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[1. CALL TO ORDER]
IT IS SIX OH FOUR.DO WE, UH, CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER FOR JANUARY 7TH BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE? UM, LET'S START WITH A ROLL CALL.
PRESENT COMMITTEE MEMBER JEFFERSON.
AND COMMITTEE MEMBER STEIN IS NOT HERE.
DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? NO PUBLIC COMMENTS.
[4. MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION ]
0.4 MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION.HEY JOHN, DO WE NEED TO RERUN THE ROLL CALL OR NO? OKAY.
UM, SO 4.1, UH, APPROVAL OF DRAFT MINUTES FOR THE DECEMBER 3RD MEETING.
DO WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THOSE MEETING THOSE MINUTES? YEAH.
OKAY, WE'RE GONNA VOTE ON THE MINUTES.
COMMITTEE MEMBER JEFFERSON? YES.
HOLIDAY DISPLAY REC RECOGNITION RECAP.
SO STAFF RECOMMENDS BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE RECEIVE AN UPDATE FROM JOE PRIME.
WE'LL PASS OVER TO OUR CITY LIAISON FOR AN UPDATE.
SO, UH, WE GOT UH, UH, RESPONSE FROM ONE COMMITTEE MEMBER WITH FIVE ADDRESSES.
SO, UM, WE'RE GONNA SEND THOSE OUT THIS WEEK TO THE FIVE LOCATIONS AND I WANTED TO GIVE YOU GUYS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS FURTHER.
I THOUGHT WE, I THOUGHT WE WERE DOING 'EM IN THE MEETING.
UM, OH, I HAD GIVEN A VERBAL REQUEST FOR A DEADLINE OF CHRISTMAS EVE, BUT IF YOU HAVE SOME YOU CAN PROVIDE TO US HERE, WE'LL ADD THAT TO THE LIST AND THEN IT'S OPEN FOR DISCUSSION.
IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE PROGRAM NEXT YEAR, WE DID ADD THE LETTERHEAD TO THE LETTER.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY OF THE ADDRESSES? I HAVE TWO.
YEAH, THERE WERE GOOD ONES, BUT I DIDN'T EVER STOP AND WRITE DOWN.
IT'S HARD TO SEE THE HOUSE NUMBERS AT NIGHT IS PART OF THE PROBLEM.
OH, I NEED TOO, YOU THAT ONE TOO? I THINK SO.
ONE OF THE RYAN, I'LL CONFIRM.
WE'LL GET THOSE LETTERS OUT NEXT WEEK.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THAT ITEM? OKAY.
YOU GUYS GOTTA GO VISIT MORE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS.
MAYBE WE CAN GET THE BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE ON THE TROLLEY AND THEN WE
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ANYMORE.ELECTION OF 2026, CHAIRPERSON AND VICE CHAIRPERSON.
SO STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS THAT THE BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE NOMINATE AND VOTE FOR CANDIDATES FOR THE OFFICES OF CHAIRPERSON AND VICE PERSON VICE CHAIRPERSON FOR THE BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE FOR 2026.
DO I HAVE ANY SELF NOMINATIONS? IF NOBODY WANTS TO DO IT, I'M HAPPY TO DISCONTINUE DOING IT ALSO.
YOU GET TO GET TO USE THIS SCAFFOLD.
OH, KAREN, WE DIDN'T HAVE THE GAVEL LAST TIME.
BUT YOU KNOW, I, I JUST WANT YOU TO HAVE YOU FUN.
YOU'RE DOING SUCH
YOU KNOW? WHAT ABOUT IF VICE CHAIR, RON, YOU STAY ON.
I'LL, I'LL STAY ON IF EVERYBODY'S OKAY WITH THAT.
I NOMINATE RON TO STAY ON CHAIR.
I'M GONNA BE ON VACATION A LOT THIS YEAR.
JUST SO YOU NO, I'M JUST KIDDING.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR NOMINATION,
YOU, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY YOU HAVE DONE A, A MAGNIFICENT JOB.
THE ONE MEETING I HAD TO RUN, I WAS LIKE, WOO, THAT'S HARDER THAN I THOUGHT.
I LEARNED EVERYTHING FROM KAREN, SO THANK YOU KAREN.
IT GETS PASSED DOWN THROUGH GENERATION.
UH, MOVING ON TO 4.5, NO, SORRY, 4.4.
SO AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR THE 2026 BEAUTIFICATION AWARDS STAFF RECOMMENDS THAT BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE APPOINT AN AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR THE 2026 BEAUTIFICATION AWARDS.
DO WE HAVE EVERY, ANYONE THAT WOULD LIKE TO BE A PART OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR THE 2026 BEAUTIFICATION AWARDS? I CAN DO IT AGAIN.
DO WE NEED TO TAKE A VOTE, UH, ON THAT AD HOC COMMITTEE OR CAN WE JUST UNANIMOUSLY YOU UNANIMOUSLY AGREE THAT THE AD HOC COMMITTEE WILL BE, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER JEFFERSON.
I THINK WE DO NEED TO TAKE A VOTE ON IT.
AND THAT WOULD COVER BOTH, CORRECT? MM-HMM
IFICATION AND I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT.
I, I MOTION A VOTE FOR THE, TO APPROVE THE AD HOC COMMITTEE SUGGESTED FOR BEAUTIFICATION AWARDS FOR 2026.
COMMITTEE MEMBER JEFFERSON? YES.
SO MOVING ON 4.5, DISCUSSION AND DIRECTION ON ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CELEBRATION OF ARBOR DAY.
UM, WE ALREADY HAVE AN AD HOC COMMITTEE IN PLACE FOR ARBOR DAY, IS THAT CORRECT? I BELIEVE SO, YEAH.
