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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE THIS EVENING, AND THOSE OF YOU WATCHING FROM HOME, THANK YOU ALSO FOR BEING ENGAGED IN OUR CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY HERE IN RANCHO CUCAMONGA.I NOW CALL THIS APRIL 17TH, REGULAR FIRE BOARD MEETING, CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO ORDER.
MAYOR MICHAEL MICHAEL IS EXCUSED THIS EVENING, SO I WILL BE PRESIDING.
I'VE ASKED COUNCIL MEMBER HUTCHISON, WOULD YOU PLEASE LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE? OF COURSE.
PUT YOUR RIGHT HAND OVER YOUR HEART.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE LAW.
[REGULAR MEETING – 7:00 P.M. COUNCIL CHAMBERS]
[PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL: Mayor Michael Mayor Pro Tem Kennedy Council Members Hutchison, Scott and Stickler]
MAYOR MICHAEL IS EXCUSED.PRESENT MEMBERS HUTCHISON PRESENT, SCOTT PRESENT AND STICKLER PRESENT.
MADAM CLERK, DO WE HAVE ANY AMENDMENTS TO OUR AGENDA THIS EVENING? THERE'S NO CHANGES TO THE AGENDA TONIGHT.
[A. AMENDMENTS TO THE AGENDA]
MUCH.WE HAVE NO PRESENTATIONS OR SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS, SO I WILL MOVE TO THE PUBLIC COMMENTS SECTION.
[B. ANNOUNCEMENTS / PRESENTATIONS - NONE.]
PLACE FOR ANY MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL[C. PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS]
ON ITEMS THAT ARE LISTED OR NOT LISTED ON THE AGENDA.COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON, AND OUR COMMENT SECTION WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HOUR PRIOR TO OUR MEETING.
WE HAVE EIGHT SPEAKERS THIS EVENING.
YOU'LL EACH HAVE THREE MINUTES.
THERE'S A LIGHT ON THE MICROPHONE AND THERE'S ALSO A TIMER THAT YOU CAN WATCH THAT WILL BE ON THE MONITOR.
OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS AARON KITTY, FOLLOWED BY ELLEN MILLER.
UH, MAY I TURN ON THE DOCUMENT CAMERA? YES.
UH, MY NAME IS AARON KE AND, UH, I'D LIKE TO HAVE A VIEW OF THE, UH, INTERSECTION OF OUR, THE CORNER OF TURQUOISE AND JEANETTE.
THAT'S THE, UH, ENTRANCE INTO THE, INTO THE CUCAMONGA CREEK ROYAL.
AND THIS IS A VIEW FROM THE RANCHO CUCAMONGA SIDE.
HERE'S A VIEW FROM THE UPLAND SIDE.
YOU NOTICE THAT THERE'S AN OPENING HERE AND, UH, OBSERVE THE SIX, UH, HOMES IN THE BACKGROUND.
AND THIS IS WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE ON THE, UH, RANCHO CUCAMONGA SIDE IS, UH, OPENING.
LET'S SEE, LAST MONTH THE MAYOR, UH, TOLD THE COUNCIL THAT THE, UH, CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA HAD OBTAINED A GRANT FROM SACRAMENTO TO PURCHASE, I DON'T KNOW, OVER A HUNDRED ACRES, UH, YOU KNOW, ADJACENT TO THE NATIONAL FOREST, WHICH IS CURRENTLY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
AND THEY WERE GOING TO USE THAT, YOU KNOW, TO ALLOW ACCESS BACK INTO THE NATIONAL FOREST.
NOW, I SHARED THIS, UH, THIS ARTICLE ON FACEBOOK AND RECEIVED OVER 200 LIKES, SO THE RESIDENTS DO APPROVE OF IT, BUT THERE WERE SOME NEGATIVE COMMENTS, UH, REFERRING TO THE REASON WHY IT WAS CLOSED IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU KNOW, VANDALISM AND JUST CRASHED.
SO, AND I'M HOPING THAT THE CITY HAS PLANS TO MITIGATE THOSE PROBLEMS. OH, THIS IS THE PATH THAT I HIKE, UH, YOU KNOW, EVERY MORNING WITH MY DOG.
AND, UH, IF YOU'RE GONNA ESTABLISH TRAIL HEADS INTO THE NATIONAL FOREST, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO HAVE THE ONE AT TURQUOISE, ONE ESTABLISHED AT TURQUOISE ENETTE.
YOU CAN TELL IT'S ABOUT TWO MILES TO THE NATIONAL FOREST.
ANOTHER USE FOR THE, UH, OPENING UP THE CUCAMONGA CREEK, UH, CHANNEL TRAIL IS, UH, IS FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE NORTHERN WESTERN ALOMA SIDE WHO ATTEND ALOMA HIGH SCHOOL.
THEY HAVE THEM ABLE TO RIDE A BICYCLE DOWN TO LOMA HIGH SCHOOL.
THEY'LL BE COMPLETELY ON A TRAIL ALL THE WAY TO BASELINE.
SO THAT WOULD BE A, YOU KNOW, THAT'D BE GOOD FOR THEM TOO.
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AND FINALLY, I CAME ACROSS THE, UH, TRIAL.I IMPLEMENT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, UH, APPROVED IN 1981.
AND ON PAGE 20 OF THAT PLAN, IT DOES SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, TURNO SHOULD BE OPEN, YOU KNOW, IT'S ACCESS TO THE TRAIL.
WE APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE THIS EVENING AND SHARING THAT INFORMATION.
IF YOU'D LIKE TO LEAVE IT WITH THE CLERK, THE CITY COUNCIL CAN CERTAINLY TAKE A LOOK AT THAT.
ELLEN MILLER, FOLLOWED BY HUSAM SULEMAN.
AND, UM, SO, UH, WE HAVE A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER EVERY YEAR.
AND, UH, WE'VE HAD IT FOR, ACTUALLY, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY YEARS IT'S BEEN RIGHT OUTSIDE HERE, UH, IN FRONT OF THE FOUNTAIN, BUT MANY YEARS.
AND A WOMAN NAMED JANET RAN IT.
AND SHE WAS A FRIEND OF YOURS.
ANYWAYS, UM, SHE, UH, ASKED ME TO STEP INTO HER POSITION.
SO, UM, SO THAT'S WHY I'M HERE.
I ACTUALLY TURNED IN A LETTER THAT JANET WROTE, UM, AND I TURNED THIS IN YESTERDAY.
I CAME HERE, AND THEN I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW WHAT? LET ME JUST COME BACK TONIGHT SO I COULD SEE WHO YOU GUYS ARE AND GET A VISUAL SO YOU CAN SEE WHO I AM.
I GREW UP IN ALOMA AND LIVED MOST OF MY, ALMOST ALL MY LIFE HERE.
AND THEN, UM, AND MY KIDS STILL LIVE HERE, AND MY CHURCH IS HERE.
I DID MOVE TO FONTANA, BUT THAT'S 'CAUSE YEARS AGO.
AND, UM, SO I THOUGHT I WOULD JUST READ THIS LETTER.
AND, UM, JUST TO REMIND YOU, I DIDN'T PERSONALLY WRITE IT THIS, JANET WROTE THIS FOR ME SO I COULD JUST KIND OF GET INITIATED IN A SMOOTHER, AND SHE SAYS, SHE LISTS ALL YOUR NAMES UP HERE AT THE TOP.
AND THIS IS HONORABLE LEADERSHIP.
NAY SHE'LL, NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER WAS ESTABLISHED BY AN ACT OF CONGRESS AS A DAY TO CALL THE ENTIRE NATION TO PRAYER.
THESE EVENTS HAVE BEEN HELD AS EARLY AS 1775 WITH THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.
IN 1863, ABRAHAM LINCOLN CALLED FOR SUCH A DAY.
THE NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER ANNUAL EVENT WAS ESTABLISHED BY A JOINT RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS IN 1952 AND SIGNED INTO LAW BY PRESIDENT TRUMAN.
THE LAW WAS AMENDED IN 1988 AND SIGNED BY PRESIDENT REAGAN TO BE THE FIRST THURSDAY OF MAY EACH YEAR.
NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER IS AN ANNUAL EVENT FOR AMERICANS OF ALL FAITHS TO TAKE TIME TO PRAY FOR OUR NATION AND ITS LEADERS.
NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER WILL BE HONORING ITS 73RD YEAR IN THIS YEAR, 2024, AND I'M ASKING THAT TO ME ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA ON THURSDAY, MAY 2ND, 2024, RIGHT OUTSIDE THE DOOR HERE BY THE FOUNTAIN.
I WILL INVITE RANCHES, UM, CHURCHES, AND, UM, FROM 5:00 PM TO 6:00 PM AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, MY NUMBERS ON THIS PAPER, SO HOPEFULLY IF YOU HAD ANY QUESTIONS, YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO MY PHONE NUMBER.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER, HUSAM SULEMAN, FOLLOWED BY SAMIA AL ALCOM.
GOOD EVENING MAYOR PRO TEM CITY COUNCIL, UH, CITY ATTORNEY AND CITY MANAGER.
UM, I'D LIKE TO REQUEST YOU GUYS TO DO SOMETHING FOR ME.
I'D LIKE YOU TO INTERACT WITH THE RESIDENTS OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA AND ASK THEM IF THEY WOULD BE OKAY WITH THE CRIMES OF GENOCIDE, THE CRIMES OF APARTHEID, ETHNIC CLEANSING, THE CRIMES OF KILLING AND TARGETING HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL STAFF.
THE CRIME OF TARGETING AND KILLING JOURNALISTS OF FORCED FAMINE UPON AN ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE TARGETING OF CHILDREN LITERALLY PLAYING IN A PLAYGROUND.
AND EVEN THE CRIME OF TARGETING AND KILLING INDIVIDUALS ARE TRYING TO GET FOOD, TRYING TO GET HUMANITARIAN AID THAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED TO THEM.
OF COURSE, ANY CITIZEN IN THE CITY WOULD NOT BE OKAY WITH SUCH CRIMES.
UM, YET THE CITY IS ACTIVELY MAKING THE DECISION TO INVEST ABOUT $4 MILLION IN TWO COMPANIES THAT MATERIALLY BENEFIT AND ARE COMPLICIT WITH THESE INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CRIMES.
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MYSELF AS WELL AS I WOULD ARGUE, ALL THE CITIZENS OF THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA WOULD URGE YOU GUYS TO DIVEST FROM THESE TWO COMPANIES, INTEL AND CATERPILLAR, THAT, AGAIN, ARE COMPLICIT WITH THOSE INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CRIMES.AND IT'S VERY SIMPLE TO DO SO.
UH, I HAVE PROVIDED IN THE PAST MEETINGS AMENDMENTS TO THE, UM, INVESTMENT POLICY AND OR A, A STANDALONE, UH, AMENDMENT THAT COULD BE PASSED, UH, TO DIVEST FROM THOSE COMPANIES THAT, AGAIN, ARE COMPLICIT.
AND, UH, IN DOING SO, IT WOULD, IT WOULD MAKE US THE CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT CITY NOT COMPLICIT WITH THOSE CRIMES LISTED ABOVE AS I DON'T WANNA BE COMPLICIT.
I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEM, NOR DO I WANT THE CITY AND OR ITS INVESTMENTS TO BE COMPLICIT WITH ANY OF THOSE, AGAIN, INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CRIMES AS HAD BEEN, HAS AS HAVE BEEN DEFINED BY THE UNITED NATIONS, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, AS WELL AS ANY INTERNATIONAL, UH, HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER, SAMIA ALCOM.
AND IF YOU CAN PRONOUNCE YOUR LAST NAME FOR ME, FOLLOWED BY URA RASHID.
THANKS FOR THE EFFORT IN PRONOUNCING MY NAME.
I DON'T THINK THAT LETTER, UH, EXISTS IN ENGLISH, BUT YOU CAN ATTEMPT.
UM, SO LIKE I SAID, MY NAME IS SAMIA.
I'VE BEEN LIVING IN RANCHO CUCAMONGA FOR ABOUT EIGHT YEARS NOW.
UM, I'M REALLY PROUD TO BE A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY, AND I'M ALSO REALLY PROUD TO BE A PART OF MY COMMUNITY IN TOR, WHICH IS THE SMALL VILLAGE THAT I'M FROM IN PALESTINE IN THE WEST BANK.
I CAME AND SPOKE TO YOU ABOUT A MONTH AGO, UM, REALLY URGING YOU TO STEP IN AND DIVEST $4 MILLION FROM COMPANIES THAT ARE COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE BECAUSE OF THE 30,000 PEOPLE IN ZA WHO'VE BEEN MURDERED.
BUT UNFORTUNATELY, I HAVE SOME MORE DEVELOPMENTS ABOUT MY HOMETOWN ITSELF, UM, THAT I WANNA SHARE WITH YOU.
SO MY SMALL VILLAGE TORMO, UM, MAJORITY OF THE RESIDENTS ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS, AND RECENTLY ISRAEL ANNOUNCED THAT ABOUT 15,000 SQUARE METERS OF THE LAND ALONG THE ENTRANCE OF OUR VILLAGE IS GOING TO BE STOLEN AND GIVEN TO THE LOCAL ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS.
THESE ARE, BY THE WAY, SETTLEMENTS THAT ARE ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW.
UNDER THE UN GUIDELINES, UM, 15,000 SQUARE METERS OF OUR LAND ARE GONNA BE GIVEN TO THE LOCAL ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS.
AND THAT LAND HAS HOMES ON IT.
IT HAS AGRICULTURAL LANDS, IT HAS OLIVE TREES THAT HAVE BEEN THERE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
AND THE TOOLS THAT ARE GOING TO BE USED TO TEAR DOWN THOSE HOMES, UM, YOU KNOW, PULL OUT THE OLIVE TREES FROM THEIR ROOTS ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE CATERPILLAR TOOLS, SPECIFICALLY CATERPILLAR EXCAVATORS.
