Mar 11, 2025 City Council Meeting

A CONSERVATIONIST AND HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN THE FORMATION AND PRESERVATION OF OUR CITY OF CHINO HILLS STATE PARK.

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH IS A TIME FOR US TO RECOGNIZE AND CELEBRATE WOMEN'S MANY CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIETY.

THIS YEAR'S THEME SELECTED BY THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY OR HISTORY ALLIANCE IS MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER WOMEN EDUCATING AND INSPIRING GENERATIONS.

THIS THEME GENERATES AND CELEBRATES, UH, ALL THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF WOMEN FOR ALL FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS, WHICH ARE WHO ENRICH OUR LIVES THROUGH LEADERSHIP, CAREGIVING, CREATIVITY, AND SERVICE, INCLUDING CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE MILITARY AND CHARITABLE WORK.

AND HERE IN CHINO HILLS, WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE MANY STRONG WOMEN LEADERS TO CELEBRATE, INCLUDING OUR FIRST ELECTED MAYOR IN 1991, GWEN NORTON PERRY, AND OUR CURRENT CITY COUNCILWOMAN CYNTHIA MORAN, AS WELL AS THE WOMEN WHO LEAD ON OUR LOCAL FIRE BOARD, SCHOOL, BOARD, WATER BOARDS, AND OUR CITY DEPARTMENTS AND COMMISSIONS.

ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL, IT'S MY HONOR TO PROC OR PROCLAIM THE MONTH OF MARCH AS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH AND TO ACCEPT THIS PROCLAMATION AS CLAIRE SADDLEBACK.

CLAIRE IS

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CLAIRE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS? YEAH.

IT'S SO NICE TO BE HERE IN CHINO HILLS AND I'M REALLY TOUCHED THAT I, YOU THOUGHT OF ME FOR THIS, UH, HONOR.

IT'S BEEN A LONG JOURNEY TO ESTABLISH CHINO HILLS STATE PARK AND THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS HAS BEEN THERE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, WHETHER IT WAS BY HAVING A STRONG GENERAL PLAN THAT PROTECTS RIDGE LINES AND TREES, OR OVERTLY ESPOUSES ITS VALUE OF CONSERVATION.

WE HAVE BEEN GRATEFUL TO HAVE HAD THE MODEL OF CHINO HILLS THAT YOU HAVE PROVIDED US TO TAKE TO OTHER CITIES IN OUR HILLSIDE SYSTEM.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

WE ONLY HAVE A FEW MORE ACQUISITIONS TO GO BEFORE THE ORIGINAL VISION OF THE STATE PARK WILL BE ACHIEVED.

WHILE MEN HAVE OFTEN BEEN THE ONES IN POSITIONS OF POWER FOR THE PARK, IT'S BEEN WOMEN WHO HAVE ACTUALLY BROUGHT IT TO LIFE AND MADE THINGS HAPPEN.

SO, THANK YOU ALL AND HONORED AND TOUCHED.

WE ALREADY TOOK A, UH, A, A PICTURE WITH, UH, CLAIRE TO COMMEMORATE THIS, THIS MOMENT.

AND YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.

YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS KIDDINGLY SAY THAT ANY MAN THAT HAPPENS TO BE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE MARRIED TO A WONDERFUL WIFE, UH, REALIZES THAT BEHIND EVERY SUCCESSFUL MAN IS A WOMAN THAT, UH, LEADS HIM IN, DOWN, DOWN THE SHORT AND NARROW PATH TO, TO KEEP US IN LINE AND, UH, KEEP US IN CHECK.

RIGHT? SO THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE TO OUR COMMUNITY, UH, THE WHOLE SLEEPY HOLLOW CARBON CANYON AND STATE PARK.

WE REALLY DO APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE.

AND THAT'S IT FOR PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS.

WE WILL NOW HAVE

[3. PRESENTATION: Update on the Brightline West Project (high-speed passenger rail system from Las Vegas to Rancho Cucamonga)]

A PRESENTATION.

THIS PRESENTATION IS AN UPDATE ON THE BRIGHT LINE WEST PROJECT TO BE PRESENTED BY ASHA JONES, VICE PRESIDENT OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS.

SITS WITHIN THE AIRPORT, EXCUSE ME, UM, WITHIN THE ORLANDO AIRPORT.

I DON'T KNOW, CAN YOU, OKAY.

YOU CAN HEAR ME ALL RIGHT.

I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH ONCE AGAIN.

ASHA JONES, VICE PRESIDENT OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS FOR BRIGHT LINE WEST.

THANK YOU TO THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL, AND SPECIAL THANKS TO COUNCIL MEMBER MARQUE FOR INVITING US.

UH, WE MET, I THINK IT WAS AT, THAT WAS AT THE METROLINK BOARD MEETING THAT WE, WE CONNECTED AND WE'RE SO GLAD TO BE HERE TODAY.

SO IF YOU JUST BEAR WITH ME, I'M GOING TO TRY AND OPERATE BOTH.

I THINK I CAN SEE IT, BUT I DID NOT BRING MY GLASSES, SO HAVE MY LAPTOP TOO.

ALL RIGHT, INTRODUCE.

THIS IS A VIDEO WEST AMERICA'S FIRST TRUE HIGH SPEED TRADE THAT'S USHERING IN A NEW ERA OF MODERN TRAVEL, LOCAL LIGHTS OF LAS VEGAS TO THE BEACHES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

BRIGHT LINE WEST WILL CONNECT TWO WORLD'S MOST ICONIC DESTINATIONS IN JUST TWO HOURS BY STORING AT 200 MILES PER HOUR.

BRIGHT LINE ZERO OMISSION, ALL ELECTRIC TRAINS WILL BE THE GREATEST FORM OF TRANSPORTATION IN THE WORLD AND WILL BE RIGHT HERE.

THE USA WITH AMERICAN LABOR FROM BEAUTIFUL STATIONS WITH BRIGHT LOUNGES AND PREMIUM AMENITIES TO AN EXCEPTIONAL ON ONBOARD EXPERIENCE WITH ALL THE EXTRAS, BRIGHT LINE WEST WILL OFFER A CONVENIENT AND COMFORTABLE WAY TO WORK, RELAX, AND PLAY.

WELCOME TO THE RIDE REIMAGINED.

WELCOME TO BRIGHT LINE WEST.

ALL RIGHT, THAT IS OUR SIZZLE REEL.

I HAVE TO TELL YOU, I GREW UP IN LAS VEGAS.

I'M FROM SPOKANE, WASHINGTON ORIGINALLY, BUT I'VE BEEN IN VEGAS FOR OVER 30 YEARS.

AND THE ENTIRE TIME I'VE BEEN THERE, I WAS TOLD A TRAIN WAS COMING.

SO I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND A TRAIN WAS COMING AND A TRAIN WAS COMING.

AND THEN TO SEE WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY IS JUST A TESTAMENT TO JUST HOW WE DO NOT GIVE UP.

WE ARE GOING TO GET IT DONE.

AND JUST WANNA START WITH, UM, BRIGHT LINE WEST.

OUR FOCUS IS WE WORK TO CONNECT CITY PAIRS THAT ARE TOO LONG TO DRIVE IN, TOO SHORT TO FLY.

SO I ALWAYS SAY THIS, WE ARE A COMPLIMENT TO THE SYSTEM THAT ALREADY EXISTS.

WE DON'T THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE GONNA STOP FLYING TOTALLY OR STOP DRIVING ON THE 15, BUT WE'RE PROVIDING AN OPTION.

AND WE GOT OUR START IN FLORIDA.

I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU HAVE HAVE TAKEN THE TRAIN IN FLORIDA.

IT IS NOT HIGH SPEED RAIL.

IT IS BUILT ON AN EXISTING FREIGHT LINE.

BUT WE OPENED IN 2018 AND AT THAT TIME IT WAS MIAMI, FORT LAUDERDALE AND WEST PALM BEACH.

THOSE ARE THE LARGER STATIONS.

AND THEN WE BUILT INLINE STATIONS IN AVENTURE AND BOCA RATON IN DECEMBER OF 22.

AND THEN MOST RECENTLY OPENED OUR FLAGSHIP STATION IN ORLANDO.

OUR STATION IN ORLANDO SITS ABOVE, IT

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SO YOU CAN FLY INTO ORLANDO, YOU GO TO TERMINAL THREE, AND OUR STATION IS RIGHT THERE, AND YOU CAN GO WHEREVER YOU NEED TO GO ALONG OUR ALIGNMENT FROM THERE.

UM, LIKE I SAID, WE ARE FOCUSED ON HOSPITALITY.

IF YOU EVER GET A CHANCE TO TAKE THE FLORIDA TRAIN OR IF YOU WAIT TILL WE COME IN IN A 2028, THE IDEA IS CUSTOMER SERVICE.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO TRAVEL A LOT, YOU KNOW THAT CUSTOMER SERVICE IS SOMETHING THAT IS KIND OF WANING RIGHT NOW.

I, I FLEW IN THIS MORNING AND I DID HAVE GREAT SERVICE, DON'T GET ME WRONG, BUT WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE COMPETING WITH THE LEADERS IN CUSTOMER SERVICE.

SO WE MEASURE OURSELVES AGAINST THOSE SAME RATINGS.

AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SCALE, WE CONSISTENTLY RANK WITH THE TOP ENG THE TOP COMPANIES IN THE COUNTRY, AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY NEED.

IT'S EASE OF ACCESS, IT'S TRANSPORTATION AND BRIGHT.

YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE, THE BUILDINGS THAT WE'RE CREATED, WE'RE CREATING, WE WANT PEOPLE TO ENJOY THEM.

WE WANT THEM TO HAVE EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE.

WHEN I STARTED WITH BRIGHT LINE, MY FIRST DAY I FLEW TO FLORIDA AND NOBODY KNEW WHO I WAS.

I CAME IN, I SAT DOWN AND I JUST WAS KIND.

PEOPLE WERE CHECKING ON ME, HOW YOU DOING? DO YOU NEED ANYTHING? AND THEN WHEN THEY FOUND OUT WHO I WAS, THEY WERE REALLY CHECKING ON ME.

BUT IT WAS SOMETHING, IT WAS A TESTAMENT BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE HAPPY EMPLOYEES, THEY CAN PROVIDE GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICE.

AND THAT'S ONE OF OUR FOCUSES.

UM, THE OTHER THING IS REENERGIZING NEIGHBORHOODS.

EACH PLACE WHERE OUR STATION IS AT, WE HAVE TREMENDOUS TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT.

SO FOR THE, THE GROUNDS IN LAS VEGAS, WE HAVE 110 ACRES.

THE STATION WILL ONLY BE ON AT ABOUT 20 OF THOSE ACRES.

WE'LL BE DEVELOPING THE REST.

THE STATION IN MIAMI, WHICH IS WHAT YOU SEE IN THAT PICTURE THERE, THOSE BUILDINGS YOU SEE DIDN'T EXIST PRIOR TO BRIGHT LINE.

BUT WE CAME IN AND WITH THE INVESTMENTS WE MADE IN THE STATION AND IN THE AREA, SOME OF IT WE OWNED, SOME OF IT WE BUILT AND THEN SOLD.

AT THIS TIME, WE'VE SOLD ALL EXCEPT FOR THE BUILDING WE'RE IN, BUT THE FOOTPRINT THAT WE LEAVE WHEREVER WE GO LETS YOU KNOW THAT OUR COMMITMENT IS BEYOND TRANSPORTATION.

IT'S TO RE-ENERGIZING NEIGHBORHOODS AND MAKING THINGS BETTER.

ALRIGHT, WHAT WE'RE BUILDING NEXT, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR.

SO BRIGHTLINE WEST, CONNECTING LAS VEGAS AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

SO THE FIRST THING, BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN SO MANY ITERATIONS OF THIS TRAIN, I HAVE PEOPLE I TALK TO IN LAS VEGAS ALL THE TIME, WHO THINK WE STILL JUST GO TO VICTORVILLE? NO, THE TRAIN.

WHEN BRIGHT LINE WEST CAME IN, THEY GOT THE PERMITS TO GO TO RANCHO CUCAMONGA BECAUSE RANCHO REPRESENTS WHERE ALL OF THIS TRANSIT IS GOING TO MEET.

SO THE ELECTRIC TRAINS THAT WE HAVE, HAVE ZERO AT GRADE CROSSINGS.

IN FLORIDA, WE HAVE CROSSINGS BECAUSE IT'S A FREIGHT RAIL, BUT THE TRAIN THAT IS COMING FROM VEGAS TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILL GO UP THE MEDIAN OF THE 15.

SO WHEN WE SAY PROTECTED CORRIDOR, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE REFERENCING.

SO WE'LL GO UP THE MIDDLE, MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY WITH STOPS ONLY AT OUR STATIONS.

IT'S 218 MILES FROM LAS VEGAS RANCHO.

WHEN YOU GET TO RANCHO, OUR STATION WILL BE BUILT RIGHT ABOVE THE METROLINK STATION.

SO YOU JUST COME DOWN THE ESCALATOR AND YOU CAN TAKE THE TRAIN AND GO WHEREVER METROLINK GOES, AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT SOME MORE LATER.

BUT IT SPEEDS UP TO 200 MILES PER HOUR, RECOGNIZING THAT THERE ARE SOME DIFFICULT AREAS ALONG THAT THAT WON'T GO ALL THE WAY TO 200.

UM, I, I WOULD HOPE THAT SOME OF THOSE AREAS DON'T GO ALL THE WAY TO 200.

I'VE DRIVEN THEM.

WE WANT TO BE SAFE.

BUT ON THE FLATLANDS WE CAN ACHIEVE TRUE HIGH SPEED RAIL, WHICH IS ACTUALLY 180 7.

WE'LL ACHIEVE THAT ALL THE WAY, BUT WE CAN GO UP TO 200 AND THEN IT'S THE 8.6 MILLION ONE WAY PASSENGERS.

SO WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE ON THE 15 ALL THE TIME GOING BOTH DIRECTIONS.

MY MOTHER LIVES HERE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, SO EVERY HOLIDAY, IT TOOK ME ALMOST NINE HOURS TO GET HOME FOR NEW YEAR'S BECAUSE I HAD TO GET HOME NEW YEAR'S EVE.

UM, AND SHE WAS LIKE, YOU SHOULD JUST STAY.

I'M LIKE, NO, I NEED TO BE HOME.

NEEDLESS TO SAY, I WAS ON THE HIGHWAY CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE MOVING.

BUT YOU SEE FROM VEGAS TO RANCHO WITH STOPS IN VICTOR VALLEY AND HESPERIA, THOSE TWO STOPS WILL BE INLINE STATIONS SIMILAR TO WHAT WE HAVE IN AVENTURA, BUT THE LARGER STATIONS ARE LAS VEGAS AND RANCHO.

ALRIGHT, ALL RIGHT.

THE BENEFITS OF HIGH SPEED RAIL AND BRIGHT LINE WEST.

FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS A NEW MARKET.

I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN THE TRAINS IN EUROPE OR IN ASIA.

I DID TAKE THE TRAIN FROM LONDON TO PARIS AND IT WAS AN EXPERIENCE.

I HAD FUN.

I TALKED MY NEIGHBOR TO DEATH.

THE PEOPLE WHO SAT IN FRONT OF ME, HIS PARTNER FELL ASLEEP AND I WAS STILL JUST DA DA DA.

BUT IT GAVE US A CHANCE TO COMMUNICATE IT.

IT'S SOMETHING YOU ENJOY AND IT'S TIME THAT WE HAVE IT, ESPECIALLY ON THE WEST COAST.

UM, IN DC I'VE TAKEN THE TRAIN FROM MARYLAND TO NEW YORK AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT PLACES.

BUT FOR US LOOKING AT CONNECTING CITY PAIRS, LAS VEGAS TO LA THIS IS THE BEGINNING AND IT'S THE BLUEPRINT.

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UM, YOU'LL SEE OTHER STATES ARE TALKING.

TEXAS IS EXCITED.

THEY'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO CONNECT AUSTIN AND DALLAS AND HOUSTON.

AND SO WE KNOW THIS IS THE BEGINNING AND IT'S THE KICKOFF.

ONE OF THE THINGS I'M MOST EXCITED ABOUT, UM, GROWING UP IN LAS VEGAS, MY FATHER IS A POSTAL WORKER.

MY MOM IS A TEACHER.

THERE ARE BIG UNION FOLKS.

AND WHEN WE CAME INTO THIS PROJECT, I ASKED, WHERE ARE WE AT WITH THE UNIONS? AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 10 BILLION IN ECONOMIC IMPACT.

AND IT'S RELATED TO THE JOBS.

IT'S A FULLY UNION PROJECT.

ALL OF OUR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, OUR JOBS ARE OUR UNION JOBS.

AND THEN THE 1000 PERMANENT OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE JOBS, I BELIEVE IT'S LIKE 92% OF THOSE ARE UNION JOBS.

SO THE IDEA IS WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE PROVIDING GOOD PAYING JOBS SO PEOPLE CAN MAKE A SUSTAINABLE LIVING.

LASTLY, GREEN AND SAFE.

CALIFORNIA'S AHEAD OF THE GAME HERE.

NEVADA'S TRYING TO CATCH UP.

BUT WHEN WE SAY EMISSION FREE TRAINS, UM, REDUCING THE CO2 THAT'S IN THE AIR AND LAS VEGAS, WE'RE IN A VALLEY AND I CAN LOOK OUT MY WINDOW SOME DAYS AND I JUST SEE THE DUST CLOUD AROUND OUR VALLEY BECAUSE WE'RE ALL IN THERE AND WE'RE DRIVING AND WE'RE DOING WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO SURVIVE.

BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO BE COGNITIVE OF, OF WHAT'S POSSIBLE AND HOW WE CAN REDUCE.

AND THAT'S WHAT THIS TRAIN DOES.

UM, WE SAY EQUAL TO 3 MILLION CARS OFF THE ROAD AND 16 SHORT HAUL FLIGHTS NOT FLOWN.

AGAIN.

I HEAR PEOPLE SAY, ARE YOU GUYS, IS THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY UPSET WITH YOU? NOT AT ALL.

PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS GONNA STILL FLY, BUT WE'RE JUST SHOWING A REDUCTION IN SOME OF THE TRAFFIC, WHICH WILL ALSO IMPACT THINGS THAT HAPPEN ON THE HIGHWAY SOMEHOW.

I DREW THE SHORT STRAW AND I WAS THERE FOR THE LITHIUM BATTERY FIRE TOO, BUT I WAS COMING TO CALIFORNIA, FORTUNATELY I WASN'T GOING.

UM, AND JUST TO SEE IT'S LIKE YOU WANTED TO WARN PEOPLE, STOP.

DON'T GO BECAUSE I FINALLY GOT THROUGH WHAT WAS THERE.

WE'RE JUST LOOKING FOR WAYS TO EASE THINGS ON THE 15 AND WE'RE JUST ONE OF THE OPTIONS THAT'S COMING.

ALRIGHT, SO OUR FLAGSHIP STATION IN LAS VEGAS, IF YOU LOOK DOWN IN THE BOTTOM CORNER, WE'RE AT THE START OF THE STRIP AND IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT WE GOT SOMEWHERE THAT GAVE ACCESS TO WHAT MAKES LAS VEGAS MOVE.

THE STRIP IS WHAT FUELS OUR ECONOMY AND WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE COMING IN FOR THAT.

AND YOU CAN SEE FROM THE STATION EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN GO TO THAT IS ALONG THE WAY.

UM, EVERYTHING FROM THE HOTELS AND CASINOS TO THE CONVENTION CENTERS.

WE HAVE A NEW AIRPORT THAT IS GOING TO BE DESIGNED THAT'S ON THE WAY.

UM, THE F1 PADDOCK, WE'RE GOING INTO OUR THIRD YEAR FOR F1 AND THEN THE SPHERE, WHICH I LOVE.

IT'S KIND OF SCARY WHEN YOU DRIVE UP ON IT.

AND IF THEY HAVE THAT EYE GOING, IT'S VERY SCARY.

BUT THE THINGS THAT ATTRACT PEOPLE TO LAS VEGAS, OUR STATION IS RIGHT THERE AND PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO EXIT OR THE HIGHWAY IS RIGHT THERE.

EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED TO GET TO IS WHERE OUR STATION IS.

AND SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT THAT'S GONNA COME IN, THOSE BUSINESSES WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT SAME ACCESS.

OUR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA STATION, AS I MENTIONED, IT'S ABOVE METRO LINK STATION AND WE'LL BE SYNCHRONIZING OUR SCHEDULES AND TRANSFER WITH THERE.

SO IT'S NOT THAT YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT A LONG TIME.

WE WANT PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO GET OFF OF BRIGHTLINE, GET RIGHT ONTO METRO LINK.

YOU'LL ALSO BE ABLE TO HAVE A SINGLE TICKET.

SO INSTEAD OF HAVING TO BOOK TWO SEPARATE TICKETS, YOU CAN BOOK ON THE BRIGHT BOOK ON THE BRIGHT LINE APP AND HAVE YOUR RIDE ALL THE WAY THROUGH NO MATTER WHERE YOU'RE GOING ALONG METROLINK.

SO IT'S NOT JUST THAT YOU'RE GOING INTO LA BUT WHATEVER HAPPENS IN BETWEEN THERE, WHEREVER THEY GO, YOU CAN BOOK DIRECTLY.