AND DOES ANYONE ELSE? JOHN? JOHN? UM, I THINK LAST YEAR WAS REALLY GOOD.
I'M LIKE TO JUST KIND OF BUILD ON WHAT WE STARTED FROM LAST YEAR.
I THINK THE EVENT THAT YOU DID WAS REALLY GOOD.
THE LIBRARY WITH THE ART WAS REALLY GOOD.
UM, WE'LL DO THE TREE TREE DONATIONS AGAIN AND THE TREE PLANTINGS.
UM, AND THE, THE SYCAMORE, DO YOU WANNA DO THE SYCAMORE GROVE AGAIN? YES.
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WILLING TO HOST US AGAIN.WERE THERE THINGS FROM LAST YEAR THAT YOU WOULD DO DIFFERENTLY THIS YEAR? IMPROVE UPON, OR ANY, WE GOT A GOOD AMOUNT OF, YOU GOT A GOOD AMOUNT OF APPLICATIONS FOR THE, FOR THE ART ON THE POETRY AND YEAH.
THAT WAS PARTLY BECAUSE WE WORKED WITH THE POET LAUREATE AND ANGIE AND COLA LIVERMORE ARTS.
SO THEY HAVE ALL THE CONNECTIONS TO THOSE YEAH.
POETS AND SO THAT, AND THEN IT WENT ON PEACH JAR AND MM-HMM
WE DID OUTREACH TO THE STUDENTS.
IT WOULDN'T HURT TO START THINKING ABOUT PUBLICIZING TO THE EARLY RIGHT.
OR SEE IF, BECAUSE THEN THEY CAN SET SOMETHING UP IN CLASS WHERE IT'S LIKE AN ART, ART PROJECT OR SOMETHING IN THE CLASS.
SO MAYBE WE COULD GET WORD OUT TO TEACHERS EARLIER.
AND THEN THE TREE PLANTINGS WERE GOOD, I THINK.
GOT SOME GOOD PICTURES AND FEEDBACK FROM THAT.
IS THERE, UM, AN OFFICIAL CONDUIT FROM OUR CITY COMMITTEES TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT? SHOULD I JUST WORK MY IT'S NOT ALL VOLUNTEER.
THEY KNOW WHO I'M, SO I'LL JUST SEND THINGS OFF THAT CAN GO INTO, UM, THERE'S AN ALL STAFF NEWSLETTER, SO THAT WOULD BE ONE WAY WE DO IT.
I DO HAVE CONTACTS TOO, FROM THE PAST, FROM THE, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
I'M GUESSING THAT YOU ALREADY KNOW THOSE NAMES.
I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAMES OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
SO MAYBE WE, WE CAN AND THEN THEY CAN DISTRIBUTE IT TO THE SCHOOLS.
AND SHE'LL SEND IT TO ALL THE PRINCIPALS.
THERE'S A WHOLE COMMUNICATION.
AND JUST TRY TO GET IT OUT EARLY.
THEN I GUESS WE CAN, WE CAN DISCUSS THE AD HOC COMMITTEE BETWEEN US.
WE'LL TRY TO GET THAT STUFF OUT.
ANY, ANYTHING ELSE THAT ANYONE WANTS TO INPUT ON THAT? WELL, I WOULD JUST ADD THAT LAST YEAR, UM, TRI-VALLEY AIR QUALITY CLIMATE ALLIANCE, UM, PARTICIPATED IN NEIGHBORHOOD FORESTS, FREE TREES FOR CHILDREN.
AND I WAS THE COORDINATOR FOR THAT.
AND I'M GOING TO DO IT AGAIN, YOU KNOW, JUST AS A VOLUNTEER.
BUT MANY CITIES HAVE IT AS A CITY ACTIVITY, TYPICALLY THROUGH THE LIBRARY.
AND WHAT IT IS, IT'S A, IT'S WHERE, UM, PARENTS CAN SIGN UP TO GET A FREE LITTLE S FOR THEIR CHILD.
THIS, THE TREES ARE NATIVES OR FRUIT BEARING TREES APPROPRIATE TO THE CLIMATE.
SO THE CALIFORNIA WILL GET ONE TYPE OF TREE IN OTHER STATES
UM, THE, ALL THE REGISTRATION IS DONE THROUGH THEIR WEBSITE AND THEY HAVE A PORTAL FOR THAT.
THE MAIN, UH, WORK IS IN RECEIVING THE TREE SAPLINGS.
THEY COME IN BOXES ALL, ALL TOGETHER.
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT SEPARATED OUT.
AND, UM, SO THE DISTRIBUTION OFTEN HAPPENS AT A SCHOOL SITE OR AT A LIBRARY WHERE THE FAMILIES COME AND PICK UP THEIR CHILD'S TREE.
SO I'M PLANNING TO DO IT PRETTY MUCH LIKE LAST YEAR, THE HICCUP LAST YEAR WAS THAT THE NURSERY THAT WAS RAISING THE ORIGINAL SPECIES OF TREES, SOMETHING HAPPENED WITH THOSE TREES.
SO THEY HAD TO QUICKLY REGROUP AND SPROUT ANOTHER TYPE OF TREE.
SO WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GET POMEGRANATES AND WE ENDED UP GETTING, UH, HOLLY LEAF CHERRIES, WHICH ARE NATIVE.
UM, SO THE, THE TREES ARRIVED LATE AND MANY OF THE FAMILIES HAD, IT WAS LIKE ALMOST RIGHT AFTER AS SCHOOL WAS LETTING OUT.
SO MANY OF THE FAMILIES MISSED THE COMMUNICATION ABOUT GETTING THEM TREATED.
I ENDED UP WITH A BUNCH OF
THEY'VE BEEN CARED FOR BY VARIOUS VOLUNTEERS.
