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GOOD EVENING, AND WELCOME[ 6:00 P.M. - CONVENE MEETING / ROLL CALL]
TO THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING OF THE CHINO HILLS OR CITY COUNCIL FOR FEBRUARY 27TH, 2024.ALL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT EXCEPT MAYOR MORAN.
UH, IF EVERYONE WOULD PLEASE RISE WHILE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER PETER ROGERS LEADS US IN THE PLEDGE OF
[ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG]
ALLEGIANCE AND REMAIN STANDING FOR INVOCATION BY CHAPLAIN JOEY PADILLA OF THE CHINO VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT.PLEASE JOIN ME IN PLEDGE TO OUR COUNTRY.
I PLEDGE, PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT, IT STANDS ON MY NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE.
[ INVOCATION: Chaplain Joey Padilla, Chino Valley Fire District]
CHAPLAIN, CAN WE BOW OUR HEAD IN PRAYER? FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS EVENING, LORD, AND WE ASK THAT THIS BE A, A PEACEFUL LORD, UH, MEETING.FATHER, MAY WE BE, MAY YOU BE WITH EACH AND EVERY PERSON HERE TONIGHT.
LORD, MAY YOU FILL US WITH YOUR SPIRIT.
LORD, MAY YOU JUST, UM, EVERYTHING ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT.
LORD, MAY YOU HAVE YOUR HAND UPON IT.
LORD, MAY YOUR DIRECTION AND PROTECTION BE A PART OF EVERYTHING WE DO HERE TONIGHT, FATHER.
SO WE JUST THANK YOU FOR YOUR MERCY, LOVE AND GRACE THAT YOU CONTINUE TO POUR UPON THIS CITY AND EVERY MEMBER OF THE BOARD, FATHER.
[1. PRESENTATION - Presentation of City Tile to Cheryl Yeamans for her service with the City from November 7, 2005 to March 8, 2024]
IS A PRESENTATION OF A CITY TITLE TO CHERYL YEMEN.CHERYL, WILL YOU PLEASE JOIN THE VICE MAYOR AT THE PODIUM? THAT'S RIGHT.
TONIGHT, WE ARE BOTH HONORED AND SAD TO SAY GOODBYE TO TWO MEMBERS OF OUR CHINO HILLS TEAM.
FIRST, I'D LIKE TO PRESENT A CITY TITLE TO CHERYL HAYMANS.
CHERYL HAS BEEN WITH THE CITY FOR MANY YEARS, DATING BACK TO NOVEMBER, 2005, WHEN SHE WAS FIRST HIRED AS A DEPARTMENT SECRETARY IN OUR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
THROUGH THE YEARS OR THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, SHE WORKED HER WAY UP THE RANKS UNTIL SHE RECEIVED HER CURRENT POSITION AS PUBLIC WORKS PRINCIPAL MANAGEMENT ANALYST.
AMONG HER MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS, CHERYL'S MOST NOTABLE PROJECTS WERE RECTIFYING WATER ISSUES, REDEFINING UTILITY FINANCE ACCOUNTS, AND ANALYZING GENERAL FUND EXPENSES TO MAXIMIZE USE OF THE GENERAL FUND MONIES.
WHEN, WHEN ASKED WHAT SHE WILL MISS ABOUT THE CITY, UH, THE MOST, CHERYL EXPRESSED HER FONDNESS FOR COLLABORATING WITH THE EXCEPTIONAL STAFF AT THE CITY YARD, HIGHLIGHTING THEIR EXEMPLARY WORK ETHIC AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL.
WELL, CHERYL, WE WILL MISS HAVING YOU AROUND THE CITY, BUT WE KNOW YOU WILL BE ENJOYING SPENDING MORE TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY AND DOG.
I KNOW WHAT MY WIFE WOULD RATHER SPEND TIME WITH, WITH THE DOG THAN ME.
UH, ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL, WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATED SERVICE AND WISH YOU THE VERY BEST IN YOUR RETIREMENT.
AND BEFORE I LET YOU SAY SOME, MAKE SOME COMMENTS, UH, YOU'RE GOING TO BE GIVEN A PACKET OF, UH, PRESENTATIONS HERE OF CERTIFICATES FROM OUR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE, UH, YOUNG KIM FROM OUR SE OUR STATE SENATE, WHICH IS, UH, STATE SENATOR KELLY CITO, UH, PHIL PHILLIP, UH, CHEN, OUR ASSEMBLYMAN, AND, UH, KURT HAMAN, OUR SUPERVISOR.
AND OF COURSE, YOU'RE GONNA BE GETTING THIS WONDERFUL TILE I'LL TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT.
BUT, UM, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THOSE, UH, INDIVIDUALS WISH THAT THEY COULD BE HERE PERSONALLY, THEY CONGRATULATE YOU.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE FAIRLY NEW TO CITY BUSINESS, WE PRESENT TO RETIREES AND VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXHIBITED A LOT OF SERVICE FOR A LOT OF YEARS FOR THE CITY WITH THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY TILE.
AND IT'S A GREAT COMMEMORATIVE THING.
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TO BE TO CHERYL, UH, YEAMAN'S PRINCIPAL MANAGEMENT ANALYST FROM NOVEMBER 7TH, 2005 TO MARCH 8TH, 2024.AND IT IS MY PLEASURE TO BE ABLE TO, UH, GIVE THIS TO HER TONIGHT ON BEHALF OF MAYOR CYNTHIA MORAN AND THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL.
SO, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS? SURE.
AND THEN WE'LL, I'LL, YOU CAN HOLD THAT.
AND THEN WE CAN HOLD THAT, TAKE SOME PICTURES.
I JUST WANTED TO SAY I HAVE BEEN SO BLESSED TO BE PART OF THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS, AND ESPECIALLY TO BE WITH THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
WHEN I FIRST STARTED, I WAS EXCEPTIONALLY CLUELESS, AND I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT WAS, BUT I QUICKLY FOUND OUT THAT IT WAS A GROUP OF VERY HARDWORKING MEN AND WOMEN THAT HAD A HEART FOR THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS.
THEY HAD A HEART FOR EACH OTHER, AND THEY WERE VERY DEDICATED AND HARDWORKING.
AND IF THAT MEANT THAT THEY WERE OUT ALL NIGHT IN THE RAIN WORKING TO RESTORE WATER FOR THE RESIDENTS, THEY WERE WILLING TO DO SO.
AND IT WAS, IT'S JUST BEEN SUCH A PLEASURE TO BE PART OF THAT GROUP.
ANY FAMILY MEMBERS WANT TO? NO.
[2. PRESENTATION - Presentation of City Tile to Michael Curtiss for his service with the City from October 1, 2004 to February 23, 2024]
WE HAVE THE PRESENTATION OF A CITY TITLE TO MICHAEL CURTIS, WILL YOU PLEASE JOIN VICE MAYOR BEDA THE PODIUM.HOW YOU DOING? ARE YOU YOUNGSTER GOOD? HERE? LEMME SIT HERE AND FACE THE AUDIENCE.
UH, OUR NEXT RECIPIENT IS ANOTHER CHERISHED EMPLOYEE HERE, MIKE CURTIS.
LIKE CHERYL, MIKE'S IMPACT ON THE CITY DATES BACK TWO DECADES.
SINCE JOINING US IN OCTOBER OF 2004, MIKE HAS DEDICATED THIS CAREER TO OUR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, SERVING AS A LANDSCAPE INSPECTOR.
TWO, GIVEN THE CITY'S VAST LANDSCAPE, IT'S EASY TO ASSUME MIKE'S PORTFOLIO GREW WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF PROJECTS.
SOME OF HIS OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS INCLUDE CREATING STICKLING HOLLOW RUN AND EUCALYPTUS NATURE PARKS, COORDINATING THE ANNUAL ARBOR DAY EARTH DAY, AND MOST GIVEAWAY EVENTS, AND COLLABORATING WITH THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OR DIVISION ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF BALL FIELDS AT GRAND AVENUE PARK, AND MORE RECENTLY, COMMUNITY PARK.
ALTHOUGH WE CAN STAY HERE ALL NIGHT TO DISCUSS MIKE'S LONG LIST OF ACHIEVEMENTS, BUT THE ONE THING WE WILL MISS THE MOST HERE AT THE CITY IS HIS POSITIVE PERSONALITY.
WHILE WE'RE SAD TO SEE YOU GO, WE KNOW THAT YOU'LL ENJOY TRAVELING THE COUNTRY IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT FISHING AND TENNIS PLAYING COMMUNITY WITH YOUR WIFE.
BETH, ON BEHALF OF THE CI ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL, WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATED SERVICE AND WISH YOU THE VERY BEST IN YOUR RETIREMENT.
AND WE'RE GONNA BE PRESENTING YOU WITH ALL THE SAME CERTIFICATES THAT WE GAVE CHERYL, BUT WOULD YOU LIKE, AND HERE IS THE CITY TILE THAT WE'D LIKE TO PRESENT YOU, AND CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW CAREER.
AND IF YOU HAVE A FEW WORDS YOU'D LIKE TO SAY, GO RIGHT AHEAD.
UH, WE'LL HOLD YOU FOR THREE HOURS.
I'LL KEEP IT MORE BRIEF THAN CHERYL'S EVEN.
SO, UH, I, I'VE JUST FULL OF GRATITUDE FOR, UH, EVERYTHING THAT, UH, I'VE BEEN REALLY OVER CELEBRATED LAST WEEK AND THIS WEEK.
SO, UM, I, I'VE BEEN ABLE TO GROW PROFESSIONALLY, UM, THROUGH, UH, YOU KNOW, ALL THE ARRA CULTURE THINGS AND URBAN FOREST THINGS YOU COULD EVER WANT TO DO IN A CAREER.
UM, THIS PLACE, UH, IT IS A BEAUTIFUL TREE CITY UNIT, USA, THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO WORK.
UM, MY, MY ESTEEMED COLLEAGUES ARE, UH, I, I CAN'T GET INTO IT BECAUSE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM HAS SOMETHING REALLY SPECIAL ABOUT THEIR CHARACTER.
UM, THE FACT THAT AN INTERVIEW PANEL BROUGHT 'EM IN HERE TO BEGIN WITH, WE KNOW THEY'RE, THEY'RE THE RIGHT FIT AND THEY'RE REALLY, REALLY GOOD PEOPLE.
I AM, UH, I AM, UH, TRULY, TRULY BLESSED, AND I'M TRULY GRATEFUL FOR EVERYBODY.
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COME ON UP HERE.BELIEVE ME, YOUR HONOR, WE KNOW HOW MUCH YOU WERE INFLUENCED BY THIS BECAUSE A WIFE ALWAYS WE STAND.
JUST TELL US WHERE YOU WANT US.
NICOLE
[3. INTRODUCTION - New Employees: Omar Roa Alvarez, Maintenance Worker II, Public Works Street Maintenance and Enrique Contreras Jr., Maintenance Worker I, Public Works Water Distribution]
THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW EMPLOYEES, OMAR ROA ALVAREZ, MAINTENANCE WORKER TWO, AND ENRIQUE CONTRERAS JR.WILL YOU PLEASE JOIN VICE MAYOR BENNETT AT THE PODIUM OVER HERE.
WHILE BIDDING, FAREWELL TO TWO ESTEEMED MEMBERS OF OUR TEAM, I'M HONORED TO EXTEND A WARM WELCOME TO TWO NEW ADDITIONS TO THE CHINO HILLS WORKFORCE.
ON BEHALF OF THE CITY COUNCIL, WE WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME OMAR ROA ALVAREZ AND ENRIQUE CONTRERAS JR.
AS THE NEWEST MAINTENANCE WORKERS IN THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, LUCKY FOR US, THESE GENTLEMEN ARE NO STRANGERS TO THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS.
OMAR WAS PREVIOUSLY AN EMPLOYEE WITH US, AND ENRIQUE SPENT THE PAST YEAR AS A PART-TIME STAFF IN THE PARKS LANDSCAPE DIVISION.
THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO CHOOSE THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS AND ALL THAT YOU DO TO CONTRIBUTE TO OUR COMMUNITY'S QUALITY OF LIFE.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM GENTLEMEN, AND, UH, I HAVE A CITY PIN TO E GIVE TO EACH ONE OF YOU.
AND CONGRATULATIONS FOR BEING HERE.
AND WOULD EITHER ONE OF YOU LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING, FEEL FOR, UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE.
UH, JUST KEEP IT EVEN SHORTER THAN MIKE.
BUT, UH, I JUST WANNA SAY THANKS TO EVERYONE, UH, THAT WELCOMED ME BACK, UH, ESPECIALLY IN THE PUBLIC WORKS FAMILY.
UH, I WAS WELCOMED BACK WITH THE OPEN ARMS, AND I WAS OVERWHELMED BY THE, UH, WELCOME BACK.
I SAID IT PREVIOUSLY IN OUR, UH, MEETING AND AT THE PUBLIC'S WORKY YARD.
AND I THANK DANIEL AND SEAN AND EVERYONE ELSE HAD, UH, WELCOME ME BACK.
AND, UH, I FOUND A HOME HERE WHEN I FIRST CAME IN, AND I LEFT FOR A LITTLE BIT, BUT I CAME BACK AND I'M TRULY BLESSED TO HAVE, UH, SUCH A GOOD CREW TO COME BACK TO.
I'LL KEEP IT SHORT AND SIMPLE TOO.
UM, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN WITH PARKS AND LANDSCAPE FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF, AND, YOU KNOW, I'M GLAD TO SAY THAT I'M FINALLY OFFICIAL WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, TRANSFER OVER TO, UH, WATER DEPARTMENT CUSTOMER SERVICE.
AND, YOU KNOW, JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.
THANK YOU, MARK WILEY AND DANIEL, TOO, FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.
AND CAN'T WAIT TO GROW WITH EVERYBODY ELSE.
AND YEAH, SEE WHERE THIS TAKES ME.
JUST PROOF THAT IT TAKES A WONDERFUL TEAM TO SERVICE OUR RESIDENTS.
SO THAT, THAT CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATIONS FOR THE MOMENT.
[4. Parks and Open Space Projects Update]
ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS A PARKS AND OPEN SPACE PROJECTS UPDATE TO BE PRESENTED BY SEAN O'CONNOR.UM, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, UH, UH, THIS IS THE PARKS AND OPEN SPACE PROJECTS UP GATE THAT I TYPICALLY GIVE EVERY YEAR AT, UH, PARKS AND REC COMMISSION.
UH, WELL RECEIVED, SO WAS SUGGESTED I BRING IT TO THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSION.
SO NOW HERE I AM AT, UH, CITY COUNCIL, UH, GIVING YOU THE SAME PRESENTATIONS.
SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, UH, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK.
OUR FIRST PROJECT IN THE LAST YEAR IS EUCALYPTUS NATURE PARK, A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT THAT WE COMPLETED.
IT REALLY IS ONE OF THREE THAT WE'VE RECEIVED OVER THE YEARS, INCLUDING, UH, UH, STRICKLING NATURE PARK AND HOLLOW RUN NATURE PARK.
WE RECEIVED SOME $849,000 IN GRANTS FROM THE CALIFORNIA
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NATURAL RESOURCES AGENCY TO COMPLETE THESE, THIS WORK.PRIMARILY, IT'S REMOVING TREES THAT ARE, UH, UH, AT RISK FOR, UH, FALLING, UM, AND ALSO TRIMMING, UH, THE NATURE PARKS, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THEM, UH, HAVE A LOT OF TREES THAT HAVE DIED OVER THE YEARS FROM RED GUM LU AND, AND OTHER VECTORS, TORTOISE FETAL.
SO, UH, WE WERE SECURING THESE GRANTS, UH, GOING IN KNOWING IT WAS GONNA BE VERY EXPENSIVE AND IT WOULD BE, UH, DIFFICULT TO ALLOCATE MONEY FOR THEM.
SO, UH, THIS YEAR, THIS LAST YEAR, EUCALYPTUS NATURE PARK, WE, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE PHOTO ON THE LEFT, WE HAD A BOOM TRUCK.
UH, TREE TRIMMERS GO AROUND AND REMOVE TREES ON THE PERIPHERY, ESSENTIALLY, ONES THAT ARE CLOSE TO HOMES, UH, FOR OBVIOUS REASONS.
UH, DEAD BRUSH BIOMASS WAS REMOVED AS A PART OF THIS, UH, GRANT AND, AND THEN FOLLOWED WITH, UH, TREE PLANTING, WHICH YOU'LL SEE IN OUR NEXT SLIDE.
UH, WE HAD SOME 400 TREES PLANTED THAT DAY.
NATIVE SPECIES, PRIMARILY INCLUDING, UH, OAK TREES, CALIFORNIA SYCAMORES, VERY WELL ATTENDED.
WE HAD, UH, PEOPLE FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
UH, WE HAD, UH, SERVICE GROUPS AND, UH, UH, FOLKS FROM PLACES OF WORSHIP ATTEND, WENT REALLY WELL.
UH, NEXT ONE, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE.
I'M IN THE MIDDLE, AND I'M ESSENTIALLY WEARING OUT AT THAT POINT, TRYING TO DIG THE HOLE,
UM, BUT WE, WE GOT THROUGH IT.
SO MORE YOU CAN SEE TO THE LEFT, THE AUGER THAT'S USED TO DIG THE PILOT HOLES.
UH, TO PLANT THE TREES MAKES IT A LOT EASIER.
AS YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY HARD, UH, SOIL CLAY SOIL HERE IN CHINO HILLS.
TODAY, THIS WAS AN EVENT THAT WAS PUT ON BY, UH, THE RECREATION STAFF WELL ATTENDED.
I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WERE DIFFERENT, UH, AGENCIES REPRESENTED.
YOU CAN SEE IN THE BOT BOTTOM LEFT PHOTO, INCLUDING THE WEST VALLEY MOSQUITO VECTOR CONTROL AND, AND OTHERS.
UH, NEXT WEEK, THE COMPOST MULCH AND WOOD CHIP GIVEAWAY, ALWAYS WELL ATTENDED TWICE A YEAR.
UH, THIS IS SPONSORED BY OUR WASTE MANAGEMENT HAULER WHO BRINGS IN THE CHIPS.
AND I'LL TELL YOU, IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG FOR THOSE HEAPS OF MULCH AND COMPOST TO DISAPPEAR.
KAI AND MARCOS, UM, PARK, UH, PLAYGROUND.
THIS IS THE FIRST THREE STORY PLAYGROUND BUILT IN THE CITY.
UH, IT IS ADJACENT TO TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND A JUNIOR HIGH, AND IT'S REALLY GETTING A LOT OF YOUTH, WHICH IS WHAT WE INTENDED.
NEXT, UM, NEXT IS COMMUNITY PARK.
UH, THIS WAS A VERY LARGE PROJECT, SOME $8 MILLION, UH, AND IT WAS FUNDED THROUGH THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT, WHICH IS, UM, UH, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE UNFAMILIAR, ARPA, AS IT'S CALLED TO, AS A COVID RELATED STIMULUS FUNDING PACKAGE, SIGNED INTO THE LAW ON MARCH 21, AND WAS DISTRIBUTED TO ALL CITIES AND TOWNS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.
UH, YOU'LL SEE A VARIETY OF ARPA FUNDED PROJECTS IN THE UPCOMING SLIDES.
CINNAMON PARK FOR YEARS, THE ASPHALT THERE WAS DETERIORATED.
IT COST SOME $195,000, BUT IT WAS AN AWFUL LOT OF CONCRETE.
SO, UM, WE'VE BEEN WANTING TO DO THAT FOR MANY YEARS, BUT ARPA FUNDING HELPED, UH, UH, GET THAT COMPLETED.
WE ABATEMENT FROM MARCH THROUGH, ESSENTIALLY JULY EVERY YEAR, WE HAVE OUR STAFF DEDICATED TO MOWING THE OPEN SPACE.
YOU SEE, WE HAVE TWO LARGE AGRICULTURAL JOHN DEERE TRACTORS WITH THE FLAIL IMPLEMENT ON THE END TO CUT THE WEEDS, UH, IN THE LARGE AREAS.
WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
AND IN THE SMALLER AREAS, NOW, WE HAVE, UH, USING THE, UM, UH, REMOTE CONTROL MOWER, UH, WHICH IS REALLY WORKING VERY WELL.
ESSENTIALLY, WE'RE ABLE TO NOW USE THAT AND DO THE WORK THAT PREVIOUSLY, FOR THE MOST PART, WAS COMPLETED BY, UH, LEAD EATERS.
UH, WITH OUR GLEN HELEN WORK RELEASE, UH, CREWS, UH, THAT MOWER CAN REALLY DO DOUBLE THE WORK THAT A CREW CAN DO, MAYBE TRIPLE IN IN A DAY.
UH, WE WORK CLOSELY WITH THE CHINO VALLEY FIRE, UH, DISTRICT, UM, AND WE MEET WITH THEM FREQUENTLY, UH, DURING WHEAT ABATEMENT SEASON, BECAUSE THIS IS, THIS IS A PRIORITY FOR OUR DEPARTMENT.
UH, WILDFIRE MITIGATION CARBON CANYON.
THERE WAS SOME CONCERN, UH, WITH THE NUMBER OF INVASIVE PALM TREES, UH, MEXICAN FAN PALMS IN THE CREEK AREA, PRIMARILY FROM CHINO HILLS PARKWAY TO THE CITY LIMIT.
UH, SO WHAT WE DID WAS, UH, WE WENT AND DID WHAT THEY CALL A DRILLING KILL,
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DRILLED THE PALMS AND INJECTED A, A, UM, SYSTEMIC HERBICIDE.THEY THEN WILTED A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE CANYON WERE CONCERNED.
WE WEREN'T, UH, EXPECTING THEM TO, TO, TO PRAYER SO QUICKLY TO DIE.
SO, UH, WE, UH, WORKED WITH SANTA ANA WATERSHED AUTHORITY, UH, AND THEY, WHO THEY OVERSAW WAS THE, UH, CALIFORNIA CONSERVATION CORPS.
WENT THROUGH AND REMOVED THE PALMS, UH, BIOMASS, AS THEY CALL IT, THAT WAS BLOCKING THE CREEK.
AND I REALLY HAVE TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THE CARBON CANYON FIRE SAFE COUNCIL, BECAUSE THEY ALSO WERE, UH, INVOLVED WITH THIS.
THEY RECEIVED FUNDING, UH, AND THEY ALSO PARTICIPATED, UH, IN THIS PROJECT.
