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Oath of Office 12/06/16APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON FEBRUARY 14, 2017 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES OF AN ORANGE, CALIFORNIA ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING DECEMBER 6, 2016 The City Council of the City of Orange, California convened on December 6, 2016, at 6:00 p.m. in a Regular Meeting in the Council Chamber, 300 E. Chapman Avenue, Orange, California. 6:00 P.M. SESSION OATH OF OFFICE CEREMONY 1. OPENING Mayor Smith opened the meeting at 6:00 p.m. 1.1 INVOCATION Given by Orange City Clerk, Mary E. Murphy. 1.2 PRESENTATION OF COLORS Presented by Orange Police Department Color Guard. 1.3 PLEDGE OFALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG Led by City Manager, Rick Otto. 1.4 NATIONAL ANTHEM Sung by Orange High School Chamber Singers Quartet. 1.5 ROLL CALL PRESENT - Alvarez, Whitaker, Smith, Nichols ABSENT - Murphy 2. PUBLIC COMMENTS - None 3. OATH OF OFFICE Administration of Oath of Office to City Clerk, Mary E. Murphy. Administration of Oath of Office to City Treasurer, Richard Rohm. Administration of Oath of Office to Councilmember, Mark A. Murphy. • Councilmember Murphy was sworn in prior to meeting. Administration of Oath of Office to Councilmember, Michael Alvarez. Administration of Oath of Office to Mayor, Teresa "Tita" Smith. CITY COUNCIL MINUTES DECEMBER 6, 2016 3. OATH OF OFFICE (Continued) Comments by newly appointed City Clerk Mary E. Murphy: I would like to thank the City Council and most importantly, the citizens of Orange for your continued support. I am starting my fourteenth year as City Clerk, and as City Clerk it is my job to record and preserve City documents and all City actions. Back in the old days the City Clerk was known as the Recorder. It was their job to record what went on in the City. So, for example, we have in the City Clerk's office all the original Minutes, Resolutions, and Ordinances from every Council meeting ever held, even back to the very first meeting that was held in 1888. Thank you again, it continues to be an honor to serve in my hometown where I grew up and went to school as a Spartan. So, thank you, I appreciate your support. Comments by newly appointed City Treasurer Richard Rohm: First, I want to begin by thanking a variety of people who have encouraged me and supported me through the last year and a half. I especially want to thank my immediate family, my extended family, and friends for the support I have received from them. Specifically my wife, Christine, my girls, Elise and Jalisa, and of course my parents, John and Evonne Rohm. I would also like to thank the Finance Department personnel for the City of Orange. I greatly appreciate their hard work of their day -to -day jobs keeping our City running smoothly and on the right track. Finally, I would also like to thank our City Council, led by the Honorable Mayor Smith, who back in February of 2015 unanimously appointed me to serve as the Treasurer for the City of Orange. I appreciate their vote of confidence and the continuing support and encouragement you have given me for the last two years. Fellow citizens of the City of Orange. It is a privilege and an honor for me to support and serve my hometown as the Treasurer for the City of Orange. I have been a resident of this community for the majority of my life. I am grateful for the opportunity to give back to this community. I am thankful for the current City Council and the Councils and leaders of the past who have maintained a conservative approach to the management of City finances. My hope is that the City Council will continue to maintain this approach for the long -term future to keep the City of Orange fiscally responsible. As the Treasurer for the City of Orange, I will continue to work on behalf of the citizens of our City. I am committed to overseeing and reviewing of the City Finance Department. Making certain that the City staff is properly managing the City's investments. I am committed to the City of Orange Stated Investment Policy objectives ordered as follows: safety of the investment, liquidity of the investment, and rate and return on the investment. I also consider transparency and accountability a part of my highest commitment to the citizens of the City of Orange. In the next four years I have four main goals I would like to maintain or expand upon. 1. I want to continue to work with the City Council and staff to maintain and promote good fiscal practices and investment choices while meeting all the short and long term cash flow demands. 2. Continue to monitor, review and enhance financial internal control procedures verifying that the checks and balances are in place and are properly working. PAGE 2 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES DECEMBER 6, 2016 Comments by newly appointed City Treasurer Richard Rohm (Continued) 3. Continue to verify the investments of the City are within the guidelines of the State laws and the City Statement of Investment Policies. 