MEASURE DD

00:00 Bill Zimmerman, Mayor: As measure DD repeal impact report the recommended action for this will be to receive and file mr. city manager would

00:07 you introduce who is going to be presenting this evening yes mr. mayor this this actually will be presented by

00:14 Jeff Wagner why I'm in our assistant city manager if you recall that the meeting of April proteins the council

00:22 requested that we come back with a report on the probable impacts of the repeal effort and I think at this point

00:30 I'd like to yield a mic to our assistant city manager appointment to give us an overview thank you can you hear me okay

00:41 just want to make sure yes sir great wonderful so to see me we have the measure DD proposed repeal report for

00:53 Election Code section 92 12 next slide please so a little background on this item may

01:06 recall back in November of 2016 the residents of Menifee passed a measure DD overwhelmingly vote 67% and this

01:16 initiated a 1% sales tax now one of the features of a sales tax is that it is not solely paid by the residents of the

01:28 city of Menifee it is also supported by those that come into the city and shop and buy and eat in the city the purpose

01:39 of the measure DD was to support critical services including police fire and road infrastructure projects the

01:50 funds are required to remain local and this is very important item especially in these days right now I just heard

01:59 today that the governor had announced that they're facing a fifty four billion dollar shortfall in their

02:07 News 4 this year and they're trying to find every dollar of revenue they can and the city of Menifee was on the short

02:16 end of that stick previously where we had lost our viola funding before that ended up costing us about 25 plus

02:27 million dollars in the short term that we were without that revenue so this measure D D is remains local and the

02:38 state and the federal government cannot take it the measure also shortly after it was approved the City Council

02:49 approved the measure DDS is an oversight committee it is formed of citizens and they do a great job they meet several

02:58 times during the year to the recommended budgets and then also to make a recommendation to Council along those

03:07 uses of thoughts today measure D D has been collected since January 1st 2017 next slide please

03:19 this is just a quick item it is this is just a picture of the ballot language from 2016 identifying that measure D D

03:37 was a public safety traffic congestion relief and vital city services measure next slide please

03:46 give you kind of a fiscal impact on measure D D since its since its inception the revenues collected through

03:59 the fiscal year 1920 have been over 33 million dollars and next fiscal year in fiscal year 2021 we're anticipating

04:09 revenues coming in at a little bit above a million dollars and that's a little bit that's been lowered because of CO

04:16 vid 19 and I'll cover that in a future slide here slightly though kind of an important

04:29 note is that measure D D augments all the public services safety services that you see highlighted here and it really

04:39 it's not the entire budget for each department but it is a major portion of them and I'll cover the percentages here

04:46 in a little bit but to give you an idea of so for fiscal year 1920 the Riverside County Sharpe contract 3.5 million

04:55 dollars was allocated to that the minute the police department the new Menifee police departments its start up year was

05:03 allocated 5.7 million dollars the fire department was allocated 3.8 million dollars code enforcement a little bit

05:12 over three hundred sixty thousand dollars and infrastructure and capital improvement projects and new Public

05:19 Works equipment was a little bit over three point four million dollars though for 1919-20

05:27 was a little bit over seventeen million dollars now I do want to note that that includes some funds from a prior year

05:36 and use of prior year fund balance that wasn't and lastly I want to note I came up I know I noted these numbers in

05:49 yesterday's budget workshop there were a little bit different from the numbers I had in the staff report so my numbers in

05:57 the staff report for fiscal year 1920 did not include the use major adjustments so this is the total for

06:06 1920 here the 17 million dollars next slide please moving forward to projections for fiscal

06:17 year twenty and twenty-one the four measure DD revenue our original projections that we received from HDL

06:25 earlier came in at eleven point seven unfortunately due to kovat nineteen had updated projections from HDL reduced

06:36 that by a little bit over 1.4 million new projection for 2021 is almost 10 point three million dollars and to give

06:47 you an idea of what that is for the city's budget it is 17 percent of the city's budget next slide please