SO, UH, NEXT BIKE REPAIR STATIONS.
WE'VE INSTALLED FOUR BIKE REPAIR STATIONS, PILOT PROJECT.
UM, IT HAS WRENCHES AND PUMPS AND SO FORTH ON IT, BUT IT'S BEEN, UH, REALLY WELL RECEIVED SO FAR.
SO WE'LL LOOK, UH, TO, TO MAYBE ADDING MORE IN THE FUTURE, PLEASE.
AND THEN, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER.
THE VETERANS, UH, MEMORIAL WAS REFURBISHED VERY IMPORTANT, UH, MEMORIAL TO THE CITY AND, AND OUR VETERANS.
UH, IT WAS, UH, CLEANED AND POLISHED, AND A, UH, SEALER WAS PUT ON IT.
APPARENTLY THERE WAS SOME STAINING THAT HAPPENED, UH, TO IT.
UH, SO THAT, THAT, THAT HAS NOW, UH, BEEN ADDRESSED TO THE RIGHT.
YOU SEE A MEMORIAL BENCH INSTALLED AT COMMUNITY PARK, UH, TO RECOGNIZE SOMEONE'S LOVED ONE.
THEY, UH, GENEROUSLY DONATED TO HAVE THAT BENCH INSTALLED.
SO, UH, WE'VE HAD, UH, SEVERAL OF THESE, UH, INSTALLED THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
UH, NEXT WEEK, ENGLISH SPRINGS PARK, UH, CONCRETE WALKWAY, UH, THE LARGE CONCRETE PANELS, UM, A LOT OF THEM WERE BUCKLED AND RAISED, AND, UH, CREATED SOME TRIPPING HAZARDS.
SO WE, UH, UH, WENT THROUGH AND REPLACED 3,400 SQUARE FEET OF THIS CONCRETE THAT'S NOW COMPLETED.
UH, TWO PICTURES AT THE BOTTOM.
YOU CAN SEE ENGLISH SPRINGS LAKE.
WE HAVE A PUMP THAT HAS FAILED THERE.
EVERYBODY LOVES TO SEE THE WATERFALL THAT OPERATED THE WATERFALL.
SO, UH, IN ORDER TO GET TO IT HAD TO, UH, LOWER THE LAKE, UH, NO WILDLIFE WAS AFFECTED.
UH, GET INTO THE, UH, VAULT AND, UH, SEAL IT UP, UH, AFTER DRAINING IT.
AND, UH, TAKE THE OLD PUMP OUT.
AND WE'RE, UH, WE'VE ORDERED A NEW PUMP.
SO IT'S DUE TO BE, UH, INSTALLED WITHIN THE NEXT, UH, THREE OR FOUR WEEKS.
UH, NEXT WEEK, THE COMMUN UNDER COMMUNITY BEAUTIFICATION, UH, UNIT UTILITY CABINET WRAPPING.
THIS IS SOMETHING COMMUNITY SERVICE RECREATION STAFF IS DOING.
IT'S NICE TO PULL UP TO A STOPLIGHT IN THE CITY.
LOOK OVER AND SEE ONE OF THESE, UH, WRAPS INSTEAD OF JUST SEEING A GALVANIZED METAL, UH, STORAGE IN, UH, STORAGE, UH, CONTAINER.
SO NEXT WEEK, ANOTHER ARPA FUNDED, UH, PARK AMENITY, A BOTTLED FUEL DRINKING STATIONS, A AS A RESULT OF COVID.
CONCERNED ABOUT, UH, THE TYPICAL DRINKING FOUNTAINS INSTALLED SO FAR.
YOU SEE, THERE'S DOG BOWLS AT THE BOTTOM, SO YOUR CANINE CAN DRINK AT THE SAME TIME.
ALSO, I BELIEVE THESE THREE ARE ACTUALLY AT, UH, ANO PARK.
LANDSCAPE ENHANCEMENTS, PEYTON MEDIAN PLANTING AND HARDSCAPE, AS YOU CAN SEE, UH, THAT THE RIVER STONES, UH, ARE BEING INSTALLED THERE.
THESE ARE ARE ONES THAT WE, UH, TOOK FROM, UH, UH, PINEHURST PARK SOME YEARS AGO.
A LOT OF 'EM, AND WE SAVED THEM.
AND NOW WE'RE USING THEM IN DIFFERENT AREAS TO ACCENT DIFFERENT AREAS.
UH, WE ALSO PUT IN CREPE MYRTLE TREES.
HERE YOU CAN SEE, UH, THIS WAS TO MATCH JUST FURTHER DOWN THE STREET.
WE HAD DONE THE SAME THING AT EUCALYPTUS AND PEYTON DRIVE TO THE RIGHT, UH, GRAND AVENUE WALKING TRAIL.
UH, ACTUALLY NOT A VERY GOOD PHOTO, BUT THERE IS, UH, SOME LANDSCAPING GOING IN THERE.
UH, DROUGHT TOLERANT, UH, PLANTS, UH, DRIP IRRIGATION BENCHES, UH, DRINKING FOUNTAIN.
UH, THIS IS, UH, FUNDED THROUGH A GENEROUS, UH, PRIVATE DONATION.
UH, THIS IS A PHOTO OF OUR ANNUAL TURF REPLACEMENT.
WE GO THROUGH EVERY YEAR IN BOTH THE LARGE AND THE SMALL DOG PARK.
AND REPLACE THE GRASS WITH THE, UH, TWAY HYBRID BERMUDA DOES WELL IN THE HOT SUN, AND ALSO THE, TAKES THE WEAR OF THE, THE ANIMALS AND THE OWNERS VERY WELL.
UH, I WOULD, UH, DARE SAY, IS OUR DOG PARK'S REALLY THE NICEST IN THE REGION.
SHADE STRUCTURES, WHEN SOLD, THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT, UH, FOR A LONG TIME FOLKS WERE ASKING FOR.
UM, THIS WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY BOTH THE CHINO HILLS, UH, COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AND ALSO THE DOG PARK, UH, FOR CHINO HILLS.
UH, NEXT WEEK, APPLE IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS.
AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S, UH, UH, COURT RESURFACING AT THE PARKS, UH, LISTED THERE ABOVE SOMETHING WE DO EVERY COUPLE YEARS.
UH, NEXT WEEK, UH, MEADOWS PARK ARPA FUNDED AGAIN.
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IS EXERCISE EQUIPMENT.IN FACT, IT'S SO POPULAR THERE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT ADDING ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT IN THAT AREA.
WE HAVE A LOT OF SPACE, SO, LOT, VERY FAMILIAR WITH IT'S VERY LONG PARK.
AND THEN ANNUAL PROGRAM MAINTENANCE.
A LITTLE MORE ON THE MUNDANE SIDE.
WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH AND REPLACING ALL THE SAND IN THE PLAY.
LOTS WITH ENGINEERED WOOD FIBER, OR EWF AS WE'VE REFERRED TO IT.
IT HAS A SOFTER FALL ATTENUATION, SO WHEN THE KIDS ARE PLAYING, THEY FALL ON IT.
IT'S MUCH, UH, SOFTER LANDING, UH, SURFACE.
UH, NEXT, SEE MORE OF THE SAME.
OUR STAFF IS VERY BUSY, UH, MANY TIMES, UH, PARTICULARLY DURING THE SUMMER.
REPAIRING PLAY EQUIPMENT, UM, IT'S GETTING OVER LOVED OR WELL USED, I SHOULD SAY.
UM, UH, SOMETIMES IT'S VANDALISM, BUT, UH, WE TRY TO EFFECT REPAIRS WITHIN, WITHIN A DAY IF WE CAN.
AND WHEN NOT, WE, YOU KNOW, WE TYPE IT OFF AND, UH, ORDER THE PARTS.
AND THEN ARPA FUNDED WORK, UH, PARK PROGRAM, PARK TREE TRIMMING AND REMOVAL.
WE DIVIDED ALL THE PARTS IN THE CITY, UH, INTO THREE AREAS.
AND WE'RE GOING THROUGH, AND YOU CAN SEE THE TREES THAT ARE LISTED RIGHT NOW, WHERE WE GO THROUGH AND HAVE THEM EACH, UH, INSPECTED BY A CERTIFIED TREE WORKER TRIMMED.
AND IN SOME CASES, IF NEED BE, WE HAVE THEM REMOVED.
WE'RE IN THE, WE JUST COMPLETED THE SECOND PHASE OF THAT.
UH, AND WE WILL NEXT YEAR, UH, COMPLETE THE THIRD PHASE, WHICH WILL ADDRESS ALL THE TREES IN OUR PARKS.
NEXT BUTTERFIELD PARK, THE GAZEBO.
YOU MAY REMEMBER, THE, THE COM ASPHALT SHINGLED ROOF HAD A HOLE IN IT LOOKED, UH, IT LOOKED, UH, A LITTLE SAD.
SO WE HAD AN EXTRUDED METAL ROOF.
YOU SEE, THE BASKETBALL COURT WAS A SURFACED OF INTEREST, REALLY, IS THE PICKLEBALL COURT LIGHTING, SIX LED LIGHT STANDARDS WERE INSTALLED.
UM, SO NOW WE HAVE, UH, A LOT OF PLAY GOING ON THERE AT NIGHT.
THERE HAVE BEEN SOME, UH, CONCERNS ABOUT THE PARKING LOT BEING TOO SMALL.
SO, UH, THIS, UH, THIS PARK, THE PARKING LOT'S GOING TO BE EXPANDED IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE TO ACCOMMODATE THE, THE INCREASE IN, IN PEOPLE USING THAT PARK.
NEXT, PLEASE TO, UH, RUBBERIZED HORN PLACE.
SURFACING WAS ALSO REPLACED IN THE LAST YEAR.
THERE WAS A CONCRETE, UH, PROJECT, RECONFIGURED THE AREA AND PUT IN, UH, TREE CUTOUTS.
AND YOU SEE, WE PLANTED OAK TREES AND SOME OTHER TREES THERE.
THERE WERE BLEACHERS, ALUMINUM BLEACHERS THERE.
THEY WERE ACTUALLY, UH, TAKEN AND, UH, REPURPOSED, UH, NEXT WEEK TO FAIRFIELD RANCH PARK.
SO PEOPLE WHO BRING THEIR CHILDREN, AND, UH, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S A PROGRAM TO PLAY AREA, BUT THEY CAN SIT DOWN AND WATCH.
THIS IS A PHOTO OF THE GAZEBO THAT WAS REMOVED.
AND YOU CAN SEE IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER, THIS IS, UH, THE, UH, FOOTPRINT OF WHERE THE PLAYGROUND IS GOING.
WE'VE ORDERED AND WE RECEIVED THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT.
UH, WE'VE JUST ESTABLISHED A CONTRACT WITH A VENDOR WHO HAS TO HAVE IT INSTALLED, UH, WITHIN 30 DAYS.
UH, TO THE LEFT, UH, YOU SEE A NEW METAL EXTRUDED ROOF WAS PUT ON THE BATHROOM BUILDING.
AND UP TO THE RIGHT, YOU SEE, IT WAS ALSO PAINTED.
SO THAT'S BEEN, UH, POLISHED UP.
YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT REMOVING THE GAZEBO.
WELL, WE'RE GONNA MOVE THE BENCHES OVER TO THIS LOCATION.
UH, THE, THE, THEY DID HAVE WOODEN TRELLIS BOARDS.
UH, AND AT THE COLUMNS, THE SUPPORT COLUMNS, WE ARE PLANTING WISTERIA, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH IT.
IT'S A VINE THAT WILL GROW AND TAKE OVER THAT AREA IN YEARS TO COME.
SO THAT'LL BE, UH, AN ADDED, UH, UH, AMENITY TO THAT PARK.
UM, ALSO TO THE RIGHT, WE'VE HAD THE PLANTERS STARTED PLANTING, UH, LANDSCAPERS, UH, YOU CAN SEE IT'S VERY MUDDY THERE.
WE'VE HAD A NEARLY A FOOT OF RAIN THIS MONTH, SO IT'S GONNA BE COVERED UP WITH, UH, MULCH OR BARK NEXT WEEK.
CROSSROADS PARK, UH, IT'S INCLUSIVE.
UH, PARK PLAYGROUND IS GOING IN, UH, AND ALSO FITNESS EQUIPMENT.
THIS IS A PARK FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE, UH, PRIMARILY PHYSICAL CHALLENGES.
SO THEY HAVE A DA ACCESSIBLE PICNIC TABLES AND, UH, RAMPS THE PARKING LOT.
UH, NEXT PLEASE, UH, YOU CAN SEE, UH, IS, UH, IN, IN THE PROCESS OF BEING COMPLETED.
THESE PHOTOS ARE A FEW WEEKS OLD, UH, AND ALSO BEEN ENLARGED, AND ALSO, OF COURSE, MADE A DA ACCESS ACCESSIBLE.
UH, NEXT WEEK, MCCOY EQUESTRIAN CENTER, UH, TO THE LEFT, YOU CAN SEE THIS, UH, GRASS IS, UH, IS, UH, ARTIFICIAL TURP.
UH, THIS AREA WAS GETTING VERY WORN, VERY POPULAR AREA TO
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HOLD EVENTS, WEDDINGS PER PRIMARILY, UH, THE GRASS WAS GETTING WALKED ON AND, UH, WORN THROUGH AND CREATED SOME, SOME, UH, HAZARDS, UH, WITH PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, WOMEN IN THEIR HIGH HEELS GETTING STUCK IN THE GRASS AND THAT SORT OF THING.SO THIS WORKS A LOT BETTER TO THE RIGHT.
UH, THE, THE ROOF, UH, FOR THE MCCOY BARN EQUESTRIAN CENTER, UH, YOU CAN SEE THIS WAS THE PHASE WHERE THEY PUT NEW PLYWOOD ON IT, BUT IT HAS BEEN, UM, ROOFED ALREADY, AGAIN WITH METAL EXTRUDED ROOFING THAT'S BEEN COMPLETED, UH, NEXT WEEK.
SO, CURRENT AND UPCOMING PROJECTS TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE BOTTOM LEFT CITYWIDE, UH, PARTS, WALKWAY LIGHTING, LED, UH, RETROFIT, UH, WE HAVE BUDGETED FOR THIS, UH, CURRENT YEAR, FISCAL YEAR TO INSTALL, UH, LED LIGHTING IN ALL THE PARKS.
AND, UH, ALMOST AS IMPORTANTLY, REPLACE SOME OF THE METAL POLES THAT OVER THE YEARS HAVE RUSTED, UH, AND ARE AT, UH, RISK FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, FALLING.
SO WE HAVE TAKEN OUT SOME OF THE POLES.
WE'VE ADDRESSED THOSE ALREADY THAT WE HAD CONCERNS ABOUT, BUT NONETHELESS, UH, THE POLES AND THE NEW LIGHTING WILL GO IN HERE, UH, IN THE UPCOMING MONTHS.
AND THEN, UH, TO THE BOTTOM RIGHT, GRAND AVENUE PARK, SOCCER FIELD TURF REPLACEMENT.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE, UH, TURF THAT WAS INSTALLED THERE SOME YEARS AGO, IT WASN'T THAT MANY YEARS AGO, BEGAN TO HAVE ISSUES UNRAVEL, THAT SORT OF THING.
BUT, UH, THE, UH, COMPANY THAT INSTALLED IT, UH, TRUE TO THEIR WORD, UH, THEY HAD SAID THAT IT WAS, UH, APPARENTLY A MANUFACTURING, UH, PROBLEM.
THEY RECOGNIZE THAT THEY'VE TAKEN, UH, UH, RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT, AND THEY'RE GOING TO REPLACE IT, UH, UNDER WARRANT, NO COST OF THE CITY.
UH, UNDERSTAND THAT THE FIELDS, UH, BEGINNING MAY 20TH ARE GONNA BE CLOSED OFF SO THEY CAN AFFECT THIS WORK.
HOWEVER, THE REST OF THE PARKS, THE, UH, PLAYGROUND AND THE TENNIS COURT AND THE GAZEBO THERE AND WHATNOT, UM, UH, AND THE OTHER FACILITIES WILL BE STILL OPEN.
UM, SO ANYWAY, UM, UH, WITH THAT, UH, UH, UH, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, UM, I'D BE HAPPY, UH, TO ANSWER THEM.
I KNOW WE'VE BEEN HAVING COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS REGARDING THE, UH, SKATE PARK.
WE HAVE A TIMELINE ON WHEN WE EXPECT CHANGES TO BE MADE THERE.
COUNCIL MEMBER JOE'S AND COUNCIL, UM, WE ACTUALLY HAD A, UH, COMMUNITY, OUR SECOND WORKSHOP AT OUR LAST PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MEETING AT THE FIRST ONE.
WE, UH, GATHERED INFORMATION, OF COURSE, HAD A NICE, UH, GROUPING OF PEOPLE, AND ALSO ONLINE SURVEYS FOR PEOPLE TO FILL OUT.
UM, CAME BACK WITH ALL OF THE FINDINGS AT THE, UH, LAST, AT LAST MEETING THAT WE HAD.
AND SO, UH, WE ALSO HAVE AN ONLINE SURVEY TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW TO GAIN MORE INFORMATION FROM THEM AS WELL.
UM, AS FAR AS THE TIMELINE AND SUCH GOES, UM, UH, AT THIS POINT IN TIME, UM, WE'RE GONNA BE PRIORITIZING WHAT TYPES OF THINGS THAT WE CAN'T AFFORD AND CAN'T AFFORD, OF COURSE, UH, AT THE PARTICULAR, UH, AT THE SKATE PARK AND SUCH.
BUT, UM, UH, DON'T REALLY HAVE A TIMELINE RIGHT NOW AS IT RELATES TO THINGS, BUT AS SOON AS WE GET ONE, WE'LL PASS IT ALONG.
THANK YOU, MR. VICE PREMIER, UM, REGARDING ANO PARK, UH, THE PICKLEBALL COURT.
UM, I UNDERSTAND THE DRAIN WAS CLOGGED AND I GUESS IT WAS FLOODED, AND I NOTICED THAT THE COURSE OR THE, UM, THE GROUND ITSELF WAS BUBBLING UP.
IS THERE ANY PLANS IN THE NEAR FUTURE AS FAR AS MAYBE MAKING SOME IMPROVEMENTS ON THE DRAIN AND THEN ALSO ON THE SURFACE? YES, BOTH.
I MEAN, TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION, I KNOW THAT THERE IS SOME IMPERFECTIONS AND THE COURTS BEEN POINTED, POINTED OUT TO US, BUT IT, IT WILL BE ADDRESSED.
IT DOESN'T, UH, CREATE, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, A, A SAFETY HAZARD.
RIGHT NOW, IT'S MORE COSMETIC, HOWEVER IT WILL BE ADDRESSED, UH, AND, AND REPAINTED.
THE COURTS ARE JUST RE RECEIVING AN, AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF USE AND, WHICH IS GOOD.
THAT'S A GOOD THING AND VERY POPULAR.
SO, BUT WE WILL STAY ON TOP OF THAT, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER.
ANY QUESTIONS? JUST QUICK QUESTION.
UH, EITHER JONATHAN OR SEAN, THE REPLACEMENT TURF AT GRAND AVENUE PARK THAT'S UNDER WARRANTY, I REMEMBER THAT PRODUCT WHEN HE WAS INSTALLED IN 2018 WAS, WAS GUARANTEED TO BE A COOLER PRODUCT THAN WE HAD AT COMMUNITY PARK.
UM, IS THAT PART OF THE PROBLEM? WAS IT THE PRODUCT ITSELF ITSELF, OR THE PRODUCT THAT'S BEING REPLACED? IS IT THE SAME LEVEL OF, UH, COOLNESS COMPARED TO OTHER ARTIFICIAL TURFS? YEAH, THEY, IT, THEY CALL IT COOL PLAY IS THE, UH, IS THE NAME THAT THEY USE AS IT RELATES TO THAT.
UM, YEAH, THE PROCESS THAT THEY GO IN, OF COURSE WILL BE, THEY'RE GONNA BE EXTRACTING THE COOL PLAY MATERIAL.
THEN THERE'S A SAND COMPONENT THAT ALSO IS, IS WITHIN THAT AS WELL.
UM, THE COOL PLAY ACTUALLY, THEY CANNOT, UM, REUSE, SO THEY'LL BE BACK FILLING WITH BRAND NEW COOL PLAY.
THIS WHOLE PROJECT, THERE'S NO CHARGE TO THE CITY.
THERE WAS SOME MANUFACTURING ISSUES, UH, AS IT RELATED, RELATED, UH, TO SEWING THE FIBERS ONTO THE MAT, BASICALLY.
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AND THEY WERE COMING OUT.AND SO THEY, UH, WE APPROACHED THEM, UH, WE HAD SOME CONCERNS AND THEY, UH, HAD MENTIONED WHAT HAD OCCURRED AND SUCH.
AND THROUGH NEGOTIATING AND SUCH, THEY CAME BACK AND SAID THAT THEY WOULD REPLACE IT FOR FREE.
BUT YES, IT, UH, THAT TYPE OF MATERIAL, UM, HELPS, UH, COOL THE SURFACING OUT THERE AS IT RELATES TO THINGS.
AND THAT'LL BE THE, IT'S THE SAME.
IT'LL BE THE EXACTLY THE SAME.
UH, UH, IT'S JUST A DIFFERENT YEAR.
OF COURSE THEY'VE MANUFACTURED, THAT HAPPENED BACK, YOU KNOW, FIVE YEARS AGO AND SUCH.
AND SO REALLY IN MANY INSTANCES WE HAVE FIVE MORE YEARS OF THE WARRANTY.
UH, AND THEN, UM, WE'RE GONNA GET A PRODUCT FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS, BASICALLY PERIOD OF TIME, IF NOT LONGER AS WE KNOW, WE'VE HAD MUCH SUCCESS AT COMMUNITY PARK.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALRIGHT, UM, SEAN, VERY GOOD REPORT.
AND THANK YOU, UH, HOPEFULLY FOR THE AUDIENCE.
PEOPLE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THE CITY INVESTS A LOT OF MONEY IN OUR PARKS AND OPEN SPACE TO MAKE IT ENJOYABLE FOR OUR RESIDENTS.
SO WE ARE COMMITTED TO CONTINUE TO MAKE THE INVESTMENTS TO KEEP THESE, UH, RESOURCES AND THESE ACTIVITIES AVAILABLE FOR TO OUR RESIDENTS.
