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WELCOME TO OUR DECEMBER 17TH, 2024 CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
RIGHT NOW IS SEVEN O'CLOCK ON TIME.
MEETING IS NOW IN SECTION, AND TONIGHT INVOCATION WILL BE LEFT BY TRAVELING.
OKAY, PASTOR FROM THE WEST COVINA POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE MAYO PROTEIN LOPEZ, FIDO WILL LEAD US IN THE PLEASURE OF LEGION.
HEAVENLY FATHER, TONIGHT, WE COME BEFORE YOU AND WE ARE SO THANKFUL TO LIVE OR WORK IN THE GREAT CITY OF WEST COVINA AND TO BE A PART OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
FATHER, WE PRAY YOUR BLESSING ON THIS COUNCIL MEETING AND THAT YOU WOULD BE WITH OUR LEADERS, LORD, THAT YOU WOULD SPEAK TO THEM AND GIVE THEM WISDOM AND BLESS THEIR DECISIONS TONIGHT.
FATHER, AS WELL TONIGHT, GOD, WE HONOR A GREAT MAN IN OUR COMMUNITY.
CHIEF RICHARD BELL, UPON HIS RETIREMENT, PRAY YOUR BLESSING UPON HIM, ON HIS FAMILY AS HE STEPS INTO THIS NEW SEASON OF LIFE.
LET HIM KNOW, LORD, HOW MUCH HE IS LOVED AND APPRECIATED BY US, THE CITIZENS OF WEST COVINA.
GOD, TONIGHT WE LIFT UP ALL WHO ARE SERVING OUT ON THE STREETS, UH, WATCHING OVER US AND KEEPING US SAFE.
GOD, EVERYBODY IN THE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS, PRAY, LORD, THAT YOU WOULD CONTINUE TO BLESS THEM.
GIVE THEM SUCCESS, LORD, AND KEEP THEM SAFE.
AND THANK YOU, GOD ONCE AGAIN FOR YOUR PRESENCE HERE AND YOUR BLESSING UPON THIS MEETING TONIGHT.
FACE THE FLAG, PUT YOUR RIGHT HAND OVER YOUR HEART.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC, WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD AND THE VIS LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
AND ASSISTANT CITY CALLED ROYAL CALL POLICE.
UH, THE, WE DON'T HAVE A CLOSED SESSION, SO IF NOTHING TO REPORT OUT.
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ARE GOING TO OUR PRESENTATION AND, UH, WE HAVE A COUPLE PRESENTATIONS.SO THE FIRST ONE, WE WANT TO HAVE OUR BELOVED COUNCILWOMAN.
CON CONGRESSWOMAN GRACE NAPOLITAN, FINAL LEGISLATIVE UPDATE.
AND I THINK SHE HAS A VIDEO FOR US DUE TO HER PHYSICAL, UH, CONDITION.
AND I THINK SHE WANT TO GIVE SOME REPORT AND SAY FAREWELL TO WEST COVINA.
HELLO, I AM CONGRESSWOMAN GRACE NAPOLITANO, PROUDLY REPRESENTING CALIFORNIA 31ST DISTRICT.
IT HAS BEEN MY DISTINCT HONOR IN THE HONOR OF MY LIFE TO REPRESENT YOU AND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY IN CONGRESS FOR THE LAST 26 YEARS.
I AM SO PROUD OF EVERYTHING WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED TOGETHER THROUGH MY, AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR TRUSTING ME TO BE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE.
THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU PUBLIC OFFICIALS THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITIES.
FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO DAY IN AND DAY OUT, SERVING OUR RESIDENTS.
I WAS VERY PLEASED TO HELP OUR CITIZENS OBTAIN OVER 95 MILLION FOR JUST THREE YEARS FISCAL SCHOOL, YEAR 22 TO 24 THROUGH THE COMMUNITY FUNDING PROCESS, PLUS 25.5 MILLION FOR THE ENTIRE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY REGION, FOR THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY RESTORATION FUND.
THIS BASIN PROVIDES DRINKING WATER FOR OVER HALF OF LOS ANGELES, ANGELES COUNTY, AND CONTINUED EFFORT DEDICATED TO THE RESTORATION AND CLEANING OF EXISTING AND EMERGING CONTAMINANTS IS VITAL TO NOT ONLY PROTECTING OUR GROUNDWATER, BUT ALSO REDUCING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S RELIANCE ON COSTLY IMPORTED WATER, INCLUDING THE 20 FISCAL YEAR.
A PROBATION'S BILL IS AN ADDITIONAL 7 MILLION IN FUNDING FOR THIS PROJECT.
ADDITIONALLY, FISCAL YEAR 25 COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING PROJECTS TOTALING 22 MILLION WERE INCLUDED IN THE HOUSES 25 YEAR PROBATION BILL FOR OUR GREAT COMMUNITIES.
HOUSE AND SENATE APPROPRIATORS ARE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF FINALIZING FUNDING AND WE'LL KEEP YOU UPDATED ON THE PROCESS.
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR ALLOWING ME TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THIS END OF THE YEAR LEGISLATIVE UPDATE.
LASTLY, I WANT TO THANK MY MOST WONDERFUL, EFFICIENT AND DEDICATED STAFF FOR ALL.
STILL COMMITTED TO PUBLIC SERVICE HAS BEEN OUR DISTINCT HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO SERVE YOU IN MY ENTIRE DISTRICT, OUR GREAT STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND OUR BELOVED NATION.
WE STILL HAVE ANOTHER MONTH IN THE WORK TO DO, AND I'LL GIVE 110% EVERY DAY FIGHTING FOR OUR SAN GABRIEL VALLEY IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.
THANK YOU ALL AND GOD BLESS YOU.
AND, AND REALLY QUICK, I WANT TO THANK OUR
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CONGRESSWOMAN GRACE FOR HER SERVICE.I REMEMBER THIS NINE YEARS WHEN I WORK WITH HER, SHE ALWAYS PICK UP MY PHONE WHEN I CALL HER AND THEN I SAY, HI, GRACE.
AND SHE SAY, WHAT DO YOU WANT, TONY? I SAY, AND I NEED SOME MONEY, MOM.
OKAY? BECAUSE CITY NEEDS SOME FUNDING AND SHE ALWAYS TRY TO FIND THE FUNDING DURING THE 2020 WHEN I WAS MAYOR, UH, UH, WE NEED, UH, SOME KIND OF, UH, TESTING CENTER DUE TO, WE DON'T HAVE, UH, ANY, UH, FACILITY FOR THAT AND THAT WE WANT TO USE THE CDBG FUND.
AND, UH, CONGRESSWOMAN, UH, THAT TIME, THE CITY MANAGER, UH, OKAY, UH, THEY COMPANY AND CAME TO ME AND SAY, LET'S CALL CONGRESSWOMAN AND SEE SHE CAN HELP HER WITH CDBG FUND.
I CALL HER, SHE PICK UP THE PHONE RIGHT AWAY.
I SAY, CONGRESS, CONGRESSWOMAN, WOULD YOU PLEASE HELP US? WE NEED TO USE A-C-D-B-G FUND USING TO PAY AUTOMATE TO HAVE A TEST CENTER.
SHE SAID, I WILL WORK ON IT, AND SHE GET IT DONE.
AND WE HAVE A TEST CENTER FROM CONGRESSWOMAN AND WE CAN RIGHT AWAY SERVICE OUR RESIDENT IN WEST COVINA, UH, DURING THE PANDEMIC TIME.
SO I WANT TO THANK HER SERVICE.
SHE'S SO GRACEFUL AND SO APPROACHABLE, AND, UH, I HOPE ALL THE FUTURE CITY, OKAY.
AND ALL THE FUTURE CONGRESSMEN, CONGRESSWOMAN, OR SENATOR, THEY ARE WILLING TO PICK UP THE PHONE FROM US TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM IN WEST COVINA.
SO I WANT TO THANK SINCERE, OKAY.
AND, UH, APPRECIATION TO, UH, CONGRESSWOMAN TO SERVE WEST COVINA FOR SUCH A LONG TIME.
AND I DON'T KNOW ANY OTHER, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER WANNA SAY SOMETHING? GO AHEAD.
AND, UH, COUNCILMAN OLI CANTO.
I, I'D LIKE TO ADD MY, MY DEEPEST APPRECIATION, UH, TO A CONGRESSWOMAN GRACE POLITANO.
WHEN I CAME INTO OFFICE, SHE WAS JUST SO RECEPTIVE RIGHT AWAY.
AND WHEN I FLEW TO WASHINGTON WITH LITERALLY LESS THAN 36 HOURS NOTICE, SHE, SHE SAW ME RIGHT AWAY, AND SHE LITERALLY GAVE ME, WHEN I MET WITH HER, SHE GAVE ME HER PERSONAL CELL PHONE, HER HOME NUMBER.
SO SHE'S JUST WAS SUCH A WONDERFUL ASSET AND, AND HER YEARS OF SERVICE ARE TO BE REMEMBERED FOR A LONG TIME BECAUSE OF THE WAYS THAT SHE HAS TOUCHED THE LIVES OF ALL OF US HERE IN, IN HER DISTRICT.
I'M JUST REALLY EXCITED, UH, IN JUST LOOKING AHEAD, UM, AS WE PREPARE, UH, FOR AN, UH, ADDITIONAL AND LEADERSHIP, UH, WITH GIL CISNEROS COMING INTO OFFICE.
AND, YOU KNOW, IT'LL BE GREAT FOR HIM TO BUILD ON LEG THE LEGACY THAT, THAT A CONGRESSWOMAN NAPOLITANO HAS LEFT FOR ALL OF US.
AND I'M, I JUST WANTED TO JOIN WITH THE MAYOR AND REALLY EXPRESSING MY ENTHUSIASTIC GRATITUDE FOR HER, FOR HER SERVICE, FOR HER BEING SUCH A WONDERFUL PERSON AND FOR BEING A, AN INCREDIBLE EXAMPLE TO ALL OF US.
AGAIN, A FEW PEOPLE, UH, AT HOME OR OVER HERE DEN CAN SEE WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL CAPITAL.
OKAY? AND BLANKET HANG ON THE WALL.
THAT IS THE GIFT OF, UH, OUR CONGRESSWOMAN AND, UH, DEPARTURE GIFT.
I KNOW ONE OF US, ABSOLUTELY NOT ME.
WE MAYBE ONE DAY GO TO THE CAPITOL, WE PRESENT THIS DISTRICT, AND, UH, SO ANYWAY, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
AND ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL WANNA SAY SOMETHING? OKAY.
UH, GO AHEAD, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ.
YEAH, I JUST, JUST WANNA SAY, UH, TO CONGRESSWOMAN GRACE PONTIANO, UH, THANK YOU FOR REPRESENTING YOUR DISTRICT, UH, FOR ALL THE WORK YOU'VE DONE FOR THE RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA AND, AND THROUGHOUT THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.
UH, YOU ARE A ICON AND, AND YOUR LEGACY WILL LIVE ON, UH, IN THIS DISTRICT.
AND, UH, THANK YOU AGAIN, UH, FOR YOUR, YOUR KIND VIDEO AND, AND ALL THE HARD WORK YOU'VE DONE THROUGHOUT YOUR TENURE IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUT, ANY OTHER MEMBER WANT TO GIVE COUPLE OF, UH, OKAY.
YOU WANT TO JUST PRIVATELY AND CALL HER AND SAY THANK YOU, BUT, BUT AGAIN, AGAIN, UH, WE WANT TO WISH HER THE BEST FOR RETIREMENT AND, UH, GOOD HEALTH AND HAPPY AND ALWAYS, AND ANY TIME, IF SHE WANT TO, UH, CALL US, WE WILL PICK UP THE PHONE FOR HER.
AND NEXT ONE, WE ARE GOING TO GO TO THE, UH, SP UPDATE.
I THINK WE HAVE A NEW PRESIDENT.
IS SHE HERE? EMMA, WOULD YOU PLEASE COME TO THE FRONT? UH, WE HAVE, UH, A NEW PRESIDENT OF A SPORT LEAGUE OKAY.
AND IMA
UH, I PRACTICED SO MANY TIMES YOU GET AROUND.
MAYBE YOU CAN INTRODUCE YOURSELF, PLEASE.
MAYOR RU, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE IS WITH GREAT PRIDE AND EXCITEMENT THAT I STAND HERE TODAY TO INTRODUCE MYSELF.
MY NAME IS EMMA OSTERHOUT, THE NEW CHAIRWOMAN OF THE SPORTS COUNCIL.
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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW ME, LET ME TELL YOU A BIT ABOUT MYSELF.I WAS BORN AND RAISED RIGHT HERE IN WEST COVINA.
I'M A PROUD ALUMNA OF MESA ELEMENTARY, SIERRA VISTA MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL.
I'M A MOTHER OF THREE VERY ACTIVE BOYS WHO ARE CURRENTLY PART OF MULTIPLE SPORTS WITHIN WEST COVINA.
MY HUSBAND PROUDLY SERVES THE WEST COVINA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AS A HISTORY TEACHER, I BECAME THE PRESIDENT OF WEST COVINA AMERICAN LITTLE LEAGUE A YEAR AGO.
AND I'VE HAD SO MUCH FUN IN THE POSITION, MOST IMPORTANTLY, CREATING A SOLID WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CITY.
I WAS THRUST INTO BEING THE PRESIDENT AND QUICKLY REALIZED HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR OUR REC SPORTS TO HAVE A WOR SOLID WORKING FOUNDATION WITH THE CITY.
I'M HOPING TO KEEP THAT GOING AND ONLY MAKE IT STRONGER.
I'M A FIRM BELIEVER OF PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP.
TO ME, WEST COVINA ISN'T JUST A PLACE TO LIVE, IT'S HOME, AND I'M NOT HERE JUST TO MAINTAIN WHAT'S BEEN BUILT.
AS CHAIRWOMAN OF THE SPORTS COUNCIL, MY VISION SPEAKS TO EQUITY, OPPORTUNITY, AND PROGRESS.
WITH SEVEN LEAGUES, I RECOGNIZE WITH SOME PARKS THRIVE, OTHERS NEED A LITTLE MORE LOVE AND ATTENTION.
MY MISSION IS TO ENSURE THAT ALL LEAGUES, ALL FAMILIES, AND ALL CHILDREN, HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO WELL-MAINTAINED FACILITIES WHERE THEY CAN FEEL SAFE, HAVE FUN, AND CREATE LASTING MEMORIES.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, CHILDREN HAVE A PLACE TO GO AFTER SCHOOL.
BELIEVE ME, AS A MOTHER OF THREE BOYS, THEY NEED TO KEEP BUSY AND KEEP 'EM OUTTA TROUBLE.
IN CLOSING, MY GOAL IS TO STRENGTHEN THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE SPORTS COUNCIL AND THE CITY.
SO TOGETHER WE CAN PROVIDE OUR YOUTH WITH RESOURCES AND SPACES THEY DESERVE.
I'M HAPPY TO INVITE ANYONE WHO HAS QUESTIONS, FEEDBACK, AND COMMENTARY TO SPEAK TO ME DIRECTLY.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS, EMMA.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WELCOME, COME.
OKAY, I THINK YOU THE FRESH BREEZE.
AND TO JOIN THE TEAM, AND THAT IS A TOUGH JOB, BUT CITY
OKAY? AND THE TROJAN PLAY THE SPORT EU, I THINK LAST TIME, I THINK COUPLE MONTHS AGO, UH, THAT YOU HAVE ABOUT 80 OR 90 KIDS.
I, WE GIVE OUT THE, UH, THE CERTIFICATE AND THE EXACTLY.
THAT'S THE, THE, THE OUTSTANDING AND SEE ALL THE HAPPY CHILDREN, AND THEY REALLY HAPPY.
AND THEN NOW, UH, THE LEAGUE, OKAY? THE COUNCIL IS UNDER YOUR WATCH, AND WE, WE, YOU THE BEST.
AND I THINK WE HAVE OUR CITY STAFF, SUSIE AND CITY MANAGER.
AND WE SUPPORT YOU A HUNDRED PERCENT.
AND IF YOU NEED ANY SUPPORT FROM US, UH, WE WILL SUPPORT YOU BECAUSE THAT IS AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM.
AND THAT IS HOW WE WANT TO KEEP OUR CHILDREN ACTIVE, OKAY? AND LEARN HOW TO TEAMWORK AND HOW TO FACE THE FUTURE.
MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THE CONFIDENCE.
WE WANNA BUILD A CONFIDENCE FOR THEM.
AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR WILLING TO STEP UP AND TO SERVE.
AND ANY COUNCIL, ANY QUESTIONS? GO AHEAD.
COUNCILMAN COUNCIL, IT'S, IT'S NOT A QUESTION, BUT, UH, BUT HARDINESS, CONGRATULATIONS.
YOU HAVE BEEN AMAZING FOR WEST COVINA, AMERICAN LITTLE LEAGUE.
AND TO SEE THE WAY THAT YOU BUILT AND CONTINUE TO BUILD AND THE WAY YOU LEAD AND INSPIRE PARENTS FOR YOU TO BE CHAIRWOMAN OF THIS COUNCIL, I'M JUST EXHILARATED ABOUT IT.
AND I KNOW THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF WONDERFUL, THERE ARE GOING TO BE A LOT OF WONDERFUL THINGS THAT AHEAD, EMMA.
YEAH, WELL, CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING A NEW COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
AND YOU KNOW, IT'S SO WARMING TO KNOW THAT, THAT THE COUNCIL IS BEING LED BY AN ACTIVE PARENT AND, AND FOR YOU TO BE A MOM AND, AND HAVE KIDS AND, AND HAVE A, FOR, TO HAVE A, UH, ONE OF OUR TEACHERS, UH, HISTORY TEACHER ALSO, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S REMARKABLE, UM, TO, FOR YOU TO HAVE THAT DEDICATION AND THAT PASSION TO GIVE BACK TO THIS COMMUNITY.
AND JUST LIKE THE MAYOR SAID, UH, WE HAVE SO MUCH, UH, TO BRING TO THIS COMMUNITY AND, AND SO MUCH IS TO COME.
AND, UH, KEEPING CLOSE CONTACT, WE WILL ALWAYS OKAY.
AND, UH, ONE PHONE CALL AWAY, IF YOU NEED ANYTHING TO SUPPORT FROM US, PLEASE CALL US.
AND I THINK CITY WILL A HUNDRED PERCENT SUPPORT YOU, AND THIS IS SUCH A NEEDED OKAY.
ORGANIZATION FROM YOU, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY CAN HAVE A FAIR CHANCE TO PLAY.
OKAY, UH, WE'LL GO TO THE NEXT PRESENTATION.
AND THIS ONE IS CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, OR WEST COVID, CAWC, GOING TO DONATE AND TWO AGENCY.
THE FIRST ONE IS MR. MARTINEZ.
IS IT MR. MARTINEZ OVER HERE AT THE SCHOOL? THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, UH, IS, UH, I KNOW THEY HAVE A SCHOOL MEETING TODAY IS, UH, UH OKAY.
UH, CAN WE HAVE, UH, MAYBE, IS THERE MR. MARTINEZ HERE? YEAH, THEY'RE, HUH? THEY'RE THERE.
OTHERWISE YOU WON'T GET THE MONEY.
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UH, AND, UH, MR. MARTINEZ IS A HOL RES, UH, MIDDLE SCHOOL BAND.OKAY? AND, UH, THEY HAVE ALWAYS OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE AND, UH, JUST HAVE, UH, THE TREE LIGHTING EVENT.
AND HE WITH, UH, HIS BAND AND, UH, DOING SUCH A WONDERFUL JOB.
AND, UH, SO, AND THEN RIGHT AWAY, CAWC TOLD ME, OKAY, UH, THEY WANT TO DONATE TO YOUR BAND AND TO HELP YOU, UH, WITH, UH, CONTINUE TO RECRUIT MORE STUDENT TO HAVE THIS BAND MUSIC, BECAUSE SPORT IS ONE THING OUR CHILDREN NEED.
AND THEN MY DAUGHTER WAS IN THE BAND.
OKAY? AND WHILE THE BAND SOUTH HILL, UH, HIGH SCHOOL, SO WE KNOW HOW IMPORTANT FOR THE, OKAY.
AND YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING, INTRODUCE YOUR BAND, AND TO RECRUIT MORE PEOPLE.
YOU ARE OUTSTANDING TEACHER, AND I SAW YOU SO MANY, UH, MAKE THE THING HAPPEN.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE SUPPORT, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, FOR THE DONATION.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A COMMUNITY.
IT'S A COMMUNITY, UH, GROUP THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW IT.
WHAT'S THE, WHAT IS THE SAYING THAT I'M LOOKING FOR? UM, IT TAKES A VILLAGE, SO TO SPEAK.
AND, AND ALL, ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE GET TO DO IN OUR MUSIC PROGRAM AND ALL THE THINGS THAT ARTS TEACHERS GET TO DO IN THE ARTS, UM, ARE ONLY POSSIBLE WHEN THERE'S COMMUNITY BUY-IN.
SO, SO ANYTHING LIKE THIS IS, IS CERTAINLY TREASURED.
UM, WE HAVE A BIG SLATE OF EVENTS THAT WE WANNA DO IN THE SPRING.
WE'RE GONNA TAKE OUR KIDS TO, UH, DISNEYLAND, UH, IN FEBRUARY TO DO A PERFORMANCE THERE.
UH, WE GOT SOME FESTIVALS THAT WE DO THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
WE, WE WANT TO GET 'EM READY FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL BAND AND THE HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE WHERE THEY TRAVEL ALL OVER THE PLACE.
SO, UM, ALL OF THOSE EXPERIENCES, UH, TAKE THE RESOURCES AND, AND WE APPRECIATE THE HELP.
AND, AND THAT'S WHY SO IMPORTANT FOR YOU, UH, TAKING ALL THESE CHILDREN AND WITH BAND AND THEY PERFORM.
AND DID YOU SEE HOW PROUD, HOW CONFIDENT THEY ARE? OKAY.
AND I REMEMBER MY KIDS ALWAYS RUNNING AROUND WITH THE, THE PRACTICE AND THE MOMS ALWAYS, UH, OKAY.
SO CALLED THE BAND MOMS. OKAY? AND THEY FOLLOW THE BAND ALL THE TIME AND HELP OUT.
AND I JUST HAVE TO WRITE A CHECK EVERY YEAR TO DONATE.
AND HERE, RIGHT NOW IT'S THE CAWC TURN TO DONATE THE MONEY, MONEY, AND, UH, MAYBE HAVE A CWC INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND, UH, AND SEE HOW MUCH MONEY YOU WANT TO DONATE.
HOPEFULLY IT'S NOT COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
HOPEFULLY IT'S A LITTLE BIT HIGHER.
UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, WE HAVE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY, UM, TO DONATE THE MONEY FOR, UM, HOLLAND CREST.
UM, BEN, SO, UM, MY NAME'S ANGEL CHU FROM CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST COA COA.
WE ARE HONORED TO DONATE 1000 IT TO THE HARLEM CREST MIDDLE SCHOOL.
AND, UH, WE ARE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR, YOU GUYS DID A VERY GREAT JOB FOR OUR CITY AND ALSO MUSIC AND DANCE, UH, BRIDGE OF THE, CONNECT OF THE WORLD, OF THE LANGUAGE THAT EXPRESS THE CULTURE, THE MANDARIN NOTES TO THE, THE BAND, AND THE WONDERFUL STEP OF THE DANCE THROUGH ONLY FOR THE DEMONSTRATE FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE, LOVE FOR THE ART, BUT ALSO MAKE OUR COMMITTEE MORE COLORFUL DEVICE AND UNITED.
SO, UM, RIGHT NOW, TODAY IS, UH, WE PRESENT FOR $1,000 TO HOLLAND CREST.
YOU GUYS HAVE DONE A VERY GOOD JOB IN OUR COMMUNITY.
I KNOW YOU HAVE ANOTHER CHECK, SO YOU GUYS HAVE TO OPEN YOUR WALLET AGAIN, SO HAVE A SEAT.
AND THEN WE WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT, UH, YOUR KIDS.
WE GOTTA BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY.
IT'S A, A VILLAGE TO RAISE OUR KIDS.
SO WE, EVERYBODY TO PITCH IN TO HELP EACH OTHER.
AND THE NEXT ONE, I WANT TO INVITE OUR BELOVED PUERTO RICO INTERNATIONAL.
UH, THE, THIS GROUP IS FROM WEST COVINA.
THE CHILDREN FROM WEST COVINA, THEY CONTINUE TO CARRY ON THE MOST MAGNIFICENT.
AND THEY ARE THE MOST MAGNIFICENT.
UH, KEEP THE CULTURE TOGETHER.
AND, UH, YOU WANTED THEM TO KIND OF GIVE US SOME PERFORMANCE
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AND YOU WANT INTRODUCE THEM AND HOW YOU ALWAYS KEEP THIS CULTURES.AND WE WANT TO BE PROUD, EVERYBODY PROUD ABOUT THEIR INHERITANCE, OKAY.
AND YOU CONTINUE TO BRING THIS TOGETHER.
WANT TO INTRODUCE YOUR TEAM AND YOUR STUDIO? OF COURSE.
UH, FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA SAY THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR BEING HERE TODAY.
THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT DAY FOR US, NOT ONLY BECAUSE WE REPRESENT OUR CITY, WEST COVINA, OUR MAYOR, THANK YOU.
AND, UH, OBVIOUSLY OUR CULTURE.
AND WE TRY OUR BEST TO TAKE THE KIDS OUT OF THE STREETS, AND I WANT THEM TO LEARN, UH, THE, THE BEAUTY OF WHAT IT IS.
NOT ONLY JUST OUR CULTURE, BUT DANCE OVERALL FINE ARTS.
AND I THINK SOME OF YOU AGREE WITH ME.
AND, UH, LAST YEAR WE REPRESENT OUR COMMUNITY IN THE CITY.
THANK YOU TO THE COMMUNITY OF WEST COVINA.
WE WENT TO, UH, NEW YORK CITY REPRESENTING MY COMMUNITY, WHICH IS WEST COVINA.
AND WE DANCE AT THE, UH, TIMES SQUARE AND ALSO IN ONE OF THE BIG SHOWS ON BROADWAY FOR THE FIRST TIME.
SO FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE HAD A, A BIG EVENT OVER THERE.
THIS YEAR, OUR GOAL IS TO GO TO LONDON.
SO WE'RE HEADING FOR LONDON AND TAKING MY GROUP AND ALL THE DONATIONS THAT WE GET THROUGH ALL THE COMMUNITY GOALS TO THEIR CUSTOMS. AND AS YOU COULD SEE, THE BEAUTIFUL COSTUMES, FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE THE GENTLEMAN, WHICH IS MY CHARRO BACK THERE, JUST THAT ONE ITSELF IS ABOUT OVER $300.
SO EVERYTHING THAT COMES TO US AND WITH THE MONEY THAT WE DON'T, YOU GUYS DONATED LAST YEAR, WE BOUGHT 12 DRESSES FOR THAT COMMUNITY, FOR THE, YES.
AND I MEAN, I'M SO PROUD TO BE PART OF MY, MY CITY, MY COMMUNITY, AND OBVIOUSLY THANK YOU EVERYONE.
HEY JULIE, WE HAVE CAL STATE LA CITRUS COLLEGE, WEST COVINA HIGH SCHOOL IN HOLLY CREST MIDDLE SCHOOL.
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THANK YOU.AND REALLY QUICK, UH, WE HAVE MADDIE.
MADDIE JUST CAME FROM HAWAII, FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF, UH, HAWAII PACIFIC.