AND THEN OF COURSE ON WEEKENDS WE'LL HAVE EXPRESS TRAINS IN THE EVENING AND WEEKEND TRAINS ADDING TO WHAT WE NORMALLY DO BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT'S WHEN THERE'S THE MOST TRAFFIC.

BE DOING CROSS ADVERTISING ON BOTH SO PEOPLE KNOW AND JUST MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE KNOW THEY CAN GET TO UNION STATION BECAUSE THAT IS A HUB.

YOU'LL LOOK AND SEE THE PARKING GARAGE.

WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE GONNA PARK AND RIDE AND WE WANT TO HAVE PLENTY OF SPACE.

I'VE ALREADY HEARD FROM THE FOLKS IN HESPERIA THAT THEY DON'T THINK WE HAVE ENOUGH PARKING THERE.

SO WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS THERE.

BUT FOR THE ONE IN RANCHOS, 3,700 SPACES AND THEN ALSO THE DROP OFF FOR, UH, UBER AND RIDESHARE, I CALL IT ALL UBER.

UBER AND LYFT RIDESHARE.

UM, ONE OF THE THINGS WE SAW WITH THE ADVENT OF RIDESHARE WAS THAT A LOT OF PLACES DIDN'T HAVE PARKING AND IT BECAME A BURDEN, THE AIRPORTS AND DIFFERENT THINGS.

SO WE WANT TO BE THINKING OF THAT FROM THE BEGINNING AND MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE AS WELL AS BUS SERVICE.

OKAY, THE CONSTRUCTION.

SO WE HAVE NINE CONTRACTORS FOR THE NINE ZONES.

UM, THESE ARE OUR MAJOR PRIME CONTRACTORS AND UNDER THEM THEY WILL ALL HIRE THEIR OWN SUBS.

BUT IF YOU LOOK, AND THIS ONE ISN'T BROKEN DOWN BY EACH OF THEM, BUT THE FIRST CONTRACTOR IS FROM LAS VEGAS TO THE STATE LINE.

AND I I TELL PEOPLE IN NEVADA ALL THE TIME, ONLY 34 MILES OF THE RAIL IS ACTUALLY IN NEVADA.

THE MAJORITY OF THE RAIL IS IN CALIFORNIA.

BUT THE GRANT THAT WAS RECEIVED FROM

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THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAME THROUGH THE NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.

SO THAT SOMETIMES GETS MORE OF THE ATTENTION, BUT I REMIND PEOPLE ALL THE TIME, THE MAJORITY OF THIS HIGHWAY IS IN CALIFORNIA.

UM, YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENT PIECES.

WE HAVE NEVADA CIVIL, CALIFORNIA CIVIL NORTH CALIFORNIA, CIVIL, MIDDLE, CALIFORNIA, CIVIL SOUTH.

UM, EACH OF THESE REPRESENTS, UH, CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS THAT WILL BE COMING IN AND DOING THEIR SPECIFIC PIECES.

AND THEN THE STATIONS ARE LABELED BETWEEN THE VEHICLE MAINTENANCE FACILITIES.

I WILL, UH, TOUCH ON THAT.

THAT IS WHERE OUR TRAINS ARE SERVICED, CLEANED, ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN AROUND MAINTENANCE.

ONE IS IN SLOAN, NEVADA, WHICH WILL BE ADJACENT TO OUR NEW AIRPORT WHEN IT COMES IN.

AND THE OTHER IS RIGHT OUTSIDE OF APPLE VALLEY, SO CLOSE TO OUR VICTOR VALLEY STATION.

SO THE SUMMARY OF OUR CONTRACTORS, WE HAVEN'T ANNOUNCED ALL OF THEM YET, WE'RE IN THE FINAL STAGES OF OUR CONTRACT SIGNING, BUT WE'VE BROKEN IT UP, LIKE I SAID, INTO NINE KEY CONTRACTS.

SIEMENS HAS BEEN SIGNED ALREADY AND WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF THE FINAL STAGES OF NEGOTIATION.

SO EVERY DAY IN OUR OFFICE, WE HAVE CONTRACTORS IN DIFFERENT CONFERENCE ROOMS AND THEY ARE ALL WORKING IT OUT.

SO YOU CAN IMAGINE THOSE ARE GREAT CONVERSATIONS, BUT THEY'RE COMING TOGETHER SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE WE STICK TO THE TIMEFRAME AND THE BUDGET THAT WE HAVE SET.

SO IT'S 218 MILES OF HIGHWAY WORK AND THAT'S THE STRUCTURES GRADING TRACK AND BALLAST.

I WORKED FOR BRIGHT LINE FOR THREE MONTHS BEFORE I KNEW WHAT BALLAST WAS.

I FINALLY GOT UP THE COURAGE TO ASK IN A MEETING 'CAUSE THEY KEPT SAYING IT.

AND I'M LIKE, WHAT IS BALLAST? AND SO NOW I UNDERSTAND THAT IS THE ROCK THAT GOES THERE, BUT THE STRUCTURES ARE OUR STATIONS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT.

AND THOSE ARE GOING TO BE IN EACH OF THE COMMUNITIES THAT I LISTED BEFORE THE TRACKING SYSTEM, THE NEW TRAIN CONTROLS, THE SIGNAL SIGNALING, AND THE FACT THAT OUR STATION, OUR TRAINS RUN ON A OVERHEAD CANARY SYSTEM.

SO ALL OF THAT COMES IN.

AND THEN ROLLING STOCK.

THOSE ARE THE TRAINS THAT ARE BEING DEVELOPED BY SIEMENS.

THESE ARE BRAND NEW TRAINS.

THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THEM IN THE UNITED STATES.

AND WHILE OUR PROJECT IS A BUY AMERICA PROJECT, WE GOTTA BUY AMERICA WAIVER FOR OUR FIRST TWO TRAINS, WHICH WILL BE BUILT IN GERMANY, AND THEN OUR ENGINEERS OR SIEMENS ENGINEERS AND EVERYONE WILL GO OVER, LEARN HOW TO BUILD THE TRAINS AND THEN COME BACK TO THE US TO BUILD THE OTHER EIGHT.

AND THEN FINALLY, THE OTHER PROJECT COSTS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED.

I'M LEARNING A LOT ABOUT MOVING UTILITIES, THAT IS FUN, BUT THOSE ARE OTHER COSTS WITH PROJECT MANAGEMENT.

AND THEN THE OTHER SOFT COSTS RELATED TO FINANCING THE ROLLING STOP.

SO IT'S CALLED THE SIEMENS AMERICA PI, AMERICAN PIONEER TWO 20.

THAT IS A NEW TRAIN.

IT'S 450 PASSENGERS PER TRAIN.

AND WE CAN ACTUALLY COUPLE THE TRAINS.

SO WHEN THERE'S SOMETHING BIG HAPPENING IN CALIFORNIA, IF WE WANNA MOVE MORE PEOPLE, WE CAN COUPLE THE TRAINS TOGETHER AND WE'LL CHANGE THE SCHEDULE TO ACCOMMODATE.

UM, THERE'S 10 TRAIN SETS.

WE'RE ALREADY LOOKING AT FUNDING FOR MORE TRAIN SETS BECAUSE WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN FLORIDA IS WE NEED MORE TRAINS.

SO WE WANT TO START OFF STRONG AND THAT PROCESS IS HAPPENING NOW.

THIS IS WHERE THE STATION WILL BE WHEN SIEMENS WAS SELECTED.

UM, THE NEXT THING WAS TO ANNOUNCE IT AND WHERE WOULD IT BE? IT'S GOING TO BE BUILT IN UPSTATE NEW YORK.

UH, IT'S CALLED HORSEHEAD, NEW YORK.

NOT SOMETHING I HAD HEARD OF BEFORE, BUT THEY'RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH BUILDING TRAINS.

UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT, THERE'S MORE THAN 300 JOBS CREATED THERE AND THAT FACILITY WILL SPAN 300,000 SQUARE FEET.

THEY'VE ALREADY STARTED BUILDING THE FACILITY, THEY'RE GETTING READY.

WE, LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE PEOPLE GOING BACK AND FORTH TO GERMANY NOW TO LEARN HOW TO BUILD.

AND THEN THOSE TRAINS WILL BE TRUCKED OUT TO THE WEST AMERICAN MANUFACTURING BECAUSE WE ARE A BY AMERICA PROJECT.

ALL OF OUR SUPPLIES ARE BUILT IN THE UNITED STATES.

THOSE ARE THE STATES THAT JUST REPRE REPRESENT THE SUPPLIERS THAT WE ALREADY HAVE.

28 STATES ECONOMIC IMPACT ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

IT'S NOT JUST CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA, BUT ALL OF THOSE STATES REPRESENT SOMETHING THAT'S BEING BUILT FOR OUR TRAIN STATIONS AND OUR TRAINS IN THOSE INDIVIDUAL STATES.

SO WE JUST LIKE TO SHOW THAT THE SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK THAT WE'RE CREATING IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO SERVICE THE ENTIRE COUNTRY AS WE MOVE FORWARD.

OUR MILESTONES, THAT'S OUR GOVERNOR UP AT THE TOP, UH, GOVERNOR LOMBARDO FROM NEVADA, HE ATTENDED AND SPOKE AT OUR GROUNDBREAKING, WHICH WAS IN APRIL.

AND THEN WE SELECTED SIEMENS IN MAY, SEPTEMBER.

WE ANNOUNCED THE NEW YORK FACILITY AND THEN ALSO IN SEPTEMBER.

I JOKE I STARTED IN JANUARY OF 24 WHEN WE ANNOUNCED THE GRANT.

AND SO, UH, A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHEN YOU GET A FEDERAL GRANT, THEY DON'T JUST WRITE A CHECK, YOU GO THROUGH A SYSTEM OF NEGOTIATING.

AND THAT NEGOTIATING TOOK ABOUT NINE MONTHS.

WE WERE ABLE TO FINALIZE THAT NEGOTIATING.

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AND RIGHT NOW WE ARE, WE'VE JUST FINISHED OUR FIRST ROUND OF PRIVATE ACTIVITY BOND FINANCING.

SO THAT'S ALLOWING US TO MOVE FORWARD.

YOU'LL SEE IN THE BOTTOM PICTURE WE HAD THE NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA DELEGATION THAT CAME OUT TO SUPPORT AT THE GROUNDBREAKING.

AND WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT'S TO COME.

UM, JUST LIKE I SAID, EVERY DAY I WAS IN A MEETING TODAY ABOUT WHAT'S NEXT AND WHAT'S COMING.

OUR CONTRACTORS, ONCE THEY FINALIZE, THEY'RE BRINGING ON SUBS.

I HAVE WORKED WITH, UM, ALL OF THE ONES.

I SEND THEM A LIST.

AS WE GET INTERESTED SUBCONTRACTORS AND VENDORS, THEY'RE ADDED TO OUR LIST AND THEY'RE SENT OUT TO OUR CONTRACTORS SO THAT PEOPLE CAN BE SELECTED ALONG THE ALIGNMENT TO SUPPORT THE PROJECT.

AND LASTLY, THAT'S JUST OUR INFORMATION.

BEN PORT IS IN OUR FLORIDA OFFICE.

ANTONIO IS IN OUR VEGAS OFFICE.

ME, AND THAT'S WHERE I'M AT.

I ALWAYS INCLUDE OUR SOCIAL MEDIA BECAUSE, UH, I'M SURE YOU GUYS EXPERIENCE THIS.

PEOPLE MAKE THEIR OWN VIDEOS AND THEIR OWN WEBSITES AND ATTRIBUTE THEM TO US, WHICH IS NOT NECESSARILY TRUE.

WE HAVE SOME VERY EXCITED TRAIN ENTHUSIASTS THAT I'M LEARNING ABOUT THAT TAKE THE TIME AND FLY DRONES AND MAKE THEIR OWN VIDEOS AND THEN THEY POST IT LIKE IT'S GOSPEL.

BUT THE REALITY IS THOSE ARE OUR SITES.

SO THAT IS JUST A BRIEF UPDATE ON BRIGHT LINE WEST.

UM, IN THE NEXT THREE TO FOUR, THREE, I SAY THREE TO FIVE MONTHS, YOU'RE GONNA SEE A LOT IN TERMS OF CONSTRUCTION.

WE'RE FINALIZING OUR GEOTECHNICAL WORK.

SOMETHING ELSE I LEARNED ABOUT, I TELL PEOPLE I'M A LIBERAL ARTS MAJOR, SO COMING INTO CONSTRUCTION HAS BEEN FUN.

BUT I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT CALICHE AND DIFFERENT THINGS IN THE GROUND AND HOW HARD IT IS TO DIG.

BUT WE ARE FINALIZING THAT IN CALIFORNIA.

I HAVE SOME STUFF GOING ON IN FONTANA RIGHT NOW, BUT THE TRAIN PROJECT IS GOING WELL.

IT'S GOING STRONG.

I KNOW THERE'S BEEN CONCERNS WITH SOME OF THE TRANSITIONS, BUT WE HAVE SUPPORT.

UM, WE'VE MET WITH SECRETARY DUFFY SEVERAL TIMES.

HE'S CALLED OUT OUR PROJECT, UM, AND HAS, THEY'VE CONTINUED THE SUPPORT.

SO WE ARE GLAD TO SEE THAT HAPPENING AND WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT WHAT THIS BRINGS, NOT JUST FOR US, BUT FOR HIGH SPEED RAIL ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

ANYONE HAVE QUESTIONS? YES.

THANK YOU MR. MAYOR.

FIRST OF ALL, GREAT PRESENTATION.

UM, I WAS VERY FORTUNATE AS PRESIDENT OF S-B-C-T-A.

I GOT TO GO TO A NEWS CONFERENCE ABOUT ALMOST A YEAR AGO.

AND, UH, WE WERE BASICALLY TALKING ABOUT CALIFORNIA HIGH-SPEED RAIL.

UH, WHAT I LIKE ABOUT IT IS THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY STARTING IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS.

SO WE'RE NOT STARTING IN VEGAS AND GOING ALL THE WAY TO CALIFORNIA.

LIKE YOU SAID, THERE'S GONNA BE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS WHERE WE'RE GONNA START AND WE'RE GONNA MEET IN THE MIDDLE.

BUT WHAT I REALLY LIKED ABOUT THIS, UH, TRAIN, HIGH SPEED RAIL, IT'S ACTUALLY GONNA BE A COMMUTER TRAIN TOO, MEANING THAT FROM VICTORVILLE, HESPERIA COMING DOWN TO RANCHO, WE WILL HAVE A SET AMOUNT OF SEATS MM-HMM .

JUST FOR COMMUTERS GOING DOWN THE HILL AND THEN COMING BACK IN THE EVENING.

SO I WAS VERY HAPPY THAT WE WORKED TOGETHER ON THAT.

ALSO, S-B-C-T-A WILL BE BASICALLY BUILDING TWO STATIONS, ONE IN VICTORVILLE AND THEN ONE IN HESPERIA.

AND YOU HAVE BEEN JUST A GREAT PARTNER DEALING WITH CALIFORNIA AND I'M SO EXCITED.

I KNOW THE GOAL INITIALLY WAS TO BE OPEN BEFORE THE OLYMPICS.

THAT WAS THE GOAL.

AND NOW IT'S POSSIBLY GONNA BE RIGHT AROUND THAT TIME OR THE END OF 2028.

IT'S GONNA BE THE END OF 2028.

UM, UNFORTUNATELY WITH THE WAY THINGS HAVE GONE AND THEIR SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES AND ALL THESE THINGS, THAT 2028 WOULD'VE BEEN GREAT.

I, I LOOK FORWARD TO THE OLYMPICS AND I LOOK FORWARD TO HOW THEY'RE GONNA HAVE A CARLESS OLYMPICS AND WE WANTED TO BE A PART OF THAT.

BUT THE TIMEFRAME IS JUST NOT GONNA WORK FOR US.

SO IT'S GONNA BE THE END OF 2028.

AND THE STATIONS THAT YOU MENTIONED, WE'RE GONNA HAVE DESIGNATED TIMES JUST FOR COMMUTERS.

SO ALONG WITH THOSE TRAINS, WE HAVE EARLIER TIMES DURING THE WEEK SO THAT PEOPLE CAN GET TO AND FROM WORK EARLIER AND LATER.

SPECIFIC TO MOVING BETWEEN THE HIGH DESERT AND THE LOW DESERT.

AND I HAVE RIDDEN THE TRAIN FROM ORLANDO TO WEST PALM BEACH.

GOOD.

AND I KNOW IT GOES WITH 150, 180 MILES AN HOUR.

AND IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE YOU'RE GOING VERY FAST AT ALL.

IT IT'S A SMOOTH RIDE.

IT'S A SMOOTH RIDE.

ALL OF OUR TRAINS ARE ALSO A DA COMPLIANT.

THEY'RE WIDE AISLES.

YOU CAN GET A WHEELCHAIR UP AND DOWN THE AISLES.

IT'S COMFORTABLE.

UM, I JOKE ABOUT THIS, BUT OUR BATHROOMS HAVE WON AWARDS ALREADY JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE SPACIOUS AND THEY'RE TOUCH FREE BECAUSE A LOT OF THIS HAPPENED AROUND THE PANDEMIC TIME.

SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO TOUCH ANYTHING AND YOU KNOW IT, IT'S VERY SPACIOUS, IT'S COMFORTABLE.

YOU CAN ALSO CHECK YOUR LUGGAGE.

UM, YOU CAN BRING YOUR LUGGAGE ON OR YOU CAN CHECK YOUR LUGGAGE.

UM, IF YOU WANT TO, AND WE'RE WORKING IN LAS VEGAS TO MAKE SURE THAT EVEN YOUR LUGGAGE COULD MOVE STRAIGHT TO YOUR CASINO OR IF YOU'RE GOING TO A CASINO, THAT'S COOL.

I'M WORKING WITH THEM BECAUSE EVERYBODY WANTS TO BRAND IT THEMSELVES.

WE ALSO HAVE A PARTY CAR, UM, IN VEGAS.

WE HAVE A OCULUS WHERE YOU CAN LOOK IN AND SEE WHAT THE PARTY CARD WILL LOOK LIKE AND PEOPLE CAN RENT THAT FOR BACHELOR PARTIES OR RAIDERS GAMES OR WHATEVER THEY'RE COMING OUT FOR, OR RAMS GAMES, WHATEVER THEY'RE COMING OUT FOR.

UM, AND IT HAS A BAR AND IT IT GIVES YOU THAT VEGAS FEEL.

BUT IT, IT CAN ALSO, THE COLORS WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING.

WE WANNA MAKE IT, UM, SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE CAN ENJOY BECAUSE AGAIN, IT'S ABOUT CUSTOMER

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SERVICE.

ANYONE ELSE? THANK YOU.

JUST A QUICK QUESTION.

UM, I DON'T KNOW, I, I'M A FAN OF SOUTHWEST WHEN IT COMES TO QUICK FLIGHTS FROM ONTARIO TO VEGAS, WHAT, I GUESS WHAT'S THE PRICE POINT AT, AT LEAST RIGHT NOW IN TERMS OF GOING FROM, UH, RANCHO TO VEGAS FROM THE BRIBE WINE? SO THAT WAS A, WE HAD A BIG THING AT PROBABLY ABOUT NINE MONTHS AGO WHERE PEOPLE WERE LIKE, OH, IT'S GONNA BE $400 EACH WAY.

WE WILL HAVE DYNAMIC PRICING.

AND WE DON'T HAVE AN EXACT PRICE BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T BUILT A TRAINING YET, BUT THEY'RE AVERAGING BASED.

ONT PARK IT FOR ME IF I'M NOT ON THE RAIDERS PARTY.

THEY'RE, THEY'RE BASING IT ABOUT PARTY BUS 125 EACH WAY.

SO, I MEAN, EVEN THE CHANGES WITH SOUTHWEST TODAY, THEY ANNOUNCED THAT THEY'RE CHARGING FOR BAGS AND THE INTERNET IS UPSET.

YEAH, I TOO AM UPSET.

BUT NO, UM, SO IT IS, IT, IT WILL STILL BE.

AND WHAT WE LOOK AT IS THE TIME WHEN YOU GO AND NOW COUNSEL, WHEN YOU TOOK THE TRAIN, YOU CAN WALK IN FIVE MINUTES BEFORE YOUR TRAIN, GET ON AND GO.

YOU'RE SPENDING 45 MINUTES OF PARKING LOT AND THEN YOU GOTTA GO THROUGH TSA AND YES, WHATNOT.

AND WE DO HAVE SECURITY.

WE DO HAVE, YOU GO THROUGH YOUR BAGS, GO THROUGH AND IT IS TS ALIKE, BUT IT'S NOT TSA BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE SAFE MM-HMM .

BUT ALSO YOU DON'T HAVE TO HANG OUT NOW IF YOU DO, WE HAVE LOVELY LOUNGES.

I HOPE YOU GOT TO EXPERIENCE THE LOUNGES, UM, THAT YOU CAN GO IN AND WE HAVE THE PREMIUM LOUNGE AND THEN WE HAVE THE, THE REGULAR LOUNGE, WHICH IS STILL VERY NICE.

AND THE PREMIUM, YOUR FOOD AND DRINKS ARE FREE.

AND THE OTHER LOUNGE YOU DO PAY, BUT IT IS NOT, UM, IT'S NOT NEARLY AIRPORT PRICES, I'LL TELL YOU THAT.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU ASHA.

