| Time | Speaker | Text |
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| 00:00:23.44 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:42.00 | Steven Woodside | Good evening or good day to you all. Welcome and happy Monday. We are here in a very special city council meeting to honor a particular part of our sister cities program. Could we please call the roll, Mr. City Clerk. |
| 00:00:55.26 | Walfred Solorzano | Councilmember Blossene. |
| 00:00:57.54 | Unknown | here. |
| 00:00:58.52 | Walfred Solorzano | Councilmember Hoffman. |
| 00:00:59.85 | Unknown | Here. With pleasure. |
| 00:01:00.81 | Walfred Solorzano | Yeah. |
| 00:01:02.00 | Unknown | Me gusto. |
| 00:01:03.82 | Walfred Solorzano | I'm not sure. |
| 00:01:05.03 | Unknown | also here with pleasure. |
| 00:01:06.67 | Walfred Solorzano | Vice Mayor Cox. Here. And Mayor Sobieski. |
| 00:01:10.45 | Steven Woodside | And I am here as well. And so the only order of today's business in today's special meeting is to do a recognition of our sister city in Vina del Mar and all the volunteers in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere that make this incredible program vital and lively. There's going to be a few remarks from our visitors as well as our local volunteers and supporters. And there will be a reading of the proclamation which I'm going to invite my colleagues to share much like we did our own Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July so we'll break it up and we'll have a reading starting with our liaison to the sister city program Councilmember Hoffman we'll do that after we hear from the program itself and I'll break it up And then, but I just want to see, are there any remarks from any of my council colleagues right now? |
| 00:02:02.12 | Unknown | I will just apologize in advance. I have a 930 work call, so I may have to sneak out. But my pleasure to be here and thank you all for joining. |
| 00:02:13.95 | Unknown | Thank you. I just wanted to say what a pleasure it is to see all of you again. And Brenda, if you could help me translate. And I so appreciate seeing AHEP. I have my AHEP pen. And I appreciate the mission and philosophy of AHIP, which is synergy, the The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. |
| 00:02:38.49 | Unknown | First of all, good morning. John wants to give you the most cordial welcome. He is using his the end of the head that they gave in Chile and give them the great welcome. |
| 00:02:57.29 | Unknown | And that as one woman, we are invisible. As many women, we are invincible. Thank you. |
| 00:03:07.90 | Unknown | As women, we are not invisible, we are invincible. |
| 00:03:13.79 | Unknown | Thank you for the privilege of participating with you over these years. |
| 00:03:17.94 | Unknown | And thank you very much for the participation in all these years. |
| 00:03:24.50 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:03:26.38 | Unknown | Hello, good morning and welcome to everyone. I want to say that we are very proud of this program and we are very happy to have everyone here with us at Sosalito and enjoy this week. Thank you very much. |
| 00:03:46.78 | Steven Woodside | Okay, thank you very much. And if there are no other comments, then please, Monica, go right ahead. |
| 00:03:52.53 | Monica | First of all, I want to thank the city council and all of our staff and city manager for coming this morning. It's really fantastic to see you. I know it's early and I know everybody is really busy. So many, many thanks for being here. This is important opportunity for us. This is the first time in five years that we've been able to have an exchange with Viña del Mar because of COVID and some of the other challenges that we have. A real brief summary of what we're doing this week. The theme is Sausalito Renaissance, navigating the pandemic. And so many of the presentations and the discussions we're having are how we moved our way through some of the COVID issues within the city and how much the community rallied around and helped everyone. So I think we've come out to the other end. We've got still some challenges, but we want to share with our friends what we have done. The second component is we're really excited to have reached into Vina de Mar a little further and are inviting our bomberos,, to join our Southern Marin Fire Department for best practices exchange. As you know, our cities and our geography is pretty much the same with earthquakes, fires, sea level rise, and a lot of disaster information. So I think they are here to share a little bit of their current experience. And I'd just like Ximena to come up real quickly. And if she would introduce the Vigne de Mar I have women. And then Kevin Bedwell from the fire group will come up and interview, introduce the firefighters. We know we have about 15, 20 minutes, so we're going to stick to that schedule. And Jimena, could you step forward and maybe give a little introduction? |
