* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:01] THANK YOU. [Call to Order] GOOD EVENING. WELCOME TO OUR WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL MEETING. TODAY IS JANUARY THE 17TH, 2023, AND IT IS 7 0 5 TONIGHT. SAME VACATION WILL BE HELD BY PASTOR KELLY DEPE FROM FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH. AND COUNCILMAN WOO WILL LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. PLEASE RISE, LET'S PRAY. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF LIVING AND WORKING IN THE GREAT CITY OF WEST COVINA. AND LORD, I THANK YOU FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN THAT YOU HAVE PLACED IN AUTHORITY OVER US AS OUR CITY COUNCIL. WE THANK YOU LORD FOR THIS ROLE THAT THEY HAVE, THE RESPONSIBILITY THEY HAVE TO LEAD OUR CITY AND TO BRING, UH, JUSTICE AND TO CARE FOR EVERY SINGLE RESIDENT AND EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT, UH, LIVES AND WORKS HERE. AND WE THANK YOU, LORD FOR THIS MEETING TONIGHT. WE PRAY THAT YOUR PRESENCE WOULD BLESS THEM, LORD, THAT YOU WOULD GIVE THEM WISDOM, GOD, THAT YOU WOULD BE WITH THEM, AND THE PROCEDURES AND EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN THE MEETING. LORD, LET YOUR PEACE BE UPON THIS MEETING NOW. FATHER, WE ALSO LIFT UP ALL OF THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE SERVING IN OUR POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND OUR MILITARY THAT'S OVERSEAS. FATHER, BE WITH THEM AND KEEP THEM SAFE. USE THEM, LORD, TO DO YOUR WORK IN OUR COMMUNITY AND ALL AROUND THE WORLD. SO FATHER, WE LIFT THEM UP AND WE THANK YOU LORD FOR YOUR PRESENCE AND WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO AS YOU LEAD OUR CITY COUNCIL, AND AS YOU BLESS OUR CITY, IN JESUS NAME WE PRAY. AMEN. AMEN. EVERYONE, PLEASE PUT YOUR RIGHT HAND TO YOUR HEART AND FACE THE FLAG AND FOLLOW MY LEAD. I PLEASURE. ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, WE HAVE ROLL CALL PLEASE. YOUR HEART. YOU DOING WITH THAT? COME ON. DO WE HAVE EVERYBODY HERE? SEE? THANK YOU. LET'S PUT THAT, LET'S IT'S HAPPENING. OKAY. ROLL CALL PLEASE. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR. COUNCIL MEMBER CONTOS. HERE. COUNCILMAN WU? HERE. COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ. VITO. PRESENT. MAYOR PRO DIAZ. UH, EXCUSE ME. MAYOR PRO TEK PRESENT. MAYOR DIAZ, PRESENT CITY ATTORNEY. IS THERE ANYTHING TO RE BE BE REPORTED OUT OF OUR CLOSED SESSION? NOTHING. MADAM MAYOR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY. [PRESENTATIONS] TONIGHT PRESENTATIONS TONIGHT WE'RE RECOGNIZING AND CONGRATULATING FIRE CAPTAIN BRENT HAM. I'M HIS RETIREMENT CAPTAIN HAM. CAPTAIN HAM HAS BEEN WORKING FOR THE WEST COVINA FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR 32 YEARS. THAT IS A LONG TIME AND MANY, I MEAN THAT IS SO WONDERFUL. UH, I'D LIKE TO CALL UP CHIEF CAPELLI AND CAPTAIN HAM TO COME DOWN. TESTING. TESTING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UM, I, I JUST WANNA CONGRATULATE YOU AGAIN AND I'M SO HAPPY AND I JUST WANNA WISH YOU WELL ON YOUR ENDEAVORS AND I HOPE YOU GET TO RELAX NOW. AND YOU LOOK SO YOUNG TO BE RETIRING. . I, I WOULD SAY I FEEL YOUNG, BUT I'VE BEEN VERY COOL. . VERY GOOD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MAYOR. MAYOR. MAYOR. COUNCIL, STAFF CITIZENS, FELLOW BROTHER AND SISTER FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. CAPTAIN HAM, RETIRING. HE'S ALREADY RETIRED, BUT HOLIDAYS, WE HAD TO DO IT NOW. SO GOT LIKE A FEW THINGS TO SAY. CAPTAIN BRAND HAM DID A TOTAL OF 32 YEARS, THE PUBLIC SERVICE, UM, WITH THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. HE BEGAN HIS CAREER ON DECEMBER 17TH, 1990. AFTER GOING TO MOUNT SAC FIRE ACADEMY. HE GRADUATED FROM THE ZOO PACIFIC, UH, PLAYING FOOTBALL THERE WHILE SERVING IN THE RANKS OF FIREFIGHTER, FIREFIGHTER, PARAMEDIC AND CAPTAIN. AND HIS LAST POSITION WAS CAPTAIN FOR 18 YEARS. I SAW A LOT OF YEARS TO, UH, RUN AN ENGINE AND TO RUN A HOUSE AND TEACH PEOPLE AND BE THE LEADER. UH, YOU WERE INSTRUMENTAL, APPARENTLY IN A AUXILIARY PROGRAM. YOU'RE AN ADVISOR, WHICH IS GOOD. JUST LEARNED A FEW THINGS. UH, LAST COUPLE GETTING READY FOR TONIGHT. SO, UH, BRA WAS ALSO, UH, PART OF THE ASSISTED IN THE IMPLEMENTATION [00:05:01] OF OUR INFECTIOUS CONTROL PROGRAM. AND HE'S A VERY, HE IS AVENUE OF SPORTS. I KNOW THAT. UH, WE ALL KNOW THAT. DEFINITELY KNOWS ABOUT SPORTS PLAYING FOOTBALL. UH, HE WAS A, A VITAL PART OF THE SOFTBALL TEAM. UH, WE COULD HAVE USED HIM A COUPLE MONTHS AGO WHEN WE DIDN'T WIN ANY TEAMS. AND I ACTUALLY HAD TO PLAY ON THE TEAM. THAT'S WHEN I FELT YOU, THAT'S WHEN HE FELT YOU. YEAH. UM, IT WAS SO BAD I HAD TO PLAY, YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T GOOD. UM, YOU ALSO ON THE OLYMPICS, THE GOLF TEAM, I KNOW WE ALL KNOW YOU PLAY GOLF A LOT. HE PLAYS A GOLF A LOT, A LOT MORE GOLF NOW, PROBABLY. UH, HE'S ALWAYS BEEN A MENTOR AND ALWAYS STRIVED TO SHOW EVERYBODY TO BE PHYSICALLY FIT, AS YOU CAN TELL. LOOKING YOUNG, AS THE MAYOR STATED, HE WAS ALWAYS WORKING OUT. UH, THE TIMES THAT I GOT TO WORK WITH HIM, HE WORKED OUT MAYBE THREE TIMES A DAY. YES. IF I, I WOULD SAY TWICE, BUT TWICE. UM, TWICE A DAY, TWICE. UM, BUT A LOT OF IT WAS COMING BACK ON CALLS AND RUNNING CALLS AND DOING IT AND JUST STAYING HEALTHY AND READY TO GO TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY. UM, CAPTAIN HAM WAS ALWAYS, UH, A MENTOR TO THE, THE, THE NEW FIREFIGHTERS WAS THERE READY FOR TRAINING AND UM, THAT WAS GOOD. UH, YOUR NICKNAME WAS HAMMER, BUT I THINK THAT WAS CUZ YOUR LAST NAME CUZ I DON'T THINK YOU WERE A HAMMER FROM WHAT I SAW. I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY WOULD DISAGREE WITH THAT, BUT HIS NICKNAME WAS HAMMER. UM, YOU RESPONDED TO A NUMBER OF BIG FIRE CAMPAIGNS, WILDLAND FIRE CAMPAIGNS OVER THE YEARS. SOME OF THE BIG ONES THAT RECENT ONES IN THE PAST. SO HE ALWAYS PUT HIMSELF IN A POSITION TO BE ON EQUIPMENT THAT WAS VERY VITAL TO THE COMMUNITY ON THE TRUCK, ON THE WILDLAND UNITS, AND RESPONDED TO THOSE, THOSE TYPE OF CALLS. ALSO RECEIVED A COUPLE LIFESAVING AWARDS AND A UNIT CITATION. UH, INTEGRITY, PRIDE AND DEDICATION IS, UH, CORE VALUES TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. AND WHEN I MET BRETT A LITTLE OVER FIVE YEARS AGO, UH, I DUNNO IF HE'LL REMEMBER, I'LL TELL A QUICK STORY. UH, WE HAD A FIRE AT THE NOODLE PLACE OVER ON, UM, MCINTYRE SQUARE. AND IT WAS THE FIRST FIRE WAS WHEN I GOT HERE AS AN ASSISTANT CHIEF. AND IT DIDN'T GO TOO GREAT. THE COMMUNICATION, IT WAS A VERY SMALL FIRE. BUT WE GOT BACK, THE FIRST THING BRENT WAS, IS HEY, LET'S BRING OUT THE POLICY MANUAL, THE PROCEDURES, MANUALS ALL GET TOGETHER. AND THAT REALLY SHOWED HIS DEDICATION TO HAVE EVERYBODY ON THE SAME PAGE TO SERVE THIS COMMUNITY SAT WITH ME AND SAID, THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE. HERE'S HOW WE CAN DO BETTER. THIS IS WHAT WE DID BETTER THERE. WHAT? AND, AND IT WAS JUST GREAT. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER THAT, BUT YOU BROUGHT OUT THE BIG OLD BOOK AND WE SAT DOWN AND TALKED. IT REALLY SHOWED ME THIS WAS AN UPSTANDING LEADER OF OUR DEPARTMENT AND NOT YOU REMEMBER THAT? YEAH. OKAY. AND THAT SAT WITH ME. UM, SO, UH, A COUPLE THINGS. I I ASKED A FEW PEOPLE WHAT ARE SOME FUNNY THINGS ABOUT BRENT? CAN SOMEBODY COME COME UP WITH SOME STUFF I CAN SAY ABOUT HIM OR WHATEVER? AND ONLY ONE PERSON GAVE ME TWO THINGS. UM, IT WAS, TOMATOES NEED TO BE CUT THE PROPER WAY. THEY CAN'T BE TOO THICK. FOR A SANDWICH. AND TOILET PAPER ROLL IS, BEARDS ARE OKAY. MULLETS ARE NOT. I'M ASSUMING THOSE ARE CORRECT. YEAH. SIMPLE. NOT JUST ME. RIGHT. CIVILIZED COMMUNITY. . SO BRIAN, ON BEHALF OF THE WEST CAMINA FIRE DEPARTMENT, THE CITIZEN OF WEST COVINA, THE COUNCIL, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR, HERE AS A SERVICE PUBLIC SERVANT. UM, IT WAS BEEN A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH YOU THE TIME I GOT TO, UH, WE MISS YOU, UH, THE INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND, AND EVERYTHING IS GREAT AND I WISH YOU A LOT OF LUCK. THANK YOU. PLEASURE. WE, WE DO HAVE A FEW THINGS. WE HAVE A FEW, OH, THERE YOU GO. WE HAVE A FEW THINGS FOR YOU. FIRST WE HAVE A CERTIFICATE. YOU WANNA READ IT? YOU WANT ME TO READ IT OR, OKAY. WE HAVE A CERTIFICATE HERE FROM THE WEST CORINA, UM, CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION, UH, BRENT HAM CAPTAIN FOR HIS DEDICATION OF 32 YEARS IN SERVICE. AND, UM, IT'S SIGNED BY ME AND I JUST WANNA CONGRATULATE YOU AGAIN. THANK YOU. AND WE ALSO HAVE A STREET SIGN HERE. HAM COURT. AW . WE, WE HAVE, UH, WE HAVE ONE MORE THING. OH, THINGS, UH, DOESN'T LIKE ME. WE HAVE ONE MORE THING. WHEN, UH, WHEN A FIREFIGHTER RETIRES, WE HAVE TO TAKE BACK THEIR BADGE. YOU DON'T GET TO KEEP THEM CUZ THEY'RE NO LONGER AT THAT RINK. HOWEVER, YOU DO GET A RETIREMENT BADGE, IT SAYS YOU'RE RETIRED. SO VERY COOL. THERE'S YOUR RETIREMENT BADGE, SO YOU CAN KEEP THAT. WE HAVE THIS. AND AGAIN, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE AND HONOR, SAY SOMETHING. GO AHEAD. GOT TIME. ARE YOU SURE? OKAY. WELL, FIRST OF ALL, I'M GONNA THANK GOD IT'S TRULY HAS BEEN A, A BLESSING TO HAVE SUCH AN AMAZING CAREER. A MOSTLY SAFE CAREER. UM, I'D LIKE TO THANK MY, MY WIFE AND FAMILY FOR ALL YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT. UM, I COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU. AND JUST REAL QUICK, I WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE MY WIFE BECAUSE, UH, YOU KNOW, AS WE KNOW AND YOU GUYS ARE GONNA BE ABLE TO RELATE. IT DOESN'T, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU WORK A DAY, TWO DAYS, OR 10 DAYS, THINGS GO SIDEWAYS WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU'RE AT WORK, YOU [00:10:01] KNOW, YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, A PLUMBING ISSUE, A VEHICLE ISSUE, UM, A WILD ANIMALS, WHATEVER YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, AND CAT WAS ALWAYS THERE TO HANDLE THE PROBLEMS. AND THAT REALLY MADE IT, UM, COMFORTING FOR ME TO DO MY JOB. SO THANK YOU. UM, MY PARTNERS IN THE FIRE ASSOCIATION, I LOVE YOU GUYS. THANK YOU FOR THE BROTHERHOOD AND, UH, KEEP UP THE STRONG WORK. CHIEF CAPELLI AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. THANK YOU, UM, THE CITY. IT'S BEEN AN HONOR TO BE, UH, PART OF SUCH A TREMENDOUS ORGANIZATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. OKAY. [ORAL COMMUNICATIONS - Five (5) minutes per speaker] OKAY, WE'VE COME TO OUR ORAL COMMUNICATIONS, UH, WE WILL NOW MOVE ON. AND, UH, IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL, PLEASE FILL OUT ONE OF YOUR YELLOW, UH, SPEAKER CARDS AND SUBMIT IT TO THE ASSISTANT CITY MA. UM, CLERK, PLEASE. HOW MANY DO WE HAVE? WE HAVE 10 SPEAKERS, MA'AM. 10 SPEAKERS. OKAY. UM, OKAY. OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS ARMANDO HERMAN, FOLLOWED BY CHRIS MILLER, FOLLOWED BY MIKE GREENSPAN. ARMANDO HERMAN. OH ME. OH. FOLLOWED BY CHRIS MILLER, FOLLOWED BY MIKE GREENSPAN. GOD, WELCOME TO 2023, EVERYBODY. BUT AS WE ALL KNOW FROM BRANDON BIRD, US 3 95 4 4 19 69, YOU ARE DIRTY N***A. AND THE REASON WHY I DO NOT FREE FROM USING A DIRTY N***A AS I QUOTE IT, BRANDON BURG. CHRIS IS ALL OHIO. BECAUSE AGAIN, BASED ON SLIDER VERSUS PHELPS, THE CONTENT THAT I SHALL READ, GOD HATES THE USA. THANK GOD FOR NINE 11 AMERICA'S DUE TO ITEM NUMBER EIGHT, YOUR MICROWAVE B******T AND ALL YOUR COVID. YES. PRAY FOR THE USA. THANK GOD FOR IEDS. MAYOR. FAST TRUTHS, F*G TRUTHS. SIMPLIFY FACTS. GOD HATES F*G. MARILYN TALIBAN. MATTER OF FACT, F*G NATION, NOT BLESS, JUST CURSED. THANK GOD FOR DEAD SOLDIERS. AND YOUR F*****G BENEDICT POPING HELL. PEACE RAKE BOYS. YOU'RE GOING TO HELL. GOD HATES YOU. SO I READ THIS DECISION BY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT 5 62 US 4 43 INTO THE RECORD BECAUSE I KNOW THAT I'M DEALING WITH ROTTEN M***********S IN OUR SOCIETY THAT TEND TO RIP OFF THE PUBLIC. AND WHEN YOU PUT YOUR DECISIONS FOR MICROWAVES, LIKE ON ITEM EIGHT, INTRA COMMUNITIES, WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE F*****G KILLING US THE WAY THEY DID WITH COVID VACCINATIONS THAT WERE STILL UNDER AN EMERGENCY BASED ON THE J*****S GOVERNOR FROM CALIFORNIA, YOUR S******E GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM. MR. WOO. AND FOR THAT INFORMATION ON TOP OF MY READINGS, I'M GONNA READ DOWNEY LATINO INTO THE RECORD BECAUSE IT SIMPLIFIES WHAT WORDS ARE CONSTITUENT, MR. BLANK OTHER WACKOS THAT HAVE FILED THE AIR OF EVERY COUNCIL FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS OR MORE, DESPITE A NEW PUBLIC CONTROL POLICY. AND AS I SAID, THERE IS NO LONGER FIRST [00:15:01] AMENDMENT OR PRIEST SPEECH IF WE DEAL WITH DIRTY N*****S WHO WANT TO SUPPRESS US. MR. DAVID CAR, MANNY. AND I'M HERE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THE CONSTITUTION SAYS ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS. AND YOU'LL FIGHT FOR EVERY INCH. AND I WILL SEND EVERY M***********G TO BACK TO ISRAEL, QUOTE UNQUOTE BRANDON BURKE VERSUS OHIO. AND THE REASON WHY 2023 IS SO F*****G BRAVE BECAUSE WE NO LONGER HAVE BOLDY HERE WITH US TO F**K WITH US ANYMORE. CAUSE HE'S A PUNK LITTLE B***H. CRY BABY. AND HE'S OUT OF THIS COUNCIL HORSESHOE. SO I'M LOOKING FOR CHANGE FROM THE PRO CHAMP CUZ I HAVE RESPECT FOR HIM. NOW, DON'T CONSTRU MY WORD F*G OR FAGGOTS OR HOMOSEXUAL COMMENTS CUZ THEY'RE NOT, I JUST CLEARLY PUT ON RECORD THE DECISION BY THE SUPREME COURTS HEARD AND THE US 5 62 4 43 SNYDER VERSUS PHELPS. SO 42 IS SEEN. 1983, THE COLOR OF LAW 18 USC 2 42 AND 2 45, RESPECTED BY WORDS. WORDS DO NOT HURT. IT'S THE ACTION BEHIND THE WORDS THAT CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF WHAT FREE SPEECH AND YOUR FREE EXPRESSION IS. OTHERWISE. ROSA'S HUSBAND SHOULD HAVE NEVER GRANTED MR. BRIAN TAB, TAB, TAB, TAB A YEAR AGO WHILE I WAS SITTING IN HERE SIMPLY BECAUSE HE WAS BEING A MAN TO SPEAK UP WHAT HE BELIEVES. HIS TESTIMONY FOR THE RECORD WAS ON THE ISSUE. MADAM MAYOR. IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE SEE MOMMY LETTI BACK, DO NOT WORRY IN HER WAITING RING. SHE'S A FREE WOMAN, FREE AT LAST, FREE FOR ALL THE SAME WAY. GEORGE SANTOS FROM NEW YORK, THAT LYING PIECE OF S**T, M**********R, A*****E, S******E POLITICIAN, LIED HIS WAY TO CONGRESS. AND THAT'S THE REASON WHY AMERICA IS DUE AND FOUGHT FOR HOW MANY MORE YEARS. TOO MANY. SO IT'S TIME TO TAKE ACTION, SUPPORT, AND PROTECT FREE SPEECH. DEFEND THIS COUNTRY FOR EVERY EDGE FOR NOW, AND SOONER OR LATER FOR AMERICA. THANK YOU. CHRIS MILLER, FOLLOWED BY MIKE GREENSPAN, FOLLOWED BY ROSA RIOS. HELLO, COUNCIL. IT'S BEEN A WHILE. YEAH, COME BACK. SO, YOU KNOW, JUST A STATEMENT. I DON'T AGREE WITH THE EMERGENCY ACT FOR, UH, COVID OR WEATHER. UM, BUT I AM HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT OUR UNDERPASS. AND VINCENT, NOW I'M A MECHANICAL ENGINEER FOR 27 YEARS WORKING AT P TWO S. AND I'VE DONE PLENTY OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS FOR BUILDINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE. IT'S ABHORRENT THAT WE HAVE A FLOODING SITUATION. AND TO ME, HAVING A SIGN SAYING POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING IS UNACCEPTABLE. BACK IN NOVEMBER, I DID AN INFORMATION REQUEST FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS FOR MAINTENANCE OF OUR UNDERPASSES. AND THE RECORDS ARE PRETTY SHODDY. YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO, THERE'S JUST CHECK MARKS, LITTLE BLURBS, NOTHING SAYS, YOU KNOW, PUMPS HAVE BEEN REBUILT, NO MOTOR REPLACEMENTS, NOTHING. AND IN REALITY, WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IS TO UPDATE ALL THE, THE PUMP STATIONS WITH A COMMON PUMP AND A VARIABLE SPEED DRIVE. BY DOING THAT, IF WE HAVE, WE COULD HAVE IN STOCK AN EXTRA DRIVE AND AN EXTRA PUMP AND MOTOR. SO IF ANY OF 'EM FAIL, WE COULD REPLACE IT ON THE FLY AND NOT HAVE A SITUATION THAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY ON VINCENT. SECONDLY, BY PUTTING IN A VENTURI, UM, BOUNCING VALVE, WHICH GRISWOLD MAKES ONE, YOU CAN ACTUALLY DO FLOW TESTS ON THE PUMPS AND SEE REAL TIME WHAT [00:20:01] IS GOING ON WITH THE PUMP DURING STORM SITUATIONS OR DURING, UH, YOU KNOW, MAINTENANCE CHECKS TO BASICALLY SEE WHEN PUMPS ARE GOING BAD. AND TO DO SERVICE. IT WOULD DO AWAY WITH, YOU KNOW, JUST GOING EVERY MONTH OR WHATEVER TO SEE AND INSPECT THE PUMPS. YOU COULD GET REAL TIME DATA. YOU KNOW, I'M AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION FOR FREE. I, YOU KNOW, I'M SICK OF SEEING OUR CITY RUN DOWN. I WOULDN'T MIND HELPING AS LONG AS YOU KNOW WE HAVE RESULTS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MIKE GREENSPAN, FOLLOWED BY ROSA RIOS, FOLLOWED BY JERRY PATRIS. MIKE GREENSPAN. I HOPE EVERYBODY HAD A GOOD CHRISTMAS VACATION AFTER ALL. AS I SAID TO A COUPLE PEOPLE AT BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AT A TABLE, YES, JESUS WAS BORN IN A MANGER. THERE WAS NO ROOM AT THE END. MARY AND JOSEPH WERE JEWISH. THAT'S WHY THERE WAS NO ROOM AT THE END. NOW ON CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. IN FACT, SOMEBODY ELSE IS A HUNDRED YEARS OLD THIS YEAR. TIM TEBOW'S, TIM AQUA COUNTRY CLUB. YES, YOU HEAR TIM ALWAYS TALK ABOUT JESUS. BUT IF LAST CHRISTMAS JESUS HAD APPEARED IN THE DINING ROOM TO GET SOME CHRISTMAS DINNER, TIM TEBOW WOULD'VE BODILY THROWN HIM FROM THE DINING ROOM. JESUS IS JEWISH A HUNDRED YEARS AND THEY HAVE NO YETS AND JUST ONE FAA MEMBER, AT LEAST YOU GUYS HAVE A BETTER TRACK RECORD THAN TIM TEBOW'S. TIM AQUA COUNTRY CLUB. AND REMEMBER PHIL NICHOLSON PLAYS HIS GOLF THERE TOO, BECAUSE HE WANTS TO BE AROUND US. WHITE CHRISTIAN GOLFERS, NO YDS, AND HE'LL TOLERATE ONE FATA. BUT THAT'S WHY HE WAS TIM TEBOW'S GUEST AT THE CLUB BECAUSE THAT'S THE KIND OF PEOPLE HE WANTS TO PLAY HIS GOLF WITH. AND HE'S A P G A MEMBER. JUST TO LET YOU KNOW. NOW, A WHILE BACK, I WAS OVER HERE AND I WAS IN THE ELEVATOR AND THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT AN ICE CREAM SOCIAL AND WHERE WAS IT? WELL, IT WAS JUST EIGHT STEPS UP FROM HERE, EIGHT STEPS UP. NOW I KNOW YOU GUYS WASTED A LOT OF MONEY ON THAT SPRING FEST AND THE ICE CREAM SOCIAL COULD HAVE BEEN A LOT BETTER. I USED TO READ ABOUT ICE CREAM SOCIALS IN THE PRESIDENT MADISON DAYS. AND WHAT CAN I SAY? OUR MISS BLOOMINGDALE'S ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, PAUL, SHE'S NO DOLLY MADISON. IT WAS THE SANDWICH. THE SANDWICHES IN THE BARS WERE SERVED IN THIS CART THAT OBVIOUSLY HAD NO REFRIGERATION. THE SANDWICH WAS A MELT. THAT'S GREAT IF IT'S A SUBWAY SANDWICH OR A BURGER KING MELT OR SOMETHING. OR, OR A STEAK, A PHILLY CHEESE STEAK SANDWICH. BUT ICE CREAM SANDWICHES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SERVED COLD ROSEN. AND I WOULD SAY THERE'S PROBABLY A PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE THAT THE BARS WERE PROBABLY MELTED ON THE INSIDE TOO. THEY NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB. NOW, I'VE OFFICIATED SOFTBALL AND ONCE A OFFICIATED WITH A, A VOLLEYBALL OFFICIAL AND THERE'S A MECHANIC FOR DO OVER IT'S LIKE THIS. AND PERHAPS THEY SHOULD DO OVER THAT ICE CREAM SOCIAL AND GET THESE THINGS CALLED FREEZERS AND PUT THE ICE CREAM IN A FREEZER SO IT WON'T BE MELTED. YOU COULD EVEN BUY IT. I WAS OVER THERE AT FOSSIL MAN'S IN ALHAMBRA AND I ASKED, DO YOU SELL THE ICE CREAM? AND AND THEY SELL IT IN THREE GALLON TUBS FOR $45 SERVES 50 TO 60 PEOPLE. I MEAN, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. IF YOU'VE GOT MONEY FOR SPRINGFEST, I'M SURE YOU'VE GOT MONEY FOR FREEZERS AND MAYBE YOU COULD EVEN STORE THEM AND BRING THEM OUT TO DO OVER THE ICE CREAM SOCIAL WITHOUT MELTED ICE CREAM. NOW, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT A LAW FIRM FROM ORANGE COUNTY. WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT A FIRE CHIEF THAT LIVES IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY IN RIVERSIDE. NO, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EIGHT STEPS UP FROM HERE IN THAT ROOM UPSTAIRS THAT THEY JUST DID A TERRIBLE JOB. WHAT A FAILURE. NOW, NOW, YOUR WHOLE TIME AS ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER WON'T BE JUDGED ON THAT ONE FAILURE, BUT THEY SHOULD DO A BETTER JOB. AND I DO WANNA THANK THE PEOPLE ON THE FOOTHILL TRANSIT BOARD FROM WEST COVINA WHO SHOW UP. I CAN'T SAY THAT ABOUT EVERYBODY. THERE'S A MAYOR WHO, WHO HAPPENS TO BE AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT A SCHOOL AND JESSICA AND KANYE, [00:25:01] AND SHE HAS MISSED, OH, LET'S SEE, THREE OF 'EM. SHE, SHE BORDERS ON BEING LIKE A RICK CARUSO. HE WAS FOUR ABSENT 40% OF THE TIME FROM HIS POLICE COMMISSION. IF LAST YEAR, JANUARY THROUGH MAY, SHE WAS ABSENT ONE MORE TIME. SHE WOULD BREAK THE CARUSO ATTENDANCE RECORD OR LACK OF ATTENDANCE. SOMEBODY WHO WORKS IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AS AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL PLAYING HOOKY. THE FOOTHILL TRANSIT GETS LOTS OF MONEY FROM US TAXPAYERS. THE LEAST THEY COULD DO IS SHOW UP TO THE MEETINGS. AND I'M GLAD FOR THE ONES WHO DO SHOW UP, WE NEED TO GET RID OF THE ONES WHO DON'T AND REPLACE 'EM THAT WITH ONES WHO WILL THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. GREENSMAN. ROSA RIOS, FOLLOWED BY JERRY PATS, FOLLOWED BY MATTHEW SMITH. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS ROSA RIOS. SO LIKE MY THIRD TIME HERE, THIS IS MY DAUGHTER. SHE WAS MURDERED ON JANUARY 2ND, 2021. SIMPLY GOING TO GET SOMETHING TO EAT. AND AT THE BEGINNING I DID ASK MYSELF WHY, WHY? BUT THEN THE CLOSER I GOT TO GOD, THE CONVERSATIONS I HAD WITH GOD, THE CONVERSATIONS I HAD WITH JESUS AND THE CONVERSATION I HAD WITH MY MOM, THE WHY REALLY DIDN'T MATTER BECAUSE THERE WAS NOT GONNA BE A GOOD ENOUGH ANSWER FOR SOMEONE TO TELL ME WHY MY DAUGHTER WAS MURDERED FOR NO FAULT OF HER OWN. UM, BUT THE WHY I DO WANT FROM YOU GUYS, FROM MR. W MY SON-IN-LAW REACHED OUT TO ME COMPLETELY DEFLATED, BROKEN ALL OVER AGAIN. BACK TO SQUARE ONE. DID YOU GUYS HEAR ABOUT THE DOG WHO WAS TOSSED OVER A BOB WIRE IN THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE? THAT DOG HAD A PRESS CONFERENCE. THERE WAS A POLICE OFFICER ADVOCATING FOR HIM. THEY HAD MEDIA TO THIS DAY. NOT ONE OF OUR CITY REPRESENTATIVES, NOT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, NOT ONE OF YOU GUYS WHO TOOK A OATH TO SERVE AND PROTECT THE COMMUNITY. NOT ONE OF YOU GUYS HAVE STEPPED FORWARD FOR MY DAUGHTER. AND I ASK, WHY IS SHE NOT WORTHY OF FIVE MINUTES OF YOUR TIME? SEE, GABBY LOVED ANIMALS. SHE ALWAYS HAD AN ANIMAL. SO SHE IS HAPPY THAT THAT DOG GOT SOME JUSTICE. THEY CAUGHT THE PERSON WHO TOSSED THEM OVER THE BARB WIRE. THE, UM, POLICE OFFICER. THEY CAME AND PUT US A PRAYER. HE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT JUSTICE HERE. I'M STILL WAITING FOR JUSTICE FOR MY DAUGHTER. IT'S BEEN TWO YEARS. THIS IS MY SECOND YEAR WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER. I HAD TO GO CHRISTMAS, NEW YEAR'S WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER. SO I DON'T SAY HAPPY NEW YEAR ANYMORE BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING HAPPY ABOUT IT. SHE WAS MURDERED JANUARY 2ND. SO EVERY YEAR, THAT'S MY NEW YEAR'S, THAT'S MY CHRISTMAS, THAT'S MY REMINDER. AND I GET PEACE AGAIN. WHEN I GO TO SLEEP, I GET PEACE. BUT WHEN I WAKE UP AGAIN, THAT TSUNAMI COMES ALL OVER AGAIN. SOME DAYS ARE GOOD AND SOME DAYS ARE REALLY BAD. BUT WHEN I GET A PHONE CALL FROM MY SON-IN-LAW, SHE SAYS, I GIVE UP ROSIE. NO ONE'S WILLING TO DO A PRESS CONFERENCE ON BEHALF OF MY DAUGHTER. AND I ASK WHY, WHY NOT? SHE DONATED HER ORGANS. SHE WAS, YOU WOULD'VE, YOU WOULD'VE BEEN PROUD OF HER. WE ARE STILL RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA. SHE WAS GOING TO BECOME A NURSE. SO MY QUESTION TO YOU GUYS IS, WHY, WHY ISN'T SHE WORTHY? IS SHE NOT A PRIORITY? SHE DOESN'T JUST IS SHE'S NOT URGENT ENOUGH. SHE DOESN'T, SHE'S NOT WORTH THE, UM, I KNOW THERE WAS A, UM, PRESS RELEASE FOR THE REWARD. THANK YOU FOR THAT. BUT SOME OF US, LIKE ME, I WAKE UP WITH THE NEWS. I GO TO SLEEP WITH THE NEWS. THE NEWS HAS A LOT MORE, MORE POWERFUL THAN SOCIAL MEDIA. THERE'S, YOU KNOW, UH, SOME BABY BOOMER. SO I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF I'M A BABY BOOMER, IF I'M RIGHT UP THERE WHERE I WAKE UP TO THE NEWS AND I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE GONNA REACH A LOT MORE RESIDENTS IF YOU GET ON THE NEWS. AND IT'S GONNA REACH A LOT MORE COMMU SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES JUST LIKE KEVIN, THE DOG DID. AND THAT'S THE WAY THEY CAPTURED HI. THE GUY THAT THREW HIM OVER THE BOB WIRE. SO I ASKED [00:30:01] YOU GUYS STEP, I KNOW THE POLICE DEPARTMENT COMPLETELY TURNED THEIR BACK ON US. THEY SAID NO, THEY DIDN'T WANT ANY PART OF IT. AT LEAST THEY WERE HONEST ABOUT IT. THEY TOLD THEM NO, BUT I ASKED YOU GUYS FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP US TO HELP US BRING JUSTICE TO HER THAT E EVEN IF HE, THEY'RE NOT CAUGHT. BUT AT LEAST YOU DID SOMETHING FOR YOUR COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. UM, EXCUSE ME. OKAY. UH, OKAY. THANK YOU MAYOR. UH, UH, I, I RECEIVED A TEXT MESSAGE FROM YOU, ASSIGN LOAD. OKAY? AND, UH, I HAVE BEEN OKAY AND REQUEST THE CITY MANAGERS AND POLICE DEPARTMENT TO HAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE AND THEN MY UNDERSTANDING, OKAY, WE, THEY DID THE CONFERENCE ON JANUARY 4TH, RIGHT? CITY MANAGER, JANUARY 3RD, RIGHT? WELL, I THINK WE HAVE A PRESS RELEASE. OKAY? BUT I KNOW YOU WANT TO HAVE A CONFERENCE. I REQUEST A CITY MANAGER AND A CITY MANAGER. I SENT YOU THE SCREENSHOT THAT CITY MANAGER PROMISED WITH THE POLICE TO ARRANGE AT THE U CONVENIENCE TIME. SO BILLING AND AVAILABLE, YEAH, I, I THINK THE CITY COUNCIL HAS REQUESTS, OKAY? BECAUSE WE ALREADY PROVIDE A $50,000 REWARD. I, I I'M HUNDRED PERCENT IT'S DEVASTATING. AND I LOST THE LOVED ONE. OKAY? AND I STEP IN, INTO ACCIDENTALLY STEP INTO, UH, UH, YOUR, UH, HER FATHER-IN-LAW'S HOME AT THE HUSBAND'S HOUSE, OKAY? AND, UH, UH, ON THE VALLEY VIEW. SO I, I TALK TO THEM. SO AFTER THAT, I ALL THE TIME TRY TO PROVIDE THE SUPPORT FOR YOUR FAMILY BECAUSE I, I, I THERE AND, UH, I, BY THE WAY CALLED THE, UH, OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT CAPTAIN AND TO SEE AND TO APPROACH YOU GUYS. BUT THE POINT IS THE CITY MANAGER ALREADY PROMISED US, I THINK, OKAY. OUR OTHER CITY COUNCIL MEMBER IS REQUEST CITY TO HAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE. WE NEED TO LET THE PUBLIC KNOW WE PROVIDE $50,000 AND THEN I THINK COUNTY PROVIDE 15,000 HUNDRED THOUSAND AND YOUR FAMILY 35,000. OH, TO GET A HUNDRED THOUSAND, I THINK WE CAN MAKE OKAY. A PUBLIC REQUEST THAT LET MAYBE HAVE AN INTEREST $300,000, QUITE A LOT OF MONEY. HOPEFULLY WE CAN BRING THE JUSTICE TO GABBY AND THE MORE IMPORTANT THING, THE CLOSURE TO YOUR FAMILY. WE, WE, WE KNOW WHERE WE TRY TO OKAY. BUT AGAIN, AND MIGHT THINK THE CITY MANAGER, MAYBE HE CAN ANSWER OKAY. THAT HE PROMISED WITH THE CITY, WITH OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT TO HAVE A JOINT CONF CONFERENCE, PRESS CONFERENCE WITH YOUR CONVENIENT TIME. SO I THINK IT WILL HAPPEN. OKAY. UM, I'M DONE. THANK YOU. LET COUNCILWOMAN GO AHEAD. UM, IT'S ACTUALLY IN REFERENCE TO YOU AGAIN, UM, WE DO, UM, WE'RE SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS, BUT ON OUR END, WE HAVE NOT STOPPED. I MEAN, THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE DO BEHIND THE SCENES. I KNOW I PERSONALLY HAVE GOT IN CONTACT WITH OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT ASKING CERTAIN QUESTIONS, THE SAME QUESTIONS, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU'VE MENTIONED WHEN YOU CAME TO THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING. AND FOR THAT REASON, I KNOW THIS EVENING WE HAVE A PRESENTATION FROM THE DETECTIVE UNIT AND, UH, AS, UH, THE WHOLE COUNCIL AS WELL AS RESIDENTS WOULD LIKE TO KNOW CERTAIN PROCEDURES, HOW THINGS ARE, UH, PUT UP. SO THIS EVENING, THE DETECTIVE UNIT WILL NOT ONLY JUST DISCUSSED EVERYTHING, BUT UH, REGARDING HOW THE DETECTIVE UNIT, UH, PULLS THROUGH, BUT ALSO IN REFERENCE TO LIKE WHY CERTAIN PRESS CONFERENCES HAPPEN AND EVERYTHING THAT THEY WILL BE HERE, DO YOU UNDER, I FEEL THAT IF WE WERE TO MAKE THAT ANNOUNCEMENT IN MEDIA, IT WOULD BRING A LOT MORE, UM, FOCUS AND A LOT MORE ATTENTION TO HER MURDER. CUZ THERE REALLY HASN'T BEEN, UH, WITH, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF I REACHING OUT TO A COUPLE OF NEWS, UH, MEDIAS AT THE BEGINNING, SIX MONTHS, SEVEN MONTHS AFTER HER MURDER. UM, NOTHING'S BEEN DONE AFTER THAT. AND THESE ARE GONNA BE THE QUESTIONS THAT WE WILL BE ASKING THE DETECTIVE UNIT THIS EVENING. I APPRECIATE ALONG WITH ANY OTHER QUESTIONS THAT THE COUNCIL MAY HAVE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. YOU HAVE 27 SECONDS LEFT. JERRY PATRIS, FOLLOWED BY MATTHEW SMITH, FOLLOWED BY DAVID SCHWARTZ. GOOD EVENING. I'M JERRY PATS. I'M A WEST COVINA RESIDENT. I'M, TONIGHT I'M SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM THREE, CAMPAIGN FINANCE AMENDMENTS. POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS DO HAVE A NEGATIVE ASPECT ASSOCIATION WITH THEM. THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE AND IT ALWAYS WILL BE. MOST IMPORTANTLY, POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS REFLECT CITIZEN RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH AS GUARANTEED UNDER THE FIRST AMENDMENT. THE SUPREME COURT UPHELD THAT PRINCIPLE IN THEIR CITIZENS UNITED DECISION. THAT DECISION PROHIBITED IMPOSING POLITICAL CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURE LIMITS [00:35:01] ON INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE COMMITTEES. IN MY VIEW THAT COUNCIL'S PROPOSED CONTRIBUTION AMENDMENT IS AN EFFORT TO CIRCUMVENT CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURE RESTRICTIONS ON COMMITTEES. WHEN YOU LIMIT RESIDENT ABILITY TO RAISE FUNDS, YOU EFFECTIVELY LIMIT EXPENDITURES. THE PERSON WHO IS HARMED BY THIS CHANGE WILL BE THE FIRST TIME CANDIDATE WHO WISHES TO RUN FOR OFFICE. THAT PERSON DOES NOT HAVE THE CONNECTIONS TO RAISE THE MAXIMUM DONATIONS THAT AN INCUMBENT COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE. SIMPLY STATED, A FIRST TIME CANDIDATE CANNOT EFFECTIVELY RUN AGAINST YOU. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HARMED BY THIS CHANGE ARE THE RESIDENTS OF WEST WEST COVINA WHO WISH TO SUPPORT OR OPPOSE CITY BALLOT MEASURES OR SPONSOR AN INITIATIVE OR REFERENDUM IN OUR CITY. THE CITY HAS LOTS OF MONEY TO SPONSOR BALLOT MEASURES. WEST COVINA RESIDENTS CANNOT RUN EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGNS SUPPORTING OR OPPOSING A MEASURE WHEN HURDLES ON FUNDRAISING ARE INAPPROPRIATELY USED TO STOP GRASSROOT CAMPAIGNS WITHIN THE CONTEXT I HAVE JUST SUMMARIZED, I AM ASKING FOR CONFIRMATION THAT ONE, THE 650 CONTRIBUTION LIMIT OR ANY OTHER DOLLAR AMOUNT DOES NOT APPLY TO A COMMITTEE THAT MAKES CONTRIBUTIONS TO CITY CANDIDATES. TWO, THE 650 CONTRIBUTION LIMIT OR ANY OTHER DOLLAR AMOUNT DOES NOT APPLY TO A COMMITTEE THAT MAKES INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES TO SUPPORT OR OPPOSE CITY CANDIDATES. THREE. THE 650 CONTRIBUTION LIMIT OR ANY OTHER DOLLAR AMOUNT DOES NOT APPLY TO A COMMITTEE THAT MAKES CONTRIBUTIONS OR INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES TO SUPPORT OR OPPOSE CITY BALLOT MEASURES. FOUR. THE 650 CONTRIBUTION LIMIT OR ANY OTHER DOLLAR AMOUNT DOES NOT APPLY TO A COMMITTEE FORM TO SPONSOR SUPPORT OR OPPOSE A RECALL OF ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL HOLDING OFFICE IN THE CITY. FIVE. THE 650 CONTRIBUTION LIMIT OR ANY OTHER DOLLAR AMOUNT DOES NOT APPLY TO A COMMITTEE FORM TO SPONSOR SUPPORT OR OPPOSE A CITIZEN INITIATIVE, INITIATED INITIATIVE OR REFERENDUM IN THE CITY. IF THE ANSWER IS YES TO ANY OF THESE POINTS, I STRONGLY URGE THE COUNCIL TO DELAY ACTING ON THIS AGENDA. ITEM REVISIONS TO THE AMENDMENT ARE NEEDED. THERE IS NO URGENCY TO PASS THIS NOW. THANK YOU. MATTHEW SMITH, FOLLOWED BY DAVID SCHWARTZ, FOLLOWED BY STEVE BENNETT. GOOD EVENING COUNSEL. UH, A BRIEF, UH, INFORMATION REGARDING SAN GABRIELS VALLEY SENIOR SOFTBALL. UH, WE DID HAVE OUR, UH, CHRISTMAS DINNER AT BUN STREET. HAD ABOUT 60, 70 MEMBERS COME. HAD A NICE EVENING. UM, THAT WAS FUN THEN. WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK TO THE SPORTS COMPLEX UP ON THE HILL. UH, WE'VE BEEN AT CAMERON PARK FOR A LITTLE WHILE AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. AND ON ANOTHER NOTE, UH, SANG GABRIEL VALLEY SENIOR SOFTBALL HAS A NUMBER OF VETS IN IT. WHEN I FIRST STARTED, UH, THERE WAS ACTUALLY A TEAM CALLED THE VETS. AND, UM, ALMOST ALL OF 'EM SERVED IN VIETNAM AND THEY CERTAINLY TO BE ON BEHALF OF THANK VALLEY SENIOR SOFTBALL. THEY CERTAINLY DID NOT SERVE IN VIETNAM TO HAVE A CONFEDERATE FLAG SHOWN DURING THE FLAG SALUTE TONIGHT. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THANK YOU VALLEY SENIOR SOFTBALL, AND WE WILL, UM, SEE YOU NEXT MONTH. DAVID SCHWARTZ, FOLLOWED BY STEVE BENNETT, FOLLOWED BY JOHN SCHUMACHER. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME SPEAK. I JUST WANT TO GO OFF TRACK FOR ABOUT 10 SECONDS TO SAY THAT CAUSE OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH, WE LET THIS IGNORANT PERSON SPEAK AND TALK TO TALK TO YOU PEOPLE WITH THE DISRESPECT. THE MOUTH IS DIRTIER THAN A CITY TOILET BULL WITH HIS PROFANITY AND HIS RACIST RANTS. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY WITH THAT. I MEAN, I COULD TELL YOU IT WASN'T BECAUSE OF FREE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, I WOULD'VE PUN I WOULD'VE PUMMELED THE SKY. REALLY? YES. ORDER PLEASE. SO, UH, NOW TO GO BACK, BACK ON TRACK HERE, I WANT TO SAY THAT FIRST OF ALL, I AGREE WITH CHRIS ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON ON VINCENT AVENUE AND THE 10 FREEWAY. UH, EVERY TIME IT RAINS, [00:40:01] THERE'S PROBLEMS LIKE CHRIS SAID, AND THEY CLOSE IT DOWN AND IT'S A HUGE, HUGE CONGESTION ON, UH, VINCENT AVENUE DURING CHRISTMAS TIME. IT'S JUST HARD TO GET OFF THE FREEWAY. MOST OF US WHO LIVE IN THE AREA, WE HAVE TO GET OFF ON ASUZA AVENUE CUZ YOU JUST CAN'T GET THROUGH. AND ALSO, THERE'S A LOT OF POTHOLES ON WEST COVINA PARKWAY RIGHT THERE AT VINCENT. AND IT'S BEEN THERE FOR A COUPLE YEARS AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE CITY MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT, BUT, UH, IT, THEY NEED TO STEP UP. UM, THERE'S PROBLEMS WITH THE SWEEPER. UH, I KNOW YOU GUYS USE AN OUTSIDE COMPANY TO SWEEP OUR STREETS, BUT THEY DIDN'T SHOW UP AT ALL THIS YEAR. THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HERE. THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO COME ON. UH, THE, UH, FIRST AND THIRD THURSDAYS OF THE MONTH, THEY HAVEN'T SHOWED UP YET. I CALLED UP CITY MAINTENANCE, I SPOKE WITH CHRIS, AND I ASKED HIM, WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE SWEEPER? IS IT GONNA COME ON TIME OR IS IT GONNA BE DELAYED TODAY BECAUSE OF THE HOLIDAY OF NEW YEAR'S BEING ON CELEBRATED ON MONDAY? HE SAID, NO, THEY'RE GONNA BE THERE ON THURSDAY. THEY DIDN'T SHOW UP THURSDAY, THEY DIDN'T SHOW UP FRIDAY. AND THEY HAVEN'T SHOWN UP AT ALL. WE'LL SEE IF THEY SHOW UP THIS WEEK, BE THE THIRD, UH, THURSDAY OF THE WEEK. AND, UM, SO I THINK SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE WITH OUR SWEEPER, UH, FOR SEVERAL REASONS. ONE IS I THINK WE HAVE TO DO A BETTER JOB OF LETTING OUR CITIZENS KNOW WHEN SWEEPER DAY IT'S TOO CONFUSING TO SAY THEIR FIRST AND, AND THIRD FRIDAY PEOPLE OR THURSDAYS, PEOPLE DON'T KEEP CALENDAR LIKE THAT. THERE SHOULD BE SOME SIGNS MAYBE PUT UP SAYING, YOU KNOW, SWEEPER COMES THIS DAY. I'M NOT SAYING THAT YOU SHOULD SAY, OH, MOVE YOUR CARS. I MEAN, I TELL ALL MY NEIGHBORS, WE ALL PULL OUR CARS OFF THE STREET. I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO PUT THAT, BUT I THINK WE DO NOT NEED TO PUT SOME KIND OF SENDEN UH, SIGNS UP FOR IT OR SOMETHING. AND WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHO YOU GUYS ARE USING AS THE COMPANY FOR THE SWEEPERS, BECAUSE THEY PROBABLY FIGURE OUT WHEN THEY DO THE CONTRACT WITH YOU GUYS, HOW MANY MILES, LINEAR, MILES OF WEST COVINA THEY, THEY SWEEP. AND SO THEIR VEHICLE HAS TO GO A CERTAIN SPEED TO DO THE JOB. BUT I SEE THIS GUY RACING DOWN THE STREET AND INSTEAD OF PICKING UP THE TRASH, IT GETS SMEARED ACROSS THE STREET. SO THEY NEED TO BE TALKED TO. AND I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY CHRIS'S JOB IN CITY MAINTENANCE. AND I ALSO THINK THAT WE NEED TO HAVE, BE BETTER PREPARED DURING STORMS. THAT CITY MAINTENANCE HAS TO BE OUT THERE TO CLEAN UP STREETS IN THESE STORMS THAT WE HAVE. THANK GOD THAT, UH, CO WESTCO IS, DOESN'T HAVE MANY PROBLEMS, BUT THE PALM TREES ON, ON LAR ALLEN AND THROUGHOUT OUR CITY, THE PALM BRANCHES COME DOWN AND THEY'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET AND PEOPLE HAVE TO GO AROUND IT. I'VE SEEN ALMOST PEOPLE GET INTO ACCIDENTS TRYING TO AVOID IT AND TRASH WITH THE WINDS THAT ARE GOING, ARE IN THE STREET. AND WE NEED CITY MAINTENANCE TO PATROL DURING, DURING STORMS. AND, UH, I THINK THAT'S ABOUT IT. I DON'T WANNA TAKE ANY MORE OF YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. STEVE BENNETT, FOLLOWED BY JOHN SHOEMAKER, FOLLOWED BY JIM GR. HAPPY NEW YEAR. MADAM MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, MR. DAVE CARMANI. UM, PLEASURE TO SEE YOU. SORRY, I COULDN'T RESIST. UM, COUPLE THINGS. FIRST OF ALL, I, YOU KNOW, SPEAKING FOR THE LADY WHO LOST HER DAUGHTER, I, I DON'T WISH ANYONE TO LOSE A CHILD. THAT'S GOTTA BE THE MOST HEART WRENCHING THING. AND I, I DON'T EVER WANT TO GO THROUGH IT. I HOPE NONE OF US GO THROUGH IT. I FEEL FOR HER. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I WAS THINKING ABOUT WHAT SHE SAID ABOUT PRESS CONFERENCES AND I HEARD SOME OF YOUR COMMENTS AND, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE OVER 10 YEARS AGO, THE COUNCILS BEFORE YOU GUYS, WE HAD A PRESS CONFERENCE TO ANNOUNCE A STATE AUDIT, BUT WE'RE NOT HAVING A PRESS CONFERENCE TO FIND A MURDERER. UH, I, I HAPPEN TO AGREE WITH HER THAT, UH, YOU GUYS CAN DO MORE. AND I KNOW YOU'RE PROBABLY DOING STUFF BEHIND THE SCENES. I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE NOT, UH, BUT MORE NEEDS TO HAPPEN BECAUSE, UH, THAT, THAT'S JUST ABSOLUTELY THE MOST GUT-WRENCHING THING. MY MOM LOST TWO BABIES, UH, AFTER BIRTH AND I, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DID IT. SO I, I'M, I'M JUST GONNA SPEAK TO THAT. UM, TO THE GENTLEMAN WHO WAS HERE BEFORE ME, UH, ON THE STREET SWEEPING, UH, MINE'S EVERY [00:45:01] OTHER TUESDAY I THINK, OR EVERY TUESDAY OR ONCE A MONTH, OR I, I DON'T KNOW, I SEE 'EM ONCE A MONTH IF I'M LUCKY. SO I DON'T THINK IT'S SO MUCH THE STREET SWEEPER COMPANY. THAT'S THE ISSUE. YOU GUYS HAVE MODIFIED THEIR CONTRACT, CHANGED THEIR CONTRACT, ADJUSTED THEIR CONTRACT, TRIED TO FIND A NEW PERSON TO DO STREET SWEEPING. I DON'T KNOW THAT ANYONE REALLY KNOWS WHAT THEIR CONTRACT IS THIS DAY, AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THEY KNOW. SO I DON'T BLAME THE STREET SWEEPING COMPANY. I BLAME THE LACK OF, UM, CLARITY IN THEIR SERVICE. UM, AND SO TO, TO ANSWER HIS QUESTION, UM, AT ONE POINT WE WERE GETTING IT DONE EVERY WEEK, THIS COUNSELOR, PREVIOUS COUNSEL, CAUSE I KNOW SOME OF YOU WEREN'T HERE, UH, VOTED TO CHANGE THAT. THERE'S BEEN ALL KINDS OF CHANGES AND, AND, UH, AMENDMENTS TO THAT CONTRACT. I THINK WE NEED, UH, IF I WAS ON THERE, I WOULD ASK FOR A STAFF REPORT ON WHAT WE ACTUALLY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE GETTING AND GET THAT OUT. AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS SHOULD DO FOR THE RESIDENTS. UM, FOR WHAT I'M ACTUALLY HERE TONIGHT. UM, I'M HERE ON ITEM NUMBER THREE, WHICH IS CAMPAIGN FINANCE. AND I, I LISTENED TO WHAT MS. PATRO SAID A LITTLE WHILE AGO, AND I AGREE WITH HER. UM, THIS SHOULD NOT BE AFFECTING POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES. SO JUST SO EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS, A CANDIDATE CONTROLLED COMMITTEE IS STILL A POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, AND THEN THERE'S AN INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE, WHICH IS ONE THAT'S NOT CONTROLLED BY A CANDIDATE. SO THERE'S TWO TYPES. UM, WE'VE HAD A CONTRIBUTION LIMIT ON CANDIDATE CONTROLLED COMMITTEES FOR A LONG TIME, BUT NOW YOU'RE TRYING TO IMPLEMENT ONE ON A POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE IN THE GUISE OF, WE WANNA MAKE THIS MORE TRANSPARENT, THAT WE WANT TO, UM, LIMIT BIG DOLLAR DONATIONS. THE REALITY IS, YOU KNOW, MR. WOO, YOU, YOU MENTIONED AT THE COUNCILMAN, YOU DISCUSSED AND TALKED ABOUT ATTACK MAILERS ON YOU AND THAT THEY WERE DONE BY, YOU KNOW, VARIOUS PEOPLE OR VARIOUS PACKS. AND THAT'S NOT GONNA STOP THAT BECAUSE THEY CAN SPEND AS MUCH AS THEY WANT SO THEY CAN SPEND ANYTHING THAT THEY HAVE. AND IN THE SITUATION OF POLICE AND FIRE UNIONS HERE HAVE THEIR OWN PACKS, THEY'RE ALREADY ESTABLISHED AND ALL THEIR MEMBERS GIVE MONEY TO THAT. AND THE, UH, TEAMSTERS UNION, WHICH ALSO ATTACKED YOU, UM, ALSO HAS MEMBERS THAT DONATE TO THAT. THEY'RE ALL GONNA BE UNDER A HUNDRED, $650. YOU'RE NOT GONNA TOUCH THAT. AND THEY CAN SPEND ANYTHING THEY WANT OUT OF THAT PACK TO ATTACK YOU. SO YOUR, YOUR IDEA TO LIMIT THAT CAN ONLY BE ASSUMED THAT YOU'RE GOING AFTER ONE PARTICULAR RESIDENT WHO STARTED HIS OWN PACK AND ATTACKED YOU. SO I DON'T KNOW IF THIS SHOULD BE CALLED THE, UH, ANTI JOHN SHOEMAKER PACK OR WHAT, BUT THAT'S KIND OF THE APPROACH YOU TOOK. UM, I I WANNA READ A COUPLE THINGS REAL QUICK BEFORE WE GET ANY FURTHER IN. UM, I HAD TO LAUGH CUZ IN THE ACTUAL, UH, MEASURE ON PAGE ONE, IT STATES THAT THE, IT'S A NECESSITY TO COMBAT CORRUPTION AND THE APPEARANCE OF CORRUPTION IN THE CITY ELECTION PROCESS. OKAY, I GET THAT. UM, THE PROBLEM THAT YOU HAVE WITH THAT IS WHEN THE LARGEST SPENDERS IN THE CITY, WHICH ARE THE TWO EMPLOYEE UNIONS AND TEAMSTERS HAVE AN ENDLESS SUPPLY OF MEMBERS SUPPLYING THEM MONEY, YOU'RE NOT STOPPING THAT. OKAY? THAT'S THE HONEST ANSWER FROM THAT. I DO WANNA POINT OUT SOMETHING ELSE. UM, THERE ARE THREE THINGS LISTED HERE, UH, THAT ARE ALL PART OF THE F P C F, PPP C AND THAT'S IN SECTION 24 0 1 ON PAGE, UH, NUMBER FIVE. AND IT TALKS ABOUT ANYTHING OVER A HUNDRED DOLLARS CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION REPORTING AND ALL OF THAT. THAT'S ALL GOVERNED BY THE FAIR POLITICAL PRACTICES COMMISSION IN CALIFORNIA. WE DON'T NEED TO REITERATE IN THE ACTUAL ORDINANCE, BUT THE REALLY IMPORTANT THING THAT I WANNA POINT OUT IS THAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR SOMEONE TO NOTIFY THE CITY CLERK WITHIN 24 HOURS OF ANY EXPENDITURE OVER A THOUSAND DOLLARS, AND YOU WANT THEM TO SUPPLY A SAMPLE OF THAT MAILER AS WELL. WELL, THAT'S OUTSIDE OF THE FAIR POLITICAL PRACTICES ACT. THEY DON'T REQUIRE THAT THEY REQUIRED IN A FOUR 60 FORM, WHICH IS FILED SEMI-ANNUALLY OR THREE TIMES DURING ELECTION. YOU ALL KNOW THIS, YOU'VE ALL RAN YOU FOR YOUR CAMPAIGN, SO YOU UNDERSTAND THE THING. THE REALLY INTERESTING THING, AND I'M GONNA TRY TO FINISH UP IN 30 SECONDS, I'M GONNA READ THIS, IS THE WEAPONIZING OF THE CITY ATTORNEY. SO ENFORCEMENT, ANY PERSON WHO BELIEVES IN A VIOLATION IN THIS ARTICLE HAS OCCURRED, MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY AND HE SHALL INVESTIGATE THE CITY ATTORNEY. AND ANY, ANY REGISTERED VOTER MAY ALSO FILE A CIVIL ACTION, POSSIBLE PUNISHMENTS AND PENALTIES THOUSAND DOLLARS FINE, OR THREE TIMES THE VIOLATION AMOUNT. IT WILL BE CLASSIFIED AS A MISDEMEANOR. YOU'RE GONNA MAKE PEOPLE WHO VIOLATE THIS BY ACCIDENT, A CRIMINAL. AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT, YOU'RE GONNA ALLOW A RESIDENT OR ANY OF YOU OR THE CITY ATTORNEY TO GO AHEAD AND SUE THEM CIVILLY. THANK YOU FOR THAT OPTION. THANK YOU. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY. NEXT SPEAKER IS JOHN SHOEMAKER, FOLLOWED BY JIM GRGE, FOLLOWED BY BILL ROBINSON 20 YEARS AGO. WEST COVINA CONS AT THE URGING OF ROGER HERNANDEZ PASSED WHAT I REFERRED TO, AND IT WAS A SUB-HEADLINE IN THE TRIBUNE, THE SADDAM HUSSEIN FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, BECAUSE IT WAS CUTTING BACK ON HOW MUCH PEOPLE COULD SPEAK THIS. [00:50:01] NOW THAT I HEAR THERE'S POSSIBLE CRIMINAL ASPECTS TO CRITICIZING TONY WU. WHAT IS THIS? THE VLADIMIR PUTIN ENEMY'S, UH, CORRUPTION ACT. YOU KNOW, MADERA DOWN IN, UH, UH, VENEZUELA IS PROBABLY GOING, WOW, THAT'S A GOOD ONE. I NEED TO DO THAT. YOU KNOW, JOSEPH STALIN AT LEAST, UH, YET WE'RE NOT BEING SENT OFF TO REEDUCATION CAMPS. REEDUCATION CAMPS, YOU KNOW, YOU WANNA STOP CORRUPTION. WELL, I WONDER WHY PEOPLE IN MONTEREY PARK AND ELLO AND ALL OVER, ALL OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IN DIFFERENT STATES CARE ABOUT WHO'S RUNNING FOR CITY COUNCIL IN WEST COVINA. THEY'RE NOT EVEN FRIENDS. I CAN UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE FRIENDS, YOU KNOW, ALL OVER WHO WANNA DONATE, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S OKAY. YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S JUST AMAZING HOW TONY WU AT A MEETING ASKED, I BELIEVE AS A CITY ATTORNEY, IF CRITICISM CRITICIZING HIM, COULD THE DA STEP IN AND PROSECUTED AS HATE SPEECH? I BELIEVE HE WAS TOLD NO. SO WHAT DOES HE DO? LET'S COME UP WITH A RULE THAT WE WILL PROSECUTE PEOPLE WHO VIOLATE SOME LITTLE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE. PROSECUTE 'EM SIX MONTHS IN JAIL, SIX MONTHS IN JAIL, BECAUSE MR. THINS SKIN UP HERE CAN'T TAKE IT. YOU KNOW, IT WAS FUNNY WHEN YOU ARE AT, UH, THE VETERAN'S DAY, YOU ANNOUNCED THAT YOU WERE A VETERAN. WHAT MILITARY? BECAUSE IT SURE THE HELL WASN'T THE UNITED STATES MILITARY. IF YOU WANNA STOP PEOPLE FROM SPEAKING WHO CRITICIZE YOU, YOU KNOW, IT IS JUST AMAZING HOW ANY OF THE FOUR OF YOU COULD VOTE FOR THIS CRIMINALIZING FREE SPEECH. YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A PART OF IT THOUGH THAT I THOUGHT WAS KIND OF INTERESTING AS GOING THROUGH SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU HAD TO, UH, PUT ON. YOU PUT SOMETHING ON THE INTERNET, UH, A CARTOON OR SOMETHING. YOU'RE GONNA TELL ME THAT, UH, BILL ELLIOT, EVERY TIME HE PUTS OUT A MEME IS GONNA HAVE TO SAY WHETHER IT WAS POLITICAL OR NOT, AND GET, UH, GET SOMETHING, UH, UH, PUT IN A REPORT ON HOW MUCH HE SPENT AND SAY, YOU KNOW, ALL THIS VERBIAGE THAT YOU WANT PART OF IT, HELL, MAYBE I'M TALKING MYSELF INTO VOTING FOR IT. , YOU'D SHUT HIM THE HELL UP. YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT TRYING TO, YOU'RE TRYING TO STOP CRITICISM. SAME AS WHEN YOU RUN AROUND ASKING PEOPLE WHERE I GOT THE MONEY FROM. HEY, TONY, I DON'T NEED TO DRIVE A HUMMER OR A BIG EXPENSIVE CAR FOR PEOPLE TO ADMIRE ME OR SOMETHING. I REALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT, YOU KNOW, BUT THERE IS ONE THING THAT'S KIND OF NICE ABOUT THIS IS YOU CAN'T STOP CANDIDATES FROM SPENDING THEIR MONEY. SO TONIGHT, I'M PUTTING IN MY 5 0 1 ANNOUNCING THAT I'M RUNNING FOR CITY COUNCIL IN DISTRICT THREE IN 2024. CAN'T STOP ME FROM SPENDING MY MONEY AS I POINT OUT TO THE, THE RESIDENTS IN VOTERS IN DISTRICT THREE. YOU KNOW, THE MAYOR, HOW SHE SAYS I'M HISPANIC, BUT I DON'T THINK LIKE THEM. AND HOW SHE SUPPORTS HER HUSBAND WANTING TO BRING MORE WHITE FAMILIES INTO WEST COVINA. BILL ELLIOTT SAID, SHOEMAKER CAN NEVER GET ELECTED IN THE CITY. THAT MIGHT BE TRUE. AND IF THAT'S THE CASE, THIS IS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN. I GET ELECTED, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO PUT UP WITH ME FOR TWO YEARS ON THE CITY COUNCIL. I DON'T GET ELECTED. I'M GONNA BUY A HOUSE IN DISTRICT FIVE, AND YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO PUT UP WITH ME AS A CANDIDATE IN DISTRICT FIVE. TONY, THANK YOU MR. SHOEMAKER. JIM GR FOLLOWED BY BILL ROBINSON. AS YOU KNOW, I HAVEN'T BEEN AROUND A LOT RECENTLY. I HAVE A SICK WIFE TO TAKE CARE OF. BUT THIS ONE, ITEM NUMBER THREE ON THE AGENDA I FELT WAS IMPORTANT ENOUGH THAT I NEEDED TO BE HERE. I'M ASKING YOU TO TABLE THIS ITEM, UH, MOSTLY FOR ETHICAL REASONS. AND I'M GONNA START WITH THE, YOUR ORDINANCE ITSELF. THE SECOND WAREHOUSE SAYS CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 85 7 0 2 0.5 [00:55:01] PERMITS THE CITY BY ORDINANCE TO IMPOSE A CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION LIMIT. AND NOW I'M GONNA READ YOU THAT PARTICULAR GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION. A CITY MAY IMPOSE A LIMIT ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO A CANDIDATE. NO OTHER LIMITATIONS ARE ALLOWED BY THE STATE LAW. THIS ORDINANCE IS DECEPTIVE. IT'S NOT TRUE. IT'S NOT LEGAL. I AM STATING TO THIS COUNCIL THAT IT'S NOT ETHICAL. THERE'S ANOTHER ETHICS ISSUE WITH THIS, AND I WOULD REFER TO IT AS EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LOSS. THERE'S ONE AREA WHERE THE, THE CITY COUNCIL WILL IS NOT LIMITING EXPENDITURES, AND IT WAS JUST POINTED OUT BY MY PREDECESSOR, THERE'S NO LIMITATION FOR CANDIDATES. CANDIDATES CAN SPEND AS MUCH MONEY AS THEY WANT, SO WE HAVE TO FORM CANDIDATE COMMITTEES. NOW, JUST LIKE WAS SAID, THAT'S INTERESTING, I WAS GONNA SAY THE SAME THING FOR A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT REASON. SO INSTEAD OF BEING A INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE, WE HAVE TO BE A CANDIDATE COMMITTEE SO THAT WE CAN SPEND AND RAISE ALL THE MONEY WE WANT. I I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND, UH, WHY THERE WOULD BE THIS DECEPTION AND DISHONESTY IN THIS MEASURE. I, UH, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN COMING TO THE COUNCIL MEETINGS FOR QUITE A LONG TIME AND I'VE ACTUALLY NEVER SEEN ANYTHING QUITE LIKE THIS. UH, AND THERE'S A PERSONAL ISSUE HERE. YOU PROBABLY KNOW THAT I SPENT QUITE A BIT OF MY OWN MONEY, $4,000 TO BE PRECISE, TO DEFEAT A TAX INCREASE MEASURE. AND THAT WAS AS AN INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE. AND YET THIS WOULD OUTLAW ME DOING THAT. WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU WANNA STOP A RESIDENT OF THIS CITY TO FIGHT A TAX INCREASE? WHY? I, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS ILLUSIONS TO, UH, UH, OTHER COUNTRIES IN THIS WORLD THAT DON'T BELIEVE IN FREE SPEECH, DON'T BELIEVE BASICALLY IN THE TENANTS OF OUR, OUR COUNTRY. AND I'M, UH, AND I'VE SEEN THAT AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL. SOME PEOPLE TALKING LIKE THAT TOO. LET'S GET RID OF THE AMENDMENTS. SOMETHING YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT ME, I, I WAS A POLITICAL SCIENCE INSTRUCTOR FOR 13 YEARS, UH, AND THAT WAS MY FAVORITE SPEECH ABOUT HOW WONDERFUL THE FIRST AMENDMENT WAS. I GAVE THREE, THREE WHOLE CLASSES ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT. IF WE LOSE THE FIRST AMENDMENT IN THIS COUNTRY, WE'VE LOST IT ALL. THIS COUNTRY'S NO BETTER THAN ANYTHING ELSE. WE'RE YOU CAN'T. AND I, I'M IMPLORING YOU NOT TO LIMIT OUR ABILITY TO, UH, UH, YES, CRITICIZE OR AT LEAST ASK FOR A NEW COUNCIL MEMBER. UH, THIS LAST ELECTION, UH, UH, THE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE I'M A MEMBER OF DID SUPPORT ONE OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS. IT'S THE FIRST TIME WE'VE DONE THAT. UH, AND I THINK IT SHOULD BE OUR, OUR RIGHT TO DO THAT. ISN'T THAT WHAT FREE SPEECH IS ALL ABOUT? POLITICAL FREE SPEECH. UH, I, I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING MORE IMPORTANT IN THIS COUNTRY, AND I'M ASKING YOU TO TABLE IT FIRST. I THINK IT'S ILLEGAL. AND SECOND, UH, I ALSO THINK IT'S WRONG, ETHICALLY, WRONG, IMMORAL. UH, I, I DO THINK THAT THERE'S POSSIBLY SOME THINGS THAT CAN BE DONE, UH, WITH THE WAY CONTRIBUTIONS ARE HANDLED BECAUSE OF CORRUPTION ISSUES. AND THAT'S WHY THE STATE WAS VERY SPECIFIC WHEN THEY SAY LIMIT IT TO A CANDIDATE, BECAUSE THAT'S CORRUPTION WHEN A WEALTHY PERSON BUYS A CANDIDATE'S VOTE. THANK YOU, BILL ROBINSON. A CRIMINALIZING FREE SPEECH, UH, THE FIRST AMENDMENT, THAT ISN'T WHAT I CAME TO TALK TO YOU TONIGHT ABOUT. UH, IN FACT, UH, NOBODY'S GONNA UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M GONNA SAY FOR THE NEXT FIVE MINUTES, BUT HERE GOES, UH, NUMBER TWO AND NUMBER FOUR ON, UH, COUNCIL'S. [01:00:02] UH, UH, THEY, THERE'S TWO PHONY EYED EMERGENCIES ON TONIGHT'S, UH, MEETING AGENDA. FIRST, THE RAIN, UH, RAIN IS, IS, UH, NOT AN EMERGENCY. RAIN IS A NATURAL PHENOMENON, A BLESSING FROM HEAVEN BECAUSE IT DOES MITIGATE CALIFORNIA'S FADING DROUGHT EMERGENCY LEGALLY, AN EMERGENCY CAN, CAN ONLY LAST 90 DAYS AND, AND GIVES AN ADMINISTRATOR CRITICAL INSTANT POWER TO ACT. THESE POWERS ARE TEMPORARY UNLESS EMERGENCY STATUS IS RATIFIED BY A STATE LEGISLATURE OR YOU'RE THE LOCAL LEGISLATURE. OUR RESIDENTS SEEM TO PREFER MARTIAL LAW AND AND FIELD MARSHALL GAVIN NEWSOM, DICK TOTS, AND REMOVAL OF OUR, UH, OUR NATURAL FREEDOMS. UH, THE PHYSICIANS ARE FEELING, UH, THEY CAN'T SPEAK FREELY ANYMORE. SO INSTEAD OF, UH, FREEDOM, UH, YOU KNOW, SIG HA, UH, MARSHALL, GAVIN NEWSOM, UH, BUT, BUT I HAVE A DREAM. UH, MY DREAM INCLUDES THE PHRASE, THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE. THIS HAS BECOME AN EMPTY PHRASE IN, IN NEWSOM'S HOTEL CA, CALIFORNIA. UH, MY SECOND TOPIC TONIGHT, NOBODY WILL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. IT'S CALLED THE TRUSTED NEWS INITIATIVE CARTEL, A SCHEME AMONG LARGE MEDIA OUTLETS TO CONTROL THE NARRATIVE ON BOTH COVID AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE. THIS IS A CENSORSHIP OPERATION RUN BY PFIZER, WHICH IS THE 47TH PRESIDENT OF THE, UH, THE UNITED STATES. PFIZER, YOU CAN JUST CALL ME IGNORANT, BUT I'M, BUT I'M BRINGING GOOD NEWS FROM TEXAS, TEXAS WHERE FREEDOM IS STILL HIGHLY VALUED TOGETHER WITH THE US CONSTITUTION, WHERE FOOTBALL AND PERSONALITIES LIKE DEMAR HAMLIN ARE IDOLIZED A SUIT FILED A WEEK AGO IN THE US DISTRICT COURT FOR, UH, UH, NORTHERN TEXAS AMAR AMARILLO DE DIVISION. UH, THE SHERMAN ANTITRUST, UH, BASED LAWSUIT ALLEGES THESE OUTLETS PARTNERED WITH SEVERAL BIG TECH FIRMS TO COLLECTIVELY CENSOR, UH, ONLINE NEWS, INCLUDING STORIES ABOUT COVID 19 AND THE TWO, 2020 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THAT WERE ALIGNED WITH OFFICIAL NARRATIVES REGARDING THOSE ISSUES. PLAINTIFFS IN THE LAWSUIT INCLUDE, UH, BOBBY KENNEDY, UH, CREATIVE DESTRUCTION MEDIA. THESE ARE INTER, UH, DR. JOSEPH MCCOLLOUGH, UH, MANY OTHERS, ALL INTERNET BASED, UH, SOME IN WEST CAMINA BAY. UH, PROBABLY EVERYONE IN WEST GREEN IS UNAWARE OF THE, THE TNI, THE TRUSTED NEWS INITIATIVE. A, A SHADOWY UNHOLY ALLIANCE MEDIA DEAL, WHICH IS PROBABLY FRAUDULENT. UH, UH, CALLED THE, THE TRUSTED INITIATIVE. UH, THAT'S THE, UH, A MEDIA SYNDICATE OF LEGACY NEWS AGENCIES, UH, ALONG WITH GOOGLE AND TWITTER. YOU EVER HEARD OF GOOGLE AND TWITTER? THEIR, THEIR COVER STORY SAYS, IT, IT REBUILDS TRUST AND TACKLES DISINFORMATION CHALLENGES A PARTNERSHIP THAT INCLUDES ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS FIRST DRAFT, GOOGLE, YOUTUBE, REUTERS, AP META, UH, THE WASHINGTON POST. I'M, I'M TALKING ABOUT BIG TIME, SOCIETAL WIDE CENSORSHIP, A BIG BLACKOUT. THAT'S WHY NOBODY IN THIS ROOM KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. UH, T AND I, THE ONLY, UH, FORUM WORLDWIDE DESIGNED TO TAKE ON DISINFORMATION IN REAL TIME TNI PARTNERS INCLUDE ASSOCIATED PRESS, WASHINGTON POST, YOU KNOW, I, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. IT GOES ON, ON ALTERNATIVE NEWS VIEWS, DESCRIBED TNI PARTNERS AS A PROPAGANDA CARTEL DESIGNED TO, UH, THRUST OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT NARRATIVES DOWN THE THROATS OF IGNORANT AND UNQUESTIONING MASSES THAT DEMAND TOTALITARIAN CON CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE. NOT THE FIRST AMENDMENT, NOT THE FIRST AMENDMENT, UH, THE CONSTITUTIONAL, UH, FREEDOMS, INCLUDING LIVELY SCIENCE DEBATE. THANK YOU, MR. ROBINSON. HEY, I GOT, GIVE ME ANOTHER MINUTE. I, I'M JUST FORMING. WE'RE MOVING ON. WE HAVE NO FURTHER SPEAKERS. MAYOR. THANK YOU. THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS TRASH, AND WE'RE DONE, MR. ROBINSON. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. [01:05:01] OKAY, CITY MANAGER, UH, COULD YOU PLEASE RESPOND TO THE PUBLIC COMMENTS? THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR. CITY COUNCIL, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. I'LL TRY TO BRIEFLY RESPOND TO THE SPEAKERS. UM, JUST BEGINNING TO SAY THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING OUT TONIGHT. I ALWAYS APPRECIATE PEOPLE TAKING THE TIME TO DO IT. I, IT ALWAYS GIVES US A GOOD PULSE ON WHAT'S HAPPENING. UM, MR. HERMAN TALKED ABOUT THE FIRST AMENDMENT. I THINK HIS, HIS SPEECH WHILE PERHAPS OFFENSIVE TO SOME, IS PROTECTED BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT. AND WE RESPECT THAT AND GIVE HIM HIS TIME EVERY TIME. UM, AND TONIGHT HE USED IT. UM, CHRIS MILLER, THANK YOU. I ACCEPT YOUR OFFER OF ASSISTANCE. I DON'T HAVE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION IN MY OUTLOOK, BUT IF YOU COULD GIVE IT TO THE CLERK, I'LL CALL YOU TOMORROW AND WE'LL TAKE YOU UP ON YOUR OFFER FOR ASSISTANCE WITH THOSE PUMPS. THANK YOU, SIR. UM, MR. GREENSPAN, UH, ALSO SPOKE BUT DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING THAT I HEARD RELATED TO CITY BUSINESS, BUT I WILL, UM, AGAIN, THANK HIM FOR BEING HERE. UH, ROSA RIOS COUNSEL, UM, SHE AND I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT TOMORROW AFTERNOON. I WAS OUT OF TOWN ALL LAST WEEK, BUT SHE AND I ARE GONNA BE MEETING TOMORROW AFTERNOON TO FOLLOW UP ON THE SPECIFICS OF SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT SHE RAISED WITH YOU. AND THOSE WILL INCLUDE DISSEMINATION OF THAT PRESS RELEASE AND PRESS CONFERENCES AND, AND WAYS THAT THE CITY IS WORKING ON THAT, ON THAT BUSINESS THAT SHE HERE SPOKE AND WE ALL GRIEVE OVER THE LOSS OF, OF HER DAUGHTER. UM, WE HAD FOUR SPEAKERS TONIGHT. TALK ABOUT THE PACK ORDINANCE. UM, JERRY PORTER, STEVE BENNETT, JOHN SHOEMAKER, AND JIM GVI. IT'S ON YOUR AGENDA NIGHT AS ORDINANCE SECOND READING. IT DOES TWO THINGS. IT INCREASES THE MAXIMUM CONTRIBUTION LIMIT TO $650 AND IT PROVIDES THAT COMMITTEES ARE SUBJECT TO THE CONTRIBUTION LIMIT. UM, IT ADVANCES THE, THE LAW OR CHANGES THE LAW. THAT'S NOW IN EFFECT. UM, I WOULD RECOMMEND YOU ADOPT IT TONIGHT, AND IF YOU WISH US TO STUDY FURTHER AMENDMENTS, UM, YOU COULD GIVE THAT DIRECTION UNDER, UM, COUNSEL REQUESTS AT THE END OF, OF THIS MEETING OR ANY MEETING. UM, MATTHEW SMITH, UM, IS OUR SOFTBALL REPRESENTATIVE. HE AND I ALSO HAVE SOME FOLLOW UPS OVER, UM, FIELD USE. WE WANNA GET THAT GROUP BACK UP TO THE SPORTS PLA PLEX. WE'RE IN A MOMENT NOW OF, WE CALL IT, UH, YOUTH OPPORTUNITY, WHICH IS A EUPHEMISM, MEANING FIELD REST. WE HAVE TO SCHEDULE THAT IN. WE HAD A LOT OF RAIN DAMAGE UP THERE AS WELL, BUT WE'RE GONNA BE BACK UP THERE, UM, IN, IN THE SPRING AND EARLY SPRING. I'M, I'M NOT GONNA SAY THE WORD FEBRUARY OUT LOUD, BUT I AM WILLING TO COMMIT TO MARCH AND WE'LL GET 'EM UP THERE AND THEY CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE BEAUTIFUL FIELDS IN THEIR, IN THEIR RESTORED CONDITION. UM, MR. SCHWARTZ, UM, CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED A NUMBER OF STORM RELATED DAMAGES. WE'VE BEEN CHASING ROOFS, WE'VE BEEN CHASING PUMPS, WE'VE BEEN CHASING LEAKING ROOFS. I'VE SHARED WITH THE COUNCIL SEPARATELY SOME REALLY BAD SITUATIONS AT SOME OF OUR CITY BUILDINGS. AND, UM, WE'RE GONNA WORK ON SOME EMERGENCY CONTRACTS TO ADDRESS THOSE. IT'S, UM, IT'S BEEN REALLY OVERWHELMING AND I THINK THAT TO ANSWER THE QUESTION AS TO WHAT THE CITY IS DOING ABOUT IT, SPEAKS TO THE AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOUR, WHICH IS A RESOLUTION, UH, DECLARING A WINTER STORM EMERGENCY HERE. IT ENABLES US TO AVAIL OURSELVES OF STATE AND FEDERAL GRANTS IN AID. WHEN WE SUFFER DAMAGES, WHEN THE DAMAGES EXCEED OUR CAPACITY TO RESPOND, IT OPENS UP THE TREASURY AND ENABLES US TO SEEK REIMBURSEMENT. WE HAD SOME SERIOUS INCIDENTS. THE PUMPS WAS MENTIONED. WE ALSO HAD SOME CITY TREES WHICH CAME DOWN. UM, ONE OF THEM DESTROYED A HOUSE AND IT'S, IT'S OUR TREE. AND SO OUR PROBLEM, BUT WE'RE FOLLOWING UP ON EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE. AND NO, WE HAVE MORE WORK TO DO. UM, MR. ROBINSON TALKED ABOUT THE TWO EMERGENCY RESOLUTIONS, THE COVID ONE, AS WAS MENTIONED AT THE LAST MEETING. I THINK THE GOVERNOR'S GONNA WIND THAT UP AND WHEN HE DOES, WE'LL CLOSE OURS DOWN HERE AS WELL. AND THE WINTER STORM ONE IS THE MOST RECENT ONE. THERE'S BEEN SOME VERY UNUSUAL WEATHER, AND OTHER TOWNS HAVE BEEN FAR WORSE HIT THAN US. WE'VE BEEN, UM, IN, IN MUTUAL AID RESPONSE MODE TO ASSIST WITH SOME OF THAT IN OTHER TOWNS THAT HAVE IT WORSE THAN WE DO. BUT I, I RECOMMEND THAT AS AN AGENDA APPROVAL TONIGHT ON YOUR CONSENT CALENDAR SO THAT WE COULD, UM, CAPTURE THOSE STATE AND FEDERAL MONIES. I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAVE THIS EVENING. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GO AHEAD, MR. YEAH. THANK YOU. UH, MAYOR. OKAY. I THINK THE RESIDENT TALKING ABOUT ANOTHER TWO ISSUE POWER. OKAY. ALL THE PLACES, AND MAYBE WE CAN HAVE, UH, APP SO HE CAN REPORT WITH DISTANCE THAT, OR WE HAVE, UH, OUR SUPERINTENDENT DRIVING AROUND MAKE SURE, IDENTIFY OR OUR CO ENFORCEMENT. OKAY. WE HAVE A ASSERTING OF THEM. THEY SHOULD IDENTIFY THE PROBLEM. WE HAVE THIS RENT DAMAGE. WE SHOULD HAVE A LOT OF POWER, BUT WE NEED TO FIX IT RIGHT AWAY. OKAY. SECOND THING REGARDING THREE SWEEPER, MAYBE YOU CAN ANSWER AND YOU DIDN'T ANSWER ABOUT THREE SWEEP SWEEPER. OKAY. AND WE HAVE A MAJOR ISSUE, OKAY. ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE. DO WE HAVE A TERMINATION CLOUD IF THEY DON'T PERFORM, [01:10:02] UM, THROUGH THE CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. WOO. UM, THE COUNCIL IS AWARE, AND I WOULD LIKE FOR THE PUBLIC TO ALSO BE AWARE THAT THE CITY COUNCIL IS DIRECTED THAT I RETURNED TO THEM WITH THE REPORT ABOUT STREET SWEEPING. GENERALLY, IT'LL ADDRESS SEVERAL ISSUES RELATED TO THAT. WE WANT TO GET IN COMPLIANCE AS A BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE WITH THE NATIONAL POLLUTION DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM RULES THE N P D E S RULES, BECAUSE SWEEPING THE STREETS IS THE ONE BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE WE HAVE. WE'RE GONNA BE COMING FORWARD WITH THE REPORT THAT RECOMMENDS, UM, WEEKLY STREET SWEEPING CITYWIDE THE POSTING OF THE CITY WITH SIGNS. IT'S GONNA COME AT A COST, IT COULD BE $600,000 OR MORE. AND THEN ALSO THE COST OF, OF RUNNING THE STREETS TO SWEEP THEM CORRECTLY AT SO MUCH A CURB MILE. THE, THE CURRENT ARRANGEMENT DOESN'T PROVIDE FOR WEEKLY SWEEP SWEEPING, AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO LOOK AT, UM, ALTERNATIVES IN, IN THE PROVISION OF THAT SERVICE AS WELL. UM, WE DO HAVE AN APP TO REPORT DAMAGES WITH, WITH TREES AND WITH POTHOLES. UM, OUR, OUR SUPERINTENDENTS DO, UH, RUN THE STREETS. THEY'RE OUT EVERY MORNING, UM, DURING THE STORM STARTING AT ABOUT 5:00 AM. UM, I, I GOT HOME FROM HAVING BEEN OUT OF THE CITY IN THE STATE ON SATURDAY NIGHT, LITERALLY AT 10 O'CLOCK, AND WAS REALLY PROUD TO SEE MY CREW, UH, IN A PICKUP TRUCK AT CITRUS WHEN I GOT OFF THE FREEWAY TO HEAD HOME. I KNOW THAT THEY'RE OUT THERE TO THE EXTENT OF THEIR CAPACITY, BUT IT, IT HAS BEEN OVERWHELMING AND WILL, UM, CONTINUE TO STAY ON IT AND KEEP THOSE CREWS. UM, CHASING, CHASING STORM DAMAGES. YEAH. THANK YOU. UM, MANAGER, I THINK HE IS ASKING ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE. OKAY. THAT THE SWEEPER DIDN'T SHOW UP. OKAY. AND HOW OUR CITY HAVE A MECHANISM TO CHASE ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE BECAUSE WE PAY THEM TOP DOLLAR. SO IF THEY SHOW UP, IF THEY DON'T SHOW UP, OKAY. HOW, IF THEY DON'T SHOW UP, WHEN THEY WILL SHOW UP. SO ELLIS, WE HAVE SOMEBODY AND WHO IS THE PERSON WAS SUPERVISED TO SEE THE PERFORMANCE OF OUR SUBCONTRACTOR TO PERFORM, BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S THE IMPORTANT THING. AND IF THEY DON'T PERFORM, DO WE HAVE A TERMINATION CLAUSE? OKAY. TO MAKE SURE THAT HE DOESN'T DO IT, THEN WE CAN TERMINATE THEM, UM, THROUGH THE CHAIR. YES, THE CONTRACT DOES HAVE A, A, A A TERMINATION CLAUSE. UM, AND WE ARE, UM, IN CONVERSATION WITH THEM ABOUT SOME PERFORMANCE ISSUES. UM, RIGHT NOW, MADAM MAYOR, UM, UM, COUNCILMAN COUNTESS, GO AHEAD. UM, BY WAY OF SPECIFIC FOLLOW UP TO THE CITY MANAGER WITH THE VARIOUS IDENTIFIED ITEMS WITH REGARD TO STREET CLEANUP AND SO FORTH, CAN YOU PLEASE REPORT BACK TO THE COUNCIL AS WITH REGARD TO THE RESOLUTION OF THOSE MATTERS, JUST SO THAT WAY THE PUBLIC CAN SEE THAT THOSE SPECIFIC CONCERNS HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED? CERTAINLY, YES. THANK YOU. I'M LOOKING THROUGH OUR APP RIGHT NOW TO SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT WE CAN USE TO REPORT THINGS LIKE THAT. AND, UM, I DON'T SEE ANYTHING. SO, UM, YEAH, IT'D BE NICE TO GET A REPORT REGARDING THE STREET SWEEPERS. AND, UM, I WOULD ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO USE OUR WEST COVINA APP TO REPORT ANY POTHOLES OR THINGS LIKE OF THAT NATURE AND TREES AND SO ON. I'M ALWAYS DOING THAT AND IT REALLY WORKS WELL. I ALWAYS GET A RESPONSE, UM, FROM THE, UH, FROM MAINTENANCE. SO, UM, I WOULD ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO USE THAT APP. THANK YOU. [CITY MANAGER'S REPORT] UH, MR. CITY MANAGER, CAN YOU GIVE US A REPORT? UM, THANK YOU. MERIT AND COUNSEL, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, I'D LIKE TO JUST PROVIDE A VERY BRIEF CITY MANAGER'S REPORT AND UPDATE. UM, FIRST ITEM I WANTED TO MENTION WAS WE HAD SEEN SOME CHANGES IN THE LAW WITH RESPECT TO, UM, HOW CONCEALED CARRY LICENSES AND PERMITS ARE, UM, CONSIDERED AND ISSUED UP UNTIL THIS POINT. THE, THE SHERIFF HAS BEEN HANDLING THOSE FOR ALL 88 CITIES IN THE COUNTY. THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE MADE A DECISION THEY WERE ONLY GONNA DO THAT FOR THEIR CONTRACT CITIES. SHIFTING TO THE INDEPENDENT CITIES, A NEED TO HAVE A PROCESS BY WHICH THOSE APPLICATIONS COULD BE REVIEWED AND CONSIDERED. UM, WE'VE PUT IN PLACE ON A SERVICE BUREAU BASIS, UH, UH, PORTAL FOR THAT. IT'S AVAILABLE ON OUR, UM, POLICE DEPARTMENT WEBPAGE AS OF TODAY. IF YOU GO TO THAT WEBPAGE AND TYPE IN CCW, THAT PERMIT PROCESS IS, UM, ON THAT, ON THAT POLICE DEPARTMENT WEBPAGE, AND PEOPLE CAN APPLY FOR THOSE PERMITS, UM, DIRECTLY FOR ULTIMATE, UM, REVIEW AND, AND CONSIDERATION BY, BY THE CHIEF OF POLICE. UM, THIS NEXT SLIDE, ADDRESSING FACILITY ISSUES DUE TO THE RAIN. I TALKED ABOUT THIS JUST BRIEFLY. THIS IS A, A CURRENT SNAPSHOT. I HAD SHARED WITH THE COUNCIL MEMBERS EARLIER ABOUT SOME LEAKS AT THE PUBLIC WORKS YARD BUILDING. UM, NOT ACCEPTABLE TO HAVE OUR EMPLOYEES WORKING IN THIS CONDITION. I GOT A ROOFER OUT THERE RIGHT AWAY. WE HAD SOME 50 LEAKS [01:15:01] IN THAT ROOF AND A C CLOGGED DRAIN. BUT WE'RE GONNA NEED TO, UM, ADDRESS THESE, THESE SITUATIONS IMMEDIATELY. THE REST OF OUR ROOFS SEEM TO DO MUCH BETTER IN THIS STORM THAN IN SOME PREVIOUS STORMS. CITY HALLS IN GOOD SHAPE. THE COMMUNITY CENTER'S IN GOOD SHAPE. THE SENIOR CENTERS IN GOOD SHAPES. WE HAD SOME PINHOLE TYPE LEAKS AT A COUPLE OF THE FIRE STATIONS AND SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE PUMP AT FIRE STATION THREE ON THE ROOF. BUT, UM, OUR, OUR NUMBER ONE PROBLEM IN TERMS OF THIS MOST RECENT STORM WAS AT OUR CITY WORKS YARD. AND, AND WE'VE GOTTA GET THAT FIXED RIGHT AWAY. I MIGHT BE ISSUING AN EMERGENCY CONTRACT TO GET THAT DONE. NEXT SLIDE. UM, WANTED TO MENTION THAT WE HAVE HAD, UM, OUR FIRE CREW DEPLOYED, UH, IN THE MENDOCINO, UH, BERN SCAR AREA. OUR CREW, UH, IS SHOWN HERE WORKING ON A FLOODED ROAD AND IN EVALUATING THE HILLSIDE, WHICH IS IN DANGER OF FAILURE. UM, ON THE RIGHT THERE IS A PICTURE OF A HOUSE THAT WAS FLOODED, AND OUR CREWS DID SOME, UM, UH, STRUCTURE SEARCH AND A STRUCTURAL EVALUATION. SO ONCE AGAIN, IN THIS CRISIS, AS WITH SOME PREVIOUS CRISIS, WE ARE, UM, PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO OTHER US ON A MUTUAL AID BASIS. AND I'M, I'M PROUD OF THAT. NEXT SLIDE. WANTED TO MAKE MENTION THAT OUR HOME BUYER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IS NOW AVAILABLE. THIS IS A HOUSING PROGRAM THE CITY HAS, WHICH IS DESIGNED TO ASSIST FIRST TIME HOME BUYERS IN PURCHASING A HOME. UM, IT'S AVAILABLE TO ALL FIRST TIME HOME BUYERS PREFERENCE BEING GIVEN TO EXISTING WEST CAMINA RESIDENTS AND, UM, LOW AND MODERATE INCOME INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES. UM, THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE OFFERING THIS HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, THE TERIA BY LENAR, WHICH IS AVAILABLE NOW. AND THEN THREE MORE ARE ON THE HORIZON. VINCENT PLACE BY MARITO WEST CAMERON, UM, UH, BY MARITO AND THE GROVE MERCED. AND, UM, PEOPLE CAN VISIT OUR HOUSING, UM, PAGE ON OUR CITY WEBSITE IF THEY WANT TO GET SOME SPECIFICS AS FIRST TIME HOME BUYERS AND NEED SOME HELP TRYING TO PURCHASE A HOME. I'D LIKE FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT THAT AND, AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT IF THEY, IF THEY CAN. NEXT SLIDE. THERE'S A COUPLE OF ONLINE SURVEYS, WHICH ARE UNDERWAY. I MENTIONED AT THE LAST MEETING OUR BUDGET SURVEY. WE WANT TO GET PEOPLE'S EARLY INPUT AND, AND THOUGHT. AND THERE'S ALSO A SURVEY AVAILABLE ON NOW LINE NOW OF A, A HEALTH ASSESSMENT, WHICH WILL RELATE TO A BROADER CONTEXT OF A COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT. NEXT SLIDE. UM, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A COMMUNITY MEETING ON, UM, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31ST IN THESE CHAMBERS AS PART OF OUR BUDGET PROCESS. WE'VE DONE THIS IN PRIOR FISCAL YEARS. I'M GONNA BE HERE THAT NIGHT. AND THIS IS A COMMUNITY CONVERSATION. IT'S NOT A PRESENTATION, BUT IT'S A, A LISTENING POST AND AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO HEAR FROM RESIDENTS AS TO WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN THE COMING FISCAL YEAR BUDGET. IT'S A MAJOR POLICY DOCUMENT, BUT I'M GONNA BE HERE IN THIS CHAMBERS, AND I HOPE WE GET SOME PEOPLE TO COME IN THE PAST. WE'VE GOT SOME PRETTY GOOD COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS. AND SO, LIKE FOR PEOPLE TO BE WELCOME TO, TO BE HERE AT, AT SIX O'CLOCK ON THE, ON THE 31ST. UM, NEXT SLIDE. WE'RE RECRUITING FOR VOLUNTEERS, PEOPLE THAT MIGHT HAVE AN INTEREST IN SERVING ON COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES UNDER STATE LAW. THE MADDI REQUIRED NOTICE ACT. WE ARE TO MAKE AVAILABLE, UH, ANNOUNCE THE A AVAILABILITY TO THESE POSITIONS. THE, THE SENIOR AND COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMISSION, THE HUMAN RESOURCES COMMISSION, THE AUDIT COMMITTEE, PEOPLE THAT ARE INTERESTING IN APPLYING. UH, THESE ARE NOT PAID POSITIONS. THESE ARE VOLUNTEER POSTS, AT LEAST FOR NOW. UM, SHOULD, SHOULD GO ONTO OUR WEBSITE AND, AND JUST, UH, SUBMIT THEIR, UM, NAME, ADDRESS, SERIAL NUMBER, ET CETERA, AND THEY CAN BE CONSIDERED FOR THESE VOLUNTEER POSTS. AND THEN LASTLY, I JUST WANTED TO REMIND THE COMMUNITY THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AND DINNER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY THE 16TH, FROM SIX TO 8:00 PM UP AT THE SPORTSPLEX. UM, AND THAT'LL KICK OFF, UH, A WEEKEND OF OUR CENTENNIAL SPRING FESTIVAL. UM, BUT WE REALLY HOPE PEOPLE WILL, UM, CONSIDER COMING TO THE SPORTS PLEX FOR A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AND DINNER. WE'VE HAD SOME GREAT ASSISTANCE FROM THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. IT'S, IT'S KIND OF A MOMENT FOR US TO HAVEN'T BEEN A, A CITY FOR A HUNDRED YEARS. I THINK THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT THIS EVENING. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO. UH, THANK, THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. UH, I JUST, UH, HAD HAD A FEW, UH, COMMENTS. UH, I KNOW THIS WEEK WE ALL RE RECEIVED, UH, AN EMAIL REGARDING, UH, SOME OF THE FESTIVALS, UH, THAT WE HOLD AS A CITY AND, AND WE PARTNER WITH. UH, AND, UH, AND I JUST WANTED A, A, A RESPONSE ON THE RECORD FOR THE, FOR THE PUBLIC TO HEAR. UM, YOU KNOW, ONE, ONE OF THE FIRST EVENTS WE HAD WAS, UH, DURING FILIPINO AMERICAN MONTH, UH, AND IT WAS AT THE SPORTSPLEX. UH, AND, [01:20:01] YOU KNOW, TH THAT THAT CELEBRATION WE HAD UP THERE, UM, YOU KNOW, KNOW THOSE TYPES OF EVENTS, UM, REALLY, IT'S, IT'S A WAY FOR US TO, TO ENTER THE HOMES OF OUR NEIGHBORS, RIGHT? I REMEMBER BEING AT THAT EVENT, UH, SEEING COUNCILWOMAN, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, LOPEZ, VITO, UM, BEING AROUND ALL THOSE FAMILIES, UH, EATING THE FOOD, UH, TALKING ABOUT THE DESSERTS. UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK ABOUT, UH, LUNAR NEW YEAR, WHICH IS COMING UP, UH, AND COUNCILMAN WOO, UM, YOU KNOW, FEEDING THE DRAGON AND, AND, AND GIVING, YOU KNOW, GIVING ME MY RED ENVELOPE, WHICH I STILL CARRY. UH, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN THAT EVENT HAPPENS, YOU KNOW, I, I, I CAN SEE INTO COUNCIL MAN WU'S HOUSE, RIGHT? I, I CAN SEE WHAT IT WOULD'VE BEEN LIKE, RIGHT? AS, AS ONE OF HIS CHILDREN TO, TO RECEIVE THE RED ENVELOPE. YOU KNOW, I THINK OF NARUS, WHICH IS PERSIAN NEW YEAR, WE HAVE A SIMILAR THING, RIGHT? AND SO IT, IT CREATES THAT CONNECTION WITHIN COMMUNITY. UM, YOU KNOW, AND THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE, THE PRIDE EVENT THAT, THAT, THAT WILL COME OUT IN JUNE. AND, AND AGAIN, IT, IT'S THIS WAY TO OPEN UP OUR DOORS, RIGHT? TO, TO GET TO KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS, TO SEE HOW OUR NEIGHBORS RELATE TO EACH OTHER, HOW THEY CELEBRATE CULTURE, RIGHT? AND, AND HOW WE CAN CONNECT WITH THIS DIFFERENT FOOD AND, AND, AND JUST TO, TO SEE THOSE RELATIONSHIPS THAT WE NORMALLY CAN'T SEE. UH, AND SO, YOU KNOW, THESE EVENTS, THESE, THESE EVENTS ARE NOT TO, TO DIVIDE COMMUNITY, RIGHT? THE, THESE EVENTS ARE TO GIVE US ALL A LOOK INSIDE, LOOK INSIDE EACH OTHER'S HOMES. IT'S A WELCOMING. EVERYONE IS INVITED. UH, EVERYONE GETS TO SIT AND ENJOY AND, AND REALLY JUST SEE, UH, HOW WE ALL LOVE EACH OTHER. UH, AND, UH, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, UM, TO, TO THE RESIDENT WHO, WHO EMAILED ABOUT OUR FESTIVALS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE IMPORTANCE OF THEM. I AM, I THINK WE ALL ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO ENJOYING THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY, UH, CONNECTING AS WEST COVINA RESIDENTS, UH, AND, AND JUST REALLY BEING COMMUNITY, RIGHT? AND, AND LIKE I SAID, WE, WE, WE DON'T GET A CHANCE TO GO INTO EACH OTHER'S HOMES. UM, BUT THIS IS A WAY FOR US TO DO IT. UH, AND YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE STAFF, FOR ALL THE EVENTS YOU PUT FROM THE, THE HOLIDAY EVENTS TO THE HALLOWEEN EVENTS, UM, TO THIS WONDERFUL FOUR DAYS THAT WE'RE, WE'RE ABOUT TO HAVE AND, AND THOSE FUTURE EVENTS. UM, AND, AND THEY ARE, I MEAN, THIS IS WHAT WE DO, RIGHT? THIS IS, YOU KNOW, AS A CITY GOVERNMENT, AS A MUNICIPALITY, WE'RE TO CREATE AND HELP FACILITATE COMMUNITY. UH, AND I'M, I'M PROUD THE WAY WE'VE DONE IT. I'M PROUD THAT WE'RE RECOGNIZING, UH, OUR DIFFERENT NEIGHBORS, UH, AND WE'RE SHARING IN, IN, IN THESE MOMENTS TOGETHER. UH, THANK YOU. THANK YOU, UH, MAYOR PRO. OKAY, NOW WE'RE GONNA [CONSENT CALENDAR] GONNA MOVE ON TO OUR CONSENT CALENDAR. AND, UH, WE HAVE 10 ITEMS. IS THERE ANYONE THAT WOULD LIKE TO PULL ANY ITEM? CAL? UM, MAY I APPROACH HIM? TABATA? UH, YES. I'D LIKE TO PULL ITEM, UH, NUMBER THREE. ANYONE ELSE? UH, UH, MADAM MAYOR. UM, FIVE, SEVEN AND NINE. SEVEN. OKAY. DO WE HAVE A MO MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT CALENDAR, UH, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF 3, 5, 7, AND NINE? SO, MOVE SECOND. I'LL SECOND IT. MAYOR, I HAVE, UM, A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN WU AND A SECOND BY MAYOR DIAZ TO APPROVE THE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ITEM NUMBER THREE, CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ARTICLE EIGHT OF CHAPTER TWO OF THE WEST COVIN MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE REGULATIONS. UH, ITEM NUMBER FIVE, CONSIDERATION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR BUILDING AND SAFETY SERVICES WITH TRANSTECH. ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, CONSIDERATION OF ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT AND OTHER RELATED REPORTS FOR THE YEAR IN JUNE 30, 20, 22. AND ITEM NUMBER NINE, CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE FISCAL YEAR 20 22, 20 23 BUDGET. OKAY, COUNCILMAN CANTOS. AYE. COUNCILMAN WU? AYE. COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ? VITO AYE. MAYOR PRO TABATA AYE. MAYOR DIAZ? AYE. ITEMS PASS. FIVE ZERO. OKAY. UM, [3) CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ARTICLE VIII OF CHAPTER 2 OF THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE REGULATIONS] MAYOR PRO, IT'S ABOUT THANK, THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. UM, SO I, UH, I THINK I, I DO HAVE, UH, SOME CONCERNS, UH, WITH THE, [01:25:01] THE ITEM. UH, AND, AND SO WHEN, WHEN IT, WHEN IT COMES TO EXPENDITURES, UM, SO FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, RIGHT THERE, THERE, THERE'S, THERE'S NO CAP ON, ON ANY TYPE OF EXPENDITURE, RIGHT? RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT. MADAM MAYOR, LEMME GIVE YOU A REALLY BRIEF STAFF REPORT HERE. WHAT THIS CHANGED WAS THE CONTRIBUTION AMOUNT FROM, I BELIEVE WHAT WAS AROUND SIX SOMETHING WITH CPI WE HAD BEFORE AT SIX 50 CPI REMAINS. AND IT CHANGED THE CONTRIBUTION, NOT JUST TO A CANDIDATE, TO A COMMITTEE. THAT IS ALL, THAT IS IT, THAT'S ALL THIS AMENDMENT CHANGED. IT DIDN'T CHANGE ANYTHING TO THE CITY ATTORNEY ENFORCEMENT, ANYTHING TO THE, TO THE RECITALS. EVERYTHING ELSE HAS EXISTED AND HAS BEEN THERE. SO THE BRIEF STAFF REPORT IS THE SIX 50 PLUS THE CPI AND THE COMMITTEE, WE ESPECIALLY DID NOT TOUCH, AND IT WAS NOT DIRECTED TO TOUCH INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES, CUZ AS WE ALL KNOW, AS, AS YOUR, AS YOUR CITIZENS CAME UP HERE. AND SO ASTUTELY SAID, YOU CAN'T, YOU CAN'T, UH, PUT LIMITS ON FREE SPEECH, AND THAT'S AN INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE. WE DID NOT TOUCH THAT. WE ONLY ADDRESSED THE SIX 50 AND TO THE COMMITTEE. AND THESE COMMITTEES FILE WITH THE STATE, THEY FILE WITH OUR CITY CLERK. SHE CAN ADD IF, IF SHE WANTS. AND SAME WITH INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES, THEY FILE WITH THE CITY CLERK WITHIN THAT TIME LIMIT. THAT'S ALL THAT HAS CHANGED HERE. SO, UH, I GUESS, UM, MY QUESTION IS, SO, SO AS A CANDIDATE, RIGHT? SO I I CAN, I CAN LOAN MY, MY CAMPAIGN, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, RICK CARUSO RIGHT? LOANED HIS CAMPAIGN 104 MILLION. THAT'S CORRECT. SO THE, THE DEFINITION OF CONTRIBUTION, THAT'S EXA THAT'S A GOOD, GOOD POINT. THE DEFINITION OF CONTRIBUTION DOES NOT INCLUDE A LOAN. SO A LOAN TO YOURSELF, A COMMITTEE COULD LOAN TO ITSELF, A CANDIDATE COULD LOAN TO THEMSELVES, RIGHT? SO, SO A COMMITTEE, RIGHT? SO WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO SAY, RIGHT, WE, WE DON'T WANT, RIGHT, THIS CORRUPTION, WE DON'T WANT THIS, THIS, YOU KNOW, HIDDEN DONOR TO DONATE A MILLION DOLLARS TO A COMMITTEE, BUT THAT DONOR CAN JUST LOAN THE COMMITTEE A MILLION DOLLARS, AND IT, IT, IT WOULD PRETTY MUCH SAY IT WA IT DOESN'T, THIS DOES NOT ADDRESS LOANS. AND THAT, AND THIS, THIS IS KIND OF FOLLOWS WHAT THE STATE DOES. THE STATE DOES NOT ADDRESS LOANS. IT'S DIFFERENT STATUTES THAT GOVERN THAT. THAT'S CORRECT. SO, SO, SO WHATEVER PROBLEM WE, WE WERE ATTEMPTING TO SOLVE BY, BY ADDING THIS, IT, IT, IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY DO THAT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT PROBLEM WE WERE ATTEMPTING TO RESOLVE. SOME CITIES HAVE DONE, THIS HAS BEEN ON BOOKS IN OTHER CITIES. UM, THERE'S BEEN RECENT, UM, SITUATIONS WHERE OUTSIDE MONEY HAS COME IN. I THINK WE'VE SAW IT UP IN SEATTLE WITH AMAZON COMING IN WITH A LOT OF MONEY AND TRYING TO BUY ELECTIONS. AND, AND SO CITIES THEN TO KEEP LOCAL CONTROL AND, AND LIKE WEST COVINA HAVING A DISTRICT ARE ARE GONNA SAY, RAISE YOUR MONEY HERE. AND, AND THEY'RE OKAY TO LIMIT IT TO $650. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS WAS TRYING TO FIX. INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES WAS NOT TOUCHED. SO I, I CAN'T ANSWER THAT. RIGHT. SO, SO THEN, SO, SO IN YOUR AMAZON EXAMPLE, IF AMAZON WANTED TO JUST CREATE A COMMITTEE AND LOAN THAT COMMITTEE A MILLION DOLLARS, THE THE, WE REALLY, WE REALLY HAVE NO WAY OF, OF, OF STOPPING THAT. YEAH. AND, AND, AND THIS DOESN'T ADDRESS SUPERPACS, WHICH I PROBABLY WAS SITUATION UP THERE. SUPERPACS ARE CREATED DIFFERENTLY. THEY CAN, THEY CAN FUND THEMSELVES DIFFERENTLY. UM, THEY'RE NOT, UH, PROVIDING MONEY AT THE DIRECTION OF ANYONE. IT'S THEIR OWN COMMITTEE AND THEY'RE GONNA PAY, THEY'RE GONNA DO WHAT THEY WANT TO DO WITH THEIR OWN MONEY, AND THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THAT. SO THIS DOES NOT ADDRESS THAT. WHAT THIS DOES ADDRESS IS A SIX 50 AMOUNT, AND THEN THE, THE, HOW THAT COMMITTEE RAISES THE MONEY. UM, BUT AGAIN, A LOAN IS NOT IN THAT DEFINITION. SO THEY CAN LOAN THEMSELVES MONEY JUST AS ANY CANDIDATE UP THERE ON THE DIAS CAN LOAN THEMSELVES MONEY. OKAY. THAT'S IT. I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS BECAUSE AS A NEW CANDIDATE, WHEN WE'RE ONLY LIMITED TO $650, UM, DONORS COULD SAY, WELL, I WOULD LIKE TO DONATE MORE. AND THEN YOU COULD CIRCUMVENT THAT AND SAY, OKAY, JUST DONATE TO THAT AND GO. UM, AND IT'S GONNA BE THE SAME THING. SO IF WE'RE LIMITED, THEN, UH, AS WHEN WE HAVE TO COUNTERATTACK OR ANYTHING THAT WHEN THEY PUT ALL THESE MAILERS OUT, IT'S, IT ALMOST PUTS THAT, UM, FAIR PLAYING FIELD. NOT ONLY THAT AS LOANS, YOU KNOW, PERSONALLY, WE DON'T WANNA TAKE OUT LOANS. SO, I MEAN, WHO WANTS TO TAKE A MILLION DOLLAR LOAN AND THEN PAY THAT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU LOSE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. BUT I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS. UM, MR. SI ATTORNEY, I, I, UM, I HAVE A, A, A COUPLE QUESTIONS. OH, I'M SORRY. MADAM MAYOR [01:30:01] , GO AHEAD. COUNCILMAN COUNTESS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND I, I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE BECAUSE I'M NEW, AND THIS MAY BE REALLY OBVIOUS, BUT JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON A RESIDENT, UM, REMARK EARLIER REGARDING THE SECOND, WHEREAS, IS IT TRUE THAT, THAT THE, THE GOVERNING STATUTE ONLY APPLIES TO LIMITATIONS OF CONTRIBUTIONS THE CANDIDATES? AND, UH, OR IS, IS IT THAT, UH, THIS WE HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ALSO LIMIT CONTRIBUTIONS TO PACS? YES, WE HAVE THAT AUTHORITY. THE STATE DOES IT. SO A NEW BILL JUST CAME OUT RECENTLY THAT SAID, UM, HEY, CITIES, YOU GUYS PUT A LIMITATION, UM, ON YOUR, UH, CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS BY, UM, INDIVIDUALS AND BY PACS AND WHOMEVER, UM, BY A CERTAIN DATE. AND IF YOU DON'T DO IT, WE'RE GONNA DEFAULT AND IT'S GONNA BE 4,900, I THINK IT'S $4,900. SO CITIES WEST ALREADY HAD A LIMIT, I THINK IT WAS 500 BACK, WAY BACK WHEN THEY ALREADY HAD THAT, UM, ON THEIR BOOKS. UM, OTHER CITIES RUSHED, AND THEY, AND THEY PUT LIMITS ON IT. OTHER CITIES SAID, WE'RE NOT GONNA PUT ANY LIMIT ON IT. AND SO THEY CAN GO ABOVE AND BEYOND THE 4,900. AND THEN CITIES THAT DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WILL JUST DEFAULT TO THE STATE. SO FOR MORE LOCAL CONTROL. AND, AND, AND, UH, IN THE MINDS OF, OF PREVIOUS COUNCIL BEFORE YOU, OR MAYBE COUNCIL MEMBER WHO WAS ALREADY ON THERE, THEY SAID, WE WANT MORE LOCAL CONTROL. WE ARE GOING TO LIMIT THOSE, UM, UH, CONTRIBUTION LIMITS TO 500 WAY BACK WHEN. OKAY. AND, UH, MY NEXT QUESTION IS IN SUPPORT OF, OF PUSHING FOR, UH, EFFORTS TO EQUALIZE THE, THE PLAYING FIELD, UH, TO WHAT EXTENT WOULD, WOULD THIS, UH, PROPOSED, UH, UH, CHANGE IN OUR ORDINANCE, HAVE AN IMPACT ON LAR OF, ON ENTITIES WHO HAVE LARGE BUDGE BUDGETS, STILL BEING ABLE TO AMPLIFY THAT MESSAGE? AND, AND, AND HOW DOES THAT COMPARE WITH INDIVIDUAL RESIDENTS WHO DO NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO COMPETE IN TERMS OF THE MESSAGING? BECAUSE OF, UH, WOULDN'T THAT BE LEADING TO AN E AN UNEQUAL RESULT BECAUSE OF HAVING A MORE ADVERSE IMPACT ON INDIVI, ON INDIVIDUAL RESIDENTS OR SMALLER PACKS IN COMPARISON TO LARGER PACKS? MAN, THESE ARE TOUGH QUESTIONS. WELL UNDERSTAND. WOW. UM, UH, I UNDERSTAND. SO, SO SOME ASSOCIATIONS OR SOME COMMITTEES WILL BE ABLE TO RAISE MONEY EASIER THAN AN INDIVIDUAL COULD. I, I, I'M, YOU WOULD KNOW BETTER. YOU KNOCK ON DOORS, YOU SEND OUT WHATEVER SAYING, CAN I HAVE SOME MONEY? $199, 2 56 50, THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT, UM, A COMMITTEE COULD MAYBE, OR AN ASSOCIATION COULD GO TO THEIR MEMBERS AND GET INDIVIDUALS TO, TO, TO CONTRIBUTE THAT WAY, WHICH IS, WHICH IS FINE. AND THAT'S TYPICALLY WHAT THEY DO. MM-HMM. , AND AGAIN, DEPENDS ON HOW THIS COMMITTEE, THIS PACK IS FORMED. IF IT'S FORMED IN A, IN A DIFFERENT MANNER, AND IT'S NOT CONTROLLED BY A CANDIDATE OR A MEASURE, AND IT'S IN THEIR INDEPENDENT, THEY CAN, THEY CAN HAVE THEIR, THEIR, UM, TREASURER RIGHT. CHECK CHECKS TO THIS PACK, AND THEY CAN SPEND IT. HOWEVER, THE LIMITATIONS COME WHEN THEY'RE NOT A SUPER PAC AND THEY'RE RAISING MONEY IN A, IN A DIFFERENT MANNER. AND THEN THEY, AND THEY CAN SPEND IT HOWEVER, HOWEVER THEY DEEM, HOWEVER THEY WANT TO. SO, LE LE LEVELING THE PLANE FILL, THAT'S A TOUGH, TOUGH QUESTION. I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WILL DO. UM, MAYBE LESS MONEY WILL BE SPENT ON A CAMPAIGN HERE, AND FOR THE SIZE OF THIS CITY AND THE SIZE OF YOUR DISTRICTS. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A GOOD OR BAD THING. UM, IT'S, THAT'S A DIFFICULT QUESTION TO TO, TO ANSWER, BUT IT, THIS APPLIES, UM, TO ALL COMMITTEES, DEPENDING ON HOW THEY'RE FORMED OTHER THAN SUPER PACS, OF COURSE. BUT IF THERE, IF THERE ARE INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE COMMITTEES, ONE HAVING, UH, SIZABLE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, LET'S SAY SIX FIGURE AMOUNTS, AND THEY'RE SMALLER, INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE COMMITTEES, HOW IS IT THAT THE SMALLER ONES CAN ALSO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO AMPLIFY THEIR MESSAGE WITH WHATEVER THEY SAY IN COMPARISON TO THOSE WHO ALREADY HAVE THE RESOURCES TO BE ABLE TO AMPLIFY THEIR OWN MESSAGE? DOES THAT ALSO, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ALSO IMPACTS SPEECH INDIRECTLY, EVEN HOWEVER, UNINTENDED, NO. AND SO, AND SO THE COURTS, THE COURT, UH, THE CITIZENS UNITED CASE, THE COURT LOOKED AT THIS AND THE COURT, THE COURT SAID, WE CAN'T LIMIT HOW YOU WANNA SPEND YOUR MONEY, CUZ THAT THAT'S CONSIDERED FREE SPEECH. THAT'S WHAT YOU WANNA DO. THE COURTS LOOKED AT UNDER, WHICH IS, WHICH IS CALLED STRICT SCRUTINY. AND I THINK YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE COURTS DID NOT, AND WILL NOT, AND HAS NOT, AS FAR AS I KNOW, LOOKED AT HOW YOU RAISE YOUR MONEY. THAT'S NOT CONSIDERED SPEECH IN ANY MANNER. IT'S IF YOU GO, IF YOU'RE GONNA RAISE MONEY, UH, GIVE YOURSELF A LOAN, OR IF YOU'RE GONNA KNOCK ON EVERY DOOR AND GET SOME MONEY, THAT THAT'S, THAT'S YOUR PREROGATIVE. THAT'S HOW YOU DO IT. BUT THE COURTS DON'T LOOK AT THAT AND SAY, LIMITING THAT IS SOME WAY AN INFRINGEMENT ON FREE SPEECH. RIGHT. RIGHT. I'M NOT, I'M NOT REFERRING, I, I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT BEING CLEAR. I'M NOT REFERRING TO THE EXPENDITURE OF MONEY, BUT THE RAISING OF MONEY. SO IF THERE ARE SMALL PACKS THAT ARE TRYING TO RAISE MONEY AND THEY'RE SMALLER BY NATURE BECAUSE THEY'RE RESIDENT CONTROLLED PACKS, HOW [01:35:01] CAN THEY COMPETE WITH LARGER ENTITIES WHO ARE PACS, WHO MAY HAVE, UM, MAY BE FILED IN THIS CITY WHO HAVE HIGHER RESOURCES AND, AND, AND WHAT WOULD BE THE IMPACT OF, UH, UM, ON SMALLER PACKS UNDER THIS, UNDER THIS PROPOSED ORDINANCE? UM, THE, THE ALL PACKS, THEY'RE ALL GOVERNED BY THE SIX 50. THEY CAN ONLY GET SIX 50, UM, NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO, UNLESS, UNLESS THEY HAVE MONEY IN THEIR COFFERS ALREADY. UM, THAT'S HARD TO SAY. HOW, HOW, YOU KNOW, A LARGE PACK ALREADY HAS THAT IN THEIR COFFERS. I DON'T KNOW. BUT THEY ARE ALL LIMITED TO THE SIX 50 WHEN THEY GO KNOCK ON DOORS AND TRY TO RAISE MONEY. SO IT, IT, IT, IT IS ATTEMPTING TO PROBABLY LEVEL THE PLAYING, PLAYING FIELD MM-HMM. , BUT THEN AGAIN, THIS DOES NOT TOUCH THE, THE EXPENDITURE OF IT. RIGHT. I, I UNDERSTAND THAT. I'M, I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE, FIGURE THIS OUT. AND, AND ALSO, UM, AGAIN, I'M, I'M NEW WITH THIS. UM, HAS THERE BEEN AN ANALYSIS ON, ON LOOKING AT, ON, UH, POSSIBLE ARGUMENTS BOTH IN SUPPORT OF THIS ORDINANCE AND IN AND AGAINST, SO THAT WAY, UH, WE AS A COUNCIL CAN WEIGH THE, THE, THE DIFFERENT, UM, POSSIBILITIES WITH POSSIBLE ARGUMENTS PROPOSED BY BOTH SIDES IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT THE DIFFERENT ARGUMENTS ARE IN ANTICIPATION OF, OF ANY POSSIBLE FUTURE LITIGATION ACTION. AND I UNDERSTAND AS A CITY, WE CAN, UH, AS WE, WE ARE ALWAYS SUBJECT TO LITIGATION, BUT ALSO IT'S A MATTER OF BEING PREVENTATIVE TO WRITE A, UH, AN ORDINANCE IN A WAY THAT MINIMIZES THOSE POSSIBILITIES SUCH THAT, UH, UM, IF WE WERE TO BE SUED, THERE WOULD'VE BEEN THE PROPER, UH, LEGAL ANALYSIS SO THAT IF WE WERE SUED, WE COULD SAY, YEAH, WELL, WE'VE ALREADY ANALYZED THIS. HERE'S WHAT WE'VE SAID. YES, MA MATTER. MARY, YES. WE, WE, WE LOOKED AT THE CASE LAW ON, ON, UM, INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES, THAT SIDE OF IT, AND WE SAW, OKAY, WE'RE NOT LIMITING THAT. RIGHT. AND THE REQUEST WAS ONLY ON, ON RAISING, UH, FUNDS, AND THEN THE LIMIT WAS, WAS 50. THAT WAS IT. AND THERE WAS NOTHING OUT THERE. NO ANYTHING SAYING THAT. UM, THAT'S A VIOLATION OF YOUR FIRST AMENDMENT AND RIGHT. THAT'S IN EXPENDITURES. BUT THE RAISING OF MONEY IS WHAT I'M REFERRING TO, IS THERE, IS THERE AN ANALYSIS? YES. WE, WE'VE LOOKED AT, WE LOOKED AT THAT AND, AND NOTHING, AND, AND WE LOOKED AT OTHER CITIES THAT DID IT. AND, AND, UM, THEY'RE ON THE BOOKS. IF SOMETHING DOES HAPPEN, THEN WE JUST AMEND OUR ORDINANCE AND, AND REMOVE IT. IF, IF THAT'S THE CASE. SO WOULD, WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE IN LIGHT OF THE DIFFICULTY, AND I UNDERSTAND IN, IN ANSWERING THIS, THAT, THAT, UM, IF, IF THIS WERE TO BE TABLED IN ORDER TO DO A PROPER ANALYSIS, OR IS IT THAT THE COUNT? I MEAN, I, I GUESS IT'S, IT'S UP FOR EMOTION, BUT I MEAN, I AM REALLY STRONGLY IN SUPPORT OF ANTI-CORRUPTION AND THE WAY, AND I WAS PERSONALLY ATTACKED BY, BY OTHER INDIVIDUALS. AND I, AGAIN, I SIGNED UP FOR IT. IT'S POLITICS. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT RESIDENTS HAVE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A SAY IN COMPARISON TO LARGER ENTITIES WHO HAVE A LOT OF RESOURCES. THIS IS, THIS IS SECOND READING, I BELIEVE THESE ARE VERY MINOR, VERY MINOR AMENDMENTS TO THIS, UM, TO THE, THE, TO THE CAMPAIGN ORDINANCE. UM, I DON'T, I DON'T SEE ANY, I DON'T SEE WHY IT WOULD NEED TO BE TABLED. IT'S UP TO THE BODY. OF COURSE. UM, YOU COULD, YOU COULD, THE COUNCIL COULD A ASK STAFF TO, TO TAKE A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT THE ENTIRE ORDINANCE, UM, THAT, THAT COULD HAPPEN. IF, IF THAT, IF THE BODY WANTS THAT. BUT THIS IS A MINOR AMENDMENT, UM, THAT I DO NOT BELIEVE IT NEEDS TO BE TABLED, BUT IT'S UP TO THE BODY. OF COURSE. COUNCILMAN WOO. OKAY. THANK YOU. UH, MADAM MAYOR. OKAY. UM, QUICK QUESTION BECAUSE, UH, WAS COUPLE RESIDENT, UH, OKAY, UH, QUERY ASIDE, LET, I'M TRYING TO CENSOR THE FREE SPEECH. OKAY. WE GOT EQUIP NO PROSECUTION. I DON'T KNOW WHO IT'S COMING FROM. SO WOULD YOU PLEASE OKAY. EXPLAIN WHAT KIND OF, UH, CHANGE, WHAT, WHAT IS ABOUT CRIMINAL HEALTH? OKAY. YEAH. I HAVE NO IDEA ANYTHING ABOUT THAT. SO WOULD YOU YEAH. MADAM, MADAM MAYOR, AGAIN, MY BRIEF STAFF REPORT WAS WHAT? THIS CHANGE WAS A SIX 50 AND THEN THE CONTRIBUTION TO THE COMMITTEE, THAT WAS IT. EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WAS COMMENTED ON EXISTED PRIOR. IT'S BEEN IN THE, IT'S BEEN IN THE ORDINANCE. I DON'T KNOW THIS, MY UNDERSTANDING IS JUST, JUST TRY TO HAVE A EQUAL PLAN, FAIL THAT OKAY. CANDIDATE OR PACK O CAN OKAY. TO GET OKAY. SPONSORSHIP. THE, THEY GET GET FUNDING FROM SIX 50, AND THEN WE REPORT TO FPPC WHO DONATE THIS MONEY. SO WE, AT LEAST WE KNOW WHAT THIS MONEY, SO WE DON'T HAVE, UH, A LARGE SUM OF MONEY COMING IN FROM AMAZON OR FROM TEAMSTER OR FROM ANY OF THE, THE PACK. OKAY. BUT, BUT OKAY. SOME RESIDENT TALKING ABOUT HE, HE RAISE A $4,000 ONE TO STOP, HE CAN STILL DO THE SAME THING, RIGHT? YES, HE CAN. AND AGAIN, LOANS ARE NOT IN THE DEBT. HE CAN STILL YES. DOING THE $4,000 LOAN TO HIMSELF. YES. AND STILL, SO NOTHING CHANGED. NO, NOTHING. DIDN'T MINOR CHANGE. WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T RESTRICT ANYBODY'S. RIGHT. AGREE. RIGHT. AM I RIGHT? YOU'RE RIGHT. AGREE. HOW ABOUT PROSECUTION? I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT EXISTED THAT'S BEEN IN THERE. THE TYPICALLY IN, IN ALL MUNICIPAL CODES IN YOUR ADMINISTRATION OR YOUR SECTION ONE, YOUR VERY IN THE VERY, SO THIS IS A TYPICAL, IT'S IN THERE. IT'S IN THERE IN DALE FORD. IT'S REEMPHASIZED IN THE CAMPAIGN ORDINANCE WHERE, AND I'VE HAD A FEW TIMES I'VE HAD TO INVESTIGATE. [01:40:01] UM, SO I DIDN'T REQUEST ANY PROSECUTION BASED ON WHAT THE RESIDENT RIGHT. CRITICIZE. I WANT TO CEN PEOPLE CRITICIZE ME. I NEVER WANT, AND I HAVE NO PROBLEM PEOPLE TO CRITICIZE ME AT ALL. IT'S A FREEDOM OF SPEECH. AND, UM, UH, THE, THE, THE, UH, ELECTIONS OFFICIAL, LISA IS VERY DILIGENT. SHE GETS ALL THE FORMS FILED. SHE, SHE SEES WHAT WAS FILED ON TIME, IF NOT ON TIME, AND IT HAS ALL THE CONTRIBUTIONS. CORRECT. OKAY. SO THE, THE REASON, OH, LAST TIME, UH, I REQUEST TO CITY TO LOOK INTO, WE HAVE A FIRST READING IS WE, UH, A LOT OF CITIES DOING THE RE MM-HMM. LIMITATION ABOUT OKAY. THE DONATION. SO WE DON'T HAVE A BIG MONEY AND LIKE BEFORE $25,000 TO ONE CANDIDATE, TWO OR THREE DONORS, THEY ALREADY HAVE ALL THE MONEY TO BID FOR ANY PEOPLE'S GRASSROOTS. OKAY. SO EVERYBODY EQUAL PLAN FAILED. AND THE SAME THING, BOW AND PART. OKAY. JUST FINISH. OKAY. HAVE A DAILY ELECTION. OVER 77% OF RESIDENT BO WANT TO RESTRICT THIS $750 FOR CANDIDATE AND PACK. SO BASICALLY THIS IS ALL THE CITY ALREADY ADOPT THIS ORDINANCE. YES. THERE'S, THERE'S A NUMBER OF CITIES, UM, THAT ARE ALREADY DOING THIS. YES. SO WE DIDN'T DO ANY SPECIAL, RIGHT? NO, NO. THERE'S SOME THAT EVEN HAVE, I THINK TWO 50. THERE'S LOWER AMOUNTS. YEAH. IT'S, IT'S COMMON, I THINK. AND IT, AND IT SEEMS LIKE, SO IT'S VERY COMMON. IT'S BECOMING, IT'LL BE, I THINK IT'LL BECOME MORE COMMON AS WELL. YEAH. BECAUSE OKAY, THIS IS A VERY SMALL ELECTION, LOCAL ELECTION. SO IT'S ONLY CARE ABOUT OUR LOCAL ISSUE, ABOUT THE STREET, ABOUT THE SAFETY. RIGHT. SO IT'S NO IDEOLOGY. SO WE DON'T KNOW, UNDERSTAND WHY SO MUCH MONEY COMING TO THE CITY. YEAH. OKAY. AND DOING THAT THING. BUT AGAIN, AGAIN, I JUST WANNA EMPHASIZE, ANY PEOPLE WANT TO DO THE PACK AND THE DONATE TO THEMSELVES. THEY CAN STILL DO WITH IT. YES, THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. SO WE DIDN'T CHANGE ANYTHING. WE ONLY CHANGING THE PACK, THE DONATION TO THEM, $650. IT WAS A MINOR, MINOR AMENDMENT. EVERYTHING ELSE ALREADY IS. SO IN THAT WAY, I'M GOING TO MOVE THE MOTION TO APPROVE. SECOND, I'LL SECOND. ROLL CALL. ROLL CALL PLEASE. YES. I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN WU AND A SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ. VIDO. COUNCILMAN CONTOS PRESENT IN NO, NO. UH, YES OR NO PRESENT. HE CAN ABSTAIN. THERE'S A, YOU CAN ABSTAIN. OKAY. WHICH ONE YOU WANT? ABSTAIN. IT'S AN ABSTAIN. YEAH. I, OKAY. I'M SORRY. OKAY. IT'S OKAY. I IGNORE. OKAY. COUNCILMAN WU. AYE. COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ. VIDO AYE. MAY I APPROACH HIM? TABBA NO. MAYOR DIAZ? YES. ITEM PASSES. UH, THREE IN THREE IN FAVOR. ONE ABSTAIN. ONE. NO. UH, EXCUSE ME. I ALSO NEED TO READ THE TITLE OF THE ORDINANCE INTO THE RECORD. ORDINANCE NUMBER 2, 510 IN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ARTICLE EIGHT OF CHAPTER TWO OF THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REGULATIONS. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN [5) CONSIDERATION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR BUILDING AND SAFETY SERVICES WITH TRANSTECH ENGINEERS, INC.] CANTOS. NUMBER FIVE. THIS IS THE, THE TR THE TR TRANSTECH TRANSTECH. OKAY. UM, IS, IS SOMEONE FROM TRANSTECH HERE TODAY? THROUGH THE CHAIR? YES, WE HAVE REPRESENTATIVES TRANSTECH. OKAY. WONDERFUL. UH, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS, UM, FOR THE REPRESENTATIVE OF TRANSTECH, CAN YOU PLEASE DES DESCRIBE THE, THE, THE EFFORTS TO PROMOTE ACCESSIBILITY, UH, PHYSICAL ACCESSIBILITY AND, AND, AND, AND HOW THAT WORKS? BECAUSE I, I READ WITHIN THE REPORT HOW YOU HAVE ACCESSIBILITY, UH, INSPECTORS AND, AND SO FORTH. CAN YOU, CAN YOU DESCRIBE THAT AND THEN, AND I'LL, I'LL EXPLAIN WHY LATER, BUT I, I JUST NEED TO SUBSCRIBE, PLEASE. FOR THE PUBLIC. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS DENNIS TAR DURANGO, UM, BUILDING OFFICIAL, UM, I'M WITH ISLI JEFFERSON, ONE OF YOUR BUILDING OFFICIALS. UM, GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL MAYOR. UM, I, UH, I CAN EXPLAIN HOW THE BILLING OFFICIAL AND THE BILLING DEPARTMENT, UM, CAN PROMOTE AS WELL AS HOW WE ARE PART OF THE APPROVAL PROCESS THAT REVIEWS STRUCTURES OR DEVELOPMENT FOR ACCESSIBILITY. OUR ROLE AT THE BILLING DEPARTMENT STARTS WHEN A PERMIT IS APPLIED FOR AND A PROJECT IS SUBMITTED. SO THE BILLING DEPARTMENT REVIEWS THAT PROJECT TO MAKE SURE THAT ACCESSIBLE FEATURES ARE IMPLEMENTED IN THE PLANS. UM, AND THEN OUR BUILDING INSPECTORS INSPECT ACCORDING TO THOSE PLANS AND ACCORDING, ACCORDING TO CODE. UM, WE AT THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT ARE ALSO ADVOCATES FOR ACCESSIBILITY. WE GET A LOT OF PHONE CALLS FROM, UH, RESIDENTS, FROM, UH, BUSINESS OWNERS ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY. UM, WE HAVE, UH, UH, TRAINED STAFF, UM, THEY'RE CALLED CASS, WHO REVIEW OUR PLANS. [01:45:01] THEY'RE CERTIFIED ACCESS SPECIALISTS. SO THEY, THEY REVIEW PLANS AS WELL AS, UH, DO INSPECTIONS ON, UM, PROJECTS THAT, THAT REQUIRE PERMITS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY MEET THE CURRENT ACCESSIBLE REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IMPLEMENTED. AND TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU SPECIFICALLY WORK ON ENFORCEMENT OF, UH, OR IMPLEMENTATION OF, OF TITLE 24 WITHIN THE STATE AS WELL AS THE 2010 ADA STANDARDS? SO THE ADA STANDARDS, UH, ARE TYPICALLY ENFORCED BY FEDERAL, UH, MOSTLY IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. WE, AT THE BILLING DEPARTMENT, UM, ENFORCE TITLE 24 ACCESSIBILITY. UM, THE GOOD THING IS THE CURRENT TITLE 24 ACCESSIBILITY AND THE, UM, THE ADA STANDARDS, UM, ARE ALMOST IDENTICAL. A FEW YEARS AGO, WE, WE KIND OF MARRIED THE TWO, UH, WITH OUR CODE SECTIONS AND THE REQUIREMENTS. UM, SO IN, IN ESSENCE, WE ENFORCE BOTH FEDERAL AND STATE REQUIREMENTS, UM, ON, ON, UM, DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. SO IN YOUR ROLE FOR US AS A CITY, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU HELP TO ENSURE OUR COMPLIANCE WITH TITLE TWO OF THE ADA AND THEN FOR, FOR BUSINESSES BY YOUR THEM CONSULTING WITH YOU THROUGH THE PERMIT PROCESS, THAT HELPS IN ENSURE THEIR COMPLIANCE WITH, WITH, UH, TITLE THREE OF THE ADA? ABSOLUTELY. WHEN WE SIGN THE FINAL, UH, BUILDING PERMIT, OR WE ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY, WE'RE ENSURING THAT WE'VE DONE OUR REVIEW, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT PROJECT IS ACCESSIBLE AS PER CODE. AND, AND TO WHAT EXTENT, UH, IS, IS THAT PUBLICIZED, OR, OR IS THERE, UH, IS THERE A SEAL OF SHOW, UH, FOR BUSINESSES TO SHOW THAT THEY ARE ACCESSIBLE OR ARE ALL, UH, BUSINESSES HERE, UH, PRESUMABLY ACCESSIBLE THROUGH, THROUGH THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING? SO ANY, ANY BUSINESS, UM, THAT HAS APPLIED FOR A PERMIT, UM, WE ENSURE THAT THAT PROJECT, WHICHEVER PORTION THEY'RE WORKING ON, MEETS THE, THE STANDARDS THAT, THAT ARE REQUIRED. CUZ NOT ALL EXISTING BUILDINGS HAVE TO BE ACCESSIBLE. UH, AT LEAST FOR THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT, WE, WE ARE ONLY INVOLVED IN THOSE THAT ACTUALLY, UM, GET PERMITS. UM, SO WE, THE BUILDING PERMIT AS WELL AS CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY IS OUR SEAL. UM, THERE'S ALSO AN NC CALLED THE, UH, CERTIFIED ACCESS SPECIALISTS THAT WE ALWAYS RECOMMEND, UM, BUSINESS OWNERS TO CONTACT THAT CAN PROVIDE THEM WITH AN ACTUAL CERTIFICATE THAT, THAT THEY MEET CURRENT CODE FOR ACCESSIBILITY. THANK YOU. NO MORE, NO MORE QUESTIONS. MOVE TO APPROVE. WELL, GO AHEAD. UH, QUICK QUESTION IS, AND I KNOW, UH, HOW LONG YOU'VE BEEN WITH US? TWO YEARS. IT'S BEEN A LITTLE OVER TWO YEARS NOW. YES. ABOUT TWO YEARS. RIGHT, BECAUSE LAST TIME WE HAVE A CONTRACT FOR TWO YEARS. YES. SO, UH, I THINK THIS TWO YEAR PREVIOUSLY WE HAVE, UH, UH, WELD DONE. OKAY. TO DO THE BUILDING AND SAFETY, BUT THEY FAILED THROUGH OKAY. THE SERVICE. OKAY. AND YOU TOOK OVER AND IF WE DECIDE TO GO TO IN-HOUSE, BUT WE JUST TRY TO TRY YOU OUT FIRST. OKAY. I THINK YOU DID, UH, THIS TWO, YOU DID A PRETTY GOOD JOB. OKAY. BUT STILL SOME ISSUES SOMETIMES. OKAY. FOR EXAMPLE, UH, I THINK WE STILL HAVE A, A CONTRACTOR ISSUE ON THE CORTES PARK. OKAY. REMEMBER THAT? OKAY. LET HAVE A MAJOR DELAY AND, UH, KIND OF A CAUSE A LITTLE BIT MORE. SO WE MAYBE, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE TRY TO OKAY. CHASE US DOWN, SAY WHAT HAPPENED? WHY TAKING FOREVER? SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN IDENTIFY THE, THE CONTRACTOR IS CREDIBLE. SO, SO HOW YOU SEE THAT THE CONTRACTOR OKAY. AND HOW YOU OKAY. MAKE SURE THEY HAVE A CREDIBILITY. ALSO, WE DON'T HAVE TO WASTE TIME, WASTE MONEY AND, UH, CREATE, UH, ISSUE FOR THE COMMUNITY. SO, UM, THAT SPECIFIC PROJECT IS A, UH, CITY PROJECT, WHICH I, I'M NOT A PART OF ON, ON THE BUILDING SIDE. THAT'S MORE OF OUR ENGINEERING PUBLIC WORK SIDE. UM, BUT US AS, UH, A COMPANY, HOW DO WE PICK, UM, UH, CONSULTANTS OR, OR CONTRACTORS FOR A PROJECT? UM, I, I DON'T GET INVOLVED IN MAYBE, UM, MELISSA MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP ME ANSWER THAT. UM, BUT THAT'S NOT, UH, THAT QUESTION. OH, MELISSA IS AN ENGINEER? YES. YES. SHE, SHE'S ON OUR ENGINEERING SIDE. UM, SO IF I COULD ADD THEIR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, UM, THAT TRANSECT AS FOR US IS THROUGH AN, IN OUR ENGINEERING AGREEMENT IN SERVICES, WHICH IS, SO MAYBE YOU CAN GIVE US, UH, SOME INFORMATION SINCE YOU ALREADY HERE DON'T WANT TO, YOU JUST DRAW FOR NOTHING, BUT LEAST SHARE SOME INFORMATION WITH US. ABSOLUTELY. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, MAYOR PRO TIM. COUNCIL MEMBERS, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE THIS EVENING. IN RELATION TO HOW CONTRACTORS ARE SELECTED, IT'S TYPICALLY THE LOWEST, MOST RESPONSIVE, MOST RESPONSIBLE BIDDER. AND THAT'S PER THE GOVERNMENT CODE. SO IT'S, UH, BASED ON WHAT IS BID AT. AND WE DON'T REALLY HAVE CONTROL OVER THAT. IT'S TYPICALLY THE LOWEST BIDDER. AND I'LL REFER TO A CITY [01:50:01] ATTORNEY AND, UM, STAFF TO ALSO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SINCE WE HAVE, SINCE WE HAVE LIKE, ISSUE, JUST WANT TO KIND OF, UH, SAY, WELL, CAN WE AVOID A POTENTIAL ISSUE IN THE FUTURE SINCE WE GOING TO HAVE A HOPEFULLY LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP. OKAY. AND, UH, WE CAN CONTINUE TO FIND A BETTER CONTRACTOR SO WE DON'T OKAY. AND, UH, UM, GO INTO SOMETHING THAT UNEXPECTED THAT DUE TO THE ISSUE THAT CAN AVOID. THAT'S ONLY ONE I WANT TO HOPEFULLY THAT CAN BE BE IMPROVED. OKAY. AND THAT'S THE FIRST THING. SECOND THING IS REGARDING, UH, FRONTIER, UH, FRONTIER AND THE, UH, THE, THE, THE UTILITY COMPANY THAT DIG OUR STREET, THAT DAMAGE OUR SIDEWALK, AND I DON'T KNOW WHO IS APPROVING THE ISSUE. OKAY. THEY CREATE A MAJOR, MAJOR ISSUE FOR ALL THE RESIDENT, UH, SO MANY PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE SIDEWALK. OKAY. AND THEY, THEY DID VERY SHADY JOB TO BECOME UNEVEN ON THE SIDEWALK. NOBODY CAN WALK ON THE SIDEWALK, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE WITH WALKER. OKAY. SO, SO HOW WE AVOID THE SITUATION AND THEY DIG ALL THE PLACES WITH PATCHING ALL THE PLACES AND THE STREET IS BECOME EXTREMELY PROBLEMATIC IN ALL THE ENTIRE SOUTH SIDE THROUGH THE CHAIR. SORRY. SO, UM, THAT WOULD ALSO BE THROUGH THE ENGINEERING CONTRACT. SO IT'S NOT THE BUILDING AND SAFETY, NOT BUILDING AND SAFETY. BUT THEY DIDN'T DO THE, WE THEY DIDN'T DO THE CHECK. I THINK THEY DID THE, A PERMIT, PERMIT CHECK. SO THE UTILITY COMPANIES COULD GO THROUGH OUR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT TO APPLY FOR A PERMIT TO DO ANY WORK ON OUR CITY STREETS, WHICH IS NOT, UH, THE CONTRACT THAT'S BEFORE YOU. I UNDERSTAND. BUT IS WHEN WE DID APPROVE, WHEN THEY FINISHED WILL OUR PERMIT DEPARTMENT TO CHECK ABOUT THEIR NOT BUILDING, NOT SAFETY. ARE YOU GUYS CAN CORRECT ME IF I DON'T. WHO'S DOING THE CHECKING ABOUT THEIR SO-CALLED, UH, AFTER THEY TAKE THE STREET OPEN, THEY COVER IT UP. IT'S NOT FROM BEAUTY AND SAFETY TO DOUBLE CHECK. SO WHO'S CHECKING THEIR, THAT WOULD BE OUR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT. THIS ENGINEER DOING THAT THING, NOT THE BUILDING AND SAFETY. SO CAN YOU SHARE SINCE YOURS IN THE SAME COMPANY? BECAUSE WE HAVE A MAJOR ISSUE FOR THAT. AND THEN SINCE YOU ARE HERE, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR PROTE AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, I HEARD ABOUT YOUR CONCERN ON THE PUBLIC RIGHT WAY ISSUES. I WANNA CLARIFY THAT BUILDING AND SAFETY JURISDICTION IS WITHIN THE PRIVATE PROPERTIES ONLY. OKAY. AND WE WILL MAKE SURE TO RELAY THE MESSAGE TO OUR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY FOLLOW UP THE CONCERNS YOU RAISE TONIGHT. SO THE BEAUTY AND SAFETY ONLY DOING THE PRIVATE PROPERTY AND DEVELOPMENT EXACTLY. HAS NOTHING TO DO THE PROPERTY RIGHT AWAY. SO YOU GUYS DON'T CHECK ANYTHING. THEY WILL BE BY THE, OUR YOUR, AND AGAIN, YOUR DEPARTMENT ENGINEERING IS FROM TRANSTECH TWO, CORRECT? THE BUILDING AND SAFETY HANDLES, THE PRIVATE PROPERTY CONSTRUCTIONS AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT HANDLES ANYTHING WITHIN THE PUBLIC RIGHT AWAY. AH, OKAY. AND, UH, OKAY, SO IN THAT IS CLEAR. OKAY. I'M NOT GOING TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT EVEN MORE. OKAY. SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHEN WE WANT TO RENEW THE CONTRACT FOR AN ENGINEER. OKAY? THANK YOU SO MUCH. BUT REGARDING THE, OKAY, THE CONTRACT IS, IS IS TWO YEARS. IT'S A TWO YEAR CONTRACT. WE'RE GONNA APPROVE TODAY. UM, SO THE FIFTH, OH, SORRY. THE, THE TERM OF THIS AGREEMENT, UM, RUNS FOR THREE YEARS UNLESS PREVIOUSLY TERMINATED. THERE'S A, A 15 DAY TERMINATION CLAUSE. SHOULD SERVICES BECOME, UM, 15 MINUTES EFFICIENT. 