4. Maintain my independence from the Council and staff to insure the City of Orange has an independent watchdog of the finances working on their behalf. In the past couple of days or so I recently discovered that there is a word that defines three roles in my professional life. The word is Public. I am a Certified Public Accountant, licensed in the State of California. I hold a Public office as the Treasurer of the City of Orange. And, I am here to serve the Public, you the citizens of this great City. I am accountable to all of you, the public at large in these roles of my business and community services. I am honored to have served as the Treasurer of the City of Orange for the last year and a half and I hope to continue serving many years in the future. You have my assurance that I will serve our citizens of the City of Orange with the best of my ability. Thank you once again to all of you for allowing me to serve you. Comments by newly appointed Councilmember Michael Alvarez: I want to thank everybody that helped to get me here. You can't do this on your own and from my background, many of you know me from the Army -Navy Store, we have our Real Estate Business and it takes other family members to free me up to do the things I want to do as a Councilmember. I especially want to thank my brother and sisters and my mother who is here, that allow me to do that. Because of that, I am able to devote a lot of time to be the Councilman I feel I need to be and want to be when I was first elected back in 1996. Again I want to thank my family, April, my wife, and my two daughters that put up with so much stuff. I think we all know, all of us with kids, it hurts them and it makes them laugh. They enjoy the things about their Dad being a Councilmember and sometimes it's not easy. I appreciate all the support that you guys give me and all the good comments and the things you tend to tell me. To my friends — my two best friends are here, Dan Correa, who is a Planning Commissioner, he is the one who walked into my office back in `96 and said I would like to see you run for office. And, my best friend Bob, who I turned to and said we need to do this and he said "let's get it done." So, that's where I started in `96 and in kind of reflecting back from `96 to 2016. When I was elected the City was going through the first year of the County bankruptcy. The City had lost a lot of money. We went through a lot of things at the time and actually during that time, you couldn't really use a credit card here at City Hall. And looking at our staff, I remember telling them I was elected and that I could buy a car on this thing called the Internet but I had to fill out a card to turn the water on at my house. We have gone from there to where we have an outstanding and very advanced City Hall. Again, I would like to thank my supporters. As we all know, it takes a lot of money to run for Council, and the Post Office usually takes most of it and the printer takes what is left. You all get to read it and say, is that what he is really like. I would like to thank all the PAGE 3 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES DECEMBER 6, 2016 Comments by newly appointed Councilmember Michael Alvarez (Continued): people that have supported me and they know who they are. I have been calling them since the election to personally thank them for writing those checks that power these campaigns. As much as I love running campaigns, it was a blessing to not do one this year. I think my colleagues totally agree with that. I would like to thank the people of Orange. Now, completing twelve years of being on the Council, eight from 1996 to 2004 and 2012 to 2016. I really enjoy all the comments I get from people in Orange. I save lots of them. I have letters, I can't believe somebody sat at their kitchen table and wrote to me, just these heart felt letters of issues, that back in `96 we dealt with and now in 2016, they are all different and new. It just goes to show how this City is maturing and growing and that issues change. Finally, the other people I would like to thank are the ones that trained me to be a Councilmember, Mike Spurgen is here, I sat next to him my first four years. Dan Slater, Mark Murphy, and the Mayor, Joanne Coontz. They were outstanding in teaching me how to be a Councilmember and I really want to thank them. I wouldn't be the man here today without them. So, to kind of conclude, people often ask me what it takes or how I am going to treat the future in terms of making decisions here. It always starts with my faith, I was raised Catholic and now a Christian, and that's how my decisions are made. That's what centers me, then I make those decisions from there. I feel that after every Council meeting, I feel that I have done the best I can do. That's where I start. In `96 it's the same as in 2016. My priority was to protect our neighborhoods, that's where I start and that's where I'll end. With that, I've always been quite a supporter of our Fire and Police Departments because I know that's where our protection comes from. I don't want to diminish the great relationships I have with our City staff. I rely on them so heavily, they put up with more crazy questions, more crazy things and ideas that I come up with, my colleagues will verify it. On all the appeals that I do and all the things that I do, I rely so heavily on them. They are so important to me just as the Fire and Police are. As a matter of fact, when I was elected in 2012 I showed