AND WHAT'S GONNA BE NEXT? UM, I'M TRANSFERRING TO CAL STATE LA AND THEN FROM THERE I'LL BE JOINING THE
WHAT SCHOOL DO YOU GO TO? I CURRENTLY ATTEND CAL STATE FULLERTON.
I'M A KINESIOLOGY MAJOR AND
SO THEY HAVE AICO, THE UNIVERSITIES, AND
MY MAJOR IS KINESIOLOGY AND NURSING.
AND I'M CURRENTLY ALSO A PART OF ONE OF THE COACHES AT THE GROUP.
YOU CAN SEE, UH, PROUD CHILDREN.
WE HAVE, YOU WANT HAVE MORE? IT'S OKAY.
I, I, I HEARD ABOUT, OKAY, THIS GENTLEMAN IS, UH, WHAT, 72 77.
UH, SHE HAS A FREE SIGNS UP FOR ANYBODY WANT TO BE YOUNG LIKE HIM.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH AND WONDERFUL.
AND, UH, CAWC, WOULD YOU COME UP, UH, TO HAVE YOUR SPONSORSHIP FOR DEKO TO LONDON? AND AGAIN, AGAIN, THIS IS A OKAY VILLAGE TO RAISE OUR CHILDREN TOGETHER AND, UH, DIFFERENT, WE HAVE A CHINESE GROUP TO SUPPORT OUR MEXICAN CULTURE.
I THINK THIS IS SHOWING THE UNITY ALTOGETHER AND HOW WE CONNECT TO EACH OTHER AND HELP EACH OTHER.
WE ARE SUCH A GREAT HONOR TO PRESENT THE CHAT FOR THEM FOR $1,000 TONIGHT.
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU ALL.
THE BRITISH GIRL AND THE TEAM, THEY DO A VERY HARDWORKING FOR THE CULTURE AND THE ART.
LET US GIVE THEM RUN OF THE PATH, OKAY.
AND SUPPORT FOR THE TALENTS, YOUNG PEOPLE, YOUNG GIRLS, TO HOPE THEY'LL HAVE A MORE OPPORTUNITY TO SUPPORT
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THESE MEANINGFUL CULTURES IN THE FUTURE.SO, UM, WE, WE PRESENT FOR THE, FROM CWC, WE PRESENT FOR $1,000 14.
THANK ALL THE OTHER PRESENT THERE, ALL OF YOU IN LONDON.
AND, UH, WHEN YOU ARE IN LONDON, DON'T FORGET TO SEND A PICTURE TO US.
WE'RE GONNA POST OUR WEBSITE, OKAY? YES.
BEAUTIFUL DANCING AND, UH, CONTINUE AND TAPING A REGULAR SHOWING ALL THE CT PROGRAM FROM, FROM THE SPRING FESTIVAL TO THE MOON FESTIVAL.
AND, UH, WE SEE OUR DIRECTOR AND THE OKAY, OUR FOR RICO ALWAYS OVER THERE TO SUPPORT THE CITY, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH.
CAWC, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR GENEROSITY.
GET MORE MONEY, SO TO DONATE TO THE OUR CHILDREN.
AND, UH, NEXT ONE WE ARE GOING TO, OKAY, WHAT? OKAY.
RETIREMENT RELU RESOLUTION OF, UH, RECOMMENDATION FOR RETIRED FIRE CAPTAIN S SMITH, OUR, OUR, OUR ACTING CHIEF BROWN.
YOU WANT TO HAVE A TIRE? YOU ARE TOO YOUNG TO RETIRE.
WE, WE WORKED TOGETHER FOR NINE YEARS, REMEMBER? OKAY.
AND THEN, AND THEN I CANNOT BELIEVE IT.
YOU WANT TO RETIRE TODAY? OKAY.
I WORK, BEEN WORKING WITH YOU ALL THE TIME.
WHEN YOU WORK WITH FFA AND, UH, YOU SAY, TONY, LET'S HAVE A MEETING.
AND UH, AND UH, AND THEN WE HAVE MEETING FOR TIME TO TELL, LISTEN TO YOUR RENT.
OKAY? BUT YOU TRY TO MAKE OUR DEPARTMENT BETTER, OKAY? AND THAT IS HOW YOU CAN SEE ALL THE BROTHER AND SISTER, THEY LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU MAKE OUR DEPARTMENT GREAT.
I DON'T WANNA TALK MORE BECAUSE CHIEF WANTS TO SAY SOMETHING.
UH, MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, CITY MANAGER, STAFF, AND EVERYBODY IN ATTENDANCE TODAY.
UM, CAPTAIN TODD SMITH HAS HUNG UP HIS TURNOUT COAT AND OFFICIALLY RETIRED FROM THE WEST COVINA FIRE DEPARTMENT ON JUNE 7TH, 2024.
CAPTAIN SMITH HAD BEGUN HIS CAREER WITH THE WEST COVINA FIRE DEPARTMENT ON JUNE 16TH, 1991 AS A FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDIC.
ON JANUARY 31ST, 2001, HE WAS PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF FIRE CAPTAIN, WHICH HE HELD FOR 23 AND A HALF YEARS.
TODD SPENT A TOTAL OF 33 YEARS PROUDLY SERVING THE CITIZENS OF WEST COVINA.
WHEN TODD WAS HIRED, HE WAS HIRED AS PART OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, A GROUP THAT WAS HIRED TO OPEN THE SECOND PARAMEDIC RESCUE IN THE CITY.
THE FIRST TIME THE DEPARTMENT HAD HIRED OUTSIDE, UH, PARAMEDICS OF THE SEVEN, TODD IS THE LAST TO RETIRE.
DURING TODD'S 10 YEAR, HE SPENT 23 YEARS AT FIRE STATION ONE, WHICH IS OUR BUSIEST FIRE STATION, AND HE DID THAT BY CHOICE.
TODD WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE DEPARTMENT.
HE COORDINATED THE AUXILIARY PROGRAM, WAS A PARAMEDIC COORDINATOR, TRAINED THE DEPARTMENT MEMBERS AND NEW HIRES.
ENFORCEABLE ENTRY, TAUGHT CPR AND COORDINATED OUR FIRE SERVICE DAY.
IN ADDITION TO HIS DEPARTMENT DUTIES, HE WAS ALSO AN ACTIVE, UH, UNION MEMBER, WHICH TONY ALLUDED TO, UM, IN WHICH HE HELD THE POSITION OF BOARD MEMBER UNION PRESIDENT.
HE NEGOTIATED SIX LABOR CONTRACTS THAT COVERED 21 YEARS.
TODD HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED FOR HIS SERVICE ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, RECEIVING THE DEPARTMENT'S MERITORIOUS AWARDS AND LIFESAVING AWARD.
NOW, BESIDES THAT, I'VE GOT ONE LITTLE FUN FACT THAT I KNOW EVERYBODY IN THE DEPARTMENT KNOWS.
UH, BUT NONE OF YOU KNOW, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHO'S MANNING THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS TONIGHT.
UH, FUN FACT ABOUT TODD, HE'S WELL KNOWN AMONGST EVERY MEMBER OF THE DEPARTMENT THAT HE LOVES THE CHRISTMAS SEASON.
TODD TAKES GREAT PRIDE IN DECORATING HIS HOUSE AT CHRISTMAS.
CLARK GRISWOLD HAS NOTHING ON TODD.
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UH, THE DEPL DISPLAY GOT SO BIG THAT HE HAD TO INSTALL A SEPARATE ELECTRICAL SUB-PANEL JUST FOR HIS CHRISTMAS LIGHTS.UM, IN 2018, THE SMITH FAMILY APPEARED ON THE TV SHOW, THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT.
UM, TODD, IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE WORKING WITH YOU.
YOU'RE ONE OF MY MENTORS COMING UP THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT.
I'D LIKE TO CONGRATULATE TODD SMITH ON HIS RETIREMENT AND WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK IN ALL YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVORS.
AND, UH, YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING? YOU WANNA GIVE IN THE MIC? OKAY.
SINCE THE KIND OF, UH, FAREWELL.
I APPRECIATE THE KIND WORDS FROM, UH, CHIEF BROWN, UM, AND ALL THE SUPPORT FROM THE MEMBERS HERE AND ALL THE SUPPORT FROM THE CITY.
UH, HAD A GREAT 33 YEARS HERE.
UM, NEVER HAD A DAY THAT I CAME IN THAT I WAS UPSET TO COME TO WORK.
I LOVED SERVING THE COMMUNITY.
UH, JUST LOVED TO, UH, WORKING WITH ALL THE PEOPLE I'VE WORKED WITH.
UM, AND, UH, I JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR, UH, BEING HERE TONIGHT.
I REMEMBER WHEN YOU HAVE MEETING WITH ME, YOU SPEAK MUCH MORE THAN THIS
I SAY, TONY, LET'S GO THROUGH THIS.
BUT, BUT, BUT YOU SO DEDICATE AND REALLY FOR 33 YEARS, OKAY.
WORKING FOR THE CITY OF WEST CODA, WE, WE, THANK YOU.
I CANNOT THANK EVEN MORE BECAUSE THERE'S A LONGEVITY OF SERVICE AND TO OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT AND TO MAKE OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT SUCH A, A PROUD AGENCY.
AND RIGHT NOW YOU CAN SEE ALL THE BROTHER SYSTEM, THE FIRE, THEY'RE VERY, VERY PROUD ABOUT.
OKAY? AND WE ARE GOING TO DO EVEN MORE OKAY.
TO BUILD THE FIRE STATION ONE, THE BRAND NEW, AND THEN THE PEOPLE CAN SEE THE BEAUTIFUL, HOPEFULLY COME BACK TO SEE.
OKAY, LET'S LET, WE'RE GONNA PUT A OKAY.
AND ALL THIS DECORATION, THE FLAG, UH, RIGHT AT THE CORNER, HOPEFULLY THAT EVERYBODY CAN COME IN TO SEE THE FIRST THING.
I THINK THIS WOULD BE BEAUTIFUL, BUT AGAIN, THAT IS ALL FROM YOUR HARD WORK AND PUT IT TOGETHER.
WE HAVE A COUPLE OF CERTIFICATE FOR YOU, AND THEN, OKAY, LET ME GO TO THE FIRST ONE.
OKAY? UH, THE FIRST ONE FROM CITY OF WEST COVINA FOR YOUR LONGEVITY.
30 YEARS OF SERVICE OF, UH, GREAT CITY, OF WEST COVINA.
OKAY? AND, UH, WE DON'T BE A STRANGER.
I, AND I, I KNOW YOU WILL, THIS YOUR FRIENDS OVER HERE AND ANOTHER RESOLUTION OF YOUR RETIREMENT.
WE DON'T WANNA SEE YOU GO, BUT HEY.
THE PARTY MUST OVER SOMETIMES.
OKAY? IT'S 33 YEARS OF A PARTY.
OKAY? SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR OKAY.
RESOLUTION FOR YOUR RETIREMENT.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE.
YOU WANNA INTRODUCE YOUR FAMILY? YOUR FAMILY? LET'S BRING YOUR FAMILY OVER HERE.
UH, FAMILY THEYIT IS MY MOTHER-IN-LAW.
HEY, YOU, YOU ONLY DO THIS ONE TIME.
AND FATHER-IN-LAW, PAUL, PAUL.
WELL, UH, HEATH, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING?
JUST, IS THERE SOMETHING, JUST THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR EVERYTHING.
HE'S, UM, HE'S SAD TO GO, BUT IT'S BEEN A GOOD 33 YEARS.
BUT ALL, ALL THE GREAT MAN BEHIND, ALWAYS A GREAT WOMAN.
OKAY? SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, HEATH, TO LET HIM SERVE CITI FOR 33 YEARS AND, UH, ALWAYS LIKE OVERNIGHT, THIS AND THAT.
AND, UH, MOTHER-IN-LAW, AND MOM, DAD AND MOM, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO SUPPORT HIM TO CONTINUE TO WORK FOR US FOR 33 YEARS.
AND, UH, BUT, UH, TIME TO SAY GOODBYE AND, UH, DON'T BE A STRANGER.
AND HERE WE HAVE ANOTHER GIFT FOR YOU, ONLY FOR THE RETIREMENT PERSON.
OKAY? OH, IT'S CALLED, UH, THE STREET, NAN SMITH BOULEVARD.
AND THIS, THIS ONLY FOR THE RETIREMENT.
AND, UH, SO, SO THAT ONLY THE HIGH GLORY FOR OUR CT PUT A STREET SIGN, UH, FOR THE, FOR THE PERSON.
BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, FOR YOUR SERVICE
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FOR 33 YEARS, AND, UH, HOPEFULLY SEE YOU AGAIN, AGAIN, COME BACK TO GIVE US ADVICE AND THIS AND THAT.I THINK WE HAVE, UH, ALL LEGISLATURES, UH, SENATOR AND, UH, YES, WE HAVE SOME LEGISLATIVE REPS.
CARLA CARDENAS AND ABLE ABEL CASANOVA.
UH, THANK YOU, CITY COUNCIL, CITY STAFF, COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF STATE SENATOR SUSAN RUBIO TO CONGRATULATE, UM, CAPTAIN TODD SMITH FOR YOUR CAREER.
SO, IF I MAY, I'LL PRESENT THE CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION ON BEHALF OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE AND YOUR SENATOR SUSAN RUBIO, IT'S HER HONOR TO CONGRATULATE YOU UPON YOUR RETIREMENT FROM THE WEST COVINA FIRE DEPARTMENT.
THANK YOU FOR BRAVELY SERVING, UH, BRAVELY ANSWERING THE CALL TO SERVE.
OUR SHARED CONSTITUENTS ARE INCREDIBLY FORTUNATE TO HAVE HAD YOU FOR 33 YEARS.
YOUR COMMITMENT TO THE SAFETY OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA HAS PROVEN INVALUABLE TO OUR COMMUNITY AND THE DEPARTMENT.
WE WISH YOU THE BEST AS YOU EMBARK ON YOUR NEXT JOURNEY.
CONGRATULATIONS DATED DECEMBER 17TH, 2024, EVEN THOUGH YOU ALREADY RETIRED.
UM, MY NAME IS ABEL AND I AM FROM THE OFFICE OF ASSEMBLYWOMAN BLANK RUBIO.
AND ON HER BEHALF, WE ARE VERY PRIVILEGED AND HAPPY TO BE HERE TO CONGRATULATE YOU ON YOUR RETIREMENT.
AND WE KNOW THAT YOU'VE BEEN SERVING THE, THE CITY FOR MANY YEARS.
AND WE ALSO HAVE A TOKEN OF RECOGNITION ON, ON BEHALF OF THE ASSEMBLYWOMAN.
AND THIS IS ON, UM, IT SAYS, ON BEHALF OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE LEGISLATURE AND THE RESIDENTS OF THE 48TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, I COMMEND YOU FOR DEDICATING THREE, THREE YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
YOUR YOUR COMMITMENT TO PROMOTING SAFETY IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR RESIDENTS IS ADMIRED BY MANY CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES ON YOUR RETIREMENT.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, CAPTAIN TODD.
I'M GOING TO HAVE, UH, OUR CHEAP BELL.
YOU, YOU KNOW, UH, CHEAP BELT IS NOT FAIR, OKAY? WHEN I WAS THE MAYOR, 2020 AND, UH, YOU HELPING ME AND DURING, THROUGH THE PANDEMIC, AND NOW MAYOR AGAIN, AND YOU WANNA SAY GOODBYE TO ME, OKAY? SO, SO, BUT, BUT, BUT I WANT TO SAY THIS, OKAY? IT IS A, IT'S AN HONOR AND IT IS A PLEASURE.
IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO WORK WITH CHIEF, BE AND, UH, QUICKLY, I WANT TO GIVE SOME HISTORY SINCE I'VE, OKAY.
BEEN ELECTED, OKAY? SINCE 2015, I WORK WITH HIM, OKAY? AND HE WAS A CAPTAIN THAT TIME.
OKAY? AND THEN IN 2018, I SAY, WHY DON'T YOU APPLY WHEN WE HAVE A VACANCY? BUT HE SAY, NOT READY.
BUT 2019, WHEN SITTING IN TROUBLE AND THE SHE BELT STEP UP AND THIS TIME, AND SHE TOOK THIS, UH, OPPORTUNITY AND, AND DUTY AND OBLIGATION AND A TOUGH JOB, AND TO PUT EVERYTHING ON HIS SHOULDER TO MAKE SURE OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BESIDE THE POLICE ARE FIRED, OKAY? AND, UH, AND TO MAKE SURE OUR PD CAN SERVE, CAN REACT TO ANY EMERGENCY, ANY ISSUE.
AND TO PRETEND, SIR, OUR RESIDENT IN WEST COVINA, OKAY? 2019, HE STEP UP AND, UH, HE WENT INSIDE AND YOU CANNOT BELIEVE IT HOW HE IN SUCH A SHOWTIME, OKAY? TO MAKE OUR PD UNITED AGAIN.
OKAY? THEY SUDDENLY FINALLY DEFINED
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THEIR SENSE OF PURPOSE TO SERVE.OKAY? AND BEFORE, AS A LOT OF ROYO AND THE OLD THIS, OKAY, BECAUSE THE LEADERSHIP, BUT WITH HIS LEADERSHIP, RIGHT AWAY, EVERYTHING COME TOGETHER.
I WORK WITH HIM FIRSTHAND, SO I UNDERSTAND HOW GREAT THIS MAN IS.
AND NOW I'M MAYOR, FINALLY THE SECOND DAY, AND HE SAY GOODBYE.
OKAY? SO, BUT, BUT THE POINT IS, OKAY, AND, UH, IN 2020 WHEN I BECOME A MAYOR, AND, AND THE PANDEMIC HAPPENED, AND AT THAT TIME IS SUCH A, WE DON'T KNOW THIS FIRST TIME WE FACE A PANDEMIC.
AND, UH, AND IT IS SO SUCH, IT'S NOT FAIR WHY I BECOME MAYOR.
EVERYTHING IS SHUT DOWN THERE.
PEOPLE LOOKING FOR PPE LOOKING FOR FOOD AND, AND OUR CHIEFS STEP UP TO MAKE SURE OUR CITY IS SAFE AND LET TIME HAVE A RIOT, THIS AND THAT GOING ON LIKE QUAI.
AND WE, WEST COVINA IS ONE OF THE SAFE CITY AT THAT TIME.
ANOTHER THING, LAST YEAR, 2023 FOURTH MAGAZINE PER WEST COVINA IS A SAFER CITY.
NUMBER THREE, NATIONWIDE FOR THE POPULATION.
LET'S GIVE A HAND IF YOU SAY, ARE YOU SURE TONY? I SAY YES, GOOGLE IT.
SO, SO, BECAUSE THE HARD WAR, BECAUSE OUR BROTHER AND SISTER IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND THEY SACRIFICE AND THEY MAKE SURE WE ARE SAFE.
SO I WANNA THANK CHIEF BELT, OKAY? AND, UH, I KNOW HE GOING TO RETIRE, HE GOING TO FISHING TOO, OKAY? OR SOMETHING, OR FOOTBALL.
OKAY? SO, OR COACH, OKAY? BUT, BUT I WANT WISH YOU THE BEST, OKAY? AND, UH, I DON'T WANT TO MODEL OVER HERE, BUT I JUST CANNOT LET YOU GO, OKAY? LIKE, I, I DON'T WANNA LET GO.
BUT THE THING IS LIKE, WE HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE AND, BUT DON'T BE A STRANGER LIKE TODD, OKAY? YOU, ANYTIME COME TO THE CITY, YOU CAN BE OUR ADVISORY, OKAY? AND HELP US, OKAY? AND WE ALWAYS WILL MISS YOU.
BUT MORE IMPORTANT THING, WE WANT YOU TO SAY SOMETHING, AND THIS RIGHT NOW WILL BE ON THE TAPE, OKAY? ON THE, ON THE YOUTUBE FOREVER
SO YOU BETTER SAY SOMETHING NICE.
WELL, FIRST OF ALL, GOOD EVENING, UH, COUNCIL, STAFF MEMBERS, COMMUNITY, AND THOSE THAT ARE VIEWING, UM, IT'S, IT'S BEEN AN HONOR TO SERVE.
UM, I DO WANNA SAY, ACTUALLY BEFORE I GET STARTED, UM, OUTSIDE, UM, RIGHT IN THE TERRACE AREA, UM, MY WIFE AND HER PARTNER PUT TOGETHER A NICE LITTLE, LITTLE THING OUT THERE.
AND I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO ACKNOWLEDGE CARRIE, IS SHE HERE? SHE MIGHT BE OUT THERE, BUT THE, IT WAS A WONDERFUL JOB THEY DID OUT THERE.
AND WHEN, WHEN I INITIALLY STARTED TO DO THIS, I, I REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT THIS TO BE ABOUT ME.
UM, I, I, I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE ABOUT US, RIGHT? UM, THAT'S, THAT'S HOW I'M BUILT.
LIKE WE, WE NEED TO DO THIS TOGETHER.
BUT I WANNA START OUT BY SAYING THANK YOU TO THE COUNCIL.
UM, I KNOW NOT EVERYONE SITTING UP HERE TODAY WAS HERE WHEN I, UM, WHEN I GOT CHOSEN A FEW YEARS BACK, BUT A FEW OF YOU WERE, AND TO ME, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU GAVE ME A CHANCE AND, AND IT AFFORDED ME AN OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO STEP FORWARD.
I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR THAT.
UM, EVEN IN MY UNCERTAINTY, UH, OF WHETHER I CAN ACTUALLY LAST AS LONG AS I DID, UM, I, I JUST KNEW I HAD TO DO IT.
IT COULDN'T HAVE COME WITHOUT A, A, A LITTLE PUSH AND A, AND A AND A LITTLE SUPPORT.
THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT THEY'RE, THAT THEY'RE NEEDED AND WANTED.
AND I ACTUALLY FELT THAT AT THE TIME.
I KNEW OUR DEPARTMENT NEEDED IT, AND I DID NOT WANT TO SEE IT, UH, FALL OR FALTER.
AND I FELT LIKE IF I COULD STEP IN THERE AND HELP OUT IN ANY WAY, THEN THAT'S WHAT I'M GONNA DO.
HERE WE ARE ALMOST SIX YEARS LATER, AND, AND I GET TO WALK OUT ON MY TERMS, AND I'M, I'M REALLY THANKFUL FOR THAT.
UM, I WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO, UM, ALL THOSE CHIEFS THAT CAME BEFORE ME.
AND THE RE THE REASON I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN FROM THOSE BEFORE YOU, RIGHT? THE GOOD AND THE BAD, RIGHT? SOME, SOME THINGS WERE GOOD, SOME THINGS WERE GREAT, SOME THINGS WEREN'T, WEREN'T SO GOOD.
AND, AND I GOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THAT.
AND SO WHEN I STEPPED INTO THE ROLE, I ALREADY HAD AN IDEA OF KIND OF WHAT I WANTED TO DO, AND I STARTED DOING IT, RIGHT? AND, AND FOR THE MOST PART IT WORKED.
AND IF IT DIDN'T, DON'T TELL ME TILL I'M GONE.
BUT I WANT, I WANT, I WANT TO THANK, UH, THAT I ALSO WANT TO THANK, UM, THE, THE LAWYERS THAT I GOT A CHANCE TO WORK WITH.
UM, I WAS IN A LOT OF ASSIGNMENTS, WORKED AT SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS.
BUT MY, I'M GONNA SAY MY BEST ASSIGNMENT WAS IN THE DETECTIVE BUREAU.
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I THINK THAT'S WHERE I FINALLY FOUND ME.I FOUND MY NICHE, RIGHT? I GOT IN THERE AND I GOT TO DO SOMETHING.
I GOTTA KIND OF HAVE TO REALLY USE MY OWN WITS AND MY OWN THING TO REALLY MAKE THIS THING HAPPEN.
AND THE DEPARTMENT EMBRACED ME.
AND, AND THAT REALLY FELT GOOD AT THAT TIME.
UM, BUT I GOT A CHANCE TO WORK WITH SOME WONDERFUL LAWYERS, AND THEY HELPED ME ALONG THE WAY.
YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT A DEPOSITION WILL DO TO YOU,
IF ANYBODY HERE HAS EVER BEEN THROUGH A DEPOSITION, YOU THINK IT'S FAIR AND YOU THINK IT'S GONNA BE IN YOUR FAVOR, AND IT'S NOT ALWAYS THAT WAY, RIGHT? UH, YOU SIT THERE AND YOU'RE GETTING GRILLED AND ALL THAT, BUT I KNOW SOME OF THE LAWYERS HAVE GONE, UM, JUNG, I KNOW.
UM, I NEVER, NEVER HAD TO WORK WITH TOM IN THAT WAY, BUT, BUT I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU BECAUSE THEY HELPED YOU THROUGH IT.
I WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE COURT ADMINISTRATORS THAT HELPED ME THROUGH IT.
I WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO ALL OF THOSE MENTORS.
THIS IS GOING BACK TO THE SERGEANTS, CORPORALS, EVERYBODY THAT I WORKED WITH BEFORE THAT ACTUALLY GAVE ME GUIDANCE AND HELP TO MOVE FORWARD.
I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS.
I WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO THE DEPARTMENT HEADS THAT I WORK WITH RIGHT NOW.
UM, WE ACTUALLY BECAME PRETTY GOOD GROUP.
UM, I LOVED HANGING OUT WITH YOU GUYS.
UM, IT FELT MORE LIKE A FAMILY.
WE COULD THROW THINGS ON THE TABLE, WE COULD DISCUSS IT.
I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT, AND I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT YOU GAVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A SAY.
AND I THINK YOU ACTUALLY LISTEN SOMETIMES.
SO I, I, I'M ACTUALLY HAPPY ABOUT THAT, RIGHT? UM, I WASN'T ALWAYS RIGHT THOUGH, BUT I, I DO THANK YOU.
I WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO ALL THE DEPARTMENTS THAT IT WAS A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH YOU TO MY STAFF AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
UM, THE UNSUNG HEROES ARE NON-SWORN STAFF.
I WANNA PERSONALLY SAY THANK YOU.
THESE ARE THE FOLKS BEHIND THE SCENES.
THESE ARE THE FOLKS THAT DON'T, YOU DON'T SEE.
THEY GOTTA GET THE PAPERWORK IN.
UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE MAKING THE THINGS HAPPEN.
THEY KEEP THE FUNCTIONING GOING FROM RECORDS TO CSOS, TO CADETS TO OUR, OUR, OUR, UM, IT FOLKS, UM, UM, OUR DISPATCHERS.
THESE ARE THOSE FOLKS THAT YOU JUST, SOMETIMES YOU ONLY KNOW 'EM BY THEIR VOICE, BUT IT TAKES AN ENTIRE VILLAGE TO MAKE THIS THING WORK.
AND I WANNA SAY, PERSONALLY, THANK YOU.
IF YOU DON'T EVER HEAR IT FROM ME AGAIN, EVERYBODY THAT'S IN A NON-SWORN POSITION, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU TO THE MEN AND WOMEN THAT ACTUALLY ARE SEEN OUT IN THE STREET.
ALL OF MY OFFICERS THAT I STARTED OUT WITH, PROMOTED UP WITH, UM, HIRED, I THINK I'VE HIRED PROBABLY 80% OF THIS DEPARTMENT.
NOW, MAYBE THERE'S ONLY A FEW THAT I, THAT I DIDN'T ACTUALLY HIRE.
I WANNA SAY THANK YOU BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, OUR JOB IS TO SERVE THIS COMMUNITY.
AND THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS SERVE THE COMMUNITY.
BUT I COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU.
SO THIS WAS NEVER AN I IT WAS A, WE, IT WASN'T US.
UH, BUT YOU GUYS MADE IT HAPPEN.