UH, WELL FIRST, UH, PUBLIC INFORMATION
[ PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER REPORT]
OFFICER.VICE MAYOR BENNETT COUNCIL AND GOOD EVENING.
JUST A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS TONIGHT.
THE CITY'S HOSTING A COMMUNITY-WIDE BULKY ITEM DROP OFF EVENT ON MARCH 9TH FROM 8:00 AM TO NOON AT THE SHOP'S OVERFLOW PARKING LOT RESIDENTS CAN POP PROPERLY DISPOSE OF BULKY ITEMS, APPLIANCES, AND ELECTRONIC WASTE FOR FREE.
ALL VEHICLES MUST ENTER CITY CENTER DRIVE OFF BOYS REPUBLIC DRIVE.
FOR A LIST OF ACCEPTED ITEMS, VISIT CHINO HILLS.ORG/COMMUNITY CLEANUP.
AND AS JONATHAN NOTED EARLIER, THE SECOND SKATE PARK RENOVATION COMMUNITY SURVEY IS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE.
BE SURE TO SHARE YOUR IDEAS BY MARCH 6TH TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON INITIAL CONCEPT DESIGNS.
TWO ENTRIES WILL BE RANDOMLY SELECTED TO WIN AN ACTIVE GIFT CARD.
CHINO HILLS TEENS IN GRADE SEVEN THROUGH 12 ARE INVITED TO APPLY TO SERVE ON THE CITY'S TEEN ADVISORY BOARD.
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY MARCH 11TH AND MORE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ONLINE@CHINOHILLS.ORG SLASH TEEN ADVISORY BOARD.
AND LASTLY, WE JUST WANTED TO GIVE, UH, ANOTHER LITTLE UPDATE ON COMMUNITY PARK REHAB PROJECT.
PHASE THREE IS NEARING COMPLETION, OUTFIELD TURF RENOVATIONS AND INFIELD TURF CONVERSIONS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED ON FIELDS FIVE AND SIX AND THEY'RE NOW REOPENED TO THE PUBLIC.
THE REMAINING WORK INCLUDES EXPANDING, RESURFACING AND RETRIP THE EXISTING PARKING LOT, WHICH WILL BEGIN IN JUNE 24TH, 2024.
AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PIO REPORT AND I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE ANY QUESTION.
[5. 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. Comments will be limited to three minutes per speaker.]
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, WHICH MUST BE PROVIDED DURING THOSE HEARINGS.PLEASE COMPLETE AND SUBMIT TO THE DEPUTY CITY CLERK A REQUEST TO SPEAK CARD.
WE CURRENTLY HAVE 32 PUBLIC, UH, SPEAKING COMMENT CARDS.
ALRIGHT, MAYOR, MAYOR, UH, VICE MAYOR BENNETT, AND CITY COUNSEL FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION TONIGHT.
UH, THE TRADITIONAL PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, UH, IS THREE MINUTES PER SPEAKER WITH THE CURRENT, UH, SLATE OF SPEAKER CARDS AT 32.
WE'RE LOOKING AT WELL OVER AN HOUR AND A HALF TO TWO HOURS WORTH OF PUBLIC COMMENTS.
UH, THE COUNCIL AT THE LAST, UH, MEETING ELECTED TO BREAK UP THE PUBLIC COMMENTS, UH, WITH 30 MINUTES GIVEN TO PUBLIC COMMENTS.
AND THEN, UH, CITY BUSINESS WAS CONTINUED AND THOSE COMMENTS WERE LATER, UH, UH, RESUMED AT THE END OF THE MEETING.
UM, IT IS THE COUNCIL'S DISCRETION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT WE WANT TO DO THE SAME THING.
UH, BREAK UP THE PUBLIC COMMENTS, UH, IN ORDER TO BRING, UH, CITY BUSINESS.
UH, THE, THE VICE MAYOR PRESIDING OVER THE ME, UH, MEETING.
YOU MAY, UH, CHANGE THE TIME FROM, UH, THREE MINUTES TO A DIFFERENT, UH, UH, UH, TOTAL TIME PER PERSON.
UH, YOU CAN MOVE THE COMMENTS TO, UH, IN, UH, ALTOGETHER TO ANOTHER, UH, TIME IN THE MEETING LATER IN THE MEETING.
WE JUST WANTED TO BRING TO THE COUNCIL YOUR OPTIONS FOR TONIGHT BECAUSE WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE DISCLOSE THAT, UH, TO THE GROUP.
BECAUSE WHAT WE DO FOR ONE, UH, WOULD BE FOR ALL PUBLIC COMMENTS.
SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO CHANGE THE TIME PERIOD, UH, FROM THREE TO TWO OR SOME OTHER, RECOGNIZING THAT AT, UH, 32 SUBMITTALS, IF EVERYONE WERE TO GO FOR THE FULL THREE MINUTES, WE'D BE CLOSE TO TWO HOURS WITH THE TRANSITION FROM SPEAKER TO SPEAKER.
I'D LIKE TO HAVE A LITTLE DISCUSSION WITH MY FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UH, SOME OF THE OPTIONS ARE OBVIOUSLY, I, I THINK WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED TO OUR PUBLIC THAT WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO GIVE THEM TIME TO HEAR THEIR COMMENTS.
WE ARE CONCERNED WITH THEIR COMMENTS.
WE, UH, VALIDATE THE, AND, AND, UH, ENJOY HEARING THEIR COMMENTS.
UH, EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T NECESSARILY, UH, LIKE THE TONE SOMETIMES,
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BUT THE REALITY IS THAT THE IDEA OF BREAKING IT UP LIKE LAST TIME I THINK WAS PROBLEMATIC.UH, I'D LIKE TO HAVE SOME DISCUSSION.
I THINK THAT WE SHOULD GO AHEAD AND TRY AND HEAR EVERYONE UP FRONT.
UH, I THINK THAT A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME IS AROUND AN HOUR, UH, AND NOT BROKEN UP BECAUSE THOSE THAT DON'T GET TO SPEAK IN THE FIRST 30 MINUTES WOULD HAVE TO WAIT POTENTIALLY ANOTHER HOUR AND A HALF OR SO FOR THE REST OF CITY BUSINESS.
SO I'M OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS FROM YOU.
I THINK THAT IF WE HAVE 32 COMMENTS AND WE ALLOW TWO MINUTES PER, PER PERSON, UH, HOPEFULLY A LOT OF THE COMMENTS ARE GONNA BE IN THE SAME VEIN.
SO IF THE PUBLIC OR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SPEAKING COULD KIND OF NOT REPEAT, UH, BUT STILL VOICE THEIR CONCERNS IN TWO MINUTES, I THINK THAT WOULD ACCOMMODATE THINGS BETTER.
AND THERE'S PRECEDENT FOR THIS.
THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, WHEN THEY HAVE A VAST NUMBER OF, UH, COMMENTS, THEY CUT IT DOWN TO AS, AS LITTLE AS ONE MINUTE.
AND THAT MAY BE A LITTLE TOUGH FOR ANYONE TO GET THEIR THOUGHTS EXPRESSED IN THAT AMOUNT OF TIME.
SO I'M OPEN TO A DISCUSSION ON THIS, BUT I WOULD SUGGEST THAT POSSIBLY WE CONSIDER A TWO MINUTE LIMIT PER SPEAKER.
AND THAT SHOULD TAKE US JUST OVER AN HOUR.
AND WE WON'T HAVE TO SPLIT THE COMMENTS BETWEEN BEFORE AND AFTER.
AND WE DO NEED TO CUT OFF THOSE, UH, LIST TO SPEAK.
UH, AT SOME POINT, LIKE NOW BECAUSE IT, IT COULD GROW AS PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING.
WE DON'T WANT TO ADD ANOTHER 20 PEOPLE TO THE, TO THE LIST.
IS THAT APPROPRIATE? UH, MARK AS CITY ATTORNEY? UM, YES.
COUNSEL, WHAT, WHAT'S YOUR THINKING? IS THAT A MOTION? IF IT WAS A MOTION A SECOND.
IT, IT BASICALLY IS A MOTION AND IF YOU WANT TO AGREE WITH IT, I'M FINE.
SO ARE WE CUTTING OFF ACCEPTING THE, UH, SHEETS? IS THAT, IS THAT APPROPRIATE? IF WE GET A CONSENSUS OF THE COUNCIL TO GO WITH THE TWO MINUTES AND TO CUT OFF ONCE PUBLIC COMMENT STARTS ANY FUTURE COMMENT CARDS, THEN WE CAN DO SO.
THAT'S GONNA BE MY RECOMMENDATION THAT WE DO THAT.
A MOTION BY MARQUEZ AND A SECOND BY I'M FINE.
ROGERS, IF YOU PLEASE VOTE AND LET'S TAKE A VOTE ON THAT.
DO WE NEED TO VOTE OR, 'CAUSE IT WASN'T AGENDIZED OR JUST KIND OF A SEPARATE, A PROCEDURAL ISSUE.
YEAH, IT'S A PROCEDURAL ISSUE FOR TONIGHT'S MEETING.
THAT'S NOT TO SAY IT ROBERT RULES.
YEAH, I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO WAIT.
SO WE'LL GO JUST OVER AN HOUR WITH ALLOWING THIS.
AND WE'RE WAITING FOR ONE VOTE.
UM, COUNCIL MEMBER MARQUEZ, IT DOESN'T SHOW THAT YOURS IS LOCKED AND NEITHER IS MINE.
ALRIGHT, WE GOOD FOR MOTION PASSES.
SO AT THIS POINT, ALL PUBLIC SPEAKER COMMENT CARDS ARE ENTERED AND DONE.
AND UH, JUST BEFORE WE START AGAIN, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL SHOULD HAVE COMPLETED A SPEAKER CARD, WHICH CAN BE FOUND IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM SO THAT EVERYONE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL.
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE ASKED TO OBSERVE THE RULES OF DECORUM, USE OF SWEAR WORDS YELLING FROM THE AUDIENCE AND DISPLAYS OF DISRESPECT ARE DISCOURAGED AND PHYSICALLY THREATENING CON CONDUCT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
IF REQUIRED, I WILL REQUEST THAT A PERSON CEASE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT AND IF NOT, IMMEDIATELY STOP, I WILL DIRECT THE PERSON TO LEAVE THE, THE, THE COUNCIL MEETING.
AND AS A EXTREME MEASURE, I WILL ADD THAT IF THINGS GET OUTTA CONTROL LIKE THEY HAVE AT SOME POINTS, UH, AND DURING HEARINGS, UH, WE CAN HAVE THE OPTION OF TAKING A RECESS AND CLEARING THE ROOM.
WE WANT TO HEAR PEOPLE'S COMMENTS, BUT DONE PROFESSIONALLY AND DONE APPROPRIATELY.
SO WITH THAT, WHO IS OUR SPEAKER? AND THE OTHER THING WE TO GET EVERYBODY IN, IN TIMELY MANNER, LISTEN TO THE, LISTEN TO THE LIST.
WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU TWO OR THREE NAMES.
PLEASE LINE UP BASICALLY BEHIND THE PODIUM SO THAT WE CAN MOVE THIS, UH, THROUGH QUICKLY.
AND WE APPRECIATE, UH, YOUR TIME THAT YOU'VE TAKEN TO SHOW UP HERE TONIGHT TO GIVE YOUR THOUGHTS AND, AND, UH, LET, MAKE, MAKE US AWARE OF WHAT YOUR THOUGHTS ARE.
AND WHERE WE GO IN ADDITION, I JUST WANNA MAKE ONE COMMENT THAT IT, THAT THERE MAY BE DUPLICATE SPEAKER CARDS.
AND SO IF YOU'VE ALREADY SPOKEN, PLEASE DON'T COME UP A SECOND TIME TO SPEAK.
UM, I WILL CALL HER FOR SPEAKER.
DAVE DENNY, FOLLOWED BY EMILY DENNY, YOU ARE ON.
I LIVE ON COYOTE STREET IN BUTTERFIELD RANCH.
WE MOVE TO BUTTERFIELD RANCH TO HAVE A SAFE, QUIET, AND PRIVATE PLACE TO RAISE OUR DAUGHTERS.
WE KNEW SOMEDAY IN EXCHANGE FOR HAVING THE CORNER LOT, WE MIGHT ONE DAY HAVE TO SACRIFICE BEING THE FIRST HOUSE NEXT TO THE ROAD WE NEVER IMAGINED.
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SACRIFICE OF OUR SAFETY AND PRIVACY, BUT THAT IS NOW THE POSITION WE FIND OURSELVES IN.I'M REFERRING TO THE EXTENSION OF VIA LA CRESTA FOR THE SHADY VIEW DEVELOPMENT, SPECIFICALLY THE HEIGHT AND PATH OF THAT EXTENSION AND THE DRASTIC IMPACT IT IS HAVING ON OUR PROPERTY AND OUR FAMILY.
THE HEIGHT AND ROUTE OF THE ROAD HAS CREATED A SAFETY NUISANCE AND PRIVACY CONCERN FROM MY FAMILY AND WILL NEGATIVELY AFFECT OUR PROPERTY VALUE.
WHILE I DO NOT BELIEVE THE IMPACT WAS INTENTIONAL OR PURPOSELY TARGETED, I BELIEVE YOU WILL AGREE IT IS A DIRECT IMPACT AND WE ARE ASKING FOR YOUR HELP.
I BELIEVE THE DESIGN TEAM DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS.
I BELIEVE THAT THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS, BUT NOW IT'S, IT'S THERE AND WE'VE ACTUALLY PROVIDED PHOTOS, WHICH, UH, I'LL BE HONEST, DO NOT DO JUSTICE TO SEE IT IN THE PERSON.
UM, FEBRUARY 16TH WE SENT AN EMAIL TO, UH, THE MAYOR AND THE COUNCIL TO PLEASE COME OUT AND SEE IN PERSON.
WE'RE EXTENDING THAT, UM, OFFER AGAIN IN, UH, IN PERSON TODAY BECAUSE AGAIN, THE PICTURES DO NOT DO JUSTICE.
UM, NOW THAT THE AREA IS GRADE AT THE TOP OF THE FIRST STORY OF OUR HOUSE IS NOW AT THE SAME LEVEL OF THAT NEW STREET, WE NOW LOOK AT OUR SECOND, OUR SECOND STORY MASTER BEDROOM WINDOW AND OUR AT EYE LEVEL WITH WORKERS STANDING ON THAT NEWLY GRADED ROAD LOOKING TOWARD OUR HOME, ONE NOW LOOKS DOWN DIRECTLY INTO THE WINDOW OF OUR YOUNG DAUGHTER'S PLAYROOM.
WE ARE, WE FEAR THAT THERE WILL BE VEHICLES TRAVELING WITHIN IT'S 35 TO 40 FEET FROM THAT STREET TO OUR PLAYROOM WHERE OUR KIDS PLAY.
I KNOW THAT IF ANY OF YOU WERE PLACED IN THIS POSITION, YOU WOULD BE DOING EVERYTHING YOU COULD TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY VALUE AND YOUR FAMILY.
I JUST ASK THAT YOU DO THIS, THAT YOU HELP US TO DO THE SAME.
PLEASE DON'T SACRIFICE OUR SAFETY TO RETAIN A DESIGN THAT IS NOT RIGHT.
EMILY FOLLOWED BY KEVIN BUS BUTCHER.
HELLO COUNCIL MEMBERS, MY NAME IS EMILY DENNY.
I'M HERE TODAY TO REACH OUT TO EACH OF YOU INDIVIDUALLY AS ONE NEIGHBOR TO ANOTHER ONE HOME HOMEOWNER TO ANOTHER, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY ONE PARENT TO ANOTHER.
WE MOVED HERE EIGHT YEARS AGO.
WE ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE HILLS.
WE NEVER DID IT CROSS OUR MINDS THAT A NEW NEIGHBOR WOULD MOVE IN AND BUILD A ROAD SO CLOSE AND SO HIGH ABOVE OUR BACKYARD THAT IT ALLOWS OTHERS TO LOOK RIGHT INTO OUR CHILDREN'S PLAYROOM AND OUR MASTER BEDROOM.
NOT ONLY IS OUR PRIVACY WHICH WE HOLD SO DEARLY TAKEN AWAY, BUT ALSO OUR SAFETY AS THIS ROAD IS SO CLOSE TO OUR BACKYARD THAT ANYONE CAN ACCIDENTALLY FALL IN, CRASH INTO, SNEAK INTO WHEN NO AMOUNT OF TREES OR A WALL CAN PROTECT US.
THIS IS NOT TAKE AWAY, THIS IS NOT TAKE MUCH FOR 159 NEW NEIGHBORS FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT TO COME DOWN THE ROAD TO BE DISTRACTED, UPSET, OR HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY TO LOSE CONTROL OF THEIR CAR OR MOTORCYCLE AND END UP IN OUR BACKYARD SERIOUSLY ENTERING OUR CHILDREN, OUR PET OR THEMSELVES.
I'M ASKING YOU INDIVIDUALLY AGAIN TO PLEASE COME IN PERSON TO SEE THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION WE ARE PLACED IN NO PICTURES OR HEARING FROM ANOTHER PERSON WILL, UH, DO JUSTICE TO THE NORMITY OF THAT ROAD AGAINST OUR HOME.
SURELY WHEN YOU SEE THE ROAD IN REAL TIME, YOU'LL UNDERSTAND AND WE HOPE THAT YOU WOULD HAVE QUESTIONED HOW THIS COULD HAVE BEEN APPROVED.
MY AMAZING HUSBAND HAS BEAT HIMSELF UP ABOUT WHAT HE COULD HAVE DONE TO PROTECT OUR FAMILY.
I ASK YOU TO REVIEW ALL THE FLYERS THAT WERE SENT TO EXISTING NEIGHBORS AND THE SIMULATION VIDEO AND TELL US HOW IT SHOW.
WHERE DOES IT SHOW ANYWHERE ON THERE THE HEIGHT OF THIS ROAD? HOW COULD WE AS AVERAGE RESIDENTS, UH, AND NOT WITH THE EXPERTISE AND EDUCATION TELL FROM THOSE NOTICES THE HEIGHT OF THIS ROAD? WE ARE ASKING FOR YOUR HELP IN FIGURING OUT, UH, TO LOWER OR SHIFT THIS ROAD AS IT IS INFRINGING ON OUR PRIVACY, OUR SAFETY, AND THE RIGHT TO THE ENJOYMENT OF OUR PROPERTY.
I ASK EACH ONE OF YOU IN THIS ROOM, WHEN YOU GO HOME THIS EVENING TO YOUR HOME AND ENJOY THE VIEW OF YOUR BACKYARD AND THE PRIVACY AND SAFETY YOU CHERISH FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY TO REMEMBER ANOTHER FAMILY DOWN THE ROAD THAT IS LIVING IN AGONY BECAUSE NO LONGER HAVE THOSE RIGHTS.
PLEASE ASK YOURSELF, DOES THAT SIT WELL WITH ME? THANK YOU SO MUCH.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS KEVIN.
UH, SADLY THE CONSTRUCTION FOR THE NEW HOMES IN SOUTHERN CHINO HAS HAD A HUGE NEGATIVE IMPACT ON OUR COMMUNITY.
WE WENT TO ALL THE PRE-MEETINGS AND THERE WASN'T ANYTHING THAT SHOWED THE ELEVATION OF ANY OF THE HILLS NOR ANY OF THE ROADS.
THE WORKERS HAVE BEEN VERY UNDERSTANDING AND HELPFUL.
THEY'RE WONDERFUL MEN AND WOMEN THAT ARE JUST DOING THEIR JOB.
UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S VERY LOUD AND IT SHOOK MY HOME WHILE I WAS WORKING FROM HOME FOR THE CITY OF IRVINE AS THE MANAGER OF THE SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER, PROTECTING THE CITY FROM CYBER ATTACKS AND RANSOMWARE.
MY DAUGHTER HAS AUTISM AND IS GREATLY AFFECTED BY THE NOISE OF THE EARTH MOVERS AND BULLDOZERS 'CAUSE THEY'RE SUPER LOUD FROM 7:00 AM TILL 6:00 PM AND IS UNABLE TO DO HER HOMEWORK.
SAFETY AND PRIVACY OF A FAMILY IS IMPACTED AS YOU TALK.
YOU HEARD FROM BOTH THE DENNY'S.
RIGHT NOW, BASICALLY A DRUNK OR TIRED DRIVER CAN RUN STRAIGHT INTO THEIR HOME BECAUSE THE ROAD IS SEVERAL FEET
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ABOVE THEIR BACK WALL.SO THERE'S NOTHING PREVENTING THAT CAR FROM GOING RIGHT INTO THEIR HOUSE WHERE THEY LIVE.
AND THEY WOULD MOST LIKELY BE SLEEPING.
UH, COULD LAND STRAIGHT ONTO KIDS THAT ARE PLAYING THERE.
UH, BUT BASICALLY THE ROAD IS, THERE'S THEIR BACK WALL, THE ROAD'S UP HERE, IT LITERALLY GOES AND SLANTS RIGHT INTO THE BACK OF THEIR HOUSE.
SO WE'RE JUST HOPING THAT SOMEBODY COULD COME OUT AND LOOK AT IT.
IT'D BE GREAT IF THE ROAD COULD BE JUST MOVED A LITTLE BIT TO BE MORE SAFE.
YOU KNOW, ARE THERE OTHER OPTIONS LIKE WALLS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? BUT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT UH, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME PERSON ISN'T GONNA GO STRAIGHT THROUGH THEIR HOUSE.
UM, AND THIS IS COULD END IN TRAGEDY, UH, BUT IT COULD BARELY PREVENT IT.
ON ANOTHER NOTE, ON THE PRESIDENT OF, UH, LEAPS AND BOUNDS PEDIATRIC THERAPY, THERE'S A SADDLE UP EVENT THAT WE'RE HAVING, UH, IN UH, NORCO THAT'S RIGHT IN NEW CITY.
MOST OF THE PATIENTS THAT GO THERE, A LOT OF THEM ARE FROM CHINO AND CHINO HILLS.
UM, SO IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN THIS, I CAN GIVE IT TO THEM AND YOU CAN PASS IT AROUND.
ALRIGHT, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
MANDY HARVEY, RABBI MINDY, I BELIEVE YOU ARE NEXT.
THANK YOU VICE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND ALL THE CITY OFFICIALS, CITY WORKERS, AND THOSE OF YOU COMING HERE TONIGHT.