07:01 so to kind of highlight what that ten point three million dollars is being allocated to as part of the proposed

07:10 budget for 2021 which I know you heard some of the numbers yesterday in your budget workshop this would be for

07:20 Menifee PD four point three million dollars which is twenty nine percent of the refugees budget as proposed for next

07:29 fiscal year the fire department three point six million twenty five percent of their

07:34 proposed budget cut enforcement a little over three hundred thousand dollars or thirty three percent of their budget and

07:42 infrastructure and CIP a little bit over two million dollars for the total of ten point three million now I did want to

07:50 highlight a note that as I mentioned earlier measure D D was for public safety and infrastructure and throughout

07:59 the three and a half years that we've been collecting it we have been continued to deliver on our promise to

08:04 use those funds solely for public safety and infrastructure projects as we are continuing to through the proposed

08:12 budget for next fiscal year next slide please so the question is what is the impact of

08:22 the loss of measure D D funding especially to the implementation of critical public safety services

08:29 especially moving forward next slide please this just kind of highlights again and

08:36 it's the common theme and I've said it a couple times I'm just gonna sorry I'm gonna say it again the objective of the

08:42 measure or to assist critical see services including police fire code and infrastructure projects to maintain safe

08:51 roadways next slide so the Community Impact the reduction in Menifee of Police Department for next fiscal year

09:05 if you take out four point three million dollars or a loss in funding that would be twenty nine percent of the fiscal

09:14 year proposed twenty twenty one Police Department budget the easiest way to equate this and loss of what that would

09:24 mean to the police department is directly to patrol officers so this is the equivalent of thirty one less patrol

09:33 officers which equates to one hundred and seventy four less patrol hours per day now of course any reduction in

09:43 officers on the street or a reduction in Public Safety police department means a likelihood of longer 9-1-1 response

09:54 times also at risk when you lose that much out of a department for next year would be possible inability to pay for

10:04 dispatch agreement which we have with the city of Marietta the elimination of volunteer citizen control program and

10:13 also the possible closure of the Sun City PD substation so and or other possible operational cuts and the reason

10:24 I say that is that because Public Safety is a top priority for the City Council and for the city as a whole in probably

10:33 is not prudent to cut the total of four point three million dollars out of the police department's budget entirely and

10:42 the city would be forced to look at cutting funding from other departments and services are well across the city to

10:51 be able to make sure that we would be able to support these police department and lastly I want to note that the city

10:58 is fully committed to forming the PD and starting on July 1st 2020 which is less than two months away I know our chief is

11:07 getting a little a little anxious about that time coming forward but I know he's confident in being able to pull that off

11:15 he's been adding personnel officers and getting them into training and I know he is confident that he'll be ready to go

11:22 on July 1st on 2020 mr. Wyman before you change the slide just for the sake of the public when they see that volunteer

11:34 citizen patrol program that's the new name for what is commonly known today as crime watch the Sheriff's Department

11:43 program is crime watch yes and so it would transition from that to the Menifee Police Department with the

11:51 current name of volunteer citizens Patrol yes sir thank you thank you next slide please

11:59 moving on to the fire department so a 3.6 million dollar loss to the fire department

12:07 this is 25% of the 2021 fire department budget and what this equates to is a loss of the station 7 medic squad and

12:19 the five personnel that staff that which is something we just added probably about a year year and a half ago an

12:27 additional loss of a medic squad truck that we were proposing for next fiscal year purchasing an additional truck and

12:36 programming that into service in the southwest portion of the city a loss of likely loss of an additional medic

12:45 engine and the six personnel that support that engine an additional other four firefighter positions so a total

12:53 that equates to a total of 15 firefighting positions that would be a loss

13:01 so again the same with the police department here that much of a loss across the city for fire services may

13:13 not leave the particular stations in full service mode and so then we may be forced to look at the closure of a fire

13:26 station to keep the other fire stations fully purposed with personnel and again with the same with the fire with the I'm

13:36 sorry the police department this would likely result in longer 911 times next slide please