EVERY SINGLE TIME THAT THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT HAS STOLEN LAND FROM PALESTINIANS, THEY HAVE USED CATERPILLAR EXCAVATORS.
AND FOR ME TO HAVE TO STAND BY AND WATCH LAND FROM MY VILLAGE BEING STOLEN, MY PARENTS OLIVE TREES THAT HAVE BEEN THERE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, THAT ARE PROBABLY THE ONLY THING THAT I'M MEANT TO INHERIT IN THIS LIFE, ARE THOSE OLIVE TREES AND THE OLIVES THAT COME FROM THEM.
AND THE OLIVE, UM, OIL THAT COMES FROM IT IS GOING TO BE, IT'S GONNA DISAPPEAR, UM, WITHIN A MATTER OF A FEW DAYS DUE TO THE INVESTMENTS OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA.
AND I KNOW THAT IT'S EASY FOR PEOPLE TO SIT HERE AND SAY, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M MEANT TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF THE CITY OF RANCHO.
UM, THIS, THIS IS AN INTEREST OF PEOPLE HERE.
IT IT'LL BE HEARTBREAKING FOR PEOPLE IN THE CITY TO WATCH MY VILLAGE BEING TORN APART DUE TO OUR INVESTMENTS.
UM, WE'VE ALSO SEEN CATERPILLAR EXCAVATORS TEAR DOWN THE HOUSES OF PALESTINIAN PRISONERS WHO HAVEN'T FULLY BEEN CONVICTED YET, SPECIFICALLY IN TOYA.
UM, WE'VE SEEN CATERPILLAR RESOURCES TEARING DOWN HOUSES IN RAZA AS AN ACT OF COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT.
IF ONE PERSON TRANSGRESSES THE LAWS OF ISRAEL, THEN THEIR ENTIRE HOUSE IS TORN APART BY CATERPILLAR.
AND THERE'S HUNDREDS OF THINGS THAT I COULD SAY ABOUT INTEL, BUT I REALLY DO URGE YOU TO THINK ABOUT THE INVESTMENTS OF THIS CITY AND THINK ABOUT WHETHER CONTINUING TO INVEST IN THESE COMPANIES REALLY, TRULY DOES.
YOU MEAN HAVE A MEAN, YOU HAVE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS? A AS US CITIZENS, IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT FOR US TO REMOVE OURSELVES FROM THE SITUATION BECAUSE I'M NOT GONNA BREAK THE LAW.
I'M NOT GOING TO STOP PAYING MY TAXES, BUT I WILL URGE YOU TO DISINVEST FROM THESE COMPANIES.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER, URA RASHID, FOLLOWED BY EF AB.
YOU'LL HAVE TO HELP ME WITH THE PRONUNCIATION WHEN YOU COME UP.
WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR NEXT SPEAKER, YUSEF.
AND IF YOU COULD PRONOUNCE YOUR LAST NAME, YUSEF.
NOT, NOT TOO FAR, ACTUALLY FROM SAME.
YES, IT'S AB SO ALSO THE LETTER IS NINE ENGLISH, BUT IF YOU WANNA TRY, IT'LL BE ABUM.
YEAH, THAT'LL BE YOUR CLOSEST SHOT.
WELL, GOOD AFTERNOON, UM, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
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JUST WANTED TO ALSO SPEAK ABOUT THE DIVESTMENT THAT WE WANT TO HAVE HAPPEN HERE IN THE CITY OF RANCH CUCAMONGA.UM, LIKE YOU GUYS KNOW, I'M NOT SURE IF YOU REMEMBER, BUT I HAVE, UH, CAME TO ONE OF THE PREVIOUS MEETINGS AND I SHARED MY STORY.
I'VE BEEN LIVING HERE FOR, I THINK, SEVEN YEARS.
I GRADUATED FROM RANCH CUCAMONGA HIGH SCHOOL.
UM, MET THE MAYOR A LOT AT RANCHO MEMBERS.
IT'S THE EVENT WHERE WE GET ALL THE VETERANS, UM, AT OUR SCHOOL BEFORE I GRADUATED.
AND JUST WANTED TO REALLY GO OVER LIKE, UM, WHAT IT WOULD MEAN TO THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY IF YOU GUYS CHOSE TO DIVEST.
SO, FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, CITY COUNCIL SHOULD BE LIKE REPRESENTING ITS PEOPLE TO THE UPPER GOVERNMENT.
AND THAT CAN BE IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS, WHETHER IT'S BY, UM, PASSING RESOLUTIONS OR JUST SIMPLY MAKING US FEEL LIKE OUR VOICES ARE BEING HEARD.
AND THE WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN GAZA FOR THE PAST SIX MONTHS IS REALLY HEARTBREAKING TO ALL OF US.
AND WE WANT TO FEEL LIKE OUR VOICES ARE BEING HEARD BY OUR CITY.
SO IF YOU CAN JUST PLEASE CONSIDER DIVESTING FROM JUST ONLY TWO COMPANIES THAT MAKE LESS THAN 1% OF YOUR GUYS' INVESTMENTS.
AND THESE COMPANIES ARE COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE, AND I'M SURE YOU GUYS DON'T WANNA BE, WANTS TO BE INVESTING IN COMPANIES THAT ARE COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE.
THERE HAS BEEN OVER 35,000 PEOPLE THAT ALREADY, MOST OF WHOM ARE CHILDREN, AND I HATE TO SAY THIS, BUT IF IT WAS YOUR GUYS' CHILDREN, YOU GUYS WOULD BE ATTEMPTING TO TRY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
PLEASE MAKE US FEEL LIKE OUR VOICES ARE BEING HEARD.
WE DON'T WANT OUR CITY TO BE COMPLICIT IN INVESTING INTO COMPANIES THAT DO SUPPORT GENOCIDE AND THAT HELP IT HAPPEN.
AND ALSO, IF YOU CAN PLEASE CONSIDER A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION.
I KNOW IT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP TO THE MAYOR LONG AGO AND HE SAID HE WOULDN'T CONSIDER IT BECAUSE IT'S NOT A LOCAL MATTER, BUT I WOULD DISAGREE.
I FEEL LIKE ANYTHING THAT AFFECTS THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY SHOULD BE A LOCAL MATTER.
'CAUSE THE CITY REPRESENTS OUR VOICES TO THE UPPER GOVERNMENT.
SO IF WE DON'T START IN OUR OWN CITIES, THEN WE'RE NEVER GONNA SEE A CHANGE.
AND GENOCIDE IS NOT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS EVERY OTHER DAY.
AND THANK YOU GUYS VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER, PHILLIP WALKER, FOLLOWED BY JOHNNY MAY GREEN.
HELLO, I'M PHILLIPE WALKER, UM, A UH, NEAR DECADE RESIDENT OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA AND A FULL-TIME TALENT IN HOLLYWOOD.
I AM HAPPY TO REPORT TO YOU THAT 100 FILMS RETREAT, UH, HAS, UH, PASSED ITS FIRST YEAR, AND, UH, WE ARE ABOUT TO DO OUR FIFTH RETREAT OPENING ON MAY 23RD.
UM, WE ARE THAT CLOSE TO HAVING 100 COUNTRIES.
WE HAD, UH, WE NEEDED NINE WHEN I SPOKE WITH YOU LAST, UH, MEETING, AND NOW WE NEED SEVEN.
WE'RE HOPING THAT SEVEN COUNTRIES WILL, UH, SUBMIT AND MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO PRESENT 100 COMPANIES, 100 COUNTRIES RATHER, UH, BEGINNING ON MAY 23RD AND GOING THROUGH THE 26TH OF MAY HERE IN RANCHO CUCAMONGA.
UM, I'M ALSO ELATED TO ANNOUNCE, UH, THAT THIS IS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MONTH THAT THE RANCHO CUCAMONGA FILMS THAT WE HAVE CREATED HAS EVER HAD.
WE HAVE THREE PRODUCTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN CREATED OR ARE BEING CREATED TOTALLY WITHIN OUR CITY'S LIMITS.
UM, UM, OF COURSE ONE OF THEM, AS YOU KNOW, IS SWEDISH VACATION, PERHAPS THE MOST POPULAR, UH, FILM THAT HAS EVER COME FROM OUR CITY.
UH, SWEDISH VACATION WILL BE PLAYING, UH, IN, UH, IN TEMECULA, UH, THIS MONTH WE'LL BE PLAYING, UH, TWICE IN SACRAMENTO, AND WE'LL BE SCREENING AT LA LIVE AS WELL AT THE END OF THE MONTH.
SO, UH, SWEET AS VACATION CONTINUES, THIS WORK OF SPREADING THE WORD AROUND THE WORLD AND THE COUNTRY THAT SHORT FILMS COME FROM RANCHO CUCAMONGA.
UH, ALSO THE LAST FILM THAT WE CREATED HERE IN TOWN ON THE ROCKS, UM, RECEIVED AN AWARD AND SCREENED IN INDIA AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS MONTH.
AND SO WE'RE SO PROUD OF THAT PARTICULAR PRODUCTION AND ITS, UH, WORK IN, UH, SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT WHAT WE DO.
BUT WHAT'S EXCITING IS I MENTIONED TO YOU THAT I WAS HOPING THAT COMMUNITY SERVICE WAS GOING TO SELECT OUR PROPOSAL FOR THIS, UH, SATURDAY'S, UM, UM, COMMUNITY ARTS FESTIVAL.
THEY HAVE, WE WILL BE TEACHING THREE WORKSHOPS.
WE WILL BE, UH, UM, UH, HAVING A PHOTO BOOTH, AND WE WILL ALSO BE, UH, READING OUR NEWEST RANCHO CUCAMONGA PRODUCTION.
UH, AND, UH, I'M RELATED TO TELL YOU THAT OUR PUBLICIST,
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JOHNNY MAY GREEN HAS MOVED TO UPLAND.SHE'S CLOSE, AND WE'RE GONNA WORK HER TO DEATH, INCLUDING AT THE COMMUNITY ARTS, UH, FESTIVAL THIS SATURDAY.
WE HOPE THAT EVERYONE WILL COME, THAT YOU SO MUCH FOR HEARING ME.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER, JOHNNY MAY GREEN, FOLLOWED BY NORT TO THE MAYOR PRO TIP COUNCILMAN RYAN.
I, UH, PREVIOUSLY LIVED HERE IN RETRO CUCAMONGA.
I WAS A MANAGER FOR STORE QUEST OF TWO OF YOUR STORES HERE.
I WAS A TEAM LEAD OVER 11 STORES THROUGHOUT AMERICA.
AND YOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT IS OUTSTANDING BECAUSE THEY DID A WONDERFUL JOB EVERY TIME I NEEDED TO CALL THEM.
BUT I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF PHILIP E. WALKER.
I USED TO HAVE A RADIO TALK SHOW, AND THAT'S HOW I MET HIM.
I NEEDED SOMEBODY TO INTERVIEW.
AND I CAN TELL YOU, WHEN HE TOLD ME WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO DO FOR RANCHO CUCAMONGA, I'VE ALWAYS LOVED RANCHO CUCAMONGA.
I LEFT HERE AFTER RETIRING IN 2016.
I'M BACK BECAUSE I SEE THE VISION OF WHAT HE'S TRYING TO DO IS PUT RANCHO CUCAMONGA ON THE MAP FOR SHORT FILMS AS HIS SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR.
I REACT WITH PRODUCERS, ACTORS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE WORLD.
I HAVE FRIENDS IN CHINA, IRAN, AFRICA, EVERYWHERE, AND I'M HERE.
AND I RELOCATED BACK BECAUSE I WANNA HELP HIM PUT RANCHO CUCAMONGA ON THE MAP FOR SHORT FILMS. AND IN ORDER TO DO THAT, WE ARE GONNA NEED THE COMMUNITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA AND THE COUNCIL TO HELP US DO THAT.
UH, RYAN WAS AT ONE OF OUR FUNCTION.
I GOT A CHANCE IN THE PREVIOUS TO INTERVIEW HIM.
NOW YOU HAVE THE BULLET TRAIN.
PHILIP AND I HAVE SOME IDEALS THAT CAN HELP, UH, EVEN WITH THE BULLET TRAIN SITUATION, BECAUSE WITH THE MOVIES THAT'S GONNA BE FILMED HERE IN RANCHO CUCAMONGA, THERE'S SHORT FILMS. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO GROW THE ECONOMY HERE IN RANCHO CUCAMONGA BY MAKING RANCHO CUCAMONGA THE FIRST CITY TO BE KNOWN AS SHORT FILM, YOU'RE ALREADY WELL KNOWN ALL OVER THE WORLD.
AND THE REASON I KNOW THAT, BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, ON A DAILY BASIS, I INTERREACT WITH THESE ACTORS AND THEY'RE EXCITED, EXCITED ABOUT THE OLYMPIC, THEY'RE COMING TO RANCHO CUCAMONGA FOR SHORT FILMS. WE ARE GONNA NEED A THEATER TO SHOW THOSE FILMS WITH ALL OF THESE FOREIGNERS START TO EXPLODE AND COME INTO RANCHO CUCAMONGA.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME, AND I HOPE THAT I HAVE SAID SOMETHING THAT WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND.
WE NEED TO REALLY EMBRACE PHILIP E. WALKER AND HIS IDEAL OF PUTTING RANCHO CUCAMONGA ON THE MAP FOR SHORT FILMS. THANK YOU, MS. GREEN.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER, NOR T FOLLOWED BY LONNIE MARION.
I AND MANY OTHER RESIDENTS OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA WANT TO HAVE THE CITY COUNCIL TAKE A STANCE THAT REFLECTS OUR VALUES.
