Livermore Council Meeting February 10, 2025
Good evening and welcome to this, the February 10 meeting of Livermore City Council. I call the meeting to order. Roll call, please. Council member, Barry Antos. Right. Council member Dunbar. Here. Council member Wong. Here. Vice Mayor Branning.
Here. Mayor Marchand. Here. To join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you. Okay, I’m going to reorder the agenda. We’re going to move 4, which is the open forum to, after 7.1, and they will now move on to the consent calendar. Do we have any public comments for consent? Yes, mayor. We do.
The first speaker is David McQuiggan. Johnny the ****** martial arts. Excuse me. Excuse me. You or miss David Nougogin, you have to speak to the minutes. You are not speaking to the minutes. You are forfeiting your time. You can be going back back to the end. I gave you I’m sorry. I’m sorry.
No. No. I’m sorry. You’re done. You you are done. You have forfeited your time. We will move you to the end, and you can complete your comments. We will move you to the end. Next speaker, please. The next speaker is Greg Scott.
Good evening. Greg Scott. I’m speaking on the water rates. The water rate for our household is we have a service fee of $37, I think, and 1 billing. Wait. Excuse me. We’re speaking on 0.25 0.2. Okay. Yes. Thank you.
Excuse me. On water rates. We and our our household, we pay. We have a service fee of $37 a month that’s with consuming no water. A unit of water is about $4. The unit of water is a hundred cubic feet. That’s about, 748 gallons. So we used in a billing cycle 1,500 gallons or less, and we paid $48 in there, $47. It’s a lot of money for that kind of water. In a month, that would be about 50 gallons a day.
That isn’t that much water usage. I don’t know how people are paying their water bills, but this is getting outrageous, especially if you do any kind of landscaping. But we really shouldn’t be watering lawns. We’re wasting water greatly. And, you know, we’re gonna have to rethink water and water rates. What’s come out especially by president Trump and and the shipping. We ship 5,000,000 acre feet water south to Southern California in this in this water deal too. You know, it’s a gallon of almond for mister Resnick and the Resnick family. You know, it’s it’s the people on fixed incomes and people on lower incomes, this isn’t fair. The whole water thing isn’t fair.
For the public, you know, 5,000,000 acre feet is about 12 something trillion gallons of water. We’re supposed to ship even more, and then president Trump comes out about the Delta smelt, smelt. You know, in the in the recovery program for Delta smelt in the last sampling period, they didn’t find any of that fish. We’re collapsing the delta. So we have to rethink our water, our water rates, and thank you. Mayor, that was the last speaker. Would you like to invite mister McWiggan back in? If you can if you can stay on the topic, perhaps. Otherwise, he’ll forward for this time again. You will speak to the minutes.
I will, Johnny the Repus Marchant. Okay. Thank you very much. That is your salutation. Thank you very much. You are done. That’s your salutation. Please really keep both of them. No. We are moving on to the next.
Agenda to be We are moving on to the next item. We’re moving on to the consent. Person is going to be placed at the end. You will relinquish the podium. Act targeting a specific individual that is contrary to your stated policies. I do do believe mister Ocala will tell you that you are not an optimum position for minimizing your legal exposure by doing that. But you’re deliberately good to act Cut the mic. Part of the official record. Thank you, Johnny, the ring to start. This.
We are done. Next speaker. That concludes public comment for the consent. Consent calendar. Okay. Do we have anyone that wishes to pull an item for consent? Okay. Seeing none, I’ll entertain a motion. I’ll move consent. Is there a second?
I’ll second. Okay. Motion made by Vice Mayor, Branning, seconded by, Councilman Dunbar. Any discussion on the motion? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Attentions? Pass unanimously.
Thank you. Moving on to 6.1. This is a public hearing on renewable energy. This is an ADA community energy contract. Honorable mayor Marchand and members of the city council. This is your city manager, Mariana Monishma. And item 6.1 is going to be presented by the city’s sustainability program manager, Tricia Mento. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. All right.