UM, THAT, THAT ARTICLE WHERE, WHERE'S MAYOR? WOO.
I, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE ARTICLE COME FROM, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THIS CRIME IS DOWN IN WEST COVINA.
UM, CRIME IS DOWN FROM LAST YEAR AND THE YEAR BEFORE.
AND I'M, AND I'M, AND I'M PROUD OF THAT.
ARE WE, UM, HAVE WE SOLVED EVERY CRIME? NO.
BUT I CAN TELL YOU WE'RE WORKING HARD AND WE'VE DONE SOME REALLY GOOD THINGS.
AND I'M PROUD OF THE MEN AND WOMEN THAT WEAR OUR UNIFORM, THAT GO OUT THERE AND ARE PUTTING THEIR BEST FOOT FORWARD.
I WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO YOU GUYS.
WHEN YOU WALK INTO THAT LOBBY, YOU MAY SEE MY FACE, BUT IT'S THEM THAT'S DOING THE WORK, RIGHT? AND THAT'S WHAT YOU JUDGE US BY, RIGHT? IT'S THE CONTACTS THAT YOU HAVE OUT THE FIELD WHEN SOMEONE COMES IN AND SAYS, WEST COVINO IS WONDERFUL.
I HAVEN'T DRIVEN BLACK AND WHITE IN A LONG TIME.
AND I WANNA SAY THANK YOU, THANK YOU TO YOU GUYS.
AND, UM, THERE'S A FEW THINGS THAT I, I WANT TO DO.
UM, LET ME HAVE MY FAMILY COME UP HERE.
YOU PART OF FAMILY ERWIN AND MARCY, THEY ACTUALLY LIVE IN THE CITY.
THEY'RE CITIZENS HERE, BEEN HERE SINCE I STARTED.
THIS IS, UH, I'M SORRY, I'M GONNA DO IT THIS WAY.
I, I HAVE TO GIVE HER A SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
CAN YOU PLEASE CLAP FOR HER?
UM, THE LAST TIME I WAS UP HERE, SHE COULDN'T MAKE IT, UH,
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BECAUSE SHE WAS AT WORK AND I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT HER.I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE WAS FIRST.
BUT THIS IS, THIS IS MY LOVE HERE.
THIS IS MY SON, JARED, MY SON BRANDON.
I WANNA SAY THANK YOU BEFORE I DO WHAT I'M ABOUT TO DO.
BUT CAN I HAVE CATHERINE COME DOWN? YOU SEE, WHEN YOU'RE AT THE TOP AND YOU'RE THE CHIEF, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF FOLKS THAT YOU CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH.
AND A LOT OF TIMES WE HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER CHIEFS.
SOME OF YOU HAVE HEARD ME SAY THAT ALREADY.
IT'S, IT'S GOOD BECAUSE YOU GOT OTHER CHIEFS THAT YOU CAN TALK TO.
BUT WHEN I'M NOT WITH THOSE OTHER CHIEFS, YOU NEED SOMEBODY TO TALK TO.
THIS YOUNG LADY RIGHT HERE, CATHERINE, SHE IS MY SECRETARY.
SHE HAS BEEN WITH US FOR FIVE, SIX YEARS NOW.
I WASN'T A CHIEF WHEN SHE FIRST GOT HIRED, BUT CERTAINLY MY WHOLE TO ACTUALLY WASN'T TOO FAR, RIGHT? JUST ABOUT, UM, JUST DYNAMITE.
I I, I'M GONNA SAY IT, SHE'S UNDERPAID.
UM, I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW, SHE HAS BEEN THERE, UH, ESPECIALLY IN THOSE TIMES WHERE I'VE HAD TO MAKE VERY DIFFICULT DECISIONS AND I HAD NO ONE ELSE TO VENT TO.
JUST SO YOU KNOW, I DON'T SHARE EVERYTHING WITH MY WIFE BECAUSE I TRY TO PROTECT HER.
BUT THERE ARE TIMES WHERE I HAVE TO DO THINGS, AND SHE'S BEEN THERE THE ENTIRE STEP OF THE WAY.
AND CATHERINE, I CANNOT SAY ENOUGH.
I ACTUALLY HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU.
YOU CAN'T DO THIS JOB WITHOUT HAVING STRONG SUPPORT.
THEN, UM, MY WIFE HERE, UM, WE'VE BEEN MARRIED FOR 35 YEARS NOW.
AND, UM, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S BEEN WONDERFUL.
BUT WE, WE, WE DECIDED THAT WE WERE GONNA DO THIS TOGETHER, UH, THE ENTIRE STEP OF THE WAY.
AND SHE'S BEEN WITH ME THE ENTIRE STEP OF THE WAY.
UM, VERY, VERY POWERFUL WOMAN.
SHE, WE, WE, WE PRAY TOGETHER, YOU KNOW? UM, BUT SHE SUPPORTS ME.
AND, UM, SHE TELLS ME WHAT TO DO.
BUT, UM, I CANNOT SAY ENOUGH ABOUT HER.
I WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE.
UM, FOR ME, WITH ME WITH US, WE HAVE THE WHOLE FAMILY.
THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE WHOLE SUPPORT.
UM, ANYTHING THAT I MISSED, I'M SAYING I APOLOGIZE NOW,
UM, AND, UM, MY, MY OTHER DAUGHTER CAN'T BE HERE, MY SON'S WIFE, BECAUSE SHE'S HOME WITH MY LITTLE GUY.
I WISH HE COULD HAVE BEEN HERE 'CAUSE SHE'D HAVE STOLE THE SHOW.
HE WOULD'VE STOLE THE SHOW, BUT HE'S NOT FEELING WELL.
SO WE DECIDED TO KEEP HIM HOME.
UH, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIM AS WELL.
BUT HONEY, I GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU AS WELL.
SO, SO WITH THAT, UM, ALL OF THE, UM, CITIZENS THAT DID MORE THAN JUST BE A CITIZEN HERE, I MEAN, LIKE YOU PITCHED IN, YOU HELPED, YOU DONATED, UH, YOU PARTICIPATED NATIONAL NIGHT OUT, UM, UM, UM, RED RIBBON, RALLIES, FESTIVALS, ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
THAT'S WHAT MAKES THE COMMUNITY STRONGER.
4TH OF JULY, ANY OF THOSE THINGS.
I ENCOURAGE IT, LET'S KEEP IT GOING.
WEST COVINA IS GONNA BE STRONGER, AND WE'RE GONNA KEEP FORGING FORWARD.
IT IS JUST MY TIME TO STEP OFF THE TRAIN AND I'M DOING IT WITH GRACE.
AND I WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO, TO, UH, TO LEAD WEST COVINA FOR THESE PAST SIX YEARS.
UH, YOU, YOU ARE THE GREAT LEADERS, OKAY? WITH COVID OU SO MUCH BECAUSE YOU STEP IN OKAY.
DURING THE 2019, OKAY? AND, UH, YOU CAN SEE OUR DEPARTMENT RIGHT NOW IS VERY, VERY STRONG AND VERY UNITED.
OKAY? AND, UH, OKAY, I KNOW YOU AND ME LIKE TO TALK, BUT I WANT TO GIVE THE CHANCE TO FAMILY.
ANY FAMILY MEMBER WANT TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR SPOUSE OR YOUR FATHER? OKAY? MAYBE WHY? WANNA SAY SOMETHING? ANY GREAT MAN BEHIND, ALWAYS HAVE A GREAT WOMAN.
SO, SO, SO YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? GO AHEAD, SAY SOMETHING.
I JUST WANNA THANK EVERYBODY WEST COVINA, AS HE SAID, FROM THE STAFF TO THE FAMILIES, TO THE COUNCIL, TO EVERYONE WHO HAD HIS BACK FOR THE YEARS THAT HE'S BEEN HERE 30 YEARS.
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OF YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE IN EVERY STATION THAT YOU WORKED FOR.GOD JUST KEPT PROMOTING YOU AND PROMOTING YOU, BUT I JUST THANK YOU BECAUSE YOU DID EVERYTHING IN EXCELLENCE.
BUT IT'S TIME FOR HIM TO BE HOME WITH THE GRAND BABY
I, I THINK SOMEBODY WANT TO SPEAK SOMETHING.
I'M CRYING 'CAUSE MY MOM'S CRYING.
AND YOU ACTUALLY DID A VERY GOOD JOB.
UM, MY DAD WORKED LONG HOURS, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE WERE YOUNGER AND WE, I REMEMBER FROM HIM BEING PROMOTED AT SAN MARINO FROM HIS GRADUATION.
AND GOD HAS TRULY HAD HIS HAND OVER HIM.
AND I THANK GOD THAT HE WAS ABLE TO BLESS THIS CITY.
UM, AS MUCH AS HE BLESSES OUR FAMILY, HE LOVES HARD, HE WORKS HARD.
AND JUST TO BE ABLE TO WATCH HIM, UM, IN THIS LIGHT AND BE A LEADER IS DEFINITELY WHAT I LOOK FORWARD TO WHEN I FIND A PARTNER OR WHEN MY BOYS GROW UP, OR WHEN MY NEPHEW GROWS UP.
AND I JUST THANK YOU GUYS FOR, LIKE MY MOM SAID, ALWAYS HAVING HIS BACK AND PUSHING HIM, UM, TOWARDS THE TOP AND BEING THERE FOR WHEN HE NEEDED, ESPECIALLY CATHERINE.
UM, 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT MY DAD DID LEAD ON HER A LOT, AND IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE TO WATCH YOU.
AND I THANK YOU FOR PAVING THE WAY FOR US, AND WE APPRECIATE YOU AND WE LOVE YOU.
AND WE HOPE THAT, UM, ANYTHING THAT HE HAS TAUGHT EVERYBODY THAT YOU GUYS ARE ABLE TO TAKE THAT WITH YOU AND MOVE FORWARD AND JUST KEEP MAKING THE CITY GREAT.
REALLY APPRECIATE YOU CAN SEE YOU HAVE ALL THE LOVE, OKAY? YOU ARE LUCKY, MAN, WITH ALL THE PERSON LOVE YOU AND THE CITY.
ANY OTHER PEOPLE WANT TO SAY SOMETHING? HEY, GOING ONE, GOING TWO GOING, BUT, BUT, BUT, BUT WE, OKAY.
UH, I THINK WANT TO GIVE A CHANCE, COUNCIL, OKAY.
THEY WANT TO SAY SOMETHING TO, OKAY.
LIKE, OKAY, THEY COMMENT ABOUT TO WORK WITH YOU DURING THIS TIME.
AND, UH, BUT AGAIN, AGAIN, YOU ARE A GREAT LEADER.
WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR SERVICE.
30 YEARS AND 26 YEARS IN WEST COVINA.
SO REALLY SERVING WEST COVINA MOST OF YOUR SERVICE, OKAY? AND, UH, AND FROM, OKAY, OFFICER, THE SERGEANT, AND THEN MOVE TO BECOME OUR LEADER, OUR CHIEF, AND MAKE OUR, UH, DEPARTMENT UNITED TOGETHERS AND TO SERVE, I THINK MOST IMPORTANT THING, LEADERSHIP.
SO CITY COUNCIL, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? ANYBODY WANNA GO FIRST? OKAY.
AND, UH, MAYOR POT, YOU GO FIRST.
SO, UH, I JUST WANNA SAY, UH, CHIEF BELL, YOU HAVE BEEN, UH, SUCH AN AMAZING PERSON TO WORK WITH, UM, DURING THIS WHOLE TIME, ESPECIALLY IN REGARDS TO PUBLIC CONCERNS, PUBLIC SAFETY, YOU KNOW, UM, I DO REMEMBER THAT WHOLE TIME OF THE DEFUNDING POLICE MOVEMENT.
YOU KNOW, I, I'M, I'M GLAD MAJORITY OF THE COUNCIL WAS NOT FOR IT.
AND WE WORKED WITH YOU DURING THAT WHOLE TIME.
WE'RE LIKE, WE'RE NOT HAVING THIS RIOTING HERE.
WE'RE NOT DEALING WITH ALL THIS STUFF.
WE'RE NOT BENDING DOWN ALL THESE THINGS THAT, SO I'M SO HAPPY THAT, YOU KNOW, WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT.
UM, YOU KNOW, UNDER YOUR LEADERSHIP, YOUR COMMITMENT, YOU HAD MADE A STRONG PD, A UNITED PD.
UM, GRANTED, I WAS HERE PRIOR, YOU KNOW, I'VE SEEN THE CHANGES WHEN, UH, THE POLICE WAS ATTACKED.
YOU, YOU BROUGHT COMMUNITY POLICING HERE WITH US.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE THINGS THAT I HAD MENTIONED OF WHAT I WANTED TO SEE IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR, UM, IMPLEMENTING THOSE THINGS.
UM, YOU KNOW, WITH LIKE THE SOCIAL MEDIA, HOW WE HIGHLIGHTED PD IN A POSITIVE WAY, AND, YOU KNOW, SHOW THEM AN ACTION OF NOT JUST WHAT PEOPLE PERCEIVE.
SO YOU, YOU PUSH THAT, YOU GOT THAT GOING.
UM, THE BIGGEST THING IS, YOU KNOW, I KEPT SAYING WE NEED TO HIGHLIGHT OUR PD, AND YOU WERE THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THAT.
AND, YOU KNOW, HAVING THAT ANNUAL BROCHURE WAS BEAUTIFUL.
I MEAN, IT WAS BETTER THAN WHAT THE CITY PUTS TOGETHER, BUT YOUR DEPARTMENT, YOUR, UM, THE WHOLE THING THAT IT SHOWS WHAT THE PD DOES, BECAUSE I KNOW SOMETIMES WE GET WHERE THEY SAID, OH, PD DOES NOTHING.
THEY JUST IN THEIR CAR HAVING DONUTS OR WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, JUST ALL THESE THINGS.
BUT THIS BROCHURE THAT YOU, UH, CREATED SHOWED ALL THE HARD WORK, ALL THE THINGS THAT PD DOES, PLUS THE STATISTICS.
SO THAT WAS, UM, REALLY GREAT.
THAT WAS, THAT OCCURRED UNDER YOUR LEADERSHIP.
UM, THE BIGGEST THING, YOU KNOW, WITH CRIME, UM, THE FLOCK CAMERA.
SO I'M SUPER HAPPY THAT YOU WERE
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ABLE TO IMPLEMENT THE FLOCK CAMERA.UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAD, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE THERE FOR ALL THE EVENTS.
I KNOW YOU EVEN COME OVER TO THE HOUSE AND, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR 4TH OF JULY, ALL THESE HOLIDAYS, NATIONAL NIGHT OUT, UM, YOU'RE ALWAYS THERE FOR THE PEOPLE.
UM, YOU WERE JUST AMAZING OVERALL.
UM, I DO THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS, UH, PROTECTING THE KIDS AND THE SCHOOL.
UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HAD THESE ACTIVE SHOOTINGS AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE, THE, THE SCHOOLS, THE FAMILIES WERE SCARED.
YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU UH, YOU TALKED TO THEM, YOU, YOU HELPED THEM AND YOU KEPT THEM SAFE.
SO YOU KEPT THE COMMUNITY SAFE, YOU KEPT THE RESIDENTS SAFE, KEPT THE COUNCIL SAFE, YOU KEPT EVERYONE SAFE.
AND, UH, THAT WAS ALL THROUGH YOUR LEADERSHIP.
UM, SO I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE AND WE WILL MISS YOU.
YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST VERY PROUD OF YOU, PROUD OF ALL YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND YOU KNOW, TO THE FAMILY.
I KNOW IT'S NOT JUST HE, UM, WHO SACRIFICED, BUT THE FAMILY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING HIM WITH EVERYBODY, YOU KNOW, WITH, UM, ALL OF US.
SO I JUST WANNA THANK YOU ALL AND THANK YOU AGAIN.
AND, UH, NEXT WE GO TO COUNCILMAN KENTO.
THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR, FOR ALL THE TIME THAT I END UP SERVING IN OFFICE, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MY FIRST POLICE CHIEF.
UH, I, I AM SO APPRECIATIVE TO YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO.
AND THE THING IS, WHAT I ESPECIALLY AM GRATEFUL FOR ISN'T JUST YOUR PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, BUT FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO PLANT SEEDS EVERYWHERE.
THE IMPRINT OF YOUR PERSONAL VISION AND YOUR SPIRIT OF TEAMWORK AND SOLIDARITY AND STRENGTH.
IT IS INGRAINED AND INFUSED IN THIS DEPARTMENT BECAUSE OF YOUR BEING HERE FOR AND, AND BEING A PART OF WEST COVINA POLICE FORCE FOR A GENERATION WITH THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW ABOARD HERE, WHO ARE A PART OF OUR POLICE FORCE, WHO I BELIEVE, UH, TO BE THE BEST POLICE FORCE AROUND THAT IS A CREDIT TO YOU.
BECAUSE WHAT YOU DO IS YOU CULTIVATE OTHERS TO SERVE AS LEADERS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT.
I REMEMBER ONCE WE HAD A TALK ABOUT HOW, UH, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO YOU MENTOR WITHIN THE, THE FORCE.
AND I JUST KEEP THINKING ABOUT HOW TONIGHT ALL OF THEM NOT ONLY GET TO CELEBRATE WITH YOU AND ALL OF US HERE, BUT THEY GET TO PICK UP AND CONTINUE BUILDING ON EVERYTHING YOU TAUGHT THEM AS THEY RISE IN LEADERSHIP THE WAY THAT YOU TAUGHT THEM TO DO.
YOU ARE A PERSON CHIEF WHO EMPOWERS PEOPLE AT A PERSONAL LEVEL.
YOU, YOU REALLY INSTILL A LOT OF PRIDE, UH, AMONG THE RANK AND FILE AND AMONG THE, THE LEADERSHIP TEAM THAT YOU PUT TOGETHER.
YOU WORK IN CLOSE PARTNERSHIP WITH US, AND ALL THE WHILE, CHIEF, YOU DO IT WITH SUCH HEART.
AND FOR, FOR US TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BENEFIT IN THIS CITY FOR ALL OF THESE YEARS BECAUSE OF YOU, IT'S JUST SUCH A BLESSING.
AND, AND I WANTED TO ADD MY APPRECIATION TO YOUR FAMILY AS WELL.
AND ESPECIALLY NOW, THEY GET TO HAVE YOU ALL THE TIME, AND THEY'LL GET TO BE AROUND YOU AND YOU'LL GET TO DO JUST EVEN MORE WONDERFUL THINGS AND BUILD TOGETHER.
AND I JUST AM SO GRATEFUL, UH, THAT OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO COULD HAVE BEEN POLICE CHIEF WHEN I CAME AROUND, I HAVE YOU TO, TO REMEMBER AS MY, THE FIRST EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT MEANS FOR A POLICE CHIEF TO BE A MAN OF VISION AND OF STRENGTH, AND OF FORTITUDE, AND OF COURAGE, AND OF UNITY.
SO I JUST WANT, I'M JUST SO APPRECIATIVE TO YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE.
AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD ON YOUR LEGACY, SIR.
GO TO THE, OUR COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ, PLEASE.
THANK YOU, MAYOR CHIEF BELL, IT HAS BEEN AN HONOR AND A PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO WORK WITH YOU AND TALK WITH YOU AND COMMUNICATE WITH YOU, YOU KNOW, PERSONAL THINGS AND, AND WORK THINGS.
AND, UM, I JUST WANNA THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
AND I WANNA THANK YOUR FAMILY AS WELL.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING HIM WITH US.
HE'S BEEN A GREAT PERSON AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE HIM AND WE'RE GONNA MISS YOU.
AND, BUT I UNDERSTAND, AND I REALLY, I'M REALLY HAPPY THAT I FEEL THAT YOU'RE VERY BLESSED TO HAVE YOUR LITTLE GRANDBABY THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO HANG OUT WITH.
AND SO I JUST WANNA WISH YOU WELL IN ANY OF YOUR ENDEAVORS, AND GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, GO AHEAD.
WELL, I WROTE, I WROTE A SPEECH BEFORE I GET TO THAT SPEECH, I JUST WANNA SAY, UH, CHIEF BAO AND, AND I THINK TODAY, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HONOR YOUR
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LEGACY AND YOUR LEADERSHIP, BUT WE ALSO HONOR TODAY THE MEN AND WOMEN OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, THE ONES THAT WAKE UP EVERY DAY TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY.AND, UH, YOU KNOW, BEFORE I BEGIN ON THIS SPEECH, I JUST WANNA TAKE A, A MOMENT TO THANK ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE WEST GU POLICE DEPARTMENT, OUR FIREFIGHTERS, UH, OUR ASSOCIATIONS.
WITHOUT THEM, I WILL NOT BE HERE TODAY.
AND, AND THE RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINAS DISTRICT ONCE SPOKE AND THEY SAID, AND THEY SAID, AND THEY SAID IT VERY CLEAR, THEY SUPPORT THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE WEST VENA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
AND I'M GONNA NO, GO ON TO MY SPEECH.
CHIEF RICHARD, CHIEF RICHARD BOW, AS YOU EMBARKED ON A NEW CHAPTER IN YOUR LIFE, RE CELEBRATE YOUR REMARKABLE CAREER WITH THE WEST VENA POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
YOU HAVE BEEN A SHINY EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT MEANS TO SERVE AND PROTECT A COMMUNITY WITH UNWAVERING COMMITMENT.
YOUR LEADERSHIP HAS INSPIRED THOSE AROUND YOU TO UPHOLD THE PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE AND EQUALITY, TO DEFEND THE LAW WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR.
THROUGHOUT YOUR TENURE AS OUR POLICE CHIEF, YOU HAVE SET A STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE THAT WILL ENDURE FOR YEARS TO COME.
YOUR LEGACY IS NOT JUST IN THE TITLES YOU HELD OR THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT YOU HAVE ACHIEVED, BUT IN THE LIVES YOU HAVE TOUCHED, AND THE HEARTS YOU HAVE IMPACTED YOUR DEDICATION TO THE RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA, YOUR TIRELESS EFFORTS TO KEEP OUR STREETS SAFE AND YOUR OWN FATHERING RESOLVE TO UPHOLD THE VALUES OF JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS HAVE LEFT AN IN ADMIRABLE MARK ON THIS COMMUNITY.
AS YOU RETIRE FROM YOUR POSITION, CHIEF BAO KNOW THAT YOUR LEGACY WILL LIVE ON IN THE HEARTS OF ALL THOSE WHO HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING ALONGSIDE YOU.
YOUR LEADERSHIP, YOUR INTEGRITY, AND YOUR AVER COMMITMENT TO THE WELLBEING OF THIS COMMUNITY HAS SET A HIGH STANDARD FOR ALL WHO COME AFTER YOU.
ON BEHALF OF THE RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT ONE AND THE ENTIRE CITY OF WEST COVINA, I EXTEND MY DEEPEST GRATITUDE TO YOU.
CHIEF BAO, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION.
THANK YOU FOR BEING A TRUE HERO IN OUR MIDST.
MAY YOUR RETIREMENT BE FILLED WITH JOY, PEACE, AND FULFILLMENT.
AND MAY YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER THE LASTING IMPACT YOU HAVE HAD ON THE LIVES OF SO MANY.
CONGRATULATIONS, CHIEF BAO AND BEST WISHES FOR YOUR FUTURE.
AND MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE WEST FNA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, UH, WARD.
I THANK YOU, COUNCIL TO GIVE OUR BELOVED CHIEF, OKAY.
ALL THIS, UM, BEAUTIFUL SPEECH AND, UH, I THINK TIMES FOR US TO PRESENT THE CERTIFICATE FOR YOU, OKAY? AND, UH, WE MISS YOU.
WE WANNA LET THIS LAST, UH, LONGER, BUT OKAY.
WE STILL HAVE A SHOW GOING ON, SO, SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL YOUR PROPER CERTIFICATE.
AND THE CITY COUNCIL YOU WANNA COME DOWN WITH ME TOO.
I KNOW YOU WANT TO SHARE THIS TIME, UH, WITH OUR CHIEF BELT.
AND THE FIRST THING I WANT TO OKAY, AND PRESENT TO YOU IS, UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO SERVICE FOR 26 YEARS BECAUSE WE ALLOW YOUR SERVICE, OKAY? OUR SPECIALTY, 2019, WHEN YOU STEP UP TO HELP OUR DEPARTMENT, AND YOU CAN SEE THE CHANGE, OKAY? THE MORALE, OKAY? THE POWER, THE LOVE, UH, THE UNITY.
AND THAT IS SHOWING THE LEADERSHIP OF YOU.
SO HERE IS FROM WEST COVINA, OKAY? AND FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING, OKAY? AND, UH, A SERVICE FOR 26 YEARS.
AND HERE IS RESOLUTION FOR YOUR RETIREMENT.
OKAY? AND THIS IS SOMETHING, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE.
YOU DESERVE, UH, TO ENJOY FISHING AND DON'T FORGET TO CALL ME, OKAY? AND, UH, OKAY.
AND, UH, THIS ONE OKAY, IS FROM OKAY, CONGRESSWOMAN CHRIS NA MATANO, OKAY? AND SHE WANT TO PRESENT IS WONDERFUL.
OKAY? AND A CERTIFICATE FOR YOU.
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THIS IS, UH, BUT THE LAST ONE IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE ONE,WE HAVE, WE HAVE, UH, THREE NAME BE OKAY.
AND, UH, WE LOVE YOU AND WE WANT TO FOREVER REMEMBER YOU, OKAY? BECAUSE YOU OUTSTANDING, UH, SERVICE TO OUR CITY.
BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 26 YEARS AND TO MAKE OUR CITY GREAT.
AND BEL, YOU WANT TO HAVE A COUPLE SENTENCE,
REALLY,
THANK YOU FOR ALL THIS SENTIMENT.
I'LL BE ABLE TO TAKE THIS AND CHERISH THIS.
I WANTED TO GET IT MEMORIALIZED.
THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE WHO STAYED TO, TO, TO WITNESS THIS.
IT'S, IT'S TRULY BEEN A PLEASURE FOR ME.
AND, UM, AND LIKE I SAID, I'M, I'M READY TO STEP OFF THE TRAIN.
AND, UH, I WISH THE CITY WELL, THANK YOU.
WE DO, WE HAVE, UH, OTHER, OKAY, YEAH, COME UP.
I'M FROM STATE SENATOR SUSAN RUBIO'S OFFICE.
UM, AND I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF SENATOR RUBIO.
AND ABEL IS HERE ON BEHALF OF ASSEMBLY MEMBER RUBIO, TO PRESENT TO CHIEF BELL, A JOINT RESOLUTION FROM THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE, THANKING YOU FOR YOUR PUBLIC SERVICE AND FOR PROTECTING THE COMMUNITY.
UM, YOU HAD A CHANCE EARLIER TO GIVE YOUR, GIVE FLOWERS TO YOUR FAMILY.
SO NOW WE WILL SAY THANK YOU TO YOU AND GIVE YOU YOUR FLOWERS FOR YOUR SERVICE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR LEADERSHIP.
YEAH, I THINK YOU GOOD EVENING AGAIN, UH, ABEL FROM ASSEMBLYWOMAN RUB REVEAL'S OFFICE.
SO I WANNA, WE, ON BEHALF OF THE ASSEMBLYWOMAN AND THE SENATOR, WE ARE HONORED TO BE HERE TO CELEBRATE THIS SPECIAL MOMENT.
UM, I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET, UM, MR. BELL A COUPLE MONTHS AGO, UH, AT AN EVENT THAT I WENT WITH ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES.
AND HE WAS, I WAS NEW ON THE JOB AT THAT TIME, AND WHEN I FIRST MET HIM, HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE THAT I CONNECTED WITH.