THE CITY OF RANCHO SHOULD NOT INVEST IN COMPANIES OR GROUPS THAT CONFLICT WITH THE RELIGIOUS AND PERSONAL VALUES OF THE MAJORITY OF RANCHO CITIZENS.
THE LARGE AMOUNT OF POLITICAL REPRESENTATIVES, BOTH LOCALLY IN THE INLAND EMPIRE, AS WELL AS ON THE STATE AND NATIONAL LEVEL, ENABLE THE EVIL BEHAVIOR COMMITTED BY THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND ALLOW INDIVIDUALS SUCH AS MICHIGAN REPRESENTATIVE TIM WAHLBERG TO SAY WE SHOULDN'T BE SPENDING A DIME ON HUMANITARIAN AID.
GAZA SHOULD BE LIKE NAGASAKI AND HIROSHIMA INSTEAD OF GISH GALLOPING AND MAKING EXCUSES TO JUSTIFY CARPET BOMBING A PLACE OF 2 MILLION PEOPLE WHO ARE INNOCENT.
WE SHOULD TAKE ACTION AND SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE EVIL AND CORRUPTION BEING COMMITTED IN THE HOLY LAND BY THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
THERE'S A SAYING THAT GOES, WHEN SOMETHING EVIL IS GOING ON, YOU MUST CHANGE IT WITH YOUR HAND.
AND IF YOU CANNOT CHANGE IT WITH YOUR WORDS, AND IF YOU CANNOT HATE IT IN YOUR HEART, THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFORTS THIS CITY ARE COMMITTING TO ARE GOING IN VAIN.
WHEN WE HELP FUND THE BOMBS, THE STATE OF ISRAEL
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DROPS ON PALESTINE AND OTHER NATIONS.WE CAUSE MORE DAMAGE TO OUR EARTH THAN ANY OTHER TYPE OF POLLUTION.
WHAT POINT DOES RANCHO CUCAMONGA HAVE IN, IN INVESTING IN ENVIRONMENTAL EFFORTS WHEN WE ALSO INVEST IN COMPANIES THAT LITERALLY CAUSE MORE POLLUTION THAN CARS, FARMING, OR ANYTHING ELSE? IN ADDITION, I REALLY HOPE AND WISH ONE DAY THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA AND THE CITY COUNCIL CAN TRULY REPRESENT AND SUPPORT THE GOOD, HONEST, AND EDUCATED PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT RELIGIONS, RACES, AND ETHNICITIES WHO ALL AGREE ON ONE ISSUE.
WE SHOULD DIVEST FROM COMPANIES THAT AID THE STATE OF ISRAEL'S RELENTLESS SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS.
THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN LASTING FOR THREE GENERATIONS, AND I'M ONLY 24.
YOU ALL KNOW THE HORRORS THAT HAPPENED WHEN GAZA WAS SIEGE AND A WALL TALLER THAN ANY OF US WAS PUT UP TO KEEP THESE PEOPLE IN A CAGE.
IT'S NOT FAIR TO THESE INNOCENT PEOPLE AND THE RHETORICS SURROUNDING ARABS AND MUSLIMS HAVE COST MILLIONS OF LIVES OVER THE PAST 20 OR SO.
DEC UH, TWO OR SO DECADES, 20 YEARS AT LEAST, MILLIONS OF LIVES HAVE BEEN MURDERED BECAUSE OF THIS RACIST AND AWFUL RHETORIC SURROUNDING OUR PEOPLE.
AND WE ARE GOOD, HONEST PEOPLE, AND THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD REPRESENT US AND OUR VALUES.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER, LONNIE MARION, FOLLOWED BY DANIA AAM, OR AAM.
GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE MEMBERS OF THE, UH, CITY COUNCIL.
UM, THESE, THIS OPPOSITION, UH, THEY, THE ONLY THING THEY REALLY WANT IS TO DESTROY ISRAEL FOREVER, WIPING THE WORLD'S ONLY JEWISH STATE.
OFF THE MAP, LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, WHAT RIVER AND WHAT SEA.
CONGRESS RESOLVED TODAY THAT THIS CHANT IS ANTISEMITISM.
UM, THIS MEANS DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, JUST THE SAME AS THE HAMAS CHARTER SAYS, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
THE DESTRUCTION OF OVER 9 MILLION PEOPLE RIVER TO THE SEA IS GENOCIDE.
SO IN 1948, YOU, YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY.
IN 1948, THE BRITISH MANDATE WAS DIVIDED, PROVIDING TWO SEPARATE COUNTRIES, ONE FOR JEWS AND ONE FOR THE MUSLIMS. ON MAY 14TH, 1948, ISRAEL ACCEPTED THE DIVISION AND WAS IMMEDIATELY ATTACKED.
ISRAEL DID NOT START THAT WAR.
IN 1967, ISRAEL WAS ATTACKED AGAIN, AND ISRAEL WAS VICTORIOUS AND THEY ADVANCED ON LAND.
THAT LAND WAS ONE WITH THE, UH, LIVES OF MANY ISRAELIS, AND IT WAS ONLY TO THEIR OPPONENTS GREED.
IN 1973, ISRAEL WAS ATTACKED AGAIN ON YUM KIPPUR, THE HOLIEST DAY IN THE, ON THE JEWISH CALENDAR, AND WAS ONCE AGAIN VICTORIOUS.
ONLY WITH THE HELP OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPPORTING THIS GENOCIDE PERPETRATED BY THE ARAB COUNTRIES, ISRAEL HAS ALWAYS ATTACKED A GREAT COST TO HUMAN LIFE.
IN 2005, ISRAEL LEFT GAZA WITH INFRASTRUCTURE INTACT.
THE GAZA'S DESTROYED IT AND CHOSE TO BUILD WEAPONS TO DESTROY ISRAEL, RATHER THAN BUILD A GREAT SOCIETY.
ON OCTOBER 7TH, 2023, PALESTINIANS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF HAMAS, BRUTALLY MURDERED INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN, RAPING, DECAPITATION AND BURNING CHILDREN IN OVENS, KIDNAPPING MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, TO HOLD HIS HOSTAGE TO DEMAND ISRAEL CAPITULATE TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE INVESTMENTS THAT THE CITY MAKES, GO TO COMPANIES WHICH ISRAEL PAYS FOR THEIR EQUIPMENT.
AND ISRAEL HAS A RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF.
SO I REQUEST THAT YOU NOT DIVES.
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AAM, FOLLOWED BY ELDER TATE SPALDING, I BELIEVE.I AM A RESIDENT OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA.
I ATTENDED RANCHO CUCAMONGA MIDDLE SCHOOL AND ALOMA HIGH SCHOOL, AND I'M PROUD TO BE FROM THE CITY.
TODAY I'LL BE SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF JUDE JAMAL HASSANA.
JUDE HAD DREAMS OF BEING A POLICEMAN WHEN HE GREW UP, BUT HIS DREAMS WERE KILLED IN THE HASSANA FAMILY MASSACRE, WHERE JUDE AND 120 OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS WERE KILLED BY ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES.
EVERY CHILD WHO HAS BEEN BLOWN UP INTO PIECES, EVERY CHILD WHO HAS DIED FROM STARVATION, EVERY CHILD WHO HAS LOST FAMILY MEMBERS AND HAVE BEEN LEFT ORPHAN TODAY COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED BY YESTERDAY'S CEASEFIRE.
I'M DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED THAT RANCHO CUCAMONGA IS SENDING $4 MILLION TO A FOREIGN ENTITY TO FUND GENOCIDE.
30,000 PLUS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN REZA, AND THERE'S NO REASON WE SHOULD BE FUNDING A GENOCIDE WHEN THAT MONEY COULD BE RE REDIRECTED.
TO FURTHER SUPPORT RANCHO CUCAMONGA RESIDENTS, THE MAN BEFORE ME, WAS ALSO MORE CONCERNED ABOUT A RHYME FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA.
PALESTINE WILL BE FREE MORE THAN HE WAS, THE 30,000 MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN MURDERED.
I URGE YOU FROM, I URGE YOU TO DIVEST FROM INTEL AND CATERPILLAR AND TAKE A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER, ELDER TATE SPALDING.
UM, I'M A, I'M A MISSIONARY FROM THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS.
UM, YOU MAY REMEMBER A COUPLE MONTHS AGO, I WAS HERE WITH, UM, MY, MY ASSOCIATE, UM, CHRISTOPHER MIRANDA.
AND WE WERE IN THE, IN THE CITY LOOKING FOR SERVICE PROJECTS AND DIFFERENT THINGS WE COULD DO TO JUST HELP OUT THE COMMUNITY.
UM, I, I'M HAPPY TO, TO REPORT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF SUCCESS FINDING SERVICE PROJECTS.
UM, JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO, WE WERE ABLE, ABLE TO HELP OUT AT, AT RED HILL PARK, UM, TO SPREAD, UM, DIRT AND, AND MULCHER ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE GRASS JUST TO HELP CLEAN UP THE PARK A BIT AND JUST HELP OUT.
UM, IT WAS, IT WAS A, A COOL THING TO, TO BE A PART OF, TO, UM, BE ABLE TO SERVE AND TO HAVE SUCH A GROUP, A LARGE GROUP OF US THERE.
UM, THERE WERE, UH, I BELIEVE 10, 10 OF US MISSIONARIES, UM, PLUS THE, THE OTHER WORKERS FROM THE CITY THAT WERE ABLE TO HELP OUT.
AND, UM, IT WAS JUST A, A GREAT EFFORT.
UM, TODAY WHAT I, I LIKE TO TALK ABOUT, UM, IS SOMETHING OUR, OUR CHURCH IS VERY, UM, ENTHUSIASTIC AND VERY EMPHA EMPHATIC ABOUT, UM, IS FAMILY HISTORY AND, UM, ANCESTRY.
UM, OUR, OUR CHURCH HAS A, A VERY STRONG FAITH AND, AND BELIEF ON FAMILIES, UM, THAT FAMILIES ARE THE CENTRAL UNIT TO EVERYTHING WE HAVE HERE ON, ON, ON THE EARTH.
UM, AND, UM, ONE THING WE WERE ABLE TO, WE WERE ABLE TO DO, UM, ONE, ONE MEMBER OF OUR, OUR CHURCH CONGREGATION WAS ACTUALLY ABLE TO, TO FIND, UM, SOME FAMILY HISTORY RECORDS FROM FOR MAYOR MICHAEL.
UM, IT GOES FIVE OR SIX GENERATIONS BACK.
UM, AND JUST HELPS KIND OF PAINT A PICTURE OF, OF HIS, OF HIS FAMILY AND KIND OF THAT FAMILY HISTORY.
UM, JUST TO, TO GET AN IDEA OF THAT.
UM, WE WERE ACTUALLY, WE WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO MEET WITH THE MAYOR ABOUT A MONTH AGO AS WELL.
UM, WE TALKED ABOUT THE SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES WE WERE LOOKING FOR, UM, AND JUST WHAT WE DO IS, UM, JUST HELPING OUT AND SERVING THE PEOPLE HERE.
UM, AND WE TALKED A BIT ABOUT THIS FAMILY HISTORY, UM, AND WE, WE HAD A DIFFERENT CHART AT THE TIME.
IT WAS A BIT SMALLER, UM, BUT WE WERE ABLE TO, TO SHOW IT TO HIM.
AND IT WAS A, A REALLY COOL EXPERIENCE JUST, UM, TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT.
UM, 'CAUSE, YOU KNOW, FAMILY HISTORY BRINGS US, BRINGS US A LOT OF CLOSURE, UM, AS WE LEARN ABOUT OUR, OUR HISTORY AND WHERE WE COME FROM.
UM, JUST KIND OF HELPS, HELPS US FIND, FIND A PLACE IN, IN THIS LIFE.
UM, UM, ONE, ONE OTHER THING I JUST WANTED TO MENTION WAS, UM, SOMETHING CALLED FAMILY TREE.
UM, IT'S A, AN APP THAT WE BROUGHT UP WHEN, WHEN WE MET WITH MAYOR MICHAEL.
UM, THAT, UM, IS, ISN'T RAN BY THE CHURCH, BUT IT IS, IT IS CHURCH SUPPORTED WHERE, UM, YOU KNOW, ANY FAMILY HISTORY RECORDS THERE MAY BE GOING BACK THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
WE'VE, WE'VE FOUND SOME GOING BACK TO, YOU KNOW, 17 BC.
UM, IT'S A REALLY COOL APP JUST TO BE ABLE TO, TO FIND FAMILY HISTORY AND FIND YOUR ANCESTORS.
IT'S CALLED FAMILY HISTORY IF OR FAMILY TREE.
IF YOU WANNA LEAVE MAYOR MICHAEL'S FAMILY TREE RIGHT WITH THE CLERK, I'LL BE HAPPY TO SHARE THAT WITH HIM.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS DR. SHARON STEIN, FOLLOWED BY KARIMA WILLIAMS.
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GOOD EVENING.HELLO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE ABSENTEE MAYOR MICHAELS.
I'D LIKE TO PLAY A RECORDING FOR YOU FROM THE M MONTCLAIR CITY COUNCIL MEETING THE OTHER NIGHT, AND THEN I'LL SAY WHAT I HAVE TO WILL BE FREE.
THAT TOOK PLACE AT THE, UH, MONTCLAIR CITY COUNCIL MEETING ON MONDAY NIGHT.
IT WAS FRIGHTFUL, UM, AS A RESIDENT OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA FOR MANY YEARS.
AND AS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, I'M HERE TO IMPLORE YOU TO NOT ADOPT ANY SOCIAL OR POLITICAL ISSUES AND JUST FOLLOW YOUR MISSION OF THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA.
I BELIEVE THE WORLD WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT ISRAEL'S BEEN ATTACKED SINCE THE DAY OF ITS INCEPTION IN 1948.
