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Speeding, it is 5.30 p.m., and it is April 6, 2022, and we'll go ahead and call the roll. Thank you. Councilmember Sanchez. Here.

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Councilmember Ibarra is not present at the moment. Mayor Pro Tems. Here. Councilmember Shura. Councilmember Renoza is not present at the moment. Councilmember Calvin. Present. Councilmember Alexander. Here. Mayor Valdivia.

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Okay. Good evening, and are there any items to add or delete? And I'm seeing none. No shakes, no heads.

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None. Okay, let's recess in a closed session.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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Our public comments, treasure.

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Treasure, go ahead. You're up.

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Mr. Tees.

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Good evening, counsel. So before you walk in a closed session today, a possible litigation

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is coming from Monacito equities, and I want to make sure that you and the public are fully aware that the mayor has received $21,500 in political contributions from them over the course of six years.

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Again, as we see the pay-to-play corruption that we live in our city daily, now we watch the mayor try to sit in closed session items concerning cannabis, where he had not only been contributed by, but had written letters of recommendation upon.

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Let's make sure that what the city is negotiating on their own behalf and their own interest, is not for the ears of the guy that is being bought and sold by every developer that comes with a check.

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Additionally, in looking at the discussion on Andrea Miller's case tonight, which I know what portion of it is going to be for open session, we need to make sure that we're doing everything possible, not to keep costing the tax payers money for the elected officials who refuse to do the right thing, who breach their own contracts.

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that they vote to approve, who violate their own terms and agreements, which they vote to approve.

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So I'm asking you guys to start saving us money, to start doing the right thing and

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hold your colleagues accountable for their own actions.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Ms. Plunk.

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Thank you, Dr. Schrader, T. Sveren, for remembering democracy.

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John, you've got to work on that.

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The Facebook posting from two years ago from C.W. Ibarra has now come back to slapper in the face along with residents.

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She now wants residents to clean up her carnage through a quest of $100,000 for her legal fees.

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Hashtag Andrew Miller-Saga. Why?

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Because Mr. Ibarra just can't help herself from being pretentious and snotty.

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I'll over Facebook sites telling her wisdom of staying focused on the real needs of the cities of the city.

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Well, Ms. Ivarra, we are completely focused on saying no to another person on this diocese who wants to play the victim card.

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Rather than do it as right and clean up your messes, so here are some suggestions.

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Lick with date, sell your house, ask for a loan, turn to your bros on this diocese.

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I'm sure they have some extra cash to help out.

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And all your supporters and friends who come with us after us all of the time go ask for a loan.

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But your request should be denied tonight by this council.

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Please vote no council, do the right thing.

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Okay, thank you, members of the public.

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We'll now recess in a closed session.

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Everybody,

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let's go ahead and begin tonight's council meeting.

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We'll ask all council members to please return to their desk.

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And we welcome the viewing audience tonight Wednesday April 6th of 2022.

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Thank you for coming and do our audience here in our general Felteheim Library auditorium.

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We thank you for joining us tonight.

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At this time, we will ask Pastor Jorge Murgey of the San Bernardino First Church of the Nazarene

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to lead us in the invocation, followed by Council Member Kelvin, would you please lead us

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in the legible legions? Will all rise, please? Pastor Hordeheim would give the first

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church of the Nazarene, sir?

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I have any father, mighty God. Thank you for bringing all this together as your presence

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and your wisdom can be poured onto every business

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that is being conducted in this place.

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Thank you for every person that is here representing

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the area that they're representing.

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Thank you for your wonderful presence

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and we ask you to direct

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and give every business

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This is the wisdom and the courage necessary in Christ I ask these things, amen.

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Thank you very much, Pastor Fadjad Murgeev, this first church of the Nazarene.

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Thank you, sir, for your ministry to our city.

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Thank you for your presence here tonight.

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This time I will ask the city clerk to please call the roll.

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Council Member Sanchez.

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Council Member Ibarra is absent.

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Council Member Mayor Pro Tem.

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Council Member Shura.

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Council Member Reno.

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Thank you. Councillor Member Kelvin.

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Kia ora.

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And Mayor Valdedia.

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Here. Thank you, Ms. City Clerk.

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Ms. City Attorney, please, if there's anything to report out from our closed session.

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Mayor, councilmembers and members of the public.

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We did have several closed session items for discussion this evening.

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I do would like to report out that the City Council has authorized us to file a receivership

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Receivership action in nuisance abatement case, and that's all the report of the action that I have.

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Very good. Thank you for the report. Mr. City Manager, sir, you're recognized.

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Thank you. Good evening to you and to the viewing audience, as noted earlier.

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I have quite a few things to talk about this evening. We'll try to get through them as quickly as possible, however, because we have a fairly lengthy agenda this evening.

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First thing on the list, CalTrans is doing some work here in town and we're looking at a 55 hour road closure over the next four weekends for some pavement work.

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important to be done, but there is, of course, important improvements for the city, but we do incur a little bit of pain.

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So this has been posted on the city's website, but I wanted to make sure everybody is aware that there will be some inconveniences to us all on the, on the 259.

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So, next up, public works, a lot of things happening.

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We are installing quite a few street lights.

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A lot of them are solar powered, which saves quite a bit of time and literally energy in the sense that we're powering through the power of the sign

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as opposed to running power lines, and they're also a lot easier to install, less expensive

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And some of them are at Second Lake Park, which is a nice addition, our park's director

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sent me pictures of them with quite a bit of an animated message, very happy to see

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the best point on.

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Next slide, please.

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We have started work.

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There's been a lot of discussion about the need for additional concrete repair work to happen

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around the city.

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The contract was just awarded a little while ago.

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And as you can see here, the work has been initiated.

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There'll be work being done all across the city, several different crews working for the concrete contractor that is selected, doing work in basically citywide.

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So good news there.

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Refedigling up, clean up, things are moving pretty quickly.

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Last time I talked with Mr. Keishdai, I think he said we were down in terms of the reported graffiti, there were something like 10 CRMs in the system at this point.

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And we are also, of course, initiating the roving patrols are going to be hitting graffiti walls and other places

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without the benefit of a report.

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It's simply doing it in response to things they observe as they are patrolling around the city.

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So, we're making progress.

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We're also decorating things up.

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Go back.

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We're also trying to decorate some walls.

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And as you see there, we painted a utility cabinet in support of the people in Ukraine.

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when we're finding a fresh and as we speak.

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Okay, next slide, please.

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Library, we are back doing in the business

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of providing citizenship classes at the libraries.

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In both in English here at Belltime,

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it's an important service that we can provide

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to people in our city who are looking

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to become citizens of this country.

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And the password office has passed an audit.

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They've been offering passwords for a while now,

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but has passed not it and is doing a great job, so thank you for all that you're doing.

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We've received a recent review and you guys have done a great job in there.

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The customer service levels are quite high apparently, so congratulations.

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Next line.

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The spring, egg scrapping Anza is coming to parks,

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We'll have, you know, having Saturday, April 9th.

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Staff has been stuffing eggs about 30,000 so far

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to provide the kids something to look for.

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It's going to be a lot of fun, crafts, games, food.

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And, of course, the use of your money.

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So, thank you.

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Next slide, please.

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Police Department has been busy.

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They deployed for the, there's an event

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at the Natural Orange Showgrounds,

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another music event, about 50,000 people there.

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and no major instance to report.

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There have been questions about what happens with those events.

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Financially, we do get fully reimbursed for the police, departments, participation,

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presence, and enforcement during those events.

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Also, officers responded to a car jacking on Sunday March 27th, and we're able to recover

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both the vehicle and to capture the suspect.

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So, don't ruin your slide for this one.

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There's no secret to anyone here, I think, that the city has, in fact, hired a new police

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chief, and I ask

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the incoming chief, Darren Goodman, to come out tonight just to say hi.

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This is not a Q&A, it's not open mic night.

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He's simply here to say hi and make a brief introduction on himself.

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There will be more to come, there's plenty more to come, of course, his first day that will be June 1st.

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So if you couldn't, if you would, why not set up the podium just brief introduction.

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Well, good evening, everybody, Mayor, City Council, members of the community.

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Thank you, thank you for your collective support and my appointment to be San Bernardino's next police chief.

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I would be remiss, but I didn't also thank City Manager Rob Phil's, Assistant City Manager Eddie Evelyn for their hard work,

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commitment and professionalism during this process, I was on full display.

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I'd also like to commend Dave Greene, the incumbent chief who's been nothing but

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supportive once the announcement was made.

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So I look forward to working with him and all the members of the San Bernardino Police Department.

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I also look forward to serving this great community.

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I'm familiar with San Bernardino and this is somewhat of a homecoming for me.

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So thank you all, look forward to meeting you personally to get your collective vision on

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on how you want public safety to go.

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Thank you.

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And that concludes my report.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. City Manager.

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Chief Goodman, welcome to our city.

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We're so excited to host you here.

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And we want to welcome you to our city with open arms.

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And we're very, very grateful for the process that worked out.

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And we welcome you, sir.

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Your first official start day is June 1st.

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And we're looking forward and anticipating some great things

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from our police department.

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So thank you, sir.

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Thank you.

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At this time, I will go ahead and begin my mayoral announcements.

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If the, I wanted to, at our last city council meeting, we had some technical difficulties, but I wanted to

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highlight the opportunity here for our San Bernardino city community.

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I want to encourage all members of our viewing audience, as well as those individuals streaming on live stream and whatnot.

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that Breeze Airways here is coming out of our San Bernardino International Airport.

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We're really excited about that.

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Yes, go ahead and clap, that's a great opportunity for our community.

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Breeze Airways is of course, we held it March 8th, 2022, outside of the domestic terminal at the San Bernardino International Airport.

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We announced a nonstop route to and from San Francisco beginning August 4th of 2022.

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It's a first ever commercial passenger air service from the San Bernardino marketplace and the San Bernardino International Airport.

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The impacts are monumental, a moment for our region of nearly 4.7 million potential travelers in the island empire which supported the base reuse effort for many, many years.

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true travel options for our local residents and business opportunities that go beyond the San Francisco International Airport.

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As I see it, as mayor of the city and also chair of the Inland Valley Development Agency,

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this is a very great accomplishment for our community.

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We are already beginning other negotiations with other airlines just last Thursday.

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I was at the airport and held some meetings there for more international cargo import export opportunities.

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stay tuned. Up to $57 million annually into the region through exciting aviation careers,

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ticketing and gate agents, group ground handlers, TSA employees, pilots and flight attendants,

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aircraft mechanics can ship.

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Concession years, and many, many more complimentary uses that Breeze will bring. A little bit about Breeze Airways. Breeze Airways is a reputable company. It's an airline launched by JetBlueFounder, David Needleman. Mr. Needleman has been a very staunch supporter of going to market areas that are underserved. And so certainly San Bernardino, as well as multiple other cities throughout the United States have been identified. Breeze connects,

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Next travelers and communities underserved by the air service to the United States, to other U.S. cities, that they want to visit most by delivering affordable fares, state-of-the-art technology, and its signatures seriously nice service.

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There will be a host of aircraft seating 118 passengers, 22 seats offering extra legroom with no middle seats.

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The departures will come out of our San Bernardino International Airport, and I want to extend my deep appreciation to all of our IVDM members that join me there at the airport, along with the president and chair of the San Bernardino International Airport.

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I served as past president, and it's a great opportunity for our community, so we welcome breeze airways to the city of San Bernardino, and we wish many, many continued success opportunities.

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We are discussing, I'm negotiating and trying to prod and poke where I can to make sure that we have excellent service.

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And Mr. City Manager, we've talked briefly about the opportunities to make sure that our public works teams

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make ensures that we have that welcome mat to those travelers.

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So my expectation is that in the month of May and June and July that our public works teams

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gets out there and pretties up those entryways to the points where many of our visitors

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will traverse. So with that, we'll go into Council announcements, and at this time,

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it's my right, Council Member, from the first district Councilman Sanchez.

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Thank you. I had the opportunity to take another look at Second Lake and the continued

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improvements happening there. It's a spectacular park. It's a park that many people had

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It's written off, and I go there weekly now to walk the dog with the Mrs.

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It's beautiful, I mean, it's serene.

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And I invite everyone to go out there and check it out, it's clean, it's safe.

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But the groundwork was laid over a year ago by the not so visible city staff, our police department.

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In fact, we have a police officer here who had a direct hand in making sure that that park was safe.

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And so I appreciate him, I appreciate the district commander who's there now.

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Lieutenant Ernie Luna, the former central district commander, Brian Harris, and as well as our public work staff.

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Ernesto Salinas, Arlington Rogers, Alex Kishta, have all contributed to making that park a gem in our city.

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We have a couple of things we have left to do.

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I'm talking with staff about redoing the bridges that lead to the, I think we have two islands on the lake, and those are going to be getting redone in the coming months.

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But in other parts of the district, we have over 1,000 residents, no over 1,000 households that are getting to see the direct benefit of taxpayer dollars hard at work for them.

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We are redoing, repaving streets, fixing curbs, driveway approaches, and sidewalks on K Street.

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All the way from Mill to, help me out here at Council Member, past grant, Hillcrest, Hillcrest,

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and then K Street, I'm sorry, not K Street, King Street, from K, all the way to Mount Vernon.

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So these are over 1,000 households that will see improved conditions in their neighborhood.

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And it may not seem like much, but when, I mean, Councilmember Frigaroa, Councilmember

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Abara, we all know residents who get up at 4 in the morning, sometimes in the winter

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and the cold, it's still dark out, and they commute to work in places like Los Angeles.

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And every time they get up, they get in their car, to start that long drive, they hit that

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pothole right there their cars bumping along these these these roads that are in

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terrible conditions and it means the world to them that we're able to provide

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them a nice clean street at least for that first quarter mile on their way

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to work and on their last quarter mile in the way back home so this is the work

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that doesn't always make the front page but it's happening all over especially

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the south side of town that has some of the the poorest or the or the the most

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of that will dilapidate an infrastructure in our city. So I'm happy to highlight a couple

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of those projects. Actually, I will finish with one last thing. I think we have an item

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on the agenda here on the next phase for the Mount Vernon Bridge. So, there are a lot

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of people who are complaining that the Mount Vernon Bridge is down and they have the right

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to that city. That part of town is really cut in half without that bridge there. But I

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I'm proud to say that between the federal government, the state government, and the county government,

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there's an investment of over $280 million, I mean, let me repeat that.

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Over $280 million is being invested in that part of town.

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I mean, that is a major, major undertaking.

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And that was done with help from our allies at the federal, state, and local level.

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So I know there was a little bit of talk of it, oh, a year ago, the bridge is down now.

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But within the next 24 months, that we'll have a shiny new bridge that'll be there serving the community for over 100 years.

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So I want to leave you guys with that high note.

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Thanks for your time.

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Great, thank you, sir.

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Councilman Biggerot, no, no.

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Councilman Schwret, sir.

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Well, I don't have any real announcements either for the fourth order, the city at large,

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but I do have some sad news to report.

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I'm sure probably a number of people have heard this already, but I regretfully have

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to announce the death of Tony Marzulu.

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Tony, as Emil Marzulu's brother, our former economic development director, and Tony took

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on the Wildwood Park Neighborhood Association as if it was his own. He was a real mover and a shaker

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in this community and in the fourth ward up in the Wildwood Park area. His board of directors

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from that I'm sure are completely devastated. The members of that group up there are devastated

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over this and it was as sudden as anyone could imagine. I happened to have seen him. It was a

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week ago Saturday morning, I saw him with his brother, Paul, who was visiting from the

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beach area.

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He lives at the beach and Paul was up visiting.

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I ran into Tony having breakfast at DJ's up on 40th Street and he was the epitome of fitness

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and health and everything else.

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We had a very nice conversation, and I got a text from his brother Emo the next morning

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that that night, Saturday night, about midnight, he had just tealed over from a massive

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heart attack, 62 years old, and just an absolute mover and shaker in this community.

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So I was worried about him, not from that perspective.

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I was worried about him taking on somebody at Stater Brothers and getting in a fight because

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as they were throwing something on the ground or something, and he owned that 40th Street corridor.

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So he will be sorely missed, and it's with real regret that I announce that.

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And I'm sure I don't think there's been an obituary out yet, so I don't know about any servicers or not.

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But I ask the mayor that we close in his honor tonight and remember Tony Marzoula as a real mover and

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shaker in this community.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, sir.

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I too had coffee with Tony about three weeks ago, and we had a great conversation just over coffee, and I want to express my condolences to the Marsillo family and the Wildwood Neighborhood Association.

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That was my home council area when I was a neighborhood council back in the early 2000s through 2009, and so I want to send my deep condolences to that entire neighborhood cluster association.

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what a wonderful man Tony was and so we will close in his honor and so thank you, Councilman Shereff, for being that to our attention.

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Mr. Reyno, so sir.

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Everyone, I've got some brief announcements here.

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The Scottish right that a lot of you know lit up in flames, it's pretty intense.

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We're out of the 215 exit in the university.

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We are in the process of selling that off or it's not ours to sell, but getting the owner,

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the current owner who hasn't taken care of it for a very long time, to sell that off

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and then potentially demolish it. That thing can't stand like that. Also, I've been contacted

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about the 7-elevens. I know some of you may have noticed that it's like a game of shifting

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7-elevens. One disappears here, a fire, quote-unquote, and then it's across the street. But former buildings

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need to be abated, so we're going to handle that as well. Let me second here. A lot of people

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Well, it's like my colleague Councilman Sanchez was stating about the potholes.

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A lot of the issues with potholes and a lot of people don't realize here.

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And even if it isn't a pothole, it's just like a deep groove in the street.

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Sometimes if you notice on the 210 freeway, certain areas near Ontario where diesel trucks happen to sit for long periods of time.

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That happens in our city because we have irresponsible and irresponsible goods movement.

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We've got logistic centers and warehouses for film centers, but we want to call them all over the city.

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But we have no kind of restricted truck routes.

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where the trucks will not come down to your neighborhood, where it's not in your corridor,

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where people aren't being hit by trucks, where people don't have to see them, you don't have

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your house vibrate. So we're working on that. But that's the first step. Now I know a lot of people,

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I appreciate the patience, a lot of people have, a lot of people describe it as a game of Mario Kart,

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driving around the city of San Bernardino, because all the potholes and the liability, a lot of people

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in the city can't even afford to sue the city, but they would if they could, because their car damage

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is irreversible sometimes, and they can't afford to get a new car, like everybody can, or other people

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We have a contract that will be coming before us to get that done in a year's time.

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It should have already been done, but I'm sorry, things are slow, but we have formalized that.

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I want to assure you that it's going to go like that.

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Truck routes, potholes, better asphalt, so we don't have to do these patchwork jobs.

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Because I know you see that in your neighborhoods.

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I'm beginning to concentrate with the city manager on how to work with our assembly member to get another 215 exit somewhere in the north end.

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because not only is it to kind of mitigate some of the traffic from Cal State, San

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Meridino students around five o'clock PM, you don't want to hit the University exit.

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I take the Highland exit on purpose to avoid that congestion right there, but it's also a

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fire hazard because people up in North Verdemont where fires have taken homes, plenty of times,

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they need a way out, they need evacuation routes, it needs to be responsible.

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And so you have my word that I'm working on that.

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This I'm using this time here to update you because a lot of the times you're not on social media,

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I don't have the resources to be in the newspaper all the time talking to you, so bear with me here.

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I wanted to congratulate, I know we're not in New York, but we have about 30,000 Amazon workers across the region.

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And the New York Amazon, one of their facilities managed to unionize.

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I'm not afraid to support unions because unions protect people, the reasons we have weekends, a lot of people don't even know that.

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But because it's happened in America, it's fertile right here, for it to happen right here.

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So that workers don't feel like they have to be intimidated that the quota is going to defeat them.

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A lot of people don't know this, but the turnover rate in our Amazon facilities in particular in this city is above 90%.

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What that means is that if I work at Amazon today, I begin today.

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This time next year, there's a 90% chance I don't work there anymore.

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That's a revolving door, and I'm tired of that.

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And people ask me and people voted for me because they knew I would champion that.

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And so I'm going to support that.

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I'm going to support any unionization effort of any logistic center, any warehouse,

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any, I call them, he calls them job centers, I call them slave plantations sometimes because people don't have better opportunities.

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And a lot of people don't have the resources to climb out and get a better job.

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And so they see that as their only employment opportunity, and we're not here for that anymore.

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So congratulations to them, and thank you for the inspiration.

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The micro grant program that we proposed a while back is going to be coming forward, I believe in the summer, so look forward to that.

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We're talking about a bottom step, around $5,000, $10,000, top step, I think $35,000.

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So small business owners and business owners in general, across the city of San Bernardino, who are impacted by COVID.

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I've been assured that the Treasury doesn't want to deal with the backlog of all the particulars.

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So it's looking like a not so difficult process for acquiring grants for your business.

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So look forward to that in the summer.

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And some of these things might scare some of you, but I wanted to update the community and

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anybody listening on what my agenda looks like, what I was pushed here to do, is that

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I'm going to start approaching the minimum wage, that we have to bump the minimum wage

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in the city.

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It's $15 now in the state of California, but as I'm talking about the majority of our

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employees in these warehouses, I'm talking about at least like $17 an hour, and I think

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there's a lot of support for that.

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I don't know if it'll be on this diet, but I'm not afraid to champion that.

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Also rent control, I might have scared a lot of landlords by saying that, rent control

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In a city where over 51% of people rent, there needs to be some kind of stability.

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There needs to be a way that you can afford to live and not be outsourced and not be moved out of your home in a year's time.

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I'm a renter, your councilman from the fifth ward from the wealthy part of town is a renter.

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Because usually I can afford to buy a home yet?

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No, because why?

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It's ridiculous, I can't afford, like many of you, to rent rent rent and save money in order to buy a home.

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It's not realistic.

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We have to be catering to the community that exists here.

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Bike lanes also, I floated a number about what it would cost, but I served a lot.

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And so down by Venice Beach, I don't go there a lot anymore because the waves aren't that good.

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But Venice Beach, they managed to corden off.

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I'm not talking about investing money and just striping a line.

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Like on the side of the road, we need dedicated like blinders, like to block off cars from getting that.

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I've been really energized rolling through my old neighborhood on Marshall and I'll see like

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60 to 200 people on bikes just rolling around through the neighborhoods, and I love to see it, but I wish they had a lane, so it could be safe and I can go across the entire city. And the last thing is the skate park expansions. I know there's a skate park that's been closed on the east side. I know why people shouldn't have been burning the wooden ramps. But I also grew up in the Blair Park neighborhood, and I love skateboarding. I still long board to this day. I don't do many tricks because I got to stay in touch exactly. It's for you. Trying to expand the skate park.

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Because Blair Park is home to so many people and we talk about after school opportunities and other things

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But a lot of kids don't stay after school a lot of people go to the after school program

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And they still want to do something like skateboard and so I want to consider and explore the city manager

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What it would take in parts and wreck to expand that because if we're going to give it a one we need to be allocating something to another

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And lastly just doing some dedicated grant research on our hiking trails and trails that are attached to any new residential development that will come forward

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because although public courts are responsible for upkeeping it, I'm very aware of across the state,

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especially in this reason where we have mountains that there's a lot of grants that go to various areas

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that have like one hill. And we've got tons. I grew up with a foot a little mountain, nice to walk over.

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There wasn't a trail. It would have been really cool, though. If young people could appreciate that and see it,

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that we actually, that we give it down about our mountain. And that's it. Thank you.

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Council Member Kelvin.

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Good evening, Sam Bernardino. How is everybody tonight? Good doing good? Yes, it's a good day, Sam Bernardino. I have nothing but thank you. So I want to start with public works because now it just seems like we're able to drive through the community drives of the city and we see work being done all throughout. I drive all the wards just to check just to make sure that we are equally being served.

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and things are being done. So public works. Thank you very much. I appreciate you.

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I actually put in a request to have some graffiti removed and on my phone it came up. It's done.

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So guess what I did. I drove up the street to go check it out. The gentleman was still sitting there in his truck.

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He was putting in finishing up the order. I was able to say thank you to him. I didn't get his name. I apologize for that.

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But I thank you for the work and the effort that is being put in throughout the city.

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And that is part of our job to drive through our wars and drive through the city to see so that we can go ahead on and put in that

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CRM requests and get the graffiti taken down as soon as it's put up. And we need all of you to do that as well.

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So use goal requests to put it in. You just stop. Take a minute. Keep it. Keep the app on your phone.

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Just make that request and then they're supposed to send you something that says it's been taken care of.

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Do what I do, drive by to make sure, keep us accountable because if it isn't, then you call back and say, hey, you said that was done but it wasn't, that's the responsibility that we all have as community members.

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So I want to thank you, say thank you to San Bernardino Police Department, I operate it after school program and every time I ask them to come and engage the scholars, they are always there and I think that that's critical.

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It's the only way that we're going to be able to share and show our youth in the city

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What it takes to become a police officer and then be come a police officer within their own city

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I think that that's critical. I want to say thank you to all of our staff

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You all do a tremendous job and I know that we don't thank you hardly enough

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But I want to say thank you specifically to our council staff

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Miss Cheryl weeks back there in the back everybody give her a

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Thank you, and Ms. Valerie Montoya, they do everything for us.

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It's just a two of them, and they have to serve all seven council members.

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And they do it with such style and grace that I wouldn't know what to do without them.

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And I'm sure my colleagues share in that expression.

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Animal shelter, thank you so much.

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I have a pet now, and she helps me out on what I need to do with my dog and how to take care of her.

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And so I appreciate all the work that you all do as well.

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but I also want to say thank you to our commissioners.

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Those are volunteers in our city that attend all of the meetings to be able to provide council members with the information that is taking place inside of those meetings.

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I appreciate each and every one of you community members as well who make sure and are helping us to rebuild the city of San Bernardino because we can't do it without you.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you. Councilmember Alexander, sir.

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Thank you. And good evening, San Bernardino. I hope everybody's doing all right.

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First of all, I would like to say condolences to Tony and his family.

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It really is shocking. I just saw Tony not too long ago, about six weeks ago at DJ's,

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having lunch with his son, so his family condolences.

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What I've been doing, Senator, you know, my report out what I've been doing is on last month on the 22nd.

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Seventh Ward had its general plan update, and once again, Seventh Ward came out in a positive and in numbers fashion to provide their input about the general plan.

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So again, thank you, Seventh Ward, for coming out and showing up. I appreciate you all. Okay, six horses, they beat us, but that's a matter of interpretation.

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But that's okay.

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On the 19th, I attended with my daughter and my granddaughter, the daughter, daddy, dance.

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People from the community came out to the YMCA, and

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father showed support and love to their daughters.

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And their daughters came out there and they pinned.

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I didn't wear my pen.

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I should have worn my pen.

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My daughter, which is 32 years old, she came out, she danced with her dad and

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my granddaughter and she pinned me with a little pen.

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And it was a beautiful experience.

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I suggest next year, if you got your daughter, your granddaughter, come on out to the YMCA.

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It was a beautiful event by Ron Berryman.

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It was great at the YMCA in the Second Ward.

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On the 23rd, the IE Job Corps, myself and Councilmember Calvin, we were there and

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we experienced what the Job Corps is doing in our city.

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It was an excellent virtual event.

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They showed us that if you neighborhood associations need volunteers,

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they said they would do volunteers.

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If anyone needs volunteers, the job corps will do that.

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So I suggest you guys give the job corps a call.

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It was an excellent event.

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00:36:27,780 --> 00:36:30,560
Also on April 1st, myself and councilmember Calvin.

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Again, we were at the San Bernardino Valley College Gala.

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It was an excellent event.

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They celebrated 95 years, I think was 95 years.

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95 years and they had 95 alumni that came back.

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It was a who's who that's been the Valley College.

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But it was an excellent event.

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We were glad that we were there.

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And also on April 5th, I went to the California University Science and Medical School.

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Did anybody know that we have a medical school right here in San Bernardino?

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We have a medical school, a bona fide, 100% medical school,

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turning out doctors, pharmacists, and all that kind of stuff.

447
00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:16,660
They serve 40% of their applicants are from the Inland Empire, 40%.

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00:37:16,660 --> 00:37:20,560
They get ready to have a graduation up, come in graduation, you should be proud.

449
00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:23,620
So all of them, them kids, you got to get them going.

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00:37:23,740 --> 00:37:28,320
Because they choose, when I spoke to the director, I don't know if it's a relation of yours.

451
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:29,920
He's Mr. Evelyn.

452
00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:35,900
Mr. Evelyn says they look for inlyn empire children.

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That's what they look for.

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It's part of the application process.

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So if anybody has an idea that they want to be a doctor, a PA, an LVN, or

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Anything in the medical profession?

457
00:37:46,780 --> 00:37:47,960
We have it right here in our backyard.

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See here, also, okay, does that?

