, for your vision, your partnership, and your grant funding. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have Coronado Island Film Festival. Oh, you already started the clock. All right. I need like five minutes. Anyway, good evening. My name is Mary D. Book. I am the CEO and Artistic Director for the Coronado Island Film Festival. So good evening, Mayor Duncan, City Manager Friend, and all the City Council members. I want to first thank you so much for your continued support with this grant funding. It's been critical to our organization. Last year, we celebrated our 10-year anniversary, and without this funding, we would not have had the most successful year that we have had to date. We expanded our programming and allowed us to welcome filmmakers and audiences around the world and continue to establish Coronado as a premier cultural destination. Tonight, I'm here to ask for this continued partnership and for full funding. And as Kelly gave that wonderful extra funds that you might have at the end, we'd also like you to consider any additional funding you'd like to throw our way. But I do want to say that our festival is more than a five- day film festival. We are an internationally recognized nonprofit that creates real economic impact, educational opportunities, and meaningful community engagement throughout the year. For the second consecutive year, Movie Maker Magazine named CIFF one of the top 50 film festivals worth the entry fee. That brings so much international recognition to both Coron ado, but for our emerging filmmakers, screenwriters, artists , and many who began their independent film career at our festival, it's an incredible destination to have. Our festival also reflects the evolution of the entertainment industry. For years, we have embraced the theme where the art and science of cinema converge. We have been at the forefront of conversation surrounding innovation, the future of storytelling, presenting panels on artificial intelligence, something that is impacting all of us every single day. The future of financing, the industry leaders from agencies such as CAA, Gersh, and representation in the entertainment industry, educational master labs, and of course, access to the business side of filmmaking. The arts are vital. The arts are vital. We strengthen the community and we feel economic vitality. We are also committed in 2026 with this grant to expanding free access, which we had last year, which was incredible. Most importantly, the tourism generated funds that support this grant are reinvested right back into Coronado. We are on track to spend $150,000 with our hotels alone this year. Those funds, this just creates a cycle of reinvestment that benefits all of us. So with this funding, thank you so much for your consideration for future generations and this ongoing partnership that has been vital to arts, innovation, and culture here in Coronado. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you. We'll save those for now, but thank you. Coronado Philharmonia Orchestra. All right. Good evening, Mayor, Duncan, and members of the City Council. My name is Jack Kennedy. I'm here on behalf of the Coronado Philharmonia Orchestra. First and foremost, thank you again for your continued support of the arts and culture in Coronado. Who we are. We were founded in 2021. Our music director is Osvaldo Mendoza. Our mission is to make high-quality orchestral music accessible, educational, and meaningful. We bring together professional musicians, students, volunteers, and community supporters. What are we going to deliver next season? Right now, we have four full orchestra concerts designed to bring high-quality music to Coronado. In addition, we're planning to have two smaller concerts at the Coronado Playhouse. We're working with Mark and his team to try and coordinate that also. In October, for sure, we're going to have the second annual concerto competition winners concert. In December, our traditional holiday concert in Coronado. February, a performance of the Vivaldi's four seasons. And Opera Night in May, featuring outstanding guest vocal soloist performing beloved opera favorite. These programs serve residents of all ages. The current grant funding of $50,543 is critical seed funding that makes our season possible. We are deeply grateful to the city's continued support of the Coronado Philharmonia Orchestra. City funding provides the foundation that allows us to plan and launch our season, secure performance venues, engage professional musicians, and deliver high-quality orchestral programming to the community. However, the city's contribution represents only one part of our funding model. Like most performing arts organizations, we also rely on ticket sales, corporate and community sponsorships, individual donations, and hundreds of volunteer hours. City funding really serves as a catalyst that helps us attract the leverage and significant private support that we need. Our request tonight is for, I'm going to come right out and say it, an additional $10,000 to enhance access to live classical music in the community. This additional funding would help support six free community chamber concerts. Three of those would be performed for local city groups such as Focus and the Rotate Club, etc. Three, and additionally, three in-school educational rec itals performed at schools such as Christ Church Day School, Sacred Heart, and CUSD schools. These are programs that are free to the public and directly benefit Coronado residents and students. The additional investment would expand access to live music , strengthen arts education, and create more free cultural programming. A relatively modest increase in funding, in our opinion I guess, creates nine additional free community and educational events. The Coronado Filmini Orchestra is committed to enriching the cultural life of our city and making music accessible to everyone in the community. We respectfully request your support for this additional investment in arts, access, education, community enrichment . Thank you for your consideration and be happy to answer any of your questions. All right, thank you, sir. Coronado Schools Foundation. Emerald Keepers. That's a separate entity. Yep. So Emerald Keepers. Evening, sir. Evening, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, Ms. Friend, city staff. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. My name is Dave Landon. I serve as the president of Emerald Keepers. I want to begin by thanking the council for the community grant funding Emerald Keepers received for fiscal year 2025 , 2026. And we do not take that support for granted. We view it as a partnership and as a responsibility to deliver meaningful results for Coronado. The city grants has helped support our third annual fix it clinic held in partnership with the city and the Coronado public library. 54 residents attended 81% anyone items were brought in repair. 420 pounds of waste were diverted from landfill. And this is just a simple but powerful example of sustained action neighbors helping neighbors learning useful skills saving money in reducing waste. Our volunteers removed more than a thousand pounds of trash from Coronado's beaches, bays and shorelines that included our monthly community cleanup as well as our post fourth of July cleanup where volunteers collected fireworks, debris and litter before it would wash up in the bay and threaten marine life. The past year, your investment helped Emerald Keepers do what we do best, turning environmental stewardship into practical community action. And we did it alongside hundreds of volunteers of all ages who donated a thousand hours of their own time. So every dollar you invested was multiplied many times over by this community's own hands. But perhaps most important and education has also remained central to our mission. Over the past year Emerald Keepers published 52 educational articles in the Eagle Journal shared more than 80 educational promotional social media posts and continued weekly air and water quality reports. Now published for 151 consecutive weeks. We also hosted free public programs on low water landsca ping and home electrification helping residents make informed decision that benefit both their households and the community and Coronado environment. Perhaps most important the impact on the city support is seen in our youth programs. This year 12 Coronado high school interns completed more than 480 hours of community service. They led eco camps, young created classroom presentation, worked in school gardens and participating in community events. And one of those projects of beach toy power term box has already been approved by the rec department through Coron ado crops. The Coronado. Uh, emerald keepers has helped more doing a more than 22 hundred pounds of produce this year to the Imperial Beach neighbor food pantry. That means food growing and collected in Coronado is helping families down the strand. So we ask for your continued funding for the fiscal year 20 26. And we ask the city to continue supporting our programs that are proven visible and deeply rooted in the community. Alrighty. Thank you, sir. Next we have the KMAC Foundation. Mr. Mayor. See you. Members of the City Council. Good afternoon. I'm Captain Jeff Lee and this is Captain Paul Nice. We're Vice President of the KMAC Foundation. Next slide. On behalf of the KMAC Foundation for accessible ceiling, we submit the supporting. Presentations to support and confirm our interest in the renewal of following grant funded programs. The events for fiscal year 2026. And we have the funding for the fiscal year 2026. And we have the funding for the fiscal year 2026. And we have the funding for the fiscal year 2026. And we have the funding for the fiscal year 2026. And we have the funding for the fiscal year 2026. And we have the funding for the fiscal year 2026. And we have the funding for the fiscal year 2026. And we have the funding for the fiscal year 2026. And we have the funding for the fiscal year 2026. And we have the funding for the fiscal year 2026. And we have the funding for the fiscal year 2026. And we have the funding for the fiscal year 2026. And we have the funding for the fiscal year 2026. Next slide. On behalf of the KMAC Foundation for accessible ceiling, we submit the supporting presentations, support and confirm our interest in the renewal of following grant funded programs, the events for fiscal year 2026, 2027. Next slide. Who we are. We are the KMAC Foundation for accessible ceiling. And what we do is accessible ceiling for regattas and training in Coronado. We request $15,000. And our primary point of contact is Captain Jamie MacArthur who is up in Washington State right now. The KMAC Foundation provides accessible ceiling programs for a wide variety of people, including disabled youth and adults, veterans, including wounded warriors and veteran sailors, and socially disadvantaged citizens who may not otherwise have ceiling opportunities due to their current economic situation. Almost half of our 40-plus volunteers are Coronado residents. Also, many of our volunteers and participants do not physically present their disabilities, e.g. they did not appear to be disabled. Two members of the KMAC board of directors also serve on the accessibility advisory committee for the port of San Diego. Next slide. These are events we have scheduled for 2026. The midwinter regatta, February 2026, which has passed. The KMAC sailing regatta, which is in April. The 4th of July parade float. And last year we awarded the judges special award. And we won our division for the third year in a row. Let's see. Slide. And the fall regatta, September 26, and the volunteer and disabled sailing training and practice is quickly due by and weekly during the sailing season. We confirmed that each program event listed above will continue in fiscal year 2026-27 as previously approved. Grant funds will be used in alignment with the original grant agreements. Our organization remains in good standing and compliant with all applicable state and federal regulations. We have submitted the required separate one-page program update for each funded grant. Next slide. Grants and usage to date. On 30 May 2026, we received our order of the new Hansa 303 accessible sailboats from Hansa International in Australia, which doubles the size of our tiny fleet, especially the single sailboats from three meters, sailboats from three to six. The order was $40,000 including shipping. This includes sails, masks, boat covers, and dollies to move the boats around the shipyard. All additional expenses beyond this grant are covered by private donations. The King Mac Foundation is a fully qualified 501c3 nonprofit charity under IRS and State of California tax rules. Program impact and key outcomes. We run Corinthian, which is volunteer sailing for regattas and training clinics for beginners as well as for advanced sailors and volunteers year-round. Our outreach to other communities includes San Diego City Schools and Navy Sea Cadets in Escondido. This past year, 2025, we supported the Midwinter Regatta in February and the King Mac Regatta in April, as well as the U.S. Para Sailing National Championships, which was in September of 2025. We hosted sailboats from four countries. I really appreciate your comments. I'm very familiar with your group, but we're pretty far over time. So I'm going to go ahead and ask you to conclude. Thank you very much. Sorry about that. Thank you, sir. Next, we have Lambs Players Theater. Good evening. Good evening. Thank you, Mayor Councilor, for your continued support and funding of Lambs Players Theater. This partnership means a great deal to us as it helps anchor a beloved arts institution right here in Coronado, particularly at a time when arts funding is being cut elsewhere in our region. I'm Colleen, and I'm honored to be joining Lambs as part of the incoming leadership team and its future artistic director. My relationship with Lambs goes back more than two decades. And just last week, we celebrated Lambs' 55th anniversary, a tremendous legacy built on the leadership team who's worked together for more than 40 years. At that celebration, they announced their retirement at the end of this year and introduced the incoming leadership team. I'm thrilled to be joined by two exceptional executive leaders, Mike and Jennifer Bradford, each with a strong record of individual success in the industry. And together, the three of us have a proven track record of collaboration. We've already begun the transition, and over the next six months, we'll be in partnership learning alongside the current leadership to ensure a seamless handoff. We're about to open American Rhythm, a celebration of 100 years of music, which is a great way to honor America's 250 th birthday. It's exactly the kind of work your support makes possible. It employs dozens of actors and musicians, serves