[0:19] I chose to know for the business because I've lived in and out of the area for like the past six years and I recently purchased my home over here, my kids go to school over here.

[0:29] We were in West Covina for many years and I feel like it was time to just root my entire life over here, my business.

[0:37] And I just love how it feels like such a small town and really tight-knit community.

[0:49] Since moving here I feel the community has been so welcoming,

[0:53] even for being a new business and new, five and kind of style out here.

[0:58] I think everyone's so curious, and even if we're maybe not hitting the exact demographic

[1:04] or maybe someone who's much older comes in, they're so excited to refer to their younger

[1:08] nieces, their granddaughters, everyone's just super excited to have us here and wants to see us thrive

[1:14] and you could just feel it in the energy and the foot traffic and people just coming out.

[1:28] What's as a part, I think, is our overall environment atmosphere. Kind of aesthetic, having

[1:35] a new spin out here in the inland empire, but I think also coming in and getting a great

[1:41] customer service. Really welcoming filling is something you kind of don't get all the time,

[1:46] but I feel like our staff makes everyone feel super welcomed and really engaged. So everyone

[1:52] here, having just like a great overall experience and enjoys atmosphere.

[2:09] Since moving here, a lot of people have kind of came in multiple times who maybe

[2:13] live down the street or just a few miles away.

[2:17] So I've definitely seen an influx of people coming out regularly and stopping by

[2:22] even when it's like within the same week.

[2:30] The advice I give to other entrepreneurs is just to go for it and do what

[2:39] It's the most perfect decision or just being unsure. The best you can do is just try and

[2:46] You'll never know if you succeed if you don't go for it. So just hit the ground running and you keep going

[3:26] We are here because we're brewing up business

[3:29] Chino is absolutely a phenomenal place to be

[3:32] Multi-generational city. We've been here over a hundred years and

[3:37] Very business friendly. You're gonna love Chino

[4:07] As far as businesses are concerned, I personally want to see something for everyone.

[4:13] I want our kids to be able to stay in town, have an entertainment place to go.

[4:18] I also want all kinds of entertainment for every age group.

[4:22] We need to stay here. We work here. We live here and we play here.

[4:26] So I'm looking for businesses that are going to fill any void that we have.

[4:36] So welcome to the Business Roundtable. This is the Brokers Edition.

[5:03] I was first elected in 1984. Chino used to be very, very heavily agricultural, and over time we

[5:11] have evolved into something for everyone when it comes to housing stock, which is wonderful,

[5:17] and also businesses. We're growing by leaps and bounds very, very proud of our community,

[5:23] multi-generational, so we have grandparents, parents, kids, so Chino's a wonderful place to be

[6:13] support since we opened was pretty good, you know, very incredibly supporting what I understand

[6:21] from the city part, the mayor and all the people around the city was very helpful since we started

[6:29] a operation of construction and then you know fully operational opening in December 2023.

[6:43] Our business at Suppard, I would say being a married hotel, we more focus on a service

[6:51] as well as a local community, what we support and more hospitality, I would say, so it's not

[6:59] only just a basic room and I, you know, if guests can come and sleep, but we focus as a whole,

[7:05] more warmth and welcoming. That's what we are both normally we fall.

[7:15] Business grown every year

[7:17] pretty much I would say since open in December 6, 2023 right now we are at about one and a half

[7:25] year plus but every year we see significant growth this year is much more I would say 10 to 20

[7:33] more than what we were in the first year. And surrounding area, what we see a lot of opportunity

[7:41] still considering all our locations. And one of the biggest locations I would say about the

[7:49] BPS Summit on Temple, that helps a lot of weddings and a lot of events happening there,

[7:56] guest, Luke comments, stay here, besides that we do get a lot of, that gives us a good

[8:02] group opportunity and we are still seeing a lot of opportunity around the businesses in

[8:08] the area, which we are trying to explore too.

[9:23] Interestingly, I opened up the very first LA fitness that was the very first ground up

[9:29] ever built here in Chino in December of 96 and I just had become a new yoga teacher and

[9:39] decided I wanted to open up my own studio and fit body was nice enough to let me

[9:44] sublyce face from them and a group from there about 11 years ago we opened up this

[9:51] space you see here behind me and this weekend we celebrate our 14th year anniversary and

[9:56] and this just has become my home.

[10:00] Community.

[10:09] Most of our advertising is simply word of mouth, and so the fact that people continue to tell their friends to come here is something that we're eternally grateful for beyond words.

[10:28] Not only do we have yoga, but we have heated kettlebell classes, where people do barefoot kettlebell, so good music, in our long heated room, and we have ice bath classes in the backyard, where people come together and get into the ice.

[10:44] We have sauna and lockers and showers, but I think really what sets us apart more than anything is this vein of mindfulness that we try to thread do out our offering.

[11:06] You know, to go from a small boot camp spot, subleasing behind sprouts to this large 4,000 square foot space with lockers and showers and two big yoga rooms is beyond our original vision and literally a dream come true.

[11:23] We're just super grateful that the community continues to show up for us,

[11:28] and long as they do, we're so excited about continuing to show up for them.

[11:43] Continue to a press-of-beer grit work ethic, or something that goes along away

[11:49] when you own your own business.

[11:52] We're just super grateful to be here.

[11:54] So I would say more than anything, just the sense of humility

[11:58] that the challenges have brought, um, created this grit and gratitude for what it is we do.

[12:40] China has both modern side and countryside charm. My husband, he likes the countryside.

[12:47] I like the modern side. He loved eating here, he'll even bring his clients here.

[12:52] And when it was up for sale, it took the opportunity and we bought it.

[12:56] We're very happy because we get to eat food here more often for free and I don't have to

[13:02] cool as much.

[13:09] First, I really need to thank Larry and Shelley, they're the one who started the Albuquerque

[13:13] House and they're the ones who made this a tuna favor.

[13:16] When we took over, we kept the same recipes, we just upgraded ingredients which oil to the

[13:20] Albuquerque oil and added new menu items.

[13:23] The support from community is awesome.

[13:25] Police officers, city staff, residents from Chino and all around cities, they come and support.

[13:31] So we're very, very grateful.

[13:40] What's the true business of fun?

[13:42] First food.

[13:43] It's a full homemade food, made with love, like grandma wood.

[13:46] And that was Shelley's model.

[13:48] And we really like it, and we're keeping it too.

[13:51] And second is the high-quality ingredient,

[13:54] and especially the avocado oil.

[13:56] It costs a $3,000 more per month

[13:58] to use avocado oil instead of canola oil.

[14:01] But we made the decision to do it

[14:03] because we care for the health of our customers,

[14:06] our employees who eat our food every day and for our family.

