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GOOD EVENING.WELCOME TO OUR APRIL 16TH, 2024 CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
IT IS 7:09 PM MEETING IS NOW IN SESSION.
UH, TONIGHT WE'LL TAKE A MOMENT FOR SILENT PRAYER OR MEDITATION, AND THEN COUNCILMAN CONTOS WILL LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
PLEASE REMOVE ALL HATS AND PLACE YOUR RIGHT HAND ON YOUR HEART.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS.
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, ROLL CALL POLICE.
VITO, PRESENT MAYOR PRO TE WU.
IS THERE ANYTHING TO BE REPORTED OUT OF CLOSED SESSION? NOTHING TO REPORT, MR. MAYOR.
[PRESENTATIONS]
MOVE ON TO OUR PRESENTATION PORTION OF THE MEETING.UH, IF I COULD PLEASE, UH, INVITE MR. PAUL AVILA, UH, TO ACCEPT TODAY'S PROCLAMATION.
HEY, HOW ARE YOU DOING? UH, WE ARE, UH, ACKNOWLEDGING APRIL AS AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH.
EVERY APRIL, AUTISM SPEAKS CELEBRATES WORLD AUTISM MONTH, BEGINNING WITH UNITED NATIONS SANCTION, WORLD AUTISM AWARENESS DATE ON APRIL 2ND.
TODAY, MISCONCEPTIONS OF AUTISM AND THE FREQUENCY IN WHICH PEOPLE ARE EXCLUDED, THREATEN ACCESS TO THE VITAL INFORMATION, RESOURCES, AND SUPPORT.
AUTISTIC PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES NEED THIS WORLD AUTISM MONTH AND BEYOND.
WE'RE ASKING PEOPLE TO JOIN WITH AUTISM SPEAKS AND ACT FIERCE FEARLESSLY FOR CHANGE BY STANDING FOR A WORLD WHERE AUTISTIC PEOPLE ARE RECOGNIZED AND HAVE THE OPPORTUNITIES THEY DESERVE.
UH, AND SO, UH, BEFORE READING THE PROCLAMATION, UH, PAUL, I, I WOULD JUST LOVE IF YOU COULD SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT PAUL'S PROJECT AND, UH, THE WORK, UH, YOU'VE BEEN DOING WITH AUTISM.
I'M THE FOUNDER OF POLLY'S PROJECT.
HE'S GONNA BE, ACTUALLY, TODAY'S HIS BIRTHDAY, 27 YEARS OLD.
SO, UM, BUT YEAH, PAULY WAS BORN, UM, BLIND, AND HE'S AUTISTIC.
SO IT'S A DIFFICULT SITUATION.
YOU KNOW, WE FEED POLLY, HE'S IN DIAPERS.
WE BATHE HIM, UH, AT A YOUNG AGE, YOU KNOW, BEING THAT POLLY CAN'T SEE AND TALK, WE FOUND OUT THAT MUSIC REALLY SOOTHED AND CALMED HIM.
SO, ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, I WAS DOING WORK IN SKID ROW AND BIG ADVOCATE FOR, UH, THOSE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.
UH, I SAW A HOMELESS GENTLEMAN WEARING HEADPHONES, AND HE WAS SMILING, AND HE HAD THAT SAME EXCITEMENT WITH MUSIC AS POLLY.
SO I WENT HOME, I WAS TOSSING AND TURNING LIKE, ALL RIGHT, GOD, YOU PUT SOMETHING IN MY HEART.
HOW DO I, UM, HELP THE HOMELESS, UH, INCORPORATING MUSIC AND POLY? SO I STARTED PAUL'S PROJECT.
WE STARTED DONATING FREE RADIOS TO THE HOMELESS.
UH, FAST FORWARD 10 YEARS LATER, NOW WE HAVE A STREET OUTREACH, UH, TEAM.
UH, WE GO OUT TO FIRST AND THIRD SUNDAY OF THE MONTH.
WE HAVE A STREET OUTREACH GIVING, YOU KNOW, FOOD AND BASIC ESSENTIALS.
UH, WE ALSO OPEN SOMETHING CALLED PAUL'S PANTRY, WHICH IS A LOCAL COMMUNITY FOOD BANK.
AND WE'RE ALSO HAVING A BIG AUTISM AWARENESS EVENT, UH, AT THE POMONA FAIR GROUNDS THIS, UH, SATURDAY.
AND WE HAVE 3000 PEOPLE REGISTERED.
SO WE DO A LOT IN THE COMMUNITY.
IT'S INSPIRED BY MY SON PAULY.
AND, UH, IF YOU WANNA JUMP ON BOARD ON POLLY'S PROJECT, CHECK US OUT.
SO, UH, AGAIN, UH, THE, THE, THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING AND, AND, AND I KNOW THAT, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE STILL LOOKING TO, TO GET YOU A PERMANENT HOME FOR THAT PANTRY.
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UH, AND SO PLEASE, UH, DO CHECK 'EM OUT.THE WORK THEY'RE DOING IS, IS, IS FANTASTIC.
UH, AND, AND I KNOW THAT HAVING YOU HERE, UH, IS, IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO BRING THAT AWARENESS, TO BRING THAT INCLUSIVITY, UH, AND TO REALLY PROVIDING A SPACE WHERE, WHERE, WHERE FAMILIES CAN, CAN GO AND ENJOY AND, AND, AND, AND BE IN COMMUNITY TOGETHER.
I KNOW I, I WAS AT AN EVENT WITH YOU AND, AND IN AZUSA, AND IT WAS JUST A WONDERFUL TIME TO ALL BE TOGETHER.
SO THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU DO.
UH, AND AGAIN, UM, LET'S ALL CONTINUE TO COME TOGETHER AS COMMUNITY.
NOW WE ARE GOING TO, UM, PROVIDE OUR PROCLAMATION OBSERVING ARBOR DAY.
SO, UH, IF, UH, OUR TREASURER, UH, COLLEEN TI, UH, OF WEST COVINA BEAUTIFUL, UH, CAN COME TO THE FRONT THAT HOW ARE YOU? HOW ARE YOU? ALL RIGHT.
SO, UH, ARBOR DAY, NEBRASKA NEWSPAPER EDITOR, JAY STERLING MORTON, HAD AN ENTHUSIASM FOR TREES.
ONCE HE BECAME SECRETARY OF THE NEBRASKA TERRITORY, HE FURTHER SPREAD HIS MESSAGE OF THE VALUE OF TREES.
AND ON JANUARY 4TH, 1872, MORTON FIRST PROPOSED A TREE PLANTING HOLIDAY TO BE CALLED ARBOR DAY.
THE CELEBRATION DATE WAS SET FOR APRIL 10TH, 1872.
IT WAS ESTIMATED THAT MORE THAN THAT'S, YEAH.
1872, THAT'S, UH, UH, YEAH, THAT WAS, THAT WAS RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT BEFORE US
TODAY, ARBOR DAY IS CELEBRATED IN ALL 50 STATES.
THE MOST COMMON DATE FOR THE FIRST OBSERVANCE IS THE LAST FRIDAY IN APRIL, NATIONAL ARBOR DAY.
BUT A NUMBER OF STATE ARBOR DAYS ARE AT OTHER TIMES TO COINCIDE WITH THE BEST TREE PLANNING WEATHER FROM JANUARY AND FEBRUARY IN THE SOUTH TO MAY.
IN THE FAR NORTH, WE ARE DOING HOURS.
UH, THIS IS, UH, IS IT, UH, THE 27TH, APRIL 27TH? THAT IS CORRECT, YES.
SO, UM, BEFORE I, UH, HAND YOU THIS PROCLAMATION, UH, TREASURER COLLEEN ROSATI, YES.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS? THANK YOU.
THANK YOU, MAYOR, FOR THIS HONOR.
COLLEEN ROSATI, PRESIDENT OF WEST COVINA.
FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT KNOW, WE'VE BEEN AROUND FOR 76 YEARS, WE ARE THE OLDEST, NOT DATING BACK TO 1872, BUT WE'RE ONE OF THE OLDEST ORGANIZATIONS HERE IN THE CITY AND PROUD TO BE.
SO EVERY YEAR WE HAVE AN ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION ENTRY PLANNING CEREMONY.
AND THIS IS REALLY A BENCHMARK FOR THE CITY IN ITSELF.
THERE'S A COUPLE COMPONENTS THAT COME WITH THIS CELEBRATION, AND THE FIRST IS CELEBRATING ARBOR DAY AND ACKNOWLEDGING THE ENVIRONMENT AND BRINGING ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS TO OUR COMMUNITY.
PLANT TREES, CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF, RECYCLE, RECLAIM, AND REUSE ALL IMPORTANT THINGS.
WE HAVE COMMUNITY PARTNERS LIKE ATHENS AND SUBURBAN WATER WHO HELP US KEEP WEST COVINA BEAUTIFUL.
THE OTHER COMPONENT IS OUR SCHOLARSHIPS, WHERE IT IS TIED TO AN ART CONTEST WHERE ALL SCHOOLS IN WEST COVENA CAN ENTER.
THE THEME IS HELP KEEP WEST COVINA BEAUTIFUL.
TOMORROW WE ARE GOING TO BE JUDGING AND THE GIRLS ARE HELPING LIKE 95 POSTERS, AND WE'RE GONNA BE GIVING SOME SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS TO THOSE OUTSTANDING STUDENTS HERE IN WEST COVINA THAT HAVE TAKEN THE TIME TO DO A LITTLE ARTWORK IN CELEBRATION OF ARBOR DAY.
THE OTHER COMPONENT, IF YOU WILL, IS CELEBRATING THOSE FOLKS, OUTSTANDING LEADERS THAT HAVE PASSED AWAY.
WE STARTED THIS ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, AND WE DECIDED THAT THIS IS A PERFECT TIME TO PLANT A TREE IN MEMORY OF OUTSTANDING LEADERS THAT HAVE DEDICATED AND HAVE BEEN COMMITTED TO THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
AND OVER THE YEARS, WE'VE HAD TREES PLANTED IN MEMORY OF CONGRESSMAN ESTEBAN TORRES, WHO LIVES IN WEST COVINA, MAYOR BRADLEY MCFADDEN, MANY COMMISSIONERS, POLICE OFFICERS WITH
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A LITTLE TOUCH OF LOVE FROM WEST COVINA.I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW TOUCHING IT IS WHEN WE HAVE THE CELEBRATION AND THE FAMILIES COME AND WE ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR LOVED ONE WITH THIS TREE, WHICH IS A SYMBOL OF THEM CARRYING ON AND STILL BEING HERE WITH US WITH A DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT.
SO THIS YEAR I'D LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE ONES THAT WE'RE HONORING.
ONE IS POLICE OFFICER MATT ORTIZ OF WEST COVINA PD, FORMER MAYOR AND VETERAN.
THE OTHER ONE IS A TRAILBLAZER.
AND MANY OF YOU WHO HAVE WATCHED COUNCIL MEETINGS PROBABLY KNOW HER.
CAROLYN ART, WHO WAS PRESIDENT OF THE APPROVED ASSOCIATION AND JUST AN ACTIVIST FOR THE CITY, IF SOMETHING NEEDED TO BE DONE, CAROLYN WAS THERE.
AND THE LAST ONE WILL BE CAROL MULLNER, WHO IS A FORMER COMMISSIONER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE AND FOR THE SENIORS ALWAYS TRYING TO DO BETTER FOR THE SENIORS, MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE NOT OVERLOOKED AND TAKEN CARE OF.
SO ON THE 27TH OF APRIL, WE WILL BE CELEBRATING AND ACKNOWLEDGING THESE THREE FOLKS ALONG WITH A LOT OF FUN FOR THE KIDS.
WE'VE GOT ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS GOING ON.
EXCUSE ME, WE HAVE SPONSORS ALL FREE.
COME PUT A LITTLE DIRT ON A TREE.
CELEBRATE, BRING YOUR KIDS OUT HERE AT CITY HALL FROM 11 TWO ONE-ISH, FREE GIVEAWAYS.
I WANT TO INTRODUCE THESE AMAZING YOUNG LADIES.
THEY ARE STUDENTS IN MY CRAZY MOMENTS.
UM, THEY'RE STUDENTS AT MOUNT SAC EARLY ACADEMY, COLLEGE ACADEMY, RIGHT IN MECCA.
AND I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE VICTORIA VIRGIN AND HER SISTER CARLENE, MY LITTLE BUDDY VIRGIN.
AND THEY'D LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS.
UH, FIRST OFF, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK, UH, WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL FOR HONORING US HERE.
AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK WEST COVINA BEAUTIFUL FOR ALLOWING ME AND MY SISTER THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE BACK TO OUR COMMUNITY.
UH, WE ARE BORN AND RAISED IN WEST COVINA, SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALWAYS BEEN KIND OF, YOU KNOW, OUR PASSION TO GIVE BACK AND WE ARE JUST SO THANKFUL TO HAVE FOUND THIS PROGRAM AND HAVE AND MISS COLLEEN TO HAVE US ON OUR, ON THE COUNCIL FOR WEST COVINA.
WANNA SAY, IF YOU WANT, UM, HI, I'M CARLENE VIRGIN.
I'M ALSO PART OF THE YOUTH COUNCIL FOR WEST COVINA.
UH, LIKE MY SISTER, I'M VERY GRATEFUL FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY AND I WILL, UM, AS A FRESHMAN, LIKE I HOPE FOR MANY OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THIS TO COME.
AND I'M EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS.
THESE ARE OUR UP AND COMING FUTURE LEADERS.
THESE GALS ARE DYNAMO AND I AM SO HONORED AND PRIVILEGED TO HAVE THEM AS PART OF WEST COVENA BEAUTIFULS TEAM.
SO THANK YOU MAYOR TABBA FOR THIS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
AND EVERYONE KNOWS IF THERE'S NO PICTURE, IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
UH, SMALL BUSINESS WEEK, I BELIEVE.
OKAY, SO NOW WE ARE GONNA, UH, WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION HONORING WEST COVINA SMALL BUSINESS WEEK, APRIL 28TH THROUGH MAY 4TH.
SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE, UH, ALEJANDRO GARCIA FROM OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND, UH, HOUSING MANAGER TO THE FRONT.
HEY, UH, EVERY YEAR THE UNITED STATES SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION CELEBRATES NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS WEEK ON THE FIRST WEEK OF MAY TO COMMEMORATE THE CONTRIBUTIONS SMALL BUSINESSES MAKE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
THEREFORE, THE CITY OF WEST COVINA DOES HEREBY PROCLAIM APRIL 28TH, 2024 THROUGH MAY 4TH, 2024 AS NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS WEEK.
UH, I'D, UH, ALEJANDRO, IF YOU CAN, UH, SAY A FEW WORDS.
GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, THE CITY OF WEST COVINA IS THRILLED TO BE HOSTING SMALL BUSINESS WEEK ON MAY 2ND, THURSDAY MAY 2ND, WE'LL BE HAVING AN EVENT PARTNERING WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
UM, THE EVENT IS DESIGNED TO INSPIRE, EDUCATE, ENCOURAGE, AND CONNECT COMMUNITY, UH, WITH THE SMALL BUSINESS, UH, EXCUSE ME, THOSE LOCAL SMALL BUSINESS COMMUN COMMUNITY THAT WE HAVE HERE IN WEST COVINA.
UM, TO KICK OFF THE CELEBRATION TONIGHT, WE WANT TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HIGHLIGHT ONE SMALL BUSINESS HERE IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
AS A RECIPIENT OF OUR SMALL BUSINESS WEEK PROCLAMATION.
IN THE MONTH OF MARCH, THE COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION LAUNCHED A NOMINATION FORM AND WE RECEIVED 26 NOMINATIONS.
OF THOSE 26, 20 WERE INDIVIDUAL NOMINEES.
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SCORING AND REVIEW, UH, WE SELECTED A SMALL BUSINESS TO RECEIVE OUR PROCLAMATION, I LIKE TO CALL BUN STREET, DOUG FOUR, MATTHEW SMITH AND HIS STAFF TO BE THE RECIPIENT OF THIS YEAR'S SMALL BUSINESS WEEK PROCLAMATION.ALRIGHT, AND AS THEY'RE MAKING THEIR WAY UP TO THE STAGE, I DO WANNA HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF THE COMMENTS THAT WE DID RECEIVE, UH, IN THE NOMINATIONS.
SO, BUN STREET RECEIVED A TOTAL OF SIX NOMINATIONS.
BEST BURGER IN SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.
EVERY TIME I'M IN BUN STREET, I ALWAYS GET GREAT SERVICE WITH A SMILE.
BUN STREET SUPPORTS THE COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, PARTICULARLY THE SENIOR COMMUNITY.
BUN STREET HAS DONATED PIES DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON AND PROVIDES SENIORS DISCOUNT EVERY DAY.
BUN STREET HAS SPONSORED SLASH HOSTED SAN GABRIEL VALLEY SENIOR SOFTBALL MEETINGS.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT BACK TO YOU, MAYOR.
AND, UH, DOUG, IF, IF YOU COULD SAY A FEW WORDS, I, I'D, UH, BE, UH, REMISS TO, TO NOT MENTION, THEY ALSO HAVE THE BEST COOKIES AT SCOOP STREET, SO I ALWAYS HAVE TO GO AND BUY A DOZEN OF THE SNICKERDOODLES.
SO JUST, UH, THROWING THAT OUT THERE, IT'S A HIDDEN SECRET.
THE COOKIES AT AND, AND YOUR RECIPE FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND.
I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE MY MANAGEMENT TEAM HERE, ALL FEMALE, UM, WHICH WE'RE VERY PROUD OF.
UM, RAYA IS OUR GENERAL MANAGER AT BUN STREET.
UM, CHEF JESSICA IS OUR EXECUTIVE CHEF.
MARNA IS OUR WARRIOR CAFE AND CATERING MANAGER.
AND OTHER RAYA, UM, IS OUR SCOOP STREET MANAGER.
SO WE ARE VERY PROUD OF HAVING THEM.
FIRST OFF, I EXTEND MY HEARTFELT BANKS TO THE CITY COUNCIL, THE SELECTION COMMITTEE, AND ALL THOSE WHO PLAYED A ROLE IN THIS DECISION.
YOUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF OUR RESTAURANT'S CONTRIBUTIONS FILLS US WITH IMMENSE PRIDE.
I'M THE GENERAL MANAGER AT BUN STREET.
OUR ESTABLISHMENT HAS BEEN IN LABOR OF LOVE WITH THE COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
FROM OUR HUMBLE BEGINNINGS TO THE BUSTLING HUB, IT IS TODAY WE HAVE STRIVED TO CREATE MEMORABLE DINING EXPERIENCES.
BUN STREET IS HONORED TO ACCEPT THIS PROCLAMATION ON BEHALF OF THE SMALL BUSINESSES IN WEST COVINA.
THERE ARE MANY SMALL BUSINESSES IN WEST COVINA THAT ARE INDEPENDENTLY OWNED BY OUR CITY RESIDENTS, AND WE ARE PRIVILEGED TO REPRESENT THEM ALL HERE TONIGHT.
WOULD, WOULD ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS? NO, WE'RE GOOD.
IF WE CAN SQUEEZE IN, UM, ME AND MAYOR PRO TEM WU, WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, OUR WEIGHT EARLIER, AND I'M JUST, I'M GONNA BLAME YOU FOR THE TIGHTNESS OF THIS SUIT.
UH, NEXT I'D LIKE TO INVITE, UH, DIANE FRANKLIN, UH, PDS VICTIM'S ADVOCATE TO THE FRONT.
UM, WE HAVE A CERTIFICATE HONORING NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMS RIGHTS WEEK, APRIL 21ST THROUGH THE 27TH.
SINCE 1987, NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMS RIGHTS WEEK HAS CHALLENGED THE NATION TO CONFRONT AND REMOVE BARRIERS TO ACHIEVING JUSTICE FOR ALL VICTIMS OF CRIME.
DURS CHALLENGE THE NATION TO CONFRONT AND REMOVE BARRIERS TO ACHIEVING JUSTICE FOR ALL VICTIMS OF CRIME.
DURING NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMS RIGHTS WEEK, WE CELEBRATE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE VIC VICTIM'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND REFLECT ON HOW FAR WE HAVE COME.
SO IF YOU COULD PLEASE, UM, GOOD EVENING.
WEST COVINA HAS A REALLY OUTSTANDING PROGRAM FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
UM, YOU CAN BE VERY GRATEFUL TO OUR CHIEF AND ALL THE GUYS THAT MAKE OUR COMMUNITY SAFE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN, ALSO MEN THAT ARE A VICTIM.
WE ARE ONE OF THE ONLY PROGRAMS, AND AS MY GRANDSON SAID, IT STARTED IN 1999, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU WERE BORN WAY BACK THEN.
OUR PROGRAM IS ONE OF THE ONLY IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, WHERE
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I ACCOMPANIED VICTIMS TO COURT FOLLOW THEM THROUGH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS, SUPPORT GROUPS, INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING, A WHOLE RAY OF, OF, UH, SERVICES FOR THEM.SO I WANT YOU TO BE VERY, VERY PROUD OF WEST COVINA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
AND I, I I JUST WANNA SAY, UH, OBVIOUSLY THE WORK THAT YOU DO, IT IT'S HEAVY WORK, IT'S IMPORTANT WORK, UH, AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT, WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
UH, CHIEF BELL, UH, THE WEST COVINA PD, UH, THE WAY IT HOLDS ITSELF, UH, I THINK ALL OF US UP HERE ARE EXTREMELY PROUD, UH, OF, OF OUR DEPARTMENT, UH, AND THE WAY THAT WE'VE ENGAGED AND, AND REALLY MADE THIS COMMUNITY FEEL LIKE WE ARE SERVED AND PROTECTED.
AND NOW, UH, OUR WEST COVINA PD, IF WE CAN, UH, INVITE OUR BAKER TO VEGAS TEAM, UH, THE CAPTAINS AND AS MANY AS WANNA COME UP HERE, SERGEANT CHRIS POLLAS AND CORPORAL KENNY BONITA IS, UH, WE HAVE A CERTIFICATE FOR, UH, OUR, UH, WEST COVINA PD BAKER TO VEGAS WIN.
UH, WEST COVINA POLICE DEPARTMENT TEAM NUMBER 39 COMPETED IN THE BAKER TO VEGAS RELAY OVER THE WEEKEND OF MARCH 23RD AND MARCH 24TH, WHERE THEY PLACED FIRST IN THE 99 CATEGORY.
THE TEAM COMPLETED THE RACE IN 15 HOURS AND 26 MINUTES.
NOT ONLY DID THE TEAM BREAK THE WCPD RECORD, BUT THEY BROKE THE RECORD FOR THE 99 CATEGORY.
UH, THE TEAM RAN IN HONOR OF OFFICER MATTHEW ORTIZ, UH, WHO IS PICTURED ON THE TEAM'S BIB.
UH, THE COURSE BEGINS 25 MILES NORTH OF BAKER, CALIFORNIA, FINISHES INSIDE THE RIO ALL SUITES HOTEL AND CASINO PAVILION IN LAS VEGAS.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU.
THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR HAVING US, UH, HERE TODAY.
UM, OBVIOUSLY OUR WHOLE TEAM'S NOT HERE TODAY.
UH, YOU KNOW, OTHER PEOPLE ARE WORKING AND, UH, OFF AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
BUT BASICALLY WHAT BAKER TO VEGAS IS, IS, UM, IT'S A RELAY RACE FROM BAKER, CALIFORNIA ALL THE WAY TO LAS VEGAS.
IT'S A, A TOTAL OF 120 MILES THIS YEAR, 258 LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES PARTICIPATED.
AND, UH, THE WAY IT'S BROKEN DOWN IS IT'S BROKEN IN, BROKEN DOWN INTO DIFFERENT CATEGORIES.
SO OUR CATEGORY IS THE 99 CATEGORY.
AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT THE TEAMS THAT ARE PARTICIPATING IN THAT, UH, CATEGORY, UM, IS 99 OFFICERS AND UNDER.
SO IT'S A VERY SMALL CATEGORY, UM, A LOT.
'CAUSE A LOT OF AGENCIES ARE BIGGER THAN 99.
UM, BUT THE AGENCIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THAT, UH, CATEGORY THIS YEAR, UH, AS FAR AS THE TOP THREE GOES IS, UH, SAN GABRIEL, ALONG WITH VERNON PD AND PCC COLLEGE AND THEN ALSO ALHAMBRA.
UM, LIKE, UH, LIKE, LIKE THEY JUST SAID, WE, UH, BROKE THE RECORD, UM, FOR THE CATEGORY AND THEN ALSO THE TOTAL TIME OF 15 HOURS AND, AND 26 MINUTES.
UM, AND AGAIN, WHAT IT DOES IS THIS IS ON OUR OWN TIME.
YOU KNOW, WE TRAIN ON OUR OWN, UH, WE HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITY, UH, GETTING, UH, DONATIONS, UM, AND IT'S TO BUILD COMRADERY.
AND THIS YEAR, LIKE, UH, LIKE WE SAID, WE, WE HONORED MATT ORTIZ, UM, FOR THAT RUN.
SO, SO I'D JUST LIKE TO, UM, JUST GIVE A COUPLE SHOUT OUTS TO OUR, UM, OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS WHO HELPED MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
UM, JUST TO NAME A FEW ENVISION MOTORS IN, UH, WEST COVINA PROTEIN LAB, ANITA SNACK FOODS, THE COVE IN WEST COVINA, CAR CODE AND WALNUT, UM, OC PROTECTION, UH, PENSKE IN ONTARIO.
UH, RICARDO ROSALES FROM STATE FARM.
UM, RUBEN ACSA TREE SERVICES, SSA HOUSE REYNOLDS, BUICK, MARK BENAVIDES, AND SO MUCH MORE.
AND IT'S, IT'S KIND OF COOL BECAUSE NOT ONLY ARE THOSE, UH, BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS SPONSORING US ARE FROM WEST GAA, THEY'RE FROM ALL OVER THE PLACE.
AND LIKE I SAID, IT'S, UH, JUST TO BUILD COMRADERY AND TO SUPPORT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE DEPARTMENT, YOU KNOW, GETTING THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO VEGAS AND SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER.
UH, THE CHIEF WAS ONE OF OUR DRIVERS.
UM, AND IT'S JUST A GREAT COMMUNITY EVENT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE LIKE TO, UH, HOPEFULLY CONTINUE OUR, OUR, UH, OUR FIRST PLACE WIN WITH THAT.
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I BELIEVE WE HAVE, WE HAVE A VIDEO.AND AGAIN, YOU PROVE THAT THE EAST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY DEFINITELY HAS THE BETTER ATHLETES IN THAT WEST SGV.
UH, SO IF WE CAN GO AHEAD AND, AND, AND PUT THAT VIDEO ON.
I AM GOING FIGHT TOMORROW, A SEVEN NATION ARMY BACK.
THEY'RE GONNA RIP OFF TAKING RIGHT MY BACK.
I'M, AND ALL RIGHT, SO ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, UH, RECOGNITION TO OUR, UH, BAKER TO VEGAS TEAM.
OH, YOU LOOK GOOD WITH THAT TROPHY.
YOU LOOK GOOD WITH THAT TROPHY RIGHT HERE.
[CITY MANAGER'S REPORT]
NOW FOR OUR CITY MANAGER'S REPORT, WHICH WILL BE GIVEN BY OUR ACTING CITY MANAGER, PAULINA MORALES.GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT, YOU HAVE A COUPLE CONSENT ITEMS REGARDING REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS.
UM, I KNOW THAT, UH, WE'VE BEEN WORKING TOWARDS SOME DOG IMPROVEMENTS, UH, SORRY, DUMP DOG PARK IMPROVEMENTS AT DEL NORTE.
AND ON THE, UH, CONSENT CALENDAR IS, UH, WE ARE RE REJECTING THE PROPOSALS.
AND I JUST WANTED TO REASSURE THE COMMUNITY THAT, UM, WE ARE NOT SHELVING THIS PROJECT BECAUSE WE DO NOT WANNA MOVE FORWARD WITH THE DOG IMPROVEMENT.
UM, WE ARE PUTTING IT ON HOLD, OR WE HAVE TO REJECT THE BID 'CAUSE THE BID'S ONLY ACTIVE FOR SO LONG.
UM, AND WE DON'T WANNA MOVE FORWARD WITH INVESTING IN THE PARK, UM, WHEN WE KNOW THAT THIS, UH, SCHOOL DISTRICT IS GOING TO BE SELLING THE PURPLE AREA RIGHT SOUTH OF IT.
AND SO, UM, WE WANT TO HOLD OFF AND SEE WHERE, UH, WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCHOOL SITE AND GO FROM THERE AND DEVELOP A BETTER PLAN ON HOW TO ADDRESS, UM, NOT ONLY THE DOG PARK AREA OR, BUT ALSO, UH, DEL NORTY PARK AS WELL.
UM, WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH, UM, A PORT OF PLAY, UH, OR THE, THE SURFACING OF THE PLAYGROUND, UM, AS WE DO NEED TO REPLACE THAT.
BUT I JUST WANTED TO REASSURE RESIDENTS THAT WE ARE STILL GONNA BE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE DOG PARK IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, JUST AT THIS TIME WE'RE HOLDING TO, TO BETTER ASSESS, UH, WHAT THE, WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE, UM, WITH THE DEVELOPMENT ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF, OF THE PARK.
ALSO WANTED TO PROVIDE, UH, SOME UPDATES ON SOME OF THE GOOD WORK THAT OUR PUBLIC SERVICES, UH, STAFF HAS BEEN DOING THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.
I KNOW ONE OF THE COMMENTS AT THE LAST MEETING WAS ADDRESSING KIND OF THE BLIGHTED, UH, LAW NEXT TO CAMERON.
SO OUR, UH, OUR STAFF HAS GONE AND KNOCKED OUT THE WEEDS, AND WE ARE GONNA BE MOVING FORWARD WITH, UM, POSSIBLY RECEDING IT OR LOOKING AT HOW WE'RE GONNA INCORPORATE IT INTO THE PARK IN THE LONG, ON A PERMANENT BASIS.
UM, OUR STAFF HAS ALSO BEEN UNDERGOING SOME TRAINING, UM, FOR ASPHALT AND ROAD REPAIR.
THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE DOING OUR PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM REPAIRS, BUT THESE ARE SMALLER REPAIRS THAT CAN HELP TOWARDS FIXING POTHOLES, WHICH, UM, YOU KNOW, WE GET A LOT OF THOSE CLAIMS THROUGH THE CITY.
SO THIS IS TO HELP ADDRESS THOSE CLAIMS THAT COME IN AND, AND BE MORE PROACTIVE.
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WE ARE CONTINUING WITH THE HILLSIDE MAINTENANCE ON THE, IN THE LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE DISTRICT.SO WE'VE, UM, UH, ADDED A SATURDAY.
SO IN THE MEANTIME TO HELP ADDRESS THOSE AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN MUCH DEFERRED FOR MANY YEARS.
UM, ANOTHER, UH, AREA THAT OUR STAFF HAS BEEN FOCUSING ON IS ADDRESSING, UH, THE ENCAMPMENT THAT HAPPENS OR OCCURS UNDER THE BARRANCA BRIDGE.
I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE'S FAMILIAR WITH THAT.
UM, ARE THROUGHOUT THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, IT'S BEEN AN ONGOING ISSUE AND WE'VE TRIED TO ADDRESS IT IN, IN DIFFERENT WAYS AND MANNERS.
UM, THE BRIDGE IS OWNED BY THE CITY AND IT'S OVER THE COUNTY WASH.
SO THERE IS SOME CO, UH, COLLABORATION THAT IS OCCURRING TO HELP ADDRESS IT, UM, BOTH FROM THE CITY SIDE AND THE COUNTY SIDE.
UM, THE CITY HAS, AS YOU CAN SEE UP IN THE PHOTOS, UH, REINFORCED OR PUT REBAR THROUGH THE, UH, BLOCK WALL, UH, TO HELP REINFORCE IT.
UM, THE COUNTY REPLACED THE FENCING FROM CHAIN LINE FENCING TO SMALLER FENCING, SO WE, UH, YOU CAN'T CLIMB UP IT.