thousands of patrons both from Coronado and visitors from across the region as well as tourists, and it offers volunteer opportunities to many ushers. After American Rhythm, we'll bring back our annual festival of Christmas, which is a cherished tradition here. In August, we'll be announcing a full six season season for 2027. Part of our approach will be to make ticket prices more accessible as we actively work to introduce more audiences to the great work of LAMS players. Our goal is to offer year-round accessible entertainment that keeps Coronado's cultural life vibrant and brings people together all year long. We just got started and over the coming weeks, we'll be setting up meetings across the community. So I'd like to welcome the opportunity not just with each of you, but with all the organizations here as we want to partner, build strong relationships and roots and further develop those. Thank you again for your partnership. Thank you to the city staff for all you do to make this happen. And we're looking forward to what's ahead together. Thank you so much. I just want to say I apologize. I missed that event and I'd RSVP'd for it. So I really apologize. It's like the worst thing about being... We don't keep a little note. No, but I do. It's like when I RSVP for something and I miss it, it's a weight and I feel bad. So thank you. I just want to apologize. Thank you. Next, we have the Memorial Day Ceremony Planning Committee and a gentler mind for everyone to speak into the microphones. Thank you. Cesar. Hey, good evening. Chris Merwin. I'm the president of the Silver Strand Chapter of MOA. I'm here representing the Memorial Day Committee, which consists of the VFW Post, MOA, the Navy League and the Marine Corps League. I think most of you guys have attended the events. You know what it's about. I don't really want to waste anybody's time here. But I want to thank you for your continued support. Thanks for increasing the amount that you guys did for us last year. I think that's really helped us up the game and improve sound system, just a better setup. We're very happy with the level we're at right now. Appreciate the support you've provided and we hope that we 're able to continue it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next, we have Musica Vitali. Good evening, Mayor Duncan and members of the City Council. My name is Catherine Marshall. I serve on the board for Musica Vitale Coronado. And I'm happy to be talking about our organization today. So for the past 20 years, Musica Vitali has been serving the island of Coronado, bringing professional choral concerts, events in schools and the community to the island . We had a tremendously successful season with 18 events on the island as our 20th anniversary season with over 2,000 audience members present this year. Our programming included collaborations with Coronado Community Band for the annual Veterans Day concert. Thank you. Bringing a veteran to school day and the sunrise service at the beach. And on the next slide, we have our professional choral concerts that we offered to the community this year with some of San Diego's finest singers. We also launched on our next slide, Music on the 5th, a brand new chamber music concert series this year on the island. We brought five programs to the island and the audiences were growing exponentially at each event as the word began to spread about this concert series. And next you'll see our community chorus offered events to the public as well. These events are always focused on engagement and education for those that might not have a musical education or musical background. So we offered a couple different concerts at the Spreckles Center. We offered a couple of sing alongs at the Coronado Library. And this year we performed at the Spreckles Park Coronado Flower Show as well. We offered on our next slide, you'll see we had programs. We had three school programs this year. As you can see with the thank you cards, this event was really special to the kids. It's not every day that they're able to hear live vocal classical music performed in their school setting. And last, our fundraiser event this year was also a tremendous success. It was a reminder that we have such a big community of support for classical music here on the island. And just vocal music, music that brings everyone together. One of our supporters wanted to share that this quote, "We don't deprive ourselves of these few hours of raising our minds and hearts without even having to cross the bridge." Hi there. Thank you for letting us talk. My name is Shelby Condre. In addition to being a singer with Musica Vitale, I am also working with them in some of their communications and strategic work. As we enter our third decade serving the Coronado community , I want to walk you through where Musica Vitale is financially and the pattern we've experienced from your funding. We've been very grateful and kind of what we're looking forward to in the future. We operate in the- So we don't really have time for that presentation right now, sir. So I'm going to go ahead and stop you now. And then we'll probably have you come up and probably ask some questions when we get to your grant. I didn't mean to interrupt you, but I'm just trying to keep it pretty straightforward for everyone at this time. Thank you, sir. Thank you, ma'am. Next, we have Safe Harbor Coronado. Hi. This one. Good evening, Mayor, Council members and staff. Thank you for the opportunity to share the impact Safe Harbor has had and is having throughout Coronado. Every day we work to ensure that Coronado has access to the support they need before challenges become crises. There's more to do and we look forward to doing it. As many of you know, the needs of our community continue to evolve. We are seeing rising anxiety and isolation in youth, families overwhelmed with social and emotional stressors, and a growing number of seniors that need connection and support. These challenges affect the entire community. It's why we focus on both prevention and intervention, building resilience before problems become larger and more costly. Our approach is simple. Meet people where they are. Whether that's in schools, counseling offices, or neighborhood gatherings, we work to make support visible, accessible, and approachable. This year, we connected with almost 7,000 Coronado residents through more than 60 community and parent-focused events. We created 200-plus volunteer and internship opportunities that help strengthen community and connections. We had almost over 1,600 people participate in our May Mental Health and Wellness Month awareness and well-being across our community. So, really good numbers this year. The impact of this work is best described by the people who see it every day. As Peyton Hobbs shared, if we didn't have Safe Harbor, we'd have to take something off our plates because we can't do it all. All of our partnerships enable schools, community organizations, and the city to advance your own priorities while we help with supporting youth, families, and the community. We start with prevention. We provide age-appropriate, evidence-informed programs that grow with our youth, from early childhood social-emotional learning to middle and high school wellness, leadership, and our newest Harbor Connection initiatives. This year alone, we deliver programming in all Coronado schools. That's six in total. And reach nearly 4,000 students through youth development programs. And behind every number is a person, a family, and a story. This year, Safe Harbor provided counseling services to 87 clients and their families. That support extended to 400 additional members of their support systems. That's teachers. That's coaches. That's other trusted adults within their sphere. That's 779 counseling sessions with almost 80% of our clients receiving services through scholarship. The value of that support is reflected in our outcomes and in the voices of the families that we serve. Our counseling outcomes show measurable improvements in stress, anxiety, depression, and overall well-being, all with only one and a half clinicians servicing the population. So this year, Safe Harbor expanded its impact. We served almost 11,000 individuals across our counseling, prevention, youth, parent, and community programs. That's a 17% increase over last year, and it's a 41% increase over the past two years. That's a healthier youth. That's stronger families, a more connected Coronado. And while our impact continues to grow, so does the need. So thank you for your continued partnership and investment on behalf of our staff, volunteers, and interns. We are grateful. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have Villa Lobos International Chamber Music Festival. I'm not a member of that group, but I'm a big fan. Lars is the director. He lives in Brazil. And the quality of the chamber music that we hear is not du plicated anywhere in this county, maybe in the United States . So we are so lucky to get the music that they bring up here . And I just, I'm here to ask if there are questions about it , I'll make my best guesses. But Lars asked me to speak, so. All right, sir. Thank you for your comments. Next, we have the Anchor Booster Club. Hello. It's so interesting to hear about all these wonderful organizations and programs. I'm Nettie Pletcher, and I'm representing the Anchor Bo oster Club, which for the past eight years has supported sw immers that are based at Coronado's Bryan Bent Memorial Aqu atic Center. Anchor Booster Club serves swimmers of all ages and levels who have achieved, in many cases, great success, both in the pool as well as in the classroom and beyond. The program for which we are requesting funding today is designed to provide that same level of training and success to youth who might not otherwise have access to these opportunities. Our proposal requests the mini-grant funding for the Making Waves program, which is meant to bolster and inspire younger kids to under leash their potential through swimming. Swimming requires enormous discipline and mental endurance. Those are traits that, once developed, really empower kids to become their best selves. We've identified specific communities around Coronado who would benefit the most. Military families, early generation immigrant families, junior guards, and water polo players all are invited to develop their swim skills as part of this fun and exciting summer program. I want to be clear that making waves is not swimming lessons. Rather, it is a high-level orchestrated swim development program that will elevate swimming skills and inspire future engagement in this sport at a competitive level, as well as inspire a new generation of community leaders. Specifically, funding from this grant would substantially subsidize participating families, giving them access to a level of training, equipment, and coaching that's really not available through other summer swim programs, which are typically led by either high school or maybe college students. In contrast, Making Waves will be directed by the same professional coaches who train our top-level elite swimmers here. Anchor Booster Club has a lot of experience with supporting youth swimmers. The infrastructure and personnel already exist to execute the Making Waves program. We routinely host meets at the BB Mac, including events that we call block parties, that provide a really fun but competitive environment for racing and sanctioned meets. We maintain quality training equipment and reserve those lanes at that premier facility. Our request today is really just to extend these resources to a wider array of Coronado youth, targeting that late elementary and middle school students. We're very pleased to be considered in this grant cycle and very excited to be making waves in the best possible sense for this community. I invite you all to the pool deck this summer and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you, ma'am. Next, we have Camp Abel at Coronado. The Community Connection Center. Good evening, Mayor Duncan. Evening. Council. And members of the community. I want to thank you for welcoming Nadia and I to Coronado. We are... I want to turn the microphone up a little bit. Thank you. This is the first time, sorry. All good. No problem. Yeah, we are very grateful to call this remarkable city our home. My name is Alec Baggin and I'm here to represent Community Connection Center. Probably we don't have the slides. You don't. Okay. That's okay. I'll just stop. Okay. Tonight, I'm here to represent Community Connection Center, a nonprofit organization that helps legal immigrants, many from Ukraine and other Slavic countries adjust in the United States and become active, contributing members of the communities. I would like to share three stories, short stories. In 2022, after Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many families arrived to San Diego area with legal status but little understanding of how to navigate a new country. They needed help with basic things like driver's licenses, social security numbers, schools and simple finding their footing. When I shared the idea of organizing a community camp for adults and kids, Pastor David from Graham Memorial Church responded almost immediately. He opened a church and school facilities and city helped make the program possible. And more than 30 volunteers stepped forward. Together, the community welcomed about 100 Ukrainian adults and children. And I remember thinking, Coronado sees the need, acts quickly and doesn't make a big deal about it. The second story about Ukrainian family, Bogdan, Tatiana and their young daughter, Emilia. They needed temporary housing while starting new life here. A post in Coronado, a post in Coronado, a post in Coronado happening led to a response from local residents, Steven and Lisa Johnston. They welcomed complete strangers to their home, let them use their car and help them to get established. Today, Bogdan and Tatiana own businesses and Emilia is thriving. And again, Coronado sees the need, acts quickly and doesn't make a big deal about it. The third story happened at a trochering meeting. When a family faced challenges, extended their legal status . I shared with Daniel Stewart and council member, Amy Stewart. And they immediately offered some guidance and connected with the right resources. And again, seeing a need, acting quickly and don't make any big deal about it. Those few stories reflect something special about Coronado. Over the past several years, we have organized quarterly as gatherings, business meetings, educational programs, holiday events and women's conference that had about 60 women and 20 volunteers. These events create opportunities of mentorship, friendship , leadership and community connection. And then we have a question. Thank you. Micah. Let me stop you there because at the time, but I just have one question for you. I wasn't clear