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OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER
May 12, 2017 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Alan Tandy, City Manager
SUBJECT: General Information
Notable Items:
Progress is continuing on the Centennial Corridor! As shown in the picture below,
demolition for the entire project is nearing completion with only a handful of structures
left. An update with a video will be provided to Council during Public Works budget
presentation.
Attached is a recent article from the Sacramento Bee discussing a threshold for TCP
(1,2,3-trichloropropane), a former pesticide ingredient and industrial solvent that has
seeped into the wells and reservoirs throughout California and other States. The article
provides an overview of the issue that will affect the City of Bakersfield; more information
will be provided to Council in future months.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article148511789.html
General Information May 12, 2017
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Preparation is currently underway for the annual 4th of July celebration at the Park at
Riverwalk; however, additional sponsorships are still needed in order to host this highly
popular event. An estimated 12,000± people attended this community-wide, free
fireworks show in 2016. If interested in sponsoring this event, please contact the City
Manager’s Office at (661) 326-3751.
From May 15th -21st, the Bakersfield Police Department will honor police officers who have
fallen in the line of duty as part of National Police Week. A special ceremony will be held
Thursday, May 18th at 7:00 a.m. in front of the Police Department. The Police Department
will also host the County-wide Memorial Ceremony Thursday, May 18th at Noon located at
1415 Truxtun Avenue. Please see the attachment for additional information.
Attached are pictures from Public Service Recognition Week. A special thanks to the
Employee Incentive Team. We are grateful to our City employees and their hard
work and dedication in improving the quality of life for our residents and visitors.
Mayor Scarf Day Employee Appreciation Breakfast
As a reminder, on Wednesday, May 17th the State Route 178 Widening Project Ribbon
Cutting Ceremony will be held at 11:00 a.m. Please see the attachment for additionalinformation.
Reports
Streets Division work schedule for the week of May 15th
Event Notifications
Event calendar for the Rabobank Arena Theater and Convention Center
Coffee with a Cop – Saturday, May 20th from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at Sugar Twist Bakery
and Café, 9500 Brimhall Rd.
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Christopher Gerry, Acting City Clerk
California regulators are proposing a strict limit on a toxic manmade
chemical that has contaminated water supplies throughout the state,
particularly in its vast agricultural heartland.
California would be the second state, after Hawaii, to establish a
threshold for the former pesticide ingredient and industrial solvent
known as TCP (1,2,3trichloropropane) in drinking water. The chemi
cal compound, identified in California as a human carcinogen, is no
longer in wide use but has leached over the years into many wells and
reservoirs in California and other states.
The California State Water Resources Control Board’s proposal would
set the maximum allowable amount of TCP in public tap water at five
parts per trillion — the lowest level that existing filtration systems
can reliably detect and far lower than Hawaii’s.
It “is a top priority for the state water board,” said board spokesman
Andrew DiLuccia.
TCP taints water systems serving nearly a million people from Sacra
mento to San Diego, according to the state water board. The com
pound is present at levels above the proposed limit in 562 wells,
reservoirs and other sources belonging to 94 public water systems,
according to 2016 data. Those numbers do not include private wells.
Citing federal data, the Environmental Working Group, a Washington,
D.C.based advocacy organization, says the chemical also has been
detected in water supplies of a dozen other states, including New
California proposes stringent cap on
toxic chemical in drinking water
By Stephanie O'Neill California Healthline
sacbee
York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as Puerto Rico. The work
ing group said the extent of contamination is likely underestimated
because federal tests used a contamination threshold much higher
than California’s. (The federal government does not set restrictions
on TCP in drinking water.)
Once TCP gets into the groundwater, it “persists for centuries,”
according to the working group’s April report.
In California, the contamination exists in many urban areas, including
in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Mateo counties. Though the
source in those more populated regions is not known, the pollution is
believed to come from industrial and hazardous waste sites.
“Los Angeles has quite a bit of contamination,” said Andria Ventura,
toxics program manager for the environmental advocacy group Clean
Water Action. “It’s hard for water providers to pinpoint where it
came from.”