13:49 a reduction in the code enforcement there's three hundred and two thousand slated as proposed for next year's

13:57 budget that would be a 33% portion of the code enforcement budget this equates to a loss of the three code enforcement

14:06 officers that measure DD is currently paying for this results in a reduction in municipal codes safety enforcement

14:14 across the city next slide please regarding infrastructure and road safety projects measure DD funding is currently

14:29 used to leverage other funding projects to be able to complete more CIP projects across the city so to date just kind of

14:40 give you an example for the three and a half years that we've been operating in programming measure DD funds twenty-one

14:47 projects totaling over 50 2.7 million dollars have been assisted with almost nine million dollars in DD funding the

14:56 completed projects include ten street resurfacing widening and a de retrofit projects seven missing sidewalk projects

15:05 one freeway interchange project the Scott Road I to 15 project which will be opening up here

15:13 completely shortly which will be a great addition to the circulation in that area it also has completed two traffic

15:23 signals and more projects slated for DB funding will be program for twenty and twenty-one and beyond so yes

15:37 get off that the the street resurfacing you know supporting understand that that resurfacing is done in the neighborhoods

15:44 that been that has been needed in the past that's what that you know I think is important though that's what's on the

15:49 line is that you know all the work that our great engineering folks have been doing it you're getting all that

15:58 resurfaced a neighborhood but this is going directly back into the to our neighborhoods by resurfacing their

16:06 streets you are so correct is definitely is allowed the city to leverage the dimetric DDD funds as I've mentioned

16:16 before for fiscal year nineteen twenty as an example we were able to use measure D D funds and assisted in

16:25 leveraged a twenty six million dollar CIP program for fiscal year nineteen twenty

16:33 next slide please so looking forward though the same aspect applies to fiscal year 2021

16:46 there is proposed a little over two million dollars to be used for road safety and capital improvement projects

16:54 this would leverage and to support a fifteen million dollar proposed CIP program for fiscal year twenty and

17:02 twenty-one and the loss of the twenty two million dollars would put at risk multiple projects including the moving

17:11 forward in a timely manner with the Holland Road over crossing the Bradley bridge multiple resurfacing projects in

17:20 across the city the Scott Road and Menifee Road sidewalks and other new roads and Street

17:28 improvements and traffic signals might have to be postponed and in addition still many more needs in

17:35 the city are required in the three years of measure DD funding is really not enough to fulfill all the projects that

17:43 the city needs to maintain safe roads and a safe circulation element next slide please

17:56 so to give you to kind of expand on the fiscal impact this apply chart gives you an idea of the five-year measure DD

18:05 revenue projection which right now would be five years into the future our projection is fifty six point four

18:14 million dollar impact that based on current allocations would be a reduction of twenty five point four million

18:25 dollars out of the PD budgets for the next five years nineteen point seven million for flyer and for capital

18:33 improvement and safety road projects eleven point three million dollars additional impacts so there is

18:46 additional impacts especially along the lines of economic development the decreased public safety and

18:52 infrastructure can lead to multiple issues across the city including difficulty in attracting and retaining

18:59 businesses and industry halting of investment in the city many investors in the city from outside stakeholders will

19:09 look to the city to see if the city's investing in their money into their city to improve it and if they do not see

19:17 that they will they may choose to put their investments in other places this can also result in reduced production of

19:26 local jobs and all these items can move towards stagnation and property values overall this can lead to a diminished

19:37 quality of life there's not a few residents when other items is that without the measure D

19:43 defunding this puts the city in a disadvantage to other cities who do have sales tax measures and a lot of them are

19:51 surrounding cities to menifee this includes Temecula Marietta Wildomar and Hammond

19:57 so those cities will be able to continue to invest their sales tax measure funds into the city if the measure Dini funds

20:06 go away the city of minifee will not have that ability and we will be in catch-up mode continually trying to keep

20:16 up with these other cities that have more funding for their cities next slide please