GROWING UP AND WELL INTO MY TEENS AND ADULTHOOD, I SAW BARBARIC ATROCITIES TO ISRAEL SUICIDE BOMBERS FOR YEARS, BOMBINGS FOR YEARS.
TALK ABOUT PEOPLE BEING BLOWN UP.
UM, CONTINUED CONSTANT ATTACKS ON ISRAELIS YEAR AFTER YEAR, AND NOW RECENTLY, THE BARBARIC HORRIFIC MASSACRE SLAUGHTER ON OCTOBER 7TH, GOLD MAIER, THE FORMER, MY PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL ONCE SAID, WHEN PALESTINIANS LEARN TO LOVE THEIR CHILDREN MORE THAN THEY HATE ISRAEL, THEN THERE WILL BE PEACE.
THOSE ARE TRUE AND BEAUTIFUL WORDS.
UM, I JUST WANNA SAY THAT, UM, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JUST, UH, VOTED ON HATE SPEECH, UH, FOR FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, IS NOW CONSIDERED HATE SPEECH.
UM, HAMAS' MANTRA IS TRUE WISH FOR ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA.
AS I SAID, I INTENDED MONTCLAIR CITY COUNCIL MEETING ON MONDAY NIGHT AND HEARD SUCH HATE FROM THE PROTESTORS, AND I JUST PLAYED YOU THAT VIDEO.
SO, WHEN PASSIONS ARE OR RATED REGARDING GENOCIDE AND PALESTINE, HAMAS' TRUE WISH, OF COURSE, IS TO WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE MAP.
THAT'S NOT NEGOTIATING FOR ANYTHING.
PERHAPS THEY SHOULD CONTACT SIN WAR, WHO WAS HAMAS' LEADER, HIDING IN A TUNNEL SURROUNDED BY DEAD AND ALIVE HOSTAGES.
DOES THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA REALLY WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN ALL THIS? THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO ME TONIGHT, AND THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING TO STAY OUT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES AND TO KEEP PEACE IN THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS KARIMA WILLIAMS, FOLLOWED BY ANA WILLIAMS. HELLO, MY NAME IS GREETINGS.
MY NAME IS KARIMA WILLIAMS. I'M PROUD, LOUD AND PROUD TO REPRESENT PALESTINE.
I AM 10 YEARS OLD AND TURNING 11 THIS YEAR.
I'M SUPER SAD ABOUT THIS GENOCIDE HAPPENING IN PALESTINE.
AS MOST OF YOU GUYS KNOW, I'M HERE TO STAND UP FOR PALESTINE.
I LIKE TO SAY IF RANCHO CUCAMONGA CAN'T DO A CEASEFIRE, I AT LEAST REQUEST FOR, UM, NOT TO HAVE ANY GENOCIDE SUPPORTING COMPANIES SUCH AS STARBUCKS, WALMART, NIKE, MCDONALD'S, AMAZON, CATERPILLAR, ET CETERA.
IF YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT PALESTINE, THEN YOU GUYS CAN MAKE ALL THESE COM THESE BIG COMPANIES VANISH.
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO ME.
THANK YOU, MS. WILLIAMS, FOLLOWED BY RIANNA WILLIAMS AND HAND MOOSE OR MOOSE.
YOU CAN HELP ME WITH THE PRONUNCIATION WHEN YOU COME UP.
GREETING CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, OH, SHOULD I GO? THIS ONE? OKAY.
I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TO THE LADY THAT WAS SO FRIGHTENED AT THE GIMA, PLEASE DIRECT YOUR COMMENTS TO THE COUNCIL.
I'LL, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO ADDRESS US.
GOOD EVENING ESTEEM COUNCIL MEMBERS.
MY NAME IS RHIANNA WILLIAMS. I'M A RESIDENT OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA AND HAVE LIVED HERE MY WHOLE LIFE.
I'M HERE TO CALL UPON THE ESTEEM CITY COUNCIL TO RECOGNIZE THE POWER.
YOU HAVE TO PUT A CEASEFIRE ON THE AGENDA.
THERE'S A LITERAL GENOCIDE HAPPENING AS TAXPAYERS AND CONSTITUENTS.
OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE BEING USED TO KILL MY FAMILY OVERSEAS.
I SPEND ALL SUMMERS THERE, AND I'M NOT SURE HOW MANY SUMMERS I HAVE LEFT UNTIL IT'S BEEN COMPLETELY DECIMATED.
PEOPLE SPEAK OF A CLAIM THAT BECAUSE WE'RE A MUNICIPALITY, WE CANNOT ENGAGE IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.
THIS VIEW IS WRONG PRACTICALLY DEMOCRATICALLY AND HISTORICALLY.
SO THIS IS VERY MUCH A LOCAL ISSUE BECAUSE IT HITS HOME TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS WHO LIVE HERE SOMEHOW.
HOWEVER, THIS CITY HAS ACCOUNTS IN CATERPILLAR AND INTEL THAT ARE DIRECTLY OPERATING IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES.
DESPITE ALL THE UN RESOLUTIONS THAT TELL ISRAEL THAT THE SETTLEMENTS AND OCCUPATION IS ILLEGAL, ALLOW THE PEOPLE TO VOTE.
GIVE US A VOICE SO WE CAN DECIDE.
THE CONSTITUENTS OF RANCHO CUCAMONGO DO NOT WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN THE FUNDING OF A GENOCIDE.
CATERPILLAR HAS THE BULLDOZERS AND CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT THAT THIS VERY CITY USES, EXCEPT THOSE EXACT MATERIALS ARE BEING USED
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TO DESTROY AND BULLDOZE HOMES AND INTEL OVERSEAS AND INTEL DEALS WITH THE COMPUTERS THAT ABETS IN THE DON DRONE STRIKES THAT ARE BEING USED TO MURDER INNOCENT CIVILIANS.IN GAZA, WE ARE ASKING OUR CITY COUNCIL TO REFLECT THE MORAL AND ETHICAL VALUES OF ITS RESIDENTS.
AND SUBSEQUENTLY TO DIVEST ANY CURRENT AND FUTURE CITY INVESTMENTS FROM COMPANIES THAT COMMIT, SUPPORT, SUSTAIN, OR MATERIALLY BENEFIT FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CRIMES OF GENOCIDE.
WE DEMAND THAT THE CITY DIVEST 4 MILLION FROM CATERPILLAR AND INTEL AS THESE COMPANIES MATERIALLY BENEFIT FROM THE CURRENT GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING AND PALESTINE.
HOW CAN WE MOVE ON AS A CITY IF WE CAN'T HAVE A CLEAR CONSCIENCE AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THE MASSACRE OF CHILDREN IS SOMETHING WE SHOULDN'T BE, WE SHOULD OR SHOULDN'T BE INVOLVED OR CONCERNED ABOUT? LET'S BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY.
BE THE PEOPLE THAT SUPPORTED THE, THIS RIGHTEOUS CAUSE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE.
BE THE PEOPLE THAT WHEN ASKED ABOUT YOU WERE AGAINST THE MURDER OF INNOCENT CHILDREN.
YOU WERE AGAINST EVIL AND WEREN'T CONCERNED ONLY ABOUT FILLING YOUR POCKETS OR BEING APAC PUPPETS, BUT INSTEAD YOU HELPED PAVE THE WAY TO THE BRIGHT FUTURE OF THIS CITY AND COUNTRY.
THANK YOU AND HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY.
THANK YOU, MS. WILLIAMS. AND OUR FINAL SPEAKER THIS EVENING IS HI MOOSE.
HELLO, MY NAME, ISHIN AND HELLO HONORABLE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UH, THIS LIKE, I'M CONSIDERED LIKE THE MOM, THE STAY AT HOME MOM WHO DOESN'T REALLY COME UP THINGS OFTEN.
SO, BUT I WENT IN LAST TIME I WAS HERE AND I WANTED TO COME AND SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING.
AND, UH, BECAUSE IT'S HAPPENING TO ME PERSONALLY, AND IT'S HAPPENING TO MY PEOPLE.
AND ALSO, I LOVE THE COMMUNITY.
I REALLY ADMIRE EVERYTHING YOU DO.
I LOVE YOUR PASSION THE WAY YOU TALKED.
AND OUR ELDER FROM THE SAN UH, SAN UH, UH, LUTER.
BUT FIRST OF ALL, I ADMIRE THAT HOW YOU GUYS HAVE THE FAMILY, THE CENTER, AND ALSO LOOKING FOR YOUR ANCESTORS.
AND THIS IS FOR US AS PALESTINIANS, WE LIKE TO HOLD INTO THAT AND INTO OUR ANCESTORS AND INTO OUR HERITAGE BECAUSE IT'S BEEN GONE WITH HA WHAT HAPPENING TO OUR ANCESTORS FOR THE PAST 75 YEARS.
AND LIKE I HAVE IN MY HOUSE, MY, MY GRANDMA'S DRESS HANGED IN, IN MY HOUSE.
'CAUSE I DON'T WANNA LOSE THE ANCESTOR BECAUSE I'M AFRAID WITH THIS WAR AND GENOCIDE AND HISTORY PROVED ITSELF FOR SO LONG THAT GENOCIDE ERASED PEOPLE.
PEOPLE IN RAZA THREE GENERATION BEEN GONE WITH ONE BOMB.
PEOPLE WITH THEIR GRANDPARENTS, THEIR KIDS, AND THEIR GRANDKIDS.
PEOPLE WOULD NOT CARRY THEIR LAST.
THAT LAST NAME IS NOT GONNA BE CARRIED AT ALL.
SO IMAGINE, I WANT TO IMAGINE THAT WHOLE FAMILY'S GONE.
I REALLY APPRECIATE, I ADMIRE ANYONE HOLDING INTO THEIR ANCESTORS.
THAT'S WHY MY, RIGHT NOW, MY CURIOSITY IS INTO NATIVE AMERICANS AND WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THEM.
AND SEEING ALL, EVEN IN THE TRAILS OVER HERE AND ADMIRING EVEN THE CITY OF RANCH CUCAMONGA, SEEING ALL THE PORTRAIT AND THE HISTORY OF RANCH CUCAMONGA AND THE WAY IT WAS OVER HERE, BEING CONNECTED TO YOUR HISTORY.
SO IMAGINE BEING IN OUR FOOTSTEP IN, IN OUR, LIKE, IN OUR SHOES THAT OUR, OUR HISTORY CAN BE ERASED ANYTIME.
MY MY GRANDMA'S HISTORY AND OUR PLACE OF HISTORY, CHURCHES, MOSQUES, ALL THIS, THE OLDEST CHURCH IN OUR COUNTRY WAS ERASED A FEW MONTHS AGO.
SO THAT HISTORY, WE'RE TRYING TO HOLD INTO IT.
WE'RE NOT JUST TRYING TO HOLD INTO PEOPLE, WE'RE TRYING TO HOLD INTO HISTORY AND INTO FAMILY.
BUT WE CANNOT BE LETTING IT HAPPEN.
AND I BELIEVE IN YOU AND I BELIEVE INTO YOUR JUDGMENT OF THESE, THESE COMPANIES SUPPORTING GENOCIDE.
WE, YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AND WE CAN HOLD INTO THESE FEW MILLION DOLLARS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LISTENING.
WE HAVE THREE ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS.
FIRST ONE, SHAHID ULA, FOLLOWED BY CODY STROBE.
GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS AND DISTINCT, DISTINCT GUEST.
UH, I WAS HERE JUST TO OBSERVE, BUT I'VE HEARD SOME COMMENTS THAT JUST MADE ME COMPELLED TO SAY SOMETHING.
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HAVE NO CONNECTION WITH PALESTINIAN, I'M A HUMAN.WHAT'S GOING ON IN PALESTINIAN? IT'S BEYOND HUMANITY, BEYOND IMAGINATION.
THAT ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE DOING TO ANOTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE.
SO, SO I, I HEARD SOME COMMENTS ABOUT COMPASSIONATE AND LOVE, SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE SELECTIVE COMPASSION AND SELECTIVE, UH, LOVE FOR.
SO YOU ARE KILLING OTHER PEOPLE, OTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE JUST BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY'RE SUPERIOR.
SO, UH, AGAIN, I I'M, I I BELIEVE IN GOD.
AND GOD CREATED EVERYONE EQUALLY REGARDLESS OF THE RACE AND COLOR.
SO IF YOU WANT TO BE, UH, STAND UP THE FRONT OF GOD, YOU NEED TO RESPECT AND SHOW SOME COMPASSIONATE TO OTHER PEOPLE.
SO I'M JUST WANNA SAY THAT I LIVE IN RANCHO CUCAMONGA FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS.
MY KIDS ARE BORN AND RAISED HERE, AND I DON'T WANT, DON'T LIKE TO SEE ANY COMPANY WHO ASSOCIATE WITH GENOCIDE SHOULD NOT BE ACCEPTABLE.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER, CODY STROBE, FOLLOWED BY AETNA.
SO IS IT WORKING? IS IT ON? YES.
UM, SO I WANNA SAY I'VE BEEN LIVING IN THE COMMUNITY FOR ABOUT TWO AND A HALF YEARS SO FAR.
AND SO FAR IT HAS BEEN A GREAT PLACE.
UM, I DO WORK AS A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER FOR CHAFFEE JOINT UNION.
AND IT'S MY DREAM TO WORK FOR ONE OF THE SCHOOLS CURRENTLY AS A SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER.
UM, BUT LOOKING AT THE MORAL TEST AND THE TEST ON JUST TRUTH ON BEING DATA CENTERED, THAT I THINK ALL THE ADULTS ARE MOSTLY FAILING.
UM, IT'S HORRIFIC GOING TO WORK AND FEELING THAT THERE'S THIS ENTIRE GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SO MARGINALIZED AND SO OPPRESSED AND, AND EXPERIENCING THIS GENOCIDE.
AND I HAVE TO WATCH MY MOUTH ABOUT SIMPLY STATING THE FACTS ABOUT IT AND WHAT'S GOING ON.
