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Yes, this evening we would request to recess in a closed session to discuss the one real property item listed on the agenda as well as the workers' comp matter. Thank you, Mr. City Attorney, we are recessed to closed session. you you you you you you you you you you you you We have reconvene from closed session, Mr. City Attorney, do you have anything to report? There's no announcement out of closed session this evening. We have now complete the item on this evening's special meeting agenda and now adjourned the special meeting and moving to this evening's regular meeting. Good evening and welcome to the March 10th regular meeting of the National University Council. Roll call please. Maza. Here. Maloney. Wang. Here. Andraidee Sadler. Here. Lee. Here. Please join me in the fly salute. Land acknowledgment. We acknowledge that the land on which we are gathered is the traditional ancestral and unceded territory of the Gapralino, Changwa people. Our next is item number one, commentations, Elhamber High School, academic, and Catholic team. We have a public comment that wants to speak to this item. And the name is spelled F dot D dot. Good evening everyone. It gives me great recognition of these young people who have achieved such an academic award in the DeCathlon. I find it while improving in the city's education here, these children are very reluctant to have teachers, educators, and professionals behind them to support them for their future in college, or in another profession, maybe becoming a doctor, maybe becoming a lawyer, maybe becoming a new entrepreneur or the next Bill Gates, we don't know. But I'm glad they have established that. And I hope in their future recognizing of this that they will hold to our constitutional belief, in my belief, that the American people need to have more transparency when it comes to our first amendment. So I hope by what I say tonight enlightens them to protect, preserve, and keep America great under Maga. Thank you. For the second year in a row, this amazing group of students plays first out of 55 teams in the 43rd annual Los Angeles County Competition. The honorary high school academic decathletes are to be commended for the perseverance and dedication to scholastic excellence and be commanded for their perseverance. And the city of Alhambra celebrates accomplishments tonight. Thank you for coming. We have certificates for you. I think the room full of very cheerful faces. I'm just call your name and step up. Kenneth Seng. Kevin Seng. Oscar Diaz. Caesar Gonzalez. Clarissa Diaz. MD Hamza, M.S. Khan. OK. And the next one is Kaylee Liu. Lila Medina. Alex Wu, Carlos Caranza, and Mr. Jose Sanchez, who is the coach of Hammer High School. He's getting a big hand. It was also a council member of Rangri Park and good friend of mine. And I thank all the students for all your... Thank you. It was also a council member of Monterey Park and good friend of mine. And I thank all the students for all your efforts all the time that you put in. I know it's after school for months and that month is prepared for this decathlon. So congratulations, I, you're full of praises for you. All right. I'm going to take a few minutes. Everyone, please. Please. Please. Excuse me. I'm in here. Here, I'm going to open you here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. all their individual feats. So Carlos Caranza here won the third highest junior decadly award Clarissa Diaz here won the third highest scholastic award Laila Medina here won the second highest varsity award Cesar Gonzalez here won the third highest varsity award Oscar Diaz here won the top scholastic award and Kevin here had the higher score in the entire competition and Kaylee. Oh, I'm sorry. Kaylee give us the points that we needed to get the victory. So, and I would also like to acknowledge MD Hamza Khan who couldn't be here with us today for doing so well in this competition. All of these individuals, we tried really hard and practiced for many months and we would just love to thank the council for honoring us and miss Dadler for always volunteering and coming with us to our banquet. So thank you all so much for this amazing opportunity for us to grow. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mayor, can I say a few words aside from congratulations to all of you and yes, I had the opportunity because it was clearly an opportunity to be with you at the awards ceremony and in the pouring rain in Long Beach, but it was beautiful to be out there with you guys, and we're so proud that you pushed through. You know, we have their principal in the audience, Diane Ferguson, and also School Board member, Marcia Wilson with us tonight. So we wanna thank you without the support of all the administration, this does not happen. And also, I think I have my friend Jose Sanchez back. He's always after school with you guys so thank you. Congratulations Councilman Jose Sanchez. Any other council members like to speak to? Just want to take a second also to congratulate the team. I think I recognize some of the faces from last year. It seems like it was just a short while ago and here you are again. Congratulations to you and your tremendous coach. You know, when it honored to take this award for the city to represent the city in such a way. And I don't know how many of you are coming back next year, but hopefully you'll make it the third year in a row. But congratulations to all of you and your coach as well. Thank you. I would also like to say a big congratulations to all our students that showed up today and maybe there's some that didn't show up today But it is a lot of hard work with any sports takes hard work. It takes Preserveerance and takes grit, right? So you all have that so continue to work hard continue to thrive and Big thank you to our principal our school members and everybody that's been behind our students to support them and give them the Opportunity to succeed. So thank you. Once again, congratulations on the academic-to-hathlone team always makes us proud. It's great to see the write-ups and the papers and I've shared it far and wide many, many, many years ago when I was in high school as on the academic-to-hathlalon team. I did not do as well as you guys did. So congratulations, good work, keep it going. Thank you so much. Applause Our next recommendations are for the Alhambra High School boys soccer team who recently claimed a champion. who recently claimed a championship victory in the Alhamdulillah University School District Cup. The team and their coaches are to be commended for demonstrating their ability to work together in a spirit of commitment, dedication, and hard work. And for winning their third AUSD Cup. Could you all come up here and I do have certificates for you as well? the I don't want to go wrong. All right, I think right there we What I'm going to do is I'm just going to read the names and then I'll hand all the certificates to you instead of coming up here. Well, I actually could come to me and how do we work with logistical needs boys right here? Okay. I'll just read the names and then we'll'll hand out certificates. Is the coach here? Oh, could you, how many hand them out please? Okay, the first one on this, Leo Nardo Azumi. Aidan Castillo. Owen Curry. Aiden Chu. Camilo Gufigurá. Lucas Fuentes. Nelson Gutierrez. Jason Ho. Jesse Ira. Arlon McGell. Riley. Riley McGell. Mm-hmm. Eric Moreno. Okay. Alan Perez. Okay. Lewis Ramos. Okay. Adam Ruiz. Okay. Diego Ruiz. Ruiz Kobe Silva Christopher Velasco Joa Vasquez Evan Livadiri Antonio Bargan, and we have the head coach Bill Dolphin, and last but not least, assistant coach Cesar Flores. Let's give him a big hand. Thank you so much. And again, I just want to say how impressed I am with all the soccer players and watch them on TV and just endless running after the ball. And it's just amazing. I would just be sending there, you know, to my food and watching every single movie out. So you're all very athletic and I could tell that and continue with your health, you know, building up your muscles and do a good job. And I know that it's a very fun sport to watch, also a very fun sport to play. So just really I want you to continue with your schoolwork as well. and at the same time be, you know, do your best on the field. Thank you so much for coaching all your dedication as well. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're a medical assistant. Thank you. Right before we do the photos, I just wanted to say thank you to the council for recognizing our sport and not just soccer but athletics. I think it's really important for a lot of these boys at this age to be involved in some type of competitive form. It teaches them a lot about life off the field. So again, I'm really proud of you, boys, for working hard. I know it's been a long time. So again, congratulations. Thank you guys for all your support, our school, our staff at our school for showing up. Thank you for all your support. And yeah, thank you again, thank you. Go Moist. Thank you guys for all your support, our school, our staff at our school for showing up. Thank you for all your support. And yeah, thank you again, thank you. Go Moist. You can make me feel it. That's the squeezes. There's a lot of my sessions. I'm like here better. What's the good. All right. Go for it. I'm going to get in there soon. Do any council members have any comments for the team? Yes, just congratulations to the soccer team, keep up the good work. Here we are, close to, I think we're going to have soccer here in the United States. And I know that California has taken a big piece of the soccer, I think it's the FIFA. So it behooves us to celebrate soccer. It's great teamwork, great workout. And we appreciate all the coaches. And of course, the administrative support behind and the teachers, thank you. I just want to say what a great idea to have a district in season competition. That's very cool. Again, I'm like reliving my high school days. I played a very little soccer. I don't think I would have made the team against all you tall guys today. Much more athletic than I was back then. But I can attest that it is a hard sport, a grueling sport, a lot of running, a lot of physical conditioning. So Kudos to you guys for keeping it going and for bringing it home for the more in districts. A good job, keep it up. Thank you. Well, I'll have our high school again. Congratulations. You know, like your coach said, you know, it takes a lot of dedication, you know, a lot of commitment to, you know, and the support teaches you a lot of lessons, you know, about life in general. I have the opportunity to play as well, you know, freshman year through high school year and high school, enjoyed it, enjoyed all the tournaments and looked forward to all the practices, all the games. So, you know, want to congratulate you. And I'd like to see a match between the academic, the Gathon team and you guys. I think that's the next event. But no, you guys are representing Alhamdulillah. Congratulations, also the supportive administration as well, the school board, the coaches, the parents, of course, they take teamwork from everyone. So, congratulations all the best and more successes in the near future. This is Brain Back. Memories for me as well. I play soccer growing up and it's what really strikes me about that sport is the teamwork. Right? You have to have strategy, you have to play really well as a team. So hope that you guys learned the importance of teamwork and you carry it with you as you step into this world. It's going to help you in every way, everything that you do. So very proud of your achievement. Congratulations again and thank you for the coach and administrators that made this happen for our kids. Thank you. At this time I'm gonna give the students a time to leave the chamber we wish to. We'll have a long night tonight. There are many items that we're gonna the City Council are gonna cover. So if you want to leave right now, I know it's the school night. You may go ahead and leave. Thank you. You guys have a good night. Yes. I'm going to have able to do it. I'm not going to be able to do it. 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The name is Mr. Transgender Queen. I'm not really sure why you miss a word. So first of all, I mean here to support this proclamation, woman's history month. But at the same time, I do also have some concerns about that. Because most people in my family, people in the city, who does not recognize me, I identify as a woman. So most of the times, the woman's history month, I am always being excluded, was never part of my business. But recently, our school made some changes. Our school created a designated LGBT support center. So finally, first time ever in the history of our school, me and all of the LGBT community members were being recognized. In the city of Ahambra, I'm pretty sure there's no progress of any. So, I'm here to speak in the woman's history month in support, not only the biological woman, because I think everybody supports biological woman, but the part that was being ignored is always the LGBT woman. The previous presentation is about the sports and everything actually, I'm really happy for them, but same time I'm feeling very very Jealous of them because when I was at high school I play volleyball and I play basketball and I was never afforded To compete in the female division But right now what I know is that I am being unlucky I finished the school already but right now in the high school and then in the college and in the university district The LGBT Transgender athletes they were allowed to compete But at the same time It's weird that I just saw on the news governor news some are trying to reverse that he is the one who one who started it a couple days ago, he was trying to reverse it. So in the city of Ahamra, a citywide, normally I don't see any recognition for our LGBT population. Maybe you can argue, there's no LGBT in Ahamra. Maybe that's your argument or maybe you can argue that maybe you know there's only 1% or less and 1% so that's the reason you don't care. But I want to notify you that I believe the city of Los Angeles did something really good. They had a LGBT flag. The county of Florida supervisor and I believe they did something pretty good. They had a LGBT flag. So the county level I see we were being recognized at the major city level, the major city of Los Angeles San Francisco, New York City. The major city we were being recognized but a a hamburger being a local small city, and we continue to be ignored. Talking about the woman's history month, I just wish that in the future that we can include women's of all forms, women's of all types for this woman's history, history month. I am in the process of getting my criminal justice degree. I'm in the process of completing that degree. I want to, I always have a passion in law enforcement career and that is exactly something I'm trying to do in the future. But I would like to ask our city council in the future, if I submit an application to the Ahambera Police Department, if I will be evaluated as a male police officer, or I might be evaluated as a female police