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From YouTube: City Council Meeting Part 1 | January 28th, 2021
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Regularly Scheduled Meeting
A
B
B
I
hereby
call
the
palm
springs:
regular
city
council,
meeting
of
january
28
2021
to
order
we
apologize
for
our
delay.
We
have
technical
difficulties
here.
Thank
you
for
staying
with
us,
so
first
on
our
agenda
is
the
pledge
of
allegiance.
So
if
our
emergency
management
coordinator,
danny
deselms,
could
please
lead
us
in
the
pledge
of
allegiance
and
everyone,
who's
able
can
stand
and
join
us.
A
B
B
B
D
Chambers
again,
it's
tom
kirk
at
cvag,
it's
good
to
see
all
of
you
and
happy
new
year
and
congratulations
on
a
number
of
first
mayor.
D
D
This
was
really
a
life
and
death
situation
where
it
could
take
15
minutes
for
residents
of
his
to
get
to
the
hospital
in
normal
circumstances,
it
could
take
over
an
hour
or
more
in
this
situation
on
february
14th,
so
cvx
transportation
committee
sprung
to
action
and
commissioned
a
study
about
what
to
do
about
these
sorts
of
circumstances,
and
we
know
it's
not
just
the
big
events,
but
there
are
small
events
periodically
as
well,
that
flood
area
rut
roads
and
not
just
in
palm
springs,
but
cathedral
city
and
desert
hot
springs
as
well,
and,
of
course,
your
staff
has
to
deal
with
this
almost
annually
on
on
the
streets
of
palm
springs
in
the
north
part,
particularly
indian
avenue.
D
D
You
might
realize
there's
been
a
couple
of
very
big
projects
on
the
books
for
the
city
and
sea
of
ag
for
literally
decades.
It
is
envisioned
that
we
would
build
a
bridge
from
the
south
dike
along
the
whitewater
river,
all
the
way
up
to
the
railroad
on
indian
as
well
as
gene
autry.
D
That's
a
huge
price
tag
for
any
region
to
weather,
and
it's
something
we
had
to
take
a
really
hard
look
at
and
the
primary
reason
we
had
to
take
a
hard
look
at.
This
is
a
complicated
graph,
but
your
transportation
committee
members
know
our
cash
flow
situation
doesn't
look
particularly
good
for
building
roadways
in
the
coachella
valley
in
coming
years.
Green.
There
is
revenue
I
guess:
salmon
is
expenses
and
that
line
that
dips
below
the
white
one
is
our
fund
balance.
D
D
D
So
we
took
a
look
at.
Is
there
a
better
way
of
accomplishing
the
objectives,
allowing
us
to
build
bridges
and
other
structures
more
cost
effectively,
and
we
asked
a
good
engineering
company
to
help
us
with
that?
I'm
going
to
use
indian
avenue
as
an
example
of
what
could
be
done.
Indian
avenue
this
again,
a
two
and
a
half
two
to
two
and
a
half
mile
long
bridge
structure,
250
million
dollars.
We
asked
the
team.
Is
there
a
better
way
to
do
that?
D
They
came
back
with
a
pretty
solid
recommendation
and
that
is
rather
than
build
for
perhaps
the
1
000
year
event.
Let's
build
for
the
events
we
do
know
occur
along
the
two
major
waterways,
the
one
coming
out
of
chino
canyon
and,
of
course,
the
main,
the
main
tributary
or
the
main
route
for
the
whitewater
river.
Two
smaller
structures
using
pre-fab
bridge
structures
would
cost
only
35
million
dollars,
and
I
know
that's
still
a
lot
of
money,
but
it's
a
whole
lot
less
than
250
million
dollars.
D
We
actually
asked
the
consultant.
Perhaps
if
we
didn't
want
to
spend
35
million
dollars,
what
could
we
do?
And
they
said
well,
if
you're
only
really
interested
in
emergency
access,
build
a
14
foot
wide
structure
and
allow
emergency
vehicles
over
that
over
that
in
bad
weather
and
allow
bikes
and
others
to
use
it
every
day
and
the
same
type
of
approach
could
be
used
on
gene
autry.
D
D
Next,
we
ask
the
consultant,
where
are
the
highest
priority
projects,
and
this
is
not
going
to
come
as
a
surprise
to
you
or
your
residents
or
residents
throughout
the
region,
including
desert,
hot
springs
and
cathedral
city.
The
highest
priority
projects
are
sure
enough.
Getting
across
the
whitewater
river
in
palm
springs,
they're
the
highest
priority,
because
there
are
not
very
many
options
and
we
asked
our
consultant
well.
Would
you
build
those
two
projects?
D
D
E
You
first,
I
want
to
just
make
a
comment:
this
came
up
at
the
cvag
transportation
committee
and
certainly
at
that
time,
mayor
mattis
and
I
were
very
concerned
about
this
issue,
but
that
we
have
advanced
this
far
is
credit
to
the
entire
coachella
valley
and
members
of
the
transportation
committee
across
the
valley
and
some
of
the
strongest
spokes
persons
on
that
committee,
that
this
was
a
regional
issue
where
our
colleagues
that
are
in
mid
and
eastern
coachella
valley.