| 00:05:53.16 | Ximena | Thank you very much. Sorry by my English. I will try. Okay. We are a group of eight women with a different profession. I'm going to present you and ¿Se van parando chicas cuando las presentes? In the first play, Maria Teresa Pasten, |
| 00:06:17.07 | Ximena | She's owner of her business about clothes, work clothes, and she works with several workers. She's very, very workaholic. . She is the first one in Sausalito, the first time in Sausalito. Maritza? Marisa is engineering. Britannia, Mity. Miti is a graphic designer and she is one of the artists to the Violeta Parra exposition. Rudit. Ruditis Art and Artenfeld. Carolina. Carolina is a lawyer and she is a She's painting into the exposition Violeta 2. Antonieta? Antonieta is our president. She has an older house, I don't know. Thank you. |
| 00:07:18.80 | Unknown | you |
| 00:07:18.97 | Ximena | Thank you. a retired home in Chile. can be felt there. EDIT. Edit. Edith. Edith has two different businesses. She has an hostel and a bakery in Chile. She is very workaholic too. And me, I am a graphic designer. I'm the picture and the videos. And I want to give the mayor a little gift about our exposition, Violeta Parra. |
| 00:08:03.04 | Ximena | Thank you for all your support. And please, we invite you to our exposition, to see our exposition in Briteway, about Violeta Parra, who is a great singer and great artist from Chile. It's our tribute to Violeta Parra and bring from Sausalito. |
| 00:08:42.84 | Kevin Bedwell | Okay, good morning, everyone. My name is Kevin Bedwell. I'm here representing the fire department of Villanueva. First of all, I want to thank the city of South Salito to host us. Villanueva Fire Department this year will be 140 years that we've since established. So this year for us is a really important year because we have achieved 140 years of service. On the other hand, our experience here in South Salito so far is really good. We had really cost a fire department to us, and we are looking for establishing some relationship with the fire department and with the city of south salito so i will just introduce my team uh pablo soria galvarro is a firefighters since 25 years and emilio mejia is a firefighter since six years ago. So thank you for the opportunity to share to each other. I think that this opportunity creates synergy, as John said. So, yeah, I will give a present to the mayor on name of fire department of Myanmar. |
| 00:10:26.55 | Unknown | Kevin. |
| 00:10:26.97 | Monica | Tell everybody where you were. |
| 00:10:30.31 | Kevin Bedwell | Oh, okay. Yeah. Monica wants to tell you that our three guys are already running on calls. So we are running on fire alarms, medical calls, and so on. So we are helping each other. Okay. Sure. Thank you. |
| 00:10:53.95 | Monica | I don't know if Kevin mentioned this, but did you mention that they're all volunteers? So, for example, Pablo has been volunteering for 25 years as a firefighter, which is amazing. And when we picked up Kevin, he got called out at 1 o'clock in the morning after traveling for 24 hours. So it's a big, big change. And he says, I'm used to it. I'm used to it. Okay. So that's our group for the week. We hope you experience everyone and come to the exhibit and hope you come to the dance party and the farewell party. We have a lot of things going on. So thank you very much again for seeing us today. |
| 00:11:15.86 | Steven Woodside | Thank you. |
| 00:11:32.01 | Steven Woodside | Thank you very much. Now I'd love to invite my colleague, who is also the liaison, to the Sister City Program and was in Portugal with me. our last sister city get together to begin the reading of the of the proclamation. Maybe you could read the title as well. I forgot to circle that part. |
| 00:11:47.11 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, thank you, Mayor. And yeah, I'm delighted and honored to be asked by the board of the sister city program to be the council liaison for all three of the sister cities this past spring so what an honor and uh right into the proclamation We're at a proclamation of the city of Sausalito, proclamation honoring the city of Villanueva for its work with Sausalito in the Sister Cities program. Whereas, for over 60 years, the Sausalito Sister Cities programs have been enhancing international relationships through educational and cultural exchange, fostering peace and international understanding through global people-to-people programs, and whereas the relationship between Sausalito and Vinodal Marge, Chile was established in 1960, before I was born. And whereas the purpose, it didn't say that in there, whereas the purpose and mission of the Viña del Mar Sausalito Sister City Program is to promote a cross-cultural and economic exchange between the two cities and |
| 00:12:45.82 | Monica | Can you hold on one second so that we can have a chance? OK, sorry. |
| 00:12:50.71 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:12:50.71 | Unknown | Yes. Okay. Esta es la proclamación de Sausalito para las ciudades hermanas de Viña del Mar. |
