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GOOD EVENING.WELCOME TO OUR MARCH 19TH, 2024 CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
IT IS 7:00 PM MEETING IS NOW IN SESSION.
TONIGHT'S INVOCATION WILL BE LED BY PASTOR DOUG WILSON FROM BETHANY CHURCH AND MAYOR PRO TAM WU WILL LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
NOT A LONG WORD, NOT HERE TO CRITICIZE.
UH, I KNOWN PAST CITY COUNCILS, UH, MUCH CLO MUCH, UH, PREVIOUS GENERATIONS MUCH MORE CLOSELY.
BUT I THOUGHT, I'M NOT GONNA ADD A LOT OF VALUE JUST OPENING IN PRAYER, BUT I'LL DO THAT.
BUT I JUST WROTE A LITTLE, MADE A LITTLE CARD, AND ASKED OUR CHURCH ON SUNDAY.
I SAID, HEY, I'M GOING TO PRAY FOR THE CITY COUNCIL.
UH, I WANNA TELL THEM THAT WE'RE PRAYING FOR 'EM, BECAUSE I'M SURE YOU NEED PRAYER FOR ALL KINDS OF THINGS, UH, WITH THE BURDEN OF LEADERSHIP.
SO I THOUGHT, NOW YOU CAN KNOW.
IF THERE'S SOMETHING SPECIFIC WE CAN DO, LET'S DO THAT.
SO, WOULD YOU JOIN ME AS WE PRAY? GOD, WE'RE GRATEFUL THAT WE'RE ALIVE.
THE, FOR THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE GIVEN SO MUCH OF THEMSELVES TO LEAD AND TO GIVE DIRECTION TO OUR CITY, WE PRAY THAT YOU WOULD PROTECT THEM.
WE PRAY THAT YOU WOULD GIVE THEM GOOD HEALTH.
WE PRAY YOU WOULD, UH, TAKE CARE AND BLESS THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR LOVED ONES.
WE PRAY THAT YOU WOULD GUIDE THEM AND GIVE THEM YOUR WISDOM AND INSIGHT AS A DIALOGUE ABOUT THE BEST PATHS FORWARD, AND GIVE THEM, UH, JOY AND CIVILITY, UH, AS THEY DIALOGUE TOGETHER AND INTERACT WITH THE PUBLIC.
WE ASK ALL THIS IN THE NAME OF JESUS AND THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
FACE THE FLAG TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
VITO, PRESENT, MAYOR PROTI WU.
MAYOR CALDRON TABBA, PRESENT CITY ATTORNEY.
IS THERE ANYTHING TO BE REPORTED OUT OF CLOSED SESSION? NOTHING TO REPORT ON, MR. MAYOR.
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WILL MOVE ON TO PRESENTATION.SO TONIGHT, UH, WE HAVE, UH, SOME SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS.
I WANNA START OFF, UH, BY INVITING EAGLE SCOUT IAN MCLEAN TO THE FRONT.
FOR, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW, TO, TO, TO MAKE THE, THE, THE RANK OF EAGLE SCOUT IS QUITE AN ACCOMPLISHMENT, UH, IAN, AND I'LL SPEAK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HIS, UH, PROJECT, WANTED TO BRING HONOR AND REMEMBRANCE TO THE VETERAN COMMUNITY TO ACHIEVE THIS, HE RAISED MONEY TO REPRESS DOG TAGS FOR THE CASUALTIES OF THE VIETNAM WAR THAT WERE FROM CALIFORNIA.
HE HAD AN ORIGINAL GOAL OF RAISING A THOUSAND DOLLARS TO REPRESS 1000 DOG TAGS.
UH, AND HE REACHED THAT GOAL IN MARCH OF 2023, HE DECIDED TO KEEP FUNDRAISING, AND HE ACHIEVED HIS GOAL OF RAISING MORE THAN $5,575 IN AUGUST BECAUSE OF ORGANIZATIONS LIKE VIETNAM, VETERANS OF AMERICA, AMERICAN LEGION, AND THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS.
HE WENT TO EVENTS LIKE THE MEMORIAL DAY FLAG PLACEMENT AND REESE ACROSS AMERICA AT THE LOS ANGELES NATIONAL CEMETERY, THE 25TH ANNUAL TRIBUTE TO VETERANS AND MILITARY FAMILIES IN ARCADIA, THE PASADENA VETERANS DAY EVENT, THE SAN DIEGO VETERANS DAY PARADE, AND SO MUCH MORE TO HAVE THE PUBLIC ADOPT THESE DOG TAGS SO THAT THE FALLEN HEROES COULD BE REMEMBERED AND HONORED.
THIS PROJECT TOOK HIM A YEAR TO COMPLETE AND WAS QUITE AN ACHIEVEMENT.
HE WAS ABLE TO GET SOME OF THOSE DOG TAGS TO THE FAMILY MEMBERS, ONE BEING AS FAR AWAY AS SAN JOSE.
IAN CHOSE TO BRING AWARENESS TO THE VIETNAM WAR BECAUSE HIS FATHER IS A VIETNAM VETERAN.
AND HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN VIETNAM.
IAN'S MOTHER, ALONG WITH HER FAMILY, FLED VIETNAM BY BOAT AT
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A YOUNG AGE, AND IT TOOK HER FAMILY TWO YEARS TO MAKE IT TO AMERICA.AND SO, UH, BEFORE, UH, I GIVE IAN THE MIC, I JUST WANT TO PRESENT IAN K MCLEAN FOR THIS ASTOUNDING ACCOMPLISHMENT, UH, OF BEING PART OF THE EAGLE SCOUT COURT AND JUST, UM, REALLY REPRESENTING OUR COMMUNITY, UM, WITH SUCH THOUGHTFULNESS, UH, AND RECOGNIZING MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY WHO, UH, AT A TIME WE WE'RE NOT RECOGNIZED.
AND YOU'RE ACKNOWLEDGING THEM IS EXTREMELY SPECIAL.
SO IAN, IF YOU COULD SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR, YOUR JOURNEY, UH, FROM CUB SCOUT TO EAGLE SCOUT AND AND THIS PROJECT.
SO, UH, TO GO FROM CUB SCOUTS TO ACTUAL SCOUTING, UM, IS, IT'S A BIG JUMP.
IT'S VERY DIFFERENT, UH, CUB SCOUTS.
IT'S A LOT MORE OF, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE OUT THERE WITH YOUR FRIENDS, UH, OTHER CUB SCOUTS HAVING FUN.
AND THEN THE BIG CHANGE TO SCOUTING, WHICH IS YOU'RE DOING ALL OF THESE MERIT BADGES TO TRY AND GET YOUR EAGLE.
AND, YOU KNOW, THERE IS A TIME STRESS, UH, THERE IS A TIME LIMIT FOR IT FOR WHEN YOU NEED TO BE 18.
THAT'S THE AGE WHERE YOU CAN NO LONGER DO THIS STUFF.
SO YOU WANNA MAKE, BE ABLE TO MAKE IT TO EAGLE SCOUT BEFORE GETTING THAT.
AND WHEN YOU, UH, GET ALL OF THE BEAR BADGES, YOU EVENTUALLY HAVE TO DO AN EAGLE SCOUT PROJECT.
AND SO MY PROJECT WAS, UH, CHOSEN TO BE BRINGING BACK A REMEMBRANCE AND HONOR TOWARDS THE VIETNAM VETS THAT GAVE THEIR LIFE DURING THE WAR.
AS THERE IS A PERSONAL CONNECTION TO IT, THERE'S ALSO A COMMUNAL CONNECTION TO IT, BECAUSE I DO KNOW A LOT OF, UH, FRIENDS THAT LOST SOME FAMILY MEMBERS IN THE VIETNAM WAR, AND ALSO LOST A LOT OF FRIENDS DURING THE VIETNAM WAR.
SO THIS BROUGHT A LOT OF, UH, HAPPINESS TO ME TO BE ABLE TO SEE PEOPLE BRING TEARS OF JOY TO THEIR, UH, TO THEIR FACE.
AND IT MADE ME VERY HAPPY TO SEE THEM THAT HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO GET THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS DOG TAGS.
AND AS THE FRIEND IN THE TOP RIGHT PICTURE, UM, I WENT FROM ALL THE WAY OVER HERE, ALL THE WAY DOWN TO SAN DIEGO TO DELIVER THAT DOG TAG TO HIM PERSONALLY, THAT IS HIS FATHER'S DOG TAGS.
AND TO BE ABLE TO SEE HIM HOLD THOSE, BECAUSE HE LOST HIS FATHER AT A VERY YOUNG AGE, MADE ME VERY HAPPY.
AND TO SEE HIM BE ABLE TO CHERISH SOMETHING THAT HE HAS AND TO HOLD ONTO IT, AND AS JUST A MEMORY OF HIS FATHER.
ALRIGHT, IF I CAN INVITE THE FAMILY UP HERE TO, TO TAKE A PHOTO.
HOW MANY BADGES? I DON'T HAVE MY SASH WITH ME, BUT I THINK ROUGHLY AROUND 48.
YOU HAVE A MEMORIAL OUT THERE.
UM, WITH THE VIETNAM VETERANS, THE BOTTOM PICTURE, THAT IS THE CHURCH IN SAN JOSE.
UM, AND THE PASTOR IS PASTOR SURI.
AND HIS NAME, HIS BROTHER'S NAME IS ON THE MEMORIAL, THE SECOND TO THE LAST ONE.
SO ALL OF THOSE NAMES, WE ACTUALLY HAD THEIR DOG TAGS AND WERE ABLE TO GET THEM REMEMBERED.
OH, THOSE ARE THE DOG TAGS THAT COMES IN SAN DIEGO.
ANYBODY WANTS TO ADOPT? OH, FANTASTIC.
UH, NEXT, UM, WE ARE GOING TO, UH, PRESENT OUR PROCLAMATION, RECOGNIZING WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH.
UH, AND, UH, BEFORE I, I READ THE PROCLAMATION, UH, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, AND TO BRING UP, UH, THE WOMEN WHO LEAD OUR COMMUNITY HERE IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
UM, WE, WE JUST HAVE, UM, SOME, SOME WONDERFUL LEADERS, UH, THAT LEAD OUR, OUR VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS AND ALSO LEAD US HERE ON THE CITY COUNCIL.
SO I'M GOING TO INVITE ALL OF THEM UPFRONT, UH, SO I CAN GO AHEAD AND SHARE THE PROCLAMATION.
SO IF I COULD HAVE, UH, ACTING CITY MANAGER, PAULINA MORALES, ASSISTANT CITY
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MANAGER, ROXANNE LERMA, FINANCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES AND RISK MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR, STEPHANIE SMA, ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, LISA SHERICK, COUNCILWOMAN LETTI LOPEZ, VITO, AND COUNCILWOMAN ROSARIO DIAZ.AND I DO NOT SEE, BUT I WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE HER, UH, TREASURER COLLEEN ROSATI.
SO, UH, I, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND, AND READ THE PROCLAMATION, AND THEN I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE EACH OF YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF JUST SHARE, UH, NOT ONLY YOUR, YOUR ROLE IN THIS CITY, BUT, UH, JUST, UH, HOW, HOW YOU, HOW YOU'VE LED AND, AND JUST, UH, AGAIN, WHAT IT MEANS TO, TO BE A LEADER IN THE COMMUNITY.
UH, SO, UH, OUR PROCLAMATION, WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, MARCH, 2024, WHEREAS WOMEN BRING ABROAD AND PROFOUND DIVERSITY OF LIVED EXPERIENCES AND EXPERTISE TO ALL ASPECTS OF CIVIC, ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT OUR STATE IN COUNTLESS RECORDED AND UNRECORDED WAYS.
AND WHEREAS THE 2024 NATIONAL THEME OF WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH IS WOMEN WHO ADVOCATE FOR EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION, RECOGNIZING WOMEN THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY WHO UNDERSTAND THAT FOR A POSITIVE FUTURE, WE NEED TO ELIMINATE BIAS AND DISCRIMINATION ENTIRELY FROM OUR LIVES AND INSTITUTIONS.
AND WHEREAS THERE IS A HISTORIC NUMBER OF WOMEN SERVING IN THE LEGISLATURE AND ACROSS THE STATE, GOVERNMENT AND WOMEN SERVE AS LEADERS IN OUR BUSINESSES, LABOR FORCE, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND COMMUNITIES CONTINUING TO BREAK THROUGH HISTORIC BARRIERS.
AND WHEREAS WE HONOR WOMEN FROM THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT, AS WELL AS THE WOMEN WHO HAVE CONTINUED TO PROVIDE BOTH HEALING AND HOPE THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
AND WHEREAS WOMEN CONTINUE TO BREAK BARRIERS, SHATTER CEILINGS, BUILD LADDERS, CONNECT BRIDGES, AND MAKE HISTORY IN SEEN AND UNSEEN WAYS EVERY SINGLE DAY.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BRIAN CAL, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THE MONTH OF MARCH, 2024 WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH.
AND SO, WHILE I HAVE ALL OF YOU UP HERE, AGAIN, I WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE WE, WE HAVE SOME, SOME WONDERFUL LEADERS IN THIS COMMUNITY.
AND SO I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO SPEAK.
THANK YOU, MAYOR COUNCIL AND MY COLLEAGUES.
I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT IT IS A GREAT HONOR TO SERVE WITH THE WOMEN I DO HERE IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
WE'RE A STRONG GROUP, AND WE SUPPORT EACH OTHER EVERY DAY.
I HAVE TO SAY, IT HAS BEEN AN HONOR TO BE A COUNCILWOMAN AND A CENTENNIAL MAYOR FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
NOT ONLY THAT, BUT WHEN I WAS WORKING, I WAS PROUD TO SAY THAT I WAS ONE OF THE FEW WOMEN AS A SPECIAL AGENT IN THE CRIMINAL, UH, DIVISION OF THE IRS.
SO, UM, THAT, THAT'S HOW I AM ABLE TO, UM, PROVIDE HELP.
I ALSO, UM, I HAD THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ADOPT A, A YOUNG LADY IN HIGH SCHOOL.
AND, UH, I BROUGHT HER HOME WITH ME, AND I JUST WANTED A TEACH HER AND, AND KIND OF LEAD HER AND TELL HER WHAT SHE NEEDS TO DO IN ORDER FOR HER TO, TO LIVE IN THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN TODAY.
AND SO THAT'S MY, UM, PARTICIPATION AS FAR AS, UM, HELPING YOUNG LADIES AND WOMEN IN OUR CITY.
AND I, AND I FEEL HONORED TO BE ABLE TO WORK WITH THESE LADIES.
I MEAN, THEY HAVE BEEN SO MUCH HELP, AND THEY'RE SO PROFESSIONAL, AND I JUST, I LOVE ALL OF 'EM.
I JUST WANNA SAY, UH, WOMEN ARE AMAZING.
UH, WE DO IT ALL HOME LIFE WORK, LIFE SCHOOL'S, SO MULTITASKER.
AND, YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE ALSO THE WOMEN HERE, UH, THAT ARE WITH US.
AND SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU AND THANKS FOR RECOGNIZING THAT WITHOUT WOMEN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT'D BE.
UM, I TOO WOULD LIKE TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF LISA, OUR ASSISTANT CITY CLERK.
UM, IT IS AN HONOR TO SERVE AS YOUR ACTING CITY MANAGER RIGHT NOW.
UM, IF I GO OUTSIDE, I DON'T THINK THERE'S A WOMAN, UH, THAT'S BEEN ON THAT LIST FOR CITY MANAGERS.
SO EVEN AS AN ACTING ROLE, IT IS VERY SPECIAL TO SERVE IN THIS CAPACITY FOR THE COMMUNITY AND TO WORK WITH ALL OF, UM, THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE, UH, DIRECTORS.
UM, WE DO SUPPORT EACH OTHER AND WE WORK TOWARDS MAKING THIS COMMUNITY BETTER FOR ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS.
AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SHARE A QUOTE THAT I REALLY LIKE.
IT'S, UM, UH, FROM A VERY FAMOUS, UH, FEMALE, UM, UM, FAMOUS,
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UH, ONE OF OUR, UH, SUPREME COURT JUSTICES.WE SHOULD LEARN TO DO OUR BEST FOR THE SAKE OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND FOR THE SAKE OF THOSE WHOM WE PAVE THE WAY.
THANK YOU, UM, ACTING CITY MANAGER MORALES, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH, UM, MAYOR, AND OF COURSE MY COLLEAGUES, UM, CITY COUNCIL.
IT IS ABSOLUTELY AN HONOR TO BE ABLE TO SERVE WITH ALL OF YOU.
UM, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, I THINK AS WOMEN, YOU KNOW, WE PLAY A GREAT ROLE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND IN OUR SOCIETY.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THE WAY THAT WE VIEW THE WORLD IS DIFFERENT THAN THE WAY OTHER PEOPLES VIEW THE WORLD.
AND IT'S NOT JUST MALE OR FEMALE OR HOWEVER ONE IDENTIFIES, IT'S WHAT EACH OF US BRING TO THE TABLE AS INDIVIDUALS.
WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLE AS AN INDIVIDUAL'S, NOT ONLY WAS I RAISED BY A SINGLE MOM, BUT I'M ALSO A SINGLE MOM.
AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, THAT IS A BIG PART OF THE PERSPECTIVE THAT I TAKE AND THE LENS THAT I LOOK THROUGH.
AND SO, WITH THAT BEING SAID, I TAKE A LOOK AT NOT ONLY INDIVIDUALS FOR WHO THEY ARE, BUT ALSO THE GIFTS AND THE TALENTS AND THE TIME THAT THEY BRING TO OUR COMMUNITY.
SO IT IS, AGAIN, AN HONOR TO BE ABLE TO SERVE WITH ALL OF YOU, TO UNDERSTAND YOUR PERSPECTIVES, AND TO GET TO KNOW YOU AS INDIVIDUALS.
ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, ROXANNE LERMA.
I'M STEPHANIE SIGMA, THE FINANCE DIRECTOR.
IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HONORED IN THIS WAY AND TO WORK, UH, WITH SUCH WONDERFUL WOMEN, UM, BOTH IN THE CITY COUNCIL AND, UM, ON OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM, BUT ALSO OUR STAFF.
UH, WE HAVE AMAZING WOMEN THAT WORK WITH US EACH AND EVERY DAY.
SO IT'S AN HONOR FOR ME TO JUST BE ABLE TO SHARE MY EXPERIENCES AND, UM, WHAT I'VE LEARNED IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND HOPEFULLY INSPIRE THEM TO CONTINUE ON THE PATH AND HOPEFULLY BE IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS THEMSELVES.
REMEMBER, I'M NOT ME, I'M COLLEEN RETTI
SHE'S BEEN OUR ELECTED TREASURER FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVENA FOR THREE CONSECUTIVE TERMS. UH, SHE WORKS AT WEST COVENA HIGH SCHOOL WITH OUR SPECIAL ED KIDS, AND SHE'S VERY INVOLVED IN THAT.
AND THE REASON WE EVEN KNEW ABOUT THIS IS WE RAN INTO BRIAN, UM, SATURDAY, UH, SEM ASSEMBLYMEN.
UM, BLANCA RUBIO HAD THE, UH, WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN BALDWIN PARK, AND COLLINE WAS HONORED AS WOMAN OF THE YEAR.
AND THAT'S WHEN, WHEN BRIAN APPROACHED US.
SO IF WE COULD GIVE ONE MORE ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR OUR, THE AMAZING LEADERSHIP THAT IS UP UPFRONT TODAY, UH, AGAIN, UH, OUR, OUR, OUR CITY IS BETTER BECAUSE OF THE ROLES THAT YOU PLAY AND THE LEADERSHIP THAT YOU BRING TO OUR COMMUNITY.
I DON'T, I DON'T SEE IT ON YOU.
NOW, I'D, I'D LIKE TO, UH, INVITE, UH, ANOTHER FEMALE LEADER.
UH, IF I CAN INVITE, UH, ANNA NADINA DIAZ TO THE FRONT.
UH, TONIGHT WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY ANNA NADINA DIAZ, PROVIDING AN UPDATE ON VECTOR CONTROL.
UH, GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE MAYOR
THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME, AND GOOD ME TO OUR RESIDENTS.
UM, I AM, MY NAME IS ANNAIS MELINA DIAZ.
I'M THE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY MOSQUITO AND VECTOR CONTROL DISTRICT.
AND I'LL BE PROVIDING AN UPDATE ON MOSQUITO ACTIVITIES, BUT ALSO JUST SOME TIPS ON WHAT WE CAN DO AS A COMMUNITY TO REALLY GET A HANDLE OF THESE LITTLE THINGS.
SO, A LITTLE VERY BRIEFLY ABOUT OUR VECTOR CONTROL DISTRICT.
WE ARE ONE IN FIVE, AND WE SERVE PRIMARILY THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, UH, FOR THE EXCEPTION OF SAN MARINO.
AND WE, WHICH IS ABOUT 1.5 MILLION RESIDENTS.
AND WE HAVE 37 FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES.
UH, DURING THE SEASON, WE HIRE AN ADDITIONAL 10 SEASONAL STAFF, AND WE ARE PAID THROUGH PROPERTY TAXES.
SO EVERY PARCEL, UH, PAYS $16 AND 90 CENTS PER YEAR FOR YEAR-ROUND, UH, MOSQUITO SERVICES.
UM, AND ANYTHING THAT WE DO IS AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE.
SO, HOW WE CONTROL MOSQUITOES AND, AND WHAT WE DO REALLY DEPENDS ON MONITORING AND ALL OF OUR, UH, ACTIVITIES.
SO WE DO MOSQUITO TRAPPING, DISEASE SURVEILLANCE, DEAD BIRD COLLECTION, INSECT IDENTIFICATION, AND MOSQUITO TESTING.
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FOR ARE MOSQUITO POPULATIONS AND WHERE THERE'S LOTS OF MOSQUITO ACTIVITY, BUT ALSO MOSQUITO DISEASE ACTIVITY.SO PRIMARILY WE'RE FOCUSED ON WEST NILE VIRUS, AND I'LL TOUCH ON THAT IN A SECOND.
BUT WHAT WE DO AS FAR AS CONTROL AND OUTREACH DEPENDS ON OUR SCIENTIFIC DATA.
SO, OUR OPERATIONS IS PRIMARILY FO FOCUSED ON LARVA CONTROL, AND THAT'S BECAUSE MOSQUITOES SPEND 75% OF THEIR LIFESPAN IN WATER.
AND IT'S THE EASIEST TIME WAY TO CONTROL MOSQUITOES WHEN THEY ARE IN THE WATER.
SO WE DO LOOK AT COMMUNITY SOURCES.
SO IF YOU THINK OF PARKS, UH, FLOOD CONTROL CHANNELS, UM, THOSE SPACES THAT ARE OPEN AND OUT IN THE PUBLIC, THEY ON OUR RADAR.
WE ALSO PROVIDE RESIDENTIAL CONSULTATIONS.
SO IF YOU NEED HOW IDENTIFYING WHERE MOSQUITOES ARE COMING FROM, GIVE US A CALL, SUBMIT A TIP, AND WE'LL BE OUT THERE AGAIN AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE.
UM, SWIMMING POOLS ARE A HUGE ISSUE FOR US, PRIMARILY WHEN THEY'RE GREEN.
SO IF YOU HAVE A RUNNING, CLEAN SWIMMING POOL, NO BIGGIE, BUT IF YOU HAVE A GREEN UNMAINTAINED SWIMMING POOL, THESE CAN GENERATE A MILLION MOSQUITOES IN A SPAN OF A WEEK.
SO THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A WHOLE, UH, PROGRAM FOCUSED ON THIS.
AND UNDERGROUND STORM RAINS, UH, YOU MAY THINK THAT MOSQUITOES DISAPPEAR IN THE WINTER, BUT THEY ACTUALLY GO INTO OUR UNDERGROUND STORM DRAINS AND HUNKER DOWN FOR THE WINTER MONTHS.
AND WE PROVIDE BLACK FLY CONTROL IN THE FOOTHILL COMMUNITIES.
UM, THESE ARE NOT IRREGULAR HOUSEWIVES.
THESE ARE VERY TINY, UH, BLACK FLIES THAT ARE USUALLY FOUND AROUND, UH, OUR RIVERS 'CAUSE THEY NEED RUNNING WATER.
AND THEN NEXT WE HAVE OUR OUTREACH, UH, PROGRAM THAT REALLY TACKLES, UH, PROVIDING OUTREACH AND EDUCATION.
AND THAT'S EITHER THROUGH PRESENTATION, SOCIAL MEDIA, THIS KIND OF FORMAT, UH, PROVIDING COMMUNITY EVENTS, DOOR TO DOOR, SEASONAL CAMPAIGNS, UH, NEXT SLIDE.
AND THEN WE HAVE OUR EDUCATION PROGRAM, WHICH IS THE ECOHEALTH VECTOR EDUCATION.
AND WE PROVIDE K THROUGH 12 FREE NGSS ALIGNED STUDENT SCIENCE PROGRAMS. UM, AND SO LAST YEAR THAT, THAT'S ACTUALLY, UH, OUR STUDENTS THAT WERE HERE RECOGNIZED FOR BEING VECTOR INSPECTORS OF THE YEAR.
UM, THESE WERE STUDENTS FROM THE, UH, SAN JOSE CHARTER ACADEMY.
AND WE HAVE A WHOLE NEW COHORT THAT ACTUALLY COMPLETED OUR ONE YEAR PROGRAM AS WELL.
AND WE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO, UH, CELEBRATE THEM, IDENTIFY THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS REALLY LEARNING AND USING REAL LIVE SURVEILLANCE TOOLS THAT WE USE IN THE LAB, BUT OUT IN THEIR COMMUNITY.
SO THEY'RE IDENTIFYING WHERE MOSQUITOES ARE PRESENT USING THE TOOLS THAT WE DO AS WELL.
SO WE ACTUALLY USE OUR DATA AS VERY WELL.
SO WHY AM I HERE, MOSQUITO? SO HERE IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, IN WEST COVINA, WE HAVE TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF MOSQUITOES, LY AND EIGHTIES.
AND OUR PRIMARY FOCUS IS GOING TO BE THE CULLY MOSQUITO BECAUSE THIS CAN TRANSMIT WEST NILE VIRUS.
IT IS NATIVE AND ACTIVE AT DUSK AND DAWN.
WHAT YOU'RE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH IS THE EIGHTIES MOSQUITO.
THAT IS A DAYTIME BITER, AND IT BITES YOU ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, YOUR ANKLES, YOUR ELBOWS, ANYTHING AND EVERY, ANY INCH OF SKIN YOU MAY HAVE EXPOSED OR EVEN UN THROUGH CLOTHES, IT WILL BITE YOU.
UM, AND IT, IT DOESN'T, IT CAN TRANSMIT ZIKA, DENGUE CANINE HEARTWORM, BUT WE DON'T HAVE THOSE, UH, DISEASES ACTIVELY TRANSMITTING HERE.
HOWEVER, THEY DO CAUSE A HUGE NUMBER OF NUISANCE ISSUES.
AND LAST YEAR, WE HAD OUR FIRST LOCALLY ACQUIRED DENGUE CASE IN THE CITY OF PASADENA AND IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
SO HAVING THESE MOSQUITOES HERE IS A RISK.
AND AS MORE, UM, EPI EPIDEMICS OF DENGUE ARE HAPPENING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, THAT INCREASES OUR RISK HERE AS WELL.
UH, ESPECIALLY WITH TRAVEL, UM, TRAVEL CASES.
SO FOLKS GO TO LEAD THESE COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE EPIDEMICS.
THEY GET SICK THERE, THEY COME BACK, AND IF THEY GET BIT HERE, THAT'S HOW A LOCALLY ACQUIRED CASE CAN HAPPEN.
SO LIKE I MENTIONED, THIS IS ENDEMIC.
UH, WE SEE IT IN MOSQUITOES, HUMANS, UH, BIRDS.
AND THERE IS NO CURE OR HUMAN VACCINE.
MOST FOLKS WILL EXPERIENCE FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS. UH, ONE IN 150 WILL HAVE SEVERE SYMPTOMS, AND THAT COULD LEAD TO ENCEPHALITIS, MENINGITIS, UM, EVEN DEATH.
UH, BUT THE WAY THAT THIS WEST NILE VIRUS IS TRANSMITTED IS THROUGH THE BIDEN INFECTED MOSQUITO.
IT IS A BIRD VIRUS, SO IT USUALLY CIRCULATES IN OUR BI, UH, BIRD POPULATION, AND THEN WE'RE DEAD AND HO SO YOU CAN'T TRANSMIT IT TO ANYONE ELSE.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE SICK, YOU GET SICK.
SO I WANTED TO FOCUS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WEST N VIRUS ACTIVITY HERE IN, IN WEST COVINA BECAUSE IT IS ONE OF OUR HOTSPOTS AND WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO, UH, ENGAGE OR,
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UM, PARTNER ON HOW WE CAN, UH, INCREASE OUR EDUCATION.HERE IS HOW WEST NILE VIRUS LOOKS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR IN OUR REGION IN CALIFORNIA.
LAST YEAR, WE HAD AN UPTICK IN WEST NILE VIRUS CASES.
UM, SAME THING FOR OUR DISTRICT.
SO YOU'LL SEE, YOU KNOW, THE PAST THREE YEARS.
AND, UH, LAST YEAR WAS DEFINITELY ONE OF OUR HIGHER YEARS.
UM, YOU WOULD THINK THAT THAT MIGHTN'T HAVE HAPPENED WITH ALL THE RAIN, BUT IT ACTUALLY, UH, CREATES MORE SPACES FOR WATER WHERE MOSQUITOES AND BIRDS, UM, KIND OF GATHER.
AND SO IT CREATES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR TRANSMISSION.
SO HERE IS A KIND OF A ZOOMED IN LOOK AT WEST NW VIRUS ACTIVITY IN THE WEST, COVINA, COVINA, AND UNINCORPORATED AREAS.
YOU'LL SEE THERE'S LITTLE POCKETS OF CLUSTERS, AND THAT'S USUALLY BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF TESTING OR TRAPS THAT ARE IN THAT AREA.
BUT IT JUST CONFIRMS THAT, YOU KNOW, WEST NW VIRUS CONTINUES TO HAPPEN THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER MONTHS.
THERE'S A SPIKE IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER.
UM, AND THAT'S ALSO WHEN WE SEE EIGHTIES MOSQUITO ACTIVITY, WHICH DOESN'T TRANSMIT WEST VIRUS, BUT DOES CAUSE A LOT OF NUISANCE.
UM, SO IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE HOPE TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH, UH, WHETHER IT'S CREATING OUTREACH IN EDUCATION OR IF IT'S IDENTIFYING SOURCES OF WATER THAT ARE MAYBE STAGNANT AND WHERE WE CAN, UH, WORK TOGETHER TO, UH, ELIMINATE THOSE AREAS.
SO, HOW CAN YOU PREVENT A WHAT'S NOT VIRUS OR MOSQUITO BITES? I KNOW THIS IS VERY, VERY SIMPLE AND SOMETIMES YOU WANNA DO MORE.