from your presentation. So you're asking for a grant of $15,000. What would the money be spent on? Okay. Hi, Craig here. So basically we are planning to do quarterly meetings and we want to do one appreciation event for everybody who's been involved in helping Ukrainians in Ukraine during these hard times. We want to do an appreciation event. So that's one of the things. But maybe we don't, it's not just for the event. We want, you know, what is already existing in Coronado, this possibility of sharing the community that is helping others step and see the need, acts weekly and doesn't make a big deal. We want just to continue. All right. Thank you for your presentation. Next we have the Coronado Community Theater. Hello, Mayor Duncan, members of the city council, manager's office. Thank you for having me. My name is Mark Carl Wilcox. I am the current president of the board of the Coronado Community Theater operating as the Coronado Playhouse. Coronado Playhouse has been producing theater on the island for over 80 years from the Quonset hut to the renovated barracks with the infamous pole in the middle of the stage to working with the city for the past couple decades and the beautiful facility that you can see outside of the window to my left. Coronado Playhouse is committed to fostering relationships with the Coronado community as a whole, including three new board members who are residents of Coronado and our long standing vice president, Aaron Peterson, who is a graduate and alumni of the Coronado School of the Arts. In the past few months, we have also fostered partnerships with local organizations, including the Paws of Coronado, the Philharmonia and the Coronado Historical Association. CPH is seeking funding to produce Shakespeare's The Tempest for our 31st free classic production. It was previously produced in 1999 and again in 2013. The annual free classic series started in 1997 and we have not skipped a year except for during the pandemic when we weren't able to do anything. Records show that since 2011 our free classic production has been attended by no less than 1600 patrons per production in 2024. Our production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream had a record attendance of 2185 patrons. Coronado Playhouse's free classic series is the only event in the San Diego region that provides free access to high quality theater with professional artists. The free classic is not only an opportunity for islanders to attend high quality historical theater at no cost, but also invites non-residents to the island to see the show and spend time supporting other local businesses on the island. We invite everyone to reserve a seat at our 30th free classic happening the weekend of July 10th where we will be presenting Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. We hope to continue enhancing our relationships with the city, other arts partners and Coronado nonprofits as we plan our 2027 season. The community grant will be a big part of allowing us to do so. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have the Coronado Hospital Foundation. Good evening. I'm Judy Weissman, the past board chairman of the Coronado Hospital Foundation. I would like to thank Mayor Duncan, council members and city manager friend for your continued support of the Coron ado Hospital. Tonight we are asking for support with a $15,000 grant. With the help of philanthropy and thanks in part to the city support, our hospital has undergone a significant transformation over the past five years with a focus on enhancing the emergency and intensive care units. As these critical services have been strengthened, the hospital is now shifting its attention to bring new special ties to the island with focus on preventive care and longevity. This funding will support the opening of the new wellness clinic at Sharp Coronado Hospital. This will house four fully equipped exam rooms designed to accommodate a range of highly demanded specialty services including longevity medicine, weight management, sleep medicine, plastics and cosmetic services. An emphasis on longevity and preventive care addresses one of Coronado's most pressing health needs, supporting healthy aging. Comprehensive assessments and personalized wellness plans will help residents stay active, reduce chronic disease risks and maintain independence. Early intervention in areas such as sleep health, weight management and mobility can improve the quality of life while reducing the need for more complex interventions and ultimately lowering health care costs. As Coronado's population ages, Sharp Coronado is committed to evolving with the community it serves, ensuring our residents can remain healthy, active and independent. A grant of $15,000 would be an investment in the healthcare of our community for generations to come. And just a side note, we'll be celebrating our centennial anniversary next year, April of 2027. Please save the date for our gala celebration on April 10th . And we will continue our legacy of healing and guiding the hospital's evolution. Thank you again for your thoughtful consideration. Next we have the Coronado School of the Arts Foundation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. Good evening. Mayor Duncan and City Council. My name is Linda Edison and I am the current foundation of the COSA Foundation Board of Directors President. I wanted to speak a little bit about our requests that we have made in that COSA is providing arts education for community members and students not only in the Coronado area, but over the bridge. There are students in San Diego that come to our community to pursue this pre-professional arts program. We believe that the COSA Foundation and Coronado School of the Arts is a community asset where we are growing and educating and building students not only for the immediate future, but for the long term where they can come back and give back to the community and bring what they've learned back. Next slide please. For over 30 years we have students that have gone out and represented us and made us all very proud. And they do this not only in the school setting, but after school in performances, exhibits, dances, films. And so they are out there representing Coronado. We have one of our members in New York today. She will be performing at the Jimmy Awards. Addison Nesbitt was our San Diego representative. So she will be representing Coronado and the entire San Diego area in New York on Monday. And we just had our 30th anniversary gala and we were reminded about how many people know and support us and want good things to happen. Next slide please. 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So to date, have you raised any funds yet? No. Okay. So you said you're rolling it out in July? We're rolling it out on July 3rd when we start to ask for pledges. We've had a lot of informal expressions of interest. We opened a segregated bank account at Morgan Stanley. We've settled on the donor agreement. We've amended the bylaws. We've done everything we think we need to do to establish the endowment. But we wanted to wait until the July 3rd to actually start taking in pledges and payment. Okay. Thank you, sir. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Next, we have pause. Good evening and thank you. I'm Greg Curtin, President of the Board of Paws of Coronado . We also have Jackie Williams, our Executive Director here. We just wanted to thank you, Mayor Duncan, City Council members, City Manager Friend, Kelly, and the entire city of Coronado for your ongoing support of Paws. Our annual Paws Rough Run, for which the mini grant funds are used, has grown well beyond just being a fun dog run to raise awareness for paws and animal welfare. It has become a true community community. It has become a true Coronado community event, including open invitations to every community organization in Coron ado to participate at no charge. It's become a regional attractor for dog runners, dog moms, animal lovers of all types throughout the region, and has become a go-to adoption event for Coronado and the surrounding community. With continued funding, we truly hope to grow the event and continue to increase its impact. I do want to say one quick thing about the animal mayor race that was raised previously. We do encourage everybody to vote early, often, as much as you can. Every vote helps paws. We do want to say one quick thing about the animal race that we do. We do want to be clear. The winning candidate will not be replacing Mayor Duncan, but rather working hand in paw with Mayor Duncan Hope. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next, we have So Say We All. Good evening, Council. My name is Jordan Coburn, and I am the Executive Director of San Diego-based storytelling nonprofit So Say We All. Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak to you today . With me is Dan Kreft. He's our grant strategist. Our mission is to unite humanity through inclusive storytelling, and we have been doing just that since our founding in 2010 through the pillars of education, publishing, and live performance. Since our funding, we have hosted the show Incoming on KPBS , which provided veterans the chance to write and perform their stories to the national community. We have published hundreds of local authors through anth ologies and produced over 450 live storytelling showcases locally that reach over 5,000 audience members annually. One of these live storytelling showcases is called Long Story Short. It's a theme storytelling showcase that invites community members to show up and tell a five-minute nonfiction story centered around a specific theme every month, kind of similar to what we're doing here, but maybe a little bit more varied. Everyone is welcome to participate no matter their experience level, and it helps people go from open micers to published authors to memoirists, and it's a really awesome event. But currently, we only do them in San Diego, and we want to bring it over here to Coronado. Obviously, given the rich history and cultural experiences here, we want to bring this show here and give this vibrant community the chance to connect their experiences to one another. And with that, our theme idea is on deck. So we think that this will provide folks in the military community as well as people that have a deep love of living life on the bay, the chance to connect with each other over those experiences. And we think it's really going to provide that range of storytelling that will be beneficial to the city because we will also be archiving that show. And that can be available to the city as well if you would like that. We've asked for enough money to help get us started with a pilot show in the area at a local business. We would like it to be on the water if possible given the theme, and it would help us pay for the space, the tech, the host, the marketing, and the means to record and archive that show. Like I said, it's also very important for us to engage the community strategically to really ensure that we're reaching members of the military as well as folks from all ages and all walks of life. And everybody that makes up this beautiful city. Moving forward, we would request to increase this funding so that we can continue the show on a quarterly basis. We currently do it monthly and have been doing so for about a decade over that bridge. And we really want this city to get to fully experience the community building power and excitement of consistent live storytelling and see how that can help folks honor everything that it means to live here. Thank you for your time. I am happy to answer any questions. Could I ask a question? One question from Councilmember Downey. Yes. Yes. So your theme you're proposing for Coronado, could you say that again, please? On deck. Okay. And would it be looking to get Coronado storytellers versus folks from across the bay? Yes. It would just be centered here. So all of our marketing efforts and all of our outreach efforts would be centered just in Coronado. I understand that. But would the people that choose to apply, are they given priority to be the ones to tell their stories? Absolutely. There's actually no application process. Anybody can show up and it's first come. Ah. Yeah, first serve. So it's sort of like an open mic opportunity. Because we put the theme out first, people tend to know what type of story they want to say and kind of rehearse and show up. So we won't say people over the bridge cannot come, but we 're assuming that we'll be marketing mostly and pretty much exclusively to Coronado folks. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next, we have the South County Economic Development Council . Good evening, Mr. Mayor and members of council, staff. Jim O'Callaghan with the South County EDC. For the last 40 years, we've served the communities from the city of San Diego, south through our border region, and east in through the unincorporated county. Much of the work we do goes uncelebrated. It's kind of done behind the scenes, but we program almost everything we do from the business outreach and talking directly with businesses, whether that be in person, through surveys and other information. One of the things that we have prided ourselves on is being able to start jobs programs to help retrain incumbent workers, help create programs that are working on the job. We're also working on the job and creating programs that have become curriculum at Southwestern Community College and partnering with a lot of our universities on job skill training. All of this has come from talking with residents and businesses over the years. As part of this grant application, we shared a new program we're going to be launching by the end of July. We're bringing a mobile resource center directly into the community so we can bring it to job fairs, we can bring it to business expos, we can bring it to community events. And really help everybody from those seeking jobs to those looking to those looking for access to capital, find all of those resources in one place. 