QUICK QUESTION.

I KNOW IN JUST LOOKING AT THE, THE PICTURES, IT APPEARS THAT THEY HAVE A HEAD END, IF YOU WILL, ON BOTH ENDS OF THE TRAIN.

IS THAT BECAUSE YOU DON'T DO REALLY A, AN ACTUAL ROUNDHOUSE TYPE OF TURNAROUND AT EACH END? THAT YOU WILL BE GOING FORWARDS AND BASICALLY THE BACK OF THE TRAIN WILL BE GOING FORWARD ON THE RETURN TRIP? IS THAT HOW THAT WORKS? AS I UNDERSTAND IT, YES.

A LIBERAL ARTS MAJOR HERE, BUT YES, AS I UNDERSTAND IT AND I CAN GET EXACT CLARITY FOR YOU ON THAT, BUT YES, NOT A PROBLEM.

IT LOOKS LIKE A PRETTY NICE DESIGN.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? RIGHT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ING THANK ING.

THANK YOU ALL.

THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

UH, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER

[ PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER REPORT]

REPORT.

LIKE TO READ, UH, THE INSTRUCTIONS PLEASE, CHERYL? YES, I WILL.

AND GOOD EVENING MAYOR, COUNCIL AND RESIDENCE.

JUST A FEW QUICK ANNOUNCEMENTS TONIGHT.

HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS AND SENIORS ARE INVITED TO APPLY FOR THE STUDENT MEMBER POSITION ON THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION.

THE COMMISSION MEETS MONTHLY TO DISCUSS TOPICS RELATED TO PARKS, TRAILS, COMMUNITY EVENTS AND MORE APPLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE AND ARE DUE BY APRIL 4TH.

A PORTION OF ENGLISH ROAD NEAR THE WEST END OF THE STREET WILL BE CLOSED MARCH 17TH THROUGH 28TH TO ALLOW CREWS TO WORK SAFELY ACROSS ENGLISH CREEK AS PART OF THE ENGLISH ROAD RECYCLED WATERLINE PROJECT.

THERE WILL BE NO PEDESTRIAN OR VEHICLE ACCESS TO THIS PORTION OF THE ROAD OR THE MCCOY LOOP.

DURING THESE DATES, COMMUNITY MEMBERS CAN DO A MODIFIED VERSION OF THE MCCOY LOOP TRAIL STARTING FROM THE COMMUNITY CENTER OR COMMUNITY PARK, OR ENJOY ONE OF THE CITY'S MANY OTHER TRAILS DURING THESE DATES.

AND LASTLY, THE PARKING LOT AT LLANO PARK WILL BE CLOSED MARCH 18TH, 19TH, AND 26TH TO COMPLETE ADDITIONAL PARKING LOT RESURFACING WORK.

ALL PARK AMENITIES WILL REMAIN OPEN AND PARKING WILL BE AVAILABLE ALONG AVI LANE.

AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PIO REPORT AND I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

UH, WE HAD NO PUBLIC OR, OR EXCUSE ME, CLOSED SESSION TONIGHT.

SO THERE'LL BE NO RE NOTHING TO REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION 'CAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE ONE.

UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS.

WOULD YOU

[4. PUBLIC COMMENTS: At this time members of the public may address the City Council regarding any item appearing on the agenda, except that testimony on Public Hearing items must be provided during those hearings. Members of the public may also address the Parks and Recreation Commissioners as it relates to Item No. 10, Pinehurst Park Community Center and Splash Pad Project only. Those persons wishing to address the City Council or Parks and Recreation Commissioners must complete and submit to the Deputy City Clerk a "Request to Speak" card available at the entrance to the City Council Chambers. Comments will be limited to a maximum of three minutes per speaker. The time allotted per person may vary depending on the total number of speaker cards received. This comment period will generally be limited to 30 minutes per meeting, so not all members of the public may have the opportunity to speak at every council meeting.]

AT THIS TIME, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL REGARDING ANY ITEM APPEARING ON THE AGENDA, EXCEPT TESTIMONY ON PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS WHICH MUST BE PROVIDED DURING THOSE HEARINGS.

MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY ALSO ADDRESS THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSIONERS AS IT RELATES TO ITEM NUMBER NINE, PINEHURST PARK COMMUNITY CENTER AND SPLASH PAD PROJECT ONLY.

THOSE PERSONS WISHING TO ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL OR THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSIONERS MUST COMPLETE AND SUBMIT TO THE DEPUTY CITY CLERK A REQUESTED SPEAK CARD AVAILABLE AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS REQUEST TO, I'M SORRY, COMMENTS WILL BE LIMITED TO A MAXIMUM OF THREE MINUTES PER SPEAKER.

AT THIS TIME, WE DO NOT HAVE ANY SPEAKER CARDS FOR THIS PORTION OF OUR PUBLIC COMMENTS.

ALRIGHT, I WILL JUST ASK IF THERE'S ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WANTS TO SPEAK DURING THIS PORTION BUT DIDN'T GET A CARD IN.

IF NOT, WE WILL MOVE ON.

UH,

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

JUST TO LET EVERYONE KNOW, UH, CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND THE VINE ACT ANNOUNCEMENTS, ANY OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ANYTHING THAT WOULD BE DISQUALIFYING? NONE.

ALL.

TO CITY BUSINESS, WE HAVE FOUR UH, ITEMS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR TONIGHT.

MOVING RIGHT ALONG

[ CONSENT CALENDAR (4 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.]

UH, ANY DISCUSSION OR QUESTIONS BY THE STAFF? ALL RIGHT, I'LL MOVE THE ITEM.

ALRIGHT, A MOTION TO ONE SECOND.

NEXT ITEM WHAT CHERYL? UH, WE NEXT

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ITEM IS OUR DISCUSSION

[9. Joint Item with Parks and Recreation Commission - Discuss Pinehurst Park Community Center and Splash Pad Project, located at 5800 Park Drive, and authorize staff to continue with design process]

CALENDAR.

UM, THIS IS GOING TO BE A JOINT ITEM WITH OUR PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION.

WE'RE GOING TO BE DISCUSSING THE PINEHURST PARK COMMUNITY CENTER AND SPLASH PAD PROJECT LOCATED AT 5,800 PARK DRIVE AND AUTHORIZED STAFF TO CONTINUE WITH, UH, DESIGN PROCESS.

UH, CITY MANAGER MONTGOMERY IS GOING TO INTRODUCE THE ITEM, UH, PRESENTATION AND WE WILL HAVE OPPORTUNITY FOR A COUNCIL OR COMMISSION.

COMMENTS.

UH, WOULD IT BE APPROPRIATE TO GIVE A ROLL CALL FOR THE PARKS AND REC? YES, WE COULD DO THAT.

YES.

FORGIVE ME FOR GETTING THE NAMES.

UH, COMMISSIONER AVILA.

SORRY.

HI.

LET ME GRAB MY PAPERWORK HERE.

SO YOU'LL WRITTEN SAY I, OR HERE WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME.

COMMISSIONER JACKSON? HERE.

I'M SORRY.

COMMISSIONER HOLT CAMP HERE.

COMMISSIONER GLA.

HERE.

COMMISSIONER JAMES PEREZ AND COMMISSIONER HIGGINS HERE.

ALL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT OF THE PARKS AND REC COMMISSION.

ALRIGHT, GOOD.

AND I WILL MENTION THAT GREG HIGGINS IS THE CHAIR.

AND SAMANTHA JAMES PEREZ IS THE VICE CHAIR OF THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION.

MAYOR BENNETT, COULD I ASK FOR, UH, SOME CLARIFICATION BEFORE WE BEGIN? SO I KNOW WE'RE GETTING A STAFF PRESENTATION ON THIS AND IT LOOKS LIKE A PRETTY LENGTHY PRESENTATION AND WE HAVE A JOINT WITH OUR PARKS AND REC COMMISSION.

SO I JUST WANNA BE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT, UM, SO WE DON'T GET LOST OR I DON'T GET LOST IN THE WEEDS ABOUT OUR PURPOSE OF DISCUSSION.

AT WHAT LEVEL OF DISCUSSION? 'CAUSE I KNOW AT SOME POINT THIS IS GONNA GO BACK TO PARKS AND REC.

SO WHAT ARE THE EXPECTATIONS FROM OUR STAFF? WHAT DO THEY WANT FROM US TONIGHT BEFORE WE GO FORWARD? CAN I GET SOME CLARIFICATION? AND I THINK BEN IS GONNA OUTLINE THAT EXACT, NOT ONLY THE PROCESS, BUT WHAT IS EXPECTED, UH, TO COME OUT OF THIS.

THANK YOU MAYOR.

COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN.

UH, THAT'S A PERFECT, UH, KIND OF SEGUE INTO THE NEXT PART OF OUR, UH, PRESENTATION.

UH, IT'S BEEN SINCE JUNE OF 2024.

THE LAST TIME WE ALL CAME TOGETHER TO SPEAK ABOUT THIS PROJECT IN PUBLIC, WHERE WE ESTABLISHED A, A BASELINE BUDGET.

SINCE THAT TIME, UH, REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE CITY MANAGERS OFFICE, THE CITY, UH, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND RECREATION, ALONG WITH OUR PARTNERS AT RJM MM-HMM HAVE BEEN WORKING TO DEVELOP, UH, A MORE, UH, FULLY UH, UH, FLESHED OUT, UH, PROPOSAL FOR THE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER.

UH, TONIGHT WE HAVE BOTH THE CITY COUNCIL AND OUR PARKS AND REC COMMISSION BECAUSE WE'RE LOOKING FOR COMMENTS ON THE DESIGN, YOUR PERSPECTIVE ON THE WAY THE PROJECT IS MOVING FORWARD.

THE ONLY ACTION, THOUGH WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS, UH, THE COUNCIL'S, UH, DIRECTION TO CONTINUE WITH THE, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT.

WE ARE AT A VERY, UH, YOU KNOW, SUBSTANTIAL POINT.

UH, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

WE ALREADY HAVE SUFFICIENT, UH, BUDGET ALLOCATED TO THIS, SO WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO REALLOCATE DOLLARS.

WE'LL BRING THAT BACK TO THE COUNCIL, UH, ONCE WE'RE STARTING A LITTLE FURTHER.

UH, ALONG, UM, WE ARE HOLDING THIS AS A JOINT MEETING BECAUSE THIS IS WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF THE PARKS AND REC COMMISSION AND WE WANTED TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT BODY AT THE SAME TIME AS THE COUNCIL TO PROVIDE ANY, UH, INPUT.

UH, AND SO WE'LL GO OVER, WE'VE UH, UH, GOT A REPRESENTATIVES FROM RJM, UH, HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE PROJECT.

WE HAVE SOME GREAT SLIDES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, BUT, UH, WITH THAT I WOULD, UH, YOU KNOW, KICK IT OFF AFTER THE COUNCIL HAS ANY COMMENTS NOW, UH, TO OUR TEAM TO MAKE THE PRESENTATION.

WITH RESPECT TO ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, WOULD YOU LIKE US TO HOLD THOSE UNTIL THE END OF THE PRESENTATION OR WOULD YOU LIKE US TO, UH, SOMEHOW LET YOU KNOW THAT WE HAVE A QUESTION? WHAT'S THE QUESTION? I, I THINK WE'LL, WE'LL ROLL WITH THE QUESTIONS AS THEY COME.

UH, ALRIGHT.

THE BUILDING INTEGRATING WITH THE PARK AND THE SPLASH SPRAY PAD INTEGRATING WITH THE BUILDING, IT, IT JUST ALL FEELS LIKE IT BELONGS.

JUST GIVING US ALL GUIDANCE AND, AND THE PARTS AND REC GUIDANCE.

ALRIGHT, GO RIGHT AHEAD.

ALL ALRIGHT, LARRY, COME ON DOWN.

GOOD EVENING.

UH, MR. MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, IT'S OUR, UH, SINCERE PLEASURE TO BE BACK HERE IN FRONT OF YOU WITH THIS, UH, EXCITING PROJECT.

IT'S HAD A LONG GESTATION PERIOD, UH, AND THE NAVIGATING THAT JOURNEY WITH JONATHAN AND, YOU KNOW, OVER THE YEARS, IT, IT REALLY FEELS LIKE A, A, A WATERSHED MOMENT TO BE HERE WITH A TANGIBLE PROJECT THAT HAS SOME GREAT IMAGERY AND LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR, UH, COMMENTS AFTER SEEING THE PRESENTATION.

WITH THAT, I'M GONNA ASK THAT THE, UH, OVERALL VIDEO, UH, BE INITIATED AND THEN I'LL WALK YOU THROUGH THE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND THEN OUR ARCHITECT, UH, ERICA FROM CHELON, WE WILL WALK YOU THROUGH THE BUILDING AND THEN WE'LL BE AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.

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GREAT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE PINEHURST PARK SITE, THIS IS JUST A INTRODUCTORY GRAPHIC TO SHOW YOU WHERE IT IS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE OVERALL CITY.

AND TO GIVE IT A, ITS BIGGEST POINT OF REFERENCE, IT'S ADJACENT TO THE HIGHWAY 71.

YOU CAN SEE IT AS YOU DRIVE BY EITHER DIRECTION.

THIS SHOWS THE, UH, EXISTING PARK TO THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE EXHIBIT, UH, VERY SUCCESSFUL PROJECT.

AND THEN THE EXPANSION AREA IS TO THE LEFT.

WE'RE BASICALLY COMING IN OFF OF THE SAME POINT OF ACCESS FOR VEHICULAR UH, TRAFFIC AT THE CUL-DE-SAC.

AND WE'RE GONNA GO TO THE WEST OR TO THE LEFT TO EXPAND THE PARKING LOT AREA.

THIS IS, UH, AN ENLARGEMENT OF THAT EXPANSION AREA.

IT SHOWS THE PARKING LOT.

IT SHOWS THE SPLASH SPRAY PAD AREA, THE COMMUNITY CYLINDER BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY THE WHITE COLOR.

AND THEN AT THE TOP LEFT HAS AN OPTIONAL OVERFLOW PARKING AREA THAT'S CREATED.

WE'RE TRYING TO, UH, AS EFFICIENTLY AS POSSIBLE INTEGRATE THE PROPOSED WITH THE EXISTING, AND WE'RE EXTENDING, UH, THE PARKING LOT, BUT KEEPING THE WALKWAY TO THE SOUTH OR TO THE LEFT BOTTOM OF THE SITE.

UH, THEN WE'RE ALSO CONNECTING THE, THE WALKWAY TO THE EXISTING PARK WALKWAY WITH THE GOAL BEING THAT IT WOULD BE A SEAMLESS ADDITION TO THE PARK AND JUST BE WELL INTEGRATED.

THIS IS A VIEW FROM THE, THE CUL-DE-SAC COMING INTO THE, THE COMMUNITY CENTER.

YOU'RE DRIVING ALONG THE ACCESS DRIVE.

THIS IS, UH, SHOWING THE, UH, SPLASH SPRAY PAD AREA, UH, WAITING AREA ENTRY INTO THE COMMUNITY CENTER, A A VIEW BACK TOWARDS THE ENTRY INTO THE SPLASH SPRAY PAD AREA.

IT HAS AMPLE STAGING WAITING ROOM, UH, OUTSIDE THAT'S COVERED FOR, UH, PATRONS TO WAIT IF THEY'RE, UH, IS THAT A CAPACITY CONDITION? AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE WAITING TO GET THEIR NEXT TURN AT ENTRY.

THIS, WHEN WE WERE WORKING WITH STAFF, YOU KNOW, THE DISCUSSION WAS, WHAT IF THIS IS ONLY GONNA BE OPEN A COUPLE MONTHS, A YEAR? WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE DURING THOSE CLOSED MONTHS? AND WE CAME UP WITH THE IDEA THAT WE COULD CREATE A TWO ZONE AREA, ONE BEING THE, THE SOAK ZONE, WHICH IS MORE THE TYPICAL SPLASH SPRAY INTERACTIVE AREA.

BUT THEN WE CAME UP WITH ANOTHER AREA CALLED THE WATER EXPLORATION.

AND IT USES MORE EDUCATIONAL, UH, PIECES OF EQUIPMENT, VERY UNIQUE IN THEIR DESIGN.

UH, LOOKS LIKE, YOU KNOW, PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS, ARCHIMEDES WHEEL, THINGS LIKE THAT WHERE THE KIDS CAN INTEGRATE WITH THOSE, THE WATER ELEMENTS AND, UH, YOU KNOW, AT THE SAME TIME GETTING WET, BUT NOT THE OVERHEAD DUMP BUCKETS THAT YOU TYPICALLY SEE.

THIS SHOWS THE INDOOR OUTDOOR RELATIONSHIPS OF THE BUILDING, THE VIEWS OUT TO THE SPLASH SPRAY PAD AREA.

THERE'S A NICE OVERVIEW THAT SHOWS THE INTEGRATION OF THE BUILDING WITH THE SPLASH SPRAY PAD.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF IN THE DESIGN IS THAT THIS DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A, A SPRAY SPLASH AREA THAT YOU WOULD SEE ON A, A POOL DECK AT A HIGH SCHOOL.

THIS LOOKS LIKE A PARK WITH A WATER FEATURE IN IT.

SO THE WHOLE COMPLEXION OF

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IT IS A PARK FIRST, SOME VIEWS OF THE, THE VARIOUS SPRAY , MORE CONVENTIONAL, UM, SOAK ZONE WATER TREATMENT.

WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF PARK-LIKE AREA INSIDE THE SPLASH ZONE.

SO IF YOU'RE THERE FOR SEVERAL HOURS WATCHING YOUR CHILD OR CHILDREN, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A NICE PLACE TO SIT ON THE LAWN OR YOU KNOW, IN THE SHADE SO YOU CAN ENJOY THE ENVIRONMENT THERE.

YOU'RE NOT SITTING IN A, YOU KNOW, JUST IN A PARKING LOT OR IN A CONCRETE PLAZA.

THIS IS THAT, UH, UM, SPECIALTY AREA, THE EXPLORATION ZONE WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE WATER RUNS, LIKE THROUGH A A CREATED CHANNEL.

THERE'S SPRAY THINGS, UH, AND TURNING DEVICES THAT LIFT WATER AND, AND ALLOW THE CHILDREN TO INTEGRATE WITH IT.

SOME NICE OVERVIEW IMAGERY OF WHAT WE'RE ENVISIONING.

AND WITH THAT, I'M GONNA ASK OUR ARCHITECT, ERICA FROM CHELON TO COME UP AND WALK YOU THROUGH THE BUILDING DEVELOPMENT.

THANK YOU, LARRY.

GOOD EVENING.

MY NAME IS ERICA VAL, I'M A DESIGN PRINCIPAL AT A SALON ARCHITECTURE, AND I'M GONNA WALK YOU THROUGH THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND THE PROGRAMMING THAT, UH, WE'VE BEEN DEVELOPING.

JUST TO START OFF, TO GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF THE FLOOR PLAN, UH, THE TOTAL BUILDING SQUARE FOOTAGE IS 11,138 SQUARE FEET.

ANY HOUSES, BOTH THE PROGRAM THAT SUPPORTS THE PA SPLASH PAD AREA AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY CENTER.

THIS IS A VIEW, UH, UH, LARRY ALREADY SHARED SOME VIEWS, BUT THIS IS LOOKING FROM THE DROP OFF.

ONE OF THE ELEMENTS THAT WE WERE LOOKING, UH, WHILE DESIGNING WAS ENSURING THAT THERE'S VISIBILITY TO BOTH ENTRANCES OF THE PROGRAM FROM THE DROP OFF, SO YOU CAN SEE YOUR KIDS GOING INTO THE SPLASH PAD OR THE COMMUNITY CENTER.

UM, EQUALLY JUST TO GET INTO A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ON THE PROGRAM OF THE BUILDING, UH, STARTING OFF WITH THIS SPLASH PAD PROGRAM, UH, IT'S JUST UNDER A THOUSAND SQUARE FEET DEDICATED TO, UH, THAT PROGRAM WITH THE DETACHED BUILDING ON THE TOP RIGHT, UH, LEFT CORNER THAT IS HOUSING MORE OF THE BACK OF HOUSE ELEMENTS LIKE THE MECHANICAL ROOM, THE BACK, UM, STORAGE, AS WELL AS SOME, UH, OUTDOOR SHOWERS SERVING THE, UM, SPLASH PAD.

AND THEN ATTACHED TO THE COMMUNITY BUILDING, YOU HAVE THE, UH, RESTROOMS. UH, EVEN THOUGH THIS PROGRAMS IS VERY INTERTWINED, WE WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THERE ISN'T REALLY A DIRECT ACCESS FROM THE SPLASH PAD TO THE ACTUAL COMMUNITY BUILDING.

AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WORKED WITH STAFF TO MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW, SECURITY WISE THAT, UH, STAFF IS ALWAYS LOOKING AT WHO'S COMING IN AND OUT OF THE BUILDING AS WELL AS YOU DON'T HAVE PEOPLE RUNNING, UH, WET AND CAUSING, UH, POTENTIAL DANGERS, UM, DANGERS TO HAVING, UH, SPACES WET AND PEOPLE FALLING FOR ANY REASON.

DOESN'T THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA REQUIRE RESTROOMS ROOMS ACCESSIBLE TO THE SPLASH PAD AREAS? THEY ARE.