UM, OUT OF FEAR OF BEING HIRED.
ALSO, KNOWING THAT THIS MIGHT BE SOMETHING I NEED TO TAKE UP WITH THE, THE ED BOARD, BUT THAT WE HAVE PEOPLE FROM ISRAEL COMING HERE AND INFLUENCING OUR CURRICULUM HERE IN AMERICA, LOBBYING AND PAYING THOUSANDS, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO INFLUENCE THAT.
SO I'M THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW, DR.
ABRAM AND HE'S FAMOUS FOR HIS WORK ON ANTI-RACISM.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT NOW.
'CAUSE I DON'T THINK ANYBODY PROBABLY HERE SITTING HERE HAS BAD INTENTIONS OR IS AN ARDENT RACIST.
BUT FOR US TO SIT BY WHEN THIS RACISM WITH THIS ATROCITY WITH THIS, UH, GLOBAL ISSUE IS HAPPENING AND BE NEUTRAL, THAT MAKES YOU JUST AS BAD AS THE ARDENT RACIST BECAUSE IT'S SAYING, I'LL LET PEOPLE GET BEAT UP.
I'LL LET PEOPLE HAVE THEIR LAND TAKEN.
I'LL LET PEOPLE BE KILLED INNOCENTLY.
I'LL LET PEOPLE BE DEPRIVED OF MEDICAL AND, AND FOOD AND I'LL LET THE PRESIDENT MAKE EXCUSES.
I'LL LET CONGRESS MAKE EXCUSES.
I'LL EVEN LET THEM MAKE THESE TERRIBLE WORDS AGAINST HIM.
I THINK AS WE, UH, CITED THE REP EARLIER AND, AND DO WHAT? NOTHING.
IT'S LIKE WATCHING A KID ON THE PLAYGROUND GET BULLIED AND YOU JUST STAND BACK AND THEN YOU SUSPEND BOTH OF THEM.
AND I FEEL ASHAMED MYSELF TO BARELY LEARN, UH, THE DEEP DETAILS OF THESE ISSUES IN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, BUT I GUESS BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.
UM, AND I THINK WE DO HAVE TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO MAKE THIS THING RIGHT, AND LOOK AT ANY BUSINESS THAT IS CONTRIBUTING TO THIS, ASIDE FROM THE ONE DIRTY NAME AND GET IT OUT.
I MEAN, WE CAN MAKE BETTER, UH, INFL, UH, BETTER INVESTMENTS AND I'M WILLING TO WORK WITH YOU ON THAT.
AND IN TEACHING, WE NEED TO BE STUDENT CENTERED, DATA CENTERED.
SO I THINK IN GOVERNANCE, PEOPLE CENTERED, CONSTITUENT CENTERED AND HAVE IT BE ON DATA AND REALLY BE CAREFUL WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO PAINT US WHO ARE STANDING UP FOR THIS AS SOME KIND OF, UH, TERRORIST GROUP OR MALUS WITH THAT.
AND, UM, THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN A VOICE AND THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN DEFENSE FOR ONE SIDE.
AND HOW PEOPLE WHO ARE OTHERWISE HIGHLY EDUCATED, BARELY KNOW ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON OVER HERE.
ASK YOURSELF WHY THAT IS AND WHY THAT INFORMATION HAS NOT BEEN AVAILABLE, BUT NOW IT IS.
AND, UH, ASK YOURSELVES, NOT IF YOU WILL, BUT WHAT YOU WILL DO ABOUT IT.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER, EDNA BERRY, I WOULD SPEAK, I AM SURE THAT ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE EDUCATED PEOPLE AND CAN SEE WHAT ARE TRUE AND WHAT ARE LIES AND FAKE.
WE DON'T EXPECT YOU TO SOLVE THE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN CONFLICT THAT GOING ON FOR YEARS.
AND WE ARE JUST EXPECT YOU TO TAKE CARE
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OF RANCHO LOCAL ISSUES.ISRAEL IS NOT COMMITTED GENOCIDE.
THE US AND THE EUROPEAN UNION HAVE FOUND ISRAEL IS NOT COMMITTED GENOCIDE.
ISRAEL IS JUST DEFENDING HERSELF.
ISRAEL DIDN'T START THIS WAR AND WANT TO END IT TOO, BUT THEY CANNOT DO IT UNTIL HAMAS RELEASE ALL THE INNOCENT PEOPLE THEY KIDNAPPED ON OCTOBER SEVEN KIDS, WOMEN, AND MEN, AND HOLD THEM UNDERGROUND, RAPING AND TORTURED THEM FOR MORE THAN SIX MONTHS.
BUT AGAIN, INTERNATIONAL ISSUES IS NOT YOUR ISSUES.
AND I THINK YOU NEED TO STAY LOCAL TALKING ABOUT THESE ISSUES, JUST RACES HATE IN OUR CITIES.
AND I CAN SEE IT IN THE SCHOOL IN RANCHO, A DAUGHTER OF A FRIEND OF MINE THAT GOING TO RANCHO CUCAMONGA HIGH SCHOOL, AND SHE'S ONE OF THE TENS BEST, UH, STUDENT IN SCHOOL, WAS ATTACKED BY TWO MUSLIM STUDENTS THAT SAYING TO HER, YOU SHOULDN'T SAY THAT YOUR PARENTS ARE FROM ISRAEL.
THIS ISSUE WAS BROUGHT INTO THE PRINCIPLE, UH, NOTICED.
AND THIS IS ALL OF THIS, UH, COMMENTS AND TALKING ABOUT GENOCIDE AND EVERYTHING.
OUR FINAL SPEAKER, I BELIEVE IS HUAD RASHID OR HUA RASHID.
SO I GUESS MY TIME IS LIMITED BY, UM, HOW MUCH MY CHILD WILL ALLOW ME TO SPEAK.
UM, I'M HERE TO ASK OUR CITY COUNCIL TO REFLECT ON THE MORAL AND ETHICAL VALUES OF ITS RESIDENTS, AND, UH, SUBSEQUENTLY TO DIVEST ANY CURRENT AND FUTURES CITY INVESTMENTS FOR COMPANIES THAT COMMIT, SUPPORT, SUSTAIN OR MATERIALLY BENEFIT FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CRIMES OF GENOCIDE, APARTHEID, OR ETHNIC CLEANSING.
UM, I'M SURE YOU'VE PROBABLY ALREADY HEARD ALL OF THIS BEFORE, BUT CONSIDERING THAT YOU HAVEN'T, UM, DIVESTED YET.
I, I BELIEVE IT'S IMPORTANT TO LIKE MAYBE REMIND YOU ONE OF THE COMPANIES IN WHICH YOU INVEST, UM, IS CATERPILLAR.
UH, FOR DECADES, CATERPILLAR HAS SUPPLIED HEAVY MACHINERY, MOST NOTABLY THE CATERPILLAR D NINE ARMORED BULLDOZER NICKNAMED DOOBIE, WHICH IS HEBREW FOR TEDDY BEAR, A FITTING NAME FOR A MACHINE DECI DESIGNED TO DESTROY, I WOULD SAY TO THE ISRAELI MILITARY.
ISRAELI MILITARY ROUTINELY USES CATERPILLAR D NINE BULLDOZERS TO DEMOLISH PALESTINIAN HOMES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, ROADS, COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES, AGRICULTURAL LAND, AND OTHER CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE.
BETWEEN 1967 AND 2007, MORE THAN 18,000 PALESTINIAN HOMES WERE DEMOLISHED BY THE ISRAELI OFFENSIVE FORCE.
ACCORDING TO HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, THE ISRAELI MILITARY HAS USED THE D NINE AS ITS PRIMARY WEAPON TO RAISE PALESTINIAN HOMES, DESTROY AGRICULTURE AND SHRED ROADS IN VIOLATION OF THE LAWS OF WAR.
ISRAEL ROUTINELY USES D NINE BULLDOZERS TO CARRY OUT EXTRA JUDICIAL EXECUTIONS OF PALESTINIANS AS PART OF ITS SO-CALLED PRESSURE COOKER.
PROCEDURE IN 2003, AS I'M SURE YOU'RE AWARE, AN ISRAELI NINE BULLDOZER CRUSHED AMERICAN PEACE ACTIVIST RACHEL COREY TO DEATH AS SHE ATTEMPTED TO DE DEFEND A PALESTINIAN HOME FROM BEING DEMOLISHED WHILE THE FAMILY WAS STILL INSIDE.
I CAN NAME FIVE OTHER FAMILIES EASILY THAT WERE DIRECTLY KILLED BY THE CATERPILLAR BULLDOZER.
PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS FALL ON DEAF EARS.
PLEASE WASH YOUR HANDS OFF OF THE BLOOD OF INNOCENT LIVES AND DIVEST FROM COMPANIES THAT ARE ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING AND PALESTINE.
THIS IS NOT PROMOTING HATE, THIS IS CALLING FOR PEACE.
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IS NOT SOME, THIS IS NOT POLITICAL.THIS IS THE MOST HUMAN THING THAT YOU CAN DO.
AND THIS IS CITY BUSINESS BECAUSE YOUR MONEY IS BEING USED TO DIRECTLY FUND THIS GENOCIDE.
IF YOU DO NOT DIVEST, PLEASE DO CONSIDER THIS FREE PALESTINE.
THAT DOES CONCLUDE OUR SPEAKERS THIS EVENING.
MR. KITTY, I NOTICED YOU SUBMITTED ANOTHER CARD, BUT YOU HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK THIS EVENING.
WE WILL NOW MOVE TO OUR CONSENT CALENDAR.
THE FOLLOWING CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE ROUTINE AND NON-CONTROVERSIAL.
THEY WILL BE ACTED UPON WITHOUT DISCUSSION UNLESS AN ITEM IS REMOVED BY A COUNCIL MEMBER.
[D. CONSENT CALENDAR]
OF THE CITY COUNCIL WILL ALSO SIT ON THE FIRE BOARD, CAN ACT WITH A SINGLE MOTION ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS. AND MADAM MAYOR PRO TEM, I NEED TOCE FROM ITEM D THREE DUE TO PRINCIPLE CONFLICT OF INTEREST AS SO-CALLED GAS IS MY EMPLOYER.COUNCIL MEMBER SCOTT, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT CALENDAR? SO MOVE SECOND, PLEASE VOTE.
MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY WITH COUNCIL MEMBER SCOTT ABSTAINING ON ITEM D THREE AND MAYOR MICHAEL, ABSENT.
SINCE THERE ARE NO ITEMS IN SECTION E OR F, WE WILL NOW MOVE TO OUR NEXT ITEM OF BUSINESS, WHICH IS SECTION G ADVERTISE
[E. CONSENT CALENDAR ORDINANCE(S) - SECOND READING/ADOPTION - NONE.]
PUBLIC HEARINGS, PUBLIC HEARING[F. ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING ITEM(S) - NONE]
TO CONSIDER CHANGES TO THE TECHNOLOGY FEE[G. ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARINGS ITEM(S) - CITY/FIRE DISTRICT]
AND SERVICE AND USER FEES FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES[G1. Conducting Public Hearing to Consider Changes to the Technology Fee, and Service and User Fees for Engineering Services and Environmental Programs; and Consideration of Resolutions Approving Such Revised Service and User Fees. (RESOLUTION NO. 2024-024 AND RESOLUTION NO. FD 2024-003) (CITY/FIRE)]
AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS APPROVING SUCH REVISED SERVICE AND USER FEES.RESOLUTIONS NUMBER 20 24 24 AND RESOLUTION NUMBER FD 2024 DASH ZERO THREE.
MR. CITY MANAGER? YES, MR. MAYOR AND MEMBERS OR, UH, MAYOR PRO TEM AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
SO COUNCIL WILL RECALL AT THE END OF LAST YEAR, WE DID, UM, A SERIES OF FEE ADJUSTMENTS IN A VARIETY OF, UH, DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE CITY.
BUT AT THE TIME, UH, WE WERE STILL WORKING ON THE ENGINEERING FEE ADJUSTMENTS.
THESE ARE OUR USER FEES, UM, FOR THINGS LIKE PERMITS AND, AND THAT TYPE OF THING.
SO WE, UH, CONTINUED THAT ITEM.
UH, IT'S NOW SINCE BEEN FINISHED.
AND SO WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE JUSTINE GARCIA, OUR DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING SERVICES, TO GIVE THE STAFF REPORT ON THIS ITEM.
AND THEN WE WOULD ASK THAT YOU OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
UM, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR PROAM AND CITY COUNCIL.
AS, UH, MR. ELLISON STATED TONIGHT I AM HERE TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT A USER FEE UPDATE FOR THE ENGINEERING SERVICES ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND, UM, OUR TECHNOLOGY FEE.
UM, SO AS YOU ALL KNOW, UH, THERE ARE MANY SERVICES OFFERED BY THE CITY, MOST OF WHICH HAVE A COST ASSOCIATED WITH THEM THAT CANNOT BE ABSORBED BY THE GENERAL FUND.
THE CITY CHARGES THESE USER FEES, UM, UH, PROPOSED TONIGHT TO RECOVER COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SERVICES PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE LAW.
CITY DEPARTMENTS TYPICALLY REVISIT FEES AT LEAST ONCE PER YEAR TO ENSURE SMALL ADJUSTMENTS CAN BE MADE OVER TIME TO KEEP UP WITH OPERATIONAL COSTS.
UM, THE CITY COUNCIL HAS A LONGSTANDING PRACTICE TO RECOVER COSTS, UM, ALL COSTS RELATED TO NEW DEVELOPMENT, ENSURING THAT NEW DEVELOPMENT PAYS ITS OWN WAY.