90% of people don't take advantage of programs because they don't know they exist. So being able to have one more billboard for these programs , they're almost all completely free to residents, to business owners, but they just don't know they exist. So this is a pathway that we can bring that right into the community. It'll go out with our business outreach team as they go door to door to businesses as well. But we encourage many of the nonprofits here to bring it to their events and let people know that it's going to be available to them. It's an all electric vehicle, clean footprint for the community. There'll be touch screen kiosks, people can apply for jobs, access to capital, further information. Businesses in the community, nonprofits will be able to put information in the vehicle. The communities themselves that we partner with, like the county, the individual cities, can also have all the information that they would like in there, whether it be about community events, grant programs, loan programs, or the such. But we thank you for taking the time to consider it and we look forward to partnering with you. All right. Thank you, sir. Next, we have the Storytellers of San Diego. Good evening, Mayor Duncan, Council members, city staff. David Schmidt with Storytellers of San Diego. Our president, Marilyn McPhee, is here as well. We would first off like to thank you for your continuous support. And we are here now requesting your support for a year-long arts and culture initiative designed to strengthen community pride and sense of place by preserving and sharing Coronado's unique history, legends, and local stories. Coronado is a community with a rich and distinctive identity, as we all know. Beyond its landmarks and historical places are the stories that give those places meaning. These stories are an important part of the community's cultural heritage, but unless they are actively preserved and shared, they can be lost. Our project is designed to ensure that Coronado's stories remain accessible, relevant, and available for future generations. Over a 12-month period, Storytellers of San Diego will present a series of free storytelling performances at various community locations, schools, the library, other venues. And these events will transform local history into engaging cultural experiences that bring residents together, encourage participation in the arts, and strengthen connections to the community. We will also create a lasting cultural resources for Coron ado through the production of the production of a professionally recorded digital audio archive of local stories. Featuring narration, original music, and sound design, this collection will be made available free of charge throughout the Coronado Public Library and other online platforms, ensuring broad public access. Now, a key element of this project is community participation. Through our free six-session Storytelling Institute, which we have done several years at Coronado already, residents will have the opportunity to develop their creative skills, explore local history, and share stories of their own. This program has been offered successfully in Coronado with strong community participation and much positive feedback. The project will conclude with a public community showcase featuring both our professional storytellers and participants from the Storytelling Institute, all celebrating the stories, voices, and experiences that help define Coronado. We've been serving communities through the storytelling arts for more than 40 years. We have successfully completed previous grant-funded programs in Coronado, including the recent Coronado Legends project, and have demonstrated our ability to deliver high- quality cultural programming that benefits the public. This proposal directly supports the goals of the community grant program by expanding access to arts and culture, enhancing community pride and a sense of place, and activating community spaces. A city's greatest legacy isn't just found in its architecture or its history books, its lovely buildings, which Coronado has many of. It's found in the stories that people share. We invite you to help us preserve those stories for Coron ado's future. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you. Next, we have the Steps Foundation. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. I'm Mayor Duncan and City Manager Friend and fellow Council members. Thank you so much for allowing me to be here today to tell you about the Steps Foundation. My name is Angie DeJarnett. I'm a military spouse, founder, and executive director of the foundation. We serve the women of special operations. So, as background, the organization was born out of my own experience when my husband retired from the SEAL teams after 26 years. Roughly 120 organizations showed up on our doorstep to support him through that transition, and for that we are very grateful. But I asked those same organizations for support alongside my husband, and they turned me away. So, I started the Steps Foundation three years ago to provide health and wellness programs, mental health programs for the spouses, female veterans, and gold star widows of special operations. The clients that we serve here in Coronado are primarily Naval Special Warfare clients that are transitioning away from the military. These programs are not covered by TRICARE, but they have found to be very useful for healing our community. We are sadly losing marriages of 20 plus years through this transition. Marriages that have been through numerous combat deploy ments. I myself moved nine times in 14 years. Relocations. We get very good at those transitions, but this one in particular is rocking our community, and we're losing lots of marriages that have served this country together. For 20 plus years. So, I'm here to ask you for $15,000. We typically allocate $6,000 per spouse for six months of programming. So, we have established over the years that six months is the right amount of time to establish new habits and to set boundaries around self-care. If we do it any less or any more, if we do it more, we're actually spending more money than we need to. But if we do it any less, then they don't establish new habits. So, that's what we're trying to provide. We're just asking to be able to support the women alongside their husbands so that we can save some of these marriages. We have three women currently who are Coronado residents who have requested support from us. They have been waiting for months for support, and the demand is outpacing my ability to raise the money for them. So, I am here to ask you for the money to put them through six months of programming alongside their husbands as they transition away from Naval Special Warfare. I passed the League of Women statue on the way here. So, Coronado has a rich history of acknowledging the service of military spouses, and this is an opportunity to bring that statue to life, to help real spouses who are in need and are struggling to hold their marriages together. So, thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it, and I will stick around if you have any questions. Happy to answer them. Thank you so much. Thank you. Last but not least, we have West Wind Brass. Good afternoon, Mayor, Council Members, staff. Thank you. West Wind Brass for coming up in 40 years. We started when I was still in the Navy band. One of the band members started at '86. We've been visible in the community. We've never come up for support from the city of Coronado until now. We're trying to formalize our activities here in the county , in the city. We've done a lot of touring, international touring, just recently in Mexico. Worked for the Los Angeles Music Center on tour. Orange County Performing Arts Center, California Arts Council. Now we're trying to focus more of our efforts here in San Diego County. Doing more programs for schools, free concerts and parks and libraries, which was a main effort by the city of San Diego arts plan, cultural plan. So we're trying to bring this into local communities here in the county. Now we've been successful doing this. The Musicians Union, Steve Dillard. And my name is Barry Tombs, executive director, former Navy musician. In the last 16 years I did logistics support for Navy Special Warfare. So I'm understanding about the community here. We're trying to invest back what we're doing here in the community. And part of our efforts with Westwind is doing a, with the Musicians Union, is doing a workforce labor program. We're training professional musicians and young musicians how to do the business of music. Showing up in the community, doing a pop-up concert, programs for senior centers, educational. Just this last month, I don't know if any of you are aware, but we were here four times. Boom Blast, Christ Church fundraiser. We did a public free concert for seniors at the center. And then Memorial Day. We were first brought in by Miramar Cemetery. Navy band can be everywhere. Who do they call? Westwind. We play for CIL grads. We do ceremonies. Miramar National Cemetery, we were there. We performed a concert with Coronado Band the same evening. So we, and then we do educational programs in the schools. And to show you what we do, I brought Steve. He's going to give you a little demo of what he does. And we did the same thing in Coronado Rick Center last month. I spoke to Marilyn, my new friend over here. She's a storyteller. And she's going, you know, music is nothing unless there's a story behind it. And when I was going up, my folks said, Steve, if you're going to play an instrument, you should be able to tell a story through your horn. I'd like to demonstrate that. Wanting for the toy? Actually, that's not the story I want to tell you. This is the story. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Okay. But I'm trying to do the mini-grants potentially separately . That's why I'm asking right now. Okay. I haven't given it much thought yet. Okay. So I'd like to hear from my other council members. Sounds good. Mark? Yes. Thank you. Now on the mini-grants, some I would like to explore more is Anchor Booster Club. Okay. Community Connections Center. Okay. Coronado Hospital Foundation. Thank you. North County Economic Development Council. South County. Yeah. South County. I'm sorry. Gotcha. That's it. All righty. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, Ms. Bernadette. Well, two things. As we go through all of them, both the mini-grants and the other ones, we had staff proposals. One of them was just across the board to accept. So is that not something we can assess before we go through each one individually? Well, again, I think we're going to go through each of the regular grants individually as to, I mean, certainly anybody can make a motion. But as to, I'm kind of, that's what I'm looking at. Because if I say, if you say you have none you want to talk about, then that's basically saying that's what you'd like to do. So I have a few that I think are, that I have some questions on. And the other option would be with the mini-grants, for instance. And we do have to go to regular public comment before we do it. But I wanted to get an idea because it's been two hours and we're going to take a quick break as well. But I wanted to get an idea. If there were ones that were basically unanimous or that nobody really, everybody's like, hey, we're on the mini-gr ants. We could potentially get a certain group of people done through, you know, pretty quickly. So if there's ones, and so Mark mentioned one, two, three, four in particular that I've marked that he wanted to discuss. So I wanted to see what the other council pulse was. Well, based on what you just said, I can tell you the ones that I'm interested in funding so that I wouldn't need further discussion because I'm already interested. And then the ones that I'm not saying, depending on what other people say, I'd be. Can you go from the top down? Then it'll make it easy for me. Thank you. I'm interested in funding Camp Able. Okay. I'm interested in funding the Coronado Community Theater. I'm interested in funding the Coronado School of the Arts. Paws. And West Wind Brass. Those for me were easy yeses. The others I'd want to hear a little bit more from the rest of the council to see what they have to say. Okay. Was that helpful? Was that? Very helpful. Okay. Council Member Stewart, any comments? Yes. I looked at this and looking at the staff and report and what they've done. The ones that were funded last year, I was in favor of funding them. But had some questions about some of the others that were listed there for funding. Just because there were a couple things that came to mind. And I know, and it's hard because what we have are all of our friends in the room. Yes. Right. And we love you all. And, but I also felt that I wanted to fund the ones that are already there. And maybe some of the grants that are coming before us seem to prove redundant in some way, or maybe not Coronado- centric, or as Coronado-centric as we are trying to kind of move toward. And maybe have more relevant funding sources other than the city. So that was just my initial sort of look at that. So that's very helpful. Let me see if I can potentially distill something that might be good out of it. So last year, Camp Able was funded. They didn't appear today, but they were funded at $1375,000 . And they requested $15,000. We had the Hospital Foundation at $15,000 the year before. COSA, same thing, $15,000-$15,000. PAUSE, $15,000-$15,000. And then the only other one was Storytellers of San Diego that I believe was requested to be spoken about. They were allocated five, and they were seeking $15,000. So if we exclude those, this isn't a huge group, but if we exclude those, just that last one, we would have one, two, three at $15,000, and then one at $1375,000, where we could round it up to $15,000. That would be those four potential mini-grants. We could potentially take public comment on those if needed and or vote and let those people depart. Did you have any comments, Councilmember Purvis? I do. Purvis? I do. Looking at the mini-grants, I'm more concerned at looking at the TBDs because they're new to us. Right. Everything else we looked at last year. My understanding with this system that we adopted this year , since we've already looked at them one time, I feel as though they've already gotten a vote of confidence from us. So I would be more likely to support all the ones that are returning and look carefully at the TBDs. I noticed that Councilmember Downey did say West Wind Brass , and I'm interested in seeing if we can possibly fund them for next year. They were new and unique. But a lot of these TBDs are new, and I agree with Council member Stewart that they probably have other forms of funding that they should seek first and maybe come back to us next year. Or they have redundancy with other groups that we're doing. Right. So it's literally what I just did. I went through and said, these are the ones that were funded last year, and this is how much they're asking, excluding one, which was Storytellers of San Diego, that was at five and one at 15. That would be the only one that we would pull. And so that's what I was proposing is there's only four others, three at 15 and one at 1375. So those, unless there's something I'm missing, let me know . But so those were the four that I was going to consider seeing if anybody wanted to do public comment on, and then we could do a quick motion to approve those four and let them leave. I could agree. Go ahead. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Could you clarify again the four that you're talking about? Right. So if you look on our list, either option, I mean either one, but I'm looking at option two. If you look at the 2025, 2026 approved allocation, you have Camp Abel at Coronado. You have the Coronado Hospital Foundation, COSA, and PAWS. The thing to say about that, we had quite a bit of discussion last year regarding the Coronado Hospital Foundation. And I do remember that discussion entailing that we were going to approve that $15,000, but that we were really recommending that the Coronado Hospital Foundation not continue to come back for additional funding. I was actually surprised to see the Coronado Hospital Foundation back looking for a $15,000 mini grant, again, from the city this year. So I have concern with that one out of those four that you just mentioned for those reasons. I think many of us support Coronado Hospital Foundation and will continue to support that. But it just, to me, seems like it's not a good fit for the city grant funding. And also... Sorry, Senator, for a second. I hear you, Mark. Okay, thank you, Councilman Fleming. So what we'll do is we will go ahead and take a five-minute break. Then we'll just go ahead and start at the top of the regular grants and go forward in order. 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So just as I recently resigned from the concerts in the park, one of the reasons we never gave money to the concert in the park here, I formed that 501c. So I told them we cannot go to the city of Coronado asking for money. I was too vested in it. So they never have come to us asking for money because that it would have been a conflict of interest. So in this case, that's why I recused myself from 4th of July because I am very involved in that one. Ms. Stewart is not. So with that, thank you. Okay. Thank you for that. All right. Please vote. Motion carries. Council Member Fleming voting no. All righty. Thank you. We'll move forward with the KMAC Foundation. Is anybody still here from the KMAC Foundation? If we have any questions. I'm very supportive of the KMAC Foundation. I'm very familiar with it. And I think the grant and the small amount that's requested is way outweighs the benefit to the community. I'd love to second that. Thank you for seconding it. Any questions? Comments? Okay. Please vote. Motion carries. All voting aye. All right. Moving on to Lambs Players Theater. They have a request in the amount of $75,000. I'll just make one comment. Just as you had mentioned about the art festival. I used to go to Lambs Players regularly because Floyd Ross had season tickets and so I went with them every time. And it was a guarantee we were going to eat out at a good restaurant. So I know for a fact that the Lambs Players brings a lot of people eating out in our restaurant. So I think it's a good return on investment for the money that we give them. I agree with you. Council Member Purvis? It's a great return on our investment. I did make the 55th celebration and I'm excited about their change in leadership and to have them for another 55 years if possible. They make a big difference in our downtown and we'd miss them if they weren't there. So would that be a motion to approve the grant? It would be a motion to approve and I'll second it. Thank you, Council Member Stewart. Please vote. Motion carries. All voting aye. All right. Thank you. We're on to 18 Memorial Day Ceremony Planning Committee. Again, I'll just weigh in very quickly. It's a very small amount. It's like stunning that they don't ask for more and it's one of the most amazing events that we have in town and it's extremely meaningful, I think, to the community. So obviously I'll support it. Any comments or questions? I'll make a motion to approve it. Second. All right. Please vote. Motion carries. All voting aye. Okay. So we're on to music of a tallies to grant requests. One's a 2026-2027 main stage and school program and one is Crown City Choral Coronado Choir. They are in the... It's kind of interesting because the grants that were funded last year were 15,000 and 10,000 respectively. They requested 27 for the one that they received 15 for this year and 10 before and the recommended amount of approval by staff was 15 and 10. Does anybody want to begin the discussion on that, those two grants? I have to say, although I do appreciate the concerts and a lot of people really, really enjoy them, I'm not sure the increase that I understand. I don't understand the need, I guess, as I should say. So I would be comfortable with the staff's recommendation. Okay. So your proposal to 15 and 10? Yes. Council Member Purvis, same. I see you nodding. Yeah. I support that. Staff recommendation. Thank you, Council Member Purvis for the second. Council Member Fle ming? No, I'm sorry. Okay. Anything? Okay. Please vote. Motion carries. All voting aye. I move in on Safe Harbor Coronado's two grants under 21 and 22, Family Support Services and Healthy Families Program in the amount of 50 and 75,000. It's the same amount as prior years. Ms. Jimmer, before the vote, just so everybody's clear on the record, my daughter works for Safe, but she's 27 years old and supports herself. So under my reading of the rules, I don't have a conflict of interest. On the other hand, if she didn't work there, could she support herself? No, I 'm just kidding. Okay. I make a motion. We approve these two grants for Safe Harbor. And I'll second it. Yeah, I think it's one of the most beneficial things we can work on in our community is I know they work with various ages, but our youth health and some of the mental health crisis that occurs. So I appreciate the second. Please vote. Motion carries. All voting aye. Thank you. We're on the last two regular grants, which is Villa Lobos Chamber Music Festival, the Coronado Residency and the Coronado School Outreach. In the similar amounts as the year before, exactly the same , I should say, 14,386 and 7,920. Anybody want to weigh in? I've worked with this group for many years as a staff member here and attended almost all their concerts. As the previous speaker, I think it was Phil Emming spoke about it. The quality is amazing and it is a festival they bring here. I think for that amount of money, it does serve a lot of our population at the library and I would support them for this upcoming year at the staff recommendation. All right. Thank you. House member Fleming, anything? I'll second that. All right. So you know, other comments, please vote. Motion carries. All voting aye. All right. Are we all good to continue on with the mini grants at this time? Did we approve both of the Villa Lobos requests? Yes. Okay. Thank you. And I would say with that question, I do have for the future want to really, and just me personally, again, we can all disagree or disagree, but look at maybe all of the music groups we're approving next year and kind of see how they fit together and what pieces they do. I'd like to really see the schedule of performances in Coronado specifically and from last year and what's proposed for the next year and see how they sort of all look together. And while we're doing that, every one of them as part of their package talks about what they do with the schools. I'm wondering how the students have time to learn anything other than music because so many of them are doing it. And that's not negative. I want you to be involved with the school, but that might be helpful if I understood a little bit more about that. For me, it's the specifics, right? Yeah, exactly. And that 's kind of what, when we were discussing the emerald keepers situation, I think it was heard, right? Is that the specific breakdowns of where the money's going to and what's happening. And is that maybe a little bit unfair to ask that tonight? Maybe because, you know, we had, you give impression that we're just going to approve them, which, you know, is the impression we gave, but we also said we could change it. So it's a little strange, but going forward, I'm just trying to express what I think is the proper scrutiny for the next round of how we do this. Okay. So number 25 on the mini grants, the first one is the anchor booster club, making waves and swim development skills. Does anybody have any comments or questions on that? I do. So do we have somebody still here from? Okay. Thank you. My question to you is what percentage of the students that participate in this are residents of Coronado? All of them. All of them. Yes. Okay. Okay. I didn't understand that when you were, when you were presenting before. So I appreciate that. Thank you. So quick question. Is this a brand new club? The swim club exists. The making wave programs would be new. So when you say the swim club, are you referring to anchor booster club? Yes. How long is the anchor booster club existed? Eight years. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions for the applicant? Alrighty. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Actually, Mr. Mayor, I don't have a question. I just, I was confused because there's lots of other names. We've had a lot of swim programs through the years. If it was the Navy swim club or what it was, as I understand it, this is the current evolution of what had previously existed. We're welcome. You should have her come back up and she's willing to. I just want to figure out, I don't want to have conflicts. So again, goes to that question, how many organizations are serving the same name? No, I appreciate it because I had not heard the name anchor booster club before tonight. So what happened eight years ago when this was formed? Ah, so, um, the, the team existed before that as sea to desert swim association and the booster club was formed to help support as the nonprofit so that they could do the things that a booster club does. When you say sea to desert, that's another one I've never heard of. So is that here in Coronado or is that? That's right. It's based at BB Mac. Okay. So it's go ahead. Council member. Okay. So this one would be in addition to or in conflict with the other clubs we had. We used to have one that was all the time, uh, uh, help me with this, uh, council member Stewart. Was it the Navy swim ? What was the one that CNSA? So is this in conflict with CN SA? I don't know anything about them. CNSA actually dissolved and then a new group started and I don't know the new group. I was on the board for CNSA for several years, but when it dissolved, I was no longer part of it. Um, but my daughter swam on it and I was on the board with, uh, Mary Beth Parr and Stan surface. Right. And so we did all our own fundraising. That's what I'm trying to figure out. If this is what wound up coming into existence, because that old one, which was around a long time and a lot of people were involved in, I'm not saying that's good or bad. I'm just because there's so much going on. It's the whole conflict. I'm just trying to figure out if this is on top, but I guess this is the only one we're being asked to support. So I guess there's not a conflict. We have a crown city water polo and a couple of maybe tang entially related, but let me ask you this one question another way. So you're saying it's based in Coronado. Yes. Okay. And there are kids that are currently being supported by the booster club now. And are those attracting a new set of students? So there are swimmers, uh, many of whom live on Coronado, some of them who don't that are part of the team. This program called Sea to Desert Swim Association. Okay. It's still called that. Okay. Go ahead. The making waves program targets the Coronado community specifically to make this an opportunity more broadly available. I mean, you go to a swim meet, you look around, it's a lot of, uh, white people who have funding to do this sport, like. So it's a brand new program. Yes. So the making waves. So that doesn't exist now, but that is what you're, you're seeking to fund. That's right. Okay. And do you have any other funds supporting this program yet, or is this brand new? Uh, there will be, there's, there's, uh, the funding for the program, the full budget is about 18,750. So that difference of 3,750, is from other sources or would be. Yeah. Okay. Alrighty. Thank you. It answered all my questions. Okay. Any other questions, comments, motions? I guess we gave them 13,000. No, I'm just reading. I'm sorry. That was camp able. So we've never given them anything. This is their first time requesting. So as much as I love supporting our kids, I'm just not sure how much we should be funding for programs that are using school facilities. Um, I recognize not everybody can afford to be part of them. Um, but, uh, there are, um, opportunities to seek additional funding from, as somebody that shared the PETT for many, many years, we get requests to help give money towards, uh, helping fund students. And almost every club in this room and in town has helped sponsor campers to the sixth grade camp. Because they're, some of them don't have the money to do it. So I, I'm just, I want to hear what you all have to say, but I'm not sure that's kind of where we ought to be doing with, with funds. This is a program that some kids will get to use, but not all of them. I think you make a really good point in the, in the way I look at it is, um, so, you know, I had children play travel soccer and children play, um, travel volleyball. Like my daughter's volleyball club never played a game in San Diego. Um, so they only played out of San Diego County. Um, but, uh, that I wouldn't be supportive of the city funding other children participate in those. That is the club can raise the funds either via the, what they charge for their dues for how much they want to support other children being involved in there that can't afford it or through other fundraising, which is what those clubs did. Like, you know, the not a select soccer and, uh, other programs, but that's just my thoughts. I'm happy to hear any thoughts from the other council members. Council Member Purvis. I have some concern about the amount of funding that they've asked for with the programs, 18,000, 750, I think, and they're asking for 15,000 of it. I could see paying a smaller amount to get them started, but I think the, the fact that they're, we're entirely paying for it concerns me as a new entity that we've never, none of us have heard of it before. Thank you. Council Member Flilling. I have similar thoughts, uh, and, uh, I guess I would propose that we, uh, fund half of what they've requested, $7,500. And, uh, and then if they want additional funding next year, let them come with a more detailed request and they'll have a year under their belt, uh, with this. I'll make a motion to that effect. Report that is a second. Okay. Please vote. Motion carries all voting aye. So again, that amount was funded in the amount of 7,500 as I think I saw it on the screen. Okay. Thank you. Camp Abel at Coronado is next on the agenda with, um, last year amount approved of 13,750. They should they apply for 15,000 and that was the recommended amount by staff. I'd be happy to support that and make the