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[ 7:00 P.M. - CONVENE MEETING / ROLL CALL]

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ALL RIGHT.

GOOD EVENING.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED CITY OF CHINO HILLS CITY COUNCIL MEETING FOR TODAY, JULY 13, MADAM CITY CLERK.

WOULD YOU MIND TAKING A ROLE? ALL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT.

THANK YOU.

THEN

[ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG - BSA Troop 2399]

WITH THAT, WE WILL HAVE OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO BE LED BY MR. CHUCK HANDLER AND THEN OUR INVOCATION, AND TO BE LED BY A CHAPLAIN BOB HILTON FROM THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, CHUCK, PLEASE STAND AT FABLE TO HONOR AMERICA, AND THOSE WILL PROTECT ITS FREEDOMS AND PRINCIPLES.

AND TOGETHER NOW I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE.

THANK YOU, SIR.

[ INVOCATION: Chaplain Bob Hilton, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department]

LET'S PRAY FATHER IN HEAVEN.

WE THANK YOU.

WE INVITE YOU HERE AT THIS COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.

WE ASKED FATHER IT, WE HAVE INTEGRITY THE TRUTH AND WORKING FOR THIS COMMUNITY AND FOR CHINO HILLS, BLESS EACH AND EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER ESSAY PARTAKE THIS BUSY SCHEDULE THAT THEY HAVE WITH THEIR FAMILIES AND WITH EVERYTHING ELSE WITHIN THE CITY.

THANK YOU FATHER, FOR THEM STEPPING UP TO PROTECT THIS COMMUNITY.

WE ASK THIS IN YOUR PRECIOUS NAME.

AMEN.

NO, MA'AM THANK YOU CHAPLAIN

[3. Receive input from community on redrawing of election district boundaries]

WITH THAT.

WE ARE GOING TO OPEN UP OUR PUBLIC HEARING ON, UH, RECEIVING INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY ON REDRAWING OF ELECTION AND DISTRICT BOUNDARIES.

AND I KNOW OUR CITY CLERK HAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT.

YES, ANY, UM, TH THERE ARE CHINESE AND SPANISH INTERPRETATION SERVICES AVAILABLE IN THE COMMUNITY ROOM, IN THE BACK OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS FOR ANY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC REQUIRING INTERPRETATION SERVICES.

SO IF YOU NEED INTERPRETATION SERVICES, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND AND WE WILL ESCORT YOU BACK TO THE ROOM.

SEEING NONE WITH THAT.

JEFF SEMINARY FROM NDC WILL BE PRESENTING A REPORT.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT, JEFF, BETTER UP.

ALL RIGHT.

GIVE ME YOUR NEW MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.

MY NAME IS JEFFERSON MINETTI WITH THE NATIONAL DEMOGRAPHICS CORPORATION.

WE APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH YOU THIS EVENING AND JUST WANT TO WALK THROUGH A BIT MORE ABOUT THE REDISTRICT IN PROCESS.

SO THIS EVENING, WHAT WE'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IS SOME OF THE KEY PROJECT TIMELINE TIMELINES, EVERYBODY HEARING ME.

OKAY.

I MISS HEARING A LITTLE BIT OF FEEDBACK ON A FEW KEY PROJECT TIMELINES, KEY DEADLINES.

WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST, AND THEN TALK AS WELL ABOUT THE NEXT STEPS IN HEARINGS.

SO AS YOU KNOW, CHINO HILLS SWITCH FROM AN AT-LARGE DISTRICT BY DISTRICT ELECTIONS IN JULY OF 2017, AND THE DISTRICTS ARE STAGGERED IN TERMS OF WHEN THEY WOULD BE ELECTED.

SO DISTRICTS ONE, TWO AND FOUR AT THE TERMS END IN NOVEMBER OF 2022 AND DISTRICTS THREE AND FIVE HAVE THEIR TERMS. EMOND IN NOVEMBER OF 2024 WITH THE CURRENT DECENNIAL CENSUS, THE ALL BE NEW DISTRICTS AND THE ELECTIONS THAT WE HAVE UP HERE, WE'LL TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE NEW DISTRICTS AND WE'LL WE'LL BE READY FOR THEM.

SO WE, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT PROCESSES AND STEPS IN THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS, WHICH WILL CULMINATE IN CREATING A MAP THAT WILL NEED TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE COUNTY REGISTRAR OF VOTERS BY NO LATER THAN APRIL 17TH OF 22.

SO WE'RE IN THE CURRENT STAGE ON THE INITIAL PRE-DRAFT HEARINGS, AND THOSE ARE HELD PRIOR TO THE RELEASE OF DRAFT MAPS.

AND BASICALLY THIS COMPONENT IS TO GIVE EDUCATION TO THE PUBLIC AND TO SOLICIT INPUT ON NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST AND THE AREAS WITHIN THE CITY.

WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT IN SOME LATER SLIDES WE'LL THEN HAVE AN INITIAL DEADLINE FOR DRAFT MAPS.

AND THIS YEAR, AS A RESULT OF THE COVID CRISIS, THERE HAS BEEN A DELAY IN THE US CENSUS DATA.

SO AT AN OR IN 10 YEARS AGO,

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WE WOULD HAVE ALREADY HAD THE DATA OUT BY THIS POINT, HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF THE COVID CRISIS, THE DATA HAS GOTTEN DELAYED, AND WE HAVE AN EXPECTATION THAT THE FULL DATA SET FROM THE US CENSUS BUREAU WILL BE AVAILABLE BY EITHER LATE SEPTEMBER OR EARLY OCTOBER.

AT THAT POINT, WE'LL BE ABLE TO HAVE OUR ONLINE MAPPING TOOL IN PLACE.

WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT AS WELL.

AND THEN TO BEGIN DRAFT MAPS AND CREATING, UH, GETTING INPUT AND FEEDBACK FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON WHAT THEY WANT TO HAVE THEIR MAPS, WE'LL RELEASE THOSE DRAFT MAPS, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE AT LEAST TWO HEARINGS ON THOSE DRAFT MAPS TO DISCUSS AND REVISE THOSE MAPS AND TO DISCUSS THE ELECTION SEQUENCE AS WELL.

AND THEN FINALLY, WE'LL HAVE A MAP ADOPTION THAT WILL BE ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE, AND THAT HAS TO BE DONE AS I MENTIONED BY NO LATER THAN APRIL 22ND, EXCUSE ME, APRIL 17TH, 2022, TO DELIVER THAT TO THE L EXCUSE ME, THE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY REGISTRAR VOTERS IN TERMS OF REDISTRICTING RULES AND GOALS.

THERE ARE REALLY THREE MAIN BUCKETS THAT WE TO TALK ABOUT IN TERMS OF WHAT DRIVES, WHY WE HAVE TO MAP THE WAY WE MAP THE FIRST ONE IS ON THE LEFT.

WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE FEDERAL LAWS, AND THAT'S REALLY DRIVEN BY THE FEDERAL VOTING RIGHTS ACT.

AND THERE'S TWO KEY MAIN COMPONENTS OF THAT.

FIRST OF ALL, WE HAVE TO HAVE RELATIVELY EQUAL POPULATION, AND THEN THERE CAN BE NO RACIAL GERRYMANDERING.

THE SECOND BUCKET IN THE MIDDLE, WHERE WE HAVE THE CALIFORNIA CRITERIA FOR CITIES IS DIFFERENT THAN THE LAST TIME IN THE LAST GO AROUND.

THIS IS AS A RESULT OF AB 8 49, WHICH WAS PASSED IN 2019 AND PUTS A RANK ORDER IN TERMS OF CRITERIA AS TO WHAT NEEDS TO DRIVE THE, UH, THE CRITERIA FOR THE MAP.

THE FIRST ONE IS COMPLIANCE AGAIN WITH THE FEDERAL VOTING RIGHTS ACT REQUIREMENTS.

SECOND, THE MAPS NEED TO BE GEOGRAPHICALLY CONTIGUOUS, SO THEY CAN'T HAVE ANY ISLANDS OUTSIDE OF DISTRICTS.

THEY HAVE TO HAVE UNDIVIDED NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST.

AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THOSE IN LATER SLIDES, BUT THESE ARE REALLY SOCIOECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIC AREAS THAT NEED, THAT SHOULD BE KEPT TOGETHER.

THEY HAVE TO HAVE EASILY IDENTIFIABLE BOUNDARIES AND THEY HAVE TO BE COMPACT.

AND WHEN WE SAY COMPACT, WHAT WE MEAN IS YOU CAN'T PASS OVER A POPULATION THAT IS MORE NEARBY TO GRAB ANOTHER POPULATION THAT IS FURTHER OUT IN THE DISTRICT.

AND THERE'S A UNIVERSAL BLANKET PROHIBITION THAT DISTRICT SHALL NOT FAVOR OR DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THE POLITICAL PARTY.

YES.

SO JEFF, IF, UM, YOU DO NOT WANT TO DIVIDE UP, UH, COMMUNITIES OF INTERESTS.

HOW, HOW MUCH ARE WE AT THE WHIMS OF WHAT THE CENSUS BLOCKS ARE BUILT AS YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE A CERTAIN, I DON'T KNOW, A CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HAS ONE COMMUNITY OF INTEREST, BUT, YOU KNOW, TO, UH, YOU KNOW, TWO CENSUS BLOCKS COMPRISE THAT AND, YOU KNOW, GO INTO OTHER POPULATIONS, HOW CAN YOU AVOID THE STUFF LIKE THAT? YEAH.

SO WE, WE GENERALLY TRY TO KEEP THE NEIGHBORHOODS TOGETHER AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO WANT TO DEFINE, BUT AGAIN, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, THIS IS, THIS IS RANK ORDERED.

SO IF THERE'S, IF THERE'S ANOTHER REASON WHY, FOR EXAMPLE, THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE TO BE DIVIDED OR HAVE A, HAVE A MORE FAVORABLE REASON FOR HAVING THEM IN MULTIPLE DISTRICTS.

AGAIN, THAT'S SLIGHTLY FURTHER DOWN, DOWN THE LIST AND THERE COULD BE, FOR EXAMPLE, FEDERAL VOTING RIGHTS ACT REQUIREMENTS THAT MIGHT MAKE THAT MIGHT MAKE THOSE SPLIT UP.

BUT AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S IN THE, IN THE ORDER THERE.

COOL.

THANK YOU.

SORRY.

CAN YOU, AND THEN ON THE, ON THE THIRD BUCKET, ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, WE HAVE OUR OTHER TRADITIONAL REDISTRICTING PRINCIPLES.

SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RESPECTING VOTERS CHOICES AND CONTINUITY IN OFFICE, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS LIMIT THE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WHO MIGHT BE CHANGED IN TERMS OF THE ELECTION SEQUENCE.

SO LET'S SAY FOR EXAMPLE, YOU'RE IN A DISTRICT THAT, UH, WOULD TRADITIONALLY NOW VOTE IN NOVEMBER OF 2022.

IF THAT PORTION OF THE POPULATION WOULD GET MOVED INTO A DISTRICT THAT WOULD BE IN 2024, WE TRY TO MINIMIZE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD GET SWITCHED THERE.

WE'LL ALSO LOOK AT POTENTIAL FUTURE POPULATION GROWTH.

AND AS I MENTIONED, MINIMIZE THE VOTERS THAT ARE SHIFTED TO DIFFERENT ELECTION YEARS, LIKE HERE IS THE, THE TOP COUPLE OF LINES ARE IMPORTANT.

AND SO THIS IS A DEMOGRAPHIC SUMMARY OF OUR EXISTING DISTRICTS.

AND THIS IS AN ESTIMATE ON WHAT YOUR ESTIMATED TOTAL POPULATION IS.

AND WE GET THIS DATA FROM THE WHAT'S CALLED THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY, AND THIS IS DONE, UH, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE, UH, THE CENSUS DATA.

AND IT PROVIDES MUCH MORE DETAILED INFORMATION.

AND WE'LL, WE'LL GET INTO THAT ON A COUPLE OF COUPLE OF LATER SLIDES, BUT FROM THAT WE CAN MAKE POPULATION ESTIMATES.

THE IMPORTANT THING, LIKE I MENTIONED OVER THE TOP, THE TOP THREE LINES.

SO OUR, OUR 2020 ESTIMATED TOTAL POPULATION, WE'RE ASSUMING THAT THERE'S ABOUT 81,000 PEOPLE WITHIN THE CITY, AND THAT'S HOW IT'S BROKEN UP BY DISTRICT.

THE IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER HERE IS THAT DEVIATION.

SO AS YOU CAN SEE, SINCE THE, THE LINES WERE DRAWN BACK IN 2017,

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THE DISTRICT THAT HAS HAD THE MOST SIGNIFICANT POPULATION INCREASES DISTRICT FIVE AND DISTRICTS ONE AND TWO.

NOW, AS YOU CAN SEE, YOU HAVE A PERCENTAGE DEVIATION OFF OF WHAT THAT IDEAL NUMBER WOULD BE.

SO W THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS WILL HAVE TO BRING BACK GENERALLY EQUAL POPULATION TO MOVE SOME OF THOSE AROUND AND TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE NUMBERS ARE WITHIN, WITHIN GENERALLY EQUAL POPULATION.

NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES.

WE'LL WALK THROUGH WHAT WE CALL THE CITIZEN VOTING AGE POPULATION, AND WE'LL GIVE A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHICS SLIDES HERE.

SO THE FIRST ONE IS THE LATINO CITIZEN VOTING AGE POPULATION.

THE PURPLE IS THE LOWER POPULATION BY, BY CENSUS BLOCK.

AND THE, THE ORANGE AND YELLOWISH ARE THE HIGHER POPULATIONS.

SO AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE HIGH, HIGHER LATINO POPULATIONS IN PARTS OF DISTRICT ONE, AS WELL AS IN DISTRICTS FOUR AND FIVE.

AND PARTICULARLY ALONG THE 71 FREEWAY, THEN WE LOOK AT ASIAN CITIZEN VOTING AGE POPULATION, AGAIN, UH, PARTS OF DISTRICT ONE HAVE HIGH POPULATIONS OF ASIAN CITIZEN VOTING AGE POPULATION, AS WELL AS SOME PARTS OF DISTRICT TWO.

AND ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE 71 FREEWAY IN DISTRICT FOUR, I HAVE A SLIDE RELATED TO COMMUNITY INCOME.

AND, UH, THERE'S A PRETTY WIDESPREAD, UH, AMOUNT OF HOUSEHOLDS THAT ARE EARNING ABOVE $75,000 PER YEAR.

AND THE NICE THING ABOUT THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY AND THIS, THIS WILL BE PART OF THE ONLINE MAPPING TOOL.

THERE ARE PROBABLY 10 OR 15 DIFFERENT LAYERS OF, UH, DIFFERENT THINGS THAT YOU CAN LOOK AT RELATED TO COMMUNITY INCOME AND TO OTHER DEMOGRAPHIC DATA.

WE'RE JUST PULLING A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES HERE, THE LAST COMMUNITY DATA SLIDE HERE, WE'LL TALK ABOUT AS PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS WITH A CHILD AT HOME.

AND AGAIN, THE MOST CONCENTRATION THERE IS IN SLOT, UH, EXCUSE ME, DISTRICTS THREE AND FOUR.

OKAY.

WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT DEFINING YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

AND TONIGHT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS GET SOME FEEDBACK FROM THE COUNCIL AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON WHAT WE THINK ARE YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST.

AND THEN AT THE NEXT HEARING, WE'LL GET MORE FORMAL FEEDBACK TO DEFINE THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST SO THAT WE CAN INCLUDE THEM IN THE, UH, MAPPING TOOLS.

SO A NEIGHBORHOOD THINK OF IT THE WAY YOU TRADITIONALLY WOULD THINK OF A NEIGHBORHOOD IT'S ANY, ANY EXAMPLE OF PHYSICAL FEATURES FINDING A NEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARY.

SO THAT COULD BE A NATURAL FEATURE, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, STREAMS, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.

WE COULD HAVE EITHER HIGHWAYS OR MAJOR ROADS AS A DIVIDING LINE, OR ALSO AROUND A COMMUNITY FEATURE LIKE A NEIGHBORHOOD PARK OR A SCHOOL DOWNTOWN CIVIC CENTER, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.

WHEN WE GO TO DEFINE A COMMUNITY OF INTEREST, IT TAKES THAT IDEA OF A NEIGHBORHOOD AND ADDS ONE MORE CHARACTERISTIC.

SO IT'S YOUR GEOGRAPHIC AREA, PLUS A SHARED SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC INTEREST OR AN AREA THAT MIGHT BE IMPACTED BY A PARTICULAR CITY POLICY.

SO REALLY WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DRIVE AT, AND THE CRUX OF ASKING ABOUT NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST ARE, WOULD THIS COMMUNITY OF INTEREST OR NEIGHBORHOOD BENEFIT FROM BEING INCLUDED WITHIN A SINGLE DISTRICT FOR ITS PURPOSES, FOR ITS MOST EFFECTIVE, FAIR AND REPRESENTATION, OR WOULD IT BENEFIT FROM HAVING MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIVES LIKE YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT MAYOR JOSEPH.

NOW WE HAVE A LIST OF POSSIBLE NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES.

AND AGAIN, I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR THAT THIS IS NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST.

THIS IS JUST TO BEGIN THE DISCUSSION AND PLEASE FEEL FREE TO GIVE US MORE FEEDBACK ON AND THE OTHER POTENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS OR COMMUNITIES HERE.

WE HAVE LISTED CARBON CANYON, SLEEPY HOLLOW EAGLE CANYON, VELANO, THE VILLAGE OAKS AND OAK RIDGE BUTTERFIELD RANCH AND LOW SERRANO'S.

BUT AGAIN, THINK ABOUT THE, THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT AND THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EITHER A NEIGHBORHOOD OR COMMUNITY OF INTEREST, AND THIS REALLY SHOULD DRIVE THE DISCUSSION ON HOW WE WOULD DEFINE THOSE.

SO WHAT WE'D LIKE TO START AGAIN AND TALK ABOUT, GIVE US, GIVE US A LITTLE BIT MORE FEEDBACK TONIGHT ON THIS AT OUR NEXT HEARING, WHAT WE'LL BE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT ARE GETTING MORE FORMAL ACTION FROM THE CITY COUNCIL TO SAY, WHAT ARE THE AREAS WITHIN THE CITY THAT MEET THE EACH AB 8 49 DEFINITION OF YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST.

ONCE WE HAVE THOSE, THOSE WILL GO INTO THE PUBLIC MAPPING TOOLS AND WE'D BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF THE WAY THAT WE DRAW OUR MAPS.

I WANT TO TALK ABOUT TWO OTHER THINGS.

UM, WE WERE MENTIONING THE ONLINE MAPPING TOOL.

UH, THE CITY IS WORKING WITH US ON WHAT'S CALLED THE DISTRICT, OUR PLATFORM, AND THAT WILL BE LIVE,

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UH, BY THE TIME WE HAVE THE FULL DATA SETS.

AND WE'RE ALSO FINALIZING THE WEBSITE.

THERE'LL BE A SPECIFIC WEBSITE, THAT'LL BE DIRECTLY FOR, UM, THE, THE REGISTERING PROCESS, WHICH WE'LL HAVE LINKS TO THE MAPPING TOOLS AND HAVE WE'LL HAVE LINKS TO THE AGENDAS AND SOME OF THE MAJOR DATA FOR THIS.

SO FINALLY, WE TALK ABOUT A COUPLE OF KEY NEXT STEPS, WHERE SHOULD WE HAVE THE PROJECT WEBSITE AND THE PUBLIC MAPPING TOOLS, UH, LIVE AND AVAILABLE IN THE SUMMER OF 2021 WE'RE ANTICIPATING.

AND THEN HOPEFULLY THAT WE'LL HAVE THE DATA AVAILABLE BY OCTOBER OF 2021, SO WE CAN BEGIN THE PUBLIC MAPPING PROCESS.

AND THEN AS I MENTIONED, THE FINAL PROCESS HAS TO BE COMPLETELY FINALIZED AND SUBMITTED TO THE COUNTY REGISTRAR OF VOTERS BY NO LATER THAN APRIL 17TH OF NEXT YEAR.

SO WITH THAT, WE APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH YOU, AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.

ALL RIGHT, BEFORE WE TAKE COUNCIL COMMENTS, I'M GOING TO OPEN UP THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS.

SO WHAT ABOUT THE PUBLIC HEARING, UH, MR. JIM GALLAGHER, AIMING MAYOR, A CITY COUNCIL, UH, UH, STAFF TELL RESIDENTS.

UM, I THINK THE, THIS PROCESS IS EXCITING AND, UH, I, LAST TIME WE DID THIS, UH, I ENJOYED PARTICIPATING IN IT AND I THINK WE CAME TO SOME REASONABLE OR DISTRICTS.

WHAT I'M CURIOUS ABOUT ARE THE MAPPING TOOL IS GOING TO BE SIMILAR TO THAT, WHICH THE STATE REDISTRICTING COMMISSION OFFERS, BECAUSE I FOUND THEM TO BE VERY HELPFUL WHEN WE REVIEW THOSE.

AND SO THAT'S MY ONLY QUESTION.

AND AS I WAS LOOKING AT THE DEMOGRAPHICS SUMMARY OF EXISTING DISTRICTS, IT DOES LOOK INDEED THAT, UH, DISTRICT FIVE DOES NEED TO BE CHANGED.

AND THEN WE NEED TO BE MOVING SOME POPULATIONS AROUND MAYBE TO DISTRICT THREE AND, AND ALSO DO SOME WORK WITH ONE AND TWO.

SO, BUT THAT'S JUST OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.

I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH A TOOL AND MAYBE SOME MAPS.

SO THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, SIR.

ANY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK DURING THIS PORTION OF THE PUBLIC HEARING ON REDISTRICTING? ALL RIGHT.

SO YOU DIDN'T HEARING NONE.

I'M GOING TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.

SO MR. BENNETT, YES.

COULD YOU BRING UP THE, THE, UH, CHART THAT SHOWS THE EXISTING ESTIMATED POPULATION FOR 2020 AND THE BREAKDOWN YOU GOT IT OR ME THERE IT IS.

OKAY, GREAT.

UM, AND MR. GALLAGHER JUST ALLUDED TO THIS, UH, RIGHT NOW DISTRICTS THREE AND FIVE ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT ARE OVER, UH, THE, UH, DERIVATION OF ICE ARE FROM IDEAL.

UH, OBVIOUSLY MY DISTRICT DISTRICT THREE JUST HAPPENS TO BE THE CLOSEST.

SO I'M ASSUMING THERE WILL PROBABLY BE MINIMAL, UH, JURISDICTION CHANGES THERE, OR BOUNDARY CHANGES, BUT IN PARTICULAR WITH ITEM OR DISTRICT FIVE, WHERE WE'RE 3000 PEOPLE OVER OVER THAT IS A, UH, NOVEMBER, 2024, UH, ELECTION COMING UP, THE AREAS THAT ARE UNDER DISTRICTS, ONE, TWO, AND FOUR ARE ALL DISTRICTS THAT HAVE ELECTIONS NEXT YEAR IN NOVEMBER 22.

THIS IS APPARENTLY A VERY BIG FACTOR THAT YOU WENT IN ONE OF YOUR OTHER SLIDES.

SO HOW ARE WE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET AROUND MOVING PEOPLE FROM DISTRICT FIVE INTO ONE, TWO OR FOUR, UH, WITH MINIMAL CHANGES, BUT NOT BEING ABLE TO AVOID THE CHANGE IN ELECTION DATES? I MEAN, IS THAT JUST SOMETHING WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WORK WITH, BUT IS THAT AN OBVIOUS OBSERVATION? YEAH, SO, I MEAN, THAT'S SOMETHING OBVIOUSLY THAT WE TRY TO MINIMIZE HERE, BUT WHAT I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE, THE DEVIATION FROM IDEAL, THE MAXIMUM THAT YOU REALLY WANT TO HAVE IS A 10% DEVIATION OFF OF, OFF OF YOUR IDEAL NUMBERS.

AND REMEMBER THAT THAT'S, THAT'S A 10% DEVIATION FROM THE LARGEST DISTRICT TO THE SMALLEST DISTRICT.

OKAY.

SO NOW HERE, IF THE SMALLEST DISTRICT WOULD BE DISTRICT ONE AND YOUR, YOUR, UH, BIGGEST DISTRICT WHO WOULD BE DISTRICT FIVE, SO THERE'S APPROXIMATELY OF JAVA.

YEAH.

I MEAN, THERE'S, THERE'S WHEN YOU ADD THOSE TWO TOGETHER, IT'S APPROXIMATELY 25% DIFFERENCE.

SO THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE'S GOING TO NEED TO BE SOME, SOME CHANGES TO MOVE AROUND THOSE, BUT, BUT AGAIN, YES, WE WILL ATTEMPT TO MINIMIZE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE THE, THE ELECTION SEQUENCING FOR PEOPLE WHO WOULD BE CHANGED OUT OF THE CASE.

SO IT'D BE 10% OFF OF THE DIFFERENCE OF THE EXISTING POPULATIONS VERSUS THE 80,000.

SO 10%, THERE WOULD ONLY BE EIGHT, 800 VOTES VERSUS THIS 14,000, UH, IN DISTRICT ONE, THE DEVIATION WOULD REQUIRE 1500, UH, POTENTIALLY THE 10% DEVIATION WOULD YOU WANT TO HAVE NO, NO GREATER THAN 10% DIFFERENCE FROM THE LARGEST DISTRICT TO THE SMALLEST

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DISTRICT.

OKAY.

SO IF, AGAIN, THAT IF, IF WE'RE HAVING, YOU KNOW, APPROXIMATELY WHAT'S THE, WE HAVE 16,000, SO, SO WE GOT ABOUT 4,200 VOTES.

SO TOP TO BOTTOM, CORRECT.

I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO THE MATH RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THERE CAN BE SO MUCH THAT'S GOING TO HAVE TO HAPPEN.

BUT SO THE OBSERVATIONS ARE CORRECT.