Good evening, Mayor and City Council. The item before you tonight is consideration of a 25 year power purchase agreement with Ava Community Energy. The project involves installing solar and battery storage system at 5 city facilities. That includes city hall, civic center meeting hall, maintenance service center, the police department, and the water reclamation plant. The systems will provide several benefits to the city, including improving energy resilience by providing back backup power during emergencies consistent with our climate action plan and emergency operations goals. We’ll reduce energy cost by allowing us to use energy from the batteries during times when grid electricity is more expensive. It lowers our reliance on diesel generators, and several of the sites will also include solar carports that provide additional shade in our parking lots. There will be approximately 36 spaces at City Hall, 20 spaces at the police department, and 4 at the Civic Center Meeting Hall that will be covered with solar canopies. The financial terms outlined in the contract include no upfront capital cost to the city. Ava Community Energy has selected 2 companies, Greenbridge and Gridscape, as a project financer and developer, and this team will install, own, operate, and maintain the systems.
The city will make monthly payments to AVA for the electricity generated by the the panels and a flat rate for the storage capacity, and these payments will be less than what the city would otherwise pay for grid electricity without the project. And a crucial crucial reason we’re able to achieve these savings is because we’ve been able to grandfather the facilities under the state’s previous net energy metering laws, which provide higher compensation rates for excess solar energy that is sold back to the grid. And we’re able to maintain the status if we have assistance install installed by about April of 20 26. And despite that being over a year away, there are some concerns from the project development partners about supply chains and the potential for tariffs to negatively impact product pricing. But if approved tonight, the city manager will have authorization to approve the final agreement providing the project pricing and feasibility issues are resolved and the agreement remains in substantially the same form as the item being reviewed by council this evening. Staff is recommending that the city council adopt 2 resolutions tonight. The first is finding that the project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act, and the second is authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement in substantially the same form as the 1 included in the agenda tonight and determining that doing so is in the best interest for the city. So that concludes staff’s presentation, and we’re available for questions. We also have JP Ross from Ava Community Energy here tonight who will help answer questions as well. Okay.
Any questions from the council? Do we have any public comment? On it? Okay. We’re gonna take, just public comments first. If there’s a question Oh. We’ll take public comment first. Okay. And then we’ll bring it back to the council. Yes, sir.
We do. We have 3 speakers. David McWiggen, followed by Greg Scott, followed by Trish Monroe. Are you gonna behave yourself or you have to shut the mic off again? If you are going to personally insult me and and threaten me, mister Marchand, that will not go well. Now lehi me go to my comments. Several of them. Dollars 2,100,000.0 over 25 years. That’s it? You spend, what, dollars 1,600,000.0 a year right now?
You’re going to be getting it at 20¢ instead of 40¢. You only get 5% of the savings over the 40 year over the 25 year lifetime. There was a question on the storage units. It says 6 50 kilowatts, but batteries are typically kilowatt hours. So kind of questioning that. If you’re getting 6 90 kilowatt hours, well, that’s 9 Tesla batteries or maybe 150 k, and you’re paying 83 k a year to have that storage. The storage guarantee at 90% is measured by taking the number of hours in a month, subtracting the number of hours where the power isn’t being supplied by the batteries when it’s needed, and divide it by the hours in the month. As long as that over 90%, you get to be paying for the storage capacity. Although, that also means they can be up for 3 days straight and still meet the 90% threshold. And then you’re gonna go rush this through on a sole source category.
I found this chart on the Bay Area Reddit. And some of the local utility districts that have been created, Palo Alto, 17 Cents 17.5¢ a kilowatt hour. Pacific Power, 16.2 kilowatts cents per kilowatt hour. Silicon Valley, 14 Point 3. SMUD, 12 Point 6. Liberty Utility, IIID. PG And E is at 40%. So 40¢. So, yeah, you need to do something about PG and E. But somewhere along the line, somebody’s making a lot of money, and it ain’t the people in Livermore saving it.