459
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,820
Okay, thank you, you can mention if you want to go,

460
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I'll let you go, I got it, we talk like this all the time.

461
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Okay, okay, yes or yes.

462
00:38:06,940 --> 00:38:08,720
We were at, hey, is that the president?

463
00:38:09,020 --> 00:38:11,900
Scott, that's right there from the board,

464
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right there, Scott, raise your hand.

465
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:17,260
That's the president of the unified school district right there and they had there and

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Councilmember Calvin and Ebar we were there

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You guys don't get it never ever hardly are the council members at the school board

468
00:38:27,980 --> 00:38:33,800
We we we we don't do that so we're trying to show unity in those two elected bodies

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00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:40,960
Okay, all right doctor. Hey are y'all and I'm getting told directions by in my ear here

470
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,400
So, but we went there, it was about the link learning goal certificate.

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We had two high schools in our school district that got these goal certificates with link

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learning.

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00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:56,380
Now was it Pacific's doctor, it was Pacific, they got the most in the nation, they got

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00:38:56,380 --> 00:38:58,560
the most goals in the nation, in the nation.

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You guys should be happy about it, in the nation,

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then

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I'll let you do that now be quiet, I'll

478
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let you do that now be quiet.

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Future events. April 9th, the NAC. April 9th, the NAC will have their annual plant sale at the Garcia Center, so come on out and buy some plants.

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April 12th, arrowhead, neighborhood associations having their meeting. April 13th, the Valencia neighborhood association is having their meeting.

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April 21st, I'm having a commissioners meeting with the community at Standle Church at 6 p.m.

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That's April 21st at 6 p.m., all my commissioners, we come out, we're going to talk about to the community what they've been doing, what they haven't been doing, and the community is welcome as well.

483
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And happy, since we won't be meeting, happy Easter slash resurrection day to all about.

484
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Thank you.

485
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:06,540
Thank you very much, Councilman Alexander and thank you all, Councilmembers.

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At this time, we will proceed on to our presentations for tonight's calendar.

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This is a proclamation of the Mayor and City Council recognising the celebrating April 3 through 9 of 2022 as National Library Week.

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Whereas an observance of National Library Week patrons are encouraged to visit one of more of our four San Bernardino Public Library

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either in person or virtually at www.sbpl.org, connect with your library.

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This is the years theme for today's recognition, whether people visit in person or

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virtually libraries offer endless opportunities to transform the lives through education and life-long learning.

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And whereas libraries help change lives in their communities, serving people of every age,

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education level, ethnicity and physical ability.

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More than 24,000 people have our City of San Bernardino Library card.

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And my two children just got their library card.

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Our San Bernardino Public Library has served our community for 131 years.

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And if there is any city that can benefit from a free public library, it is here in the City of San Bernardino.

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So now therefore, the City of San Bernardino Mayor and City Council do hereby proclaim the week of April 2nd through the April 9th.

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2022 as National Library Week.

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And just a moment I'll call our director up.

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The second one is the Proclamation for Donate Life Month.

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And I want to extend my deep appreciation to our representative here joining us tonight.

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This is a Proclamation of the Mayor and City Council recognizing and celebrating the month

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of April 2022.

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As National Donate Life Month, whereas Oregon, I, tissue, marrow and blood donation are

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00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:02,940
life-giving acts, recognized worldwide, as expressions of compassion to those in need,

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00:42:03,460 --> 00:42:08,920
more than 100,000 individuals nationwide and more than 20,000 here in the state of California

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00:42:09,170 --> 00:42:14,960
are currently on the national organ transplant waiting list, and on average 17 people die

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each day while waiting.

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And whereas the need for donated organs is especially urgent in the Hispanic, Latino, and African-American

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in communities, a single individual's donation of the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys,

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pancreas, and small intestine can save up to eight lives.

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00:42:31,420 --> 00:42:35,620
The donation of tissue can save and heal the lives of more than 75 others.

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Oregon donors save more than 40,000 lives last year, the most ever.

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And whereas any person can register to be an Oregon I and tissue donor regardless

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00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:50,660
of age, or medical conditions, being a registered donor does not impact the quality

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00:42:50,660 --> 00:42:53,580
of lifesaving medical care a person receives in an emergency.

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Now therefore be it resolved that in recognition of National Donate Life Month,

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the month of April 22, is here by now proclaimed, DMV Donate Life Month in the city of San Bernardino.

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And in doing so, we encourage all Californians and especially our residents here of the city of San Bernardino to check yes online.

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Or when applying for or renewing their driver's license or ID card at the DMV.

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Thank you.

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And

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finally, I want to recognize the volunteer appreciation.

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We have countless number of individuals here in our community that serve the city of San Bernardino and various capacities.

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This is a proclamation of the Mayor of City Council recognizing and celebrating the month of April 22 as volunteer appreciation month.

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Whereas last year, more than 65 million Americans gave their time and service to our nation, which is a complete testament to the compassion and generosity of the American spirit.

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And whereas the City of San Bernardino commemorates the National Volunteer Association in appreciation month by recognizing its valued volunteers and its dedicated service members.

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And whereas government alone cannot meet all of our nation's needs.

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So we partner with businesses, faith-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, foundations and individuals who serve in city government and in our community to make a difference.

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And whereas the city of San Bernardino is committed to encouraging volunteerism and the spirit of cooperation in the national service among its employees, citizens and partners.

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Now therefore be it resolved that the city of San Bernardino mayor and council do hereby proclaim the month of April 22 as volunteer appreciation month in the city of San Bernardino and urge our citizens to volunteer or to give national service in our community throughout the year by volunteering and recognizing those who serve.

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We promote partnership, understanding and collaborative problem solving in our community in the month of April and throughout the year.

534
00:44:58,850 --> 00:44:59,970
Why don't you have a brief report on-

535
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A volunteer appreciation month from Whitty. We want to recognize a couple of volunteers from the city. That's okay. Okay, wonderful. Okay. Whitty.

536
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Good evening, Mayor, City Council members and community members. I'm excited tonight to go through a brief presentation of volunteer recognition month. So

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our city has four different departments that take part in volunteer recognition this year. That is the Animal Care Services Library.

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There are parks, recreation, community services, and police.

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And you talked about National Volunteer Recreation Month, but this was something that became an official month in the US in 1990 and it actually became worldwide in 1990.

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We're excited though because it brings you benefits if you volunteer within our city.

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You can increase your self-confidence, you can combat depression, and you can also make sure that you stay physically healthy.

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00:45:59,060 --> 00:46:02,780
So I just want to touch based on some of our departments and what we're doing next slide.

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So, animal care services, next slide.

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We have five volunteers with over 450 hours where they provide assistance with cleaning

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and the care of our animals, next slide.

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Our library I wanted to mention Peggy Hamley.

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She wrapped up her 25 years of volunteering and was at Feldheim Library.

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She volunteered 10 to 12 hours and she kept doing this until the age of 96.

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She was recognized among the volunteers and honored in the fall of 2021 by the League of

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00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:36,480
and voters as the SB area volunteer of the year for her community service.

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These are some pictures of the folks at our library, next slide.

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And at the Feldheim Central Library here we're at today, the Docent's help researchers,

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newspaper reporters, students, and then others who are also interested in history.

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And there's also many volunteers that help out with the friends of the library,

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over 2,228 hours in last year alone.

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00:47:01,630 --> 00:47:08,670
Next slide. Parks and Recreation and Community Services has multiple areas of where we can provide

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volunteer opportunities. Next slide. So as you can see, we had over 50,000 hours just of volunteer

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00:47:14,490 --> 00:47:21,450
services in 2021 with 598 volunteers. Next slide. With the police department, you can see some of the

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pictures of their explorers there as well as their chaplains. Next slide. And you can see over 8,445 hours

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of volunteer service in 2021 with 94 volunteers.

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Next slide.

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So I wanted to show you the big picture.

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In 2021, 703 volunteers serve the city of San Bernardino

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with a total of 61,992 hours,

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almost a cost savings of almost a million dollars

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just from all of their volunteer services.

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Next slide.

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I would be remiss if we only talked about the volunteers

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because it does take coordination to have volunteers come through.

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And tonight, we are here with a few of our coordinators from Animal Services.

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Jody Kroger and Melissa Alvarez, please stand if you're here.

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Library, from

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the Library, Claudia Arroyo,

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Parks and Recreation, Felicia Brown, and

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Juanita Webster couldn't be here.

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Community Services, Jamie Daniels, and Catherine Hernandez.

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And from our police department, Sergeant Aquino Thomas,

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at this time that ends my report.

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Thank you very much.

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At this time, I will call forward our library director, sir.

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Thank you very much for your leadership, National Library Week.

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I'll join you at the platform and on the podium there.

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00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:50,280
Ed, would you like to say a few words?

584
00:48:51,100 --> 00:48:51,320
Sure.

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00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:58,120
So thank you very much to the Mayor and Council for the proclamation tonight in support of National Library Week.

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And I also want to invite the community to come out and enjoy your libraries.

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As we know, it's been a couple challenging years with the pandemic.

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lovely, that's passed, and it's also important to note here that in addition to thanking the

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Council for the proclamation, that thanks to the Council, we also are offering expanded

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hours at this fiscal year at our libraries. As now, all libraries open 40 hours a week,

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that's Feltheim and the three branches,

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throw Ingram and Via Signor as the all-for open Monday

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and Tuesday, 12 until 8, and Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10 until 6, which that's a big

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improvement with the challenges we faced over the last 15 years and just another example of

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a city and all the good things that are happening there. So thank you to the mayor and council

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00:49:49,240 --> 00:49:55,220
and thank you for City Manager Rob Field and his recommendation last year for that to be in

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the funding proposal. Rob always tells me he's a lover and supporter of libraries so thank you to Rob

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for his support and thank you to Eddie our assistant city manager as well for her support of library

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service as well. So as I stated, I encourage the community to come out and enjoy our libraries

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and thanks to the other directors, especially finance and facilities and everyone and their

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help as we try to make improvements to buildings and improve our services. It's a collaborative

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effort among us and our fellow directors. So thanks again to everyone.

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And on behalf of the mayor and council, we present this proclamation to you, sir. Thank

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Thank you for your leadership, thank you for your dedication and devotion to our city.

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We thank you for all of our library employees.

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Let's give our library employees a round of applause and it is a delight to present this to you, sir, on the National Library week.

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Congratulations.

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Okay, at this time, I will call forward our national donate life month.

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You know, please, if you join me, this is a delight to present to you this proclamation of the Mayor's City Council,

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Council recognizing and celebrating the month of April 22 as National Donate Life Month.

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A few words?

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I want to thank the Mayor and the City Council for the proclamation on celebrating April as DMV Donate Life.

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I am a volunteer with one legacy they fall under Donate Life, California.

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I am a living donor.

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00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,940
I donated a kidney 35 years ago to my daughter, Sarah.

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Sarah is now 38 and on her third kidney transplant.

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And the last two transplants were thanks to two families that at the worst time of their lives,

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they donated the organs of their two sons.

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And because of that, my daughter is still alive, so they will always be in our hearts.

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I thank you once again for the proclamation and for advocating organ tissue and eye donation.

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And you can always make a difference, either by being a living donor, or by going through the DMV that pink dot on your driver's license, or donate live california.org, or donate via california.com.

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Oh, er, hey.

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Thank you.

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What a fantastic story, that's great.

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And I will call Lydia Phil, please join me.

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Thank you to all of our volunteers.

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If there are any volunteers here, please join us at the podium.

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We want to celebrate the wonderful work of our volunteers.

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We thank you for your commitment to our community.

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It's awesome, it's awesome, very good, very good.

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We thank you for all of our city employees that coordinate and direct our volunteers.

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And we want to say thank you, a deep appreciation.

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It alleviates the load from our professional staff members and we want to say thank you again.

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And on behalf of the city, Liddy, we thank you for your leadership and department oversight of our parks and work and the volunteer appreciation month.

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Proclamation is therefore created in that stead.

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Congratulations.

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Great.

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Thank you very much, thank you very much.

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Okay, thank you.

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At this time, we will proceed onto our public comments.

641
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Thank you very much for your indulgence.

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I was talking about Tony Marzou and I said I didn't know about his services and it was

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00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:04,840
forwarded to me that there indeed has been a service set for him and apparently it is

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open to the public, gotta bring it back up here, it is to celebrate in the life of Tony

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Mark Zulu on Saturday, April 30th, at the Sixer Stadium.

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That's at the ballpark downtown, and again, it says,

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please join us Saturday, April 30th, 2022, 11 a.m.

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at the 66er stadium, that's 280 South,

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East Street, just down here downtown.

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So anyone that new Tony and would like to show their thoughts for the family again, Tony Marzulu celebration of life on Saturday, April 30th at 11 a.m.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, sir.

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Okay.

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Mayor, pardon the interruption.

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We're on item four.

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The safety report?

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Oh, my apologies.

658
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I apologize.

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00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:08,600
Mr. City Manager, we have a public safety report.

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Yes, we have the 2021 Public Safety Report, which will be presented tonight by Chief David Green from the Police Department, so, Chief.

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Good name, name, name, Mayor of Council.

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Bear with me, just mulling her.

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Let's hear her click her for the public safety efforts.

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00:55:37,300 --> 00:55:46,400
Okay, as we do each year, we're going to cover our annual report for 2021, which is a general overview of crime and public safety efforts.

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Each year, as we wrap up, it takes us a couple of months to refine and come through our data

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to ensure that we are compliant with DOJ and FBI UCR reporting standards.

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And we've now reached that point to where we can come to you with a comprehensive report.

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So for your 2021, as you may know, generally just watching the news or kind of following

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public events, crime has generally trended out nationwide, as well as statewide,

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And to the degree that we have reporting on property crimes, we have generally followed or been consistent with that trend with about a 7% increase in property crimes, and there are some

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00:56:36,100 --> 00:56:38,860
the master's in there that I'll talk about in just a minute.

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Relative to violent crime, while nationally and among California's largest cities,

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00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:48,740
there's been a report of an increase.

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We were able to buck that trend with a decrease in our violent crime.

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So when you combine the aggregate, we were relatively flat with a 0.15 decrease in crime.

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There are a couple of asterisks relative to some of these numbers in what I say in asterisks.

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I mean, issues that are skewing these numbers as Chief McBride had reported last year in the Cran report.

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00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:24,540
As we continue to focus on human trafficking investigations of prosecution, that has skewed some of our sex crimes numbers.

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As we aggressively pursue prosecutions on that and try to encourage reporting of some sex crimes that would not otherwise

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be reported. Also as it relates to property crimes, there were two issues that really largely drove up our property crimes this past year.

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00:57:42,540 --> 00:57:51,760
One is the continued trend of catalytic converter thefts, which has been a very difficult challenge for law enforcement.

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We did have some successes in that, and I'll talk about that in a little bit.

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But that has been a real challenge for us, and that has continued to drive that number up.

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Also, as we saw a return of large-scale musical, music festivals at the National Orange Show with those festivals, we experienced a degree of a large degree of pickpocketing, particularly for cell phones.

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00:58:17,780 --> 00:58:25,640
So that trend has really increased with the return of those events, and that did very much skewer our theft numbers.

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So, as I mentioned, there are some master's with some of these trends, but generally,

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00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:37,480
for the most part, we've followed the state trend with, is it really to property

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00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:37,720
trend?

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So, some of the responses that we have implemented to really address our crime trends,

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00:58:46,100 --> 00:58:52,220
we did focus heavily on violent crime this past year, and particularly we focused on weapons

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00:58:52,220 --> 00:59:03,580
Since cases, many of our investigators and specifically are in our pro-active investigative units have focused on gun charges, gun-related cases.

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00:59:04,380 --> 00:59:11,880
We have had some relative success in that realm as we have continued to make more weapons related arrests.

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Those arrests were up significantly for calendar year 2021.

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21. And we do that in an effort to try to get the guns off the street and try to

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prevent those weapons from being used in a violent crime. But, you know, as we

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continue to shovel sand against the tide, you know, many of these suspects who

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00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:42,660
we arrest unfortunately do not spend much time in jail. So 56 percent of those

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00:59:42,660 --> 00:59:47,560
suspects that we arrested for gun charges spent one day or less in jail.

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So it is still a challenge for us to try to reduce the violent crime, but we are pursuing gun cases aggressively.

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01:00:02,380 --> 01:00:32,020
Additionally, we are pursuing grants that can enable us to put more officers on the street and fund overtime projects. We were successful in securing the Project Safe Neighborhoods grant. That grant provided approximately $175,000 that we were able to fund overtime patrols with. Those patrols were driven by data collected by our crime analysts. In other words, focusing on the neighborhoods where we were having the highest

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01:00:32,020 --> 01:00:37,080
highest activities of violent crime, and on the screen here you'll see some of the

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01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:44,020
stats from the patrols, those officers were relatively successful in addressing

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01:00:44,020 --> 01:00:48,460
many of the violent crime, or many of the individuals that are involved in violent

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01:00:48,460 --> 01:00:48,740
crime.

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Another one of our responses has been to really try to bolster pro-activity in the organization.

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01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:22,060
much of our effort gets spent on responding to crime after it has happened and, of course, we have to try to keep our patrol forces robust as possible so that they're available to respond to 911 calls, but as officers are only responding to 911 calls, they are not proactively trying to intervene and crime before it occurs.

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So, as we have rebuilt our special investigations functions, along with our community policing, we have staffed a violent crime team for the past couple of years that kind of wore two hats and that they were responsible for both the investigative side of violent crime, but also the uniformed enforcement side, and they are two separate and distinct functions.

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just recently we have been able, we have reached a staffing point as we have gotten

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01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:54,860
more officers out of the academy and trained up and deployed into our patrol force.

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01:01:55,280 --> 01:02:01,060
We have reached a staffing level that we now have, both a investigative and a uniform

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01:02:01,060 --> 01:02:03,020
proactive violent crime team.

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As I mentioned prior, Catalette Converter's theft continues to be a problem.

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01:02:12,710 --> 01:02:17,870
We have focused heavily on this issue in our detective bureau.

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01:02:17,870 --> 01:02:22,310
This past year, we did have some successful cases.

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The photo on the slide there depicts a case that we handled where we recovered over 150

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01:02:31,170 --> 01:02:32,190
catalytic converters.

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01:02:32,830 --> 01:02:35,990
We did make three arrests in that case.

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As I mentioned, another challenge of ours, though, is always trying to keep these individuals

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01:02:42,070 --> 01:02:46,970
deals off the streets so that they're not continuing to engage in the same type of crime.

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01:02:47,930 --> 01:02:53,710
Unfortunately, two of those three only received probation, so they are back out on the street.

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01:02:54,010 --> 01:02:57,790
And again, I bring that up because it speaks to the challenges that we deal with and

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01:02:57,790 --> 01:02:59,590
trying to fight these trends.

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Additionally, we do monitor the pending legislation.

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01:03:05,870 --> 01:03:10,390
We do meet with our legislators periodically to discuss what our challenges are and

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01:03:10,390 --> 01:03:14,310
try to help them craft legislation that will help us to address some of these

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01:03:14,310 --> 01:03:14,930
grant trends.

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01:03:15,330 --> 01:03:22,930
The SB919 is a bill pending that will, at least it's intended, to try to address

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01:03:22,930 --> 01:03:28,250
the catalytic converter theft problem as it's become a trend, not just as statewide

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01:03:28,250 --> 01:03:28,810
but nationwide.

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01:03:32,390 --> 01:03:36,750
Additionally, we have been involved in many joint agency investigations.

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We work with several partners, both federally and locally.

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01:03:42,530 --> 01:03:54,410
We still have officers involved in a number of task forces, and we have had some very good joint investigative successes, some of which I'll talk about in a little bit.

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01:03:54,550 --> 01:03:59,070
But this is a list of some of the task forces that we currently participate in.

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01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:10,700
Also, as I mentioned, we try to stay involved in legislative efforts in regard to both property crime and

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01:04:10,700 --> 01:04:15,020
I don't cry in here some of the bills that are pending or work in their way through.

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I don't know the most recent status of all of them, but many of these are trying to address some of the issues that were brought about by Prop 47, some of the unintended consequences.

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01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:31,360
And Assistant Chief Hernandez and I recently met with a group of police chiefs and

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01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:38,540
sheriffs from the Inland Empire, as well as some state legislators to express our concerns in person and

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and try to help them address some of these issues.

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01:04:45,100 --> 01:04:47,940
So I'll cover the police department by the divisions now.

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The police department is comprised of three divisions,

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01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:54,620
investigations, operations, and administrative services.

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01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:58,400
Here's some photos depicting some of the efforts of,

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01:04:58,460 --> 01:05:02,700
or successes of our investigative division this past year.

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The investigative division is comprised of two bureaus.

746
01:05:08,890 --> 01:05:12,330
We have our special enforcement bureau and our detective bureau.

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01:05:12,330 --> 01:05:18,770
The special enforcement bureau handles those proactive type of investigations that I

748
01:05:18,770 --> 01:05:19,590
discussed prior.

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01:05:20,010 --> 01:05:24,530
They are comprised of a vice unit and narcotic unit in two violent crime.

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01:05:24,530 --> 01:05:30,410
Now two violent crime teams as of this week, and here are some of the statistics

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01:05:30,410 --> 01:05:32,950
from their efforts this past year.

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01:05:36,790 --> 01:05:41,570
One of the cases that got a little bit of notoriety this past year was Operation

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01:05:41,570 --> 01:05:46,950
West Side Jenga was a case that was spearheaded by our narcotic unit along with members

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01:05:46,950 --> 01:05:48,550
of the California Department of Justice.

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01:05:49,150 --> 01:05:54,790
That case was very successful, and I can tell you that we're always working on cases

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01:05:54,790 --> 01:05:55,330
like this.

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Many of them we never discuss publicly because one investigation tends to dovetail

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01:06:00,750 --> 01:06:05,790
into another, so the more we discuss it publicly, it has, you know, the potential

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01:06:05,790 --> 01:06:08,130
sometimes to compromise the investigations.

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01:06:08,130 --> 01:06:13,390
But this was one that the Department of Justice and the San Bernardino Police Department

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01:06:13,390 --> 01:06:18,870
collectively decided that we were going to talk about publicly just to try to give the

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01:06:18,870 --> 01:06:25,650
public some vantage point into what we were doing to address public safety in the city.

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01:06:25,870 --> 01:06:29,530
And this case was extraordinarily successful and one we were very proud of.

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01:06:33,980 --> 01:06:39,720
Our detective bureau, as I mentioned, our special investigations bureau proactively

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01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:44,520
they address this crime and that they initiate investigations of criminal organizations

766
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:50,540
and street crimes often before the crimes have taken place or they proactively address

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01:06:50,540 --> 01:06:53,080
individuals that they know are involved in criminal activity.

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01:06:53,540 --> 01:06:57,760
The detective bureau has somewhat of the different function and that every time a crime

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01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:03,720
report is made, via a 9-1-1 call or a patrol officer responds out to somebody's

770
01:07:03,720 --> 01:07:08,540
residence or somebody's business to take a crime report, whether it be a theft or a

771
01:07:08,540 --> 01:07:17,140
or in assault. There's always investigation that takes place on the back end that is not completed by that officer that responds out.

772
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:23,540
That requires a whole separate set of staff that have to go out and interview witnesses that may not be available that day.

773
01:07:23,620 --> 01:07:29,080
They have to go out and gather evidence whether it be video, documents, et cetera, right search warrants.

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01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:36,540
There's a lot of effort that goes into every criminal investigation and that's what our investigations detectives do.

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01:07:36,540 --> 01:07:40,740
or detect the detectives that are assigned to our detective barrel.

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01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:47,060
They handle the property crimes, the crimes against children, homicide, and crimes

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01:07:47,060 --> 01:07:47,740
against persons.

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01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:55,780
And above is just a little snapshot of some of the efforts that they underwent this past

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01:07:55,780 --> 01:07:55,940
year.

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01:07:56,560 --> 01:08:03,440
IKAC stands for Internet Crimes Against Children, or Crimes Against Persons Unit, wrote

781
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:09,920
So in excess of 250 search warrants this past year and made several arrests related to child pornography.

782
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:17,360
Our operations division is also known as the patrol division.

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01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:25,620
These are the folks that respond when somebody calls 911, they're the folks you see driving around the most part in the patrol units in town.

784
01:08:28,420 --> 01:08:34,100
This past year those officers responded to over 100,000 calls for service.

785
01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:43,960
initiated about 30,000 self-initiated contacts and due to some of the progress that we've

786
01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:49,520
made with staffing, they were able to reduce emergency response times by about 8%, which

787
01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:54,340
has been a long time goal of ours is to try to get those response times down as that's

788
01:08:54,340 --> 01:08:56,980
been a long-standing challenge with some of our staffing issues.

789
01:09:01,320 --> 01:09:06,680
Also part of the troll or the operations division is our community police in unit.

790
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:12,320
Here's just kind of a list of some of the efforts that they were engaged in this past year.

791
01:09:12,480 --> 01:09:19,140
They would, when you attend a coffee with a cop or a craft with a cop or some of those events,

792
01:09:20,140 --> 01:09:26,040
that's usually involving either the district staff or folks from our community of Ferris Bureau.

793
01:09:26,040 --> 01:09:31,420
And they've worked very hard to try to make the police department more accessible to the community.

794
01:09:33,020 --> 01:09:44,360
Those officers from the districts also are tasked with addressing some of those problems that aren't necessarily appropriately assigned to a detective.

795
01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:50,720
But they're also not well suited for a 911 call response, and those tend to be more of the quality life issues.

796
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:54,420
You know, the graffiti, the homeless encampments, and those types of issues.

797
01:09:54,580 --> 01:09:58,680
So when you call your district staff and you liaise with them on these types of issues,

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01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:03,000
that really is kind of their niche in the patrol division.

799
01:10:03,180 --> 01:10:07,060
And here's some stats that reflect some of their efforts from this past year.

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01:10:10,900 --> 01:10:15,440
Also part of the operations division is our traffic enforcement unit.

801
01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:23,680
As we started to come out of some of the covered patterns that some of the lockdowns

802
01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:29,520
that had occurred in 2020, of course, the vehicular traffic has picked up on our roadways,

803
01:10:29,820 --> 01:10:36,840
and accordingly, traffic accidents have somewhat increased, but fortunately, for 2021,

804
01:10:37,220 --> 01:10:42,040
we were able to see a very significant reduction in traffic fatalities in the city.

805
01:10:42,140 --> 01:10:49,920
We had had an extraordinarily high number of traffic fatalities in 2020, and we were able to reduce that number by almost 30%.

806
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:50,600
This

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01:10:55,270 --> 01:11:07,070
past year, we were also able to staff the commercial create and staff our commercial traffic enforcement unit, which was a priority given to us by the council this past year.

808
01:11:07,630 --> 01:11:18,810
We now have a supervisor and a handful of officers in that unit as councilman Renoso addressed earlier with commercial traffic routes.

809
01:11:18,810 --> 01:11:36,630
that will be one of the primary functions of this unit is to make sure that those routes are enforced once those are established and to just deal with commercial traffic violations in general, make sure that the trucks that are operating in our city are doing so safely and with the least impact on our other motorists.

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01:11:36,630 --> 01:11:37,590
Third

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01:11:40,400 --> 01:11:46,600
Division within the Police Department is the Administrative Services Division that comprises records,

812
01:11:47,340 --> 01:11:56,570
dispatch, emergency management, special events, finance, a handful of other functions this past year,

813
01:11:56,670 --> 01:12:05,030
or dispatch unit, handled over half a million calls, or special events and emergency management unit

814
01:12:05,030 --> 01:12:12,630
It's managed 19 events with combined attendance of a little over three quarters of a million people.

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01:12:12,850 --> 01:12:16,410
So it's some very significant numbers of folks that come to town.

816
01:12:17,050 --> 01:12:22,490
And with each one of those events, we put out the equivalent of a many police department

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01:12:22,490 --> 01:12:26,570
just to deal with an event every time we have those large scale events at the orange show.

818
01:12:26,590 --> 01:12:34,010
So it's quite a logistics effort on our part and the folks in that unit are responsible

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01:12:34,010 --> 01:12:35,890
for those efforts in keeping those events safe.

820
01:12:40,650 --> 01:12:46,330
This past year, we've, the past few years, we've had some pretty good success with grants.

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01:12:46,370 --> 01:12:50,830
And, in fact, probably the best success that I've seen in my career here at the department,

822
01:12:51,910 --> 01:12:53,890
2021 was no exception.

823
01:12:54,170 --> 01:12:56,010
We secured over $4 million.

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01:12:56,690 --> 01:13:00,150
I credit Assistant Chief Hernandez with a lot of that.