THE BIGGEST ONE I HAVE A CONCERN WITH, UH, THAT YOU SAID IS THAT A MAJOR CONCERN IS SHIFTING THE VOTING CYCLE FOR IF THEY MOVE FROM ONE, YOU KNOW, 2022 TO 2024, OR VICE VERSA, THEN THAT'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE, UH, GIVEN A LOT OF CONSIDERATION BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE WE REPRESENT.

AND THAT'S THE OTHER THING IS TOO, THAT SINCE WE WERE FORCED TO GO TO DISTRICTS, JUST, YOU KNOW, BACK IN 2017, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE OUT THERE RIGHT NOW, OUR CURRENT RESIDENTS SUPPORTED THE CANDIDATES THAT ARE IN REPRESENT THEM CURRENTLY.

SO YOU GO CHANGING THEIR REPRESENTATION.

AND THAT'S ANOTHER FACTOR I THINK THAT HAS TO SOMEHOW BE GIVEN CONSIDERATION BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S JUST ONE OF THE FACTORS THAT ARE GOING TO HAVE TO CONCERN.

SO YES.

UNDERSTOOD.

AND THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WILL THROUGH THE PROCESS ATTEMPT TO MINIMIZE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

THOSE WERE JUST CANDID THOUGHTS, MR. BROWN.

NO, NO, I, I, I AGREE WITH YOU.

AND I THINK IN SOME WAYS, LIKE I'M LOOKING AT DISTRICT FOUR.

YEAH.

LET'S JUST, YOU KNOW, USING THESE NUMBERS, THIS IS JUST A, AN ASSUMPTION FROM THAT AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY.

SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK ABOUT ALL THE APARTMENTS AND TOWN HOMES THAT ARE BUILT AND BEEN BUILT MY DISTRICT, AND I CAN'T SEE US BEING THAT MUCH LESS THAN, YOU KNOW, US HAVING LESS POPULATION.

SO, YOU KNOW, LET'S WAIT UNTIL WE SEE WHAT THE FULL, THE FULL BREADTH OF, UH, OF THE CENSUS TRACKS ARE BEFORE WE GET TOO OVER OUR SKIS.

YEAH.

AND THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S A VERY GOOD POINT.

JUST REMEMBER THAT THESE ARE, THESE ARE ABSOLUTELY JUST ESTIMATES, ESTIMATES, THE FULL NUMBERS THAT COME OUT IN OCTOBER ARE VERY LIKELY TO BE DIFFERENT THAN THIS.

OKAY.

OKAY.

THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

THANK YOU, MARK.

UH, QUICK QUESTION.

I DON'T, THESE ARE BASICALLY ESTIMATES FROM THE DATA REGARDING 2020, THE FINAL NUMBERS.

WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO BE AVAILABLE? ARE WE GOING TO BE USING THOSE NUMBERS? SO, UH, AS I MENTIONED, WE'RE ESTIMATING AND HOPING THAT THE DATA WILL BE OUT IN EARLY OCTOBER.

SO THERE'S A TWO-STEP PROCESS.

FIRST, THE CENSUS DATA RELEASED THE CENSUS RELEASES THE FULL SET OF DATA TO THE STATE.

AND THEN THEY DO, WHAT'S CALLED THE PRISONER ADJUSTMENTS WHERE THEY, THE ZERO OUT THE PRISON POPULATION AND, UH, ASSIGN PRISONERS BACK TO THEIR LAST KNOWN ADDRESS.

AND SO THAT YOU'LL, YOU'LL HEAR THAT THE CENSUS DATA WILL COME.

THE US CENSUS DATA WILL COME OUT FIRST.

AND THEN IT'LL APPROXIMATELY A MONTH AFTER THAT, THAT THE STATE WILL RELEASE THEIR FULL CENSUS DATA.

THE REASON I'M ASKING THIS QUESTION SAY WE'RE USING THESE ESTIMATES AND WE FINE TUNE IT.

AND WE, WE HAVE, UM, WE ACCEPT THE NEW MAPS AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN WE GET THE FINAL MAPS AND FOR WHATEVER REASON, THEY'RE DIFFERENT.

WELL, WE MAKE ADJUSTMENTS AT THAT TIME.

WE, THAT, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

SO NO MAPS WILL BE DRAWN UNTIL WE HAVE OUR FULL SET OF DATA OUT.

SO WE'LL KNOW AND HAVE, HAVE THE EXACT CENSUS DATA OUT BEFORE, BEFORE WE START DRAWING.

OKAY.

HAVING, HAVING SOUNDS LIKE OCTOBER WILL BE THE EARLIEST.

AND THE LAST QUESTION THAT I DO HAVE, UM, WE ARE GOING THROUGH A PROCESS RIGHT NOW CALLED ARENA REGIONAL HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT.

AND MY QUESTION IS SOME OF THESE AREAS ARE GOING TO, UH, WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE BUILT.

AND WE, AS A CITY ARE GOING TO BE BUILDING THESE UNITS, BUT WE'RE GOING TO ZONE FOR THEM.

SO SOME OF THESE AREAS COULD GET BIGGER AND LARGER.

IS ANY OF THAT IN CONSIDERATION AS FAR AS FUTURE GROWTH? YEAH.

UM, SO IF, IF YOU GO BACK HERE ONTO THE, TO THE OTHER TRADITIONAL REDISTRICTING PRINCIPLES, LET'S, LET'S SAY FOR EXAMPLE, YOU HAVE AN AREA THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, IS, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE CONSTRUCTION THAT'S UNDERWAY AND YOU HAVE A SIGNIFICANT POPULATION THAT, THAT YOU KNOW, IS GOING TO BE FILLED.

YOU COULD THEORETICALLY SLIGHTLY UNDERFILL THAT DISTRICT, KNOWING THAT THAT'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO FILL IN ON THE POPULATION.

BUT REMEMBER, THIS IS, THIS IS, THIS IS RANK ORDERED IN TERMS OF, IN TERMS OF THE PRIORITIES, THE FIRST THING THAT YOU HAVE TO HIT BEFORE YOU START TALKING, THINKING ABOUT THINGS LIKE FUTURE POPULATION GROWTH, GOT TO HIT YOUR FOOT AND FEDERAL VOTING RIGHTS ACT REQUIREMENTS.

AND YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU HIT YOUR CALIFORNIA CRITERIA IS FIRST.

I'M GLAD THAT WE HAVE SOME FLEXIBILITY ON THAT.

PUSH IT UP.

REMEMBER MARYANNE, I JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS.

I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS THE TYPE OF FEEDBACK YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, BUT I'M JUST THINKING GEOGRAPHICALLY.

AND I WAS ACTUALLY VERY SURPRISED TO SEE THAT HIGH OF AN INCREASE IN DISTRICT FIVE, WHICH IS THE DISTRICT THAT I CURRENTLY REPRESENT.

UM, IF YOU WANT FEEDBACK AS FAR AS GEOGRAPHICALLY, UM, I THINK I SAID IT BEFORE THAT THE SECTION OF MY DISTRICT THAT IS SOUTH OF SOCAL CANYON, UM, WOULD MAKE SENSE TO BE, I WAS GOING TO SAY ARTS, BUT HE NEEDS TO BE REDUCED AS WELL.

SO I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU WOULD DO THAT, BUT I DEFINITELY THINK IF THERE WAS ANY, AN AREA TO SHAVE OFF OF DISTRICT FIVE,

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UM, IT WOULD DEFINITELY BE THAT AREA WITH, UM, THOSE RESIDENTS GO TO DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.

UM, THERE'S JUST, IT'S THERE, IT'S THERE ALL THE NEIGHBORHOODS, DIFFERENT SET OF PROBLEMS. WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE, IS PART OF THE STREET? NO, I'M, I'M THINKING OF, UH, ARE YOU THINKING OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACROSS FROM WICKMAN? NO.

THAT'S, UM, LAST RONALD'S RANCH, WHICH IF WE HAD TO, THAT WOULD BE, MY NEXT RECOMMENDATION IS TO PUT LOSS, SERRANO RANCH IN MAYOR JOSEPH'S DISTRICT, BECAUSE HE ALREADY HAS THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACROSS THE STREET, WHICH GOES TO WICKMAN.

SO, UM, THOSE WOULD BE MY RECOMMENDATIONS BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S QUITE A BIT OF A NUMBER TWO.

YEAH.

IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE ALL GONNA SLIP DOWN SLIP SOUTH.

WE HAVE NO CHOICE BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN VERY LITTLE GROWTH IN ONE AND TWO, FOR SURE.

AND WE'RE JUST GOING TO, THE FOOTPRINT OF FIVE IS GOING TO HAVE TO SHRINK, SHRINK TO MAKE UP FOR SOME EQUAL EQUALIZATION OF POPULATION.

SO I THINK WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE SLIPPING DOWN.

IT LOOKS LIKE TO SOME DEGREE.

YEAH.

SO IN TERMS OF NEIGHBORHOODS, WOULD WE INCLUDE LIKE, YOU KNOW, LIKE PETER, YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU HAVE YOUR OWN HOA ON KIND OF DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS.

WOULD THOSE BE THE TYPE OF THINGS THAT WE WOULD WANT TO DEFINE AS A NEIGHBORHOOD OR FOR ME FAIRFIELD RANCH, WHERE A NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU KNOW, ON THE, YOU KNOW, YOU HAD MENTIONED A COUPLE OF TIMES HAVING SIGNIFICANT ASIAN POPULATION ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE 71, THAT'S ALL MY HLA ARE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

SO IS THAT SOMETHING WE ARE, I GUESS, DO YOU WANT US TO DEFINE THESE NOW FOR YOU? OR WOULD WE DO THAT AT THE NEXT MEETING? OKAY.

YEAH.

I'M, I'M REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF THE DISCUSSION.

YEAH.

AND THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CERTAINLY WOULD APPRECIATE THE FEEDBACK ON.

UM, AND, AND YEAH, SO THIS IS, THIS IS KIND OF JUST TO BEGIN THE DISCUSSION, BEGIN THE BRAINSTORMING, AND THEN AT THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING, WE'LL FORMALIZE.

THOSE SOUNDS GOOD.

SO JUST TO UNDERSTAND, I KNOW AT LEAST LAST TIME WE COULDN'T, YOU COULDN'T SPLIT A PRECINCT FOR ACTING CORRECT.

AND YOU, AND YOU STILL CAN'T SPLIT A PRECINCT.

YES.

OKAY.

BECAUSE WHERE THE DIVIDING LINE IS FOR RAY AND I, WHICH IS AT THE CARBON AND FIRE STATION, CANON LANE THAT GOES THROUGH THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, THAT'S BEEN BUILT OVER A GOLF COURSE.

ONE SIDE OF THE STREET IS RAISED.

ONE SIDE OF THE STREET IS MINE, BUT THAT'S AN HOA.

SO THAT HOA HAS BEEN SPLIT IN HORN LAKE LOS SERRANOS.

YOU KNOW, WE FOUND OUT THAT OURS HAS ABOUT A FIFTH OF IT AND I HAVE FORFEITS ON IT.

YEAH.

AND IT'S DEFINITELY A COMMUNITY.

I HAVE ONE STREET, WHICH IS VAL VISTA, THE NORTH SIDE OF THE STREETS, MY DISTRICT, THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE STREETS, HERS.

SO THERE ARE AREAS THAT WE'VE USED GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES THAT THEY DO BREAK UP AN AREA.

SO, BUT I THINK THE COMMENT THAT PETER MADE IS PROBABLY SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE LOOKED AT AND MAKES THE MOST SENSE IS THAT BASICALLY EVERYTHING, BECAUSE WE'VE GOT SUCH A LARGE POPULATION DOWN IN THE SOUTH, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MOVE WHOLE DISTRICTS MAY MAYBE UP TO THE NEXT, UM, MAIN THOROUGHFARE OR SOMETHING.

CAUSE I KNOW THAT'S IT NOW I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT'LL TIE INTO PRECINCTS, BUT THAT'S WHY I ASKED THE PRECINCT QUESTION.

YEAH.

YEAH.

AND, AND REMEMBER TO GO, GOING BACK TO THIS SLIDE HERE, THAT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ONE TO REMEMBER THAT AB 8 49 HAS, AS I MENTIONED, CRITERIA, THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST, BUT IT'S NOT A HARD AND FAST RULE THAT THOSE HAVE TO REMAIN ON DIVIDED.

AND IF, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S A REASON THAT THE FEDERAL VOTING RIGHTS ACT AND PARTICULARLY HOW YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WHAT THE EQUAL POPULATION, IF THERE'S A REASON TO SPLIT THOSE UP FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE FEDERAL VOTING RIGHTS ACT, THEN THAT'S A CONSIDERATION TO MAKE.

YEAH.

OKAY.

WOULD IT BE HELPFUL IF WE EACH TOOK A LOOK AT OUR OWN DISTRICTS AND DECIDE, GIVE YOU A RECOMMENDATION OR SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT AS TO HOW OUR INDIVIDUAL DISTRICTS COULD SHIFT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER BASED UPON WE KNOW WHERE THEIR HOMES ARE? UM, BECAUSE I'M THINKING OF, OKAY, IF WE HAVE TO MOVE THINGS OVER TO LIKE, UH, BRIAN'S DISTRICT, WE MIGHT WANT TO ELIMINATE WHAT'S ON THE ONE SIDE OF THE PIPELINE IN LOW SERRANO'S AREA TO MAKE THE DISTRICT COLE, UH, TO HELP TAKE AWAY SOME FROM CYNTHIA, WE COULD MOVE VAL VISTA DOWN TO WOODVIEW ROAD TO HELP OUT PETER GET MORE, OR YEAH, IT GETS YOU MORE.

WE COULD GIVE YOU NORTH OF CHINO HILLS PARKWAY UP TO WHERE LYDELL ELEMENTARY IS BECAUSE THERE'S A POCKET OF HOMES.

SO THERE'S NUANCES LIKE THAT.

IF EACH ONE OF US ARE DEBATABLE TO GIVE YOU THAT MAYBE THAT WILL BE A WAY OF FINE TO THING, YOU KNOW, COME ANKLE WITH THE LITTLE FINE ADJUSTMENTS WHERE WE KNOW HOMES ARE, BUT WE CAN MAYBE TRY TO DIRECT THEM TO THE DISTRICTS THAT NEED, UH, TO BE PLUS OR MINUS NOW CRITICAL DATES.

OCTOBER IS WHEN THE FINAL NUMBERS WILL PROBABLY BE OUT, BUT YOU HAVE UNTIL LIKE ONLY APRIL TO GET THE FINAL NUMBER SO THEY CAN GET THE NUMBERS TO THE VOTER REGISTRAR'S OFFICE TO SEND OUT BALLOTS AND EVERYTHING FOR THE ELECTIONS THE END OF NEXT YEAR.

CORRECT? YES.

SO THAT'S THE TIME.

IT WOULD BE NO LATER THAN APRIL 17TH.

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YOU HAVE TO HAVE A MAP PACK.

OKAY.

THE ADJUSTMENTS I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT, WHEN DO YOU WANT THOSE? OR HOW DO WE GET THOSE TO YOU? SHOULD WE WORK WITH OUR CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AND BETH ICU WANTING TO CHIME IN? WOULD IT BE HELPFUL FOR US TO GIVE YOU SOME RECOMMENDATIONS SO YOU CAN FILTER THOSE? HOW SHOULD WE DO THAT? WELL, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IT'S PART OF THE PUBLIC PROCESS.

SO IT WOULDN'T BE LIKE A WRITING SEPARATE, IT WOULD NEED TO BE PART OF THE PUBLIC PROCESS TO GET THEM THAT INFORMATION.

YEAH.

MAYBE JUST COME UP WITH A LIST AND AT THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING WHERE WE DISCUSSED THIS IN PUBLIC HEARING, BRING IT UP.

THAT WOULD BE PERFECT.

OKAY.

SO THE, THE KIND OF DESCRIPTIONS I WAS JUST COMING UP WITH, WE COULD PUT THAT INTO THE, INTO A PREPPER OR A PRESENTATION AND GIVE IT PUBLIC VIEWING.

OKAY.

CAUSE I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO THAT.

WE KNOW OUR DISTRICTS BETTER THAN ANYBODY I THINK.

UH, AND WE KNOW WHERE THE PLUSES AND MINUSES ARE GOING TO HAVE TO OCCUR.

SO I THINK MAYBE WE'D BE IN A GOOD POSITION TO START MOVING THESE AROUND AND GET SOME OF THE STUFF GOING.

OKAY.

OKAY.

ALL RIGHT.

AND SO THE CENSUS TRACKS ARE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO USE TO BUILD UP THE DISTRICTS, CORRECT? YES.

SO DO WE KNOW WHAT THE SHAPES OF THEM ARE? NOT NECESSARILY WHAT THE POPULATION IS, BUT YES.

AND THOSE CAN'T BE SPLIT EITHER.

YEAH.

YES.

AND THOSE ARE REFLECTIVE ON THE, YOU CAN'T SEE IT ON THIS MAP, BUT YES, THE, THE NEW CENSUS TRACKS ARE UNDER LONGER, THEN IT COMES AS THE NEW ONES.

YES.

OKAY.

VERY GOOD.

ALL RIGHT.

WELL I THINK THIS IS ALL GOOD FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

SO CERTAINLY WHEN ENCOURAGE THE PUBLIC TO BE INVOLVED AS MR. GALLAGHER SAID, LAST YEAR, WE HAD PLENTY OF FOLKS CHIME IN WITH, OR NOT.

THE LAST, THE FIRST TIME WE DID THIS, WE HAD, WE HAD PLENTY OF FOLKS, UH, SEND THEIR PERSPECTIVE, UH, DISTRICTS SOMEONE'S VACUUMING.

UM, UM, SO WHEN ENCOURAGED THE, YOU KNOW, ENCOURAGE THE RESIDENTS TO GET INVOLVED WITH IT, YOU KNOW, TO WHAT JIM SAID, USE THE TOOLS YOU USE THE MAPPING, BUILD YOUR OWN, HIM, TRADING WITH YOUR FRIENDS, HAVE ALL SORTS OF FUN WITH IT BECAUSE IT, IT IS, YOU KNOW, IT'S BASIC DEMOCRACY.

SO THANK YOU, JASON.

UNLESS WE HAVE ANY FURTHER COMMENTS WE WILL BE MOVING ON.

OKAY.

THANK YOU, SIR.

THANKS.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT.

AND WITH THAT, WE WILL BE MOVING ON TO PRESENTATIONS.

I'LL LET THE CITY CLERK,

[4. RECOGNITION - Recognizing Carbon Canyon Fire Safe Council for being named 2021 California Nonprofit of the Year from Assemblyman Phillip Chen]

THE FIRST PRESENTATION YOU HAVE TONIGHT IS A RECOGNITION OF THE CARBON CANYON FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOR BEING NAMED THE 2021 CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT OF THE YEAR FROM ASSEMBLYMEN PICKED PHILIP CHEN TO BE ACCEPTED BY PAUL'S SPIT, SORRY, PAUL, IF YOU'LL JOIN THE MAYOR AT THE PODIUM, ALL RIGHT, TONIGHT, WE'RE HERE TO RECOGNIZE THE CARBON CANYON FIRE SAFE COUNCIL.

AND YOU CAN READ MY SCRIPT THAT STAFF PUTS TOGETHER FOR ME BECAUSE I CAN'T DO IT ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS CITY COUNCIL.

I WANT TO CONGRATULATE THE CARBON CANYON FIRE SAFE COUNCIL FOR BEING NAMED A 2021 CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT OF THE YEAR BY OUR FAMILY MEMBER, PHILIP CHEN.

THE COUNCIL WAS FORMED IN 2001, AND IT'S A GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATION THAT WORKS HAND IN HAND WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE CHINO VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT.

FOR 20 YEARS, THEY HAVE WORKED DILIGENTLY TO MITIGATE THE RISKS OF WILDFIRE IN THE CANYON.

THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS, CERTAINLY GRATEFUL AND APPRECIATIVE FOR THEIR EFFORTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT THAT THEY DO FOR FIRE EDUCATION AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS THAT ADDRESS WILD FIRE RISKS AND CONTROL TACTICS, THEIR EFFORTS MAKE THEM DESERVING OF THE RECOGNITION.

AND WE ARE VERY PROUD OF WHAT THEY DO.

UM, I KNOW WE ALL KNOW WHEN THEY'RE OUT THERE DOING THEIR BRUSH REMOVAL, IT REALLY IS SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S PROTECTING THE COMMUNITY AND IT'S A LOT OF BLOOD, SWEAT, HOPEFULLY NOT TOO MANY TEARS, UH, OUT THERE WHILE THEY'RE WORKING.

SO ON BEHALF OF THE CITY WANTED TO ASK YOU TO PLEASE SAY A COUPLE OF WORDS, PLEASE.

THANK YOU, MAYOR JOSEPH, THANK YOU.

COUNCIL, STAFF AND RESIDENTS.

WE ARE REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF THE ASSEMBLY MEMBERS RECOGNITION OF WHAT WE DO.

I WANT TO EMPHASIZE BY THE WAY THAT WE ARE A MULTI JURISDICTION ENTITY.

IN OTHER WORDS, WE GET A LOT OF SUPPORT FROM CHINO HILLS, ALSO FROM BRIA.

OUR PRESIDENT IS A RESIDENT OF THE KENYAN.

LUCHINO HILLSIDE.

OUR VICE-PRESIDENT IS AN OLD ORLINDA VILLAGE ON THE BREAST SIDE, AND THAT'S BEEN A FAIRLY RECENT DEVELOPMENT.

SO WE'RE VERY HAPPY TO HAVE THAT KIND OF COOPERATION THAT SPANS THESE AS YOU KNOW, THESE JURISDICTIONS CAN BE CHALLENGING TO WORK WITH WHEN YOU'RE IN MULTIPLE ONES.

SO WITH THAT, I JUST WANT AGAIN, SAY WE'RE VERY THANKFUL FOR ALL THE SUPPORT WE GET FROM THE COMMUNITY.

AND THAT'S WHAT WE DO, WHAT WE DO, BECAUSE WE WANT TO HELP PEOPLE MITIGATE WILDFIRE RISK IN THE CANYON.

THANK YOU.

SO MR. MAYOR, COULD I SAY A FEW WORDS IF I COULD, FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANT TO SAY, THANK YOU, PAUL, YOU AND THE FIRE SAFE COUNCIL.

UM, YOU GUYS HAVE DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB OVER THE YEARS.

UM, BACKING AWAY, WE HAD ISSUES WITH COMMUNICATION AS FAR AS CARBON CANYON, FIRE AND PD COULD NOT COMMUNICATE OUTSIDE OF CARBON CANYON.

THERE WAS A, THERE WAS A PROBLEM AND I'M GOING TO SAY THE FIRE SAFE COUNCIL TOOK A LEAD ON THAT.

WE MET WITH THE FIRE DISTRICT

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AND ALSO GARY OVITZ OFFICE.

AND WITHIN ONE YEAR AFTER THE TIME WE TALKED ABOUT IT, WE GOT THAT CORRECTED.

SO THAT'S ONE THING.

THE OTHER THING IS THE CREEK BED ALONG THE LIQUOR STORE THERE, UH, WE GOT MONEY IN A GUEST.

YOU WERE, YOU WERE ACTUALLY WITH GARY OVER AT, AT THE TIME.

SO THANK YOU.

UH, WE GOT ABOUT A $40,000 GRANT TO CLEAN THAT CREEK BED, UH, RIGHT THERE.

AND THEN JUST BEFORE THE FIRE BACK IN 2008, WE WORKED WITH THE FIRE DISTRICT AND GOT A HALF A MILLION DOLLAR GRANT TO CLEAR OUT THE BRUSH AROUND SLEEPY HOLLOW.

SURE.

AS HECK WE'RE DONE WITH IT.

AND ABOUT SIX MONTHS LATER, A FIRE HAPPENED AND WE SAVED A LOT OF HOUSES.

SO KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

THANK YOU.

AND THEN JUST ALSO WANTED TO SAY THAT OUR COUNTY SUPERVISOR, KURT HAGMAN ALSO HAS A CERTIFICATE FOR US, AND WE'LL GRAB THAT ONE ON THE WAY BACK.

THE NEXT

[5. PROCLAMATION - Proclaiming August 3rd as National Night Out]

ITEM ON THE AGENDA AS A PROCLAMATION PROCLAIMING AUGUST 3RD IS NATIONAL NIGHT OUT TO BE ACCEPTED BY CHRIS EDDY.

CHRIS, WILL YOU JOINED THE MAYOR, PLEASE? THIS IS FUN.

UH, NATIONAL NIGHT OUT GONE.

I'M GLAD IT'S BACK.

GLAD WE'LL ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO SEE ALL OF OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS AND DO SO WITH OUT MASKS.

ALL RIGHT.

SO TONIGHT WE'RE HERE TO RECOGNIZE NATIONAL NIGHT OUT.

CHINO HILLS IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE SAFEST CITIES IN CALIFORNIA AND IN THE NATION.

AND ONE THING THAT HELPS KEEP OUR CITY SAFE IS THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE CITY LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE COMMUNITY NATIONAL NIGHT OUT EVENTS ARE HELD THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND THEY HELP RAISE AWARENESS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF CRIME AND DRUG PREVENTION AND PROVIDE A CONNECTION BETWEEN A CITY LAW ENFORCEMENT AND AN, AND OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

THIS EVENT ENCOURAGES RESIDENTS TO DEVELOP RELATIONSHIPS WITH NEIGHBORS AND ENJOY VISITS FROM UNIFORMED DEPUTIES, POLICE, VOLUNTEERS, TOP POLICE OFFICIALS, OF COURSE, THE CITY COUNCIL AND OUR FIREFIGHTERS.

AND I KNOW THE FIRE BOARD MAKES THEIR WAY THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AS WELL.

SO I'M SURE WE'LL BE ABLE TO SEE SPARKY.

AND MY GRAPH IS THAT OUR DOG.

ALL RIGHT.

AND ALTHOUGH WE HAD TO SKIP LAST YEAR, AS I SAID, WE'RE GLAD TO BE ABLE TO HAVE IT BACK IN THAT OUR NATIONAL NIGHT OUT, NOT ONLY HERE BUT ACROSS THE NATION WILL BE ON AUGUST 3RD.

I KNOW COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN WILL BE HOSTING HER NORMAL ONE.