E
So
this
is
truly
an
example
of
cooperation
on
a
regional
basis
and
with
that
tom,
could
you
give
us
some
of
the
reasoning
why
we
are
you're,
leaning
towards
india,
canyon
as
being
the
highest
priority
or
the
best
place
to
start.
D
Yeah
and
thank
you
for
giving
acknowledgement
to
you,
you
and
your
colleagues
on
the
transportation
committee,
and
we
look
forward
to
having
you
council
member
woods
on
that
committee
this
next
year.
D
One
of
which
is,
you
are
right
on
the
cusp
of
another
project
there,
and
that
is
the
widening
of
the
bridge
over
the
the
railroad.
D
That
is
a
part
of
the
solution
here
and
I
think
another
key
element
frankly
from
your
colleagues
in
desert
hot
springs
is
indian,
provides
a
a
slightly
better
route
out
for
the
entire
city
of
desert.
Hot
springs,
where
palm
gene
autry
is
perhaps
situated
a
little
bit
further
to
the
east,
and
I
think,
in
the
long
run,
indian
might
be
a
little
less
expensive
as
well,
and,
as
you
all
know,
your
development
actually
extends
a
little
further
north
along
indian
than
it
does
on
palm
gene
autry.
D
So
for
physical
as
well
as
transportation
reasons,
it
looks
like
indian
might
be
the
way
to
go
marcus.
Did
I
miss
anything.
F
E
I
would
certainly
concur
with
that
conclusion
that
indians
should
be
our
highest
priority,
and
it
would
seem
to
me
that
we've
got
to
figure
out
how
we're
gonna
well.
This
is
significantly
less.
We
still
have
to
figure
out
how
we're
going
to
raise
the
money
to
to
build
even
prefab
bridges.
D
My
mayor
with
respect
to
raising
money,
we
do
raise
money
and,
as
you
all
know,
we
have
a
half
cent
sales
tax
measure
in
this
county
and
we
have
development
impact
fees
and
yet
we
are
going
to
be
short
on
funds
in
the
long
haul.
What
I
can
assure
you
about
is
getting
across
the
white
water
river
has
been
a
high
priority
project,
not
just
for
desert
hot
springs
or
just
for
palm
springs.
D
It
has
been
one
of
our
highest
priority
projects
for
decades,
so
certainly
in
your
staff's
opinion
and
ultimately
be
you
and
your
colleagues
that
make
the
decision.
This
would
be
one
of
the
highest
ranked
projects
in
this
tpps.
Our
capital
improvement
program
and
I
suspect,
in
future
ones
as
well.
E
Just
last
question
tom:
how
should
we
approach
making
a
decision
as
to
whether
or
not
the
emergency
access
bridge
versus
the
prefab
bridges
that
cars
could
travel
on
on
a
routine
basis?
How
should
we
go
about
that?
Making
that
decision.
D
What
I
would
I'd
suggest
is
is
give
us
a
little
bit
more
time.
As
you
know,
mayor
pro
tem.
This
was
a
study
looking
at
lots
of
projects
and
areas
of
the
western
part
of
the
coachella
valley,
and
we
didn't
dig
down
like
I
want
to.
If
it
is
indian
that
we
want
to
explore.
D
I
think
one
of
our
next
steps
with
your
staff
is
to
engage
a
contractor
to
look
at
specific
design
solutions
on
indian
and
they
ought
to
include
a
perhaps
an
emergency
access,
slash
cv,
link
extending
to
the
north
and
a
longer
term
permanent
structure
that
could
get
vehicles
across
these
waterways
every
day
of
the
year.
So
it
may
not
be
an
either
or
it
might
be
an
and-
and
it
might
be
a
question
of
timing.
B
B
B
A
A
The
goal
to
get
us
back
into
the
red
tier
which
we
were
in
in
september,
is
between
four
and
seven
cases
per
hundred
thousand.
So,
even
though
we're
back
in
the
tier
system,
we
have
a
long
way
to
go,
but
what
being
back
in
the
purple
tier
means
is
that
we
can
return
to
outdoor
dining
and
outdoor
gyms
outdoor
religious
services,
and
we
can
go
back
to
barber
shops,
nail,
salons
and
and
other
personal
services.
So
it's
good
for
people,
it's
good
for
our
residents.
A
So
a
quick
update
on
the
case
counts
since
we
were
pretty
bad
last
week
last
week
was
the
worst
week,
yet
cases
across
the
county
are
about
half
of
what
they
were
last
week.
So
last
week
we
had
34
000
cases
across
the
county
in
seven
days
and
then
the
last
week
it
was
16
000..
So
just
under
half
and
here
in
palm
springs,
it
went
from
438
following
new
year's
to
158
last
week,
so
very
good
improvements
it.