UM, IT HAS SINCE BEEN CUT, SO THEY ARE ABLE TO CLIMB THE FENCE.
SO WE'RE STILL WORKING WITH THE COUNTY.
UM, AND THEN THERE'S AN AREA OVER THE WASH ITSELF THAT, UM, THE CITY CANNOT ACCESS OR, UH, BARRICADE BECAUSE IT'S OVER THE WASH.
SO THAT'S THE COLLABORATION THAT WE'RE GONNA BE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE COUNTY TO HELP ADDRESS AND, AND BLOCK THAT AREA OFF.
UM, ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE LAUNCHING IN CONJUNCTION WITH SMALL BUSINESS WEEK IS OUR WEST COVINA CHAMBER.
UM, WE ARE GOING TO BE, UH, STARTING TO RECRUIT MEMBERSHIPS FOR THE CHAMBER AT THAT EVENT.
SO IF ANY SMALL BUSINESS IS INTERESTED IN, UH, LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE WEST CAMINO CHAMBER AND WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE PROVIDING AND THE MEMBERSHIP FEES, UM, YOU'LL, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO COME TO SMALL BUSINESS WEEK, UH, THURSDAY, MAY 2ND TO THE EVENT, AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO, UH, PROVIDE ALL THAT INFORMATION, WHICH AS I MENTIONED, SMALL BUSINESS WEEK, UH, THURSDAY, MAY 2ND.
UM, WE HOPE TO SEE OUR SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY COME.
THIS IS REALLY AN EVENT TO, UH, SHOW APPRECIATION AND SUPPORT AND TO HELP THEM GROW WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, WE HAVE A COUPLE UPCOMING EVENTS.
EARTH DAY AND ARBOR DAY, UH, APRIL 27TH FROM 11:00 AM TO 1:00 PM AT WEST COVINA CIVIC CENTER.
AND THEN, AS I JUST MENTIONED, UH, WEST COVINA SMALL BUSINESS WEEK.
UM, AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
[ORAL COMMUNICATIONS]
UH, WE WILL NOW MOVE 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, MAYOR, THIS EVENING WE HAVE 31 SPEAKER SLIPS.
UH, IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, I WOULD LIKE TO SET THE SPEAKING TIME, UH, TO THREE MINUTES.
UH, ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, YOU CAN THANK YOU.
UH, BE BEFORE, BEFORE WE BEGIN, UH, AGAIN, UH, DURING PUBLIC COMMENT, IF WE CAN MAKE SURE THERE'S NO CONVERSATIONS IN THE CROWD, IT MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT, UH, FOR US HERE ON THE D TO HEAR.
UH, SO WE'LL, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND, AND START.
OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS JOHN SHOEMAKER, FOLLOWED BY SAM MERCADO, FOLLOWED BY LIZETTE TRUJILLO.
GO THROUGH A COUPLE ITEMS FAIRLY QUICK.
TRAFFIC LIGHTS ON, I BELIEVE IT'S CAMERON CITRUS TRAFFIC LIGHT.
NOBODY WANTS EXCEPT TONY WU, EXCEPT WE'RE IGNORING THE PLACE WHERE WE NEED A TRAFFIC LIGHT OR A CHANGE TO IT ON AMAR IN WESTPORT, I BELIEVE IT IS.
BUT WE HAVE MONEY FOR THE ONE NOBODY WANTS, AND WE DON'T HAVE MONEY FOR THE ONE EVERYBODY WANTS.
AGAIN, THE PRIORITIES AMAZING.
YOU GIVE OUT A PIECE OF PAPER AND SAY HOW MUCH WE LOVE SMALL BUSINESSES, YOU GOT $20 MILLION.
AND THE LAW THAT PUT THAT $20 MILLION INTO EFFECT SAID, HELP YOUR RESIDENTS AND HELP YOUR BUSINESSES.
THIS CITY DID ZERO ZERO TO HELP RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES.
ANOTHER REASON THAT THAT MAN NEEDS TO GO, OUR CITY MANAGER OR TEMPORARY CITY MANAGER RIGHT NOW, COUNCIL MEMBER DIAZ AND HER HUSBAND ARE PROBABLY YOUR BEST FRIEND, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T GET THE JOB, YOU CAN SUE 'EM FOR THE, THE HARASSMENT THAT THE HUSBAND HAS PUT OUT ON PUBLIC THAT SHE SUPPORTS.
SHE KNOWS ABOUT IT AND SHE'S OKAY WITH IT.
SO, YOU KNOW, I MIGHT SAY, YOU OUGHT TO SUE FOR A FEW MILLION DOLLARS AND GO SIT ON A BEACH SOMEWHERE OR START YOUR OWN CITY.
YOU WON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PUTTING UP WITH THESE PEOPLE 99 AND UNDER.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS KIND OF INTERESTING.
I THOUGHT WE HAD A HUNDRED, YOU KNOW, WELL, AT LEAST WE HAD A HUNDRED TWENTY SIXTEEN, TWENTY EIGHTEEN, TWENTY TWENTY, TWENTY TWENTY TWO.
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SO, YOU KNOW, BUT YOU'RE ALL FOR PUBLIC SAFETY.YOU DON'T GET ANY MORE, UH, PEOPLE DOING IT.
AND THE LAST ITEM IS, AT THE LAST MEETING, OUR MAYOR WAS CALLED ANTISEMITIC.
THIS COMING FROM THE INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS SAID THINGS LIKE, JEWISH PEOPLE WANNA BE WHITE, JEWISH, PEOPLE WANNA BE WHITE.
YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A GUY IN THE TWENTIES AND THIRTIES AND FORTIES WHO RAN AROUND WITH A FUNNY LITTLE MUSTACHE THAT DID NOT THINK IF YOU WERE JEWISH, YOU WERE SOME, SOME SORT OF SUBHUMAN.
DOESN'T THAT SOUND A LITTLE BIT LIKE IT? IF YOU'RE JEWISH, YOU WANNA BE WHITE.
COMING FROM A CONS MEMBER'S, SPOUSE IS ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE.
AND SHE SITS THERE AND SMILES AND DOES EVERYTHING ABOUT IT.
COULD I PLEASE HAVE MY TIME BACK SINCE, UH, I'M BEING INTERRUPTED? YES.
UH, THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, CAN WE PAUSE, PAUSE THE TIME.
UH, AGAIN, I KNOW THERE, THERE ARE PROBABLY GONNA BE SOME THINGS SAID TODAY THAT THAT MAY CAUSE US TO HAVE A, AN EMOTIONAL REACTION, BUT, UM, WE, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO, TO HOLD OURSELVES.
UH, SO THAT'S THE WARNING FOR WHAT? CAN WE, CAN WE HAVE, UH, THE GENTLEMAN IN THE RED HAT REMOVED? THANK YOU, BY THE WAY, FOR THE LISTENING AUDIENCE THAT IS CONSUL MEMBER'S DIAZ HUSBAND.
WE'RE WE, WE WE'RE GONNA RESUME THE MEETING.
UH, MR. SHOEMAKER, I MUST DRIVE HIM ABSOLUTELY CRAZY BECAUSE NOT ONLY AM I HISPANIC NATIVE AMERICAN, BUT I'M ALSO PART JEWISH AND PART ARAB, SO I MUST REALLY DRIVE HIM CRAZY.
SO, BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY SOMEBODY WHO'S TOLD TO GET OUT BY THE MAYOR ISN'T OUTTA THIS BUILDING.
YOU KNOW, SPECIAL TREATMENT, I GUESS IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE MARRIED TO ONE OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, SAM MERCADO, FOLLOWED BY LESLIE TRUJILLO, FOLLOWED BY LEVI ELLIE, GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND TO THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE GATHERED HERE THIS EVENING, I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS AND BRING FORTH SOMETHING THAT IS NOT ON THE AGENDA, SOMETHING THAT WAS BEING DENIED ON THE BEING ON THE AGENDA WHEN BROUGHT UP BY MAYOR CALDRON.
I'M SPEAKING OF THE CEASE SPIRE RESOLUTION IN PALESTINE.
TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST, THIS HAS BEEN LONG OVERDUE.
WE ARE NOW APPROACHING THE END OF THE SIX MONTH LONG BOMBING OF THE GAZA STRIP IN PALESTINE.
THAT'S 192 DAYS OF NONSTOP BOMBING.
I DON'T THINK WE CAN FULLY COMPREHEND THE AMOUNT OF VIOLENCE AND TORTURE THAT IS BEING INFLICTED UPON THE CHILDREN, WOMEN, MEN, TRANS, ELDERLY, DISABLED PEOPLE OF PALESTINE.
NOT ONLY ARE THEY BEING TORMENTED BY CONTINUOUS BOMBING, THEY'RE ALSO BEING STARVED TO DEATH.
THEY'RE IN DIRE NEED OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, FOOD, HUMANITARIAN AID.
AND WHILE THIS IS ALL BEING FUNDED THROUGH OUR TAX DOLLARS, MEANWHILE IN THE UNITED STATES, WE ARE STRUGGLING TO HOUSE OUR RESIDENTS.
WE ARE STRUGGLING WITH ACCESS TO BASIC HEALTHCARE, QUALITY EDUCATION, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, A LIVABLE WAGE, AND THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.
EVERY DAY WE WAIT TO PASS A CEASEFIRE IN PALESTINE, WE ARE KILLING OVER A HUNDRED PALESTINIANS.
AND THE OCCUPATION LAND BACK FREE PALESTINE AND FREE ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.
WE ARE NOT FREE UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE.
CAN YOU CONFIRM YOUR NAME FOR ME? CAN YOU CONFIRM YOUR NAME FOR ME? SAM.
LESLIE TRUJILLO, FOLLOWED BY LEVI ELLIE FOLLOWED BY CHRISTIAN SANCHEZ.
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HELLO, CITY COUNCIL OF WEST COVINA.UM, MY NAME IS LIZETTE TRUJILLO AND I'M A SENIOR ATALI HIGH SCHOOL, UM, WORKING ON MY FINAL PROJECT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF REGISTERED DONORS SUCH AS ORGAN, TISSUE, EYE AND BONE MARROW DONORS.
I'M HERE TODAY TO PITCH FOR AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ON THE BONE MARROW DONOR TOPIC THAT WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD TO THE RECRUITMENT OF MORE DONORS.
THIS WILL NOT ONLY HELP WITH MY GOAL WITHIN THE CITY, BUT ALSO MAKE THE TOPIC OF BONE MARROW DONORS MORE KNOWN AND SPREAD AWARENESS.
WITH AROUND 18,000 PATIENTS BEING DIAGNOSED WITH A FORM OF CANCER DISEASE EACH YEAR, BONE MARROW DONORS ARE ALWAYS NEEDED TO SAVE THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS.
HERE, I BROUGHT A PETITION WITH SIGNATURES FROM RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA IN A FEW SURROUNDING AREAS.
UM, AND WHILE MY SIGNATURE GOAL HAS NOT BEEN MET, I WISH TO HAVE, I WISH TO BROUGHT INTEREST WITHIN THIS PROGRAM TO YOU AND HOPE TO FULFILL THIS GOAL OF MINE AND AT A LATER DATE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
ELLIE, FOLLOWED BY CHRISTIAN SANCHEZ, FOLLOWED BY PETER DAVIS.
I AM A ISRAELI CITIZEN BY BIRTH, RELIGIOUS IMPUTATION AND UPBRINGING.
I AM A UNITED STATES CITIZEN BY WAY OF NATURALIZATION, BUT BECAUSE BOTH OF MY COUNTRY'S OF NATIONALITY SEEM TO HAVE A PENCHANT, INDEED, A LEGACY FOR CRIMINALITY, TERROR, PERPETUAL WARFARE, AND LEST WE FORGET GENOCIDE, I'M TOO DISGUSTED TO COME IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY AS EITHER AN ISRAELI OR AS AN AMERICAN.
INSTEAD, I APPEAR IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY AS A PALESTINIAN, A PALESTINIAN, NOT BY CIRCUMSTANCE ATTENDED TO HIS BIRTH OR UPBRINGING, BUT DEFINITELY A PALESTINIAN IN HEART, UNDENIABLY A PALESTINIAN AND KINDRED SPIRIT.
I AM NO LESS OF A PALESTINIAN AS WELL, BECAUSE I'M DRIVEN BY THE UNASSAILABLE MORAL CONVICTION THAN MANY OF US IN THIS ROOM SHARE, NAMELY, THAT THE COLLECTIVE PALESTINIAN SHOULD AND WILL BE SOON, FINALLY, SET FREE.
SO I ASKED THE CITY OF WEST CAVITA TO JOIN THE RANKS OF ITS NEIGHBORING MUNICIPALITIES, TO FAITHFULLY ESPOUSE THE MOORS OF THE COMMUNITY.
IT PURPORTS TO REPRESENT AND TO ADVANCE A WAY OVERDUE WAY, OVERDUE WAY, OVERDUE RESOLUTION FOR AN IMMEDIATE AND PERMANENT CEASEFIRE IN PALESTINE.
THANK YOU, CHRISTIAN SANCHEZ, FOLLOWED BY PETER DAVIS, FOLLOWED BY JOHN CHUT.
I COME TODAY AS A LIFELONG RESIDENT IN WEST COVINA.
I'M SURE THIS SITUATION NEEDS NO MORE EXPLANATION THAT WHAT MANY OF US HERE HAVE A ALREADY VOICE IN THIS ROOM.
BUT TO KEEP THE FACTS SHORT, THE APARTHEID STATE OF ISRAEL HAS INFLICTED UNIMAGINABLE WAR CRIMES ON MILLIONS OF INNOCENTS, RESULTING IN A HOSTAGE SITUATION INVOLVING THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIANS, AS WELL AS HUNDREDS OF ISRAELIS AND NOW RECENT ESCALATIONS HAVE BROUGHT THE WORLD TO THE BRINK OF WORLD WAR.
I'M SURE IT'S CLEAR TO EVERYONE THAT THIS IS A MATTER THAT AFFECTS ALL OF US IN THIS ROOM HERE TODAY.
AND IF THAT IS NOT REASON ENOUGH FOR IT TO APPEAL TO LOCAL POLITICIANS, THEN I'D ALSO LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THIS SAME CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION HAS ALREADY BEEN PASSED IN OUR NEIGHBORING CITY OF LA PUENTE, AS WELL AS PASADENA LONG BEACH CITY OF BELL POMONA ELMONTE.
THE LIST GOES ON, YET SOME MEMBERS ON THIS COUNCIL MAY STILL FIND IT CONTROVERSIAL TO MAKE A STATEMENT THAT WOULD SYMBOLIZE OUR CITY'S APPRECIATION AND RESPECT FOR LIFE, LIBERTY, AND JUSTICE FOR ALL PEOPLE.
THE VERY SAME VALUES STATED ON THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
WE, THE PEOPLE, WEST COVINA, CHOOSE TO STAND ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY TO ABIDE BY A MORAL CODE TO ADHERE TO THE VALUES THAT FOUNDED THIS COUNTRY.
THE SAME VALUES THAT WE RECITE IN THIS COUNTRY'S PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ARE THE SAME VALUES THAT A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION ENCOMPASSES.
FOR THIS REASON, WE STAND HERE TO PUSH OUR UNWAVERING SUPPORT FOR DEESCALATION AND TO THE VIOLENCE AND IMMEDIATE AND TO THE GENOCIDE, A RETURN TO ALL THE HOSTAGES THROUGH THE MEANS OF A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE.
WE STAND HERE HOPEFUL THAT YOU, OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, ARE CAPABLE OF REFLECTING OUR DETERMINATION THROUGH YOUR ACTIONS.
WE STAND HERE HOPEFUL THAT THIS COUNCIL AVOIDS TAKING SUCH A CONTROVERSIAL POSITION AS STAYING SILENT
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IN THE FACE OF A THIRD WORLD WAR.WE STAND HERE HOPEFUL THAT OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS STAY TRUE TO AMERICA AND THE PATRIOTISM YOU PUT ON DISPLAY BEFORE ALL OF US AND PRIOR PRIORITIZE THE BEST INTEREST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOVE FOREIGN INTERESTS AGENDAS A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
SIX MONTHS OF SILENCE IS DEAFENING AND ONLY GROWS LOUDER THE LONGER YOU WAIT.
HI, MY NAME'S PETER DAVIS, AND I'M HERE ON SOMETHING A LITTLE LESS PRESSING THAN THE LAST FEW SPEAKERS.
I'M CONCERNED WITH THE CAMERON AND CITRUS TRAFFIC LIGHT SITUATION.
UH, I LIVE AT THE FIRST DRIVEWAY WEST, NO EAST OF CITRUS.
AND RIGHT TURNS BEING MADE FROM CITRUS, UH, THEY DON'T HAVE TIME TO STOP.
IF I'M PULLING OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY, UH, THE DIET MAP THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE, UH, PROPOSAL, UH, IT'S NOT CLEAR TO ME WHAT SOME OF THE MARKINGS MEAN.
IT, IT DOES, WHICH I APPRECIATE, UH, PUSH THE, UH, TRAFFIC BEYOND TO THE END OF MY HOUSE, TO THE END OF MY PROPERTY, WHICH LOOKS GOOD.
I PREFER IT TO THE ONES WITH THE TRAFFIC LIGHT, BUT IT, IT, YOU KNOW, EVEN EITHER WAY, AS LONG AS THE DIET PART'S INCLUDED, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO PARK IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE.
UM, IT'S NOT CLEAR ON THE, THE, THE LITTLE DISPLAY THAT WAS MADE IN THE DIAGRAM.
SO I'M HOPING SOMETHING CAN BE DONE ABOUT THAT AND LET US KNOW MORE DETAILS ON IT.
UH, ANYWAY, I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS FOR YOUR COMMITTEE AND WHATEVER TO, TO CONSIDER THAT.
UH, THE OTHER THING IS, I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED THAT THIS SECOND ROW HERE DIDN'T STAND UP FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, AND THEY'RE ASKING US TO ACT AS AMERICANS TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
AND IF THEY'RE AMERICANS, YOU KNOW, THEY SHOULD SHOW RESPECT FOR OUR COUNTRY.
CAN YOU HOLD, EXCUSE ME AGAIN IF, IF WE CANNOT HAVE COMMENTS? THANK YOU.
UH, SAY HELLO TO THE, UH, HONORABLE, UM, CITY COUNCIL.
I'VE LIVED WITH MY FAMILY ON THE CORNER OF CITRUS AND CAMERON SINCE 1998.
AND THROUGH THIS PERIOD OF TIME, WE'VE SEEN A BIG CHANGE IN THAT AREA.
AND THE LARGEST ONE IS LACK OF TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT FOR THE FOUR-WAY STOP THAT'S THERE.
AND BEFORE I EVEN PRESENT MY INFORMATION, IF YOU CAN'T ENFORCE THE FOUR-WAY STOP, HOW ARE YOU EVER GONNA ENFORCE A TRAFFIC SIGNAL? AND WHAT THAT DOES IS CREATES AN ACCIDENT AT A HIGHER SPEED, BECAUSE NOW WHEN THE LIGHT'S GREEN, PEOPLE CROSS UNIMPEDED BETWEEN 35 AND 45 MILES AN HOUR GOING NORTH AND SOUTH, GOING EAST AND WEST.
THEY GO THROUGH THERE CLOSER TO 55, 60 MILES AN HOUR, AND PEOPLE SPEED UP FOR STALE YELLOWS TRY TO BEAT THE RED.
I INVESTIGATED ACCIDENTS AT UPS.
I'VE WORKED THERE 37 YEARS, AND THE WORST IN FORM OF, UH, INJURY ACCIDENTS AND ALSO FINANCIAL EXPOSURE, WERE ALL STALE YELLOWS AT TRAFFIC LIT INTERSECTIONS.
SO I DON'T SEE ANY SAFETY ADVANTAGE AT ALL.
AND, UH, MY WIFE FOUND THIS ON THE INTERNET, AND IT SAYS THAT INTERESTINGLY, THERE ARE EXPERTS WHO CLAIM THAT TRAFFIC SIGNALS ACTUALLY INCREASE THE DANGER AT INTERSECTIONS.
BY THE WAY, ALL WE'VE ASKED FOR THROUGH THIS WHOLE THING AS A COMMUNITY IS TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES IN THAT AREA, WHICH HAVE NOT HAPPENED.
INTERESTINGLY, TRAFFIC SIGNALS INCREASE THE DANGER AGAIN, AND THAT FOUR-WAY STOPS SHOULD BE USED WHEN POSSIBLE.
AND THE REASON IS THAT STOP SIGNS DECREASE THE SPEED AT THE INTERSECTION.
SO WE HAVE A, A SITUATION THAT EXISTS NOW THAT IF ENFORCED WOULD WORK FINE.
AND IF YOU DON'T ENFORCE A SIGNAL, IT'S NOT GONNA BE ANY BETTER THAN WHAT'S THERE NOW, EXCEPT THE TRANSGRESSIONS WILL BE AT A HIGHER SPEED EXPOSING PE EXPOSING PEOPLE TO MUCH MORE SIGNIFICANT DANGER.
STOP SIGNS, SLOW TRAFFIC SIGNALS, SPEED TRAFFIC.
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THE LAST THING IS THE FIRST THING THAT LACK OF ENFORCEMENT IS THE TRUE PROBLEM.I'VE BEEN TO MEETINGS OF THE TRAFFIC COMMITTEE.
I'VE BEEN ON THIS, UH, TRAFFIC LIGHT THING FOR ALMOST FIVE YEARS NOW.
THIS IS MY SECOND TIME IN FRONT OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
I WAS TOLD BY THE, UH, YOUR TRAFFIC GROUP THAT THE SIGNAL ISSUE WAS DEAD.
AND THE VERY NEXT MEETING, IT'S NOT.
AND WE'RE HERE AGAIN, BUT WE THAT LIVE IN THE AREA DON'T WANT THE SIGNAL.
I HAVE MR. ZANE, HASSAN, AND ZANE.
SO THIS IS NOT, IS IT THE SAME INDIVIDUAL, BOTH NAMED ZANE? UNDERSTOOD.
OKAY, I'LL TAKE ZANE, FOLLOWED BY ALEJANDRA.
I START THE SPEAKER AS SOON AS THE NAME IS CALLED.
CAN WE RESET IT TO THREE MINUTES? THANK YOU.
ARE YOU TELLING THEM TO GET AHEAD? STAND UP.
JUST, JUST BEFORE, BEFORE YOU START, WE, UM, IF, IF ONCE WE ANNOUNCE THE NAMES, THEN THEY, THEY SHOULD BE UP THERE.
SO CAN YOU ANNOUNCE THE, THE PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE UP THERE SO THAT WAY WE DON'T HAVE THE ISSUE AGAIN? SURE.
I HAVE ZANE, FOLLOWED BY HUDA, FOLLOWED BY ALEJANDRA.
UM, MY NAME IS ZANE AND, UM, I WORK, UM, MY WORK, MY MOST OF MY CUSTOMERS, I WORK AS A BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER, AND MOST OF MY CUSTOMERS ARE IN S COVINA.
SO, UH, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, UH, I I WANT TO EXPRESS AS SOMEONE WHO'S VERY CLOSELY INVOLVED WITH THE CITY THAT, UH, THERE HAS BEEN A, UM, I'M SORRY.
UM, WE, WE RECENTLY LOST, UH, SOME OF OUR VERY CLOSE FRIENDS.
MY, MY WIFE'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY IN ZA.
AND, UH, AND, AND, UH, I KNOW YOU GUYS REALLY CAN'T DO ANYTHING.
UM, YOU GUYS ARE JUST COUNCIL AND YOU MOSTLY, MOSTLY TAKE CARE OF THE, OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE MUNICIPALITY ISSUES.
BUT I DO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU GUYS ARE, ARE ONLY REPRESENTATIVES THAT WE CAN DIRECTLY APPROACH.
WE HAVE TRIED CALLING THE, THE SENATORS, WE TRIED CALLING THE, THE, THE, THE CONGRESS PEOPLE, BUT IT JUST DOESN'T SEEM TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE ANY EFFECT.
BUT WHEN YOU, IF YOU GUYS, I'M SURE IF YOU GUYS AT LEAST PUT A, PUT A RESOLUTION ON, ON THE AGENDA FOR A CEASEFIRE, AT LEAST YOU WOULD FIND OUT WHAT YOUR CONSTITUENTS WANTS.
AND THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN JUST PASS ON TO, TO THE, TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
UH, THE, EITHER THE, THE SENATE OR, OR YOU KNOW, THE, THE CONGRESS, UH, THE US CONGRESS.
AND I'M SURE, LIKE I, I SAW SOME OF YOUR PROFILES, LIKE I KNOW THIS, UH, CONSUMMATE MEMBER DIAZ, SHE'S AN ANIMAL LOVER, UM, CONSULT MEMBER.
CAN ALL THE, I MEAN, HIS, HIS STORY IS VERY INSPIRING.
I, I WAS WATCHING HOW HE WORKS WITH THE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, HIS WHOLE FAMILY, LIKE GOD BLESS HIM.
UM, LIKE I'M SURE MAYOR, UH, PRO TE TONY, YOUR SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN AND THE AESTHETIC, UH, THE, UH, A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN.
AND I'M SURE YOU, YOU, YOU WANT TO WORK WITH IMPROVING THE, THE, THE CONDITION OF THE CITY.
BUT WHAT GOOD IS THE AESTHETIC CONDITION OF THE CITY IF YOUR CONSTITUENTS ARE SUFFERING THE, THE MENTAL HEALTH WELLBEING.
IMAGINE WE HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY, BUT THE PEOPLE ARE, ARE SICK.
SO I WOULD JUST URGE ALL OF YOU TO PLEASE CONSIDER PUTTING IT ON THE AGENDA AND LET YOUR CONSTITUENTS, YOU KNOW, SPEAK UP AND DECIDE AND HOPE.
MAY I, I'M SURE YOU WOULD FIND
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OUT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.AND AS YOU ARE THE REPRESENTATIVE, YOU MUST REPRESENT US, EVEN THOUGH SOMEBODY MAY NOT VOTE FOR YOU.
FOLLOWED BY ALEJANDRA, FOLLOWED BY ZANE.
UM, GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, I DON'T REALLY HAVE A SPEECH READY, BUT, UM, I JUST WANTED TO COME HERE AND SAY THAT I THINK CEASEFIRE IS THE MOST NEUTRAL THING THAT YOU CAN CALL FOR.
UM, IT MEANS IT'S ALWAYS BILATERAL AND IT MEANS, UM, JUST, UM, STOPPING AND CALLING FOR PEACE.
AND SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE MOST HUMANE THING THAT YOU COULD DO.
AND, UH, REALLY, I DON'T THINK IT MEANS THAT YOU'RE TAKING ANYONE'S SIDE.
UM, IT JUST MEANS THAT WE WANT ALL THE BOMBING TO STOP.
WE WANT PEOPLE TO BEGIN TO GET AID AND JUST BASIC HUMAN, UM, YOU KNOW, HUMAN NECESSITIES TO BE MET.
UM, AND SO THAT'S ALL I REALLY WANT TO SAY.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH, UH, WE AS CITIZENS HERE ARE.
UM, I MEAN, I DON'T WANNA SAY SUFFERING, BUT WE ARE HAVING SLEEPLESS NIGHTS AND JUST REALLY, I FEEL LIKE I'M A ZOMBIE HERE BECAUSE IT JUST DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT TO CONTINUE WITH REGULAR LIFE WHEN, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE KIDS WHO ARE STARVING, DYING, HORRIBLE DISEASES, UM, THAT THEY'RE GETTING JUST FROM ALL THE CHEMICALS THAT ARE BEING USED AGAINST THEM.
AND THEN JUST, IT'S JUST HORRIBLE IF, AND YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE TO BE, UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE A POLITICAL PERSON TO KNOW THAT THIS IS WRONG, THIS IS, THIS SHOULDN'T HAPPEN.
AND SO I PLEASE IMPLORE YOU TO CONSIDER A CEASEFIRE, UM, RESOLUTION TO BE PASSED BECAUSE THIS, UH, IT'S IMPORTANT CONSIDERING OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE BEING USED IN THIS GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING.
AND, UM, WE FEEL VERY RESPONSIBLE.
AND I FEEL THIS IS THE LEAST THAT WE CAN DO, HONESTLY.
SO, UH, PLEASE, I, I, I IMPLORE YOU TO PLEASE CONSIDER THIS.
SO MY NAME IS ALEJANDRA, AND, UM, THE REASON WHY I CAME IS I WAS TIRED FROM WORK, YOU KNOW, GETTING READY TO UNWIND, UH, WATCH MY, UM, COMFORT SHOWS.
AND THEN I REMEMBERED ONE COMFORT SHOW, WHICH I MEAN, I HOPE YOU GUYS HAVE SEEN IT, BUT NOW I HOPE, DON'T HOPE YOU'VE SEEN IT.
UM, IT'S CALLED MY CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND, AND THEY REFERENCE, YOU KNOW, THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
AND I'M GLAD THAT ZANE BROUGHT UP THE TOPIC OF AESTHETICS.
SO YEAH, YOU KNOW, WEST COVINA HAS ON HOLLYWOOD, I GUESS YOU COULD SAY.
AND, UM, YEAH, UH, SEASON ONE, EPISODE EIGHT, I HAD TO TURN IT OFF RIGHT AWAY BECAUSE I WAS LIKE, OH HECK NO, ISRAELI PROPAGANDA, BECAUSE THE CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND MENTIONS, YOU KNOW, THAT HER, UH, THE LAW FIRM THAT SHE WORKS SOMETHING, I FORGET.
BUT SHE MENTIONS ISRAEL AND I WAS LIKE OFF.
SO, YOU KNOW, AMERICANS ARE VERY ASLEEP.
WE GET HOME TIRED FROM WORK BECAUSE OF, YOU KNOW, THE WHITE SUPREMACIST GOVERNMENT THAT WE LIVE UNDER.
WE HAVE TO WORK, WE CAN'T, YOU KNOW, GO A DAY WITHOUT WORKING, OTHERWISE WE WILL BE HOMELESS.
AND SO ANOTHER POINT I WANTED TO BRING UP WAS I'M TOTALLY IN SUPPORT OF A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION BEING BROUGHT UP.
UM, AND YOU KNOW, PALESTINE IS A DISABILITY ISSUE.
JUST THIS MORNING I SAW A CHILD WITH, UH, DOWN SYNDROME THAT WAS SHOCKED.
AND, UM, WHAT'S THE WORD? YOU KNOW, HE HAS A LOT OF TRAUMA FROM WHAT HE'S GOING THROUGH.
BUT THERE'S SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE THAT, YOU KNOW, WERE BORN WITH DISABILITIES THAT ARE STUCK THERE.
AND THEN THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING DISABLED BY THE ISRAELI AND AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.
AND, UM, JUST, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT I WANNA BRING UP IS, YEAH, I GREW UP IN, YOU KNOW, THE AREA.
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I GREW UP IN A LATINO HOUSEHOLD AND, YOU KNOW, COLONIALISM AND STUFF.GROWING UP UNDER THAT, I GREW UP WITH SOME REALLY PROBLEMATIC BELIEFS.
I WENT TO SCHOOL, UH, CAL POLY POMONA, LEARNED SOME FACTS THAT MADE ME QUESTION MY BELIEFS.
SO I JUST WANNA SAY, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK COPS KEEP US SAFE.
UM, 40% OF POLICE ARE DOMESTIC ABUSERS.
AND ANOTHER WAY TO TIE IT INTO, UM, DISABILITY RIGHTS IS, UH, RYAN GAINOR, WHO WAS AN AUTISTIC BOY WHO WAS JUST SHOT BY THE COPS, UM, IN SAN BERNARDINO.
UH, THE HISTORY BOOKS WILL NOT TREAT THE BLUE LINE FLAG NICELY.
IT WILL DEFINITELY BE, YOU KNOW, A HATE SYMBOL IN THE FUTURE.
NOT RIGHT NOW, I MEAN RIGHT NOW, YEAH, BUT IN THE FUTURE, BECAUSE AFTER ALL, THE POLICE WERE FOUNDED ON, UM, ENSLAVED PEOPLE CATCHING.