AND HE GAVE ME THE COMFORT THAT I WAS DOING SOMETHING THAT I, THAT I KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING.
UH, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBERS MEETING ME, BUT IT WAS A COUPLE MONTHS AGO.
UH, NOW, UM, WE CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR OUR COMMUNITIES AND FOR THE STATE, BUT WE WANNA RECOGNIZE YOU.
WE WANNA PRESENT THIS RESOLUTION TO HONOR THE SERVICE THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN THE COMMUNITY OF WEST COVINA.
WE WISH YOU THE BEST AND THE ASSEMBLY WOMAN CONGRATULATES YOU.
AND NOW WE WISH YOU THE BEST WITH YOUR GRAND BABIES AND WITH YOUR FAMILY.
BUT HEY, YOUR DUTY IS NOW OVER YOU 2 28.
I'M STILL GONNA SEE YOU EVERY DAY.
I'M GONNA TALK TO YOU TOMORROW ABOUT THE ISSUE, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH.
[CITY MANAGER'S REPORT]
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CITY MANAGER, UH, PAULINA MORALE, GO AHEAD, TAKE OVER.GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, I HAVE A QUICK, UH, CITY MANAGER'S REPORT, THE LAST ONE FOR THE YEAR.
UM, WE HAD HER LET IT SNOW EVENT, UH, AND IT WAS VERY WELL ATTENDED.
WE HAD TO RELOCATE IT TO THE CITY'S, UH, PARKING LOT.
AND EVEN THEN, THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE CAME TO ATTEND.
AND IT WAS A VERY, WELL, A VERY SUCCESSFUL EVENT.
WE HAD, UH, PERFORMANCES FROM HOLLAND CREST, UH, MIDDLE SCHOOL.
WE HAD, UM, THE TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY.
WE HAD VENDOR SHARING, AND WE ALSO HAD, UH, THE SNOW, UH, SLEDDING THAT WAS VERY, VERY POPULAR.
SO, UM, IF YOU WEREN'T ABLE TO MAKE IT THIS YEAR, WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AT NEXT YEAR'S EVENT.
LIKEWISE, OUR, UM, CHRISTMAS PARADE THAT WE PARTNER WITH THE KWAN, UM, CLUB OF WEST COVINA.
UM, WE DO IT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THEM TO HOST THE ANNUAL CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS PARADE IN SANTAS VILLAGE.
IT WAS HELD ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14TH, AND THE PARADE HIGHLIGHTED LOCAL SCHOOLS, ORGANIZATION AND FAMILIES IN THE COMMUNITY.
WE GOT 60 ENTRIES, UH, FOR THE PARADE THIS YEAR.
SO IT WAS A HUGE PARADE, UM, AND WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO COME AND WAVE ON THEIR FELLOW, UH, COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
UM, FOLLOWING THE PARADE, THERE WAS SANTAS VILLAGE WHERE WE HAD FOOD VENDORS, UH, OTHER VENDORS, AND WE HAD PERFORMANCES, UM, FOR DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUPS AS WELL.
SO, ONCE AGAIN, IF YOU DIDN'T ATTEND, WE HOPE YOU COME NEXT YEAR.
UM, AS WE CONTINUE TO, UH, MOVE FORWARD WITH, UH, THE SPORTSPLEX OPERATIONS.
UM, IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THE FIELDS TO THE STANDARD THAT WE NEED TO, THERE ARE GONNA BE CLOSED FOR MAINTENANCE UNTIL JANUARY 30TH.
UM, AND THE FACILITY WILL BE CLOSED, UM, BETWEEN THE 18TH AND THE 5TH OF JANUARY.
HOWEVER, STARTING JANUARY 6TH, THE FACILITIES WILL BE OPEN, NOT THE FIELDS, INCLUDING, UM, THE BATTING, UH, CAGES.
SO PEOPLE WILL STILL BE ABLE TO GO AND USE THE FACILITY STARTING JANUARY 5TH.
BUT WE DO NEED TO DO MAINTENANCE ON THE FIELD.
SO, UH, LEAGUE PLAY WILL COMMENCE JANUARY 31ST.
UM, ON DECEMBER 11TH, UH, SEVERAL CITY, UH, STAFF MEMBERS WENT TO A LUNCHEON WHERE THE CITY WAS RECOGNIZED BY THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATION FOR OUR CORTES PARK SPORTS FIELD RENOVATION.
THIS IS WHERE WE INSTALLED THE MUSCOW LIGHTING FOR THE, UH, CORTES FIELD, AND WE'RE VERY HONORED TO RECEIVE THAT AWARD ON BEHALF OF THE CITY.
SO THIS IS ONE OF OUR, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, SORRY,
UM, THE NEW, UH, MUCH ANTICIPATED, UH, DISCOVER WEST CAMINO WINTER EDITION WAS, UH, POSTED TODAY.
UM, SO PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE TO FIND OUT OR GET SOME INFORMATION ON THE PROGRAMMING SERVICES AND EVENTS IN THE COMMUNITY.
UM, AS A TESTAMENT TO CHIEF, OUR CHIEF BELL, THAT IS, UH,
UM, JUST WANTED TO GIVE SOME UPDATES ON SOME, UH, UH, POLICE STATISTICS.
UM, DURING THE LAST MONTH, THE CITY, UH, OF WEST COVINA POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, PATROL AND DETECTIVE BUREAUS MADE SOME, SEVERAL, MADE SEVERAL ARRESTS FOR CRIMES THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN THE CITY.
I KNOW THERE'S, UH, SOME CRIMES LIKE A SHOOTING AT, UM, TINA'S TAVERN.
UM, OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT THROUGH CHIEF'S LEADERSHIP, UM, HAS LY RESPONDED TO THESE CRIMES.
AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT HAS MADE SEVERAL, MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS, UM, FOR INCLUDING THE SHOOTING.
THEY'VE, UH, SUS THE SUSPECT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED, UM, AND WHILE THE INVESTIGATION IS STILL ONGOING.
AND SO, UM, IN ADDITION, UM, BECAUSE OF THE HOLIDAYS, UH, PATROL AND DETECTIVES CONDUCTED AN UNDERCOVER RETAIL THEFT OPERATION AT THE EASTLAND CENTER ON DECEMBER 11TH, THE OPERATION, UH, THAT RESULTED IN 10 ARRESTS, FIVE FELONIES, AND FIVE MISDEMEANORS.
UM, ONE INCIDENT INVOLVED A RETAIL THEFT GROUP THAT HAD STOLEN SEVERAL, UM, FROM SEVERAL STORES, NOT ONLY IN OUR CITY, BUT SAND DIMAS AND GLENDORA.
AND SO OUR POLICE DEPARTMENTS WERE THE ONE THAT WAS ABLE TO MAKE THE ARREST.
UM, IN ADDITION, UH, WITH THE NEWLY LAUNCHED BIKE PROGRAM, THEY'VE BEEN, UH, DOING SOME EXTRA PATROL ALL ALONG GLENDORA AVENUE.
AND THEY, UH, WHICH HAS RESULTED IN TWO ARRESTS FOR DRUG RELATED CRIMES.
SO OUR POLICE OFFICERS ARE OUT IN OUR COMMUNITY KEEPING US SAFE, AND I JUST WANTED TO SHARE SOME REALLY POSITIVE NEWS ABOUT, UM, ALL THE HARD WORK THAT THEY DO.
UM, WITH THE HOLIDAYS, WE WILL BE, UH, SUSPENDING STREET SWEEPING AND OVERNIGHT PARKING FOR THOSE AREAS THAT DO HAVE A POSTED STREET SWEEPING AND OVERNIGHT PARKING PERMITS.
UM, THE SUSPENSION PERIOD WILL BE FROM DECEMBER 23RD TO JANUARY 5TH.
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UM, JUST A FRIENDLY REMINDER.THE HOLIDAY CLOSURE IS FROM MONDAY THE 23RD TO WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1ST.
WE WILL BE OPEN AND READY FOR THE NEW YEAR ON JANUARY 2ND.
UM, AND THEN BEFORE I GET TO, UH, THE LAST SLIDE OF UPCOMING EVENTS IN THE NEW YEAR, I WANTED TO INTRODUCE SOME NEW STAFF MEMBERS.
UM, I WILL START WITH, UH, ROBERT ORTEGA.
HE'S OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT MANAGER, AND SO HE IS IN OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, AND HE OVERSEES, AS I MENTIONED, THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE CITY.
SO, ROBERT, IF I CAN HAVE YOU COME UP, PLEASE.
UM, GOOD EVENING, HONOR MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
MY NAME IS ROBERT ORTEGA, AND I JOINED THE CITY OF WEST COVINA IN JUNE OF 2024 AS A CIP PROJECT MANAGER.
AND PRIOR TO THIS, I WORKED FOR THE CITY OF MONTCLAIR FOR A YEAR AND A HALF AS THEIR PROJECT MANAGER.
UM, WITH NEARLY 10 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT, I AM THRILLED TO BE A PART OF THIS DYNAMIC CITY, ESPECIALLY WITH SO MANY EXCITING PROJECTS AHEAD AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP.
SO CURRENTLY, UH, WE HAVE FOUR PROJECTS IN CONSTRUCTION, WHICH ARE THE PHASE ONE OF THE CITY, THE CITYWIDE SIDEWALK, CURB AND GUTTER, WHICH WE FINALLY JUST WRAPPED UP THAT PROJECT.
UH, WE ALSO HAVE THE RESIDENTIAL STREET REHAB, AZURA AZUA SEWER LIFT STATION FENCE, THE SENIOR CENTER ROOF AND HVAC REPLACEMENT, WHICH SHOULD BE DONE AT THE END OF THIS MONTH.
UM, AND ALSO WE HAVE 12 PROJECTS IN THE PIPELINE, WHICH ARE EXPECTED TO START IN EARLY 2025.
THAT INCLUDES CORTES PARK PATHWAY LIGHTING, FRIENDSHIP PARK, RESTROOM AND PARK DESIGN, PALM VIEW PARK ROOF REPLACEMENT, BKK DETENTION CENTER, I MEAN, SORRY, BBKK DETENTION BASIN, FIRE STATION TWO, AND FLOOR TWO AND FOUR RE FLOORING DESIGNED FOR, UH, CITY HALL, A DA IMPROVEMENTS MULTI PARK, LED SIGNS FIRE STATION ONE.
WE HAVE OUR KICKOFF MEETING FOR DESIGN TOMORROW, SO I'M EXCITED FOR THAT ONE.
TRAFFIC, UH, SIGNAL UPGRADES, WHICH IS THE, UH, THE H CHIP CYCLE.
10 FOR THE 10 10 INTERSECTIONS.
WE ALSO HAVE, WE'RE STARTING THE PHASE TWO OF THE SIDEWALK, CURB AND GUTTER THROUGHOUT OUR CITY.
UM, ALSO THE CITYWIDE PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICLE UPGRADES, AND LASTLY, THE STREET SWEEPING SIGNAGE PROJECT.
AND FOR THOSE 12 PROJECTS, WE HAVE AROUND 6 MILLION $183,338 READY TO BE SPENT.
A LITTLE ABOUT ME, AND I'M EXCITED TO BE PART OF THIS AMAZING CITY WITH AMAZING LEADERSHIP, KNOW, UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH, ROBERT.
AND, UH, THIS JOB IS TRULY NEEDED.
THE CT NEED TO SUPERVISE ALL THE PROJECT, WE HAVE A LOT OF PROJECT GOING ON, AND THAT IS NEEDED.
I WANT TO GIVE THIS TIME TO ALL THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR PRO.
UH, I JUST WANNA SAY WELCOME AND WE ACTUALLY ARE SUPER EXCITED THAT TO SEE ALL THESE PROJECTS GOING THROUGH AND ACTUALLY MAKING IT HAPPEN, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE AWARE, UM, THAT TO JUST KINDLY READ THE FINE PRINTS ON ALL THE CONTRACTS.
SOMETIMES PROJECTS ARE DONE AND IT LOOKS COMPLETED, PAY 'EM, WE'RE DONE.
AND THEN A FEW MONTHS LATER, WE GET COMPLAINTS.
IT'S NOT REALLY, UM, TO THE LEVEL THAT WHERE IT SHOULD BE.
SO JUST MAKE SURE, UH, THAT IS TAKEN CARE OF.
OTHERWISE, YOU HEAR IT FROM US.
WELL, WE HEAR IT FROM THE COMMUNITY AND IT JUST TRICKLES UP.
SO I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR EXPERIENCE, TO YOUR, UH, HARD WORK, AND WE ACTUALLY JUST LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THOSE PROJECTS COMPLETED ON TIME.
AND ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL? YEAH.
AND, UH, COUNCIL COUNCILMAN ALDI CANTEL, PLEASE.
UM, ROBERT, IT, IT'S REALLY GREAT TO HAVE YOU ABOARD FORMALLY, UH, WELCOME.
AND IT WAS NICE HANGING OUT WITH YOU DURING THE AWARD CEREMONY AS WELL.
UH, SO AS THESE PROJECTS MOVE FORWARD, WILL YOU BE ISSUING COMMUNICATIONS THAT SHOW THE PROGRESS OF THE RESIDENTS WILL KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH EACH OF THESE 12 PROJECTS AS THEY BE, AS THEY ARE COMPLETED? YES.
RIGHT NOW WE HAVE, UH, THROUGH THAT WE DO, WE POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA, WE DO ON THE WEBSITE.
WE HAVE ONE FOR THE A DA SURVEY, UM, WHERE WE DO COMMUNITY OUTREACH THAT WAY ALSO.
UM, I REPORT BACK TO MANAGEMENT TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT ANY, UH, RESIDENCE, THEY CAN CONTACT ME VIA EMAIL, PHONE CALL.
I'VE SENT IT MULTIPLE TIMES NOW.
SO, UH, THAT'S ONE WAY I, IF I COULD ADD TOO, WE'RE ALSO WORKING ON, UH, A PROJECT AND ONCE WE HAVE A LITTLE, WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, FINALIZED, WE'LL BE SHARING THAT.
BUT IT'LL BE A WAY TO COMMUNICATE THE ONGOING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
AND SO RESIDENTS WOULD BE ABLE TO GO ONTO THE WEBSITE TO SEE WHAT PROJECTS ARE COMPLETED, WHEN, WHAT THE TIMEFRAME IS, AND WHAT THOSE PROJECTS ENTAIL.
AND, UH, LET'S GO TO THE COUNCIL.
YEAH, I THINK JUST LIKE, UM, COUNCILMAN LETTI LOPEZ RITO SAID, MAKE SURE YOU LOOK AT THE FINE PRINT.
UH, WELL, BEFORE I GET THERE, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW POSITION,
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JUST LIKE COUNCILWOMAN LETTI LOPEZ, FIDO STATED, MAKE SURE YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE FINE PRINT, MAKING SURE THAT YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL ON SOME OF THOSE BIGGER PROJECTS THAT ARE COMING, OUR HOUSING PROJECTS, AND MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S ACCOUNTABILITY.UH, AND, AND I THINK THAT MORE AND MORE PROJECTS ARE COMING TO OUR COMMUNITY, AND OUR COMMUNITY IS GONNA BE PROUD.
I JUST WANNA CONGRATULATE YOU AND WELCOME.
UM, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING ALL THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT OR LOOKING AT WATCHING OUR CITY AND HOW THEY IMPROVE, REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO.
AND, UM, ALSO, YES, I WOULD LIKE ACCOUNTABILITY.
I'D LIKE TO SEE THE IMPROVEMENTS AND SEE WHAT WE'VE COMPLETED AND, AND WHAT HASN'T BEEN COMPLETED LIKE THIS.
WE'RE ON TOP OF STUFF BECAUSE I KNOW THAT OUR CONSTITUENTS ARE CONSTANTLY ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND EMIL PUTIN, LOPEZ, AGAIN, I, LIKE I SAID, WE ARE EXCITED.
BUT AGAIN, UH, I KNOW THAT THEY MENTIONED LIKE THE FINE PRINT, BUT ALSO JUST ENFORCE THAT THEY DO THE WORK, UM, AND SUPERVISE, UH, THE PROJECTS BEFORE EVERYTHING IS SEALED.
SO SUPERVISE EVERYTHING, UH, ALONG THE WAY.
MORE IMPORTANTLY, UH, TAKE PICTURES BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER, AND PLEASE SHARE THAT WITH THE COMMUNITY.
WE LOVE SEEING RESULTS AND YOU KNOW, I KNOW WHEN YOU SAY SEWER, NOBODY REALLY SEES THAT, BUT IT IS IMPORTANT.
UM, YEAH, JUST TAKE PICTURES AND SHARE.
I THINK YOU CAN SEE ALL THE FIVE CITY COUNCIL ARE EXCITED FOR YOU INVOLVED BECAUSE IT BEEN, THIS IS NEEDED.
WE'VE BEEN OKAY ASKING FOR CITY MANAGER FOR A COUPLE YEARS THAT, UH, DUE TO, WE HAVE A LOT OF PROJECT, LIKE, KIND OF LACK OF THE SCREW AND THIS AND THAT, AND THEY KIND OF DROPPING THE SKY.
AND THEN WE HAVE A LOT OF ISSUE, AND HOPEFULLY THIS IS IN-HOUSE.
YOU WORK FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, OUR STAFF, SO YOU CAN SUPERVISE ALL THE PROJECT, OKAY? AND ALL THE PROJECT, OKAY.
MAKE SURE THEY DOING THE RIGHT THING, OKAY? AND THE CONTRACTOR AND THIS AND THAT.
AND ANOTHER THING, TRANSPARENCY.
WE NEED ALL THIS PROJECT ON OUR WEBSITE, AND MAYBE YOU CAN ONCE OR WHILE GIVE US THE REPORT, BUT WHAT'S GOING ON AND THIS AND THAT, SO WE AND THE RESIDENT CAN KNOW EACH OF, UH, IMPROVEMENT, WHAT'S HAPPENED, HOW FAR AWAY WHEN IT CAN BE COMPLETED.
OKAY? I THINK PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW THE INFORMATION, SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO COME TO CITY COUNCIL, ASK US WHAT'S GOING ON.
SO IF WE CAN HAVE A SYSTEM IN OUR WEBSITE, CHECKING EACH OF THE, OKAY.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND ALL THIS PROJECT, AND THE PEOPLE CAN SEE WHAT'S GOING ON, THEN I THINK THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE WANT.
AND, UH, DO A GREAT JOB AND, UH, WE PROUD OF YOU TO JOIN US AND, UH, WELCOME AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND HOPEFULLY YOU DO A GREAT JOB.
AND I'M COMMITTED TO WORK HARD.
OKAY, APPRECIATE, THANK YOU, ROBERT.
NEXT, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE, OR MAYBE REINTRODUCE, SOME OF YOU ALREADY KNOW HIM.
HE'S BEEN WITH THE CITY FOR QUITE SOME, UH, TIME, UH, AL ROJAS, UM, HE'S THE ACTING, UH, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HOUSING MANAGER, LEAVING MAYOR, COUNCIL STAFF, AND EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE.
I WANNA TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK COUNCIL AND MANAGEMENT FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.
I'M TRULY HONORED TO STEP IN INTO THE ROLE DEARLY.
UH, TAKING ALL THE RESPONSIBILITY IS NOT SOMETHING I TAKE LIGHTLY.
UH, WE HAVE AN INCREDIBLE TEAM, AND TOGETHER I BELIEVE WE CAN ACHIEVE GREAT THINGS.
UM, EXCUSE ME, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS ABOUT PEOPLE.
IT'S ABOUT, UM, CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS TO THRIVE, FOR BUSINESSES TO GROW, AND FOR OUR COMMUNITY TO PROSPER.
UM, WITH THAT BEING SAID, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE SEVERAL EXCITING UPCOMING PROJECTS.
JUST WANTED TO UPDATE THE COUNCIL.
WE'RE ACTIVELY EXPANDING OUR, OUR CHAMBER, UH, BY RECRUITING NEW BUSINESSES.
OUR GOAL IS TO FOSTER ITS GROWTH AND HAVE IT, UH, AS A RESOURCE FOR OUR LOCAL BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
CITY YARD, UH, PROGRESS ON THE CITY YARD IS MOVING FORWARD.
SO, UM, JUST TO OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, STAY TUNED FOR, FOR UPDATES THAT ARE UPCOMING PLAZA WEST COVINA.
THERE'S GREAT GROWTH OPPORTUNITY AT PLAZA WEST COVINA, AS WE ALL KNOW, WE ARE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT COMING UP, THE GRAND OPENING OF, UH, URBAN CAFE ON JANUARY 10TH.
SO WE HOPE TO SEE, UH, RESIDENTS THERE.
UM, BUT ON TOP OF THAT, WE ARE DEDICATED TO BUILDING ON THIS MOMENTUM, UH, AND ATTRACTING NEW, EXCITING BUSINESSES TO NOT ONLY THE PLAZA, BUT TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, AS FAR AS OUR DEALERSHIPS.
WE'RE EXCITED TO, UM, WITH SOME UPDATES ON THAT AS WELL.
WE'RE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THE UPCOMING OPENING OF ENVISION TOYOTA WEST COVINA AT ITS NEW LOCATION ALONG CITRUS AVENUE.
ADDITIONALLY, WITH, WITH THEIR MOVEMENT, UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE ARRIVAL OF THE NEW ENVISION, UH, MERCEDES-BENZ, WHICH WE'LL BE TAKING THE PLACE OF, UH, THE CURRENT TOYOTA WEST COVINA COMING UP SHORTLY.
LASTLY, I JUST WANNA TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE, UH, TO THANK YOU FOR THIS INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY, AND I'M EXCITED TO GET STARTED.
OKAY, ANY CITY COUNCIL HAVE A QUESTION, COMMENT, MAYOR PUTIN, GO AHEAD.
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UM, THOSE, I JUST WANNA SAY WELCOME AND CONGRATULATIONS.UM, I KNOW I'VE WORKED WITH YOU IN THE PAST AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU KNOW THE HISTORY OF WEST COVINA AND YOU'RE AROUND THERE, AND I DO APPRECIATE ALL THE UPDATES YOU PROVIDED THIS EVENING, AND WE DO LOOK FORWARD TO MORE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND, YOU KNOW, SUCCESS WITH THE CITY.
SO, CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
SO, DO I GIVE YOU THE LIST, OR WHO DO I GIVE THE LIST OF THE RESTAURANTS THAT I WANT? GIVE IT TO ME TO COME IN.
WE NEED A CRACKER BARREL HERE.
WE NEED A TOMMY'S BURGER HERE.
UH, LET'S SEE, WHAT ELSE CAN WE PICK? NO, WE NEED SEV, WHAT IS IT? TRADER JOE, TRADER JOE TRADE.
JOE'S, TRADER JOE'S, ABSOLUTELY.
SO I'M HOPING THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN WORK ON THINGS LIKE THAT, AND I APPRECIATE THAT.
AND CONGRATULATIONS AND WELCOME AGAIN,
YEAH, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW POSITION.
I KNOW, UH, MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE SPEAK VERY HIGHLY OF YOU.
I KNOW OUR CITY MANAGER, PAULINA MORALES, SPEAKS VERY HIGHLY OF YOU, AND AND SHE'S ENTRUSTING YOU IN, IN THIS NEW ROLE.
AND, AND THIS COUNCIL'S PROUD TO SUPPORT OUR CITY MANAGER AND HER DECISION, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE POTENTIAL YOU HAVE IN, IN BRINGING SO MUCH MORE TO THIS COMMUNITY.
SO THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS, COUNCIL ME KENTO.
I WANTED TO ASK, UH, WHAT METRICS ARE YOU PUTTING TOGETHER IN TERMS OF, UH, THE GROWTH RATE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE MOST IDEALLY FOR THE CHAMBER TO HAVE? SO I KNOW THAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE GOING TO BE PROMOTING THE GROWTH, BUT WHAT WILL BE THE METRICS THAT YOU USE TO, TO DETERMINE YOUR PROGRESS IN BEING SUCCESSFUL WITH THAT? THAT'S THE FIRST QUESTION.
UM, THAT'S SOMETHING I WILL BE LOOKING INTO.
UH, I HAVEN'T GOTTEN INTO THAT YET, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING I WILL BE REPORTING TO COUNCIL.
AND THEN THE SECOND THING IS, I JUST WANTED TO BRING YOUR ATTENTION.
IT'LL BE SOMETHING I'LL BRING UP LATER, BUT THE CITY OF EASTVALE ACTUALLY HAS DONE A, UH, AN INNOVATIVE LOAN PROGRAM TO SUPPORT BUSINESSES.
SO, UM, MAYBE IF YOU COULD, IF YOU COULD ALSO LOOK, WHAT IS YOUR PLAN FOR LOOKING AT INNOVATIVE APPROACHES THAT OTHER CITIES ARE DOING, SO WE COULD REPLICATE THOSE SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO PREVENT FROM, OR WE DON'T HAVE TO END UP REINVENT, REINVENTING THE PROVERBIAL WHEEL WITH REGARD TO THE APPROACHES THAT WORKED IN OTHER CITIES.
I WELCOME ANY SUGGESTIONS FROM COUNCIL, BY ALL MEANS, IF I, I'M ALL EARS.
UM, AGAIN, THAT'S THAT INFORMATION THAT I WILL BE LOOKING INTO.
BUT ABSOLUTELY, I WILL BE REPORTING THAT TYPE OF INFORMATION THAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE SEEKING TO YOU.
SHE, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ.
YEAH, JUST TO ECHO SOME OF, UH, WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, KTO SAID, I THINK IT, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO WORK WITH, UH, ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND, UH, WORK WITH THEM TO SEE HOW WE CAN MARKET SOME OF THEIR PROGRAMS TO OUR, TO THIS COMMUNITY.
IT'S GOVERNMENT FUNDED LOANS, UH, DUE TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, A A FEDERAL AGENCY, UH, A SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND, AND WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR NEW CONGRESSMAN GIROS, WHO I KNOW IN MY PHONE CONVERSATION WITH HIM.
HE'S, HE'S DEDICATED TO SERVING THIS COMMUNITY AND, UH, YEAH, WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH HIS OFFICE TO GET IN CONTACT WITH THE SBA.
SO, YEAH, LIKE I SAID, I, I WELCOME ANY SUGGESTIONS, ANY CONTACTS, BY ALL MEANS.
THAT'S, I'LL LOOK INTO THANK YOU.
UH, UH, I JUST WANT TO CLEAR OUT ONE THING.
WHICH ONE YOU PREFER? THE RADO OR G? OKAY, I JUST CON JAMES ROJAS.
FOR THOSE I COULD PRONOUNCE IT, BY ALL MEANS I WELCOME IT FOR THOSE WHO CANDO COLORADO'S.
HUH? IF YOU CAN'T PRONOUNCE IT, BY ALL MEANS, YOU COULD CALL ME.
WELL, I KNOW YOU FOR A LONG TIME, SO I DON'T KNOW.
IF YOU CALL ME G NO, I SAY I CAN FEEL BAD.
CALL YOU A, JUST A ENGLISH LETTER.
THAT'S, I THINK IT A MECHANISM DISRESPECTFUL.
I SAY EVERYONE'S ME BY G, BUT, BUT ONE THING IS THIS, BUT THANK YOU FOR CLARIFY.
SO I CAN CALL YOU RADO IF THAT YOU DON'T MIND.
THAT'S YOUR NAME, RIGHT? MAYOR, YOU CAN CALL ME G.
ONE THING IS THIS CONGRATULATION AND WELCOME.
AND, UH, IT'S, THIS IS OVERDUE FOR YOU.
I CAN SEE YOUR POTENTIAL FOR THE CITY, AND YOU ALWAYS THERE, OKAY? AND DO THE GRAND OPENING, THIS AND THAT.