SO TO TELL US ABOUT MORE ABOUT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AND HOW RESIDENTS CAN PARTICIPATE IS OUR EMERGENCY SERVICES COORDINATOR.

CHRIS EDDIE, CHRIS.

SO NATIONAL NIGHT OUT REALLY IS ALL ABOUT COMMUNITY.

IT WAS ACTUALLY STARTED BACK IN 1984, UM, BY A GROUP CALLED NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TOWN WATCH, UH, WHICH WAS STARTED BY A COMMUNITY MEMBER.

HE WAS A VOLUNTEER FOR A POLICE DEPARTMENT AND HE REALLY WANTED TO FIGURE OUT A WAY THAT HE COULD INVOLVE ALL COMMUNITIES IN, IN GETTING TOGETHER WITH POLICE DEPARTMENTS AND WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS, UM, TO MAKE THE NEIGHBORHOOD SAFER.

SO THE WHOLE THING WAS, UH, WAS, UH, BRINGING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER KIND OF EVENT, UM, TO START OFF WITH HERE AT CHINO HILLS, IT'S A, IT'S A REALLY BIG POINT OF PRIDE.

UM, BUT WE ACTUALLY WIN AN AWARD FROM THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TOWN WATCH EVERY SINGLE YEAR FOR THE EFFORTS WE HAVE HERE.

AND THAT REALLY ALL COMES BACK TO THE SUPPORT WE HAVE FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, UM, OUR CITY COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, BECAUSE SUBSIDIES LIKE TO DO, UH, ONE BIG SORT OF COMMUNITY THAT THEY THROW ON.

BUT HERE IN CHINO HILLS, IT'S ALL INDIVIDUAL EVENTS THAT ARE THROWN BY OUR RESIDENTS.

SO THE RESIDENTS TAKE THE STEP FORWARD TO BRING TOGETHER THEIR NEIGHBORS AND TO MAKE THESE EVENTS HAPPEN.

SO, UM, AS MAYOR JOE SAID, YOU KNOW, 2020 WAS A PRETTY UNPRECEDENTED YEAR FOR, UH, THINGS CHANGING.

AND UNFORTUNATELY WE HAD TO SKIP LAST YEAR, BUT WE'VE HAD A GREAT RESPONSE SO FAR FROM, UM, PEOPLE THAT HAVE THROWN EVENTS IN THE PAST AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO ANOTHER GREAT YEAR.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND JUST ON A PERSONAL NOTE, I JUST WANT TO REITERATE, JUST GET INVOLVED, GO VISIT ONE.

YOU KNOW, I THINK WE LIVE IN A COMMUTER TOWN.

SO MANY OF US SEE OUR NEIGHBORS AND YOU PULL INTO THE DRIVEWAY, YOU WAVE AND THAT'S IT, YOU KNOW, IT'S, THAT'S JUST THE NATURE OF CHINO HILLS IN A LOT OF WAYS.

SO EXPLORE, YOU KNOW, IF THERE IS ONE, IF YOUR, MY HOA PUTS ON A BIG ONE WITH LIVE BAND WITH A LIVE BAND, CYNTHIA HOSTS A BIG ONE AT HUNTERS HILL PARK.

IT'S LIKE LO SERRANO'S HOST ONE AS WELL.

JUST GO GET TO MEET YOUR NEW, GO MEET YOUR NEW NEIGHBOR.

SO MANY PEOPLE ARE MOVING IN AND MOVE IT OUT.

SO TAKE THE TIME TO DO IT AUGUST 3RD, SEE YOU THERE.

ALL RIGHT.

RIGHT.

IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE TOO, THAT WE WILL NOT BE MEETING AT THE END OF JULY, SO THIS, THERE WILL BE NO OTHER REMINDERS.

UH, SO FOR EVERYBODY, THAT'S LISTENING TO THIS, BE SURE TO START ORGANIZING NOW, GET SIGNED UP FOR IT.

AND WE'D LOVE TO BE ABLE TO GO OUT AND SEE 5, 6, 7 NEIGHBORHOODS PER COUNCIL MEMBER.

UH, IT'S A FANTASTIC

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NIGHT AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.

COOL.

THANKS CHRIS.

CHRIS.

NEXT, WE HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION OF ACTION TAKEN IN CLOSED SESSION.

THANK YOU FOR SLOW WALKING IT.

I HAVE NO REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION.

PERFECT.

THAT'S WHAT I LIKE.

[6. PUBLIC COMMENTS: At this time members of the public may address the City Council regarding any items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Council, whether or not the item appears on the agenda, except testimony on Public Hearing items must be provided during those hearings. Please complete and submit to the City Clerk a "Request to Speak" card. Individual audience participation is limited to three minutes per speaker.]

ALL RIGHT.

AT THIS TIME, IT'S PUBLIC COMMENTS MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AT THIS TIME MAY ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL REGARDING ANY ITEM WITHIN THE SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL, WHETHER OR NOT THE ITEM APPEARS ON THE AGENDA, EXCEPT FOR TESTIMONY ON PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS, WHICH WE PROVIDE, WHICH MUST BE PROVIDED DURING THOSE HEARINGS, PLEASE COMPLETE AND SUBMIT THE, TO THE CITY CLERK, A REQUEST TO SPEAK CARD INDIVIDUAL AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION IS LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER SPEAKER.

AND WITH THAT, OUR FIRST PUBLIC COMMENT WOULD BE FROM OUR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER, MR. DON BRIDGE.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US, DON.

THANK YOU, MAYOR JONES, GOOD EVENING COUNCIL AND STAFF AND THE COMMUNITY.

UH, FIRST, BEFORE I GET INTO THE COMMENTS I WANTED TO MAKE, I JUST WANTED TO BRIEFLY SAY A THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS FOR THE, UH, WONDERFUL INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION THAT WE HAD.

UH, IT WAS A NICE TO SEE A BIG CROWD AND, UH, FIRST TIME IN THE OVER A YEAR THAT I'VE HAD SOME SENSE OF NORMALCY IN LIFE.

SO JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

IT WAS JUST REALLY A TERRIFIC EVENING.

UH, WHAT I WANTED TO REMARK ON IS WE'RE GOING THROUGH AS THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE DISTRICT, UH, SOMETHING VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT WAS JUST DESCRIBED, UH, EARLIER IN YOUR PUBLIC, UH, PUBLIC HEARING.

AND THAT'S IN THE FACT FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DID NOT KNOW, UH, THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE SUPERINTENDENT IN JANUARY RECEIVED A DEMAND LETTER THAT, UH, OUR AT LARGE ELECTIONS WERE FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD WERE VIOLATING THE CALIFORNIA VOTING RIGHTS ACT.

SO THE BOARD DECIDED A BEST INTEREST TO, UH, LOOK AT, UH, DIVIDING INTO, UH, ELECTION BY TRUSTEE AREAS.

AND WITH THAT, UM, UH, WE STARTED THE PROCESS.

WE HAD TO, UH, PRE MAP, UH, PUBLIC HEARINGS IN APRIL AND MAY.

UH, WE'VE HAD A COMPANY THAT HAS DRAWN UP, UH, MAPS, AND WE HAD ONE PUBLIC HEARING IN JUNE ON THOSE MAPS BASED ON THAT INPUT, UH, AND WRITTEN INPUT AS WELL.

UM, THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE AND I'LL MENTION THAT IN A SECOND.

WE DO HAVE ANOTHER PUBLIC HEARING THIS THURSDAY AT OUR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING, WHICH IS THE ONLY BOARD MEETING THAT WE'RE HAVING IN A MONTH OF MONTH OF JULY AND WHAT I WOULD ENCOURAGE THE COMMUNITY.

AND ALL OF YOU TO DO IS TO GO TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WEBSITE, UH, IT'S UH, CHINO DOT, K12.CA.US.

UM, IF YOU GOOGLE IT, MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET CHINO VALLEY, UM, SCHOOL DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, WHICH, UH, WHICH CAN BE, UM, RIGHT ON THE SAME, UH, SAME PAGE.

SO WITH THAT, UM, UH, WHAT THE BOARD HAS, UH, HAS, AND IT'S NOW UP ON THE WEBSITE, UH, IT'S ON THE HOMEPAGE RIGHT NEXT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT'S MESSAGE.

YOU CAN CLICK ON IT.

THERE IS A FOURTH MAP THAT HAS BEEN DRAWN BASED ON, BASED ON INPUT AND, UH, THAT, UH, WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

UH, THIS THURSDAY, WE WILL HAVE ONE MORE PUBLIC COMMENT, UH, IN AUGUST ON AUGUST 19TH.

THAT IS THE ONLY MEETING DATE FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD IN, IN AUGUST.

AND AT THAT TIME, THE, UH, THE BOARD WILL LOOK AT MAKING A SELECTION.

AND THEN ONCE THAT HAPPENS, IT GOES TO, UM, IT GOES TO THE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL DISTRICT ORGANIZATION IN SEPTEMBER.

AND THEN, UH, WHEN THE CENSUS DATA COMES OUT, AS WAS MENTIONED EARLIER, WE WILL, UM, PROBABLY HAVE TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO THAT.

BUT THAT'S WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS.

I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT WE DO HAVE A FOURTH MAP THAT IS OUT JUST RECENTLY, REALLY SO MANY PEOPLE MAY NOT HAVE SEEN IT YET.

AND THAT, WITH THAT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WONDERFUL.

THANK YOU, DR.

BACK OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, RIGHT? PARDON ME? YOUR MEETINGS ARE BACK OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

I'M SORRY TO PITCH YOUR MEETINGS ARE BACK OPEN TO THE AUDIENCE.

YES, YES.

UH, THEY'RE LIMITED DONE ON PERSON ON, ON PERSONNEL, BUT, UH, IF YOU'RE OUT, UH, IN THE, UH, IN THE HALLWAY OR THE FOYER, YOU, YOU CAN MAKE COMMENT, UH, YOU'LL BE CALLED IN, UH, BUT WE'RE LIMITING THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE MEETING.

YEP.

THANK YOU.

SORRY.

THANK YOU, MR. BRIDGE.

AND THANKS FOR BEING THERE FOR THE INDEPENDENCE DAY.

WE APPRECIATE IT.

ALL RIGHT.

NEXT PUBLIC SPEAKER WILL BE MR. JAMES GALLAGHER.

UM, BEFORE I GET STARTED, UH, THERE IS SOME CONFUSION BECAUSE I DID WANT TO SPEAK ON ITEM 10, BUT IT'S A CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM.

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OTHERWISE, UH, IF I CAN'T SPEAK, THEN, THEN I'LL SPEAK NOW.

PLEASE WE'LL MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR CHANCE.

OKAY.

SO I JUST WANT TO ANNOUNCE AS PART OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, UH, YOU KNOW, I'M PART OF THAT.

UM, THE CVCC GOLF TOURNAMENT IS COMING UP MONDAY, AUGUST 23RD AT 1:00 PM.

IT'S GOING TO BE AT THE LOS SERRANOS COUNTRY CLUB ON YOUR AVENUE IN CHINO HILLS.

THERE'S AN EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT.

IT WILL BE ONLY $125.

IF YOU SIGN UP NOW, OTHERWISE IT'LL COST YOU $149 REGISTER@CHINOVALLEYCHAMBER.COM.

AND I MIGHT ADD ALL THE PLAYERS HAVE THE CHANCE AT THE WHOLE ONE CONTEST TO WIN A CAR FROM M K SMITH CHEVROLET.

YOU KNOW, THEY OFFER THAT EVERY TIME AND THEY'LL HAVE A RAFFLE AUCTION FOOD AND MUCH MORE.

SO I ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO SIGN UP.

WE HAVE SOME MAJOR SPONSORS THIS YEAR THAT WE'RE REALLY PROUD TO BE SPONSORING IT.

THANK YOU.

YOU GOT IT.

AND THEN I'LL PUT MINE IN 10, SO YOU CAN COMMENT.

YEAH.

AND JIM, THEY'RE LOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL SPONSORS IN THE WAY OF GIFT CARDS.

UH, ANY TRIPS, YOU KNOW, ANYTHING THAT'S AVAILABLE THAT YOU MAY HAVE ACCESS TO? UH, THE CHAMBER COULD REALLY USE THAT BECAUSE THAT ENDS UP, UH, OF COURSE, RAISING MONEY DURING THE RAFFLES, WHICH GOES BACK OUT TO, UH, NOT A LOT OF NOT PROFIT NON-PROFITS.

SO THEY'RE VERY TRUE.

ALL THE, UH, ALL THE AMBASSADORS ARE OUT THERE SCOUTING FOR SPONSORS.

DID I RUN OVER TIME? SORRY.

OH, YOU'RE GOOD.

THANK YOU, MR. GALLAGHER.

ALL RIGHT.

THEN WITH THIS

[ CONFLICT OF INTEREST ANNOUNCEMENTS: Council Member abstentions shall be stated at this time for recordation on the appropriate item.]

TIME, WE'LL BE MOVING ON TO CONFLICT OF INTEREST ANNOUNCEMENTS.

SO ANY MEMBERS HAVE ANY CONFLICTS OF INTEREST? ALL RIGHT.

CNN HEARING NONE.

WE'LL BE MOVING

[ CONSENT CALENDAR (12 ITEMS) - All matters listed on the Consent Calendar are considered routine by the City Council and may be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless, before the City Council votes on the motion to adopt, Members of the City Council or staff request the matter to be removed from the Consent Calendar for separate action. Removed consent items will be discussed immediately after the adoption of the balance of the Consent Calendar.]

ON TO THE CONSENT CALENDAR.

WOULD ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES LIKE PULL ANY ITEMS? I'M GOING TO PULL ITEM 10 FOR MR. GALLAGHER'S COMMENTS.

I'LL PULL NUMBER 16, STARVING CANYON PREP, TRUCK STUDY 16, 16.

THAT'S TWO MS. MARIA.

ALL RIGHT, MR. BENNETT, UM, APPROVED THE REMAINING.

ALRIGHT.

WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE ALL ITEMS OTHER THAN 10 IN 16.

DO WE HAVE A SECOND? SO WE HAVE A MOTION AND WE HAVE A SECOND.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.

ARE WE VOTING? YES.

WELL, REMEMBER TO LOCK IN YOUR VOTE.

YEAH.

HUH? I HAVEN'T DONE THIS IN A YEAR AND A HALF SINCE MY SON PASSED.

ALL RIGHT, THEN ITEM

[10. Adopt Ordinance regulating sidewalk vending and related actions entitled: "An Ordinance of the City of Chino Hills Adopting Chapter 5.58 Regulating Sidewalk Vending in Accordance with Government Code Sections 51036, Et Seq., Amending Chapter 5.04 to Remove the Hawking Prohibition and Add Enforcement of No Solicitation Signs, Amending Chapter 5.40 to Remove Requirement that Sidewalk Vendors Obtain Ice Cream Vending Permits, Adding Section 5.04.340 Regarding Solicitation, and Deleting Section 10.08.100 to Remove Restrictions on Food and Vendor Vehicle and Cart Parking and Determining This Action is Exempt From Review Under the California Environmental Quality Act " - Second Reading (Introduced June 22, 2021)]

10, MR. GALLAGHER, PUBLIC COMMENT.

THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.

I APPRECIATE IT.

UM, FIRST OF ALL, I THINK THE ORDINANCE IS VERY WELL-CRAFTED, UH, IT TAKES INTO A LOT OF CONSIDERATION, A LOT OF VARIABLES.

I'M ONLY A LAYMAN, SO THAT'S WHERE I'M COMING FROM.

AND LET ME BE CLEAR FROM THE START I, AS A REPRESENTATIVE, THE CHAMBER, AND EVEN AS A RESIDENT IN THE CITY AND VERY PRO SMALL BUSINESS, AND I'M ALSO IN FULL SUPPORT OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT, I DO BELIEVE IN IT.

SO WHEN I LOOKED AT THE ORDINANCE, THERE WAS SOME QUESTIONS THAT I HAD, UH, YOU'RE REALLY GOOD AT TALKING ABOUT WHERE A VENDOR CAN BE LOCATED ON THE SIDEWALK, 50 FEET FROM A MAJOR STRAIGHT INTERSECTION, ALSO A HUNDRED FEET FROM A CURVED INTERSECTION FOR VISIBILITY.

THAT MAKES SENSE.

BUT WHAT ABOUT NEAR MAJOR DRIVEWAYS OR ENTRANCES INTO SHOPPING CENTER? I WASN'T SURE I SAW THAT THEN.

HOW MANY, HOW MANY FEET APPLIED THERE? CAN WE PLACE THE VENDOR TABLE RIGHT NEXT TO THE DRIVEWAY AT A MAJOR SHOPPING CENTER? BECAUSE IT'S STILL NOT A DISTRACTION.

DOES IT INTERFERE WITH COMMERCE IN THE SHOPPING CENTER? THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS.

WHAT ABOUT VENDORS? PARKING THEIR VEHICLES DAY AFTER DAY ON PRIVATE COMMERCIAL PROPERTY IN ORDER TO SERVICE THEIR, UM, THEIR BOOTH.

DOES THIS REQUIRE AN EXTRA SIGN OFF FROM THE PROPERTY OWNER? THAT'S ANOTHER QUESTION, UH, VENDORS THAT ARE A HUNDRED FEET FROM EACH OTHER.

I LIKED THAT.

I THINK THAT'S REALLY GOOD BECAUSE IT KEEPS THEM, UH, OUT ON THE SIDEWALKS AND AWAY FROM PARKS, SCHOOLS, PARADES, AND OTHER EVENTS, ALL OF THAT'S GOOD, BUT HOW MANY ARE WE ALLOWED TO HAVE PER STREET? IF WE LOOKED AT PIPELINE, FOR EXAMPLE, WE COULD PROBABLY FIT CLOSE TO 500 VENDORS ON THAT STREET SPACED APART 100 FEET ON EITHER SIDE OF THE STREET.

SO IT WAS A QUESTION THAT I HAD, UH, SAME THING, CHINO HILLS PARKWAY, BUTTERFIELD, GRAND PAYTON, ALL OF THESE COULD HAVE VENDORS ALL UP AND DOWN THE STREET.

UH, THE LIABILITY INSURANCE PART IS REALLY GOOD.

I LIKED THAT IN THE EVENT OF A MAJOR ACCIDENT INVOLVING DISTRACTED DRIVING, DUE TO THE STAND, ARE THEY TOTALLY LIABLE OR DOES THE CITY STILL BEAR SOME LIABILITY? YOU KNOW, I THINK MAYBE THE LAWYER CAN ANSWER THAT.

THE OTHER THING YOU HAVE A NINE FOOT HEIGHT LIMIT ON A STANDS LIKE THIS.

AND I THINK THAT'S A GOOD THING I'VE NOTICED.

UH, THE ONE THAT WE DO HAVE CONCERNED ABOUT ON PIPELINES, UH, FLAGS ARE OVER NINE FEET.

UM, HOW ABOUT BREADTH ONTO THE SIDEWALK? YOU KNOW, WE GOT HEIGHT, BUT IF IT'S, IF A FLAG, FOR EXAMPLE, EXTENDS OVER THE SIDEWALK TO THE CURB, SHOULD THAT ALSO BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION, UM, THE FOREFOOT ACCESS FOR ADA ACCESS? SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT RAYMARK HAS, IS BROUGHT UP.

IT'S REALLY GOOD, BUT WHO'S OUT THERE TO MEASURE IT.

SO

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FINALLY, PROHIBITED LANGUAGE.

THIS IS THE ONE THAT REALLY CONCERNED ME.

I'LL MAKE IT QUICK.

I PERSONALLY BELIEVE IN THE MAJORITY OF THE COMMUNITY DEEMS A MORALLY UNACCEPTABLE TO DISPLAY THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

IT SHOULD BE COVERED UP, YOU KNOW, AND I THINK, UH, ESPECIALLY MISOGYNISTIC, SEXUALLY OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE AND SYMBOLS THAT DEEPLY OFFEND SHOULD FALL IN THAT CATEGORY.

I REALLY THINK WE SHOULD CONSIDER SOMEHOW ASKING THEM TO COVER IT UP JUST LIKE IF THEY WERE IN A STORE AND IT WAS A MAGAZINE.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, MR. GALLAGHER.

I THEN WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO MOVE ITEM 10.

CAN I HAVE A SECOND, SECOND, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND LOCK IN YOUR VOTES.

MOTION PASSES FIVE ZERO.

THANK YOU.

MA'AM ALL RIGHT.

THEN WITH THAT, WE WILL GO

[16. Authorize execution of one-year agreement with ITERIS, Inc., in amount not-to-exceed $27,100 to develop Truck Restriction Study for Carbon Canyon Road ]

ON TO ITEM 16 AUTHORIZED EXECUTION OF A ONE-YEAR AGREEMENT WITH A TERRACE AND THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 20 $727,100 TO DEVELOP TRUCK RESTRICTIONS STUDY FOR CARBON CANYON ROAD, MR. ROGERS AND VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ, JULIE AND I ARE GOING IN THE SAME DIRECTION, BUT I WAS GOING TO HAVE SOMEONE ON STAFF, JUST KIND OF GIVE A LITTLE REVIEW AS TO WHAT, WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT.

DANIEL, FIRST OF ALL, JUST FOR THE PUBLIC'S KNOWLEDGE, BECAUSE WE DID SOMETHING SIMILAR.

WE DID A TRUCK STUDY.

WE DID THAT STUDY A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, BUT THAT'S CORRECT.

SO BACK IN 2016, UM, THE CITY WITH, UM, CONCERNS ALSO CONCERN FOR THE PUBLIC, UH, REACHED OUT TO CALTRANS TO TALK ABOUT, UM, SPEEDING, UH, VEHICLE ACCIDENTS AND THE HIGH VOLUME OF TRUCK TRAFFIC ON CARBON CANYON ROAD, UH, SPECIFICALLY, SPECIFICALLY THROUGH, UH, THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS, UM, AND WORKING WITH CALTRANS, THEY ASKED US TO PUT TOGETHER A STUDY, UM, THAT, UH, ESSENTIALLY IDENTIFY THAT, YES, WE DO HAVE A HIGH VOLUME OF TRUCK TRAFFIC.

UM, HOWEVER CALTRANS DID NOT SUPPORT ANY, ANY CLOSURES, UM, OR ANY RESTRICTIONS AT THAT POINT.

THEY PUT UP WARNING SIGNS OR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TRUCKS TO NOT TRAVERSE THROUGH CARBON CANYON ROAD.

UM, BUT FIVE YEARS LATER, WE'RE AT THE POINT NOW WHERE WE'VE CONTINUED TO SEE A HIGH VOLUME OF ACCIDENTS, UM, AND SPEEDING VEHICLES, UM, AS WELL AS THE TRUCK TRAFFIC.

SO WHAT THIS AGREEMENT WILL DO IS IT WILL, UH, PUT TOGETHER A TRUCK RESTRICTION STUDY, UM, IF CALTRANS APPROVES IT, UM, AND THEY FEEL IT'S COMPELLING TO DO SO, THEY WILL RESTRICT, UM, TRUCK TRAFFIC ON CARBON KENYON ROAD.

WHAT THEY WILL DO IS THEY WILL INSTALL A MESSAGE BOARDS ON THE ROAD, UM, AND THAT WILL GIVE THEM THE TOOLS TO ENFORCE A TRUCK RESTRICTIONS.

OKAY.

SO I KNOW WHAT WE WERE HIP DEEP IN THIS FOR SEVERAL, SEVERAL YEARS.

AND I THOUGHT WE HAD, WE HAD LOCAL CALTRANS KIND OF WORKING WITH US AND BRIA, ALSO WORKING WITH US AND WE PRESENTED THE INFORMATION AND IT WAS SHOT DOWN, WAS JUST KIND OF HARDLY ANY, ANY PRESS ON, I WAS JUST SHOT DOWN.

AND I KNOW THERE'S ONE HIGHWAY, I WANT TO SAY 1 52 AND 1 42, 1 52 THAT HAS THIS RESTRICTION.

SO IT'S NOT AS IF THIS IS A, THIS WOULD BE A FIRST, I THINK WE SHOULD PROBABLY TRY A FULL COURT PRESS ON THIS ONE TO SEE IF WE CAN, UH, REALLY PUSH IT HARD AFTER THE TRUCK STUDY IS DONE.

IF WE HAVE TO GO MEET WITH OUR REPRESENTATIVES, WE HAVE TO GO MEET WITH CALTRAN REPRESENTATIVES IN SACRAMENTO.

I THINK WE SHOULD REALLY PUSH THIS BECAUSE LAST TIME WE PRESENTED THE DATA AND JUST SHOT DOWN, SO MAYBE WE SHOULD TRY A DIFFERENT TACT.

AT THIS POINT, CALTRANS IS BEEN MORE OPEN TO MEET WITH US AND THEY ARE ACTUALLY THE ONES THAT RECOMMENDED PREPARING THIS STUDY.

UM, AND THEY BELIEVE THAT IF THE STUDY COMES BACK AND IT WARRANTS TRUCK RESTRICTIONS, AND WE FEEL THAT WE FEEL CONFIDENT THAT THEY WILL LIKELY RESTRICT TRUCKS.

OKAY, GOOD.

THAT'S ALL I HAVE BRIAN.

YES.

UM, FIRST OF ALL, THIS HAS BEEN A LONG PROCESS.

UH, PETER AND MYSELF, UH, WHEN THE 91 WAS WORK, WAS BEING DONE ON 91 TRAFFIC FLOW THROUGH THE 91, UM, SORT OF HINDERED TRUCK TRAFFIC.

SO WHAT THEY STARTED DOING IS THEY STARTED GOING THROUGH CARBON CANYON.

SO WE HAD AN UPTICK AS FAR AS TRUCKS GOING THROUGH CARBON CANYON.

SO I KNOW PETER GOT A LOT OF PHONE CALLS.

I GOT A LOT OF PHONE CALLS AND WE TRIED TO MOVE THIS FORWARD.

AND WHAT'S SORT OF UNUSUAL ABOUT THAT AREA.

IT'S TWO COUNTIES.

WE HAVE ORANGE COUNTY, WHICH IS A DIFFERENT DISTRICT.

WE HAVE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, WHICH IS A DIFFERENT DISTRICT.