[14:15] If you want cozy countryside warm feeling, you can eat inside the restaurant

[14:19] and if you want to like a more modern feel, you can eat at a random

[14:22] and a backyard, which is a warm favorite.

[14:25] It's like having a picnic.

[14:27] You can relax and enjoy a nice southern California weather.

[14:36] We're very grateful as we continue to grow.

[14:39] So we're planned to increase ours and we're going to open for dinner.

[14:43] So, you know, people can now enjoy avocado house all day long.

[14:48] We started a coffee shop called Rabbit and Bean in La Habra and it's really doing well.

[14:52] So we want to open the second coffee shop here.

[14:55] So customers enjoy specialty coffee and matcha.

[14:58] We're very excited.

[15:01] First, you know, don't focus on money, profit, but just focus on giving joy and happiness to your customers and employees.

[15:09] Always serve high-quality food that you serve your own family. People will notice and they'll come back and also take good care of your employees because they'll take good care of your customers.

[15:53] So, my dad came like 45 years ago in the middle of the middle of the middle of the middle was a good opportunity to open a new business.

[16:01] Thank you all right.

[16:06] First of all, I want to thank the community of the City of China because of all these years

[16:12] they support us and they love us and I want to say a big thank you to them.

[16:28] Quality, the good quality for the products, the good customer service and I think they love what we're doing for that.

[16:48] So we opened the first location for four years ago.

[16:51] Now we move like two years ago over here with a big and nice location and we pray for

[17:12] because it was the first project for us. It was a little bit hard at the beginning. Thank God

[17:17] We make it with a help of the city of Chino. The help of the people of Chino. We're here now to

[17:24] server.

[18:06] We knew Chino was in demand for more restaurants but we also knew that the location that we were

[18:11] going to be going into that there was a lot of growth and there was going to be a lot that was

[18:15] coming in. But we also knew it was going to take time together.

[19:36] Good evening and welcome to

[19:38] the July 21st Council meeting. We have a special presentation this morning or this morning.

[19:43] Oh my gosh, here I go. I'd like to invite Chino Police Department explorers led by

[19:49] Explore Jonathan Torres. She's going to lead us in the pledge. So if you please stand.

[19:58] Good evening, everyone.

[20:00] Please place your hand above your heart, please your hand. I pledge allegiance of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, in the visible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you.

[20:18] Thank you very much, Jonathan. Let's give him a hand.

[20:22] Okay,

[20:29] it's my honor this evening to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of one of Chino's most cherished spaces, our Chino community garden.

[20:38] Over the past decade, this space has grown into a place of connection, learning and shared harvests.

[20:45] It's my pleasure this evening to honor the people and the plants that have made it all possible.

[20:50] I'd like to call up Rachel Phelps from Community Services Parks and Recreation.

[20:55] She's our coordinator.

[20:57] Brittany Sarkal, our supervisor of Community Services Parks and Recreation.

[21:03] And our Parks and Recreation Specialist, Caitlyn Chavez, and also Sochi Huerta, Betty

[21:11] Cielo, and Nathan Frank, Franco, would you all please come up.

[21:17] It's Nathan, you're not Nathan.

[21:25] We have a certificate of congratulations and recognition.

[21:29] This city council wishes you a happy anniversary as you commemorate 10 years of dedication to the health and wellness of the Tino community.

[21:39] Thank you, Mayor, and thank you members of the council.

[21:43] I also want to invite up. We have a couple gardeners here, so if I can invite them up, we have our master gardener, Esther Martinez, and then one of our plot owners, Ozzy Gomez.

[21:54] And

[22:02] the reason I wanted to call them up is because without people like them, the programming

[22:06] at the Chino community garden wouldn't be possible.

[22:10] We have our master gardeners of the San Bernardino County, the heart and soul of our garden,

[22:16] our gardeners, our partners like the Chino Branch Library and Green Chino who make all of

[22:22] our programming at the gardening possible.

[22:25] And then we also want to give a special shout out to Scout 202 or Troop 202 and Nate

[22:30] because they did a service project at our garden and they repainted our shed,

[22:36] restained our benches and it looks amazing.

[22:39] So thank you guys for choosing the garden to do your service project.

[22:48] Hi, my name is Nate and like Rachel said,

[22:52] I had my eagle project for the Chino community garden.

[22:55] First of all, I cannot express how thankful I am to everyone that supported me throughout this journey.

[23:01] First of all, I like to thank the Chino, sorry, the Chino Guard and staff.

[23:06] Thank you guys so much for everything.

[23:08] I truly could have not gotten done without you.

[23:11] Secondly, I like to thank my true for all the hard work they've put in with me and during

[23:18] the Eagle Project.

[23:20] Finally, I also want to thank my parents, my mom's over there.

[23:25] She actually works for the City of Chino.

[23:26] I'm going to embarrass her with it.

[23:29] I just want to thank them so much for keeping me going, pushing me through all any hardships

[23:36] I had and I'm just eternally grateful.

[23:39] Thank you guys.

[23:46] Okay.

[23:46] Now time for a photo.

[23:53] Can I have to squash him, you know, talk guys in the back.

[24:21] Thank you all again.

[24:34] Okay, next we have a retirement reposition.

[24:38] It's my honor this evening to recognize our development services director, Warren Morley-Anne,

[24:43] Morley-Anne.

[24:50] I'll look at this six for 17 years of dedicated service to our community and you can tell he's just nuts.

[25:01] We're going to miss him. Warren first joined the city of Chino in 2004 after starting his career in the city of Ranch

[25:09] Gugamanga. He left a city for five years, but like so many of our city staff, he couldn't stay away from Chino for too long and returned in 2016.

[25:19] Over the course of his career in Chino, he has held multiple positions before assuming the

[25:24] role of development services director in 2023.

[25:29] Warren's commitment to Chino is reflected in every corner of this community.

[25:34] He helped navigate the city through the housing element and general plan update and he guided

[25:39] our city's growth and development, especially in the preserve, as Chino became one of the

[25:51] are two as a Marine?

[25:52] No, what's that?

[25:54] Yeah, the who wrong?

[25:55] Warren is known as a workhorse.

[25:57] Often arriving early to get a jump start on the day.

[26:01] He's a team player, often bringing in his staff for discussions

[26:04] and giving them credit whenever possible.

[26:06] Cheneos has become his second home,

[26:08] and that shows in the quality of work he's brought to the city

[26:11] every single day of his tenure.

[26:14] Warren, I want to thank you so much for making such an incredible impact

[26:18] on our city. We are really convinced your work ethic and your humor. You would not believe

[26:23] us humor. And we wish you nothing but the best in your retirement. I have a city tile

[26:31] for you. The coveted city tile. And it reads the Chino City Council on behalf of the

[26:38] Citizens of Chino, which to express our appreciation for your 17 years of dedicated

[26:44] service to the city of Chino and its residents. I am particular, I'm going to really miss this man.