825
01:13:00,250 --> 01:13:04,890
He's been really instrumental in securing these grants, even to the extent that he's

826
01:13:04,890 --> 01:13:11,030
develops a very strong relationships at the Department of Justice and even kind of establish

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01:13:11,030 --> 01:13:18,430
San Bernardino as a role model or a template for what some of these grant authorities are

828
01:13:18,430 --> 01:13:24,150
now requiring from other jurisdictions in the country and in the state. If they want to secure

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01:13:24,150 --> 01:13:29,130
grant money, they want to see it implemented as we've done so in the city. So we really have

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01:13:29,130 --> 01:13:35,510
have kind of served as a model for how a lot of these grant funds are intended to be used.

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01:13:35,730 --> 01:13:40,370
And as a result, we've been successful in continuing to do so.

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01:13:40,650 --> 01:13:44,270
And I'd be remiss not to acknowledge the assistant chief's accomplishments.

833
01:13:44,610 --> 01:13:44,730
And then,

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01:13:48,210 --> 01:13:53,090
let me just back up the photo there depicts, you know,

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01:13:53,150 --> 01:13:54,670
swearing in of several of our officers.

836
01:13:54,870 --> 01:14:00,210
And many of the officers on staff right now, we would not have if not for those grants.

837
01:14:00,210 --> 01:14:04,690
It takes an enormous burden off our general fund, and I believe right now we have upwards

838
01:14:04,690 --> 01:14:11,450
of 28 officers that are funded with outside resources, not with no impact to the general fund.

839
01:14:14,720 --> 01:14:17,420
That said, recruitment is always a challenge.

840
01:14:17,720 --> 01:14:24,720
We've had some pretty good successes with recruitment, to the extent that when our personnel

841
01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:28,020
and training staff go to the regional meetings with their peers from other agencies

842
01:14:28,020 --> 01:14:57,360
These are their NVS frequently of some of the application numbers that we've been pulled in and that we've been able to pull in and we've tried to keep our trade secrets just that, but we have done pretty well and on the screen depicts some of the application numbers that we've seen and wouldn't we compare ourselves with some of the larger agencies in Southern California, many of those agencies are not receiving the number of applications that we are currently.

843
01:14:58,900 --> 01:14:59,860
And this just starts

844
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,960
About a little bit of the recruitment strategy, some of the more common ones. In years past, job fairs were kind of the go-to for recruitment and that trend has really kind of shifted as job fairs have been less productive and so much of our youth or young working population really live and thrive on social media. We've really tried to stay ahead of that curve and focus on those trends and focus on what those folks are interested in, what the type of

845
01:15:29,960 --> 01:15:33,780
issues that are going to make us an attractive employer and grab their attention.

846
01:15:34,440 --> 01:15:42,140
Again, we've done pretty well, but the photo in this slide is one that we use pretty frequently.

847
01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:47,320
This is a photo of myself swearing in Officer Trayvon Davis.

848
01:15:48,940 --> 01:15:52,500
Trayvon has been our poster boy, literally.

849
01:15:53,560 --> 01:16:01,140
And there's a reason for that in that we've, in our community outreach efforts

850
01:16:01,140 --> 01:16:06,620
Through our community outreach, we have a lot of various programs aimed at young folks

851
01:16:06,620 --> 01:16:12,060
starting with the explorers' routes, our cadet program, and we have community service officers

852
01:16:12,060 --> 01:16:15,140
where many young folks start before they become sworn officers.

853
01:16:15,900 --> 01:16:21,460
And the goal of those programs is to try to grab our local youth and grab their attention

854
01:16:21,460 --> 01:16:25,760
early on, get their interest in law enforcement, and try to help develop them so

855
01:16:25,760 --> 01:16:29,720
that they actually develop the skills and characteristics that we need to place

856
01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:34,940
officer, but it's a very, very long-term strategy and the results that we yield from it,

857
01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:36,720
you know, they're not seen quickly.

858
01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:43,740
Trayvon is one of our great success stories in that, and that he came to us as a young

859
01:16:43,740 --> 01:16:47,920
teenager as an explorer scout, and he went through that entire pipeline.

860
01:16:47,920 --> 01:16:52,760
He stuck with us, and he's one of our, you know, one of our local kids that we were able

861
01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:57,760
to kind of watch grow up and develop to the point where we were able to put him in the

862
01:16:57,760 --> 01:17:04,340
Academy, and even when he graduated the Academy, he was not quite old enough for us to

863
01:17:04,340 --> 01:17:10,380
swear in, so while all of his peers went out in the field, we had to keep them in the

864
01:17:10,380 --> 01:17:16,080
house for a couple of weeks, and that's why I was swearing him and by himself, instead

865
01:17:16,080 --> 01:17:19,800
of with a group of folks that he had graduated with, but he's been a great success story for

866
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:21,500
us, and we're very proud of that.

867
01:17:21,500 --> 01:17:22,420
Again,

868
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:49,780
here's just some of the statistics associated with our recruitment the past year, you know, for as long as I can remember working here, you know, there's always been a desire for us to try to reflect the demographics of the community and while that's been a challenge for us, and actually getting there, we have gotten closer, much closer at least with the actual hiring that we're doing now.

869
01:17:49,780 --> 01:18:00,220
So over the long-term, the department will begin to reflect that more significantly but we have made some pretty significant strides there.

870
01:18:01,460 --> 01:18:10,040
And additionally, as I mentioned before, our recruitment efforts have done pretty well this past year alone.

871
01:18:10,720 --> 01:18:19,500
We brought on 42 sworn personnel and 36 civilians to give you a little context that I don't think we hired 42 people.

872
01:18:19,500 --> 01:18:23,760
the first five or six years I work for this department so to bring that many on in

873
01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:27,060
a single year is a real accomplishment for a department or so.

874
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:37,500
Our community services bureau is very active on social media as I mentioned, not just

875
01:18:37,500 --> 01:18:40,400
with recruitment but with community outreach in general.

876
01:18:41,080 --> 01:18:46,440
We've continued to establish goals and benchmarks with our social media to not only make sure

877
01:18:46,440 --> 01:18:51,760
that we're active on all the most commonly used platforms but to make sure that we're constantly

878
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:58,760
currently growing our outreach is we're able to measure that with the metrics of followers.

879
01:18:59,940 --> 01:19:04,280
And 2021 again was no exception, we continue to grow in that regard.

880
01:19:05,020 --> 01:19:11,940
We also, one of the few agencies to have our own podcast, Lieutenant Mayhan who works

881
01:19:11,940 --> 01:19:18,260
in that bureau had come up with that idea a few years ago and we thought, well, you know,

882
01:19:18,260 --> 01:19:25,360
It seemed kind of novel at the time I hadn't seen it before, so I thought we'd give it a try and it's really become very successful for us.

883
01:19:26,380 --> 01:19:45,920
In 2021, we had nearly 9,000 downloads of that podcast, and what that podcast is, it's just a very, it's kind of like a radio talk show where they bring in a guest and they're able to just have a conversation about policing issues in a very casual environment and address a lot of curiosity and concerns that the public might have.

884
01:19:49,730 --> 01:19:50,670
Excellent.

885
01:19:54,140 --> 01:20:00,980
Goals are coming out of 2021, we're continuing to focus on staffing because that is the number one

886
01:20:00,980 --> 01:20:06,220
issue that impacts our service levels, both our response times are in our capacity to fight crime.

887
01:20:06,740 --> 01:20:10,920
We are making some huge strides, but we still have some vacancies we're working on.

888
01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:19,060
We're also working to increase civilian positions, you know, as we downsized over the past 10 years,

889
01:20:19,620 --> 01:20:42,840
We took an exorbitant hit or a disproportionate hit to our civilian positions because there was always kind of a mindset that there were cops would be the last to go because those were the folks out on the streets handling calls, but in eliminating a lot of civilian positions, it really did have a significant impact on us that we're still focusing and really trying to rebuild that capacity.

890
01:20:42,840 --> 01:20:47,400
And also trying to do things is efficiently as possible and keep costs down.

891
01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:50,060
And the more we're able to survey inized positions,

892
01:20:50,060 --> 01:20:51,540
the more we're able to control costs.

893
01:20:53,120 --> 01:20:55,940
Tend you to strengthen community policing efforts, as I mentioned,

894
01:20:55,940 --> 01:21:02,660
through efforts like the community events, the coffees with a cop, social media, et cetera.

895
01:21:03,340 --> 01:21:07,280
And then, of course, we're continuing to focus on grants, as I've talked about.

896
01:21:07,280 --> 01:21:15,880
So, we've had a relatively decent year in 2021, at least, is it related to prior years?

897
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:20,040
We saw some successes and at this point we're working to build on those successes.

898
01:21:21,820 --> 01:21:24,180
So, with that, I'd be happy to take any questions.

899
01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:26,920
Thank you, Chief Green.

900
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:28,160
It's been a delight.

901
01:21:28,580 --> 01:21:33,620
What a wonderful report and we thank you, men and women of our San Bernardino Police Department.

902
01:21:33,620 --> 01:21:38,140
But this is interesting to know, isn't it, public community?

903
01:21:38,860 --> 01:21:43,860
Some of the nuances of policing here in our city and the great accomplishments of our police department.

904
01:21:44,340 --> 01:21:48,400
I want to commend our police officers, especially our patrolman.

905
01:21:49,060 --> 01:21:57,040
And all of the support staff sometimes, we fail to remember the hard work that they're committed to do.

906
01:21:57,160 --> 01:22:02,140
And we appreciate that, we appreciate patrol, especially our detective units and

907
01:22:02,140 --> 01:22:05,440
and all the members of our San Bernardino Police Department family, thank you.

908
01:22:05,860 --> 01:22:06,940
Thank you for excellent report.

909
01:22:07,360 --> 01:22:13,360
Well, a bit of for brief comments or questions, we do have a very robust agenda tonight.

910
01:22:13,500 --> 01:22:17,440
Any council members wishing to ask a simple question or comment?

911
01:22:18,420 --> 01:22:19,580
Councilmember Alexander, sir?

912
01:22:20,940 --> 01:22:21,500
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

913
01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:25,980
Thank you, Chief, for this fine report, and I'd like to thank the Department for doing a job well done.

914
01:22:26,440 --> 01:22:29,940
I'd like to thank my commanders, lieutenant five, and lieutenant Castro.

915
01:22:29,940 --> 01:22:37,300
They do an excellent job in supporting me whatever I request or any issues that we have in the seventh ward

916
01:22:37,300 --> 01:22:43,380
So I appreciate them. They do an excellent job if they're listening. Please pass along my admiration for them for their job

917
01:22:43,380 --> 01:22:49,740
Well done, but I don't go a week or two weeks without getting a call about speeding within the community

918
01:22:49,740 --> 01:22:56,640
So if you can address that to the community as far as how many traffic officers you have now, what are they doing?

919
01:22:57,600 --> 01:23:03,280
Just yesterday, I guess it was closed down streets and there's speed racing around the city now.

920
01:23:03,480 --> 01:23:05,420
Could you please address that to the community?

921
01:23:05,680 --> 01:23:05,920
Thanks.

922
01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:09,420
And ATVs, if you can just attach that one.

923
01:23:09,540 --> 01:23:09,680
Sure.

924
01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:17,040
We are continuing to try to rebuild capacity in our traffic enforcement unit.

925
01:23:17,260 --> 01:23:18,920
We have made some strides.

926
01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:26,280
I will tell you that so we have an organizational chart and we have, and we have currently

927
01:23:26,280 --> 01:23:32,700
We have 289 positions funded, so every position in the department is plugged into a spot

928
01:23:32,700 --> 01:23:35,600
somewhere in our organizational structure.

929
01:23:36,360 --> 01:23:41,540
But we are carrying vacancies department-wide until we reach full staffing, and then

930
01:23:41,540 --> 01:23:47,300
also keep in mind that even when we reach full staffing, that means that all of the

931
01:23:47,300 --> 01:23:50,520
funded positions have a body that is employed.

932
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:56,060
But from the time that we hire an officer until the time that officer works,

933
01:23:56,060 --> 01:24:01,140
is an autonomous call taker or an investigator or wherever they're assigned.

934
01:24:01,320 --> 01:24:02,520
It's about a one year period.

935
01:24:03,360 --> 01:24:10,180
So, as I mentioned, we hired 42 officers this past year, which is a huge accomplishment for us.

936
01:24:11,300 --> 01:24:16,300
Many of those officers are still not on the streets, working as autonomous police officers.

937
01:24:16,640 --> 01:24:22,580
So, you know, many of those officers, you know, recently graduated the Academy, now they're in field training program.

938
01:24:22,580 --> 01:24:27,940
So there is a long, there's a long buildup until we reach that capacity.

939
01:24:28,480 --> 01:24:35,140
Our traffic unit in its heyday, how about 14 officers funded and assigned?

940
01:24:35,820 --> 01:24:41,260
Right now as we are currently structured, we have 10 traffic officers assigned,

941
01:24:41,420 --> 01:24:45,560
plus our commercial traffic unit.

942
01:24:45,820 --> 01:24:51,520
But of those 10, not all 10 positions are actually staffed because we're carrying vacancies.

943
01:24:51,520 --> 01:25:00,540
So at any given time, we're about five or six full-time traffic officers and two or three full-time

944
01:25:00,540 --> 01:25:02,620
commercial enforcement officers right now.

945
01:25:02,760 --> 01:25:10,880
But as we continue to fully staff our positions, get officers off a training, the motor unit

946
01:25:10,880 --> 01:25:17,660
or the traffic unit will have ten full-time motor officers dedicated solely to traffic

947
01:25:17,660 --> 01:25:18,160
functions.

948
01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:21,620
We are aware of the street takeovers.

949
01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:25,620
It's an issue that's plaguing much of the state right now.

950
01:25:26,720 --> 01:25:31,420
They are very organized in part of what contributes to that as social media,

951
01:25:31,420 --> 01:25:35,520
because in years past where they didn't have that forum where they could communicate

952
01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:38,660
and create kind of this flash mob dynamic.

953
01:25:39,280 --> 01:25:43,180
Now they can through messaging apps, and so they're very coordinated.

954
01:25:43,740 --> 01:25:45,740
They move from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

955
01:25:45,740 --> 01:25:51,640
They know the shifts and times and staffing of various police agencies and it is a real

956
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:52,040
challenge.

957
01:25:52,240 --> 01:25:57,520
And especially, it's a challenge when we're largely dealing with traffic infractions,

958
01:25:57,520 --> 01:26:01,020
which are not even in a restable crime.

959
01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:08,940
One of the strategies that we have taken and the strategy has actually been led by the

960
01:26:08,940 --> 01:26:14,060
Western District Commander Lieutenant Eddie Flores is to try to target some of these folks

961
01:26:14,060 --> 01:26:20,820
with conspiracy charges. This past year, we did serve some search warrants, electronic

962
01:26:20,820 --> 01:26:25,880
search warrants, physical search warrants, and we did make some arrests for some conspiracy

963
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:32,020
charges related to this. But it's a very, it's a very innovative approach to dealing with

964
01:26:32,020 --> 01:26:39,100
this type of, to dealing with this type of issues, and is new crime trends emerge. There's

965
01:26:39,100 --> 01:27:00,720
always this lag in building out those cases, and then trying to bring prosecutors into the loop to where they're comfortable prosecuting, you know, being a little innovative in how they prosecute these cases, but we are trying to be innovative in that regard, we have had some successes, we're continuing to take that approach, but it is a challenge for us.

966
01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:13,840
And it's always a dilemma for police chiefs is to whether or not we want to have officers get in pursuit, some teenager on an off road motorcycle or on an ATV.

967
01:27:14,140 --> 01:27:22,260
I know a few years back real to our neighbor did get in pursuit and they've gone through a lot of litigation as a result.

968
01:27:23,140 --> 01:27:29,560
It's something that I have to balance out whether or not that's a good approach or not.

969
01:27:30,100 --> 01:27:37,820
But we are trying to be innovative by pursuing it other ways and applying whatever sanctions we can.

970
01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:41,360
Okay, Councilman Figueroa, followed by Council Member Caldwell.

971
01:27:42,480 --> 01:27:43,540
Thank you, thank you, Mayor.

972
01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:53,380
I thank you Chief Green for that report and I thank you to all of our officers as well for the great work that they do in our community and their service to our community.

973
01:27:54,460 --> 01:27:58,440
One of the slides, I don't remember which one, but it was referring to the

974
01:27:58,440 --> 01:28:03,320
I think it was about 4.1 a currency that was seized.

975
01:28:03,560 --> 01:28:08,900
What exactly is then done, how is that utilized, what happens with that afterwards?

976
01:28:09,660 --> 01:28:16,300
So, the currency that is seized through investigations, which is usually, most of the currency

977
01:28:16,300 --> 01:28:21,920
that was seized this past year was either the result of drug cases or a newer phenomenon

978
01:28:21,920 --> 01:28:26,200
that we've dealt with in the past few years as these illegal gambling halls are also

979
01:28:26,200 --> 01:28:32,780
referred to as net cafes, that operation West Ijanga case was largely focused on these

980
01:28:32,780 --> 01:28:39,080
illegal gambling halls. So that's, you know, when we work those investigations, we serve

981
01:28:39,080 --> 01:28:44,640
search warrants, we seize the proceeds that are associated with illegal activities. So

982
01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:50,980
that 4.1 million represents illegal proceeds that were seized. When we seize those proceeds,

983
01:28:50,980 --> 01:29:20,880
There is a, there's kind of a bifurcated path that those cases take and that there's a criminal prosecution associated with the folks that had those, had those funds, but then there's also a civil proceeding that takes place where we file, we file a case with the district attorney's office to civilly seize those monies, and then if that civil case is successful, a certain percentage of those funds come back to the law enforcement agency.

984
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:25,800
a certain percentage goes to the prosecutor's office and they get dispersed and then those

985
01:29:25,800 --> 01:29:29,400
are used for various reasons, you know, for various functions.

986
01:29:30,020 --> 01:29:35,000
Largely, they cannot be used to offset personnel costs, but they can be used for programs,

987
01:29:35,160 --> 01:29:36,740
they can be used to acquire equipment.

988
01:29:37,620 --> 01:29:42,340
And a certain percentage of that also has to be used for youth and diversion programs.

989
01:29:42,920 --> 01:29:48,280
One of the photos up there when I was talking about community policing efforts in our outreach,

990
01:29:48,280 --> 01:29:53,520
There was a photo of a bunch of kids from a gym on the West Side, from Project Fighting

991
01:29:53,520 --> 01:29:59,980
Chance, which is a phenomenal program that really is not as well-known as...

992
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:15,280
It should be it's producing some real-world class boxers on the West Side of town. This past year, we donated $10,000 from asset, forfeiture, proceeds to project fighting chance. So, the money gets used for a broad array of things.

993
01:30:17,710 --> 01:30:31,570
Council Member Keltman. Thank you, Chief Green. I appreciate this report and all that you all do. And yes, project fighting chance is a wonderful organization and they work extremely hard over there. And they are producing

994
01:30:31,570 --> 01:30:37,970
producing champions and so my friend over there, he's always in the ring with them and so

995
01:30:37,970 --> 01:30:42,410
I appreciate seeing you all in that ring and working hard with those scholars, I appreciate

996
01:30:42,410 --> 01:30:42,690
that.

997
01:30:43,170 --> 01:30:45,370
So I just wanted to ask a couple of questions.

998
01:30:45,990 --> 01:30:48,530
So when we host these events, the raves that we host.

999
01:30:48,930 --> 01:30:49,750
So what do we do?

1000
01:30:49,950 --> 01:30:56,370
We pull officers from other jurisdictions to come in and assist us because we can't possibly

1001
01:30:56,370 --> 01:31:00,450
be using all of our officers which would leave us short on right here.

1002
01:31:00,450 --> 01:31:03,930
So we do not pull from our patrol function.

1003
01:31:04,150 --> 01:31:09,290
So these, these, these events take place after hours, after, after business hours,

1004
01:31:09,570 --> 01:31:15,370
typically when the folks that we would have working at that time are our patrol

1005
01:31:15,370 --> 01:31:19,810
folks, we never take from our patrol staff to staff these events.

1006
01:31:20,390 --> 01:31:24,170
The staff, the, the, the internal, the San Bernardino police staff that are used

1007
01:31:24,170 --> 01:31:29,210
for these events come from the detective bureau, the special investigations,

1008
01:31:29,210 --> 01:31:36,390
regulations, bureau, the district resource officers who are not, who are, who work a traditional day time schedule.

1009
01:31:36,550 --> 01:31:49,870
So it's all of the officers that would be off duty during that period are working those events on an overtime basis that is funded through reimbursement by the promoters of those events.

1010
01:31:50,310 --> 01:31:57,670
In some cases, when these events either grow too large for us to handle,

1011
01:31:57,670 --> 01:32:04,370
or there are dynamics associated with the events that caused us some concern,

1012
01:32:04,550 --> 01:32:09,670
and an example of that would be a festival that was held several months back,

1013
01:32:09,890 --> 01:32:13,550
right on the heels of the Houston event where they had had some kind of some tragic

1014
01:32:13,550 --> 01:32:14,010
events.

1015
01:32:14,330 --> 01:32:20,270
There were some concerns related to this, to the event that was held here in San Bernardino,

1016
01:32:20,350 --> 01:32:21,650
because it was many of the same artists.

1017
01:32:21,910 --> 01:32:25,890
There were concerns about us having some of those same issues that they hadn't

1018
01:32:25,890 --> 01:32:29,890
Houston and those event, in that situation, we were able to bring in the

1019
01:32:29,890 --> 01:32:32,770
should help from the Sheriff's Department, Colton PD, the CHP.

1020
01:32:33,710 --> 01:32:39,950
But most of the events were able to manage on our own using our officers who would

1021
01:32:39,950 --> 01:32:41,790
otherwise be off duty at that time period.

1022
01:32:42,010 --> 01:32:43,390
Okay, thank you very much for that.

1023
01:32:44,150 --> 01:32:46,490
When it comes, I first want to say congratulations.

1024
01:32:46,810 --> 01:32:47,630
Is it Chief Hernandez?

1025
01:32:48,530 --> 01:32:49,410
Assistant Chief Hernandez.

1026
01:32:49,490 --> 01:32:52,890
Assistant Chief Hernandez, for that's a lot of money to bring in through Grantson.

1027
01:32:53,330 --> 01:32:54,490
That's, we appreciate that.

1028
01:32:54,490 --> 01:32:56,190
That's helps offset.

1029
01:32:56,590 --> 01:32:59,590
I'm worried that I'm going to lose him to some consultancies somewhere.

1030
01:33:00,130 --> 01:33:04,490
He's said, maybe he wants to come back to work for the city because we are looking for a grant writer as well.

1031
01:33:07,330 --> 01:33:09,330
We're looking, we're going to be looking, right?

1032
01:33:09,850 --> 01:33:10,970
So we know what we need.

1033
01:33:12,210 --> 01:33:18,810
And so, but what you said, I saw on the one slide, it said, LET apps, what is the LET?

1034
01:33:18,890 --> 01:33:19,950
Law enforcement training.

1035
01:33:19,950 --> 01:33:24,790
So when we hire a police officer, they are classified as a law enforcement

1036
01:33:24,790 --> 01:33:29,710
trainee up until the day that they graduate the Academy or sworn in if they would

1037
01:33:29,710 --> 01:33:35,430
put in in those photographs where you saw me swearing in the, the, the, the,

1038
01:33:35,530 --> 01:33:39,750
the, the, the, Trayvon and, and the other group of officers, at that point, once I

1039
01:33:39,750 --> 01:33:43,810
swear them in, they are reclassified from a law enforcement trainee to a police

1040
01:33:43,810 --> 01:33:44,210
officer.

1041
01:33:44,690 --> 01:33:48,890
So last question, I know that we have some cameras here in our city, and we're

1042
01:33:48,890 --> 01:33:55,930
We're looking at trying to get these back operational, do those actually help deter or do they help you all in your day-to-day jobs?

1043
01:33:57,290 --> 01:34:06,370
The city's crime camera program, as it's currently comprised, has very limited benefit to us.

1044
01:34:06,630 --> 01:34:13,770
And that's because we're not using artificial intelligence capabilities with it.

1045
01:34:14,310 --> 01:34:18,330
So in order for it to be, and I don't want to say that it has no value.

1046
01:34:18,330 --> 01:34:28,270
There are many cases where we know that we've had a crime at a location, we're able to go back and look at it and get video evidence.

1047
01:34:29,710 --> 01:34:37,710
But I would love to have, you know, 30 staff sitting around monitoring those cameras at all times, but it's just not feasible.

1048
01:34:38,130 --> 01:34:47,150
And so without some of the technologies that exist today, I think that the program has limited value.

1049
01:34:47,150 --> 01:35:15,010
But we are looking at new strategies and new technologies to try to improve, and there are technologies out there now to where it will alert us when there's a particular activity or a particular crime or we can, for example, we can type in characteristics of a vehicle sedan, four-door red in color, and the cameras will actually have a technology where they will grab that information and provide it to us.

1050
01:35:15,010 --> 01:35:19,870
And then, it's also important to distinguish between our traditional crime cameras and our

1051
01:35:20,310 --> 01:35:23,170
automated license plate reading cameras.

1052
01:35:23,690 --> 01:35:29,310
We solve a tremendous amount of crime through the ALPR cameras, those cameras are extraordinarily

1053
01:35:29,310 --> 01:35:30,470
valuable to us.

1054
01:35:31,010 --> 01:35:36,270
I can tell you that our neighbor next door, Highland, has invested heavily in that technology

1055
01:35:36,270 --> 01:35:41,990
to the extent that they almost have a fence, you know, a geofence around that city.

1056
01:35:41,990 --> 01:35:53,170
So when there's a crime in Highland, and that car, you know, the vehicle comes or goes, you know, through the city's major corridors, they are constantly capturing data and solving a lot of their crimes.

1057
01:35:53,170 --> 01:35:58,930
And it's a long term strategy. I would love to have something like that, but it is extraordinarily expensive.

1058
01:35:59,670 --> 01:36:00,690
Thank you very much.

1059
01:36:02,030 --> 01:36:05,350
Okay. No, there's no other other council members.

1060
01:36:05,350 --> 01:36:06,010
That's it.

1061
01:36:06,590 --> 01:36:06,950
Okay.

1062
01:36:07,750 --> 01:36:08,830
Chief, thank you so much.

1063
01:36:09,230 --> 01:36:13,830
I appreciate one of the, I had no idea we had 8,000 over 8,000 subscribers for the, for the podcast.

1064
01:36:14,010 --> 01:36:14,690
I know that I'm one of them.

1065
01:36:14,690 --> 01:36:15,530
I'd listen to it regularly.

1066
01:36:16,170 --> 01:36:19,110
I'd encourage the public to tune in and listen.

1067
01:36:19,210 --> 01:36:22,670
I think the most recent one, or at least the last one I listened to was about our female officers.

1068
01:36:22,930 --> 01:36:24,910
So for special thank you to all our female officers.

1069
01:36:25,190 --> 01:36:30,770
And so we're always willing to take requests on, on top of topics of interest or guests that folks would like to hear from.

1070
01:36:31,130 --> 01:36:32,410
So we appreciate the feedback.

1071
01:36:32,770 --> 01:36:33,070
Thank you, sir.

1072
01:36:33,430 --> 01:36:33,590
Thank you.

1073
01:36:33,590 --> 01:36:37,970
Okay, at this time, we'll move on to public comments.

1074
01:36:38,070 --> 01:36:39,270
Excuse me, Mayor Pro Temp?

1075
01:36:39,270 --> 01:36:42,670
Yes, just really quickly, before we start, we have to apologize.

1076
01:36:43,390 --> 01:36:48,970
David Miranda, our VIP system coordinator, had some pretty significant car trouble.

1077
01:36:48,970 --> 01:36:56,610
Was not able to be here tonight, so we're asking that item 10 be continued to the May 4th agenda.

1078
01:36:57,390 --> 01:37:02,570
That is the VIP contract amendments and report.

1079
01:37:03,090 --> 01:37:10,210
So we apologize for that, it's unreinforcing it, but we are where we are, so an end Heveline has to be here for this.

1080
01:37:10,410 --> 01:37:11,670
So that will continue on to the next meeting.

1081
01:37:11,670 --> 01:37:12,690
You continue on to the next meeting.

1082
01:37:12,890 --> 01:37:14,830
Yes, thank you, thank you for that update.

1083
01:37:15,410 --> 01:37:17,150
Mayor Pro Tem, do you need our motion for that?

1084
01:37:17,530 --> 01:37:17,890
That's right.

1085
01:37:18,470 --> 01:37:20,210
Mayor Pro Tem, do you need our motion for that?

1086
01:37:21,070 --> 01:37:22,630
That can be done administratively, I believe.

1087
01:37:23,170 --> 01:37:27,250
I know that we have formally done that before at the request of the City Manager since his agenda.

1088
01:37:27,730 --> 01:37:29,010
He's asked for items to be pulled.

1089
01:37:32,740 --> 01:37:32,960
Okay.