But California’s most serious and widespread TCP contamination is in
the agricultural counties of the Central Valley, where the chemical
was an ingredient in soil fumigants sold by the Shell Oil and Dow
Chemical companies from at least the 1950s into the 1980s.
During that period, farmers who grew potatoes, sugar beets and other
vegetables used the fumigants to kill tiny, soildwelling worms called
nematodes. Dozens of municipalities and public water suppliers
across the state have filed lawsuits against Shell and Dow, alleging
that the companies knew — or should have known — that the TCP in
their soilfumigating pesticides would migrate into groundwater and
pose a serious health hazard.
Shell and Dow have denied wrongdoing. Shell quit selling its product,
known as DD, in the mid1980s. About the same time, Dow opted to
reformulate its fumigant, known as Telone, after which TCP declined
to “generally undetectable” levels, according to company spokesman
Jarrod Erpelding. He declined to comment further, citing pending liti
gation.
Shell sent an email response: “The former Shell agricultural product,
last manufactured more than 30 years ago, contained trace amounts
of 1,2,3 trichloropropane (TCP). It was used to control microscopic
worms that attacked crops causing millions of dollars a year of crop
loss for farmers, and was approved for use by the U.S. government
and the State of California.”
Environmental advocates say the adoption of a regulatory limit for
TCP is a crucial step to help cashstrapped, rural water districts pay
for the cleanup of their drinking water.
“It allows the districts when they go into court to be very specific and
say to the judge, ‘We’re going to need exactly this amount of money to
purchase this kind of system to meet the state standards,’” said Bill
Walker, managing editor at the Environmental Working Group and
coauthor of its report on the role of Shell and Dow in California’s
TCP drinking water problem.
“It doesn’t guarantee they’ll win,” he said, “but it increases their lev
erage.”
At a public hearing on April 19, water board members heard testi
mony and received written comments on the proposed limit. Now the
board is reviewing the input it received and will likely vote on the
plan by summer, DiLuccia said.
The regulation would require water utilities to test their supplies for
TCP and remove it from any public drinking water source that
exceeded the threshold, starting in 2018.
The proposed limit is more stringent than Hawaii’s because it is as
close as California could get to meeting its stated “public health goal”
for TCP set in 2009, officials say.
Though it is difficult to know how long the California cleanup might
take, the cost of TCP testing and subsequent cleanup could reach
nearly $500 million over 20 years, according to one water board esti
mate.
TCP contamination “disproportionately impacts poor communities
and communities of color,” said Jenny Rempel, of Community Water
Center, a Visaliabased advocacy group. “This is a problem where the
cost should not be borne by taxpayers.”
Todd E. Robins, a San Francisco attorney who is representing more
than two dozen of the water suppliers suing Shell and Dow, argues
that the companies included TCP in their wormkilling pesticides to
get rid of the compound without having to pay for proper disposal. It
was a byproduct of unrelated manufacturing processes and, according
to the suits, played no role in killing the plantdamaging worms.
“The TCP that we find today in groundwater is the result of past use
of soil fumigants that contained TCP as an unnecessary ingredient,”
Robins said. “Instead of paying for disposal costs, they started getting
farmers to pay for them.”
“The saddest part of the story,” Robins added, “is that the … actual
active ingredient breaks down in the soil after a matter of days and
has rarely been detected in anyone’s groundwater.”
One of the lawsuits filed by Robins, on behalf of the Del Rey Commu
nity Service District in Fresno County, says the companies knew they
could remove or reduce the amount of TCP in their pesticides without
compromising its effectiveness but failed to do so.
The complaint calls TCP a “hazardous waste” — a byproduct created
in the manufacturing of a different chemical, allyl chloride, that Shell
and Dow used to make plastics and other commercial products.
An internal Shell memo uncovered in Robins’ litigation cites $3.2 mil
lion in savings from “cost avoidance for disposal” related to the allyl
chloride operations. The memo is dated Jan. 20, 1983 — a year before
the company stopped producing the TCPlaced pesticide.
In addition to the pending cases, which also name distributors and
marketers as defendants, Robins said he has settled eight cases
against both Shell and Dow since 2010. He said he cannot disclose the
amounts because of confidentiality agreements.