officer, if my gender will be respected, recognized by the city, by the police department, or my gender, my identity will never be tolerated by the Aham Bra Police Department. But regardless, no matter what, I identify as a woman. I will continue to be a woman, and I will continue to have a passion in public safety, in law enforcement, related career. Thank you for your time. The second speaker for this item is Frederick Douglass. Inspiring women, huh? Can you believe this? What would I just heard? But this is America for you. Let's recognize women today, like Frederick Douglass' mother who taught him from a Bible. From Bible that there is only one God and there doesn't exist homosexuality, no offense. In 1903, Suzy, Walking Bear, Yellowtail was the first American nurse as a Native American. And what's special about this is that the health care professionals and that of advocacy for nurses is really a low. It's a real low and I question that why? My own mother was a nurse at County USC at Martin Luther King Hospital serving the public, serving society. She never got recognized the way most of us are getting recognized today. So we should question herself. It's just, is this all about you or is this all about them? Because according to my understanding of the United States of America, its enforcement on women's rights, it had to change. Because we realize that women are the backbone of our society. They're the educators. They're the motivators. They're the structure of our home. And we should all understand that. That's why earlier I said God created one man and one woman. No, no offense about Steve behind me, but yes, his right to his opinion. But in the book of Romans chapter 1 verses 6 through 7, it talks about homosexuality and God hates and dislikes. But as far as the women of our world today, I praise them. I praise them for their all their hard work and endeavoring to put up with men. Sometimes men like me, although I could sound like a tyrant, but I'm not. I'm a soft as a grisly bear until I get wild up. Then my advocacy stirs up people to understand issues. But let's go back to Susie Walker bear Miss Yellowtail here. See, in her healthcare care profession she made sure that her advocacy was for the Native American people. Today we shouldn't have that. It should be we should be serving each other, men or women, almost sexual or not, and understanding that we are the future because of women. Without a woman, we'd be never conceived. It can be Adam and Steve to my understanding because I think I read the Bible and may not use it as much as some of you religious people, but I got the understanding of it reading all those books and understanding that there are principles behind that. Even women have principles in the Bible that they're supposed to conduct in the business of life for us. So as saying, I just want to say to the women of America, keep up your good endeavors and be good teachers for us all. Because I'm going to remind you on the negative point that in the city of Los Angeles, there was one woman by the name of Nuri Martinez, an LA elected official there. It used to abuse me when I used to go to consummating there. And for whatever reason she disliked me because I called her mommy Nuri, she shouldn't take that offensively. After all, she's raising her one daughter and her husband in another state because of the action she took against the American people, which was basically sane racial apathets against people at her capacity of job. So I just want to point out that yes, there are great women and good women, but all it takes is one negative woman like Nuri Martinez from Los Angeles to make me lose my focus about beautiful women of California. Thank you. I'm a lot more attentive when the words are respectful. The final ceremony items on the agenda this morning evening are proclamation to declare March 2025 as women's history month and Red Cross month. Our first proclamation is regarding women's history month. I'm going to go ahead and read the proclamation before me. Whereas American women that every race, class, and ethnic background have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of our nation and countless recorded and unrecorded ways. And whereas American women have played and continued to play critical economic, cultural, and social roles in every sphere of the life of the nation by constituting a significant portion of the labor force working inside and outside of the home. And whereas, American women are particularly important in establishing an early, charitable, philanthropic, and cultural institutions in our nation. And whereas, American women that every race, class, and ethnic background served as early leaders in the forefront of every major progressive social change movement. And whereas, American women have served our country courageously in the military. And whereas, American women have been leaders not only in securing their own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity, but also in the abolitionist movement, the massive patient movement, the industrial labor movement, the civil rights movement and other movements, especially the peace movement, which create a more fair and just society for all. And whereas, despite these contributions, the role of American women in history has been consistently overlooked and undervalued in the literature teaching and study of American history. Now, therefore, be a resolved and recognition of national women's history months. The month of March 2025 is hereby proclaimed women's history months in the City of Alhambra. And a city council encourages all those in the community to learn more about the vital contribution of women to our nation's history. This proclamation will be mailed to the National Women's History Alliance. Our second proclamation is declared March as Rep Cross Month. Whereas during American Red Cross Month in March, we recognize a compassion of people in Elhambera and reaffirm our commitment to careful one another in times of crisis. And whereas this generous spirit is woven into the fabric of our community and advances the humanitarian legacy American Red Cross under Clara Barton, who notably dedicated herself to alleviating suffering. And whereas for more than a century, the American Red Cross has been at the forefront of helping Americans to prevent, prepare for, and respond to large and small disasters. Families and communities depend on the red crossing times of need. And the red cross depends on American people to sustain the foundation. And whereas in the San Gabriel Valley, the American Red Cross works tirelessly through is volunteers to support us when disaster strikes. When someone needs a life saving blood or the comfort of a helping hand, it provides a 24-hour support to members of the military and veterans and their families and provides training in CPR, Aquatics, Safety, and First Aid. And whereas, the work of the Red Cross to prevent and alleviate human suffering is vital to strengthening our communities resilience. Now therefore be it resolved that the month of March 2025, hereby proclaimed Red Cross Month in the City of Alhambra. And the City Council encourages all citizens of Alhambra to reach out and support its humanitarian mission. This proclamation will be mailed to the San Gabriel and Pomona Valley chapter of the American Red Cross. And we thank them for all their recent work to alleviate those we need. And after devastating wildfires and Altadena and Pacific palisades. I there there is actually another speaker that will raise her hands. Resume I forgot to call him, but Mr but Mr. Lewis, are you still there? Yes, it looks like his hand is still raised. Mr. Lewis, go ahead, please speak. Good evening. Can you hear me now? Yes, we can. Good, thank you very much. I do want to address the two resolutions that you're passing tonight. Actually, it seems very similar to what we had just a year ago. We were also honoring, you know, Hammer High School academic to Catholic on team at that meeting. We were honoring women's history month at that meeting. I'm glad to see Elhamber really take an active role in continuing these designated months and honoring these for the accomplishments that have been made. Back to the time Elhamber became a city, back in 1903, women did not have the right to vote, either in the state of California or in the nation. Voting rights were pretty much initially left up to the states. There have been some changes for that as various constitutional amendments were passed later on initially. 1776 and up through 1807 actually women in certain limited categories had the right to vote in New Jersey. It wasn't the only state in which they had that right. But you had to be unmarried because if you were married you were considered your husband was going to be the one cascier though. And you had to own at least 50 pounds worth of property, which was a pretty substantial amount of property at that particular time. They repealed the right vote for women in 1807 in New Jersey. to Jersey. He didn't pop up again until State of Wyoming, territory first in the state, 1869, Wyoming adopted the right to vote for women. California, it came in, it was passed very, very narrowly. It was very difficult to get it on the balance because it was put on about by the state legislature and they were all men and that was a very hard lobbying job by the women to reach all those legislators and get food on about but it finally passed by a very narrow margin of about one vote per precinct in the state on October 10, 1911. August 20, 1920. Finally, the 19th Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states and gave women the right to vote nationwide. The other thing tonight that we see on here, I do wanna have in this re-regulation that the Alhambra City Council, we're women putting in vote when it was founded, we now have a majority of women on our city council. We have a majority of women in the state Senate to which out member put in its contribution in the German Sasha and A. Kress and 38 out of the 80 only two short of 50% in the State Assembly. So we're moving ahead quite a bit on a representation of women. Also the recognition of the work of the Red Cross, they did outstandingly good work, particularly in the Eden Fire and in the Palisades Fire. And we contribute to the local chapter every year and we're glad to see them being recognized for the work that they do. Thank you very much. Sorry to participate remotely. I'm trying to get some work done on the rain gutters before the next rain. Thank you tonight. First, we have public comment for non-agent items during this portion of the item. Individual speakers will have five minutes each to make their comments and the total time for the item will be 30 minutes. If there are any remaining speakers at the end of 30 minutes, those speakers will be able to make their comments at the end of the meeting. Also, we ask that any speakers state their name and address for the record before making their comments. Mayor, can I just say a few things about how the city recognizes the LGBTQI community each and every June. And in addition to that, many of us support the annual March that is organized by our Teachers Association, the Lyme CA, Monterrey Park, and other organizations like the Trevor Project. So we are always constantly aware that we are all inclusive. So thank you very much. Thank you. The first speaker is Runde K. Randy K. Helm and Avenue, Alhambra. Good evening. I'm here tonight to speak about wildfire prevention. The fact that we are not designated as a high fire severity area can have the effect of residents becoming complacent about wildfire prevention and mitigation. Our city needs to be more water wise and fire safe. Our utility grids are very old and we are at risk. Since the eat and fire I'm expecting that the LRA local responsibility area and SRA state responsibility area maps will be redrawn and many geographic areas will be reclassified in terms of wildfire risk. Parts of all to Dina were not designated as high fire severity risks. My experience living in Santa Clarita and attending fire prevention meetings regularly over six years has helped raise my awareness of what we as residents can do to prevent fires. We must be cognizant that our population density is high and homes are close together. We need to act as a community so that our inaction in terms of preventing fires does not put both ours and our neighbors homes at risk. Residents can do many things to keep their properties safer, including establishing a five foot brush, shrub, and plant-free zone around our homes. Eaves trough should be cleared out on a regular basis to prevent leaves and plant matter from remaining inside. This debris dries out and will permit embers from a distant fire to catch these leaves and twigs on fire and extend it to the roof of the home, ultimately destroying the entire structure. Eaves trough covers will prevent debris from landing in remaining inside the ease. Regular raking or sweeping dead leaves and branches from lawns and parkways will prevent build up a flammable material. Dead trees, shrubs and bushes should be removed. Lones can be replaced with drought-resistant plants that have low flammability and concrete or pavers or stones. These actions will all reduce the likelihood of embers catching the brush and grass on fire. In approximately 2022, amber fly was added to the criteria or assessing and designating high-fire Ambors can fly miles and just because our city is not designated as a high fire area, ambors from a considerable distance away can land anywhere in alhamdra and start a fire just like the one in al-Tedina. We need to start taking action now to prevent a repeat of what happened just north of us. We are seeing more wind events and more significant wind events than in the past. We were just lucky to have survived this last one. The city can incentivize people to replace grass lawns with drought resistant ones, cover eavesdrop, establish, establish sorry. brush free zones, encourage tree trimming and brush clearance on a regular basis and educate residents about steps they can take to prevent fires. This should include raising awareness about proper disposal of lit cigarettes that is not throwing them out of windows of cars, not dropping them on sidewalks and lawns after discarding them and making sure to step on them to ensure they are completely out. Burned pot should be banned within city limits. What would really make a difference in this community would be new local design ordinances that spell out specific fire hardening requirements for new or replacement housing and commercial buildings. In this way, moving forward, positive impacts could be made to protect Elhamber for the future. For now, there can be front yard design competitions, landscaping classes, discounted eaves covers and tours of the city, illustrating homes where owners have fire harden their properties. This would give other residents ideas of what fire hard and properties look like. Businesses might be willing to participate in design competitions by donating prizes like dinner for two or a hotel stay for a couple of nights. The time to act is now when we don't have a problem to