Thank you, Johnny, the racist marshall. The next speaker is Greg Scott followed by Trish Monroe. Good evening, Greg Scott. I wanna be clear on 1 thing about the renewable energy. It isn’t a replacement for fossil fuel energy. It’s in addition. We’re consuming more and more energy, and it’s just an additional source. It’s not a replacement. So we’re not solving a problem because we’re not conserving energy, and we’re consuming evermore. We’ve gone down an expanded consumption with a couple of things.
1, generative artificial intelligence and, cryptocurrency. We we need to cut back on the electrical, and we don’t seem to be doing that. So saying this is gonna save the climate or anything like that is is just not true. The energy return on investment of solar is 6 to 1. It’s it’s pathetic. The only lower energy return on investment is nuclear fission generated electricity 5 to 1, which is the minimum you need for an industrial post industrial society. So saying this is the great savior, it isn’t. We need conservation is what we need, and we’re not doing that. So 1 of the things we could do is make a resolution for the city is no investment in cryptocurrency. Currently, in the world, we’re we’re consuming 760 terawatt hours of electricity for cryptocurrency and generative artificial intelligence, and it’s just going up.
That’s 2% of all human generated electricity. We’re going the wrong direction in consumption, not in how we’re producing. The last speaker is Trish Monroe. Good evening, mayor, council members, especially new council members, Wong and Dunbar, and, city staff. I’m here wearing my, memorial or something, East Bay Community Energy jacket, since I remember back in the day. And I’m just very excited to see this project go forward. No. It’s not gonna solve everything, but it will make a step in the right direction during a time where that is under questionable how how much progress we can make. So I appreciate the local aspect to it. I appreciate the fact that we make progress 1 step at a time, rarely leaping, taking big leaps across bridges that aren’t there.
Thank you for letting this go. I hope you would let this go forward. It doesn’t seem terribly controversial to me. And I appreciate the, the continued partnership with Ava and with the city and through the county. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes public comment. Okay, in that case, I’m going to close the public comment period, bring it back to the council. I must say I’ve never heard anybody, complain that the city shouldn’t try to spend money or shouldn’t try to save money. And that’s exactly what we’re doing here is without an upfront capital investment.
We’re saving money. I think that’s something that everybody can get behind is, know, we heard, mister Scott talk about, the how expensive everything is, including, water and power. And here we’re making an attempt to to save money, and I think that’s a, laudable goal. So other comments from the council? I think I’m following Trisha. I used to sit on Eva board, Trisha Monroe. So 1 of the things that, when I was taking a tour behind the police station, the police chief said that automobile over there with a bulletproof wind windshield is slowly being destroyed by the sun and a $20,000 window. And he goes, what we need is a garage. And I kept thinking, oh, I know we’re not going to get a garage. So we started thinking about the solar panels, just like schools have all of them.
So there’ll be a win win. We get solar power and we get coverage for the vehicle back there. I know many have not been back there, but they have weird places where they park their motorcycles and their vehicles. And it’s made me out in the sun. So I think it’s a win win. We will save, we will get another source of energy and, we will protect the vehicles for the police to work at the same time. And I, I really think this is a good direction we’re going to, and we can’t stop crypto and all that kind of stuff. You know? So I think it’s a good way good thing that we’re doing right now. Any other comments for the council?
No. Council member Wong. I just had some questions about the timeline for this. If we approve it tonight, when does it start? How long will it take? I’m gonna bring JP Ross from AVA Community Energy up to help answer that question. Thank you. Thanks very much, city council members. My name is JP Ross. I’m vice president of local development at AVA Community Energy.