UM, BUT IT IS TIP, TOSS AND PROTECT.
YOU KNOW, YOU NEED TO TAKE OUT STAGNANT WATER FROM CONTAINERS, WEEKLY, TOSS OUT UNUSED CONTAINERS, ESPECIALLY WITH ALL THIS RAIN THAT WE CONTINUE TO RECEIVE OUT OF NOWHERE.
UH, YOU WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE GETTING RID OF THAT WATER, UH, AT LEAST NO LONGER THAN FIVE DAYS AFTER, YOU KNOW, IT ACCUMULATES, ESPECIALLY WITH OUR WEATHER.
UM, LIKE TODAY WAS REALLY PERFECT.
YES, THE PAST WEEKEND WE HAD A LOT OF RAIN COOLER TEMPERATURE, BUT TODAY IT WAS IN THE SEVENTIES.
THAT'S REALLY GREAT ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS FOR MOSQUITO POPULATIONS TO START TO CONTINUE.
SO, YOU KNOW, TAKE THE SPRING BREAK COMING UP
THE OTHER THING IS TO PROTECT YOURSELF WITH INSECT REPELLENT.
THESE ARE FOUR DIFFERENT INGREDIENTS.
YOU JUST NEED TO FIND A REPELLENT THAT HAS ONE OF THESE FOUR D OIL, LEMON, EUCALYPTUS, CURIN, I 35 35.
AND WE ALSO OFFER A BITE BACK GROUP.
SO IT'S LIKE A NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP WHERE, UM, YOU, YOU, WE HAVE THE RESOURCES TO PROVIDE A PRESENTATION DOOR HANGERS TO YOUR SPECIFIC COMMUNITY.
WE WORK WITH YOU TO TRY TO FIND, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT WORKS BEST FOR YOUR COMMUNITY.
AND OF COURSE, LIKE I MENTIONED, WE'RE ALWAYS HERE TO HELP YOU.
YOU CAN SUBMIT A TIP AT EITHER OUR PHONE OR ON OUR WEBSITE, AND WE HAVE MORE RESIDENTIAL RESOURCES, SUCH AS THE CHECKLIST OR, UM, FLYERS, UM, AT THE QR CODE.
SO A LITTLE BIT, UH, AGAIN, ON THIS.
AND, UH, I JUST DO WANNA STRESS, I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE, BUT, UM, A LOT OF THE TIMES WE ARE ASKED TO SPRAY OUR COMMUNITIES, AND WE USUALLY RESERVE THAT FOR WHEN THERE IS DISEASE ACTIVITY.
WE DON'T WANNA USE SPRAYS FOR NUISANCE BITING, ESPECIALLY WITH EIGHTIES MOSQUITOES BECAUSE THEY DO, UH, CREATE A RESISTANCE.
SO CONTINUOUS SPRAYS WILL, WILL CREATE A RESISTANCE.
AND THEN WHEN WE HAVE DISEASE ACTIVITY LIKE DENGUE, UH, AND WE SPRAY THEM, THEN IT'S NOT GONNA WORK TO PREVENT THAT DISEASE TRANSMISSION.
SO THAT'S WHY WE TRY TO RESERVE IT WHEN THERE IS DISEASE ACTIVITY.
NOW, WE AS A VECTOR CONTROL DISTRICT ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR, UH, WAYS TO IMPROVE OR PROVIDE FURTHER SERVICES.
THERE IS A THING THAT WE'VE CALLED STERILE INSECT TECHNIQUE, AND IT'S ACTUALLY BEEN USED BY THE CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT TO CONTROL THE MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1990.
WE ARE NOT PLANNING TO DO SIT, UH, BUT OTHER VECTOR CONTROL DISTRICTS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARE.
AND SO YOU MIGHT START HEARING ABOUT THAT EITHER THIS UPCOMING YEAR OR NEXT YEAR.
AND SO, SIT GENERALLY WHAT IT INVOLVES IS MASS PRODUCTION OF MOSQUITOES, SORTING MALES FROM FEMALES, AND THEN MASS RELEASES OF MALE MOSQUITOES THAT DO NOT BITE, BUT THEY DO MATE WITH THE FEMALES.
AND SO THE RESULTING EGGS WILL NOT, UH, HATCH OR PRODUCE.
AND SO YOU MIGHT HEAR ABOUT THAT.
AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO US, ALTHOUGH WE ARE NOT DOING ANY RELEASES.
AND I HAVE ANY, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM.
BUT AGAIN, UH, WE'RE HERE AS A PARTNER, UM, AND A RESOURCE FOR YOUR RESIDENTS.
AND, UH, UM, I REMEMBER 20, 30 YEARS AGO, YOU CAN OPEN THE WINDOW, OKAY? AND THE FRESH AIR.
AND, UH, YOU DON'T, YOU WORRY ABOUT FLY, BUT YOU DON'T WORRY ABOUT MOSQUITO.
OKAY? AND NOW I RECEIVE ALMOST WEEKLY THE RESIDENT DURING THE SUMMERTIME, SPRINGTIME, THEY'RE COMPLAINING ABOUT TOTALLY
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OUTTA CONTROL OF A MOSQUITO.AND, UH, WHEN YOU WALK ON THE STREET, NO MORE, NO MATTER IT'S A NORTH SIDE OR FAR SOUTH, WE ALL SHARE THE SAME THING, IS MAJOR INFESTATION OF THE MOSQUITO.
AND, UH, I, EVEN MYSELF, I WANT TO GO OUT MY HOUSE AFTER TO SPREAD THE BUG SPREAD.
OTHERWISE I WILL BE BIT BY ALL PLACES.
SO, SO, SO HOW, WHY THIS 20 YEARS IS CHANGE.
WE HAVE SO MUCH OF A POPULATION INCREASE MOSQUITO, HOW CAN WE HELP OUR RESIDENT? I KNOW THE, THE, THE ABOUT WATERS AND THIS AND THAT WE WANT TO CONTROL, BUT DURING THE SUMMERTIME IT'S PRETTY DRY, OKAY? AND, UH, YOU DON'T EVEN FIND ANY WATER.
BUT THIS MOSQUITO STILL THE PLACES POSSIBLE SPRINKLER OR SOMETHING.
AND, UH, ANY WAY THE COUNTY CAN HELP US, OKAY, ON YOUR DEPARTMENT TO SEE HOW WE CAN DO, CAN REDUCE THE POPULATION SO PEOPLE WON'T, PEOPLE CAN JOIN THE OUTSIDE RATHER THAN GET BIT ALL THE TIME.
YEAH, THOSE ARE ALL GREAT, GREAT, GREAT QUESTIONS.
UM, SO FOR THE REASON OF, YOU KNOW, MOSQUITO INFESTATIONS NOW, SO THE EIGHTIES MOSQUITO HAS BEEN IN OUR AREA FOR DECADES, BUT BACK IN 2011 WAS REALLY WHEN WE FOUND THAT THEY STARTED, UH, ACTUALLY ADAPTING TO OUR ENVIRONMENT.
THEY REALLY NEED HUMAN SUB, UH, SUBTROPICAL CLIMATES TO, UM, CONTINUE, UH, PROPAGATING OR, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE GROWING.
AND SO WHAT WE ARE DOING AS RESIDENTS IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, WE'RE CRI KIND OF CREATING THESE MICRO CLIMATES IN OUR OWN YARDS.
SO TO YOUR POINT OF LIKE SPRINKLERS AND ALL THAT STUFF, YOU KNOW, AS WE, YOU KNOW, WATER, OUR LAWNS OR OUR PLANTS, WE'RE CREATING LIKE, SOURCES OF WATER, RIGHT? LIKE IF YOU, MY PARENTS ACTUALLY LIVE IN WEST COVINA, SO I GET BIT UP ALL THE TIME,
AND EVEN I LIKE THAT TELL 'EM LIKE, HEY, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE THIS BIRD BATH HERE, YOU KNOW, HAS WATER YOU NEED TO GET RID OF.
YOU HAVE THIS, YOU KNOW, UH, OLD TIRE THAT ALSO HOLDS WATER YOU NEED TO GET RID OF.
SO THERE ARE ALL THESE LITTLE LOCATIONS THAT HOLD UP TO A SPOONFUL OF WATER THAT IS ALL THEY NEED TO BREED HUNDREDS OF MOSQUITOES.
SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH.
AND SO ALL OF OUR TACTICS AND OUR STRATEGIES ARE EXCELLENT AT CONTROLLING OUR NATIVE HELIX MOSQUITO BECAUSE THEY PREFER LARGER SOURCES OF WATER.
BUT THIS EIGHTIES MOSQUITO IS A CONTAINER BREEDER.
AND SO AGAIN, THEY ONLY NEED A SMALL SOURCE OF WATER TO JUST HAVE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF MOSQUITOES.
SO TO YOUR POINT, WHAT CAN WE DO? YOU KNOW WHAT, RIGHT NOW WHAT WE CAN OFFER IS A CONSULTATION.
AND SO AGAIN, FREE, NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE.
WE'LL GO OUT TO YOUR HOME, WE'LL TRY TO FIND THE SOURCE.
SOMETIMES YOU MIGHT THINK, OH, IT'S A FLOOD CONTROL CHANNEL RUNNING BEHIND MY HOUSE, OR MY NEIGHBOR WHO HAS A POND.
BUT SOMETIMES IT'S A, LIKE A WA A PLANT PROPAGATING THAT YOU MIGHT'VE FORGOT ABOUT.
YOU KNOW, THAT THAT IS THE SOURCE.
SO WE'RE HERE AS A RESOURCE TO FIND THOSE LOCATIONS, TO FIND SOLUTIONS FOR YOU AND TO THE BIPA, UH, CHAMPION AS WELL.
UM, THESE EIGHTIES MOSQUITOES DON'T FLY ANY MORE THAN 150 YARDS.
IF YOU OR ANY OF YOUR RESIDENTS ARE GETTING BIT AGGRESSIVELY, IT'S MOST LIKELY THEM THEIR HOUSE, THEIR PROPERTY, OR THE PROPERTY RIGHT NEXT TO THEM.
SO THAT'S HOW SMALL YOU NEED TO LOOK.
THEY'RE VERY, THEIR FLIGHT SPAN IS VERY, VERY SHORT.
UM, SO THE LOCATION OF THEIR SOURCE IS VERY NEAR YOU.
COUNCILMAN CONTOS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
ARE, ARE THERE ANY, UM, UM, PET FRIENDLY PESTICIDES OF SOME SORT THAT, THAT YOU'D RECOMMEND THAT WE CAN PUT AROUND THAT WE MIX WITH WATER SO THAT WAY THEY DRINK IT AND THEY, THE MOSQUITOES, UH, DIE OR ARE THERE, UM, 'CAUSE I'VE HEARD OF THAT, UM, MY NEIGHBOR ACTUALLY, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW HOW, HOW USEFUL OR EFFECTIVE THAT IS.
AND THE SECOND QUESTION IS, UM, YOU, YOU HAVE A LOT OF GROUND TO COVER WITH JUST EVEN WEST COVINA ALONE.
UH, ARE ARE THERE EFFORTS TO RECRUIT OTHER PEOPLE WITHIN DIFFERENT CITIES TO SORT OF HELP TO, TO, AT A GRASSROOTS LEVEL, TO INSPECT AND LOOK AROUND TO TRY TO FIND THE PROBLEM SO THAT WAY WE CAN ALL BE A PART OF ACTIVELY INSPECTING PLACES IN ADDITION TO YOUR COMING OUT TO, TO LOOK AT OUR VARIOUS RESIDENTS? YEAH.
SO FOR THE FIRST QUESTION, PESTICIDES.
SO WE AS A VECTOR CONTROL DISTRICT ALSO FOCUS ON LARVICIDES.
AGAIN, WE LOOK AT LAR UH, PESTICIDES THAT CAN BE IN WATER THAT ARE NOT HARMFUL TO OTHER ANIMALS OR INSECTS OR BIRDS.
UM, SO WHAT WE FOCUS ON ARE PESTICIDES THAT HAVE BTI AND BTI IS A NATURALLY OCCURRING BACTERIA THAT IS FOUND IN SOIL AND IT'S VERY, VERY TARGET SPECIFIC TO MOSQUITO LARVAE, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ADDRESS.
NOW, WHAT CAN RESIDENTS GET? THERE'S ACTUALLY A PRODUCT, AND THIS IS IN NO WAY AN ENDORSEMENT, BUT IF YOU GO TO YOUR LOCAL HARDWARE STORE, THERE IS, UM, A THING CALLED MOSQUITO BITS OR MOSQUITO DUNK DUNKS.
AND SO THESE, UM, PESTICIDES ARE DROPPED IN WATER AND THEY HAVE BTI IN THEM, AND THEY HAVE EITHER A SLOW RELEASE, BUT THAT'S WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR THESE LARGER SOURCES OF WATER THAT YOU CAN'T MOVE, LIKE A RAIN BARREL
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THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE THAT IS NOT COVERED CORRECTLY, OR A POND THAT DOESN'T HAVE WATER RUNNING ALL THE TIME.THOSE ARE THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO.
WE ALSO PROVIDE MOSQUITO FISH.
AND MOSQUITO FISH IS A BIOLOGICAL WAY TO CONTROL MOSQUITO LARVAE.
AGAIN, FREE OF OR NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE.
AND, UM, ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS GIVE US A CALL.
UM, WE HAVE TO INSPECT THE SOURCE TO SEE IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, A, A GOOD PLACE FOR A MOSQUITO FISH.
UH, BUT THAT'S ANOTHER WAY THAT YOU CAN CONTROL THEM.
AND THEN AS FAR AS A GRASSROOTS LEVEL, SO OUR DISTRICT AND OTHER VECTOR CONTROL DISTRICTS ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO PREPARE FOR THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, OUTBREAK.
SO A FEW YEARS AGO IN 2015, THERE WAS A ZIKA SOMEWHAT OUTBREAK HERE.
AND SO WHAT WE AS VECTOR CONTROL DISTRICTS DID WAS PARTNER WITH LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE EMERGENCY, UH, VOLUNTEER CORPS TO SORT OF DO THESE, UM, SIMULATIONS, UH, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WHEN THERE IS AN OUTBREAK, AND HOW WE CAN CONDUCT, YOU KNOW, THESE LARGER SCALE, UM, DOOR-TO-DOOR CAMPAIGNS AND INSPECTIONS SO THAT IF THERE IS SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO HAPPEN AGAIN, UH, WE ARE PREPARED AND WE CAN ACTIVATE QUICKLY, UM, IN A TIMELY MANNER.
BUT AS FAR AS A REOCCURRING SORT OF EVERY DAY, UH, CAMPAIGN, LIKE I MENTIONED, WE HAVE THE BIKE BACK CHAMPION, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE MORE OF A, A GRASSROOTS APPROACH TO EACH COMMUNITY.
'CAUSE EACH COMMUNITY IS VERY DIFFERENT.
YOU KNOW, SOME HAVE HOAS, SOME HAVE, UH, MULTIFAMILY HOMES.
AND SO FINDING FOLKS WHO ARE IN THESE COMMUNITIES, UM, THAT ARE REALLY INTERESTED IN MAKING A DIFFERENCE, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN SIGN UP AND WE CAN UP AGAIN, PROVIDE OR GUIDE THEM IN HOW TO PROVIDE THE BEST EDUCATION THAT MEETS THEIR COMMUNITY NEEDS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, ANNA, FOR THE PRESENTATION.
[CITY MANAGER'S REPORT]
ALL RIGHT, NOW FOR OUR CITY MANAGER'S REPORT, UH, REPORT, WHICH WILL BE GIVEN BY OUR ACTING CITY MANAGER, PAULINA MORALES.GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, SO TONIGHT'S, UH, REPORT'S GONNA BE A LITTLE LONG, SO PLEASE BEAR WITH ME,
UM, SO THE FIRST ONE, WE JUST KIND OF WANTED TO GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF OUR THIRD ANNUAL SPRING FESTIVAL SO WE CAN GET THAT UP.
SO, UM, AS I MENTIONED THIS YEAR, WE HELD OUR THIRD ANNUAL SPRING FESTIVAL ON GLENDA AVENUE, SATURDAY, MARCH 9TH TO MARCH 10TH.
UM, AND THE EVENT FEATURED FOOD RETAIL VENDORS, DJ LIVE ENTERTAINMENT, AND A BEER GARDEN AND ATTRACTIONS IN A CARNIVAL.
UM, THIS YEAR'S ENTERTAINMENT INCLUDED A LINEUP OF SCHOOL YOUTH GROUPS, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION, CULTURAL PERFORMANCES AND HEADLINERS, UM, BY QUEEN LEGION, A QUEEN QUEEN TREE TRIBUTE BAND, AND STONE SOUL, UM, A, UH, MOTOWN HITS BAND ON SUNDAY.
UM, AND OF COURSE, UH, DJ PHIL WAS ALSO JOINED OUR CELEBRATION IN DJING THE EVENT.
UM, SO WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL FOR, UM, ALL OF THE PERFORMERS THAT CAME, AND WE HOPE THAT, UM, OUR RESIDENTS WILL LOOK FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR'S EVENT.
AND, UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO INVITING MORE PERFORMERS, UH, TO JOIN US NEXT YEAR AND, UM, CONTINUE THIS WONDERFUL TRADITION OF THE SPRING FESTIVAL IN WEST COVINA.
NEXT ITEM IS, UM, WE HAD ANNOUNCED, I THINK IT WAS IN NOVEMBER WHEN, UH, THE COUNCIL NEXT PAGE, UM, IT WAS APPROVED WHERE WE INCREASED THE SCOPE OF LANDSCAPING SERVICES FOR THE LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE DISTRICTS.
AND SO WE STARTED WITH WOOD GROVE PARK, AND WE ARE NOW MOVING ON TO SHADOW OAK PARK.
UM, I KNOW THAT, UH, SOME OF THAT PROCESS IS, AS WE HAD INDICATED, UM, IT IS CREATING SOME BARE LOCATIONS IN OUR, UH, LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE DISTRICTS WE'RE, UM, ASKING THAT OUR RESIDENTS BE PATIENT WITH US AS WE DO CLEAN UP.
SOME OF THESE AREAS HAVE NOT BEEN TOUCHED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
I DON'T KNOW THE LAST TIME THAT WE DID A MAJOR CLEANUP, UH, TO THIS EXTENT.
AND SO, UM, UH, DURING THIS CLEANUP PROCESS, LIKE I MENTIONED, THERE WILL BE SOME BARREN AREAS, FOR EXAMPLE, ON, AS YOU COULD SEE ON THE BOTTOM, UH, RIGHT CORNER, THAT'S THE, UH, AREA OFF SHADOW OAK PARK.
SO WE'RE HOPING THAT, UM, AS WE CLEAR THESE DOWN, UH, RESIDENTS ARE PATIENT, AND THEN WE'LL GET SOME GROUND COVERINGS, UM, WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS.
UM, THE, THE LONG TERM SOLU, THE LONG TERM,
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UH, AESTHETICS WILL BE THAT THE LANDSCAPING WILL GO UP TO FOUR FEET AND WILL BE MAINTAINING IT, UM, THEREAFTER.AND SO, UM, IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN YOU SPRING CLEANING BEFORE YOU
SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT WITH THIS RIGHT NOW.
SO, UM, WE ALSO HAVE A WEBSITE WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO COMMUNICATE OR RELAY THAT INFORMATION WITH OUR RESIDENTS.
SO WE DID INCLUDE IT IN THE DISCOVER THAT THIS WAS COMING.
UM, WE DID DO SOCIAL MEDIA PUSH, UM, FOR OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND IT, WE ALSO CREATED A WEBPAGE ON OUR WEBSITE THAT'S SPECIFIC TO THE LMDS.
UM, AND, UH, SO YOU COULD SEE ON THE GIS MAP, UM, THE LMDS, DID YOU GO TO THE PAGE? NOT THE MAP, KAREN, THE LMD PAGE.
UM, SO SHE PULLS IT UP, IT DOES CONTAIN THE SAME INFORMATION, AND THIS WAY WE'RE TRYING TO BE VERY TRANSPARENT WITH OUR RESIDENTS AS TO WHAT'S GOING ON.
THE LMDS, THE WEBPAGE ALSO INCLUDES ALL OF THE ENGINEER'S REPORTS, WHAT'S BEEN BUDGETED FOR THAT LMD.
UM, SO IF YOU CAN SEE THERE, THE NEW LANDSCAPING CONTRACT, UH, SCOPE, AND THAT SHOWS SOME PICTURES OF WHAT IT'S GONNA LOOK LIKE WHILE IT'S BARREN.
AND THEN IF YOU SCROLL DOWN, UM, IT SHOW YOU CAN ACCESS ALL OF THE REPORTS FOR EACH OF THE LMDS, WHICH INCLUDES THE BUDGETS AND THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BUDGETS THAT ARE APPROVED FOR THOSE, UH, EACH DISTRICT.
UM, I KNOW AT THE LAST MEETING, UM, NEXT SLIDE, WE, UH, HAD PROMISED, UH, ONCE YOU GUYS APPROVED THE PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN, THAT WE WERE GONNA GET THAT GIS MAP ON THE WEBSITE.
UM, AND THEN IF YOU COULD PULL UP THE JS MAP, KAREN, SO THAT IF YOU GO TO THE WEBSITE AND YOU GO ON THE FIRST PAGE, UM, UNDER GIS UH, MAP HUB, IT'S THERE.
IT'S UNDER THE, UH, FIVE YEAR PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN.
AND IT'LL TAKE YOU TO THIS PAGE RIGHT HERE ON THE GIS MAP.
AND THIS IS THE, UH, RESIDENTIAL PAYMENT REHABILITATION PROGRAM MAP THAT INCLUDES THE COMPLETED AND SCHEDULED RESIDENTIAL STREETS FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
THE PMP ADDRESSES THE ENTIRE RESIDENTIAL CITY STREET REHAB NEEDS.
HOWEVER, HOWEVER, IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR PROP A AND PROP C FUNDING, WE ARE REQUIRED TO UPDATE IT EVERY THREE, EVERY THREE YEARS.
UM, AS SUCH, SOME OF THE PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL STREET IMPROVEMENTS MAY CHANGE.
UM, THE CITY IS BROKEN DOWN INTO 12 ZONES.
WE WILL START RESIDENTIAL STREET REHAB IMPROVEMENTS IN ZONE SIX, IF YOU CAN ZOOM INTO THAT ONE, AND I BELIEVE THAT'S THE TEAL ONE.
AND SO THAT IS SLATED FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR.
SO WE'RE GOING TO BE, UM, WE'RE ALREADY GOING OUT TO BID FOR THOSE, UH, STREET REHAB IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, FOLLOWING NEXT FISCAL YEAR WILL BE ZONE 12.
UH, THE FOLLOWING FISCAL YEAR FOR THAT WILL BE ZONE 11, ZONE ONE AND ZONE TWO.
UM, SO THE PINK IS, UH, WHAT'S BEEN COMPLETED IN PREVIOUS YEARS.
SO WHILE IT'S A FIVE YEAR PMP PLAN, UM, THIS ALSO REFLECTS WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE LAST, I THINK, 1, 2, 3, 4 OR FIVE YEARS AS WELL.
UM, SO IT SHOWS WHEN THE STREET WAS LAST PAVED IN PINK PER ZONE.
UM, AND THEN THE PROPOSED, UH, STREET REHAB IS IN GREEN.
AND SO THIS IS ACCESSIBLE TO ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS.
AND ONCE YOU CLICK ON IT, IF KAREN, YOU CAN CLICK ON IT, IT WILL SHOW YOU WHAT KIND OF IMPROVEMENT WAS DONE TO THAT SPECIFIC STREET.
AND SO, UM, WE'RE HOPING THAT THIS, LIKE I SAID, WE'RE BEING, TRY TRYING TO BE MORE TRANSPARENT AND SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH OUR RESIDENTS.
SO THIS IS ALL ACCESSIBLE, UM, ON OUR WEBSITE.
SO NEXT, UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN A COUNCIL PRIORITY AND WE HAVE BEEN WOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH THE CITY HAS BEEN WORKING ON GETTING THIS COMPLETED.
IT'S BEEN A COUPLE, UH, I THINK ONE OR TWO YEARS THAT IT'S BEEN IN THE WORKS FROM, UH, TESTING OUT DIFFERENT, UH, CAMERAS TO NOW FINALLY HAVING THEM, UH, ROLL OUT.
OUR OFFICERS ARE WEARING BODY-WORN CAMERAS, AND THEY'VE BEEN INSTALLED IN OUR VEHICLES.
AND SO, UH, OUR POLICE CHIEF AT THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING WILL GIVE A MUCH MORE IN-DEPTH, UH, PRESENTATION AS TO ALL OF, UH, OUR BODY-WORN CAMERAS, AND THE D UH, UM, JUST HOW THEY WORK.
SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO HAVE THAT ROLLED OUT.
THE NEXT ITEM IS, UM, I KNOW THE LAST MEETING, IT'S BEEN A WHILE, WE GOT APPROVAL TO GO TO OUR TAIWAN, UH, TRIP.
AND SO THIS IS KIND OF A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE TRIP.
UM, THE, WE DO HAVE A SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP WITH TIE NINE, AND SO WE WERE INVITED TO THEIR 400 YEAR EVENT.
UM, WE ATTENDED THAT ON FEBRUARY 24TH.
IT WAS THEIR, UH, OPENING CEREMONY FOR, UM, THEIR, WITH THEIR LANTERN FESTIVAL.
AND WE WERE, IT WAS INCLUDED A, UH, SPEECH, UH, UH, BY, UH, TAIWAN SPA, UH, PRESIDENT.
UM, AND WE ALSO, UM, SO WE WERE ABLE TO ATTEND THE CEREMONY.
YOU CAN SEE TONY, WHO HE WAS INVITED TO ATTEND AND SIT UP ON THE STAGE, AND IT WAS A VERY SPECTACULAR EVENT.
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WE GOT TO SEE IT, ITS YEAR THE DRAGON.THEY GOT TO, THEY LIT UP THE BIG DRAGON THAT YOU SEE ON THE PICTURE ON THE BOTTOM.
UH, THE NEXT DAY WE ATTENDED THE, UM, A, THE DELEGATION, UH, MEETING WITH, UH, ALL OF THE DELEGATIONS THAT TIE NINEX, UH, INVITED TO THIS EVENT.
AND IT INCLUDED A LOT OF DELEGATIONS FROM JAPAN, FROM, UH, KOREA.
AND THERE WAS ALSO ANOTHER DELEGATION FROM THE CITY OF TORRANCE.
UM, AND SO, UM, ACTUALLY OUR DELEGATION PICTURE, I THINK I SHARED IT ON THE FIRST PAGE, AND YOU GUYS WILL SEE MADE THE NATIONAL NEWS IN TAIWAN.
SO WE, UH, WE GOT SOME PUBLICITY FOR THE WEST COVINA DELEGATION.
SO OUT OF ALL OF THE DELEGATIONS, UM, IN THIS TIE NINE EVENT, THEY PICKED OUR, UH, DELEGATION TO, IN PICTURE TO INCLUDE IN THE NEWSPAPER.
AND SO THIS WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH VARIOUS DIGNITARIES, LIKE I SAID, FROM THE DIFFERENT, UH, COUNTRIES AND THEIR DELEGATIONS, UM, AND GET, UH, ACQUAINTED WITH THE MAYOR, UH, J NA YOUNG FROM, UH, GA YOUNG W.
UM, AND SO WE ALSO HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF, UH, HAVING, UM, THE LUNCHEON WITH, UH, THE MAYOR OF, UH, TAIWAN NINE.
THE NEXT EVENT, UM, OUR DELEGATION, OUR WEST COVINA DELEGATION, THEN WENT TO TAIWAN NINE IN GAO CHONG.
IT'S A MAJOR CITY IN HARBOR OF SOUTH TAIWAN.
FROM THERE, WE MET WITH MAYOR CHEN CHIMA DEPUTY, UH, MAYOR CHARLES LIN, AND COUNSELOR LYNN CHI HUNG TO DISCUSS A FRIENDLY SISTER RELATIONSHIP, UM, AND COLLABORATION OF BUSINESSES, UH, IMPORT EXPORTS, UM, TOURISM AND EDUCATION AND EXCHANGE, UH, STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMS. UH, THE CITY DID ASSIGN A, UH, LETTER OF INTENT TO ENTER TO SISTER CITY, UH, RE UH, RELATIONSHIP WITH GAU CHUNG.
AND WE ARE, UM, ANXIOUSLY WAITING FOR THEIR RESPONSE.
SO, UM, IT WAS A VERY FRUITFUL, UH, UM, TRIP NEXT, UH, AND STILL IN GAU CHUNG, WE WENT TO THE CITY MARINE BUREAU TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT THE INDUSTRIES MERCHANDISES AND OPERATIONS.
THEY'VE ALSO BEEN RECOGNIZED, OR THEY ARE RECOGNIZED AS THE THIRD BUSIEST HARBOR, AND CURRENTLY, UH, NUMBER FIFTH, UM, IN THE WORLD AS THE LARGEST YACHT MANUFACTURER.
AND THEY'RE LOOKING TO, UH, IMPROVE OR, UH, MAKE THEMSELVES MORE COMPETITIVE IN THE YACHT INDUSTRY.
UM, WE ALSO ATTENDED, UH, OR WENT TO THE MUSEUM FOR, UH, THE, UH, MANUFACTURER OF SEAFOOD FOOD, UH, HUNG YU FOOD, UM, LLC.
UH, AND THEY HAVE, UH, SO IT'S A MANUFACTURING AND THEY ALSO HAVE A EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM COMPONENT.
UH, AND WE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE CUTTLEFISH BALLS.
UM, IT WAS VERY INTRIGUING TO SEE HOW THEIR AUTOMATED PROJECTION LINE WORKS.
UM, AND THEY SHOWED US HOW THEY ARE REQUIRED TO, THEY MAKE THESE, UH, THEY'RE KNOWN FOR THEIR CUTTLEFISH BALLS.
UH, THE OWNER, MR. LIN, STARTED AS A STAND IN TRADITIONAL TAIWANESE NIGHT MARKET, AND IT'S NOW GROWN TO ONE OF THE, UH, TOP PRODUCERS OF CUTTLEFISH, UH, MANUFACTURER IN TAIWAN.
AND SO THEY SHOWED US HOW TO MAKE IT, AND WE SAW THE PROCESS OF HOW IT'S FROZEN AND PACKAGED FOR DISTRIBUTION, UM, INCLUDING THEY ALSO HANDLE DISTRIBUTION FOR OTHER, UH, PRODUCTS IN THEIR, UH, FACTORY.
UH, WE ALSO VISITED VEGGIE FRUITS, UH, CALIFORNIA FARM COOPERATIVE SOCIETY.
UM, THEY, UH, PROCESS, UH, IT'S A PROCESSING FACTORY WHERE WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TASTE, UH, THEIR FOODS AND LEARN ABOUT THEIR NEW HIGH TECH METHODS TO PROCESS VEGGIE FRUITS.