SO THE, THE CIRCLE, THE BOTTOM CIRCLE, THE LARGER IN THE BOTTOM, THAT'S THE RESTROOMS ACCESSED DIRECTLY TO, I'M JUST POINTING OUT THAT WHEN WE WERE FIRST TALKING ABOUT THIS INTERNALLY, UH, ONE OF THE STRUGGLES WAS, OKAY, IF WE JUST PUT IN A SPLASH PAD, WE WERE STILL GONNA HAVE TO PUT IN A RESTROOM TYPE FACILITY.

SO ALL OF A SUDDEN WE STARTED TALKING A LITTLE BIT BROADER AS FAR AS PERSPECTIVE OF, OF WHAT WE SHOULD PUT IN FOR AMENITIES.

CORRECT.

AND WE'VE INCORPORATED A LITTLE BIT OF A CHANGING AREA ALSO INSIDE THAT, THAT RESTROOM.

SO IT ALLOWS, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE YOUR KIDS AND YOU WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THEY, THEY GO OUT, THEY, THEY CAN CHANGE.

SAME VEIN.

WHOOPS.

EXCUSE ME.

IN THAT SAME VEIN, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO, TO NOTE THAT THERE IS A SEPARATE ENTRANCE, WHICH WOULD BE THE ABSOLUTE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THIS DRAWING, UH, INTO THE FACILITY ITSELF.

THERE ARE SEPARATE RESTROOMS WITHIN THE FACILITY, AND THE ONLY ACCESS OUT TO THE SPLASH PAD AREA IS THE HALLWAY DOWN THROUGH THE, UH, OFFICE SPACE, WHICH WOULD NOT BE FOR GENERAL ACCESS.

AND THERE ARE TWO ENTRANCES OUT FROM THE TEEN CENTER THAT GO OUT THERE.

THE, ALL OF THE RESTROOMS FOR THE SPLASH PAD ARE ACCESSIBLE ONLY FROM THE SPLASH PAD AREA AND NOT, THEY CANNOT GET BACK INTO THE, UH, FACILITY ITSELF.

AND THEN THERE'S ONE MAJOR GATE, UH, THAT IS BETWEEN THE, UH, COMMUNITY BUILDING AND THE MAINTENANCE STORAGE.

SO IT'S, IT'S JUST FOR PEOPLE TO KINDA GET ORIENTED AS TO WHAT'S THERE.

SO IT'S, IT'S VERY, VERY SEPARATE AND DISTINCT.

SO YOU, YOU'RE NOT GONNA HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE SOAKING WET COMING INTO THE, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER, JUST YES.

UH, IF YOU WERE THE SPLASH PAD TO THE RIGHT, OBVIOUSLY NOT SHOWN IN THIS IMAGE, BUT YOU CAN SEE THE OUTDOOR SHOWERS, THE ACCESS TO THE RESTROOMS, UH, THAT ARE DEDICATED TO THIS SPLASH PAD AREA, AS WELL AS THE, UH, SEATING AREA THAT IS PART OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER.

THAT'S CORRECT.

THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

UM, THIS IS JUST LOOKING AT A, A QUICK VIEW.

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KEEP IN MIND, UH, THERE WOULD BE A BUFFER OF LANDSCAPE AND RAILING THAT DOESN'T ALLOW ONE SPACE AND PEOPLE TO WALK FROM ONE SPACE TO THE OTHER.

UH, THIS IS ONLY FOCUSING ON THE BUILDING ITSELF.

AND IF WE GO A LITTLE BIT MORE ONTO DETAIL ONTO THE COMMUNITY CENTER.

SO, UH, THERE IS A DEDICATED ENTRANCE TO THE COMMUNITY CENTER THROUGH THE LOBBY.

THE RECEPTION AREA, UH, AS MR. MAYOR, UM, POINTED, THE OFFICES ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT HAVE ACCESS TO SPLASH PADS.

SO STAFF WOULD BE THE ONLY ONES THAT CAN GO THROUGH THERE AFTER INSIDE THE BUILDING.

AND AS YOU NAVIGATE THROUGH THE CONCOURSE, YOU WOULD SEE THREE CLASSROOMS DEDICATED, UH, AS WELL FOR THE, UH, COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES EACH AT ABOUT 650 SQUARE FEET.

UM, CLASSROOM REMOTE ONE HAS BEEN DETACHED A LITTLE BIT WITH THE PURPOSE OF ALLOWING STAFF TO, UH, PROGRAM, UH, ANY ACTIVITY THAT IS A LITTLE MORE NOISY, RIGHT? SO IF YOU HAVE A TAP DANCE, UH, CLASS, YOU'RE NOT PUTTING THAT ADJACENT TO A YOGA CLASS.

UM, SO, UH, THAT IS THE MAIN REASON WHY WE'VE DETACHED THAT.

AND CLASSROOM TWO AND THREE HAVE A SOFT PARTITION IN BETWEEN THAT ALLOWS THAT TO BE LARGER.

SO AGAIN, GIVING A LITTLE MORE FLEX, EVEN MORE FLEXIBILITY OF PROGRAMMING FOR THE SPACE.

AT THE HEART OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER, UH, WE HAVE SEATING AREAS IN FLEXIBLE SPACES, BOTH, YOU KNOW, FOR UNPROGRAMMED ACTIVITIES.

SO WE WANT REALLY PEOPLE TO COME IN AND FIND COMMUNITY IN THIS PLACE.

UH, YOU COULD COME IN, BE NEW FRIENDS, YOU COULD COME IN AND PLAY CARDS, AND WE PUT SOME KIND OF REFERENCE IMAGES TO THE RIGHT THAT SHOW ENVISIONING WHAT THAT SPACE WOULD BE.

UH, AND IT'S A PLACE TO FIND COMMUNITY ESSENTIALLY.

AND ALSO GIVING THE ABILITY FOR STAFF TO DO SOME OTHER PROGRAM, UH, ACTIVITIES IN THERE AS WELL.

UM, AS WE NAVIGATE MORE TOWARDS THE BACK OF THE BUILDING, YOU'LL FIND A DEDICATED ROOM FOR THE TEEN, UH, DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS THE MULTIPURPOSE ROOMS. EACH OF THEM AT ABOUT 1,100 SQUARE FEET.

UH, THAT ALSO HAS A MOVABLE PARTITION TO BE ABLE TO, UH, MAKE IT A LARGER ROOM.

UH, ONE THING TO NOTE IS WE HAVE PLACED THE CLASSROOMS MORE TOWARDS THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING WITH THE PURPOSE OF THAT WOULD BE WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF ROTATION OF PEOPLE COMING IN AND OUT.

SO YOU KEEP ALL OF THAT, UH, NOISIER AND KIND OF, UH, PEOPLE COMING IN AND OUTTA THE BUILDING FROM THE FRONT AND THE MULTIPURPOSE ROOM A LITTLE BIT MORE TO THE BACK WHERE IT'S LENGTHIER PROGRAMS THAT YOU TYPICALLY SEE USED IN THOSE SPACES.

ONE OTHER THING, THE ACCESS FROM THE TEEN AREA AND THE MULTIPURPOSE ARE OUT TO OUTDOOR PATIOS, BUT YOU CAN'T GET, THEY'LL BE FENCED IN WITH A KIND OF A SEMI-CIRCLE, UH, FENCE, SO THEY CAN'T GET OUT INTO THE SPICE TAG AREA FROM THERE.

SO IT KEEPS THEM FROM, IF THEY CAN'T GET TO IT, THEN THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE COMING BACK IN WET, SO.

THAT'S CORRECT.

AND, YOU KNOW, IT WAS IMPORTANT TO ALSO INCORPORATE SOME OUTDOOR SPACES FOR THE COMMUNITY CENTER, RIGHT? SO THAT'S WHERE THOSE PLA UH, THOSE, EXCUSE ME, THOSE PATIOS COME IN.

WE ALSO THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD HAVE TWO KIDS HAVING ONE CLASS AND ONE IN THIS PAST PLA AND YOU CAN STILL KEEP AN EYE ON BOTH OF THEM FROM THE PATIOS.

SO IT GIVES, UH, THE COMMUNITY THAT FLEXIBILITY.

ART, I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION.

YES.

DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION? YEAH.

WHEN THE PARTITION, UH, WALL IS OPEN ON MULTIPURPOSE ROOM ONE AND TWO, WHAT'S THE CAPACITY FOR EVENTS? SO THE TOTAL SQUARE FOOTAGE IS 2,200 SQUARE FEET.

WHAT'S THAT IN RELATION TO THE COMMUNITY CENTER WE HAVE NOW? UH, DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE NOW? I CAN CHAIR ALBERT .

A LITTLE SMALLER THAN EACH ONE OF THE ROOMS WILL BE A LITTLE SMALLER THAN EACH.

UH, BIG.

SO IF WE MAX, WHAT ARE WE AT LIKE TWO OR TWO 50 RIGHT NOW WITH ALL THREE SECTIONS? SO WHAT, THAT'S GONNA BE LIKE MAYBE 180, 1 50 WITH THIS ONE.

JUST ANOTHER VIEW OF THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING.

AND THEN JUST TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ARCHITECTURE.

IS A VIEW LOOKING AT THE, FROM THE SPLASH PAD TOWARDS THE BUILDING, YOU CAN SEE THE ENTRANCE TO, UH, TO THE SPLASH PAD AREA WITH THE OUTDOOR SHOWERS, UH, AS WELL AS THE ACCESS TO THE RESTROOMS. AND THIS IS IF YOU'RE STANDING MAYBE UP ON A TREE, LOOKING AT THE, THE BUILDING, UH, COM, THE MULTIPURPOSE ROOM TO YOUR LEFT WITH A PATIO AS WELL AS THE SPLASH PAD TO YOUR RIGHT.

SO, UM, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT AS WE LOOK AT THIS NEW COMMUNITY CENTER, THAT WE ARE RESPECTFUL OF THE CURRENT ARCHITECTURE IN THE CITY AND WE REALLY ARE FITTING INTO, UM, TO CHINO HILLS.

UH, WE REALLY WANTED TO BRING THE SAME TYPOLOGY OF MATERIALS, EARTH TONES, UH, AS A PELLET STONE AS AN ACCENT, STRONG ROOF LINES, UM, AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, A SIMPLE CLEAN MASSING.

AND WE WANT THIS TO FEEL LIKE IT BELONGS IN THIS COMMUNITY.

SO A COUPLE OTHER VIEW VIEWS AS YOU'RE COMING IN FROM, UH, THE, UM, PARK, THE ROUNDABOUT LOOKING INTO THE COMMUNITY CENTER.

AND AS YOU COME ALONG TO THE LEFT, UH, AND YOU CAN SEE THE ENTRANCE CANOPY CAN GUIDING YOU TOWARDS THE ENTRANCE OF THE BUILDING IN THE DROP OFF AREA.

AND THIS

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SO THAT'S MULTIPURPOSE ROOMS ONE AND TWO CORRECT.

THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT THERE.

YOU HAD A QUESTION? I DO HAVE A QUESTION.

UM, I SEE ALL THESE STRAIGHT SHADE STRUCTURES THROUGHOUT THE FACILITY.

ARE WE GONNA HAVE SOLAR ON TOP OF THIS SHADE STRUCTURES? SO, UH, TITLE 20, UH, FOUR DOES REQUIRE US TO HAVE SOLAR POWER FOR THE BUILDING, RIGHT? UH, ON TOP OF THE SHADE STRUCTURES.

WE ARE NOT PLANNING TO HAVE ANY, UH, ANY SOLAR POWERS.

WE REALLY JUST GO ON THE BUILDING, UH, ITSELF.

DO WHATEVER, A HUNDRED EIGHTY, ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY ONE PARKING LOT.

THEN PARKING, ANOTHER QUESTION I HAVE, HOW MANY PARKING SPACES DO WE HAVE TODAY? AND IN THE FUTURE, HOW MANY MORE ARE WE GONNA BE ADDING? I HAVE THAT , AND BY THE WAY, PARKS ARE, I APOLOGIZE, I HAVEN'T GIVEN, WAS ON THE, IF YOU HAD ANY QUESTIONS, YOU KNOW, PLEASE WAVE OUTTA THE SCREEN.

THE MAIN PARKING LOT HAS THE 90.

THERE'S ROOM FOR ABOUT SIX CARS STAGGERED AT THE DROPOFF AREA.

LIKE PICK IT UP, DROP IT, AND THEN THE OPTIONAL OVERFLOW PARKING LOT HAS 91.

SO IF WE PULL THE TRIGGER AND BUILD BOTH THE, THE IMMEDIATE PARKING LOT AND THE OVERFLOW, WE'LL HAVE 181 STALLS.

BEAUTIFUL.

AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT FURTHER, BUT I THINK THAT FOR WHAT LATER ON CONSTRUCTION WOULD DO, I THINK WE'RE GONNA PROBABLY BE LEANING TOWARDS DO IT ALL AT ONCE.

SO YOU'RE IN THERE ONCE, YOU WON'T BE TEARING UP EXISTING PARKING TO, TO PUT ON THE OTHER.

AND THE OVERFLOW IS BASICALLY THAT, WHICH IS CLOSEST TO THE FREEWAY.

SO JUST EXACTLY NORTH OF THE, UH, THE 71 FREEWAY.

CORRECT.

ANYONE, ANY QUESTIONS? AL EXCUSE ME.

MAYOR, BEFORE WE MOVE ON FROM PARKING, I JUST WANTED TO ADD THAT THERE ARE, UH, 47 PARKING SPOTS AT THE PARK CURRENTLY, SO, OKAY.

SO THIS, THESE WILL BE IN ADDITION TO WHAT'S CURRENTLY THERE.

NOW WHAT'S THE RATIO OF, OF HANDICAPPED TO THAT? DO WE JUST HAVE, OR IS THERE A RATIO? OH, IT WOULD BE THE CODE.

I DON'T, I, I, I COULDN'T QUOTE THAT THE CODE REQUIRES.

AND IF YOU DON'T MIND, MR. MAYOR, LET ME JUST, UH, JUST A QUICK QUESTION.

I KNOW WHEN I WAS INITIALLY BRIEFED ON THIS, I ASKED ABOUT BIKE RACKS.

I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING IN ANY OF THE RENDERINGS.

YOU KNOW, THIS IS RIGHT SOUTH OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, AND SO YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF YOUNG KIDS THAT ARE GONNA BE COMING DOWN.

SO IN ANY OF THE UPDATED ARTIST RENDERINGS, I DON'T SEE ANY BIKE RACKS ANYWHERE.

SO I KNOW THAT THERE'S STATE STATUTES AND CODE AND ALL OF THE FUN STUFF THAT GOES WITH THAT.

UM, AND THEN ALSO I DON'T SEE ANY FLAGPOLES ANYWHERE IN ANY OF THE, UH, RENDERINGS EITHER.

SO THAT WAS SOMETHING ELSE THAT WHEN I WAS BRIEFED, I ASKED ABOUT.

SO IF WE COULD UPDATE IT.

YEAH, VERY GOOD POINT.

AND WE WILL BE CERTAIN TO INCORPORATE THE FLAG AND THE BIKE RACKS.

PERFECT.

THREE.

CAN WE MAKE THAT MIC OVER THERE LIVE? AL IF YOU HAVE A COMMENT, GO RIGHT AHEAD.

AND ANYBODY ELSE THAT HAS A QUESTION FROM PARKS AND REC, PLEASE LINE UP.

UH, I OBJECTION.

PARK RECS PRESENTATION.

I, YEAH, I, YOU KNOW, I'VE JUST BEEN HAD A QUESTION OR ABOVE POINT.

LET'S MAKE, LET'S GO ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE, LET HIM CLOSE IT OUT AND THEN WE'LL LET HIM CLOSE IT OUT.

THEN WE CAN COME BACK WITH SPECIFIC QUESTION THE LAST, JUST, IT'LL BE QUICK.

I THINK THAT WAS THE LAST ONE, SO YOU'RE RIGHT ON, RIGHT ON TIME.

OH, PERFECT TIMING, .

PETER, I HAD, PART OF MY QUESTION HAD ALREADY, UH, STOLEN, BUT I WAS GONNA BE LOOKING AT WHAT SOLAR, AND YOU TALKED ABOUT TITLE 24, WHAT SOLAR WAS GONNA BE INCORPORATED.

AND THEN WITH THE 181 PARKING SPOTS, ANY PLANS OF, UM, UH, CHARGING STATIONS, ELECTRIC CHARGING STATIONS, WE WILL HAVE CHARGING STATIONS ON SITE AND THEY'RE INCLUDED IN THE, UH, BUDGET.

UM, THE CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATE, UH, WE DIDN'T SHOW THEM ANY IMAGES, BUT THEY WILL ALL BE INCLUDED.

THE SOLAR ON THE BUILDING.

WE'RE NOT ENVISIONING IT.

AS ERICA SAID, ON THE SHADE CANOPIES, THERE'S, THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF SHADE CANOPIES.

ONE IS ARCHITECTURAL, IT'S LIKE, UH, THE, THE WOOD, YOU KNOW, RIGID STRUCTURE.

WE ALSO HAVE, IN ADDITION TO THAT, A LOT OF, UH, THE SHADE CANOPIES THAT ARE FABRIC THAT ARE LIKE SAILS AND THOSE SPAN OVER THE SPLASH SPRAY PAD ELEMENTS.

UH, AND, AND NEITHER ONE OF THOSE ARE WE ENVISIONING TO INCLUDE SOLAR ON THE SOLAR WOULD BE ON THE BUILDING ITSELF, THE, THE HARD ROOF.

IN WHO THE INDIVIDUAL FOR ACCESS CONTROL, INTRUSION, ALARMS, UH, ANY OF THAT IN THE PLANT? I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT THAT.

UH, LOOKING AT THE EXISTING COMMUNITY CENTER AT NIGHT, WE GOT A LOT OF TRAFFIC GOING IN AND OUTTA THERE, ESPECIALLY WITH THE POLICE STATION RIGHT HERE.

PINEHURST IS GONNA BE KIND OF ISOLATED ONCE THE, UH, STAFF LEAVES.

UH, ANY THOUGHT, UH,

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ACCESS CONTROL, INTRUSION ALARMS, A CC TV CAMERAS OR ANYTHING.

WE CURRENTLY HAVE, UH, UM, SECURITY SYSTEMS AT A BUILDING LIKE THIS.

WE WOULD ALSO HAVE IT, UH, AS PART OF, UH, THE FINAL DESIGN FOR THIS BUILDING.

UH, WE HAVE CAMERAS AT THIS SITE.

I WOULD, UH, LIKE YOU POINTED OUT, I'D ANTICIPATE WE'D HAVE THE SAME THERE.

UH, AND WE'D WANT SOMETHING THAT INTEGRATES WITH OUR, UH, EXISTING SYSTEMS. OKAY.

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, THE SPLASH PAD AND THE OTHER, UH, THING.

RECYCLED WATER.

CORRECT.

SOME KIND OF RECYCLING ON THE WATER.

IT, IT'S ALL HARVESTED AND FILTERED AND TREATED AND REUSED.

THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

THERE'S NOTHING GONNA BE RECLAIMED, IS IT? YEAH, IT'S GONNA BE SPOTTED BALLS.

SAMANTHA.

ALRIGHT, GO RIGHT AHEAD.

SAMANTHA.

HI, SAMANTHA.

JAMES PEREZ, VICE CHAIR, PARKS AND REC COMMISSION.

I JUST WANT TO SAY, UH, WE'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS ISSUE FOR A LONG TIME ON THE SCREEN.

IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT DID IN MY MIND.

IN FACT, IT LOOKS MUCH BETTER.

SO I APPRECIATE THAT.

AND AS HAS BEEN MENTIONED, WE STARTED THIS DISCUSSION AS A SPLASH PAD BEFORE THE COMMUNITY CENTER WAS EVER A THOUGHT IN OUR MIND.

SO I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS ABOUT SPLASH PAD.

THE, UH, FIRST ONE WAS ABOUT THE PARKING, BUT YOU SAID THERE'S GONNA BE 181, SO THAT'S GOOD BECAUSE, UH, WE KNOW THERE'S NO PARKING ALLOWED ON PARK AVENUE, NO STREET PARKING.

SO I THINK THAT'S A GOOD NUMBER.

UM, YOU MAY HAVE ANSWERED THIS JUST A SECOND AGO.

THE PARENTS TOLD US VERY CLEARLY THAT THEY WANTED SHADE OVER THE SPLASH PAD.

SO THOSE WILL BE THE CANOPIES.

UH, YES.

THEY'RE, I CALL 'EM SHADE SAILS.

THEY'RE POSTS, RIGID POSTS, BUT THEN THEY HAVE CABLES, AND THEN THE CANOPY SHADE ELEMENT IS LIKE A, A, A SAIL ON A SHIP.

ON A SAILBOAT.

AND THEN MY OTHER QUESTION WAS ALREADY ASKED BY COMMISSIONER JACKSON WHO ASKED ABOUT THE RECYCLING, UH, FILTRATION SYSTEM, BUT THAT'S IN PLACE.

JENNIFER, GIVING MAYOR BENNETT COMMISSION, UM, AND TO OUR, MY FELLOW RESIDENTS, UH, IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE TONIGHT TO HEAR THIS LONG WAYED PRESENTATION.

I DID ALSO HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SHADE.

SO YOU MENTIONED THERE'LL BE SAILS OVER THE SPLASH PAD AND THE WATER EXPLORATION AREA.