[26:50] He has put up with so much nonsense for me.

[26:55] Questions and looking into things and all kinds of

[26:59] stuff, huh? I would do it all over again. Oh, so sweet. Such a good guy. We have been so blessed with your

[27:06] service here. Now I'd like to call up, we have fire, board members, Tom Hauy and Carby Luth, and we

[27:13] I also have fire chief Dave Williams for a presentation.

[27:18] This is bigger than I thought.

[27:25] All right, Warren, let me just read this proclamation here

[27:30] from the fire district throughout your distinguished career

[27:34] as director of development services.

[27:36] You have demonstrated exceptional leadership, professionalism,

[27:40] and commitment to thoughtful planning, responsible growth,

[27:44] and the continued advancement of the community you serve.

[27:47] Your dedication to public service and collaborative efforts have helped shake the city of Chino and create a lasting positive impact for his residents.

[27:56] Congratulations on your retirement and best wishes for continued happiness, health, and success in this exciting new chapter of life.

[28:04] I got to know Warren initially when I was on the planning, can I spent some time on the planning commission many, many years ago.

[28:10] Warren was involved there and what typically what I find with all of our staff is Warren exemplifies.

[28:18] He cared deeply about he's not only capable, but he cared deeply about doing the right thing for the community.

[28:27] And I think we all benefited from that.

[28:29] Warren, thank you. Congratulations.

[28:36] Well, Warren, it's been a long time.

[28:38] I remember when you were here when you started and came back and he's done a phenomenal job for the city, let me tell you.

[28:47] But he and I both played in the Chino Corporate Challenge together on the golf team and I thought, you know, he's a great golfer.

[28:52] We were going to win first place and whatever.

[28:55] What happened?

[28:58] We did our best.

[29:00] We did good.

[29:02] But you know, you're still too young to retire, I think.

[29:05] But you feel old?

[29:06] Okay, yeah, yeah, anyway, congratulations.

[29:10] You're a great employee and good luck in your retirement.

[29:15] Thanks.

[29:22] You know, quick story.

[29:23] My name is very difficult to pronounce for a lot of people.

[29:27] And for years, I mispronounced Warren.

[29:29] He's so kind, he never said anything.

[29:32] I would call him Morley-Own.

[29:34] I'd try everything possible.

[29:36] And then I finally got it with Morley-Own.

[29:39] Took me a long time.

[29:41] Anyway, he's a great guy and we're really going to miss him.

[29:47] His sense of humor, his dedication, his kindness, he's so kind.

[29:51] Even when we have projects coming up and we have people who are protesting,

[29:56] are just angry.

[29:57] I mean, right now we're faced with some pretty horrible.

[30:00] All things, because of the state, that we're having to build in our community, and Warlion, Warlion.

[30:10] Now it's Warlion, but Warlion is so good with dealing with people. Never loses his patience.

[30:18] And he's just so kind about everything, explains stuff. He's just been a great, great employee, and we're really going to miss you.

[30:28] Thank you, Mayor.

[30:30] I didn't have a speech or didn't plan one.

[30:33] But I do want to point out the guys back there on the right.

[30:35] They're wearing my sweater.

[30:37] So they went and grabbed my sweaters out of my office.

[30:40] And they're wearing this one.

[30:42] I need some more light later on.

[30:44] All I want to say is thank you to Linda for giving me the opportunity.

[30:47] It's amazing.

[30:48] Got a great crew.

[30:49] Staff out there.

[30:51] are also amazing. I learned to not only like a bit level, not only my staff, but everybody

[30:58] EMT is awesome. I met the new lady. She is going to be awesome, Swati. I didn't know

[31:03] she was a PhD, so I feel like she's going to be way smarter than me. I want to thank

[31:07] the council for all the trust you've given us, and I know we went a long way, and I

[31:12] appreciate you guys because having you guys from behind with the trust makes a difference

[31:17] and we don't feel like we're climbing a hill that's too steep so I appreciate that.

[31:23] Fred, thank you for supporting me in my role and that's it.

[31:28] As you can tell, this doesn't make me comfortable because I don't like celebrating me.

[31:32] Oh, sorry chief.

[31:34] Sorry, I didn't see you again.

[31:35] You're looking, you gave me that luck.

[31:37] You gave me that luck.

[31:38] But I don't like celebrating me.

[31:41] I like celebrating others.

[31:43] I just want to say I love Chino.

[31:44] It's my second home and thank everybody for everything.

[31:47] It's been amazing journey.

[31:56] Let's get a picture with them.

[31:58] And then I want to bring his staff up into the picture, too.

[32:06] OK,

[32:09] now, staff come up.

[32:10] Warren's staff.

[32:12] You want us to step out?

[32:13] Yeah.

[32:14] Come with his staff.

[32:17] This is when fashionable.

[32:18] And all the sweaters, they were, I know.

[32:26] They raided his closet.

[32:27] Even

[32:40] Ben, even public works.

[33:03] It's hard when you lose good people.

[33:06] Connect is the mayor's home beautification award.

[33:09] It's my pleasure to give the mayor's home beautification award

[33:11] for July to marry Jane and Benjamin Satello

[33:15] of Vincent Vincente Street.

[33:17] Would you please come up and join me?

[33:25] We have a beautiful certificate

[33:27] honoring the beautification of your home.

[33:30] We have a picture

[33:32] And

[33:35] you can see the home on the TV.

[33:38] We have two pin sets for you.

[33:41] One free to view.

[33:43] We have two lapel pins.

[33:48] See, it just keeps coming.

[33:50] And then we have the coveted yard sign.

[33:56] See now, this is to encourage all of your neighbors

[33:59] to go into competition now.

[34:02] There's one on Joaquin. I'm going to let her know.

[34:05] Oh, no.

[34:07] Would you like to see it?

[34:09] Well, you know, it took us a long time to get this done because when we moved here in 1997,

[34:18] our house was the ugliest house on the block.

[34:24] So I'm glad we got it done, but I'll have to be honest.

[34:27] this was my husband's idea. I did not want to do this because all I wanted was green grass

[34:35] and because of saving on the bill is what correct correct and so I did tell them I do not

[34:41] want one cactus not one cactus whatsoever but we got a lot of flowers and plants and bushes that

[34:50] would attract hummingbirds and bees and butterflies and that is what we have today and I'm a

[34:57] the camper, and so I have a little patch.

[35:00] So, I'm glad we did it. So, this award, my husband does. I'll go and help. I'll go and help, but this was my husband's idea. So, this is his award, actually. So, I did tell him he should thank me for it.

[35:18] I just want to say thank you to everybody I came as a complete surprise.

