Indian Wells, California

you the housing authority special meeting call the meeting to order shall we say the pledge of allegiance ready begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Mr. Benna is not with us today but it appears that everybody else is so that's the roll call let's go to I have a motion to approve the final agenda anybody I move that we approve the final agenda second second all those in favor aye okay we approve the final agenda presentations who's going to make the presentation here Jerry Gonzalez no nobody okay you will what's your name hello I'm Olivia Ruscon I am the regional manager with the boat community very good Olivia welcome thank you thank you you prepared to do this almost all right good okay so so the period we're covering is quarter three which is January 1st through March 31st of 2020 we'll start with maintenance updates and this last quarter Mountain View had 147 completed work orders of 157 received Indian Wells had 178 of 187 received and both communities average completion rate of 94% okay okay okay our priorities um um um from one through four number one would be our fire life and safety uh priorities most of those are completed um except for the AC replacements um those are as needed uh bath to shower conversions are ongoing as as needed as well um window repairs and replacements um um um um um um for the golf carts um um those are partially completed we still need a couple repairs on uh on the golf cart uh I believe that's at Mountain View and then perimeter fencing is ongoing um but that is a category four which um is basically between three to five year asset maintenance um uh category um um um in progress also is the appliance replacements uh we do those as needed and window cleaning um um it's in is pending um um possibly uh will be completed uh in this quarter uh I assume that air conditionings are prioritized as we're heading into the summer yes so those are um as needed as well yeah we uh the ones that we have um we knew about have been completed thank you mm-hmm um for regional accommodations um we received one in uh this last quarter for Mountain View Villas and that one was approved um and installed and then wells we have uh processed two and both were approved as well so currently we have um no um reasonable accommodations pending um next we go to waiting waiting list so active applicants by property are in Indian Wells has 118 active active um active um active um applicants on their waiting list and Mountain View has 140 uh 248 total applicants across both properties and demand continues to out-phase availability so our waiting list is growing up and we have a lot of um but yeah we just need vacancies to come um um um um um um um um um those who have found other places to live and so on. Okay. continuing onto vacancy update both properties are 98 percent occupied as of the end of March. what does that mean? is one available? well actually Indian Wells at the end of March had two vacancies yes correct so this is at the end of the quarter but now they're like Jerry was saying they're 99 percent and 100 percent occupied. okay. mm-hmm so our goals update on let me see if I have any notes on that so community safety are items that we are focusing on maintaining safe secure environments at both communities employee training ongoing professional development for site staff events and activities local partnerships to enhance resident quality of life and unit inspections to practice proactive and inspections to preserve asset qualities so currently we are doing unit inspections at both communities we're all just about 100 percent done though any questions on on those going on to community safety the lighting inspections 94 percent completion rain across walkways and parkway areas and weekly irrigation checks those are to prevent leaks and maintaining the green surface coffee with a cop is a quarterly event that we have at both properties and pest control is ongoing every month and we're currently trying to treat for snake repellents and additional pest treatments as well corner mirror at Indian Wells we installed a mirror on the corner of building 820 so that there's more visibility of ongoing incoming traffic there so that was installed for that safety reason and repainting of parking stripes as well for further handicap and parking markings at Indian Wells building 820 so can you go back previous slide please so just from one here from both of you on the dais who live in these places are you uh satisfied that lighting because when i was there last granted two or two or three months ago now the lighting on the pathways was uh not was being repaired are you are you satisfied with the current uh yeah mr mayor thank you for bringing the subject up we're everything's doing very well at Indian Wells village unfortunately when the cement was report this when the sidewalks were buckling the uh contractor there were some electrical lines that were compromised during that and there's some ongoing issues trying to track down where the the systems are in my opinion grounding out and they're doing a heck of a job fixing that but it you fix one and it pops up somewhere else so a lot of it has to do with the fact that they're in conduit they're very old and when it's in conduit and it's old it gets a lot of condensation and they can short out and it's an ongoing project they're doing they're very diligent about it but it's you know it's a little bit like whack-a-mole get one another one pops up somewhere else okay other than that and how about you okay so satisfied to a point yeah it's just okay just takes time and then the same thing with uh pest control everybody okay with pest control at the moment no you're not okay you want to share a little bit about that we've got a speaking the mic please thank you we've got a lot of issues with squirrels going underneath the foundations of quite a few of the units really i've got pictures okay and i spent four hours sunday cleaning up and they were back well done okay tuesday well anyway um they're having babies and these are ground squirrels so they hibernate and so the foundations in my opinion and i'm just a person uh by going underneath the units that i live in and the next three sunk over 14 years ago and they had to be real rebuilt so i'm saying okay so we can prioritize uh recommend prioritizing looking at that yes that's those are the two things that jumped out anybody else have any questions or thoughts on this page uh no i'm quite content with how things are in our community okay please proceed thank you thank you um moving on to staff training uh completed um we had trauma-informed care equipped staff to support residents through challenging circumstances circumstances with empathy and awareness we just came back from a two-day conference um in los angeles where our staff from mountain view and uh indian wells got uh intensive uh training as well on on this subject here uh mold remediation um we have our vendor blue sky uh restoration um um on on call basically for any uh remediations that are needed at the properties uh fire life and safety uh task goal uh letter training uh covering fire protection evacuation and emergency response procedures at both properties okay is mold an issue on the properties um it hasn't been a big issue um there's you know of course um a case-by-case situation where there might be uh you know some uh moisture and walls and some things like that because of a leak but i haven't seen that lots you know it's very rarely um our activities are ongoing at both properties um so we have daily engagement uh uh daily opportunities for residents to socialize and participate in activities and um we have been getting a good amount of attendees for our last meetings um new community partners our riverside county office of beijing county of riverside health well-be health and alzheimer's association and um we we have the food um uh also um which list items secured to support nutrition and food access um and there's a copy of the january um um schedule for a calendar yeah looks like a country club yes they're very active there so we're happy about that um we can move on to uh property and unit update let me can i go back and ask a question sure what is the relationship that you have with uh jocelyn uh is there a relationship between uh the um india wells villas and mountain view villas and jocelyn where uh there's there's some type of coordination for residents do you know what the jocelyn center is no okay the jocelyn center is your question there you go if i may somebody if i may actually uh commissioner whitman jerry gonzalez i'm the executive vice president of avoid communities commissioner sanders actually knows me from last year's um term um jocelyn center is actually a program that we work closely with through our resident services program the reason why olivia wouldn't know about that is because property management mainly manages the property and the asset itself resident services would make all the relationships with jocelyn center and they actually work with them as well as a bunch of other partners on a regular basis so i guess what i was trying to get to is is is there a way for or a shuttle or any way that's that's organized uh and established for residents to get to the jocelyn center and get home we can absolutely take a look into that and see what type of partnership we can create with the jocelyn center and and sunline might be uh helpful in that regard too oftentimes it will be a measure of whether or not those programs have additional funding to uh prepare those additional lines of uh transportation but we definitely reach out okay thank you thank you yeah just as an fyi what he's referring to is you know sunline which is our public transit could potentially arrange transportation uh and there are a lot of um there are a lot of activities uh jocelyn so that's worth looking into maybe for the two of you to follow as well okay sorry please proceed okay i believe this is where we stepped off completed maintenance and inspections by property indian wells um we completed fire extinguishers and they were serviced and tested at both properties um so the five year sprinkler alarm system inspection was completed semi-annual unit inspections um are completed at indian wells mountain view um we had shower conversions completed a total of five fire extinguishers tested and a surface and tested annual fire riser testing was completed and passed and semi-annual unit inspections as well i feel we recover this um i'm going back i'm so sorry okay reminders to keep certification smooth and on time so these are our annual recertifications um so basically on this one we submit a completed packet uh to include all pages of acceptable verification documents benefit letters bank statements etc to complete our annual recertifications um that we do return our original uh documents to the households we only keep photocopies of their documents and all original documents are returned to the household after review and then um our our annual recertifications are done on moving anniversary dates um based on each household's moving anniversary date do you have any questions on one another perfect perfect oh my goodness and our staff right now it would be myself from the regional manager and um under our department of property management is our supervisor of maintenance mark wormers our community manager for um for indian wells which is christina dole and her maintenance technician is uh for the services department we have a director of maintenance department we have a director of the county they they they they they both share ruby choppa at both mountain view and indian wells where she's three days at mountain view and two days at indian wells and mountain views community manager is christina contreras and her maintenance person is gino uh ducasin for the services department we have ariela talavera which is our resident services program supervisor and um we have our resident services coordinator noemi munoz no changes there but we are currently actively uh recruiting for the mountain view uh coordinator position set a full-time position it is and um last is our uh contact uh numbers for indian wells would be a 951-344-5274 and mountain view is 760-772-4688 and our emergency number covers both properties uh after hours 909-235-9376 and that concludes the presentation are there any questions i like your new format of presentation by the way oh it's good no it's really good it's clear clean anybody have any questions no questions thank you very much for your presentation madam clerk do we have any public comments thank you chair yes we do we have karen planovsky okay karen come on down hello hello hello hello hello hello do you want to state your name in the mic for people i'm going to get there i was going to thank her for pronouncing it correctly karen planovsky at mountain view villas i would like to be able to address the safety issues that she just talked about i might be able to tell you that they are lax i have bad arthritis i'm on a mobility scooter the speeding is getting out of control i have provided you a site map i have put on an outline the street i live on and where the problem occurs this is nothing new but it's getting worse and i'm getting scared when wind management was covering mountain view villas i went to them at that time asking for perhaps slowing down traffic with speed bumps oh no fire trucks can't get over speed bumps we'll never have speed bumps i've let it go but now that i'm vulnerable and i'm older i'm scared and if you see on the map that i provided where i reside and where the speeding is occurring i hope you'll be able to put in some stop signs to slow speeding down it is residents caregivers visitors vintage the vintage truck that picks up the debris with those whatever they are is going so fast it scares me so please abode hear me please council hear me please can we control the speeding in particular within mountain view villas can we have somebody come out and assess how we can slow it down the signage is bad it's probably from 2004 when it was built and it says five miles an hour on a little sign what is the science what what is the speed limit five five five five five five my car idles a little bit faster than five so we could five seems like we could go up to 15 and that would not be a problem but i feel that when people and vendors and residents and visitors come into the community they should be able to see what the speed limit is and how to slow it down in certain areas i don't know but i'd be happy to meet with anybody who can help me with this i've been in the community since 2008 and now that i'm on a mobility scooter i'm scared so help me thank you karen you're welcome thank you for your comments mr city manager would you just uh care after the meeting to follow up with that you know we will staff will look into it and we'll have public works look at it as well thank you very much any other could i just ask for clarification the speed limit now is posted at five miles an hour is that what i say correct yes that may be accurate yes any other further comment well no but i mean if that just seems like unreasonably slow right so chris will look into it can i yes please absolutely the streets also are wide enough for two cars but there's no dividing line dividing line so everybody takes their half out of the middle when they drive there okay so when they cut corners i have literally been cut off on a corner and up in somebody's yard because they went around a bus okay so it's very bad okay so you're looking at not just speed but dividing lines any other thoughts on well that would slow people down go on around the corner yeah okay thank you no other public comment okay close public comments executive director report dr freeland anything just a couple comments based on the presentation you saw uh they meant abode mentioned how they're looking to improve the golf cart fleet uh staff is looking into providing perhaps some of the surplus golf carts that we have as we're exchanging from the golf resort so kevin will be working with abode to see if there's any of our fleet that we're replacing could be of use to abode and to the two properties so that's the first item the second item uh commissioner whitman already mentioned about the jocelyn center staff is also working with desert recreation district to help try and identify other partnerships that can be done both properties as well and that's it my report that's good consent calendar any items want to be pulled from consent if not do i have a motion to approve the consent calendar do i have a second second all those in favor aye consent calendar passes general business indian wells and mountain view villa's operating budgets i believe uh this is your opportunity to speak here finance director mccarthy good afternoon honorable chair and members of the housing authority board my name is kevin mccarthy i'm the agency's treasurer and i'll present you our new operating budget for fiscal year 2026 2027. included in your staff report today is a very detailed comprehensive analysis of the budget including attachment three which lists all of the budgetary assumptions so with that i'm going to limit today's presentation to just two items one we're going to talk about ongoing fiscal stability and our commitment to the quality of life of our residents living in our affordable housing communities as in past years looking at the new budget the primary drivers continue to be property maintenance resident services hvac repairs i know we mentioned that just earlier in today's presentation we are committed to that not only making sure they're repaired but replaced in a timely manner in matter of fact this year's budget indian wells villas has nearly sixty thousand dollars allocated for replacements and mountain view villas has more than 195 000 dedicated for long-term replacements looking at our financial stability where we'll end up this year indian wells villas will have a net operating surplus income this year of about fifty thousand dollars and that's after we reserve an additional fifty five thousand dollars for ongoing capital repairs and maintenance and replacements uh similarly mountain view villas is is just a larger project so its numbers are are proportionally larger um the net operating income at mount mountain view villas is about 175 000 and again that is after we reserve 85 000 for ongoing capital repairs and replacement um as delineated in the staff report this year's budget is focused on improving resident quality of life and what we're focused on this year are additional tenant activities engagement programming and recreational programs and the spirit of that is that we want to build communal space for all of the residents living in both communities that they have the opportunity to come to the clubhouse to get out of their homes to the extent they wish and be part of a community that's thriving kind of fun loving in that in that whole spirit and with that this year we're putting our money where our mouth is in addition to the program that we had allocated last year we're allocating an additional twenty thousand dollars a year per property to look at the expansion of services and resident activities at both properties our key investments is again delineated by the budget we'll be looking again at the hvac repairs we're having fire safety and and security alarm systems as the properties have begun to age a little bit we're seeing additional electrical repairs and plumbing repairs extermination services and so on and so forth the spirit with this is that we're no longer doing or having any deferment of services so there is no longer a space where we're deferring any expenses till next year we're wanting to maintain the projects and the facilities and our communities in the best shape that we possibly can this year one of the things that we've seen and we did mention it earlier abodes folks was both at indian wells villas and mountain view villas the addition of what we call shower conversions so the units were originally constructed with a tub shower structure and as our residents have begun to age in our communities the idea the what's available to us today is the idea of a step-in shower this is a really appreciated benefit and we are committed to doing that we have funding available for those things going forward as you saw in the presentation before mine there's a very very brief a period where folks can apply for that and we can begin doing all the conversions with that i want to leave the board with just a few bullet points one the the budget is clearly fiscally responsible we are dedicated to not only preserving but improving the quality of life of folks living in our communities and also no more deferred costs i think that was something i'm extremely grateful that we're doing with that that concludes my presentation the board has three options you can adopt the budget as it's presented you can make modifications as you wish or provide us additional direction i'm always available for any questions you may have and as you met them earlier we have senior management from abode who can answer any of the more technical operational questions mr mayor i'll turn that back over to you sir so are we going to have 100 of the showers converted to step in the sound of inevitability is yes I don't know the flow rate I'll ask Jerry to come up the shower conversions are usually done as a reasonable accommodation so as they are requested will ensure that that is actually gone through our regular process and then the conversion happens shortly thereafter if I were to make a educated guess about the two properties we're somewhere in the world about 70% converted at both properties and we allow for the budget that you presented to do about 10 15% of the conversions per year I see yes so it's gonna take a couple years if if residents want to convert it may take a couple years that is correct okay all right I was happy to see the increase in the budget for services does anybody else have any questions I do real quick Kevin could you explain a pergola replacement those were ongoing the floor replacements that we've been doing yeah okay okay thank you thank you sir any other questions I have a question and Commissioner oh hey may want to weigh in on this did we finally get the roof leaking issue at Indian Wells Village result yes it but it is an aging roof and we have done maintenance on it ultimately your question is one of full roof replacement which would require a long-term capital project in order to do we're trying to figure out the feasibility of doing that on the project there was an issue of solar panels getting in the way of repairing the roof and so forth that's correct that's correct and there is an order of operations your solar panels at both properties are pretty aged at this point so there is a question of which capital project goes first obviously if we were to place solar panels roof would have to happen first because you'd be drilling into it so again it is a matter of prioritization of where funds can go the company that we've tried to find out that the company's done in the process, and we've been able to go. Mr. McCarthy has been very good about guiding us to make sure that we run revenue over expense as opposed to in previous years with your previous management company. So we make recommendations and prioritize based on available cash for the property as well as where the most pertinent needs are based on that capital improvement plan that you saw at the beginning. Mr. I just wanted to say that I'm very grateful. I had one of the worst units over at Indian Wells Village as far as leakage was concerned. And they really aggressively went after it. And I'm happy to say that as of today, there are no leaks in the roofs at Indian Wells Village that I am aware of. So thank you. Mr. That's good. If I may expand on the question as well, the city just completed a needs assessment of both properties as part of our evaluation to Mr. Look at long term capital needs of both properties in our efforts to look at extending the covenants of both properties. And so we'll have probably report back to the housing authority in the end of summer early fall with some options and evaluations to be looking at. I also want to make sure it's clear that if there's additional need for example, other capital needs at either property, those will come back if there's an if there's a budgetary issue. We don't want to have this thought that there's not funds available to for these capital needs. We're just making sure that there's not funds available for these capital needs. We're just making sure that there are needs versus wants as part of that process as well. Thank you. Bruce. In terms of the Jocelyn, I know that we said we're going to look into it. Is there any need for any budgetary, you know, any budget for looking into the Jocelyn Center? And I'm talking specifically about transportation to and from. We've put in a pretty healthy budget as Mr. McCarthy has showed with $20,000 in each property. That's more than what we run on expense. In comparison to what we have at other properties, you'll see that it's actually a very rich resident services budget. So we can have a conversation with Jocelyn if there is a cost associated with that additional transportation, see what we can subsidize versus what they are able to bring on site. Okay. Colander. Any questions? Okay. So that means at this point we open public comment on this presentation. Do we have any public comments? Okay. Anybody want to say anything? Who's right? Who came judiciously today? Okay. So we'll close public comment. Bring it back to council for a motion. I move the recommended action. Okay. We have a motion and a second. I would just say that I would hope that we as part of this plan specifically in agreement with the recommended motion, but to also ensure that we address speed on the roads, rodents and lighting. So, uh, if with that motion amended, does anybody else have any comments on that? Uh, I just under, are we under commissioner report and comments right now? No, we're adopting the budget. Okay. No, no comment. I second. Second. Okay. Does anybody have any comment about the amended motion? If not, all those in favor? Aye. Passes unanimously. Okay. Commissioner reports and comments. Thank you very much for the presentation, Kevin. Uh, yeah, I got a comment I'd like to make. Uh, I would, these are kind of thank yous. Uh, since our last housing authority meeting, uh, the city manager, the interim housing director, and the CFO have been very gracious with their time meeting with both my counterpart from Mountain View Villas and myself monthly to address issues that we feel are of concern in our communities. Uh, I was, both of us have been asked for, and we have submitted a list of concerns. A lot of them are redundant, things that they knew about already, but I wanted to follow up on. Um, and I'm looking forward to the promised items intended to not only maintain, but improve the quality of life of both our properties, especially the pending renewal of the affordability covenants. Uh, that issue in and of itself is going to contribute a tremendous amount, uh, to the quality of life there insofar as the security that it affords that our housing, our communities will remain affordable. Um, so I just wanted to pass along my gratitude, uh, for their efforts on our behalf. Thank you. That's great. And thank you for meeting with them on a regular basis. That's terrific and a much improved. Guanta, do you have any comments? Okay. So that closes the commission report hearing and the adjournment of the meeting. Thank you very much, everyone. Here endeth the meeting. We'll have now until, uh, 1:30 to begin the, uh, city council meeting. So we have a 20 minute break.

Shall we stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance? Thank you very much. I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mayor Perotem Penna is on vacation this week, so he's not in attendance. Otherwise, the rest of us are here. Shall I get approval for the final agenda? Okay. All those in favor? Aye. Okay. It passes unanimously, at least four out of five. Now, we have proclamations. So, let's go right to it. Who do we want to introduce here first? Dr. Freeland? Public Works Director Purvis? Shall we introduce the new Senior Executive Assistant to the City Manager and the Public Works Manager? We can certainly do that. It was my pleasure to introduce to you all Michelle Molina, our new Senior Executive Assistant to the City Manager. Michelle. There you go. Thank you, Steve. Briefly, Michelle comes to us from the City of Cathedral City, where she had a similar role working for them for a few years. She has over 10 years of experience. Her and her family reside in Indio, and she talks about her two wonderful kids, Sophia, age 17, and Augie, age 5. So, welcome to the team. And if I can have, there she is, our Public Works Director, Dina Purvis, step forward. Good afternoon, Mayor, Councilman. I am very proud to introduce today, Julie Mignona. She is our new Public Works Manager. She is a native of the Coachella Valley. She is a graduate of USD. She is coming to us. Give her a raise. Give her a raise. Sorry, go ahead. Sorry, I was laughing. She comes to us from SEBAG by way of the City of La Quinta. So, many years of experience doing exactly what we do here in Public Works. She has three sons and is used to a fast-paced environment, so she's a perfect match for us. Thank you. That's great. Welcome. Welcome. Okay. It's in the introduction. So, what we want to do today is also present a Public Works Proclamation. So, you know, today we kind of shine a light on the essential work of Public Works professionals who keep our city functioning every day. It is a privilege to acknowledge our team, whose commitment to service, safety, and community partnership is unwavering . Our progress is only possible because of the strong collaboration we share with residents who are deeply invested in the aesthetics of our neighborhoods to ensure our community remains pristine. If I can ask our Public Works team to come forward to receive this proclamation, recognizing this week as Public Works Week, in the spirit of your ongoing dedication to serving our community with integrity, transparency, and pride. You know, just as a personal note, there isn't a person who I come across in the entire Coachella Valley that doesn't make, doesn't say, when I drive into the city of Indian Wells, I know when I'm in the city. The roads are great. The landscaping is fantastic. And that is an attribute to you all. So, congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So, here's the. All of you will be for a place. I'm happy to stand behind you. What the day is. Perfect. Want a picture? Yes, please. Need pictures? Need pictures. Always pictures. Okay. All right. One, two, three. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Keep up the great work. Thank you. Great stuff. Let's keep that landscaping flowing with all that salty water, too. Good grief. My goodness. We're hearing about that from golf courses, too, in our city. All right. Next up, C3 Fire Station 55 Mini Muster Presentation by Fire Apparatus Engineer Cameron Moylan. Happy Thursday. Happy Thursday. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council Members. Today, I'm Cameron Moylan. I'm an engineer over at Station 55. I want to talk a little bit about the Mini Muster. We have the Mini Muster. We used to have it once a year. We used to always have it in October, which was the Fire Prevention Safety and Awareness Month. So now we've moved it to two times a year. So we have one in March and we have one in October. So the Mini Muster is here to assist in providing fire training safety to hundreds of local elementary schools. And then this year, I think we had almost up to 1,000 kids that we were trying to train in the fire safety training. So we're going to have a lot of fun. So we're going to have a lot of fun. So we're going to have a lot of fun. So we're going to have a lot of fun. So we're going to have a lot of fun. So we're going to have a lot of fun. So we're going to have a lot of fun. So we're going to have a lot of fun. So what we do for the Mini Muster is now we have it twice a year to accommodate for the high temps and the heat. So we will have one in March. And then in October, the Fire Prevention Safety and Aware ness Month, we basically go into classes and give presentations. And it's really fun for the kids. You know, we show up. They get to make and break hose. We get to spray water. We get to show them our PPE. They get to wear boots and turn out gear and talk about fire prevention. We do something called the Edith Drill, which is the exit drills in the house. So basically we kind of simulate there's a fire inside a house, how they can get out safely because fires grow rapidly so fast nowadays. So we try to give them the guidance, knowledge to get them out of the house. With that being said, we do have a Mini Muster Art Winner certificate. And I'd like to present that to Gwen Rucker. And is Gwen here today? No. Okay. So. But her artwork is. Oh, great. Art workers. Look at that. That's fantastic. Turn around and show everybody. Yeah. Great. Okay. Great. I'll wait for you to come down. And here is a certificate for her that you can take with you. Let's see here. There you go. Why don't you come over here too? There you go. Great. There we go. All right. Please give Gwen our gratitude for her participation and her excellence. I will. And for those of you that don't know, this will be displayed next week in Palm Desert. Then it will be opened and it will be framed. And this picture will be framed and it will hang in your fire station for a year. And then we'll collect it next year when we have next year 's winner. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Way to go, Gwen. Mayor, I have a little video as well to show. Please. Here in the city of Palm Desert where we get the local schools to come in for a mini muster where the students learn fire safety and fire prevention. It's great for our firefighters because it gets them involved in the community and the community can see the firefighters who are working for them . It's great for kids that have interactive fire safety because what we found out is that when kids learn fire safety from a young age, it sticks with them through their adult years and the rest of their life. It's our pleasure to be out here today. We're glad to be out working with the kids and involved with the community. It's our pleasure to be out here today. We're glad to be out working with the kids and involved with the community. That's wonderful. Thank you for sharing. Good stuff. Thank you for the presentation. Just as a footnote, by the way, I was talking to one of the Cal Fire folks from Los Angeles County saying 80% of the fires in Southern California that we're reading about in the newspaper right now are human caused, which is kind of shocking and depressing. Let's see. Legislative update by Riverside County Division Manager Jesse Ramirez. I'll go ahead and interject. Jesse had a family matter come up today. Okay. He apologized. He'll be at your June meeting. So we're going to move on. We're not going to present and present on his behalf. We are not. Okay. Public comments. So do we have any public comments? Madam Clerk. We do, but they are for the later items for general business. Okay. We'll hold those until then. Okay. Great. City Manager report. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Member City Council, I have a few items. First, as an update to your agenda, we are going to be requesting to the Council continue item I-5 regarding gasoline powered landscape equipment to a future meeting. Staff and Council Member Reed agree more analysis is needed on the operational and cost impacts of potential options and so that would be placed on your June agenda. As far as other items, I am happy to report that last week the City of Indian Wells received the prestigious John Sanford Todd Award from the California Contract Cities Association during their annual conference, which is up there at the podium today. This award recognizes a city for outstanding achievement in programming that exemplifies the contract cities model of partnerships and specifically our partnership with the Cove Community and how that has been an effective operation model for our three cities of Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, and of course here in Indian Wells. Through that program, we share police, fire services. Now we're doing much more with emergency preparedness and we're looking at other opportunities as well. And so it's been a very good program and contract cities recently recognized it. So congratulations to the community. Last week, I also want to share that at the budget meeting, there was included a recap of our solar project costs and savings. While we had our challenges getting this project completed on time, it has proven to be very successful in both how much money the City is saving as well as the number of kilowatt hours being greater than we projected. Even more so, which is also exciting, is the original purchase price of the energy efficiency system was $9.1 million. And over the course of the last couple of years, the City has found additional $4 million in savings, whether it be from grants or other credits, to put the total cost of that program at $5.1 million. So it was a huge achievement for the community. And with that, Mr. Mayor, that concludes my report. I believe we're also going to do an update, Angelica, on this being an election year and the time for the community to consider running for city office. And you can share those dates. Yes, thank you, Mayor. So as your election official, I've been working closely with our city attorney's office to prepare for the November 2026 election. The election will be formally called at your next regular meeting on June 18th. The election will be held on November 3rd. The nomination period for the City Council seats will, for two seats, will be open on July 13th and extended through August 7th. So that's when the nomination period opens. So we'll be calling the election. And I believe Bruce, you want to have a comment? Yes. Thank you, Mayor, and my colleagues up here on the dais. This is a good time for me to announce that I will not be standing for reelection in November. And I want to thank everybody. This is not goodbye. It's a long goodbye because I'm going to continue to be up here on the dais and working on city business until December, until the last -- until the mayor hits the mallet the last time at that meeting. And there's a transition to a new council member. But I do want to give special thanks to Angelica, Chris, Eric, all of the staff, our city attorney, my colleagues on the dais here, and all of you and the staff back there. Thank you so much for all you did for me over the last three and a half years, Kevin. And of course, the residents, all of you sitting out here in the audience today, and all of you watching on TV or may hear it from other sources, your friendship and your help and assistance and counsel to me has been invaluable. And I've tried to be an honest broker of information and stick to my guns and compromise when available. To Jenny, we are not leaving here. We're going to stay in our house in Indian Wells, and we're going to be a part of this community, as we have been for the last 12 years. So I've spent pretty much the last 10 years working for the city of Indian Wells in one capacity or another. And I'm looking forward to returning to this exalted status that they call resident. Thank you. Thank you, Bruce. Thank you for your service. It's been a pleasure to serve alongside you. So that we- Mayor, to know, because of council members not seeking re-e lection, I did want to note that the nomination period will automatically be extended through August 12th. August 12th. Okay. Thank you. So let's get some great people running for office. I encourage all you. It's so much fun. Can't you see? All right. City Attorney reports. What do we have? Honorable Mayor and Council, as you know, the Council met in closed session earlier today to discuss the items described on the agenda. No action was taken that needs to be reported under the Brown Act. However, the Council has authorized me to share some good news with the community. We are nearing a potential conclusion to the Parsons litigation. The Court of Appeal issued a positive tentative ruling recently, and the Court will hear oral arguments on June 22nd, coming up shortly. The Court will have 90 days after that to issue its final ruling. So we hope to have resolution before the beginning of the season. That concludes -- I think that concludes my report. Yes. That concludes my report. I'm available for the question. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. The next item is a consent calendar. So do we have anything that we want to pull from the consent calendar, gentlemen? Second the motion. Second the motion. Second the motion. Second the motion. Second the motion. Second the motion. Second the motion. Okay. Any discussion? Okay. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. Passes unanimously. At least four out of five. Now we go to public hearings, I believe. Public hearings. We have -- I guess we go to H1. Ordinance amending the Title 21 to clarify existing regulations under the golf course overlay zone. Do we have any public comments before this begins? Are we going to wait until after the presentations? We'll be opening a public hearing after the presentation. After the presentation. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and honorable council members. John Berg, I'm your community development director. The item before you is an item that has been continued from your last meeting in April. And it is being continued to clarify some language in the ordinance. And I will go ahead and explain that in due time here. But real quickly, I would just like for the benefit of the community who is unfamiliar with the ordinance being presented to you, just give a quick summary of what's being presented. This is an ordinance that would effectively establish a new golf and recreation zone that would replace the golf course overlay. The city's land use map, as you can see on the screen there , shows dark green areas. And those areas constitute the open space golf and recreation land use designation under the general plan. And loosely, in the zoning, it is referred to as a golf course overlay. And the golf course overlay is specific to the areas of the golf course. And by definition, it was coterminous with the boundaries of the golf course. So outside of those boundaries in the green areas was the allowance for recreational uses, country club style recreational uses. So the golf and recreation zone would establish a new base zone and replace the golf course overlay to provide more clarification and consistency between the general plan and the zoning ordinance. In fact, the general plan is kind of the long-range planning document for the city. It's often referred to as the Constitution. It receives deference over any conflicts between the zoning code and the general plan land use. And so here, where the general plan talks about golf and recreation, it's already an adopted land use designation, as shown on the map in the green areas. And the designation, as you can see, is an excerpt from the general plan in the bottom left-hand corner. It is intended for the public and private golf courses and tennis facilities and other typical country club style amenities. And that's very broad. And so in the zoning code, we really don't define what kind of recreational facilities are allowed within the golf and recreation zone or outside of the golf course overlay. And so here, through this ordinance, we are cleaning that up and enumerating the general uses that are consistent with golf course style amenities. Also it should be noted that general plan action item CD1A directs us to do exactly what we're doing here today. We're updating the zoning code to be consistent with the general plan to ensure it complies with the general plan. I would also direct your attention to the bottom right-hand corner of the screen where it's an excerpt from the general plan. It's the build-out table and in there it describes the types of land uses that it evaluated in the general plan as far as being built out. And the environmental impact report in support of the general plan looked at build-out of golf course and recreational uses in the 1,300 acres of open space areas that is designated golf and recreation. So what does this ordinance do? As I mentioned, it repeals the old overlay. So it effectively removes the floating kind of phantom polygon that exists within the green areas and ties it to the boundaries of the existing golf course. It establishes more of a geographical base zones. So it's very intuitive where golf course and recreational uses can occur. And it does this by establishing the base zone and allows recreational uses consistent with the general plan land use map. And then it goes further to clean up related chapters. It clarifies and restates the definitions for modern golf courses and recreational uses. The planning areas, it establishes a review framework and conforming edits across the zoning code to read as one cohesive update. It's also important to note what this ordinance does not do and it does not allow new land uses. The land uses that are enumerated in the proposed ordinance are clearly established out in the existing country clubs if you go and view for yourself. And so it does not also amend the zoning map. The green areas stay green. And it does not approve any new physical development. So where we are in the process is we did present this for review to the planning commission who recommended approval to city council. We then brought it to council as I mentioned earlier on April 16th and an unintended issue was brought to our attention at that time. And so council decided to continue the item and they formed an ad hoc committee with Mr. Sanders and Mr. Councilmember Bruce Whitman. And staff was happy to work with them to kind of include their edits to the ordinance to clarify concern they had with regard to the potential for future location of telecommunications facility within the golf and recreation zone. And so to provide some, I guess, background on that, what the ad hoc committee did was amend the language to specifically prohibit zone changes within -- you cannot do a zone change in the -- to a golf and recreation zone specifically for a cell tower or telecommunications facility. It has to be golf and recreation related. And furthermore, you can't propose a zone change if the parcel is not directly abutting a golf and recreational use. So in essence, you have to kind of justify a logical extension of the golf and recreation use to a property. And also it can't be established for a cell tower . It has to extend golf and recreational uses to that property. Also, it was noted by the ad hoc committee that we should clarify that tennis and pickleball uses are consistent with country club recreational uses. The previous version of the ordinance generally referred to them as racket sports. And so here we further clarified that tennis and pickleball are consistent with country club recreational uses. The previous version of the ordinance. The previous version of the ordinance generally referred to them as racket sports. And so here we further clarified that tennis and pickleball fit that definition. So with that, staff is recommending that council opens the public hearing, receives public testimony, and closes the public hearing, introduces the first reading of the ordinance, clarifying the regulations of the golf and recreation zone, including the ad hoc clarifying amendments , and ensures the consistency with the general plan. And also finds that the adoption of the proposed ordinance is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act or CEQA. That concludes my presentation and I'm available for any questions. So just as a matter of clarification, first reading, you want to help define that versus? That's correct. This is the first reading and the second reading would come at your subsequent meeting in June. So in essence, kind of a one month public hearing, if you will. That's correct. Okay. Gentlemen, you have any questions? Nope. Okay. Should we open to public comment? Do we have any public comment here? Would you like to come to the mic, Mr. Bernheimer? Thank you, Mayor and Council and Staff. Rob Bernheimer. I live here in Indian Wells. Thank you for taking the time to make these changes to the ordinance. As you know, I got up here. I hit the wrong button. I got up here at the last minute or at the last meeting and brought these issues up. It turned out not to be hypothetical because the reserve, within days of that meeting, released a proposal to build a 75-foot cell tower on lot P, which is similar to the proposal that got turned down by this council five years ago. I would hope that with these changes as well as the cell plan that's on your agenda for later this meeting, which really encourages a combination of macro and micro uses that are aesthetically pleasing and I think meet the intent of what Indian Wells is. I would hope that the reserve would back away from a 75- foot cell tower where it was rejected five years ago. And I think, you know, from the folks that I represent and work with, we would love to see great cell service up at the reserve. And we'd like to find a way to do that within the framework of the cell plan study that you guys have and the city's aesthetic ordinances. But just to have another battle over a 75-foot cell tower, I think is not helpful and may end up delaying cell service there for another year without a solution. So I thank you for the changes and I appreciate the good work on this. I appreciate that. Any other further comment from anybody? How's your chance? Okay. Back to the council. Do I have a move? A motion to... I move the recommended action. Second. Second. I assume there's no questions. All those in favor? Aye. Okay. Passes unanimously. Let's go to H2. Public hearing on city variances, recruitment retention efforts as required by Assembly Bill 2561. Is this for you, Mr. Seja? It is. Good afternoon, Mayor, Member of City Council. Eric Seja, Assistant City Manager. This is a requirement under AB 2561 that requires public agencies to provide a status in our vacancy retention and recruitment efforts here at the city. So this is in compliance with that law. I am pleased to share on our vacancies, we have less than 7 % of a vacancy rate for our open positions and we are constantly evaluating what positions we need prior to going out and recruiting and filling those positions. Beyond our recruitment, employee retention also plays a critical role in maintaining our low vacancy rate. We place high value on retaining talent and have implemented several initiatives to support this, including professional development programs to promote employee growth and development, team building activities that strengthen our workplace connections and workplace culture, and recreational or recognition opportunities for our staff . We also offer competitive compensation and benefits to support long-term employee satisfaction and retainment and align with our culture of continuous improvement. Our recruitment and retention strategies are regularly evaluated. Really, because this is a state requirement, we ask that you open a public hearing and take any testimony. But by opening the end of public hearing, you will have met our obligation under this ordinance or with the state law. Okay, so this is really more of a compliance issue. You're not making any specific recommendations. There are no recommendations. Or anything at this point in time. Okay, any questions? And by the way, Mr. Say, I mispronounced your name. I apologize. Yes, Dana. Are we discussing this now? Yes, we are. Well, no, we're actually having comment now, and then we'll go to public hearing. Do you have any comments? No, I do not have a question. Okay. I'll wait until after the public hearing. Any public hearing on this? Any opening up to public hearing? Any comments? Any comments? No comments. Okay. Back to us now. Dana, you were going to have a comment. I do. And it's really a technical one. And that is every time the legislature comes back into session, which is every two years, they start the numbers over again. So when you're talking about Assembly Bill 2561, unless you give us the year, we have no idea what 2561 is, what it does, what it does. However, if it's passed and signed by the governor, it then is codified into a code. And instead of referring to an Assembly Bill where we would have no way of ever looking it up, if you could please refer to the code section where we could go online and read it for ourselves. That's just a technical thing. It's just -- But it's a very good point. Thank you for making the comment. There's just no way that we would be able to figure out what AB 2561 is, because we don't know what year it passed. Thank you. So maybe we'll make a note. I noticed the city attorney is smiling. Thank you. We did provide the government code section in the staff report. We'll make it clear in our next presentation. Thank you. All right. So shall we -- do I have a motion here to accept the recommendation by the staff? So -- You have to receive and file this now. Don't we have to -- it's just receive and file? We don't have to -- okay. All right. So let's receive and file. Then so be it. We'll go to general business. Update of city Indian Wells' efforts to address flight path changes into Palm Springs. Dr. Freeland, I believe you're making this presentation. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the City Council. This item is a discussion to update the community on the city's efforts to address a flight path changes into the Palm Springs Airport. Council asked for this update as this is a very important topic and concern for our community. I can tell you that our mayor and council has taken this issue on to the benefit of both the city and the region. So let's talk a little bit of why we are here. In fall of 2025, residents began noticing increased number of flights over Indian Wells. At the same time, city reaches out to the Palm Springs Airport to better understand why the increase in noise and the flight path changed. That is when it was discovered that the FAA changed the flight path into Palm Springs Airport right over Indian Wells in June 2025 as part of what they call their next-gen technology. The next-gen technology is a satellite-based navigation system that uses automation of flight paths to improve efficiency and safety of travel. This next-gen flight path allows pilots to utilize GPS systems to essentially land the plane for them. Many airports in the United States have already implemented this next-gen technology. Beginning in early 2026, hundreds of noise complaints were submitted to both Palm Springs Airport and the Federal Aviation Administration, where Palm Springs Airport responded that flight paths fall within the authority of the FAA. Communication with the FAA provided confirmation that they did adjust the flight path in the Palm Springs and that these changes are occurring nationwide as the FAA imp lements that next-gen technology. In early 2026, the city seeks assistance from our elected officials, including our local congressman, Ken Calvert. We met with representatives at the Palm Springs Airport and we had correspondence with the FAA to seek a change to the flight path amicably. Mayor Taylor has been the city spokesperson on this matter with the various stakeholders as well. The city has also submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to the FAA to learn more about the process taking to change the flight path, potential safety concerns, environmental review, and much more. So the focus of the concerns that have been expressed here are the noise impacts to our community, safety of flights into and departing to the Palm Springs Airport, as well as potential conflicts from our local airports, both at Berm uda Dunes and Thermal Airports. There was a lack of community input into the flight path changes. And, of course, we're concerned about the environmental impact of this change in flight paths has occurred because it also puts it right over the conservation area in our mountains, just to our community south, which has the pen insular bighorn sheep, which is a federally recognized endangered species. So just to give everybody a little bit of an illustration, the green area is part of that conservation area, which goes all the way up to the mountains right behind our local country clubs. This is a map from the state of California's Coachella Valley Mountain Conservancy, which includes the mountains above Indian Wells, and this is the home of the bighorn sheep. This is one of the impacts of the flight path changes we are concerned about as a community. Now, I would like to call forward our city council appointed airport commissioner, Phil Valadez, who is the city of Indian Wells resident and airport transport pilot, to go over what the flight paths look like and what they mean to our community. As he walks up, he's way too fast for me. Having worked with Phil these past few months, we as a community are very lucky to have such a valuable and knowledgeable person assisting us on this matter. He has spent hours working with the city, Palm Springs Airport, the FAA, and others to help address this community concern. With that, I'll turn it over to Phil, who wants to share with you a little bit of what is going on in the skies above Indian Wells. Thank you, Chris. You're too kind. Mr. Mayor, council members, my name is Phil Valadez. I am the airport commissioner representing the city of Indian Wells. We've talked a little bit today about some of the flight paths, airspace around Palm Springs and how it impacts us here in Indian Wells. We'll start with a little reference point. This is Thermal Airport. This is Bermuda Dunes Airport. This is Indian Wells. And this is Palm Springs Airport. Phil, can I ask you to do that microphone? There you go. Up closer to your route. There you go. Thank you. The purple or the pink line that you see there is the original or the last RNAV approach that we had here in the Palm Springs. As a pilot, this is an interesting approach. As a pilot, I prefer more straight-in approach than this. And if I was flying into Palm Springs today, I would probably not want to use this approach. I would probably do something more along the lines of a visual approach. I would probably do what we call a visual approach. And if I remember correctly, a visual approach is an approach in which the pilot determines his own flight path to the airport. It's usually quicker. It's usually a little more direct. And speaking of a visual flight path, this red flight path is pretty consistent with a visual approach into Palm Springs. For instance, if I was going to fly from the north, I would probably do a downwind, base, and final into Palm Springs. If I was coming from the east, I would come across the valley through here, the base lake, and make a final turn onto Palm Springs. The green line is our current RNAV approach into Palm Springs. What I want to talk about here is when planes are arriving on this RNAV approach, they're approaching Indian Wells at about 4,000 feet. As they transition through Indian Wells, they descend down to about 3,000 feet. 4,000 feet, 3,000 feet. Let's keep that in mind just for one second. Here's where it gets a little more interesting. Planes coming out of Bermuda Dunes, and Bermuda Dunes is a general aviation airport. It has a little bit of corporate traffic. And planes that depart this airport, when they're heading east, do this departure here in blue. They take off. They climb to about 400 feet. Then they make a left-hand turn and follow this path and head east. As you can see, there's a bit of a conflict here. When the planes get to about this area as they're climbing out, the altitude is about 3,000 to 4,000 feet. So what we have here is we have planes departing to the east, 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Now they could be a little lower. They could be a little higher. And then we have planes that are on the approach descending from 4,000 to 3,000 feet. I think this is a huge safety issue, something that I'm not sure that the FAA has fully vetted and looked at. The other airport that we have down here is thermal. Now while on the surface it doesn't look like it represents much of a threat to this approach that we have in here. But there's a lot of corporate aviation that flies out of thermal. And the beauty about corporate aviation is the flexibility of the corporate. So, for instance, it wouldn't be uncommon for a corporate operator to fly into Palm Springs, tell his pilots, pick me up in thermal in a couple of days. Or vice versa, fly into thermal and then reposition over to Palm Springs. But if you look at the track between thermal and Palm Springs, a direct line, look where it cuts. Right through here. And guess what altitude that is probably going to be? 3,000 to 4,000 feet. So we have a huge safety issue, we think, in this little area, which is in Indian Wells. But regardless if it's Indian Wells or not, I think we owe it to the residents of the entire Coachella Valley to investigate this and to ask the FAA, why did you do this? Why did you put this approach here like this? Did you vet this departures out of Bermuda Dunes? Did you look at thermal to Palm Springs and back? And those are the questions we're asking the FAA this time. Phil, can you expand why the concerns at the both Bermuda Dunes and thermal airports, they both have something that Palm Springs doesn't have? Yes. Thermal and Bermuda Dunes are uncontrolled. In other words, they don't have a tower. Pilots can come and go as they please. So they're not under the jurisdiction of the tower at Palm Springs Airport, which makes it even more difficult. For instance, if Bermuda Dunes had a tower and there was a plane on the approach and there was a plane waiting to take off Bermuda Dunes, the tower would say, hold on, let's let this airplane pass and then we'll release you and let you go. But because we don't have that tower there and pilots can take off and go as they please in Bermuda Dunes, they would just take off into the blind, not knowing that potentially there is somebody on that approach. Questions? We saw more of a presentation, but I didn't know if there's any questions of Phil. So again, what I want to do is just reiterate the colors here so everybody can understand them. The pink is the original FAA approach. That's what's been there for 30 plus years, right? The red represents our recommended, the city of Indian Wells. This group, which we hope to get approved today from council, our recommended flight landing pattern into Palm Springs. The green is what currently exists as of June. The white line is the city of Indian Wells. The blue line, purple line, is Bermuda Dunes takeoff. And the gold line is Thermal's takeoff. Just to make sure everybody understands what's happening there. Okay? So that's why we're experiencing. And by the way, another thing which I've shared with you in some of my writings is something I didn't realize, which is that there actually is this kind of bell curve of flight traffic coming into our valley. I mean, there are some 90 planes coming in March and 10 or 15 in the summer. I mean, it's that dramatic, right? So that's why it's taken us many months to actually realize , come November, that there are a lot of planes coming because the number of planes coming in escalates dramatically. Phil, you want to proceed? Or Chris, is there more slides? There is, Mr. Mayor. Okay. Thank you, Phil. Well, I do have one question. Sure. If I can ask. The blue line, Bermuda Dunes. Correct. Who controls, is that a flight pattern that's established by the FAA or by the Bermuda Dunes? It is a recommended departure by the FAA. So pilots don't have to fly, but in my observations of departures out of Bermuda Dunes, a lot of pilots fly this departure. Okay. They don't have to. They do in inclement weather. When the weather is down, they do have to do that. But from my observations, I see this happening all the time . I look up and I see planes in a bank. I would probably hear, I see planes in a bank all the time. So the FAA recommends that as a takeoff route, but it doesn't require it. No. Correct. Okay. But a lot of people, especially departures to the east, do that departure. Okay. If they're heading north or in another northern direction, they'll probably just go straight out. But from my observation, what I've seen is airplanes taken off to the east. This is the departure they do. Thank you. Question, Mr. Mayor. The pink line is the former landing pattern that was used. And was that all done with a visual approach or was it done ? No. That is an instrument approach. It is. It is an instrument approach. So the FAA was using an instrument approach previously. The FAA is using an instrument approach now. In green. In green. In green. Yes. In green. Yes. Why did the FAA change the pattern? That's a good question. It's part of the next gen. It's for more efficiency is what they say. I have a FOCA or a Freedom of Information Act request to the FAA. I sent one in two days ago. Asking their decision on why they decided to do this. And that would probably take 60 days or so to get an answer . But just to answer that, I do not know. Well, they've responded in writing talking about efficiency . So as a pilot, you've opined that the plane, it's more of a gradual U-turn than a sharp angular U-turn in pink. Correct. Which adds more stress on the plane and potentially more discomfort for passengers. Exactly. This is not an approach that I would only use if I had to. Other than that, I would use a visual approach. It's just simpler and easier. It's more direct. It's not a very efficient approach. Any other questions? Because there is more presentation. Okay. Is Phil proceeding? No, I am. I'll finish that up. So with the presentation we've seen from Phil and because of our council's interest in this matter, since this is very technical and a specialized policy area, the city has retained the services of DLA Piper, which is a large global firm with experience in FAA matters to provide the city with analysis of the FAA process that was used to establish the next-gen flight path. That's important to see what the strategy or the reasonings was. But also if they didn't do the process correctly, so we can have an opportunity to have it re-examined. We've also asked DLA Piper to propose strategies to seek F AA support to implement an alternative to the next-gen path in the Coachella Valley, including a review of environmental documents and whatnot. What I think was really impressed by the team that we've brought on board from DLA Piper is that the senior partner who's working on this matter for us, his name is Mark Nichols. He's the partner and co-chair of the transportation practice in Washington, D.C. And more importantly, he's the former chief counsel for the FAA. So that's an excellent asset, as well as Alan Garrick, who is an associate in the infrastructure, construction and transport division there in Washington, D.C. And just this week, both Phil and I were introduced to another gentleman who is being brought on as a consultant to DLA Piper, who was a former FAA administrator. And I think Phil, his role was monitoring commercial air space throughout the United States. So he is another valuable asset for the review of the process that we're looking at. Once they've had the time to review the documentation, they will provide the city with some recommended next actions, which we brought forth for you at upcoming discussions with the FAA that we hope to have sometime this summer. So it is for these various reasons, outlining the staff report and our presentation, that the city of Indian as well is seeking the FAA to review the safety environmental impact concerns of the next-gen flight path, seek an alternative flight path into Palm Springs, including our preferred red path that we shared with you. And at this time, we're asking council to prove that recommendation. And with that, that concludes my report. Both Commissioner Valdez and I are here to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. I believe we're also asking for the creation of an ad hoc committee to proceed with this plan and advocate for this plan on behalf of the city. That's a wonderful idea. And so, and I would recommend that Greg and I be on that committee. So, the motion. So, any questions for team here? What I would say, just as an overall comment, is I've been really impressed with the amount of engagement by the community on this issue. I can't go to the grocery store without hearing about airplanes. It's very exciting. And I'm very empathetic. So, but one of the things that I just have to keep reiter ating is that noise is not going to be something the FAA responds to as a reason to change a flight path. So, we have been focused very much on the safety issues that are involved here and procedural issues. They also really shouldn't change a flight pattern unless they follow a very strict series of procedures, which we are exploring as to whether or not they've actually done that. So, those are the two things we're focused on. And with that, if anybody has any further questions, otherwise I'll open it to the public. No questions? Is anybody in, is there public comments on this? Yes, I have one speaker card from Vicki Vargas-Nason. Okay. Vicki Vargas-Nason. Please, come on down. Good afternoon, Mayor Taylor and council members. My name is Vicki Vargas-Nason, a resident of Indian Wells. I'm a little late to this party, but you'll find out why. First, I want to commend you on all the steps that you have taken to work towards this better quality of life in this city. Back in January and February, I recorded plane after plane after plane on approach to Palm Springs Airport while sitting in my backyard. This was just one of them. It was February 12th, about 2.30 in the afternoon. Look at that. It's not playing. The FAA has sneaky software. I would agree with that. Technology's great. Deploying. Oh, my goodness. That's all right. I take it. I take it it's a sound recording. Yeah, it's a sound recording. I'm not going to use it in my whole three minutes, but you 'll get the idea. And I can submit this via email to the clerk. So now that I know. Sometimes I think they're so low. I swear I can hear the flight attendant say, put your tray tables up and your seats in their upright position. And now I know how low they are. In season, I feel like I'm living under the equivalent of rush hour in the air. It happens morning and evening. We bought our home about 16 years ago. Never an issue, as we heard today. Until the flight pattern changed. Now I read the entire staff and very thorough report explaining about the technology and then telling us that pilots would still have the option of landing these planes themselves, which could, as we learned, change the entire flight pattern. I also read the Desert Sun article about the number of noise complaints that have been logged, and according to them, three times the annual average in a matter of months. As a retired journalist, I was more than disappointed in the response from the FAA spokesperson and the current airport director, verbally rolling their eyes over Indian Wells residents and their concerns. For me, this is about more than having to stop a conversation because the planes are drowning me out. I lost my husband in February. His dying wish was to have his memorial with family in our backyard here in Indian Wells, outdoors. So imagine my anxiety. Imagine how worried I was that we would have to stop a prayer or not be able to finish singing Amazing Grace because of the planes being louder than the music. I even tried to time the service in between the window of the known landings that I could find. So how horrific is that? I will leave you with this, and I know you have all done your homework. Whether it's concern over the Bighorn sheep, the potential safety issues with crossover at Bermuda Dunes and thermal airports, or our amplifying mountains, the skies above us are no longer friendly. I look forward to whatever you learn from this Freedom of Information Act, and I wish you well. Thank you. Thank you for sharing. Is there any other public comment? Mayor, if I could just restate the motion or sound like a proposed motion, it would be to move staff's recommendation along with the formation of an ad hoc committee with yourself and Council Member Sanders. Is that accurate? That's correct. Okay. I so move. Any discussion? Second. Under discussion, I just want to give a shout out to Phil Valdez, our airport commissioner. What he's done, and the community should recognize this, is above and beyond the call of duty. And without his expertise, we wouldn't be nearly as far down the road as we are. So thank you for everything you've done. Any other comment? The only thing I would like to say to give some, I don't know, some hope, is that as a lawyer, I did some legal research on this. And there are a couple of cases where in Phoenix and New port Beach and a few other places where there have been some successes through litigation. And we have hired a top law firm and, you know, litigation can be successful. And let's hope for the best. Okay. Any further comment? All right. All those in favor of the motion? Aye. Passes unanimously. Thank you. All right. Now we go to the wireless master plan. Who's making this presentation? Risk manager Werner. Okay. Good afternoon, mayor, council, staff, residents. My name is Nick Werner. I'm the IT and risk manager for the city. Before you today is the city's wireless master plan. This item comes before you as a result of direction from this council at last year's strategic planning. At that time, council directed staff to assess city cellular coverage and identify strategies to improve services for the entire community. City went out for an RFP and a professional services agreement was given to Cell Plan Technologies. Christine Karofuchuk is here from Cell Plan Technologies. And Cell Plan happens to be the same vendor that did Rancho Mirage's wireless master plan. So familiar with the area. This study began with a multi-day drive test that included every HOA in the city and five golf courses. We actually took equipment onto five golf courses to assess those coverages for the ones that we felt like had the largest concern. In addition to the drive test study, we also did a verification of existing wireless infrastructure throughout the city. And then all of that data was put on a GIS map that shows coverage for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. This map is being made available to the public. It's actually available today. And I'll show you an example of it. After the coverage was assessed, the next step was to review our current zoning and permitting rules. And then to try and identify some policy-based solutions that we could find that could benefit the entire community. To roll out our map, we actually put together a video that is on our city website that can help our residents understand what they're seeing and how they can navigate through that map. And I'm going to show you that video now. As part of the Wireless Master Plan, the City of Indian Wells has now released an interactive cell coverage map on the city's website. Checking cell coverage has never been easier. Go to cityofindianwells.org slash wireless master plan and click on cell coverage map. When you first access the webpage, you'll see a disclaimer pop up. Signal strength is categorized into four categories based on decibel milliwatts, the absolute power of a cellular signal. Excellent. A strong connection with the fastest possible data speeds. Good. A solid connection with good data speeds for streaming, browsing, and calls. Cell. Your connection might still work, but data speeds may be slower and dropouts may occur. Cell edge. Your phone will have a hard time connecting, resulting in dropped calls and no internet access. Cell edge. To proceed to the map view, simply click the box at the bottom left of your screen to agree, then click OK at the bottom right to continue. Once you're in, you can zoom in on the map or enter your address in the search bar on the left hand side. Once you enter your address, a pop up window will appear with the location signal classification from AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. The map includes options to toggle individual layers on and off. For example, if you want to see AT&T coverage only, toggle off the Verizon and T-Mobile layers. You may notice that not all businesses are included on the map. To assess signal strength at the unlisted locations, click on the nearest address point and view the signal strength nearby. For the most accurate and up-to-date coverage information, please consult your wireless service provider. To continue to stay updated on the wireless master plan, visit cityofindianwells.org slash wireless master plan. So here's a sample of that map that we are showing. As you can see, it lined up with our expectations. Our expectations were that we had some unserved and unders erved areas on the southern edge of our community, specifically in the clubs that are in the foothill area, as well as a little bit to the north of our community and the Toscana Country Club. We consider some of those major issues causing these include terrain, land use patterns, and, of course, uneven siting distributions. You can see where the tennis garden is as well as our res orts. There's fantastic coverage there, and it's because they need the capacity and coverage. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Christine to touch on some of the more technical items from the wireless master plan. Okay. Well, thank you, everybody, for giving me the chance to present. One of the things that I want to bring up is that cell phone coverage is not just about us using our cell phones. It's for chatting and connecting business or reaching relatives. It also has public safety implications. Not only the public safety personnel has to be able to reach us, they have to be able to use their phones, but we also have to be able to easily reach E911. So if we want to make emergency calls for public safety and for even family members or to reach somebody to help us. Today, there's a subject that comes up quite often. It was like, well, but now there's the satellite to cell or direct to device connection, which would be can we use satellite for 911 calls? While that is true and that is recognized by the FCC, this is recognized as a supplemental tool. It is not meant to be the primary means of accessing 911. So really, the initial vision for this is that this would be used for remote areas, areas that have no cell phone coverage, and that it would be really hard to reach. This is not the case of Indian Wells. Indian Wells, you do have some cell phone coverage. It's just not good enough. So what that happens is your calls will always tend to be routed through that first because if you look at your phone, you always see the network. You can connect well, but you can see it, so it's not reliable. The second problem with the satellite to cell is that it is an emergent technology. It's not available for all providers, and it's dependent on cell phone models. So not all cell phones have it, and not every provider will support that. So that really limits how much the technology can be used. So in terms of public safety implications, improving the ground-based macro cell coverage is really the most dependable way that you can for making that more reliable. In terms of the recommended coverage strategy, the most efficient solution for what we saw here is to work with, to meet the statics of the city, to work with well-conce aled sites, first of all. Macro cell deployments. So macro cell sites are essential when you're trying to establish coverage. Other cell sites like micro cells or small cells or PICO cells, they're meant for capacity, not for coverage. Lower frequency bands, which you see on the wireless master plan, is what we really try to address. That's how you hook your phone up to the system. And that would pair with antenna regulations, and they will support those towers to be built in appropriate locations that conform with city code. So some of the areas we looked at was clubhouses, maintenance and operation areas, and golf courses, parking areas, parking lots, water course zones. We'll talk a little bit more about that. And select public properties. So the approach that we tried to see is where would towers be most beneficial to make a big impact on the coverage, but still maintaining Indian Wells visual and community standards. In terms of, so moving on to that zoning and regulatory framework I just mentioned, the idea of this plan we provided, it's not to approve any sites. It was really just to identify where facilities should be considered or may be considered. So one of the things we addressed was the public facility zones and telecom overlay. So just to try to clarify the standards and entitlement pathways to make sure that it's all your guidance is clear should a carrier be proposing a location for a tower. Or when I say tower here, please don't take a tower as a lattice structure. It could be concealed, stealth tower, monopalm, a tree or something that is stealth. Golf course overlay area. So here explicitly the goal here is to prohibit where anything telecom related cannot be. So really carving out the golf play areas as a no-go. And expanding the consideration of beyond the clubhouses a little bit. So if you have a parking area or things like that. Water course zone. So that would be to remove the prohibition. Today it's explicitly prohibited into telecommunications overlay zone. But a water course zone covers a wide difference, range of different areas. So allow a limited pathway for a conditional use permit review. So that still keeps, you know, the decision on your hands. Requiring strict engineering, flood control, environmental, and all other safety findings. The main reasons for these recommendations really is to modernize the zoning code of the city. So there's been a lot of evolution in terms of wireless technologies, how they work, the type of services that are offered, and what the people that use those technologies need. The zoning codes that were written were written for, you know, at the time of previous technologies. So other communities, neighboring communities in the area, Nick explicitly mentioned, Rancho Mirage, are already working on the same type of thing to try to understand and support this new technologies and making the access to good wireless service better for the community. And then lastly, try to match the land use with the zoning. So on both the golf course overlay zone and the water course zone. With that, I want to be crystal clear on what our ask is today. I want to make sure you guys understand. We are not asking for any sites to be approved right now. We are not changing the ability for the public to participate in the process. Every telecommunication tower would still require a conditional use permit. We are not changing that. This plan is specific to policy and planning changes in guidance for telecommunication towers. And at this time, there's no fiscal impact to the city. So our ask is to receive and file the wireless master plan and create a wireless plan ad hoc committee to help develop amendments to the zoning code to improve public safety and coverage throughout the city. And I do want to make sure I specifically thank Luis and John. They were instrumental in this process and understanding what our code is today and how we can make some positive change for our community, as well as Michaela for putting the video together. So anyway, that's our presentation and we're available for any questions. Any questions? Greg? Maybe I'll wait until our comments or public comment and then comment afterward. Okay. Anybody else? How far are we away from the more esoteric and modern peer- to-peer types of, wireless? You're far. Very far. Very far. Very far. Very far? Yeah. What about, I hear about Spacelink and whatever that is, the Elon Musk company? Don't, isn't. Oh, satellite to sell direct? Yeah. Satellite. Direct to sell? Yeah. Yeah. So that is, so it ties back a little bit with the types of devices and the operators. So there's a limitation there. Second thing is they're pairing that with terrestrial-based coverage because there's always a problem when you're talking uplink to a cell. So the evolution in satellite is the satellites are lower. But they're still very far up. If you think of your cell phone, you have very low, very limited battery power compared to the battery power of the site down. So for the satellite down, speeds, latency, quality of the call is good. For your phone up, that's where the challenge is now. I'm not saying that that's not going to be possible in 10, 15 years in the future. That's what I was saying. You were talking 10 or 15 years in the future. Or more, yes. I mean, it will be slowly, but it's far. It's not there yet. Okay. So what you've shown us then is a study of where residents of our cities have cell phone coverage and where they may not. And so that observation, that map you've created, is the result of this study. That's what, in essence, we're receiving and filing. And then from that, we then, to the extent that cell phone towers or additional equipment is needed in specific locations to address undercoverage, that can either be handled locally or through the planning commission or at the city council level? Is that kind of what I'm hearing? Yes. The study includes the map and where our coverage is today, in addition to some of the recommendations from a vendor that understands this better than we do. So their recommendations for some of the zoning changes is also part of that study. But no changes are in the study. It's just recommendations to update our zoning code to make our community. Hence the ad hoc committee to review potential changes. Yes, sir. Got it. Okay. Now I understand. Mr. Mayor. Yes. I changed my mind. Okay. If that's okay. Won't be the first time, I'm sure. Look, Nick just hit one of the nails right on the head. There are third parties that are more critical to solving the problem than even the city, and that's the vendors, the cell phone companies. We can do planning and we can accommodate cell sites. We can do a lot of things. But at the end of the day, they make the decision about whether or not there's going to be a cell site built. They're very expensive, and they're always looking for a return on investment. How do I know that? I spent 15 years representing Sprint, T-Mobile, and a tele communications company that has long since departed the scene. It's a real Rubik's Cube. And so we have our work cut out for us. We can help grease the skids, pave the way, but they're the ones that are going to have to come in and put in the infrastructure to solve the problem, and it's a very, very expensive proposition for them. Second point. Are we talking hundreds of thousands of dollars or tens of thousands of dollars? Hundreds of thousands of dollars. Loose? Loose tower. Yeah. One of the biggest challenges to any tower is, you know, people always say we have, in the foothills, we own land. Why can't we just put a tower up there? Well, every tower, you have to be able to get infrastructure to it. It has to have power. It has to have a fiber connection to be able to get that network connection into it. And it has to be serviced. That's really like building a road to be able to get to that location so it can be serviced. I mean, most of these are serviced monthly. So you're talking about having- That's all federal land anyway, isn't it? No, no. I mean, we don't have any- We have some- Is it BLM land up there, I believe? Yeah, we own a little piece. Actually, a pretty big piece. 200. We do, but I think, again, I'll defer to the professionals. It's also, even though you may have it there, it doesn't necessarily mean it'll be the perfect location to help serve the areas of impact, though, too. Yeah. Yeah. The second point I wanted to make is, from my perspective, I think we need to treat this as a triage exercise. We have one entire country club area that has virtually no cell phone service. And I was really glad to hear you characterize the problem as a public safety problem. It really is. And I think we need to keep that in mind as we go forward, and we can discuss that a little more, I think, Mr. Mayor, as we get into this. I have one more question. Sure. Question. Just to clarify, I'd like to know, this kind of ran by me with your deck here. What are the two areas that you're recommending for, I don 't know if you'd call it rezoning or zoning to allow cell towers or cell facilities? What are those areas, again? So really clearly, water course zones, water course zones, which is where there's a water channel or something. Today, our zoning code prohibits any telecommunications tower. There are other communities. That's like the wash. Yeah, essentially. Okay. And we're not talking down in the wash, but there's ways to engineer around that in those zones to put something in that is safe for the community, and it's generally away from residential and a decent option to consider. And then the other area we're looking at is the golf course overlay. Today, the golf course overlay allows a tower only at a clubhouse. And what we're asking to consider is the option to open that up to non-direct play surfaces. So maintenance yard, an outside area, parking, anything that's in that golf course overlay, that's not going to impact a direct play surface. So those are the two zones. So are you asking us by this motion to rezone? No. I'm asking -- we're asking on this motion to form an ad hoc committee to discuss rezoning. Okay. Okay. Well, my house backs up to the wash. I'll be glad to volunteer right behind. You can have my backyard if you'll put in a cell tower. Because there may be a country club where the entire club is blind. 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And I think it's a good thing to do. And I think it's a good thing to do. And I think it's a good thing to do. And I think it's a good thing to do. And I think it's a good thing to do. And I think it's a good thing to do. And I think it's a good thing to do. And I think it's a good thing to do. And so terrain blocks the radio signals. These sites have to be able to communicate with one another . And when they can't, then you get drop calls, block calls, and that sort of thing. And so it's a challenge here, a real challenge. Any further comment? Otherwise, we'll give it over to the public for public comment. No. Angelica, do we have any public comment? Yes, we do have Frank Holland. Okay, Frank, come on down. Again, if you could state your name at the mic. Yeah, my name is Frank Holland. I'm president of the Board of Governors at the Reserve Club . And Mayor Taylor, Councilman Reed, Sanders, and Whitman, I appreciate the opportunity to comment here. The presentation that Nick just did is we completely support at the Reserve Club. We are one of those communities that is squarely in the red , according to the map that Nick presented. And it's become a public safety, in fact, life-threatening concern for our members. So the -- which I know you all know. Because that doesn't exist strictly at the Reserve. It exists elsewhere as well. The only comment I wanted to make here today was to thank you for the seriousness with which you're taking this particular initiative. I know it costs a lot of resources, tremendous amount of time on your part to understand the issues, which are not easy. They're incredibly complex. As well as the staff time. So I was encouraged to see the zoning changes that you made earlier with the golf and recreation zone. I hope that does become a springboard to create and adopt some of the ideas that Nick has shared here earlier in the presentation with respect to places that we will be able to build a macro site. A macro site is something that, you know, we have been doing for, oh, I don't know, the last eight or nine years. Our own research on what kind of technology might be available. And came to the same conclusion. Macro sites are really the only way right now in order to abate what we consider a grave risk to human life and public safety. So thank you very much for the attention you're giving the project. We appreciate and eagerly await the outcome. Thank you very much for your comments. Madam Clerk, do we have any other comments? We have one more request to comment. Mr. Bernheimer. Thank you again, Mayor and City Council, Rob Bernheimer. I just want to give a little history, if I may. I look back at this. The first ordinance I signed as mayor in December of 2002 was the telecommunications overlay. And the city back then, 25 years ago, hired consultants and put a lot of time and effort into coming up with a plan. We had really bad cell coverage at the time. I think when you fast forward 25 years and you look at the city, yes, we have Eldorado and the Reserve that still have under, you know, they're under serviced. But nobody in the city can look up and point to a cell tower. They don't know where the cell towers are in Indian Wells. And that's unique. When you drive through the other cities, you see these ugly cell towers everywhere. And that was our goal 25 years ago, was to create cell service for the city, but do it in a way that's stealth and invisible. And I think this plan is a good continuation of that. It shows you where the gaps are, but it still takes advantage of the telecommunications overlay, which gives a hierarchy of ways to be able to provide that coverage, but still respect the views that we have here in Indian Wells and the idea that we don't want to look at this equipment. And I think that this is, this is showing that the past 25 years was a huge success for this plan. And now we just have to take it to the next level and finish the gap. So thank you for putting the time and effort into this. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. All right. Back to council. Any further comment? Otherwise, I believe this is a receive and file. No further comment? I think it would be appropriate for the council to give some direction to the staff and to create the ad hoc committee that's been recommended. As I indicated before, from my perspective, this is a tri age exercise. And in terms of what our responsibilities are as a city, what I mean by triage is focusing on those communities that are grossly underserved or not served at all. And accommodate cell phone coverage in those areas with appropriate zoning. And I think that would be the task of the ad hoc committee. And I would really like to see the ad hoc committee do its work with a great deal of speed. And I would like to say, this is a public safety issue. We need to get our arms around it as quickly as we can. And I'm talking about getting all in, all done here within about 90 days. Is that a raising of the hand for you to be on the ad hoc committee and lead the ad hoc committee with Mr. Reid? Well, yeah, he's got a problem at the El Dorado Country Club. Okay, there's a motion on the table then to accept an ad hoc committee led by Greg and Dana. Any other questions or comments? No. Okay. All those in favor? Aye. Okay. Motion carries. Thank you very much for the presentation and for the creation of the ad hoc committee. It is a public safety issue and we look forward to addressing the needs of our community. I-3 approval of a fourth amendment to the easement agreement for the Indian Wells Golf Resort authorized the city manager to execute all necessary documents to effectuate the terms. Mr. Mayor, I hate to throw a monkey wrench in, but can we take like a three minute nature break? Wow. Okay, fine. All right. Well, what time is it now? It's 2:51. We'll come back at 2:55. We're in recess. . Okay, let's take your seat, please. All 300 people in the chamber. Thank you very much. All right. So I think where we were, if I'm not mistaken, is I-3. Right. So Attorney Leishman, I think, is making this presentation. Over to you. I am. Thank you, Mayor and Council. As you are well aware, the city's-one of the-the city's most valuable assets is the Indian Wells Golf Resort. The Indian Wells Golf Resort exists because- Can we get order, Mr. Mayor? Yes. Order. Order. Hey. Order. As they say in the House of Commons, order. Order. Order. Please proceed. Thank you. Back in 1985, the predecessors in interest to the city, the Hyatt, and Renaissance hotels entered into an easement agreement. It's that easement agreement that allowed the development and allows the existence of the Indian Wells Golf Resort. In recent conversations with our two hotel partners, there 's a mutual desire to amend that easement agreement in some ways to clarify governance and clean it up a little bit. Now, at a real high level, what does this Fourth Amendment really do? You have got a staff report. You have had a copy of the Fourth Amendment attached with the packet. So I will just stay at a high level. First, it updates the party names to reflect current ownership. A lot of time has passed. Success. The properties have changed hands. And the city is now in possession. Number two, it clarifies that the complimentary golf agreement, which has been around since the '90s and amended several times, that that is what governs golf operations and hotel rates for golf, and makes it clear that hotels do not have any approval authority over resident or other non-hotel rates. Third, it reduces unnecessary approval rights between the hotel owners. And fourth, it allows for two-party amendments if they only adjust the boundaries of a city-held easement over property held by a hotel to make those kind of easement adjustments more streamlined. As I said, it is a clarification, a clarifying and -- well, it is a clarification and a governance clean-up amendment. I want to be very clear, this Fourth Amendment does not change any permitted use or activity. With that, I'm available for questions. Yeah, just a quick question. This is not in a consent calendar because it involves property? Correct. Okay. Any questions for team -- City of Indian Wells? No? Any public comment on this? Okay. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Second? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Motion passes. I-4. Approved terms for an exchange for real property with the Renaissance Hotel for Indian Wells Golf Resort authorize the city manager to execute all necessary documents to effectuate the terms. Mr. Or excuse me, Dr. Freeland. Over to you. All right. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the City Council. With the action you just made, it allows for us to move forward with the item I-4, which is the approval of terms for the exchange of real property as the mayor introduced. Before you is a slide that shares with you the 1985 eas ement agreement that the city attorney just spoke about, which was an agreement between both the city of Indian Wells, Hyatt, and Renaissance, where the two hotel partners provided land through a perpetual easement for the golf resort development. It is important to note that the easement agreement limits the city to only use this land for golf-related purposes. The city can't sell the land to another party. The city can't lease it out for a non-golf-related business . For example, we can't put a Starbucks on this land or any other hotel operator. Remember, an easement is to use someone else's property. The city does not own any of this land. In the picture on the screen, this is important because you see this large red trapezoid that circumvents all the way from Highway 111 to the Whitewater Channel to the eastern border of the Renaissance Hotel, up and down Inuwell's Lane . The shaded area -- let me get this going again. I hope. There we go. Or not. We can see the shaded area. You can see the shaded area. So the shaded area is actually the area subjected to the 1985 easement agreement. As you can see, this area includes the former hole 18 of the player's course, in Inuwell's Lane entering the golf resort, and also the golf resort clubhouse, parking lots, and driving range. All of the city assets are on somebody else's property. So why are we here today? For years, Renaissance has expressed an interest to expand their hotel operations to improve guest experience, remain competitive as a premier tourist destination, and other -- and to create this as a premier destination and offer new amenities that will drive new revenues to the city. In 2022, Renaissance and city began serious negotiations to change a portion of the easement where the former hole number 18 of the player's course was located to allow Renaissance to develop new amenities for the guests, specifically an expansion of the pool area and other outdoor recreation amenities. These negotiations have been on and off for the past four and a half years. Renaissance has shared with the city that they have turned business away when or at near capacity because they do not have sufficient pool area to meet guest demands. These hotel properties and other hotel properties, excuse me, in the Coachella Valley have expanded their pool areas, have done so with great success. A great example is the expanded pool facilities at the Grand Hyatt. A change to the easement over the former hole 18 would allow the Renaissance to complete these new amenities. As part of the negotiations, the city's primary interest was to gain ownership of the land underneath the golf resort clubhouse, parking lots, driving range, and the road into the golf resort. In addition, the golf resort continues to see business increase and has not, or excuse me, has a deficiency in parking. So we've also made parking a great demand for the golf resort. Therefore repurposing a portion of hole number 18 for parking helps to satisfy that demand. The plan is to add about 100 parking spots on a portion of the former 18th hole. The city with Trun's assistance also examined options to repurpose hole 18 for a golf related purpose during negotiations with Renaissance. Specifically, Trun thought there might be a market for a short game training facility. The challenge with this concept was that it would cost the city approximately $1 million to construct with an expected profitability of about $100,000 a year, meaning it would take at least 10 years for a return on investment. During negotiations, Renaissance provided the city with documentation for the city's documentation. that once the new amenities were constructed, the city would increase occupancy and rates at the Renaissance. Once completed, Renaissance and Marriott projected the city received conservatively 3.9 million in new transient occup ancy tax or TOT over the next 10 years, compared to having no additional amenities. It is important to note that while Renaissance provided these numbers, also Marriott corporate, our city's third party economic development consultant, Cosmo companies and our own finance director have validated those projections. Economically, it makes more sense for the city to exchange the easement over the former hole 18 to allow Renaissance to expand, which requires no city investment and generates a much larger new revenue stream to the city once the project is completed. This is a rendering of the conceptual Renaissance expansion with an expanded pool amenities and potential for outdoor fitness equipment. Again, this is just the concept they are looking at. With this proposed conceptual project and the completion of the city's due diligence, the city and Renaissance have completed negotiations to vacate our easement interest for Renaissance expansion in consideration of a number of provisions. The six acres will have a deed restriction. So let me go through the different deal points by May 1st. The city will receive ownership of 8.6 acres of land. Approximately six acres of that land is where our clubhouse , parking lots and driving range is located. Approximately one point six acres of land inclusive of Indian Wells Lane from highway 111 to the golf resort, including the traffic circle to ensure that it remains open to public as public right away. And then, of course, as mentioned, the one acre on the former hole number 18 to construct a new parking lot. Renaissance will also provide a one-time $3 million payment to the city. The city keeps an easement to access new parking lot from the golf cart path, also an access to the Indian Wells Lane fountain for maintenance. Renaissance also agrees to a timeline to submit their project plan, construct and complete their project to generate new TOT to the city. Failure to do so creates a penalty of $10,000 a month if that timeline is not met. The project is also subject to the appropriate entitlement process and public review as appropriate with the city. The city will also save an additional $5,000 a month to not maintain the current hole number 18. In exchange, the Renaissance receives a release of the eas ement of approximately 6.9 acres of their own land to develop. The six acres I mentioned for the clubhouse will have a deed restriction that the city cannot sell that property, in the future for our hotel operator. The parking lot property will also have a deed restriction that that land is for parking purposes only. The city will also agree to provide adequate landscaping to shield that parking lot, which is something of interest to us as well. The proposed deal includes the attached exchange agreement to the staff report and several attachments to effectuate the deal. The city attorney can provide greater insight into those documents if you so desire. At this time, if I can ask our public works director, Dean Improvis, to walk us through the land exchanges being approved today for your consideration. The large parcel shape that Chris was showing earlier, going all the way around the property, that is all of the Renaissance property. This area here in the black is the area that is going to be released. This piece actually does extend to here. And there is another piece up here that didn't show up on this exhibit. The city will get a retaining easement here and here. This is for golf carts. This is for us to maintain the fountain. We'll receive this parcel for right-of-way and we'll accept it as right-of-way. We'll have this parcel for the parking lot. And then the clubhouse, solar, parking lots, and driving range are there. There is a green easement from the city for public use basically so that people can have a way around when they're coming from the hotel and going down to the street. And I can answer any questions. Any questions? Thank you. Yeah, I question the new city parcel three. That's one acre, did you say? Correct. And that's room for about a hundred cars? That is correct. Is that self-parking or a hundred cars with a valet parking ? I'd have to check with staff on that. Do you happen to know? It's expected to not be self-parking. Not be self-parking. Not be self-parking. Okay. So in other words, it could be bumper to bumper because it 's going to be valet. Just as you would with valet. Okay, fine. Thank you. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. For clarification, staff is sharing that it's going to be striped for a hundred spaces. If you did valet, like you're mentioning, the head to head, you might be able to squeeze in some more for special events. Thank you. Is there any more to the presentation? There is. I just, the final conclusion of it, if I may. Thank you. I'm pushing the right button. I know that, but okay. Maybe that's not working right now. Staff recommendation is that council approve and authorize the city manager and city attorney finalize, makes non-substantive changes and execute an exchange agreement and related documents between the city and the owner of the Renaissance Hotel, subject to acceptance and signature by Renaissance. And two, finds the action to be exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act under guidelines sections 15378, 15061, 15301, 15315. I would like to thank the representatives from Bixby Bridge Capital, who are the owners of Renaissance, who are present today for working with the city to develop the proposed win -win property exchange before the council today. They are here to show your support. I know that they would like to come forward in a moment to make a few comments, but this concludes staff's report and the city attorney and I are available to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Does anybody have any question up here with regard to what 's being presented? Mr. Chairman? Let me just clarify a couple of things. In terms of the deed restrictions on the 8.6 acres that the city -- so just to clarify that there are deed restrictions on the property that we are receiving, is that correct? Yes. Okay. So the property cannot be used for anything other than what it's being used for right now in perpetuity. Is that -- The deed restrictions are focused on precluding transitory lodging or hotel. Okay. They don't want a competitor moving in there. And we do own 204 acres of golf courses land in fee simple, correct? I don't know about the number, but we do own -- the city owns a substantial acreage of the golf course. And that land under the negotiation is still subject to the easement that the city cannot use that land for anything other than golf course purposes, correct? Yes. Under the 85 easement, that's not changing. Yes. Under the 85 easement, that's not changing. However, the 6.9 acres that the hotel is receiving of the old 18 -- whole 18 -- has no deed restriction and has no easement restriction any longer. Is that true? Correct. Okay. So they can -- subject to zoning or conditional use permits or other city reviews -- they could essentially put anything on that property that they choose. Correct? Well, anything that they choose consistent with the city's zoning and general plan. Right. But there's no -- there's no legal restrictions whatsoever. Not through a deed restriction, no. There are substantial legal restrictions through land use. Okay. All right. Thank you. Any other comments from the DAIS? Any public comment? I don't know. I think it would be nice to have maybe -- David Rotenberg from Bixby. Yeah, please, David. Would you like to come forward? Come on up. Welcome. Welcome to Indian Wells. Your home away from home. Welcome back. Thank you very much. It does feel like my home away from home. It's always great to be here. You brought the good weather. I try. So good afternoon, Mr. Mayor and council members. Again, my name is David Rotenberg. On behalf of the Renaissance Esmeralda, my colleague David Williams, and I want to thank the council for being such a good partner over the years. Some negotiations are zero-sum with one clear winner and one loser. And instead, the council and staff, they've bargained hard over the past four years to ensure a fair exchange of benefits to the city, while also demonstrating a commitment to finding a negotiated solution that creates a win-win. A win-win. A win for the city and the residents of Indian Wells by facilitating a project that will drive additional tax revenues. A win for the city that allows one of its premier resorts to add amenities and experiences, which in turn will continue to perpetuate Indian Wells as the premier hospitality destination within the Coachella Valley. And a win for the Esmeralda for the very same reasons. We commend the city, its excellent staff, and this council for your sustained engagement and connection to detail. And nothing that is rewarding in life is easy, but we are confident that the process that we have all undergone over the last four years will ensure continued success for the city and for the Esmeralda. So thank you again for your time and for the opportunity to address you today. And while you're up, just a couple other comments that I think are worth noting for everyone. I believe currently, based on the size of your pool, that you have certain limitations for room wells. In other words, you have a capacity issue so that you can only rent whatever 80%, 70% of your current rooms because if you have too many more people, they won't be able to use the pool and therefore that creates issues. So the goal is to be able to maximize and get to 100% capacity with a larger pool and recreation space, which is the intention ultimately of you guys to build out based on this approval today. That's exactly right. At peak capacity times, we have to leave approximately 80 rooms unsold. Those are rooms for which there is market demand, for which the city would receive additional TOT that we simply cannot sell because we are limited in our deck space and pool capacity. Great. And so, you know, this past year, you've also enjoyed an increase in the room rental fee, if you will, I think over the past year, which is also goes to your company. You're doing a great job at improving the architecture and entryway, the reception area, putting in a new restaurant downstairs. It's -- you've done a great job at reinvesting in the property and in the community. And for that, I also want to thank you and appreciate your continued investment. Thank you very much for saying that. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any other public comment on this? Madam Clerk? No public comment. Back to the team here. Do you want to have a motion to approve? I move the recommended action and I'll have some comment. Do I have a second? Dana seconds. By the raise of a hand. All right. comments. Greg? I think this deal comes under the category of a no brainer. Look, if it's a no brainer. Madam Clerk, no public comment. Back to the team here. Do you wanna have a motion to approve? - I move the recommended action and I'll have some comment if there's-- - Do I have a second? - Dana seconds by the raise of a hand. All right. Comments, Greg? - I think this deal comes under the category of a no-brainer. Look, if we were to try and make use of this property, we'd have a very large CapEx that we would have to spend. The rate of return on that CapEx is not optimum, to say the least. Whereas if we turn this property back to the hotel, all we have to do is sit back and collect additional TOT. So that's one very positive aspect. The second positive aspect is we have virtually no alternative for additional parking. We are grossly under-parked. We desperately need parking. And so while, you know, we're getting $3 million in cash from the hotel for relinquishing the easement, we're also getting a very valuable piece of property. And if we had to go external to the golf resort to find a comparable piece of property, I suspect it would cost us about a million dollars. That's what that kind of property is going for in Indian Wells these days. So I think this is very much in the public interest. It's good public policy. It makes all the sense in the world. So I think we should just move forward and get this done finally. Thank you for your comment. Anybody else? Yeah. I, again, to David Rodenberg, this has been a very, and to my colleagues, it's been a very difficult negotiation, not only between us but internally. And nothing is easy when it comes to negotiating these types of situations. And I'm very happy about some of it, some, especially the ability of the Renaissance Hotel to upgrade their property and provide more available rooms. I think it's great for the Renaissance and that's great for the city. And the parking. All of this was a process of negotiation. The one reservation I have is a question I ask. I don't understand why we allowed the easement, while we were in the process of negotiating this deal, why we allow, why we're continuing to allow the hotels to have veto power or through an easement restriction on the property that we own in fee simple, 204 acres of golf course. We don't know what's going to happen in the future with golf courses, with water, with Indian Wells, with, you know, there's so many things that could happen. But, you know, it's a process of negotiation and I think you have to compromise at times. So I am going to vote in favor of this project and this deal. Thank you. Thank you for your comment and noted about the golf course and our ability to make adjustments. And just as maybe a final comment before we vote, and as a fan of golf and architecture, I'll miss the 18th hole. It was a fantastic golf hole. With that said, shall we move to a decision here? All those in favor? Aye. It passes unanimously. I made a mistake early on in introducing today's session. I forgot to pull item I-5. I apologize, but I-5 has been pulled to a later date. So now what we do is we go to the council members' reports. So, Mr. Whitman, I'm going to go to you first, if that's okay. Thank you, Mayor. I attended the Contract Cities event here in the city, as well as the Southern California Association of Govern ments event that was also here in the city, and went to some very interesting seminars and issues that apply to all of us. The-let's see. Let me see what else. I need to report on. Is there anything else, Mr. City Manager, that I need to report on with respect to these technical ities of conferences? You reported Contract Cities, I believe. So I think that was the only one you were in attendance of. We did that last time. You reported your Cal Cities one at your last meeting. Thank you. With respect to my committees, I have really gotten a love for the Coachella Valley Children's Discovery Museum. I would hope that in the future, I won't be here, but I would hope in the future that somebody champions a further support for the Children's Discovery Museum. I think it's an incredible place. I think it's an incredible place. I think it's an incredible place. I think it's an incredible place to be here. I think it's an incredible place to be here. I think it's an incredible place to be here. I think it's an incredible place to be here. I think it's an incredible place to be here. I think it's an incredible place to be here. 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The the the primary issue I think to address with the golf advisory committee that was addressed at the last meeting was what to do about the about the tournament. There was low attendance and hopefully we can get some ideas about how to resolve that. And have a greater participation. Sunline tremendous agency. What a service they provide to the valley again. They are in the process of surveying the the usage of Sun line. And they have a consultant that is trying to decide with limited resources. How much of the valley can be served. And and the diet the the real problem is is that you can only serve the populated areas or the remote areas. We can't serve both with the assets that we have. So it's in a process of deciding how to do that. And there's been quite a bit of great testimony in front of the board. Some of it heartbreaking of people who have to walk two miles to get a bus to go to work. Older people. And again, you know, we need to support that agency. It's a very important agency for for the valley. And with that, thank you very much. All right. Thank you. Mr. Reid. The conservation commission that last week we bought some more property. It's my understanding that at the next meeting will be a report on the conservation commission. I don't know who's going to be speaking on their behalf. But Gary Gardner, who's a city council member from Desert Hot Springs is the chairman of the conservation commission. So if he was available, he would be a perfect person to come and make the presentation. He is also our representative on SCAD. And if in fact he is the person, you might ask him to also give us a brief update as to his activities on our behalf before the Southern California Association of Governments. Just a suggestion. Also, I agree obviously Eisenhower funding at the committee will be gone. And that's the end of my report. Thank you. Mr. Sanders. Oh, can I, I'm sorry. I gave myself enough. Discovery Museum. The marketing committee is meeting soon after next. And I know that the hotels are very, very supportive of the Discovery Museum and pretty much. And for it, I don't know whether it's on the agenda or not. But at the very least, we should encourage greater Palm Springs, VCB or whatever, visit Palm Springs. Visit greater Palm Springs. To get involved as well. But I agree with you. It is a resource not only for our residents, not our residents, but our residents' grandchildren. Right. Or great-grandchildren. Yes. But it's also, and I see the heads nodding. The hotels, I think it's wonderful because it's something for spouses to do while, while the, whoever it is that is at a convention or a business meeting, something for them to do while the other spouse is unavailable. So I, I, I agree with you completely, uh, council member and, um, uh, hopefully the, uh, marketing committee addressed that as well. Thank you. Sorry. Okay. Thank you very much. Mr. Sanders. Uh, thank you, mayor. Um, I just want to echo, uh, what, uh, Dana said and what, uh, councilman Whitman brought up, uh, earlier. And that is, uh, the importance of the Discovery Museum, Children's Discovery Museum. And councilman Whitman, I'll, uh, commit to you that, uh, if I'm not the official, um, representative of the city on the board of the Children's Discovery Museum, I'll still be looking out for it. So, and thank you for your good work on that, uh, board. Appreciate it. Uh, just a few things. Number one, uh, the Cove Communities Service Commission, um , is, uh, putting together a program, uh, that will, uh, involve the use of drones, uh, for public safety purposes, both, uh, for police and for, uh, fire and paramedics. Um, it is really exciting. It's, uh, incredible technology. And, uh, that'll be coming, uh, to, uh, the city council in the not too distant future for, uh, our participation with Palm Desert and Rancho Mirage in that program. Um, um, I know that councilman Penna is, uh, working, um, with the community activities committee. Um, and the community activities commission on the 60th, uh , anniversary celebration events, uh, for the city of Indian Wells. Um, I'm sure he'll give us a, uh, full-throated, uh, report at the next council meeting. And finally, uh, the Indian Wells Public Safety Committee, which consists of myself and Councilman Penna, excuse me, Mayor Pro Tem Penna. Um, we're gonna be, uh, recommending some e-bike, uh, regulations, uh, e-bike legislation. Um, we've had reports from, uh, other jurisdictions where it's really gotten out of hand. We had an e-bike, uh, strike a pedestrian here in Indian Wells who fell and broke her, uh, wrist. Um, so, uh, it's something that I think we need to tighten up and, uh, we'll have some proposals for the city council in the not too distant future. Thank you. Mr. Penn is not here, so, uh, I'll go next. Uh, CVAG Executive Committee created an ad hoc committee to look at increases in revenue sources, including increased in taxation, uh, to help support the ongoing needs of CVAG, which is, uh , uh, foreseeing financial challenges. Uh, CVAG, uh, Energy Committee and our ad hoc, uh, Clean Air Committee, uh, we're beginning to discuss with CVAG their desire to, uh, look at dust mitigation. Dust is now an issue. We've, uh, all felt it, breathed it over the past couple of weeks. Uh, and, uh, there's a report coming from Eisenhower Hospital on the, uh, health and safety issues, especially for children, Coachella Valley, uh, that will be shared shortly. Um, I saw first draft. It's compelling. Uh, and so we're, uh, engaged in a conversation with CVAG to understand the role they want to play in dust mitigation and in helping, uh, get access to the land and dealing, dealing with the with the various parties, uh, that control the land and, and then, uh, mitigation efforts. Uh, on the, um, on the homeless, uh, committee meeting, uh, you know, there's, uh, issues with regard to California state budget and funding for homelessness, uh, coming down the pipe, uh, which are presenting some challenges, uh, on one hand. Uh, on the other hand, uh, our, uh, countywide effort, uh, is noteworthy in the state of California as we're, uh, having more success than others in reducing homelessness. So hats off to, especially Coachella Valley, uh, both, uh, of our supportive initiatives are, are working very effectively. Uh, with regard to the Indy Wells Golf Resort, in June, we 're gonna add to the, uh, the, the agenda, uh, golf rates. Uh, golf, uh, golf tee time reservations and annual fees. Uh, the, uh, the, uh, the group, uh, Troon and its, um, uh, uh, maintenance, uh, team for the golf, uh, course is adding trees, uh, large, very mature trees to protect some of the areas that, uh, uh, uh, need addressing with the new design from the, uh, you know, players course, where, uh, one fairway is contiguous to another fairway. maintenance team for the golf course is adding trees, large , very mature trees to protect some of the areas that need addressing with the new design from the players course where one fairway is contiguous to another fairway and balls which are err antly hit can potentially create injury. Nothing's happened yet, thank goodness, but we're preparing some defensive mechanisms to reduce any potential issues arising in the future on the golf course and they're doing a good job at continuing to address those concerns. Let's see, the Rivers ide County Transportation Commission approved several hundred millions dollars worth of construction and mainly on the western side of Riverside and they're actually going to consolidate with San Diego County usage of the Fastlane center that, you know, observes the traffic flow and creates support for cars that may be stuck in the way. We're saving, you know, 20 million dollars a year by consolidating those efforts. It's a real nod to the Riverside County Transportation Commission to get that contract because anything that involves governance of various multi-counties is very difficult to get done these days. So hats off to RCTC for for getting that done. You know, I'm noticing by the way in a lot of these meetings, CVAG Executive Committee, RCTC, SCAG, California contract cities, a growing concern of available dollars to implement programs, either because of a reduction in potential revenue generated by tax or by, and more importantly, by the significant increases in cost to implement programs. And we are heading into, it's very clear to me that this concern, even getting an approval of a consulting agreement for RCTC, is being more scrutinized today than has been in the last two years. So, you know, something to pay attention to, I think, as we continue to walk down the road here. At the California contract cities that were here in Indian Wells last week gave an opening address talking about unfunded mandates in the state of California, especially as it relates to affordable housing, which of course is illegal in the California constitution. You can't force cities to do something, provide services or build things without funding from the state of California. So that's an initiative that's going to be kind of getting hot and heavy here over the next couple of years as all of us are trying to fulfill our RHNA credits. There was a great presentation by Google that has a software that they're implementing in cities across the country that creates kind of a nice interactive interaction between citizens and the city with regard to potential planning, long-term strategic initiatives, etc., that provides an opportunity for the collection of data and then using AI techniques to create kind of mapping on, very effective mapping on on key initiatives, concerns, thoughts from citizens that can guide city councils moving forward. And our city's going to look into those potential software items to see if we can implement any of them here. Let's see. Southern California Association of Governments had their big meeting out here. CV Link won an award for a great public use program to encourage, you know, public non-car transportation and usage. And it was very warmly received by the Southern California Association of Governments. And that will conclude my committee section. And I believe we have a question from Dr . Freeland. Dr. Freeland We do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Prior to the meeting, Councilmember Sanders asked that I remind him that under his report for the 60th anniversary ad hoc committee, there is a discussion that they would like to perhaps expand that ad hoc committee to include representatives from our different city committees, for example, community activities, marketing, which includes our hotel partners, to be a part of that planning of our celebration. I think it's an excellent idea. Do we need a motion to do anything there? That'd be great. We'll bring back at your June meetings, a structure to that. Okay. So it's going to be an agended item in June. Dr. Freeland Correct. All right. Well, with that, that ends the meeting here at 3:36 until June 18th. See you then. Bye . All right. 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. Okay All right The City Council budget study session and successor agency joint meeting Is now called to order. Why don't we stand to do a Pledge of Allegiance, please? Let's begin The United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all Thank you everyone Soon to be celebrating 250 years Do I have a motion to approve the current agenda motion to approve second second all those in favor aye, okay so Let's Start here. I guess we go with the consent calendar first Or is that correct? Okay, so do I have a motion to approve the consent calendar? So move okay all those in favor aye Okay, nothing to be pulled that brings us right to I believe our Presentation mid cycle budget adjustments to the adopted 26 plan and I believe that's over to you Kevin if I'm not mistaken Good afternoon. Thank you honorable mayor members of the City Council for your present Consideration today is our mid cycle budget update and today and today we're going to be looking at our financial overview and because it's a study session We're also going to be taking some time to look at how the budget was formed Some of the common questions that we get during the budget process and of course what the mid cycle is what we're all here about today is going to look so our new financial outlook going forward Mr.. Mayor as I move forward through the presentation I would like to make two points of clarity one This is a study session, so it's a little less formal So if council has any questions as I'm going or staffs presenting please please let us know and we'll answer accordingly in addition to that Our Finance Committee met last week to hold a public meeting to have public comment to make sure we had a good amount of citizen engagement and they did a deep dive into the budget as it's being amended today and They have recommended for you to consider it as amended for adoption With that are looking at our fiscal overview the new budget increases the general's Fund surplus to about six point three million dollars We recognize that as about a one million dollar increase over your currently adopted budget and over the next ten year period on a An extremely conservative fiscal outlook. We should be able to generate about sixty six million in new cash coming into the city One of the things that the City Council did yes Last year during its budget process is Decide and come up with the budget surplus distribution and I think this is my personal most favorite slide of the presentation today Because I regard it as the City Council Exercising fiscal responsibility and essentially telling our money where to go rather than as many cities wondering where it went and we'll talk more about that and the impact that this distribution has as Part of the presentation today This is from your strategic planning slide you've seen this already last year We finished up the year with about ninety six million dollars in cash citywide We do have special key cash reserves. These are Funds that we can jump right into of about eighty eight million As you can see we finished with last year with the general fund in excess of the minimum reserve requirement of about twenty million dollars and And capital improvements had it almost the same and our capital reserves which we'll talk about a little later today as well finished the year with about twenty nine million dollars Our fiscal overview looking at all of the grant funding we talked about last year We had about five million dollars in monies that we've received We have another eighteen million already approved for shovel ready projects as we start doing our capital projects and we have under review right now in excess of twenty seven million dollars Being reviewed for additional capital projects going down the row our Our city general fund loan that was the loan the general fund provided to the former redevelopment agency is all but paid back this year We've received twelve point one million Not only did our successor agency, but also The oversight board and now the state department of finance approve an additional three point eight million dollar Payment that payment will arrive in the city in July of 2026 so just a couple of months from now and then the remaining payment of about one point eight million will Be so requested for the very next rock cycle and will arrive in the city and complete the loan in July of 2027 mr. Merrick can I ask? questions are all of those monies the loan update Received and approval approved and remaining monies does that all go into the capital improvements account for the golf course Or into a special fund for the improvement of the celebrity course Yes, so the the what the to answer your question council member Whitman the three point eight million specifically Was designated by the city council that go into the golf the brand new? Golf capital reserve fund to be able to make improvements such as the celebrity golf course. Okay. Yeah. Thank you great question, sir What one of the questions I get asked all the time about the formation of the budget is well, what kind of budget do we have and about nine ten years ago or so the city changed from a departmental budget to a program budget and I'm so glad that we did Since then the program budget has been a valuable communications tool with our residents Under a program budget format our residents or other members of the public Really don't need to know anything about city budgeting or city finance All I ask is that they be interested and so they could take a program like for instance our public safety our police program And if they're interested they could look at that tab in the budget and they see all of the goals that the council has set For the police department including all of us staff We call the whams the work activity measurement or workloads that they do We have all the direction that they're going to do and as you see we have a very detailed Budget itself so not only does the budget emulate the city 's general assuming the journal all the journals fund from all of from the Capital fund excuse me. I'm messing up a little bit But it also breaks down Additional detail under each account line item so we have a very very detailed budget That is essentially Letting the public know how the sausage gets me The budget process is all about public engagement and communication So generally under the two-year plan we start in February about how With the strategic planning workshops and moving on so on and so forth by March the budgets under development And in April we start to have at least one maybe two Public discussions with the finance committee about appro ving it and finally we end up to hear where we are today in May looking at a Study session to be able to judge that now today. We're just doing the mid cycle So this isn't the full budget review that we would do during the development. This is just the mid cycle So today you'll have the opportunity to amend the budget as you please and then adopt it as the expectation When we do the full cycle budget there is the option to adopt it in May and we often do that but once in a while we also Council needs a little more time and the public might need a little more time and we have the option of adopting it in June as well Some of the other common questions I get during the budget process Probably the number one is Where do our property tax dollars go? Most residents know that they're paying the county of Riverside for the property tax, but they don't really know What the county of Riverside does with the property tax dollars and as you can see there the overwhelming majority about 59 percent Goes to all the schools Then our school district in Indian Wells is the desert science unified school district. They get that lion's share but also there's the college of the desert gets a share the supervisor of schools gets their share and there's about three or four special taxing districts Just for the school districts The largest single share goes to the county of Riverside. That's uh, they keep about 20 percent of all the money special districts make up about 12 percent uh, there's about 17 special districts including Desert Recreation district a Coachella valley water district Coachella valley cemetery uh, and so on and so forth that have a Distributed share as well, which leave the Indian wells city itself And we'll talk about the value of tourism in just a moment to get less than five cents per dollar It equates to about 14 percent of the total general fund revenue coming in which means that uh, all the other funds need to come from tourism And speaking of which we have the Tennis stadium and one of the questions I I receive is we know that the tennis stadium Generates about 5.8 million dollars a year in admissions tax But does it really generate any transit occupancy tax? And that's the hotel tax that we get for folks staying in our hotels and the answer is yes during the tennis tournament during march during that tournament period The the tennis folks alone the folks staying there generate about 1.3 million dollars For that month and in in regards to transit occupancy tax can I break in those are the players and the coaches and and and the referees and the people those are not just visitors that happen to have tickets These are people that are actually working at the tennis garden Those folks are included as well, but the majority of the 1 .3 million is from guests Staying at indian wells hotels To watch the tournament unfold okay fine. Thank you. It's a combination of It's okay fine now. I understand. Thank you. You're welcome , sir The next question I get is this the golf resort contribute anything another question, please Another question on indian wells tennis tournament. I've seen that number as high as 10 million So what would be the difference between say 7 and 10? What what revenues would be included in the sales tax? There's there is there's there's sales tax as well. There's a large share of sales tax And i'm not maybe a 10 was a rounded number but but it's all in it's a very large number There's sales tax there's I think that's offhand that's probably it as well probably 400 000 in sales tax as my memory serves. Thank you So the next is uh, does this golf resort itself contribute anything as far as generating hotel room nights During the season and that answer is yes, in fact the golf resort golf rounds themselves constitute about 20 percent of seasonal hotel round stays And contribute about two million dollars a year annually as part of that transit occupancy tax Collection that is distributed primarily between just hotel room stays folks staying at the hotel Plus where a lot of our tournaments about 80 percent of all the tournament play That the golf resort generates actually ends up staying at the indian wells uh one of the indian wells hotels The next issue is let's look at the revenues being generated in the current budget that we have today And the general fund as you can see we have about 30 million dollars budgeted and our general fund uh revenues coming in the lion's share about 44 of that is the transit occupancy tax and then as I spoke earlier you have the emissions tax And then a property tax round out to about 14 Mr. Mayor to your common comment just earlier When you look at the total budgeted tourism dollars That constitutes transit occupancy tax admissions tax And I include sales tax and the reason I do is about 80 85 percent of all the sales tax generated In the city comes from tourism so you can see here Just just under 70 percent of the revenue coming into the general fund is based on tourism dollars This is where we spend our money. So this is the outgoing flows Our general fund expenses for that year was about 25 million dollars. We had a Originally a little over 5 million 5.3 million dollar surplus The single largest share is our general government expenses And these are these are more specifically All of our admin costs and the in the programs that make that up And that includes the city council's program the city manager's program Our legal program the finance department's program and and so on and so forth So those are the general government expenditures Public safety is the single largest program that we have with about 7.2 million going out for police services Public works is about half of that and community development's about half of that again And fire is paid for by the property tax not by us. Is it correct? I'm so sorry sir. We don't pay the city doesn't pay for fire suppression that's done through the property tax I mean you don't have you don't have fire there Yes, thank you great question. Yes, sir. Our you're absolutely right, sir Our fire suppression is in a special fund and we collect three different types of restricted revenues is why it's in a special revenue fund um specifically for fire suppression So that's not part of the general fund at all. That's correct, sir And but police is and police is because there is no restricted revenue at this time coming in for police services. Thank you question Kevin, can you very briefly off the top of your head tell us about the upward trend in the cost of sheriff's department services Yes, sir. I know i'm catching you cold. No, you're not we 're very good. We're very good. So When you look at all of the revenue all of the general fund revenues I'll get to your point by sharing you this way So one of the things that we have to have in indian wells is a large amount of general fund revenue coming in you see that as being over 30 million dollars a year coming in and the reason why in all but public safety Those rev those that revenue growth every year Is about equitable about equal to the growth that we have in expenditures As a total not every line item, but most With the exception of public safety public safety grows At a much faster rate than any of the underlying revenues that I have coming into the general fund And so I need to have more revenue growth in the in the I need to have more revenue in the general fund quite simply To kind of keep pace with the increases in public safety It's a on average. It's about seven 7.2 percent per year if I may add If I may add Kevin gave earlier on the 10-year projection of 60 how many? 67 67 million dollars That is inclusive of that on average seven percent increase and we're still having that surplus So Kevin does monitor that as part of the 10-year projection that we are keeping pace Beyond as far as revenues beyond that of expenditures for public safety and Despite the fact that we Enter into a contract with accounting for sheriff's department services The amount we pay is not necessarily fixed There's a true up that occurs and it's Difficult to predict what the actual Expenditure will be from year to year on uh Our contract with the sheriff's department councilmember Sanders you're you're correct. I'll just say that okay So our next slide is let's talk about what's actually changed since we originally adopted the budget So what we'll be talking about now is we'll be looking at a general fund increase I've shared this with you earlier that we expect our surplus to increase by a million dollars We've also engaged a workforce realignment plan where we've been able to reduce Operating costs we'll talk about that the new budget provides 375 000 a year for regional housing programs And this is one of my most important points the golf resort itself Even though we are contemplating the uh Remodel or sorry the rehabilitation of the celebrity golf course It remains profitable number one. Hey, man And two It complies with all of the council member metrics and we 'll be talking about that as well The next thing I like to finally we'll round out that moment with the talking about A new strategic plan that we developed through the finance committee And i'd like to share some of those thoughts with you as well Our general fund surplus as I said the original budget pushed us about 5.3 million We're looking at increasing that to about 6.3 million The increase comes from a revenue increase mostly in transit occupancy tax of um 1.6 million i'll show you that slide right here The good news here is looking at all the revenue growth It's actually already occurred So one of the things that we've done is we've updated the next year's revenue growth based on What we've received through this march So even though our hotel partners have said April was fantastic and may looks even better Those numbers aren't in yet. So this is a very very conservative View of what we expect our revenues to be able to generate You see a small increase in admissions tax. We were pretty spot on about that And in a small increase in interest income as well And that was really for two factors one We've had more cash to invest than what we initially anticipated And while interest rates were high we were able to and they still are relatively high But when they kind of were peaking we were luckier than we were good And we've invested in a number of five-year Federal agency securities and treasuries in part of the investment portfolio and have been able to capture additional interest income as well Kevin Mr. Merrick, can I ask? um As to the tot increase two questions on that number one um Do we know whether that increase which is pretty substantial 1.6 million dollars that's over and above our budget correct? Yes, sir. Okay mid mid mid year um Do we know whether that increase is from the increase in price or occupancy? Um Or a mix of both or what is the mix of both? We do uh, so the the lion's share of the increase uh is In the actual rate so higher rates at the hotel And we are are now beginning to see an uptick in occupancy as well, which is always a good thing I favor occupancy over anything especially during the shoulder in the summer months second question And i'm not asking you to break this down But do you know can you break down how much of that increase is attributable to each hotel? Yes, okay All right, maybe we can however that's confident. Yeah, it 's confidential. I'm not asking for details. Well, that's nothing that we could ever disclose No, no, sir. Yeah proprietary So it's yes, sir, right? I mean you said no or yes I Know the individual Uh, it'd be to answer councilmember whitman's question. I know the individual individual increases by hotel But councilmember reed to your point that is strictly confidential and not to be sure by law Thank you Uh, uh looking at our uh expenditure we've exercised a Large amount of expenditure discipline one of the things I talked about a little earlier was the real employment real ignment We've been able to reduce this year the workforce by six percent and we align three positions ultimately The idea behind doing all of this is to better align staffing with our service demands dictated by our residents There was Whether it was unattended or attended um a about a five hundred thousand dollar Annual reduction going forward as a part of this move Community housing as I stated earlier uh city council uh last year Directed staff to to develop a program to Begin to provide equal payments to the coachella valley rescue mission Martha's kitchen and sea bags housing first program those all total three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars And then now are safely rooted in your budget as well Uh the golf resort we intend to do about 20 million dollars in total revenue this year rounds are reduced because of the pending closure of the celebrity golf course To about seventy thousand seven hundred and we are projecting a net operating surplus This year of about four hundred Thousand dollars so Uh the bullet point at the end says it all we remain self-s ustaining With positive operating performance What's the normal number of rounds for you? Both courses are open uh, we uh, well Over uh, eight 80 000 a year is we've done 82 in the past, but i'll i'll save an 80 000 would be a normal normal year as well Thank you You're welcome, sir Uh, this is the most important slide for the city council. This is a uh Reconciliation between Troon's proposed budget and the council goals relative To the specific profit centers these are the amounts of revenue or I mean the percentage of net profit In each of the profit centers that the council has set goals for And as you can see by looking at the variants column on the right That the troon team has met all Or exceeded all with the exception of the food truck and the snack bar And if you remember last year we spoke about this and we were talking about Perhaps reducing that council goal. I asked council at that time to press the pause button We talked about the fact that All of the business coming from the food truck and the snack bar And even the beverage carts themselves Is a almost 100% predominantly anyway driven by rounds And that we were going into a construction year with the players golf course and that we should table this discussion I think we should table it again this year and the fact that we are going headfirst into A tear down of the celebrity golf course as well. I will put a bug in your ear One of the things that we've been talking about is now that the players golf course is open And we kind of can see the impacts of the returning route of nines Especially with the players golf course The snack bar has taken on Uh, it's been clearly shown Uh to be very successful in that own right And when we look at the food truck the snack bar And the beverage carts All of those three profit centers They all share the same Revenue type funding from rounds They all share the same menu all sales share the same cost of service Essentially interchangeable labor And so one of the things we've been contemplating is Maybe creating consolidating those and creating a new profit center Something like beverage serve food and beverage from outside services or outside services food and beverage Something that would delineate Food and beverage being earned on the golf course Through predominantly golfers as well Our next discussion is I wanted to have a discussion with you regarding the strategic position of the golf resort As you know, the golf resort is our largest strategic asset . It's our largest city's asset It supports tourism as i've demonstrated previously And one of the things that we've seen is at the end of the day Our indian wells residents Absolutely love the golf course. They love the food and beverage that we're providing In the sense that kestrel has been successful with the residents as you know The residents were kind of walking away or or not supporting the view restaurant And in those last two years of full operation of the view till today residents have returned almost Almost 30 percent 29 last year or the year before that and 28 before that so So this has been kind of uh an idea of driving more residents to kestrel Based on all of that I was wondering With the city council if I if I actually Stopped short if I didn't contemplate this whole thing as you know During strategic planning and at your last council meeting when council approved The remodeling of the celebrity golf course at least that first step um We we cobbled together for the council. I Cobbled together about 17 million dollars in cash Saying that this would be the place that we would pay for Whether it was the celebrity golf course or the or the car park Or or any of the the putting green improvements and all of those things And the question I have of myself is I wonder if I Stopped a little short And meaning because this is our largest asset Should we really have a plan to develop a long-term? capital reserve Program at the golf resort and and maybe over the next three or four year period generate something between 20 and 25 million in reserves One of the things I was thinking about is at some point this council maybe another Will want to redo the pavilion And at some point this council or another will want to talk about the rehabilitation of the clubhouse And one of the things that we do with our five-year capital plan Is all of the city's cash our portion of the cash? We have funded all in advance and i'm thinking that it would be A very short step to be able to us to move forward To be able to provide enough cash in our golf resorts capital fund to be able to Fund all of the long-term capital plans that we have Much like we do with the city's capital plan So i'd like some discussion about that today and trying to move forward with that plan With that Can I ask kind of would please Would the intention of that plan Be to take the surpluses from the general fund And divert it over to the golf resort For for these funding initiatives Yeah, absolutely So there'd be that would be the primary funding source But I want you to look at the two bullet points that I made at the bottom and council member whitman That's a great question So as you know for the last Eight or ten years the city has developed a capital reserve plan We have a very comprehensive policy as part of our capital reserves that that 29 million dollars I spoke of earlier and out of your budget we automatically save 2 million a year Last year you enter introduced a surplus distribution policy which allowed me to transfer Two additional million dollars a total of four million dollars will probably finish out the year Not with 29 million but closer to 34 million dollars by the time all the interest is calculated Well that paints a very different picture council member whitman it puts us in a position now Where we're about four years away if you can imagine from having a fully funded capital reserve plan that's just amazing to me The other thing is the second bullet point talks about what I talked about earlier Which is having all of the capital projects in the city including the ones being proposed today to have Be fully funded before those projects are ever put into place that the city's cash portion because there are grants as well that we don't control but From the city's cash portion that we have everything in play So I would like to move forward building a larger golf resort capital reserve Without violating bullet points number two and three so to speak By maintaining a large capital reserves under the plan you already have in place And maintaining fully funded Cash plan as part of your capital if we can do those two things council member whitman I think to your point the rest of the money could go to start funding a larger capital reserve For the golf resort for the golf resort specifically And you want to have this discussion later in the Council session today or right now? I either way ideally If some direction, but you're welcome to contemplate it as well I've got a lot to do between now and then and and so if you don't then you're fine But either way, I would really like a discussion Or in some direction at some point in time Well, I mean is there really that much to discuss? I mean it seems Almost so yeah, it seems like a no-brainer to use it over overused euphemism Well, I I'll just pipe up look there are some immutable facts of life Number one golf courses have a finite life So about every 20 years you got to spend a bunch of money to Bring them back to life so to speak Number two The construction cost index is going to continue to sky rocket It outstrips inflation almost every year So things don't get cheaper to build or to rehabilitate they get more expensive um So I for my two cents worth You're on the right track um in terms of your bullet points here I think you stated it, but I I want to state it another way um Priorities uh a sense of priority or a mandated set of priorities has to be put in place So what gets funded first? The capital reserves for the golf resort or the uh uh You know the two million dollar plus that we're putting away every year into reserves. I mean something to tell you what to do in case these surpluses Start to shrink Yes, sir. That's my two cents worth And your comment Yes, please if I consider that direction, um, I I agree. I I think that we maintain our capital reserve policy To take 20 of the surplus from the journal fund plus 2 million a year that seems to be working out brilliantly and then maintain our goal of having every capital project that we do in the city Paid for in advance in cash and have those reserves available to us Going forward is if we maintain those latter bullet points Then the remaining balance could be very fairly distributed to start creating a larger Golf resort capital reserve and the other thing I just point out is that it is our largest asset And it depreciates to councilmember sanders. You pointed that out whether it's the golf course or the clubhouse Those items do and as we seen with uh coming up with the rehabilitation Of the celebrity golf course There isn't a lot of revenue generation or roi on repairing sprinklers Redoing the irrigation system. It's just to maintain that those assets are going to Continue throw off the surpluses that you've seen that is the construction of the banquet kitchen I don't expect to have a massive increase in roi I expect that we maintain One of the golf resort's largest revenue profitable revenue generators in the future of this Come then why then why would you make it the last priority? Why would you fund everything else first and only give that whatever's left over? Why wouldn't you at least make it 50 50? Well, thank you, sir. Yeah, so I I I think that coming to the end seeing that End of the hallway so to speak with the capital reserve plan And developing okay, I think we can do all of these three things Maybe i'm very secure in our ability to do all three things That's probably the question the question that the council man asked was what do you do if all of a sudden It dries up and you don't have enough to fund everything which gets funded first And I heard you to say everything else gets funded first before the before the golf course night. That doesn't sound reasonable Well, there are there are other items in the surplus for instance like pension Our pension surplus is so high right now that we could table that back and there's other things that i've determined that we that Building the golf resort capital reserve takes precedent or priority over it I just want these two bullet points To have at least equal setting and that the other two or three uh bullet points that I mentioned Could take a back seat why we're building these reserves if I may add councilmember read and that is this is something We will be reviewing on an annual basis If we see that there are shortcomings in any of the reserve Or any of the efforts that we're making to put more money into the golf fund Or into the other reserve pots the council either next year or future council callers adjust that In order to adjust that based on those comments you just made Does that answer your question? It does Thank you Yeah And in in that line um Question first question is What happened to the I'll call it the surplus of the surplus? I guess is is what's what's being Discussed here. What what happened Historically to the surplus to the surplus Do we just keep it in the bank and get interest on it or Instead of putting it into the golf course capital reserve This new idea of having the golf course capital reserve Do we just leave it in the bank? So to speak So so historically we've had our reserve so one thing is All of the funding of the reserves The city has historically never used Any of that money so we've we've only made deposits we've never made withdraws The general fund Surpluses or the cash on hand Has always traded between the general fund And the city's capital investment fund the cip fund And as we've increased projects as we've done over the last three or four years Those funds have been used to pay for those capital investments that we're making So there's this ebb and tide between the city's general fund And the capital reserve fund and making sure that's fully funded As well, so was the golf course capital Needs funded out of the capital the the general capital reserve fund in the past or uh, just done on an ad Hock basis out of the general fund is Yeah, no, it was funded out of the city's Capital fund and until last year when the when the city council formed the Golf resort capital there's not we've only formed this last year, right? So this is a new capital reserve fund specifically for the golf resort And that's the idea that i'm trying to express that we want to build up. Yeah, okay. I got it But for additional context, Kevin We haven't had a surplus of 12 million dollars In our history is that correct? Our large that's correct sir. So the point is if we've made a million or two million dollars in surplus in the past It would be pretty easy to allocate Historically it has been easy to allocate those funds into whether it be you know retirement initiatives or Cost initiatives, etc. So we're in kind of unprecedented territory Economically being having this large surplus that we are now Forecasting to continue at some level and therefore We need to now address what we do with those excess funds By potentially creating this golf fund Well, if I can interject we haven't had a surplus over the last few it was for the last few years in the golf resort So the surplus is being generated in the golf resort are actually being put placed into these Golf resort funds as well or reserves So having that is also starting to build that up and now we 're seeing opportunities to put in more money That we have in excess or surplus of the surplus to help fund future projects out there to the mayor's point Let's not live in a fool's paradise and think that the sur pluses are going to last forever Because they won't um Number one number two um um It sounds like We're allocating a lot of money to the golf resort um um But case in point um The pavilion The pavilion is a cash cow Um But the business that we generate using the pavilion Is becoming Exceedingly competitive More and more people uh Organizations are getting into the wedding business and um Other similar types of Events that Um We host at the pavilion We've had um Weddings where uh The the couple getting married or the parents or somebody is putting up an extraordinary amount of money There was a wedding a year or so ago If my memory serves me right it cost 125 000 paid to the golf resort to uh to host the wedding We don't have indoor plumbing at the pavilion my god you know You have to walk outside the pavilion go over to the snack bar If you want to use the restroom To me that's not being very competitive going forward. It's a problem that we have to fix The hvac system at the pavilion doesn't work very well in the summertime in fact it doesn't work at all So That's something that we're going to have to fix in order to remain competitive um Schlepping the uh the food from The restaurant the kestrel restaurant Um out of the restaurant across the bridge and up to The pavilion to serve the people who are attending an event there It's cumbersome And it really doesn't look very good to uh to the guests So we need a kitchen there Um It's it's all Um in order to make Or to continue the competitive nature Of the pavilion We really need to focus on that and keep that cash cow going It's not necessarily about roi It's about remaining competitive in a very competitive business Okay, and As to the comment about further discussion or recommendations For me, it's always challenging to have a conversation about a particular section of the budget When there's so much more to it including our purchase of land Our building of low-income housing Some very large issues coming down the pipe which hopefully we'll touch upon today And then we can potentially evaluate what we want to do with the Golf course In that context