20:24 so in conclusion a 17% loss of funding will likely cause significant cuts to public safety across the board in the

20:37 city it will halt or delay Road and traffic improvement projects within the city cause a substantial reduction to

20:44 all develop all sorry all departments reduce and limited and limit services to Revit residents within the city

20:55 including senior services it will also likely cause underfunded city budgets or deficits cause an inability to recruit

21:08 quality personnel to work for the city and broad cuts will be on top of and compound the broad cuts and service

21:18 reductions caused by Koba 19 crisis as you may recall from the budget workshop yesterday the current co vid 19 crisis

21:30 is causing about a 1.5 million dollar reduction in revenue this fiscal year fiscal year 1920 and we're projecting a

21:42 5 million dollar cut to 2 20 and 21 budgets so when you compound that with a loss of funds of measure DD if

21:55 this repeal was successful it would have huge impacts across the city next slide please

22:04 continuing on conclusion and slides so again it's a twelve million dollar annual or 56 million dollar loss over

22:14 five million dollars restating again substantial reduction in critical services PD fire and CIP it will affect

22:25 the emergency and critical service delivery to our residents citywide and it will cause and lead to the city being

22:34 forced to identify other revenue alternatives including possible Public Safety citywide assessment or CFDs

22:43 and/or increased fees and/or City conditions on development projects this will also cause an immediate fundamental

22:55 shift and on the viewpoint of residential growth in the city as you all know we are the fastest growing city

23:02 in the county of Riverside one of the fastest in the state however it will cause us to look at phasing in only

23:10 fiscally sustainable residential developments that can pay for their impacts to the city without the measure

23:19 DD funds being available and because of those residential developments are a large or larger draw on public safety

23:29 services the city will need to be realistic when reviewing projects to make sure they are fiscally sustainable

23:36 if this can't be achieved one possibility is a residential development moratorium lastly all things consider

23:48 the timing of the repeal effort is not good considering the Cova 19 loss in funding that were currently experiencing

23:57 and just the overall decrease in funding that would go towards public safety and infrastructure projects

24:04 with the fiscal realities of today and with a growing city the city will be forced to reduce public safety and

24:12 critical services across the board next slide please and with that that is the end of my

24:19 presentation I am open to any questions all right Thank You mr. Wyman council members this isn't comment time this is

24:28 question time before we take public comments what do you got for questions I have a question for mr. Wyman and you

24:42 says I see there's about 41 participants so maybe there's some residents watching this education a ballot measure and the

24:54 cost yes so including the staff for thank you I did not have that in my presentation but pointed up here as we

25:06 speak the ballot a ballot measure the ballot measure is being brought up by two individuals that wanted this

25:17 repealed on the ballot measure and then they got signatures so I guess you could say more than two yes I'm trying to find

25:26 the exact number I know the I know the city clerk knows that probably off the top of her head but I think it's fifty

25:31 or sixty thousand dollars that the city will have to spend to put the repeal measure on the ballot and this is

25:41 because not our choice but because you're correct it is not the city that is choosing to put this repeal measure

25:51 on the ballot but because the repeal measure satisfied two to be on the ballot the city is required to process

26:01 it and those costs are required to be paid by the city to put the item on councilmember so back this it's Geoff

26:11 mill Ching I just wanted to let you know the the Registrar of Voters estimated at between forty and fifty thousand dollars

26:19 thank you very interesting thank you other questions Madame clerk do we have any requests to

26:32 speak on this item yes we do have a couple of public comments first one is from Rick Croix honorable counsel I like

27:02 most people do not like the idea of additional taxes it has been my experience that state and federal taxes

27:09 always suffer from Christ's creep and always increase here is why measure D D is different revenues from D D are spent

27:19 locally we certainly can't say that above every other tax imposed on us d D has provided fiscal surety to

27:28 menifee giving the city the ability to make improvements infrastructure maintain services and most importantly

27:37 made possible our ability to create our own Police Department the city has done a magnificent job in keeping funds and