WE HAVE A DIFFERENT CITY IN BRAM.

WE HAVE A DIFFERENT CITY IN CHINO HILLS.

SO PETER AND MYSELF, BECAUSE WE KNOW DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT CITIES.

UM, WE INITIATED TO OUR CITY MANAGER AT THE TIME RAD TO MOVE THIS FORWARD.

AND IT TOOK ABOUT A YEAR AND NOTHING HAPPENED.

AND PETER AND MYSELF WERE, WERE A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED AND WE WERE AT AN EVENT.

AND I THINK WE TALKED TO THEM, ONE OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND WE ASKED HER A QUESTION, HEY, DID OUR CITY MANAGER TALK TO YOU? WHY DIDN'T YOU GO IN WITH US ON THIS TRUCK STUDY? AND SHE SAYS, RIGHT, WE WOULD, WE'D NEVER HEARD ABOUT IT.

SO THEN WE BROUGHT IT BACK TO THE CITY MANAGER.

HE TALKED TO THEIR CITY MANAGER AND PROBABLY WITHIN A MONTH OR LATER, WE ACTUALLY HAD AN AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY

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OF BRYAN OURSELVES.

SO WE DID DO THE TRUCK STUDY.

IT PROBABLY TOOK ABOUT A GOOD SIX MONTHS TO MAYBE MONTHS.

I'M NOT MISTAKEN WAS A PRETTY, IT WAS A LONG, IT WAS A LONGER TIME.

IT WAS JUST TRAFFIC IN GENERAL.

CORRECT.

RIGHT.

SO WE DID THAT AND THEY STATED THAT THERE'S A PROCESS.

SO IN OTHER WORDS, YOU DO THE STUDY, THEY'LL MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS, THEY'LL LOOK AT IT.

AND THEN IF THEY NEED TO, TO MAKE CHANGES OR TO MOVE FORWARD, THEY'RE WILLING TO DO THAT.

OUR DISTRICT REP MICHAEL BOAT CHAN IS AN EXCELLENT PERSON.

HE'S OUR DISTRICT REP.

AND I KNOW THAT HE'S WATCHING OUT FOR US AND I'M GOING TO SAY, MIKE PROBABLY IS ALLOWED OR SORT OF PUSH THIS FORWARD FOR US BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN MAKING IMPROVEMENTS ALONG THE 1 42, UM, THE LAST YEAR OR SO.

AND I, I REALLY DO THINK IN THE FUTURE, IT WILL HAPPEN.

SO, UM, CONSTITUENTS OUT THERE, THANK YOU FOR PUSHING PETER.

AND I'LL GIVE YOU PETER'S NUMBER LATER, SO YOU CAN CONTINUE TO CALL HIM.

BUT, UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

AND EVENTUALLY ONE OF THESE DAYS, A WOLF WE'LL GET DONE.

THANK YOU, DANIEL.

YEAH.

INTO WHAT RAY IS SAYING.

HE'S REFERRING TO DISTRICTS, CALIFORNIA'S BROKEN UP BY CALTRANS INTO DIFFERENT DISTRICTS.

SO A LOT OF TIMES IT ENDS AT THE COUNTY LINE.

AND IT'S AMAZING TO HEAR JUST HOW OFTEN LIKE OUR DISTRICT.

WE, YOU KNOW, WE SHARE A DISTRICT, OUR, OUR DISTRICT, UH, CHA POMONA'S IN A DIFFERENT DISTRICT.

BRAE IS IN A DIFFERENT DISTRICT.

ALL OF OUR NEIGHBORING CITIES ARE IN DIFFERENT DISTRICTS.

SO WE ALL UNDERSTAND THAT IS AN ISSUE.

AND WE HAVE TO GET OUT EVERYBODY TO PLAY NICE IN THE SANDBOX AND THE RAY AND PETER HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB ALONG WITH DANIEL AND THE TEAM TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

SO WITH THAT, I'LL MOVE THE ITEM.

SECOND, WE HAVE A SECOND BY VICE MAYOR, MARQUEZ, EVERYBODY VOTE.

ALL RIGHT, QUESTION.

PASS THIS.

FANTASTIC.

ALL RIGHT.

THEN WITH THAT, WE'LL BE

[19. Adopt resolution continuing existence of local emergency and find resolution exempt from review under California Environmental Quality Act]

MOVING ON TO ITEM 19, ADOPT A RESOLUTION, CONTINUING EXISTENCE OF LOCAL EMERGENCY AND FIND RESOLUTION EXEMPT FROM REVIEW UNDER THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT, MR. CITY MANAGER.

I'M GOOD EVENING.

MAYOR CITY COUNCIL, UM, AS THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY ARE AWARE WE'VE BEEN, ARE YOU HAVING TROUBLE HEARING ME? YEAH.

OKAY.

UH, BEEN, UH, WORKING THROUGH THE COVID PANDEMIC, UH, FOR, WELL OVER A YEAR NOW, UH, IN MARCH OF 2020, UH, THE COUNCIL DECLARED A LOCAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE, UH, TO THE PANDEMIC.

AND WE ALSO, UH, HAVE BEEN RENEWING THAT, UH, EMERGENCY ORDER, UH, EVERY 60 DAYS BASED ON, ON THE CURRENT CONDITIONS.

AND EVEN THOUGH THE STATE HAS REOPENED.

AND EVEN THOUGH, UH, WE'RE SEEING A SIGNIFICANT, UH, CHANGES IN THE THREAT FROM COVID 19, UM, W RENEWING THIS, UH, THIS ORDER, WE PULLED IT OFF OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR SO THAT WE CAN REMIND THE COMMUNITY OF, OF WHAT THIS ORDER HAS ACHIEVED, UH, IN OUR CITY, UM, THROUGH OUR FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER, WE WERE ABLE TO, UH, WAIVE PERMIT FEES IN ORDER TO, UM, UH, SUPPORT OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES.

WE, UH, ALLOWED FOR TEMPORARY BANNERS, SPECIAL EVENTS.

UH, WE ESTABLISHED OUR OUTDOOR DINING, UH, PROCESSES, AND WE ALSO EX EXPEDITED OUR PERMIT PROCESS, UH, THROUGH THESE EMERGENCY ORDERS.

WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE THESE ACTIONS, UH, THROUGH OUR SECOND ORDER.

WE ALSO EXTENDED OUR, UM, UH, SEVERAL OF OUR PERMITS, UH, THAT WOULD HAVE NORMALLY EXPIRED.

AND SO AS WE CONTINUE TO REVIEW, UH, THE CONDITIONS OF THE COVID PANDEMIC AND AS THE STATE MAKES, UH, ACTION, UH, ALONG THOSE LINES, WE'RE ANTICIPATING THAT THE GOVERNOR WILL BE REVIEWING, UH, THE STATE ORDERS AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER.

WE JUST WANTED TO PULL THIS ITEM ONTO THE DISCUSSION CALENDAR.

SO IF THE COUNCIL WANTED TO COMMENT ON, ON THE ITEM, I KNOW IT WAS REFERENCED IN A PRIOR COUNCIL MEETING.

JUST GIVE YOU AN, AN OPPORTUNITY RATHER THAN, UH, HAVING THIS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR, UH, TO WEIGH IN AND TO REMIND WE JUST WANTED THE OPPORTUNITY TO REMIND THE PUBLIC OF, OF WHAT WE'VE ACHIEVED THROUGH THROUGH THESE EMERGENCY ORDERS.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU, MR. MONTGOMERY, MA'AM TO DECLARE IT, DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS ON ITEM? NO, WE DO NOT.

ALL RIGHT.

I'LL BRING IT BACK TO US.

UH, YEAH.

TO WHAT, UH, MR. MONTGOMERY HAD REFERRED TO.

I HAD ASKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHY WE NEEDED TO KEEP DECLARING AN EMERGENCY IF WE ARE HAVING MOVIES IN THE PARK AND CONCERTS IN THE PARK, YOU KNOW, SEEMS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT, BUT I, SO I APPRECIATE THE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE BACKGROUND ON JUST WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO ACTUALLY DO FOR OUR RESIDENTS UNDER, YOU KNOW, WHILE WE'RE STILL IN AN EMERGENCY, YOU KNOW, I DECLARED EMERGENCY.

I HAD NEVER, YEAH, NOT THAT, YOU KNOW, NOBODY REALLY READS MUNICIPAL CODE X EXCEPT FOR ELIZABETH.

UH, SO I, YOU KNOW, I PULLED UP OUR ITEM,

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YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR MUNICIPAL CODE THAT REFERS TO EMERGENCIES.

AND JUST ONE THING, IF WE COULD CHANGE IT, IT STILL REFERS TO LIKE, IF I DON'T KNOW IF SOMETHING HAPPENS HERE AND THERE'S A LINE OF SUCCESSION IS STILL MENTIONED, MAYOR PRO TEM, SALLY MIGHT WANT TO GO THROUGH AND CLEAN THOSE THINGS UP.

SINCE I KNOW AT ONE POINT WE DID THAT.

I WANT RAY TO GET ALL THE CREDIT, IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO ME, SO, OR CREDIT OR A CLAIM TO, UH, SO JUST WITH THAT, IF ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON DECLARING THE EMERGENCY FOR ANOTHER 60 DAYS, I'LL MOVE THE ITEM.

WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND AS LONG IN OUR VOTES MOTION PASSES FIVE ZERO.

FANTASTIC.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

MOVING ON TO ITEM

[20. Authorize execution of two-year agreement with Inland Valley Humane Society in amount not-to-exceed $680,000, including additional two-year renewal options to provide animal control services]

20 AUTHORIZED EXECUTION OF A TWO YEAR AGREEMENT WITH THE INLAND VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY AND AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $680,000, INCLUDING ADDITIONAL TWO YEAR RENEWAL OPTIONS TO PROVIDE ANIMAL CONTROL SERVICES, MR. HILL, OR IS IT MR. MONTGOMERY, MR. ELARA? I SAW IT LOOKED LIKE YOU WERE GOING THROUGH THE MIX THEN.

OKAY, GOOD EVENING.

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.

THE ITEM BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING IS A TWO YEAR AGREEMENT WITH VHS FOR CONTINUING ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL SERVICES.

AND MY PRESENTATION WILL COVER THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS NEW AGREEMENT.

TONIGHT.

THE CITY BEGAN CONTRACTING WITH IHS AND PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS POMONA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY.

BACK IN 1992, THE LAST AGREEMENT EXPIRED ON JUNE 30TH, 2021 WAS JUST WAS LAST MONTH, BUT IT'S BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH JULY 31ST.

UH, SO THE COUNCIL HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THIS AGREEMENT TONIGHT IN 2017, THE CITY'S NET COST FOR THE SERVICES WERE 161,706, AND MOST RECENTLY, UH, THE YEAR ENDING 2021, THE COSTS WERE A NET COST OF 200,000 5 63 STAFF INITIALLY HAD OUR FIRST MEETING WITH VHS IN FEBRUARY OF 2021.

AT THAT POINT, THEY ADVISED US THAT THEY WERE IMPLEMENTING THEIR NEW AGREEMENT, IMPLEMENT A NEW COST MODELS.

THEY WOULD BE RECOMMENDING FEE INCREASES AND PROPOSING NEW NEW UNITS, UH, MUNICIPAL CODE GOING FORWARD.

UM, I VHS HAS INDICATED THEIR COSTS HAVE BEEN INCREASING FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS, INCLUDING REGULATORY COST INCREASES, ANIMAL CARE COSTS, INCREASES SALARY AND BENEFIT INCREASES AND LIABILITY COST INCREASES.

UH, THE TWO MODELS THEY PROPOSED INCLUDED GROSS COST MODEL AND THE NET COST MODEL, UH, UNDER THE ANNUAL COST FOR THE ANNUAL COST FOR THE AGREEMENT AT 680,000, THERE WOULD BE NO GUARANTEED ANNUAL REVENUE UNDER THE GROSS COST MODEL.

HOWEVER, THEY WOULD RETURN A HUNDRED PERCENT OF REVENUES TO THE CITY TO OFFSET THE ANNUAL COST UNDER THE NET COST MODEL.

THE MAXIMUM ANNUAL COST, THE CITY BE 505,000, UH, THAT WOULD INCLUDE 680,000 AS THE GROSS COST, LESS 175,000 IN GUARANTEED REVENUE.

THE REVENUES ASSOCIATED WITH CHINO HILLS IN EXCESS OF 175,000 WOULD BE SHARED 50 50 WITH IHS AND ABHS WOULD USE THEIR PORTION OF THE REVENUES TO COVER, UH, ANIMAL AND VETERINARIAN SERVICES FOR QUALIFIED RESIDENTS.

WE THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO PROVIDE YOU JUST SOME INFORMATION RELATED TO THE FEE INCREASES IN CASE THEY NEED THAT WAS MISSED, OR YOU WANTED AN UPDATE ON IT.

THE FEES WERE INCREASING FROM $50 TO A HUNDRED FOR A, ONE-YEAR AN ALTERED 20 TO 30 FOR ALTERED.

AND THEN SENIOR RATES ARE 50 TO 105 TO 10, UH, WITH ACTIVE MILITARY.

NOW HAVING A $10 RATE ALSO, UM, THESE RATES DID INCREASE THAT.

SO SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 50 AND A HUNDRED PERCENT, UH, FOR EACH RATE OF THE LICENSES AND ROD TO THE PUBLIC NOW SENIOR MEANS CEDAR SENIOR CITIZENS.

I'M SORRY.

YEAH.

SENIOR CITIZEN RATES AND ALTERNATIVE THE ALTERNATIVE SPAYED OR NEUTERED SPAYED OR NEUTERED.

THAT'S CORRECT.

UH, THE CITY HAS AVERAGE AN ANNUAL REVENUE OF ABOUT $229,000 ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CONTRACT OVER THE LAST FOUR AND THREE QUARTER YEARS.

AND WE USE THE FOUR AND THREE QUARTER YEARS IVH.

THIS IS THE MOST RECENT INFORMATION WAS THROUGH MARCH 31ST OF THIS YEAR.

SO THAT WAS THREE QUARTERS OF THE 2021 FISCAL YEAR IN 20, UH, 2018 19, WHICH WAS THE LAST YEAR THEY CANVASSED THE CONTRACT GENERATED $424,000 OF REVENUE.

AND IHS IS CURRENTLY CONDUCTING OR COMMITTED TO CONDUCT.

I THINK THEY'RE ALREADY IN THE PROCESS FROM WHAT I'VE HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY, A CONTACTLESS CANVASSING FOR 20 21 21, 22 OF THE YEAR WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW.

AND THAT BEGAN JULY 1ST.

THIS IS A SUMMARY OF THE REVENUES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS AGREEMENT AND SOME ESTIMATED REVENUES GOING FORWARD BASED ON THE NEW LICENSING FEES.

UM, AS YOU CAN SEE OVER THE LAST 4.75 YEARS, FOUR, THREE QUARTER YEARS, THAT WE'VE GENERATED 1,000,090 1000 IN TOTAL REVENUES WITH AN ANNUAL REVENUE OF 228,000 7 51.

THAT INCLUDES A CANVASSING YEAR.

THE ESTIMATED NEW ANNUAL REVENUES BASED ON THE NEW LICENSING INCREASED FEE INCREASES, UH, WOULD BE AN ANNUAL AVERAGE OF ABOUT 346,000.

AND WITHIN A CANVAS YEAR, IT COULD BE AS HIGH AS 567,000.

WE USE THE 90% RATE THERE THAT'S A LITTLE BIT LESS THAN A HUNDRED.

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HIGHER.

IF WE WOULD HAVE ASSUMED THEY WOULD HAVE THE SAME RETURNS AS THEY HAD PRIOR CANVASING YEARS.

BUT WITH A CONTACTLESS

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CANVASSING YEAR, WE USED A LITTLE BIT LOWER NUMBER.

SO AS AN ESTIMATE, COULD YOU, THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, CAN YOU CLARIFY MORE OF WHAT OTHER FINES AND FEES ARE? SO THEY HAVE A VARIETY OF SERVICES FOR THE CARE AND, UH, UH, HOUSING ANIMALS.

SO ARE THESE LIKE RESIDENT PAID FINES AND FEES.

THESE ARE FOR KENNELING COSTS AND OTHER FEES ASSOCIATED WITH ITHS.

THEY HAD, IT IS A COMPLETE SURVEY.

IT RANGES ANYWHERE FROM, UM, PENALTIES TO, UM, LET'S SEE WHAT ELSE, REDEMPTION COSTS, QUARANTINED FEES, RELEASE FEES, UM, IMPOUND, FINES, AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT.

RABIES VACCINATIONS, THE ADOPTION FEES IN THAT AND THAT STUFF IN THAT LINE.

RIGHT.

IT COULD LOOK TO IHS.

DOES IT INCLUDE ADOPTION FEES? AND IT'S NOT THAT SEPARATE.

OKAY.

OKAY.

THANK YOU.

RIGHT.

AND THE FINAL SLIDE TONIGHT, JUST TRIED TO GIVE A BRIEF SUMMARY A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TWO MODELS.

UM, WE BELIEVE THAT IT'S FAIRLY COST NEUTRAL BETWEEN THE NET COST MODEL AND THE GROSS COST MODEL.

PROBABLY THAT'S NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE THAN A NON-CANNABIS SR, BUT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SLIDE, WE BELIEVE THAT THERE'S SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GROSS COST MODEL AND THE NET COST MODEL AT OUR 90%, UM, ASSUMPTION AS WELL AS EVEN IF WE WENT DOWN TO 75% ASSUMPTION, ASSUMING THEY ONLY GET 75% OF THE ADDITIONAL LICENSING THAT THEY HAD IN PRIOR YEARS, WE WOULD STILL PROBABLY SEE A SAVINGS OF SOMEWHERE IN THE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS RANGE.

MAYBE EVEN MORE RIGHT NOW IT'S ESTIMATED ABOUT $200,000 JUST TO SHORT, A 200,000 IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NET COST MODEL AND GROSS COST MODEL UNDER THIS SCENARIO FOR A CANVAS SR.

SO STAFF HAS PROPOSED A CONTRACT, PRESENTED A CONTRACT FOR YOU UNDER THE GROSS COST MODEL, UH, GOING FORWARD FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU, MR. HILL, MADAM CITY CLERK, AND YOU SPEAKERS ON THE ITEM.

NOW WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY SPEAKER CARDS.

THANK YOU, COLLEAGUES, ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? COMMENTS, VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

UM, I WAS TRYING TO GET SOME INFORMATION AND FOR WHATEVER REASON, I LIKE TO LOOK AT NUMBERS.

SO I APOLOGIZE.

UM, I WANTED TO FIGURE OUT HOW MANY ANIMALS WERE ACTUALLY BE LICENSED OR BEEN LICENSED FROM CHINO HILLS.

SO I DID REQUEST THAT INFORMATION NEVER RECEIVED IT, BUT WHAT I DID RECEIVE IS I RECEIVED REVENUES FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 2020.

SO I FACTORED IN THE AMOUNT OF MONEY, POOR PER LIKE SAY AN ALTERED, WE'LL SAY AN EXAMPLE, $46,390,000 OR 90, $98.

I'M SORRY, 43,000.

AND I FACTOR DIVIDED BY 50.

THAT GAVE ME 928 ANIMALS.

SO I HAD TO DO THAT FOR EACH ONE OF THE CATEGORIES.

SO I CAME UP WITH A TOTAL OF 7,119 ANIMALS THAT HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN LICENSED IN OUR CITY.

SO WHEN I PROJECTED WHAT THE NEW FEES WERE GOING TO BE, IT WENT FROM ABOUT 180 5 AND IT WENT UP TO ABOUT $267,860.

SO, WHICH IS GOOD.

I'M REALLY HAPPY.

SO THAT'S GOING TO CUT OUR COSTS IN THE FUTURE, BUT I STILL WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, OR I WANTED TO FIND OUT WHAT IS THE COST PER ANIMAL AS FAR AS SERVICE.

SO WHEN I DIVIDED THE 71 19 TO THE REMAINDER, IT CAME NET COST OF ABOUT $50 PER ANIMAL, WHICH AGAIN, IT'S OKAY TO KNOW THAT, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT LOOKS OR COMPARES WITH THE CITY OF CHINO.

THE CITY OF ONTARIO, THE OTHER CITIES ARE THAT ARE PART OF THIS.

I VHS.

SO AGAIN, TO, TO GET INFORMATION, I'M REALLY TAKEN BACK THAT IT'S SO DIFFICULT TO GET INFORMATION I GO TO, TO BAND.

IF YOU'RE VERY LIMITED, AS FAR AS WHAT YOU HAVE AND WHAT YOU CAN GIVE ME, I GO TO ROD, IT'S THE SAME THING.

SO I DON'T GET IT.

WE AS A CITY, WE HAVE TO BE TRANSPARENT.

AND I, AND I'M JUST A BELIEVER THAT IF A COUNCIL MEMBER ASKED FOR SPECIFIC INFORMATION, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET IT.

SO I'M JUST SORT OF TAKEN BACK A COUPLE OF THINGS.

I DID GO BY THERE TODAY, SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY OVER THE YEARS, NEW OFFICES, TAJ MAHAL, BEAUTIFUL FACILITIES, MEDICAL CENTER, BEAUTIFUL.

THEY'RE SPENDING LOTS OF, LOTS OF MONEY.

YOU LOOK AT THE KENNELS NOTHING'S HAPPENED THE LAST 20 PLUS YEARS.

IT STILL LOOKS THE SAME IN MY TAKEN BACK.

YES, I AM.

I SAW A LIGHT TODAY.

PEOPLE WANTED TO ADOPT PETS AND IT WAS A LITTLE SUNNY TODAY.

AND WHEN I WAS THERE, I SAW ABOUT 1520 PEOPLE STANDING IN THE HOT SUN.

AND YOU WOULD THINK THAT THIS ORGANIZATION WOULD BE ABLE TO PUT SOME POP-UPS TO, FOR SHADE FOR THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE DOING SOME WONDERFUL THINGS, ADOPTING PETS, AND THEY CHOOSE NOT TO DO THAT.

I DON'T GET IT.

I REALLY DON'T.

YOU REPRESENT MY CITY AND I EXPECT NOTHING BUT THE BEST.

AND I'M VERY, VERY DISAPPOINTED.

SOMEBODY FROM CHURCH THE OTHER DAY WAS TALKING ABOUT, I VHS, THEY SAID, RAY, I'M A HANDICAP

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PERSON.

I HAD TO GO AND USE THE RESTROOM AND I GO, WELL, GOOD.

YOU JUST GO IN THE LOBBY AND ASK THE PEOPLE THERE HE GOES, I DID LIKE, WELL, THEY LET YOU USE THE RESTROOM, RIGHT? OH, NO.

HE GOES WITH MY WALKER.

I HAD TO GO ALL THE WAY AROUND TO THE KENNEL AND USE THE BATHROOM.

WHEN THE BACK, MY CITIZENS IN BY CITY, I EXPECT NOTHING BUT THE BEST SERVICE AND I DON'T BELIEVE THEY WERE GETTING IT.

SO HOPEFULLY ROD CITY MANAGER, WE CAN DO A LITTLE BIT BETTER JOB TO MAKE SURE AGAIN, I KNOW THIS IS GOING TO PASS.

IT'S GOING TO MOVE THROUGH.

I GET THAT, BUT I EXPECT A BETTER SERVICE IN THE FUTURE.

SO THOSE ARE MY 2 CENTS.

THANK YOU, MR. VICE MAYOR, ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY FURTHER COMMENTS? PETER? I WROTE, I WROTE DOWN A LOT OF ALL RIGHT.

OKAY.

SO THIS MORNING, UM, OKAY.

SO DO WE HAVE A DEDICATED ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER IN OUR CITY? OUR CONTRACTOR IS NOT CALLED FOR A DEDICATED ANIMAL CONTROL SERVICE.

I PERSONALLY WOULD LIKE US TO LOOK INTO THAT.

I THINK OTHER CITIES HAVE DEDICATED CONTROL OFFICERS.

UM, I GET, AGAIN, WHAT I'M DOING, THIS IS FEEDBACK FROM RESIDENTS.

WE WERE ABLE TO GET THIS STAFF REPORT EARLY.

SO I WANT TO THANK STAFF FOR THAT SO WE CAN DO OUR DUE DILIGENCE.

SO, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN GETTING FEEDBACK FROM RESIDENTS AND I KNOW, UM, WHEN THEY QUESTIONED LIKE RESPONSE TIME, UM, RESIDENTS TELL ME THAT, UM, THEY ARE TOLD IT'S ALL ABOUT PRIORITIZING, WHICH I UNDERSTAND.

SO MY QUESTION IS WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO HAVE A DEDICATED OFFICER IN CHINO HILLS SO WE CAN IMPROVE OUR RESPONSE TIME? I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE.

SO IF IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, A DEAD ANIMAL TO PICK UP OR, UM, YOU KNOW, IT COULD JUST BE ANYTHING.

AGAIN, I GET PRIORITIES, BUT IF WE HAD A DEDICATED ONE, IT GOES BACK TO RAY'S THING WITH CUSTOMER SERVICE.

IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE NEGOTIATE A CONTRACT, YOU KNOW, EVERY COMMUNITY IS DIFFERENT.

SO WE HAVE DIFFERENT, WE HAVE EXPECTATIONS THAT OUR RESIDENTS HAVE.

SO, YOU KNOW, IF THERE IS LIKE A DEAD DOMESTIC PET ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, WE DON'T WANT, I THINK THE CONTRACT SAYS 48 HOURS RIGHT NOW TO PICK UP, IS THAT CORRECT? 48 HOURS IS TOO LONG.

I'M SORRY IF THAT'S, IF THAT IS TRUE, WHAT A RESIDENT TOLD ME, IS IT 48 HOURS, GYM TO PICK UP A DEAD ANIMAL WHEN YOU REPORT IT 24? I MEAN, EVEN EVEN 24, IF THAT'S LIKE WHAT THEY SAY 24, BUT IF IT CAN BE DONE SOONER.

YEAH.

WHY WOULD YOU WANT IT TO BE SO IN AN INLAND VALLEY, HUMANE SOCIETY, ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER JUST DEDICATED HERE.

YES.

RIGHT.