BASED OFF PREVIOUS CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS, WHICH I'VE SEEN, IT CAME TO MY ATTENTION THAT THE PUBLIC, THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF CHINO HILLS IS VERY INTERESTED IN THE CONFLICT IN ISRAEL.
SO I'M GOING TO READ FROM THE OLDEST BOOK THAT WE HAVE, THE TORAH, WHICH IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE OLD TESTAMENT.
IN THE BEGINNING, GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
RASHI SAYS THE TORAH, WHICH IS A BOOK OF LAWS AND LESSONS SHOULD HAVE STARTED WITH THE FIRST COMMANDMENT.
WHY DID IT START WITH CREATING THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH? AND RASHI EXPLAINS IS BECAUSE GOD WANTED TO GIVE A MESSAGE.
GOD'S THE ONE WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND HE DECIDED WHO THE LAND OF ISRAEL IS GOING TO BE GIVEN TO.
AND HE CHOSE TO GIVE IT TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, AND THAT'S WHO THE LAND WAS GIVEN TO.
SECONDLY, I'D LIKE TO SAY IT ALSO CAME TO MY ATTENTION THAT THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WITHOUT NECESSARILY MILITARY BACKGROUND ARE CALLING FOR CEASEFIRE.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THEY HAVE TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND.
AND OTHER PEOPLE IN THE GENERAL PUBLIC MAY NOT KNOW OR MAY NOT BE SO FAMILIAR WITH, BUT CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE IN MIDDLE OF A MILITARY OPERATION, WHICH AN ENEMY, HAMAS, WITH UH, ISLAMIC JIHAD WENT OVER TO FAMILIES, CIVILIANS, RAPED GIRLS, BURNT BABIES IN OVENS, PUT IT ON BROIL WITH KIDS INSIDE ARE HOLDING CURRENTLY HOSTAGES NOW INCLUDING BABIES WHO ARE CELEBRATING THEIR FIRST YEAR BIRTHDAY IN CAPTIVITY ARE CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE, WHICH MEANS THEY SHOULD STAY IN CAPTIVE AND NOT CARE ABOUT LIFE.
IT'S SPELLED HUDA SECOND PERSON E-A-S-A-H.
OKAY, CAN I GO ON ON BEHALF? NO.
NEXT WE HAVE KENNETH T. GOOD EVENING.
MY NAME IS KENNETH AND I'M A CHINO HILLS RESIDENT.
KENNETH, CAN YOU MAKE, JUST MAKE SURE THE MIC IS IN FRONT OF YOU.
ONE DAY YOUR KIDS WILL LOOK BACK AT THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA AND ASK WHAT YOU DID TO STOP IT.
DID YOU USE YOUR VOICE AND PRIVILEGE AS PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF POWER TO SPEAK AGAINST IT? DID YOU MARCH OR ORGANIZE LEAD CAMPAIGNS TO STOP THIS HORRIFIC MASSACRE? OR DID YOU DO NOTHING OR EVEN WORSE? DID YOU ACTIVELY TRY TO SUPPRESS AND SILENCE THE VOICES OF PEOPLE WORKING TO PREVENT AND STOP THIS GENOCIDE? WE ARE CALLING YOU TODAY TO STAND ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY AND JOINED OTHER CITIES WHICH HAVE PASSED THESE FIRE RESOLUTIONS.
SAN FRANCISCO, OAKLAND, SEATTLE, CHICAGO, POMONA, LONG BEACH, MONTEBELLO,
IN FACT, CLAREMONT IS VOTING ON A CEASE FIRE RESOLUTION TONIGHT AS WE SPEAK.
SAYING THIS ISN'T A LOCAL ISSUE, IS A PATHETIC EXCUSE AND A COP OUT.
IF YOU'RE NOT WILLING TO TAKE A MORAL STANCE IN OVER 30,000 PEOPLE, INCLUDING OVER 12,000 CHILDREN HAVE BEEN KILLED WITH WEAPONS PAID FOR BY AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS, THEN WHAT WILL YOU STAND FOR? WHY IS IT THAT OTHER CITIES ARE WILLING TO STAND ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY, BUT YOU ARE NOT? DO YOU NOT
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VIEW PALESTINIAN CHILDREN AS HUMANS DESERVING OF EQUAL RIGHTS? WHY ARE YOU SO COMFORTABLE IGNORING THE CONCERNS OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO HAVE SHOWN YOU OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT WE'RE CALLING ON YOU TO TAKE A STAND? REMEMBER THAT YOU WORK FOR US.REMEMBER, MOST OF US HERE ARE CHINO HILLS RESIDENTS.
YOUR JOB AS ELECTED OFFICIALS IS TO LISTEN AND RESPOND TO THE CONCERNS OF YOUR COMMUNITY.
AND IF YOU CANNOT DO THAT, THEN WE WILL VOTE YOU OUT.
NEXT, NEXT WE HAVE DELL AND THEN KENNETH.
I'M NOT SURE IF IT'S A DIFFERENT KENNETH.
TODAY I ADDRESS YOU WITH THE PLEA THAT RESONATE WITH THE ANGUISH, ANGUISH OF INNOCENT LIFE ENSNARED IN THEIR, UH, INTO CONTINUOUS CYCLE OF VIOLENCE AND HARDSHIP.
WELL, WHILE WE CONVENE WITH THE CONFINES OF THIS, OF THIS CHAMBER, THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY IN GAZA, FAMILIES ENDURE FEAR.
CHILDREN TRAMBLE AT THE EQUAL OF EXPLOSION AND COMMUNITIES MORE MOURN THE LOSS OF THE THEIR LOVED ONES CONFRONTED BY SUCH HUMAN TRAGEDY.
IT FALLS UPON YOU AS STEWARD OF THE CITY TO EXEMPLIFY LEADERSHIP, EMPATHY, AND STEADFAST DEDICATION TO JUSTICE.
YET I FIND MYSELF DISHEARTENED AS THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION FOR GAZA CONTINUE TO ELUDE YOUR AGENDA.
WE CANNOT AFFORD TO IGNORE THE ATROCITIES UNFOLDING IN GAZA BY THE ISRAELIS.
WE CANNOT TURN A BLIND EYE TO THE IMPASSIONED PLEA FOR PEACE BERATING ACROSS THE REGION.
WE CANNOT REMAIN PASSIVE SPECTATOR.
WHILE INNOCENT LIVES ARE A THING WHICH AND FUTURE CHATTER.
YOUR SILENCE REASON RE RESONATE LOUDLY CONVEYING ONE MESSAGE, A MESSAGE OF ANY DIFFERENCE TOWARD THE SUFFERING OF OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS.
IT'S EXISTS A PRIORITY PRIORITIZATION OF POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY OVER THE SANCTITY OF LIFE AND IMPLICATES COMPLEX COMPLICITY IN THE PERPETUATION OF VIOLENCE.
HOWEVER, IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO ALTER YOUR COURSE.
IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO HEED THE CAUSE FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE.
IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO REAFFIRM YOUR COMMITMENT TO THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF HUMANITY AND COMPASSION.
I IMPLORE EACH OF YOU TO YES, REASSESS YOUR STANCE AND TO PRIORITIZE THE INCLUSION OF THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION FOR GAZA IN YOUR AGENDA.
LET US STAND RESOLUTELY ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HISTORY AS ADVOCATE FOR PEACE ARE DEFENDER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AS LEADER AND AND AFRAID OF TO CONFRONT POWER WITH TRUTH.
THE CASE OF THE WORLD RESET UPON YOU.
IT HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT OUR CITY IS GUIDED BY THE TENANT OF JUSTICE, COMPASSION, AND SOLIDARITY.
ALL THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
SUPREME LET HAS SHINE AS A BEACON.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS FREQUENTLY ENGULFED BY DARKNESS AND DESPAIR.
I MUST REMIND EVERYONE THAT YOU HAVE THE TWO MINUTES.
YOU HAVE A MONITOR IN FRONT OF YOU.
WHEN THE, WHEN IT TURNS OFF THAT YOUR TIME IS OUT, PLEASE WRAP UP YOUR COMMENTS AND DON'T GO ON FOR ANOTHER 10 OR 15 SECONDS.
THEN JEN, IS THIS A DUPLICATE FOR KENNETH? THAT WAS A DUPLICATE.
WHO'S NEXT? WE'VE GOT JEN THEN AELA, WE CAME TO YOU ASKING FOR A SIMPLE YET SYMBOLIC GESTURE OF A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION SINCE EMPATHY FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR ISN'T A LANGUAGE YOU SEEM TO COMPREHEND.
MR. BENNETT, YOU NOTE AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOURSELF.
YOU WERE BORN IN ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, IMMIGRATING AT THE AGE OF FIVE.
I ALSO NOTED AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT ABERDEEN.
DID YOU KNOW THAT LAST DECEMBER 13TH, THEIR CITY COUNCIL APPROVED A MOTION CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA THAT THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT AGREES THAT ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS ARE ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW? AS AN ASIDE, I'D LIKE TO NOTE THAT I'M ALSO AN ACTIVE PTA MEMBER AND SCHOOL SITE COUNCIL MEMBER AT MY DAUGHTER'S SCHOOL IN HER, IN YOUR DISTRICT THREE.
I BELIEVE YOU FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM.
MR. JOES, THE BURGER MISER, PROUD OF YOUR GERMAN ANCESTRY.
I DON'T NEED TO DRAW THE PARALLELS OF THE GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING OF JEWS TO THE CURRENTLY ONGOING GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS.
FOR YOU, WHEN YOU SAID THAT NEVER AGAIN MEANS SOMETHING FOR CHINO HILLS, DID YOU MEAN WITH THE CAVEAT WHITE SKINNED ONLY CITY MANAGER? MONTGOMERY, YOU SAID THIS ISN'T ON THE AGENDA BECAUSE NO COUNCIL MEMBER REQUESTED IT TO BE.
IN ESSENCE, YOU DON'T WANNA CEASE FIRE.
SO LET IT BE ON RECORD THAT IT SEEMS THIS COUNCIL IS A ZIONIST PROPAGANDIST WITH
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INHERENT RACIST VALUES.THE ONLY ONES THAT ARE NOT CALLING FOR A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE ARE ZIONISTS, NOT SEA SYMPATHIZE SYMPATHIZERS.
THOSE TWO SELF-CENTERED TO ACTUALLY EDUCATE THEMSELVES AND THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED AND PROPAGANDIZED TO SUCH A LEVEL AND DEGREE THAT YOU THINK SLAUGHTERING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN YOUR GOD'S NAME IS ALL GOOD AND FAIR.
SO WHICH ONE OF THESE GROUPS DO YOU FALL INTO? BECAUSE NO ONE WITH THIS DEGREE OF MISINFORMATION, IGNORANCE, OR HATE, DESERVES A SEAT AT THE TABLE.
IN NO WAY CAN YOU EMPATHIZE WITH THE PEOPLE WHEN YOU SEEMINGLY PROPAGATE AND UPHOLD RACIST IDEOLOGIES.
WE ARE PEOPLE OF COLOR AND YOU ARE NOT, OR YOU WILL OR YOU ONLY CHOOSE TO BE WHEN IT SUITS YOUR POLITICAL AGENDA.
VOTE OUT ALL FORMS OF INTENTIONAL.
THANK YOUR COMMENTS DEFERMENT.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS, SYSTEMIC OPPRESSIONS.
YOU MAY STOP NOW PLEASE, OR WE'LL CUT YOUR MIC OFF.
MAYOR, VICE MAYOR THIS NOVEMBER.
BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER COMES UP, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WARNED EVERYBODY ABOUT AHEAD OF TIME.
WE'RE GOING TO PROP OR EXERCISE PROPERTY DECORUM.
AND I'M GONNA TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO EXPRESS YOUR, YOUR BELIEFS AND YOUR FEELINGS.
BUT STOP THIS PERSONAL ATTACKS ON US THAT IS NOT APPROPRIATE.
IT DISTASTEFUL AND IT'S DISRESPECTFUL OF THIS COUNCIL OR ANY INDIVIDUAL.
AND FOR ANYBODY TO THINK THAT WE HAVE NO MORAL, MORAL CHARACTER AND THAT WE DO NOT, AND WE BELIEVE IN GENOCIDE AND ALL THESE UGLY THINGS YOU'RE SAYING IS TOTALLY INCORRECT.
AND I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO COMMENT ON PUBLIC COMMENTS, BUT I'M NOT GONNA SIT HERE AND LISTEN TO YOU GUYS TELLING LIES ABOUT US AND DISPARAGING OUR PERSONALITIES, OUR CHARACTER, AND OUR VERY LIVES.
SO I HOPE I'VE SET THE GROUND RULES.
THE NEXT PERSON THAT GETS UP THERE AND DO THAT, YOUR, YOUR ABILITY TO SPEAK, YOUR TWO MINUTES IS GONNA BE CUT OFF.
NO SHAN, FOLLOWED BY HATIM HATIM.
SHAN, PLEASE BE SURE IF YOUR NAME'S BEEN CALLED THAT YOU'RE COMING UP SO WE CAN, DON'T HAVE TO WASTE EVERYONE'S TIME.
GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
MY NAME IS SOSHANNA, AND AS I'VE MENTIONED BEFORE, I'M A CHINO HILLS RESIDENT.
I'M TOTALLY PERPLEXED AS ON WHY WE STILL DO NOT HAVE A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION IN THE AGENDA.
I TRIED MY BEST TO THINK OF WHAT ARE SOME REASONS THAT MAY BE STOPPING COUNCIL MEMBERS FROM ADDING A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION DESPITE HEARING FROM US MANY REASONS THAT WE MUST DO IT.
I CAME UP WITH A LIST OF FIVE POSSIBLE REASONS AND WHY THEY WOULD NOT BE VALID IF IN FACT THESE ARE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS.
NUMBER ONE IS THE REASON WE DON'T HAVE A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION ON THE AGENDA BECAUSE IT IS NOT CITY BUSINESS.
WE HAVE SHARED MANY REASONS WHY IT IS IN FACT CITY BUSINESS.
FIRST, WE MENTIONED BEFORE ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF YOUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS AFFECTED BY THE GENOCIDE, WHICH CAN IMPACT PRODUCTIVITY LEADING TO DECREASED SPENDING, INCREASED HEALTH RELATED EXPENSES.
SECONDLY, A LACK OF RESPONSE FROM LEADERSHIP CAN GIVE RISE TO ISLAMOPHOBIA AND HATE CRIMES, WHICH IMPACTS THE RE REPUTATION OF OUR CITY AS BEING A SAFE, WELCOMING, AND INCLUSIVE PLACE.
THIRDLY, ADOPTING A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION WOULD SET A STRONG EXAMPLE FOR OUR YOUTH TO SEE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP.
NUMBER TWO IS THE REASON WE DON'T HAVE A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION ON THE AGENDA BECAUSE A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION MAY BE VIEWED AS BEING ANTISEMITIC, PROTECTING INNOCENT CIVILIANS REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, OR ETHNICITY IS NOT ANTISEMITISM, IT IS HUMANITARIANISM.
AND NUMBER THREE IS THE REASON WE DON'T HAVE A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION BECAUSE OF LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE ONGOING GENOCIDE.
IT'S, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT STARTED ON OCTOBER 7TH.
PLEASE LISTEN TO EDUCATED SPEAKERS OF JEWISH BACKGROUND LIKE NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, DR.
NUMBER FOUR, IS IT BECAUSE WE, THERE'S A FEAR OF REPERCUSSIONS.
IT'S POSSIBLE THE REPERCUSSIONS FOR NOT ADOPTING A CEASEFIRE COULD BE EVEN HIGHER.
DO WE REALLY WANT AMERICA TO BE DRAGGED INTO ANOTHER WAR? NUMBER FIVE, IS IT BECAUSE IT'S NOT IMPORTANT AS LEADERS FOR YOUR COMMENTS, PEOPLE WITH FAMILIES? IT'S MY BELIEF AND SINCERE HOPE THAT YOU WOULD NOT BE HERE IF THAT WERE TRUE.
PLEASE BE THE LEADERS WE WANT AND NEED IN OUR COMMUNITY.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS HAEM, FOLLOWED BY SOPHIA.
UM, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCIL, REPEATEDLY WE HAVE BECOME, BEFORE YOU PLEADING FOR SOMETHING FAIR AND JUST, WE'VE ASKED FOR A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION TO BE PLACED ON THE AGENDA.
YET OUR PLEAS HAVE FALLEN ON DEAF EARS EVERY PASSING MOMENT.
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BURDEN YOUR CONSTITUENTS.MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS HERE TODAY ARE DI ARE DIVERSE, REPRESENTING VARIOUS RELIGIONS, BACKGROUNDS, AND ETHNICITIES, A BEAUTIFUL TAPESTRY OF OUR CITY.
YET INSTEAD OF EMBRACING THIS DIVERSITY, YOU CHOOSE TO IGNORE IT.
I STRUGGLE TO UNDERSTAND WHY ALL WE ASK FOR IS A CHANCE TO DISCUSS, TO EXCHANGE IDEAS, TO DISPEL STEREOTYPES AND ADDRESS THE PAIN AFFLICTING OUR COMMUNITY.
WHY DENY US THIS OPPORTUNITY? IS IT APATHY? IS IT FEAR FOR YOUR CAREERS? WHATEVER THE REASON IS, IT'S A BETRAYAL OF YOUR DUTY TO REPRESENT AND SERVE.
IMAGINE IF FACED WITH GENOCIDE, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? THE LATE AARON BUSHNELL WAS RIGHT.
YOU'RE SITTING IDLE AND CARING.
THE PHYSIOLOGICAL TOLL ON THOSE AFFECTED IS IMMENSE.
YET HERE WE ARE ASKING FOR A MODEST GESTURE OF PEACE AND YOU HESITATE.
CONSIDER THE EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL TOLL THIS WAR TAKES.
ON THE RESIDENTS OF CHINO HILLS, THERE ARE PEOPLE GRAPPLING WITH FEAR, ANXIETY, AND GRIEF.
FAMILIES WORRY FOR LOVED ONES OVERSEAS, WHILE OTHERS FACE THE TRAUMA OF RELIEVING PAST HORRORS.
THIS WAR ISN'T SOME DISTANT ABSTRACTION.
IT REVERBERATES WITHIN OUR OWN COMMUNITY LEAVING SCARS THAT MAY NEVER FULLY HEAL.
NO NUMBER OF ROADS BUILT OR TREES PLANTED, OR PARK TRIMMED OR SKATE PARKS SET UP ARE GOING TO COMPENSATE FOR, FOR THIS FAILURE.
WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR MIRACLES, THUS FAIRNESS, A CHANCE TO DISCUSS, TO SEE COMMON GROUNDS.
IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK? I IMPLORE YOU TO SHOW COMPASSION, SHOW LEADERSHIP, STAND WITH YOUR CONSTITUENTS, NOT AGAINST THEM.
WE DESERVE TO KNOW WHERE YOU STAND.
YOU SHOULD STAND FOR WHAT'S RIGHT, EVEN IF IT MEANS STANDING ALONE.
SOPHIA, FOLLOWED BY MARGARET COWELL.
UH, GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, I JUST WANNA SAY THAT, UM, JUST LISTENING TO OTHER PEOPLE, THIS HAS GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH RELIGION.
IT'S GOT NOTHING TO DO ABOUT, ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MUSLIMS OR JEWS.
IT'S GOT NOTHING TO DO ABOUT WHAT THE KORAN SAYS OR WHAT THE TORAH SAYS OR WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.
UM, ISRAEL IS AN APARTHEID STATE.
IT'S AN OCCUPATION STATE, AND THEY ARE OUT THERE COMMITTING A GENOCIDE RIGHT NOW.
OKAY? THEY'RE THE FOURTH LARGEST, UM, ARMY OUT THERE.
IF THEY REALLY WANNA GET HAMAS, THEY WOULD'VE DONE IT BY NOW, BUT NO, THEY, UH, LAST TIME I TALKED TO YOU, IT WAS 35,000 PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN MURDERED AND BOMBED.
THIS IS WHAT I'M WORRIED ABOUT.
NOW THEY HAVE A NEW TERMINOLOGY.
W-C-W-C-N-S-F WOUNDED CHILD, NO SURVIVING FAMILIES.
OKAY? UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST ASKING FOR A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
IT SHOULD NOT BE CONF CONFUSING TO YOU.
WE'RE JUST ASKING TO, YOU KNOW, ASK THE, YOU KNOW, THE ISRAEL OCCUPATION FORCE.
LIKE YOU'RE KILLING CIVILIANS.
YOU'RE NOT GETTING HAMAS LIKE I, AND I KNOW THAT'S NOT THE INTENT.
YOU GO LISTEN TO BENJAMIN NETANYAHU AND ALL THESE PEOPLE, THEY'RE, THAT'S NOT THEIR INTENT.
IT'S LAND GRABBING AND, AND IT'S, UH, OCCUPATION.
AND I'M, I'M GONNA PUT UP THIS MIRROR.
I WANT YOU ALL TO LOOK AT THIS MIRROR.
AND I WANNA ASK YOURSELF, I WANT YOU TO ASK YOURSELF, LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR AND ASK YOURSELF, WHERE WAS I WHEN RAZA WAS BEING SLAUGHTERED AND MASSACRED, AND WHAT AM I GONNA DO ABOUT IT? LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR AND ASK YOURSELF WHAT YOU GONNA DO FOR THESE INNOCENT PEOPLE THAT ARE OUT THERE.
AND, UM, I'M JUST ASKING FOR A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
AND, UM, WE'RE NOT ANTISEMITIC.
AND, UH, PLEASE DON'T CALL LIKE YOU, YOU DON'T WANT US TO ATTACK YOU.
DON'T LIKE INCREASE THE POLICE FORCE OVER HERE JUST BECAUSE YOU THINK WE'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING NOW.
LIKE WHERE WAS THE POLICE FORCE WHEN THANK YOU FOR YOUR, IT WAS JUST US.
FOLLOWING MARGARET WILL BE ZU KHAN.
I'VE BEEN A MEMBER OF THIS COMMUNITY FOR 30 YEARS.
I RAISED FOUR CHILDREN HERE AND I CONSIDER THIS MY HOME.
I'M HERE TONIGHT TO ADD MY VOICE TO THE MANY THAT ARE DEMANDING THAT THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS PASS A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION TO END THE INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING IN GAZA.
THE PEOPLE OF THIS COMMUNITY NEED TO SEE YOU STAND FIRMLY AGAINST GENOCIDE.
THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE ARE AND HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO APARTHEID FOR DECADES, AND ISRAEL HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS UNCHECKED.
WHAT OUR GOVERNMENT IS DOING NOW, SUPPORTING ISRAEL UNCONDITIONALLY IS NOT WHAT THIS COMMUNITY WANTS.
OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE BEING USED TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES, AND THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE.
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT YOUR COMMUNITY.
THIS COMMUNITY WANTS YOU TO PASS THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION AND
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DIVEST FROM THE BUSINESSES THAT SUPPORT APARTHEID.THE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PALESTINIANS KILLED BY ISRAEL WITH THEIR BOMBING AND SNIPER FIRE, ALONG WITH FORCED STARVATION IS NOT WHAT THIS COMMUNITY SUPPORTS.
WE ALL KNOW THAT THESE TYPES OF CRIMES HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BEFORE BY COLONIAL POWERS, BUT NEVER HAVE WE SEEN THE TRUTH IN REAL TIME ON OUR DEVICES.
WE CAN NO LONGER JUST ACCEPT THE VERSION THAT OUR MEDIA FEEDS US.
DO THEY KNOW? ARE THEY WILLINGLY TURNING AWAY? ARE THEY BOUGHT AND PAID FOR POLITICIANS? ARE THEY MONSTERS JUST LIKE THE ONES WE SEE ON OUR SCREENS? I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ANSWER IS.
YOU DO, DO THE RIGHT THING AND STAND ON THE SIDE OF HUMANITY.
PASS THE RESOLUTION FOR A CEASEFIRE.
SHOW THE PEOPLE OF CHINO HILLS AND THE REST OF THE WORLD WHO YOU ARE.
I'M GONNA LEAVE YOU WITH THREE THINGS.
NUMBER ONE, DOING NOTHING IS BEING COMPLICIT.
NUMBER TWO, STANDING ON THE FENCE OR BOTH SIGHTING.
THIS WILL SPEAK LOUDER THAN YOU THINK.
AND NUMBER THREE, WE HEAR WHAT YOU SAY AND WHAT YOU DON'T SAY.
FOLLOWING, FOLLOWING ZHA WILL BE ALEJANDRA BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
I START BY PRAYING FOR AARON BUSHEL, WHO RECENTLY PASSED WITH HIS LAST WORDS AS FREE PALESTINE.
AS HE BURNED TO DEATH ON MONDAY IN AN ACT OF PROTEST, MAY BESTOW MERCY AND HIS GRACE UPON HIM AND PLACED HIM IN THE HIGHEST RANKS OF HEAVEN.
DID YOU HEAR ME? COUNCIL MEMBERS.
THE MESSAGE IS VERY CLEAR THAT THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY HAS FACED SEVERE INJUSTICE AND IS GRIEVING MORE THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE.
IN LIEU OF AARON'S BRAVERY, PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS STATED THAT HE'S DOING EVERYTHING HE CAN TO OFFICIATE A CEASEFIRE IN PLACE BY NEXT WEEK AND NO LATER THAN THE START OF RAMADAN.
THIS IS YOUR LAST OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A PUBLIC STATEMENT SUPPORTING YOUR MUSLIM COMMUNITY BEFORE THE DOOR FOR A PROPER APOLOGY CLOSES.
THIS IS MY THIRD TIME STANDING BEFORE YOU ALL AFTER WITNESSING REPEATED NEGLECT TO MY COMMUNITY.
THE PEOPLE OF YOUR CITY ARE DIRECTLY AFFECTED FROM THE FIRST EVER LIVE STREAM GENOCIDE.
AND IT'S TIME YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT DODGING IT ANYMORE WILL ONLY LEAVE A STAIN ON THE CITY'S REPUTATION THAT CANNOT BE REMOVED AND IT WILL REMAIN AS EVIDENCE THAT WILL BE USED AGAINST THE CITY SHOULD EXPLICIT BIAS EVER BE DISPLAYED AGAIN IN THE FUTURE.
WHEN THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS CHOOSES TO SELECTIVELY SUPPORT ONE MARGINALIZED GROUP OVER ANOTHER, IT UNDERMINES TRUST WITHIN THAT SPECIFIC NEGLECTED COMMUNITY AND ALSO ERODES CONFIDENCE AMONGST ALL OTHER MARGINALIZED MINORITY GROUPS.
ACTS OF EXPLICIT BIAS ARE DIVISIVE.
THEY FUEL RESENTMENT AND UNDERMINE THE COUNCIL'S CREDIBILITY.
THE CLOCK IS TICKING ONCE A CEASEFIRE PASSES IN THE COMING DAYS.
THERE'S NO GOING BACK AND COVERING UP YOUR MISTAKE.
THE PEOPLE OF CHINO HILLS WHO KNOW IN THE COMING DAYS YOUR COMMENTS WHETHER OR NOT THE COUNCIL MEMBERS FAILED THEM WHEN THEY NEEDED THEM THE MOST.
ALEJANDRA, FOLLOWING ALEJANDRA WILL BE CECIL H HELLO, MY NAME IS ALEJANDRA.
UM, I LIKE TO CONSIDER, WELL NOT CONSIDER, BUT I THINK I GREW UP IN CHINO HILLS.
I DON'T LIVE IN CHINO HILLS, BUT I'M PART OF THIS COMMUNITY.
I JUST WANNA START OFF WITH THAT.
UM, IT IS IMPORTANT TO ME AS A POMONA RESIDENT THAT CHINO HILLS SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.
AND IN ORDER TO DO THAT, YES, YOU NEED TO DO A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
AND I DO WANT IT TO GO ON THE RECORD THAT, UM, TONE POLICING COMING FROM YOU GUYS IS A FORM OF WHITE SUPREMACY.
AND THERE'S A REALLY GOOD BOOK I SUGGEST YOU READ.
IT'S CALLED WHITE FRAGILITY BY HER LAST NAME IS DEANGELO.
UM, YOU COULD DO YOUR HOMEWORK TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO DECONSTRUCT WHITE SUPREMACY WITHIN YOUR OWN SELVES.
AND I SAY THAT AS A PERSON WITH PRIVILEGE TO YOU, A WHITE PERSON MYSELF, TO YOU AS WHITE PEOPLE.
IT IS OUR DUTY TO LEARN WHAT WHITE SUPREMACY IS AND TO STOP BEING WHITE SUPREMACISTS.
OKAY? I DID GROW UP IN A VERY CONSERVATIVE HOME, AND IT'S FUNNY, YOU KNOW, AT THE LAST DINNER, MY UNCLE,
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WHO'S A VERY CONSERVATIVE VET, UM, WAS LIKE, WHY DON'T PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, SALUTE THE FLAG? WHY AREN'T PEOPLE PATRIOTIC? AND IT'S LIKE, AARON BUSHNELL, WE'RE NOT GONNA STAND FOR GENOCIDE ANYMORE.THE BREAD ON THAT FLAG STANDS FOR THE BLOOD OF THE PEOPLE THAT DIED ON THIS LAND THAT YOUR ANCESTORS TOOK OVER.
OKAY? SO WE NEED REPARATIONS AND ONE WAY YOU GUYS CAN DO THAT IS A CEASEFIRE.
OKAY? I'M SPEAKING AS CALMLY AS I CAN OKAY.
BECAUSE I HAVE SO MUCH MORE ANGER IN ME, BUT YOU'RE WELCOME.
FOLLOWING CECIL, IS MADELINE NEWMAN RIOS? HI, GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, I HEAR A LOT OF ANGER TONIGHT.
YOU KNOW, I WAS HERE ABOUT A MONTH AGO, UM, AND IT WASN'T THIS MUCH ANGER, SO I DON'T THINK THAT YOUR WHITE SUPREMACIST, AND I DON'T THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, MOST PEOPLE HERE THINK THAT, I THINK PEOPLE ARE JUST UPSET.
AND WHEN YOU'RE UPSET, YOU KINDA SAY THINGS OFF THE OFF THE CUFF THAT YOU DON'T MEAN.
UM, SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S LOTS OF CONFLICTS THAT ARE HAPPENING AROUND THE WORLD.
IS, UM, IS THERE VAGINA ARMENIA, THERE'S DRC, THERE'S SUDAN, YOU KNOW, SO THE QUESTION IS WHY, WHY THIS CONFLICT? YOU KNOW, WHY, WHY DOES THIS MATTER? WELL, YOU KNOW, IF IF FOR EXAMPLE, THIS COMMUNITY WAS 95% CONGOLESE PEOPLE, THEN WE'D BE FILLED WITH CONGOLESE PEOPLE ASKING YOU FOR CEASEFIRE IN CONGO.
AND SO, YOU KNOW WHAT, WHAT MAKES IT RELEVANT HERE IS THE DEMOGRAPHIC OF THIS COMMUNITY.
AND SO I THINK YOU, YOU CAN SEE CONSISTENTLY WITH THE PEOPLE TURNING UP THAT IT MATTERS TO THIS COMMUNITY.
UM, AND SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S THE REASON THAT YOU WOULD TABLE THIS, THIS DISCUSSION TO HAVE, HAVE A CEASEFIRE AMENDMENT PASS.
AND IT'S NOT REALLY TO DO IT BECAUSE EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING IT, IT'S REALLY JUST TO DO IT BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT IT'S RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT IF ANYBODY HERE HAD THE ABILITY TO TAKE A PEN AND A PIECE OF PAPER AND TO WRITE A LETTER, YOU KNOW, TO ISRAEL AND SAY, PLEASE STOP THE BOMBING, AND YOU HAD THE ABILITY TO DO IT, THAT YOU WOULD JUST DO IT.
UM, BUT WE DON'T HAVE THAT ABILITY.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO WHAT WE CAN.
AND SO IF, IF CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO, EVEN IF IT'S JUST SYMBOLIC, UM, WHY, WHY NOT DO IT? YOU KNOW, THAT'S ALL.
IF, IF YOU CAN DO THAT, THEN IT WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
AND, AND THE RESPECT THAT THE PEOPLE HERE WOULD FEEL WHO ARE KIND OF SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS, UH, WOULD FEEL REPRESENTED AND, AND, UH, SUPPORTED.
FOLLOWING MADELINE IS ZION AM OKAY? UH, GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
MY NAME IS MADELINE NEWMAN RIOS.
I'M SPEAKING TO YOU ONCE AGAIN AS A JEWISH WOMAN, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU RECENTLY PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED HIS GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION'S INTENT TO PERMANENTLY MILITARILY OCCUPY GAZA.
AND GIVEN THE MASSIVE MILITARY AID RECEIVED FROM THE UNITED STATES, THE ISRAELI REGIME HAS THE ACTUAL POWER TO CARRY OUT THAT INTENT.
THIS MEANS THAT THE HORROR THESE CHINO HILLS COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE BEEN CRYING OUT ABOUT IN THESE CHAMBERS FOR SEVERAL WEEKS IS IN NEED OF MASSIVE SUPPORT.
A MUSLIM WOMAN RECENTLY SHARED A TEACHING WITH ME FROM HER TRADITION THAT WHEN YOU SEE INJUSTICE, OPPOSE IT WITH YOUR HANDS.
AND IF YOU CANNOT DO SO, OPPOSE IT WITH YOUR WORDS.
WE ARE EMPLOYING IMPLORING YOU.
USE YOUR WORDS TO CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE PERMANENT MUTUAL CEASEFIRE IN GAZA, A FUNDAMENTAL JEWISH TEACHING STATES, IF I AM NOT FOR MYSELF, WHO IS FOR ME? AND IF I AM ONLY FOR MYSELF, WHAT AM I? AND IF NOT, NOW, WHEN? SO PLEASE USE YOUR WORDS TO STOP THE KILLING AS A FIRST STEP TOWARD PEACE AND JUSTICE FOR THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE IN THANK YOU.
UH, I RESIDE AND BOTH AND FILED MY TAXES IN HEALTH.
I OWN A LAW FIRM AND A CPF FIRM, WHICH SUPPORT THEORY, THEORY, UM, FAMILY.
IN THIS COMMUNITY, I PAY OVER HALF A MILLION THOUSAND TAXES AND $10,000 OF
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PROPERTY TAXES TO CHIN HALLS AND COMMUNITY.OUR COMMUNITY IS FRUSTRATED, ANGRY, AND CRYING FOR HELP.
LAST SESSION, OVER 50 PEOPLE ADDRESS THE ATROCITY IN GAZA AND YOU DID NOT BOTHER TO ADDRESS, TO DISCUSS THEIR ISSUE AND ADDRESS THEIR CONCERN.
IT'S MIND BOGGLING THAT YOU SEE THIS KIND OF GENOCIDE AND APPEAR.
YOU ARE UN MOVED AND KEEP SILENT.
REMIND ME OF WHEN HITLER WAS SLAUGHTERING THE JEWS AND THE ENTIRE WORLD WAS SILENT, EXCEPT THE PALESTINIAN WHO WELCOMED THEM AND SHARED THEIR HOME WITH THEM.
WHILE THE PALESTINIAN ARE GETTING SLAUGHTERED, THERE WILL BE A A, AN ELECTION IN NOVEMBER, AND IT IS NOT A THREAT, BUT A CALL OF ACTION.
I PROMISE I WILL DONATE MY ENTIRE INCOME THIS YEAR TO ENDORSE YOUR OPPONENT.
IF YOU FAIL TO ADDRESS THE CONCERN OF THE COMMUNITY, UH, THERE IS A SIDE, THERE IS A RIGHT SIDE OF THE HISTORY AND A WRONG SIDE OF THE HISTORY, WHICH SIDE YOU'LL BE ON WHEN THIS HISTORY RETELL THIS STORY, THIS MOMENT.
THIS IS THE MOMENT TO HAVE AND TO HAVE OUR ACTION REVEALED CHIN HILL'S VALUE.
I KNOW YOU STILL HAVE SOME HUMANITY LEFT IN YOU.
PLEASE USE YOUR COURAGE AND ISSUE A CEASEFIRE STATEMENT.
SASON, SPELLED S-A-W-S-O-N, FOLLOWED BY SEL.
PULL THE MIC DOWN SO WE CAN HEAR YOU PLEASE.
UH, I'M STANDING HERE IN FRONT OF YOU.
I'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT OVER 30,000 PEOPLE BEING KILLED BY ISRAELI ARMY.
I'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THIS CHILD.
THE ONE WHO WAS MISSING BREAD.
HE EVER, HE NEVER, HE FORGET THE TASTE OF THE BREAD WHEN THE, WHEN THE JAZEERA REPORTER ASK HIM, I'M NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT THE, UH, UH, THIS MAN WHO FOUND A, A TREASURE WHEN HE FOUND A BOX OF RAT BREAD IN HIS BALCONY AND HE SAW WITH TOMATO PASTE TO EAT.
I'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THESE THINGS.
I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT, UM, UH, AARON, THE ONE WHO SIT HIMSELF IN, IN FIRE ON MONDAY.
WHY DID HE DO THAT? JUST ASK YOURSELF WHO, WHO NEED TO BLAME? THE FIRST ONE TO BLAME IS BIDEN.
AND YOU, IF YOU DON'T ACT AGAINST THIS, I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT US AS, AS, AS A US CITIZEN, CITIZEN, AS A CHINO HEALTH RESIDENT, YOU ARE SENDING OUR TAX MONEY TO BOMB INNOCENT YOU MAKE, YOU ARE MAKING US PART OF THE GENOCIDE.
YOU NEED TO ACT, YOU NEED TO TAKE YOU, YOU ARE IN A POSITION.
WE ELECTED YOU TO REPRESENT US.
WE ARE ELECTED YOU TO BE OUR VOICE.
WE NEED THIS TO BE THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION TO BE IN YOUR AGENDA.
NEXT TIME WE NEED THIS, THEY GONNA STOP IT.
THE, THE, THE, THE WORLD WILL BE STOPPED, THAT THE CEASE FIRE WILL HAPPEN SOON BEFORE RAMADAN, BECAUSE KNOW, THEY KNOW WHAT GONNA HAPPEN IN RAMADAN.
PUT A POINT, DO SOMETHING TO YOUR CITIZEN AND PROVE THAT YOU ARE HERE REPRESENTING US.
LATELY, WHEN I SHARE WITH PEOPLE THAT I'M NOT PALESTINIAN, ARAB OR MUSLIM, THE NEXT QUESTION I USUALLY GET IS, WHY ARE YOU SO PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS ISSUE? SO TO ANSWER THIS, I WANNA SHARE ABOUT TWO OF MY AMERICAN HEROES.
ONE WAS A BLACK MUSLIM AND THE OTHER, A JEWISH WORLD WAR II VETERAN.
IN MALCOLM X'S WORDS, I'M FOR TRUTH, NO MATTER WHO TELLS IT AND FOR JUSTICE, NO MATTER WHO IT'S FOR OR AGAINST HOWARD ZINN, WHO I ATTRIBUTE WITH MY SOCIAL JUST AWAKENING, IF YOU WILL.
UM, HE WAS A WORLD WAR II VETERAN TURNED HISTORY TEACHER HISTORIAN TURNED CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS.
AND, UM, EVERY SEMESTER I REMIND MY OWN STUDENTS NOW OF WHAT HE REMINDED HIS, HE SAID, YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN.
HE SAID SOCIETY WAS ALWAYS MOVING IN A DIRECTION.
AND SO IF YOU'RE SILENT, YOU'RE ESSENTIALLY SUPPORTING THE DIRECTION IN WHICH WE'RE MOVING.
THESE ARE THE MY PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE IN ACTION.
UM, AND THEY'RE DEEPLY ROOTED IN THESE LESSONS, AND THEY GUIDE ME TO FIGHT
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FOR WHAT IS RIGHT, KEEP MY INTENTIONS PURE, AND THEY DRIVE.THEY'VE DRIVEN ME IN THE LAST FOUR MONTHS TO DEVOTE JUST ABOUT ALL MY FREE TIME TO ORGANIZING FOR PALESTINE, UM, CITY COUNCIL, THANK YOU TO THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE ALREADY MET WITH ME.
I THINK IT SAYS A GREAT DEAL ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER WHEN SOMEONE IS WILLING TO SIT DOWN AND HAVE A DIFFICULT CONVERSATION WITH YOU.
TO THOSE OF YOU WHO STILL HAVEN'T TAKEN THE TIME TO SIT DOWN AND MEET, I'M REALLY DISAPPOINTED, GIVEN THAT ALL YOU HAVE HEARD FROM OUR COMMUNITY SINCE JANUARY, KNOWING THAT WE HAVE PALESTINIANS THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS THAT ARE BEING KILLED, UM, I'M DISAPPOINTED.
I WANNA REMIND ALL OF YOU, YOU ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS AND WE HAVE ELECTED, UH, YOU TO SERVE, TO LEAD.
UM, EVERYONE IN THIS, IN THIS ROOM PROBABLY KNOWS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HAVE A GOOD LEADER VERSUS A WEAK LEADER.
AND WE ARE ASKING YOU TO STEP UP RIGHT NOW AND BE GOOD, STRONG LEADERS.
THIS IS WHAT THE MOMENT CALLS FOR.
UM, PLEASE, I IMPLORE ALL OF YOU TO PLEASE PUT A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION ON THE NEXT AGENDA SO THAT WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION.
MY NAME IS KAYNE POZ HARRIGAN HERRA, AND I'M 11 YEARS OLD.
I'M HERE TODAY WITH A HEAVY HEART AND A PLEA FRACTION.
AS A YOUNG CITIZEN OF THE CITY, I CANNOT STATE SILENT WHILE INNOCENT LIVES ARE BEING LOST IN GAZA.
DUE TO THE ONGOING VIOLENCE AND GENOCIDE.
I MAY BE JUST A KID, BUT I'VE SEEN THE IMAGES AND HEARD THE STORIES COME OUT FROM OF GAZA AND THEY BREAK MY HEART.
FAMILY'S TORN APART, CHILDREN INJURED OR KILLED, HOME REDUCED TO RUBBLE.
IT'S A NIGHTMARE THAT NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO LIVE THROUGH.
I KNOW THAT THE CONFLICT BETWEEN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL MAY SEEM COMPLICATED, BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN GAZA RIGHT NOW IS NOT RIGHT.
IT'S NOT FAIR THAT INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING AND DYING BECAUSE OF THIS, OF DECISIONS MADE BY OTHERS.
THAT'S WHY I'M HERE GET TODAY BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT AS LEADERS IN OUR COMMUNITY, YOU HAVE THE POWER AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST INJUSTICE AND WORK TOWARD A PEACEFUL SOLUTION.
I URGE YOU TO USE YOUR VOICE AND YOUR INFLUENCE TO CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASE FIRE IN GAZA, IN GAZA, AND AN END TO THE VIOLENCE IN BLOODSHED.
INNOCENT LIVES ARE BEING LOST EVERY DAY, AND WE CANNOT AFFORD TO TO WAIT LONGER.
I URGE YOU, I KNOW THAT ENDING THE GENOCIDE AND GAZA WON'T BE EASY, BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT IT'S, IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
PLEASE, LET'S COME TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY AND STAND ALONE WITH IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF GAZA.
LET'S SHOW THEM THAT THEY'RE NOT ALONE, THAT THEIR LIVES MATTER, AND THAT WE WILL NOT REST UNTIL JUSTICE IS SERVED.
THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO MAKING OUR CITY A BETTER PLACE FOR ALL WHO LIVE HERE.
FOLLOWING, FOLLOWING MUSTAFA WILL BE SALIM.
NICOLE, WOULD YOU MIND LOWERING THE, UH, UH, I THINK IT'S GOOD LOWERING THAT SO WE CAN SEE HIM.
PLEASE STOP THE BOMBING AND STOP THE GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE.
UH, I'VE BEEN, THIS IS MY THIRD TIME HERE AGAIN, UH, RESPECTFULLY ASKING TO CALL FOR A GENOCIDE.
UM, I HAD SOMETHING PREPARED, WHICH I'LL GET TO, BUT SINCE THE TIME WAS SHORTENED, I'LL TRY TO SHORTEN IT AS WELL.
UH, BUT, BUT, UH, I HEARD, YOU KNOW, THE GENTLEMAN IN THE BEGINNING MENTION, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A MILITARY OPERATION AND THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GOING AFTER PEOPLE WHO KILLED, BURNED BABIES,
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SPECIFICALLY THE BURNED BABIES.I THINK THAT WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY A TERRIBLE THING, UH, NO MATTER WHO CAUSED THAT.
AND I WOULD TOTALLY UNDERSTAND GOING AFTER, UH, SOMEONE WHO DID THAT, UH, IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE.