SO JUST THOUGHT I'D LET YOU KNOW THAT'S HAPPENING.
UM, IS THAT FOR ARBOR DAY? THEY GIVE THEM OUT AT ARBOR DAY? YEAH.
SO IT'S AROUND THE SAME TIME A DAY ARBOR DAY.
SO WE TENDS TO BE AROUND ARBOR DAY.
WE COULD VOLUNTEER THEN AS YEAH.
AS YOU KNOW, AND COLLABORATE THE BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE WITH THE TRI TRI-VALLEY AIR QUALITY.
WE COULD, WE COULD VOLUNTEER TIME AND THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
WAS IT DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THE LIBRARY? NO.
YOU HAD SAID THAT I WAS AT SCHOOL SITES.
AND THEN I ENDED UP JUST ANYONE THAT MISSED THOSE PICKUPS JUST HAD TO COME TO MY HOUSE.
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SO, BUT YOU MENTIONED THAT OTHER CITIES YEAH, OTHER CITIES OFTEN HAVE THEM AT, YOU KNOW, IN FRONT OF THE LIBRARY.'CAUSE THAT'S A PLACE EVERYBODY KNOWS THERE'S PARKING, YOU KNOW? UM, SO THAT'S ANOTHER MODEL.
IS IT A WEEKDAY IN THE, THE WEEKEND? YEAH.
TYPICALLY IT'S LIKE, UM, WELL, IT, IT VARIES.
I MEAN, DEPENDS ON OUR NUMBERS.
BUT, UM, WE HAD STUDENTS FROM ALL OVER THE LIVING ROOM GETTING TREES IN AGES FROM TODDLERS TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
SO, UM, IT'S COOL TO SEE THE DESIRE
AND ONE THING THEY DO ON THE SITE, WHICH IS REALLY NICE, IS THEY ENCOURAGE YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR PHOTO OF YOUR CHILD PLANT WITH THE TREE NEWLY PLANTED AND THEN SUBMIT PHOTOS YEAR AFTER YEAR.
SO YOU SEE THE CHILD GROWING, THE TREE GROWING.
AND, AND IT'S REALLY COOL NOW THEY HAVE LIKE, I THINK THIS IS NOW THE 20TH YEAR OF THIS PROGRAM.
WELL, AND IF THEY HAVE TO SIGN UP FOR THE TREES TOO, THEY WANT IT.
IF THEY'RE MAKING THE EFFORT TO PICK IT UP.
IT'S NOT LIKE EVERYONE GETS IT AT SCHOOL AND THEN THEY JUST GO IN THE TRASH, UM, DETAILED PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS.
UM, SO, AND THEY GET THOSE IN ADVANCE SO THEY KIND OF KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT ABOUT WHAT TREES IS IT THIS YEAR? DO THEY CONFIRM YET OR? NO, WE'LL RELEASE THAT ANNOUNCEMENT IN MARCH.
JUST KEEP US UPDATED THEN YES.
BUT I'D BE INTERESTED IN HELPING TO DISTRIBUTE.
AND WE COULD JUST COLLABORATE WITH THE, WITH THEM.
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT THE CITY COULD HELP WITH AS FAR AS DISTRIBUTION THAT WOULD MAKE IT? UM, I DON'T THINK SO BECAUSE I THINK, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON THE, YOU KNOW, IF WE HAD BANDWIDTH TO, TO MEET PARENTS AT THEIR KIDS SCHOOL, THAT WOULD BE IDEAL FOR THE PARENTS.
BUT WE'LL HAVE TO SEE, UM, HOW MANY SIGNUPS WE GOT.
I THINK I HAD A LITTLE OVER 200 LAST YEAR.
UM, AND THEN HOW MANY VOLUNTEERS WE HAVE? MM-HMM
YOU SAID THEY COME IN A BOX? YES.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE BASICALLY, THEY GIVE YOU A BAG, A PAPER BAG TO PUT THEM IN.
SO THEY'RE, UM, THEY'RE NOT QUITE BARE ROOT.
THEY HAVE SOME PLANTING MIX AROUND THE ROOTS, BUT THEY'RE NOT IN A POT.
SO THEY COULD BE PUT INTO A POT AND NEW THIS YEAR.
I MEAN, THESE ARE ALL FREE AND PARENTS CAN MAKE A DONATION.
NOW THEY'RE OPENING IT UP TO THE COMMUNITY.
ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO WANTS TO MAKE A DONATION COULD HELP FUND TREES FOR MORE KIDS IS WHAT THEIR MARKETING IS.
SO OUR COMMITTEE, WE CAN TALK ABOUT IF WE WOULD WANNA BE INVOLVED IN ANY OF THAT ANGLE OF PROMOTING THIS AS BEAUTIFICATION OF LIVERMORE.
YOU KNOW, I MEAN, BECAUSE IT IS MM-HMM
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT 200 KIDS PLANTED EACH PLANTING A TREE.
AND, AND YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO ORDER EXTRA TREES.
WHERE DID THE TREES COME FROM? YOU KNOW? WELL, I THINK THEY WERE FROM A NURSERY IN OREGON.
I THINK THAT'D BE A GOOD LITTLE EXPANSION ON THE YEAH.
IT'S, IT'S REALLY THE ARBOR DAY MEANINGFUL.
ANYTHING ELSE ON HARPER DAY BEFORE WE MOVE ON? SO YOU'RE PLANNING TO DO A TREE AT EVERY SCHOOL? WE'LL DO THE TREE, YEAH.
WE'LL DO THE TREE DONATIONS AT SCHOOL AGAIN AND THE PLANTINGS.
AND THEN WE COULD DO THE, THE ART COMPETITION AGAIN.