So the term of the agreement is a 25 year power purchase agreement from when the systems would be installed. As Trisha recommend mentioned, the timeline for getting those systems installed is by April fifteenth of 20 26. So should the, city council approve this tonight? We are, in the final stages of signing an agreement with the developers. Once we get that signed, we would then, execute the agreements with each of 6 participating cities of which Livermore is 1. And then we would quickly move into, the next stages of project development, submitting permits and kind of ordering some of the equipment that is the longest lead time equipment, some switch gear and otherwise that it takes a while. That is where some of the risk comes in with respect to trade, tariffs and potential impacts to to customs in the border and importing equipment. And so that’s, something that we’re working to manage right now as far as that risk goes. But, the systems would kind of be installed in early 20 26 is when the actual operation would commence. Okay.
And so there are 6 cities involved. Are you planning to start all 6 at once, or is there an order of what cities go first? Yeah. They’ll be they’ll be phased, with respect to, some of the larger and more complicated systems going in first. So 1 of the the, the water treatment plant is 1 of the larger sites, and so that’s actually 1 of the ones that would would really be commencing on earliest. It has some of the longer lead time equipment that we have to order. And so we would be quickly moving into submitting permits and getting equipment, for that site, on order. So it’ll be phased based on kind of project complexity, and 1 of the Livermore sites is is 1 of those sites. So you if you’re if I hear you correctly, you’re saying early 26, the work would actually start? That’s when it would be completed.
Completed. It would be starting in the next 3 months is when we would be submitting permits and ordering equipment. And we’ve already been visiting the site so that we can complete the plan sets for submission to the permitting department. But in terms of the actual installation, all of that, did you say it was ’26 or That’s when they need to be installed. So it would be, really happen the construction happens in earnest in the second half of this calendar year. Oh, I see. Okay. And so you’re confident you will get through at least our city by April 26? That’s yeah. That’s and we have, agree you know, we have rights within the contract to hold the, the developers to those timelines.
Okay. Okay. Thank you. Mhmm. Councilman Domingo? Hi. Thanks for being here. Couple of questions from me. 1 question for staff is that if we were able to do this ourselves, we would not be getting NEM 2. Is that correct?
That’s correct. To apply today. Right. So that that’s a pretty strong case for why this is in the city’s best interest overall. Sorry. I didn’t catch your remind me your name again. JP Ross. JP Ross. Thank you. My question was, a more generic why not more coverage?
And it can be a I have some reasons of my own as I imagine, but I’d like to hear from you of, you know, why this size of system for what we’ve got going on here. Yeah. So, so by more coverage, can you, clarify more coverage of what? More solar panels overall. Given the top down view I’ve we’ve got in our packet here of the amount of building coverage we’re actually talking about and the amount of parking lot coverage we’re talking about. We actually have more space Yeah. Available, but we’re not using all of it because Yeah. So, solar systems are sized using a few different characteristics. Your financial valuation tends to improve as your solar system gets to 80% or so of the annual usage of a site. And so, we generally are trying to size up to that range.
In some cases, you are then limited by the amount of rooftop you have or other kind of limitations, with respect to how large of a system you can put on. So there’s a few different, limitations for how how big of a system you can put on. And then there’s all the other coverage element is the size of the battery. And with the batteries, we’re also, trying to kind of balance between the cost of the battery and the value that’s providing either for resilience or for bill savings. And so there’s a few different elements at play with how, how we’ve sized systems. And then, you know, we also looked at additional sites within the city of Livermore at a facilities level, and some of those were either kind of infeasible or didn’t have, economic savings. And economic savings across the portfolio was, something else that we were evaluating, to provide savings to the city. So if I could summarize myself, it might be we can only mitigate so much energy of the use that the city building itself is actually generating. We’re not looking to offset use beyond the limits of the city’s parcel. That’s correct.
Yes. It has much lower, if not 0 value once you get above what this what that particular site uses on an annual basis. Thank you. I have some comments as well, but, Okay. My question was? Those are my question. Okay. Comments, mister Dunbar. So to the thing that we’re asked to be doing tonight, which is determining the agreements in the city’s best interest. That was why I brought up the the NEM question.