TONIGHT'S ITEM COVERS FEE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON CONCLUSIONS OF A COMPREHENSIVE FEE STUDY CONDUCTED OVER THE PAST SIX MONTHS BY OUR CONSULTANT AND S UM, AND THE, UH, AREAS DESCRIBED ARE, ARE THE LAND DEVELOPMENT SECTION OF THE ENGINEERING SERVICES DEPARTMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS, AND THE TECHNOLOGY FEE ASSOCIATED WITH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PERMITS.
UH, FIRST WE'LL START WITH THE ENGINEERING SERVICES, LAND DEVELOPMENT USER FEES.
UM, AND THE LAST COMPREHENSIVE FEE ANALYSIS THAT WAS COMPLETED WAS ABOUT A DECADE AGO IN 2014.
AND OUR CURRENT FEE STRUCTURE AS ANALYZED BY NBS IS CURRENTLY RECOVERING APPROXIMATELY 69% OF COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING SERVICES RELATED TO THE LAND DEVELOPMENT FUNCTIONS OF ENGINEERING SERVICES.
UH, MBS WORKED WITH STAFF TO DETERMINE ANY FEES THAT NEEDED TO BE ADDED, DELETED, OR RE-CATEGORIZED, EVALUATED, DIRECT AND INDIRECT PERSONNEL COST, ESTABLISHED A FULLY BURDENED HOURLY RATE FOR SERVICE AND DEVELOPED A FULLY, UH, FULL COST RECOVERY RATE FOR EACH FEE.
THIS ESTABLISHES THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT THAT CAN BE CHARGED FOR ANY GIVEN FEE, AND THE CITY COUNCIL ULTIMATELY MAKES THE FINAL DETERMINATION ON EACH FEE AMOUNT PROVIDED IT DOES NOT EXCEED THE FULL COST RECOVERY RATE.
THE ANALYSIS SHOWED, UH, THAT THERE WERE 68 FEES THAT NEEDED TO BE INCREASED,
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47 FEES DECREASED AND SIX NEW FEES HAVE BEEN ADDED IN ORDER TO ACCOUNT FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES, UH, SUCH AS MICRO-TRENCHING AND PROVIDE TO PROVIDE FLEXIBILITY TO APPLICANTS TO REDUCE THEIR BOND BURDEN ONCE THEY'VE COMPLETED PORTIONS OF THEIR PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.UH, ALL FEES, UH, IN THE, IN THIS SECTION ARE PROPOSED FOR A HUNDRED PERCENT COST RECOVERY, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE THREE LISTED ON THE SLIDE.
CURRENTLY, UH, THE FIRST FEE IS THE OVERSIZE LOAD FEE, AND THAT IS A FEE THAT'S ACTUALLY SET BY THE STATE.
SO THERE'S A CAP TO THE AMOUNT THAT WE CAN CHARGE, UM, AND WE CANNOT COLLECT MORE THAN THAT AMOUNT THAT'S SPECIFIED.
SO YOU'LL SEE THAT THE MAX FOR THE SINGLE PERMIT, UH, SO SINGLE, UH, TIME A PERMIT IS $16.
AND THAT PROVIDES FOR 17% COST RECOVERY AND THE ANNUAL PERMIT, WHICH COVERS, UM, UH, ENTITIES THAT ARE DOING OVERSIZED LOAD TRIPS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, UH, ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.
UM, SO MULTIPLE UH, TIMES, UH, THE MAX TO CHARGE THERE IS $90 AND THAT PRESENTS ABOUT 97% COST RECOVERY.
THE SECOND TWO FEES ARE PREDOMINANTLY PERMITS THAT ARE PULLED BY RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS WHERE WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE COMPLIANCE, AND THEREFORE WE ARE RECOMMENDING A LOWER FEE TO REDUCE THE COST BURDEN ON IN THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY PAYING THE FEE.
AND THOSE FEES ARE THE STREET TREE REMOVAL APPLICATION FEE, WHICH IS RE RECOMMENDED AT 75% COST RECOVERY AND THE RESIDENTIAL DRIVER APPROACH FEE, WHICH IS RECOMMENDED AT 80% 85% COST RECOVERY.
I'D LIKE TO MAKE A NOTE AT THIS TIME IN THE PRESENTATION TO ADDRESS A, A REVISION TO THE RESOLUTION, UM, THAT WE, WE HAVE PROVIDED TO YOU.
UH, RESOLUTION NUMBER 2024 DASH OH TWO FOUR.
UM, THERE WAS A TYPO DISCOVERED, UH, IN THE ORIGINAL RESOLUTION PROVIDED ON THE RESIDENTIAL PARCEL MAP PLUS PER LOT FEE.
UM, AND THE ORIGINAL FEE ENTERED WAS $139.
HOWEVER, THE FEE IS SUPPOSED TO BE $371, AND THAT'S REFLECTED IN THE NBS REPORT ATTACHED.
SO IT'S CONSISTENT WITH THE REPORT AND THAT PROVIDES FOR A HUNDRED PERCENT COST RECOVERY.
NEXT, WE'LL TALK, UH, BRIEFLY ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS FEES.
UM, THE, UH, CURRENT FEE, UH, RECOVERY RANGES FOR THIS, UH, FOR FEES WITHIN THIS PROGRAM, UM, RANGE FROM ABOUT 22% TO 66%.
AND OVERALL COST RECOVERY AS ANALYZED BY NBS WAS DETERMINED TO BE 12% WITH THE CURRENT FEE RATES.
UM, NBS PROVIDED THE SAME ANALYSIS, UH, TO DETERMINE ANY FEES THAT NEEDED TO BE ADDED, DELETED, OR RE-CATEGORIZED AGAIN, EVALUATED DIRECT AND INDIRECT PERSONNEL COSTS AND ESTABLISHED A FULLY BURDEN RATE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS, UM, TO DEVELOP THE FULL COST RECOVERY RATE FOR EACH FEE.
THE ANALYSIS SHOWED THAT THERE WERE EIGHT FEES THAT NEEDED TO BE INCREASED, FIVE OF WHICH ARE RELATED TO SEPA SERVICES.
UM, NO FEES TO BE DECREASED AND 12 NEW FEES HAVE BEEN ADDED IN ORDER TO COLLECT FEES RELATED TO STORM WATER AND WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT INSPECTIONS.
UM, I'D LIKE TO NOTE THAT EVEN WITH FEE INCREASES TO HAUL PERMITS, UH, IT IS, UH, THEY ARE STILL LESS EXPENSIVE THAN USING THE CITY'S, UH, FRANCHISE HAULER.
AND ALL FEES UNDER THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS, UH, SECTION ARE RECOMMENDED FOR A HUNDRED PERCENT COST RECOVERY.
UH, NEXT IS THE TECHNOLOGY FEE.
UM, AND THIS FEE, UH, WAS SET IN 2012, UM, BY THE CITY COUNCIL, AND IT PROVIDES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE ASSOCIATED WITH THE ELECTRONIC LAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT WE USE FOR PERMITTING.
UM, THE FEE HAS BEEN THE SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS SUCH AS THE TRANSITION TO ACELA, A PERMITTING SYSTEM IN 2 20 14, UH, WHICH SHIFTED THE ORGANIZATION AWAY FROM PAPER PERMITTING PROCESSES AND, UH, AND PLAN CHECK PROCESSING TO A FULLY DIGITAL SYSTEM.
THE CURRENT FEE IS SET AT 7% OF PERMIT FEE COSTS AND AS ANALYZED BY MBS IS PROVIDING FOR 18%, UH, COST RECOVERY RELATED TO, UH, MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM.
UH, MBS PERFORMED A COST OF SERVICE ANALYSIS FOR RECURRING MAINTENANCE COSTS AND PLANNED ONE TIME ENHANCEMENT COST, AND DETERMINED THAT THE RECOMMENDED, UH, 12% FEE, UH, BE IMPOSED TO REACH A HUNDRED PERCENT COST RECOVERY.
THE TECHNOLOGY FEE APPLIES TO BOTH CITY AND FIRE PERMIT FEES GOING FORWARD, AND THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE TWO RESOLUTIONS BEFORE YOU TONIGHT.
UH, THE EFFECTIVE DATES OF FEES, UM, UH, BY STATE LAW, WE ARE REQUIRED TO, UH, FEES ARE REQUIRED TO, UH, GO INTO EFFECT, UH, 60 DAYS AFTER ADOPTION.
UM, WE ARE RECOMMENDING THAT FEES, UH, BECOME EFFECTIVE JULY 1ST TO THE, WITH THE START OF THE NEW FISCAL YEAR, AND THAT IS ACTUALLY MORE THAN 60 DAYS, UH, THE 60 DAYS
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REQUIRED BY STATE LAW.UM, AND UH, A NOTE IS THAT THE ANNUAL ADJUSTMENTS FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS FEES, UM, WILL BE APPLIED STARTING NEXT FISCAL YEAR, JULY 1ST, 2025.
UM, AND THAT WILL BE BASED ON THE ECI OR EMPLOYMENT COST INDEX FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, WHICH IS CONSISTENT WITH OTHER, UM, ANNUAL FEE UPDATES.
WE EXTEND, UH, DID SOME PUBLIC OUTREACH, UM, IN ORDER TO INFORM THE PUBLIC AND ANY STAKEHOLDERS OF THE FEE UPDATES.
UM, WE, UH, REACHED OUT TO THE BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION, DESERT VALLEY BUILDERS AND ASSOCIATION, AND SOCAL GAS.
WE PROVIDED A NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING, UM, ADVERTISED TWICE IN THE NEWSPAPER.
THE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING WAS MAILED TO INTERESTED PARTIES BY THE STATE CLERK'S OFFICE.
WE PROVIDED A NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING, UH, TO CELL HALL PERMIT HOLDERS, UM, THROUGH THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS SECTION, AND A FEE COST ANALYSIS WAS MADE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING IN THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE ON APRIL 3RD.
WE DID RECEIVE A FORMAL LETTER FROM THE DESERT VALLEY BUILDERS ASSOCIATION, WHICH HAS BEEN PROVIDED TO YOU TONIGHT.
UM, IN THE LETTER, THE TECHNOLOGY FEE IS BEING REFERRED TO AS A DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE.
AND I WANT TO JUST CLARIFY THAT THE TECHNOLOGY FEE IS NOT CONSIDERED AN IMPACT FEE, UM, AND IS CONSIDERED A USER FEE.
AND DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES ARE TYPICALLY IMPOSED ON NEW DEVELOPMENT, AND THE TECHNOLOGY FEE IS BEING ACTUALLY IMPOSED ON PERMITS ACROSS VARIOUS TYPES OF, UH, DEVELOPMENT, UH, FOR DEVELOPMENT WORK, INCLUDING EXISTING DEVELOPMENT UTILITY RIGHT OF WAY PERMITS, UM, AND AS WELL AS NEW DEVELOPMENT.
SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT DISTINCTION WAS MADE TONIGHT.
UH, TONIGHT THE RECOMMENDATION IS THAT, UH, THE COUNCIL AND FIRE BOARD TAKE, UH, OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING, UM, ON THE PROPOSED NEW AND AMENDED SERVICE AND USER FEES, UM, AND ADOPT RESOLUTIONS 2024 DASH OH TWO FOUR AND FD 2024 DASH OH OH THREE TO ESTABLISH NEW FEES THROUGH REPEAL OUTDATED FEES AND AMEND CERTAIN EXISTING FEES FOR ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND THE TECHNOLOGY FEE.
AND THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT, AND I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE I OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING? IF NOT, THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW OPEN.
ARE THERE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL ON THIS ITEM.
SEE, NONE THE PUB PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED BEFORE I TAKE A VOTE, ARE THERE ANY FURTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? I HAVE ONE.
DID THE CONSULTANT NVS MENTION WHEN THEY RECOMMENDED THAT WE LOOK AT TECHNOLOGY FEES, SERVICE END USER FEES, ENGINEERING OR ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS NEXT, CONSIDERING THAT THE LAST TIME THAT WE LOOKED AT 'EM WAS 10 YEARS AGO? IS THAT CORRECT? YEAH, SO, UM, ACTUALLY GIVEN THE, WHERE, WHERE INFLATION IS AND, AND THOSE TYPE OF CHANGES, NOW WE'RE GONNA TRY AND KEEP ALL OF THESE ON SOMEWHERE BETWEEN AN EVERY OTHER AND EVERY THIRD YEAR ADJUSTMENT CYCLE.
THE, UM, ADJUSTMENT THAT JUSTINE REFERRED TO WILL HELP KEEP US FROM GETTING AS FAR OUT OF WHACK.
UM, BUT WE'RE GONNA NEED TO REVIEW THESE, UM, EVERY, EVERY COUPLE YEARS AT THE MOST.
AND SO, UM, WE'VE ALMOST GOT ALL OUR USER FEES ON A SCHEDULE NOW TO WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT SOMETHING EVERY YEAR TO THE COUNCIL.
AND SO NOW WE CAN STAGGER EVERYTHING OUT OVER A TWO OR THREE YEAR CYCLE AND ACCOMPLISH ALL OF THAT.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I KNOW THIS WAS A HEAVY LIFT BECAUSE IT HAS NOT BEEN DONE IN QUITE SOME TIME, SO I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT WE DID DIVE INTO THIS RIGHT NOW, BUT AS MR. ESON SAID, WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO GET THIS FAR BEHIND IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE IT IS A SHOCK TO ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE IMPACTED BY THESE FEES.
AND AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE RESOLUTIONS NUMBER 2024 DASH 24 AND FD 2 24 DASH THREE, ESTABLISHING THE REVISED SERVICE AND USER FEES FOR THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA AND ESTABLISHING THE REVISED TECHNOLOGY FEE FOR THE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.
MOTION CARRIES BY UNANIMOUS VOTE OF THOSE PRESENT.
WE'LL NOW MOVE TO ITEM G TWO PUBLIC HEARING TO APPROVE THE DRAFT 2024 DASH 2025 ACTION PLAN FOR THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM.