AND I UNDERSTAND IS THIS, YOU DON'T HAVE ONE.

SO WE DID RESEARCH WITH CHINO.

CHINO DOES HAVE AN OFFICER DEDICATED THEIR CONTRACT IS ABOUT $200,000 MORE THAN OURS, THEIR NET CON OR THEIR GROSS CONTRACT COSTS.

UM, THEY HAVE ABOUT 12,000 RESIDENTS MORE THAN WE HAVE.

SO, UM, BUT THEY DO HAVE ABOUT $200,000 MORE IN COSTS.

OKAY.

THAT WAS JUST SOMETHING I WANTED TO BRING UP BECAUSE THAT HELPS WITH CUSTOMER SERVICE TOO.

UM, OKAY.

SO IT'S NOT 2048.

IT'S 24.

UM, SO A LOT OF WORK WAS DONE WITH THE WHOLE GETTING TO ZERO PROGRAM, WHICH WAS GREAT.

SO MY QUESTION IS, FIRST OF ALL, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO PROMOTE TO OUR RESIDENTS? THAT ADOPTION FEES ARE SUBSIDIZED? WHICH MANY PEOPLE STILL DO NOT KNOW.

AND THAT IS LIKE ONE OF THE GREATEST THINGS THAT WE CAN TELL IS THAT WE HAVE A FUND THAT IS, YOU KNOW, FINANCE THROUGH THE INCREASE THAT WE DID IN THE UNALTERED PETS.

SO IF YOU LIVE IN CHINO HILLS, YOU CAN ADOPT A PET FOR FREE.

NOBODY KNOWS THAT STILL, THAT WENT ON, LIKE, CAUSE YOU AND RAY WERE ON THAT AD HOC COMMITTEE.

WHAT WAS THAT? TWO OR THREE YEARS AGO.

SO WE REALLY NEED TO STEP THAT.

WE NEED TO STEP IT UP ON THE CITY, END LETTING RESIDENTS KNOW THAT.

BUT THEN MY QUESTION IS, SO IF I'M A CHINO HILLS RESIDENT AND I GO WITH MY KIDS TO ADOPT A PET AT WHAT, AT WHAT POINT AT WHAT? LIKE DO THEY TELL YOU EXACTLY? SO AFTER I'VE PICKED A PET AND THEN I'M GETTING READY TO LIKE CHECK OUT WITH MY PET AND THEY SAY, OH, YOU'RE FROM CHINO HILLS.

YOU CAN ADOPT A DOG FOR FREE.

BUT NOT THAT ONE BECAUSE THAT ONE DOG CAME FROM ONTARIO.

SO AM I GOING TO PUT MY BACK AND SAY, OKAY, LET ME LOOK AT THE CHINO HILLS DOGS.

HOW DOES THAT WORK? CAN WE GET CLARIFICATION ON HOW THAT WORKS OR DO WE GET A COUNT ON HOW MANY? I DON'T KNOW.

I DON'T KNOW.

WE DON'T GET A COUNT.

NO.

AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE REPRESENTATION FROM VHS.

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GO RIGHT NOW AND YOU SAY YOU'RE FROM CHINO HEALTH OR HOW DO THEY FIND OUT IF IT'S VALID? GOOD QUESTION.

CAN WE HAVE THEM COME UP? I'M SURE.

AMERICAN COUNCIL NEVER.

UM, WE DO HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM, COME UP TO RESPOND.

AND AGAIN, IT'S JUST BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A GREAT PROGRAM.

WE REALLY NEED TO MAXIMIZE THIS.

OUR RESIDENTS ARE PAYING FOR SUBSIDIZING SOMETHING THEY SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE.

YES.

AND CYNTHIA, DON'T FORGET THE FREE MICROCHIP REBATE.

THAT'S HUGE TOO.

YEAH.

THANK YOU.

BOTH KIND OF COOL, GOOD EVENING,

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MR. MAYOR, COUNCIL STAFF, COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

UH, I'M GONNA LET JIM TALK ABOUT FEES, BUT I DID WANT TO ADDRESS SOMETHING THAT KEEPS, UM, IT'S KIND OF A RECURRING THING.

THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE AND THIS TIME, EVERY PIECE OF DATA THAT IS REQUESTED IS GIVEN IN THE CONFINES OF THE REPORTING.

SO YOU JUST ASKED ABOUT HOW MANY LICENSES AND THE NUMBER OF LICENSE WHERE WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THAT REQUEST WAS GIVEN, BECAUSE YOU'RE SAYING YOU NEVER RECEIVED THAT BY SMEAR MARQUEZ.

WE DON'T HAVE A REQUEST THAT WAS SPECIFICALLY IGNORED.

SO I'M NOT, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE THE DISCONNECT IS BECAUSE WE HAVE REVENUE REPORTS WE PROVIDE, WE CAN GIVE LICENSE COUNT TOTALS.

YOU CAN GIVE THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.

SO THAT CONCERNS ME FROM THE STANDPOINT OF A COMMUNICATION ISSUE FROM THE STAFF AND FOR US.

UM, THE FACT THAT THERE'S COMMENTS MADE ON THE DIOCESE THAT ARE, THAT WE'RE NOT PROVIDING INFORMATION, COULDN'T BE THE FURTHEST FROM THE TRUTH THAT NOW THERE MAY BE THINGS ALONG THE WAY WITHIN CONTRACT NEGOTIATION THAT ARE BEING ASKED OF US THAT ARE AGAIN PROPRIETARY.

BUT AS FAR AS THE NUMBERS OF LICENSES FOR YOUR ANIMALS, WE CAN ABSOLUTELY GIVE THAT TO YOU.

SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IF THERE IS A PIECE OF INFORMATION THAT YOU'RE NOT GETTING, THAT IF YOU FEEL THAT WE'RE WITHHOLDING THAT DATA, THAT PLEASE THE STAFF, WE HAVE TO COMMUNICATE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT WITHHOLDING THAT YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO KNOW THOSE NUMBERS.

OKAY.

THE CHAIN OF COMMAND, JUST SO YOU KNOW, IT GOES FROM ME TO THE CITY MANAGER AND THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER.

IF THEY'RE GOING TO COMMUNICATE THOSE, THE TWO PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE COMMUNICATING TO YOU DIRECTLY.

HAVE WE BEEN DOING THAT? YES OR NO.

WE HAVEN'T HAD A CONVERSATION WITH NICOLE AND HER OFFICE ALONG WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.

HAVE I GOT THE INFORMATION THAT I REQUESTED? WE SENT YOU THE INFORMATION TODAY THAT WAS PROVIDED BY IHS RELATED TO LICENSES.

NICOLE DID PROVIDE THE INFORMATION TO US, UH, FOR 19 YOU ASKED FOR LICENSE INFORMATION, LICENSE NUMBERS FOR, UH, FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.

SO WE GOT YOU 18, 19, 19, 20 AND 2021.

THEY WERE W UH, IN 1920 WAS A LOW NUMBER.

AND WE GAVE YOU THE NUMBER THAT WE BACKED IN.

WE DID THE SAME THING YOU DID.

WE CALCULATE IT BASED ON THE, UH, SO IN OTHER WORDS, YOU HAD TO DO A CALCULATION TO COME UP WITH THE FIGURES.

WE DID A SEPARATE CALCULATION AND WE GAVE YOU BOTH THOSE NUMBERS.

OKAY.

SO, SO DID I, SO IN OTHER WORDS, YOU DIDN'T GET THE NUMBER OR THE REQUEST THAT I REQUESTED.

I ACTUALLY HAD TO GO THROUGH THE DATA TO GET THAT INFORMATION.

WE HAD A DIFFERENT CALCULATION, SO WE DID GET A NUMBER FROM IHS, BUT IT WAS DIFFERENT THAN THE NUMBER WE CALCULATED.

SO WE PROVIDED YOU BOTH.

OKAY.

SO IN OTHER WORDS, THE PEOPLE I SHOULD BE UPSET WITH, I APOLOGIZE.

MAYBE NOT YOU, MY STAFF, WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB.

OKAY.

IF YOU'RE TELLING, YOU'RE TELLING ME A STORY AND I THINK IT'S GOSPEL.

SO WHEN I ASKED FOR INFORMATION, I NEED THE INFORMATION YOU CAN'T TELL ME, HEY, I CAN'T GET IT.

AND THEN WHEN I CALL THEM OUT ON IT, AND THEY SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS ASK FOR IT.

I FELT LIKE AN IDIOT UP HERE.

AND SO COME ON, GUYS, WE'VE GOT TO WORK TOGETHER AS A TEAM.

AND WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, WE HAVE HAD BETTER COMMUNICATION AS OF LATE.

AND I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY, THIS IS A ALMOST 30 YEAR CONTRACT THAT WE HAVE.

WE HAVE BEEN PROVIDING SERVICE TO THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS.

I GREW UP HERE.

IT IS NOT OUR INTENT TO NOT PROVIDE GOOD SERVICE.

SO WHEN YOU MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT A GENTLEMAN THAT CAME TO USE A RESTROOM AND NEEDED SOME ADA ACCESS, ABSOLUTELY.

THAT'S INAPPROPRIATE FOR A STAFF MEMBER TO SEND HIM TO THE, TO THE KENNEL PORTION OF OUR BUILDING.

WHEN WE HAVE A RESTROOM RIGHT UP AT THE FRONT NOW, YES, IT'S TYPICALLY USED FOR STAFF.

HOWEVER, OBVIOUSLY WE NEED TO MAKE REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION.

SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO BETTER ON.

UM, AS FAR AS YES, TODAY THERE, WE JUST HAD THE CONVERSATION ACTUALLY EARLIER TODAY, WHEN IT WAS HOT THAT WE NEEDED TO GET THOSE EASY APPS OUT, BECAUSE YES, IT IS HOT AND WE DON'T HAVE SHADE.

WE HAVE NEW LANDSCAPING TREES THAT HAVE BEEN REMOVED IN PREPARATION FOR CONSTRUCTION, ALL OF THESE WONDERFUL THINGS.

AS FAR AS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ABOUT THE KENNELS, WE HAVE OUTDOOR KENNELS.

SO YES, THERE HAVE BEEN IMPROVEMENTS MADE TO THEM.

BUT A LOT OF THE MONEY THAT GOES INTO THE SHELTER, MAINTENANCE IS MADE INTO THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE SEWER PIPES AND PLUMBING, ELECTRICITY HEATERS, ALL OF THOSE THINGS THAT GO FOR, YOU KNOW, CARING FOR OUTDOOR KENNELS FOR ANIMALS DURING THE COLD MONTHS.

AND THEN WE HAVE WINTER OR SUMMER MONTHS WHERE WE'RE RUNNING COLD WATER UNDERNEATH THERE TO KEEP THEM COOL.

SO THERE ARE THINGS THAT IT'S NOT AS GLAMOROUS AS AN INDOOR SHELTER, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I DO PRIDE MYSELF ON IN MY TEAM IS THAT OUR SHELTER IS VERY CLEAN.

IF YOU'RE WALKING THROUGH THERE, WE'VE HAD MULTIPLE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND STAFF COME THROUGH THERE AND REMARK ABOUT HOW CLEAN IT IS AND HOW IT DOES NOT SMELL.

SO THAT IS A TESTAMENT TO HOW HARD OUR STAFF WORKS.

AND AS FAR AS THE SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY, ONE OF THE BENEFITS THAT THIS CITY GETS WITH THE CONTRACT IS THAT WE ARE NOT CHARGING YOU A PER HOUR RATE EVERY TIME WE COME OUT.

SO WHEN WE'RE PROVIDING DISASTER RELIEF IN 2020, WE HAD 5,900 CHICKENS OVERTURNED AT THE INTERSECTION OF GRAND AND THE 71 FREEWAY.

THAT WAS AN ALL DAY 24 7 OPERATION.

MY ENTIRE STAFF WAS OUT HERE, THOSE THAT WERE NOT ON ANIMAL CONTROL DUTY AND OTHER CITIES.

IN ADDITION TO THE ADMIN STAFF, WE ALSO RE RESPONDED TO THE FIRES.

THAT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT WE'VE RESPONDED TO WILDFIRES.

THAT WAS A THREE-DAY OPERATION.

WE MOVED THAT

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OPERATION FROM THE MCCOY EQUESTRIAN CENTER BACK TO ITHS WHERE PEOPLE WERE COMING FROM SAN DIEGO WITH, FROM HOTELS, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THEY WERE SENT FROM RED CROSS AND STILL HAD TO CLAIM THEIR ANIMALS.

SO WE DO PRIDE OURSELVES ON GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND.

SO IT'S DISAPPOINTING TO HEAR THAT YOU'RE NOT SATISFIED WITH THE SERVICE, WE WILL DO BETTER.

AND THAT'S WHAT I CAN COMMIT TO YOU.

UM, I WILL LET JIM ANSWER THE QUESTION ABOUT, UM, SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO FEES.

YOU KNOW WHAT, I'VE GOT A QUESTION TO ASK YOU.

IF, SINCE YOU BROUGHT THIS UP, I SEE THE, ALL THE MONEY'S MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT YOU SPENT IN ADMINISTRATION.

SO I'M GOING TO ASK YOU A SPECIFIC QUESTION.

CAN YOU PROVIDE ME WHAT YOU SPENT THE LAST 10 YEARS FOR ADMINISTRATION, AS FAR AS THE SECOND STORY, THE COST, AND EITHER YOU CAN DO IT, YOU CAN'T DO IT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DO IT, I GET IT.

AND THEN ALSO THE MEDICAL CENTER, DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE SPENDING THERE? YEAH.

THE MEDICAL CENTER ITSELF IS ABOUT THE ACTUAL BUILDING IS ABOUT $4 MILLION OF DONOR DOLLARS.

UM, ABOUT ANOTHER TWO TO 4 MILLION WAS SPENT.

UM, PRIMARILY THIS IS JUST GETTING US OUT OF THE GROUND.

WE FILLED IN A FLOOD CONTROL CHANNEL THAT WAS ON THE REAR OF OUR PROPERTY.

AND BECAUSE WE'RE ADJACENT TO THE SANITATION DISTRICT, YOU CAN IMAGINE THE SIZING OF THE PIPES AND THINGS THAT WE'RE FINDING.

IT'S A HUNDRED YEAR PLUS OLD PROPERTY.

UM, WE'VE HAD SEWER ISSUES WHERE WE'VE BEEN CONNECTED TO THE CITY OF POMONA SEWER LINES.

AND SO WE'VE HAD TO, YOU KNOW, AS BUILTS ARE NOT REALLY ACCURATE.

AND SO WE'RE HAVING TO RECOMMIT RESOURCES TO THINGS THAT WE WERE UNAWARE OF.

SO YEAH, THE PROJECT IS DEFINITELY OVER BUDGET IN TERMS OF WHAT WE ANTICIPATED, BUT IT IS A HUNDRED PERCENT DONOR FUNDING.

SO, UM, THAT IS GOING TO DRASTICALLY IMPROVE MEDICAL SERVICES FOR AFFORDABLE MEDICAL SERVICES FOR CONSTITUENTS AND CHINO HILLS AND OUR OTHER SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

AND I DON'T HAVE THE ANSWER.

I COULD GET THAT FOR YOU THOUGH.

VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ, AS FAR AS WHAT WAS SPENT ON THE ADMIN BUILDING.

I APPRECIATE IT.

AND ALSO TO THAT, THE LAST THING I LIKE TO FIND OUT EXACTLY FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS, WHAT YOU SPENT IN THE CAMELS.

SO IF YOU COULD GIVE ME A FIGURE THERE TOO.

I APPRECIATE IT.

THANK YOU.

YES, SIR.

OH, I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO KICK HIM OUT.

HE CAME UP FROM MY, DO YOU WANT TO REPEAT YOUR QUESTION? THAT WILL PROBABLY WORK OUT.

SO I, HELLO, JIM.

MY QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE PET ADOPTION PROCESS FOR CHINO HILLS RESIDENTS? SO HOW DO YOU LET THEM KNOW ABOUT OUR PROGRAM OR HOW WOULD THAT WORK WHEN SOMEONE COMES, ADOPT A PET? WE DO LET, UH, RESIDENTS KNOW ABOUT THE ADOPTION FEE THAT IT IS WAIVED FOR THEM.

IF THEY CHOOSE TO ADOPT A PET FROM A CHINO HILLS PET.

UM, A LOT OF TIMES THEY DON'T TELL US AT THE TIME OF THEIR ADOPTION AS THEY'RE COMING THROUGH THE KENNELS, WHEN THEY'RE LOOKING FOR AN ANIMAL THAT THEY'RE FROM CHINO HILLS, SPECIFICALLY, THEY JUST COME IN AND THAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A PET TO MAKE A PART OF THEIR HOME.

SO THEY'RE NOT LOOKING FOR A CHINO HILLS DOG OR A CHINO HILLS CAT, SPECIFICALLY, THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A PAT, A PET THAT IS GOING TO BE A PERFECT FIT IN THEIR HOME.

AND AS A PART OF THEIR FAMILY, ARE WE THE ONLY CITY YOU'RE ONLY CONTRACT CITY THAT DOES THIS? YES.

OKAY.

YOU KNOW, SO WITH THAT SAID, THEN, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB ON OUR END TO LET OUR RESIDENTS KNOW.

YEAH.

AND TO YOUR QUESTIONING, UH, IN YOUR REPORTS THAT YOU GIVE BACK TO CITY STAFF, DO WE KEEP TRACK OF HOW MANY OF THESE PETS ARE ADOPTED THROUGH THAT PROGRAM? WE DON'T TRACK THAT.

WE CAN TRACK THAT.

UM, WHAT WE, WHAT WE DO IS WE PROVIDE A GENERAL ADOPTION NUMBER TO THEM, HOW MANY ADOPTIONS HAVE HAPPENED? UM, SO WE CAN DEFINITELY START TRACKING THAT.

YEAH, I THINK IT'D BE NICE, YOU KNOW, AND I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF COVID AND JUST BECAUSE OF THE OVERALL NEED TO MOVE ANIMALS, WE HAVE HAD SO MANY ADOPTION PROMOS GOING ON RIGHT NOW THIS WHOLE WEEK ADOPTIONS ARE FREE.

SO THAT'S HUGE.

AND IN ADDITION, WE CHANGED OUR ADOPTION FEES TO JUST BE SIMPLER, UM, FOR PUPPIES, IT'S $200.

AND FOR ANYTHING OVER SEVEN MONTHS, IT'S 150 THAT'S WHEN WE'RE NOT RUNNING PROMOTIONS.

THE STATE MANDATE IS THAT YOU DO NOT GO OVER $500 ON ANY ADOPTIONS.

SO, WELL, I WOULD THINK BECAUSE WE, WE REIMBURSE, I VHS THAT WE WOULD KNOW HOW MANY DOGS WERE, ARE GETTING ADOPTED, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE THAT FUND FOR.

NO, OR HOW MANY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE MACRO.

AND WE KNOW THAT CODE ENFORCEMENT HILLS OF MICROCHIPPING AND REIMBURSEMENT PROCESS, WE CAN GET YOU THAT INFORMATION.

I DON'T HAVE THE INFORMATION ON THE DOLLAR AMOUNT SPENT FOR THE PETS, BUT WE COULD WORK ON, YEAH, WELL, NOT EVEN DOLLAR AMOUNTS, BUT I THINK WHAT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO KNOW IS THAT HOW MANY RESIDENTS HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF OUR MICROCHIP REBATE PROGRAM SINCE WE'VE STARTED IT AND HOW MANY RESIDENTS ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE, UH, SUBSIDIZED.

AND I THINK WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB OF PROMOTING THAT.

YEAH.

I KNOW WE HAD A LOT OF INFORMATION INITIALLY WHEN THE FIRST SEVERAL YEARS, I THINK IT SLOWED DOWN CONSIDERABLY BECAUSE OUR DOGS ALSO, OUR DOGS ARE AROUND FOR 10 YEARS.

AND AFTER THE FIRST COUPLE OF YEARS OF LICENSING AND APPROVED THAT THEY'VE THEN AFTER A WHILE THE NUMBERS ARE GONNA GO WAY DOWN, I WOULD THINK, BUT I HAVEN'T HEARD, I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY NUMBERS IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS

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WITH RESPECT TO THE, THE, UM, FREE ADOPTION FOR TINO HILLS RESIDENTS FOR CHINO HILLS DOGS IS A NUMBER SO LARGE THAT WE COULDN'T EXTEND THAT FREE ADOPTION TO ANY PET THAT THEY PICKED OUT.

ARE WE REIMBURSING THE IVA EHS FOR THOSE FEES? NO.

AND YOU COULD CERTAINLY DO THAT.

WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THE ADOPTION NUMBERS AND GIVE YOU AN EXACT DOLLAR AMOUNT.

UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE A TREND OF WHERE YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN FOR ADOPTIONS FROM CHINO HILLS AND TO CHINO HILLS, BECAUSE WE HAVE BOTH OF THOSE.

DO YOU TRACK, I GUESS YOU MUST, BUT DO YOU TELL STAFF HOW MANY CATS OR DOGS? OKAY.

OKAY.

OKAY.

A COUPLE MORE THINGS.

UM, LET'S SEE.

OKAY.

SO IN THAT I'M LOOKING AT LIKE THE CONTRACT NOW.

SO WHEN I'M REFERRING TO THE PAGE NUMBERS, IT'S FROM THIS CONTRACT, YOU GUYS GIVE US, SO, UM, I NOTICED IT IN THE CONTRACT, THEY, THIS IS ABOUT THE MUNICIPAL CODE ONE.

SO IN THE CONTRACT, YOU WANT US TO CHANGE OR ADOPT A MUNICIPAL CODE, WHICH I THINK IT'S JUST WORTH LEARNING ABOUT BECAUSE THEY WANT US TO CHANGE OUR CODE OR SOMETHING.

SO IT'S REALLY WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE CITATIONS.

SO IT'S JUST MAYBE A FORMALITY.

SO IT'S ON PAGE ONE OF THE DRAFT CONTRACT ONE.

SO IT SAYS, UH, HUMANE SOCIETY WILL ISSUE AND COLLECT PAYMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE CITATIONS.

BUT THEN IT SAYS CITY MUST ADOPT A MUNICIPAL CODE OR ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING HUMANE SOCIETY TO ISSUE THESE.

SO WHEN YOU LOOK UP THE EXISTING CODE RIGHT NOW, IT JUST TALKS ABOUT INTERNALLY.

SO THE ONLY REASON WE'RE DOING THIS IS SO THEY CAN, THAT'S NOT THE ONLY REASON.

THERE ARE A NUMBER OF ITEMS THAT GET INTO IT, INCLUDING LARGE ANIMAL AND A FEW OTHER ITEMS THAT GO THROUGH THERE.

SO IT'S A COMPLETE CLEANUP, I THINK, TO MAKE IT MORE CONSISTENT AMONGST ALL THE IBS, IBS, MAYBE H S CITIES.

UM, SO THAT IT'S A LITTLE EASIER FOR THEM TO APPLY AND TO ENFORCE ACROSS THEIR JURISDICTION, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT'S, IT'S MORE DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO DO THAT.

CAUSE THEY'RE NOT, IT'S NOT HARD, I THINK BECAUSE IT'S NOT CONSISTENT ACROSS AGENCIES THAT CODE'S SO DIFFERENT FROM AGENCY TO AGENCY.

IT MAKES IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO ENFORCE AND, AND COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN.

I'LL JUST POINT OUT THAT IN OUR CODE, WE DO IDENTIFY SEVERAL, UH, INTERNAL STAFF MEMBERS.

AND WE ALSO GIVE, UH, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE CITY MANAGER TO AUTHORIZE THOSE CITATIONS.

UH, WHAT IHS IS LOOKING FOR IS FOR US TO CLARIFY IN THAT CODE, THAT THEY ALSO HAVE THAT AUTHORITY BASED ON OUR PROVIDING THEM THAT AUTHORITY.

SO THAT'S WHERE WE WOULD CLEAN IT UP.

AND PAGE FOUR, UNDER BOOKS AND RECORDS, THEY TALK ABOUT AN ESTABLISHED RETENTION POLICY.

IF WE COULD GET A CLEAR DEFINITION OF WHAT IS THE POLICY, WHAT IS THEIR RETENTION POLICY? AND IS THAT RETENTION OF RECORDS SUBJECT TO A PUBLIC RECORDS ACT IF SOMEBODY WANTED TO VIEW THAT INFORMATION.

YEAH.

SO IN TERMS OF THEIR RETENTION POLICY, I'LL ASK THEM TO SPEAK TO THAT.

UM, I BELIEVE WE GOT THAT FIGURE, BUT I DON'T, I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT NUMBER WAS.

UM, BUT IN TERMS OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS ACT, UH, THEY, UH, ARE A NONPROFIT, THEY ARE A CONTRACTOR.

UM, THEY, THE RULE IS THAT IF THE CITY HAS CONTROL THROUGH THE CONTRACT OF THEIR RECORDS, THEN IT WOULD BE SUBJECT TO THE PUBLIC RECORDS ACT, BUT THEY SPECIFICALLY DO NOT WANT THAT CONTROL.

SO, UM, WE DO NOT HAVE, YOU KNOW, WE DO NOT HAVE WHAT'S CALLED CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION OF THEIR RECORDS, SO THEY ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE PUBLIC RECORDS ACT.

OKAY.

THEN THE LAST QUESTION IS WHEN, ON EXHIBIT ONE ON PAGE 11, THIS WAS JUST MY OWN CLARIFICATION.

I'M CURIOUS.

SO WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT ANIMAL CONTROL SERVICES PROVIDED ON ITEM G IT SAYS CHEMICAL CAPTURE AND RESCUE FOR STRAY ANIMALS, UNABLE TO BE TRAPPED.

WHAT IS CHEMICAL CAPTURE? THAT'S IF WE HAVE TO WORK WITH YOU YES.

FISH AND WILDLIFE ON TRANQUILIZING.

SO IF WE HAVE A BAG, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT TO HAVE A VETERINARIAN PRESIDENT, IF WE DOING IT.

SO TYPICALLY WE WORK WITH US FISH AND WILDLIFE.

OKAY.

AND THEN ANOTHER THING WAS JUST, I DON'T KNOW, IT'S LIKE I GET THAT.