That is what keeps us in the the best interest, in my view. Councilman Verientos mentioned the, longevity improvements to the vehicles and the, and the total trends over time. We’ve we’ve got that. And then we’ve also got the resiliency factor for our city buildings in case of emergencies that we’ll have some backup power for in specific circumstances. Hopefully, we don’t have those, but if they do occur, we, are ready. So that makes it easy for me to make the findings that I’m being asked to make here. Okay. Yeah. Councilman Burry does. When I was over at AVO meetings, I you know, Howard Chang, we discussed this a lot.
And what I wanna say is I wanna thank the staff here and the Avis app. I know you guys huddled in your little corners and hammered this out. It wasn’t an easy thing and the way you did. So thank you and appreciate, you know, your efforts in getting this thing done. You did good. Customer 1. Just quickly, I, didn’t realize it was possible to be grandfathered under an M 2. So to me, that’s a really big plus and the reason to get this done in that in this timeframe. Okay. Any questions, Connors?
With that, Council Member Vieirantes, I’d be willing to entertain a motion. So moved. So move. Second? Second. Okay. Okay. So moving second, any discussion on the motion? All in favor, say it by by saying aye. Aye.
Any opposed? Pass unanimously. Thank you very much. Moving on to, 7.1. This is matters for consideration, resolution adopting a 180 day waiting period exception. Honorable mayor Marchand and members of the city council, this is once again your city manager, Mariana Marishova, and item 7.1 is going to be presented by our human resources manager, Kristen Hilton. Thank you. Good evening, mayor and city council. The item before you tonight is a resolution approving a hundred and 80 day wait period exception to hire retired annuitant Michael Prado. Sorry.
Here we go. So state law requires that the city council approval to hire a retired annuitant before the required a hundred and 80 day waiting period. The city has an immediate need for staff to assist with the review of lease proposals for the city properties, and the city has several act active applications for telecommunications and other uses on city property that need to be reviewed and processed. Mister Potto has the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities to, work on these time sensitive and complex projects to allow for continuity of operations. During his time, he will also be developing policies and procedures and training manuals in order to train and pass on this information to staff. As such, staff recommends that the city council adopt a resolution approving a hundred and 80 day wait period exception to hire retired annuitant Michael Potto in accordance with the government code. Staff is available for questions. Okay. Any questions? Do you need public speakers?
No public comments been received. Okay. I’ll close the comment period and bring it back to the council. Any discussion on the motion? There’s no motion yet. Do I have a motion? Okay. Motion by council member Barrientos. I’ll second. Okay.
Seconded by vice mayor. And, we worked with Mike, for many, many years and always appreciated the the dedication and the commitment that he brought to, to the organization, and, glad to have him back for, for just the interim. So thank you very much. Thank you. Mary, did you do a vote to that? I’m sorry. No. We haven’t put it yet. Okay. Just make sure.
I have a motion and a second. Moved by Variano, seconded by the vice mayor. All in, in favor of the motion, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. It passed unanimously. Alright. Very good. Thank you.
Okay. And now, for matters initiated and, council reports. Councilor Dunbar. The 1 that I didn’t get in is the 1 that the mayor was also at with me, which was the Islamic Center opening on East Avenue, which was a lovely day with kids and, lots of different, goodies to try, the various different nationalities there that they had on display. They had these whiteboards that the kids made. It was great. Yeah. And Maltetic foods from all over the place. They were great. Yeah.
And the rest was in my council reports. Nothing else specifically to report. Customer Wong. I had 2 left to meetings, my finance and admin committee meeting and then also the board meeting. We talked about the 2025 legislative program which will now be very fluid. We also received the treasurer’s report and discussed our fair policies. We also recognize, former Pleasanton mayor, Carla Brown’s 12 years of service on LAFTA and named a bus stop after her, so that was great. I I’ll let you report on the graduation. I wanted to thank, Judy Erlinson, our acting public works director, and, Joe Prime for giving me a tour of the maintenance service center. I finally got to see that.