ZAN HUSSEIN, FOLLOWED BY NALE, FOLLOWED BY R ROBINSON.
MY NAME IS ISSA ZAIN AND I'M SEVEN YEARS OLD.
I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE NEW THINGS I'VE LEARNED SINCE OCTOBER 7TH.
I LEARNED THAT SOME ADULTS AROUND ME DON'T LIKE CHILDREN LIKE ME.
WHEN MY FAMILY AND I WERE STANDING WITH A PA, WHEN MY FAMILY AND I IN, UH, INCLUDING MY 3-YEAR-OLD SISTER AND 1-YEAR-OLD BROTHER, WE WERE STANDING IN THE PALESTINIAN FLAG, UH, CHANTING FREE, FREE PALESTINE, AN ANGRY MAN IN HIS TRUCK SMOKED HIS WHEEL ON US, LEAVING US WITH BLACK SMOKE ON OUR FACES.
I LEARNED A NEW HAND GESTURE, WHICH MY MOM SAID I SHOULD NEVER USE FROM THE ADULTS WHO DIDN'T LIKE US.
SAYING KILLING CHILDREN IS A CRIME.
BUT ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING THINGS I'VE LEARNED THAT, UNLIKE THE STORY BOOKS I READ, THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD WHO ARE NEITHER VILLAINS NOR HEARERS.
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DON'T STAND UP FOR JUSTICE AND CHOOSE TO REMAIN SILENT.
DEAR COUNCIL MEMBERS, PLEASE CALL FOR THE CHILDREN OF ZA NALE, FOLLOWED BY R ROBINSON, FOLLOWED BY KAITLYN.
HEY, DID YOU SAY NALE? I WASN'T SURE.
UM, I AM A PHYSICIAN PRACTICING AT QUEEN OF THE VALLEY.
AND I AS SUCH, I MUST REAFFIRM SOME OF THE STATEMENTS FROM SOME OF THE OTHER PEOPLE HERE REGARDING THE LOSS OF LIFE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND THEN THE NECESSITY FOR OUR COMMUNITY TO AT LEAST CONSIDER, UH, MAKING A STATEMENT, UH, IZING, UH, CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
UM, IT, WE DO THROUGH OUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS, CONTRIBUTE TO THIS WARFARE.
AND THAT IS WHY WE ARE SEEING AGAIN AND AGAIN MEETING AFTER MEETING SO MANY PEOPLE COMING UP AND SPEAKING ON THIS SUBJECT.
UM, I THINK THAT AT THIS POINT, WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOR THE CITY COUNCIL IS TO CONSIDER IT, TO PUT IT ON THE AGENDA.
GRANTED, YOU MAY NEED MORE TIME TO LOOK INTO IT, TO CONSIDER IT, TO WEIGH IT.
THIS IS NOT THE DAY THAT YOU WILL NECESSARILY APPROVE IT.
PLEASE CONSIDER THAT THIS IS THE DAY THAT HOPEFULLY YOU WILL AGENDIZE IT.
ALL WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS FOR YOU TO DO THAT MUCH TODAY.
WHEN WAS THE TIME TO AGENDIZE IT? WAS IT ON OCTOBER 17TH WHEN THE EL ALI HOSPITAL WAS, UH, WAS ATTACKED? WAS IT IN NOVEMBER THE FIRST TIME THAT THE EL SHEFA HOSPITAL WAS ATTACKED? WAS IT FEBRUARY 25TH WHEN AARON BUSHNELL EMULATED HIMSELF? WHEN WAS THE TIME TO AGENDIZE THIS? AND I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO ANY, UM, ANYTHING WITH OTHER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY HERE, BUT I MUST ADDRESS THE COMMENT ABOUT THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROW NOT STANDING UP FOR THE, UH, FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
I WAS BORN IN THIS COUNTRY AND, YOU KNOW, I EVEN HEARD THE COMMENT MADE THAT MAYBE THEY WEREN'T BORN HERE.
MAYBE THEY'RE FROM A DIFFERENT COUNTRY.
TO ME, WHAT THE AMERICAN IDEAL IS, IS THE ENTERPRISING ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
IT'S, UM, INGENUITY, INNOVATION, IT'S FREEDOM OF THOUGHT.
AND RIGHT NOW, FREE THOUGHT, FREE SPEECH IS BEING SUPPRESSED.
WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS INGENUITY IN THE FORM OF TECH IS USED FOR DATA FARMING, DATA FARMING OF OUR INFORMATION.
AND THAT DATA FARMING IS USED TO SURVEILLANCES, TO DOCKS US, TO FURTHER SILENCE US.
THESE IS, THIS IS NOT AMERICAN IDEAL.
AND PERHAPS MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY DIDN'T STAND UP.
I DIDN'T STAND UP 'CAUSE MY KNEE IS BUSTED, BUT MAYBE THAT IS WHY THEY DIDN'T STAND UP.
SO I DON'T THINK THAT ANY OF US SHOULD BASICALLY STEREOTYPE OR ASSUME ANYTHING BY ANYBODY ELSE.
WE ALL HAVE REASONS AND WE ALL WANT THIS COUNTRY TO BE TRULY WHAT IT STANDS FOR.
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WANT THIS COUNTRY THAT I LOVE THAT I WAS BORN IN TO THROW ITS IDEALS UNDER THE BUS FOR SUPPORTING, UM, A GENOCIDE OVER REGIME.SO NUMBER ONE, WE DO NEED TO AGENDIZE, UH, THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOU'VE SEEN US COME MEETING AFTER MEETING AND WE WILL NOT STOP.
UM, IT IS WEIGHTY, IT IS IMPORTANT.
AND AT SOME POINT, THE ONLY WAY TO END THIS IS WE'RE GONNA ALL HAVE TO GET A LITTLE BIT UNCOMFORTABLE.
AND THE DAY WILL COME THAT THE CEASEFIRE WILL BE THE EASIEST THING WE COULD HAVE DONE FOR THIS ALL ROBINSON.
FOLLOWED BY KAITLYN UEY, FOLLOWED BY MELISSA LOPEZ.
UH, WE HOLD THESE TRUTH TO BE SELF-EVIDENT.
UH, THIS LIST I'M GIVING IS INSPIRED BY, UH, JAMES KY SUBSTACK.
PUBLIC INTERESTS HAVE CONSPIRED AGAINST A THRIVING AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS AND A GAZA CEASEFIRE.
RATHER, ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.
WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, AMERICA HAS DEVOLVED INTO A UNI PARTY A MONOPOLY OF CORRUPT POLITICIANS PITTED AGAINST WE THE PEOPLE BY OATH.
CONSTITUTIONAL SHERIFFS ANSWER ONLY TO THE PEOPLE THE C-S-P-O-A WILL MEET TOMORROW IN LAS VEGAS ON SIERRA AVENUE.
A MONOPOLY OF CORRUPT POLITICIANS HAVE REVOLVING DOORS.
POLITICIANS RECEIVE CAMPAIGN DONATIONS AND BOTH THEY AND GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS ARE OFTEN OFFERED POSITIONS IN A MATRIX OF CORPORATE OVERLORDS AS A REWARD FOR IGNORING PUBLIC INTERESTS.
WHILE IN OFFICE LEGALIZED BRIBERY, FUNCTIONAL FIRST AMENDMENT INDEPENDENT MEDIA NO LONGER EXISTS.
MEDIA IS BOUGHT PROPAGANDA CONTROLLED BY ADVERTISERS.
THE TRUSTED NEWS INITIATIVE, LEGACY NEWS CONGLOMERATES, IS A CONSPIRACY WHICH RECEIVES ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF, OF REVENUE.
AD REVENUE FROM PHARMA, TOTAL CONTROL OF MEDIA NEWS, UH, CONTENT IS EXCHANGED FOR INDEPENDENCE.
ANTITRUST MONOPOLY LAWS BE DAMNED.
THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD REQUIRES OPEN DISCUSSION AND DEBATE AND INVITES CHALLENGES TO ACCEPTED BELIEFS.
THE COVID-19 CONCEPT OF TRUSTING THE SCIENCE ASSISTS, PSEUDOSCIENCE AND VIOLATES THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD, DENIGRATION OF TRUTH BY PSYCH OPS, FALSE FLAGS AND PROPAGANDA, REFERRING TO IT AS MISS DIS OR MALFORMATION.
AND THE CENSORSHIP OF THOSE WHO ARE MERELY SEEKING TO EXPOSE THE TRUTH OR EXPRESS THEIR OPINION IS A CLEAR VIOLATION OF ONE'S UNALIENABLE RIGHTS.
STRATEGIC LAWSUITS CALLED SLAP SUIT.
SLAP SUITS ARE COMMON TOOLS TO REPRESS OR GUARANTEED FREE SPEECH RIGHTS.
CONTRARY TO PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, THE COVID-19 VACCINES WERE RUSHED INTO USE BASED ON FRAUDULENT CLINICAL TRIALS OR NO TRIALS.
THEY'RE UNSAFE AND INEFFECTIVE.
BUT CRISPR CAST NINE GENE EDITING EXPERIMENTS.
THEY'RE BIO WEAPONS, UH, DANGEROUS KILL SHOTS AND MUST BE BANNED IMMEDIATELY.
THE, UH, I CALL FOR THE COVID-19 SHOTS TO BE BANNED.
UH, WHICH IS, WHICH IS EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE RIGHT NOW.
KAYLIN OE, FOLLOWED BY MELISSA LOPEZ, FOLLOWED BY CE.
UM, I WAS A PROUD SAN JOSE SHARK AND A WEST COVINA BULLDOG.
UM, AND BEFORE I TALK ABOUT WHAT I WAS HERE TO TALK ABOUT, I DO ADMIT, UH, ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE REALLY GUILTY OF FLYING DOWN CITRUS AND CAMERON ON MY WAY TO SCHOOL AT CAL POLY.
UM, AND SOMETHING PROBABLY SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT THAT 'CAUSE I HAVE GONE WAY PAST THE SPEED LIMIT OVER THERE.
UM, BUT, UH, A STREETLIGHT IS PROBABLY NOT THE ANSWER, ESPECIALLY 'CAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF SCHOOLS IN THE AREA AND THAT WOULD PROBABLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFIC PROBLEM EVEN MORE.
UM, BUT WHAT I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT IS ASKING THE CITY COUNCIL TO ADD A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION TO THE AGENDA.
I THANK MAYOR CALDERON, UM, FOR TRYING TO PUT IT FORWARD ON THE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA LAST WEEK.
UM, AND I'M SORRY THAT IT DIDN'T GO THROUGH.
UM, BUT CITY, UH, ISSUES LIKE THIS DO AFFECT US LOCALLY.
AND ONE OF THOSE WAYS THAT IT AFFECTS US LOCALLY IS THAT THE TAX DOLLARS THAT THE CITY SENDS TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS USED,
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UM, IS, IS USED.AND SOME OF THAT IS, GOES TOWARDS FUNDING ISRAEL'S, UH, CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS.
UM, THE AMOUNT THAT WEST COVINA SENDS TO THE GOVERNMENT THAT IS USED, UH, TO FUND ISRAEL'S BOMBARDMENT OF PALESTINIANS IS ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT $1,161,725.
UM, ALLOWS SOME OF THAT MONEY COULD INSTEAD GO TO 138 HOUSEHOLDS WITH PUBLIC HOUSING FOR A YEAR, 404 CHILDREN RECEIVING FREE OR LOW COST HOUSING, 12 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, OR EVEN FUNDING OUR OWN FIRE DEPARTMENT THAT HAS BEEN, UH, GOING THROUGH IT IN THE LAST YEAR.
SO, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT, THAT MONEY COULD BE USED FOR INSTEAD.
AND IT'S A TRAGEDY THAT WE USE IT TO KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, THESE ISSUES ARE A LOT MORE LOCAL THAN YOU THINK.
THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE THAT ARE AFFECTED BY IT, AND I HOPE THAT THE CITY COUNCIL CAN PUT IT FORWARD ON THE AGENDA.
MELISSA LOPEZ, FOLLOWED BY CC, FOLLOWED BY AUDREY MILLER.
OKAY, UM, THANK YOU COUNSEL FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT.
I REALIZE HOW TIRING IT MUST BE TO BE HERE AT THE END OF THE DAY.
UM, AND THAT GOES EVEN MORE SO FOR EVERYONE BEHIND ME.
UM, EVERYONE BEHIND ME, YOU SEE OUR GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ALL STAND FOR THE SAME THING.
UM, PEOPLE WHO TOOK TIME OUTTA SCHOOL LIFE AND JUST BEING TIRED JUST TO BE HERE TONIGHT TO ENSURE WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY.
WE HEAR, WE IMPLORE YOU TO INSTALL A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION HERE TONIGHT, SINCE IT HAS BEEN OVER SIX MONTHS SINCE ISRAEL HAS RUTHLESS, LAID, BOMBED HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, REFUGEE CAMPS, AND THE SITUATION HAS ONLY GOTTEN WORSE.
UM, KIND OF REITERATING WHAT SHE SAYS, THE US SENDS MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS TO ISRAEL LIKE ALL THE TIME.
WHEREAS PEOPLE LIKE, AT LEAST ME AND MY FAMILY, I'M, I'M A DAUGHTER OF AN IMMIGRANT FROM EL SALVADOR.
UM, A LOT OF TIMES WE DON'T GO TO THE HOSPITAL 'CAUSE WE DON'T KNOW HOW WE'RE GONNA AFFORD HEALTHCARE.
WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THE GROCERIES ARE.
AND THEN I LEARNED THAT THIS MONEY, INSTEAD OF BEING PUT TOWARDS THE PEOPLE THAT YOU GUYS ALLEGEDLY REPRESENT, IT'S BEING SENT TO KILL OTHER KIDS ACROSS THE WORLD.
SO I, I REALIZED THAT IT IS A LOCAL MATTER, AND THEN THIS MAY BE ABOVE YOUR PAY GRADE THAN WHAT YOU SIGNED FOR.
BUT REALISTICALLY, THIS INCLUDES EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US HERE.
SO BASICALLY WE HAVE BEEN HERE AFTER SIX MONTHS.
EVERYONE HERE WILL, ARE NOT GONNA STOP COMING HERE.
AND I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THAT WHEN TIME COMES FOR ELECTION, WE HAVE BEEN HERE AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO BE HERE UNLESS YOU DO THE RIGHT THING AND INSTALL A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION, WHICH IS THE BARE MINIMUM MAYE.
AND BASICALLY, UH, YOU AS A SIDE, UM, US COUNCIL MEMBERS DECIDED TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.
AND SINCE YOU REPRESENT THE PEOPLE, WE AS A PEOPLE IMPLORE YOU TO DENOUNCE THE GENOCIDES GOING ON IN PALESTINE AS WELL AS, UM, YEAH, PASS THE CEASEFIRE, SORRY.
AND I PROMISE YOU THAT WHAT YOU DO TODAY WILL STAY FOR YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIVES.
AND THE PEOPLE WE'RE REMEMBER, AND WE REFUSE TO LET YOU FORGET.
CC FOLLOWED BY AUDREY MILLER, FOLLOWED BY DAN MILLER.
UM, SO I DON'T REALLY HAVE A SPEECH EITHER.
IT JUST TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE BEHIND ME WHO I THINK PROBABLY HAVE A LOT MORE OF A, OF A VALID VALIDITY IN WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY FOR PALESTINE.
BUT I ALSO IMPLORE YOU TO SUPPORT IT BECAUSE AS WE'VE, THIS HAS BEEN SAID MULTIPLE TIMES, IT'S BEEN SIX MONTHS OF GENOCIDE.
UM, AND I DON'T KNOW, UNDERSTAND TIME AFTER TIME HOW THIS BECOMES A DEBATE AMONGST PEOPLE AND HOW THIS IS A POLITICAL ISSUE WHEN IT'S VERY CLEARLY A HUMANITARIAN ISSUE.
UM, AT A VERY YOUNG AGE, I STARTED, UH, CONSIDERING THE REPERCUSSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO, I PERSONALLY, I'M GOING TO HAVE TO TRY AND SOLVE THROUGHOUT MY LIFETIME IN ORDER TO JUST EXIST TO HAVE ACCESS TO FOOD AND WATER.
AND I SEE THAT ON THE CUTTING BOARD ARE PEOPLE, LIKE PEOPLE IN PALESTINE FOR THE KIND OF LIFESTYLE THAT HAS UPHELD HERE, HERE IN THE WESTERN WORLD.
AND I THINK THAT IT'S BECAUSE OF THAT, THAT SOLE FACT.
IT IS MY PROBLEM AND IT IS AN ISSUE AND, UM, A RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PEOPLE IN MY COMMUNITY TO STAND UP FOR ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD BECAUSE THEY'RE FREEING US.
AND THEY WILL BE FREEING SOON AS WELL, BECAUSE WE WILL CONTINUE TO COME HERE.
SO YES, PLEASE AT LEAST AGENDIZE IT AND START TALKING ABOUT THIS AS A PUBLIC THANK YOU.
AUDREY MILLER, FOLLOWED BY DAN MILLER, FOLLOWED BY PHILIP G.
I LIVE, UH, ONE BLOCK WEST OF CITRUS OFF OF CAMERON.
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WE IN OUR HOUSEHOLD ARE IN FAVOR OF THE SIGNAL.WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT WAS A, AN ITEM ON THE CITY COUNCIL'S AGENDA YEARS AGO, MAINLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT WHEN YOU SEND OUT THE, UH, NOTICES, IT'S ONLY A 500 FOOT RADIUS.
AND IRONICALLY, WE ONLY, WE LIVE ON A FOUR HOUSE CUL-DE-SAC.
THE PEOPLE ON THE EAST SIDE GOT THE NOTICE.
US LIVING ON THE WEST SIDE DID NOT.
AND WE LIVE ON THE SAME STREET.
SO I THINK THE 500 FOOT RADIUS MAYBE SHOULD BE INCREASED FOR IN THE FUTURE FOR THINGS LIKE THIS.
UH, AND I IMAGINE THAT WOULD GO THIS BE THE SAME FOR THE PEOPLE ACROSS CAMERON ON THE SOUTH SIDE.
UH, PROBABLY THAT WHOLE HALF OF THE STREET DIDN'T GET THE NOTICE EITHER.
AND THAT'S, THERE'S A LOT OF HOUSES GOING ON THE SOUTH SIDE.
SO ANYWAY, I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT.
FIRST OF ALL, UM, WE FEEL THAT THE INTERSECTION IS UNSAFE NOT ONLY FOR VEHICLES, BUT FOR PEDESTRIANS AS WELL.
THE MAIN THING TO ME IS THAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHEN IT'S THEIR TURN.
IT'S, IT'S EIGHT LANES, IT'S A FOUR-WAY STOP, AND PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHEN IT'S THEIR THEIR TURN TO GO OR WHO SHOULD TURN OR GO STRAIGHT OR OR WHATEVER.
MOST OF, UH, IN THE DATA, MOST OF THE ACCIDENTS THAT HAPPEN THERE ARE BROADSIDE ACCIDENTS.
AND UH, AND THEN THERE ARE ALSO SOME, A FEW, UM, REAR, REAR END ACCIDENTS.
UM, I THINK A SIGNAL WOULD HELP TO IMPROVE THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC BY LETTING PEOPLE KNOW WHEN IT'S THEIR TURN TO GO
AND ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A, YOU KNOW, AN ACTUAL LEFT HA LEFT TURN LANE SIGNAL AS WELL.
NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, RED, YELLOW AND GREEN LIGHTS, BUT TURN LEFT, LEFT TURN LANES AS WELL.
UM, I WASN'T REALLY GONNA GET UP HERE AND SAY A WHOLE LOT, BUT, UM, THERE IS A NEW ASSEMBLY BILL THAT WENT INTO EFFECT THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR.
AND, UM, IT CREATES A BUFFER ZONE OF 20 FEET FROM CROSSWALKS, MEANING THAT CARS AND TRUCKS CANNOT PARK WHERE THEY MIGHT BLOCK THE VIEW OF BOTH PEDESTRIANS AND DRIVERS.
SO CLEARLY THE STATE IS RECOGNIZING THAT THAT'S AN ISSUE AS WELL.
AND AS FAR AS ONE MORE THING, THE GENTLEMAN THAT SAID, NOBODY WANTS THIS SIGNAL, WE WANT IT, SOME OF US WANT IT, SOME OF US DO.
I THANK, THANK YOU DAN MILLER, FOLLOWED BY PHILIP G, FOLLOWED BY SHANNON VOLK.
I KNOW IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE I WALK MY DOG, BUT I DO EVERY DAY.
BUT THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE WAS ABOUT 25, 30 YEARS AGO, AND MY NEIGHBOR AND I CAME HERE BECAUSE WE WERE TRYING TO GET LEAF BLOWERS BANNED.
AND SO WHEN WE SHOWED UP, HE AND I CAME IN AND THERE WERE ABOUT 50 GARDENERS WAITING FOR US.
SO WE WERE REALLY OUTNUMBERED AND WE KNEW, UM, WE DIDN'T STAND A CHANCE, BUT WE DID SAY OUR PIECE AND WE WALKED HOME AND FELT GOOD ABOUT IT.
BUT ANYWAY, I'VE BEEN CATEGORIZED AS A NOBODY BECAUSE SOMEBODY CAME IN AND SAID, NOBODY WANTS THIS SIGNAL.
I'VE BEEN, I'VE LIVED IN THAT AREA SINCE 1987 AND I'VE SEEN THINGS CHANGE.
THE REASON WE BOUGHT THAT HOUSE, AND WE LOVE THAT HOUSE, IS THAT IT WAS A WALKING NEIGHBORHOOD.
WE USED TO HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WOULD WALK, WALK, WALK, BUT NOT ANYMORE.
AND ALSO, ANOTHER THING THAT POPPED IN MY HEAD WAS, SOMEBODY SAID PREVIOUSLY THAT IF STOP SIGNS WERE SLOWING EVERYBODY DOWN, WOULDN'T WE BE TAKING THE SIGNAL LIGHTS OUT OF VALINDA? AND CAMERON A ELLEN AND CAMERON AZE SAYING, CAMERON, OR RANK AND CAMERON ALL DOWN THE LINE, WE'RE THE ONLY INTERSECTION WITHOUT A SINGLE LIGHT.
SO LOGIC DOESN'T, IT DOESN'T MAKE LOGIC, LOGICAL SENSE TO ME.
BUT ANYWAY, WE'VE BEEN AT THE LAST TWO MEETINGS AND TRANSTECH HAS DONE SURVEYS, DATA, EVERYTHING.
AND I THINK THERE'S ROUGHLY, FROM WHAT I CAN READ, 40,000 CARS GOING THROUGH THAT INTERSECTION DAILY.
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I THINK NOW IS THE TIME THAT YOU HAVE THE DATA.IT'S THE TIME TO JUST ASK THE TRAFFIC ENGINEER WHETHER A SINGLE LIGHT IS MORE VALUABLE AT THAT INTERSECTION THAN IT IS STOP SIGNS.
AND I THINK THE DATA WILL PROVE THAT.
PHILIP G FOLLOWED BY SHANNON VOLKE, FOLLOWED BY LANCE VOLKE.
MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, I'M JUST OVER HERE TO MENTION A, UM, SOME, AN AGENDA.
AN AGENDA OR SOMETHING THAT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA.
WHAT DO YOU CALL, UH, I I'M HERE TO, I'M, I'M HERE TO ASK TO WAIT AN TO AGENDA, A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION IN GAZA, WHAT THEY CALL UNDERSTAND THE MAYOR.
AND I'M ASKING ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL RIGHT THERE TO PLEASE SECOND THE MOTION.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT A LARGE PORTION OF THE COMMUNITY WANTS.
AND, UH, FROM JANUARY 1ST TILL OCTOBER 6TH LAST YEAR, OVER 200 PALESTINIANS WERE MURDERED BY THE ISRAELI STATE.
AND THIS WAS BEFORE, THIS WAS THE DAY BEFORE OCTOBER 7TH.
SO RIGHT THERE, AND THE REASON WHY I SAY THIS IS BECAUSE THERE IS A CONSISTENT NARRATIVE THAT THIS BEGAN ON OCTOBER 7TH, RIGHT THERE.
OCTOBER 7TH WASN'T THE BEGINNING OF IT.
IT WAS A RETALIATION FOR WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR DECADES.
WHAT DO YOU CALL, THERE WAS A, IF ANYBODY HAS EVER HEARD OF THE NAME, UH, RACHEL COREY.
SHE WAS AN AMERICAN THAT VISITED GAZA IN 2002 OR 2003, I FORGET WHICH YEAR, BUT IT WAS IN THE EARLY TWO THOUSANDS WHEN SHE VISITED GAZA RIGHT THERE.
SHE WITNESSED MANY HOMES BEING BULLDOZED AND TO PROTECT THE FAMILY WHO SHE WAS STAYING WITH AT THE TIME.
SHE STOOD IN FRONT OF THE BULLDOZER AND THE BULLDOZER LITERALLY RAN HER OVER.
HER PARENTS TOOK UP THE CAUSE AND WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT? SHE, UH, THEY WENT, UH, THEY WENT OVER TO VISIT THE FAMILY WHOSE HOME SHE PROTECTED.
AND IT TURNS OUT IT'S THE ONLY HOME THAT'S ON THAT BLOCK THAT HASN'T BEEN BULLDOZED YET.
AND IN A VERY SARCASTIC MANNER, A BULLDOZER JUST HAPPENED TO PASS BY WHILE HER PARENTS WERE THERE.
THIS IS THE LEVEL OF JUST PSYCHOPATHY THAT, THAT THEY'RE ENGAGED IN.
AND THIS NEEDS TO BE, THIS NEEDS TO BE STOPPED.
ALL OF THIS IS SUPPORTED BY OUR TAX DOLLARS, OUR TAX.
I DO NOT, I DO NOT PAY MY TAXES.
WELL, WE PAY OUR TAXES 'CAUSE WE HAVE TO RIGHT THERE.
BUT I DO NOT PAY MY TAXES RIGHT THERE TO FUND ATROCITIES IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY.
I PAY FOR, I PAY MY TAXES TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO MY COUNTRY.
MUCH NEEDED SERVICES LIKE HEALTHCARE THAT WE DO NOT HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, UH, UH, WHAT DO YOU CALL HIGHER EDUCATION, BOTH AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL AND FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR THE TRADES.
ISRAEL, ISRAEL HAS THAT, AND IT'S LARGELY SUBSIDIZED BY OUR TAX DOLLARS, BUT WE DO NOT HAVE THAT OURSELVES.
BRIDGES ARE EITHER COLLAPSING RIGHT THERE OR JUST FALLING APART.
THERE'S FREAKING POTHOLES EVERYWHERE.
WE HAVE A HOMELESS, WE HAVE A HOMELESS AND DRUG EPIDEMIC EVERYWHERE, RIGHT THERE.
EVERYBODY SEEMS TO LITERALLY JUST NOT HAVE ANY SOLUTION TO ANY OF THIS.
WHAT DO YOU CALL? AND HONESTLY, RIGHT THERE, WHAT FIRST THING WE NEED TO DO IS CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION IN GAZA, RIGHT THERE, WHAT DO YOU CALL? AND NOT JUST A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA, BUT ALSO A CEASEFIRE FOR THE, UM, IN THE WEST BANK RIGHT THERE.
THE WEST BANK IS CURRENTLY BEING ASSAULTED BY ILLEGAL SETTLERS WHO ARE BEING ARMED BY THE ISRAELI STATE.
AND THEY'RE NOT BEING, AND THEY'RE NOT BEING TALKED ABOUT BECAUSE THE, THE MEDIA IS FOCUSED SOLELY ON GAZA.
AND IF WE DO NOT DO THIS RIGHT THERE, THIS IS GOING TO BECOME A REGIONAL WAR, AS WE HAVE SEEN LATELY, RIGHT THERE.
WHAT DO YOU CALL THE, THE ISRAELI STATE RIGHT THERE ATTACKED IN IRANIAN CONSULATE AND, AND IRAN IS RETALIATING.
AND THIS IS GETTING OUTTA HAND CEASES FIRE.
NOW, SHANNON VOLKE, FOLLOWED BY LANCE VOLKE, FOLLOWED BY ABRAHAM STERN MAYOR.
UM, THIS IS IN REGARDS TO THE LIE OVER ON CAMERON AND, UH, CITRUS.
THE CONCERN IS THAT THERE WILL LIKELY BE FATALITY OVER THERE IF YOU PUT THAT LIGHT IN.
LIKE THERE ALREADY HAS BEEN A FATALITY OVER ON, UM, UP THE STREET ON HOLBECK END AND CAMERON, AND THERE'S BEEN ONE FURTHER SOUTH OR RATHER EAST OVER ON THE HIGH SCHOOL.
UH, AS FAR AS WE KNOW, THERE HAS NOT BEEN A SINGLE FATALITY ON CAMERON AND CITRUS.
THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF FENDER BEERS, BUT THEY'RE AT SLOW SPEEDS.
UM, I LIVE JUST TWO DOORS DOWN FROM THAT INTERSECTION.
WHEN ACCIDENTS HAPPEN, YOU KNOW, WE COME OUT TO THE STREET AND SEE WHAT OCCURRED.
I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER ONE TIME WHEN SOMEONE'S BEEN TAKEN AWAY, EVEN IN AN AMBULANCE.
BUT SO FAR, AS FAR AS I CAN TELL IN EXPERIENCE, IN IN THE EXPERIENCES WE HAVE HAD, NO ONE'S BEEN HAULED OFF IN THE AMBULANCE, MUCH LESS A FATALITY.
IF THAT LIGHT'S PUT ON, IF IT'S PUT IN THERE, THERE WILL LIKELY BE BE A FATALITY.
IN FACT, OVER TIME I CAN ALMOST GUARANTEE IT.
SO I JUST REALLY LIKE TO CONS LIKE YOU TO CONSIDER THAT BY PUTTING A LIGHT THERE WILL LIKELY
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CAUSE A DEATH.THANK YOU LANCE FOLK FO FOLLOWED BY ABRAHAM, FOLLOWED BY SELENA H MY NAME IS LANCE FOLK AND I LIVE TWO DOORS DOWN FROM, UH, UH, ON CAMERON FROM CITRUS.
AND I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN LIVING THERE FOR 35 YEARS.
MY KITCHEN WINDOW SITS THERE AND I THROW OUT MY KITCHEN WINDOW.
IN FACT, THIS MORNING I, I WAS CURIOUS.
SO I COUNTED THE CARS AT EIGHT O'CLOCK.
TRAFFIC STARTED BUILDING UP AT 8 35.
IT WAS GONE, CAME BACK AGAIN AT THREE 15.
WHY SCHOOL? THREE 15 SCHOOL AND PEOPLE GETTING OUTTA WORK.
SO PUTTING A LIGHT IN THERE, IT'S GONNA GET SOMEBODY CHILLED UP ON THE HIGH BY THE HIGH SCHOOL.
THERE HAS BEEN, SINCE I'VE LIVED THERE, THERE'S BEEN FOUR FATALITIES AND I'M NOT SURE, BUT I THINK WE JUST HAD ONE NOT TOO LONG AGO.
'CAUSE USUALLY THE FLOWERS SHOW UP WHEN SOMEBODY DIES AND THERE WAS FLOWERS THERE.
NOW WHEN THESE LIGHTS GO IN, YOU'RE GONNA PAINT THE, THE CURBS RED.
NEITHER ARE ANY OF MY NEIGHBORS.
WE HAVE TO GET TO THE FRONT OF OUR HOU.
MY HOUSE WILL BE DOWN THE STREET, WALK ALL THE WAY TO MY HOUSE TO GO IN MY HOUSE, THE ALLEY IN THE BACK.
YOU STICK YOUR NOSE OUT AND YOU'RE GONNA GET THE FRONT OF YOUR CAR TAKEN OFF.
I HAVE BUS DRIVERS LOOKING IN HIS REAR VIEW MIRROR UP CITRUS.
LET ME KNOW, I CAN ENTER THE TRAFFIC.
NOW I KNOW THAT, THAT PEOPLE WANT TO TRAVEL THROUGH THERE QUICKLY, BUT I'M TELLING YOU MR. W CAN PROBABLY TESTIFY TO THIS.