[35:22] We had no idea that this was coming, and my sons, they were also very happy, very proud and

[35:28] taken gradations.

[35:30] So thank you again.

[35:30] Thank you to the city for this, it's amazing.

[35:33] Thank you.

[35:34] Yeah, thank you so much.

[35:35] But you contributed your whole neighborhood.

[35:38] So we're going to get a picture.

[35:43] No, you have turned picture around.

[35:46] Oh, and you're all of the picture.

[35:51] Thank you.

[35:52] There we go.

[35:57] Thank you.

[35:58] Thank you.

[36:00] Thank you.

[36:01] Thank you.

[36:24] Prior.

[36:25] On some meeting, we did have a close session.

[36:28] I'd like to ask our attorney to report out any action that was taken.

[36:32] Thank you.

[36:33] the Council and all those present as announced as the Council met in close session and held

[36:39] the discussion on the on two items out of the four that are listed on the agenda under

[36:45] the close session portion of the agenda. Beginning with item one conference with legal counsel,

[36:51] one item of anticipated litigation under the heading significant exposure to litigation.

[36:57] and the City Council received a briefing on that matter and no further reportable action

[37:03] was taken.

[37:04] Item number two, conference with real property negotiator concerning the property at 5349

[37:09] East Phillips Boulevard with the negotiating party being Christopher Thee, under negotiation

[37:16] or price in terms of potential acquisition.

[37:19] City Council received an update, provided direction and no further reportable action was taken

[37:24] and is previously announced before resescing into closed session items number 3 and 4.

[37:30] We're pulled off the agenda and not discussing closed session.

[37:34] That concludes the report, Mayor.

[37:35] Thank you.

[37:36] Thank you very much.

[37:37] City manager, right?

[37:38] Do we have any agenda additions or changes?

[37:41] I can't just be okay.

[37:44] Within our packet under information is the external agency report for July 21st.

[37:49] I encourage you all to access that online.

[37:52] and has some very interesting information.

[37:56] Next under public announcements, first, I invite our citizens to participate in national

[38:01] night out on Tuesday, August 4, from 5 to 8 p.m. National night out is the nationwide event

[38:08] that brings neighbors and public safety personnel together to strengthen relationships and

[38:13] build safe for communities.

[38:15] Chino-Plees' officers and Chino-Valley-Fired District Firefighters will visit registered neighborhood

[38:20] gathering throughout the city, spending time with residents, answering questions, and handing

[38:25] out some goodies.

[38:27] My fellow council members and I will be joining the festivities and visiting several

[38:32] neighbourhoods throughout the evening.

[38:34] For additional information, please call 909-334-3217.

[38:40] Next, to allow the City Council to participate in national night out, the meeting scheduled

[38:45] for Tuesday August 4th has been cancelled, as he counts who will also remain dark for its

[38:51] second meeting in August, which is the scheduled for August 18th.

[38:55] Our next regular council meeting will take place on Tuesday, September 1st.

[39:01] Now in memory of John Anderson, finally, we would like to adjourn tonight's meeting in

[39:07] memory of John L. Anderson, a long time regional leader and scouting advocate, whose service

[39:13] left a lasting legacy in Chino and throughout the Indian Empire. John was born in Chino

[39:19] on December 26, 1934, the son of former Chino Mayor Carl Anderson. He was born into a farming

[39:28] family, which gave him an incredible work ethic that lasted throughout his life. In fact,

[39:33] he spent most of his life as a farmer raising potatoes, sweet corn, cabbage, cauliflower, and

[39:39] games. It was his life's work until 2000. John served on the

[39:44] Indian Empire Utilities Agency Board of Directors, formerly known as

[39:49] Chino-Basimus Municipal Water District, from 1979 to 2011. During his 32 years of

[39:56] service, he helped guide the agency through a period of

[40:00] The significant growth and progress in water recycling, ground water replenishment, renewable energy, infrastructure, and regional collaboration.

[40:10] John also served as the founding chairman of the Indian Empire Regional Composting Authority, helping establish a partnership that

[40:17] events the beneficial use of biosolids and ultimately led to the development of the nation's

[40:23] largest indoor composting facility. Beyond farming and public service, John also had a passion

[40:31] for scouting and troop to a one where he was an active member for 81 years. John became an

[40:39] Scott in 1952 served on the staff for the 1953 National Jamboree and served as scout master

[40:50] and treasure throughout his whole life. He was honored by his very counsel for his service

[40:57] to scout in 2024 and the scout house on 11th and B now bears his name, a testament to

[41:04] legacy of a man who embodied the scout oath and the scout law.

[41:09] His leadership and commitment to public service and scouting helped create a strong foundation

[41:14] that continues to benefit Chino and communities throughout the region today.

[41:20] John is survived by his wife, Phyllis, his three children, and his eight grandchildren.

[41:25] On behalf of the City Council and the entire City of Chino, we wish to extend our deepest

[41:31] condolences to the Anderson family, his friends, and former colleagues.

[41:36] So tonight's meeting will be adjourned in his memory.

[41:41] Okay, next, public communication.

[41:43] This is time in the place for general public to address the council about items that

[41:47] do not appear elsewhere on the agenda.

[41:50] Do the council policy and Brown Act requirements action cannot be taken on any issues that

[41:56] are not on the agenda, but we're happy to hear your concerns.

[41:59] Our first written request to speak is Pastor George Sasso from Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills.

[42:06] Now, George's can lead us in innovation, and I invite all of those who wish to join us to please stand.

[42:16] Let's far our heads.

[42:18] Lord, we ask tonight that your peace that passes all understanding will come upon this place, Lord,

[42:23] that literally everyone here that serves in this city would feel your arms of love wrapped around them.

[42:29] Lord, you would help and guide them in every decision they make that are weak decisions for the city that

[42:35] move us forward in every aspect, Lord.

[42:38] So we ask that you would continue the work that you've done here, and Lord, that you're

[42:42] on Brawla of protection will be upon the city forever in Jesus' name.

[42:48] Thank you, George.

[42:56] Next, written request to speak, because Marine momentosa,

[43:03] and morning I'm going to call on you

[43:05] again when we get to consent calendar.

[43:06] I

[43:12] respectfully request that the City of Chino Consider Implementing a City supported low-cost

[43:19] Bay Annutering Program for the Chino Residence.

[43:23] Many California cities have successfully partnered with local organizations to provide affordable

[43:29] Bay Annuters Services, helping reduce pet overpopulation, decreasing shelter intake and

[43:35] improving animal welfare.

[43:37] I understand that the Palm Mission provides low-cost bay and neuter services and that

[43:43] ARC has a formal agreement with Palm Mission.

[43:46] I respectfully ask the city of Chino to explore whether that existing partnership can

[43:52] be utilized to provide affordable, spay and neutering services to Chino residents.

