Aug 17, 2021 City Council

JESSIE SOMETHING NICE TO OFFICIALLY MEET YOU.

TODD JAMES MARSHALL.

YOU'RE COMING TOMORROW, RIGHT? WELL, WOW.

THIS IS AMAZING AFTER ALL THIS TIME.

AND WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR ME? HAVING KIDS SEEMS TO TURN DOWN ANYBODY.

HE DOESN'T SEE THAT TJ IS AMAZING.

ISN'T TESTING TESTING.

MAY I KINDLY HAVE REBECCA GARNIER AND JAMES UP TO THE FRONT REKINDLING CHRISTMAS IS AN EMMY NOMINATED MOVIE SUPPORTED BY WEST COVINA KIWANIS.

AND I SEE BRAD HERE AS WELL.

UM, AND WE'LL BE SCREENED AT THE BURBANK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WRITER PRODUCER.

REBECCA GARNIER IS A USA TODAY, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AWARD-WINNING

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SCREENPLAY WRITER.

JAMES IS THE DIRECTOR PRODUCER.

THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH KIDS IN THE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR OVER A DECADE AND ARE EXCITED TO BE WORKING WITH THEM AT AND OF WEST COVINA.

SO WITH THIS, I'D LIKE TO PRESENT A WARD, THE RECOGNITION.

AND, UH, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO SAY? UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S AN HONOR TO ACTUALLY WORK WITH KIDS AND TO REALLY BRING THAT LIGHT IN, UH, INTO THE LIFE AND HAVE THEM REALIZE THAT ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, THEY JUST NEED THE RIGHT PERSON'S HELP AND THAT THEY CAN ACHIEVE ANY OF THEIR DREAMS. I WISH I HAD THAT AS, AS A KID.

UM, FORTUNATELY I HAD A DAD THAT, THAT REALLY HELPED WITH THAT.

UH, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE ENDEAVOR TO PASS ON TO ALL THE KIDS THAT WE CAN WANT ME TO SAY SOMETHING I JUST WANT TO BE HERE ALL NIGHT.

I WANT TO SAY THAT I HAVE A VERY SMALL PART IN THIS, BUT I DO WANT TO SUPPORT THIS FILM.

UH, AS YOU KNOW, THIS COMING SATURDAY, WE'RE HAVING OUR FILM AT FILM FESTIVAL FOR THE KIDS HERE IN OUR SCHOOL, IN OUR CITY.

WE HAVE ABOUT 40 KIDS THAT ARE SHOWING FILMS OVER TO EDGEWOOD AT THEIR NEW MULTIPLEX.

WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? EDGEWOOD BRAND NEW FIRST PERSON USE IT, OR YOU'RE DOING IT ON SATURDAY NIGHT.

AND, UH, THEY ARE GIVING 10 TICKETS TO THE SCREENING OF REKINDLING, KISSED, UH, CHRISTMAS TO THESE KIDS.

SO WE'RE GOING TO BE, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, PARTNERING WITH THEM AND IT'S A GREAT PROGRAM.

AND, UM, I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS MOVIE.

IT LOOKS LIKE A HALLMARK MOVIE, DOESN'T IT? YEAH.

UH, REKINDLING CHRISTMAS.

THERE WE GO.

YOU WANT TO GIVE INFORMATION OF WHEN IT'LL BE HERE, PLEASE GIVE ANY INFORMATION.

SO THEY HEARD ME ON YEAH.

UH, YOU CAN GO TO REKINDLING CHRISTMAS.COM AND FIND OUT MORE ABOUT WHERE IT'S CURRENTLY SCREENING.

UH, WE'LL ALSO HAVE THE BURBANK FILM FESTIVAL AND THEN, UH, WE'RE ALSO PARTNERING WITH SOME OTHER FOLKS FOR PRIVATE SCREENINGS AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE HOLIDAYS.

GREAT.

WE'D LOVE TO DO SOME PRIVATE SCREENINGS WITH THE KIDS AS WELL.

UM, SO THAT, UH, A LOT MORE CAN HAVE IT THAN JUST THE 10 FOLKS THAT WIN.

WONDERFUL.

WE ARE SO HONORED THAT YOU WERE HERE TOO, AND, AND WE'D ALSO LIKE TO GIVE THE CERTIFICATE, WELL, THIS IS JAMES AND THEN THIS IS FOR BRAD AND THEN WE HAVE ROSIE PEARSON AND THEN I'VE HEARD REBECCA WASN'T ABLE TO MAKE IT TODAY.

SHE WASN'T.

SO UP NEXT, WE HAVE THE WATER SUPPLY UPDATE BY UPPER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT.

AND THIS IS FOR KIDS.

SO, YOU KNOW, JUGGLE THAT BALANCE.

AND THIS IS FOR REBECCA.

SO IF YOU COULD JUST TAKE A QUICK PHOTO, UH, HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO MAKE THE MOVIE TWO WEEKS OF? SO WE HAD TWO WEEKS OF, UM, JUST NONSTOP SHOOTING.

I GOT ABOUT THREE HOURS OF SLEEP AT NIGHT AND, YOU KNOW, CAUSE I WAS BOTH THE DIRECTOR AS WELL AS THE PRODUCER.

SO WHEN I WASN'T THERE WITH THE CAMERA, I THEN AFTER WE WERE OFF SET, I THEN HAD TO PUT ON THE OTHER HAT AND DO THAT WORK THROUGH THE NIGHT.

SO YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.

TWO WEEKS OF, UH, NO SLEEP.

UM, AND THEN A YEAR OF JUST POURING EVERYTHING INTO IT TO GET IT TO THE MAGIC THAT YOU SEE ON SCREEN.

WELL, IT LOOKS GREAT.

CAN WE GIVE HIM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE RIGHT BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS TOO? THANK YOU.

[Presentation by the Valley County Water District]

WE'D LIKE TO INVITE MS. SCOTT, KARINA GARCIA, DIRECTOR, TOM LOVE, GENERAL MANAGER OF UPPER DISTRICT AND JOSE MARTINEZ, GENERAL MANAGER OF VALLEY COUNTY WATER DISTRICT TO THE FRONT.

SO THE UPPER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY MWD AND VALLEY COUNTY WATER DISTRICT GIVE A PRESENTATION OF THE WHOLE WORLD.

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MINE'S PRETTY SHORT, BUT YOU CAN USE THE PODIUM.

UM, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR LOPEZ, MIATA, AND THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.

I'M CATARINA GARCIA, AND I'M THE NEWEST BOARD DIRECTOR, BUT THE UPPER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT, I PROUDLY REPRESENT THE CITY OF WEST COVINA AND THEY HAVE BEEN A GREAT PARTNER TO THE UPPER DISTRICT.

OVER THE YEARS, I'M JOINED BY A GENERAL MANAGER, TOM LOVE AND JOSE MARTINEZ FOR VALLEY COUNTY WATER DISTRICT.

AND THEY WILL PROVIDE A JOINT UPDATE ON OUR WATER SUPPLY CONDITIONS.

I'M SURE MANY OF YOU AND YOUR RESIDENTS KNOW AND HAVE SEEN THE RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE ON OUR STATE'S WATER SUPPLY CONDITIONS.

TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION WILL DETAIL OUR WATER SUPPLY LEVELS AND THE ACTIONS WE WERE TAKING TO ENSURE REGIONAL WATER RELIABILITY THROUGH OUR MANY PARTNERS.

WE'VE MADE CONSIDERABLE INVESTMENTS IN STORAGE RESERVES, INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS, THANKS TO OUR RESIDENTS CONSERVATION EFFORTS AND THE REGIONS RESOURCE PLANNING.

THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY IS PREPARED FOR THE DRIER YEARS AHEAD.

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.

AND I WILL NOW TURN IT OVER TO TOM OR TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THE UPDATE.

THANK YOU, MAYOR WE'RE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.

UM, AND I WANNA THANK, UH, DIRECTOR GARCIA, UH, WHILE SHE IS OUR NEWEST BOARD MEMBER AS A ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE EDUCATOR.

I FIND HER A GREAT ASSET ON OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND SHE'S AN EXCELLENT REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.

SO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TODAY? I'M GOING TO GO OVER JUST AN OVERVIEW OF THE EXTREMELY DRY CONDITIONS WE'RE EXPERIENCING IN THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES.

SO IT'S NOT JUST SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

IT'S NOT JUST CALIFORNIA.

THE ENTIRE SOUTHWEST IS EXPERIENCING, EXPERIENCING EXTREME DROUGHT.

UM, BUT I'M ALSO GOING TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE'VE DONE OVER THE DECADES AS COMMUNITIES, AS WATER MANAGERS, UH, TO PREPARE OURSELVES FOR THIS KIND OF SITUATION, BECAUSE IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME WE'VE HAD A DROUGHT HERE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

AND THEN LASTLY, BECAUSE OF THE SEVERITY OF THIS DROUGHT, WE ARE ASKING OUR COMMUNITIES TO DO MORE, CONTINUE THE EFFORTS ON CONSERVATION, ON WATER USE EFFICIENCY, AND WE HAVE SOME INCENTIVES AND SOME PROGRAMS THAT JOSE WE'LL TALK ABOUT HERE LOCALLY, UH, THAT WE CAN HELP OUR RESIDENTS CONSERVE WATER.

NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

SO JUST TO TELL YOU WHERE OUR WATER DOES COME FROM HERE IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, WE'RE FORTUNATE 80% OF OUR WATER SUPPLY, UH, COMES FROM LOCAL WATER.

UH, THE RAINFALL THAT FALLS IN THE SAN GABRIEL CANYON IS CAPTURED IN THOSE RESERVOIRS RELEASED SLOWLY ALLOWED TO ENTER THE GROUNDWATER AND IT MEETS 80% OF OUR WATER SUPPLIES.

NORMALLY NOW THE LAST FEW YEARS BECAUSE OF THE PREVIOUS DROUGHT AND THIS ONE THAT'S DROPPED TO ABOUT 75% AND THEN 20% IS IMPORTED FROM EITHER THE COLORADO RIVER THROUGH THE COLORADO RIVER AQUEDUCT OR FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THROUGH THE STATE WATER PROJECT.

SO HERE'S THE SITUATION.

UH, SO OUR TWO MAIN IMPORTED WATER SUPPLIES, THE COLORADO RIVER AND THE STATE WATER PROJECT, UH, ARE SEEING VERY UNUSUAL PATTERNS OF RUNOFF COMPARED WITH THE AMOUNT OF SNOWPACK WE RECEIVED LAST WINTER ON THE COLORADO RIVER WATERSHED, 88% OF NORMAL SNOW PACK, UM, NOT TOO BAD, BUT THE RUNOFF IS ONLY 32% OF NORMAL.

AND THE REASON IS THAT WITH THE WARRANT GLOBAL WARMING AND THE WARMER CLIMATES EARLY IN THE SPRING, UH, THE SOILS ARE EXCEPTIONALLY DRY, UH, WERE SO MORE WATER SOAKING INTO THE SOIL AND THE VEGETATION IS COMING OUT EARLIER IN THE SPRING AND SUCKS UP THE WATER AND EVAPORATES IT THROUGH EVAPOTRANSPIRATION.

UH, SO THERE'S A COUPLE OF MAIN REASONS FOR THAT.

THE RESULT IS, IS WE ARE NOW FACING ANOTHER STATE WATER PROJECT ALLOCATION OF 5%.

THIS IS ONLY THE SECOND TIME IN HISTORY.

IT HAS BEEN THAT LOW.

THE LAST TIME WAS NOT TOO LONG AGO IN 2014.

UM, AND LOCALLY WE HAVE LESS THAN 40% OF OUR NORMAL RAINFALL THIS YEAR.

UH, SO THAT LOCAL WATER SUPPLY THAT 80%, UH, IS, IS VERY LIMITED, UH, THIS YEAR.

SO AS A RESULT OF THIS STATEWIDE, GOVERNOR NEWSOME HAS DECLARED A DROUGHT EMERGENCIES IN MANY COUNTIES.

UH, IT DOES NOT INCLUDE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY IN A MINUTE ON, I BELIEVE SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY HAS ALSO EXCLUDED, BUT IT'S LIKELY LATER THIS WALL THAT ALL OF CALIFORNIA WILL BE WITHIN THE GOVERNOR'S EMERGENCY DROUGHT DECLARATION.

A COUPLE OF WHAT YEARS IN BETWEEN 2017 BEING THE BIGGEST ONE, WE WERE ABLE TO PUT MORE WATER IN STORAGE AND HAVE SET A NEW RECORD WITH 3.2 MILLION ACRE FEET OF WATER IN STORAGE AT THE END OF 2020.

SO HERE'S ONE WHY WE ARE NOT IN HIS, ABOUT DECK RELATION RIGHT NOW.

UH, THE CHART TO THE LEFT SHOWS THE HISTORIC, UH, STORAGE LEVELS WITHIN THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT AND METROPOLITAN IS WHO WE GET OR IMPORTED WATER FROM.

AND YOU SEE IN 2012, JUST BEFORE THE LAST DROUGHT, THEY HAD SET A NEW RECORD FOR WATER IN STORAGE.

SO THEY PREPARE FOR THAT ONE.

AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE INTERVENING YEARS DURING THE DRY PERIODS THAT WATER WAS DRAWN DOWN, WE USE THE STORAGE TO MEET OUR WATER SUPPLY RELIABILITY.

AND THEN WITH JUST

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BUT THE PROJECTION BY THE END OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR IS WE'LL DRAW THAT DOWN BY ABOUT 700,000 ACRE FEET.

UH, BUT THAT STILL LEAVES US A PRETTY GOOD CUSHION FOR A FEW MORE YEARS.

UH, SO WE'RE IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE THE CHART TO THE, UH, THE RIGHT SHOWS, OUR LOCAL KING AND STORAGE.

THIS IS THE STORAGE AND THE RESERVOIRS UP SAN GABRIEL CANYON THAT ARE OPERATED BY LOS ANGELES COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL.

UH, AND YOU CAN SEE THE YEARS WHEN IT WAS EXTREMELY WET, WE HAD A LOT OF STORAGE, UH, AND YOU CAN SEE MOST OF THE YEARS IN THAT PATTERN WERE BELOW NORMAL.

UH, BUT WE DID HAVE A FEW GOOD YEARS AND THE SYSTEM IS JUST REMARKABLE BECAUSE IN ALL, BUT THE VERY WETTEST OF YEARS, 100% OF THE RAINFALL THAT FALLS IN THE UPPER SAN GABRIEL RIVER WATERSHED NEVER MAKES IT TO THE OCEAN.

IT'S ALL CAPTURED AND STORED IN THE GROUNDWATER BASIN FOR OUR LOCAL SUPPLIES.

SO OTHER LONG-TERM ACTIONS FOR DROUGHT RESILIENCY, UH, AND, AND THIS IS PROBABLY OUR BIGGEST INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT HERE LOCALLY.

IT'S A REGIONAL RECYCLED WATER PROJECT.

UH, THIS IS BEING IMPLEMENTED, UH, UNDER A PARTNERSHIP WITH METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT AND LA COUNTY SANITATION DISTRICT.

IT'LL BE THE LARGEST PROJECT OF ITS KIND IN THE COUNTRY.

UH, AND ESSENTIALLY WHEN IT IS CONSTRUCTED ABOUT 10 YEARS FROM NOW, WE'LL ELIMINATE OUR NEED FOR ALL OF OUR STATE WATER PROJECT SUPPLIES AND EVEN SOME OF OUR COLORADO RIVER SUPPLIES.

SO FOR THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, THIS WILL TRULY BE A DROUGHT PROOF PROJECT.

UH, WHEN IT'S IMPLEMENTED, IT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT, AS I MENTIONED, 10 YEARS AND ABOUT THREE TO $4 BILLION.

AND THEN THE SECOND ONE IS JUST TO SHORE UP THE RELIABILITY ON THE STATE WATER PROJECT SUPPLIES IS THE DELTA CONVEYANCE PROJECT.

THAT IS THE ONE TUNNEL THAT GOVERNOR NEWSOME SUPPORTS.

UH, AND THEY'RE WORKING ON THE PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING ON THAT PROJECT.

SO OUR LOCAL GROUNDWATER, UH, THIS IS A LONG-TERM HISTORY OF GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO 1940.

AND YOU CAN SEE IN THOSE A BOOM YEARS FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II, AS THE AREA GREW, THE W THE PUMPING AND THE BASE, AND REALLY STARTED TO DRAW DOWN, UH, THE KEY, WELL, UH, WE CALL IT THE BALDWIN PARK KEY.

WELL, UM, UNTIL ABOUT 1970, WHEN I ADJUDICATION WAS, WAS ENTERED INTO THAT SET UP THE MANAGEMENT OF THE BASIN.

AND WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT MANAGEMENT, THAT TREND LINE FLATTENS OUT, WE WERE MANAGED SUSTAINABLY MANAGING THE BASIN UNTIL ABOUT THE LAST 15 YEARS, WHICH HAVE BEEN EXCEPTIONALLY DRY.

UH, WE HAD A COUPLE OF DRY YEARS IN BETWEEN, BUT IT DID DRY DOWN THAT KEY WELL, UH, TO, AS HISTORIC LOW, UH, BUT PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE, UH, TO BRING FUNDS IN SO WE CAN BUY ADDITIONAL IMPORTED WATER AND REPLENISH THE BASIN IN ADDITION TO OUR LOCAL SUPPLIES.

SO THIS IS WHERE I WANT TO THANK THE COMMUNITY, UH, ALL OF OUR COMMUNITIES, BECAUSE THIS TREND SHOWS THE AMOUNT OF WATER CONSULT CONSERVATION THAT, THAT HAS OCCURRED ROUGHLY IN THE LAST 15 YEARS.

UH, SO WE ARE 30% BELOW OUR HIGHEST WATER USE PER CAPITA WATER USE.

AND THE TREND CONTINUES DOWNWARD THIS YEAR.

WE'RE UP A LITTLE BIT, FRANKLY, BECAUSE IT DIDN'T RAIN THIS SPRING AND PEOPLE HAD WATER THEIR, THEIR, THEIR LANDSCAPE, UH, BECAUSE IT DIDN'T RAIN, UH, BUT IN GENERAL TRENDS ARE WELL DOWN AND WE THANK THE COMMUNITY FOR THAT, AND WE NEED EVERYONE TO CONTINUE, UH, THOSE EFFORTS, UH, TO USE WATER WISELY, NEXT SLIDE.

AND SO HERE'S SOME OF OUR LOCAL PROGRAMS. I'M GOING TO LET JOSE TALK ABOUT THESE, UH, BUT WE HAVE SEVERAL INCENTIVES.

YOU CAN SEE, SEE THE, UH, THERE'S SOME WEBSITES YOU CAN GO TO, TO FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION, UH, B WATER-WISE AND THE UPPER DISTRICT WEBSITE AS WELL.

IMPACTED THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AS TOM WAS MENTIONING, A LOT OF THE REGIONAL WATER COMES FROM GROUNDWATER SOURCES.

AND WITH THAT, AND THEN TURN IT OVER TO JOSE.

THANK YOU, TOM MAYOR MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

UH, TOM DID A GREAT JOB.

IT WAS LIKE A LITTLE, LITTLE AQUARIUM RIGHT HERE.

UM, UH, UH, GET BACK ON FOCUS HERE.

UH, TOM DID A REALLY GOOD JOB OF JUST OVERVIEWING THE REGIONAL AND HOW THE IMPACTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE HAVE IMPACTS ON LOCAL RETAIL, WATER DISTRICTS.

PROBABLY THE BIGGEST WATER DISTRICT THAT SERVES THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, OR IS THE BIGGEST IS A SUBURBAN.

WE WORK CLOSELY WITH SUBURBAN.

WE HAVE GREAT TIES, UH, VALLEY COUNTY WATER DISTRICT.

ACTUALLY, THEY ONLY SERVES A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.

UH, BUT CERTAINLY AS I MENTIONED, UH, COLLECTIVELY, THERE'S A LOT OF INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE ALL PART OF THIS, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, STATEWIDE EFFORT IN ORDER FOR OUR CUSTOMERS TO HAVE SAFE, RELIABLE WATER.

AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M GOING TO FOCUS ON A LITTLE BIT, PROBABLY THE, THIS FIRST SLIDE RIGHT HERE IS A GREAT VISUAL PRESENTATION OF HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED FROM 2020 TO 2021.

UH, AND THAT RED, UH, AGAIN, I DIDN'T LEARN MY COLORS VERY WELL, BUT THAT DARK, DARKER RED COLOR IS NOT A GOOD INDICATION OF EXACTLY HOW, UH, THE, THE PRECIPITATION LEVELS AND DROUGHT LEVELS HAVE

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SO IF WE'RE DEPENDENT ON THE GROUNDWATER SOURCES, ONE OF THE MAIN, UH, WAYS THAT THAT GROUNDWATER IS RECHARGED IS WITH LOCAL PRECIPITATION.

AND IF WE'VE ONLY HAD A FRACTION AMOUNT OF THE PRECIPITATION OVER THIS PAST YEAR, THAT CERTAINLY HAS AN IMPACT ON THE GROUNDWATER IN WHICH WE PRODUCE TREE AND SERVE TO OUR COMMUNITY.

UH, SO WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE.

AND BEFORE I MOVE ON, I DO HAVE ONE OF MY DIRECTORS HERE, JAVIER ARGUS, HE'S BEEN ON THE BOARD FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS, AND CERTAINLY WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

AND CERTAINLY AS I MENTIONED, OUR WHOLESALE AND REGIONAL SUPPORT IS A COLLECTIVE EFFORT.

UH, ONE THING THAT, UH, WE'RE TRYING TO GET OUT TO OUR CUSTOMERS IS WATER CONSERVATION.

THAT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT WE CAN SEND THE MESSAGE OUT AND THE CUSTOMER CAN CONTROL EXACTLY WHAT THEIR OVERALL WATER USAGE IS.

AND BY THAT REDUCTION OF WATER, THEY ALSO SAVE ON THEIR WATER BILL.

UH, RIGHT NOW WE ARE AT A STAGE ONE AS IS SUBURBAN, UH, AT A STAGE ONE, WHICH LIMITS OUTDOOR WATER INTO THREE WEEKS.

SO FOR MORE INFORMATION OF EXACTLY, UH, THE ODD AND EVEN, UH, UH, WHAT YOUR ADDRESS IS AND WHAT DAYS YOU CAN ACTUALLY WATER, YOU CAN GO TO SUBURBAN OR VALLEY COUNTY WATER WEBSITE AND GET MORE DETAILED INFORMATION OF EXACTLY WHAT THE WATER IN DAYS IS.

BUT THAT OUTDOOR WATERING IS LIMITED TO THREE DAYS PER WEEK, UH, OVER 60% OF MOST RESIDENTIAL HOUSEHOLDS, UH, THAT WATER IS USED OUTDOORS.

SO CERTAINLY RESTRICTING, UH, BE MORE EFFICIENT, DOING MAINTENANCE ON YOUR OUTDOOR WATERING SYSTEM WILL CERTAINLY RAISE, UH, PRESERVE THAT, UH, THAT PRECIOUS RESOURCE, UH, AND, AND ALSO FIXING LEAKS, IDENTIFYING WHAT LEAKS YOU HAVE GOING OUT THERE, FIXING IT AGAIN, SAVING THAT RESOURCE AND ALSO SAVING MONEY ON, UH, AND ON THE WATER BILL AS WELL.

SO IT'S KIND OF A WIN-WIN, UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

CONSERVATION PROGRAMS. A LOT OF THESE REBATES INCENTIVE PROGRAMS ARE REGION WIDE THROUGH UPPER DISTRICT THROUGH THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT.

THERE'S REBATES ON BOTH INDOOR AND OUTDOOR DEVICES FROM TOILETS, GLOWS, WASHERS, SMART IRRIGATION CONTROLLERS, IRRIGATION NOZZLES, UH, AND, UH, CLOSED WASHERS AS WELL.

SO THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT REBATES AND INCENTIVES, AS WELL AS A WEALTH OF INFORMATION, AS FAR AS HOW TO CONSERVE WATER, BE WATER WISE.COM IS A VERY, VERY, UH, GREAT WEBSITE, GREAT SOURCE OF INFORMATION OF HOW CUSTOMERS CAN SERVE WATER.

AND IT CAN DIAL IN OF HOW MUCH THEY SHOULD BE WATERING IRRIGATION SYSTEMS AND SETTING THEIR CONTROLLERS AS WELL AS PICKING OUT CERTAIN VEGETATION THAT THEY CAN, UH, PLANT.

THAT WILL BE A LOT, UH, YOU KNOW, DROUGHT TOLERANT AND USE A LOT LESS WATER.

UM, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

UH, LAST THING I WANT TO TALK IN A TALK ABOUT IS, UH, UH, WATER QUALITY, UH, EACH WATER DISTRICT RETAIL THAT DELIVERS, DELIVERS WATER TO AN END USE CUSTOMER HAS TO PROVIDE A, WHAT THEY CALL CONSUMER CONFIDENCE REPORT.

SO THAT DOCUMENT BECOMES AVAILABLE TO ALL CUSTOMERS AT THE BEGINNING OF JULY.

UH, SO ANY, ANY CUSTOMER RESIDENT THAT WANTS TO GET INFORMATION ON THE WATER THAT THEY ARE RECEIVING AND BEING PROVIDED, THEY CAN GO ONLINE AND, UH, AND GET A COPY OF, OF, OF THIS DOCUMENT, UH, CUSTOMERS THAT BELONG TO VALLEY COUNTY WATER DISTRICT ACTUALLY RECEIVED THE SOURCE.

AND THAT'S OUR COPY OF OUR CONSUMER CONFIDENCE REPORT, WHICH REPLIES, UH, WHICH SUPPLIES THEM WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT, UH, UH, TESTING THAT WAS CONDUCTED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

AND THAT IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO STRESS TO OUR CUSTOMERS, THAT A LOT OF EFFORT, AS I MENTIONED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE STATE GOES INTO PROVIDING RELIABLE WATER.

SO THAT IS A VERY TRUSTWORTHY SOURCE.

ONE THAT INDIVIDUALS CAN DRINK.

ONE THAT INDIVIDUALS CAN COOK WITH, SO THEY CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT WATER.

AND THAT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT WE'RE TRYING TO PROMOTE AND GET ENGAGED WITH THE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS AS WELL, TO SPREAD THAT MESSAGE, THAT THIS IS A VIABLE, SAFE SUPPLY OF WATER, WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO OUT AND PAY MONEY FOR BOTTLED WATER OR FOR OTHER LOCATION.

THIS IS A GREAT SOURCE, AND THAT'S WHERE WE PROMOTE TRUST THE TAP.

UH, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

WITH THAT, UH, THAT, UH, UH, CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION.

I HOPE IT WASN'T TOO, TOO PAINFUL TO HEAR.

UH, WE WISH WE HAD SOME, SOME BETTER NEWS, BUT, UH, CERTAINLY WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE SAFE DRINKING WATER, AND RELIABLE WATER TO OUR CUSTOMERS, UH, WITH THAT, IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, TOM AND I WOULD MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM MORE THAN LIKELY TOM I'LL PASS THE MIC.

UH, I HAVE A QUESTION.

I KNOW.

WE IN ALWAYS SAY TO YOU, WE HAVE QUITE A FEW WATCHES SUPPLY COMPANY.

I, THE MAJORITY'S SUPPLIED BY SUBURBAN A WATER COMPANY.

SO WE HAVE THE SOUTH SIDE, WE HAVE ANOTHER WATER COMPANY AND YOU ARE THE VALLEY COUNTY

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WATER DISTRICT.

AND THE DAY ON THE TOP, YOU HAVE A METROPOLITAN.

SO I KNOW HE'S VERY COMPLICATED AND BECAUSE I WENT TO YOUR TRAINING FIVE YEARS AGO AND TOOK THE TRIP.

AND THEY KIND OF, UH, OKAY.

AND TO SEE ZONA, JUST SEE SOME OF THE DAN THE WATER QUALITY THING.

AND THEN WE CAME BACK.

AND THEN WE BASICALLY CHECKING, OKAY.

WORLD IS OUR DRINKING WATER.

SO IN WEST COVINA, WE BASICALLY DRINKING NOTHING BUT UNDERGROUND WATER.

IN A COUPLE OF THE W WATER CONTAINER, THEY STUCK ALL DAY.

SO WE EVEN WENT TO VISIT OKAY.

UH, THE, THE PUMP AND HE, COULDN'T HOW THEY MIX.

SO, SO THE FIRST QUESTION IS, CAN YOU QUICKLY EXPLAIN TO US OPEN ALL THE, OKAY.

WHAT THE SUPPLY COMPANY AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH VALLEY COUNTY WATER DISTRICT AND THE METROPOLITAN, AND THEN LIKE A WHOLESALE OR SOMETHING THAT IT'S VERY CONFUSING.

AND SECOND THING IS WE HAVE, UH, A LANDFILL BKK OKAY.

AND, UH, WE DRINKING NOTHING BUT UNDERGROUND WATCHERS.

SO HOW AS A WATER COMPANY, HOW YOU CONTROL THE QUALITY AND MAKE SURE THAT OUR, RATHER THAN LIVING SURROUNDING, OKAY, THIS BKK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY AND THE WISER QUALITY CONTROL TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T HAVE A CONTAMINATION OF OUR WATER DRINKING.

NOW, GO AHEAD.

SO I'LL COVER THE QUESTION ABOUT THE DIFFERENT WATER COMPANIES AND THE WAY THERE'S A STRUCTURE.

IT IS COMPLEX, AND IT IS COMPLICATED, AND THAT IS NOT BY DESIGN.

IT IS AN ARTIFACT OF HISTORY.

SO AS THE AREA GREW AND DEVELOPED FROM AGRICULTURAL TO URBAN, UH, YOU HAD SMALLER IRRIGATION COMPANIES THAT HAD WATER RIGHTS.

SOME OF THOSE ARROGATION COMPANIES STILL EXIST.

UH, THE COVINA COMPANY FOR EXAMPLE, IS ONE OF THOSE.

SO THEY'VE BEEN AROUND FOR WELL OVER A HUNDRED YEARS, BUT AS THE ERA GREW, SOMEBODY NEEDED TO COME IN AND BUILD A WATER SYSTEM FOR A NEW COMMUNITY.

AND A LOT OF TIMES THAT ENDED UP BEING A WATER COMPANY, A PRIVATE COMPANY LIKE SUBURBAN MIKE SUBURBAN, THAT WAS AN INVESTOR OWNED UTILITY.

UH, IN OTHER CASES, A COUNTY WATER DISTRICT WAS FORMED UNDER THE COUNTY WATER DISTRICT ACT OF THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE AND VALLEY COUNTY WATER DISTRICT ALSO FILLED THAT NEED FOR THEIR SERVICE AREA.

SO AS THE AREA GREW, UM, THERE WAS, UH, REALIZED THAT THERE WAS A NEED, THERE WAS MORE WATER DEMAND THAN LOCAL WATER SUPPLY.

SO THE REGION NEEDED ACCESS TO IMPORT A WATER.