I SAW YOU FOR NINE YEARS ALREADY.
OKAY? SO IT'S ABOUT TIME FOR YOU TO TAKE THIS DEPARTMENT BECAUSE THE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT DE DEPARTMENT IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT FOR OUR FUTURE.
AND THE, THE ISSUE IS TO BRING THE REVENUE AND JOB TO THE CITY.
AND, UH, WEST COVINA HAS A, IS A BUSINESS CITY.
WE HAVE, UH, SO MANY SHOPPING MALL, AND WE HAVE SO MANY BUSINESS.
WE HAVE ABOUT THREE, 4,000 BUSINESS.
OKAY? AND WE NEED THEM TO UNITED FROM YOU TO CITY TO TELL THEM THAT WE ARE GOING TO HERE TO HELP YOU TO SURVIVE AND HELP YOU TO DEVELOP AND, AND, UH, DOING EVEN BETTER.
AT THE SAME TIME, WE NEED TO RECRUIT, OKAY? FROM OUTSIDE BUSINESS.
AND THAT WILL BE ON YOUR SHOULDER.
OKAY? THIS IS THE JOB, BUT THIS IS HOW, OKAY, A, CD CAN SURVIVE
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FOR FUTURE, THE ONE YEAR PLAN, THREE YEARS PLAN, FIVE YEAR PLAN, HOW MANY BUSINESS, HOW MANY DEVELOPMENT WE CAN BRING INTO THE CITY.AND THAT IS A CITY RESOURCE AND REVENUE AND JOBS.
AND WE NEED TO PROVIDE JOBS AND JOBS AND JOBS FOR OUR RESIDENT.
BY THE SAME TIME, WE NEED BUSINESS TO PROVIDE SALES TAX AND ET CETERA, ET CETERA, FOR OUR FUTURE, WE NEED DEVELOPMENT FOR US TO CONTINUE TO HAVE ALL THIS, UH, DEVELOPMENT COME TO OUR CITY, BECAUSE THAT IS HOW THE CT CAN SURVIVE TO PAY FOR OUR PROGRAM.
OKAY? AND NOW, RATHER THAN PAY, OKAY, RAISE TAXES.
I THINK OUR REVENUE IS COMING FROM THE BUSINESS AND SALES TAX AND THEIR FEE AND THIS AND THAT.
AND, UH, IF YOU NEED ANY HELP AND ANYTHING FROM THE CITY COUNCIL, PLEASE, UH, WE ARE EXCITED AND VERY, VERY PROUD FOR YOU, UH, TO ACCEPT THIS POSITION.
IT'S A VERY CHALLENGING POSITION.
IT'S, IT IS A, IT IS CONTROL OUR CITY FUTURE.
SO I WANNA REASSURE THE BEST AND, UH, ANYTHING CAN HELP YOU, OKAY? AND ESPECIALLY, UH, WITH COVID A CHAMBER.
AND TO UNITE THE BUSINESS TOGETHER AND GIVE THEM INFORMATION TO HELP THEM TO SURVIVE, PROVIDE SERVICE.
I THINK THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING CURRENTLY, YOUR JOB AND HOPEFULLY BRING MORE BUSINESS TO US.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH TO STEP UP AND, UH, WELCOME AND WE PROUD OF YOU.
UM, IT'S NEXT YEAR, BUT IT'S NEXT MONTH, SO JUST WANTED TO GIVE A COUPLE UPDATES.
UM, THE NEXT, UH, COMMUNITY EVENT THAT WE'RE GONNA BE HAVING IS MARTIN LUTHER KING'S EVENT THAT WE PARTNER, UM, DOING PARTNERSHIP.
UH, IT IS LOOKING FOR MONDAY, JANUARY 20TH.
MORE DETAILS, WE'LL FOLLOW INFORMATION WILL BE ON THE WEBSITE.
UM, ALSO THE CORTEZ PARK COMMUNITY AND SENIOR CENTER OPEN HOUSE WILL BE HELD JANUARY 24TH.
THAT'S A FRIDAY FROM 12 TO NOON AT CORTEZ PARK AND COMMUNITY CENTER.
UM, AS ROBERT WAS MENTIONING, I BELIEVE, UM, THE NEW ROOF SHOULD BE COMPLETED BY THEN.
SO NOT THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THAT FROM THE OPEN HOUSE, BUT, UH, IT'LL BE FEATURING A NEW ROOF
UM, AND THEN JUST TO SAVE THE DATE, UM, FOR MARCH 29TH TO THE 30TH FOR THE SPRING FESTIVAL.
SO JUST, UH, THOSE ARE THE UPCOMING EVENTS.
UM, OTHER THAN THAT, WE'RE JUST WISHING EVERYONE AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
OKAY, MR. MAYOR? YES, GO AHEAD.
I'M SORRY, JUST A QUICK, JUST TO DOUBLE CHECK.
JANUARY 20TH, THAT'S INAUGURATION DAY, RIGHT? SO WE'RE, WE'D BE HAVING THE EVENT THE SAME DAY AS INAUGURATION DAY FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING.
UH, YOU SAID JANUARY 20TH? THAT'S THE DATE THAT WE HAVE, YES.
NOW WE, UH, UH, HAVE YOU, YOU DONE WITH YOUR REPORT, RIGHT? YES.
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TO THE NEXT ITEM THAT WILL BE ORAL COMMUNICATION.WE WILL NOW MOVE TO ORAL COMMUNICATION.
IF ANYONE WANT TO, LIKE, TO ADDRESS TO THE COUNCIL, PLEASE FILL OUT THE ORANGE SPEAKER CALL AND SUBMIT IT TO THE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK.
UH, WHEN YOU HEAR YOUR NAME BEING CALLED, PLEASE, UH, START LINE UP IN THE CENTER NOW.
WE HAVE JOHN SCHUMAKER, FOLLOWED BY LOLA FINLEY, FOLLOWED BY ALBERT OCHOA.
UH, UH, IS JOHN HERE? I'LL GO AHEAD AND CALL LOLA FINLEY, FOLLOWED BY ALBERT OCHOA, FOLLOWED BY GLENN KENNEDY.
COUNCIL MEMBER, STAFF, RESIDENTS.
UM, I JUST HERE ON BEHALF OF CHIEF BELL, I JUST WANTED TO THANK HIM.
I'M GONNA FORGET MY PHONE HERE.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO THANK HIM FOR, UM, ALL THAT HE IS DONE FOR THE CITY.
UM, RICHARD BELL HAS BEEN MY AREA FROM THE BEGINNING BEFORE HE WAS A CHIEF.
UH, HE SERVICED OUR AREA AND HE WAS JUST AMAZING.
HE CAME TO OUR DOORS, HE KNOCKED, HE ASKED US IF THERE WAS ANYTHING WE NEEDED.
UM, HE WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND WE WERE JUST REALLY THANKFUL TO HAVE HIM AS OUR AREA.
UH, LIEUTENANT, UM, CHIEF BELL ATTENDED OUR CITY COUNCIL, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH MEETINGS WHEN THEY WEREN'T DOING THAT AT THE TIME, IT WAS AN UNPRECEDENTED, UH, THING FOR, UH, UH, POLICE TO COME TO OUR MEETINGS, TO A MEETING FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND, UM, HE WAS JUST AHEAD OF THE TIMES BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE WAS DOING THE THIS.
UM, HE WAS PATIENT, HE LISTENED TO THE RESIDENTS, HE WAS CONCERNED.
UM, THE RESIDENTS FELT, UM, HEARD AND, UH, FELT THAT, THAT HE, OUR ISSUES WERE GOING TO BE ADDRESSED.
UM, HE BECAME A PART OF OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, HE WAS ALWAYS STEADFAST IN HIS, UM, LEADERSHIP IN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND AS THE CHIEF OF POLICE, UM, I HAVEN'T REALLY FOLLOWED, UH, WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE CITY, BUT I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING CHIEF FELL BECAUSE HE IS JUST DONE AN AMAZING JOB.
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HAS GOTTEN US THROUGH COVID.HE'S BROUGHT US THROUGH AN ELECTION THAT BROUGHT CHAOS TO, TO EVERY CITY IN OUR NATION.
UM, UNDER THE NEW LAWS THAT WERE PASSED, UM, HE WAS ABLE TO UNITE, UM, NOT ONLY THE CITY, BUT UH, HIS STAFF, UH, THE, THE OFFICERS, UM, UH, SO THEY CAN DO THEIR JOB.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY STUCK OUT WAS WHEN WE WERE NAMED, UH, THE SAFEST CITY.
IT WASN'T SURPRISE FOR ME BECAUSE I'VE KNOWN, UM, CHIEF BELL FOR SO LONG.
UM, I JUST WAS HOPING THAT HE WOULD CONTINUE TO GET THAT RECOGNITION.
AND AGAIN, I I, I DON'T KNOW IF HE DID AT THE TIME WHEN, WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN UP, BUT I WANTED TO, TO, UH, EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT, UM, UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP THAT WE WERE NOMINATED, UH, UH, MENTIONED AS ONE OF THE SAFEST CITIES IN THE NATION.
UM, AND A HUNDRED THOUSAND PLUS IS A LOT OF PEOPLE TO BE IN, IN CHARGE OF BIG NEWS, BIG DEAL.
SO, UM, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S NO SMALL FEAT.
UM, HE HAS LED HIS DEPARTMENT, UM, UNDER SEVERAL NEW CITY MANAGERS AND UNDER SOME VERY CHALLENGING TIMES.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ THE ARTICLE THAT WAS IN THE PASADENA, UH, PAPER ABOUT HIM, BUT JUST READING THAT JUST CONFIRMS JUST WHAT AMAZING MAN HE IS AND HOW BLESSED WE ARE AS A COMMUNITY.
AND, UM, I'M, I, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT HE HAD HIRED SO MANY, UM, UH, NEW POLICE.
SO THAT GIVES ME A COMFORT KNOWING THAT, UM, WE HAVE HIM THAT HAS TRAINED HIM AND, AND, UM, JUST FEEL COMFORTED THAT, UM, THE CITY WILL CONTINUE TO BE, UM, UH, I THINK IT WOULD, HIS LEADERSHIP WILL BE THERE.
AND HE, THAT HE PLANTED A LOT OF, UH, SEEDS, UM, THAT WILL HOPEFULLY KEEP US GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
UM, I HOPE THAT HE CONTINUES TO BE INVOLVED, UM, IN OUR CITY, UM, WHILE HE'S IN RETIREMENT.
I, I HOPE THAT, THAT YOU GUYS REACH OUT WHEN YOU GUYS ARE, UH, HAVE QUESTIONS.
UM, BECAUSE DURING HIS SIX YEARS THAT HE WAS HERE, UM, THERE WAS A LOT OF CHANGES AND, UM, UH, I, I THINK WE HAVE A LOT TO LEARN FROM HIM AND I HOPE THAT YOU GUYS CONTINUE TO REACH OUT AND, AND, AND UTILIZE HIS, HIS, HIS TECHNIQUES AND HIS MIND.
AND, UM, I JUST WANNA, AGAIN, THANK UH, CHIEF BELL FOR, UM, HIS SERVICE, UH, TO, TO OUR CITY AND TO THE RESIDENTS AND, UM, WANNA WISH HIM CONTINUED, UH, SUCCESS AND THAT, UM, WE'LL BE PRAYING FOR HIM AND THAT, UM, HE JUST CONTINUES TO BE AS, AS, UM, ALI CANTO SAYS, AN AWESOME FORCE FOR THE GOOD.
SO, UM, THANK YOU CHIEF FELL, AND, AND, AND THANK YOU GUYS FOR, UM, CHOOSING.
I KNOW IT WAS A DIFFERENT COUNSEL AT THE TIME, BUT THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING AND HAVING, UH, LET HIM BE OUR CHIEF OF POLICE FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
UM, WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE HIM.
ALBERT OCHOA, FOLLOWED BY GLEN KENNEDY, CITY MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, MANAGER AND STAFF ALBERTO TOA.
AMIR ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF LARGE TRUCKS AND TRAILERS IN WEST COVINA.
DISTRICT THREE TO OUR RESIDENTS.
DIAZ, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PROMPT RESPONSE TO HELP RESTORE OUR RESIDENTS STREET BACK TO SAFE DRIVING SO WE CAN PREVENT LARGE TRUCKS AND TRAILERS TO CONTINUE THAT CONTINUED TO VIOLATE THE NO TRUCK POST-IT SIGNS FROM BOTH DIRECTIONS ON EAST GARVEY AVENUE SOUTH, BETWEEN LARK, ALLEN AVENUE AND AUSA AVENUE, WEST COVINA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR OFFICERS PATROLLING OUR RESIDENCE STREET ADMIT WITH THE WEST COVINA TRAFFIC COMMISSION ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10TH, 2024.
THEY COMPLETED OUR TRAFFIC REVIEW OF OUR REQUEST FOR OUR TRUCK SIGNAGE REVIEW AND HAVE PLANS FOR IMPROVING TO REROUTE THE TRUCKS.
MY CONCERN IS WE HAVE ONE POSTED TRUCK ROUTE SIGN, UH, TRUCK ROUTE SIGN ON SOUTH VINCENT AVENUE AND LAKES DRIVE TRAVELING EASTBOUND.
THE OTHER POSTED SIGN, UH, TRUCK ROUTE SIGN IS ON SOUTH VINCENT AVENUE AND SOUTH PANDORA AVENUE TRAVELING NORTHBOUND RIGHT NOW.
FOR THOSE DRIVERS THAT USE THIS POSTED TRUCK ROUTE, IT DOESN'T HAVE ANY SIGNAGE INDICATING WHICH WAY TO CONTINUE TRAVEL.
ONCE THEY HAVE ENTERED ON THE LAKES DRIVE AND SOUTH PANDORA AVENUE, SOME DRIVERS END UP BY MY RESIDENCE.
IF THEY DON'T HAVE A DELIVERY HERE, THEY SHOULD NOT BE DRIVING THROUGH THIS COLONY LAKES AREA WITH LARGE TRUCKS AND TRAILERS ARE APPROXIMATELY 50 TO 60 FEET LONG AND CAN WEIGH UP TO 79,000 POUNDS.
TRUCK ROUTE IS A DESIGNATED ROAD OR SETTLE STREETS THAT ARE TRUCKS USED TO ENTER AND EXIT A CITY OR AREA AND ARE DESIGNED TO ACCOMMODATE LARGE TRUCKS AND CAREFULLY PLAN TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ACCIDENTS AND DAMAGE.
CONSIDERING FACTORS LIKE A SHARP TURN, WHAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING IS THINGS DRIVERS ARE USED THIS TRUCK ROUTE TO END UP ON A SOUSE AVENUE TRUCK ROUTE.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT THEY'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THESE STREETS, EAST CARBON AVENUE SOUTH AND CHERRYWOOD STREET.
THIS IS A SHARP CORNER TURN THAT WAS NOT CONSTRUCTED FOR
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LARGE TRUCKS AND TRAILERS TO TRAVEL.SO THEY END UP CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE STREETLIGHT POLES AND THE STREET, UH, IMPROVEMENTS.
I ASKED TRAFFIC COMMITTEE IF WE CAN HAVE THESE POSTED TRUCKS ROUTE SIGNS REPLACED AND POSTED NO TRUCKS WITH THE WEIGHT LIMIT TO ELIMINATE THE TRUCKS THAT DO NOT HAVE A DELIVERY IN THIS AREA.
FROM WHAT I UNDERSTOOD, THIS WAS A MUNICIPAL CODE THAT NEEDED TO BE ADDRESSED WITH CITY COUNCIL AND CITY MANAGERS FOR REVIEW.
RESPECTFULLY, I'M ASKING TO PLEASE REVIEW THIS AREA THAT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST FOR THE RESIDENTS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE PROPER SIGNAGE NEEDED TO ADDRESS THE SAFETY ISSUES INCLUDED OUR PICTURES TRUCK ROUTE MAP WHERE I BELIEVE IT'S OUTDATED AND MAY BE NEED TO BE REVISED TO MEET OUR CURRENT EVENTS THAT WE HAVE BEEN, THAT HAVE BEEN TAKING PLACE.
DELIVERIES WILL NOT BE DISRUPTED.
ALL WE'RE ASKING TO POST WITH THE WEIGHT LIMIT SO THAT ONLY SMALL BALL TAIL TRUCKS DRIVE IN WITHOUT CAUSING DAMAGE IN THIS AREA.
SO AGAIN, THERE'S ONLY ONE AREA THAT, TWO AREAS I'M LOOKING AT.
SOUTH VINCENT TURNED INTO LAKES DRIVE, THE CALLING LAKES AREA, THE NICE LUXURY APARTMENTS.
WE DON'T NEED TRUCKS TO BE THAT TRUCK ROUTE RIGHT THERE.
THAT WAS PROBABLY POSTED TWO DECADES AGO.
OKAY? THE OTHER ONE IS VINCENT AND GLENDORA TRAVELING NORTHBOUND.
I I, I HAVE A MAP THAT I PUT IT ON THERE AND I I SHOWED YOU WHERE I WOULD LIKE TO PUT, UH, TRUCK WEIGHT POSTED.
THIS WAY THEY DON'T END UP IN MY AREA.
'CAUSE ONCE THEY'RE IN THAT AREA, THEY END UP CAUSING DAMAGE.
UH, TWO STREET LIGHT POSTS, PICTURES SUBMITTED, UM, AND ARE LINERS HAD THEY IMPROVE IN 2023, OUR STREET THAT THEY IMPROVED FOR THE SAFETY THAT WE WERE HAVING TURNED OUT GOOD, BUT NOW THEY DAMAGED 'EM.
SO I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE GOING FORWARD ON THERE, BUT I THINK BEFORE WE CONTINUE TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE THAT WE GOTTA TACKLE TO MAKE SURE NOBODY GOES IN THERE AGAIN.
RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE ALREADY GONNA IMPROVE THAT AREA, BUT I THINK IT COULD BE MORE IMPROVED THAT WE PUT WEIGHT LIMITS.
AND I'LL SAY THAT I, I, I HAVE A COMMERCIAL LICENSE.
OKAY? IF I SEE A TRUCK ROUTE, I'M ABLE TO GO IN THERE, EVEN IF I HAVE NO DELIVERY IN THERE, OKAY? WE DON'T WANT JUST DRIVERS GOING IN THERE WITH 18 WHEELERS, FIVE AXLES DRIVING IN THAT AREA, AND, AND SOME OF THEM DON'T, UH, VIOLATE THE NO TRUCK AND THEN THEY CONTINUE.
BUT IF WE PUT NO TRUCK POST AWAY LIMIT, THAT SHOULD ADDRESS THAT ISSUE RIGHT THERE.
AT LEAST IT WOULD HELP FROM WHAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING.
I I, I DON'T WANT BRINGING IT UP, BRINGING IT UP, BUT IT'S SOME, SOMEBODY'S GONNA GET HURT.
UM, AGAIN, IF YOU COULD SEE THAT PICTURE, THAT STREET LIGHT POST IT LANDED ON THE PROPERTY, A 1 0 1, IT COULD HAVE LANDED ON THE HOUSE.
IT LANDED ON THE, ON THE, ON ON THEIR FENCE.
THE OTHER ONE THAT WAS ON 2023 ON 2024, THAT ONE LANDED ON THE STREET.
IT COULD HAVE BEEN A, A PERSON WALKING A VEHICLE PASSING BY LANDING ON THAT VEHICLE.
SO I'M JUST TRYING TO BE PROACTIVE.
I SEE THE THINGS THAT ARE OUT THERE, IT WORRIES ME.
UM, SO I'M HERE TO ADDRESS THAT.
SO I ASK YOU TO REVIEW THAT, PLEASE.
AND IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN CHRISTMAS, WELL TOO BAD.
SO, SO, UM, I I JUST WANTED TO SAY, UH, A COUPLE THINGS.
UM, I'LL, I'LL MAKE THIS SHORT.
I WANT TO, I WANNA THANK CHIEF BELL FOR ALL HIS YEARS OF SERVICE.
I'VE DONE A FEW PROGRAMS WITH THE CHIEF.
HE'S A VERY KIND AND GENTLE PERSON.
AND, UM, IT WAS A, IT WAS A PRIVILEGE TO WORK WITH HIM.
AND, UM, I WANNA SAY THANK YOU.
AS WE GO INTO THE NEW YEAR, WE'RE GONNA HAVE NEW LEADERSHIP BOTH IN POLICE AND FIRE.
AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE EVERY, EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY TO GET BEHIND THE CITY AND SUPPORT BOTH POLICE AND FIRE.
UM, I WOULD GIVE YOU A LITTLE DETAIL PERSONALLY WITH, UH, CHIEF BELL.
I USED TO PLAY BALL UP THERE FOR ABOUT 25, 30 YEARS.
AND I PLAYED WITH ALL THE GUYS HE WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL WITH.
AND, AND, AND CHIEF BELL WAS A PHENOMENAL ATHLETE.
UM, HE WAS, UM, I KNOW HE WAS ALL C-I-F-C-I-F PLAYER OF THE YEAR, I THINK.
AND, UH, UH, HE WENT TO NEBRASKA.
I DON'T KNOW HOW USC NEVER PICKED HIM UP, BUT, UM, THEY ALL TOLD ME.
AND I'M TALKING ABOUT, UH, ARE YOU LISTENING, CHIEF ORLANDO, TROY, ARNOLD, VICE, THEY ALL TELL ME TO TELL YOU HI RICKY.
'CAUSE THAT WAS HIS, THAT WAS HIS NAME WHEN HE WAS GROWING UP.
AND, UH, ONE MORE THING, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN COMING TO THESE COUNCIL MEETINGS FOR, GEEZ, PROBABLY SINCE THE EIGHTIES.
I'M TIRED OF LOOKING AT THAT SCRATCH.
CAN I VOLUNTEER MY TIME TO COME FIX THAT, THAT SCRATCH ON THE, ON THE, ON THE WOOD.
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HAVE A CITY MANAGER TO CONTACT YOU.GLENN
YOU HAVE TO SEE FROM RIGHT THERE.
UM, ACTUALLY JUST TOUCHED ON GENTLEMEN, I WAS AT THE, UH, SAME TRAFFIC MEETING WITH REGARDS TO TRUCK ROUTES WHERE WE, UH, IT WAS BROUGHT UP THAT THE LAST TIME THAT THE TRUCK ROUTES WERE GENERATED, I THINK WAS 2001.
UM, AND THAT SPECIFIC AREA HE'S TALKING ABOUT, THE COLONY, I DON'T THINK EXISTED AT THAT TIME.
I THINK THE WIX FURNITURE WAS THERE, THE WHOLE AREA, THE DYNAMIC OF THAT AREA, UM, HAS CHANGED DRAMATICALLY.
UM, I THINK THERE'S A 51 UNIT APARTMENT THAT'S GONNA BE BEING BUILT RIGHT BEHIND THE, UH, CAR WASH.
UM, SO I THINK IT'S TIME TO RE-LOOK AT THAT TRUCK ROUTE.
NO FURTHER SPEAKER CARDS, MAYOR.
I KNOW CITY MANAGER WEIGHS HER HANDS.
SHE WANT TO SPEAK FIVE MINUTES.
SHE CAN SPEAK AS LONG AS YOU WANT.
UM, UH, NO, JUST WANTED TO THANK THOSE SPEAKERS THAT CAME AND HAD NICE WORDS TO SAY TO OUR OUTGOING CHIEF.
WE ARE GONNA MISS HIM VERY MUCH.
UH, I HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH HIM FOR A LONG TIME NOW.
UM, AND THEN MORE RECENTLY IN, IN HIS ROLE AS, UH, CHIEF IN, IN MY CURRENT ROLE.
UM, IT REALLY HAS BEEN A PLEASURE TO LEARN FROM HIM FROM, YOU KNOW, ALL THE EXPERIENCE THAT HE HAS.
BUT THANK YOU GUYS FOR COMING AND HAVING THOSE POSITIVE COMMENTS ABOUT HIM.
UM, AND THEN TO MR. CHOA, THANK YOU FOR COMING AND SHARING YOUR CONCERNS WITH US.
SO WE WILL BE TAKING A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT THE TRUCK ROUTES WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD BE TAKING A LOOK AND MAKING SURE THAT OUR STREETS ARE SAFE AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THE WEIGHT LIMITS ARE ON THE APPROPRIATE STREETS THAT THEY SHOULD BE.
SO THANK YOU FOR COMING, UH, DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON TO SHARE YOUR CONCERNS WITH US.
AND, UH, WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED.
I BELIEVE THE TRAFFIC COMMITTEE HAS YOUR INFORMATION.
AND THEN, UM, OTHER THAN THAT, I HOPE YOU GUYS HAVE MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.
THAT CONCLUDES MY, UH, THANK YOU CITY MANAGER.
BUT I, I AGREE WITH MR. OCHOA REGARDING THE CONCERN.
I THINK, UH, HE REALLY SPEND A LOT OF TIME AND PUT THIS TOGETHER WITH ALL THE EFFORT.
I, I THINK WE NEED TO TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY AND, UH, GO TO THE, OUR TRAFFIC COMMITTEE AND, UH, PLEASE DON'T DELAY.
I THINK TWO THING, UH, ONE THING IS ABOUT, OKAY.
AND TO MAKE THE SIGNAGE AND, UH, MAKE SURE, OKAY, I AGREE THAT, THAT THERE WAS A WICKED, UH, FURNITURE WITH BIG TRUCK GOING THROUGH, BUT NOW IT IS A APARTMENT AND SO THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE A TRUCK OKAY.
OKAY? ANOTHER THING IS CO THE, THE, THE ENFORCEMENT.
OKAY? WE NEED TO HAVE OUR, UH, POLICE TRAFFIC OFFICER TO MAKE SURE THEY NEED TO TICKET ALL THOSE, OKAY.
16 WHEELER GOING INTO A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD.
IF THEY GET A TICKET, THEY KNOW THEY CANNOT GO THERE BECAUSE THEY WILL GET CUT.
SO I THINK THE TWO ISSUE OF POST SIGN AND SECOND THING IS, UH, OR OKAY ENFORCEMENT OR TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT AND TO MAKE SURE THOSE BIG TRUCK DON'T OKAY, T TRAMPOLINE INTO OUR CITY.
I SAW A LOT OF TRUCK INTO OUR CITY, EVEN ON MY STREET RESIDENTIAL, YOU HAVE A BIG TRUCK GOING THROUGH TOO.
SO MEANING, OKAY, WE NEED A POLICE.
OKAY, WE NEED TO TELL CHIEF BELL, SHE NOT RETIRING YET.
LET'S GET THIS TRAFFIC THING GO THROUGH.
BUT ANYWAY, OTHER CITY COUNCIL HAVE ANYTHING? YES.
UM, MR. OCHOA AND HIS WIFE HAVE BEEN KIND ENOUGH TO INVITE ME TO THEIR HOUSE ALONG WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS.
AND WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING THIS FOR FOUR YEARS AT LEAST.
AND, UM, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S ONGOING AND WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
UM, I KNOW THAT WE NEED TO PUT SOME SIGNS ON LARK ALLEN EVERYWHERE BEFORE THEY ACTUALLY MAKE THE TURN, BECAUSE ONCE THESE BIG RIGS MAKE THAT TURN GOING EASTBOUND FROM LARK ALLEN, THAT'S IT.
WHAT ARE THEY GONNA DO? GO AND REVERSE THIS.
SO THEY'RE COMMITTED AND THEY HAVE TO JUST MOVE FORWARD.
AND SO WHEN THEY DO THAT, THEN THEY GO AHEAD AND DESTROY THE REST OF THE STREET.