SO ONE OF THE ISSUES IN, UH, TAIWAN IS THAT THEY HEAVILY RELY ON, UM, IMPORTING FOOD FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.
IN PARTICULAR, I BELIEVE IT WAS WHEN CHINA, UM, THEY HAD CONCERN OR, UM, THERE WAS AN ISSUE WITH CHINA.
THEY STARTED, UH, LIMITING THEIR IMPORTS.
AND SO THEY HAD TO FIND A WAY TO PRESERVE SOME OF THEIR FOOD.
AND SO THEY'RE DOING, UH, FREEZE DRY FREEZING FOOD SO THAT THEY CAN PRESERVE IT FOR OTHER TIMES OF THE YEAR.
UM, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAD THERE THAT WAS VERY UNIQUE WAS, UH, THEY FREEZE DRY, UH, BROCCOLI, AND THEY SEASON IT, WHICH WAS VERY
SO, UM, WE ALSO WENT TO A FROZEN FE MANUFACTURER, FUFU FRUIT.
UM, AND THEY ARE INTERESTED IN SETTING UP ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION LINE WITH THE US AND WANT US, UH, TO CONSIDER THEY, AND WE WANT THEM TO CONSIDER WEST COVINA AS THEIR CHOICE OF LOCATION.
AND SO THIS WAS ANOTHER, UH, MANUFACTURING COMPANY WHERE, UM, THEY FREE, UH, FREEZE FROZEN FRUIT, AND THEY HAD A FROZEN, UH, MANGO THAT WAS VERY DELICIOUS AND TASTED VERY FRESH, SURPRISINGLY.
UM, THE NEXT ONE WAS A SHANG YANG INDU INDUSTRIAL
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COMPANY, AND THIS WASUM, SO THEY ARE ONE OF THE, UM, IS, SORRY.
THEY ARE THE THIRD LARGEST MOTOR PRODUCER IN TAIWAN, AND THEY DEVELOP AND MANUFACTURE SMALL MOTORS FROM POWER TOOLS, UM, FOR AUTOMOBILE MOTORS, FOR AUTOMOBILES, INCLUDING TESLA, UH, HUMAN, UH, ROBOTS, MEDICAL DEVICES, COMMUNICATION, UM, MOTORS FOR COMMUNICATION INDUSTRY, INDUSTRIAL AUTO OPTIMIZATION, HOUSEHOLD, UH, ITEMS AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS.
UM, THEY ALSO DO ROBOT AI TECHNOLOGY, AND WE HAVE, WE WERE GIFTED A, A ROBOT.
SO IF WE CAN DO A DEMONSTRATION, UM, THEY'RE VERY INTERESTED OR HIGHLY INTERESTED IN COMING TO WEST COVINA TO COLLABORATE WITH OUR LOCAL SCHOOLS TO DEVELOP INTELLECTUAL TALENT, PARTNERING WITH OUR STEM PROGRAMS TO DEVELOP AN EDUCATIONAL PRO, A PARTNERSHIP.
WE HAVE ALREADY REACHED OUT TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, UM, AS THEIR A CEO.
MR. SAI WILL BE RETURNING TO WEST COVINA THIS JULY.
AND WE HAVE A DEMONSTRATION IF WE CAN TAKE A MOMENT TO WATCH.
DO YOU, UH, ER, DO YOU WANNA TRY IT UP HERE ON THE PODIUM? DID WE TRY IT OR IS IT GONNA FALL? OH, IF YOU CAN JUST SHOW IT OFF, IT'S RIGHT THERE.
SO IT USES AI TECHNOLOGY TO FOLLOW THE LINES ON THE BOTTOM, THE, THE BOTTOM.
UM, NEXT WE MET WITH THE FORMER MAYOR OF, UH, TAIPEI CITY, O ONE G, UM, WHO ALSO HAPPENED TO BE A RECENT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR THE TAIWAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN 2024.
UM, WE WERE ABLE TO SHARE, UM, WITH HIM, UH, BEST PRACTICES FOR CITY POLICIES AND HOW TO IMPROVE THE LIFE OF OUR, IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND, UM, OUR RESIDENTS.
WE ALSO HAD THE HONOR OF MEETING WITH HANS, WHO, CAYO, UM, WHO'S THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, REPUBLIC OF CHINA, TAIWAN.
UM, AND HE REPRESENTS THE DEPARTMENT OF NORTH AMERICAN AFFAIRS TO DISCUSS THE COOPERATION BETWEEN WEST COVINA AND TAIWAN, AND ALSO, UH, THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN, UM, WEST, UH, WEST COVINA AND TAIWAN, THESE CITIES FOR INVESTMENT, BUSINESS, TOURISM, EDUCATION, AND STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMS. UM, WE ALSO DID A EXCHANGE WITH PINGTUNG, UH, COUNTY IN TAIWAN.
WE PRESENTED THEM WITH OUR TILE, AND IN EXCHANGE THEY PROVIDED US WITH, UM, A GIFT.
THE, UM, SO DURING OUR TRIP, THE WEST COVINA DELEGATION WAS ABLE TO GARNER MEDIA ATTENTION NATIONWIDE IN TAIWAN.
THIS WAS GREAT PROMOTION, UM, FOR OUR CITY AT A NATIONAL LEVEL IN ANOTHER COUNTRY.
AND SO, UM, IT WAS, OH, NEXT SLIDE.
THIS IS SOME OF THE MEDIA COVERAGE, UM, THAT WE GOT INCLUDING, UH, THE WEST COE EXAMINER THAT DID AN ARTICLE ON THE TRIP.
AND SO IT WAS A VERY FRUITFUL, VERY PRODUCTIVE, UH, TRIP, UH, VERY JAM PACKED.
WE HAD A LOT OF MEETINGS,
I KNOW THIS MONTH HAS BEEN VERY, VERY BUSY.
WE'VE HAD A LOT OF, UH, OPENING CEREMONIES FOR OUR, UH, LEAGUES.
UH, THIS WEEKEND WE HAVE THE EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA, UM, MARCH 23RD.
UM, SO WE'LL BE DOING IT AT CORTEZ PARK AND AT DEL NORTE PARK.
SO NINE 30 AT CORTEZ PARK AND 10:30 AM AT DEL NORTE PARK.
SO WE HOPE TO SEE EVERYONE THERE, UM, WITH THEIR EASTER EGG BASKETS READY.
UM, AND THEN THE NEXT EVENT WILL BE APRIL 27TH, UM, AT, UH, WEST CAMINO CIVIC CENTER.
AND I DID WANT TO INCLUDE THAT WE HAVE, UM, TWO ITEMS THAT I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE MENTION.
WE HAVE, UH, A, UH, DISTRICT, UH, QUARTERLY DISTRICT MEETING WITH COUNCIL MEMBER CONTOS.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE THE HIKE WITH THE MAYOR ON APRIL 2ND.
AND THAT INFORMATION WILL BE ON THE WEBSITE, UM, FOR, UH, DETAILS, I BELIEVE.
SO THE HIKE WITH THE MAYOR IS AT 10 O'CLOCK, AND IT'S GONNA BE FROM CAMERON TO, CAN YOU REMIND ME? I APOLOGIZE.
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UH, I THINK, UH, CORTEZ RIGHT? YEAH, IT'S AT CORTEZ.UM, AND SO THAT'LL BE ON OUR WEBSITE.
UM, AND I THINK THAT CONCLUDES MY CITY MANAGER'S REPORT.
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TO ORAL COMMUNICATIONS.IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL, PLEASE FILL OUT AN ORANGE SPEAKER CARD AND SUBMIT IT TO THE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK.
WHEN YOU HEAR YOUR NAME BEING CALLED, PLEASE START LINING UP IN THE CENTER ROW.
THE TIMER WILL START WHEN YOUR NAME IS CALLED TO SPEAK.
HOW MANY SPEAKERS DO WE HAVE TONIGHT? 22 MAYOR.
SO IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, I WOULD LIKE TO SET THE SPEAKING TIME TO THREE MINUTES.
OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS ANGIE GILLINGHAM, FOLLOWED BY VALERIE MUN MUNOZ, FOLLOWED BY JOHN SCHUMAKER.
I WISH TO THANK THE MAYOR FOR BRINGING FORTH THE SUBJECT OF THE LONG ONGOING DISCUSSION OF THE CREATION OF THE WEST COVINA HEALTH.
THE STAFF REPORT CONTINUES TO RECYCLE THE SAME INFO ON COSTS THAT CANNOT BE GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC.
DUE TO THE STATE HAS NOT PROVIDED INFORMATION BACK TO THE CITY, SO THEY CAN'T BEGIN TO ESTABLISH ITS OWN HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
THE REPORT SUGGEST FEES AND GRANTS WILL BE NEEDED IF NEEDED, IF AND WHEN THIS BOONDOGGLE PROJECT DOES EVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY.
WE HAVE ASKED WHO IS PAYING DR.
BASIL IS POTENTIALLY BEING PAID UNDER THE TRANSTECH CONTRACT WITH THE CITY.
WHAT THE RESIDENTS HAVE ASKED FOR TIME AND TIME AGAIN SINCE 2021, IS THE AMOUNT OF STAFF HOURS COSTS SINCE THAT DATE, WHICH THIS REPORT DOES NOT PROVIDE.
THE REPORT STATES, THE CITY HAS MET WITH COUNTY AND STATE OFFICIALS MANY TIMES OVER THE YEARS ON THIS SUBJECT THAT EQUATES TO HOURS AND TIME THAT COULD HAVE BEEN PROVIDED HERE IN THIS REPORT.
WHY IS IT NOT BEING ACCOUNTED FOR? BUT AGAIN, THE RESIDENTS REQUESTS HAVE BEEN IGNORED.
LASTLY, THE STAFF REPORTS CRITICIZES THE COUNTY AND STATE IS NOT BEING PRUDENT, JUST WHEN HAS A CITY EXERCISE BEING PRUDENT.
VALERIE MUNOZ, FOLLOWED BY JOHN SHOEMAKER, FOLLOWED BY BRIAN JOBS.
UH, GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.
I'M VALERIE MUNOZ, COUNCIL MEMBER FOR THE CITY OF LAPUENTE, YOUR REPRESENTATIVE ON THE SAN GABRIEL BASIN WATER QUALITY AUTHORITY.
UM, I JUST WANTED TODAY TO BRING JUST A GENERAL INFORMATION IN REGARDS TO, UM, SUPPORT LETTERS THAT OUR AGENCY IS REQUESTING FROM ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND CITIES IN REGARDS TO, UM, APPROPRIATION FUNDS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR FUNDING ELEMENTS.
UM, I DID PROVIDE A COPY OF THAT FOR ALL OF COUNCIL.
I KNOW I SPOKE WITH MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBER CONTOS MORE RECENTLY IN REGARDS TO THIS TOPIC AS WELL.
SO, AS WE ALL KNOW, THE SAN GABRIEL BASIN WATER QUALITY AUTHORITY IS A, HAS A LONGSTANDING, UM, EFFORTS TO CLEAN UP CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER IN THE SAN GABRIEL BASIN, INCLUDING CITY OF WEST COVINA.
AND THE EPA, UM, HAS DESIGNATED, UH, MAJORITY PORTIONS TO THE AGENCY REGARDING, UM, WATER CLEANUP EFFORTS.
SO IN 2001, CONGRESS ESTABLISHED THE SAN GABRIEL BASIN RESTORATION FUND, AND THIS IS, UM, AN INTEREST BEARING ACCOUNT, WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED TO REIMBURSE THE WATER QUALITY AUTHORITY AND THE CENTRAL BASIN, I MEAN, MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT TO DESIGN AND TO TREAT WATER IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.
SO A LOT OF QUESTIONS I'VE HAD IS, WELL, WHAT HAPPENS TO THAT MONEY? WELL, ONLY THE WATER QUALITY AUTHORITY AND THE CENTRAL BASIN ARE ABLE TO ALLOCATE THOSE FUNDS FEDERALLY TO CONTINUE THE WATER CLEANUP IN THE AREA.
SO IT'S OUR GOAL TO GET SUPPORT LETTERS FROM CITIES SO THAT OUR CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS CAN SEE THE IMPORTANCE OF ENSURING THAT WE GET THOSE FUNDINGS IN AN APPROPRIATE MANNER SO WE CAN CONTINUE THE CLEANUP EFFORTS IN THE BASIN.
UM, AS YOU KNOW, THE GA UM, BASIN PROVIDES 90% OF DRINKING WATER SUPPLIED OVER 1.4 MILLION RESIDENTS AND SOME CONTAMINATION REMOVED, UM, OVER THE YEARS IS WHAT WE USE THESE FUNDINGS FOR.
UM, WITHOUT THESE FUNDING, WATER RATES MAY RISE, AND OUR GOAL IS TO ENSURE THAT DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES DON'T SEE THAT ON THEIR WATER BILLS.
SO BY ASKING FOR THE FUNDING THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN ALLOCATED TO THE AGENCIES SINCE 2001, THAT WE'RE ABLE TO GET THOSE MONIES IN, IN APP IN AMPLE TIME.
SO I KNOW I ONLY HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME LEFT, SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.
AND I REALLY HOPE THAT THE CITY OF WEST COVINA AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, OR COUNCIL AS A WHOLE WOULD BE WILLING TO SEND A SUPPORT LETTER ON BEHALF, UM, TO SHOW, UM, SUPPORT FOR THE WATER QUALITY AUTHORITY.
UH, REAL, REAL QUICK, BEFORE OUR, OUR NEXT SPEAKER, UM, I JUST WANNA MAKE IT CLEAR, UH, DURING PUBLIC COMMENT OR ACTUALLY ANY, ANY COMMENT, UH, IF YOU WANNA HAVE A CONVERSATION, UH, PLEASE, UH, HAVE IT UPSTAIRS.
WE HAVE A LIVE FEED, UH, AND THEN YOU CAN COME BACK IN BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE, THE ECHO MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO, TO HEAR THE, THE SPEAKER IF THERE'S ANY LITTLE CONVERSATION.
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AGAIN, UM, WE HAVE A LIVE FEED UP IN THE OTHER ROOM, SO IF YOU DO NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION, PLEASE HAVE IT UP THERE AND THEN YOU CAN REENTER.JOHN SCHUMAKER, FOLLOWED BY BRIAN JOBS, FOLLOWED BY R ROBINSON.
ONE MEMBER OF OUR CITY COUNCIL, TONY WU, WHO'S A SUBJECT OF A RECALL, IS VERY GOOD AT DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY.
COUNTY COMES UP HERE AND TALKS ABOUT THE LIBRARY, AND HE'S DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY IF YOU DON'T OPEN IT.
WHEN TRANSTECH WAS IN HERE ONE TIME, HE WAS DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY, AND THEY WOULD GET FIRED IF THEY DIDN'T DO CERTAIN THINGS.
WHEN OUR STREET SWEEPING COMPANY WAS HERE, HE DEMANDED THAT THEY BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE IF THEY DON'T FULFILL, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE CONTRACT THAT HE SEES.
WHAT'S GREAT TO SEE IS THE VOTERS IN DISTRICT FIVE ARE STARTING THE PROCESS TO HOLD TONY WU ACCOUNTABLE SINCE HE WON'T DO IT HIMSELF.
HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN LOOKING AT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT? WELL, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS GONNA BE UNTIL THE STATE APPROVES IT.
WELL, ANYBODY WITH ANY SENSE IN BUSINESS IS GOING TO SAY, WHAT DOES A HEALTH DEPARTMENT DO? HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST TO DO ALL THOSE THINGS? AND SEE IF IT'S PRACTICAL.
YOU DON'T WAIT TO BE TOLD AFTER SPENDING HOW MANY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON IT THAT, OH, WE CAN'T AFFORD TO DO THAT.
BUT HE DOESN'T SEEM TO QUITE UNDERSTAND THAT.
WHAT IS IT? UH, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE MOVIE, UH, WITH, UH, ROBERT NEW, UM, NOT, YOU KNOW, IT WITH, UH, GOD, I WENT BLANK.
LUKE, WE SEEM TO HAVE A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE.
YOU KNOW, THAT IT, IT'S JUST AMAZING HOW YOU CAN DO THAT.
WE HAVE NOT SEEN ONE, HOW IT'S GOING TO BE HANDLED.
LET'S ALSO TALK ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY.
THE SPORTSPLEX BACK IN, WAS IT, UH, 2020 OR 2021, HE SAID, IT'S GOING TO BE A MONEY MAKER FOR THE CITY.
DOES HE UNDERSTAND THAT? IF YOU'RE SPENDING, I THINK IT'S AROUND TWO AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS NOW, AND YOU BRING IN A COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, THAT'S NOT A MONEYMAKER.
YOU KNOW, AGAIN, WE SEEM TO HAVE A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE.
I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT TERMS HE USES.
PLEASE TELL US, GIVE US A COUNCIL MEMBER TO ENGLISH DICTIONARY SO WE KNOW WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO.
'CAUSE IT SEEMS TO BE THE OPPOSITE.
OH, WE'RE, WE, WERE ON THE VERGE OF FINANCIAL DISASTER.
WE, WE HAVE OVERSPENT EVERY YEAR FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS.
AND EVEN THE CFO OF OUR, OF OUR CITY SAID A COUPLE YEARS AGO, OR WHEN SHE FIRST CAME ON THAT WE WERE GOING TO OVERSPEND ANOTHER 25 MILLION.
BRIAN JOBS FOLLOWED BY R ROBINSON, FOLLOWED BY LISA MAYO.
GOOD TO BE BACK IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS.
I'M A 35 YEAR RESIDENT OF WEST COVINA.
I AM HERE TO TALK THIS EVENING ABOUT THE, UH, RECALL OF YOU, MR. WU.
MR. WU, AT THE LAST CITY COUNCIL MEETING, YOU BLAME THE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK LADY RIGHT HERE.
YOU DID NOT RESPOND TO THE RECALL.
NOTICE THAT YOU WERE SERVED WITH MR. WU.
A PHOTOGRAPH OF YOU RECEIVING THAT RECALL NOTICE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPER.
THE NOTICE THAT WAS PLACED INTO YOUR HAND SAID YOU HAD SEVEN DAYS TO RESPOND TO IT.
ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS READ THE NOTICE.
READING THAT NOTICE WAS NEVER HAS BEEN AND NEVER WILL BE THE CITY CLERK'S RESPONSIBILITY.
IT'S THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PERSON THAT'S SERVED WITH THE RECALL NOTICE.
MAKE NO MISTAKE, MR. WU, YOU ARE GOING TO BE RECALLED WHEN THAT HAPPENS.
YOU'RE GOING TO GET VERY ANGRY.
IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS YOU DO BEST.
YOU GET ANGRY, AND THEN YOU'RE GOING TO BLAME EVERYONE FOR YOUR RECALL, EXCEPT FOR THE VERY PERSON THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR MESS.
THOSE OF YOU HERE IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, THOSE OF YOU WATCHING ON TV, THOSE OF YOU ONLINE, GO TO TONY WU RECALL.COM.
THANK YOU AND GOOD EVENING, UH, ROBINSON,
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FOLLOWED BY LISA MAYO, FOLLOWED BY RAPHAEL CASTON.UH, I BROUGHT SOME GOOD NEWS, UH, SIGNS OF THE GREAT, UH, GLOBAL C UH, SCAM, UH, CRUMBLING, UH, CONTINUE TO EMERGE.
THE LATEST MAJOR EVENT HARDLY REPORTED BY THE LEGACY MEDIA PROPAGANDISTS IS A FLORIDA SUPREME COURT CASE NUMBER SC 24.
IT WAS ELECTRONICALLY FILED ON MARCH 3RD.
IT, UH, THE FLORIDA SUPREME, UH, COURT, UH, HAS AN EMERGENCY PETITION, UH, FOR A WRIT OF MANDATE.
THE PETITIONER IS DR. JOSEPH SANSONE VERSUS, UH, GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS.
AND, UH, STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHLEY, UH, MOODY.
UH, RESPONDENTS, UH, THE ENTIRE 74 PAGE, UH, PETITION CAN BE, CAN BE FOUND ONLINE.
I'LL, I'LL EXPLAIN THE WRIT AND THE, UH, CASE ARGUMENTS.
UH, ONE, SEEKING A WRIT OF MANDATE, UM, MUST DEMONSTRATE A CLEAR LEGAL RIGHT TO THE PERFORMANCE OF A CLEAR LEGAL DUTY BY A PUBLIC OFFICER.
AND, AND THAT NO OTHER REMEDIES ARE AVAILABLE.
MANDAMUS IS USED TO COMPEL THE EXERCISE OF MINISTERIAL DUTIES, WHICH ARE DEFINED AS DUTIES POSITIVELY IMPOSED BY LAW TO BE CON PERFORMED AT A TIME AND IN A, IN A MANNER OR UPON CONDITIONS, WHICH ARE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNATED BY THE LAW ITSELF.
A A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION MEANS ANY DEVICE OR OBJECT THAT IS DESIGNED OR INTENDED TO CAUSE DEATH OR SERIOUS BODILY INJURY TO ANY HUMAN, UH, THROUGH THE RELEASED DISSEMINATION OR IMPACT OF TOXIC OR POISONOUS CHEMICALS OR THEIR PRECURSORS, OR ANY DEVICE OR OBJECT INVOLVING A BIOLOGICAL AGENT, UH, BIOLOGICAL AGENTS CAPABLE OF CAUSING DISEASE, DISABILITY, INFERTILITY, UM, DEATH.
UM, THE FACTS OF THIS CASE EVIDENCED ABOVE DEMONSTRATE SELF ASSEMBLING NANOTECHNOLOGY PRESENT IN THE COVID-19 INJECTIONS, WHICH DO QUALIFY AS A DEVICE DESIGNED AND INTENDED TO CAUSE HARM, AS DOES THE USE OF SUCH TECHNOLOGY OR OTHER BIOLOGICAL AGENT RESULTING IN DEATH OR HARM, REPEATEDLY DISTRIBUTING A BIOLOGICAL AGENT OR DEVICE, UH, CAUSING HARM IN MASS, UH, ESPECIALLY AFTER AS WELL KNOWN, KNOWN TO CAUSE HARM, QUALIFIES AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND A BIOLOGICAL WEAPON.
AND THEN IT GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT, UH, UH, GENOCIDE AND, UH, TREASON AND DOMESTIC TERRORISM.
LISA MAYO, FOLLOWED BY RAPHAEL CASTON, FOLLOWED BY DOUG FUR.
I DON'T EVEN NEAR ME 'CAUSE I DON'T WANNA WASTE MY TIME, BUT ANYWAY, GOOD TO SEE YOU.
I WANNA TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING VERY SERIOUS.
MY MAIL HAS BEEN STOLEN SEVERAL TIMES, AND I DECIDED TO GO TO HAVE A MEETING WITH, UH, POSTMASTER ERICA, WHICH SHE WAS VERY KIND TO ME AND SPENT MORE THAN AN HOUR EXPLAINING TO ME WHY WEST COVINA HAS A HIGH RISE OF THEFT IN MALES.
SO I ASKED HER TO HELP ME TO COME UP WITH WHAT WE CAN DO AS A COMMUNITY TO AVOID THIS BECAUSE IT'S A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM IN WEST COVINA.
UNLESS YOU'VE GOT A LOCKING KEY OR A PO BOX, UH, YOUR MAIL WILL BE STOLEN.
EACH ERA, AMERICANS TRUST THE US POSTAL SERVICE WITH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN PACKAGES, AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF THOSE ARRIVE SAFELY AT THEIR INTENDED DESTINATION.
BUT THERE ARE ALWAYS THIEVES WHO WILL TARGET THE MAIL.
POSTAL INSPECTORS INVESTIG THESE CRIMES AND ARREST THOUSANDS OF MAIL AND PACKAGE THIEVES EACH YEAR.
STILL, THERE ARE EXTRA STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO ENSURE YOUR MAIL ARRIVES SAFELY AT YOUR DESTINATION.
ONE OF THEM IS PROMPTLY PICK UP YOUR MAIL.
NUMBER TWO, INQUIRE ABOUT OVERDUE MAIL.
SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION AND LAST FILE A CHANGE OF ADDRESS.
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I ASKED HER WHAT OTHER THINGS WE CAN DO.SHE SAID, GO TO THE MAIL POSTAL.COM AND GET A NEW MAILBOX BOX WITH A KEY.
UH, I HAVE VIDEO CAMERAS IN MY HOME.
I TURN MY MAILBOX AROUND HOPING THAT I COULD CATCH THE THIEVES.
I HAVE VIDEO CAMERAS AND I COULD THEN SHOW THAT TO THE POLICE.
WELL, THEY'RE SMARTER THAN THAT.
I HAPPEN TO FIND A WOMAN THAT I HAPPENED TO SEE HER DOWN THE STREET IN THIS, UH, CAR.
ALL OF A SUDDEN SHE'S IN MY CUL-DE-SAC, AND SHE'S NOT PARKING ANYWHERE.
I GAVE HER THE CHICAGO STAIR, OF COURSE, COMING FROM CHICAGO.
UH, AND THEN SHE FIGURED OUT THAT I WAS ACTUALLY LOOKING AT HER.
THEN SHE PRETENDED TO BE LOOKING AT HER TIRE.
WE HAVE TO BE AWARE AS A COMMUNITY.
SO I BROUGHT THIS ALONG AND I'M GONNA PUT THAT OUT THERE.
BUT I REALLY WOULD LOVE FOR THIS TO BE POSTED IN OUR WEBSITE SO THAT THERE COULD BE SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.
'CAUSE THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS, I MEAN, THEY ARE ACTUALLY EVEN STEALING THE MAIL FROM THE MAILMAN.
IF HE PARKS AND WALKS AROUND, THEY COME TO THE BACK AND TAKE OUT THE MAIL.
RAPHAEL CAST, FOLLOWED BY DOUG FOUR, FOLLOWED BY MATTHEW SMITH MEETINGS.
I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT, UH, THESE HOMES THAT ARE POPPING UP.
THESE GROUP HOMES ARE POPPING UP IN WEST COVINA.
THERE'S TWO OF 'EM IN MY STREET.
I LIVE ON DEL HAVEN, DOWN THE STREET FROM YOU.
UM, SINCE THESE HOMES CAME INTO MY NEIGHBORHOOD, THERE'S BEEN A PROLIFERATION OF, UH, DRUG PARAPHERNALIA ON THE STREETS.
EMPTY, UH, EMPTY, UH, LIQUOR BOTTLES.
IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A SOBER LIVING HOME, BUT I DON'T THINK ANYBODY'S SOBER IN THAT HOME.
UH, WE RECENTLY JUST FOUND OUT THAT IT'S NOT JUST A SOBER LIVING HOME, BUT THERE'S A CONVICTED, UH, SEXUAL PREDATOR, A CHILD MOLESTER.
HE WAS CONVICTED OF REPEATEDLY ASSAULTING ONE INDIVIDUAL.
THAT HOME HAS BEEN CONVERTED INTO THIS MAZE.
UM, ONE OF OUR NEIGHBORS, THOUGH, ONE OF MY FRIENDS, WAS IN THAT HOME.
AND THAT FOUR BEDROOM DWELLING HAS BEEN CONVERTED INTO THIS, THIS MAZE OF, OF CUBICLES WHERE THEY'VE GOT MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS IN THERE.
UM, CAN WE HOLD THE OWNERS ACCOUNTABLE? IT'S A CORPORATION THAT OWNS THESE HOMES, AND THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY SUB 'EM OUT TO THE STATE.
THE STATE GIVES THEM A NICE FLAT CHECKS AND NO ONE'S WATCHING.
I'VE HAD PEOPLE FROM THAT HOME COME TO MY HOUSE, ASK ME IF I'D BE WILLING TO ACCEPT PACKAGES THAT ARE SENT TO THEM.
NOW MIND YOU, YOU COME TO MY HOUSE.
I LOVE MY NEIGHBORS, BUT I DON'T LIKE STRANGERS.
AND THEY KEPT COMING BACK TO THE POINT WHERE I HAD TO PHYSICALLY THREATEN THEM TO GET OFF MY PROPERTY.
I WAS NOT GONNA CALL THE POLICE.
I WASN'T GONNA CALL AN AMBULANCE.
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE MOVING IN AND OUT OF THESE GROUP HOMES.
I'VE GOT TWO OF 'EM ON MY BLOCK.
I LIVE HALF A BLOCK FROM WEST COVE ELEMENTARY.
HIS NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR HAS A 4-YEAR-OLD LITTLE GIRL, AND HE'S SCARED.
WE CAN'T HAVE THESE GROUP HOMES IN WEST COVINA AND MAINTAIN, WE CAN'T BE WEST COVINA IF THIS IS WHERE WE'RE ALLOWING TO HAPPEN.
I, I'M NOT INTERESTED IN BUDGETS.
I'M NOT INTERESTED IN POLITICS.
I'M INTERESTED IN KIDS BEING ABLE TO WALK IN THE STREETS.
I'M INTERESTED IN NOT HAVING TO FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO CARRY AROUND MY CCW EVERYWHERE I GO.
THAT'S WHAT I'M INTERESTED IN.
ONE THING YOU CAN DO, HIRE MORE COPS, CUT WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO CUT ALL POLITICS ASIDE.
WE GOT ONE NEW OFFICER I CLAPPED AND I SAID, GOOD.
WHERE'S THE OTHER 39? WE NEED, EVERYONE HERE KNOWS WE NEED MORE COPS.
WE ARE, WHAT IS YOUR NAME? LAEL.
CAN WE HAVE OUR CHIEF TO TALK TO YOU? YOU CAN.
DOUG FOUR, FOLLOWED BY MATTHEW SMITH, FOLLOWED BY YASMINE CARDONA.
HELLO, CITY OF WEST COVINA, STAFF AND COUNCIL.
MY NAME IS DOUG FOR, I LIVE IN THIS AWESOME CITY OWN BUSINESSES IN THIS AWESOME CITY, AND I LOVE THIS CITY.
AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN ASKING FOR UPDATES FOR OUTDOOR DINING FOR
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OVER A YEAR NOW.MS. MORALES LAST MEETING SAID THAT DEVELOPMENT CODE WAS GETTING UPDATED AND THAT IT WAS APPROVED AT THE LAST MEETING.
UM, IT WAS 2 5 1 9 FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND.
I WENT THROUGH THE 311 PAGES DOCUMENT AND I COULD FIND TWO ITEMS RELATED TO OUTDOOR DINING.
SECTION 5K THAT STATED NEW SECTION FOR OUTDOOR DINING, INCLUDING NOT REQUIRING PARKING FOR THE FIRST 500 SQUARE FEET OF OUTDOOR DINING.
AND SECTION FIVE DASH L SAID, ADD DESIGN REQUIREMENTS FOR OUTDOOR DINING.