our City Attorney a list that the Attorneys had put together the last eight years of all the different appeals they had to straighten out because of my activity from 1996 to 2004. It's a funny list to look at and Wayne and I were looking at it when I was first elected and I told him, let's see if we can make that list a little shorter this time. So again, I want to thank the City staff. Going forward, its faith driven for me, protect the neighborhoods, I love the different neighborhoods that Orange has and I think those of us on the Council will experience it at this time. During Christmas you will go to a cowboy event, a turn of the century event in old town, a neighborhood event in the Presidential Tract, you can't find another City that is so blessed like this. We are so lucky, As Councilmembers, we get to travel to all that. That is what makes our job so rewarding. So with that, I am going to begin my day from this point on. I hope the next four years we can keep Orange a City that you are proud of. PAGE 4 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES DECEMBER 6, 2016 Comments by newly appointed Mayor pro tem Mark A. Murphy: Mayor pro tern Murphy's comments were read by Councilmember Mike Alvarez. Good evening to our residents, businesses and my colleagues on the Orange City Council and staff, I am sorry that I could not join you this evening to personally express how grateful I am to serve as the Mayor Pro Tem for the city of Orange. The citizens of Orange have been supportive and the extraordinary circumstances of having no opposition file for the Mayor, two Councilmen, the Treasurer and the Clerk positions shows a community that endorses the direction and strategies that this Council and City staff provides. To my colleagues that are swearing in this evening, Tita, Mike, Mary and Richard, I offer you congratulations on a job well done and I am honored to serve with you moving forward. To the City staff, under the leadership of Rick Otto, I thank you for delivering on the policies and direction so well for the city of Orange making it the absolute best place to live, work and raise a family. Finally to our citizens and businesses, thanks for your support and giving me the opportunity to continue to serve. A very grateful Orange Native, Mark A. Murphy Comments by newly appointed Mayor Teresa E. Smith: I want to start by introducing my family, you saw my husband Bill and two of our three sons are here, Luke and Patrick. Our son Nathan lives out of the Country, our daughter Angela lives in Texas but hopefully they will see the video as well. I do thank my family for being here, my wonderful Dad, 91 year resident of the City of Orange, my Dad Gene Smith. And, all the way down to our grandson, Vinh, who will be two in eight days. My brothers -in -law, my nieces and nephews, my cousin has come all the way from Burbank to be with us, so thank you Sherrie. I must introduce my brothers and sisters, especially my sisters who helped me so very much with all the campaigns. My brothers Mathew and Christopher are not here tonight. My brother Tad is here, he has been working in Chicago for many years so this is the first time he has been here in our Council Chambers since I have been in office. It's great to have you here. My sister Maria and my sister Monica, will you guys please stand, thank you very much. There, now there will be peace in the family and that's good. We are blessed to have six grandchildren, from 22 years to 23 months and they are our joy. I am a very very blessed person, I am grateful and very truly blessed to be the elected Mayor of my hometown, Orange. To be a member of a seven generation family in Orange only deepens my joy and commitment to this work. It's absolutely wonderful. I am also so proud to have the heritage of being an 11 th generation Californian. Our original PAGE 5 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES DECEMBER 6, 2016 Comments by newly appointed Mayor Teresa E. Smith (Continued) ancestor, Juan Jose Dominguez arrived here in 1869. He was a soldier "who wore leather." He accompanied the Franciscans who were founding the missions here in California. It's absolutely a true story. Our grandmother's grandmother was Maria de los Reyes Dominguez. Our grandmother is Ynez Reyes Dodson de Dominguez. She met a young man from Nebraska, Herbert Hoefs, who had just gotten out of World War I. When he was released from the Army at LA Harbor, my grandmother was living on the family ranch in San Pedro and they met and moved to Orange in 1927. Our Dad's people came from Oklahoma also in 1927 escaping the ravages of poverty and the dust bowl. Mom and Dad met at Orange High School, of all places, in the 1940s. They were married for 65 years before Mom went to the Lord. That kind of heritage and being able to be sworn in as the Mayor of Orange, swearing allegiance to our nation and the State of California and to our City, to me, just fills my heart. The best thing about being Mayor to me is meeting all the people of Orange. An absolutely magnificent community of people. You know, in our City, the School District reports that there are 76 different languages spoken in the City of Orange. On the Council, we will tell you we have probably heard at least 40 of them. We are invited