Last December, in a case tried by a different lawyer, a Fresno Supe
rior Court jury awarded the city of Clovis $22 million against Shell to
clean up its TCPtainted drinking water.
In 2010, in a case brought by the city of Redlands, Shell won. The
company argued that a nearby aerospace plant was the source of the
toxin. Moreover, the wells in question were used for irrigation, and
the jury didn’t believe they’d ever be used for drinking water.
As the lawsuits proceed, some California residents do what they can
to protest the toxic chemicals in their water supply. Bartolo Chavez,
57, took time off his job in a juice packing house to testify at the
recent hearing in Sacramento.
“We talk about the contaminants and the danger,” said Chavez, who
has lived for 21 years in the Central Valley town of Arvin. “And [that]
we’re exposed.”
He said he gets tokens from the water district for free filtered water
— not just because of TCP but because of other contaminants as well,
such as arsenic and chromium6.
“But the tokens aren’t enough,” Chavez said, speaking through a
Spanishlanguage interpreter. “So in addition, we buy bottled water
at Costco.”
Chavez and his wife, a hotel worker, pay about $50 a month for that
water — a price they say they can ill afford. But leaving Arvin isn’t an
option either, Chavez said.
“I have thought about moving, but it’s not so easy to find work in
other places, especially when you’re older,” he said. “Our house is
almost paid off, and to move would be to start over again, so it’s
almost impossible.”
This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes Cal
ifornia Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California
Health Care Foundation.
California Healthline Managing Editor Bernard Wolfson contributed
to this report.
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MEMORANDUMMEMORANDUMMEMORANDUMMEMORANDUM
Date: May 3, 2017
To: Alan Tandy, City Manager
Mayor Karen Goh and City Council Members
All City Department Heads
From: Lyle Martin, Chief of Police
Subject: Peace Officer Memorial Ceremonies
National Police Week is May 15-21, 2017
The Bakersfield Police Department will honor police officers who died in the line of duty
during a special memorial ceremony on Thursday, May 18th at 7:00 a.m. The ceremony will
be held in front of the Police Department Memorial at 1601 Truxtun Avenue; it is expected to
last approximately 30 minutes.
Bakersfield Police Department will also host the County-wide Memorial Ceremony in honor
of National Police Week on Thursday, May 18th. The ceremony will commence at noon at the
Kern County Peace Officers’ Memorial located at 1415 Truxtun Avenue.
Mayor Goh will attend and present proclamations in recognition of National Police Week, and I
would like to extend an invitation to City Council members, and all City staff who would like to
join us as we honor law enforcement officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice while
serving their community.
Please feel free to call if you have any questions.
Employee Appreciation Breakfast and Spirit Week
Week of May 15_2017_Work Schedule
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STREETS DIVISION – WORK SCHEDULE Week of May 15, 2017 – May 19, 2017
Resurfacing/Reconstructing streets in the following areas:
Sealing streets in the area south of Brundage Rd between Cottonwood Rd & So “H” St
Maintenance Grind & Pave on Harris Rd between Wible Rd and Gosford Rd
Maintenance work on “H” St between 23rd St & 24th St
Street reconstruction on Stancliff Ct north of Pacheco
Miscellaneous Streets Division projects:
Video inspection of City owned sewer and storm lines to evaluate condition of pipes
Repairing damaged sewer line found during video inspection
Miscellaneous concrete repairs throughout the City
Concrete repairs to various bus stops throughout City limits
Concrete work in the four HUD areas for curb and gutter, sidewalk, and handicap ramps
prior to street repairs; the four areas are (1) El Toro Dr Area (2) Oleander Ave Area (3) Castro
Ln Area, (4) “P” St Area
NOTE: If raining, there will be no street sweeping service and all street cleaning personnel will
be assigned to cleaning plugged drains and part circle culverts. This also applies when a
large number of street sweepers are in Fleet for repairs. Areas that have been missed during
this time will be swept at the end of the month only when possible.
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Week of May 15_2017_Work Schedule
Page 2 of 2 STREETS SWEEPING SCHEDULE
Monday, May 15, 2017
City areas between 99 Hwy. & Stine Rd. – Panama Ln. & Taft Hwy.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Between Panama Lane & Woodmere Dr. – Ashe Rd. & Stine Rd.