I MEAN, THE, THE PICTURES THAT HE MR. TOYA HAS SENT US ARE REALLY, REALLY BAD.
THEY'VE DAMAGED SO MANY CARS, SO MANY FENCES, AND WE'RE TALKING CINDER BLOCK FENCES.
SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT AND I JUST WANNA ASK THE STAFF, CAN WE PLEASE, PLEASE WORK ON THIS BECAUSE IT'S BEEN GOING ON WAY TOO LONG, WAY TOO LONG.
OKAY, LET COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ.
YEAH, JUST TO ECHO, UH, WHAT COUNCILWOMAN ROSARIO DIAZ JUST STATED, UM, DID WE EVER GET REIMBURSEMENTS FROM THESE
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ACCIDENTS FROM THESE, UH, BIG RIG TRUCKS THAT ARE DAMAGED OUR CITY PROPERTY? LINA, DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS A PROCESS TO GET REIMBURSEMENT WHEN THERE'S ACCIDENTS ON CITY PROPERTY? I CAN'T SPEAK TO THOSE SPECIFIC INCIDENCES, BUT I CAN FOLLOW UP.'CAUSE IF THEY DAMAGE OUR PROPERTY, THEN THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO PAY FOR IT.
BUT, BUT JUST LIKE I AGREE WITH YOU,
AND, AND OUR URGE TRANSTECH, OUR, OUR, OUR CONTRACT TO TRANSTECH ENGINEERING, UH, TO DO A BETTER JOB ON THAT AND, AND TO GET THIS DONE, UH, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.
UH, UH, SOMETHING THAT, THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TOO, WOULD BE THE, THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMPONENT OF, OF MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S SOMEONE THERE WHO COULD TICKET THOSE WHO, WHO VIOLATE THESE RULES BECAUSE YEAH, THAT WHEN, WHEN WORD GETS OUT THAT, THAT WE'RE GOING TO FIND THEM A LOT, THEN, THEN THAT SHOULD HOPEFULLY BE A DETERRENT AS WELL.
SO THAT SHOULD BE ADDED INTO WHATEVER PLAN WE DO TO ADDRESS THE, THESE ISSUES AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
AND, UH, UH, MR. O CHOA, WE LOOK AND SEE, WE TAKE IT SERIOUSLY AND, UH, WE ALREADY PUT THE PRESSURE ON THE CITY MANAGER AND HOPEFULLY THEY WILL GO TO THE, OKAY.
UH, THE TRAFFIC VT, GET EVERYTHING DONE.
AND, UH, I, I SAW THAT BIG TRIAL ALL THE PLACES, AND THAT IS UNCALLED FOR TO OUR CITY.
AND, UH, I THINK WE NEED TO, UH, MAKE SURE THE POST, POST, THE SIGN POSTED AT THE SAME TIME ENFORCEMENT TO MAKE SURE.
AND, UH, SO WE NEED TO HIRE MORE, UH, TRAFFIC OFFICER.
SO ANYWAY, I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING AND UH, I APPRECIATE YOU SPEND ALL THE TIME.
UM, THEN WE DONE WITH, UH, ORAL COMMUNICATION
[CONSENT CALENDAR]
AND MOVE TO CONSENT CALENDAR AND ANY CITY COUNCIL WANT TO PULL ANY CONSENT CALENDAR? I'LL JUST ABSTAIN FROM, UM, ITEM NUMBER ONE SINCE I WASN'T OH, YEAH, YEAH.YOU WANNA ABSTAIN? SO, UH, DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT CALENDAR? UH, ONE TO FOUR BESIDE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTTER ABSTAIN.
THE, THE NUMBER ONE, I'LL MOVE THE MOTION.
I HAVE A FIRST AND SECOND ROLL CALL PLEASE.
I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN DIAZ, A SECOND BY MAYOR PROTI LOPEZ VITO, TO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS ONE THROUGH FOUR WITH COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ ABSTAINING ON ITEM NUMBER ONE.
FIVE ZERO MAYOR WITH THE ABSTENTION ON ITEM ONE.
[CITY COUNCIL REQUESTS FOR REPORTS, STUDIES OR INVESTIGATION]
UH, OKAY ON THE COUNCIL REQUESTS AND, UH, COUNCIL.AND DO WE HAVE ANY AB 1, 2, 3, 4 CONFERENCE AND THE MEETING REPORT? NONE.
NOW I'M GOING TO THE CITY COUNCIL REQUEST AND I KNOW BRIAN, YOU HAVE, UH, QUITE A LOT.
YEAH, YOU GO THE LAST AND BESIDE THAT, ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBER? OKAY.
AND THE COUNCILMAN COUNCILWOMAN WANT TO HAVE, UH, UH OKAY.
SO I JUST WANNA THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE TREE LIGHTING AND SNOW.
I UNDERSTAND THAT THE TREE IS, ITS LAST YEAR.
I KNOW WE'VE USED IT FOR SO MANY YEARS, BUT I JUST WANTED TO, UH, REQUEST THAT IF WE CAN GET A BIGGER CHRISTMAS TREE, UM, PREFERABLY MAYBE THE BIGGEST ONE IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AREA TO MATCH THE SPIRIT OF ALL THOSE THAT ARE, UH, THAT ENJOYS CHRISTMAS, SUCH AS OUR, UH, RETIRED FIRE.
UM, IF WE CAN'T PURCHASE IT, THEN POSSIBLY RENT IT, UM, AND MAYBE HIGHLIGHT IT IN A ANOTHER AREA WHERE THERE'S MORE PEOPLE TO SEE.
BUT I'D LIKE TO REQUEST A PURCHASE OR RENTAL OF THE BIGGEST CHRISTMAS TREE AS WE CAN GET.
AND AS SHE WILL BE THE MAYOR, THE TIME.
AND THIS APPROVED OKAY TO GO TO CITY TO LOOK INTO THE BIGOTRY, UH, FOR NEXT YEAR WHEN OUR MAYOR PORTAL BECOME THE MAYOR.
AND THE NEXT ONE WILL BE OUR GO TO, OUR COUNCILMAN OLI KENTO.
I WOULD, I'M WONDERING IF THE CITY MANAGER CAN GIVE US THE LATEST UPDATES ON AMAR AND WESTPORT.
WE, WE'VE BEEN WAITING AND, AND WE ARE REALLY ANXIOUS TO GET THAT DONE.
I UNDERSTAND THAT EVERYTHING IS PRO IN PROCESS, BUT, BUT IT IS JUST A MAJOR PRIORITY FOR US, AND IT WOULD BE HORRIBLE IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO ANYONE IN THE MEANTIME.
SO WE JUST, WE JUST REALLY NEED TO GIVE THAT TOP PRIORITY.
AND I REALLY WOULD LIKE FOR, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE DATE THE, THE COUNCIL FEELS, WE SHOULD DO IT, BUT WE NEED, WE NEED AN UPDATE ON A SUBSTANTIVE UPDATE BESIDES WE'RE WORKING ON IT OR WHATEVER.
WE NEED SOMETHING DONE WITH MAJOR PROGRESS ON THIS TO GET THAT DONE BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT.
UH, AND I THINK TO, BASED ON WHAT YOU SAY AND WHY IT HAPPENED, OKAY.
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THINK FIRST THING, WE ARE WAITING FOR THE REPORT.SECOND THING, WE WANT THE TRAFFIC ENGINEER TO LOOK INTO THIS CORNER.
SO I THINK THIS IS A MOTHER MAY I LOOK THE, THE REPORT BACK TO US REGARDING, UH, WHAT WE GOING TO DO AND IF THIS THING CAN BE DONE.
AND, UH, SO WE WANT TO LET IT BE, UH, BE DONE ASAP, BUT WE WANT TO SEE WHAT THE REPORT REGARDING HOW TO KEEP THE CORNER SAFE.
UH, SO ANYWAY, UH, ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? NO.
REAL QUICK BY, CAN WE DO IT BY THE FIRST MEETING OF FEBRUARY? UH, CAN WE DEPEND ON, CAN WE DO THE FIRST MEETING OF FEBRUARY? UM, FIVE? YES.
SO IF I, SORRY, IF I COULD CLARIFY, YOU WANT AN UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF THAT? YEAH.
THE REPORT REGARDING WHAT THE OKAY.
THE FINDING REGARDING HOW IT HAPPENED.
WHY HAPPENED AND HOW CAN WE AVOID ANYTHING HAPPEN AGAIN? MAKE SENSE? IS THAT WHAT YES.
UH, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ, UM, DON'T YOU WANNA JUST KNOW WHEN WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE LEFT TURN DEDICATED LIGHT OLI? YES.
SANTOS, THAT'S, THAT'S ULTIMATELY WHAT WE WANT.
WE COULD PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THE PATH TOWARDS THAT.
WHAT I THINK, THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION.
LET THE TRAFFIC ENGINEERED, OKAY.
THEY NEED TO BRING THIS REPORT TO US REGARDING, UH, BECAUSE THEY GO INTO THE T IS THE LEFT TURN THAT'S FEASIBLE TO MAKE SURE THAT CAN BE DONE AND TO SAVE LIVES.
SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE DATA REPORT COME TO US, AND IF YES, THEN OF COURSE WE NEED TO DO ASAP.
YOU GOT, YOU HAVE ANY OTHER SAME SUBJECT? DIFFERENT SUBJECT? NO, IT'S DIFFERENT SUBJECT.
SO, SO, UH, CLEAR CLARIFY BASICALLY, UH, OKAY.
THE REPORT BACK TO FEBRUARY THE FIRST MEETING? YES.
AND, UH, TRANSACT THE CITY, UH, OKAY.
TRAFFIC ENGINEER NEED TO BRING THIS, THE FINDING.
HOW CAN IMPROVE, UH, THE INTERSECTION, UM, TO AVOID ANY FUTURE, ANY ACCIDENT.
OKAY, THEN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ONE.
YOU HAVE ANOTHER ONE? JUST A FOLLOW UP.
UM, SO I KNOW, UH, I PUT IN A REQUEST ON SEPTEMBER 17, UH, FOR MOTHER MAY I, FOR THE RESOLUTION URGING, UH, GOVERNOR YOU SENT FOR THE, WHEN THE INSURANCE COMMISSION, UH, TO DECLARE STATE OF, WELL, REGARDING THE WHOLE INSURANCE, I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE'RE AT WITH THAT.
UM, BECAUSE HOME AUTO IS JUST AN INCREASE.
I KNOW RESIDENTS HAS BEEN COMPLAINING ABOUT IT.
AND SO I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT COME BACK.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT ON OUR NEXT MEETING.
PREFER BECAUSE IT'S BEEN ALREADY FEW MONTHS.
AND, UH, MAYOR POTER, YOU WANT TO COME BACK WITH A RESOLUTION OR WANT TO COME BACK WITH WHAT WELL, YEAH.
RESOLUTION, UM, THAT WAS THE REQUEST THAT I ORIGINALLY REQUESTED.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, JUST INFORMATION.
SO I, I KNOW I RECEIVED A LOT OF EMAIL FROM, UH, SAME EMAIL ADDRESS SENT IT TO, TO US.
I THINK WE ALL RECEIVE TONS OF, UH, OVER A HUNDRED EMAILS WHERE YOU RECEIVE.
AND IT IS LIKE AUTOMATED CON DIFFERENT, AND IT HAS DIFFERENT ADDRESSES AND THERE ARE SOME THAT IS WITHIN OUR CITY THAT THEY PLACE THEIR HOME ADDRESS.
SO WE DO HAVE SOME WEST COVINA RESIDENTS ARE ON THAT.
UM, BUT THERE ARE TONS FROM LIKE ALL OVER SAN GABRIEL, BUT, GOT IT.
UH, I THINK THE PROBLEM IS, OKAY, THE RESOLUTION.
I DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING.
UH, WE CAN DO A RESOLUTION, BUT THE POINT IS, UH, CURRENTLY THE INSURANCE GO OUT LIKE CRAZY.
AND NOTHING, NOBODY CAN DO ANYTHING.
AND THE STATE CONTINUE TO TELL US THIS IS A CRISIS, AND, UH, THE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THE ACCIDENT ON THEIR CAR.
THEY GO TO ALMOST 50, 60% INCREASE.
AND THE HOME HOMEOWNER INSURANCE, A LOT OF PEOPLE CANNOT EVEN GET INSURANCE.
SO THIS IS A STATE EMERGENCY, THEIR CRISIS, BUT WE ARE SUFFERING RIGHT NOW.
AND I DON'T KNOW OUR RESOLUTION CAN DO ANY GOOD TO FORCE THEM TO DO ANYTHING AT A COC MEETING.
UH, WE, THEY HAVE A INSURANCE COMPANY, LUNA.
AND, UM, UH, LIAISON COME TO TALK TO US, UH, OKAY.
AND MY, OUR SUGGESTION, MY SUGGESTION IS OPEN IT UP OKAY.
INSURANCE COMPANY COME TO US SO WE CAN HAVE, UH, MORE OF A OPEN MARKET.
NOT TOO MUCH OF REGULATION, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THEY'RE VERY OKAY.
OURS MAIL PROTEIN REQUESTS, YOU WANT A RESOLUTION OR WHAT YEAH, A RESOLUTION.
AND IF THERE'S OTHER OPTIONS AS YOU MENTIONED, I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT TAKEN INTO EFFECT AS WELL.
MAYBE OPEN UP THE MARKET, THE INSURANCE COM INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.
HAVE THEM TO UNDERSTAND, OKAY.
CURRENT CRISIS, THEY CANNOT, DON'T SEE IT.
BUT I THINK THIS IS AN INTERATION ISSUE.
NOT ONLY THE CALIFORNIA, BUT CALIFORNIA HAS BECOME THE, WELL, NO, IT'S ACTUALLY, UM, BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY CALIFORNIA,
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THERE'S A FOUR STATES ONLY WHERE THE INSURANCE SAYS THESE LIKE CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, THESE ARE THE STATES THAT WE'RE NO LONGER PROVIDING INSURANCE FOR BECAUSE IT'S A HIGH RISK.SO IT'S NOT THE WHOLE US IT'S CORRECT.
WELL, PRIMARILY I'M FOCUSING ON CALIFORNIA.
JUST RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A FRANKLIN FILE GOING ON RIGHT NOW AT, UH, A LOT OF HOUSES.
SO, UM, WE GOT ISSUE OF, UH, POTENTIAL HIGHER FIRE HAZARD AREA.
SO, AND THEY PLAN ON THE, PEOPLE DON'T EVEN IN THE FIREHOUSE, STILL HAVE TO PAY THE MOST.
AND THE COUNCIL MEMBER GUT, GO AHEAD.
UH, YEAH, JUST TO, UH, GO ON, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, LOPEZ, LET THE LOPEZ VIDOS, UH, COMMENT ABOUT THE INSURANCE, UH, ISSUE.
UH, I'LL SAY THAT THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT THAT WE COULD SEND THAT ONCE IT IS DONE, WHERE WE SEND THAT TO THE, THE CHAIR, THE SH I CAN'T WANNA TALK NOW, THE CHAIR OF THE INSURANCE COMMISSION FOR THE STATE SENATE AND THE ASSEMBLY, UH, THOSE TWO CHAIRS ARE RESPONSIBLE IN CREATING THE LEGISLATION NEEDED AND THEY SIT ON OVERSIGHT.
IF NOBODY AGAINST THIS, UH, NO, WE SHOULD SEND OUT THE RESOLUTION REQUEST OUR, UH, INSURANCE, UH, COMMISSION.
OUR DEPARTMENT COM DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE TO MAKE SURE, OKAY.
THEY HAVE A SOLUTION, HOW TO HELP THE RESIDENT OKAY.
AND GO THROUGH THIS CRISIS, BECAUSE EVEN THE FAIL PLAN OF CALIFORNIA, IT BECOME VERY EXPENSIVE AND ALMOST LIKE NO COVERAGE.
AND, UH, AND FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, MAYBE JUST ABANDONED THE INSURANCE IS NOT HEALTHY FOR OUR ECONOMY.
SO, UH, ANYTHING, UH, AGAINST THIS.
OTHERWISE, WE ALL AGREE TO SEND OUT A RESOLUTION AND REQUEST TO OUR STATE INSURANCE COMMISSION.
AND, UH, COMMITTED TO DO SOMETHING.
AND, UH, COUNCILMAN KENTO? THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.
UH, JUST TO, TO REEMPHASIZE, UH, SINCE THIS WAS ALREADY, UH, SOMETHING WE AGREED TO BEFORE TO MAKE, TO HAVE THIS BE ON THE FIRST MEETING OF, OF JANUARY.
I MEAN, IT'S JUST, UH, THAT WE, WE SHOULD DO IT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
UM, LET'S DO THIS ASAP, SINCE IT'S NOT DIFFICULT TO GIVE A RESOLUTION FOR FIVE CITY COUNCIL TO SIGN.
AND, UH, WE STAY AROUND SO WE CAN GET THIS THING DONE AND THEN SEND IT TO THE STATE AND, UH, INTO THE RIGHT DEPARTMENT AND, UH, REQUEST.
AND I THINK OUR COUNCIL MEMBER CRITERIA HAS A GOOD CONNECTION WITH STATE MM-HMM
MAYBE YOU CAN PULL SOME STRING OKAY.
AND, UH, WE ARE DONE WITH OUR ONE OR TWO, UH, MOTHER.
HOW MANY MOTHER, MAYOR YOU HAVE FOR TONIGHT? LET'S SEE.
ONE, TWO, WE GONNA MAKE COUNT.
SAY LIKE HOW MANY SPEAKER WE HAVE? SO WE, WE GOT LIMITED TO MINUTES, THREE MINUTES, 15 GOING BACK FAST.
WE HAVE A, DO YOU HAVE A QUORUM ID?
UH, WE, WE, WE HAVE, UH, WE HAVE THREE.
YOU HAVE THE MAJORITY, SO WE BOTH CAN POINT, POINT OLDER.
UH, LET'S, LET'S GO TO THE FIRST MOTHER MAY I, SINCE, UH, OUR NEWLY LACK VERY HYPER.
AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER THAT HAVE A 15 MOTHER, MAY I, LET'S GO TO THE FIRST ONE.
I, I STAY COMMITTED ON REPRESENTING THE RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT ONE AND, AND THE WHOLE CITY AND, UH, FULFILLING MY GOALS AND PROMISES I MADE TO OUR RESIDENTS.
AND SO, ITEM NUMBER ONE, THE COUNCIL REQUEST IS TO DIRECT THE CITY IS TO DIRECT STAFF REGARDING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT.
PROJECT NUMBER C, IS IT CHARLIE 2 4, 0 0 1, THE DOWN NORTH PARK IMPROVEMENT AND DOG PARK, WHEREAS 1.3 MILLION HAS BEEN ALLOCATED IN THE 20 24, 20 25 BUDGET.
I DIRECT STAFF TO INITIATE REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS WITH A FOCUS ON THE DOW NORTH DATE DOG, PRO DOG, SORRY, THE DOW NORTH DATE DOG PARK PROJECT AND RESTROOM RESERVATIONS BY NO LATER THAN EARLY FEBRUARY AND A SELECTION AND PRESENT IT TO THE CONSOLE AT THE APRIL 15TH, 2025 CONSOLE MEETING.
UH, SO LET ME CLARIFY YOUR FIRST MOTHER, MAY I, OKAY.
SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE BUDGET AND TALKING ABOUT THE DOG PARK.
UM, SO, AND THE TI PARK, SO THERE'S A, THERE'S MONEY, UM, ALLOCATED ALREADY, UM, THAT'S NOT BEEN USED FOR SPECIFICALLY FOR THE DOWN NORTH DAY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.
AND I'M WANTING TO EXECUTE, UH, TWO OF THOSE CONTRACTS IN A PRIORITY WAY FORWARD.
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CLARIFY HIS MOTHER? MAY I, OKAY.BECAUSE SOUND LIKE WE HAVE SOME APPROVED, UM, UH, BUDGET TO IMPROVE, UH, THE PARK AND THE DOOR PARK AND, UH, I THINK HE REQUESTS IT, GIVE YOU THE OKAY.
THE DEADLINE WHEN THAT THING SHOULD BE OKAY.
AND I DON'T KNOW THAT IS FEASIBLE BASED ON MAYBE YOU CAN TELL US THAT'S DOABLE OR NOT.
SO THERE WAS A PROJECT, BUT, OR THE PROJECT WAS BUDGETED FOR IMPROVEMENTS AT DEL NORTE PARK.
I THINK THE 1.3 MILLION INCLUDED VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS.
I THINK YOUR MOTHER, MAYA, IS PRIORITIZING TWO OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WERE LISTED.
I BELIEVE SOME OF THAT MONEY MAY HAVE BEEN SPENT ON, UM, THE, UH, PLAYGROUND RESURFACING.
SO THE BALANCE OF THAT CAN GO TOWARDS THE PRIORITIZED, UH, PROJECTS, UH, THAT, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ IS, UH, RECOMMENDING AND HIS MOTHER MAY I, YES.
SO, SO, SO IF HE ORIGINATED $1.3 MILLION OKAY.
ON THE BUDGET, AND YOU ALREADY RELOCATE TO SOME TO IMPROVE SOME OF THE PLAYGROUND.
SO IN THAT WAY, HOW MUCH MONEY LEFT THEN CAN DO THE IMPROVEMENT FOR THE REST OF, UH, THE, THE, OKAY.
I DON'T WANT TO, THIS IS JUST MATTER.
SO, SO I RAN, I RAN, JUST SO YOU KNOW, MAYOR, I RAN THIS ALL BY CITY STAFF BEFORE I MADE ALL THIS UP.
IS THAT DOABLE? IF IT DOABLE IF THERE AIN'T NOBODY AGAINST.
SO WE WILL GO, IF, IF THERE'S AN ISSUE THAT COMES UP, I WILL NOTIFY THE COUNCIL IF WE'RE NOT ABLE TO MAKE THOSE DATES.
UM, THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHEN WE, UH, BID OUT A PROJECT THAT COULD BE OUT OF OUR CONTROL, BUT WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO MEET THOSE TIMEFRAMES, WHICH AS, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ IS WE DID, UH, COUNCILMAN CONEL AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO, TO THE REQUEST.
COULD THEY ADD THE KI UM, WOULD COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ BE WILLING TO ADD THE COYOTE ROLLERS TO PROTECT PET PETS WHO ARE IN THE DOG PARK? THE COYOTE ROLLERS AT THE TOP OF THE FENCES BECAUSE SMALL DOGS ARE THERE AND THEY'RE COYOTES.
AND JUST, JUST AS A SMALL AMENDMENT TO THE MOTHER, MAY I, UM, I THINK, UH, ONCE PAULINA COMES BACK WITH THE BID, UH, WE COULD TALK TO THE CONTRACTOR AT THAT.
AND LET'S SEND TO THE, JUST GET, GET THIS MOTHER.
SO FIRST ONE WE WILL THE OBSTACLE.
APPROVE AND ITY LOOK INTO IT AND BRING IT BACK AND IN THE TINY MATTER.
AND THEN JUST SO THE COUNCIL KNOW, I'M GONNA BE SAYING A LOT OF DATES, BUT JUST KNOW THAT I DID RUN IT BY PAULINE AND THAT'S HOW WE CAME UP WITH THE DATES.
SO DON'T JUST MAKE IT, MAKE IT BRIEF, PLEASE MAKE IT, OKAY.
THE NEXT ONE, NUMBER TWO, TO DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER TO WORK WITH THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION TO THE CITY CONSOLE ON EXPANDING THE CITY OF WEST CONVENIENCE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT INTO A FOOD SERVICE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT WITH THE CURRENT MANPOWER, PRESENT FACTS SHOWING COST SAVING BY AUTHORIZING THE MAINTENANCE TO EXPAND THEIR DUTIES TO REPORT.
THE REPORT SHOULD ALSO INCLUDE WHAT DEFINES A FOOD SERVICE BY EXPLAINING WHAT THEY CAN DO BUT ARE CURRENTLY NOT DOING DUE TO OUTSOURCING OF OUTSIDE CONTRACTS.
THE NUMBER TWO, MADAM AI IS THE CITY TO LOOK INTO THE COMPARISON WITH OUR CONTRACT.
CONTRACT OUT AND OUR IN-HOUSE WITH OUR STAFF, AND THEN WE HAVE A REPORT TO SEE WHICH ONES FEASIBLE.
CAN WE DO THE IN-HOUSE BY OUR OWN STAFF? OR THE CONTRACT WILL BE MORE FEASIBLE AND THE PERFORMANCE, WHICH ONES BETTER? UH, AM I RIGHT? OKAY.
UM, I THINK, UM, IS IT BETTER? OKAY.
UM, WHAT WAS I GONNA SAY? I THINK IT WAS TO DO A REPORT.
SO PAULINA WILL WORK WITH, UH, RAUL TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY CAPABLE OF DOING AND THEN COMING BACK TO US AND TELLING US WHAT THEY'RE ABLE TO DO.
AND HOW MUCH AND COMPARE WE PAY FOR THE, CURRENTLY WE HAVE A TWO CONTRACTOR.
ONE IS A MERCHANT DOING THE MAJORITY ALL PARK EVERYTHING.
AGAIN, I DON'T WANNA DISCUSS INTO DETAIL, BUT I WANNA CLARIFY YOUR MOTHER MAY I, SO OTHERWISE, WE, WE, WE, WE ASK THEM DO SOMETHING.
AND THE SECOND THING IS WE HAVE A BRIGHT VIEW TO DOING THE, UH, THE, THE, THE, THE MEDIAN, THE ROW, AND I THINK BRIGHT VIEW IS THE ISSUE.
SO ANYWAY, UM, TO CITY, TO LOOK INTO THE COMPARISON OF IN-HOUSE AND TO TAKE OVER THE, THE POSSIBLE BRIGHT VIEW CONTRACTOR OF, UH, THEIR, UH, SERVICE.
AND THAT, LOPEZ, YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY? NO.
YOU WANNA ADD ON? NO, I THINK IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT NOT TO TAKE OVER THEIR CONTRACT.
IT, IT'S, IT'S TO, I, I THINK I SPOKE, I SPOKE WITH CITY STAFF, SO IT'S TO WORK, FOR EXAMPLE, LET'S JUST SAY HE'LL, PAULINA WILL CALL WHO MEET.
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A BOOK LIKE THIS THAT TELLS US, HEY, BY THE WAY, WE COULD, WE COULD, UH, WE COULD GO DO THE CEMENT OUTSIDE.WE'RE CAPABLE OF DOING THAT, BUT WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO RIGHT NOW.
SO IT'S JUST UNDERSTANDING WHAT THEY'RE CAPABLE OF DOING.
THEN TELLING US BECAUSE OF THEY'RE ABLE TO DO THAT STUFF, HOW MUCH WILL WE BE SAVING BASED UPON PRIOR CONTRACTS? IS IT, IS THAT CLEAR TO YOU? CITY MANAGER? I GOT IT.
AND ARE ANY OBJECTION FOR THAT? NO.
THEN WE MOVE ON NUMBER THREE, PLEASE.
TO EXPAND THE SCOPE OF THE STAFF REPORT REGARDING ENGINEERING SERVICES THAT THE COUNCIL REQUESTED REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TO GO OUT AND THE CITY TO REPORT, I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST FOR THE REPORT TO BE EXPANDED SO THE CITY STAFF CAN PRESENT OPTIONS FOR IN-HOUSE ENGINEERING SERVICES.
THE REPORT SHOULD BE FAIRLY DEMONSTRATING THE PROS AND CONS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR COST SAVINGS TO THE TAXPAYERS OF WEST COVINA.
UH, ANYBODY AGAINST THIS? NOPE.