everyplace, this community is so inviting, so welcoming, we are privileged to be invited and we always try to send at least one of us to fulfill every invitation that we get. Sometimes we surprise each other and someone else will show up as well. It is absolutely a gift. You see with that kind of commitment from our Orange community the type of community we have. We should all write some notes about the places we go, the people we visit, the events we are able to celebrate, and we are very blessed to represent the people of Orange. The next wonderful part of being Mayor, which was a big surprise to me, is working with our City staff. Phenomenal people work in our City. I think most all of the Department Heads are here tonight. I would like to embarrass you, and ask you if you are a Department Head from our Police and Fire Chiefs, from our City Manager down, if you would please stand, and our Attorney of course too. Please stand and let's acknowledge our Department Heads of our City. So, our City staff has a commitment to doing things the "Orange Way" and that means with personal touch, keeping always to our American values, integrity, dignity, respect and an absolute transparency to our citizens. There are only two people that actually work for the City Council, and we keep them close at hand just to keep an eye on them or visa versa, and that is our City Manager, Rick Otto, who does such a great job and our City Attorney, Wayne Winthers. Thank you very much for being our guardian angels. I want to focus just for a minute on our Police and Fire Departments and on our Fire and Police Departments. You see there is always a lot of jousting over which department you say first. Ladies and gentlemen, our Police and Fire Departments are magnificent. What I love about them the most is they are humble, not when they are together, when they are together, they are not humble. There is jousting, there is teasing, but when they are out PAGE 6 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES DECEMBER 6, 2016 Comments by newly appointed Mayor Teresa E. Smith (Continued) there, serving us, these are true professionals. From the Chief down to the newest non- sworn officer or official in the Police Department. I want to say that publicly because they work so quietly in the background without fanfare and yet our statistics are phenomenal for low crime rates in Orange. We love Orange because it's safe, beautiful, active, it's healthy, and that all starts with law enforcement. So, to the two Chiefs that are here, Chief Tom Kisela, and Chief Jack Thomas and all of your leaders, we thank you so very much and appreciate the community you provide for us. God bless you all. I want to offer my thank yous to this wonderful community. I was appointed to the Planning Commission in 1992 by Mr. Mike Spurgeon. I thought he was nuts to do that and other people did too. But, somehow we figured it out and I learned to be a Planning Commissioner and I was very happy being a Planning Commissioner. Then, my friends started talking me into running for Council. I said, why would I ever want to run for City Council? I have a very nice family, a wonderful husband, a job, a really beautiful life. Why would I want to mess that up by running for office? I was able to hold them off for a few years. Then I ran out of excuses and there was an incumbent that didn't run and a lot of candidates jumped in so I said perfect, I will run because I'll never win. So, I came in second and narrowly beat the man to my left. It was close. I do know how that happened, it was that group right there (family). Fred came on the next round. I want to thank all those people who asked me to run for office. A group of people came together that I named the Plaza Cabinet. They have stuck with me all these years. So many campaign workers, so many neighborhoods, my dear and good friends that labored so hard especially on that first campaign. I am very grateful to the voters of Orange. First of all we have a great turnout of voters in Orange because people are committed to our City. I am also very grateful to the many businesses and non - profits with whom I work. Neighborhoods that we are invited to. It's just this rainbow, this magnificent mosaic community of ethnicity, commitment, traditions, true Americana here in Orange. I am especially grateful to all our neighbors here in Old Towne. My entry into City Government was fighting City Hall. Old Towne was in jeopardy back in the early 80's. The City put an eminent domain action on a 1906 Victorian that was perfectly good. It had absolutely no need to be demolished and it happened to be across the street from us. That is how I got into the fray when it came to City Hall. I learned a lot through that whole activity. We founded the Old Towne Preservation Association which is still going strong. That was what our democracy allowed me to do and all of us who worked to get in place the way we like our Orange. Finally I want to thank my loving and supportive family. I could never do this job without them. You cover for me, you help me, I don't have to do as many things in the family gatherings as I used to because you take my place. It's helpful that the nieces and nephews can all cook and do these things too. So, I really