AND ARE YOU, IF THAT'S ALL GONNA HAPPEN IN APRIL, THAT
THE PLANTING IS REALLY NICE TO BE INVOLVED TOO.
AND THEN THERE'LL BE A SPRINGTOWN PLANTING AGAIN, I'M SURE.
ARE THERE ANY PLANS FOR THE CALIFORNIA PART DAY? UH, NO.
I MEAN, BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA SHIP US THE TREES AROUND THE APRIL DATE AND WE HAVE THAT DATE WITH SPRINGTOWN, SO THAT'S BETTER FOR MY STUFF TOO IN THE, IN APRIL, LIKE MARCH IS GONNA HAPPEN.
I YOU HAD MENTIONED THAT YOU WERE THINKING ABOUT DOING YEAH, BUT I DON'T HAVE CONTROL OVER WHEN WE GET TREES.
NO, I, I DIDN'T MEAN AS FAR AS THE TREES, I MEANT.
THE THING IS THE WEATHER MAY BE MORE VARIABLE IN MARCH
BUT YEAH, THAT IS A GOOD POINT TO KIND OF SPREAD OUT ALL OF THE, 'CAUSE THAT WAS SO INTENSE THAT LAST WEEK OF APRIL LAST YEAR.
MAYBE A CALIFORNIA SPECIFIC ART COMPETITION OR SOMETHING.
IT COULD BE
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I BELIEVE IT'S EARLY IN MARCH.IT IS THE FIRST WEEK IN MARCH SO THAT IT MAKES IT EVEN MORE A YOU WITH WEATHER.
BUT ANYWAY, I JUST REMIND BECAUSE YOU HAD MENTIONED THAT IT WOULD BE NICE TO BE THROUGH SOMETHING.
MAYBE WE CAN, BUT BETWEEN THE AD HOC COMMITTEE WE CAN PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER AND PROPOSE IT BY DOING THE ART, DOING THAT KIND OF ACTIVITY IN MARCH.
IT'S A BRIGHT SEGUE INTO, OKAY, HERE'S WHAT WE'RE DOING IN APRIL FOR NATIONAL RBA.
SO KIND OF RAISE AWARENESS OF WHAT WE DO.
WE SHOULD START A, UM, AN EMAIL DISCUSSION BETWEEN US.
AND, AND YEAH, LET'S SET IT UP.
DOESN'T SAY ON HERE MARCH 7TH.
SO, WE'LL, WE'LL OPEN A LINE OF COMMUNICATION THEN AND GET SOME PROPOSALS PUT TOGETHER.
IT, IF YOU KNOW THE PARKS SAY, OH, IT'S TOO RISKY, OR WE, WE ALREADY PLANNED OUT EVERYTHING.
IF THE PARK ISN'T REALISTIC, THEN WE CAN SEE ABOUT USING THE LIBRARY.
DO THEY HAVE A ROOM? THEY HAVE LIKE A COMMUNITY ROOM? MM-HMM
SO MOVING ON THEN, UH, 4.6, DISCUSSION AND DIRECTION REGARDING VOLUNTEERING AND CITY NATURE CHALLENGE.
SO LAST YEAR I COORDINATED THIS, UM, FOR TVC TRI VALLEY CONSERVANCY.
UM, AND THIS YEAR THEY SAID THAT THEY DON'T WANNA BE THE LEAD ORGANIZING BODY FOR IT.
THEY'LL, THEY'LL, UM, TYPICALLY WHAT ALL THE PARTICIPANTS DID WAS I REACHED OUT TO L-A-R-P-D AND TBC AND A VARIETY OF PLAYERS TO SEE WHO WOULD WANNA LEAD AN OUTING FOR THE CITY NATURE CHALLENGE.
BASICALLY TO LEAD AN OUTING, YOU HAD TO BE FAMILIAR WITH THE INATURALIST APP AND BE ABLE TO GUIDE OTHER PEOPLE AND MAKING OBSERVATIONS WITH THEIR PHONES, UM, TO RECORD OBSERVATIONS OF BIODIVERSITY WHEREVER YOU LED A LITTLE WALK.
SO, FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF OUR FIRST ONES WAS JUST HERE AT ROBERTSON PARK ALONG THE ROYAL MOCHO AND IT WAS A MIX OF, IT WAS FAMILIES WITH KIDS AND EVERYBODY WAS SUPER EXCITED.
IT WAS AN HOUR AND UM, IT WAS A HUGE, HUGE HIT WITH EVERYBODY.
SO, UM, THIS YEAR I'VE, UH, CITY NATURE CHALLENGES A GLOBALLY, RIGHT? SO I HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO BE, AGAIN, THE AREA COORDINATOR, ALTHOUGH I DON'T HAVE THE BACKING OF TVC TO BE LIKE AN ORGANIZING ORGANIZATION.
SO MANY CITIES DO THIS AS A CITY ACTIVITY.
'CAUSE IT IS CALLED CITY NATURE CHALLENGE.
SO IT OCCURRED TO ME IF LIVERMORE, THE CITY OF THEMORE WOULD WANT TO BE SOMEHOW OFFICIALLY INVOLVED.
UM, IT WOULD JUST REQUIRE LIKE A STAFF LIAISON TYPE PERSON AND TYPICALLY INVOLVED OUR PEOPLE INTO WILDLIFE BIOLOGY.
AND I KNOW WE PROBABLY HAVE CONSULTANTS, I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE ANY STAFF PERSON FOR THAT, BUT, UM, BUT IT WOULD BE COOL TO COORDINATE IF THERE IS SOMEBODY IN THE CITY, UM, DEPARTMENTS THAT WOULD WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN ANY WAY.
COULD IT BE A COMMITTEE? DO THE, AND YOU SAID L-A-R-P-D-U IS A NO GO.