It was really great to see everything that is done to keep cars moving and lights on and all and trees trimmed and all of that in the city was very cool. And then I attended the what I learned is the hottest ticket in town, which is Science on Saturday at Las Positas College on Saturdays in February. It’s just amazing that theater is completely packed with middle school students and their parents. And then just wanted to say happy Lunar New Year. I attended the celebration at Bankhead Plaza and then also Black History Month. There are a lot of events throughout the city and hope to see you all out there. A lot of stuff going on. Customer Verientos. I slept the whole time. No, I had, I’m not sure you know, as an Alliance Club, we had a big craft feed and that went well.
So we just received money to local charities. And 1 of our targets is Shepherd’s Gate and Program Works. And that’s all I got to say. Question for Prem. Yeah, I forgot to put into my report that I was also at the LAPTA board meeting, where we got to honor, former mayor Brown. This last 2 weeks have been very busy at work. So I’ve been spending a lot of time with the Pleasanton Scribe Board, but not much else to report there. So that’s all for me today. Thank you. Okay.
We had right here in this council chamber we had the first graduates from our online graduate program from the library that was very exciting it’s another amenity that we offered to the community so that’s that was that was great. We have, we had a ribbon cutting welcoming a new business to town at Junby, Matcha and Tea. They’re over at, the shops across from the, the, premium outlets. And, I was at, Jack Orfmann’s, Eagle Scout Court of Honor. So he had, built a number of boxes, utility, not utility boxes, planter boxes down at, uh-uh Sycamore Grove Park. So, uh-uh happy to be part of the Court of Honor and today was the Alameda County Transportation Commission Planning, Policy and Legislation Committee, and we heard a review on the congestion management plan. So with that, no more council reports. We’ll go to the, open forum. Do you have any speakers? Yes, sir.
We do. The first speaker is David McGuigan, followed by Greg Scott, followed by Susie. Just a quick question. Any of you, install solar on your house? You should. Took my energy bill down to basically nothing. Certainly better than 5% savings. It wouldn’t be cost effective at that point. But let’s talk about what we’re gonna talk about tonight, Johnny. We’re going to talk about all the defenses offered by mister Ocala for your for your actions, and we’re gonna point out the 1 defense he was never offered.
But first, it’s necessary to point something out. Unlike you, Shawnee, mister Akella has, as city attorney, has professional ethics he has to maintain. If he violates those professional ethics, he could be subject to discipline by the Bar Association. Now mister Callahan has offered up many defenses. He said that Johnny is not involved in the handling of complaints against police officers. He said complaints are handled between the DA and the police chief. He’s all manner of completely irrelevant defenses. There’s 1 simple defense he has never offered or said. The statement that mister Keller has never said is mayor Machon did not cover up ****. He’s this simple denial and yet mister Kelle cannot say it.
Of course, the reason is he knows that Johnny did cover up ****. He knows this because he helped you do it. But let’s be clear, mister Ocala told you you could cover up ****. You, Johnny the ******, Marshawn, he started immorally. Okay. No. No. You know, that’s the mic. That’s the mic. You know what?
No. We’re not going to do this again. You know what? We’ve already talked about slander and libel. We’ve already talked about that. You know what is really pathetic is this the high point of that man’s life. He’s a drunk driver. He admitted it in court. And this is the high point of his life is to come in and hate on the city. And that really is pathetic.
And he’s been doing this for 12 years. This is the high point of his life for the last 12 years. And this is really sad. Next. The next speaker is Greg Scott, followed by Susie, followed by Carol Silva. Greg’s excuse me. Greg Scott. Slow progress. Yeah. In the state of California, we’re putting out 450,000,000 tons of radiative reactive gases per year.