prevent having one in the future. I just wanted to thank Council Member Sanchez for his work with the students in Elhamber and their success in winning the academic de-Cathont for the second year in a row. We should make him an honorary member of Elhamber City Council, with all the work he does for us, including Monterey Park. I'm sure every person sitting here today can remember teachers and professors in their lives who were influential in both their academic trajectories and career paths. So thank you again, Council Member Sanchez. And thank you to the students and very best wishes for your future. Thank you very much. Our next speaker is Elizabeth Jacobi. Good evening, esteemed Mayor and Council members. My name is Elizabeth Jacobi. I'm resident of Alhamron, Meridian Avenue. I'm also a commissioner on our Alhamdra Parks and Rights Commission, and I also work for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. In light of the recent ICE operation in Alhamdron February 23rd, ICE operations throughout the county and inconsiteration of upcoming Alhamdra City programming such as summer camp, various youth activities, and outdoor concerts and events. I'm inquiring if the city has any plans to train staff if an ICE agent approaches programming. My understanding that is if an ICE agent approaches any city staff, they are instructed to call Alhambra PD. However, I don't think that's enough. There will be lag time between the call and when an officer is able to arrive. For example, in a recent Los Angeles County DPH All-Staff meeting, staff were given instructions on what to do in the event of an ICE operation. I think that Alhambra City employees deserve the same kind of training for our city to be a true sanctuary city. I recommend the city consult with Los Angeles County Office of Immigrant Affairs to learn effective strategies for city employees to interact or maybe not interact in this case with ICE agents. Thank you. Our next speaker is Chandler Weber. Good evening, Mayor and esteemed Councilman. My name is Chandler Weber. I am a public information officer with the US Small Business Administration. My hope for being here this evening just kind of share a little bit about our program and what assistance we can offer. I want to leave you first off. We have a branding issue where you hear the term Small Business Administration and you probably think to our office that's in Los Angeles that helps with model for seven a loans, things of that nature. I actually work with a, our team is called the Office of Disaster Recovery Resilience and we go unfortunately from disaster to disaster to disaster. And in that, we're deployed in the worst of times but we also offer assistance for homeowners and renters as well as businesses that just try to get people back on their feet as quick as possible. And so that's what I'm going to outline for you a little bit tonight. So starting on the homeowners side, even if you didn't have any constituents who were directly affected by the Eaton fire, I did want to outline that our coverage goes all the way from January 7th to January 31st. So anyone that might have had wind damage or from the Turnjale rainfall that fell during during that time period any damage they qualifying can apply with us just like with FEMA and our deadline just got extended to March 31st. It was tonight but they extended it over the weekend to March 31st. So we're going to pass that along. The terms of that for the our loans are going to look like this they go up to 500,000 it can be up to 30 year term and then for renters as well as homeowners We also offer an additional 100,000 for personal property so anything from your car to You know a Prefidulator couch all your daily necessities to live life we can offer terms up to 30 years on those and interest rate is as low as 2.563 so favorable terms there. That said, you could turn around and pay it off tomorrow if you were waiting on, say, an insurance settlement or other grants and there's no prepayment penalty and there's also a 12-month deferment on interest and payments as well. Switching over to the business side for physical damage, we can offer up to $2 million US. And again, that can be anything from the building structure itself, whether you lost a roof or you know someone who may have lost their entire building and then to the economic injuries site which might be more pertinent to your constituents. This covers Los Angeles County but also all of the contiguous surrounding counties as well. So anything from working capital to paying your payroll all the daily necessities you need to keep the business of float. This term goes all the way through or the deadline is all the way until October 8th. So as we move into the summer months, you know, as business plans were written, you didn't have a natural disaster in mind, obviously. So if businesses are struggling to stay afloat, they're just not seeing an influx of tourism dollars or things of that nature, please keep us in mind there that we we are available and can help. And our deadline on that one is October 8th. The last thing I wanna leave you with is for private nonprofits. I know if several nonprofits had events that were scheduled in January or February, which take lots of time to plan, same thing for them. If they had an event that had to be canceled or postponed, that's an economic injury impact. The term rates on that is going to be 3.65, and I forgot to mention the term rates for businesses is 4%. Outside of that, there is individual use cases for homeowners, where we can also help with refinance or even relocation, so just something to keep in mind there. Outside of that, we're going to be here for the long haul, that if you have any questions, I have some flyers on my business cards, and I'd appreciate your time. Our next speaker is Frederick Douglas. Look at here, case law, car felled versus United States 1991, 944 F2D 583 586. Finding that criminals, but as part of a wider regulatory scheme, to furtherance of the administrative purpose of safety. Well, there was a time I was here about two weeks ago and I read Slider versus FALTS, 562 US, 443, 2011. And surprisingly, there were some people discouraged by these remarks which I find Constitutionally protected free speech and I'm gonna read it and reiterate it into the record again because It's a charming choice of words and a time like this Because we need to wake up and fear God and understand that there is a God and only one God But let's just read it. God hates the USA. Thank God for 9-Eleven. America is doomed. Don't pray for the USA. Thank God for IEDs, Fag Troops, Simplify Fags, God hates Fags, Merle and Taliban Fags doom nations not bless just cursed rape boys Open hell and you're going to hell and God hates you now For many of you probably seem shocked say what the fuck is he reading? Well, and reading Snyder versus felps and Here's a church boycotting at some military cemetery against the USA Simplifies because they want them to understand that God dislikes facts and They made their point and this And this decision, this case law went before the government and the government ruled that this was protected free speech everybody. For God's sake, we hear it in our music today. We got so much vulgarity and music that we should not be embarrassed or shunned because this is what society accepts and is expecting more of. Not me, but it has motivated me to use vulgarity and inventive words to stir people up in the right direction and that America is doomed. And when I say America is doing I'm not talking about Our little petty little fights here in America. I'm talking about the great nation of China and The European people that hate Americans Dislike Americans were meddlers and in their business Well, we should be helping the American people here today that are struggling on everyday issues, such as affordable housing, which there isn't no affordable housing. I would kick myself in the ass if someone could show me anywhere down the street where I could pay the rent for less than $1,200 for a single bedroom. You're not going to find it. So these young children behind me and young children at home and those watching on and hearing this is that your future is very doomed. Because unless your mommy and daddy leave you a nice home paid in full, along with a nice, healthy retirement benefit for you. That's the only hope you have. And that's the reason why I read Pope and hell, priest raid boys are going to hell. Because that's what's happening here in America. We're fucking each other over for money and power that needs to stop. Even though the direction of where we're going is based on the Bible saying in the book of Revelation that God will wipe out every tear from your eye once the destruction is over. But we have to die in the name of God first in order to understand that. That's the reason why you guys celebrate Christmas, although it's a pagan holiday in which they stick a man on a stake and call it Christmas and celebrate. Believe that. I can't believe that shit. I can't believe the Pope allows priests to go from town to town raping young fucking men. I can't believe LAPD allowed police officers to rape cadets. So I am not afraid to speak out against government. And I will continue to speak out against the government, because it's the same fucking government in Los Angeles that put me in a situation where I was at one time homeless. Thank God. There you go, man, for the record. Mr. Strasgender. Good morning, Mr. Strasgender, Queen. First of all, I want to thank the council member who addressed the LGBT. Thank you. If I only have a voice recorder in 2023, I would have used it at this moment. Second, for the general comments, there are several issues. Under five minutes. First, let's talk about the DUI. I've been around for so many years, that for some reason that I never ever seen any DUI enforcement in the city of Ahamra. And then for all of the council member here, I don't know how many of you are actually experienced any DUI enforcement. But as far as I know, I want to give you an example. The other day, my boyfriend and I went to a Korean barbecue just down the street. So after we eat, we saw those numerous. Almost everybody have like a beer, alcohol, wine on their table. So after we eat, we left. And now what we did is we wait and sit right there for approximately two hours. And we just want to see that how many of them, how many of those people who drink alcohol, beer, wine in the restaurant actually call Uber Home. home and how many of them are actually drive home because I saw almost every table has alcohol of some sort in there and then the result is very very scary to me. There was none. There's no Uber, there's no lift. Everybody go back to the parking lot and then go directly to their car You guys are the professional council members, so you guys are the professional This shouldn't be my job. I shouldn't be the first one to notify you about this But obviously there's nothing being done about the DUI checkpoint DUI enforcement especially there are several late night bar, late night restaurant in the city of Ahamber. Ask yourself next time when you drive by there. How many of them are consuming alcohol? And how many of them are abandoning their car there, call the Uber and then tow their car home in order to follow the DUI law. But again, that's kind of your job. Second is let's talk about marijuana. Marijuana is legal in a hamburger. At the same time, marijuana is legal in the state of California. I think everybody knows that. That's the result that I keep smelling marijuana in the neighborhood on the street. And sometimes I go to the, was that part, a month, a month, a month, a month, a month, a month, a month, a month, a month, a month, I go to the bathroom right there. I saw a whole bunch of little kids playing outside of the bathroom and then when I go inside of the bathroom, smell like marijuana. I just want to inform you again. I shouldn't be the first one to inform you this, but when you have a city that is legalized, when you have a state that is legalized marijuana, and that it was so close to kids, I mean, what is going to happen 20 years later. So right now you legalize marijuana. How many years does it take for you to legalize a heroine? And how many years does it take you to legalize fentanyl in the whole city? I think it's coming. But again, it seems like none of you are ever concerned. Marijuana legal is okay. Every time I go go outside, you know, smelling like marijuana, it's okay. Call the police, nobody care. Number three is talking about homeless. Several previous speaker already talked about it. Number one, sometimes, you know, I'm sleeping on the bench, you know, sitting on the bench, and then the police officer will say, hey, when I drive back 30 minutes later, do not let me see you again. You cannot be here or something like that. But I want to ask the council member that if I have nowhere to go, if someone does not have a home, and if I cannot sleep on the bench, can you tell me where can I go? Can you provide me a solution? Because I don't have that solution. I don't know what to do when the officer tells me when I drive back Next hour do not let me see you again right here. You better leave Second is the previous speaker said a hamburger needs more training about the ICE You know probably I become a homeless because they deported my roommates. I hear that. I agree with that. But I disagree with that speaker is that I think you guys are trying to use a hamburger police department to go against the federal law enforcement that will only create a war between the local law enforcement and the federal law enforcement. Next speaker is I can't read the first thing sorry but Lawson Garcia. What is your first name? Good evening. Congrats to all the students, teachers and coaches at Elhambera High School. I'm just here to thank Council and Law Enforcement for installing some radar equipment the next day after I came here and spoke about the speeding concerns on my street. I'm so grateful for that. I did notice a huge difference in terms of people just speeding. Of course, there's always the exceptions that still are breaking the law, but I noticed a big change. It was there for about two weeks, and I know that law enforcement can't be everywhere at every single time someone is speeding or breaking the law. But so I'm just here still advocating for speed bumps on 819 North Margarita area. And also just generally in the entire community of Elhambera, I see a lot of citizens complaining about speeding cars and issues with pedestrian safety, which is a huge concern in our community. You can even go on the general Elhamber Facebook page and you can see all the complaints. There's an entire chain of comments about this recently in the last couple of days. So I'm here also to advocate for your continued progress in terms of traffic calming and safety measures. I am really looking forward to seeing what your plans are in this regard. Secondly, I'm here to just talk about natural disaster mitigation plan. I saw the survey, I filled it out, so thank you for offering us the opportunity to fill that out. I am mostly concerned. I'm concerned