overall Thank you, mr. Mayor, please proceed So I I think you've actually heard enough from me for now And uh, i'd like to turn it over to uh Miss purvis Who is um going to give us a little overview On the implementation of the solar package and our battery energy storage system So thank you for that Good afternoon mayor council members residents dina purvis your public works director I'm going to hijack a few minutes of kevin's budget discussion to talk about money that we're not going to spend For those not aware the city built three sites with solar panels and battery storage systems There's one located here next to city hall near the maintenance yard And you'll see that referred to as city hall in this presentation There's one located at the golf resort clubhouse it's being referred to as clubhouse And the final one is at the golf resort Maintenance yard which is on fred wearing and that's referred to as either fred wearing or maintenance Our consultant was tasked with understanding total savings from these three sites with relation to the bills that we receive from socal edison The comparison time frame is between april 2025 and march 2026 It is worth noting that what we're going to review today Is not a full year for the clubhouse as that system only came online in november of 2025 What we'll be looking at today is a comparison of what we paid During this time period versus what we would have paid Without the solar or battery systems also called business as usual Starting with the bottom line of energy bills The utility has billed us for 475 000 Dollars for the three sites this year It without the solar sites. We would have paid about $169 000 you can see that i'm i'm rounding pretty heavily just for ease of communication The resulting $295 000 in savings is just in the bill so that's all i'm talking about on this slide here Broken down by site the city hall Sight saved 87 000 on the on electricity bills the club house saved 131 000 In electricity bills and the fred varying maintenance yard saved 74 000 in electric bills uh... The clubhouse which is our largest site Meaning it has the most panels and the most ability to generate was only online for six months during this review period I was also asked to kind of review where we started this project from This is the document this was the performer document that was used during the decision making process In energy only in that little red box there you'll see that it it was projecting about 372 $372 000 in energy savings It is expected that once we see a full year of all three sites in production We'll exceed those numbers This is my last slide uh annual savings come from multiple sources SCE's sgip program sends us a check for each site for the first five years The total of this year's checks was 395 000 We also see a drop in usage at each for each meter When we operate from the batteries instead of the grid so there are times During the day the peak times of use during the day that we operate from the batteries instead of off the grid And so we don't get charged for those for those kilowatt hours that we're not using And we also receive bill credits when we return energy to the grid So up there in the corner in the little red boxes and it's not as clear as I would like But there's actually a negative there that shows credits that we're receiving For returning energy to the grid Our contract with the solar company also guarantees our solar output that the city's savings are dependent upon This table shows the month of march 2026 What was guaranteed by the solar company and what was measured at the meter? So looking at the clubhouse our guarantee is over 84 000 kilowatt hours and we produced 111 The city hall site had a blip in operation Caused by a tripping breaker and those parts have been ordered they haven't been put into use yet The production is also monitored and reports submitted to us on a monthly basis So the total savings that the city recognized in the first year from the bill and the And the rebates was 689 000 So this was just a quick overview for the purposes of the budget study session If there's any questions i'm happy to answer them otherwise , I will return the floor to the finance director I want to make sure we're clear on a couple while dean is up there And that's first and foremost when the city entered into the agreement for the project It was a total cost of 9.1 million dollars Over the last couple of years the city's been successful in obtaining grant money You are aware that we had a settlement agreement with site logic to generate additional savings of the project So the project at the end of the day is to have a net cost in the city of 4.1 5.1 5.1 million dollars We were able to save four million dollars on the cost to actually implement the solar efficiency project And then based on the information that dina has shared is once you have a full year at each and every single of the three sites We're going to greatly exceed the savings of all the kilow att hours and dollars That was projected in order to justify that 9.1 million dollar investment And that's usually a requirement thing under state law that you have to be able to justify that Return in order to make that investment And so we're going to well exceed all of that information more so because that additional four million dollars in savings That was put into the project. Hope that makes sense. Yes, sir The money we received from the company that screwed up and paid us what one point something million dollars point seven did that reduce the price of the Project or did that simply reimburse us for the extra Energy that we had to pay for Because they didn't Operate on time. Yes, there was a combination of their of The loss savings as well as a reduction on the cost of the project So it was actually a credit to the project as a whole Yeah, but one point one million or whatever. I mean You've combined the two or how have we done this? Oh, it was a combination There were credits for our O&M agreement. So we're not paying For our operations and maintenance agreement for the first five years There were credits for change orders For works that for work that was actually done and received by the city that we did not pay for And there was a monetary credit for Energy But they did reimburse us for the extra utility charges that we incurred because they did not perform on time. Correct. Thank you Yeah, and and just to add to that We did incur utility charges that we didn't anticipate because we thought the project would be online sooner But we pick up that savings At The end We did In other words, it keeps on generating electricity And so eventually um, I don't know what was our Life cycle projection for this The total on the performer. I think was about 25 years. Yeah. I was going to say 30, but maybe it was 25. So if it 's 25 years We'll continue to In all probability Save money after the 25th year Which will make up for anything we had to spend on the front end that We didn't receive and with those reductions that we just shared your paybacks be even quicker But the numbers then I did the math on it and it pays for itself in roughly 12 to 13 years. Yeah. Yeah, exactly And that's assuming energy stays the same price. Correct. Which it will not That I can guarantee. Yeah, my recollection uh is admittedly faulty, but uh, I think uh, when this was originally proposed to the city council we were looking at a savings of about six hundred thousand dollars a year in energy costs and We're already at that point in addition the Contractors Inability to perform did delay the project, but it made us eligible For a new program that came out from the irs in which we were Able to qualify for another million something 1.3 million seven in credits So the law of unintended consequences One more question, uh, I know you're working on this, but we've got three wells at the golf resort Um if I had a crystal ball, I would say at some point we're not going to get colorado river water anymore I know you're working on uh, the cost to hook up those wells to the solar system um That's a good thing indeed right Thank you Is that 1.7 million dollar irs credit that we received is that baked into the uh four million dollar savings chris that you were is that included It is okay. All right Okay, thank you We should frame that check if we ever get it Thank you again our bull mayor members of the council we'll conclude with our capital investments for the new year As you know at our last meeting city council Approved as in an actual expansion of our largest single project, which is the safer streets project Now that budget is now a 10 million dollar project which includes the expansion on El dorado drive to include a sidewalk program and so on and so forth the great news I have to share with this is that the city's funding share of 5.2 million remains unchanged a hundred percent of the increase in the budget is being secured by additional grant funding now projected at 4.7 million dollars And in addition to that we are currently still actively pursuing an additional 3 million dollars in funding we could In no doubt finish this project with nearly seven seven more or more eight million dollars in total grant funding thereby reducing our cash portion and The taxpayer burden as well I have a question and what do we have reserved for this project? our our cash portion on hand is 5.2 million we have that in place right now and um uh correct me if i'm wrong kevin but uh not contemplated in the numbers that you gave us um there was there were monies that would we would have to spend in order to redo the streets that will be incorporated into this 5.2 million dollar project uh uh absolutely i i don't know the dollar amount uh miss pur vis might want to come back up but uh yes so we were on on el dorado fred wearing and especially on cook street we were already planning to do a an r and r are we going to remove and replace i think on the roads way i think it was much more than a a slurry seal um and i see well as fair as a third world street at this point each street is different but uh yes it was about three and a half million that we had set aside for the reconstruction of all four streets right so these additional improvements that we're talking about the net net is a lot less than what one might conclude just looking at these raw numbers and again i want to give credit to the staff for get going out there and getting grant money to offset the cost for not just this but many projects in the community absolutely uh our next is we're sewing uh or proposing to the council to show some of what i call fiscal discipline with our capital funding um we kind of talked about this at our last meeting uh the city's emergency operations center is part of your five-year cip and uh as it as it's in it was originally programmed and contemplated to be 100 or so uh funded by a grant funding and so one of the things that we've looked at is the grant funding that we were chasing down kind of evaporated and we're no longer able to get that funding so what we'd like to do with the eoc program is not remove it from the cip by any means but simply defer it until we can find an opportunity to find additional grant money staff believes that on a state local and even on the federal level there's so much funding specifically for these types of emergency operations centers that there is all probability that we could be very successful with another grant to be able to process and put together a revised or revisions to a new eoc center and by doing that it tables the need to use any journal fund monies in lieu of that or miss out on any particular grant funding are we shovel ready in case the money shows up tomorrow oh we are not well steana no we are not we haven't done any work we're doing some reassessing of the actual need of the eoc whether it is an expansion of the current one or if there's opportunities to do some improvements actually to this facility here at city hall versus over the fire station okay well why wasn't that part of your presentation i mean okay very good that's a good answer i wish i wish it had been part of the presentation understood understood um so with that i will conclude with our t key takeaways here revenues currently are outperforming our projections we are actively managing our expenditures uh we've implemented the new workforce alignment program to better serve our citizens and our capital projects of course are reflecting a financial discipline as well uh so with with that uh council has three options the finance committee recommends adopting the city's budget as it's been presented today you also have the option of making additional modifications or providing additional uh direction the last item for the agenda is a discussion on sponsors hips uh during our finance committee meeting the finance committee spent a lot of deep dive time looking at all of the sponsorships that have been provided provided to uh opportunities that were provided to the city uh during this current fiscal year and had made recommendations uh for funding that would uh go into this year's city budget and that's the discussion that the finance committee would like to have with you today is what scholar sponsorship opportunities should be going into the budget for this next uh fiscal year and with that i'm going to remove the powerpoint and upload the uh an excel document which will allow the city council to have live action regarding making the budget change so you'll see what dollars are changed and how that comes about and how that comes to our budget for this year and i'm going to continue to be able to do that um so what what you see here uh essentially is looking at our sponsorship opportunities the column in blue was what's come into the city during the fiscal year uh the next column over was the city finance committee's recommendation uh on whether or not they wanted to fund it uh and then as part of the budget development amended budget process they've put together a funding program for the uh which is in green um is what they're recommending that we move forward with and then finally um as far as the kind of the more orange color uh this is part of uh a discussion that we'd like to have with you regarding the approved funding for the year so the very first funding as you can see there is 175 000 for the firebird sponsorship and i'm available for any questions as we go through if you wanted to speak directly with the finance committee you're welcome to do that as well as well but staff is looking for the council to have a discussion today on what funding that you would like done what project what sponsorships would you like to approve and what you would like to see in part of the budget if i may add in regards to the firebirds we still have one year left in our current contract with them and i think that's why the finance committee suggests to continue that funding because we are in our contract that's actually with the arena it is not the firebirds right actual arena okay so to clarify so the first line item firebirds means that's the sponsorship yes sir okay gotcha so we should probably just pun it then until next year that would be i think that's what the finance committee would be recommended because we have a contractual obligation we don't serve you on is that our only contractual obligation uh yes moving forward i believe that 's correct because if you go to the next item the epson tour that partnership ends in 2026 which is the current fiscal year the 153 but it's talking about for future years 26 and 27 as well so they're looking to extend that relationship i think the numbers are off i think the finance committee uh authorized up to 400 000 which is 153 up top and an additional 150 on the bottom i'll defer that the finance committee but i think that was what was added at the last second our part of the meeting was up to 400 000 for that sponsorship and we have a i have a separate discussion on that that we can do either now or at a later where's the other 100 000 it's down below additional sponsorship considerations number 11. yep i see that but that's 150 and 150. i think that they've made a typ ographical error that should be 250 down below okay and that's correct sir before we dive into uh the um acrash ore arena issue and these others um i mean we get requests ad hoc from time to time some of which are very substantial and uh unanticipated um the recent eisenhower medical center uh one million dollars i mean you know that that was not forecast in the budget so um while we can go through this and and make some decisions i think we have to be nimble enough to anticipate that there will be asks of us going forward that we're not contemplating right now we we have no idea when and for how much uh those asks will be yeah and to add to that we're very fortunate in the last few years to have a surplus surplus whereas the budget is met and we have eight million or ten million dollars in extra cash for the year which allows us to to you know indulge ourselves in some of these other asks so um putting some of that into a budget is i think is a good idea because we don't know where we're going to stand as the years come we're fortunate now I think to your point, to both your point is, for example, I ran into Cindy Burkerson with the children's discovery museum last week, and they're probably going to put it ask in some time this fiscal year, right? So we wouldn't anticipate something that doesn't mean council is going to fund it. But to your point, we do get these funding requests that aren't on a set schedule, right? Mr. Right. Mr. Where, how is the sponsorship for the Indian Wells T ennis Garden handled? And why is it not on this sheet? Mr. So the host sponsorship is, or the naming rights sponsorship, excuse me, is a sponsorship that's done every 10 years. It has the opportunity to have this city participate for $2 .5 million a year. So because it's in every 10 years, it's not part of this budget cycle. So the answer to your question, it's not in here because it 's, there isn't a contribution in here being paid. Part of the capital reserve plan. We actually do. In addition to capital funding, we save $250,000 a year as part of the budget that actually goes to a special reserve fund to be able to pay for your name is right. When those, when that time, when that option comes up. Mr. Are there any other sponsorships that are on a contract ual basis and not mentioned on this slide? Mr. No, sir. Mr. Okay. And the sponsorship agreement expires when for Indian Wells Tennis Garden? Mr. Two, two, two, two, three, two, three. Mr. Two or two. Mr. 42 or 43. Mr. Okay. Mr. I can get that date for you, sir. Mr. Okay. And then, so my understanding is part of the Epson Tour sponsorship. The marketing of the Indian Wells event was to be throughout the course of the season, the road to Indian Wells. Having watched the Golf Channel and read their press releases, that's not mentioned. Is there a comment about that? Have you raised that issue with them about increasing the sponsorship? Mr. So they have been providing the marketing that they promised us. They don't have a relationship per se with the Golf Channel where they have coverage of the Epson Tour on it. They have it through social media and YouTube channels and they are providing the ticket to Indian Wells, which is on their website, on social media. And after every tournament, they are actually highlighting. And it's actually a part of the presentation where the winner of the tournament gets their trophy and a large ticket says, "You punched your ticket to Indian Wells." Mr. To the Epson Tour or the Indian Wells? Mr. To Indian Wells. Mr. Okay. Mr. Yes. I think it's called the Road to Indian Wells. Mr. Okay. Mr. Yes. Mr. Thank you. Mr. You're welcome. Mr. Well, I... Generally, I've been thinking a lot about sponsorships recently because after three and a half years on the council, I realized that as a small city, and this has come up recently as well with respect to our representations on boards and that we don't have continuity and we actually did some work on some of the boards that we serve in order to have more continuity. Mr. Looking at this, I think sponsorships are our way in to more influence, more recognition in the Coachella Valley as a whole. And looking back historically at Indian Wells' participation in sponsorships historically over the years, up until about the mid-teens, Indian Wells much more handsomely supported a lot of these entities than we do now. Mr. I'm thinking of the McCallum. Mr. We had a large contribution. We had a large contribution to the Palm Springs International Film Society. And I don't know other ones, but those two that I'm looking at on the list kind of speak out to me. The Children's Discovery Museum is another example where there was a large Indian Wells contribution contribution to these other entities, even though they're not in Indian Wells per se. Indian Wells residents support those entities by going to their entertainment and provide a lot of quality of life to Indian Wells residents. Mr. And I think there was a time when our budget was not as flush as it is now. And at that time, I think there was a council or several councils that preceded us that pulled in the belt and stopped funding a lot of these entities. Mr. And I just think we should consider that as a small city of 5,000 people compared to the growth of Palm Springs, the growth of Indio, the growth of Palm Desert, while we have stayed static. Mr. And as we have rotation of our mayor and so on, I'm concerned that we don't have the stature that we had at one time in the Valley, if you look at the history. And that one of the ways that we can retain or recover some stature is to get back into the game. Mr. And I think that since we do have surplus now, I think we ought to get back into the game more. And I'm looking at all of these sponsorships that were not approved. I think almost all of them are worthy for us and that we ought to seriously consider being in the game. Because if we're not in the game, we're just a closed-in city that doesn't have any stature or influence in the Valley. So. Can I add to that, Mr. Mayor? Yeah. Sure. I agree with Council Member Whitman, but I come at it from a little bit different angle. First of all, for some of these donations, contributions, it's the right thing to do. But I always look for an opportunity to make investments. And what I mean by that is we need to be supporting those organizations that draw tourists to the Valley. And we need to make sure that the Indian Wells brand is front and center. We pay for an employee at Visit Greater Palm Springs, for example, because we want to make sure that Visit Greater Palm Springs is putting Indian Wells out there front and center when they advertise around the world to bring tourists here. So rather than donations for many of these, I think we need to view them as strategic investments. We live and die on tourism. We live and die on tourism. We just went through a very brief explanation of where our money's come from, our revenues. Well, tourists count for most of it. And we need to keep those tourists coming back. And by the way, we need to continue to spend a lot of money on public safety. Because when they're here, we want to make sure they feel safe. And the best way to kill the tourist industry is to let the city garner a reputation as not being a safe place. So for me, it's largely about tourism. Oh, sorry. Dana? I just want to make it clear that the Finance Committee is not saying no to items 15 through 27. We're just saying no. No, let's not put it in the budget. Let's wait and see what they ask. Let's see what they're going to do with the money. Let's see what they are going to give us in return. And not in terms of tickets or things like that, because that's silly. But in terms of recognition and helping to put heads in beds, as we say. So we're not saying no under any circumstances. We're just saying no, it's not going to be automatic in the budget. That's all. That's the only difference between 1 through 14 and 15 through 27. Right. Mr. Mayor, if I may, in order to get to any public comment, is there any additional questions on the sponsorship funding that we can answer as a staff? I do have an update on the Epson tour one, because of the different ones that are on here, I think the pretty self-explanatory, but the Epson tour is looking for another three-year sponsorship. We were successful in negotiating some terms to share with the council tonight if they wish to, or today, or we could bring that back at your June date. The direction of the finance committee was to tweak the proposal from the Epson tour to the point that Mr. Reed just mentioned and Mr. Sanders about putting more heads in beds. And so they have a proposal, which is less than the 400,000 the finance committee suggested, and to reinvest more money into Indy Wells directly. So that means more money into the golf resort, more money into our hotels. So in essence, our sponsorship would almost be a break even to the revenues that come back into the city. That's one of the focus of that committee. And there is a strategy behind that. There is, of course, with our efforts to try and lure the LPGA here. Why don't you share? I can. Mr. Werner, if you can put that up there, that'd be great. And then we can go ahead and share that with the public. And then we'll open it up to council questions and then on to input from the residents. So I think Mr. Werner has the slides. Mr. Werner: While we're getting the slides up, I just have a question about the sponsorships. We've talked a lot about having special funds for different types of capital needs and so on. Are all of our sponsorship -- is all of our sponsorship funding on an ad hoc basis? Mr. Werner: Do we have or should we have a dedicated funding source for sponsorships instead of viewing each one on an ad hoc basis? We can still view them in terms of whether it's an ROI or a community benefit or what the marketing is going to be and so on. But since we're creating all of these separate funds for everything, wouldn't it be prudent to also have a separate fund for sponsorships rather than having everyone on an ad hoc basis? Mr. Werner: Just a thought. All right. So just the slide here. I think everyone's familiar with our friends at the Epson Tour. It's part of the LPGA. We host the Epson Tour Championship, which is the culmin ation here in Indian Wells, the race for the card where dreams take shape. It's the terminology that they use. There's a picture there of Natalie Korda on the right, who 's currently on the LPGA, doing quite well, of course. And there is notable alumni success stories of the many people, including some folks here locally who are part of the Epson Tour who move on to the LPGA. We've had the tournament here for two years. We're now in our third year. And what we're proposing for the, or excuse me, the overview is that there is the top 80 players of the Epson Tour race for the card. It's a 72-hole no-cut event. And the tournament concludes on the first Sunday in October or thereabouts. And it's usually based upon the availability of the course. They work very closely with Robin and his team. So here is some of the information about the proposal. Let me get to that part if I could. I'll just, just last year's card ceremony where 15 exceptional athletes were achieved their long-life goal of earning LPGA cards. I think, correct me, Mr. Mayor, I think that 10 of them got full cards and there was five partial cards, if that's correct? Yep. All right. Thank you for that. And as we've talked about, as a requirement of the sponsorship is to get an evaluation done of the local impact. And so that's a little bit of the information. They had a direct spend that we could track at the golf resort last year of $300 and almost $20,000. That is the rental fee of the course. That's the F&B and staffing. So that's money that the LPGA actually cut a check to the golf resort. They provided us some additional numbers and they said that there was an overall economic impact, about $875,000, with about $4.4 million in earned media value that they have from everything from social media, digital impressions of the tournament, as well as the discussion of the road to Indian Wells. Can I just break in? Yes, sir. Those are their estimates. We haven't made any independent judgment as to whether that 's accurate. Not of that one. No, we could hire a company like through Visa GPS. No, no, no, no, no, no. I understand. Yes. We didn't do it. We have not. Yes, sir. Okay. Because let's just be honest. It would be almost impossible that they wouldn't try to pad that. Not them, but everybody. Everybody pads it. Certainly. And I just want to make sure that, well, it's fine. It's not been verified. And we're not saying that that's necessarily accurate. Correct. And part of that overall impact has also been shown to be a TOT revenues because a lot of the players, as well as the tournament officials, the Epson sponsors and others actually stay in Indian Wells as part of their visit here to the tournament. Historically, the tournament has provided us, of course, our name, our logo, and incorporated to all tournament information and collateral. We have the pro-am teams. We have invitations to meet the pros. We have opportunity for city representatives to speak during the trophy ceremony. These are all existing part of our existing partnership here on this slide. Discounts for residents. We have the VIP resident viewing area on hole 18. The year one, if you remember, it was a hot year and we were scrambling to get shaded. I will give credit to the LPGA. They got shade structures out there a little bit, but they did a really good job last year to provide for a nice area. And, of course, hospitality passes that are distributed to our residents as well as other media. Then they picked up the weekly social media post with each Epson tour winner having punched her ticket to Indian Wells for the tour championship, which earned over 1.1 million impressions and 45,000 interactions in 2025. And if you look at this picture of the young lady on the right, that is her getting her ticket punched to Indian Wells. And so that is something they do each week. A prominent branding display is at all 20 Epson tour events so that you recognize Indian Wells at all the other sites when they're on the tour, including T signs as well as, hey, you're on your way to Indian Wells for the tour championship. So we have digital ad displays, digital marketing. And then, of course, the economic impact here talks about the pre-qualifying tournament was here actually last year as well over at the Indian Wells Country Club. So that was another added feature they did here. And then I'm going to go on to the new partnership concept, if I may, on the next slide. So the new partnership concept is everything we've mentioned and we've gotten to date. For the additional compensation, the Epson tour will continue to deliver all the benefits, except they're now looking to enhance promotional media exposure to fund new promotional concepts with a goal of maximizing exposure for Indian Wells Golf Resort specifically. So they're looking to do a high-quality streaming production of the final two rounds of the tournament, spotlighting the players' course to be a global audience, live streaming production of the LPGA Tour Cards ceremony from the Golf Resort, which had not happened previously. To the mayor's comment is golf channel news crews covering the tournament during the tournament week. That had not occurred in the past. Okay, so that's a new addition. Influencer collaboration. And this is a combination. They're trying to bring LPGA players and/or celebrities. They have or celebrities here to Indian Wells. Fill during tournament week or at some point during the season and distribute on Epson tour YouTube channel post event, but also that we can use for promotional media. I know I can't use the name of the player, but they have someone who actually spends a lot of time in Indian Wells that they have an excellent relationship and she might be a real good nexus of being an Indian Wells part-time resident . And a member of the LPGA to come here and do some filming as well. And then enhance season-long integration into Epson tour social and digital channels. Again, going back to the idea of the winners punching their ticket to Indian Wells. That is already continuing. Item two is where is a new concept as well. And this is the Epson tour will offer to pay for a six night hotel stay during the tournament, which is six nights here in Indian Wells for every single player to all 80 players at one of our premium resorts in Indian Wells. They must stay in Indian Wells. So the maximum hotel rate that they generate is around, they believe, is around $350 a night, including taxes and fees. If the rate exceeds $350 a night, the Epson tour offers players a $2,100 hotel credit for the week. If all those rooms are sold, that's another about 500 room nights to the city, it would generate over $20,000 in new T OT to the city. All right. And what we've explained to them is that if the players are not staying in Indian Wells, they don't get that credit. And so that portion of the sponsorship would roll over to help offset the cost for the hotel rooms in the following year. And then lastly is a brand new champions dinner at the golf resort. So there'll be a direct buy for another special event at K estrel on Saturday of the tournament week where they invite title sponsors, tournament partners, and other VIPs to an event where they have a direct buy at the golf resort. If I skip down to the actual proposal itself, or the dollar amounts, I should say. So they're looking for the 2027 tournament, our sponsorship at $350,000. There's a 5% escalator in just to keep up with hotel rates and other costs for, you know, the host site fee. So in year 28, it would be $367. In 2029, $385, $875. And going back to what I originally shared with you is the intent is that the direct buy between the hotel rooms and the spend at the golf resort will either meet or exceed the $350,000 level. And that's the intent of that new sponsorship. And with that, I will do the best I can answer any questions. But if you're okay with the sponsorship level, we can move forward with that and execute that with the LPGA as quickly as possible. But I do know there is some public comment we need to get to as well. Are we doing public comment first? We can, but do you have specific questions to this before we open up to public comment, all the budget items? Okay. Yeah, my question's more about the budget and not so much the absenture. Okay. I think from my point of view, this, when we talk about sponsorships, to me, this is the kind of thing that serves the Indian Wells community, creates a broader marketing of the Indian Wells name, provides benefit to residents for access to tickets, and, you know, utilizes our great assets like the golf course and the hotels, etc. I'm not sure. It helps the Valley as a whole, really. And, and potentially helps the Valley as a whole. In other words, it's an investment. Right. I'm not sure every one of those things on that previous list would, I would consider an investment. But I think from a, from a model perspective, this is an interesting model. Okay. Do we want to? I have one. I can chime in. I can chime in. I can chime in. I can chime in. I can chime in. I can chime in. I can chime in. I can chime in. I can chime in. I can chime in. I can chime in. I think I agree with Mayor Taylor here. My only question is, we're talking about having two general funds, a golf, a golf fund and a city fund. Why wouldn't this be in the golf fund? So I'll ask Kevin to clarify, but most of your reserve funds are actually general funds. So even though we have a capital fund, it's actually general fund funded, correct? Yes. Mayor, council, city manager is correct. Okay. I understand that. But if we're trying to build general funds for the city and the golf resort, and we have everything over there at the golf resort with the food and the beverage and golf and merchandise, and then we're going to have tournaments over there, shouldn't we pay for that out of that fund and then reimburse the TOT to that fund, so we have a real number of what that golf resort is generating? I mean, I may be way out there, but it just seems logical to me. No, I think the challenge is that means you want to look at all sales tax and TOT generated at all hotels throughout the course of the year and trying to make sure that there's a nexus for all those dollars to go back to be a true business model. That's, I think I'm saying that correct? Yeah. Okay, that's fine, but if we're building reserves for it, that's a way to build reserves for the golf resort. That's all I'm saying. Fair enough. Yeah. Okay, my question is on the line item 11, the Epson host sponsorship tour line, we made 250,000, correct? It is. If you can go back to the Excel sheet, and it actually can be reduced based on the information we received last night. Okay, but is that the same going back, getting back up to where we were? Nick's going to bring it back up for you. There you go. Okay, so, and then going on to the Epson tour one for 27, 28 and 29. Yes. Is that the same? Is the 250, does the 250 become 350 next year? It does. Yes, sir. So up above is what has already been budgeted for in the coming fiscal year. Okay. And the additional sponsorships are being, are down below to be put back in, correct? Or some of them? No, that's not the question. My question is, is the, is number 11 the same as, I'm sorry , sir, if you can put back up the, the, the, the, the slide that we were just on. You're talking about this slide, correct? Yes. That's the proposal slide. Yes. So the proposal costs for a sponsorship in 2027 of 350,000. Is that the same? It is. It's the 150 that was on the first line plus the 250 down below. And we're actually going to ask you to reduce that number based on this new information. Okay. So is the Epson host sponsorship tour sponsorship at the same as the proposed presenting sponsorship fee? Is that the same thing? It is. Yes. Okay. So if you add the two numbers, it's 400,000. We're only going to ask for 350. Okay. Well, this is wrong. So you can't, okay. All right. Okay. All right. Mr. Mayor. Yeah. So, uh, public comment is, would be for this particular, uh , matter at this point. Okay. Does anybody have public comment regarding the Epson tour sponsorship or the budget? That was my question. Yes. We should open it up. Yes. Just right now discuss the Epson tour, uh, proposal. Does anybody have any public comment? I don't have any blue cards. Um, the Douglas Hanson did have a comment, but he had to step away. Um, so if anybody in the audience would like to come up, we can take them to now. Okay. Nobody. Okay. Uh, and I'm going to ask you a question. Uh, you know, I'm going to ask you a question. Uh, I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. Uh, we can, uh, a question, uh, uh, to ask you a question. Uh, I'm going to ask you a question. Uh, I'm going to ask you a question. Uh, I'm going to ask you a question. Uh, I'm going to ask you a question. Uh, I'm going to ask you a question. Uh, I'm going to ask you a question. Uh, I'm going to ask you a question. Uh, I'm going to ask you a question. Uh, I'm going to ask you a question. Does anybody have any comments with regard to the budget? I, I actually, uh, am curious about some of these larger macro, uh, spends coming up and would like to see them addressed. If not here, if you're not prepared for that, then at our next, uh, council meeting regarding, uh, for example, the, uh, purchase of acreage. I know we have money reserved for that. That would be one for the eminent domain case that we're in the middle. Uh, we also have, you know, parking, uh, plan for development. We have, we've talked about roads here, but, um, you know, there's a, there's a smattering of pretty significant, uh, expenses over the next few years that I would love to see kind of, uh, in context with the recommendation to create a golf fund or the recommendation to, uh, you know, look at larger sponsorships, uh, moving forward. Is that something that you can talk about now? Or is that something, uh, you'd like to talk about at a later date? Um, if you, uh, mayor and council, if you want to talk about, uh, all of the capital funding, uh, as a whole, relative to sponsorships and what you've said, it may be better to table that discussion. So we get a very clear idea of what you're after. Uh, that said, uh, staff, myself included are available to answer any specific question on any of the capital projects that we have moving forward or, or anything being proposed, uh, as far as, um, more of a line item basis that has been proposed in all of those adjustments that you've have in your staff report. If you can give us some guidance on what you're wanting to ask, I think that could be helpful. Cause some of them we might be able to answer today and others probably bring them back at a later date and what those questions are. Right. So I'm not sure it's appropriate to talk about the pending litigation. Uh, but, uh, and I know we have reserved funds for the value proposition that was made at the beginning of the process. Uh, but once we control the land, for example, building, uh , you know, low income housing and to meet our arena credits is going to have to be probably a public private partnership of some kind. And, uh, that can be a very significant number, for example , right? It could be, but also could be that since the city is, has the land value, that that could be part of the trade with a nonprofit or whomever comes in. It really depends on how you structure that deal. So you're thinking is the, the actual cost to construct would be de minimis ideally. Perhaps. For the city. Correct. A lot of times what will happen is these nonprofits will come in there because of them having that nonprofit status. Qualified for state and federal funding that the city wouldn't be able to acquire for the vertical construction. Yeah. There may be some costs incurred by the city for some of that vertical construction. Um, but also the land value could be worked into their, um, permit fees, uh, other fees that the charge, that city charges, like impact fees. All of those are ways that an organization can assist in reducing the cost of that project. So it really depends on what is built and the timing of what is built that we can put into that formula. Um, because do you remember we do have over 12 million on file with the state to, um, to acquire that property. Yeah. Can we, can I just, for the purpose of informing the audience of what we're talking about? Yes. Um, I think what we're talking about is we have an eminent domain case over 34 acres on miles Avenue, um, which, uh, is in currently in litigation. And as part of that litigation, we made a deposit of the appraised value as of several years ago. And I think what the mayor is, is asking about is, is what would happen, what could possibly happen with respect to expenses to, uh, um, to not only purchase the deed. Yeah. To either buy it, to both buy it and, and construct things on it. But I really think it's premature because we're still pending litigation and we don't even know if we're going to get it or what it would cost or anything. It's still up in the air. Um, I don't know, you know, I appreciate the fact that you, that maybe there are credits and so on, but I, I just don't know that it's something that we can discuss right now with any probity. Well, and we've already approved, didn't we, didn't, didn't we vote to approve the budget? No. Yes. Yes. The overall budget, the two year budget, we're just now looking at potentially amended. Okay. So we can take that down. Well actually there has not been a motion to adopt the budget. I did. We did the absenture only. Oh, okay. Just the absenture. Yeah. Just the absenture. I didn't realize, fine. I move adoption of the budget. As presented with the additional sponsorships listed. As amended. Okay. Mayor and council, can we open it up for public comment before we take a vote? Well, I thought she said you received no, no, no, no, no, no public comment. No comments unless the audience again. Mayor, I have a question. So, uh, Todd, we opened the, uh, uh, you know, uh, public comment for both firstly, uh, absenture, and then, uh, we opened it for the budget. Uh, there are no comments. Uh, welcome any comments. I think we may be waiting for Mr. I missed that. I apologize. Okay. No worries. Are we waiting for Mr. Hanson? He will come back in the next meeting. Okay. The next meeting. Not today. Okay. Mayor, please. If I may question. Are we going to address the others that aren't being fun aren't on the funding list? So the recommendation is that those individual sponsorships will come back to us during the course of the year and we can address them then. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Does. And if, as amended, if I can reduce the absenture to the total of $350,000. Okay. So that would be an amendment to the motion. Okay. Does anybody have any comment on the motion? Uh, has it been seconded? I have some discussion on it. First second. Yes, please. If I haven't already. Okay. Um, I would, I would like to amend the sponsorship to include the desert rodeo sponsorship, uh, for next year. I believe it's been, it was a great success. Um, and, uh, um, we got tremendous, uh, public benefit from it, from the city. Uh, and so, um, you know, I, I believe that we should include that in our budget for next year as well. Um, I also believe that we should, uh, we should carefully consider whether we should fund the Palm Springs International Film Society. Um, we, we have a history in Indian Wells of funding that sponsorship, uh, for years, uh, and, and we stopped funding it. Uh, but I think to our great detriment, it's one of the most popular and prominent, uh, events in the entire Coach ella Valley. And we don't have a presence. We don't have a table. We don't have any presence at the film festival. And, uh, I don't see any reason why we need to wait on that . I think it speaks for itself. Um, and, uh, so I would ask to amend it to include the, uh, in, uh, the desert rodeo sponsorship and the, um, McCallum, uh, and the, uh, Palm Springs International Film Society, uh, as well. Um, so we have a motion to amend the motion. Do we have a second to include those two items at this point in time versus in the future? Uh, I'll second it for discussion purposes. Okay. So, uh, finance committee, you specifically, uh, did not include these two originally, uh, thinking. Um, on the, um, on the rodeo, um, this is a, uh, a new, uh, endeavor for us. Um, and, um, I've gotten feedback. It's well attended. It's very professionally, uh, done. Um, and, uh, the future bodes well for, for this event. Um, what I'm interested in is, uh, whether the sponsor has, um, stepped up and provided us the degree of advertising that was promised, uh, when we approve the grant. Uh, so I, uh, I, uh, I would include it with a caveat that, uh, we really need to hear from, uh, the rodeo sponsorship. The entrepreneur who's putting this on and have him show us what we've gotten in the way of advertising that was promised. Well, there is a requirement under our sponsorship program that they do that within 90 days. And we haven't been 90 days yet. Well, then can't we wait until they report it in? And then, and then if it's favorable, you can make a motion and we can add it at that time, as opposed to putting it in the budget today and then having to take it out. I'm, I'm not hung up on process. I'm, I'm just telling you what my view is. And what was the thinking on Palm Springs, uh, film festival? Uh, look, uh, we, we, uh, did somewhat of a dance with them . In fact, we've done a dance with them for two or three years. We've, um, requested that they hold an event here, uh, at the city. Um, and, uh, the, the, the ask that we made just kind of went into, you know, uh, black hole in space. I, I'd like to sit down with them and figure something out. I agree. We, we should be a participant. But, um, the flip side of the coin is we can be a very good host for at least one event that they put on. And, uh, I think they at least owe us an answer as to whether or not they can do that. And sometimes, you know, sometimes we have to go first. Well, okay. They have events in, uh, uh, Cathedral City. They obviously, they have events in Palm Springs. They have events in La Quinta. We said, look, bring us in. The bring us in. We want to participate. Right. And we got completely stonewalled, which is fine. I mean, it's their, it's their event. They can do whatever they want. But I would like to see how much is La Quinta giving? Cause they have an event. How much is Cathedral City giving? Cause they have an event. Both of those cities are seven or eight times as large as we are. They have events. I don't think they're putting in $50,000. Um, and why should we put in $50,000 when all we do is get stonewalled and other cities who are presumably not putting in anywhere near that amount of money. I don't know that for a fact, but we should certainly ask. They're getting events and we're not. So, I mean, it's, it's, uh, so, but let me, let me just potentially frame the discussion. Uh, there is a will to consider both of these sponsorships after a negotiation and a will or after negotiation and a study on, in the case of the rodeo, the, uh, uh, compliance with our agreements. And in the case of Palm Springs, the idea of how to engage Indian Wells. Yes. And that's not only from the finance committee, but clearly now we're seeing multiple people on, on this council would, seems to have a positive, um, belief that, uh, these sponsorships are worthy of serious consideration subject to a negotiation. So, I don't know, that probably doesn't satisfy you, but it satisfies me, uh, that, that I think it's, it would behoove the city to, uh, enter a negotiation with these two and others versus agree to put it in the budget today. Well, could I just ask, I mean, I don't know anything about the stonewalling. Um, what, what are we talking about? What are the details or what's it, what are the specifics? Okay. So of, of stonewalling. I don't know anything about that. Well, I'll let them, let me just respond from my side. So, uh, I had a meeting, Chris and I, I think had a meeting a year ago, um, uh, with, with Palm Springs. Uh, and by the way, they've gone through some changes, right? They, they, they, their founder died this past year. Uh, they have a new, you know, senior sponsor. So, they, they perhaps weren't in the best place to make significant changes to how they've conducted the Palm Springs Film Festival, uh, to accommodate us. Uh, what we've been told is that this year, uh, they will be able to address that and more, potentially even with regard to the organization of the Palm Springs Film Festival, board members, et cetera, et cetera. And so, I think, you know, that's from my personal experience, you may have other additional experiences, but I think, you know, they're, they're, yes, they want us involved. Yes, we'd like to be involved, but we'd love, I think, consistent with our overall theme here to figure out how to involve Indian Wells beyond just a check writing. Okay. So, the second question is, I don't know about the events in Cathedral City or La Quinta. I assume it's that they have films in their theaters. Uh, we don't have them. We have dinners. Yeah. Oh, they do have dinner? Okay. I don't, okay. Yeah. So, you know, let's, let's look, let's, let's get the answers to your questions. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, and what we're discussing here, I think, is separating these two events from the others where there's a no. In other words, we put them into a completely different category. There's obviously a sentiment on the part of a majority of the council here to do something with them. If we can reach an accommodation with them that makes sense . So let me, let me propose, but yet a further amendment, which is to say, let's, uh, approve the budget as is, but let's also instruct the city to enter into a conversation with these two. Sponsorships to understand the, um, the possibilities of our engagement with them as sponsors. I second your substitute motion. And this would be the finance committee having these discussions, correct? The city and the finance committee. Okay. Actually, that would be a Brown Act body. So we'd have to do it in a public setting. Well, it would be, it would, but you, we normally have sponsorship, uh, conversations going through the city. Yes. Through the city manager. That's not a problem. But I start including a certain committee. I'll defer to Todd, but that creates a Brown Act meeting. Yeah. Unless you have one representative from the committee. Well, why don't we instruct the staff to do it though? That's, that's my recommendation. That's my stated motion. Perfect. Okay. There. So I think we have a, uh, uh, uh, uh, first and a second. Can we vote on this? Any further comment? Okay. Would you like to, would you like to restate the motion please? Restate the motion is to prove the budget as is with the sponsorships as recommended, but also instruct city to, uh, staff to enter negotiation with the rodeo and the Palm Springs Film Festival to understand how we can, uh, potentially continue or create an engagement as a sponsor with those two specific entities. Right. Okay. All those in favor? Aye. Okay. Passes unanimously. Okay. Do what direction? Do what direction? Does, uh, does this bring us to kind of the conclusion here of this portion of our meeting? Almost. We were, we, we, the one thing. Almost. Almost. We did because we skipped through it to, in order to get to the end. We, there was that discussion about establishing the golf resort fund and putting funds into that. Is that something you want to table or have that, or continue that discussion and resolve that today? I know we adopted. We still have to vote on it. Yes. We're voting on the, we already voted on it. We just do it. We just, but we just voted on it. That was that best, but yeah. We just do it. Yeah. Can I ask what, I mean, I, on the golf resort thing, the question I would have is, is what exactly are you proposing? How much money per year or how, what, what is the proposal? The right now staff has direction and we've accomplished creating 17, essentially $17 million in identified funding for our new capital reserve fund that that's in the golf fund. And those, that 17 million is specifically earmarked for future projects, which would include the celebrity golf course, the, uh, putting green, the car park , the, the pavilion, uh, expansion work as well. Um, relative to the kitchen. Um, my discussion that I wanted to have with the council was it was I being short sighted in that proposal and to the extent that the council in future years wanted to expand that, should we have an opportunity to increase the funding from the 17 million councils already approved to something more, whether it's 20 or 25, because again, as I pointed out in the presentation, this council or a future council will want to do work at the pavilion. We'll want to rehab the clubhouse. It's now more than 20 years old and those kinds of things are expected. And is the percent is the amount annual amount of contribution to this fund at your discretion, I guess is the kind of overall questions you're getting from council. Here's what, how, how, you know, if there's a surplus of a million dollars, there's a portion of that get allocated. So what I was proposing was that we maintain the current reserves that we have relative to the capital reserve policy from the general fund, from the general fund and our practice of having all of the capital projects fully funded. Once those two criteria are met, then we can now start funneling additional funds to the capital. From the general fund to the golf resort. Correct. Okay, fine. But that would be a vote of the, it's not automatic. It would be a part of the budgetary vote every two years or as amended between years. Every year. Yeah. At a percentage. Is it an amount? Is there a set amount like we're putting in $2 million a year? I mean, what are, what are you asking us to approve? Well, I think, I think what I'm asking you to approve is based on our annual surplus, which does pivot. So I can't give you a dollar amount. I, I, I, I suppose I don't want to do a percentage and we could do a percentage for sure. That's not your recommendation. Right now. We're just trying to get discussion from the council on going forward. So, but not spending any money. You just want to set up the account. I'm doing the opposite. I'm actually reserving more money. So, but that's what he means. In other words, what you're asking for is to establish a reserve for future fulfillment without making any recommendation this time that we're going to put a dollar in there, a million dollars in there or general fund money. General fund money. I don't think so. I think what he's asking is for additional. I think what you're asking for is additional money in addition to what we, no, no, no, you're not today. You're not asking for any, no, no, no additional funds and, and getting a sense of the council would like, um, to get some semblance of order here, uh, or be able to agree to a number. Um, I think staff would be very comfortable with doing 40% of what the reserve is with the idea that the first two criteria that I've established, um, would be put in place. One, we maintain a fully funded cash. Uh, we understand that you don't have to keep repeating it. So fine. So I, if you, if it makes the council feel at ease to allocate specific, specifically 40% of the journal fund reserve until we reach $25 million, then so be it. That's something that would push us. That's something that would push us. All right. 40% of the general fund reserve every year would go into the golf resort capital reserve fund. Is that what you're suggesting? Yes. Okay. Until fully funded. Yeah. Until we reach a number designated by the council. So if it's 25 million, we hit it and then we come back. Okay. So can I make a recommendation? Can we put on the June agenda your specific recommendation with specific numbers attached to it so that we can actually have a motion at that time? Yes. Agreed. We can come up with 40% at 3:30. We've been discussing this for two hours and you've never said that until just now. Well, I, so, but let, understood. Thank you for your comment. Let's, can we all agree? So let me also add to the future agenda, uh, uh, along with this discussion, um, I would like to add three, three things to the agenda next month, including all golf related. One is this reserve fund. Two is potential cost of living increase to golf fees. Three is the increase in the annual fee to potentially include the city tournament. Four is a 7:00 PM tea time, uh, reservation time. So adding a half day prior to the, um, current, uh, 8:00 AM contemplated reserve tea time. That's been the recommendation of many citizens and the golf committee that we look at, uh, 7:00 PM time the night before. Uh, and if those things can be added for discussion to the agenda, that would be great. And with, in regard to the $25 million cap, I think there shouldn't be a cap because in 20 years it's going to go by and we're going to have to rem odel these golf courses again. We may not be here, but that money should be there if we want to fully fund the golf course on it, on its own. So that should be part of the discussion as well. Okay. So are we okay with the agended items as requested? Do we need a motion for that? Uh, Todd? Yes. Okay. So let's, let's, uh, so move. So move. Any other discussion? Okay. Let's vote, please. All those in favor. Aye. So be it. Thank you. Thank you. I believe that concludes this particular, uh, meeting and I thank you very much. When is our next, uh, council meeting next Thursday? I believe at what time? One o'clock? May 21st at one 30. May 21st at one 30 until then. Thank you for showing. We're adjourning to a closed session. A journey to a, we're adjourning to a closed session meeting. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Nice. Good stuff. Yeah, it's a lot more than sitting up here. It's better. It's better.