CAN YOU TELL ME IF THESE ARE WHAT YOU GUYS WERE TALKING ABOUT AND WHAT WAS CHANGED? OR DID I MISS SOMETHING IN THE OTHER 310 PAGES? AND CAN YOU REFERENCE THAT PAGE NUMBER FOR ME PLEASE? ALSO, I FINALLY GOT AN EMAIL FROM MS. BURNS AFTER SIX MONTHS, THE PLANNING MANAGER TODAY AT 4:00 PM STATING THAT THEY'RE STILL WAITING FOR A SURVEY SURVEY.
IT MAKES ZERO SENSE TO WASTE CITY MONEY TO GET A SURVEY ON A PARKING LOT THAT THIS CITY KNOWS THAT YOU GUYS ALREADY OWN.
I WENT AND LOOKED AT THE PLOT MAPS FOR MY BUILDINGS THAT ARE THERE, AND I SEE THE LOT LINES.
THE CITY ALREADY KNOWS YOU OWN THE PARKING LOT.
WHY ARE WE WASTING MONEY ON A SURVEY IF WE DO WANNA WASTE MONEY ON A SURVEY? 'CAUSE YOU WANNA FIND SOMETHING ELSE OUT.
WHY DOES IT TAKE SIX MONTHS TO GET IT? THE CITY OWNS THE PARKING LOT.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THE CITY'S WASTING MONEY ON SURVEY.
ALSO, REGARDING TONIGHT'S AGENDA, ITEM NUMBER NINE, HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
THIS CITY SHOULD NOT BE RUNNING A HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UM, AFFECTING ALL BIG AND SMALL RESTAURANTS, RETIREMENT HOMES, HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, CONVENIENCE STORES, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT TAKES OVER A YEAR TO DISCUSS OUR OUTDOOR DINING.
THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER ITEMS THAT THIS COUNCIL CAN DO, INCLUDING NEIGHBORHOODS, TRAFFIC FLOAT THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED.
THE CITY CAN'T EVEN RUN ITS OWN 9 1 1 DEPARTMENT ANYMORE, AND WE WANNA RUN A HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
IF WE CAN, UH, HOLD ON TO FIX THE ALL I AM I'M SURE SHE'S PREPARED.
NEXT, ARE WE READY FOR THE NEXT SPEAKER? YES.
YOU'LL GET A, UH, GOOD EVENING CITY COUNSEL.
YOU WILL GET A HANDOUT RIGHT NOW.
IF I NEED TO GET STARTED, UM, I WOULD LIKE YOU TO LOOK AT THE HANDOUT PROVIDED.
THE TOP TWO PICTURES ON THE PAPER ARE REAL, IS A RELATIVELY NEW STARBUCKS ON BARRANCA AND GARVEY.
YOU CAN SEE THE FIRST PHOTO THERE HAS BEEN, THERE HAS BEEN A LEFT TURN ARROW ADDED TO WHAT WAS ONCE A STANDARD DOUBLE YELLOW LINE.
AND, UM, THE YELLOW LINE HAS BEEN REMOVED.
SO A LEFT TURN COULD BE DONE INTO THE STARBUCKS DRIVE-THROUGH.
YOU CAN ALSO SEE THE LANE IS BLOCKED WITH A PERSON WAITING TO TURN LEFT, BUT THE LINE IS ALREADY OUT THE DRIVEWAY IN THE SECOND PHOTO TO YOU SEE THE EXIT, THE RIGHT TURN ONLY ABOUT 30 YARDS AWAY FROM THE INTERSECTION TO THE FREEWAY ENTRANCE.
THE NEXT THREE PHOTOS BELOW ARE A NEWER ESTABLISHMENT, CHICK-FIL-A ON BARRANCA AND GARVEY.
THE FIRST PHOTO YOU SEE IS AN ENTRY EXIT DRIVEWAY.
THE NEXT PHOTO YOU SEE IS THE SAME DRIVEWAY ACROSS AND ACROSS THE STREET.
UH, THE EXIT FOR THE WEST SIDE ON BARRANCA.
YOU CAN SEE HOW FAR THE CAR IS IN THE SECONDHAND TURN LANE OVER.
AND THE THIRD PICTURE YOU SEE IS A CAR TURNING LEFT AND IS CLEARLY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET.
IF A CAR IS TAKING A LEFT, HAVE A CHICK-FIL-A SIMULTANEOUSLY, WHEN THE CAR TAKING A LEFT OUT OF, UH, OFF THE FREEWAY, THEY WILL ABSOLUTELY HIT EACH OTHER.
LET'S CALL THE STARBUCKS CHANGES CREATIVE.
LET'S CALL THE CHICK-FIL-A EXIT CHALLENGING.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, PEOPLE WILL FIGURE IT OUT.
I KNOW NOT TO TAKE A LEFT-HAND TURN WHEN LEAVING THE CHICK-FIL-A WHEN THERE'S A CAR ACROSS FROM ME MAKING A LEFT-HAND TURN.
I KNOW THAT THE LANES GET BLOCKED AT STARBUCKS GOING INTO THE SHOPPING CENTER, AND YOU ENTER AN EXIT THROUGH THE CITRUS SIDE.
SO I'M GONNA SAY SOMETHING UNEXPECTED.
THE CITY COUNCIL ADDED TWO FRANCHISES THAT PEOPLE IN WEST COVINA LOVE BY ADDING TWO FRANCHISES THAT BUILDS A STRONGER TAX BASE FOR THE CITY BUDGET.
IT WOULD ALSO SPECULATE, I WOULD ALSO SPECULATE THAT THE APARTMENTS AND HOUSING IN THE NEARBY AREA PROVIDE 50% OR
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MORE OF THE EMPLOYEES OR RESIDENTS THAT WORK AT THESE TWO ESTABLISHMENTS.I KNOW THAT SMALL LOCAL RESTAURANTS ARE NOT BIG FRANCHISES, BUT WE GIVE TAX, AUTO TAX DOLLARS AND CREATE LOCAL JOBS.
WE ONCE AGAIN, ASK FOR SOME KIND OF ANSWER FROM CITY COUNCIL THAT THEY'RE INTERESTED OR NOT INTERESTED IN ASSISTING LOCAL RESTAURANTS WITH AN EASIER PROCESS FOR OUTDOOR DINING.
WE WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT THE CITY OF WEST COVINA AND ITS RESIDENCE.
HAVE NO DESIRE TO CHANGE THAT NO MATTER WHAT YOUR DECISION IS REGARDING OUTDOOR DINING.
WE ARE JUST LOOKING FOR THE CITY COUNCIL TO SAY YES OR NO REGARDING THE SUPPORT OF WEST COVINA RESTAURANTS SO WE CAN PLAN.
IT'S BEEN 12 MONTHS REGARDING ITEM NUMBER NINE, THE AGENDA, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
WE ARE YOUR BIGGEST SUPPORTERS OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
IN FACT, AT A COMMUNITY BUDGET MEETING LAST YEAR, WE ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT SUPPORTED IT AFTER THIS LAST YEAR REGARDING THE ISSUES WITH OUTDOOR DINING.
WE HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE IN THE CITY RUNNING A HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
IT'S A GOOD WAY TO END YASMINE CORD.
EXCUSE ME, YASMINE CORDONA, FOLLOWED BY PHILIP GOMEZ, FOLLOWED BY JAMES GUTIERREZ.
THANK YOU MAYOR TABBA CALON AND MEMBERS OF THE WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL FOR YOUR TIME AND EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR OUR COMMUNITY AS AN EDUCATOR.
I WANT TO FIRSTLY APOLOGIZE FOR NOT FULLY EDUCATING THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE GENOCIDE THAT IS CURRENTLY OCCURRING IN PALESTINE AT THE LAST MEETING AND HOW THIS AFFECTS CONSTITUENTS LOCALLY.
I THANK MAYOR BRIAN FOR YOUR COURAGE AND IN MOVING TO AGENDIZE, THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION AND PRAY THAT A SECOND MEMBER SECONDS THE MOTION SO ALL OUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE ON THE RESOLUTION.
NOW, THIS ALSO HELPS YOUR CONSTITUENTS MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION ABOUT WHO ADDRESSES MATTERS THAT ARE OF GRAVE CONCERN TO OUR COMMUNITY.
I'M PROUD TO SHARE THAT OUR SOCAL FOR A CEASEFIRE COLLECTIVE SU SUCCESSFULLY PASSED THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION IN POMONA IN JANUARY.
YESTERDAY, ALL SEVEN PASADENA CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS UNANIMOUSLY VOTED TO ADOPT A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION MAKING THIS THE 77TH CITY TO DO SO.
THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 500 PEOPLE.
THERE WERE 500 PEOPLE PRESENT AT THE MEETING LAST NIGHT.
OUR COALITION IS COMPOSED OF DIVERSE VOICES, WHICH INCLUDE JEWISH, ARAB, UH, AFRICAN, BLACK, LATINO, CHICANO, ASIAN INDIGENOUS EUROPEAN PROGRESSIVE L-G-B-T-Q-I-A GROUPS, UH, THOSE WITH DIVERSE ABILITIES, BACKGROUNDS, RELIGIONS WHO STRONGLY OPPOSE ANTISEMITISM, ISLAMOPHOBIA, AND GENOCIDE.
WE REFUSE TO REMAIN SILENT IN THE FACE OF INJUSTICE.
A CHILD ALSO AT THE MEETING, TWO CHILDREN ONE SEVEN AND ONE 11 SPOKE AND UNDERSTOOD THAT A VOTE IN SUPPORT OF A RESOLUTION IS NEITHER COMPLEX NOR DIVISIVE.
ACCORDING TO DATA, UH, FROM DATA FOR PROGRESS, IN FEBRUARY 27TH, AROUND TWO THIRDS OF VOTER VOTERS, INCLUDING, UM, MAJORITIES OF DEMOCRATS, 77% INDEPENDENTS, 69%, AND REPUBLICANS, 56% SUPPORT THE US CALLING FOR A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE.
AS OF TODAY, CLOSE TO 32,000 PALESTINIANS AND 1200 NUM, UH, 1200 ISRAELITES, UM, HAVE BEEN MARTYRED MAKING THIS A LOCAL ISSUE.
WE RECOGNIZE THE 100 HOSTAGES, WHILE ALSO RECOGNIZING 11,600 PALESTINIANS DETAINED IN JAILS.
WITHOUT JUDICIAL PROCESS MAKING THIS A LOCAL ISSUE, YOUR CONSTITUENTS ARE URGING FOR CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION, MAKING THIS A LOCAL ISSUE.
ADDITIONALLY, APPROXIMATELY 2 MILLION OF OUR CITY'S FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS WERE SENT TO ISRAEL LAST YEAR MAKING THIS A LOCAL ISSUE.
TO ADDRESS, UH, THE PRESENTATION EARLIER, WE ARE FIGHTING AGAINST MOSQUITOES.
I CANNOT IMAGINE FIGHTING AGAINST BOMBS, FAMINES, AND EXPOSURE TO THE ELEMENTS.
I IMPLORE THE CITY COUNCIL TO PER, UH, TO AGENDA THANK YOU ITEM.
YES, PHILLIP GOMEZ, FOLLOWED BY JAMES GUTIERREZ, FOLLOWED BY BILL ELLIOT.
GOOD EVENING MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
I AM HERE VICTOR, TO, UM, EXPRESS MY CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON, UH, WHAT'S GOING ON INTERNATIONALLY.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO CALL, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL FOR, UH, FOR A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION ADDED ONTO THE CITY AGENDA AND WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? IT'S BEEN, IT'S BEEN ALMOST 160 DAYS NOW, AND THE SLAUGHTER JUST CONTINUES WITH THERE.
MY, UH, MY TAX DOLLARS ARE PAYING FOR THIS CONSISTENTLY, AND I DO NOT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM APPROVE OF WHAT IS GOING ON.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS LITERALLY JUST IGNORING, IGNORING, IGNORING.
I'VE BEEN CALLING OUT MY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND I'M JUST, BASICALLY, THEY'RE JUST KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD.
AND WHAT CALL, UH, THE CITY OF PASADENA PASSED
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A RESO, UH, PASSED A RESOLUTION LAST NIGHT, AND I'M CALLING ON WEST COVINA TO, UH, PUT AN AGENDA, UH, A FORWARD FOR A VOTE RIGHT THERE SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THIS DEMOCRATIC DISCUSSION WITH OUR, UH, WITH THE CONSTITUENTS HERE IN WEST COVINA.ANYWAY, UM, AND I KIND OF RATTLE A WRITER'S BLOCK RIGHT NOW.
BUT ANYWAY, UM, SO I'M GONNA CALL IN, UH, FOR THOSE RIGHT THERE THAT SAY THAT THIS IS NOT A LOCAL ISSUE RIGHT THERE, FOR STARTERS, RIGHT THERE, THIS IS OUR TAX DOLLARS THAT IS PAYING FOR THIS RIGHT THERE.
AND ALSO THERE WAS, UM, THERE WAS A, THERE WAS A 6-YEAR-OLD PALESTINIAN AMERICAN, UH, BOY RIGHT THERE THAT WAS STABBED TO DEATH IN HIS HOME, IN HIS HOME IN ILLINOIS.
BUT THERE ABOUT THREE, FOUR, ABOUT THREE MONTHS AGO, AND IN 1985, THERE WAS A PALESTINIAN AMERICAN, UH, WHAT DO YOU CALL, CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST IN WEST COVINA THAT WAS SET TO SPEAK AT A, AT A JEWISH SYNAGOGUE IN FOUNTAIN VALLEY.
BUT HE DID NOT MAKE THAT SPEECH.
AND THE REASON WHY HE DID NOT MAKE THAT SPEECH IS BECAUSE HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY A PIPE BOMB IN HIS OFFICE.
BUT THEN WHEN HE OPENED, WHEN HE OPENED THE DOOR TO ENTER HIS OFFICE EARLIER THAT MORNING, THE SUSPECTS, UH, WHAT DO YOU CALL THEIR THIRST? UH, THE FBI HAS THREE SUSPECTS THAT, UH, THAT ARE, THAT ARE, THAT ARE WANTED.
TWO OF THEM ESCAPED TO ISRAEL, AND ONE OF THEM IS, UH, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? AND HIS NAME WAS, UH, WAS, HIS NAME WAS ANDY GREEN.
AND WHEN HE IS, AND WHEN HE WENT TO ISRAEL, HE HAS CHANGED HIS NAME TO BARUCH BENEF.
AND HE IS ONE OF THE MEN RIGHT THERE THAT IS, THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BLOCKAGES PROTEST RIGHT THERE THAT IS BLOCKING AID INTO GAZA RIGHT NOW, THIS IS A WANTED MAN THAT NEEDS TO BE EXTRADITED BACK TO THE UNITED STATES SO THAT HE COULD FACE JUSTICE.
THE FBI CURRENTLY HAS A $1 MILLION REWARD OUT FOR HIS HEAD, AND HE'S NOT, AND HE'S NOT FACING JUSTICE, AND WE NEED TO, THAT'S WHY.
AND THAT RIGHT THERE AMONG WITH MANY OTHER REASONS WHY THIS IS JUST AS MUCH A LOCAL ISSUE AS IT IS A NATIONAL, FEDERAL, A FEDERAL ISSUE.
AND SO I, I'D LIKE TO HAVE, SO I'M MAKING THE REQUEST RIGHT THERE FOR A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION TO BE PUT ON THE AGENDA.
JAMES GUTIERREZ, FOLLOWED BY BILL ELLIOT, FOLLOWED BY CHRISTIAN SANCHEZ.
GOOD EVENING, UH, CITY COUNCIL FOLKS.
UH, MY NAME IS JAMES GUTIERREZ.
I PRACTICE IN THE, UH, WEST COVINA COURTHOUSE.
OFTEN, I'M HERE TO REQUEST HUMBLY REQUEST THAT A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION BE PUT ON THE NEXT CITY AGENDA.
AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE DAILY I'VE BEEN WATCHING THE, THE IMAGES COMING BACK, LIVESTREAM IN REAL TIME OF PEOPLE BEING DISMEMBERED, PEOPLE STARVING TO DEATH, PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO GET FOOD BEING SHOT AT, UH, MOTHERS, UH, LOSING THEIR CHILDREN, CHILDREN LOSING THEIR MOTHERS.
AND I KNOW THAT SOME PEOPLE WOULD THINK, UM, THAT, UH, GETTING INVOLVED IN INTERNATIONAL ISSUES IS NOT A CITY MATTER, BUT I KNOW THAT THE CITY OF WEST COVINA IS ENLIGHTENED BECAUSE THEY JUST CAME BACK FROM TAIWAN TO DO TRADE DEALS AND, AND MEET WITH OTHER MAYORS ABOUT DOING INTERNATIONAL TRADE.
AND I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.
UM, AND, AND THAT'S MINDFUL OF THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, WITH TRADE, THERE'S NO BORDERS.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S, WE'RE WITH THE, IN ESPECIALLY NOW WITH THE INTERNET AND THE PANDEMIC AND GLOBAL WARMING, I MEAN, EVERYTHING IS BECOMING UNIVERSAL.
IT'S NOT JUST WHAT'S HAPPENING.
UM, RECENTLY, UH, SENATOR SCHUMER OF NEW YORK, WHO'S THE HIGHEST RANKING JEWISH AMERICAN IN THE UNITED STATES, HAS STATED THAT NETANYAHU NEEDS TO BE REPLACED BECAUSE HE IS THE ONE PERPETUATING THIS VIOLENCE ON THE, ON THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE.
UM, THE, UM, UNFORTUNATELY, THE TRUCKS ARE BEING STOPPED AT THE BORDER, SO THEY'RE NOT BEING ALLOWED TO ENTER SO THAT THE FOLKS WILL HAVE FOOD AND WATER AND MEDICINE.
UM, I KNOW THAT THEY'RE BUILDING APPEARED TO UNLOAD BOATS, BUT, UH, IT WOULD BE MUCH EASIER AND MORE CONVENIENT IF THE TRUCKS WERE TO COME THROUGH.
UM, UH, EARLIER IT STATED THAT PASADENA LAST NIGHT WAS A 77TH CITY TO GIVE A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
PASADENA AND POMONA ARE THE TWO LARGEST CITIES IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, AND BOTH OF THEM HAVE A RESOLUTION ON THE BOOKS.
AND BECAUSE MANY OF THEM SAW THE VIRTUE AND, AND RELAYING A MESSAGE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND OUR LOCAL CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES THAT A CEASEFIRE MUST HAPPEN FOR COMPASSION PURPOSES.
UM, AND I WOULD GO BEYOND THAT IF WE, IF WE KEPT FUNDING THAT WAR OR THAT GENOCIDE OVER THERE, WE'RE GONNA LOSE FACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
OH, UH, SO I, I'M GONNA CLOSE WITH PLEASE, UH, AGENDIZE A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION SO THAT AT THE NEXT MEETING WE CAN VOTE ON IT AND WE'LL, WE'LL COME BACK AND WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT.
BILL ELLIOT, FOLLOWED BY CHRISTIAN SANCHEZ, FOLLOWED BY EDGAR NARANJO.
THE LAST, THE LAST THREE SPEAKERS
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ARE LEAVING OUT HALF THE STORY.LAST TIME HE SPOKE OF THE ISSUE OF HAMAS.
YOU TALK ABOUT CEASE FIRE, THERE WAS A CEASE FIRE AND IT ENDED ON OCTOBER 7TH WITH THE MURDER OF 1200 ISRAELI ISRAELIS.
WOMEN RAPED CHILDREN, RAPED BABIES, MACHINE GUN IN CRIBS, BABIES PUT INTO OVENS, AND COOKED ALIVE.
DON'T TELL ME ABOUT YOU WANT TO CEASEFIRE YOU HYPOCRITE.
I WANNA WELCOME CHIEF RICHARD BELLBACK.
IT'S NICE TO SEE HIM IN THE CHAMBER AGAIN.
I WANT TO ALSO CONGRATULATE THE CITY ATTORNEY ON PREVAILING ON THE LAST OF MANY CITY EMPLOYEE LAWSUITS AGAINST THE CITY.
UH, I TRUST THE SAME WILL BE THE OUTCOME WITH THE FRIVOLOUS MARK TAYLOR LAWSUIT AND A FAVORABLE OUTCOME ON THE APPEAL BY THAT FAKE FIRE CHIEF WE HAD.
OKAY, I WANT TO DO A COUPLE OF RESTAURANT RECOMMENDATIONS.
I TALKED ABOUT MARICO MARTIN VALLEY BOULEVARD IN ORANGE BLOSSOM, AND LA PUENTE AWESOME MEXICAN SEAFOOD.
AND SANOR BURRITO IS MY LOCAL FAVORITE HERE IN WEST COVINA AT 1207 SOUTH GLENDORA AVENUE.
UH, THEIR CARITAS WET BURRITO WITH ALSA VERDE IS REALLY DELICIOUS.
UH, MY WIFE LIKES TO JOKE THAT I ALWAYS WANT TO EAT IN WEST COVINA.
I DO LIKE TO PATRONIZE LOCAL BUSINESSES, BUT WE HAVE A FAVORITE SPAGHETTI RESTAURANT IN GLENDORA.
UM, SPAGHETTI EDDIE'S, UH, 9 46 GRAND AVENUE IN GLENDORA CHICKEN TERESIAN AND SPAGHETTI MEATBALLS ARE OUR FAVORITES.
AND MY GOOD FRIEND DON SKIRTY, AND I AGREE, THE MEATBALLS ARE AN ART FORM.
OKAY, I WANNA TALK ABOUT LC MESSMAN.
EVERY COUNCIL MEETING, LC MESSMAN GETS UP HERE AND BASHES THE ACTING CITY, CITY MANAGER.
SHE SAYS, PAULINA MORALES IS UNQUALIFIED FOR THE JOB OVER AND OVER.
SHE NEVER SAYS WHY THOUGH SHE'S UNQUALIFIED.
COULD IT BE THAT ELSIE'S JEALOUS? COULD SHE BE JEALOUS OF PAULINA'S ABILITY, HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS, HER POSITION, HER STANDING, MAYBE IT'S HER YOUTH AND LIKABILITY, OR MAYBE IT'S HER BEAUTY, HER WIT, HER LONG DARK HAIR, HER CHARM, HER GENUINE SMILE.
20 YEARS OF INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF WEST COWE CITY HALL AND CITY STAFF.
REMEMBER WHEN ALL THE RATS WERE JUMPING SHIP, PAULINA STAYED.
SHE'S PROVEN HERSELF AS A, AS AN ASSET TO THE CITY.
AND THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD OFFER HER THIS REGULAR CITY MANAGER'S POSITION, BECAUSE IF WE DON'T, WE MIGHT LOSE HER.
AND WHO ARE WE GONNA GET? ANDREW PMO AGAIN FOR $400,000 YOU AT TIME.
CHRISTIAN SANCHEZ, FOLLOWED BY EDGAR NARANJO NARANJO, FOLLOWED BY, FOLLOWED BY LISA P PINA CHRISTIAN SANCHEZ.
I HAD LIKE TO START OFF WITH SOME RECENT FACTS THAT HAVE COME TO LIGHT.
UM, THE FIRST WOULD BE THAT IF THERE WAS ALREADY A CEASEFIRE PRIOR TO OCTOBER 7TH, THEN CONTRARY TO WHAT WE ARE LED TO BELIEVE THIS CURRENT ESCALATION IN GENOCIDE DID NOT IN FACT START ON THE SEVENTH.
IN FACT, A LOT OF THE FACTS THAT WERE GIVEN HAVE ALREADY BEEN DEBUNKED AND NOT PROVEN FALSE.
IT MAKES NO SENSE FOR HAMAS TO KIDNAP AND THEN KILL THE HOSTAGES THAT THEY WERE HOLDING CAPTIVE.
WE RETURN HERE TO ASK THAT THE COUNCIL HAD A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION TO THE AGENDA FOR THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
IT WAS MENTIONED LAST TIME THIS TOPIC WAS INTRODUCED THAT FOR THE CITY TO MAKE ANY STATEMENT WHATSOEVER WOULD BE CONTROVERSIAL.
BUT WE STAND HERE TONIGHT KNOWING FULL WELL THAT THE CITY OF PASADENA HAS JOINED THE GROWING LIST OF MORE THAN 70 CITIES TO PASS A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
IT BECOMES MORE EVIDENT WITH EACH PASSING DAY THAT A STANDS OF SILENCE IS WHAT HAS BECOME CONTROVERSIAL.
AND IT MUST BE STATED THAT WE ARE A CITY THAT STANDS ON THE SIDE OF LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE BOTH HERE AT HOME AND ABROAD.
WE STAND HERE TODAY AS RESIDENTS OF THE CITY TO STATE THAT WE'LL CONTINUE TO RETURN UNTIL WE CAN BE PROUD TO SAY THAT WEST COVINA IS DOING WHAT THEY CAN IF EVEN A LITTLE TO BRING ABOUT AN END TO THE GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE.
LAST TIME WE STOOD HERE WAS MENTIONED THAT THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR THIS STATEMENT BECAUSE BIDEN HAD ALREADY MADE A COMMENT THAT A CEASEFIRE WAS UNDERWAY.
BUT WE CAN SEE TODAY THAT THOSE WORDS CARRIED LITTLE TO NO VALUE OF TRUTH TO THEM AFTER THE TURN OF EVENTS AND THE REFUSAL OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO DO ABSOLUTELY ALL THEY CAN TO END THE CONTINUING MASSACRES, WE HAVE BEEN LEFT WITH LITTLE FAITH IN FEDERAL POLITICS.
AND SO WE TURN TO OUR LOCAL POLITICIANS TO AMPLIFY THE VOICES OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS.
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MAKE NO MISTAKE, WE ARE NOT HERE TO CREATE ANY CONTROVERSY, NOR ARE WE HERE TO SINGLE OUT OR DEMONIZE ANY GROUP OF PEOPLE WHATSOEVER.OUR GOAL IS PEACE, LIBERATION AND THE RELEASE OF ALL HOSTAGES FROM BOTH SIDES BY MEANS OF A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE, BOTH THE HUNDREDS OF ISRAELI SELLERS HELD CAPTIVE, AND THE THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIANS THAT HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED.
THIS COUNSEL MAY BELIEVE THAT THE ACTION OF RELEASING A STATEMENT FOR CEASEFIRE WOULD HAVE LITTLE TO NO EFFECT ON THE LOCAL LEVEL.
BUT I WOULD ARGUE IF THAT WERE THE CASE, THEN YOU WOULD HAVE HAD NO ISSUE ON MAKING A STATEMENT ALREADY.
IF YOU TRULY BELIEVE THAT THIS STATEMENT CARRIES LITTLE WEIGHT AND WOULD'VE NO EFFECT, THEN THERE WOULD BE NO HARM IN PUTTING SOME EFFORT IN AT LEAST TRYING.
AND IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT WOULD HAVE SOME POWER OF INFLUENCE, THEN YOU ONLY CEMENT THE RESO IN US THAT WE ARE ON THE RIGHT PATH OF BRINGING ABOUT A CEASEFIRE.
AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO SHOW UP UNTIL THE RESOLUTION IS MADE.
I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THE FACT THAT A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION IS A STATEMENT AND NOT A POLICY.
SOMETHING WE HAVE LEARNED FROM PASADENA IS THAT THE LANGUAGE OF THE RESOLUTION CAN BE DISCUSSED AND MODIFIED TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS A CALL FOR AN ANTI GENOCIDE AND IT IS MORE WIDELY ACCEPTABLE, ACCEPTED, AND IN A WAY THAT DRAWS LITTLE CONTROVERSY WHILE MAKING CLEAR OUR CITY'S MISSION TO STRIVE TOWARDS A BROADER FUTURE FOR ALL.
EDGAR NARANJO, FOLLOWED BY LISA PENA, FOLLOWED BY ELISA EDGAR, UH, EDGAR.
AND, UM, EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM HAS SEEN THE TRAGEDIES OF THE CONSTANT BOMBARDMENT OF GAZA.
WE SEE IT DAILY ON THE NEWS, ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AND IN THE DECLINE OF THE STOCK MARKET.
WE ARE CONSTANTLY REMINDED OF ONGOING MURDERS OF MORE THAN 30,000 PALESTINIANS.
YOU CANNOT TURN A BLIND EYE TO THE MASS VIOLENCE THAT IS HAPPENING ON THE GAZA STRIP.
SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS MIGHT WONDER WHETHER THIS ISSUE PERTAINS TO WEST COVINA CITY POLITICS.
AND THE ANSWER IS YES, BECAUSE THE COUNCIL REPRESENTS ITS CITIZENS.
THE MAJORITY OF WEST COVINA RESIDENTS WANT TO SEE A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA ON MANY DIFFERENT AGENDA ITEMS. COUNCIL MEMBERS SOUGHT OUT ADVICE AND GUIDANCE FROM SUCCESSFUL NEIGHBORING CITIES.
77 US CITIES ARE CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA AS OF MARCH, UM, 18, 20, 24, 18.
OF THOSE 77 CITIES ARE FROM CALIFORNIA.
CALIFORNIA COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE CALLED FOR A CEASEFIRE.
I URGE WEST COVINA COUNCIL MEMBERS TO FIND INSPIRATION FROM THESE CITIES AND SIGN A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
JOIN THE POWERFUL COUNCIL MEMBERS IN SIGNING THIS RESOLUTION AND SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY AND COMMITMENT TO HUMANITY.
UM, THE BEGINNING OF THIS MEETING, UM, STANDARD STARTED OUT WITH, UM, JUST APPRECIATION TO THE WOMEN ON THIS COUNCIL, AND THAT WAS VERY INSPIRING, ESPECIALLY AS A YOUNG WOMAN.
SO I REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT YOU ALL SAID ABOUT, UM, WANTING TO REPRESENT, UM, THE RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA AND ALSO YOUR COMMITMENT TO MAKE, UH, POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY.
AND JUST FOR THE REMAINING TIME THAT I HAVE, I DO WANNA GO AHEAD AND LIST THE OTHER CALIFORNIA CITIES THAT ARE CURRENTLY CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE, AND HOPEFULLY YOU'LL FIND SOME GUIDANCE AND INSPIRATION IN THAT.
SO WE HAVE SAN FRANCISCO, LONG BEACH, POMONA, SANTA ANA, MONTEBELLO, PASADENA, OAKLAND, LAGUNA BEACH, OJAI, DAVIS, HOLLISTER, RICHMONT, BRENTWOOD, MADERA, FOLSOM, FORT BRAGG, TIDY.
AND THOSE ARE, UM, THE 18 IN CALIFORNIA.
BUT WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF, UM, OTHER CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE IN OTHER STATES.
AND THESE STATES INCLUDE COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE, GEORGIA, ILLINOIS, IOWA, KANSAS, MAINE, MASSACHUSETTS, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, MISSOURI, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK.
FOLLOWED BY, THERES GARCIA, FOLLOWED BY MELISSA.
I ALSO WILL BE CALLING FOR, UM, A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION IN PALESTINE TO BE ON THE AGENDA FOR NEXT WEEK.
UM, THIS IS 160 DAYS THAT THERE'S BEEN THE SIEGE ON GAZA IN PALESTINE, WHICH IS ALMOST HALF A YEAR.