appreciate that. Especially my Dad. Dad and Mom had two activities when we were kids. We were active in our church, Holy Family, and Mom and Dad were active in the City. In the 50's and the 60's when we PAGE 7 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES DECEMBER 6, 2016 Comments by newly appointed Mayor Teresa E. Smith (Continued) were growing up, families were devoted to those things, to their church and to our town. Dad, I'm really grateful to you and with Mom really taught me to love America, to love God, and to love Orange. I'm very grateful for that. All my brother and sisters, we had so much fun and I know you share my sentiments and joy and love for the City of Orange. Our kids, we're grateful that at least half our kids are still here in Orange and I hope the others will return. Maybe that little guy will be on the City Council someday, we never know. In our families, I think for all of us we know it's about the community we are making for our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. I am very very honored and blessed to have this role in our town. To my colleagues on the Orange City Council. To me this is the Dream Team Council. We get so much done, there is no bickering. We can disagree and talk about it and that's a rare privilege. I am really so grateful to each of you. We get into it once in a while but we always still remain friends and leaders for our community. I have a couple of goals for the next two years. They will be my last two years in office because as I think it should be, we have term limits in the City of Orange. So, first of all, and remember these first two words can interchange, I want to provide our public safety forces, Police and Fire, I want to make sure you have all the resources you need to best protect our City. Whether it's staff or equipment or support from us, that is my number one priority. I would like to see us stimulate even more business in Orange. We are doing great right now but to keep our economy rich we do need to always stimulate more business. The little things are big when you are looking for a parking place. I really want to improve parking conditions in Old Towne and all of our residential neighborhoods. We are pleased to say we are building, actually we will break ground very soon, a 611 space parking structure on Lemon Street. That should help a lot in the Old Towne neighborhood. We, just a couple weeks ago at Council, realized our parking codes are way behind our growth rate in residential neighborhoods. So, we are going to take a look at that this next year and bring things up to speed. There may be fewer units allowed on parcels but we have to have adequate parking. I also want to see the Eichler Home neighborhoods be added to the National Register of Historic Places. We already have two National Register Districts in Old Towne. We have the Plaza Historic District which Joanne Coontz was very instrumental and Don Smith putting on the Register in 1982. Many of us worked to get Old Towne homes and buildings added in 1997. Now we have three Eichler neighborhoods. They are over 50 years old now and I hope we can see those be added to the National Register. I also hope before I am out of office to have plans in place to finish our bike and walking trail. That will join from Canyon to Santiago Regional Park. I really hope that we can get that, if not completed, the plans in place so the dirt can be laid. PAGE 8 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES DECEMBER 6, 2016 Comments by newly appointed Mayor Teresa E. Smith (Continued) Of course, to always continue to produce a balanced budget. To insure an excellent quality of life for all of our residents including those living with us currently without shelter. The problem of people without shelter in our nation is very big right now. In winter it shows the most. In Orange we have over 25 churches that work with people without shelter every single day. Quietly, modestly, humbly serving those in need. And, people don't even know it. We need to provide more housing and get those folks off the street. Families, the elderly, disabled, folks with mental health issues. I am committed helping to at least make a bigger step forward in the next year or two. I also thank the citizens of Orange as my colleagues did for their votes of confidence. May we continue to work together not just for Orange but for our nation. Because our nation is only as strong as our community, our community is only as strong as we are. I thank you so very much for your vote of confidence in electing me Mayor. I am grateful to be along -side you arm -in -arm as we go forward. May God bless our City, each of our families and homes, our great State of California, and certainly, God bless our country of America. Thank you very much. 4. BENEDICTION Given by Reverend Timothy Klinkenberg, Senior Pastor at St. John's Lutheran Church. 5. ADJOURNMENT The City Council adjourned at 7:10 p.m. to the George Weimer Room for a reception in honor of the newly appointed officials. The next Regular City Council Meeting will be held on Tuesday December 13, 2016, at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, with Closed Session beginning at 5:00 p.m., if necessary. VatE. MURPHY TERESA E. SMITH CITY CLERK MAYOR PAGE 9