Welcome to the National Anthem. Welcome to the National Anthem. Welcome to the National Anthem. Present. Mayor Pro Tempena. Present. Mayor Taylor. Here. Shall we then approve the agenda? Motion to approve. Second motion. All those in favor? Aye. It's been approved. So, let's see. We go to proclamations. Riverside County Sheriff's quarterly update and introductions of Sheriff personnel. Lieutenant Chivone. I'm Lieutenant Frank Chivone. I'm Lieutenant Frank Chivone. Chivone. My apologies. First and foremost, I'd like to discuss with everybody. Deputy, you crashed about two weeks ago on his motorcycle at 111 and Cook. He was looking for... If you could speak into the mic, then people who are listening remotely can hear. He was looking for distracted drivers. The vehicle stopped in front of him. He ran it at probably 30 miles an hour. He has a sprained thumb, a sprained foot or ankle, a broken toe. And then he's just more embarrassed than anything. So, he's... And his motorcycle's total, huh? His motorcycle is... We don't know if it's totaled yet. It's being under repair or under... We're getting it looked at to make sure what needs to be done. So, he'll be back probably in eight or ten weeks. So, that doesn't mean you could speed because we have Deputy Abrego out there trying to keep things down. Next one. Okay. This is the quarter three results. We had 3,755 file numbers pulled, 536 calls for service, 2,388 self-initiated file numbers with 42 total arrests made through that third quarter. Number nine is... Or nine DUIs is erroneous. It's 11. There was 11 DUI arrests, seven public intoxication arrests, three warrant arrests with 2,038 arrests. So, is this through March? This is for... The quarter. And the third quarter, yeah. Yeah, third quarter. Through March. February, March. Yeah. Can you go back to the slide, please? Well, do you have any figures of those people that were arrested of the 42 arrests? How many were Indian Wells residents and how many were not? Is that information that might be available? It is available. I do look. It's maybe one to two. Out of the 42, maybe one or two were Indian Wells residents. The other are people that are just... Driving through. Driving through. Thank you very much. We're seeing it. Well, it's always. For the traffic collisions during that three months quarter, four major injury, 15 minor injury with 48 non-injury. Traffic citations were 615 written by individuals to include you, Abrego, and some of the patrol guys. 11 DOI arrests during that third quarter. Do the DUI arrests come from having one of those stopping points, or are they just random? Do you know? I do know. For the DUI checkpoint, which is farther down the road here, I think there was two arrests. So it's included in the nine? Two, yes. Okay. Thank you. We had zero homicides, zero rapes, one robbery, one burglary, zero auto thefts, and 10 miscellaneous thefts. Total property crimes were 12. Total part one crimes were 14. You guys take a look at the chart here, quarter three from 2024 to 2025. This is from the time dispatch. The deputy was dispatched to the time of arrival. On your far left is the red for January of 2024 was 6 minutes and 3 seconds. Compared to January of 2025 was 3 minutes and 9.93. So when I shifted the secondary motor, there was concerns that response times would go up. In fact, they'd come down and are increased in traffic has gone through the roof. So I hedged my bet and I won. Let's see here. January, it's pretty self-explanatory. You guys can take a look at them. Our priority one is the most important calls, the life-threatening, the domestic violence, or traffic collisions that people may be injured. Those are the ones that we're racing around to get to. Just the same chart, just a different view of it. But as you can see to the far right, priority one in 2024 to 2025 to 2026, they're still pretty good. I'm working on the priority fours. Those just come with ebbs and flows, those times there. These are some of the highlights of the cases that are being done. I'm not going to read that verbatim, but long story short, during the course of B&P tennis tournament hosted here at the Indian Wells Tennis Gardens, there was a group of what we commonly refer to as gypsies. They were a Colombian organized crime base. They came through here with the intent to steal. They were successful enough to steal a $435,000 watch off somebody's arm or wrist. And long story short is that three people are working in concert. They're going around taking pictures of people's watches, their fancy watches, utilizing them as their targets. And then they create a diversion of the victim. This particular diversion was a rather attractive female that had a load full of money. And she drops the money along with her partner. The partner and her or the victim goes down to help her pick up her money. Her partner, you know, basically says, no, don't do that. Or we got it. And while the commotion is going on, he's able to get the watch off your wrist. If you look on YouTube, there's some videos. I understand that these guys are so slick that they're able to get the tie off your neck without you realizing that it's gone. Is that why you're not wearing a tie? I'm not wearing a tie. Mr. Sanders? They could get that tie off your neck. Yeah, whoa. It's a valuable tie to. Some of the highlights that was conducted by members that were assigned there to include the Indian Wells set team, along with the robbery, burglary suppression team that we have that is also hosted, fortunately, by Indian Wells. It's a team made up of six or eight guys and a sergeant. They authored 13 search warrants up and down the state, mostly in Ontario and L.A. to include some jewelry stores. They were able to get initially two people in custody based on flock and vigilant cameras with the use of identifying their vehicles. They got the first guy in custody. They got the first guy in custody. The DA's office did not want to file. We got his phone during the phone and the extraction of the phone based on one of the search warrants. There were multiple pictures of multiple people in multiple locations at the tennis gardens with individual watch pictures. So the DA's office, because we didn't have a watch, but showing the intent with all these pictures on the guy's phone, they ultimately filed on him. So he was released. We had a surveillance team outside the jail. We didn't want to take him back into custody. We wanted to bring him back to his house. So we had a surveillance team set up on the jail. We followed him all the way to Ontario, where we landed a house. At the house, we were able to identify, based on many, many hours of surveillance, of the female that was involved. So ultimately, all three were taken into custody. And they're over there. Well, two of them are at the jail, waiting charges. And I think one had an outstanding INS warrant that the feds came and picked her up without our knowledge. So she's back on her way to Columbia. No watch return. We went to the jewelry stores down there. Some of them, they're scandalous jewelry stores. They don't know anything about it. They've never seen this watch. But we have GPS of them being inside the store. During the search of the residence, there was multiple papers located with shipping address for shipping containers that were going back to Columbia. So we assume that that watch is on its way to Columbia. And then in February, we did a DUI checkpoint. 221 vehicles were screened. 321 vehicles were screened. 53 drivers were referred to secondary. So if you go through the DUI checkpoint and they notice that your eyes are red or watery, or you have the smell of alcohol emitting from your breath in person, they divert you into another lane. And then another set of guys come and they evaluate you. So they evaluated, ultimately evaluated four people, and two of them were ultimately arrested for DUI and booked into the Indio jail. So I think that's it. I think that's it. Let me see what else we have here. The set team guys have been busy. You know, we've had B&P tennis, which was a two-week deal. There's lots of planning that goes involved in that. I have the FBI out there, the CIA. There's multiple executive protection teams for some of the heavy hitters in the world that attend, to include the players. Prince Harry or Prince Henry or whatever her name, she was supposed to be out there. They didn't want to talk to me, unfortunately. So we work close with the executive protection teams just to keep everybody safe. We have the speaker series that we are providing law enforcement services. Dr. George, car show, which is a big hit. Big deal for the city, big deal for the cancer research people. That was about it. I'll touch on a little speed study that we did. And I just, if you guys have any questions in regards to that, Mr. Penna, I could bring wigs up here. But we will continue our speed efforts, enforcement efforts throughout the city. To keep these numbers. Can you move over and tuck into the mic? Just slide over? All right. That's fine. Do you have the numbers for all those that live on Eldorado, Cook, and Fairway? You could share with them how much work you're doing over there? Yeah. Whether you're seen or not, I want everybody to know. Ms. Avalo will bring it up for us. Wigs, come on up. I'm going to go out a little out of, let's see here. No, you can do this. Go ahead, Wigs. Come on. Where is this device? All right. Good afternoon. I'm Sergeant Wick, Riverside County Sheriff's Office. I just recently got assigned to the City of Indian while I was doing the traffic division. I always see the motors. I also see the collision reconstructionists that we have on the team, as well as the community service officers that we have. Before we get into the survey, the sprint survey, or the analysis that we did on Fairway Drive, a little bit of history about me. I've had 20 years in law enforcement. Over half of my career has been in traffic to some degree. I was a motor deputy for a handful of years. I'm currently a collision reconstructionist. Essentially what we do with collision reconstruction, we analyze crashes and find out how they happen. And we use a lot of math and physics to try to figure out how major collisions happen. It's really exciting. And then I was a field training officer as well, not only for the patrol division, but also for traffic. And currently I am a collision investigation force instructor for the Sheriff's Department in the state of California. We can't hear you. You can't hear me? Oh, do I have to go through that again? Oh, okay. All right. You want to stand here? Let me see. I think this will be fine. Yeah. So, okay. So it's a little bit about my history there. Traffic enforcement. First thing to talk about is traffic enforcement and how that's done and its purpose. Because there's a purpose behind deputies out writing tickets. They don't just aimlessly go out and write tickets for the sake of writing tickets. There's a purpose there. And that purpose is to reduce collisions. So typically what we do is every month or every quarter we gather where all the collisions are happening in the city. And then our traffic deputies will, our motors will go out in that area and write as many tickets as they can to get collisions to come down. So once collisions start to go down, we basically chase the next busiest area. Enforceable speeds. This is a common misconception about how speed enforcement works. If you're going one or two miles an hour over the speed limit, you are more than likely not going to get a speeding ticket. It doesn't typically work that way. The law, as it relates to speed, is that the burden of proof is on the officer to prove that your speed is unsafe. So a vehicle going three, four miles an hour over the speed limit, I have to articulate how that's unsafe. And that's not very reasonable, typically. But now if you're going 50 miles an hour in a 50 mile an hour zone, and there's a car overturned in the middle of the lane, and you pass that thing at 50 miles an hour, it's going to be pretty easy to articulate how going the speed limit is unsafe, given those conditions. So deputies will typically enforce speeds like that. Now, when it gets to court, with that burden of proof, to show that a vehicle is traveling five, six, seven miles an hour over the limit, the deputy has a huge burden. The courts will agree, though. Anything 12 and over, typically, is unsafe. And so now the burden more or less is going to shift to the driver to prove how is 12 miles an hour over the speed limit not unsafe. So when we start talking a little bit about the data here on fairway drive, when I start talking about speed, and I talk about how many vehicles are speeding, I'm talking about the vehicles within that enforceable speed area. I'm not talking about the vehicles that are doing one or two miles an hour over the speed limit. Resources. What we do to enforce traffic laws, we have motor officers. As you can see, this is one of our newer motorcycles. I believe this is Deputy Abrego's motorcycle. So we have, we use motor officers. We have community service officers that drive white cars that have sheriff on the side of it. And we use traffic trailer devices that basically, as you drive by, it tells you this is your speed. It starts flashing when you're going over the speed limit. We all know those ones. That's the ones we use as well. So talking about fairway drive, there's been a lot of questions about speed issue there or reports of speed issues. The first thing I'm going to look at is how many collisions are occurring on fairway drive. So I'm going to look at what we have in our resources as a collision summary report. It's basically an outline of every collision within fairway drive as I chose it. And what I found was that for the past 10 years, from 2015 until now, there have been a total of 11 collisions on fairway drive. About one a year. Two of those collisions are caused by speed. None of those collisions were injury or fatal collisions. Okay. The next report I'm looking at is, in the city, where are the majority of our collisions occurring? And so there's a high incident summary report. It lists the number one roadway where all the collisions are occurring, which is routinely 111 and Cook. Intersections are very common in the United States to be number one. But when it comes to fairway drive, the city of Indian Wells has between 17 and 27 high incident areas. Fairway drive competes with being the last every year. For the past 10 years. What did you do? Fairway is what? Fairway drive. It competes with being one of the roadways that have those... Last sentence. Fairway drive. It competes with being one of the lowest frequency areas in the city. And it's been that way for the past 10 years. Yes, sir. For collisions. Thank you. Next thing I'm looking at is the engineering and traffic survey. And just as a side note, everything I'm providing here is just fact and data. And then afterwards, I'll give you my opinion and we can go from there. But the engineering traffic survey, which was done in 2022, and it's good for seven years, basically determines what the speed limit is on a roadway. The way that works is 85% of the cars that are traveling, whatever that speed is, that's what the speed limit is going to be. So the people get to choose how fast the speed limits on the roadways are. If we want the speed limit to be 80 miles an hour on 111, we all have to travel 80 miles per hour on 111 and not get pulled over. So with that fairway drive, 85% of the vehicles or 85th percentile is at 38 miles per hour. Thus, the speed limit for the survey is at 35. In July of 2024, the speed limit was reduced to 30 miles per hour. One, because of some speed complaints, but also because there's a park that was installed there. So the engineering department has the right to lower that speed five miles per hour for public safety because of the changes there, and which they did. Next thing I'm going to look at is traffic enforcement and how many citations have been written. So we had a radar speed sign placed on fairway drive from October 1st to October 26th, 2025. 35,000 vehicles were scanned on that roadway in that one month time. 56% of them were at or below 30 miles per hour. 41% were between 31 and 40 miles per hour. And 3% of the vehicles traveling through the roadway were at 41 miles per hour entering that enforceable speed area. Next, there was a seven-day directional speed analysis that was conducted from September 5th to September 11th. And in that time, that one-week span, there was 12,000 vehicles that were scanned. Out of those 12,000 vehicles, only 1.8% are within enforceable speed. So here's how many citations have been issued annually on fairway drive alone. So we can see in 2015, there was a total of six citations. Speed enforcement wasn't starting to be conducted until 2023. And currently in 2026, we have about 248 tickets that succeeded that by now. But there are 248 tickets written on fairway drive, 92 of them being speed related. That's just in this year, the first three months of this year, you're already at 248? Yes, sir. And 92 of them are speed. What are the other 200? The more common is you're looking at stop signs. We do get some stop signs there. You get an occasional right-of-way violation. But the majority of the time, it is going to be stop signs. Okay. Now, you say 92 is speed. That is where they're going more than 12 miles an hour over the speed limit. Yes, sir. So they're going 42 miles an hour or greater. Correct. I imagine they only do it once. It's a very loud ticket, yes. Yeah. So ultimately, with all of that, my opinion is that we don't really have a speed issue on fairway drive that is causing a public safety concern. No matter where you go in the city, you're going to have speeders. 1.8% of the vehicles traveling that are speeding, that's a normal number. Does that mean that things can't get worse? Absolutely. So our job is to not only are we going to focus on the high incidence areas like Highway 111, Deputy Obrego is routinely showing us speed enforcement. He's pulling people on 111 doing 90 and 100 miles an hour. So that is not uncommon. So he's maintaining that focus. And Deputy U is doing the same thing on Fred Waring and the other streets that they're working. They're still going to be taking a look at fairway drive and making sure that that speed is kept in check there. But as far as safety goes, I don't think we're looking at a significant concern right now. So if you have any questions. Yeah, I have a question or maybe a comment. So I think from your study, it shows that over half of the people, well over half of the people are going under 30 miles an hour or 30 miles an hour. And that is a great improvement, thank you, over what was happening before we reduced the speed limit to 30 miles an hour. So I think the conclusion is, is reducing the speed limit to 30 miles an hour has been a great boon to the city of Indian Wells on fairway, correct? Yes. And when you're on fairway drive and you're seeing that, you know, how close cars can be to pedestrians and golf carts, slowing that speed was a reasonable decision. Absolutely was. Any other questions? Just a comment. I think for the residents on fairway drive, speeding is a big part of the problem. But another part of the problem is the volume of traffic. And if you drive from one end of fairway drive in Palm Desert, where it originates, to the other end of fairway drive on Indian Wells Lane and Indian Wells, the entire stretch is residential, except for one use at the northeast corner of Portola and Fairway. There's a church there, but every other use is residential. I think it's unreasonable to have huge buses and other non-automobile traffic other than golf carts zooming up and down fairway drive, which is a, for all intents and purposes, a residential street. I just want those folks to know who live on fairway or in close proximity to fairway, that we had a very robust discussion about this at the Public Safety Committee meeting yesterday. And we're going to try and take steps to curb the bus traffic, other heavy traffic. And so stay tuned. Any other comment? Yeah, Dana. That's great news. I believe in the Palm Desert portion of fairway drive, all commercial vehicles are prohibited. And to the extent that we could look at making that same prohibition in the Indian Wells section, it would be, I think we should look at that very carefully. I live in an area where I go in and out of fairway to get to my home. And speed does not appear to be the issue. It is the issue of just too much traffic. And people on bicycles who are going the wrong way. And so when I'm looking here and there's somebody over there, so I think when we get the safer streets, that will be addressed as well, I presume. But anyway, as far as the commercial vehicles are concerned, I think if we simply duplicated what Palm Desert has done and enforce it, I don't know how they're doing with enforcing, but if we enforce it, I think that would make a major difference. I think that's a good call. And the Public Safety Committee will roll that into the discussion. Eventually, it will get to the council. Thank you. I just want to say thank you for all your hard work, listening to the residents and providing this information today. Some of them don't see you out there and, you know, they have a lot of questions, but you've definitely brought a lot of information here for us to respond to them. And we really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. All right. Deputy Abrego and Sergeant Spence, come on up. Counsel Sergeant Robert Wiggs. He's going to be the secondary motor sergeant riding partially between the two cities. He's in the process of getting some equipment ready so he could have a safe ride. So I'm going to skip the introduction for Sergeant Wiggs. He pretty much introduced himself. He's been around here about 20 years. Worked for me back in the Indio station. He was the Jew U of La Quinta. Over there, he wrote lots and lots of tickets and always with that same smile on his face. And I never got any complaints. Never got any complaints. He was a great enforcer and a hell of a salesman. So this is Robert Wiggs. And clearly, he's got the real analytical side to him with numbers. So it's a true blessing that he's here working for the city. I'll move on to Sergeant Stan. He's been on, I think, about 15 years. Also worked for me. Rode him like a horse. He doesn't even want to stand next to me. He's still terrified of me. But he is going to be in charge of the set team. I've set some high standards for these members of the team. He's been at a few different stations, several different assignments. So he comes with a history of knowing what he's doing. So we'll see how long I keep him. No, just kidding. Deputy Abrego, he's been on 20 years. He's been all over the county. He's worked personnel. He's worked the jails, the courts. He is really good at social media stuff. He's done a lot of photography stuff and safety briefings. You can look on the sheriff's website. He's got a whole video about e-bikes. He takes this job very seriously. He's very passionate about speed. He spends a lot of time on 111 and daily. I get text messages, pictures of people up over 80, 90 miles an hour every single day. So these people are out there and he's trying to combat that. So these are the members of your team here for the Indian Wells. We appreciate all your support and we will continue to... push the mission forward. Thank you very much. Thank you guys. And thank you for your service. Doing a great job. I love those numbers going down on the crime side. That's an incredible decline. All right. Next up, Riverside County Fire Department. Quarterly update. You got to follow that. Absolutely. Absolutely. Good afternoon, Mayor, Mayor, Pro Tem and City Council. My name is Cody Wright, your Fire Chief. And I'll give the third quarter updates for 2026, which will be the months between January and March. So from January to March, we had 415 total calls for service. We averaged a 4.4 minute response time, which is excellent. We're meeting our benchmark there. Engine 55 ran 281 calls. Medic 55 ran 162 calls. And Medic 255 ran 134 calls. I would also like to mention the fact that nurse navigation, which is when 911's called and it's not necessary to send a fire engine or an ambulance to that call. 12 additional calls from the city went to that. And a lot of those were mental health or possibly logistics where the person's not able to get to the hospital and didn't necessarily need a fire engine and an ambulance going code 3 to their house. So that was lowering our call volume. Additionally, we had one commercial fire, 59 false alarms, 296 medical aides, which made up 71% of our calls. 21 calls for public assist, two residential structure fires, two rescues, 28 traffic collisions and two vehicle fires. Here's our response map for the city. Pretty much all the blue dots are the medical aides. The red dots are for fires and various other calls. As you can see throughout east to west, the majority of our calls took place in the center of the city. Looks like the Straits of Hormuth. Yep. We'll go back. Yep. All the ship dots. There it is. Zero blockade. I'm proud to announce with the assistant city manager, we were able to get new Medic 55 in service. It's bright and shiny and the guys are loving it right now. It was a learning process for myself, getting the accredited, licensed and all the hoops and red tape we had to jump through to get it. So it's quite a big accomplishment. And I thank you for that, Eric. Your firefighters attended the Mini Muster throughout the cove communities. And what that is, is where the firefighters go and teach first aid, firefighting and some basic public safety skills to all the young students in elementary school. The kids absolutely loved it. They got a little wet, possibly a little bit muddy, but luckily we had hot weather. So it was great for them. I attended several of them and was able to talk to a lot of the teachers, principals, and even the parents were out there. And it was quite a shocking fact to find out that many of the parents that were there attended the Mini Muster when they were in school, when they went to the schools out here. So it's been going for over 40 years. It's a long tradition and it sounds like it's the highlight of the year for the children. So it was great. And we found that when we teach them fire safety at a young age, it sticks with them through the rest of their lives. So it's a great investment for the kids. For significant incidents, we have the Hyatt Grand Champion Resort fire. Crews were dispatched to the hotel. It's a five-story high-rise at 7.58 p.m. Upon arrival, the first company officer didn't see anything, reported nothing showing. As the crews went to investigate, they located a fire in the electrical room on the fifth floor. The incident commander requested a second and third alarm. Basically, a first alarm would be four engines and a truck. So he tripled that. So we probably had about 20 pieces of equipment on scene as well as three chiefs. The fire was contained to the original room with minimal smoke damage. Unfortunately, 300 occupants were displaced. And one hotel employee did have smoke inhalation and was transported to a local hospital. The cause is still under investigation. And that would be the end of my report. Any questions? Any thoughts or comments on BMP Paribas, which occurred during this time? Yes. I went and attended. It was very good. I was highly impressed. There was a ton of people there. And I was completely overwhelmed, not just with the amount of people, but the traffic. I thought it was very professional. I met with a lot of the people doing the medical aids. And I had medical aid stations and everything. So it was great. Cool. You didn't see any expensive watches, did you? No, no. No watches. Anybody have any comments or questions? Thank you for your presentation. Appreciate the update. Excellent. Okay. So now, appreciate your service. Fantastic. Let's move to public comment. Are there any public comments, city clerks? Yes, we do have two public comments. We'll call up Eileen Lynch, followed by Martin Lacks. Okay. Eileen. You've got the hot mic. Alrighty. Hi, everybody. Thanks for being here today. My name is Eileen Lynch. I am the executive director of Parkinson's Resource Organization. And I'm here today because it's Parkinson's Awareness Month. So I just wanted to call some attention to that. Parkinson's is the fastest growing, second most common neurodegenerative condition in the world. And it will outpace Alzheimer's soon. Uniquely impacts Coachella Valley. We have an older population than the rest of the U.S. U.S. Average is 37 years old. Indian Wells Average is 65. So we have some unique risk factors that mean that we have more people with Parkinson's living here in Coachella Valley and here in Indian Wells than other parts of the country. And we know that Parkinson's resource organization provides services like emotional support, practical support, education, resources, and community to help people navigate living with Parkinson's or caring for someone living with Parkinson's. And all of our programs are completely free. And I want to thank you for the reason why I'm here today. It's not just a condition that your best friend's uncle's grandpa had. It is something that is coming fast and furious for our population. There is a local resource that serves this population completely for free. And you can find out more about that at Parkinson's resource dot org. I will be applying for some city grants in the future. And I do hope that we are more successful this year than last year because we are located in Indian Wells. We are one of the few nonprofits that operates within this great city and serves this population. So thank you so much. And I'm available for questions if anyone has any. Thank you, Eileen. Thank you for your presentation. We look forward to hearing from you on your request for grants. There you go. Mr. Lacks, the hot mic is yours. Mr. Neighborhood Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Members, Staff, Neighbors. Good afternoon. I'm Martin Lacks. I lived here in Indian Wells for, well, since I started my law firm here in 92, moved here in 95, raised three children, including many musters. I wanted to comment about three different things. First, the increasing plane noise over our neighborhood is becoming more and more disruptive. It's not just the sound itself. It's the frequency and duration. Sounds like my wife's pregnant again, frequency and duration. But the planes are just constant now, especially at night until 11 o'clock at night even. And with the mountainside right against us, it echoes. I asked Council to do something about this. I sent, I think, a complaint response to the city, and I hope that that helps. Second, when the golf courses were redesigned many years ago, the city shared that achievement with us residents. We had a day on the course, got to meet neighbors we never met before. It was a nice time, and it recognized us and how we support the course. We had now just redesigned the course recently, and I ask you to consider doing the same sort of thing. Maybe next fall we can do that. And third, on the lighter side, I've been writing letters to bagel companies. I like bagels. From LA, I went to school in New York. Well, guess what? H&H Bagel just opened up today on Country Club and Monterey. And no, I do not have any financial interest in it. Anyways, I encourage you all to go there. It's pretty good. That's it. Thank you. Thank you very much. The FAA, by the way, we're going to have, I believe, a future agenda item next month on a whole series of research and investigations. This group has been doing to try and figure out how to, let's say, encourage the FAA to change the landing pattern. So we'll have an update next month. We'll have a report today from the city attorney on a closed session item related to that, too. Yeah. Yeah. So stay tuned. Yep. We are with you. All right. City manager report. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Yep. I'm a city council. I have no additional report today. Wow. A man of few words. Yeah, exactly. Mr. City manager. Did Dana put you up to this? I know. Yeah. Maybe. Mr. City manager, we have, I believe, quite a few golfers in the audience who golf at our golf resort. Would you very briefly explain the problem we're having with our water supply, Colorado River water supply? I will do my best, but I know our public works director, Dina Purvis, can help interject. Earlier this year when we planted the flowers along Highway 111, we noticed that they weren't growing as well as we thought they would. And actually, it wasn't the brand of Indian wells. So as our public works crew removed them, they decided to find out why this was the case. They did a soil sample of the fire beds and found that the salinity in those fire beds is almost off the chart. So as such, they determined in cooperation with the golf resort that it seems that there is a high level of salt content in the water coming from the Colorado River, which goes into the detention ponds at the golf resort, which is used to irrigate the golf course, as well as Indian wells' landscape. And so we had some discussions over the last week and looking at solutions to perhaps find ways to drop down the salinity amount coming into the golf resort from the Colorado River, or perhaps looking at different water supply, including wells at the golf resort. But it does affect the landscape in the community and perhaps the growing at the golf resort. So the vegetation at the players' course, brand new grass, etc., on several of the fairways and greens, has been stunted, perhaps, as a result of the salinity in the water. In conversation with Dick Leiter, who is the agronomy director, he's here as well. He's more than happy to answer those questions, but yes, it has an impact on the golf resort. Thank you. Mr. Pan, do you have a question you want to ask? No. No, I just wanted to ask, when did you discover this? Ms. Purvis? And this is non-potable water, I'm assuming? Yep. Good afternoon. We tested the soil at the flower beds approximately four weeks ago and got the results last week. Okay. Thank you. All right. Any other comments? Okay. We'll go to city attorney. Honorable mayor and council. As you know, the council met in closed session earlier today to discuss the items identified on the agenda. No action was taken that needs to be reported under the Brown Act. However, as has already been alluded to, the council has invited me to report that the council authorized retention of special legal counsel to advise the city on new flight paths over Indian Wells that have been approved by the FAA. And to discuss legal counsel to discuss legal counsel to discuss legal options. The council will also have, as has been mentioned, a discussion item on its May 21st agenda to discuss that topic. That concludes my report. I'm available for questions. Any questions? All right. Off to the consent calendar. So are there any items to pull? I'm going to request pulling G13. Any other items? I'm going to request to pull G4. G4. Okay. Any other items? I move approval of the balance of the consent calendar. All those in favor? Aye. Okay. Consent item approved with the pulling of G13 and G4. Okay. So we can discuss those now, I guess. So G4. Let's go with G4. Amendment to the fiscal policies and procedures manual increase of no bidding threshold from $5,000 to $25,000. Kevin, are you going to talk about this? Sure. Thank you, Honorable Mayor, members of the city council. The finance committee met and discussed the idea of changing the no bidding threshold from a fiscal procedures manual, which is currently at $5,000 up to an amount of $25,000. There are no other changes suggested for the fiscal procedures manual. One of the reasons for this change was simply time. The $5,000 limit has been in place in the fiscal procedures manual for an excess of 20 years. And given the amount of work done by our public works department, it was deemed prudent to adjust the total from the minimum $5,000 to a new minimum of $25,000. That completes my report. And of course, I'm available for any questions you may have. Mr. Mayor? Yes. For purposes of discussion, I move that we approve the finance committee's recommendation. Second to motion. Okay. So is there any questions? Well, I guess we public comment should have come before the motion. But does anybody have any public comment that they'd like to make on this particular matter? Okay. Now accepting the motion for discussion. Bruce. So we discussed this previously, but my concern about this matter is that when you increase the purpose of having bidding, if I'm correct, is to make sure that we have multiple companies that are coming in and giving us bids. So we get the lowest bid and or the best bidder, however that's arranged. And so the question is, is how many contracts approximately now will move into the no bid arena when we go from $5,000 to $25,000? The current estimate, the current bids today, I think it's about 74 bids. And the total amount of those contracts on an annual basis is about $900,000. Okay. So those are 74 contracts that previous, that until we passed this issue, were competitive bidding. That's correct, sir. Okay. And if we pass this, then that's $900,000 of contracts that annually, is that correct, that would not be competitive bidding? That's correct. That would move, that threshold moves up to $25,000, and those particular contracts would no longer require, the Publix Works Department can still do any kind of quoting that they like. But under the revised policy, they would not be required to bid those contracts anymore. Okay. What are some of the safeguards? Obviously, competitive bidding is a great safeguard for a city to have to make sure that we're getting the best bidding, the best price, the best contractor. And also, I think, is a safeguard against something we would, none of us would want to see, which is, you know, friendly contracts to somebody at the city. What safeguards do we have in place that would protect the city from things like fraud or friendly bidding, non-bidding, and that type of thing that you get when you don't have a competitive, potentially, I'm not saying we would have it, but potentially could have if you have no bidding contracts? I understand. Thank you, Council Member Whitman. Well, there's a number of things in place. First of all, this is simply removing the bidding requirement. And what that means is that all of these, as alluded to, all of these are still contracts, meaning that they have all the internal control procedures. All of those vendors are still required to carry insurance and demify the city. There's still all the separations of duties that exist. The one issue that's being changed is the bidding requirement. And the lion's share of those 74 agreements are really essentially professional services that are on call. And two of them that I think maybe are very easy for the council and folks at home to understand is the one is our air conditioning companies. So we have a number of air conditioning companies. And we even tend to this moment. We have a most qualified company that we work with. They came to us under the professional or I mean, under the bidding process. It's a company that we use all the time. Annual services, if and when an air conditioner breaks down, it's often much greater than $5,000. And rather being stuck in the situation of having to bid for air conditioning repairs. Now we have a company on duty that can come out immediately and service that. Another example is in public works is towing. So if and when, if possible, one of our vehicles breaks down, needs to be towed. Now we have a company already in place that we can simply call and have those services done immediately rather than bidding that out, which, as I'm saying here, it sounds a little foolish. So that's a good, those are two good examples of where this would work best. Okay. And I get that. But my question has to do with preventing favoritism. You know, the fact that competitive bidding does protect the city from favoritism and no bid contracts. I think that's pretty well acknowledged. Are you able or would you be able to do some tweaking? Because when I read the ordinance, it doesn't, it doesn't really talk to that issue. It just increases the amount. Is there anything that you could do administratively to tweak that statute or that ordinance to prevent any favoritism as in the same way that bidding would do, competitive bidding would do? Sure. So one of the things, and I've spoke with the public works director about this. One of the things that would happen, regardless of whether it was in the policy or not, is that in this particular example of let's stick with air conditioning. So if we had a service or air conditioning condenser broke, for the sake of the argument, it was $12,000. And if the very next time we call the same company and it happens to be $12,100, $200, our public works director is going to just immediately repair it. But for the sake of your discussion, sir, if the situation was that repair went from $12,000 to $18,000, the public works director still has the option to do quotes, to get three quotes and make sure that that number aligns with the current market. And that's something that we could put in as an additional paragraph in this section if the council opined to that. But it's something that happens automatically. I don't think it would impede the process. And it certainly wouldn't change the bidding requirement. Okay. Okay. And isn't there, Kevin, in place already as a matter of protocol and procedure, no favoritism and a process that when we engage in a contract, that those kind of languages are in the procurement process as well as in the execution process? Yes. Yeah. Clearly, there is no favoritism whatsoever. What we're really talking about here are the folks who have demonstrated being the most qualified bidder, folks that we trust, folks that we work with day in and day out for these types of services. So, like I said, those people who are going to call and who are going to come, whether it's care, conditioning, repair, or touring. But when we went through the list, and the list is extensive, I pointed out three random companies. And you actually said all three of those are out to bid because they're a new vendor and that's the process you would go through anyway. So, what you're referring to is a narrow example of people we've worked with in the past that we're trying to continue to work with. But in the event that a contract, potentially a longer term contract comes up or a company moves on, in your discretion, you'll be able to bid these agreements out. And that's how it would work. Yeah. Yes, sir. Yeah. So, you are currently bidding out a number of the contracts that are actually on that list. And we'll typically do that when we don't really know what the competitive bid amount should be. If I may add, Mr. Mayor, and that is, I think Mr. McCarthy has alluded to pre-qualifying. But I think he should probably give a better description of what that is. Because I think that there's an assumption that there is no qualification of these vendors. So, maybe that will help eliminate the comments. Would you care to describe? The pre-qualification process? Thank you, sir. Yes. So, going through a process of bidding, we look at those folks who are qualified to do the work, whatever type of background it is. And even to the extent of once they're hired, how well do they do the job here? So, those folks go through whatever, all those qualifications that are established by the public works department in order to become a pre-qualified vendor, somebody who is capable of doing the repair. Bruce, do you have any other questions? I think, Dana, do you want to... Well, I just want... Well, I just want... The $25,000... Well, let me put this in the form of a question. This is like jeopardy here. What is your... I'm addressing the city manager. What is your limit that you can go ahead and spend without coming back to the council for authority? $25,000, sir. Okay. So, this would match that same authority that he presently has. Is that correct? Yes, sir. Thank you. I mean, this is not... So, it's nothing greater than what is already available to the city manager at this time? No, sir. And I think it's the reason, if I may indulge, the reason the finance department landed or committee landed where it did was for one of those reasons as well. Thank you. Any other questions? Yeah. So, again, I appreciate all that. And, you know, Kevin, I find you very trustworthy. And I know you would never do anything that would be untoward. But for the protection of the residents, what I'm seeing is that there is now $900 and some thousand dollars that formerly was competitively bid that now can be let without any competitive bidding. And I think that's a pretty big number. And what I'm concerned about is not that what your policy is, your unwritten policy or your, you know, what you would generally do, but that there's nothing in writing in the policy to prevent, not you, but maybe your successor or somebody else in public works or somebody to give somebody a contract. Does that mean I have to stop asking? No, sir. I'm terribly sorry. You're out of time. Nea culpa, mea culpa. Let me just turn this off here. So, you know, I mean, I think it's a pretty big deal. I think it's a pretty big deal. I think it's a pretty big deal. I think it's a pretty big deal. I think it's a pretty big deal. I think it's a pretty big deal. I think it's a pretty big deal. I think it's a pretty big deal. I think it's a pretty big deal. 