NUMBER FOUR OR NUMBER? SO NUMBER FOUR.
NUMBER FOUR THAT I, I, THAT I HAVE HAD, I HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF PERSONALLY COMMUNICATING WITH THE CONTRACTOR ASSIGNED TO THE VINCENT AVENUE AND BRENT AVENUE INTERSECTION PROJECT OVER A PHONE CALL.
I ASKED, I ASKED THE CONTRACTOR HOW MUCH LONGER WOULD THE PROJECT BE DELAYED FOR? THE RESPONSE I GOT WAS FOUR TO SIX MONTHS MORE, FOUR TO SIX MORE MONTHS BEFORE ANYTHING WILL GET INSTALLED.
I WOULD LIKE TO DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER TO WORK WITH THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS TO INTERIMLY REPAINT TERM TO INTERIM, BLESS YOU.
TO INTERIMLY REPAINT TURN MARKINGS AND REDO CROSSWALK MARKINGS TO A LADDER DESIGN TO ENSURE ENHANCED SAFETY.
UM, ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? NOPE.
THAT THE CITY MANAGER WORK WITH THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS TO DETERMINE IF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT CAN CONDUCT BEAUTIFICATION WORK ON THE MIDDLE ISLANDS ON SUNSET AVENUE AND ALSO THE ON VINCENT AVENUE.
MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE MAINTENANCE CAN DO THE PROJECT, AND IF SO, TELL THE CONSOLE THE COST SAVINGS OF USING OUR OWN MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT INSTEAD OF A CONTRACTOR BASED ON SIMILAR PROJECTS ON THE SUSA AVENUE CORRIDOR.
PLEASE REPORT BACK TO THE CONSOLE BY FEBRUARY 18TH, 2024.
ANYBODY AGAINST THIS? IF NOT DO, OKAY.
I THINK THAT WHEN THEY DO WORK ON THOSE MEDIANS, THEY REALLY NEED TO CONSIDER WHAT KIND OF PLANTS THEY'RE GONNA PUT THEIR, BECAUSE YOU GOTTA MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE DROUGHT RESISTANT, LOW MAINTENANCE.
'CAUSE WE DON'T WANNA RUN INTO THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAD WITH AZUA.
AND JUST, AND JUST TO BRIEFLY SAY, UH, I DID, WE DID GO THAT, I DID GO OVER THAT WITH THE CITY MANAGER.
AND, UH, WHEN THAT REPORT COMES BACK, IT'S SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT DESIGN AND, AND ALL THAT STUFF.
I THINK CITY MANAGER, PAULINA, YOU SHOULD KISS YOU ON VACATION.
TO DIRECT A CITY MANAGER TO REVIEW THE STREET REPAIR PLAN FOR DISTRICT ONE AND REFOCUS ON STREETS THAT ARE IN MAJOR DIRE NEED OF REPAIRS, SUCH AS THE OF DISTRICT ONE BY WHERE THE HOME DEPOT'S AT, UH, THE HOME DEPOT IN, UM, BOWEN PARK.
BEHIND THAT, HOME DEPOT IS THE CITY DISTRICT ONE.
UH, A LOT OF THOSE STREETS ARE IN DIRE NEED OF REPAIR, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CHOW BORN, STREET, RAINY, LANIA AVENUE, MORRIS, AND OTHERS ARE IN TERRIBLE CONDITION.
SO, UH, I THINK THIS IS IN OUR REPAYMENT LAST TIME WE HAVE LED MM-HMM
SO MAYBE THIS CAN BE INCLUDING INTO THE REPORT ABOUT WHEN THOSE THREE WILL BE REPAID.
UH, SO, UH, NOBODY AGAINST THIS? NOPE.
CAN I CLARIFY THAT ONE? JUST YEAH, GO AHEAD.
SO THAT ONE IS TO LOOK AT UPDATING WHAT IS CALLED THE PAVE MANAGEMENT PLAN.
UM, I THINK, SORRY, I THINK IT'S TO LOOK AT WHAT WE HAVE NOW AND, AND, AND THERE'S A LIST OF STREETS ON THAT LIST.
SO IT'S JUST SAY, WAIT A MINUTE, MAYBE THIS STREET DOESN'T NEED TO GO FIRST.
MAYBE THE ONE RIGHT HERE DOES, AND IT'S, IT, THIS ONE'S MORE IN WORSE CONDITION THAN THAT ONE.
AND, AND SO WE SHOULD REALLY BE EXPECTING THESE STREETS TO DETERMINE, UH, WHAT SHOULD BE GOING FIRST.
SO IS, OKAY, SO THE MOTHER MAY IS TO BRING BACK WHAT THAT, WHAT THAT PROCESS
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WOULD BE BECAUSE THAT WAS DONE BY A CONSULTANT.AND SO FOR US TO HAVE THAT PMP RE-LOOKED, WE'D HAVE TO HIRE THE CONSULTANT.
SO WE'RE BRINGING BACK A REPORT SAYING TO, TO RE-LOOK AT THESE STREETS.
THIS IS WHAT THAT PROCESS WOULD LOOK LIKE.
CITY STAFF CAN GO, CAN GO DRIVE THERE? UH, NO.
WHAT? OKAY, JUST REALLY QUICK.
IT, WE'VE DONE THIS BEFORE MM-HMM
SO NOW WE DON'T DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
I THINK HE'S CLEARLY SAY, GO THOSE STREET IS IN THE POOR CONDITION CITY LOOKING TO WHEN COULD WE PAY THOSE THREE? THAT'S VERY SIMPLE.
AND, UH, AND, AND THEN I SAW AT THOSE THREE, WE WENT TO THAT HOME.
YOU SIT IN THE CAR AND WE LOOKED AT THOSE THREE ONE STREET.
AND, UH, IT IS NOT REPRESENT THE WEST COVINA.
AND, UH, FOR THOSE PEOPLE, PAY TAXES AND THIS ON THAT.
UH, THE SHOULD BE INTO OUR PROJECT.
AND I THINK WE ARE DOING A DISTRICT ONE PAVING BASED ON THE MAP.
SO THOSE THREE SHOULD BE LOOKING TO IS INSTEAD INCLUDING, OKAY.
AND THIS, UH, REPAYMENT PROJECT.
OKAY, LET'S GO TO THE NEXT ONE, PLEASE.
NEXT ONE, REQUEST THAT THE CITY MANAGER WORK WITH STAFF AND THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO FIND WAYS TO WANT TO RUN COUNCIL MEETINGS MORE EFFICIENTLY TO ENSURE ALL RESIDENTS HAVE A VOICE AND TO REPORT BACK TO THIS COUNCIL BY THE FIRST COUNCIL MEETING IN MARCH.
SO, UH, A-S-A-P-I WANT TO, OKAY.
I WANT TO, UH, REVISE TO, OKAY.
FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO DO AS SAP NUMBERS.
I KNOW STAFF SAID THEY NEEDED TO MARCH, BUT IF, IF YOU CAN DO WE, IF WE CAN DO IT IN JANUARY, WE BRING IT IN JANUARY.
SO, HEY, I ONLY HAVE 12 MONTHS.
I ONLY HAVE SEVEN MONTHS LEFT.
BRING, BRING IT BACK TO THE SECOND MEDIUM.
OKAY, THEN I WILL SUPPORT THAT.
AND, UH, TO REFORM, TO MAKE IT MORE PRIME EFFICIENT AND THE CITY LOOK INTO HOW WE MAKE SURE.
AND EVERYBODY HAVE A CHANCE TO, TO DISCUSS YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? NO.
WHAT? ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? NO, I WANNA UNDERSTAND IT.
NO, HE JUST, UH, WANT TO LOOK INTO THE WAY WE ARE RUNNING OUR CTE COUNCIL MEETING AND TO MAKE IT MUCH MORE EFFICIENT IS WHAT HE REQUESTS.
AND CT, YOU CAN BRING BACK THE SUGGESTION AND WE EITHER DECLINE OR APPROVE, UH, MR. MAYOR.
UM, JUST SO FOR CLARIFICATION WITH EFFICIENCY, DOES THAT EN ENTAIL SHORTENING, UH, TIME OF, OF SPEAKERS FOR, OR FOR ORAL COMMUNICATIONS? I DON'T KNOW.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE REPORT'S GONNA BE.
THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING STAFF TO COME UP WITH.
I THINK YOU WANT THEM TO COMPARE WITH ALL THE CT TO HOW TO RUN THE CD, UH, COUNCIL, BECAUSE OUR CITY COUNCIL MEETING POSSIBLE, WE HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING.
SO WE WANT TO CONTINUE LIKE THIS IF EVERYBODY AGREE OR WE WANT TO SEE COMPARE WITH OTHER CITY TO MAKE IT MORE EFFICIENT.
I THINK ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? OKAY.
JUST AGAIN, CITY LOOKING TO AND BRING BACK TO US IS A MODERN AI.
SO TO DIRECT, WE WENT TO HALF ALREADY.
TO DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER TO INCLUDE IN THE UPCOMING PARKS PLAN WITH STAFF TO DEVELOP A PLAN FOR ORANGEWOOD PARK, THAT WILL INCLUDE REIMAGINING THAT PARK AS ORANGEWOOD SPORTS CENTER THAT WILL INTEGRATE THE WEST QUEEN HOCKEY RING TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC USE DEVELOPING YOUTH PROGRAMS FOR THAT RING AND PATHWAY THAT IS ACCESSIBLE TO THE WHOLE PARK, INCLUDING RENOVATIONS TO THE SOCCER COMPLEX SKATE PARK HOCKEY RING TO INCORPORATE ALL PROGRAMS FOR PUBLIC USE.
THIS PROJECT SHOULD BE CALLED IN THE PARKS PLAN, THE ORANGE WARD SPORTS CENTER COMMUNITY DREAM PROJECT TO ALSO INCLUDE MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS FOR THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY, ENSURING INCLUSIVITY IN THIS PARK SPECIFIC PLAN, MAKING IT THE FIRST PARK IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA TO BE FULLY ACCESSIBLE.
AND, UH, I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA.
SO MAYBE YOU CAN HELP US FROM STATE TO GET SOME GRANT.
BUT, UH, I THINK, UH, I, I, I WOULD SUPPOSE THIS TO, BECAUSE THE HOCKEY RING THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WE HAVE A HOCKEY RING RIGHT THERE.
AND THAT, THAT IS SUCH A GOOD FACILITY OWNED BY THE CITY.
SO IF WE CAN KIND OF FOR THAT, INCLUDING THE PROMOTION AND THE LOSE UP FOR PEOPLE CAN USE BECAUSE TAXPAYER PAY FOR THAT.
AND, UH, I THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SKATE PARK AND HOW TO MAKE IT OPEN IN THE FRONT SO PEOPLE CAN SEE FROM THE STREET.
SO YOU OPEN IT UP SO YOU DON'T HAVE ALL THIS
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GRAFFITI, HOMELESS AND, UH, AND STUCK OVER THERE.SO AS LONG AS THEY HAVE A LIGHT AND THEY HAVE A OPEN SPACE SO PEOPLE CAN SEE THROUGH OKAY.
I THINK THAT WILL REALLY HAVE PEOPLE TO WILLING TO USE BECAUSE THEY FEEL SAFE.
UM, IN REGARDS, I KNOW WE SAT IN A SUBCOMMITTEE TOGETHER A WHILE BACK IN REGARDS TO ORANGEWOOD, UH, SKATE PARKS.
UM, WE'VE MADE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BRING CERTAIN THINGS BACK TO US, WHICH THEY NEVER HAVE.
SO I KNOW THAT ONE'S ALREADY IN THE WORKS BECAUSE THE SKATE PARK, I MEAN, IT'S OBVIOUSLY IN RUINS AND IT'S NOT EVEN A DA COMPLIANT AND THERE'S NOT EVEN A WAY TO ENTER WITHOUT LITERALLY JUMPING IN.
SO, UM, THAT WAS ALREADY IN THE WORKS, BUT HE NEVER GOT THAT ONE BACK, UH, WITH IT UPDATES.
BUT THAT'S IN CONJUNCTION WITH HIS MOTHER.
MAY I, ARE YOU MAKING A MOTHER? MAY I FOR STAFF TO UPDATE YOU ON THAT
UH, UH, I THINK THIS IS, UH, IN CONJUNCTION WITH YOURS? YEAH.
I THINK THAT THIS WINE IN THAT AREA IS REALLY, HAVE A LOT OF, UH, FACILITY, A LOT OF AMENITY TO OFFER AND THAT WE JUST NEED TO KIND OF, UH, PUT IT TOGETHER AND, UH, ESPECIALLY THEY, WE HAVE ORANGE JEWEL SWIMMING POOL MM-HMM
THAT ONCE UPON TIME OWNED BY THE CITY, AND NOW I MYSELF AND, UH,
SO REALLY IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD WOULD BE A PROUD OKAY.
AND THE SPORTS CENTER FOR WEST COVINA.
AND, UH, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY AGAINST THIS, RIGHT? NO.
I THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA AND WE CAN ENTICE OUR CITY AND, UH, ATTRACT RESIDENT TO UTILIZE THAT NEIGHBORHOOD AND ALL THOSE FACILITY AND, AND, AND, UH, AND TO CALL IS A SPORTS CENTER OR ORANGE JUICE SPORTS CENTER OR WEST ESPO CENTER.
I THINK WE CAN, UH, FIX UP, BUT, UH, WE NEED TO GET IDEA FIRST AND, UH, ESTIMATE HOW MUCH AND LET'S FIND A FUNDING GRANT.
BUT WE NEED TO DO THIS ASAP BECAUSE TIME CANNOT WAIT FOR US.
AND AGAIN, I ONLY HAVE A 10 MONTHS, SO I HAVE TO HURRY UP TO GET THIS THING DONE.
NEXT ONE FOR THE CITY MANAGER TO REVIEW THE TRAFFIC COMMITTEE'S RULES AND BYLAWS REGARDING COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND REPORT BACK TO THE COUNCIL ON ANY RECOMMENDATIONS.
CAN YOU REPEAT YOURSELF?
AND SO I'M ASKING THE CITY MANAGER TO REVIEW THE TRAFFIC COMMITTEE'S RULES AND BYLAWS REGARDING, UH, CURRENT COMMITTEE OR THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN GENERAL, AND TO REPORT BACK TO THE COUNCIL ON ANY RECOMMENDATIONS.
UH, UH, I, I THINK YOU WANT TO SAY HOW WE SET UP THE TRAFFIC COMMITTEE MM-HMM
CURRENTLY AND THE LAST TIME WE HAVE A POLICE IN THE VOTING.
BECAUSE YOU CANNOT BE A REFEREE AT THE SAME TIME YOU ARE A PLAYER.
SO, SO I THINK I DISCUSSED WITH, UH, UH, UH, CAPTAIN TONY COTINA, HE AGREE ABOUT POSSIBLE WE NEED TO MAKE SURE OUR TRAFFIC COMMITTEE IS FORMED BY MAYBE EVEN COMMITTEE MEMBER.
AND, UH, AND COUNCILWOMAN THAT, UH, MAYOR POT LOPEZ VIDO.
NO, I WAS, UH, THANK YOU, MAYOR THAT I WAS GONNA SAY THE SAME THINGS THAT GOES IN LINE WITH YOURS, BUT, YOU KNOW, SINCE I'VE BEEN IN COUNCIL, I'VE HAD SOME RESIDENTS WHO HAS SHARED THAT THEY WANT TO ATTEND THE TRAFFIC COMMITTEE MEETINGS, BUT IT'S, IT'S SO TOO EARLY.
AND SO IT DOESN'T GIVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO THOSE WHO REALLY WANT TO ATTEND.
SO THAT IN CONJUNCTION
WITH WHO IS A VOTING, UH, UH, MEMBERS.
AND I NEED TO REMOVE THE POLICE OUT OF THAT VOTING MEMBER.
AND, UH, AT THE SAME TIME, UH, WE NEED TO CHANGE THE TIME.
SO COMMUNITY MEMBER, YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF PEOPLE WITH, THEY, THEY, THEIR CONCERN IS THE TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC.
AND THE TRAFFIC CON, UH, CONCERN IS SAFETY.
I THINK'S ONE IS A THREE FILE HAZARD.
I THINK THAT'S, PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY THIS FEEL SAFE.
SO ANYWAY, UH, ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? IF NONE, OKAY.
THIS IS A GREAT IDEA THAT THE CITY LOOKING TO THE REFORM OF THE TRAFFIC COMMITTEE, INCLUDING THE MEMBER.
PLUS THE TIME, THE SCHEDULE OF THE MEETING.
NOT TO ADD TO IT, BUT, UM, TUESDAY SEEMED TO BE VERY BUSY.
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COMMUNITY SERVICES AND PLANNING COMMISSION.SO MAYBE, UM, WE CAN LOOK AT A LITTLE BIT MORE COHESIVELY AT ALL THE COMMISSIONS TO SEE THE TIMING.
NO, IT, IT PUT A DIFFERENT DAY.
AND YOU DON'T HAVE SQUEEZE IT ALL IN THE TUESDAY.
AND, AND, UM, AND WE'RE EMPHASIZING TRAFFIC COMMITTEE BECAUSE THERE WERE THE BACKBONE OF DETERMINING WHEN THESE SIGNS ARE GOING UP, WHEN THINGS GET HAPPEN AND PEOPLE ARE DYING ON OUR STREETS.
AND THIS COUNCIL NO LONGER WANTS THAT TO HAPPEN.
AND, AND WE'RE GONNA HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE.
AND THAT'S WHY WE WANNA REPORT BACK THE, THE FLASHING STOP SIGN, UH, THE INTERSECTION THERE.
A LOT OF, UH, STOP SIGN NOT WORKING, THE NO LONGER FLASHING.
SOME ISSUE THIS ALLOW WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT? AND I THINK THIS IS ALL ADDRESS WILL BE, WE JUST WANT A SAFE CITY.
WE WANNA MOVE ON THE NEXT AGENDA.
TO ENSURE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY TO THE RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA, I MAKE A COUNCIL REQUEST THE CITY MANAGER WORK WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE TO PRESENT BACK TO THE CONSOLE BY NO LATER THAN THE COUNCIL MEETING ON JANUARY 21ST, THE CURRENT LIST OF REQUIRED CONTRACTORS TO REPORT ON F-P-F-P-P-C FORM 700 CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND THE CURRENT LIST OF STAFF AND OFFICIALS REQUIRED TO FILE FORM 700.
UM, CAN YOU REPEAT THAT? THIS, THIS IS A LITTLE, THIS IS MORE LIKE ATTORNEY ISSUE, UH, A CITY ATTORNEY, SINCE YOU HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT ANYTHING
I WAS, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO SAY?
WE ALREADY, WE ALREADY WE'RE PLANNING ON BRINGING THAT IN JANUARY.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ WANTED TO, UH, SHOW SOME TRANSPARENCY AND SOME ACCOUNTABILITY AND WANTED TO STATE THAT AS A REQUEST.
SO WE'LL BRING IT BACK IN JANUARY.
AND IT'S, UH, YOU HAPPY WITH THAT? YEP.
AND THEN, UH, WE APPROVE WITH, UH, CITY ATTORNEY LOOKING TO, THIS IS MORE LIKE ATTORNEY ISSUE.
PPC AND THIS AND THAT AND, UH, DON'T KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IS THAT COMFORT INJURY OR THIS, THAT, SO, SO, SO, SO, SO LET'S MOVE ON.
SO BRING IT BACK JANUARY 21ST ISN'T WHAT I'M SAYING? YEAH, YEAH.
NOW, UM, WHAT NUMBER IS THAT? 11.
YEAH, MAN, I WOULD THINK ABOUT 15 ALREADY, I THINK.
SOME OF MY NUMBERS ARE OFF, SO, OKAY.
UM, THE FINAL REQUEST, OH NO, SORRY, THAT'S NOT THE FINAL, SORRY.
UH, TO THE NEXT ONE IS TO REQUEST THAT THE CITY MANAGER WORK WITH THE WEST GREEN POLICE DEPARTMENT IN ESTABLISHING MORE CCTV CAMERAS THROUGHOUT CITY HALL AND THE CONSOLE CHAMBERS, BOTH RESIDENTS, STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS DESERVE TO FEEL SAFE.
PLEASE REPORT BACK TO THIS CONSOLE BY THE SECOND MEETING ON FEBRUARY ON POTENTIAL FUNDING SOURCES TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN BY FEBRUARY.
WHY NOT JANUARY? UH, CITY STAFF NEED A TIME TO FIND THE FUNNY, YOU ARE TOO GENEROUS
LOOK INTO, UH, WHERE TO PUT THE CAMERA.
IN THE PARKING LOT AND, UH, IN THE, IN THE, THROUGHOUT, YEAH.
THROUGHOUT CITY ROOM, THROUGHOUT THE, THE COMMUNITY ROOM AND THE, ALL THE WALKWAY YEP.
MAKE SURE WE HAVE A CAMERA COVERAGE.
AND, UH, I WANT ADD ON HERE BECAUSE, UH, LAST YEAR, I THINK A YEAR, MORE THAN YEAR AGO, MORE THAN ABOUT, UH, METAL DETECTOR.
AND, UH, WE APPROVE, BUT NOTHING GOING ON.
SO WE WANT TO KNOW IS THAT WILL BE INCLUDING OKAY.
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW I CAN SEE TIME IS CHANGED OKAY.
AND A LOT OF THINGS HAPPENING.
AND THEN WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE, WE DONE OUR DUTY, BUT WE DON'T GET MUD OVER HERE, SO, SO SAFETY IS EVERYBODY'S CONCERNED.
SO ANYWAY, AND, UH, SO WE WANNA BRING BACK TUESDAY, INCLUDING A YEAR AGO, THE MOTHER MAY I REGARDING THE METAL DETECTOR.
SO I'M GONNA, I'LL ADD TO MY REQUEST THAT THAT SHOULD ALSO INCLUDE FUNNY SOURCES FOR METAL DETECTOR.
AND WE SEE, CAN WE GET A FUNDING SOURCE AND THE CAMERA AND, UH, ANY, ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? NO, BUT MR. MAYOR, GO AHEAD.
COUNCILMAN, UH, IN FRIENDLY SUPPORT OF WHAT, UH, UH, MAYOR PROM LOPEZ DER ASKED RE UH, ASKED IN THE PAST WITH CAMERAS IN THE PARKS WITH, WITH THAT COULD, COULD THAT BE ADDED TO THIS? BECAUSE SHE ASKED FOR THAT PREVIOUSLY.
WE HAVE NOT HEARD BACK ON THAT.
I WANT TO FOCUS AS CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY HALL FIRST.
AND, UH, LET'S GET HIS THING FIRST.
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LOOK INTO.AND, UH, CAMERA AND, UM, YEAH.
THIS IS THE FIRST ONE ABOUT THE CITY, CITY HALL AREA.
MAY I, AND NOW WE GO TO THE NEXT ONE.
SO CITY LOOKING TO, WE HAVE A 16 PARK.
SO DO WE HAVE A BUDGET TO PUT SO MANY CAMERA ON THE 16 PARK OR WHAT? I THINK WE TALK ABOUT THAT A LONG TIME AGO.
DO WE HAVE A BUDGET? IF WE CANNOT PUT SO MANY CAMERA, CAN WE PUT AT LEAST IN THE PARKING LOT BECAUSE WE HAVE A BAD THING HAPPEN IN THE PARKING LOT, CAN WE, UH, INSTALL A ONE OR TWO? SO, SO YOU ARE UNDER SURVEILLANCE OKAY.
WITH THE, THE, THE, THE SIGN SIGNAGE, THE POST.
AND THEN, THEN POSSIBLE INCLUDING OUR COMMUNITY ROOM, AGAIN, THIS IS A SEPARATE OKAY.
TWO, ONE IS A CITY HALL, UH, THAT'S FROM, UH, BRAND MATERIALS.
AND THEN THEY HAVE ANOTHER ONE THAT IS FROM, UH, COUNCILMAN OLI KENTO.
AND, UH, COMBINED WITH, UH, MALE PROTEIN LOPEZ VIDO, UH, YEARS AGO REGARDING THE PARK CAMERA AND BUDGET AND, UH, AND, UH, INSTALLATION.
THE NEXT ONE IS TO, FOR THE CITY MANAGER TO WORK WITH THE CHIEF OF POLICE TO FIND WAYS TO, UH, TO PRESENT TO THE CONSOLE THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE WEST VEN POLICE DEPARTMENT'S HOPE TEAM AND WAYS THAT THE CITY COULD WORK TO, TO GET MORE RESOURCES TO EXPAND THAT TEAM.
UH, AND SO YOU WANT TO CITY, WE CURRENTLY, WE HAVE, UH, UH, LOT.
LATA AND THE WORK WITH, UH, AND WE PAY WHAT, HALF A MILLION DOLLARS A QUARTER.
SO YOU WANT TO CITY TO LOOK INTO HOW TO EXPAND THE HOP TEAM? YEAH, SO I WANT, I WANT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND, AND THE CITY MANAGER TO COME BACK TO THE CONSOLE AND, AND TELL US AND UPDATE ON THE CURRENT STATUS OF ISSUES GOING ON IN OUR CITY WITH THE HOMELESS PEOPLE AND ALSO, UH, AND ALSO WHAT RESOURCES THERE NEED MOVING FORWARD SO WE CAN WORK ON GRANTS AND STUFF.
AND DO YOU HAVE A DUE DATE? UH, THE SECOND MEETING OF MARCH, SOONER.
WHAT DAY YOU THINK YOU CAN HANDLE THIS?
YOU HAVE A LOT OF, YOU HAVE A LAUNDRY LIST? MARCH, APRIL.
HOW ABOUT WE BRING IT AT THE, THE SOONEST AVAILABLE CONSIDERING ALL THE OTHER MAY MOTHER MAYS NO LATER THAN SECOND MEETING OF APRIL.
NO LATER THAN THE SECOND MEETING OF APRIL.
IF I WERE YOU, I WILL SAY JANUARY.
WALK, WALK THROUGH THE HOLIDAY.
YEAH, WITH THAT ONE, COUNCILMAN, IF, AGAIN, A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT, OR NOT AN AMENDMENT, BUT JUST, UH, AS A CAVEAT THAT, NOT CAVEAT, BUT WE, WE, WE SHOULD MAKE SURE TO LOOK INTO THE NEW PROVISIONS RELATING TO MEASURE A MONEY THAT WAS JUST WITH, SINCE THE VOTERS ARE ARE PASSED, MEASURE A, HOW WE'LL WE WILL TAP SPECIFICALLY INTO THAT FOR THE HOPE TEAM.
AND, UH, ON THE NEW MEASURE, A MY UNDERSTANDING DUE TO THE CHARGE 50 CENTS, ALL SALES TAX AND THEY GO TO POPULATION, AND THIS TIME I THINK THEY SAY PORTION OF MONEY, WERE BASED ON THE POPULATION AND GIVE TO THE CITY.
AM I RIGHT? CE ATTORNEY? YES OR NO?
SO, SO, SO ANYWAY, UH, CT, UH, CITY MANAGER TO LOOK INTO THE EXPANSION OF, UH, ALL THE, THE, THE CURRENT HOP TEAM, UH, REGARDING THEIR, UH, OPERATION AND THEN, AND ALSO LOOKING INTO THE MAJOR A, THE NEW ONE I THINK IS, UH, 36.
THAT WE CAN GET A, A, A PIECE OF, UH, THE FUNDING AND TO SERVICE OUR HOMELESS POPULATION.
AND, UH, WHAT NUMBER IS THAT? 13.