about fires, but I'm really concerned about a huge earthquake. And that will cause massive fires. And I understand that yes, we do have a good water system here in El Habra, which I'm grateful. And that will cause massive fires. And I understand that yes, we do have a good water system here in Elambra, which I'm grateful for. But the problem I think is that I think statewide our water lines, our infrastructure is really old. It's corroded. And in a catastrophic event, these will not be, they won't hold the water, so we won't have access to water. So I just wanted to see if there's any way we can look into county-wide, state-wide about replacing our infrastructure to flexible piping system, much like Japan has, which works really well in large quakes. So, just wanted to say that. I hope you'll work with our local state representatives to pitch that idea and to get the ball rolling in that regard before it's too late. And then I also just wanted to thank you guys for everything you do. That's all. Do we have any speakers via Zoom that I wish to speak? If so, please raise your hand now and you will be able to unmute yourself when your name is called. Madam Mayor, there are not any raised hands on Zoom at this time. Thank you. Our next item is a presentation regarding community agreement between Rensmore and the Jason neighborhood. Miss City Manager is there a report from the staff? There is this evening's presentation will be given by Andrew Ho, Community Development Director. Thank you Jessica. Mayor Lee, members of the commission. Last year the city established new short terminal regulations. Shortly after those regulations were in place, those regulations prohibited commercial events like weddings and parties at Airbnb's. Shortly after those regulations were passed, operators from RUNSMORE came to ask for the council to show some relief relief to allow them continued operation at the facility. The council agendas the item at a future date for a meeting. After hearing feedback from Rensmore and the neighboring neighborhood, the council directed both Rensmore and the neighborhood to meet to develop consensus agreement to move forward. Tonight, the RENZMOR and the Neighborhood have come to a consensus agreement before you this evening. The agreement allows RENZMOR to operate through the balance of 2025, operating about 18 events at the facility. A couple of conditions in play, no parking, offsite. All of the parking stays on the property, quiet hours from 10 pm to 7 pm, and open communication between Rendsmore and the neighborhood. With that said, based upon the council's direction to Rendsmore to work with the surrounding neighbors, staff intends to track Rendsmore's operations for consistency with the community agreement that's been negotiated through the balance of 2025, absent direction from from Council, staff will enforce chapter 5.92 of the municipal code for the Rendsmore Property beginning January 1st, 2026. Unless Rendsmore fails to adhere to the terms of the agreement with the neighbors. This will conclude my presentation Last there are questions. Are there any questions from the council at this point? Is there no other speakers? Yes, sorry. Madam Mayor, we don't have any speaker cards for this item at this time. Do you have any speakers via Zoom? There are not any raised hands on Zoom at this time. Does the council have any comments or questions for staff? So I actually have comments for council. I did as was directed by the council to go to a meeting with the community, with Rensmore council and the community. I would say maybe there were about six or seven community members that were present. I was lively discussion and I believe there were going to be more discussions back and forth that I was not privy to. I know that they took place and I was not privy to the conversations. I only know that these recommendations by the on the community agreement were discussed in great length with the community that was there. And yeah, that's what I wanted to report. I appreciate Rensmore actually working with the community to come to an agreement, whether it's a favorable for runs more moving forward or whether it's just, you know, it's allowing you to finish your year. I do have to say that it's such a beautiful place and thank you so much for opening the doors and letting me take a look at what exactly it is. It's gorgeous and has so much potential. But I think it's in the wrong spot. It's smack dab up against all these other homes. There's just no doubt about that. And no place that I'm aware of that provides even the wonderful entertainment or even quiet wedding or that would not be impacted by it. And so yeah, at this point I think I have to go with the community on their request. Thank you. I'm very pleased that the neighborhood around there were able to come to some sort of understanding with operator friends more. Can so many answer? I see this sort of like a bullet point list here. Was there action agreement signed or anything like that? And how was it determined which members of the neighborhood participated or had a say in this. The latest update I've received from the community. This is what the community submitted. They indicated to me last week that they were getting signed signatures and would present them tonight, but we have not received them yet. Okay. And is the actual document something different than what we have here in front of us? Or the committee version? I don't know. Okay. I mean, I think it's great. So this is sort of at least a win-win for the next most of the next calendar year. The folks who have events booked there can have their events. That would be, you know, the people who have weddings in March and April. I'm glad that they're able to continue. I do, I mean, I'm essentially in the same page as Councilmember on Drottie Stadler that the neighborhood has to be comfortable with what's going on. I mean, this is a weird situation because the property is not zone for big events there. It was never zone for anything but a big house. And I think that, you know, as I my concern was last time that if we we immediately stop everything there even after this calendar year, am I concerned what's going to happen with that site? I don't know that it's economical for the owner to keep that as a single family home or any other use that would be allowed in the residential zone there. So I guess I have hope that maybe that over this course of this next year something can be worked out with the neighbors that they feel comfortable with something going on there that preserves the property. My main concern is that a new owner would come in and not see any other economic path then to sell it or divide it up for redevelopment as small homes or a series of units that might be allowed under state law. And then not only do we have impacts to that community of a different nature, then we lose a really iconic property and structure in Alhambra. It's obviously got a very storied and infamous history, but it's unique. And it's something that has a history. I remember well before the infamous owner and the incident that happened there, it's a really interesting property. It's got a great history and I haven't been there since it's been fixed up, but I take everyone's word for it, that it is gorgeous and it looks really nice. It'd be a shame to see that go. It'd be a shame to see that lost to the forces of the economy just because it would make more money as, you know, tract homes or something like that. So, that's just a word of encouragement if anyone's listening out there would be nice to maybe keep our minds open things have a way of changing when, you know, when, when reality hits. So, in the meantime, I think this is great. I support it. Congratulations. Good work for working this out with the neighborhood there. And thank you to staff for seeing the process through. Thank you to Council Member Dressadler for participating that also. All right, well, I am too very pleased to see this at least for this year for 2025, this agreement between the community and Rensmore. You know, I share the same concerns going forward, you know, post 2025, you know, what will be come of the property. And you know, I think at this point, Rensmore its representatives are very aware of the community's concerns. All their complaints, of course. And I just think that 2025 is a tremendous opportunity for Rends more to kind of prove, you know, that this is something that potentially can stay and happen long term. I mean, I hear what the neighbors have said and I hear that it's only for year, but there is that hope that maybe the operation can continue, you know, past 2025 and well into the future if things can improve. So again, it's a tremendous opportunity to make those improvements and make any adjustments. You can't control the location of the castle at this point, but you certainly can't control the way the operation is run. And just what happens moving forward in the future events, I feel the same. It would be a shame to lose such an important part of all-Hambra history, something that represents and really just puts all-Hambra on the map locally. But with all that said, I think the community's interests come first to all of us. They're comfort, their interests are key to us. And just hopeful that going forward, something can be worked out. And that 2025 is just an example of what some of the future just can hold for rents more in the property. So, you know, love to see us maybe have a discussion or even check back maybe in six months or so to see how things are moving. Hopefully it's all positive and we can kind of revisit this along with the representative for our council member on Dr. and the community as well. But again, very happy to see this moving forward in the direction. I appreciate all the work that's been putting to place meeting with our community and my colleague council member on Dr. Stadler for attending the community meetings and really listening to our community. And I think I also hear the concerns from my colleagues regarding what would happen to this business and the site. So I don't know if this is a right time to ask the question, I'm just really curious. I read this plan, this agreement, and I think it's very clear about what's going to happen in 2025 that all the events that are already booked, it's going to continue to go through. Then not very clear about what's going to happen after 2025, if we enter this agreement, where does that kind of leave the business or operation wise? If we can invite the representative from Rensmore to maybe share with us, would that be okay? Hi, Cordelia Culver, I'm the representative from Rensmore. So with this agreement, part of the agreement is that I do not lobby City Council to continue events past 2025. So I will not be back here to do that because that's part of the agreement. I do not think that that benefits the long term health of the property at all, nor my business. But the reason that I entered into that agreement is because as a small business owner, my responsibility is to my employees and to the clients. those remaining 18 events that have, I am contracted with. So the reason I did not push any harder for future events, I did initially ask that was part of the back and forth after that meeting we had on January 7th in person. I did ask that they consider allowing events with a maximum of 60 guests, because honestly, because that's what we can seat for dining inside the ballroom, is 60 guests, and also with that amount, there are absolutely no parking issues. We can fit about 45 cars parked on the property. In any case, so that was something I asked for, and then I was told by our neighborhood representative, essentially, that that was the big sticking point for them. So what also became clear to me in the meeting on January 7th is that they did not really want to negotiate, is that this really was a demand, and also based on the City Council meeting, Madam Mayor, where you essentially threatened to cancel all events. I felt that I couldn't risk, honestly, I couldn't risk having all of those people that are already booked canceled. Because again, that's my responsibility as to them, as well, and to my employees as the business owner. And if I don't recruit my investment, that's what it is after that. I have to maintain my integrity as a business owner. And yeah, so in terms of future events, I don't know what will happen with the property. I don't know that we'll stay beyond the end of 2025. It's really, that's kind of too soon to say. So yeah, I mean, I had hoped that that would be possible. You know, part of the timeline of events is that people book them a distance out, right? Especially something like weddings, people are booking them a year, a year and a half out. I will say that, you know, one of the things we'd always hoped for the property was to be a, a, more of an asset to the city of Elhamber and to the community in terms of, I mean, even, got two weeks ago, I got an email from a woman who was leading a bus tour for seniors and they were We're going to be touring around San Gabriel Valley, you know, Hamburg, and they want to come to take a tour of the castle. I mean, I would love to be touring around San Gabriel Valley, you know, Hambur and they want to come take a tour of the castle. I mean, I would love to be able to, you know, to do something like that. Anyway, so yeah, that was something I know I had said a long time ago about how when we had met with the fire department, they had said, oh gosh, we could have our, you know, annual ball here and we were like, That would be amazing. So anyway, that was something we had been hopeful for, but I don't think at this point, I mean, we have met all of the demands. We have, we've closed the back gate, we do not use the gate at all. I've actually padlocked it, which is, I don't love because again, that is the gate that would be the emergency exit to the property. But, yeah, we put up signage that tell everyone to be very quiet, to be mindful of the neighbors, we put up a sign at the back gate that says, this is not the entrance, turn around, go back down the hill. As I had said, on a couple of the mapping apps, it takes people to the back gate, even though it's a different address. Nothing I can do, anything about. We've also put up the signage for parking. We also put up cameras on the front of back gate so that if someone does walk into the gate, we can see that. I can text the guests who are staying there and say it looks like someone's walking into the property. It looks like they parked in the street, tell them to move, et cetera. So we're doing everything we can. One thing I will also say is that, you know, we, I did, it was very informative to hear everything that the neighbors had to say when they were here. I know that that, a lot of that came up about because of the one, our one neighbor who has been, you know, emailing me, threatening me for over a year, and who said he would bring the neighborhood against us. And he did, he brought them all here. And part of the reason I didn't fight harder is I don't, he's a deputy district attorney for the city of LA, and his wife is also an attorney. And I don't want