AND THE IMPORT OF WATER AGENCY AT THE TIME WAS METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT THAT WAS FORMED IN 1928 AND BUILT THE COLORADO RIVER AQUEDUCT.

SO A GROUP OF CITIES, IT WAS BY A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE.

THEY FORMED UPPER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT, WHICH ENABLED THE REGION TO JOIN METROPOLITAN, TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLIES.

AND SO THAT'S WHERE IT GOES AND METROPOLITAN, THEY, THEY ARE A STATE WATER CONTRACTOR.

THEY DO BUY WATER FROM, FROM DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES, ALONG WITH 2021 OTHER STATE CONTRACTORS, AND THEN METROPOLITAN OWNS THEIR OWN COLORADO RIVER AQUEDUCT ON THE WATER QUALITY SIDE, UH, IN TERMS OF ASSURING OUR RESIDENTS, THAT THEIR TAP WATER IS SAFE TO DRINK.

UH, THE WAY THE THING I LIKE TO POINT OUT IS THAT THE REGULATIONS GOVERNING DRINKING WATER ARE EXTREMELY MORE STRINGENT THAN THOSE GOVERNING BOTTLED WATER.

AND THEY'RE NOT EVEN BY THE SAME DEPARTMENT.

SO DRINKING WATER RULES ARE BY THE EPA AND THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF DRINKING WATER.

WHEREAS BOTTLED WATER IS UNDER THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION.

I'M NOT, I'M NOT PUTTING DOWN BOTTLED WATER, BUT YOU NEED TO REALIZE THERE ARE THINGS IN BOTTLED WATER ALSO THAT THEY'RE FINDING MAY NOT BE EXTREMELY HEALTHY FOR INSTANCE, , WHICH ARE PLASTICIZERS OR A CHEMICAL OF CONCERN, THAT FRANKLY, THEY COME FROM THE PLASTIC THAT THE BOTTLE IS PUT IN.

AND FROM A WATER CONSERVATION STANDPOINT, IT TAKES MANY MORE TIMES THE AMOUNT OF WATER TO PRODUCE A BOTTLE OF WATER THAN THE AMOUNT OF WATER IN THAT BOTTLE.

SO, UH, WE ARE PUTTING UP THESE REFILLABLE WATER BOTTLE FILLING STATIONS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THEIR DRINKING WATER, AND ALSO TO HELP ENCOURAGE THEM TO HELP CONSERVE WATER, UH, BY, BY DRINKING FROM THE TAP.

THE LAST THING I WILL SAY ON THE WATER QUALITY IS RECENTLY THERE WAS A NATIONAL COMPETITION FOR THE BEST TASTING, UH, PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY METROPOLITAN TOOK FIRST PLACE.

UM, ANYTHING TO ADD TO THAT? YOU GOTTA CHILL.

NO, I THINK TOM DID A GREAT JOB.

THANK YOU, TOM.

SO, SO ON THE SOUTH SIDE, I DON'T KNOW, YOU SEE UNDER YOUR JEWISH ADDICTION.

IS PUMPED OUT OF THE WELLS IS TESTED ON A DAILY BASIS.

THE CLOSEUP PUMP FOR UNDERGROUND WATER, HOW FAR AWAY FROM THE BKK LINFIELD SITE? SO WE CLOSED ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO.

SO, AND TO HAVE THEM BE REGULARLY CHECKING THE QUALITY OF THE DRINKING WATERS WILL PEOPLE TO SAFETY TO USE THE WATER THAT YOU GOT PULLED BY ME TO TAKE THAT.

SO I DON'T KNOW HOW CLOSE THE WELLS ARE TO THE BB K LANDFILL.

K K B K K.

UH, BUT, UH, SO TH TH THE WATER

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UH, CERTAIN CHEMICALS ARE TESTED ON A MONTHLY BASIS, AND IF THOSE CHEMICALS GET CLOSE TO WHAT THE MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVEL, AS GOVERNED BY THE EPA IS THEN TREATMENT SYSTEMS HAVE TO BE PUT IN PLACE TO REMOVE THOSE CHEMICALS FROM THE WATER.

SO IF THERE IS WATER IN THE GROUNDWATER, AND THERE, THERE ARE CHEMICALS IN OUR GROUNDWATER, UH, THERE CERTAINLY ARE, UH, IN FACT, VALLEY COUNTY WATER DISTRICT OPERATES ONE OF THE LARGEST, UH, GROUNDWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS IN THE VALLEY, UM, TO REMOVE WHETHER IT'S PERCHLORATE, UH, NITRATE OR OTHER CONSTITUENTS OF CONCERN SO THAT YOUR TAP WATER IS, IS CLEAN AND SAFE TO DRINK.

GOOD.

WE WILL NOW MOVE TO ORAL COMMUNICATIONS.

LET ME SET THE QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE, UH, WATER EDUCATION.

AND, UH, I HOPE OUR RESIDENTS DO THEIR PART IN CONSERVING WATER AS WELL.

SO THANK YOU.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[ORAL COMMUNICATIONS - Five (5) minutes per speaker]

IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO ADD ADDRESS THE COUNCIL, PLEASE FILL OUT A YELLOW CARD, A SPEAKER CARD AND SUBMIT IT TO THE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, UH, ASSISTANT CITY CLERK.

HOW MANY SPEAKERS DO WE HAVE TONIGHT? UH, MAYOR, WE HAVE 14 SPEAKERS.

OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS JOHN CARSON FOLLOWED BY JEFF TUCK, FOLLOWED BY THOMAS KLINGLER, MADAM MAYOR COUNCIL.

NICE SEEING YOU AGAIN.

UH, FIRST OF ALL, ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND BOB, UH, BOB BRIAN, WE'D LIKE TO THANK THE COUNCIL FOR THE VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, BRIAN.

UM, ONE THING WE DO AGREE ON REFORM.

DEFINITELY AGREE ON THAT.

SO WE DO HAVE THAT IN COMMON, JUST HOW WE GET TO THAT POINT.

WE PROBABLY WILL NEVER AGREE, BUT YOU KNOW, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU IN THE FUTURE.

UH, UH, UH, WHAT I LIKE TO ADDRESS TONIGHT IS OUR HOMELESS SITUATION.

UH, THIS COUNTRY IS SO DIVIDED MASS, NO MASS VACCINE, NO VACCINES, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON, BUT ONE THING WE CAN AGREE ON, WE NEED TO FIX THE HOMELESS PROBLEM IN OUR COMMUNITY.

IT IS TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL.

UH, I KNOW THIS IS NOT AN EASY FIX, BUT IT'S DEFINITELY TIME TO START ACTING ON PLANS THAT HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE.

I'VE SEEN OUR STATE SPEND BILLIONS ONLY TO SEE THE HOMELESS SITUATION GET WORSE.

PERHAPS WE NEED TO TAKE A DIFFERENT APPROACH.

YOU KNOW, UM, WE CAN ARGUE ALL DAY LONG HOW WE GOT TO THIS POINT, WHY WE HAVE SO MANY HOMELESS, BUT, UH, WHATEVER PLANS THAT ARE IN PLACE, THEY ARE NOT WORKING.

AND WE PAY MORE TAXES IN CALIFORNIA THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE U S AND WE HAVE MORE HOMELESS IN CALIFORNIA THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE UNITED STATES.

ONE THING IS CLEAR.

WE NEED TO CONTROL WHERE THEY HANG OUT AND WHERE THEY SLEEP OVERNIGHT SLEEPING AND HOW WE TREAT THE MENTALLY ILL.

I THINK WE TREAT ANIMALS BETTER THAN WE TREAT THE MENTALLY ILL.

I REALLY BELIEVE THAT.

AND THAT'S JUST ONE THING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BRING UP ON THE AGENDA SO WE CAN DISCUSS THIS AND HAVE A CONVERSATION.

SO PERHAPS WE CAN COME UP WITH A POSITIVE WORKING PLAN WITH ACCOUNTABILITY, AND OF COURSE, SHOWING COMPASSION.

I AM SURE A GOOD MAJORITY OF WEST COVINA WOULD AGREE WITH ME.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS DEF TUCK.

OH, THE BUDDIES THOMAS KLINGER FOLLOWED BY JERRY POTUS.

AND JUST TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW, I KNOW OUR CM WILL, UH, TOUCH ON THE HOMELESS TOPIC TODAY AS WELL.

SO THANKS.

GO AHEAD, SIR.

EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS.

UM, MY NAME IS JEFF TUCK.

I'M HERE TONIGHT TO REPRESENT AND PROTECT THE PROPERTY RIGHTS OF THE OWNERS OF THE PROPERTIES LOCATED IN THE AUTO PLAZA, KNOWN AS THE FORD DEALERSHIP, THE VACANT EX CLIPPINGER CHEVROLET, THE VACANT X DRIVE TIME AND THE CHRYSLER STORE ACROSS THE FREEWAY TO THE NORTH.

I'M HERE TO DISCUSS THE ACTIONS TAKEN BY THIS BODY AND STAFF AT THE JULY 20TH COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS AT THIS MEETING, THE COUNCIL CONSIDERED A ZONE CHANGE AND CREATION OF AN OVERLAY DISTRICT WITHIN THE WEST COVINA AUTO PLAZA.

THE PROPERTY AT 1900 EAST GAR, WE HAVE A NEW SOUTH WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT TO HOUSE HUMMER SUBSEQUENTLY AFTER A HOVER AND CEASED OPERATIONS.

IT WAS LEASED TO DRIVE TIME FOR THE SALE OF PRE-OWNED VEHICLES

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FOR THE PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS.

ENDING ON JANUARY 1ST, 2020 WAS APPROVED FOR THE SALE OF PRE-OWNED VEHICLES BY THE CITY UNDER A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT AND DRIVE TIME LEFT.

WE HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND THEN THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER ABOUT THE REPLACEMENT TENANT.

AT THE TIME WE WERE IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH ENTERPRISE AND HERTZ, YOU WERE ASSURED THAT THE CUP WOULD STAY IN PLACE AS LONG AS THE NEW TENANT OCCUPIED WITHIN SIX MONTHS AFTER THE PREVIOUS TENANT VACATED, THEN THE PANDEMIC HIT IN FULL FORCE AND BUSINESS ACTIVITY STOPPED ON MAY 25TH OF THIS YEAR.

I SENT AN EMAIL TO MS. BURNS OF THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, LETTING HER KNOW THAT I HAD LEASED THE 1900 ADDRESS TO ENTERPRISE FOR THE SALE OF PRE-OWNED VEHICLES AND CAR RENTAL, AND THAT I NEEDED TO TALK TO HER ABOUT THE FILING OF A CUP APPLICATION.

THAT CUP APPLICATION HAS BEEN FILED AND ACCEPTED BY THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT.

ON LAST FRIDAY, AUGUST 13TH, I RECEIVED A CALL FROM ENTERPRISES REPRESENTATIVE ASKING IF I HAD HEARD ABOUT THE CITY'S ATTEMPT TO BAN THE SALE OF USED CARS IN THE AUTO PLAZA.

I HAVE TO RESPOND THAT I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THIS ACTION.

LATER THAT DAY, I WAS DIRECTED TO THE CITY'S WEBSITE AND THE VIDEO FROM THE COUNCIL MEETING ON JULY 20TH WAS FLABBERGASTED WATCHING THIS VIDEO.

THE ENTIRE AGENDA ITEM WAS DIRECTED COMPLETELY AND SOLELY AT THE PROPERTIES THAT I'M HERE TO REPRESENT YOU ACTIONS WERE TAKEN TO DENY AND TAKE AWAY THE PROPERTY RIGHTS OF ONE SPECIFIC PROPERTY OWNER.

SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE IS ACTIONABLE, DISCRIMINATORY, AND ILLEGAL TO ENACT A CODE CHANGE TO TARGET ONE INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY OWNER.

WHAT MAKES THE SITUATION WORSE IS THAT WE WERE NEVER NOTIFIED OF THE UPCOMING ACTION OF THE, OF THIS BOARD, NEVER GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE TESTIMONY OR INPUT INTO THE PROCESS WHERE SOMETHING THAT WAS AIMED AT AND ONLY AFFECTS US BY LAW PROPERTY OWNERS AND OCCUPANTS OF EFFECTIVE PROPERTIES MUST BE GIVEN NOTICE OF SUCH PROPOSED ACTION.

WE RECEIVED NO SUCH NOTICE ON A PERSONAL NOTE, I WORKED WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT ON VARIOUS PROJECTS OF THE CITY SINCE 1981.

I'VE ALWAYS HAD ALWAYS CONSIDERED THAT I HAVE MAINTAINED AN EXCELLENT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DEPARTMENT AND ITS STAFF OVER THOSE 40 YEARS.

I NOTIFIED MS. BURNS ON, UH, MAY 25TH OF THE STATUS OF THE LEASE OF THE PROPERTY AT 1900.

WHY WAS I NOT GIVEN A COURTESY CALL INFORMING ME OF THE ACTIONS BEING UNDERTAKEN BY THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT ON THE ISSUES DISCUSSED ON JULY 20TH? WHY WAS I KEPT IN THE DARK? I HAVE FOUND THAT THE INSTIGATION OF THIS CODE CHANGE WAS PRECIPITATED BY A LETTER FROM THE GENERAL COUNSEL OF ANOTHER DEALER SLASH PROPERTY OWNER IN THE AUTO PLAZA ON BEHALF OF THE AUTO PLAZA DEALERS ASSOCIATION, HOW WAS THIS LETTER REQUESTING COUNCIL ACTION APPROVED AS THE OWNER OF THREE PROPERTIES IN THE AUTO PLAZA, WE ARE ENTITLED TO HAVE THREE VOTES IN ANY PROCEEDINGS, BUT AGAIN, WE WERE NOT NOTIFIED NOR WERE WE PRESENT.

WHEN THIS ACTION WAS APPROVED, WE SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CALL FOR A MEETING OF THE AUTO CLOSET DEALERS ASSOCIATION TO OVERTURN THIS REQUEST.

THE ENTITY IN INSTIGATING, THESE ACTIONS IS A COMPETITOR, A COMPETING PROPERTY OWNER IN THE AUTO PLAZA.

SOMEONE WHO HAS MADE OFFERS TO ACQUIRE PROPERTIES UNDER OUR CONTROL FROM OUR OWN PAST DEALINGS, WITH A CERTAIN MANUFACTURER, WE ARE AWARE THAT A FRANCHISE IS IN PERIL UNTIL THE FACILITY IS RELOCATED.

I HOPE THIS BODY IS NOT TRYING TO FACILITATE THE ACQUISITION OF OUR PROPERTY BY LIMITING HOW THAT PROPERTY CAN BE USED.

IN REGARDS TO THE FILMING OF COMMERCIALS AT THE 1932 EAST GARVEY'S AVENUE SOUTH ADDRESS, ANY SUCH USE IS IN CONFORMANCE WITH THE CITY CODE, THE CODE THAT WAS RECENTLY REVISED TO MAKE MORE RESTRICTIVE AND STRINGENT.

THE NUMBER OF TIMES FILMING MAY TAKE PLACE NOW IS VERY LIMITED AND THERE IS A LONG TIME PERIOD BETWEEN SUCH TIMES.

PLEASE CONSIDER THAT THE CITY DERIVES REVENUE IN THE FORM OF PERMIT FEES FOR EACH COMMERCIAL FILM SINCE THIS PROPERTY IS THE ONLY ONE USE REGULARLY FOR COMMERCIALS.

AGAIN, THESE ACTIONS ARE TARGETED, SLOW SOLELY AT ONE PROPERTY.

YOU FIVE MINUTES, I FINISHED, I'VE GOT ONE PARAGRAPH MORE, NO, IT'S FIVE MINUTES.

WE HAVE A FIVE MINUTE PUP.

WE HAVE OTHERS ALSO THAT NEEDS TO SPEAK WELL.

WE HAVE OUR TENANT HERE TONIGHT.

THEY WOULD LIKE YOU TO, AS TIME HAS EXPIRED.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS THOMAS KLINGLER FOLLOWED BY CHERRY POACH, US FOLLOWED BY SHARON ANDERSON.

HELLO, ARE YOU, UM, THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME FOR LETTING ME SPEAK TONIGHT.

UM, MY NAME IS THOMAS KLINGLER I'M WITH ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS AND, UH, JEFF WHO JUST SPOKE.

HE'S THE ONE HE WAS REFERRING TO US AS WORKING WITH HIM ON THE

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PROPERTY DRIVE THAT PREVIOUSLY OCCUPIED BY DRIVE TIME.

I JUST FOUND OUT THIS MORNING THAT I WAS GOING TO TALK TO YOU.

SO WE RUSHED TOGETHER TO PUT THIS PACKET TOGETHER.

SO YOU WOULD HAVE SOMETHING TO TAKE AWAY.

AND REALLY MY AGENDA HERE TONIGHT WAS JUST TO LET YOU KNOW WHO WE ARE.

WE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT WEST COVINA.

WE WANT TO COME WORK AND, AND BE A PART OF THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE IN WEST COVINA.

SO I JUST REALLY PUT TOGETHER A PACKET.

SO YOU COULD UNDERSTAND WHO WE ARE.

WE'RE A $25 BILLION COMPANY THAT HAS 10,000 FULLY STAFFED NEIGHBORHOOD AND AIRPORT LOCATIONS.

AND WE HAPPEN TO BE THE 13TH LARGEST PRIVATELY HELD, UH, COMPANY BY, UH, IN AMERICA.

UM, WE HAVE MORE THAN 2 MILLION VEHICLES AND A HUNDRED THOUSAND EMPLOYEES THROUGHOUT THE U S UM, WE REPRESENTS ALL THE BRANDS ON THE NEXT PAGE.

I WON'T LIST THEM ALL OFF, BUT YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH MOST OF THOSE ENTERPRISES BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME.

UH, THE BRANDS THAT WE'D LIKE TO BRING TO YOUR CITY WOULD BE ENTERPRISE CAR SALES AND ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR, WHO ARE WE REALLY ENTERPRISE WAS FOUNDED IN NEIGHBORHOODS TO MEET CUSTOMERS WHERE THEY LIVE AND WORK.

THAT'S REALLY WHO WE ARE.

THAT COMPANY, IF YOU AREN'T FAMILIAR, FAMILIAR WITH ENTERPRISE WAS, UH, BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP BY THE TAYLOR FAMILY, JACK, JACK TAYLOR.

UM, HE FLEW FIGHTER JETS OFF THE USS ENTERPRISE AND THAT'S HOW ENTERPRISE GOT THEIR NAME.

AND HE STARTED THE COMPANY WHEN HE CAME BACK FROM THE SERVICE.

AND, UH, IT IS NOW A THIRD GENERATION COMPANY.

CHRISSY TAYLOR IS THE CEO OF THE COMPANY.

UM, HER DAD WAS THE CEO BEFORE HER IN BETWEEN WAS, UH, PAM NICHOLSON, EXCUSE ME.

UM, BUT IT'S A FAMILY HELD PRIVATELY HELD COMP A COMPANY OUT OF ST.

LOUIS MADE UP OF INCREDIBLE PEOPLE.

UM, I'VE BEEN WITH THE COMPANY FOR 27 YEARS AND WE'LL DEFINITELY RETIRE FROM THIS COMPANY SOMEDAY, BUT NOT ANYTIME SOON.

UM, IN CALIFORNIA, WE HAVE OVER 512 LOCATIONS WITH 6,000 EMPLOYEES.

WE HAVE 200 AND WE GENERATE MORE THAN $200 MILLION IN STATE AND LOCAL REVENUES.

UM, AND WE'RE VERY MUCH INVOLVED IN ALL THE COMMUNITIES.

WE HAVE DONE A LOT OF OUTREACH, UM, THROUGH OUR FOOD BANKS, WE'VE GOT A $40 MILLION PLEDGE AROUND THE COUNTRY TO ALL THE FOOD BANKS IN AND, UH, ALL THE STATES OF AMERICA.

UM, WE ALSO HAVE RECENTLY PLEDGED TO IN OUR DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION, $120 MILLION TO OUR, OUR, UH, INITIATIVES THERE TO A LOT OF ORGANIZATIONS, YOU WILL RECOGNIZE LIKE BOYS AND GIRLS, EXCUSE ME, THE BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF INLAND EMPIRE, UM, THE NATIONAL COALITION OF A HUNDRED BLACK MEN IN THE INLAND EMPIRE AS WELL, AND THEIR WHOLE LIST OF OTHERS THAT I WON'T GO THERE, A NAME.

AND IF YOU FLIP THROUGH A FEW PAGES, YOU'LL SEE THE, THE DEALERSHIP WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

WE'VE OVERLAYED OUR BRANDING THAT WE WOULD PUT ON THAT.

WE REALLY WANT EVERYBODY TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS AND WE WILL REPRESENT AS SUCH IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

WE'RE NOT A BUY HERE, PAY HERE LOT.

I THINK THOSE HAVE THEIR PLACE.

THAT'S NOT WHAT WE HAVE.

WE HAVE PROFESSIONAL, UH, EMPLOYEES THAT WORK FOR US AND SELL CARS.

UM, WE HAVE A NO HAGGLE FREE PRICING.

UM, AND WE ALSO HAVE OUR RENTAL CAR, UH, OPERATIONS THAT WILL BE THERE AS WELL.

WE'LL GENERATE MORE THAN $30 MILLION IN REVENUE LIKELY, UM, AND MORE THAN $3 MILLION IN SALES TAX ANNUALLY OFF THAT PROPERTY AS WELL.

SO THERE'S ALSO AN INTERIOR LOOK.

AND THEN AT THE END OF IT, I ALSO INCLUDED SOME EXAMPLES OF DEALERSHIPS THAT WE'VE BUILT.

UM, THERE'S ONE ON SANTA CLARA.

I USED, I WAS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BEFORE I CAME DOWN TO, UH, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, HELPED BUILD THAT DEALERSHIP AS LONG AS, AS WELL AS THE CONCORDE, UH, DEALERSHIP.

UM, IT'S CONQUERED.

IF THEY WERE HERE, THEY WOULD NOT BE HAPPY WITH ME, UM, IN CALIFORNIA, UP IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AS WELL.

AND THAT'S JUST, IT WE'RE GOOD COMPANY.

WE'RE MADE UP OF A LOT OF GOOD PEOPLE AND WE WANT TO BE A PART OF THE WEST COVINA.

UH, IF YOU PASS THIS RESOLUTION THAT YOU'RE, UH, PUTTING INTO PLACE THAT WILL PREVENT US FROM BEING THERE AND, AND BEING A PART OF THE FABRIC OF YOUR COMMUNITY, AND WE REALLY WANT TO DO THAT.

SO I'LL PAUSE AND SEE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

THAT TROUBLED ME QUITE A BIT WAS THE PUSHBACK ON JUST PROVIDING AN UPDATE TO A, ON A REQUIREMENT THAT, TO A PLAN THAT A PREVIOUS COUNCIL APPROVED RESIDENTS PARTICIPATED IN DEVELOPING THAT PLAN.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JERRY POACH, US FOLLOWED BY SHARON ANDERSON, FOLLOWED BY ELSIE MESMAN GOOD EVENING TONIGHT.

I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT, UM, MY CONCERNS ON TUESDAY SPECIAL MEETING, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER TATTA BY REQUESTED AN UPDATE TO THE CITIES OF WEST COVINA IS HOMELESS PLAN A PLAN PREVIOUSLY APPROVED ON A FIVE ZERO VOTE BY A PREVIOUS COUNCIL WITH THE REQUIREMENT UPDATES WOULD BE PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL.

ONE OF THE ASPECTS OF LAST WEEK'S COUNCIL MEETING A DISCUSSION

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THE CITY SPENT QUITE A BIT OF MONEY AND TIME DEVELOPING THAT PLAN.

ALMOST ISSUES DO APPEAR TO BE ON THE RISE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.

WHAT CAN BE DONE AS A WEST COVINA RESIDENT.

I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE AN UPDATE ON THE CITY'S HOMELESS PLAN.

THE MARCH PRESENTATION REFERENCED IN LAST WEEK'S COUNCIL DISCUSSION IS NOT THE EQUIVALENT OF AN UPDATE OF PLAN WITH MEASURABLE GOALS.

AND I DID BRING A PAGE.

I'M LOOKING FOR SOMETHING THAT IS ADDRESSING THESE ISSUES.

UM, I LOOKED AT THE, I FOUND AT THE CITY WEBSITE, I FOUND THE, UM, HOMELESS.

WHAT WAS IT CALLED? HOMELESS SOLUTIONS FOR, UH, WEST COVINA PAGE ON THE WEBSITE.

IT COULD DO A LITTLE BIT OF UPDATING.

FOR EXAMPLE, THE HOMELESS COUNT FROM INFORMATION IS FROM 2 18 20 18, AND THE HOMELESS COUNT DATES ARE FROM 2019 UNDER HOMELESS RESOURCES.

I FOUND THE CITY OF WEST COVINA IS HOMELESS PLAN APPROVED IN JULY, 2018.

I COULD NOT FIND THE HOMELESS WEST COVINA HOMELESS INITIATIVE.

COUNCILMAN WU MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES DURING LAST TH HIS COMMENTS ARE THEY THE SAME DOCUMENTS, QUITE CANDIDLY, WHENEVER, UH, AN ADOPTED PLAN STATES, THERE WILL BE AN ANNUAL REPORT TO THE COUNCIL ON AN ACTIVITY THAT REPORT IS TO BE GIVEN.

I DON'T SEE IT AS OPTIONAL GOOD GOVERNMENT GOVERNANCE, AND THE SUPPORT OF TRANSPARENCY MEANS AN APPROPRIATE REPORT SHOULD ON THE GOALS AND ACTIONS IN THE CITY'S HOMELESS PLAN SHOULD BE GIVEN.

PLEASE RECONSIDER YOUR ACTION ON THIS, AND PLEASE DIRECT ME TO THE INITIATIVE.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SHARON ANDERSON FOLLOWED BY ELSIE MESSMAN FOLLOWED BY PETER WANG EVENING.

UM, I WAS HERE A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.

WELL, LAST MONTH BY NOW, UM, ON THE ISSUE OF BEING, UM, UH, UM, A HOMEOWNER AND RENTING OUT ANOTHER HOME AND IT'S, IT WAS, UH, CAUSE HD, I BELIEVE IT IS IT'S HD HDL SENT ME A LETTER.

WELL, I WAS RESEARCHING ON IT AND, AND ON MARCH 18TH, 2014 IN THE CITY COUNCIL, THEY, UH, IT SAYS HERE THAT REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING, UH, DECEMBER 4TH, 2012, THE CITY COUNCIL REQUESTED STAFF TO RESEARCH FIND INFORMATION REGARDING THE RENTAL INSPECTOR PROGRAM APPROVED BY THE CITY OF COVINA.

AND THEN IN FEBRUARY, MARCH 19TH, THE CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY OF THE ITEM TOOK NO ACTION ASKING FIRST TO TAKE A BUS TOUR OF THE CITY AND GO SO ON ABOUT THEIR RENTAL INSPECTION PROGRAM.

AND IT GOES TO SH TWO 20 C 2014 WITH MAYOR PRO TEM FEDRICK SYKES, UH, MAYOR, HERBERT COUNCIL, SPENCE, AND TOMMO AND WARSHAW.

THEY DECIDED NOT TO TAKE ANY ACTION ON THAT.

SO HDL NEEDS TO SEE THIS, SO THEY DON'T JUST ARBITRARILY START SENDING OUT THE STUFF.

I DON'T KNOW.

YOU GUYS CAN ALL FIND IT ON THERE.

SO I DID THIS AND I GUESS THAT'S ABOUT IT ON THAT.

SO I'M NOT GOING TO SEND ANY INFORMATION IN ON THAT.

AND ALSO, UH, ONE OTHER THING, UM, SINCE WE'RE GETTING MORE, UM, CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, MAYBE WE CAN DIRECT THE MONEY THAT WE SPEND FOR H D L AND GET NEW CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.

I'M SURE WE PAY THEM A PRETTY PENNY AND THAT COULD GO TO SOMETHING ELSE.

OUR, UH, SAM WILL ADDRESS THAT AS WELL, UM, AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT.

OH, OKAY.

AND SHE'LL, SHE'LL, HE'LL CONTACT YOU.

BACK TO THE PEOPLE SO PEOPLE WILL KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CITY RIGHT NOW.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS LCMS MEN FOLLOWED BY PETER WANG, FOLLOWED BY ARMANDO HERMAN.

GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.

MY NAME IS ELSIE MASSMAN AND I'D LIKE TO KNOW, WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET A DISCOVER WEST COVINA

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NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING UNLESS YOU GO TO THE COMPUTER.

AND IF YOU DON'T GO TO THE COMPUTER, YOU'RE OUT IN LEFT FIELD, BUT FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE NEW $20 MILLION WEST COVINA WILL RECEIVE FROM THE AMERICAN AMERICAN RESOURCE PLAN OF 2021 IS THE CITY DID RECEIVE 50% ON MAY, 2021 WITH A BALANCE TO BE PAID IN 2026.

SO WE ONLY RECEIVED AROUND $10 MILLION.

MY THIRD PROBLEM IS WE HAVEN'T PAYING THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO UPGRADE THE ACCOUNTING SYSTEM.

NOW OUR FINANCE DIRECTOR, ROBIN BIRD WANTS TO UPGRADE TO THE TUNE OF 1.5 MILLION.

IS IT REALLY NECESSARY, OR IS IT JUST ANOTHER WAY TO SPEND THE MONEY? THEY SHOULD NOT BE APPROVED IF THERE ARE THINGS THAT THIS MONEY CAN BE SPENT ON WHEN RESIDENTS DON'T KNOW WHETHER THEY'RE IN WEST COVINA OR LA 20, THAT'S A PROBLEM.

NUMBER FOUR, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT GOT AT 12% RAISE.

PLUS THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BRING DOWN THE OVER TIME WITH MORE EMPLOYEES, BUT APPARENTLY THAT HASN'T HAPPENED.

NOW.

THEY WANT 4 MILLION AND $700,000 FOR SAFETY EQUIPMENT.

MAYBE THEY NEED MORE EQUIPMENT, BUT I DON'T THINK THEY SHOULD BE COME FROM THIS MONEY.

THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THIS CITY THAT THE CITY HAS TO PAY BACK IN APRIL, 2020, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT SPENT OVER $43,000 FOR SAFETY SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT REPAIRS.

AS FOR REPAIRING THE FIRE STATIONS HERE.

AGAIN, WE'RE GETTING CARRIED AWAY.

I STILL QUESTION, DO WE REALLY NEED FIVE FIRE STATIONS FOR THE SIZE OF THIS CITY? THIS DOES NOT PASS THE SMELL.

TEST.

THE CITY APPARENTLY HAVE APPROVED 30 NEW APPOINT OF EMPLOYEES WITH AN ANNUAL COST OF OVER $2 MILLION.

HOW LONG IS IT GOING TO BE BEFORE THEY ARE LAID OFF? NOW WE HAVE A SPORTSPLEX.

THAT'S GOING TO CROSS ONE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR, AND THEY BELIEVE THE AMOUNT IS GOING TO COME FROM FEES AND RENTALS.