THIS IS TECHNICALLY WHAT YOU GUYS SHOULD BE DOING, BUT ON B IT SAYS PATROL FOR RESCUE SHELTERING, LOOSE DOGS, OR FOR LOOSER STRAY DOGS.

BUT I THINK MOST OF OUR ANIMAL CONTROL IS KIND OF LIKE OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT WHERE IT'S REACTIVE, NOT PROACTIVE.

SO THAT'S JUST MY COMMENTARY THAT AGAIN, IT COMES DOWN TO PRIORITIES WHEN RESIDENTS HAVE CALLS FOR SERVICE AND THEN THEY CALL BACK AND THEY SAY, WHAT IS A PRIORITY? SO MAYBE THAT'S JUST SOMETHING LIKE WE TRACK AND GET FEEDBACK FROM, FROM RESIDENTS.

SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

RIGHT.

LET ME THINK SOMETHING WE ALSO HAVEN'T TOUCHED ON IS JUST IN TERMS OF WILDLIFE, YOU KNOW, ALL THE CALLS FOR SKUNKS AND POSSUMS IN YOUR GARAGE AND ALL THE SNAKES, ALL THE OTHER WONDERFUL THINGS.

UH, I KNOW COUNCIL MEMBER BENNETT AND THE VICE MAYOR MARK HAS.

I'M JUST GONNA MAKE A GENERAL COMMENT.

UH, YOU, YOU SENSED A LOT OF FRUSTRATION OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF APPEARANCES HERE.

UH, I THINK GENERALLY THIS COUNCIL, UH,

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SAVE NO ONE.

I THINK EVERY ONE OF US HAVE THE SAME FEELING THAT, UH, WE'RE FRUSTRATED BY A HUGE INCREASE IN COSTS, OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE WE HAVE A FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY TO THE RESIDENTS OF THIS CITY TO TRY AND KEEP COSTS DOWN.

UH, THE REALITY IS YOU BASICALLY ARE THE CLOSEST TO AN, A NOT BALLISTIC, UH, ENTITY THAT THERE IS.

WE HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE.

I MEAN, YOU'RE IT, OR WE HAVE, WE DON'T GET THE SERVICE.

UH, BUT I FALL BACK ON THE FACT THAT I THINK IF EVERYBODY'S ASKED INDIVIDUALLY, UH, I CAN TELL YOU THAT I HAVE THOUGHT OVER THE 30 YEARS THAT WE'VE BEEN CONTRACTED WITH VHS, UH, THAT GENERALLY THE SERVICE HAS BEEN GOOD.

OUR, OUR RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN SERVED WELL.

UH, WE'VE HEARD PROBABLY MORE GOOD THINGS, THE BAD THINGS, UH, I'VE, UH, RESCUED A DOG THERE, MYSELF.

UNFORTUNATELY, THE KENNEL AT THE TIME WAS HAVING PROBLEMS AND HE HAD PARVO AND, AND, UH, UH, KENNEL COUGH.

AND WE SAVED HIM $3,600 LATER.

BUT THE REALITY IS WE, WE LOVE OUR PETS.

THE CITY LOVES THEM.

WE PUSHED WITH AD HOC COMMITTEE WITH A COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, ROGERS AND VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ TO HAVE A SUBCOMMITTEE TO GO AHEAD AND TRY AND STRIVE TO GET TO ZERO KILL.

AND I THINK WE, AS A CITY AND AS OUR RESIDENTS, WE'VE DONE A GREAT DEAL, UH, TO, TO ACHIEVING THAT.

SO WHAT YOU SENSE UP HERE MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE WANTED TO GET A TWO MONTH EXTENSION, SO WE COULD DO A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, YOU KNOW, VETTING THINGS OUT JUST TO WORK OUT THE DETAILS AND THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

SO THE FACT THAT WE'RE BEING PUSHED TO MAKE A DECISION WHEN WE ARE, AS A COUNCIL, GENERALLY TAKE A LOT OF TIME, UH, AND ARE VERY THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THE PROCESS.

AND DUE TO THE FACT THAT ALL, A LOT OF THE COSTS AREN'T EXACT AND, YOU KNOW, UH, VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ MAKES A GOOD POINT THAT WE DON'T ALWAYS GET THE NUMBERS THAT WILL MAKE US GET TO IT.

AND THEN WHEN YOU, YOU LOOK, I KNOW ONE OF THE DOCUMENTS I WAS LOOKING AT SAID THAT ONE OF THE DOCUMENTS THAT YOU HAVE IS DEEMED TO BE PROPRIETARY BY IB AHS AND WILL NOT BE SHARED WITH ANYONE.

UM, AND AGAIN, I DIDN'T GO BACK THROUGH THE AGREEMENT TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHICH ONE, WHICH DOCUMENT THAT WAS, BUT THAT KIND OF MENTALITY OR COMMENT ABOUT SOMETHING IS WHAT'S CREATED A LOT OF THE FRUSTRATION YOU'RE HEARING.

UM, BUT BOTTOM LINE IS, AS RAY SAID, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE A VOTE ON THIS.

YOU ARE THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN.

UH, LUCKILY IT'S A GOOD GAME, UH, WHETHER OR NOT IT'S PRICED AS GOOD AS IT COULD BE IS ANOTHER THING.

AND WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS A COST SAVING, IT'S THE END THAT DEBTS THIS OUT TO WHERE IT NETS BETTER FOR OUR RESIDENTS.

UH, THAT'S WHAT OUR, WHAT WE ARE GOING TO STRIVE FOR.

SO I THINK THAT'S JUST A GENERAL STATEMENT.

HOPEFULLY EVERYBODY PRETTY MUCH AGREES TO THAT.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER, BENNETT COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS, JUST KIND OF CONTINUING WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.

I WAS GOING TO KIND OF HEAD DOWN THAT PATH.

WE'VE HAD A GREAT RAPPORT AND WE WORKED WITH YOUR DAD AND WE HAD, UH, RAY AND I WERE ON THIS AD HOC COMMITTEE, ALONG WITH SOME, SOME PEOPLE FROM THE, FROM THE COMMUNITY, WE'RE THE FIRST CITY REALLY TO COME UP WITH AND WE PUSHED YOUR DAD TO FOCUS ON A NO-KILL EFFORT AS BEST WE CAN.

AND IN THE MODEL FROM THE AUSTRALIAN, THE GETTING TO ZERO, I WEAR THAT SHIRT ALL THE TIME, BY THE WAY, I GOT MORE FUN, BUT WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THAT.

I THINK THE FRUSTRATION'S COMING FROM WE'VE HAD SUCH A GREAT RAPPORT TO SEE AS WAS REFERRED TO.

AND I WAS GOING TO TALK ABOUT THIS.

IT IS A MONOPOLY, AND YOU KNOW, THAT THERE'S VERY LITTLE GAME IN TOWN AVAILABLE TO US.

YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH CONVERSATION IS GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES ABOUT HOW WE CAN GET AROUND THAT AMONG THE OTHER CITIES.

SO THERE'S, THERE'S SOME OF THAT GOING ON RIGHT NOW, UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE WE'VE GOT SUCH A GOOD RAPPORT WITH OUR AD HOC COMMITTEE.

AND AS FAR AS I KNOW, UNLESS SOMEONE'S STEPPED UP, WE'RE THE ONLY CITY THAT PAYS FOR, FOR MICROCHIPPING.

AND WE'VE CONTINUED THAT FOR YEARS.

SO WE'RE VERY PROUD OF OUR EFFORTS WITH ANIMAL CONTROL AND ANIMAL SAFETY, AND WE ALL LOVE OUR ANIMALS.

SO THAT'S WHY THERE'S A DISAPPOINTMENT UP HERE AS FAR AS JUST HOW MUCH OF AN INCREASE HAS TAKEN PLACE.

WE HAVE NO CHOICE.

AS RAY SAID, THIS IS GOING TO PASS BECAUSE WE HAVE NO CHOICE.

JUST LIKE WHEN I VOTED AGAINST IT DIDN'T MATTER IF IT WAS A TWO MONTH EXTENSION ONE, WE'RE STILL PAYING THAT ENHANCED FEE FOR THIS NEXT MONTH.

IT WASN'T, IT WASN'T GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

SO WE'VE GOT TWO YEARS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO AGAIN, BUT THERE IS TALK ON THE STREET OF WORKING WITH THE COUNTY OR DOING SOMETHING TO COME UP WITH AN ALTERNATIVE.

AT LEAST WE HAVE TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY BECAUSE IT'S A MONOPOLY.

YOU DO A FANTASTIC JOB THOUGH, I WILL SAY, BUT IF, YOU KNOW, JUST TO HAVE THIS SIGNIFICANT INCREASE, TAKE PAY, IT'S JUST DISAPPOINTING FOR OUR YOUNG 30 YEAR HISTORY.

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AND, AND AS YOU SAID, YOU RAISED IN CHINO HILLS.

AND SO THERE'S KIND OF, KIND OF A BOND, ESPECIALLY WITH THE EFFORTS THAT WERE MADE WITH THE AD HOC COMMITTEE SEVERAL YEARS AGO, TO ENHANCE OUR REPUTATION AS A CARING CITY FOR, FOR ANIMALS.

AND, AND WE'RE PAYING THE PRICE, I GUESS EVERYBODY'S PAYING THE PRICE.

SO, AND I GET IT.

THERE'S LESS ADOPTIONS GOING ON.

I W I COMPLETELY GET THAT.

AND I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT IN MAY WE REACH 94% LIVE RELEASE RATE FOR DOGS, AND THAT'S THE FIRST TIME.

SO WE WERE DOING A LOT OF 90% OF THE BOND IS 4%, BUT IT'S 90% KIND OF THE DEFINITION OF PERCENT IS THE DEFINITION OF A QUOTE UNQUOTE NO-KILL.

SO THAT'S, THAT'S FANTASTIC JUST IN GENERAL, BUT I GUESS THAT'S WHY WE'RE ALL KIND OF GOING OFF RIGHT NOW.

JUST KIND OF THE HISTORY MORE, KEEP DOING OUR PART TO THAT ZERO KILL.

YEP.

YEAH.

I'M NOT GOING TO SAY THAT WE'RE GOING OFF OR JUST THAT WE ARE A COMMUNITY THAT CARES ABOUT OUR PEOPLE, FIRST OF ALL, OR ANIMALS, AND I'VE KNOWN YOUR DAD PROBABLY FOR, WELL OVER 30 PLUS YEARS, LASER MARTIN REMARKABLE PERSON.

YES.

WE BUTTED HEADS AS FAR AS GETTING TO ZERO.

HE WASN'T REALLY FORWARD.

INITIALLY.

HE PUSHED BACK REALLY HARD.

PETER AND MYSELF MET AND WE'RE AND YOUR DAD BOUGHT ME A GLASS OF WINE.

AND THAT STARTED OPEN UP A GOOD CONVERSATION BECAUSE HE SORT OF GOT WHAT WE AS A CITY WANTED TO DO.

AND HE JUMPED ON BOARD.

AND WITHIN ABOUT TWO, THREE DAYS LATER, HE CAME UP WITH THE IDEA GETTING TO ZERO, AND WE STOOD BEHIND HIM AND WE MOVED FORWARD ON IT.

AND THEN WE THREW IN A COUPLE OF THINGS, THE MICROCHIPPING STERILIZATION FOR THE ANIMALS HAVING TO DO REBATES.

SO WE ARE COMMITTED AS A CITY.

UM, IT JUST, UM, AGAIN, I THINK STAFF AND MYSELF, WE NEED TO SIT AND TALK BECAUSE THERE'S INFORMATION THAT I HAVE REQUESTED.

AND IT SOUNDS TO ME THAT IF HE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN THAT INFORMATION, WE'D WE'D HAVE RECEIVED IT.

SO AGAIN, IF I CAME ACROSS, LIKE I WAS DISAPPOINTED WHILE I WAS, BUT WE'LL GET, WE JUST GOTTA FIGURE IT OUT IN THE FUTURE.

THAT WHEN I WANT SPECIFIC INFORMATION, I'LL GO TO STAFF AND HOPEFULLY I WILL GET IT.

AND THEN IF WE HAVE ISSUES WHERE WE WERE NOT GETTING WHAT WE WANT, THEN WE'LL HAVE A MEETING AND WE CAN MAYBE COMMUNICATE A LITTLE BIT BETTER TO GET THE INFORMATION THAT WE WANT.

THE ONLY THING, THERE'S TWO THINGS REAL FAST, YOUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

IT WOULD BE NICE FOR YOU TO EVEN THINK ABOUT THIS.

AND AGAIN, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DO IT, BUT JUST THINK ABOUT IT.

YOU HAVE CITIES THAT ARE PART OF YOUR ORGANIZATION, GET THEM INVOLVED, YOU KNOW, GET, GET A COUPLE PEOPLE FROM EACH ONE OF THE CITIES TO SIT ON YOUR BOARD.

SO THIS WAY YOU CAN SORT OF SEE HOW WE'RE FEELING THE FEEDBACK WE'RE GETTING FROM OUR COMMUNITY.

SO THIS WAY WE CAN WORK TOGETHER AS A UNIT, YOU KNOW, SO ALL I'M SAYING, THAT'S A SUGGESTION, AND AGAIN, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO IT.

AND I KNOW YOU'RE NOT, BUT IF YOU, IF YOU WERE TO, IF IT DID HAPPEN, I THINK IT'D BE BEEN VERY BENEFICIAL FOR YOU, UH, WITH OTHER CITIES IN THE, IN THE REGION.

UM, YES, I WAS DISAPPOINTED.

WE DIDN'T DO AN RFP.

UM, I KEEP ON HEARING THAT YOU'RE THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN.

I BELIEVE THERE'S OTHER OPTIONS OUT THERE, BUT AM I HAPPY WITH YOU? YES, I AM.

JIM.

YOU, YOU ARE A REMARKABLE PERSON.

YOU AND MY MYSELF HAVE HAD MANY CONVERSATIONS IN THE PAST, AND I HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR YOU.

SO IF I'M COMING AT YOU HARD, IT'S BECAUSE I EXPECT MORE FROM YOU GUYS.

IT'S NOT BECAUSE I DISLIKE YOU.

I DON'T WANT YOU.

I JUST EXPECT A HELL OF A LOT MORE BECAUSE I KNOW THE ORGANIZATION, WHICH YOU CAN BE, AND I WANT YOU GUYS TO GROW AND DO BETTER.

SO THAT'S WHERE I'M COMING FROM, I GUESS FOR ME.

SURE.

UM, I GUESS YOU CAN SENSE A LITTLE BIT AFRAID NERVES AND FRUSTRATION ON OUR BEHALF.

UM, YEAH, THIS IS GOING TO PASS.

I THINK WE ALL UNDERSTAND THAT THE, SO WE'RE, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU TWO YEARS TO REPAIR THOSE FRAYED NERVES.

I THINK IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT THERE'S A LACK OF PERCEPTION OR THERE'S A PERCEPTION OF A LACK OF COOPERATION.

SO WE NEED TO WORK ON THOSE ITEMS THAT CYNTHIA PUSHED, YOU KNOW, REGARDING PROMOTING THOSE ITEMS TO RESIDENTS.

MAYBE THIS IS SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, OUR NEW PIO AND YOU CAN WORK ON, IF YOU GET CHINO HILLS DOGS AND CATS SEND SOME PHOTOS, WE CAN PUMP THEM OUT.

IF WE CAN TELL RESIDENTS, HEY, HERE'S A GREAT PUPPY THAT CAME FROM CHINO HILLS.

IT'S FREE FOR CHINO HILLS RESIDENTS.

YEAH.

I THINK WE JUST NEED TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE CREATIVE WITH THAT.

UM, YEAH, I THINK A BETTER OPERATIVE WORD AS WE NEED ADDITIONAL CLARITY.

THAT'S THAT'S CORRECT.

IT'S A TO VICE MAYOR.

MARK HAS HIS POINT.

AND YOU KNOW, DURING THE BLUE RIDGE FIRE, I SAW YOU GUYS IN ACTION.

IT WAS PHENOMENAL WHAT YOU DID.

YEAH, WE, WE, YEAH, I THINK WE ALL KNOW WE'RE A PARTNERSHIP.

I SHOULD JUST THINK WE NEED TO FEEL LIKE IT A LITTLE BIT MORE.

SO, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER MARIA, LAST NIGHT IN PAGE 12 OF THE CONTRACT, WE'RE GOING BACK TO THE CONTRACT AGAIN, SUBSECTION THREE.

YES, ACTUALLY, UM, A SUBSECTION LOWERCASE.

I, HERE YOU GO.

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SO IT SAYS, UM, OWN ANIMAL SERVICES, FEES FOR SERVICE.

I JUST WANT CLARIFICATION.

SO IT SAYS HUMANE SOCIETY WILL PROVIDE AND MAY CHARGE A FEE FOR DECEASED ANIMAL PICKUPS.

SO DOES THAT MEAN IF MY FAMILY PET PASSES AND YOU GUYS PICK IT UP, I'LL BE CHARGED HOW MUCH THAT'S KIND OF, WE PAY.

I MEAN, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? WHAT DID YOU THINK THAT'D BE LIKE A SERVICE INCLUDED IN OUR CONTRACT, BUT YEAH.

SO JUST THE RECENT FEE SCHEDULE THAT WAS ADOPTED THAT'S INCLUDED.

SO IT SAYS MAY BECAUSE THERE MAY BE EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE THEY WANT ABOVE AND BEYOND BECAUSE OUR NEW, UH, COMPANY THAT DOES CREMATION SERVICES ACTUALLY GIVES OWNERS OF BREADTH OF CHOICES AND THAT'S A DIFFERENT LINE ITEMS, BUT THEN YEAH, BUT THEN, UM, IT W WITHIN THAT FEE, THERE'S A CERTAIN SELECTION THAT THEY HAVE, BUT IF THEY WANTED TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND AND DO MORE, THERE WOULD BE AN ADDITIONAL FEE.

AND THAT'S AT MARKET VALUE, WHATEVER WE'RE BEING CHARGED AT THE TIME, THIS IS A PASTOR GROUP.

SO IS THERE A FEE TO PICK UP MY DECEASED PET? YES.

YES.

AND HOW MUCH IS THAT? I WANT TO SAY IT'S $20.

OKAY.

I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW, JUST IT'S LITTLE THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT BOTHERED ME BECAUSE WE PAY SO MUCH FOR THIS CONTRACT AND WITH YOUR RESIDENT OF CHINO HILLS, IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT, THEY SHOULD COME PICK UP SOMEONE'S PET WHEN THEY PASS AWAY, BUT 20 BUCKS IS REASONABLE.

BUT TO ME, THAT'S JUST THE KIND OF THINGS THAT SHOULD BE IN.

WELL, WE'LL HAVE TWO YEARS TO SORT ALL THIS OUT.

YOU KNOW, I KNOW WE'VE TALKED, WE'VE HEARD RFP, WE'VE HEARD COUNTY, WE'VE HEARD OTHER CITIES.

SO I THINK YOU SEE KIND OF THE DIRECTION THAT WE'RE GOING, UH, WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO MOVE THE ITEM.

DO WE HAVE A SECOND, SECOND? WE HAVE A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS.

LET'S PLEASE VOTE.

MOTION PASSES FIVE, ZERO.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE LASHING.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT.

WELL THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE MOVING ON TO PLANNING COMMISSION MATTERS THIS PORTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL AGENDAS FOR MATTERS FROM THE JULY 6TH, 2021 PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING.

NO ACTION IS REQUIRED UNLESS TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS WISH TO REVIEW THE MATTER BLAHBITY BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.

ALL RIGHT.

ITEM 21, ITEM 21 DESIGN REVIEW, NUMBER FOUR, A HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR.

WOULD ANYBODY LIKE TO, FOR THE REVIEW? ALL RIGHT.

SEEING AND HEARING NONE, WE'LL BE MOVING

[22. Accept revised report and authorize recordation of delinquent water, sewer and trash service charges as assessment to property owner on County tax roll]

ON TO A PUBLIC HEARING, PUBLIC HEARING TO ACCEPT REVISED REPORT AND AUTHORIZE RECORDATION OF DELINQUENT, WATER, SEWER, AND TRASH SERVICES, SERVICE CHARGES AS ASSESSMENT TO PROPERTY TAX OR TO PROPERTY OWNER ON COUNTY TAX NATIONAL FINANCE DIRECTOR.

THAT'S YOU JUST WAITING FOR MY CUE.

UM, GOOD EVENING, MR. MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

THE ITEM BEFORE YOU TONIGHT IS IN RESPONSE TO THE CURRENT WATER, SEWER AND TRASH DELINQUENT ON, UH, MAY 11TH COUNCIL APPROVED THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A LEAN PROCESS FOR DELINQUENT WATER, SEWER, AND TRASH SERVICE CHARGES.

THEY SET A PUBLIC HEARING, UH, FOR TONIGHT AND DIRECTED STAFF TO MAIL NOTICES TO PROPERTY OWNERS ON THE LIST ON MAY 18TH, STAFF MAILED 171 NOTICES AND PROVIDED A PAYMENT DEADLINE OF JULY 30TH ON JUNE 26TH AND JULY 3RD, A PUBLIC NOTICE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE CHINO CHAMPION, NEWSPAPER NOTIFYING, ALL INTERESTED PARTIES OF THE PUBLIC HEARING.

AND THIS NOTICE ALSO INCLUDED THE LIEN LIST AS OF JUNE 22ND.

ON JUNE 28TH, THE LIEN LIST WAS MADE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE AND IN THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE.

AND, UM, AS OF JULY 7TH, THE LIEN LIST WAS REDUCED TO 103 ACCOUNTS.

SO THE RECOMMENDATION BEFORE YOU TONIGHT IS TO ACCEPT THE REVISED REPORT, UM, OF DELINQUENT SERVICE CHARGES AND AUTHORIZED STAFF TO RECORD THE DELINQUENT SERVICE CHARGES AS AN ASSESSMENT TO THE PROPERTY OWNER ON THE COUNTY TAX ROLL.

I CAN TAKE ANY, ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.

HAVE AT THAT POINT, I'M GOING TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.

DO WE HAVE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK AT THIS TIME? NO, WE DO NOT.

ALL RIGHT WITH THAT.

I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.

ALL RIGHT.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME OR KRISTA? I THINK JUST A GENERAL COMMENT THAT PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND.

IT'S THE OWNER OF RECORD ON THE COUNTY ROLE IS GOING TO HAVE THE LIEN.

IF YOU HAVE RENTER IN THERE AND THEY'RE NOT PAYING THEIR BILLS.

NO, THAT'S NOT.

WHO'S BEING LEANED IT'S WE ARE ONLY, UM, ALLOWED TO LEAN IF THE PROPERTY OWNER IS THE ACCOUNT HOLDER.

INTERESTING.

SO, OKAY.

SO IT'S A RENTER.

YOU CAN LEAN IT PERIOD, CORRECT? I'M GLAD I ASKED FOR THE CLARIFICATION, CAUSE I WAS WRONG ON IT TOO.

YEAH.

OKAY.

YEAH.

BUT THAT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW.

I MEAN, SOMEBODY HAS GOT A RENTER IN THERE.

THEY BETTER MAKE SURE

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THEY'RE GETTING THERE.

OTHERWISE WE'RE STIFFED.

THAT'S REALLY WHAT IT BOILS DOWN TO.

YEAH.

WHO MADE THAT SAD? OH, JUST TURN IT OVER.

YEAH.

WELL, I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU KRISTA.

UH, VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ AND I ARE ON A FINANCE AD HOC COMMITTEE THAT WE MET AND WENT OVER JUST THIS AS AN ISSUE, THE UNPAID BILLS AND YOU KNOW, TO, TO COUNCIL MEMBER BENNET'S POINT IT'S THE, THE RENTERS ARE THE ONES THAT HA ARE THE BULK OF THE UNPAID BILLS, BUT WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T GO AFTER THEM EXCEPT FOR GOING TO COLLECTIONS.

BUT WHY LEAVE PROPERTY OWNERS THAT ARE ESSENTIALLY STEALING WATER AND RESOURCES FROM THE GENERAL FUND? WHY LEAVE THEM WITHOUT OUR, WHY? WHY LET THEM NOT PAY? SO IF WE HAVE THE TOOL TO PUT IT ON YOUR COUNTY COUNTY PROPERTY TAX, LET'S DO IT.

LET'S CAPTURE EVERYTHING WE CAN BECAUSE EVENTUALLY WE'LL GET THAT MONEY.

AND OTHER RESIDENTS DON'T HAVE TO SUPPLEMENT BAD ACTORS.

YEP.

VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ.

CHRIS, I GOT A QUESTION FOR YOU.

UM, WE'D BEEN HAVING ISSUES PROBABLY WITHIN THE LAST FIVE YEARS, AS FAR AS GROW HOUSES AND CHINO HILLS WE'RE FOREIGNERS BUY PROPERTY IN CHINO HILLS.

SO IT'S REAL PROPERTY THAT THEY OWN.

IF THEY DON'T PAY THAT BILL, WE CAN, WE, WE CAN ACTUALLY LEAN THOSE PROPERTIES.

CORRECT.

I'M NOT ACTUALLY INVOLVED IN THAT PROCESS.

I DON'T KNOW BECAUSE THAT'D BE AN UNPAID BILL.

IT'S REAL PROPERTY.

THEY OWN IT.

SO WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO LIEN AGAINST OUR PROPERTY, CORRECT? FOR AN UNPAID BILL FOR WATER, FOR WATER.

THEY'RE STEALING THE WATER ALONG WITH ELECTRICITY.

YEAH.

UTILITY THAT IS OWNED TO THE CITY.

WE CAN LEAN THAT REAL PROPERTY.

SO IF THE OWNER IS THE ONE ON THE RECORD, THEN YOU COULD LEAN THE PROPERTY.

OKAY.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT, THEN WITH THAT, ANY OTHER COMMENTS? IF NOT, UH, WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN.

SECOND BEACH ROCK YOU SCRATCH.

I SAW I NEVER DO IT BECAUSE EVERYONE BEATS ME.

SO I DON'T EVEN TRY TO MOTION OR SECOND MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN.

WE HAVE A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS.

ALL RIGHT.

LET'S VOTE.

LOOK WHAT I'M DOING.