15, 15 DAYS. YES, SIR. WITH, AND THEN THERE'S A MAXIMUM, MAXIMUM OF TWO SUCCESSIVE ONE YEAR EXTENSIONS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT. UH, IT'S, UH, WITH COST TERMINATION OR WITH LOW COST, IT'S ON, UH, BECAUSE I SAID SO BASIS. SO, HUH. AGAIN, NO CAUSE TERMINATION WITHOUT CAUSE, RIGHT? SO WE CAN NO, I'M NOT, I'M TRYING TO TERMINATE YOU. DOING A GOOD JOB. I'M JUST SAY SO, SO, SO WE HAVE A PROTECTION, LIKE WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH OUR STREET SWEEPING, WE CANNOT EVEN DO SOMETHING. OKAY. SO WITH THIS, WE, ALICE, WE HAVE A, A TEASE TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN DO A GOOD JOB. CURRENTLY YOU'RE DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB. YOU HAVE A VERY LITTLE COMPLAINT. OKAY? I JUST WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SURVEY, BUT WE JUST WANT TO PUT YOU ON THE EDGE. MAKE SURE YOU CAN CONTINUE TO DO THE GOOD JOB. OKAY? I KNOW I'VE BEEN OKAY, CHECK YOU GUYS OUT ALL THE TIME. OKAY? BUT, BUT THANK YOU. BUT, BUT WHY WE NEED THREE YEARS IF WE HAVE ALREADY PREVIOUS TWO YEARS, WHY WE NEED THREE YEARS THIS TIME. I KNOW THEY'RE DOING A GOOD JOB, BUT WHY WE NEED THREE YEARS. CAN WE DO TWO YEARS? WELL, HUH? WE TALK THROUGH THE CHAIR, IF I MAY ANSWER. WE ARE RECOMMENDING A THREE YEAR CONTRACT BECAUSE WE ARE QUITE SATISFIED WITH THIS SERVICES WE'RE RECEIVING FROM THIS CONTRACTOR. WE TALKED BRIEFLY ABOUT CUSTOMER SERVICE. THIS FIRM HAS TAKEN CUSTOMER SERVICE TO A NEW LEVEL. THEY CALL IT CUSTOMER CARE. AND I CAN TELL YOU THIS IS AN AREA WHERE PEOPLE ARE NOT RETICENT TO [01:55:01] COMPLAIN. I UNDERSTAND. BUT, BUT I DON'T GET COMPLAINTS. I KNOW. BUT WHY WE NEED THREE YEARS? MY QUESTION IS, WHEN WE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED TWO YEARS, WHY NOT STILL DOING THE TWO YEARS? WELL, CERTAINLY THAT TERM OF THE CONTRACT WOULD BE UP ULTIMATELY TO THE COUNCIL. MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE THREE. WHY, WHY, WHY ONE EXTRA YEAR? I'M JUST CURIOUS. WHY CAN WE JUST GO WITH THE OLD CONTRACT TWO YEARS, EVERY TWO YEARS WE GO THROUGH IT. TWO YEARS IS 24 HOUR, 24 MONTHS. SO WHY WE NEED 36 MONTHS? I, I WOULD RECOMMEND 36 MONTHS BECAUSE THIS IS NOT AN AREA OF OUR CITY OPERATION THAT'S BROKEN AND WE'VE GOT LOTS OF AREAS THAT NEED MY ATTENTION. AND THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. IT'S A, IT'S A RELATIONSHIP I'M SATISFIED WITH. THANK YOU. THANKS. SO DO WE HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THE THREE YEARS OR YOU THINK TWO YEARS THEY'RE DOING A GOOD JOB, BUT I'M OKAY WITH THREE YEARS. YOU OKAY WITH THREE YEARS? YEAH, I'M, I'M OKAY. I MEAN, THE ONLY THING IF YOU'D LIKE TO REQUEST IS JUST AN UPDATE, YOU KNOW, WITHIN, AFTER THE SECOND YEAR MARK, THEY CAN JUST COME IN AND UPDATE IT. JUST MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE KEPT IN THE LOOP. YEAH. I'M MORE WORRIED ABOUT, BECAUSE YOU GIVE THEM A LONG CONTRACT. OKAY. THEY, SOMETIME THEY GET, OKAY, WELL THAT'S WHY IT'S, IT'S ALMOST LIKE A REVIEW. SO WE CAN, SO THAT'S WHY IF, IF WE STILL GIVE THEM 24 MONTH, DOESN'T MEAN WE ARE GONNA STOP WITH THEM, BUT THEY STILL HAVE A RENEWAL, UH, AFTER THAT, BUT AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT MORE. OKAY. AND, UH, PUT THEM TO DO THEIR JOB. THEY'RE DOING GOOD JOB. OKAY. I GOT CALL FROM YOU GUYS MONDAY AND THE HOLIDAY AND YOU GUYS STILL WORKING THERE AND CALLING ME ABOUT MY GARAGE AND I ALREADY GIVE UP. I'M NOT GOING TO BE OKAY. OKAY. SO, BUT THE POINT IS THIS, THEY'RE WORKING EVEN ON THE MONDAY, THE DAY OFF, THE AFTER I THINK CHRISTMAS OR NEW YEAR, THE DAY OFF. SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE SERVICE AND I'M IMPRESSED. OKAY. IT BE THIS MONDAY. OKAY? OKAY. AND YOU OKAY? NO, I'M STILL PREFER, I STILL PREFER TWO YEARS, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS DON'T WANT OKAY. WITH I DON'T WANT TO WELL, WE COULD REQUEST A TWO YEAR UPDATE, UM, PRESENTATION AND JUST SEEING EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN DONE OR, UH, GIVE OUR LIKE REVIEWS. YEAH. AT LEAST EDIT CAN SEE THEM EVERY 24 MONTHS. OTHERWISE THEY NEVER SHOW UP OTHER 30, 36 MONTHS. THAT'S OVER HIS TIME. SO TWO YEARS HE'S STILL OVER HERE WITH US. OR IF YOU LIKE, THREE YEAR AND A YEARLY, YEARLY REVIEW SO YOU CAN SEE THEIR FACES AND COME TO THE DI . SO THEY'RE STILL A TERMINATION, YOU JUST HAVE THEM? YEAH. OKAY. AND IF YOU EXACTLY, IF YOU GOT WITH OKAY, WITH THREE YEARS, I DON'T WANT TO MAKE A MOTION AND NOBODY WANTS TO SECOND . YEAH. MOVE TO APPROVE AS ORIGINALLY, UM, UM, PROPOSED. I'LL SECOND IT. I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CONTOS AND THE SECOND BY MAYOR DIAZ TO APPROVE THE CONTRACT WITH TRANSTECH. COUNCILMAN CONTOS. AYE. COUNCILMAN? WOO. AYE. COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ. VIDO AYE. MAY PRO. TIM TABATA. AYE. MAYOR DIAZ. AYE. ITEM PASSES. FIVE ZERO. THANK YOU COUNCILMAN'S. [7) CONSIDERATION OF ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT (ACFR) AND OTHER RELATED REPORTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2022] UM, CANTUS NUMBER SEVEN. NUMBER SEVEN IS ITEM CONSIDERATION OF THE ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT AND OTHER RELATED REPORTS FOR THE YEAR IN JUNE 30TH, 2022. UM, UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, C UM, MR. CITY MANAGER, CAN YOU D DESCRIBE SOME OF THE, THE BUDGETARY, UM, UH, THINGS THAT YOU, YOU SAID THAT ARE, ARE REALLY WORTH MENTIONING TO CELEBRATE? BECAUSE I, I'D LIKE FOR THE PUBLIC TO HEAR WHAT YOU'VE SAID, UM, THROUGH THE CHAIR. I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR FINANCE DIRECTOR, STEPHANIE SMA, TO GIVE A VERY BRIEF SYNOPSIS ABOUT THIS ITEM, WHICH IS THE, UM, THE ITEM WE USED TO CALL THE CAFF R AND THEY'VE CHANGED THE NOMENCLATURE A BIT. IT'S NOW CALLED THE ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT. IT'S A GOOD NEWS STORY AND I'D LIKE FOR STEPHANIE TO SHARE IT. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. THE CITY ENDED LAST FISCAL YEAR WITH A GENERAL FUND BALANCE OF 24.2 MILLION, 20.8 MILLION OF WHICH WAS UNASSIGNED. THE CITY'S TOTAL NET POSITION INCREASED BY 142% ARE OVER 37 MILLION FROM THE PRIOR FISCAL YEAR. UM, THIS IS MOSTLY DUE TO THE DECREASE IN LONG-TERM DEBT RELATED TO THE NET PENSION LIABILITY, UM, AND AN INCREASE IN ASSETS. IN THE PRIOR YEAR, THERE WAS AN ISSUANCE OF LEASE REVENUE BONDS THAT LED MAINLY TO THIS CHANGE THAT THE CITY'S, UM, NOW EXPERIENCING. I'D ALSO LIKE TO ADD THAT ADDITIONALLY, THE AUDITORS DID NOT IDENTIFY ANY DEFICIENCIES IN INTERNAL CONTROLS OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING THAT THEY CONSIDERED TO BE INTERNAL WEAKNESSES, WHICH IS A, A FIRST FOR THE CITY IN MANY YEARS, AS FAR AS I KNOW. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE TEAM THAT WE HAVE SUPPORTING US. AND I'D LIKE TO ALSO INTRODUCE OUR ASSISTANT FINANCE DIRECTOR WHO'S BACK THERE. JOB. UM, THE ACCOUNTING STAFF IS REALLY WHAT, UM, LED TO THOSE CLEAN FINANCIALS FOR THIS YEAR. I'M MATT MADAM DIRECTOR. UH, CAN YOU PLEASE DESCRIBE, UM, YOUR, YOUR EFFORTS, UH, TO, TO, UH, FURTHER MOVE US ALL ALONG, UH, WITH REGARD IN, IN RESPONSE TO THE STATE AUDITING COMMITTEE? AND, AND WE, WE MET EXTENSIVELY ABOUT [02:00:01] THIS AND YOU, YOU EXPLAIN HOW WE'RE WORKING TO GET TO GREEN IN, IN DIFFERENT AREAS. CAN YOU PLEASE DESCRIBE THAT? YES. SO THE CITY'S AUDITOR, UM, REPORT, OR THEIR DASHBOARD SPECIFICALLY, UM, LOOKS AT THE CITY'S NET POSITION AND ITS RESERVES. AND AS THE CITY CONTINUES TO GROW THOSE RESERVES AND INCREASE ITS NETS POSITION, WE STAND A CHANCE OF MOVING MORE TOWARDS THE GREEN ON THAT DASHBOARD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WANNA MOVE THE MOTION? HEY, QUICK, JUST ONE SENTENCE, YOU KNOW, UM, JUST WANT TO SAY YOU, YOU'RE DOING A MAGNIFICENT JOB. OKAY? I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. WE HAVE A VERY STRONG OKAY. FINANCE TEAM. OKAY. AND AS A DIRECTOR FROM YOU, YOU KNOW, I LOVE ROBIN. OKAY. ROBIN BIRD. OKAY. AND THEN WE CREW YOU AND, UH, AND PUT US IN A GOOD HAND. AND, UH, OKAY. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THEN I CAN SEE CONTINUE, UH, GOOD NEWS ABOUT OUR NUMBER AND, UH, WITH THIS, OKAY, WE REFINANCE AND LOWER HOURS ON THE, OKAY. S INTEREST RATE FUND FUND SEVEN MORE THAN 7% OF THE TIME, NOT DOWN TO 25 YEARS. FIXED RATE FOR 3.7%. WE, WE CUT DOWN 50% OF OUR EXPENDITURE JUST PAYING THE INTEREST. SO THAT'S A VERY GOOD MOVE. UH, JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU SO MUCH AND LET TIME OKAY WITH THIS. OTHERWISE NOT THE INTEREST IS SO HIGH AND NOBODY CAN DO A REFUND. I THINK THE INTEREST WILL NOW GO TO SEVEN, 8%. SO, BUT, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH. I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. IS THAT ALL? ANY MORE QUESTIONS? NOPE. UH, MOVE. MOTION TO APPROVE. I HAVE A MOTION BY MAYOR DIAZ. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SECOND? UH, SECOND. I HAVE A MOTION BY MAYOR DIAZ. A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN WU. COUNCILMAN CONTOS? AYE. COUNCILMAN WU? AYE. COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ. VITO AYE. MAY APPROACH HIM. TABBA AYE. MAYOR DIAZ. AYE. [9) CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE FY 2022-2023 BUDGET] THE NEXT ITEM, MAYOR THAT WAS PULLED IS ITEM NUMBER NINE, AND THAT IS CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE FISCAL YEAR 20 22, 20 23. BUDGET. MAYOR, WE HAVE OUR FINANCE DIRECTOR HERE AT THE PODIUM TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. COUNCILMAN CANTOS. I BELIEVE YOU PULLED THAT ONE. UH, UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, FOR BEING HERE, THIS, THIS, THIS EVENING. I JUST HAD A QUESTION ABOUT, UH, WITH REGARD TO THE, THE, THE RE THE REALLOCATIONS. CAN, CAN YOU, I, I'M JUST STILL LEARNING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS THE BASIS FOR, UH, THESE REALLOCATIONS AND IS OUR, IS OUR RESERVE, ARE OUR RESERVES IMPACTED? BECAUSE I THOUGHT THERE WAS A FIGURE OF ROUGHLY 5 MILLION AND I THOUGHT THAT WE HAD A RESERVE OF 24 MILLION AND THEN IT LOWER. IF WE WERE TO REALLOCATE, THEN THAT WOULD ONLY CREATE AN AVAILABILITY OF OUR, UH, RESERVE OF 19 MILLION. OR AM I MISREADING THAT? I JUST WANTED CLARIFICATION. YES. SO THE CITY HAS A FUND BALANCE POLICY THAT BASICALLY STATES AFTER THE END OF EACH FISCAL YEAR, UM, WE'LL LOOK AT OUR UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE, WHICH WAS A ROUGHLY ABOUT 20 MILLION. AND FROM THAT, WE WILL MOVE, UH, 25% WILL STAY IN RESERVES SO THAT WE CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN A GOOD RESERVE BALANCE, WHICH IS ON TOP OF WHAT, UH, THE, UH, RESERVE REQUIREMENT IS. AND THEN, UM, 40% WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO CAPITAL, THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND, SO WE CAN INVEST IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE. AND THEN 10% IS TRANSFERRED TO OUR VEHICLE REPLACEMENT FUND TO HELP WITH REPLACEMENT OF OUR VEHICLES. AND THEN 25% GOES TO PAY DOWN OTHER POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFIT LIABILITIES. AND FOR THIS PARTICULAR ONE, I'M, UH, RECOMMENDING THAT THE CITY, UH, CREATE A SEPARATE FUND IN WHICH WE START TO LOOK AT THE INTEREST GAINED, UM, INTERNALLY VERSUS WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO GO OUT TO THE MARKET AND INVEST THAT OTHERWISE. HMM. AND SO BY SETTING ASIDE IN A SEPARATE FUND, I CAN THEN, UM, ACTUALLY CALCULATE THE INTEREST ON THAT 25%. SO THAT'S ACTUALLY NOT LEAVING THE CITY. UM, NONE OF THAT MONEY IS ACTUALLY LEAVING OUR COFFERS. IT'S GOING TO DIFFERENT FUNDS TO BE INVESTED IN DIFFERENT WAYS. THAT'S GREAT. UM, SO THE NET, UH, IMPACT TO THE GENERAL FUND FROM THIS OUTSIDE OF THAT IS NEUTRAL. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. I MOVE TO APPROVE. I'LL SECOND THAT. I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CONTOS AND THE SECOND BY MAYOR DIAZ. COUNCILMAN CONTOS? AYE. COUNCILMAN WU? AYE. COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ. VIDO AYE. MAY I PRO TIMBA? AYE. MAYOR DIAZ? AYE. ITEM PASSES FIVE ZERO. OKAY. THAT MOVES [11) West Covina Police Department Detective Bureau Status Update] US TO ITEM NUMBER 11, WEST COVINA POLICE DEPARTMENT. DETECTIVE BUREAU OVERVIEW. YOU SIT, STAND UP TO YOU. OH, THEY WANT ME UP TO YOU RIGHT HERE? NOPE. THE MAYOR POINTED RIGHT HERE. I'M GONNA STAND RIGHT HERE. YES, MA'AM. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. HOW ARE YOU? GOOD. MAYOR PRO TIM, HOW ARE YOU? COUNSEL, [02:05:01] STAFF, UH, PUBLIC THAT STAYED? UH, THANK YOU FOR STAYING. MY NAME'S KEN PLUNKETT. I'M A CAPTAIN WITH THE OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND I'M ASSIGNED TO OVERSEE OUR INVESTIGATIVE AND SUPPORT SERVICES DIVISION, WHICH ENCOMPASSES OUR INVESTIGATIVE UNITS, THE DETECTIVE BUREAU AND OUR SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT TEAM, AND THEN ALL OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT, UM, IN KEEPING WITH THE DEPARTMENT'S MISSION OF PROVIDING THE HIGHEST, UH, LEVEL OF SERVICE AND PROTECTION TO OUR RESIDENTS AND PROGRESSIVELY ENHANCING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AS WE MOVE INTO THE FUTURE. I THINK THIS PRESENTATION WILL, UH, SHOW YOU ALL THE GOOD WORK THAT OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT DOES IN KEEPING WITH THAT MISSION AND THOSE IDEALS. UM, AND I'M EXCITED TO BE HERE AND I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY AND THE PRIVILEGE TO, UH, KIND OF GIVE A, AN OVERVIEW OF OUR DETECTIVE BUREAU. SHOULD I JUST POINT? ALL RIGHT. SO, LIKE I SAID, OUR DETECTIVE BUREAU, UM, THIS IS KIND OF JUST ORGANIZATIONAL. WE'RE GONNA GET STARTED JUST TO KIND OF TELL YOU HOW IT FLOWS. IT'S UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THE INVESTIGATIVE AND SUPPORT SERVICES DIVISION. UM, OUR DETECTIVE BUREAU IS A MAJOR COMPONENT OF THE DEPARTMENT'S COMMITMENT TO PROVIDING ESSENTIAL FRONTLINE LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES TO OUR COMMUNITY, UM, ANNUALLY, A AS A, AS A BUDGET NOTE, UH, OUR DETECTIVE BUREAU ACCOUNTS FOR APPROXIMATELY 14% OF OUR TOTAL GENERAL FUND BUDGET FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. NEXT SLIDE. ALL RIGHT. THIS IS KIND OF HOW OUR, THIS IS, THIS IS HOW OUR INVESTIGATIVE, UH, ASSIGNMENTS ARE BROKEN UP. WE BROKE BREAK 'EM UP INTO THREE SECTIONS. WE HAVE OUR CRIMES AGAINST PERSON SECTION, OUR CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY TEAM OR SECTION, AND THEN OUR SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT TEAM, UM, OBVIOUSLY THE PERSON SECTION. UM, THEY INVESTIGATE CRIMES SUCH AS HOMICIDE, ROBBERY, KIDNAPPING, ASSAULT, AND BATTERIES. UM, BASICALLY EVERYTHING WHERE THERE'S A PERSON THAT'S A VICTIM. THE PROPERTY SECTION CONVERSELY, IS, IS, UH, CRIMES WE INVESTIGATE THAT INVOLVE CRIMES OF PROPERTY, BURGLARY, THEFT, UH, FORGERY, FRAUD, STUFF LIKE THAT. UM, AND THE PROPERTY SECTION ALSO ENCOMPASSES OUR FORENSICS, UH, TEAM, WHICH WE'LL GET INTO HERE IN A MINUTE. AND THEN OUR SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT TEAM, THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR INVESTIGATING MAJOR NARCOTIC INVESTIGATIONS, UH, INTO DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS. AND THEY ALSO SERVE AS A, UH, SURVEILLANCE AND KIND OF A FIELD FOLLOW-UP TEAM FOR OUR DETECTIVES WHEN WE HAVE HIGH PROFILE CASES. GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. THANK YOU. UM, DIVING INTO OUR DETECTIVE BUREAU, UM, FOCUSING DOWN, THIS IS KIND OF HOW THE, WE HAVE TWO SIDES OF THE ROOM. WE CALL IT THE PROPERTY AND THE PERSON'S SIDE. UM, EACH, EACH SIDE HAS A, A SERGEANT, AND WE HAVE A LIEUTENANT THAT OVERSEES THE ENTIRE DETECTIVE BUREAU. UM, HE OVERSEES THE PERSON'S PROPERTY AND THE, UH, SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT TEAM. THESE ARE, UH, THIS IS THE MAKEUP OF DETECTIVES ON, ON EACH SIDE. FOR OUR PERSON'S SIDE, YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE EIGHT DETECTIVES ASSIGNED. UH, WE HAVE A CRIME, UM, ANALYST, A VICTIM'S ADVOCATE. WE HAVE A, UH, A DETECTIVE ASSIGNED TO THE US MARSHALS TASK FORCE, AND WE HAVE OUR SOCIAL MEDIA, PUBLIC RELATIONS, UM, PERSON KIND OF UNDER THAT SIDE OF THE, UH, THE ROOM. UNDER OUR PROPERTY SECTION, WE HAVE THREE SWORN DETECTIVES. WE HAVE ONE DETECTIVE THAT'S ASSIGNED TO OUR REGIONAL, UM, TRAP TEAM, WHICH WE'LL COVER HERE IN A MINUTE. AND, UH, LET'S SEE. WE HAVE THE COURT LIAISON, CSO, WHICH IS A COMMUNITY SERVICE OFFICER, AND WE ALSO HAVE AN ANOTHER COMMUNITY SERVICE OFFICER THAT HELPS WITH CASE PREPARATIONS. UM, IF YOU STAY ON THAT SLIDE FOR A MINUTE, IF, IF YOU, UM, IS EVERYBODY FAMILIAR WITH WHAT, WHAT DESKS WE HAVE WITHIN THE, UM, DETECTIVE BUREAU? I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG YOU GUYS WANT THIS, BUT I WAS GONNA GO OVER EACH ASSIGNMENT THAT WE HAVE ON EACH SIDE AND KIND OF TELL YOU WHAT THEY INVESTIGATE. IS THAT ? THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. THAT'S WHAT I SAID. I YOU WANT ME TO JUST GIMME, GIVE YOU A BRIEF BREAKDOWN OF WHAT THE DETECTIVES DO? YEAH. YEAH. OKAY, PLEASE. SO, ON, ON OUR PERSON SIDE, UM, LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE EIGHT DETECTIVES. UM, TWO ARE ASSIGNED TO THE HOMICIDE DESK. UM, OUR HOMICIDE DETECTIVES ARE, THEY'RE ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE HOMICIDES, ATTEMPT HOMICIDES, SUSPICIOUS DEATHS TO INCLUDE SUICIDES. HOW MANY, HOW MANY IN THE HOMICIDE? TWO. TWO, YES, SIR. UM, WE HAVE, WHEN WE HAVE FATAL TRAFFIC COLLISIONS WHERE THERE'S CRIMINAL CULPABILITY, THEY TAKE OVER THE INVESTIGATION, UM, THEY DO SUSPICIOUS MISSING PERSONS, AND THEY ALSO LIAISON WITH THE CORONER'S OFFICE FOR OUR DEPARTMENT. UM, WE HAVE TWO ROBBERY DETECTIVES ASSIGNED TO THE ROBBERY DESK. UH, THESE DETECTIVES ARE ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE ROBBERIES, UH, ASSAULTS, BATTERIES, ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPONS, ANY WEAPONS VIOLATIONS, KIDNAPPINGS, AND THEY SERVE AS A BACKUP RULE TO OUR HOMICIDE DETECTIVES. AND THEY ALSO GET ASSIGNED SPECIAL CASES, A ROBBERY DETECTIVE'S LIAISON WITH THE FBI OFFICE, UH, [02:10:01] WHO THEY HAVE CONTROL OVER BANK ROBBERIES. AND, AND WE ASSIST ON THOSE INVESTIGATIONS, AND WE WORK WITH THEM. WE HAVE TWO DETECTIVES ASSIGNED TO SEX CRIMES. OUR SEX DI SEX CRIMES DETECTIVES INVESTIGATE CHILDRE, UH, CHILD, CHILD ABUSE, EXCUSE ME. UM, SEXUAL ABUSE, PHYSICAL ABUSE, NEGLECT. UM, THEY, THEY INVESTIGATE SEXUAL ABUSE, RAPE, SEXUAL BATTERIES, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, PHYSICAL ELDER ABUSE, PARENTAL STRANGER ABDUCTIONS, INDECENT EXPOSURE CASES, SEX REGISTRANT VIOLATIONS. AND THEY ALSO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING OUR SEX REGISTRATION, UH, REGISTRANTS. AND THEY DO AN ANNUAL REGISTRATION AT THE STATION, WE HAVE ONE DETECTIVE ASSIGNED TO OUR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DESK, AND THEY, THEY, THAT DETECTIVE IS ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES AND ALSO A VIOLATIONS OF RESTRAINING ORDERS. WE ALSO HAVE ONE DETECTIVE THAT'S ASSIGNED, UM, AS OUR ICAC DETECTIVE, WHICH IS THE, UM, INTERNET CRIMES RELATING TO CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, UM, SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND HUMAN TRACK TRAFFICKING CASES. THIS DETECTIVE IS PART OF THE LOS ANGELES REGIONAL INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN TASK FORCE, AND SERVES AS A TASK FORCE OFFICER FOR THE HOMELAND SECURITY, UM, INVESTIGATIONS CHILD EXPLOITATION GROUP. ON OUR PROPERTY SIDE, AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE THREE DETECTIVES. UH, WE HAVE ONE DETECTIVE ASSIGNED TO FINANCIAL CRIMES. SO THIS DETECTIVE IS LOOKING INTO, UM, FORGERY FRAUD, FINANCIAL ELDER ABUSE, FINANCIAL SCAMS, AND THEN, UM, INVESTIGATIONS IN INVOLVING AUTO THEFT, BUT FINANCIAL FRAUD WHERE THEY BUY A CAR THROUGH FRAUDULENT MEANS. UM, AND THEY WORK WITH OUR TRAP TEAM . WE HAVE, UH, ONE BURGLARY DETECTIVE, AND THIS DETECTIVE IS ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE BOTH COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL BURGLARIES. AND THE THIRD DETECTIVE IS ASSIGNED TO, UH, AUTO THEFT AND MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY CRIMES, UM, WHICH INCLUDES VANDALISMS THREAT THEFTS, UM, SHOPLIFTING, CRIMES OF THAT NATURE. UH, JUST JUST ON A NOTE FOR OUR DETECTIVES, UM, JUST, UH, A SURVEY OF, OF NINE LOCAL CITIES. UM, WE HAVE A TOTAL OF 11 DETECTIVES, AND WE ARE, UM, OUT OF THE NINE, WE ARE RANKED EIGHTH IN THE NUMBER OF DETECTIVES THAT WE HAVE PER OUR POPULATION. UM, AND LOOKING AT, AT CRIME STATISTICS BACKED IN 2020, AND I, AND I GO BACK TO 2020 FOR CRIME STATISTICS FOR A REASON. UM, THE F B I REPORTS, CRIME STATISTICS USED TO BE THE UCR R CODING, UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING SYSTEM. WE ARE IN A TRANSITION PHASE INTO WHAT'S CALLED NERS NOW, THE NATIONAL INCIDENT BASED REPORTING SYSTEM. SO NERS IS STILL GETTING UP AND RUNNING, AND THE, AND THE DATA IS KIND OF ALL OVER THE PLACE. AND WE'RE HOPING, UH, AS EVERYBODY COMES CURRENT IN 2023 AND STARTS USING NIS DATA, THE DATA THAT WILL COME OUT OF THAT IS, IS MORE, UH, RELEVANT AND ACCURATE. BUT ACCORDING TO THE 2020, UH, DATA THAT WE HAD FOR UCRS, UCR CODING WEST REPORTED THE THIRD HIGHEST NUMBER OF VIOLENT CRIMES, UM, OUT OF THE NINE CITIES, AND THE SECOND HIGHEST NUMBER OF PROPERTY CRIMES. YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. ALL RIGHT. THE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE, UH, WITHIN THE DETECTIVE BUREAU, UM, WE HAVE A, A DETECTIVE THAT'S SIGNED A TRAP. IT'S THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY REGIONAL MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL MULTI-AGENCY TASK FORCE THAT INVESTIGATES, PROSECUTES AND DETERS VEHICLE THEFT AND VEHICLE FRAUD, UH, ON A COORDINATED AND COOPERATIVE BASIS, IS AUTHORIZED BY THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND IS ADMINISTERED THROUGH THE COUNTYWIDE CRIMINAL JUSTICE COORDINATING COMMITTEE. UM, BASICALLY TRAP THEY GO AFTER THEFT RINGS AND, UH, BIG, BIG AUTO THEFT INVESTIGATIONS. UM, SOMETHING SIGNIFICANT THAT OUR TRAP DETECTIVE WAS, WAS ABLE TO BRING WAS WHEN WE HAD THE CATALYTIC CONVERTER, UM, DEAL WHERE WE WERE MARKING PEOPLE'S CATALYTIC CONVERTERS. UM, OUR TRAP OFFICER WITH HIS TEAM ACTUALLY TOOK THE LEAD ON THAT AND COORDINATED THAT EFFORT. SO IT WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL VENTURE. UM, OUR ICAC DETECTIVE, I JUST WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT. UH, THE INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN'S, UH, DETECTIVE. SO, UH, THIS PAST YEAR, ABOUT NINE MONTHS AGO, UM, WE, WE IMPLEMENTED THIS, THIS NEW DETECTIVE IN OUR DETECTIVE BUREAU. UM, WHEN TIPS COME IN ABOUT, UH, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND STUFF ON THE INTERNET, THEY COME INTO A NATIONAL REPORTING SYSTEM, AND THEN IT GOES TO A REGIONAL LEVEL. LAPD IS KIND OF OUR REGIONAL LEAD, AND THEN THE, UH, THE TIPS FROM THERE GET FILTERED DOWN, UH, TO WESTCO. [02:15:01] SO THERE WAS, UH, A SHIFT IN THE, THE FUNDING. AND, UH, LAPD COULD NO LONGER HANDLE THE LOAD OF ALL THE CASES. SO WE STARTED GETTING TIPS THAT WE NEEDED A DETECTIVE TO HANDLE. AND WITH, WITH THIS IMPORTANT OF A CASELOAD, WE, WE PUT A DETECTIVE BACK THERE. UM, THE INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN TASK FORCE PROGRAM IS A NATIONAL NETWORK OF 61 COORDINATED TASK FORCES REPRESENTING OVER 5,400 FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT DEDICATED TO INVESTIGATING, PROSECUTING, AND DEVELOP, DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE RESPONSES TO INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN. YOUR WEST COVINA POLICE DEPARTMENT IS AN AFFILIATE OF THE LOS ANGELES REGIONAL INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN TASK FORCE RESPONSIBLE FOR INVESTIGATIONS THROUGHOUT LOS ANGELES AND NEIGHBORING COUNTIES. UM, AND LIKE I SAID, THE I, OUR, OUR DETECTIVE IS ALSO ASSIGNED AS A TASK FORCE OFFICER FOR HOMELAND SECURITY. UM, THROUGHOUT 2022, THE WEST POLICE ICAC DETECTIVE RECEIVED OVER A HUNDRED TIPS FROM THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN. OUR INVESTIGATIVE OPERATIONS RESULTED IN MULTIPLE ARREST OF ONLINE PREDATORS, AS WELL AS THE IDENTIFICATION OF MULTIPLE CHILD VICTIMS. MOVING ON. THE NEXT IS, UH, US MARSHALS TASK FORCE. UH, THE UNITED STATES AL SERVICE OVERSEES THE NATION'S REGIONAL FUGITIVE TASK FORCE, ESTABLISHED UNDER THE PRESIDENTIAL THREAT PROTECTION ACT OF 2000. THE PURPOSE OF THE REGIONAL FUGITIVE TASK FORCE IS TO COMBINE THE EFFORTS OF FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO LOCATE AND APPREHEND THE MOST DANGEROUS FUGITIVES AND ASSIST IN HIGH PROFILE INVESTIGATIONS. THE WEST COVINA MARSHALLS TASK FORCE OFFICERS ASSIGNED TO THE CENTRAL DIVISION COVERING LOS ANGELES COUNTY, UH, WEST COVINA USES THESE RESOURCES TO APPREHEND, UH, IF WE HAVE WANTED SUSPECTS. WE, WE RELY HEAVILY ON THE MARSHALLS TEAM TO COME IN AND GIVE US THEIR RESOURCES TO HELP US TO CATCH, UH, THOSE SUSPECTS. THEY'RE A GREAT RESOURCE TO US. UM, OUR SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT TEAM, ALTHOUGH THEY'RE KIND OF SEPARATE FROM THE DETECTIVE BUREAU, I JUST WANTED TO, THIS YEAR, OUR SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT TEAM IN CONJUNCTION WITH, UH, INCA, WHICH IS THE INLAND CRACKDOWN ALLIED TASK FORCE, RECEIVED THE 2022 EXEMPLARY STATE AND LOCAL PARTNERSHIP AWARD FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FOR THEIR EFFORTS, WHICH WAS A BIG DEAL, UM, VERY HIGH HONOR, AND WE'RE VERY PROUD OF 'EM. UM, ADDITIONAL RESOURCES IN OUR DETECTIVE BUREAU ALSO INCLUDE OUR VICTIM'S ADVOCATE. UM, I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYBODY KNOWS, BUT WE HAVE A FULL-TIME VICTIM'S ADVOCATE THAT'S IN OUR DETECTIVE BUREAU. UM, DIANE FRANKLIN. SHE'S, UH, SHE'S A GREAT RESOURCE. UM, SHE, SHE MAKES OVER 2000 CONTACTS EVERY YEAR, AND SHE, SHE PROVIDES RESER, UH, REFERRALS TO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND VICTIMS OF CRIMES. SHE WALKS IN THROUGH THE COURT PROCESS, AND SHE'S JUST A GREAT RESOURCE TO HAVE. UM, WITHIN OUR DETECTIVE BUREAU, WE ALSO HAVE A CRIME ANALYST THAT IDENTIFIES CRIME TRENDS AND HELPS OUR DETECTIVES, UM, IN THOSE AREAS. AND SHE'S ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR CRIME-FREE MULTI-HOUSING PROGRAM. SHE COORDINATES NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH ACTIVITIES, AND SHE'S REALLY INSTRUMENTAL IN OUR, UH, NATIONAL NIGHT OUT EFFORTS. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. UH, OUR FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION UNIT, UM, I TOLD YOU I'D COME BACK TO IT F FIU. UM, SO OUR DEPARTMENT HAS A, HAS A PRETTY PROUD HISTORY OF OUR, UM, PROVIDING FORENSIC SERVICES. UH, WE HAVE, WE HAVE BEEN THE LEADER IN THIS AREA, UM, ALONG WITH THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IN LAP D WHO ARE BIGGER AGENCIES AND HAVE THESE SERVICES AS WELL. UM, BUT WE, WE USED TO HAVE A SWORN DETECTIVE ASSIGNED AS OUR INVESTIGATOR. AND AT ONE TIME WHEN, WHEN WE HAD HIGH NUMBERS, WE HAD TWO. UM, BUT THE, THE SWORN, UH, HAVING THE SWORN A DETECTIVE ON THERE WAS, UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY WANTED TO PROMOTE OUT OR THEY WANTED TO CHANGE CAREERS, IT WAS A LOT OF TRAINING AND A LOT OF EXPERIENCE GENERATED TO JUST KIND OF JUMP OUT OF THE UNIT. SO, LIKE MOST AGENCIES, WE WENT WITH A, A CIVILIAN, UH, FORENSICS, UM, TEAM MODEL APPROACH. AND THIS YEAR WE WERE ABLE TO RECRUIT AND ATTRACT ONE OF THE HIGHLY, MOST HIGHLY REGARDED, UH, FORENSICS EXPERTS IN THE AREA. AND, UH, WE HIRED ADAM AND SEPTEMBER, AND HE'S OUR FORENSICS UNIT SUPERVISOR. UM, UM, A ALONG WITH THE, UH, THE CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, THE FINGERPRINT ANALYSIS, THE, UH, THE DIAGRAMMING, THE DNA COLLECTION, ALL THE EVIDENCE STUFF THAT THEY DO. UM, WE ALSO, UH, PROVIDE SERVICES TO LOCAL AGENCIES AROUND US. UM, WE HAVE CONTRACTS WITH THE CITIES OF ALHAMBRA, AZUSA, BALDO PARK, COVINA, OMANI, GLENORA, IRWINDALE, WALNUT SHERIFF STATION IN MONROVIA. UM, A LOT OF THESE CITIES DON'T HAVE FORENSIC SERVICES. WE DO. AND WHAT DREW THEM TO US WAS WAITING FOR THE SHERIFF'S LAB TO GET STUFF, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY FINGERPRINTS ON BURGLARIES COULD TAKE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF TIME. OUR DETECTIVES WERE ABLE TO PROCESS THAT FASTER. SO WE HAVE THOSE CONTRACTS. [02:20:02] OUR DETECTIVE RETIRED BEGINNING OF 2020, AND LIKE I SAID, WE BROUGHT ADAM ON IN IN ABOUT SEPTEMBER. AND AS OUR, UH, DETECTIVE WAS GETTING TO READY TO LEAVE, HE HAD TO CONTACT ALL THE AGENCIES TO LET THEM KNOW, HEY, WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THESE SERVICES FOR A WHILE UNTIL WE GET REESTABLISHED. SO WE HAVEN'T BEEN PROVIDING THOSE SERVICES TO OUTSIDE AGENCIES. UM, ADAM HAS COME IN, HE'S GETTING OUR EQUIPMENT ALL SET UP. HE'S GETTING OUR, UH, LABORATORY, UH, STATE CERTIFIED. HE'S REESTABLISHING THOSE CONTRACTS, LOOKING THROUGH THEM TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE CURRENT AND PRACTICAL. AND REALLY, WHEN WE, WHEN WE HIRED ADAM, IT WAS PART OF A FORENSIC SERIES THAT WE CREATED AND THE COUNCIL APPROVED. UM, WE CREATED THE, UH, FORENSIC SUPERVISOR POSITION. WE CREATED A FORENSICS LEAD, AND THEN WE CREATED A FORENSIC SPECIALIST. ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE REASONS THE DETECTIVES DIDN'T SURVIVE AS OUR FORENSICS PERSON, ESPECIALLY ALONE, IS THE CALLOUT LOAD. WE GET A LOT OF CALLOUTS FOR FORENSICS SERVICES JUST WITHIN OUR OWN DEPARTMENT. UM, AND JUST, THEY JUST GET BURNED OUT AND THEY NEED HELP. UM, THE OTHER REASON WE NEED AT LEAST TWO IS FINGERPRINT. WHEN YOU, UH, WHEN YOU GET FINGERPRINTS, PRINT, FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE OFF OF SOMETHING IN A CASE SO THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THESE DETECTIVES ARE TRAINED TO, TO IDENTIFY THE FINGERPRINT AND THEN MATCH IT TO A PERSON, RIGHT? IN ORDER FOR IT TO BE COURT CERTIFIED AND BE WORTH ANYTHING, THEY HAVE TO HAVE IT AUTHENTICATED BY A SECOND PERSON, RIGHT? SO WITH ONE DETECTIVE, WE DON'T HAVE THAT SECOND ABILITY TO AUTHENTICATE THE FINGERPRINTS. UM, WE USED TO USE, UH, COUNT ON RETIRED DETECTIVES WHO DID IT, WHO WOULD COME BACK AND HELP US, BUT WE NO LONGER HAVE THAT RESOURCE AVAILABLE TO US. SO WE'RE REALLY HOPEFUL THAT WE CAN ADD AT LEAST ONE BEST CASE SCENARIO, THOSE TWO POSITIONS IN THE NEXT BUDGET CYCLE. IF WE CAN FIND THOSE RESOURCES, WE'D GREATLY APPRECIATE IT. WE CAN GET THAT, UH, WE CAN GET THOSE, UH, SERVICES TO THE SURROUNDING AGENCIES UP AND RUNNING. AND WE CAN ALSO PROVIDE MORE SERVICES. WE CAN, SOME, SOME AGENCIES CAN'T DO, UM, PROCESS SCENES. THEY JUST DON'T HAVE THE PEOPLE. AND INSTEAD OF CALLING THE SHERIFFS, IT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DO. WE, UH, I JUST WANTED TO, JUST TO SHOW YOU, IN 20 19, 19 20 20, WE DID RECEIVE ABOUT $27,000 IN REVENUE FROM THOSE FORENSIC SERVICES. UM, AND, AND I'M SORRY, HOW MUCH? 27,000. 27,000 RECEIVED. AND, UH, THEN 2021 THAT WE RECEIVED, 10,000. SO I JUST WANT YOU GUYS TO KEEP IN MIND THAT 2020 WAS A REALLY DOWN YEAR FOR CRIME STATISTICS. EVERYTHING WENT DOWN AND THERE WASN'T A WHOLE LOT OF FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE BEING PROCESSED ANYWAY. UM, SO SI SINCE THAT TIME, 20 20, 20 21, WE HAVEN'T GENERATED ANY REVENUE, CUZ WE HAVEN'T HAD THE RESOURCES TO GENERATE. BUT WE'RE HOPING IF WE COULD ADD AT LEAST ONE, HOPEFULLY TWO PHYSICIANS TO THE FORENSICS UNIT, I THINK IT'LL BE A GREAT RESOURCE FOR OUR, NOT ONLY OUR CITY AND OUR RESIDENTS, BUT FOR THE COMMUNITY LOCALLY. NEXT SLIDE. I JUST, UM, THIS ONE BRIEFLY, I JUST WANT TO KIND OF TALK ABOUT, UM, SOMETIMES, UH, IT'S NOT REALLY CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT, WHAT DETECTIVES DO. LIKE WHY DO WE NEED DETECTIVES? WHAT DO THEY ACTUALLY DO? SO WE KIND OF GAVE YOU A, UH, A, UH, KIND OF A, THIS IS PATROL, THIS IS DETECTIVE, RIGHT? THIS IS WHAT THEY DO. UM, SO BASICALLY THE PATROL OFFICERS, THEY RESPOND TO THE CALL, THEY CONDUCT A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION. UM, THEY CONTROL THE SCENE, THEY MAKE IT SAFE. IT'S BASIC EVIDENCE COLLECTION IS WHAT THEY DO. IF THERE'S ANYTHING MORE PAST THE BASIC EVIDENCE COLLECTION, THEN OUR DETECTIVES OR OUR, OUR F I U TEAM WOULD BE CALLED IN TO HANDLE THAT. UM, OUR PATROL, THEY CAN MAKE ARREST OR THEY CAN NOT MAKE AN ARREST BASED ON WHAT THEY HAVE IN FRONT OF THEM. THERE'S LIMITATIONS, UH, THERE'S VARIOUS EXPERIENCE LEVELS, AND THERE'S REALLY NO LONG-TERM INVESTMENT IN THE CASE. ONCE THEY HANDLE IT IN THE FIELD AND TURN IN THEIR REPORT, THEY'RE KIND OF DONE WITH IT, RIGHT? BUT IT'S AT THAT POINT THAT OUR DETECTIVES ACTUALLY BECOME INVOLVED IF WE HADN'T BEEN CALLED TO THE SCENE TO HELP THEM INVESTIGATE. SO BASICALLY FROM START TO FINISH, I'LL JUST WALK YOU THROUGH WHEN WE HAVE TRAVIS. WE GOOD? WE'RE GOOD. YEAH, GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. SO WHEN WE HAVE A CONTACT IN THE FIELD, WE EITHER GET CALLED OR AN OFFICERS MAKE A, A [02:25:01] PROACTIVE STOP. UM, WE GENERATE EITHER AN ARREST REPORT OR A CRIME REPORT, RIGHT? SOMEBODY CALLS TO, UH, TO REPORT A BURGLARY, OR WE ARREST SOMEBODY FOR SOMETHING. WE CREATE A REPORT, OKAY? THAT REPORT GOES TO THE FIELD SERGEANT TO BE APPROVED. THAT ARREST GETS APPROVED BY OUR FIELD SERGEANT. IT GOES TO OUR WATCH COMMANDER FOR THE REPORT TO BE APPROVED. AND THEN IT GETS FUNNELED TO THE DETECTIVE BUREAU. OUR DETECTIVE BUREAU SERGEANTS ARE ASSIGNED THE CASES. THEY REVIEW THE CASES AND THEY DECIDE IF IT'S ACTIVE, IF IT'S SUSPENDED, AND WE'LL GO OVER THAT STUFF IN A MINUTE. AND THEN WHERE IT GOES. AND THEN ONCE IT GETS TO A DETECTIVE, THAT'S WHEN WE START INVESTIGATING, UM, EVERY SINGLE CASE THAT WE GET THAT'S AN ARREST OR A CRIME REPORT, WE INVESTIGATE AND WE SEEK A CLOSURE ON IT, WHETHER IT'S A CLEARANCE THROUGH AN ARREST, THROUGH FILING THE CRIMINAL COURT CHARGES IN COURT. UM, OUR DETECTIVES TOUCH AND HAVE TO LOOK, AND ALMOST EVERY SINGLE CASE THAT COMES THROUGH. SO WHETHER IT'S, THEY LOOK AT IT QUICKLY AND SAY, I, WE, THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO ON THIS CASE. WE GOTTA CLOSE IT. OR, WE GOT A LOT OF STUFF TO DO ON THAT CASE. AND THE DETECTIVE TAKES IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH COURT APPEARANCES, WHERE THEY ACT AS THE, UH, LIAISON FOR THE, UM, THE DA'S OFFICE. WE DO THE WITNESS COORDINATION. YOU COULD SEE ON THE, ON THE SLIDE ALL THE STUFF THAT THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR. THERE'S AFTER CONVICTION, PARTICIPATION FOLLOW UP, UM, COURT APPEARANCES THAT THE DETECTIVES HAVE TO CONTINUALLY FOLLOW UP ON CERTAIN CASES. UM, SO IT'S A VERY LONG-TERM INVESTMENT. I JUST, I JUST WANT EVERYBODY TO BE AWARE THAT THE DETECTIVES ARE INVOLVED IN EVERY SINGLE CASE THAT WE HAVE, WHETHER THEY PRESENT IT FOR A CLOSURE OR A CLEARANCE, OR THEY GET IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH PROSECUTION. WELL, THE NEXT SLIDE, THIS IS OUR CASELOAD. UM, THIS IS A SNAPSHOT OF WHAT OUR DETECTIVE BUREAU LOOKED LIKE FROM NOVEMBER, 2021 THROUGH, UH, NOVEMBER, 2022, IS THE TIMEFRAME THAT WE PULLED THESE STATISTICS FROM. UM, I CAN GO OVER, IF YOU GUYS HAVE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS. I KNOW WE DON'T WANNA BE HERE ALL NIGHT, BUT IF YOU GUYS WANT TO GO OVER THE DISPOSITIONS, UM, THE, THE WORDS WRITTEN AFTER THE NUMBERS TO, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON WHAT THOSE MEAN, WE CAN, UM, BUT I'LL GO THROUGH IT REAL QUICK. MANAGER, MANAGER, DO WE HAVE A COPY OF THIS? ONE OF THE, THROUGH THE CHAIR, ONE OF THE THINGS WE TRIED TO DO THIS TIME WAS TO ATTACH ALL THE POWERPOINTS AND DISTRIBUTE THEM WHEN THE PACKETS WENT OUT. SO IT'S, IT'S IN YOUR, IT'S IN YOUR PACKET. OKAY. SO GOING OVER THE NUMBERS, UH, FOR THE CASELOADS THERE, YOU COULD SEE, UM, WE HAD A TOTAL OF, UH, 6,100 AND, UH, 10 CASES TOTAL, UM, THAT THE DETECTIVES WERE ASSIGNED. AND YOU COULD SEE WE HAVE, WHAT, 1,239 OPEN CASES. OPEN CASES MEANS ACTIVE MEANS WE'RE ACTIVELY INVESTIGATING, AND THEY HAVEN'T BEEN SOLVED YET. THE, UH, INACTIVE SUSPENDED CASES, THOSE, THOSE, THOSE ARE THE CASES THAT COME IN THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY EVIDENCE TO FOLLOW UP ON. RIGHT? IT'S A, IT'S A, WHO DONE IT, IT'S A VEHICLE BURGLARY WITH NOTHING, UM, IN THOSE CASES, JUST KIND OF HANG THERE. UM, THE GOOD THING ABOUT THOSE CASES, IF WE HAPPEN UPON, SAY AN OFFICER TAKES A BURGLARY REPORT AND THEY, THEY TAKE FINGERPRINTS AND WE SUBMIT THE FINGERPRINTS WHEN THE DETECTIVES FINALLY GETS IT, OR OUR FORENSIC SUPERVISOR NOW GETS TO THE FINGERPRINT AND WE GET IT PRINT MATCHED, THAT CASE CAN BE PUT IN THE OPEN OR ACTIVE CASE SO THAT THEN WE COULD FOLLOW UP ON IT. UM, ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS LINE? HOW MANY, UM, MADAME UH, GO AHEAD. COUNCILMAN CANTOS, UM, HOW MANY, UH, UH, ARE ON THE INACTIVE CASE? AND DO, DO WE KEEP STATISTICS ON ANY CASES THAT ARE CONSIDERED COLD CASES? AND HOW DO THOSE STATS COMPARE TO OTHER JURISDICTIONS SIMILAR IN SIZE TO OURS? GREAT QUESTION, MR. CANTOS. I WAS GETTING THERE NEXT, BUT I'LL, I'LL GO THERE NOW. SO THE, THE INACTIVE SUSPENDED CASES IS, UH, 23, UH, 16 FOR THIS TIME, 2,316 FOR THIS TIME PERIOD. THAT'S HOW MANY OF THE 6,110 CASES SIT AS INACTIVE? OKAY. UM, WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO AS FAR AS A COLD CASES, UM, THAT'S KIND OF A, IT'S KIND OF A TERM THAT'S BEEN POPULARIZED BY, BY TV. UM, THERE'S NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ON HOMICIDES, RIGHT? SO THAT MEANS, SO LIKE ON A, A BASIC MISDEMEANOR, YOU HAVE A YEAR TO TO, TO FILE THE CASE AFTER IT HAPPENS. IF THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IS UP, THE CASE DOESN'T GET FILED ON FELONIES. AS A GENERAL RULE, YOU HAVE A THREE YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS THAT YOU HAVE TO INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE A CASE FOR HOMICIDES. UM, OR ANY CASE THAT'S PUNISHABLE BY LIFE IMPRISONMENT, THERE'S NO LIMITATIONS ON THOSE CASES. SO YOU, THEY'RE BASICALLY OPEN FOREVER. SO A CASE WILL, WHEN THEY SAY THERE'S A COLD CASE, THAT MEANS IT'S AN OLD [02:30:01] CASE. SO A LOT OF LIKE DNA N EVIDENCE, RIGHT? WE DIDN'T HAVE THE, THE CAPABILITIES BACK IN THE EIGHTIES, UM, REALLY IN THE NINETIES, NOT IN UP UNTIL RECENTLY, WHERE WE HAD DNA EVIDENCE CAPABILITIES. SO THEY WENT BACK IN ALL THESE OLD CASES AND THEY'RE FINDING DNA N EVIDENCE THAT THEY COULDN'T PROCESS BACK IN THE DAY. AND THOSE, THOSE ARE DEEMED COLD CASES THAT THEY'RE REOPENING BECAUSE THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE THINGS WE, WE JUST HAVE 'EM IN OUR SUSPENDED INACTIVE CASES. BUT AS A COMPARISON, I'M, I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP. I, I WANT TO SPECIFICALLY TALK ABOUT OUR HOMICIDE CASES. UM, ACCORDING TO THE, UH, UCR, I TALKED ABOUT THE UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING DATA THAT COMES FROM THE FBI FOR THE LAST, I I CALL IT FOUR YEARS SINCE 2018 FOR HOMICIDES. THERE'S BEEN AN AVERAGE CLEARANCE RATE FOR AGENCIES IN LA COUNTY AT 57.475%. SO 50% OF THE HOMICIDES THAT OCCUR IN LA COUNTY ARE ACTUALLY SOLVED. UM, THE LA COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, THEY, WE PARTNER WITH THEM ALL THE TIME. WE TALK TO THEM ABOUT STATISTICS, AND THEY HOVER AROUND 52%. AND YOU JUST GOTTA REMEMBER WITH LA COUNTY SHERIFFS, THEY, THE HIGH VOLUME OF CALLS, UM, OF COURSE ARE GONNA GET LESS CALLS THAT GO UN OR, OR LESS, MORE CASES THAT GO UNSOLVED BECAUSE OF THE VOLUME OF, OF CASES THEY HAVE. SO WE HAVE HOMICIDE STATS GOING BACK TO 1980. UM, I CAN TELL YOU THAT WE HAVE AVERAGED SINCE 1980, ABOUT 4.9 HOMICIDES A YEAR, AND OUR CLEARANCE RATE ON OUR HOMICIDES IS AT 76.64%. SO WE ARE, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OUR, OUR DETECTIVES DO A, A, AN OUTSTANDING JOB. AND AGAIN, THIS IS ONE OF OUR, OUR PRIDE SPOTS CUZ THERE'S SOME AGENCIES THAT, THAT DON'T DO THEIR OWN HOMICIDES. BUT THIS IS ONE OF OUR EXPERTISE, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON AND OUR, AS YOU CAN SEE BY THE NUMBERS, OUR DETECTIVES DO A FANTASTIC JOB. DID THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, SIR? IT DOES. ACTING CHIEF, UH, PLUNKETT, THANK YOU, . THANK YOU ALL. I APPRECIATE THAT. UM, SO YOU SEE ON THAT, THAT SLIDE, THAT 41% CLEAR, THAT'S WHEN YOU PUT 'EM ALL TOGETHER, THAT YOU KNOW THAT AS IT GO AHEAD. LET MADAM MAYOR, I MEAN, , COUNCIL, COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ, VITO, GO AHEAD. ON YOUR CASELOAD, THE 98 UNFOUNDED IN THE 77 WILL NOT INVESTIGATE. WHAT ARE THOSE? GOOD QUESTION. SO THE UNFOUNDED CASES ARE JUST THIS CRIMES THAT WE DETERMINED THE CRIME DIDN'T OCCUR RIGHT AT FIRST. WE TOOK A REPORT, MAYBE WE TOOK A SUSPICIOUS, SUSPICIOUS REPORT OR WE, WE, SOMEBODY SAYS, NO, I'M ADAMANT THAT SHE STOLE MY THIS. AND THROUGH INVESTIGATION, WE FIGURE OUT THAT IT JUST DIDN'T OCCUR, DIDN'T HAPPEN. SO IT'S, WE, WE DISPO IT, WE CLOSE IT AS UNFOUNDED FOR THE 77, WILL NOT INVESTIGATE, UM, THE DIFFERENT, THESE ARE CRIMES WHERE THE STATUTE LIMITATIONS HAVE EXPIRED. SO WE GET THOSE. WE'RE NOT GONNA INVESTIGATE 'EM. UM, THE CRIMES OCCUR IN ANOTHER JURISDICTION. SO WE PASS THEM OFF. LIKE WE GET REPORTS ALL THE TIME FROM OTHER, UH, MOSTLY FRAUD AND STUFF FROM OTHER JURISDICTIONS, AND THEY SEND THEM TO US TO INVESTIGATE. UM, AND THEN LIKE MISSING PERSON. SO IF A MISSING PERSON RETURNS HOME, THERE'S NO INVESTIGATION. SO WE CLOSE IT AS WE'LL, NOT INVESTIGATE THE, THESE CLOSURES ARE ACTUALLY, WE HAVE A SYSTEM CALLED MARK 43. UM, AND THAT'S OUR RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. AND THESE DISPOSITIONS ARE THE OPTIONS THAT WE HAVE TO USE. I'VE BEEN DOING THIS WITHOUT MY GLASSES THE WHOLE TIME. I'M FIGURING OUT WHY CAN'T I SEE, BUT I DON'T HAVE MY GLASSES . ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UH, YES. I KNOW YOU GAVE US A PERCENTAGE OF THE, UH, LA COUNTY WITH THE HOMICIDE, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE, UH, CLEARANCE CASE COMPARED TO LIKE LA COUNTY OR OTHER CITIES? I KNOW WE HAVE 41% CLEARED LAST YEAR. YEAH, SO THAT, THAT NUMBER WE JUST PUT ON THERE AS AN OVERALL, LIKE I SAID, THERE WAS, UM, 6,110 CASES TOTAL, UM, THAT ARE, THAT ARE ON THAT FOR THE YEAR. AND THEN WHAT WE DID IS WE KIND OF, OF SUBTRACTED OUT, UM, ALL THE CASES THAT, UH, THAT MET CERTAIN CRITERIA. THEY WERE FILED WITH THE DA, THEY WERE CLEAR TO OTHER REASON, VICTIM REFUSES TO PROSECUTE, DA REJECTS ALL THE CASES THAT ARE NEITHER ACTIVE OR INACTIVE. YOU ADD THAT UP AND YOU HAVE TWENTY FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT CASES, AND THEN YOU, YOU OBVIOUSLY DIVIDE THAT BY THE NUMBER AND YOU GET 40%. SO IT'S KIND OF A, WE'RE RIGHT AROUND THE NATIONAL AVERAGE. IT'S RIGHT AROUND 40 CENT PERCENT IS A NATIONAL AVERAGE FOR TOTAL CLEARANCE RATES. BUT TO, TO REALLY FIGURE OUT THE PERCENTAGE, YOU GOTTA BREAK INTO DIFFERENT CATEGORIES. FOR INSTANCE, LIKE BURGLARIES, UM, THE LA [02:35:01] COUNTY AVERAGE FOR, FOR CLEARANCE RATE ON BURGLARIES IS REALLY LOW. IT'S, IT'S LIKE, UH, WELL, IT WAS 11.9%, 13.3%, 12.5% BECAUSE BURGLARIES, YOU KNOW, YOU GET YOUR CAR BROKEN INTO AND THERE'S NO EVIDENCE. HOW DO YOU, HOW DO YOU SOLVE IT? SO THE CASES SIT UNSOLVED, RIGHT? SO, UH, GTA THAT THE GRAND THEFT OR MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT, I KNOW THAT'S A VIDEO GAME. WE DON'T LIKE TO SAY THAT . UM, BUT THEY'RE DOWN, YOU KNOW, 8.9%. 7.7%. AND WE HOVER AROUND THE, THE LA COUNTY AVERAGES. UM, THE ONE THAT WHEN WE REALLY EXCEL IN IS OUR HOMICIDE INVESTIGATIONS. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NEXT SLIDE? NO. OR DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION, MA'AM? OKAY. NO, GO AHEAD. OH, OKAY. UH, THE, THE CASE DIFFERENCES, UM, WE'VE, WE'VE KIND OF GONE OVER THIS, THE, UH, THE DIFFERENT CASES THAT WE HAVE. UM, BUT I KIND OF WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE MAJOR INCIDENTS, KIND OF WHAT ARE, WHAT, WHAT ARE HIGH PROFILE CASES? WHAT, WHAT DO THOSE THINGS LOOK LIKE? UM, WE, WE, WE LOOK AT MAJOR INCIDENTS, UM, TO INVOLVE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE GAMUT OF THINGS. BUT WE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAD TO MAKE A LIST, WE PUT DOWN ACTIVE SHOOTER, OFFICER INVOLVED, SHOOTINGS, A HOMICIDE, A SUSPICIOUS DEATH, AN ARMED ROBBERY, A FATAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENT, UM, KIDNAPPING. THINGS OF THOSE NATURE ARE MAJOR, MAJOR CRIMES THAT ARE GONNA GET A LOT OF INVESTIGATIVE FOLLOW UP AND A LOT OF INVESTIGATIVE RESPONSE. UM, BUT THEY'RE ALSO GONNA TO SUMMONS THE MEDIA, RIGHT? SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE WE GET SOME MEDIA ATTENTION. I'M GONNA GET INTO TO MEDIA, MEDIA STUFF HERE IN A MINUTE. LIKE I SAID BEFORE, PATROL'S FUNCTION IS TO, TO ARRIVE AT THE SCENE AND STABILIZE THE SITUATION, MAKE ARRESTS, DETAIN WITNESSES INVOLVED, PARTIES COLLECT AND PRESERVE EVIDENCE WERE NECESSARY. AND THEN THEY CALL THE DETECTIVES IN TO HANDLE THE INVESTIGATIVE PART OF IT. THE DETECTIVES, THEY GOTTA COME IN AND MAKE, UM, MAKE SOME REALLY FAST AND CRUCIAL DECISIONS. AND WE KIND OF, WE KIND OF THINK ABOUT IT, UH, IN TWO CATEGORIES. WE, WE GOTTA MAKE DECISIONS THAT ARE OBVIOUSLY ALWAYS BEST FOR THE CASE. UM, LOOKING AT THE, THE STEPS THAT WE GOTTA MAKE NOW, AND THEN LOOKING OUT FOR THE ULTIMATE GOAL, WHICH IS A SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION, RIGHT? SO WE HAVE TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT ARE IN THE SHORT TERM. UM, SOME OF THOSE ARE, UH, WHAT'S BEST IN THE NOW. UH, WHO DO WE INTERVIEW FIRST? DO WE INTERROGATE THE SUSPECT NOW? DO WE INTERROGATE 'EM LATER? UM, DO WE MAKE THE ARREST NOW? DO WE WAIT, UM, SEARCH WARRANTS? WHAT SEARCH WARRANT DO WE NEED? ARE THERE ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS? WHAT OTHER RESOURCES ARE WE NEEDED? RIGHT? AND, BUT LONG-TERM THINKING IS SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION. AND HOW DOES THIS ADD UP TO A SUCCESSFUL CASE? UM, REALLY WHAT THAT MEANS IS COME INTO THE REALIZATION OF WHAT THE TRUTH IS, WHAT REALLY HAPPENED, AND THEN PRESENTING THAT TO THE DA'S OFFICE AND HOPEFULLY BRINGING JUSTICE TO THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS. UM, YOU GUYS HEARD, I'VE HEARD OF THE TV SHOW, I'M SURE THE FIRST 48. LOVE IT. YOU KNOW? YEAH. EVERYBODY LOVES THAT SHOW. AND MAN, EVERYTHING GETS SOLVED IN 48 HOURS, FOR SURE, RIGHT? AND THEN CSI, EVERYTHING GETS SOLVED LIKE IN 30 MINUTES, RIGHT? THAT'S A, THAT'S AN EVEN FASTER ONE. THO. THOSE DON'T DO US ANY JUSTICE BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST UNREALISTIC. UM, AND THAT'S NOT HOW THINGS HAPPEN IN THE RURAL WORLD. THE 48 HOUR RULE COMES FROM, BUT WHEN WE MAKE AN ARREST, WE HAVE 48 HOURS TO PRESENT THAT CASE TO THE DA'S OFFICE FOR FILING. SO IF WE DON'T, WE, WE CAN GET, EXTENSIONS ARE CALLED PROBABLE CAUSE DECLARATIONS. I WON'T BORE YOU WITH THAT FOR NOW, BUT GENERAL, AS A GENERAL RULE, WITHIN 48 HOURS WHEN YOU MAKE AN ARREST, YOU GOTTA TAKE THAT CASE OVER THE DA FOR FILING, RIGHT? SO THAT'S, WHEN I TALK ABOUT DECISION TO MAKE AN ARREST OF A SUSPECT IS NOT CONTROVERSIAL, BUT IT'S NOT EASY BECAUSE DOES THE EVIDENCE LINE UP NOW, DOES THE EVIDENCE LINE UP ENOUGH FOR US TO MAKE AN ARREST? OR THE BURDEN OF PROOF IS WAY LOWER THAN WHAT IT TAKES TO PROS SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTE A CASE. SO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY LOOKS AT THINGS VERY DIFFERENT THAN WE DO, RIGHT? SO IF WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE AT THE TIME OF ARREST, OR WITHIN THAT 48 HOURS FOR A SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION, WE, WE HAVE TO RELEASE A SUSPECT, RIGHT? AND THAT'S PART OF IT. YOU, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THE CASES ON TV. I KNOW THERE WAS ONE WHERE THE, UM, THE DRIVER HIT THOSE, THOSE POOR KIDS RUNNING AT THE ACADEMY, RIGHT? AND THE DI DRIVER WAS ARRESTED, AND THEN EVERYBODY WAS UP IN ARMS BECAUSE HE WAS RELEASED. WELL, YOU GOTTA DO INVESTIGATION, RIGHT? UM, ANOTHER ANOTHER CASE THAT, UH, UH, WE'LL, WE'LL GET INTO THE IDAHO CASE A LITTLE BIT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE MEDIA, BUT, UH, JUST SO YOU GUYS KNOW WHERE THAT COMES FROM, THAT 48 HOURS, AND JUST KNOW THAT WE, WE, THE, THE CLOCK STARTS. SO [02:40:01] SOMETIMES WE MAKE THAT DECISION NOT TO MAKE THAT ARREST BECAUSE WE KNOW WE DON'T HAVE WHAT WE NEED TO PROSECUTE A CASE, THE USE OF THE MEDIA. WHY DO SOME CASES GET MEDIA ATTENTION? I MEAN, IF, IF YOU, IF YOU LOOK AT THE LIST THAT I GAVE, ACTIVE SHOOTER OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING, THOSE ARE NO-BRAINERS, RIGHT? EVERYBODY WANTS TO SEE THOSE MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS. UM, EVERYBODY WANTS TO SEE THAT ON THE TV, BUT TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, SOMETIMES IT'S JUST CUZ THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT GOING ON AND, AND THE MEDIA WILL GRAB A HOLD OF WHATEVER THEY CAN GRAB A HOLD OF AND, AND THEY'RE TRYING TO DO A GREAT JOB COVERING STUFF AND, YOU KNOW, PURSUIT SELL. AND, UH, SOMETIMES THAT'S WHY THEY GET ME MEDIA ATTENTION. UM, WE, WE WANT TO USE THE MEDIA TO OUR ADVANTAGE THE BEST THAT WE CAN, RIGHT? WE WANT TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC WHEN WE TALK TO THE MEDIA, WE WANT TO PROTECT THE COMMUNITY, RIGHT? IF WE GOTTA PUT OUT INFORMATION THAT THERE'S DANGER TO THE COMMUNITY, WE WANT THAT INFORMATION OUT. WE NEED THE MEDIA TO HELP US. WE WANT TO DISPEL RUMORS. IF THERE'S RUMORS OUT THERE ABOUT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED THAT'S NOT TRUE, WE MAY USE THE MEDIA TO HELP US. AND WE WANT TO USE THE MEDIA TO CONTROL THE NARRATIVE IF WE CAN, RIGHT? IF WE, WE WANT, WE WANT WHAT WE WANT TO PUT OUT, WE CAN USE THE MEDIA FOR THAT. UM, IN, IN A LOT OF CASES, IT'S, IT'S A VERY POSITIVE THING TO SEEK OUT THE HELP OF THE MEDIA TO GET YOUR INFORMATION OUT. BUT THERE ARE SOME INSTANCES WHERE YOU, YOU GOTTA REALLY LOOK AT THE, THE EVIDENCE AND THE SITUATION AND DECIDE WHAT KIND OF THINGS YOU WANT OUT AND WHAT KIND OF THINGS YOU DON'T WANT OUT, RIGHT? UM, IT'S ALL BASED ON THE INDIVIDUAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH CASE. AND IT'S ALL TIED, AGAIN, GOING BACK TO A SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION, RIGHT? UM, EVERYTHING THAT WE DO AND EVERYTHING THAT WE SAY DURING AN ACTIVE AND OPEN INVESTIGATION COULD JEOPARDIZE, JEOPARDIZE THE CASE. AND I'LL, I'LL GIVE YOU SOME, SOME EXAMPLES. IF WE, IF WE, AS I, I'M SURE EVERYBODY'S BEEN WATCHING TV AND YOU'VE SEEN THE, THE MURDERS THAT HAPPENED IN IDAHO, RIGHT? I, I WASN'T PART OF THAT TEAM THAT INVESTIGATED IT. I'M NOT GONNA SPEAK TO ANY EVIDENCE OR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED, BUT MAN, IDAHO WAS GETTING BLASTED FOR LACK OF INFORMATION, RIGHT? UM, AND THEY STUCK TO THEIR GUNS AND THEY FOUND THEIR SUSPECT. AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY GOT A PRETTY SOLID CASE ON THAT SUSPECT. THEY'RE WAITING, I'M ASSUMING, FOR DNA EVIDENCE TO COME BACK AND FOR ALL THE PIECES TO COME TOGETHER TO GO MAKE THAT ARREST. CUZ AGAIN, THEY HAVE 48 HOURS TO FILE THAT CASE ONCE THEY MAKE THAT ARREST. SO THEY HAD TO PUT IT TOGETHER AND THERE WAS INFORMATION THAT THEY WERE HOLDING ONTO THAT IF THEY, IF IT WOULD'VE GONE PUBLIC, COULD HAVE JEOPARDIZED THAT CASE, OKAY? COULD HAVE, COULD HAVE CAUSED THAT SUSPECT TO FLEE. IT COULD HAVE CAUSED, WHO KNOWS, IT COULD HAVE CAUSED ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE TO COME OUT OF THE WOODWORK AND SAY, I SAW IT, I WAS THERE, THIS AND THAT, THIS AND THAT. SO IF WE ARE INVESTIGATING A, A CASE, LET'S, LET'S, LET'S SAY A HOMICIDE, IT'S A HIGH PROFILE CASE. HOMICIDE CASES ARE GENERALLY SLOW. THEY'RE NOT REAL FAST, RIGHT? YOU GET A ROBBERY, YOU RESPOND TO THE SCENE, YOU CATCH THE ROBBERS, THEY GOT THE GUNS, YOU GET THE JEWELRY, AND EVERYBODY HAS A, HAS A GOOD TIME. WE, WE PUT THOSE, PUT THOSE TO ARREST PRETTY EASILY. HOMICIDES ARE VERY SLOW, METHODICAL TYPE INVESTIGATION. SO IF WE, IF WE HAVE, UH, IF WE HAVE INFORMATION THAT A CRIME WAS COMMITTED IN A CERTAIN WAY, UM, THERE WAS A CERTAIN WEAPON USED, CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS ABOUT THE CRIME THAT WOULD, THAT REALLY ONLY BE KNOWN TO SOMEBODY WHO MAY HAVE BEEN THERE, OR SOMEBODY WHO'S TIGHTLY CONNECTED TO SOMEBODY WHO WAS THERE. AND INFORMATION THAT WE CAN USE DOWN THE LINE IS CREDIBLE. SO IF, IF, IF WE BLAST OUT EVERYTHING WE HAVE TO THE PUBLIC, WE USE THE MEDIA AND WE SAY, WE GOT ALL THIS STUFF. SO WE JUST TOLD EVERYBODY WHAT WE HAVE. SO NOW WHAT YOU KIND OF DO IS YOU CONVOLUTE THE THE WITNESS POOL, RIGHT? BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S GONNA BE CALLING TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE PEACE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE'S REWARD MONEY