LIKE THEIR BIOLOGISTS AND WELL, THEY PARTICIPATED, UM, BY LEADING OUTINGS, BUT THEY WERE NOT THE LEAD ORGANIZATION AND THEY DON'T WANT TO BE, WELL I ACTUALLY HAVEN'T ASKED ELLIE, BUT MY UM, SENSE FROM PREVIOUS EMAILS IS THEY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF BANDWIDTH TO ADD MORE THINGS.
THEY WERE VERY HAPPY TO, UM, PLUG INTO THESE TWO EVENTS THAT I, WE'VE GONE OVER.
BUT, UM, THEY DIDN'T WANNA COORDINATE AND ORGANIZE AND ADD AND PROMOTE AND ALL OF THAT.
AND WITH THE SAME NATURE CHALLENGE THING THAT I DID NOT UNDERSTAND, IT'S ONLY THEY'RE NOT INTERESTED IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS, SAY RIGHT.
THEY WELL THEY ARE IF YOU HAVE WILD SPECIES COMING IN.
BUT THAT BOBCAT WALKING ACROSS THE, OR THE DEER MAYBE.
YOU KNOW, THEY WANT WILD PLANTS.
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UM, COULD YOU BE THE, THE, WOULD YOU WANT TO BE THE LIAISON AS A COMMITTEE MEMBER ON BEHALF OF THE CITY? COULD WE DO THAT? DO YOU KNOW? I GUESS WE'D HAVE TO LOOK INTO IT MORE.SO I, UH, TALKED TO, UH, CITY STAFF ABOUT THIS AND I DID YOU SAY YOU WERE GONNA BE AN AREA COORDINATOR? WELL, I JUST KNOW I HAVE ALL THE CONTACTS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKELY TO LEAD AN OUT.
AND SO WHAT WE SET UP LAST TIME WAS WE HAD OUR OWN LIKE PAGE.
SO IN CITY NATURE CHALLENGE, WE ARE PART OF THE GREATER BAY AREA.
SO WE ARE AUTOMATICALLY UMBRELLAED UNDER THE BAY AREA CITY NATURE CHALLENGE.
SO OUR NUMBERS, IF WE SET UP LIKE A LIVER, I HAD A LIVERMORE VALLEY CITY NATURE CHALLENGE PROJECT.
WITHIN THAT NATURALIST, YOU MAKE PROJECTS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO JOIN THE PROJECT TO HAVE YOUR OBSERVATION COUNTED FOR LIVERMORE BECAUSE IT'S ALL BASED ON GPS.
SO WHEREVER YOU MAKE YOUR OBSERVATION WITHIN THOSE FOUR DAYS, WE'LL GET CREDITED TO LIVERMORE.
BUT IT ALSO THEN WE ARE, ALL OF OUR OBSERVATIONS ARE CREDITED TO THE BAY AREA.
SO LIVERMORE DOESN'T SHOW UP AS A DISTINCT CITY ON THE LIST, BUT, UM, THERE'S STILL, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN STILL SEE HOW MANY OBSERVATIONS ARE BEING MADE.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS I DID AS, AS WELL AS REACHING OUT TO LIKE OUR, OUR NATURALISTS, UM, PROFESSIONALS THROUGH EAST BAY REGIONAL AND LA WAS LOOK AT WHO ARE THE HEAVIEST USERS OF INATURALIST IN OUR AREA.
THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF OBSERVATIONS.
AND I GOT A GOOD RESPONSE FROM, I THINK I EMAILED THE TOP 20 AND I THINK AT LEAST EIGHT OF 'EM PARTICIPATED.
ONE OF THEM WAS THIS YOUNG WOMAN FROM LAS POSITAS COLLEGE WHO WAS, SHE RACKED UP SO MANY OBSERVATIONS.
IT WAS LIKE A REALLY SATISFYING THING THAT SHE FOUND HER, HER CUS SO ANN, WHAT'S SO ENGAGING YOUTH IS ANOTHER COOL ASPECT.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ORGANIZER AND AN AREA COORDINATOR? BECAUSE I THOUGHT AN DOES AN AGENCY HAVE TO BE THE ORGANIZER? WELL, THEY, THEY KIND OF ASK YOU FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION.
SO I JUST PUT IN TRI-VALLEY AIR QUALITY CLIMATE ALLIANCES BACKUP, UM, FOR THIS, FOR WHEN I PUT IN MY, YOU KNOW, MY APP, I GUESS IT'S AN APPLICATION OR WHATEVER TO, TO PARTICIPATE FOR THIS CURRENT YEAR.
BUT BASICALLY THE BAY AREA GROUP, WE ALL KNOW EACH OTHER NOW.
AND SO, UM, THE ORGANIZERS ACTUALLY, THIS WHOLE THING STARTED OUT OF CAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND LA MUSEUM OF THAT WHOLE HISTORY.
SO THOSE TWO BIG MUSEUMS HAD TEAMS STARTING THIS WHOLE THING AND IT'S JUST BLOSSOMED INCREDIBLY.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER NAMES BACKING ME UP, YOU KNOW, COULD YOU JU COULD YOU PUT CITY A LITTLE MORE BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE IN THERE AS WELL? I WOULDN'T WANNA PRESUME TO DO THAT UNLESS I HAD WHATEVER PERMISSION IS NEEDED TO USE THE CITY NAME.
AND UM, THAT WAS PART OF OUR CONVERSATION, THAT THEY'RE, THEY WANT US TO BE A PART OF THE PROGRAM.
UM, AND I SAID, WELL, LET'S, UH, HAVE THIS DISCUSSION AT OUR JANUARY MEETING AND THEN WE'LL WE'LL FOLLOW UP.