Between District Blvd. & Panama Ln. -- Gosford Rd. & Ashe Rd.
Between Akers Rd. & Phyllis St. – Harris Rd. & Panama Ln.
City areas between Akers Rd. & Stine Rd. – Harris Rd. & Panama Ln.
Oswell to Sterling – Red Bank to Frwy 58
Stockdale to Bell Terrace – New Stine to S. Montclair Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Cul-De-Sacs on the north side of Angela Wy., between Manely Ct. & Cris Ct.
Between Oswell Park Dr. & Brundage Ln. – Oswell St. & Leeta St.
City areas between Workman St. & Sterling Rd. – 58 Hwy. & Baja Dr.
Between Morning Dr. & Park Dr. – College Ave. & Willis Ave.
Between Buena Vista Rd. & Old River Rd. – White Ln. & Panama Ln.
Between Old River Rd. & Gosford Rd. – White Ln. & Pacheco Rd.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
City areas between Stockdale Hwy. & Ming Ave. – Ashe Rd. & Gosford Rd.
Between El Portal/Laurelglen Blvd. & Ashe Rd. – Ming Ave. & So. Halfmoon/Olympia Dr.
Between Ashe Rd. & Stine Rd. – Ming Ave. & So. Halfmoon/Edgemount Dr.
Between Coffee Rd. & Wilson Rd. (ext.) – White Ln. & So. Halfmoon/Olympia Dr.
Friday, May 19, 2017
Between Stockdale Hwy. & Ming Ave. – Allen Rd. & Old River Rd.
Between Old River Rd. & Gosford Rd. – Ming Ave. & Ridge Oak/Westwold Dr.
Between Ridge Oak/Westwold Dr. & White Ln. – Old River Rd., east to the PG&E easement.
Between White Ln. & Asperata Dr. – Gosford Rd,, west to the PG&E easement.
Between White Ln. & Cederwood Dr. – Stine Rd. & Wilson Rd. (ext.)
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(Excluding Event Days)
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GROUP SALES INFORMATION
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Week of May 8th
UPCOMING EVENTS
May 12 – US Army Bowl 7:00 PM
$12 On Sale Now
May 13 – US vs Mexico Soccer 7:05 PM
$40, $30, $20, $15, $10 On Sale Now
May 26 – Lady Antebellum 7:30 PM
$62.50, $42.50 On Sale Now
June 12 – Boston 8:00 PM
$68.50, $48.50, $38.50, $28.50 On Sale Now
June 17 – Gerardo Ortiz 8:00 PM
$149, $119, $89, $49 On Sale Now
June 26 – WWE Live 7:30 PM
$95, $65, $50, $35, $25, $15 On Sale 5/12
July 15 – Guns ‘n Hoses 7:00 PM
$98, $38, $33, $28, $23, $18 On Sale Now
September 30 – Tim McGraw/Faith Hill 7:30 PM
$129.50, $99.50, $69.50 On Sale Now
May 13 – Bakersfield Symphony 7:30 PM
$45, $35, $30, $20 On Sale Now
May 18 – Cinderella 7:30 PM
$65, $55, $35 On Sale Now
June 20 – Alice Cooper 8:00 PM
$87.50, $67.50, $47.50, $27.50, $17.50 On Sale Now
June 24 – Adal Ramones 8:00 PM
$85, $70, $60, $50, $40, $30 On Sale Now
June 25 – Ted Nugent 8:00 PM
$57.50, $47.50, $37.50, $27.50, $17.50 On Sale Now
July 22 - Pepe Aguilar 8:00 PM
$199, $125, $95, $75, $60, $50 On Sale Now
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May 13 – ABBA The Concert 8:00 PM
$45.50, $35.50, $25.50, $15.50 On Sale Now
June 3 – The Fab Four 8:00 PM
$37.50, $30.50, $21.50, $17.50 On Sale Now
June 22 – Brit Floyd 8:00 PM
$57.00, $37.00, $27.00, $17.00 On Sale Now