[43:58] If that partnership is not available for this purpose, I respectfully request that the city

[44:03] work with Palm Mission or another qualified provider to establish a similar program, expanding

[44:10] access to affordable space and newter services is proactive and compassionate investment.

[44:17] It can help reduce on what unwanted letters decreasing the number of dogs and cats and

[44:23] train shelters, lessen overcrowding and ultimately reduces the number of animals,

[44:33] I respectfully request that this matter be placed on a future city council agenda for discussion and considerate consideration.

[44:43] Then also, I have a second request regarding the quarterly agenda item regarding animal resource center, the inland empire.

[44:52] I am once again asking that the city of Chino to play the quarterly arc update.

[45:00] On future city council agenda, the public deserves complete transparent, transparent reporting on shelters operation.

[45:10] And basically, you guys all have a copy of the letter. And basically, it's just like the last one.

[45:15] Arcus sending out these messages of saying how many animals that they're

[45:20] in taking, how many animals are going to rest, use,

[45:24] fosters, how many are going back to their owners,

[45:27] but they're not telling the public of how many animals they are

[45:31] youth inizing is still at a hand and it needs to,

[45:36] I believe it needs to be transparent. It's not transparent.

[45:41] They're only giving you a small shot of what they're doing.

[45:44] They're not giving the actual things everything that they're doing and they're utilizing too much and there's so much that could be done to not have that happen.

[45:56] But I'm again asking for that to be agenda-ized and I don't understand why I never got a response back that was January 20th of 2016 and I haven't heard anything.

[46:08] Thank you.

[46:11] Linda, that partnership she talked about, do you have that information?

[46:14] I am not aware.

[46:16] Moe, would you provide the information to staff on that partnership, please?

[46:27] Nick is written request to speak, Dexter Jones.

[46:44] Hello, I'd like to first all thank everybody involved in the providing the great activities

[46:50] and the atmosphere that we have over at the senior center.

[46:54] We have Senior Center, I live in a city for over 30 years and I finally retired and got a chance

[47:01] to enjoy a lot of the programs that you guys have here.

[47:04] In fact I really have a reason to leave the city so I don't.

[47:09] But one thing that did come to mind and one issue that we were having was with our computers

[47:15] over at the Senior Center.

[47:17] They've been down for extended amount of time.

[47:19] I went by there today and no one behold we got brand new computers all set so thank you for addressing that problem and getting it taken care of

[47:27] Because as you may know that for some of our seniors that those public computers

[47:33] The only access that they'll have to use the internet to contact their loved ones to look up information that they might need to deal with life's issues and

[47:43] Just for to even get out of the house

[47:45] We have one singer over there, it's 88 years old.

[47:48] I'll just call him Mike S. He's a naval, a Navy veteran.

[47:55] And that's the highlight of his day.

[47:56] It's just to go over there and look up old movies and movie sets.

[48:03] And I'll talk about him and that's the highlight of his day.

[48:05] So I just want to thank you for addressing the problem.

[48:09] I was having to go over to Ontario, Senior Center to use their computers.

[48:14] but now we're on back home and everything's taken care of.

[48:17] So thanks for not forgetting about us

[48:19] and just remember to little things

[48:22] sometimes have big impacts.

[48:23] So thank you for what you're doing.

[48:26] Thank you for having that fun stuff

[48:27] that we have over to see yourself.

[48:28] Thank you for acknowledging it.

[48:32] Next we have Janice Parkerson.

[48:40] Thank you Mayor, council members,

[48:42] beeps, lots of beeps.

[48:46] Thank you for giving me this opportunity

[48:48] to address an issue that's very important to me.

[48:50] and I hope will be very important to you as well.

[48:55] I'm sure we all saw this edition of the Chino Champion.

[49:04] Fireworks Explosion kills woman, injures four, in Chino.

[49:09] Explosion compels Council to revisit Fireworks Policy.

[49:15] A quote from Councilman Curtis Burton,

[49:19] I think we need to revisit our Fireworks Policy.

[49:22] This is long overdue.

[49:23] You think?

[49:27] On July 4th, 2026, three weeks ago, a young woman was killed.

[49:33] What more will it take to make you think?

[49:37] Schools argue that fireworks are a major fundraiser.

[49:42] Per the champion article, Chino Little League faces a cost of $7,000 to replace

[49:48] the infield grass on field five at a yellow park.

[49:54] Grass, a young woman died, also per the

[49:59] champion article.

[50:01] Church youth rely on firework's profits to support church programs.

[50:07] It's unfortunate that a few city folk get in trouble with illegal fireworks from time to time.

[50:14] What? A young woman died? How do Chino Hills, Ontario, upland, and when Chico Camonga?

[50:24] Fund their little league and church programs without fireworks?

[50:28] One of my book club members suggested they do bingo.

[50:32] Or how about a good old fashion bake sale?

[50:36] Use some imagination.

[50:38] Anything but fireworks, legal or not.

[50:43] Ban all fireworks, except for the professional shows.

[50:47] And then the only fireworks you hear will be illegal.

[50:52] I implore you on behalf of all the pets.

[50:56] Elderly and sick residents and residents with PTSD and on behalf of 23-year-old Leslie

[51:05] Boostos. Please do the right thing and ban fireworks in Chino. Thank you.

[51:14] Thank you Leslie. I'm sorry, Janice. Next we have Donna Markmar. Oh, I know you told me

[51:23] to say it right. Marquisie. No. Marquisie.

[51:29] Marquisie. Marquisie. That's right. Marquisie like crazy.

[51:34] Marquisie. Marquisie knows that. Especially the people shoot not the illegals of my neighborhood.

[51:42] I'm not well beloved in my neighborhood. I didn't know what was going to talk about it, but this is why I'm here basically the same thing.

[51:50] Ontario has sponsored with Paw Mission and ARC to have two mobile Spaya Newtor events out at ARC.

[52:01] We haven't had any. So I gave your gal here a copy. You will have a copy of what this flyer says.

[52:10] So find out who in Ontario is setting this up and see if they'll work with you to tell you how to get it done for us.

[52:17] I've got six people on my board wanting help.

[52:21] I got one yesterday.

[52:23] I've got a city council member.

[52:25] I've got a referral from art to get animals fixed.

[52:28] Six people.

[52:30] That's a lot of people for an old broad

[52:32] to try to fix cats for.

[52:34] So what prompted Ontario and art to do this

[52:37] was the clinic suggested to Chinoa Montclair.

[52:40] Did you guys get the same offer that Ontario got to do this?

[52:45] I've never heard of them done this.

[52:46] If on the internet, that's how the galls found it because I don't have time, sorry, I don't have time to sit in the internet.

[52:53] I'm out catching stuff.

[52:56] So find out, when are these hell?