IS THIS NOT CORRECT? RIGHT AT, UH, CORTEZ AND MY CONVERSATION AT THAT TIME WHEN HE TOLD ME THAT, I HAD TOLD HIM THAT MR. WU, I GO, IF YOU HAD A LIGHT THERE AND IT HAD TURNED YELLOW, THAT PERSON MIGHT HAVE STEPPED ON THE GAS AND T-BONED YOU AT 60.
AS THE LIGHTS WENT IN UP ON, UH, CITRUS AND THE HIGH SCHOOL, THEY DIDN'T PUT 'EM IN OURS AND THEY DIDN'T PUT IT ON THE ONE HE WHERE HE GOT T-BONED.
SO ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS WE HAVE IS THE SPEED LIMIT GOT RAISED.
I WAS THERE WHEN IT WAS 40 MILES AN HOUR WHEN THEY RAISED TO 45, IT REALLY GOT BAD.
BUT THE CO BUT THE POLICE WILL NOT GIVE YOU A TICK UNLESS YOU'RE AT LEAST 10 MILES OVER THE SPEED LIMIT.
I KNOW A FEW OFFICERS AND THEY'RE SAYING THE SPEED'S.
WELL TELL THAT TO THE HIGHWAY PATROL.
I JUST HOPE IT'S NOT MY LOVED ONES TO GET KILLED.
ABRAHAM FOLLOWED BY SELENA, FOLLOWED BY KENNETH.
I'M A JEWISH AMERICAN WITH ROOTS THROUGH ISRAEL, AND I DEMAND YOU ADOPT AND AGENDIZE A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT IS NOT ON A RESCUE MISSION.
THEY'RE IN GAZA TO RESTORE ILLEGAL SETTLEMENT.
THEY'RE THERE TO KILL AS MANY PALESTINIANS AS POSSIBLE, AND THEY ARE THERE TO ERASE CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE.
A PLAN FOR THE TOTAL ETHNIC CLEANSING OF OVER 2 MILLION PALESTINIANS FOR GAZA IS UNDERWAY WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF US TAXPAYER FUNDS.
IT IS THE ANTITHESIS OF JEWISH VALUES AND IT MUST STOP.
IN ADDITION, THERE IS EVIDENCE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A GAS EXTRACTION OPERATION.
THE WESTERN EMPIRE ALWAYS GOES TO WAR FOR FOSSIL FUELS.
WE CAN ALL SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING AND WE ARE TIRED OF OUR INTELLIGENCE BEING ASSAULTED.
ISRAEL DOES NOT SPEAK FOR ALL JEWS OR ISRAELIS.
MANY OF THE MOST OUTSPOKEN DEMANDS FOR CEASEFIRE INCLUDE FAMILY MEMBERS OF HOSTAGES AND VICTIMS OF OCTOBER 7TH.
IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT MANY OF THE RELEASE HOSTAGES STATED THAT THEY FEARED WHILE IN CAPTIVITY ISRAEL'S BOMBS MORE THAN THEIR CAPTORS.
AGAIN, IT IS WILDLY ABSURD AND DISINGENUOUS GIVEN THE SCALE OF THE BOMBARDMENT THAT ANYONE CAN MAKE THE CASE.
THIS IS A RESCUE MISSION WE ALWAYS HEAR OF ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO DEFENSE AND ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST.
WHAT ABOUT PALESTINIANS RIGHTS? ARE THEY NOT ALLOWED TO DEFEND THEMSELVES? DO THEY NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO EXIST REGARDING THE ENVIRONMENT? THE TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ALREADY DROPPED ON GAZA DWARF THE HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI BOMBS MULTIPLE TIMES OVER.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY ACCELERATING CLIMATE CHANGE, WHICH WILL AFFECT WEST COVINA EVERY FEW WEEKS.
ISRAEL'S CAMPAIGN REPRE REPRESENTS ANOTHER ATOMIC BOMB.
AND FOR THIS ALONE, AMERICA MUST STOP ARMING ISRAEL.
IMMEDIATELY IN DECEMBER, ISRAEL KILLED THREE HOSTAGES ATTEMPTING TO BE RESCUED.
THEY HELD UP A WHITE FLAG AND CALLED OUT TO BE RESCUED IN HEBREW, ISRAEL STILL GUNNED THEM DOWN.
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KNOWINGLY DROPPED BOMBS ON BUILDINGS IT KNEW HOSTAGES WERE HELD.THE LONGER THE SIEGES OF GAZA CONTINUES, THE WORSE ISLAMOPHOBIA, ANTI PALESTINIAN HATRED AND ANTISEMITISM RAGE IN AMERICA, IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES.
IT IS INESCAPABLE VIOLENCE IS FINDING OUR COMMUNITY RIGHT HERE IN WEST COVINA.
A CEASEFIRE WILL GO A LONG WAY TO EAST DETENTIONS.
AS AMERICANS, WE FUND THE ISRAELI MILITARY.
WE HAVE THE POWER AND THE MORAL OBLIGATION TO DO SOMETHING TO STOP THE GA STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF GAZA.
TWO OUTTA EVERY THREE AMERICANS SAY CEASEFIRE.
WE ARE NOT NOT DIVIDING THE PUBLIC.
YOU ARE DIVIDING THE PUBLIC BY REFUSING TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE.
OUR CONGRESSIONAL REPS IGNORE US.
THEREFORE, YOU MUST BE THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT HAS LIED ABOUT THE DETAILS OF OCTOBER 7TH, AND THEY'RE LYING ABOUT RA AND THEY DO THIS TO JUSTIFY GENOCIDE.
BECAUSE OF ISRAEL'S LIES, WE'VE CUT OFF PALESTINIANS AND ARE STARVING THEM TO DEATH WHILE THEY'RE BEING BOMBED, CONTRIBUTING TO GENOCIDE.
YOU MUST DEMAND THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO RESTORE UNRE IMMEDIATELY.
IN ADDITION TO THE GENOCIDE OF PALESTINE, ISRAEL BOMBS, LEBANON, SYRIA, AND IRANIAN CONSULATE INVITING RETALIATION AND SEEKING GREATER US INVOLVEMENT HURLING US ALL TOWARDS GLOBAL WAR.
IS THAT NOT A CONCERN FOR WEST COVINA? I CALLING YOU NOT ONLY TO ADOPT THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION, BUT A FULL DIVESTMENT OF THE CITY'S TAX DOLLARS.
I'M TIRED OF HEARING THERE'S NO MONEY FOR HEALTHCARE EDUCATION OR UPGRADES TO INFRASTRUCTURE.
THE MONEY IS THERE, BUT IT'S GOING TO ISRAEL'S MILITARY WHEN IT SHOULD BE SPENT HERE AT HOME.
I CAN'T THINK OF A MORE LOCAL ISSUE.
IN 1982, PRESIDENT REAGAN SHUT DOWN ISRAEL'S INVASION, LEBANON WITH ONE PHONE CALL.
PRESIDENT BIDEN MUST NOW DO THE SAME.
IF YOU FAIL TO AGENDIZE, CEASEFIRE AND DIVESTMENT, YOU ARE COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE, ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION AND HARM TO OUR COMMUNITY.
SAVE YOURSELF THIS EMBARRASSMENT.
THE COMMUNITY WILL GET THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
WHETHER YOU WILL PASS IT YOURSELVES OR WHETHER YOU WILL BE REPLACED TO GET IT.
SELENA H FOLLOWED BY KENNETH T, FOLLOWED BY AMY.
GOOD EVENING MAYOR CITY COUNCIL, WEST COA COMMUNITY.
MY NAME IS SELENA AND, UM, ACTUALLY SPENT MOST OF MY LIFE IN THE CITY OF WEST COA.
I GRADUATED FROM WEST COA HIGH SCHOOL IN 96.
I'M DATING MYSELF AND, UM, RAISED MY OLDER CHILD IN THE CITY.
SO, UM, TONIGHT I COME BEFORE YOU AS AN EDUCATOR.
UM, I TEACH, UM, SOCIOLOGY TO COLLEGE STUDENTS.
I'M A TAXPAYER, A MOTHER, SOMEONE WHO IS RAISED WITH CHRISTIAN VALUES.
I WENT TO BISHOP MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL AND, UM, SIMPLY AS A HUMAN BEING WHO DEEPLY VALUES LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL PEOPLE.
AND I KNOW THERE WAS ALREADY A MENTION OF, YOU KNOW, THE, THE PLEDGE AND, AND I UNDERSTAND HOW IT CAN BE PERCEIVED, THAT IT'S DISRESPECTFUL, BUT I ALSO THINK IT'S REALLY DISRESPECTFUL TO NOT HONOR SOMETHING THAT YOU HOLD YOUR HEART AND PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO.
AND, YOU KNOW, MY 11-YEAR-OLD IS, WE'RE REALLY GRAPPLING WITH BEING AMERICANS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT WE'RE SUPPORTING A GENOCIDE RIGHT NOW.
OUR TAX MONEY'S SUPPORTING A GENOCIDE AND WE'RE GRAPPLING WITH THAT AS AMERICANS BECAUSE, UM, HE UNDERSTANDS WHAT'S HAPPENING AND HE DOESN'T WANNA STAND AND PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG RIGHT NOW.
AND I SUPPORT THAT 'CAUSE IT'S HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DO SO.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S TERRIBLE WHAT WE'RE SEEING EVERY DAY.
WE'RE DEVASTATED AT WITNESSING, UM, YOU KNOW, AN ONGOING GENOCIDE, ETHNIC CLEANSING OF OUR PALESTINIAN BROTHERS AND SISTER IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE AND GAZA.
UM, I KNOW THAT MANY AMERICANS JUST STARTED PAYING ATTENTION TO THE CONFLICT, UM, ON OCTOBER 7TH.
BUT IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND, AND I HAD TO LEARN THIS MYSELF, THAT THIS STARTED, YOU KNOW, A A A MUCH LONGER, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR DECADES, OKAY? UM, AND UNFORTUNATELY BECAUSE OF BIASED MEDIA, UH, WE DON'T ALWAYS SEE THIS PERSPECTIVE, RIGHT? WE, WE THINK IT STARTED ON OCTOBER 7TH.
AND, AND SO IT MAKES SENSE WHY PEOPLE ARE OPERATING OFF OF THOSE MISCONCEPTIONS.
BUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT, UM, PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN LIVING UNDER AN APARTHEID REGIME UNDER AN ILLEGAL ISRAELI OCCUPATION FOR DECADES.
AND AS AMERICANS, IF WE SAY THAT WE DO VALUE FREEDOM AND IT'S ONE OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS VALUES, THEN WE NEED TO HONOR THAT AND, AND SHOW IT IN OUR ACTIONS.
SO WE CAN'T JUST, YOU KNOW, I I, THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT HAS NO ISSUE SUPPORTING UKRAINIANS IN THEIR PLIGHT FOR LIBERATION.
BUT WITH PALESTINIANS, WE DON'T SEE THAT HAPPENING.
WE ACTUALLY SEE THE GOVERNMENT SUPPORTING THE GENOCIDE OF THEM.
SO WE DON'T WANNA BE COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE.
WE ARE COMING BEFORE YOU BECAUSE OUR NATIONAL LEADERSHIP IS FAILING US.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE CALLING ON YOU TO BE OUR LEADERS TO, TO STAND UP FOR WHAT'S MORALLY CORRECT.
UM, THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE IGNORING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
70% OF AMERICANS DO SUPPORT A CEASEFIRE.
SO PLEASE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TURNING TO YOU AND, UM, WE NEED A, WE NEED A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION TO START ENDING THE GENOCIDE THAT'S HAPPENING.
UM, SO PLEASE HAVE THE MORAL COURAGE.
PLEASE JOIN THE OTHER 80 PLUS CITIES ACROSS THE NATION THAT ARE TAKING A MORAL STANCE.
FOLLOWED BY AMY, FOLLOWED BY AMINA.
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MEMBERS.WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN GAZA IS NOT AN ISRAEL HAMAS WAR.
IT IS AN OUTRIGHT GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS.
IT DID NOT START ON OCTOBER 7TH.
IT GOES BACK TO 1948 WHEN THE STATE OF ISRAEL WAS FOUNDED THROUGH THE EXPULSION OF 750,000 PALESTINIANS.
ZIONIST TERROR GANGS SUCH AS THE LEHI I AND HANA COMMITTED MASSACRES IN PALESTINIAN VILLAGES SUCH AS ENE AND SLAUGHTERED THOUSANDS OF MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN.
THESE ZIONIST TERROR GANGS LATER COMBINED TO FORM WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE IDF.
AND THEY'RE STILL DOING THE SAME THING.
THIS IS HOW ISRAEL IS FOUNDED AS AN APARTHEID STATE THAT STEALS PALESTINIAN HOMES AND LAND TO BUILD JEWISH ONLY SETTLEMENTS.
THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT HOLDS THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIAN MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN AS HOSTAGES IN ISRAELI PRISONS INDEFINITELY WITHOUT CHARGE OR TRIAL.
IT'S CALLED ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION.
AND IT'S BEEN GOING ON LONG BEFORE OCTOBER 7TH.
ISRAELI POLITICIANS ARE NOT SHY ABOUT HIDING WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU HAS REFERRED TO PALESTINIANS AS AMALEK A BIBLICAL NATION, WHICH GOD HAD ORDERED THE ISRAELITES TO EXTERMINATE COMPLETELY MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN.
ISRAELI MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY, EDMAR.
BEN EVEN HUNG A PHOTO IN HIS, IN HIS OFFICE OF BURRO GOLDSTEIN, AN EXTREMIST ISRAELI SETTLER WHO WALKED INTO THE IBRAHAM MOSQUE AND HARAN IN 1994, SHOT AND KILLED 29 PALESTINIANS AND INJURED.
125 ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER, YAF GOLAN HAS REFERRED TO PALESTINIANS AND GAZA AS HUMAN ANIMALS.
IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS, WE'VE SEEN 40,000 DEATHS, INCLUDING 15,000 CHILDREN.
THAT'S MORE CHILDREN KILLED IN ONE SMALL AREA THAN IN ALL GLOBAL CONFLICTS OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS.
NOTHING ABOUT THIS IS SELF-DEFENSE.
MR. ALI CANTOS, I KNOW YOU ARE A DISABILITY RIGHTS ACT ADVOCATE AND I RESPECT YOU FOR THIS WORK.
THESE PAST SEVEN MONTHS, WE'VE SEEN CHILDREN SCARRED AND MAIMED BEYOND BELIEF BY ISRAELI WAR PLANES AND BOMBS AND SNIPERS IN GAZA, CHILDREN WITH THEIR FACES BURNED OFF, LIMBS MISSING AND OTHER UNIMAGINABLE INJURIES.
MANY OF THESE CHILDREN HAVE LOST THEIR FAMILIES.
I BEG YOU TO USE YOUR POSITION OF POWER TO SPEAK OUT AND ADVOCATE FOR THEM.
COUNCIL MEMBERS LOPEZ BDO, AS WELL AS MR. CONTOS, I KNOW YOU'RE BOTH A FILIPINO DESCENT.
I MYSELF AM CAMBODIAN AS A SOUTHEAST ASIAN PERSON.
I BEG YOU TO STAND WITH PALESTINE.
WHEN WE PROTEST, WE CHANT FROM THE US TO THE PHILIPPINES.
PLEASE RECOGNIZE THE WAYS IN WHICH IMPERIALISM HAS IMPACTED BOTH YOUR HOMELANDS AND THE WAY IT CONTINUES TO IMPACT PALESTINE.
AND WITH THAT SAID, THERE MAY BE SOME PEOPLE WHO COME HERE TONIGHT OR IN THE FUTURE WHO TELL YOU NOT TO ADVOCATE FOR A CEASEFIRE.
TO NOT ADVOCATE FOR A CEASEFIRE WHEN ALL OF THIS IS GOING ON IS TO ADVOCATE FOR GENOCIDE.
IT IS COMPLICITY AND IT IS SAYING THAT YOU'RE OKAY WITH THE STATUS QUO.
THAT IT, AND WITH WHAT IS GOING ON, WE HAVE TO STAND AGAINST U OF IMPERIALISM IN WEST COVINA, IN THE PHILIPPINES, AND IN PALESTINE, AND RECOGNIZE THAT ALL OF OUR STRUGGLES AND ISSUES ARE INTERCONNECTED.
PLEASE AGENDIZE A CEASEFIRE FOR THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
FOLLOWED BY AMINA, FOLLOWED BY BILL ELLIOT.
MY NAME IS AMME AND I'VE BEEN AWES KINA RESIDENT FOR ALL 27 YEARS OF MY LIFE.
UM, I WAS ACTUALLY BORN HERE AT QUEEN OF VALLEY HOSPITAL DOWN ON SUNSET, AND I AM A PROUD CHILD OF TWO, UH, FILIPINO IMMIGRANT PARENTS.
SO IT'S AWESOME TO SEE MS. LOPEZ VIDO AND MR. ALITOS HERE TONIGHT TO LISTEN TO OUR VOICES.
UM, I JUST WANNA BRING UP, I WENT TO ORANGEWOOD SAN JOSE.
NOW IT'S CHARTER EDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, ALL HERE IN WEST COVINA.
AND I REMEMBER DEARLY, UH, BECAUSE HOW COULD I NOT? UH, WE LEARNED ABOUT THE GENOCIDES AROUND THE WORLD, NOT JUST THE HOLOCAUST.
I'M TALKING ABOUT EAST TIMOR RWANDA, BOSNIA, DARFUR, WHICH IS ONGOING ARMENIA AND THE NATIVE PEOPLES OF THIS LAND THAT WE STAND ON TODAY.
IF THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE FOR US, WHY DO WE LEARN ABOUT GENOCIDES? FOR FUN IS HUMAN LIFE JUST STATISTICS? NO, IT ISN'T.
IF HIGH SCHOOLERS AND MIDDLE SCHOOLERS AND COLLEGE STUDENTS CAN LEARN ABOUT A GENOCIDE AND TAKE ACTION, IF WE WORKING PEOPLE FROM ALL AROUND THIS PLACE, BUSY IN OUR OWN LIVES, CAN LEARN ABOUT A GENOCIDE AND TAKE ACTION.
IF A 7-YEAR-OLD CHILD CAN COME UP HERE AND LEARN ABOUT A GENOCIDE AND TAKE ACTION, THEN THIS IS NO EXCUSE FOR CITY MEMBERS OF A CITY COUNCIL WITH POWER TO NOT BE INFORMED.
UH, LET'S SAY FOR SOME REASON THAT THIS LAST HOUR YOU WEREN'T PAYING ATTENTION, MAYBE YOU HAVE SOME INVISIBLE HEADPHONES.
UH, AND IF, AND LET'S SAY YOU ALSO WEREN'T PAYING ATTENTION TO THE DISTURBING IMAGERY COMING OUT OF GAZA, FINE, YOU CAN EDUCATE YOURSELF IN, IN THIS TIME THAT YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
YOU CAN READ RASHID KALDI'S, A HUNDRED YEARS WARS A HUNDRED YEARS WAR ON PALESTINE.
YOU CAN READ THE ISRAELI HISTORIAN ELON POP IS THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE.
YOU CAN CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE, DECOLONIZE PALESTINE.COM.
IF YOU WANT INFORMATION ABOUT EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE PAST 190 PLUS DAYS OF THIS RECENT GENOCIDE.
YOU HAVE THE INTERNET ON YOUR PHONE.
SO THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE FOR IGNORANCE, LIKE WE SAID BEFORE.
YOU HAVE TIME TO DELIBERATE THIS.
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I AM BACK WITH MY FRIENDS IN TWO WEEKS, I SURE HOPE THAT YOU READ UP ON THE HISTORY OF PALESTINE AND THE SETTLER COLONIAL OCCUPATION.AND BEFORE WE BRING THEM UP, WE BROUGHT THEM BEFORE I CALL CONGRESSWOMAN NAPOLITANO.
SENATOR PADILLA AND SENATOR BUTLER, EVERY DAY THEIR AIDE ARE PROBABLY TIRED OF HEARING MY VOICE, AND YET WE STILL SEE NO ACTION.
SO WE NEED MORE AND MORE CITIES TO RISE UP AND BOLDLY CALL FOR CEASEFIRES AND DIVESTMENT FROM THE ZIONIST ENTITY.
I NEED MY CITY WHERE I WAS BORN TO STAND WITH HUMANITY AND TO STAND ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY.
SO ONCE AGAIN, I IMPLORE THE COUNCIL AS EMPATHETIC HUMAN BEINGS WHERE THE HEART AND A SOUL, IT IS YOUR POLITICAL AND MORAL OBLIGATION TO IZE AND CALL FOR A RESOLUTION FOR AN IMMEDIATE AND PERMANENT CEASEFIRE IN PALESTINE FREE PALESTINE, PALESTINE AMINA, FOLLOWED BY BILL ELLIOT, FOLLOWED BY PATRICIA.
HELLO, MY NAME IS AMINA HEARNS.
I'M BORN AND RAISED IN WEST COVINA AND I'M HERE TO ADD MY VOICE IN ASKING THE CITY COUNCIL TO AGENDIZE A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION AND JOIN.
THE GROWING LIST OF CITIES ARE NOT AROUND JUST SJV, BUT AROUND THE WORLD.
ISRAEL IS COMMITTING WAR CRIME AFTER WAR CRIME WITH OUR POLITICIANS POURING OUR TAX DOLLARS IN THE BILLIONS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF 193 DAY SLAUGHTER OF MORE THAN THREE 4,000 PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, MORE THAN 13,800 CHILDREN KILLED BY CARPET BOMBING ONGOING FAMINE AND DISEASES CAUSED BY ISRAELI'S OCCUPATION, DISPLACING MORE THAN 1.7 MILLION PALESTINIANS, THE TORTURING OF UN WORKERS AND PALESTINIAN TRAINEES, AND MUCH MORE GRAVER.
DETAILS THAT HAVE BEEN COMING OUT LONG BEFORE OCTOBER 7TH.
THE UNITED STATES HAS A LEGAL OBLIGATION FROM THE US LAW AND INTERNATIONAL LAW TO PREVENT GENOCIDE.
AND THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE FOUND THAT ISRAEL IS PLAUSIBLE OF COMMITTING GENOCIDE AND OUR BIAS, MEDIA AND GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIALS ARE SIGNING OFF ON THIS GENOCIDE.
AND IF THESE FINDINGS DON'T ALARM YOU, OR IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE SENTIMENTS THAT THIS DOESN'T AFFECT OUR COMMUNITY AND THAT THIS IS HAPPENING FAR AWAY FROM OUR REACH, I ASK YOU TO WONDER, TO WONDER THE CITY OF CHICAGO AS THE SAME.
AFTER A 6-YEAR-OLD PALESTINIAN AMERICAN BOY, YIDA, ELMI WAS MURDERED, BEING STABBED 26 TIMES FOR BEING PALESTINIAN OR CONGRESS ANDES PASSING NUMEROUS OF LAWS AND BILLS TO LIMIT OUR FREE SPEECH AND FREEDOM TO PROTEST.
OR THE DOZENS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS FROM CLAREMONT COLLEGE TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BEING ARRESTED, EVEN EXPELLED FOR PEACEFULLY PROTESTING TO BELIEVE THIS DOESN'T AFFECT OUR COMMUNITY, IS ABSOLUTELY IGNORANT AND POLITICAL COWARDICE.
THIS IS A MORAL COMPASS TEST AND WE ARE FAILING IT.
IF THIS WERE ANOTHER TIME, WOULD THIS SENTIMENT BE HELD IF AFRICANS LIKE NAT TURNER LED THE REBELLION AGAINST SLAVERY AND JUSTICE AND VIOLENCE ACTS LIKE SLAVERY, SLAUGHTER, COISM AND CONCENTRATION CAMPS WERE LEGAL.
BUT WE LOOK BACK NOW AND KNOW IT WAS WRONG.
WE CREATE LAND, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, MONUMENTS, AND MAYBE A DAY OF A MEMORIALIZE.
THESE ACTS OF VIOLENCE THAT WE DIRECTLY CREATED AND PARTICIPATED IN, I WAS TAUGHT TO NEVER ALLOW HISTORY TO REPEAT ITSELF AND TO NEVER STAY SILENT IN THE FACE OF INJUSTICE.
WE ARE SEEING THIS INJUSTICE TODAY, AND LEADERS LIKE YOU HAVE THE POWER TO JOIN THE COURSE IN GENDERIZING, A CEASE SPIRAL SOLUTION, WHICH IS THE BARE MINIMUM.
NONE OF US ARE FREE UNTIL ALL OF US ARE FREE.
BILL ELLIOT, FOLLOWED BY PATRICIA, FOLLOWED BY JASON, UNION CITY COUNCIL.
UH, REGARDING THE CAMERON AND CITRUS, UH, PROPOSED TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
UM, I DON'T LIVE OVER THERE IN THAT PART OF THE CITY, BUT I DRIVE THE OFTEN.
AND, UH, I THINK THAT THE COST OF PUTTING IN TRAVIS SIGNAL THERE IS PROBABLY GONNA BE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, IF NOT 10 MILLION.
UH, ONE SIGNAL AT WESTPORT WAS GONNA COST A MILLION DOLLARS FROM WHAT I HEAR.
SO WHAT DO WE DO? WELL, WHEN COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ WAS RUNNING IN THE THIRD DISTRICT, ONE OF HER CAMPAIGN, UM, ISSUES WAS PUTTING UP THE LED POWERED BLINKING STOP SIGNS.
AND, UH, IN THE LAST THREE YEARS, UH, THE CITY HAS INSTALLED, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, 105 OF THOSE.
YOU CAN SEE THE ONE ON ME, SETTA AND RK ELLEN, ALMOST FROM A ZEA AVENUE BLINKING.
YOU CANNOT, THEY CANNOT BE IGNORED.
AND I THINK IT WILL SLOW TRAFFIC DOWN.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE EXCELLENT OPTION FOR CAMERON AND CITRUS.
AND I KNOW IT'S A DANGEROUS INTERSECTION.
THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND THE RULES OF THE ROAD.
AND WE CAN TALK HOURS ON THAT SUBJECT.
UH, YOU KNOW, 10 YEARS AGO I STARTED SPEAKING HERE AT CITY COUNCIL ADVOCATING FOR CONCEALED CARRY SECOND AMENDMENT.
AND I TALKED ABOUT HOW THE PREVIOUS POLICE CHIEFS WERE TYRANTS AND THEY WERE IGNORING THE CONSTITUTION.
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SUPREME COURT DECISION, THE BRUIN DECISION, WHICH CHANGED ALL THAT.AND THAT'S WHY CONCEALED CARRY PERMITS ARE NOW ISSUED IN WEST COVINA.
YOU CAN'T JUST HAVE WHOLESALE DENIAL LIKE WEST COVINA HAS DONE SINCE 1978.
SO I HAVE A RIGHT TO DEFEND MYSELF.
YOU PULL A KNIFE ON ME, I HAVE A RIGHT TO DRAW MY GUN AND KILL YOU.
IF YOU DRAW A GUN ON ME, I HAVE A RIGHT TO DRAW MY GUN AND KILL YOU.
IF YOU SHOOT ME OR STAB ME, I HAVE A RIGHT TO DEFEND MYSELF.
ISRAEL HAS A RIGHT TO DEFEND HERSELF.
A MOSS IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION AND THEY CONTROL THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE AND HAVE A LOT OF EMPATHY FOR THE PALESTINIANS.
HOWEVER, WHEN OCTOBER 7TH ROLLED AROUND AND BABIES WERE BEING PUT IN OVENS, OH JESUS CHRIST, AND BABIES WERE BEING MACHINE GUNNED IN CRIBS AND MACHINE GUNNED IN CRIBS.
WHERE'S HIS WARNING? YOU LITTLE TYRANT.
WHERE'S HIS WARNING? EXCUSE ME.
YOU HEARD ME? I'M I'M SELF DEPORTING MYSELF.
FOLLOWED BY JASON, FOLLOWED BY LISA PENA.
I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT, UM, THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT CAMERON AND CITRUS.
I'M HERE TO OPPOSE THAT TRAFFIC INSTALLATION OF MY NEIGHBORS.
AND I HAVE BEEN ATTENDING, I'M SORRY, MY NEIGHBORS AND I HAVE BEEN ATTENDING MEETINGS WITH THE TRAFFIC COMMITTEE.
UH, WE CAME TO THE COUNSELOR MEETING ON DECEMBER, 2019 TO AGAIN, VOICE OPPOSITION TO THE TRAFFIC LIGHT OF THE MAJOR PROBLEM WE HAVE THERE.
AND I LIVE, I'M SORRY, A CITRUS ADJACENT TO CAMERON.
THE MAJOR PROBLEM WE HAVE THERE IS PEOPLE SPEEDING THROUGH CAMERON.
IT'S A RESIDENTIAL AREA AND THEY'RE RACING DOWN THAT AREA EVER SINCE THEY INSTALLED THAT LIGHT ON SOUTH HILL BY SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ON CAMERON AND BARRANCA.
PEOPLE ARE FLYING FROM GRAND AVENUE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO MAKE THAT LIGHT.
IF YOU INSTALL THE TRAFFIC LIGHT, THEY'RE GONNA KEEP ON FLYING.
THEY'RE GONNA BE CRASHING AND KILLING SOMEBODY.
INSTALLING THE TRAFFIC INSTALLATION ALSO AFFECTS A LOT OF OUR PROPERTIES.
A LOT OF US WHO LIVE ADJACENT TO THAT INTERSECTION, THERE'S ABOUT SIX OR SEVEN HOUSES WHERE WE WOULD GET RED CARS, WE WOULD HAVE NO PARKING TRAFFIC WOULD BE PUSHED TOO CLOSER TO OUR SIDEWALKS.
SO THAT'S GONNA AFFECT OUR QUALITY OF LIFE.
UH, WE HAVE A DAUGHTER WHO WALKS HOME FROM SOUTH HOUSE HIGH SCHOOL.
AND YES, THAT INTERSECTION IS, IT'S DANGEROUS ACROSS HOWEVER CARS ARE STOPPING RIGHT NOW WITH THE INTERSECTION WITH THE LIGHT.
KIDS ARE RUNNING THROUGH, YOU KNOW, A A TRACK.
PEOPLE ARE WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL.
AND WITH THAT LIGHT I CAN JUST, OH, IT'LL BE AN AWFUL, IT'LL BE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS IF YOU INSTALL THAT TRAP INSTALLATION AND SOMETHING HAPPENS TO THOSE KIDS OR ANY PEDESTRIAN IN THAT AREA.
FOLLOWED BY LISA PENA, FOLLOWED BY ESMA ALI.
UM, I LIVE SAME HOUSE AS PATRICIA, UH, SISTER AND CAMERON.
IT'S MY NEIGHBOR'S HERE AND WE'VE BEEN TO THE PREVIOUS MEETINGS AND, UH, I AGREE.
WHERE ON CAMERON? I LIKED SOME OF THE, THE DIET, I GUESS IT WAS CALLED SOME OF THAT ON CAMERON.
UM, IT'D BE NICE TO SEE, SEE MAYBE SEE SOME OF THAT ON CITRUS, JUST WITH PAINT.
YOU KNOW, A LOT CAN BE DONE WITH PAINT.
I DON'T AGREE WITH THE LEFT TURN LANE.
UH, IT WILL SQUISH THE TRAFFIC CLOSER TO THE CRIB TOWARDS MY HOUSE ON CITRUS.
UH, THERE'S A BUS STOP THERE, UH, WOULD REDUCE SOME OF THE PARKING IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE.
IT'S MY OTHER NEIGHBOR WHO WAS ON CAMERON.
SOME OF THAT MIGHT REDUCE THE PARKING IN, IN HIS HOUSE.
WE ALREADY HAVE THE FLASHING STOP SIGNS AND THEY DO HELP.
UM, BUT I'M A BELIEVER OF JUST ADD MORE PAINT THAT KIND OF TRAFFIC.
COMMON MEASURE, FOR EXAMPLE, BY SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL, COMING FROM GRAND I, A DAUGHTER USED TO BE AT SOUTH HILLS AND NOW COMES HOME FROM COLLEGE TO AND FROM COLLEGE.
