* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [ 7:00 P.M. - CONVENE MEETING / ROLL CALL] [00:00:42] WELCOME TO THE CHINO HILLS CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THIS MEETING WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR LAST NIGHT, THE 27TH, BUT DUE TO THE FIRE ACTIVITY IN THE AREA, WE ADJOURNED IT UNTIL TONIGHT. SO THIS IS THE OFFICIAL MEETING, UH, FOR OCTOBER 28TH. ROLL CALL MAYOR BENNETT HERE. VICE MAYOR. JOE'S HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER MARQUEZ, NO COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER, ROGERS AND MEMBERS ARE PRESENT. ALL RIGHT, AND LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN IS REMOTE, UH, THIS EVENING. UH, IF YOU WOULD PLEASE STAND [ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG] AND, UH, UH, JOIN ME IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG AND THEN STAY STANDING FOR THE INVOCATION, WHICH WILL BE BY RUBIN ASTRADA ASTRADA CHAPLAIN, CHINO VALLEY, INDEPENDENT FIRE DISTRICT. READY BEGIN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY CHAPLAIN. ASTRADA OKAY, [ INVOCATION: Ruben Estrada, Chaplain, Chino Valley Independent Fire District] ONE SECOND. LET ME UNMUTE HIS MIC TO BE RECEIVING A MESSAGE TO UNMUTE HIS MICROPHONE. CATHERINE ASTRADA CAN YOU HEAR US? YOU'D NEED TO UNMUTE YOUR MIC. THERE HE GOES. ALL RIGHT, CHAPLAIN. WE'RE READY. IT SHOWS THAT HE'S UN-MUTED BUT I DO NOT HEAR ANY SOUND COMING FROM HIS MICROPHONE. IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHAT TYPE OF SYSTEM HE'S USING. IF HE'S ON A PHONE, WHICH IS WHAT I BELIEVE HE'S ON. UM, MAYBE HIS HEADSET. CAN YOU HEAR US KAPLAN? WE CAN'T HEAR YOU CHAPLAIN. IF YOU CAN HEAR US, CAN YOU DIAL STAR NINE ON YOUR PHONE TO RAISE YOUR HAND? THERE HE GOES. YEP. WE'RE READY WHEN YOU ARE. I SAW SOME MOVEMENT ON HIS PHONE, BUT IT WENT AWAY. OKAY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. UM, I TELL YOU WHAT I WILL GO AHEAD AND CALL THE AUDIBLE. UH, I, I, WE DON'T WANT IT TO START THIS MEETING WITHOUT A INVOCATIONS. I'LL GO AHEAD AND DO THAT. PLEASE JOIN ME IN WHATEVER FASHION YOU NORMALLY, UH, UH, PRACTICE YOUR, UH, YOUR FAITH THERE. LORD, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE TO GET TOGETHER TONIGHT AND TO SHOW OUR, THANKS FOR THE GRATITUDE THAT'S BEEN GIVEN TO THIS COMMUNITY, GIVEN ALL OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS, WE ARE SO HAPPY AND WE'LL BE HEARING MANY REPORTS TONIGHT ABOUT THE EXACT STATUS OF THE BLUE RIDGE FIRE THAT HAS BEEN THREATENING OUR COMMUNITY. AND, UH, WE WILL HEAR PEOPLE TELL US EXACTLY WHERE WE'RE AT WITH RESPECT TO THAT, BUT PLEASE BE IN OUR MIDST THIS EVENING SO THAT YOU CAN GUIDE US AS LEADERS OF THIS COMMUNITY TO DO THOSE THINGS AND DO THE BUSINESS OF THIS COMMUNITY IN THE MANNER THAT YOU WOULD WISH US TO DO THIS. AND WE WANT TO HAVE YOUR PROTECTIVE HAND OVER ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY AND ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN DISPLACED TEMPORARILY, UH, DUE TO THIS FIRE EVENT. AND AGAIN, FOR US TO SHOW OUR THANKS THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO MAJOR ISSUES, UH, ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. SO THEY THINK WE PRAY FOR THIS EVENING AND YOU'RE BLESSED NAME. AMEN. OKAY. UM, FIRST ITEM IS GOING [6. PROCLAMATION - Proclaiming October 25-31, 2020, as Red Ribbon Week] TO BE A PROCLAMATION. WOULD YOU LIKE [00:05:01] TO READ THAT? YES. THANK YOU. THIS IS A PROCLAMATION PROCLAIMING OCTOBER 25TH THROUGH 31ST AS RED RIBBON WEEK TO BE ACCEPTED BY SERGEANT LAURA ADDIE AND UNMUTE HER PHONE. ALL RIGHT. AND I WILL LEAD INTO THIS SUBSTANCE ABUSE IS PARTICULARLY DAMAGING TO ONE OF OUR MOST VALUABLE RESOURCES. OUR CHILDREN, THE THEME OF THIS YEAR'S RED RIBBON WEEK IS BE HAPPY, BE BRAVE, BE DRUG-FREE. AND OUR GOAL IS TO PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR LIVING A DRUG OR HEALTHY DRUG, FREE LIFESTYLE BUSINESSES, PARENTS, LAW ENFORCEMENT SCHOOLS, AND THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY CAN DEMONSTRATE THEIR COMMITMENT TO A HEALTHY DRUG-FREE LIFESTYLE BY WEARING AND DISPLAYING RED RIBBONS. AS WE ALL ARE UP HERE THIS EVENING, DURING THIS WEEK LONG CAMPAIGN, THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS IS PLEASED TO PARTICIPATE IN RED RIBBON REEF AS A WAY TO UNITE OUR COMMUNITY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS TONIGHT. SERGEANT ADDIE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS? YES, I WOULD. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN. THANK YOU. GREAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING ME. WE ARE HONORED TO RECEIVE THIS PROCLAMATION ON BEHALF OF THE CHANNEL'S POLICE DEPARTMENT AND OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS THEME THIS YEAR IS BE HAPPY, BE BRAVE, BE DRUG-FREE. UM, UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO CORONAVIRUS OUR SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS AND DEPUTIES WERE NOT ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE IN-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES LIKE WE NORMALLY DO, BUT WE ENCOURAGE OUR RESIDENTS TO JOIN US IN SOME INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES THAT OUR SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS HAVE COME UP WITH AND WE'VE POSTED THEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA. SO WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO TAKE THE PLEDGE WITH YOUR CHILDREN AND TO TAKE PART IN OUR INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES. WE HAVE SOMETHING EVERY DAY, THIS WEEK AND FOR EVERY DIFFERENT AGE. ALL RIGHT, WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND THANK YOU FOR ACCEPTING THIS PROCLAMATION. UH, NEXT ITEM IS, OH, ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UH, NEXT ITEM IS [ ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACTION TAKEN IN CLOSED SESSION] ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM ACTION TAKEN IN CLOSED SESSION. MARK HENSLEY, ANY, UH, ACTION YOU'D LIKE TO REPORT ON THIS EVENING. YES. MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THE CITY AND THE CHINO VALLEY INDEPENDENT FIRE DISTRICT HAVE REACHED A TENTATIVE UNDERSTANDING FOR THE TRANSFER OF LAND AND DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE, UM, POTENTIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW FIRE STATION NEAR PIPELINE AVENUE AND SOKO CANYON ROAD. UH, THIS WILL IS BEING MEMORIALIZED IN A LETTER OF INTENT THAT WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR THE PUBLIC, UM, TOMORROW. AND ALSO, UH, JUST TO NOTE THAT THIS IS JUST, UH, A STEP IN THE PROCESS THAT THERE WILL BE, UH, THIS WILL LIKELY COME BACK TO COUNCIL IN SEVERAL WEEKS FOR, UH, THE FORMAL AGREEMENT AND THAT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY AS REQUIRED, UH, PUBLIC MEETINGS FOR THE COUNCIL AND POTENTIALLY THE PLANNING COMMISSION TO MAKE DECISIONS, UH, NECESSARY TO, UM, CARRY OUT THE AGREEMENT OR TO PUT IT IN PLACE IN MOTION. THAT'S IT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT GREAT NEWS. UH, THIS EVENING, UH, IF ANYONE IS FOLLOWING ALONG THE NORMAL AGENDA THAT WAS POSTED, UH, GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE LICENSE THIS EVENING AND WE'RE GOING TO MOVE PUBLIC [ SAFETY UPDATES - Police and Fire] SAFETY, UH, REMARKS UP FRONT. I WOULD LIKE OUR PUBLIC SAFETY REPRESENTATIVES TO SPEAK FIRST AND LET YOU KNOW OF WHAT'S GOING ON, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE ACTIVITIES LAST A FEW DAYS. AND FIRST WE HAVE CAPTAIN JOHN WALKER FROM THE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR BENNETT AND CITY COUNCIL. I'M VERY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE STEAMING THAT SINCE 5:00 PM THIS EVENING, ALL EVACUATION ORDERS HAVE BEEN LIFTED AND THERE ARE NO FURTHER RESTRICTIONS OR ROAD CLOSURES. UM, IT'S TRULY AMAZING WITH HOW CLOSE THE FLAMES GOT, UM, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN TOWN AND ALL THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT CAME, DID AN OUTSTANDING JOB. SO I WANT TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT, UM, AS WE'RE REINTEGRATING INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, UM, PLEASE DRIVE SAFELY. WE STILL HAVE FIRE CREWS OUT THERE, UTILITY CREWS, UM, AND FIRST RESPONDERS. SO BE SAFE WITH THAT ALSO DURING RE-INTEGRATION, IF THERE'S A REASON TO REPORT A NON-EMERGENCY CRIME, PLEASE CALL (909) 465-6837. AND OF COURSE, EMERGENCIES CALL NINE ONE ONE. UM, WITH THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS? UH, NO, UH, COUNSEL, ANY QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. WE WILL RELEASE YOU TO GO BACK CAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE WINDING DOWN OUR EMERGENCY OPERATION CENTER, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR REPORT AND THANK YOU FOR THAT NEWS. UH, NEXT WE HAVE, I BELIEVE DEPUTY CHIEF SCOTT ATKINSON ON THE LINE. GOOD EVENING. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN. OKAY. MAYOR BENNETT AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR HAVING ME TONIGHT. I I'M ACTUALLY, UH, [00:10:01] FIRST TIME THAT, UM, I'VE ACTUALLY JUST GOT HOME. UH, I'VE BEEN ON THE FIRE STRAIGHT FOR THE LAST 72 HOURS. UM, AND IT'S BEEN A TOUGH ROAD FOR ALL OF THE FIREFIGHTERS HERE AT THE DISTRICT, AS WELL AS AROUND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. SO WANTED TO GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND, UM, ON THE FIRE ITSELF. SO THE FIRE, UH, STARTED AT 12:56 PM WHEN IT WAS FIRST REPORTED AND IT ACTUALLY STARTED ON A SANTA ANA RIVER ROAD TRAIL. THIS IS A TRAIL THAT LEADS INTO THE STATE PARK USED BY, UH, BIKERS AND HIKERS. UM, THIS TRAIL EXISTS NORTH OF GREEN RIVER GOLF COURSE. IF YOU WERE TO LOOK ON A MAP, IT'S A VERY SMALL SLIVER OF LAND THAT IS ACTUALLY, UH, COVERED BY THE FIRE DISTRICT WHERE WE HAVE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE KRONE FIRE DEPARTMENT. CAUSE THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A FASTER TIME INTO THAT AREA JUST DUE TO THE UNIQUENESS AND THE STATE PARK. UH, THE ACTUAL FIRE IS, UH, STARTED THERE JUST ABOVE THE GOLF COURSE AND THAT AREA WHERE THE FIRE STARTED IS ACTUALLY OWNED BY THE ORANGE COUNTY FLOOD AUTHORITY. BUT IT IS IN SAN RENO COUNTY. AT THE TIME WE HAD EXTREME FIRE WEATHER, WHICH YOU WERE AWARE OF, WINDS THAT WERE, UM, CONSISTING AT, UH, EXCUSE ME, SUSTAINING AT 30 MILES PER HOUR WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MILES PER HOUR. AND THAT WAS OUT OF THE NORTHEAST. THE TEMPERATURE WAS 50 DEGREES AND THE HR OR THE HUMIDITY WAS VERY, VERY LOW AT ABOUT 10%. SO THE FIRE WAS KNOWN AND TO BECOME CALLED THE BLUE RIDGE INCIDENT. AND ACTUALLY THAT WAS NAMED AFTER A STREET THAT'S IN YORBA. UM, THE CITY OF YORBA, IT WAS WHERE ONE OF THE, UH, UH, FIRST HOUSES WAS AFFECTED BY THE FIRE. SO, UH, TODAY, UM, THERE A TEAM HAS COME IN, I'LL EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT. AND THEY'RE WORKING TO PUT THOSE THE SILVERADO, WHICH WAS A FIRE AND ORANGE COUNTY AND THE BLUE RIDGE FIRE. THEY'RE ACTUALLY RUNNING BOTH THOSE FIRES AT THIS TIME. IT'S STILL GOING TO BE KNOWN AS THE BLUE RIDGE. UM, BUT IT WAS UNDER ONE UMBRELLA BETWEEN THE TWO FIRES. THE TOTAL SIZE OF THE FIRE WAS 14,334 ACRES AT THIS TIME TO GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND ON HOW BIG THAT FIRE IS. UM, MOST OF THAT WAS IN SAN MATEO COUNTY AND IN CHINO HILLS, THE STATE PARK IN SIZE IS 14,173 ACRES. SO, UH, YOU CAN SEE THAT IT ENCOMPASSED A VERY LARGE AREA OF, UH, OUR COUNTY AS WELL AS US, A SMALLER AREA OF ORANGE COUNTY CURRENTLY. UM, THEY'RE STATING THE ESTIMATE, UH, CONTAINMENT AT 16%, UH, AT THE HEIGHT OF THE FIRE. IT THREATENED OVER 20,000 ON, ON, UH, HOMES IN BOTH, UH, ORANGE COUNTY, AS WELL AS OUR AREA AND THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS 5,958 HOMES, UH, RECEIVED EVACUATION ORDERS. THAT'S WHERE WE'RE SAYING THAT, UM, DUE TO YOUR LIFE SAFETY, WE, UH, YOU NEED TO EVACUATE YOUR HOME. UM, AND THOSE EVACUATION ORDERS, UH, ARE CARRIED OUT BY THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. AND, UH, I'D LIKE TO JUST GIVE A VERY KUDOS TO, UH, CAPTAIN WALKER FOR HIS STAFF. I WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH THEM ON EVACUATION ORDERS. UM, THEY WERE EXTRAORDINARY AND A GREAT HELP IN THAT EFFORT. AND THEY ALSO DID PUT IN TREMENDOUS HOURS OF TIME, UH, IN THE, IN THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRE OVER A THOUSAND HOMES, UH, DID RECEIVE EARLY PHASE OF WHAT WE CALL EVACUATION WARNINGS. UM, BUT THAT DID EVENTUALLY TURNED INTO EVACUATION ORDERS. SO, UH, OVERALL THOSE EVACUATION ORDERS AFFECTED AND OUR CITY, UH, IN OUR AREA HERE AT 19,730 RESIDENTS, UH, THE DAMAGE FROM THE FIRE SEVEN STRUCTURES WERE DAMAGED. ALL OF THOSE WERE IN ORANGE COUNTY AND ONE, UH, STRUCTURE WAS DESTROYED AGAIN IN ORANGE COUNTY HERE IN CHINO VALLEY, UH, AND THE CHINO VALLEY AND CHINO HILLS, WE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY, UH, DAMAGED STRUCTURES OR STRUCTURES OR ANY, UM, ANY OF OUR STRUCTURES WERE DESTROYED CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE FIRE THEY'RE BUILDING CONTAINMENT LINES AND EVENTUALLY THE RESTORATION OF THE EFFECTED AREAS FROM, UM, THE RETARDANT, THE BULLDOZER WORK, UH, THE HAND CREW WORK, ALL THAT WILL OCCUR, UH, OVER THE NEXT WEEK AND INTO THE NEXT MONTH OR SO TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW MANY CHINO VALLEY FIRE PERSONNEL WERE ON THE FIRE. WE HAD 10 CHIEF OFFICERS OVER 30 FIREFIGHTERS. WE HAD 10 FIRE ADMINISTRATION STAFF ASSIGNED THROUGHOUT, UM, DIFFERENT POSITIONS, UH, ON THE FIRE. AND, UH, TO GIVE YOU A BIG IDEA OF HOW BIG A THE PERSONNEL CAME FROM AROUND THE STATE, AS WELL AS, UH, UH, HERE IN OUR OWN DISTRICT, WE HAD 15 TYPE ONE STRIKE TEAMS. SO TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA, UM, ONE STRIKE TEAM CONSISTS OF FOUR ENGINES AND A LEADER. SO USUALLY ABOUT 22 PERSONNEL ON THAT STRIKE TEAM. AND WE HAD 15 OF THOSE IN, UM, JUST ON OUR SIDE OF THE FIRE. WE HAD 10 TYPE THREE STRIKE TEAMS, THE TYPE THREE STRIKE TEAMS, [00:15:01] SAME PERSONNEL, BUT A TYPE THREE IS A BRUSHED ENGINE ENGINE THAT DESIGNED TO SPECIALLY GO INTO THE BRUSH. WE HAD EIGHT STATE HAND CREW TEAMS. UM, EACH ONE OF THOSE TEAMS CONSIST OF TWO, WHAT WE CALL CREW BUGGIES WITH 17 PERSONNEL AND A LEADER. WE HAD FOUR DOZERS, ONE SPECIALIZED GEL TASK FORCE THAT CAME FROM SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY FIRE THAT SPECIALIZED JILL TASKFORCE IS SOMETHING THAT'S, UM, REALLY UNIQUE. AND, UM, AND THEY WERE UP MOSTLY IN THE CARBON CANYON AND THEY SPRAY A SPECIAL GEL ON BUILDINGS, UM, ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT MAY BE PRONE TO, UM, A VERY, UM, DIFFICULT AND A DANGEROUS AREA. WE CAN SPRAY THAT JAIL ON A BUILDING AND IT ACTUALLY, UM, WILL PREVENT FIRE FROM STARTING ON IT. SO THEY DID SPRAY NUMEROUS BUILDINGS, UM, UP IN THE CARBON CANYON. THEY ALSO WENT BACK INTO THE STATE PARK AND DID THAT TO SOME OF THE BUILDINGS. UH, THEN WE ALSO HAD 20 OVERHEAD OFFICERS OR OTHER CHIEF OFFICERS THAT CAME IN FROM, UH, AROUND THE AREA TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA HOW FAR SOME UNITS TRAVELED. WE HAD UNIONS FROM ALL OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, BUT WE ALSO HAD UNITS FROM THE CITY AND AREA OF SAN FRANCISCO. UH, ON THE AIRCRAFT SIDE, WE HAD SIX LARGE AIR TANKERS. WE HAD ONE VERY LARGE AIR TAKER. THAT'S WHAT IT'S KNOWN AS A D LAB. THAT WAS THE DC 10, UH, PRETTY SPECTACULAR TO WATCH THAT DRY, UH, DROP THE RETARDANT. WE HAD FOUR TYPE ONE AIR TANKERS. WE HAD ONE AIR ATTACK, WHICH THE AIR TECH IS OFTEN ONLY SEEN, UH, HOVERING ABOVE THE INCIDENT. THAT'S AN, UH, AEROTEK, UM, CONTAINS THE COMMANDER OF ALL THE AIR ASSETS AND THEY WILL, UM, UH, DECIDE WHERE ALL THAT RETARDANT IS GETTING DROPPED AND DIRECT THAT WE HAD ONE NIGHT FLIGHT COVERAGE. SO WE ACTUALLY HAD A HELICOPTER FLYING AT NIGHT AND WE HAD SEVERAL, UH, SEVEN HELICOPTERS TOTAL THROUGHOUT THE INCIDENT. AND THE ONE UNIQUE THING THAT IS REALLY UNIQUE TO THIS FIRE THAT I HAD NOT REALLY BEEN A PART OF. UM, UH, HERE IN THE CHINO VALLEY IS WE ACTUALLY HAD A DRONE AND THAT DRONE WAS UP, UM, AT BOTH NIGHTS AND IT WAS MAPPING THE FIRE AND ALSO PROVIDING DIRECTION. SO AT THE PEAK OF THE BLUE RIDGE FIRE, A TOTAL OF OVER 1200 PERSONNEL WERE ASSIGNED TO FIGHT THE FIRE. UM, THE COMMAND POST WAS SET UP IN YOUR BILL, YORBA REGIONAL PARK, AND WE STAFFED THAT WITH TWO OF OUR CHIEF OFFICERS, ONE OF OUR DEPUTY CHIEFS, AND ONE OF OUR BCS WAS, UH, DOWN AT THAT, UH, COMMAND POST REPRESENTING, UH, THE CITY, AS WELL AS THE FIRE DISTRICT. UH, THE, AT THAT COMMAND POST, THEY WENT INTO, WHAT DO WE CALL A UNIFIED COMMAND, WHICH JUST MEANS ALL THE ENTITIES THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT, UH, WERE, UH, WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE DECISIONS. SO THAT UNIFIED COMMAND, UM, UH, WAS COMPOSED OF ORANGE COUNTY FIRE, CAL FIRE, FULLERTON FIRE DEPARTMENT, ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, THE SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, AND ALSO THE CHINO VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT. UH, AS OF TWO O'CLOCK YESTERDAY, I FIRE TEAM FROM THE STATE CAME IN AND TOOK OVER COMMAND OF THIS FIRE AS WELL AS SILVERADO AND PUT THOSE TWO FIRES TOGETHER. AND THEY ARE COMMANDING AT THIS TIME IN THE STATE, THERE ARE SIX FIRE TEAMS. THESE FIRE TEAMS CONSISTS OF SENIOR FIRE