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That's a big I think that's kind of a big number. But is there something you can do administratively without having counsel to come and deliberate and having a new policy or whatever? Can you tweak that administrative policy? Maybe some language that maybe this satisfies you, that in the event it's a new vendor versus a renewal, that we have to send it out to bid? Well, I think the same danger is presented with renewals. Okay. I'm just trying to understand your issue. Okay. The only issue I'm concerned with, I understand, you know, there's pre-qualification, everybody's qualified. But as you go on, people get to know each other and get comfortable with each other. And that's what I see as not just the danger with our city, but with any city. Okay. Mr. Pena? Can I ask you why you want to make this policy change? Well, the initial reason is, is that, first of all, great question. The initial issue is, the issue is, that is facing our, us, is that this, the $5,000 limit has been in place for more than two decades. And the cost of services. And the cost of services. Again, I'm going to stay with something super easy, like this air conditioning repair. easy like this air conditioning repair um has been has just risen over that time and you know we're not a residential home we're a commercial facility so our costs are even larger there's a number of air conditioners so on and so forth so in in the event when we need service got albeit even emergency service from an air conditioner going out or what have you uh those costs are typically more than five thousand dollars and our public works department is being stymied from being able to supply those repairs until they can go through that process of getting those bids and so the idea of increasing this limit is really to recognize that costs have increased over the last 20-year period and that indian the city that's where those services are now kind of landing is that between that uh 10 5 10 up to 25 000 for repairs mr mayor um in line with what the finance director just said um five thousand dollars 20 years ago is not five thousand dollars today if you just take the consumer price index rate of inflation compounded every year for 20 years you're going to get a very very significantly higher number than five thousand dollars some of these contracts are best measured by the construction cost index in terms of inflation and there are years when the construction cost index has been running 10 to 15 percent per year so 25 000 is really five thousand dollars in terms of 20 06 numbers i believe mr are you uh complete sorry wait is was that are you complete mr sanders i am okay uh city manager i was going to add a point on behalf of the public works director she can come up and attest this as well as there's many a times that we have small public works projects let's say repairing a portion of the sidewalk and the vendors are not submitting bids to do so because the insurance costs that they have to incur prior to being accepted to any work or just to be a competitive bidder deters people from submitting bids um so there's been how the worst projects were maybe it's a five thousand or excuse me a ten thousand dollar project they'll spend maybe a thousand dollars on the insurance requirement and yet not bid or not get the project so it's deterring people from actually bidding the projects too okay mr reed as i understand it you can spend up to twenty five thousand dollars on anything that you reasonably believe is in the best interests of the city to do so so i mean this is a this is a non-issue i mean if necessary and presumably you can delegate that to the the one of your subordinates so i mean right now it could it right now this is just an impediment to what what you already have and that is the power to uh to spend up to uh twenty five thousand dollars uh that's why we recommend that we do this bidding sending it out to bid is a time consuming very expensive process and as uh uh as was just discussed uh uh the cost of living is has increased dramatically in the last 20 years so um i would urge an i vote uh on on on the finance committee's recommendation could i just get an answer to the question that i asked so i understand all that i think it's fine is there some way administratively without us re-going over this policy completely with bidding that you can put a little bit of teeth into the into the policy because a million dollars now is is uh is it no bid uh under this new policy is there some kind of teeth that you can put in there administratively to have some greater assurance in writing um that uh that protects us from any favoritism um i i can work with uh our city attorney but yes um to if if what you're asking for is can i craft language that would allow if there was a large discrepancy in the cost um to actually have language in the fiscal procedures manual that would say at some reasonable point our public works department or whomever would uh uh would be required to do i'm going to call them today bids or um quotes get quotes get three quotes for that uh if there's some large change in the price uh yeah that's something we could craft in there and put in that language and i it's something that the public works department would do anyway so i i don't think that's an impediment to them that's the maker of the motion i'll accept that as part of the motion okay okay so we have a motion and amendment to the motion uh i think it's time to vote all those in favor all right all right motion carries go to g13 please g13 is uh the notion of the creation of what i will uh casually call a adult miniature golf course at the uh at the indian wells golf resort that uh is going to replace the shots in the night um and uh we have not only seen these facilities uh that have been already produced in arizona and other cities with much success but uh the only issue i have here is that uh i would like to uh see this uh approved subject to approval of the design of the the city the city council's approval of the design of the actual um uh golf course uh miniature golf course and facility there's going to be a that's a motion second does anybody uh is there any public comment on this particular matter uh anybody have any public comments okay uh now we have a motion to approve subject to approval of design any discussion no clowns or windmills no clowns or windows okay i think we can make that accommodation any other comments i have a question yes i have a question for nick do you have a second yeah okay removing the design component from this is it possible that we could do this and and with without artificial turf um most definitely but i i think especially the way that we're moving in the state of california is moving and the southwestern united states is moving with water conservation moving towards artificial turf is in our favor but does it fit our brand i mean we have world-class agronomy we have world-class golf we have everything world-class and then we're going to have artificial turf for like a pitch and putt it just seems a little out of out of our brand to me yeah most definitely i think um they're just like dr taylor went ahead and said there's a lot of examples in different states in arizona where they're moving towards artificial surfaces and they're going ahead and they're producing a really good product um there is a lot of labor a lot of water a lot of fertilizer there are many components that go into making the shots in the night forces work i think overall it'd be a good investment for the city from our end um you know especially with the labor and inputs that we input into them but that's just my overall opinion in other words as contemplated with artificial turf correct yeah if i can add um i was on the trip to scottsdale when we reviewed some of these facilities and i was talking about clowns and windmills and just um these facilities are really professional um and uh if you took an aerial view it would look like a miniature golf course they're very tastefully done and i think uh they would be a real attribute to the golf resort and when you say miniature golf course it's not red carpeting with windmills but literally like a mini version of the players exactly yeah they're very tasteful you know yeah tiger woods himself he goes ahead and a lot of these courses are designed after where uh you know there's different pop-ups where tiger is designing these certain courses that are considered pop stroke that are very tasteful they provide fun year-round you know i don't have to go ahead and put any inputs into them whether it be water or labor there's no shutdown time if i have to airify them during the summer months or overseed them during the winter months um you know they're open year-round and i think it would be a great attribute overall to the resort and then to the hotel partners as well because they're open year-round for children's and family to go go out and visit so one other consideration um i mean the the fairways on these uh miniature courses are very narrow uh and you have to have a putting surface in order to play them i don't know how you would mow them if they were natural grass it would be a challenge i would think yeah and i mean if they were to stay natural turf they would have to stay putting surface just like we have them currently um but you know some of the design work that they're kind of using currently with different you know water features that are kind of worked in and so they're with the artificial turf uh sand bunkers things like that they're they're very cool very tasteful um i do not think they look you know unprofessional at all in my opinion nick for the people please for the people that are watching on tv could you state your name and your position what you're doing and just indicate that you know what you're talking about most definitely uh nick leitner i'm the director of agronomy over at indian wells golf resort so i deal with grass on a daily basis and i'm a grass nerd so if anybody has any questions i'm here to go ahead and talk and then you know the you know the only other thing is as greg mentioned you know we saw uh there's some brand names associated in some of the existing uh courses putting courses uh architects that have lent their names that can be an attraction certainly from a media perspective etc so i just uh you know would like to understand you know the design nature of this uh and and its marketing applicability because we think we can drive a lot of business with the hotels in the off season and create a family entertainment space uh as well as have a lot of fun with our current existing golfers so there's a motion on the table uh to approve subject to uh approval of design do we have any other discussion is there a second i didn't know yes oh yeah yo my question is well i i wouldn't i hadn't thought about this but if we approve this are we approving artificial turf without any without any other analysis of whether we better to have natural turf we have we've actually been talking about the last couple of years to switch to artificial turf so yes okay so regardless what we would agree to is an artificial turf facility yeah correct that's been our understanding of the law and we'll bring back prior to awarding any bids what the design or the bid project looks like okay and this this supplemental appropriation of eight hundred thousand dollars is for design and construction that is correct so it's the whole the whole ball game correct okay thank you any other questions okay we have a motion on the table all those in favor all right all right passes unanimous okay now we go to uh public hearings and uh the first agenda item is h1 annual levy and engineers report for the indian wells street lighting district uh i believe mr mccarthy you've got the show again thank you uh good afternoon honorable mayor members of city council uh this is uh all part of your regular public hearings to levy the role for the fiscal year uh 26 27 fiscal year um the levies for the public street lighting district are that the street lighting district provides a portion of street lighting for the village area which is adjacent to fred wearing drive and uh warner trail with that staff recommend that the mayor open the public hearing take any public comment close the hearing and simply adopt the resolution approving the levy and the collection of the assessments and with that i'm available for any questions you may have okay any questions that from council on this okay anybody do we have any public comment on this no we open the public hearing yeah we open the public hearing no public comments no public comments okay so close public hearing move adoption second the motion all those in favor aye passes unanimously ronda h2 final annual levy report for landscape and lighting district number 91. mr mccarthy i believe you have the mic uh again good afternoon honorable mayor and members of the city council uh this is to approve the annual levy for the landscape and lighting district number 91-1 which funds maintenance and the operations of 17 landscape and lighting districts within the city of indian wells the total projected cost this year is approximately two million dollars funded through property assessments with no impact to the city's general fund with that the staff recommends that the mayor open the public hearing take any public comment close the hearing and then simply adopt the resolution approving the levy and those collection of those assessments and of course i'm available for any questions you may have sir does anybody up here have any questions okay open the public hearing are there any comments there's no public comments close the public hearing move adoption second the motion we have a first and a second all those in favor aye aye aye passes unanimous page three annual levy and engineers report for the drainage maintenance benefit assessment district number one mr mccarthy you're a popular man today please proceed thank you again mayor and council i'm trying to get through this as expeditiously as possible uh the drainage district is located in the province community and reflects the maintenance costs for nuisance water runoff and retention with that staff recommends that the mayor mayor open the public hearing take any public comment close the public hearing and then again simply adopt the resolution approving the levy and those collection of those assessments and again i am available for any questions you may have does anybody have any questions there's no public questions open the public hearing does anybody have any public comment there are no public comments close the public hearing we have a motion to approve and a second motion those in favor say aye it passes unanimously now we're on to h4 h4 is the ordinance amending title 21 to clarify existing regulations under the golf course overlay zone and ensure general plan consistency and finding the action to be exempt from sequa and sequa guidelines okay community development director berg please present to the staff yes thank you honorable mayor council members john berg community development director for the city of indian wells the item before you is an ordinance that would be repealing the golf course overlay and replacing it with a golf and recreation base zone the impetus for this i'll describe here here you see a an exhibit that shows the existing land use map and zoning map for the city and you can see golf and recreation is called out in the in the legend of that map and it's shown in the darker green areas on the map itself and um the the idea of the golf and recreation zone and how it's been historically developed over time is for allowing both public and private golf courses with clubhouses maintenance yards restrooms snack shacks those types of things that support the golf course and also supportive country club recreational uses which include but not limited to tennis pickleball shuffleboard resort pools and spas etc um the idea is that the areas in green are kind of flexible for both of those uses so um they would be um they would be changed or are newly proposed by um issuance of a cup and a site plan that defines the areas where both of those uses exist overall we've had some challenges with uh the the golf course overlay as it's kind of a phantom nebulous floating um polygon if you will within that green area um and the nature of the overlay within the golf and recreation land use it creates unnecessary confusion and subjectivity um problems with administration as the overlay is delineated on the physical boundaries of the golf course and that could be argued what the physical boundaries of the golf course is rather than a defined zoning geography such as the dark green areas that i showed you so it's hard to interpret and um and it's very subjective in nature there's no clear default development standards and um it's limited in guidance in in what the ancillary and supportive uses are related to the plane of golf and the country club recreational amenities um and also the review authority is dated um it it basically requires city council look at any modifications uh within that zone that are in excess of five thousand dollars and here we've heard that five thousand dollars yesterday is not the same as today and so we've kind of removed that and uh have a more subjective um review process and i'll describe that later i would like to note that in the general plan which is the the land use constitution of the of the the city um it does already call out the uses for golf and recreation and it's highlighted there in the excerpt below that um golf and recreation is intended for the public and private golf courses tennis facilities and other typical country style country club style amenities um and where the general plan is is more broad in its interpretation of what the land uses allowable land uses are that the zoning really doesn't prescribe them or enumerate them in a way that's um consistent so here we are just trying to create some general plan consistency with the with the zoning which is an action item under the general plan action item cd1a directs the city to update its municipal code to ensure zoning designations and are in standards align with the general plan and i would say that the general plan build out table you can see on the bottom did in fact um project build out of over 1300 acres within the golf and recreation zone with golf and recreation uses here we're not proposing to add any additional uses it's all of what historically has been developed and you can walk out and see with your own eyes in the in the country clubs itself as they exist today so what the ordinance does is it as i mentioned repeals the um golf course overlay and um so essentially removing the floating overlay tied to the subjective boundaries of the existing golf course and it establishes a golf and recreation base zone which creates a clear base zone for golf and recreational uses consistent with the city's general plan and the existing land use map it cleans up related chapters so it clarifies and restates definitions of modern golf courses and recreational uses planning areas the review framework and um with conforming edits and cross references within the zoning code to read one as one cohesive update um it's important to note um what the ordinance does not allow and it is not allowing new land uses ancillary supportive uses exist within the golf and recreation zones now as i mentioned and it does not amend the zoning map and does not approve any physical development some highlights of the changes real quickly i'll go over with you um is chapter 2108 it provides definitions of the golf course play area with modern course definitions so here it describes the golf course play areas those areas consisting of the tees the fairways the greens the the bunkers the things that are traditionally associated with a modern golf course it defines golf practice areas to include those uses such as driving ranges putting and chipping areas in sand practice areas those kind of things are golf practice areas and it defines ancillary and supportive uses such as mentioned which does already exist within the golf and recreation zone snack shacks cart barns maintenance facilities and and the like in chapter 2112 it recognizes golf and recreation as the base land use category and updates the land use matrix and overlay text for cross reference accuracy chapter 2114 has been updated to replace outdated golf course references with golf and recreation land use title and restates and the allowance for commercial and recreational uses at the city-owned indian wells golf resort such as shots in the nights and miniature putting chapter 2140 is has been updated to restate the permitted golf ancillary and supportive recreational uses within the golf and recreation zone that reflect existing development within the indian wells gated communities as they currently exist and it confirms in chapter 2123 that development standards apply by default unless preempted by specific planning areas it also continues to prohibit commercial gamified golf themed uses like top golf and miniature golf within the private country clubs and chapter 2148 has been updated to clarify any conforming edits necessary for internal consistency throughout the zoning code and the municipal code itself and preserves existing telecom siting preferences at the clubhouse within gated communities so it basically still keeps the oversight of the city intact the existing tools are easier to read and apply and any discretionary review is required for substantive changes so routine work such as ministerial changes where staff can approve it include like ordinary maintenance in-kind repair so irrigation re-landscaping of areas that have already been landscaped those types of things are still ministerial where um you look at architectural and landscape review you're looking at design or and it changes that are routed through the city's design review committee and it's more design focused on changes to the landscape or the city's design review are building modifications but um anything that was more substantive nature um considering like new use are our major modifications to the the golf course itself or maybe even the clubhouse facilities um including expansion relocation replacement and conversion activities they would be um subject to a cup process which would involve planning commission review and city council review so in sum uh staff is recommending that the council opens the public hearing receives public testimony close the public hearing introduce the first reading of the ordinance and find that the adoption of the proposed ordinance is not subject to the environmental quality act pursuant to section c sequa section 1506 b-3 and i'm available for any questions all right that's uh what a very detailed uh presentation of hundreds of pages here that uh this is uh i'm sure is uh in your mind a much needed update to the the code yes sorry about that thank you for the in-depth proposal and i'm sure in your mind after this many hundred page proposal that it's much needed to update the the codes does anybody have any questions up here i i do mr mayor yes please can you go back to the slide john uh where you have telecommunications uh the uh the uh within the golf course uh in the golf course recreation zone telecommunications facilities can be cited but the preference is at the clubhouse that that's not not just a preference that's the um development standards require that they be cited at the clubhouse or integrated into the clubhouse within the golf and recreation zone if they're going to uh be proposed anywhere outside of that um area it would require a variance okay but uh they they could be cited outside of the clubhouse area somewhere within the golf course recreation golf recreation zone uh yes with the variance with the variance and the findings that come with the variance as well okay um would it be possible for a property owner to propose and have approved a change of zone to golf and recreation for the sole and exclusive purpose of citing a telecommunications facility um under the current ordinance uh that would the capability is there and under the proposed ordinance that capability would be there as well even though even though even though even though there's no golf or recreation amenity within the property that is the subject of the application for rezoning correct uh telecommunication facilities within a gate guarded community that has a clubhouse have the ability to locate a telecommunication facility through conditional use process at the clubhouse facility if they so choose to look at different options because that doesn't fit their need they can certainly look at other areas within the same golf and recreation zone or propose a zone change to um allow the golf and recreation zone to expand into that a parcel that isn't zoned currently golf and recreation but it would require going through a conditional use permit a zone change and a variance and all three of those things have specific findings that the council would have the discretion of of either approving or denying the project so theoretically um a piece of property that is zoned residential could be rezoned to the golf and recreation zone to facilitate the placement of a telecommunications facility again i would affirmatively say that it could happen under the current ordinance and also the proposed ordinance we're not changing that ability okay i um i i've been a big proponent of doing this and you know i'm the one that raised all the concerns about how the golf course overlay zone work but um the the way you've set it up and i appreciate all the work you've done but it just doesn't make sense to me that if a piece of property can i break in this is questions we we're not into discussion yet i'm asking him a question okay all right it doesn't make sense to me that um the city council can change a zone on a piece of property to golf and recreation when there's absolutely no underlying golf and recreation use that's going to be established on that property does that make sense to you i guess that's the impetus for allowing zone changes is to allow a change of the zone to allow a use that currently isn't allowed there to to be okay prohibited but again under the discretion discretionary of the planning commission and city council and obviously the community that's affected i'll have more to say when we get to this you have a question ruse i have a question um is there any way anywhere in this new uh zoning overlay where the word pickleball uh yes certainly we've defined in general terms the um types of uh i guess typical recreational uh country club uses and we looked in interior to what is um currently permitted and developed here in the city and so um not only pickleball but tennis and racketball types of sports okay badminton and those kind of things would be consistent with what we would view as country club recreational type uses so pickleball can uh can be constructed and approved as a conditional use permit in the golf and recreation area now under the new proposed uh overlay is that correct that's correct okay is that new no that's not new because uh if you look at the history of approvals and what has been developed in the country clubs uh pickleball is in four of the country clubs out of the five um so under the as i understood the old overlay the old overlay was stated to be coterminous with the golf course correct that's correct for golf meaning golf overlay yeah the golf overlay which is now the golf it's the same overlay correct same graphically we now are proposing to use a base zone instead of a a phantom floating um hard to define um overlay that that just really didn't really have a uh in in my mind or in planning um it really doesn't have a a purpose other than describing where the golf course exists within the golf and recreation zone we can we do that through site plans and um we do that through conditional use permits so does this new with this new overlay increase the areas where pickleball could be and even onto the golf course now instead of like on the the uh you know the practice areas or the parking lot under this new overlay which is golf and recreation theoretically a pickleball court could be on anywhere in that golf and recreation overlay is that is that correct um it would be under a conditional use permit uh approval process through the planning commission and city council to modify the existing existing conditional use permit to allow uh deviations or modifications to the golf course to um you know allow something else like a recreational use there so much is that a yes or a no that is a yes but i'm describing how okay how it has to go through a process it just doesn't by right say you can you can do this and administratively get it approved through city well like any other conditional use permit it has to go through the process okay but theoretically can i have todd just opine on this just for a moment yeah thank you mayor and council um if the question is will uses be allowed in any new places under the new base zone compared to the existing overlay the answer is no the sole purpose of this change is to clarify what is and is not allowed today the overlay has caused some confusion because of the coterminous language in the past but as john mentioned nothing nothing will change in terms of what's allowed where we're just being more clear about that to avoid confusion over terms like coterminous and the the move from an overlay to a base zone gives us uh creates fewer opportunities for confusion it's more straightforward it's more clear pickleball will be allowed in areas outside of the golf course just like they are today under the overlay and as evidenced by the many occasions in which pickleball has been improved in exactly this situation multiple times so it is consistent with the historical interpretation and application of the overlay that will not change we just have a better better language to achieve the same result and of course in a future amendment the council could as a policy choice decide to change what the rules are but this is really just a more straightforward way to um regulate in the same way and so for to clarify bruce's question is that a yes or a current golf course i lost track of the question a current golf course designation can't just automatically change to pickleball or bocce ball that's correct that would require a planning approval and city council approval etc that's right it would require a cp you you conversely because that's a recreation as defined you also couldn't put in a restaurant on a golf course because that's not consistent with the unless it's a snack shed that's not consistent with the new recreation golf and recreation definition yeah i believe that's correct okay i have a question john um the intent for this 1308 acres am i correct correct correct okay is to redefine the golf overlay is it is there an intent there for in the future for this golf and recreation area to grow to expand because i think that's a really important question and that should be established now yeah i'll let the city attorney opine on that mayor and council that's an excellent question the answer is yes the answer is yes but it's it's no different from the reality today today someone can come in and apply for the golf course overlay to be applied to a new parcel and and the and just like someone after this change if adopted someone can come in and apply for the golf and golf and resort base so recreation recreation thank you golf and recreation base zone it it will be no different anybody can come in and apply for a zone change that goes through a legislative process and the five people up here have a lot of say because findings have to be made is it is it appropriate is it reasonable can we make these findings is it consistent with the general plan so has that act so has this actually changed anything no that's the whole point no this is a clarifying change i guess i guess i would say that it did enumerate more clearly what are typical um golf golf course uses and what an ancillary uses and also what are in definition in the zone code um but those are not changes but they're not changes and that is described generally in the in the general plan but it was not described at all in the zoning ordinance and so here we are just making it more clear and enumerating those uses being consistent and creating yeah consistency yeah are there any other questions from us before i headed out to public comment all right uh you may want to stay there any public comment on this particular matter yes uh we do have a couple people that have raised their hands and i would invite them down for a uh comment please don't forget to state your name and you have you got 30 seconds mayor city council rob bernheimer uh live here in indian wells there is one difference between the golf course overlay and the new golf and recreation zone you're eliminating the coterminous language and i think if it's going to be a golf and recreation zone that makes sense you might want to build a pickleball court that's not coterminous with the golf course so you don't need the coterminous language for that however in your telecommunications ordinance you've kind of broadly said we're okay with a cell tower that's coterminous with the golf course so you're geographically limiting that you're not saying some parcel on the other side of the club can be suitable for a cell tower so by eliminating the coterminous language somebody could come in rezone a remote parcel to golf and recreation for no golf and recreation purpose at all but solely because cell towers happen to be allowed in the golf and recreation zone and that to me seems unfair to people who buy a house next to a vacant parcel thinking it's going to be open space or some other use and now you're saying well we're going to rezone it golf and recreation but we're only doing that because golf and recreation allows for cell towers and this ordinance does change the language in this telecommunications ordinance from the golf course overlay to the golf and recreation so i think adding a provision and and these as we know from the reserve from five years ago these things take years and hundreds of thousands of dollars and a lot of community sentiment i think it could be a positive statement for the council to say we're happy to rezone anything to golf and recreation but it has to be for golf and recreation you can't rezone it to golf and recreation for some other purpose other than golf and recreation recreation and that's a simple amendment to to what you have before you today that you you can apply for a rezoning to golf and recreation but the primary purpose of that should be for golf and recreation and not for some other use thank you for your comment i believe there's one more person that has a comment or no no okay please come on down okay march march of the former mayors uh no we don't we don't talk about those things uh hi how's everybody is that tonight what is the elephant in the room here can you see your douglas hansen is the elephant in the room here uh the uh india wells country club and their desire to create pickleball courts in in the in the club and the issue that we dealt with here a few months ago and how does these changes if someone could will be kind enough to answer the question uh does this allow the indian wells country club to build the pickleball courts that they wanted to build or does it prevent them from building the pickleball courts that they wanted to build mr hansen who are you asking um the the ghost here in the chair uh the uh i'm asking i'm john berg i'm asking john uh who gave the presentation here okay uh the question and that was it just a question i just wanted to know how this proposal is going to affect the indian wells country club thank you and its ability to build uh pickleball courts and i believe if i'm not mistaken uh mr attorney that that answer has been given which is that you just like previously have to come and apply for a new pickleball court where there was a golf course or a parking lot and it does not give any country club let alone indian wells country club the ability to just build a pickleball court uh with this motion being approved today is that correct that's correct there would need to be other legislative approvals thank you or discretionary approvals all right is there any other public comment okay coming back to city council do we have a motion do we have a motion all right i'll move that we for the purpose of discussion uh approve uh as the recommendation uh of uh city staff do i have a second no okay so we have a uh i don't think there is a vote here so we move on to our next agenda i i think it would be um a good idea to explain to the uh planning director some deficiencies not of his making but deficiencies that we perceive that might result in um something coming back to us in the short term well then for the purposes of discussion only i will second promotion so that we can discuss it great so look um uh if you think back to uh the public hearing when we considered pickleball at the uh indian wells golf or indian wells country club um being a land use nerd um having practiced land use law for 49 years um my big problem was much has been articulated by both uh john berg and the city attorney and that is we had this amorphous golf course overlay zone that um prior city councils uh thought could be manipulated like an amoeba in other words um without going through the zone change process the city council could determine uh that the boundaries of the golf course overlay zone could shift magically and um i i tried to point out that the planning and zoning law does not allow that so um for for openers i'm very very very satisfied with the direction this is going and i think john berg has done a great job finally we'll have static boundaries for uh a golf and recreation zone um i voted against the pickleball application at the indian wells country club largely on the basis that in my professional view outside of my role as a city council member uh the the zoning didn't work um and what john berg has done is he has brought back a work product a work product that makes it work so pickleball can be in my view approved at the indian wells country club without the um problem of having a very very vulnerable decision that could be challenged by a resident who uh who uh feels that he or she has been harmed by the presence of pickleball um what bothers me about this particular uh proposal is um it allows somebody to rezone a piece of property to golf and recreation that has absolutely no golf and recreation purpose and i i just think that's inconsistent with what we ought to be doing here you know we're trying to clean up the zoning code and if we're going to clean it up let's do it in a way that makes sense so i think with a few tweaks if we send this back it can come back maybe at the main meeting and it'll be a a better work product hi can i does anybody else have any questions i do uh first of all i i'm wondering if if if uh it would be satisfactory greg if we took out any language out of this zoning change to telecom at all because we do have a separate telecom law that that covers all of this and i don't i don't know that it's really necessary maybe it is john i don't is it really necessary to have the chapter 21.48 section preserves existing telecom citing preferences at the clubhouse when we already have another telecom statute that specifically states the same thing and and so that that's my first question uh thank you uh council member whitman um i would say that the changes to chapter 2148 was just to um strike out references to the golf course overlay and replace them with the golf and recreation zone there was no substantive change other than that it was just to replace the the verbiage if you will and the the same underlying premise of golf and recreation for telecom use exists today as it will continue to exist whether you approve this or deny it i i get it but what my question is is can you just are we protected by the separate telecom statute that defines where a telecom let's say cell tower can go by another statute another zoning statute where we wouldn't have to have anything in this we could just take it out i know it was there before but we could just remove it and still have protections against somebody rezoning their house i don't know if greg intended to do that i don't know if you have a deal in place to no but but you know where where you would just you wouldn't even refer to this statute uh for telecom it would just go directly to the telecom statute is that a reasonable way to resolve this issue of of uh that that greg has properly brought up right so again um the only clarifying um amendments to chapter 2148 was changing the verbiage so we're not changing anything there but we do have to make the verbiage clear so that we're we're talking the same language between different chapters and sections of the code suggesting taking it out altogether and i don't know what that means other than we didn't make it means you just take it out take it out but then we have to change the verbiage of of the golf course overlay versus golf and recreation zone because there's no such thing as a golf course overlay if we approve the ordinance as as it's being proposed but i would also say that under the current ordinance under 2148 anybody could go to the perimeter of the golf course if they wanted to locate a telecom and and say my telecom facility would be better suited in this open space area that's conservation in the mountainside and therefore i want to this parcel i want to change the zone into golf and recreation to facilitate that so it's not just there's unintended consequence here if you think it's just residential the ability to change residential to golf and recreation you you're going to lose the ability to change other land uses to golf and recreation that may be really suitable for uh future telecom uses if we well okay here's the question yeah all right i have another question i don't think we got the right answer to that one but uh my other question is is and i guess i look at this a little bit differently it seems to me that the other our old statute was very clear because it stated that the golf course overlay was coterminous with the golf course itself and therefore recreation purposes would be allowed outside of the golf course overlay other other than golf right that's correct and and so now with this change the entire golf course area including all of the practice areas and everything else they are now in the same golf course and recreation base zone and therefore the way i see this now we're opening up the golf course to uses recreational uses other than golf because i mean i understand you have to go through zoning you have to go but but but still i mean you you are by definition allowing more uses of a golf course if somebody comes in and council wants to approve it i i would i would i guess um reply to that by saying the golf course overlay zone is malleable just as much as um a site plan as of a golf course is and so if somebody wanted to modify their golf course to make a par five into a par three and add um tennis on on the remainder parcel they can certainly do that whether it's a golf course overlay designation or the golf and recreation zone it's a cup process that goes through the planning commission and then ultimately the city council for approval so that that's not changing it hasn't changed anything doesn't change it does not change that right but just read the well it's just yeah you're just redefining golf overlay to golf recreation yeah we're we're restating the allowable static borders exactly and nothing's been excluded nothing's nothing's been excluded nothing's been added i do think mr bernheimer raises an excellent point though about making sure that if we are to designate uh something recreation golf and recreation that it should be golf and recreation and not it is something else like a telecommunication stop so we should take that out maybe that could be a motion excuse me mr uh city count city attorney not a city councilman um but uh i just want to i don't know if it helps the conversation at all but that if someone were to try and in mr bernheimer's scenario if someone were to try to uh apply either the golf course overlay or the golf resort base zone golf recreation golf thank you i keep doing that um the golf and recreation base zone uh to a parcel it would be a legislative approval you would get to consider whether that change of zone is appropriate if it's consistent with the purpose of the general plan with the purpose of the zone and a big part of that conversation i'm sure would be what golf and recreation will there be and if the answer is none just a cell tower you would be well within your rights to say go pound sand so a lot of maybe maybe not i i mean i mean i don't know if you do agree with me mr sanders but i do think that there is that level of safeguard built into the process um if you want something more expressed we'd certainly be happy to work with staff to bring something back for your recommendation i i think that would be a good idea i mean not not only um would you have a use a telecommunications use in this case that is really inconsistent with all of the other other kinds of uses that go along with the golf and recreation zone but once the zone change is made and the telecommunications facility is approved then the residents might be subject to applications for tennis swimming pools pickleball courts etc etc all of those uses that go with the golf and recreation zone travel with the zone change to the site that may be inconsistent with a whole lot of the surrounding uses okay so that's the problem i guess the question is do you have a particular uh is is the issue is the the telecommunications issue or is it broader well it it's just as i articulated it it's it's broader i i just don't think we ought to be uh even considering isolated golf and recreation uses unless there's some sort of a master plan or something that makes it all makes sense okay this is an invitation to ad hoc kind of zoning that has frankly destroyed a lot of communities okay so are you suggesting that we uh that this group go back and address the issue of uh i guess non-contiguous uh zoning of that's one of the issues yes and is there any other issue that you can give them direction to so they can come back with this in a month or two uh i i think we've laid it out pretty well here okay telecommunications and non-contiguous i would i would just ask that um well i guess i should state that the the parcel that's of concern uh to mr bernheimer is contiguous with uh the golf and recreation zone and it was actually master planned as golf and recreation from the beginning of the conception of the and i have i have a documentation that i could show you that but this it by using the word contiguous this could be argued that it is contiguous because it does parcel does touch the golf and recreation zone of course overlay john i suggest that we use language instead of contiguous next to and instead of coterminous the same boundaries so that we have a plain english understanding we don't have arguments endlessly over what they mean thank you mr mayor yeah i may suggest please in order to expedite this discussion perhaps one or two council members can serve actually two council members could serve on an ad hoc to help with provide some direction for both to go back to the planning commission if necessary and bring back here to the city council at a later date sure okay so let's do that you want to appoint them now and yes then we'll move on yes greg can we also take a break yes greg ad hoc committee please and i do you want to or or brian okay bruce greg ad hoc committee that uh so do we need to vote on the ad hoc committee yes yes yes so i vote yes yes yes all those in favor all those in favor okay so we have an ad hoc committee to review the language now now to close the loop on this i move we table item h8 h4 h4 no yes h4 to a later date to a later date okay all those in favor hi all right we've i've been asked uh vociferously for a 10 minute break a bio break we'll be back at 3 40. no thank you here we go part two council city council meeting april 16th 3 40 p.m we got to the letter i pretty exciting all right warp speed i won review of resident 14 day tea time booking policy at indian wells i believe you have the floor thank you good afternoon honorable mayor members of the city council uh this is our third review of the uh resident tea time booking policy at the indian wells golf resort as you know we started this in september of 2025 and we met and we met again in january of 2026 during that discussion the council came out with asking staff to evaluate the equity for the current 14 day booking policy and this to see if there was any gaming going on and they'll also determine if there were any modifications to be made now i know you've read my staff report we did a exhaustive amount of research with the trune team and the overall the 14 bay booking system works perfectly well all the residents as you can see by the bullet points there have equal access to the booking window the same release time the same reservation process so on and so forth staff is recommending that we make two recommendations today first is to move to an online booking system currently there are three ways to book tea times online is the one that has the largest uh number of folks but we also have uh folks doing it in person typically around 5 50 in the morning every morning and we also have uh done via telephonically and the issue becomes even though that we saw no evidence of any kind of gaming there is a perception that if we bring a bag of donuts at 5 50 in the morning maybe we'll get a preferred time this this recommendation simply eliminates all of that um all of the online booking uh also is uh uh electronic so it's time stamped and it's very consistent one thing i'd mention is under the effect i highlighted it in bold for you is that since september uh several council members have said uh that residents have approached them and said that the 16 6 a.m booking time period is ridiculous i'm not getting up that early to do that we've heard those comments and intended consequence of going to online booking only would be that the city council could have the opportunity to change the daily booking time from 6 a.m to whatever they wanted whether it was 9 a.m or noon or 7 p.m in the evening what have you with that our second recommendation thank you our second recommendation is that and and as ludicrous as this sounds is to limit our residents to only booking one time per day um and uh we do see this it's not extensive but it does happen uh from time to time where the same resident will book multiple times during a single day uh the elimination of this uh looks at maintaining additional availability for those residents it's something that we can implement and that's something that we recommend so the context then becomes if the system is working well what's going on and one of the things that the city council asked us to do is produce a usage context report now there's two reports two um attachments in your staff report today that talk about it but essentially we have a very small amount of residents consuming a majority of those t times and uh just looking at that first bullet point um the top 13 percent of residents in those protected hours are consuming about 51 percent of the time so then the context of discussion shifts it shifts from being is the system working well yes it is to a policy discussion by the city council looking at access and since september the city council has approached staff with a number of options to us consider i will lay those out for you today they are laid out in the staff report as well and looking at that uh council option number one council option number one places limitations on the number of times that residents can book during that protected period that 14 day window of 7 a.m through 12 50 p.m right and the idea there with that limitation is to allow expand resident access to actually more residents that can play during the protected period now it doesn't permit or prohibit high use residents residents who use the golf courts on a regular basis it doesn't permit them prevent them from booking it just changes that from 14 days to that 72 hour time frame where all the key times open up uh for everybody option two is a resident only protected hours uh whether it's 7 a.m to 12 50 p.m or 8 a.m to 10 a.m that's part of your discussion but what this tries to do is limit for those protected hours whether it's seven days a week or four whatever you decide you'd like to do it limits those folks who can per se so no guests for instance during these periods limited to only residents being able to play during those uh protected tee times option three is a variant of option one and rather than going from 14 days limitation all the way to when the tee sheet opens up at 72 hours it places a limit from 14 days to seven days and at that point it opens up so all those high cichlid rate high end users of the golf course then can get all of the tee times that are available at seven days out and the idea here with this option is it tries to balance early access with broader resident participation to the extent they'll consume them and then at that seven day window whomever else is on the t-sheet uh who all the other residents uh can fill the t-sheet option four is the first one that adds a tiered booking program now don't get hung up on the numbers they can change however you like but this is the one that really establishes the first 30-day window where the idea here is is that residents would pay a premium to be able to book out 30 days on the golf course right so you have those high-end high cichlid rate users who are kind of at that 14-day window what i'm imagining as part of that council member discussion was booking at 30 days would be as me as a resident maybe over the holiday period i'm having my family come in that's the only time they're come in uh from college or what have you and i end up use paying a little bit of a premium to be able to secure a 30-day booking time for them to be able to play again this kind of distributes the tea time utilization to that period uh the last option uh council option number five creates a secondary golf card um i call this for me i'm just myself i'm calling it kind of the concierge policy that extends the booking window for example it could be up to 30 days or even more and under this plan it would guarantee one tea time of up to four players and it would also be concierge in the sense that direct booking uh through the golf shop and that residents would pay a fee whether it's 200 or 300 for each guaranteed time so if they wanted a guaranteed tea time one time under this plan it would be say for example 200 if they wanted to guarantee two separate tea times up to four players each it would be 400 and and so on and so forth um the nice part of this is it adds additional uh access as an additional option and it also maintains the existing system that we have now so those are the five uh council member options uh mr mayor before i sign off um i would please recommend that we uh adopt staff's recommendation of those two options i previously mentioned and of course i'm available for any questions you have senior management is with me and as you've seen earlier we have a senior uh operations management from trune who is available to answer any of those technical questions if you have them with that thank you mr mayor i'll turn it back over to you sir does anybody have any questions um i do uh but there may not be an answer to it um when the 14-day advance booking was decided upon by the city council was there any magic to 14 days or is that a time period that was pulled right out of the air council member sanders uh i i am not aware of anything specific about the 14-day date i i do have my colleagues here if anyone knows please come up i it's a very good question sir i i thought there would probably be no institution so you've been around for a long time do you know you want to come up good afternoon i'm honored will may have been seen uh joe williams director of golf at the indian walls golf resort um the 14 days was implemented i want to say over 20 years ago when play at the golf course wasn't as impacted and when we decided to do away with what was called the old 10 play card and create the resident guest fee structure that was when the policy changed to 14 days but where did the 14 days come from who knows yeah yeah it's probably a console decision at that point yeah and i have another question for you while you're up there so i believe the 6 a.m time frame that's been established was because it was earlier in the day or first top of the day let's put it that way when the course was less or when the activity at the club was less in the golf shop pro shop etc which allowed for more handling of phone calls you're correct it actually was at midnight on 14 days in advance and it was requested to change to 6 a.m so that it'd be more opportunities for residents also where our call center at the time which is located in chicago before we're open is more staffed than they were at midnight which was 2 a.m in chicago all right so got it does anybody have any questions same question i mean at that time when you made the uh 6 a.m time you were filling out a t-sheet by hand weren't you not at that point not at that point you're doing it online that was once we had gone to a digital t-sheet which has been quite a while it's probably been 20 plus years as well um no it was not not at that point we weren't hungry anybody else have any questions before we send it out to public comment okay let's thank you very much joe uh public comment does anybody have any comments yes we have several so we'll start off with a byron piero followed by dan wimsat byron come on up don't forget to state your name mr mayor city council ladies and gentlemen uh i've been a resident of the desert for quite some time about 30 years and i've been a resident of palm desert played desert willow laquita where i played silver rock and then here at indian wells it was here uh before the clubhouse was built so been around for a while i don't play golf as much as i used to but the bottom line is when i saw how exquisite a property it was and how terrific the building was how nice the staff was i said this is home now i thought this was the best deal in the desert by a long ways 35 to play world class which i would consider a world class situation was beyond my wildest dreams and i remember in the earlier days there used to be a gang some of guys it would a little easier to get tea times there and maybe 16 or 20 of us would grout and play and have a great time but that's when things were lighter on the schedule yes it got busy but nothing like we see now