to fight with that. He threatened to sue me at the meeting we had. So I, after making it through as a small business owner, making it through the pandemic, making through all of that, I really don't have a desire to, to, I don't have that much fight in me for this property. I've given a lot to it. I've really wanted it to be a beautiful place. But there's only without external support or city council support that's, I'm pretty much gone as far as I can go if that makes sense. Anyhow at that meeting there was a gentleman who said he could hear speeches, he could hear best man speeches which is the first time made to heard that comment. So part of what I suggested was that we limit outdoor noise is that we know, tell people they can't have any amplified voices outside. That was never even responded to. So in this agreement that the neighbors wrote, they never even responded to that, which makes me feel like this is all sort of disingenuous in a way. Anyway, we will do our best to limit sound. I will keep that, but I just thought I'd point that out. Did I answer your question? Yes, yes you did. Thank you so much for sharing some of the information that helps me a lot. So I'm just looking at all these concerns. Then it sounded like two big concerns. I'm hearing one parking traffic impact into the community, the other one is noise from the events and it sounds like there is a way to mitigate parking. Like you say, we limit the size of the events and also have offsite spaces for parking. And we're currently doing that. We have, like I said, we have science posted. We have, we've told all of our, you know, incoming guests, anybody, even people staying, you know, staying there, like, in no uncertain terms, you cannot park on the street. In terms of noises, are there any, I'm just trying to think, are there any, I don't want to dismiss the concerns from our neighbors. I do think this is a very unique situation that is situated in a residential neighborhood. We do want to make sure that our neighbors have quality of life and they're not negatively impacted. But at the same time, I hate to see this opportunity go away. And I know it's a beautiful site. It's a beautiful property. And it's kind of iconic for our handbrods. It's our historic resources. I like to see it preserved. And someone like you who is putting the thoughts and efforts into preserving it. So just trying to think creatively, are there any technology that's available for noise-cancelling? And I think maybe my thoughts is that maybe we use like maybe a trial period to test out some of these options. If there are and then continue to work with the neighbors to see if there's a way to co-exist for another six months. So here's what I can say about that because I've done quite a bit of research about it with the noise. One thing we've already started to do is we provide, for outdoor use, we provide four speakers. Somebody, let's say, having a wedding, their DJ would bring in two speakers, like to put inside for dancing, that kind of a thing. But we provide four speakers, and that is so that they can be situated in all facing in, like if people are sitting having dinner outside on the lawn. It's a very large lawn, but that means instead, like if you have two speakers here, let's say, you know, it's a very large lawn, but that means instead of like if you have two speakers here, let's say then the sound just goes out and it just keeps going. If you have four, you can lower the volume and create sort of more of a circle of sound. It's not, you know, it's not completely as good as we would like it to be, but it does help a lot. There are other ways, but they require an investment. I am willing to make that investment, but not if I can't make that investment if I'm not allowed to have events. It's sort of a catch-22. There is definitely, there is sound-abatement fabric. There is more shrubbery foliage, that sort of thing that we could employ. There are a lot of, in this specific area of the property that I'm thinking of, there is quite a lot of foliage, but it is also high There are a lot of, in this specific area of the property that I'm thinking of, there is quite a lot of foliage, but it is also high up and, you know, sound travels in a wave down. So I think that's also why it affects probably some neighbors more than others, and then the driveways concrete. So it's, but there are ways to baffle the sound, etc. But yeah, we're at a point where it's, you know, in, in, not the building isn't quite the right word, but sort of constructing the property in the way we have, we've, it's been phased, right? So we spend about $5,000 a month on just maintenance of landscaping, but we've also planted more things. We've trimmed a lot of dead trees. We've done a lot to maintain the health, but it's a process that takes time, right? And something like installing more, you know, soundproof hedging and whatnot. When we did a plant a bunch when we first moved in and that is growing, we have some walls of ficus that are growing. And anyway, you get the idea. Thank you. Yeah. hearing all the comments really helps me understand what's going on and I appreciate, you know, all the thoughts and efforts you put into this. And I think for me, I, I like where we are with this agreement for 2025. And I think if we can have maybe a little bit of a trial period for this business owner, property manager, to explore some of the other creative solutions to continue to mitigate the impact on our neighborhoods. And then maybe we do a checking, like my colleague Councilmember Mazda suggested that we do another checking at a later time to see how things are going. And making sure our neighbors feel comfortable and okay with this and like to see how if we can find a path going forward. That's my comments. Thank you for your coming here today. I do do sympathize the business owners, small business owners like you who thought that you could go forward your business. Yes, I do not want this business to continue. Nothing personally is just the fact that it's in the wrong place. This is a very nice property. As perfect for this business, however, is in the middle of a residential neighborhood. I think it is unfortunate that the owner who purchased this property did not check in with the city before she started this business with you, contracting with you. And the problem is that I'm not quite sure why the owner thought that she could hold large parties frequently on a regular basis. And so I'm very happy with its compromise that the residents and you came up with and I think our council member, Dr. Stowler, for sitting there and facilitate this agreement. I'm fine with this compromise. And I think the owners should contact Director Hohl and how discussions about what's the proper way to use this property to its maximum potential and yet still not violating the residential zoning. I as a council member, I am for the residents only, they're my priority. I also hopefully understand that business are important to me as well. But business, business in Yachthammers,er only enhanced the quality of life. Should not bring any negative impact to the residents. That's something that I stand for as long as I'm a council member. And I'm fine with this agreement. So are there any other council members, comments or questions? I would just like to add something else. Mayor. I actually think this is a very fair to give you the entire year to decide and to actually find another venue for yourself or, you know, I also think I understand mitigating the sound, but there's no way you're going to mitigate the parking. If there's only 45 parking slots inside, and you have up to 100 people to invite. And I did listen to the people who are here, and I listened very closely to the folks that did come to the meeting. Though there were a few, they were representing, I could tell, they were representing different streets. And if you take a drive around there, you'd see that the streets are all really close together, and they surround this beautiful castle, and there's a lot of sharing of space, and it's closed. So I'm going to have to go with this agreement. I think I was there. I saw that they were being fair and every there was a lot of discussion. Again, I wasn't part of the discussion after that night, but I certainly was enough time spent there about two hours. And then the folks that spoke out here were very concerned about their quality of life, right? Yeah, thank you. May I have a motion? I'll move. A second. We have a motion to second roll call please. Wang. Yes. Mazza. Yes. Maloney. Yes. Andratty Stadler. Yes. Lee. Yes. Our next presentation regarding Council Chamber's safety. Our Chief of Police, Garek Kennedy, will be making the presentation this evening. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Members. At the January 27th Council meeting, you asked me to give a brief presentation on City Council's security. So with that, I'll jump right into the first slide. Next slide. Part of what was brought up at that meeting was the sign that's outside, says all persons packages, briefcases, and containers, all descriptions are subject to search while they're in this building. There is case law that would allow us to operate the council chambers where we could search bags as they come in and search people. But we do not do that at this time. But you're also, as you can tell with the case law, it does not. We don't go after criminal stuff like drugs, those types of things. It's administrative search, basically, just to make the council chamber a little safer. Next slide. The two California penal codes that we use for this type of meeting, as you see, is penal code 171b, which basically prohibits any type of weapons from being brought into the chamber or intended. This building in general. code 403 is another authority that allows us, you know, makes it a misdemeanor when people willfully disturb or break up any assembly or meeting that is not lawful in its character. Next slide. so real quick with the penal codes. It also allows us, obviously, if somebody commits any other type of penal code, we can act on that as well. Those are the two most common ones. City Council meetings. As you can see, we have an officer in the back of the room that is a sergeant at arms. I am also present and we usually have another assistant chief or manager in the room as well. There is also nothing that prohibits us from having extra officers or extra security here for any time the council wants extra security here. And then we have other security measures that are in place within the building and within the this room. Next slide. Cities in LA County, the ones that we know for sure, Pasadena, Culver City and Beverly Hills, they do utilize metal detectors and private security to search people when they come into the city council chambers. Almost every other city in LA County operates just like us. They'll have it armed, sergeant and arms from the police department, and then the chief will attend the meetings. Next slide. Last slide. Recommendations. Always be aware of your surroundings and exit. If you see something, say something, which has always been a motto all the way around the city of Alhambra, but especially here in the building, especially where there are public officials, if you see something out of place, bags or anything of that nature, just let us know. You can notify the sergeant arms, you can notify myself and we'll go check it out. And the last is in the event of an emergency something we teach when we go to different buildings, different schools around the city is the run-hide fight which is pretty much a standard for any type of emergency active shooter scenario. The idea is that although the possibility of any type of violent act happening in here or anywhere else in this city, it's good to have a plan before that occurs. Most people will freeze up, but our advice is to know ahead of time, even though it's very low low to have the plan to run if you can which we have 5 exits just in this room there's four stairwells down once you get outside so And then obviously hide if you can't do anything if you can't get out of the building and last have mentality that if you have to fight, it's the last option, but everybody has an in-em to fight to survive. And as the end of my brief presentation, if Council has any questions, I'm available. We have two speaker cards for this item. Are there any more? Not at this time, Madam Mayor. Okay. The first speaker is FD? Wow, we're trying to weaponize our meetings here all of a sudden. What is this current safety procedure under the crimes against the public peace? It's no crime to use profanity or vulgarity or venomous speech to speak out against elected officials in their capacity. Matter of fact, sometimes even the police hear it from the public, in which many of the police officers use violence to suppress people from calling them these malicious names that they don't want to hear because they're police officers. So they peacefully beat the shit out of you while you're handcuffed and tell you you're not going to say that about me. You're not going to do that to me. But constitutionally you have a right of due process. And if police are going to engage in behavior that is disruptive in order to serve and protect, then they are just as bad as any criminal. And we've been hearing that lately in the news, where officers engage and under the color of law to harm persons. Let's take for example people who are disabled, people with mental health, you know, other situation. And then you engage in an unlawful act to bring violence and harm under title 11 of your penal code 403 simply because you believed they were a threat. Well you can't just believe they're a threat or they are threat. When you read the case law of Bragg-Desirean versus the United States in Pasadena that specifically states that the person said, I'd shoot the nigger president to that effect. Now, was he acting upon it? No, did he act on it? No. So while the police went to his home in Pasadena and arrested him, did they engage in violence with him? No. He was arrested. He went before the courts and the courts released him on the idea that the arrest was wrong and it was determined that the gentleman was just simply speaking out of his first amendment free speech. Now you can read this bagdo in case versus the United States. It's very interesting. And so going back to this 1991, 944, F2D, 583 and 586 action to want to search people's belongings. That search should come also with employees in Alhambra because we just don't know if an employee is disgruntled. We don't know if an employee is mad at the world or having a post traumatic day and decides to say fuck work. I'm gonna set the example of it. We just don't know. So we can't assume or presume that we're gonna search everyone unless it's you Unifiably Asserts with everyone Then it becomes a legal search to see whether or not a person's it Let's let's let's go to a scenario where I was in the city of Los Angeles some years ago and this little Jack as Jew named Mitchell Englander decided to say that I was carrying a weapon to sit in the hole after I went through their personal check-in counter they