GOES OVER, COMES BACK AND FORTH OVER GRAND AND DOWN, UH, HOME TO COME HOME.
AND, UM, THERE ISN'T MUCH PAINT THAT WARNS YOU THAT THERE WAS A HIGH SCHOOL THAT YOU'RE APPROACHING.
UH, THERE'S JUST NOT ENOUGH SIGNAGE.
WE ALREADY HAVE, WE HAVE TRAFFIC LAWS.
AT ONE OF THE LAST MEETINGS WE HAD, UH, AT THE SENIOR CENTER, UH, THE POLICE OFFICERS WHO WERE PRESENT STATED THAT THEY DON'T HAVE PATROL AT NIGHT OR THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PATROL AT NIGHT.
BUT THAT'S WHEN A LOT OF THE CHAOS HAPPENS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
A LOT OF THE SPEEDING THE RACE CARS, IT HAPPENS.
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UH, I KNOW THEY CAN'T CONTROL THE NOISE, BUT WE CAN TRY TO MAYBE, UH, TRY TO DO A BETTER JOB OF ENFORCING THE RULES WE ALREADY HAVE AND MAYBE USE THAT MONEY TO HIRE MORE POLICE OFFICERS.I GUESS I KNOW IT'S A LOT TO COVER ALL THE WAY TO THE SHADOW HILLS AREA, TO THE SOUTH HILLS AREA ALL THE WAY THAN ALL THE OTHER PARTS OF WEST COVINA.
UH, BUT WE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE MOSTLY AGAINST IT, LIVE WITHIN THOSE FOUR CORNERS.
AND I'M SORRY, IT INCONVENIENCES SOME PEOPLE WHO LIVE FURTHER DOWN THE STREET ON THE CUL-DE-SAC BECAUSE THEY CAN'T TURN LEFT OR SOMETHING.
BUT WE'RE THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE RIGHT THERE AND WE WALK THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, WE WALK UP WITH OUR KIDS, WE WALK UP THE HILL.
WE, WE ARE ALWAYS AROUND THE KIDS WALK TO AND FROM SCHOOL.
UM, AND WE JUST HOPE THAT THE MONEY COULD BE BETTER SPENT WISELY ON THE PAINT AND MAYBE MORE, UH, LAW ENFORCEMENT, LIKE I WAS SAYING.
UM, I THINK IT'S A PRETTY SIMPLE MATTER AND WE JUST DON'T WANNA GIVE UP OUR PARKING.
WE HAVE A LOT OF FAMILY WHO HAVE TO COME TO OUR HOME.
UM, BUT ANYWAY, UH, I I JUST WANNA THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND I APPRECIATE IT.
LISA PENA, FOLLOWED BY ESMA ALI, FOLLOWED BY GLORIA ANGELES.
HI, MY NAME IS LISA PENA AND, UM, I'M HERE TODAY TO ASK YOU ALL TO PLEASE ADD A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION TO NEXT MEETING'S AGENDA.
UM, THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION IS A LOCAL CITY ISSUE FOR WEST COVINA BECAUSE WEST COVINA SPENDS $1 MILLION OF TAXPAYERS MONEY TO FUND THESE GENOCIDAL COMPANIES.
THEREFORE, IT'S A LOCAL ISSUE.
UM, ADDITIONALLY, THIS COUNCIL CANNOT USE THAT EXCUSE OF BEING A LOCAL, LOCAL ISSUE BECAUSE THIS COUNCIL ACTUALLY VALUES INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.
AT THE LAST MEETING, WE HEARD ABOUT, UM, THE COUNCIL MEMBERS VACATION OVERSEAS, UM, AND HOW THEY WANTED TO ESTABLISH SISTER CITIES WITH OTHER COUNTRIES.
AND I THINK THAT IF THIS COUNCIL IS GONNA INVEST AND, UM, GET INVOLVED WITH INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, AND THEY COULD AT LEAST RECOGNIZE THIS ONE THAT WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR, LIKE, FOR MONTHS NOW, BASICALLY, UM, ADDITIONALLY, UM, A CEASEFIRE WOULD BE FOR ALL PARTIES INCLUDED.
SO WE'RE CALLING FOR NO MORE DEATHS IN GENERAL, REGARDLESS OF RACE OR RELIGION OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
LIKE WE JUST WANT NOBODY TO DIE, PERIOD.
SO I DON'T SEE HOW THAT COULD BE USED AS AN EXCUSE.
UM, ADDITIONALLY, THIS MEETING STARTED OFF BY THIS COUNCIL TALKING ABOUT ARBOR DAY AND APPRECIATING THE ENVIRONMENT AND ALL THAT.
BUT, UM, DON'T YOU THINK YOU SHOULD AT LEAST SPEAK UP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT? BECAUSE IT'S NOT GOOD TO HAVE ALL THOSE BOMBS EXPLODING.
IT'S NOT GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, SO AT LEAST SPEAK UP FOR THAT TOO.
UM, ADDITIONALLY, THE BILATERAL CEASE FIRE WOULD, UM, URGE THE END OF MURDERS TO AID WORKERS, DOCTORS, CHILDREN, CHURCHES, ANIMALS, JOURNALISTS.
SO WHICHEVER ONE OF THOSE YOU CARE FOR, IT WOULD BE, UM, REASON TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE.
ADDITIONALLY, UM, 82 CITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES HAVE CALLED FOR A CEASEFIRE AND 22 OF THOSE CITIES COME FROM CALIFORNIA.
SO HOPEFULLY YOU COULD BE THE NEXT CITY TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE.
AND, UM, I WAS VERY PROUD TO SEE THE MAYOR CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE AT THE LAST MEETING, ESPECIALLY BEING FROM WEST COVINA.
SO I JUST HOPE THAT ANOTHER COUNCIL MEMBER SECOND HIS MOTION.
AND REALLY WE'RE JUST ASKING FOR A DISCUSSION.
NOBODY'S ASKING YOU TO SIGN IT TONIGHT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
WE'RE JUST ASKING FOR IT TO BE ON THE AGENDA SO THAT WE CAN HAVE A PROPER DISCUSSION AT THE NEXT MEETING.
SO, UM, I KNOW WE'VE HAD A LOT OF CITIES NEARBY, INCLUDING, UM, PASADENA, POMONA, SANTA ANA, LONG BEACH, LIKE WE'VE HAD SO MANY, IT GOES ON AND ON.
BUT YEAH, PLEASE BE THE 83RD CITY TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE.
ESMA ALI, FOLLOWED BY GLORIA ANGELES, FOLLOWED BY STEVEN CARINO.
I JUST WANTED TO UM, LET YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS NOT ABOUT HAMAS.
HAMAS HAS ONLY BEEN AROUND A FEW DECADES.
THIS IS ABOUT 70 YEARS OF OCCUPATION, DISPLACEMENT OF 1 MILLION PEOPLE BEING MADE HOMELESS.
WHAT IF IT WAS ONE OF YOU? ONE OF US? THAT'S WHAT IT'S ABOUT.
IT'S NOT A HAMA, IT'S JUST BEEN AROUND FOR A FEW DECADES 'CAUSE NOTHING ELSE WORKED IN THAT AREA.
NOW, BACK IN NAZI GERMANY, A COUNCILMAN JUST LIKE YOU OF THE REGULAR CITIES, THEY WANTED TO STICK WITH THE, UH, CITY ISSUES JUST AS JUST LIKE STOP SIGNS AND CITY LIGHTS THAT WERE BROKEN.
THEY HAD TO BE FIXED AND THEY WANTED TO STAY WITH THOSE, BUT THEY
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DID NOT THINK THAT THEY SHOULD STAND UP TO THE GIANT AT THAT TIME.I MEAN, WHO'S GOT GUTS TO STAND UP AGAINST THE GIANT? AND ALSO THEY WERE, UH, AFRAID OF BEING LABELED SYMMETRIC AT THAT TIME BECAUSE THAT WAS A TABOO.
IF YOU WERE SEMITIC, YOU WERE AN AWFUL PERSON.
AND NOW THE FEAR MOST PEOPLE HAVE IS OF BEING LABELED ANTI-SEMITIC.
IT'S NOT ABOUT BEING EITHER SEMITIC OR ANTI-SEMITIC.
IT'S STANDING UP AGAINST WHAT IS WRONG AGAINST GENOCIDE SERVES AND MAS.
SO AT THAT TIME, THE GIANT WAS HITLER, THE COUNCILMAN, JUST LIKE YOU DID NOT HAVE THE GUTS TO STAND UP TO HIM.
AND NOW THE GIANT AT THIS TIME IS APAC.
STAND UP AND CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE.
GLORIA ANGELS FOLLOWED BY STEVEN CARINO, FOLLOWED BY MARIO.
SORRY, MY NAME'S GLORIA ANGELIS.
UM, I'M A CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE ANESTHETIST AND I'VE BEEN SERVING MY COMMUNITY AS A PROFESSIONAL NURSE SINCE 1991.
I BECAME AN ANESTHESIA PROVIDER IN 2004.
MY EXISTENCE HAS BEEN SERVING MY COMMUNITY.
IN JULY OF 2023, I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ENDOMETRIAL CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA WITH A FIVE YEAR, 50% SURVIVAL RATE.
AT THE SAME TIME, I STARTED HAVING A CONFLICT WITH MY, UM, CONTRACTOR, MANUEL FLORES HERNANDEZ, WHO NOW LIVES IN YOUR COMMUNITY.
THE REASON I'M HERE TODAY, UM, THIS PERSON HAS VICTIMIZED ME.
HE HAS BASICALLY, HE HAS STOLEN FROM ME.
HE'S STOLEN MY IDENTITY AND PRESENTLY HE'S TRYING TO EXTORT $30,000 FROM ME.
PUTTING THAT ASIDE, THE FACT THAT I WAS VICTIMIZED MANUEL FLORES HERNANDEZ, I'M CONCERNED AS A CITIZEN ABOUT HIS CONTINUAL CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AND NEGLIGENCE REGARDING SAFETY ON THE ELECTRICAL WORK HE PERFORMS. HE IS FINANCIALLY BENEFITING FROM ILLEGAL WORK THAT HE DOES THAT IS ENDANGERING YOUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
IN 2020, DURING COVID, HIM AND THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE HERE IN WEST COVINA RECONSTRUCTED THE HOUSE FROM THE GROUND UP AND CREATED AN ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT WHERE HE LIVES AT WITHOUT ANY PERMITS.
THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN EXTENSION AFTER EXTENSION SINCE NOVEMBER 3RD, 2023.
BASICALLY, A PICTURE SHOWS A THOUSAND WORDS.
THIS WAS THE WORK, UM, THAT I HAD REDONE.
I PAID $12,000 BECAUSE HE HAD DONE WORK AT MY HOME.
THAT WAS DONE I THOUGHT, BY SOMEBODY THAT WAS AN ELECTRICIAN.
HE WAS BEING THE CONTRACTOR, BUT IT WAS JUST LIKE A BIG MESS.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THIS PICTURE, THIS IS THE ELECTRICITY COMING FROM THE GRID FROM THE STREET.
IT GOES THROUGH A CYLINDER, AND THEN THE CYLINDER GOES INTO THE METER.
HE PUTS AN EXTRA METAL BOX HERE.
THE METAL BOX THEN HAS THE WIRES THAT COME FROM THE ROOF THAT GET ROUTED BACK INTO THE HOUSE.
THAT MEANS THAT THE ELECTRICITY HAS NO, IT DOES NOT GO THROUGH THE METER AND IT HAS NO SHUTOFF SWITCH, WHICH CAUSES AN IMMEDIATE DANGER TO ANYBODY LIVING IN THE HOUSE.
SUDDEN SURGE COULD CAUSE THE WHOLE HOUSE TO BURN DOWN.
AND ANYBODY THAT'S DOING SERVICE TO THE HOUSE, AS SAID BY THE ELECTRICIAN THAT DID THE WORK, UM, THAT IT COULD BE IMMEDIATE DANGER CAUSING THE PERSON TO BE ELECTROCUTED.
ELECTRICAL JUNCTION BOX THAT HAD THE ROOF RISER WIRES SPLICED WITH THE BLUE NUMBER FOUR WIRES INTERCEPTING THE RISER WIRES, WHICH IS TOTALLY ILLEGAL AND UNSAFE BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY OF SHUTTING THAT POWER OFF.
IF YOU NEEDED TO SERVICE IN A CONVERSATION WITH, UH, WHEN I HAD WITH THIS, UH, MANUEL FLORES HERNANDEZ, SORRY, THANK YOU.
YOU, YOU CAN GIVE YOUR INFORMATION TO THE CITY CLERK.
STEVEN CARINO, FOLLOWED BY MARIO, FOLLOWED BY SARAH TORRES, MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL, ME MEMBERS.
I'M A, I'M A RESIDENT OF WEST COVINA FOR THE LAST 40 YEARS.
I GREW UP IN THE AREA, WELL, 40, 40 YEARS AT THE CHARLIN ADDRESS.
UH, BUT I GREW UP IN THE AREA, WENT ATTENDED LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS HERE, AND I'M HERE BASICALLY TO TALK ABOUT THE SIGNAL AT, AS YOU MIGHT WELL EXPECT CITRUS AND CAMERON, MANY, MANY OF MY NEIGHBORS WHO ARE IN THE AUDIENCE TODAY MADE SOME VERY VALID POINTS.
AND I'M HERE TO SECOND MANY OF THEM.
MY COMPANY HAS WORKED ON PROJECTS, MATTER OF FACT, ONE IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA THAT WAS AT AMAR AND AZUA, WE DID THE WIDENING, CHANGED THE SIGNALS, SPENT ABOUT $6 MILLION DOING THAT PROJECT.
BUT IT'S AN EXPENSIVE PROPOSITION AND TRAFFIC REROUTING, IT TOOK ALMOST WE'VE COMPLETED IN SIX MONTHS.
BUT IT'S AN EXPENSIVE PROPOSITION.
YOU LACK, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU, YOU CAN TALK ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES ALL
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YOU WANT ABOUT THIS, AND I THINK MY NEIGHBORS HAVE BROUGHT UP SOME VERY GOOD POINTS, THE FACT THAT WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW SOMEBODY SLOW DOWN FOR A, A YELLOW LIGHT, YOU USUALLY TRY TO SPEED UP TO MAKE THE SIGNAL.SO, AND THAT'S GONNA CAUSE OTHER PROBLEMS. MY BIGGEST ISSUE IS A 45 MILE AN HOUR SPEED LIMIT.
NOW ALL WE CAN HAVE ANOTHER MEETING JUST ON THAT, BUT I'M GONNA DISPENSE WITH TALKING ABOUT THAT NOW BECAUSE I THINK IT'S A, THE ANSWER I GOT FROM THE TRAFFIC TRAFFIC CONSULTANT YOU HAD, I THINK WAS WILLAN AT THE TIME, TOLD ME THAT THEY DID A AVERAGE RATE OF SPEED ON THAT STREET AND THEY CAME UP WITH 45 MILES AN HOUR.
I WOULD HATE TO THINK WHAT THE HIGHER RATES THAT CAME IN AT IN ORDER TO COME UP WITH 45 MILES AN HOUR.
SO ANYWAY, I DIGRESS HERE FOR A SECOND, BUT I WANNA GET BACK TO THIS.
SO WE TALK ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES.
LET'S, I, I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH, WITH THIS THE SAME TRAFFIC SIGNAL FOR OVER FIVE YEARS.
I'VE MET WITH WILL DAN TRANS TENS.
WE TRANSTECH, WE HAD A MEETING, UH, NINE MONTHS TO A YEAR AGO, HAD THE COMMUNITY, WE HAD 67, UH, UH, COMMUNITY MEMBERS AT THE SENIOR CENTER AT, AT CORTEZ.
AND WE TALKED ABOUT, UH, THEY MADE A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION.
AND I WILL TELL YOU I WAS A LITTLE EMBARRASSED BECAUSE IN FIVE YEARS THEY HADN'T SHARED ANYTHING.
MAYBE WILLAN NEVER SHARED ANY DOCUMENTS WITH THEM, OR MAYBE THE CITY NEVER SHARED ANY DOCUMENTS WITH THEM BECAUSE WHAT THEY SHARED WITH US WAS STUFF THAT WE HAD HEARD OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
MATTER OF FACT, IT WASN'T FOR THE RESIDENTS THERE GIVING THEM INFORMATION.
AND WE WERE TELLING THEM, THIS IS WHAT THEY NEED TO DO.
THIS IS WHAT THEY NEED TO LOOK AT.
THEY MIGHT'VE COME UP WITH SOME BETTER IDEAS.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GONNA PRESENT TO YOU TONIGHT AND WHAT THEY HAVE PRESENTED TO YOU, BUT I I SUSPECT IT'S GONNA BE SHORT-LIVED, AND IT'S NOT, NOT THOROUGHLY IN, UH, INVESTED.
BUT WHAT GO, WHAT I'M TRYING TO PULL OUT OF THIS IS THE COST.
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY, YOU TALK ABOUT COST OF THIS, THEY PROBABLY TOLD YOU THE AVERAGE COST OF A, OF A STREET FOUR, FOUR-WAY, UH, POWER SIGNAL IS PROBABLY GONNA COST YOU ABOUT A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.
MAYBE COULD COST YOU UP TO 600,000 BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO UTILITIES THERE NOW AND NO PLACE TO PUT THEM.
THE OTHER PROBLEM YOU HAVE IS A GREAT SEPARATION ON THE, ON THIS STREET, EASTBOUND CAMERON AVENUE IS A PROBLEM.
UH, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE PEOPLE AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED LAUNCHING INTO THAT INTERSECTION.
YOU CAN'T SEE THE INTERSECTION.
YOU CANNOT SEE THE INTERSECTION FROM, UH, TRAVELING EAST ON CAMERON AND A HIGH RATE OF SPEED.
TRUST ME, YOU WILL HAVE FATALITIES.
AND I THINK SOME OF MY, MY, UH, THE RESIDENTS HAVE ALREADY SHARED THAT WITH YOU.
YOU'RE GONNA HAVE PROBLEMS HERE.
HI, GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND ADJOINING CITY COUNCIL.
UM, USUALLY IN HERE, JUST LISTENING FOR TODAY, I CHOSE TO COME AND SPEAK ON THE TRAFFIC ISSUE.
BUT BEFORE THAT, ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON, UH, REMINDED ME OF THIS, UH, LINE FROM DANTE, THE POET.
DANTE, THE HOTTEST PLACES IN HELL ARE RESERVED FOR THOSE WHO IN A PERIOD OF MORAL CRISIS MAINTAIN THEIR NEUTRALITY AFTER SOME PERSONAL LIFE ENCOUNTERS.
I'VE COME TO REALIZE LIFE ISN'T FAIR AND WE ARE NOT ALL CREATED EQUAL, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT AS HUMANS, WE CAN'T STRIVE FOR EQUALITY AND FAIRNESS AND JUSTICE.
AND SADLY, WE WITNESSED, YOU KNOW, UNFAIRNESS UNJUST IN HERE, YOU KNOW, IN THE CHAMBERS JUST A LITTLE BIT AGO.
AND I'M A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED IN HOW THAT ALL PLAYED OUT.
BUT ALSO IN THE SPIRIT OF THAT, I HEAR THESE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THE AGENDA ITEM FOR THE CEASEFIRE, PRETTY MUCH ASKING STOP THE VIOLENCE.
I REMEMBER NINE, LATE 1980S, WE HAD ALL THE THINGS GOING ON.
SO MOVING ON TO THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
UM, I LIVE ABOUT A HALF A MILE AWAY FROM, UH, THAT INTERSECTION, BUT I TRAVEL IT ALMOST DAILY, TAKING MY DOGS OUT TO CORTES PARK.
UM, I SOMETIMES DRIVE A LIFTED SIX INCH LIFTED JEEP.
AND JUST LIKE THE GENTLEMAN PREVIOUSLY SAID, AND AS THAT'S BEEN STATED AT MANY OF THE COMMUNITY MEETINGS, I'VE BEEN TO ALL THREE FOR THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE.
UM, IN A JEEP WITH A SIX INCH LIFT AS I'M COMING APPROACHING MONTE ZBA GOING EASTBOUND, I CANNOT SEE THE STOP SIGN.
OKAY? SO YOU EXPECT SOMEBODY IN A HONDA CIVIC TO SEE THAT.
AND THEN THEY HAVE A, YOU KNOW, ANTICIPATING A GREEN LIGHT AND SOMEBODY'S WAITING ON A STALE YELLOW TO MAKE A LEFT COMING DOWN CITRUS.
THAT'S A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN.
UH, AS STATED, I'VE GONE TO ALL THE MEETINGS.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT BIGGEST TAKEAWAY IS THAT 90, EVEN 95% OF THE RESIDENTS THAT GO TO THOSE MEETINGS, YOU KNOW, COME STATING THAT THEY'VE BEEN HERE SINCE 20 17, 20 19 ON THIS ISSUE, FIGHTING IT.
I I NEVER SEE A DELAY, YOU KNOW, GOING EVEN SOMETIMES I LEAVE AT SEVEN 30, WHICH IS DURING, UM, YOU KNOW, SCHOOL HOURS TO GO TO THE PARK.
I DO NOT SEE A DELAY IN GETTING THERE, AND I DON'T THINK A TRAFFIC SIGNAL IS GONNA MAKE THAT ANY BETTER.
UH, GENTLEMEN SPOKE ABOUT, YEAH, THE 45 MILE AN HOUR DEAL.
YES, THE WAY THAT THE SYSTEM WORKS, YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE IT WAS AT A 40 MILE AN HOUR, THEY DID SOME
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STUDIES AND BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE JUST NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THE SPEEDS, THEY GOT AN AVERAGE OF 50 MILES AN HOUR, OF WHICH THEY TAKE 80% AND SAID, OKAY, WE HAVE TO MAKE THAT 45.YOU PUT A A GREEN LIGHT THERE, THAT'S GONNA CHANGE AS WELL.
IT'S GONNA DEVELOP A PRECEDENT THAT A ALLOWS THAT TO CHANGE.
I'M JUST GONNA STATE, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, SO BASED ON THE ENGINEERING JUDGMENTS AND WARRANTS FOUND IN THE CAMM UTCD AND CVC, I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE MERITS ARE FOR THIS TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
SARAH TORRES, FOLLOWED BY MAY.
I'M A FULL-TIME STUDENT AT CAL POLY AND I ALSO WORK WITH AUTISTIC CHILDREN.
UM, I'M HERE TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE, UM, UH, WORKING WITH CHILDREN THAT HAVE DISABILITIES.
I CAN HELP TO THINK EVERY TIME I'M IN A SESSION OF ALL THE CHILDREN IN GAZA THAT ARE SUFFERING FOR NO REASON, FOR SIMPLY JUST BEING CHILDREN AND WOMEN, MEN ALL SUFFERING.
AND IT'S NOT EVEN, I CANNOT EVEN COMPREHEND ANYBODY THAT CAN BE OKAY WITH IT, BECAUSE IF IT WERE TO HAPPEN TO OUR LOVED ONES OR ANYBODY WE CARE ABOUT, WE WOULD BE THE FIRST TO VOICE OUR OPINION.
BUT JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE ACROSS THE SEA DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING THEY NEED.
THEY CLEARLY DON'T HAVE THE WORDS AND THE POWER TO FIGHT.
WE NEED TO MAKE IT KNOWN THAT IT NEEDS TO BE A FREE PALESTINE.
NOBODY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO TAKE SOMEONE'S LAND JUST BECAUSE THEY FEEL LIKE IT.
YOU KNOW, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST WELL-DOCUMENTED GENOCIDES THAT YOU CAN LOOK UP ALL THE INFORMATION TO PROVE EVERYTHING ISRAEL HAS DONE.
AND THEN AGAIN, PEOPLE IN POWER DO NOTHING ABOUT IT.
AND THAT IS COMPLETELY UNFAIR.
YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T COME WITH THE SPEECH PREPARED.
I CAME WITH A STRONG MIND AND A REALLY STRONG HEART.
IF YOU ARE A HUMAN, YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS NOT OKAY AT ALL.
YOU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SIT AT HOME, SIT IN YOUR COUNCIL CHAIRS AND BE OKAY WITH THE FACT THAT CHILDREN, WOMAN, MEN, EVERYTHING IS BEING BOMBED.
AND AN IMMEDIATE CEASE FIRE NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
UM, I ADDRESS YOU TODAY AS A PALESTINIAN WHO IS IN CONSTANT, WHO IS IN A CONSTANT STATE OF GRIEF BECAUSE OF THE SLAUGHTER AND GAZA THAT HAS CAUSED IMMEASURABLE SUFFERING.
MORE THAN 34,000 PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED.
70% OF THOSE KILLED HAVE BEEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
MISCARRIAGES HAVE INCREASED BY 300%.
WOMEN ARE FORCED TO HAVE C-SECTIONS WITHOUT ANESTHESIA, A CHILD IS KILLED EVERY 10 MINUTES TODAY, AN ISRAELI MISSILE HIT A PLAYGROUND AND 11 CHILDREN WERE KILLED.
PALESTINIANS AND GAZA ARE BEING STARVED AND HAVE RESORTS EATING GRASS TO SURVIVE.
AND ONE IN THREE CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF TWO ARE, ARE EXPERIENCING MALNUTRITION.
I HAVE A 2-YEAR-OLD AND, UM, THAT DOESN'T SIT WELL WITH ME AND I WANT THAT INFORMATION TO SIT WITH YOU RIGHT NOW.
THIS IS A GENOCIDE AND AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF HUMANITY, IT IS OUR MORAL DUTY TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE BRUTAL AND INHUMANE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT PALESTINIANS.
I IMPLORE YOU TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE, AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE THAT WILL PUT AN END TO THE BLOODSHED AND THE SLAUGHTER OF CHILDREN.
BY ADVOCATING FOR A CEASEFIRE, WE SEND A POWERFUL MESSAGE THAT THERE IS STILL A DESIRE TO SEE THE HUMANITY IN OTHERS, THAT PALESTINIANS HAVE A RIGHT TO LIVE AND A RIGHT TO EXIST.
I HAVE NO FURTHER SPEAKER SLIPS, MAYOR.
UM, ACTING CITY MANAGER, MAY YOU PLEASE RESPOND TO, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT CONCERNS.
UM, SO JUST START WITH, UH, ONE OF THE FIRST COMMENTS MADE AS TO WHY OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT WAS PART OF THE 99 AND CATEGORY.
AND BELOW WE ARE BUDGETED FOR A HUNDRED OFFICERS.
UM, AS OFFICERS RETIRE OR LEAVE OUR, UM, AGENCY, UM, WE HAVE TO FILL THOSE.
SO WE'RE ALWAYS CONSTANTLY TRYING TO RECRUIT.
SO WE'RE ALWAYS RECRUITING FOR POLICE OFFICERS IN OUR AGENCY.
UM, AND THAT'S WHY WE WE'RE IN THE 99 AND BELOW CATEGORY, BUT WE ARE BUDGETED FOR A HUNDRED OFFICERS.
UM, A LOT OF THE COMMENTS TONIGHT, OR MADE A LOT OF SPEAKERS TONIGHT, UM, ON THE CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION, I APPLAUD THEM FOR COMING AND SPEAKING ON A TOPIC THAT THEY BELIEVE IS VERY IMPORTANT.
UM, WHEN I KNOW A LOT OF THEM MENTIONED THEY COULD BE RESTING AT HOME.
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UM, I KNOW IT TAKES A LOT TO, YOU KNOW, COME TO CITY COUNCIL AND, AND SPEAK ON A TOPIC.UM, THE ONGOING CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS A TRAGIC ISSUE.
IT IS A DEEPLY CONCERNING ISSUE.
AND OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO THOSE AFFECTED BY THE VIOLENCE.
IT'S A, IT'S CRUCIAL FOR ALL THE PARTIES INVOLVED TO PRIORITIZE THE SAFETY AND THE WELL WELLBEING OF CIVILIANS AND WORK TOWARDS A PEACEFUL RESOLUTION.
UM, I KNOW SOME OF THE MEMBERS TONIGHT SAID THAT THEY'VE BEEN, YOU KNOW, IMPACTED, THEY DON'T GET SLEEP.
AND, UM, MY HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES GO TO ALL THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE, AND FAMILIES THAT HAVE BEEN, UM, IMPACTED, UH, BECAUSE OF THIS CONFLICT.
UM, AND UH, THE OTHER TOPIC, UH, THAT WAS BROUGHT UP TONIGHT WAS THE CAMERON AND CITRUS TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
UM, THAT'S ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT.
SO I WILL RESERVE MY COMMENTS FOR THE PRESENTATION.
UM, AND THEN THE INDIVIDUAL THAT, UM, THAT SPOKE REGARDING, UM, THE CONTRACTOR ISSUE, WE WILL FOLLOW UP TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN ADDRESS IT WITH WHATEVER MEANS WE CAN WITHIN THE CITY.
UM, AND I THINK THAT CONCLUDES MY COMMENTS FOR TONIGHT.
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MOVE TO THE REGULAR AGENDA.UM, DOES ANY OF MY, UH, COUNCIL COLLEAGUES, UH, WANNA PULL ANYTHING FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR? UM, MOVE THE MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 1, 2, 3, 4.
I HAVE A MOTION BY MAYOR PROTE WU, AND A SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ, VITO, TO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR.
COUNCILMAN, UH, CON, UH, I THINK I HAD EACH, I HAVE TWO TITLE ORDINANCES I NEED TO READ INTO THE RECORD FIRST.
MY PHONE IS RINGING OVER HERE.
ORDINANCE TITLED NUMBER 2 5 2 0.
AN 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 W, 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 AND ASSOCIATION WITH THE DEVELOPMENT CODE.
UPDATE AND REZONING CERTAIN PROPERTIES FOR LAND USE CONSISTENCY AND MAKING A DETERMINATION THAT THE PROJECT IS EXEMPT FROM CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT PURSUANT TO CQA GUIDELINES, SECTION 1 5 0 6 1 B THREE COMMON SENSE EXEMPTION.
AND WE HAVE ORDINANCE NUMBER 2 5 2 2 IN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA AMENDING SECTION 2 6 0 8 DASH TWO PERMIT REQUIRED OF SECTION 5 6 0 8 FIREWORKS DISPLAY OF CHAPTER 56, EXPLOSIVES AND FIREWORKS OF THE, OF THE 2022 CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE HAS SET FORTH AN ARTICLE TWO FIRE CODE OF CHAPTER 10, FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION OF THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE.
ITEMS ONE THROUGH FOUR PASS WITH A FIVE ZERO VOTE, MAYOR.
ALL RIGHT, WE WILL NOW MOVE TO
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DEPARTMENT REGULAR MATTERS.UH, ITEM NUMBER FIVE, CONSIDERATION OF CITRUS STREET AT CAMERON AVENUE IMPROVEMENT OPTIONS.
UH, MS. MORALES WHO WILL PRESENT THE STAFF REPORT.
UM, SOME OF THE COMMENTS, UH, REGARDING, UH, THIS PRESENTATION OR THIS ITEM TONIGHT WAS WHY, UM, IF YOU WANNA SIT OVER THERE? SURE.
UM, YOU KNOW, IN REGARDS TO WHY WE'RE FUNDING THIS, UH, INTERSECTION OPPOSED TO ANOTHER ONE IN THE COMMUNITY.
UM, THIS WAS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED, UH, INTERSECTION AND SO THERE HAD BEEN FUNDING THAT HAD BEEN ALLOCATED FOR THIS PARTICULAR INTERSECTION.
UM, SO I DID WANNA CLARIFY THAT.
UM, AND THEN I THINK IF THEY'RE READY, THEN I'LL TURN IT OVER TO THEM.
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THE MIC.AND COUNCIL, COUNCIL MEMBERS, I'M HERE WITH MY ASSOCIATES, AS PAULINA SAID.
UM, ALLISON RICHTER UP THERE, BRIAN CERVANTES WITH ENGINEERING AND ONE OF OUR SENIOR TRAFFIC AND CIVIL ENGINEERS, MR. BALMAN JANKA, WHO, IF IT COMES TO THAT, CAN EXPLAIN MORE DETAILS ON THE ACTUAL SIGNAL, IF SO DESIRED.