so i think it's interesting that according to my numbers about 82 percent of the people who buy a golf card you would think would be interested in playing golf but um they play less than five rounds a year and that is a problem so i like the online um preservation system because i think it eliminates the confusion for the pro shop and for the phone calls were coming in gives everybody equal access so i think that's a really good idea the other thing that i think is a good idea is limiting the number of reservations you can make in a day because somehow um 50 percent was going to a very small five percent of the of the players were getting 50 percent of the t times so your reservation system and and your access isn't the problem it's availability of t times is the problem so we have to fix that somehow and i think that that if they could cherry pick and load up a bunch of things by the time you got to 601 there wasn't any times available for that day so we need to fix that problem um and i thought you did a great job of explaining how few people take up so much time of the course the other thing is if this was a great deal 20 years ago at 35 dollars it's incredibly a good deal now so i used to go to keatties 20 years ago a cup of coffee cost 50 cents today it's four dollars and 15 cents so if the if the costs of coffee have gone up that much how can this how can the city uh be allowed to sell those 35 those one third of those things at such a low price i really think that needs to be adjusted and i think that we need to get back to a cost structure that actually helps a golf course get enough income in to to give it the kind of care that it needs to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee and to be able to get back to a cost of coffee my name is Dan Wimsatt I've been a resident for eight months and Annie Wells Golf Resort is our home course now for four years I was the one lone soul in January who stood up and said I think that potentially we could improve the status quo and I feel that today I want to talk about the three there's three problems I think it was it's not access as the last speaker said it's availability I think that the the discount off of rack rates has gotten quite a bit more than it was in the past and unfortunately the unintended consequence of that is we're taking a reputational hit on the players course has nothing to do with Nick or Joe but you can go through the you know the post play surveys both from the outside players as well as our own residents and part of that is a result of the 35-50 dollar policy that city council has had for years I just want to cut and since I don't have a lot of time I want to go to solution number four suggestion number four and this is as much for the the people that I respect my fellow residents behind me that's take a look at four because it's not really it's a pretty interesting thing I think uh let's start with the three day window or it's the three windows the 30-day window if you think about it can I get 10 more seconds yes thank you thanks sure better for us so you know I think a lot of people in the room and perhaps some of you we still hear the issue is there a problem with getting tea times I have a lot of friends that have said I have no problem getting a tea time take a look at this 30-day booking window just think about it for a minute if there is no problem getting a tea time nobody will ever use the 30-day window right why would you pay 100 bucks if you never had to it's an important I don't know if it'll be 10 percent nothing but I think the idea you'll never have a resident go I can't get a tea time unless the 30-day bookings all fill up but I don't think they will the second thing I want to talk about perhaps most importantly is that daily walk-up it's actually no longer a daily walk-up it's a three-day now as we all know and probably the best thing that's happened and my hats off to whoever did you guys did that before waiting it's a big deal uh and I think Joe can talk to that last Friday six days ago I think I think you had what 100 residents playing on Friday morning all with you know most of them with the three-day walk-up uh Palm Palm uh Desert yeah Palm Desert has a hundred thousand rounds 20 000 of the rounds of resident rounds with three days so it it can be done and just the the kind of the final thing in there you can match this there is what is the annual rate there is what about the guest rate if you manage this properly you could have a guest rate for family there's a lot of things that you could do with this structure so I hope you'll consider it thank you very much thank you uh and just as a follow-up question to that Joe um I believe the walk-up rate meaning the day of is 35 but three days out is still 50. thank you yeah yeah fine just as a point of clarification is there a next next person yes we have martin lax followed by eric johnson uh back again mr mayor vice mayor i should say mayor pro tem excuse me council members staff um so please state your name again apologies sorry please state your name again oh sure martin lax um the question hasn't really been answered i don't think is uh are residents not getting access uh i i don't hear that big a problem so why are we messing it with it i'm opposed to new restrictions or penalties on resident play for example if you have to cancel your time why are we being penalized we shouldn't be things happen in life and believe me someone will pick up the spot so why why are you going to do that if someone abuses that then fine if they're making reservations and just to cancel them sure then they should be spoken to so that's what should be considered um that's pretty much it uh i just think that there was one more thing allowing someone to pay more to get a time as opposed to another resident who may not be able to afford it is should not have and the reason you see so much walk-up play or last-minute play is because they don't want to pay the higher price so not everyone is going to be a multimillionaire in this town i know that we have that reputation and we all have almost a million dollar houses if not more but some of us are on fixed incomes and so this is the recreation that we have and this golf course represents our recreation as opposed to other cities who have an amazing amount of recreation last point when i raised my three children in this town i was told that the golf course is our park that was what we sacrificed not having those amenities so i think asking someone to pay more just because they can afford it and not afford it that should not be a part of it thank you thank you is there another tom oh here we go my next hi um mayor and council members my name is eric johnson uh home here in indian wells uh thanks again for uh the resident rate uh program and it's uh i'm fully in support of it and that's really i'm what i'm here to say is i support it that my comment about all this is i'm not entirely certain i can't if i can't quite figure out what the problem is that you're trying to solve although i can imagine what it might be i think the recent change to the 72-hour cancellation seems to make sense for those people that are planning to come 14 days out so they book a tea time but plans change and so you don't make it i think it helps the availability to require three days advance so that people can book it maybe that's all understood but i'm i'm gaining an understanding of that and again when i look at this program here it occurs to me that it's the cancellation policy that is the cure if i book 30 days in advance that may be fine but if i can cancel uh once again you've just blocked the tea time unless unless you cancel well enough in advance so i'm not sure if i can figure it out but i just worry about unintended consequences more than anything sure thank you for your comments are there any other comments that's it anybody else have any more comments okay back to council all right gentlemen uh may i suggest that we uh maybe break this into two one would be to vote on the recommendations uh by staff for fine-tuning the current booking process all online no phone calls uh one booking tea time per day uh those are the two recommendations and uh then we can have a discussion about uh fairness and availability of tea times do you agree with me or would you like to can i make the motion yes uh for discussion purposes i move that we accept the uh recommendation of our staff uh with two provisos one is that um as i understand it kevin the the one time a day is during the protected period if somebody wants to book at seven o'clock and two o'clock that would not be limited is that correct that's correct sir okay so this is only one time during seven to one okay the other thing is is if we go to all online booking there's two things that i think we have to do and and that i would propose that we do one is we have to improve the website because it's it's it's not that easy to use and secondly we have to uh train or offer offer offer training or offer people who may not be that adept on on on the internet or on going to websites and it's a little bit difficult to do the tea time online and then we have older people who don't really use uh internet all the time that we have some pretty good training if we do that um and so the people everybody knows how to use it and if they don't if they don't if they don't if they if they can't there's a place online for them to find it there's a training online so that would be my motion um i'll second the motion uh if the maker of the motion would consider uh a discussion uh about uh the deadline for booking rather than 6 a.m some other time of the day absolutely okay second in motion okay uh there's a discussion does anybody have any thoughts on this i do um so if if you're limited if if you're one resident is limited to a reservation for a foursome and mind you i'm not a golfer i know just enough to be dangerous if they have another group where you have two foursomes and they want to play how are they going to achieve that if only one if you can only make one reservation so in other words you're suggesting you're saying that uh well within somebody else if there are eight people playing golf right one person in group a can make a reservation and one person in group b can make a reservation and then they can book two contiguous times or close to contiguous right but they're not going to be guaranteed to play together because they if in theory i suppose that would be accurate yeah i'm just throwing out what what possibly could go wrong here yeah yep that that would be a potential consequence so that is you know that is a concern um we don't want to limit our resident benefit to the golf course to our residents i mean this is this is our the crux of our community this is why people move here so we really need to be mindful about the changes that we make and how fast we make them because the unattended consequences can come like a deluge so this needs to be done very thoughtfully i wonder if if we could um allow one person to make two t times if there's a family in town or something like that would that solve it or um one guy gets through and he gets eight of the uh eight eight t times two foursomes that's eight t times eight individual t or eight individual what that's what's happening is it i have a question is that happening now that's a good one can can can i go on my phone if it's available and and book two foursomes on my resident benefit card yes do i have to tell and i've never done this do i have to divulge who's going with me who's who's playing yes yes this was part of our recommendation as to why to go to as kevin had mentioned the booking as online okay because most of those situations are call in or in person okay and then when you do stay there when when you do so if i book the eight t times and i put in who's going who's playing um and then we shall show up and there's only two of the names on there that were originated on that then what happens if they are residents with a valid card we'll simply change the name and the time has been prepaid if they are not residents we will up the charge to the 110 resident guest fee and charge the maker an extra 60 per person okay thank you are they limited to two can somebody come in and get all 88 at one time in theory they could 96 is it 96 or 88 96 12 times per day per course which is 12 48 times two 96 96 okay fine thank you okay so do we have any other questions i mean i i think what what brian is asking is how often does that happen is that just an occasion where somebody's a family is in for thanksgiving or is this something that no that happens frequently it happens frequently okay well that's not good as one of the speakers mentioned earlier we had no restrictions and we had a golfing group that would book up to four or five foursomes and they'd have 16 to 20 residents play in that group um once since that has changed obviously a lot of folks have gone we still do have you know like six or eight guys that want to play together and they will do that okay stay there joe okay so how did this escape your your survey i mean were you aware of this that somebody could come in and take all 96 things that one with one call uh yeah that we are aware of the restriction that we're talking about isn't what's being addressed right now so the restriction we're talking about is having the same person kevin mccarthy uh reserve a tea time at eight in the morning for example and at 10 in the morning um that's what we're talking about with the doubling or removing folks who are booking twice per day for themselves for themselves so this issue however often that happens is not what staff is addressing so in other words you would not prevent just for clarity you would not the system would not prevent if an individual called and said i want to have three foursomes and listed all the names when they made the booking right uh and everybody's unique in that there are 12 different people listed the system would still accommodate that according to your recommendation correct got it thank you so that's the answer your question thank you it allows you to do what you wanted so you still can okay book two fours now explain to me how this is how this looks when you have online uh scheduling for tea times and but yet you're still allowing someone to walk up at 6 a.m to play and and this is go ahead and and then let's just say you can't let's just say the internet's having an issue or the or the platform is crashing or whatever and you can't call so now what happens so we haven't had that issue in the past but by the situation which is what promoted us to or kind of sent us to the direction of online booking is because things have gotten so busy the other day i walked into the golf shop at 555 and there were seven people waiting in line to book a tea time i only have two agents at the desk so they're going to start at 6 a.m helping the first two individuals in line and then you have five people behind them by the time they finish those first two reservations there's a pretty good chance that the majority of the tea times would be the online booking would fix that correct but and the other issue if i would mr penna sure is there was a perception that there could be favoritism maybe you're fifth in line hey i'm here can you block me the nine o'clock tea time there was also a perception that people were bringing in gifts or goodies to get that preference from the staff and i as much as they haven't done anything like that i don't want them to be in the crosshairs and be something that can compromise the system so how do you police let's just say hypothetically it's all online there's no you can't call it's online you still have the walk up and i would i would be great with a one day walk up right being able to come in but but how do you police it that issue or that situation when you have a bunch of people walking up saying well we still want to play because you're still allowing that that that face to face with with the golfer correct so you mean like if there were seven people in line right or fifth and they come up there will most likely still be tea times they just not might not be their desired tea time which is kind of what we're facing with some of this i know there's a lot of people that say they cannot get tea times and i don't know that that's true they cannot get the tea time that they're desiring meaning we have plenty of room after the protected times at one o'clock many of the days so there is opportunity to get tea times and at that same light they just have to be flexible in their scheduling as far as you know others that are hey too many people are playing too many times well what if i have an individual who plays at 6 30 every morning is that a desired tea time for the residents or at seven a lot of folks are going to say i don't want to play at seven in the morning it's cold and it's too early i want to play at 10. well there's a finite number of tea times that are available and i don't sell a ton of 6 30 to 7 o'clock tea times to our hotel guests nor are off the street folks that are paying 250 to 300 per round okay last question so the the the current issue that we face today does it rise to the level to make any changes well that's a policy decision well i'm i'm asking him because he's and he's he's the one taking the reservations and well let me rephrase it then um are you seeing are you seeing issue are there issues there that you would that if you could if well this is let me let me kind of stop you the question that came about on january 15th is is the system fair and in my opinion the system is fair okay then you answered my question that's a policy decision that's not that's i appreciate your your professionalism and i love the way you're running the show but that is a policy decision that really isn't isn't fair okay or responsible for you to to make that opinion i only kind of went off of what kevin put on that first slide which was basically here's what we had found okay so but thank you but thank you for giving him the latitude because i don't play golf yeah so i'm trying to educate myself up here instead of being in his at the golf understood and maybe i have a question hold on let me just let me clarify it just something that's been said here right so we are dealing the whole purpose of this endeavor is equitable access and i believe what you're referring to when you say do you believe there's equitable access the answer is yes and i believe the recommendation of the staff is equitable access with some small changes that would make it more interesting including potentially a later time at 6 a.m which tends to be one of the lead complaints we get from people who are casual users the the and then the other issue is fairness now fairness is policy right and it's where i think dana uh is correct and and we can talk about that in a minute dana you had a question yes sir uh if somebody gets on the phone and wants to book 12 people how many of those 12 people have to be residents at least three okay so one per force right okay but the rest can be guests non-residents yes sir and pay the non-resident right or pay no money's not money's not the issue right so so of the 12 seats or whatever we're calling them that are reserved for residents really only three of them are reserved for residents in that situation in that situation thank you very much does anybody else have any questions i i i do please make uh you'll all have to indulge me because when it comes to technology i do email you know that's about it uh so so uh i'm uh really kind of even doing that yeah one step ahead so um i have a mental image of what's going on inside the computer that is taking the online reservations and my mental image is there's there's a yeah my son yeah the hamster on a wheel um there's a frenzy at six in the morning is that accurate i would say the majority of our tea times for the resident slots are booked between 6 a.m and 6 05. so there's a frenzy i think that what what occurs when you have one of the greatest deals in the world of golf today yeah uh uh no kidding so um if if i'm trying to book uh let's say uh three foursomes and um the tea times are filling up are they filling up as i'm typing in the names for sure so you better be a damn good typist uh and very fast at it i think the quicker you are the better your opportunity okay that um because if you wait till 602 you're gonna have lost some inventory yeah i have a question thank you so can you can you sit on your laptop computer phone whatever and at 555 and get that ready to go just where you hit the button and boom you're you just took up you just took up whatever you took up as many spots as you wanted to maybe no you can't select the slots you can only queue in your information you're but so but you can't the slots will not come available until 600 okay gotcha so you no no but you can right you i'm saying 59 you can enter your name right and then at six and then at six six six o'clock one second you enter then you can that's my point then you can get those those yes okay but you have to have three resident benefit cards to get anything okay makes sense okay so at six in the morning unless i've had about four cups of coffee and uh have been awake for at least an hour uh i mean i'm kind of uh at a severe disadvantage if i'm trying to make a tea time and i i uh it just gets to the issue of whether 6 a.m is appropriate yeah and so i did some studies obviously from the other neighboring golf courses and things like that and the one that was something that kevin has brought up is we can change that um desert willow which offers their residents a three-day booking window is actually a three and a half day booking window they allow the t sheet to open at 7 p.m three and a half days in advance we can do something like that yeah um silver rock is shooting i want to say they're 5 a.m i don't remember with the conversation i had with randy there oh my but they're a very similar situation to us wow well there's an idea 3 a.m let's start the booking at 3 a.m 14 days uh no sir what are they desert willow is three and a half days silver rock is three days all right so are there any other questions so we have discussion right it's not for questions we have this is discussion okay so is there's a motion on the table yeah let me repeat the motion okay that we accept the recommendation uh that we have online only that we have a training for people how to use the online owning that we improve the website so it's easier to maneuver so it doesn't rely just on whose fingers are the fastest if we can do that and that we change the time from 6 a.m to something more reasonable i think that's and that and that's is that it well that's what your that's what your motion is yeah that's the motion and well what time are you proposing uh should we suggest 8 a.m as a place to start because we can always change it sure 8 a.m seems reasonable okay um and that we're not changing anything else at this time at this time on this motion but we are and i am moving those things to be changes but let me discuss also yeah i would also like to suggest that if you're going to do that you move the three-day window where the available tea times come come available the unsold tea times come available at 6 a.m to be consistent you might want to do that to 8 a.m as well okay the three-day window when they open up from the hotels would be also be 8 a.m okay and nothing else under this motion gets changed it's been second but but i do have a few things other you want to vote he wants to have you going to add anything more on this particular motion because i would like to vote on this no bifurcated yeah we bifurcate okay so that motion that's been seconded yes all the question all right all those in favor hi hi hi the motion passes unanimously okay second part of this conversation is the idea of door a b c or d or one two three four five would you like to i believe you have comments on that which uh council option one two three four five i do okay dana has been uh asked my colleague dana has been asking for a review of this on the basis of equity for a long time and i was very skeptical in the past but um i've looked at this myself now and listened to others and i do think there's a problem um and the problem is that at 6 a.m or now it's going to be 8 a.m uh that there's by five minutes later um all of the protect all 96 of the protected t times or a large percentage of those are gone and um and so there's a lot of demand for those 96 t times the the so the problem i think is stated but analogy to law you can state a problem but you have to have a cause proven before you can get a remedy and the problem i think that we have here is is that even though trune and and our staff have worked hard and they've come up with with various remedies we still don't know what the causation of the problem is we have we we don't know is it 10 people that are taking all the t times is the fact that um that the top 13 get 51 of the t time 51 of the t times is that why it's hard to get the t times why is it hard is it just because we have too many people and too few t times i don't think we can solve that by any of these options um so so i think we've we've gone we've skipped a step we've stated a problem we've asked for equity we've we're stating some some optional remedies but nobody has shown the cause of that problem with any certainty yet and i think it's very easy to prove that cause but you have to do it mathematically and you have to do it with the people that are getting those t times and who are being refused those t times and i have two suggestions there one is the trune go back and tell us who's booking those t times how many t times are they getting on a daily basis are are they during the protected period and and are is that preventing other people from getting t times in the protected period are there 96 people 96 t times being taken by 10 or 13 of the people that prevent other people from getting protected t times don't don't we have those numbers we have the numbers but we haven't we haven't done the math to show that those are the people that are protecting those oh you think it's maybe different what's the nexus yeah what's the nexus so the other thing is and i got this from talking to my son last night about this why not use ai why can't we use ai on this seems like a great issue for ai we've we've got the data but it takes a mathematical formula to figure out what the problem is and it seems to me that this is perfect for ai now i can't do it but my son thinks that it's it's okay it would be easy to do so are those that your two points at the moment um so uh yeah so so that's what i'm saying we don't we don't have the nexus can i have a question for joe on this subject so uh you know there's a very famous story of a german uh physicist who came to new york during world war ii and uh was asked to analyze how to improve the airplanes uh because uh you know people were dying planes were getting crashed and everybody was looking at the planes that came back and he pointed out you're looking at the wrong data the planes that don't come back so the the fact that there are terrors in the wings and the planes are landing wrong data we got to fortify the rest of the plane because the wings will be able to fly so in this particular instance really the question is about the data how do we have an idea of how many people log in try and make a tea time and drop off yeah and do not okay that's that's because this question has been asked and we've gone down this road but currently we don't have that data so we don't have the ability to analyze this data always excuse me one second what we do have is a lot of hearsay from not hearsay people walking up to us me included you and people you've tried to get tea times for foursomes you can't so you drop off i do too i have the ability to play a different golf course so i don't play here but but a lot of people don't have that ability now so the so you were going to make a comment i forgot okay does anybody have any questions for joe while he's up no uh just uh um uh picking up on a uh comment that that joe made and it gets to your point um council member whitman um i mean the the real crux of the problem is uh we just don't have enough preferred tea times to satisfy the demand that's readily apparent to me and uh so you ask yourself why well it's the best deal going and so um you know um unfortunately uh we have a tea sheet that divides the times into three parts and um you know we we have to live with that um and we certainly don't want to take uh tea times away from the public because the revenues that we produce from those tea times is what really feeds the golf course in terms of the finances uh so we can't sacrifice those so we're we're stuck with a classic adam smith supply and demand situation and you know what if it was adam smith you know several hundred years ago what he would say is you just charge more money you know uh uh but uh there doesn't seem to be the sentiment uh to do that so we're at 35 off season 50 during season for tea times that are worth 200 to 350 and that's that's the problem and you know i i think one way of addressing that if i may if you because you make a good point is proposal number four and and i think it's something we should try for a season and we can always pull it back it does not change anything uh it allows for a 35 day walk up i mean day you know day day of rate a 50 14 day rate and then i would add a 75 21 day rate and a hundred dollar 30 30 day or 31 day rate to see if that would encourage more people to book tea times that are residents of indian wells who are trying to get a foursome on a weekend in a prime slot because that goes exactly to what you're trying to uh talk about here and we've had several proposals of uh you know residents come in who are golfers that that have um suggested increasing the tee times the the prices on the 14 day on the walk day well you know we we've heard from a lot of residents that um they're they're concerned about the the current rates but i think we're not here to change the rates today as is the 35 and the 50 but i would advocate that we try a 21 and 30 day uh time of 75 and 100 for a year we can always pull it back can can i add one thing to that i don't think that that's a bad suggestion but there is a loophole to that you may want to make those t times non-cancelable there you go um because there will be times where people cancel and then have to get lower rate correct so you make them non-cancel you say non-cancelable what you mean is you just forfeit your money yes if you don't show up correct okay are you forfeiting are you forfeiting the green fee and the hundred dollars no the green fee is a hundred dollars that's what that is okay so you'd book at a hundred dollars so if you have a foursome that's four hundred dollars put your credit card in and boom that's it you've got to show up okay so if we if equity is the issue i can't think of anything less equitable more inequitable then than allowing people to buy their way onto the golf course with more money totally agree mr mr mr yes it's it's it's my turn yet yeah please all right i first of all i i totally agree with you i can't imagine our being able to charge a hundred dollars never mind doesn't matter there are 96 slots a day which come out to about 2800 slots a month and we have what 2500 people who have golf who paid 50 a year for golf units so the numbers are 1200 used exactly but so we've got 2500 people that want to play golf and we have around 2800 available slots the the most equitable easiest simplest way of handling this is to let everybody with whether you have a 30-day booking or a 14-day booking it doesn't matter as long as as as or or a three-day booking as apparently as in in in the our our two neighboring cities it doesn't matter every single person gets one spot a month period uh and that's it and unless unless there are plenty that are left over at the at the at the last three days if if if if if the people have not used them and three days before they're still available then fine it's completely open along with all of the other ones that are open from the from the hotels but but the idea of somebody being able to take three four five bites of the apple means that there are three four five people that can't but take the bite of the apple because there are a finite number of of of apples and and and it is it is so it's just it's it's like if there are tickets or whatever you everyone gets one uh until until until until everyone who wants one gets one and then if somebody if there are any left over at the end fine then you can get two three or four got it and they are residents only no guests this is a this is our private golf club for the residents it's not this is not a the the the 96 seats slots are not public slots they are for the residents and for somebody to be able to come in and get 12 spots and only have three residents that totally destroys the whole idea of of what's best for the residents and so it's it's really simple we have to limit on a monthly basis the number of times that people can use their 30 50 rate um uh except for the last three days and if whatever's left over then they then that's it's freewheeling mr mayor can i respond yes please the problem with that is we have 2 600 people 2 700 maybe who buy a golf card for 50 if they want to play one time that year they have benefited they have had a resident benefit of 200 for playing that one time and we don't have the data of knowing whether they want to play more than one time but they're getting a great deal anyway to just play one time so you're assuming that everybody who buys a golf card wants to play once a month no there's no evidence of i'm not assuming that at all i'm saying if they i'm saying if they don't use it then the last three days it's open to any other resident no but we're talking about policy here we're talking about an equity argument your your your policy your decision that people can only have a limited number of tea times at the resident rate assumes that there is are a lot of people who want those tea times because they bought the golf card and that that is not we don't have data to support that but the bottom line is if they don't use it it is available 72 hours before the event well it's not like it goes to waste it's not like we it's not like it's not like they're going to be an empty golf course they're available we don't know that two hours ahead so we don't know that i mean the people that are booking 14 days in advance i will say too that if you look at the analysis these golfers this 51 of the tea times support this golf resort to the tune of about half a million dollars that's what they pay to do to play golf here um at and and they're getting it at a reduced rate but it's still a base and a foundation of our golf resorts business and if we turn them away we don't know whether anybody else is going to play we're not we have no idea we're not turning them their way they can they can go 72 hours before the event they can play as often as they want they can play every single day if they wait and if there's anything available 72 hours before that only answers part of the okay all right so let's all right let's let sounds to me like we don't have a consensus to uh be able to vote on taking even an action temporary action of a one year there's no there's no motion for any option one two three four or five here uh i think it's a different issue uh to talk about raising rates uh it's not an equitable issue uh it's not uh you know a fairness issue the the issue of raising rates from 50 to 60 75 for everyone is an issue of um you know policy probably a vote by the city but uh you know i think that the uh i i because you have a situation where there are less workers working on the golf course today than there were 10 years ago because people are trying to trune is trying to hit their budget which is great uh the golf course in the redesigned sand traps are made simpler so that they can be raked with a machine versus by hand and and there are uh and you know there's less flowers on the golf courses to make them look beautiful so you're talking about you know we're going with uh kind of a a dry grass look a brown grass look versus a green glass look green grass is a half a million dollars we have a half a million dollars less than in personnel that we should be adding to the golf course so you're talking about like a million million and a half dollars here that we're not investing in the golf course uh and that's that's a different issue i think than what we have come to the council with which is to talk about you know equitable access to tee times or fairness i actually would advocate that experimenting with you know a staggered tee time a tiered tee time would be able to understand we'd be able to understand whether more people would have access but i don't think i have enough votes on the council to get that through so let's table this conversation uh for a later date and we already have a motion that has passed are we in agreement with that yes i so move are you so moving i second all right all those in favor hi here we go so now we're talking about safer streets ladies and gentlemen safer streets indian wells approval of 30 design plans dean public works director purvis please take the stand joe please lift miss purpose but excuse me excuse me you can go ahead good afternoon mayor taylor council members and residents dina purvis your public works director i'm very excited to present to you today the 30 plans for the safer streets design please keep it down out there a quick recap of how we got here today at the june 10th 2025 council meeting council approved the improvement layouts that you will see today and directed staff to return to council with plans at the 30 design phase council also directed staff to combine the original two-phase project into a single phase these plans reflect that direction in addition speed surveys were conducted and shared at the december 2nd 2025 meeting key points to that meeting were the highest speeding frequency occurring on el dorado drive and cook street having the highest volume of vehicles what you will see today are engineered plans created as we progress through the design phases today we are beyond the concept stage in which you saw the prettier pictures those concept plans told us what the people wanted and these plans help us ensure that everything desired from the community meetings and resident feedback will fit as design progressed slight accommodations were made to keep the project on brand and incorporate safety concerns above ground utilities will be really relocated where possible crosswalks constructed out of pavers turn lanes improved to accommodate commercial vehicles will lengthen merge tapers and make landscape accommodations specific to fairway where additional right of way is necessary to accommodate a meandering sidewalk conversations were held to help foster understanding of the final project and ensure clarity where the city's needs were concerned staff have found willing partners in this endeavor and will continue to work with both entities along fairway in the upcoming months it is expected that a vote of the membership for each hoa may be required now i'm going to spend a brief amount of time on each page walking through the improvements that were approved for design in back in june all of the pages of the plans are attached to the staff report but the pages that you see in the presentation today are the layout pages only you won't see any green paint here either just white starting here at the corner of cook street and fairway drive which is up here some realignment was done to better balance the intersection you'll also notice that the sidewalk starts a bit straight as the layout gives space to the vintage neighborhood's landscaped frontage the care was taken not to not to affect any of the palm trees in that grove the meandering walkway continues along fairway the approved changes to fairway included a six-foot meandering walkway constructed of colored permeable concrete and striping on fairway for a parking lane on the north side one lane of traffic in each direction and an eight-foot combination bike golf cart lane i have been asked questions about how all of this would fit in this particular portion of the layout the curb line as it is today would move south an average of four feet so the double dash line that you see at the bottom the heavy line that's the proposed right of way the heavier line above that that's with no dashes that is where the new curb line would be that line is south four feet of where the curb is today another popular question has been poop bag stations for dogs they would be relocated closer to the walkway thank you for clarifying you're welcome another popular question is what about the areas near the pump station walls the walkway still fits within a meandering walkway design near the pump station it just doesn't want to stick with me today sort of in the middle of the first of the upper image there you'll see a pump station wall there's three circles there and then on the lower one it's a little to the right of paradise valley road on that south side is the other pump station wall i would like to point out that on the north side of the street there is no impact or any changes to resident driveways continuing along fairway we see the treatment of driveway approaches and i'm talking about on the south side now widening of this driveway approach that you see in the left lower corner will allow vehicles to both ingress and egress at the same time helping to alleviate vehicle stacking on fairway as we come to the end of fairway we pass the el dorado entrance on our way to fairway park there is a slight realignment proposed to the striping at the el dorado fairway drive intersection as well encouraging full stops at this intersection so now i'm moving on to cook street this is fairway here and this is cook going this way cook street was approved with a road diet meaning reducing travel lanes from two to one improvements also include a six foot meandering sidewalk on both sides of the street and an eight foot combination bike golf cart lane with a two foot buffer as we move along cook street we can see that the meandering sidewalk fits within the existing right of way and turn pockets are maintained into the communities on each side the road diet ends here returning vehicles to two lanes of traffic in each direction once we are cleared to move ahead today staff will reach out to the new center owner to discuss the ingress and egress to this very busy area of the shopping center moving on to rancho palmaris this is the simplest of the improvements with striping for one lane of traffic in each direction and a combination eight foot bike golf cart lane also approved on rancho palmaris was a right turn and left turn pocket into casa dorado and if approved to move forward today staff will work closely with the representatives of that neighborhood to facilitate design completion as this is the simplest of the improvements staff could move completion of these plans ahead of the others if so desired and this is the right turn pocket here into el dorado so this is northbound rancho palmaris and then this is the left turn pocket from southbound rancho palmaris into the community creation of that left turn pocket that i just pointed at will require removal of one palm tree the improvements on rancho palmaris end at highway 111 lastly is el dorado drive at the approved el dorado drive improvements include striping a combination eight-foot bicycle golf cart lane in each direction and retaining two lanes of traffic in each direction pretty simple it continues along el dorado drive we're passing osage there at the top Also approved was a meandering sidewalk from Highway 111 to Camino Cielo on the west side of El Dorado, terminating at the entrance of the Sundance community. It would very closely mirror the sidewalk that's in front of Montalena. In addition, the requested northbound right turn pocket will fit at the intersection of Highway 111 and El Dorado, so that's this right here, and it goes all the way to the crosswalk. Going back for a moment to the speed data that was collected last year, you will recall that El Dorado had the highest incidence of speeders. So I was asked if a sidewalk could fit on El Dorado to remove pedestrians from the asphalt. And that answer is yes, a sidewalk can fit. There is room enough to install a sidewalk from the existing curb out into what is now the shoulder and still maintain two lanes. There is also room to expand the landscaping area on both sides. Reducing two lanes to one in each direction is one way to reduce speeds on the street. This particular example only shows the west side of El Dorado, but the same can happen on the east side. As a just a personal anecdote in casual discussions with residents, a number of people have approached me about having a walkway on El Dorado. And that's just an extension of that. So a quick recap on the money. We currently have $3.4 million in approved funding through two programs, SB 821 and HSIP. We have also applied for CMAQ and did receive a recommended rating on the contingency list for approximately $9 million. So what that means is that if someone higher up on the approval list has a project that doesn't go, we are already approved for that funding. We are also applying for this year's cycle of ATP funding. I have been asked how much it would be to just pave the four streets. While that number is a moving target right now due to fluctuating fuel and oil prices, $3 million is the most current estimate from the design engineer. The most current cost estimate for all of the project together, as you see layout on these 30% plans, is just under $8 million. After the surveying was completed, it was determined that Fairway was the only street that required right of way. With approval today, staff will be moving ahead with conversations with all frontage affected property owners. Landscaping meetings will be scheduled with efforts made to speak with HOA groups while they are in residence. Staff will also move forward with completing right of way negotiations. Plans for Fairway would not move beyond the 30% stage until consensus has been reached by all parties. Moving ahead with that design without the consensus opens the city to design cost increases if changes are required. Depending on today's outcome, there certainly are streets with simpler improvements whose timeline for construction could be moved ahead. The recommendation today is to review and approve the proposed 30% design plans or recommend any additional changes to the proposed design to advance the project forward to completion. I'm available for any questions. Okay, does anybody have any questions? I have two, if I may. Greg, please. Can you put the Fairway street up again? Any particular area? Yeah, the whole thing. Right, there you go. Okay, can you show us where the property line is between El Dorado Country Club and the vintage? Green dot on the big screen? Roughly over here. The green dot is on the big screen here. It also shows up on the little screen. Does it really? Yeah, amazing. Oh, can you see that? It's roughly right around here. So I need the full street all the way to Cook. I only have that in the beginning one with all four, like this. Okay, that doesn't work. Go back to the section that shows just the vintage frontage. At their entrance? Yes. Okay. How much of the sidewalk is inside the existing city right-of-way? Here, a very small amount. Okay. Only where it... So this heavier line here shows you where we would like to have right-of-way. This shorter line here, or lighter line here, shows you where the existing right-of-way is. So this area is currently owned by the city. This area is not. Okay. All right, thank you. And then can you go to El Dorado? The country club or the city street? The street. Thank you. So you mentioned a golf cart line. I didn't hear you mention a pedestrian area in the street. Are you talking about painting or sidewalks? Painting. I did not mention a pedestrian area in the street for the project. It is where people walk now. But it is not... There will be no pictures of people painted on the street with the golf and bike cart lane. So there's no separate striped area for pedestrians to walk? No, sir. Okay. Just a comment. To me, that's not consistent with safer streets. But I'll get to that later. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Well, isn't that why you suggest the possibility of putting in a sidewalk? Sidewalk. Sidewalk. Yes, sir. Because of that. But the... Exactly. And so I'll get to it later. All right. Any other questions? I do. I do. I do. So we now have to be ADA compliant with Fairway Park? Yes. Okay. So with that, if you don't have ingress or egress or a sidewalk, we'll be in compliance, but with no access. Because there's no parking there. You can't park on... I mean, you can park on the street, but maybe a few cars. But if you're going to use the park as is intended, and there's not a sidewalk there to get to it, and you are in a wheelchair... So if you are... That's complicated. Okay. As the plans are currently approved, if you are looking for ADA access from the south side of Fairway Drive, you will be able to take a surface, a pedestrian surface that you can roll on across the street, and there will be ADA ramps to get you to the park. But only from Fairway Drive. Only from Fairway Drive, as we show here. And not Fairway Drive East, and not El Dorado, as it's in its current state, as you have presented here. Correct. Any other questions? If we approve this plan today, we'd be able to get started. I will return to design very quickly. Thank you. And get it moved for you. Sure. So the other point that I think is worth emphasizing publicly is that if we were to repave these streets and not do any sidewalks, that would cost about $4 million. The last estimate I got from the engineer this morning, the design engineer, was $3 million. Okay. So $3 million. And then we have $4 million in grants, roughly? You're going back to the financing page. We have $3.4 right now. And that money is specific to improvements. Right. So that's $6.4, right? Yes. And so you're talking about another million and a half to build sidewalks on Cook, Fairway, and El Dorado, or is El Dorado not included in that 7.9 number? El Dorado is not included. And so if we included El Dorado, what would that be? $9 million? Probably another million. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So if I could clarify, the 3.4, the grants approved, are for improvements like sidewalk, like bike lanes. They are not for paving. For paving. Correct. Okay. Got it. And then the grants that have been approved expire, I believe. They certainly will. By the end of this year? We have just requested an extension to 2028. Okay. The first ones expire in 2027. Okay. Thank you. Brian? Mr. McCarthy, how much money do we have set aside for paving that's already earmarked for if we did nothing? Besides fix the deferred maintenance that we have in front of us today? Three and a half million? Or three million? Four million? Honorable mayor and members of the council. Mayor Pro Tempena, would you repeat your question? I was doing some work. Oh, yes. My question is, is we've prepared for the deferred maintenance on the streets, fairway, Rancho Palm Maris and Cook. How much money do we have earmarked to date for those projects if we did not move forward with safer streets? So what we have earmarked in your city budget currently adopted is $7,550,000. Of that, $5,250,000 of that is funded through the city cash program are our funds. Currently, we have essentially $2,000,000 that was grants at the time. Now, Ms. Purvis just mentioned, since this was adopted, she's been a miracle worker, I would suggest, and getting additional grant funds for that, which will help to lower our city portion of the cost. But generally speaking, you have $7.7 million. Okay. So without getting my calculator, it appears that we're very close to budget if we move forward with safer streets. You mean funding 100%? Funding it. Funding it 100%. Yeah. Not only are we very close to budget, I would say that Ms. Purvis has done a far better job than what this is original plan because we're using more grant money than what we anticipated. Okay. Thank you. That needs to be said. Okay. Any other questions? Yeah. My question is that for that $7.7 million that we have earmarked for repaving or for deferred maintenance, is that only for the four streets that we're talking about now or does that include other streets? No, that's specifically for the street program. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Safer streets. I have one more question. Please. Sure. So the estimate just kind of spitballing for a sidewalk on El Dorado is $1 million. Again, right off the top of your head, how much would it cost to extend the landscaping on each side and put the sidewalk in the extended landscaping on the west side? The cost is minimal there because you are already expanding for the sidewalk. So the landscaping will fit where you have expanded for your sidewalk. But you'll have to put a new curb on each side. Yes. But you would with sidewalk anyway. Because the intent is to move it out into the travel lanes. So landscaping is really the added cost. Is that a yes? I'm sorry. Yes. Thank you. Anybody else? Any questions? Do we then have a crosswalk across Osage? No. There's a sidewalk on the- Include a crosswalk at Osage. Okay. Okay. Okay. My next question is, in three months, correct me if I'm wrong, we had 100,000 cars on fairway drive. Is it 92,000? Does that sound about right? It's roughly 30,000 to 36,000. I want to say it was about 30,000. Okay. January, February, and March. Okay. So if we do, we're doing road, right now it's presented, road diet is on cook. Yes. One animal size. And if, with that amount of volume, that volume will not use cook, probably not use cook because it's going to be on a road diet. It will all funnel down to El Dorado. So if we do nothing with El Dorado, as far as a road diet, we're not going to mitigate any of this volume that we're experiencing now or future mitigation. Certainly, when we did our volume study in September, we took counts on all those side roads because we understood that whatever changes may be made with this project, it's going to change how people drive. So we want to be able to compare what happens in the future to what happened before. Okay. Thank you. Are there any other questions? I think we're good. So let's open up to public comment. Do we have public comment? Yes. I have one. Martin Lacks. Martin Lacks. Number three appearance today. Come on down. Come on. There's got to be other comments in here on safer streets. I can wear a different hat. Martin Lacks on Via Corona. Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council. Several points. First, let's just say something that's off my script. This morning we, or this morning, this earlier this afternoon, we heard from Deputy, I didn't catch his last name, speed's not an issue. How many times do I have to say that? And then maybe now, maybe I have to put on an outfit for you to believe it, but it's the case. And what happened in December, that wasn't a report showing at that speed. That was an incomplete report if you remember what happened in December. But let me just get to my points. As far as the crosswalks, I think that whatever crosswalks the city does with the country clubs, they should do it in the ungated areas as well. So we have symmetry and it looks right, so on and so forth. I don't like the striping. The striping looks terrible. So since we're talking about paving, I am concerned about drainage. And there's been no sort of overall thinking about these kind of issues. My lot on Via Corona collects a lot of water on any regular rain. And during that big tropical storm we had, it was horrible. I mean, we were dumping trash barrels filled with water. I actually put gutters and divert the water as much as I can across the side of my house. Still, water gets up to my patio. And it's not just me. It's also my neighbor. Some of us have put sump pumps. So whatever we do on El Dorado in terms of paving and whatever else we do there, let's think about drainage and probably not just on my street but other streets too. It came to me that when you're talking about the road diet on Cook, you're going to funnel the traffic down Fairway, down El Dorado. It's been terrible lately. I think that all three streets should be single lane. And since we talked about we here across sidewalk, I can't tell you how much I'm against it. Not everyone is, but I am. And I know many others are. And we went through what, Council Member Whitman, 28? This is our 30. 30. Wonderful. But who's counting? But who's counting? So, you know, sidewalk has been debated, discussed, and we're against it. Any other comments? Thank you very much for your insights. All right. Does anybody else? Yes, we have another comment. Please, come on up. Thank you. Thank you, Marcy Maxwell. And I'm a homeowner and I live in the Cove at Indian Wells off of Cook Street, also a homeowner in Dorado Villas and a board member of the Dorado Villas HOA. I'm really pleased we've come to this point. And I'm hoping that you will all vote yes in favor of this good decision. I think it's all about improving the quality of life. We have a lot of folks here in the lovely weather that we have that enjoy walking and it's good for their health. And, you know, when you started this project, we kind of started even watching more and more. And you see how many people really are, you know, walking and enjoying a walk, people of all ages. And I want to make sure that we are sharing the road with people that walk and they can walk safely. So the pedestrian access with sidewalks, especially on Cook Street and Fairway, with the amount of the volume of cars that come there, is a really important decision. And, again, it really is about quality of life. And I think it's a great investment. I think it's good for our property values and it's good for the lifestyle we know I attract here in the reason people live here, which is to be outside. So thank you very much for, I'm hoping, a decision that you will all make. Thank you, Marcy. Thank you. Anybody else have any public comment, whether you've put a blue slip or not in? Okay. Now we bring it back. For a motion. Does anybody have a motion? I have a motion. Can I ask a question first? Sure. Before we get to a motion. A motion creates deliberation. This is for our public works director. So along a stretch of the west side of El Dorado, there's a fairly significant elevation change between the street, then the landscaping, and then the elevation of the lots that back up to that portion of El Dorado. You don't have to be a geotechnical engineer to observe that there's a lot of erosion going on to the point where, at some point, the block walls along that stretch of El Dorado are going to be undermined and those walls will be in danger of collapse. So in connection with, let's say, putting in a sidewalk, would you consider putting a retaining wall there to protect the integrity of those lots? The cost that I quoted today does include retaining wall. It does? Yes. Excellent. Very good. Okay. Thank you. Okay. I have one question. The pavement. Is it going to be a repaving or are you going to slurry? Sorry. Important question. Three out of the four streets will require grind and overlay. El Dorado is in good enough shape for slurry. Oh. Aren't you lucky? That's too bad. I have a question. Please. Will bicycles be prohibited on the sidewalks? The walkway paths' width was made six feet to discourage bicycles from being on the pathway. But can we prohibit bicycles? Maybe this is a legal question. That's a policy issue. Or a legal question. Legal. First of all, are we allowed to prohibit bicycles on sidewalks? Mayor and counsel, I defer to the sheriff. I think they know when they can give a ticket. And when they can't. Sheriff has left the building. They left the building. So there goes my scapegoat. Okay. Just fine. Thanks. I think we talked about this earlier today in a separate meeting. And I believe the answer is bicycles are not allowed on sidewalks. But there is a unwritten policy of not reciting tickets for bicyclists who bicycle on sidewalks. Okay. All right. So do I have a motion? Yes. I'd like to propose a motion. My motion is to accept as presented Cook. To accept as presented Fairway Drive. To accept as presented Rancho Palmaris. And to accept El Dorado with some changes. The changes I would like to add to this motion are to bring it down to one lane each way. All the way to Osage. Extend the curb out away from the east side. And add landscaping and drainage. On the west side, add a meandering sidewalk that will connect to Fairway Park. And go all the way down El Dorado. To connect to where I guess where Sundance is. Build. Include the retaining wall. And that curb will be extended out away from the west side to give those residents a buffer. And then additionally all of the crosswalks to have decorative paving. Do I have a second for that? Second the motion. All the crosswalks to have decorative paving. To match the entrance on Cook at the shopping center all the way up to Vintage. And then so those are all matching. So all crosswalks would be consistent. Yes. Pavers. Yeah. Has it been moved in a second? It has been. Okay. I cannot at this point even remotely agree to one lane in each direction on El Dorado. We're talking about El Dorado, right? Yes. Okay. The traffic right now is getting larger and larger and larger every month at least anyway. I'm sure it will back off at the summertime. In one lane, you're not going to be able to get through 111 with one circle of light. I mean, you got to have more. You can't have one lane. May I interrupt you for one second? The one lane will end at Osage and open up after Osage. So you're only... Right now it's almost... Right now it's one lane basically halfway down. So it's just a little bit more. So you're going to take the one lane from Fairway Drive to Osage. And then it will open up to two lanes again. So it won't disrupt Sundance or Montelina. So I believe your concerns have been met. It's not going to go the whole way. Why not do it at all? Because we're trying to mitigate all the volume that we have now. Well, the volume will be mitigated if we enforce... If we have no commercial vehicles on Fairway and enforce it, I mean, at least half of the vehicles... Well, that's an exaggeration. A third of the vehicles are commercial vehicles. I totally agree with you. And if we eliminate that, that's a third. They're gone. Well, we've been at this, I mean, for the better of three and a half years. And with all the data and all the community outreach and all the meetings, it's just been countless. If we road diet Cook Street, it's going to take everybody down Fairway Drive all the way from Portola to El Dorado. And if El Dorado is wide open, that's where they're going to funnel out. They are not going to go down Cook. I can guarantee that right now. And they don't use Rancho Palmaris because the signal takes forever. So this is what we're dealing with today. And Greg Sanders, if you could opine on this, I would appreciate it. Yeah. I wish we had discussed this. I mean, just to throw this out at quarter after five. This is not new, Dana. And you've had this material for two weeks. A single lane on El Dorado? It's only a little bit more. It's been discussed. It really has. It has been discussed ad infinitum. But anyway, Greg, you were going to say. And obviously rejected because it never made it until today. Well, this has been a work in progress for a long time. So look, this is a Rubik's Cube. It begins with the 1960s and the major mistakes that were made by the planners back then who approved subdivision maps that resulted in the traffic circulation pattern that we have here in Indian Wells. It's terrible. It's terrible. It's terrible. It's terrible. And we are now paying the price for having a very dysfunctional traffic circulation system. So we have to look at innovative ways to take the stress off of the traffic circulation pattern that we have in the residential areas. El Dorado. How long is El Dorado from Toscana to Fairway? A mile? A mile. We have a virtual Caltrans standard four-lane divided highway from Toscana to Fairway. It makes no sense. It's ridiculous. I defy you to find other neighborhoods in high-quality cities like Indian Wells where you have a four-lane divided highway going right through the middle of a residential neighborhood. It's a problem. Okay. Now, what we've got is a real exacerbation to the problem. We have CV sync on Highway 111 designed to make it possible to go from Coachella to Palm Springs without ever hitting a red light. It doesn't work, in my opinion, number one. And number two, what's happening is the delays for people who are trying to get onto 111 from the neighborhood surrounding El Dorado and Rancho Palmares and Cook Street. The delays are such that people who want to go westbound are just going the other direction. They'll go south to Fairway and on to Fairway, and they'll take Fairway into Palm Desert. That's what happens when human beings get behind the wheel. They're smart. And now, bus drivers who are taking people from off-site to the tennis garden, for example, they think the same way. So now we've got a real problem with buses on Fairway. What I have proposed at the public safety committee meeting yesterday is that we hire a consultant to tell us what is wrong with CV link through Indian Wells. And what can we do to prevent the unintended consequences of CV sync from pouring all of this traffic into our residential neighborhoods? Okay. That's a great point. But can we stay on point here? Well, it gets to putting El Dorado on a road diet. And creating sidewalks. What's that? And creating sidewalks. Yeah. Narrowing it down to one lane. Correct. Right. Okay. Thank you for the point. Are there any other points? Yeah. I mean, I know this is not going to pass, but I have to make a substitute motion that we approve staff recommendation as recommended with no amendment other than the sidewalk on El Dorado. Dana? Dana? Could I ask you? It's been 32 times and we came up with this without going to one lane, without a sidewalk in El Dorado. And I can tell you, I don't remember all the reasons why. Why didn't we? Do you remember why we didn't agree to have a single lane each way and no sidewalk in El Dorado? What is the reason not to do this? If you know what I'm asking. I don't know that there's a reason not to do it. I'm just saying that it wasn't, this has not been, I had no idea that this was coming. Right. Neither did I. I agree. And it's 20 minutes after five. And it's a major, major decision affecting my country club and everyone else in the neighborhood. And I just don't like the idea of being sprung on at the last minute. Okay. To be honest with you. I don't think, I mean, you have the votes. Go ahead and pass it. But I need to, I need to. No, I'm with you. I want to know what is the reason. The reason why. Because you've explained a reason is that it would affect the people that live in the neighborhood who use the two lanes either way to get easier ingress and egress out in and out of the neighborhood. But wait, can I, can I speak please? Okay. Let's break this down. If, if, if you don't do a row diet on El Dorado, you cannot do a row diet on cook street. You can't, you can't do one without. Of course you can. No, you can't. We are, we are going to create the biggest. You mean we shouldn't? We shouldn't. Okay. We can't do it, but we shouldn't. We can, but I'm speaking as you don't want it. So if we. No, no, no, no, no. I have no idea whether I want it or not. Okay. Gentlemen, this, this conversation is going back and forth. Do I hear a second to Dana's motion? I do not. So let's go back to the original motion. I think it's time we have a call to question here. I think we should do a vote and we should do roll call on proceeding with Brian's motion. If we want to repeat it, we can, which is basically to approve sidewalks on cook on fairway on El Dorado, and then paint striping on Rancho Las Palmas as directed by the staff. That's the motion on the table. That's what we're going to vote on, right? One sidewalk on El Dorado. That's on the west side. That's what we're voting on. Okay. Let's do a roll call, please. Council Member Whitman? Yes. Council Member Reed? Abstain. Council Member Sanders? Yes. Mayor Pro Tempena? Yes. Mayor Taylor? Yes. All right. Let's move on to the next subject. We've got fairway park improvements. Community Development Director Berg, you're back in front of the mic. Are we going to put a cell phone tower on the fairway park? I'm sorry. I couldn't help myself. I'm so sorry. It's a little early for that. So sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead, Director Berg. You've been thinking about that for two hours. Only two? Go ahead. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Yes. And Council Members. John Burr, your Community Development Director. Before you is a proposal to do some improvements to Fairway Park. Fairway Park, as you know, is our only public park in the city. And it was a strategic goal announced at the last strategic council meeting that to work with the previous or the original park designer, Herman Design Group, to come up with some ways to improve shade in the park and also maybe some other amenities to provide access to areas in the park. So I'll go through them really quickly here. So I'll go through them really quickly here. This is a picture of the existing park. We do have the central turf area you can see there. It's surrounded by a set of palm trees, a circle of palms, if you will, and doesn't provide much shade onto the turf area there. There are some existing seating areas, as shown in the red arrows. And you can see there's a circular or semicircular walkway up in the front, linking from El Dorado to Fairway Park. As an opportunity to improve access to the benches and the seating areas, we're proposing to include a semicircular sidewalk or walkway that goes around the perimeter of the park. It would provide access to the benches there, and also to infill the circle of palms with some new tree specimens. And also you can see in the foreground there of the turf area, there's a proposal to put maybe two new shade trees in there as well. Here we saw an opportunity to include some mosaic art pieces, and you can see there that we would maybe use the logo for the arrowhead, the Indian Wells arrowhead, shown embedded into or inlaid into the sidewalk or any other type of mosaic art that you would desire. This is concept 1B. It basically takes the first concept and adds a link down here at the bottom so you have an enclosed circular walkway so that, as was mentioned, I think by Marcy earlier, that there's an opportunity for safe walking here. And here, by creating this link, would create a pathway that residents can go out and do walking on site without actually entering the roadway, and they could visit friends or whatnot. Concept number one in summary is eight new trees located within the circle of palms and in the lawn area. We would provide the new walkway around the perimeter. There would be extensions of that walkway to the landing areas for the benches, and that's basically the number one. Through the magic of Herman Design Group, we're going to show you a quick video so you can take a spin around the park. This is the new walkway showing nice lush landscaping on both sides, retaining boulder walls there, providing access to the benches there for ADA as well, and going back out into the main grass area here. And real quickly, what this video shows is kind of a time lapse of the day and how the shade would move across the park to show the benefit of the new trees there. Concept number two just takes basically those existing bench areas and moves them into the front of the park, on the shoulders, if you will. And it would add three new trees, two on the little wedge-shaped lawn area there, and another one around the perimeter of the park. And basically, you're looking at making little plazas here for seating areas, not extending a semicircular walkway around the park, but here's a quick video of that. And this one would include having portable temporary shade structures, if you so desire to include those as well. And again, here is a quick video of what that would look like, and zooming out to see how the shade would time lapse across the park with the additional trees and the shade structures. So an alternative that wasn't presented in your staff report, but was brought to us by the Herman Design Group, was the suggestion that you could move the seating up into the front where the wedge-shaped lawn area is and just kind of pave that over. And I create kind of a new seating area in the front there as an alternative with a more permanent type of shade structure in that location. And just looking at the time lapse to see how the shade moves. There you go. So staff is seeking council's direction on the preferred concept and design elements. Concept plan number one, which included the walkway around the perimeter, is between $150,000 to $200,000. Concept plan number 1B, which was just extending that walkway in the front and creating a continuous loop, would be about a $200,000 to $250,000 expenditure. And concept number two, which is just moving the seating into the front area there, and I think this would be consistent with the alternative concept that we described from Herman Design Group with the paving of the front, would be between $160,000 and $175,000. It is at the council's discretion if you'd like to include lighting there. We did propose moving some of the bollards into other locations, but if you wanted to improve the lighting for the walkways, you could add additional bollards. That might require additional expenditure. So with that, we're looking for, well, I'm available for any questions, but we're looking for direction from council on what the best alternatives would be for moving forward with these improvements. Does anybody have any questions? Okay. Does anybody in the audience have any questions? Public comment? Yes, I have Martin Lacks. Mr. Lacks, number four. Martin Lacks, via Corona. Prairie Park is supposed to be a passive park, and that's what us residents in the neighborhood expected to remain. So I question what we really have to do, what we don't have to do. I don't know if all of you know, but I'm a master gardener. I went through programs, and I like trees. Congratulations. Thank you. I say that because I'm not against ideas of that, but I am opposed to anything that changes the character of it being a passive park. Certainly, the artificial structures, that's not in keeping. And I wish we never had this park, as you all know, but we're going to live with it. So I just ask you not to make this a destination point other than it being a passive in character. That was well said. Thank you very much. Well, appreciate that. Are there any other public comments? Okay. Coming back to us to have a motion. Motion for option number one. Second. Second the motion. Do you want to have any discussion, or do we want to vote? Vote. Let's vote. Can we just clarify? Option number one has one and one B, and I showed you that it was a continuous circle around the park, or just a semicircle? Semicircle. Semicircle? The original one. The right, yeah. Okay. Wait, wait. If I see anything I did at all, it was a one and one B. Okay. This would be one B showing the continuous circle around the park so that you could go out and walk. Is that one or one B? Which one is that? That's one B, and one is this one here, this one. That's very confusing. This is one. The difference is that you see the yellow line doesn't connect at the bottom. There's no sidewalk that continues. So if you were going to walk around the park, you would have to do kind of a zigzag in there. It goes 300 degrees versus 360 degrees. Thank you, Dr. Taylor. That's one. That's one, and one B just connects the dots. Do you understand? No. Now show us what one B looks like. Okay. So this is one. Oh, okay, fine. One B is that. Okay. One. One A. One A. One. All right. Just one. All right. That's the motion on the table. Yeah. That's the motion. Okay. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Mr. City Attorney, may I add to the motion on safer streets that we, is it too late to add a brief amendment that says the entire cost will not exceed $10 million before coming back to this council? There might be people here that were here for that item that left. So it's not possible. When they thought that the item was done. I think you could do a motion to reconsider. That gets complicated. Well, it's coming back anyway. It's, could we maybe save it for the next time it comes back? No problem. Thank you. Just keep it simple. Let's keep it simple. Let's move on to the next. We're talking about IE4 at this point. Council Ad Hoc Committee Update on Historic Neighborhood Recognition Program. I believe this is you, Dr. Friedland? That's presenting? Actually, we have representatives from New Wales Preservation Foundation will be doing that. I can just do a brief introduction and say that the city council formed an ad hoc committee with Council Member Sanders and Mayor Pro Tempena. Come on up. Come on up, Kevin. To look at a neighborhood recognition program. And Kevin Mead from the New Wales Preservation Foundation has been tasked by the group to make their presentation. Thank you, City Manager Freeland. My name is Kevin Mead. I'm the Vice President of the Indy Wells Preservation Foundation. I'm hoping to make this just a little bit lighter and a little bit more celebratory than tea times and maybe the safer streets discussion. But I first want to just on behalf of the Preservation Foundation, thank you, Mayor Taylor. Thank you, City Council members. Thank you, staff. And thank you for some of our residents that are still here from a couple of these communities that we want to celebrate. I also want to just give a shout out to our ad hoc committee. Thank you to Mayor Pro Tempena, Councilman Sanders, and also our president, Linda Blank. Appreciate your faith, your persistence, your guidance through this process. It's been kind of a deliberate and measured process. And we tried to make it as inclusive as we possibly could. What I want to do is just briefly frame the Neighborhood Recognition Program. I think you've gotten a packet of information on it. Talk a little bit about the two communities that we want to designate as being historically relevant and give you a little history on those communities so you understand why we've selected those. And talk a little bit also about how we're going to do it. By formally recognizing our ungated historic neighborhoods, the city really has a meaningful opportunity to foster a deeper and broader appreciation for the origins and the evolution of Indian wells. These neighborhood developments are more than just streets of beautiful homes. They reflect timeless elements of mid-century design, the vision of early developers, builders, architects, and actually the people that just came here to work and play and just be a part of the community. I want to first just point out that it's really important to recognize that this is a recognition program. And that is a little bit different than a designation program. Recognition more or less meaning non-regulatory, unencumbered, a celebration of these communities. The designation label brings up images of formal policies, ordinances, restrictions that you can do and cannot do. But this initiative is really about honoring and celebrating, not restricting. Why does this matter? Well, together are these four neighborhood communities that we've selected, two of which we're going to try and move forward on with your hopefully positive vote. They really reflect the formative period of Indian wells. This is when ungated areas of Indian wells were sand dunes. They were agricultural fields. And can I, can I, I apologize. Can I, I don't want to tread on your feet here. But we as a council have all received the materials and we've reviewed them. So may I ask that rather, rather than context, we just kind of show us what it is you'd like us to actually vote on. Is that okay? Would that be okay for the moment? And then we can ask questions. Would you like me to go through the neighborhood history or not? No, just, let's just go right to the street signs that you, yeah, that would be great. All right. Thank you very much. I know it's getting late in the day. Well, you know, we've, we've done our homework. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. And I apologize for interrupting a well thought out presentation, but we've seen it. Let's jump to this. This is where you want to go. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, the street sign blades are really the way that we thought we designate these communities. And our analog for this really, the closest thing we have is the 25 different communities in Palm Springs that have more or less through their one PS program have adopted these street signs, street, street sign toppers. Uh, and so we wanted to take the original logos of these communities, desert Bel Air in Indian Wells village and incorporate that into the blade, but keep the blade itself conforming, keep the contour of it consistent. Uh, I know that's up to the city. Where would they go? I mean, which, which on fairway, which ones are desert Bel Air and which ones are Indian Wells village? Let me, let me just quickly go back. I can do the map. So, uh, you can see here, um, the four communities, El Dorado Palms to the east. And then we have desert Bel Air on the corner of El Dorado and fairway. Uh, we, then we have Rancho Palmaris, which would be another targeted. And then over in the upper, uh, side of the slide there, we have, uh, Indian Wells village. There's also another area in between desert Bel Air and, uh, Rancho Palmaris that we're investigating right now to be a potential fifth entrant to this. So that's. And the concept is to put these, uh, signs, if you will, above existing. Street signs. Street signs. Yes. Not adding new street signs. Just, just, just adding. Okay. Just to showcase the community by, by placing them on top of existing streets. And, and do you have a cost estimate? Um, we do, I think it was in the packet. Apparently there in the staff part is a budget of 50,000 for the two neighborhoods in, in total. For the four areas? For, uh, no, for the two areas. Which two? Um, what's being proposed is desert Bel Air and Inuel's village. $50,000 for those two? Yes. Well, there's multiple signs. There's multiple signs. There's signs. It's wherever there's a street sign in that area. There will be an additional. How many street signs are in those two areas? Like, do we have that number? I didn't see that in the presentation. I'm sure if we have that number available today. Okay. We've identified the streets. Is $50,000 the expected cost? Or is that just a budget number? That's a budget right here. That's just a budget number that you, I mean, so it could be significantly less. It certainly can. Okay, fine. Is, is there any reason we can't just approve it? Well, I want to ask you. Can I ask this question? Wait. I want to ask one question. There's no reason why you can't approve it. Well, in that case. Is this for, is this for four areas or two areas? Would we be voting for two areas or for four areas? Two. So where is Indian Wells Village? That's the pump. That's Miles and Warners. And I'm curious as to why we're doing two versus the four. Why don't we do four? Yeah. I can explain that. We selected these two because there was outreach that was made, particularly Desert Bel Air, where there might have been a little controversy. And we wanted to make sure the residents supported. But Council Member Reed, if you want to do all four, we can. No, let's do the two and see how they look. And if we like it, if we can always add to it. And then we double back and we'll- Is there emotion? Yes. Can we take a public comment there? Do we have a public comment? Yes. I apologize. Yes. Okay. So thank you for your presentation. Take yes for an answer. Do we have a public comment? Yes, I have three. Okay. Martin Lacks followed by Sheldon Anderson. All right, Martin, come on up. Number five. I apologize for not opening this to the public. Do you support or oppose the motion? I oppose it, but I don't oppose it. I am in support of it as long as we do our historic- It matches what we've done in history. And I think you're right. Once you choose two, you're choosing all four or five. So I think that it's a whole package. I think it would be inconsistent not to do them all. Well, what if we don't like it? This way, we've only spent a little bit of money instead of a whole $50,000. Anyway, your point is let's do them all at the same time. That is. Thank you very much. The next comment from the public. While he's walking up, Martin Lacks did make a good point. And that is, I have gotten a lot of feedback that the signs should be historically correct. That is, you know, not modernized. The lettering should be consistent with the lettering that was used for the advertising, et cetera. Is that what you're looking for, Martin? Yes. Okay, thank you. Go ahead. My name's Sheldon Anderson. Thank you, Sheldon. And I live in Desert Bel Air. I just want you guys to know that this was really a grassroots process that when I did the research on my home and found out about the developer, Phil Mark Crank, who was the one who built my home, and that he developed Desert Bel Air. So you support the motion. I support it. And one other thing, when I came up with this idea, I did some research on toppers. I'm in construction. And they weren't that expensive. So I was kind of surprised with the $50,000 line number. Excellent. Thank you very much. You know, at a certain point, if people are in favor of this, take yes for an answer. So is there a third comment? Trisha Cole? Come on up, Trisha. I'm still here. Yay! Yeah. Thank you, council members. This is your first city council meeting. I'm Trisha Cole. I'm the president of Indian Wells Village number three. And one through five are the originals that were there since the late 50s. Third generation. There's a lot of us that are third and fourth generation homeowners there. And we all approve. And we're hoping that we move forward on this. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Okay. Are there any more public comment? Now we're coming back. Do we have a motion to approve these two recommended areas? So moved. Second. Okay. Can we vote, please? All those in favor? I have an alternate motion. I don't see why we don't do all four. I see. I second that. All right. An alternate motion is on the table to do all four areas. I'm going to vote no. I mean, let's make sure we want to do this before we spend all the whole $50,000. But that's all right. Okay. We have a motion and a second on the table. Let's vote for all four areas first. Let's do a roll call then, please, Madam Clerk. All four areas. Councilmember Whitman? Yes. Councilmember Reed? I hate to vote no, but no. Councilmember Sanders? Yes. Mayor Pro Tempena? Yes. Mayor Taylor? Yes. Let's go to the next item, please. Mayor and Council, it's come to my attention that the city hasn't yet spoken with those other two yet. Can we maybe adjust the... Subject to a positive response from the areas? Maybe what we interpret the motion that just passed as authorization for staff to move forward with those other two if they successfully negotiate an agreement with those other two. Excellent idea. Or support. So what did we do with the other two? I don't understand. With who? Well, maybe negotiate's a bad... It's a bad way for me to phrase it. Well, if I can clarify, it's my understanding from Representatives and E.O.S. Preservation Foundation, they have support for the two communities. The other two communities, they're still talking to residents there and haven't gotten clear support that this program is one in those two areas. I have a suggestion, a way out of the woods. I think most people would want to see what the signs look like. Those should come back for City Council final approval. If there's a bunch of blowback from one or both of these other communities, we can always take them off the table. Well, we've approved already that the four areas can get signs. And I think the request is simply to say, as we roll them out, let's get positive feedback from the Area 3 and Area 4. And if there is pushback, then bring it back to City Council. I think that was what Greg said. I know it's not what Greg said, but we had already approved. Do we need another motion? Well, so do we want to... I mean, if we put a fight or a fight on it? Yeah, I think we're getting hung up on a technicality here. We can approve something on Monday and we can disapprove it on Tuesday. I mean, we have that... I understand. So do you wish not to approve them to proceed? No. So what I'm suggesting is that most of the people that I have spoken with want to make sure that the blades are historically correct in terms of logos, lettering, that sort of thing. That they reflect what was advertised for these communities when they were developed. And so to make sure that we have that kind of consistency, we have the staff bring back to us the designs for the blades. That'll take a while. In the meantime, we can go out to these other two communities. And if there's significant opposition in these other two communities, we can just take them off of the... Okay. Are you... But are the two areas, are the blades as you're referring to them, are they historically accurate and can they proceed with those two? Haven't seen them yet. Oh, the first two? The first two areas. We should have a final look to make sure that they are consistent with what the advertising is. So I am correct in that you want to, you would like to retreat, retract the vote and say all of this is subject to approval of the designs of the signs. That's what I'm hearing. Yeah. And if there is blowback on Rancho Palmares and the fourth neighborhood, the neighborhood, yeah, that, you know, we can always say, well, okay, we won't proceed with those two neighborhoods. Gentlemen, this is your motions. Do you want to... What would you like to do here? Well, I just want to know. I mean, I don't understand what's happened in the other neighborhoods. Did we do a survey? Did we do a door-to-door? I mean, what are we talking about here? What kind of approvals do you have from these two other neighborhoods? I mean... We didn't go out and go knocking on every door. Or... I think the best way to do this... Do you want to come up? Do you have a... No, but I think really the best way to do this, we already know that any of those villages and Desert Bel Air are a go. Let's just do them. That is my motion. Right. And then we'll bring back the others because this is way too... Good or not. ...related. Yeah, good or not. So let's go with Dana's original motion and strike the other motion. Okay. So first, I think we have to vote to... Let's just have a motion to reconsider. Yeah. Motion to reconsider. Is it seconded? Is there a second to reconsider? So I can't make the motion or second. Okay. Would you please second my motion? Okay. All those in favor of... Aye. Aye. Okay. No. Okay. Four to one. No. It passes. Now, we're going to have a new motion on the table. I move. We authorize... We approve staff recommendation for the two areas. Areas. Second of motion. Second of motion. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Now, you've got two out of four and you'll come back. You'll come back. All right. There you go. Now, we're going on to the 60th anniversary ad hoc committee update. I believe... Yes. But it's probably almost the 60th by now, isn't it? Here we go. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. Good afternoon, honorable mayor and council. The item before you presents the recommendations of the 60th anniversary ad hoc committee. And staff is seeking council direction to move forward with planning and implementation of the city's 60th anniversary. The ad hoc committee did meet on March 20th to begin planning. Based on those discussions, the committee is recommending a year-long celebration beginning this July, 2026. And continuing through July, 2027 rather than limiting it to just one single celebration. This approach allows the anniversary theme to be incorporated across events, programs, and communications, providing multiple opportunities for resident engagement to the city's history and future. The committee recommends creating a comprehensive 60th anniversary branding program. This would include a commemorative logo, consistent with anniversary messaging, applied across city materials that would include the city's new adopted color palette. To launch the anniversary year, the committee is recommending a 4th of July celebration this year in 2026, preferably on Saturday, July 4th, with Friday, July 3rd, identified as a potential alternative if vendor availability requires flexibility. While the city's 59th anniversary date falls later in July, this kickoff event would align to the start of the Indian Wells celebration with the 250th anniversary of the United States, creating a strong patriotic and community-focused event. Hotel partners and the golf resort have expressed interest in supporting the celebration. If council decides to move forward, staff is requesting an approval of a supplemental appropriation of $70,000 to fund the firework display this coming year. Hotel partners and the committee will be in July 4th of July 4th, with a new year-long celebration. Hotel partners and the committee will be requesting an alternative firework display in July 2027 to formally conclude the year-long celebration associated costs to be brought forward to the council at the May budget. So we would incorporate all these costs at the May discussion. The committee is also recommending to formally recognize two individuals whose service has had a lasting impact in Indian Wells. Mr. Dick Oliphant has served on the council from 1976 to 1992, including eight years as your mayor. And he played a key role in shaping the cities through a major development efforts, financial stability, and his service of the city's first fire chief as well. In recognition of his legacy, the committee recommends naming our fire station 55, the Richard Oliphant fire station, and commissioning a bronze sculpture that will be dedicated to him on this anniversary year. The committee is also recommending recognizing Jan Oliphant for her contributions to the community, including founding the city's garden club by renaming the community's garden to the Jan Oliphant Community Gardens and installing a commemorative plaque. So that's another recommendation. Additionally, the committee supports completing the city of Indian Wells historic book in partnership with the Indian Wells Preservation Foundation. It is recommended that staff would work closely with community activities and also our city marketing team. If council is directed by the council, you know, we can also seek assistance by a consultant is an option as well to help us with these festivities. The 60th anniversary celebration is an approved city council strategic goal that was established in 2026 this past year, this current year. While the overall fiscal impact has not yet been determined, staff will return with a proposed budget depending on what you would like to move forward today. There is a May 13 budget that's being presented to you shortly so we can come back with funding options. Alternately, so currently today, the only thing that we are asking for you is a supplemental appropriation for the $17,000. In closing, I will pass it on to our ad hoc committee of our 60th anniversary, which was Council Member Sanders and Mayor Pro Tempena, if you want to add anything else that I missed. But that's our presentation. So how much money are we asking for? So currently right now we would seek a supplemental appropriation for $70,000 if you would like to do the kickoff event in July of 26, which is this in a couple of months. And if we don't do the fireworks in July, then what are we approving? Then we're just approving the naming of the fire station. Plus a statue. Yes, a statue, correct. And a plaque. Yes, and then also the community gardens and the plaque. But we would come back with a proposed budget. This is just to advance if you're looking to. I see. So you're seeking guidance. Guidance, correct. Got it. To add to the fireworks display on the 4th of July of this year, we would do outreach with the hotel partners so they can fill their rooms and probably create a lot more TOT for the city as well. Any other comment? Yes. You have something. I just want to make sure we add. We are working to try and secure a 4th of July pyrotechnic company, being that this is the United States of America's 250th anniversary. And we are getting a little bit of a late start to this. We may not be able to secure a firework provider on the 4th of July. There may be the opposite of July 3rd if that's what you want. So we just want clear guidance on that as well. Okay. Are there any other comments? Do we have any public comments on this matter? Okay. Yeah. Now we're coming back. Yeah. Well, no public comments. There's no public comments. Okay. I just, the $70,000 for the 4th of July. 3rd of July. 3rd of July. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. But I know we did it in the past and virtually nobody showed up. I mean, virtually nobody showed up except staff. Now, maybe we have the time between now and the 4th of July to hype this. But it seems to me that to make it a success, we need more than two months to generate that. And if we just plan it for next year, we can allocate the money now so that they can book a pyrotechnic company for the 4th of July next year, which I guess would be on the Sunday. And that celebrates our 60th. And celebrate our 60th. And then it gives us a long time to let everyone know that this is going to be a major event. And the hotels, hopefully, would be full. And that's my recommendation is that, yes, we give them the $70,000, but ask them to book it for next year. Now, we might even get it a lot cheaper if you book it this year. And is the birth date of the city July 4th? I don't think so. 14th. Right, July 14th. So why not have a fireworks display during the season when everybody's here to celebrate our 60th anniversary? I don't think there's any secret to being in July when no one's here. So maybe we can frame it this way, because I think you're asking for guidance. So I would move that you come back regarding the naming of Dick Oliphant and a plaque. Do we – I'm going to say a plaque. I'm going to say Jan Oliphant, plaque. I'm going to say a celebration of the 60th anniversary with fireworks during the season. I'm going to say a proposal for a book. And we come back with a budget and guidance, I'd say, by June with kind of cost analysis for us to analyze. That would be my motion. Second. Would you consider a bust instead of a – or in addition to a plaque? I would consider a bust, yes. Yeah, that was the recommendation. Versus a statue. The word was statue. It was a dick, right? Yes. Yes. It must be a dick. Richard Oliphant. Yes. And the plaque. And the plaque is for Mrs. Oliphant. Yes. Correct. Yeah. Yes. A bust. I would accept a bust. Okay. That's the motion. I have a second. Yeah. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Passes unanimously. Then we move on to council reports. Oh, no. It's not. It's weak. We've got a lot of council reports. All right. So, now it says J1, Mayor Taylor requests to review joint council and planning committee. Ah, there is a J1. So, this notion is, there's been a previous vote, I guess, if I'm not mistaken. Chris, maybe you can opine on this, but there's been a previous vote to have an annual joint session meeting with city council and the planning commission. I see no need for that. So, I would like a motion that we do not need to have a joint planning commission. Second the motion. That's, we're not, that's not one time. That's forever. Yes. Okay. So, we have two. On an as needed basis. Yes. Does anybody have any opposition? All those in favor? Aye. Okay. So, that's the end of that. My apologies. Now, we go to city council reports. Mr. Whitman. I want to first report that I had an ex parte meeting with Dan Wimstead about the golf tee time or equity issue. So, that's a report of that. Speaking of Dick Oliphant. I received an email from him recently within the last week extolling the Children's Discovery Museum, describing the history, his and Indian Wells' leadership in developing the Children's Discovery Museum, and urging that we maintain or increase our support and sponsorship, stating that this is how we support our Valley children. And also urging that we extend our support and sponsorship of the Jocelyn Center, which he also spearheaded. He spearheaded, apparently, the building of both of these entities, and that we support our Jocelyn Center as well. So, I thought that was interesting, especially since we're going to have a bust of him over at the fire station. And there's really nothing else to discuss except it's online. There's currently a survey of effective fixed routes for buses. The question is whether they should be on the most traveled routes or whether we should go to routes less traveled, but where people need to have a bus come through their neighborhood. So, that's my report. So, that's my report. Mr. Reid. I have nothing to report, but I do want to say that I believe that at the last meeting when we authorized a $50,000 expenditure for the rodeo, it was on the condition that we get some advertising value out of it. I have seen some of their advertising. I do not see the name Indian Wells in any of their advertising, including the billboard on Highway Interstate 10, a recent television commercial. I've gotten email, you know, social media things. I don't see our name on any of their advertising, and that I think they're in breach of their agreement. Thank you for the comment. Maybe we'll direct staff to follow on that to see what's happening and then report back to us at the next city council meeting. Mr. Sanders. I have nothing to report that can't wait until May, given the late hour. Mr. Pena. Same. I did meet with Mr. Wimstad as well yesterday in regard to the golf, all of his comments about the golf. We do have the end of the year, end of the season party on the 23rd. So that's in two weeks. In two weeks. End of season's here again. And do we know, is that sold out? Is that offered to everyone? It's sold out. Are we close to $400? We're halfway through. We did not send out an active link, but we're going to be sending that out now that our website's up and running. But we've been taking in-person reservations. So it is a slower sell. It's at the pavilion. So we have about half. Yeah. We have 400 seats. So we're about... The menu's fantastic. Everyone's going to love the menu this time. So... What's the date? It's April 23rd. Yeah. Which is the week from... Next week. Oh, it's next week. Wow. Here we are. Next week. That's all I have. Okay. Unfortunately, I have a bunch. So, CVAG Executive Committee. So CVAG is in financial straits. They're looking at having a $4 million deficit in the next couple of years. The cost of the off-ramp in Coachella has gone from $89 million to $175 million. Is it Coachella or India? India. It's in India. India. It's in India. And so just to give you an example of one item, right? There's also been issues with regard to people running into the lights, traffic accidents, so repairing CV sinks, small costs, but nonetheless unanticipated costs, and the purchase of an automobile to service CV sink, and the list goes on and on. So this is an interesting moment in time. There's been an ad hoc committee created to talk about ways in which to create funding so that CVAG doesn't fall into financial straits. The CVAG Energy and Sustainability Committee. Chromium-6 was a discussion item. Chromium-6, of course, is in our water. We currently have the most strict water chromium-6 laws in the world. The federal government is recommending 100 parts per billion of chromium-6. California has 50 parts per billion. CV Water District is at about 23 parts per billion. And the new demand is at 10 parts per billion. To achieve 10 parts per billion, the estimated cost for redoing our water storage facilities and cleaning facilities, etc., excluding potentially any cost of the debris and pollution created from updating these water holder tanks, is $900 million. There are 12 water districts that are affected by this in the state of California. We are one. So there could be a $9 to $10 billion cost. And this is currently being fought in the county, in Fresno, in the county where Fresno is, in the courts. So news at 11. But we are concerned about this because obviously the result is raising the price of water for everyone. And of course, the price of water impacts those people with less means more than it does with people with more means. Just to give you a sense of history, the, you know, the Aaron Brockovich case, which had chromium-6, was 11,000 parts per billion. CVAG Transportation Committee. We talked about the cost of the off-ramp and the on-ramp. And they're talking about looking at even an increase in taxes to accommodate, you know, continuing to support our roads, not only in the Coachella Valley, but through our CTC, which I'll raise in a second. Let's see. Let's see. Coachella Valley Clean Air Ad Hoc Committee. So I met with Eisenhower Hospital yesterday. And they are putting the refining touches on a very detailed study that shows an increase in health issues relating to esophageal and lung issues due to dust. And the greatest impact, Greg, is on children under the age of 13 that they're seeing coming into their – yeah. We met – Greg and I met with the school district. And there are more and more days every year where the kids can't go out and have recess or kids can't go out and have PE. And so once this document is refined, I'm more than happy to circulate it. But it remains a significant issue. And so we are keeping our eyes and ears on that. As far as taking action steps are concerned, we've also identified the land area. And we met with CVWD, who actually owns half the land that we're questioning outside of Coachella, outside of the city of – Cathedral City. And they said all you have to do really is apply for a land access. And then – so I'm curious what we'll try and talk to CVAG about applying for access to the land. And when we go back to Washington, D.C., we're also going to meet with the Fish and Game, who controls the other half of the land, about access. And according to our congressman, there is a will to try and do something to mitigate dust on that land, which our congressman was curious as to why the federal government even owns that land at this point in time. The Indy Wells Golf Committee, we talked about in great detail earlier today. I would say that the city championship is this weekend. I would also say that we had a modest turnout compared to what we had anticipated. So we'll review the tournament and talk about next year if we want to open it up to Coachella Valley or choose a different time of year to have it because, you know, there were a lot of people that were interested. But, for example, even the Vintage Club has its own club championship this weekend. So Indian Wells Tea Committee is hilarious. This is on the list, but never meets. But perhaps we should set a meeting to talk about teas. So I will – maybe we'll instigate a meeting on teas and the resorts. Municipal code update. We postponed that. Riverside County Transportation Committee took place in Cathedral City this month. And they had a number of initiatives, mainly the discussion of SEVAG and then the Sunline Transportation Commission. But their annual report, which I will try and summarize in a mayor's note so that we can get out of here earlier, is – has just been approved. So we'll get a brief on their annual report. The Southern California Association of Governments, Salton Sea, has a new conservancy for restoration and to improve air. That was – the governor of the state of California was out here last week to announce that conservancy. The concept is there's been a lot of money given for air and water, environmental issues, studies, et cetera, over the years. But it's ongoing to disparate groups, and they haven't shared a lot of that data information. So a conservancy was created to funnel all dollars that are there to study the Salton Sea into one place to make it more effective. And so information gets shared. The other thing that happened on the rail recently is that RCTC tried to get a CEQA exemption for rail and was recently denied. So it's going to set back our rail initiative for getting a public rail system from Los Angeles to out here until we can get a CEQA review. With that said – oh, and I was at a League of California Cities meeting in Costa Mesa, and we had – we talked about a number of matters. We voted on two issues. One is the California Fair Elections Act that would allow general cities to have the same privilege as contract cities in the ability to have governments help fund local elections to be consistent. And the second was parental leave. We voted to support the fact that someone may take 60 days or more for an absentee based on parental leave, motherhood, fatherhood. And that is the end of my report. So I believe that comes to the end of our meeting. And at 6.12 p.m., this meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Come on, can't we stay longer? Yeah. It's so cold.