Mayor Alex Munnaghi used a community interview to outline the city's near-term infrastructure priorities, citing a water agreement, wildfire preparedness investments and a planned modern fire station.

"Through negotiations with the city of Newport Beach and city of Fountain Valley, we were able to to, come up with an agreement to build a well in Fountain Valley that's gonna provide 2 thirds of our water supply locally and save rate payers $800,000 a year," Munnaghi said, describing the deal as a significant step toward local water reliability.

On wildfire mitigation, Munnaghi pointed to updates to the city's wildfire safety plan and investments made after earlier fires. "We updated our... wildfire safety plan where we spent 25000000 dollars on how we can mitigate the risk of wildfires," he said, and credited a recently installed helipod station as a "game changer" during the Rancho fire response.

Munnaghi also announced a demolition ceremony and the city's intent to build a new, seismically sound modern fire station: "On, Monday, we're gonna have a a ceremony for the demolition... We're gonna build the new South Dakota fire station. It'll be the only seismically sound modern fire station in our city," he said on the program.

He framed these infrastructure moves alongside public-safety work such as competitive raises that helped fill police vacancies and investments in technologies like automatic license plate readers.

Why it matters: A water source that replaces imported supply and large wildfire-prevention investments affect the city's resilience and long-term operating costs. Officials said the projects will require interagency coordination and construction schedules to follow.

Next steps noted on-air include the planned demolition ceremony and continued negotiations/implementation of the Fountain Valley well agreement.