It
also
looks
good
for
hospitals,
even
though
our
icu
rates
are
still
at
zero
percent.
A
There's
a
couple
of
hurdles
that
they're
working
through
as
far
as
the
the
cold
storage
and
some
other
things
we
should
know
within
a
few
weeks
whether
that
will
open
or
not
without
that
one.
We
still
have
the
indio
county
site
for
vaccinations
as
well
as
I
put
a
couple
other
sites
here
in
the
city
that
have
the
vaccinations
available
to
include
desert
aids
project,
who
got
a
thousand
doses
of
the
vaccine
and
anytime,
that
new
vaccinations
are
available.
Those
appointments
book
up
within
a
few
hours.
A
C
E
Middleton.
Thank
you.
Madam
mayor
danny.
The
county
has
been
stating
publicly
that
the
palm
springs
convention
center
is
going
to
open
as
a
vaccination
site
is.
Is
there
any
doubt
in
your
mind
that
that
is
going
to
happen.
A
Mayor
froetem,
I
I
don't
think
that
it's
not
going
to
happen.
I
talked
to
the
convention
center
today
and
there's
just
some
logistics
hurdles
that
they're
trying
to
get
through
because
the
vaccines
require
cold
storage
and
it's
does
the
convention
center
have
that
cold
storage
capability
which
they
don't.
However,
they
can
hold
that
vaccine
for
up
to
five
days.
So
it's
logistics
concerns
at
this
point,
but
it
should
be
a
couple
weeks
and
the
vaccinations
that
will
be
open.
E
All
right,
thank
you.
We've
got
a
lot
of
residents
who
are
really
anxious
to
have
a
location
in
palm
springs
that
they
can
get
to.
B
Thank
you
danny
for
the
presentation
just
to
echo
some
of
the
comments
here.
It
remains
extremely
dangerous,
some
of
the
most
dangerous
times
in
this
pandemic,
and
so,
though,
we're
reopening
based
on
projections
that
are,
you
know
a
few
weeks
out
and
downward
trends.
B
That
does
not
mean
that
it's
safe
and
so
I'd
like
to
urge
people
to
please
stay
at
home
as
much
as
possible,
continue
to
wear
a
mask
in
social
distance
and
not
see
people
outside
of
your
household,
and
hopefully
we
can
get
through
this
and
get
all
of
our
residents
vaccinated.
So
thank
you
to
the
county
for
working
with
us
to
open
up
the
site
of
the
convention
center.
Just
to
be
clear,
the
city
really
has
no
role
in
the
vaccinations.
B
Although
we're
you're
getting
your
hundreds
of
emails
about
the
vaccination
process
and
the
problems,
we
are
porting
those
along
to
the
county,
and
if
you
do
need
help
you
can
reach
out
to
us
and
when
we
can
help
you
get
the
appropriate
resources
to
get
vaccinated,
since
we
want
everyone
to
get
a
vaccination
who
wants
one.
So
thank
you.
The
next
presentation
is
a
covid19
wastewater
treatment,
update
from
the
assistant
city
manager,
marcus,
fuller,.
F
As
you
know,
we've
been
continuing
to
sample
and
test
on
mondays
and
tuesdays
at
our
wastewater
treatment
plant
for
the
covid
virus
in
the
wastewater
stream.
This
is
the
trend
of
the
graph
showing
the
volume
of
covid
per
liter
in
the
wastewater
samples
we
were,
we
started
actually
in
august.
This
is
showing
approximately
73
000
covid
virus
per
liter
back
at
the
end
of
october,
which
we
thought
was
high.
It
then
spiked
over
900
000
at
the
beginning
of
december,
and
went
even
further
to
2.4
million.
F
In
november
and
then
to
a
high
of
2.6
million
around
the
holidays,
luckily,
as
you
see,
the
trend
has
been
decreasing
and
has
dropped
and
it
actually
dropped
last
monday
to
1.1
million
and
then
had
a
slight
uptick
on
our
most
recent
sample
from
last
tuesday
of
1.4
million.
So
what
does
that
number
mean?
F
We're
also
now
having
the
lab
test
to
ensure
whether
or
not
the
samples
taken
from
our
wastewater
stream
have
the
the
uk
variant
and
luckily,
for
us,
the
both
the
samples
tested
last
monday,
tuesday.
We're
not
detected
so
at
this
point,
we're
not
showing
any
of
those
variants.
In
our
wastewater
stream
and
we'll
continue
to
test
for
that
just
so,
we
know
whether
or
not
that
has
been
introduced
into
our
community.
B
C
Great
thank
you,
madam
mayor,
and
I
think
we
have
two
slides
great.
So
ucsf
did
a
full
analysis
of
the
risk.
Increased
risk
of
death
for
central
workers
per
type
of
job
and
what
they
found
were.
The
highest
rates
were
cooks,
people
in
packaging,
agricultural
workers,
bakers
and
those
in
other
food.