SO IF YOU'RE UH, IF TV AQUA CAN'T DO IT, THEN THE CITY CAN DO IT.
UH, AND YOU CAN BE THE LIAISON WITH THEM.
UH, YEAH, I THINK THAT IT, UM, IT GIVES THE CITY REALLY GOOD OPTICS, RIGHT.
AND COMING OUT OF THIS COMMITTEE, IT'S KIND OF ANOTHER LIKE WAY TO EXPAND THE DEFINITION OF BEAUTIFICATION.
YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY ABOUT RECOGNIZING AND AND PRESERVING OUR BIODIVERSITY HERE.
UM, WHEN IS IT, SO IT'S AGAIN, THE CRUNCH TIME.
IT'S LIKE, UH, APRIL 24TH THROUGH THE 28TH, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO GREEN WEEK, IT'S FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY OF THAT.
SO THE CITY ITSELF DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO LIKE, DO ANYTHING? OR DO WE NEED THE CITY TO, WELL, WE WANT THE CITY AS A PROMOTIONAL PARTNER.
SO YOU ARE THE ON THE GROUND DO GET, GET STUCK UP.
AND AS AN EXTENSION OF ARBOR DAY ACTIVITIES, WE COULD HAVE A CITY NATURE CHALLENGE OUTING.
FROM THE BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE.
YEAH, WE DID ANOTHER ONE, MAYBE TWO AND WE CAN'T OKAY.
BUT YEAH, WE HAD, UM, THERE WERE SO MANY OUTINGS,
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OVER THAT JUST THAT WEEKEND.BUT I WOULD, UH, WELCOME ANY OF US, YOU KNOW, TO, YOU KNOW, WE COULD HAVE A LITTLE HUDDLE AND ALL GET ON OUR NATIONALIST, MAKE SURE EVERYBODY'S FAMILIAR, COMFORTABLE.
AND NOW THEY HAVE I AI INVOLVED SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO CROSS REFERENCE THE SPECIES.
PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING THE ID POPS UP.
AND THEN THERE ARE, AFTER THE OFFICIAL, UM, DATES, THERE'S A WEEK FOR IDENTIFICATION.
SO ALL THESE, UM, INATURALIST, NERDY, NERDY TYPES ARE GOING THROUGH ALL THE OBSERVATIONS AND CONFIRMING THEM.
SO IT'S NOT UP TO US TO ABSOLUTELY BE POSITIVE.
WE CAN CHECK THE ONE THAT'S MOST LIKELY, BUT THEN IT'LL BE IDENTIFI.
AND ANOTHER THING THAT REALLY BOOST US WAS WE HAD, UM, SPRINGTOWN NATURE NATURAL PRESERVE.
WE HAD ALL THEIR DATA INCLUDED IN OUR LIVERMORE AREA, AND THAT'S PUT ON BY A-C-R-C-D WITH THE CITY OF LIVERMORE IS INVOLVED IN THAT.
I GUESS THEY HAVE A CONTRACT WITH A-C-R-C-P TO MANAGE AND, UM, AND DOCUMENT THOSE VERNAL WEAPONS AND THE, THE ALCOHOL AND SINK AND ALL THAT VERY RARE HABITAT.
SO THAT GAVE US A LOT OF LIKE RARE SPECIES AND ENDANGERED SPECIES REALLY BUMPED US UP.
SO THAT PRETTY COOL TO RECOGNIZE THE CITIES AND INVOLVEMENT WITH THAT PRESERVE.
BUT A-C-R-C-D COORDINATES IT AND THEY HAD A LOT OF, THEY HAD A GOOD TERM AND THERE WAS INTEREST FROM THE CITY IN BEING A PART OF THIS, YOU SAID YES TO BEING THE ORGANIZER.
I THINK THAT'S A, SO WHO WAS, WHO WOULD I CONTACT ABOUT THE PROMOTION OF THE, UM, BECAUSE IT USED TO BE STEPHANIE
IS IT STILL, UM, I THINK SHE'S OVERSEEING IT NOW.
BUT LET ME CHECK IN WITH CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE.
UM, IF YOU WANT TO EMAIL ME DIRECTLY, UM, I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO MAYBE SEE RESULTS FROM LAST YEAR'S CHALLENGE AND I CAN, I CAN FORWARD THAT TO THE COMMITTEE SO THEY'RE AWARE, UM, OF, OF THINGS THAT HAPPENED.
'CAUSE I ALSO, UH, BELIEVE THAT IT, IT ENCOURAGES PEOPLE TO PLANT NATIVES.
UM, SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS A COMPONENT LAST YEAR.
NO, IT'S NOT REALLY ABOUT PLANTING ANYTHING.
UM, BUT YOU DO SEE THE BENEFIT OF ALL THESE NATIVES WHEN YOU SEE HOW MUCH LIFE IS OUT THERE, NATIVE AWARENESS AND THEN IT MAKES YOU WANT TO CREATE, YOU KNOW, THAT NATURAL HABITAT IN YOUR OWN YARD, WHICH IS, SO ANALYTICS MIGHT BE HELPFUL FOR EVERYBODY TO SEE.
AND THEN THAT WOULD HELP US COME UP WITH OUTREACH AND ALL OF THAT STUFF GOING FORWARD.
YEAH, GO AHEAD AND SEND IT TO ME AND I'LL FIND THE APPROPRIATE UH OKAY.
IF, IF I NEED A NUDGE, DON'T HESITATE.
IT SOUNDS LIKE BETTER THIS YEAR.
THANK YOU ANN FOR BRINGING THAT UP, MAKING US ALL AWARE.
I THINK IT'S EXCITING TO, I THINK THAT'S GONNA BE FUN.