WILL THAT BE COVERING ALL OF IT OR IS IT JUST KIND OF OVER LIKE THE MAIN FEATURES? AND THEN WILL THERE ALSO BE LIKE TREES PROVIDING SHADE? YEAH, WELL, YOU CAN SEE ON THAT IMAGE THERE, THE COLUMN, THE, THE PINK TREES.

THOSE MARCH RIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE SPLASH SPRAY PAD AREA.

IN ADDITION, EACH OF THE MAIN, BE IT THE WATER EXPLORATION OR THE SOAK ZONE HAVE ACTUAL, UM, SHADE CANOPIES THAT COVER THAT AREA ITSELF.

SO THERE'S THIS, THERE'S MORE SHADE ON THIS PLAN THAN I HAVE EVER HAD ON A SPLASH SPRAY PAD IN MY CAREER.

SO.

WELL, THAT'S GREAT NEWS.

WE LOVE, UM, MY KIDS AND I LOVE PINEHURST PARK.

IT'S PROBABLY OUR FAVORITE PARK IN THE CITY.

AND WE STARTED GOING WHEN THE TREES WERE SMALL, SO THERE WASN'T MUCH SHADE.

NOW THERE IS.

SO WE'RE HAPPY THAT, UM, YOU GUYS HAVE PLANNED THAT IN THERE.

UM, THIS MIGHT BE A QUESTION MORE FOR MAYBE DIRECTOR MARSHALL AS FAR AS THE WATER EXPLORATION AND THE SPLASH OR THE SOAK AREA.

WILL THE WATER EXPLORATION AREA BE OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND? WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS COMMISSIONER HOLD CAMP, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, WE HAVE THE LUXURY OF IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IS EXTENDED HOURS OF OPERATION.

PERMITTING OF COURSE, AND WITH STAFF ON SITE, I THINK WE'LL BE ABLE TO, UH, UH, GAIN AS MUCH ACCESS AS POSSIBLE FOR THE SPLASH PAD.

BECAUSE OF THE, UH, THE GOOD WEATHER THAT WE, UH, ARE EXPOSED TO.

UM, I WOULD ANTICIPATE PROBABLY WE'RE LOOKING AT IN UPWARDS OF SEVEN TO NINE MONTHS, THE, UH, MAIN SPLASH PAD AREA WHERE YOU'RE GONNA GET WET, UH, REALLY WET IN.

AND THEN ONE OF THE THINGS WAS, AND, AND, UH, THE CITY MANAGER, UH, BEN MONTGOMERY, UH, HAD MENTIONED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN ALL THE WATERS TURNED OFF, HOW'S IT GONNA LOOK OUT THERE WHEN WE LOOK, YOU KNOW, GOSH, IT LOOKS PRETTY DREARY OUT THERE.

AND SO THAT'S WHERE THE WATER EXPLORATION, UM, CONCEPT CAME UP.

AND I COULD SEE US HAVING THAT OPEN, UH, EVEN LONGER PERIODS OF TIME FROM THAT STANDPOINT.

THE ONE NICE THING, UNLIKE A LOT OF SPLASH PADS THAT YOU'LL FIND AT OTHER CITIES IS, IS THAT WE WILL HAVE A STAFF PRESENCE THERE.

AND SO THAT WILL REALLY ALLOW US TO, UH, YOU KNOW, MEET THE NEEDS.

I WOULD THINK, YOU KNOW, IF WE HAVE A HOT PERIOD OF TIME AND IT LOOKS LIKE, HEY, I THINK WE CAN EXTEND THIS IN ANOTHER COUPLE OF WEEKS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THEN WE CAN DO THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.

SO THAT WILL REALLY, UH, ENHANCE THE ABILITIES TO, UH, UM, EXTEND THE PERIODS OF TIME.

A LOT OF PEOPLE, THEY HAVE SPLASH PADS OPEN ABOUT A FOUR MONTH PERIOD OF TIME, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IN MOST CITIES.

SO I THINK WE CAN GET AWAY WITH MORE TIME.

BUT CERTAINLY, UM, WEATHER

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THANK YOU DIRECTOR MARSHALL.

JUST A FEW MORE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARCHITECTS.

WHAT DO YOU ANTICIPATE THE SIZE BEING THE SOAK AREA VERSUS LIKE THE WATER EXPLORATION? WILL THEY BE LIKE EQUAL IN SIZE OR IS ONE GENERALLY GONNA BE LARGER? THEY'RE, UH, FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, THE, THE, THE CONCENTRATION OF THE, THE SOAK ZONE IS REALLY INTENSIVE USE AND IT'S CONCENTRATED.

THE, UH, EXPLORATION IS KIND OF CIRCUITOUS AND IT, IT REALLY INTEGRATES WITH ADJACENT SEATING AND THE LANDSCAPE.

IT IS PROBABLY A LARGER FOOTPRINT, BUT I'D SAY THEY'RE PROBABLY EQUITABLE IN TERMS OF THEIR PLAY OR THEIR INTERACTION VALUE.

IT'S JUST THAT THE, UM, THE EXPLORATION AREA IS SPREAD OUT IN A MORE OF A CIRCUITOUS WAY, UH, AND INTEGRATED WITH SEATING AND, YOU KNOW, THE OVERALL SITE.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

UM, CAN YOU JUST TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE SURFACE OF THE SPLASH PAD? LIKE WHEN YOU'RE ACTUALLY ON IT? LIKE WHAT, WHAT IS THE SURFACE MADE OF? IT'S, UH, CONCRETE.

OKAY, GREAT.

UM, AND THEN, UM, JUST TO ELABORATE ON WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER JOSEPH WAS SAYING ABOUT THE BIKES, UM, HAS THE CITY CONSIDERED HAVING ONE OF THE, UM, BIKE REPAIR STATIONS ALSO AT PINEHURST? SINCE IT'LL BE A MORE TRAFFICKED AREA? I WOULD THINK THAT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE TO HAVE THERE.

CERTAINLY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

ROBERT, ROBERT VELA PARK COMMISSIONER, MINE'S GONNA BE FOCUSED ON CONSTRUCTION AND LONG-TERM MAINTENANCE.

SO WHAT IS THE EXPECTED LIFESPAN OF THE DURABILITY OF THE MATERIAL CHOSEN FOR THE SPLASH PARK? ? I REALLY DON'T KNOW.

YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF THE, I I'M GOING TO SAY GO OUT ON A LIMB, YOU KNOW, 10, 15 YEARS FOR THE, THE MAJOR PIECES OF EQUIPMENT.

BUT WHAT I CAN DO IS I CAN GET THAT ANSWERED AND GET THAT INFORMATION TO JONATHAN.

UM, WE'RE USING STATE-OF-THE-ART EQUIPMENT MM-HMM .

UM, THE HARD THING WITH PROJECTING A A WINDOW OF TIME IS THE USE, RIGHT? HOW, HOW MANY MONTHS A YEAR IS IT ACTUALLY BEING USED AT ITS FULL CAPACITY? IF, IF YOU ARE USING IT AT A MODERATE LEVEL AND IT IT HAS PERIODS OF, YOU KNOW, REST, YOU'RE GONNA STRETCH.

IF IT'S USED VERY INFREQUENTLY, THAT'S LIKE ONE OF THE WORST THINGS FOR EQUIPMENT.

IT'S NOT GETTING LUBRICATED, IT'S NOT GETTING, YOU KNOW, THE ACTIVITY TO KEEP THE PUMPS AND THE SEALS, YOU KNOW, IN A GOOD STATE OF, YOU KNOW, OPERATION.

SO THERE'S A SWEET SPOT IN THERE.

LET ME, LET ME DO A LITTLE BIT OF RESEARCH ON THAT AND I'LL GET AN ANSWER BACK TO JONATHAN, BUT LIKE I SAID, THIS IS ALL STATE-OF-THE-ART EQUIPMENT AND EVERYBODY'S LIVING BY THEIR REPUTATION AND THEIR DURABILITY.

SO, UM, I'LL FIGURE THAT OUT FOR YOU.

JUST LONG-TERM INVESTMENT ON THAT.

USED BY THE RESIDENTS AND, UH, THAT ARE ADJACENT TO THE, UH, THE PARK FACILITY AND SUCH.

SO IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT, THE SECOND PART THAT IS, IS, UM, HOW THE ONGOING MAINTENANCE WILL BE HANDLED TO STAY ON COMPLIANCE WITH THE STATE OF LOCAL HEALTH INSPECTION.

SO AGAIN, YEAH, ALL THE, THAT ALL, ALL THE EQUIPMENT IS DESIGNED FOR, I'LL CALL IT WATER HARVESTING, RIGHT? AND IT'S ALL REGULATED WITH, UM, THE, THE STATE, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT WITH REGARD TO THE TREATMENT OF THE WATER, THE FILTRATION, AND PROVIDING A SAFE, UM, PROCESS TO, TO TAKE THAT WATER, CLEANSE IT CHEMICALLY TREAT IT, AND THEN PUT IT BACK IN PLAY.

NO DIFFERENT THAN A SWIMMING POOL OR A SPA, RIGHT? IT'S JUST THAT YOUR LEVEL OF USE HERE IS, IS HIGHER, BUT THE EQUIPMENT IS ALL SIZED FOR THAT TYPE OF PERFORMANCE.

SO IT'S LIKE NSF APPROVED AND ALL THE OTHER YEAH.

GREG, DID YOU HAVE A CUP? THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION TONIGHT.

VERY, UH, IMPRESSIVE, IMPRESSIVE VIDEO AND, UH, VERY GOOD AT ANSWERING QUESTIONS.

A COUPLE OF REAL QUICK QUESTIONS.

IS THERE ANY CONCERN, OR HAS THERE BEEN ANY CONSIDERATION OF TRAFFIC FLOW WITHIN THE AVALON APARTMENTS THAT'S, THAT'S NARROW IN AND OUT, THAT'S A, THAT'S PRIVATE COMMUNITY, RIGHT? OR INDIVIDUAL HOMES? UM, DO WE HAVE ANY SENSE OF WHAT THE FLOW WOULD BE WITH, UH, WITH THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT IN TOTAL? UM, I'LL GIVE THE LARRY LOOK FIRST.

, UM, THE, THE CORRECT ANSWER IS, IS NO, FRANKLY.

UM, WE ARE VERY AWARE THAT OF THE, UH, THE ONE WAY IN ONE WAY OUT SCENARIO AS IT RELATES TO THE FACILITY, UM, THAT'S BEING BUILT AND SUCH, UM, PINES PARK, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, IS HEAVILY

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AND SO, UM, THERE IS NO, AS, UH, UH, VICE CHAIR, UH, JAMES PEREZ HAD, UH, MENTIONED, UH, PARKING AND SUCH, UM, THERE WON'T BE ANY ALLOWED ON PARK DRIVE AND THERE AREN'T ANY ALLOWED ON BUTTERFIELD RANCH ROAD EITHER FROM THAT STANDPOINT.

SO, UM, BUT, UM, CERTAINLY WE WILL, UH, BE AS FAN FRIENDLY AS POSSIBLE AS IT RELATES TO THAT.

UM, THERE IS ANOTHER ENTRANCE ON THE TOP SIDE, UH, OFF OF POMONA RINCON ROAD THAT'S THERE AS WELL.

SO THAT MIGHT HAVE TO BE A PLAY INTO IT.

YOU CAN'T DRIVE INTO THE PARK, OF COURSE, BUT FROM AN ACCESS STANDPOINT, UH, THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING THAT WILL NEED TO TAKE A, A SHARPER LOOK AT AS WELL.

AND COULD THAT BE MITIGATED SOMEWHAT BY CONTROL OF THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS OR A STUDY IN TERMS OF HOW TO TIME THOSE TRAFFIC LIGHTS JUST TO MAKE THAT FLOW BETTER? THAT'S JUST SOMETHING TO CONSIDER.

SURE.

FOR THE FUTURE.

UM, IS THE SPLASH PAD AREA COMPLETELY FENCED IN? IS IT CLOSED OFF IN THE REST OF THE PARK? YES.

SO THERE'S NO OTHER ACCESS OTHER THAN THAT ONE, THAT ONE AREA, THE MAIN PORTAL, UM, COMING IN FROM THE PARKING LOT IS THE CONTROLLED ACCESS POINT.

VERY GOOD.

UH, THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS.

WERE YOU LOOKING FOR COMMISSIONER COMMENTS ON THE PROJECT AT THIS POINT, OR WOULD YOU WANT US TO COME BACK UP AT SOME POINT? UH, MAYOR, WE DO STILL HAVE A COUPLE MORE COMPONENTS, UH, UH, BEYOND THE DESIGN.

UH, I'D LIKE TO ASK, UH, JONATHAN MARSH, AND IT KIND OF FEEDS INTO ONE OF THE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE ABOUT MAINTENANCE.

UH, UH, JONATHAN, IF YOU CAN, UH, UH, ENLIGHTEN THE GROUP ON, UH, MAINTENANCE AND STAFFING COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS.

SO LET'S HOLD ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR UNLESS WE HAVE QUESTIONS? I CHUCKLED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT NOT HAVING A NOISE, UM, ACTIVITY NEXT TO LIKE A YOGA CLASS AND STUFF.

'CAUSE I VIVIDLY REMEMBER AT, UH, OUR COMMUNITY BUILDING WHERE MY WALL WAS, THE COMMON WALL BETWEEN MYSELF AND DEEDEE'S DANCE CLASS.

PERFECT.

I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES I SAID, COULD YOU SPEAK A LITTLE LOUDER? SO THAT'S WHEN I WAS MUCH YOUNGER TOO.

UM, THE PROPOSED STAFFING PLAN I WANT TO TALK ABOUT AND THEN ALSO COMMENT ON ABOUT THE MAINTENANCE COST AS WELL.

THE OVERALL, UH, COST AS I, UH, WE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH PUBLIC WORKS AS IT RELATES TO IT.

THE PROPOSED STAFFING PLAN WILL HAVE BOTH FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME STAFF AT THE FACILITY.

WE REALLY SEE THIS FACILITY AS THE HUB OF CLASS REGISTRATIONS FOR THOSE LIVING IN THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHINO HILLS.

AND OF COURSE, THE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING MORE RECREATION TO THE CHINO HILLS COMMUNITY IN GENERAL.

UH, CURRENTLY THE THOUGHT PROCESS IS TO HAVE STAFF STATIONED AT THE FRONT COUNTER LIKE WE DO, UH, AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND ALSO HERE, UH, IN, UH, RECREATION AS WELL.

IN ADDITION, FACILITY ASSISTANCE WILL BE NEEDED TO COORDINATE THE SETTING UP AND THE CLEANUP AFTERWARDS AS IT RELATES TO THE, UH, VARIOUS ROOMS THAT WE HAVE THERE.

UM, IT'S VERY TAXING, UM, TO HAVE THE FRONT COUNTER STAFF DOING THOSE DUTIES AS WELL.

SO TO HAVE AN, UH, ANOTHER PERSON OR TWO TO HANDLES THAT STUFF AS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AS WELL.

UM, STAFF OF COURSE TO COORDINATE CLASSES AND EVENTS AS WELL AS STAFF TO OVERSEE USES OF THE SPLASH PAD AREA BECAUSE AS WE BELIEVE, UM, THE SPLASH PAD'S GONNA BE WILDLY POPULAR, I I THINK IT'S GONNA BE OVER THE TOP POPULAR ACTUALLY.

AND SO WE'RE JUST GONNA NEED A COMPONENT OF STAFF TO HELP OUT WITH THAT.

ESTIMATING AN APPROXIMATE COST OF OVER $400,000 PER YEAR FOR TO THE COST OF STAFF, UH, TO APPROPRIATELY STAFF THE BUILDING AS IT RELATES TO THE MAINTENANCE SIDE OF THINGS, TALKING WITH, UH, UM, PUBLIC WORKS AS IT RELATED TO THAT.

UM, THEY'RE ESTIMATING A YEARLY COST OF APPROXIMATELY 258,000, UH, IN GENERAL TERMS FOR JANITORIAL BUILDING, MAINTENANCE, UTILITIES, AND THE SPLASH PAD.

SO, UM, THAT'S THE, THE, THE NUMBER THAT THEY HAD COME UP WITH.

UH, OF COURSE THESE ARE APPROXIMATE COSTS AS IT RELATES TO THINGS, BUT, UM, JUST A COUPLE OTHER COMPONENTS OF THE FACILITY TO MAKE SURE OBVIOUSLY, THAT IT'S, UH, IT'S GONNA BE A GORGEOUS FACILITY AND, UH, ONE THAT WE WANT TO HAVE RUN SMOOTHLY LIKE WE HAVE AT THE COMMUNITY BUILDING RIGHT NOW AND SUCH.

SO OBVIOUSLY STAFF, UH, PRESENCE IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR, UH, WHAT WE HAVE PLANNED, UH, OR WILL BE HAVING PLANNED FOR THE, UH, FOR THE BUILDING ITSELF.

AND I NOW PASS IT O BACK OVER THE BATON TO THE CITY MANAGER, MAYOR, UH, COUNCIL AND COMMISSIONERS AT THE END OF THE DAY.

UH, THE BIG QUESTION IS, WHAT'S THIS ALL GOING TO COST? UH, WE ARE PROJECTING THAT THE TOTAL COST FOR THIS PROJECT WOULD BE $20 MILLION.

UH, AND IN THE STAFF REPORT, UH, THE PROJECT IS BROKEN DOWN TO A COUPLE DIFFERENT AREAS SO THAT YOU CAN BASICALLY WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND WHAT, UH, UH, EACH INDIVIDUAL COMPONENT, ALTHOUGH THERE'S SOME OVERLAP ASSOCIATED WITH CONSTRUCTION, BUT TO, TO ILLUSTRATE THAT.

THE COMMUNITY CENTER REPRESENTS ROUGHLY 10 AND A HALF MILLION OF THE 20.

UH, THE SPRAY, UH, SPLASH PAD AREA IS ABOUT 2.7 MILLION.

UH, THE PAVED PARKING

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AREA IS 1.5.

UH, UH, THE, UH, ADDITIONAL PARKING AREA, UH, WOULD BE ABOUT 1.3.

UH, OR I'M SORRY, THE UNPAVED, PARKING, GRADING AND MOBILIZATION.

A LOT OF THE, UH, INTERCHANGING, UH, COMPONENTS OF CONSTRUCTION.

AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER $4 MILLION, UH, THAT WE HAVE BUDGETED, UH, FOR THE DESIGN, UH, SQL WORK, UH, WHICH MIGHT, UH, ADDRESS SOME OF THE TRAFFIC ISSUES OR, OR REVIEWS, UH, PROJECT MANAGEMENT.

AND ANY CONTINGENCY, UH, UH, FOR THIS PROJECT.

UM, IT'S, I SHOULD POINT OUT THAT WE HAVE ALREADY SECURED SIGNIFICANT, UH, SUPPORT FUNDING FROM, UH, THE COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO THROUGH, UH, SUPERVISOR HAGMAN'S OFFICE.

UH, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT, UH, OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO GET, UH, BUY-IN, UH, WHETHER IT'S FROM OUR FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES OR OTHER GRANTS AND OPPORTUNITIES.

UH, SO, UH, EVEN CURRENTLY THIS 20, UH, MILLION DOLLARS PROPOSED BUDGET WILL NOT BE COMPLETELY BORN, UH, BY THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS.

AND THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION PART.

I DO, UH, UH, HOPE AND LOOK FORWARD TO COMMENTS, UH, FROM THE COUNCIL, UH, THE COMMISSION, UH, AND ANY QUESTIONS WE'D BE HAPPY TO ADDRESS.

CAN YOU, PETER, YOU HAVE A QUESTION? JUST KIND OF OVERALL THOUGHTS? ALSO, I HAVE A QUESTION AFTER PETER.

SO, UM, GO RIGHT AHEAD.

JUST A FEW THINGS.

FIRST OF ALL, LARRY CAN BRING, COME BACK UP.

LET'S TAKE A KIND OF BROADER LOOK AT JUST IN GENERAL.

CAN YOU GIVE US A LITTLE BACKGROUND FOR PERSPECTIVE FOR EVERYBODY ON SOME OF THE AMENITIES THAT YOU'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH IN THE HISTORY OF CHINO HILLS? BECAUSE WE GO WAY BACK.

DO YOU REMEMBER ? AM I PUTTING YOU ON THE SPOT? NO, IT'S, UH, IT'S REALLY A PRIVILEGE.

WE'VE, UH, WE'VE BEEN WORKING FOR THE CITY FOR, I'M GONNA SAY PLUS 30 YEARS AND BEEN INVOLVED IN A LOT OF PROJECTS.

UM, SOME RENOVATION PROJECTS, SOME NEW CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.

UM, JONATHAN AND I BECAME FRIENDS WHEN WE DEVELOPED COMMUNITY PARK, UM, THAT WAS BEFORE MY GRAY HAIR .

UM, AND, UH, WE'VE, WE'VE ENJOYED A, A LONG TENURE HERE.

WHETHER THEY'RE BIG PROJECTS, SMALL PROJECTS, DIDN'T REALLY, DIDN'T REALLY MATTER.

IT WAS JUST TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY AND, UH, DO SOME GOOD STUFF.

SO THANK, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY HELLO.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

WE DO.