OFFERED, RIGHT? HEY, I GOT SOME, I GOT A TIP. WELL, THE SECOND THING IT DOES, IT CONVOLUTES THE, THE WITNESS'S CREDIBILITY IN THE EYES OF THE DA, RIGHT? SO IF, IF WE USE SOMEBODY'S TESTIMONY, RIGHT, AS, AS, AS EVIDENCE TO THE CASE TO CONVICT A SUSPECT, IT'S GOTTA BE CREDIBLE. AND ONE WAY THAT WE CAN KEEP IT CREDIBLE IS BY HOLDING THOSE, THOSE PIECES OF INFORMATION TIGHT. AND IF SOMEBODY COMES FORWARD AND CONNECTS THOSE DOTS, WE KNOW THAT'S CREDIBLE. WE KNOW THAT THEY WERE THERE, OR THEY WERE, WERE CLOSE TO SOMEBODY THAT WERE THERE. AND IN THE DA'S MIND AND EYES, THAT'S, THAT'S VIEWED AS A CREDIBLE TESTIMONY, RIGHT? IF THIS PERSON COMES FORWARD AND GIVES ALL THE DETAILS THAT WE GAVE THEM CUZ WE PROVIDED IT TO EVERYBODY, IT'S NOT CREDIBLE. AND IF THAT'S THE PIECE YOU NEED FOR A SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION, YOU'VE RUINED YOUR CASE. [02:45:01] YOU, YOU SPENT ALL YOUR TIME INVESTIGATING THE CASE IS NOT GONNA GET SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTED AND THAT FAMILY WILL NEVER GET JUSTICE. IT'S, IT'S A VERY HARD COMPLEX THING, BUT WE ALL WANT INFORMATION, WE ALL WANT TO KNOW THINGS, BUT THE LAST THING WE AS A POLICE DEPARTMENT ARE GONNA DO IS, IS JEOPARDIZE A CASE WE WANT, WE WANT SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION. UH, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR AS OUR ULTIMATE GOAL. AND WE'RE GONNA PROTECT, WE'RE GONNA PROTECT THAT. UM, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO BEAT A DEAD HORSE, BUT IF YOU GUYS, YOU ALL REMEMBER THE NIGHT STALKER CASE. SO IF YOU'VE WATCHED THAT SERIES ON NETFLIX, IF YOU HAVEN'T, I'D I'D SUGGEST YOU CHECK IT OUT. BUT IN THAT NIGHT STALKER CASE, IF YOU GUYS REMEMBER MAYOR FEINSTEIN? YEAH. SAN FRANCISCO AIR. YEAH, I WASN'T GONNA SAY HER NAME, BUT YOU DID. IT'S OKAY. WE CAN SAY IT, I'LL REPEAT IT. BUT THERE WAS, THEY WERE STARTING TO, TO LINK THE CRIMES TOGETHER BECAUSE THE SHOE PRINTS, THE SUSPECT WAS WEARING THE SAME SHOES. UM, THAT INFORMATION WAS LEAKED TO THE MEDIA. AND WHEN THAT HAPPENED, THE SUSPECT CHANGES SHOES. NOW, IF, IF YOU WATCH THE SERIES, YOU'LL KNOW WHY IT'S SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE THEY DID AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF INVESTIGATION ONTO THE, THOSE SHOE TYPES AND WHERE THEY CAME FROM AND THEY WERE NARROWING IN ON THE SUSPECT. AND, AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF IT LED TO ADDITIONAL PEOPLE BEING KILLED BECAUSE THAT INFORMATION WAS OUT. UM, AND HE, HE CHANGED HIS, UH, MOTIVE, RIGHT? UM, SO WE, WE GOTTA BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT LETTING INFORMATION TO GET OUT TO JEOPARDIZE CASES. UM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN, WE COULD SEND A SUSPECT INTO HIDING, UM, IF WE PREMATURELY DO A PRESS RELEASE AND SAY, HEY, WE WANT SO-AND-SO WITHOUT DOING SOME INVESTIGATION TO FIND OUT WHERE HE'S AT OR THEY'RE AT. I DON'T MEAN TO SAY HE ALL THE TIME, BUT, UH, WE, WE MAY SEND A SUSPECT INTO HIDING IF WE PREMATURELY GET OUT INTO THE MEDIA AND PUT STUFF OUT. NOW IF WE, WE DON'T HAVE ANY LEADS AND WE HAVE A, A SITUATION WHERE WE DON'T KNOW WHERE A SUSPECT IS, THEN THE MEDIA WOULD BE A GREAT TOOL TO HELP US OUT TO GET THAT INFORMATION OUT. I THINK I, UH, I BEAT THE HORSE ON THAT ONE. YOU GUYS GOOD? , GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. THIS IS JUST, IF, IF YOU GUYS WANTED TO SEE OUR, OUR, THIS IS OUR DETECTIVE DESKS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER. EARLIER. THESE ARE THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF CASES THAT ARE ASSIGNED TO OUR DETECTIVES. SO YOU COULD, THEY'RE BROKEN DOWN HERE. THOSE ARE THE, THE 12, 1200 CASES THAT ARE OPEN AND ACTIVE. THIS IS HOW THEY'RE ASSIGNED. YOU CAN SEE OUR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. WE HAVE ONE DETECTIVE IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND THERE'S 261 ACTIVE CASES, WHICH IS A VERY HIGH, HIGH, UM, LOAD FOR THEM. MATTER. MAYOR, MAY I ASK A QUESTION? MAYOR PRO TIM BY, GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. UM, FOR, UM, UH, CRIMES LIKE, UH, WAGE THEFT AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT WITH, WOULD THAT ALSO, UH, FALL UNDER, WOULD THAT BE LIKE MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY OR HOW SO? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY IT'S, UH, I'M AN, I'M A, I'M AN EMPLOYEE. UM, AND, UM, I I, I KNOW I HAVE NOT BEEN, UH, RECEIVING MY, MY PROPER PAY MAYBE, UM, THERE'S VIOLATIONS OF, YOU KNOW, OVERTIME RULES, THINGS LIKE THAT. UM, SO, SO WHO WOULD, WOULD, WOULD WEST COVINA PD BE THE, THE PROPER AGENCY? OR IS THERE A DIFFERENT AGENCY FOR, FOR A CRIME LIKE THAT? I MEAN, I KNOW BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE STOLEN FROM, FROM WORKERS EVERY YEAR. YEAH, NO, IT'S GONNA BE REGULATED BY THE STATE. THAT'S, THAT'S THE MINIMUM WAGE. SO IT'S GONNA BE A STATE INVESTIGATIVE OFFICE. WE WOULD, WE WOULD PROBABLY RESPOND INITIALLY TO TAKE THE INITIAL, UM, WE MAY REFER THEM TO A STATE AGENCY. WE, WE HAVE A RESOURCE GUIDE WE CAN LOOK UP, UM, OR WE CAN TAKE THE CASE THAT THOSE WILL BE ONE OF THOSE CASES THAT WE WILL NOT INVESTIGATE CUZ IT'S AN OUTSIDE JURISDICTION, BUT WE MAY FORWARD IT TO THE PROPER AUTHORITY AND SAY, AND WE, WE'D TELL THE PERSON, HEY, LOOK, THIS DOESN'T FALL UNDER US. UM, BUT THERE'S A STATE AGENCY THAT DOES INVESTIGATE AND WE'RE GONNA SEND YOUR CASE TO THEM. OKAY. SO, SO COME COMING TO THE, THE, THE PD WOULD STILL BE A, A GOOD AVENUE BECAUSE YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO CONNECT THEM WITH THE PROPER RESOURCE. OF COURSE, WE ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO, IF THEY, IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR ISSUES TO COME TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND WE'RE WE'RE THERE TO HELP THEM SORT IT OUT. MADAM MAYOR, GO AHEAD. UM, COUNCILMAN COUNSEL, ANSWER THAT QUESTION IN THIS INSTANCE WITH, WITH WHAT COUNT, UM, UM, WITH WHAT AMER PRO TEMBA TABBA WAS ASKING, WOULD THAT FALL UNDER THE WAGE IN OUR DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR? I THINK THAT WOULD BE THE DIVISION. OKAY. I'LL DEFAULT TO YOUR EXPERTISE, SIR. YES, SIR. , COUNCILWOMAN DATO. IS YOUR PRESENTATION DONE OR, UM, YEAH, I WAS JUST GONNA ASK FOR QUESTIONS. , ANY ANY QUESTIONS? YES, NO, UH, YOU KNOW, I THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. UM, YOU KNOW, THIS BRINGS LIGHT TO THE MANY THINGS THE DETECTIVE UNIT DOES. UH, UNFORTUNATELY, UM, [02:50:01] WE OR THE PUBLIC DOESN'T ALWAYS HEAR ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON, WHICH LEADS IT BACK TO COMMUNICATION, UM, WHICH IS THE BIGGEST FACTOR FOR ME. I WANTED TO KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THINGS THAT GO ON THE MEDIA AND YOU NAME LIKE THREE, UH, TOP THINGS THAT, WHAT GOES ON TO THE MEDIA. UM, I KNOW YOU MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A DANGER TO THE COMMUNITY, BUT FOR THE RESIDENT, IT'S ALSO NICE TO GO OUT TO THE MEDIA JUST TO KNOW THAT, TO PUT THE COMMUNITY AT EASE, UM, LIKE THAT THERE IS NO DANGER. WE GOT THIS, WE GOT IT COVERED. THAT BEING SAID, I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT QUALIFIES, UM, FOR P PD TO DO A PRESS RELEASE. LIKE WHAT, UH, WHAT CERTAIN THINGS YOU CHOOSE TO PUT OUT THERE. AND THEN THE NEXT ONE IS WHAT QUALIFIES, UH, FOR PD TO DO A PRESS CONFERENCE. SO I THINK THAT IS THE GENERAL SENSE OF WHY THINGS GO OUT THERE AND WHY SOME THINGS ARE NOT. SO I'D LIKE THAT. SURE. THOSE QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. I, I'LL TRY TO ANSWER THAT THE BEST THAT I CAN. WE PRESS RELEASES IS BASICALLY KIND OF A WRITTEN FORM OF A PRESS CONFERENCE. UM, PRESS RELEASES CAN GO OUT. THEY'RE, THEY'RE FASTER, THEY GET DISSEMINATED QUICKER. UM, IT PROVIDES THE COMMUNITY WITH THE INFORMATION. UM, IT'S, IT'S KIND OF, UH, IT'S ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS. LIKE WHAT ARE WE, WHAT ARE WE LOOKING TO ACCOMPLISH AND, AND WHAT ARE WE PUTTING OUT? SO ANYTIME WE CAN, WE HAVE A SITUATION WHERE THE PUBLIC CAN BE AT DANGER. IF, IF WE HAVE A, A SUSPECT THAT'S ON THE LOOSE THAT WE THINK IS, IT MAY COMMIT MORE CRIMES, WE, WE GOTTA PUT THAT OUT FAST, RIGHT? GET THAT OUT SO PEOPLE CAN BE AWARE OF WHAT'S GOING ON. UM, WE MAY, YOU KNOW, THERE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S AMBER ALERT SYSTEMS AND THINGS LIKE THAT THAT WE CAN UTILIZE TO GET THAT INFORMATION OUT. UM, IF THERE'S INFORMATION TO WHERE WE WANT TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC, LIKE, UH, MAYBE THERE'S A THEFT RING GOING ON IN THE COMMUNITY OR, OR SOMETHING WHERE WE CAN GET THE INFORMATION OUT IN THE MEDIA TO GET THAT INFORMATION BLASTED ALL OVER. THAT WOULD BE A, A, A SITUATION WHERE WE CAN USE THAT. UM, ANYTIME WE WOULD NEED THE MEDIA TO HELP US. LIKE IF WE'RE LOOKING FOR A SU, LIKE I MENTIONED BEFORE, IF WE'RE LOOKING FOR A SUSPECT, WE, WE HAVE A SUSPECT IDENTIFIED IN A CRIME AND SAY WE HAVE A WARRANT FOR THE SUSPECT, BUT WE DON'T KNOW THE WHEREABOUTS OF THAT SUSPECT. WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA TURN TO THE MEDIA AND WE, LIKE, WE DID THE PRESS CONFERENCE IN FRONT OF THE STATION A FEW WEEKS AGO, UM, WE HAD A SUSPECT NAME AND IDENTIFIED IN A DOUBLE HOMICIDE CASE THAT WE'RE INVESTIGATING. AND WE DID A PRESS CONFERENCE TO SAY, THIS GUY'S WANTED, IF YOU KNOW WHERE HE, WHERE HE IS AT, WE WOULD LIKE TO, WE WOULD LIKE HELP IN FINDING THEM. UM, A PRESS CONFERENCE WOULD JUST BE WHEN YOU WANT TO GET OUT IN FRONT OF THE MEDIA. I MEAN, IF WE HAD, UH, A MAJOR INCIDENT, UH, OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING, WE'RE MOST LIKELY GONNA HAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE CUZ PEOPLE WANT TO WANT ANSWERS. UM, IF THERE'S ANY ALLEGATION OF SOME TYPE OF WRONGDOING ON, ON, ON THE PART OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND IT'S A MAJOR CASE, WE'RE DEFINITELY GONNA BE HAVING A PRESS CONFERENCE WHERE THE, UH, THE CHIEF IS GONNA BE, UH, GETTING OUT IN FRONT. ACTUALLY HE'S POINTING BACK AT ME. HE WAS LIKE, NO, IT'S YOUR JOB. BUT, UH, WE WOULD GET OUT IN FRONT OF THAT AND, UH, LET THE MEDIA KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON AND HEY, WE'RE ACTIVELY INVESTIGATING THIS INCIDENT, STUFF LIKE THAT. UM, THERE'S A, A GAMUT OF REASONS THAT WE WOULD USE THE MEDIA, UM, BUT THE PRESS CONFERENCES TO GET A LOT OF VIEWERS AND A AND A REACH A LOT OF PEOPLE FAST. I HOPE I ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, COUNCILMAN WOO. UM, QUICKLY. OKAY. HOW MANY STAFF? OKAY, INSIDE, UH, DETECTIVE BUREAU. OKAY. UH, SWORN AND SWAN. SO HOW MANY ENTIRE UNIT AND WHO'S IN CHARGE? OKAY. I THINK, UH, TRAVIS IN CHARGE, RIGHT? TRAVIS IS OUR LIEUTENANT, YES. YEAH. WOULD YOU PLEASE INVITE HIM TO JOIN YOU? SO, SO WE CAN KNOW WHO, IDENTIFY WHO'S IN CHARGE THIS DEPARTMENT. SURE. SO TRAVIS, WOULD YOU LIKE TO, AND BY THE WAY, UH, CHIEF, WELCOME BACK. OKAY. YOU, YOU ARE OVER THERE . THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHOWING UP. OKAY. SO HOPEFULLY EVERYTHING'S OKAY. THANK YOU, PAULINA. SO I OVERSEE, I'M BASICALLY IN CHARGE OF OUR INVESTIGATIVE BUREAU. SO THE CHIEF OVERSEES THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT, UHHUH . HE HAS ME THAT I OVERSEE ALL OF OUR INVESTIGATIONS IN OUR ADMINS, FRONT ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS, UNDERSTAND, OVERSEE, HIRING, ALL THAT STUFF. TRAVIS, I HAVE TWO LIEUTENANTS THAT WORK WITH ME. MM-HMM. TRAVIS IS ASSIGNED TO OVERSEE THE INVESTIGATIVE BUREAU. AND I HAVE A LIEUTENANT THAT OVERSEES THE ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION. SO COULD YOU ANSWER ME THE QUESTION OF HOW MANY YES. UH, STAFF, UH, WE HAVE AND HOW MANY SWARM AND HOW MANY NON SWARMS FOR, TO HAVE YOU ENTIRE DEPARTMENT TO TAKE CARE OF OUR INVESTIGATION IN OUR CITY? SO, WELL, IT'S ON THE SLIDE. IT'S, IT'S, I THINK IS IT IN FRONT OF YOU? SO, SO FOR OUR, COULD YOU ANSWER ME THE QUESTION PLEASE? YEAH. HOW MANY? YES SIR. WE HAVE 11 SWORN DETECTIVES. UHHUH . LET'S [02:55:01] SEE, WE HAVE 1, 2, 3. I SAW IT. OKAY. I WANTED TO 4, 5, 6 CIVILIANS AND TWO SERGEANTS. AND SO EL 11 SWM AND, UH, TEN SIX, SIX CIVILIAN POSITIONS. MM-HMM. . AND THEN WE, WE INCORPORATE THE MARSHALS IN THE TRAP TEAM UNDER THE DETECTIVES JUST FOR SUPERVISION. SO YOU CAN, IF YOU WANTED TO ADD THOSE TWO, YOU COULD SAY THERE'S, THERE'S 13, BUT I WOULD STICK TO 11 CUZ THEY'RE NOT REGULAR DETECTIVES. UN UN UNDERSTAND. THE, THE REASON I WANT TO INVITE, UH, TRAVIS. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHOWING UP. OKAY. THE REASON IS BECAUSE LAST TIME HE ASKED ABOUT THE FORENSICS WAS TO APPROVE, UH, THE DEPARTMENT. OKAY. AND, UH, I THINK BASED ON YOUR PRESENTATION, THAT IS A VERY STRONG DEPARTMENT. JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND, OKAY, HOW CURRENT THE SITUATION, DO WE HAVE A FULL STAFF? AND, UH, LAST TIME YOU SAY, LIKE YOU SAY, WE CAN RENT IT OUT FOR OTHER CITY TO UTILIZE THIS SERVICE. SO HOW IS THE INCOME COMPARED WITH HOW MANY PEOPLE WE HIRE? SO JUST WANT TO SEE SOME INFORMATION FOR THAT. DO YOU WANT TRAVIS? YEAH, TRAVIS, GO, GO. GO AHEAD. GO AHEAD. YOU. OKAY. SO, UM, GOOD LATE EVENING TO ALL YOU. UM, UH, BACK IN JANUARY, 2022, WE PRESENTED A COUNCIL, UH, FOR, TO, UH, APPROVE THE HIRING OF A CIVILIAN FORENSIC SUPERVISOR. AND THAT WAS TO REBUILD OUR UNIT, UH, BECAUSE OF BACKGROUND PROCESS AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS. WE DIDN'T ACTUALLY GET, UM, ADAM MCDONALD TO OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT TO SEPTEMBER. SO THE PAST FEW MONTHS WE'VE BEEN IN A REBUILD PHASE WHERE HE HAS TO GO OVER ALL THE CONTRACTS WITH OTHER CITIES. HE HAD TO, UH, GET OUR LAB UP TO DATE. SO WE'RE REALLY STILL IN THE INFANCY STAGES OF REBUILDING THAT POTENTIAL TO, UH, WORK FOR OTHER AGENCIES AND, AND POTENTIALLY GET REVENUE. WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT, UH, THE, THE NUMBER OF LATENT AND PATENT FINGERPRINTS. ONE VISIBLE, NOT VISIBLE THAT ARE BEING COLLECTED BY PATROL OFFICERS. IN TODAY'S, UH, FIELD WORK THAT WE HAVE NOTICED HAS BEEN ON A DECLINE. THAT COULD BE FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS. THAT COULD BE BECAUSE OF THE, UM, THE PREVALENCE OF DNA. THERE'S A LOT MORE DNA N SWABBING OCCURRING IN PROPERTY CRIMES. UH, WHEN DNA, UH, FIRST CAME ABOUT, UH, PRO PREDOMINANTLY IN THE EARLY TWO THOUSANDS IS REALLY WHEN WE STARTED SEEING A DRASTIC INCREASE IN HOW DNA WAS USED. IT WAS ONLY ANALYZED REALLY FOR VIOLENT, UH, CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS. UH, THE TECHNOLOGY HAS INCREASED TO THE POINT WHERE NOW DNA IS BEING ANALYZED FOR PROPERTY CRIMES. SO THERE'S A TRANSITION. WE'VE BEEN NOTICING A TREND OF TRANSITION AWAY FROM OBTAINING FINGERPRINTS. SO WHAT ADAM'S DOING FOR US TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION IS TO SEE HOW WE CAN UTILIZE OUR CURRENT, UH, FORENSIC SUPERVISOR POTENTIALLY, IF IT MAKES SENSE TO HIRE A SECOND ONE, WE WOULD NEED A SECOND ONE TO DO, UH, FINGERPRINT ANALYSIS. WE CAN CONTRACT THAT OUT, UH, IF WE NEED TO FOR THE SECOND PERSON AND COMPARE HOW WE CAN GO OUT AND, UH, OFFER OUR SERVICES TO THOSE OTHER CITIES. I JUST WANTED TO UNDERSTAND, WE APPROVE, UH, 20, UH, 22 LAST YEAR. JANUARY. YES. SO WE WANT TO REVIEW, OKAY. AND THE FORENSIC DEPARTMENT. OKAY. SO, SO, UH, I UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE SOME DIFFICULTY. SO CURRENTLY WE STILL HAVE NOT, UH, UP AND RUNNING IN FORENSICS DEPARTMENT. YES. SO WE HIRED THE, UH, THE SUPERVISOR, BUT WE HAVE NOT BEEN AUTHORIZED, UM, TO HIRE THE TWO ADDITIONAL POSITIONS. YEAH. BUT LAST NIGHT HE ONLY REQUEST THE SUPERVISOR TO HELP TO BUILD THE FORENSICS BY UNDERSTANDING IS OH, WE BUILT, WE, WE REQUESTED ALL THREE AT THE SAME TIME. IT WAS A SERIES TOGETHER. SO WE, WE APPROVED THAT TOO, RIGHT? YES SIR. SO, SO NOW THE DIFFICULTY IS WE HAVEN'T FIND THE RIGHT PERSON OR NO, WE DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE THE FINANCING TO BUDGET THAT POSITION YET. BUT WE APPROVED THE 3%. RIGHT? UH, LAST, WHAT WHAT WE APPROVED BASED ON YOUR REQUEST IN JANUARY LAST, WE APPROVED THE CREATION OF ALL THREE POSITIONS. UHHUH, . AND THEN IN LAST YEAR'S BUDGET WE WERE APPROVED TO ADD THE SUPERVISOR ONLY. SO WE, WE STILL HAVE TWO OPEN POSITIONS THAT NEED TO BE BUDGETED AND FUNDED SO WE CAN FILL THEM. SO, SO BASICALLY YOUR REQUEST THREE POSITION TO BUILD OUT YOUR FORENSIC DEPARTMENT, DEPARTMENT THAT CAN BE FUNCTIONAL BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE WAY, WHAT'S THE POINT? RIGHT? WE, WE NEED TO HAVE A YES FORENSIC DEPARTMENT LIKE YOU REQUEST. SO WE CAN HAVE OUTSIDE OTHER CITY, LIKE YOU SAY, A PROUD FORENSIC BIG DEPARTMENT THAT OTHER CITY DON'T HAVE, THEN WE CAN PROVIDE A SERVICE FOR THAT FOR THEM. AM I RIGHT? IS THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT TO DO? ABSOLUTELY. AM I RIGHT? WELL, YES. UH, THE, THAT IS CORRECT. UH, THE, THE FORENSIC UNIT IN, IN OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT IS PRIMARILY [03:00:01] GOING TO BE FOR A RESIDENTS IN OUR CRIME SCENES HERE. MM-HMM. , UM, AS A SECONDARY, UH, OPTION. AND WHAT WE HAVE DONE HISTORICALLY IN THE PAST OVER THE YEARS IS OFFER SERVICES TO OTHER CITIES TO PROVIDE FINGERPRINTS TO BE ANALYZED BY OUR PERSONNEL. MM-HMM. . AND THAT'S WHERE THE REVENUE IN THE PAST HAD CAME FROM WITH THE CONTRACTED CITIES. BUT THO BUT THE FORENSICS UNIT STILL NEEDS TO BE AVAILABLE IN OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT TO GO, UH, PROCESS OUR CRIME SCENES FOR CRIMINAL CRIMES THAT OCCUR HERE IN OUR CITY. IT UN UNDERSTAND. SO NOW DO WE HAVE THE FINGERPRINT STAFF TO HELP US TO POSSIBLE TO GAIN THE REVENUE? YEAH, WE HAVE A, WE, OUR FORENSIC SUPERVISOR'S THERE, HE IS AN EXPERT. HE CAN ANALYZE FINGERPRINTS. OKAY. UHHUH. . HE IS DOING THAT NOW. GIMME A SECOND. UM, WE NEED, WE ARE UTILIZING A CONTRACT SERVICE ONE, AN INDIVIDUAL THAT'S AN EXPERT. WE PAY HIM TO DO THE SECONDARY. IT JUST TOOK, TOOK ADAM A FEW MONTHS TO GET, UH, UH, TO GET UH, A HOLD ON EVERYTHING THAT'S OCCURRING HERE BECAUSE HE, HE CAME FROM ANOTHER AGENCY. SO FROM SEPTEMBER TO JANUARY WE NEEDED THIS TIME TO, WE HAVE TO RE UH, GO OVER ALL THE CONTRACTS WITH THE CITIES CUZ SOME OF THOSE HAVE EXPIRED. SO HE HAS, UH, BEEN CONTACTING, UH, THE COMMAND SESSION FROM THE CITY. SO MANY WE HAVE TO REBUILD THE RELATIONSHIP WITHOUT THE CITY. THAT'S CORRECT. WE'VE BEEN LEFTED FOR WIRES. RIGHT. FOR NOT TWO LONG. SO WE CAN BRING THIS RELATIONSHIP BACK. YEAH. SO WE CAN INVEST IN THIS PERSONNEL OR THIS DIVISION SO WE CAN PROVIDE A BETTER SERVICE, NOT ONLY THE IN-HOUSE PLUS ALL THE CITY. AM I RIGHT? YES, THAT'S CORRECT. YEAH. SO AND SO, SO RIGHT NOW, I DON'T KNOW, WHAT DO WE HAVE, WE HAVE ANALYZED BASED ON THIS REQUEST, MAYBE INCREASE MORE STAFFING. DO WE HAVE LEFT BUDGET TO HELP THEM TO BASICALLY LACK AND CREATE THE MONEY BACK TO US BASED ON WHAT YOU SAY LAST YEAR, RIGHT? ARE YOU, I'M TALKING ABOUT TO CREATE, UH, THIS THREE POSITION, THEN WE CAN UTILIZE CONTRACT WITHOUT THE CITY TO PROVIDE, BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, WE SET, WE SET UP THE LAB. SO MEANING WE CAN, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE START WITH OUR, UM, FORENSICS SUPERVISOR NOW GET THE CONTRACTS BACK IN ORDER WITH OTHER CITIES. SO WE HAVE INCOME GET, WE GET THEM TO START PROVIDING, ONCE AGAIN ANY FINGERPRINTS THEY'RE TAKING FROM THEIR CRIME SCENE. START ANALYZING THOSE AND BILL RESPECTIVELY TO THOSE AGENCIES. ONCE WE GET THAT PROCESS REINITIATED, UH, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE CAN THEN AT THE, AT THE, YOU KNOW, AT THE, UH, CITY MANAGER APPROVAL, BRING SOMETHING BACK TO THE COUNCIL TO LOOK AT A SECOND POSITION. RIGHT NOW I DO HAVE SOMEBODY THAT WE PAY BY THE HOUR TO DO THE SECONDARY, UH, IDENTIFICATION OF THE FINGERPRINTS, WHICH IS PRUDENT THING TO DO AT THIS POINT AS WE REBUILD. SO, SO, SO BASICALLY WHEN YOU SAY BUILD A LAB, SO WHAT KIND OF LAB IS LED IS, UH, FORENSIC LAB TO ANALYZE BLOOD OR, OR ANALYZE DNA OR ALL KINDS OFS. OKAY. SO WE DO NOT HAVE A DNA LAB, BUT WE, WE, UH, THOSE FORENSIC SPECIALISTS ARE TRAINED IN THE COLLECTION AND PRESERVATION OF DNA TO BE ABLE TO PRO PROCESS THOSE TO THE POINT WHERE THEY CAN BE PRESENTED TO A DNA LAB. SO BASICALLY WE COLLECT THE DNA WE STILL HAVE TO SEND OUT TO GET A OKAY. DNA COMPONENT SO WE CAN GO TO THE NATIONAL DATABASE TO FIND THE POTENTIAL. THAT'S A WHOLE NOTHER TALK THAT WOULD BE HERE FOR A LONG TIME. OH, NO, NO, NO, NO. BUT I JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND, OKAY. BASED ON LAST YEAR WE APPROVE, WE JUST NEED TO, WE TALK ABOUT UPDATE, RIGHT. WE JUST NEED A UPDATE. OKAY. BASED ON WHAT WE APPROVE AND HOPEFULLY WE BUILD THIS, WHAT WE APPROVE TO GET WHAT YOU WANT AND WHAT COUNCIL ONE IS TO BALANCE THE BUDGET WITH. OKAY. AND WE CAN CONTRACT WITH CITY AND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AS A GOOD INVESTMENT SO WE CAN HAVE ALL THE CITY'S SERVICE. OKAY. USING OUR SERVICE SPECIFICALLY LATENT FINGERPRINT ANALYSIS FOR THE, THAT THAT'S THE MAJOR, MAJOR RESOURCE, UH, REVENUE TO US. THAT WOULD BE OUR EXPERTISE HERE AT WEST COVENA POLICE DEPARTMENT WOULD BE THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE FINGERPRINT ANALYSIS FOR OTHER AGENCIES. OH, OKAY. SO THAT IS SOMETHING WE ALREADY PROVIDING RIGHT NOW. THAT IS, THAT IS SOMETHING HISTORICALLY THAT WEST COVINA HAS DONE SINCE, UH, LATE 1980S OR MID 1980S. BUT, UH, ON THE DECLINE WHEN WE STARTED LOSING OUR PERSONNEL, PARTICULARLY WHEN WE LOST OUR LAST PERSON THAT LEFT TO ANOTHER AGENCY. WE LOST A LOT OF THAT, UH, BUSINESS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO RECUPERATE. NOW THAT WE HIRED, ARE WE BUILDING BACK THIS, THIS DEPARTMENT NOW? YES. ARE WE BUILDING BACK THIS RELATIONSHIP BASED ON LAST YEAR, THE APPROVAL AND THIS WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO, BUT CURRENTLY WE HAVEN'T BUILT IT UP DUE TO THE, SOME OTHER ISSUE, BUT IT'S COMING. SO HOW SOON WE CAN GET THIS UP AND RUNNING 10 FULL SERVICE BACK, BACK IN 1990 THAT [03:05:02] WE ARE VERY, I'M HOPING TO REPORT BACK IN THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS THAT WE, WE'VE REESTABLISHED GREAT THE SHIPS WITH THESE AGENCIES. UH, OUR, OUR SUPERVISOR, RIGHT AS WE SPEAK THIS WEEK, WAS ANALYZING THE CONTRACTS AND RECONTACTING COMMAND STAFFS FROM ALL THOSE AGENCIES. SO, SO TWO MONTHS YOU CAN HAVE A CHANCE TO BRING BACK TO US, LET THIS DEPARTMENT, YOU, THIS DIVISION IS UP AND RUNNING AND, UH, FINGERPRINT TO US PROVIDE A SERVICE FOR OTHER AGENCY. I WILL TELL YOU THAT, THAT IT IS UP AND RUNNING. WE'RE ANALYZING, UH, FINGERPRINTS. ANY THAT WERE GIVEN IN THE PERIOD OF TIME WE'RE ADAM, WHEN THE LAST EMPLOYEE LEFT BETWEEN WHEN OUR CURRENT EMPLOYEE ARRIVED. HE'S GOING THROUGH ALL THOSE FINGERPRINTS THAT HAD NOT BEEN ANALYZED. SO HE'S DOING THAT NOW. AND HE, THAT ALSO INCLUDES ANY, ANY LATENT FINGERPRINT, UH, THAT ARE COMING IN FROM OUR OWN POLICE OFFICER. SO HE IS ACTIVELY LOOK ANALYZING FINGERPRINTS AS WE SPEAK. GOOD. SO, SO, SO CURRENTLY WE CAPABLE, BUT HOPEFULLY BY TWO MONTHS WE CAN HAVE A MUCH MORE FULFILLED OKAY. AND DEPARTMENT THAT WE CAN PROVIDE A SERVICE. WE, WE WOULD, WE WOULD NEED A, WE WOULD NEED AT LEAST ANOTHER, ANOTHER PERSON IN THAT UNIT BECAUSE LIKE TRAVIS SAID, THE ONLY WAY WE CAN VERIFY PRINTS NOW IS WE HAVE TO PAY SOMEBODY THIRD PARTY. SO WE'RE BASICALLY PAYING SOMEBODY TO VERIFY THE PRINTS, BUT WE NEED SOMEBODY IN-HOUSE THAT CAN DO THAT. BRING THE PROPOSAL TO THE CITY MANAGER AND CHIEF BODY AND SEE HOW IT GOES, AND THE, THE INVESTMENT WILL COME BACK BASED ON THE SERVICE. MY LAST QUESTION I WANT TO GIVE MY OTHER COUNCIL HAVE A CHANCE. IT'S ABOUT LIKE, UH, OUR COUNCILWOMAN LETTI TALKING ABOUT THE, UH, POLICE, THE, THE, THE MEDIA. HOW WE USE THE MEDIA BECAUSE YOU SEE, UH, THE, THE LADY, UH, WITH THAT VERY, OKAY. TREMENDOUS TRAGEDY OKAY. TO THE FAMILY. SO, BUT BASED ON LIKE, THE FEELING IS SHE FEEL LIKE OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT DOESN'T CARE. IT'S NOT TRUE BECAUSE I'VE BEEN TALKING TO YOU GUY ALL THE TIME. SO HOW, HOW CAN WE, LIKE YOU SAY YOU HAVE, UH, ONE, UH, UH, STAFF TO TRY TO DO THE VICTIM OKAY. RIGHT. AND TRY TO TALK TO THE VICTIM ALL THE TIME. BUT DO WE HAVE, UH, SOMEBODY TO HELPING NOT THEY UNDERSTAND THE CITY IS REALLY TRYING, WE EVEN PROVIDE $50,000 REWARD AND THAT THEY, THEY FEEL LIKE THE TWO YEARS ALREADY, WE HAVEN'T GIVEN THEM ANYTHING. WE, WE, UH, WE'RE IN CONSTANT CONTACT WITH THE FAMILY. WE'RE, OUR DETECTIVES ARE, ARE ASSIGNED TO REACH OUT TO THE GABBY'S HUSBAND, UM, CONSTANTLY. UM, THERE, THERE'S SOME, UH, DIFFERENCE OF OPINION AS FAR AS HOW THINGS GO WITHIN THE FAMILY. UM, SO WE'RE WORKING ON THAT. UM, I'VE, I'VE TALKED TO MS. RIO SEVERAL TIMES. SHE'S A, A GRIEVING MOM AND WE'RE HEARTBROKEN OVER IT. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT MOVING FORWARD WITH HER, WITH THE, IF THE SHE WANTS TO GET OUT IN FRONT OF THE MEDIA AND DO A PRESS RELEASE, UM, FOR THE REWARD, WE'RE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ASSIST HER. AND THERE'S JUST BEEN SOME CONFLICT ON SOME PEOPLE NOT WANTING TO DO IT AND HER WANTING TO PUSH IT WITHIN THEIR OWN UNIT. AND WE'RE JUST HOPING THAT GETS WORKED OUT. UM, BASED ON, THEY'VE BEEN TEXTING ME ALL THE TIME. OKAY. AND I'VE BEEN TRYING TO HELP THEM. I EVEN SEND THE TEXT TO CITY MANAGER TO, TO, UH, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, SEE HOW CAN WE HELP THEM BECAUSE WE LET THEM UNDERSTAND CITY NOT ABANDONING THEM AT ALL. LET OUR POLICE DEPARTMENTS TO CONTINUE. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THE JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED TO THE FAMILY AND PLOT, BRING JUSTICE TO GABBY. OKAY. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO, IT'S TREMENDOUS LAWS WITH THE LOVED ONE WE ALL UNDERSTAND. SO WE NEED TO KIND OF, UH, I KNOW YOU'RE TRYING TO DO YOUR BEST, SO HOW CAN WE TO HAVE A BETTER COMMUNICATION? SO, OKAY. THEY DON'T FEEL LIKE WE ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING FOR THEM. THAT'S THE FEELING I FEEL THEY ALWAYS TEXT ME FOR. OKAY. UH, REQUEST. AND I TRY TO FORWARD TO CITY MANAGERS, SEE WHAT WE CAN DO FOR THEM. THIS IS ONE ISSUE. OKAY. BUT ANOTHER, UH, MEDIA ISSUE IS JUST, I JUST HAVE A SUGGESTION. FOR EXAMPLE, UH, HIGH PROFILE. THIS IS A HIGH PROFILE ONE. THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER HIGH PROFILE WITH DOUBLE HOMICIDE. OKAY? AND, UH, EVERYBODY ON THE STREET ALREADY KNOW THEY HAVE A THIRD PARTY CAMERA RUNNING AROUND. WE ARE THE ONLY PERSON DON'T KNOW. BUT IF, WHEN, WHEN THE, WHEN THIS DOUBLE HOMICIDE HAPPEN IS LED IS A GOOD FOR YOU DEPARTMENT COME OUT TO SAY, OKAY, WE HAVE A THIRD. A PERSON INTEREST IS NOT RELEASE ANY INFORMATION, BUT THIS IS NO ELEMENT DANGER TO THE COMMUNITY. SO AT, UNLESS PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. SO IN THAT WAY, OUR COMMUNITY IS NOT ENDANGERED, IS DRIVE BY SHOOTING. AGAIN, WAR OR SOMETHING PEOPLE SCARE. SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT, WHAT IS THE PORTER PROTOCOL FOR SOME ISSUE? LIKE THIS THING HAPPENED. YEAH. WE, WE ENDED UP DOING A PRESS RELEASE ON THAT. BUT AS FAR AS THE INITIAL INFORMATION, A LOT OF THE INFORMATION THAT WAS SWIRLING AROUND AND, AND MAYBE THE FACTS FROM WHAT WAS WORD ON THE STREET WAS NOT THE FACTS. SO THERE WAS SOME BAD INFORMATION THAT WENT OUT EARLY ON IN THAT CASE ABOUT [03:10:01] WHO WAS IN CUSTODY, WHO WASN'T, HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED. AND, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF THOSE, THOSE DETAILS DIDN'T REALLY ENDANGER THE PUBLIC. UM, BUT THEY WERE PERTINENT TO OUR CASE. AND THAT LONGEVITY, THAT PROSECUTION GOAL THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, WE, WE CAN'T COME OUT AND AND REFUTE SOME OF THAT STUFF THAT'S SWIRLING AROUND. SO WE CAN ONLY, WE CAN PRESENT INFORMATION THAT WE CAN PRESENT, BUT WE CAN ONLY PRESENT ACCURATE INFORMATION AND UNDERSTAND. OKAY. LAST QUESTION. OKAY. I'M DONE. OKAY. HAVE WE ARREST THE GUY YET? HE'S NOT BEEN FOUND YET. HAVEN'T BEEN FOUND IT YET. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. APPRECIATE YOUR ANSWER. OH, THANKS LOPEZ. THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. UM, SO MY QUESTION IS, I KNOW LIKE WITH THE GRIEVING MOTHER, I THINK THE PURPOSE OF THAT IS JUST TO BE HEARD. SO IF THE, AND THIS NOT JUST APPLIES TO HER, BUT FOR ANYTHING ELSE, SO IF MEDIA'S OUT THERE COVERING THE NEWS STORY, UM, IT'D BE NICE FOR PD, EVEN IF IT'S A QUICK BLURB. I'M NOT ASKING TO SHARE, YOU KNOW, DETAIL INFORMATION SIMPLE AS PD IS COVERING IT, WE'RE WORKING ON IT. UM, IN THIS CASE, YOU KNOW, WITH THE PRESS CONFERENCE, ANY INFORMATION, PLEASE, UH, GIVE THAT, YOU KNOW, SHARE. BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO. BUT I'LL, WE'RE ASKING, UM, AND I DON'T KNOW IF I'M SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE COUNCIL, BUT TO PUT SOMETHING OUT THERE AND JUST STATE SOMETHING AND YOU KNOW, I KNOW AND I'VE MADE IT KNOWN THAT I, I HATE IT WHEN, UM, WHEN THE NEWS MEDIA COMES OUT AND THEN THEY SAY, UH, PD SAYS, NO COMMENT, BUT WE FIXED THAT. SO THANK YOU. I KNOW YOU'VE NOW AT LEAST PUT A STATEMENT OUT. UM, SOMETHING IT IT, LIKE I MENTIONED, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO HAVE THE DETAILS OR ANYTHING, BUT JUST TO PUT SOMETHING OUT, UM, MOVING FORWARD, WE, WE, WE ARE 100% IN SUPPORT OF THE FAMILY DOING A PRESS CONFERENCE. AND WE WILL BE THERE TO SUPPORT THEM. UM, AS FAR AS INFORMATION ON THE CASE, WE, WE HAVE NO UPDATE AND WE WON'T BE PROVIDING ANY INFORMATION. SO WHEN YOU GO ON, YOU GO ON A, A NEWS CONFERENCE AND YOU SAY, I HAVE NO INFORMATION. IT'S JUST LIKE SAYING NO COMMENT. PEOPLE DON'T LIKE THAT. SO WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO IS, IS SHOW OUR SUPPORT FOR THE FAMILY AND WE'LL REITERATE THE FACT THAT THE CITY HAS OFFERED THE REWARD IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COUNTY AND THE, THE MONIES THAT THE FAMILY'S RAISED. UM, AND, AND WE WILL BE THERE TO SUPPORT THAT. AND WE HAVE MADE THAT OFFER TO THE FAMILY. BUT LIKE I SAID, THERE'S BEEN SOME, I DON'T WANT TO DO IT. WE WANT TO DO IT, I WANT TO DO IT. WE DON'T WANT TO DO IT BACK AND FORTH. SO WE'VE BEEN WAITING OUTTA RESPECT FOR THE FAMILY WHEN THE TIMING IS RIGHT FOR THEM. AND I THINK, UH, MS. RIOS IS GONNA COME TALK TO THE CITY MANAGER TOMORROW. AND I, LIKE I TOLD HER, UH, WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT HER. UM, YOU KNOW, WE MENTIONED A GRIEVING MOTHER BECAUSE SHE'S A GRIEVING MOTHER AND SHE HAS EMOTIONS THAT GO UP AND DOWN AND, YOU KNOW, SHE HAS HER FEELINGS AND WE RESPECT THAT. AND WHAT I TOLD HER IS, IS WE WANT TO SOLVE THIS CASE. OUR DETECTIVES WANNA SOLVE THIS CASE. IT EATS AT US WHEN WE DON'T. UM, SO WE ARE WORKING AS HARD AS WE CAN TO GET, BRING JUSTICE TO THAT FAMILY, BUT WE HAVE TO DO IT IN THE RIGHT WAY. AND IN, IN CONVERSATIONS WITH HER, SHE UNDERSTANDS THAT. BUT A A GRIEVING MOTHER HAS A LOT OF EMOTION TO DEAL WITH, AND I, I TOTALLY RESPECT IT AND I UNDERSTAND WHERE SHE'S COMING FROM AND SHE'S ALLOWED TO VENT AND SHE'S PICKED THIS, THIS FORUM TO VENT AND WE'RE GONNA ALLOW HER THAT. BUT WE ARE THERE TO SUPPORT HER AND HER FAMILY. A HUNDRED PERCENT. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN CANTOS. UM, ACTING CHIEF, PLUNKETT AND LIEUTENANT, UH, REAL QUICK, UH, TO TO TO WHAT EX EXTENT, UH, DOES, DOES, UH, IF WE WERE TO HAVE, UH, INCREASED STAFFING AND WE WERE TO ADD ONE MORE PERSON, WOULD THAT, WOULD THAT SATISFY THE, THE NEEDS THAT WE HAVE TO SUPPORT OUR RESIDENTS WITH REGARD TO THE LEVEL OF FINGERPRINT ANALYSIS THAT IS PRESENTLY NEEDED? UM, I THINK ULTIMATELY, SIR, UM, WE WOULD LIKE TO FILL THAT UNIT TO CAPACITY WITH THREE, BUT TWO WOULD BE A GREAT START. IF WE COULD ADD ONE MORE, I THINK WE'D BE WELL ON OUR WAY. THAT, THAT WAS MY NEXT QUESTION. SO IF WE WERE TO ADD A THIRD, THEN WOULD, WOULD THE REVENUE THAT WOULD BE GENERATED FROM CONTRACTS FROM OTHER CITIES BE BE ENOUGH, UH, THAT WOULD, WOULD ULTIMATELY PAY FOR THAT THIRD POSITION? UH, NO SIR. THE, THE, THE, THE ONE FIGURE I GAVE FROM A COUPLE YEARS AGO IS, WAS ABOUT $27,000 THAT WE GENERATED AND WE'RE ESTIMATING WHEN WE DID THE, WHEN WE DID THE FORENSIC SERIES, WE ESTIMATED IF WE HAD A FULLY FUNCTIONAL UNIT, MEANING ADDED THE THREE BODIES, UM, WHICH REALLY TWO AT A TIME, RIGHT? THAT THIRD IS FOR RELIEF AND TO DO OTHER THINGS. SURE. YOU, YOU HAVE THE TWO SO YOU CAN GET THE PRINT AND THEN THE ANALYSIS TOGETHER TO GET IT COURT CERTIFIED. MM-HMM. . UM, WE, WE ESTIMATE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN REALISTICALLY 15 AND MAYBE ON THE HIGH SIDE, $35,000 A YEAR. UM, WHAT, WHAT TRAVIS AND, AND, AND THE FORENSICS SUPERVISOR BEEN TALKING ABOUT IS, ARE THERE OTHER SERVICES WE CAN PROVIDE? BUT AT THE SAME TIME, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE, WE HAVE THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR OUR RESIDENTS FIRST. SO IT WOULD MEAN IT WOULD BE SOME SUPPLEMENTAL INCOME, BUT [03:15:01] IT WOULD, WE WOULD NEVER SAY THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO PAY FOR A POSITION. OKAY. THANK YOU SIR. COUNCILMAN WILL. YEAH, BECAUSE IF WE CANNOT, UH, USE, UTILIZE THE REVENUE TO COMPENSATE WITH OUR EXPENDITURE, THEN WHAT'S THE POINT? IF WE HIRE SO MANY PEOPLE RIGHT NOW, WE'RE JUST OUTSOURCING OUT, UH, MAYBE THEY WILL BE CHEAPER. YEAH, NO, I, THE, THE, I I'LL JUST SAY THE PERSON WE OUTSOURCE TO RIGHT NOW IS GETTING READY TO 100% RETIRED BECAUSE HE IS BEEN RETIRED TWICE AND HE'S, HE'S REALLY NOT INTO IT. SO ONCE WE LOSE THAT RESOURCE, WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE THE, THE VERIFICATION AVAILABLE. WE NEED THAT IN-HOUSE. AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES OUR SYSTEM UNIQUE, IS THEY CAN GET NOT ONLY THE PRINT, THE ID, AND THEN THE VERIFICATION FOR COURT ALL AT THE SAME PLACE. UM, AND, AND PROVIDING BODIES. UH, ONE PERSON CAN'T PROCESS ALL OF OUR CRIME SCENES AND DO ALL OF OUR EVIDENCE BY THEMSELVES. THEY HAVE TO HAVE HELP. SO UNDERSTAND, WE, WE, IT'S NOT ABOUT, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT SOLELY ABOUT A REVENUE GENERATION. IT'S ABOUT A SERVICE WE'RE PROVIDING. AND AS A BONUS, WE MAY TAKE IN SOME MONEY AND HELP THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY. I UNDERSTAND. BUT, BUT I THINK, UH, UH, WE NEED TO LOOK INTO OUR BUDGETS TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS, UH, OKAY, THAT WE CAN AFFORD THIS ADDITIONAL. BECAUSE BASED ON LAST YEAR, UH, WITH, UH, TRAVIS, OKAY. AND, UH, PRESENTATION IS IF WE DOING THIS FORENSIC, WE CAN OKAY. HAVE ALL THE SERVICE COMPENSATE BACK TO, UH, OUR OKAY. STAFF SALARY, THIS AND THAT. BUT IF WE ONLY GET $35,000, I THINK THIS IS FAR AWAY FROM THE STAFF WE HIRE PLUS, UH, THE PENSION PLUS, UH, OKAY. ALL THIS MEDICAL. SO, SO I THINK OUR, UH, FINANCE DIRECTOR HAVE TO LOOK INTO, CAN WE AFFORD IT? OKAY. I, I KNOW WE CAN HAVE A BETTER SERVICE, BUT DURING THIS TIME, OKAY, IS THAT FEASIBLE INTO OUR BUDGET? BECAUSE MY UNDERSTANDING LAST YEAR, JANUARY, BASED ON THE PRESENTATION, IS WE CAN USE, UTILIZE THIS AND THEN WE CAN COMPENSATE WITH THE PERSON WE HIRE. BUT NOW IT SOUND LIKE WE ONLY GET THE MOST $35,000. YEAH. THE, LIKE, THE MIX, THE NUMBER THAT WAS IN THAT ACTUAL REQUISITION FORM, WHEN WE REQUESTED THOSE, THOSE SERVICES WERE, WAS 15 TO $35,000. SO IT WAS, IT WAS NEVER ESTIMATED ANY HIGHER THAN THAT. IT WOULD, IT WOULD UNDERSTAND OFFSET. SO, SO, SO WE MAYBE HAVE A LOOK IN OKAY. FOR OUR BUDGET. OKAY. AND, UH, BECAUSE SOME, SOME LOOK LIKE THEY WANT TO HIRE MORE PEOPLE, BUT, UM, DO WE NEED THIS OR, OR SHOULD WE HAVE A MORE PATROL OR SHOULD WE HAVE MORE TRAFFIC, UH, ENFORCEMENT BECAUSE WHERE WE SPEND OUR MONEY, SHOULD WE SPEND THE MONEY INTO THE FORENSIC FINGERPRINT? OKAY. OR WE SPEND THE MONEY INTO THE TRAFFIC OR SPEND THE MONEY INTO, OKAY. THE PATROL. SO WHERE WE IDENTIFY, LOCATE ONLY THE MONEY WE HAVE. OKAY. IT'S NOT LIKE WE HAVE UNLIMITED MONEY TO SPEND ALL THE PLACES. IF YOU'RE ASKING MY OPINION, I SAY, YES, I UNDERSTAND. I'M ASKING CITY MANAGER, YOU, YOU WANT EVERYTHING. I KNOW YOU WANT AS MANY AS AS MUCH, MUCH MONEY WE CAN SPEND, BUT WE NEED TO CONTROL. THAT'S NOT TRUE. WE, WE WANT, WE WANNA CONTROL OUR BUDGET TO MAKE, IT'S NOT ABOUT, IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY AS WELL. CAN I FINISH PLEASE, RESOURCES? SURE. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE WISELY USING THE ONLY BUDGET WE HAVE AND TO F PUT THE RIGHT PLACES. OKAY. IT'S NOT LIKE, I THINK THE SERVICE IS GREAT. YES, SIR. BUT, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT TRAFFIC THAT WE HAVE NO TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT. I, I UNDERSTAND THAT. WE ONLY HAVE ONE, UH, ONE MOTORCYCLE TRAFFIC OFFICER, ONLY ONE IN THIS BIG CITY. SO, SO AS YOU ARE THE ACTING CHIEF OKAY. AND OUR CAPTAIN, HOW WE RELO TO MAKE SURE, BECAUSE I KNOW WE JUST HAVE PEOPLE KILLED ON THE TRAFFIC ACCIDENT AT THE, AT THE MORGANFIELD AND VALLEY. SO WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE KILLED ON THE TRAFFIC ACCIDENT. SO, SO WHERE WE PUT OUR MONEY, SHOULD WE PUT THE MONEY INTO THE FORENSIC, PUT THE FINGERPRINT, OR SHOULD WE PUT THIS INTO THE ENFORCEMENT TO SLOW DOWN THE TRAFFIC? SO, SO ANYWAY, THIS JUDGMENT CALL, OKAY. BUT AGAIN, THIS WILL BE THE CHIEF AND YOU GUYS TO DECIDE. AND WE JUST WANT A SAFE CITY AND WE WANT TO IDENTIFY THE MONEY. HOW WILL WE SPEND THE MONEY TO INTUIT? BUT IF WE HAVE A LOT OF MONEY, OF COURSE WE JUST HIRE MORE PEOPLE, BUT WE JUST HAVE TO CAREFULLY UTILIZE OUR ONLY RESOURCE WE HAVE. WE JUST DON'T WANT OVERSPENT. AND THEN LATER ON WE, WE, WE HAVE A PROBLEM. YES, SIR. THANK YOU, SIR. YEP. UM, I HAVE A QUESTION, . SO HOW MANY EMPLOYEES DO WE HAVE WORKING IN THIS FORENSIC DIVISION? HOW MANY EMPLOYEES? CURRENTLY? RIGHT? ONE. JUST ONE? YES. SO IS THAT THE ONE THAT WE APPROVED ON JANUARY THE, UM, 2022? YEAH. THE RECORD SUPERVISOR. SO HE'S THE SUPERVISOR AND HE'S THE ONE THAT WANTS TO LEAVE? NO. OH, OKAY. NO, OUR, OUR OUR DETECTIVE THAT WE HAD PREVIOUS, HE, HE, HE'S THE ONE THAT LEFT, HE LEFT AND WENT FOR ANOTHER AGENCY. YES. OH, I SEE. OKAY. SO ADAM WAS HIS REPLACEMENT. WE WENT TO, WITH, WITH A SUPERVISOR. SO [03:20:01] WE, WE HIRED ADAM AND THEN WE HAVE TWO VACANT POSITIONS THAT WE CREATED. OKAY. SO ADAM IS YOUR SUPERVISOR THAT WAS APPROVED? YES. OKAY. SO NOW DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH WORK JUST WITH OUR CITY TO, UM, TO KEEP HIM BUSY? YES. AND SO IF YOU HAVE THE OTHER TWO, WILL THERE STILL BE ENOUGH WORK FOR THE OTHER TWO THAT WE HIRE? YES. OKAY. SO ACTUALLY THESE CONTRACTS FROM THESE OTHER CITIES WOULD JUST BE ANOTHER EXTRA MONEY, LIKE YOU SAID, IT WAS ONLY GONNA BE ABOUT 15,000 THAT YOU ESTIMATED IN YOUR LAST, UM, WHEN THEY REQUESTED THIS FORENSIC. OKAY. UM, OKAY, NOW I'M GONNA GO BACK. I KNOW, UM, COUNCILMAN WOO TOUCHED ON IT A LITTLE, BUT I NOTICED THAT, UM, THE PATROL OFFICER ISSUE, WHICH HE HAD BROUGHT UP, I DON'T SEE ANYTHING HERE REGARDING TRAFFIC OFFICERS. IS THERE A REASON FOR THAT OR WOULD TRAFFIC OFFICERS BE HERE? WOULD THEY EVEN BE HERE? TRA TRAFFIC WOULD FALL UNDER THE PATROL DIVISION. SO THIS WAS JUST A OVERVIEW OF OUR DETECTIVE BUREAU, SO THEY WEREN'T INCLUDED. THIS IS JUST DETECTIVE PERSONNEL JUST DETER. OKAY. RIGHT. OKAY. SO I GUESS THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER MEETING, . YEAH. IT'S BECAUSE WE NEED TO ADDRESS THAT. THAT'S, WELL, WE HAVE LEGAL PROBLEM. YEAH. WE, UM, THAT'S THE BIGGEST COMPLAINT THAT I'VE SEEN, UM, IN THE PAST TWO YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN HERE, IS THAT, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, THERE'S A LOT OF SPEEDING. THERE'S A, AND IT SEEMS LIKE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY NEED TO FOCUS ON. UM, SO I'M HOPING THAT WE CAN GET SOME MORE TRAFFIC OFFICERS OUT THERE, UM, IN THE FUTURE. I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. AND, UM, I JUST THOUGHT I'D BRING IT UP. . IT'S NOT HERE. MA. MADAM MAYOR, I HAVE ONE LAST, UH, QUESTION. GO AHEAD. UM, COUNCILMAN, UH, OFF OFFLINE, UH, ACTING CHIEF PLUCKING, WE, WE TALKED ABOUT CITIZENS ACADEMY AND WE, I KNOW WE HAVEN'T, WE WERE GOING TO TOUCH BASE ABOUT THAT. CAN, CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE EXTENT TO WHICH THAT EFFORT AND THAT APPARATUS AND ARE BRINGING TOGETHER RESIDENTS CAN HELP, UH, TO EASE THE BURDEN THAT THAT SWORN OFFICERS ALREADY HAVE, WHETHER IT'S THE DETECTIVE BUREAU OR OTHER, OTHER THINGS. AND, AND IF YOU COULD JUST SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT SO THAT RESIDENTS CAN LEARN, UH, WHERE THEY MAY GET INVOLVED AND HOW THEY MAY APPLY. OKAY. YOU, YOU'RE TALKING AS IT FEEDS INTO THE VOLUNTEER PROGRAM. RIGHT? RIGHT. OKAY. UM, IF I, IF I CAN JUST GO BACK REAL QUICK, UM, JUST, JUST, I KNOW THIS ISN'T THE PRESENTATION ON TRAFFIC OR PATROL. MM-HMM. AND THAT, THAT WOULD BE FOR ANOTHER TIME, BUT I, I DO HAVE SOME STATISTICS, JUST TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW. UM, IN 2020, WE HAD 10 FATAL ACCIDENTS. IN 2021 WE HAD FIVE. AND IN 2022 WE HAD THREE. SO THERE'S BEEN A, UH, A BIG, BIG REDUCTION IN, IN FATAL ACCIDENTS IN OUR CITY. ANY, ANY FATAL ACCIDENTS IS TERRIBLE. RIGHT. UM, BUT JUST SO YOU GUYS KNOW THAT THE, THE, THE AMOUNT OF FATALS IS GOING DOWN AND IT HAS BEEN CONSIST CONSISTENTLY FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS. SO TO YOUR QUESTION, SIR, UM, SO WE, WE ARE ENGAGING IN, UH, BRINGING BACK TO CITIZENS ACADEMY, UH, WHICH WILL BEGIN IN MARCH. AND, UH, IT'S JUST AN OPPORTUNITY FOR, TO HIGHLIGHT OUR, OUR DEPARTMENT, WHAT WE DO, SHOW THE, SHOW THE RESIDENTS WHO ARE, ARE WILLING TO COME AND LISTEN. UM, ALL THE ASPECTS OF THE DEPARTMENT. CUZ THERE'S, THERE'S MANY, MANY THINGS THAT THE DEPARTMENT DOES. UM, IT GETS, GIVES THEM A SENSE OF, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, PARTNERSHIP. THEY COME IN AND, YOU KNOW, THEY SEE EVERYTHING WE DO. WE KIND OF OPEN THE HOOD FOR THEM AND, AND THEY COME AND LEARN ALL ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT. NOW, WE DO ENCOURAGE THOSE WHO ATTEND TO THEN LOOK INTO OUR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S RIGHT FOR THEM. UM, MANY PEOPLE WHO COME ARE JUST INTERESTED AND THEY'RE NOT REALLY INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING. UM, BUT WE DO HAVE A VOLUNTEER PROGRAM AND THIS IS HOW SOME GET THEIR START. AND WE UTILIZE OUR, OUR VOLUNTEERS IN, IN MANY DIFFERENT CAPACITIES. UM, THEY COME IN ON THE CRIME SCENES. UM, OUR VOLUNTEERS ARE SO GREAT, YOU KNOW, WE USED TO CALL 'EM SHOP, THEY USED TO BE SENIORS. IT USED TO BE A SENIOR PROGRAM, BUT WE'VE OPENED IT UP TO EVERYBODY WHO'S OVER 18. UM, BUT THEY'LL COME OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT ON A CRIME SCENE AND THEY'LL JUST SIT IN THEIR CAR AND BLOCK THE STREET FOR US SO WE CAN GET TO OTHER, OTHER DUTIES. YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY RUN ERRANDS FOR US. THEY TAKE PACKETS TO THE COURT. I'M SURE THEY GO TO TOM'S OFFICE TO DROP OFF PAPERWORK. UM, THEY, THEY JUST DO A LOT OF THINGS THAT THE, THE OFFICERS CAN'T DO. UM, AND THEY'RE A TREMENDOUS HELP AND A TREMENDOUS SUPPORT. SO IF ANYBODY'S INTERESTED AS A PLUG AND YOU WANT TO COME TO THE CITIZENS ACADEMY, WE WE'RE GONNA BE FLYING IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA HERE IN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO. AND, UH, WE'D LOVE TO SEE YOU. AND IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN OUR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM, WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU AND TALK TO YOU AND SEE IF IT'S FOR YOU. COUNCIL MAU, I WANT TO QUICKLY FOLLOW THROUGH. UH, I KNOW IT'S NOT TRAFFIC, SIR, IT'S NOT PATROL. OKAY. BUT SINCE YOU MENTIONED YES, SIR. GOING DOWN 5 0 3, BUT WE KIND OF MAYBE [03:25:01] LUCKY OKAY. FOR LAST YEAR. OKAY. AND, BUT THIS YEAR WE ONLY HAVE ONE ON THE MORGANFIELD VALLEY OR CLUB, UH, CLUBHOUSE, UH, AVENUE. SO, SO WE GOT ONE ALREADY. SO, SO WHAT I'M SAYING IS THIS, BUT I DON'T SEE, UH, TOO MANY OF, UH, UH, TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT. SO LET'S WHY THE CONCERN PLUS THE RESIDENT REACT TO US. OKAY. SAY WHERE IS OUR TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT? SO HOPEFULLY AND THE BIG WEEK GOING TO OUR CITY LIKE QUAI OKAY. NOT EVEN GETTING ENFORCED ABOUT THIS SHOULDN'T BE THERE. OKAY. AND, UH, THEY SHOULD BE ON THE, OF THE STREET ONLY ALLOWED FOR THE 16TH WHEELER. SO, SO AGAIN, A LOT OF THIS TRAFFIC ISSUE JUST WANNA BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION. ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN CONTINUE TO IMPROVE. AND I UNDERSTAND LOOK LIKE NUMBER GOING DOWN, BUT WHEN NUMBER WILL GO UP, AGAIN, I KNOW BACK IN 20 2018, WE HAVE 18 PERSON KILL IN THAT YEAR. OKAY. AND, UH, THAT IS THE, THE, THE, THE MOST I EVER SEEN. THIS IS JUST A LOT. SO, SO MAYBE LUCKY LATE YEAR. OKAY. NOW WE A LITTLE BIT LUCKY. THAT'S AGAIN, THE POINT IS WE DIDN'T SEE THE ENFORCEMENT. SO HOPEFULLY, UH, WE CAN CONTINUE TO KEEP THIS AS LOW AS WE CAN BECAUSE ANY FATALITY IS A TRAGEDY TO THEIR FAMILY. ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I AGREE WITH YOU. YES, SIR. COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ VIRO, UH, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR COMING TO PRESENT. UM, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESS CONFERENCE THAT YOU DID AND YOU SPOKE, UH, THE SHOP. I REMEMBER CHANGING THAT WHEN I CAME TO COUNCIL CAUSE IT WAS ONLY SENIORS AND I SAID OPEN IT UP TO 18 AND OVER, AND WE TOOK CARE OF THAT. UM, YOU KNOW, IN REGARDS TO THE DETECTIVE UNIT, UM, FOR ME IT IS IMPORTANT TO CATCH THE SUSPECT AT THE QUICKEST METHOD AND HAVE JUSTICE BE SERVED QUICKLY. BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES THE RESIDENTS, YOU KNOW, WHEN THINGS HAPPEN TO THE RESIDENTS, THEY THINK, WELL, PD JUST WRITES A REPORT. NOTHING IS DONE ABOUT IT. BUT WHEN THE TURNAROUND IS QUICK AND THEY SEE THAT JUSTICE IS SERVED, THEY KNOW THAT WEST COVINA, THE PD MEANS BUSINESS AND WE DON'T, YOU KNOW, JUST PLAY AROUND AND, YOU KNOW, SHOWCASING. AND, AND I DO HOPE THAT YOU SHOW THESE THINGS AND, YOU KNOW, YOU LET THE PUBLIC KNOW THAT THIS IS BEING DONE, UM, SO THAT THEY'RE AWARE THAT OKAY, IT, IT GIVES OTHER PEOPLE THINKING, OKAY, LET ME NOT JUST MESS WHAT'S WE COVINA, LET ME GO SOMEWHERE ELSE WHERE YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH SOMETHING. SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU SHOWCASE ALL THESE THINGS. PERFECT. YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU. UNDERSTOOD. ANYONE ELSE? THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. HAVE A GOOD DAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. APPRECIATE. OKAY. OKAY. LET'S SEE. SEE [MAYOR/COUNCILMEMBERS REPORTS] ANY, UH, COUNCIL REPORTS? ANY COUNCIL REQUESTS? REPORTS, MA'AM? REPORTS? OKAY. UM, RE UM, JUST WANTED TO LET FOLKS KNOW THAT I'M GOING TO BE HOLDING A, A, A DISTRICT, UM, UH, TOWN HALL MEETING, UH, THIS SATURDAY AT 10:00 AM AT, UH, UH, RAINBOW DONUTS, BUT IT'LL ALSO BE IN FUTURE LOCATIONS, UH, IN DIFFERENT, UH, SITES, UH, AROUND THE, THE CITY FOR, FOR OPTIMAL SUPPORT. AND I JUST LOOK FORWARD TO BEING THERE TO BE, TO LISTEN TO WHATEVER FOLKS HAVE TO SAY AND TO BEING OF HELP, WHATEVER WAY I CAN. AND THAT'S, THAT'S MY REPORT. THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE? THANK YOU. OKAY. UM, ANY COUNCIL REQUESTS? UM, MAYOR, COUNCILMAN CANTU. UM, I, I WAS WONDERING IF, IF, UH, BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT, IF I COULD REQUEST, UH, THAT STAFF PROVIDE US WITH A, A, A WRITTEN REPORT REGARDING THE SPORTS PLEX, BECAUSE IT'S BEEN CLOSED AND IT'S, AND IT'S BEEN, THERE'S BEEN RAIN AND THERE'S BEEN SOME MAINTENANCE ISSUES. AND, UM, IF THE STAFF COULD PROVIDE A REPORT, UH, THAT WOULD DETAIL THE, NOT ONLY THE MAINTENANCE THAT'S BEEN DONE, BUT ALSO THAT WOULD PROVIDE, UH, UM, RESIDENTS WITH INFORMATION ABOUT WHEN IT'S GOING TO BE REOPENED SO THAT WAY EVERYONE CAN ENJOY, UH, THE, THE PARK. I MEAN THE, UH, SPORTSPLEX. OKAY. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? UH, I, I, I, I WAS A POLE AT, UH, OKAY. OKAY. YOUR REQUEST. I THINK, UH, IT IS ABOUT, UH, OKAY, I KNOW IT BEEN CLOSED DUE TO OKAY. MAINTENANCE AND THIS AND THAT. AND, UH, REALLY WANT TO KNOW, UH, OKAY. THE, HOW THEY FIX IT OR WHY IS THE DETAIL AND, UH, WHEN THEY'RE GOING TO REOPEN. I THINK THIS IS, UH, SOMETHING A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW, AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN SEE THE MONEY SPENT AND HOW THE FUTURE PROGRAM, UH, IMPLEMENTS. SO HOPEFULLY, UH, THOSE NUMBER CAN BALANCE AND, UH, BASED ON THAT, WE CAN HAVE OPENED UP TO ALL THE RESIDENT TO REVIEW IT. UH, I, I WILL SUPPOSED YOU'LL SECOND IT. I SECOND OKAY. [03:30:02] CALL HEARING NO OBJECTION. WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND OH, GO DONE. THANK YOU MADAM MARY. I ONLY HAVE ONE MORE. UH, AND, AND IT, IT'S, IT'S TO REQUEST THAT THE STAFF DO A, A, UH, REPORT THAT WOULD DESCRIBE, UH, IT'S, ITS ONGOING EFFORTS TO BUILD AN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM TO, TO REALLY OPTIMIZE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT FOR OUR ADULTS AND, AND, UH, TO, TO ENABLE, UH, PEOPLE TO WORK FOR THIS CITY. AND, AND ALSO TO LOOK INTO PARTNERING UP WITH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES WHERE, WHERE FUNDING FOR, FOR THOSE INTERNS COULD, COULD COME FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES IN ORDER TO ATTRACT, UH, HIGH QUALITY CANDIDATES. I ACTUALLY, UM, IN SUPPORT OF THAT, BECAUSE I KNOW IT WAS, IT MAYBE TWO YEARS AGO OR WHEN I CAME IN, I, UH, PUSHED FOR THE INTERNS, UM, WHICH THEY DID THAT. BUT IN REFERENCE TO COUNCILMAN K, WHAT HE'S, UM, MENTIONING, I MEAN, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT EXPANDED BECAUSE I DO SEE PROGRAMS THAT I KNOW THAT I PARTNER UP WITH THAT PAYS THEM, BECAUSE I KNOW SOMETIMES OUR INTERNS DON'T GET PAID, WHICH IS KIND OF HARD TO WORK WITH NO PAYMENT. BUT IF YOU CAN PARTNER UP WITH ORGANIZATIONS THAT THEY GO THROUGH THEM AND THEY, UH, INTERN HERE, BUT THEY ALSO GET A PAID BENEFIT. BUT I, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT INTERNSHIP EXPANDED ALONG WITH A PARTNERSHIP SO THAT THEY CAN BE ALSO COMPENSATED. YES. THANK YOU COUNCIL. OKAY. UH, THANK YOU MAYOR. OKAY. I THINK, UH, 2016, UH, WE HAVE, UH, EXPANSION OF, UH, INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IS STILL ON, STILL ON OUR SITE, BUT IN THE, THIS COUPLE YEARS IS KIND OF FALLING APART, SO, UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH. BRING THIS BACK. I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO HAVE, UH, OUR, UH, DEPARTMENT TO SPECIALTY HR TO SEND ALL THIS REQUEST TO EACH OF, UH, COLLEGE INTO THEIR STUDENT AFFAIRS. SAY, UH, OUR CITY REQUEST INTERNSHIP AND I REQUEST IT'S A PAY INTERNSHIP. YEAH. IT CANNOT BE OKAY. NON-PAY, AND IT'S NOT EVERYBODY CAN AFFORD IT. MM-HMM. DRIVING AROUND AND COME TO CITY WORK WITHOUT PAY ATS. WE SHOULD GIVE THEM AT LEAST MINIMUM LIKE $15 PER HOUR, ALL THAT KIND OF THING. AND THE, THE POTENTIALLY THEY CAN BECOME A FULL, FULL-TIME FOR US, OUR FUTURE, OUR FUTURE EMPLOYEE. SO, SO WE NEED TO OPEN THIS DOOR FOR OKAY. OUR FUTURE INTERNSHIP AND STUDENT AND YOUTH TO COME TO OUR CITY. SO FOR THAT, I'M STRONGLY SUPPORT, UH, YOUR, UH, MOTHER. MAY I, OKAY. NO OBJECTION, NO OBJECTIONS. OBJECTION. ANYTHING ELSE? THAT'S IT. OKAY. DO I HAVE THE, OH, [CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS] WE COMMENTS? OKAY. A LOT OF REQUESTS. JUST, JUST, JUST, I JUST HAVE A, A A COUPLE COMMENTS. UH, NEXT, NEXT TUESDAY, UH, THE 24TH, UH, WE HAVE OUR HOMELESS COUNT. UM, SO WE STILL NEED VOLUNTEER. SO, UH, YOU CAN GO TO THEY COUNT WILL YOU.ORG, UH, TO SIGN UP FOR THAT? UH, IT'LL BE, UH, CAMERON PARK, 8:00 PM UH, AGAIN, WE'RE, WE'RE STILL LOOKING FOR, FOR MORE VOLUNTEERS. UH, AND THEN, UH, THE OTHER THING, UH, ONE OF, ONE OF OUR, UH, GREAT, UM, UH, ORGANIZATIONS HERE AT THE CITY, WEST COVINA, BEAUTIFUL, UH, IS ALSO HAVING THE BIRTHDAY BASH ON FEBRUARY 25TH AT HIRSCH RANCH. UH, SO BIG, UH, TIME OF CELEBRATION, UH, AND AGAIN, UH, A WAY FOR US TO ALL MEET EACH OTHER AND CELEBRATE WITH EACH OTHER. UH, SO THAT'S IT. THANK YOU COUNCIL MANUEL, SINCE THE, UH, MAYOR PRO HAS, UH, SO MANY COMMENT, I WANT TO HAVE SOME COMMENT. , JUST TRY TO BEAT HIM UP. OKAY. NOW I'M SKATING. OKAY. I JUST WANT TO, UH, WISH EVERYBODY HAVE A VERY HAPPY LUNA NEW YEAR AND THIS COMING SUNDAY OKAY. IS, UH, LUNA NEW YEAR. SO DO YOU KNOW WHAT YEAR OF THE SYMBOL IS? GO AHEAD. RABBIT. RABBIT, YES. UH, E OF THE RABBIT. OKAY. IF YOU ARE E OF THE RABBIT. OKAY. EARS. OKAY. MY MI YOU'RE GOING TO BE VERY, VERY LUCKY. BUT OTHER THAN THAT, I WISH YOU, EVERYBODY A HAPPY LUNA NEW YEAR AND ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE. AND, UH, FARK MEANING WISH YOU PROSPER AND LUCKY ALL THE TIME. OKAY. AND, AND I WILL BE WAITING FOR MY RED ENVELOPE. UH, MY RED ENVELOPE WILL DE DEPEND ON YOUR BEHAVIOR. . AND, AND IT WILL BE SHOWING UP IN MY OKAY. WALLET AND NICE COUNCIL MEETING. . OH MY GOD. BECAUSE THE, AND OUR COUNCILMAN CAN TELL, HAVEN'T RECEIVED MY RED ENVELOPE YET, SO, AND THEN LUCKY MONEY. OKAY. AND HOPEFULLY BRING YOU ALL THE PROSPERITY. OKAY. WE DONE? OKAY. THIS MEETING'S ADJOURNED. HEY, CONGRATULATIONS. YOUR FIRST MEETING. THANK YOU. GOOD, GOOD JOB. THANK YOU. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.