looked through my bags they looked at me I went through the metal detector I go up to a public safety hearing and guess what That motherfucker told LAPD to take me out of the meeting and search me and I said for what reason? First, give me the reason and I'll allow you to search me, but you're not going to put your hands on me. They just so happened. There was someone from an Agus Advocacy group who stepped in and basically told them he's not a threat. He's unaware of what he has on his clothing and basically they found a small little exact own knife as some people will call him. You know you box cutter and I said so what's the big deal here over this little box cutter you sent eight officers and surround me in the hallway as I'm a criminal and threaten to kick my ass if I don't show them what I had. I didn't even know. And this is from my point of view of what happened that day. And then I was released. And that was it. And then the media, again, weaponized by making a story that I was caught what the weapon at City Hall fucked them. Our next speaker for this item is Mistress transgender. Thank you. For the third time, Meetree Transgender Queen. Thank you. Well, I already know your attitude towards me already. Thank you. You made that very clear. Talking about a council chamber of safety, I have several advice and the comments, because first of all, this item is funny enough for me to come here to speak. Maybe in order to improve our council safety, maybe we should give all the Ahambra cops their machine gun, and then maybe we can give them tanks, helicopters, nuclear weapons, transnational missiles. Let's call the Sheriff Department for backup. Let's call the California Highway Patrol National Guard. Let's call the FBI, CIA, NSA, you know, whatever, all of those three-letter agencies. Let's call the SW CIA, NSA, whatever, all of those three letter agencies. Let's call the SWAT team. Let's have every single four department personnel already standing by in this city console chamber. And then I hopefully, if we do all of those, hopefully that will make every single one of you feel safe. So that is my first advice. But like I mentioned, I said, it feels really, really funny and ridiculous to talk about this agenda is because I want to ask our council member that when you don't feel safe, you have to, you can just call the police chief, give you a presentation at any time you want. But when the citizens of Ahamra, when they don't feel safe, I want to ask you, do they have the similar treatment of what you get? How many times that Ahamra residents waiting on the bus stop, they were getting assaulted, they were getting sped on, they were getting shoved to the ground. That's just a several example that I witnessed. Those are so many examples that I haven't witnessed. How many residents lost their bicycle, motorcycle, called the Ahembra Police and then there's no follow- up. And how many taco, taco vendor, burrito truck vendor that when they were getting assaulted and then they called the police, there's no follow up other than the police report. So that's exactly why I feel it is so funny that when you feel not safe, you know, you You can just dial police chief, you know, midnight 12 a.m. and he will be here and give you a presentation. But when the residents of Ahamberat do not feel safe, they keep calling 911, they keep reporting the crime and then because of whatever political reason, there's nothing can be done. Not only I witnessed, I actually received several punches waiting for the bus stop in the Ahamra bus stop. The reason why I didn't do anything is because the Sergeant LAPD Sergeant Duarte told me, you better run because if you fight back, you are giving city of Ahamra a chance to charge you as mutual battery. I can take him down but I decide to run because knowing the city council or knowing the police chief will have something called mutual battery charged on me. So I will you know what I take a punch I leave I run away. So in overall in summary I want to make sure that when you do not feel safe, you call the police chief. Police chief is your personal security. But when the residents of Ahembra do not feel safe, when they call the Ahembra police, they are not getting 10% 1% of the attention that you are getting from the police chief. And then as a city council member, you consider that's okay. You consider that's a quality of life. You consider that's fair. Now, if you believe that's fair, ignore my comments. Do we have any speakers via Zoom that wish to speak on this item? Madam Mayor, there aren't any raised hands on Zoom at this time. Okay, does the council have any comments or questions for staff on this item? I do want to thank Chief Kennedy and PD for the presentation today and for being here. I got this briefing and in other conversations that we've had. I at least for myself, I just want to say that I do feel secure in these chambers in City Hall. There are always going to be measures that we can take to make ourselves safer or have something be more secure. I don't know that we're ever gonna be get to a point in a facility like this that is open to the public for business during the day, open to the public for people coming into council meetings. I don't know that we'll get to a point where we can make it 100% safe in a manner that balances all the different interests. I'm speaking, of course, for myself. I know that we have certain protections in place here. We have personnel that are here and I know that our team does a very good job of being aware of any potential threats and at least as far as I'm concerned, I do feel comfortable. I'm always open to ideas about how to improve safety and to make our situation more secure, but I do think for the most part, Alhambra is a safe community and I've never felt particularly written physically in these chambers or in my over eight years now being on the council. So I think that's a testament to the community that we live in, our law enforcement and the tone that we set here in these chambers. So I appreciate it. I don't, I mean I'm comfortable with the situation now but I'm of course open to any other ideas that are Creative and take a kind of a holistic balanced approach to the issue. Thanks I'm just a quick thank you to the chief and Police staffs welfare putting this together. I feel you know kind of reiterate everything that councilman Melloni said. I feel safe. Never have I felt in jeopardy at any point in time in my six years now, almost seven years on the council. And just look forward to continuing any ideas moving forward, with security as technology, maybe improves, increases, what not. But at this point, I think there's no need to really make any changes to what we currently have. So thank you. Yes, thank you, Chief. Thank you for all the presentations you've done this year and last year. I'm thank you for doing this for the council. I appreciate it. I too understand that as elected officials, people have a right to say what they want to say to us. And at some times it can get pretty brutal and it can be very negative and it's hard not to take things personal but it's sort of goes with the job and there are no excuses for violence and there are no excuses for breaching that spot right there, that thing, that what do we call that? Breaching that wall, that to me would give me an indication that there's somebody who is out of control. I feel safe having you guys here and I feel safe with you on the street. So thank you very much. Thank you, Count. My colleagues, I was an educator. I felt safe in school until common bycumps when children were killed. And so I think feeling safe as a relative word, I've been feeling saving this chamber as well. But I'm looking at the public who's been coming here every single time we have students sitting here. We have everyone from the neighborhood sitting here making comments. It is not a reactive measure that I took. I asked for a presentation on chamber safety is because I am concerned about possible future incidents. We haven't had any incidents as far as I know ever since I was elected. But coming from a background, Alhamdulillah, after the Columbine incident, after the Sennihook incident, after children were killed, they fell safe. The parents fell safe. So Cheeling's safe is just an emotion. I don't operate on emotion in this situation. Operate on logical solutions. Operate on caution. We have people walking around with weapons in their backpack, in their purse. This country has too many, too many weapons out there, there are not supposed to be there. So do I feel 100% safe for the future? I make no promises. I'm only taking the responsible role of making sure that we have a discussion about chamber safety first. And then move forward. I can guarantee safety for anyone here. But I feel safe for now because my experience here. So, but as a teacher, I tell you, after the campus shooting occurred, The U.S.E in lockdown position. After a bell ring, all the gates were closed. We have the practice sheltering place. We have our students that were locked in the class from practicing if there's a shooter outside the hallway. And I think it's still going on. So if you have not experienced that from your children, your children will tell you that they go through that. And I spend too much time talking to my student, making sure they feel okay, that this is just a practice. So I have no problem asking for presentation on chamber safety and also I have no problem asking for or metal detectors getting a quote on metal detectors because these asking for presentation on chamber safety and also have no problem asking for metal detectors. Getting a quote on metal detectors because these doors are wide open and I I wanted to be responsible for your safety here who are sitting here tonight. So feeling safe as emotion, and emotion can change anytime. It's not a reaction to anyone who spoke harshly or use language or noxibles to me, it's basically about my experience as an educator. I'll just share with you how years ago there was an incident in Chinatown, there's a church, a pastor was killed, and he was only 45 years old. He left this world with his mother and children behind. A person went to the service that morning at a gun and it was retaliatory against the pastor and deacons. It was very fortunate that the office police officer decided to go to service on Sunday morning. It wasn't supposed to go by. He went anyway, but he had a gun with him. And he was able to shoot at the shooter in time. So that unfortunately, the pastor was killed, but everyone's else alive was spared. So we don't, we should not live in this fantasy world that everything is saved. We know it's not saved, but we feel safe until something happens. So I want to make sure that you understand where I'm coming from. And I would like to see if the council is willing to look at a quote for melody, for the four front doors downstairs. And that way that we don't need the police officer monitor as much. We have officers here who are protecting the public, but with the technology that we can also cut down on the risk of someone bringing a going here. I have a question for our city manager. Did you recently quote or does somebody recently quote how much it would actually cost us to do that? To provide the detectors in our city or in our chambers? Yes, the police department did cost that. So maybe we can just give that information to the mayor so that she sees that you already did the work, the leg work on what the cost would be. If that's okay with the mayor. Sure. Yes, thank you. Would that be okay with my colleagues? I just could get a quote and we could look at that another another time This item is the information will be poor for the state council so no at no vote is required The next item the agenda this evening is a consent agenda item numbers 6 through 14 Do we have any speaker cars from the public or for any of the unsconcented agenda items? I yes Madam Mayor We do we have a speaker cards for items number 9, 10 and 11. Madam Mayor, can I move the rest of the items? Second. Madam Mayor, I do have, I want to pull one item to make a comment. Which item? Item number seven. Number seven. Mayor, I have a just a question on item number ten, but it was already pulled by the community. So no question on number ten anymore. You have a question on number ten? Yes, but we have to wait for the community to speak first, so I will wait for that. Why do I just have to public speak first? Sounds good. Because you made a motion to- Did- I don't know where that leaves the motion but I'll amend it to also include it. 7, 8, 9, 10, then. 7 and 10. There were speaker cards on items 9, 10 and 11 and Councilmember Wang wanted to pull item number 7. So if there's anything left over, I'll move that. And I second that. Okay. Roll call please. Wang. Yes. Maza. Yes. Maloney. Yes. Andraidee Sadler. Yes. Lee. Yes. There's a speaker for item number 9 FD. What? You can also speak on 910-11 all at the same time while you're up there. Sure. Looking at this pocket park, you know, I think the public has enough areas to take their doggies for doggie walks. I think this city should save the money to invest it in housing for veterans and for homeless people to get them off the fucking streets. That would be in the interest of parks developing these ideas of doggy parks. Woof, woof, woof! Then we look at item number 10, street furniture upgrades under ADA compliance. You know, I followed an ADA compliance against the city of Los Angeles back in 2012. I went through several bureaus, agencies to finally come to a conclusion that they were trying to fuck me under my order and demands for compliance. And many of you have driven through that area of a Soto-Morangal known as the Soto-Coridor in which there are no ramps or curb cuts for non-disabled and the disabled population. And the action of the local government under their ADA on disability resort was that, oh, that's not our property. Then I go through Metro, which is the county board of supervisors and officials of the City of Los Angeles, the same bullshit line. It's not ours. And then I went back to Caldran's and Caldran says it's possibly ours. They did two surveys that cost the taxpayers of California over one million dollars. Two fucking surveys for curbs and ramp cuts off those bridges over there and then the son of a bitch is prolonged it not fast forward it here we are today and there are no curbs or ramp cuts there there's a county USC hospital there there's a doheny center there there's a park there for your doggies. Woof, woof, woof, woof, which I brought the Federal Highway Administration and cost the city over a million dollars to make that park ADA compliance to provide handicap access and path of travel to that park and to the play area for children. Isn't that nice of me? Wasn't that nice of me? Because no other asshole decided to make those decisions. And then I got a family by the Moreno family versus the city of Los Angeles, one million dollars that the federal highway demanded that the city of Los Angeles was responsible for the irritation, the damages, emotional damages that they accused the family, the Marrano family, a husband and wife