GO WAY BACK, UH, MYSELF AND RAY AND KURT HAMAN WERE ALL IN THE PARKS AND REC COMMISSION AT THE SAME TIME TOGETHER.

AND THAT'S WHEN WE STARTED, UH, DEVELOPING A LOT OF THE AMENITIES THAT ARE IN OUR 33 AND A HALF YEAR OLD CITY NOW.

AND LARRY'S BEEN A PART OF A LOT OF THOSE AMENITIES THAT HAVE GONE IN.

'CAUSE WE ALWAYS FOCUS ON QUALITY.

SOMETIMES PEOPLE WILL SAY, WHY IS IT TAKING YOU SO LONG? I THINK IT'S BECAUSE WE ARE VERY THOROUGH IN WHAT WE DO AND, AND VET EVERYTHING AHEAD OF TIME WITH STAFF AND WITH DESIGNS BEFORE WE JUMP INTO SOMETHING.

AND I THINK THIS IS A, UH, AN EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN KICKING AROUND FOR A WHILE AND NOW WE'RE PULLING THE TRIGGER ON IT, HOPEFULLY AND PROCEEDING WITH IT.

SO, THANK YOU FOR BEING INVOLVED IN OUR MANY PROJECTS THROUGH THE YEARS.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND WORDS.

AND I TOLD YOU THE STORY THIS EVENING.

I WAS IN CHINO BEFORE YOU GUYS EVEN THREW YOUR HAT IN THE RING.

IT WAS BEING TALKED ABOUT CHINO HILLS.

WELL, THEY'RE GONNA BE A CITY, THEY'RE GONNA, AND THERE WERE THE OLD GUARD GUYS IN CHINO THINKING NEVER GONNA HAPPEN.

THEY, THEY, THEY'RE FOOLISH.

THEY SHOULD BE PART OF CHINO.

WELL, FOR THE GUYS THAT SHOULDN'T EVEN BE.

YOU GUYS DO A PRETTY GOOD JOB.

BUT ALSO THAT WE NEEDED MORE AMENITIES IN THE SOUTH SIDE OF TOWN.

A GREAT COMMUNITY AND A LOT TO BE PROUD FOR.

SO A LITTLE MORE PER, WELL, I'M NOT DONE.

THAT WAS JUST A, A LARRY, A LARRY .

UH, JUST A LITTLE MORE PERSPECTIVE, OBVIOUSLY WE ARE A YOUNG CITY, SO WE'RE IN A UNIQUE POSITION WHERE WE'RE STILL ADDING AMENITIES TO CREATE A COMPLETE CITY.

A LOT OF OTHER CITIES ARE A HUNDRED YEARS OLD.

WE'RE IN OUR 34TH YEAR, SO 10, 10, 11 YEARS AGO.

UH, WE PUT IN, IN FEBRUARY OF 14, WE PUT IN THE EXISTING COMMUNITY CENTER.

AND THAT WAS A BIG DEAL FOR US BECAUSE WE REALLY DIDN'T HAVE A COMMUNITY CENTER IN CHINO HILLS.

WE USED MCCOY.

BUT THAT'S, THAT'S OUR, UH, OUR FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER.

AND IT HAS BECOME A HUB, AS WE ALL KNOW IN THE CITY.

IT'S BECOME A HUB FOR OUR SENIORS AND OUR TEENS.

AND IT'S, IT'S OUR EMERGENCY CENTER.

WE'VE SUPERSIZED, UH, THE, THE GENERATOR, ET CETERA, SO IT CAN BECOME A COOLING CENTER AND IT BECOMES OUR, OUR PLACE TO GO WHEN EMERGENCIES HIT.

AND WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THE FACT THAT IT AN EVACUATION CENTER ALSO.

SO WE KNEW THAT THAT'S A GREAT AMENITY,

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AND THAT'S BEEN THE CATALYST FOR A LOT OF WHAT'S GOING ON NOW AS WE FORWARD, THINK OUR CITY AS A WHOLE CITY, UM, IT, IT IS AN EXPENSIVE PROJECT, BUT WHAT ISN'T THESE DAYS, AND WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THIS EVEN A YEAR, THIS REALLY CAME TO FRUITION.

ALTHOUGH WE WERE TALKING ABOUT A SPLASH PAD SOMEWHERE IN TOWN IN OUR GOAL SETTING, OUR GOAL SETTING, UM, WORKSHOP IN NOVEMBER OF 23, WHERE AS A GROUP, WE DECIDED THAT FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS, WHAT ARE SOME OF OUR GOALS? AND THAT WAS NEAR THE TOP OF OUR GOAL SETTING, WAS TO PROCEED AS BEST WE CAN WITH A PROJECT THAT WOULD, UM, ENHANCE THE SOUTH SIDE OF TOWN WHEN IT COMES TO TEENS AND SCOUTS AND MAYBE SENIORS DEPENDING UPON THE SIZE.

AND THEN ACTUALLY, LARRY, THIS IS A LARGER FOOTPRINT THAT I ORIGINALLY WAS KIND OF HOPING FOR.

I WAS THINKING 70 508,000, MAYBE HALF THE SIZE OF OUR EXISTING COMMUNITY CENTER, KNOWING THE SPACE AVAILABLE, KNOWING WE'RE TALKING, WE NEED PARKING AND KNOWING WE NEEDED, UH, WE WANTED TO PUT IN A SPLASH PAD AS AN ADDITIONAL AMENITY.

SO I WILL SAY AS THIS HAS BEEN PERCOLATING, UH, SINCE NOVEMBER OF 2023, THIS IS, AS ONE OF OUR COMMISSIONERS SAID, THIS IS AN EVEN BETTER PROJECT THAN I HAD HOPED FOR AS FAR AS VISUALLY USE USAGE, ET CETERA.

SO THIS IS, I THINK THIS IS GONNA BE A HUGE AMENITY FOR CHINO HILLS, BUT ALSO FOR THE SOUTH SIDE OF TOWN, UH, WHERE SOMETIMES WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH AMENITIES.

NOW WE WILL AND, AND MORE TO COME ON OTHER THINGS.

BUT I'M VERY PROUD OF THIS AND LARRY AND TEAM HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB OF WHAT WE'VE SEEN SO FAR.

AND I'M SURE I'LL HAVE SOME MORE QUESTIONS AS WE GO.

AS FAR AS FUNDING, YES, THE COUNTY'S PUTTING IN A LARGE CHUNK OF MONEY, UH, YET TO BE DETER, YET TO BE DETERMINED.

THE FOUND CHINOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, WHEN THE FOUNDATION, UH, WHEN THE COMMUNITY CENTER IN 2014 WAS BUILT THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION THROUGH OUR VARIOUS FUNDRAISING, PUT IN $335,000 TOWARDS THAT PROJECT FOR FURNITURE AND COMPUTERS AND ARTWORK AND WHATEVER.

WE HAVEN'T MET OFFICIALLY AS A BOARD TO DETERMINE THE SUM, BUT IT WILL COME UP IN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS.

MY GUESS IS OUR CONTRIBUTION FROM THE FOUNDATION WILL BE EVEN GREATER THAN $335,000 AS THE SUCCESS OF THE WINE WALK.

AND SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS HAVE BROUGHT IN MONIES INTO OUR, INTO OUR, UH, COFFERS.

WE'RE, WE'RE ABLE TO SPEND A LITTLE MORE.

SO I THINK WE WILL PIECE TOGETHER ALL THE FINANCES TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

BUT AS A COUPLE OF OTHERS HAVE SAID, WHEN THEY'VE DONE THEIR ONE-ON-ONES, NOW'S THE TIME TO DO IT.

BECAUSE ORIGINALLY WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN EARLY 2024, LET'S SAY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A $12 MILLION PROJECT.

NOW WE'RE PUSHING 20 MILLION BASED ON ALL THE DYNAMICS WE'RE ALL EXPERIENCING AS FAMILIES, THE COST OF DOING ANYTHING AT HOME IS NOW MUCH MORE THAN YOU ANTICIPATED.

THE COST OF EVERYTHING.

SO WE FIGURED, LET'S, LET'S PROCEED AS BEST WE CAN, PUT IN THE BEST FACILITY WE CAN DO, AND THEN WE WILL, WE'LL WORK TO MAKE THIS, UH, TO PAY IT OFF AS BEST WE CAN.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU PETER.

RIGHT, CYNTHIA, JUST A COUPLE QUICK COMMENTS.

UM, I'M EXCITED TOO FOR THIS PROJECT.

UM, IT'S ALMOST LIKE AS SOON AS OUR CURRENT COMMUNITY CENTER OPENED, WE IMMEDIATELY OUTGREW IT, WHICH IS KIND OF A GOOD PROBLEM.

THE SPACE IS ALWAYS AT A HOT COMMODITY, SO THIS IS JUST GONNA BE WONDERFUL FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

I DON'T EVEN SEE IT AS A, AS MUCH OF A SOUTH END THING.

I MEAN, IT'S GONNA BENEFIT EVERYONE.

IT'S GONNA BE WONDERFUL.

UM, I WILL SAY, UM, I'VE ALWAYS KIND OF LIKE CHIMED IN THAT I'M A BIG FAN OF LIKE PUBLIC ART.

AND I KNOW THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT OUR, OUR CITY HAS NOT EMBRACED.

AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE EVER WILL BE ABLE TO EMBRACE IT, BUT THIS WOULD BE THE TIMING FOR JUST ME TO GIVE MY OPINION THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE BUILDING A NEW FACILITY AND IT MIGHT BE NICE TO CONSIDER SOME FUNCTIONAL PUBLIC ART.

I'VE BEEN TO PARKS WHERE THE BIKE RACKS ARE PRETTY CLEVER AND FUN.

ME AS IT'S LOOKING LIKE OUR CURRENT COMMUNITY CENTER.

OR THERE'S EVEN SEEDING.

UM, I KNOW IT'S COSTLY, SO MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE FOUNDATION TAKES ON.

BUT I JUST WANTED TO GIVE MY COMMENT THAT, UM, WHEN I VISIT OTHER CITIES, THEY HAVE SOME PRETTY COOL FUNCTIONAL PUBLIC ART.

UM, AND IT'S NOTHING AGAINST THE CURRENT PROJECT.

IT'S JUST THEY WEREN'T, THEY WEREN'T GIVEN THAT DIRECTION.

SO THAT'S WHY IT'S NOT THERE.

UM, AND THEN THE ONLY OTHER THING IS, UM, I KNOW THAT WE WANNA INTEGRATE THE EXTERIOR TO LOOK LIKE OUR EXISTING FACILITIES, WHICH IT, IT DOES WITH THE LINES AND STUFF, BUT I DON'T, I'M JUST NOT A FAN OF THAT PINKISH EXTERIOR.

I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S STUCCO, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S BRICK, BUT IT REMINDS ME OF LIKE PART OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

SO THAT'S JUST MY OPINION.

SO I THINK IT'S NICE IF ALL OF OUR PUBLIC BUILDINGS ARE LIKE, THEY WANT THEM TO BE VERY FLUID AND MATCHING.

SO TO ME WHEN I LOOK AT THAT, IT DOESN'T RIGHT AWAY STRIKE

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IT DOESN'T MEAN IT HAS TO, BUT AGAIN, THIS, IT'S JUST OUR OPINION TIME.

SO I'M JUST NOT A HUGE FAN OF THE COLOR OF, OF THAT, THAT PINK.

I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS JUST THE RENDERING, HOW IT CAME OUT ON THE PRINTER, BUT REALLY OTHERWISE IT'S A WE ALREADY YOU GO, HE GO, HMM, THERE, HE'S HIDDEN.

THERE YOU GO.

OTHERWISE, AS ALWAYS, GREAT PROJECT, GREAT PRESENTATION AND I'M, I'M THRILLED FOR IT.

SO THOSE ARE JUST MY SMALL THANK GOODNESS FOR DESIGN REVIEW BRIAN? YEAH, NO, JUST, JUST A QUICK COUPLE OF COMMENTS.

UM, YOU KNOW, NOT, YOU KNOW, TO CYNTHIA'S POINT, THIS ISN'T NECESSARILY A PROJECT FOR THE SOUTH PART OF TOWN.

CYNTHIA AND I BOTH LIVE DOWN THERE, BUT YOU KNOW, HAVING TO CALL THE FIRE DISTRICT BECAUSE THEY'RE MAGNANIMOUS WITH LETTING US USE THE COMMUNITY ROOM AT STATION TWOS AND, YOU KNOW, HAVING TO CALL UP TO SCHEDULE FOR BOY SCOUT MEETINGS AND GIRL SCOUT MEETINGS AND HOA MEETINGS.

I THINK THIS CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, IS A NICE RELEASE VALVE FOR EVERYBODY DOWN THERE.

AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE, UM, WE'VE NEEDED IT, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY HAVE OUTGROWN WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.

AND SO JUST TO BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS, YOU KNOW, WE CERTAINLY WILL BE ABLE TO FIND THE MONEY FOR IT.

AND IT'S NICE TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, PARTNERS AT THE COUNTY AND WITH SUPERVISOR HAGMAN TO, UM, TO HELP US MOVE FORWARD.

IT WAS FUNNY, I WAS TALKING WITH MY KIDS ABOUT THE SPLASH PAD AND OF COURSE IT'S A HIGH SCHOOLER AND A KID GOING INTO JUNIOR HIGH, SO WHAT THE HECK DO THEY CARE NOW ABOUT A SPLASH PAD? BUT IT'S NICE FOR THE, IT'S NICE FOR THE YOUNG FAMILIES TO BE ABLE TO COME IN.

SO, YOU KNOW, THANK YOU TO STAFF, THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT ARE GONNA BE, BE HELPING US TO MOVE THIS FORWARD.

SO, ALRIGHT.

WELL, LET'S GO.

RAY, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? SURE, PLEASE.

UM, I'VE BEEN, I MOVED HERE IN 1984.

SOME OF THE OLD MAN HERE OTHER THAN ART , BUT, UM, WHEN I MOVED HERE, WE HAD NOTHING.

UM, I HAD THREE YOUNG BOYS.

UH, WE HAD NO PLAYING FIELDS FOR BALL, WE HAD NO COMMUNITY PARK, WE HAD NOTHING.

AND IT JUST MAKES ME FEEL GOOD ON EVERYTHING THAT WE DO HAVE TODAY.

AND THE DESIGN COMPANY, RJ UM, ALL THESE PARKS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THROUGHOUT THE CITY OVER THE YEARS? THE FIRST TWO YEARS, UM, AS A COMMISSIONER I WAS ON THE VERY FIRST PLANNING COMMISSION FOR TWO YEARS AND THEN I WAS ON THE PARKS FROM MEXICO COMMISSION FOR 12 YEARS.

SO I GOT REALLY INVOLVED WITH A LOT OF YOUR PROJECTS AND YOU GUYS DO SUCH A GREAT JOB.

IT'S JUST, UM, I JUST APPRECIATE ALL THE HARD WORK AND THE LOVE THAT YOU SHOW OUR CITY, SO THANK YOU.

BUT I DO HAVE SOME FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS.

POMONA RINCON ROAD, UM, WE WERE TALKING, JONATHAN, ABOUT A ENTRANCE IN, IN THAT AREA.

I KNOW AT ONE TIME WE WERE TALKING ABOUT DOING SOMETHING THERE.

WHAT ARE THE PLANS FOR THE FUTURE? WE'RE NOT GONNA BUILD SOMETHING THAT WILL LOOK DEROGATORY TOWARDS THE PARK.

I KNOW ONE TIME WE WERE TALKING ABOUT PUTTING MATERIALS THERE AND THEN MOVING THEM.

A WHILE AGO THIS PARK WAS ALSO, UH, UM, A, A POTENTIAL SITE FOR A, UH, A TRANSFER STATION.

UH, WE, UH, MIX THOSE, UH, DESIGNS AND PLANS, UH, UH, LONG AGO.

SO THE ONLY UH, USE WE HAVE ARE THESE TYPE OF RECREATIONAL USES.

SO, SO ANYTHING THAT WE BUILD THAT WILL BE AESTHETIC WILL BE A BENEFIT TO THE PARK.

THE ONLY OTHER PLAN WOULD BE PARKING RIGHT NOW.

SECOND QUESTION, RENTAL INCOME.

I KNOW A LOT OF OUR PARKS SUCH AS A COMMUNITY CENTER, DO WE HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT TYPE OF MONIES WE'RE THINKING ABOUT, UH, FOR RENTAL INCOME? WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS, UH, WE ALWAYS PRIDE OURSELVES ON BEING MARKET DRIVEN RELATED TO THE FEES THAT WE CHARGE FOR PROGRAMMING AND ALSO THE BUILDINGS AND SUCH.

SO WE'LL CERTAINLY TAKE A LOOK AT OUR NEIGHBORS AROUND THE AREA AND SUCH MIGHT PROBABLY IS GONNA COME DOWN TO VERY SIMILAR, UH, CALCULATIONS THAT WE DO FOR THE CURRENT COMMUNITY BUILDING AS IS, YOU KNOW, THE NUMBER OF SQUARE FEET, WHAT'S THE CAPACITY THAT IT CAN HOLD AND COMING UP WITH THE FEES ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.

I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, BUT UH, THAT'S KIND OF THE, THE TEMPLATE SO TO SPEAK, THAT WE'VE USED OVER TIME TO, UH, CREATE THE FEES THAT WE HAVE.

I'M GONNA PUT YOU ON THE SPOT HERE.

SINCE WE DO HAVE A COMMUNITY CENTER AND WE DO HAVE MCCOYS, WHAT KIND OF INCOME ARE WE LOOKING AT? THOSE TWO FACILITIES.

AND THERE'S A REASON FOR THIS, THE INCOME FOR MCCOY AND THE CURRENT COMMUNITY BUILDING, CORRECT? CORRECT.

UM, YEAH, YOU ARE PUTTING ME ON THE SPOT.

UM, WELL, I DON'T WELL YOU CAN GET BACK TO ME ON THIS.

10 OR 15 MILLION MORE MONEY.

WHAT I WAS THINKING, WHATEVER THE DIFFERENCE IS, WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO MAYBE FLOAT A BOND AND WHATEVER INCOME THAT WE ARE MAKING, WE USE THAT MONEY TO, TO PAY TOWARDS THE BOND.

SO JUST AN IDEA.

SO IF WE'RE MAKING SOME GOOD MONEY, AGAIN, THIS DOES NOT SCARE ME WHATSOEVER.

I THINK THIS COMMUNITY NEEDS THIS AND IF WE HAVE TO GO OVER SAY 10, 15 MILLION, UM, LET'S, LET'S FIGURE OUT A WAY TO BE ABLE TO PAY THAT.

SO WE DON'T PUT THE HARDSHIP ON THE COMMUNITY.

SO IF WE CAN BOND IT, LET'S DO IT.

MAYBE THERE IN THE FUTURE, MAYBE WE DO A SALES TAX INITIATIVE.

I MEAN THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT OPTIONS THAT WE, WE COULD DO THAT IF THIS DOES COST US AN ADDITIONAL

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I JUST, I JUST WANNA PUT AS MUCH INTO THIS PROJECT AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.

SO.

UNDERSTOOD.

AND, UH, YOU'LL NOTICE QUITE A FEW OF THE COMMUNITY SERVICES STAFF THAT TELLS YOU HOW EXCITED THEY ARE ABOUT THIS FACILITY.

I DON'T KNOW THAT WE EVER HAVE THIS KIND KIND OF PRESENCE, SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

AND THE, THE BEAUTY OF THAT HAPPENING IS YOU GET TEXTS FROM STAFF THAT SAYS 250 TO $300,000 IN REVENUE WE GENERATE FROM THOSE FACILITIES.

WOW.

THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY.

PERFECT.

UH, I HAD JUST A FOLLOW UP WITH RESPECT TO THAT NORTHEAST CORNER THAT CONNECTS WITH POMONA, RCON ROAD.

UH, I THINK IT MAKES SENSE TO, IF WE HAVE TITLE TO THAT, ANY OF THAT PROPERTY ON THERE, THAT STREET OR ADJACENT TO THE STREET THAT WE COULD PUT ADDITIONAL PARKING THERE.

THE CONCERN I HAVE ABOUT THAT IS IF WE HAVE READY AT READY AVAILABLE ACCESS FROM THAT POINT, KIDS COMING FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND MAYBE NOT JUST KIDS FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL, BUT ON E-BIKES ACCESSING THIS PROPERTY, THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF CONCRETE, A LOT OF STR OF, OF SIDEWALKS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

WE'RE GONNA, I POTENTIALLY, I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF PROBLEM WITH KIDS RIDING E-BIKES, UH, IN THAT AREA.

SO IT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO ANTICIPATE AND MEASURES IN OR YEAH.

SOMETHING RUM STRIPS OR SOMETHING.

WELL THAT'S MY FAULT.

SLOW.

WE JUST NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT AND KNOW THAT IT'S POTENTIALLY A PROBLEM.

AND LET'S LOOK AHEAD AND LET'S, LET'S CURB BEFORE IT BECOMES A PROBLEM.

GEEZ.

MAYOR, IS THAT THE NORTHWEST BY THE HIGH SCHOOL OR EAST? NO, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE, THE NORTHEAST OF THE, OF THIS PROPERTY.

IT'S RIGHT WHERE IT WOULD CONNECT, WHERE THAT SIDEWALK GOES.

RIGHT TO THE VERY ANG TRIANGULAR PIECE.