1090
01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:33,500
Okay,

1091
01:37:35,660 --> 01:37:39,760
in person comments will be heard first, followed by remote public comments.

1092
01:37:40,220 --> 01:37:45,520
If you are speaking remotely, please use the raise your hand feature to request a speak during the public comment.

1093
01:37:46,040 --> 01:37:51,300
Please mute any devices to avoid feedback while speaking and log off of the Zoom session immediately after you speak.

1094
01:37:52,020 --> 01:37:58,740
So we'll go ahead and move on to the first public speaker that I have here is Leslie Stevens from, I believe, the chamber.

1095
01:38:01,670 --> 01:38:08,550
Is this acronym correct? Is this the San Bernardino area chamber of commerce? Is that with the okay? Welcome.

1096
01:38:10,770 --> 01:38:15,850
My name is Leslie Stevens. I'm a long time board member for the San Bernardino area chamber.

1097
01:38:16,810 --> 01:38:22,630
I'm happy to be back delivering messages. It's been a long time since I've been here and it's good to see everybody.

1098
01:38:24,950 --> 01:38:28,390
And I'm going to be delivering what's happening in April.

1099
01:38:29,030 --> 01:38:35,330
We will begin with baseball at our beautiful Sam Manuel Stadium with the 66ers opening

1100
01:38:35,330 --> 01:38:37,550
game on Friday at 7.05.

1101
01:38:38,110 --> 01:38:47,210
Further games take place on Saturday, April 8th at 7.05, Sunday, April 10th at 2, April 19th

1102
01:38:47,210 --> 01:38:51,710
at 7.05, Friday, April 22nd at 7.05.

1103
01:38:51,710 --> 01:38:57,830
Saturday, April 23rd at 705 and Sunday the 24th at 205.

1104
01:38:58,110 --> 01:39:04,170
For more information on that please call 909-885-9922.

1105
01:39:04,890 --> 01:39:11,570
Disney's magical musical Beauty in the Beast opens April 8th at 8pm at our historic California

1106
01:39:11,570 --> 01:39:19,330
theater of performing arts at 562 with 4th Street with further performances on Saturday at

1107
01:39:19,330 --> 01:39:23,510
at 2 o'clock and 8 o'clock and Sunday the 10th at 2 p.m.

1108
01:39:24,290 --> 01:39:30,970
Again, call 909-885-8263 for information and tickets.

1109
01:39:31,530 --> 01:39:36,330
The San Bernardino Unified School District will hold a board meeting on April 19th

1110
01:39:37,170 --> 01:39:47,050
at 530 at the School District 777 North F-3, called 909-381-1245 for more details.

1111
01:39:47,050 --> 01:39:52,750
On Wednesday, April 20th, the Chamber of Commerce will host their monthly coffee

1112
01:39:52,750 --> 01:40:00,410
clash meeting and mixer followed by governmental affairs meeting at 9.15 a.m.

1113
01:40:00,710 --> 01:40:10,430
At the Chamber Office, 546 West, 6th Street, please call 909-885-7515 for more information.

1114
01:40:10,430 --> 01:40:18,630
The 105th National Orange Show commences on April 20th at the Fairgrounds at 690 South

1115
01:40:18,630 --> 01:40:27,750
Arrowhead Avenue, Gate 8 from 5 to 11 and again on April 21st, 22nd and 23rd and the

1116
01:40:27,750 --> 01:40:39,290
ending show, ending Sunday, April 24th called 909, 888, 6788 for more information, also on

1117
01:40:39,290 --> 01:40:48,090
April 20th, the City Council will hold their regular meeting here at the library at 555 Weth 6th Street beginning at 7 p.m.

1118
01:40:48,770 --> 01:41:00,930
On April 21st, partners against violence will hold an open house at their premises at 444 North Arrowhead, Avenue Suite 101 between 3 and 6 p.m.

1119
01:41:00,930 --> 01:41:10,870
call 909-885-884 for details while on the same day women of dignity health will host

1120
01:41:10,870 --> 01:41:17,790
sunset yoga at 5 p.m. at the community hospital San Bernardino on

1121
01:41:21,440 --> 01:41:22,560
April 24th,

1122
01:41:22,560 --> 01:41:28,460
beginning at 8 a.m. Ronald McDonald House are holding 5k walk for kids and the Fontana

1123
01:41:28,460 --> 01:41:34,580
on a part called 909-747-1262 for more information.

1124
01:41:35,420 --> 01:41:37,020
Mr. Williams, would you start wrapping it up?

1125
01:41:37,120 --> 01:41:38,040
We have a lot to do.

1126
01:41:38,760 --> 01:41:39,360
I think he's going.

1127
01:41:39,800 --> 01:41:43,320
The San Bernardino City Advisory Council of Senior Programs

1128
01:41:43,320 --> 01:41:46,960
will be hosting a meeting at the 5th Street Senior Center,

1129
01:41:47,120 --> 01:41:53,340
beginning at 4.30 p.m., called 909-384-541-4

1130
01:41:53,340 --> 01:41:56,760
for more details while at 6 p.m. on the same day.

1131
01:41:59,840 --> 01:42:03,680
Is there a website that we can direct the public to for all this information?

1132
01:42:05,320 --> 01:42:11,680
You might be able to, the San Bernardino Chamber might have that on their website.

1133
01:42:12,660 --> 01:42:13,080
I don't know.

1134
01:42:13,840 --> 01:42:14,900
They listed that.

1135
01:42:16,740 --> 01:42:22,340
Yeah, so it's, yeah, just, what was that website one more time, and then that'll work.

1136
01:42:22,420 --> 01:42:25,440
San Bernardino Area Chamber, I don't know their website.

1137
01:42:25,440 --> 01:42:29,360
Okay, so we'll just go to somebody, you know, area chamber of commerce for, yeah.

1138
01:42:29,620 --> 01:42:34,300
On 830, I'm sorry, we're going to go ahead and move on with the other public speakers as well.

1139
01:42:37,800 --> 01:42:41,780
Is this the last one? Go ahead. I have a long drive home. I don't mind if you.

1140
01:42:44,480 --> 01:42:49,040
There's one more thing that the assistance League of San Bernardino will be holding their

1141
01:42:49,040 --> 01:42:55,140
spectacular headdress ball at the national orange show at 930 a.m. and 5 p.m.

1142
01:42:55,140 --> 01:43:00,180
Call 9-5-1-2-2-2-5-0-7-0, if you wish to attend finally.

1143
01:43:01,440 --> 01:43:06,560
Don Filder will be hosting an evening at the hotel California, at the California

1144
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:12,280
Theater, performing arts on April 30th at 7 p.m., call 9-0-9-8-8-5.

1145
01:43:13,020 --> 01:43:17,520
Here's 8-2-6-3, thank you so much.

1146
01:43:17,860 --> 01:43:18,620
Thank you so much.

1147
01:43:19,920 --> 01:43:32,620
Next speaker we have is Paula Plunk, followed by Thelma Thomas, followed by AFE, Cassandra, there's a lot of names on this one, I'm sorry.

1148
01:43:33,800 --> 01:43:38,180
So, Paula Plunk, and we have both sides here of the podiums too, for the public teams.

1149
01:43:42,080 --> 01:43:44,040
Really, Mr. Perroa?

1150
01:43:44,360 --> 01:43:44,580
Really?

1151
01:43:45,060 --> 01:43:45,600
Thank you.

1152
01:43:48,960 --> 01:43:50,020
Council, San Bernardino residents.

1153
01:43:50,260 --> 01:43:50,560
Good evening.

1154
01:43:50,800 --> 01:43:51,440
Mayor of Canada.

1155
01:43:51,900 --> 01:43:53,620
Helen Tran caught illegally.

1156
01:43:53,860 --> 01:43:57,740
Yes, illegally on San Bernardino high school campuses and field trips.

1157
01:43:58,260 --> 01:44:03,920
Spinning her fairy tales to whoever will listen, including mesmerizing San Bernardino school board president.

1158
01:44:04,620 --> 01:44:10,680
Who collusions into her behavior has now been asked to resign his position last night?

1159
01:44:11,280 --> 01:44:11,700
Trust broken.

1160
01:44:11,700 --> 01:44:17,600
This is Helen Tran, as you hear, she doesn't care who or what happens to those surrounding

1161
01:44:17,600 --> 01:44:17,800
her.

1162
01:44:17,900 --> 01:44:21,900
As long as she can tell, this disgusting list of supporters of the love and commitment

1163
01:44:21,900 --> 01:44:23,620
says the spider to the fly.

1164
01:44:24,380 --> 01:44:28,760
This behavior is ruthless and narcissistic and speaks to volumes to the testimonies of the

1165
01:44:28,760 --> 01:44:29,000
women.

1166
01:44:29,580 --> 01:44:32,780
The workers heard before she brutally betrayed the women under her care.

1167
01:44:33,320 --> 01:44:34,600
Her timeline doesn't fit.

1168
01:44:35,080 --> 01:44:37,020
Her memo says so.

1169
01:44:37,020 --> 01:44:42,160
Helen Tran doesn't care what happened to those women, nor does she care that she was

1170
01:44:42,160 --> 01:44:46,080
the catalyst of why millions of millions of dollars are being wasted in the San Bernardino

1171
01:44:46,080 --> 01:44:46,760
court system.

1172
01:44:47,440 --> 01:44:52,740
As long as Mayor of Candidate Helen Tran can continue her perpetration of these deceptions

1173
01:44:52,740 --> 01:44:57,640
of understanding the needs of the city, she will be whatever it takes, and that is dangerous.

1174
01:44:57,640 --> 01:44:59,800
Move along, you are definitely

1175
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:29,980
Not the mayor we are looking for. Helen Tran on a personal note as a sexual assault survivor now warrior. We you are why women refuse to report sexual assault, sexual harassment and or both. Because when as the HR director, you bounced, leaving in your disgusting way, the difficult task to clean up the devastation left behind by city manager, Mr. Field and things to get back on the right track. Thank you, Mr. Field. Helen Tran and John Valdevia are two peasants.

1176
01:45:29,980 --> 01:45:33,320
and one pod, and neither of these candidates deserve your vote.

1177
01:45:34,060 --> 01:45:37,660
Marial candidate Jim Pemman is a history revisionist.

1178
01:45:38,100 --> 01:45:43,520
26 years working in the San Bernardino government led by this city attorney

1179
01:45:43,520 --> 01:45:48,960
with bully tactics self-grantizing in and out of the city council meetings archived forever.

1180
01:45:49,520 --> 01:45:55,800
26 years of city government experience has led to a censure and a recall of this man in 2013.

1181
01:45:55,800 --> 01:45:59,700
It very costly went at almost a million dollars.

1182
01:46:01,480 --> 01:46:11,640
C-W-2, Ms. Ibarra, not here this evening, has asked $440,000, $140,000 for residents who help her clean up her legal mess.

1183
01:46:12,020 --> 01:46:15,900
Because she couldn't stay on Facebook, clean to this debilitating request.

1184
01:46:16,080 --> 01:46:20,120
Residents are done cleaning up loose lips, Facebook postings, and leadership failures.

1185
01:46:21,000 --> 01:46:24,400
C-W-Ibarra needs to take on this financial mess on her own.

1186
01:46:24,400 --> 01:46:27,200
and liquidations, loans, or friends help her out.

1187
01:46:27,820 --> 01:46:30,220
We need the council to stop playing this victim card

1188
01:46:30,220 --> 01:46:32,240
over and over when it takes all it took.

1189
01:46:32,820 --> 01:46:35,820
Is CWE bar to remain focused on the needs of her ward

1190
01:46:35,820 --> 01:46:36,620
and the city.

1191
01:46:37,400 --> 01:46:39,500
Vote San Bernardino on June 7th.

1192
01:46:39,500 --> 01:46:41,140
Let's invest in a positive future

1193
01:46:41,140 --> 01:46:42,940
for the children of San Bernardino.

1194
01:46:43,520 --> 01:46:43,880
Thank you.

1195
01:46:45,360 --> 01:46:46,040
Thank you.

1196
01:46:46,340 --> 01:46:50,500
Next up, we have Felma Thomas, followed by AFE.

1197
01:46:58,670 --> 01:46:59,230
Thank you.

1198
01:46:59,490 --> 01:47:01,410
Thank you so much for giving me your time.

1199
01:47:01,410 --> 01:47:07,970
this evening I'm here because I was astound about two months ago. There was a

1200
01:47:07,970 --> 01:47:11,150
homeless encampment. Let me tell you first that I am an advocate for the homeless

1201
01:47:11,150 --> 01:47:17,330
here in the city of San Bernardino. I've met you guys before. I was at a homeless

1202
01:47:17,330 --> 01:47:23,050
encampment and all the people were non-speaking. They were deaf and dumb and

1203
01:47:23,650 --> 01:47:29,150
city of San Bernardino had nobody out there that could speak to them and these

1204
01:47:29,150 --> 01:47:32,450
people running around trying to get their stuff together and they were just crying.

1205
01:47:32,990 --> 01:47:37,910
Now, they came out there with dump trucks and stuff, and they just took all their stuff

1206
01:47:38,330 --> 01:47:39,690
and threw it into a dump truck.

1207
01:47:40,190 --> 01:47:45,150
Now, they're normally, they give them time, they'll come the night before and tell them

1208
01:47:45,150 --> 01:47:46,150
they're coming or something.

1209
01:47:46,550 --> 01:47:49,990
These poor people had no one to talk to, no one to respond to.

1210
01:47:50,010 --> 01:47:55,630
And I asked the police officers, I said, do San Bernardino not have someone that can speak

1211
01:47:55,630 --> 01:47:57,130
sign language to these people?

1212
01:47:57,130 --> 01:48:02,450
and they said, no, they said the County Sheriff's Department does, but they didn't.

1213
01:48:02,570 --> 01:48:08,070
So my thing is why wasn't a contact made so that we could get somebody from the Sheriff's

1214
01:48:08,070 --> 01:48:09,610
Department to be there?

1215
01:48:09,770 --> 01:48:15,370
Those people are human beings and they deserve a chance, as anyone else, and I'd also like

1216
01:48:15,370 --> 01:48:25,470
to say my organization, we're working with the group homes, the Commonwealth lessons, and

1217
01:48:25,470 --> 01:48:29,830
And on prayer day, which is going to be made the fifth, we'll be giving approximately

1218
01:48:30,330 --> 01:48:35,730
500 lap blankets here in the city of San Bernardino to our convalescent hospitals.

1219
01:48:36,390 --> 01:48:39,390
What I'm trying to say to you is that we're very active.

1220
01:48:40,370 --> 01:48:45,890
We're very active with the city of San Bernardino, and I'm very concerned with what's going

1221
01:48:45,890 --> 01:48:47,010
on in my city.

1222
01:48:47,610 --> 01:48:53,850
I'm an active person, I'm a voter, I've been here over 30 years, and I hate the thing that's

1223
01:48:53,850 --> 01:48:55,330
happening with our homeless people.

1224
01:48:55,670 --> 01:48:57,050
They are human beings.

1225
01:48:57,970 --> 01:49:00,350
You know, they cut down the trees that were over there,

1226
01:49:00,530 --> 01:49:02,150
where they were in, had an encampment,

1227
01:49:02,550 --> 01:49:04,990
over the hill behind the gummy part.

1228
01:49:05,410 --> 01:49:06,710
They wasn't bothering anybody.

1229
01:49:07,210 --> 01:49:11,870
They cut down 20 trees and left a blank thing over there.

1230
01:49:12,290 --> 01:49:13,390
Now there's no one there.

1231
01:49:13,570 --> 01:49:14,330
There's nothing there.

1232
01:49:14,730 --> 01:49:17,550
And the people still are running around homeless people,

1233
01:49:18,030 --> 01:49:21,090
running around the city of San Bernardino like roaches.

1234
01:49:21,090 --> 01:49:24,330
They're just everywhere and it's just ridiculous.

1235
01:49:24,870 --> 01:49:27,650
You close the Columbia Park, you close Paracelopart,

1236
01:49:28,030 --> 01:49:30,830
you close it every place, well, where are they supposed to go?

1237
01:49:31,170 --> 01:49:35,050
Now, there's a building at 1888, Highland Avenue.

1238
01:49:35,530 --> 01:49:39,150
It's been vacant, I don't, I think it belongs to the school district,

1239
01:49:39,350 --> 01:49:42,050
the county, the somebody, but it's been vacant.

1240
01:49:42,270 --> 01:49:46,990
I'd like that building so that I can give showers and bathrooms

1241
01:49:46,990 --> 01:49:49,870
and clothing and food to the homeless.

1242
01:49:49,870 --> 01:49:54,650
So I would appreciate it if you guys could please help me to get that building.

1243
01:49:55,370 --> 01:49:56,070
Thank you.

1244
01:50:01,740 --> 01:50:09,340
Next up, we have advocating for everyone, AFE, followed by Alejandro Faz, followed by John

1245
01:50:09,880 --> 01:50:10,380
Philanberg.

1246
01:50:12,340 --> 01:50:12,740
AFE.

1247
01:50:13,480 --> 01:50:15,380
I believe it's like six, one, two, yes.

1248
01:50:25,270 --> 01:50:26,110
Hi, everybody.

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Good evening, council members.

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My name is Cassandra.

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01:50:34,150 --> 01:50:42,170
So we're at Cal State, CSUSB students, and part of the title for the social work program.

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01:50:42,530 --> 01:50:48,690
We created a group called AFE advocating for everyone, and it's intended to advocate

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for those in need in the area of the San Bernardino area.

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01:50:53,710 --> 01:50:58,390
While conducting some research, we uncovered some important issues within the 10 block

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radius, which many residents believe that there should be a lot of issues taken into consideration.

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To narrow down each of all of them, we began by formulating a survey in which the community

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was able to provide their input about the matters they believe needed to be urgently addressed.

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This survey was conducted amongst the residents off of Robert's Avenue, a location near Mary Mercy Center.

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We discovered that there were a few needs they wanted to be met out of 100 people we surveyed.

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4.5% asked for easier access to the directory for City Hall.

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01:51:43,950 --> 01:51:49,890
9.1% claimed they were unhappy with the time police took to respond to emergencies.

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01:51:49,890 --> 01:51:58,210
9.1% would like the streets to be fixed, the conditions just are getting worse.

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01:51:59,090 --> 01:52:05,510
18.2% believe supporting and possibly funding the homeless population with food, clothing,

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and basic hygiene products, which Mary Mercy Center currently provides free of charge.

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And then lastly, we have 59.1% of the residents, 1% of the residents,

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one in more resources for themselves, which include community centers, local boys and

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01:52:22,530 --> 01:52:26,550
girls club, escape park, libraries, and a career center.

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We understand, obviously, we won't be able to provide resources necessary to conquer

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all these overnight.

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However, we believe we can contribute to the cause by coming up with this structured and

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detailed plan that helps create changes within the community.

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in order to help with the 18.2% concerned about the homeless population.

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We have worked closely with community leaders, volunteers, and started social media platforms

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to help with donations for a Mary Mercy Center.

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To assist with the 59.1% residents that would like specific resources within their community,

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We met with Councilman Theodore Sanchez to discuss a few services that can possibly be provided.

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We also wish to promote Paul, sorry, the last name, the senior branch library.

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As many residents believed it was abandoned.

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01:53:27,710 --> 01:53:32,510
We were able to find out that the location was not only open, but provided many resources

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for all ages. For instance, there's bingo night, movie night, reading incentive programs,

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author visits, cultural performance, and homework support for the students.

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Theodore did bring up our group to add the director of the library and he was excited about-

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01:53:52,950 --> 01:53:56,670
Excuse me, ma'am. Your time is up. I appreciate your public comments.

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01:53:56,850 --> 01:53:58,970
Thank you for coming tonight. Are you Ms. Faz?

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01:53:59,810 --> 01:54:02,010
I'm actually a customer with AFI.

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01:54:02,590 --> 01:54:03,030
Wonderful.

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01:54:03,470 --> 01:54:04,710
Well, your time has expired.

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01:54:04,890 --> 01:54:06,090
We thank you for coming tonight.

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We appreciate the students here,

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and thank you very much for your public comment tonight.

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Okay.

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01:54:10,690 --> 01:54:11,270
Thank you very much.

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01:54:11,350 --> 01:54:11,990
Let's move on.

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Alegandro Faz.

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01:54:16,090 --> 01:54:16,430
Yes, right.

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01:54:18,890 --> 01:54:20,270
Mr. Faz, welcome, sir.

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Followed by John Schroellenberger and Harry Hatch.

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01:54:24,550 --> 01:54:26,310
Good evening, Honorable Mayor and City Council.

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My name is Alejandro Faz.

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I'm a 23-year-old, lifelong resident of San Bernardino.

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I began my collegiate career at San Bernardino Valley College, before continuing my education at UCLA, where I majored in philosophy.

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I am now pursuing a Master's of Public Administration degree at the University of Southern California.

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Professionally, I'm a K-3 Literacy and Adventure Specialist with the San Bernardino City Unified School District,

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helping build the reading capacities of young scholars.

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I'm in these obligations, I'm also an intern for Councilwoman.

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and represent the City's fifth ward on the Animal Control Commission.

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At the time of my appointment, I was one of, if not the youngest commissioner in the city.

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I'm here tonight to speak on agenda item 35,

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concerning the formation of a Youth Civic Engagement Council in partnership with SBCUSD.

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I am the principal architect of this initiative under the direction of Councilwoman Calvin.

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I remember when I was first appointed to my commission,

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Councilman right now also agreed to meet me and discuss my qualifications.

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I stayed up much of the night prior, studying to avoid scuffering the opportunity.

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Thankfully, Van alleviated my anxiety by saying, don't worry, bro.

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I'm already going to appoint you.

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I was elated that someone of my youth would be granted the platform to represent my community.

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And it is to the Councilman's credit that he, the youngest member on this bias,

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offered enough faith in young people to entrust them with the direction of our city.

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It, such as the essence of the proposed Youth Council, this Council will educate

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San Bernardino scholars on the civic engagement process, it will also empower students to

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learn academically and experientially by assigning conceptual literature and hosting trips

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and volunteer events to forge a holistic civic experience.

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But above all, the central aim of this Council is to mold the next generation of stewards

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and instruct them in the principles of humility, empathy, and community building.

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like my pointer, Ben Reinozo, and my beloved mentor, Kimberly Calvin, and I'm

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certain all of you. I believe in the promise of young people. Scholars just

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like me are yearning for an outlet to serve their community. And there are

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others who have yet to discover their love for public service who could thrive in

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this program and become the future decision makers of this city. The

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possibilities for a Youth Council are endless and I hope that you all will afford

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this initiative do consideration as we develop the new, the future leaders of San Bernardino.

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Thank you all very much. Thank you, sir. Our next speaker is John Schollenberger,

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followed by Harry Hatch, Mike Hartley, and Luis O'Hedda. Sir?

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San Bernardino Leader broke terms of $750,000 settlement former City Manager says.

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San Bernardino

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San Bernardino agreed to pay former city manager Andrea Miller $750,000 to settle her breach of contract lawsuit against the city.

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Councilwoman Sandra Bara broke a provision of the agreement by making disparaging comments about her job performance on Facebook.

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Miller alleges in a claim filed with the city late last month.

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reached March 25th about 10 months after Ibar and the majority of the council members fired

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Miller without cause. The settlement agreement included a joint statement clarifying that

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Miller was let go because the city wanted to go in a new direction. The statement was to be

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the only public comment from either side on the case. Around April 15th, however, according to screenshots

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included in the claim, Ibarami, defamatory comments about Miller on Facebook riding in part.

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The truth always prevails, and for what it's worth, those comments made by the city are false.

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She threw the council on to the bus as far as I'm concerned.

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And I stand behind my vote, letting Andrea Miller go, just as I do with others who aren't performing and aren't letting the city move forward.

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Miller claims the comments, which appears to be a response to another post.

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harms her reputation and is untrue.

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According to the claim, Ivarra attempted to hide, conceal, and destroy defamitary posts

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after a Miller's attorney Bradley Gage requested her comments be preserved.

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On agenda tonight is item number 16 and 17, and thanks to a community watchdog in this

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community uncovered public records and found out that this city has been

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and paying has entered into an agreement to pay for

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Sandra E. Barr's legal bills in this matter.

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She brought this on herself.

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She brought it on, you get yourself in,

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you get yourself out.

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I do not approve of this as a taxpayer in this city.

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You do not have my permission to use my tax dollars

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to defend this woman in a lawsuit.

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$50,000 has already been spent.

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$23,000 is still in outstanding invoices

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and now they want to raise this to $150,000 not on my watch.

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I want my $4.28 back that's already been spent.

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I wanted to go to the General Fund and I want to receipt.

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I will not stand by and watch this reckless behavior going on

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on this council.

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That's $750,000 that Andrea Miller was entitled to that money.

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I watched her be berated on this council.

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Go back and look at the tapes for yourself.

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That money could have been used to get the lights back on

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on East Street in her district and that street paved in her neighborhood.

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And that's how I stand on that issue.

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Thank you.

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Mr. Hatch, welcome, sir, Harry Hatch, Mike Hartley, Luis O'Hedda, and we're going to ask individuals, as I call your name, we have two podiums available, so whichever is closer, and also stay in the bullpen area for us. Mr. Hatch, welcome, sir. Thank you, sir. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, Mayor City Council.

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Chief Crane, I enjoyed the presentation tonight. However, you missed one thing. Part one crime of arson.

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There are no arson's that were listed in your part one program.

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Department of Justice and the FBI all list arson as a part one crime.

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I understand where the problem is, but we're not addressing that problem.

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This is the fifth year that we have not addressed arson's in the city of San Bernardino in our statistical data.

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If we had addressed the arsonist, we probably would have been number one in the state for the least enforceable city.

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We're only number two this year.

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Last year we were number one.

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This is one of the things that we have to look at, but it's something we can do something about.

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It's a little thing.

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A little thing that we can do something about like fireworks.

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changing 12 things in the fireworks section will allow us to make it more enforceable.

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Little things that we can do to make those steps forward, those steps forward to make the better city that we want.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you, Mike Hartley, followed by Luis Oheda, Treasure Tees, Jim Penman, and Lindsay Segarcia.

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Sir, welcome.

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Hello, Mayor of the City Council.

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A couple of weeks ago I was here and I talked about street sweeper, talked about the street sweeping signs being put back up.

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If the rest of the city doesn't want a street sweeper, I do.

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Mr. Alexander, you're in my ward, Ward 7, you're in my council member, I'll leave that up to you.

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You find out how we lost our street sweeper.

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Graffiti. I have noticed on Graffiti on walls that have been tagged. There's 12 different

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colors now. It doesn't take a scientist to figure out that the wall has been tagged. Originally

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it was supposed to be the same color, so nobody would know it was tagged. No longer is that

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being done. Now, if the owners are painting it, instead of the city, the owners have got

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it painted the same color. When I was at State of Brothers on 40th you have a black spray paint

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and the owner painted it white while the tag is still showing. Code enforcement, we now

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have 10 code enforcement officers. That is not enough. We only have two more in the budget.

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it. I say we need at least 30.

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Councilmen, we're no so when you started talking about rent

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control, the problem we have with this city is that the rentals are out of control with

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absentee landlords. They do not take care of the property. This city looks like a third world

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country because of it, and

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the only way we're going to be able to control it is with

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code enforcement officers. The apartments, we need more police officers. In Ward 7, I don't

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know about Ward 5, but in Ward 7, our apartments are a ward zone. And there's always five or

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six police officers at the apartments in our ward. I also want to say that with code enforcement

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I, their website is really hard to work with and I don't think a lot of people call code because of it.

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But I want to tell you, one thing about the police officers are like the word pro-active.

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Code enforcement is reactive, not pro-active, and we've got to change that.

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And I'm pretty sure that would be the city manager's job to get that under control.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Our next speaker is Luis Ojeda, Treasure Tees, Jim Pemman.

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Mr. Ojeda, welcome.

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Hello, everyone.

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02:04:44,000 --> 02:04:44,300
Good evening.

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My name is Luis Ojeda, President and Founder.

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02:04:47,780 --> 02:04:53,440
We are the change and everyone is being asking me when the food fed is coming back.

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I say, well, that's a good question.

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I just met the parks and rector and we're going to start the talks to see when it's going

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to be more convenient for everyone and I want to thank the council and mayor and everyone

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for the support on community events is something that we have proven that it works.

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So looking forward to work with you and with everyone else and even though I like to see

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the bright side of everything, I think that we have a lot of bad things that we need to fix

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but I feel progress, so I'm going to keep it short tonight because I think you have a long agenda, so thank you very much.

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02:05:37,420 --> 02:05:37,820
Thank you.

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02:05:39,480 --> 02:05:41,620
Charger Tease, followed by Jim Femme.