THEY'VE ALREADY SPENT 25,000 FROM MAINTENANCE.

IS THIS ANOTHER SWAG? OKAY.

SHE DON'T KNOW WHAT A SWAG IS.

IT'S A SOPHISTICATED WILD ASS GUESS.

NUMBER SIX.

NOW IT REALLY IS DISAPPOINTING.

I DON'T SEE 1 CENT GOING THROUGH THE PEOPLE THAT TOOK A HIT LIKE THE RESTAURANTS, THE SPAS, HAIR SALONS, MOM, AND POP SHOPS TO NAME A FEW.

AND THESE PEOPLE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT NEED THE PERMIT AND THEY, UM, AND THEY PAY THE TAXES AND THEY BRING MONEY INTO THE CITY.

HOW INCONSIDERATE CAN WE BE? I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT THESE PEOPLE YOU'RE NOT EVEN ASKING OR ANYTHING.

AND THEY'RE THE ONES THAT PAY THE PRICE.

AND YOU'RE GIVING THIS TO ALL THE THINGS THAT UNNECESSARY, AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, RIGHT NOW, THERE IS MORE IMPORTANT THINGS LIKE THE STREETS AND PAVING AND ALL THE REST OF THIS STUFF.

AZUSA LOOKS LIKE A DISASTER.

YOU COULD DO SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET THERE.

I SAID, DO SOMETHING FOR THE CITY.

I SAID, THE CITY IS RUN DOWN.

THE GRAFFITI NEEDS A LOT TO BE DESIRED.

I SAID, THEY CAN'T PAINT THE SAME COLOR TWICE.

AND THE COLOR THEY PAINTED, IT'S LIKE A JIGSAW PUZZLE SORT OF THING.

SO I THINK WE NEED TO BRING THIS CITY UP TO DATE, NOT JUST A FEW DEPARTMENTS THAT THINK THEY NEED THE MONEY WHEN ACTUALLY THEY DON'T.

NOW THE PEACE LAW RECENTLY, I OWN I LIVING IN SOUTH HILL AND THEN I OWN MY VERY, VERY FIRST HOUSE IN WEST COVINA IN BUTTERFIELD EARLY THIS MONTH, I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM THE HDL, ASKED ME TO PAY THE BUSINESS LICENSE THAT WAS SURPRISED.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS PETER WANG, PAULA BAR MONDO, HERMAN FOLLOWED BY CHARLES FOOTE EVENING.

UH, MADDEN MAYOR, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF CITY COUNCIL.

MY NAME IS PETER WANG.

LET ME JUST BRIEFLY INTRODUCE MYSELF.

I'M 31 YEARS.

NO, THE RESIDENTS WITH COVINA AND I RETIRED FROM ERIE COUNTY BUILDING AND SAFETY FOR 23 YEARS.

AND THEN I TEACH IN CAL STATE FULLERTON FOR SEVEN YEARS.

CURRENTLY, I'VE BEEN SERVING FOR A DIRECTOR OF BEAUTY AND SAFETY CDL HASSAN.

ALL MY LIFE IS DOING THE CODE ENFORCEMENT.

SO ACTUALLY ALL I'M DOING IS DOING THE LAW ENFORCEMENT WITH THE BUILDING LAW.

ALTHOUGH IT'S

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AND THE FIRST THING I DO IS SURE, I PAID THE LICENSE AS LAW TOLD ME TO DO SO AS THE KNOWLEDGE SHARON ANDERSON DID, I DID SOME RESEARCH.

I CALL HDL.

I ASKED HIM, WHAT'S THE BASIS FOR YOU TO CHARGE ME TAX FORM.

AND THEY GAVE ME, UH, AFTER THAT AND PEOPLE SAY, OH, YO, YOU SHOULD READ THE DENTURE.

YOU NEED TO PAY.

SO YOU ARE HAVING ON TRADING SEVERELY AND ANSWER ACTING AS A CABINET AGENCY.

ACTUALLY, I'M PUTTING THIS WAY.

YOU ARE GOING TO HAVING A GREAT PUBLIC ISSUE.

I'LL BE RELATING ISSUE BECAUSE THEY WERE RUDE.

THEY WERE VERY I'M TRYING.

THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE MUNICIPAL CODE IS TALKING ABOUT.

AND THEN AFTER THAT, I, I WENT THROUGH THE ACTUALLY CITY, YOU KNOW, THE PLANNING COMMISSION THROUGH NOW HE'S CONNECTION.

I FIND THEY'LL FIND A SUPERVISOR.

I SAID, WHAT'S THE SECTION.

YOU'LL ENFORCE IT.

SO THEY GAVE ME THE SECTION CODE SECTION 16.6, UH, UH, SECTION 14, DASH 68, WHICH YOU KNOW, IN CATEGORY A CALLED A DENTURE RENTAL, ACTUALLY UNDER RESIDENTIAL RENTAL.

THEY SAYS APARTMENT HOTEL, MOTEL MOBILE, HOME PARK, CONVALESCENT, HOME NURSING, HOME HOSPITAL, AND BUSINESS OF LIKE NATURAL OR SIMPLE CHARACTER.

SO IN OTHER WORDS, IN SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE, AND THEN I DO THE RESEARCH ON NEIGHBORING CITY.

I ALSO KNOW ALL MY VERY, VERY FIRST HOUSE.

YOU CAN GOT HANDBOOK, RIGHT? I MEAN, SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE AND DUPLEX IS ALWAYS UNDER EXEMPTION BECAUSE OWNING A HOME IS AMERICAN TRADITION.

AND YOU ARE TRYING TO KNOW THE HDL.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S THOUGH.

THEY ARE, FEE-BASED MAYBE BASED ON THE NO MONEY THEY COLLECT.

SO THAT'S WHY THEY GO INTO COLLECT EVERY POSSIBLE PENNY.

THEY CAN COLLECT WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE GOING TO MISS INTERPRETED YOUR LAW ON MUNICIPAL COAL.

AND THEN THIS ONE, I JUST PRINT OUT ON AUGUST 10TH.

AND IN OTHER WORDS, THERE IS NO LAW, INCLUDING THE SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE AND DUPLEX RIGHT NOW, YOU, IF YOU, I ASKED NO SAID, DO YOU HAVE INTERPRETATION MANUAL? WHEN WAS THE LAW, INCLUDING THE SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE AND DUPLEX.

THAT'S THE REASON WHY IT'S AN ADU, WHAT STAIR? AND THEN STILL NO MAINTAIN A SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE AS A DUPLEX.

THAT'S WHY ALL THE NO BUILDING LAW ALWAYS CATEGORIZED SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING, DO PRACS AS A SINGLE THING IN YOUR HOUSE.

IF YOU'RE GOING TO CHARGE NO ME TO RENTING MY HOME, TO SUBSIDIZE MY RETIRED, NO INCOME.

AND THEN ARE YOU GOING TO NOW CHARGE PEOPLE FOR RENTING THEIR ROOM OR YOU'RE GOING TO CATEGORIZE THIS ONE, LISA, A SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE AS LONG, THEY ARE NOT TRANSIENT PURPOSE.

I CAN UNDERSTAND A LOT OF NOW THE CITY CHARGE, THE BUSINESS HAS FOR TRANSIENT PURPOSE, SUCH AS APARTMENT HOTEL, MOTEL AUDIENCE THINGS.

BUT RIGHT NOW, AT THIS TIME I SINK H D L MISINTERPRETED, THE CITY MUNICIPAL CODE, AND THEN SENDING TO THE WRONG PERSON, IF YOU DON'T STOP, BUT ACTUALLY YOU GO INTO COURT, GREAT.

A BIG PUPPY RELATIONSHIP ISSUE.

AND THE NO, THE RED IS GOING TO TOO AGAINST IT, ESPECIALLY SENIOR RESIDENTS, BECAUSE THIS IS THE PART OF THE INCOME TO SUBSIDIZE THE INSUFFICIENT RETIREMENT MONEY.

YOU KNOW, THE, THIS A LOT OF NOTES, INFLATION, ODS THINGS.

HAVING A SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE IS AN AMERICAN TRADITION.

SO I REALLY KNOW THE WHOLE COUNCIL CAN PAY ATTENTION TO IT.

MAKE SURE THIS HDL DON'T DO THOSE THINGS ACROSS THE LIE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

JUST TO INFORM THE FBI THAT IT ALL STARTED HERE IN WEST COVINA AT 3 10, 4 7 7 6 5 6 5.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS HERMAN FOLLOWED BY CHARLES FOOTE, FOLLOWED BY BILL ELLIOTT.

WHEW.

I CAN BREATHE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY.

I COME IN THE NAME OF PEACE.

COME IN MY HAND WITH MY FIVE INDICTMENTS REGARDING MY VERBAL ASSAULT FROM A MAYOR FROM THE CITY OF DOWNEY,

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WHEN THIS SYSTEMIC ISSUE OF INHERENT OVERALL DISCRIMINATION BASED ON I, IT PUBLIC SPEAKER.

HOWEVER, MOMMY, MOMMY LOPEZ ITEM THREE AND MR. CITY MANAGER, WHERE DOES IT TALK ABOUT THE ISSUE ON HOMELESSNESS? DO YOU SEE ANY HOMELESS PEOPLE IN HERE? THE ONLY SMART PEOPLE HERE ARE THE ONES THAT SPEAK ABOUT THE HOMELESS ISSUES IN THEIR COMMUNITY AND THE SOCIAL WELLBEING OF THOSE IN THEIR COMMUNITY THAT ARE HUMAN.

NOT LIKE THE IDIOTS IN AFGHANISTAN.

WHO'S TO BLAME DONALD J. TRUMP.

LARRY ELDER.

NO, YOU VOTE FOR LARRY ELDER FOR GOVERNOR BECAUSE WE KNOW THE IDIOT.

GAVIN NEWSOME FAILED.

WE KNOW THAT NANCY PELOSI'S IDIOT, NIMBUS SOUL RIDICULOUS.

GOVERNOR RAN OUR STATE INTO A COVID SCARE.

BOOM, RIGHT? AND IT'S ALL PROGRAMMATIC DISCRIMINATION BASED ON CHUNG GOALS.

YOU KNOW WHAT A CHANGO IS, HOMIE? WELL, LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A CHANGO IS.

HOMEY RIDLEY.

THOMAS IS A CHANGO AND REALLY THOMAS THE CHANGO FROM LOS ANGELES HAS STEPPED DOWN TO BE A MAYOR FOR LOS ANGELES.

I WONDER WHY.

AND LET ME TELL YOU WHY HE'S TRAUMATIZED THE BLACK COMMUNITY ENOUGH, BUILDING HIS GARAGE INTO AN H H H HOME USING EMPLOYEES FROM THE COUNTY.

NOW THAT IS SHAMEFUL AND RIDICULOUS.

NOW, AS FAR AS I CAN SEE, AND REMEMBER, I HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO SAY, DO ME A WRONG.

YOU'RE A BRINGER OF EVIL.

THE DEVIL IS A MAKER.

I CANNOT TELL AND TELL A FOOL, A FOOL.

OH YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.

WHO'S BLIND YOUR EYES AND STEAL YOUR DREAMS UNDER THESE LIES AND MORE LIES AND LIES.

IT'S NOT A DREAM HEAVEN AND HELL.

OH WOW.

AND I TELL YOU COVID IS REALLY GETTING BETTER.

HAVE YOU HEARD THAT SONG? WELL, MAYBE IT SOUNDS BETTER IF I GO SEE, LOOK AT THE CHILDREN.

WHEN THEY GO TO SCHOOL, THEY'RE WEARING THEIR MASK CLEAN SHEET TO MOMMY AND DAD BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT'S SPREADING IN SCHOOL.

WHAT .

YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.

WHO'S BLIND.

YOUR EYES IS STILL YOUR DREAMS FROM MY FEVER AND THE STREET.

THERE ARE CHILDREN DYING DEAD.

JAY, A HOMELESS LIVING ON YOUR SIDEWALKS AND STREET SO NOW YOU FIND OUT THAT DUMB, DUMB BIDEN HAS CLOSED.

AFGHANISTAN'S TWO AMERICANS, SO THEY CAN BE KILLED.

THANK YOUR 46 PRESIDENT TO ALL THE SOLDIERS, ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO FIGHT TO KEEP THIS COUNTRY ALIVE.

JUST REMEMBER YOU WERE BETRAYED.

ANOTHER INCIDENT SIMILAR TO THE PAST HAS COME TO LIFE.

HEAVEN AND HELL NO PLACE LIKE HOME HOMEYS.

NOW WE WILL ALL DIE WITH THE NEW RAGE.

THE NEW SURGE FOR COVID IS NOT A HOMELESS ISSUE.

IT'S A SOCIAL ISSUE BROUGHT BY THE MAYOR AND BROUGHT BY FIVE COUNCIL INDIVIDUALS.

AND FUCK YOU FAT NORI MARTINEZ FROM LA ANCHORAGE.

A MAN, WOULD I TURN THESE INTO THE RECORD? TIME HAS EXPIRED AND I GOT THESE ONES HERE FOR EACH YEAR'S TIME IS EXPIRED.

PARDON ME, SIR? YOU CAN TURN EVERYTHING IN THERE ALL HERE.

YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.

FOLLOWED BY BILL ELLIOTT FOLLOWED BY JOHN SHOEMAKER.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CHARLES FOOTE

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OH YEAH.

HEY, I ALMOST FORGOT.

HELLO.

MY NAME IS CHARLES FOOT AND A RESIDENT HERE IN WEST COVINA FOR 45 YEARS.

I'M HERE TONIGHT TO TALK ABOUT SOME QUALITY OF LIFE ON THE CORNER OF WEST COVINA, WHERE I LIVE, WHICH IS THE SOUTH EASTERN CORNER.

AND I KNOW THAT RECENTLY THE COUNCIL HERE APPROVED FOR 10 ADDITIONAL POLICE OFFICERS FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE ARE, HOW MANY OF THOSE OFFICERS HAVE BEEN HIRED TO THIS POINT? WHAT'S THE PLAN TO USE THOSE OFFICERS? WHAT AREAS ARE THEY GOING TO PATROL? WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO GO? IS THERE A PATROL OFFICER ASSIGNED TO THE AREA WHERE I LIVE? AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU I'VE BEEN THERE 45 YEARS.

THE ANSWER IS NONE.

NONE.

I WALKED THAT AREA EVERY DAY.

AND IF THERE WAS A PATROL OFFICER, I WOULD'VE SEEN HIM.

SO THE ENTIRE AREA THAT I LIVE IN THAT ENTIRE COMMUNITY IS UNPOLICED.

THAT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT ACCEPTABLE.

NO, IN THE TRIBUNE PAPER.

AND I SUBSCRIBED TO THE TRIBUNE.

ARE THERE ANY CRIME STATISTICS FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVINA? WHERE ARE THOSE CRIME STATISTICS? I KNOW YOU POSSESS THEM.

WHERE ARE THEY? I'LL PUSH THEM.

I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY AREA THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU HIRE 10 ADDITIONAL COURT AND POSTMAN OFFICERS RECENTLY, HAVE THEY BEEN HIRED TO THIS POINT WHERE YOU JUST APPROPRIATED THE MONEY? IF YOU HAVE HIRED THEM, ARE THEY GOING TO BE PROACTIVE OR SIT BEHIND A DESK AND WAIT OR COMPLAINT? THE CITY OF WEST COVINA OBVIOUSLY HAS MANY PROBLEMS. CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ARE THAT FIRST STEP TO TAKE CARE OF A QUALITY OF LIFE.

I'VE BEEN HERE A LONG TIME.

I ENJOY WEST COVINA.

I WANT TO CONTINUE TO LIVE HERE, BUT THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THIS CITY HAS DETERIORATED.

IT'S A CHEERY RATED BECAUSE THERE IS NO ENFORCEMENT NONE.

AND WHEN THERE IS NO ENFORCEMENT, THERE ARE NO RULES.

LET'S BE CLEAR ON THAT.

NO RULES COME TO MY COMMUNITY WHERE I LIVE.

AND YOU WOULD SEE THAT OBVIOUSLY ONE OF THOSE RULES IS EASILY OBSERVED.

THAT IS A REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES ALL AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD, WHERE I LIVE.

CLEARLY, PEOPLE DO NOT PAY THE REGISTRATION FOR THEIR VEHICLES.

WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? WHY AREN'T YOU ENFORCING THAT? THAT WOULD CLEAN UP THE STREETS.

I WATCHED THE STREET CLEANER, GO DOWN MY STREET AND AVOID HUNDREDS OF CARS.

YOU'RE PAYING.

WE'RE PAYING FOR STREET SWEEPING.

THAT'S USELESS, ABSOLUTELY USELESS.

THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE SOMETIME AGO.

YOU, UH, STUDIED A POSSIBLE ORDINANCE FOR OVERNIGHT AND RESTRICTED PARKING.

WHERE IS THAT ORDINANCE? WHY HAVEN'T YOU PASSED THAT ORDINANCE? ALL THOSE VEHICLES ON THE STREET THAT ARE LEFT THERE, AND AGAIN, CODE ENFORCEMENT WOULD BE BLIND NOT TO SEE THE VEHICLES THAT ARE LEFT THERE FOR A GREAT PERIOD OF TIME.

NOT JUST A FEW DAYS BUT MONTHS.

SO WHERE IS THAT ORDINANCE? THAT ORDINANCE SHOULD BE PASSED.

IF YOU WANT TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO PURCHASE A PERMIT, FINE, SELL THEM A PERMIT.

IF THEY HAD TOO MANY VEHICLES LIKE TO PARK THEIR CARS IN THE STREET, AS THOUGH IT WAS A STORAGE YARD IS UNACCEPTABLE.

SO I TELL YOU, TAKE ACTION.

ASK THE ORDINANCE IT'S BEEN STUDIED.

I KNOW IT HAS, BUT WHERE IS IT TODAY? NOT THE BUREAUCRATIC RUNAROUND.

WHERE IS THAT ORDINANCE TODAY? THANK YOU.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BILL ELLIOTT ALL THE BY JOHN SHOEMAKER FOLLOWED BY MIKE GREENSPAN EVENING CITY COUNCIL.

MY NAME IS BILL ELLIOTT AND I'VE LOVED WEST COVINA MY WHOLE LIFE.

UH, WE RETURNED HOME LAST NIGHT FROM VACATION AND I WORE MY FAVORITE MARINE CORPS, VETERAN HAT THROUGH THE AIRPORT AND ON THE PLANE,

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MANY STRANGERS, MOSTLY YOUNG PEOPLE APPROACHED ME AND THANKED ME FOR MY SERVICE.

I ALWAYS FEEL UNWORTHY WHEN PEOPLE SAY THIS TO ME BECAUSE ALL GAVE SOME BUT SOME GAVE ALL.

I ALWAYS REPLY TO THAT.

IT, IT WAS MY HONOR AND PRIVILEGE, BUT FROM NOW ON, I WILL ADD IF YOU REALLY WANT TO THANK ME FOR MY SERVICE, BE THE KIND OF AMERICAN THAT'S WORTH FIGHTING FOR VOTE FOR CANDIDATES WHO ADVOCATE FOR VETERANS OVER CRIMINALS AND ILLEGAL ALIENS.

CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN ON CONTINUAL DECLINE FOR DECADES.

OUR CURRENT DISTRICT ATTORNEY HAS MADE THE RULE OF LAW.

RUNNING JOKE.

MISDEMEANORS ARE REJECTED FOR PROSECUTION AND OUR STREETS ARE FILLED WITH FILTHY VAGRANTS AND DERANGED, VIOLENT DRUG ADDICTS WHO TERRORIZE THIS COMMUNITY.

THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES HAS CREATED THE HOMELESS PROBLEM TO FESTER AND THEIR LATEST SOLUTION IS TO SHIP THOSE PEOPLE SAYING REAL VALLEY CITIES LIKE WEST COVINA, EVEN WHEN THEY'RE CAUGHT, THEY'RE JUST LIE ABOUT IT.

THEY SEND BUSLOAD AFTER BUSLOAD TO OUR CITY AND WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO AUTHORITY OR CONTROL COUNTY SUPERVISOR BROOM.

HILDA SOLIZ IS SO BUSY REPRESENTING ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINALS AND THE HOMELESS THAT SHE HAS NO TIME LEFT FOR.

WE WHO PAY HER SALARY, HOMELESSNESS, EXCUSE ME, HOMELESS SET UP THEIR MAKESHIFT SHANTIES, WHEREVER THEY PLEASE, INCLUDING ON SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAYS.

THEY LIVE IN THEIR OWN FILTH, URINATE AND DEFECATE ALL OVER THE PLACE, INCLUDING OUR ONCE BEAUTIFUL PARKS.

THEY SHOW NO RESPECT FOR ANYONE, INCLUDING THEMSELVES.

GARBAGE NEEDLES.

CRACK PIPES ARE MORE COMMON TODAY IN WEST COVINA PARKS THAN THE SOUND OF CHILDREN PLAYING.

AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS A CRYING SHAME.

NOW WE HAVE THE COUNCILMAN FROM THE FIRST DISTRICT WHO DESCRIBES HIMSELF AS LEFT LEANING, WHICH IS ABSURD BECAUSE HE IS SO FAR FROM THE CENTER.

IT'S INDESCRIBABLE.

THERE WERE A FEW THINGS MORE.

THERE ARE A FEW THINGS THAT ARE MORE, THERE ARE A FEW THINGS THAT ARE MORE MISLEADING, SORRY, MR. BY HIS PUSHING FOR A TAXPAYER AIR FUNDED TINY HOUSES THAT COST $18,000 EACH FOR THE HOMELESS IN WEST COVINA.

THIS IS A BAD IDEA.

WHAT WILL YOU DO IN THOSE TINY HOUSES WA UH, THAT THE TAXPAYER YOU WANT THE TAXPAYERS TO BUILD BECOME HOUSES OF DRUGS AND PROSTITUTION.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WOMEN ARE RAPED INSIDE THOSE TINY HOMES? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE'S MURDERED INSIDE THOSE TINY HOMES? THE PEOPLE AT WEST COVINA WILL BE SUED BY CIVIL ATTORNEYS AND WILL BE AWARDED HUGE JUDGMENT.

THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN LIKE MR. TABATA BY THIS DISASTROUS, GOVERNOR HAS GOT TO GO SHAMELESS.

DEMOCRATS WANTED TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY, BUT THEY LACKED THE SPINE AND THE POLITICAL WILL TO DO SO.

THE QUESTION WENT TO THE VOTERS WHO VOTED OVERWHELMINGLY IN FAVOR OF THE DEATH PENALTY.

BUT AS SOON AS THIS LAW, AS GOVERNOR TOOK OFFICE, HE DECLARED A MORATORIUM ON IT AND ILLEGALLY DISMOUNTED THE EXECUTION CHAMBERS IN SPITE OF THE VOTERS.

REMEMBER HE ADVOCATES FOR CRIMINALS AND HOMELESS OVER HARDWORKING TAXPAYERS.

SO MAKE SURE WHEN YOU CAST YOUR VOTE IN THE UPCOMING RECALL ELECTION VOTING YES.

ON QUESTION NUMBER ONE, GET RID OF GAVIN NEWSOME.

AND THEN ON QUESTION TWO, MAKE SURE YOU VOTE FOR LARRY ELDER TO REPLACE HIM.

HE IS THE GOVERNOR'S LEADING OPPONENT.

WE HAVE A STATE TO SAVE.

AND REMEMBER YOU VOTE.

IF YOU VOTE FOR THAT PRIVILEGE, WHITE MILLIONAIRE OVER THE BLACK CRENSHAW HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE FROM SOUTH CENTRAL, YOU ARE RACIST.

THE FOREST WAS SHAKING, BUT THE TREES KEPT VOTING FOR THE AX.

THE AX WAS CLEVER AND CONVINCED THE TREES THAT BECAUSE THE HANDLE WAS MADE OF WOOD, HE WAS ONE OF THEM.

THE DAY'S COMING WHERE YOU'LL HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE EITHER TAKING ME OR TAKE A STAND IN CLOSING.

I WANT HONOR.

AND REMEMBER CHICAGO POLICE, OFFICER ELLA, FRENCH, WHO WAS MURDERED ONLY TWO WEEKS AFTER RETURNING TO WORK FROM MATERNITY LEAVE, THE CHICAGO MAYOR DIDN'T EVEN ALLOW A CITY FUNERAL TO HONOR THE SACRIFICE, HER SACRIFICE, OR EVEN SPEAK HER NAME WITHOUT BOTCHING IT.

AND HERE IN WEST COVINA, WE HAVE DEFUND THE POLICE COMMUNIST, BRIAN KABOTA BY SITTING ON OUR OWN CITY COUNCIL SAY HER NAME, BRIAN, ELLA FRENCH.

SAY HER NAME.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JOHN SHOEMAKER FOLLOWED BY MIKE GREENSPAN, FOLLOWED BY JIM GRIFFITH.

HOW MANY YEARS AGO? WHEN I FIRST STARTED SPEAKING

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IN PUBLIC, I WAS TOLD YOU SHOULD ALWAYS START OFF WITH SOMETHING POSITIVE ABOUT THE GROUP THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO.

SO I WENT ON FACEBOOK AND SAID, THERE'S ABOUT 3000 PEOPLE IN THESE DIFFERENT GROUPS AND SAID, CAN YOU GIVE ME SOMETHING POSITIVE THAT THEY'VE DONE? NOT ONE SINGLE RESPONSE.

I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT.

SO I DECIDED TO SEE WHAT HAVE WE DONE? WELL SINCE OUR FEARLESS LEADER THERE WHO THINKS HE'S STILL, THE MAYOR TOOK OVER, HE'S FAILED TO IMPROVE THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF OUR CITY.

WE WENT FROM 17TH TO NINTH.

THIS WAS AFTER HE GOT HIS MAJORITY FAIL TO REVITALIZE GLEN DURABLE AVENUE FAILED TO OPEN HIS HEALTH DEPARTMENT BY JULY 1ST, 2021, AND THEN HIRED A CIVIL ENGINEERING FIRM.

IT'S GREAT.

A HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

I WONDER WHEN HE BUILT HIS HOUSE, DID HE HIRE A MEDICAL DOCTOR, DESIGN IT, OR DID HE HIRE AN ARCHITECT WHO DOES HOME BUILDING FAILED TO STOP OVERSPENDING THE BUDGET BY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY YEAR THAT HE'S BEEN ON THE COUNCIL.

AND IF YOU LOOK AT PAGE EIGHT OF THE LAST CAFFER, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE WERE $18 MILLION IN THE HOLE FAILED TO GET THE DEVELOPMENT OF BKK GO GONE THROUGH FAILED TO STOP EXCESSIVE OVERTIME AT THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS FAILED TO FULLY STAFF.

THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS FAIL TO IMPLEMENT THE HOMELESS PLAN FROM 2018.

AND I'M STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW WHEN DIRECTION IS GIVEN TO STAFF TO DO SOMETHING, WHY THEY DON'T DO IT.

I MEAN, MIKE, WELL, I SHOULDN'T BE SURPRISED AFTER ALL YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR, WE'RE TOLD THAT THEY DON'T EVEN RECONCILE THE CHECKING ACCOUNT, WHICH IS KIND OF THE BASIC THING YOU DO IN ACCOUNTING.

SO WHY WOULD I EXPECT THEM TO DO ANYTHING THAT ACTUALLY MIGHT CAUSE SOME WORK? YOU KNOW, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT FEES THAT WERE SCHEDULED OUT WAS A COPY OF THE COUNTIES.

DIDN'T DO ANY OF THE WORK THAT'S NECESSARY TO SET THE FEE SCHEDULE FAILED TO REOPEN BLD.

IT'S UP FOR FOUR HOURS, FAILED TO REDUCE PLANNING.

DEPARTMENT COSTS AFTER TAKING A PRIVATE FAILED TO HIRE COMPETENT SENIOR STAFF, INCREASING CONSULTING AND WASTING OF TAX MONEY, FAILED TO MOVE.

SAVE OUR CITY MONEY BY MOVING ANIMAL CONTROL FROM COUNTY TO INLAND EMPIRE ACTUALLY COST US ABOUT A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS FAILED TO CONTROL HIS TEMPER RESULTING IN A LAWSUIT, COSTUME, THE CITY, MORE LEGAL FEES, AND HAVE FAILED TO HAVE THE QUARTERLY FINANCIAL REPORTS FROM THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CFO AS REQUIRED.

THESE AREN'T ASKING YOU TO DO ANYTHING NEW WHERE YOU COULD SAY, WAIT A MINUTE, OUR STAFF IS OVERWORKED.

WE CAN'T KEEP ADDING THINGS TO IT.

THEY'RE NOT EVEN DOING THE BASICS.

THEN YOU HAVE SOMEBODY GETS UP HERE.

I DISAGREE WITH MOST OF YOUR POLICIES, BUT THE ONE THING I GIVE YOU IS AT LEAST YOU'RE TALKING AND TRYING.

IT DOESN'T EVEN TALK, YOU KNOW, DO SOMETHING, BUT THEN WAIT A MINUTE.

I NEED TO STOP ABOUT THAT BECAUSE I WAS ONCE TOLD BY A BOSS.

WHEN I TOOK OVER THE DEALERSHIP AT A COMPANY HE WALKS IN AND SAYS, YOU KNOW, IF YOU SIT HERE AND DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, YOU'LL BE PHENOMENALLY BETTER THAN, THAN THE PERSON BEFORE YOU, BECAUSE IT MEANS YOU'RE NOT OUT HERE SCREWING THINGS UP.

SO I'M NOT SURE IF YOU GUYS ACTUALLY TRIED, IF IT WOULD GET BETTER, YOU KNOW, I'M REALLY NOT SURE.

YOU KNOW, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING.

YOU KNOW, MAYOR, MAYOR LETTIE, YOU GET A PHONE CALL ABOUT HOMELESS OR SOMETHING GOING ON.

YOU TRY TO DO, DO SOMETHING, NEVER PRO TIM, UH, DARIAN.

YOU ALSO DO IT.

I'VE GOT TO GIVE YOU CREDIT FOR THAT.

YOU KNOW, COUNCIL MEMBER, BRIAN, I'M SORRY.

I ALWAYS GET YOUR NAME WRONG.

I APOLOGIZE.

BUT YOU KNOW, YOU AT LEAST TRY YOU AT LEAST TRY NOTHING.

WON'T EVEN RESPOND TO PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN OUR CONSOLE DISTRICT.

YOU KNOW? SO WHEN SOMEBODY GETS UP HERE AND TALKS ABOUT HOW YOU'RE NOT DOING THIS FOR THE HOMELESS, OR YOU'RE NOT STOPPING THIS CRIME, YOU'RE NOT STOPPING THAT KIND OF TALK TO THE PERSON WHO LIVES IN YOUR HOUSE, YOU KNOW, TRY TO TRY IT ACTUALLY TO SEE IF YOU CAN ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, GET SOME PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING IN THE CITY.

GURVICH FOLLOWED BY FRANK WILLIAMS. NICE GREENSPAN.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MIKE BY JIM.