[52:58] They've had two so far, is that every so many months, is it just hit or miss?

[53:03] What is it?

[53:03] But we need to do something in this town.

[53:07] So when can these be held?

[53:08] Where can they be held?

[53:10] This says it's being held at Ark.

[53:12] Can we get a spanned newter van here to make it more convenient for people to come to Chino that have cats and whatever in Chino?

[53:21] And who's paying for these services?

[53:23] It's only $50 to get your animal spader neutered.

[53:28] So did Ontario pay the difference?

[53:31] Because I'm quite sure the van didn't just charge 50 bucks.

[53:34] And when Valley charges this 80, Ontario spades 150.

[53:38] So somebody must have paid the difference between the 50 and the whatever the van charges.

[53:43] So did Ontario pay it?

[53:45] Did Ontario and Arc pay it?

[53:48] Or did Arc pay it?

[53:49] You guys need to look into some stuff.

[53:52] And why isn't Chino more proactive for the pets?

[53:55] I know we need to get this clinic here.

[53:58] I've talked to you maybe six months ago about donation bins.

[54:03] Did you ever put any donation bins?

[54:04] I suggested City Hall, I suggested the YMCA, I asked them today, and I suggested the fire

[54:11] departments.

[54:11] Get them spread around.

[54:13] Those people need supplies.

[54:15] We do.

[54:16] Chris said there is no nation pins.

[54:20] I...

[54:21] Okay.

[54:22] When I came last time, there were only three or four places, and they were very sparse.

[54:28] Because they need supplies over there.

[54:30] They need bedding, they need toys, they need food, they need stuff and community events.

[54:39] We don't seem to have a lot of community events for ARC.

[54:42] Ontario seems to have more community events where they have an ARC booth.

[54:46] I think we've run across one.

[54:48] I'm not on social media, so I can't tell you all that stuff.

[54:52] And I'm with the gal with the fireworks.

[54:54] Because I drive around my neighborhood just to piss off my neighbors so they have to stop shooting them off.

[54:59] Okay.

[55:00] And I went down Monavista, and there was a great, big, huge display safe and saying, and just before

[55:05] I got it, there was the rockets. It could have hit my car if I'd have been a few minutes

[55:09] of sooner. It needs to stop, and it's still going on. We're getting cannons in our area. So, so what can you do to help us with ARC?

[55:18] And getting some help out here for Spaniards? So, that's it, and we do need a report. Why aren't we hearing where our tax dollars are going and what's going on?

[55:27] I worked Sunday, seven hours air conditioning and a cat section is not working well, seven hours, and it was warm, so I'll be back.

[55:37] Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

[55:38] Five, seven. Remember, Mark Kasey?

[55:41] Mark Kasey?

[55:43] Mark Kasey?

[55:46] Oh my goodness, six.

[55:49] Okay, next is Darlene Lopez.

[55:53] Torrible when people can't pronounce your own name and then you screw up somebody else's name.

[56:05] I'm concerned about the city's decision to spend 3.7 million on a police helicopter, even though the city says the money comes from development fees and a county grant, it's still public funds that could have been used for other important needs.

[56:20] The helicopter was also costing us 640,000 every year to operate plus another 108,000 a year to

[56:31] lease the hangar.

[56:32] I feel like that's a lot of money every year for one piece of equipment.

[56:37] As a resident, I also have concerns about how the helicopter is being used.

[56:41] It flies over our homes often, creating loud noise that disrupts our neighborhoods.

[56:46] when it circles overhead, I consider Chino to be very safe, but it makes me think that something

[56:53] dangerous is happening nearby. Instead of making me feel safer, it makes me feel anxious and afraid.

[56:59] I support public safety, but I also believe the city should be responsible with public funds

[57:05] and consider how this helicopter affects the people who live here. I hope the city will be more transparent

[57:10] about when it's used and whether the benefits truly outweigh the costs.

[57:16] Thank you for hearing that.

[57:17] You also wrote one for city fireworks.

[57:23] They said a lot of things that I agree with, but I don't want to take away from the charities and the churches and the schools from getting their funds that they need.

[57:35] But could we at least increase the fine from 1,000 to 5,000,

[57:43] make it more expensive for them to pay something like that?

[57:48] That was my thought on that.

[57:50] And also I'm very heartbroken over the girl that was killed.

[57:55] She was only 20, some years old.

[57:57] And it wasn't far from where I lived.

[58:00] So that is a huge concern.

[58:01] The fireworks in my neighborhood are mostly illegal.

[58:05] And I know you guys got drones out there for us to help with the citations.

[58:10] I hope that's helping, but it is a big concern, because my pets are upset about it as well.

[58:19] I don't know that when it's going off from May through September, October that those citations

[58:25] are still being given, because it's a Dodger game. It's whoever's playing that night, they win.

[58:32] Firework's going up in my neighborhood, so it's just really annoying, and hoping that you guys can come to some kind of, you know

[58:44] To fix that to help things, you know, calm down in my neighborhood.

[58:48] Thank you, Doug. Thank you.

[58:51] Those are the only written requests I have to speak.

[58:54] We have a tradition and that is that I call in any students or, well, I will, I know.

[59:02] I call on students or voice counts if they are here for any kind of class for anything.

[59:08] Is there anyone in the audience that's scouting your students?

[59:12] Okay, before I ask for general, non-written comments, I'm going to ask our chief to give us a quick update on fireworks,

[59:20] which he probably was going to do at the end of the meeting, but I'm going to ask him to do it ahead of time.

[59:27] Sorry, Kevin.

[59:28] Spring that on you.

[59:31] So just a recap.

[59:33] I know Deputy Chief, we're going to talk about this last council meeting.

[59:35] So we had over 60 members of the department that worked specifically.

[59:40] The holiday, the 4th of July, the start at 6 p.m. went to, well, this one,

[59:45] because of the incident went well over midnight.

[59:47] But was assigned to work the 4th of July deployment from 6 to midnight.

[59:50] The patrol officer's dispatcher is with four drone teams, a real-time crime center in a helicopter was up.

[59:56] We handled during that time, 463 calls for service.

[1:00:01] 278 of them were fireworks related calls. And we issued 112 fireworks citations. And 57 of them were from our drone, our drone teams.

[1:00:14] And I know it was talked about last council meeting, a tremendous amount of our resources. Once the incident happened,

[1:00:20] over off a D-Street was pulled away to handle that incident.

[1:00:27] And so ultimately we are, we're meeting with the community services.