motion. I'll tell you, I've been there. Oh, um, I'd be happy to make the motion to support the $15, 000 staff recommendation. I've been to this event. It really is humbling for all of us. And there's quite a few Coronado folks, either children that are participating or volunteering. There's an awful lot of us that care about this program. So I, that tells me it's okay to use our money to help support it for just 15,000. That is not their budget. That's a small part of their budget. And I know that, um, some friends I have at the Coronado Community Foundation are very supportive and think it's an excellent program as well. I know they're at pretty high level of scrutiny. So thank you for your comments, sir. Mr. Fleming? I was just going to second that motion. Motion seconded. No other comments, please vote. Motion carries. All voting aye. Alrighty. Thank you. The next one is this, uh, number 27, the Community Connection Center, um, requesting 15,000 for the first time. Does anybody like to lead us off on that one? That's remember Fleming? Yeah, I will. I, I, um, I, I had some concerns with that and, uh, concerns primarily around the applicability regarding, uh, asking the city of Coronado to provide taxpayer funds. Uh, certainly I think all of our hearts go out to, uh, uh, people from Ukraine and what's been going on in Ukraine. And, uh, uh, and, uh, and there's, uh, many organizations and many churches that support, uh, refugees from Ukraine that have come over the United States and everything. Um, however, this is not really focused on, on, uh, uh, individuals that are living in Coronado or that would very specifically be living in Coronado. And as I understood, it was, uh, largely about having an appreciation party, uh, to, uh, uh, uh, provide, uh, appreciation to a lot of people in Coronado that perhaps have provided some mentoring and coaching and everything else. I would suspect that those people, although there might be a desire to, uh, provide them with, uh, some, uh, added appreciation, I would suspect that those people really don't require or don't expect any appreciation for what they've done. So with that, I would, uh, I would make a motion that we do not fund this, this program. I agree with that analysis. Council member Fleming, I would make it a second. Just one, a couple of years ago, I was asked to come speak to an event over in, uh, the shores because a resident of Coronado sponsored a Mother's Day event for all the Ukrainian women. And we have some in town that live here, a couple of doors down from me , um, that were relocated here because of the war and all the husbands couldn't leave. They were all back kept in Ukraine. So we do have folks in town doing a lot, but it was a private citizen that did that and they sought donations. They asked me to come since it was Mother's Day and I was the only woman on the council at the time. So I went, um, but I applaud that. And I think maybe if there's an event that they need more help with, I think, uh, if you get the word out, I think we can probably manage to do that , especially if they just want to throw a party. We know how to throw parties. Everybody in town can throw a party. If you're 501c3 here, you know how to throw a party in Coronado. Um, so I would support at this time not funding them, but if they came back with something that specifically was trying to help the families that have been now living here three or four years, trying to figure out how to get a job or whatever it is they can legally do, um, I might be willing to listen to that. But this one, I don't think gave me enough to feel like we should be funding it. All right. I appreciate that. And just a reminder for any applicants now in the future and everything, I know the city in order to issue checks of , you know, taxpayer dollars out on grants, we need the organization does have to be formed or at least have a federal taxpayer ID number or W9. So, something to consider. It's interesting because on one hand , I want to support new ideas. It's part of the reason for the grant, but I think there also has to be a certain level of, um, it has to be somewhat formed down the, like some proof of concept. And so I think I agree with your comments. Okay. Please vote. Motion carries. All voting aye. All right. So that grant's not funded. Moving forward with the Coronado Community Theater, Coronado Playhouse 2027 Free Classic. This was, um, not a grant that was funded last year. They requested 15,000 and that's the proposed staff recommendation amount. I'm sorry. Which one, Mr. Mayor, you're saying that was? We 're on Coronado Community Theater on number 28. Oh, okay. Thank you. I was reading the slightly different language to the right of it. Under the. Yes. Okay. I'm fine for that. Um, I, another bang for your buck community. I've been going for years and years and years and they're wonderful in the community. They let all the other nonprofits host tonight and make it a fundraiser for them. So they really are doing what we want to work with each other. And so for that amount of money, I'd be happy to, to make that motion. I second that. Any other comments? Council member Purvis. I'm very appreciative of the fact that they've brought three locals under their board, which was a requirement and they've really made a turn around and I'm excited to see what's coming next year. Yes. Thank you. No further comments. Please vote. Motion carries. All voting aye. Thank you. Coronado House, Hospital Foundation, number 29. The Wellness Clinic at Sharp Coronado requesting $15,000. They did receive 15 last year. I believe it was for a different item. I remember what it was actually. So yes, it was. But um, anyways, I know Council Member Fleming had some comments. Does anybody have any other comments? We can go back to Council Member Fleming. I, I, I will. Yes , Council Member Downey. I've had the same concerns Council Member Fleming has had through the years. Um, one of the things that most of these people in this room do, they don't have professional lobbyists. They don't have huge foundations with millions of dollars in the bank. Um, those kinds of people don't need, you know, 15,000 from us. Um, anybody will take money, you know, if you're giving it away free, of course they will. But since we have a limited amount, this year is an anomaly that, that we have some extra. Um, so, since I think it, when we're done with all of these, I am going to want to talk about the Junior Arts League. So I'm just not comfortable continuing to just give money to an organization that raises an awful lot. I've been on the hospital board. I think the hospital is amazing. I will continue to do what I can to support them. But I don't think this is the, I agree with Council Member Fleming. I'm not sure this really is the place for that. Any other comments by Council Members? Council Member Fle ming? Council Member Fleming: I'll just make a motion that we do not fund, uh, the Coronado Hospital Foundation's request. Does anybody else not agree? Council Member Fleming: Council Member Fleming: I think it's such a small amount for a large budget of 1.7 million dollars for a brand new center at our hospital, which is innovative and is going to serve our elderly. And they're, they are really local, the foundation, compared to off-island. They don't come to us often. And I'll tell you a story. A couple of years ago, we didn't approve a grant for a heart monitor in their ER. And two weeks later, I was in the ER and they didn't have a heart monitor that worked. And I was thinking, you know, those are the kind of small purchases that maybe we can help out with and make a difference for the hospital. And it is the only thing on the island when we have a medical emergency. It is interesting as a Council Member. I remember when I was first on Council that they came and asked for a very large grant. And I was very opinionated that that wasn 't appropriate at that time for that large amount. It is interesting though, because I don't think your points are really off at all. However, I don't, I like to reward also organizations when they do what we ask, which is don't come in and ask us for $75,000 or $150,000 for your new stroke clinic. And how much do you have in your reserve? And how much do you have in your fundraising and all those things? So I'm interested in Council Member Stewards, but I'm happy to, I would, I would vote for it if we have, if we have another vote beyond Council Member Purvis. Well, you know what, I think you've changed my mind because it is a low amount. But I will tell you, just to be clear to everybody, I voted to give them millions of dollars during my time. As a matter of fact, if I added up all my votes, wow, $10 million or more. Yeah, very, so it's not that I don't support them and don't appreciate they are the only game in town. I'm worried they're going to go. That's why I voted for everything they need to do for all the constructions. But I suppose looking at it, it's only $ 15,000. It at least shows that we care what they're doing. I suppose for that, I can support it. So you convinced me, although I still am concerned that these people have, you know, millions of dollars in fundraising. But if, if everybody thinks just showing that just so we can show we appreciate it and we want them to stay, that's fine. Councilman Street. Councilman Street? I think the mini grant is very appropriate. We're very fortunate to have a hospital in our town. Yes, we are. And I love that they're innovative. I love that they're thinking outside the box. They're looking at different populations that have needs. And I think that this is just a small nod to them that we appreciate them and that we support this program. So I would vote yes. So procedurally, we have a motion on the table to not approve it. I'm sorry. Green light me over there. I want to fix it. So we have a motion to not approve it. Do you want to substitute motion? Councilmember Fleming, did you? I'll amend my motion to approve it as presented with $15, 000. Thank you, sir. I'll second it. Let's please vote. All voting aye. Thank you. Moving on to item 30, Coronado School of the Arts Foundation, Artistry in Action, request for a $15,000 grant, which they've also received last year. I will say I'm very impressed with COSA overall as an entity. I'm interested if any council members have any issue with this grant and this amount. I'll make a motion to approve it. Second that. Thank you, Councilmember Stewart. Please vote. I'm happy to support that, but I'd also love after the meeting to look at this 8,000 to 10,000 they need for the new board. There may be other ways to look at this because there's so many organizations that need to use that. So if you want, yeah, if you, if you want to, when we're done with all of them, we could look at the number and see if we want to do anything else tonight. I'm happy to do that. Thank you. I did forget about it, even though I have it written right here, 5,000 to 8,000 soundboard. But I think, I think we could make any additional adjustment at the end on anything we want to do. I think that's, I would call it almost like a separate grant, almost like the oral request grant, like it was the Coronado Junior Arts League we want to talk about. So I'm happy to do the entertainment. Thank you. And anything else any other council member wants to discuss ? Alrighty. Thank you. So moving forward on the next one is the Crown City water polo presentation we had on the BB Mac pool fees. Mr. Mayor, I'll kick that off if you'd like. Please. Thank you. I was originally not sure about this, just like I wasn't sure about the Anchor Booster Club, but since we've given Anchor Booster Club, half of what they've asked for, I would like to do the same for the water polo club. I was co-chair of the endowment that raised $1.3 million so that we could build the pool. And big supporter of aquatics. But I also think that because we've done it for the one, we need to do it for the other as well. Okay. Any other? It could be a motion. Okay. Thank you. The motion's made for funding it at $7,500 level. I'll second it. And I agree. We're in an interesting position. The school district has told the pool it has to be self-supporting. So they have to raise the fees for everybody to use the pool, even though we built it for the water polo teams. So, and we stopped allowing a lot of them to come here at lower rates. That was part of the deal. So we've made it harder now for people to go. So for that reason, I'd be happy to support the half, half of the request. Thank you. And for me, again, my desire, and we'll see how we vote, how we're going to do the grants next year. Everybody may have different opinions. But I really do want to see where the dollars are going, like specifically. So that'll be true, obviously, with this. I don't know how new they are, if they have their text pay ID numbers set and everything else, but we will find out. And as we go forward, I, that I just feels our duty. I know it's kind of painstaking tonight. It's taking a long time. We could, but for me, I think there's a certain scrutiny that we should definitely have on these. And I know you guys, everybody up here, all the council members care as well. And as Council Member Stewart said, a lot of it was pre-screened the year before. But I want to see specifically where each of the dollars go. So on one hand, that's also why with the hospital foundation, they have one small thing. This money's going to go directly to that. So that was appealing to me. So I'm sorry, Council Members, either of you have any other comments or questions ? Council Member Fleming? No. Council Member Fleming: No. All right. So we have a motion. We have a motion, right? A second? Council Member Fleming: Yes. Council Member Fleming: Both of you? Okay. Please vote . Council Member Fleming: Yeah. Council Member Fleming: Tow ard the 7,500 level. Council Member Fleming: Motion carries. All voting aye. Council Member Fleming: Alrighty. Thank you . On to the pause request for a mini grant. Council Member Fleming: Any amount of $15,000. They were funded in that before. I believe when it was presented, they said specifically it goes to the rough run and the costs associated with that event. Council Member Fleming: I make a motion. We approve that for pause for the $15,000. Council Member Fleming: I'd second that. Council Member Fle ming: Thank you. Any other comments? They do a great job, I think, with a small amount of money. And the only bad thing about pause is they're so good at what they do, that it tracks animals from all over the place. But it's not a good idea. But I love them. Mr. Mayor, my family, we are fostering an underweight kitten at the moment at my daughter's house and spending about 42 hours a day trying to get this little guy to eat. So thank you for doing that. Lots of investment of time. Thank you for that, Council Member. Please vote. Motion carries. All