AND I WANT TO THANK FIRST OF ALL, THE PASTOR FOR MENTIONING JESUS AND ALSO

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ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS, THE IT'S GOING TO BE AT THE BURBANK NOAM FESTIVAL, BECAUSE IF JESUS COMES HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, HE WILL GET NO CHRISTMAS DINNER AT THE JONATHAN CLUB, WHICH JONATHAN CLUB WOULD HAVE THAT BROAD HILDA.

AND WHO ELSE IS A MEMBER OF THE JONATHON CLUB? CUNT.

HON JANICE HAHN.

SO I'M SORRY, MR. CHRIST.

WE ONLY HAVE CHRISTMAS DINNER FOR OUR CHRISTIAN MEMBERS.

YOU SEE JESUS IS JEWISH.

SAME WOULD GO FOR TIM.

TEEBO TIM, A QUANTA COUNTRY CLUB AND JOKES.

AND BILL.

THIS GATOR'S GOING TO THROW SHADE ON ANOTHER GATOR.

I'M SORRY, MR. CHRIST.

WE ONLY HAVE CHRISTMAS DINNER FOR OUR CHRISTIAN MEMBERS AT KEMAH QUANTA COUNTRY CLUB.

TIM TEBOW WOULD BODILY THROAT JESUS FROM THE DINING ROOM.

IF HE TRIED TO GET SOME CHRISTMAS DINNER OVER THERE.

NOW I'M CHANGING MY TALK TONIGHT BECAUSE THIS GUY FROM ENTERPRISE REALLY GOT TO ME.

I HAVE A BAD STORY FROM THREE YEARS AGO WITH ENTERPRISE CAR RENTAL IN CHOKES AND BILL AT THE AIRPORT.

BACK IN JUNE, 2019, I HAD ARRANGED TO RENT A CAR AND ENTER WITH ENTERPRISE AT THE AIRPORT.

EVEN THEIR RECORDING SAID THEY WERE THERE.

CONNOR WAS OPEN TO 1:00 AM IN THE MORNING.

MY FLIGHT WAS ARRIVING AT 10 55 AT AT NIGHT.

AND WHEN I TALKED TO A LIVE PERSON AT ENTERPRISE TO MAKE THE RESERVATION, THE BIMBO SAID, YOU HAVE TO PICK UP THE RENTAL CAR BY 10.

WELL, IT WAS LIKE TRYING TO TALK TO THAT WALL.

I SAID, BUT MY FLIGHT DOESN'T ARRIVE UNTIL 10 55 AT NIGHT.

WHILE YOU HAVE TO PICK IT UP BY 10, I ENDED UP HAVING TO REARRANGE MY FLIGHT AND FLYING TO ORLANDO WHERE THEY DON'T STRAND YOU AT THE AIRPORT.

SO WHEN CONSIDERING ENTERPRISE, I SURE HOPE YOU KICK THE ENTERPRISE PERSON IN THE BALLS UNTIL HE NEVER GETS UP.

HE DESERVES IT.

AND HIS WHOLE FUCKING COMPANY DESERVES IT.

HOW DARE YOU STRAND PEOPLE AT THE AIRPORT? BECAUSE AFTER ALL THEY DON'T, THEY JUST SHOULDN'T BE DOING BUSINESS IN THIS COMMUNITY OR ANY PLACE ELSE.

NOW THERE'S SOMETHING I WANTED TO MENTION BECAUSE MA GENTLEMEN TALKED ABOUT THE HOMELESS ISSUE.

AND MOSTLY IF YOU GO TO CITY OF LA OR THE U S CONGRESS OR THE STATE CAPITOL, THEY HAVE COMMITTEES.

WELL, THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HAS CLUSTERS.

THEY HAVE AN ISSUE AND EACH DEPUTY OR EACH SUPERVISOR HAS THE DEPUTY THAT SITS ON THIS GROUP.

AND, BUT THERE'S, THERE'S GOING TO BE A HOMELESS CLUSTER MEETING.

LET ME JUST GO THROUGH IT.

THEY MEET TWO TIMES A MONTH.

THEY, UH, YOU COULD SPEAK FOR TWO MINUTES AT THE END.

AND THE NEXT CLUSTER MEETING ON VIDEO OR TELECONFERENCE WILL BE THURSDAY, AUGUST 26TH AT 2:00 PM.

THE PHONE NUMBER IS (323) 776-6996.

AND THEN THE ACCESS CODE IS 6 0 9 5 6 9 9 3 POUND.

ONCE AGAIN, IT'S THE PHONE NUMBER IS (323) 776-6996.

THE ACCESS CODE IS 6 0 9 5 6 9 9 3 POUND.

SO GET INVOLVED AND MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, ESPECIALLY TO THE GENTLEMEN WHO SPOKE ABOUT THE HOMELESS ISSUE AND LET THEM KNOW, LET THE CLUSTER, WHICH WOULD BE NORMALLY COMMITTEES ELSEWHERE, BUT THE CLUSTER AT THE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, AND THEY HAVE THIS FOR EVERY ISSUE, FIVE DEPUTIES MEET THE MEETINGS USED TO BE OPEN, BUT BECAUSE OF THE COVID THING, IT'S NOT.

AND SO I DEFINITELY WANTED TO BRING IT HERE TO YOU.

AND BECAUSE AFTER ALL THERE ARE DEPUTIES FOR PEOPLE LIKE BROAD HILDA AND HON, HON, WE ALL KNOW WHO THEY ARE.

THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE KEEPING US FROM OUR OWN GOVERNMENT AT THE COUNTY.

AND THEY EVEN OWNED MR. HERMAN, $32 OR HIS PROPERTY TAXES, WHERE HE PAID FOR A YEAR, A WHOLE FISCAL YEAR OF THE LIBRARY, AND DIDN'T GET TO STEP A FOOT IN THERE.

SO LET RYAN SERRANO AND EVERYBODY ELSE KNOW, GIVE HIM HIS MONEY BACK AND EVERYBODY ELSE THEY RIPPED OFF.

I FEEL LIKE A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JIM.

FOLLOWED BY FRANK WILLIAMS, FOLLOWED BY GD.

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I TONIGHT I ACTUALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT AN ITEM ON THE AGENDA.

UH, SO, UH, ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS, UH, HAS A BUDGET AMENDMENT IN IT.

AND I, I HAD, UH, THEY WERE DISTRIBUTING, UH, THE DOCUMENT I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT, UH, TO YOU.

UH, MY ISSUE IS ACTUALLY NOT NEW.

YOU HEARD ME TALK ABOUT THIS WHEN WE ADOPTED THE BUDGET A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, UH, MY ISSUE WAS DEFICIT SPENDING.

UM, WHEN YOU ADOPTED THE BUDGETS, THE FIRST BUDGET THAT I'M AWARE OF IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA THAT WAS EVER SPENDING MORE MONEY THAN T WAS TAKING IN THE AMOUNT IN THAT BUDGET WAS $2.3 MILLION DEFICIT SPENDING THIS BUDGET ADJUSTMENT THAT, UH, HAS BEFORE YOU FOR ACTION TONIGHT, UH, ADDS ANOTHER $4 TO THE DEFICIT SPENDING.

PLEASE LOOK AT THE DOCUMENT CLOSELY.

IT SHOWS EXPENDITURES OF 4 MILLION NEW EXPENDITURES EXPENDITURES OF $4 MILLION, BUT IT SHOWS NO REVENUES TO PAY FOR IT.

IN ESSENCE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE SPENDING THE BANK ACCOUNT, UH, THAT'S AGAINST YOUR OWN POLICIES.

YOUR POLICIES SAY THAT ALL EXPENDITURES NEED TO BE BALANCED WITH REVENUE.

IT'S ALSO AGAINST THE, UH, WHAT THE STATE AUDIT PRESENTED TO YOU, UH, WHICH SAID THAT, UM, YOU NEED TO, UH, PLAN WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO TO BE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE.

AND, UH, I, I'M ASKING YOU TO NOT PASS THIS IN ITS CURRENT FORMAT TO RETURN IT TO STAFF AND ASK FOR THE STAFF TO MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO BUDGET FOR AT LEAST SOME REVENUE.

UH, THERE'S MENTIONED THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE SOME REVENUE FROM THE SPORTSPLEX, BUT THEY DIDN'T BUDGET ANY.

SO THEY APPARENTLY DON'T EXPECT ANY, UH, THEY, AND I KNOW THERE WAS COMMENTS MADE EARLIER ABOUT UNDER BUDGETING REVENUE, BUT APPARENTLY THERE WAS NO EFFORT TO ADJUST THAT.

SO RIGHT NOW THE SITUATION FOR THE WEST COVINA FOR THIS YEAR STANDS AT SIX AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS IN THE HOLE FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR.

THAT MEANS THAT WHAT YOU HAVE A RESERVES WILL BE GONE NEXT YEAR AND YOU WILL ONCE AGAIN BE FACING BANKRUPTCY.

I FIND THAT INCREDIBLE THAT THAT WOULD HAPPEN GIVEN THAT THE CITY JUST BORROWED $10 MILLION, UH, TO, TO BAIL YOU OUT OF YOUR RESERVE PROBLEM.

AND NOW YOU'RE GOING TO SPEND IT ALL IN LESS THAN TWO YEARS.

UH, UH, SO I, I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE ATTEMPT TO THERE THE FACT THAT THIS ISN'T RECONCILED.

UH, I KNOW WHEN WE HAD OUR COMMUNITY TOWN HALL ON THIS SUBJECT, THERE WERE SUGGESTIONS MADE, UH, POSSIBLY SOME REDUCTIONS COULD BE MADE IN OTHER PLACES IN THE BUDGET BECAUSE THERE WASN'T INTEREST IN ADDING SOME POLICE IN THE COMMUNITY TOWN HALL.

UH, AND THERE WAS SOME SUGGESTIONS MADE THAT MAYBE REVENUE COULD BE ENHANCED, BUT, UH, IT HASN'T HAPPENED.

NONE OF IT.

AND I ESSENTIALLY, AT LEAST IN MY MIND, AND I'VE DONE THIS MONEY STUFF ALL MY LIFE.

THIS IS REALLY FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE THE WAY IT IS.

UH, AND I, UH, THAT'S ABOUT ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT IT.

AND YOU KNOW, I I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A LONG TIME WITH THIS COUNCIL, AND I'M A LITTLE FRUSTRATED AS YOU PROBABLY CAN GATHER.

UH, I WOULD HOPE THAT YOU WOULD SEE LEASEE OR A CLEARER TO ASK FOR STAFF TO DO SOMETHING ON THIS SUBJECT BECAUSE I, UM, UH, IT, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO GO OUT AND BORROW ANOTHER $10 MILLION FROM BONDHOLDERS.

UH, UH, THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN, UH, UH, NOT WITH THIS SITUATION, SO THERE'S NO END TO IT.

CITY OF WEST COVINA IS BEN A FOUNDATION OF VOLUNTEERS IN ALL THE YOUTH SPORTS FROM YOUTH, UH, BASKETBALL, UH, UH, SOFTBALL, GIRL'S SOFTBALL, LITTLE LEAGUE, UH, PONY BALL AND THE CONSTITUENTS.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS FRANK WILLIAMS, PAUL, THE BY GD RAUL BY R ROBINSON, GOOD EVENING, MADAM MAYOR AND COUNCIL, UH, FRANK WILLIAMS, I'M HERE AS A PROUD, UH, MEMBER AND CONSTITUENT OF WEST COVINA.

UH, I WEAR A LOT OF DIFFERENT HATS.

UH, I'M ALSO CHAIR OF THE YOUTH SPORTS COUNCIL.

UM, I'VE ALSO BEEN ON 24 PLUS YEAR VOLUNTEER THE WEST COVINA BRUINS AND BEEN INVOLVED WITH MOST SU YOUTH SPORTS AS A PROUD FATHER OF FIVE HERE IN WEST COVINA, LIVING HERE MORE THAN 30 PLUS YEARS.

I'D LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW THAT.

AND I KNOW MOST OF YOU DO, BUT I JUST WANT THE PUBLIC AT LARGE KNOW THAT

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AND OF COURSE WHAT MAKES WEST COVINA GREAT IS THE FACT THAT WE HAVE YOUTH VOLUNTEERS THAT ARE WILLING TO PUT ON THESE PROGRAMS AND AS YOUTH SPORTS COUNCIL, UH, WE DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF HOUSEKEEPING.

UH, WE DO APPRECIATE THAT WE HAVE THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, PAULINA MORALE IS A 10, OUR LAST MEETING.

UM, WE DO HAVE, UH, SEVERAL ISSUES THAT ARE GOING ON, AND I THINK I LIKE TO BRING IT UP TO OUR CITY MANAGER.

UH, MR. MIRALIS THAT WE DO HAVE A SITUATION WITH OUR CONTRACTORS THAT WE'RE PAYING, UH, AS THE CITY, UH, TO SERVICE OUR BATHROOMS AND TO SERVICE OUR MAINTENANCE FIELDS.

I KNOW THAT MR IS DOING A PHENOMENAL JOB WITH WHAT RESOURCES HE HAS.

UM, WE DON'T WANT TO DEFINITELY EVER CAST A SHADE ON ALL THE EFFORTS BECAUSE WE KNOW THEY'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING.

UH, BUT WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF SAFETY ISSUES AND BRINGING THE FACT THAT WE ARE DEALING WITH, UH, WITH BEING WATER WISE, UH, CORTEZ PARK NEEDS MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENTS HELP BECAUSE, UH, THE SPRINKLERS ARE, UH, NOT FUNCTIONING AND NOT CUTTING OFF.

AND NOW THERE ARE LITERALLY ISLANDS OF MARSH IN, IN CORTEZ PARK ON OUR FOOTBALL FIELD WHERE PEOPLE CAN TRIP AND FALL.

AND THAT MEANS THAT THERE'S CONTINUING WATER TO CONTINUE TO GO ON, WHICH MEANS WE'RE WASTING WATER.

SO WE DO NEED TO ADDRESS THAT, BUT GOING BACK TO THE CONTRACTORS WITH REGARDS TO THE BATHROOMS. SO WE'VE HAD ISSUES AT WALMART AUTO PARK, PALM VIEW PARK, CORTEZ PARK.

UM, THEY ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOB.

THEY ARE NOT CLEANING IT THE WAY THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO.

MOST OF OUR VOLUNTEERS ARE COMING IN, UH, AND BRINGING IN THEIR OWN WATER AND THEIR, EXCUSE ME, THEIR OWN SOAP AND HAND TOWELS BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT DOING WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING.

AND THE OTHER ISSUE IS, IS WHATEVER THEY'RE PAID TO DO, IT IS NOT HAPPENING TO THE EXTREME WHERE IT CREATES A S.

NOW IT'S A SAFETY ISSUE WITH REGARDS TO THE CLEANLINESS BECAUSE OF COVID IN OUR FAMILY.

SO WE'RE REALLY HAVING TO GO IN THERE AND KIND OF WASH STUFF OUT BEFORE WE EVEN GO IN AND LITERALLY THERE'S SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THAT.

SO WE DO FEEL THAT THERE'S A LACK OF SERVICE AND WE DO THE THING THAT BELIEVED THAT THE CITY MANAGER, MR. MILES NEEDS TO ADDRESS THAT BECAUSE THOSE ARE DOLLARS THAT ARE BEING SPENT AND WE'RE NOT GETTING THE SERVICES THAT WE'RE PAYING FOR.

UM, WE WOULDN'T WANT TO BRING LIGHT TO THIS BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT CITY COUNCIL HAS BEEN DOING A GREAT JOB IN TRYING TO CREATE THE RESOURCES FOR OUR PROGRAMS, UH, THAT ARE OUT THERE AND IN ALL OF OUR YOUTH SPORTS AND, AND LIKE JUST THE WEST COVINA BRUINS, WE HAVE MORE THAN 250 FAMILIES NOW THAT ARE PARTICIPATING AND THEIR FAMILIES TRYING TO COME OUT AND COME OUT OF THIS COVID AND BE SAFE AND KNOW THAT THEY HAVE A PARK THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE IN.

UH, SO WE HAVE PARKS WITH YOUTH SPORTS.

WE HAVE LITTLE LEAGUE, UH, WITH WINTER BALL, WE HAVE SOCCER, THAT'S GETTING READY TO START.

SO THERE'S A LOT OF FAMILIES THAT ARE TRYING TO UTILIZE THESE PARTS FROM BEING SHELTERED IN PLACE FOR SO LONG.

SO WE JUST FEEL THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO KNOW THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF CONSTITUENTS THAT ARE CONCERNED.

AND I KNOW THEY'RE TRYING TO USE THE APP.

THEY'RE TRYING TO DEAL WITH THAT, BUT IT'S JUST TOO MUCH THAT IT GETS BOMBARDED FOR THE CITY.

SO I KNOW YOU GUYS REALLY NEED TO SIT DOWN AND WE WOULD LOVE TO MAYBE SCHEDULE A TIME TO DO THAT.

NOW ALSO ON A LIGHTER NOTE, UM, WE DO LIKE TO INVITE OUR CITY COUNCIL TO OUR, UH, OPENING DAY, BUT BECAUSE OF COVID, WE'VE HAD TO CHANGE THE STRUCTURE OF OUR OPENING DAY, BECAUSE WE WANT TO BE SAFE FOR OUR PLAYERS FIRST AND FOREMOST, FOR THE FAMILIES AND OUR PLAYERS THAT ARE ALL PARTICIPATING IN ALL OF OUR YOUTH SPORTS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP THAT.

SO WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE FOCUSING OUR EFFORTS EFFORTS ON THE NINE 11 CEREMONY THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE HIGHLIGHTING AND BRINGING, UH, BRINGING, YOU KNOW, A NOTIFY, YOU KNOW, REALLY, YOU KNOW, HONOR TO THE, TO THE MEN AND WOMEN AND THE FIRST RESPONDERS THAT HAVE SERVED OUR COUNTRY.

SO IT'S GOING TO BE MORE OF A VETERANS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, UH, FOR SEPTEMBER 11TH.

SO WE'RE GOING TO BE SENDING OUT THOSE INVITATIONS.

SO THAT WAY YOU CAN KIND OF MAYBE CIRCLE THAT FOR CORTEZ PARK, BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO PAINT THAT AS AN EMPHASIS.

SO WITH THAT, WE JUST WANT TO SAY, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR EFFORTS.

AND WE KNOW IT'S DIFFICULT BEING HERE, UH, AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS, BUT THERE IS A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE FUTURE OF OUR PROGRAM AND THAT'S THE CHILDREN OF WEST COVINA.

GOODBYE.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS J D FOLLOWED BY OUR ROBINSON FOLLOWED BY LINDA JACKSON.

GOOD EVENING.

UH, LET'S START OFF WITH MR. SHOEMAKER'S ADVICE THEN COMPLIMENT BOTH THE MAYOR, MS. DIAZ FOR YOUR, WHEN YOU DO SMILE, YOU A BEAUTIFUL SMILE AND YOU GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO SMILE AND WHOA, YOU'RE A PRETTY GOOD DANCER AND I'M RIGHT THERE.

YOU, HE LOOKED GOOD.

UP HERE TO, UH, ADDRESS THE HOMELESS ISSUE, RIGHT? UH, MR. TABLETS TO BY HIM SAID FOUR THING, MOTHER MAY I, I HONESTLY THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO SUPPORT THAT MOTHER.

WE'LL WORK ON YOU TOO.

THE TANK, UM, I HAD TO HIT HIM

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MAY I MAYOR, BECAUSE YOU SAID THAT YOU WOULD, IF HE AGREED TO A B, C CONDITIONS, WHICH HE CONCURRED, AND THEN FOR SOME CRAZY REASON, YOU DIDN'T SECOND, THE MOTION AND IT DIED OR LACK OF SICK.

THE HOMELESS PROBLEM IS A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM TO RESIDENTS IN WEST COVINA.

I THINK I WOULD NOT BE EXAGGERATING IF I SAID IT IS, IT'S AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT.

I LIVE NEXT TO A PARK AND THE PARKS BECOME A HOTEL.

THEY LEAVE IN THE MORNING AND THEY COME AT NIGHT.

YOU WALK THROUGH THERE AT NIGHT.

YOU WILL SEE ANYWHERE FROM THE RANGE OF SIX TO EIGHT PEOPLE SLEEPING ALONGSIDE THE GYMNASIUM.

THIS IS ON A REGULAR BASIS AT FIVE IN THE MORNING, THEY'RE WALKING OUT OR SITTING ON THE BENCH WAITING TO GO ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS.

UM, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU, THE COUNCIL IS SO RESISTANT ON ADDRESSING THIS ISSUE PUBLICLY, WHETHER HERE OR OUTSIDE OF THIS CHAMBER, IT MAKES NO SENSE.

THIS IS A REALITY THAT WE'RE FACING THIS MORNING, DRIVING DOWN.

CAMERON, WHEN I CROSSED OVER ON HOLLENBACK, I BELIEVE YOU LIVE THERE A CITY MANAGER OR CLOSE BY AND YOU WU, AND ALL OF US DO, THERE WAS A HOMELESS LAY IT OUT ON THE SIDEWALK.

SO THEY'RE MOVING UP THAT WAY.

I'M HOPING THEY HURRY UP AND GET THERE SO WE CAN MAYBE GET, GET SOME ACTION GOING HERE.

BUT THOSE HOMELESS, AS WE ALL KNOW, MANY OF THEM WERE PUSHED OUT OF LA.

AND CERTAINLY HERE IN THE SAN GABRIEL, AND MORE SPECIFICALLY IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, WE PUSHED THEM OUT OF THE SUNSET FIELDS, RIGHT INTO OUR SUNSET PARKWAY THERE BY THE MALL, INTO WALMART RADO PARK.

NOW THEY'RE AT CAMERON PARK AND THEY'RE SOON TO BE UP YOUR WAY.

THIS, THIS IS, THIS IS NOT A JOKE, SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE NOT ADDRESSING IT.

NOW I VIEWED THE VIDEO ON THE REPORT GIVEN BY THE HOME TEAM IN MARCH OF THIS YEAR.

I DIDN'T SEE ANY INDICATION THAT THAT HOPE TEAM IS BEING SUCCESSFUL.

IN FACT, MR. WU, YOU AGREED THAT IT WASN'T BECAUSE YOU ENCOURAGED THEM TO PUT TOGETHER THE TASK FORCE, GET THE SHERIFFS INVOLVED BECAUSE OF THEIR, THEIR MISERABLE ACHIEVEMENT.

IN FACT, THE PARTICIPANTS WERE UNABLE TO EVEN ANSWER MANY OF THE QUESTIONS THAT MENTAL HEALTH REPRESENTATIVE WAS SITTING IN FOR THE STARS AS HE PUT IT, THIS SITUATION THAT IS REALLY SERIOUS AND A THREAT TO THE RESIDENTS, NEITHER THIS COUNCIL, NOR THE AT THE COUNTY LEVEL, IS IT BEING TAKEN SERIOUS? IT CONTINUES TO BE USED AS A POLITICAL PAWN.

AND ALL I HEAR FROM THIS CONSOLE IS WHERE'S MEASURE H MONEY.

IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY MONEY'S IMPORTANT, BUT THE 40,000 THAT THE GOG OFFERED YOU.

AND THE 70 MILLION THAT, UH, OUR SENATOR RUBIO BROUGHT TO THIS, THIS VALLEY IS A START.

AND IF IT'S NOT GOING TO GET US ALL THE WAY HOME, WHY DON'T WE STOP TO LOOK AT IT, CONSIDER IT, DISCUSS IT, REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.

YOU'VE GOT CAMERA PARK, GYMNASIUM, YOU'VE GOT THE SENIORS SIT INCIDENT, UH, CENTER.

YOU CAN PUT TOGETHER A FORUM WHERE THE NEIGHBORS MIGHT BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU SOME IDEAS ON HOW TO WRESTLE WITH THIS ISSUE, BUT STANDING HERE AND JUST LISTENING OR TEXTING, WHICH I SAW YOU THAT VIDEO, MR. DARRIO DO MOSTLY IS NOT.

WE'RE GOING TO GET THIS PROBLEM RESOLVED.

YOU SAY THAT YOU CANNABIS ALL OF THE CITY AND FOUND NOWHERE TO PUT THESE TINY HOMES, WHICH I'M NOT IN FAVOR OF PUTTING UP, BUT SOMETHING PLEASE MAYOR ALBUM DO HAVE THE CITY MANAGERS DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.

GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL BILL ROSS, ROBINSON RESIDENT.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS R ROBINSON FOLLOWED BY LINDA JACKSON.

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I WANTED TO APPROACH THE MICROPHONE, UH, TO, UH, TO BE DID THE GOVERNOR A FOND FAREWELL.

I ASSUME HE'S GOING TO BE RECALLED IN A FEW WEEKS FOR, TO HAVE A CONVERSATION YOU COULD BE OUTSIDE.

TO ME, OH, WHY WHAT I'M SAYING IS WRONG.

NUMBER ONE, SCREWING UP, UH, ONE YEAR OF OUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION OR NUMBER TWO, A BANKRUPT IN MANY OF THE STATES, SPOTS, BUSINESSMEN, AND NUMBER THREE FOR MISMANAGE IN THE STATES, UH, COVID RESPONSE, UH, TEXAS HAD A BETTER RESPONSE FOR THEIR RESIDENTS THAN CALIFORNIA.

AND ALONG WITH MISMANAGING, THE STATE'S COVID RESPONSE, UH, UH, UH, POPULATE IN OUR PRISON SYSTEM.

UH, MAYBE THAT'S PART OF THE REASON WHY WE HAVE A SPIKE IN CRIME AND HOMELESSNESS HAVING A PRISON SENTENCE ON YOUR RESUME MAKES IT HARD TO FIND A JOB, I GUESS.

UM, UH, GOING BACK TO NUMBER ONE, UM, SCREWING UP, UH, ONE YEAR OF OUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION, UH, A CHILD'S IMMUNE SYSTEM IS, IS HEALTHY AND ROBUST.

AND THE COVID EPIDEMIC MAY CAUSE IS A PROBLEM OF, UH, PEOPLE THAT ARE 70 AND OLDER.

UM, ANYWAY, UM, THE, UH, THE VACCINE CULT IS PUSHING THE SPIKE PROTEIN AND THE, THE SPIKE PROTEIN IS AN ARTIFICIAL, UH, MAN INDUCED THING THAT WE GET IN OUR BODIES.

AND, UH, IT ATTACKS, UH, UH, IT ATTACHES TO ACE TWO BINDING SITES IN OUR CIRCULATORY SYSTEM AND CONCENTRATES IN THE TESTES AND OVARIES.

SO MAYBE THE REASON FOR THE JAB IS, UH, UH, WE OBVIOUSLY DON'T BELIEVE IN EDUCATION, MAYBE, UH, PEOPLE BELIEVE IN, UH, CHILD SACRIFICE AND CHILD STERILIZATION.

AND THAT'S WHAT THE, THAT'S WHAT THE, UH, VACCINE CULT IS ALL ABOUT.

ANYWAY, UM, YOU'RE, YOU'RE PROBABLY UNAWARE OF THESE FACTS, BUT I'VE FOUND A, UM, A WAY TO GET, UH, BEYOND THE, UH, THE, UH, OBVIOUS CENSORSHIP THAT'S GOING ON.

WE'RE HEARING ONE SIDE OF THE STORY, AND WE'VE BEEN HEARING ONE SIDE OF THE STORY FOR A YEAR AND A HALF, ONE SIDE OF THE STORY, ONE SIDE OF THE STORY.

AND, UH, THIS ISN'T THE COUNTRY THAT I STUDIED ABOUT IN SCHOOL.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT I DON'T RECOGNIZE MY OWN COUNTRY.

UM, UH, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT, UH, THE CHILDREN APPARENTLY, UH, THE POWERS THAT BE, HAVE JUST DECIDED TO DECLARE WAR ON OUR OWN CHILDREN.

BUT I HEARD ABOUT A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER THAT HAS BEEN FILED IN NORTHERN FLORIDA, UH, BY THE, UH, THE, UH, AIRLINE PILOTS IN THE AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY.

AND ALSO, UH, THE NORTHERN ALABAMA COURT.

THERE'S A TEMPORARY, UH, RESTRAINING ORDER.

UH, THAT'S BEEN FILED EMERGENCY TRO TO TRY TO, UH, STOP THE EMERGENCY, USE AUTHORIZATION, USE AUTHORIZATION, AND, UH, SAVE OUR CHILDREN.

UM, YOU MAY, YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD OF WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, AND MAYBE YOU THINK BILL ROBINSON IS AN IDIOT, AND FRANKLY, I DON'T REALLY CARE WHAT YOU THINK I'M AN IDIOT OR NOT, BUT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

AND IF YOU THINK WHAT I'M SAYING IS WRONG, THEN, UH, COME TO ANOTHER COUNCIL MEETING.

THEY EXPLAINED

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AND I'LL JUST SAY, WELL, I'M AN IDIOT.

I HAVE AN OPINION AND I WAS WRONG.

MY TIME'S UP.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS LINDA JACKSON.

GOOD EVENING.

COUNCIL MEMBERS.

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

I KNOW YOU'VE ALL HAD AN INCREDIBLY LONG DAY AND IT'S ALMOST OVER.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

UM, I'M A MEMBER OF THE WEST COVINA TENANTS UNION AND THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TENANTS ALLIANCE.

WE WANTED TO INTRODUCE OURSELVES TO THE MEMBER OF THE WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL, AND TO SEE HOW WE CAN COLLABORATE TO MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY.

AT THIS TIME, MANY PEOPLE ARE AT RISK OF EVICTION.

THEY FEAR HOMELESSNESS.

THEY ARE HOMELESS, OR ON THE BRINK OF EVICTION, WE ARE ASKING THAT THE WEST COMMUNITY CITY COUNCIL LIST OUR ORGANIZATION AS A RESOURCE AND AS POSSIBLE POST OUR MEETING FLYERS ON YOUR WEBSITE, MAKING THEM ACCESSIBLE TO TENANTS RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA WILL INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE SERVICES AND ORGANIZATIONS RELATED TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND TENANT PROTECTIONS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE WEST COVINA CITY OF WEST COVINA WEBSITE PORTAL.

THE WEST COVINA TENANTS, UNION AND TENANTS ALLIANCE ARE PART OF A GROWING NUMBER OF TENANT ADVOCATES IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, COMMITTED TO PREVENTING PREVENTING HOMELESSNESS BY HELPING TENANTS KNOW THEIR RIGHTS THROUGH EDUCATION SUPPORT.

AND IN SOME SITUATIONS WE PROVIDE DIRECT ADVOCACY SERVICES.

OUR FOCUS IS TO GET PEOPLE HOUSED AND TO KEEP THEM HOUSED.

THAT'S HOW WE PREVENT HOMELESSNESS.

GENERALLY HOMELESSNESS HAPPENS WHEN WAGES STAY DOWN HERE AND YOUR RENT COMES UP HERE.

AT SOME POINT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE ANY PLACE TO GO.

YOU'RE GOING TO END UP ON THE STREET.