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02:05:44,200 --> 02:05:50,360
According to item 16 and the consent calendar, Mr. Barra will remain responsible for and will pay for

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attorneys fees in the event that the city either fails for any reason to pay attorney bills, or costs as they become due,

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or if the $50,000 cap is exceeded.

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It is clear in your own backup agenda that you have provided this community that Sandra Barrett is responsible for everything above $50,000.

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So I want to know why tonight you are asking the residents to fund an additional $100,000.

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02:06:16,860 --> 02:06:21,480
Because what we know is we have the longest call times, response from our police department.

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02:06:22,220 --> 02:06:26,560
We don't have enough cops. Mr. Hunt, we said we don't have enough code enforcement.

1442
02:06:26,560 --> 02:06:32,020
The kids that were here from a skate park that no longer exist to them to have something productive to do.

1443
02:06:33,060 --> 02:06:37,480
Your violence and prevention manager, somebody should have got that guy a ride here.

1444
02:06:38,040 --> 02:06:43,720
Because we have over 76 gangs in our city, people, kids are dying left and right in our streets.

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02:06:44,140 --> 02:06:52,100
And we have an opportunity to expand the capacity of two programs that make the most difference in protecting our children and giving them a future.

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I am tired of watching our politicians, new and old get up, rewrite history, give excuses for why they fail us and then ask us to be funding to fund everything they do like we are a piggy bank.

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02:07:08,140 --> 02:07:15,580
Like this city doesn't have any other priority than to pay for the mayor's sexual harassment lawsuits against three young women from Cal State.

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02:07:15,580 --> 02:07:19,060
like we don't have anything other to afford than paying

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02:07:19,060 --> 02:07:21,900
Sanders a bar is lawsuits when she decided to get on

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02:07:21,900 --> 02:07:24,320
Facebook and breach contract and you know it's really

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02:07:24,320 --> 02:07:27,180
interesting she couldn't even show up here tonight but

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02:07:27,180 --> 02:07:30,460
when this was posted on the Facebook the lawsuit she thought

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02:07:30,460 --> 02:07:34,000
it was funny and put a big old laughing emoji I want to see

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02:07:34,000 --> 02:07:37,920
her laughing now because we're not laughing we're not

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02:07:37,920 --> 02:07:41,640
laughing every time we hit a pothole every time we walk

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02:07:41,640 --> 02:07:45,160
down a dark alley every time we we overstep homeless

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02:07:45,160 --> 02:07:50,020
people on our way to businesses, every time we can't take our children to parks because

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02:07:50,020 --> 02:07:54,580
they haven't been clean, every time something is taking away from somebody in this community,

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02:07:54,920 --> 02:07:59,620
but yet every time you guys do something wrong, oh magic, there's money.

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02:08:00,760 --> 02:08:04,800
In a city that was bankrupt, magic, we can pay your attorney fees.

1461
02:08:05,360 --> 02:08:07,100
We can pay for your legal fees.

1462
02:08:09,220 --> 02:08:11,300
When the rest of us do something wrong, we pay.

1463
02:08:12,280 --> 02:08:17,180
My dad used to tell me, don't cause trouble, you can't afford to take care of on your own.

1464
02:08:18,120 --> 02:08:20,840
You must pay for the consequences of your own actions.

1465
02:08:21,500 --> 02:08:23,220
It is time for all of you to grow up.

1466
02:08:23,900 --> 02:08:25,340
The city is not your mother.

1467
02:08:25,660 --> 02:08:27,400
The taxpayers are not your piggy bank.

1468
02:08:28,340 --> 02:08:34,360
And if any of you violate what you all signed on for, then you are just as culpable.

1469
02:08:34,660 --> 02:08:38,440
And the mayor who brings back his lawsuit questions for us to pay for him,

1470
02:08:38,440 --> 02:08:45,300
is waiting in the wings to sue us so he can pay Rod Pichaco $450 an hour and that will be a huge and every one of you.

1471
02:08:45,620 --> 02:08:47,260
The time is up. Mr. Penman?

1472
02:08:59,520 --> 02:09:00,980
Jim Penman, recall.

1473
02:09:02,240 --> 02:09:08,600
In August 2010 during the Tel Aviv City Council budget workshop, Councilwoman Wendy McCamack and I both informed the mayor and

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02:09:08,600 --> 02:09:15,640
City Council that the budget presented by the city manager was not balanced, that the budget projected income had been significantly inflated,

1475
02:09:15,640 --> 02:09:18,300
and the projected expenditures were underestimated.

1476
02:09:18,460 --> 02:09:19,680
We gave specific examples.

1477
02:09:20,520 --> 02:09:22,360
We went on to point out that the Mayor and Council adopted

1478
02:09:22,360 --> 02:09:23,920
the city manager's proposed budget.

1479
02:09:24,580 --> 02:09:27,040
The city would be an understep closer to bankruptcy

1480
02:09:27,040 --> 02:09:29,280
despite that warning, which subsequently was proven

1481
02:09:29,280 --> 02:09:30,380
to be spot on.

1482
02:09:31,000 --> 02:09:33,060
The Mayor and Council adopted the unbalanced budget.

1483
02:09:33,500 --> 02:09:35,300
They repeated their error the following year

1484
02:09:35,300 --> 02:09:38,740
by adopting a similar unbalanced budget despite our warnings.

1485
02:09:39,300 --> 02:09:41,520
Those warnings on the city council video tapes

1486
02:09:41,840 --> 02:09:43,660
from August 2000, Chenner, are available.

1487
02:09:43,660 --> 02:09:53,080
Now, the Mayor and Council members were understandably embarrassed when the bankruptcy occurred and it happened on their watch, especially since we had warned them what was coming.

1488
02:09:53,640 --> 02:09:56,560
They also did not want to be blamed and they wanted to be re-elected.

1489
02:09:56,880 --> 02:10:00,780
So they put out the word that pinment and mechanic were responsible for the bankruptcy.

1490
02:10:01,940 --> 02:10:12,720
Now, they never explained how a city attorney with no vote who did not control any budget but his own and who could not give directions to any other city departments could have caused a $44.8 million shortfall.

1491
02:10:12,720 --> 02:10:14,700
shortfall in the city's budget.

1492
02:10:15,160 --> 02:10:18,200
It certainly was not because we lost a large number of lawsuits.

1493
02:10:18,780 --> 02:10:20,460
We won the overwhelming majority.

1494
02:10:21,140 --> 02:10:25,160
Nor did they explain how one council member who voted against each of the unbalanced budgets and

1495
02:10:25,160 --> 02:10:31,620
who had no control over the expenditures of any city department could be responsible for $44.8 million deficit.

1496
02:10:33,120 --> 02:10:40,060
Nonetheless, signature gathers were recouped, paid $5 and $10 for each signature to obtain enough for the recall.

1497
02:10:40,620 --> 02:10:46,840
But then they started having problems collecting signatures, so they invented two lies and told the voters

1498
02:10:47,820 --> 02:10:52,760
One, Penman has been convicted of embezzling millions of dollars from the city, but has not been sentenced

1499
02:10:53,420 --> 02:10:57,420
Two, Penman has been convicted of selling drugs, but has not been sentenced

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02:10:58,000 --> 02:11:03,600
They went on to say the only way we can get Penman out of office without waiting for him to be sentenced is to recalling

1501
02:11:03,600 --> 02:11:07,740
Then, the number of people who heard those false statements began to sign the recall petitions.

1502
02:11:08,180 --> 02:11:13,100
Now, I have never been arrested for committing any crime in my life, much less charged and

1503
02:11:13,100 --> 02:11:13,840
much less convicted.

1504
02:11:14,600 --> 02:11:18,940
Nevertheless, the recall qualified for the ballot and aggressive campaign laid out those

1505
02:11:18,940 --> 02:11:23,500
same lies and others as a result, and this is a mechanic and I were recalled.

1506
02:11:24,080 --> 02:11:24,940
Was there an injustice?

1507
02:11:25,620 --> 02:11:25,780
Yes.

1508
02:11:26,400 --> 02:11:28,540
Was the entire basis of the recall a lie?

1509
02:11:29,100 --> 02:11:29,320
Yes.

1510
02:11:30,060 --> 02:11:30,620
Bettered happened.

1511
02:11:30,620 --> 02:11:34,920
And that is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

1512
02:11:35,120 --> 02:11:35,420
Thank you.

1513
02:11:37,970 --> 02:11:39,070
Okay, thank you.

1514
02:11:39,510 --> 02:11:45,310
Latisha Garcia, followed by Marcus Funches, Ricabla, Latisha, she here.

1515
02:11:45,850 --> 02:11:47,590
Moving on to Marcus Funches.

1516
02:11:47,870 --> 02:11:48,750
Marcus, are you here?

1517
02:11:48,970 --> 02:11:49,450
Sir, welcome.

1518
02:11:53,960 --> 02:11:56,320
Good evening mayor, council members.

1519
02:11:58,000 --> 02:11:59,380
I'm Marcus Funches.

1520
02:11:59,560 --> 02:12:02,080
I'm the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, December and

1521
02:12:02,080 --> 02:12:03,380
the Inlet City Unified School District.

1522
02:12:03,380 --> 02:12:15,520
And I wanted to take a special moment to highlight a wonderful opportunity to continue to build a strong partnership between the City Council and San Bernardino City Unified School District.

1523
02:12:16,100 --> 02:12:25,520
I want to thank Damon Alexander, Ms. Calvin, Council Member Calvin for joining us yesterday, celebrating our scholars in the pathways.

1524
02:12:25,520 --> 02:12:33,520
a council member, Ben Raynoso, for his ongoing support with our teachers of color campaign and what we're doing for this community.

1525
02:12:34,200 --> 02:12:39,580
But I wanted to take this special moment to really highlight the knowledge or

1526
02:12:40,300 --> 02:12:49,780
remind us that knowledge is power, but the effective use of knowledge opened doors for opportunity that could rarely be closed.

1527
02:12:49,780 --> 02:12:56,020
And with that, there's an opportunity to partner with Youth Council being spearheaded

1528
02:12:56,020 --> 02:12:59,680
by Council Member Calvin and City Council.

1529
02:13:00,260 --> 02:13:06,140
And some of those opportunities and that knowledge that I speak of are right here.

1530
02:13:06,320 --> 02:13:08,100
So just listen to these few things.

1531
02:13:08,880 --> 02:13:14,200
Our scholars will learn to examine how societies obtain, produce and distribute the resources

1532
02:13:14,200 --> 02:13:17,360
and services they need to continue to exist.

1533
02:13:17,760 --> 02:13:18,560
That's power.

1534
02:13:18,560 --> 02:13:28,980
That's knowledge. Our scholars will happen up on a path to explore career goals. Cultivating future leaders within the city of San Bernardino.

1535
02:13:29,340 --> 02:13:35,480
I'll say that again. Cultivating future leaders within the city of San Bernardino. That is excellent.

1536
02:13:35,480 --> 02:13:44,800
Our scholars will afford, or be afforded traditionally, or sorry, will be afforded who

1537
02:13:44,800 --> 02:13:50,900
were traditionally disenfranchised groups, a platform to tender their concerns of what

1538
02:13:50,900 --> 02:13:53,000
affect them and their communities.

1539
02:13:53,400 --> 02:13:54,720
That is excellent as well.

1540
02:13:55,700 --> 02:13:56,320
A few more.

1541
02:13:56,800 --> 02:14:02,500
Our scholars will attend field trips designed to introduce scholars to the legislative process,

1542
02:14:02,500 --> 02:14:05,720
Yes, even more knowledge and power and opportunity.

1543
02:14:06,540 --> 02:14:14,600
Our scholars might receive $1,500 of city subsidized stipend to cover tuition, textbooks,

1544
02:14:15,300 --> 02:14:19,040
and devices if they pursue post-secondary education.

1545
02:14:19,480 --> 02:14:20,560
How wonderful is that?

1546
02:14:21,180 --> 02:14:27,680
And then finally I'd like to highlight this last one that our city will establish a secondary

1547
02:14:27,680 --> 02:14:34,980
to post-secondary pipeline for youth council members to advance their work in city government.

1548
02:14:35,620 --> 02:14:42,740
So I wanted to take a moment to thank our council member Calvin and to highlight the strong relationship

1549
02:14:42,740 --> 02:14:47,980
being built between San Bernardino City Unified School District and the city council.

1550
02:14:48,460 --> 02:14:53,540
And we are on board to support the opportunity to build a strong youth council

1551
02:14:53,540 --> 02:14:57,600
to continue to build that knowledge and opportunities for our young folks.

1552
02:14:57,640 --> 02:14:58,460
Very good, thank you, sir.

1553
02:14:58,960 --> 02:14:59,960
Our next speaker is Rick Owl.

1554
02:15:10,580 --> 02:15:29,980
Thank you. My name is Rick Avila. I am a four-time mayoral candidate for the City of San Bernardino. I've been running for mayor for 17 years. I know these politicians, like the back of my hand. I know I ran a couple of these, ran against a couple of these politicians.

1555
02:15:29,980 --> 02:15:34,660
a couple of times, Jim Panman, he even calls himself Mr. Recall.

1556
02:15:37,280 --> 02:15:39,480
Does anybody know what Recall is?

1557
02:15:40,020 --> 02:15:43,620
To me, it seems like a Will Smith slap.

1558
02:15:44,240 --> 02:15:48,340
They voted him out, and he's here running for mayor.

1559
02:15:49,380 --> 02:15:55,620
And I ran against Morris, and I think people need to know,

1560
02:15:56,280 --> 02:15:58,780
Helen Tran is endorsed by Morris.

1561
02:15:58,780 --> 02:16:06,780
She's nothing but a Morris puppet, and John, I see you're spending hundreds of thousands

1562
02:16:06,780 --> 02:16:09,280
of dollars on science and mailers.

1563
02:16:09,660 --> 02:16:13,600
You can stop sending me some, I'm just on them in the trash.

1564
02:16:14,700 --> 02:16:20,360
So if you haven't figured out by now, I'm endorsing Treasurer T's for mayor.

1565
02:16:21,160 --> 02:16:28,440
Treasurer T's has been pounding you guys for over three years, exposing all the corruption

1566
02:16:28,440 --> 02:16:37,500
that I try to expose for 17 years during the course of that 17 years, I was

1567
02:16:37,500 --> 02:16:42,880
thrown in jail by Judge Duke Rouse because I was trying to expose the corruption

1568
02:16:42,880 --> 02:16:51,740
in 2008, 14 days solitary confinement, four years later another judge overruled his court order.

1569
02:16:51,740 --> 02:16:54,080
So, these are political hits.

1570
02:16:54,520 --> 02:16:57,680
If you come up and try to expose the corruption,

1571
02:17:01,060 --> 02:17:03,880
they usually stop you, some of these powerful

1572
02:17:03,880 --> 02:17:08,360
politicians, but I don't see treasurer or T's being stopped.

1573
02:17:09,260 --> 02:17:12,060
Treasurer, wherever you're at, just keep moving forward.

1574
02:17:13,040 --> 02:17:14,020
You got my support.

1575
02:17:15,620 --> 02:17:22,080
Jim Pemman shouldn't even run for mayor in 2003.

1576
02:17:22,080 --> 02:17:25,040
He says he was in part of the bankruptcy.

1577
02:17:26,100 --> 02:17:32,240
I sued the city in I-1, nearly 900, $900,000.

1578
02:17:32,480 --> 02:17:33,660
They don't have $76,000.

1579
02:17:34,480 --> 02:17:36,620
And he advised the council what to do.

1580
02:17:38,160 --> 02:17:42,200
Not only did we win in superior court, but he went to the pellet court.

1581
02:17:42,760 --> 02:17:47,000
And then the pellet court says pay the contractors.

1582
02:17:48,000 --> 02:17:49,220
So he went to the Supreme Court.

1583
02:17:49,720 --> 02:17:53,220
It's not cheap going to the Supreme Court.

1584
02:17:54,520 --> 02:18:00,900
So I have to come up here when Jim Pemme goes on Facebook, says he's not part of the bankruptcy, he's need deep in it.

1585
02:18:01,900 --> 02:18:03,460
So, treasure your teeth, keep doing.

1586
02:18:04,100 --> 02:18:14,520
On my family and friends, we've been here over a hundred years, and you guys haven't seen the enemy until June 7th, and hopefully she will win.

1587
02:18:14,520 --> 02:18:15,480
Thank you.

1588
02:18:15,580 --> 02:18:15,920
Thank you.

1589
02:18:16,060 --> 02:18:16,740
Lwanda Rangel.

1590
02:18:17,200 --> 02:18:17,540
Just wrangle.

1591
02:18:17,760 --> 02:18:18,060
Welcome.

1592
02:18:19,460 --> 02:18:20,320
Thank you, Mayor.

1593
02:18:21,000 --> 02:18:24,880
I want to say hi to the Mayor and all the Councilmen and the Council of Women's

1594
02:18:24,880 --> 02:18:26,520
are sitting on board.

1595
02:18:27,140 --> 02:18:31,480
It's always a little dirty laundry when you come to these meetings.

1596
02:18:32,540 --> 02:18:39,980
But I just want to say that as a leader, people is watching you.

1597
02:18:40,240 --> 02:18:42,180
People always watching you.

1598
02:18:42,180 --> 02:18:46,660
It's so funny that we can do 99% of things right.

1599
02:18:47,100 --> 02:18:51,980
That 1% that we get wrong, that's what people is always going to remember.

1600
02:18:52,120 --> 02:18:55,720
That 1% of things that you got wrong, that you didn't get right.

1601
02:18:56,560 --> 02:19:00,740
So as a good leader, what are you leaving to the next generation?

1602
02:19:01,400 --> 02:19:03,380
What are you leaving for your children?

1603
02:19:04,280 --> 02:19:10,520
Because if someone out there is going to always say that my father and my mom is XYZ

1604
02:19:10,520 --> 02:19:16,220
to your children to the next generation. We need to start leaving our children a

1605
02:19:16,980 --> 02:19:23,360
good example when we're in leadership, which is a legacy. A legacy is something

1606
02:19:23,360 --> 02:19:27,580
that they can pass on to their children, to their grandchildren, as the

1607
02:19:27,580 --> 02:19:33,260
generation continue to grow. As a good leader, a leader should seek the Lord,

1608
02:19:33,440 --> 02:19:39,240
commit his ways to the Lord, and the Lord established the next step. We need to

1609
02:19:39,240 --> 02:19:43,320
know what we're doing, how are we going to do it, and when we should do it.

1610
02:19:44,040 --> 02:19:51,700
And as that last gentleman says that Jim Pittman, well, Jim Pittman is a man of honor and

1611
02:19:51,700 --> 02:19:52,260
dignity.

1612
02:19:53,480 --> 02:20:00,060
And what I see from Jim, he's a man that's been living here in San Bernardino for a century.

1613
02:20:00,620 --> 02:20:02,600
So he knows some things that we don't know.

1614
02:20:02,920 --> 02:20:05,420
He knows some things that the younger folks don't know.

1615
02:20:05,420 --> 02:20:12,040
And I think that he's a good candidate to look to be the next mayor of San Bernardino.

1616
02:20:12,720 --> 02:20:13,520
And that's true.

1617
02:20:14,160 --> 02:20:21,200
The people that are up, who's going to take the blame for the failure of something?

1618
02:20:21,680 --> 02:20:22,160
They're not.

1619
02:20:22,460 --> 02:20:25,740
So they're going to give it to the people that are a little lower than they are.

1620
02:20:26,460 --> 02:20:33,860
But as a good leader, I wish you guys would learn to respect for yourself and respect others.

1621
02:20:33,860 --> 02:20:37,560
and take responsibility for all of your actions.

1622
02:20:38,120 --> 02:20:41,500
That's what I'm looking for the next mirror of San Bernardino to do.

1623
02:20:42,140 --> 02:20:48,120
No matter who it be, I'm here to support whoever will be the next mirror of San Bernardino.

1624
02:20:48,300 --> 02:20:54,340
Get him to do your job so the next generation will have someone or somebody to look up to.

1625
02:20:55,360 --> 02:20:55,740
Thank you.

1626
02:20:56,620 --> 02:21:02,080
Scott Wyatt, Dr. Scott Wyatt, a President of our San Bernardino City Unified School District,

1627
02:21:02,080 --> 02:21:09,030
Good evening, Honourable Mayor, City Council members, community members and guests.

1628
02:21:09,430 --> 02:21:11,670
It is a privilege to be here today and speak before you.

1629
02:21:12,050 --> 02:21:13,490
Definitely different being on this side.

1630
02:21:14,610 --> 02:21:18,110
You should never give a politician a mic, but when you do, make sure they have a clock, right?

1631
02:21:18,250 --> 02:21:19,330
So thank you for those three minutes.

1632
02:21:20,730 --> 02:21:25,210
As you've heard from a few folks this evening, Dr. Funches, our Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources.

1633
02:21:25,770 --> 02:21:28,770
I'm here as well to support a future agenda item.

1634
02:21:28,770 --> 02:21:33,770
And that has been brought forth to me by Councilwoman, can we call it?

1635
02:21:33,930 --> 02:21:40,450
I can't see you through the TV, but I ready to appreciate you reaching out to me and having this discussion.

1636
02:21:40,510 --> 02:21:44,910
We know this was a vision and a dream of our former colleague and friend, Dr. Margaret Hill.

1637
02:21:45,150 --> 02:21:49,410
So I know with our energy and efforts put behind it, it's going to come to fruition.

1638
02:21:49,410 --> 02:21:56,210
So as you can see, you have to support the school board as well as the school district here this evening to make sure that this

1639
02:21:56,210 --> 02:22:03,670
As a student advisory council happens, so, again, when that happens, let's make it work for our kids.

1640
02:22:04,530 --> 02:22:09,810
There's also another committee that was formed quite some time ago, and that was the bridge committee.

1641
02:22:10,570 --> 02:22:18,290
And I know we've talked about this often, and I know we're all very busy, but it's time that we get together and form that bridge committee again.

1642
02:22:18,930 --> 02:22:21,550
The only way we're going to turn around this city is by working together.

1643
02:22:21,550 --> 02:22:28,450
And I know City Council has a lot to do, and the school board has a lot to do, but we need to come together and work together to transform this city.

1644
02:22:29,250 --> 02:22:38,670
And with the current City Council in mayor, current school board, whoever's here in the future, that should be something that we set forth as an agenda and keep it going and keep it moving.

1645
02:22:38,670 --> 02:22:48,330
I definitely want to thank Council members Damon Alexander, Kimlery Calvin, and Sandra Abire for coming in support of our students yesterday for our link learning programs.

1646
02:22:48,330 --> 02:22:55,290
As you heard earlier, Councilman Alexander was talking about, we had three programs that rewarded gold certifications.

1647
02:22:55,810 --> 02:23:07,870
That's quite a recognition in the state, and as you mentioned earlier, yes, specific high school is the only high school in the United States, let me say the United States that has all their programs certified in link learning.

1648
02:23:07,870 --> 02:23:09,730
So, congratulations to them.

1649
02:23:11,970 --> 02:23:16,610
I also want to say welcome and congratulations to Chief Darren Goodman.

1650
02:23:17,190 --> 02:23:21,290
I've had the privilege of serving with him for a short period of time on the San

1651
02:23:21,290 --> 02:23:23,130
Miguel Countywide Gangs and Drugs Task Force.

1652
02:23:23,750 --> 02:23:28,830
I know he's a man of honor and integrity and he's going to bring a lot of experience here to our city.

1653
02:23:29,290 --> 02:23:35,270
I also look forward to the continued partnership with the city police department with our students to explore programs and cadets.

1654
02:23:36,910 --> 02:23:38,870
Councilman Renoso, thank you for mentioning our trails.

1655
02:23:39,770 --> 02:23:43,790
I've had this discussion with Assemblywoman Reyes, quite a few times.

1656
02:23:44,290 --> 02:23:48,350
City of Grand Terraces received millions of dollars, millions of dollars to transform

1657
02:23:48,350 --> 02:23:51,370
their blue mountain into quite a project.

1658
02:23:51,470 --> 02:23:53,750
And I know we could do that here in San Bernardino with little mountains.

1659
02:23:53,790 --> 02:23:55,770
So you have my full support on doing so.

1660
02:23:56,270 --> 02:24:00,070
And then thank you for bringing up the potholes because I was going to bring up the cars on the lawn.

1661
02:24:00,710 --> 02:24:04,010
So now I know why your cars are on the lawn because they don't want to park the street because of potholes.

1662
02:24:04,010 --> 02:24:08,070
So, again, let's see if we could fix those together and address both issues.

1663
02:24:08,390 --> 02:24:08,990
Thank you for your time.

1664
02:24:09,870 --> 02:24:10,970
Okay, thank you.

1665
02:24:11,530 --> 02:24:16,570
At this time, City Clerk, we'll read the record any ADA letters?

1666
02:24:17,130 --> 02:24:19,690
Okay, and just for the record, we do not have any remote speakers.

1667
02:24:20,050 --> 02:24:20,670
Okay, very good.

1668
02:24:21,110 --> 02:24:23,290
Okay, first comment is from Mr. Tim Duran.

1669
02:24:23,770 --> 02:24:26,070
This is my public comment, City of San Bernardino.

1670
02:24:26,330 --> 02:24:32,330
Over 60% of us recalled James Penman for many reasons, although he is trying to rewrite his strain now.

1671
02:24:32,330 --> 02:24:35,290
We know the truth. He wasted $20 million

1672
02:24:35,290 --> 02:24:37,790
suing the flesh nightclub and lost her money.

1673
02:24:38,190 --> 02:24:40,390
He called the bankruptcy of political hoax.

1674
02:24:41,070 --> 02:24:42,850
He had his group of private investigators

1675
02:24:42,850 --> 02:24:45,030
terrorize anyone who challenged him.

1676
02:24:45,750 --> 02:24:47,490
He screamed at us during public comments.

1677
02:24:48,190 --> 02:24:50,290
We need to remind everyone who he is.

1678
02:24:50,790 --> 02:24:52,630
And now he is lying about the recall

1679
02:24:53,270 --> 02:24:54,870
people apologizing to him.

1680
02:24:55,330 --> 02:24:56,850
I demand he give us their names.

1681
02:24:57,690 --> 02:25:00,410
Our city has a bad record of forgetting our past.

1682
02:25:00,410 --> 02:25:01,930
We can't do this anymore.

1683
02:25:02,690 --> 02:25:07,830
Helen Trun, let the mayor, sexually harassed his female employees and did nothing to stop them.

1684
02:25:08,610 --> 02:25:11,730
She has put out five different cover-up lives to the public about it.

1685
02:25:11,950 --> 02:25:14,330
She needs to address this publicly once and for all.

1686
02:25:15,030 --> 02:25:18,810
The mayor has tried for years to get us to pay his legal fees for doing the wrong thing

1687
02:25:18,810 --> 02:25:21,850
and now Sandra Ivarra wants us to do the same.

1688
02:25:22,430 --> 02:25:22,630
No.

1689
02:25:23,370 --> 02:25:25,350
Council, use that money for the people.

1690
02:25:25,790 --> 02:25:29,090
I also want to tell the police officer's association representatives,

1691
02:25:29,090 --> 02:25:35,290
You are paid to play coward to think lying about counsel, woman, Kelvin, and Dr. Treasure

1692
02:25:35,290 --> 02:25:41,990
Ortiz will get you all our tax dollars again, not a chance you need to apologize to them

1693
02:25:41,990 --> 02:25:42,470
publicly.

1694
02:25:43,070 --> 02:25:46,450
The second comment is from Mr. Hardy Brown.

1695
02:25:47,550 --> 02:25:53,210
This is a good evening in the city of San Bernardino that I speak to you after hearing the news

1696
02:25:53,210 --> 02:26:00,350
that after 116 years an African-American will become chief of police on June 1st, 2022.

1697
02:26:01,170 --> 02:26:04,770
The news brought to my mind the song by the late Sam Cook.

1698
02:26:05,810 --> 02:26:10,510
During the middle of the civil rights movement in 1964, a change is going to come.

1699
02:26:11,030 --> 02:26:14,290
It starts with the line I was born by the river in a little tent,

1700
02:26:14,950 --> 02:26:16,890
oh, and just like the river I've been already.

1701
02:26:17,650 --> 02:26:23,590
ever since. Just for the record, I was born 100 yards from the Trent River in

1702
02:26:23,590 --> 02:26:28,430
Trenton, North Carolina. And just like that river, I have been fighting against

1703
02:26:28,430 --> 02:26:33,930
racial discrimination and unfairness in employment ever since. It would take

1704
02:26:33,930 --> 02:26:38,990
too long to tell you of my personal experiences. But like the lyrics in the song

1705
02:26:38,990 --> 02:26:44,490
states, I knew a change was going to come someday and here it is. Thanks to the

1706
02:26:44,490 --> 02:26:49,750
the city manager, Robert Field, for making the decision to hire Darren Gurman and to Darren

1707
02:26:49,750 --> 02:26:52,830
Gurman for accepting the challenge of the duties of the position.