THE NEXT ONE, TO DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER TO WORK WITH THE WEST GREEN POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ESTABLISH WAYS FOR, FOR ADDITIONAL, OH, SOMEONE SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE CRASHED OUT THERE TO DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER TO WORK WITH THE WEST GREEN POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ESTABLISH ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PROGRAM.
POLICE REPORT BACK BY THE SECOND MEETING OF MARCH.
UM, SO YOU WANT THE POLICE TO GIVE CD MANAGER REPORT BACK TO US REGARDING NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PROGRAM.
UH, I WANNA KNOW WHAT, WHAT CURRENT, WHAT CURRENT RESOURCES ARE WE PROVIDING TO THAT PROGRAM AND WHAT'S, AND WE COULD FIGURE OUT FROM THERE WHAT ADDITIONAL RESOURCES IT WILL NEED MOVING FORWARD.
UM, I, I THINK THIS IS, UH, UH, I THINK THIS IS A, A GOOD, UH, MOTHER MAY I WHY? UH, I HAVE, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, NEIGHBORS
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IN THE DIFFERENT AREA.THEY'RE ASKING ABOUT HOW CAN THEY PITCH IN TO PUT A CAMERA.
AND THAT POSSIBLE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH OKAY.
CAN TALK TO ABOUT WHAT CAN, CAN THEY PUT SOME KIND OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD THEY IN THEIR, ON THEIR PROPERTY, NOT THE CITY PROPERTY AND, UH, WITH SURVEILLANCE OKAY.
SO THEY DON'T GET HIT ON THE GRAFFITI OR CURRENTLY WE HAVE A LOT OF, UH, BREAKING YEAH.
AND SO, AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE OKAY.
TO REDUCE ANY OF THEFT, UH, OKAY.
BURGLARY, THAT KIND OF A SITUATION.
AND, AND WHAT I'VE SEEN IS THAT WE ACTUALLY MAY HAVE ESTABLISHED NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH GROUPS, BUT WE'RE NOT PROVIDING THEM SIGNAGE FOR THEIR STREET OR STICKERS.
SO WE RESOURCE WE, WE NEED TO CREATE THAT'S IMPORTANT.
A RESOURCE OR INFORMATION WITH, UH, HIGH TECH OR SOME OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGY TO HELP THEM AND, UH, SO THEY CAN PURCHASE AND, AND THE HELPING WITH THE, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, IS COUNCILMAN CON, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING OR NO? NO, NOT OKAY.
SO ANYBODY AGAINST THIS? OKAY.
FOR THE CITY MANAGER TO WORK WITH THE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING DEPAR FOR THE CITY MANAGER TO WORK WITH THE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO F TO REDUCE SPEED ON WORKMAN AVENUE AND ORANGE AVENUE TO REDUCE, FIND SOLUTIONS TO REDUCE SPEED.
IF IT IS, IF THAT'S ADDING STOP SIGNS, IF THAT'S ADDING SPEED BUMPS.
WE'RE IN A NEWER CENTURY OF TIME WHERE, UH, THIS, THIS, THANK YOU.
I THINK THIS IS A TRAFFIC ENGINEER ISSUE AGAIN.
UH, AND THAT CHOOSING IS, IS, UH, UH, UH, OKAY.
AND, UH, HOW CAN WE REDUCE THE SPEED POSSIBLE THERE WILL BE A TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT AGAIN.
SO, BUT ANYWAY, THIS IS MORE LIKE A TRAFFIC ENGINEER OR TRAFFIC COMMITTEE, UH, OKAY.
SO I DUNNO, THIS IS WHAT THE MATTER MAY I, IS THIS OKAY? WE WANT THE CITY TO TRANSFER ALL THIS INFORMATION TO OUR TRAFFIC COMMITTEE TO LOOK INTO.
BECAUSE THIS IS MORE LIKE THE ENGINEER.
IT, IT SAYS TO, FOR THE CITY MANAGER TO WORK WITH TRAFFIC ENGINEERING TO FIND SOLUTIONS.
YOU, YOU, YOU ON THE ROW? OKAY.
UH, FOR CITY STAFF, DO WE HAVE A, A, A ORDINANCE OR A ROOF SAYING THAT WE ARE NOW ALLOWED TO HAVE SPEED BUMPS IN OUR STREETS? THERE'S A, THERE'S A POLICY BASED, UM, ON, UH, ENGINEERING STANDARDS WHEN A SPEED BUMP MAY BE INSTALLED OR NOT, AND WE CAN SHARE WITH, SHARE THAT WITH THE COUNCIL WHEN WE BRING THE REPORT BACK.
IS A CITY POLICY OR IT'S A CITY POLICY? IT'S NOT A SILLY POLICY'S CALLED.
AND THE STREET BELONG TO EVERYBODY.
AND YOU WANNA PUT A SPEED BOND, YOU MIGHT HAVE SOME RESIDENT STICK WITH DAMAGE THEIR CAR.
SO THIS IS NOTHING, THIS IS NOT LIKE A PRIVATE STREET.
PEOPLE CAN PUT A SPEED BOND AND IS A PUBLIC STREET BELONG TO THE TAXPAYER? YEAH.
AND IT CANNOT BE ONLY FEW RESIDENT, AND UNLESS YOU HAVE ALL THE RESIDENT SIGN AND PLUS.
TODAY, HAVE ANY OF, UH, OUR CITY TO LOOK INTO? DO WE HAVE ANY, AGAIN, THE ISSUE AGAINST THE LAW DUE TO BOND, YOU MIGHT HAVE A LIABILITY, SOMEBODY DAMAGE A CAR, THEY WILL SUE THE CITY.
SO THERE'S A COUPLE ISSUE, REALLY HAVE TO LOOK INTO IT.
I HAVE BEEN REQUEST BY A RESIDENT ABOUT THE SPEEDING ISSUE, BUT I THINK, UH, LET'S GO BACK TO, UH, ENFORCEMENT ISSUE AGAIN.
IF WE HAVE A, UH, MORE OF A POLICE OFFICER OKAY.
TRAFFIC ENFORCER AND, UH, THEY STANDING OVER THERE OR THEY HAVE A MOTORCYCLE AND THIS AND THAT, IT REALLY WAS LOWER.
THE, IS AGAIN, AGAIN, GO BACK TO THE ENFORCEMENT.
SO MY UNDERSTANDING THAT IN THE PAST THE CITY'S DONE NICE SPEED BUMPS IN EVERY STREET IN WEST VENA BECAUSE THEY SAID THAT IT WAS, IT WAS, UH, MAKING THE FIRETRUCK MOVE SLOWER.
UM, MY, MY ONLY THING WAS IS THAT MY, MY VISION IS NOT SPEED BUMPS, BUT MY IDEA IT WILL BE TO PUT SOME SORT OF RUBBER STRIPPING ON THE GROUND WHERE IT VIBRATES THE CAR.
SO WHEN A CAR'S SPEEDING, IT DOESN'T FLY UP, IT VIBRATES THE CAR.
AND SO, UM, I I WOULD LIKE, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE MY FINAL MOTHER MAY I FOR THE CITY, FOR THE CITY STAFF, CITY, YOU ALREADY EXIST YOUR LIMIT.
AND THE CITY LOOKING TO THIS SPEED POINT ISSUE AND YEAH, GO AHEAD.
JUST DO YOU WANNA SHARE, SO OUR, THE POLICY THAT WE ABIDE BY IS, UM, STREET MUST HAVE A MAXIMUM POSTED SPEED LIMIT OF 25.
SO IF IT'S ABOVE THAT, THEN UH, WE DON'T RECOMMEND, UH, SPEED BUMPS ON THOSE STREETS.
YEAH, BUT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE VIBRATION.
I, I DON'T LIKE SPEED BUMPS EITHER.
SO MY VISION AS A MORE MODERN TECHNOLOGY,
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IT'S ACTUALLY RUBBER STRIPPING THAT GOES ON THE GROUND NOW.UH, WE DONE WITH THE MOTHER MAY I COUNCIL, SORRY.
YOU COULD BRING, IF YOU COULD BRING THAT BACK IN THE SECOND MEETING OF MARCH.
AND, UH, COUNCILMAN KENTO? I I HAVE ONE, UM, ONE NINE.
YOU WANT TO ONE? SO WE COMPETE EACH OTHER RIGHT NOW.
KENTO, IT'S, I'D LIKE TO ASK THAT THE, THE, THAT WE IN INSTRUCT THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE POLICE CHIEF TO, UH, REINVIGORATE OUR, OUR EFFORTS TO SOLICIT VOLUNTEERS FROM THE COMMUNITY TO EXPAND WHAT USED TO BE CALLED THE SENIORS HELPING OUR POLICE PROGRAM OUR SHOP.
AND THAT INCLUDES REINVIGORATING CITIZENS ACADEMY, WHICH WE HAD AND ALSO EXPAND, UH, WHAT THIS IS BRIAN GUT, UH, UM, COUNCILMAN, UH, GUTIERREZ'S THOUGHT WHEN WE TALKED, UH, RECENTLY ABOUT THE AGE, LOOKING INTO THE POSSIBILITY OF, OF, OF EXPANDING THE AGE SO THAT WAY WE CAN HAVE MORE VOLUNTEERS, UH, UM, PARTICIPATING IN THAT PROGRAM TO RELIEVE THE, THE SWORN PERSONNEL.
UH, I THINK YOU, YOU, YOU TALKING ABOUT THE SENIOR POLICE VOLUNTEER? YES.
AND, UH, I REMEMBER BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, UH, WE HAVE THE SENIOR OKAY.
AND THE VOLUNTEER FROM POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT DELIVER OUR PACKAGE MM-HMM
AND, UH, RIGHT NOW IT'S KIND OF BURDEN OUR OKAY.
ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, LISA, TO KIND OF, UH, NICE TO DELIVER ALL THE PAPER TO US.
AND I THINK IT'S KIND OF OVERBURDEN HERSELF TO DO EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME, DELIVER THE PAPER.
BUT AS I REMEMBER BEFORE, IT'S ALWAYS SENIOR.
AND THEY, THEY'RE VERY PROUD TO WRITE.
TWO OF THEM WRITE A PATROL CAR AND THEY COME TO US.
AND I REMEMBER WE HAVE, SO I, I AGREE.
I THINK WE SHOULD LOOK INTO THE BRING BACK, UH, THE VOLUNTEER POLICE.
UM, THE STAFF AND, UH, AS A, AS A VOLUNTEER, THEY HAVE, UH, RETIRED.
THEY, THEY WANT TO CONTRIBUTE.
I JUST WANT TO SHARE WITH COUNCILMAN KENTER, WE HAVE THAT PROGRAM.
MAYBE WE NEED TO REACTIVATE WITHOUT POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THAT'S WHY YOU SAY, RIGHT? YES.
BUT ALSO TO EXPAND THE AGE, AGE TOO, NOT JUST FOR SENIORS OR PEOPLE OVER 40 OR WHATEVER IT IS, BUT ALSO PEOPLE OF, OF WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE, WHO PASS BACKGROUND CHECKS OF, OF ANY, ANY AGE.
SO ABOVE 18, ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? NO.
AND I'LL JUST SAY, UM, UH, I THINK THIS IS A, I THINK A MODEL PROGRAM TO LOOK AT IS THE LA COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT'S VOLUNTEER, UH, FORCE AS WELL.
UH, YOU TALKING ABOUT SHERIFF, THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT HAS VOLUNTEERS ON PATROL AS WELL.
SO IT'S A IDEAL PROGRAM, WOULD THINK.
SO, UH, CITY MANAGERS, YOU GOT EVERYTHING NOW.
UH, AND, AND, UH, YOU HAVE SOMETHING, I HAVE A MOTHER.
UH, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ HAS ANOTHER MOTHER MAYOR.
IT IS A VERY PRODUCTIVE NIGHT.
WELL, WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, CAMERAS IN THE PARKS, BUT I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT MORE LIGHTING AT THE PARKS, AND WE REALLY DO NEED LIGHTING IN THE PARK.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANNA ADD THAT TO THE OTHER MOTHER, MAY I, OR IF THIS IS A SEPARATE ONE.
ILL THIS MOTHER MAY I TO CITY LOOK INTO ALL THE PARK INTO, OKAY.
AND, UH, A LOT OF AREA NEED LIGHT.
SO DARK AND, UH, ESPECIALLY PLAYGROUND.
AND, UH, THIS IS, OH, WE HAVE A 16 PARK AND THE CITY LOOKING TO, UH, TO HAVE ALL THE PARK REGARDING THE NEEDED AREA TO INSTALL, UH, LIGHT.
THIS, ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? NO.
AND THEN THIS IS, UH, THIS ADD ON YOUR HOMEWORK OKAY.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, I'LL, I'LL SAY IT THROUGH COUNCIL COMMENTS ACTUALLY.
WE HAVE COUNCIL COMMENTS AFTER.
THE LAST ONE DON'T, DON'T HAVE A 15 COMMENT, SO, OKAY.
SO ANYWAY, JUST COME BACK TO ONE.
AND, UH, I KNOW YOU CAN SEE CITY MANAGER FACE GET LONGER AND LONGER.
THIS IS, UH, THIS IS GOING TO BE, HEY, UH, YOU HAVE A NEW CITY COUNCIL AND EVERYBODY EXCITED AND TRY TO HELP IMPROVE OUR CITY.
AND ALL THE CITY COUNCIL PARTICIPATE.
AND TRY TO FIND ALL THE WAY, AND I KNOW THE POSSIBLE BURDEN OKAY.
IS OUR CITY STAFF, BUT THIS IS THE ISSUE THAT BEEN LINGERING AND I WANT TO THANK OKAY.
COUNCIL MEMBER GUT LOOKING TO ALL THIS AND, UH, IMPROVE ON ALL THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER AND ANY OTHER LAST, LAST TIME GOING ONE, GOING TWO.
DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER COUNCIL? AND, UH, UM, AND CITY MANAGER? YOU HAVE ALL THE, ALL THE, I DON'T KNOW, 20 AND MOTHER MAY I? YES.
BUT SOME OF THEM IS KIND OF COMBINED TO EACH OTHER.
SO YOU CAN JUST PULL IT TOGETHER AND LET'S GET THIS THING DOWN THE ROAD AND TO IMPROVE OUR CITY.
[CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS]
THE COUNCIL MEMBER[02:55:01]
MOTHER.MAY I REQUEST WE GO TO THE COUNCIL MEMBER COMMENT, UH, FOR THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, I KNOW YOU WANT TO WISH EVERYONE, BECAUSE WE DON'T SEE, WE DON'T HAVE A MEETING TILL JANUARY 7TH.
WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS TO DO WITH THE EVENT AND THIS AND THAT.
AGAIN, YOU TOOK ALL THE SPOTLIGHT ALREADY.
W UM, I JUST WANT SAY, UH, I WANT, I WANT, FIRST I WANNA SAY, UM, THANK YOU TO OUR CITY MANAGER, UM, FOR WORKING VERY HARD, UH, WITH OUR PUBLIC WORKS, UH, DEPUTY DIRECTOR UL, AND ALL THE MAINTENANCE WORKERS, UH, FROM OUR PUBLIC, FOR OUR PUBLIC PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
UM, WE TODAY, UH, THIS, THIS EARLY THIS MORNING, UH, AND, AND ALSO WEST COAST ARBORISTS, EARLY THIS MORNING, ORANGE WARD PARK TREES WERE EXTREMELY TRIM, UH, TO MAKE THAT PARK LOOK BEAUTIFUL AGAIN.
THIS IS A PARK THAT, UH, WHAT'S FALLING APART.
A PARK THAT IS IN DESPERATE NEED OF RENOVATION.
AND, UH, TODAY, UH, WITH ALL THEIR TEAMWORK AND HARD EFFORT, AFTER I BROUGHT IT TO THEIR ATTENTION AFTER THEY ACTUALLY WENT THEMSELVES TO VISIT THAT PARK AND SEE FIRSTHAND, THEY GOT A SOLUTION.
UM, THE NEXT ONE IS, UM, UH, LET'S SEE, WHAT ELSE WAS THERE? UM, I FORGOT.
OKAY, THEN YOU WANNA GIVE THE
WHAT WAS THAT? YOU WANT TO GO HOME? UM, NO, I THINK, UH, SO WAS THAT OKAY? NO, WHAT COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ SAID, UH, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ MENTIONED ALLEY, UH, THE NEED FOR BRINING OUR PAR PARKS.
SO I WORKED VERY, UH, DILIGENTLY WITH OUR CITY MANAGER AND WE WERE ABLE TO SECURE 176 LED LIGHT FIXTURES THAT ARE COMING TO OUR CITY IN EARLY JANUARY FOR FREE, UH, TO REPLACE MANY OF OUR PARKS, LED FIXTURES AND LIGHTING.
SO OUR PARKS WILL BE BEAUTIFUL AND BRIGHTEN UP VERY SOON.
AND THE DONATION, UH, FROM THE ENTITY THEY BRING, THEY'RE WILLING TO GIVE US, UH, ALL THIS OF, UH, DONATION TO IMPROVE OUR PARK.
AND I THINK THE PARK, SOME OF THE PART THEY NEED A LIGHT POLE.
AND SOME TO REPLACE THE LIGHT.
AND, UH, ANYONE WANT TO TALK ABOUT ANY OTHER COMMENT? AND I JUST HAVE ONE MORE THING TO SAY.
ASK 'CAUSE I'M NOT COMING BACK.
I MEAN, COMING BACK TO THIS COMMENT.
UH, BUT YEAH, MY FINAL, MY FINAL THING IS TO SAY, UH, I WANNA WISH ALL THE RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT ONE A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
UH, THANK YOU FOR THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR THE BLESSING.
YOU HAVE ENTRUSTED IN ME TO BE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY.
YOU'RE SEEING FIRSTHAND MY COMMITMENT TO MAKE OUR COMMUNITY BETTER, AND I WILL CONTINUE TO WORK HARD TO ACCOMPLISH THAT.
AND I THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR BELIEVING IN ME AND MAKING THIS HAPPEN TODAY.
UH, THANK YOU, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIEREZ, AND, UH, UH, WE CAN SEE THE PASSION, WE CAN SEE THE HARD WORK.
THIS, THIS IS A LOT OF HARD WORK.
PUT THIS TOGETHER AND, UH, AND THE PEOPLE CAN SEE YOU DON'T SHOW CHANGE THEM.
YOU FIRST DAY, YOU SIT OVER HERE, YOU PREPARE AND YOU DISCUSS WITH CITY MANAGER.
OKAY? AND, UH, I KNOW SHE HAS A, UH, A DUTY AND, UH, WORK ON ALL THIS TOGETHER AND MAKE THE THING HAPPEN FOR US.
SO, BUT WE WANT TO THANK YOU OKAY.
FOR ALL THE INPUT AND THEN WE CAN SEE THE CITY IN GOOD HAND, UH, WITH YOUR ADD INTO OUR ENFORCEMENT AND NEXT ONE.
UH, WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS IS THOUGH WE, WE ALSO REPRESENT OUR INDIVIDUAL DISTRICTS.
WE, WE, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS TONIGHT, THAT WE REPRESENT THIS ENTIRE CITY AND WE ARE REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT SUPPORTING THIS ENTIRE CITY, WHICH IS JUST INCREDIBLE.
WE HAVE SUCH MAGNIFICENT STAFF WHO ARE WORKING VERY HARD IN SUPPORT OF OUR RESIDENTS AND THE RESIDENTS WHO ARE JUST CONTINUALLY ENGAGED WITH US.
AND SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY, UH, UH, SINCE THIS IS OUR LAST, FOR THE, FOR 2024, UH, A THANK YOU TO OUR RESIDENTS FOR, FOR ALL OF YOU EVERYONE'S ENGAGEMENT AND FOR, FOR CONTINUALLY COMING TO US AND, AND EXPRESSING CONCERNS AND, AND, AND GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE RESPONSIVE AND THEN TO, TO FACILITATE SUPPORT FROM STAFF.
AND ALSO MY LOVE TO OUR COLLEAGUES.
UH, JUST REALLY THIS IS JUST REALLY, UM, AN, I'M JUST SO APPRECIATIVE JUST FOR OUR ONGOING WORKING RELATIONSHIP AND CLOSENESS, AND IT'S REALLY WONDERFUL.
AND LASTLY, TO WISH EVERYBODY THE HAPPIEST OF HOLIDAY SEASON,
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JUST LOVE EVERYBODY SO MUCH AND WE JUST HAVE SO MANY WONDERFUL GOOD THINGS TOGETHER.SO THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR, REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
NO, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO EACH AND EVERY STAFF OF WEST COVINA.
I MEAN, FROM TO THE TOP TO THE VERY BOTTOM.
ALL OF YOUR, UM, FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK THROUGHOUT 2024.
UM, IT TRULY SHOWS, UH, ESPECIALLY FOR ALL THE COMMUNITY EVENTS THAT HAS BEEN PRODUCED, THEY ARE AT EXCEPTIONAL LEVEL.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THEY JUST GROW AND GROW AND GROW.
UM, JUST LIKE THE LET IT SNOW, IT, IT OUTGREW THE SMALL AREA.
AND THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE.
AND THE AMAZING PART OF THAT IS WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING FROM OUTSIDE CITIES, EVEN OUR RESIDENTS.
OUR RESIDENTS APPRECIATE IT AND THEY CAN SEE WHAT IS BEING PRODUCED AND THEY APPRECIATE THAT, AND THEY'RE BRINGING THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS OVER TO OUR CITY.
SO OF COURSE, NONE OF THIS COULD HAPPEN WITHOUT ALL THE HARD WORK THAT EACH AND EVERY STAFF HAS DONE.
SO, UM, I THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS WHOLE YEAR, UM, AND ENJOY YOUR BREAK, YOU KNOW, REJUVENATE, UH, SPEND TIME WITH FAMILY FRIENDS, AND, UH, HOPE EVERYBODY HAS A HAPPY HOLIDAY AND WE WILL SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR AGAIN FOR A 2025 NEW YEAR.
I JUST WANNA SAY THAT I AM EXCITED THAT IN MY DISTRICT WE HAVE HAD SO MANY STREETS, REPAVED OR RE SLUR, THEY LOOK GORGEOUS.
AND I THINK THAT MY CONSTITUENTS ARE REALLY HAPPY ABOUT THAT.
AND I ALSO WANNA BRAG ABOUT WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PARK CAMERON HAS BECOME WITH OUR NEW SOD THAT HAS BEEN PLACED.
AND I WANNA THANK OUR STAFF, WHOEVER MADE IT HAPPEN.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU GUYS WORK REALLY HARD TO MAKE US HAPPY AND TRYING TO MAKE OUR RESIDENTS HAPPY AND TRYING TO MAKE OUR STREETS BEAUTIFUL AND CLEAN.
AND I JUST WANNA THANK YOU ALL AND I WANT TO WISH EVERYONE A MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND THEY HAPPY NEW YEAR AND HAVE A SAFE, SAFE, UM, CHRISTMAS AND, AND NEW YEAR.
AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO, UM, 2025 TO MAKE, UH, THINGS EVEN BETTER.
AND, UH, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING AND THE COUNCIL MEMBER GUT, I'LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER CHANCE.
YOU, YOU, YOU GET EVERYTHING OUTTA YOUR CHEST.
AND, UH, AND AGAIN, UH, AS AN HONOR TO THE BE MAYOR AGAIN, I WANNA THANK ALL MY COLLEAGUE AND THE HARD WORK, EVERYBODY PITCHING AND EVERYBODY KIND OF, UH, DEDICATE AND HAPPY AND ENJOY THE MEETING.
I THINK THIS IS HOW WE HERE FOR AND, UH, WE HELP EACH OTHER AND TO ACCOMPLISH AND TO IMPROVEMENT FOR THE, FOR THE CITY.
AND I WANNA SAY THIS, OKAY, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE REALLY SOLID.
OKAY? OUR CITY GET PRETTY, UH, PRETTY EVERY DAY, OKAY? OF COURSE, WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO DO CLEANING THE, THE SHOPPING CART, UH, SOME GRAFFITI AND SOME ON THE FREEWAY THAT IS EVEN, IT'S NOT OUR JURISDICTION AND OUR CITY STEPS TO GO OVER THERE AND TRY TO PAINT OVER BECAUSE IT'S AT, AT THE WEST COVINA AREA.
SO, SO YOU CAN SEE, OKAY, WE WILL JUST WANT TO IMPROVE OUR CITY.
AND YOU KNOW, YOU GO TO DRY AZUA AVENUE, EVERYBODY SAY, WHOA, IT'S SO PRETTY.
SO HERE I WANT TO ASK CITY MANAGER WHEN WE CAN FINISH
OKAY, WELL EVERYBODY SAY SO PRETTY AND I UNDERSTAND, OKAY, THE LIGHT BULB ON THE GROUND, SO PRETTY, BUT POTENTIALLY MANEZ AND A THEFT.
BUT, BUT NO MATTER WHAT, WE NEED TO FINISH UP ENTIRE SUICIDE FROM NO SIDE WALKMAN.
GO TO THE SOUTH SIDE TO THE CHURCH, THAT'S STILL WEST COVINA AREA.
WE REALLY WANT TO BRING UP A THIS OF, UH, OKAY SENSE OF, UH, A HOLIDAY THAT WE CARE AND, UH, WE WANNA BRING JOY TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY DRIVING IN THE WEST COVINA, UH, SUICIDE AVENUE.
OKAY? AND, UH, AND THEN WE NEED TO FINISH UP, OKAY, WHAT WE STARTED, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ONE PORTION WITH DEMO THAT LOOK VERY NICE AND HOW WE WANT TO DO THE REST AND THE EXIT OF SUICIDE.
YOU CAN SEE THE BEAUTIFUL CANOPY WITH COLOR LED LIGHT LOOK VERY, VERY ATTRACTIVE, OKAY? AND, UH, HOW WE CARRY ON, CONTINUE AND TO MAKE ALL THE DESIGN MORE UNIQUE AND MORE IN HARMONY RATHER THAN HERE IS THIS AND THEY'RE THERE.
SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET ALL THE SIMILAR DESIGN FROM HERE TO THERE.
AND, UH, I THINK WE NEED TO FINISH UP ALL THIS LIGHTING AND THEN FINISH UP.
I KNOW CHRISTMAS COMING AT THE CORNER, BUT, UH, WE STILL HAVE, UH, OTHER NEW YEAR COMING UP AND WE STILL HAVE A VALENTINE DAY COMING UP AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, SPRING
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FESTIVAL COMING UP AND ET CETERA, ET CETERA.SO THEY LIKE AND CONTINUE TO CARRY ON THE CHEER PEOPLE UP.
SO HERE IS OUR JOB OVER HERE, THE JOB OVER HERE TO BRING THE IMPROVEMENT FOR OUR CITY.
AND, UH, I WANNA WISH EVERYBODY A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND I'M HONORED TO BE YOUR MAYOR.
I WANT TO THANK ALL MY COLLEAGUE AND EXCEPT ESPECIALLY I WANNA THANK ALL THE STAFF.
WITHOUT THE STAFF THAT CITY CANNOT HAVE, UH, IMPROVEMENT LIKE THIS WITH THE STAFF WILLING TO HELP EACH OTHER AND WE ARE WILLING TO, UH, SUPPORT THE STAFF AND, UH, LET'S CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER, UNITED, TOGETHER, UNITED, WE STAND AND BRING THIS PROUD CITY, BRING OUR RESIDENT TOGETHER.
SO MERRY CHRISTMAS, UM, AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
I WISH EVERYBODY HAVE A MAGNIFICENT 2025.
ANY OTHER ONE TO SAY ANYTHING ELSE? IF NOT, DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? A MOTION? OKAY, DO I HAVE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.
I THINK A SONG, I SECOND THAT MOTION.