voting aye. All right. The number 33 is the so say we all. Long story short, Coronado Showcase requesting $4,170. Yes. Grant. Mr. Mayor, I go to Mr. Fleming's comment. I kind of agree. It seems to me it's the same thing as the say we all and the storytellers. So I'm just trying to figure out, should we be funding both of them? I mean, they both say they're going to be Coronado focused, at least for their foreseeable event. I don't know. Do we think we should have them both do it this year but only give the same amount? So whatever we're giving to one, give to the other. And then next year, decide which of them because then they 'll each have a track record to compare. I don't know. Or we say, no, we're not going to fund anymore because I think some of them go to the library. Storyteller, just to refresh your recollection or my recoll ection as well. They were funded last year, the other one, not this one. A number 35, the Storytellers of San Diego at 5,000. Right. That's what I was thinking. And just, I mean, we can talk about them both. And if you like, since they go together, in my opinion as well, sort of. So for me, the Storytellers of San Diego presentation was too general. So if you say, like, hey, I do this, I do this, we do this, we do this. But I need examples. I need something to see something. Like, I've never seen something. Like, storytelling is great. It's a great way to learn. It's et cetera. Lower in Legends of Coronado. Like, what comes out of it? Like, where's the product? What happened? How many people came? Right. And I know that that was $5,000, but they're asking for $15 ,000. Yeah. So I couldn't support that. And with the new group, the question is, is that what we feel is the best interest of the taxpayer dollars to go to doing another one or not, to your point? And since we don't have numbers from the current one, I can 't say that I know Coronado wants to have two similar organization events going on. I mean, you know, I used to joke all the time that we needed to stop and go back to just three or four on Thursday instead of what wound up being, like, 12. However many there were. There were just too many. And it's just too many events. So even the people that like to go to all these, and she's left already, but we have some members of our community that do try and go to all of them. But I don't think you could. So I guess that's the question for me. I mean, I don't mind doing it. I do remember seeing one advertisement for the storytellers in San Diego, and the Friends of the Library liked them. And that was my question. What other money are they getting? Because they're being put on by the library, so they're not paying for renting library space. And if they get any money from Friends of the Library, I guess the question is, what do they need the money for specifically? I just want to point out, I believe on 35, I can pull it up , but on the storytellers of San Diego, it says to pay professional storytellers to come to tell the stories. That's what it is. That's the difference. The other one is people come up and just do an open mic kind of thing. Right. Huh. Would you like to ask us any questions about what we have done? I don't know. We are storytellers in San Diego. I don't know if you wanted to hear from us now or after So Say We All. One second. Did you have anything else on the So Say We All? Do you have any questions for them? Or did you say they're young? Actually, now I get it. So Say We All is people that aren't professionals. They're just anybody signs up in an open mic, it sounds like. Whereas the other one apparently is paid people. And then we can ask them to confirm that, but it seems now. Okay. Yeah, let's do 33 first, then we'll get to 30, 35. We may have a couple questions. Anything on 33? Which is the So Say We All? So Say We All. Yes, ma'am. I'm looking at their expense description, and I think they mentioned they were going to do it at a local business. But the venue cost is $1,500. Is that a fee that the venue is charging you? Oh, she is here. Yeah, come on up, please. Yeah. I'm sorry. I thought you may have left. Okay. So one of the venues that we are looking at is VFW, which, for example, has a $1,000 rental rate. I don't know all of the rental costs for every venue. So part of planning a show is to reach out to all of those and see what they are. VFW could be a great space for us, considering all the work we do with veterans. We could center that on-deck theme, for example, to veterans that have worked in the Navy, the Marines, for example. So that was why we chose that number as one of our most appealing venues was at that $1,000 number. Any other questions for the applicant? All right. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. And that answers my question. If somebody that tries to book events all over town, that's the cheapest you can find anywhere. So it's going to be at least $1,000, if not more. What do we want to do? Council Member Purvis, I think you need to make more motions as we finish the evening. This one's tough for me because I'm unfamiliar with the group. It sounds interesting. It looks like they're going to charge ticket sales to get in. You want to answer? I'm sorry. I should have asked. I just saw that. We're really trying to see how dedicated you are to this grant application. So our model typically is we will produce a show when we know that we have the funds to do it. So if we don't get the funds for this, for example, the show just won't happen in Coronado. One of the ways that we get the funds is through our shows. We charge $10 for these events. It's very small. It's not necessary, though. And we could divert some of the money in the budget so that it could cover the cost of admission and make it free for all Coronado members. That's absolutely something we could do. Just our typical model is that we charge $10 for people to come. Yeah. If anybody else has a burning desire to speak, please let me know. But to move it along, I actually am impressed with her presentation. And I think we could give it a shot this year at the $4,170 . It's fine if I don't get a second or if you don't want to approve it. But for me, I would be interested to see how it works. Given what we know, I'd be happy to second it. Okay. Thank you. Please vote. Motion carries. All voting aye. Thank you. We might as well do Storytellers real quick, and then we'll go to the South County Economic Development Council. We're almost done. So the Storytellers of San Diego, we mentioned a couple things. Does one person want to come up and give us any comments on that? And then if we have any other questions. Go ahead, sir. Sure. And thank you for expressing concern about the generalness of the presentation. I assumed all the council members had read our full proposal, so I kept that general. But the program we're proposing here, it has four components. So one is a series of storytelling concerts, performances with professional storytellers. Second one is the creation of a unique digital archive and audio archive, like an audio album, of all of those stories recorded professionally in a studio with original sound design and music. Third one is one that we've done several years in the past with Coronado. Since 2022, actually, we've held our Storytelling Institute , teaching locals the art of storytelling. And then the fourth final event would be a final presentation involving participants of that storytelling institute, along with members of our organizations performing. And I should emphasize, all of these stories are exclusively Coronado stories, from Coronado's own unique history, oral lore, personal tales, but all exclusively by Coronadans for Coronadans. Could I ask a question? Please. I do remember when you did that a couple years ago. The only way it actually works for us to get the recordings to reserve would be, and I'm sorry, I think CHA went home, but, oh, there you are. It would have to be stored for it to be accessible. We've got to figure out where we'd put them, and we'd have to figure out if CHA would hold those stories or the library. But I can't speak for our library director either. We've actually spoken with the library. Oh, good. Yeah, they've agreed to hold those, and also they would be, as alternate options, they will also be stored on YouTube, on Spotify, on publicly, totally free of charge, publicly accessible online options. Thank you. That answered my questions. So, and that's part of the part, what I meant about the general part, because I understand what the application is saying is, I always ask, and I know $5,000 isn't a huge amount of money, but what has been, like, say, for instance, what, tell me about last year. So last year. That's all I want to know, just last year. Sure. Last year, we had $5,000 last year. With that, we held the Institute that was hosted at the library. We had rave reviews from Coronadans who came to the Institute. A few people came from further, even from England and Denmark, in fact, out to Coronado to participate in that. We also created this original book of Coronado legends. That book is now available to Coronado schools and to the library. And first of its kind, actually. I authored the book myself. It's a book of 30 different unique Coronado stories. So the research has already been done. I actually have a second document with about 30 other stories I couldn't even fit in the book. We presented that book at the library, had a unique storytelling event with our storytellers performing stories from that book, a multimedia presentation. And so that's what we did last year. This year is something entirely different. Obviously, the book's been done. Stories have been collected. And now we're talking about having the series of performances, the digital archive, the Institute once again , which has always gotten good response, and the final event of presenting these stories and celebrating and preserving Coronado's lore for all time . Thank you. That's helpful. Any other questions? Thank you, sir. Thank you. So I think we're back to Council Member Purvis. Do you want to address this? Mr. Mayor, I have heard good things about this program over the years. They've done a good job. It is a big jump from 5 to 15. Why don't we go halfway and go 10? And hopefully that would be enough to do as much of the program as possible. But I think it's worthy of support, and I know the library has indicated they like this organization. Council Member? It might be scary to you. I was actually thinking the same thing, so I would second that motion. It's not scary. It seems great. Seeing no further comments or questions, please vote. All voting aye. And that's it for the funding amount and the amount of $10, 000 for the grant, correct? Thank you. All right. Thank you, sir. All right. Moving forward with number 34, which is South County Economic Development Council's request regarding a mobile information center and business outreach team for a grant of $15,000. And the executive director is here. If we have any questions for him, I see in the back. So, Council Member Stewart. I would just like to ask our city manager. We're members of this, are we not? And how much do we pay for that membership? Yeah, we are members. The city of San Diego is a member. And I did double check on our dues. And our dues were not as high as I thought they were initially. It was $1,300 we pay to be part of this. Just if you heard, our annual dues are $1,300. And I know we've been to their events before, but go ahead. So, I was thinking because we all agreed to do the information hub on Orange Avenue, that this is a redundant service. Because we've just put all of our CTE ID 1 funds into this. And I just think it's not something we want to fund at this time. Council Member Fleming? I would agree with Council Member Stewart. I really struggled with this one. And I'm not in favor of funding this one. And if that was a motion, then I would second that motion. Okay. Motion and second. Any other comments? Council Member Downey? For many years, the council had a rep that went to all the South County EDC meetings. So, I've been to many, many. And some of their nice events, they go around all over the South County and we go to events. And I was happy to support whatever we could do. But it rarely had any impact on our businesses. We're just such a unique market here. So, I'm happy to stay member of SCEDC. And if I can think of any way we can support them, then that would be fine. But I don't think at this time that we need this, although it's a great idea. But we already, our chamber currently, has the job fair that Discover Coronado does. So, I mean, a lot of the things we agree, but we're already doing them. So, at this time, I would say no. All right. Thank you. I have a lot of respect for the executive director. Yes. But I hear what you're saying. And also, it seems that it's at the concept starting stage, too. So, I understand what you're saying. I appreciate all your comments. Go ahead and vote. All voting aye. All right. Thank you. Moving on to item number 36, the Steps Foundation Spouse Transition Enrichment Program. It's a new request for a grant of $15,000. Do you have any? Please. They're all looking at me. As a Navy SEAL spouse, you know, the senior officers for us were the Vietnam spouses for the officers and enlisted were the spouses. And, you know, the Vietnam War ended when I was a kid. And next thing you know, they're all home and doing their thing. My mom was one of those spouses. And then I just feel like, you know, there's a lot of money put into the Naval Special Warfare. NSW receives huge amounts of funding for a variety of things. You have Ombudsman's Program. They have all kinds of programs that never existed, quite honestly. I mean, the phone would ring and my husband would leave in the middle of the night. I didn't know where he was going. I didn't know when he was coming home. And that would go on for months. And here we are 44 years later. Daniel, if you're listening, I still love you. I would vote no on this. Go. Councilman Redani. I actually had spoken with Council Member Stewart about it because I was a Navy wife for many years. And in particular, I'm so happy there's so many nonprofits that actually support the SEALs, returning SEALs, wounded SEALs, and SEAL families. So I'm not sure at this time us funding this is needed. Although, whatever they do, I certainly applaud any effort to help any service member and their families, especially as they're transitioning. But I just don't think right now that we're the appropriate people to be funding it. I think they're okay with that. Council members? Is that a motion and a second then? Sure. I agree. Just one second. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Council member. I'll speak for myself. I agree with the two council members. I'm in agreement as well at this time. And I think I heard the concerns on the presentation earlier, which was this is specifically designed for the spouses, the Jews representing the JINFL. There was enough coverage to the other organizations. But unless you have any questions for her, we'll go ahead and guess. I will just say that the Naval Special Warfare spouses that were my friends then are still my dearest friends today. We were there for each other. We lifted each other up. I can't tell you how many dinners, lunches, baby showers I hosted. And we did it for each other. And you look at the League of Wives, they did it for each other. And that's what being a Navy spouse is. It's taking care of each other and doing what you can for your spouse. And we're unwavering in that. And I just think that there are other resources, whether it be in town safe or Navy programs that are already out there . And I think that I just don't support it this time. All right. That's fair enough. I would say, though, the ongoing from all the other wars and actions, too, has been pretty intense. I mean, even in 2008, you probably have heard me tell this. My first baseball team I coached here, I had four Navy SEAL s, mom and dad's sons, and four helicopter ones as well. There was a wide variety of deployments for those SEALs, including a year in Afghanistan for one, a whole year, not just the flight to Germany, Kuwait field back in a week. I mean, it continues to be very intense. But I think we know where the council is at right now. And, Vo, did you have something else? I just wanted to. One of the nice things that's happened since I was medically retired is the Navy started recognizing that they need to provide services for spouses as well. That law was passed. I know Navy spouses are actually, businesses are encouraged to hire Navy spouses because, A, they're normally the most hardworking, dedicated people, even if they can only be here two, three years or whatever. So there's a recognition that it's very hard on spouses as they move around everywhere. But there's also some big Navy programs. So that's why I was just saying at this point, I don't think, and everybody appreciates the Navy SEAL station here , but we also have pilots. We have ship captains, you name it. And so that's why I'm just leery to step into this pond because it's a much bigger pond. I understand. I'm not disagreeing. I just, I know we also did a ribbon cutting on a group that opened recently to provide some psychological services as well to military spouses. So, Ari, I think we're set to vote. Please vote. Motion carries. All voting aye. All right. Moving forward to the last one that's on our regular list, and I think we had a couple we may talk about, is the West wind Brass, Coronado Brass Connections, Community Residency by Westwind Brass, which is a new applicant, asking for $15,000. Mr. Rick, could I ask, Kelsey, have you been adding all this? Do we have any idea? Yeah, they are. I just like to know what it is. I'm just kind of curious where we are. And I will state for the record, we don't have to spend every dollar to cap there, even though I will once again also state that I'm the one who way back, four years ago, was pushing for us to not have it capped at a million flat. So, it's partially my fault. All right. So, we do still have 136. So, it's okay then. In that case, I'm happy to move approval for the Westwind Brass. As I was in the beginning of this meeting, I've seen them perform. I think they are fantastic. They're all over. What I love about them is they just slip in with other things, and it makes everything better. I mean, the musicians are so impressive. So, I think they perform on their own, but they also add to the organizations in town they join. And it's not much. It's $15,000. Any other council members like to weigh in? Council Member Fleming? I will second that motion. Thank you. I'm just going to take one second. I want to take a look at the mini grant for one more second . Any other council members have any comments why I do that? So, I'll support it as well. I guess what I would want to see next year when they, if they come back for another grant, is exactly what was done in Coronado with the support that's given. I understand it's not an insanely large amount of money, but it's still the $15,000. And what did that actually do? Because you also have a lot of different performances. You were talking about stuff, you know, very far away and different things. So, how the impact is on the community is what I'd be interested in next year. Okay. So, did we have a motion and a second, correct? Council Member Fleming second in. Please vote. Motion carries. All voting aye. Thank you very much. So, we had, as far as I'm aware, two other potential things to consider. And if anybody else has anything else, we can certainly talk about that. The first one, I believe, was the Coronado Junior Arts League had an oral request for a grant. Council Member Downey, were you the one who wanted to bring that? I did. I want to look back at what their request was. Because they had, they received several in the past. So, let me see. I don't remember if they asked for the same that they got two years ago, or they asked for one. They received $30,000 this year. They said in the past that they had had in 2024 a $30,000 amount and paid $18,000 in fees. So, it was a net, they believe, of $12,000. And then in another year, it was $30,000 as well with $14, 000 in fees to the city, resulting in what they believe was a net of $16,000. I was going to ask the city manager. I know we didn't ask you to prepare for that since we didn 't have it. But if you have any comment on what do they mean by the fees paid back and what are those? Actually, and I will pass the baton over to our recreation director, Mr. Tim Farmer. I suspect I know what they are. But since we have someone here who can explain the cost structure. Thank you, Mr. Farmer. Good evening. So, currently, the Coronado Junior Arts League is an independent contractor working as a recreation program provider for us. And our current contract with them and with all of our other independent contractor that run programs is 70% going to the organization. 70% of the registration fees that are collected for the program goes to the contractor. And 30% is retained from the city for use of the venue, use of the marketing and efforts that we provide for all of our recreation programs. That's very helpful, but very good. So, they're asking if I'm understanding this correctly for money on top of the money they're getting for running their programs. Which I guess if they weren't using our facilities, they'd be doing that anyway. So, I guess that's okay. I didn't understand it by now. Thank you. That answers a lot. Thank you, Tim. So, the question is that, and I don't think there's any legal barriers or anything inappropriate about it. We're welcome to consider it if we like, I believe. So, does anybody have any feelings on what they'd be interested in potentially doing? I like the program a lot. And I understand, let's put it this way, it was interesting . I had so many people talk to me about this, I had no idea that it had such a following. So, and that's always my rule, is Coronado folks want to use this, and I guess they do. And I'm pretty impressed that somebody who's heart and soul to get this running, and she found somebody else who's willing to run it. So, I'd be willing to fund them. I'm open to the amount to fund them, but I would, since they inadvertently fell off the list, they, and I'm sure it had to do with the transition and everything. So, if we gave them $30,000 in the past, I'd be fine with giving them $30,000 now, but I'd be happy to give less than that if we want to move them to smaller. I just don't know why we would if the program worked well for the last couple of years with that. Especially if, as she says, we're making some money. The city's making some money off these programs anyway. If that's a motion to fund them with $30,000, I would second that motion. Thank you. That was the motion. Council Member. Just one comment. I, too, am supportive of this organization and to fund them , but I will remind us that we are allowing them to apply when the deadline happened, which I'm okay with. It passed. It passed, but I will hear from other, you will all hear from other organizations about, had I known, I would have shown up at the dais and asked, and they could have, although I discouraged others from doing so. But, again, I think this is a fabulous program, serves a niche that we're not serving in this community. They did get us equipment in the playhouse with a grant from the county, so I feel as though, even though it's $30, 000, as they say, they're giving us $12,000 back, I think it was. It can depend on the registration fees, yeah. Yeah, and so I think it's a good investment and a return on our investment, so I will support it. And I think it's, and I can think of a couple organizations that could say this also in the past, but it is an organization that has had a longstanding relationship. So I'm comfortable with it. I would like to, and I appreciate that someone wants to come in and take it over and do good things to the community. It's almost a little bit like a startup of a longstanding organization. But I just would, we'd need the specifics next year of what exactly has happened, so. I think I agree with you. I don't want to change our rules with the exception of they 've previously gotten. So that's the only reason I'm suggesting they get this one- time waiver. I don't want a new person showing up because they never put it on time. So they followed the rules. And so I will make that exception this time. But I certainly would encourage everybody to apply by the deadline. Sounds like you agree with my comment about a longstanding relationship previously. I do. I do, Mr. Merriman. Thank you. No, I appreciate that. Are there any other comments, or Council Member Stewart? Anyone? So you had a motion, I believe, to approve it. I think, no, Mr. Fleming did, I think. How about you second it? No, I made the motion. He seconded it. Yeah, just double checking. Okay, to fund the grant in the amount of $30,000. All right, please vote. Motion carries. All voting aye. And then, Council Member Downey, I know you said we don't want to do this anymore. However, I believe, no, you had mentioned, and if anybody else has anything, please let me know, or if there's any organization that has approached you that you wanted to consider something differently. Talking again, I believe it was about COSA. Yes. About the soundboard that had an estimate request in the amount of $5,000 to $8,000. It seems to me that's a little amount, and it would, almost half the people in here would benefit from that. So, since it appears we would have the money to do it, I would like to make the motion that a separate grant be given to them for, and I hate saying $8,000 to $10,000. So, I'd rather just... Well, they had $5,000 to $8,000, they requested. Oh, $5,000 to $8,000, then I'd say $8,000, just so we don't have to go back and forth. Okay. And they'll account for it, I'm sure, if it passes for next year and how it was spent. Does any... Council Member? I'll second that motion. Thank you. Unless anybody has any questions or concerns, I'm fine to go ahead and vote on that. Okay. Please vote. All voting aye. All right. Thank you. Is there any other items anybody desire to talk to at this time? Council Member Stewart? I just didn't want to say how wonderful it is that our community gives so much back to the organizations that give so much to us. I mean, it is really incredible. And I'm just so impressed, because not every community does this. Most communities don't do this. So this is really an incredible opportunity for all these organizations, and I'm just thrilled to be part of it. And I'm looking forward to next year, where we can really kind of shape this process to be a little more streamlined, to be multi-year. And just do... I think that there's a way to make this a little bit better so that we don't have to sit here. Thank goodness we're not here until 10. We've been here until 10 before on this process. It's 823. But I think we could probably get it there. I was just kidding. I was just kidding. Mr. Mayor, I think we can get a little... I'm just kidding. I know I talk a lot. I'm sorry. I'm happy to help with that process as well. I appreciate that. And I echo what you say. And volunteers really make our city what it is. And I know all of us have volunteered in different ways. And you volunteered a lot, of course, Council Member Stewart. So I appreciate that. And I think we'll get it back on the agenda. I don't necessarily agree with pre-approval for multiple years. But except for maybe certain things, right? It seems kind of crazy that we talk about the 4th of July every year. We've said that at all the other prior meetings over the last five years that I've watched or whatever. But I do also just want to say I know it can be a little intense and it can be a tough process. But I do think it's worth it. And I appreciate how we ended up on everything that we've done tonight. So thank you for your work. And Mr. Mayor, I have to say, we are now on, I think, the fourth revision of the grant process since we started. And I started the first one because I wanted all the organizations to show us the community supports you. Because we have no way to know unless you pack the rooms or we get the emails or your numbers show us that. So I like that that's where we are. But we didn't have to do any of this before. We literally, the staff would show us this is what they gave last year. We're going to give them a, they acted like it was the taxpayer's office, 2% more. That's it. There was no discussion unless somebody screwed up badly, which didn't happen in my memory. So we've come a long way. We have a lot more transparency now into what people are doing with the funds. So if we're moving back in that direction so they have some certainty, I think that's fine. We just need to be more clear what we want them to put. Because all of them will put whatever we ask for in the application. That was a good point, kind of combining your points together. So maybe I could see that where if we have that financial thing where we know all the dollars are going, maybe then it could be easier to streamline the pre-appro val. So I know we've done it different ways in the past. So anyways, I appreciate all the hard work. And I do think it's amazing that Coronado is able to basically donate a million dollars back to nonprofits. And the other thing I'll add, do we have the number again, Kelsey? Look, we saved $83,000. Thank you, everyone. I think that's the last slide. And may I just add appreciation for Ms. Kelly Maples in our office, who's been the architect and arbiter and also works with everyone in the room and does spectacular work. So thank you so much, Kelly. Thank you. Meeting is adjourned. Yay. Thank you.