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YES, MAYOR PRO TEM AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL.SO EVERY YEAR WE COME TO YOU, UH, AS A REQUIREMENT OF, UH, OBTAINING CDBG FUNDS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
WE HAVE TO APPROVE AN ACTION PLAN EVERY YEAR, AND THERE IS A HEARING THAT IS PART OF IT.
AND SO WE ARE BACK IN FRONT OF YOU WITH THAT ITEM NOW.
AND I'M GONNA HAVE FLAVIO NUNEZ, OUR MANAGEMENT ANALYST TOO, GET THE STAFF
[G2. Public Hearing to Approve the Draft 2024-2025 Action Plan for the Community Development Block Grant Program. (CITY)]
REPORT ON THIS ITEM.THANK YOU CITY MANAGER, MR. GILSON, AND GOOD EVENING MAYOR, UH, PRO TEM AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
I'M HERE AS JOHN MENTIONED, UH, TO PRESENT TO YOU THE DRAFT FISCAL YEAR 24 25 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN.
THIS IS A REQUIREMENT OF THE US DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN ORDER FOR THE CITY TO RECEIVE ITS ALLOCATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS.
UM, HERE'S AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT I WILL BE COVERING TODAY.
SO I WILL DO A BRIEF BACKGROUND ON THE CDBG PROGRAM, UH, THEN DISCUSS SOME OF THE RESOURCES THAT WE ANTICIPATE TO RECEIVE OVER THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
AND THEN REAL BROADLY DESCRIBE THE ACTION PLAN AND THEN CONCLUDE WITH, UM, THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM STAFF.
SO BACKGROUND, THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS ARE PROVIDED TO THE CITY AS AN ENTITLEMENT GRANT FROM THE US DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND, UH, URBAN DEVELOPMENT.
THE CDBG PROGRAM PROVIDES FUNDING FOR A WIDE RANGE OF HOUSING, COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES.
UH, THESE ACTIVITIES PRIMARILY, UH, BENEFIT THOSE OF LOW AND MODERATE INCOME.
HUD DEFINES LOW AND MODERATE INCOME.
ARE THOSE, UM, INDIVIDUALS OR FAMILIES OR HOUSEHOLDS THAT ARE EARNING LESS, 80% OR LESS OF THE COUNTY MEDIAN INCOME.
AND JUST TO ILLUSTRATE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, UM, THESE ARE THE HUD INCOME LIMITS FOR THE 2024, UM, YEAR, THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA.
AND THESE, THESE INCOME LIMITS ARE BASED ON, UH, MSAS METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREAS.
THE CITY OF RANCHO IS WITHIN THE RIVERSIDE, SAN BERNARDINO, ONTARIO, MSA, UH, THE MEDIAN INCOME FOR THIS AREA IS 97,500.
SO ACCORDING TO HUD, THE, THE LOW INCOME CATEGORY OF 80% OR BELOW IS BASED ON ON HOUSEHOLD SIZE.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT AN INDIVIDUAL, UM, THAT IS EARNING 57,400 OR LESS, THEY WOULD QUALIFY FOR CDBG FUNDING.
IF YOU ARE A HOUSEHOLD OF FOUR OR A FAMILY OF FOUR, YOU CANNOT EXCEED $82,000 IN ORDER TO QUALIFY.
SO, UM, WE, THIS, THIS IS THE MAXIMUM.
UH, WE DEFINITELY SERVE, UH, A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE WAY BELOW THIS.
SO 50 AND 35% OF THE COUNTY MEETING INCOME.
UM, ALSO JUST I WANTED TO KIND OF GO OVER, UM, SORT OF THE OVERARCHING DOCUMENT OF, OF, UH, OUR CDBG FUNDING.
IT REALLY STARTS WITH THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN, WHICH THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED IN APRIL OF 2020.
THAT PLANNING DOCUMENT IS A FIVE YEAR DOCUMENT THAT OUTLINES THE GOALS AND STRATEGIES FOR, UH, THE USE OF THOSE FUNDS.
AND THERE'S FOUR MAJOR, UH, GOALS, UM, AND STRATEGIES, UH, THAT THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN TARGETS.
SO IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, THOSE FOUR ARE ILLUSTRATED IN THE GRAPHIC TO THE LEFT.
UM, STARTING WITH FAIR HOUSING SERVICES, THIS INCLUDES, UM, AND THIS IS ACTUALLY A REQUIREMENT OF HUD, THAT IF YOU'RE RECEIVING HUD FUNDING, YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME SORT OF FAIR HOUSING SERVICES.
SO, UM, WE CONTRACT WITH INLAND FAIR HOUSING MEDIATION BOARD AND THEY PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO, UH, LANDLORDS AS WELL AS TENANTS ON, ON THEIR HOUSING RIGHTS.
UM, THEY ALSO DIRECT, UM, LANDLORDS OR, OR TENANTS SHOULD THEY HAVE ANY KIND OF LEGAL MATTERS.
SO THIS, THAT, THAT'S WHAT THAT PARTICULAR, UH, GOAL THERE IS.
THEN WE HAVE PUBLIC SERVICE, WHICH IS ANOTHER ONE, AND THIS IS WHERE, UM, WE WORK WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TO PROVIDE SERVICES IN THE COMMUNITY THAT THE CITY DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE THE RESOURCES FOR.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE ORGANIZATION THAT WE WORK WITH IS SOCAL IMPACT THAT PROVIDES EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE TO FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS IN THE CITY.
UH, WE ALSO FUND OTHER, UH, PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THAT THE CITY RUNS AS WELL.
UM, AND AGAIN, THIS IS ALL TARGETING, UH, FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS EARNING LESS THAN 80% OF THE COUNTY MEDIAN INCOME.
WE HAVE, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVATION AND THEN, UH, PORTION OF THOSE FUNDS ARE ALSO UTILIZED FOR PUBLIC FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, THE, I, THE GRAPHIC TO THE RIGHT JUST ILLUSTRATES THAT FIVE YEAR CONSOLIDATED PLAN AND OUTLINES THAT THIS PARTICULAR ACTION PLAN IS THE FIFTH AND FINAL YEAR OF THAT CONSOLIDATED PLAN.
SO WE WILL BE STARTING A ON A NEW CONSOLIDATED PLAN AS WELL.
BUT HERE, WE'RE HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT THE ACTION PLAN, UM, TO ALSO JUST TO COVER SOME OF THE RESOURCES.
SO HUD DETERMINES EACH CITY'S ALLOCATION BASED ON A PRETTY COMPLEX FORMULA THAT ACCOUNTS FOR SEVERAL, UM, METRICS SUCH
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AS POPULATION GROWTH, HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, AND EC, OTHER ECONOMIC FACTORS.UM, IN THAT PURPLISH CIRCLE, YOU'LL SEE THAT THE CDBG GRANT IS 1,034,584.
I WILL NOTE THAT AS OF TODAY, HUD HAS NOT RELEASED THE ALLOCATIONS FOR 2024.
WE DON'T EXPECT THOSE TO BE OUT UNTIL PROBABLY MAY.
SO WHAT THEY'VE INSTRUCTED CITIES, COUNTIES, AND STATES TO DO IS TO BASE YOUR ACTION PLAN ON THE CURRENT ALLOCATION.
AND, UM, AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE BASING IT ON, UH, TODAY.
SO, UH, BASED ON THAT, THERE'S, THESE ARE THE FOUR, UH, STRATEGIC GOALS OF THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN, AND THIS IS HOW WE'VE OUTLINED THE FUNDING FOR EACH OF THOSE SECTIONS.
UM, I WILL NOTE THAT UNDER PUBLIC FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, THERE IS ABOUT 300,000 OF, OF PROGRAM INCOME THAT WE'VE RECEIVED THAT HAS NOT BEEN PROGRAMMED.
AND SO THAT IS ADDED INTO THIS.
SO WHEN YOU REALLY ACCOUNT, WHEN YOU TOTAL UP THE FOUR, UH, UH, FIGURES ON, ON THE CHART, IT'S A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO ABOUT $1.3 MILLION.
SO I JUST WANTED TO NOTE THAT, UM, THE ACTION PLAN IN TERMS OF THE ACTION PLAN AND THE BIG BUCKETS, IF YOU WILL, OF WHERE THE BUDGETING GOES.
UH, THERE'S THREE BIG BUCKETS, UM, IN THE ACTION PLAN, AND THAT'S ADMINISTRATION, PUBLIC SERVICES AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.
EACH OF THESE BUCKETS TARGET THOSE FOUR STRATEGIC GOALS OF THE, OF THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN.
UM, ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC SERVICES HAVE CAPS BASED ON HUD, SO NO MORE THAN 20% OF THE CITY'S ALLOCATION CAN BE USED FOR ADMINISTRATION OF THE CDBG PROGRAM.
UH, FAIR HOUSING IS, IS ONE OF THOSE ADMINISTRATIVE PROGRAMS UNDER ADMINISTRATION.
AND THEN WE HAVE PUBLIC SERVICE WHERE WE, UM, AGAIN, CONTRACT WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND ALSO SUPPORT SOME OF CITY PROGRAMS. THERE'S ALSO A CAP FOR THAT.
NO MORE THAN 15% OF THE TOTAL ALLOCATION GOES TOWARDS THAT.
AND THEN THE BALANCE IS, IS IN CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS WITH CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.
WE HAVE STREET PROJECTS, WE HAVE A DA MODIFICATIONS, UM, WE DO OUR HOUSING REHABILITATION PROGRAM OUT OF THERE.
SO THAT'S A, THERE'S NO CAP THERE AND THAT'S A PRETTY BIG BUDGET ON THAT END.
UM, I WANTED TO OUTLINE ALSO JUST BEFORE WE DEVELOPED THE A ANNUAL ACTION PLAN, I JUST KIND OF WANTED TO OUTLINE THE PROCESS THAT WE GO THROUGH.
SO, UM, HUD REQUIRES THAT WE HAVE AN ANNUAL ACTION PLAN SUBMITTED TO, TO HUD BY MAY 15TH.
IT GIVES THEM TIME TO REVIEW IT, PROVIDE ANY COMMENTS BEFORE THE START OF THE FISCAL YEAR.
SO WE'RE KIND OF ALWAYS TRYING TO GET THIS AHEAD OF SOMETIMES BEFORE WE HAVE THE ALLOCATION AS AS IT IS IN THIS CASE.
SO WE START IN THE END OF NOVEMBER WITH NOTICING THE PUBLIC THAT THE CITY HAS FUNDS AVAILABLE THROUGH CDBG.
UM, WE ALSO EMAIL OUR NONPROFIT GROUPS THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY, UH, PARTNERING WITH AND THOSE ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE CONTACTED US THAT WANNA PARTICIPATE IN THE CDBG FUNDING.
UM, AS A RESULT, WE RECEIVED 16 APPLICATIONS, 10 FOR PUBLIC SERVICE, TWO FOR ADMINISTRATION, AND FOUR FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS.
THE CITY REVIEWS THOSE, UM, MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE MEETING THE NATIONAL OBJECTIVE FOR, FOR HUD, AND IT'S ALSO, THEY'RE ALSO MEETING OBJECTIVES OF THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN AS WELL AS MAKING SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO PERFORM.
AND THEN WE BRING THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS TO YOU IN THE FORM OF THE ANNUAL ACTION PLAN.
SO HERE'S A VERY HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF, OF THE BUDGETING FOR THE ACTION PLAN IN THE COMING YEAR.
UM, ALSO IT HAS, UH, AGAIN, THIS IS IN THE STAFF REPORT AND PART OF THE, UM, ANNUAL ACTION PLAN THAT WAS, UH, ATTACHED TO THE STAFF REPORT.
IT ALSO SHOWS THE, THE ANTICIPATED NUMBER OF, OF INDIVIDUALS OR FAMILIES THAT WOULD BE ASSISTED WITH THE PROGRAMMING FUNDS.
SO STAFF'S RECOMMENDATIONS IS THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OPEN THE PUBLIC OPEN AND CONDUCT THE PUBLIC HEARING, UH, APPROVE THE ANNUAL ACTION PLAN, THE 20 24 25 DRAFT, AUTHORIZE THE CITY TO SUBMIT THE DRAFT TO HUD, UM, AND AUTHORIZE THE APPROPRIATION OF THE FUNDS FOR THE 20 24 25 CDBG PROGRAM YEAR.
THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL BEFORE I OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING? THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW OPEN.
ARE THERE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL ON THIS ITEM? SEEING NONE, WHY NOT? MEMBER OF THE, UH, WOULD YOU LIKE TO APPROACH THE YES, I'VE BEEN GOING TO THE, UH, RANCHO CUCUMONGA BICYCLE TRAILS SUBCOMMITTEE, PART OF THE RANCHO CUCUMONGA HEALTHY RC, AND UH, I NOTICED THERE
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WAS FUNDS FOR GENERAL, UM, CONSTRUCTION, CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION.UH, DOES THE, UH, DOES MR. UH, I THINK HIS NAME IS CLARENCE, DOES HE, DOES HE HAVE A PROCESS OF OBTAINING FUNDS TO IMPROVE THE BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE? SO YEAH, THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR, UH, CITY STAFF AND PROGRAMS THAT WE RUN, UH, TO APPLY FOR PROGRAM FUNDING.
UH, ONE THING TO NOTE IS THAT THEY MUST BE ABLE TO MEET THE NATIONAL OBJECTIVE OF HUD AND THAT THEY'RE SERVING LOW AND MODERATE INCOME INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES.
ANY IMPROVEMENTS YOU GUYS TO THE BIKE TRAIL SOUTH OF FOOTHILL WOULD BE AN IMPROVEMENT.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? SEEING NONE, I AM NOW CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING.