1708
02:26:54,070 --> 02:26:59,870
I thank them because in our charter it's felt out that the city manager has a sole authority

1709
02:26:59,870 --> 02:27:06,950
to hire and all of the people who held that position before him, they never considered us.

1710
02:27:07,570 --> 02:27:12,310
Then I thank Chief Gurman because I have been the first in a position and it is not easy.

1711
02:27:13,090 --> 02:27:17,110
But after speaking with him, he is up to the challenge and so is Rob Field.

1712
02:27:17,750 --> 02:27:24,870
I stand ready to work with all of you to help keep the city moving forward as I have in the 61 years as a tax-paying citizen in the city.

1713
02:27:25,490 --> 02:27:34,290
I want to thank my wife Cheryl, who spoke for me at many meetings, and City Clerk, and I'll be about a row child for being so patient and kind and helpful to me as well.

1714
02:27:36,480 --> 02:27:41,040
Again, thank you, and let's get back to work and make this an all-american city again, Hardy Brown.

1715
02:27:41,040 --> 02:27:44,760
Okay, thank you, let's move on to item number five.

1716
02:27:44,900 --> 02:27:47,040
This is a discussion portion of tonight's calendar.

1717
02:27:47,500 --> 02:27:52,680
This is an ordinance of men in chapter 19.07.0303O of the San Bernardino Municipal Code

1718
02:27:52,680 --> 02:27:54,520
exempting students of educational institutions,

1719
02:27:54,520 --> 02:27:58,200
engage in filmmaking, activity from the special events permit.

1720
02:27:58,780 --> 02:28:05,140
We'd like to suspend the presentation and I think your winning, is there a motion for approval?

1721
02:28:05,380 --> 02:28:05,840
I love it.

1722
02:28:06,300 --> 02:28:06,460
Second.

1723
02:28:07,460 --> 02:28:07,600
Okay.

1724
02:28:07,600 --> 02:28:10,000
Okay, the other members, I vote, cast their votes.

1725
02:28:14,150 --> 02:28:16,930
Which is for clarification, can I have the mover and the seconder?

1726
02:28:18,450 --> 02:28:20,070
Ray Noso and Calvin.

1727
02:28:35,380 --> 02:28:37,900
Motion passes, six-year-old council member Ivarra is absent.

1728
02:28:39,340 --> 02:28:45,320
Item number six is the ordinance of Properties Maintenance Code for vacant building board of standards.

1729
02:28:45,820 --> 02:28:47,360
The recommendation is there before you.

1730
02:28:47,740 --> 02:28:49,760
For a staff presentation, Mr. City Manager.

1731
02:28:50,120 --> 02:28:50,540
Moved to approve.

1732
02:28:51,620 --> 02:28:51,880
Second.

1733
02:28:53,720 --> 02:28:55,380
Okay. I have a question for you.

1734
02:28:56,740 --> 02:28:57,900
Mr. Figger, I'll go ahead.

1735
02:29:01,590 --> 02:29:02,690
I didn't know we were going to move that pass on.

1736
02:29:02,730 --> 02:29:03,650
I said that we were going to hear a report.

1737
02:29:03,770 --> 02:29:03,990
Okay.

1738
02:29:05,890 --> 02:29:14,290
So this is to not supplement, but I guess improve the current HUD requirements

1739
02:29:14,290 --> 02:29:19,490
as far as board-ups or is that, am I on the right item here?

1740
02:29:19,670 --> 02:29:20,890
Essentially, it's to adopt them.

1741
02:29:20,890 --> 02:29:21,770
Okay.

1742
02:29:22,150 --> 02:29:28,250
Yes, so we, through our own boardup process through the cities, we use HUD standards.

1743
02:29:28,730 --> 02:29:32,470
But there are situations where property owners, they board up their own buildings,

1744
02:29:33,310 --> 02:29:35,310
when there's, when they're vacant or what have you.

1745
02:29:35,410 --> 02:29:40,710
And so this is a mechanism to codify the requirements per HUD standards.

1746
02:29:41,170 --> 02:29:46,230
Okay, so currently, what is the, because from what I'm to understand in reading the,

1747
02:29:49,430 --> 02:29:50,750
I'm sort of trying to find it here.

1748
02:29:51,990 --> 02:29:56,570
It's just so that it makes it look not as, there you go.

1749
02:29:56,870 --> 02:29:59,970
I was trying to remember what the verbiage was in here in the A.

1750
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:29,860
It's to be more uniform. That's correct. What's currently in the books, as far as it's just put up whatever you have? Well, there really is a specific requirement, I mean, there's a, our property maintenance section of the code requires you, you know, when you have graffiti or vandalism, those kinds of things that you take you have your property. You know, so, you have a, a chain of moves out or you have a vacant building, you do whatever measures you can, so it doesn't take it overrun or destroyed. And so property owners will take it upon themselves.

1751
02:30:29,860 --> 02:30:32,680
that was to board it up, however mechanism they can.

1752
02:30:33,280 --> 02:30:36,860
And so now with standardizing the requirements,

1753
02:30:37,980 --> 02:30:41,820
when we will get the word out to let the know that we do have a requirement for them.

1754
02:30:42,000 --> 02:30:46,780
And so, and we'll be able to provide them with the information of how they pay the cost, right?

1755
02:30:46,920 --> 02:30:49,800
No, they will do it just to our standards.

1756
02:30:49,940 --> 02:30:51,060
So, residential and commercial?

1757
02:30:51,860 --> 02:30:52,960
Bacon buildings, yes, both.

1758
02:30:53,040 --> 02:30:53,880
Bacon building, both.

1759
02:30:53,880 --> 02:31:02,640
Both. Is there, I think I saw that the requirement was going to be as far as plywood for CDX, right?

1760
02:31:02,760 --> 02:31:07,600
Not OSB, is it CDX, as far as the type of plywood that's in the squad?

1761
02:31:14,380 --> 02:31:14,780
Okay, that's fine.

1762
02:31:14,860 --> 02:31:17,500
The CDX actually looks a little bit nicer than OSB.

1763
02:31:17,580 --> 02:31:18,560
It's a little more expensive.

1764
02:31:19,740 --> 02:31:25,300
It's not as water-resistant, but I think since it doesn't really rain that much.

1765
02:31:25,300 --> 02:31:28,740
Well, it's a little more expensive, but it's a, it's a, it's sturdier, it's sturdier.

1766
02:31:28,940 --> 02:31:29,100
Yes.

1767
02:31:29,960 --> 02:31:33,660
And the, and the requirements also show also the attachment to the building as well.

1768
02:31:34,180 --> 02:31:37,620
So there's standards of how you, how you bolted into the building and such.

1769
02:31:38,300 --> 02:31:38,760
That's fine.

1770
02:31:38,960 --> 02:31:39,640
Okay, thank you very much.

1771
02:31:39,800 --> 02:31:41,040
Mr. Mohink, I have questions.

1772
02:31:41,800 --> 02:31:47,640
Regarding the, um, enforceability component, um, how does this compare to existing

1773
02:31:47,640 --> 02:31:51,480
enforcement and who is the enforcement component, is it code enforcement?

1774
02:31:51,920 --> 02:31:52,460
Yes, it would be.

1775
02:31:52,460 --> 02:32:00,260
And then, so how do we then proactively implement this, and then the enforceability

1776
02:32:00,260 --> 02:32:00,560
of it?

1777
02:32:00,820 --> 02:32:04,840
So if there's a vacant building that's identified, we will notify the property

1778
02:32:04,840 --> 02:32:09,220
owner, and let them know that we have some new standards, and then they will,

1779
02:32:09,540 --> 02:32:14,240
you know, will provide those standards to them, and then follow up on that, make

1780
02:32:14,240 --> 02:32:16,240
sure that they install the proper manner.

1781
02:32:16,660 --> 02:32:19,620
And so for the viewing public, we do have board-up standards.

1782
02:32:19,620 --> 02:32:20,440
Is that accurate?

1783
02:32:20,800 --> 02:32:21,220
Yes, we do.

1784
02:32:21,220 --> 02:32:31,360
We have board of standards that are either identified in a policy procedure board of policy manual, or a municipal code that clearly identifies the board of procedures.

1785
02:32:31,420 --> 02:32:32,080
Is that accurate?

1786
02:32:32,580 --> 02:32:33,240
Currently no.

1787
02:32:34,260 --> 02:32:39,140
Currently no, we only, we have our own standards, we the city through our co-inforcement department.

1788
02:32:39,540 --> 02:32:48,240
We have our own vendor that when there's, when we identify a building, we try to reach the property owner and there's issues already, it's an emergency, we need to board it up quickly.

1789
02:32:48,240 --> 02:32:52,220
we call our vendor, they go out and they board it up for HUD standards.

1790
02:32:53,440 --> 02:32:58,580
So if that's only our internal policy, it's not within the municipal code as to how

1791
02:32:58,580 --> 02:32:58,980
it's done.

1792
02:32:59,260 --> 02:33:04,380
The other alternative would be to add a policy, and that's what this in essence does.

1793
02:33:04,600 --> 02:33:04,960
Is that right?

1794
02:33:05,060 --> 02:33:05,420
That is correct.

1795
02:33:05,760 --> 02:33:09,940
Okay, so it standardizes it, and it codifies it in action with the municipal code.

1796
02:33:10,360 --> 02:33:10,700
That is correct.

1797
02:33:11,080 --> 02:33:12,560
Now, what is the variance?

1798
02:33:12,740 --> 02:33:17,900
What's the difference between an existing board of standard that is procured through

1799
02:33:17,900 --> 02:33:22,580
the City Department, and it is afforded through the contract vendor, what's the cost

1800
02:33:22,580 --> 02:33:26,940
variance between this and what's proposed and what is existing?

1801
02:33:27,080 --> 02:33:31,340
Because there's added costs, in essence, I want to know the cost between the difference

1802
02:33:31,340 --> 02:33:35,660
between a board-up that we currently do versus what's proposed here.

1803
02:33:35,840 --> 02:33:39,740
Do we have any cost estimates on additional increases to our added budget?

1804
02:33:40,140 --> 02:33:44,100
It would not be an increase, it's not adding an increase to our budget.

1805
02:33:44,100 --> 02:33:50,840
that all is doing its codifying, if you own commercial building or apartment building in spake it or what have you,

1806
02:33:50,840 --> 02:33:53,620
you go in and you board it up to our standards.

1807
02:33:54,280 --> 02:33:59,000
If you drive down up and down some of our commercial corridors or you see multiple board of buildings,

1808
02:34:00,240 --> 02:34:01,820
you know, people use whatever they can.

1809
02:34:02,000 --> 02:34:05,700
They'll use old plywood, they use pieces of pallets, whatever they can to board it up.

1810
02:34:06,040 --> 02:34:12,680
And as a result, it creates a blighted situation and makes our neighborhoods in our streets.

1811
02:34:12,680 --> 02:34:19,840
Do we have any examples of what you're speaking of, where you're alluding to that there's an incongruent

1812
02:34:19,840 --> 02:34:23,380
application of plywood or pallets, do you have any pictures of that?

1813
02:34:23,480 --> 02:34:23,940
We did not know.

1814
02:34:24,160 --> 02:34:24,460
We do not.

1815
02:34:25,480 --> 02:34:30,480
Where is this, I mean, I support this, I understand where we're going.

1816
02:34:30,980 --> 02:34:38,800
My only concern is that if, in fact, one of our council members or myself were to initiate a request

1817
02:34:38,800 --> 02:34:43,580
to the City Manager's office, is there added costs with a contract?

1818
02:34:43,860 --> 02:34:47,760
Because we're responsible, for instance, if there's a fire, if police department

1819
02:34:47,760 --> 02:34:52,680
overnight has some type of break-in, the City of San Bernardino then absorbs

1820
02:34:52,680 --> 02:34:54,800
that cost with a contractor call-out.

1821
02:34:55,080 --> 02:34:55,500
Is that accurate?

1822
02:34:55,580 --> 02:35:02,020
That is correct, and on an annual date, we recently had a budget for a man-to-contract

1823
02:35:02,020 --> 02:35:03,960
for existing providers.

1824
02:35:03,960 --> 02:35:09,200
That that that budget amendment also taking the fact and consideration this proposed

1825
02:35:09,200 --> 02:35:10,840
increase costs?

1826
02:35:11,800 --> 02:35:14,280
No, because this is not an increase to us.

1827
02:35:14,660 --> 02:35:17,520
It's just a standard for the public to implement it.

1828
02:35:17,520 --> 02:35:22,940
So this is not so this is only good for commercial tenants, not the City of San Bernardino.

1829
02:35:23,020 --> 02:35:23,460
That is correct.

1830
02:35:23,680 --> 02:35:30,520
In other words, we don't have the HUD standard that on our contract callout, but now we're

1831
02:35:31,420 --> 02:35:36,460
We have the standard internally, our contract, the language in our contract with

1832
02:35:36,460 --> 02:35:39,200
our vendor states that you have to use HUD standards.

1833
02:35:40,120 --> 02:35:44,740
And so when we send someone out to do a board up, they use the HUD standards.

1834
02:35:44,980 --> 02:35:49,620
So now, this standard is only, it's only currently the City of San Bernardino and our

1835
02:35:49,620 --> 02:35:52,700
board of specialists, they use HUD standards, is that accurate?

1836
02:35:53,200 --> 02:35:55,360
So now, this is a two-pronged approach.

1837
02:35:55,540 --> 02:35:59,920
Not only do we clean up our city, but also, we allow and insist that now commercial

1838
02:35:59,920 --> 02:36:04,240
and residential boardups carry on the flag of the HUD standards.

1839
02:36:04,540 --> 02:36:06,160
They clean up in the manner that we do.

1840
02:36:06,540 --> 02:36:09,240
Okay, and there is no additional cost to the city.

1841
02:36:09,380 --> 02:36:10,280
To the city, that is correct.

1842
02:36:10,360 --> 02:36:10,800
Okay, very good.

1843
02:36:11,180 --> 02:36:12,020
Any other questions?

1844
02:36:12,920 --> 02:36:15,820
I think there's a motion, is there, oh, Councilman Sanchez, sir?

1845
02:36:16,480 --> 02:36:17,580
Yeah, no, it's pretty simple.

1846
02:36:17,840 --> 02:36:20,040
I live across the street from a shopping plaza, and

1847
02:36:20,040 --> 02:36:25,120
in the morning, someone broke the windows, and so we couldn't get a hold of the landlord.

1848
02:36:25,960 --> 02:36:29,260
So then that's when the city hires its contractor, we have our contractor.

1849
02:36:29,260 --> 02:36:34,420
I know that at least twice now we've approved something like $200, $300, $400,000.

1850
02:36:34,860 --> 02:36:37,860
They come out, they boarded up, they boarded up to those standards anyways.

1851
02:36:38,220 --> 02:36:42,140
So what we're doing is we're codifying this so that every business owner, right?

1852
02:36:42,380 --> 02:36:48,160
I have businesses on Mount Vernon who, who, who instead of putting up the, the compliant

1853
02:36:48,160 --> 02:36:56,220
plywood have put up pallets, broken up pallets and they stick it up on there to prevent transients from moving into those vacant buildings.

1854
02:36:56,220 --> 02:37:03,060
So what this will do is, we will be putting into our code essentially a standard on how to board up a building.

1855
02:37:03,700 --> 02:37:07,760
And I mean, the city already does it with its contractor, so there's no additional cost to us.

1856
02:37:08,240 --> 02:37:15,100
But it creates a uniform appearance that is better looking, even if it is a dilapidated event in building.

1857
02:37:15,600 --> 02:37:18,060
At least the boarding on there will be universal.

1858
02:37:20,350 --> 02:37:20,990
Board it up pretty.

1859
02:37:22,890 --> 02:37:25,490
Okay, council members, cast your votes.

1860
02:37:27,690 --> 02:37:29,510
There's a motion. I'm sorry.

1861
02:37:29,950 --> 02:37:33,750
Motion will be by Council Member Sanchez and seconded by Council Member Alexander.

1862
02:37:33,970 --> 02:37:35,330
Okay, members, please cast your votes.

1863
02:37:37,810 --> 02:37:39,270
Motion passes, six zero.

1864
02:37:39,870 --> 02:37:41,030
Okay, very good.

1865
02:37:41,250 --> 02:37:52,490
Item number seven, this is update on the Organics Collection, processing and disposable services due to San Bernardi, or I'm sorry, Senate Bill 1383, short-lived climate pollutant mandate.

1866
02:37:53,350 --> 02:37:57,830
Presentation is a receive and update on the status, and Mr. City Manager.

1867
02:37:57,830 --> 02:37:57,890
here.

1868
02:37:58,490 --> 02:38:01,010
Thank you, and thank you for clarifying that this is not a Senate,

1869
02:38:01,030 --> 02:38:01,790
Assembly Nobel.

1870
02:38:02,050 --> 02:38:05,310
This is a Senate bill, one of the most impopular ones that I can recall.

1871
02:38:06,150 --> 02:38:12,510
Okay, so the presentation I had is going to be led by Alex Kishta, who manages our

1872
02:38:12,510 --> 02:38:14,190
agreement with Berthex.

1873
02:38:14,390 --> 02:38:15,350
So, Alex, take it away.

1874
02:38:16,370 --> 02:38:18,610
Good evening, Mayor and council members.

1875
02:38:19,750 --> 02:38:20,590
Let's talk trash.

1876
02:38:21,710 --> 02:38:35,110
So I will just basically talk SP one, you know, I'm trying, SP one, three, eight, three, which is the short-lived climate pollutants program update and the implementation for the 2022.

1877
02:38:36,930 --> 02:38:43,730
Just a few points that is the SP one, three, eight, three requires the city to enforce businesses and

1878
02:38:43,730 --> 02:38:47,030
and residents to recycle organic and food waste.

1879
02:38:47,450 --> 02:38:54,190
The SB-133-3-GOL is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from organic waste disposal.

1880
02:38:54,750 --> 02:39:02,910
The current negotiations with our waste hauler are in the progress, and to discuss regulatory

1881
02:39:02,910 --> 02:39:11,710
requirement that may be delegated to PERTECH, the city could face penalties of up to $10,000

1882
02:39:11,710 --> 02:39:19,130
a day for failing to comply with SB 1383 effective January 1st, 2022.

1883
02:39:20,390 --> 02:39:28,090
Starting January 1st, 2022, SB 1383 will allow the city to take a non-punitive approach

1884
02:39:28,090 --> 02:39:35,010
to enforcement. Starting on January 1st, 2024, the city must begin taking

1885
02:39:35,010 --> 02:39:38,870
negative action against non-compliant entities.

1886
02:39:39,550 --> 02:39:43,490
So let's talk about the PERTEX program overview that we've been discussing with them

1887
02:39:43,490 --> 02:39:45,810
for the last couple of months.

1888
02:39:46,830 --> 02:39:52,470
Residential collection will utilize, still utilize the three containers, I'm sorry, yes.

1889
02:39:53,510 --> 02:39:56,050
They will be still utilizing the three container system.

1890
02:39:56,930 --> 02:40:02,390
The commercial collection will utilize four container systems, service level dependent

1891
02:40:02,390 --> 02:40:06,050
on customer needs and the commercial customer generating

1892
02:40:06,050 --> 02:40:10,990
two cubic yard of trash or more per week require

1893
02:40:11,340 --> 02:40:14,450
to have a food waste recycling program.

1894
02:40:15,660 --> 02:40:18,310
The education and outreach activities so far,

1895
02:40:18,990 --> 02:40:22,270
the information distributed through community meetings,

1896
02:40:22,630 --> 02:40:26,530
newsletters, automated calls, feedback from loud audits,

1897
02:40:26,790 --> 02:40:29,510
waste characterization, and on-site guidance.

1898
02:40:29,510 --> 02:40:37,770
For the procurement requirements, the compost and mulch giveaways, landscape and turf enhancements,

1899
02:40:38,190 --> 02:40:41,410
organics converted to heat, fuel and electricity.

1900
02:40:42,490 --> 02:40:50,110
The edible food recovery program identified year one food generators and food recovery organizations,

1901
02:40:50,590 --> 02:40:54,830
estimated amount of edible food being disposed and

1902
02:40:54,830 --> 02:40:57,690
the diverse 20% of edible food from disposal

1903
02:40:57,950 --> 02:40:59,990
to food recovery organizations.

1904
02:41:00,750 --> 02:41:03,070
The compliance, monitoring, and enforcement,

1905
02:41:04,490 --> 02:41:07,030
document, qualified customers,

1906
02:41:07,330 --> 02:41:10,250
edible food generators, material processing waste

1907
02:41:10,250 --> 02:41:12,750
characterization, route audit results,

1908
02:41:13,230 --> 02:41:17,030
complaint, investigated, recycled materials for crude,

1909
02:41:17,370 --> 02:41:19,930
and organic waste diverted from landfill.

1910
02:41:19,930 --> 02:41:27,810
So, SB-1383 regulations require the city to adopt an enforceable ordinance to compel

1911
02:41:27,810 --> 02:41:31,190
businesses and residents to recycle organic and food waste.

1912
02:41:31,690 --> 02:41:37,030
This was adopted by the City Council December 1, 2021.

1913
02:41:38,210 --> 02:41:41,870
What is the SB-1383 impact to the residents?

1914
02:41:47,790 --> 02:41:53,330
Yeah, residents will back food waste and place into green waste cart.

1915
02:41:53,330 --> 02:42:02,110
No longer disposing in the trash cart, that all multi-family dwellings apartments will now

1916
02:42:02,110 --> 02:42:09,690
subscribe to food waste organics under SB 1383, which was not required with AB 1826.

1917
02:42:10,470 --> 02:42:18,090
208 of 1241 commercial customers in the city of San Bernardino will need to subscribe to

1918
02:42:18,090 --> 02:42:20,130
food waste organics recycling.

1919
02:42:21,130 --> 02:42:25,150
Vertec is utilizing side visits, phone calls, email,

1920
02:42:25,510 --> 02:42:29,370
to remind customers of SP1383 requirements.

1921
02:42:29,990 --> 02:42:32,770
The city and Vertec are developing a program

1922
02:42:32,960 --> 02:42:36,290
to deter and inspect container contamination,

1923
02:42:37,260 --> 02:42:41,070
likely to include a separate contamination fee

1924
02:42:41,280 --> 02:42:43,350
on top of the notice of violation.

1925
02:42:43,910 --> 02:42:46,630
The physical impact of the resident is still unknown

1926
02:42:46,630 --> 02:42:49,570
until we finish discussion with Berthek.

1927
02:42:49,830 --> 02:42:53,570
That's Concludes Staff Reports, we would be unhappy to answer any question you might have.

1928
02:42:53,870 --> 02:42:57,830
Thank you, Mr. Keisha, what an informative report, and thank you for updating the council.

1929
02:42:58,130 --> 02:42:59,310
It's a very important Senate bill.

1930
02:43:00,390 --> 02:43:04,950
More, Mr. City Manager, the roadmap ahead, we will continue to monitor.

1931
02:43:05,730 --> 02:43:14,490
And is the expectation that Berthek will ultimately implement and coordinate with you in the rollout of 1383?

1932
02:43:14,490 --> 02:43:23,450
In short, yes, we don't have much of an option there, the state force or hand on this and it will be, it will result when I said it's been a popular bill.

1933
02:43:23,770 --> 02:43:30,550
I mean, it's going to result in an increase in an increase in people's rights, both commercial and residential.

1934
02:43:30,890 --> 02:43:31,170
Absolutely.

1935
02:43:31,490 --> 02:43:40,750
Now, we are working with them very closely to ensure that it's minimized and keep the numbers down as much as we can, but it's simply something that was mandated by the state.

1936
02:43:41,390 --> 02:43:44,790
We're working very closely with the City Attorney's Office, we're going to actually thank

1937
02:43:44,790 --> 02:43:50,230
them Josh Nelson and join again for working with us to develop and to evaluate what

1938
02:43:50,230 --> 02:43:51,530
Burtech is proposing.

1939
02:43:52,230 --> 02:43:57,490
We're sort of in trusted verify mode with them to ensure that whatever they bring forward

1940
02:43:58,170 --> 02:44:02,830
is supportable, is equitable, and fair to our residents who minimize the impact especially

1941
02:44:02,830 --> 02:44:03,930
as much as we can.

1942
02:44:04,950 --> 02:44:07,610
What that means is it will be evaluating their costs.

1943
02:44:08,490 --> 02:44:12,210
a lot of stuff, a lot of information is proprietary and we have no problem with keeping

1944
02:44:12,210 --> 02:44:18,430
a confidential but we are going to be evaluating those their costs to ensure that those

1945
02:44:18,430 --> 02:44:24,690
costs are reasonable, supportable, and limit the impact on residents on the rate payers

1946
02:44:24,690 --> 02:44:25,390
in the city center.

1947
02:44:25,550 --> 02:44:26,670
So that is the plan.

1948
02:44:26,830 --> 02:44:31,670
We're moving forward now, we're in the middle of negotiations and we have to, we really need

1949
02:44:31,670 --> 02:44:35,670
to wrap them up fairly soon and then they will come back for a public process in front

1950
02:44:35,670 --> 02:44:36,230
of the city council.

1951
02:44:36,770 --> 02:44:37,670
Okay, very good.

1952
02:44:37,870 --> 02:44:39,070
Thank you, Council Member Kellor.

1953
02:44:40,130 --> 02:44:42,510
Thank you, Mr. Keysta, City Manager Field.

1954
02:44:43,530 --> 02:44:47,450
I remember when Birchick was here before and did a slight presentation, and

1955
02:44:47,450 --> 02:44:53,870
I was asking several questions about this unfunded mandate that the state has put upon us.

1956
02:44:54,410 --> 02:44:59,930
And I wanted to know whether or not what the taxpayer have to pay for the custody.

1957
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:11,360
Would you would have to pay for their own bags? Would we, you know, have an extra cost for an additional bin? So now you're saying that no additional bin, right? So we will have to pay for the bags, right, ourselves, right?

1958
02:45:13,470 --> 02:45:28,930
The bags can be any bags that you can use, make groceries or bags, any bags can be them, okay? Bags that we pay for. So I wanted to also ask, so will there be a way for the resident to opt out?

1959
02:45:29,670 --> 02:45:36,910
Because right now we have a lot of community gardens in our community in the city and they are continuing to grow.

1960
02:45:37,270 --> 02:45:50,230
Burtech charges for compost so I would like to have this made a discussion that then for community gardens within the community that compost be giving to them for free.

1961
02:45:50,230 --> 02:45:57,630
Because right now I don't, I give all of my foodways to a local community garden.

1962
02:45:58,170 --> 02:46:04,570
And so that trend, you know, we're working on that to see where how community can, we

1963
02:46:04,570 --> 02:46:09,490
can get all the foodways from the community to utilize for a community garden.

1964
02:46:09,490 --> 02:46:12,630
So I think that that is something that we need to discuss.

1965
02:46:13,130 --> 02:46:14,950
Either they're going to give us free compost.

1966
02:46:15,250 --> 02:46:18,990
I mean, there's something that the community should be able to give back considering that

1967
02:46:18,990 --> 02:46:19,390
we are.

1968
02:46:19,390 --> 02:46:24,750
We don't have any other way to recycle our own food waste other than composting.

1969
02:46:26,740 --> 02:46:28,380
Okay, thank you, Council Member.

1970
02:46:28,540 --> 02:46:29,600
This is a receiving file.

1971
02:46:30,100 --> 02:46:34,420
If there's no further questions or comments, let's move on to our public hearing portion of tonight's calendar.

1972
02:46:34,880 --> 02:46:42,420
This is item number eight, public hearing on annexation number 12 to community facilities district number 2019-1.

1973
02:46:42,640 --> 02:46:45,020
The recommendation is there before you, Council Members.

1974
02:46:45,540 --> 02:46:48,320
I do have a script, so please be patient with this whole process.

1975
02:46:48,320 --> 02:47:00,520
Yes, the public hearing is to consider annexation proceedings and elections for the City of San Bernardino community facilities district number 2019-1 of maintenance services agreement and annexation number 12.

1976
02:47:01,080 --> 02:47:06,560
The annexation hearing is, I'm sorry, the public hearing is now open at approximately 9.51 p.m.

1977
02:47:06,880 --> 02:47:10,500
Are there any disclosures from our city council members hearing none.

1978
02:47:10,940 --> 02:47:17,260
Madam City clerk, do you have proof of publication that the notices that the required as required by law have been given and

1979
02:47:17,260 --> 02:47:18,580
and do we have complete file documents?

1980
02:47:18,920 --> 02:47:19,460
Yes, we do.

1981
02:47:19,800 --> 02:47:20,400
Thank you.

1982
02:47:20,560 --> 02:47:22,440
Are there any written communications on this matter?

1983
02:47:22,680 --> 02:47:23,260
No, there are no.