A LOT OF THE HOMELESS PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA REMAIN IN WEST COVINA BECAUSE THEY'RE FROM HERE, THEY'RE OUR NEIGHBORS, THEY'RE OUR RELATIVES.

THEY ARE FRIENDS.

I'VE SPOKEN TO QUITE A FEW OF THEM.

I KNOW THAT, UM, I DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE PROJECT, BUT ONE OF THE PROJECTS THAT THE CITY HAD OUT WHERE THEY WERE, UM, LOOKING FOR HOTELS, MOTELS, AND THEN APARTMENTS FOR SOME OF THE RESIDENTS.

I KNOW THAT PROGRAM DID WORK.

THE DOWNSIDE.

WAS IT NOT ENOUGH OF THEM WERE ABLE TO FIND HOUSING, BUT IT WAS SUCCESSFUL.

OKAY, YOU TRIED, YOU DID WHAT SHE COULDN'T DO.

WE'RE GOING TO KEEP WORKING AT IT.

RIGHT? THE WEST COVINA ATTENDANTS UNION IS A NEWLY FORMED ORGANIZATION AND WE'RE COMBINED COMPRISED OF RENTERS AND HOMEOWNERS, PUBLIC OFFICIALS, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

AND WE'RE WORKING IN TANDEM WITH THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TENANTS ALLIANCE, UM, WHO HAS HELD, WHO'S ALSO HAD MEETINGS WHERE THEY'VE HAD CANDIDATE FORUMS AND LOCAL POLITICAL CANDIDATES GIVE THEIR VIEWS ON THE PLIGHT OF RENTERS.

AND THEY HAD THREE EDUCATIONAL WEB NIGHT NARS WHERE, UM, THE EDUCATED OTHERS ABOUT TENANTS, RIGHT IN LIEU OF COVID PANDEMIC.

A GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION HAS BEEN DISSEMINATED BY THE CITY, THE COUNTY, THE STATE, AND ON THE FEDERAL LEVELS.

SOME EVICTION PROTECTIONS ARE DUE TO EXPIRE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER OTHERS, OCTOBER 3RD, BACKDATING APRIL 1ST, 2020 TO PRESENT VARIOUS PROGRAMS TO ASSIST RENTERS ARE CREATED AND THEY CONTINUE TO EXIST.

AND THOSE PROGRAMS PAY 100% OF UNPAID RENTS, 100% OF SOME UTILITIES.

PLUS THERE'S ANOTHER PROGRAM AVAILABLE THAT PAYS FOR THE CURRENT OR PAST FUNERAL EXPENSES.

THAT'S IF THE DEATH OCCURRED AS A RESULT OF COVID OR THE DELTA VARIANT.

SO IT'S ESSENTIAL AND POTENTIAL IT'S ESSENTIAL, I'M SORRY, THAT POTENTIAL INCOME QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS LEARN ABOUT THESE PROGRAMS AND THE APPLICATION PROCESS.

INFORMATION AND SUPPORT, UM, I'VE ATTACHED, UM, ADDITIONAL RESOURCES THAT I'VE FOUND.

SO TO MEET THAT, WHAT WE WANT TO DO IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TENANTS ALLIANCE IS WE ARE HOLDING A KNOW YOUR RIGHTS ZOOM PLATFORM ON SEPTEMBER 9TH, AT 7:00 PM.

AND WE PUT APPRECIATED.

IF YOU COULD SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH THE RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA AND ANY ORGANIZATIONS OR INDIVIDUALS YOU FEEL WOULD BENEFIT FROM THE DIRECT APPLICATION, ASSISTANCE,

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UM, I'VE LOOKED ON YOUR WEBSITE AND YOU DO HAVE RESOURCES, BUT I FOUND SOME ADDITIONAL RESOURCES, UM, THAT I THOUGHT WOULD, UM, WELL, THE PART OF THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN.

SO I'VE GOT THAT ONE, UM, I'VE EVEN FOUND THINGS FOR, UM, TO HELP PEOPLE PAY THEIR MORTGAGES.

AND I JUST THINK IT'S JUST, UM, A RESOURCE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE.

SO I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK.

HEY, MAYOR, FOR THE RECORD, WE HAVE RECEIVED THE CARD FROM HERMAN STATING THAT HE'S OPPOSED TO ALL COUNCIL ITEMS. THERE ARE NO FURTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, CITY MANAGER, MAY YOU PLEASE RESPOND TO PUBLIC COMMENT CONCERNS, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TONIGHT WE HAD, UM, AM I COUNT 17 SPEAKERS AND I'LL TRY AND BRIEFLY ADDRESS AT LEAST AS BEST I CAN.

THE CONCERNS AND COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE.

WE HAD, UM, SEVEN SPEAKERS TONIGHT.

TALK ABOUT HOMELESS ISSUES.

UM, JOHN CARSON, JERRY PORTRAITS, UM, ARMANDO HERMAN, BILL ELLIOTT, MIKE GREENSPAN, UM, J D D RU, AND OUR LAST SPEAKER, LINDA JACKSON.

I'M GOING TO ADDRESS QUITE A FEW OF THESE HOMELESS ISSUES UNDER THE CITY.

MANAGER'S REPORT JUST OUR VERY NEXT ITEM, BUT I'M INTEND TO HAVE OUR, OUR CAPTAIN KEN PLUNKETT COME DOWN AND SPEAK WITH US UNDER THAT MANAGER'S REPORT ABOUT RESOURCES, ABOUT PARTNERSHIPS, ABOUT OUR CURRENT OUTREACH PROGRAMS, ABOUT OUR HOPE TEAM, ABOUT NEEDED AND PROVIDED RESOURCES.

AND, UM, I DO SO IN RESPONSE TO THE CONVERSATION THAT THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL HAD AT THE LAST MEETING, CAUSE I THINK WE NEED TO GET OUT SOME BETTER AND MORE CURRENT INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE TOWN.

ON THAT ISSUE.

WE HAD, UM, A COUPLE OF SPEAKERS TONIGHT, TALK ABOUT THE CITY BUSINESS LICENSE FEE.

THAT'S BEING APPLIED UNDER THE ORDINANCE TO PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE RENTAL BUSINESS RENTALS HAVE IN THIS CASE, SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.

THIS IS, UM, A FEE THAT IS APPLIED IN MOST OF THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY CITIES, EL MONTE, SOUTH EL MONTE POMONA, BALDWIN PARK, MONTEBELLO, MONTEREY PARK, ROSEMEAD, AZUSA LAHABRA AND CLAREMONT.

BUT I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT THE COUNCIL HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE APPROPRIATENESS OF THAT CHARGE.

IT IS IN FACT, THE BUSINESS, UM, AND THE BUSINESSES ARE BEING CHARGED A FEE, BUT NEVER WRONG TO WELCOME THE SCRUTINY AND TO DISCUSS THAT ISSUE.

SO I'LL BRING THAT BACK ON YOUR SEPTEMBER 7TH ISSUE OR YOUR, YOUR SEPTEMBER 7TH AGENDA.

UM, CHARLES FOOTE ASKED ABOUT THE STATUS OF THE ADDITIONAL HIRES FOR THE NEW POLICE OFFICERS CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, PUBLIC WORKS WORKERS.

I'VE GOT A UPDATE ABOUT ALL OF OUR RECRUITMENTS AS PART OF THE MANAGER'S REPORT.

I WILL TEND TO HIS REQUEST FOR SOME ENFORCEMENT DOG VEHICLE REGISTRATIONS.

I'M LOOKING FOR OTHER ONES THAT NEEDED MY RESPONSE.

UM, CORTEZ PUCK, THANK YOU.

I WANT TO KEEP THE COMMUNITY CLEAN.

I WANT TO KEEP IT SAFE, HAVE ALREADY, UM, FOLLOWED UP WITH THE BATHROOMS THAT NEED ATTENTION.

MR. WILLIAMS MENTIONED, AND THE SPRINKLERS, UM, WILL BE SHUT OFF.

I WAS UNAWARE OF THOSE WERE RUNNING TOO LONG, SO WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL GET ON THAT ONE TOMORROW AS WELL.

I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAVE THIS EVENING.

SO NOW ONTO YOUR MANAGER'S REPORT, FIRST, I WANTED TO TALK JUST ABOUT A COUPLE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL ISSUES.

[CITY MANAGER'S REPORT]

UM, OH, BEFORE WE GET TO THIS ONE, UM, THERE WAS A IMPORTANT CONVERSATION THAT OCCURRED TODAY WITH THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE AND ALL OF THE CITY MANAGERS ABOUT THE STATE'S WILDFIRES.

WE WERE IN A WILDFIRE SEASON.

THAT SEEMS TO BE ONE OF THE WORST.

ANY OF US HAVE SEEN.

IT SEEMS TO BE THAT WAY JUST ABOUT EVERY YEAR NOW.

AND THE GOVERNOR IS ASKING FOR ALL THE INDEPENDENT CITIES TO DO MORE AND TO DO WHAT THEY CAN WITH MUTUAL AID.

WE HAVE CONTINUED AS A CITY TO PROVIDE RESOURCES AS WE ARE ABLE RIGHT NOW WE'VE GOT, UM, AN ENGINE ON THE DIXIE FIRE, WHICH IS IN THE PLUMAS NATIONAL FOREST, WHICH IS NORTH OF TAHOE.

THAT SEEMS TO BE THE RULE FOR US, NOT THE EXCEPTION.

UM, I NEED YOU TO KNOW, I'M NOT SURE WE CAN DO MORE THAN WHAT WE ARE NOW DOING.

AND SO, UH, I THINK WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING IS QUITE RESPONSIBLE AND WE'VE BEEN DOING AS MUCH AS, AS MANY OF THE EVEN LARGER DEPARTMENTS.

I THINK IT'S, IT'S THE THING TO DO.

IF YOU NEED MUTUAL AID, YOU HOPE TO GET IT.

AND WHEN SOMEONE ELSE NEEDS IT, YOU TRY AND SEND IT, BUT WE'LL CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN OUR CURRENT RESPONSES TO, TO MUTUAL AIDS.

SECOND THING I WANTED TO MENTION AS AN INTER-GOVERNMENTAL REPORT WAS WE HAD

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A BRIEF MEETING WITH THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

AGAIN, LAST THURSDAY, A STAFF LEVEL MEETING CURRENT STATUS OF THAT IS THEY'VE ASSIGNED THREE HIGH-LEVEL OFFICIALS TO WORK WITH OUR CITY.

AND THE CURRENT FOCUS IS ENTIRELY ON THE PROCESS BY WHICH A STARTUP HEALTH DEPARTMENT WOULD BE AT A COUNTY DEPARTMENT OR A SUPPORT DEPARTMENT COULD RECEIVE CONSIDERATION FROM CDPH TO GET THAT APPROVED.

WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT IS THE PROMULGATION OF EMERGENCY REGULATIONS WOULD BE ISSUED BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND OR THE GOVERNOR THAT WOULD LAY OUT, UM, A PROCESS BY WHICH, UM, A JURISDICTION LIKE WEST COVINA COULD RECEIVE, UM, A PROVISIONAL STANDUP.

THEY HAVE NOT PROMULGATED THOSE REGULATIONS.

WE HAVEN'T SEEN THEM.

AND I DON'T THINK ANYONE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THEM UNTIL THEY'RE PUBLISHED.

AND THERE'LL BE A PUBLIC REVIEW PERIOD AT THAT TIME.

WE'LL CERTAINLY BE COMMENTING ON THOSE AS SOON AS THEY'RE ALL THERE THEY'RE ISSUED.

I THINK EVERYONE'S AWARE OF THE RECALL ELECTION SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER THE 14TH.

WE ARE PARTICIPATING BY ALLOWING A COUPLE OF CITY FACILITIES USES VOTE CENTERS, CAMERON PARK, CORTEZ PARK, AND WE'VE GOT DROPBOX LOCATIONS AT CAMERON AT PALM BEACH PARK AT CORTEZ PARK.

AND AT THE WEST COVINA LIBRARY WANTED TO GIVE A STATUS.

WE'VE GOTTEN SEVERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE MOMENT WITH OUR ENERGY AND SOLAR PROJECTS.

THESE ARE TWO PROJECTS JUST NORTH OF $3 MILLION EACH TO HELP THE CITY DO A BETTER JOB OF BEING GOOD STEWARDS OF OUR, UM, ENERGY RESOURCES, THE LIGHTING COMPONENT, WHICH IS WHERE WE'VE BEGUN BECAUSE YOU GET THE MOST GAIN AND THE MOST SAVINGS THERE.

THE CIVIC CENTER PARKING STRUCTURE IS NOW A HUNDRED PERCENT COMPLETED.

SHADOW OAK PARK IS 90% COMPLETE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR IN THESE CASES WHERE THE LIGHTS ARE NOT COMPLETE, WE'RE GETTING, UM, SLOW DELIVERY OF NEEDED MATERIALS.

THE SENIOR CENTER HAS 20 FIXTURES LEFT TO GO.

CAMERON COMMUNITY CENTER IS 90% COMPLETE.

AND ON PALM VIEW, WE STARTED INSTALLATION THIS WEEK.

THE SHADOW OAK UH, ROOF PERMIT WAS ISSUED A WORK STARTED THIS WEEK AND EXPECT THAT NEW COOL ROOF TO BE IN PLACE AT SHADOW OAK BY MID-SEPTEMBER WE'RE WORKING HARD TO SPEED UP DELIVERY OF THE SHADOW OAK PARK BATHROOM.

THE BATHROOM HAS BEEN ORDERED.

WE'VE GOT THE DETAILS IN TERMS OF COLORS AND FIXTURES, UM, APPROVED AND AGREED TO, UM, ANTICIPATED DATE FOR COMPLETION IS THE END OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR, THE H V A C SYSTEMS. WE'RE WORKING TO CREATE A SUBMITTAL PACKAGE AND SCHEDULED FOR FIRE STATION THREE AND FOR THE SPORTSPLEX.

AND WE'LL COVER THOSE UNDER THESE ENERGY PROJECTS AS WELL.

NEXT SLIDE, LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING WHAT'S GOING ON WITH OUR 10, 10, 10, 10 NEW CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, 10 NEW MAINTENANCE WORKERS AND 10 POLICE OFFICERS RECRUITS.

WE FLOWN THOSE POSITIONS.

UM, ONCE THE BUDGET WAS APPROVED, WE GOT 138 APPLICATIONS FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.

THOSE ARE BEING REVIEWED BY OUR MANAGER OF THAT DIVISION.

UM, WE GOT 134 APPLICATIONS FOR MAINTENANCE WORKERS.

WE'VE ALREADY TURNED FOUR LOOSE IN THE FIELD.

WE'RE CONTINUING TO RECRUIT FOR THE REMAINING SIX POSITIONS.

WE HAD A COUPLE THAT WE THOUGHT WE HAD HIRED, AND THEN THEY, UM, THEY CHANGED THEIR PLANS, BUT WE WERE, UH, WE'VE GOT FOUR NOW.

UM, NEW SETS OF BOOTS IN THE FIELD POLICE OFFICER RECRUITS.

UM, WE'VE HAD MORE THAN 900, 950 APPLICATIONS RECEIVED.

WE'VE GOT FOUR CANDIDATES THAT HAVE GONE ALL THE WAY THROUGH, INTO BACKGROUNDS AND RECRUITING FOR THE REMAINING SIX POSITIONS CONTINUES.

WHY QUIZE, WE'RE RECRUITING FOR A NUMBER OF OTHER JUST NORMAL VACANCIES, ADMINISTRATIVE AID THROUGH JAILER, PLEASE CADET THROUGH SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT.

AND, UM, IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED IN WORKING FOR US, WE WOULD WELCOME THAT AND APPLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE CITY HR DEPARTMENT WEBPAGE.

UM, NEXT I'D LIKE TO INVITE DOWN CAPTAIN PLUNKETT AND THE REMAINDER OF THE TIME UNDER THE MANAGER'S REPORT, I'D LIKE TO HAVE HIM TALK ABOUT SOME OF OUR HOMELESS ISSUES THAT WERE RAISED AT THE LAST MEETING AS HE COMES DOWN.

I'D LIKE TO EMBARRASS HIM PUBLICLY AND CONGRATULATE HIM FOR HIS COMPLETION OF COMMAND COLLEGE.

OH, QUITE AN ACHIEVEMENT.

AND WE'RE VERY PROUD OF YOU.

MAYBE ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS, JUST WANTED TO GO OVER, UM, AND JUST KIND OF EXPLAIN, UH, THE RESOURCES THAT WE DO HAVE GIVE SOME STATISTICS, HOPEFULLY ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS THAT, THAT, THAT WERE WERE HAD.

GOOD EVENING.

MADAM MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, STAFF, AND RESIDENT.

UM, THANK YOU FOR THE OPTION TRINITY, TO COME UP HERE TO PRESENT TONIGHT.

UM, THERE'S, THERE'S BEEN SOME, UH, A LITTLE BIT OF CONFUSION ABOUT THE SERVICES THAT THE, UH, THE CITY AND ACTUALLY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTUALLY PROVIDES, AS FAR AS THE HOMELESS GO.

SOME OF THE PROGRAMS THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT IN SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE RESOURCES THAT WE UTILIZE.

UM, SO I WANTED TO TAKE SOME TIME TONIGHT TO JUST KIND OF EXPLAIN SOME OF THAT.

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UM, I WANT TO START OFF BY SAYING THAT I, I, I, BY NO MEANS THINK WE HAVE A PERFECT SYSTEM, CAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF A PERFECT SYSTEM AND ADDRESSING THE HOMELESS AT THIS POINT EVEN EXISTS.

UM, I CAN SAY BEING BORN AND RAISED IN WEST COVINA AND HAVING A FAMILY HERE THAT, UM, I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE SERVICES THAT OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND CITY DOES PROVIDE TO OUR COMMUNITY.

I THINK WE DO A TREMENDOUS JOB IN, IN, UH, PARTNERING WITH ALL OF THE, UH, RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO US.

UM, BUT I DO THINK THAT WE HAVE ROOM TO GROW AS WE MOVE INTO THE FUTURE.

THERE, THERE, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME CHANGES IN THE WAY WE APPROACH THINGS.

THERE NEEDS TO BE PERMANENT, MORE PERMANENT SOLUTIONS OFFERED, UM, IN THE FORM OF HOUSING, IN THE FORM OF, UH, MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES.

UM, AND AS WE, AS WE WORK THROUGH THOSE THINGS, UM, CONSTANTLY BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS, CONSTANTLY LOOKING, UM, OUR, OUR TEAM IS OUT.

WE'RE LOOKING FOR OTHER MODELS THAT OTHER CITIES USE.

UM, I KNOW COUNCILMAN, YOU TALKED ABOUT THE, UH, THE NORTH COUNTY, UM, SYSTEM, THEY GOT ONE DOWN THERE.

SO WE'RE LOOKING INTO PROJECTS, REGIONALIZATION OF SERVICES TO THAT NATURE.

UM, UNFORTUNATELY JUST SOME OF THE SERVICES ARE A GREAT IDEA.

THEY JUST, UNFORTUNATELY DON'T EXIST.

AND, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR TEAMS ARE JUST AS FRUSTRATED AS A RESIDENCE.

WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO, I MEAN, OUR, THE, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WE'RE, WE'RE ACCUSTOMED TO, UH, ADDRESSING ISSUES AND FIXING IT AND MAKING IT GO AWAY.

AND THIS, THIS ONE'S MUCH MORE DIFFICULT, MUCH MORE COMPLEX.

UM, IT INVOLVES A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF RESOURCES.

AND LIKE I SAID, I THINK WE'RE DOING A GOOD JOB, BUT BY NO MEANS, AM I GOING TO STAND UP HERE AND SAY THAT WE'RE, WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING CAUSE THERE'S MORE WE GOTTA DO.

UM, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT THAT IS FOR THE CITY.

UM, SO I I'D LIKE TO START BY JUST POINTING OUT THAT THE SERVICES THAT WE DO HAVE, UM, IN, IN 2017, WE ESTABLISHED THE HOPE TEAM.

THAT'S A, THE HOMELESS OUTREACH AND PARK ENFORCEMENT TEAM.

UM, IT WAS, IT WAS INITIALLY STAFFED WITH TWO PEOPLE.

UH, WE CURRENTLY HAVE ONE MEMBER STAFFED.

UM, PART OF THAT STUDENT INJURIES THAT WE SUSTAINED LONG-TERM INJURIES, UM, BUT ALSO STAFFING SHORTAGES WITH THE ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES THAT WE RECENTLY RECEIVED.

AS SOON AS WE GET PEOPLE TRAINED AND UP TO SPEED THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE ONE OF THE FIRST POSITIONS THAT WE FEEL BECAUSE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF IT.

UM, OUR HOPE OFFICER, HE WORKS DAILY IN CONJUNCTION WITH A GAMUT OF RESOURCES, UM, OUR PUBLIC SERVICES OR MAINTENANCE DIVISION, UM, WHICH THEIR STAFFING IS COMING BACK AS WELL.

THEY DO A TREMENDOUS JOB WITH THE RESOURCES.

THEY HAVE TO HELP TRY TO KEEP THE CITY CLEAN.

UH, WE WORK WITH PUBLIC SERVICES, CODE ENFORCEMENT.

WE WORK WITH LASA.

WE WORK WITH UNION STATION AND WE DO WORK WITH DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH.

UM, IN ADDITION TO OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT WHO IS TASKED WITH RESPONDING TO AS MANY CALLS AS WE DO, UM, TO PROVIDE MEDICAL SERVICES, TO, UH, NEEDING INDIVIDUALS IN THE PUBLIC ON TOP OF THE, THAT THE DAILY ENTITIES THAT WE USE HERE IN THE CITY, WE ALSO HAVE DEVELOPED SOME REALLY GOOD REGIONAL PARTNERS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT TO INCLUDE AZUSA PD, COVINA PD, GLENDORA PD, POMONA PD.

UM, WE UTILIZE THE, UH, THE HOST PROGRAM.

UM, THAT'S RUN BY THE LA COUNTY, UH, CHIEFS OF POLICE ASSOCIATION.

AND ALSO WE DO WORK VERY WELL WITH, UH, THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT HOST TEAM.

NEXT SLIDE JUST WANTED TO PUT UP A LIST OF, OF SOME OF THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE DO CURRENTLY HAVE.

UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE CONSTANTLY LOOKING FOR RESOURCES AND I THINK I GOT THE NAME RIGHT WEST COMMUNITY TENANTS UNION.

UM, WE, WE WOULD LOVE TO, WE WOULD LOVE TO MEET AND SEE HOW WE CAN BRING YOU ON BOARD AND, UH, THE MORE RESOURCES WE CAN PROVIDE THE BETTER.

UM, BUT THIS IS A LIST.

UM, I WON'T READ ALL OF THEM, BUT, UH, REALLY GOOD PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE FORMED IN THERE.

THEY'RE REAL PARTNERSHIPS.

THESE ARE ENTITIES THAT WE ACTUALLY REACH OUT AND WE USE, UM, WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO FIND THE RIGHT SERVICES TO MATCH THE RIGHT SERVICES WITH THE HOMELESS NEEDS.

UM, AND THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM.

UM, WE REACH OUT TO THESE, IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ON THESE, I CAN GO THROUGH THEM, BUT THESE ARE JUST RESOURCES.

INTO GENERAL FUND DOLLARS AS WELL.

I WANT TO JUST START OFF WITH, WITH KIND OF GETTING INTO HOPE.

UM, LIKE I SAID, CURRENTLY WE HAVE ONE, ONE FULL-TIME OFFICER ASSIGNED.

UH, WE'RE HOPING TO GET A SECOND ONE IN 2017, UM, JUST KIND OF TO FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL.

UH, WE WERE GIVEN A ONE-TIME GRANT THROUGH THE STATE OR THE CHIEFS OF POLICE ASSOCIATION THAT WE ACTUALLY USE TOWARDS FUNDING, THE INITIATION OF THAT PROGRAM IN CONJUNCTION WITH HOUSING FUNDS, UH, TODAY, UH, WE STILL USE HOUSING FUNDS AS A PARTIAL, UM, WAY TO PAY FOR THE HOPE TEAM, BUT WE ALSO, NOW IT'S TURNED

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IN, IN 2021, WE RECEIVED AN ADDITIONAL GRANT FUNDING TO HELP OFFSET THOSE COSTS.

AND WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR GRANTS AND, AND KELLY DOES A GREAT JOB THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY SERVICE DEPARTMENT, FINDING THOSE GRANTS FOR THOSE NEEDS AS DOES ALEX HOUSTON WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE MISSION OF THE HOPE TEAM HOPE STANDS FOR, UH, HOMELESS OUTREACH AND PARK ENFORCEMENT.

SO THEY GOT A DUAL ROLE.

THEY WERE, THEY WERE ASSIGNED TO, UH, SUPPLEMENT PATROL BY, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ON MOTORCYCLES.

UH, THEY'RE ABLE TO ACCESS OUR PARKS PRETTY EASILY AND CRUISE AROUND.

UM, SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE THERE TO SUPPLEMENT THE PATROL RESOURCES BY, BY GETTING INTO OUR PARKS AND ENFORCING LAWS.

AND THEN THEY'RE ALSO THE OUTREACH PROVIDER FOR OUR HOMELESS SERVICES.

UM, I THINK THAT'S ABOUT IT ON THAT.

AND JUST FOR SOME STATS, THE FISCAL YEAR, 20 20, 20 21, JUST FROM OUR HOPE TEAM ALONE OR SINGLE OFFICER IN THE ENTITIES THAT HE WORKS WITH.

NOW, WHEN I SAY OUR HOPE TEAM ALONE, WE'VE DEVELOPED A PRETTY GOOD PROTOCOL THAT THAT'S BEEN FOLLOWED BY A LOT OF SUCCESSFUL AGENCIES IN DEALING WITH HOMELESSNESS.

LIKE I SAID, WE USE CODE ENFORCEMENT DAILY.

WE'RE USING, UM, UH, CITY PUBLIC SERVICES.

NOW I USED TO CALL THEM CITY YARD, BUT IT'S NOT THAT ANYMORE.

UM, LHASA WORKS WITH US DAILY UNION STATION IS HERE AT OUR CITY, UM, ALL THESE PROVIDERS ON A DAILY BASIS.

SO SAM'S GOING OUT DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH.

WE ACTUALLY HAVE A DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH TEAM.

THAT'LL GO OVER IN A MINUTE, BUT YOU COULD SEE THAT THE TEAM BASICALLY COMPRISED OF, UH, ONE OFFICER SAM WHO DOES A TREMENDOUS JOB, UM, MADE OVER 1400 CONTACTS THIS YEAR.

WE'VE, WE'VE REMOVED OVER 254 ENCAMPMENTS FROM, UH, AREAS WITHIN THE CITY.

AND WE'VE PROVIDED, UM, SERVICES TO 408 INDIVIDUALS.

NOW, WE OBVIOUSLY, WE DON'T HAVE 408 HOMELESS PEOPLE LIVING IN THE CITY, BUT SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN ONGOING BASIS.

SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, IT COULD BE, I PUT UP THE SERVICES PROVIDED, CAUSE EVERYBODY ASKED ME, YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? UM, IT COULD BE ANYTHING FROM HELPING SOMEBODY GET A DMV VOUCHER TO GET THEIR ID SO THEY CAN ACTUALLY GET A JOB OR THEY CAN ACTUALLY BUY THINGS, UH, GETTING A SOCIAL SERIES SECURITY CARDS SO THEY CAN RECEIVE BENEFITS, JUST BASIC DOCUMENTATION, HELPING VETERANS, UH, RECEIVE BENEFITS THROUGH VETERAN AFFAIRS.

UM, I KNOW I'VE WORKED WITH MR. UH, GEORGE OVER HERE ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS TO GET US SOME HELP.

AND HE'S BEEN, BEEN GREAT WITH THE VFW HELPING US, UM, JUST MEALS, SHOWERS, TRANSPORTATION, AND IT CAN GO ALL THE WAY UP TO, TO FINDING HOUSING.

UM, I WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT PROJECT ROOM ROOM KEY WAS SOMETHING THAT, UH, WAS INITIATED.

UM, NOW I DON'T, I DON'T RE I DON'T HAVE A DATA ON HOW LONG THEY GOT TO STAY OR WHAT HAPPENED, BUT THEY EITHER STAY AND GET INVOLVED IN THE PROGRAM AND THEY FIND PERMANENT HOUSING OR THEY LEAVE ON THEIR OWN OR THEY DECIDE TO NOT FOLLOW THE RULES AND THEY GET KICKED OUT.

SO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE BASICALLY THE THREE OPTIONS AND ALL THREE OF THOSE HAPPENED.

AND UNFORTUNATELY, A LOT OF TIMES THE PROGRAM RULES ARE SUCH THAT SOME INDIVIDUALS CAN'T MAINTAIN AND THEY'RE RIGHT BACK IN THE CITY.

SO, YOU KNOW, WE GET A LOT OF COMPLAINTS THAT YOU'VE, I'VE SEEN YOU OUT CONTACTING THIS GUY AND HE'S BACK IN THE PARK, LIKE WHAT'S GOING ON? LIKE, WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING WHERE WE CAN'T, ONCE WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES AND WE GET THEM CONTACTED TO THE SERVICE PROVIDERS, WE CAN'T FORCE THEM TO ABIDE BY THE RULES.

AND IF THEY CAN'T ABIDE BY THE RULES, THEY KICK THEM OUT REALLY FAST.

AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO WHAT THEY'RE FAMILIAR WITH.

THEN THEY'RE GOING TO GO RIGHT BACK TO THE PARK OR THE LOCATION THAT, WHERE WE GOT THEM FROM ORIGINALLY.

UM, SO PROJECT ROOM KEY IS ENDING IN SEPTEMBER, 2021.

IT'S KIND OF COMING TO A CLOSE, BUT NOW THEY'VE LAUNCHED A PROJECT HOUSE KEY AND PROJECT APARTMENT KEY, WHICH ARE LONGER TERM HOUSING SOLUTIONS.

UM, I AM HAPPY TO REPORT THAT WE WERE ABLE TO GET SO FAR, ALREADY THREE SUBJECTS INTO PROJECT APARTMENT KEY.

UM, AND THERE WERE THREE SUBJECTS THAT WE WERE VERY FAMILIAR WITH, THAT WE'VE HAD REPEATED CONTACT WITH, WHO DIDN'T REALLY DO SO WELL IN PROJECT ROOM KEY.

UM, BUT NOW THEY'RE IN A PROJECT APARTMENT KEY, AND I HOPE THAT THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL AND IT'S A VERY GOOD RESOURCE.

AND THE VETERANS AFFAIRS, THEY ALSO HELP US FIND HOUSING SOLUTIONS FOR VETERANS, WHICH IS A GREAT RESOURCE.

AND WE ESTABLISHED WHAT WE CALL THE MET TEAM, THE MENTAL EVALUATION TEAM.

UH, ONE MISCONCEPTION IS THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE DO WE IN 2015, ACTUALLY, WE STARTED THIS REGIONAL PROGRAM WITH THE CITIES OF COVINA, GLENDORA AND AZUSA.