AND, YOU KNOW, I'M GLAD TO BE CORRECTED AFTER, UM, I LOOKED PERSONALLY INTO BOTH, YOU KNOW, SIDES AND WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING WHEN IT COMES TO THIS, UH, BURNED BABY THAT THE IDF CLAIMS, UH, HAS HAPPENED.
IT ACTUALLY, WHERE THIS COME FROM, IT'S NOT ACTUALLY FROM THE IDF, IT'S FROM, UH, FROM AN ISRAELI JOURNALIST, RIGHT? UM, AND IT WAS A REPRESENTATIVE OF A ISRAELI ORGANIZATION CALLED ZAKA, Z-A-K-A-I IMPLORE YOU TO LOOK INTO THIS.
UM, AND BASICALLY IT WAS A FALSE CLAIM TO GENERATE DONATIONS TO THEIR CAUSE.
AND AFTER THAT, YOU KNOW, FIRST RESPONDERS REPORTED, UH, THAT AFTER INVESTIGATION THAT THAT EVENT DIDN'T HAPPEN AND THAT A BABY, UH, THAT, THAT A BABY WAS FOUND IN AN OVEN AND BURNED ALIVE.
SO THAT WAS A FALSE, YOU KNOW, STATEMENT.
UH, WHAT I DO, WHAT I, WHAT I WILL ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK INTO IS JUST GO ON INSTAGRAM.
YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF ACTUALLY BURNED BABIES IN THOSE STORIES, IN THOSE VIDEOS, BUT THERE'S PLENTY OF EVIDENCE OF PLENTY OF BABIES BEING BOMBED.
UM, AGAIN, EVERY DAY, EVERY WEEK, EVERY MONTH THAT WE WAIT, MORE CHILDREN ARE DYING.
UM, ALL WE'RE ASKING FOR IS AGAIN, TO JUST PLEASE CALL, UH, FOR A CEASEFIRE.
NEXT, NEXT WE HAVE AHUM, A-R-H-U-M-A, RHUM ISA, E-A-S-A-H.
I THINK THAT MIGHT BE A DUPLICATE.
OKAY, MOVING ON TO NIH NI FOLLOWED BY THORO THOR.
AFTER THEM, THEN IT WILL BE T-H-O-R-A-Y-A.
MY NAME IS NIA, AND I SPOKE LAST TIME TOO.
I NOTICED HOW MANY PEOPLE SAID ABOUT HOW THEY WILL REMEMBER YOU IN NOVEMBER WHEN THEY VOTE.
I STILL HAVE A WHOLE SIX YEARS BEFORE I CAN VOTE, BUT I WILL DEFINITELY REMEMBER YOU.
I WILL DEFINITELY REMEMBER IF YOU ASK FOR A CEASEFIRE, AND IF YOU DIDN'T, I'M PRETTY SURE YOU DON'T WANT US TO REMEMBER YOU FOR BEING THE LEADERS WHO DO NOT SPEAK OUT AGAINST A GENOCIDE.
THOSE WHO DO NOT SUPPORT A CEASEFIRE AREN'T ONLY KILLING CHILDREN.
THEY'RE KILLING THEIR DREAMS AND DEPRIVING THEM OF EXPERIENCING THE WORLD.
I KNOW THAT I HAVE A CONSTANTLY GROWING LIST OF THINGS THAT I WANT TO BE AND DO WHEN I GROW UP.
AND IT DRIVES ME CRAZY THAT I HAVE TO WAIT.
IT'S NOT FAIR THAT KIDS MY AGE CAN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO GROW UP AND BECOME THE AMAZING PEOPLE THAT THEY COULD HAVE BEEN AND ALL BECAUSE THEY'RE PALESTINIAN.
LAST YEAR I LEARNED ABOUT NINE 11 IN SCHOOL.
I REMEMBER HOW HORRIFIED AND ANGRY I WAS HORRIFIED THAT SO MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND ANGRY THAT SOMEBODY WOULD DO THIS TO INNOCENT PEOPLE.
DURING 9 11, 2 BUILDINGS WERE KNOCKED DOWN, BUT AMERICA IS SUPPORTING THE KNOCKING DOWN OF THOUSANDS OF BUILDINGS AND THE WIPING OUT OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE.
YOU ARE IN A POSITION WHERE YOU CAN ACTUALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
PLEASE CALL FOR A CEASE FIRE AND LET PALESTINIAN CHILDREN HAVE A CHANCE TO GROW UP FOLLOWING ROYA.
UH, I'M A CHINO HEALTH RESIDENT AND MY KIDS RAISED AND ATTEND SCHOOL HERE.
PALESTINIANS SHOW ALL THE WHOLE WORLD HOW BRAVE THEY ARE BY THEIR ASTONISHING CHOICE TO BE KILLED ON THEIR HOMELAND RATHER THAN TO FLEE AS REFUGEES TO BY TO NEIGHBOR COUNTRIES.
PALESTINIAN ATTEMPTED TO REACH THE SO-CALLED SAFE ZONE THAT IS CONSTANTLY BEING RELOCATED AND BOMBED.
THEN COMES THE AGONIZING TOURNAMENT, THEN WATCHING THEIR WITH BROKEN HEARTS, THEIR CHILDREN BEING KILLED AND BURIED.
PALESTINIAN MOTHER ARE FACED WITH A ORGANIZING CHALLENGE OF SECURING ESSENTIAL MEDICINES LIKE INHALERS, INSULIN, OR ANTIBIOTICS FOR THEIR AILING CHILDREN, WHILE ALSO GRAPPLING WITH THE CR SECRETIVE OF FOOD.
PALESTINIAN IN NORTH SARAZA HAVE RESORTED TO FEEDING THEIR FAMILIES ANIMAL FEED IF THEY CAN FIND IT.
PALESTINIAN KIDS, DESPITE BEING HAPPY AND ENJOY THEIR CHILDHOOD, THEY LIVE IN PAIN FROM THEIR INJURIES.
AND TREMBLING IN FEAR FROM THE SOUNDS OF EXPLOSIONS, HUGS THEIR TERRIFYING SIBLINGS AND THEY TRY TO CALM THEM DOWN.
MOST OF THEM ARE STARVING AND SUFFERING FROM THE LOSS OF THEIR FAMILY, BUT THEY WIPE THEIR TEETH TO ACT AS STRONG AS THEIR PARENTS.
PEACE BE UPON HIM, SAID WHOEVER AMONGST YOU SEES AN EVIL, HE MUST CHANGE IT WITH HIS HAND.
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AND HE'S, IF HE'S UNABLE TO DO WHEN HIS TONGUE WORDS OR PRAISE.AND THIS IS THE WEAKEST FORM OF PEACE.
I'M HERE TO CONTINUE TO IMPLORE YOU SET ASIDE ANY PERSON, AGENDA, AND DISTANCE YOURSELF FROM ASSOCIATION WITH THOSE WHO MURDER BOMBS, SHOOT AND CRUSH INNOCENT CHILDREN.
IT IMPERATIVE THAT YOU UNEQUIVOCALLY DEMONSTRATIVE YOUR OPPOSITION TO GENOCIDE AND THE MASSACRE BY PRIORITIZING THE INCLUSION OF A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION IN THE UPCOMING CITY AGENDA.
I I IS IT A DUPLICATE SPEAKER CARD? YOU'VE ALREADY SPOKEN.
DANIELLE OR HOWELL IS A DUPLICATE.
THEN, UH, AFTER DANIELLE, IT WILL BE RON WILLIAMS. HI.
I'M A RESIDENT OF CHINO HILLS.
UH, I'VE LIVED HERE ABOUT 10 YEARS IN APRIL.
UM, MY FAMILY AND I REALLY LOVE LIVING HERE.
UH, HOWEVER, HOWEVER, WE'RE PRETTY DISAPPOINTED WITH WHAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS.
UM, I JUST SAY ACTUALLY BY WHAT WE'VE NOT BEEN SEEING.
UM, AND I WOULD SAY THAT'S LIKE THE LACK OF SUPPORT, UH, FOR THE COMMUNITY.
UH, THIS IS MY FIRST TIME EVER SPEAKING AT A CITY COUNCIL FORUM.
UM, SO IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE PEOPLE WHO AREN'T NORMALLY DOING THIS TYPE OF STUFF FEEL LIKE THEY NEED TO COME AND ALSO EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS.
UM, 'CAUSE IT IS JUST, IT'S NOT REALLY GETTING ANYWHERE, I GUESS SO FAR.
UM, SO FIRST OF ALL, I WANTED TO START OFF AND SAY, YOU KNOW, LIKE, I THINK ALL THE COMMENTS HERE THAT WE'RE SEEING, THERE'S NO ILL INTENT BEHIND ANY OF THOSE, RIGHT? WE'RE HERE LIKE WITH A, A CLEAN INTENTION.
UH, EVERYBODY'S HERE, YOU KNOW, JUST, UH, UH, THE, THE INTENT, THE INTENT IS GOOD.
UM, THERE'S NO ILL INTENT FOR ANYBODY.
AND THAT INCLUDES ANY TYPE OF ANTISEMITISM.
NOBODY'S OUT HERE BADMOUTHING ANY OF THEIR RELIGION, UH, NO OR ETHNICITY OR ANYTHING.
WE'RE PRETTY MUCH JUST COMING HERE TO GET SOME SUPPORT FOR ONE SPECIFIC ISSUE.
UM, I MEAN, IN THE CASE OF, UH, MUSLIM JEWS AND CHRISTIANS, THEY LIVED PEACEFULLY FOR MANY YEARS, UH, IN THE STATE OF PALESTINE BEFORE THE STATE OF ISRAEL WAS CREATED.
UM, AS FAR AS MUSLIMS, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF MUSLIMS IN THE COMMUNITY HERE, UH, WHO ARE SEATED HERE TODAY, UH, THEY ACTUALLY, UM, CHRISTIANS AND JEWS ARE CONSIDERED PEOPLE OF THE BOOK.
SO JUST WANNA GET THAT OFF THE TABLE THAT I PERSONALLY DON'T HAVE ANY ANTISEMITISM, EXCUSE ME, ANTISEMITIC FEELINGS.
AND I WOULD SAY PROBABLY MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE HERE DON'T.
BUT I JUST WANNA GET OFF THE TABLE AS FAR AS GENOCIDE GOES.
UM, I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THE TERM ETHNIC CLEANSING AND GENOCIDE WAS, UM, IN BOSNIAN, LIKE 1995.
OVER THE THREE YEAR PERIOD OVER THERE, 31,000 PEOPLE DIED, AND THAT WAS A GENOCIDE, BUT YET SOMEHOW WE'RE NOT REALLY OFFICIALLY CALLING THIS WITH 30,000 PEOPLE IN A FEW MONTHS HAVE DIED GENOCIDE.
SO I WOULD SAY THAT BASED ON SOME OF THOSE METRICS THAT WE HAVE GENOCIDE GOING ON, THIS IS A CITY ISSUE.
A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE ARE AFFECTED AND IMPACTED DIRECTLY.
SO WE, WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT ON THIS.
RON WILLIAMS. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY AND PRIVILEGE TO ADDRESS THE ESTEEMED COUNCIL.
I MENTIONED PRIVILEGE BECAUSE AS CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY, WE ARE ALL PRIVILEGED REGARDLESS OF RACE, RACE OR ETHNICITY.
THIS COUNTRY IS A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY AND HAS BEEN TRULY BEEN BR BLESSED BY THE GOD OF ISRAEL, WHICH IS HEBREW FOR GOVERNED BY GOD.
THANK YOU FOR LEADING US IN THE PLEDGING OF ALLEGIANCE TO THIS GREAT NATION AND FOR THE PRAYER IN GOD WE TRUST.
WOULDN'T IT BE NICE IF WE COULD HAVE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST BY DRAFTING A, A COUNCIL RESOLUTION? UNFORTUNATELY, A RESOLUTION WILL HAVE LITTLE EFFECT TO RESTRICT TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS LIKE HAMAS OR HEZBOLLAH FROM PROVOCATIVE ACTS SUCH AS WHAT WAS COMMITTED ON OCTOBER 7TH, 2023, 1200 JEWISH MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN WERE KILLED IN THE MOST HORRIFIC MANNER KNOWN TO MEN.
AND 250 JEWS WERE TAKEN HOSTAGE.
THIS PROVOKED MILITARY RESPONSE FROM ISRAEL, AND THEY WILL DESTROY HAMAS WHO ARE USING INNOCENT MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN AS HUMAN SHIELDS.
THIS IS DESPICABLE, DESPICABLE, BUT IS HAMAS WHO IS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE.
OVER THE YEARS ISRAEL HAS PROVIDED, RESPONDED TO OTHER PROVOCATIONS.
IN 1967 DURING THE 60 WAR, AND 1973 DURING THE YO KIPPUR WAR, DURING THESE WARS, ISRAEL PUSHED, UH, EGYPT BACK TO CAIRO AND SYRIA, BACK TO DAMASCUS.
THEY GAVE THE LAMB BACK TO THE SYRIANS AND EGYPTIANS.
THEY REACHED PEACEFUL AGREEMENT WITH EGYPT IN 1979.
AND JORDAN, A FEW, FEW YEARS LATER, UH, ISRAEL'S TRIED TO, UH, BROKER MANY, MANY DEALS INCLUDING, UH, WITH THREE ARAB STATES JUST A FEW YEARS AGO.
UM, I'M RUNNING OUTTA TIME HERE.
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WROTE THIS JUST A SECOND AGO.UM, I'VE HEARD THE IMPASSION PLEASE THIS EVENING, BUT IF THEY HAVE ANY INFLUENCE, PERHAPS THEY CAN CONVINCE HAMAS TO LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS. THANK YOUR COMMENTS.
PLEASE RELEASE THESE INNOCENT HOSTAGES AND LAY DOWN.
PLEASE WRAP UP YOUR COMMENTS TO BE FAIR.
WE HAVE ONE FINAL SPEAKER CARD AND, UM, CITY MANAGER MONTGOMERY WILL HAVE A STATEMENT.
UH, VICE MAYOR BENNETT AND CITY COUNCIL, THE FINAL SPEAKER HAS REQUESTED THAT AS A COMPONENT OF THEIR, UH, PRESENTATION, THAT THEY BE ALLOWED TO, UH, UH, PRESENT A VIDEO IN CONJUNCTION, UH, DURING THEIR TIME.
I, UH, WANT TO, UH, CAUTION THAT THIS VIDEO HAS, UH, DISTURBING IMAGERY, UH, ALONG WITH IT.
AND SHOULD THE COUNCIL ELECT TO ALLOW THIS VIDEO TO BE PLAYED, I'D LIKE TO GIVE, UH, THE AUDIENCE AN OPPORTUNITY IF THEY'D LIKE TO, UH, REMOVE THEMSELVES BEFORE THE VIDEO IS PLAYED.
ALSO, MY STAFF, I'D LIKE TO GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO REMOVE THEMSELVES, UH, ESSENTIALLY FOR YOU TO KNOW IT'S THE, UH, PRECURSOR EVENTS FOR THE, UH, UH, SOLDIER WHO, UH, SET THEMSELVES ON FIRE AS COMMENTED ON, UM, UH, EARLIER TODAY.
UH, BUT, UH, THIS HAS BEEN SUBMITTED AS A, AS A COMPONENT OF THEIR PRESENTATION.
BUT IN, IN LIGHT OF THE, UH, SERIOUS NATURE AND THE FACT THAT IT IS DISTURBING, WE'D LIKE TO GIVE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REMOVE THEMSELVES PRIOR TO, UH, THAT BEING PLAYED.
AND TO, TO, TO BACK UP THAT STATEMENT.
I, I, I DO WANT TO ISSUE THIS IS A WARNING TO ANYONE IN THE CITY OR IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS.
AND FOR THOSE WHO WATCHED THE VIDEO OF THE MEETING, THAT A VIDEO DEPICTING THE INITIAL STAGES OF A REAL LIFE SUICIDE IS ABOUT TO BE SHOWN.
THE VIDEO MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME.
WE ARE GOING TO PAUSE THE MEETING TO GIVE THE PUBLIC TIME TO AVOID WATCHING THE VIDEO, SHOULD THEY CHOOSE TO DO SO BY TEMPORARILY LEAVING THE CHAMBER, AND FOR THOSE WATCHING ON TELEVISION OR IN THE INTERNET TO TURN AWAY FROM THE SCREEN.
WE DO NOT WANT TO CREATE ANYONE THAT HAS, UH, ANY ISSUES WITH THIS.
LIKE, OKAY, SO I, I'M SAYING THAT, DOES ANYONE WANT TO LEAVE THE, THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS? WE'VE HAD A COUPLE.
IF YOU WANT, PLEASE, UH, GET OUT OF EARSHOT AND, AND, UH, VISUAL TO WHERE YOU WON'T HAVE TO VIEW THIS.
WE DO NOT WANT TO ISSUE OR, OR CREATE ANY, UH, POST TRAUMATIC SHOCK DISORDER, UH, IN ANYONE WHO IS MAYOR I'D.
I'LL ALSO ASK THAT THE SPEAKER APPROACH THE, UH, PODIUM AT THIS TIME.
THE LENGTH OF THE VIDEO WILL BE PART OF THEIR TOTAL, UH, TWO MINUTE, UH, TIME.
SO WE WANT TO GIVE THEM THEIR FULL TIME, UH, ONCE THE VIDEO STARTS.
AND THEN, UH, CONCLUDES THE SPEAKER IS PAUL.
SO WAS THE VIDEO, ARE WE GONNA SHOW IT OR NO? YEAH.
DO YOU WANT TO AIR IT NOW? YES, IT'S GO.
AND AN ACTIVE DUTY MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AND I WILL NO LONGER BE COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE.
I'M ABOUT TO ENGAGE IN AN EXTREME ACT OF PROTEST, BUT COMPARED TO WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING IN PALESTINE, HAD THE HANDS OF THEIR COLONIZERS IS NOT EXTREME AT ALL.
THIS IS WHAT OUR RULING CLASS HAS DECIDED WILL BE NORMAL FREE PALESTINE.
I HAVEN'T EVEN HONESTLY WATCHED THE WHOLE THING.
I COULDN'T BRING MYSELF TO DO IT.
UM, I JUST WANNA BEGIN BY SAYING FREE PALESTINE AND, UM, I WANT TO SAY A PRAYER, UH, MUSLIM PLAYER FOR ALL THE MARTYRS, INCLUDING IN GAZA AND AARON BUSHNELL.
IT GOES, OH, ALLAH, FORGIVE THEM, HAVE MERCY ON THEM AND CAUSE THEM TO ENTER YOUR PARADISE.
INDEED, YOU ARE THE ACCEPTOR OF PRAYERS.
I MEAN, UM, I'M JUST HERE AS A VETERAN FATHER, SOMEONE THAT CARES ABOUT HUMANITY AND THE AFFAIRS OF THE UNITED STATES.
UM, ASKING HERE, BECAUSE WE HAVE NO OTHER OPTIONS.
AARON BUSHNELL DID THAT BECAUSE HE HAS NO OTHER OPTIONS.
SO I'M PRAYING AND I'M ASKING YOU
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HERE TODAY BECAUSE I HAVE NO OTHER OPTIONS, PLEASE AGENDIZE THE, UM, RESOLUTION FOR CEASEFIRE.[ CONFLICT OF INTEREST ANNOUNCEMENTS: Council Member abstentions shall be stated at this time for recordation on the appropriate item.]
WE MOVE ON TO CONFLICT OF INTEREST ANNOUNCEMENTS.UH, ANYONE HAVE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST? NO.
BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO THE CONSENT CALENDAR, I JUST WANNA ANNOUNCE THAT THE AGENDA DESCRIPTION FOR ITEM NUMBER 17 RELATING TO THE MONTE VISTA WATER DISTRICT WILL WELLHEAD TREATMENT PROJECT WAS INCORRECTLY STATED ON THE AGENDA AS PLANT 30 AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN PLANT 34.
ALRIGHT, WITH THAT, UH, CORRECTION, UH, ANY COUNCIL
[ 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.]
MEMBER WISH TO PULL ANY OF THESE ITEMS? UH, SIX THROUGH 17.MR. VICE MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THE, UH, CONSENT CALENDAR.
ALRIGHT, DO WE HAVE A SECOND? I'LL, I'LL SECOND.
[ PLANNING COMMISSION MATTERS - This portion of the City Council Agenda is for matters from the February 20, 2024 Planning Commission Meeting. No action is required unless two members of the City Council wish to request a review of the matter, in accordance with Section 16.58.070 of the Chino Hills Municipal Code. Expiration of the public appeal period on Planning Commission Item(s) 3 and 4 is March 5, 2024, 5:30 p.m.]
MOVE ON TO PLANNING COMMISSION MATTERS.THIS IS NO ACTION IS REQUIRED UNLESS TWO MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL WISH TO REVIEW, UM, THE MATTER.
WE HAVE A DESIGN REVIEW NUMBER FOUR 90 AT 1 5 8 6 3 OAK TREE CROSSING AND DESIGN REVIEW.
4 95 AT 1 5 5 5 1 ESTHER STREET.
DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC REQUEST TO SPEAK ON THESE TWO ITEMS? THERE'S NO PUBLIC SPEAKING ON THIS, IT'S JUST IF THE COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO FORWARD.
JUST WANTED TO DOUBLE CHECK TO MAKE SURE.
ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? NO.
OKAY, WE GO ON PUBLIC HEARING,
[20. Review and provide policy direction regarding allocation of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to public service projects; award Program Year 2024-25 CDBG funding for public service projects; and authorize staff to decrease 2024-25 grant awards for public service projects proportionately, with no grant award decreasing to lower than $5,000, if allocation decreased by Department of Housing and Urban Development and it will impact maximum allowable allocation (15 percent of total CDBG funds) to public service funds]
THE PUBLIC HEARING, WHICH IS TO REVIEW AND PROVIDE POLICY DIRECTION REGARDING THE ALLOCATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRAB FUNDS TO BE PRESENTED BY ALMA HERNANDEZ.VICE MAYOR COUNCIL MEMBERS, WE ARE HERE THIS EVENING NEED TO ALLOCATE THE PUBLIC SERVICE PORTION OF CDBG FUNDS.
HUD HAS NOT RELEASED THE ANNUAL ALLOCATIONS YET, BUT WE ESTIMATE THAT IT WILL BE SIMILAR TO THE PRIOR YEAR, WHICH IS ABOUT 430,000.