UM, I HAVE A SHORT PRESENTATION OF THE FACTS AND, AND CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION PRESENTATION.
UM, THIS, AS OUR MEMBERS KNOW, AND WE'VE HEARD MANY COMMENTS, THIS INTERSECTION HAS BEEN REVIEWED AND LOOKED AT SINCE 2019 WITH SEVERAL COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND TRAFFIC COMMISSION MEETINGS ALONG THE WAY.
SO WE HAVE MANY RESIDENTS WHO ARE EITHER FOR AND AGAINST, AND WE HAVE INCLUDED THEIR COMMENTS IN THE BACK OF OUR PACKET IF YOU CARE TO LOOK OR PRINT OUT THE PACKET.
SO IN THE RESPONSE TO THE CITY ASKING US TO, ONCE AGAIN FOLLOW UP AT THIS INTERSECTION, WE HAVE COLLECTED NEW INTERSECTION COUNTS, A DT SPEED DATA, UM, COLLISION DATA, AND WE ALSO LOOKED ON A THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY TO MAKE SURE WE ARE COVERING ALL THE BASES.
WE COMPLETED INTERSECTION WARRANTS TO SEE IF THIS INTERSECTION MET MINIMUM THRESHOLDS FOR CONSIDERING A TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT THIS INTERSECTION, WE HAVE HEARD FOR FROM RESIDENTS, AS I STATED, WHO ARE FOR, AS WELL AS AGAINST THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT THIS, AT THIS LOCATION.
UM, ALL THE RESIDENT COMMENTS AND SURVEY SHEETS THAT HAVE BEEN FILLED IN AT THE VARIOUS COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND TRAFFIC COMMISSION THAT WE HAVE BEEN PART OF IS ALSO INCLUDED AT THE BACK OF THE PACKET SO COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN SEE AND READ WHAT THE ACTUAL, EXCUSE ME, COMMENTS WERE.
SO THE FIRST SLIDE IS SHOWING EXISTING CONDITIONS AT CITRUS AND CAMERON.
SO PRESENTLY, WE NOW HAVE ALREADY THE FLASHING STOP SIGN.
UM, WE PREVIOUSLY PUT IN RADAR SPEED BACK, UM, SIGNS ALONG CAMERON, WE'VE DONE THE LANE NARROWING NARROWING FOR VISUAL EFFECT OF TRYING TO SLOW THE TRAFFIC.
UM, SO THIS IS EXISTING CONDITIONS, SO I'M GONNA MOVE INTO THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO WE JUST HAVE SOME OF THE FACTS.
AS WE STATED, WE CONDUCTED NEW A DT COUNTS NOT ONLY ON A WEEKDAY, BUT ALSO ON A FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, THURSDAY IS WHAT'S CONSIDERED A TYPICAL COMMUTE DAY, WHICH IS TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, OR THURSDAY.
SO WE HAVE VEHICLES PER DAY SHOWN IN OUR ONE CALL COLUMN.
AND THEN FRIDAY, THAT'S USUALLY NOT CONSIDERED OUR TYPICAL WEEKDAY.
UM, IT'S USUALLY THE HIGHEST VOLUME OF TRAFFIC ON THE STREET AND SHOWS IN OUR COUNTS.
SATURDAY IS TYPICALLY LOWER BASE VOLUME.
UM, THERE MAY HAVE MORE PEDESTRIANS AND WHATNOT, BUT THE TRAFFIC IS A LITTLE LOWER.
WE ALSO DID A 24 HOUR SPEED DATA FOR EACH OF THE THREE DAYS.
SO ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, WE LOOKED AT CAMERON BETWEEN CORAL TREE AND MONTEZUMA CAMERON, EAST OF CITRUS, AND THEN ON CITRUS NORTH OF CAMERON AND CITRUS SOUTH OF CAMERON.
SO ALL THE APPROACHES TO THIS INTERSECTION.
SO EIGHT, THE 85TH PROCEED PERCENTILE SPEED IS WHAT IS SHOWN ON THE TABLE.
SO WHAT IS THE 85TH PERCENTILE SPEED? THIS IS THE RECORD OF SPEED IN WHICH 85% OF DRIVERS ARE TRAVELING AT OR BELOW.
UM, SO THIS IS BASED ON THE PREMISE THAT THE MAJORITY OF DRIVERS CHOOSE REASONABLE SPEEDS GIVING EXISTING ROAD CONDITIONS.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE THE, THE SPEED LIMIT ON CAMERON AS MENTIONED IS 45 MILES PER HOUR.
AND THAT WAS SET BY A ENGINEERING TRAFFIC SURVEY.
THAT IS THE LAW BY CVC DECIDES THE GUIDELINES ON HOW TO SET THAT SPEED.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT THURSDAY ON CAMERON,
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YOU THE HIGHEST, UM, WAS 49 MILES PER HOUR, THE LOWEST 45.AND THEN ON SATURDAY, IT SPEED WAS CREEPING UP, BUT IT WAS STILL 45, 49.
AND THEN, UM, EAST OF CITRUS, UM, TOWARDS, UH, BARRANCA IT WAS 46.
ON CITRUS ITSELF, WE HAVE A POSTED SPEED OF 40 MILES AN HOUR, 85TH PERCENTILE IS ON A THURSDAY, 39, FRIDAY, 39, SATURDAY 40.
AND THEN CITRUS SOUTH OF CAMERON, WHICH IS GOING TOWARDS THE, UM, GOLF COURSE IS 32 MILES PER HOUR.
THEN WE WANTED TO CHECK OUR DATA.
SO WE ALSO, UH, DID ADDITIONAL COUNTS IN SEPTEMBER.
THE, THE FIRST COUNTS WERE TAKEN IN JANUARY.
ADDITIONAL COUNTS WERE TAKEN IN SEPTEMBER.
SO THIS ALSO IS A DT, WHICH IS VEHICLES PER DAY.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE SEPTEMBER COUNTS ON A THURSDAY, IT'S CREEPING UP SLIGHTLY FROM 11,176 TO 12,661.
AND THEN ALSO ON A SATURDAY, WE WERE CREEPING UP A LITTLE BIT FROM THE JANUARY COUNT AS WELL.
AND THEN WE ALSO LOOKED AT THE 85TH PER PERCENTILE SPEED IN SEPTEMBER, AND IT HAD GONE UP TO 50.
SO YOU HAVE THE 45 MILE PER HOUR, AND YOUR 50 IS THE 85TH PERCENTILE.
SO 85% OF THE, THE CARS SURVEYED WERE GOING AT OR BELOW 50 MILES AN HOUR.
AS PART OF OUR, UM, DATA COLLECTION EFFORT, WE ALSO DID AN INTERSECTION COUNT THAT WOULD TELL US HOW MANY CARS ARE TURNING LEFT THROUGH AND RIGHT AT THE INTERSECTION.
THIS HELPS US WHEN WE DECIDE IF IT NEEDS LEFT TURN POCKETS OR GOING THROUGH, WHERE'S THE TRAFFIC GOING.
WHEN WE LOOK AT A DT, IT'S ONLY LOOKING AT A TUBE COUNT ACROSS THE ROAD AND IT ONLY TELLS YOU THE ONE DIRECTION.
SO YOU HAVE THROUGH VOLUME ONLY THE INTERSECTION COUNT TELLS US LEFT THROUGH AND RIGHT.
SO WE COMPLETED THE INTERSECTION COUNT AT THE HIGHEST, WHAT'S CONSIDERED COMMUTE TIMES, WHICH IS SEVEN TO NINE.
UM, USUALLY WE MAKE SURE WE DO THE MIDDLE COUNT WHEN SCHOOLS ARE TYPICALLY GETTING OUT OF, EXCUSE ME, UH, IN THE AUDIENCE.
UM, IF WE CAN NOT SPEAK, IT MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO HEAR FROM THE DICE.
UH, THE MIDDLE TIME WAS ONE 30 TO THREE 30 AND THE EVENING WAS FOUR TO SIX.
AND THIS IS WHAT IS, WE CONSIDER STANDARD PEAK COMMUTE TIMES IN THE ENGINEERING COMMUNITY.
WE ALSO DID A PEDESTRIAN COUNT AT THE SAME TIME THAT WE DID THE INTERSECTION COUNT.
SO, UM, THESE COUNTS JUST SHOWED ADULTS VERSUS SCHOOL AGE KIDS, UM, CROSSING AT THE INTERSECTION.
AND IN THIS INTERSECTION WE HAVE ALL, ALL LEGS ARE HAVE, UM, CROSSWALKS.
THEN WE LOOKED AT COLLISION DATA.
WE LOOKED AT THE LAST THREE YEARS OF COLLISION DATA, AND THIS IS ALL REPORTED COLLISIONS.
SO IF THERE'S A FENDER BENDER THAT THEY DID NOT REPORT TO POLICE, WE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THAT.
SO THIS IS REPORTED COLLISIONS USING SWS, WHICH IS STATEWIDE INTEGRATED TRAFFIC RECORD SYSTEM, UM, DATA, AND AS WELL AS POLICE REPORTS.
UM, IF YOU LOOK AT THIS TABLE WE HAD IN THE 2 20 23, WE HAD FIVE REPORTED COLLISIONS, AS I THINK I HEARD ONE RESIDENT STATE.
THESE WERE, UM, OUT OF THE FIVE WE HAD 1, 2, 3, 4 BROADSIDE COLLISIONS AND ONE REAR END.
AND THIS IS ALL INSIDE THE INTERSECTION.
AND THAT WAS FOR THE LAST ONE YEAR.
UM, IN 2022, WE HAD THREE COLLISIONS.
AND 2021 WE HAD THREE MORE COLLISIONS WITH THE MAJORITY OF BEING BROADSIDE.
TO REEVALUATE THE POTENTIAL NEED OF A TRAFFIC SIGNAL, WE LOOK AT THRESHOLDS OR WARRANTS AS DEFINED IN THE CALIFORNIA MANUAL ON UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES.
AND IT'S THE, WE CALL IT THE CALIFORNIA M-U-T-C-D SECTION FOUR C.
SO IN THIS SLIDE, IT JUST SHOWS WHAT THE WARRANTS ARE.
SO THERE ARE NINE WARRANTS THAT WE LOOK AT THAT IS BASED ON
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IN THE CALIFORNIA M-U-T-C-D.UM, THEY'RE BASED ON TRAFFIC COUNTS AND COLLISION DATA GATHERED FOR THE EAST CAMERON AVENUE AND SOUTH CITRUS STREET INTERSECTION.
AND THIS LOOKS AT THE HIGHEST, HIGHEST EIGHT HOURS OF A DAY FOR THE APPROACH COUNT.
SO WE USE THE A DT TRAFFIC AND WE LOOK AT THE HIGHEST EIGHT HOURS ON THAT DAY.
AND WE ALSO FOR EACH APPROACH, SO FOR THE MAJOR STREET, STREET IN THIS INSTANCE IS CAMERON, 'CAUSE IT HAS MORE TRAFFIC.
CITRUS IS CONSIDERED THE MINOR STREET.
SO WE LOOK AT THE SAME EIGHT HOURS APPROACHING THE INTERSECTION FROM CITRUS.
SO WHEN WE'RE DETERMINING IF AN INTERSECTION SHOULD BE CONSIDERED FOR SIGNALIZATION, AN ENGINEERING STUDY THAT INCLUDES EXISTING TRAFFIC VOLUME, PEDESTRIAN CHARACTERISTICS, PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LOCATION IS COMPLETED TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE INSTALLATION OF A TRAFFIC CONSOLE CONTROL SIGNAL IS JUSTIFIED OR WARRANTED WHEN PROPERLY USED TRAFFIC CONTROL.
CONTROL SIGNALS ARE VALUABLE DEVICES FOR THE CONTROL OF VEHICLE AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC.
THEY ASSIGN THE RIGHT OF WAY TO VARIOUS TRAFFIC MOVEMENTS AND THEREBY, THEREBY INFLUENCE TRAFFIC FLOW.
BUT THE SATISFACTION OF A TRAFFIC SIGNAL WARRANT OR WARRANT SHALL NOT IN ITSELF REQUIRE THE INSTALLATION OF A TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL.
SO A TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL IS NOT INSTALLED UNLESS AN ENGINEERING STUDY INDICATES THAT INSTALLING A TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL WILL IMPROVE THE OVERALL SAFETY AND OPERATION OF THE INTERSECTION.
AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, THERE'S NINE WARRANTS.
SO THE FIRST ONE IS WARRANT ONE, WHICH IS THE EIGHT HOUR VEHICULAR VOLUME WARRANT.
UM, THE APPROACH COUNT COUNTS MET THRESHOLDS AS DEFINED IN THE CALIFORNIA M-U-T-C-D WARRANT.
TWO IS FOUR HOUR VEHICULAR VOLUME WARRANT.
WARRANT THREE IS THE PEAK HOUR WARRANT, WARRANT FOUR, THE PEDESTRIAN VOLUME WARRANT WARRANT FIVE IS FOR SCHOOL CROSSING, BUT THIS WOULD NOT BE APPLICABLE.
IT'S MAINLY USED FOR IF IT'S IN FRONT OF A A SCHOOL THAT POURING THE KIDS ARE JUST POURING OUT AND USING, UH, CROSSING.
WARRANT SIX IS A COORDINATED SIGNAL WARRANT.
NUMBER SEVEN, WARRANT SEVEN IS CRASH EXPERIENCE OF THE PRIMARY REASON TO CONSIDER INSTALLING TRAFFIC CONTROL.
CONTROL SIGNAL IS THERE WERE FIVE IN A 12 MONTH PERIOD.
WARRANT EIGHT IS THE NETWORK WARRANT, UM, INTENDED TO PROVIDE PLATOONING.
SO THIS ONE WAS NOT APPLICABLE SINCE IT HAS ALREADY ALWAYS STOPPED.
AND WARRANT NINE IS, UH, AT GRADE CROSSING NEXT TO A RAILROAD.
SO THAT ALSO IS NOT APPLICABLE.
SO AS I STATED, THESE ARE BASED ON COUNTS ON THREE CONSECUTIVE DAYS AT THE INTERSECTION.
I DID HEAR THAT, UH, THEY, WE WERE CONCERNED THAT SATURDAY WOULD IT MEET WARRANTS OR NOT.
SO WE DID A WARRANT ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY USING THE DATA.
AND IF YOU LOOK AT TABLE 13, I KNOW IT'S NUMBERED WEIRD, BUT IT WAS JUST TAKEN FROM OUR REPORT.
THE INTERSECTION MET FOUR OF THE NINE WARRANTS.
SEVERAL WERE NOT APPLICABLE, BUT IT MET FOUR WARRANTS.
SO IT MET THE EIGHT HOURS VEHICULAR VOLUME FOR EACH THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY.
UM, WARRANT TWO, THE FOUR HOUR VEHICULAR VOLUME, ALSO MET IT FOR ALL THREE DAYS.
THE PEAK HOUR VOLUME ALSO MET FOR ALL THREE DAYS.
AND THE CRASH EXPERIENCE YOU USE IT FOR, IT JUST COVERS IT DOESN'T HAVE BY DAY, BUT IT MET IT BECAUSE IT HAD FIVE COLLISIONS IN A 12 MONTH PERIOD.
SO, UM, BASED ON THE WARRANT RESULTS AS WELL AS RESIDENT FEEDBACK FOR REDUCING THE SPEED ON CAMERON AVENUE, WE HAVE CONCLUDED IN ORDER TO ENHANCE AND IMPROVE SAFETY AT THE INTERSECTION ON THE, ON THE CAMERON AVENUE SEGMENT, THERE ARE THREE OPTIONS FOR COUNCIL TO CONSIDER.
SO OPTION ONE IS NO SIGNAL INSTALLATION, BUT WITH A ROAD DIET INSTALLATION.
AND IN A MINUTE I'LL GO OVER WHAT A ROAD DIET OR, UM, LANE REDUCTION IS.
UM, WE SAID THAT SO NO SIGNAL, SO IT'D STAY AT A ALWAYS STOP, BUT WE COULD IN, WE COULD, UM, INSTALL THE ROAD DIET ON CAMERON.
WE'RE SAYING THAT WE COULD START WITH, UM, HAULING BACK TO BARRANCA AND SEE HOW IT GOES.
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AND THEN, UM, GO FROM THERE.HOW THE, HOW COUNCIL DECIDES, UM, TRAFFIC CALMING ROAD DIET IS A TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURE.
SO IT TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES ARE LANE NARROWING ROADSIDE, UM, DEFLECTIONS, OTHER FEATURES THAT ARE SELF-ENFORCING.
UM, IT'S KIND OF A, LIKE THE SIDE STRIPES, IT'S A NARROWING PSYCHOLOGICALLY NARROWING THE ROAD.
UM, TRAFFIC CALMING, CALMING HAS BEEN FOUND TO REDUCE AUTOMOBILE SPEEDS AND VOLUME, UM, MAINLY THROUGH THE USE OF PHYSICAL MEASURES TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE.
UM, AND I DIDN'T MENTION THIS BEFORE I, I GUESS I HAVE IT OUTTA ORDER, BUT, UM, I THINK WHAT WE HEARD AT SOME OF OUR COMMUNITY MEETINGS WAS THE RESIDENTS DIDN'T FEEL THAT THE MEASURES THAT WE PREVIOUSLY INSTALLED, WHAT THE RA, THE SPEED FEEDBACK SIGNS, THE SIDES STRIPES, THE, UM, ADDITIONAL SIGNAGE STRIPING WAS DOING WHAT IT SHOULD DO.
THEY WANTED ADDITIONAL MEASURES.
SO THIS IS ONE THING THAT WE DID, UM, LOOK AT TO SEE IF WE COULD TRY AND REDUCE THE SPEED ON CAMERON.
SO WE WENT WITH, UH, THE ROAD DIET.
THE SMALL THING ON THE SIDE IS A CONVERSION OF AN UNDIVIDED ROADWAY TO A CROSS SECTION WITH FEWER NARROWER MOTOR VEHICLE LANES.
THE REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER LANES PERMITS THE INCLUSION OF A BICYCLE SIDEWALK, PEDESTRIAN REFUGE TRANSIT ON AND IT ALLOWS ON STREET PARKING.
SO IN THIS INSTANCE, WE ALREADY HAVE THE SIDE STREET SIDE STRIPES THAT ALLOW PARKING.
IN THIS INSTANCE, WE WOULD REDUCE THE TWO LANES EACH DIRECTION TO ONE LANE EACH DIRECTION, BUT HAVE WHAT'S CONSIDERED A TWO-WAY LEFT TURN LANE IN THE MIDDLE.
SO THAT MOVES THE LEFT TURNS THAT NEED TO GO INTO A SIDE STREET OR INTO A A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU KNOW, RESIDENCE.
THEY CAN GET OUT OF THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC AND SIT IN THAT, THAT MIDDLE LANE.
UM, WE ARE ALSO, IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE OPTIONS, OPTION ONE AND IT JUST SHOWS A CONCEPT.
SO IF YOU CAN SEE THAT IT WILL STILL HAVE THE SIDES STRIPES, WHAT THERE IS NOW.
BUT IT WILL ALSO INCLUDE BECAUSE THERE IS ROADWAY WIDTH TO PUT LIKE A BUFFER AS WELL AS THE SIDES STRIP.
SO IT'S LIKE A FOUR FOOT BUFFER THAT ALLOWS FOR A CAR TO PARK THERE.
THEY CAN OPEN OR CLOSE THEIR, UM, CAR DOOR AND IT'S NOT GONNA BE IN THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC IN THIS, UM, THIS OPTION.
IT, UM, NO SIGNAL WITH ROAD DIET.
IT WOULD REMAIN THE FLASHING STOP SIGNS.
WE DID SEE THAT, UM, BASED ON PEAK HOUR COUNTS WE ARE RECOMMENDING IF THAT IS THE COUNCIL'S DECISION AS WELL TO STRIPE A LEFT TURN POCKET, A THROUGH LANE, AND THEN A VERY SHORT RIGHT TURN LANE.
UM, THIS WOULD HELP RE UM, REDUCE CONFUSION BY TWO LANES OF TRAFFIC COMING INTO THE ALLWAY.
UM, BY HAVING THE STRIPED LANES, THEY WOULD KNOW WHAT LANE THEY'RE GETTING IN SO THEY CAN TURN AND HOPEFULLY WAIT FOR THEIR TURN TO, UM, THE RIGHT OF WAY TO MAKE THE TURN.
UM, THIS IS JUST THE NEXT ONE IS JUST A EXHIBIT OF THE, WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE BETWEEN HALL AND BECK AND CITRUS.
THE IDEA OF IT, WE SHOWED A SIGNAL HERE, BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A SIGNAL IF THAT'S WHAT YOUR CHOICE IS.
IT JUST SHOWS HOW IT WOULD WORK FOR THE, UM, THE LANE BETWEEN, LIKE I SAID, HOLBECK AND CITRUS WITH THE ROAD DIET AND THE MIDDLE.
IT SHOWS THE ONE LANE EACH DIRECTION, THE BUFFER FOR PARKING.
UM, WE LIKE THIS OPTION THAT LATER ON IT COULD BE CONVERTED IN THE FUTURE, THE BUFFER IF THE CITY SO DESIRES WITH BIKE LANES IN THAT.
BUT, SO YOU WANNA PLAN FOR FUTURE.
SO THERE IS ROADWAY WIDTH IF THIS IS CONSIDERED.
SO OPTION NUMBER TWO WOULD BE SIGNAL INSTALLATION WITH THE ROAD DIET INSTALLATION.
SO AT THIS, IT WOULD BE KIND OF LIKE THAT LAST EXHIBIT, BUT WE HAVE ANOTHER EXHIBIT HERE.
UM, IT SHOWS WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE WITH A SIGNAL AS WELL AS A ROAD DIET.
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THREE IS, I THINK THAT'S THE NEXT, OH, YOU GOT IT RIGHT.I WAS SHOWING THE EXHIBIT
OPTION THREE IS A SIGNAL WOULD BE INSTALLED AT THE INTERSECTION, BUT NO ROAD DIET.
SO IF YOU DIDN'T FEEL THAT ROAD DIET WOULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE, THEN YOU COULD STILL CHOOSE TO PICK SIGNAL INSTALLATION WITH NO ROAD DIET.
UH, WE ADDED THIS COST OF A SIGNAL.
UM, THE COST OF SIGNAL RUNS IN AROUND THE SEVEN TO $800,000 RANGE FOR A SIGNAL.
UM, THE CITY DOES HAVE FUNDS MEASURE M THAT CAN BE USED.
THE NEXT STEPS WOULD BE ADVERTISING AND HIRING A CONTRACTOR TO PROVIDE FULL SIGNAL DESIGN PLANS AND SIGN IN AND STRIPING PLANS.
I KNOW THAT IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS WHOLE JOURNEY IN 2019, SOME PLANS WERE, UM, PREPARED, BUT THEY WOULD HAVE TO BE CHECKED TO SEE IF THEY, UM, SHOWED ALL WHAT THE, UM, CITY HAS DECIDED, WHETHER IT'S LEFT TURN, RIGHT TURN, WHATEVER.
UM, I WANNA GO BACK TO SLIDE THE, NO, THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO WITH THE SIGNAL OPTION ON OPTION TWO, SUCH, YEAH,
WE DID PUT IN A SMALL RIGHT TURN POCKET AND THIS WOULD REQUIRE ABOUT 50 FEET OF RED CURB.
THERE WOULD STILL BE RED OR I MEAN PARKING AVAILABLE FOR EACH OF THE HOUSES, FRONTING THAT.
SO TWO OR THREE CARS WOULD STILL BE ABLE TO PARK IN THAT, UM, BUFFERED AREA FOR BOTH APPROACHES.
ON CAMERON, THERE IS HEAVIER, UM, RIGHT TURN MOVEMENT FOR WESTBOUND.
IT IS LIKELY AS MENTIONED FROM THE SCHOOL, IT'S HEAVIEST IN THE MORNING AND IN THE AFTERNOON.
THIS IF BY PUTTING A SIGNAL, YOU WOULD ALSO, ONE OF THE BENEFITS WOULD BE YOU WOULD INCREASE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE PEDESTRIAN PUSH BUTTONS WITH COUNTDOWN IT TELLS, YOU KNOW, IT STARTS AT 23 SECONDS OR WHATEVER THE SECONDS IS TO CROSS THE INTERSECTION.
THEY WOULD HAVE THE PED BUTTONS TO CROSS.
AND THEN WE FEEL THAT IF A SIGNAL IS CHOSEN THAT IN TODAY WE GET WEEKLY COMPLAINTS FROM RESIDENTS THAT LEFT TURN PHASING IS NOT INSTALLED AT OUR SIGNALS.
AND RIGHT NOW WE'RE HAVING AN ISSUE BECAUSE THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS SO OLD THAT IN ORDER TO PUT IN LEFT TURN PHASING NOW IT REQUIRES REPLACEMENT OF SIGNAL EQUIPMENT.
THE MASSED ARMS, THE POLES HAVE TO BE REPLACED AND THAT'S VERY COSTLY.
LUCKILY THE CITY HAS A FEW, UM, GRANTS THAT ARE GOING THROUGH THAT.
THEY GOT SOME, UM, FUNDING FOR THOSE, BUT IT'S VERY COSTLY.
SO IN THIS INSTANCE, IF, IF, UM, A SIGNAL IS DECIDED THAT IT WOULD BENEFIT THE INTERSECTION TO GO AHEAD AND PUT IN LEFT TURN PHASING, BUT LEFT TURN PHASING NEEDS A LEFT TURN POCKET.
SO THAT'S, UM, ONE OF THE CRITICAL DECISION POINTS.
UM, SO TO PLAN FOR FUTURE THE LEFT TURN PHASING YOU HAVE PROTECTED PHASING IS VERY IMPORTANT.
THE RIGHT TURN POCKET YOU COULD HAVE A SHARED THROUGH OR AND A RIGHT.
SO THAT'S NOT AS IMPORTANT IF THAT IS THE ISSUE.
UM, BUT THE LEFT TURN PHASING WOULD BE SMART IF A SIGNAL IS CHOSEN TO GO AHEAD AND DO THAT.
WE WENT OVER THAT THERE'S ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES.
OH, AND THEN I WANTED TO GO BACK
I THINK OF THINGS THAT RESIDENTS HAVE BROUGHT FORWARD.
UM, IF THE OPTION OF A ROAD DIET IS CHOSEN, I KNOW ONE OF THE GENTLEMAN'S COMMENT WAS HAVING A HARD TIME BACKING OUTTA THEIR DRIVEWAY.
SO I JUST WANT TO SHOW THAT ON CONCEPTUAL EXHIBIT OPTION TWO, IF THE ROAD DIET IS CHOSEN, THAT YOU WOULD HAVE SEVEN FOOT PARKING LANE AS WELL AS THAT FOUR FOOT BUFFER.
SO THE PER THE PERSON BACKING OUTTA THEIR DRIVEWAY WOULD HAVE 11 FEET PROTECTION OF, I MEAN IT IS STRIPE, BUT YOU WOULD HAVE THAT, UM, PROTECTION OF PUSHING THE CARS
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FURTHER AWAY FROM THE SIDEWALK AND THE DRIVEWAY.LET'S SEE IF THERE IS A ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES THAT WE COULD CONSIDER.
IS CURB EXTENSIONS AT THE INTERSECTION, THEY'RE KIND OF COSTLY.
THERE'S SOME ISSUES WITH DRAINAGE, BUT THEY CAN BE DONE IF THAT'S, UM, AN ISSUE.
UM, ADDITIONAL SPEED FEEDBACK SIGNS IF SO DESIRED RIGHT NOW WE HAVE THREE ALONG THAT SEGMENT.
WE COULD PUT SOME MORE IN THERE.
UM, COUPLE OF ISSUES THAT WERE BROUGHT UP AT OUR COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND TRAFFIC COMMISSION THAT WE ARE NOT CONSIDERING AT THIS TIME IS THE INSTALLATION OF SPEED HUMPS.
UM, THE CITY HAS GUIDELINES AND CRITERIA FOR SPEED HUMPS AND CAMERON OR CITRUS WOULD NOT QUALIFY FOR SPEED HUMPS.
SPEED HUMPS ARE USED FOR LOCAL STREETS AND CAMERON IS CONSIDERED A MINOR ARTERIAL.
UM, IT HAS WAY TOO MUCH TRAFFIC VOLUME.
IT'S USUALLY 3000 VEHICLES PER DAY OR LESS.
UM, AND THE MAXIMUM SPEED LIMIT IS 25 MILES PER HOUR.
CAMERON HAS A POSTED SPEED OF 45 AND CITRUS 40.
SO THAT IS NOT CONSIDERED, UM, LOWERING THE SPEED LIMIT.
SO I HEARD THAT SEVERAL THINGS SAID THAT THE SPEED LIMIT IS TOO HIGH.
NOW THE STATE HAS MANDATED HOW CITIES SET SPEED LIMITS.
SO THERE ARE GUIDELINES AND THAT WAS DONE IN 2017, ALBEIT, YOU KNOW, IT MAY BE HIGH, BUT IT WAS DONE TO A CERTAIN FORMAT.
NOW, IF THE, UM, CITY CHOOSES TO GO FORWARD WITH THE ROAD DIET, THAT'S A, UH, EXTENSIVE TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURE.
SO WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST IS IN THE SAME AFTER CONSTRUCTION TO REDO CERTAIN SEGMENTS TO SEE IF PEOPLE ARE TRAVELING LESS.
AND SO THEN YOU CAN MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO YOUR SPEED SURVEY AND ADOPT THAT.
SO YOU CAN'T ARBITRARILY JUST SAY, OKAY, WELL I THINK THEY SHOULD BE TRAVELING 30.
IT'S ALL BASED ON GUIDELINES AND CRITERIA SET BY THE STATE.
AND THIS IS DONE SO THAT POLICE CAN ENFORCE THE SPEED BY USING RADAR.
AND AT THE TIME THE SPEED SURVEY WAS DONE, THE 85TH PERCENTILE JUSTIFIED THE 45 MILE PER HOUR SPEED LIMIT.
AND THEN WHERE'S THE SIGNAL? ONCE WE GO BACK, WE'RE GONNA GO BACK
THERE ARE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT YOU CAN SET UP SIGNALIZE INTERSECTIONS.
SO BAUMAN IS HERE TO MAKE IF YOU HAVE DETAILED COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS.
THERE'S WHERE YOU CAN REST IN RED.
SO THE SIGNAL IS, HAS RED UNTIL A CAR PULLS UP TO IT AND THEN IT TRIGGERS THE GREEN.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE CAMERON GREEN ALL THE TIME.
SO THERE'S FULLY ACTUATED THAT IT'LL TELL, UM, WHEN CARS ARE THERE WHEN THEY'RE NOT.
THERE'S SEMI ACTUATED, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS THAT YOU CAN DO WITH SIGNAL.
THERE'S, I TALKED ABOUT THE OPTIMAL WITH THE PROTECTED LEFT TURN.
SO BASICALLY THE COUNSEL HAS BEFORE YOU A DECISION TO MAKE ON WHAT YOUR OPTIONS ARE.
A SIGNAL YOU CAN, UM, DECIDE ON A SIGNAL.
IT WOULD HAVE THE PROTECTED OR YOU KNOW, AT LEAST THE PED BUTTONS, THE COUNTDOWN PED BUTTONS.
IT WOULD, UM, IF YOU SET IT TO RED OR WHATEVER, YOU CAN HAVE PLATOONING EFFECTS, UM, STOP SIGN.
UM, YOU WOULD STILL HAVE, DEPENDING IF YOU PICK THE ROAD DIET OPTION, THERE'S A LOT OF OPTIONS.
YOU WOULD ALL, YOU WOULD HAVE PRETTY MUCH THE SAME AS IT IS NOW, OR YOU CAN CHANGE IT SLIGHTLY IF YOU CHOOSE A ROAD DIET.
UM, SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S THE END OF MY PRESENTATION
UH, YOU WANTED TO START OFF THE QUESTIONING.
UM, WHEN I WAS, UH, HERE 2019, UH, WHEN, UH, THE PROJECTS APPROVE, UM, OKAY.