27:45 expenditures transparent with its citizens Oversight Committee unfortunately opponents to D D will have

27:53 a perceived advantage with current economic conditions and phan public sentiment against it I hope menifee

28:01 leadership can counter such negative perceptions and make sure Menifee residents know how important these local

28:09 revenues are after all with Sacramento's budgetary woes how long before the governor declares another eken

28:18 like emergency and reaches back for our V the FL fees again to try to balance state shortfalls we need DD more now

28:28 than ever thank you rip boy next comment is from Don Slater lower your taxes and stop the city from

28:44 wasting your money YES on measure D D don't be fooled again and don't listen to Queen B she doesn't give a blank

28:55 about the people Queen B is a big-money player in bed with the home builders developers and Tony Falco Menifee is at

29:05 a tipping point as Queen B turns your once safe friendly small town into more homes more traffic more crime more

29:15 problems more vagrants more taxes more corruption more rigged elections and more victims of frontier and shockingly

29:26 clean B wants to take away your right to vote measure D D will be on the November ballot but Queen B wants to remove it

29:36 she doesn't want you to vote on it at the April City Council meeting Queen B made the absurd claim that the senior

29:45 citizens were hit up and lied to and taken advantage of by person by a person who wasn't honest well I talked to a 70

29:57 year old gentleman for quite some time about measure D D and obviously he had walked getting signatures he never once

30:07 lied to me I wonder who's really lying queen bees defamatory remarks are a disgrace

30:14 shame on you queen bee shame on you at the same City Council meeting queen bee and advocated her position on

30:23 measure D D just after being told that advocating a position was not loud and then queen bee and mr. melchi

30:32 seemed to be hatching a plot to get 1193 seniors to rescind their signatures for realizing they were not in one of their

30:45 secret closed sessions meanwhile the name sat there and did zero letting queen bee get away with anything she

30:53 wanted I guess we know who wears the pants on this City Council the bald renegade rights rights a thief for his

31:04 name a Z that stands for zero next comment is from Breanna Arden me as an active Menifee resident I want to throw

31:22 my full support behind measure DD as we to stay in place as it provides vital funding to our amazing city I firmly

31:34 believe that a majority of our of us residents want this in place so that we can continue to see the positive forward

31:43 movement in our city we are excited to see our new Police Department up and running as well as various other

31:49 important projects myself and many others will be active in showing our support for this important measure thank

31:57 you Briana Hartman it was let me double check I did get a couple more good evening mayor and council members and

32:13 staff the need of having measure DD is fiscally important for the continued purpose the voters approved recommend

32:21 city council to authorize city clerk to prepare and file a resolution with a rebuttal argument for the voters ballot

32:28 November 3rd 2020 also recommend for City Council to direct the city attorney to provide an impartial analysis and

32:37 have it filed with the rebuttal arguments to voters Valley they're 2020 Michael cano

32:45 chair measure DD Oversight Committee then the next comment is from Alex knob as a reminder the County Council is here

32:59 to vote whether or not to adopt the measure if the city chooses not to adopt the measure it goes to the ballot the

33:06 council is not here to discuss whether or not this should pass a voter vote okay thank you madam clerk so at this

33:27 point we are open for comments and discussion I kind of agree with Miss nob it's not really a time to campaign one

33:35 way or the other it's a good opportunity for us to simply direct staff to either put it on the ballot or make the

33:45 decision tonight with that I'll open it up for council members discussion yes you know what I just want to I just want

34:12 to thank those volunteers who've been serving on the measure DD Oversight Committee you know more eyes on it to

34:20 make sure it's being spent working thank all those who sent in their comments tonight okay any other comments from

34:39 Council members councilman deines thank you daddy there we go a couple things I'd like to reiterate what I said last

34:54 night in what Jeff had mentioned this presentation that Public Safety is

35:00 important to this council you know and yes it the city will take a big hit without this measure dd as we can see

35:10 from the presentations and I think that's also what Jeff had said which is important to understand is that you know