END OF POMONA RINK ON ROAD RIGHT UP AGAINST THE FREEWAY FACILITY RIGHT THERE.

WHERE THE TRANSFER STATION? YEAH.

WHERE WE WERE GONNA PUT TRANSFER STATION.

RIGHT, RIGHT.

I THINK THERE'S A BOOSTER STATION THERE.

UH, UH, I I SHOULD POINT OUT THOUGH, THERE'S A ELEVATION DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PARK AND THE ROAD.

WE HAVE CONSIDERED, UH, PEDESTRIAN ACCESS IMPROVEMENTS, BUT WE'LL HAVE TO LOOK AT WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S A, UH, A, UH, A, A REASON TO HAVE VEHICULAR, UH, ACCESS EITHER THROUGH PARKING OR, UH, ACCESSING THE ACTUAL PROPERTY.

BUT, BUT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN ESPECIALLY MAKE IT EASIER FOR, UH, THE HIGH SCHOOL TO GET TO THE, UH, THE PARK.

'CAUSE NOW THEY KIND OF MAKE THEIR WAY, BUT WE'D WANT TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS ALONG THE, ALONG THAT, UH, ACCESS POINT.

YEAH, WELL, JUST LIKE ON THE VERY SOUTH END OF THE EXISTING PARK, WE HAD A TRAIL THAT WENT UP INTO THE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT TO THE, TO THE SOUTH OF IT.

SO I'M JUST SAYING THAT, AND WHEN YOU SAY ELEVATION, THAT'S EVEN WORSE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GONNA BE TRYING TO GET AIR ON THESE 25 MILE AN HOUR E-BIKES.

SO THIS ISN'T A MOTO COST COURSE FOR THEM.

IT'S, UH, SO WE, WE HAVE TO YEAH, TONGUE IN CHEEK TALK ABOUT IT, BUT LET'S ANTICIPATE IT AND LET'S DO SOMETHING ELSE.

NO THANK.

NOW, IS IT APPROPRIATE OR NOT APPROPRIATE FOR THE PARKS AND REC TO MAKE COMMENTS IF THEY WISH TO? AT THIS POINT? WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT YES, PLEASE.

I HAVE THE CHAIR MAKE A MAYBE SOME COMMENTS.

YEAH, YOU WANNA GO AHEAD GREG, YOU WANNA HAVE A, UH, AND THEN ANYBODY ELSE WANT, WE WANNA LOCK ANYBODY OUT, BUT IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING, OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT IT A LOT MORE.

SO YEAH, JUST A, UH, A COUPLE OF COMMENTS, UM, AND, AND POINTS I'D LIKE TO MAKE ON THIS GREAT PRESENTATION.

GREAT COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL TOO.

THANK YOU FOR THE, FOR THE INSIGHT AND THE FEEDBACK.

UM, AS COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS SAID, I THINK THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME TO INVEST IN THE CITY, AND PARTICULARLY IN THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CITY, UM, TO ADD AMENITIES AND ACCESS SPACE.

UH, WE STARTED AS A SPLASH PAD AND JUST BECOME A BIGGER PROJECT THAN THAT.

BUT I THINK IT IS, UM, I THINK IT'S, IT'S WELL THOUGHT OUT AND I THINK IT'S, IT'S A TIME TO DO IT.

I WOULD ALSO JUST POINT OUT, WE WENT THROUGH QUITE AN EXERCISE A FEW YEARS AGO TO UPDATE THE PARKS, UM, AND RECREATION MASTER PLAN, UH, WHICH HAD BEEN UPDATED BACK WHEN I FIRST JOINED THE COMMISSION IN 2007.

AND WE RECENTLY DID ANOTHER UPDATE, WHICH INVOLVED A LOT OF WORKSHOPS, UM, A LOT OF INTERACTIVE SESSIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY TO FIND OUT WHAT DOES THE COMMUNITY WANT, WHAT DO WE WANT IN PROGRAMMING, WHAT DO WE WANT IN FACILITIES, ET CETERA.

THE NUMBER ONE REQUESTED ITEM ON THAT WAS AN AQUATIC CENTER.

THE NUMBER FOUR REQUESTED ITEM WAS A SPLASH PAD, AND THE NUMBER 16 REQUESTED ITEM WAS A WATERPARK.

SO THIS IS SOMETHING THE CITY HAS WANTED IN ADDITION TO NEEDING THE, THE COMMUNITY CENTER, THE ROOMS, WE HAVE MYSTIC CANYON IN THE SOUTH, THAT'S REALLY ALL WE HAVE IN THE SOUTH.

AND THAT'S BEEN KIND OF A, A STRUGGLE FOR THE CITY TO KEEP UP.

SO I REALLY DO THINK THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME TO MAKE THE INVESTMENT AND I THINK THIS IS A GREAT PROJECT TO DO IT ON.

I JUST WANTED TO THANK STAFF AND UM, OUR GUEST PRESENTERS FOR THE THOROUGH PRESENTATIONS AND FOR ANSWERING OUR QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU GREG.

ANYONE ELSE WANNA MAKE A COMMENT ON THE PARTS REC? JEN? THANK YOU MAYOR BENNETT.

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I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT, UM, THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND ALSO THE SPLASH PAD.

UM, I WAS JOKING WITH DIRECTOR MARSHALL THAT I'M SITTING ON THE EDGE PLAN, THE MOST ANNOYING COMMISSIONER ABOUT THE SPLASH PAD .

AND DESPITE HIS ANSWER, UM, I, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I BROUGHT UP A FEW TIMES.

UM, I KNOW IT'S GONNA BE A GREAT AMENITY.

I THINK PINEHURST PARK IS GOING TO BECOME LIKE THE ULTIMATE PARK.

UM, CHINO HILLS HAS KIND OF BECOME LIKE A DESTINATION CITY.

PEOPLE FROM OTHER CITIES ARE ALWAYS SAYING, OH, WE, WE ALWAYS COME TO THE SHOPS, OR WE ALWAYS GO TO GRAND AVENUE.

WE ALWAYS COME TO LLANO.

PEOPLE FROM OTHER CITIES LOVE THE AMENITIES THAT WE HAVE HERE.

AND THAT'S DUE TO THE AMAZING STAFF THAT WE HAVE AND THE PEOPLE THAT THEY BRING INTO WORK ON THE MANYS IN OUR CITY.

SO I JUST WANTED TO THANK EVERYONE FOR, UM, THE PRESENTATIONS AND LOOKING FORWARD TO PROGRESSING THIS PROJECT.

THANK YOU, JEN.

WE DON'T WANT OTHER PEOPLE FROM OTHER CITIES COMING HERE.

I DON'T CARE WHAT I, I DON'T CARE WHAT DIAMOND BAR AND BREA WANTS.

WE'RE GONNA HAVE A ADMISSION BOOTH AND PROOF, PROOF OF RESIDENCY.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALRIGHT, IF THERE'S NO OTHER QUESTIONS, I THINK AT THIS POINT IT'S APPROPRIATE.

WE HAVE HAD OUR PRESENTATION, WE'VE HAD COUNSEL AND COMMISSION COMMENTS.

I BELIEVE IT'S TIME FOR A MOTION AND THE MOTION.

WHAT SHOULD THE EXACT LANGUAGE OF MOTION BE FORWARD JUST TO PROCEED WITH THIS MOVE FORWARD, MOVING THIS FORWARD.

SO CAN I HAVE A MOTION? I'LL MAKE THAT HOLD.

SECOND, SECOND.

SORRY, JUST TO CLARIFY, I'M SORRY, ON THE VOTE, IT'S JUST TO MOVE.

THE RECOMMENDATION WAS TO APPROVE THE CONTINUATION OF THE DESIGN REVIEW PROCESS.

THAT'S CORRECT, YES.

WE'RE NOT APPROVING ANYTHING FORMALLY, IT'S JUST WE'RE GONNA MOVE IT, KEEP IT MOVING THROUGH CONCEPT THE SYSTEM.

COMMENTS, UH, UH, FOR ITEMS THAT, UH, ARE, UH, WITHIN THE SUBJECT MATTER.

UNDER THE CONCEPT.

ALRIGHT, EVERYBODY LOCK IN THEIR VOTES PLEASE.

I'M SORRY, WHO MADE THE MOTION? UH, PETER WITH SECOND BY RAY.

UH, IT'S NOW THE TIME THAT WE HAVE PUBLIC

[10. 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 that do not appear on the agenda. Please complete and submit to the Deputy City Clerk a "Request to Speak" card. Comments will be limited to a maximum of one minute per speaker. The time allotted per person may vary depending on the total number of speakers received. This comment period will generally be limited to 30 minutes per meeting, so not all members of the public may have the opportunity to speak at every council meeting.]

WELL, I'M GONNA LET YOU READ THAT, UH, CHERYL, SO WE DON'T GET IT MESSED UP.

AT THIS TIME, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL REGARDING ANY ITEMS WITHIN THE SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION OF THE COUNCIL THAT DO NOT APPEAR ON THE AGENDA.

PLEASE COMPLETE AND SUBMIT TO THE DEPUTY CITY CLERK A REQUEST TO SPEAK CARD.

COMMENTS WILL BE LIMITED TO ONE MINUTE PER SPEAKER.

THE FIRST SPEAKER IS JOANNE.

JEN.

ALL RIGHT, JOANNE, COME ON UP.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR.

COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, I DON'T ALWAYS COME TO THE MEETING, BUT I'LL TRY AND CATCH THE, THE COMMENTS ON VIDEO STREAMING.

AND LAST, UH, MEETING, RAY MENTIONED PROP 36 AND HOW THE THEFT SIDE SEEMS TO BE WORKING, BUT THE TREATMENT MANDATING, THERE'S SOME SNAGS AND HE MENTIONED MY SON.

WELL, PART OF THAT REASON IS BECAUSE I MENTIONED RAY, THAT ON DECEMBER 26TH AFTER IT WENT INTO EFFECT, PROP 36 WENT INTO EFFECT.

HE WAS ARRESTED, CITED, AND RELEASED.

NO CONVICTION GET GIVEN.

SO I'M THINKING WHAT HAPPENED.

HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN A CONVICTION 'CAUSE IT WAS THE RIGHT PC CODE.

YOU KNOW, I REACHED OUT TO PEOPLE AND THEY DIDN'T REALLY HAVE AN ANSWER EITHER, EVEN THE DAS AND, BUT I LISTENED TO A SENATE HEARING WITH SENATOR CITO AND HE WENT OVER ALL THIS PROP 36 HAD 14 PANEL MEMBERS SPEAKING BECAUSE THE MONEY IS NOT THERE.

THERE'S NO FUNDING SOURCE.

AND TO HELP WITH THE RESOURCES, I WENT TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING TODAY.

I APPROACHED THEM WITH THAT.

AND I ALSO GOING TO THOSE MEETING, I INTERACT WITH OTHER PEOPLE, THEY COME TO ME TO HELP, TO GIMME ADVICE TO MY SON.

AND I REALLY THINK WE NEED TO EXTEND THIS TIMEFRAME MORE THAN ONE MINUTE TO TRY AND EVEN SAY ANYTHING, EVEN IF IT'S TWO MINUTES, MIGHT LOOK INTO THAT.

'CAUSE I HAD SO MUCH MORE TO SAY AND HE WAS RELEASED BECAUSE I THINK IT'S CALLED, BUT WE, BUT WE DO UNFORTUNATELY NEED TO GET YOU TO WIND DOWN.

SORRY, JOANNE.

YEAH, WELL, WOBBLER OFFENSE, MISDEMEANOR, I THINK THAT'S WHY THEY RELEASED HIM.

THAT WAS AN ALTERNATIVE.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS, BY THE WAY, WE AGREE WITH YOU.

I BELIEVE .

GREAT.

UH, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR COMMISSION MEETING FOR AIRPORT.

YOU WERE MENTIONED AT THE MM-HMM .

THE BO THANK YOU MEETING TODAY.

ANYONE ELSE? SUZETTE, DANE, SUZETTE.

GOOD EVENING.

MAYOR BENNETT, VICE MAYOR, JOE HOUSE MEMBERS, CITY STAFF AND RESIDENTS OF CHINO HILLS.

SUZETTE DANG.

WITH FOURTH DISTRICT, COUNTY SUPERVISOR, KURT HACKMAN'S OFFICE.

GREAT PRESENTATION BY THE WAY.

UM, AND AS SUPERVISOR KURT HACKMAN, HE WOULD PROBABLY SAY THAT WAS VERY COOL.

IN CHINO HILLS BETWEEN 9:00 AM TO 12:00 PM OR UNTIL THE TRUCK REACHES CAPACITY.

SO SUPERVISOR HACKMAN PARTNERED WITH THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS TO HOST A NEXT DOCUMENT SHREDDING EVENT ON SATURDAY, MARCH 29TH AT THE SHOP'S OVERFLOW PARKING LOT LOCATED 1 3 9 2 0 CITY CENTER DRIVE

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UH, WE ASK THAT YOU PRE-REGISTER AT HAGMAN SHRED 0 3 2 5.

DO EVENTBRITE.COM FOR ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THE EVENTS OR COUNTY SERVICES? PLEASE CALL OUR DISTRICT OFFICE AT (909) 465-5265.

GOOD EVENING, MR. MAYOR.

COUNCIL CITY STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

MY NAME IS NICOLE BRASI, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE INLAND VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA.

JUST WANNA GIVE YOU GUYS SOME UPDATES ABOUT SOME EVENTS.

TOMORROW NIGHT.

WE ARE HOSTING OUR, UH, MONTHLY BARK AFTER DARK, FEATURING HAPPY MEOW, UH, ADOPTION EVENT FROM SIX TO 8:00 PM FREE ADOPTIONS.

IN ADDITION, THE REST OF THIS WEEK, ALL DOG ADOPTIONS ARE, UH, FEE WAIVED AND THAT INCLUDES PUPPIES.

UM, THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 15TH, FROM 10 TO 12:00 PM AT OUR SHELTER AT 500 HUMANE WAY IN POMONA, WE ARE HAVING OUR KITTEN SHOWER.

OUR LIST IS AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE, I VHSS PCA.ORG OR ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA.

AND WE HAVE OUR HUMANE HEROES READING PROGRAM FOR KIDS 13 AND UNDER MARCH 20TH FROM THREE TO 4:00 PM AND AGAIN, YOU CAN GO ONLINE OR CALL COMMUNITY OUTREACH, (909) 623-9777.

AND WE HAVE OUR GOOD MOBILE, MOBILE SPAY AND NEUTER UNIT THAT'S GONNA BE COMING TO YOUR COMMUNITY.

ANTICIPATE JUNE SCHEDULING EVENT.

THANK YOU, NICOLE.

THAT IS THE FINAL SPEAKER CARD.

ALRIGHT, LAST CALL.

IF THERE WAS ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WANTED TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS.

RIGHT NOW, SEEING NONE, WE WILL MOVE ON TO PUBLIC

[ SAFETY UPDATES - Fire and Police]

SAFETY, UH, UPDATES.

LET'S TRY, UH, WHO WANTS TO DO IT FIRST? COME ON, CHIEF.

GO AHEAD.

THANK YOU, MAYOR BENNETT.

UH, I JUST WANTED TO, UH, MENTION, UM, THIS YEAR WE ARE CHANGING OUR OPEN HOUSE DATE.

IT'S TYPICALLY HOSTED IN OCTOBER, AND I WANTED TO BE ABLE TO, TO HAVE THE CITY STAFF AND MEMBERS TO GET ON THEIR CALENDARS SO WE DON'T HAVE CONFLICTS.

AND ALSO FOR THE COMMUNITY'S PURVIEW, WE'RE GONNA BE HAVING IT ON MAY 3RD THIS YEAR.

UH, WE'RE EXPECTING A VERY, UH, ROBUST, UH, SHOWING AND WE'VE ADDED, UH, SOME ELEMENTS.

SO WE'RE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO INFORM, UM, THE CITY MANAGER AS WELL AS THE, THE COUNCIL AND AND STAFF.

UH, YOUR FIRE DISTRICT CONTINUES TO REMAIN VERY ACTIVE.

IF YOU HAD A CHANCE TO SEE SOME OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS, MYSELF, BOARD MEMBERS AND SOME STAFF WERE BACK IN DC THIS LAST WEEK.

UH, WERE VERY APPRECIATIVE TO BE HAVING BEEN INVITED TO THE, IT'S NOT CALLED THE STATE OF THE UNION, BUT THE ADDRESS THAT THE PRESIDENT GAVE, UH, WAS A VERY, UH, GREAT EXPERIENCE TO BE INVOLVED WITH.

UH, BUT IT'S JUST ANOTHER TESTAMENT TO THE LEADERSHIP WITHIN THE FIRE BOARD AND THE COMMITMENT TO THIS COMMUNITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL OPPORTUNITIES, UH, TO GROW OUR PEOPLE AND TO GARNISH SUPPORT THAT WE CAN BRING BACK HERE TO CHINO HILLS AND INVEST IN OUR COMMUNITY.

AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

FOR FUNDS BY ANYONE OVER THE PHONE OR INTERNET.

WELL, THANK YOU.

AND SARAH, THANK YOU FOR, UH, STICKING IT OUT.

I SAW MAIL OR MIKE BAILED ON US JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO, BUT THAT'S ALL RIGHT.

AL.

THANK YOU AND GOOD EVENING.

HONORABLE MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, CITY STAFF AND RESIDENTS AND ATTENDANCE.

RECENTLY, THE CHINO HILLS POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS INVESTIGATED A NUMBER OF REPORTS WHERE RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN THE VICTIMS OF THEFT BY FALSE PRETENSES.

IN ONE INSTANCE, THE VICTIM RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL FROM SOMEONE CLAIMING TO BE FROM THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

THE UNKNOWN PERSON TOLD THE VICTIM THEIR BANK ACCOUNT HAD BEEN COMPROMISED AND THEY NEEDED TO WITHDRAW $30,000 IMMEDIATELY AND LEAVE IT IN AN ENVELOPE ON THEIR FRONT PORCH FOR A COURIER TO PICK UP.

UNFORTUNATELY, THE VICTIM COMPLIED AND LATER REALIZED THEY HAD BEEN MISLED.

IN ANOTHER INSTANCE, THE VICTIM RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL FROM SOMEONE CLAIMING TO BE A BANK EMPLOYEE.

THE PERSON TOLD THE VICTIM THEIR BANK ACCOUNT HAD BEEN COMPROMISED AND THEY NEEDED TO IMMEDIATELY WITHDRAW ALL THEIR MONEY FROM THEIR SAVING ACCOUNT AND PLACE IT ON A DIGITAL CREDIT CARD WITH THE ACCOUNT NUMBER THE CALLER PROVIDED.

ONCE THE VICTIM DID.

SO, THE DIGITAL CREDIT CARD DISAPPEARED FROM THE VICTIM'S APPLE WALLET.

AND YET A THIRD INCIDENT, A RESIDENT RECEIVED A PHONE CALL FROM SOMEONE CLAIMING TO BE A DEPUTY AT THE CHINO HILLS POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND THAT THE RESIDENT HAD A, A WARRANT FOR THEIR ARREST.

THE SUSPECT TOLD THE RESIDENT TO FEDEX $50,000 TO AN ADDRESS OUT OF THE AREA OR ELSE FACE ARREST.

LUCKILY, THE RESIDENT CALLED US PRIOR TO SENDING THE MONEY AND AVOIDED BEING A VICTIM.

TO PREVENT FALLING VICTIM TO SUCH SCAMS, RESIDENT SHOULD BE SUSPICIOUS OF ANY REQUEST THAT CLAIMS TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE AND THEY MUST ACT IMMEDIATELY.

IF YOU RECEIVE SUCH A REQUEST, CALL THE POLICE AND REPORT IT PRIOR TO TAKING ANY ACTION.

IF YOU RECEIVE A TEXT ASKING FOR ACCOUNT INFORMATION OR TO VERIFY A TRANSACTION, DON'T RESPOND.

FIND THE PHONE NUMBER FOR YOUR BANK AND CALL THEM DIRECTLY TO VERIFY IF THEY SENT YOU A MESSAGE OR CALL.

THE POLICE RESIDENTS SHOULD BE EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS OF ANY REQUEST

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LEGITIMATE BANKS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WILL NOT ASK FOR CASH OR THE IMMEDIATE TRANSFER OF FUNDS.

THE KEY IS TO REMEMBER THAT TI THERE IS TIME TO VERIFY ANY REQUEST AND TO DO SO BEFORE TAKING ANY ACTION.

THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT FOR THE EVENING, SIR.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

UM, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND, UM, TWO QUICK THINGS.

WELL, ONE, TO THAT POINT, I GOT A PHONE CALL ON MY PHONE SAYING THAT IMMIGRATION WAS CALLING ME AND WHEN I SAID MY FAMILY'S BEEN HERE SINCE THE 1850S, THEY HUNG UP.

SO DON'T BRIAN.

DON'T, THAT WAS ME BY THE WAY.

OKAY, WELL, ALRIGHT, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL RE-UP MY PAPERWORK.

UH, SO YEAH, NO, PLEASE FOR RESIDENTS, DON'T, DON'T BE SCARED WHEN THESE RANDOM PHONE CALLS COME IN.

LIKE, PLEASE JUST DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE.

UM, AND THEN SECOND POINT, WE HAD HAD SOME NEWS ABOUT CAMERAS THAT WERE HIDDEN IN TOWN.

IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND MAYBE JUST TOUCHING BASE ON THAT FOR US.

I KNOW IT WAS ALL OVER THE MEDIA.

I BELIEVE IT WAS LAST WEEK, UH, ONE OF OUR RESIDENTS DID FIND A CAMOUFLAGE BATTERY PACK ON THEIR DRIVEWAY AND CALLED THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT TO RESPOND.

WHEN WE DID OUR DEPUTY SING, THE CAMOUFLAGED, UH, BATTERY KNEW IT WAS CONSISTENT WITH OTHER CAMERAS.

ONE WE FOUND IN OUR CITY, UH, A FEW MONTHS PRIOR, BUT ALSO IN, IN NEIGHBORING CITIES.

AND SO OUR DEPUTIES DID A SEARCH OF THE LANDSCAPING AROUND THE RESIDENCE AND ACTUALLY DID FIND A CAMOUFLAGE CAMERA AND ADDITIONAL BATTERY PACK.

SO, AND THOSE, THOSE THAT CAMERA WAS DIRECTED AT A RESIDENCE, WE KNOW OR SUSPECT THROUGH OTHER CAMERAS THAT HAVE BEEN FOUND IN OTHER AREAS, UM, THAT THEY ARE MORE THAN LIKELY USED BY POSSIBLE BURGLARY SUSPECTS TO TRACK THE, THE GOINGS OF RESIDENCES.

SO, UH, WE DID A, WE DID RELEASE A PRESS RELEASE, BUT FOR ANYONE, UM, I WOULD ASK THAT IF YOU'VE GOT A TRUSTED GARDENER TO MAKE SURE YOU CHECK YOUR LANDSCAPING AND HAVE THEM CHECK YOUR LANDSCAPING AND IF YOU FIND ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS LIKE THAT TO GIVE US A CALL.

SO IT'S NOT PEOPLE NOT PERVERTS TRYING TO LOOK IN ON WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

IT'S PEOPLE TRYING TO TRACK YOUR MOVEMENTS TO POTENTIALLY COME AND BURGLARIZE YOU BASED ON THE KNOWLEDGE WE'VE HAD IN SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES.

AT THIS POINT WE BELIEVE IT'S, IT'S PART OF CASING FOR A BURGLARY.

THANK YOU SIR.

NOTHING TO ADD TONIGHT, MAYOR.

ALRIGHT, MOVING ON ALONG.

CITY MANAGER UPDATES.

[ CITY MANAGER UPDATES]

[ COUNCIL REPORTS Mayor Bennett Chino Valley Unified School District Board Vice Mayor Johsz Omnitrans Board Council Member Marquez San Bernardino County Transportation Authority Board Council Member Rogers Chino Basin Desalter Authority Board]

I'M FIRST ON THE LIST, BUT THE, UH, CHINO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF THIS ISN'T, UH, THIS MONTH OR THIS YEAR, EXCUSE ME, HAS NOT HAD MEETINGS ON THE, THE, UH, FIRST OF THE MONTH.

SO THERE'S NOTHING TO REPORT FOR THAT.

MAYOR, VICE MAYOR JOS OMNI TRANS BOARD, OMNI TRANS BOARD.

UH, DURING OUR OPEN SESSION, WE, UH, HAD AN UPDATE REGARDING POTENTIAL, UH, FEDERAL FUNDING WITH THE NEW ADMINISTRATION THAT IS GOING, UH, THAT, THAT IS IN PLACE IN DC AND WE HAVE, UH, HIRED THE SAME LOBBYING FIRM IN DC THAT, UH, S-B-C-T-A HAS TO TRY TO KEEP A UNIFORM VOICE WHEN IT COMES TO ADVOCATING FOR THE INLAND OR FOR SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY FOR, UM, FOR FUNDING.

AND THEN CLOSED SESSION WAS JUST MORE LABOR NEGOTIATIONS.

ALL RIGHT.

UH, COUNCIL MEMBER MARQUEZ.

THANK YOU MR. MAYOR.

APPRECIATE THAT.

UM, S-B-C-T-A BOARD MEETING S-B-C-T-A RECEIVED A ZERO, A MISSION MULTI-UNIT PROJECT, ALSO IS KNOWN AS ZEMO.

WE AWARDED THE ROBERT ZOLA HYDROGEN SAFETY EXCELLENCE AWARD FROM THE CENTER FOR HYDROGEN SAFETY.

ALSO, WE APPROVED THE REMOVAL OF CALL BOXES ALONG INTERSTATE 40 CORRIDOR.

WE ALSO APPROVED THE FINAL EIR FOR THE ONTARIO CONNECTOR, THE TUNNEL.

UM, AFTER OUR MEETING, WE ACTUALLY HAD A AD HOC COMMITTEE.

UM, THIS IS ACTUALLY OUR THIRD MEETING FOR THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, A NEW ONE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE REVIEWING RIGHT NOW.

AND WE'RE HOPING TO ANNOUNCE, UH, OUR RECOMMENDATION AT THE NEXT APRIL BOARD MEETING.

THANK YOU, SIR.

COUNCIL COMMENTS? ABSOLUTELY.

COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS? YES.

UH, CHINO BASIN DE SALTER AUTHORITY, OR CDA, ONE OF OUR FIVE SOURCES OF WATER, UH, BOARD MEETING LAST WEEK, THE AGENDA WAS QUITE SHORT, SO NOTHING SIGNIFICANT TO REPORT.

SO I'LL, I'LL PASS.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.

UM, CYNTHIA, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO START WITH

[ COUNCIL COMMENTS]

THINGS, UM, WENT TO THE ST.

PATTY'S FEST TO BENEFIT THE CHINO VALLEY FIRE FOUNDATION.

IT WAS A GREAT EVENT.

UM, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT COULDN'T ATTEND, THEY DO FUNDRAISING YEAR ROUND.

SO, UM, YOU CAN CHECK OUT THEIR WEBSITE.

THEY DO A LOT OF THINGS, GOOD THINGS THAT GO BACK INTO THE COMMUNITY.

UM, JACOB IS GONE, BUT STUDENT GOVERNMENT DAY THAT WE PARTICIPATED IN WAS GREAT.

IT WAS REALLY, REALLY, IT WAS REALLY GOOD THIS YEAR.

VERY INTERACTIVE.

AND I JUST WANTED TO TELL JACOB AND HIS TEAM THAT HE DID A GREAT JOB.

SO.

WELL, JONATHAN'S GONE TOO.

I WAS GONNA SAY PASS IT ALONG.

YOU KNOW THESE REC GUYS.

A SUBSTANTIAL LENGTH OF BUTTERFIELD RANCH ROAD.

SO IN AND OUT AND I, AND THE ONLY OTHER THING I WANTED TO BRING UP WAS I NOTICED THAT, SO ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR TONIGHT WAS, UH, THE REHABILITATION PROJECT FOR

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UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE WOULD GO ABOUT THIS, BEN, BUT I WANT US TO, UM, ADDRESS AND MAYBE WITH RAY'S HELP WITH HIS TRANSPORTATION BOARD THINGS IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN I GO TO NEIGHBORING CITIES, THEY HAVE LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE BUFFERED BIKE LANES AND DIFFERENT THINGS THAT I KNOW THEY'VE GOT GRANTS FOR.

YOU KNOW, RECENTLY WE, UM, WE TOOK ON THE STANCE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, E-BIKES, BUT I THINK I, I THINK THAT WE SHOULD LOOK MORE INTO, UM, THE DIFFERENT LIKE LANES THAT ARE OUT THERE THAT ARE FOR E-BIKES OR VICE VERSA.

WE DON'T HAVE ANY OF THAT IN OUR CITY.

AND I KNOW, LIKE I SAID, IN NEIGHBORING CITIES, THEY HAVE LIKE THE SPECIAL DIFFERENT COLOR.

CHINO HAS LIKE THE GREEN, WELL, I DIDN'T WANNA SAY THEM, BUT NOW THAT YOU DID.

SO CHINO HAS THEM OFF CENTRAL.

YOU SEE THEM.

SO I JUST THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT I'D LIKE US TO EXPLORE AS A COUNCIL.

I THINK IT'S TIME THAT WE START KIND OF IN INVESTING IN SOME OF THIS BIKE TRANSPORTATION SINCE IT'S, IT'S REALLY TAKING OFF.

AND I KNOW RAY, MAYBE WE COULD TELL US ABOUT SOME FUNDING, BUT CAN WE AGENDIZE THAT FOR SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE IF THAT'S HOW THE ROUTE WE WOULD TAKE.

SURE.

GREAT.

AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

ART.

ALRIGHT, PETER, REAL FAST.

JUST CYNTHIA'S COMMENT.

GO HUMAN.

WE ACTUALLY PROGRAM I PROGRAM YEAH.

WITH SK AND WE CAN APPLY FOR FUNDS.

YEAH, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.

THANK YOU PETER.

AND MAYOR, BEFORE WE MOVE ON, UH, I BELIEVE OUR PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR, DANIEL BOBADILLA, HAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT HE'D LIKE TO MAKE.

SO WE RECENTLY APPLIED FOR A GRANT FOR, UH, GREEN BIKE LANES AND WE WERE AWARDED $350,000.

OH WOW.

AND WE WILL SOON, UH, ONCE WE GET THE FUNDS, WE WILL BEGIN A DESIGN AND START IMPLEMENTING THE GREEN GREEN STRIPING THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

WHAT YEARS WERE BURNING.

YES.

SEE THAT WASN'T PLANNED.

THAT WAS COMPLETELY, THAT WAS ORGANIC.

THAT'S GOOD.

BUT IT WAS NOT OKAY.

IT FEELS LIKE THE OLD, UH, SOFTBALL FOR A SPIKE.

PETER, I'D LOVE TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT SEGUES LIKE THAT.

ALSO ABOUT US RECEIVING $4 MILLION FOR SOMETHING.

DANIEL, ANY COMMENTS? NO.

UH, JUST A COUPLE THINGS.

UH, HAD A CHANCE LAST WEEK TO ATTEND LITERACY DAY IN, UH, AT HIDDEN TRAIL SCHOOL.

BEEN DOING THAT FOR YEARS AND READ TO A COUPLE OF CLASSES.

IT'S ALWAYS FUN TO DO THAT.

UH, THE BOOK I'VE BEEN READING THESE DAYS IS THE HISTORY OF CHILDREN'S LIBRARIES, SO I THOUGHT IT WAS APPROPRIATE.

AND THEN I ALSO DO A QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS OF THE KIDS WHAT, UH, WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN TOWN.

SO IT WAS A FUN EXPERIENCE AT HIDDEN TRAILS.

ALSO HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO OPENING FOR CANYON HILLS, CHINO HILLS LITTLE LEAGUE, AND WHICH IS OUR HOME BASE.

RAY AND I, UH, PRESIDENTS OF THE LEAGUE WAY BACK WHEN.

SO IT'S ALWAYS, UH, UH, IMPORTANT TO KIND TO GIVE BACK TO OUR LITTLE LEAGUE DAYS TO TALK ABOUT, UH, I KNOW HE'S CRYING.

IT'S, UH, .

IT'S OKAY.

IT'S OKAY, RAY.

UH, BUT IT WAS, WE TALKED, I TALKED ABOUT A LOT ABOUT THE, THE FRIENDSHIPS WE MADE FOR THE KIDS AND FOR THE PARENTS AND HOW IMPORTANT LITTLE LEAGUE.

SO I POINTED TO EVERYBODY IN THE STANDS AND SAID, APPRECIATE THESE DAYS PEOPLE WILL BE GONE BEFORE YOU KNOW IT.

AND BRIAN'S EXPERIENCING THAT NOW.

UM, TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE.

NOW THAT YOUR SON HAS ROTATED OUT OF LITTLE LEAGUE.

PONY LEAGUE.

SO, AND THEN ALSO AS CYNTHIA DID, AND BRIAN ATTENDED THE ST.

PATTY'S DAY EVENT.

GOOD.

GOOD JOB WITH OUR, THE TEAM THAT PUTS US TOGETHER, CHIEF AND AN IMPORTANT FUNDRAISER FOR THINGS THAT COME BACK TO THE COMMUNITY SUCH AS AEDS AND MAKE A CHILD SMILE PROGRAMS. AND, UH, WE HAVE A FIRST CLASS, UH, FIRE AGENCY HERE AND WE'D LOVE TO SUPPORT.

FIRST OF ALL, I'D LIKE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT S SCAG, UM, LEGISLATIVE COMMUNICATION MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE.

UH, WE HAD UPDATES ON STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE PLATFORMS ALIGN WITH OUR CITY, SO I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

UH, THE EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE, UH, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS ACTUALLY GONNA BE MAY 1ST AND SECOND.

THIS WILL BE OUR 60TH ANNIVERSARY.

UH, MR. HAMAN IS OUR PRESIDENT FOR SCAG, AND, UH, HE'S BUGGING ME, PUT ME IN CHARGE OF THE, UM, FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE.

COOL.

SO HE, UM, RAISED 360,000.

SO HE TOLD ME I COULDN'T, OR I'M SORRY, THREE 50.

SO HE TOLD ME I COULDN'T GO ABOVE THAT FIGURE.

SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE AT 392,000.

YAY.

AND HE'S UP MAD AT ME RIGHT NOW, SO HE'LL GET OVER IT.

WE APPROVED THE FEDERAL FISCAL YEAR 2026.

2027.

20 27, 20 28.

IT'S CALLED SURFACE TRANS TRANSPORTATION BLOCK GRANTS.

THEY'RE CALLED PROGRAMS. IT'S CALLED STBG AND CMAC.

THESE GRANTS ARE FOR CONGESTION MITIGATION, AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS. AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WILL BE INITIATING, UH, THE CALL FOR PROJECTS.

THIS USED TO GO THROUGH S-B-C-T-A, NOW IT GOES THROUGH SCAG.

I DID PROVIDE INFORMATION TO OUR CITY MANAGER AND ALSO THE CITY OF CHINO, UH, THE REGIONAL COUNCIL.

WE APPROVED THE 20 20, 20 25, 20 26, UH, DRAFT COMPREHENSIVE BUDGET.

AND THEN ALSO, UH, WE CALLED ON OR APPROVE THE STBG AND CMAC GRANTS.

METRO METROLINK, THERE'S NOTHING TO

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TALK ABOUT.

CHINO HILLS AND CHINO.

WE HAD AN AD HOC TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE.

I WANT TO THANK OUR STAFF AND ALSO THE STAFF FROM THE CITY OF CHINO.

WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE.

WE ARE COMMUNICATING AND I THINK WE'RE GONNA BE MOVING FORWARD ON A LOT OF THESE PROJECTS.

AND IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE COMMUNICATING AND IT'S NOT LIKE IT WAS CORRECT.

IT'S A LOT BETTER NOW.

A LOT BETTER.

AND THEN GRAFFITI.

UM, I'VE BEEN NOTICING THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AND WE DID HAVE RECENTLY BS BUT PRIOR TO BAPS, I NOTICED, UH, GRAFFITI THERE AT UH, BRAVO BURGER, UM, ON THE FENCE, THE EDISON FENCE.

I NOTICED IT ON THE, UH, MARQUEE.

UM, I NOTICED IT OVER THERE BY RIOS.

I NOTICED IT UP ON, UH, CARBON CANYON UP ON THE HILL.

UM, ALL I TOOK WAS A PHONE CALL TO STAFF AND ALL THAT GOT TAKEN CARE OF.

SO THANK YOU.

I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.

UM, TENNIS COURTS AND I KNOW JONATHAN, I TALKED TO YOU EARLIER TODAY.

UM, WE'RE HAVING ISSUES AGAIN WHERE PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY DOING, UH, CLASSES THERE.

I KNOW WE HAVE BIG SIGNS.

WE TELL THE PEOPLE THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT.

SO I DID GAVE YOU A COPY OF THE, UM, EMAIL I RECEIVED.

SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN DO SOMETHING WITH THAT.

GET BACK WITH THEM.

AND THEN ALSO THE PICKLEBALL COURTS.

I DID GO BY THE PICKLEBALL COURTS THE OTHER DAY.

THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL AND EVERYBODY APPRECIATES OUR STAFF.

AND JONATHAN, THANK YOU JOB WELL DONE.

UH, THE WELL CONFERENCE, WHICH IS WHAT WATER EDUCATION FOR LATINO LEADERS.

I WAS A MODERATOR FOR A PANEL FOR LESSONS LEARNED ON THE FIRE.

UM, THE FUNNY THING ABOUT THIS IS YOU HAVE, UH, TWO PROFESSORS.

UM, YOU HAVE A GENTLEMAN THAT'S AN AUTHOR AND I'M THE MODERATOR, SO I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WORKS, BUT HE DID.

AND IT WAS PRETTY GOOD.

WE HAD A GOOD TIME.

UM, I DID GET INTERVIEWED THE OTHER DAY BY A GROUP CALLED THE COALITION FOR OUR FUTURE AND THEY REALLY WANNA MAKE SOME IMPROVEMENTS ON THE I 15.

SO I'M GONNA REACH OUT TO BRIAN, A FEW OF MY CALL COLLEAGUES HERE TO GET SOME IN INFORMATION AND FEEDBACKS ON WHAT WE COULD DO TO HELP THEM.

AND THOSE ARE MY THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

OKAY, BRIAN.

NO, JUST LIKE, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO STAFF AND FOR OUR, UH, CUNA VALLEY UNIFIED FOR PARTICIPATING IN STUDENT GOVERNMENT DAY.

AND IT'S ALWAYS FUN TO SEE, YOU KNOW, THOSE KIDS STEP INTO ALL OF OUR ROLES.

UM, YOU KNOW, STEPPING INTO GOVERNMENT IS ALWAYS, ISN'T ALWAYS THE MOST EXCITING THING FOR A HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR TO THINK ABOUT, BUT HOPEFULLY WE SPARK SOMETHING IN ALL OF THEM.

NOT EVERYBODY CAN BE A CITY PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR OR CITY ENGINEER, BUT WE, GOD WILLING, CAN ONE DAY MAKE IT THERE.

UM, YEP.

UH, CYNTHIA HAD MENTIONED ST.

PATRICK'S DAY.

THE FUNDRAISER FOR THE FIRE FOUNDATION WAS FUN AS ALWAYS.

I HAD A CHANCE TO GO VISIT THE ACTIVE ADULTS CASINO NIGHT.

UM, WHOHOO.

NO.

UM, MY SON WAS VOLUNTEERING THERE, SO I SWUNG BY AND WAS HELPING TO, TO SERVE, UH, SERVE FOOD.

SO THAT WAS FUN.

IT WAS NICE TO SEE ALL OF OUR STAFF WORKING HARD.

UM, AND THEN I KNOW RAY HAD MENTIONED THE BAPS, UH, GRAFFITI ISSUE.

YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S NICE THAT WE HAVE A COMMUNITY THAT CAN STAND UP WHEN, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE SOMETHING, SOMETHING PUT ON, YOU KNOW, A HOUSE OF WARSHIP, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING POLITICAL, YOU KNOW, THAT, YOU KNOW, IS ANTITHETICAL TO WHO WE ARE AS A COMMUNITY.

SO, YOU KNOW, I, I WASN'T ABLE TO MAKE IT, BUT I KNOW, UH, I KNOW THE MAYOR AND RAY AND CYNTHIA WERE ABLE TO.

SO THANK YOU GUYS FOR GOING TO SHOW JUST WHO WE ARE AS A CITY.

AND THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT.

ALRIGHT, WELL, IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, UH, I THINK WE'VE BASICALLY COVERED FROM UP HERE.

ALL OF THE, UH, ITEMS THAT ARE, HAVE BEEN ONGOING RECENTLY, UH, WITHIN THE CITY.

AND, UH, WE, UH, WE, WE ARE JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE AND BE, UH, FUNCTIONING WELL AS A CITY.

WE THANK YOU FOR THE, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS.

I DO BELIEVE I HAVE ONE BOY SCOUT IN THE, UH, AUDIENCE TONIGHT THAT WANTS TO INTERVIEW ME AFTERWARDS.

BUT TO DO THAT, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO COME TO THE UH, UH, MIKE AND TELL US WHAT YOU'RE, UH, INTERVIEWING ME ABOUT AND WHAT YOU'RE WORKING ON.

I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE E WORKING ON YOUR EAGLE SCOUT.

COME TELL US ABOUT IT.

YOUR NAME, TROOP NUMBER, ARE YOU HERE FOR CITIZENSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY? NO, HE IS ACTUALLY HERE FOR COMMUNICATION.

OH, I BELIEVE THAT'S RIGHT.

MOM, GET THE CAMERA OUT.

UM, HELLO, MY NAME IS SAI.

I'M FROM TROOP TWO 20 IN CHINO HILLS.

UM, I'M WORKING ON THE COMMUNICATION MAYOR BADGE.

UM, SO I'LL BE INTERVIEWING, UH, THE MAYOR BENNETT ABOUT LIKE HIS CAREER AND HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS WITH THE CITY.

MAKE SURE AND SET ASIDE ABOUT AN HOUR, BY THE WAY, .

I THOUGHT THEY'D SAY THAT'S ONLY GONNA TAKE ABOUT TWO MINUTES, BUT THAT'S ALL RIGHT.

GOT ARRESTED TOO THE SECOND TIME.

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

COME ON UP AFTERWARDS AND WE'LL, WE'LL TAKE CARE OF THAT FOR YOU.

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