OKAY? AND THEN WE HAVE OPPOSITION
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AND THEN, THEN WE TABLE IT, OKAY? AND SAY, OKAY, SEND BACK, HAVE A CITY ENGINEER TRAFFIC COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS WITH ALL THE NEIGHBOR AND, UH, TO GET ALL MORE IN, MORE INFORMATION.AND THE TABLE, MEANING WHEN YOU GET INFORMATION YOU BRING BACK, THEN THE CITY COUNCIL CAN MAKE A DECISION.
BUT WE WANT TO HAVE A COMMUNITY OUTREACH.
SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY, ALL THE ANGLE, BUT THE PURPOSE TO PUT A TRAFFIC SIGNAL OR NOT IS TRY TO IMPROVE THE PUBLIC SAFETY.
WE ARE NOT TRYING TO SPEND THE MONEY.
IF THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL WE CREATE PROBLEM, WE CREATE FATALITY, WE CREATE PEOPLE SPEEDING, THEN WHAT'S THE POINT TO SPEND THE MONEY? SO, SO I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND WE NOT HERE TRY TO MAKE THE LIGHT MORE DIFFICULT FOR YOUR CORNER.
WE JUST TRY TO SEE HOW CAN WE IMPROVE, OKAY? AND THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND DUE TO A LOT OF REQUESTS DUE TO THE ACCIDENT.
SO, SO, AND ANOTHER THING I WANT TO STATED, WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING ON THE CAMERON, YOU ARE SO PROUD OF LIVING IN WEST COVINA.
THE CAMERON IS A BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL STREET, OKAY? SO I DON'T KNOW, OKAY, IF WE WANNA CHANGE INTO ROAD DIET THAT OPTION THAT IS REALLY CHANGING THE GRANT OF THIS BEAUTIFUL STREET AND PLUS IF YOU CHANGING THIS ROAD DIET, I THINK YOU NEED TO HAVE ALL THE RESIDENT LIVING IN THAT STREET TO HAVE AGREE UPON.
SO THEN, THEN WE NEED TO HAVE ANOTHER OF, UH, COMMUNITY OUTREACH.
BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE MAYBE DON'T LIKE IT BECAUSE THEY LIKE WHAT THE, THE, THE LOOK RIGHT NOW THIS IS REALLY A BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL STREET.
OKAY? IF YOU FIND AZUA, UH, GO TO THE BARCA OR MAYBE GO TO THE CITRA.
YOU CAN SEE HOW GRAND, HOW BEAUTIFUL ALL THE HOUSES, THE WELL CAP, OKAY? NO DIFFERENT THAN ANY OF PASADENA SAN MARINO, OKAY? I'M DRIVING THERE ALL THE TIME.
IT'S REALLY A PROUD NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE WANT TO KEEP THIS CONTINUE TO BE A PROUD NEIGHBORHOOD.
IS THAT CALL FOR THE TRAFFIC SCENE OR NOT? I THINK THE TRAFFIC ENGINEER HAVE TO TELL CAN THEY IMPROVE THE SAFETY? I I THINK THAT IS THE ISSUE OF, TO, TO DO A DRASTIC CHANGE OF THE LOOK OF THE STREET AND MAKE IT NARROW.
I I I DON'T KNOW THAT THE ENTIRE STREET, THE, THE, THE, THE RESIDENT WILL AGREE UPON.
SO, UH, IF THEY REALLY, THE COUNCIL WANT TO GO LATER ROUTE, THEY NEED TO, I THINK THEY NEED TO HAVE, UH, PARTICIPATE OF ALL THE PEOPLE LIVING ON THE STREET TO AGREE UPON, OKAY, LET DO THEY WANT TO CHANGE, LET DRASTIC CHANGE, THEY MAY BE VERY PROUD, OKAY? ALREADY ON THEIR STREET AND TO, WE DON'T WANT TO WANT TO FIX A PROBLEM AND CREATE MORE PROBLEM, OKAY? WE REALLY WANT TO SEE THIS INTERSECTION, THAT CALL FOR TRAFFIC SIGNAL TO IMPROVE PUBLIC SAFETY OR NOT.
CAN THEY REDUCE THE TRAFFIC? NOT TRY TO CREATE A ACCIDENT OR TRY TO, PEOPLE SPEEDING GO THROUGH THE LIGHT.
I THINK THE PEOPLE REALLY SPEEDING IS FROM GRAND TO BARRANCA.
LET, LET, LET'S LET, LET'S OVER.
THE AREA IS REALLY PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE IT'S A CURVE AND THE PEOPLE SPEEDING OVER THERE.
I DON'T THINK PEOPLE FROM HOLLAND BACK TO CITRA WILL SPEEDING DUE TO YOU HAVE A TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND PEOPLE REALLY ENJOYING LOOKING AT THAT BEAUTIFUL SCENERY OF THE HOUSES.
SO, SO, SO I REALLY WORRY ABOUT TO CHANGE THE STREET AND CHANGING THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
LOOK, I THINK A LOT OF RESIDENT MAYBE WILL DISAGREE.
SHOULD WE INSTALL A TRAFFIC SIGNAL OR NOT? I THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU SAY, OKAY? AND, UH, THE THE, WE DO NOT WANNA HAVE A BLOOD IN OUR HAND PUT THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL, NO.
SO WE WANT TO SEE HOLDBACK, OKAY, DURING THIS YEAR OR THIS THREE YEARS, DO THEY HAVE A FATALITY OR BARRANCA? BARRANCA.
THE REASON WE PUT TINO, BECAUSE WE HAVE FATALITY ON THE STOP SIGN.
PEOPLE DON'T STOP ON THE STOP SIGN AND OUR CHILDREN GOT KILLED ON THE SOUTH HILL HIGH SCHOOL SO, AND MORE THAN ONE TIME.
SO THEY, THAT'S WHY WE TRY TO IMPROVE USING THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL TO MAKE SURE THE RED LIGHT PEOPLE STOP.
BUT SOME PEOPLE THEY DRINK DRUNK DRIVING, THEY DON'T OBEY THE STOP SIGN OF TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
IT HAPPENED ON THE, WE HAVE 14 YEARS KID GET KILLED.
OKAY, SO, SO, SO BECAUSE THE PERSON IS UNDER INFLUENCE AND BLOW THROUGH THE RED LIGHT.
SO, SO, SO HOW CAN WE IMPROVE OUR CITY? AND ESPECIALLY IN THE INTERSECTION.
SO HOW WE WANT TO SEE IS THAT CALL FORWARD.
SO THE, MY QUESTION IS UNDER, OKAY, DURING THIS SO MANY YEARS, OKAY, I KNOW WE HAVE PANDEMIC THIS AND LESS SO, SO WE TABLE IT AND NOW ALL THIS COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND, AND TO THE RESEARCH, OKAY? AND SURVEY THIS INTERSECTION WITH TRAFFIC SIGNAL WILL IMPROVE THE PUBLIC SAFETY,
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IMPROVE, AVOID MORE ACCIDENT TWO, I GOT T-BONE 2018 ON CORTES AND CITRUS BECAUSE PEOPLE DIDN'T STOP ON THE STOP SIGN, THEY JUST HIT ME ON THE SIDE, IT'S MY TURN, BUT THE LADY DOESN'T KNOW AND THEY JUST COME DOWN AND THEY HIT ME ON THE SIDE AND I CAN EVEN GET OUT MY CAR JUST LIKE PRETTY SEVERE.BUT LUCKILY I HAVE A CADILLAC, OKAY? AND A TRUCK VERY STRONG.
IT IS NOT JAPANESE CAR, SO CAN TAKE THE IMPACT.
I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT, I'M VERY PROUD.
AND I'M INSIDE AND ONLY MY DOOR CAVE IN.
SO, SO, SO, BUT THE THING IS ON THE CITRUS ON THE CAMERA, IT'S VERY BUSY INTERSECTION.
I AGREE WITH THE NEIGHBOR OVER THERE.
YOU ARE ALL MY NEIGHBORS, OKAY? WE, WE TRY TO SEE, FIND A, A COMMON GROUND AND THAT'S WHY IT BEEN DELAYED FOR SO MANY TIMES AND PEOPLE WANT, PEOPLE DON'T WANT.
AND HOW CAN WE AS SOLOMON DECISION TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY HAPPY.
AND I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND WE ARE NOT HERE TO CREATE PROBLEM FOR YOU GUY.
SO, SO, SO, SO DO, BASED ON YOUR RESEARCH, YOUR SURVEY, IF THIS PLACE WOULD BE SAFER WITH A SIGNAL BECAUSE WE DON'T WANNA SPEND 800, $900,000 NO MATTER THIS COMPANY RESTRICTED FUND.
BUT IF IT'S NOT CALLED FOR SIGNAL CANNOT IMPROVE BETTER FOR PEOPLE TO COME DOWN BECAUSE CITRA IS A VERY BUSY STREET.
WHY THEY COULD GO TO THE DOING THE OKAY RUSH HOUR THEY GO TO FREEWAY LIKE MYSELF, I HAVE TO GO TO CITRA, GO TO FREEWAY ALL THE TIME, EVERY DAY.
SO SO WHAT I'M SAYING IS, IS THIS INTERSECTION BASED ON YOUR PROFESSIONAL POINT OF VIEW IN SO MANY, MANY MEETING IS THIS INTERCESSION CAN IMPROVE THE PUBLIC SAFETY, THE TRAFFIC, IT HAS A TWOFOLD ANSWER.
IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW YOU DESIGN THE SIGNAL.
SO THE KEY IS TO DO THE, UM, LEFT TURN PHASING.
SO THEN YOU DESIGNATE RIGHT AWAY FOR LEFT TURNS, WHICH ALL OF THE COLLISIONS THAT HAPPEN AT THE INTERSECTION, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE HOPEFULLY THE BROAD SIDE.
'CAUSE THAT'S SOMEONE TURNING IN FRONT OF ANOTHER CAR, YOU WILL HAVE THE PEDESTRIAN SIGNALS, WHICH IS THE PED COUNTDOWN.
SO WHEN A PED COMES TO THE CORNER, THEY'RE GONNA TOUCH THE BUTTON AND THE, YOU KNOW, THE GREEN, GREEN HAND COMES ON AND TELLS YOU HOW LONG YOU GET TO CROSS.
I DO KNOW THAT WITH THE ALWAYS STOP, WE HAVE HAD COMPLAINTS WITH PEOPLE FEARING BECAUSE FACE, FACE IT, WE HEARD, YOU KNOW, I MEAN IT'S ONE THAT WE HAVE TO, UM, JOIN WITH ENFORCEMENT, BUT IT'S HARD FOR PEDESTRIANS TO CROSS.
YOU HAVE 60 FEET, YOU HAVE TWO LANES AND A LOT OF THE TIME THEY ALWAYS STOP.
THEY ARE ROLLING THROUGH OR THEY'RE NOT DESIGNATING RIGHT AWAY.
SO LIKE I SAID, MR. JANKA CAN EXPLAIN BETTER SOME OF THE TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS.
SO YOU KNOW, YOU DO HAVE, I GOT IT.
SO, SO OKAY, WE NEED TO HAVE A OKAY FROM YOU GUYS AS A PROFESSIONAL THAT TELL US THIS YES, CAN IMPROVE, BUT THE CONCERN WOULD BE SOME OF THE NEIGHBOR TALKING ABOUT, OKAY, WELL LET CREATE A SPEEDING AND UH, PEOPLE WILL HAVE A FATALITY AND LET, WE ARE TRYING TO AVOID ANY FATALITY AND RATHER THAN CREATE A FATALITY.
AND NUMBER THREE, SO YOU CAN ANSWER THIS QUESTION, IT'S ABOUT HOW CAN WE LET THEM HAVE A CHANCE IF WE WANNA PUT THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL THEY CAN COME OUT AND, OR THEY CAN STILL PARK THEIR CAR IN THE, BECAUSE THEY MIGHT HAVE, I SAW THE, THE, SOME OF THE HOUSES OVER THERE HAVE A HARD TIME OKAY.
SO WHAT IS THE WAY WE CAN, THAT'S WHY LAST TIME 2019 WE TABLE IS TRY TO WORK WITH THEM.
IT'S HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET A WIN-WIN FOR, FOR ALL THE RESIDENT OVER THERE, PLUS ALL THE PEOPLE COM COMMUTE IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
UH, JUST TO CLARIFY, JENNA, WITH UNDER OPTION TWO WITH A LEFT TURN PHASING, IT WOULD, UM, JUST, JUST TO MAKE SURE TO, TO REPEAT THIS, IT WOULD ADDRESS THE PARKING ISSUES SO THE RESIDENTS ALONG THE CORNERS WOULD HAVE
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THREE PARKING, UH, CARS LENGTHS TO BE ABLE TO PARK.THERE WOULD ALSO BE 11 FEET OF SPACE FOR, UH, PROTECTION IF CARS ARE PULLING OUT OF DRIVEWAY.
SO THAT WOULD BE, UH, ADDRESSED AND AT THE SAME TIME WITH TRA WITH LEFT TURN TRAFFIC PHASING, THEN THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD ALONG WITH WITH, UH, SIGNALS THERE FOR, FOR, FOR PEDESTRIANS THAT WOULD ALSO ADDRESS THE SAFETY ISSUES.
AND THAT IS ALL UNDER OPTION TWO? CORRECT? THANK YOU.
THAT'S IF TWO IS CHOOSE SIGNAL AND THEN ALSO ROAD DIET AND ROAD DIET IS MORE WE'RE, WE NEED TO TAKE DIRECTION FROM COUNCIL IF YOU WANT US TO PURSUE THAT.
'CAUSE THERE ARE THINGS THAT STILL NEED TO BE DONE TO DO A REAL DESIGN OF THAT.
UM, BUT YES, IT WOULD HAVE THE, UM, THE BUFFER AND PARKING.
NOW IT DOES, RIGHT NOW IT HAS THE SIDES STRIPES SO PEOPLE ARE CAN PARK, BUT WE CAN'T DO THAT EXTRA FOUR FEET THE BUFFER BECAUSE THERE'S NOT THE LANE WIDTH.
IF YOU LEAVE IT AS IT IS, YOU HAVE TWO LANES COMING THROUGH.
SO THERE ISN'T THE LANE WIDTH TO DO THAT.
OH, THERE ISN'T THE LANE WIDTH.
IF YOU DO NOT CHOOSE, IF YOU CHOOSE SIGNAL WITH NO ROAD DIET
SO THERE IS A, UM, THE SEVEN TO EIGHT FOOT OF SIDES STRIPE THERE ALREADY.
UM, SO IT'S JUST WITH THE ROAD DIET IN THIS INSTANCE, YOU WOULD HAVE THE ADDITIONAL BUFFER, THE FOUR FOOT OF BUFFER.
SO THE ROAD DIET WOULD ADD FOUR, FOUR FEET TO THAT BUFFER.
BECAUSE YOU'RE ELIMINATING TWO LANES, YOU'RE GOING TO ONE LANE.
UM, YES, UH, MAYOR PROAM, UH, WU, UM, WOULD, WOULD LIKE TO ASK HIS QUESTION AGAIN SO WE COULD GET SOME CLARIFICATION ON THE ANSWER? YES.
OKAY, BECAUSE WE JUST HAVE, WE JUST VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS, SO EVERYBODY WANNA JUMP IN, BUT I JUST NEED TO ANSWER REGARDING MY QUESTION.
ONE WE TALK ABOUT IS THIS INTERSECTION WITH A TRAFFIC SIGNAL, CAN THEY IMPROVE? OKAY.
AND THE PUBLIC SAFETY, TRAFFIC SAFETY AND SECOND THING, UH, RESIDENT TALKING ABOUT, OKAY, AND THE POTENTIALLY IF YOU PUT TRAFFIC SIGNAL, IT MIGHT HAVE A FATALITY DUE TO PEOPLE'S SPEEDING THROUGH.
OKAY, GREEN LIGHT OR RED LINE.
SO THERE'S A SECOND ISSUE THERE.
CONCERN NUMBER THREE ISSUE I THINK JUST ANSWER, BUT THE, THE, THE DIET OPTION, RAW DIET I THINK IS PROBLEMATIC DUE TO IS SUCH A BIG OKAY, AND YOU'RE CHANGING EVERYBODY THE, IN THE FRONT OF THEIR HOME ABOUT THESE THREE MAYBE THAT YOU NEED ALL THE RESIDENT OVER THERE TO SUPPORT, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OKAY, SIGNAL IF WE GO TO SIGNAL.
OKAY, BUT CAN THEY STILL GET OUT THE CAR? CAN THEY STILL PARK THE CAR IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE? YES.
UH, GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UH, I'M A REGISTERED TRAFFIC ENGINEER IN CALIFORNIA.
JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, VERY QUICK INTRODUCTION.
I'M A PUBLIC AGENCY PERSON MYSELF, SO I'M REAL REALLY HERE.
EVEN THOUGH I'M A CONSULTANT, I'M HERE AS EXTENSION OF A STAFF.
I HAVE WORKED ABOUT 30 YEARS IN A PUBLIC AGENCY AS A TRAFFIC ENGINEER.
TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ABOUT THE SAFETY, I'LL GIVE YOU SOME NATIONAL DATA.
THIS IS NOT JUST WEST COVINA OR NEIGHBORING CITY NORMALLY TRAFFIC SIGNALS REDUCE AND I THINK JANA MENTIONED THAT IN TERMS OF THE SAFETY THAT IS PERCEIVED OR CAN BE ACHIEVED AS A, AS A TRAFFIC SIGNAL, TRAFFIC SIGNALS, NORMALLY THEY REDUCE THE NUMBER OF RIGHT ANGLE ACCIDENTS.
SOMETIMES THE REAR END ACCIDENTS INCREASE A LITTLE BIT, BUT IT'S A GIVE AND TAKE.
SO THE MOST OF THE SEVERE ACCIDENTS USUALLY HAPPEN WHEN YOU HAVE A RIGHT ANGLE ACCIDENTS.
THEY REAR ACCIDENTS EVEN THOUGH IT MAY INCREASE A LITTLE BIT, BUT THEY ARE LESS SEVERE.
SO YES, TRADITIONALLY TRAFFIC SIGNALS IMPROVE TRAFFIC SAFETY BECAUSE THEY REDUCE THE NUMBER OF RIGHT ANGLE ACCIDENTS.
THE ISSUE WITH THE STOP SIGN, THE CURRENT SITUATION THAT YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW, AND I THINK ONE OF THE RESIDENTS MENTIONED IS THAT YOU HAVE A MULTI-LANE STOP SIGNS REALLY ARE REALLY MORE SUITABLE IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA WHEN YOU HAVE ONLY ONE LANE OF TRAFFIC COMING TO AN INTERSECTION.
THE PROBLEM THAT YOU HAVE AT THIS INTERSECTION IS NOT THE VISIBILITY OF THE STOP SIGN.
IT IS WHETHER IT IS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT HAS LED OR NOT LED, IT IS THE RIGHT OF WAY ISSUE.
PEOPLE WHEN THEY COME TO TRAFFIC, WHEN CARS COME IN TWO LANES FROM EACH DIRECTION, YOU LITERALLY, DURING THE PEAK HOURS, YOU HAVE EIGHT CARS AT A STOP SIGN, TWO CARS AT EACH LEG OF THE INTERSECTION.
SO IT GETS A LITTLE BIT CONFUSING OF, YOU KNOW, DO PEOPLE TWO CARS THAT ARE SIDE BY SIDE, DO THEY GO AT THE SAME TIME, DO ONE STOP, THE OTHER ONE GOES, THAT
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IS THE SOURCE OF THE CONFUSION AT A FOUR-WAY STOP SITUATION.IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA, NORMALLY YOU DO NOT HAVE AS MANY ACCIDENTS.
BUT HERE JAN REPORTED THAT IN THE PAST YEAR, IT HAS BEEN LIKE IN THE PAST THREE YEARS FOR FOUR ACCIDENTS IN, IN ONE YEAR, 12 MONTHS.
SO IN 12 MONTHS YOU HAVE HAD FIVE ACCIDENTS.
AGAIN, IF THIS WAS A RESIDENTIAL AREA, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THIS MANY ACCIDENTS.
THEN ACCIDENTS ARE HAPPENING MAINLY IS BECAUSE OF A RIGHT OF WAY ISSUE AND A RIGHT OF WAY CONFUSION ISSUE.
SO THAT'S KIND OF A PART OF YOUR, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION REGARDING THE FATALITY, UH, THE RESIDENTS THINK, OKAY, SAY IF WE HAVE A, THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL, MAYBE WE, UM, PEOPLE SPEEDING AND CREATE A MOST SEVERE ACCIDENT THAT PEOPLE GET KILLED.
THAT IS REALLY NOT THE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT.
TRAFFIC SIGNALS DON'T CAUSE FATALITIES.
FATALITIES ARE CAUSED BECAUSE OF PEOPLE INATTENTION, BECAUSE OF DOU EYES, BECAUSE OF A LOT OF OTHER REASONS.
JUST A TRAFFIC SIGNAL BY ITSELF DOES NOT CAUSE A FATALITY.
AND, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT JANA MENTIONED, YOU ALSO HAVE THE OPTION OF THE, THE BEAUTY OF THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL IS THAT AN UNEXPLAINED IS WHEN I, A FEW MONTHS AGO WHEN WE MET RIGHT OUT HERE WITH THE CITIZENS, THE BEAUTY OF THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL IS THAT IF YOU CHOOSE TO, YOU CAN OPERATE IT IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
TWO, I, I'LL JUST GO TO TWO OR THREE VERSIONS OF IT.
ONE IS THAT YOU NORMALLY YOU RUN IT AS A TRAFFIC SIGNAL, JUST AS YOU HAVE AS BARRANCA OR A HOLLENBECK BASICALLY GREEN.
YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE AS THEY COME TO THE, TO THE, YOU KNOW, THEY TAKE THEIR TURNS.
ANOTHER VERSION OF IT, YOU CAN PUT IT ON FLASH.
LIKE YOU CAN OF HAVE FLASHED YELLOW ON THE MAJOR STREET, WHICH IS THE CAMERON, AND YOU HAVE A RED ON THE SIDE OF THE STREET, WHICH IS PROBABLY NOT APPLICABLE IN HERE BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LOT OF TRAFFIC ON BOTH, BOTH SIDES.
THE LAST VERSION THAT I MENTIONED TO THE COM TO THE COMMITTEE WAS THAT YOU COULD LITERALLY HAVE THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL, WHAT WE CALL REST IN RED.
SO THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL WOULD BE RED MOST OF THE TIME DURING THE NON PEAK HOURS IT WOULD BE RED.
WHEN CARS COME TO THE STOP SIGN THAT ARE LOOPS IN THE PAVEMENT THAT TRIGGER, THEY SEND A MESSAGE TO THE CONTROLLER THEN THE SIGNAL TEST.
SO THAT IN EFFECT IT KIND OF SERVES LIKE A METERING DEVICE.
SO YOU, YOU DISCOURAGES THE SPEEDING DURING THE NON-PEAK HOURS, DURING THE NIGHTTIME HOURS.
SO PEOPLE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO JUST SPEED AND GO THROUGH THROUGH THE INTERSECTION.
THEY, THEY SLOW DOWN, THEY COME TO A STOP, THEN THE LOOP TRIGGERS THEM, THEN THE SIGNAL TURNS GREEN AND THEY GO DURING THE PEAK HOURS.
OF COURSE WHEN THERE'S CONGESTION, THE SIGNAL WILL OPERATE OUT, YOU KNOW, IN A NORMAL FASHION, GREEN AND RED AND ALL THAT.
BUT DURING THE HOURS THAT IS NON NON-PEAK AND THERE IS VERY LIGHT TRAFFIC, YOU COULD CHOOSE TO OPERATE IT THAT WAY.
SO WE CAN PROGRAM THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
THERE ARE DIFFERENT VERSIONS, YOU HAVE MORE CHOICES HOW TO OPERATE THE SIGNAL.
AND NUMBER THREE ABOUT HOW CAN THEY GET OUT ON THE INTERSECTION IF WE CHOOSE THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
YOU YOU SAY WE CAN PUT ON THE RED LIKE A STOP SIGN.
SO DURING THE, SO IN THAT WAY PEOPLE HAVE TO STOP AND THEN, THEN WE BECOME GREEN LIGHT DURING THE, THE SLOW, SLOW SEE, SLOW TIME.
AND NUMBER THREE WILL BE HOW THE RESIDENT IN THE FOUR CORNER, HOW CAN THEY GET OUT? OKAY.
AND UH, WITH, IF YOU HAVE A TRAFFIC SIGNAL CAN, IT WILL BE INTER ROUTE FOR THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE, RIGHT? WELL THE, THE ONLY THING THAT I CAN ANSWER OR GIVE YOU IS, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A SIGNAL AT HALLENBECK AND I HAVE LOOKED AT THE DRIVEWAY SITUATION AT THIS INTERSECTION AND I HAVE LOOKED AT THE DRIVEWAY SITUATION AND HOLBECK HOLBECK HAS DRIVEWAYS NEXT TO THE INTERSECTION TOO.
UH, UH, THIS IS, THE VOLUME ACTUALLY ON CAMERA IS NOT VERY, VERY HIGH.
THERE'S ABOUT 12,000 ON EACH LEG.
IT IS NOT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 30,000 OR 40,000.
SO THERE ARE PLENTY OF GAPS DURING, DURING THE HOURS, DURING THE MINUTES THAT PEOPLE CAN GET IN AND IN AND OUT AND HOLLENBECK.
THERE ARE DRIVEWAYS AT HOLLENBECK AT ALL CORNERS.
AND I DON'T BELIEVE THERE IS A RECORD OF COMPLAINTS TO THE SEA THAT WE CANNOT GET OUT OF OUR DRIVEWAYS AT THAT CORNER.
SO, SO THAT'S, THAT'S MY ANSWER TO THAT.
SO THIS IS THE FIRST, UM, TO SEE ALL THESE OPTIONS AND I'M PRETTY SURE IT'S PROBABLY THE RESIDENT'S FIRST TIME TO SEE ALL THESE OPTIONS.
I PERSONALLY WOULD LIKE THIS TO GO BACK TO THE RESIDENTS, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY OUT OUTREACH SURVEY, UM, TO SEE WHAT'S BEST, UH, WHAT'S THE BEST OPTION FOR THE RESIDENTS THAT ADDRESSES ALL THE CONCERNS SUCH AS THE DRIVEWAY, THE PARKING, UM, YOU KNOW, THE AESTHETICS, JUST EVERYTHING.
UM, SO THAT WE GET THE RESIDENTS FEEDBACK.
'CAUSE TO PICK AN OPTION RIGHT NOW, I KNOW WE HAVE TECHNICALLY FOUR
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OPTIONS TO CHOOSE ONE, WHICH ONE OF THEM IS PROVIDE ALTERNATIVE DIRECTION.I, I PERSONALLY DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE MAKING A DECISION ON ANY OF THESE.
I AM FOR, UH, CALMING MEASURES.
UH, I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT HAPPEN.
I'D LIKE TO SEE, UH, SAFETY AND, AND EVERYTHING.
BUT I, I, I FEEL THIS WOULD BE BEST, UM, COMING BACK TO THE RESIDENTS ADDRESSING ALL THEIR CONCERNS AND MAYBE ANOTHER OPTION WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, COMING BACK TO US, UM, AT A, AT ANOTHER DATE.
BUT THAT IS MY RECOMMENDATION.
CAN, CAN STAFF CLARIFY, UH, ITS RECOMMENDATION REGARDING TRAFFIC DIET VERSUS NO TRAFFIC DIET BECAUSE OF A CONCERN OF OF RELATING TO TRAFFIC JAMS AND AND CONGESTION THAT WOULD BE CAUSED BY TRAFFIC DIET? OR WOULD THAT NOT BE THE CASE? BASED ON THE TRAFFIC STUDY AND THE, AND THE VOLUME OF CARS GOING THROUGH EACH DAY? UH, WE BELIEVE THAT THE VOLUME ON CAMERA IS NOT HIGH ENOUGH THAT IT IS REDUCING THE NUMBER OF LANES FROM FOUR TO TWO WILL CAUSE ANY PROBLEMS, ESPECIALLY WHEN, IF THERE'S A TRAFFIC SIGNAL, BECAUSE THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL WOULD MONITOR THE TRAFFIC GOING THROUGH THE INTERSECTION.
UH, I I HAVE A, A FEW QUESTIONS.
UM, FIRST, UH, I, ON, ON THE FIVE ACCIDENTS, THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY WERE, THEY WERE NOT, UH, SERIOUS INJURIES.
UH, SO FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, THE SPEED IS WHAT, WHAT CAUSES THE FATALITIES AND, AND MOST SERIOUS INJURIES, IS THAT CORRECT? YES.
AND SO, UH, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE, THE, THE ROAD DIETS, UH, IS THAT THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT WILL, WILL NATURALLY, UH, SLOW FOLKS DOWN.
UH, I I UNDERSTAND THAT, UH, THE, THE, THE WIDER LANES, UH, ACTUALLY, UH, CAUSE PEOPLE TO FEEL MORE LIKE THEY'RE ON A HIGHWAY, WHICH, WHICH DOES INCREASE SPEED.
IS THAT CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT.
UM, SO I, I THINK IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, UH, SAFETY, UH, AND, AND ESPECIALLY PEDESTRIAN SAFETY FOR, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, UM, WHEN, WHEN PEDESTRIANS, 'CAUSE I KNOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CROSSWALK, BUT UM, ALSO ON THE SIDEWALK, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, PARKED CARS, UM, ARE ACTUALLY, UM, A KIND OF A SAFETY MEASURE FOR PEDESTRIANS.
IS THAT CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT, YES.
UM, THE SIDES STRIPES, WHICH WE TRIED AND PARKED CARS.
SO VISUALLY PEOPLE, IT'S BEEN FOUND THAT PEOPLE DRIVE SLOWER IN NARROWER LANES? CORRECT.
UM, SO I, I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHEN, IF WE'RE, IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, BIKE RIDER SAFETY, IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WANTING TO SLOW PEOPLE DOWN SO THAT WAY ANY ACCIDENTS WE HAVE ARE NOT OF THE FATAL VARIETY.
UH, IT IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY, UH, I I DO APPRECIATE THE, THE ROAD DIET IS ONE OF THE OPTIONS.
'CAUSE UH, I DO KNOW FROM, FROM THE RESEARCH THAT IS, THAT DOES CREATE SAFETY.
UH, I I DID HAVE, BECAUSE, UH, QUITE A FEW PEOPLE BROUGHT IT UP AND I KNOW WE'VE HAD OTHER INTERSECTIONS, UM, WHERE THE, THE, THE SPEEDING TO, TO BEAT THE YELLOW IS, IS, IS A CONCERN.
UM, AND, AND THE FACT THAT WITH THE FORCE FOUR-WAY STOP THERE, THERE WERE NO FATAL CAR ACCIDENTS.
UH, I GUESS I, I WOULD ASK, UM, IS, IS THAT A A, A CONCERN, UH, A PEOPLE TRYING TO BEAT THE YELLOW, UM, FASTER SPEED IF WE DON'T INCLUDE A ROAD DIET? UH, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY ON, ON THE VERY WIDE STREET.
BALMAN, DO YOU WANNA ANSWER THAT? UH, COLLISIONS HAPPEN AT TRAFFIC SIGNALS TOO.
SO JUST BECAUSE YOU YOU YOU PUT A TRAFFIC SIGNAL, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU WILL NOT HAVE ACCIDENT.
AND SO, SO I, I GUESS THE QUESTION WOULD BE, UM, WOULD YOU AGREE THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT THOUGH, UM, CAN, CAN SLOW PEOPLE DOWN AND THE THE NATURAL HUMAN ERROR YOU, YOU JUST MENTIONED, WE'RE GONNA HAVE ERROR TALKING ABOUT THE ROAD DIET? YES.
YEAH, THE ROAD DIET WILL DEFINITELY CHANGE THE ENVIRONMENT.