THERE'S A LOT OF COMMUNITIES THAT ARE NOT, YOU KNOW, YOU THINK IN THE BAY AREA WE HAVE EVERY CITY WOULD WANT TO BE DOING IT, BUT KNOW, I THINK THAT'S GONNA BE FUN.
[5. COMMITTEE REPORTS AND MATTERS INITIATED BY STAFF AND COMMITTEE ]
0.5 COMMITTEE REPORTS AND MATTERS INITIATED BY STAFF AND COMMITTEE.CAN WE DO WE HAVE A, AN AGENDA FOR FEBRUARY? UM, SO FAR ALL I HAVE IS AN UPDATE FROM THE ARBOR DAY AD HOC COMMITTEE.
OKAY, THAT'S, I WAS GONNA SUGGEST THAT.
SO I THINK THE AD HOC COMMITTEE WE CAN GET TOGETHER AND, UH, BY THE FEBRUARY MEETING HAVE A BREAKDOWN OF WHAT WE PLAN AND THEN I HAVE HERE WE'LL TRY TO PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER, AN ACTIVITY FOR CALIFORNIA ARBOR DAY.
IF IT'S JUST LIKE A, A COMPETITION OR SOMETHING FOR YEAH.
AND YOU NEED TO CONTACT L ARP D AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
SO DO WE ALSO WANT TO JUST GO UP PACKET? SURE, YEAH.
I DON'T KNOW IF I TOLD THE WHOLE COMMITTEE JUST THE BEAUTIFICATION,
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UH, AWARD AD HOC COMMITTEE.THE ITEM FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD PRESENTATION WAS MOVED TO THE FEBRUARY 9TH CITY COUNCIL MEETING SO THAT THE, UH, ONE OF THE AWARDEES CAN ATTEND.
WHAT, SORRY, WHAT DATE WAS THAT GONNA BE? IT'S GONNA BE AFTER OUR FEBRUARY MEETING.
SO WE CAN DISCUSS WHO'S GONNA DO THE, OKAY.
I THINK CAT, I HAVE, I HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO GREAT.
NO, NO THAT SO I CAN LINK UP STUFF OR YOU, I WILL SAY, I'LL SAY I COULD OPEN, I COULD OPEN UP A LINK A COUPLE DAYS AGO, BUT THAT WAS UP TODAY AND I HAVE SOME SUGGESTIONS.
IS THIS AN AD HOC COMMITTEE THING? YEAH, I HAVE.
SO I'LL SUGGEST I HAVE SOME, I'LL PUT THEM IN AND THEN GUYS CAN SEE.
OH YEAH, YOU NEED, IT'LL SEND YOU SOME, YEAH, YOU HAVE TO LOG IN TO GO ON THE, ANY OF THE SHARED DOCUMENTS.
BUT LIKE, WHAT WOULD I PUT IN? ANDY, LET ME, LET ME HELP YOU AFTER THE MEETING.
YEAH, I'LL MAKE SURE YOU CAN GET IN INTO THESE FILES.
UM, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING ELSE THEY WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO FEBRUARY MEETING OR DOES CITY HAVE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS OF STUFF WE SHOULD GO OVER IN FEBRUARY? I HAVE NO RECOMMENDATIONS.
DO WE HAVE A MARCH AGENDA ALREADY? NO.
I GUESS WE WOULD WANT, YOU KNOW, JUST CONTINUAL UPDATES ON PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE CHALLENGE RIGHT.
WHICH WE'RE, ARE WE GONNA TRANS, ARE WE GONNA KIND OF MERGE THAT WITH ARBOR DAY? OR YOU WANNA DO IT SEPARATE? IT COULD ALL BE YEAH.
MERGE WITH ARBOR DAY AROUND SAME TIME.
ARE WE ALLOWED TO DO THAT? YEAH.
MERGE IT AS AN ARBOR DAY ACTIVITY AND THEN WE CAN HAVE AN AD HOC COMMITTEE ALSO DOING CITY NATURE CHALLENGE STUFF TOO.
UM, SO WE'LL GET TOGETHER AND BRING SOMETHING TO THE FEBRUARY MEETING THEN ON ALL THAT STUFF.
ANDY, I SAW A HAND GO UP AND THEN GO DOWN.
ANDY, CAN YOU TURN THE MIC ON PLEASE? THANKS.
UM, THERE ARE TWO THINGS I WANT TO TALK ABOUT.
UM, THE FIRST THING IS, UM, TALKING ABOUT LIKE FUTURE CLEANUP EVENTS.
THAT WAS SOMETHING WE HAD DISCUSSED LAST YEAR.
AND SO I WAS GONNA LIKE PROPOSE SOME POTENTIAL LOCATIONS, GET EVERYBODY'S FEEDBACK AND THEN FIGURE OUT HOW WE WANT TO PLAN IT.
LIKE DAYS AND, UH, TIME, HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN COME, THAT SORT OF STUFF BECAUSE THAT IS SOMETHING I'M REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT.
AND DEFINITELY THINK, UM, DEFINITELY THINK IT'LL BE GOOD FOR THE CITY, BUT ALSO FOR PEOP THE COMMUNITY AS WELL.
SO DEFINITELY WANT TO GO OVER THAT.
AND THEN THE SECOND THING I KIND OF WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS, UM, I SEE, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS FALLS UNDER BEAUTIFICATION, BUT JUST HEAR ME OUT ON THIS.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE BEEN DOING SINCE LAST YEAR IS CLEANING OUT STORM DRAINS.
AND I'VE NOTICED THAT THERE'S, IT'S LIKE THE ONES THAT ARE CLOGGED UP ARE CLOGGED UP WITH A LOT OF LEAVES.