MOTION PASSES FIVE ZERO.

IT'S LIKE THE ALL STAR GAME.

I DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU WERE TRYING TO TELL ME YOU WERE GOING TO STEAL OR TO SLIDE.

ALL RIGHT.

AND THEN

[ PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER REPORT]

WITH THAT, WE WILL BE MOVING ON TO PUBLIC AND FROM COMPLEX INFORMATION OFFICER REPORT, NICOLE, THANK YOU MAYOR.

GOOD EVENING.

COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY MANAGER, AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

WE HAVE BEEN HOSTING WEEKLY VACCINE CLINICS AT THE MCCOY CENTER EVERY TUESDAY AND CONTINUED TO SEE THE NUMBER OF OUR VACCINATED RESIDENTS RISE AND CHINO HILLS, 63% OF RESIDENTS ARE FULLY VACCINATED.

WE WILL BE HOSTING ANOTHER VACCINE IN CLINIC NEXT TUESDAY FOR THE PFIZER VACCINE AND LIMITED DOSES OF JOHNSON AND JOHNSON VACCINE WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE FOR ANYONE WHO WISHES TO RECEIVE IT.

WE'RE ALSO CONTINUING TO HOST WEEKLY BREAD BLOOD DRIVES EVERY TUESDAY THROUGH THE END OF SEPTEMBER AT THE GOVERNMENT CENTER PARKING LOT FROM 12 TO 5:00 PM.

APPOINTMENTS ARE ALWAYS RECOMMENDED AND CAN BE MADE ONLINE.

HOWEVER WALK-INS ARE ALWAYS ACCEPTED AND ENCOURAGED SHOTS.

WELL, STARTING THIS WEEK, RESIDENTS WILL BEGIN SEEN ANNOUNCEMENT AND THEIR UTILITY BILLS.

THE CITY IS LAUNCHING A MORE CONVENIENT PAYMENT EXPERIENCE FOR CUSTOMERS AND THE NEW SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO BE ROLLED OUT IN EARLY AUGUST.

SO BE SURE TO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR MORE INFORMATION.

ALSO FOR NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS, WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH OUR CHINO HILLS POLICE DEPARTMENT TO HOST OUR FREE WOMAN'S PERSONAL SAFETY AND AWARENESS WORKSHOPS.

SO THANK YOU TO MAYOR JOS AND CAPTAIN GOODELL FOR HELPING BRING THESE TO OUR COMMUNITY.

WOMEN AGES 15 AND UP CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE TRAINING TO HELP LEARN KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS TO HELP THEM PREVENT THEM FROM BECOMING VICTIM AND SOME UNAVOIDABLE SITUATIONS, EITHER AT HOME OR OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.

THERE'S FOUR DIFFERENT WORKSHOP DATES TO CHOOSE FROM, FROM JULY THROUGH AUGUST.

AND THE FIRST ONE WILL BE ON SATURDAY, JULY 31ST AT THE CHINO HILLS POLICE DEPARTMENT RESIDENTS WHO ARE INTERESTED CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION AND DETAILS ON HOW TO REGISTER ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE.

WE HAVE A FULL EXCITING WEEK OF EVENTS AHEAD THAT WE'D LOVE TO SEE OUR RESIDENTS BACK OUT AT CONCERTS IN THE PARK CONTINUES THIS WEDNESDAY, FEATURING DREAMING OF YOU ATTRIBUTE TO SALINA MOVIES IN THE PARK, CONTINUES ON THURSDAY WITH A SCREENING OF THE WAR WITH GRANDPA AND FRIDAY WILL BE OUR VERY SPECIAL MCCOY COMMUNITY CELEBRATION.

SO PLEASE COME OUT AND JOIN US AND CELEBRATING THE VERY GENEROUS GIFT OF THE MCCOY QUESTIONNAIRE AND RECREATION CENTER BY THE LATE HELEN MCCOY ON WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HER A HUNDRED AND 10TH BIRTHDAY, THEY'LL BE FREE ICE CREAM, HISTORICAL ITEMS AND PHOTOS ON DISPLAY, A QUESTION RELATED CRAFTS, AND EVEN SOME OF OUR RESIDENTS ALONG ENGLISH PLACE IN ENGLISH ROAD WILL BE BRINGING THEIR HORSES OUT AND MAYOR JOS AND CHRIS DID A GREAT JOB RECOGNIZING NATIONAL NIGHT OUT EARLIER.

I JUST WANT TO REMIND RESIDENTS THAT YOU CAN STILL REGISTER ONLINE AT THE CITY'S WEBSITE AND YOU CAN RECEIVE A NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZING KIT WHILE SUPPLIES LAST.

LASTLY, JUST A QUICK REMINDER THAT THERE ARE NO CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS ON JULY 27TH AND AUGUST 24TH.

AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PIO REPORT.

DO WE MAKE IT PUBLIC? THE LIST OF, UM, NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE RESIDENTS THAT HAVE SIGNED UP TO HOST A NATIONAL NIGHT OUT? JUST SO SOME PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT NOT JUST BE AWARE OF IT, BUT CAN SAY OWN, HEY LOOK, THERE'S ONE.

YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT STREET IT'S NEAR MY HOUSE.

DO WE

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PUBLISH THAT? I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WE DO MAKE THEM PUBLIC, BUT IF PEOPLE ARE REACHING OUT, WE WILL DIRECT THEM TO A LOCAL ONE WITHIN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.

THE GOAL IS TO GET THEM TO GO TO THE ONES WITHIN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AS WELL.

TWO QUICK THINGS, A FOLLOW UP, AS FAR AS WE DON'T HAVE A COUNCIL MEETING THE SECOND HALF OF THIS MONTH, WHERE CAN PEOPLE FIND OUT WHICH GROUPS ARE GOING TO BE PERFORMING AT THE CONCERTS IN THE PARK? BECAUSE WE DIDN'T MENTION ANYTHING OTHER THAN THIS NEXT WEEK.

YES, ABSOLUTELY.

THEY CAN FIND THE FULL LIST OF GROUPS AS WELL AS THE SCREENING FOR MOVIES ON ONLINE AT THE CITY'S WEBSITE, WWW.CHINOHILLS.ORG, BACKSLASH EVENTS.

WE'LL GET YOU THERE.

OKAY.

AND MR. CITY MANAGER, WHEN WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE REMINDER ABOUT STREET SWEEPING THAT WENT INTO EFFECT LAST WEEK, UH, AS THE COMMUNITY MAY HAVE ALREADY OBSERVED, WE HAVE MOBILE READER BOARDS OUT, UH, OF OUR STREET SWEEPING, UH, CITATION PROCESS ENFORCEMENT, UH, BEGAN ON THE 6TH OF JULY.

AND, UH, UH, THE MESSAGE IS, IS OUT THERE.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO REMIND, UH, THE PUBLIC OF THAT IT'S BEEN FEATURED IN THE CHINO CHAMPION IN A VARIETY OF, OF AREAS TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE OKAY.

WELL, I JUST WANTED TO BE SURE THAT EVERYBODY HEARS ABOUT IT BECAUSE A FEW PEOPLE ON OUR STREET GOT SOME OF THE TAGS ON THEIR CARS.

SO NO PROBLEM.

AND JUST ON THAT NOTE TOO, IF RESIDENTS ARE STILL LOOKING FOR THEIR STREET SWEEPING DAYS, THEY CAN CHECK THOSE ONLINE AS WELL@WWWDOTCHINOHILLS.ORG BACKSLASH STREET SWEEPING.

OKAY.

OR ON THE SIGNS AND THE ENTRANCE INTO THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS, THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.

BUT THOSE THAT DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THE SIGNS LIKE NO PARKING ON STREET SWEEPING.

THEY WON'T NOTICE IT.

ALL RIGHT.

OKAY.

THANK YOU, NICOLE.

ALL RIGHT.

WITH THAT, WE'LL

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MOVE ON TO PUBLIC SAFETY UPDATES.

UH, CHIEF NOW CANADIAN MAYOR JOS, VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.

I DO HAVE A FEW THINGS USING A STATE FUNDED OFFICE OF TRAFFIC AND SAFETY GRANT FUNDING THAT, YOU KNOW, HILLS TRAFFIC DIVISION CONDUCTED A DUI SATURATION PATROL OVER THE 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND.

WITH THAT RESULTED IN ONE ARREST FOR DUI, TWO ARREST FOR DRIVING ON A SUSPENDED LICENSE AND 17 ADDITIONAL CITATIONS FOR TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS.

AND THAT WAS ALL THROUGH STATE FUNDING AT NO COST TO THE STATE, YOU KNOW, HILLS IN THE TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO, AND DURING THE 4TH OF JULY WEEK, OUR MULTIPLE ENFORCEMENT TEAM DEPUTIES CONTACTED SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS SELLING FIREWORKS DURING THESE INVESTIGATIONS.

THE MET TEAM ISSUED 12 CITATIONS FOR CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS AND SEIZED OVER 330 POUNDS OF ILLEGAL FIREWORKS.

ADDITIONALLY, WE'VE HAD SOME TRAFFIC COMPLAINTS REGARDING CYCLISTS ON THE WEEKENDS.

IF YOU'RE A MOTORIST, PLEASE REMEMBER TO SHARE THE ROAD.

AND IF YOU'RE A CYCLIST, PLEASE REMEMBER TO USE A DESIGNATED BIKE LANES WHEN AVAILABLE.

AND PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOU'RE SUBJECT TO THE CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE, WHICH INCLUDES STOPPING AT POSTED STOP SIGNS AND RED LIGHTS.

THE LAST THING ANY ONE OF US WANTS TO DO IS RESPOND TO A VEHICLE VERSUS BICYCLE ACCIDENT.

UH, THIS MORNING WE CONDUCTED ACTIVE SHOOTER TRAINING AT IOWA HIGH SCHOOL.

UM, THAT WENT WELL.

AND JUST REMINDER TO RESIDENTS TOMORROW, WE HAVE ANOTHER DAY OF ACTIVE SHOOTER TRAINING AT IOLA, AND THAT'S ALL THAT I HAVE.

THANK YOU, SIR.

MR. MAYOR, I GOT A QUESTION FOR THE CAPTAIN, UM, REGARDING MOTORIZED BICYCLES, HAND MOTORIZED SCOOTER SCOOTERS.

UM, ARE THEY ALLOWED TO RIDE ON THE SIDEWALK OR DO THEY HAVE TO BE ON THE BIKE LANE OR HOW DOES THAT WORK? THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE BIKE LANE AND THERE'S DIFFERENT CLASSES OF ELECTRIC BICYCLES DEPENDING ON THE SPEED.

UM, SO THEY ARE SUBJECT TO, UH, THE SAME REGULATIONS THAT BICYCLES ARE.

THEY NEED TO BE IN A DESIGNATED BIKE LANES.

THANK YOU, SIR.

I APPRECIATE IT.

THANK YOU.

ANY FURTHER COMMENTS? ALL RIGHT.

CHIEF WILLIAMS. ALL RIGHT.

I THINK YOU'VE GOT ME THERE.

UH, GOOD EVENING MAYOR, UH, COUNCIL AND STAFF, UH, JUST WANTED TO MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WE DO HAVE A FIRE PERSONNEL, UH, OUT IN THE, UH, RIVER FIRE IN THE MARIPOSA COUNTY NEAR 70.

UH, SO WE DO HAVE REPRESENTATION OUT THERE, UH, WITH THE MUTUAL AID SYSTEM.

UH, WE WERE ALSO ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ACTIVE SHOOTER DRILL BY WAY OF, UH, SENDING, UH, OUR EXPLORER GROUP OUT THERE TO, UH, PARFAITS PAID IS, UH, VICTIMS AND WHATNOT.

UH, SO WE'RE HAPPY TO, CAN YOU CONTINUE TO PARK PARTICIPATE WITH OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTNERS? UM, WE, UH, THE CHINO VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NATIONAL NIGHT OUT.

WE WILL HAVE A GOOD REPRESENTATION, ESPECIALLY FROM OUR COMMAND STAFF, UH, TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT WE ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD TO THAT EVERY YEAR I'D LIKE TO MENTION IS THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS SEE WHAT APPEARS TO BE CHINO VALLEY, FIRE, AMBULANCE, DRIVING AROUND TOWN.

UM, AMR HAS HAD SOME CHALLENGES WITH THEIR, UH, STAFFING AS OF LATE THERE'S SOME SURGES AND, UH, IN BEING GOOD PARTNERS IN MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE MEETING THE COMMUNITY

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NEEDS.

UH, YOU, UH, MAY FROM TIME TO TIME SEE A AMBULANCE THAT ACTUALLY SAYS CHINO VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT ON IT, OR CHINO VALLEY FIRE.

AND, UH, THAT IS A TOOL FOR US TO PARTNER WITH THEM TO HELP MAKE SURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO MEET THE NEEDS AND, UH, EXPLORE, UH, OPTIONS GOING FORWARD.

SO IF YOU SEE THAT, UH, THAT'S WHAT THAT IS.

AND, UM, UH, WE, UH, CURRENTLY ARE ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR, UH, FIRE LATERAL FIREFIGHTERS AND RECRUITS, UH, APPLICATION PERIOD CLOSES AUGUST 1ST.

UH, SO I'D ENCOURAGE ANYBODY THAT HAS AN INTEREST THAT, UH, MEETS THE QUALIFICATIONS, UH, AT CVI D.ORG.

UH, GO TAKE A LOOK AND SEE IF YOU, UH, FAR AS I'M CONCERNED IS THE BEST ORGANIZATION IN THE STATE, IF NOT THE NATION, BUT TAKE A LOOK, COME TALK TO SOME OF OUR FOLKS AND GIVE IT, GIVE IT YOUR OWN THOUGHT.

AND I JUST WANTED TO READ SOMETHING BECAUSE LAST TIME I WAS HERE, WE TALKED ABOUT, UH, THE GOOD WORK WE'RE DOING IN THE WAY OF CPR AND IN OUR NATIONAL NUMBERS.

AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO CONTINUE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMUNITY KNOWS THAT WE'RE HERE FOR THEM.

AND I'M GOING TO READ A LITTLE SOMETHING HERE THAT WAS ON ONE OF OUR FACEBOOK POSTS.

CAUSE I THINK IT'S JUST ANOTHER REFLECTION OF WHAT YOUR, UH, FIRE DISTRICT IS DOING FOR YOU IN HOW FAR IT ACTUALLY REACHES.

SO IT SAYS LAST NIGHT, MY SON WHO IS WORKING AT KNOTT'S BERRY FARM WAS WORKING DURING THE SHOOTING INCIDENT.

THANKFULLY HE REMEMBERED WHAT HE HAD LEARNED IN YOUR ACTIVE SHOOTER CLASS.

SO THAT WAS PROVIDED FOR, BY ONE OF OUR PERSONNEL.

YOU ALL KNOW RYAN PORCINE AND HIS TEAM.

UM, SO IT SAYS, THANK YOU, UH, FOR WHAT HE LEARNED IN YOUR CLASS A FEW YEARS AGO, BECAUSE OF WHAT HE LEARNED IN YOUR PROGRAM.

HE WAS ABLE TO DIRECT, UH, PARK GUESTS TO, UH, SAFE, HIDING PLACES IN THE BUILDING, SECURE THE DOORS FROM INTRUDERS USE NEARBY ELECTRICAL CORDS, SO ON AND SO FORTH.

BASICALLY IT SAYS, THANK YOU SO MUCH PROGRAMS LIKE THIS TURNED OUT NOT TO BE AN ACTIVE SHOOTER.

HOWEVER, UM, IT'S THE COLLABORATION OF THE COMMUNITY.

AGAIN, WE JUST HAD A DRILL THIS MORNING THAT WAS HOSTED BY THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, BUT, UM, WE CAN SHOW UP AND PROVIDE THE TRAINING, BUT WE REALLY NEED THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO COME AND RECEIVE IT AND, AND TO PARTNER WITH US.

AND SO FOR THAT WORKFORCE, THAT VERY THANKFUL THAT THIS ONE HAD A GOOD OUTCOME IN THIS PERSON'S CASE, BUT, UH, WE JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE'RE HERE FOR YOU AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR STEVEN.

IT'S A GREAT STORY.

THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR GOT A QUESTION CHIEF.

UM, PROBABLY ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.

WE HAD A BASEBALL TOURNAMENT OVER AT THE COMMUNITY PARK, AND I GUESS THERE'S A NEW SYSTEM.

NOW WHEN YOU DIAL NINE 11, UH, THE CALLS ROUTED TO A NURSE, BUT I GUESS THIS CALL SHOULD HAVE BEEN ROUTED DIRECTLY TO THE EMERGENCY OPERATOR WHERE THEY SHOULD HAVE DISPATCHED.

IT WAS A FULL REST.

AND I GUESS THERE WERE SOME ISSUES OR SOME GLITCHES IN THE SYSTEM HAVE THOSE BEEN WORKED OUT.

SO I, I, I DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS OF THE CALL, UM, VICE MARQUEZ.

UM, THERE, THERE IS A NEW, UM, THERE'S A NEW PART OF THE SYSTEM THAT IS OUT THERE.

IT'S CALLED ECN S UM, I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO TOO MUCH OF THE DETAILS UNLESS YOU'D LIKE ME TO, BUT BASICALLY WHEN A CALLER CALLS INTO THE 9 1, 1 SYSTEM, THERE ACTUALLY IS AN EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION NURSE, UM, THAT IS ACTUALLY IN THE CENTER.

AND AS THE CALLS GET TRIAGED, AND IF THEY'RE NOT ACUTE, THEY WILL GET, UM, FURTHER TRIAGED TO THE ECN S NURSE TO, TO BE PRIORITIZED FOR WHATEVER RESPONSE AND MEDICAL SERVICES.

SO THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT WE CONTINUE TO WORK THROUGH.

UM, WE'RE FILLING SOME OF THE CHALLENGES, UM, UM, AND WE'RE WORKING DILIGENTLY TO WORK THROUGH THOSE AND WE'RE VERY AWARE OF THEM.

SO I DON'T KNOW THAT SPECIFIC ONE THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, THE CHIEF ABOUT IT, BASICALLY THERE WAS A GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM WHERE IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ROUTED TO THE NURSE AND IT TOOK LIKE 30 MINUTES AS FAR AS THE RESPONSE TIME FOR A FULL ARREST.

SO I KNOW TIM WAS GOING TO LOOK INTO THAT AND CORRECT THOSE CHALLENGES AND MISTAKES.

SO THANK YOU.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

AND YOU GOT OUR ASSURANCE THAT THAT'S, THAT'S NOT ACCEPTABLE BY OUR, OUR STANDARDS, OUR BEHAVIOR AS WELL.

AND I THINK THAT'S CLEAR AND CHIEF COULD L I SHOULD'VE ASKED YOU, UM, YESTERDAY OR LAST WEEK A DECISION WAS MADE BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

DO YOU WANT TO TOUCH ON WHO OUR NEW, UH, OUR NEW SHERIFF IS? YEAH.

SO FOR THE, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DON'T KNOW, UH, SHERIFF MCMAHON IS RETIRING EFFECTIVE JULY 16TH, WHICH IS FRIDAY AND THE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS APPOINTED UNDERSHERIFF SHANNON DICUS TO, UH, FULFILL THE REMAINING 18 MONTHS OF THE TERM.

UM, AT WHICH TIME THERE'LL BE AN ELECTION FOR SHERIFF.

SO UNDER SHERIFF SHANNON DICHOS WILL BE THE NEW SHERIFF OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, AND THAT'S EFFECTIVE ON THE 16TH EFFECTIVE JULY 16TH.

PERFECT.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[ COUNCIL REPORTS Mayor Johsz Legislative Advocacy Committee Vice Mayor Marquez California Institution of Men/Women - Citizens Advisory Committee League of California Cities Inland Empire Division Latino Caucus Board of Directors San Bernardino County Transportation Authority Board of Directors Metro Valley Committee Transit Committee Southern California Association of Governments Transportation Committee Southern California Regional Rail Authority Council Member Moran Southern California Association of Governments Energy and Environmental Committee Chino Valley Unified School District Board Omnitrans - Board of Directors Council Member Rogers Chino Basin Desalter Authority Board Chino Hills Community Foundation Board Water Facility Authority Board of Directors]

THEN WITH THAT, WE'LL BE MOVING ON TO COUNCIL REPORTS.

SO I'LL KICK US OFF WITH LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY COMMITTEE.

SO WE MET IN PERSON FOR THE FIRST TIME AND THE NUMBER OF MONTHS, A COUNCIL MEMBER, ROGERS AND MYSELF TO MEET WITH OUR, UH, FEDERAL AND STATE LOBBYISTS.

UH, THE BIGGEST, I'D SAY THE BIGGEST NEWS THAT WE GOT OUT OF IT WAS THAT OUR REQUEST FOR FUNDING FROM CONGRESSWOMAN KIM, UH, THAT SHE'S PUTTING FORWARD, UM, MADE ITS WAY THROUGH THE COMMITTEE NOW JUST NEEDS TO MAKE ITS WAY TO THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE AND THEN BE VOTED ON BY THE SENATE.

SO SOUNDS LIKE THAT'S THAT, THERE'S A VERY GOOD POSSIBILITY THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET ABOUT HALF A MILLION, 500,000 ISH FOR WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION FOR WILDFIRE MITIGATION.

SO I SEE TWO OF OUR FIRE BOARD MEMBERS IN THE BACK.

SO THERE'S A HALF A MILLION

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BUCKS COMING.

WELL, YOU BENEFIT FROM IT.

THEY'RE GOING TO BE TRIMMING THE TREES.

YOU'RE GOING TO FIND IT.

THAT'S WHY WE LIKE TO DO WELL BY A WEED WHACKER.

SHE DIDN'T GO OUT THERE WITH IT.

YEAH.

ALL RIGHT.

THEN WITH THAT, WE'LL BE MOVING ON TO VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ, MR. MAYOR, FIRST OF ALL, THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTION FOR MEN AND WOMEN'S PRISONS, THEY WERE BOTH DARK THIS PAST MONTH, OR THIS MONTH LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES.

WE HAD AN INLAND EMPIRE EXECUTIVE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

THERE WAS NO REPORT, THE GOOD OLD LATINO CAUCUS BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND EXPO, WHICH WE'LL BE HAVING IN SEPTEMBER.

WE'RE PLANNING ON HAVING AN ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 23RD.

YOU GUYS ARE ALL INVITED AT NINE 30 IN THE MORNING.

I'LL BUY YOU DONUTS AND COFFEE.

WE HAVE A WORKSHOP.

IT'S ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD WORKSHOP WITH FACEBOOK.

WE'LL HAVE A VICE-PRESIDENT THERE.

AND THEY'LL TALK ABOUT BASICALLY HOW YOU CANVAS FOR ELECTIONS.

SO IT'S SOME REALLY GOOD INFORMATION AND THAT'S ON, UH, ON SEPTEMBER 23RD.

AND IT PROBABLY BE LIKE TWO O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON.

WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A GALA THAT NIGHT OF THE 23RD, 6:00 PM.

SO WE'RE GOING TO GET WILD.

OKAY.

SO WE'LL START AT SIX AND THEN ROLL IN BED AT SEVEN.

SO SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, WE ISSUED AN RFP FOR THE TUNNEL TO ONTARIO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, WHERE THE CHANGES WAS BY DIRECTIONAL SYSTEM INITIALLY WAS GOING TO BE ALL ONE DIRECTION.

NOW IT'S GOING TO BE BI-DIRECTIONAL AND A SOLE SOURCE AMENDMENT FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONSTRUCTION SERVICES FOR THE SAME PROJECT WE'RE EMERGING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, FIVE 11.

IT USED TO BE JUST FOR SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY.

WE'RE GOING TO BE MERGING WITH RCTC AND LOS ANGELES COUNTY.

METRO VALLEY AND TRANSIT WERE DARK THIS MONTH.

SCAG.

WE HAVE A VERY, VERY, VERY LONG MEETING, PROBABLY FOUR PLUS HOURS, AND IT HAD TO DO WITH GREAT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, GREEN GREENPRINT.

AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE ALL WANT TO DO.

IT'S ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES.

WE ALL WANT TO DO IT, BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME MODEST CHANGES WITHIN THE NEXT 60 DAYS.

WE'LL COME BACK TO THE REGIONAL BOARD.

SO, BUT ALONG MEETING TRANSPORTATION, WE JUST RELEASED THE DRAFT CONNECTS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 2020 RTP HAS CS AMENDMENT, ONE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW AND COMMENTS.

AND THOSE ARE MY REPORTS.

THANK YOU, MR. VICE MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBER MORGAN.

I HAVE FOR ALMA, I'M GOING OUT OF ORDER, BUT FOR AMI TRANS, UM, NOTHING TO REALLY REPORT FROM THE MEETING, BUT I WANTED TO BRING UP THE SCHOOL IS STARTING IN LESS THAN 30 DAYS, IF YOU CAN DO THAT IN PERSON.

SO, UM, IF WE CAN COLLABORATE WITH, UM, TRANS ABOUT THE HALF OFF STUDENT AFFAIRS, WHICH IS PRETTY SIGNIFICANT, THERE'LL BE A LOT OF STUDENTS THAT PROBABLY NORMALLY WOULD NOT RIDE TRANSPORTATION, BUT WITH THESE HALF OFF FAIRS, WHICH IS A PILOT PROGRAM FOR AT LEAST SIX MONTHS, THAT'LL PROBABLY STAY AROUND.

UM, IT'D BE NICE TO PUSH THAT OUT THERE BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS.

AND THEN FOR THE, UM, ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR THE LEAGUE.

UM, THE ONLY SIGNIFICANT THING IS, UM, WE NEED TO HAVE UNANIMOUSLY SUPPORTED, UM, SB 5 33, WHICH IS OF COURSE WITH EVERYTHING WE DO IS WITH LIKE LATELY WITH WILDFIRE MITIGATION PLANS, DE-ENERGIZE D ENERGY, OH MY GOODNESS.

G ENERGIZATION EVENTS AND MICRO GRID.

SO, UM, IT'S BASICALLY PUTTING A LOT MORE RESPONSIBILITY ON ELECTRICAL CORPORATIONS IS WHAT ALL OF THIS STUFF IS TRYING TO DO.