1984
02:47:23,740 --> 02:47:25,960
Do any council members wish to hear the staff report?

1985
02:47:27,580 --> 02:47:30,020
Hearing none, we'll now receive comment from many persons

1986
02:47:30,020 --> 02:47:32,140
in our viewing and the public audience

1987
02:47:32,140 --> 02:47:33,560
who wish to speak on this matter.

1988
02:47:34,020 --> 02:47:35,420
Is there any member of the public wishing

1989
02:47:35,420 --> 02:47:36,960
to address the City Council on this matter?

1990
02:47:38,340 --> 02:47:39,880
Seeing none, each person may address

1991
02:47:39,880 --> 02:47:41,620
the City Council for a maximum of three minutes.

1992
02:47:42,700 --> 02:47:45,780
Okay, seeing none, would the City staff

1993
02:47:45,780 --> 02:47:52,240
have likes to make any further comments? No. Do any council members have any questions

1994
02:47:52,240 --> 02:47:57,540
of staff or wish to make any comments before I close the public hearing? Mr. Figueroz,

1995
02:47:57,600 --> 02:47:57,640
sir?

1996
02:47:57,900 --> 02:48:03,900
Thank you just real quick. I just want to reinforce the traffic control on the north side

1997
02:48:03,900 --> 02:48:09,160
of this property that will be heading eastward. So I'm not going to just want to make

1998
02:48:09,160 --> 02:48:13,520
sure that that's included in the directional traffic so that it prevents left hand

1999
02:48:13,520 --> 02:48:17,920
I know that it's impossible to make a left hand turn on the west side because of the

2000
02:48:17,920 --> 02:48:24,820
center median, but it would create a lot of backup on this property if people were

2001
02:48:24,820 --> 02:48:26,420
waiting there making a left turn.

2002
02:48:26,660 --> 02:48:30,460
So whatever type of island, like a pork chop island or something, just a direct traffic

2003
02:48:30,460 --> 02:48:33,460
to head eastward, that's, I just want to reinforce that.

2004
02:48:33,760 --> 02:48:33,980
Thank you.

2005
02:48:34,840 --> 02:48:36,540
Okay, thank you, Council Member.

2006
02:48:36,660 --> 02:48:43,380
Do any of the members of our city, I'm sorry, has the city clerk received any

2007
02:48:43,380 --> 02:48:44,060
written protests.

2008
02:48:44,480 --> 02:48:46,480
I have received zero written protests.

2009
02:48:46,960 --> 02:48:48,580
Okay, I now declare the hearing close,

2010
02:48:48,740 --> 02:48:51,140
the time being approximately 9.53 p.m.

2011
02:48:51,700 --> 02:48:53,200
May have a motion to adopt the resolution

2012
02:48:53,200 --> 02:48:55,140
of the Mayor's City Council of the City of San Bernardino,

2013
02:48:55,600 --> 02:48:57,980
calling an election to submit to the qualified electors

2014
02:48:57,980 --> 02:49:01,580
a question of levying a special tax within the area proposed

2015
02:49:01,580 --> 02:49:05,860
to be annexed to community facilities district number 2019-1.

2016
02:49:06,440 --> 02:49:06,980
Is there a motion?

2017
02:49:08,280 --> 02:49:08,680
Who to approve?

2018
02:49:10,100 --> 02:49:12,580
Seconded by Figueroa, any further discussion?

2019
02:49:13,220 --> 02:49:15,340
If not, please call the roll.

2020
02:49:15,700 --> 02:49:16,800
Council Member Sanchez?

2021
02:49:17,020 --> 02:49:17,140
Yes.

2022
02:49:17,860 --> 02:49:18,600
Mayor Pro Tem?

2023
02:49:18,860 --> 02:49:19,000
Yes.

2024
02:49:19,480 --> 02:49:20,340
Council Member Shura?

2025
02:49:20,660 --> 02:49:20,820
Yes.

2026
02:49:21,200 --> 02:49:22,020
Council Member Reina?

2027
02:49:22,380 --> 02:49:22,500
Yes.

2028
02:49:22,840 --> 02:49:23,640
Council Member Calvin?

2029
02:49:23,860 --> 02:49:24,000
Yes.

2030
02:49:24,380 --> 02:49:25,280
Council Member Alexander?

2031
02:49:25,720 --> 02:49:25,960
Aye.

2032
02:49:26,420 --> 02:49:27,760
The motion passes 6-0.

2033
02:49:29,140 --> 02:49:30,120
Okay, thank you.

2034
02:49:30,240 --> 02:49:34,420
The resolution that we have just adopted calls for elections within the property to be annexed.

2035
02:49:34,420 --> 02:49:42,340
to CFD number 2019-1 to approve such annexation, and to authorize the levy of the special tax in accordance with the rate and method of

2036
02:49:42,340 --> 02:49:48,680
portionment to provide certain services within such property, which is to be held at this time by our city clerk.

2037
02:49:49,160 --> 02:49:55,520
All ballots have been cast in connection with the election for CFD number 2019-1, and the election is now closed.

2038
02:49:56,040 --> 02:50:03,360
Each of the ballot propositions have been approved by more than two-thirds of the votes cast in the elections for CFD number 2019-1.

2039
02:50:03,360 --> 02:50:04,340
Thank you.

2040
02:50:04,640 --> 02:50:08,200
Having received a certificate of the City Clerk certifying the results of the election,

2041
02:50:08,700 --> 02:50:14,520
I didn't retain a motion, please, to approve a resolution of the Mayor of City Council of the City of San Bernardino declaring

2042
02:50:14,520 --> 02:50:19,500
the election results for a community facility's districts, number 2019-1, annexation number 12.

2043
02:50:19,780 --> 02:50:20,180
Is there a motion?

2044
02:50:20,760 --> 02:50:20,900
Yes.

2045
02:50:21,240 --> 02:50:21,740
Move to approve.

2046
02:50:22,080 --> 02:50:22,460
Ms. Anchez.

2047
02:50:23,400 --> 02:50:23,840
Second.

2048
02:50:24,080 --> 02:50:24,240
Second.

2049
02:50:24,800 --> 02:50:25,460
By Figueroa.

2050
02:50:25,960 --> 02:50:26,820
Any further discussion?

2051
02:50:29,390 --> 02:50:30,930
All right, Ms. City Clerk, call the roll.

2052
02:50:31,110 --> 02:50:31,930
Council Member Sanchez.

2053
02:50:32,230 --> 02:50:32,330
Yes.

2054
02:50:32,670 --> 02:50:33,270
Mayor Pro Tem.

2055
02:50:33,390 --> 02:50:33,550
Yes.

2056
02:50:33,550 --> 02:50:33,650
Yes.

2057
02:50:34,290 --> 02:50:35,110
Council Member Shura.

2058
02:50:35,630 --> 02:50:35,810
Yes.

2059
02:50:36,050 --> 02:50:36,890
Council Member Reno.

2060
02:50:37,290 --> 02:50:37,430
Yes.

2061
02:50:37,690 --> 02:50:38,530
Council Member Kelvin.

2062
02:50:38,790 --> 02:50:38,970
Yes.

2063
02:50:39,330 --> 02:50:40,170
Council Member Alexander.

2064
02:50:41,070 --> 02:50:41,290
Aye.

2065
02:50:41,610 --> 02:50:42,870
Motion passes 6-0.

2066
02:50:44,510 --> 02:50:45,250
Thank you.

2067
02:50:45,450 --> 02:50:49,790
I now ask for a motion to waive the further reading and introduced by title only.

2068
02:50:50,410 --> 02:50:53,590
Ordinance of the Mayor of City Council of the City of San Bernardino, California.

2069
02:50:54,090 --> 02:51:01,450
Mending ordinance number MC and levying special taxes to be collected during fiscal year 2022-2023.

2070
02:51:01,450 --> 02:51:19,610
to pay the annual cost of the maintenance and servicing of landscaping, lighting, water quality, improvements, graffiti streets, street sweeping, water quality, and parks and trail maintenance of reserve fund for capital replacement and administrative expenses with respect to the administration of the city of San Bernardino Community Facilities District number 2019-1.

2071
02:51:19,970 --> 02:51:20,510
Is there a motion?

2072
02:51:20,950 --> 02:51:22,130
Yes, move to approve.

2073
02:51:23,970 --> 02:51:27,310
Sanchez and Figueroa, all right, call the road.

2074
02:51:27,310 --> 02:51:38,150
Council Member Sanchez, May and Pro Temp, Council Member Shura, Council Member Renault, Council Member Calvin, Council Member Alexander, motion passes 6-0.

2075
02:51:38,510 --> 02:51:49,530
Okay, very good. Thank you. That concludes the public hearing portion. Thank you, Council Members. These are items number 9-31. We'll pull anyone who has a poll?

2076
02:51:50,110 --> 02:51:51,550
Yes, 11-18.

2077
02:51:51,550 --> 02:51:54,270
Okay. Anyone else? Not?

2078
02:51:54,610 --> 02:51:55,550
Alexander 17.

2079
02:51:56,210 --> 02:51:56,510
Okay.

2080
02:51:57,090 --> 02:51:58,390
Any other questions on 23?

2081
02:51:58,890 --> 02:51:59,670
Ask your questions, sir.

2082
02:52:01,230 --> 02:52:11,510
Mr. Keesha, number 23, in the proposed annexation, when my shirt is set in stone, the street light placement.

2083
02:52:12,490 --> 02:52:19,410
Is it, it's like a cold to sack, proposed that the residential development, special tax would pay for

2084
02:52:19,410 --> 02:52:21,710
or everything in there including those three lights?

2085
02:52:27,510 --> 02:52:35,670
This is for commercial development that is happening on the corner of

2086
02:52:45,880 --> 02:52:48,340
Chandu, sorry.

2087
02:52:48,820 --> 02:52:52,460
Let me introduce to you, Chen Spice, that he's our consultant that is prepared to see

2088
02:52:52,460 --> 02:52:52,980
a piece for us.

2089
02:52:56,580 --> 02:52:56,920
Good evening.

2090
02:52:59,100 --> 02:53:03,500
So your question was on the Belmont residential development.

2091
02:53:04,300 --> 02:53:12,160
And the question, so the engineer of work provided us the maintenance exhibit with the location of the street lights.

2092
02:53:12,680 --> 02:53:18,080
So I'm assuming that light is where it's supposed to be located for inclusion in the maintenance.

2093
02:53:18,980 --> 02:53:23,580
Yes, so I guess my question here, feel free to answer it, how do we add more?

2094
02:53:24,280 --> 02:53:32,680
That's an issue that I have specifically in my ward, is it culture of the foothill, that placement of that, even the one that's near the coldest act, that's not going to do anything.

2095
02:53:32,680 --> 02:53:33,560
There's one other one.

2096
02:53:34,360 --> 02:53:38,700
So the City of Summit, you know, how the standards in when we, when we,

2097
02:53:38,700 --> 02:53:39,700
standards look, start there.

2098
02:53:40,480 --> 02:53:42,500
How do I, how do I add another street light?

2099
02:53:44,360 --> 02:53:48,120
If we, if you look, you know, what is really needed, and I'll see if we can talk

2100
02:53:48,120 --> 02:53:49,180
to the developer to install.

2101
02:53:49,660 --> 02:53:56,120
If it's approved, as is, the exhibit that you see in here is just as for whatever

2102
02:53:56,120 --> 02:54:01,120
in the public right away, not what's inside the track, because inside the track

2103
02:54:01,120 --> 02:54:04,760
that is a natural aid maintained, streetlights.

2104
02:54:05,280 --> 02:54:10,900
Only the only thing that we can impose CFDs on is only on the public right away.

2105
02:54:11,300 --> 02:54:15,040
So there is, I believe, two lights in the public right away that are one light at the entrance.

2106
02:54:15,600 --> 02:54:18,920
If that is not enough, we can talk to the developer about installing another one.

2107
02:54:20,040 --> 02:54:22,760
So the city standard is a 300 feet stagger.

2108
02:54:23,360 --> 02:54:27,860
So meaning if you have a streetlight here, then you go across the street, 300 feet, and

2109
02:54:27,860 --> 02:54:31,980
another one, with, like, the powerful, the powerful, the power that they have for

2110
02:54:31,980 --> 02:54:36,220
the looming. And usually, for a trash like this, we have asked them to get us a photo

2111
02:54:36,860 --> 02:54:41,500
where you call it a photo, a cell that is tell us what is the foot candle that cover

2112
02:54:41,500 --> 02:54:43,500
the streets to make sure that there is coverage.

2113
02:54:44,400 --> 02:54:46,300
Thank you. That was just a question, so.

2114
02:54:46,420 --> 02:54:50,500
Okay, thank you, sir. Any other final polls? If not, I'll entertain a motion to move

2115
02:54:50,500 --> 02:54:50,840
the balance.

2116
02:54:51,220 --> 02:54:52,080
Move the balance here.

2117
02:54:52,080 --> 02:54:52,260
Second.

2118
02:54:52,460 --> 02:54:54,920
And Sanchez, on the second, members, cast your votes.

2119
02:54:58,060 --> 02:54:58,620
Yes.

2120
02:55:00,100 --> 02:55:00,660
Yes.

2121
02:55:01,180 --> 02:55:02,300
Council Member Chalvin?

2122
02:55:02,300 --> 02:55:02,460
Yes.

2123
02:55:02,460 --> 02:55:03,060
Council Member Chalvin?

2124
02:55:03,320 --> 02:55:03,640
Council Member Rae Noso?

2125
02:55:03,960 --> 02:55:04,140
Yes.

2126
02:55:04,460 --> 02:55:05,280
Council Member Calvin?

2127
02:55:06,080 --> 02:55:06,200
Yes.

2128
02:55:06,580 --> 02:55:07,480
Council Member Alexander?

2129
02:55:07,800 --> 02:55:08,000
Aye.

2130
02:55:09,060 --> 02:55:10,480
Motion passed unanimously.

2131
02:55:10,900 --> 02:55:12,920
Mr. City-Mandra, my apologies.

2132
02:55:13,780 --> 02:55:15,620
I was informed that item number 10 was pulled.

2133
02:55:15,840 --> 02:55:16,960
Is that correct, Nacura?

2134
02:55:17,300 --> 02:55:17,420
Yes.

2135
02:55:18,020 --> 02:55:18,880
Item number 10?

2136
02:55:19,860 --> 02:55:21,220
It's been continued to the main point.

2137
02:55:21,220 --> 02:55:21,580
Continue.

2138
02:55:21,980 --> 02:55:22,260
Okay.

2139
02:55:22,260 --> 02:55:22,660
Okay, very good.

2140
02:55:23,600 --> 02:55:28,100
All right, these are items 11, 11, 17 and 18.

2141
02:55:28,480 --> 02:55:31,500
We'll start with Councilman Sanchez of the first ward.

2142
02:55:31,920 --> 02:55:33,340
Pull of number 11.

2143
02:55:33,500 --> 02:55:35,900
This is amendment number one to professional services agreement

2144
02:55:35,900 --> 02:55:38,880
with place works for enhanced public participation program.

2145
02:55:39,240 --> 02:55:39,960
Mr. Sanchez.

2146
02:55:40,420 --> 02:55:44,100
Yes, so this is an amendment to the professional services agreement

2147
02:55:44,100 --> 02:55:48,540
with place works and you guys tactfully left out

2148
02:55:48,540 --> 02:55:50,300
the dollar amount for that amendment.

2149
02:55:50,300 --> 02:55:57,100
Can you for the public's sake, I'll let everyone know what the amendment is for, what it's for, and what the dollar amount is?

2150
02:55:57,660 --> 02:55:59,000
Of course, the-

2151
02:56:16,180 --> 02:56:17,640
Oh, do you need me to pull it up?

2152
02:56:17,920 --> 02:56:18,920
No, I can-

2153
02:56:18,920 --> 02:56:24,320
The additional amount is for 297,323.

2154
02:56:25,040 --> 02:56:26,820
297,000 for what exactly?

2155
02:56:27,340 --> 02:56:30,160
These are for the additional workshops associated.

2156
02:56:30,160 --> 02:56:36,160
So we've, we've done the first go-around of the, of the workshops, would, we need

2157
02:56:36,160 --> 02:56:36,560
to ward.

2158
02:56:37,060 --> 02:56:41,680
So we're going to do some additional workshops at another three rounds, primarily

2159
02:56:41,680 --> 02:56:44,280
to cover the land use, some discussions.

2160
02:56:44,760 --> 02:56:49,020
And there's also the outreach component of that to get more people to attend.

2161
02:56:49,340 --> 02:56:52,980
Also, the discussion as it relates to the downtown specific plan component.

2162
02:56:53,260 --> 02:56:56,040
So nearly $300,000, how many more events are we going to have?

2163
02:56:56,900 --> 02:56:58,340
And don't worry, I'm not going after you.

2164
02:56:58,340 --> 02:57:02,140
I'm questioning this because I'm not sure we're going to get our money's worth.

2165
02:57:02,860 --> 02:57:07,160
And we don't have anyone here from place where it's to explain to us how those expenditures

2166
02:57:07,160 --> 02:57:09,140
are going to be spent. That's nearly $300,000.

2167
02:57:09,640 --> 02:57:12,380
I know the counter argument is going to be, don't worry, this is grand funding.

2168
02:57:12,840 --> 02:57:17,180
But that's grand funding that actually be set aside for Council Member Damian,

2169
02:57:17,320 --> 02:57:23,440
Alexander's, Council Member Ben Reynosos, designated truck routes.

2170
02:57:24,100 --> 02:57:27,200
That's something that this grand funding can be used towards.

2171
02:57:27,200 --> 02:57:29,660
And that's, that only comes at $100,000.

2172
02:57:30,980 --> 02:57:36,860
I'm not ready quite yet to deny this, but I would like to continue this until,

2173
02:57:38,000 --> 02:57:42,140
until place works and come here and explain to us, and maybe we downsize or

2174
02:57:43,880 --> 02:57:46,080
approach that outreach in a different manner.

2175
02:57:46,280 --> 02:57:47,400
Okay, is that your motion, sir?

2176
02:57:49,100 --> 02:57:50,260
Is that your motion?

2177
02:57:50,760 --> 02:57:52,320
Your motion is to continue it?

2178
02:57:53,880 --> 02:57:57,720
I'll leave it at the discretion at the staff when they can bring place works in.

2179
02:57:58,120 --> 02:57:58,500
Okay, very good.

2180
02:57:58,660 --> 02:57:59,600
Second to that motion.

2181
02:57:59,840 --> 02:58:01,240
Next meeting, May 4th.

2182
02:58:01,460 --> 02:58:01,920
Second.

2183
02:58:02,420 --> 02:58:02,760
Alexander.

2184
02:58:03,340 --> 02:58:03,520
Okay.

2185
02:58:03,960 --> 02:58:04,600
Councilman Renoso.

2186
02:58:05,140 --> 02:58:05,600
Yes.

2187
02:58:05,860 --> 02:58:06,320
I love this.

2188
02:58:06,480 --> 02:58:06,820
Thank you.

2189
02:58:07,160 --> 02:58:08,280
I love this solidarity on this.

2190
02:58:09,360 --> 02:58:13,740
I was an emotionally continuing because in the contract, it's no secret.

2191
02:58:14,280 --> 02:58:15,360
I've made it very clear.

2192
02:58:15,820 --> 02:58:17,820
They are not doing enough.

2193
02:58:18,460 --> 02:58:20,320
And I felt very played when I met with them.

2194
02:58:20,320 --> 02:58:24,700
and I asked for them to collaborate because why wouldn't they collaborate with council members

2195
02:58:24,700 --> 02:58:28,860
if you're going to hold a public workshop in each ward, and they ended up having them

2196
02:58:28,860 --> 02:58:30,560
at the same spots with no attendance.

2197
02:58:30,840 --> 02:58:34,180
There was like 200 people total for all of those workshops.

2198
02:58:35,500 --> 02:58:40,340
The Internet, one, like why didn't they make a video, you should be taken note of this.

2199
02:58:40,580 --> 02:58:46,240
Like, they should be making a simple how-to video for that SB Futures 2050 website that they made

2200
02:58:46,860 --> 02:58:51,260
So that people know how to participate publicly, and then it should be a requirement.

2201
02:58:51,560 --> 02:58:53,620
Not even the number of workshops is the issue.

2202
02:58:53,800 --> 02:58:56,080
It's the collaboration with the council.

2203
02:58:56,400 --> 02:58:58,780
They met with us as like horse and pony show.

2204
02:58:59,460 --> 02:59:01,380
We're not getting what we need out of this.

2205
02:59:01,760 --> 02:59:05,620
My commissioners telling me the same thing, several people in the community are telling me the same thing.

2206
02:59:06,600 --> 02:59:11,660
It's not where it should be, and so yes, let's vote on this because this is not time to approve this.

2207
02:59:11,860 --> 02:59:12,620
Thank you, Councilman.

2208
02:59:12,800 --> 02:59:13,940
Members, cast your votes, please.

2209
02:59:13,940 --> 02:59:14,240
Yes,

2210
02:59:20,600 --> 02:59:22,440
the motion is to continue the item.

2211
02:59:32,840 --> 02:59:35,640
Motion passes 6-0 to continue the item.

2212
02:59:36,000 --> 02:59:38,680
Okay, item number 17, pulled by Councilman Alexander.

2213
02:59:39,520 --> 02:59:43,840
This is amendment to Acquitzen, Andelson, Lawyer, Rude, and Roma Legal Service Agreement.

2214
02:59:44,200 --> 02:59:47,440
Regarding the Miller case, Mr. Alexander, so are you recognized?

2215
02:59:47,920 --> 02:59:55,340
Thank you, and I would like to defer to the City Attorney if she can explain why this issue is and why it's on here.

2216
02:59:58,280 --> 02:59:59,980
Councilor Alexander, I would have to do-

2217
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:29,300
I refer to staff as to how this item ended up on your agenda. I can speak to the legal issues in terms of the duty to defend. Right, duty to defend. Thank you. So the city council and our public, I think importantly should know that there is a government statute that says that employees and public officials who are doing their jobs and accordance with the scope of their employment are legally entitled to a defense by the public agency that they serve. There are exceptions to this rule.

2218
03:00:29,300 --> 03:00:34,160
the exceptions can be if a public official acted outside of their scope, if a public

2219
03:00:34,160 --> 03:00:38,380
official did something intentional when they shouldn't have, but for basic negligence,

2220
03:00:38,600 --> 03:00:44,240
just doing something negligently, the law says that you can be provided to the fence

2221
03:00:44,240 --> 03:00:45,160
and indemnification.

2222
03:00:45,800 --> 03:00:50,380
Usually the way this works is that the employer, the official, will write a letter to the city,

2223
03:00:50,540 --> 03:00:53,960
they'll request the representation, and the city can respond to that.

2224
03:00:53,960 --> 03:01:01,760
That they can evaluate the request and determine that they think the person acted outside the scope, and they can deny that representation.

2225
03:01:02,440 --> 03:01:08,980
They can evaluate it and say, we think it's a close call, we're going to provide you with representation under these certain conditions.

2226
03:01:09,580 --> 03:01:21,160
In this matter, the city engaged this law firm, who's before you in item number 17 this evening, and this law firm has advised the city council on the legal obligations to defend and

2227
03:01:21,160 --> 03:01:24,120
them the five and there was an agreement that was prepared.

2228
03:01:25,480 --> 03:01:29,760
If you wish that attorney to come back and to brief you again, they can do that.

2229
03:01:29,880 --> 03:01:33,680
I think they've also mentioned in the past that they would be prepared to draft a memo

2230
03:01:33,680 --> 03:01:36,120
that you could share with your public because that's important to them.

2231
03:01:36,980 --> 03:01:40,420
How or why this item ended up on your agenda is number 17.

2232
03:01:40,880 --> 03:01:44,340
I'd have to defer to risk management staff and so I defer to the city manager.

2233
03:01:44,340 --> 03:01:45,420
As

2234
03:01:50,380 --> 03:02:04,380
a routine process, the City always, this management always brings before Council any increase to contract when it goes beyond the initial agreed amount and that is the circumstance of this.

2235
03:02:04,620 --> 03:02:13,820
It is a requirement that any previous contracts be presented as attachments and exhibits and that was just the normal scope of business.

2236
03:02:17,590 --> 03:02:18,430
move to approve.

2237
03:02:21,240 --> 03:02:26,100
I just want to know, I just wanted to see the attorney, thank you very much, Director Anderson and

2238
03:02:26,100 --> 03:02:31,000
City Attorney for explaining the right to defend because I don't believe the public knows

2239
03:02:31,000 --> 03:02:38,300
why we do what we do and under what legal circumstances that we have to act and govern by.

2240
03:02:39,900 --> 03:02:43,320
Okay, there's motion by Sanchez to approve item number 17.

2241
03:02:45,890 --> 03:02:46,470
Is there a second?

2242
03:02:49,290 --> 03:02:49,950
Is there a second?

2243
03:02:49,950 --> 03:03:01,310
But I just want to make sure that my vote is to ensure that we don't create some sort of precedent that turns into a slippery slope.

2244
03:03:01,970 --> 03:03:13,430
As council members, as representatives of the city, we do business with a large number of tremendously powerful corporations.

2245
03:03:14,510 --> 03:03:28,090
And if we have to be concerned that if these billion dollar corporations that we do business with as a represented for the city can sue us and we have to defend ourselves.

2246
03:03:29,290 --> 03:03:31,570
You don't think that they can hijack the city.

2247
03:03:31,730 --> 03:03:40,590
You don't think that they could walk into this building into this room with high power attorneys and say if you vote against this development, we will bury you.

2248
03:03:40,590 --> 03:03:51,310
with millions of dollars, a threatened millions of dollars of litigation and lawsuits, and they can hijack the city.

2249
03:03:51,950 --> 03:04:05,690
I mean, we make statements up here that if a developer knew that we didn't have the legal defense of the city behind our decisions, that we could be sitting ducks up here.

2250
03:04:07,950 --> 03:04:15,450
I, unfortunately, never had the misfortune of being sued by a powerful rich individual for

2251
03:04:15,450 --> 03:04:21,150
millions of dollars, but if you don't think that anyone here would squirm if they threatened

2252
03:04:21,150 --> 03:04:26,830
that, and we knew that our decisions, whether right or wrong or controversial, could pose

2253
03:04:26,830 --> 03:04:31,130
a threat of millions of dollars to us, that we wouldn't change our votes, that we couldn't

2254
03:04:31,130 --> 03:04:34,830
be influenced than you guys have another thing coming.

2255
03:04:35,550 --> 03:04:46,010
Sandra, you know, she's honest to a fault, but I think she learned her lesson, but we

2256
03:04:46,010 --> 03:04:50,390
don't stop being leaders of this community as soon as we step out of a council meeting.

2257
03:04:50,930 --> 03:04:54,730
She did this within the scope of her capacity as a council member.

2258
03:04:55,850 --> 03:05:02,190
And so I, again, am making that motion that we provide that legal defense to her.

2259
03:05:02,710 --> 03:05:08,250
Mr. City Manager, this item is actually the law firm that's representing the city.

2260
03:05:09,230 --> 03:05:09,310
Correct.

2261
03:05:09,450 --> 03:05:15,370
The city's representative, not the privately engaged attorneys that are representing council

2262
03:05:15,370 --> 03:05:16,490
number of Mara directly.

2263
03:05:16,910 --> 03:05:18,570
Oh, are you suggesting that she has her own?

2264
03:05:18,690 --> 03:05:19,610
She has retained her own?

2265
03:05:19,610 --> 03:05:25,110
No, what I'm saying, there are two firms involved in this, and the Scream Kim Hicks

2266
03:05:25,110 --> 03:05:30,370
Rage and O'Fara is the one that she initially brought in who was sort of doing my

2267
03:05:30,370 --> 03:05:31,750
Well, can I clarify that?

2268
03:05:32,150 --> 03:05:34,910
So, let me just make sure I clarify this to make sure we get the facts correct.

2269
03:05:36,630 --> 03:05:42,790
In the Miller lawsuit, there are two law firms involved in defending this case.

2270
03:05:42,990 --> 03:05:46,870
There's one law firm assigned to the city, that's item number 17, and then there's

2271
03:05:46,870 --> 03:05:49,950
one law firm assigned to defending the council member.

2272
03:05:50,530 --> 03:05:52,890
The City Council had previously received advice

2273
03:05:52,890 --> 03:05:54,030
from your outside council.

2274
03:05:54,950 --> 03:05:56,790
And based on that outside council advice,

2275
03:05:57,370 --> 03:05:59,470
the City Council had approved providing

2276
03:05:59,470 --> 03:06:01,390
a legal defense up to a certain amount.

2277
03:06:03,840 --> 03:06:05,000
That's number 16, yes.