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STRIP OF LAND ON THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN OF 2 MILLION PEOPLE WHO ARE ALL REFUGEES FROM OTHER PARTS OF PALESTINE THAT HAVE BEEN DISPLACED SINCE THE 1930S.THEY HAVE ALL BEEN FORCED INTO GAZA.
AND THE, THE ISRAELI LIKE ENTITY IS NOT EVEN LIKE RECOGNIZED ALL OVER THE WORLD IN MANY PLACES, HAS BEEN USING UNITED STATES FUNDING TO BOMB THESE PEOPLE AND TO KILL AT LEAST 30,000 PEOPLE IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS.
BUT MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE UNDER THE RUBBLE THAT WE CAN'T EVEN ACCOUNT FOR BECAUSE THE INFRASTRUCTURE HAS BEEN ENTIRELY DESTROYED BY THIS BOMBING.
AND THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT HAS SAID TO, FOR PEOPLE TO MOVE SOUTH INTO WHAT'S KNOWN AS RAFA.
AND I'M, BY THE WAY, I'M NOT PALESTINIAN, I'M NOT ARAB, UM, JUST FOR CONTEXT.
UH, BUT THEY'VE TOLD PEOPLE TO MOVE SOUTH IN RAFA.
AND THIS MONTH THE ISRAELI ENTITY HAS SAID THEY'RE GOING TO BOMB RAFA, WHERE ALL OF THESE PALESTINIANS ARE SLEEPING IN TENTS AND THEY DON'T HAVE FOOD, THEY DON'T HAVE WATER.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN THE IMAGES ONLINE OF CHILDREN STARVING TO DEATH.
IT IS LITERALLY HORRIFYING TO LOOK AT.
AND WE'RE NOT ASKING, YOU KNOW, TO, FOR THE CITY COUNCIL OF WEST COVINA TO GO TO PALESTINE AND DEFEND THE PALESTINIANS.
BUT THE LITTLE THAT WE CAN DO TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY IS TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE.
ULTIMATELY, WE NEED AN ENTIRE END TO THIS OCCUPATION AND GENOCIDE THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR ALMOST A CENTURY.
BUT WHAT WE, WHAT IS IN OUR POWER IS CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE AND FOR AN END TO ALL OF OUR GOVERNMENTS AID TO ISRAEL, WHICH AMOUNTS LAST YEAR, THE UNITED STATES SENT $610 MILLION OF OUR TAX DOLLARS TO ISRAEL.
WE HAVE SO MANY THINGS THAT OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS AND WE CAN FUND THOSE DIRECTLY.
AND I ALSO APPRECIATED LIKE THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY OR LIKE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH THING IN THE BEGINNING, BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP, BUT ALSO WITH THAT WE HAVE TO STAND WITH WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD.
AND 70% OF THE PEOPLE KILLED IN GAZA ARE WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND WOMEN.
THERE ARE, YEAH, 36 HOSPITALS IN GAZA HAVE BEEN DESTROYED IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS.
AND 5,000 PREGNANT WOMEN GIVE BIRTH EACH MONTH IN GAZA AMID THESE HARSH CONTUSIONS.
AND THEY'RE LIVING IN THESE TENTS.
THEY HAVE NO FOOD TO FEED THEMSELVES OR THEIR CHILDREN.
AND THERE'S RAMPANT DISEASES THAT WE THINK OF AS EXTINCT BECAUSE WE DON'T EVEN EXPERIENCE THEM.
SO I IMPLORE YOU TO DO WHAT SHOULD BE THE BARE MINIMUM AND PUT A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION NEXT WEEK ON THE, OR NEXT MEETING ON THE AGENDA, AND TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE.
THE UN WARNS 1.1 MILLION PEOPLE WILL DIE IN GAZA.
AND WITH THAT $610 MILLION THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT, THAT'S OUR TAXPAYERS THAT COULD FUND PROVIDE HOUSING TO ALMOST 75,000 AMERICAN FAMILIES AND 200,000 AMERICAN CHILDREN WITH FREE HEALTHCARE.
LIKE THERE IS SO MUCH ELSE, WE WOULD RATHER OUR TAX DOLLARS GO AND WE HAVE THE POWER TO SAY THAT WE DON'T WANT OUR TAX DOLLARS GOING TO FUND MORE AND MORE WEAPONS.
THERES GARCIA, FOLLOWED BY MELISSA, FOLLOWED BY MIKE MORALES.
MY NAME IS, THERES GARCIA AND I'M A TENURE YEAR RESIDENT OF WEST COVINA.
I CAME HERE TONIGHT AND I'M GETTING TEXT MESSAGES FROM MY HUSBAND THAT MY KIDS ARE GOING CRAZY.
SO, UM, BUT UH, THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT I'M HERE BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT THE CITY OF WEST COVINA SHOULD PASS A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR AN IMMEDIATE AND PERMANENT CEASEFIRE AND GAZA.
I KNOW THAT THIS COUNCIL ALREADY VOTED AGAINST IZING A RESOLUTION, BUT I URGE YOU TO REVISIT THIS ISSUE AND RECONSIDER AGGRANDIZING A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
THERE'S AN ACTIVE AND ONGOING GENOCIDE AGAINST PALESTINIANS, AND I HAVE BEEN GRIEVING AS THE HORRIFIC IMAGES COMING OUT OF GAZA.
TOUCH ME ON A DEEP LEVEL, ESPECIALLY AS A MOTHER, I HAVE BEEN GRIEVING AS I HOLD MY COMMUNITY AND WITNESS THE DEEP GRIEF OF MANY OF MY ARAB FRIENDS, AS WELL AS MY JEWISH FRIENDS WHO SAY NOT IN OUR NAME.
AND THE CITY RECOGNIZES THAT ALTHOUGH WE ARE A RELATIVELY SMALL CITY, WE ARE PART OF A LARGER GLOBAL COMMUNITY.
WE JUST WITNESSED A PRESENTATION ABOUT YOUR WONDERFUL TRIP TO TAIWAN.
LOCAL ISSUES MATTER, AND GLOBAL ISSUES SHOULD MATTER TO THIS COUNCIL TOO, BECAUSE THEY, THEY'RE INTERTWINED, ESPECIALLY WHEN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENCE ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED.
THAT'S AN ISSUE THAT AFFECTS US ALL AS HUMANS.
DO YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO STOP THIS GENOCIDE YOURSELVES? OF COURSE NOT.
BUT DO YOU HAVE, BUT YOU DO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO STAND COURAGEOUSLY ON THE SIDE, ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY.
YOU DO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN OTHER CITIES AROUND THE WORLD, INCLUDING OUR NEIGHBORS IN PASADENA AND POMONA AND MANY OTHER CITIES IN CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE AND, AND AN END TO THE SUFFERING IN GAZA.
COUNCILWOMAN MOR FROM THE CITY OF CLEVELAND SAID RECENTLY, IT IS A INCUMBENT ON LEADERS IN ANY CITY TO TAKE MORAL STANDS IN THE FACE OF A MORAL CRISIS.
AND THAT IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO AS A CITY.
WE NEED TO STAND FOR PEACE, NOT ONLY IN OUR COMMUNITY, BUT GLOBALLY AS WELL.
WE NEED TO STAND AGAINST THE KILLING OF INNOCENT MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, GAZA.
WE NEED TO AGENDIZE THIS RESOLUTION
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AND CEASE FIRE NOW.THANK YOU MOTHER MELISSA, FOLLOWED BY MIKE MORALES.
TODAY IS DAY 165 OF THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA.
AS OF TODAY, THERE ARE AT LEAST 30,000 MARTYRS WITH AT LEAST 13,000 OF THEM BEING CHILDREN.
BIDEN AND THE US GOVERNMENT ARE ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS IN THIS GENOCIDE.
THE ISRAELI WAR MACHINE AND ITS SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION ARE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY US IMPERIALISM EV.
EACH YEAR, 4 BILLION OF OUR TAX DOLLARS FUND THE ILLEGAL OCCUPATION AND OPPRESSION OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.
ISRAEL IS CURRENTLY CARRYING OUT A MASSACRE OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS AGAINST GAZA.
AND ALL THROUGHOUT PALESTINE SLAUGHTERING THOUSANDS.
THE BOMBS AND MISSILES THAT ARE RAINING DOWN ON GAZA RIGHT NOW ARE PAID FOR BY OUR US TAX DOLLARS.
INSTEAD OF USING THE MONEY TO MEET THE PEOPLE'S NEEDS, THE US GOVERNMENT HAS SHAMEFULLY EXTENDED ISRAEL, A LONG-TERM MILITARY AID AGREEMENT WORTH $38 BILLION.
IN 2023 ALONE, OVER $600 MILLION WERE SENT IN AID TO ISRAEL.
WE DENOUNCED OUR TAX DOLLARS BEING USED TO CARRY OUT GENOCIDE BY THE ZIONIST ENTITY AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS.
WITH THIS MONEY, WE COULD HAVE FUNDED OVER 70,000 HOUSEHOLDS WITH PUBLIC HOUSING, LOW COST, AND FREE HEALTHCARE FOR 200,000 CHILDREN, OR, AND OVER 6,000 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS.
AS ONE OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN WEST CONA, I'M ASKING YOU TO JOIN CHINO HILLS, LONG BEACH, SANTA ANA, AND 77 OTHER CITIES AND AGENDA AND PASSING A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
WE DEMAND THAT YOU ALL CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE TO STAND WITH THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE AND TO FUND OUR NEEDS BEFORE THE US WAR MACHINE.
WHEN LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES REFUSE TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST GENOCIDE, THEY MAKE IT INFINITELY EASIER FOR STATE AND FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES TO CONTINUE TO IGNORE PUBLIC OUTCRY FOR A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE IN GAZA, WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL, WE ARE HERE TO HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE.
WE ARE HERE TO SAY THAT SILENCE IS COMPLACENCY DURING A GENOCIDE AND WITHOUT A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION, YOU TWO HAVE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS.
UH, BE BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER.
UH, IF WE COULD NOT HAVE ANY APPLAUSE.
I JUST WANTED TO ADD, UH, FROM, UH, MR. CAST THAT SPOKE EARLIER ABOUT, UH, THE, UH, GROUP HOMES AND, AND MEANING BY GROUP HOME IS MORE THE DRUG AND, UH, ALCOHOL REHABILITATION AND SOBER LIVING.
RIGHT? UM, I JUST WANTED TO ADD TO THAT AND WANTED TO, UH, REQUEST OR, YOU KNOW, INVITE YOU GUYS TO CREATE A NEW ORDINANCE, A CITY ORDINANCE ON IT.
I'M NOT SURE IF THERE'S ONE AVAILABLE NOW, BUT, UM, IF THERE IS, MOST OF THEM ARE FOR INDIVIDUALS OR HOMES THAT ARE SIX, UH, AND ABOVE, UH, SIX PEOPLE AND ABOVE.
UH, BUT CREATE AN ORDINANCE THAT, THAT REQUIRES THEM SOME SORT OF REGISTRATION.
I MEAN, NOT ONLY IS IT GONNA, UH, PROVIDE US A SAFE ENVIRONMENT AS WELL, AND WE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON WITHIN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT IT'LL GENERATE SOME REVENUE AS WELL, YOU KNOW, REQUIRING THEM TO SOME SORT OF REGISTRATION OR YEARLY, UH, FEE FOR THESE, UH, TYPE OF BUSINESSES.
BUT NOT ONLY THAT, BUT ALSO REGULATE FOR THOSE THAT ARE IN A LOW DENSITY, UH, RESIDENTIAL, UH, ZONE BY, BY NOT ALLOWING THEM TO REGISTER OR PARTICIPATE WITHIN THAT TYPE OF COMMUNITY AS WE WANT QUIET NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND, AND MORE SO IN THE MAJOR, UH, IN THE MAJOR STREETS.
RIGHT? BUT, UH, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I JUST WANTED TO ADD AND, AND ALSO BY, UM, REQUESTING A COURT ENFORCEMENT TO DO YEARLY CHECKUPS ON, ON THESE TYPE OF, UH, OF BUSINESSES.
RIGHT? SO, THANK YOU, UH, MIKE MORALES ASSOCIATION.
UH, CAN YOU, CAN YOU STAY FOR A WHILE? WE WANT TO ANSWER YOU AFTER.
WE DONE WITH OUR COMMUNICATION? NO, NO, NO MORE SPEAKERS.
I, I AM, UH, ACTUALLY, I WAS REQUESTED, UH, BY ONE OF THE RESIDENTS, UH, WHO WAS UNABLE TO BE HERE, UH, BECAUSE IT IS, UH, NARU, UH, WHICH AT 8 0 7.
UH, SO I'M JUST GOING TO READ THIS, UH, EMAIL INTO THE RECORD.
UH, MY NAME IS SHARZA SHUGAR AND I AM A 35 YEAR RESIDENT OF WEST COVINA.
I'M ALSO A MEMBER OF THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY PROGRESSIVES, A GROUP OF CITIZENS WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT ISSUES SUCH AS JUSTICE, PEACE, AND EQUALITY.
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COVINA RESIDENT, I AM AGHAST AT THE LACK OF SUPPORT FOR MAYOR CALDERONE REQUEST TO AGENDIZE A RESOLUTION FOR A CEASEFIRE IN THE HORRENDOUS WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND GAZA.MAYOR PRO TEM WU WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO WAS COURAGEOUS ENOUGH TO EXPRESS HIS SENTIMENTS ABOUT THIS MATTER.
ALTHOUGH HE WAS SADDENED BY THE ONGOING SIN GAZA, HE EXPLAINED THAT HE WAS RELUCTANT TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE REQUEST BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID THE MATTER WOULD BE CONTROVERSIAL AND WOULD DIVIDE THE RESIDENTS.
I GUESS HIS COURAGE WAS LIMITED TO TALKING ABOUT THE ONGOING GENOCIDE INSTEAD OF TAKING ACTION.
WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND IS WHY THE COUNCIL WASN'T AFRAID TO VOTE ON A RESOLUTION CONDEMNING ANTISEMITISM.
WASN'T THAT A CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE AS WELL? MAYOR PRO TEM WU FURTHER STATED THAT HE FELT THERE WAS NOTHING THE COUNCIL COULD DO ABOUT THE BOMBING OF PALESTINIANS.
WELL, WHAT CAN THE COUNCIL DO ABOUT ANTISEMITISM? WHY WAS IT OKAY TO OPPOSE ANTI-JEWISH SENTIMENTS, BUT NOT OKAY TO SUPPORT THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE? PEOPLE NOTE THAT I AM NOT IN FAVOR OF ANYONE BEING AGAINST THE JEWISH PEOPLE OR ANY OTHER ETHNIC ORIGIN.
ANY FORM OF HATE AGAINST ANY SEGMENT OF SOCIETY IS TO BE HARSHLY CONDEMNED.
BUT THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT'S TACTICS TO AN ALIENATE THE STRIP OF LAND THE PALESTINIANS ARE HERDED INTO THAT IS WRONG.
AND YOUR SILENCE ESSENTIALLY SUPPORTS THIS TACTIC.
I DON'T WANT MY CITY TO REMAIN SILENT AND BE OKAY WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS BEING SPENT ON FURTHER TORTURING THE THOUSANDS OF HELPLESS PALESTINIANS WHO ARE BEING BOMBED, MUTILATED, AND STARVED TO DEATH ON A DAILY BASIS.
MAYOR PROTE WU BELIEVED IT WAS UP TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO HANDLE THIS MATTER.
THIS IS CERTAINLY A FACT, AND I HAVE PERSONALLY REACHED OUT TO MY SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVE TO URGE THEM TO PUSH FOR AN CEASEFIRE.
BUT AT A, THE CITY WHOSE TAX DOLLARS ARE USED TO SUPPORT WARS, THE COUNCIL CAN CERTAINLY TRY TO HAVE AN IMPACT BY WRITING A LETTER TO THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, OR STATE AND FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES CONDEMNING THE GENOCIDE AND DEMANDING AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE.
YOUR VOICE WOULD MEAN MORE THAN JUST INDIVIDUAL VOICES.
SINCE I CANNOT BE AT THE COUNCIL MEETING TO VOICE MY OUTRAGE, I'M WRITING TO IMPLORE YOU TO RECONSIDER THIS REQUEST AND AGENDIZE THE RESOLUTION AS REQUESTED BY MAYOR CALDERON, UH, CITY MANAGER.
UH, CAN YOU RESPOND TO PUBLIC COMMENT CONCERNS? YES.
AND, UM, I DO WANNA APOLOGIZE.
I FORGOT TO INCLUDE SOME GOOD NEWS EARLIER THIS EVENING.
BILL TOOK A LITTLE BIT OF THAT, UH,
BUT, UM, WE DID HAVE A GOOD, UH, OR SOME GOOD NEWS, UH, IN THE CASE OF THE, UH, GALLAGHER FOR CITY OF WEST COVINA.
UM, THE JURY CAME IN, UH, FAVOR OF THE CITY.
AND SO THAT'S A CASE THAT WE WON LAST WEEK.
AND SO WE'RE, WE'RE HAPPY THAT IT, IT RESULTED IN THE WAY IT DID IN OUR FAVOR.
SO, UH, RESPONDING TO SOME OF THE COMMENTS FROM THIS EVENING'S, UM, RESIDENCE, UH, I THINK LISA LEFT, BUT, UM, MAIL THEFT HAS BECOME MORE PREVALENT EVERYWHERE, NOT JUST IN WEST COVINA.
UH, MY MAIL, UH, WAS STOLEN AND IT JUST HAPPENED TO COINCIDE WITH THE DELIVERY OF MY DRIVER'S LICENSE.
C I'M SORRY, CITY YOU LIVE IN.
SO, YEAH, NO,
SO, UM, UNFORTUNATELY IT IS, LIKE I SAID, BECOMING PREVALENT EVERYWHERE.
I DO WANNA THANK HER FOR SHARING HER, UH, STORY WITH US.
AND I, I'M SAD THAT IT HAPPENED TO HER, UM, AND ALL THE OTHER RESIDENTS THAT IT HAPPENS TO.
UM, I KNOW THAT, UH, THIS, UH, NEXT WEEK THERE WILL BE A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH MEETING IN SERVICE AREA FOUR.
I'M NOT SURE WHICH, WHERE IN THE COMMUNITY SHE LIVES, BUT, UM, WE CAN CONNECT HER, UH, TO LIEUTENANT NELSON.
UM, SHE CAN, THEY'LL REACH OUT TO OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THEY DO, THEY CAN PROVIDE SOME POINTERS ON HOW TO BETTER, UH, PROTECT HER MAILBOX WHILE WE CAN'T SIT OUT IN THERE AND PROTECT IT.
BUT, UM, JUST SOME POINTERS TO HELP ADDRESS IT.
UM, IN REGARDS TO THE GROUP HOMES OR THE SOBER LIVING HOMES, UM, WE, UH, THE CITY THROUGH LAND USE, UM, DO ALLOW THEM, UM, AND THEY ARE REGULATED, LIKE I SAID, BY THE STATE.
IF THERE'S ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, UM, OR IF THEY'RE NOT MEETING THE, THE OPERATIONS OF THE BUSINESS, THERE ARE THINGS THAT THE CITY CAN DO THROUGH OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND CODE ENFORCEMENT.
SO I THINK MR. CHRIST, UM, AND I THINK IT WAS RAFAEL, UH, WE'LL PUT YOU IN TOUCH WITH OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT.
UM, AND THEN IF THERE'S ISSUES WE CAN WORK WITH, UM, OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT TEAM AS WELL.
UM, SO, UM, AND THEN DOUG AND MATT, UM, THANK YOU FOR COMING IN.
UM, WE'VE ALWAYS MENTIONED YOU GUYS ARE, UH, WELCOME TO APPLY FOR THE OUTDOOR DINING AT ANY TIME.
UM, I DID TELL STAFF TO SCHEDULE THAT MEETING WITH YOU TO GO OVER THE NEW DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE SO THAT IT CAN ANSWER QUESTIONS, UM, ABOUT WHAT THAT PROCESS WOULD LOOK LIKE.
UM, AND THEN IN REGARDS TO THE, A LOT OF THE COMMENTS ARE ABOUT THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
UM, WE WELCOME THOSE SPEAKERS TO COME TONIGHT AND THEIR RIGHT TO REQUEST THIS FEAST FIRE RESOLUTION.
UM, AND BRINGING ATTENTION TO THE, UH, GENOCIDE THAT'S HAPPENING
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IN THE GAZA STRIP.UM, I WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO REACH OUT TO THEIR FEDERAL, FEDERAL ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO CAN, UH, TAKE ACTION ON THAT CEASEFIRE.
UM, THERE IS SOME QUESTIONS OR SOME COMMENTS ABOUT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
UM, SO I THINK THAT'S ON THE AGENDA THIS EVENING.
SO I WILL, UH, RESERVE THE COMMENTS FOR, UH, THE PRESENTATION.
UM, AND I THINK THAT WAS ABOUT IT.
I THINK I WANT TO ANSWER SOME OF THE ISSUE.
THE SOBER HOME AND, UH, I, MY NEIGHBORHOOD, I THINK WE HAVE MORE THAN TWO ON MY STREET.
AND I JUST WANNA SHARE WITH YOU, UH, OKAY.
THAT IS THE ISSUE BECAUSE WE HAVE NO CONTROL.
THEY BASICALLY APPROVED BY THE STATE BY RIGHT.
AND THE CITY DOESN'T EVEN KNOW OKAY.
AND, UH, THEY HAVE A RIGHT FOR THE SIXTH, OKAY.
AND THE NEIGHBORS, WE ALL WORRY ABOUT THE ISSUE WE HAVE.
SO WE SHARE EXACTLY THE SAME CONCERN AND THEN, AND THAT IS THE PROBLEMATIC.
AND WE, AGAIN, WE CANNOT INSPECT THEM.
I THINK THEY INSPECT BY THE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
OKAY? SO, SO THAT IS A LOT OF ISSUE.
WE HAVE TO FACING ALL THOSE PROBLEM BECAUSE AGAIN, AGAIN, THE CITY HAS NO RIGHT.
IT'S BY THE STATE, BY R AND THEY CAN COME INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD, OKAY? AND, UH, WE HAVE, UH, COMPLAIN, OKAY? NUMEROUS TIME BY ONE OF A COUPLE BLOCK AWAY, AND THEY HAVE, PEOPLE ARE SCREAMING, UH, MENTALLY ILL, AND THEY'RE COMING OUT, JUMPING INTO A NEIGHBOR'S HOME AND SCARE THE HEALTH OF THE NEIGHBORS.
SO WE KNOW THE ISSUE AND THE POLICE WENT OVER THERE NUMEROUS TIME.
AND, UH, STILL WE CANNOT SHUT IT DOWN.
SO JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW, UH, WE NEED TO FIND A WAY AND TO SEE HOW CAN WE TAKE THE CONTROL BACK TO THE CITY, OKAY? WITH ALL THIS ISSUE, BECAUSE THAT IS BASIC SAFETY ISSUE TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
I KNOW YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE CHILDREN.
WE HAVE CONCERN ABOUT, IT'S THE SAME ISSUE.
WE VERY CLOSE TO THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND THE HIGH SCHOOL.
SO, SO WE WILL FIND AN ISSUE, WE WILL FIND A SOLUTION THAT HOPEFULLY OKAY TO KIND OF, UH, IF WE CAN HAVE INSPECTION, IF THEY HAVE A VIOLATION, WE CAN SHUT IT DOWN OKAY.
SO HOPEFULLY, UH, THAT IS WHAT WE CAN DO IN THE NEAR FUTURE, BUT WE UNDERSTAND.
BUT IN THE MEANTIME, PLEASE REPORT TO POLICE OKAY.
EVERY TIME WHEN YOU HAVE THAT ISSUE.
AND THEN NOTIFY OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT SO WE CAN MONITOR THE SITUATION.
MAYOR, I JUST WANNA LET THE COUNCIL KNOW THAT I DID FORWARD YOU TWO EMAILS THAT CAME TO THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE TODAY REGARDING PUBLIC COMMENTS.
SO YOU HAVE BOTH OF THOSE AND THEY'RE AT THE JAAS FOR YOUR REVIEW AS WELL.
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NOW MOVE ON TO OUR CONSENT CALENDAR.UH, COUNSEL, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO PULL FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR? SEEING NONE, DO WE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THE MOTION TO APPROVE.
MAYOR, I DO HAVE ONE CORRECTION TO THE MINUTES.
UM, THE MINUTES INCORRECTLY NOTED.
COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ, VITO ABSENT, AND SHE WAS HERE AT THE LES COUNCIL MEETING, SO IF WE CAN JUST HAVE THAT CHANGE NOTED AND THEN THE, UM, FINAL DRAFT, WE'LL JUST MAKE THAT CHANGE.
AND WHO DO I HAVE A MOTION BY? MOTION BY COUNCILMAN WU AND A SECOND BY ROSARIO COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ.
THERE IS NO, THERE IS NO ORDINANCE.
DO YOU HAVE AN ORDINANCE? NO ORDINANCE.
[8) PUBLIC HEARING FOR ZONE CHANGE NO. 23-02/ORDINANCE NO. 2520 AMENDING THE ZONING MAP OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA TO CREATE CONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE NEW DEVELOPMENT CODE AND THE ZONING MAP FOR THE CITY]
UH, ITEM NUMBER EIGHT, PUBLIC HEARING FOR ZONE CHANGE NUMBER 23 DASH ZERO TWO.ORDINANCE NUMBER 25 20 AMENDING THE ZONING MAP OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA TO CREATE CONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE NEW DEVELOPMENT CODE AND THE ZONING MAP FOR THE CITY.
UH, THIS MATTER SET FOR A PUBLIC HEARING, UH, CONSISTS OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 25 20, AMENDING THE ZONING MAP OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
WILL THE CITY CLERK VERIFY THE PROPER LEGAL NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN? PROPER LEGAL NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN.
OKAY, AT THIS TIME, I'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROJECT.
UH, THERE WILL FIRST BE THE PRESENTATION OF THE STAFF REPORT.
THEN WE SHALL HEAR FROM THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE ORDINANCE.
THEN THOSE OPPOSED MS. MORALES WHO WILL PRESENT THE STAFF REPORT.
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JOANN BURNS WILL BE PROVIDING THE PRESENTATION.GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
THIS ITEM WAS ORIGINALLY PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE.
HOWEVER, ON, UM, THE CITY COUNCIL ON JANUARY 16TH, 2024 APPROVED THE DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE DURING THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
THE CITY COUNCIL WAS INFORMED THAT THE UPDATES TO THE ZONING MAP WOULD BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND PRESENTED TO THE CITY COUNCIL AT A LATER TIME.
THE ZONE CHANGE WAS WRITTEN, INTRODUCED TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION ON FEBRUARY 13TH, IN ORDER TO PROVIDE A MORE DETAILED RESOLUTION WHERE THEY RECOMMENDED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVE THE PROPOSED ZONE CHANGES.
THIS PROPOSED ZONE CHANGE IS FOUR PARTS.
THE FIRST, UM, COMPONENT IS TO ELIMINATE THE C3 IN C TWO ZONES IN THE CITY.
CURRENTLY THERE ARE ONLY 21 PROPERTIES, ZONE C TWO AND 53 PROPERTIES, ZONE C3 IN THE CITY.
IN THE WHAT CITIES MUNICIPAL CODE, UM, CONSIDERS STATES THAT THESE C TWO AND C3 PROPERTIES ARE ANTIQUATED Z ZONES AND PROHIBIT ITS EXPANSION.
SO HERE WE'RE PROPOSING TO ELIMINATE THESE ZONES AND CHANGING IT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD MIXED USE AND OR SERVICE MIXED USE ZONES.
THE USES IS, UM, RELATED TO THE SERVICE MIX USE AND NEIGHBORHOOD MIX USE IN COMPARISON TO THE C TWO AND C3 ZONES ARE SIMILAR.
THERE ARE CERTAIN USES, HOWEVER, THAT ARE ALLOWED IN THE MIXED NEIGHBORHOOD.
MIXED USE AND SERVICE MIXED USE ZONES THAT ARE, THAT ARE NOT CURRENTLY ALLOWED IN THE C TWO AND C3 ZONES.
AND THESE USES ARE, UM, UM, TYPICALLY LIKE SIMILAR TO DATA PROCESSING, BOTH SALES APPLIANCE REPAIRS AND, AND GYMS. SO THEY'RE A MIXTURE OF, UM, EITHER PERMITTED BY RIGHT OR PERMITTED THROUGH A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT PROCESS.
THE THE NEXT PART IS ELIMINATING THE PUBLIC BUILDING IN PLANNED INDUSTRIAL ZONES AND CHANGING THAT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD MIXED USE OR OPEN SPACE ZONES.
IT AND ALSO OVERALL, UM, GETTING RID OF THE MIXED USE OVERLAY ZONE AND OFF AND INCORPORATING THE MIXED USE OVERLAY ZONE INTO THE STANDARD ZONING, WHICH IS NEIGHBORHOOD MIXED USE SERVICE, MIXED USE, REGIONAL MIXED USE, AND ALSO INCORPORATING THE MIXED USE OVERLAY, UH, MIXED USE ZONE INTO THE OFFICE PROFESSIONAL MIX.
UM, IN CONSIDERING IT OFFICE PROFESSIONAL MIXED USE, WHICH WAS NOT PREVIOUSLY PART OF THE MIXED USE OVERLAY ZONE.
AND THE FOUR PART IS CHANGING SOME PROPERTIES TO R ONE ZONING TO OPEN SPACE ZONING.
AND THESE ARE MOSTLY CITY OWNED PARCELS THAT ARE EXISTING PARKS OR OPEN SPACE AREAS THAT, THAT ARE BEING USED FOR SLOPE CON CONSERVATION.
I'LL GO AHEAD AND GO OVER THE, THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE ARE BEING REZONED BECAUSE THE IP AND, UM, THE PLANT, INDUSTRIAL AND PUBLIC BUILDING ZONES ARE BEING ELIMINATED.
AND, UH, THERE ARE ONLY FIVE OF THESE PROPERTIES, THREE ARE NORTHWEST COLLEGE.
UM, THE ZONING WOULD JUST MATCH THE EXISTING OR THE PORTION OF NORTHWEST COLLEGE THAT'S ACROSS, THAT'S ACROSS THE STREET FROM, FROM THESE ZONING FROM THESE PROPERTIES.
AND THEN THE TWO PROPERTY, THE TWO O OTHER PROPERTIES IS FIRE STATION THREE.
UM, IT'S CURRENTLY ZONED PUBLIC BUILDING.
IT'S BEING ZONED AS OPEN SPACE, WHICH IS SIMILAR TO THE ZONING OF FIRE STATION TWO.
WE'RE JUST MATCHING THE ZONING, SO TO MAKE IT MORE CONSISTENT WITH THE EXISTING FIRE STATION.