UM, AND IT'S OUR LAST, IT WAS OUR LAST MEETING OF THE YEAR.

THAT'S ALL I HAVE WONDERFUL BOARD.

UM, DON BRIDGE WAS KIND ENOUGH TO COME IN PERSON AND GIVE A REPORT.

SO I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE FOR SCHOOL BOARD.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU.

COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS.

YES.

A COUPLE OF THINGS.

CDA, CHINO, THE SOFTWARE AUTHORITY.

WE HAVE TWO FACILITIES THAT, UH, DESALINATE WATER WITH OUR BRACKISH WATER.

WE RECEIVE WATER FROM, UH, CDA ONE, WHICH IS BASED IN CHINO, THE OTHER ONE'S BASED IN RUPA.

SO A LOT OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS IS APPROVING CONTRACTS AND BUILDING MOSTLY FOR THE OTHER FACILITY FACILITY TOO, AND PIPELINES AND ALL THESE CONCENTRATE REDUCTION, FACILITIES, MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

SO IT'S JUST MORE OF THE SAME HERE.

I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH ALL THESE OTHER THAN WE'VE BEEN APPROVING FOR PIPELINES FOR, FOR, UH, HAVING TO DO WITH, UM, UH, CLEANING UP THE WATER.

SOME OF THE WATER THAT'S 1, 2, 3 TCP, UH, WE'RE WORKING ON THOSE PROJECTS AND ALSO JUST APPROVING CONTRACTS AND CONSULTANTS, UH, CONTRACTS, REALLY JUST MORE OF THE SAME FOUNDATION.

WE HAD OUR CHINO HILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOARD MEETING YESTERDAY, FIRST TIME IN PERSON IN QUITE A WHILE, A YEAR AND A HALF.

LET'S SEE, WHAT DID WE GO THROUGH? ESTABLISH? WE S PART OF IT WAS TO ESTABLISH WHAT OUR ANNUAL MEETING WAS IN MAY.

SO WE ELECTED THE OFFICERS AND

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THEN THIS ROUND WAS TO ESTABLISH THE VARIOUS COMMITTEES FOR THE COMING YEAR.

SO THE COMMITTEES PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED 1, 2, 3 COMMITTEES TO ATTEND.

UH, WHEN WE DO HOST THEM THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, WE TALKED BUDGET, UH, AND THEN WE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE PROJECTS COMING UP.

I REVIEWED ABOUT WINE WALK COMING UP ON OCTOBER 9TH, TICKETS GO ON SALE NEXT WEEK, UH, AT CHINO HILLS FOUNDATION.COM OR.ORG.

AND WE'RE WORKING ON NEW WEBSITE ALSO.

SO HOPEFULLY WE HAVE ALL THAT IN PLACE FOR THE TICKET SALES, AND WE'LL ADVERTISE THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE AND WE'LL POST IT ON FACEBOOK, ET CETERA.

WE'VE GOT A CONCERT COMING UP, UH, AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER ON SEPTEMBER 11TH.

TICKETS ARE GONE SALE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS ON THAT, WHICH WE'LL ADVERTISE DEREK BORDEAUX.

WHO'S VERY POPULAR, UH, JAZZ, GOLF, SUPPLE SOUL.

HE'S BEEN OUT THREE TIMES SO FAR IN THE LAST FIVE OR SIX YEARS.

WE'RE BRINGING HIM BACK TO KIND OF KICK THINGS OFF AS FAR AS JUST GETTING THE COMMUNITY BACK AND HAVING A CONCERT AT THE OUTDOOR AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.

THAT'S SEPTEMBER 11TH, WHICH WILL PUSH THE TICKETS TICKET SALES SOON.

WE'RE GOING TO A KID'S ART AGAIN, WHICH WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST, IN THE SPRINGTIME AT THE SHOPS.

MORE TO COME ON THAT WE'RE POSSIBLY GOING TO DO A MUSIC AND ART EVENT, UH, IN TOWN IN THE SPRING, BUT WE'RE WORKING ON DETAILS TO SEE IF THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN OR NOT.

AND THEN WE HAVE HOME TO HER ON APRIL 11TH.

SO WE TALKED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THOSE UPCOMING EVENTS, AND WE JUST, AS A REMINDER, THE WINE WALK IS COMING UP AND THAT'S OUR BIGGEST FUNDRAISER OF THE YEAR.

UH, WE MAKE A FAIR AMOUNT OF MONEY, BUT WE PUT A LOT OF TIME INTO IT.

WE'LL HAVE ABOUT 1300 PEOPLE ATTENDING THIS YEAR.

THAT'S WHAT WE'LL SIT, THE SET, THE TICKET LIMITS AT WHEN THEY DO GO ON SALE, I WOULD BUY THEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE THE LAST TWO YEARS THAT WE'VE HOSTED, OBVIOUSLY WE DIDN'T HOST LAST YEAR.

TICKETS SOLD OUT A WEEK BEFORE, AND THEN PEOPLE WERE WONDERING WHY THEY COULDN'T GET TICKETS.

SO THEY STARTED POSTING ON CHANNELS, CONNECTIONS, ET CETERA, ANYBODY HAVE ANY TICKETS THEY CAN SELL.

SO IT TURNED INTO ONE OF THESE AFTERMARKETS WE JUST SEARCHING A HUNDRED TICKETS WILL BE ON SALE AND, UM, GET THEM ALL.

YOU CAN, IT'LL START IN ABOUT A WEEK.

SO GET THEM ON STUBHUB STUBHUB THAT WORKS, THAT WORKS.

UH, IT'S JUST THE, THE FEES THEY CHARGE.

THE STUB HUB WILL BE MORE THAN THE TICKET PRICE, BUT THAT'S ON THEM.

YOU WANT TO GO DRINK WITH PETER ROGERS.

THAT'S WHAT YOU TO DO.

YOU'VE GOTTA DO IT.

UM, WE HAVE SOME VOLUNTEERS ACTUALLY IN HERE.

I'M IN FACT, I'M LOOKING AT THREE OF THEM RIGHT HERE, RIGHT IN MY LINE OF SIGHT.

UH, JUST AS A REMINDER, SOME OF THE PROFITS FROM THE WINE WALK CO-MINGLED WITH THE BIG, UH, APPLE BOMB FAMILY DONATION, WELL, APPROXIMATELY 50,000 FROM THE APPELBAUM FOUNDATION AND THEN 50,000 FROM US, UNLESS WE DON'T NEED THE MONEY WE'LL GO TO, BUT THERE'LL BE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS NOW WILL BE DONATED TO THE PROPOSED, UH, INTERACTIVE PARK AT CROSSROADS PARK.

I KNOW IT'S GOING TO START JUST GOING TO START THE PROCESS AFTER TONIGHT, I BELIEVE.

AND THAT'S A PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT FOR FOCUSED ON KIDS WITH DISABILITIES.

SO THAT'D BE A FIRST IN OUR COMMUNITY WHERE THE WHOLE PLAYGROUND IS FOCUSED ON THAT VERSUS A SWING OR TWO THAT WE HAVE AT DIFFERENT PARKS.

SO WE'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON WINE WALK AND THE PROFITS FROM THAT WILL GO TOWARDS THIS INTERACTIVE PARK AT CROSSROADS, IF IT'S APPROVED BY PARKS AND REC COMMISSION, YOU'RE JUST STARING AT ME, JONATHAN, I AM, I WAS WAITING FOR A QUESTION ACTUALLY.

I CAN, NO QUESTION.

AS FAR AS WHAT'S THE TIMING I ASKED THAT ACTUALLY YESTERDAY OF MELISSA, WHAT'S THE TIMELINE, THE, THE PROJECTS ACTUALLY, UH, THE PLAYGROUND IS AN ALL INCLUSIVE PLAYGROUND IS THE ACTUAL TERM.

SO, UM, WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT, UM, NOW THAT THE MONEY HAS BEEN ACCEPTED BY THE COUNCIL THIS EVENING, UH, THAT ALONG WITH THE, UH, PICKLEBALL PROJECT OVER AT VELANO PARK AS WELL, WE'LL MOVE FORWARD VERY QUICKLY ACTUALLY, BUT THE ALL-INCLUSIVE PLAYGROUND AT CROSSROADS, UM, WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT WITHIN THE YEAR WE'LL, UH, YOU KNOW, GET THAT OFF THE GROUND AND SUCH.

SO THERE'S SEVERAL STEPS OF COURSE, WORKING WITH THE MANUFACTURER.

AND THERE'S SOME OTHER AMENITIES ON THE SITE THAT NEEDS TO BE DEALT WITH AS WELL.

SO IT'S A KIND OF A COMPLETE PROJECT.

SO THE PARK WILL LOOK QUITE NICE.

SO WHEN WE GET TO THE END AND ONE THING THAT, UH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER MARQUEZ BROUGHT UP IN THE PAST IS, IS THAT, UH, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT PUTTING UP A NICE SIGN AT CROSSROADS PARK AS WELL, AS FAR AS THAT PROJECT GOES.

SO PEOPLE KNOW WHERE, UH, WHERE THE WERE OFFICIALLY LOCATED.

SO GOOD.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT.

THAT'S IT FROM THE FOUNDATION.

VERY GOOD.

WE'RE REACTIVE LOT

[ COUNCIL COMMENTS]

GOING ON RIGHT NOW.

YOU WANT TO KICK US OFF WITH COUNCIL COMMENTS? SURE.

UH, BEN, I KNOW I BROUGHT IT UP, BUT, UH,

[02:10:01]

NOISE ORDINANCE REVIEWING THE NOISE ORDINANCE, HAD A RESIDENT WITH FRAYED, LEGITIMATE CONCERN.

CONTACT ME OVER THE LAST WEEK.

YOU AND I CHATTED ABOUT A LITTLE BIT HAVING TO DO WITH NOISE FROM GARDENERS, ET CETERA, AND HOW FAR INTO THE EVENING THEY CAN DO THEIR THING.

UH, WHAT'S KIND OF SOME TIMING ON AT LEAST DISCUSSING THE POSSIBILITY OF STEPS AND WORKING ON THAT.

I'M LOOKING OVER AT OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, JOEL LOMBARDO.

SHE MAY HAVE AN ESTIMATE ON THE TIME.

YEAH.

WE'RE GETTING VERY CLOSE TO IT.

WE TO BRING IT TO PLANNING COMMISSION PROBABLY IN SEPTEMBER AND THEN IT WILL FOLLOW.

OKAY.

ALL RIGHT.

WE'LL SEE WHERE THAT GOES.

UNLESS I HAVEN'T NOTICED IN THE LAST WEEK OR TWO, BUT WHEN I'VE DRIVEN BY MEMBER, I BROUGHT UP MONTHS AGO, THE SIGN COMING FROM THE 60 FREEWAY ON CHINO HILLS PARKWAY HAD BEEN KNOCKED OVER BY A CAR LONG TIME AGO.

AND I KNOW IT WAS REBUILT FINALLY AFTER FOUR, IT TOOK FOREVER.

IT JUST, I DON'T SEE ANYTHING UNLESS IT'S HAPPENED IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS THAT SAYS CHINO HILLS ON IT.

IT'S JUST A BRICK SIGN.

THAT'D BE A BRICK STRUCTURE.

WE'VE REACHED OUT TO OUR VENDOR AND HE'S PROMISED THAT HE'S WORKING ON IT AND ABLE TO TRY TO GET IT OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

OKAY.

ALL RIGHT.

THIS IS, WE'VE BEEN TALKING AT LEAST EVERY OTHER WEEK TO FOLLOW UP, BUT NOW LET ME SHOW IT GETS DONE.

OKAY, COOL.

THANK YOU.

SO JUST AS A REMINDER, I KNOW THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE TALKED ABOUT A 50, 15% REDUCTION IN WATER, MOSTLY IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.

I BROUGHT IT UP LAST COUPLE OF MEETINGS.

REALITY IS GOING TO HIT US DOWN HERE ALSO BECAUSE OF THE DROUGHT THAT WE WEREN'T GOING TO WANT TO START TO BE PROACTIVE.

NOW, IF YOU WANT TO INTERACT WITH IUA OR METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT, AS FAR AS SOME REBATES THAT ARE GOING ON, I THINK ABOUT THAT AS FAR AS REMOVING GRASS OR CHANGING YOUR SPRINKLER SYSTEMS, BUT YOU MAY WANT TO BE PROACTIVE NOW BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO HIT US AND PROBABLY HIT US VERY HARD IN THE NEXT X AMOUNT OF MONTHS.

WHENEVER THAT IS.

I KNOW WE'RE IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE DOWN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, BUT THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE PROBABLY PRETTY QUICKLY.

SO JUST, JUST BE PROACTIVE WITH YOUR WATER USAGE AND THEN JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYBODY AT MCCOY EVENT, THIS COMING FRIDAY FOR THE OFFICIAL TRANS TRANSITION FROM TRUSTEE TO CITY OF CHINO HILLS, LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.

ALRIGHT, THAT'S IT.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER MARIA, JUST A FEW THINGS.

UM, JOANNE, UM, WE HAVE A PROJECT RESIDENTIAL PROJECT CALLED SHADY VIEW FOR NOW.

THAT'S LOCATED IN SOUTHERN CHINO HILLS AND I KNOW THAT THERE WAS A RECENT, IT WAS PUBLIC HEARINGS, COMMUNITY OUTREACH, I GUESS YOU WOULD CALL IT THE TWO MARK HOLMES HOSTED FOR RESIDENTS.

UM, I KNOW THAT EVERYONE THAT IS WITHIN IS IT 300 YARDS OR FEET OF THE PROJECT GETS SOMETHING IN THE MAIL 300 FEET, 300 FEET.

SO IF THERE'S A RESIDENT THAT IS NOT WITHIN THAT RADIUS, BUT THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE, YOU KNOW, GET MORE INFORMATION WHEN THINGS LIKE THIS HAPPENED, WHAT SHOULD THEY DO? JUST CONTACT US AND WE PUT THEM ON THE MAILING LIST.

SO THAT WOULD BE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

YES, I CAN DO THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT EMAIL.

OKAY.

AND WHAT WOULD THAT EMAIL BE? UM, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT@CHINOHILLS.ORG.

IT PERFECT.

SO IF THERE'S RESIDENTS THAT, YOU KNOW, WANT TO GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PROJECT, A SIGNIFICANT SINGLE FAMILY HOME PROJECT, UM, THE INITIAL STUFF, THE PROJECT LOOKS REALLY BEAUTIFUL AND I THINK IT'LL BE A GREAT ENHANCEMENT TO THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.

SO IF ANYONE WANTS TO GET MORE INFORMATION OR TRACK PROJECT, AS IT GOES, UM, AGAIN, I KNOW TUMERIC HOMES DOES AN EXCELLENT JOB WITH OUTREACH, SO THEY DO A GREAT JOB.

UM, DANIEL, UM, WE HAVE SCHOOL STARTING AND I KNOW THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE OUR, UM, CIRCLE CANYON, LIKE, YOU KNOW, REPAVED BY THEN, BUT THE CROSSWALKS THAT ARE AT THE ON AND OFF RAMPS ON THE 71 ARE VERY FADED.

AND I KNOW A LOT OF KIDS USE THOSE.

SO CAN WE WORK WITH CALTRANS TO AT LEAST GET THOSE PAINTED? HOPEFULLY BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS, I'LL MAKE THE REQUEST.

OKAY, GREAT.

THANK YOU.

AND THEN MY LAST ONE IS JUST A LITTLE COMMENTARY.

I DIDN'T WANT TO BRING IT UP DURING THE IVGS THING, BUT IT WAS ABOUT PET LICENSING.

YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF CHATTER OF LIKE, WELL, YOU KNOW, PET LICENSING.

SO JUST TO BE CLEAR LICENSING, YOUR PET IS NOT OPTIONAL.

IT'S A STATE MANDATE.

AND QUITE FRANKLY, THOSE FEES GO TO NOT EVEN, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SAY I DON'T HAVE A PET, YOU KNOW, SO I DON'T HAVE TO PAY IT.

BUT THEN THE PEOPLE THAT DO HAVE A PET SAY THAT SHOULD BE MY CHOICE.

YOU KNOW, THOSE FEES GO TO PROTECT US ALL IN THE COMMUNITY AND GO TO A LOT OF THINGS.

SO, UM, PLEASE BE KIND WHEN YOU'RE BEING CANVASSED AND, YOU KNOW, DON'T SMUGGLE, FIDO, YOU KNOW, SOMEWHERE ELSE.

SO JUST PAY YOUR FEES AND THEN THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN.

ALL RIGHT.

UM, YOU KNOW, KEEP CHECKING THE WEBSITE AS WE'VE DISCUSSED AT VARIOUS POINTS THIS EVENING, THERE'S A LOT OF FUN THINGS COMING UP, UH, CONCERTS IN THE PARK, UH, TOMORROW NIGHT, THE MCCOY, UH, PRESENTATION OR CELEBRATION ON, UH, FRIDAY.

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UM, SO THERE'S JUST A LOT OF THINGS COMING UP.

BE SURE TO CHECK THAT AND STAY UP TO DATE.

UH, I'M GOING TO ASK FOR AN UPDATE FROM, UH, JOANNE ON SOMETHING PROBABLY ALL THE WAY.

I THINK IT GOES ALL THE WAY BACK TO SEPTEMBER OF 2018.

I BROUGHT UP THE FACT THAT WE'VE BEEN HAVING PROBLEMS WITH A CHICK-FILET, UM, TRAFFIC CONGESTION.

UH, IT'S BEEN AN ISSUE WHEN COVID WENT ON.

THEY ACTUALLY STARTED IMPLEMENTING SOME OF THE REDIRECT DIRECTING OF THE TRAFFIC THAT I HAD PROPOSED WITH OUR CITY ENGINEER.

AND, AND WE WERE KICKING AROUND AS FAR AS CLOSING DOWN THE FIRST ENTRANCE OR, UH, LANE INTO THAT AND REROUTING THE TRAFFIC AROUND SO THAT WE COULD ENHANCE, UH, THE STACKING, IF YOU WILL, AND GET PEOPLE OUT OF THAT INTERSECTION.

JOANNE, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR, FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS.

W W WHERE ARE WE AT? AND WHAT'S THE LATEST ON IT? YES, WE'VE BEEN CONTACTED BOTH BY THE CHICK-FIL-A FRANCHISE OWNER AND A DEVELOPMENT TEAM THAT THE HEADQUARTERS OF CHICK-FIL-A HAS HIRED.

WE EXPECT THEM TO SUBMIT A, A SITE PLAN AMENDMENT SOON, PROPOSING SOME CHANGES.

SO WE'LL, WE'LL LET, LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW WHEN WE RECEIVED THAT.

OKAY.

AND, AND FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND IS GOING TO BE CLOSELY RESEMBLE WHAT WE INITIALLY INITIALLY SUGGESTED TO THEM, YOU KNOW, TWO YEARS, TWO PLUS YEARS AGO, PRELIMINARILY.

YES.

IT WILL BE VERY SIMILAR TO THAT TO EXPAND THE QUEUING.

YEAH.

BUT THE WHOLE KEY IS ANYONE THAT'S BEEN IN THAT INTERSECTION ANY AROUND, ANYWHERE AROUND, UH, YOU KNOW, DINNER TIME, UH, EXCEPT ON SUNDAYS.

UH, IT'S CRAZY.

IT'S NUTS.

I MEAN, SO WE'RE HOPEFUL.

WE'RE GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER.

WE'RE PERSISTENT.

UH, I KNOW IT BOTHERS ME AND I KEEP BOTHERING JOANNE AND WE KEEP TRYING TO GET AHOLD OF THE RIGHT PEOPLE.

UH, IT CHICK-FIL-A AND THE OWNERS OF THE SHOPPING CENTER, BUT IT'S IRONIC THAT THEY ROUTED THINGS AROUND, UH, DURING COVID BECAUSE THEY SHUT DOWN GOING INTO THE STORE AND THEY'RE OPEN TO A LOT OF THINGS, MAYBE EVEN ELIMINATING THE, THE PLAYGROUND AND EXPANDING THE DRIVE-THROUGH TO TWO LANES.

AND SO A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS, SO, UH, IF WE'RE NOTHING ELSE WE'RE PERSISTENT.

SO I JUST WANTED TO GET THAT OUT FOR, FOR THE PUBLIC.

AND, UM, IT IS SUMMERTIME OFFICIALLY AND NOW WITH COVID AND THE KIDS SUPPOSED TO BE GOING BACK INTO SCHOOL, BUT THEY ARE OUT MORE THAN NORMAL.

SO LIKE ALWAYS JUST BE, BE CAREFUL BEING MINDFUL THAT THEY'RE AROUND.

AND ONE RESIDENT THAT THE DISTRICT THAT IS SPLITS THAT SPLITS CYNTHIA AND I, UH, VAL VISTA, THE SPEED BUMPS THAT GO FROM PEYTON ALL THE WAY DOWN THE PIPELINE.

WE'VE GOTTEN, UH, THE SOCIAL MEDIA OUT THERE, NEXT DOOR OR WHATEVER.

IT'S BEEN COMPLAINING ABOUT PEOPLE SPEEDING THROUGH THERE.

AND THERE'S KIDS THAT ARE PLAYING IN THE EVENINGS, WHETHER IT'S A FAIRLY, YOU KNOW, MAIN ARTERIAL, BUT THEY'RE ASKING PEOPLE TO SLOW DOWN.

SO, UH, CHIEF, IF YOU CAN GET SOME OFFICERS DOWN THERE OR PARK A MOTOR OFFICER OR SOMETHING IN THERE, MAYBE CATCH SOME OF THESE PEOPLE SPEEDING.

CAUSE, UH, I GUESS THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE ALIGNMENTS OR THEIR CAR.

THEY'RE MAYBE THEY'RE TRYING TO GET AIR WHO KNOWS, YOU KNOW, ON THOSE SPEED HUMPS.

SO, UH, THAT'S ALL THE COMMENTS I HAVE.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL.

VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ.

THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS REAL FAST.

OBVIOUSLY SOME OF YOU GUYS KNOW MY BACKGROUND IS FIRE, SO I DON'T LIKE FIRE.

I'M AFRAID OF FIRE.

WE HAVE BARBECUES ADJACENT TO A BRUSH AREAS.

FALANA PARK WOULD BE ONE, THE OTHER ONE BE CROSSWORD PARK AND THEY'RE CHARCOAL BARBECUES.

AND TO ME IT JUST DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT SHOULD BE THE RIGHT PLACE.

I MEAN, WITH SOME CITIES WITHIN THE CITY PARK, BUT ADJACENT TO FIRE HAZARD AREA.

SO IT JUST CONCERNED.

I HAVE, I DID GET THAT INFORMATION TO OUR DIRECTOR.

I KNOW THAT HE'S GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THAT.

THE OTHER THING IS, AND I KNOW IT ISN'T REALLY OUR RESPONSIBILITY, BUT IT KINDA IS.

AND NORMALLY THINGS DON'T HAPPEN UNLESS THERE'S AN ACCIDENT HEDGES ALONG SHOPPING CENTERS, ADJACENT TO BUSY STREETS.

I'M REALLY CONCERNED THAT IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE NOTHING REALLY HAPPENS UNLESS THERE'S AN ACCIDENT, BUT IT'D BE NICE TO BE PROACTIVE WHERE IF A HEDGE IS GETTING TOO HIGH, WE TALKED TO THE OWNERS OR COME UP WITH AN ORDINANCE TO KEEP IT LOW.

WE HAVE GOOD VISIBILITY BECAUSE WE DO THAT ON CORNERS WITH SCIENCE, BUT THERE ARE SHOPPING CENTERS OUT THERE THAT HAVE HEDGES THAT IT MAY BE FOUR FEET, THREE FEET TALL, AND HE JUST HAMPERS VISIBILITY.

SO IF WE CAN BE PROACTIVE ON THAT, I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.

AND THE LAST THING IS, I JUST WANT TO SAY, HEY, THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO ME, PUTTING UP WITH THE IVH CONVERSATION.

UM, HE JUST SAID, I'M VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT ANIMALS AND I KNOW ALL MY COLLEAGUES ARE HERE TOO.

SO THANK YOU FOR PUTTING UP WITH ME.

THAT'S IT.

ALL RIGHT.

YEAH.

WE'RE ALL, WE'RE ALL,

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WE'RE ALL DOG OWNERS.

SO IT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, TOUCHES ON ALL OF US.

SO THAT'S WHY YOU SAW A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A HARSH LINE OF QUESTIONING FROM ALL OF US.

UM, ONLY ONE ITEM JUST TO BRING UP AND DANIEL PUT THIS ON YOUR LIST FOR CALTRANS, UH, SOCAL CANYON IN THE 71.

IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY YEAR CALTRANS FORGETS THAT THEIR PROPERTY GOES ALL THE WAY ALMOST TO FAIRFIELD RANCH ROAD ON BOTH, UH, YOU KNOW, ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE 71.

SO WE'RE STARTING TO GET THE TUMBLEWEEDS AND ALL THE, THE BRUSH AND WHATNOT.

SO THEY DO A GREAT JOB ALONG THE 71.

THEY JUST FORGET, UM, SOME OF THOSE PARTS.

SO IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND BRINGING IT UP BEFORE THE WINDS KICK IN AND WITH THAT, UH, THANK YOU.

UH, EVERYBODY FROM THE PUBLIC THAT CAME THANK YOU TO, UH, HARVEY AND MIKE, OUR FIRE BOARD MEMBERS THAT ARE HERE.

THANK YOU.

[ ADJOURN IN MEMORIAM AND IN HOPE: Adjourn in tribute and honor of those who serve and have served in the Armed Forces at home and abroad. Their sacrifice and strength protect the goals and ideals that have made this Country great.]

UH, WITH THAT TONIGHT WILL BE A JOURNEY AND A MEMORY, UH, POPE AND TRIBUTE AND HONOR OF THOSE WHO SERVE AND HAVE SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES AT HOME OR ABROAD, THEY'RE SACRIFICING STRENGTH, PROTECT THE GOALS AND IDEALS THAT HAVE MADE OUR COUNTRY.

GREAT.

SO HAVE A GOOD EVENING.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE.

WE HAVE EIGHT WHEN YOU TAKE AWAY ANYBODY .