PERSONNEL THAT COME IN AND, UH, DECIDE, UH, THE ACTIONS. UH, USUALLY THEY COME IN WHAT WE CALL AFTER THE INITIAL ATTACK, UM, ON THE, UH, OPERATIONAL PERIODS WHERE WE'RE AT CURRENTLY EITHER A LONG FIRE, SUCH AS YOU'LL SEE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA OR WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY, WHERE WE'D ACTUALLY, UH, THE FIRE'S UNDER CONTAINMENT AND THEY'RE WORKING, UH, TO, UH, CONTAIN THE FIRE, PUT UP PERIMETER LINES AND WORK ON, ON THE, UH, RESTORATION. ONE OF THE LETS YOU KNOW, THAT WE DID, UH, RECEIVE, UH, WHAT WE CALL AN F MAX. SO THAT STANDS FOR FIRE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT GRANT. THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, UM, GAVE THIS GRANT. IT COMES FROM THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, FEMA TO HELP THE AVAILABILITY OF VITAL RESOURCES SUPPRESS THE BLUE RIDGE FIRE BURNING, UH, HERE IN OUR COUNTY, AS WELL AS ORANGE. THE F MAGAZINES KNOWN, WHICH IS PROVIDES, UH, IS PROVIDED THROUGHOUT THE PRESIDENT'S DISASTER RELIEF FUND. AND IT'S A COST SHARE BASIS. IT'S GOING TO ASSIST US HERE IN THE LOCAL AT THE STATE. AND, UH, ALSO IT DOES WORK FOR TRIBAL AGENCIES. UH, WE APPLY FOR THAT IS THERE'S A VERY SPECIFIC WAY TO APPLY FOR THAT WHEN THE FIRE IS GOING ON AND YOU GET 75% REIMBURSEMENT OF ELIGIBLE FIRE SUPPRESSION COSTS. SO THE GOVERNOR HAS GRANTED THE BLUE RIDGE FIRE, UH, THE F MAG, AND THAT'S A VERY SIGNIFICANT, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO BEING ABLE TO, UH, PAY FOR ALL THE RESOURCES THAT WERE ON THE FIRE ITSELF. UH, LET'S SEE HERE, LET ME GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE, UM, THE CHINO VALLEY FIRE, FIRST OF ALL, WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR PARTNERING AGENCIES, EVERYBODY THAT CAME INTO THE CHINO VALLEY AND ASSISTED WITH, UH, WITH THE FIRING, UH, FIGHTING HERE IN THE DISTRICT WAS VERY [00:20:01] MUCH APPRECIATIVE OF, AND WE ALSO WANT TO JUST THANK THE RESIDENTS AND THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY. UM, THE SUPPORT HAS BEEN OVERWHELMING. UH, I WAS DOWN AT THE, UM, THE LOCAL, THE COMMAND POST THAT WE HAD HERE IN TOWN AT STATION 62 ON BUTTERFIELD RANCH ROAD. AND IT WAS NONSTOP. PEOPLE WERE BRINGING FOOD AND OTHER ITEMS. UM, IT WAS JUST AMAZING TO SEE. SO WE'RE SO APPRECIATIVE OF THAT. AND, UH, THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY THAT DID PROVIDE THAT. UH, WE JUST CONTINUE TO ASK RESIDENTS TO BE PATIENT, UM, AS THIS INCIDENT IS STILL GOING ON, YOU MAY NOT SEE SMOKE AND YOU MAY NOT SEE FIRE, BUT, UH, RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN THE CONTAINMENT PHASE, WHICH YOU'LL SEE FIRE APPARATUS TRAVELING IN AND AROUND THE AREA. YOU MAY ALSO SEE AIRCRAFT AND OTHER, UM, FIREFIGHTING EQUIPMENT THAT, UM, WILL NEED, UH, AVAILABILITY TO HAVE, UH, JUST COMPLETE ACCESS TO GO UP AND DOWN STREETS AND, UH, AND OUR FIRE PERSONNEL TO BE ABLE TO GET IN THERE. AND THIS WILL GO ON FOR WEEKS TO COME. WE AT THE CHINO VALLEY FIRE, WE'LL BE CONTINUING TO SUPPORT THE OPERATION OVER THE NEXT WEEK AND A HALF. WE'LL BE HAVING OUR PERSONNEL ON THE INCIDENT. I WOULD ALSO RECOMMEND THAT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR ANY OTHER ISSUES, PLEASE REFER TO OUR WEBSITE, OR YOU COULD ALSO CALL THE FIRE DISTRICT. UM, AND THEN I BELIEVE DENISE WILL PROVIDE SOME MORE INFORMATION ON, UM, ON WHO TO CONTACT AND HOW TO GET UPDATED INFORMATION WITH THAT. UH, I'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS OR PROVIDE ANY OTHER, UH, ANSWERS THAT YOU MAY HAVE OR ALL RIGHT. SCOTT, TWO THINGS. UH, THE CAPTAIN WALKER MENTIONED THE FACT THAT I BELIEVE IT WAS CAL FIRE, WHO IS ADMINISTERING THIS, UH, FIRE, UH, WENT AHEAD AND LIFTED THE EVACUATION NOTICE SHORTLY. UM, CAN YOU CONFIRM THAT AND, AND, UH, DISCUSS THAT BRIEFLY, AND THEN ALSO, UH, IF THERE IS ACTUAL FIRE GOING ON, IS THERE ACTUALLY IN THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS, ANY ACTIVE FIRE, CAUSE YOU HAD MENTIONED ABOUT 15% CONTAINED, UH, COULD YOU MENTION THE AREA THAT THAT MIGHT BE GOING ON EVEN THOUGH IT APPEARS TO BE, UH, NOT THREATENING AT THIS POINT? YES. UH, GREAT QUESTIONS. UH, MAYOR BENNETT, UH, FIRST OFF THE ORDERS FOR, UH, THE, THE MANDATORY EVACUATIONS HAVE BEEN LIFTED AS A 5:00 PM TODAY. UH, LIKE CAPTAIN WALKER TALKED ABOUT. SO, UH, WE ARE, UH, UH, ADVISING RESIDENTS THAT NOW THEY CAN RETURN BACK TO THEIR HOMES. UM, DURING THIS NEXT TWO WEEKS OR MORE, UH, YOU WILL SEE, UH, FIRE EQUIPMENT UP AND DOWN, UM, ON THE FIRE GROUNDS. AND I WOULD JUST ADVISE THAT IF YOU DO SEE ANYTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY, YOU WERE TO SEE FIRE ACTIVE FIRE FOR ANY REASON, OR YOU THOUGHT THAT SOMETHING WAS GROWING AND IN SMOKE OR THAT YOU WEREN'T SURE PLEASE CALL NINE ONE ONE AND ADVISE NINE 11. CERTAINLY LET US GO OUT AND DETERMINE THAT THERE'S NO ISSUES THERE. UM, THE GREAT THING ABOUT THE WEATHER IS IT, UH, IT, THAT THE WIND IS NOT PREDICTED. UH, THE WIND, OBVIOUSLY ALWAYS IN A FIRE SITUATION IS VERY DIFFICULT. UH, WIND-DRIVEN FIRES ARE VERY HARD TO PUT OUT AND, UH, AS YOU CAN SEE, WHEN IT STARTED AND HOW FAST IT TRAVELED. SO OUR, UH, OUR REQUESTS BACK TO THE PUBLIC IS TO BE PATIENT. UM, THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF ASH AND DUST IN THE AIR AS WELL AS, UM, ON YOUR PROPERTY. UH, SO THAT WILL, UH, WILL BE SOMETHING THAT WILL BE GOING ON FOR A PERIOD OF TIME UNTIL, UH, WE DO GET TO THE, TO THE RAINY SEASON. AND, UM, THE, AND THAT DUST IS, UH, IS BASICALLY, UM, BACK, GOES BACK INTO THE SOIL. YOU HAD MENTIONED THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF, UH, SUPPORT FROM YOUR RA OR FROM OUR RESIDENTS. I WANT TO DO A SHOUT OUT TO BRAVO BURGER ON PIPELINE. I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY WERE, THEY HAD PERSONNEL IN THEIR RESTAURANT YESTERDAY MORNING, SOMEWHERE AROUND THREE OR FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, AND THEY FILLED SOMETHING LIKE 400 PLUS ORDERS FOR OUR FIREFIGHTERS. SO I'M NOT SURE IF OUR, UH, CHINO VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT RECEIVED ANY OF THOSE, BUT, UH, IT JUST SHOWS THE SPIRIT THAT THE COMMUNITY COMES TOGETHER. WHEN WE HAVE ISSUES LIKE THIS. AND EVERYBODY TRIES TO SHOW THEIR APPRECIATION FOR ALL OF OUR FIREFIGHTERS, NOT ONLY, UH, OUR DISTRICT, BUT CAL FIRE AND ALL THESE OTHER, UH, ENTITIES THAT WERE HELPING OUT WITH THIS AND CONTINUING TO KEEP OUR RESIDENTS SAFE. SO A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THEM. AND TO ENTER YOUR, PLEASE PUT THE WORD OUT TO ALL OF YOUR STAFF, HOW MUCH WE APPRECIATE IT. UH, ANY OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, COMMENTS, PETER, JUST TO REAL, I'M GOING TO MAKE MY COMMENTS AT THE END OF THE MEETING, OR AT LEAST MY THOUGHTS. IT WAS INCLUDING BRAVO BOURBON ACTUALLY. BUT SCOTT, YOU, YOU ALLUDED TO WHERE THE FIGHT, WHILE YOU SAID WHERE THE FIRE STARTED. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF HOW THE FIRE STARTED AT THIS POINT? YEAH. UH, FIRST I'D LIKE TO COMMENT ON THE BRAVO BURGER. UH, I WAS THE ONE, UH, WHO OVERSAW [00:25:01] LOGISTICS AND I ACTUALLY ORDERED, UH, JUST SHY OF A THOUSAND BURRITOS. AND, UH, THEY DID COME IN VERY EARLY. UM, IT WAS AN AMAZING AMOUNT OF BURRITOS. THE ONE THING I WILL ALSO TELL YOU, UH, BRAVO IS ALWAYS BACKED THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND BEEN A BIG ADVOCATE FOR THE COMMUNITY. SO, UM, WE, WE, WE THANK THEM VERY MUCH. UH, THE PUBLIC HAS ALSO SHOWN TREMENDOUS SUPPORT, UH, BEING AT THE FACILITY YESTERDAY, THE AMOUNT OF FOOD, I MEAN, UH, HOME COOKED MEALS, UH, LOCAL BUSINESSES. IT WAS, WE HAD A BUSINESS FROM LAVERNE THAT BROUGHT FOOD. SO, UH, IT'S JUST UNBELIEVABLE THE SUPPORT IN THE COMMUNITY, AND IT ALWAYS REMINDS YOU OF, OF HOW MUCH PEOPLE CARE ABOUT THEIR COMMUNITIES. SO THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY FOR THAT. UM, AS FAR AS, UH, I'M SORRY, I FORGOT THE LAST QUESTION. UH, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF HOW, HOW THE FIRE ACTUALLY STARTED? CORRECT. SO I DID TALK WITH OUR FIRE INVESTIGATOR WHO IS WORKING WITH CAL FIRE INVESTIGATORS, UM, KELS, CAL FIRE INVESTIGATORS BRING A LOT OF TALENT AND EXPERIENCE TO THE TABLE. UM, THEY HAVE STARTED THAT INVESTIGATION PROCESS AND AT THIS POINT THERE'S NOTHING TO REPORT. UM, IT'S STILL AN INVESTIGATION STATE. AND, UH, UH, CERTAINLY IF WE GET ANY FURTHER INFORMATION, WE CAN BRING THAT TO A FURTHER, UH, FUTURE CITY COUNCIL, RIGHT. AS A FIREFIGHTER. MR. MAYOR, THANK YOU. UH, SCOTT, QUICK QUESTION. YOU SAID THE STRIKE TEAM CONSISTS OF FOUR ENGINE COMPANIES AND THE BC, IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT. DID I MISSPOKE? IT'S FIVE OH FIVE ENGINE COMPANIES FOR PERSONNEL. IF I MISSPOKE, THAT'S WHAT I WAS MEANT BY IT'S ENGINE COMPANIES FOR PERSONNEL AND TWO LITERS. SO YOU WOULD HAVE A STRIKE TEAM LEADER AND A STRIKE TEAM LEADER ASSISTANT. THE REASON I SAID THAT BACK IN OH EIGHT IS WHEN I RETIRED. SO I THOUGHT WE WERE CUTTING BACK TO FOUR IS WHY I ASKED. NO, NO, NO. THAT WAS, UH, I WAS REFERRING TO FOR PERSONNEL FIVE ENGINES OF LIKE, OF COURSE. AND THEN ALSO I SAW RIGS ALL THE WAY FROM EL CENTRAL AND CALEXICO. SO WHAT A GREAT RESPONSE ALL THE WAY FROM SAN FRANCISCO ALL THE WAY SOUTH TO THE BORDER, YOU KNOW, WHAT, IF YOU SEE THOSE GUYS, LET THEM KNOW THAT, UH, WE TRULY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THEY DID FOR US. THANKS, SCOTT. ALL RIGHT, BRIAN, ANY COMMENTS? OKAY. SORRY, SCOTT, FINISH WHAT YOU WERE GOING TO SAY. OH, I WAS JUST GONNA, UH, COMMENT ON, UH, WHAT WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT. THE ONE THING THAT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND IS THE MUTUAL AID SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA IS SO ROBUST. ONE OF THE BEST IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. WE ACTUALLY HAVE FIRE DEPARTMENTS THAT COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, UH, SUCH AS AUSTRALIA AND OTHER PLACES THAT WILL COME TO CALIFORNIA TO SEE HOW THE MUTUAL AID SYSTEM WORKS. SO IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND, UM, WE SEND EQUIPMENT UP AND WE'VE HAD NUMEROUS PERSONNEL, MULTIPLE ENGINES UP NORTH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND THROUGHOUT THE STATE. AND THE VERY REASON THAT WE DO THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE DID AND RECEIVE OVER THE LAST, UH, COUPLE OF DAYS IS, UH, AN OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF SUPPORT THAT WE GET FROM ALL THE FIRE AGENCIES THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA. WELL, SCOTT, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS IN-DEPTH REPORT. WE WANTED TO MOVE THIS UP TO THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING SO THAT YOU CAN GO GET SOME OF THAT WELL NEEDED AND WELL-DESERVED ARRESTS. UH, PLEASE AGAIN, THANK EVERYONE. UH, AND OF COURSE WE MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE CHIEF HAD BEEN IN TOUCH WITH OUR CITY MANAGER AND OUR ATTORNEY. AND, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE GLAD THAT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD ON THE NEW STATION AT SO-CALLED AND PIPELINE, WHICH, UH, WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IF IT HAD ALREADY BEEN BUILT BEFORE THIS HAPPENED. SO AT ANY RATE, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND PLEASE PASS ON OUR SINCERE THANKS AND GRATITUDE TO ALL OF YOUR STAFF AND ALL OF THESE OTHER, UH, HELPING OUT AGENCIES. SO THANK YOU MUCH. GO GET SOME WELL-DESERVED REST. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT COUNCIL. UH, WE, WE AT THE FIRE DISTRICT MUCH APPRECIATED THE CITY AND ALL THE PERSONNEL AS WELL AS THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOD BLESS YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. NOW, IN KEEPING WITH, SINCE WE'RE DOING THESE EMERGENCY THINGS, WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND HAVE [ PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER REPORT] OUR PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER REPORT NOW BECAUSE IT DOVETAILS INTO WHAT WAS JUST BEING TOLD. SO DENISE MAYOR, THANK YOU. UM, I WANTED TO SHARE TO FOLLOW IN ON DEPUTY CHIEF ATKINSON'S, UH, REPORT, UH, FOR THOSE THAT DON'T KNOW, CONTAINMENT DOESN'T MEAN IN THE AREA OF A FIRE, IT MEANS AROUND THE EDGES OF A FIRE. SO, UM, THAT WAS A FUN FACT THAT I LEARNED THIS WEEKEND. SO I THOUGHT I'D SHARE THAT. UM, FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO THANK THE COMMUNITY FOR THEIR PATIENTS DURING THE FIRE. WE REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW STRESSFUL IT IS. AND OUR TOP GOAL IS TO TRY TO GET THE BEST INFORMATION WE CAN TO OUR RESIDENTS, TO HELP THEM BE SAFE AND JUST HELP THEM IN SOME SMALL WAY. UM, WE TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THAT CAN BE VERY FRUSTRATING TO NOT HAVE ALL THE, ALL THE FACTS AND ALL THE DETAILS. AND WE ARE JUST DOING OUR BEST, UH, 24 SEVEN. UH, IF YOU ARE A SIGN UP FOR THE ALERTS, YOU WERE RECEIVING ALERTS [00:30:01] TWO IN THE MORNING, FOUR IN THE MORNING, UM, BECAUSE OUR TEAM WAS ALONG WITH ALL OF OUR COUNTERPARTS IN THE EOC, MAKING SURE WE GET THAT INFORMATION TO YOU. UH, I'M PART OF THE COMMUNITY COMMUNITY RELATIONS TEAM. SO I WILL SPEAK TO THE COMMUNICATIONS ROLE, THE FIRE DISTRICT, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND THE CITY WORKED VERY CLOSELY IN, IN ALL OF THESE EMERGENCY SITUATIONS. UM, WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME ROOM AT THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER. AND EACH PERSON THAT IS REPRESENTED IS, IS, UM, ORCHESTRATING SOME OTHER ACTIVITIES. SO FOR EXAMPLE, PUBLIC WORKS IS REPRESENTED AND THEY'RE SENDING CREWS OUT FOR ROADBLOCKS AND DIFFERENT KINDS OF THINGS. UM, THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS TEAM IS THERE AND WE, OUR COUNTERPARTS FROM FIRE ARE IN THE COMMAND POST THAT CHIEF DEPUTY CHIEF MENTIONED. AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING ALONG WITH THE POLICE REPRESENTATIVE, THERE IS THEY'RE FEEDING BACK INFORMATION TO THE DOC. UM, THEY'RE VETTING INFORMATION FOR US SO THAT WE HAVE ACCURATE INFORMATION TO RELAY. AND ONCE THAT INFORMATION FLOWS DOWN TO US, UH, WE DO OUR BEST TO GET IT DIRECTLY TO YOU. UM, THE, UH, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE OUR RESIDENTS UNDERSTAND THAT GETTING OFFICIAL INFORMATION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO. AND PLEASE RELY ON US AS YOUR CITY TO GET YOU, UH, IMPORTANT INFORMATION. UM, ONE THING THAT IS VERY USEFUL IS OUR NOTIFY SYSTEM WHERE YOU CAN, YOU CAN SIGN UP TO REALLY RECEIVE A TEXT MESSAGES OR EMAILS IN THIS SITUATION, THESE KINDS OF SITUATIONS. UM, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF IT DURING THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. UH, YOU GO TO OUR WEBSITE AND SIGN UP FOR . HI, YOU CAN SCROLL DOWN TO THE ALERT CENTER WHEN YOU ARE ON THAT, ON THAT PAGE. AND WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO SIGN UP FOR EMERGENCY ALERTS AND FOR ROAD CLOSURES ARE TWO OF THE ONES THAT ARE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER IN THE PAST FEW DAYS, EACH OF THOSE INCREASED SUBSCRIBERS BY 2,500 PEOPLE DURING THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS. AND IF I COULD TAKE A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT THE TRAFFIC ON OUR WEBSITE, TYPICALLY WE HAVE 1500 TO 2000 VISITS TO OUR WEBSITE ON A TYPICAL DAY ON DAY. ONE OF THE INCIDENT, WHICH WAS MONDAY, OUR VOLUME WAS 61,000 ON TUESDAY. IT WAS 44,000 AND ON WEDNESDAY WAS 33,000. SO THAT'S A LOT OF TRAFFIC COMING TO THE WEBSITE. UM, MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SITTING ON THEIR COMPUTERS LOOKING FOR MORE INFORMATION, LOOKING FOR MORE INFORMATION, LOOKING FOR MORE INFORMATION. AND I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF SHARE THAT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU'RE DOING THAT IS YOUR COMPUTER MEMORY IS TRYING TO TRY TO SUCK UP THAT INFORMATION AND YOUR MEMORY OR YOUR CASH MIGHT GET FULL. SO MANY OF US PUSH THE REFRESH BUTTON AND, AND THAT WORKS QUITE OFTEN, BUT IF YOU'VE BEEN SITTING ON YOUR COMPUTER FOR DAYS, YOU MIGHT HAVE TO HIT CONTROL F FIVE, AND THAT DOES A DEEPER REFRESH OF YOUR MEMORY. UM, SO IF, IF, UM, I SHARE THAT LITTLE TIP OF INFORMATION FOR YOU, UH, WHEN YOU SIGN UP FOR OUR ALERT CENTER, UM, UH, AS I MENTIONED THAT YOU GET MESSAGES BY TEXT AND ALSO BY EMAIL, UH, MANY PEOPLE SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. YOU NOTIFY. SO IF YOU'VE DONE BOTH OF THOSE, YOU'RE GOING TO GET TWO MESSAGES CAUSE WE DO POST THEM IN SEVERAL PLACES. UM, SO I'LL SHARE THAT. UM, LET'S SEE, WE WERE ACCEPTING NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS TO OUR INOTIFY SYSTEM. WE HAD TO INCREASE THE SUBSCRIPTIONS BECAUSE THERE'S, THERE'S A CAP AND THEN WE HAVE TO INCREASE IT, INCREASE IT. SO THAT HAPPENS SEVERAL TIMES OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST FEW DAYS. UM, SO FOR OFFICIAL INFORMATION, IF YOU'RE JUST CHECKING THE WEBSITE, OUR WEBSITE IS DOT ORG. AND IF YOU WANT TO SEND IT FOR YOU, NOTIFY IT'S CHINO HILLS DOT OR DOT NOTIFY ME FORD SLASH NOTIFY ME, PARDON ME? WE DO KEEP A HOTLINE JUST IN CASE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO CELL PHONES OR INFORMATION. AND THAT NUMBER IS THREE SIX FOUR TWO EIGHT TWO EIGHT AREA CODE NINE OH NINE. UH, IF CARBON CANYON IS CLOSED, WE MIGHT HAVE A MESSAGE ABOUT CARBON CANYON. IN