AND THEN ON VALLEY AND MORGANFIELD IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE, UM, EXISTING LANDSCAPED AREA IN BETWEEN VALLEY BOULEVARD AND A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL THAT PROVIDES SOME TYPE OF LANDSCAPING BUFFER BECAUSE VALLEY IS A VERY BUSY STREET CURRENTLY THIS IS SO PUBLIC BUILDING AND WE'RE CHANGING IT TO OPEN SPACE TO BE MORE CONSISTENT WITH ITS USE.
UM, AND THERE ARE, THERE ARE OTHER PROPERTIES
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THAT ARE SPLIT ZONED.SO THE, THE PROPERTY ITSELF, UH, UM, THE PARCEL HAS TWO DIFFERENT ZONING.
SO ONE OF, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA DO IS FIX THIS SITUATION.
SO A PORS ONE, ONE OF THESE SITUATIONS IS AT THE HONDA DEALERSHIP.
CURRENTLY THERE, THIS SMALL TRIANGULAR PARCEL IS ZONED NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL.
WE'RE JUST MATCHING THE ZONING TO THIS.
IT'S THE SERVICE COMMERCIAL ZONE FOR THE, FOR, TO MATCH THE, THE LARGE PORTION OF THE SITE.
THE, THE AUTO PLAZA OVERLAY ZONE WILL NOT BE IMPACTED WITH, WITH THE ZONE CHANGE.
AND IT'S STILL GOING TO BE REMAINED AS A USED CAR ONLY DEALERSHIP, DEALERSHIP AREA.
THERE IS AN APARTMENT COMPLEX ON 10 15 WEST GARVEY AVENUE THAT'S SPLIT, ZONED, UM, A PORTION, A LARGE PORTION OF IT'S ZONED MF 20, AND A SMALL TRIANGULAR PORTION OF THE PARKING LOT AREA ON THE SOUTH IS ZONED NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL.
SO WE'RE CHANGING TO MATCH THE MF 20 ZONE.
UM, ON A 20 PHILLIPS A HOS A HOSPICE CARE FACILITY.
IT'S CURRENTLY, UM, A LARGE PORTION OF IT'S CURRENTLY ZONED MF 20, MCES 20.
UM, HOWEVER, A PORTION OF IT, UM, A PARKING LOT AND LANDSCAPING PORTION OF IT ZONED OFFICE PROFESSIONAL.
WERE MAKING IT MORE CONSISTENT WITH THE MF 20 ZONE TO MATCH.
AND THEN SIMILAR SITUATION WITH THIS PROPERTY ON 5 27 SOUTH BELINDA AVENUE.
AND THIS IS THE OVERALL ZONING MAP THAT SHOWS ALL THE PROPERTIES THAT I, THAT I CALLED OUT CHANGED IN ADDITION TO THE ITEMS THAT, THAT I WENT OVER AS THE FOUR COMPONENTS OF THIS PARTICULAR ZONE CHANGE.
WITH THIS, WE ARE RECOMMENDING THAT THE CITY COUNCIL CONDUCT THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INTRODUCE ORDINANCE NUMBER 25 20.
I'M AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
UH, ANY QUESTIONS? SEEING NONE, MR. MAYOR? OH, YES.
COUNCILMAN, JUST REAL BRIEFLY, WHAT ARE THE, JUST, UM, WHAT ARE THE PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF MAKING THESE CHANGES? I'M, I'M NOT F QUITE FOLLOWING WHEN BY OUR DOING THIS.
WHAT DOES THIS PRODUCE EXACTLY? JUST SO I CAN UNDERSTAND BETTER? SO IF I CAN
UM, YOU, THE COUNCIL RECENTLY ADOPTED THE DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE THAT, UH, CHANGE SOME OF THE, UM, TITLES FOR SOME OF THE ZONES.
RIGHT? AND SO THIS ZONE CHANGE WILL MAKE IT SO THAT IT'S CONSISTENT WITH THE NEW DEVELOPMENT CODE THAT YOU JUST UPDATED.
BUT I'M, BUT I'M JUST SAYING JUST WHAT, SO WHEN WE, WHEN WE MAKE THAT CONSISTENT, WHAT ARE THE, WHAT WERE THE PROBLEMS? BECAUSE THE INCONSISTENCIES BEFORE, JUST BECAUSE I'M STILL LEARNING HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFF DIFFERENT TERMS AND HOW THIS ALL WORKS.
SO WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE THE PRACTICAL, LIKE WHAT HAPPENS BY SYNCHRONIZING BY MAKE, BECAUSE WE DID APPROVE THAT.
'CAUSE WE SHOULD BE IN SYNCHRONICITY, BUT, BUT JUST FOR RESIDENTS UNDERSTANDING, WHAT DOES THIS DO? I'LL, I'LL LET JOANNE RESPOND TO THAT ONE.
UM, SO THE DEVELOPMENT, THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS THAT WERE APPROVED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATES, CALLS FOR THESE SPECIFIC ZONES.
SO IN ORDER FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO, UM, DO CONSTRUCTION OR ANY TYPE OF DEVELOPMENTS IN, IN THESE PROPERTIES IN THE CITY, WE WOULD HAVE TO DO THE ZONE CHANGE TO MAKE IT MORE CONSISTENT WITH, WITH THE, UM, DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE.
OTHERWISE, OTHERWISE, UM, THE ZONE, ALL EVERY ZONE IN THE CITY WOULD, UM, THAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS PARTICULAR ZONE CHANGE WOULD, WOULD BE CONSIDERED ANTIQUATED, SIMILAR TO WHAT THE C3 AND C TWO ZONES THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY IN, IN OUR ZONING MAP.
SO BY THERE BEING ANTIQUATED BY OUR CREATING THE SYNCHRONICITY, IT RESULTS IN WHAT, I MEAN, I'M NOT SURE IF I'M ASKING MY QUESTION PROPERLY, BUT I MEAN, JUST IMAGINING EVEN RESIDENTS SAYING, WELL, WHAT DOES, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? SO WHAT IF WE DON'T UPDATE THE NEW, THE ZONING TO REFLECT THE DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE? IT'LL LEAVE SOME, THE DEVELOPMENT CODE WOULD REFERENCE ZONING THAT DOESN'T EXIST IN OUR ZONING CODE.
SO THEREFORE WE WOULDN'T, THE DEVELOPMENT CODE THAT WE JUST UPDATED ALL OF THOSE GUIDELINES
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WOULD, WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO APPLY TO ZONING THAT IS NOT NO LONGER EXISTS ZONING MAP.AND ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UH, SEEING NONE, UH, IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF THE ORDINANCE? I HAVE NO SPEAKER CARDS.
UH, IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK IN OPPOSITION TO THE ORDINANCE? I HAVE NO SPEAKER CARDS FOR THAT ONE EITHER.
I SHALL NOW CLOSE THE PUBLIC TESTIMONY PORTION OF THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASK FOR COUNSEL DISCUSSION.
I DO HAVE TO READ THE ORDINANCE.
HERE'S MY ORDINANCE TITLE, ORDINANCE NUMBER 2 5 2 0, AND ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA ADOPTING ZONE CHANGE NUMBER 23 DASH ZERO TWO REZONING PROPERTIES IN THE PLANNED INDUSTRIAL I DASH P PUBLIC BUILDING P DASH B, MEDIUM COMMERCIAL C DASH TWO, AND HEAVY COMMERCIAL C DASH THREE ZONES AND REZONING, THE REGIONAL COMMERCIAL OFFICE, PROFESSIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD, COMMERCIAL AND SERVICE COMMERCIAL ZONES WITH MIXED USE OVERLAY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE DEVELOPMENT CODE, UPDATE AND REZONING CERTAIN PROPERTIES FOR LAND USE CONSISTENCY AND MAKING A DETERMINATION THAT THE PROJECT IS EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT PURSUANT TO CQA GUIDELINES.
SECTION 1 5 0 6 1 B THREE COMMON SENSE EX EXEMPTION.
I HAVE A MOTION BY MAYOR PROTI WU.
AND A SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ.
[9) UPDATE ON EFFORTS ESTABLISHING PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF LONG BEACH PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY]
ON TO ITEM NUMBER NINE, UPDATE ON EFFORTS ESTABLISHING PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF LONG BEACH PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY.MS. MORALES, WHO WILL PRESENT THE STAFF REPORT.
I'LL BE PRESENTING IT THIS EVENING THERE.
SO THE ITEM BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING IS, OR THE RECOMMENDATION IS, UH, TO RECEIVE AND FILE THE UPDATE REGARDING EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH A PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT HERE IN WEST COVINA.
AND SECONDLY, TO APPROVE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF LONG BEACH FOR LABORATORY TESTING SERVICES IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM AS ATTACHED AND IN SUCH FINAL FORM AS APPROVED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY.
SO A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND, UM, IN FEBRUARY, 2021, THE CITY COUNCIL DIRECTED STAFF TO ESTABLISH A, UH, WEST CAMINO HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
UH, AND THIS WAS, UM, DURING THE PANDEMIC AND IT WAS DIRECTED, UM, WITH THE INTENT TO PROTECT AND SAVE LIVES IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND RESPON HAVE A BETTER RESPONSE TO, UH, A WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC HAPPENING
UM, IN APRIL, WE WERE ESTABLISHED, UH, THE PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR OFFICER, UH, POSITION.
IT WAS ADDED AS A NON-EXEMPT POSITION IN THE MUNICIPAL CODE IN MAY OF 2021.
UM, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE MUNICIPAL CODE.
UM, THE FEES AND CHARGES WERE ALSO ESTABLISHED IN THE, UH, MUNICIPAL CODE.
UM, AND THE CITY MANAGER WAS AUTHORIZED TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR HEALTH SERVICES.
UM, THAT SAME, UH, MONTH IN 2021, THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, UH, SUBMITTED THE WEST COVINA HEALTH DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY TO THE DEPARTMENT, UH, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH OR CDPH.
UM, AND THAT WAS THE CITY'S APPLICATION TO ESTABLISH OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
UM, SO I WANT TO, UM, THANK CDPH AND LA COUNTY, UH, HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THEM COLLABORATIVELY FOR THE LAST TWO AND A HALF YEARS SINCE WE RECEIVED, UH, OR SINCE WE SUBMITTED THAT.
UM, UH, OUR APPLICATION, UH, WE'VE BEEN MEETING WITH THEM REGULARLY, MONTHLY MEETINGS TO GET UPDATES AS TO THE STATUS, UM, PERTAINING ESTABLISHING A HEALTH DEPARTMENT WITH THE SUBMITTAL OF THE CITY'S, UH, WEST COVINA APPLICATION.
UH, THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA CDPH UM, DECIDED THAT IT WAS NECESSARY TO, TO DO A, A LOOK AND REVIEW AT THE REGULATIONS PROCESS FOR ESTABLISHING A HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UM, OUT OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENTS IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
NONE OF THEM HAD BEEN CERTIFIED THROUGH THAT PROCESS.
AND HAVING BEEN, YOU KNOW, GOING THROUGH A PANDEMIC, IT WAS, UH, THEY FELT AN APPROPRIATE TIME, UM, ESPECIALLY WITH IN CONJUNCTION WITH APPLICATION TO, UH, REALLY REVIEW THE PROCESS AND ESTABLISHING A HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT WAYS THAT THE PANDEMIC IMPACTED THE HEALTH INDUSTRY AND HOW IT COULD BE, UH, BETTER FORMATTED TO BETTER SERVE, UM, OUR, OUR CITIZENS.
UM, AND DISCUSSIONS WITH THE, WITH CDPH,
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UM, THERE ARE SOME DOCUMENTS THAT THEY'VE STATED WILL BE REQUIRED AS A BEFORE INITIAL APPLICATION.UM, AND THAT IS A COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT, A COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND READINESS PLAN, UH, PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICES AGREEMENT, AND, UH, POSSIBLY OTHERS.
AT THIS TIME, WEST COVINA HAS COMPLETED A WEST COVINA EMERGENCY PLAN WITH A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND READINESS PLAN.
UM, AND WE ARE FINALIZING THE COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
I KNOW THAT I'VE BEEN, UM, AT, UH, OR DR.
BASIL, UM, HAS BEEN AT DIFFERENT COMMUNITY MEETING OR COMMUNITY EVENTS, UM, AT A BOOTH AND WHERE WE HAVE THAT SURVEY THAT'S BEEN ON THE WEBSITE, TRY TO COLLECT INFORMATION FROM OUR COMMUNITY OR RESIDENTS, UM, SO THAT WE CAN COMPLETE THAT COMMUN, UH, COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT AS WELL AS A COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.
UM, SO, UM, IN FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR, WE HEARD FROM THE, UH, FROM CDPH THAT THEY HAD COMPLETED THEIR REGULATIONS PACKAGE AND THEIR REGULATIONS PACKAGE.
SORRY, WE CAN GO TWO SLIDES AHEAD.
UM, SO ON, AS I SAID, WE, UH, RECEIVED CONFIRMATION THAT THEY HAD COMPLETED THE PACKAGE, AND THAT INCLUDES DRAFT REGULATIONS, UM, AN INITIAL STATEMENT OF REASON, ECONOMIC AND, UH, FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT, UM, AND BUDGET EXPLANATIONS.
AND SO THIS IS A PACKET THAT THEY FINALIZED.
AND THEN FROM THERE, THEY'RE ABLE TO GO INTO THE VIEW REVIEW PHASE OF THIS, UM, OF, UM, OF THE REGULATIONS.
SO THE REGULATION PACKAGE IS UNDERGOING FINAL REVIEW BY THE STATE'S LEGAL COUNSEL, AND THEN IT'LL BE SUBMITTED TO VARIOUS AGENCIES, UH, AT OUR STATE, UM, FOR FINAL APPROVAL.
UM, UH, ONCE ALL OF THOSE AGENCIES, INCLUDING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, IT'LL THEN BE POSTED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, AND THAT'S WHEN THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, AND THAT'S WHEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT THOSE NEW REGULATIONS ARE GOING TO ENTAIL, UM, AND REQUIRE, UM, FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
ONCE THOSE, THAT PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS COMPLETED, THEN IT'LL GET FILED WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE, AND THEN THE, UH, CDPH WILL REQUIRE, UM, UH, SOME TIME TO SET UP STAFFING SO THAT THEY CAN THEN ACCEPT THE APPLICATION.
WITH ALL OF THIS, WE ANTICIPATE THAT, OR WILL BE ABLE TO GET, UH, APPROVAL BY THE END OF THIS YEAR, BY THE END OF 2024.
IF WE CAN GO BACKWARDS ONE BACKWARDS THERE.
UM, SO CURRENT STATUS RIGHT NOW, WE CURRENTLY ARE BEING, UM, PROVIDED SERVICES WITH THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
WE WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE SERVICES FROM LA COUNTY HEALTH, UM, UNTIL, UH, THE WEST COVINAS HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS APPROVED AND ESTABLISHED.
UM, THE PROCESS OF SEPARATING FROM LA COUNTY WILL BE IN A PHASED APPROACH.
WE ARE NOT ANTICIPATING THAT WE SUBMIT TO THE STATE.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE TO HAVE A HEALTH DEPARTMENT, THE SCALE OF LONG BEACH OR PASADENA, UM, UP AND RUNNING WITHIN
BUT IT'LL BE A PROCESS WHERE, UM, AS THE CITY THROUGH THE COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT, WHAT THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY ARE THAT WE WILL LOOK AT PROVIDING THOSE SERVICES FOR WEST COVINA AND GETTING GRANT FUNDING OR FUNDING FROM CDPH TO PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES.
AND AS WE TAKE ON SERVICES AND WE COULD THEN REDUCE, UM, RE REPLACE THOSE SERVICES THAT WE GET FROM THE COUNTY, BUT IT IS GOING TO BE A PHASED APPROACH.
UM, WE ARE GOING TO START TAKING ON SERVICES AND PROGRAMS, UM, UH, AS WE NEED THEM BASED ON WHAT THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY ARE.
UM, THE CITY'S CURRENT FOCUS IS PURSUING STATE PROVISIONAL APPROVAL FOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
UM, AND WE HAVE BEEN MEETING REGULARLY SINCE, UH, FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS, LIKE I MENTIONED, WITH CDPH AND LA COUNTY ON A MONTHLY BASIS TO GO OVER THE PROGRESS OF THESE REGULATIONS, UM, BUDGET AND FINANCIALS.
UM, SO AS WE ARE NOT PRIVY TO WHAT THE FINAL REGULATIONS STATE, WE CANNOT, UH, UH, PROVIDE YOU WITH FINANCIALS TODAY AS TO WHAT EXACTLY THIS IS GOING TO COST.
AS I MENTIONED, THIS IS REALLY A PHASED APPROACH.
UM, PART OF THE DISCUSSIONS WITH CDPH IS THAT THERE WILL BE, UH, FIXED FUNDING FROM THE STATE FOR A HEALTH DEPARTMENT, PLUS
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THERE'S GRANT FUNDING.UM, THERE'S, UH, FEDERAL FUNDING, UM, THAT WILL BE, WE'LL BE ABLE TO APPLY FOR ONCE WE HAVE THE APPROVAL FROM, UH, AS A HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
AND SO, UM, ALL PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENTS QUALIFY TO RECEIVE GRANT FUNDING AT FEDERAL AND STATE LEVELS.
THE BUDGET MAY ALSO BE SUPPORTED BY FEES, UH, THAT, UM, FEDERAL HEALTH OFFSET COSTS, UM, FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE THE ENVIRONMENTAL PIECE THAT CAN BE SELF-SUSTAINED BY, UH, SERVICE FEES COLLECTED FOR THOSE SERVICES THAT PERTAIN TO, UM, HEALTH INSPECTIONS OF OUR RESTAURANTS.
UM, THE SECOND ITEM, UH, ON FOR YOUR RECOMMENDATION TONIGHT IS APPROVAL OF A AGREEMENT WITH, UH, LONG BEACH PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
UM, PART OF THE REQUIREMENT THAT CDPH HAS CONVEYED TO US IS THAT WE WILL NEED TO PROVIDE LABORATORY SERVICES.
UM, WE, UH, REACHED OUT TO VARIOUS, UH, UH, LABS IN OUR REGION AND, UH, DETERMINED THAT THE LONG BEACH, UH, PUBLIC HEALTH OR THE LONG BEACH LAB WAS THE BEST OPTION TO SECURE, UH, A PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH WEST COVINA.
UM, THERE DOES NOT, UM, THE AGREEMENT IS BASED ON THE SERVICES RENDERED, AND SO WE WILL NOT BE RECEIVING SERVICES UNTIL WE HAVE THAT PROVISIONAL, UH, APPROVAL FROM CDPH.
AND SO WE DO NOT INTEND ON, UM, INCURRING ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH, WE WILL NOT BE, LEMME CORRECT THAT WE WILL NOT BE CE UH, INCURRING ANY COST UNTIL WE GET THAT APPROVAL FROM CDPH, AND THEN IT'LL BE BASED ON THE SERVICES THAT ARE REQUIRED BY THE CITY.
UM, SO THAT'S THE UPDATE AND INFORMATION ON THE LABORATORY SERVICES.
BALIN AMARI FROM TRANSTECH THAT, UM, ARE HERE TO HELP ME ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
UH, ANY QUESTIONS OF STAFF BY, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS? I, I CAN GO FIRST IF THAT.
WELL, I ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, LIKE TO ALLOW MY FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS THE OPPORTUNITY.
UH, SO I WANTED TO START WITH THE, THE HEALTH NEEDS A ASSESSMENT.
UM, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE THE, THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT? WHAT A DEMOGRAPHIC PORTION OF THE COMMUNITY, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION NEEDS TO BE SURVEYED? WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE THE PROTOCOLS THAT I UNDERSTAND AT, AT SOME OF THE PUBLIC EVENTS? DR.
BASIL, UH, HAS BEEN, UH, TAKING, UH, SURVEY QUESTIONS, BUT I'M, I'M, I'M ASSUMING THERE'S, UH, ACADEMIC PROTOCOLS THAT NEED TO BE FOLLOWED TO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER DATA IS PRODUCED IS USABLE DATA.
BASIL ANSWERS, IF I COULD JUST ADD THIS, UM, AS I MENTIONED, WE'VE BEEN WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH CDPH AND LA COUNTY, AND SO WHEN WE, AS WE CREATED THIS SURVEY, UM, THAT WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO COLLECT INFORMATION FROM OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS, WE HAVE BEEN SHARING, UM, EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING WITH CDPH, AND, UM, I DON'T WANNA SAY GETTING THEIR BLESSING, BUT INFORMING THEM AND KIND OF SAYING, IF WE DO IT THIS WAY, YOU KNOW, IS THIS THE RIGHT WAY? AND SO WE'VE BEEN GETTING SOME POSITIVE FEEDBACK FROM, UH, CDPH.
UH, SO AS FAR AS THE COMMITTEE HEALTH NEED ASSESSMENT, UH, WE BASICALLY HAVE TWO DATA.
ONE IS, UH, SO-CALLED PRIMARY DATA.
THROUGH THE SURVEY, UH, WE ARE GONNA APPROACH DIFFERENT COMMUNITY, UH, DIFFERENT DISTRICT AND SO FORTH, AND GET A SURVEY ON THOSE, UH, CERTAIN QUESTIONS THAT WE LIKE TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER.
AND THEN WE HAVE THOSE, SO-CALLED SECONDARY DATA, WHERE WE ARE BASICALLY, UH, GO THROUGH, DIG THROUGH THE WHOLE BETWEEN THE C-D-P-H-C-D-C AND SO FORTH, AND LIKE U-C-L-A-U-S-C AND SO FORTH, SOME OF THE HEALTH DATA PERTAINING TO RISK COVID.
SO BASED ON THAT, WE ARE ACTUALLY FINALIZING ALL THOSE DATA.
EVENTUALLY WE'LL BE ABLE TO, AFTER WE FINAL REVIEW, WE HAVE, WE DO HAVE A, UM, UH, OUR ASSOCIATE, UH, HEALTH DIRECTOR, UH, DR.
SHE HAS BEEN A, UH, A DOCTORATE DEGREE IN HEALTH SCIENCE AND HAVE BEEN PARTICIPATE.
I ACTUALLY WORK IN, UH, UH, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, UH, PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
SO SHE'LL BE HELPING US TO FINALIZE SOME OF THIS DATA, AND THEN WE'LL BE FORMING DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP AND STAKEHOLDER AND PARTNERS AND GO THROUGH SOME OF THIS, PUT IN THE DATA WITH EACH INDIVIDUALS, UH, OR EACH INDIVIDUAL GROUP TO SEE EXACTLY TO ESTABLISH THE EXACT NEED IN EACH COMMUNITIES.
SO WE'LL BE SHARING WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND SO FORTH ON THOSE DATA WHEN READY ON, ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH COMPONENT, BECAUSE THAT, THAT SEEMS TO BE THE, THE FIRST PIECE THAT THE
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CITY PLANS TO, TO ROLL OUT.UM, HOW, HOW MANY, UH, FACILITIES, I KNOW WE, WE MENTIONED RESTAURANTS, BUT I UNDERSTAND IT DEALS WITH LIKE THE PUBLIC POOLS, LIKE, SO, LIKE EDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, SWIMMING POOL, UM, THE, THE WRESTLING ROOMS THERE, UM, THE MASSAGE PARLORS THERE.
THERE'S MANY MORE FACILITIES THAN THAN THAN JUST RESTAURANTS.
SO, SO DO WE, DO WE HAVE A, A, A NUMBER AND, AND WHAT, WHAT THE PROJECTED NUMBER OF, UM, HEALTH INSPECTORS WE, WE WOULD NEED.
UH, I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT LA COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH AND PASADENA AND LONG BEACH ARE, ARE CURRENTLY HAVING A SHORTAGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS.
SO I, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT AS WE'RE MOVING FORWARD, WE KNOW WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IS OUR CAPACITY, WHAT WOULD WE NEED IN, IN ORDER TO, UM, I GUESS IF WE WERE GONNA HIRE FROM WITHIN OR IF WE ARE GOING TO, UH, OUTSOURCE.
UM, SO DO YOU HAVE, UH, INFORMATION ON THAT FOR US, IF BEFORE YOU RESPOND? UM, OH, I LOST MY TRAIN, TRAIN OF THOUGHT.
SO WE HAVE, UM, BEEN TRYING, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH, UH, LA COUNTY TO GET, UM, THEIR FIGURES FROM THEM AS TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEIR NUMBER, THEIR, UH, VOLUME IS HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
WE ALSO HAVE OUR BUSINESS, UH, LISTING THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO.
SO WE HAVE 3,700 BUSINESSES IN THE COMMUNITY, UNDERSTANDABLY, THERE'S SOME FACILITIES THAT ARE NOT A BUSINESS.
AND SO, UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE, WE ARE WORKING ON, UH, COMPILING.
SO BASICALLY, UH, SOME OF THIS, UM, UH, INFORMATION PROBABLY WE STILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE REGULATION PACKAGE, UH, RELEASED BY THE CDPH.
SO, UH, THEN WE'LL KNOW MORE FOR SURE WHAT IS REALLY REQUIRED.
UH, AS, UM, MR. PAULINA SAY, UM, WE ARE STILL TRYING TO GET DATA FROM THE LA COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENTS, AND SO FAR THEY HAVE BEEN, UM, UH, WE DIDN'T QUITE GET ALL THE INFORMATION THAT WE NEED YET AT THIS TIME, BUT ROUGHLY IT'LL BE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN FOUR TO 5,000 BUSINESSES, FOUR TO 5,000 BUSINESSES, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY NON BUSINESSES.
UH, AND, AND THEN, UH, I, I THINK THIS IS BECAUSE FOR, FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS, WE, WE'VE HAD ISSUES WITH, WITH, WITH OUR WEBSITE, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST, JUST FOR THE PUBLIC, IF YOU WANNA PLAY ALONG, YOU COULD GO TO PUBLIC HEALTH.LA COUNTY.GOV, UH, JUST JUST TO SEE HOW COMPREHENSIVE, UH, THEIR, THEIR, THEIR WEBSITE IS.
UH, AGAIN, THE DATA THAT'S AVAILABLE, UM, YOU CAN GO ON THERE AND YOU CAN SEE ALL THE BUSINESSES AND WHEN THEY WERE INSPECTED AND, AND WHAT GRADES THEY RECEIVED AND WHAT VIOLATIONS THEY HAD.
SO HAVE, HAVE WE LOOKED AT, UM, FOR ONE, OUR, OUR CAPACITY, ARE WE GOING TO, UM, CREATE A, A SEPARATE WEBSITE, WHICH WOULD SEEM TO BE NECESSARY, UH, FOR THIS, BECAUSE IT, IT'S SO COMPREHENSIVE.
UH, AGAIN, ARE, ARE WE, ARE WE PLANNING TO OUTSOURCE IT? I'M ASKING THIS BECAUSE IF, IF, AS WE'RE MOVING ALONG, I KNOW YOU SAID THERE'S NO FINANCIALS BECAUSE WE'RE WAITING ON SOME INFORMATION, BUT THERE'S SOME BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE SHOULD ALREADY BE BUILDING OUT IN TERMS OF COST THAT WE KNOW WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO HAVE IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THE TYPE OF SERVICE THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY RECEIVING FROM LA COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH.
UH, YOU KNOW, SO, UH, IF WE, IF YOU CAN START RESPONDING TO THAT.
AND THEN I HAVE A FOLLOW UP TO THE, UM, WEBSITE
SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE LOOKED AT THAT AT, UH, CREATING A SEPARATE WEBSITE SPECIFICALLY FOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UNDERSTANDABLY, THE, UH, PASADENA AND LONG BEACH, THEIR SCOPE OF SERVICES, YOU KNOW, THEIR ESTABLISHED HEALTH DEPARTMENT, SO THEY HAVE A LARGER SCOPE OF SERVICES.
UM, OUR INTENT REALLY IS TO START THE WEST COVINA HEALTH DEPARTMENT AS A, IN PHASES.
UM, WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO TAKE ON ALL OF THE SERVICES THAT, UM, LA COUNTY OR, UH, PASADENA OR, UM, LONG BEACH HAVE, UM, AS WE WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO WORK WITH LA COUNTY COLLABORATIVELY IN PROVIDING OUR RESIDENTS, UH, SERVICES SO THAT THEY DON'T LOSE ANY ACCESS TO ANY SERVICE THAT THEY'RE CURRENTLY GETTING.
AND AS WE'RE ABLE TO GET GRANTS AND FUNDING THAT WE CAN, AND LEVERAGE COMMUNITY ASSETS OR PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE CAN TAKE ON A, UH, PROGRAMS, UM, TO BETTER SERVE OUR RESIDENTS AND FROM THERE, PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES AND BUILD OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN THAT MANNER.
AND SO, UM, WHETHER DEPENDING ON, AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHAT THOSE REGULATIONS REQUIRE FOR US TO START WITH, WE WOULD DEFINITELY HAVE TO LOOK AT WHETHER IT'S A WEBSITE THAT WE CAN START BUILDING ON, OR IF WE HAVE TO CREATE A SEPARATE WEBSITE FROM THE BEGINNING.
BUT WE HAVE LOOKED AT COSTING FOR A WEBSITE.
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I, I BRING THIS UP BECAUSE IT, IT, IT, IT'S A MAJOR CONCERN OF MINE IN, IN TERMS OF, UH, FEASIBILITY AND, AND ACCESS OF SERVICE.UH, JUST, UH, YESTERDAY, UH, I WENT ONLINE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR, OUR FIRE, UH, EMERGENCY AMBULANCE PLAN, $60 A YEAR.
UM, WE STILL DON'T HAVE THE CAPACITY TO PAY ONLINE.
NO, I WENT ON THERE, I CLICKED ON THE LINK.
SO THEN, SO THIS, THIS THEN BECOMES AN ISSUE, RIGHT? THAT IF, IF I GO ON THE WEBSITE, I CLICK ON THE LINK, AND THEN I GO TO THE PAYMENT, ONLINE SERVICE, AND THEN IT TAKES ME TO A, IT'S CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE, THEN WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE HAVING AN ISSUE.
AND, AND, AND, AND SO, AND, AND AGAIN, BECAUSE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT OUR ISSUE WITH OUR WEBSITE FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS, ESPECIALLY WITH, WITH PUBLIC HEALTH, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ACCESSING, YOU KNOW, ORDERING, UH, BIRTH CERTIFICATES, ORDERING DEATH CERTIFICATES, UM, AGAIN, BEING, BEING ABLE TO EN ENGAGE WITH THESE TYPE OF ITEMS, UH, AND NOT HAVING THE ONLINE CAPACITY IF WE HAVEN'T BUILT IT OUT AS A CITY SO FAR, YOU KNOW, I KNOW YOU PRESENTED TODAY ON THE, THE LMDS AND, AND LOOKING AT, AT THE STREET REPAIRS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, AND WE'RE, WE'RE STARTING TO TRY TO GET TO THAT, BUT NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH, UM, WHICH I THINK IS A MUCH MORE SERIOUS MANNER.