2278
03:06:07,680 --> 03:06:10,420
So just so that you know the item that was pulled

2279
03:06:10,420 --> 03:06:14,240
was item number 17, and that was the contract

2280
03:06:14,540 --> 03:06:15,920
for representation of the city.

2281
03:06:15,920 --> 03:06:18,780
All right. Well, of course, we got to defend the city. Move to approve.

2282
03:06:21,320 --> 03:06:23,100
Motion as second has been made.

2283
03:06:23,260 --> 03:06:24,100
May we ask your votes?

2284
03:06:50,470 --> 03:06:55,390
I'm sorry. I know that I'm supposed to be voting at this moment, but I still need some clarification.

2285
03:06:56,750 --> 03:07:02,190
Item number 17 are lawyer fees requested to defend the city.

2286
03:07:03,850 --> 03:07:10,230
Item number 16 are lawyer fees requested to defend Councilmember Hibara.

2287
03:07:11,050 --> 03:07:14,910
Correct. And I just, the reason I was trying to clarify is when the city managers make

2288
03:07:14,910 --> 03:07:23,350
sure we're clear the city agreed to hire this firm for the individual council member.

2289
03:07:24,650 --> 03:07:32,070
She initially hired this firm on her own and the city agreed to then hire this firm. So

2290
03:07:32,070 --> 03:07:37,050
just when you said that it was her firm of her choosing the city initially but the city

2291
03:07:37,050 --> 03:07:41,930
We evaluated this based on outside legal counsel advice, and the city then decided

2292
03:07:41,930 --> 03:07:45,550
that they would provide a defense up to the amount of $50,000.

2293
03:07:49,340 --> 03:07:51,340
So why do we have both here?

2294
03:07:56,610 --> 03:08:01,090
There are separate representations, separate contracts, incurring their own expenses.

2295
03:08:01,730 --> 03:08:07,730
And so it was just advised by and decided to bring them together at the same time to

2296
03:08:07,730 --> 03:08:14,070
request the gift status and request cap increases on the contracts at the same time.

2297
03:08:14,070 --> 03:08:20,190
Ms. Anderson, but both, both item 16 and 17 are, the subject matter is still regarding Miller and

2298
03:08:20,190 --> 03:08:26,010
Sandra Bara, whether it's representation of the city on 17 or personal representation by six.

2299
03:08:26,010 --> 03:08:27,390
They are separate defendants.

2300
03:08:27,590 --> 03:08:34,810
Ms. Miller sued the city of San Bernardino, a separate defendant and sued Sandra Bara, a separate defendant.

2301
03:08:35,210 --> 03:08:40,150
The city, the law firm under number 17 is representing only the city.

2302
03:08:40,150 --> 03:08:45,870
And the item number 16, that law firm is representing the defendant, Ibarra.

2303
03:08:55,290 --> 03:08:57,310
Councillor votes, please. Item number 17.

2304
03:08:57,570 --> 03:09:05,070
The motion passes with five votes in favor for item number 17, and Council Member

2305
03:09:05,070 --> 03:09:06,690
Renewal still voted in opposition.

2306
03:09:07,230 --> 03:09:07,830
Okay, thank you.

2307
03:09:08,050 --> 03:09:11,090
This is item number 18, pulled by Councilman Sanchez.

2308
03:09:11,710 --> 03:09:17,830
Approving job classifications, amending the salary schedule on the fiscal year 2021-22 adopted

2309
03:09:17,830 --> 03:09:19,030
Did budget, sir?

2310
03:09:21,490 --> 03:09:24,830
Yes, there's, I think it's number nine,

2311
03:09:25,030 --> 03:09:27,310
addition of four code officers for community

2312
03:09:27,310 --> 03:09:30,210
and economic development department.

2313
03:09:30,810 --> 03:09:32,930
I want to increase that number to eight.

2314
03:09:37,200 --> 03:09:38,360
How will we go to pay for that?

2315
03:09:39,220 --> 03:09:40,780
The way we're paying for the rest of this

2316
03:09:40,780 --> 03:09:41,760
through the general fund.

2317
03:09:43,620 --> 03:09:45,600
As we're modifying our process, by the way,

2318
03:09:46,340 --> 03:09:48,420
we're not gonna oppose that, by the way, what you just said.

2319
03:09:48,420 --> 03:09:50,340
It takes some time to fill those positions.

2320
03:09:50,740 --> 03:09:52,880
So I understand that we can still set the money aside.

2321
03:09:53,160 --> 03:09:59,200
But our intention is as we revisit the missile code and work on our process,

2322
03:09:59,440 --> 03:10:02,700
we will do a better job of cost recovery also.

2323
03:10:03,480 --> 03:10:10,900
So it is initially a journal fund burden, the ultimate goal being to find ways to augment.

2324
03:10:11,120 --> 03:10:16,820
That is only one of a dozen reasons why this is a good move because, you know,

2325
03:10:16,820 --> 03:10:23,440
You know, we do parking tickets, we do speeding tickets, we do code violations, and they

2326
03:10:23,440 --> 03:10:24,340
recoup some of the money.

2327
03:10:24,460 --> 03:10:32,560
They rarely recoup 100%, but this is a good thing, because like most people here, most

2328
03:10:32,560 --> 03:10:37,100
people out there, the biggest investment of my life is the home I purchase.

2329
03:10:37,900 --> 03:10:40,000
And people lay a stake here.

2330
03:10:40,000 --> 03:11:04,740
And the value of their home is still in the United States, the number one tool of wealth development, of pulling families out of generational poverty, because then you're able through equity on that home, you're able to put kids through college who think good jobs, get a good home, and then they send their kids to college.

2331
03:11:04,740 --> 03:11:10,840
That's how poor people get into the middle class, and we have kept our middle, we have kept

2332
03:11:11,480 --> 03:11:16,040
prices of homes and the value of homes artificially low because

2333
03:11:16,540 --> 03:11:23,100
Guess what you get off on second street you start to drive in one direction or the other or fifth or baseline or highland

2334
03:11:23,100 --> 03:11:29,900
And the city spends a million dollars on repaving the street putting in new traffic lights new sidewalk looks really good

2335
03:11:29,900 --> 03:11:31,440
Right looks really good looks really good

2336
03:11:31,440 --> 03:11:40,320
You get 10 miles down the road, and then you see a house with beer cans everywhere, a broken toilet in the front yard, and people say, I don't want to move here.

2337
03:11:41,080 --> 03:11:43,860
And we're keeping the value of homes artificially low.

2338
03:11:44,440 --> 03:11:52,780
And that's why this place becomes a place with cheap land that becomes attractive for those logistic businesses that plant their warehouses here.

2339
03:11:52,780 --> 03:12:02,080
So, just like wolves affect the direction of rivers in Yellowstone National Park,

2340
03:12:02,540 --> 03:12:06,000
this thing affects everything else.

2341
03:12:06,680 --> 03:12:11,260
And code enforcement affects everything from whether we build warehouses here,

2342
03:12:11,880 --> 03:12:15,620
to whether people are able to move from poverty into the middle class,

2343
03:12:16,080 --> 03:12:17,920
and this is a nexus in that.

2344
03:12:19,280 --> 03:12:23,740
So no, I want eight code officers because people here are sick.

2345
03:12:24,020 --> 03:12:24,960
We do too, Councilman.

2346
03:12:25,340 --> 03:12:27,860
But we still didn't get that analogy double, but we do too.

2347
03:12:28,280 --> 03:12:34,980
Okay, Councilman has made that amendment to item number nine.

2348
03:12:35,740 --> 03:12:36,780
Is there support for that?

2349
03:12:38,040 --> 03:12:42,200
Okay, there's a motion by Shiret, second by.

2350
03:12:42,200 --> 03:12:42,260
Okay.

2351
03:12:44,000 --> 03:12:45,020
So, second.

2352
03:12:45,640 --> 03:12:50,360
So, I just want to, you know, to be good stewards of the people's money.

2353
03:12:51,100 --> 03:12:55,040
How do we pay for these additional officers?

2354
03:12:55,880 --> 03:13:02,800
I mean, we quibble over VIP programs, yet we want to give four more officers.

2355
03:13:03,560 --> 03:13:09,000
So, like I said, being good stewards, we can add these four officers

2356
03:13:09,480 --> 03:13:13,720
at the next fiscal year's impact.

2357
03:13:13,880 --> 03:13:14,880
We don't have to do it now.

2358
03:13:15,400 --> 03:13:18,860
Do you know how long it took us just to get to the 12 we are now?

2359
03:13:23,720 --> 03:13:26,720
I would concur with my colleague from the fourth ward.

2360
03:13:27,060 --> 03:13:28,480
We can go ahead and set the money aside,

2361
03:13:29,040 --> 03:13:30,800
and we can start working towards that.

2362
03:13:31,000 --> 03:13:32,940
Just like if you look at the fiscal impact,

2363
03:13:33,300 --> 03:13:35,100
these aren't impacts for the entire year.

2364
03:13:35,180 --> 03:13:37,680
These are the impacts from this point forward

2365
03:13:37,680 --> 03:13:39,260
to the end of the fiscal year.

2366
03:13:39,260 --> 03:13:43,260
So we can go ahead and start setting money aside, and instead of, hey, we don't have

2367
03:13:43,260 --> 03:13:46,060
it funded, so we can't hire on these code officers.

2368
03:13:46,060 --> 03:13:49,500
It's going to be, hey, we're making sure we get the best candidates for these positions.

2369
03:13:49,720 --> 03:13:53,680
I would rather that be the limiting factor, as opposed to, hey, the Council hasn't

2370
03:13:53,680 --> 03:13:55,420
funded additional code officers.

2371
03:13:55,640 --> 03:13:56,100
We have funded.

2372
03:13:56,180 --> 03:13:57,220
We've just funded four more.

2373
03:13:57,680 --> 03:13:59,280
No, we have not yet, but I want eight.

2374
03:14:00,040 --> 03:14:01,160
You want eight.

2375
03:14:01,580 --> 03:14:03,280
I think most people want eight.

2376
03:14:05,450 --> 03:14:06,690
Let's do eight right now.

2377
03:14:07,190 --> 03:14:07,830
Why not ten?

2378
03:14:08,050 --> 03:14:08,570
Let's go ten.

2379
03:14:09,170 --> 03:14:10,310
Are you challenging me?

2380
03:14:10,310 --> 03:14:11,030
I'll go 10.

2381
03:14:12,110 --> 03:14:13,470
Councilman, let's do 10.

2382
03:14:13,890 --> 03:14:14,590
Yeah, I want to do 10.

2383
03:14:15,190 --> 03:14:16,550
Yeah, let's do 10.

2384
03:14:16,970 --> 03:14:18,650
All right, Mr. Shura, you want to do 10?

2385
03:14:18,930 --> 03:14:20,610
City manager field, please help.

2386
03:14:23,010 --> 03:14:23,970
Finance director.

2387
03:14:24,290 --> 03:14:25,390
How about this?

2388
03:14:25,570 --> 03:14:27,530
Let's hold on.

2389
03:14:27,890 --> 03:14:29,310
Let's regain composure here.

2390
03:14:29,590 --> 03:14:32,570
I think Councilman Alexander, great, great questions

2391
03:14:33,510 --> 03:14:36,470
to be vetted out later by our city manager and staff reports.

2392
03:14:37,130 --> 03:14:37,770
There's a motion.

2393
03:14:37,770 --> 03:14:42,330
We have consensus here that I think we need more code enforcement officers in our city.

2394
03:14:42,810 --> 03:14:43,910
We got that, we get it.

2395
03:14:44,530 --> 03:14:52,670
There's a amendment on number nine to add four more for a total of eight, as you see there on your agenda packet.

2396
03:14:52,950 --> 03:14:53,590
So there's a motion.

2397
03:14:53,590 --> 03:14:55,890
One more quick question, Mr. Mayor, one more quick question.

2398
03:14:56,090 --> 03:14:56,350
Yes, sir.

2399
03:14:56,350 --> 03:14:59,910
that we, last time we had a...

2400
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:10,840
And the government to say that those code enforcement officers would be working after five, and we can shift. Is that still going to be part of this addition? Yes.

2401
03:15:11,860 --> 03:15:15,340
Okay. Get city clerk, you got that? Yes? Okay.

2402
03:15:15,380 --> 03:15:19,160
So there's a lot of things I could without yelling. Yes, thank you to the bank. Excellent.

2403
03:15:19,720 --> 03:15:28,020
Okay. If I may, we still do need to answer the question. Are we talking about this budget

2404
03:15:28,540 --> 03:15:33,960
adding an additional, I know I want, I am not in disagreement, but I want to still

2405
03:15:33,960 --> 03:15:38,820
make sure that we are able to fund this, just tell us where it's going to come from.

2406
03:15:39,520 --> 03:15:47,900
I want 20, I want 10 in my own world, but we do need to still be for still be.

2407
03:15:48,040 --> 03:15:49,080
There we go, that would be great.

2408
03:15:50,320 --> 03:15:51,520
Can I take a stab at this?

2409
03:15:52,000 --> 03:15:52,760
Just real quick.

2410
03:15:52,760 --> 03:15:57,120
This, just because they're approved this year, there's very little chance that they

2411
03:15:57,120 --> 03:15:58,980
will be hired in the current fiscal year.

2412
03:15:59,040 --> 03:16:02,320
We'll put them in the current fiscal year budget and they'll be carried forward

2413
03:16:02,320 --> 03:16:04,700
into next, into the two-year budget, actually.

2414
03:16:05,260 --> 03:16:08,680
What it does do, what we kind of like about this, I, I mean, I'll let you in on the

2415
03:16:08,680 --> 03:16:11,260
seat, we were going to come back and ask for more after we hired these four.

2416
03:16:11,360 --> 03:16:14,620
So we're kind of, I don't know if we're accelerating the process or not, because to

2417
03:16:14,620 --> 03:16:18,580
Councilman Alexander's point, it takes a while to hire these folks.

2418
03:16:18,580 --> 03:16:20,960
I think Mr. Sanchez is the same thing.

2419
03:16:21,060 --> 03:16:26,340
So we're fine with this, and we are all, we're working in parallel to work on revenue

2420
03:16:26,340 --> 03:16:29,700
recovery to help support these positions, anyway, and limit the impact on the general

2421
03:16:29,700 --> 03:16:29,880
fight.

2422
03:16:30,080 --> 03:16:35,660
Mr. City Manager, does this also allow you, when you say accelerate, or chew gum walk at the

2423
03:16:35,660 --> 03:16:40,260
same time, does it allow, even though that the budget may not, or I'm sorry, that the

2424
03:16:40,260 --> 03:16:45,040
positions may not be filled till next fiscal year, it does allow Renee and her team to begin

2425
03:16:45,040 --> 03:16:50,600
to float the positions to recruit the process and begin that process precisely.

2426
03:16:51,020 --> 03:16:53,620
Yes, so to that extent, yes, it will excited the process.

2427
03:16:53,880 --> 03:16:59,800
The question recruitment is a separate one, but it will definitely, we'll start advertising eight as opposed to four.

2428
03:16:59,900 --> 03:17:01,340
Great, thank you.

2429
03:17:01,980 --> 03:17:02,900
Cash, your votes, members?

2430
03:17:11,250 --> 03:17:14,350
Item passes, six zero, what the amendment?

2431
03:17:18,640 --> 03:17:25,620
Okay, this is items to be considered for a future meeting.

2432
03:17:25,620 --> 03:17:30,160
So item number 32, Mr. Sanchez?

2433
03:17:31,700 --> 03:17:35,440
Yes, briefly, tell us about item 32.

2434
03:17:35,720 --> 03:17:36,540
Can we support this?

2435
03:17:36,660 --> 03:17:49,040
This will allow, is for a development of new homes with bigger front porches so that people may use their front yard and their community common spaces as a living room.

2436
03:17:49,180 --> 03:17:52,300
In the evenings, I sit on my porch, my neighbors do, everyone does.

2437
03:17:52,300 --> 03:17:57,440
And when you have 30, 40 eyes out in the evening on the street, there's less likely to be crime.

2438
03:17:57,820 --> 03:18:00,740
Raised the value of homes, it's just a generally positive thing.

2439
03:18:00,900 --> 03:18:03,880
And all it is is just with the stroke of a pen we can do this.

2440
03:18:04,240 --> 03:18:08,440
No additional cost other than staff time to draft that development code.

2441
03:18:08,600 --> 03:18:09,820
So I would make my motion to approve.

2442
03:18:10,700 --> 03:18:12,760
What's the status right now that forbids it?

2443
03:18:15,020 --> 03:18:15,720
The development code?

2444
03:18:19,000 --> 03:18:23,400
Remember that these items are before you to ask if you just want to have a conversation.

2445
03:18:23,400 --> 03:18:26,060
So do you want to even entertain it?

2446
03:18:26,160 --> 03:18:28,460
Yes, if you don't, then pass.

2447
03:18:29,080 --> 03:18:29,900
I still want to hear that answer.

2448
03:18:31,540 --> 03:18:37,290
So the, as I understand it, so are you be quiet?

2449
03:18:38,970 --> 03:18:42,370
Our code requires a minimum front yard setback, 25 feet.

2450
03:18:42,990 --> 03:18:45,610
From the front property line, that's where your house can start.

2451
03:18:45,990 --> 03:18:52,030
That includes porch, patio, whatever, where your structure starts, that's 25 feet.

2452
03:18:52,030 --> 03:19:12,150
Okay. So it's my understanding that the, that we want to, the request is to all then allow, or the future, consider allowing porches to extend into that, into that 25-foot setback between the front property and the house, bringing, bringing the building, essentially closer to the, to the street.

2453
03:19:15,030 --> 03:19:15,410
Thank you.

2454
03:19:15,410 --> 03:19:17,090
Okay. Is there a motion in a second?

2455
03:19:17,730 --> 03:19:18,530
Cash votes.

2456
03:19:19,070 --> 03:19:20,210
Item number 32.

2457
03:19:21,570 --> 03:19:26,270
Consideration of Development Code to permit open porches to encroach in the front

2458
03:19:26,270 --> 03:19:27,210
setback.

2459
03:19:37,310 --> 03:19:39,910
Motion passes 6-0 to add to a future meeting.

2460
03:19:40,130 --> 03:19:40,770
Okay. Thank you.

2461
03:19:40,890 --> 03:19:48,490
Item number 33, mobile showers for the unhoused council member, the bar in Sanchez.

2462
03:19:48,490 --> 03:19:58,870
Yes, this is so caps one of our homeless service providers was able to purchase a mobile shower.

2463
03:19:59,450 --> 03:20:06,190
So it's three or four showers, laundry, laundry machines, they provide kits to people.

2464
03:20:06,590 --> 03:20:10,890
I would like the city to purchase one and then maybe go out to bid and

2465
03:20:10,890 --> 03:20:14,850
hand this out to a homeless service provider.

2466
03:20:14,850 --> 03:20:19,130
It's a really good way to allow some of these people, some human decency.

2467
03:20:19,790 --> 03:20:22,570
We see homeless people receive clothes all the time.

2468
03:20:23,150 --> 03:20:27,650
They wear it a couple times, it gets dirty, they have no way of washing it, it ends up in the public right away.

2469
03:20:28,050 --> 03:20:30,710
We want to offer people an option out of poverty.

2470
03:20:31,230 --> 03:20:35,390
And sometimes it's just as simple as making them not look like they've been through the mud.

2471
03:20:35,870 --> 03:20:39,070
And this offers a good opportunity for the city to help.

2472
03:20:39,510 --> 03:20:42,610
I wouldn't want the city to run this program, it would just be we would purchase.

2473
03:20:42,610 --> 03:20:47,910
We would send out a bid to see which service provider would be willing to take on an

2474
03:20:47,910 --> 03:20:49,210
additional mobile home shower.

2475
03:20:54,000 --> 03:20:54,720
Councillor Neill.

2476
03:20:54,800 --> 03:20:57,280
Go ahead, Kelvin.

2477
03:20:58,080 --> 03:21:03,880
So we purchased and then we lease it or rent it to, what are you saying?

2478
03:21:03,920 --> 03:21:04,700
No, no, no.

2479
03:21:04,740 --> 03:21:06,820
We would be giving it to one of the homeless service providers.

2480
03:21:07,020 --> 03:21:09,140
So, cats, for example, owns one, they bought one.

2481
03:21:09,180 --> 03:21:11,960
They had to spend $250,000 for one.

2482
03:21:11,960 --> 03:21:16,900
Yeah, I've seen it so what I'm saying is that then so we're going to purchase it for a

2483
03:21:17,560 --> 03:21:23,580
Non-profit. Yes. Wow, and then we would what we would do is we just we we would not encumber it

2484
03:21:23,580 --> 03:21:28,700
But we would we would limit it's used to maybe this the city of San Bernardino

2485
03:21:30,910 --> 03:21:34,750
You know, there's plenty of people that need to be that need a shower and I again

2486
03:21:35,530 --> 03:21:40,710
It's about providing a little bit of human decency and I know it's really easy to point these people out make fun of them

2487
03:21:41,190 --> 03:21:43,510
But I would much rather give them a helping hand

2488
03:21:43,510 --> 03:21:47,350
And even if it is just a warm shower in a place where they can clean their clothes.

2489
03:21:49,310 --> 03:21:52,430
I definitely appreciate the Boba showers.

2490
03:21:52,550 --> 03:21:56,190
I saw community action partnerships, Boba shower a couple of weeks ago.

2491
03:21:56,550 --> 03:22:00,730
I'm just a little bit, it's the latter part that I'm not quite understanding.

2492
03:22:01,010 --> 03:22:06,210
And how would we give it to how we choose a non-profits to get to.

2493
03:22:06,210 --> 03:22:07,490
Okay, why don't we do this, folks?

2494
03:22:07,670 --> 03:22:08,810
Let's suspend discussion.

2495
03:22:08,970 --> 03:22:10,870
We're just trying to add it to the future.

2496
03:22:10,870 --> 03:22:15,690
We can get down to policy, minutia, if, and when it comes back.

2497
03:22:16,010 --> 03:22:17,550
Members, is there a support on this?

2498
03:22:17,770 --> 03:22:18,350
Is there a motion?

2499
03:22:19,450 --> 03:22:19,950
Who to approve?

2500
03:22:20,490 --> 03:22:21,190
Is there a second?

2501
03:22:22,510 --> 03:22:22,950
Second.

2502
03:22:23,750 --> 03:22:24,190
Second.

2503
03:22:24,210 --> 03:22:25,250
Second by Calvin.

2504
03:22:25,950 --> 03:22:26,670
Councillor votes, please.

2505
03:22:26,850 --> 03:22:27,710
Item number 33.

2506
03:22:28,610 --> 03:22:29,270
Councillor votes.

2507
03:22:29,550 --> 03:22:30,790
To add it to a future calendar.

2508
03:22:39,830 --> 03:22:42,930
Motion passes, 6-0 to add to a future meeting.

2509
03:22:43,290 --> 03:22:43,990
Okay, thank you.

2510
03:22:44,170 --> 03:22:47,790
Item number 34, policy manual regarding grant funded positions.

2511
03:22:47,790 --> 03:22:49,150
Council Member Alexander sir?

2512
03:22:49,430 --> 03:22:51,030
Thank you Mr. Mayor, I appreciate that.

2513
03:22:51,590 --> 03:22:53,410
This is just regarding grant funding.

2514
03:22:53,610 --> 03:22:56,350
This is about budgeting and how we do our future budgeting.

2515
03:22:57,030 --> 03:23:00,710
And when we get grants, that doesn't come out of our budget.

2516
03:23:00,910 --> 03:23:05,850
But when we get grant fund positioned, eventually they do hit our budget.

2517
03:23:06,270 --> 03:23:13,610
And we just have to be mindful when we get all these grants that we have to be mindful.

2518
03:23:13,870 --> 03:23:15,170
And then we need a policy.

2519
03:23:15,170 --> 03:23:27,670
And if you can better explain it, Director Winehorn, if you want to help me out so they can understand, it's just to move it forward, but if you can help me out just a quick so they can understand what I'm trying to say here, I appreciate it. Thank you.

2520
03:23:32,080 --> 03:23:42,500
There are some grants that fund positions and then the grant amount declines over years and then the positions become fully funded by the city.

2521
03:23:42,920 --> 03:23:45,640
I think those are the kind of grants you're referring to.

2522
03:23:45,640 --> 03:23:59,720
And what you had spoken to me about was creating a policy in which council would approve those grants, because those are the kind of grants that the city does become responsible for completely over time.

2523
03:24:02,400 --> 03:24:03,140
Yep, that's it.

2524
03:24:03,540 --> 03:24:06,160
Okay, is there a motion to add it to the calendar?

2525
03:24:06,580 --> 03:24:07,640
I'm number 34.

2526
03:24:10,160 --> 03:24:10,820
I move it.

2527
03:24:11,360 --> 03:24:12,980
Okay, is there a second?

2528
03:24:13,400 --> 03:24:13,820
Second.

2529
03:24:15,020 --> 03:24:16,160
Second by Kelvin.

2530
03:24:32,190 --> 03:24:43,010
I have to say yes with a comment and that is that some of these items to be considered for future meetings, I think we need to get a handle on that.

2531
03:24:43,890 --> 03:24:53,510
I don't want to ever sound like I'm not willing to move something forward for in-depth discussion or more, but there are costs associated with this because it takes staff time

2532
03:24:53,510 --> 03:24:56,290
to put these reports together to come back to us.

2533
03:24:56,510 --> 03:25:03,050
So, I'm not going to not support the discussion, but it may be for not down the road,

2534
03:25:03,210 --> 03:25:07,530
because I don't necessarily agree with a lot of these, and I may be voting against them,

2535
03:25:07,710 --> 03:25:12,010
but I'm voting in favor of moving things forward for discussion.

2536
03:25:12,150 --> 03:25:16,370
But I think we should start being careful how many of these items we got on here,

2537
03:25:16,490 --> 03:25:18,190
because we're just adding to staff time.

2538
03:25:18,190 --> 03:25:21,210
Thank you, Council Member Kelvin.

2539
03:25:21,950 --> 03:25:23,170
Please proceed with the vote, call.

2540
03:25:24,990 --> 03:25:25,830
Council Member Kelvin?

2541
03:25:26,910 --> 03:25:27,490
Yes.

2542
03:25:28,750 --> 03:25:30,050
Council Member Alexander.

2543
03:25:30,570 --> 03:25:30,750
Aye.

2544
03:25:31,270 --> 03:25:36,330
Okay, the motion passes for one with Council Member Sanchez voting in opposition and

2545
03:25:36,330 --> 03:25:39,590
Council Members Ibarra and we know so absent for the item.

2546
03:25:40,190 --> 03:25:44,950
Okay, this is item number 35 to establish a program for high school students to serve as

2547
03:25:44,950 --> 03:25:49,390
junior council members to encourage greater civic engagement reporting through the city

2548
03:25:49,390 --> 03:26:19,370
Mayor's office. Councilmember? Thank you. I appreciate it. So as you probably heard already this evening, we had some members from San Bernardino Sanitza High School District, who were also in support of our bridging a gap. And that gap is that we don't have any interaction with our scholars of this city. And I would like to see that a junior council be established so that we can get our

2549
03:26:19,370 --> 03:26:24,250
our youth in our city more actively engaged with what goes on in their actual city.

2550
03:26:24,950 --> 03:26:29,670
And this is something that we've already had in the district, I mean, here in the city before,

2551
03:26:30,250 --> 03:26:32,650
it just laps and so I'm asking to bring it forward.

2552
03:26:33,150 --> 03:26:33,890
Thank you for the proof.

2553
03:26:34,930 --> 03:26:36,650
Motion by, we're no second.

2554
03:26:36,850 --> 03:26:39,090
Second by Alexander, members, cash for votes please.

2555
03:26:52,690 --> 03:26:55,410
Motion passes 6-0 to act to a future meeting.

2556
03:26:55,970 --> 03:27:02,210
Thank you very much and before we adjourn, I do want to pause and

2557
03:27:02,210 --> 03:27:11,330
the memory of Tony Marzulo who passed away just recently and let's have a moment of silence, please, as we honor our dear friend Tony.

2558
03:27:19,080 --> 03:27:19,420
Thank you.

2559
03:27:19,980 --> 03:27:21,480
This meeting is now adjourned.

2560
03:27:21,620 --> 03:27:28,580
The next joint regular meeting on the Mayor's City Council and successor agency to the redevelopment agency will be held Wednesday, April 20th.

2561
03:27:28,720 --> 03:27:29,820
I'm sorry, it will not be.

2562
03:27:33,020 --> 03:27:36,240
It will be Wednesday, May 4th.

2563
03:27:36,660 --> 03:27:39,220
We are dark on April 20th.

2564
03:27:39,540 --> 03:27:43,440
The closed session will begin at 5.30 p.m., and open session will begin at 7 p.m.

2565
03:27:43,840 --> 03:27:44,600
Thank you and good evening.