15% OF THAT WILL, UM, CAN BE ALLOCATED TO PUBLIC SERVICE, WHICH IS ABOUT 64,500.
COUNSEL HAS THE AUTHORITY TO ALLOCATE THE FULL AMOUNT, A PORTION OF THE AMOUNT OR NO FUNDS AT ALL.
WE HAVE FIVE PROPOSALS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, TOTALING 77,000.
WE HAVE ONE NEW APPLICANT AND THE REMAINING FOR OUR RETURNING GRANTEES.
REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE ORGANIZATIONS ARE HERE TONIGHT TO GIVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION ON THEIR PROPOSAL AND ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
AS A REMINDER, INLAND FAIR HOUSING AND MEDIATION BOARD IS ONE OF OUR RETURNING GRANTEES IS ALSO OUR FAIR HOUSING PROVIDER.
THEY WILL BE ALLOCATED FUNDS FOR PROVIDING THOSE SERVICES AS PART OF THE ACTION PLAN APPROVAL IN MAY.
THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR YOU AND I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
ANY QUESTIONS? THE MOMENT? ALRIGHT, SO WE HAVE THE PRE PRESENTERS THAT ARE, LET'S, WE CAN HEAR THE TESTIMONY OR DO WE HAVE TO OPEN, FIRST OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
WE WILL OPEN, OFFICIALLY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
UH, IF WHO IS THE FIRST PRESENTER WITH, IS THAT GOING TO BE, UH, HOUSE OF RUTH? IT WILL BE, UM, FOR SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY.
I WAS GONNA TAKE 'EM IN THE ORDER THEY SUBMITTED THEIR CARDS.
WOULD THAT BE OKAY? YES, PLEASE.
ALICIA LOPEZ FROM INLAND FAIR HOUSING.
HOW ARE YOU TONIGHT? GOOD EVENING.
UM, SO, UH, GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, I'M THE CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AT INLAND FAIR HOUSING AND MEDIATION BOARD IHB PROVIDES FAIR HOUSING AND LANDLORD TENANT SERVICES TO THE RESIDENCE OF CHINO HILLS.
SOME OF THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE INCLUDE FAIR HOUSING INFORMATION AND LANDLORD TENANT MEDIATION.
WE ALSO HAVE A DEPARTMENT AT I-F-H-M-B THAT PROVIDES ASSISTANCE WITH FILING FAIR HOUSING COMPLAINTS WITH HUD.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THESE MUCH NEEDED SERVICES AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
NEXT WE HAVE GRISELDA FLORES AND CHRISTINA MORITA FROM JAMES SALMAN CHINO HILLS LIBRARY.
GOOD EVENING VICE MAYOR R BENNETT, COUNCIL MEMBERS AND STAFF.
UM, MY NAME IS ROSALDA FLORES AND, UM, MS. CHRISTINA MARITA.
AND TODAY I'LL BE, UM, PRESENTING, UM, WHAT OUR LITERACY PROGRAM IS.
AND SO THE GOAL OF OUR LITERACY PROGRAM IS TO ASSIST ENGLISH SPEAKING ADULTS TO READ AND WRITE AT A LEVEL THAT WILL HELP THEM SUCCEED AND ACCOMPLISH GOALS IN EVERYDAY LIFE.
THE GOALS OF OUR PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS VARY, BUT OFTEN INCLUDE APPLYING FOR A JOB, PASSING A WRITTEN AND DMB EXAM, HELPING THEIR CHILDREN WITH HOMEWORK OR OBTAINING A GED OR OTHER DEGREE THAT WOULD BETTER QUALIFY THEM TO ENTER THE WORKFORCE OR IMPROVE THEIR CURRENT POSITIONS.
OUR PROGRAM SERVES THE COMMUNITY DIRECTLY BY OFFERING TWO DISTINCT SERVICES, ONE INDIVIDUAL TUTORING IN WHICH
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LEARNERS ARE PAIRED WITH ONE-ON-ONE WITH VOLUNTEER TUTORS FOR INSTRUCTION AND READING AND WRITING SET PROGRAMS. TWO IS THE SET PROGRAMS, WHICH PROVIDES INSTRUCTION ON THE UND GUIDELINES AND PRACTICE TESTS AND COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR SENIORS NEEDING TO RETAKE THE WRITTEN OR ONLINE EXAM.GENERALLY SPEAKING, OUR PROGRAM HAS BEEN VERY POPULAR IN THE COMMUNITY AT THE MOMENT.
WE'RE EXPERIENCING AN INFLUX OF APPLICANTS WITH WANTING TO JOIN OUR PROGRAM AND WE ARE WORKING ON MATCHING THEM WITH A TUTOR IN 20 22, 22 23 PHYSICAL YEAR, WE OFFER OVER 900, UM, INSTRUCTIONAL HOURS ON INDIVIDUAL TUTORING AND SET PROGRAMMING.
AND THESE PAST SEVEN MONTHS, WE HAVE ALREADY HELD OVER 800 INSTRUCTIONAL HOURS, THUS INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR.
THIS PROGRAM HAS HAD A PROFOUND IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF OUR LEARNERS.
JUST IN THE LAST YEAR, WE HAVE HAD A FEW LEARNERS WHO HAVE GONE FROM BEING UNEMPLOYED TO HAVING FULL-TIME JOBS BECAUSE OF THEIR PARTICIPATION IN OUR PROGRAM.
MANY OF OUR LEARNERS HAVE ALSO EXPRESSED HAVING MORE CONFIDENCE IN BEING ABLE TO BECOME MORE INVOLVED IN THEIR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION AS WELL AS ACCESSING COMMUNITY RESOURCES.
WE ALSO HAVE HAD LEARNERS PASS THEIR CITIZENSHIP TEST.
WE'RE HELPING THOSE IN NEED TO FIND BETTER JOB PLACEMENTS AND BETTER THEIR ECONOMIC SITUATIONS.
THESE ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF OUR CITY OF CHINO HILLS.
WITH YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT, WE LOOK FORWARD TO HELPING MANY MORE ADULTS RE REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AS PARENTS, EMPLOYEES, AND MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY.
THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT.
UM, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR US? UH, NO, I DON'T BELIEVE SO AT THIS TIME.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
NEXT, NEXT WE HAVE DAVID MIX FROM ANTHESIS SERVICES.
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.
UM, I'M HONORED TO BE ABLE TO REPRESENT OUR COMMUNITY TONIGHT AND ALSO OUR PRESIDENT OF OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS, UH, SAMANTHA JAMES PER PEREZ, AND OUR CEO SEAN PEC.
AS MANY OF YOU MAY KNOW, UM, OUR, OUR PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS, UM, WORK IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNITY INTEGRATION AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES.
UH, WE HAVE ABOUT EIGHT PARTICIPANTS THAT WORK HERE AT THE CITY HALL AND ALSO ACROSS THE STREET AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
UM, BACK IN 1966, AS A RESULT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, UM, A GROUP OF PARENTS CAME TOGETHER AND STARTED A SHELTERED WORKSHOP, WHAT WAS FORMERLY CALLED THE POMONA VALLEY WORKSHOP AS A RESULT OF THAT POMONA VALLEY WORKSHOP AND, AND, UH, THE, THE, THE TRANSITION TO COMPETITIVE INTEGRATED EMPLOYMENT ACT OF, UH, OF, UH, 2019.
UM, AND THE, UH, THE, UH, THE, THE TRANSFORMATION FROM THE SUB MINIMUM WAGER WAIVER SYSTEM INTO THE SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE TODAY WHERE EVERYONE WILL BE REQUIRED TO WORK FROM MINIMUM WAGE.
WE HAVE CREATED A SERIES OF LEARNING LABS, AND THOSE LEARNING LABS ARE PLACES WHERE PEOPLE CAN DEVELOP VOCATIONAL SKILLS FROM LIFE SKILLS.
UM, WE ARE WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PAUSE FOR SUCCESS DOWN THE STREET AS A SITE WHERE PEOPLE CAN DEVELOP THOSE LIFE SKILLS AND TRANSITION INTO VOCATIONAL SKILLS.
UM, THE PROCESS HERE AND THE INTENT OF THE PROCESS IS TO CREATE A PATHWAY WHERE PEOPLE CAN MOVE FROM THE SHELTERED WORKSHOP SETTING WHERE WE, WHERE PEOPLE USED TO SUBSIST PAID VERY OFTEN LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE INTO A SYSTEM WHERE PEOPLE ARE COMPENSATED FAIRLY FOR THEIR WAGES.
UM, LAST YEAR WE, WE, UH, WE HAD 12 PEOPLE, UM, AT THE, UH, LEARNING LAB AT PAUSE FOR SUCCESS.
WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND THE SCOPE OF OUR SERVICES IN, UH, CHINO HILLS SO THAT WE CAN SERVE MORE PEOPLE AND THUS OUR REQUEST SO THAT WE CAN, WE CAN INCREASE OUR CENSUS BY ABOUT 60% PER YEAR OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS SO THAT WE CAN SERVE MORE FOLKS IN THIS AREA.
DO YOU, DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY GENERAL QUESTIONS? I JUST, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND, I KNOW WE KNOW WHAT YOUR GROUP DOES, BUT WOULD YOU MIND EXPLAINING WHO THE FOLKS ARE THAT, UM, WORK ACROSS THE STREET AND WORK AT CITY HALL? I APOLOGIZE.
UM, WE SERVE PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, COMMUNITY INTEGRATION, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL ENTERPRISE.
A DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER.
PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE REGIONAL CENTER SYSTEM LIKE MY OWN CHILD THAT ARE DIAGNOSED AT AN EARLY AGE.
UM, OUR ORGANIZATION HELPS 'EM MAKE THAT TRANSITION FROM THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND SETTING INTO THE GENERAL POPULATION AND WORKFORCE TO GIVE LIFE SKILLS AND, YOU KNOW, LEARN HOW TO WORK.
LIFE SKILLS TO VOCATIONAL SKILLS.
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BY THE WAY, YOU, YOU MENTIONED YOU'VE BEEN DOING WORK WITH PAUSE FOR SUCCESS.I, I'M SURE YOU ARE AWARE, THEY HAVE JUST RECENTLY REBRANDED.
REBEL RANCH IS THE NEW, AND YOU'LL HAVE TO TALK TO DAVID ABOUT WHY THEY CHANGED THE NAME, BUT JUST SO YOU'RE IN CA IN, IN CASE YOU'RE NOT AWARE OF THAT.
WE WERE THERE ON SATURDAY AND I SAW THE LOGO AND I WAS, I WAS A LITTLE CONFUSED, RIGHT.
I WAS THERE THANK WITH MY DAUGHTER ON SATURDAY.
SEVERAL, SEVERAL OF US HAVE DOGS FROM THERE, SO YES.
NEXT WE HAVE MELISSA PITTS FROM HOUSE OF RUTH.
I'M THE CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER WITH HOUSE OF RUTH FOR 46 YEARS.
HOUSE OF RUTH HAS SERVED THE EASTERN LOS ANGELES, WESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES AND CHINO HILLS.
WE ARE A COMPREHENSIVE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGENCY OFFERING EMERGENCY SHELTER, TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, RAPID REHOUSING, 24 HOUR HOTLINE COUNSELING, CHILD ABUSE, TREATMENT, CASE MANAGEMENT, AND EDUCATIONAL CLASSES.
IN THE PAST YEAR, HOUSE OF RUTH HAS DELIVERED 14,582 HOUSING SERVICES, INCLUDING RENTAL SUBSIDIES, EVICTION PREVENTION, MOVE-IN ASSISTANCE, EMERGENCY HOUSING VOUCHERS IN BOTH LA AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY.
IN CHINO HILLS ALONE, WE PROVIDED SUPPORT FOR 10 CHINO HILLS SURVIVORS WITH 108 SERVICES, INCLUDING HOUSING A FAMILY WITHIN THE CITY.
OUR COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROVIDED 60 ATTENDEES WITHIN THE CITY WITH EXTENSIVE TOPICS INCLUDING HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS, ANGER MANAGEMENT, CULTURAL AWARENESS, TEEN DATING, VIOLENCE, AVAILABLE RESOURCES, ASSISTING, UM, VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
AS A LONG-TERM RE RECIPIENT OF CDBG FUNDING FROM CHINO HILLS, WE PROVIDE CRITICAL SERVICES TO SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
LAST YEAR WE SHIFTED THE FOCUS TO HOUSING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS.
OUR HOUSING FIRST MODEL PRIORITIZES SWIFT PLACEMENT INTO STABLE HOUSING AND ONGOING SUPPORT TO MEET THE GROWING DEMANDS.
WE HIRED A REHOUSING RETENTION SPECIALIST THAT FOCUSES ON EMPOWERING INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES TO OVERCOME CHALLENGES AND MAINTAIN STABLE HOUSING, CONTRIBUTING TO LONG-TERM HOUSING SECURITY AND PREVENTING HOMELESSNESS.
OUR COMMITMENT TO CHINO HILLS RESIDENTS REMAINS STEADFAST, WHETHER RESPONDING TO HOTLINE CALLS, PROVIDING EMERGENCY SHELTER, OFFERING HOUSING RESOURCES, OR EDUCATING ON VIOLENCE PREVENTION.
WE ARE DEDICATED TO YOUR SUPPORT AND WE HOPE TO CONTINUE CDBG FUNDING THAT WILL ENHANCE OUR HOUSING PROGRAM CONTRIBUTING TO ENDING HOMELESSNESS FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS AND THEIR CHILDREN.
ANY QUESTIONS? ANY QUESTIONS? ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.
NO QUESTIONS, BUT I HAVE A COMMENT.
IT WASN'T THAT MANY YEARS AGO WE HAD TO TALK YOU INTO ASKING FOR $5,000 'CAUSE YOU WERE ASKING FOR THREE.
AND THEN NOW WE'VE KIND OF GRADUATED TO A, A NICE REQUEST HERE AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND YOU'RE, YOU'RE A STELLAR ORGANIZATION.
WE ALWAYS BRAG ABOUT YOU AND YOUR REPUTATION.
CERTAINLY HELPING PEOPLE THAT ARE LEAVING A ROUGH SITUATION.
OUR NEXT AND FINAL SPEAKER IS KEVIN CISNEROS FROM THE CHINO NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE.
VICE MAYOR BENNETT AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, GREAT TO SEE YOU ALL.
I'M KEVIN CISNEROS AND I AM THE BOARD PRESIDENT FOR THE CHINO NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE.
AS YOU KNOW, FOOD INSECURITY IS ONE OF THE GREATEST ISSUES THAT WE FACE IN CALIFORNIA AND THE CITY OF CHINO HILL CERTAINLY IS NOT IMMUNE TO THAT ISSUE.
STATISTICS AND OUR SERVICE LEVELS SHOW THAT THE NEED FOR GROCERY ASSISTANCE IS GREATER NOW THAN IT HAS BEEN SINCE THE PANDEMIC BEGAN AND EVEN PRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC.
NEEDY FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS IN OUR COMMUNITY GO WITHOUT PROPER FOOD EVERY DAY DUE TO A VARIETY OF FACTORS INCLUDING LOW WAGES, JOB LOSS, INJURIES, ILLNESS, AGE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, OR DIVORCE.
WHILE ALL OF US ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO HARD TIMES, CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY ARE THE MOST AT RISK AND THEY MAKE UP THE LARGEST NUMBER OF CLIENTS THAT WE SERVE SINCE 1945, THE CHINO NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE HAS WORKED TO ENSURE THAT FAMILIES AND SENIORS IN OUR COMMUNITY HAVE FOOD ON THEIR TABLE, ENABLING OUR STUDENTS TO BE MORE SUCCESSFUL AT SCHOOL AND ALLOWING OUR SENIORS TO LIVE A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE.
THE CHINO NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE PROVIDES A STORE LOCATED HERE IN THE CHINO VALLEY THAT ALLOWS FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS TO COME IN EVERY MONTH TO SELECT THE GROCERIES THAT THEY NEED TO SUPPLEMENT WHAT THEY DO NOT HAVE IN THEIR PANTRY AND CUPBOARDS.
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EACH MONTH WE PROVIDE GROCERIES AND OTHER ITEMS TO 350 FAMILIES AND WE'VE EXCEEDED THAT NUMBER NOW AND SENIORS THAT LIVE WITHIN THE CHINO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES, A TOTAL OF APPROXIMATELY 1200 INDIVIDUALS EVERY MONTH WHO MEET THE COUNTY'S EXTREMELY LOW TO MODERATE INCOME REQUIREMENTS.IN ADDITION TO OUR MONTHLY GROCERY SERVICES EACH YEAR, THE CHINO NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE PROVIDES BACKPACKS, THANKSGIVING MEALS, SENIOR CARE PACKAGES, AND MORE FOR OUR COMMUNITY EACH YEAR.
WE ALSO HOST, HOST A CHRISTMAS TOY GIVEAWAY FOR THE FAMILIES THAT WE SERVE, PROVIDING TOYS TO APPROXIMATELY 350 CHILDREN.
IT WAS ACTUALLY 3 49, UH, IN 2023 AND A NEW BICYCLE TO EVERY SINGLE FAMILY.
AND IT WAS FANTASTIC BECAUSE AS SOON AS THOSE BIKES WERE GIVEN OUT, WE SAW THOSE BIKES BEING RIDDEN ON THE STREETS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE UH, EVENT.
WE ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE ALL OF THESE SERVICES TO OUR NEIGHBORS FREE OF CHARGE.
AND THE SUPPORT THAT WE RECEIVE THROUGH CDBG PLAYS A HUGE ROLE IN OUR ABILITY TO DO SO.
THE AMOUNT THAT WE ARE REQUESTING IS THE AMOUNT NEEDED TO SPECIFICALLY PROVIDE OUR SERVICES TO THE CHINO HILLS RESIDENTS.
THE NUMBER OF 1200 INDIVIDUALS AS UNDERSTATED ON OUR APPLICATION.
WE ARE LIKELY TO BE CLOSER TO 1500 BY THE END OF THIS YEAR.
THIS FISCAL YEAR, 150 OF THOSE 1500 WILL BE CHINO HILLS RESIDENTS.
OUR REQUEST OF 20,000 EQUATES TO $11 AND 11 CENTS PER INDIVIDUAL PER MONTH TO PROVIDE THEM WITH ALL OF THE MENTIONED SERVICES.
AND EVERY AMOUNT THOUGH THAT WE RECEIVE IN CDBG FUNDS IS GOING TO GO TOWARDS AND BE ALLOCATED TOWARDS FOOD FOR OUR CHINO HILLS NEIGHBORS IN NEED.
TOGETHER WE CAN CONTINUE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR OUR LOW INCOME NEIGHBORS IN NEED BY ENSURING THAT THEY HAVE GROCERIES ON THEIR TABLES.
I APPRECIATE YOUR CONSIDERATION.
I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
ALRIGHT, ANY QUESTIONS? ALRIGHT.
IS THAT THE EXTENT OF OUR PUBLIC? ALRIGHT, WELL I'LL, I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING PORTION.
ALMA, WOULD YOU PLEASE, UH, BE PREPARED TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS HERE.
I'LL START OUT AND THEN I'LL, I'LL LET YOU GUYS JUMP IN ON, ON THIS QUESTION.
IN SUMMARY, IF I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY, WE WOULD APPROXIMATELY HAVE $77,000 IN REQUESTS.
I'VE COMPILED A LIST OF LAST YEAR'S CONTRIBUTIONS.
WE GAVE $15,000 TO THE LIBRARY.
THEY'RE ASKING FOR 15 AGAIN THIS YEAR.
WE GAVE 6,000 TO THE INLAND FAIR GROUP.
UH, AND THEY'RE REQUESTING 12 THIS YEAR.
WE GAVE 17,600 TO USE THE HOUSE OF RUTH.
THEY'RE ASKING FOR 20 20,000 FOR CHINO NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE AND WE GAVE THEM THE 20,000.
THE NEW ITEM IS UH, UH, A THESIS WHICH RECEIVED NOTHING LAST YEAR.
SO IN TOTAL WE ALLOCATED $58,600 LAST YEAR.
IF WE LOOK AT THAT COMPARED TO WHAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE THIS YEAR OF $64,500, THAT GIVES US $5,900 THAT WE COULD ALLOCATE KEEPING LAST YEAR'S AMOUNTS AND DISTRIBUTING THOSE IN THEORY TO ALL TO UH, AND THESIS.
SO THERE'S MY SUMMARY AND YOU'RE VERIFYING THAT THOSE NUMBERS ARE CORRECT.
ALRIGHT, SO I'LL OPEN UP THE COUNSEL IF YOU HAVE ANY REQUESTS ON WHAT WE SHOULD DO.
PETER'S GOT NOTES AND I YES, I'VE GOT NOTES.
I'M GLAD YOU'RE TAKING MY PLACE.
UM, I GUESS THE BIG QUESTION IS, BECAUSE I THINK SOME OF THESE ARE GENERALLY GIVENS THAT WE HISTORICALLY HAVE, HAVE PROVIDED FUNDING FOR.
UH, THE NEW NEW PLAYER ON THE BLOCK IS ENTHESIS AND THESIS WE'VE DEALT WITH AS A, AS A PROVIDER OF SERVICES FOR SINCE, UH, THE YEAR AFTER WE OPENED CITY HALL.
UH, SO I THINK WE'RE GOOD WITH THAT.
SO THE BIG QUESTION WILL BE, DO WE PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE, UH, TENANT MEDIATION SERVICES? SO IF WE PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THEM, THEN WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO CUT ALONG THE WAY, UH, TO GET TO THE 64,500.
IF WE DON'T PROVIDE FUNDING, THEN, SO I'VE GOT TWO DIFFERENT FORMULAS.
SO IF WE CUT FUNDING COMPLETELY WITH TENANT, UH, MEDIATION SERVICES, WE WOULD DO LIBRARY FOR 15 HOUSE OF RUTH FOR 20 AND THESIS FOR 10.
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE FOR 19,500.
IF WE DO PROVIDE THE 10,000, IT'S BEEN RECOMMENDED BY ALMA AND THEN SOUNDS LIKE BY THE, UH, FED THE FEDS TO PROVIDE 'EM A MINIMUM OF $10,000 IS THE, THAT IS RECOMMENDED JUST FOR THE COST BENEFIT OF ALL THE WORK THAT GOES INTO IT.