AND WE PARTNERED WITH DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH

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AND IT STARTED OFF AS I THINK IT WAS ONE DAY A MONTH.

AND WHEN WE INITIALLY LAUNCHED IT IN 2015, AND IT WAS GEARED TOWARDS, UM, PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH HOMELESSNESS.

SO THE COUNTY HAD TWO SEPARATE TEAMS. THERE WAS SB 82 THAT DEALT WITH HOMELESS, MENTAL ILLNESS ISSUES, WHICH YOU'LL SEE IN A MINUTE, WE UTILIZE THOSE RESOURCES THROUGH ANOTHER TEAM.

AND THEN THE, THE, THE MET TEAM WAS ESTABLISHED.

SO THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH HAS AS EVOLVED AND THEY'RE REALLY GOOD PARTNERS.

AND OUR MET TEAM NOW HELPS US DEAL WITH THE HOMELESS SITUATION.

AND SO THE MET TEAM IS AVAILABLE FOUR DAYS A WEEK.

UM, OUR DAY FOR MAT IS WEDNESDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND THURSDAY.

THEY'RE EITHER AT COVINA, AZUSA OR GLENDORA, BUT THEY'RE ALWAYS AVAILABLE TO US.

UM, AND THEY'RE NOT FOR YOUR AVERAGE EVERYDAY.

UH, THIS SOUNDS TERRIBLE.

I DON'T KNOW HOW ELSE TO EXPLAIN IT.

IT'S NOT FOR YOUR EVERYDAY, UH, 51 50 IT'S FOR SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE PEOPLE NEED SPECIAL ATTENTION.

THE 51 FIFTIES ON A REGULAR BASIS, OUR PATROL OFFICERS HANDLE.

UM, BUT THIS IS A SPECIAL SERVICE PROVIDED IN A LOT OF OUR HOMELESS POPULATION IS EXPERIENCING MENTAL ILLNESS WHERE, WHERE THEY NEED EXTRA RESOURCES, AND THIS COMES IN REALLY HANDY FOR US.

UM, SO WE HAVE THAT PARTNERSHIP.

THE COUNTY PROVIDES THAT FOR US.

UM, AND YOU COULD SEE IN 2021, UH, WE'VE ASSISTED OVER 275 INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

IT'S THEY NOT ONLY PROVIDE ASSISTANCE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL THAT'S SUFFERING, BUT ALSO THEY FOLLOW UP WITH THEIR FAMILIES TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR FAMILIES HAVE WHAT THEY NEED AS WELL.

IT'S A REALLY GREAT PROGRAM.

WE'RE GLAD TO HAVE THEM NEXT SLIDE, THE HOMELESS ASSISTANCE LIAISON OFFICER.

AND SIR, YOU CAN CUT ME OFF AT ANY TIME IF YOU, YOU WANT, I DON'T MEAN TO TAKE UP TOO MUCH TIME, BUT I WANT TO EXPLAIN THIS THE BEST THAT I CAN.

UM, WE, WE, AGAIN, PARTNERED WITH THE CITIES OF COVINA AZUSA IN GLENDORA.

UM, THE CITY OF AZUSA HAD A GOOD PROGRAM.

THEY HAVE A LOT OF HOMELESS UP IN THE RIVERBED AREA AND THEY HAD A, UH, THEY CALLED THE HALO, THE HOMELESS ASSISTANCE LIAISON OFFICER TEAMS. SO WE FORMED A REGIONAL TEAM AND BASICALLY THE MISSION OF THIS TEAM WAS TO PROVIDE OUTREACH AND SERVICES.

UM, EVERYBODY HAD AN ENFORCEMENT ARM USING PATROL OR SOMEBODY THEY USED IN THE CITY.

THIS WAS, THIS WAS OUR FIRST AIM AT JUST PROVIDING RESOURCES.

UM, THE PARTNERSHIP WENT UNTIL FROM 2017 TO 2019.

AND JUST BECAUSE OF BUDGET CUTS AND STAFFING CUTS, UM, NOBODY WAS REALLY ABLE TO ALLOCATE A FULL-TIME BODY TO THIS.

UM, SO THE PROGRAM HAS SINCE GONE AWAY.

UM, BUT, BUT DURING THE PROGRAM, WHEN IT WAS ESTABLISHED FROM 27 TO 2019, WE ASSISTED OVER 700 INDIVIDUALS W WITH CONTACTS AND PROVIDING SERVICES.

EXCELLENT.

UH, THIS ONE, UH, UNION STATION IN JANUARY, 2020, I BELIEVE WAS THE DATE.

UH, WE ACTUALLY SIGNED THE CONTRACT WITH UNION STATION.

UNION STATION IS THE LEAD, UH, HOUSING, UH, ENTITY FOR PROVIDING HOMELESS HOUSING SERVICES.

UM, SO WE BROUGHT THEM ON, WE USED, UM, AS YOUR H MONEY THAT WE RECEIVED, UM, AND, AND ACTUALLY HIRED UNION STATION HERE.

WE'RE PART OF A FIVE CITIES, UH, UH, VENTURE WITH THE CITIES OF COVINA, AZUSA, DOHERTY, GLENDORA, AND THEY ALL HAVE A, UH, UH, WORKER AT, AT THEIR LOCATIONS AS WELL TO HELP THEM DEAL WITH, UH, HOMELESS ENTRY.

THEY WORK HERE, THERE, THEY WORK HERE DURING THE DAY, BUT THEY'RE ON CALL.

UM, AND THEY'RE A GOOD RESOURCE FOR US TO HAVE ENABLE, TO GET PEOPLE INTO, INTO HOUSING.

THEY ACTUALLY KIND OF ADMINISTER OUR VOUCHER PROGRAM TO, UH, THE VOUCHER MONEY THAT WE RECEIVED A GRANT FROM THE STATE TO PROVIDE VOUCHERS FOR TEMPORARY PO, UH, SOLUTIONS, EITHER IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS.

UH, IT COULD BE FOR THERE'S, THERE'S A GAMUT.

IT'S NOT JUST HOMELESS, IT'S VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ALL KINDS OF STUFF THAT OUR VOUCHER PROGRAM CAN GO TO.

BUT WE DO HAVE THAT PROGRAM AND A UNION STATION HELPS US ADMINISTER THAT NEXT SLIDE.

A RESOURCE THAT I'VE BEEN ASKED ABOUT IS THIS THE LA COUNTY CHIEFS OF POLICE HOST TEAM, WE CALL IT IT'S IT'S, UH, THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT HOSTS, UH, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COUNTY, MET WITH THE, THE CITIES IN LA COUNTY THAT HAVE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENTS.

AND THEY, THEY UNDERSTAND THAT HOMELESSNESS IS CROSS JURISDICTIONAL ISSUE, RIGHT? AND WE ALL NEED TO GET INVOLVED.

UH, THE COUNTY ALLOCATED, I BELIEVE, UH, I THINK THE FIRST FOUR YEARS OF IT, I THINK IT WAS A MILLION DOLLARS THAT FUNDED THIS PROGRAM THAT WAS AVAILABLE TO POLICE DEPARTMENTS.

I WANT TO SAY THERE WAS 45 OF US INVOLVED, SO THE MONEY WAS KIND OF SPREAD OUT AND BASICALLY IT WAS, IS IT A REGIONAL EFFORT TO SEND RESOURCES TO CITY WHERE HOTSPOTS WERE AND WHERE THINGS WERE NEEDED? UM, WE, WE JOINED THE TEAM, WE'VE UTILIZED THE RESOURCES THEY'VE BEEN IN OUR CITY,

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UH, TONS OF TIMES TO, TO ADDRESS OUR HOMELESS NEEDS.

WE'VE SEND PEOPLE OUT TO OTHER CITIES TO ADDRESS HOMELESS NEEDS.

IT'S, IT'S KIND OF A GIVE AND TAKE PROGRAM.

IT DOES, UH, WE ARE ABLE TO BE REIMBURSED FOR SOME OVERTIME FOR HOMELESS ISSUES THROUGH THAT FUNDING, WHICH IS, WHICH IS A GOOD SOURCE.

UM, AND I JUST GAVE AN EXAMPLE JUST WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME, WELL, WHAT DO THEY ACTUALLY DO DOWN THERE TOWARDS THE BOTTOM? THERE WAS AN OPERATION THAT WE HAD.

IT WAS WHEN A SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, IT WAS OVER A WEEKEND, 226 HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, AZUSA, OMANI AND MONTEBELLO WERE CONTACTED.

90 OF THEM, UH, WERE OPEN TO SERVICES, 136 REFUSED SERVICES, AND MANY REFUSE TO TALK TO THE OUTREACH WORKERS.

UM, THAT HAPPENS.

UM, IT TAKES, IT COULD TAKE MANY CONTACTS WITH THE INDIVIDUAL.

THERE'S A TRUST ISSUE.

UM, SOMETIMES THEY'RE RELUCTANT TO TALK TO LAW ENFORCEMENT.

UM, SOMETIMES IT JUST TAKES A WHILE TO FIGURE OUT THAT, HEY, WE'RE HERE TO HELP.

UM, SO IT, IT IS A PROCESS.

IT IS FRUSTRATING WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE THE POLICE SHOW UP AND THEN WE JUST TURN AROUND AND WALK AWAY AND NOTHING'S DONE.

UM, BUT SOMETIMES THAT'S OUR ONLY RECOURSE.

AND SOMETIMES THAT COULD BE JUST THE BEGINNING OF BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP.

UM, I KNOW MR. DEROSA, SOMETIMES IT COULD BE JUST, WE JUST DIDN'T DO OUR JOB, BUT THOSE ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN I HOPE.

AND I KID WITH MR. MR. DURHAM, BUT I APPRECIATE, UH, HIS, HIS FEEDBACK FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

UM, BUT, BUT AN ISSUE THAT I WANT TO BRING UP HERE IS WHEN YOU, 90 OF THESE INDIVIDUALS SAID, THEY'RE OPEN TO SERVICES, RIGHT? WE DO THESE OPERATIONS AND PEOPLE SAY, HEY, I'M READY.

LET'S DO IT.

AND THEY, THEY GOT TO GO THROUGH THE CES SYSTEM TO GET ENTERED INTO THE CITY, ENTERED INTO THE SYSTEM BEFORE THEY CAN RECEIVE BENEFITS.

AND SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN, SOMETIMES THEY JUST DECIDE, EH, I'M REALLY NOT INTO IT.

AND THEY WALK AWAY.

THERE'S NOTHING THAT SAYS THEY'RE OBLIGATED TO TAKE THE SERVICES.

SO A LOT OF TIMES WE REPORT, HEY, WE DID THIS BIG THING.

AND 15 PEOPLE SAID THEY WOULD ACCEPT SERVICES.

WELL, IN REALITY, ONLY MAYBE ONE OR TWO DO.

AND UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE OF CONFIDENTIALITY ISSUES, WE DON'T EVER GET THE DATA AS TO EXACTLY WHAT OCCURRED BEHIND THE SCENES.

UH, WE JUST KNOW THAT THERE WAS CONTACTS MADE.

NOW, I WILL SAY WE'VE MADE PROGRESS IN THESE AREAS WITH SOME OF THE ENTITIES THAT ARE BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT.

SO SOME OF THAT DATA IS, IS BEING DIVULGED TO US.

UM, JUST LIKE WITH THE MENTAL HEALTH TEAM, WHEN WE STARTED SHARON 51 50 DATA WAS, WAS A LITTLE BIT ROUGH AT THE BEGINNING BECAUSE OF HIPAA LAWS AND THINGS, BUT WE GOT THAT WORKED OUT.

UM, SO YOU COULD SEE, YOU COULD SEE OUT OF THE 226, QUITE A FEW REFUSE TO EVEN TALK TO US OR ACCEPT.

SO NEXT SLIDE.

THIS IS, UH, UM, MR. WOO.

THIS IS THE, UH, THIS KIND OF SLIDE TALKS ABOUT THE SHERIFF'S TEAM THAT CAME IN AND WE'VE DONE SOME OPERATIONS WHERE THE SHERIFF'S HOSTING COMES IN.

THE SHERIFF'S HOST TEAM IS BASICALLY THE LEAD AGENCY ON, ON HOMELESSNESS IN LA COUNTY.

THEY, THEY STARTED IT, THEY'RE KIND OF, THEY WERE KIND OF THE, UH, THE SOUNDING BOARD, HEY, HOW DO WE DO THIS? WHAT DO WE DO? UH, WE DEVELOPED, UH, A REALLY GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM EARLY ON WHEN WE WERE FIRST VENTURING INTO THE HOMELESS OUTREACH SERVICES.

AND WE ASKED IF THEY COULD COME IN, UH, THEY HADN'T DONE A, UH, PARTNERSHIP LIKE THAT BEFORE IN A, IN AN INCORPORATED UNINCORPORATED, INCORPORATED CITY.

UH, BUT THEY AGREED TO COME IN AND WE HOSTED THE FIRST OFFICIAL PARTNERSHIP WITH LA COUNTY HOST.

THEY CAME IN AND BASICALLY IT WAS A TRAIN THE TRAINER PROGRAM.

THEY INTRODUCED US TO LHASA.

THEY INTRODUCED US TO UNION STATION.

THEY BROUGHT IN ALL THEIR PEOPLE.

THEY, THEY TOLD US HOW THEY APPROACH PEOPLE, HOW THEY CONTACT PEOPLE, WHAT INFORMATION THEY GET.

THEY TAUGHT US ABOUT THE, UH, THE 21 DAY AND CAMP MINT REMOVAL PROTOCOL THAT THEY HAVE, THAT, THAT THEY HAVE SUCCESSFULLY RAN THROUGH COURT AND HAVEN'T BEEN SUED.

UM, THEY TAUGHT US, UM, BASICALLY HOW TO, HOW TO PUT THE PROGRAM TOGETHER AND HOW TO UTILIZE, UH, THE, THEY USE THE FLOOD CONTROL PEOPLE THAT THE CITY YARD PEOPLE FOR THE COUNTY, THEY TAUGHT US HOW TO PUT OUR TEAM TOGETHER.

AND WHAT THEY ALSO DID IS THEY CAME IN AND PROVIDED ALL OF OUR OFFICERS TRAINING SO THAT WE WERE POST CERTIFIED TO BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO HOMELESSNESS, WHICH WAS A REQUIREMENT THROUGH THE STATE.

UM, SO WE GOT THAT TRAINING AND WE CONTINUE TO BE IN GREAT CONTACT WITH THEM.

THEY'VE BEEN IN OUR CITY FOR FOUR MAJOR OPERATIONS.

UM, THE FIRST ONE WAS, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER, WE HAD THE COMMAND POST OUT AT EL POLLO LOCO.

AND WE HAD, LIKE, WE HAD THOUSANDS OF OFFICERS RUNNING AROUND THE CITY.

UH, IT WAS SUCCESSFUL, BUT THE NUMBERS, UH, I BELIEVE I PUT THE NUMBERS IN HERE.

UM, WHICH WAS SUCCESSFUL.

THE FIRST OFFICIAL PARTNERSHIP, 32 HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS WERE ACTUALLY CONTACTED 13 OF THOSE, AGREED TO ACCEPT SOME TYPE OF SERVICE, UM, TO INCLUDE MENTAL HEALTH AND TEMPORARY HOUSING.

I KNOW ONE PERSON WAS DRIVEN TO A FACILITY WHO I BELIEVE ACTUALLY RECEIVED THE SERVICES, BUT THOSE WERE THE NUMBERS OUT OF OUR OPERATIONS.

SO,

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UH, THE OTHER, THE OTHER BIG ONES THAT THEY HELPED US ON WERE THE, UH, THE BEHIND THE THREE 90 PIZZA ON THE HILLSIDE DOWN AT AZUSA AND EMAR.

THAT WAS A MAJOR ENCAMPMENT THAT WE DEALT WITH IN A, A CITY YARD NIGHTMARE WITH ALL THE TREES AND BUSHES.

THEY HELPED US AT THE SPORTSPLEX AND WE HAD A MAJOR ENCAMPMENT UP THERE WHILE IT WAS CLOSED.

AND THEN ALSO THE BRANCA OVERPASS, WHICH A LOT OF RESIDENTS DON'T KNOW.

WE HAD NUMEROUS HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS LIVING WHEN THEY, WHEN THEY BUILT THE NEW BRANCA OVERPASS OVER THE FREEWAY, THEY LEFT THE OLD ONE AND THEY LEFT ABOUT A FIVE TO SIX FOOT GAP.

AND THE HOMELESS PEOPLE FIGURED OUT HOW TO GET IN THERE.

AND THERE WAS A BUNCH OF THEM LIVING IN THERE AND IT WAS CAUSING SOME REALLY BIG HEALTH CONCERNS WITH HOW THEY HAD TO TRANSVERSE.

THEY WERE ACTUALLY HANGING ONTO THE CLIFF AND ROLLING IT.

IT WAS, IT WAS, IT WAS A NIGHTMARE.

WE FINALLY GOT IT SEALED UP, BUT THE COUNTY CAME OUT TO HELP US WITH THAT ONE TOO.

IT WAS, IT WAS, IT WAS A PRETTY INTERESTING, PRETTY INTERESTING VENTURE.

I'LL TRY TO WRAP THIS UP.

I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU GUYS SOME DATA.

I, I KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ASK, WE DON'T EVER SEE THE NUMBERS.

WE DON'T SEE THE STATS, THIS, UH, I TRY TO GO FROM MOST RECENT TO DOWN TO 2017 WHEN WE STARTED THINKING ABOUT HOMELESS SERVICES MORE SERIOUSLY.

UM, IN 2020, OUR LAST HOMELESS COUNT CONSENSUS THROUGH THE COUNTY WAS 124 HOMELESS PEOPLE LIVING IN WEST COVINA.

UM, IF YOU LOOK AT IT THAT COMPARED TO 2018, WE'VE ACTUALLY DECREASED QUITE A BIT.

UM, I'D LIKE TO THINK IT'S BECAUSE OF THE SERVICES WE'RE PROVIDING.

UM, I KNOW THE COUNT FLUCTUATES, BUT I REALLY DO BELIEVE THAT WE'RE DOING A GOOD JOB AS A, AS A POLICE DEPARTMENT, BUT I'M, I'M, AGAIN, I'M NOT STANDING UP HERE TO SAY THAT WE DON'T HAVE, UM, 20, 20, WE RESPONDED OUR PATROL OFFICERS RESPONDED TO 300, OR YOU CAN SEE 3,300 CALLS FOR SERVICE.

WE MADE 102 ARREST OF HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS.

WE ISSUED 28 CITATIONS AND THE FIS ARE JUST FIELD INTERVIEWS WHERE WE CONTACT SOMEBODY AND DON DOCUMENTARY.

SO THOSE ARE THE NUMBERS THERE.

AND IF ANYBODY HAS ANY QUESTIONS, I'D BE GLAD TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

AND THE LAST SLIDE, OR ACTUALLY THE LAST TWO.

UM, I DID WANT TO ADDRESS THIS.

UM, IT'S CONSISTENT WITH THE HOMELESS PLAN THAT WAS DEVELOPED IN 2018.

UH, WE DID WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH NICOLE WHEN SHE DEVELOPED THAT, THAT, UH, THAT PLAN.

AND IT WAS PARTLY, UM, YOU KNOW, THE STEPS THAT WE HAD TO GO THROUGH TO RECEIVE FUNDING.

UM, AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE HOOPS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN GETTING THIS FUNDING, AND THIS WAS, THIS WAS A MAJOR ONE.

UM, BUT I JUST WANTED TO GO OVER SOME OF THIS, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT, WHERE WE HAVE EVOLVED AND TRIED TO FIX OUR PROGRAM, WE ATTENDED COMMUNITY MEETINGS, UH, TO ENGAGE WITH RESIDENTS TO ADDRESS CONCERNS.

THIS WAS KIND OF A, A MANDATE OF THE PLAN, BUT ALSO THE COMMUNITY ACTUALLY HOSTED, UM, UH, MEETINGS AS WELL.

AND IT'S KIND OF IRONIC THAT I'M UP HERE TALKING ABOUT HOMELESS PROBLEMS. CAUSE I WAS AT THAT FIRST MEETING AND IT DIDN'T GO SO WELL FOR ME, BUT, UH, UH, I I'M, UH, YEAH, YEAH, BUT WE, WE DO LISTEN AND WE DO TRY TO EVOLVE AND WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO GET, TO GET IDEAS.

AND WE'RE WORKING ON WAYS TO, TO COLLABORATIVELY BRING THAT TOGETHER.

AS PART OF SOME, SOME OF THE SOLUTIONS, SOMETHING THAT WE'LL BE WORKING WITH THE COUNCIL ON SOME IDEAS MOVING FORWARD.

UM, WE'VE DEVELOPED THE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE COUNTY ENTITIES.

I DON'T NEED TO GO OVER THAT.

WE CREATED TIPS FOR BUSINESSES AND WE PUT IT ON THE WEBSITE AND AS MR PATRAS POINTED OUT, IT NEEDS TO BE UPDATED.

SO THAT'S MY FAULT.

AND WE WILL GET THAT UPDATED.

UM, BUT WE DID, WE DID PROVIDE THAT AS PART OF SOMETHING THAT WE NEEDED TO DO TO ENHANCE OUR SERVICES.

UM, AND NOT ONLY DID WE JUST RECREATED THAT, THAT WEBSITE INFORMATION, WE ACTUALLY CREATED A TOOLKIT FOR BUSINESS OWNERS.

AND WE MET IN THE CITY WITH BUSINESS OWNERS AT VARIOUS LUNCHEONS AND PROVIDED THE INFORMATION ON HOW THEY CAN PROTECT THEIR BUSINESSES AND SOME THINGS THAT THEY CAN DO TO BE PROACTIVE.

UM, WE DEVELOPED A MEANS OF IMPLEMENTING TRACKING SOLUTION TO ENHANCE OUR RECORD SYSTEM.

UM, JUST SO WE COULD TRACK HOMELESS INVOLVES CALLS OF THAT NATURE BEFORE IT WAS, HEY, WE STOPPED A THOUSAND PEOPLE.

THEN WE HAD TO GO THROUGH EACH CALL AND FIGURE OUT WHO SAID THEY WERE HOMELESS AND IT WAS KIND OF DAUNTING GATHERING THE STATISTICS.

SO WE, WE DID FIX THAT SO WE CAN RESEARCH AND FIND OUT, AND IT'S EASIER TO US FIND OUT WHO RECEIVED SERVICES AND WHO DIDN'T OUR IN HOUSE RECORD SYSTEM IS PROBABLY THE BEST THE COUNTY ONES ARE.

THEY DON'T SEEM TO SHARE.

AND FOR US, OUR OURS IS THE EASIEST FOR US TO TRACK.

WE DEVELOPED A HOMELESS SERVICE CARD THAT WE GIVE TO THE HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS.

IT PROVIDES INFORMATION ON WHERE THEY CAN RECEIVE SERVICES.

UH, IT GIVES THEM THE OPTION TO CALL 2, 1, 1 TO TALK TO SOMEBODY TO, TO GET HOMELESS SERVICES.

UM,

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WE DEVELOPED RESPONSE PROTOCOLS.

IN THE LAST SLIDE I PROMISE WE ASSISTED IN THE CITY CREATION OF THE ORDINANCE TO, UH, FOR THE REMOVAL OF ENCAMPMENTS AND THE STORAGE OF PROPERTY TO INCLUDE CREATING A STORAGE AND PROPERTY, EVIDENCE, PROCEDURE, AND FACILITY AT THE POLICE STATION.

UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S, UH, ATHENS REALLY HELPED US OUT WITH, UH, BINS TO USE, TO STORE THIS STUFF.

AND IT'S A, IT'S A PRETTY BIG PROCESS.

EVERY TIME WE REMOVE ENCAMPMENT, UH, I THINK THAT THE PUBLIC THINKS THAT WE JUST PICK IT UP AND THROW IT AWAY, BUT WE ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND WE INVENTORY AT ALL AND WE BAG IT AND WE HAVE TO KEEP IT AT THE STATION FOR A MANDATED AMOUNT OF TIME.

AND IF, IF YOU'VE SEEN SOME OF THE ENCAMPMENTS, YOU KNOW, WHAT THIS ENTAILS, SO IT, IT TAKES CITY YARD TO GO WITH US TO HELP US BRING IT BACK.

UM, AND IT USUALLY FOR AN ENCAMPMENT IT'S AT LEAST THREE OR FOUR HOURS TO JUST GET THROUGH THE EVIDENCE DEPARTMENT, STACY.

SO IT'S, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF WORK INVOLVED IN WHAT GOES ON.

WE, UM, ASSISTED IN ENHANCING THE CITY'S ORDINANCE IN PUBLIC CAMPING IMPLEMENTED THE 21 DAY PORT SCRUTINIZED PROTOCOL FOR REMOVING ENCAMPMENTS.

LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT USING CONJUNCTION WITH ALL THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE HERE IN OUR CITY.

AND THEN WE, WE OBVIOUSLY WE UTILIZE THE GO APP, WHICH I THINK WORKS WELL TO GATHER INFORMATION.

AND OBVIOUSLY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WE NEED THE SUPPORT OF THE RESIDENTS.

UH, THE MORE INFORMATION YOU CAN GIVE US, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S NEEDLES IN AND ALL KINDS OF CRAZY STUFF AT THE PARK, PLEASE HELP US OUT BY TAKING A PICTURE OF IT AND SENDING IT THROUGH THE GO APP OR JUST GIVING US A CALL.

SO WE'RE AWARE OF IT SO THAT WE CAN GET TO IT BEFORE KIDS DO.

UM, WE DEFINITELY WANT TO STAY ON TOP OF THAT STUFF.

WE'RE TRYING THE BEST THAT WE CAN.

I THINK AS, AS OUR MAINTENANCE CREW GETS MORE PEOPLE BACK, UM, WE GET OUR SECOND HOPE OFFICER BACK AND WE GET EVERYBODY ENGAGED IN PROVIDING THAT INFORMATION.

WE CAN GET THAT STUFF CLEANED UP, UH, IN A TIMELY MANNER.

SO, SORRY, I TOOK SO LONG, UM, CANCER PRESENTATION.

DOES THE COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? GREAT.

I REMEMBERED IN MUCH.

WE HAVE 11 MEETING AND THEN INCLUDING AN OKAY.

THE CHIEF GIVE A PRESENTATION AND THEY, INCLUDING THE HOPE TEAM.

AND I REMEMBER THE TIME WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, WE HAVE A THREE PERSON, INCLUDING I THINK MONICA A WELL, THE LADY.

AND IT'S AN EMANI, TERRY, TERRY, TERRY TERRY THERE.

SHE'S VERY OUTSTANDING.

AND I, I JOINED ON OTHER TOWN HALL MEETING WITH HER AND SHE'S BEEN EVERYTHING INCLUDING OKAY.

AND A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH.

SHE'S A WELLMED KEY POSITION.

AND THEN NOT ONLY THAT, THEN SHE SHOW US ABOUT THE HOMELESS.

AND, UH, WAS A, YOUR HOPE, OKAY.

AN OUTREACH PROGRAM.

I THINK OUTREACH IS THE ONLY WAY YOU WILL WALK.

AND, AND THEN, SO, SO WHAT HAPPENED? WHY NOT BASED ON YOUR REPORT? THERE WAS ONLY ONE PERSON HAVE ONE OFFICER ASSIGNED FULL-TIME, BUT WE DO WORK IN JUNCTION WITH OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT, WHICH TERRY GRISHAM IS A HUGE PART OF IT.

AND SHE'S VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING THE BUSINESSES AND TAKING CARE OF SOME OF, SOME OF THAT SIDE OF THE PROGRAM.

BUT SHE'S OUT DAILY WITH ENCAMPMENTS WITH, WITH CITY YARD FOLKS AND OUR HOPE PEOPLE IN THERE, THEY ALL WORK IN CONJUNCTION.

WE HAVE ONE FULL-TIME ABSOLUTELY.

OR MAYBE MONTHLY ABOUT WHAT KIND OF, UH, OUTREACH THEY DID AND THEN HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY HELP.

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS, OKAY, HOW MANY OF HOMELESS COME? OKAY.

HOW MANY THE POPULATION, HOW MANY, OKAY.

WE HAVE IN WEST COVINA, BECAUSE ONE TIME WE HAVE A QUITE A LOT.

AND THEN NEXT YEAR WHEN WE COMPLAINING ABOUT, OKAY, THEY ARE DROPPING THE HOMELESS POPULATION IN JORDAN PARK AND SUDDENLY WE DON'T TO 50% OF A POPULATION.

SO WE, WE WANT TO HAVE A GENUINE ABOUT WHAT KIND OF POPULATION WE HAVE.

AND THE, HOW WE OKAY.

APPROACH THEM.

SO DO WE HAVE A RECORD ABOUT HOW MANY OF A HOMELESS POPULATION WE HAVE IN CURRENTLY IN WEST COVINA? YES, SIR.

UM, PAULINE.

AND IF YOU CAN GO BACK A COUPLE OF SLIDES WHERE THE STATISTICS ARE FOR, UM, ACTUALLY, IF YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE HOPE SLIDE.

AND THEY'RE TRYING TO UTILIZE RESOURCES THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO HELP IN THIS COUNT.

THERE YOU GO.

IS THAT THE SLIDE WAS, YEAH.

YOU CAN GO BACK TO THAT LAST ONE.

I'M SORRY.

BULLYING.

SO, SO THE, THE HOMELESS CONSENSUS FOR THE HOMELESS COUNT FOR 2020 BASICALLY SAID WE HAD 124 HOMELESS PEOPLE IN THE CITY.

NOW THIS IS BASED ON COUNTY NUMBERS.

IT'S BASED ON THE PEOPLE THAT WE SENT OUT TO DO COUNT AND WHAT THEY REPORTED BACK AND WHAT THE COUNTY THEN REPORTS.

NOW, I THINK THE SYSTEM IS SOMEWHAT FLAWED BECAUSE NOT EVERYBODY KNOWS, BUT I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT'S BASED ON A BEST GUESS.

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AND I THINK THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO TAKE THE BEST STAB AT IT AND DO JUST WILD GUESS NOT WEEDED.

IT WOULD COME, IT'S COUNTING AND ITS GUESTS, BUT YOU COULD SEE, YOU COULD SEE IN THE 120, 130 RANGE, THE 277, THERE WAS ONE POINT WHERE WE HAD A LOT.

I DON'T KNOW IF IT EVER GOT THAT HIGH, BUT, UM, ON THE 2018, WHEN WE RECEIVED THE 277, 277 CON.

AND THERE'S A, I THINK THAT THE EAR, WE HAVE A JOINT TEST OUTREACHED.

AND THEN AT THE SAME TIME, THEY YEAR IN THE, IN SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER WHERE WE RECEIVE, OKAY, OKAY.

UH, COUNTY DROPPED THE HOMELESS POPULATION, CHILD PARK, AND THEY GOT CAUGHT BY OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT.

I THINK YOU HAVE A RECORD OF LAT.

SO, SO WE IN THE COUNCIL MEETING, WE THREAT TO POTENTIALLY SUE THE COUNTY.