THIS CASE WITH A FIRE, YOU MAY HAVE HEARD A LOT OF FAST TALKING BECAUSE WE WERE TRYING TO GET A LOT OF INFORMATION IN A LIMITED, LIMITED, UH, PHONE LENGTH THERE. UM, REMEMBER IF YOU SIGN UP FOR TEXT ALERTS, THERE'S A LIMITED NUMBER OF CHARACTERS. SO IF YOU CAN RECEIVE EMAILS ON THE GO, THAT'S KIND OF A BETTER, A BETTER OPTION. NOW, IF I MIGHT, I'D LIKE TO OFFER A FEW THINGS AS WELL TO OTHER TEAM MEMBERS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN WORKING HARDER FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS, UH, COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER, THEY'VE BEEN, UH, KEEPING OPEN THE RED CROSS EMERGENCY EVACUATION CENTER. SO THEY'VE PARTNERED WITH RED CROSS TO BE THERE, TO SUPPORT ALL THE RESIDENTS THAT WERE DISPLACED AND NEEDED A PLACE TO GO. SO BIG, THANKS TO THEM. THEN ALSO THE RED CROSS WHO WAS, WHO WAS THERE THROUGHOUT THAT GROUP IS GOING TO BE AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER ALL NIGHT. SO, UM, THAT, THAT EFFORT SO CONTINUES AS PEOPLE MAKE THEIR WAY HOME. UH, IN ADDITION, THE HUMANE SOCIETY, UH, HAD A SMALL ANIMAL SHELTER OVER AT THE [00:35:01] COMMUNITY CENTER AS WELL. AND LET ME JUST MAKE A COMMERCIAL RIGHT NOW, IF THERE ARE SOME ANIMALS THAT WERE THERE, THERE, BUT THEIR FAMILIES ARE NOT. SO THOSE FAMILIES WILL HAVE UNTIL NOON TOMORROW TO PICK UP THEIR OTHER ANIMALS. IF THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO PICK UP THE ANIMALS BY NOON, THEY WILL BE ABLE TO PICK THEM UP AT THE HUMANE SOCIETY. AND WHEN I LEAVE THIS MEETING, I'M GOING TO GO PUT THAT OUT ON OUR WEBSITE. UH, ALSO, WELL, I THINK THAT'S ABOUT ALL AND TOMORROW WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING AN OVERALL PRESS RELEASE AND UPDATING OUR INFORMATION WITH A LOT OF THE STATS AND FIGURES AND, UM, AND JUST FOR, JUST FOR SOMETHING TO DO. UM, AND NOW I'LL CHANGE TO MY REGULAR REPORT UNLESS SOMEONE HAS A QUESTION SPECIFICALLY ABOUT COMMUNICATIONS REAL QUICK. DO WE HAVE A COUNT OR WILL WE HAVE A COUNT OF HOW MANY VOUCHERS WE HANDED OUT FOR HOTELS? OKAY. WILL THAT COME INTO REPORT LATER? YES. OKAY. THAT'S FINE. NO, IT WON'T BE LATER TONIGHT, BUT IT'LL COME IN A PRESS RELEASE IN THE, IN THE AFTER ACTION REPORT. SO YOU'LL HAVE THAT INFORMATION AND THAT WAS REALLY DUE TO COVID. SO, UM, THEY, THEY USED VOUCHERS THIS TIME INSTEAD OF YOU CAN SET UP COTSEN IN THE ROOM BECAUSE IT JUST WOULDN'T BE SAFE YEAH. WITH COVID. YEAH. SO, OKAY. SO NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT COVID. MY NUMBERS ARE A DAY, A DAY AHEAD OR A DAY BEHIND BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE THE CHANCE TO REFRESH THEM YESTERDAY IN THE COUNTY, THERE ARE 57,000, JUST ABOUT 58,000 CONFIRMED CASES, WHICH IS UP NEARLY 6,000 FROM TWO WEEKS AGO. UM, THE DAY-TO-DAY RATE IS JUST 0.9% INCREASED THE TOTAL POSITIVE TESTS. AND, YOU KNOW, HILLS IS, UH, JUST A LITTLE OVER A THOUSAND THAT CLIMBED BY ABOUT A HUNDRED IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS, TOTAL TESTS. AND THE COUNTY IS JUST ABOUT REACHING 800,000 AND THAT NUMBER WENT UP BY A HUNDRED THOUSAND IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS. REMEMBER THE COUNTY HAS A BIG PUSH FOR TESTING BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE COUNTY THAT THE STATE IS LOOKING FOR TO GET US BACK TO RED, TO GET US TO MOVE UP IN A SECTION, YOU HAVE TO TEST PEOPLE. AND THAT'S WHY THE COUNTY IS ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO GET TESTED WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAVE SYMPTOMS. SO THOSE, THOSE NUMBERS ARE GOING UP WELL, AND LET'S SEE THE TOTAL POSITIVE FOR THE COUNTY TESTS IS 0.8, SEVEN, I'M SORRY, 8.07 AND 8% IS THE TARGET THAT THEY WANT US TO TRY TO REACH WITH A POSITIVE TEST. NOW, WHEN SHE DON'T HILLS, WE'VE HAD 23,000 PLUS A LITTLE TESTS, WHICH IS UP 3000 IN THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS, OUR POSITIVITY POSITIVITY RATE IS BETTER 4.4% AND IT'S ACTUALLY GOING DOWN. SO WE HAD 5.5, 5.0 AND NOW 4.4. SO IN THE LAST SIX WEEKS OR SO, OUR NUMBERS ARE DOING REALLY WELL AND CHINO HILLS, HOWEVER, OUR RESIDENTS AREN'T GETTING TESTED QUITE AS MUCH AS OTHER CITIES. SO WE'RE, UH, WE'RE ABOUT 50, LESS THAN MANY IN OUR TESTS, UH, DEATHS IN THE COUNTY, 1073, WHICH IS UP NEARLY 90 IN JUST TWO WEEKS. AND SHE NO HILLS, WE'VE BEEN FORTUNATE THAT WE ARE HOLDING IT NINE. AND OF COURSE, UM, THAT IS A SAD THING. IN RECENT WEEKS, THE COUNTY HAS EXPERIENCED A RISE IN INFECTIONS, WHICH LED TO NEWER RESTRICTIONS WITH THE COUNTY. SO WE'RE, WE'RE BACK IN PURPLE AND HAVING TO WORK OUR WAY BACK TOWARDS RED, UM, WHICH REQUIRES SOME EXTENDED MEETING, THE NUMBERS THAT THE STATE HAS PUT OUT. UH, I, I'M GOING TO DO A BRIEF COVID UPDATE, UH, WITH JUST A FEW FACTORS. AND THEN I KNOW THE CITY MANAGER HAD THE REPORT JUST A LITTLE LATER. UH, WE REOPENED VOLLEYBALL, VOLLEYBALL COURTS, AND THE STATE ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT THREE GATHERINGS PER HOUSE, THREE HOUSEHOLDS GATHERING IS WHAT THE STATE IS APPROVING. WE WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP THE COMMUNITY CENTER. THE MCCOY EQUESTRIAN CENTER CLOSED THROUGH NOVEMBER 27TH, AND WE GET A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT BASKETBALL COURTS. THOSE WILL REMAIN CLOSED BECAUSE OF THE CLOSE PHYSICAL CONTACT IN THE HIGH RESPIRATION RATES THAT GO ALONG WITH THAT SPORT. AND THEN BACK TO STREETS WITH BEING, UH, WE'RE TRYING TO GET THE WORD OUT THAT WE'RE ASKING PEOPLE TO TRY NOT TO PARK ON THE STREET ON STREET SWEEPING DAY, BECAUSE IT HELPS US MEET OUR FEDERAL REGULATIONS FOR POLLUTION. UM, AND WE'RE CONTINUING TO GET THAT WORD OUT. NOW, HERE'S A BIG, EXCITING ONE VETERAN'S DAY. YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT WE'RE DOING A FEW THINGS TO CELEBRATE OUR VETERANS. AND AT THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING, UH, YOU SUGGESTED THAT THERE, MAYBE WE COULD TRY TO HAVE A DRIVE THROUGH BREAKFAST. UH, OUR, OUR SPONSOR CHICK-FIL-A CAME THROUGH AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A DRIVE THROUGH BREAKFAST FOR OUR VETERANS ON VETERANS DAY. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THAT. SO THAT INFORMATION IS ON THE WEBSITE. UM, THE EVENT WILL BE ON VETERAN'S DAY AND IT STARTS AT NINE. THE DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS NOVEMBER 5TH, UH, LIKE TO TALK QUICKLY ABOUT BALLOTS AND VOTING. WE HAVE A PERMANENT BALLOT BOX INSTALLED IN FRONT OF THE LIBRARY. UH, THE CITY CLERK HELD A VERY SUCCESSFUL DRIVE-THROUGH DROP-OFF BALLOT EVENT LAST WEEK. IT SEEMS LIKE, AND, UH, THAT WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL EVENT. AND, UM, I WOULD [00:40:01] LIKE TO SHARE THAT THERE WAS VERY MANY POSITIVE VIBES. PEOPLE WERE VERY THANKFUL, UM, THAT WE HAD THE EVENT AND THEY COULD JUST DRIVE THROUGH AND PUT THEIR BALLOT IN THE BOX. SO THAT WAS GREAT. UM, AND JUST SO YOU KNOW, THAT BALLOT BOX IS OPEN 24 SEVEN OUT IN FRONT OF THE LIBRARY. IT'S EMPTIED, UH, EVERY, EVERY DAY OR TWO. AND THAT THAT COLLECTION INCREASES AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE ELECTION. UM, IT IS A VERY SAFELY DESIGNED AND SECURE BALLOT BOX. ALSO, POLLING PLACES ARE OPEN FOR DAYS DURING THIS ELECTION, AND THAT'S BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE AS MANY LOCATIONS BECAUSE OF COVEN. SO YOU CAN CHECK OUR WEBSITE@TUNAHILLS.ORG FORWARD SLASH ELECTIONS. FOR MORE DETAILS ON THAT. YOU REMEMBER BLOOD DRIVES ARE CONTINUING ON TUESDAY TIL THE END OF THE YEAR. SO THAT'S CONTINUING. UM, AND ALSO QUICK REMINDER ABOUT SOME OF OUR PROGRAMS. VIRTUAL REC HAS BEEN VERY POPULAR. UH, IF YOU'D GO TO THAT WEBSITE, YOU CAN SEE BOREDOM BUSTERS AND PROJECT VIDEOS AND GAMES AND EXERCISE VIDEOS. SO CHECK THAT OUT. OUR RECTANGLE PROGRAM HAS BEEN A HIT WHERE PEOPLE COME HERE NOW TO CITY HALL TO PICK UP LITTLE CRAFT PACKETS FOR THEIR CHILDREN. UH, YOU DO HAVE TO REGISTER FOR IT, AND THEY TAKE REGISTRATION EVERY MONDAY FOR THE, UM, THE PICKUP THAT WILL BE ON FRIDAY. AND FINALLY, UH, OUR SECOND CONCERTS IN THE PARK CONCERTS IN THE CAR, UM, WILL BE A ELTON JOHN TRIBUTE. I HAVE HEARD PERSONALLY THAT THIS TRIBUTE ACT IS EXCELLENT AND THE COST IS $25 AND YOU GET A $15 GIFT CARD TO THE SHOPS. SO IT REALLY IS 10. SO THAT'S GOING TO BE NOVEMBER 7TH, CORRECT. THANK YOU. AND THAT COMPLETES MY REPORT. ALL RIGHT. AND DENISE, WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE EMERGENCY OPERATION CENTER AND WHAT WAS GOING ON AND THE DIFFERENT AGENCIES WITHIN THE CITY THAT WERE THERE, UH, EACH OF US COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, MADE MULTIPLE TRIPS TO THAT CENTER AND ALSO TO THE COMMUNITY CENTER WHERE THE BACK WAS GOING ON. AND I GOT TO TELL YOU, WE WERE, IT WAS RUNNING SMOOTH. IT REALLY WAS. AND I'M SURE WE'LL MAKE OTHER COMMENTS LATER ON. SO FOR THEIR LISTING AUDIENCE, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO CHANGE THE AGENDA A LITTLE BIT TONIGHT. THESE ARE ALL VERY IMPORTANT THINGS THAT I'M SURE THAT YOU WERE WANTING TO KNOW THE TRUE FACTS AND WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH RESPECT TO THE FIRE IN PARTICULAR. YOU NOW KNOW THAT AS OF FIVE O'CLOCK, THERE'S NO MORE, UH, MANDATORY EVACUATION, SO YOU CAN MAKE YOUR WAY HOME AND YOU CAN THANK YOURSELF FOR BEING PREPARED AND FOR LEAVING AND BEING VERY, VERY THANKFUL AND GRATEFUL THAT YOU'RE COMING BACK TO YOUR HOME. SO, UH, WITH THAT, WE'LL MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENTS. CHERYL, [7. PUBLIC COMMENTS: At this time members of the public may address the City Council regarding any items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Council, whether or not the item appears on the agenda, except testimony on Public Hearing items must be provided during those hearings. Please raise your hand via Zoom or dial *9 to be selected from the meeting cue. Individual audience participation is limited to three minutes per speaker.] WOULD YOU GIVE US THE, UH, INSTRUCTIONS FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS PRIOR TO THAT? THE CITY ATTORNEY WOULD LIKE TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT? I'M SORRY, MARK. YES, SIR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL, JUST AS A REMINDER FOR THE PUBLIC, UH, DURING PUBLIC COMMENTS, UH, B UH, BEING ASKED TO NOT, UH, ENGAGE IN ANY SORT OF ELECTIONEERING THAT IS MAKING, UH, COMMENTS, POLITICAL COMMENTS THAT, UH, SUPPORT ANY PARTICULAR CANDIDATE, UH, AS FAR AS, UH, ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR, OR VOTE FOR OR AGAINST ANY PARTICULAR CANDIDATE. AND WITH REGARD TO BALLOT MEASURES, UH, TO NOT ENGAGE IN ACTION OF THE MERITS OR OF ANY OF THE BALLOT MEASURES OR ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO VOTE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER ON BALLOT MEASURES, UH, THE PUBLIC IS, UH, WITHIN THEIR RIGHT TO, UH, CRITICIZE OR PRAISE THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND, AND THE JOB THEY'RE DOING AS FAR AS, UH, BEING COUNCIL MEMBERS. AND THAT'S, THAT'S ALLOWED, BUT TO STOP SHORT OF, UH, ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO VOTE ANY PARTICULAR WAY. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THAT. AND WE REALLY WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO VOTE PERIOD. AND IF YOU WANT TO SAY THAT REPEATED TIMES, THAT'S FINE. AND WE HAVE A SPOT RIGHT OUT FRONT OF OUR CITY HALL AT THE LIBRARY THAT YOU CAN DO THAT. SO WHO IS OUR FIRST SPEAKER? LET ME JUST MAKE THE STATEMENT FIRST THAT EVERYONE KNOWS HOW THEY CAN PARTICIPATE. SO AT THIS TIME, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL REGARDING ANY ITEMS WITHIN THE SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION OF THE COUNCIL AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION IS LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER SPEAKER. IF YOU WISH TO MAKE A COMMENT, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND IN THE ZOOM APPLICATION AND YOU WILL BE CALLED UPON WHEN IT IS YOUR TURN TO SPEAK, TO RAISE YOUR HAND FROM A PHONE, PLEASE DIAL STAR NINE. YOU'LL BE NOTIFIED WHEN YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS LEFT TO SPEAK. AND AGAIN, WHEN THE TIME HAS ELAPSED, ALL CALLS WILL BE MUTED AFTER THE TIME HAS EXPIRED. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD BEFORE BEGINNING YOUR COMMENTS. SO RIGHT NOW I HAVE SEVERAL HANDS RAISED. I'M GOING TO WITH THE FIRST ONE, WHICH IS A PHONE LINE ENDING IN TWO, ONE SIX, ALL RIGHT. ONLINE, TWO, ONE SIX. AND IF YOU IDENTIFY YOURSELF, PLEASE, YOU SHOULD BE RECEIVING A MESSAGE ASKING YOU TO UNMUTE YOUR PHONE. UH, HELLO, SORRY FOR THE PAUSE. THIS IS STEPHANIE WADE FROM [00:45:01] CONGRESSMEN CISNEROS HIS OFFICE. UM, AND I WAS JUST CALLING TO, UH, CONVEY THE CONGRESSMAN'S GOOD WISHES TO THE COMMUNITY AND IN PARTICULARLY TO, UM, THE CITY GOVERNMENT AND THE STAFF, AND, YOU KNOW, UM, UH, I'LL JUST SAY THAT THE CONGRESSMAN WHO IS NO STRANGER TO THIS HIMSELF, HAVING BEEN EVACUATED BY THE, UH, FROM HIS HOME AND HIS FAMILY HAVING TO EVACUATE, AND YOU ARE BELINDA WAS PARTICULARLY IMPRESSED WITH HOW WELL, UM, CITY GOVERNMENT IS WORKING, UM, IN CHINO HILLS. AND I KNOW HE, UH, HE CONVEYED THAT, UH, MAYOR BENNETT. AND I KNOW I, UM, UH, I PASSED THE SAME WORD ON TO, UH, COUNCILMAN MARQUEZ. AND SO WE JUST WANTED TO SAY, YOU KNOW, HOW GLAD WE ARE THAT THE CITY HAS COME THROUGH. SO UNSCATHED, UM, WHEN DISASTER MIGHT'VE BEEN IN THE OFFING AND WE HOPE WE'LL BE THERE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AS THINGS GO ON. BUT, UM, I ALSO WANTED TO THANK DENISE AND CHIEF HAD, AND CAPTAIN WALKER FOR THE REALLY EXCELLENT REPORTS. I TOOK COPIOUS NOTES AND I'LL BE REPORTING TO THE OFFICE OTHER THAN THAT, UH, AS MAYOR BENNETT SAID, EVERYBODY SHOULD GET OUT AND VOTE. AND, UM, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, I JUST HOPE THAT, UH, IF THERE'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO TO SUPPORT THE CITY THAT, UM, THAT FOLKS WILL LET US KNOW. UM, AND THAT'S THE ONLY COMMENT I HAVE THIS EVENING. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY. THANK YOU, STEPHANIE, JUST SO YOU KNOW, I INFORMED, UH, ALL OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS LAST NIGHT, UH, AFTER I RECEIVED THAT A PERSONAL CALL FROM CONGRESSMAN CISNEROS ON MY CELL PHONE LAST NIGHT, WE HAD A NICE CONVERSATION. HE MENTIONED THE FACT THAT HIS FAMILY HAD BEEN, UH, MANDATORILY EVACUATED. HE WAS STILL THERE IN YOUR BELINDA, BUT, UH, HIS FAMILY HAD BEEN, UH, EVACUATED. SO, UH, THANKED HIM VERY MUCH FOR HIS CONCERN FOR OUR COMMUNITY. AND HE DID REFLECT, UH, THAT HE HAD SEEN GREAT THINGS GOING ON AT OUR COMMUNITY EVACUATION CENTER. AND HE WAS VERY, A LOT OF PRAISE ABOUT HOW WELL WE WERE RUNNING THINGS IN THE CITY. SO THANK YOU, PLEASE PASS THAT ONTO HIM ONCE AGAIN. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, STEPHANIE, NEXT COMP, OUR NEXT PERSON. I'LL BE SURE TO. THANKS. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ZEB WELBORN, ZEB. HOW ARE YOU, SIR? I'M DOING GREAT. HELLO, UH, CITY COUNCIL. YOU GUYS CAN HEAR ME, RIGHT? HELLO? YES. GO RIGHT AHEAD. ALL RIGHT. WELL, FIRST OFF, I JUST WANT TO START BY THANKING OUR FIRST RESPONDERS. UH, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S ARTICULATED JUST PHENOMENAL, UH, THE WORK THAT THESE GUYS DEAL. I FEEL LIKE JUST BEING IN OUR AREA FOR AS LONG AS I HAVE. I FEEL LIKE WE HAVE THE BEST FOLKS THAT WORK HERE. SO I REALLY WANTED ALL OF THOSE FIRST RESPONDERS FOR ALL THE WORK THAT THEY'VE BEEN PUTTING IN AND, AND JUST KNOW THAT WE'RE HERE FOR THEM AS WELL. SO IF THERE'S ANY, IT NEEDS TO CHAMBERS HAPPY TO HELP OUT ON THAT FRONT AS WELL. AND AS ART MENTIONED, A LOT OF BUSINESSES HAVE STEPPED UP IN THAT CAPACITY AS WELL. SO, UH, I'M JUST, UH, UH, THANKFUL FOR THE COMMUNITY WE LIVE IN AND THE PEOPLE THAT WORK THAT LIVE AND WORK HERE. SO I JUST WANT TO START OFF WITH THAT. UH, SECONDLY, I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT OUR WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A VIRTUAL BUSINESS EXPO THAT HAPPENS EVERY OCTOBER. UH, WE USUALLY DO IT AT THE SHOPS, CHINO HILLS DUE TO COVID. WE'VE HAD TO PIVOT, AND WE'VE TRIED TO DO SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THIS YEAR, WHICH I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT. UH, WE'RE CALLING IT HASHTAG CV BIZ MONTHS. SO THAT'S HASHTAG THE V V I V M O N T H. WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE, UM, PROMOTING OUR BUSINESSES THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER. UH, SO OUT. SO THROUGHOUT THE MONTH WE HAVE ADVERTISING DOLLARS THAT WE'RE GOING TO SET ASIDE. SO INSTEAD OF DOING THE IN-PERSON BUSINESS EXPO, WE'RE GOING TO BE SPREADING THIS THROUGHOUT THE MONTH, GIVING EXPOSURE TO BUSINESSES IN A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT WAYS. WE'RE GOING TO BE USING ADVERTISING DOLLARS TO MARKET ON FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE TO HELP SUPPORT OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES. AND, UH, BECAUSE WE HAVE THE SPONSORSHIPS THAT WE HAVE, UH, AND BECAUSE WE HAVE THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE PARTICIPATING, WE'RE EXPECTING MASSIVE EXPOSURE, YOU KNOW, JUST, JUST FROM MY BACKGROUND IN DIGITAL MARKETING AT THE MINIMUM, I IMAGINE WE'RE GOING TO BE REACHING 150,000 PEOPLE THROUGH THIS CAMPAIGN. SO WE REALLY ENCOURAGE BUSINESSES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MORE BUSINESSES THAT DO PARTICIPATE, THE MORE EXPOSURE WE'RE GOING TO GET FOR THESE BUSINESSES. SO BUSINESSES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE. IT'S ON OUR WEBSITE, IT'S ON THE HOMEPAGE OF OUR WEBSITE. SO I ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO CHECK THAT OUT. ESPECIALLY IF YOU OWN A BUSINESS, IT'S REALLY A NO BRAINER. SO IF YOU'RE A MEMBER IT'S $120, IF YOU'RE A NON-MEMBER, IT'S $170, AND THOSE FUNDS DO GO TOWARDS THE ADVERTISING THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, TO HELP PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS, IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE ANOTHER PARTNER KIND OF PROMOTING YOUR BUSINESS. AND, UH, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU, SO IT'S REALLY A NO BRAINER FOR BUSINESSES TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT. THE OTHER THING THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS, IS JUST, YOU KNOW, WE DID OUR CANDIDATE FORUMS. WE DID HAVE THE CHINO HILLS CANDIDATE FORUM. WE DIDN'T DO THE SCOREBOARD FORUMS. SO WE HAVE THE VIDEOS, THOSE ARE ALL UP. SO I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO PARTICIPATED IN THAT, AND THAT IS A GOOD SOURCE TO LEARN ABOUT [00:50:01] THE PEOPLE THAT ARE RUNNING FOR ELECTED OFFICE FOR CITY COUNCIL AND SCHOOL BOARD. SO I ENCOURAGE YOU TO CHECK OUT THOSE VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE, UH, WITH THAT, I GUESS I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU ALL FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING AND APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU ALL DO. ZEB, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND I KNOW YOU USUALLY STAY ON THESE CALLS, BUT SPECIFICALLY ITEM 16 AND 17 TONIGHT, BEN IS GOING TO BE GIVING A REPORT ON THE CARES ACT, COVID FUNDING UPDATE, AND ALSO THE DIRECTION WE'RE GOING TO BE TAKING ON AN ALLOCATION OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT CON UH, CONTROVERSIAL, UH, FUNDS. AND OF COURSE WE WILL BE MAKING THAT INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO THE CHAMBER SO YOU CAN GET IT OUT TO THE MEMBERS. UH, THERE'S A LOT TO BE DISCUSSED ABOUT THE QUALIFYING NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES, ET CETERA, THAT WILL BE DISCUSSED. THAT WILL BE VERY HELPFUL FOR THE, UH, CHAMBER MEMBERSHIP. SO, UH, KEEP THAT IN MIND. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. WE APPRECIATE IT NEXT. ALL RIGHT, ZAP. THANKS. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JIM GALLAGHER. JIM, HOW ARE YOU THIS EVENING? EXCELLENT, GOOD EVENING. MAYOR OF CITY COUNCIL, STAFF, AND FELLOW RESIDENTS. UH, FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO SAY MR. MAYOR, UH, RICK GLAD THAT YOU'VE RECOVERED FROM YOUR RECENT HEALTH SCARE, UH, YOU WERE IN OUR CAREERS. UH, BUT SECONDLY, I ALSO WANT TO SAY I MYSELF, JUST TO SOUND REDUNDANT. I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH THIS WHOLE EMERGENCY OPERATION CENTER AND HOW IT OPERATED. IT WAS SO SMOOTH. YOU KNOW, I NOTICED HOW PROFESSIONALLY THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, UH, WENT DOOR TO DOOR AND KNOCKING ON PEOPLE'S DOORS, UH, ENCOURAGING THEM TO EVACUATE. I NOTICED HOW THE FIRE, UH, OPERATED, UM, ALSO CITY STAFF. I WAS IMPRESSED TOO AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER. I WENT THERE AND CHECKED IT OUT, HOW THE CITY STAFF WAS HOSTING RED CROSS AND THEY WERE WORKING SOME PRETTY LONG SHIFTS AND YET THEY WERE STILL PROFESSIONAL AND VERY CHEERFUL AND VERY HELPFUL. YOU KNOW, WHEN I ASKED QUESTIONS, THEY, THEY EXPLAINED EVERYTHING TO ME AND I TOOK THAT BACK TO THE RESIDENCE. AND THEN FINALLY, I WANT TO SAY OUR RESIDENTS THEMSELVES, I THOUGHT WERE ACTING AS WELL, VERY CALM, UM, LISTENING. THEY WERE, THEY WERE WORKING WITH EACH OTHER AND TALKING WITH EACH OTHER. AND, UH, I THOUGHT OVERALL AS A COMMUNITY, WE DID PULL TOGETHER ON THIS AND IT WAS VERY EXCITING TO SEE. SO, UH, JUST TO ADD TO THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, SINCE I'M ALSO A MEMBER OF THE CHAMBER, I JUST WANT TO ANNOUNCE THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A DISASTER RECOVERY FOR SMALL BUSINESSES OFFERED THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH, 1130 TO 1:00 PM. THIS IS PART OF OUR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS OPERATION IN THE CHAMBER. WE HAVE SPEAKER KEVIN WYNN, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER FROM THE SBA OFFICE OF DISASTER ASSISTANCE AND ALSO FIONA MA UH, CPA, UH, CALIFORNIA STATE TREASURER. AND, UH, WE'LL HAVE MORE INFORMATION OUT ON THAT, BUT WE'RE ALL FOCUSING NOW ON OUR SMALL BUSINESSES BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO BE HURTING, I THINK, IN THE NEXT, THROUGH THE NEXT YEAR BECAUSE OF THIS PANDEMIC. SO THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, JIM. AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR, UH, COMMENTS ABOUT, UH, STAFF AND THE PROFESSIONALISM. UH, UNFORTUNATELY A LOT OF PEOPLE CALL IN AND HAVE NOTHING BUT COMPLAINTS ABOUT CITI AND EVERYTHING ELSE. AND IT'S GOOD TO HEAR SOMEONE SAYING SOMETHING POSITIVE. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. OKAY. NUMBER FOUR, PLEASE. THAT WOULD BE SUZETTE. DING SUZETTE. HOW ARE YOU TONIGHT? EVENING. MAYOR BENNETT. CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? YES, WE CAN MAYBE A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE PHONE OR THE COMPUTER. OKAY, LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN. IS THIS BETTER? THAT'S BETTER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR BENNETT, COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY STAFF, AND AUDIENCE MEMBER WHO ARE LISTENING TO DEAD DANG WOOD COUNTY, SUPERVISOR KERR HAGMAN'S OFFICE. UH, JUST TO ECHO WHAT EVERYONE HAS SAID TODAY, AS YOU ALL KNOW IS A NATIONAL FIRST RESPONDERS DAY AND AS SUCH SUPERVISOR HAGMAN AND HIS STAFF WOULD WANT TO, WE WANT TO THANK OUR MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE OUT THERE PROTECTING OUR COMMUNITIES EVERY DAY. WE TRULY DO APPRECIATE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU. AND WE PRAY FOR YOUR SAFETY, UM, SPECIAL KUDOS TO OUR CHINO VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT, OUR CHINO HILLS SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, AS WELL AS THE CITY STAFF WITH, UH, BEING SO WELL-PREPARED, UM, PREPARED WITH THE SAFETY UPDATES AND JUST, YOU KNOW, WITH THE EMERGENCY, UM, NOTIFICATIONS. IT'S BEEN REALLY AWESOME DURING THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS, WHICH HAS BEEN A LITTLE SCARY, UM, COUPLE OF, UM, ANNOUNCEMENTS FIRST OFF, UH, JUST A REMINDER. WE ARE ONLY SIX DAYS LEFT, UM, TO NOVEMBER 3RD, WHICH IS A VOTING DAY. WE DO ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO VOTE EARLY. AND IF DENISE HAS MENTIONED EARLIER COUNTY AND THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS, UM, [00:55:01] WE ACTUALLY HAD AN OFFICIAL BALLOT DROP, UM, DROP OFF A EVENT RIGHT IN FRONT OF, UM, FRIENDS OF THE, UH, CITY HALL ON OCTOBER 22ND. AND IT WAS, WE HAD A HUGE TURNOUT AND I WANT TO THINK CHERYL, SHE WAS THERE ALL DAY AND WITH THE STAFF AND IT WAS REALLY GREAT TO SEE EVERYONE COME OUT AND VOTE. SO THAT WAS FIRST ONE. UH, SECOND ONE. UM, ONE IS ALSO REMIND OUR, UM, SMALL BUSINESSES AND OUR NONPROFITS, UH, DO REMINDER THAT DEADLINE IS APPROACHING TO, YOU CAN STILL APPLY FOR YOUR COVID COMPLIANT BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM, AND YOU CAN STILL RECEIVE UP TO $3,700. THE DEADLINE IS 130 FIRST AND TO DATE WE HAVE, UM, OVER 5,500 LOCATIONS HAVE BEEN FUNDED AND NEARLY OVER $12 MILLION HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO ELIGIBLE SMALL BUSINESSES OR NONPROFITS OR BECOMING COVID COMPLIANT. SO WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO PARTICIPATE. AND LASTLY, WE DO HAVE OUR LAST, UH, NEXT DOCUMENT SHREDDING EVENT COMING UP NOVEMBER 14TH. SATURDAY TIME IS 9:00 AM TO 12:00 PM. LOCATION WILL BE AT ONTARIO POLICE DEPARTMENT PARKING LOT AND ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO HAVE LIMIT THEIR BOX TO THREE STANDARD BOXES THIS TIME AND NOT FIVE. THE LAST SHREDDING EVENT IN CHINO HILLS WAS A HUGE SUCCESS. AND JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, WE SERVED 178 VEHICLES. SO WE HAD A HUGE TURNOUT IN CHINO HILLS. SO THANK YOU EVERYONE IN THE COMMUNITY FOR BEING, UH, FOR THEIR PATIENTS AND PARTICIPATING. AND THAT IS IT FOR THE EVENING. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, SUZANNE. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BRAD GOLDMAN. GOOD EVENING, BRAD. HOW ARE YOU? GOOD, MR. MAYOR. HOW ARE YOU? WONDERFUL. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN. THANK YOU. UM, FIRST OF ALL, UH, YEAH, FIRST OF ALL, I KNOW SUZANNE AND, UM, DENISE SPOKE ABOUT THIS, BUT THEY DIDN'T GIVE SOME INFORMATION I THINK IS VITALLY IMPORTANT. UM, ALL BOATING HALL PLACES WILL BE OPEN SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31ST THROUGH OCTOBER, UM, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND, FROM 10 TILL 6:00 PM. AND THEN ON ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER 3RD, FROM SEVEN TO 8:00 PM. UM, SECOND I REALLY, TO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE SEE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS, PLEASE CALL, YOU KNOW, YOUR, YOUR CONGRESSMEN. SO OFFICE NARROWS OFFICE, UM, OUR SENATOR'S OFFICE, YOU KNOW, THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE OTHER ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES RIGHT NOW, WE REALLY NEED THESE, THE, THE CARE ACT OR THE HEROES ACT TO PASS SO THAT THE CITY CAN GET THESE ADDITIONAL FUNDINGS THAT ARE NEEDED, UM, YOU KNOW, TO MAKE UP FOR THE SHORTFALLS, DO TAX REVENUE, UM, DO THE COVID CRISIS BECAUSE YES, WE DID GET THE FEDERAL GRANT, UM, FOR THIS EMERGENCY, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE STILL HAVE TO PAY 25% OF THAT. UM, AND THAT IS A LOT OF MONEY. UM, SECOND OF ALL, I'VE GONE TO A NUMBER OF FIRE DISTRICT MEETINGS AND HAVE HEARD PEOPLE SPEAK ABOUT IT. AND I'VE SPOKEN ABOUT THIS, PLEASE TAKE CARE OF, OR REMOVE PALM TREES. THOSE THINGS CAN FLY A MILE AND CA UM, AND CREATE SPOT SPOTTING. AND, YOU KNOW, IN THE FIRE WE HAD, YOU KNOW, THOSE, THOSE COULD LIGHT UP, YOU KNOW, UM, UH, IN, IN THE CANYON AND, YOU KNOW, GO ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE CANYON IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. UM, ALSO NOW'S A GOOD TIME. UM, I WANNA THANK THE PARDON, KENYAN FIRE, SAFE COUNCIL FOR ALL THEIR HARD WORK, COMMUNICATING BETWEEN ALL THREE OF THE, OR ACTUALLY ALL FIVE OF THE MAIN DEPARTMENTS THAT WERE IN CHARGE OF THIS CHINO VALLEY BRAY AT ORANGE COUNTY, UM, BRYAN PD AND ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFFS. AND, UH, SHE KNOWS, UM, SHE KNOWS POLICE IN SAN BERDINO SHERIFF'S THEY DID AN AMAZING JOB AND I'VE GONE TO A NUMBER OF THOSE THINGS THAT BEING SAID, UM, I'M A RESIDENT OF CARBON CANYON AND IT, 45 MINUTES AFTER THE PHONE CALL, WE HAD A DEPUTY KNOCKING ON OUR DOOR, NOTIFYING US THAT, YOU KNOW, WE WERE NOW IN THE MANDATORY EVACUATION AREA. UM, ALSO THE IMPORTANCE OF WHAT WE CLEARANCE, YOU KNOW, YESTERDAY HAS ALREADY PASSED, BUT THIS HAS SHOWN US MORE NOW, MORE THAN EVER, THAT WE ALWAYS NEED TO KEEP OUR, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR PROPERTIES MANAGED AND UP TO DATE. FINALLY, I DID NOTICE A RESIDENT, UH, A COUPLE OF RESIDENTS WERE TRYING TO DRIVE THROUGH, UM, ON THE FIRE ROADS. AND ONCE YOU'RE IN A MANDATORY EVACUATION AND YOU LEAVE YOUR HOME, YOU CAN NOT COME BACK AND WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT, BUT ALSO, AND FINALLY, YOU KNOW, NOW IT'S TIME TO REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, YES, WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS, BUT NOW IT'S TIME TO, YOU KNOW, GET YOUR HOME READY FOR THESE, BECAUSE IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN, HAVE A GO BAG. NO, NO, WHAT YOU NEED TO TAKE, YOU KNOW, THOSE VALUABLES. SO THINGS THAT IF THE HOUSE BURNS DOWN, YOU COULD NOT LIVE WITHOUT YOUR, YOUR PICTURES, [01:00:01] YOU KNOW, THE KEEPSAKES AND ALL THAT STUFF. UM, AND SO THAT YOU CAN GET OUT OF YOUR HOUSE. IF YOU HAVE TO, WITHIN A MINUTE OR FIVE MINUTES, DON'T SPEND, YOU KNOW, TWO HOURS TRYING TO LOAD UP AND GET OUT OF YOUR HOUSE, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE CALL COMES, GET OUT AND GO, OKAY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. THANK YOU, BRAD. ANY OTHER SPEAKERS? I DO NOT SEE ANY OTHER HANDS RAISED. OKAY. WE DO NOT SEE THOSE. SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CLOSE, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS, UH, CONFLICT OF INTEREST ANNOUNCEMENTS. ANYONE HAVE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST. THEY NEED TO NOTIFY AS US. ALRIGHT. NOT SEEING ANY WE'LL MOVE ON TO CITY DEPARTMENT BUSINESS, THE CONSENT CALENDAR, WHICH HAS ITEMS EIGHT THROUGH [ CONSENT CALENDAR (6 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.] 13. UH, DO YOU NEED TO READ ANYTHING ON THIS CHERYL OR NO, I DO NOT. OKAY. FINE. UH, PETER, WILL YOU NEED TO PULL ANY, NO. RE PUT ONE NUMBER 10. OKAY. RAY FOR NUMBER 10, BRIAN. NO, SIR. ALL RIGHT. UH, CYNTHIA, I HAVE NOTHING TO PAUL. OKAY. I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE EIGHT, NINE, 11, 12, AND 13. I'LL MOVE THAT. MOVE THAT MOVE BY BRIAN. SECOND BY PETER, UH, VERBAL VOTE. MAYOR BENNETT. YES. VICE MAYOR JOS. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER MARQUEZ. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN. YES. AND COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS. YES. MOTION PASSES FIVE ZERO. ALL RIGHT. WOULD YOU READ CHERYL, [10. Receive and file Final Monthly Financial Report for June 2020; accept Senate Bill 2 - Building Homes and Jobs Act Planning Grant award in amount of $310,000; and adopt budget amendment resolution for Fiscal Year 2019-20 increasing budget in various funds by $1,090,677.42 based on fourth quarter budget review] WOULD YOU READ ITEM NUMBER 10? ITEM NUMBER 10 IS TO RECEIVE AND FILE THE MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT FOR JUNE, 2020 TO ACCEPT SENATE BILL TWO, BUILDING HOMES AND JOBS ACT PLANNING GRANT AWARD IN THE AMOUNT OF $310,000. AND TO ADOPT A BUDGET AMENDMENT RESOLUTION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 20 INCREASING BUDGET IN VARIOUS FUNDS BY $1,090,677 AND 42 CENTS. BASED ON THE FOURTH QUARTER BUDGET REVIEW, RAY, YOUR QUESTIONS. YES. MR. MAYOR, BASICALLY, UM, THERE'S THREE ITEMS FOR ITEM NUMBER 10. SO RECEIVE AND FILE THE RULING. THE ACTION TO US IS JUST TO LISTEN TO GET A GOOD INFORMATION. UM, ACTION. NUMBER TWO. AND ACTION. THREE IS A VOTE OF THE COUNCIL. AND IN THE FUTURE, I TALKED TO BEN ABOUT THIS, IF WE CAN SORT OF, UM, SEPARATE OUT, SO RECEIVE AND FILE THAT'S COULD BE ITEM 10 AND THEN ANYTHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON IT IN CASE WE WANT TO PULL IT FOR DISCUSSION, THAT SHOULD BE ON A DIFFERENT ITEM. SO IF WE COULD DO THAT, I APPRECIATE THAT. ALL RIGHT. AND WITH THAT, I WOULD APPROVE YOU'LL MAKE A MOTION TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE. SECOND SECOND, PETER, PETER SECOND. A VERBAL VOTE. MAYOR BENNETT. YES. VICE MAYOR TOASTS. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER MARQUEZ. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN. YEAH. AND COUNCIL MEMBER, RIGHT? YES. MOTION PASSES FIVE ZERO. ALL RIGHT. MOVING ON TO THE DISCUSSION CALENDAR. THIS PORTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA IS FOR ALL MERIT MATTERS WHERE STAFF AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IS ANTICIPATED. PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND VIA ZOOM OR DIAL STAR NINE TO BE SELECTED FROM THE MEETING QUEUE INDIVIDUAL AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION IS LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES. FIRST ITEM IS NUMBER [14. Recommend approval of administrative policy for implementation of Utility Box Art Program; provide staff with direction regarding artwork selection process; consider establishment of Public Art Committee; and if established, appoint two Council Members to Committee] 14. UH, RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF UTILITY BOX ART PROGRAM, PROVIDE STAFF WITH DIRECTION REGARDING ARTWORK, SELECTION, PROCESS, CONSIDER ESTABLISHMENT OF PAR PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE. AND IF ESTABLISHED A TO COUNCIL MEMBERS TO, UH, MEMBERS TO THE COMMITTEE. ALL RIGHT. DISCUSSION STAFF REPORT. YES, WE HAVE STAFFORD. YES. GO RIGHT AHEAD. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR BENNETT AND COUNCIL MEMBERS TONIGHT, WE COME BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL WITH A DRAFT OF POLICY FOR THE PROPOSED UTILITY BOX ART PROGRAM AT THE SEPTEMBER, 2020 PARKS AND REC AND PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MEETING CITY STAFF PRESENTED THE DRAFTED POLICY FOR PROPOSED UTILITY BOX ART PROGRAM. IN ADDITION TO REVIEWING AND APPROVING THE DRAFT OF THE ART POLICY THAT YOU HAVE ATTACHED TO YOUR STAFF REPORT. STAFF REQUESTED THE COMMISSION PROVIDE INPUT REGARDING THE QUANTITY AND FREQUENCY OF NEW ART DISPLAYS, AS WELL AS THE SELECTION PROCESS, PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS OR INTERNAL SELECTIONS, THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION RECOMMENDS THAT WE MOVE FORWARD WITH PUBLIC SUBMISSION PROCESS, AS WELL AS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE OR THE PACK. WHILE STAFF INITIALLY RECOMMENDED ONE MEMBER FROM COUNCIL, ONE NUMBER FROM THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION AND THE CON, UH, EXCUSE ME, WHILE STAFF INITIALLY RECOMMENDED ONE MEMBER FROM COUNCIL AND ONE MEMBER FROM THE PARKS AND REC COMMISSION, THE COMMISSION REQUESTED THAT THE PACK BE COMPRISED OF TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS, TWO COMMISSIONERS, AND ONE MEMBER OF THE CHINO HILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CHART'S COMMITTEE. IN ADDITION TO THESE RECOMMENDATIONS, THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION RECOMMENDED THE INSTALLATION OF ARTWORK ON 10 UTILITY BOXES ANNUALLY. WITH REGARD TO THE POLICY IN FRONT OF YOU, IT IS DRAFTED TO INCLUDE SECTIONS REGARDING WHICH DEPARTMENTS WILL HANDLE, WHICH DUTIES, HOW LONG THE ART WILL BE DISPLAYED, HOW ARTISTS WILL BE SELECTED, THE TYPE OF ARTWORK THAT WOULD BE ACCEPTED AND THE PROCEDURES AND THE LIFESPAN OF THE ARTWORK. IT IS STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION THAT VINYL WRAPS ON UTILITY BOXES IS THE BEST [01:05:01] OPTION FOR THE ART MEDIUM HIGH DEFINITION, PHOTOGRAPHS OR VECTOR ARTWORK COULD EASILY BE TRANSFERRED TO VINYL. AND ADHESIVELY STUCK TO THE UTILITY BOXES. VINYL WRAPS ALSO PROVIDE EASY SOLUTIONS FOR MAINTENANCE AND REPLACEMENT NEEDS AS WELL AS SUSTAIN A LONG LIFE SPAN. AS WE'VE SEEN ON OUR MOBILE VEHICLE, AS YOU SEE IN THE ATTACHMENT STAFF STAFF HAS SUPERIMPOSED EXISTING IMAGES ONTO VARIOUS BOXES AROUND THE CITY, AS EXAMPLES OF WHAT THE FUTURE OF THIS PROGRAM COULD LOOK LIKE. THE POLICY WAS DRAFTED WITH THE INTENT OF OPENING THE PROBLEM, THE PROGRAM UP PUBLICLY AND SEEKING SUBMISSION FROM ARTISTS. HOWEVER, THERE'S A SECOND OPTION THAT STAFF WOULD LIKE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER AS WELL. THE CITY HAS AN EXTENSIVE LIBRARY OF BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS, SOME PROFESSIONAL, AND SOME AMATEUR DISPLAYING EXISTING PHOTOS WOULD ELIMINATE THE STAFF HOURS FOR PROPOSING SUBMISSIONS, THE REVIEW AND SELECTION PROCESSES, AND THE COMMUNICATION WITH THE ARTISTS YOU'LL SEE IN THE POLICY THAT STAFF RECOMMENDS THE CREATION OF THE PUBLIC ARTS COMMITTEE OR THE PAC TO PARTICIPATE IN REVIEWING AND SELECTING THE ARTWORK TO BE ON DISPLAY. ALTHOUGH THE PACK WILL ONLY MEET ONCE PER YEAR AND IS FOCUSED ON UTILITY BOX ARTWORK, THE COMMITTEE WILL BE REQUIRED TO FOLLOW THE BROWN ACT PROCEDURES DUE TO THE INVOLVEMENT OF MEMBERS OF BOTH THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION. TONIGHT, WE ASK A FEW THINGS OF THE COUNCIL FIRST TO CHOOSE THE OPTION FOR THE ARTWORK SELECTION, WHETHER THAT BE PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS OR INTERNAL PHOTOS. SECOND TO APPROVE THE POLICY WITH ADJUSTMENTS IF NEEDED. AND FINALLY, IF APPROPRIATE TO ESTABLISH THE PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE AND SELECT TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS TO PARTICIPATE ON THE COMMITTEE. THIS CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION, AND I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE. ALL RIGHT. ANY QUESTIONS OF STAFF BEFORE WE ASK FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS? ALL RIGHT. CHERYL, ANYONE CALL IN ON THIS ONE AT THIS TIME, IF YOU HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS REGARDING THIS ITEM, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND IN THE ZOO APPLICATION OR DIAL STAR NINE. I DO NOT SEE ALL RIGHT. SEEING NONE. WE'LL BRING IT UP HERE. UM, MY, MY COMMENTS, UH, I, I LIKE, UH, I THINK THAT THE WAY THAT WE CAN CONTROL THE QUALITY AND THE REPLACEABILITY OF THESE, I THINK THESE PICTURES ARE, IS THE, IN THE VINYL IS PROBABLY THE, THE BEST WAY TO GO. I THINK WE DON'T HAVE ANY ISSUE WITH CON CON KEEPING CONTROL FROM THE QUOTE ARTIST OF WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO SEE ON THE, ON THE BOX, BECAUSE IF WE GET AN ARTIST'S RENDITION OF SOMETHING AND SOMEONE WANTS TO PAINT SOMETHING ON THERE, FIRST OF ALL, IT CAN BE DESTROYED VERY EASILY, THE MAINTENANCE OF IT, WHATEVER. UH, I THINK BY BEING ABLE TO CONTROL THE QUALITY OF PICTURES, WE'LL BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT THE FINAL PRODUCT'S GONNA LOOK LIKE BEFOREHAND. UH, PETER, I THINK THAT, UH, UH, YOU'VE BEEN INVOLVED, I THINK, IN THE ARTS COUNCIL AND THAT IN THE PAST, UH, I'D LIKE YOUR COMMENTS AND I'M GOING TO GO UP FRONT RIGHT NOW AND SAY, I THINK WE ARE ESTABLISHED COMMITTEE. I THINK WE HAD TO GO FORWARD WITH THIS. AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A COUPLE PEOPLE VOLUNTEER TO DO IT, BUT COMMENTS BEFORE WE GET TO THAT POINT. YEAH. I THINK WE HAVE A FEW COMMENTS, BUT, UM, I THINK THIS IS LONG OVERDUE. WE WERE A CITY OF 29 YEARS AND, YOU KNOW, WE ADD A MINUTE TEAS TO OUR PORTFOLIO EACH YEAR OF THINGS THAT HELP OUR CITY GROW AS WE MATURE. AND I, WE STARTED THIS, UH, ARTS COMMITTEE OR, OR, UH, SEVERAL YEARS AGO, CHINO HILLS ARTS. AND THIS IS KIND OF A NEXT STEP TO OVERSEE. I KNOW CYNTHIA HAS PUSHED FOR PUBLIC ART OVER THE YEARS ALSO, AND THIS IS ONE SMALL STEP I SUPPOSE, IN, IN HEADING IN THAT DIRECTION. IT'S, IT'S PRETTY SIMPLE, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S PROBABLY LONG OVERDUE. UH, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO PUT MY NAME IN AS A POSSIBILITY, AS FAR AS THE SELECTION OF PHOTOS. I KNOW THEY WANT TO KICKSTART WITH, UH, UM, FOUR, FOUR BOXES JUST TO SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. I, I DON'T KNOW IF THE PHOTOS, ALL THE PHOTOS THAT WERE SUGGESTED WOULD BE ONES THAT I WOULD HAVE SELECTED, BUT I THINK MOST OF THEM WOULD BE, BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY FINE TUNE THAT TO MAKE SURE THE FOUR THAT ARE UTILIZED INITIALLY ARE, UH, ARE, UM, APPROPRIATE FOR THE REGIONS. ONE, WAS IT LIKE A SOCCER GAME OR A SOCCER PLAY RIGHT NEAR GRAND AVENUE PARK MADE, MADE SENSE TO DO THAT. YEAH. UH, SO WE CAN MAKE THE IMAGES AS REGIONAL AS POSSIBLE AS FAR AS, UH, WHO SUBMITS. I DUNNO. I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA ACTUALLY TO ALLOW FOR THE COMMUNITY, OR EVENTUALLY AT LEAST PUT THEIR IMAGES IN TO HAVE A PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP IN A FUNNY SORT OF WAY. AND THERE ARE SOME AWFULLY GOOD PHOTOGRAPHERS OUT AND ABOUT THESE DAYS AND AS LONG AS THE QUALITY HOLDS UP, I, I THINK THAT'S WORTH CONSIDERING AT LEAST. UM, WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S PICKING UP THE MEDIUM, DO YOU THINK THAT THIS, THE VINYL IS, IS THE WAY TO GET THINGS? SO, BECAUSE VERSUS HAVING AN ARTIST ACTUALLY PAINT ON IT AND THEN THERE'S GRAFFITI OR SOMETHING HAPPENS TO CONTROL OVER THAT TOTAL, YOU REALLY DON'T. AND THERE'S A POSSIBILITY THAT, UH, THE, THE FOUNDATION MAY CONTRIBUTE TO THE, TO THE FUTURE ART [01:10:01] WORK. UM, AS FAR AS PAY FOR, FOR THE INSTALLATION, WE'LL HAVE TO DEBATE THAT AS A FOUNDATION, BUT I THINK THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE, BUT I TH I THINK THIS IS GOOD THAT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD. OKAY. BRIAN, DID YOU HAVE A QUICK, YEAH, NO, I, YEAH, IT WAS INTERESTING WHEN I SAW IT. THIS WAS FINALLY COMING BEFORE US. I HAD TO LOOK FOR, UH, I HAD TO LOOK THROUGH THE MINUTES OF WHEN I ASKED FOR THIS, WHEN I, UH, OR WHEN I REQUESTED THAT WE STUDY THIS AND IT WAS OCTOBER OF 2017. SO WHO SAYS GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WORK QUICK? UM, I I'M REALLY PLEASED WITH THE PRO WITH THIS WHOLE PROCESS AND GETTING EVERYBODY ON THE SAME PAGE. I, I THINK I AGREE WITH PETER ABOUT MAYBE I, IS THERE A WAY WE CAN DO, DO BOTH HAVE CITY PHOTOS AND THEN MAYBE AT SOME POINT, YOU KNOW, ASK, ASK FOR THE PUBLIC TO SUBMIT, YOU KNOW, I THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A NOW RESIDENT IN THE SOUTH PART OF TOWN, WHO'S A MARVEL COMIC, UH, ARTIST, YOU KNOW, MAYBE HAVE HIM, YOU KNOW, HAVE THOSE TYPES OF FOLKS THAT HAVE THESE TALENTS, SHOW THEM OFF AND HAVE THAT OWNERSHIP. SO I DON'T KNOW. I KNOW STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS JUST THESE INTERNAL ONES, BUT I GUESS WHAT, WHAT WOULD BE THE PROCESS TO AMEND THE ITEM TO ALLOW FOR SUBMISSIONS? W W A Y WAS PART OF THE STAFF REPORT, WASN'T IT? YEAH. I THOUGHT WE WERE PICKING OUT A ONE OR THE EITHER. PERFECT. YEAH. THE ONLY THING THAT I WAS GOING TO SAY IS, I WISH I WAS HOPING AGAIN, BRIAN, ARE YOU INTERESTED IN DOING THIS? I WOULD LOVE TO. OKAY. LET'S HEAR FROM CYNTHIA TOO. I'M JUST, I'M STILL TALKING. OH YEAH. I'M SORRY. SO, SO BASICALLY I WOULD REALLY LOVE THE COMMISSION TO BASICALLY MEET FIRST AND THEN COME BACK TO THIS, TO THE COUNCIL, WITH THEIR, WITH THEIR FILLINGS ON, SO THEY COULD TALK ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DEPTH, AND THEN COME BACK TO US WITH A FINAL, UM, DIRECTION. AND THEN WE CAN SORT OF MOVE ON THAT IF NEED BE, BUT GIVE THEM THE ABILITY TO DIRECTION AS FAR AS EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTIONS VERSUS INTERNAL CONTRIBUTIONS. LOOK FOR YOU GUYS TO WHOEVER IT IS, THE TWO PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT IT AND THEN DECIDE. OKAY. UH, CYNTHIA, YOUR COMMENTS ON THIS ONE. UM, THANKS ART. UM, LIKE PETER SAID, I'M, I'M EXCITED ABOUT THIS CAUSE I'VE BEEN PUSHING FOR PUBLIC ART FOR MANY YEARS, SO I'M GLAD IT'S COME BEFORE US. UM, I THINK, I THINK HOW WE'RE GOING TO ACCEPT THE ART IS MORE OF A POLICY DECISION THAT I PERSONALLY WOULD LIKE TO CONSIDER TONIGHT WITH THE COUNCIL RATHER THAN GOING TO A COMMITTEE. UM, I KNOW THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF INTERNAL ART THAT WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME ALREADY, UM, WITH A PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST. SO, YOU KNOW, WHY NOT PULL FROM THE POOL OF ALL OF THE SUBMISSIONS, JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE DIDN'T WIN A PHOTO CONTEST, WE STILL HAVE ALL THESE SUBMISSIONS. SO RATHER THAN, YOU KNOW, REINVENT A WHOLE NOTHER SUBMISSION PROCESS FOR STAFF. UM, EVERY TIME WE DO THESE PHOTO CONTEST, WE GET, WE GET GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS. AND I JUST THINK THAT THAT'S THE POOL WE SHOULD BE PULLING FROM EVEN BEFORE LIKE INTERNAL CITY PHOTOS. AND THOSE ARE ALL PHOTOS THAT HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED BY RESIDENTS. AND I'M IN FAVOR OF THE RAP VERSUS, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER WAY TOO. SO IF YOU WANT MY 2 CENTS, I SAY THAT WE DO THE PHOTOS OF PHOTO CONTEST ADMISSIONS ALREADY, AND THAT, UM, I'D LIKE TO SEE US DECIDE IT TONIGHT RATHER THAN GO BACK TO THE COMMITTEE. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. YES. UH, IN THAT SAME VEIN, I MEANT MENTIONED THIS. AND JUST AGAIN FOR, UH, A THOUGHT AND AN IDEA, WE HAVE A COMPETITION AND THERE ARE AWARD WINNERS MAY BE PART OF THAT AWARD WOULD BE THAT IF SELECTED, YOUR PICTURE WILL BE IN FACT PLACED ON A UTILITY BOX SOMEWHERE IN THE CITY. MAYBE THAT COULD BE PART OF THE AWARD. UH, BUT I THINK THAT I'M OPEN TO WHATEVER THE SOURCES, EXISTING PICTURES AND, OR THE, UH, ALREADY SUBMITTED PICTURES, BUT I THINK WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME VEIN. WE'RE ALL LINKED THINKING. IT'D BE A GREAT IDEA. AND I LOVE YOUR IDEA ALSO TO PETER ABOUT REGIONALIZING IT TO WHERE IF YOU HAVE ONE BEER NEAR THE PARK, YOU HAVE A SPORTS ACTIVITY. UH, IF IT'S A PLAYGROUND, YOU HAVE A, YOU KNOW, KIDS PLAYING ON PLAYGROUNDS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND MAYBE IF SOMEBODY IS SUBMITTING A PICTURE OR THEY NOT ONLY SUBMIT A PICTURE, BUT A POTENTIAL FOR THAT TO BE, THEY COULD TAKE A PICTURE OF WHERE THEY'D LIKE TO SEE THAT POSTER AND A PICTURE. AND MAYBE THAT'S ANOTHER WAY OF CALLING OUT, YOU KNOW, AND MATCHING THINGS UP. BUT SO FOR ACTION TONIGHT, DO WE JUST NEED TO AGREE THAT WE WANT TO GO FORWARD WITH THIS AND APPOINT A COMMITTEE? AND THEN I THINK IT MEETS RAY'S REQUIREMENT ONCE THEY MEET, THEY WOULD BRING IT BACK TO US FOR SOME SUGGESTIONS. IS THAT WHAT YOU HAD IN MIND? RAY? THAT'S WHAT I WAS HOPING. YES. OKAY. SO AS FAR AS VOLUNTEERS, I'M THINKING, THE OBVIOUS IS PROBABLY PETER AND CYNTHIA AND LESS, WHATEVER, WHATEVER. RIGHT. SO I WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO GO AHEAD AND ABSOLUTELY, UM, ARE, YOU KNOW, BRIAN, BRIAN EXPRESSED HIS INTEREST, UM, TO PARTICIPATE WITH PETER. SO THAT'S FINE WITH ME. ALL RIGHT. YOU, YOU ALLOW YOURSELF VOLUNTEERED. OKAY. [01:15:01] AND MATE, WHO KNOWS, MAYBE YOUR KIDS CAN TAKE SOME PICTURES AND COME UP WITH SOMETHING REALLY CONFLICT, NO WAY. UH, IT, OKAY. THEN, UH, FIRST MOVE TO APPROVE, MOVE TO APPROVE PETER AND BRIAN ALSO SECOND BY RAY, A VERBAL VOTE. ONE MOMENT, ONE MOMENT. THANKS WRITING DOWN THESE NOTES. I GET IT STRAIGHT. OKAY. MAYOR BENNETT, VICE MAYOR. JOE'S COUNCIL MEMBER MARQUEZ. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN. YES. AND COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS. YES. ALL RIGHT. SO WE'RE GOING TO GO FORWARD WITH IT THEN WHEN YOU'VE GOT YOUR TWO MEMBERS. AND I THINK THAT'S ALL WE NEED FOR THIS EVENING. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR A NICE REPORT. I APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, JESSICA. ALL RIGHT. UH, NEXT ITEM 15 IS GOING TO BE RECEIVING [15. Receive and file Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) update] FILE A CORONA VIRUS DISEASE TO A 2019 COVID-19 UPDATE BY BEN. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR BENNETT CITY COUNCIL RESIDENTS, UH, ZOOMING IN, UM, WE IT'S BECOME OUR PRACTICE TO GIVE UPDATES ON WHAT'S OCCURRED IN THE CORONA VIRUS, UH, ARENA SINCE OUR LAST MEETING, UH, COUPLE, UH, SIGNIFICANT, UH, MOVEMENTS TO REPORT ON OCTOBER 9TH, THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UH, ISSUED NEW GUIDANCE THAT REDEFINES WHAT A HOUSEHOLD IS. UM, MANY OF US HAVE BEEN, UM, RESTRICTING OUR ACTIVITIES, CREATING THESE BUBBLES AND SUCH, UH, IN MANY OF OUR PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN MODIFIED IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE RISK OF TRANSMISSION BY, UH, RESTRICTING, UH, ACTIVITY BASED ON WHAT A HOUSEHOLD IS DEFINED AS. HOWEVER, THE STATE NOW HAS, UH, MODIFIED THAT DEFINITION TO INCLUDE UP TO THREE HOUSEHOLDS. UH, AND SO STAFF IS, UH, LOOKING AT THAT, UH, AS A GUIDANCE FOR SOME OF OUR PROGRAMS. AND, UM, AS AN EXAMPLE, UM, WE HAD SUSPENDED OUR, UH, GAZEBO, UH, RESERVATION PROGRAM. UH, BUT WE HAVE, UH, REINITIATED THAT PROGRAM, UH, WITH THE CONDITION THAT A RESONANCE LIMIT, UH, ANY ACTIVITY OCCURRING AT THAT GAZEBO, UH, TO THE NEW FOR THREE HOUSEHOLDS. SO IS THERE ANY DEFINITION OF HOW MANY IN THE HOUSEHOLD? NO. UH, AND, UH, WELL, NOT FOR THIS, UH, PARTICULAR, UH, UH, REVISION, THE ORIGINAL DEFINITION FOR HOUSEHOLD JUST MEANT EVERYBODY WHO HAD A CLOSE CONTACT. AND SO, UH, IF THERE'S FIVE PEOPLE IN YOUR HOUSE, THAT'S FINE. UH, WHAT YOU DON'T WANT IS YOU AND YOUR NEIGHBOR. THAT'S NOT THE SAME HOUSEHOLD, IF, UH, AND SO IT'S, IT'S JUST A WAY TO, TO MAINTAIN, UH, THE, OUR, TO, TO LIMIT THE, THE LIKELIHOOD OF TRANSMISSION BETWEEN MULTIPLE, UH, UNITS LET'S GO, WELL, THERE COULD BE 10 IN THE HOUSEHOLD AND YOU COULD STILL HAVE, IN THEORY, YOU COULD HAVE 30 PEOPLE UNDER THIS DEFINITION. YOU COULD, UH, THE, THE CONCERN IS, IS YOU'RE TRYING TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM, UH, CROSS, UH, UH, INFECTIONS. I'LL CALL IT WITH THE LIKELIHOOD THAT IF THAT 10 PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN THE HOUSE, THE RISK IS PRETTY MUCH CONTAINED TO THOSE 10. SO OUR GOAL IS TO JUST PROVIDE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COMMUNITY TO USE THIS AMENITIES, UH, SAFELY AS DEFINED BY THE STATE. I'M JUST ASKING A QUESTION I ANTICIPATE WE'RE GOING TO GET, SO, OKAY, WELL, NO, PLEASE. UM, ADDITIONALLY THERE HAVE BEEN A DISH, UH, NEW, UH, BUSINESSES, UH, REOPENED PERSONAL CARE SERVICES NOW, UH, ARE ALLOWED WITH INDOOR OPERATIONS, INCLUDING MASSAGE AND, UH, TATTOO PARLORS. UM, THE, DESPITE THIS ACTIVITY, UH, THE STATE, UH, REQUIREMENTS FOR MOVING INTO THE DIFFERENT TIERS, UH, REMAIN AND OUR COUNTY, WHICH, UM, I'M, I KNOW THE COUNCIL KNOWS, BUT, UM, A LOT OF OUR RESIDENTS MAY NOT KNOW, UH, GEOGRAPHICALLY, IT'S THE LARGEST COUNTY IN THE COUNTRY, UH, OVER 2 MILLION PEOPLE REPRESENTED. UH, AND, AND I MAKE THAT COMMENT ONLY BECAUSE IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO GET ALL THOSE DUCKS IN A ROW, LET'S CALL IT. AND SO WE REMAIN, UH, IN THE PURPLE TIER. HOWEVER, WE MEET FREQUENTLY WITH THE COUNTY AND THEIR EFFORTS TO BE ABLE TO, UH, IMPROVE OUR SITUATION ARE SIGNIFICANT. IT'S JUST VERY DIFFICULT TO, TO MOVE THOSE NUMBERS, ESPECIALLY WITH THE VARIETY OF EVENTS THAT, THAT SOMETIMES, UH, AFFECT THAT. UH, BUT THE COUNTY IS WORKING WITH THE STATE TO TRY AND IDENTIFY WAYS THAT WE CAN OPEN UP BUSINESSES AND, AND INCREASE OUR ACTIVITIES RELATED TO, UM, THE COVID, UH, VIRUS. UM, I'LL ADD, UH, THAT, UM, ON A MONTHLY BASIS, WE REPORT TO THE COUNCIL, UH, WHETHER OR NOT WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO REOPEN SOME OF OUR CURRENT CLOSED AMENITIES OR FACILITIES. AND GIVEN THAT WE'RE STILL IN THE PURPLE TIER, UH, WHICH IS CONSIDERED WIDESPREAD, UH, AND GIVEN THAT WE STILL HAVE, UH, MOST OF OUR FACILITIES ARE OPEN OR MOST OF OUR AMENITIES, I SHOULD SAY. UH, WE STILL ANTICIPATE [01:20:01] WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO KEEP THROUGH NOVEMBER 29TH, UH, SEVERAL OF OUR, UH, FACILITIES, PLACES LIKE OUR COMMUNITY CENTER AND SUCH LIKE THAT. BUT, UH, STAFF WORKS, IF NOT, UH, UH, DAILY, AT LEAST EVERY FEW DAYS, WE'RE EVALUATING OUR ABILITY TO, UH, ADD NEW AMENITIES BASED ON, ON EITHER NEW GUIDANCE OR, OR CHANGES IN OUR TIER LEVEL. UM, IT'S A VERY RARE OCCURRENCE WHERE I GET TO CORRECT. UH, DENISE, UH, I HAVE TO BLAME MYSELF FOR NOT GIVING HER NEW INFORMATION, BUT COMMUNITY SERVICES IS WORKING ON, UH, RE-ESTABLISHING VOLLEYBALL, BUT IT HASN'T OCCURRED YET. SO, UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW THE NEW HOUSEHOLD REGULATION WILL ALLOW US TO OPEN UP VOLLEYBALL. WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT PICKLEBALL, UH, BUT, UH, AS SOON AS WE GET, UH, THAT DETERMINATION, WE'LL, UH, SHARE THAT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND THEN, UH, THAT'S ACTUALLY IT NO MORE ON MY LIST. ALL RIGHT. ANY QUESTIONS, BEN? ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MOVING RIGHT ALONG TO ITEM [16. Receive and file CARES Act - COVID-19 funding update] NUMBER 16, UH, THIS WILL BE RECEIVED AND FILED THE CARES ACT. COVID-19 FUNDING UPDATE. ARE YOU GOING TO DO THAT REPORT AS WELL? NO. OUR ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER HAS BEEN CHARGE ALONG WITH STAFF, SO I INVITE, UH, ROD HILL TO COME UP AND PRESENT. ALL RIGHT, RON. OKAY. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. HOW ARE YOU TONIGHT? RIGHT? UH, I HAVE A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION. DO YOU HAVE THAT? OKAY. OKAY. SO BEFORE YOU SEE ME, WE HAVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION REGARDING THE VARIOUS COVID FUNDING OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO THE CITY. UH, THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES WE'LL COVER A LITTLE BACKGROUND AS WE LEAD INTO THE FUNDING PROGRAMS. UH, AS YOU REMEMBER, UM, THE BEGINNING OF MARCH, 2020, ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT BEGAN TO TAKE ACTIONS TO CLAIRE CORNERIZED TO BE A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY, BUT THE WHO DECLARED IT A PUBLIC PANDEMIC OR A NATIONAL PANDEMIC, MANY OF THESE DECLARATIONS WERE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS TO THE EVENTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE VARIOUS FUNDING PROGRAMS SLIDE THROUGH, UH, FOLLOWING THE VARIOUS EMERGENCY DECLARATION, STATE AND COUNTY, UH, ISSUED NUMEROUS HEALTH ORDERS AFFECTING BUSINESS OPERATIONS, LENDING GATHERINGS, PROMOTING PUBLIC HEALTH HYGIENE, AND REQUIRING TO FACE COVERINGS. OKAY. MOVING INTO THE FUNDING OPTIONS, UH, IN MARCH CONGRESS PASSED THE CORONAVIRUS AID RELIEF AND ECONOMIC SECURITY ACT ALSO KNOWN AS CARES ACT PROVIDING $2 TRILLION IN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO FAMILIES, BUSINESSES, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS RECEIVED TWO ALLOCATIONS OF THIS MONEY, TOTALING $659,000, UH, THROUGH THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM ALSO KNOWN AS CDBG, UH, CV TO DATE. THESE MONIES HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED TOWARDS THE CITY'S COVID BUSINESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. AND STAFF IS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING ADDITIONAL SENIOR BUSINESS, SENIOR AND BUSINESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AS SUITABLE SKUS. LATER TENANTS' MEETING IN JUNE, THE STATE APPROVED 1.8 BILLION AND CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUNDING AND CRF FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN JULY, THE STATE DIRECTLY ALLOCATED THE CITY, $1,000,000,017 OF THIS, UH, FUNDING LATER THE COUNTY ALSO REALLOCATED 1,000,017 THOUSAND OF THEIR DIRECT FUNDING TO THE CITY FOR COMBINED FUNDING LEVEL OF $2,035,000. AND THIS IS BEING USED FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EXPENDITURES, EDUCATION COMPLIANCE ACTIVITIES, AND PUBLIC SAFETY COSTS. EXCELLENT. EARLIER THIS MONTH, THE COUNTY ALSO PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CITY TO FUND VARIOUS COVID RELATED CAPITAL PROJECTS, UH, WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF FUNDING UP TO A MILLION $17,000 OF THOSE PROJECTS FOR CHINO HILLS, THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT RESTRICTIONS ON THIS TYPE OF FUNDING AND ELIGIBLE PROJECTS RELATED TO IT. AND THE TIMELINE FOR USE OF THESE MONIES IS ALSO VERY RESTRICTIVE, OR THE CITY HAS SUBMITTED AN INITIAL PROJECT LIST THAT INCLUDED EMERGENCY POWER, BACKUP EQUIPMENT, EXPANDED INFORMATION, TECHNOLOGY, INFRASTRUCTURE, PUBLIC MESSAGING, MARQUIS, AND CLEANING, CLEANING, AND DISINFECTING EQUIPMENT. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THIS IS A DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR MATCH. SO FOR EVERY DOLLAR, THE CITY SPINS, WE ARE, WE GET GRANT FUNDS. WE ALSO SPEND A DOLLAR OF, UH, CITY MONEY. SO IT WOULD REQUIRE A PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL OUTLIVE OF CASH. THE FINAL FUNDING SOURCE AVAILABLE TO THE CITY IS A FEMA REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM. AND WE HAVE CURRENTLY SUBMITTED APPROXIMATELY $13,000 IN ELIGIBLE EXPENDITURES ARE RELATED TO THE REOPENING SUPPLIES THAT WE USE TO GET THE CITY OFF AND GOING AFTER WE CAME BACK TO OPEN IN JUNE OF 2020, OUR FINAL SLIDE IS JUST TO PROVIDE YOU A BRIEF RECAP, UM, OF THE VARIOUS FUNDING SOURCES. AND THAT IS AGAIN, 2,035,000 OF CRF MONEY. THIS MONEY MUST BE SPENT BY DECEMBER 31ST OF 2020. I THINK WE'RE WELL ON OUR WAY TO SPENDING THE MONEY THAT WAY. UH, THE CDBG FUNDING AND CDBG V FUNDING IS $659,000. YOU HAVE ALREADY INITIATED YOUR SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM. YOU'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON A SENIOR AND A ADDITIONAL BUSINESS PROGRAMS. AS WE MOVE FORWARD. YOU DO HAVE SIX YEARS TO SPEND THAT MONEY ACCORDING TO COMMUNITY SERVICES STAFF. SO YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SPEND IT OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, SO YOU SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM SPENDING IT. UH, THE LAST ITEM UP THERE IS [01:25:01] THE, A ADDITIONAL MILLION DOLLARS IN CAPITAL OUTLAY OR CAPITAL FUNDING THAT YOU HAVE AVAILABLE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS RELATED TO THE COUNTY'S LATEST ALLOCATION. UH, WE PROBABLY WILL HAVE A LOT OF DIFFICULTY GETTING TO A MILLION DOLLARS OF THAT OUTLAY OR SPENDING, BUT WE ARE LOOKING PROBABLY RIGHT NOW BETWEEN FOUR AND $500,000 OF PROJECTS THAT WE'VE PRESENTED TO THE COUNTY. OKAY. DID WE IN FACT MEET THAT DEADLINE OF THE 26TH FOR A PROPOSAL, MEET THE DEADLINE. AND WE WERE FORMED TODAY BY CITY MANAGER THAT WE MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE ADDITIONAL TIME TO SUBMIT ADDITIONAL PROJECTS. THEY COME KIND OF DELIGHT FOR US AS WE GO FORWARD. SO WE WILL CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR ADDITIONAL PROJECTS. THE HARDEST TIME THERE IS WE HAVE TO SPEND IT BY DECEMBER 31ST. YOU HAVE TO BE IN CONTRACT TO SPEND THE MONEY BY DECEMBER 31ST. SO OUR ABILITY TO GET CONTRACTS, AWARDED ITEMS, BID SOLICIT PROPOSALS IS FAIRLY TIGHT. YOU'RE TALKING ONLY ABOUT EIGHT WEEKS LEFT TO GET THAT DONE. THAT'S GOING TO BE VERY DIFFICULT. SO WE'RE TRYING TO PICK PROJECTS. WE THINK WE CAN GET ON BOARD AND GET FUNDED AND MEET THAT REQUIREMENT. SO ABOUT HOW MUCH DID WE ACTUALLY APPLY FOR BY THAT DEADLINE? ABOUT FOUR TO 500,000. OKAY. THE NUMBER YOU GAVE IS EARLY. OKAY. SO IT'S ONE OF THOSE PROJECTS WHERE IF IT'S NOT SHOVEL READY, YOU'RE OUT PRETTY MUCH OR PROJECTS THAT DON'T REQUIRE FORMAL BID PROCESS. IF YOU COULD BUY EQUIPMENT, THAT MIGHT BE ANOTHER OPTION IF WE COULD FUND PART OF IT THAT WAY. OKAY. AND DOES THAT REQUIRE THE DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR MATCH? THAT IS THE DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR MATCH. THAT IS OKAY. ALL RIGHT. JUST CLARIFICATION. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. AND WITH THAT, THAT CONCLUDES MY BRIEF PRESENCE. HOPEFULLY EVERYBODY'S ALL GOOD WITH THAT. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M HAPPY TO. ALL RIGHT. ANY QUESTIONS OR BAD, OR, EXCUSE ME, I'M SORRY. I SAW BRAD'S NAME. UH, WE HAVE, BRAD IS CALLING IN ON THIS. UH, WOULD YOU STAY WHERE YOU'RE AT IN CASE BRAD HAS A QUESTION FOR YOU? YES. BRETT GOLDMAN CALLING IN. YES. ALL RIGHT, BRAD, WE CAN HEAR YOU OR CAN'T HEAR YOU YET. GO AHEAD. YEAH. MS. RARE. UM, I JUST WONDERED TO KNOW IF, UM, I KNOW THAT THERE ARE TWO, UH, PARKS AND REC PROJECTS THAT WERE OUT THAT WERE PUT ON HOLD DUE TO THE, UM, BUDGET OR THE BUDGET PROCESS. UM, ONE WAS THE SIGNAGE, THE SIGNAGE, THE SIGNAGE PROJECT. UM, I FORGET THE EXACT NAME OF THAT. AND THE OTHER ONE THAT WAS IN THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT IS OUTSTANDING WAS, UH, TORREY PINES AND DOS HAD GONE THROUGH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE AT THE FINAL PROCESS. AND I WAS WONDERING IF THOSE WERE, UM, TWO PROJECTS THAT WERE CONSIDERED, UH, FOR THAT ADDITIONAL REVENUE ARE, THESE PEOPLE'S PROJECTS WOULD HAVE MET THAT REQUIREMENT. THIS REQUIREMENT BE FOR PROJECTS THAT WERE SOMEHOW ENABLED TO ENHANCE THE CITY'S ABILITY TO RESPOND TO COVID RELATED SITUATIONS. SO, ALRIGHT. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR QUESTION BREATH. UH, ANYONE ELSE HOLD, PUTTING UP THEIR HAND? I DO NOT SEE ANY OTHER HANDS. I'LL BRING IT BACK UP HERE. QUESTIONS OF STAFF. ALRIGHT. A MOTION TO ACCEPT THIS . PARDON ME? YEP. RECEIVE AND FILE RECEIVING FILE ALMA. YES. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. MOVING ON TO, UH, UH, 17, UH, PROVIDE [17. Provide direction on allocation of Community Development Block Grant Coronavirus funds] DIRECTION OF ALLOCATION OR ON ALLOCATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT CORONA VIRUS FUNDS. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I'M GOING TO ASK, UH, ALMA HERNANDEZ WITH THE COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT, OUR RESIDENT, UH, UH, CDBG EXPERT TO COME UP AND DESCRIBE, UH, THE PROGRAMS YOU'VE ALREADY, UH, AUTHORIZE. AND THEN, UH, A COUPLE OF NEW OFFERINGS THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING. SO ALMA, PLEASE. HOW ARE YOU TONIGHT? GOOD. HOW ABOUT YOURSELF? GOOD EVENING. UM, SO WE ARE HERE THIS NIGHT, UH, THIS EVENING TO ASK FOR DIRECTION FROM COUNCIL ON THE NEW ALLOCATION FOR CDBG. THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT IS, OR THE ACTUAL AMOUNT IS 413,747. UM, WE'VE GOT ARGUING RECEIVED THE FIRST ALLOCATION, UH, WHICH THE COUNCIL HAD ALLOCATED TO THE MICRO ENTERPRISE BUSINESS GRANT PROGRAM, WHICH ALLOWED, UM, BUSINESSES WITH FIVE EMPLOYEES OR TO APPLY FOR A GRANT THAT HAD ADVERSE, UM, IMPACT FROM THE COVID-19. UH, SO FAR TO DATE, WE HAVE AWARDED 21 GRANTS AND, UM, WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING THROUGH 21 ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS THAT ARE PENDING EITHER INFORMATION OR JUST IN THE FINAL STAGE OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS. UM, AND AT THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING, UM, COUNSEL HAD, UH, REQUESTED THAT STAFF LOOK INTO ANOTHER BUSINESS GRANT PROGRAM THAT WOULD EXPAND THE GRANTS TO BUSINESSES THAT HAD MORE THAN FIVE, UM, EMPLOYEES. SO TONIGHT WE PRESENT A SMALL BUSINESS GRANT PROGRAM THAT WOULD GIVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO THOSE SPECIFIC BUSINESSES THAT HAVE MORE THAN FIVE EMPLOYEES. AND, UM, ONE OF THE MAJOR REQUIREMENTS IS THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO PLEDGE TO RETAIN OR CREATE AN, UH, POSITION EMPLOYMENT FOR A LOW INCOME OR MODERATE INCOME INDIVIDUAL. UM, SO THAT IS THE CAVEAT [01:30:01] OF THE GRANT. UM, AND THEN THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES WOULD BE UP TO COUNCIL DIRECTION, AS WELL AS THE GRANT AMOUNT. QUICK QUESTION ABOUT LOW INCOME. COULD THAT BE A HIGH SCHOOL KID? LIKE, WOULD THAT COUNT, OR I GUESS, HOW DO YOU, WHAT'S THE, WHAT'S THE QUALIFICATION FOR A LOW INCOME INDIVIDUAL? UH, SO IT WOULD BE INCOME-BASED. SO IF, I MEAN, IF THE INDIVIDUAL IS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND THEY'RE WORKING AND IT'S A POSITION THEY WOULD QUALIFY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO, AND AGAIN, QUALIFY OR QUANTIFY THIS, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AN ALLOCATION NUMBER, IF YOU WILL, A NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES FOR THIS ALLOCATION OF 413,007 47, AND THE REMAINING BALANCE ON THE OTHER HAS ALREADY BEEN APPLIED FOR, AND WE'RE, WE'VE ALREADY GRANTED SOME OF IT AND WE'RE CONTINUING TO, UH, DRILL DOWN ON THAT COST. OKAY. SO THE, THE, FROM, FROM WHAT I SEE IN THE REPORT, UH, WHERE WAS IT HERE? THERE WAS A NUMBER OF, UH, THERE ARE 405 BUSINESSES PROVIDED BY DENIM BRADSTREET REPORT THAT SHOWS ESTIMATED 234 BUSINESSES, ONE TO 10, 13 WITH 11 TO 20 AND FOUR BUSINESSES WITH 21 TO 35. SO IF WE WERE TO GIVE $5,000 PER BUSINESS, ACCORDING TO THIS NUMBER OF BUSINESSES, IF THEY ALL APPLIED AND WE WERE TO TAKE THE NUMBER ALL THE WAY UP TO 35 OR LESS, WE COULD POTENTIALLY ALMOST WELL GIVE SEVEN OR $8,000, UH, TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THOSE 405 BUSINESSES UP TO 35 EMPLOYEES. AM I CORRECT? IN MY THINKING? CORRECT. OKAY. SO IS THAT WHAT WE'RE REALLY LOOKING AT HERE? BEN IS TO DRILL DOWN ON A NUMBER FIRST AND THEN DO WE HAVE TO, WE'VE ALREADY AGREED PRETTY MUCH. IT'S GOING TO BE FIVE. UH, BUT WE COULD, IN FACT, ON SMALLER BUSINESSES, GIVE FIVE TO SOME AND TEND TO OTHERS. IS THAT HOW WE COULD DO IT? WHAT, WHAT STAFF IS PRESENTING AS A RECOMMENDATION? UH, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF MOVING PARTS AS YOU POINTED OUT, UH, GIVEN THAT THIS IS A LARGER, UH, BUSINESS, OUR SMALL BUSINESS VERSUS MICRO FIVE WAS THE ORIGINAL CAP. WE'RE PROPOSING THAT THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES WOULD BE CAPPED AT 35 WHERE THIS DEVIATES IS A LITTLE BIT, UM, UH, FOR A LITTLE HISTORY, WE STARTED OFF, UH, AWARDING 2,500 IN THE PRIOR GRANT PROGRAM BECAUSE WE WANT IT TO BE ABLE TO GIVE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE, SOME MONEY, UH, BUT AFTER THE RESPONSE, UH, AND, UH, REPORTING TO THE COUNCIL, THE COUNCIL ELECTED TO INCREASE THAT FROM 2,500 TO TWO, 5,000, FOLLOWING THAT GUIDANCE, WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING AS A RECOMMENDATION IS THAT THE COUNCIL LOOK AT AWARDING 5,000 TO THIS NEW, SMALL BUSINESS. UM, WE'D LIKE THE NUMBER TO BE 35 OR FEW, UH, OR FEWER EMPLOYEES. AND, UH, THE SMALL DIFFERENCE HERE IS THAT IF, AS ALMA POINTED OUT THE BUSINESS IS ABLE TO MEET THE, UH, CDBG REQUIREMENTS AND, UH, MAINTAIN A LOW-INCOME POSITION THAT IF THEY CAN PROVE OR, UH, COMMIT TO TWO OR MORE, THAT INSTEAD OF JUST LIMITING IT TO 5,000, THEY COULD GET UP TO 10,000. SO ULTIMATELY IT'LL DEPEND ON HOW MANY APPLICATIONS WE GET, WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE SEEKING FIVE OR 10,000, UH, AS TO HOW FAR OUR MONEY WILL GO. BUT WE'VE, WE THINK THAT GIVEN PASS RESPONSE ALLOCATING $250,000 WOULD BE A GOOD START FOR THIS PROGRAM. UH, AND THEN ALLOWING, UH, THE APPLICANTS TO SEEK EITHER FIVE OR $10,000 IN FUNDING. OKAY. UH, MY THINKING, AND THIS IS OPEN. YOU JUST JUMP IN WHEN YOU THINK, BUT I'M THINKING, OKAY, BEFORE WE WERE LOOKING AT FIVE AND LESS, AND WE GAVE THEM, ENDED UP GIVING THEM $5,000 A PIECE, WE HAVE 234 BUSINESSES THAT ARE BETWEEN ONE AND 10. SO NOT MUCH DIFFERENT THAN THE ONES WE'VE ALREADY GIVEN OUT. I THINK TO HAVE SOME SORT OF PARODY, MY THINKING IS A SMALLER DOLLAR AMOUNT TO A SMALLER NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES IS A PRETTY BIG AND CONSISTENT, UH, BENEFIT. THE LARGER NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES. THE $5,000 IS NOT GOING TO GO AS FAR FOR A BUSINESS THAT HAS 35 EMPLOYEES. SO JUST TO KICK THINGS AROUND, IF WE WERE TO LOOK AT THE 5,000 PER POTENTIAL FOR THE 234 BUSINESSES THAT ARE ONE TO 10, THEN RECORD IT UP A LITTLE BIT SIGNIFICANTLY. WE COULD, AND STILL MEET YOUR 25 OR 250,000 INITIAL WOULD BE INCREASE IT FOR THE 13 BUSINESSES THAT ARE 11 TO 20 AND INCREASE IT. MAYBE EVEN A LITTLE BIT MORE FOR THOSE THAT ARE 21 TO 35. DOES THAT KIND OF MATRIX MAKE SENSE? ANYBODY WHO AM I, WHERE ARE WE ON THE SAME PAGE? OR, YEAH. YOU KNOW, WHERE I GOT A QUESTION, I KNOW LAST [01:35:01] TIME BEFORE WHEN WE ACTUALLY RAISED UP THE AMOUNT OF MONEY, WE KNEW HOW MANY BUSINESSES WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, SO WHY DON'T WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS? AND THEN IT'S GOING TO COME BACK TO US AS FAR AS HOW MANY BUSINESSES, AND THEN MAYBE AT THAT TIME WE CAN RATCHET UP W WE KNOW HOW MANY BUSINESSES ARE, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW MANY ACTUALLY APPLY THAT APPLY. AND MAYBE THAT NUMBER MIGHT EVEN BE HIGHER. OKAY. WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, BUT WOULD THAT MAKE SENSE IF WE WAIT, I MEAN, SHOULD, IS, IS THAT THE CART AFTER THE HORSE OR BEFORE THE HORSE OR WHATEVER? I MEAN, WE KNOW WHAT THE POT OF MONEY IS, AND IF OUR TARGETS 250,000 OTHERWISE GIVEAWAY, UH, NOT QUITE HALF OF IT, BUT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT. AND WE HAVE A TOTAL OF 230, UH, FOR BUSINESSES FOR $250,000. WHAT'S THE MATH 10,000 A PIECE? UH, NO, TO THE MATH. UH, I THINK, UM, AN ALMA WILL HELP ME OUT WITH THIS. WHEN WE ESTABLISHED THE PROGRAM. LAST TIME WE DID, WE DETERMINE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT. AND BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE, UH, APPLICATIONS EXCEEDING THE, THE DOLLAR AMOUNT, WE WERE ABLE TO GO, UH, WITH A HIGHER AMOUNT. SO YES, WE COULD STRUCTURE YOUR RECOMMENDATION AND APPROVAL TONIGHT TO A DOLLAR AMOUNT. UH, AND THEN, UM, UH, OUR NEXT MEETING WOULD BE COMING BACK TO MAKE THE MODIFICATION TO OUR PROGRAM TO ALLOW A NEW, UH, SMALL BUSINESS GRANT. UH, AND THEN AT THAT TIME YOU COULD ESCALATE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT, AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T EXCEED THE EXCEED THE ALLOCATION. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE OR DOES THAT FOLLOW ELMA? DON'T FEEL FREE TO TELL ME IF I'M WRONG. I DO FOLLOW, BUT I THINK THE INCREASE IN AMOUNT WOULD COME BACK AT A LATER DATE BECAUSE THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING WOULD BE APPROVAL OF THE ASSISTANT SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT, WHICH WOULD ALLOW US TO IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAM AND THEN FOR THE TIMING FOR APPLICATIONS TO COME IN. SO THAT WOULD BE A LITTLE BETTER LATER TIME. OKAY. SO IF WE DON'T SET A DOLLAR AMOUNT FOR EACH SIZE OF GROUP OR SIZE OF BUSINESS, NOW WE'D HAVE TO GIVE A BLANKET NUMBER AND THEN INCREASE IT LATER, OR NO, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT YOU START WITH AN AMOUNT NOW FOR EACH LEVEL, IF THAT'S HOW COUNCIL DESIRES IS TO DO IT BY LEVEL. UM, AND THEN WE CAN COME BACK WHEN THE BUSINESS APPLICATION CYCLE HAS CLOSED AND WE COULD GIVE AN UPDATE AT THAT TIME, UM, WITH THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS THAT WERE RECEIVED. I'LL JUST ADD, WE, WE, WE REALLY DO HAVE TO SET A NUMBER SO THAT THE APPLICANTS KNOW WHETHER OR NOT IT'S WORTH THEIR WHILE. SO MAYBE WE FOLLOW THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION FOR NOW, BECAUSE ALL MY, OBVIOUSLY A STOP THIS ONE THROUGH, WE'RE JUST KIND OF THROWING DARTS AT THE MOMENT AND THEN AMEND IT AS SHE SAID, A SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT, UH, NEXT TIME AROUND. OKAY. I THINK I'D AGREE. AND I KINDA AGREE WITH YOU. YEAH. OKAY. SO WHAT WAS THE AFT REPORT RECOMMENDATION WITH THE, FOR NOW, AND THEN AMEND IT LATER IF THERE'S MORE MONEY OR FEWER APPLICANTS, RIGHT? YEAH. I MEAN, THIS, IT SOUNDS SILLY, BUT I MEAN, THERE'S THESE BUSINESSES OUT THERE. I THINK WE NEED TO BE AS DILIGENT AS POSSIBLE OF GETTING THIS BENEFIT OUT TO THE PEOPLE, LET THEM KNOW. I MEAN, IF, EVEN IF WE HAVE TO SOMEHOW SEND EACH ONE OF THEM THAT WE'VE BEEN IDENTIFIED A LETTER SAYING, OKAY, HERE'S MONEY FOR THE TAKING, UH, NO PAYBACK. IF YOU REALLY NEED THE HELP TO KEEP YOUR BUSINESS GOING APPLY, BECAUSE I I'D HATE TO SEE US HAVE THIS MONEY AVAILABLE AND NOT USED. I MEAN THAT NOW. AND LET ME ASK THAT QUESTION. WE STILL HAVE MONEY LEFT FROM THE FIRST ALLOCATION AND WE'LL HAVE THIS ALLOCATION. WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE DOLLARS? IF THEY'RE NOT APPLIED, IS THERE A DROP DEAD DATE? AND IF THERE IS WHAT HAPPENS TO THE MONEY THAT WE HAVEN'T DISPERSED TO THOSE BUSINESSES, WHY DOES IT GO INTO THE, UH, REGULAR BLOCK GRANT STUFF LATER ON NEXT YEAR? OR IT CAN'T BE COVID MIXED, I'M ASSUMING CORRECT. IT CANNOT BE COMMINGLED. UM, ARE YOU ASKING ABOUT THE 250,000 REMAINING? IF WE DON'T ALLOCATE THAT PORTION OR THE INITIAL MICRO ENTERPRISE? BOTH THE MONEY THAT WASN'T ALLOCATED OUT OF THE FIRST 250 THAT WE CAUSE WE, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY WE ENDED UP GIVING CHECKS TO, BUT WE'VE GOT BALANCE THERE, RIGHT? OH, UM, SO WE DID ALLOCATE THE MONEY, YOU MEAN AWARDED TO BUSINESSES. UH, SO WE WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE KEEP THAT PROGRAM GOING, UM, JUST TO GET ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS AND IF MAYBE, UH, AN INDIVIDUAL CAN'T QUALIFY UNDER THE SMALL BUSINESS, WE WOULD QUALIFY THAT AND HOPEFULLY UNDER THE, OKAY, SO IF THEY'VE APPLIED, BUT THEY, BUT THEY DIDN'T QUALIFY BEFORE THEY CAN'T, THEY CAN QUALIFY. NOW THEY CAN'T DOUBLE DIP AND GET HM. RIGHT. THEY CANNOT. YEAH. BUT UM, SOMETIMES PEOPLE DON'T HEAR ABOUT IT AND THEN THEY HEAR ABOUT IT NOW. SO WE WOULD TRY TO HOPEFULLY LEAVE IT OPEN SO THAT WE COULD MAXIMIZE THE GRANT AMOUNT. UM, AND THEN AT THE END, IF WE DON'T USE THE MONEY, UM, [01:40:01] THAT'S REALLY UNKNOWN. I WOULD JUST SIM CDBG WOULD TAKE IT AWAY, BUT WE CAN NOT COME IN HERE. CYNTHIA, SINCE YOU'RE NOT SITTING UP HERE, I CAN'T SEE IF YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR THOUGHTS. DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON THIS ONE? NO, KIND OF THE DIRECTION. WE'RE ALL GOING. I JUST THINK WE WANT TO JUST MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THIS MONEY OUT AND DON'T WANT TO JEOPARDIZE LOSING IT. OKAY. OKAY. SO BEN, DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH DIRECTION FROM US AS TO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH HERE? YES, BUT I'LL CLARIFY FOR ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO DOESN'T HAVE THE STAFF REPORT IN FRONT OF THEM. UH, OUR RECOMMENDATION IS THAT, UH, WE SET OUR SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AT 35 EMPLOYEES THAT WE ALLOCATE, UH, $250,000 TO FUND THIS PROGRAM. AND THAT THE AWARD BE EITHER 5,000. IF THE BUSINESS IS ABLE TO RETAIN ONE EMPLOYEE OR 10,000, IF ABLE TO RETAIN, UH, TWO OR MORE THAT MEET THE HUD, UH, LOW-INCOME UH, REQUIREMENTS. AND, UH, WHAT WE WILL BE DOING IS STAFF WILL BRING BACK AT THE NEXT MEETING, THE, UH, UM, UH, AMENDMENT IN ORDER TO MAKE THIS PROGRAM, UH, UH, ACTUALLY RUN UNDER HUD GUIDELINES, BUT THAT'S HOW WE'LL STRUCTURE IT. AND AS THE COUNCIL POINTED OUT, UH, ONCE WE HAVE THIS STRUCTURE AND WE KNOW HOW MANY APPLICATIONS WE GOT, WE MAY THEN BE ABLE TO, UH, UH, MODIFY THE AWARD AMOUNT, UH, BASED ON, ON APPLICATION EIGHT TO SOMEBODY, WANTED TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO MAKE THAT MOTION. SECOND BY PETER, I GOT A QUESTION BEFORE WE GO FORWARD ELMA, UH, THERE'S BUSINESSES IN OUR COMMUNITY WHERE YOU HAVE ONE SETS, SAY A FAMILY, MAYBE A SISTER AND TWO SISTERS, THEY OWN A BUSINESS. AND THEN THE SISTER OWNS A BUSINESS WITH HER HUSBAND. IS THAT AN ISSUE? I MEAN, THEY'RE TWO SEPARATE BUSINESSES. THERE'S TWO SEPARATE OWNERS. IS THAT AN ISSUE OR PROBLEM? UM, IF THEY HAVE AN OWNER IN COMMON, UM, IT'S, UH, IT'LL BE AN ISSUE BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE SAME OWNER. SO EVEN THOUGH IT'S STANDALONE, SO THEY HAVE THEIR OWN, UH, LLC AS, AS A BUSINESS FOR THEIR OWN. IF THEY HAVE AN OWNER IN COMMON, IF BOTH BUSINESSES, IF BUSINESS A IS OWNED 50% BY ONE PERSON AND THEN BUSINESS B IS OWNED 50% BY THE SAME PERSON, THAT WOULD BE AN ISSUE. AND IS THAT BECAUSE IS IT BECAUSE OF US OR BECAUSE OF, BECAUSE THEY OWN THE, THEY HAVE THE SAME OWNER AND COMMENTS, SO YOU DON'T WANT TO BE HELPING THE SAME BUSINESS TWICE IN DUPLICATION. OKAY. AND MY QUESTION IS, IS THAT OUR REQUIREMENT OR IS THAT THE FEDERAL HUD REQUIREMENTS ARE, YOU CANNOT DO DUPLICATION OF BENEFITS. OKAY, PERFECT. THANK YOU. UH, I'M JUST GOING TO MENTION THIS CAUSE I GOT A TEXT MESSAGE FROM ZEB AT THE, FOR THE CHAMBER. CAN WE ALLOCATE ANY OF THOSE FUNDS FOR CHAMBER ACTIVITIES? THAT'S THE BASIC QUESTION. WE'RE PIGEONHOLING IT TOWARDS CERTAIN GROUPS. PARDON ME? THAT'S PIGEONHOLING IT TO A CERTAIN GROUP VERSUS THE OVERALL COMMUNITY. YEAH, I DON'T KNOW. I'M JUST ASKING, I'M JUST ASKING THE QUESTION ON HIS BEHALF. SO I DON'T THINK WE'VE DONE ANY RESEARCH. WE HAVEN'T DONE ANY RESEARCH ON THAT. THAT'S FINE. ALL RIGHT. SO ASK ONE MORE QUESTION. SURE. OKAY. I KNOW THAT, UM, THE CITY OF ONTARIO, UH, AND THIS WITH THE CHAMBER, THEY'VE ACTUALLY DONE A BUSINESS STUDY WHERE THEY'VE GONE TO EACH POINT OF THE BUSINESSES AND DID A SURVEY. AND MY QUESTION IS, HAVE WE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT? AND IF WE HAVEN'T, COULD THIS MONEY BE USED FOR HIRING A CONSULTANT TO BASICALLY GO TO ALL THE BUSINESSES? BECAUSE YOU KNOW, WHEN WE ASKED THE QUESTION, UM, WE SORT OF HAVE A ROUGH IDEA, BUT WE REALLY DON'T KNOW A HUNDRED PERCENT HOW BUSINESSES ARE DOING IN CITY. UH, I, I DON'T THINK THIS, UH, HUD MONEY IS STRUCTURED TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOMETHING LIKE THIS. UH, IF THE COUNCIL WANTED US TO ENTERTAIN, EXPANDING OUR SCOPE WITH THE CHAMBER, UH, WE COULD BRING THAT BACK TO THE COUNCIL TO VOTE ON, AND YOU COULD USE GENERAL FUND OR ANY OTHER NUMBER OF FUNDS. BUT, UH, UH, ONE OF THE CHALLENGES WE'VE HAD BOTH WITH THIS HUD MONEY AND THE MONEY THAT, UH, ROD WAS TALKING ABOUT THROUGH THE CARES ACT IS IT REALLY IS STRUCTURED, UH, IN A WAY THAT, UH, THE RULES JUST, UH, AREN'T, UH, FOR US TO DETERMINE. AND SO I, I COULDN'T IMAGINE THAT WE'D BE ABLE TO USE THIS MONEY FOR THERE'S NO FLEXIBILITY AND IT'S CUT AND DRY. AND IT HAS TO BE CHINO HILLS BASED BUSINESSES, CORRECT? YES. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WHETHER THE OWNERS LIVE IN CHINO HILLS OR NOT, BUT IT'S THE PHYSICAL BUSINESSES IN THE SAME. ALL RIGHT. SO WE GOT A FIRST AND A SECOND, UH, VERBAL, UH, AND I'M SORRY. UH, CYNTHIA, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE WE TAKE THE VOTE? NO, I'M GOOD ART. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. VERBAL VOTE, MAYOR BENNETT, VICE MAYOR. JO'S COUNCIL MEMBER MARQUEZ. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN. YES. AND COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS. YES. MOTION PASSES FIVE ZERO. ALL RIGHT. THAT BEING THE LAST ITEM WE HAVE ON THAT, WE'VE ALREADY DONE OUR PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER REPORT. WE'VE ALSO HAD THE SAFETY [01:45:01] UPDATES AND YES, I'M SORRY. WE DID HAVE AN ITEM THAT WAS ADDED THROUGH OUR SPECIAL MEETING NOTICE TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION RATIFYING [18. Adopt resolution ratifying existence of local emergency caused by Blue Ridge Fire, and take such additional, related action that may be desirable] THE LOCAL EMERGENCY, UH, CAUSED BY THE BLUE RIDGE FIRE. OKAY. AND I APOLOGIZE, IT JUST WASN'T ON MY AGENDA, BUT YES, THIS IS THE ONE THAT I SIGNED. UH, UH, WHAT DO WE DO WANT TO INTRODUCE IT, BEN? BECAUSE YOU'RE THE ONE THAT ACTUALLY DRAFTED THE DOCUMENT FOR ALL OF, FOR ME TO SIGN IT FOR US TO, UM, VOTE ON AND CLARIFY TONIGHT TO INTRODUCE, UH, AS OUR, UH, MEETING STARTED OFF WITH OUR PUBLIC SAFETY COMMENTS, UH, WE'VE BEEN, UH, UH, SPRINTING TO ADDRESS THE, UH, FIRE, UH, IN OUR COMMUNITY. ONE COMPONENT OF ANY NATURAL DISASTER IS, UH, THE ABILITY FOR THE CITY TO ISSUE A, UH, DECLARATION OF THAT, UH, DISASTER. AND SO FOR TONIGHT'S, UH, COUNCIL CONSIDERATION IS WE HAVE EXECUTED, UH, THE PROCLAMATION OF A DISASTER AND WE NEED TO HAVE THE COUNCIL, UM, UH, RATIFY THAT PROCLAMATION, UH, THROUGH AN OPEN MEETING. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SEEKING TONIGHT IS FOR YOU TO RATIFY THAT, THAT DECLARATION. SO I THINK WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS. WE'LL JUST TAKE A VERBAL VOTE TO RATIFY. WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE ADOPTING THAT EMERGENCY OR RESOLUTION. SO A VERBAL VOTE TO RATIFY THAT. CAN I GET A MOTION AND A SECOND TO OKAY. MOTION BY RAY SECOND BY BRIAN. OKAY. MAYOR BENNETT, VICE MAYOR. JOE'S COUNCIL MEMBER, MARQUEZ COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN AND COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS. YES. MOTION PASSES FIVE. YES. OKAY. AND I APOLOGIZE THAT WASN'T ON MY UPDATED, UH, AGENDA. WE TALKED ABOUT IT THIS AFTERNOON. OKAY. WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY, UM, COUNCIL REPORTS, UH, [ COUNCIL REPORTS] I'M SHOWING US, UH, CHINO VALLEY CHAMBER AND INDEPENDENT FIRE. I THINK WE'VE PRETTY MUCH UP TO SPEED ON WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE FIRE. SO I'LL PASS TO, UH, VICE MAYOR, JOE'S WEST VALLEY MOSQUITO AND VECTOR CONTROL. WE MET YESTERDAY. IT WAS MOSTLY PERSONNEL ISSUES AND IN CLOSED SESSION, AND THEN SAYING GOODBYE TO ONE OF OUR, UH, MOSQUITO BOARD TRUSTEES, UH, FROM MONTCLAIR, CAROLYN RAFT, WHO'S RETIRING AFTER 28 YEARS ON THEIR CITY COUNCIL. ALL RIGHT. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, MARK HAS THERE'S SEVERAL ITEMS HERE. UH, AGAIN, ENUMERATE THOSE, OR DO YOU WANT TO JUST SAY, READ THEM AND SAY WHETHER YOU DO OR DON'T HAVE A REPORT, I'LL DO THAT, SIR. THANK YOU. LEAVE CALIFORNIA CITIES, NOTHING TO REPORT SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, UM, STAY ROUTE 91 ADVISORY COMMITTEE. WE ACTUALLY CAME UP WITH A SCHEDULE FOR THE YEAR AND, UH, REVENUES FOR THE EXPRESS LANE WERE DOWN BY TWO THIRDS. UM, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS. REGIONAL COUNCIL HAD A PRESENTATION FROM OUR OWN, MR. RANDALL LEWIS, TALKING ABOUT CONSTRUCTION COSTS. THE COST OF WOOD PER HOUSE HAS GONE UP ABOUT 10 GRAND. UM, HE ALSO ANTICIPATES THAT THE ECONOMY WILL BE COMING BACK IN ABOUT TWO YEARS. SO THAT'S MY REPORT THERE. TRANSPORTATION SCAG, UH, THAT REPORT HAS TO DO WITH CALTRANS. UH, THE PLAN IT'S CALLED THE CTP 2050 ON ALL THEIR PROJECTS THEY'RE GOING TO BE DOING IN THE FUTURE. WE REVIEWED THAT A LOT OF, A LOT OF GOOD THINGS HAPPENING, A LOT OF IT'S BECAUSE OF THE 20, 28 OLYMPICS. SO WE'RE HAPPY ABOUT THAT. UM, METRO LINK, YOU SIGNED A $4.9 MILLION CONTRACT FOR TRACK REHAB, AND THEN WE GOT, UH, TIER FOUR LOCOMOTIVES. WE BOUGHT 40 OF THEM. YOU GOT AN UPDATE AND THEY'RE BASICALLY ALL ABOUT 90% OF THEM ARE HERE IN SERVICE. THOSE ARE MY REPORTS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN, UH, CHINO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND AMI TRANS. YOU HAVE REPORTS FOR THOSE. UM, I'M A TRANS WAS THE SUBCOMMITTEE FOR PLANS AND PROGRAMS, AND THAT WAS JUST MORE, UM, SOME PLANNING FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR. SO NOTHING TO REPORT. UM, AS FAR AS THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, THIS IS A LITTLE DATED, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS JUST FROM YESTERDAY. UM, DR. INFIELD HAD SENT OUT A LETTER TO PARENTS REGARDING, UM, THE BLUE RIDGE FIRE AND HE WANTED THEM CLASSES WERE NEVER CANCELED, OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE IT WAS DISTANCE LEARNING. UM, SO THEY WERE CONTINUING IT SCHEDULED. UM, BUT HE WANTED FAMILIES TO KNOW THAT THEY, IF THEY HAD BEEN EVACUATED OR IMPACTED BY THE FIRE TO NOT CONCERNED ABOUT MISSING CLASSES, BECAUSE IT WOULD BE AN EXCUSED ABSENCE. AND THEN, UH, FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS WEEK, DUE TO THE UNHEALTHY AIR QUALITY HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS ACTIVITIES, AND CONDITIONING THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN THIS WEEK AND FORTUNATELY, UM, HAVE BEEN CANCELED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UH, COUNCIL COMMENTS, UH, SINCE WE STILL HAVE YOU THERE, HOW ABOUT YOU, CYNTHIA COUNCIL COMMENTS? UM, YOU KNOW, JUST A COUPLE, JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS. UM, I KNOW THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE FIRE A LOT. I KINDA JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS, UM, [01:50:02] UH, OBVIOUSLY, UH, SOUTHERN CHINO HILLS WAS IMPACTED, UM, A LOT DURING THIS CRISIS AND I WANTED TO THANK THE BUTTERFIELD RESIDENTS FOR THEIR PATIENCE WITH THE ROAD CLOSURES. UM, AS WE WERE SAYING EARLIER AND WHAT YOU NEED TO SAY, AND WE ALL DO THE BEST WE CAN. SO I APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S PATIENCE WITH, YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH, UM, OUR SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, UM, WHEN TRYING TO GET THROUGH THE ROAD CLOSURES, YOU KNOW, A BIG TAKEAWAY FROM THIS FOR EVERYONE, IT WOULD SEEM LIKE IT'S A NO BRAINER, BUT YOU KNOW, EVERYONE NEEDS TO HAVE THEIR ID ON THEM. AND THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF, YOU KNOW, YOU WOULD HAVE AN ID ON YOU, SO YOU CAN PROVE WHERE YOU LIVE. UM, IT WAS AN, IT WAS AN INTERESTING, UM, IT WAS AN INTERESTING THING THAT WAS HAPPENING BECAUSE THE EAST SIDE OF BUTTERFIELD WAS NOT EVACUATED, BUT THE WEST SIDE WAS SO, UH, WITH THE ROAD CLOSURE, THEY HAD TO STOP EVERYONE SO THEY COULD, UM, CONFIRM WHERE THEY LIVED AND LET THEM THROUGH TO AN UNEVALUATED AREA. SO, UM, I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR THEIR PATIENCE, UM, THROUGH THAT AND, UH, JUST, YOU KNOW, TO REACH OUT AND FOLLOW THE CITY WEBSITE. AND I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH THAT YOU NOTIFY A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE, THAT ASKED THE INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL MEMBERS QUESTIONS. THEY'D BE GETTING THAT INFORMATION IF THEY THEMSELVES HAVE SIGNED UP FOR, UM, FOR IE NOTIFY. SO, UM, THAT'S ALL I HAVE ART GLAD EVERYONE'S SAFE. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. UH, PETER, YES. [ COUNCIL COMMENTS] UH, REAL QUICK, UH, CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR LA DODGERS FOR BEING SO SUCCESSFUL. I WANTED TO START OUT WITH THAT PRIORITY. WHAT RAY, WELL, YOU ONLY HAVE TO DO AT EVERY 32 YEARS, SO THAT'S EXACTLY. SO I THOUGHT YOU WERE AN ACCOUNTANT FOR 32 YEARS. YEAH. DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM. PLEASE. DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM. THAT'S RIGHT. UH, BUT MORE SERIOUSLY. UH, YOU ONLY THING I WAS GOING TO TALK ABOUT IS THE FIRE, AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SOME ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AS TO, UH, WHAT TOOK PLACE, BRIAN AND I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT THE BUTTERFIELD SIDE OF THINGS, UH, YESTERDAY MORNING FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS. AND, UH, IT WAS IMPRESSIVE TO SEE, FIRST OF ALL, JUST THE BACKFIRES BEING INITIATED AND HOW SUCCESSFUL THEY SEEM TO BE, AT LEAST WHILE WE WERE THERE AND THE DIRECTION OR FLOW OF THE WIND AND, AND HOW, JUST HOW EFFECTIVE IT WAS. BUT, UH, 2008 WAS OUR LAST MAJOR FIRE THAT TOOK PLACE IN CHINO HILLS. MANY OF US WERE AROUND FOR THAT. I KNOW I'VE HEARD FROM OUR, OUR CHIEF AND SOME OTHERS THAT THEY LEARNED A WHOLE LOT, UH, 12 YEARS AGO FROM WHAT TOOK PLACE, ESPECIALLY HOW TO DEAL WITH CARBON CANYON AND, UH, THE S THE STRUGGLES OF A TWO LANE ROAD. AND I SUSPECT THAT EVEN THOUGH IT DIDN'T HIT CARBON CANYON TO THE, TO THE EFFECT OR TO THE FOREST, THAT THOUGHT MIGHT HAPPEN BECAUSE THE WIND CALMED DOWN AT THE RIGHT TIME, I THINK THEY WERE ALL STAGED AND READY TO GO. I THINK ART OR RAY DID A LOT OF CRUISING IN CARBON CANYON. AND I THINK WE HAD A LOT OF, UH, RIGS DEPLOYED, READY TO GO, AND THE COUNTY HELPED OUT WITH SOME, SOME, SOME THINGS FOR US ALL, SO THAT, UM, WAS PROUD TO HEAR OF THAT. BUT I JUST, JUST THE FIREFIGHTERS POLICE MUTUAL IN OUR MUTUAL AID AGREEMENTS THAT WAS REFERRING TO TWO EARLIER, UH, WE'VE SENT A NUMBER OF, OF OUR, UH, FIREFIGHTERS NORTH MANY TIMES FOR THE BIG EVENTS. AND NOW WE RECOUPED WHERE WE, UH, WERE THE BENEFICIARIES OF SOME OF THOSE RETURN ASSETS. AND I WANT TO THANK ALL OF THEM. I THINK AS MANY AS I CAN, IT COULD, WHEN WE WERE ALONG THE ROADWAY, UH, PASADENA HAD A NICE CONVERSATION WITH PASTINA FIREFIGHTERS AND, UH, KRONE WAS OUT THERE. AND THEN WE SAW THAT SAN FRANCISCO FOUR RINGS COME BY AS WE WERE STANDING THERE. SO IT WAS IMPRESSIVE TO SEE HOW, HOW BROAD THE DEPLOYMENT WAS, BUT THE EXEMPLARY YEP. EFFORTS BY ALL OF OUR, ALL OF OUR FIREFIGHTERS AND OUR POLICES, ESPECIALLY, AND IT SHOWS HOW THE TRAINING, OUR TRAINING IS REALLY BENEFITING. UH, AND TWO FORMER FIREBOARD MEMBERS HERE. I SUSPECT THEY CAN REFLECT ON THE SAME THING THAT OUR IS EXEMPLARY, UH, AND IT, AND IT BENEFITS US AND JUST THE COMMAND CENTER AND HOW, HOW WE DIRECT THE ASSETS AND HOW THAT TAKES PLACE. AND IT WAS ACKNOWLEDGED EARLIER, BUT I THINK IT'S WORTH IT. NOW, MAYBE WE CAN DO SOMETHING SPECIAL. BRAVO BURGER STEPPED UP. WE WERE BRIAN AND I ARE AGAIN STANDING THERE WHEN, UH, UH, ONE OF THE, UH, STEVE BURNS, I BELIEVE IT IS, UM, UH, CRUISED UP AND HIS CAR WAS PACKED WITH BRAVO BURGER BURRITOS, AND HE WAS DELIVERING TO THE DIFFERENT, UH, UH, VISITORS, ESPECIALLY IN THE REGION. AND THEY, HE WAS GIVING HIGH FIVES TO HOW BRAVO BURGER RESPONDED, GOT TO WITH A LAST MINUTE PHONE CALL, TWO TO TWO 30 IN THE MORNING, THE OWNER SHOWED UP AND THEY STARTED MAKING BURRITOS AND SOUNDS LIKE A THOUSAND BURRITOS OVER THAT PERIOD OF TIME. SO I KNOW THAT THE HAGMANN OFFICE WAS YESTERDAY. [01:55:01] WE DECIDED TO GIVE THEM SOME TYPE OF SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, UM, FOR BRAVO BURGERS, MAYBE WE CAN DO THE SAME AT SOME POINT POINT AND ANNA, IT WAS GREAT TO DROP INTO THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER. I THINK ROD NEEDS A LITTLE SLEEP. YOU CAN TELL IT HE'S A DRIFTING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THEY WERE PROBABLY, YOU'RE BOTH PROBABLY ON 12 HOURS. I WAS AT A TIME OR SO, JUST FROM OUR SIDE OF THINGS AND, AND OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM. AND IT, HE TEAM AND PUBLIC WORKS, ET CETERA. THEY WERE ALL THERE. FIRE WAS THERE. UH, IT WAS GREAT TO SEE THE TEAMWORK GOING ON AND IN OUR COMMUNITY CENTER, WE DROPPED IN AND IT WAS ACKNOWLEDGED, A RED CROSS WAS THERE AND THEY WERE HANDLING BUSINESS. AND I'VE SEEN SEVERAL POSTS FROM INDIVIDUALS. I KNOW FROM, UM, WESTERN HILLS MOBILE HOME PARK, WE HAD A CHANCE TO CHAT WITH THAT EVENING. AND THEY WERE, THEY WERE VERY PLEASED WITH HOW THEY RETREATED AND THEY WERE SENT TO HOTELS, GIVEN VOUCHERS SENT TO HOTELS, BUT THEY WERE ABLE TO WATCH SOME TV WHILE THEY WERE COOLING THEIR HEELS, WAITING FOR THAT, FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY TO MOVE ON TO A HOTEL. AND I THINK OBVIOUSLY WE'VE LEARNED A LOT FROM THIS AND WE CAN FINE TUNE THOSE EFFORTS, SPECIALLY IF IT'S EVERY 10 OR 12 YEARS THAT WE HAVE A MAJOR INCIDENT, A LOT OF IT'S WON'T BE AROUND. SO WE OUGHT TO DOCUMENT WHAT WE LEARNED AND, BUT VERY IMPRESSIVE TO SEE WHAT TOOK PLACE AND THE BOTTOM LINE, THANK GOODNESS, THE WIND SUBSIDED. AND WE HAD NO LOSS OF HOMES OR, OR LIVES, OR, OR REALLY INJURIES, ANY SIGNIFICANT INJURIES THAT I'VE HEARD OF AT ALL. SO, YOU KNOW, I HATE TO USE A WORD OR A TERM LUCKED OUT, BUT I THINK WE LUCKED OUT ON THIS ONE JUST BY MOTHER NATURE, COOPERATING AT THE RIGHT TIME. AND, UH, I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAVE ON THAT ONE. FOLLOW-UP ON BRAVO BURGER. I RECEIVED AN EMAIL. I THINK WE ALL DID IT. AND ACTUALLY ANOTHER RESIDENT WAS INLINE AT BRAVO BURGER. AND, UH, IT WAS A WHILE. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN A FIREFIGHTER PICKED UP AN ORDER AND HE ASKED THEM, WHAT DO I OWE YOU? AND THEY SAID, IT'S ON US. AND THIS PERSON WENT UP TO THE CASHIER AND SAID, NOW I KNOW WHY I WAS ORDERED NUMBER 551, BUT IN MANY, I'M NOT SAYING THAT THEY GAVE ALL OF THE ORDERS FOR FREE, BUT THEY, THEY, THEY DELVE OUT A LOT OF FREE ORDERS THAT MORNING. SO IT'S JUST ONE MORE EXAMPLE OF HOW THE RESIDENTS OF CHINO HILLS COME TOGETHER IN A TIME OF NEED. AND YOU GOT THE, THEY ARE NOT AFRAID TO SPEND TO SHARE THEIR BLESSINGS WITH OTHERS. SO IT'S GREAT. IT'S ALL ABOUT YOUR COMMUNITY. YEAH. IT'S ALL ABOUT COMMUNITY. IT REALLY IS. YEAH. SO FIRST OF ALL, UM, I JUST WANT TO THANK THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, THE EVACUATION THAT THEY, UM, COMMITTED. UM, I GOT NOTHING BUT COMPLIMENTS FROM CARRIAGE HILL, SUMMIT, RANCH, UH, HILLCREST, AND ALSO SLEEPY HOLLOW. YOU WERE VERY PROFESSIONAL, UM, VERY CLEAR ON THEIR DIRECTIONS. SO, UH, THE COMMUNITY REALLY APPRECIATES ALL THEIR HARD WORK. UH, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. I WANT TO THANK ALL THE STRIKE TEAMS THAT CAME FROM OTHER AREAS, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, CALEXICO AND EL CENTRO, AND THEN ALSO SANTA FE SPRINGS, THAT THAT'S WHERE I USED TO WORK. AND THEY HAD CALLED ME AND TOLD ME THEY WERE IN TOWN. SO I ASKED THEM, I GO, HEY, YOU NEED ANY HELP? AND THEY WOULD NOT TELL ME WHERE THEY WERE. SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT SAYS, BUT, UM, ACTUALLY BRIAN AND I OVERHEARD THAT CONVERSATION. AND THEN ALSO FIRE DEPARTMENT, AS FAR AS WITH STRIKE TEAMS, LIKE I SAID, OUT OF THE AREA AIR OPS AND THE FIRE CREWS, THAT'S ONE OF THE HARDEST JOBS OUT THERE. UM, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. THEY DID A GREAT JOB. UM, I JUST WANT TO SAY TOO, THERE WAS, UH, AN OPERATION FAR AS HORSES AND CARBON CANYON. UM, WE BASICALLY WENT TO THE CITY ABOUT MAYBE TWO MONTHS AGO AND THEY HAD ABOUT A LITTLE OVER A HUNDRED HORSES THAT THEY RESCUED FROM CARBON CANYON. SO I WANT TO THANK SUSIE VIETS FROM DAN FOX AND DOUG SPARKS. THEY REALLY DID A GREAT JOB ALSO. THANK CHRIS. AND WE HAVE SOME MORE DISCUSSION ON THAT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. READY SET GO IS A PROGRAM THAT YOU NORMALLY HAVE FOR FIRES, AND YOU WANT TO GET READY FOR A FIRE. SO YOU PACK YOUR STUFF, GETTING READY, SET. THERE'S A TRIGGER POINT. AND THEN AS SOON AS YOU GET TO THE TRIGGER POINTS, YOU, YOU GO AND I'M GOING TO SAY THERE'S SOME, SOME PEOPLE I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE CARRIAGE HILLS PETER OF, UH, THE TOW BARS, THE SHOT FAMILY. UH, THEY WERE VERY INSTRUMENTAL AS FAR AS COMMUNICATING WITH PEOPLE AND CURIOUS HILLS VALLEY SPRINGS ESTATES. I WANT TO TALK TO SAY, THANK YOU TO CAROLYN VULGAR, UH, MARY LOU MOORE, AND A RETIRED CAPTAIN, ROB GIBBONS. AND HE SORT OF TOOK THE LEAD THERE, MAKING SURE LIKE CAROLYN WAS OUT SHE'S IN HER LATE SEVENTIES. SO HE REALLY WATCHED OUT FOR THAT AREA, SLEEPY HALL. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO LUCY LOPEZ, RANTED GEORGE, UH, RODNEY DOE, UH, LINDA BRINY AND LAURA LAURA DAWSON. AND THEN IN HILLCREST, CHRIS MOORE MORITA, [02:00:01] SHE DID A VAN TASTIC JOB. VELANO HAD GOT A LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION FROM, UH, LARRY BLACK. I WANT TO THANK MIKE CONRAD. AND THEN ALSO JOYCE, UH, TAYLOR, I WANT TO THANK HER SUMMIT RANCH GOODWIN FOR DONKEY MASTERS LAMB. AND, UH, THAT, THAT'S IT. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK, COMMUNICATING WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS, MAKING SURE EVERYBODY WAS SAFE. UM, MOVING ALONG, I DO WANT TO SHARE SOMETHING. SO THERE WAS A FIRE IN 1990, THERE WAS ONE IN 2008 AND IN THIS PRESENT FIRE. SO I'VE BEEN AT ALL THREE OF THEM. AND ONE OF THE AREAS THAT I WAS REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT WITH SLEEPY HOLLOW, AND I'M GOING TO SAY IN 1990, 2008, NOBODY LEFT. EVERYBODY STOOD THERE AND I'M GOING TO SAY THIS TIME, AT LEAST 65 TO 70% OF THE PEOPLE ACTUALLY LOVED. AND I JUST WANT TO SAY BECAUSE OF THE FIRE SAFE COUNCIL WITH ALL THEIR HARD WORK, EDUCATING THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY, UM, IT WORKED THIS TIME AND I JUST WANT TO SAY, THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT. UH, THE LAST THING IS I WANT TO TALK TO, OR SAY SOMETHING, SHOUT OUT TO KRISTA. SHE HAD AN AD HOC COMMITTEE FINANCE AND VERY PROFESSIONAL BROUGHT US A LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION. AND WITH THAT, THAT'S MY REPORT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, RIGHT, BRIAN. ALL RIGHT. I GUESS, TO TOUCH ON WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE DID. IT WAS REALLY AMAZING TO SEE THE SYSTEM AT WORK WITH MARSHALL AND THOSE KINDS OF RESOURCES FROM ACROSS THE STATE. AND I PASSED A UC DAVIS FIRE DEPARTMENT, UH, ENGINE GOING DOWN THE STREET, RIGHT? YEAH. AND WOODLAND AND DAVIS. SO YOU COULD TELL THAT STRIKE FORCE WAS FROM, WAS FROM SACRAMENTO, UM, TO SEE IT IN ACTION TO THOSE SIX AIRCRAFT, YOU KNOW, WORKING ACTIVELY SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS, WAS IT? IT WAS AMAZING. SO I THINK WE REALLY DODGED A BULLET WITH THAT AS WAS SAID BEFORE. UM, GUYS, JUST A COUPLE OF SHOUT OUTS, LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, INLAND VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY, I WENT BY AND VISITED EVERYTHING FROM PETS TO 400 POUND OR SORRY, PARROTS 400 POUND PIG, CATS, DOGS, ALL SORTS OF OTHER WONDERFUL ANIMALS. SO THANK YOU OR SHOUT OUT TO THEM. THE RED CROSS HAS ALWAYS, UM, BIG SHOUT OUT TO DANIEL'S PUBLIC WORKS TEAM. THEY REALLY WERE THE WORKER BEES OUT THERE. THEY MADE SURE YOU HAD WATER PRESSURE. THEY MADE SURE OUR FIREFIGHTERS HAD THE ABILITY TO ACTUALLY FIGHT THAT FIRE. EVERYTHING FROM, I WAS PARKED OUT IN FRONT OF WICKMAN ELEMENTARY, TALKING WITH THE PRINCIPAL WHILE YOU HAD AIR ASSETS DROPPING PHOS CHECK LINES BEHIND LOWE'S SERRANO'S RANCH AND PUBLIC WORKS. STAFF CAME UP AND SAID, HEY, DID YOU NOTICE THAT THE, UM, THE SPRINKLERS WERE ON, ON THE GREENBELT AROUND THAT NEIGHBORHOOD? AND HE SAID, IT WAS HIM, YOU KNOW, WHO WOULD THINK OF, YOU KNOW, HEY, MAKING SURE THAT WE'VE GOT THESE, YOU KNOW, THE SPRINKLER SYSTEM ACTIVE. SO IT'S, YOU KNOW, SHOUT OUT BIG SHOUT OUT TO THEM THAT IT'S UNSUNG, BUT IT REALLY MAKES ALL THE EFFORT, UM, UH, ALSO WANTED TO GIVE A CREDIT TO BAP S CHARITIES AND TRANSFORMATION CHURCH AND CHINO. THEY BOTH REACHED OUT WITH WAYS TO, UH, TO HELP OUR COMMUNITY SO DIRECTED THEM TO, UM, THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND TO, YOU KNOW, RATE CERTAINLY KNOWS THIS AS A RETIRED FIREFIGHTER, THE WELL FROM US BEING ON THE BOARD ANNUALLY, THE THREE REGIONS THAT MEET HERE, LA COUNTY, ORANGE COUNTY, AND THEN CHINO VALLEY, THEY MEET FOR THE SOLAR TRAINING TO GO OVER WHAT THE LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE FREEWAY COMPLEX FIRE AND FROM YOU, AND, YOU KNOW, FROM ALL THE, FROM THE GUYS THAT I TALKED TO OUT, OUT THERE FIGHTING IT, IT WAS TEXTBOOK JUST THE SAME WAY THAT THE FREEWAY COMPLEX WENT. SO JUST A SHOUT OUT TO THE DETERMINATION FROM THE FIRE DISTRICT TO KEEP THAT TRAIN GOING, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, IS A TESTAMENT THAT WE DIDN'T LOSE A SINGLE HOME IN CHINO HILLS AND YOU'RE WILLING TO ONLY LOST ONE. SO THANK YOU TO THEM AND THANK YOU TO OUR REGIONAL PARTNERS. GREAT, MR. MAYOR, CAN I ADD TO WHAT I HAD TO SAY BEFORE SHE DON'T MIND? YEAH, NO PROBLEM. OKAY, MR. DANIEL, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU MUST HAVE KNOWN SOMETHING A WHERE THAT WATER TAKE ABOVE MY HOUSE AND WE OVERFILLED. SO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR BEING READY. AND THEN ALSO CBC CBCC COMMUNITY CHURCH. THEY REACHED OUT TO US AND THEY WERE THERE FOR US. SO YEAH, IT'S AMAZING HOW MANY GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS REACHED OUT TO ALL OF US ON THE COUNCIL. UH, AND OF COURSE WE PASS THE WORD ON TO THE CITY. SO IT REALLY WAS GREAT. UH, THE FIRE DISTRICT, UH, YOU KNOW, CHIEF, CHIEF CHEF SHACKLEFORD WENT OUT OF THE AREA AND WAS ABLE TO GET, UH, SOME FOAM TRUCKS AND THEY BASICALLY FOAMED A LOT OF THE HOMES AND, UH, SLEEPY HOLLOW, UH, WHICH IS A VERY EFFECTIVE WAY OF KEEPING HOMELESS FROM CATCHING FIRE. SO, I MEAN, THEY WERE LOOKING AT EVERY POTENTIAL DISASTROUS SITUATION AND TRYING TO ANTICIPATE WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN WITH THE WIND CHANGED AND EVERYTHING ELSE. AND I THINK THIS IS A TEXTBOOK [02:05:01] CASE OF NOT JUST WE DODGED THE BULLET, WHICH WE DID IN FACT, UH, BUT THE FACT IS WE, WE WERE PREPARED OUR EMERGENCY, UH, OPERATIONS, AND, UH, OUR INTERNALLY HERE WAS WORKING LIKE A FINE TUNED ENGINE. SO IT WAS REALLY GREAT. UH, ONE THING THAT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE ALL OF THIS FIRE ACTIVITY STARTED, YOU MAY RECALL, UH, MANY AREAS OF THE CITY ON MONDAY MORNING WAS RECEIVING JUST HORRID WINS AND, UH, PUBLIC WORK STAFF WAS OUT THERE TRYING TO, UH, TAKE CARE OF TREE LIMBS THAT WERE DOWN AND, UH, ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT WERE GOING ON. AND THEN RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, UH, I'M SURE A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE LIKE MYSELF, UH, HAD A THREE HOUR POWER OUTAGE, UH, SOUTHERN CAL EDISON, PUT THE WORD OUT THERE THAT BECAUSE OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES WITH NOT WANTING TO SPARK FIRES, UH, THAT THEY SHUT DOWN OUR POWER FOR THREE HOURS, WE WERE DOWN. BUT THEY'RE SAYING NOW THAT ONE OF THE THINGS ON THE SILVERADO FIRE, THAT SORT OF POSSIBILITY THAT IT WAS AN EDISON, UH, CAUSED FIRE. SO THAT'S THE REASON THEY SHUT OUR POWER DOWN. UH, WE HAVE TO BE SURE, ESPECIALLY IN THOSE HIGH WIND EVENTS THAT THEY TAKE EVERY PRECAUTION TO TRY AND KEEP US SAFE. SO IT'S AN INCONVENIENCE, BUT BETTER THAN NOT HAVE POWER FOR A WHILE, THEN HAVE YOUR HOUSE BURNED DOWN. SO THERE'S JUST SO MANY THANKS, THANKS THAT WE COULD GIVE OUT TONIGHT. A LOT OF THEM HAVE ALREADY BEEN DONE. UH, THOSE OF YOU OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, WHAT PART YOU PLAYED IN HELPING NEIGHBORS? UH, THIS WAS CLEARLY A CASE OF, YOU KNOW, THE OLD SAYING IT TAKES A VILLAGE. WELL, IT TAKES CHINO HILLS RESIDENTS HELPING EACH OTHER TO LESSEN THE PAIN AND THE, THE STRIPE OF, AND STRESS OF AN EVENT LIKE THIS. THANK GOD THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY DISASTROUS THINGS, ANY LOSS OF LIFE, LOSS OF HOMES, BUT YOU KNOW, WHAT A LARGE PART OF THAT IS BECAUSE PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER AND COOPERATED WITH THE FIRE AUTHORITIES AND THE POLICE AND DID WHAT THEY NEEDED TO DO ALWAYS REMEMBER IN ANY KIND OF NATIONAL, UH, OR NATURAL TYPE OF DISASTER, YOU'RE YOUR OWN BEST, AND MAYBE ONLY HELP FOR ABOUT 72 HOURS. GENERALLY THIS PASSED VERY QUICKLY, BUT LESS WE NOT FORGET THAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN A LOT WORSE. SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD. YES, SHE WAS. YEAH, SHE, YEAH, SHE, SHE WAS THE FIRST ONE. YEAH. I ALMOST, I WAS GOING TO ASK HER TO TALK AGAIN AND I REMEMBER WE ALREADY HAD SOME, YEAH, THANK YOU, CYNTHIA. FOR WE'RE STILL BEING THERE. WE APPRECIATE IT. UH, BUT AT ANY RATE, UH, COMING UP, UH, AGAIN, BEFORE OUR NEXT COUNCIL MEETING ON THE 10TH OF NOVEMBER, UH, WE WILL HAVE THAT, UH, CONCERT IN THE PARK IN LOT AND BE SURE IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT, THAT YOU'D GO AHEAD AND SIGN UP FOR IT. AND LIKEWISE, THE DAY AFTER OUR NEXT, UH, COUNCIL MEETING WILL BE VETERAN'S DAY. AND AS A VERY PROUD VIETNAM VETERAN, UH, I AM ANTICIPATING THAT WE WILL HAVE A GOOD TURNOUT THAT MORNING. WE COULDN'T HAVE A BREAKFAST, SO WE'RE HAVING A DRIVE-THROUGH AND I THINK WE'RE LIMITED. I THINK THEY SAID A HUNDRED CHICKEN SANDWICHES, BREAKFAST SANDWICHES ARE GOING TO BE COMING AND THEN OUR STAFF WILL BE THERE. SO THERE'LL BE A DRIVE-THROUGH NEAR THE, THE VETERANS MONUMENT. SO WITH THAT, [ ADJOURN IN MEMORIAM AND IN HOPE: Adjourn in tribute and honor of those who serve and have served in the Armed Forces at home and abroad. Their sacrifice and strength protect the goals and ideals that have made this Country great.] I'M GOING TO ADJOURN THIS EVENING IN MEMORY AND HOPE AND TRIBUTE, AND HONOR TO THOSE WHO SERVE AND HAVE OBSERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES AT HOME AND ABROAD THEIR SACRIFICE AND STRENGTH, PROTECT THE GOALS AND IDEALS THAT HAVE MADE THIS COUNTRY GREAT. AND A SPECIAL EXTRA, THANK YOU FOR ALL OF OUR EMERGENCY RESPONDERS. WOULD THAT, THAT EVENING . * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.