SO WITH THAT IN MIND, IF WE DO MEDIATION SERVICES, IT WOULD BE, I MEAN, WE
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CAN DO ANY FORMULA, BUT I HAVE LIBRARY DOWN FOR 15 HOUSE OF RUTH DOWN FOR 15 MEDIATION SERVICES DOWN FOR 10 BECAUSE THAT'S THE MINIMUM REQUEST OR, AND THEN, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE 14 FIVE AND ANTHESIS 10.SO THOSE ARE THE TWO FORMULAS THAT I CAME UP WITH.
AND ANYBODY ELSE JUMP IN HERE? I AGREE.
LET ME, HOUSING MEDIATION BOARD, I WOULD AGREE, UH, WITH CUTTING THAT, THAT CONTRIBUTION TO ZERO, GIVEN THAT THAT WOULD TAKE THE TOTAL, UH, REQUESTED DOWN TO 65,000, WE HAVE 64 5, UH, AVAILABLE.
AND HOW ABOUT IF WE WERE TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS, IF WE WERE TO REDUCE THE LIBRARY DOWN TO $14,000 BECAUSE THEY HAVE OTHER FUNDING.
IT'S A SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY LIBRARY.
WE COULD GIVE AND THESIS THE ENTIRE 10,000.
BUT WE'LL HAVE TO CHECK THE MATH.
AND I THINK THAT WOULD GIVE US THE 64 5.
ANY FORMULA THAT OUR COLLEAGUES ARE, ARE GOOD WITH.
CAN WE CHECK THAT MATH, BECAUSE I'M JUST THROWING IT OUT.
SO IF WE DO 14,000 FOR SAN BERNARDINO LI LIBRARY AND WE DO 12, UH, UM, 20,000 FOR HOUSE OF RUTH, 20,000 FOR NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE AND MUCH AND THESIS 2020 FOR NEIGHBORHOOD.
WHAT THEY'RE REQUESTING, WHAT DOES THAT GIVE US? LEFT? AND THESIS THEN WOULD BE 10,500.
AND DO WE HAVE THAT IN THE FORM OF A, A MOTION? IS THAT EVERYBODY? EVERYBODY OKAY WITH THAT? I'LL MOVE THE ITEM.
DO YOU GET IT, ALMA? IF NOT, I HAVE IT.
AND CONGRATULATIONS TO THE, UH, GROUPS THAT ARE ACTUALLY GETTING FUNDING TODAY.
AND MY, UH, CONDOLENCES TO INLAND FAIR.
I JUST HOPE THEY UNDERSTAND WHERE WE'RE COMING FROM.
UH, WE HAVE SO MUCH HISTORY WITH THE OTHERS AND ANTHESIS, ALTHOUGH IT'S THE FIRST TIME, UH, THOSE, THOSE LOVING PEOPLE THAT KEEP UP OUR CITY HALL AND THEY'RE JUST, IT'S A WONDERFUL ORGANIZATION.
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OUR SAFETY UPDATES.UH, UH, CHERYL, I'M WE ON LINE? YOU WE ARE CORRECT.
ALRIGHT, LET'S DO, UH, THE SAFETY UPDATES.
UH, LET'S DO, UH, JEREMY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLEASE TALK ABOUT THE FIRE DISTRICT? UH, CERTAINLY.
GOOD EVENING, VICE MAYOR AND COUNCIL STAFF AND PUBLIC.
I'D JUST LIKE TO BRIEFLY HIGHLIGHT A FEW ACTIVITIES, UH, THIS EVENING, PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON THE CHINO VALLEY FIRE FOUNDATION.
MANY OF YOU ARE AWARE OF OUR FOUNDATION AND THE WORK THAT THEY DO, PLACING AEDS IN THE COMMUNITY.
BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, THE FOUNDATION ALSO OFFERS, UH, IF WE HAVE RESIDENTS WHO LOSE THEIR HOME FROM FIRE OR OTHER TRAGEDY, THE FOUNDATION, UH, SEEKS TO HELP THEM WITH CLOTHING.
UH, SOME SHELTER, A LOT OF DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES IN ADDITION TO SERVING, UM, OUR CHILDREN IN THE COMMUNITY WITH MAKE A CHILD SMILE AND THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
SO THE FOUNDATION, THE NEXT EVENT COMING UP THAT THE OPPORTUNITY WILL BE TO SUPPORT THEM IS THE ST.
PATTY'S FEST, WHICH WILL BE ON MARCH 9TH FROM THREE TO SEVEN HERE AT THE SHOPS.
REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE IN THERE.
AND THEN A LITTLE BIT FURTHER OUT ON MAY 18TH FROM 10 TO TWO, THE 15TH ANNUAL HOT ROD BIKE AND CAR SHOW ALSO AT THE SHOPS.
YOU'RE GONNA START, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE THAT CELEBRATION STARTING ON THE NINTH.
AND ISN'T ST PATTY'S DAY THE 17TH? CORRECT.
THAT'S GONNA BE ONE CELEBRATION
THREE TO SEVEN ON THE SAME DAY, HOPEFULLY.
PLEASE TALK TO, TO, UH, CAPTAIN GERARD, BECAUSE WE MAY NEED SOME ADDITIONAL SECURITY AT THAT ONE.
UH, CAPTAIN GERARD, THANK YOU, HONOR, HONORABLE, UH, VICE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, CITY STAFF AND RESIDENCE AND ATTENDANCE.
UH, ONE QUICK CASE I WANNA HIGHLIGHT.
ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH, 2024, AT APPROXIMATELY 4:00 PM OUR CHINO HILLS POLICE DEPARTMENT'S MULTIPLE ENFORCEMENT TEAM CONDUCTED A SURVEILLANCE OPERATION ON ONE OF OUR LOCAL GROCERY STORES.
DURING THE OPERATION, DEPUTIES OBSERVED TWO MALE SUBJECTS ACTING SUSPICIOUSLY.
THE SUSPECTS CONTACTED AN ELDERLY FEMALE SUBJECT AS SHE SHOPPED.
ONE SUSPECT DISTRACTED THE VICTIM AS THE OTHER STOLE THE WALLET FROM HER PURSE.
BOTH SUSPECTS LEFT THE BUSINESS WITH THE VICTIM'S STOLEN PROPERTY AND WERE IMMEDIATELY ARRESTED BY DEPUTIES WAITING OUTSIDE.
THE CHINOS POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL
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CONTINUE TO CONDUCT MULTIFACETED OPERATIONS, INCLUDING SATURATION, PLAIN CLOTHES AND EXTRA PATROLS TO COMBAT THEFTS IN OUR RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS.I'D ALSO LIKE TO JUST COMMENT QUICKLY ON TWO UPCOMING EVENTS.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE, UH, THE CHINO HILLS POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE WESTERN HILLS COUNTRY CLUB ARE PRESENTING A COFFEE WITH A COP EVENT AT THE WESTERN HILLS COUNTRY CLUB ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6TH, 2024 FROM EIGHT TO 10:00 AM IF YOU'RE NOT BUSY, PLEASE COME OUT AND ENJOY A CUP OF COFFEE WITH ME AND MY STAFF.
AND THEN ALSO THE CHINOS POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL BE HOSTING A CRIME PREVENTION SYMPOSIUM FOR MEMBERS OF OUR ASIAN COMMUNITY AT THE CHINO HILLS COMMUNITY CENTER ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3RD FROM SIX TO 7:00 PM UH, ALL CHINO HILLS RESIDENTS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND, BUT WE WILL HAVE TRANSLATORS AND TRANSLATED MATERIAL SPECIFICALLY FOR SOME OF OUR ASIAN COMMUNITY.
WILL THAT BE BEEN BOTH CANTONESE AND MANDARIN? I KNOW WE HAVE IT IN MANDARIN.
SERGEANT LOBB, DO YOU REMEMBER IF WE HAVE IT IN CANTONESE? CANT MANDARIN SPECIFICALLY.
MANDARIN SPECIFICALLY, I THINK WE'RE WORKING ON SOME OTHER THINGS FOR FUTURE EVENTS.
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CITY MANAGER, CITY MANAGER'S UPDATE.UM, WE'VE RECEIVED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE, UH, UPCOMING PROJECT AT OUR LLANO, UH, PARK.
AND SO I'M GONNA YIELD MY TIME TO JONATHAN MARSHALL TO DO A QUICK UPDATE ON, UH, UH, FUTURE AMENITY ADDED TO THAT PARK.
THE, UH, IN YELLOW WOULD BE THE EXTENDED, UH, PARKING AREA.
UM, IT TOTALS 15 SPACES IN TOTAL.
IT'S CURRENTLY IN, UH, THE DESIGN PHASE AT THIS POINT IN TIME PER MY FRIEND'S OVER IN ENGINEERING.
AND, UM, DANIEL'S PROBABLY TIRED OF SEEING ME LATELY.
UM, AND UH, THE HOPE IS IS THAT IT WILL BE COMPLETED SOMETIME, UH, LATTER PART OF THE SUMMER SLASH EARLY FALL PERIOD OF TIME.
SO WE HOPE THAT THIS WILL SIGNIFICANTLY OBVIOUSLY INCREASE THE, UH, AMOUNT OF PARKING THAT WE HAVE NEEDS THAT WE HAVE THERE RELATED TO THE, UH, PLAY THAT, UH, CURRENTLY TAKES PLACE.
THERE'S A LOT OF ACTIVITIES EVEN OTHER THAN PICKLEBALL, NEEDLESS TO SAY, THAT'S THERE.
SO THIS WILL ENHANCE THOSE, UH, THOSE OTHER USERS OF THE PARK AS WELL.
FROM THAT STANDPOINT, WE'RE ELIMINATING THE TRAFFIC CIRCLE THAT IT CURRENTLY EXISTS AND CONVERTING IT INTO SPACES.
SO PEOPLE NEED TO BACK OUT AND GO BACK OUT DIRECTLY.
BUT THAT'S STILL GREAT UTILIZATION.
THANK GOODNESS WE HAD THAT SPACE.
SO ANY OTHER COMMENTS THAT, NO.
ANYTHING ELSE, BEN? THAT'S IT, SIR.
[ COUNCIL REPORTS Vice Mayor Bennett Chino Valley Fire District Board Chino Valley Unified School District Board Council Member Johsz Legislative Advocacy Committee West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District Board Council Member Marquez San Bernardino County Transportation Authority Board General Policy Committee Legislative Policy Committee ]
REPORTS.UM, I HAVE, I'LL GO FIRST ONLY BECAUSE I'M ON HERE.
UH, CHINO VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT, UH, WE HAD A VERY GOOD MEETING.
THEY, THERE WAS A FEW, UH, PROCLAMATIONS FOR AMERICAN HEART MONTH.
WE HAD A FIREFIGHTER OF THE YEAR ENGINEER, ETHAN SANDERS, THAT WAS, UH, NAMED AND AWARDED E EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR.
UH, DONNA ROWER, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT.
AND THEN WE HAD A, A GREAT PRESENTATION OF THE FIRE DISTRICT WELLNESS PROGRAM THERAPY DOG, UH, RILEY, THE NEW 1-YEAR-OLD FEMALE GOLDEN, UH, UH, I SHOULD KNOW THIS BECAUSE GOLDEN DOODLE, I SHOULD KNOW THAT.
'CAUSE WE HAVE DO GOLDEN DOODLES.
UH, AND AT ANY RATE, THEY'VE BEEN TRAINED BY REBEL RANCH, WHICH IS PAUSE FOR SUCCESS AND THEY ARE HOPEFUL TO GET A COUPLE MORE DOGS, UH, SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE ONE AVAILABLE FOR EACH SHIFT.
SO, UH, RILEY WAS THE, UH, I THINK THE STAR OF THE NIGHT, UM, BESIDES THE AWARDEES AND THAT'S THE END OF MY REPORT.
ALRIGHT, I'LL, UH, KICK OFF WITH, UH, LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE.
WE MET WITH OUR FEDERAL AND STATE LOBBYIST TO KINDA GET AN UPDATE ON WHERE WE SAT WITH, UM, THE LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR.
UM, OBVIOUSLY AS YOU MIGHT KNOW, DC IS DYSFUNCTIONAL AS ALL GET OUT, SO WHO KNOWS WHEN A BUDGET WILL BE PASSED, WHO KNOWS WHEN THEY'LL LOOK AT OUR EARMARK REQUESTS.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE HOPING THAT, UM, THE, OUR REQUESTED ITEMS THAT WE'VE PUT IN FOR WILL BE, WILL BE HEARD BY OUR TWO SENATORS AND OUR TWO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
UM, AND THEN WHEN IT COMES TO, UH, WEST VALLEY MOSQUITO AND VECTOR CONTROL DISTRICT, WE HAD A MEETING TODAY.
THE BIG, UH, TOPIC WAS JUST UPDATING OUR, UH, OUR HUMAN RESOURCES POLICY BECAUSE OF A CHANGES IN STATE LAW THAT WENT INTO EFFECT JANUARY 1ST.
AND BEFORE WE MOVE TO YOU, RAY, I PASSED OVER THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HEARING.
I GOT TO THE HEARING A HALF AN HOUR EARLY, AND I COULD NOT EVEN GET NEAR THE PARKING LOT.
THERE WAS APPROXIMATELY 300 PLUS PEOPLE WITH, UH, SIGNS PICKETING,
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UH, ON, IN SUPPORT OF THE, UH, TEACHERS.SO I COULD NOT EVEN GET NEAR THE PLACE.
SO I TURNED AROUND AND WENT HOME.
UH, AND I'M SURE THAT YOU HAVE GOT THE REPORTS, UH, IN THE PAPER AND SORRY, I COULDN'T ATTEND RAY.
UH, GENERAL POLICY, REALLY NOTHING TO REPORT.
UM, LEGISLATIVE, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF TALK ABOUT, UH, FEDERAL BUDGETS, SOME ISSUES, AND THEN ALSO STATE.
SO I GUESS INITIALLY, UM, THE LAO'S OFFICE WAS PREDICTING ABOUT 78 MILLION, $78 BILLION DEFICIT.
AND, UH, THE GOVERNOR WAS ANTICIPATING ABOUT 38.
SO I GUESS RIGHT NOW WE'RE LIKE 43 AND IT'S, UH, GETTING BIGGER AND BIGGER.
SO IT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE FAIRLY CLOSE TO THE ORIGINAL L AOS RECOMMEND OR SUGGESTION THAT IT'S GONNA BE PRETTY CLOSE TO THE $70 BILLION IN DEFICIT.
SO MY QUESTION IS, WE'RE GONNA GET READY TO START THE BUDGET PROCESS AND I WOULD REALLY LIKE FOR US TO REALLY LOOK AT THESE NUMBERS TO SEE WHAT KIND OF IMPACTS WE'RE GONNA HAVE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
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HOW ABOUT YOUR COUNCIL COMMENTS? I'M DONE.UH, JUST, UM, ENJOYED, UH, GOING TO, UH, CHINO HILLS' PONY BASEBALL OPENING DAY, ALONG WITH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS.
IT WAS GREAT TO SEE ALL OF THE, THE TEAMS OUT THERE.
EVERYBODY'S EXCITED FOR FIELDS FIVE AND SIX AND ADDITIONAL PARKING, SO THANK YOU TO OUR STAFF THAT'S BEEN WORKING ON THAT.
AND THEN SOMETHING I'VE BEEN MEANING TO JUST MENTION MAYBE DOWN THE ROAD, UM, WITH BILL HUGHES HAVING PASSED AWAY A WHILE BACK, IF THERE'S ANY CHANCE WE COULD POTENTIALLY NAME SOMETHING FOR HIM AT MCCOY, YOU KNOW, AT THE EQUESTRIAN CENTER OR SOMETHING IN THAT AREA, I THINK IT'D BE A NICE FITTING TRIBUTE FOR A GENTLEMAN WHO PUT A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT INTO, INTO THAT COMPONENT OF OUR CITY.
SO THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT, MR. VICE MAYOR, AND POSSIBLY THAT WOULD BE GOOD TO AN ITEM TO HAVE PARKS AND REC MM-HMM.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'D BE A GREAT IDEA.
I I WOULD ECHO THOSE THOUGHTS.
PETER, JUST A COUPLE BRIEF THINGS.
I'LL JUST ECHO WHAT, UH, BRIAN HAD TO SAY.
HE AND I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE OPENING CEREMONIES AT PONY LEAGUE BASEBALL, AND IT WAS, UH, THESE OPENING DAYS ARE ALWAYS FUN TO ATTEND.
AS I TALKED ABOUT RAY AND I, WAY BACK IN THOSE DAYS, WE ATTENDED A WHOLE BUNCH OF 'EM.
AND IT'S, IT'S, IT KIND OF, YOU WANT TO BE THERE BECAUSE OF THE EXCITEMENT THAT TAKES PLACE WITH ALL THE FAMILIES.
AND AS I SAID TO THE KIDS, THEY'RE PROBABLY EXCITED TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS AND LEARN NEW SKILLS.
AND AS I SAID TO THE PARENTS, YOU'RE PROBABLY HAPPY TO GET THE KIDS OUT OF THE HOUSE.
SO IT'S, IT'S A WIN-WIN FOR EVERYBODY.
UH, JUST, UH, SOMETHING HAPPENING, UH, THIS, THIS PAST WEEK, JUST AN OPENING OF ONE OF THE RESTAURANTS AT THE SHOPS, BUT EVERYBODY SEEMS TO BE REALLY, UH, EXCITED ABOUT IT.
IT'S CALLED THE STAND AND THAT'S RIGHT, UH, NEAR THE GRAND AVENUE ENTRANCE AND NEAR PF CHANG'S.
AND CHECK IT OUT BECAUSE THEY'RE DOING AN OFFICIAL GRAND OPENING, UH, THIS WEEK, BUT THEY'VE BEEN DOING A SOFT OPENING FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS.
AND THEN LAST, NICK, I KNOW YOU'VE HAD A LITTLE INTERACTION, BUT THE DENNY FAMILY WAS KICKED OFF THE SPEAKERS EARLIER.
UM, HOPEFULLY WE CAN HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO EITHER TURN THEM IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AS FAR AS THE DEVELOPER AND, AND IF THERE'S ANY WAY TO MITIGATE THEIR QUESTION OR IF A COUPLE OF US ADDITIONALLY HAVE TO GO OUT AND MEET WITH THEM JUST TO SEE WHAT THEIR SITUATION IS.
C CERTAINLY, I, I HAVE MET WITH THE DENNY'S AND I MET WITH THE, UH, DEVELOPER IN THE FIELD THIS MORNING, UH, TALKING ABOUT SOME OPTIONS TO HELP THEM.
SO I'LL BE COMMUNICATING WITH THE DENNY'S MORE THIS WEEK.
AND TO FOLLOW UP ON YOUR POINTS, UH, WITH RESPECT TO THE DENNY'S, YES.
WHEN THE EAGLE STORE TURNED TO A LOWE'S, WHEN THAT WHOLE PARKING LOT WAS PUT IN THERE, THERE'S A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT JUST SOUTH OF THERE.
AND WE HAD THE SAME SITUATION WHERE THE PARKING LOT, THEIR HEADLIGHTS SHOWN RIGHT INTO THE SECOND STORY, UH, HOMES.
AND THAT WASN'T A, A THOROUGHFARE.
SO A SAFETY ISSUE IS LEGITIMATE.
SO WE, WE DO NEED TO TRY AND, UH, TALK ABOUT THAT IF WE CAN.
AND, UH, ALSO, PETER, THE, UH, THE STAND IS GOING TO HAVE THE RIBBON CUTTING AT 1130 ON THURSDAY, AND I'M PLANNING ON ATTENDING THAT.
JUST SO YOU KNOW, UH, THIS MORNING, THE, THE CITY HAS ALWAYS TAKEN A POSITION WHERE WE TRY TO NOT VIOLATE, UH, CHURCH, THE VI THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.
SO EACH ONE OF US, UH, ON THE DIOCESE ACTUALLY WERE AT THE PRAYER BREAKFAST THIS MORNING, THE MAYOR'S PRAYER BREAKFAST.
UH, WE PAID TO GO THERE ON OUR OWN.
UH, AND, UH, I HAD THE, THE PRIVILEGE OF SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF, UH, CYNTHIA, WHO WAS OUT ILL TODAY.
SO EUNICE AND I, UH, MET, WE HAD A SPEAKER THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING TODAY.
THIS GUY WAS A FULL ON MAFIA BOSS, AND HIS TESTIMONY WAS SOMETHING ELSE.
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SO I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT.BUT, UH, I'M NOT SURE IF THERE'LL BE VIDEOS OUT SOONER OR LATER.
BUT, UM, THAT WAS A WONDERFUL EVENT THIS MORNING.
900 PEOPLE AT A WAREHOUSE IN CHINO.
AND THEN TONIGHT, I, I REALLY WANT TO THANK ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE HERE TONIGHT EXPRESSING THEIR VIEWS ABOUT THE CEASEFIRE ISSUE.
WE TRIED TO ACCOMMODATE EVERYBODY AND GIVE YOU SUFFICIENT TIME.
WE HAVE TAKEN THE POSITION THAT WE ARE GOING TO HEAR YOU AND THE WAY WE CHANGED IT TONIGHT, WE DID THE AUDIBLE AND MOVED EVERYTHING TO MAKE EVERYTHING HEARD UPFRONT AND NOT HAVE TO HAVE YOU SIT AROUND AND WAIT UNTIL THE END OF THE MEETING TO, TO BE HEARD.
UH, WE WANTED TO TRY AND DO THAT TO ACCOMMODATE THE GROUP.
AND WE HAD TO, UH, JUST CUT THE TIME A LITTLE, BUT I THINK EVERYBODY SEEMED TO BE ABLE TO GET THEIR POINTS ACROSS.
SO THANK YOU FOR THEIR COURTESY.
AND, UH, IT REALLY WAS A CIVILIZED, UH, UM, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS TONIGHT.
AND REALLY, UH, I HAVE NOTHING ELSE.
[ ADJOURN IN MEMORIAM AND IN HOPE: Adjourn with deep gratitude, respect, and appreciation for the brave individuals who serve and have served in the Armed Forces. Their selfless contributions protect us all. May we as a community continue to support and honor them.]
BUT TONIGHT WE ARE GOING TO ADJOURN IN MEMORIAM AND IN HOPE ADJOURN WITH DEEP GRATITUDE, RESPECT, AND APPRECIATION FOR THE BRAVE INDIVIDUALS WHO SERVE AND HAVE SERVED TO THE ARMED FORCES THEIR SELFLESSNESS CONTRIBUTIONS.