Okay? In your cost benefit analysis for this battery storage, you could do it against lithium batteries or the less efficient, less expensive lithium iron phosphate batteries and compare it your comparison could be the the storage to natural gas. Okay? It’d be 2 orders of magnitude. Now you say, well, methane, natural gas is a radiative reactive gas. What would you do about it? What you do about it is at the wellhead because at each wellhead, the process the harvesting of methane you’re doing at the wellhead, 3% of it’s going directly into the atmosphere on the average in United States. 5.5 Percent of it’s going into the atmosphere in the state of Utah. You do something at the wellhead if you’re gonna do something about methane. What What do you do for reliability?
You don’t rely on on solar. For reliability in California, you don’t rely on wind. We saw that in August of 20 20 with the fires when we got a high pressure in the tropical over it, and we had the shear there for the lightning for the fires, and we had no wind. So we had no power from wind, wind power. What do we rely on? We rely on spending tens of billions of dollars on Diablo Canyon, a very inefficient way to an economic way to generate electricity. And then our backbone of electricity is natural gas, electrical generation. So the cost benefit analysis there, I’m not against solar, but saying that solar is a panacea is just it’s not not true. Slow progress. A speaker spoke about slow progress we’re making on homelessness in October.
Wow. You know, you wanna see the slow progress, don’t go home after this meeting tonight. Just go out the door. Don’t go to a friend’s house. Don’t go to a relative’s house. Don’t go to a family member’s house. Don’t sleep under a roof. Just go out and sleep outside and see where we are in the morning on homelessness. Slow progress. I took food.
I picked up food in, Pleasanton, 5 4 5 bags food prepared, meals in, Pleasanton and 2 bags of, paired salads and brought them to Livermore. And it was all distributed by volunteers in 3 and a half hours. There’s hundreds of homeless out there. They’re hungry. And that food not only went to homeless and went to people that are actually in house and sheltered. They have no money at the end of the month for basic needs. So I’m distributing food. I’m trying to deal with that. We we were dealing with that poorly. I’m also distributing toilet paper, though there’s not much for sanitation out there, but, you know, I’m trying to do what I can.
But wow. Yeah. Okay. The next speaker is Susie followed by Carol Silva. He, intimidated me the last time I spoke here. He screamed at me all the way out to my car. He just needs to be shut down. The 1 thing that you forgot to mention is that he hurt 1 of our citizens, and I know this because I spent a whole day watching past city council meetings where he admitted having opiates in his pocket, hitting a citizen in a side in the sidewalk, excuse me, crosswalk, and broke his nose. And he just comes here and he badgers you constantly. Before the meeting started, I saw council member Barrientos come over and offer McKandy and said, here, this might help it come out better.
Thank you. Thank you. The last speaker is Carol Silva. Good evening, City Council members. I’m going to read comments that Donna Caban, created, and I agree with them. She has a conflict tonight, so that is why I am reading these tonight, these comments from Donna tonight. Livermore Airport, LVK is now offering UL 94. This is a small step towards eliminating the impacts of leaded aviation pollution on several residential developments and schools close to the airport. Unfortunately, UL 94 cannot be used in all piston engine aircraft. Clearly, the most important next step is for 5 Rivers Aviation FBO Peter Sandhu to start selling Grama g 100 ul, an unleaded aviation fuel that can be used in any plane.
The Livermore City Council has the authority to direct the FBO to offer Gammy g 100 u l. It is f FAA approved and insurable. Reid Hillview Airport has received FAA permission and is currently selling GAMI g 100 ul to piston engine aircraft pilots. Could the city manager or mister Spence provide an update on any steps being taken to offer GAMI g 100 u l at l L V K. Hopefully, the new city council will show a willingness to protect our children from leaded aviation fuel pollution enjoying Reid Hillview by offering Grama 100 UL. The continued sale of leaded aviation fuel poses a significant health risk to minors living and participating in outdoor activities near the airport. We urge the new City Council to work with the FBO Pete Sandhu and Grama officials to ensure GAMI GL 100 UL is available at LVK as soon as possible. Thank you. And that’s, from Donna Caban. Thank you.
And that concludes the public form. Okay. That’s, there being no further business, is there anyone here that, wishes to, have a, matter initiated? Okay.Â