AND THEN WE ASK ABOUT HOW CAN THEY, WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A RESELL AND THEY DROP THE POPULATION TO US.

HOW WE OKAY.

DEAL WITH ALL THIS OKAY.

NEWCOMER.

AND THEN NEXT YEAR, THEN WE DOWN TO 127 OR SOMETHING.

I THINK THIS IS A POTENTIALLY IN THE NUMBERS.

I DOUBTED OKAY.

BECAUSE PEOPLE DOESN'T MOVE.

I THINK WE HAVE A MOLD DROP BASED ON YOUR RECORD.

CAN WE HAVE A RECORD? OKAY.

AND, UH, HOW MANY, HOW MANY TIME DID GET CAUGHT? OKAY.

AND THE DROPPING.

I'LL DELIVER THE HOMELESS INTO OUR PARK OR INTO OUR SEVEN 11.

DO YOU HAVE A RECORD FOR THAT? YEAH, WE, WE HAD, UH, SEVERAL YEARS, EITHER SEVERAL OR A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW WHERE WE HAD SOME INSTANCES WHERE PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE THE CITY WERE BEING DROPPED AT, OUR PARKS WAS SOMETHING THAT WE DEALT WITH WITH THE NEIGHBORING AGENCY.

AND WE BELIEVE THAT IT HASN'T HAPPENED SINCE, UM, WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE SOMEBODY, SOMEBODY SAID, THERE'S OTHER STATES THAT ARE SENDING THEIR HOMELESS PEOPLE TO CALIFORNIA, AND WE KNOW THAT THAT'S HAPPENING.

NO, I WOULD JUST WANT TO GIVE THEM BUS PASSES.

SO THERE ARE, THERE HAVE BEEN INSTANCES WHERE WE HAVE FOUND OUT THAT HOMELESS PEOPLE ARE BEING DIRECTED TO WEST COVINA, UM, AND TO PICK UP A PAYPHONE AND ASK FOR HELP.

UM, SO, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORDS ABOUT HOMELESSNESS, WE ASK HOMELESS PEOPLE, WHY ARE YOU HERE? AND THEY TELL US, OFTENTIMES BECAUSE YOU TREAT US GOOD.

YOU KNOW, UM, WE ARE RESPECTFUL TO THE HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS.

WE ARE TRYING TO WORK TO GET THEM SERVICES.

WE DO HAVE TO ENFORCE THE LAWS, UH, WHEN WE HAVE TO.

AND WE TAKE THAT ACTION, BUT WE TRY TO DO IT RESPECTFULLY.

BUT THE HOMELESS PEOPLE HAVE ADMITTED THAT THEY, THEY GET TREATED WELL HERE.

I MEAN, I DON'T THINK THAT'S ANYTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF.

UM, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK THEY GET TREATED WORSE THAN OTHER PLACES AND WE'RE DOING WHAT WE CAN, WE'RE TRYING TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS. UM, AND I STILL THINK IT'S, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO CONTINUE DOING.

NOT TOO LONG AGO IN THE SOUTH SIDE.

AND WE MET AWHILE OF A HOMELESS LADY.

AND WE JUST ACCIDENTALLY, WHEN I WAS WALKING WITH A RESIDENT TO SEE SOME GRAFFITI DESIGNER, AND THEN WE MET THIS LADY, THIS LADY.

IT'S SUPPOSEDLY BASED ON THE RESIDENT TOLD ME SHE IS REGULARLY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT THIS TIME SHE, WHEN HE, WHEN SHE INTRODUCED HER TO ME, HE SAID TO CITY COUNCIL AND SHE WENT AWAY AND REQUEST HELP.

SHE SAID, CONNECTED SHELTER.

AND CAN I, I HAVE A WOUND IS NEVER HELD.

AND SO I RIGHT AWAY CALLED THE CT, MY CHRISSA, AND THEY CALLED THE OKAY UNION STATION AND THEY PROMISE THEY WILL PICK HER UP FROM THE FRIENDSHIP PARK.

AND, AND PROVIDE SHELTER.

AND THAT'S WHAT THE TEXT I RECEIVED.

AND THEN, THEN I TOLD, OKAY.

THE RESIDENT AND THE VERY HAPPY, OKAY.

LET SOMEBODY GET HELP.

AND LATER ON, FIND OUT THAT SHE DIDN'T GET PICKED UP AT ALL.

AND THEY ONLY SHOW UP TO KEEP HER SOME HYGIENE FU OKAY.

I TOTALLY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THE INFORMATION THAT THE LADY REQUEST TO HAVE HELPED TO SHELTER THE, AND THE MEDICAL ATTENTION.

AND THEY'RE DELAYED TO OUR REQUESTS.

YOU, YOU SEND ME THE POSSIBLE CAN PICK UP BY OKAY.

LASA.

SO, SO HOW, HOW CAN WE AVOID THESE KINDS OF CJ'S AND THAT IS COMMUNICATION.

PEOPLE REQUEST HELP AND THEY DON'T GET HELP.

AND THEY RECEIVED A MAJOR EACH MONTH.

AND THAT, THAT DOES HAPPEN.

BUT IN THIS, IN THIS CIRCUMSTANCE, UM, I WAS CALLED AT HOME OVER THE WEEKEND, UH, ON THAT ISSUE.

AND WE ADDRESSED IT FAST.

I THINK THERE WAS A CHAIN THAT GOT THERE QUICK.

UM, THE INFORMATION THAT YOU RECEIVED WAS PARTIALLY INACCURATE.

UM, THE S THE LOSS OR NET LOSS, UH, UM, UNION STATION DID FOLLOW UP WITH HER.

UM, THEY HAD CHECKED HER IN THE SYSTEM.

SHE HAD BEEN ENTERED, ENTERED IN THE SYSTEM, AND SHE HAD BEEN KICKED OUT OF PROJECT ROOM KEY ON TWO PREVIOUS OCCASIONS.

SO THAT DIDN'T, THEY COULDN'T THEN PUT HER IN HOUSING AGAIN, BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T QUALIFY BECAUSE SHE'S ALREADY PROVEN THAT SHE COULDN'T LIVE THERE.

SO THEY, THEY GAVE

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HER FOOD.

THEY GAVE HER MEDICAL SUPPLIES FOR HER WOUND.

UM, AND THEY GAVE HER CONTACT INFORMATION.

AND THEY SAID THAT WE WOULD COME BACK.

THEY FOLLOWED UP WITH HER, SHE MOVES AROUND, SHE DOESN'T HAVE A PHONE, THEY HAVE NO WAY OF CONTACTING HER.

BUT FORTUNATELY, WE HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED FROM UNION STATION THAT SHE HAS BEEN CONTACTED BY LAHSA.

AND SHE'S IN THE PROCESS OF RECEIVING SERVICES THROUGH LHASA.

SO LIKE I SAID, IT TAKES TIME.

AND, AND THIS IS, THIS IS KIND OF SOME OF THE FRUSTRATION ON THE SURFACE.

IT LOOKS LIKE WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING ON THE SURFACE.

IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S FAILING.

AND TO AN EXTENT IT IS.

UM, BUT THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE DEAL WITH.

LIKE, IF, IF A PERSON CAN'T PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM AND WE TRY TO FIND THEM HOUSING IN THE HOUSING AUTHORITY SAYS, CAN'T TAKE THEM.

WE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE W WE CAN'T PUT THEM ANYWHERE.

SO WE KNOW WE'RE HERE TO TRY TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM, SEE A WAYS OF FLOP, AND THEY WILL, THEY HAVE A MISTAKE AND WE TRY TO CORRECT THAT MISTAKE.

AND THEN, SO, SO WE NEED TO BE TRUTHFUL FOR AGENCY.

WE DON'T WANT TO CABO FOR THEM, IF THEY, BASED ON MY PROOF ON THE OKAY.

TAX THERE, THE, THEY PROMISE TO PICK HER UP AND THEY GIVE HER SOME MEDICAL ATTENTION, BUT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

SO, SO, AND THEN THEY, DON'T, THEY SAY THESE ARE LAND LAND, SO WHY CHOOSE SCAPE WHEN SOMEBODY FINALLY A HOME OKAY.

HOMELESS PERSON.

AND HUMAN BEINGS REQUEST HELP.

AND, AND, AND I EVEN WENT TO FRIENDSHIP PARK TO LOCATE HER.

SHE'S RIGHT.

THERE WAS CABO.

AND I TOLD HER, OKAY.

AND THE ONE 30 SOMEBODY WILL PICK UP BASED ON THE TAX I RECEIVED.

AND THEN, AND, UH, SHE DIDN'T RECEIVE THE SHELTERS.

THAT'S YOUR QUESTION REQUEST.

SO, SO THESE ARE DISAPPOINTMENT ABOUT, OKAY.

WHAT, OKAY.

STAGE A UNION STATION.

AND THEY'LL SUPPOSEDLY PROVIDE A SHELTER.

SO LET'S, HOPEFULLY WE CAN IDENTIFY NO, OR I'LL GIVE A COMMUNICATION.

IF THEY CANNOT DO IT, THEY WILL FIND SOMETHING OUT THE AGENCY AND TO FIND SOME KIND OF HELP, OR WE CAN MAYBE FIND CHURCH.

AND CAN CONSOLIDATE A MEMBER.

SOME CHURCH MAY BE, CAN HOW'S HER.

LET'S, SHE'S WILLING TO GET HELP.

AND THIS MY POINT.

I THINK WE, WE PULLED, THIS LOOKS SO GOOD, BUT WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF ROOM BECAUSE WE STILL SEE HOMELESS PEOPLE ON THE STREET.

WE, THE DOG.

AND KNOW, WE REALLY HOPE WE CAN HELP THOSE POPULATION.

SOME KINDS OF ASSISTANT, SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN HELP THEM GET IT DONE WITH MY TIME.

UH, THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, UH, FOR GIVING ME THE FLOOR.

UH, SO YOU, YOU MENTIONED, UM, THAT WE, WE DID HAVE ROOM TO GROW AND, AND LOOKING OUT FOR MAYBE MORE, UH, PERMANENT.

HOW'S THAT EVERYONE TODAY WAS MY FIRST DAY TEACHING.

SO MY VOICE IS NOT QUITE IN SHAPE.

SO, UM, BUT, UH, YOU MENTIONED ABOUT THE ROOM FOR GROWTH AND, AND POSSIBLY MORE PERMANENT SOLUTIONS.

AND I KNOW OUR COMMUNITY AND SENIOR SERVICES COMMISSION, UM, WAS ENGAGING WITH, UM, THE POSSIBILITY OF A CAHOOTS, UH, PROGRAM.

UM, AND, AND, AND LOOKING AT THAT AS A, AS A POSSIBILITY TO, TO BRING A MORE CONSISTENT SUSTAINED, UM, MENTAL HEALTH, UH, AN ENT COMPONENT, UM, TO GO OUT AND OUTREACH, UH, JUST WONDERING, UM, YOUR, YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT PROGRAM.

UH, AND THEN ALSO SOME OTHER, I GUESS, IDEAS THAT YOU HAVE CURRENTLY IN TERMS OF THE MORE PERMANENT SOLUTIONS THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU YOU'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT.

MENTAL ILLNESS THAT ARE WALKING THE STREETS.

UM, PROGRAMS LIKE, LIKE, UH, HOOTS THERE'S THERE'S AGENCIES OUT OF THERE THERE'S DIFFERENT ENTITIES THAT PROVIDE HOMELESS OUTREACH SERVICES.

UM, ULTIMATELY THE SERVICES GO THROUGH LHASA AND UNION STATION, ESPECIALLY FOR HOUSING.

UM, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THEM, WE'VE, WE'RE LOOKING INTO A LOT OF THOSE PROGRAMS CURRENTLY.

UM, BUT A DRAWBACK TO THEM IS A LOT OF THOSE SERVICE PROVIDERS, THEY'RE, THEY'RE ABLE TO, TO PROVIDE SERVICES OR OFFER SERVICES, BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT THEY WON'T RESPOND ON, BUT, YOU KNOW, IF SOMEBODY IS MENTALLY ILL AND HAVING AN EPISODE AND BEING POTENTIALLY VIOLENT, IF THEY'RE COMING, YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE OUT IN PUBLIC DRINKING AND STUFF, THERE'S CERTAIN THINGS THAT THEY SAY, HEY, W W THE POLICE NEED TO GO AND MAKE THE CONTACT.

SO WE'RE TRYING TO LOOK INTO THE MONEY THAT IT TAKES TO, TO BRING ON THESE THINGS.

IS IT WORTH IT IF WE'RE STILL GOING TO NEED TO RESPOND AND, AND HOW DO WE OFFSET THAT? AND WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT OTHER CITIES DO AND HOW THEY UTILIZE THEM.

SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE WORKING THROUGH.

UM, BUT, BUT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE OPEN TO LOOKING AT, FOR SURE.

UM, AND YOU ASK ABOUT LONGTERM SOLUTIONS.

YOU KNOW, I JUST THERE'S, UNFORTUNATELY, THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE SUFFERING FROM SERIOUS

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THEY JUST DON'T HAVE THE SERVICES THEY NEED.

AND THERE'S, THERE'S NOTHING LONG-TERM FOR THEM AT THIS POINT, I THINK AS A CITY, A COUNTY, A STATE, I THINK THAT WE NEED TO PUSH A DIRECTION, YOU KNOW, TO FINDING PEOPLE, UH, SUSTAINABLE REHAB PROGRAMS. UM, ARE THERE ENOUGH PLACES AVAILABLE? YOU KNOW, OFTENTIMES WE GET SOMEBODY WHO IS AT, AT THAT MOMENT WHERE THEY'RE READY TO GIVE IN AND SURRENDER, AND SOMETIMES THE SERVICES AREN'T AVAILABLE AND THEY GOT TO WAIT.

UM, AND SOMETIMES IF YOU MISS THAT OPPORTUNITY, YOU, YOU MISS THAT OPPORTUNITY.

SO THESE, THE SOLUTIONS TO HOMELESSNESS WITH THE SERVICE AND STUFF, I THINK THEY'RE A GREAT IDEA.

I THINK, I THINK A LITTLE BIT THE CART WAS PUT BEFORE THE HORSE, THAT WAS THE IDEA THROWN OUT THERE WITHOUT THE RESOURCES BEING BUILT BEHIND THE SCENES TO ACTUALLY ACCOMMODATE ALL THIS STUFF.

SO I THINK AS YOU START GETTING THE RESOURCES TO ACCOMMODATE SOME OF THESE SERVICES THAT WE SAY WE OFFER AND HAVE THEM BE AVAILABLE WHEN WE NEED IT, UM, I THINK THAT'LL REALLY HELP US, UH, MOVING FORWARD AND HELPING TO, I WON'T SAY SOLVE CAUSE I, YOU KNOW, HOMELESSNESS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE FOR A LONG TIME.

I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE EVER GONNA SOLVE IT, MAKE IT GO AWAY, BUT MAYBE WE CAN REALLY HAVE AN IMPACT AND THEN LOOK AT SOME TYPE OF, UM, PERMANENT OR SEMI-PERMANENT HOUSING SOLUTION TO, TO HELP US BE ABLE TO ENFORCE SOME OF THE, THE CAMPING LAWS AND STUFF THAT OUR HANDS ARE SOMEWHAT TIED ON.

UM, BUT, BUT LOOKING AT A REGIONAL APPROACH, UM, IT SEEMS LIKE THE PR, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE, WHEN THE LAW WAS CHANGED, UM, IT WAS KIND OF IN YOUR JURISDICTION, YOU NEED TO HAVE THIS, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE SOME OF THOSE HAVE BEEN RELAXED, ESPECIALLY WITH JUDGE CARTER AND THE WORK THAT HE'S DOING.

UM, AND I THINK REGIONAL OPTIONS ARE OPENING UP IN A REGIONAL SOLUTIONS ON A MORE SCALED BASIS.

YOU KNOW, WE PARTNER WITH THESE AGENCIES AROUND US, AND I THINK BY BRINGING US TOGETHER FOR SOLUTIONS IN A REGION WOULD BE A LITTLE MORE BENEFICIAL INSTEAD OF THE BIGGER SPOT AREA, KIND OF EVEN NARROWING IT DOWN.

BUT YOU KNOW, THAT IT'S GOING TO, IT'S GOING TO TAKE HELP.

YOU KNOW, WE'RE WORKING AS HARD AS WE CAN, BUT WE ACTUALLY, WE NEED YOU GUYS TO HELP WORK WITH OTHER LOCAL POLITICIANS TO START SOME OF THESE CONVERSATIONS.

AND, UM, THINK ABOUT HOW WE GET FUNDING.

YOU KNOW, I THINK, I THINK OUR RESIDENTS PAY A GREAT DEAL IN TAXES AND YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE GOING TO MEASURE H AND ARE WE GETTING THE FUNDING BACK THAT THAT'S, THAT, THAT WE SHOULD BE GETTING TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS LIKE THAT ARE, ARE BIGGER THAN JUST WHAT WE'RE DOING DAY TO DAY TO, TO CHASE THE HOMELESS AROUND AND TRY TO OFFER THEM SERVICES.

BUT THE BIGGER, THE BIGGER IDEA ON A BIGGER SCALE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE ACTUALLY NEED TO START PUSHING FORWARD AND WORKING THROUGH AND WORKING TOWARDS.

MA'AM I JUST, UM, I REMEMBER YOU MENTIONED THAT WE ONLY HAVE ONE OFFICER THAT'S OUT THERE WORKING ON THIS HOMELESS ISSUE, RIGHT.

SOLELY DEDICATED.

BUT ALL OF OUR PATROL OFFICERS RESPOND TO HOMELESSNESS.

SO I'M JUST WONDERING HOW WOULD THEY HANDLE, UM, OR WHAT ARE THEIR HOURS, OR THERE'LL BE ABLE TO HOMELESS PEOPLE THAT ARE LIVING AT CAMERON PARK.

AS ONE OF OUR SPEAKERS MENTIONED THAT THEY'RE THERE AT NIGHT AND THEY LEAVE IN THE MORNING.

SO HOW DO WE ADDRESS THAT PATROL OFFICERS ARE EQUIPPED AND TRAINED TO ADDRESS IT? WE JUST LIKE, LIKE, IF THERE WAS AN ENCAMPMENT, OUR PATROL OFFICERS WOULD, WOULD GO AND ASK THEM TO LEAVE.

WE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO GIVE THEM A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME TO BE ABLE TO MOVE THEIR STUFF.

AND THEN THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT THE HOMELESS OFFICER WOULD COME IN THE NEXT DAY AND FOLLOW UP ON SO THAT THE RESOURCES ARE OUT THERE.

OKAY, GOOD.

UM, SO THAT WOULD BE A REASON FOR THIS RESIDENT TO GO AHEAD AND REPORT THAT ON THE GO.

SURE.

SURE.

YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, THE FRUSTRATION AND I GET IT, I GET THE FRUSTRATION.

I, I LIVE IN A COMMUNITY TOO, AND I, EVERYBODY WANTS THE SAME THING.

BUT THE FRUSTRATION IS THAT SOMETIMES WE GO OUT THERE AND WE LEAVE AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING IN REALITY.

WE DID.

WE'RE, WE'RE FOLLOWING THE PROTOCOL.

I CAN TELL YOU, WE, WE FOLLOW THE PROTOCOL, WE FOLLOW THE LAW, WE WORK WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF THE LAW.

IN ORDER FOR THEM TO BE NOT HOMELESS.

UM, AND THAT'S, I MEAN, HEY, I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE DOING.

I MEAN, EVERYONE, I THINK EVERYONE'S WORKING HARD ON THIS.

EVERYBODY IS TRYING TO GET THIS SOLVED, BUT IT'S NEVER GOING TO GET SOLVED.

IT'S JUST, PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO BE HELPED.

AND I THINK ONCE WE REALIZE THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO BE HELPED OR, UM, MAYBE THEY NEED TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.

BUT, UH, I JUST, IT BOTHERS ME THAT WE PUT SO MUCH EFFORT AND WE'RE TRYING TO HELP THESE PEOPLE.

AND WE HAVE OFFICERS THAT ARE SO NICE TO THEM THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO LEAVE.

MAYBE THAT'S A WAY TO GET THEM TO, HEY, YOU GOT TO STOP BEING HOMELESS.

YOU GOT TO, YOU KNOW, GET ON TRACK HERE.

YOU NEED TO GET CLEANED UP OR WHATEVER IT IS THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE

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THIS IS FRUSTRATING.

MY QUESTION IS THAT IT'S SAD THAT THERE'S NOT ONE SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATION IN REGARDS TO THE HOMELESS.

AND I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THAT COUNTY'S NOT SHARING THEIR HOMELESS INFORMATION.

UM, WHAT IS CURRENTLY IN PLACE WITH OTHER CITIES WITH THE INFORMATION, BECAUSE I, YOU KNOW, I'M THANK YOU THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU TREAT THE HOMELESS WELL, BUT AT THE SAME TIME THAT COULD ALSO HAVE AN INFLUX, UM, WHERE OTHER CITIES MAY NOT BE TREATED WELL, THEN THEY JUST MOVE THEM ALONG.

AND WHAT I DON'T WANT TO SEE IS SHIFTING FROM, YOU KNOW, HERE, COMING BACK HERE, JUST AN INFLUX.

UM, WHAT IS THERE THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE WITH COMMUNICATION, UM, WITH OTHER CITIES WITH COUNTY, UM, HOW MANY SYSTEMS ARE OUT THERE? AND, UH, I JUST PRETTY MUCH THAT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, THE HOMELESS IS, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY SHARE LIKE WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM.

UM, AND THE DETAIL, OH, AS FAR AS SHARING INFORMATION AMONGST LAW ENFORCEMENT ENTITIES IN THIS REGION, WE DO A GREAT JOB WITH EVERYBODY.

WE WORK TOGETHER.

WE, WE PROVIDE INFORMATION, THAT'S ALL SHARED.

THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT PROVIDES INFORMATION FROM THE LAW ENFORCEMENT STANDPOINT.

THE INFORMATION IS SHARED, AND WE HAVE THAT DATA THAT WE'RE WHERE IT GETS INTO, UM, CONFIDENTIALITY ISSUES IS WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH THESE NON-PROFITS, UM, THAT PROVIDE HOUSING, THEY PROVIDE MEDICAL SERVICES.

THERE'S THERE'S INFORMATION THAT THEY CAN'T SHARE WITH US LEGALLY.

UM, THERE'S, THERE'S, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN DATABASE.

THERE'S A NEED TO KNOW, AND, UH, A RIGHT TO KNOW, KIND OF, KIND OF PUSH AND SHOVE BACK AND FORTH.

UM, SO SOME OF THOSE DATABASES AND SOME OF THAT INFORMATION IS NOT SHARED ON THE BACKSIDE.

THEY CAN SAY, HEY, YEAH, THIS PERSON AGREED TO ACCEPT SERVICES, BUT THEY WON'T NECESSARILY TELL US WHERE THEY WENT OR EXACTLY WHAT SERVICE WAS PROVIDED.

LIKE I SAID, AS WE'VE DEVELOPED RELATIONSHIPS WITH THESE ENTITIES, THE INFORMATION THAT CAN BE PROVIDED DOES BE, IS PROVIDED.

UM, SO WE DO WORK WELL WITH, WITH MANY OF THESE ENTITIES AND THE INFORMATION IS SHARED BECAUSE IT IS A NEED FOR THE COMMUNITY AND A SAFETY ISSUE.

UM, SO IT'S PROGRESSED, BUT WE ALL DO W WE DO, THEY DO HAVE THEIR OWN ENTRY SYSTEM, THEIR OWN DATABASE, AND WE HAVE OUR OWN DATABASE.

SO THERE, THERE ARE SEPARATE DATABASES AND SOME OF THEM AREN'T FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT ACCESS.

SO IS THERE A MAIN HUB THAT IS ABLE, IS GIVEN ALL THIS INFORMATION? I MEAN, IS IT LIKE THE LAST A, IS IT COUNTY? WELL, LASA HAS IT, THEY HAVE THE CES SYSTEM, THE CENTRAL ENTRY SYSTEM.

I THINK THEY CALL IT.

SO IT LASA HAS THEIR DATABASE.

UM, UNION STATION HAS THEIRS.

I DON'T KNOW HOW WELL THEY, THEY, THEY MESH.

UM, BUT THEY BOTH KEEP TRACK OF THE RECORDS.

THAT'S FOR SURE.

BUT THE NONPROFITS THAT'S, SO EVERYBODY'S ALL SEPARATE, SEPARATE FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT, EVEN WITHIN THEMSELVES.

I MEAN LIKE THE NONPROFITS AND LOSS, I JUST WANTED TO KNOW, LIKE, WHO NORMALLY HAS ALL THE INFORMATION.

IT'S A BIG DATABASE IS UNION STATION.

THE LOSS OF, CAUSE THEY'RE THE HAVING HOUSING NAVIGATORS IN THE PRIMARY SERVICE ENTITY TO FIND SERVICES.

SO THEY HAVE THE DATABASE IS WHEN THEY ENTER SOMEBODY INTO THE SYSTEM.

AND WE WILL KNOW WHEN SOMEBODY GETS ENTERED IN THE SYSTEM BECAUSE WE'VE, WE'VE GIVEN THEM A REFERRAL.

THEY INTERIM IN THE SYSTEM, BUT WE MIGHT NOT NECESSARILY KNOW DOWN THE ROAD.

WHAT HAPPENS.

LIKE WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY, WHEN THEY GET NECESSARILY, THEY WON'T NOTIFY US IF THEY GET KICKED OUT OF THE HOUSING PROGRAM.

BUT IF WE SEE THEM ON THE STREET, WE CALL AND SAY, WHAT HAPPENED? OH, THEY DIDN'T, THEY DIDN'T WANT TO FOLLOW THE RULES.

SO THERE'S DELAY IN INFORMATION.

IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT READILY AVAILABLE.

LIKE I SAID, IT, IT HAS IMPROVED, BUT IT'S STILL NOT A HUNDRED.

AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IF THEY GET KICKED OUT OF THE HOUSING PROGRAM OR WHAT? I MEAN IN CITY OF LA, I KNOW WE HAVE LIKE THE SHELTERS AND THAT DID OCCUR.

WE ACTUALLY HOUSED THE HOMELESS SHELTERING AND THERE ARE SOME THAT HAD TO BE KICKED OUT AND THEN THEY JUST, YOU KNOW, EITHER THERE, OR WOULD YOU KNOW THE INFORMATION IF THEY GET KICKED OUT OR THEY JUST LEFT OUTSIDE THE CITY, ARE THEY GIVEN A TOKEN TO GO SOMEWHERE? IS THERE A LOCATION THAT THEY, UM, BRING THEM TO, OR DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AFTER SAY NORMALLY IF IT'S A HOMELESS PERSON WHO CALLS WEST COVINA HOME, THEY FIND THEIR WAY BACK.

WHETHER IT'S THROUGH A FAMILY MEMBER OR A UBER OR A TAXI, THEY GET A VOUCHER, THEY DECIDE TO TAKE THE BUS, THEY WALK BACK, THEY COME, NORMALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS THEY GO BACK TO WHAT THEY'RE FAMILIAR WITH.

SO THEY THEY'LL, THEY'LL FIND THEIR WAY BACK TO WEST CAMINO.

I HAVEN'T SEEN THEM DROPPED OFF BY SERVICE PROVIDERS.

LIKE, HEY, YOU CAN TAKE THEM BACK.

I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT.

UM, NOW WHETHER THEY OFFER THEM RIDES FROM THOSE PLACES OR NOT THROUGH A VOUCHER PROGRAM, I KNOW THERE'S, THERE'S RIDESHARE VOUCHERS OUT THERE.

SO I'M SURE THAT THEY'RE GETTING TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED FOR THEM.

THE PLUMBING IS OKAY, BECAUSE I LISTENED TO WHAT YOU SAY AND TALK ABOUT.

DID ANYBODY ELSE HAVE A QUESTION? I DON'T TO TAKE TOO MUCH TIME.

THAT'S A QUICK LAY BECAUSE OKAY.

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I THINK THE PROBLEM IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY, ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE, FOR THE, FOR EXAMPLE, UNION STATION.

I THINK THEY ARE PRIVATE NTT.

WE RECEIVED A MAJOR H MONEY.

SO, SO WHAT KIND OF ACCOUNTABILITY THEY HAVE? WHAT KIND OF, UH, OKAY.

AND THE INFORMATION THEY PROVIDE, THEY TALKING ABOUT A LADY HAS BEEN KICKED OUT TWO TIMES TO THAT.

IS THAT TRUE? OR THEY JUST MADE IT UP.

WHAT KIND OF ACCOUNTABILITY? OKAY.

AND THE CREDIBILITY FOUND, OR THEY JUST REFUSED OKAY.

TO SERVE.

SO, SO, SO WE WANT TO KNOW, OKAY.

WHAT KIND OF ACCOUNTABILITY OF THEIR RECORD? I MEAN, OKAY.

PEOPLE, THEY HELP IN WEST COVINA TO FIND SHELTER.

AND THE TAX PAYER PAY DEN MANGER H MONEY, WHAT KIND OF SERVICE THEY HAVE.

AND THEN I THINK, OKAY.

AND THE DAY, IF WE REFUSED TO GIVE TO YOU, AND SO WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM.

HOW MANY, HOW LONG THE CONTRACT WAS? THEY HAVE OF OUR AGENCY WITH THEM, WHICH I, IT EXPIRES SOMETIME TOWARDS THE END OF THIS YEAR.

THIS YEAR'S OKAY.

WILL BE EXPIRED.

SO, SO WE CAN SEE WHAT KIND OF PERFORMANCE DO WE WANT TO BE NEW SERVICE? BECAUSE I THINK WE STILL PAYING THEM.

EVEN THEN WE SEE IF A MAJOR H MONEY.

SO ANYTIME WE, WE SEE HELP OKAY.

FROM THEM POSSIBLE, WE STILL HAVE TO PAY DAMN SURE.

THEY PROVIDE US A REPORT WITH THEIR DATA.

WE, THEY WERE ACTUALLY HERE, THEY PRESENTED, THEY PROVIDED THAT REPORT, BUT WE, WE GET, UM, I THINK IT'S A QUARTERLY REPORT FROM THEM THAT TELLS US HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY'VE CONTACTED AND THEN HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PLACED INTO A PROGRAM.

SO WE GET THAT.

DEFINITELY SOME OF THE CONFIDENTIALITY ISSUE, THE APP REVIEWS TO PROVIDE THE FOLLOW UP AND THE PLUS THAT LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE A PLUG IN TO WORK WITH ALL POLICE AGENCY.

DO TO, THEY LOOK, THEY HAVE A DEAL, SOME KIND OF A DIFFERENT WAY TO DEAL WITH BUSINESS.

SO, OKAY.

I DON'T KNOW HOW EFFECTIVE WE ALL TO HELP, BUT WE WANT TO SERVE AS WE CAN GET TO PROVIDE.

WE DON'T WANT THE ENTITY OVER HERE.

JUST GIVE US, OKAY.