35:17 this the states in big trouble fifty four billion dollars I mean I can't imagine how many zeros are behind that

35:23 but I think it's important to realize and from experience that the state does their money problems trickle down to the

35:32 county and cities and so our via VLF funds are at risk right now and the and it would be devastating to lose both

35:42 measure D D and the VLF at the same time in a unique situation and it's really exciting that we're starting our own

35:52 Police Department you know we're one of two that's done it and if anyone's had a chance to meet

35:59 some of these officers and they're in chief Walsh's management team they're great people they've got the right

36:06 mindset and I'm sad for July 1 if I hate do anything that would jeopardize their mother comments that when the first

36:17 comment or Rick Croix we said that this money is spent locally it is in fact and the beauty of it is a lot of this money

36:24 that comes in the measure DV is brought in by people outside the city so this is it's almost like we get an extra bang

36:31 for our buck here when people come shopping are in our community because we get we got great shopping here or and

36:37 we're growing and get only better so I appreciate that comment and with that I'll relinquish my speaking ok very good

36:49 and I made a mistake there's looking ahead at item 4.4 which is our next one and that's where we will be making a

36:56 decision about putting the item on the ballot or not so this is just a receiving file for what mr. Melton just

37:03 presented so with that just for to clarify that point of order we is everybody okay with receive

37:09 and filing the report what are you okay the question that I have then is there was a valid statement here is that just

37:20 for information sake then is that what that's for yeah I believe that was the ballot measure that was on when they had

37:32 I skip right down that part okay okay so let's go ahead and receive and file that item and then let's move to item four

37:41 point four this is the measure DD repeal initiative where we do have a recommended action for this one to

37:48 either we have two options basically to either adopt the ordinance and repeal measure DD without any alteration or

37:57 authorize the clerk to prepare the resolutions to put the item on the ballot in November so with that I'll ask

38:03 our clerk to introduce the item and give us an update Thank You mayor I will be brief it's everything you just said the

38:15 item before you is to decide what to do next with the measure dd repeal initiative initiative petition on April

38:27 15th the repeal was certified as sufficient for the November 20 20 generations and at that time the City

38:36 Council had asked for a full report on the impacts of the to the city a measure dd were to be repealed that report you

38:47 just heard tonight that leaves the City Council with two options as you said to choose from one is to adopt the proposed

38:57 ordinance without any alterations which if repeals measure D D and then the council's second option is to authorize

39:08 the city clerk to prepare the required resolutions to submit the proposed ordinance repealing measure D D to the

39:17 voters on November 3rd of this year the resolutions would then brought back to the City Council for

39:24 adoption questions all right any questions we're not gonna have comments you have but questions Matt for the

39:32 clerk okay hearing that madam clerk do we have any requests to speak our commenters that submitted an email to

39:40 you you know what I think all those comments I just read were kind of a combined okay you guys you guys kind of

40:19 break it up a little bit so if you can speak into the mic councilman August for Jeff mr. macho

40:30 Jeff can you unmute yourself sir okay give me an idea what i'm voting for here just so I don't make a mistake I might

40:40 have to go first certainly councilman August there are there are really only two tonight two

40:46 and only two choice number one adopt repeal of measure dd outright and if you do that that'll be effective ten days

40:55 from today what does that mean repeal it means take away that take away the sales tax you mean and that would happen

41:05 basically instantly number two option number two is put it on the ballot in November and lets people vote okay thank

41:14 you yeah okay any other comments I think councilmember Sobek you were saying you feel like we should put it on the ballot

41:22 was that a motion please okay and do we have a second for that motion all right Mayor Pro Tem least Mayer madam Clerk do

41:34 you want to call roll call vote please yes councilmember Civic aye

41:41 councilmember Dinah's councilmember August new year Pro Tem lease Meyer and mayor

41:50 Zimmerman aye all right thank you very much council members it is ten minutes to

41:57 8:00 and we are adjourned thanks everybody nice Jeff Maehl Jeff Wyman good job on

42:06 your presentation you dig is very well done