[1:00:31] I think the last meeting in August that the Community Service Commission meeting, they're

[1:00:36] going to discuss, have the opportunity to hear from the community on fireworks where there

[1:00:41] be four of them or against them and ultimately will lead to, I'm sure, to counsel for

[1:00:46] decision on what modification to make it, we have, we have discussed increasing fines, we discussed

[1:00:52] a lot of things, the challenge we have is when it comes to fines as law is the law,

[1:00:57] misdemeanor, you're correct me from a wrong phrase, the thousand dollars is the max that

[1:01:02] we can charge for a fine for fireworks. I know some cities are charging more, but for

[1:01:07] the law you can only charge the thousand dollars. That's correct. So how many of these

[1:01:12] are the communities getting away with charging so much more?

[1:01:16] They're just charging it and if they're challenged and then they're challenging it, then they'll have to reduce it back down to the $1,000.

[1:01:23] So, Mark has a chance.

[1:01:26] So I know the Department gave about 57 drone citations and the people that got the drone citations are not aware that they got the tickets yet.

[1:01:37] I think the letters are going out. I don't know at what point I asked.

[1:01:40] We're actually getting a lot of information that I gave a due date to my team for middle and next week.

[1:01:45] Or I'm sorry tomorrow to follow up on this as far as with the status of the letters going out where they're at.

[1:01:51] The citation, it's a citation along with the letter that actually is from me that explains the violation.

[1:01:57] So do we know when they're going to be out?

[1:01:59] Because I know a lot of people that were lighting legal fireworks have not received their citation yet and they will be receiving it soon.

[1:02:09] So, I think some of the concern from the community is that it had no impact, but a lot of

[1:02:15] the people that, at least half of the people that received citations aren't even notified

[1:02:19] yet that they received the citations.

[1:02:21] So we haven't even gotten to that point where people are now aware that even though the police

[1:02:29] officers didn't come to their house, they were identified and they were receiving citations

[1:02:33] for it.

[1:02:33] You know, we'll have letters out this week.

[1:02:35] I'll be out by the end of this week, but at the latest, if they're not already.

[1:02:39] Okay. Thank you.

[1:02:41] I think it's a summary of what kind of an overview of our, of our Fourth of July deployment.

[1:02:47] And obviously based on, I mean, just the amount of resources that was pulled away from the deployment to handle the critical incident was, was significant.

[1:02:55] So, but I still, I actually don't have the stats in front of me.

[1:02:59] the percentage of increase of calls on the 4th of July, and we pulled Ontario Montclair

[1:03:06] upland, Chino Hills, and we by far have the highest number of increase of calls for service

[1:03:12] on the 4th of July compared to any other day, as far as any other day that we for the past six months.

[1:03:16] So, Reddy Grant, I think it was like 133% higher on the 4th of July than any other day.

[1:03:22] So, I'll give you some stats that came out from Pomona, which Pomona has had a legal fireworks,

[1:03:28] firework span for over 30 years, and they said that between 4 p.m. and 2 a.m. on the 4th

[1:03:36] July, they handled 438 calls for service related to fireworks. 13 calls for service related

[1:03:42] to fireworks caused fires, 17 citations issued from the assistance of their drone program, and

[1:03:51] collected I think they said $2,000 worth of illegal fireworks. So they're similar to

[1:03:58] us and yet they have a ban on fireworks and it's still an issue with them. So I just want

[1:04:06] to make sure that the community is aware that even if we ban them we're still going to have

[1:04:09] them.

[1:04:15] Okay, now are there any other speakers in the audience who would like to address the Council on

[1:04:20] I'm not on the agenda.

[1:04:22] Okay, stubby the man in the back of you.

[1:04:24] Let the man in the back of you raised his hand first.

[1:04:34] Good evening Mayor, council members.

[1:04:36] Thank you for the opportunity to speak.

[1:04:38] My name is Frank Lopez, resident of Chino for over 20 years.

[1:04:42] Graduated down to the high school.

[1:04:45] I'm civil engineer by trade, worked in private, then I moved into the public sector, so I worked

[1:04:50] for several cities similar to the city that I reside in.

[1:04:53] And I want to speak on a couple of things.

[1:04:57] One, my wife spoke earlier about the health.

[1:05:00] So I concur with everything she says. I do would like to see something that shows what the benefit cost ratio for our city is.

[1:05:11] I respect our law enforcement, our city, they're one of the best at a high school friend that was a captain on the force and I follow them on Instagram so I know they do an amazing job.

[1:05:23] What I believe is that for a city of our size,

[1:05:28] a couple of days doesn't really make sense because as a go up and they make their

[1:05:34] their turn it really is not that much space for them to do a full turn and

[1:05:41] the helicopter not be heard by just about everybody in the city and so.

[1:05:47] While I understand it would be used to make our city safer if we were all ready

[1:05:53] saying we were one of the safest cities which I have heard and I believe we are, I don't see

[1:05:58] what the benefit for the cost is to have a helicopter that's got to be manned by, I believe

[1:06:04] at least two pilots, the annual salaries, annual maintenance helicopters aren't like vehicles

[1:06:09] where you get a loner while the one is in service. I believe we had mutual aid agreements prior

[1:06:15] to that and we used the Sheriff's helicopter or Ontario's and that would only come out when it

[1:06:20] was needed. And so I just again want to reiterate that I think we need to look at that more

[1:06:27] carefully. I think our funds could be used for better. I think more officers,

[1:06:32] more drones

[1:06:33] the drone program, because I believe there's a lot more than 200 or however many citations

[1:06:40] the chief mentioned. A lot more fireworks, illegal fireworks going off than that. And so

[1:06:46] drone program, a larger program for that would be amazing.

[1:06:52] To move on, I don't believe we should make fireworks illegal in our

[1:06:56] town.

[1:06:57] I do believe that a lot of good comes from them.

[1:07:02] Maybe we can use some funds to create programs to just like sometimes the

[1:07:08] police has programs for bicycle users to teach them safety and all that.

[1:07:12] Maybe we need to teach people about fireworks safety.

[1:07:15] And maybe they're already programs like that, but anyways, I believe that the funds would be

[1:07:19] hard to replace for, again, the churches, the schools, and anybody who uses it to fundraise.

[1:07:25] I know that Don Lugo, again, alumni, uses them, their band, uses them.

[1:07:32] So, I don't think Banningham is a solution.

[1:07:35] I would like to see the funds from the Holocaust again moved into other areas, like, you know, the

[1:07:42] own program and other things like that.

[1:07:46] So I think that's pretty much what I want to speak on, I appreciate your time.

[1:07:50] Thank you so much.

[1:07:51] Welcome.

[1:07:52] Chief, I'll ask that you have someone get in touch with Mr. Lopez and teach him about the

[1:07:57] helicopter program and then also Linda if we could inform he and his wife of when the community

[1:08:04] services commission is going to be discussing fireworks.

[1:08:09] Stepi.