| 00:12:50.73 | Monica | Thank you. |
| 00:12:50.76 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:12:50.86 | Monica | Thank you. |
| 00:13:00.28 | Unknown | For more than 60 years, the city of Sausalito Thank you. has been having international relations and an exchange for cultural. La ciudad empezó en 1960. Esto es básicamente lo que estábamos diciendo ayer acerca de la relación que hemos tenido con Sausalito y la ciudad de Viña del Mar. Ok. |
| 00:13:38.03 | Unknown | whereas the geography and climate of California is remarkably similar to that of Chile and, Whereas in 2011, we were introduced to AHEP, Asociación Gremial de Empresarias y Profesionales, a group of women business owners from Viña del Mar and the surrounding area, and, Whereas women entrepreneurs from Sausalito have created a robust exchange program with AHEP whereby each year women from Chile come to Sausalito or citizens from Sausalito have gone to Vigna del Mar. And? |
| 00:14:14.66 | Unknown | In 2011, the sisters are represented by AGEB, the Gremial of Empresarios and Professionals, a group of women in business in Viña del Mar. This is describing the relationship we have with AGEB. It's an association of women's empresarios that come to Sausalito for this exchange program between chile and saucepan with the Thank you. and Thank you. |
| 00:14:48.97 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 00:14:49.02 | Unknown | had. |
| 00:14:49.85 | Unknown | Whereas the Viña del Mar Sausalito Sister City program was recognized by Sister Cities International for an exceptional program mentoring women business owners in Viña del Mar during COVID. And whereas eight women from EGEP are here today participating in the exchange. Yo puedo hacerlo en español. Muy bien. Okay. Considering that the program of the sisters of Vineyard Mar-Sasliro was recognized by Cesar City International for an exceptional program of mentoring for women in Vineyard Mar during the COVID-19 pandemic, E. considering that eight women of EGEP are here today participating in the exchange. |
| 00:15:35.56 | Unknown | And whereas the women have brought an exhibition of art and culture called In the Hands of Violetta that has been open to the public, And whereas in recognition of the similarities between our geography and that of Viña del Mar, three firemen from Viña del Mar are here participating in a program with our own Southern Marine Fire Department sharing best practices. and... |
| 00:15:57.16 | Unknown | in recognition for the Las similitudes geográficas y climáticas entre Villa y Mar También vienen tres bomberos de Viña del Mar. that will participate in several programs with the Department of Marine and Bomberos and sharing all their experiences. Also, there are eight women from Viña del Mar to participate in congresses and businesses in Viña and Sausalito. |
| 00:16:31.37 | Steven Woodside | Now, therefore, be it resolved that the mayor of the city of Sausalito hereby proclaims the welcome of the women and men of Chile and to recognize the service of the members of the Sausalito Sister City Vina Del Mar program. |
| 00:16:44.65 | Unknown | And the Mayor from here in the future is recognizing that the city of Sausalito gives the welcome to the women and the bomberos of Chile and recognizes the service of all their members. |
| 00:16:58.76 | Steven Woodside | And then, thank you. I actually have a motion to make a modification to this. It's appropriately agendized to, I move that we replace the mayor and the city council of Sausalito. Is there a second perhaps? then with that second from our city council liaison, that motion will go to a vote as well as its entire proclamation. All in favor say aye. |
| 00:17:25.52 | Unknown | I. |
| 00:17:25.96 | Steven Woodside | Aye. Opposed? The proclamation carries unanimously. Thank you. It's been a delight having you. Welcome. Enjoy your week here. |
| 00:17:32.91 | Unknown | La proclamación no solamente la quiere hacer el alcalde, sino también todo el consejo directivo de la ciudad de Salsalito lo acaban de aprobar, así que ahora la proclamación es oficial. Gracias. |
| 00:17:51.98 | Steven Woodside | Thank you. |
| 00:17:52.02 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:17:52.34 | Steven Woodside | Thank you. This special meeting of the City Council of Sausalito is hereby adjourned. Have a great day. Thank you. |
| 00:17:58.58 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:17:58.75 | Steven Woodside | Gracias. |
| 00:18:01.92 | Unknown | I should have given you this. |
| 00:18:04.97 | Monica | Thank you. |
| 00:18:04.99 | Unknown | Thank you, good to see you. |
| 00:18:05.53 | Monica | Good to see you. Thank you. |
| 00:18:06.68 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:18:06.70 | Monica | Thank you. I just got it last time. That's okay. I'm sorry. That's all right. |
| 00:18:11.83 | Unknown | That's all right. Thank you very much. |
| 00:18:13.48 | Monica | Thank you. |