ANY FURTHER COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL? QUESTIONS OF STAFF? THEN? I WAS, GO AHEAD.
I JUST WANNA, UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
THESE PROGRAMS ARE, IT IS HELPFUL.
WE DO HAVE SOME AREAS THAT COULD USE SOME ASSISTANCE, SO I'M REALLY PLEASED TO SEE THAT SOME OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES THAT WE'LL BE, UM, SPONSORING IN THE COMING NEW FISCAL YEAR ALSO INCLUDE LIKE MEMBERS OF NORTHTOWN AND FAMILY FOOTHILL SHELTER.
SO I APPRECIATE SEEING THOSE ON THOSE LIST.
I'D LIKE TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION.
MOTION CARRIES BY UNANIMOUS VOTE WITH THOSE PRESENT.
THIS WAS VERY GOOD REPORT AND THOSE FUNDS DEFINITELY GO TO GOOD USE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
I'D LIKE TO GO TO OUR NEXT ITEM, ITEM H OUR CITY MANAGERS, A QUARTERLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATE FOR FIRST QUARTER MR. GILLISON.
YES, MR. MAYOR OR MADAM MAYOR PRO TEM AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
SO, UH, WE DO A QUARTERLY UPDATE ON DEVELOPMENT AND CERTAINLY DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2024, UM, IS NOT AS ROBUST AS WE'VE SEEN PREVIOUSLY.
UM, UH, INTEREST RATES REMAIN PRETTY HIGH.
UH, CONSTRUCTION LENDING HAS BECOME HARD TO OBTAIN,
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PROJECTS HAVE SLOWED DOWN, ALTHOUGH WE CONTINUE TO SEE PROGRESS, UM, IN A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT WAYS.SO WITH THAT, LET ME TURN IT OVER TO OUR BUILDING AND SAFETY DIRECTOR, ZACH NEIGHBORS AND OUR PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR MATT MARQUEZ FOR A PRESENTATION ON THIS ITEM.
UM, OUR FIRST UPDATE TO, UM, FOR 2024 WILL BE SHORT AND SWEET, UH, BUT IT WILL INCLUDE SOME GOOD THINGS.
UM, THIS IS OUR WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU IN THE COMMUNITY, AS YOU KNOW, UH, TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
SO THE PLANNING TEAM, UH, DURING THE FIRST QUARTER RECEIVED 46 NEW APPLICATIONS HELPED OVER OR CLOSE TO A THOUSAND, UH, FOLKS EITHER AT THE PUBLIC COUNTER OR OVER THE PHONE.
AND AS USUAL AND AS YOU'VE SEEN, UH, ON THESE REPORTS, UM, THERE'S ROUGHLY 25 TO 30 MAJOR PROJECTS THAT REMAIN IN THE PIPELINE AT ONE TIME.
THE OTHER THING THAT I WOULD SAY IS THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION, UH, CONTINUES TO DO GREAT WORK, AS YOU KNOW, AND THE ACTIVITY AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION LEVEL GOES LIKE THIS.
IT'S, UH, REACTIVE TO THE MARKET AND OTHER THINGS, BUT THEY DO CONTINUE TO DO GREAT WORK.
UM, A COUPLE OF NOTABLE ITEMS THAT THEY WORKED ON DURING THE FIRST QUARTER, UH, MAY NOT BE MAJOR IN SIZE, BUT STILL IMPACTFUL POTENTIALLY IN THE COMMUNITY.
SO ONE WAS A NEW MUSIC SCHOOL KNOWN AS ROCK STARS OF TOMORROW, AND THAT WILL BE LOCATED IN A BUILDING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SEVENTH STREET AND HELLMAN, THEY ARE THE ROCK STARS OF TOMORROW.
I BELIEVE THIS WILL BE THE SEVENTH LOCATION IN CALIFORNIA AND WILL BE THE FIRST FRANCHISE LOCATION.
ANOTHER, UH, NOTABLE PROJECT WAS A 4,200 SQUARE FOOT MIXED USE PROJECT AT, UH, ARCHIBALD AVENUE AND ANASTASIA COURT.
A SMALL MIXED USE PROJECT, UH, A UNIQUE MIXED USE PROJECT DUE TO THE SIZE AND THE SHAPE OF THE SITE.
UH, SO PLANNING COMMISSION DID SOME GOOD WORK TO GET THAT APPROVED.
UH, A THOUSAND SQUARE FEET ROUGHLY OF OFFICE SPACE WITH TWO RESIDENTIAL UNITS AND THREE STORIES.
UM, AS I MENTIONED, THE UH, PLANNING COMMISSION ACTIVITY KIND OF GOES UP AND DOWN DEPENDING ON THE MARKET AND OTHER FACTORS.
UM, AND DEPENDING ON, UM, HOW QUICKLY, UH, WE'RE ABLE TO, TO, UM, TURN THINGS AROUND WHERE WE'RE PROCESSING PROJECTS OR HOW RESPONSIVE APPLICANTS ARE, UH, TO OUR REQUEST FOR INFORMATION, I WILL SAY THAT IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S LINING UP TO BE A PRETTY BUSY
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NEXT FEW MONTHS, UM, AND PROBABLY BEYOND FOR THE PLANNING COMMISSION.SO A NUMBER OF PROJECTS, SOME MAJOR ARE GETTING TO THE POINT OF BEING READY TO COME BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
SO WE EXPECT THEY'LL BE PRETTY BUSY OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, THEN WE'LL CERTAINLY REPORT THAT ACTIVITY OUT TO YOU AS WELL.
UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UH, AS ALWAYS, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAM IS TRYING TO PUSH OUT INFORMATION, UH, TO THE COMMUNITY AND TO OUR, OUR, UH, DIFFERENT PARTNERS IN DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS.
UH, WE CONTINUE TO SEE AN UPTICK IN THE LEVEL OF SUBSCRIBERS FOR OUR TWO MAIN NEWSLETTERS, THE ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NEWSLETTER, AND THEN ALSO THE REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS NEWSLETTER.
UM, AGAIN, POSITIVE SIGN BECAUSE THE NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS INCREASES OR HAS INCREASED, UH, 4,500 SUBSCRIBERS FOR THE LARGER NEWSLETTER.
AND THEN OVER 200 BROKERS OR REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS NOW, UM, SUBSCRIBE TO TO THAT NEWSLETTER.
UM, I AM NOT A SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERT, BUT WE'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE A COUPLE ON THE TEAM AND THEIR WORK, UH, HAS LED TO OVER 61,000, UH, SOCIAL MEDIA IMPRESSIONS OVER THE FIRST QUARTER OF, UH, 2024.
AND WHAT I'M TOLD THAT IS, IS THE NUMBER OF TIMES OUR CONTENT IS DISPLAYED ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
SO 61,000 UH, TIMES THERE, THERE HAVE BEEN SOCIAL MEDIA IMPRESSIONS DURING THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2024.
AND THEN LASTLY, JUST SOME STATS ON THE SBDC, WHICH WE'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU ON A QUARTERLY BASIS, UH, AS WELL.
UH, SO MOVING ON TO, UH, BUILDING SAFETY, OBVIOUSLY A LITTLE BIT SLOWER THAN USUAL, BUT STILL SOME PRETTY ROBUST NUMBERS.
SO IN TERMS OF QUARTER ONE, UH, 373 COUNTER VISITS, UH, A LITTLE OVER 1600 TEXTING CONTACTS, ALMOST 4,000 PHONE CALLS, THE INSPECTORS CONDUCTED 2,446 INSPECTIONS.
WE WERE ABLE TO ISSUE 841 PERMITS.
WE TOOK IN 654 NEW PLAN CHECKS.
UH, THE INSPECTION STAFF WAS ABLE TO FINALIZE 274 NEW HOUSING UNITS AND WE HAD 40 NEW CONSTRUCTION PERMITS FINALIZED IN TERMS OF, UH, ONGOING BUILDING ACTIVITY.
THE SANCTITY HOTEL, THE UH, 68 ROOM BOUTIQUE HOTEL LOCATED ON BASELINE HAS NOW COMPLETED ITS STUCCO APPLICATION AND ITS DRYWALL INSTALLATION.
THE DEVELOPER IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE INSTALLATION OF THE FINISHES AND TRIM IN THE INTERIOR, AS WELL AS COMPLETING THE SITE IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE PROJECT.
UH, 8,500 HAVEN KNOWN AS THE HAVEN AND ARROW PROJECT IS A, UH, LARGER PROJECT, CONSISTS OF 11 BUILDINGS WITH 240 APARTMENT UNITS AND 2,400 SQUARE FOOT OF COMMERCIAL SPACE.
THEY'VE COMPLETED THE FOUNDATIONS FOR ALL 11 BUILDINGS.
THE PODIUM DECK FOR BUILDING TWO, UH, THE PODIUM WILL ACT AS THE CEILING FOR THE UNDERGROUND PARKING STRUCTURE AND AS WELL AS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE FOUR STORIES OF HABITABLE SPACE ABOVE.
UH, JUST FOR CONTEXT, THE BUILDING TWO IS ACTUALLY THE LARGEST OF THE 11 BUILDINGS AND WE'LL HAVE FRONTAGE ON HAVEN AND ARROW BOTH UH, AS FOR 88, 65 AND 88 75 FOOTHILL, WHICH IS LOCATED ON THE UH, SOUTHWEST CORNER OF FOOTHILL AND VINEYARD.
THE PROJECT CONSISTS OF A 4,500 SQUARE FOOT MULTI-TENANT SHELL BUILDING.
ONE OF THE TENANTS IS STARBUCKS AND THE SECOND BUILDING BEING A 1700 SQUARE FOOT SINGLE TENANT SHELL BUILDING THE BUILDINGS HAVE COMPLETED THEIR, UH, INSPECTIONS AND THE REMAINING WORK BEING PERFORMED ON THE SITE AND THE ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS IS, IS ONGOING IN TERMS OF RESIDENTIAL, UH, BUILDING ACTIVITY.
THE CORE PROJECT LOCATED AT 1 3 2 5 0 FOOTHILL IS NEARING COMPLETION AS THEY'RE COMPLETING THEIR REQUIRED STREET IMPROVEMENTS IN ORDER TO OBTAIN FINAL ON THEIR PROJECT.
UH, THE HOMECOMING AT THE RESORT HAS CONTINUED TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS AS THEY NOW HAVE COMPLETED 87 OF THE 111 BUILDINGS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROJECT, WITH THE 24 REMAINING BUILDINGS BEING DUPLEX UNITS, SMALLER BUILDINGS.
UH, THE ALTA CUVE PROJECT, UH, WHICH IS 122 UNIT MIXED USE BUILDING LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF FOOTHILL IN EDDA, CONTINUES TO MAKE PRO UH, PROGRESS AND HAS COMPLETED THE FRAMING STAGES OF THE PROJECT AND GONE INTO ROUGH ELECTRICAL, ROUGH MECHANICAL AND ROUGH PLUMBING ON THE INTERIOR.
UH, NEXT UP NEW BUILDINGS THAT HAVE RECEIVED THEIR CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY AND FINAL ON THEIR PERMIT.
UH, THE SPEEDWAY PROJECT CONSISTS OF TWO CONCRETE TILT UP BUILDINGS, THE FIRST BUILDING BEING A 155,000 SQUARE FOOT
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TILT UP BUILDING WITH THE TENANT BEING LOWE'S DISTRIBUTION CENTER IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON THEIR TENANT IMPROVEMENT INSPECTIONS.AND THE SECOND BUILDING A 500 SQUARE FOOT TILT UP SHELL BUILDING, UH, HAS ALSO RECEIVED FINAL AND IS UP FOR LEASE.
UH, THE BRIDGEPOINT PROJECT CONSISTS OF TWO CONCRETE TILT UP BUILDINGS, THE FIRST BUILDING BEING A 740,000 SQUARE FOOT TILT UP BUILDING LOCATED AT 1 2 4 1 5 SIXTH STREET WITH THE TENANT BEING SIVA LOGISTICS.
AND THEY'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON THEIR TENANT IMPROVEMENT INSPECTIONS.
THE SECOND BUILDING A 1.4 MILLION SQUARE FOOT TIL UP BUILDING LOCATED AT 1 2 4 3 0 4 STREET HAS THE TENANT ROY USA, WHICH WILL BE UTILIZING THE BUILDING AS A DISTRIBUTION CENTER FOR THE LOCAL SMART AND FINAL STORES AND IS WORKING ON THEIR TENANT IMPROVEMENT INSPECTIONS AS WELL.
AND LASTLY, THE RED HILL GAS STATION LOCATED AT 8 1 6 6 FOOTHILL BOULEVARD, UH, LOCATED ON THE WESTERN INTEREST OF THE CITY, HAS RECENTLY RECEIVED ITS CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY AND FINAL AND IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS.
THAT CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION AND WE'RE OPEN TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OF STAFF FROM COUNCIL? THIS IS GREAT WORK.
THESE UPDATES ARE VERY IMPORTANT FOR US AND THE COMMUNITY.
WE SEE IT AS WE'RE DRIVING THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS AND STREETS.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THESE UPDATES.
WE REALIZE THAT THIS IS A RECEIVE AND FILE, SO THERE IS NO NEED FOR A VOTE DENIED ON THIS ITEM.
SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THAT UPDATE.
THIS TAKES US TO ITEM I COUNSEL BUSINESS.
ARE THERE ANY COUNSEL ANNOUNCEMENTS TONIGHT?
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ANY INTER-AGENCY UPDATES? MR. CITY ATTORNEY, DO YOU HAVE ANY ITEMS FOR US THIS EVENING? I HAVE NO REPORTS TONIGHT.ARE THERE ANY IDENTIFICATION OF ITEMS FOR OUR NEXT MEETING, WHICH WILL
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HEARING NONE.I AM ADJOURNING AT 8:32 PM THANK YOU AGAIN FOR COMING.