[1:08:17] Good evening, Councillors. Two things. One, I want to point out and thank you, Mark, for the Pomona

[1:08:24] input. But the Northwest County quadrant between us and Pomona, we get people that come

[1:08:32] in there from Pomona and people that come in there from Chino. And that is very sparsely enforced.

[1:08:39] So that is also contributes to the problem and eliminating the safe and sane isn't going to

[1:08:46] Well, when I primarily want to say, and I want to thank the Chief and Geno PD, as they set up that incident command on the fourth, and

[1:08:58] had total control of that area, and they still managed.

[1:09:01] I was worried that this was going to affect our ability to respond to the calls.

[1:09:05] They still responded to, I believe it was, please correct me if I'm wrong.

[1:09:08] But I think it was 160 something calls for service despite the fact that they set up a full incident command.

[1:09:16] And I just think that level of training, which

[1:09:21] some of that they inherited from a few council members there,

[1:09:27] it's just absolutely amazing.

[1:09:28] And we should be very thankful that we

[1:09:30] have a police department that can respond like that,

[1:09:34] and still provide the regular patrol service,

[1:09:38] even though it wasn't regular on that night.

[1:09:40] So thank you, PD.

[1:09:41] Thank you, Chief.

[1:09:42] If I'm wrong, I'm just numbers.

[1:09:44] Well, thank you for recognizing them.

[1:09:47] Yeah, that incident was very, very tragic.

[1:09:51] But I do agree, even banning safe and sane,

[1:09:54] is not going to get rid of the elegance.

[1:09:56] I mean, it was interesting in our neighborhood.

[1:10:00] But it was pretty calm up until July 4th, which was unusual, because we usually get that crazy explosions in the county area before that.

[1:10:09] But it was pretty quiet until the actual 4th, and it was actually pretty quiet until about 9 o'clock, and then all the hell broke loose. It was nuts.

[1:10:18] And these are not just the aerial stuff. I mean, it sounded like bombs.

[1:10:21] It's people are crazy and I don't know what they expect someone is going to get hurt, someone's going to get killed.

[1:10:29] Just, I don't know.

[1:10:31] Can't there anyone else in the audience who would like to just count for about any items not on the agenda?

[1:10:38] Natalie, do we have anybody online that wants to address and non-issue?

[1:10:42] No, we do not.

[1:10:43] Okay, then we will move on to the consent calendar.

[1:10:46] Before we take a motion or a second to approve, I have a couple of items that wish to be discussed.

[1:10:55] Mo, you've asked about item number three, would you like to come up and that's the elected officials report regarding training, travel and meetings?

[1:11:09] The one that I'll be talking about is the arc one, item two veterinary and services.

[1:11:16] As you can see on Ontario has advertised twice on social media and so has arc.

[1:11:25] You see the arc symbol, you see the permission and you see Ontario.

[1:11:33] Item two that I'm talking about, I have a copy of it.

[1:11:38] It says that it's the copy of the veterinary and service agreement with the Paul Mission with Ark.

[1:11:46] Mo excuse me, let me interrupt you.

[1:11:48] The item that you asked to speak about has nothing to do with that.

[1:11:53] No, it does.

[1:11:54] It has to do with the minutes of the Ark that's attached.

[1:12:00] Okay.

[1:12:01] All right.

[1:12:01] And as I was saying, they up did 125,000.

[1:12:09] So now it's at $525,000.

[1:12:13] And then it says here, the increase in the yearly note

[1:12:17] to exceed amount from 125,000 to 200,000 reflects

[1:12:23] arts exploration of options to offer spay and neuter services to public for

[1:12:32] privately owned animals. So what a lot of us are assuming is Ontario City got

[1:12:41] to use that money to do a spay and neutering reduce the $50 and then this

[1:12:51] agenda paid for it. And if that's the case, where is Chino? Where is Montclair? I always said

[1:13:00] we're outvoted by Ontario. Is that what happened? I don't know, but I'm concerned because

[1:13:06] I went to Ontario's website. I researched their agendas. Ontario City, they have no agenda,

[1:13:14] authorizing any money to go to Paul Mission. The only thing that I can find is

[1:13:20] arcs, which is on item three of the arcs minutes. So I'm concerned. So is that

[1:13:30] because I believe you can actually respond to this thing that it's a consent item.

[1:13:35] Is that how this was paid for? And if so, when is Chino's turn?

[1:13:42] I don't have any answers right now.

[1:13:45] No, but I don't know.

[1:13:46] I don't know.

[1:13:48] I don't know.

[1:13:48] I don't know anything about that.

[1:13:49] I have any information on that.

[1:13:53] And Natalie, I just messed up my screen.

[1:13:55] Thank you.

[1:13:57] Okay.

[1:13:58] Then you can do it.

[1:14:00] Mr. Nigg, you have a question about item number seven?

[1:14:05] Yes, I was asking the people for the consent.

[1:14:11] Well, you wouldn't voice your concerns.

[1:14:17] I understand, you know, I can't hear the city has great difficulties in the unrealistic

[1:14:27] mandates being put on by the state.

[1:14:30] And I'm not here to defend the state.

[1:14:32] I'll be fighting with them also.

[1:14:36] But unfortunately, the city cannot blame the state for everything.

[1:14:39] And hopefully, if you read my previous projections in my most recent one, I submitted last week with some graphs and information, you'll understand why I'm here again.

[1:14:51] The information being presented by the Planning Division and the City Attorney are contradicted by a based upon a realistic review of the law.

[1:15:00] The opinions of the city attorney that government code 65585 does not apply as contradicted by the city's own argument when the housing element was adopted in November 2024.

[1:15:12] It was argued then the city could not change the building height, storage facility, inclusions, and density in the housing element without HCD approval.

[1:15:20] now we're saying we don't need approval. Many of the proposed change zoning code changes

[1:15:26] due to every way we wait to the affordable housing districts that are in our current

[1:15:32] housing element. Contrary to the opinion of the city attorney, I assure that it's

[1:15:37] HCD's policy that the comprehensive zoning update will have direct effects on the housing

[1:15:43] element and therefore a strip readbound by the reporting and public review requirements

[1:15:48] of government code 65585. I refer to the pages 1, 2, 3 of my submission last week. I believe

[1:15:55] the carefully review of these arguments should result in the council requiring further consideration

[1:16:02] of the requirements of the government code. There is no reason to mention the adoption of

[1:16:10] the zoning code tonight without making improvements that protect the welfare of the citizens

[1:16:15] The state did not mandate that the city was almost 50% of our 47 mixed-use overlays to be

[1:16:24] resown as regional and Bolvardo overlays, allowing building heights up to 65 feet and five

[1:16:30] stories tall.

[1:16:32] The state did not mandate the transferring of the four-area ratio between

[1:16:37] all the way

Planning Commission on 2026-08-19 6:00 PM - Regular Meeting

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