IT WILL BE ONLY ONE LANE AND JUST PUTTING TWO LANES OF TRAFFIC INTO ONE, IT WILL MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT MORE, I WOULDN'T CALL IT CONGESTED, BUT IT GIVES IT A LITTLE BIT MORE, YOU KNOW, LESS OPPORTUNITY, LET'S PUT IT THAT WAY.
LESS OPPORTUNITY PEOPLE FOR TO, TO SPEED ALONG THAT ROAD JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TRAFFIC NOW IN, IN THE LANE.
SO, SO, SO AND SO IT REALLY WOULD DEPEND ON OUR PRIORITIES, RIGHT? RIGHT.
SO FOR PRIORITIZING SAFETY THEN YOU, YOU DEFINITELY WOULD WANNA INCLUDE A ROAD DIET.
UM, AS, AS FOR THE, I GUESS THE, THE TRAFFIC LIGHT VERSUS,
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VERSUS THE, THE STOP SIGNS.UH, AGAIN, I, I GUESS I WOULD REFER BACK TO, UM, THE ACCIDENTS WE HAVE HAD HAVE, HAVE BEEN OF, YOU KNOW, AS PEOPLE MENTIONED HERE, UH, HAVE BEEN VERY, VERY SLOW, RIGHT? IT'S PEOPLE MAKING MISTAKES ABOUT WHEN TO GO, BUT THEY'RE NOT DOING IT AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED.
WOULD WOULD WE ANTICIPATE THAT WITH, WITH WITH THE LIGHTS THAT, THAT WE WOULD HAVE HIGHER SPEED ACCIDENTS THAN WE WOULD HAVE AT THE, THE FOUR-WAY STOPS.
MOST OF THE FOUR-WAY STOPS IN THE COLLISIONS THAT WE DID FIND.
THE FIVE WERE THE BROAD SIDE AND IT WAS ALL FAILURE TO YIELD.
SO YES, THEY ARE GOING SLOWER.
YOU DO HAVE CASES THAT PEOPLE RUN THE STOP SIGN.
I MEAN THERE'S ALWAYS, YOU KNOW,
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IF THEY DON'T WANT TO STOP, THEY, THEY DO THE CALIFORNIA STOP AND THEY ROLL THROUGH, SO THAT HAPPENS RIGHT SIGNAL OR A STOP SIGN.
BUT YES, THE COLLISIONS THAT WE DID SHOW NONE OF THEM WERE THE FATALS.
BUT, BUT BUT SEVERE INJURY, YOU YOU'D AGREE.
A A A ROLL THROUGH ISN'T GONNA BE AS VIOLENT AS SOMEONE TRYING TO TO BEAT THE YELLOW.
UNLESS SOMEONE RUNS THE STOP SIGN.
THEN YOU HAVE THE SAME IDEA ON THE SIGNAL, RIGHT.
WHICH WE, WE HAVEN'T THE, THE LAST TWO YEARS.
THAT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE THE ISSUE.
JUST, JUST ANOTHER THING, AGAIN, IT GIVES YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE COMFORT.
AGAIN, WITH THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL, THERE'S SOME OPPORTUNITIES ALSO THAT YOU CAN DO WITH THE SIGNAL TIMING.
THE YELLOW TIMES CAN BE INCREASED SLIGHTLY SO THAT PEOPLE DON'T GET CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INTERSECTION.
THERE IS A FEATURE, WE CALL IT ALL RED, WHICH IS BASICALLY ONE YOU PROBABLY HAVE HEARD ABOUT.
SO BASICALLY AFTER THE YELLOW FINISHES, YOU BRING ALL THE APPROACHES TO A RED, RED SIGNAL SO THAT NOBODY, EVEN IF SOMEBODY RUNS THE YELLOW, THEY WILL NOT GET CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INTERSECTION WHEN THE OTHER APPROACHES COMES.
SO, SO, UH, I MEAN, JUST, JUST BECAUSE AGAIN, I MEAN THE, THE TECHNOLOGY SOUNDS GREAT, BUT THE, THE TECHNOLOGY ALSO FAILS.
IT DOES, I KNOW WHEN WE HAVE HAD THESE BAD STORMS, RIGHT? LIGHTS, LIGHTS NOT FUNCTIONING, UH, AND THEN WE, YOU KNOW, SO THE COST OF UPKEEP, RIGHT? BECAUSE ONCE YOU KNOW THERE'S AN INITIAL COST, BUT THEN THERE'S THE, THE UPKEEP COST, WHICH WHICH YOU WOULDN'T HAVE WITH THE STOP SIGNS.
SO WHAT, WHAT IS, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? I DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE MAINTENANCE COST FOR THE CITY FOR EACH SIGNAL IT'S A FEW THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR PROBABLY, OR SOMETHING IS MAIN MAINLY CHANGING OF THE LIGHT BULBS WHEN THE, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE LI BULBS BURN OUT AND THINGS, THEY HAVE TO DO SOME ROUTINE MAINTENANCE ONCE IN A WHILE AND ALL THAT.
UH, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YES, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ.
OKAY, SO WE'RE PROPOSING TO HAVE A STREET DIET FROM HOLBECK TO CITRUS ON CAMERON AND THEN FROM CITRUS TO BARRANCA, RIGHT? IS THAT THE CORRECT PROPOSAL? SO OF A TRIAL? THAT'LL BE A TRIAL? YEAH.
SO I'M JUST WONDERING, UM, ARE WE GONNA ROAD DIET THE REST? I MEAN, ARE WE GONNA GO ALL THE WAY TO, UM, WHAT IS IT? NO, NOT JUST GRAND, BUT I MEAN THE OTHER WAY GOING WEST AZUA, WEST COVINA PARKWAY, ARE WE GONNA GO ALL THE WAY OVER THERE AND ROAD DIET, EVERYTHING? I, I DON'T BELIEVE IN ROAD DIETING.
UM, THAT IS A HUGE STREET THAT NEEDS, UM, MAYBE A SIGNAL, MAYBE NOT.
I THINK THAT IT SHOULD GO BACK MAYBE TO THE RESIDENTS, BUT, UM, MY UNDERSTANDING ALSO, I HAD A, A RESIDENT THAT HAD A CONCERN ABOUT IF SOMEONE IS SPEEDING THROUGH A YELLOW THERE AND I GUESS THERE'S SOME DIPS THERE THAT THEY SAY THEY'RE GONNA BE FLYING UP IN THE AIR.
SO I MEAN, THAT'S SOMETHING TO CONSIDER, I GUESS.
UM, BUT UM, I, I JUST DON'T THINK WE NEED TO DO THE ROAD DIET.
AND AS FAR AS THE SIGNAL I AM, I, I THINK WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOLBECK AND CAMERON AND CAMERON AND BARRANCA AND THEN MOVE FURTHER EAST, THEN YOU HAVE ONE ON GRANT, SO ALL THESE SIGNALS ARE THERE, BUT YET HOL I MEAN, CAMERON AND CITRUS WON'T HAVE ONE.
IT KIND OF DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME, BUT I THINK THE RESIDENTS SHOULD HAVE A SAY AND I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE THE RESIDENTS, UM, HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY WANT AND WHAT THEY DON'T WANT.
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THAT'S ALL.JUST FOR INFORMATION, THE SIGNAL WAS BROUGHT UP TO ALL THE, UM, AT THE COMMUNITY MEETINGS, THE TRAFFIC COMMISSION, THE ROAD DIET WAS NOT.
SO TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION.
I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, I, UH, FORTUNATELY WE, WE JUST HAD OUR MAYOR'S HIKE, UH, THIS, UH, PAST WEEKEND.
AND, UM, I THINK THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT, THAT CAME OUT OF, OF THE HIKE IS, IS HOW WALKING SOME STREETS FELT VERY UNSAFE.
UH, AND THERE DID NOT FEEL TO BE PROTECTION.
THERE'S, THERE'S NOWHERE TO BIKE.
UH, AND A LOT OF, A LOT OF RESIDENTS ACTUALLY APPRECIATED GOING AND, AND DOING THE WALK THROUGH THE WASH, UM, BECAUSE IT WAS PROTECTED, RIGHT? YOU, YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO FEAR OF, OF CARS.
UH, AND, AND SO, UM, AGAIN, I I THINK IF WE, WE WE'RE GONNA MAKE A DECISION ON WHAT ARE WE PRIORITIZING, UM, I MEAN THE, THE DATA IS CLEAR THAT THE, THE, THE ROAD DIET MAKE, MAKE IT SAFER.
NOW THERE'S A TRADE OFF, RIGHT? THAT THERE, IT WILL, IT WILL, WILL CAUSE A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, CONGESTION.
UM, BUT AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S WHAT, WHAT IS THE PRIORITY? IF THE PRIORITY IS, IS SAFETY AND, AND PUBLIC SAFETY, THEN, THEN THE OPTIONS WITH THE ROAD DIET, UM, ARE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE MOST SAFE.
NOW IF, IF, IF, IF SAFETY IS NOT THE PRIORITY OR NOT THE HIGHEST OF PRIORITIES, THEN MAYBE WE WILL TRY SOMETHING ELSE.
BUT, UH, I, I THINK IT'S, IT'S CLEAR FROM THE PRESENTATION NOW, I, I DO THINK, UH, THAT IF THE COMMUNITY HASN'T BEEN PRESENTED WITH THE ROAD DIET, THEN DEFINITELY WE NEED TO GO BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AND SAY, OKAY, HERE'S, HERE IS THE, NOW THAT WE'VE STUDIED IT MORE, UH, THIS IS WHAT THE ROAD DIET PRESENTS IN TERMS OF PUBLIC SAFETY, IN TERMS OF PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, UH, IN TERMS OF BIKEABILITY WALKABILITY.
AND THE, THIS IS AN OPTION TO GO ALONG WITH THE, THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL OR THE FOUR-WAY STOP.
UH, AND, AND THE COMMUNITY SHOULD BE ABLE TO, TO, TO SPEAK ON THAT.
UH, AND I, I AGREE WITH, UH, WHAT THE COUNCILWOMAN SAID.
UH, UM, SO, UM, I WILL, UH, MAYOR, MAYOR PROAM WU HAS SOME QUESTIONS.
UH, NO, I'M JUST, UH, SINCE THE OKAY.
THE ROAD DIET OPTION, NEVER PRESENT TO THE RESIDENT.
AND THE, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, LOPEZ VIDO REGARDING, WHICH WILL BRING BACK TO THE, AND OF NOT JUST THE
THE NOTIFICATION POSSIBLE FROM AZUA TO GRAND, BECAUSE THIS IS A MAJOR, MAJOR STREET AND ALL THE RESIDENT LEAVE A LOT OF RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD IS A BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL STREET.
SO THE RESIDENT, THEY NEED TO HAVE INPUT.
THEY, WE NEED THEM TO SAY WHAT THEY WANT.
DO THEY WANT LIKE THIS CURRENTLY OR THEY WANT THE ROAD DIET TO NARROW.
LIKE THEY, THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THIS IS THEIR STREET AND THEY NEED TO HAVE A SAY.
SO I MOVE THE MOTION TO, UM, TABLE THIS AND SEND BACK TO THE COMMUNITY TO SHOW TO THE RESIDENT FROM AZUA TO GRAND, AND THEN NOTIFY ALL THE RESIDENT ON THAT STREET OKAY.
AND, UH, SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD REGARDING WHAT THEY WANT.
AND THEY NEED TO PARTICIPATE, HAVE INPUT.
THEY WANT A ROAD DIET OR THEY WANT TO INTEREST, THEY WANT TO TRAFFIC SIGNAL OR THEY WANT LIKE THIS.
AND, UH, SO IN THAT WAY, UH, WE CAN HAVE, UH, THE DATA OKAY.
AND COME TO, AND THEN ANOTHER THING I WANT TO REQUEST TO HAVE A ACCIDENT ON THE BARRANCA AND, UH, CAMERON, AFTER THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL, HOW MANY OKAY.
AND THE SAME THING TO THE BARRANCA, NOT BARRANCA.
AND THIS AND THE CAMERON, WE WANT TO DO A COMPARISON.
THE STOP SIGN AND THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND WHAT KIND OF ACCIDENT, WHAT KIND OF, UH, UH, UH, SEVERE ACCIDENT OR FATALITY.
WE WANT TO SEE THE NUMBER, UH, WITHIN THE 12 MONTHS.
SO WE CAN MAKE A, A COMPARISON, BUT THEN I MOVE THE MOTION.
UH, BEFORE WE, UM, DEAL WITH THE MOTION, UH, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ HAD A QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS.
UM, I THINK THAT, UM, IF WE'RE GONNA GO FROM AZUA, WHY NOT GO FROM VINCENT ROAD DIET, BUT SINCE THOSE ARE TWO LANES ALSO I UNDERSTAND.
BUT SINCE THEY PROVIDE THIS OKAY.
OPTION AND, UH, SINCE THE AZUA TO GRAND,
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BASICALLY ONE STREET.AND OF COURSE THEN, THEN WE CAN EXTEND IT EVEN MORE FROM ZA TO, TO VINCENT.
BUT, BUT I THINK, OKAY, THEY TALKING ABOUT HOLBECK AND TO CITRUS, THEY JUST ONE PORTION, IT DOESN'T CONSIST WITH AN ENTIRE STREET.
SO THAT'S WHY I SAY YOU CAN, YOU CAN ASK AMANDA, SAY, LET'S GO TO THE WEST COVINA PARKWAY.
I MEAN, IF WE'RE NOT GONNA BE CONSISTENT AND WE'RE JUST GONNA WORRY ABOUT THIS LITTLE SECTION WHERE IT'S GONNA BOTTLENECK, IN MY OPINION.
UM, I, I FIGURE IF YOU'RE GONNA ROAD DIET, ROAD DIET, BUT ANOTHER THING I HAVE TO SAY IS, UH, THE BIG ISSUE HERE IS, UM, OUR ENFORCEMENT, WE NEED A LOT OF TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT.
WE NEED TO GET AFTER PEOPLE THAT ARE SPEEDING.
AND, AND I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH OFFICERS OUT THERE.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE ARE WORKING ON.
BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
AND THE OTHER ISSUE IS, AND THIS IS PROBABLY FOR A, UH, WEST COVINA, UM, SCHOOL DISTRICT MEETING, BUT OUR KIDS DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE.
I DON'T THINK THAT WE HAVE THE EDUCATION IN OUR SCHOOLS LIKE WE USED TO WHEN WE HAD DRIVER'S ED.
PEOPLE ARE NOT SAFE OUT THERE WALKING.
I, I MEAN PEOPLE ARE CLOSE TO GETTING RUN OVER BECAUSE PEOPLE DO THEIR CALIFORNIA ROLE.
ONE, 1002, OKAY, NOW IT'S YOUR TURN.
OR THE PERSON TO THE RIGHT IS THE PERSON THAT GOES FIRST.
IF YOU GUYS MEET AT THE SAME TIME, THERE'S JUST THESE RULES THAT THESE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW.
UM, JUST IN GENERAL, AFTER COVID, EVERYTHING, JUST EVERYONE, NOT JUST KIDS, ADULTS.
OBVIOUSLY I WAS INVOLVED IN A CAR, A BAD CAR ACCIDENT.
SO THAT'S A WHOLE NEW DIFFERENT, UM, GO.
IT'S A WHOLE NEW DIFFERENT TOPIC.
BUT IN REFERENCE TO THIS, I KNOW THE STUDY HAS BEEN DONE FOR THIS SECTION.
THE FUNDING IS FOR THIS SECTION.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I DO LIKE THE, THE ROAD, LIKE I SAID, WHATEVER IS BEST FOR THE COMMUNITY, UM, YOU KNOW, BEST YOUR STREETS, UH, WHERE YOU LIVE AT.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, GOING BACK WITH THIS NEW, NEW, UM, OPTIONS IS, UH, EYEOPENING BECAUSE THE ROAD DIET IS NEW FOR US AND EVERYONE.
AND FOR THAT, I WOULD HOLD ON BEFORE, UH, COUNCILMAN CONTOS AND, UH, MAYOR PROTE WU.
UM, JUST, I WANNA BE CLEAR 'CAUSE WE DID HAVE A MOTION.
SO I WANNA MAKE SURE WE ARE ALL UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE MOTION ON THE TABLE IS BEFORE I ALLOW SOME OTHER PEOPLE TO, TO COMMENT.
SO CAN YOU, CAN YOU REITERATE THE, THE, WELL LET, LET'S DO, LET, CAN WE DO THE, THE MOTION FIRST? LET, YEAH, LET ME, LET'S SHARE THE MOTION FIRST.
UH, THE MOTION AS I UNDERSTAND IT, IS TO TABLE THE ITEM TO BRING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY TO MAKE A DECISION TO BRING FORTH ADDITIONAL, UM, ACCIDENT INFORMATION AT BARCA AND CAMERON AND HOLBECK AND CAMERON OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS.
OKAY? SINCE THE ROAD DIET NEVER PRESENT TO THE RESIDENT.
AND, UH, IF I DON'T LIKE THE ROAD DIET, BUT THEY STILL, THEY'RE THREE.
SO THEN PEOPLE TO NEED TO PARTICIPATE, SEE, OKAY.
HOW THEY THINK ABOUT ROAD DIET.
THEY NEED TO, OKAY, SO, SO, SO, SO THE MOTION IS INCLUDING TO EXTEND, UH, FOR YES.
DO YOU WANT US TO BRING THE SIGNAL BACK AS WELL, OR JUST THE ROAD DIET? UH, MY, OKAY.
INCLUDING THE, TO THE RESIDENTS TO COMMUNITY.
UH, PREVIOUSLY YOU DIDN'T PROVIDE THE ROAD DIAL TO THE RESIDENT, RIGHT? CORRECT.
WE, SO RIGHT NOW WE WANT BRING EVERYTHING INCLUDING THE SIGNAL.
INCLUDING WHY YOU HAVE A ROAD DI WITH SIGNAL AND THE ROAD DIAL ONLY.
SO THE SAME THING YOU PRESENT TO US, HOPEFULLY CAN PRESENT TO THE RESIDENT ON LESS ENTIRE STREET.
SO ALL THE RESIDENT CAN PARTICIPATE ABOUT WHAT THEY WANT.
UH, BE BEFORE, UH, COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ BIRO.
SO, UH, SO I, I, I DO THINK THAT THAT, UH, COUNCILWOMAN YOU, YOU MENTIONED THAT THIS, THIS WAS SPECIFIC TO THIS, THIS AREA.
UH, AND I, I, I, I UNDERSTAND THE MOTION WANTS TO EXTEND, UH, OUR, OUR VIEW OF WHERE THE ROAD DIET SHOULD GO.
UH, I I DON'T THINK THAT'S APPROPRIATE.
WE, WE DO HAVE THE MOTION THOUGH.
UH, SO DID WE, YOU WANNA MAKE A COMMENT? YES.
UM, BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE ONCE IT GOES BACK OUT TO THE RESIDENTS, THAT THE RADIUS OF NOTIFICATION IS EXPANDED.
SO IT'S NOT JUST THE 500, UM, PORTION OF AS WHAT ONE RESIDENT MENTIONED.
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COUNSEL CONTOS? YES.YEAH, I, I I AGREE A HUNDRED PERCENT, BUT, BUT DUE TO THEY PROPOSED CERTAINLY HAVE THIS ROAD DIE OPTION, UH, MY UNDERSTANDING, WE JUST EITHER HAVE A TRAFFIC SIGNAL OR NO TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
OKAY? NOW YOU HAVE THIS ROAD DOWN IS KIND OF ALL NEW, NARROW DOWN THE STREET, AND THEN YOU, WHEN YOU NARROW DOWN THE STREET, YOU CANNOT NARROW DOWN THE STREET ONLY ONE SECTION, RIGHT? IT'S FROM, FROM FROM HOLLAND BACK.
LIKE YOUR PROPOSAL, YOUR PROPOSED BASICALLY FROM HOLLAND BACK TO CITRUS.
NOW THEN HOW ABOUT FROM CITRA TO BARRANCA? NO, IT'S FROM, WE PROPOSED FROM BARRANCA TO HOLLENBECK.
SO ONCE YOU GO FURTHER WEST IN THE CITY ON CAMERON, IT HAS A WHOLE DIFFERENT DYNAMIC.
SO, SO REALLY QUICK, SO, SO I CAN AMEND MY MOTION.
SO BASICALLY HOLD 'EM BACK TO AZUSA IS A DIFFERENT DYNAMIC.
WELL, YOU HAVE DIFFERENT STREET WIDTHS.
YOU HAVE COMMERCIAL THROWN IN WITH RESIDENTIAL, YOU HAVE A COUPLE OF SCHOOLS YOU'RE PASSING.
UM, SO IT, YES, IT HAS A DIFFERENT DYNAMICS AND THE ONLY, IT MAY NOT FIT ALL THE WAY DOWN THERE.
THE ONLY ONE SCHOOL YOU PASS IN IS BARRANCA.
YOU HAVE SOUTH HILL HIGH SCHOOL, OKAY.
OKAY? THERE'S WEST COVINA HIGH SCHOOL IS, THEN WE GO TO CAMERON, THEN YOU WILL PASS AZUA ON THE OTHER SIDE.
NO, IF THEY STRETCHED IT, THE, THE, THE WEST CO, THE WEST CO HIGH SCHOOLA.
I MEAN, WE WOULD, WE WOULD HAVE TO EXPLORE THAT TO MAKE SURE IT'S NO, WE, WE ARE NOT GOING TO PASS AZUSA.
THE, THE, THE DYNAMIC WHAT YOU JUST MENTIONED IS WHAT I'M JUST WEST ASK YOU IF YOU SAY DYNAMIC, BUT WHAT DYNAMIC, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HOLLAND BACK TO AZUA.
OKAY, THERE'S ALL RESIDENTIAL SIMILAR TO THE BARCA, SIMILAR TO THE HOLLAND, BACK TO AZUSA.
IT'S THE SAME, SAME HOUSES, OKAY.
AND SAME STREET AND THE SAME FOUR LAND.
SO HOW CAN THAT BE DIFFERENT DYNAMIC? CAN I CLARIFY SOMETHING? ARE YOU ASKING? IS YOUR CONCERN THE TRANSITION BETWEEN WHERE WE START THE ROAD DIET ON HOLBECK BEFORE AND AFTER THAT INTERSECTION AND HOW THAT'S GOING TO, UH, FLOW BETWEEN THOSE TWO AREAS? ONE WITH ROAD DIET AND ONE WITH NOT? OR DO YOU WANT TO ADD ROAD DIET BETWEEN AZUA AND HOLLENBECK? LET'S, LET'S, THAT'S WHY MY PO OKAY.
BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE IF YOU JUST START WITH A BARRANCA.
NO, I'M SORRY TO HOLD THEM BACK TO BARRANCA AND YOU HAVE, UH, THE ISSUE THE SAME STREET AND THEY LOOK RIDICULOUS, YOU HAVE FALLEN.
AND THEN BARRANCA, YOU BECOME TWO LAND, AND THEN AFTER, OKAY, AFTER BARRANCA, THEN YOU BECOME FULL LAND AGAIN.
SO, SO WHERE IS THE CONSISTENCY ON THIS BEAUTIFUL STREET? WE CAN GO BACK AND TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THAT TRANSITION WOULD LOOK LIKE, WHAT ROAD DIET WOULD BE APPROPRIATE, NOT INTERSECTION AND BRING IT BACK.
JUST WANT TO, WE WANT IT TO FLOW.
YOU NEED TO HAVE A CONSISTENCY.
WE DON'T WANNA DESTROY THE BEAUTIFUL STREET.
OKAY? AND, UM, AND AT THE SAME TIME, WE WANT SAFETY.
AND SO I THINK, OKAY, UH, SO MY MOTION BASICALLY WAS THIS, THE TRAFFIC, UH, DEPARTMENT.
COMMITTEE TO LOOK INTO THIS OPTION TO PRESENT TO THE COMMUNITY.
OKAY? THAT, OKAY? BASIC RESIDENT THERE WILL BE NOTIFIED REGARDING ALL THIS OPTION.
AND BECAUSE YOU, WHEN YOU GO TO THE RURAL DIAL, THEN, THEN IT IS HAVE IMPACT TO ALMOST ENTIRE RESIDENT OVER THERE.
OKAY? IT IS NOW NO LONGER OF A COUPLE HOUSES OR INTERSECTION.
CAN YOU RE REPEAT THE MOTION IN THE SECOND SO WE ALL KNOW? NO, YOU, YOU MIGHT BE LOST
SO ONE IS TO GO BACK TO THE COMMUNITY FOR INPUT ON THE ROAD DIET WITH THE TRAFFIC, UH, TRAFFIC SIGNAL WITH THE LIGHT, UM, TO GO TO LOOK AT ROAD DIET,
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TO EXTEND IT TO AZUA AND TO GRAND, AND LOOKING AT WHAT ROAD DIETS WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR THOSE AREAS.AND THEN TO BRING BACK THE ACCIDENT COUNTS AT BARRANCA AND CAMERON INTERSECTION.
AND THE HOLLENBACK CAMERON INTERSECTION IS, IS INCLUDING THE LOOKING TO THE FROM BAREN BARRANCA TO GRAND.
THAT IS VERY PROBLEMATIC STREET.
UM, AND THEN TO MAKE SURE THAT WE NOTIFY RESIDENTS THAT WOULD BE IMPACTED AWAY.
OKAY? STREETS ARE ON DIET
UH, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY, ANY COMMENT BEFORE THE, THE, THE VOTE? ANY OTHER COMMENT? DEBATE? OKAY, SO WE WILL CLOSE THIS OUT.
SO I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN WOO.
A SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ.
MAYOR CALDERONE IS ABOUT TO BUY.
OKAY, WE ARE MOVING TO CITY COUNCIL REPORTS.
UH, ANY AB 1, 2, 3, 4 CONFERENCE AND MEETING REPORTS? UH, SEEING NONE,
[CITY COUNCIL REQUESTS FOR REPORTS, STUDIES OR INVESTIGATION]
UH, ANY CITY COUNCIL REQUESTS? COUNCILMAN CONTOS.I, I WANTED TO, TO ASK ABOUT, UH, TO REVISIT AN ISSUE FROM A, A FEW YEARS AGO THAT I ACTUALLY, UM, HAD ON, ON ONE OF MY, UH, ITEMS FROM WHEN I WAS RUNNING ORIGINALLY.
AND I WAS JUST WONDERING IF, UH, STAFF WOULD BE WILLING TO LOOK INTO, UH, SOLAR FARM POSSIBILITIES UP IN THE UPPER RIDGE WITH THE BKK AREA, UM, BECAUSE IT COULD BE AN ENVIRONMENTAL WAY TO, TO INCREASE, UH, EN UH, ENERGY, RENEWABLE ENERGY AND, AND ALSO GENERATE REVENUE TO THE CITY.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WAS A PROPOSAL BACK IN 2020 THAT, UH, THAT COULD BE POSSIBLY CONSIDERED, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S EVER BEEN REVISITED, AND I'D LIKE FOR THAT TO COME BACK SOMEHOW.
SO I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CONTOS, UH, SECOND BY MAYOR CALDRON TOBA TO LOOK INTO THE POSSIBILITIES OF A SOLAR FARM AT THE BBKK AREA.
UH, THEN I WILL, I'LL GO AHEAD AND, UM, MAKE MY REQUEST, UH, AGAIN, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS, UH, AS, AS ELECTEDS IS, IS, AND ESPECIALLY AS LOCAL ELECTEDS, UM, WE ARE THE, THE CLOSEST, UH, TO, TO THE VOTERS.
UM, WE ARE THE ONES THAT THEY CAN COME AND, AND SPEAK TO, AND THEN WE, WE CAN SPEAK FOR THEM.
UH, AS SOME OF YOU MAY NOT KNOW, UH, CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW, A A MEMBER OF A CONGRESSWOMAN NAPOLITANO STAFF IS WATCHING THIS MEETING JUST AS A MEMBER OF ASSEMBLYWOMAN BLANCA RUBIO STAFF IS WATCHING THIS MEETING, AS IS A MEMBER OF STATE SENATOR SUSAN RUBIO'S STAFF IS WATCHING THIS MEETING AS IS LA COUNTY SUPERVISOR HILDE.
SO LISA'S STAFF IS WATCHING THIS MEETING, UH, AND, AND THEY WATCH THESE MEETINGS BECAUSE WHAT THIS, THIS COUNCIL, WHAT THIS BODY DECIDES DOES REPRESENT, UM, WHAT THE, THE PEOPLE OF WEST COVINA, UH, WANT.
UH, AND IT'S, IT'S WHY WE, WE DO HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT.
IT'S WHY THE PUBLIC COMMENT, UH, IS NOT JUST ON AGENDA ISSUES, BUT IT'S ON ANY ISSUE THAT IS CONCERNING THE COMMUNITY.
UH, AND SO, YOU KNOW, A A, A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION TO, TO BE IZED, UM, DOES GIVE THE COMMUNITY AND OPPORTUNITY ALL, ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
I MEAN, TONIGHT WE SAW MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT, THAT WANT A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
UM, BUT I'M SURE THERE ARE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO DO NOT.
UM, BUT WHEN THE ITEM IS NOT AGENDIZED THAT THEY DON'T KNOW TO COME TO SPEAK AND TO SHARE, UM, ONE OF THE THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT OUR SYSTEM IS, IS WE DO HAVE THIS, THIS LOCAL GOVERNMENT, AND WHEN WE AGENDIZE ITEMS, WE NOTIFY THE PUBLIC THAT THIS, THIS IS GONNA BE A DISCUSSION, THIS IS GONNA BE A TOPIC, THIS IS GONNA BE SOMETHING YOU CAN WEIGH IN ON.
AND THEN WE CAN ALL MAKE, UH, INFORMED DECISIONS AF AFTER THE LAST REQUEST.
UM, YOU KNOW, I WAS ABLE TO, TO SPEAK, UM, WITH JASON
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MOTTS, UH, THE, UH, JEWISH FEDERATION, AND IT WAS A GREAT CONVERSATION.UH, AND THAT CONVERSATION CAME ABOUT BECAUSE WE, UM, BROUGHT THE REQUEST, UH, ON THE DAAS.
AND, AND AGAIN, I THINK WE HAVE PRECEDENT.
O OTHER CITIES HAVE SHOWN THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS CAN AND, AND SHOULD TAKE UP.
UM, IT'S BEEN VOTED ON AND APPROVED IN MANY CITIES.
IT'S ALSO BEEN, UH, DENIED AND FAILED IN OTHER CITIES.
UH, I THINK FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVINA AT THIS TIME, TO BE ON RECORD ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, UM, IS WHY OUR SYSTEM EXISTS.
AND SO, UH, I AM REQUESTING, UH, THAT WE AGENDIZE, UH, A CEASEFIRE, UH, RESOLUTION.
UM, NOW, I, I AM NOT REQUESTING IT FOR OUR NEXT COUNCIL MEETING BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE, UM, IF IT IS SECONDED, UH, THAT WE ARE THOUGHTFUL, UH, AND THAT WHATEVER WE PRESENT, UH, HAS INPUT FROM, UH, MANY STAKEHOLDERS.
UH, SO, UH, THAT IS, UM, MY REQUEST.
UM, AND SO I WILL WAIT FOR A SECOND.
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT BRINGING RESPECTABILITY POWER, ALL RIGHT? YEAH.
SEEING, SEEING, SEEING NO SECOND.
IF I MAY, DURING THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION, I DID FORGET TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THERE WERE TWO EMAILS THAT THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE RECEIVED.
THERE ARE COPIES, UM, AT YOUR, YOUR SEATS FOR YOU FOR THAT.
AND THEN THEY'VE ALSO BEEN EMAILED TO YOU AS WELL.
SIR, SIR, CAN YOU, CAN YOU PLEASE STEP OUT? PLEASE STEP OUT.
THIS BOY, YOU PICKED UP A MAG, RIGHT, SIR? THANK YOU.
ANY BEAUTIFUL, A BEAUTIFUL STREET.
YOU KNOW, ALL THE BEAUTIFUL STREETS THAT GUYS ARE BEING BLOWN TO HELP.
CAN SEE'S FIRE NOW? LET'S GO FIRE NOW.
WHAT'S STOPPING? WHAT'S STOPPING YOU? YEAH, MAN.
SHAME ON ALL WE'RE GONNA REMEMBER.