AND, AND I THINK THE FACT THAT WE HAVE NOT REALLY BUILT OUT THAT INFRASTRUCTURE, FOUND OUT THE COST, UM, I, I FIND IT TO BE PROBLEMATIC, UH, GOING TO THE, THE LAB SERVICES.
SO AGAIN, FOR, UH, I'M TALKING ABOUT STAFFING, BECAUSE WHILE LONG BEACH WILL PROVIDE THE LAB SERVICES ACCORDING TO THE AGREEMENT, UM, WEST COVINA IS GONNA BE OBTAINING THE SPECIMENS, RIGHT? SO, UH, AGAIN, IN, IN TERMS OF STAFFING, IS IT, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT IS, IS GONNA BE OUTSOURCED? IS IT SOMETHING THAT IS GONNA BE WITHIN THE CITY? UM, AGAIN, ARE, ARE WE, AGAIN, AS WE'RE CREATING THIS DEPARTMENT, I KNOW WE PARTNER WITH TRANSTECH.
I I KNOW WE'VE, WE'VE MADE IT MORE AS AN OUTSOURCED, UH, PART OF THE CITY, NOT NECESSARILY WITHIN THE CITY.
UM, BUT AGAIN, WHAT, WHAT ARE GONNA BE THE, THE STAFFING REQUIREMENTS FOR THAT? UM, DO WE HAVE ANY KIND OF IDEA, UM, OR AT LEAST ANY COMPARISON, YOU KNOW, I KNOW PASADENA AND LONG BEACH ARE MUCH BIGGER CITIES, BUT AGAIN, WHAT, WHAT NUMBERS DO THEY HAVE IN TERMS OF, AGAIN, FOR COLLECTING LABS AND THEN CURRYING THEM OVER TO LONG BEACH, UH, AND, AND MAKING SURE WE HAVE THOSE RESULTS? DO, DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA ON, ON, ON THAT IN TERMS OF STAFFING AND, AND COST? OKAY, LET ME ANSWER THAT QUESTION THEN.
UM, SO ANYWAY, UM, EVERY HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS DIFFERENT.
UH, IF YOU LOOK AT THE PASADENA MODEL, THEY ACTUALLY DOESN'T TAKE CARE OF CLINICAL SERVICE.
ALL THE CLINICAL SERVICE ARE PROVIDED BY, BY THE FEDERAL QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTER, EXCEPT THE TB CONTROL PROGRAMS, UH, AND ALSO THE HIV PROGRAM, WHEREAS LONG BEACH, THEY HAVE A FULL SPECTRUM OF CLINICAL SERVICE, WHICH WE ARE NOT REALLY TRYING TO ATTEMPT.
SO MOST OF OUR STAFFING WILL BE OUTSOURCED, BUT IN A FLEXIBLE MODEL, IN TERM OF, UH, WHENEVER WE NEED, WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET THE SERVICE THAT WE NEED BY, UH, OUTSOURCING IN THE FLEXIBLE, SO ONLY AS JUST LIKE LONG BEACH, IF WE NEED THE LAB SERVICE, WE'LL PAY FOR THAT LAB SERVICE ONLY.
SO WE DON'T HAVE TO MAINTAIN THE WHOLE LABORATORY LIKE PASADENA.
PASADENA USED TO DO THAT, AND THEY FOUND IT'S NOT ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE, SO THEY ACTUALLY CLOSE IT AND SEND IT TO LA COUNTY OR PUBLIC HEALTH LAB.
NO, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT I'M READING OUR AGREEMENT WITH LONG BEACH.
UH, AND SO WHEN IT SAYS WEST COVINA WILL OBTAIN THE, THE SPECIMENS AND, AND THEN CURRY THEM TO THE LONG BEACH LAB, AGAIN, WHAT TYPE OF STAFFING REQUIREMENTS IS THAT GONNA RE REQUIRE FOR, IN ORDER FOR US TO, UM, OBTAIN THE SPECIMENS, UH, TAKE THEM, UH, TO THE LONG BEACH LAB? YES.
WELL, THERE'S A DIFFERENT WAY.
ONE IS, UH, WE ARE COLLABORATING WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNER, LIKE EMINENT HEALTH.
SO IF THE HOSPITAL HAVE CERTAIN SPECIMEN THAT THEY NEED TO SEND OUT IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH BASIS, SO THEY WILL DRAW THE BLOOD, SEND IT TO, UH, OUR DEPARTMENT, AND WE'LL FORWARD TO THE LONG BEACH LABORATORY FOR PERFORMING.
SO, SO, SO THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING, RIGHT? SO WHEN THEY FORWARD IT TO US, WHAT, WHAT TYPE OF STAFFING ARE WE ANTICIPATING IN ORDER TO YES.
SO WE, WE DEFINITELY HAVE STAFF INSIDE OUR DEPARTMENT TO RECEIVE THE SPECIMEN.
FOR EXAMPLE, COMMUNICAL DISEASE, UH, WILL BE FUNDED DIRECTLY BY C UH, CDPH.
SO, FOR EXAMPLE, PART OF OUR DOCUMENTS, WE NEED TO ESTABLISH WHAT IS THE MOST COMMON COMMUNICAL DISEASE HERE IN THE STATE, UH, CITY OF WEST VIN.
AND BASED ON THAT, UH, ESTABLISHMENT, THE, THE 10 15 MOST, UH, COMMON, COMMON CHEMICAL DISEASE, THE CDPH WILL FUND EACH DISEASE
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DIRECTLY TO US.SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO USE THOSE FUND TO HIGH STAFFING TO AT LEAST EITHER CONTRACT WITH, UH, LAB TO DRAW BLOOD OR PICK UP SPECIMEN AND TRANSPORT TO, UH, LONG BEACH PUBLIC HEALTH LAB.
SO THE, THE, THE STAFFING THAT IS GOING TO BE PART OF OUR WEST COVINA PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT ARE, ARE THESE GOING TO BE WEST COVINA EMPLOYEES, OR ARE THESE GOING TO BE, UH, OUTSOURCED TO ANO ANOTHER ENTITY? WELL, THAT'S MOSTLY PROBABLY FLEXIBLE.
IT COULD BE OUTSOURCED OR DEPENDING ON THE CITY COUNCIL.
WHEN WE ESTABLISH THE PROVISIONAL STATUS, THEN WE HAVE TO COME BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND SEE WHAT YOUR WISHES IS.
YOU, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE, THE COST CONCERN HERE AS, AS THEY BECOME, UH, MEMBERS OF, OF, OF WEST COVINA CITY, RIGHT NOW, WE, WE ARE DEALING WITH MOUS.
WE'RE DE DEALING IN PENSION OBLIGATIONS.
WE'RE, WE'RE DEALING ON, UH, AGAIN, POS POSSIBLE IMPACT ON GENERAL FUND.
UH, AND SO, SO THESE ARE THINGS THAT HERE WE ARE IN 2024, RIGHT? THIS IS THREE, THREE YEARS NOW WHERE WE'VE BEEN EX EXPECTING, OR AT LEAST, UH, I'VE BEEN EXPECTING, AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HAVE BEEN EXPECTING SOME, SOME FINANCIAL ANALYSIS, SOME, SOME TYPE OF STAFFING ANALYSIS, SOME TYPE OF CAPA.
I KNOW WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE LEAVING IT UP TO, WELL, WHEN THE STATE EVENTUALLY GETS TO, TO THE END POINT.
UM, BUT WE, WE, WE'VE SPENT QUITE A BIT OF MONEY RIGHT THERE.
THERE WAS, THERE WAS A CLOSE TO A MILLION DOLLARS, UH, FROM THE COVID RELIEF MONEY THAT WAS SET ASIDE FOR THIS.
UH, AND THERE'S BEEN STAFF TIME THAT HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO THIS, RIGHT? THERE'S THIS PRESENTATION TONIGHT THAT'S BEEN ASSIGNED TO THIS.
SO, UH, THERE'S ALSO BEEN THE ANXIETY IN THE COMMUNITY, UH, AS WE'VE FAILED TO, TO RECEIVE ANY FINANCIALS, ANY TYPE OF STAFFING, UH, ANY, AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY HERE TODAY.
UH, AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOW STARTING TO ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT, WHAT WILL THIS LOOK LIKE? WHAT WILL THE COMMUNICATION LOOK LIKE? WHO WILL THEY ACTUALLY BE ENGAGING WITH WHEN THEY'RE DEALING WITH THE WEST COVINA HEALTH DEPARTMENT? ARE THEY GONNA BE DEALING WITH THE CITY OF WEST COVINA? ARE THEY GONNA BE DEALING WITH TRANSTECH? ARE THEY GONNA BE DEALING WITH SOME OTHER ENTITY? ARE THEY GONNA BE DEALING WITH LA COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH, BUT UNDER THE GUISE OF WEST COVINA? I, I MEAN, THESE, THESE, THESE, THESE ARE, ARE QUESTIONS THAT AT THIS POINT HERE, 20, 24, 3 YEARS IN, UM, I'D, I'D EXPECT SOME, SOME TYPE OF, OF ANALYSIS.
UH, I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND THE SUMMARY THAT WAS JUST GIVEN, BUT, UH, THAT, THAT JUST LOOKS LIKE THIS IS WHAT, UH, CALIFORNIA HAS, HAS, HAS BEEN TELLING US TO DO.
THESE ARE WHAT THE MEETINGS LOOK LIKE.
BUT THERE, THERE'S, DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THERE'S BEEN ANY WORK DONE ON OUR PIECE TO LOOK AT OUR ACTUAL CAPACITY IN TERMS OF FINANCES, STAFFING, UH, AGAIN, BEING PROACTIVE, UH, AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT THIS WILL LOOK LIKE, BECAUSE AS WE CONTINUE, YOU, YOU'RE GONNA WAIT UNTIL THE VERY END, MAYBE IT'S GONNA BE ANOTHER TWO YEARS.
I KNOW YOU SAY AT THE END OF 2024, BUT IS IT, IS IT TWO YEARS? IS IT THREE YEARS? AND WE'RE, WE'RE STILL, WITHOUT DOING ANY OTHER WORK, WE'RE WHERE NO OTHER CITY DID THIS.
EVERY OTHER CITY DID THEIR PRE-WORK.
THAT'S WHY WE DO HAVE NUMBERS.
THAT'S WHY WE KNOW CITY OF SAN DIMAS, WHEN THEY CAME OUT WITH THE, THE $60 MILLION FIGURE, THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES HAD FOUND IT WAS GONNA BE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, AND THEY COULDN'T DO IT.
RIGHT? SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE THREE YEARS LATER AND WE'RE GETTING A PRESENTATION WITH NO FINANCIAL NUMBERS, NO STAFFING NUMBERS, UM, WE DON'T EVEN HAVE AN IDEA.
WE HAVE THE 3,700 BUSINESSES, BUT WE HAVEN'T EVEN LOOKED AT WHAT OTHER TYPE OF ENTITIES NEED.
YOU'RE, YOU'RE GIVING ME A FOUR OR $5,000.
I MEAN, THAT, THAT SHOULD BE A NUMBER THAT WE OURSELVES SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE.
YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAD SOMEONE COME HERE, TALK ABOUT THE GROUP HOMES, RIGHT? AGAIN, WE'RE THAT, THAT'S A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE, RIGHT? THAT HAS TO BE INSPECTED, RIGHT? SO THERE'S ALL THESE ASPECTS THAT SHOULD BE PRESENTED THAT WE SHOULD HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING AS, SO THAT WAY WE AS A COUNCIL CAN REALLY START LOOKING AT IT AND SAYING, CAN, DO WE HAVE THE CAPACITY TO HAVE OUR OWN HEALTH DEPARTMENT GIVE US SOMETHING REALLY TO LOOK AT SERIOUSLY? AND WE CAN ALSO PRESENT IT BECAUSE MAYBE IT IS THE BEST IDEA.
MAYBE THIS IS A GOOD IDEA, WHILE WE NEED THE, THE COMMUNITY TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN IT.
BUT WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU COME HERE
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WITH NO SPECIFICS AND HOW IT WILL LOOK LIKE, AND, AND THAT YOU'RE TELLING ME HERE WE ARE THREE YEARS LATER, YOU CAN'T GIMME ANY SPECIFICS UNTIL CALIFORNIA HEALTH TELLS YOU, OKAY, THIS IS WHAT WELL, NO, THE, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU CAN, YOU CAN, YOU CAN DO SOME FORWARD WORK.I, I MEAN, I WOULD'VE EXPECTED THREE YEARS LATER THAT SOME FORWARD WORK WOULD'VE BEEN DONE.
SO WE DO HAVE SOME PRELIMINARY PLANNING AND ALSO, UH, IN TERM OF NUMBERS, BUT I THINK IT WILL BE PREMATURE TO PRESENT HERE, BECAUSE OTHERWISE I'LL BE MISLEADING THE CITY COUNCIL, WE DO HAVE SOME PLANNING.
WE DO HAVE SOME STAFFING RATIO, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO RELEASE THOSE DATA UNTIL WE GET THE FINAL REGULATION PACKAGE FROM CDPH.
IF WE RELEASE THOSE NUMBER AT THIS TIME, IT WILL BE POTENTIALLY BE LABELED AS MISINFORMATION TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
AND I, I JUST HATE TO DO THAT.
SO WE DO HAVE BUDGET DONE EVEN A YEAR AGO, BUT SINCE CDPH ASKED US TO WAIT UNTIL THEY HAVE THE FINAL PACKAGE COME UP, WE STILL ARE WAITING TO KNOW EXACTLY, BECAUSE THE MORE WE DISCUSS WITH CDPH, THE MORE WE FIND OUT THAT THERE'S CERTAIN FUNDING COMING OUT FROM CDPH TO SUPPORT OUR ACTIVITY, ESPECIALLY THE CORE FUNCTION OF THE C UH, OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
BECAUSE ON THIS FINAL PACKAGE, THERE'LL BE TWO, TWO, UM, ONE IS BASICALLY THE CORE FUNCTIONS.
AND THE, A LOT OF THESE CORE FUNCTION IS EITHER SELF-SUPPORTING, LIKE THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH.
IT'LL BE SELF-SUPPORTING THE VITAL STATISTIC, VITAL RECORD, UH, WILL BE ALSO SELF-SUPPORTING.
UH, AND THE REST OF THEM, LIKE COMMUNICABLE DISEASE, WILL BE ALSO FUNDED BY CDPH AND ALSO THE PUBLIC HEALTH READINESS AND, UH, EMERGENCY, UH, READINESS IS ALSO GOING TO BE FUNDED BY CDPH.
THE REST OF THOSE, UH, PROGRAM, MATERNITY FOOD PROGRAM, SO FORTH, THE CDPH HAS BASICALLY LEAVE IT UP TO INDIVIDUAL LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO DECIDE WHAT THEY WANT TO GET IN.
AND GRANT COMING FROM FEDERAL LEVEL IN TERMS OF CDC AND, UH, UH, NIH AND AND SO FORTH.
UH, AS FAR AS, UH, THE PRE-WORK, WE DID DO SOME PRE-WORK, BUT I THINK AT THIS TIME, WILL BE TOO MATURE AS, AS, YOU KNOW, IF WE RELEASE CERTAIN INFORMATION OUT AT THIS TIME WITHOUT REVIEWING THE FINAL, UH, REGULATION PACKAGE COME OUT.
AND THEN LATER I SAY, OH, HOW COME ALL THIS INFORMATION DOESN'T JAR IN TERMS OF OUR PREDICTION ESTIMATE, BECAUSE WE STILL, WE DON'T KNOW THE FINAL ESTIMATE, BUT WE DO HAVE SOME PRELIMINARY DATA AND SOME, UH, STAFFING RATIO THAT WE ACTUALLY PLAN ON.
WE DO HAVE A INSPECTOR ACTUALLY HIGH ON, ON, ON STAFF BY TRANSTECH, AND IT'S READY TO GO, BUT WE CANNOT MOVE FORWARD UNTIL THE REGULATION PACKAGE COMING OUT FROM CDPH.
IF I COULD ADD TO THAT, UM, WE, WE DON'T KNOW.
ONCE WE GET TO THE STARTING LINE, ONCE THEY'VE PRINTED THOSE APP, THAT APPLICATION, WE DO HAVE SOME WORK THAT WE ARE DOING RIGHT NOW TO GET US BETTER PREPARED TO, ONCE IT'S READY.
AND THAT'S WHAT, UH, CDPH HAS SHARED WITH US, IS THAT COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
AND I THINK THAT'S A VERY CRITICAL DOCUMENT THAT, UM, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON WHERE IT'S GOING TO GIVE US A BETTER PICTURE OF WHAT OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS ARE, AND THEN THAT'S GONNA HELP DICTATE WITH THE REGULATIONS, WHAT ARE THE SERVICES THAT WE'RE GONNA START PROVIDING INTER PHASED APPROACH TO DEVELOPING OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT HERE IN THE CITY.
UM, AND I THINK THE OTHER ONE WAS OUR PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND READINESS PLAN.
SO THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE ARE DOING MOVING TOWARDS, UM, BEING BETTER PREPARED ONCE THAT APPLICATION IS READY.
BASIL SAYING IS, UM, THIS IS THE, THESE ARE THE ITEMS THAT CDPH SAID WE'RE GONNA NEED, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON.
UM, THE REST OF IT, THIS IS A NEW PROCESS.
AS I THINK I MENTIONED BEFORE, N NONE OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENTS IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAVE GONE THROUGH THE CERTIFICATION OF THE CURRENT REGULATIONS, AND NOW WE'RE UPDATING THEM, UM, YOU KNOW, RE SO IT'S A NEW PROCESS FOR THE STATES.
IT'S A NEW PROCESS FOR THE COUNTY.
AND WE'RE ALL TRYING TO, LIKE I SAID, WE'RE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY TOWARDS, UM, FIGURING IT OUT.
UM, EVEN FROM WHAT THE REVIEW PROCESS LOOKED LIKE FOR THE FINAL REGULATIONS HAS EVOLVED, UM, IN THE PAST COUPLE MONTHS AS TO WHICH AGENCIES WOULD BE REVIEWING IT.
SO IT IS A NEW PROCESS, AND WE'RE WORKING ALL THE THREE DIFFERENT AGENCIES TOGETHER TOWARDS THAT COMMON GOAL.
AND, AND SO DO WE HAVE A TIMETABLE WHEN, UH, THE COMMUNITY HEALTH, SINCE THAT SEEMS TO BE A BIG PIECE OF THIS, WHEN THE COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT WILL BE AVAILABLE AND READY TO BE PRESENTED TO, UH, THE CITY COUNCIL? YEAH.
SO BASICALLY THE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DATA PROBABLY BE READY THE NEXT 30 DAYS.
THEN WE CAN SHARE WITH THE CITY COUNCIL BEFORE WE GO OUT TO REACH OUT TO A COMMUNITY TO TALK TO DIFFERENT GROUP.
WE ARE DON'T WANT TO PRESENT SOME
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DATA THAT HAVEN'T BEEN REVEALED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL.SO WE WANT TO DEFINITELY COME BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL TO LOOK AT THOSE DATA BEFORE WE GO OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.
MAYOR, THIS PART IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE C-D-P-H-C-D-C AND ALL THIS IS DEPENDING ON THIS DOCUMENT TO SEE WHAT OUR NEED IS, NOT WHAT WE THINK THE COMMUNITY NEED IS, IS WHAT THE COMMUNITY TELL US WHAT THEIR NEED IS.
I, I THINK MAYOR GET A LOT OF GOOD POINT.
AND I THINK A LOT OF CONCERN, OKAY.
UH, THAT IS, UH, GROUNDED, OKAY? AND THE, THE BUDGET, THE TIMELINE, WHY IT TAKES SO LONG, ET CETERA, ET CETERA, BECAUSE OKAY, I UNDERSTAND.
OUR, UH, HEALTH, UH, OFFICERS AND THE TRANSFER AND CITY, UH, MANAGER, UH, ACTING CITY MANAGERS SPEND A LOT OF TIMES, OKAY, MAYBE ONE OR TWO TIMES A MONTH, UH, TALKING TO, UH, DR.
CHAIRMAN FROM THE, UH, CDHP, OKAY? AND I TRY TO, UH, PUT THIS TOGETHER BECAUSE FOR HUNDREDS YEARS, OKAY? WE NEVER HAVE A PANDEMIC, AND NOW WE GOT THIS PANDEMIC.
CD GET SHUT DOWN, BUSINESS GET SHUT DOWN, AND PEOPLE, OKAY, UH, LOST THEIR BUSINESS, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIFE.
OKAY? I, I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING EVERYBODY CONCERNED, INCLUDING THE STATE, INCLUDING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
ABOUT OUR PUBLIC HEALTH, BECAUSE FOR A HUNDRED YEARS, WE HAVE AN UPDATE OUR PUBLIC HEALTH, BECAUSE WE NEVER BEEN ATTACKED BY THIS VI VIRUS, AND NOW WE GOT ATTACKED.
SO EVERYTHING WE NEED TO KIND OF START FROM FRESH, OKAY? I THINK THIS IS WHY IT TAKE SO LONG, MY UNDERSTANDING, OKAY? I TALKED TO THE DR.
BASO AND TOTAL CITY, ACTING CITY MANAGER ABOUT WHY IS THE STATUS RIGHT NOW.
AND I UNDERSTAND YOU GUYS TAKE ABOUT, THEY HAVE A 16 ATTORNEY AND THE REVIEWING AND, UH, AND EVERYTHING HAD TO GO WITH THE CDHP REGARDING THEIR GUIDELINE AND THEIR REQUIREMENT.
AND I UNDERSTAND, AND I'M MORE ANXIOUS, TRY TO GET EVERYTHING OUT.
SO TO THE PUBLIC, TO EVERYBODY TO SEE AND, UH, WHAT THIS AND THAT, AND REGARDING, UH, HOW MUCH MONEY WE SPEND ALREADY, I UNDERSTAND WE HAVEN'T SPENT A DANO GENERAL FUND, OKAY? WE SPEND ABOUT HALF MILLION DOLLAR ON THE CVID 19 FEDERAL ASSIST FUND, OKAY? I THINK THAT LAST TIME IS ABOUT HALF A MILLION DOLLARS WE APPROVED AND THAT WE DIDN'T ADD ON ANYTHING.
BUT WE HAVEN'T SPENT ANY GENERAL FUND CURRENTLY.
AND, UH, WE, WE DO NOT WANNA SPEND ANY MONEY IF THE THING OKAY.
OKAY? SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THIS THING IS IN THE BUDGET AND MAKE SURE WE CAN AFFORD IT.
WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO SOMETHING, THE CITY CANNOT AFFORD IT.
OKAY? WE WANT TO MAKE SURE, OKAY, WE CAN GET A FUNDING AND THIS AND THAT, JUST LIKE PREVIOUSLY.
UH, WE TALKING ABOUT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, WHAT THE BUDGET IS JUST LIKE PASADENA, ABOUT 135,000 POPULATION.
WE ARE ABOUT A HUNDRED, 1,020.
UH, WE ARE VERY SIMILAR TO THEIR POPULATION, BUT YES, AT DAYTIME, I THINK THEY HAVE MORE POPULATION BECAUSE THEIR BUSINESS.
BUT AGAIN, THE SAME POPULATION IS SIMILAR, OKAY? AND THEY HAVE A $20 MILLION BUDGET, AND PREDOMINANTLY IS FROM THE 50% FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, OKAY? AND THE 25% FROM THE STATE, AND ANOTHER ABOUT 25% FROM THE SERVICE RENDER.
AND, UH, I THINK WE, WE HAVE PRESENTATION.
I TALKED TO, UH, THEIR HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND PLUS CHECK IT OKAY? WITH THEIR MAYOR.
IT'S BUDGET NEUTRAL, BASICALLY EVERYTHING COVERED BY ALL THIS GRANT AND, UH, MY UNDERSTANDING, OKAY? AND, UH, EVERYTHING HAD THIS BABY STEP.
WE HAVE TO CAUTIOUSLY STEP BY STEP TO BUILD THIS VERY IMPORTANT FOR OUR FUTURE.
AND EVERYBODY KNOW THE NEW VIRUS WILL ATTACK US AGAIN.
AND HOW WE MONITOR OUR POPULATION, MAKE SURE OUR CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOL AND THE, UH, SENIOR COMPLEX IS SAFE, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE A MEDIC MEDICAL DOCTOR AND THE FACILITY AND RESOURCE, UH, TO MAKE SURE THIS VIRUS ATTACK BEFORE THE OUTBREAK, WE CAN CATCH THEM AND, UH, QUARANTINE THEM.
SO IN THAT WAY, DON'T OUTBREAK.
SO I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING, UH, WE UNDERSTAND, AND I THINK THAT THE, THE, THE STATE UNDERSTAND THAT EVEN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UNDERSTAND HOW WE UPDATE.
AND I'M UNDERSTANDING, OKAY, FROM THE FEDERAL CHAIRMAN TALKING ABOUT NOT ONLY WASTE CINA APPLYING, THEY HAVE ANOTHER 15 CITY BEHIND OUR BANK OKAY? AND READY TO APPLY.
AND BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTAND IF WE DON'T DO IT RIGHT NOW, WE WILL REGRET IT IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE THE GENERATION TO COME, WE NEED TO PROTECT THEM.
AND THEN REGARDING, UH, HOW, OKAY, WE OKAY TO DO THIS, OKAY? AND TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WILL BE SUCCESSFUL, AND THEY WILL BE FOLLOW THE HD, OKAY? CDHP WITH THEIR GUIDELINE AND PLUS HELP WITH THE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
WE, WE SERVICE THE SAME CONSTITUENT.
WE SERVE IN THE SAME RESIDENT.
WE HERE NOT TRYING TO TAKE AWAY FROM COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT, WE TRY TO ASSIST
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TO PROVIDE MORE SERVICE TO MONITOR OUR SCHOOL AND OUR OKAY.AND, UH, AND, AND THE SENIOR COMPLEX, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE POPULATION IS SAFE, AND THAT WITH A CLOSE WATCH BY THE MEDICAL DOCTOR, HEALTH OFFICER, OR WEST COVINA, AND MAKE SURE EVERYTHING CAN BE CATCH OKAY.
CAN BE CUT EARLIER BEFORE IT, IT SPREAD.
SO I, I, I THINK I UNDERSTAND, OKAY, THE CONCERN, AND I HAVE THE SAME CONCERN TOO, BUT WE, WE, I TRUST THE CDHP AND I TRUST, OKAY? OUR, OKAY, MEDICAL HEALTH OFFICERS, AND I TRUST OUR CITY WORKING VERY HARD.
I TRY TO PUT THIS TOGETHER AND STEP BY STEP, UH, GET A PROFESSIONAL APPROVAL FIRST THIS YEAR, AND THEN I NOT UNDERSTAND.
YOU HAVE TO TELL, TELL MONTHS TO MAKE SURE TO PROVE THE CDHP.
THEN YOU HAVE, UH, ANOTHER 24 MONTHS TO PROVE YOUR MEDICAL SERVICE.
SO IT'S NOT GOING TO BUILD THE WRONG IN ONE DAY, OKAY? YOU BUILD A ROOM STEP BY STEP, AND WE NEED TO PROVE, HEY, TO THE STATE AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT WE ARE CAPABLE TO DOING, AND WE WANT TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY.
FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE RESTAURANT, CURRENTLY YOU HAVE, UH, OUR CITY REQUIREMENT THAT YOU HAVE A COUNTY REQUIREMENT, AND THEY ALL CONFLICT TO EACH OTHER.
AND THEN THE BUSINESS SUFFER WITH ALL THIS CONFLICT, DELAY THE TIME, OKAY? AND, UH, THE COST EVEN DOUBLE.
SO HOPEFULLY EVERYTHING WILL BE IN ONE, THOUGH.
THEY'RE TALKING TO EACH OTHER IN ONE DEPARTMENT RATHER THAN IN DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS.
SO I THINK THAT WILL HELP, OKAY? OUR BUSINESS BIG TIME, OKAY? AND TO MAKE EVERYTHING EFFICIENT.
AND ANOTHER THING WE TALK ABOUT THE OKAY, ON THE HALFWAY HOME OR THE SOBER HOME OR ROAD HOME, AND THE, ALL THIS ISSUE IS FROM THE STATE, BUT I THINK THEY CONTROL OR INSPECT BY THE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
BUT IF WE CAN HAVE OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT, WE CAN CHECK THEM OUT AND WE CAN GIVE THEM THREE STRIKE IF THEY DON'T COMPLY, AND THEN WE CAN HOPEFULLY SHUT THEM DOWN.
BUT CURRENTLY WE DON'T HAVE ANY, RIGHT? WE HAVE NO JURISDICTION.
AND THEY, AGAIN, THE, AND THE PATIENT JUMPING OUT, SCREAMING AND YELL.
AND, UH, WE JUST HAVE A WASTE OF RESOURCE FOR POLICE GO OVER THERE ALL THE TIME.
SO, SO A LOT OF THE THING IS, I UNDERSTAND IT'S, IS, IS A, IS SOMETHING SCARY IF WE WANNA STOP THE NEW THING, BUT IF WE DON'T DO IT, I THINK WE WILL REGRET IT IN THE FUTURE.
TO SERVICE NEIGHBORHOOD CITY, OKAY? TO HAVE THIS HEALTH SERVICE AND THAT WE, AND NEED TO OKAY, AS A, AS A PROTOTYPE, AND TO HELP ALL THE CITY AND HELP OUR COMMUNITY UNDERSTAND, OKAY, THE POSSIBLE THIS IS THE WAY FOR THE FUTURE AND TO SAVE LIFE.
AND, UH, AND THIS IS MY BELIEF, AND I THINK ALL THE CITY COUNCIL, OKAY? BELIEVE IN, OKAY, THIS IS, THIS IS A THING, BUT AGAIN, UH, HOW TO THE BUDGET, OKAY? AND HOW TO MAKE SURE STAFFING AND, UH, BUT AGAIN, EVERYTHING HAVE TO FOLLOW, UH, THE, THE STATE GUIDELINE.
AND HOPEFULLY IN NO TIME WE CAN MAKE THIS TO HAPPEN.
THANK YOU, MAYOR COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ.
UM, I ALSO, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE BUDGET AND WHAT YOU SAID, MAYOR, I THINK, UH, MAKES A LOT OF SENSE.
UM, HOWEVER, UM, I DO FEEL THAT OUR LA COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS JUST TOO BIG TO TAKE CARE OF ALL OF US.
AND IF WE HAD A HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN OUR CITY, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT IT WOULD JUST TAKE CARE OF OUR CONSTITUENTS IN OUR CITY.
I BELIEVE THAT IT WOULD TAKE CARE OF THE REGION, THIS AREA, THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.
AND, UM, I LIKE THE IDEA, I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THAT IT'S TAKEN SO LONG TO GET THIS DONE, BUT I, TO ME, I THINK IT'S, IT'S GREAT THAT THEY'RE TAKING THEIR TIME TO, TO PROCESS THIS, TO GO THROUGH THE CHANGES THAT THEY NEED TO, YOU KNOW, CHANGE.