that their land was falling into the sidewalk, into the bus area, and into the street on the soda corridor. Ain't that a bitch? And that's the reason I'm here bitching about ADA. Is that no one gives a rat fucking ass about people's compliance and demands. Because we have a system that allows government, local government under Section 504, the ADA title 2 and 3 to discriminate to this fucking day to provide access. Take some responsibility, get some balls and move your machines and build what the demand is asking of you. And then we go to item 11. Again, enhanced public safety. You heard the mayor. She wants to spend $100,000 on public safety after you heard Jeff say that I've been here in eight years and there hasn't been a problem. Other than this gentleman standing at the podium raises some very sharp attacks against us using what the First Amendment as a tool. And that tool works because I'm proving it by case law, not by me being upset, not me being angry at anyone personally, but I raised my voice to draw attention to my point because it's very important. I believe in the American dream. I believe in Donald Trump. I believe that Donald Trump is making America better. For not just some of us, but for the majority of us, who lost that goal of attention from government, which is at the local level. You steal, you create corruption, and you scheme us out of millions, if not not billions and dollars to provide us an infrastructure that works And is constitutionally protected For our rights under civil matters to sue government that fuck up The same way tonight. I'm putting on record. I plan to sue the city of Los Angeles for that fucking corridor For those fucking curbs for those bitch ramps that I demanded since 2012 and now we're in 2025 And I'm gonna take an action because I believe I Can do it. I believe I made the city of downie spend $21 million to provide access, ramps, and curbs in their city and provide an ADA coordinator to facilitate the $21 million that they, the scumbags of Downey, the mayor, the former fat bitch, from Metta, accuse me of making them to spend millions if not billions of dollars that take into a new part of their pie. A percentage to make it possible that every individual who suffers and has a family member with a suffering, I call it a suffering, or by chance like myself, have a disability and have to find out through years and through ways that the government continues to discriminate, local government. And that's the reason why the Federal Highway Administration took my complaint series. They investigated that The KEL does not have responsibility, it was fucking bridges on the corridor. No, it's the city of Los Angeles because of their arrogance. Their arrogance to deny us because they created a law under Woolen's versus Los Angeles in which they got some individuals and wheelchairs to testify that the city's department disability is doing a good job when they're not. The goddamn fucking sidewalks need to be fixed. I'll give you the address. 313 North Figaroa Street. 313 North Figur, take a drive by the Seattle's fight histories have uplifted the sidewalk in front of the health department. And what is that goddamn bitch that was aboard a supervisor doing about it? It's in her district. So you reminder, when God hates the Pope and priest rate boys, you're all going to hell. Thank you. The next speaker is Mr. Transgender. Good morning. For the first time is Mr. Transgender Queen. Thank you for ignoring my name. Thank you very much. So for number 10 is about the citywide bus stop. Well, I think our council member can continue to look at your phone. Don't have to listen. Don't worry about it. So I heard our council member talk about they feel safe. I think council member Steadler say that she feel very safe. So on item number 10, you feel safe. I encourage you that do not call your police chief. Take a bus, 78 running on last two nights in Main Street at 10 p.m. Or sometimes when I finish work, I go home. Do not call your police chief with you. Just take a walk, go to 7-Eleven at 9 p.m. because I have no food at home. Take a walk by yourself, or sometimes 9-30 p.m. take a run, take a walk in the Aman-Sah Park because so-called you say that you feel so safe. And then you will find out very, very soon without your police chief with you. Now another big concern about the bus stop improvement is about the shade and then I again I don't I couldn't believe that we never talk about this issue before since I have been here for more than 700 years already. Every Every during the summer, it's especially, especially hard to take the bus because in the city of Ahamra in the summer, it could be sometimes as high as 110 degree. But for example, I have hundreds of examples, but I just give you one example, Valley and Atlantic on that intersection. And you one way there's a bus stop There's a shade right there and then you see the other way. There's nothing and then on the valley one way There's a shade and then the other way bus stop there's no shade. So for me, I am barely surviving You know under the 110 degree heat the summer. I barely survived, but I want to make sure I ask our council member, can you be mindful if we have 70 years old senior, don't have transportation, don't have a son, don't have a daughter to drive them, or maybe let's just say have the previous speaker mentioned about the ADA wheelchair maybe another wheelchair they don't have a car they don't have a family member who is willing to drive them the wheelchair has to wait in the sun you know for I don't know sometimes maybe you will never believe me but one hour the bus does not show up even though you will never believe it So I barely, barely survive in the sun. But I don't know how they do 70, 80 years old they survive. I don't know. But we are missing not one, not two. We are missing hundreds of of the shade in those past. And sometimes we do have a shade in the in the in the in the in the past stop and then the size of the shade they are capable of accompanying two people sitting on the shade and then you will see two people sitting on the shade waiting for the bus The other six people line up, you know waiting in the sun and then sometimes, you know I'm hiding you know under the chase bank or sometimes I'm under hiding nearby a business owner just to waiting for the bus, the business owner will come here. Hey, excuse me, you cannot stand right there, I'll call the police. Excuse me, you cannot leave, move, move. So sometimes it's really, really difficult. But again, all of you being here, 10 years, 20 years, 100 years, it's really know, I am the first one to report this issue. It's really sad that you guys have no information, have no prior knowledge about this issue. Now, going back, now, talk about the safety since our council member settlers said, she feels so safe. In the future, I wish that when the Metro bus they pull up in the city of Ahambra, you know, we can have, you know, fast 911, you know, call system that Ahambra please, they should arrive. Let's just say within three minutes or maybe within five minutes, because what I have experienced that I experienced on the bus line 78, which which runs on Main Street, is that the bus driver pulled over, they called 911, we were waiting, while we were waiting for the police to arrive, the suspect took off, and then the bus driver will not continue to wait for the police, they will drive off, drive by. So if we continue this model of public safety, you will never catch any violent offender. You will never catch any criminals who are doing those violent assault on the bus. And then thank you for all the council member who continue to play on your cell phone. Thank you very much for your cell phone. Mayor Wood number was that I'm confused. That was item number 10 and previous speaker was speaking on 1019 11. So are they done with 910 11? Okay are no more cards. Okay. Thank you. Mayor, may I say something just for the public on Zoom and for a recorded. Our seniors have the option to use senior ride if they do not have, if they do not have someone who is able to take them like a son or a daughter. We also have senior ride and we have act bus for only a quarter and we're reviewing how to provide more public transportation that is just in the city. So I'm sorry that our resident left and did not hear that, but we do care about our seniors who need assistance. Thank you very much. Councillor Member Wang, did you want to speak to number 7? Yes, thank you. Thank you. And thanks to my colleague, Council Member Andrade's dollar for that clarification, that's very helpful. I wanted to make a comment on item number seven. This is a resolution to adjust the campaign contribution limit per our city charter requirement. So right now our campaign contribution limit is capped at 280 and this item is to increase the $200, $300. And now in 2020, our hamburger voters pass measure V, it's a ballot measure to set a very strict campaign contribution cap of $250 per person or business, per election cycle. To account for inflation, this measure allows for periodic adjustments. That's why this item is right here before us. I'd like to just take this opportunity to share some facts with everybody and be very clear and clarify all the rumors and misinformation that's out there. So what this measure means for us for our hand-brusted council elections is that no individual, no business, no corporation can give more than $300 to any candidate in any election. That's it. It ensures our local elections remain fair and community driven. And since 2020, every single candidate in every single Alhambra City Council race has had to follow this rule. There's no exceptions. So if you hear that there's corporate money influencing Alhambra elections, that's just misinformation. At this limit, no single donation is large enough to buy influence. If you see varying scale of fundraising elections, that's just a varying scale of grassroots support, not special interest. I just want to clarify this for the public. I'm really proud that we have this measure in place, and that is thanks to the people of L. Humber who voted to keep our elections accountable. Thank you. Mayor. this measure in place and that is thanks to the people of El Hanber of who voted to keep our elections accountable. Thank you. I just follow up on that. Thank you Council Member. I didn't realize there was kind of a larger discussion about that going on out there and just to reiterate, I agree with everything you said and in the measure itself it actually prohibits contributions from any entity person corporation developer anyone who has business pending before the city. El superhibits contributions from anyone who is a vendor of the city of El Humber, and I believe the other category is any political action committees too. So it really does go farther than a lot of other cities with campaign finance measures in place to ensure that its individuals who have no pending interest before the city and not developers or corporate interests that would have tried to have undue influence on the city or the election. So I agree it might seem like a small dollar route when you're actually running for office, but it is it is there for a reason and the voters of the city adopted it. And I think everyone here supported it at the time and now. So thanks for that clarification. I remember when a measure be was on the ballot and with the pass by the voter, I endorsed it. The focus was to make sure that personally I was wanted to make sure that we remove money from election in this city. There are many qualified candidates in the city who decide not to run for the office because it simply was too expensive when we had a large election. That happened to me in 2018, my first election was at large. Each candidate had to communicate to fight districts in the city, which thousands of voters, and it was very expensive. The mailers, the postage became even more expensive recently. So I could easily spend $20,000 in the at large election, if not more. And there's no guarantee that the voters will receive all the mailers. Each mailer at that time was about $6,000 each time. That was expensive. And I just, personal want to make sure that in the future, when measure being passed and with the campaign contribution limited to a really modest amount that we will be able to bring out more candidates who's hard with the city, but they're not influenced by money, they're not influenced by developers or other people who are for profit in the city. And so I am very proud that we have measure of e and we're very proud that we have this kind of campaign country contribution cap in the city. And there are no more comments from the council. I need a motion to move the rest of the consent agenda. I have still a question on item number nine and item number 10. The question is on item number nine. Is that pocket park in fact in the midwick track? I'd have to check that for you. Then I'm going to pull that one because I really wanted to see it, at least mention Fremont and not Midwick. If it's not in the Midwick track, it's on Fremont. And the rest of them would be fine. Thank you for that. And number 10, thank you. Thank you for moving on this. We appreciate the staff working very hard to get this on the RFP out and the improvements that will be done at the bus stops. But I have one question. A couple of months ago, our Congresswoman member, Judy Chu, came and brought us a check or some sort of a check both councilman Maloney and I greeted her at the corner of Fremont and Valley Boulevard. Those were federal funds and so I want to know if those federal funds are still restricted or if they're still going to go for that particular area. That area is probably the closest to, maybe the second closest to Los Angeles. So that bus line runs all the time into LA and then comes back out here. And it has no shelter. So it would, it's important for me to see whether those improvements, we have money for those improvements on that site. Otherwise, I would ask us to really take a look at where some of the other sites are. I hate to take away from somebody else, but that is a critical site. I think Mr. Maloney was, Councilman Meloney was probably shocked and surprised at the site. It being so busy we could barely speak. So I'm just wondering whether that money is still with us. We have every reason to believe that our funding is secure for the entirety of this project. Do you have an idea when that would get started? So this is the notice inviting bids after the bids are open on April 13th. The staff will evaluate the bids and then we will bring them back for an award of contract to the council. It looks like possibly at some point in late probably not late April, but probably in May. Great. And then we'll be asking the contractor for a date for the project construction. So the Fremont and Valley is included in this particular. All bus stops that have the availability for a shade cover and a bench replacement are included in this project. So thank you so much for that clarification. Thank you, Mayor. Okay, I still need a motion to move the rest of the agenda. Can Sena agenda? Move to approve. Second. Roll call, please. On Dredi Stadler. Yes. Maloney. Yes. Mazza. Yes. Wang. Yes. Lee. Yes. Yes. Wang. Yes. Lee. Yes. Next, we have the continuation of public comment for non-genreized items. Do we have any speakers that we're not able to speak at the beginning of the meeting? Madam Mayor, we do not have any speaker cards at this time. And do we have any speakers that you zoomed out wish to speak? There are no raised hands on zoom at this time. Thank you. Next we have council communications. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you so much. I want to thank staff too. This was a good meeting. As tough as it was, we appreciate all the work that is be done and we don't always recognize it by pulling the item. So we see you. If the council will indulge me just for supporting a request to staff to contact the Los Angeles Countyrant Affairs and get the list that Commissioner Jacoby was alluded to. Just so we can review and have a discuss if it supports our families and whether it fits under Senate Bill 54. It doesn't work against it or we know that Senate Bill 54, which the Council reaffirmed last year, limits the cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration agencies. I can't say enough that it's imperative that all our residents feel safe when reporting a crime and I believe they can do that today. Thank you. Thank you Madam Mayor. I just want to give a couple of updates from extra city, extra curricular activities that we all do. We all sit on different boards and organizations. I just want to give a couple of quick updates on some that I'm involved with. In particular, the Clean Power Alliance is a community choice aggregated, community choice aggregation entity that exists to purchase power on behalf of its member agencies, which is I think at last count something like 33 or 34 cities and counties in Southern California, including the county of LA and the county of Ventura and a whole bunch of smaller cities, including Elambra. We were sort of the second round of cities to join CPA. And in 2023, this council decided that Elhamber would be a 100% renewable energy community. So by default, all of our residents and customers are on 100% renewable energy. When compared to the default carrier, Southern California Edison with the caveat that rates change often, and there's oftentimes wide fluctuations in the rates often multiple times a year, on average, clean power alliance, default rate has been cheaper than Southern California Edison and the 100% green rate. When we adopted it was actually just about on par with the Southern California Edison default rate, which was only about I think 36% renewable. So we were getting 100% renewable energy for the price of 36% from Edison. Of course, Edison still manages the bill payment and the administration and the power lines as we may be still freshen our minds. The difficulties associated with maintaining the infrastructure, but clean power lines doesn't do that. It does do long term power purchasing contracts. Just a couple of facts and figures that since it was initiated in 2018, 13.532 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions have been prevented by this entity existing and transferring customers onto renewable energy sources. That is the equivalent, apparently, of 101,280,225 trees being planted in this area. And we have become, I say we, I'm on the board of Clean Power Alliance and recently was selected to be a member of the executive committee and we are now the number one provider of renewable energy in the entire country. So that is within, you know, less than 10 years growing from basically a startup to the largest provider of renewable energy in the country. It's a pretty big feat and Elhammer is a big part of that. We're one of the largest cities in the CCA and I think our agreement to join initially and then our move to 100% green power was a big part of the success of this entity. I mean not to diminish everyone else that was involved because they were not quite as big as LA County, but you know maybe we're good. So I do want to report on that. What I would like to ask tonight is just that we that we the council and staff is okay with it that we invite a staff member from clean power lines to come and give a little presentation. When we have time on the agenda to kind of give more input and be able to answer more questions from Council better than I can. I've been on the board for several years now, and sometimes I'm at these meetings when we're discussing long term power contracts and this stuff is difficult. It's really tough to get a handle on even after all these years. So I would love to have one of their experts come and kind of lay it out for us, including all of the public programs that they do for cities, for individuals, all of the bill pay assistance, and the programs that are available to us here in Alhambra. So it's, I really enjoy these meetings as well as the Clean Power Alliance meetings. And I figure I just share a little bit and invite one of the staff members to come later. I'm also on the governing board or the board of directors for CalCities, formerly the League of California Cities, as a pointy of the API caucus. And we've been enjoying this last couple of meetings, my first couple of meetings on CalCities Board. And I just wanted to update my colleagues here and public and staff that the League of Cities did adopt its four legislative advocacy priorities this year. I'll just read them to you. There's a little bit more that you can find online, but the headlines are the top four, protect local revenues and expand economic development tools to strengthen climate change resiliency and disaster preparedness, to strengthen and modernize critical infrastructure, to secure investments to produce, to reduce and prevent homelessness and increase the supply of affordable housing. So I'm happy that the CalCities is working on issues that we talk about here all the time and our members of our public come and talk about all the time. So historically sometimes CalCities is, they're in different places than some of their member cities. But this last year I feel like we're really in line with a lot of the priorities for cities throughout the state, especially in light of the fires that we've had recently. A lot of these things are right on point. So I just want to give a quick snapshot of that. CalCities does a lot of stuff. They have lobbyists. We go and talk to legislators all the time. I think they had a nice conversation with our former colleague Sasha Perez. They also do the conferences and education. I think they had a nice conversation with our former colleague Sasha Perez. And they also do the conferences and educational workshops. So they do a whole lot of stuff and they just want to kind of give a plug for CalCities and what we've been doing. So that's it for me. Thank you. In the past two weeks we've gone through and did a bunch of series of our sustainability town hall meetings. So I wanted to thank our staff for your support in putting all this together. Thank our community partners for joining us. I want to thank my colleagues for hosting them at different times and different locations. I want to share with everybody what I heard, some of the feedback I heard from the community, that they were saying it was really nice to see the city putting efforts to do these town halls at different locations of the city. I know some of them happened here at the library. some of them were on Zoom, so there's virtual. And then I had a grown-out of park and so folks felt that the city is really making an effort to outreach to our community. And they're seeing different locations, different times trying to accommodate everybody in person and virtual. So it was very well received and I think we got a lot a really good feedback from our community and we're very excited to see as we move forward in this process these feedback being incorporated into our plan. So that's on sustainability town hall and I'm hosting a neighborhood watch meeting going out of park on March 16th. I just wanted to put it out there that, you know, it's, I'd like to have more of these neighborhood watch meetings in our community, gather the just wanted to put it out there that, you know, it's a, I'd like to have more of these neighborhood watch meetings in our community, gather the folks together and just share some of the things going on and listen to folks and as they, you know, share concerns with us, so just wanted to share with everybody. I'm having those meetings. Feel free to join us. That's all, thank you. I'm gonna go ahead and make the following announcements. The Green Street Demonstration Project on Main Street will transform our hamburger area environment. Say goodbye to Stonewater runoff and hello to beautiful plant-based filtration and drainage systems. The project is kicking off the environmental face with a community meeting this Thursday, March 13th, at Alhambra Library from 5.30 to 7.30 pm. Enjoy free refreshments, a presentation at 6.30 pm, and stick around for price drawings. The environmental documents will also be available for review online and at city haul through April 6th. Help us create a more resilient Alhmer by participating in the Hazard Mitigation Plan process. Share your input through our survey, available English Spanish and Chinese ad, cdavlhumber.org Hazard slash Hazard Mit mitigation. And those are the two announcements I have for the city council and the public. I do want to at this point bring to the council an item to be considered for the next of falling meeting agenda to disagree in regards to our opening statements that we have right now before our meeting, public meeting officially starts. Currently we have the land acknowledgement and looking at our mission statement, which in the last part says that we should, that This city of Ahamambra is being sensitive to the diversity of our community. And right now our opening statement, which only includes the two people groups, and which is lacking the sensitivity to the diversity of our community. I like the council at this point to consider putting this item on the future agenda to consider to make our opening statement to be more inclusive and that really reflects our mission statement which is to show sensitivity to the diversity of our community, which is many people groups, many ethnic groups. So I do need five yes to put this on the agenda to discuss our opening statement. Mayor, is this in lieu of what was there? What is there currently, meaning the, what is it that you referred to? Is it in place of some other thing that we do? At one point there was no opening statement before the meeting starts. Then the landing acknowledgement was added to it. So I think it went on for about two years, three, three mayors or four mayors. Looking at our mission which is stated at the beginning of our agenda, the last sentence says being sensitive to the diversity of our community. I like to make sure that the council take a look at our opening statement right now, which is only land acknowledgement and only recognizes the contribution of two people groups, the Tonga and Gabrilyna, I wanted the council to consider making it so that it should be reflected, truly reflects our mission statement, which is the diversity of all of our community needs to be. Reflecting the question. I understand and I agree that our wonderful city is diverse, but these are the first peoples of the land. And I think that was, and in fact, we probably need to include like a quiche and a couple of other Indian tribes, but the Indian tribes were here first on these lands. So, I don't support that. Yeah, okay. So not in just a reminder that you're okay to just agree or not agree with this on the agenda, but let's not get into a discussion or debate if we can avoid it. Thank you, Joseph. So again, if I just want to reiterate the fact that our mission statement which is posted, which is printed on our agenda every single meeting. And I, if you read it carefully, it says we need to be sensitive to the diversity of our community. This, this community, which is, you could call City Allhambera or San Gabriel Valley, whatever, how big the community you can serve this to be. There are many ethnic groups, there are many people groups who live here. So what we have right now is just a land acknowledgement, which I do know understands it very important that we recognize whoever that we live here before. But I would like that the council consider to expand that, to be complete inclusive, whatever language that we are going to use, it needs to reflect our mission statement. What is the point of having our mission statement saying that we need to be sensitive to our community, our diversity of community, and yet not really practicing it? We'll be saying the land acknowledgement for two years, three, three, four mayors, and I hesitant to continue that. And I do say the land room, which is a fact, I have no problem with that, but I am very uncomfortable with not being inclusive and not being sensitive to our diversity or culture of our community. So I'm asking the council tonight to look at our opening statement right now and expand that to really truly reflect our mission statement. Or this submission statement is really not really a value one because the council is not willing to really implement it in practice. The wording discussion of the topic, I can't support the idea of reopening the land acknowledgement, but I would suggest that perhaps we also read the mission statement when we do this. And if, you know, with all due respect, mayor, if you're uncomfortable reading the land acknowledgement, I'd be happy to do it as vice mayor. But I don't support the suggestion. Quick question. If it sounded like, Mayor Lee wants to maybe just make some minor tweaks to the land knowledge. And is that mayor's discretion if there's just a maybe something that she wants to add to this land knowledge? So the land acknowledgement, the council agreed that would appear on all future agendas. Whether a mayor reads that land acknowledgement out, reads some portion of it, reads some portion of it and more, that's really up to the mayor and the mayor's discretion. And I agree as well, I think the land acknowledgement fits down on the zone. So I wouldn't support that. However, what I would support is the idea of maybe having whoever's mayor moment read the mission statement, the city's mission statement on its own. So two separate statements but leaving the line of acknowledge as is. Thank you so Mr. Cicil, the attorney is that then that I found our free speech that the mayor can read or say whatever it is at this point. You are opening the meeting and you can make your opening comment open the meeting. Okay then I'm fine with that. It's at the mayor's discretion. We have now completed all the items on this evening's agenda. Our next regular meeting will be on Monday, March 24. The meeting is now adjourned. Thank you. I'm going to make a little bit of a little bit of the dough. I'm going to make a little bit of the dough. I'm going to make a little bit of the dough. I'm going to make a little bit of the dough. 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