AND I'VE JUST BEEN REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
UM, BECAUSE THERE WAS, I, I HELPED CLEAR AWAY SOME FLOODS ON LIKE RAILWAY RAILROAD AVENUE AND IT'S BECAUSE OF LEAVES AND I'M JUST CONCERNED ABOUT THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I'VE HYDROPLANED BEFORE AND IT'S NOT GOOD
I, I WOULD, I WOULD, I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT TOPIC BECAUSE I WALK COUGH HANSEN, UH, WEST AND IN THAT DEVELOPMENT IN THERE, I FREQUENTLY SEE PEOPLE BLOWING THEIR LEAVES INTO THE STORM DRAINS AND JUST HAVING MORE OF A PUBLIC AWARENESS THAT THAT'S NOT A GOOD THING TO DO.
I JUST DON'T KNOW IF IT FALLS UNDER BEAUTIFICATION TECHNICALLY.
SO WE CAN ADD AN ITEM TO FEBRUARY A DISCUSSION WITH ANDY.
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ON TRASH PICKUP AND STORM DRAIN CLEANUP.DO YOU GUYS AGREE? DID THEY HAVE, DO YOU HAVE A MAJORITY THAT WANNA BRING THAT ITEM TO FEBRUARY'S MEETING? I'M NOT REALLY SURE.
PRESENTA PRESENTATION FROM ANDY ON, UH, TRASH CLEANUP LOCATIONS AND GOT IT.
BUT TO ME IT'S A, IT'S A MAINTENANCE ISSUE AND THE CITY HAS A SCHEDULE OF WHEN THEY LET THE RESIDENTS KNOW WE'RE PICKING UP LEAVES, EVERYBODY BLOW YOUR LEAVES INTO PILES, WE'RE GONNA COME BY, SCOOP 'EM ALL UP.
I MEAN, WE HAVE A HUGE HOOP OF LEAVES MOMENTARILY.
UM, EVENTUALLY THEY DO ALL GO WHERE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO GO, WHICH IS THEY DEGRADE, THEY EITHER GET PICKED UP OR THEY DEGRADE.
THEY GO INTO THE STORM DRAIN, THEY GO TO THE BAY.
SO TO ME, LIKE WE GET THESE INUNDATING STORMS THAT LEAVES PILE UP, FLOOD BACKS UP, AND THEN WITHIN A DAY OR TWO IT'S GONE.
I'M NOT SURE THAT OUR COMMITTEES NO GOT ANYTHING TO SAY YEAH.
AND THEN WITHIN A, BECAUSE WE DON'T GET ANY MORE RAIN UNTIL NEXT YEAR.
AND YOU'RE RIGHT, SOME, SOME HOMEOWNERS OR, OR LANDSCAPERS ARE, SOME ARE JUST A LITTLE BIT IGNORANT AND BLOWING STUFF IN THERE AND SWEEPING IT TOWARDS THE DRAIN VERSUS YEAH.
KEEPING IT AWAY FROM THOSE STORM DRAINS.
WHICH, AND I DO SEE SOME PEOPLE RAKING STUFF AWAY FROM IT, WHICH IS GREAT.
'CAUSE YOU DON'T WANT THE, YOU WANT THE WATER GOING IN THERE, NOT ANY KIND OF DEBRIS.
SO, YOU KNOW, JUST EDUCATE PEOPLE ABOUT IT.
MEAN MY, I THINK IT'S OUTTA OUR, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S IN OUR LINE OR OUT OF OUR MIND, BUT I JUST THOUGHT AN EDUCATION ABOUT THAT.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE CITY MAYBE JUST WHAT DOES THE CITY DO TO EDUCATE HOMEOWNERS? NOT THE THINGS IN THE STORM DRAIN.
OR, OR EVEN KEEPING THINGS OUT OF THE BETTER SO THEY DON'T WASH INTO THE STORM DRAIN.
WELL, PART OF THE PROBLEM IS THE CITY ASKS YOU TO PILE UP THE LEAVES IN THE GUTTER SO THAT THEY CAN COME BY WITH THEIR MACHINES AND PICK IT UP.
SO THAT'S WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO.
THEY'RE NOT GONNA COME ON YOUR PROPERTY AND PICK UP YOUR LEAVES.
IF YOU WANT YOUR LEAVES PICKED UP, THEY'LL SCOOP IT UP.
I DON'T KNOW THAT WE REALLY WANNA HAVE A FULL DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS UNDER, UNDER THIS.
I THINK THIS IS, I WOULDN'T PUT IN.
SO, SO WE'RE NOT GONNA, WE'RE ARE WE UNDER, ARE WE UNDER AGREEMENT THAT IT'S MORE OF A PUBLIC WORKS YES.
AS OPPOSED TO BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE? SO, WE'LL, I, I, I WAS JUST ASKING INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THE CITY DOES.
IF YOU WANNA EMAIL ME, I CAN RESPOND MORE.
OR JOE, CAN YOU PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER AND WE SEND IT OUT YEAH.
IN REGARDS TO STORM DRAIN CLEANUP.
AND THEN, AND THEN FOR THE, FOR THE FEBRUARY MEETING, WE'RE GONNA ADD, UM, PRESENTATION FROM ANDY OR A DISCUSSION FROM ANDY ON TRASH CLEANUP SITES.
SO, BECAUSE I DO WE HAVE A MAJORITY AGREEMENT ON THAT.
I WAS THINKING ABOUT DOING IT LIKE NOT JUST ONCE OR TWICE, BUT MAYBE LIKE THREE OR FOUR TIMES THIS YEAR POSSIBLE.
SO WE CAN ADD IT TO CURRENT FUTURE AGENDAS AS NEEDED.
WE'LL GET SOMETHING FOR FEBRUARY.
I'M GONNA ADJOURN THE MEETING.