THE LIP SERVICE GIVES YOU THE HYGIENE AND DIDN'T PROVIDE THEIR JOB IS TO PROVIDE SHELTER, PROVIDE FOOD AND WANTING TO PROVIDE FOR THEM TO HAVE A HOUSING UNLESS WHAT THEY CAN HIRE IN ALWAYS CONVENIENCE ABOUT, RIGHT.

SO, SO, SO CAN WE HAVE A REPORT PEOPLE? WE, OKAY.

SEE, WE WANTED TO RENEW THE CONTRACT WITH THEM.

A, THE ONLY THING I WANT IS, OKAY, MAYBE THE COUNCIL ONE IS ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PEOPLE.

YOU CAN PAY AND PROVIDE SERVICE.

WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT KIND OF SERVICE THEY PROVIDE FOR OUR HOMELESS POPULATION IN WEST COVINA AND PROVIDE SHELTER BASED ON WHAT THEY GET HIGHER FORM.

THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE NEED HELP WITH TO, IF IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE REGION, THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE.

OH, I WOULD JUST FOLLOW UP ON THAT AND SAY THAT KELLY MCDONALD DOES A GOOD JOB OF STAYING ON TOP OF THAT.

WORKING WITH BRIAN DANIELS OR LIEUTENANT WHO OVERSEES OUR HOMELESS PROGRAM, UH, AND THE FIVE CITIES WE'RE INVOLVED IN OUR PROGRAM, THEY'RE CONSTANTLY EVALUATING THE PROGRAM.

UM, SO AS A CONTRACT COMES UP, WE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH A REPORT AND WE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH A RECOMMENDATION ON WHAT WE FEEL IS BEST MOVING FORWARD.

UH, MATTER, MAYOR, UH, JUST CAUSE I, I DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY WHEN WE HAVE SOME COMMON GROUND HERE.

UM, SO I, YOU, YOU MADE A SUGGESTION ABOUT, UM, POSSIBLY PARTNERING WITH, WITH SEVERAL CITIES TO, UM, CREATE A MORE PERMANENT SOLUTION FOR OUR HOUSING.

AND I, AND I, I THINK W WOULD THAT POSSIBLY BE A WAY TO HOLD PEOPLE MORE ACCOUNTABLE, UH, AND, AND ALSO HAVE BETTER DATA FOR US TO, TO SEE ABOUT, UM, OUR, OUR PEOPLE GETTING MORE PERMANENT SOLUTIONS.

UH, IS THAT KIND OF WHAT YOU WERE SPEAKING TO? WELL, UH, A MEANS OF PROVIDING PERMANENT SOLUTIONS IN THE AREA IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DISCUSS AND LOOK AT, RIGHT.

I, I KNOW IN EVERY CITY IN THE AREA, IT'S THE SAME CONVERSATION THAT WE HAVE.

EVERYBODY WANTS THE SHELTER BECAUSE THEY WANT THE POLICE TO BE ABLE TO ENFORCE THE OVERNIGHT CAMPING LAWS, BUT NOBODY WANTS IT AND THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.

AND WE, WE UNDERSTAND THAT.

UM, AND, AND I GET IT.

SO THAT'S WHERE THE STRUGGLE, THAT'S WHERE THE RESIDENTS NEED TO COME TOGETHER AND DECIDE WEIGH THE BENEFITS, THE GOODS AND THE BADS.

AND ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO DO THIS? IS THERE A LOCATION SOMEWHERE REGIONAL THAT FITS THIS THING BEST? THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE LOOK AT IS AS PERMANENT SOLUTIONS TO SAY, HEY, IF, IF WE REALLY WANT TO FIND PERMANENT SOLUTIONS FOR THIS, THERE ARE SOME OPTIONS, BUT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BE WILLING TO MAKE THAT THEY MAKE THAT LEAP.

DO YOU BRING ON A ENTITY LIKE THE NORTH COUNTY ENTITIES HAVE THE CITY NET AND LET THEM RUN THE SERVICE PROGRAM FOR THE AREA.

DO YOU DO THAT? W WHERE DOES THAT LAND, YOU KNOW, AND THAT THOSE ARE DISCUSSIONS THAT, THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS TO COME TOGETHER.

THEN, THEN YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE THAT DECISION.

THAT'S WHY I SUGGEST WE WORK WITH THE OTHER CITIES.

UM, AND THEN ONCE YOU, ONCE YOU TELL US WHERE IT'S GOING, OR IF IT'S NOT GOING, OR IF IT IS GOING, THEN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT CAN, WE CAN GET TO GET TOGETHER AND DEVELOP A PLAN ON THAT.

AND HOW DO WE UTILIZE

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WHAT'S WHAT IF WE DON'T GET A PERMANENT HOUSING SOLUTION? WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE TO THAT? YOU KNOW, W WHAT'S THE OUTSIDE LIMIT, WHERE DO WE GO? WHAT, WHAT IS IT? THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT.

WE, WE WE'RE DANCING AROUND IT.

UM, BUT I, I THINK WE REALLY NEED TO SERIOUSLY SIT DOWN AND ENGAGE IN CONVERSATION AND FIND OUT IF IT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO ENGAGE IN, OR IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE NOT.

AND OBVIOUSLY I THINK THAT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME SIGNIFICANT RESIDENT INPUT.

UM, AND THEN IT WOULD BE A DISCUSSION IN, IN SOME, SOME THINGS THAT YOU GUYS DO.

I W I WANT TO FOLLOW THROUGH.

UM, OKAY.

UH, COUNCILMAN TOBIAH, TOBIAH REGARDING THE HOUSING THING.

LOOK AT THE AIRWAYS DOWNTOWN AREAS, CITY, LOOK AT THE, HOW MANY HOMELESS THEY HAVE, AND YOU'VE WON A FEW HOUSING.

HOW, HOW MANY HOUSES YOU, WE CAN BUILD, YOU BUILT A COM HOW MANY WE CAN HOUSE THEN 60,000, 70,000, OVER A CT AND COUNTY HOMELESS.

SO, SO YOU NEVER END.

SO, SO HOW YOU RESOLVE THIS ISSUE? OKAY.

COUNTING, WE DIDN'T HAVE TAKE THE LEAD.

THEY HAVE ALL A BILLION DOLLARS.

THERE, WE RECEIVE ALL THESE HEALTH ON FEDERAL AND STAY ON OUR NGO AGE AND THE W COVINA RESOURCE.

WE HAVE, WE PAID TAXES, BUT WE DON'T HAVE A RESOURCE.

AND THEN HOW WE BILL ALL THIS HOUSING, OKAY.

HOW MANY YOU CAN BUILD AND HOW MANY YOU CAN HOUSE, HOW MANY THEY COME, IT CAN TAKE A COUNTRY TO COME TO US.

HOW CAN WE STOP THEM? YOU CAN NOT STOP THEM.

AND YOU BUILD THE ACCOUNT OR HOW MANY WE CAN HOUSE THEM.

SO THIS IS A HUGE ISSUE, LAC TO CONNECT, EVEN BUILD THEIR OWN HOUSING.

THEY HAVE A LOT OF MONEY.

WHERE'S THEIR HOUSING.

NOW, THE JUDGE WANT THEM TO BUILD HOUSING WITH ALL THREE MOUNDS.

EVEN LA COUNTY TO BUILD HOUSING FOR THEM.

THEY HAVE THE MONEY WHERE THEY BUILT BUILDING THE CENTRAL JAIL.

IF YOU EVICT ALL THE EQUIPMENT NOW AND NOT PUT THE HOMELESS PEOPLE OVER THERE, THAT IS RIDICULOUS.

SO I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEIR SO-CALLED THE COUNTY, AND LCCT HOW THEY DEAL WITH THEIR 40 YEARS, 50 YEARS OR HOMELESS POPULATION CAN GROW MORE.

SO, SO, SO, SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PULLING HOUSING.

I THINK WE STILL HAD TO GO BACK TO THE COMMUNITY TO DO OUR, OKAY.

ALL THIS RESOURCE.

WE CAN FIND ALL THIS.

NONPROFITS, SEE, HOW CAN WE HELP? OKAY.

WITH ALL THE COMMITTEE TO HELP OUT DUE TO WE DON'T HAVE A RESULTS.

AND, UH, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAN FORCE THE CITY.

EVEN DON'T HAVE THE MONEY AND TRY TO HAVE A 31 CG TO SHARE ALL THIS SO-CALLED GRANT.

AND WITH 31 CITY IN SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, AND THAT WE ONLY GET ABOUT $50,000.

AND TO BUILD HOUSES.

I THINK THIS IS A REALISTIC, THANK YOU.

I HEAR YOU NOW, MR. WOO.

I HOPE YOU DON'T MISCONSTRUE THAT.

I, I, I DON'T KNOW IF HOUSING, PERMANENT HOUSING IS A SOLUTION TO HOMELESSNESS.

I KNOW THAT IT'S, IT'S AN OPTION THAT'S BEING OFFERED NOW AS A MEANS TO WORK WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF THE LAW.

SO RIGHT NOW IT'S, IT'S A SOLUTION THAT SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING WE SHOULD AT LEAST ENTERTAIN.

UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, IN THE REGION, I KNOW IF YOU LOOK AT OTHER AGENCIES, THERE'S THEIR STATE FUNDING, HEAP FUNDING THAT, THAT, THAT IT'S PROVIDED TO, TO BUILD FACILITIES, TO SHELTERS, WHATNOT.

SO ALL THOSE LOGISTICS ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN LOOK INTO TO SEE THAT IF THE RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE AND IF THERE'S A VIABLE OPTION.

AND LIKE I SAID, IF THERE'S NOT, THEN WE JUST NEED TO KNOW THAT, AND WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT OUR PLAN MOVING FORWARD FROM THERE IS GOING TO BE AND WHAT RESOURCES WE CAN UTILIZE, UM, AS A BACKUP PLAN.

I LIKE, YEAH.

SO, UM, I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT REGIONAL, THE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP.

SO I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT DEFINITELY, UH, BEING MOVED FORWARD.

UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NO.

WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

SORRY FOR TAKING UP SO MUCH TIME.

YOU HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO THE CONSENT CALENDAR, HUH? UH, ALL RIGHT.

THAT'S UH, THAT WAS THE CITY MANAGER'S REPORT

[CONSENT CALENDAR]

NOW ON TUESDAY.

DO YOU, DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION? AND SHE MOVED TO THE CONSENT CALENDAR.

MAY I REMOVE FROM IT TONIGHT? ITEM TWO CONSIDERATION OF THE AGREEMENT WITH NATIONAL DEMOGRAPHICS.

THIS IS A STUDY THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO TO BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE STATE ELECTIONS CODE, BUT I WANT TO DELAY THIS BECAUSE OF THE DELAY IN THE FEDERAL CENSUS AND THE DATA THAT'S NEEDED FOR IT.

SO PLEASE CAN TAKE THAT OFF YOUR AGENDA TONIGHT.

ITEM TWO.

SO THERE'S ONLY THREE ITEMS. SO, UH, DOES ANY OTHER COUNCIL WANNA, UH, WELL, ANYTHING? NO.

SO DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE? SO I'LL MOVE SECOND ROLL CALL.

MADAM MAYOR.

BEFORE I DO ROLL CALL, I HAVE TO READ THE ORDINANCE TITLE INTO THE RECORD.

UH, ORDINANCE NUMBER 2, 4 8, 5 ORDINANCE

[03:00:01]

OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA APPROVING ZONE CHANGE NUMBER 20 DASH THREE, AND ADOPTING THE VINCENT PLACE SPECIFIC PLAN S P DASH 31 AT 10 24 WEST WORKMAN AVENUE.

ONTO DEPARTMENT, REGULAR MATTERS, ITEM NUMBER FOUR, CONSIDERATION OF CORONA VIRUS, STATE, AND LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY AND FISCAL YEAR 2021 TO 2022 BUDGET AMENDMENTS.

UM, AND, UM, CAN I CLARIFY THE, UH, THE MOTION WAS MADE BY COUNCILMAN ROOT AND THE SECOND WAS A COUNCIL MEMBER AND SPONSORED BY A COUNCIL MEMBER.

COUNCILMAN WOO.

ALL RIGHT.

COUNCIL, WOMAN DIAZ.

I MAYOR PRO TEM CASINOS.

AYE.

MAYOR LOPEZ, VIANNA, AYE.

MOTION PASSES FIVE ZERO.

THAT ENDS THE CONSENT CALENDAR

[4) CONSIDERATION OF CORONAVIRUS STATE & LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS AND FISCAL YEAR 2021-2022 BUDGET AMENDMENT]

UH, CITY MANAGER WILL PRESENT THE UPDATE.

UM, GOOD EVENING AGAIN, MARIN COUNCIL, OUR FINANCE DIRECTOR, TOKYO, AND I SENT HER HOME, BUT WE HAVE, UM, VERY QUALIFIED MEMBER OF OUR TEAM IN OUR ASSISTANT FINANCE DIRECTOR.

STEPHANIE , I'M GOING TO ASK HER TO STEP IN AND, UM, GIVE THIS ENTIRE REPORT TONIGHT RATHER THAN JUST THE PORTION THAT SHE HAD EXPECTED TO PROVIDE.

SO STEPHANIE, IF YOU WOULD GOOD EVENING.

SO, OKAY.

SO TONIGHT'S ITEM IS TO COVER AN AFFIRM, THE PROJECTS THAT WILL BE USED FOR THE RECOVERY ACT FUNDS AND THEN TO ADDRESS TWO ITEMS THAT WERE IN THE, THAT ARE PROPOSED TO BE A BUDGET AMENDMENT.

THE CITY IS RECEIVING OVER 19 AND A HALF MILLION IN THE RECOVERY ACT FUNDS.

WE RECEIVED HALF OF IT IN MAY AND WE'LL RECEIVE THE SECOND HALF NEXT MAY.

AND WE HAVE UNTIL 20, 24 TO ACTUALLY OBLIGATE ALL OF THOSE FUNDS AND THEN 20, 26 TO ACTUALLY USE THEM.

THERE ARE SEVERAL SUCH STATUTORY ELIGIBLE USES.

UM, ONE THROUGH THREE CATEGORIES, ONE THROUGH THREE ARE, UH, ITEMS THAT MUST BE RELATED TO COVID-19.

WHETHER IT'S RESPONDING TO PUBLIC HEALTH, ADDRESSING ECONOMIC IMPACTS, RESPONDING TO WORKERS, PERFORMING ESSENTIAL WORK RELATED TO COVID-19.

THEY HAVE TO SOME WAY CORRESPOND WITH THE PANDEMIC.

UM, THE FOURTH CATEGORY IS GOVERNMENT SERVICES TO THE EXTENT OF REVENUE LOSS, WHICH I'LL GO INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE IN A SECOND, AND THEN WATER, SEWER AND BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE.

UM, THE CATEGORY FOR REVENUE SERVICES, TO THE EXTENT A REVENUE LOSS IS ACTUALLY A CALCULATION DESIGNED BY THE TREASURY THAT ALLOWS THE CITY TO LOOK BACK AT POINTS OVER FOUR TIMES OR YEARS, BASICALLY IN DECEMBER 31ST, 2020, 20, 21, 20 22 AND 2023, UM, WITH OUR BASE HERE BEING FISCAL YEAR 19.

SO BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, AND BASED ON THAT BASE HERE, OUR GROWTH RATE IS 5.5%.

AND WE HAVE AN ESTIMATED REVENUE LOSS OF 5.9 MILLION JUST FOR 20.

UM, WE ANTICIPATE THAT AT LEAST 3.6 MILLION WILL BE OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS, BASED ON THAT CALCULATION THAT THE TREASURY HAS SET.

UM, THIS IS THE BROADEST CATEGORY IN WHICH THE CITY IS, UH, STAFF IS PROPOSING TO USE MOST OF ITS FUNDING BECAUSE IT IS THE MOST BROAD OR, UM, GOVERNMENT SERVICES.

AND SO INFRASTRUCTURE, ROADS, SOFTWARE SORT OF, UH, WELL, IT INFRASTRUCTURE, THESE FIRE PARKS AND REC CAN ALL BE USED OUT OF THIS CATEGORY AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO RELATE AT ALL TO COVID-19.

THERE ARE SOME RESTRICTIONS, SOME INELIGIBLE USES INCLUDE PAYING INTEREST ON OUTSTANDING DEBT, BE PUNISHING ANY OF OUR RESERVE FUNDS, PAIN SETTLEMENTS, OR JUDGEMENTS THE POSITING INTO A PENSION FUND AND A MATCHING ON NON-FEDERAL GRANTS.

SO WE CAN USE IT TO MATCH A FEDERAL GRANT, BUT JUST NOT, NOT GOING INTO THE LIST OF PROPOSED EXPENSES SINCE WE'VE GONE OVER THIS A FEW TIMES IN A PUBLIC FORUM.

AND THEN AGAIN, WHEN WE IN COUNCIL SAW THE BUDGET, UM, I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH THE FULL LIST, BUT I AM GOING TO POINT OUT SOME ITEMS THAT, UM, STAFF IS PROPOSING TO MODIFY.

UM, THE FIRST IS WITHIN THE PUBLIC HEALTH EXPENSES, WE ARE STILL PROPOSING TO SPEND ABOUT 9.4 MILLION IN THAT CATEGORY, BUT WE ARE PROPOSING TO SHIFT SOME OF THE MONEY THAT WAS ALLOCATED FOR THE FIRE STATION REPAIRS TO FUND TWO NEW AMBULANCES.

AS WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL AMBULANCES OUT OF SERVICE, WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY A CRITICAL AND CAN BE CORRELATED TO ENDEMIC RESPONSE.

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AND THE NEXT CATEGORY, WE ARE PROPOSING TO KEEP THAT FUNDING ABOUT THE SAME, UH, WHICH IS A MILLION DOLLARS TO ADDRESS NEGATIVE ECONOMIC IMPACTS.

AND FOR THAT ONE OR OPPOSING TO DO JOB TRAINING AND HOPING TO PARTNER WITH THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, THEN, UH, THE LAST ONE IS THE PROPOSED EXPENSES FOR REVENUE LOSS.

SO THIS IS THE BROAD CATEGORY AND STAFF IS NOT PROPOSING ANY CHANGES TO THIS, UH, AT THIS TIME.

UM, HOWEVER, WE DO WANT TO SAY THAT, UH, AS BIDS COME IN AND PROPOSALS COME IN AND WILL BE COMING TO COUNCIL AND MAYBE PROPOSING TO CHANGE, UM, ALLOCATIONS WITHIN THESE PROJECTS, UM, AS SOME MAY COME IN OVER IN OTHERS, UM, AND WAIT UNDER, UM, THERE ARE LIKE WITH ANY OTHER FEDERAL FUNDING, UH, TERMS AND CONDITIONS, A MAJOR ONE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT IS THAT ALL OF THESE MUST MEET FEDERAL PROCUREMENT SUSPENSION AND DEBARMENT STANDARDS, WHICH MEANS THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ABIDING BY THE MOST STRINGENT, UH, PROCUREMENT STANDARDS, WHICH IN MOST CASES WILL EITHER BE OUR STATE OR OUR LOCAL POLICIES.

AND THEY'RE ALSO REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

THE FIRST IS AN ENTER A REPORT THAT'S DUE AUGUST 31ST, WHICH IS JUST AN INITIAL, UH, STATUS OF OUR FUNDING.

UM, AND THROUGH JULY 31ST, WHICH FOR US IS NOT MUCH BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT, UM, REALLY OBLIGATED ANY, BUT THE, UH, PUBLIC SERVICE AGREEMENT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR THE, UM, UH, DEPARTMENT, AND THEN WE'LL REBOOT.

YOU'RE EXPECTED TO DO QUARTERLY REPORTS AFTER THAT.

SO FOR THAT SECTION, BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO THE BUDGET AMENDMENT IT'S ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS IT'S ME AGAIN? OKAY.

I CAN NOT CONTROL, NOT TALKING.

SO, UM, I, CAN I LEAVE YOU ALONE? I'M GOING TO ASK YOU SOME QUESTION TO BE FAIR.

I THINK IT'S OKAY.

UM, AND THE, WE, BASED ON, WE APPROVED THE BUDGET, UH, JUNE 30TH.

AND, UH, WE, WE, WE INCREASE.

AND THAT TIME BASED ON LAST YEAR INCOME AND THAT WE HAVE POTENTIALLY $2.6 MILLION OFF OF A DEFICIT.

AND THEN WE ADD 10, 10, 10.

AND THEN PEOPLE SAY, OH, WE SPEND IN LIKE JAMES AND SAY, WE, OOH, BANKRUPTCY.

WE DID TIDE OVER THAT BANKRUPTCY THING.

BUT THE THING IS, WE KNOW IT BASICALLY IS $2.6 MILLION IS PAID OFF LAST YEAR INCOME.

WHEN WE CAN SHUT DOWN, WE HAVE A NO BUSINESS, NO HOTEL, NOTHING.

SO LET'S JUST A VERY CONSERVATIVE AND RIGHT NOW.

I THINK STILL EARLY, UH, YOU CAN SEE THE HOTEL IS OPEN.

ASK ABOUT OKAY.

UH, UH, HOLIDAY IN THAT BOOK.

DID TELL ME THAT.

WOW.

THE DSA THEY'RE LEFT INTO THE BANK, BUT THEY'RE PRETTY HAPPY AT THEY ALWAYS FULLY BOOK SO MANY.

NET TOT TAX WILL COME BACK TO US.

THAT'S ABOUT $2 MILLION AND PLUS, OKAY.

UM, LOOK AT THE BOOKED A RESTAURANT, RIGHT? LOOK, THE TRAFFIC, THE TRAFFIC.

I HAVE A HARD TIME TO DRIVE ON TEMPLE CITY OVER HERE.

TRAVIS REALLY INTENSE.

SO MANY WHITE, A LOT OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE DOING BUSINESS.

AND OUR GDP IS PRETTY HIGH RIGHT NOW.

SO WE DIDN'T, OUR INCOME IS MUCH HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR WHEN WE GET SHUT DOWN.

SO I W I REALLY HOPE WE CAN HAVE A UPDATE INCOME NUMBER.

I KNOW IT'S STILL EARLY, BUT WE SHOULD HAVE THE NUMBER TO THE OFFSET BASED ON THE CONSERVATIVE LAST YEAR, EVERYTHING IS SHUT DOWN THE FIRST THING.

SO I DON'T THINK WE HAVE THAT DEFICIT AT ALL.

BASED ON WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, PLUS WE HAVE SO MANY DEVELOPMENT COMING IN.

NOW WE WHAT'S GOING ON.

I'VE BECOME A MEGA COOKIE.

EVERYBODY WANTS TO COME AND BASICALLY OPEN UP THE WALL AND THEY GIVE IT TO THE CT WITH ALL THESE DEVELOPMENT, WITH ALL THESE HOUSING.

AND THEN WE TALK ABOUT 10, 10, 10 HERE.

I WANT TO USE, MAYBE ANSWER.

IS THAT TRUE? WE HAVE A POTENTIALLY HIGHER 10%.

HIRE 10 POLICE OFFICERS, UH, DUE TO LAST YEAR BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, WE HAVE A 19 HIGH BUDGET.

AND DUE TO PANDEMIC, WE CUT DOWN TO 90.

NOW WE GO BACK TO THE 19 NINE PLUS ONE.

SO BASICALLY WE ONLY INCREASED ONE POLICE OFFICER.

BEFORE THE PANDEMIC.

AND AT THIS 10, 10 OFFICE.

SO WE REQUEST, UH, BASICALLY LET, IS FOR THE ENTRY LEVEL.

SO WE TALKING ABOUT OKAY.

POSSIBLE.

AT $1.2 MILLION OVER THIS, THIS WAY WOULD BE FUND GENERAL FUND AND ANOTHER ONE 10.

UM, AND PROBABLY WALK THERE.

ABSOLUTELY COMING FROM OKAY.

LET, IS OVER HERE AND SAY, OKAY, THIS IS THOUGHT WE STRICTLY FUND.

IT'S NOT ON GENERAL FARM EXPENSE.

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JUST TO SAY YES OR NO.

SO YOU, SO YOU TOO POLITE.

I HOPE I DIDN'T SCARE YOU.

I KNOW SOMETIMES I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT, UH, STAFF HAS ALSO BEEN SEEKING GRANTS AND WE'RE HOPING TO GET A COUPLE OF GRANTS TO HELP FUND SOME OF THE POLICE OFFICERS.

WE HAVE A GRANT, SO WE DON'T EVEN HAVE TO SPEND $1.2 MILLION.

SO SOMEBODY IS TALKING ABOUT, WE'RE GOING TO BANKRUPT THE CT, WE IMPROVE THE SERVICE, THEN WHAT WISDOM REQUESTS WE WANT SAFETY.

AND WE ARE UNDER PROTECTION PREVIOUSLY RIGHT NOW WITH THIS TEMPLATE, HIS OFFICE, UH, WAS, UH, MR. FOOT TALKING ABOUT, HE WANTS TO KNOW HIS NEIGHBORHOOD, OKAY.

HAVE A PATROL.

AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD, WE HAVE A PATROL, THEY PAID TAXES.

THEY DESERVE THE SERVICE, MAKE SENSE.

AND WE HAVE A GRAND, THANK YOU SO MUCH, STEPHANIE, TO APPLY GRANT.

SO IT WOULD BE IN THAT WAY, WE EITHER CUT DOWN THE $1.2 MILLION OF THE ANNUALLY OVER THESE TEMPLATES OFFICER AND THEN 10, PROBABLY A WALK THAT IS COMING ON RESTRICTED FUNDS.

SO IT'S NOT ON GENERAL FARM MRI, CORRECT.

AND THEN THE POT TIME IS ONLY WHAT 390 IS ALL THEM BASED ON THIS, BUT THEY CREATE REVENUE BECAUSE PEOPLE DO NOT COMPLY.

WE WILL FIND THEM TO MAKE SURE THEY COMPLY TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CITY IS CLEAN AND THE OLD POVERTY OR BUSINESS OKAY.

NEED TO COMPLY WITH OUR CALL IN THIS MAKE SENSE.

SO THAT BASICALLY PAY FOR ITSELF.

SO WHERE IS THE DEFICIT? AND MAYBE YOU CAN, YOU CAN USE EXPAND TO, TO, TO US CURRENTLY, HOW YOU SEE WITH THIS BUDGET INCREASED SERVICE INCLUDED SAFETY, AND IT DIDN'T UTILIZE TOO MUCH OF A GENERAL PHONE.

AM I? RIGHT? SO WE'RE STILL WORKING ON CLOSING THE FISCAL YEAR FOR LAST YEAR, BUT WE HAVE SEEN AN UPTICK AND INCREASE IN REVENUES, UM, OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS.

SO IF THAT CONTINUES, WE DO LOOK TO SEE A BETTER OUTCOME OVER THE NEXT YEAR, FISCAL YEAR.

SO MANY W W WE NOT GOING TO HAVE A DEFICIT SPENDING, WE BASICALLY POTENTIALLY SURPLUS AND MY WAY DEPEND ON HOW THE YEAR TURNS OUT, BUT WE COULD POSSIBLY SEE A SURPLUS IN THIS FISCAL YEAR AND WE'LL HAVE TO SEE HOW LONG-TERM WORKS BECAUSE WE'VE RECEIVED A LOT OF ONE-TIME FUNDS.

UNDERSTAND.

WE DON'T WANT TO TALK TOO MUCH ABOUT TABOOS SUPPLY BECAUSE THEN EVERYBODY WILL WANT TO REQUEST A RACE.

SO, SO WE WANTED TO SAY WE POSSIBLE BALANCE MAKE MORE SENSE.

AND THEN, SO IN THAT WAY, WHAT WE WANT TO APPROVE NY IS ABOUT A DE FEDERAL RESCUE FUND.

WE NEED TO LOCATE IN DALE.

SPENDING THAT'S ONE PART.

UM, IF YOU WANT ANY CHANGES TO THAT LIST THAT STAFF HAS INCLUDED, THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE BUDGET.

UM, THAT IS WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR TONIGHT.

THE OTHER PART IS THE BUDGET AMENDMENT TO ACTUALLY INCLUDE THE DOLLARS FOR THE 30 POSITIONS THAT STA UH, COUNCIL INCLUDED IN THE BUDGET.

AND THEN THE LAST PORTION IS TO AUTHORIZE A BUDGET FOR THE SPORTS PACK SO THAT STAFF CAN ACTUALLY INITIATE OPERATIONS.

AND THE CO AND LEE.

I THINK BASED ON THE LAST REPORT WE ALREADY, UH, HIGHEST SIX AND A CODE ENFORCEMENT.

WE HAVE SIX AND, UH, UH, PROBABLY A WALK.

HOW MANY WE HAVE, SORRY.

UM, FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT, I BELIEVE WE HAVE, UM, THEY'RE REVIEWING THE APPLICATIONS OR THE 10 POSITIONS WE HAVE HIRED FOR, UM, MAINTENANCE WORKERS.

UM, SO WE'RE RECRUITING FOR SIX.

WE HAD THOUGHT WE HAD RECRUITED FOR SIX, TWO DID NOT SHOW UP.

SO WE HAVE FOUR ON BOARD ALREADY.

AND THEN WE HAVE FOUR ON BOARD WITH, UH, THE, UH, GOING THROUGH BACKGROUND, I BELIEVE FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THEN RECRUITING THE SIX OTHER POSITIONS.

AND MAYBE HOW MANY YOU ARE GOING TO RETIRE.

WE HAVE A POLICE DEPARTMENT, TOO.

WE HAVE A NUMBER FOR THAT BECAUSE WE NEED TO MAKE SURE OUR SERVICE LEVEL CAN OTHERWISE, OKAY.

NO MATTER HOW WE HIRE, WE HAVE MORE PEOPLE RETIRE, ALL DIVERSE.

SO WE HAVE A NUMBER FOR THAT.

UM, WE HAVE, I DON'T HAVE THE NUMBER WITH ME.

WE CAN PROVIDE THAT NUMBER, BUT WE DO HAVE ONGOING RECRUITMENT.

SORRY.

YEAH, GO AHEAD.

JUST CITY MANAGER.

I EXPECT FIVE POLICE DEPARTMENT RETIREMENTS BY THE END OF THE CALENDAR YEAR.

IS HE A DAY GOING TO BY DECEMBER? YES.

SO FIRE, WE TIE, THEY DON'T ALWAYS TELL US AHEAD.

I'M JUST GIVING US A, WE NEED TO, THEN WE NEED TO WEEK

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THROUGH FIVE PLUS.

THE 10 WE WANT TO, OTHERWISE WE CAN NEVER SEE THE IMPROVEMENT OF OUR SERVERS OR THE STREET, UH, THROUGH THE CHAIR.

OUR RECRUITMENT FOR THOSE POSITIONS IS CONTINUOUS AND WE'RE AWARE, AND WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO REACH OUT.

UM, IT'S A VERY DIFFICULT SERIES IN POSITION TO RECRUIT FOR RIGHT NOW, GIVEN THE CONTEXT OF THESE TIMES, WE ARE CONTINUING TO PUSH AND ATTEND JOB FAIRS, ET CETERA.