I UNDERSTAND THERE'S SEVERAL ATTORNEYS THAT ARE REVIEWING THIS BECAUSE IT'S THE FIRST TIME THEY'VE EVER DONE THIS.
WELL, IT HASN'T BEEN FOR A HUNDRED YEARS.
SO I LIKE THE IDEA THAT, UM, HOPEFULLY WE WILL GET SOMETHING REGARDING THE BUDGET.
BUT I REALLY LIKED THE IDEA BECAUSE AT FIRST I WAS THINKING, HOW ARE WE GONNA GET RID OF LA COUNTY AND JUST MOVE INTO OUR OWN HEALTH DEPARTMENT? I LIKE THE IDEA THAT WE HAVE THIS PHASE IN.
I FEEL THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA BE LEFT OUT IN THE COLD, THAT WE WILL BE ASSISTED, WE WILL GET THE ASSISTANCE THAT WE NEED, AND THAT OUR CONSTITUENTS ARE NOT GOING TO SUFFER.
UM, I, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD THING THAT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD, THAT, UM, IT'S A PHASE IN PROCESS.
UH, I CAN'T SEE THE LA COUNTY'S WATCHING US FAIL.
THAT'S, I, I DON'T THINK THAT WOULD HAPPEN.
UM, SO ALSO, I WANNA GO BACK TO THE PANDEMIC.
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I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THESE RESTAURANTS WERE CLOSED AND PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE ANYWHERE TO GO, HOWEVER, PASADENA WAS OPEN.AND I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS WOMAN ON THE NEWS TALKING ABOUT, EVERYONE IS HERE.
WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? IT COULD BE WEST COVINA.
IF WE HAVE ANOTHER PANDEMIC AND WE CAN OPEN OUR RESTAURANTS, WE WILL BE ABLE TO MONITOR THE VIRUS.
AND BELIEVE YOU ME, I BELIEVE IT'S GONNA COME BACK.
SO, UM, I KNOW THAT, UH, PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED, BUT I THINK THAT WE CAN OVERCOME THAT, AND I JUST DON'T SEE THE STATE OR THE COUNTY LETTING US FAIL.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S MY STATEMENT.
UM, THE CITIES THAT HAVE THEIR OWN HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UH, ARE KEEPING THEIRS.
THEY'RE NOT QUICK TO GIVE IT TO LA COUNTY.
THEY'RE NOT COMPLAINING OF HOW MANY ISSUES OR ANYTHING THAT HAS, UM, THE CITIES THAT HAVE THEIR OWN LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT ARE ALSO VERY ATTENTIVE TO THE RESIDENTS.
THEY PRIORITIZE THE RESIDENTS.
UM, AND FOR FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE, UH, DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC, WE HAD THAT ISSUE HERE WHERE WE'RE BEGGING COUNTY TO GIVE THE RESOURCE TO OUR WEST COVINA RESIDENTS.
UH, OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE SO HUGE, AND THEY, UM, CATER TO, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER CITIES.
BUT WE WERE BEGGING, AND I DO REMEMBER OUR SENIOR HOME, UH, WE HAD A FEW DEATH, AND, AND BECAUSE THAT WENT OKAY, BRIDGE CREEK.
AND BECAUSE THAT WENT TO, YOU KNOW, LOCAL MEDIA NEWS, ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY STEPPED IN AND BROUGHT IN MORE NURSES AND MORE THING.
BUT IT HAD TO GET TO THAT LEVEL.
UM, THE ONE THING THAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS IS UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, IS THAT THE STATE IS TRULY LOOKING AT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT AS A WHOLE, BECAUSE THEY WERE JUST, YOU KNOW, PASSING PAPERWORK GOING THROUGH, BUT NOT REALLY LOOKING AT THE FINE PRINTS AND THE DETAILS.
AND WITH THIS, IT OPENED UP THE, THEIR EYES, IT OPENED UP THE PROCESS OF HOW OTHER HEALTH DEPARTMENTS, INCLUDING LA COUNTY AND LOCAL CITIES, HOW THEY ARE DOING IT, WHICH HAS BEEN CHANGING SOME OF THE PROCESS AND REGULATIONS.
BECAUSE I, I REMEMBER SITTING IN, IN ONE MEETING, AND THEY WERE KIND OF GOING OVER SOME OF THE THINGS AND SOME OF THE VIRUSES, SOME OF THESE THINGS AND, UH, VACCINATIONS AND ALL THAT STUFF.
AND THEY'RE LIKE, OH, WHY IS THIS HERE? WE HAVEN'T HAD THAT IN HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
AND SO IT, IT OPENED UP THE EYES AS A WHOLE.
SO THIS PROCESS IS ACTUALLY BENEFITING MANY AS A WHOLE, THE WHOLE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
IT'S, IT'S NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, THE CITY.
SO, UH, UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF, OBVIOUSLY WITH THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PUBLIC HEALTH, THEY ARE OPENING THE EYES OF LOOKING INTO ALL THESE DETAILS AND REALLY EXAMINING THE HEALTH OF THE RESIDENTS OF ALL OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
GRANTED, WE ARE THE FIRST TO, UH, OPEN THIS.
SO IT IS ACTUALLY A BLESSING IN DISGUISE TO HAVE THIS OCCUR.
UM, WHATEVER DIRECTION IT TAKES.
OBVIOUSLY, THEY CAN'T GIVE THE FINAL NUMBERS BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT IS EXPECTED, AND WE CAN'T SAY, WELL, WE WANT THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS.
IT'S, IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.
UM, SO WE ARE STILL UNDER, AGAIN, THE UMBRELLA OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
SO I JUST WANTED TO, UH, SAY IT'S ACTUALLY A GOOD THING TO SEE THIS WHOLE PROCESS UNFOLD.
OKAY, MAYOR, UH, I JUST READ THE NEWSPAPER, UH, THIS COUPLE DAY.
AND PASADENA HEALTH DEPARTMENT JUST GOT A MAJOR FUNDING FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR MILLION DOLLARS OF, UH, MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE.
WITH THAT, WE HAVE A LOT OF HOMELESS ISSUE.
WE HAVE A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE, OKAY.
AND IF WE HAVE OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT, WE CAN GET A MILLION DOLLARS OURSELF TOO, FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE, OKAY.
TO SERVICE OUR HOMELESS POPULATION.
OKAY? AND CURRENTLY, WE DO NOT HAVE ANY FUNDING AT ALL.
SO, SO THIS IS ANOTHER BENEFIT.
WHEN I READ THIS NEWS, I JUST SAY, HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET THE SAME THING FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BECAUSE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO GIVE US 50% OF FUNDING TO BUILD OUR, UH, PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO, TO, TO SERVICE OUR RESIDENT.
I, I THINK THIS IS SO IMPORTANT, OKAY.
AND TO GET THIS THING AND WE SO CLOSE, OKAY.
AND, UH, TO GET THIS SENIOR APPROVAL, HOPEFULLY NO TIME, SO OUR RESIDENT CAN BENEFIT, UH, WITH THIS POLICY.
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THANK YOU.UH, JUST, UH, WANNA MAKE SOME, UH, COUPLE OF CLARIFICATIONS, UH, AND SOME CORRECTIONS.
UM, UH, WE WAS CLOSE TO $1 MILLION, UM, THAT WE, UM, PUT OF THE COVID RELIEF MONEY, UH, TOWARDS THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
UM, THE CITIES OF, OF LONG BEACH AND PASADENA, AND I KNOW PASADENA'S POPULATION WAS MENTIONED, IS, IS CLOSE TO OUR POPULATION.
UH, THEIR GENERAL FUND BUDGET IS, IS MUCH, MUCH LARGER.
UM, AND, AND LONG BEACH, OBVIOUSLY, WE, WE KNOW ABOUT THE PORT OF LONG BEACH AND THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT THEY BRING IN.
SO IN TERMS OF REVENUE THERE, THERE'S MAJOR DIFFERENCES THERE.
UM, BUT IF YOU ALSO LOOK AT, UH, PASADENA PUBLIC HEALTH AND LONG BEACH PUBLIC HEALTH, THEY, THEY CONSISTENTLY, UM, HAVE TO MAKE DECISIONS ON THEIR, THEIR GENERAL FUND SERVICES, UH, IN ORDER TO PROVIDE ALL THE SERVICES OF THEIR PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
UH, AND, UM, AGAIN, THE, THE, THESE ARE THINGS THAT I BROUGHT UP.
THE, THE LAST FEW YEARS IT'S AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE TO LOOK AT.
UM, LASTLY, UM, WHEN I, WHEN I DID SPEAK OF THE LENGTH, I, I AM ALSO, UM, VERY HAPPY THAT, UM, UH, CALIFORNIA, UH, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH HAS TAKEN THEIR TIME.
AND, UH, WHAT COUNCILWOMAN, UH, LOPEZ, VITO SAID, UM, YES, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF BENEFIT TO, TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, UM, FOR THIS PROCESS.
UM, BUT IN TERMS OF THE, THE TAXPAYERS OF WEST COVINA, UH, AGAIN, THERE, THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE TAKING TOO LONG FROM THE CITY.
AND, AND AGAIN, WHAT HAS BEEN ASKED FOR HAS BEEN SOME FINANCIAL ANALYSIS, STAFFING ANALYSIS CAPACITY, UM, LOOKING AT THE SERVICES THAT WE CURRENTLY PROVIDE AS A CITY AND WHERE WE FALL SHORT.
UH, AND AGAIN, WHEN, WHEN YOU HAVE THOSE THINGS NOT HAPPENING, AND THEN YOU'RE, YOU'RE TRYING TO DO THIS ENDEAVOR THAT IS, HASN'T BEEN DONE IN OVER A HUNDRED YEARS.
AND, AND WE ALL KNOW THAT CITY OF PASADENA AND CITY OF LONG BEACH BOTH HAD THEIR HEALTH DEPARTMENTS BEFORE LA COUNTY, PUBLIC HEALTH, UM, THOSE, THOSE ARE THE, THE, THE REAL BIG CONCERNS.
SO WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT TIMETABLE AND ABOUT THINGS TAKING TOO LONG, UH, I WAS NOT REFERRING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
UH, I WAS REFERRING TO, TO OUR, OUR ANALYSIS AND WHAT WHAT WE'VE PRODUCED, UH, FOR, FOR THE CITY AND, AND FOR THE RESIDENTS.
UH, AND, AND, AND THE FACT THAT, ALTHOUGH YOU'RE SAYING DIFFERENTLY TO ME TODAY, UM, AND IT HASN'T BEEN PRESENTED TO US AT ALL, THAT THE TYPE OF ANALYSIS YOU'RE SAYING IS HAPPENING, HAS BEEN HAPPENING.
UH, AND THAT WASN'T EVEN PART OF THE, THE PRESENTATION.
SO, UH, AGAIN, UH, THOSE, THOSE ARE, UM, THE, THE MAJOR ISSUES.
AND LIKE I SAID, SOME OF THE CORRECTIONS I, I, I JUST FELT WAS NECESSARY, UH, TO CLARIFY.
I'LL MOVE THE MOTION TO APPROVE, UH, THE CONTRACT WITH THE LONG BEACH, UH, HEALTH DEPARTMENT LABORATORY.
I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN WU AND A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEN DIAZ TO APPROVE THE CONTRACT WITH LONG BEACH, THE CITY OF LONG BEACH.
FOUR ZERO MAYOR, FOUR ONE, EXCUSE ME.
[MAYOR/COUNCILMEMBERS REPORTS]
ALL RIGHT.WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO CITY COUNCIL REPORTS.
AB 1, 2, 3, 4 CONFERENCE AND MEETING REPORTS.
MAYOR PRO WU, UH, I THINK, OKAY.
I JUST WANT TO QUICKLY, I THINK, UH, CITY MANAGER, UH, I THINK CITY MANAGER HAS A GREAT REPORT REGARDING WHAT'S GOING ON.
IT'S REALLY A WORKING MEETING, ALL THE, ALL THE TIME.
AND WE BARELY HAVE, UH, ANY TIME TO DO ANYTHING BECAUSE WE EITHER IN THE CITY OKAY.
DURING THE MEETING OR HAVE A TOUR.
BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY QUICKLY, I JUST WANT TO THANK ALL MY COLLEAGUE AND INCLUDING CITY ATTORNEY, AND WILLING TO GO TO TAKE THIS VERY TOUGH TRIP.
AND, UH, WE MOVE THE LUGGAGE TO CITY, TO CITY.
SOMETIMES WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A SEAT IN THE TREND, AND WE HAVE TO SIT ON THE LUGGAGE.
I FEEL LIKE, LIKE WE ARE A BUNCH OF REFUGEE.
SO, BUT, BUT WE STILL HAVE A GOOD TIME.
MEANING, AND TO, TO GO TO ANOTHER
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CITY AND TO TALK TO THE CITY MAYOR OR THE BUSINESS OWNER, AND TRY TO RECRUIT INTO OUR CITY.AND, UH, JUST VERY PROUD TO REGARDING THE ROBOTIC AI AND ROBOTIC COMPANY.
AND THEY ARE WILLING TO ESTABLISH THEIR EDUCATION CENTER, UH, POSSIBLE PUT IN WEST COVINA.
THEY'RE COMING IN JULY, UH, TO SURVEY OUR CT AND, UH, TRY TO MAYBE, UH, PROPOSAL TO BRING THEIR AI ROBOTIC, UH, AND, UH, EDUCATION CENTER.
AND THAT WILL BE COLLABORATE WITH ALL OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND THEIR IDEA IS HOW TO DEVELOP OUR FUTURE INTELLECTUAL, AND THEN ESPECIALLY FOR OUR CHILDREN.
AND THEY WANT TO HAVE, UH, AN OUR CHILDREN IN THE FUTURE WORKING THE AI OR ROBOTIC BUSINESS.
AND, UH, WITH THAT EDUCATION CENTER, WE, WE, I THINK I PUT A VIDEO ON MY FACEBOOK, IF ANYBODY INTERESTED TO TAKE A LOOK.
AND, UH, AND THAT THING WE OVER HERE WITH OUR HIGH SCHOOL OR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, THE STEM CLASS, WITH THE ROBOTIC AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM, AND COMBINED WITH OUR, UH, THIS EDUCATION CENTER, I THINK REALLY WILL BUILD OUR FUTURE, OUR OKAY.
STUDENT AND OUR CHILDREN FUTURE BECAUSE AI OR THIS RO ROBOTIC WILL BE THE FUTURE.
AND HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BE A MAJOR IMPROVEMENT FOR OUR CHILDREN, OUR COMMUNITY.
SO I WANT TO THANK AGAIN, OKAY.
FOR, UH, MY COLLEAGUE TO GO THERE, AND I WANT TO THANK ALL THE MEMBER TO APPROVE OKAY.
AND, UH, YOU CAN SEE WE, WE ACCOMPLISHED A LOT.
OKAY? AND, UH, AND WE PUT OUR WEST COVINA NAME IN TAIWAN.
OKAY? NOT EVERYBODY KNOW, UH, WEST COVINA.
PREVIOUSLY, THEY ONLY KNOW SOME OTHER CITY, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW WEST COVINA.
BUT NOW OUR WEST COVINA IN THEIR MIND, AND, UH, HOPEFULLY THEY CAN BRING MORE BUSINESS, UH, OKAY.
INVESTOR AND, UH, TOURISM OR ANY UH, EDUCATION EXCHANGE STUDENT AND TO OUR CITY.
THANK YOU, UH, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ.
AND BEFORE YOU SPEAK, I, I, I DOUBT THAT MAYOR PRO TEM, WE WOULD NOT ALLOW HIS COUNTRY OF TAIWAN TO NOT KNOW ABOUT WEST COVINA PRIOR TO THIS TRIP.
UH, AND I WANT TO SAY THIS, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT.
OKAY? WE GOT INVITED TO TAIWAN, OKAY? AND, UH, I BORN AND RAISED IN TAIPEI AND, UH, BACK IN 1983, AND, UH, BECOME AN IMMIGRANT IN THE ADOPT COUNTRY OF, UH, UNITED STATES.
I LOVE THIS COUNTRY, AND, UH, AND THAT'S WHY I'M DOING THIS, UH, GIVING BACK AND, UH, MY AMERICAN DREAM AND, UH, SO, UH, WITH THAT RELATIONSHIP, OKAY? BUT I LEFT THERE ALMOST 40 SOME, 43 YEARS AGO.
SO, SO, BUT, UH, WHEN I WENT, WENT TO TAIWAN, I FEEL LIKE I'M A G*****N FOREIGNER, OKAY? I'M LIKE A FOREIGNER BECAUSE A LOT OF THINGS I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND.
OKAY? AND, UH, AND THE, AND THE END UP ACTING CITY MANAGER PAULINA, IS BETTER THAN ME, OKAY? TO FIND THE OKAY.
TRANSIT AND THE BLUE TREND AND THE GREEN TREND, AND HOW TO, HOW TO BUY THE TICKET, THIS AND THAT.
I THINK SHE MIGHT BE A TRAVELER, SO SHE'S PRETTY GOOD AT THAT.
BUT, BUT I WANNA SAY THIS, OKAY.
WE DIDN'T EXPECT WHAT WE WILL GET.
WHAT KIND OF TREATMENT? UH, THE, AND THE, THE, THE, THE THING OVER THERE IS WE GET INVITED FOR THE TAIWAN NINE C CITY.
THE REST OF THE, A LOT OF ITINERARY BESIDE GAON IS ALL JUST ADD.
AND SINCE WE GET MORE INVITATION WHEN THE NEWSPAPER, UH, PUT ABOUT OUR BUSINESS IN GAON AND THE TAIWAN, AND THEN WE GOT THIS ROBOTIC, UH, COMPANY WANT TO INVITE US TO TALL UN.
SO WE TOOK THE HIGH SPEED TREND OVER THERE AND, UH, I'M JUST WANT TO SAY VERY PROUD WITH MY COLLEAGUE, OKAY? AND E EVEN INCLUDING THE CITY ATTORNEY.
AND, UH, THEY REALLY, UH, IF YOU SEE THE PICTURE, WE LIKE A STEAMSHIP.
WE REPRESENTED WEST COVINA, VERY, VERY GOOD AND VERY PROUD.
WHAT AM I GONNA SAY?
WELL, I, I JUST HAVE TO SAY, JUST MUMBLED.
SAY THAT I, I FEEL VERY PRIVILEGED, PRIVILEGED THAT I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRAVEL WITH MY COUNCIL AND MY ACTING CITY MANAGER AND MY CITY ATTORNEY.
UH, I'D BEEN TO TAIWAN BEFORE, SO I, IT WASN'T LIKE, UH, IT WASN'T, UH, BUT THIS WAS ALL WORK.
I SAID, WAIT A MINUTE, I NEED, I NEED A BREAK HERE,
BUT, YOU KNOW, WE WERE RUNNING AROUND EVERYWHERE AND GOING TO MEETINGS AND HALF THE TIME WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE SAYING, BUT, UH, TONY WAS GOOD AT INTERPRETING, SO IT WAS GOOD.
UM, WE HAD SOME DINNERS AND WE HAD, UM, SOME PRESENTATIONS AND WE MET A LOT OF NICE DIGNITARIES FROM JAPAN, WHICH WAS REALLY NICE.
AND I THINK TONY MADE A FRIEND WITH THE SOUTH KOREA.
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AND, UH, WE WERE ALL SAFE, EXCEPT FOR, I THINK WE ALL GOT SICK AFTER WE GOT BACK.
SO I'M GETTING OVER A COLD AND I THINK MOST OF US WILL.
I'LL, I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT THAT.
[CITY COUNCIL REQUESTS FOR REPORTS. STUDIES OR INVESTIGATION]
CITY COUNCIL REQUESTS? COUNCILMAN CONTOS? YES.UH, IN LIGHT OF THE DISCUSSION EARLIER ABOUT GROUP HOMES, I WAS WONDERING, JUST AS A MOTHER, MAY I, ABOUT THE STAFF LOOKING INTO THE POSSIBILITY OF WHAT, UH, ADDITIONAL PER PERMIT CHARGES CAN BE REQUIRED OR REQUESTED IN ORDER TO HELP DEFRAY THE COST OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ADDRESSING, UH, ISSUES THAT PERTAIN SPECIFICALLY TO PEOPLE FROM THOSE HOMES, CAUSING DIFFICULTY, UH, IN THE COMMUNITY.
UH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT WOULD BE BE, AND I DON'T KNOW THE EXTENT TO WHICH A GROUP HOMES ARE AN ISSUE IN THE COMMUNITY, BUT, UH, IF A MOTHER, I'M JUST AS A MOTHER MAY FOR THE STAFF LOOK TO LOOK INTO WHAT THE POSSIBILITIES ARE, WHAT THE LEGALITIES ARE, SO THAT, UH, AS A, AS A MEASURE THAT IF ANY GROUP HOMES CHOOSE TO, UM, UH, LOCATE THEMSELVES HERE, AND IF THERE IS, UH, DISRUPTION TO PUBLIC SAFETY OR OTHER THINGS THAT, UM, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, UH, EITHER NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY OR, OR, OR OTHER ISSUES OF, OF PARAPHERNALIA BEING LEFT AROUND, ET CETERA, THAT THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH, WITH EITHER CLEANUP OR WHATEVER COULD BE, COULD BE ADDRESSED, UH, BY, BY THE HIGHER PERMIT COSTS THAT WOULD OFFSET THE, THE, THE, SO IT WOULD HELP HELP, UH, WITH OUR, IN TERMS OF OUR CITY RESOURCES.
SO IT'S JUST A GENERAL REQUEST.
I, I WAS, AGAIN, THAT COUNCILWOMAN, UH, COUNCILMAN CONTOS, UH, BEAT ME TO IT, BUT THAT WAS GONNA BE MY REQUEST.
ON TOP OF THAT, I, I'D LIKE TO, UH, REQUEST THAT WE GET A, UH, PRESENTATION OF GROUP HOMES IN GENERAL.
UH, WE LIKE TO KNOW LIKE HOW MANY IS IN OUR CITY, THE TYPES, THE RULES, THE REGULATIONS, WHAT IS THE STATE'S RESPONSIBILITY? WHAT IS THE COUNTY'S RESPONSIBILITY AND WHAT IS OUR CITY'S RESPONSIBILITY? AND IF THERE'S ANY ORDINANCE THAT WE SHOULD CREATE IN LIGHT OF ALL THIS.
BUT, UM, I GUESS IT'S A TAG TEAM.
AND, AND I THINK, SORRY IF WE ARE HEARING NO OBJECTION, WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND PUSH THAT ONE THROUGH.
AND, UH, I THINK, UM, AND, UH, COUNCILMAN KENTO REGARDING THE PROMOTION, MAYOR, MAYOR, I, YOU MENTIONED ABOUT YOU WANT TO DO IT OR YOU WANT ME TO DO IT? REMEMBER THE PROMOTION FOR THE EVENT? I, I'M SORRY, WHICH, UH, OKAY, THEN I'M GOING TO, I I DON'T, I'M GONNA HAVE A MOTHER MAY I THAT OKAY.
AND DURING THE SPRING FESTIVAL, OH, GOSH, YEAH.
YOU MENTIONED TO ME YOU, YOU WANT TO DO THAT? OH, WITH REGARD? WITH REGARD, OH, THE LOBBYING.
WE COVERED THAT AT THE LAST MEETING.
WHEN THE, AT THE SPRING FESTIVAL, I THINK AS A, AS A GREAT EVENT, UH, BUT, UH, SOMETIME WE, OUR EVENT, WE HAVE INCONSISTENT OF, UH, UH, PEOPLE JOIN.
SO THE SUGGESTION IS, THAT'S RIGHT.
YOU WANNA TAKE OVER
UM, JUST THE TWO WE, THAT WE HAD A REALLY MAGNIFICENT SPRING FESTIVAL AND, UH, IT WAS WELL ORGANIZED.
THERE WERE 174 VENDORS WHO WERE IN ATTEND, WHO WERE THERE, AND WHO REALLY SUPPORTED THE COMMUNITY.
IT WAS MAGNIFICENT IN THE WAY IT WAS ORGANIZED, BUT IT WAS SPARSELY ATTENDED.
AND, AND SO AS, AS A MOTHER MAY, I, UH, UM, ONE THING THAT I WAS THINKING ABOUT IS IF WE COULD ASK STAFF, UH, TO, TO, UH, DEVELOP A DETAILED COMMUNICATIONS PLAN AND TO DEDICATE RESOURCES TO MAKING SURE BEYOND JUST SOCIAL MEDIA, BUT REALLY WORKING WITH PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO ACTUALLY, UH, HAVE EXPERTISE IN BUILDING UP AND HYPING UP EVENTS.
SO THAT WAY WITH THE RESOURCES THAT WE SPEND TO REALLY BRINGING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER, THAT THE COMMUNITY ACTUALLY KNOWS ABOUT IT AND ATTENDS.
UH, AND SO THAT'S, THAT WOULD BE THE, THE REQUEST.
I, I DON'T WANNA TAKE YOUR GLORY, THAT'S WHY.
SO, AND, UH, I, I WAS SUPPORT THAT, AND I THINK WE CAN, USING SOME OF THE, UH, SOCIAL MEDIA, MAKE A SMALL CLIP.
AND HOPEFULLY IT CAN GO VIRAL.
SO, SO ALL THE PEOPLE CAN TALK ABOUT, UH, OUR EVENT.
WE, WE HAVE A MAGNIFICENT EVENT.
I WANNA THANK, UH, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, UH, UH, ROXANNE WORKING SO HARD TO PULL IT TOGETHER.
AND, UH, SO THE NEXT THING TO DO IS THAT WE WON'T, WELL ATTEND PEOPLE'S SCHOOL.
ALL THE SCHOOL SHOULD KNOW AND THAT WE SHOULD PARTICIPATE PARTNERSHIP WITH ALL OUR SEVEN SCHOOL DISTRICT.
SO ALL THE CHILDREN AND ALL THE PARENTS CAN COME TO EITHER PERFORM
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OR COME TO ENJOYING THE BEAUTIFUL SPRING FESTIVAL OR JULY 4TH, OR A SUMMER CONCERT.MOON FESTIVAL OR OUR CHILDREN PARADE.
I I THINK THIS IS SHOWING THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND BRING UNITY AND BRING OUR, OUR NEIGHBOR TOGETHER.
I THINK SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT OKAY.
TO BRING THIS EVENT FOR ALL OUR RESIDENT TO ENJOY IT.
SO I JUST WANNA, UH, KIND OF PIGGYBACK ON THAT.
AND SO, UM, MY REQUEST IS, UM, WE FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS HAVE, HAVE TALKED ABOUT HAVING A, A MEETING WITH THE, THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
AND I BELIEVE MYSELF AND COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ, VITO ARE ON THIS COMMITTEE.
UH, AND WE HAVE YET TO BE ABLE TO CALENDAR THAT.
SO, UH, I GET MY REQUEST IS THAT WE, UH, ESTABLISH A DATE, UH, FOR THAT, UH, IF WE CAN OUTREACH TO THE DIFFERENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS, UH, AND, UH, WITH COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ, VITO, SO WE CAN, UH, HAVE THAT MEETING AND WE CAN, UH, IMPROVE OUR COMMUNICATION.
WE CAN SHARE WITH THEM OUR CALENDAR OF EVENTS THAT WE HAVE COMING UP, AND WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT THOSE THINGS ARE, ARE SHARED CONSISTENTLY.
UH, AND ALSO THAT THEY KNOW WHICH ONES ARE, WE HAVE ON A YEARLY BASIS, LIKE OUR SPRING FESTIVAL, OUR 4TH OF JULY, OUR CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING.
UH, AND SO THAT WAY, THAT JUST BECOMES PART OF THEIR YEARLY CALENDAR AS WELL.
SO, UM, SO MY REQUEST WOULD BE TO, UH, LET'S SCHEDULE THAT MEETING.
AND MR. MAYOR, MAY I COME ALONG WITH THAT? 'CAUSE I, I'M A BIG SUPPORT OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS, DEFINITELY.
A HUNDRED PERCENT SUPPORT THAT.
I DON'T THINK ANYBODY OBJECTION.
SO HEARING NO OBJECTION, WE'LL GO FORWARD.
UH, SO, UH, DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY OTHER REQUESTS BE OKAY.
SO, UM, I, I WILL, UM, ONE, ONCE AGAIN, UH, REQUEST.
WE HAVE, UH, MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO, WHO, WHO STAYED HERE FOR THE ENTIRE MEETING AND, AND SPOKE, UM, VERY PASSIONATELY, UH, ABOUT, UH, THE GENOCIDE IN, IN GAZA THAT IS OCCURRING RIGHT NOW.
UM, I KNOW THE CITY OF EL MONTE TODAY, I BELIEVE, WAS TAKING A VOTE ON A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION AS WELL.
UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE AS A COUNCIL HAVE, HAVE DONE IN THE PAST WHERE WE HAVE, UH, SPOKEN OUT WHEN, UH, HUMANITY HAS, HAS CALLED FOR IT.
WHEN WE FELT THAT THE COMMUNITY HAD WANTED IT.
UH, I KNOW WHEN WE SIGNED THE RESOLUTION AGAINST ANTISEMITISM, UH, IT DIDN'T HAPPEN RIGHT AWAY.
UH, THERE WERE, THERE WERE SEVERAL MEETINGS, UH, THERE WAS PUBLIC COMMENT, UH, AND IT WAS SOMETHING WE AS A COUNCIL LED BY, UH, THEN, UH, MAYOR DIAZ.
UM, WE FELT IT NECESSARY TO DO AS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
UH, AND I THINK, AGAIN, WE'RE, WE'RE HERE AT THIS, UM, THIS TIME, UH, IN, IN HISTORY.
UH, I THINK, YOU KNOW, IT ISN'T SOMETHING TO JUST DO, TO DO, UH, I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT, UM, WE HAVE LOOKED AT AND LISTENED TO COMMUNITY AND, AND SEEN MORE COMMUNITY MEMBERS COME OUT AND, UM, BE ABLE TO SEE THE ESCALATION AND, AND ALSO TAKE SOME LEAD FROM, UH, OUR FEDERAL AND, AND STATE LEADERS.
UH, AND SO I'M REQUESTING AGAIN THAT, UH, THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, AGENDAS, UH, A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION, UH, AT OUR NEXT, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
UH, THAT FIRST MEETING IN APRIL.
UH, ANY, UH, LAST CITY COUNCIL
[CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS]
COMMENTS? ALL RIGHT, WELL, I, I JUST WANT TO AGAIN, WISH EVERYONE A HAPPY NEW YEAR'S NARU MOBILE ROCK.UH, TODAY IS OFFICIALLY THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING, SO I KNOW AT THE SPRING FESTIVAL WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT, FOR THOSE OF YOU DIDN'T KNOW, 8:07 PM IS WHEN SPRING OFFICIALLY STARTED.
SO, HAPPY NEW YEAR'S, EVERYONE.
UH, THIS CONCLUDES OUR MEETING.