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To reconvene this meeting. Call to order. The may 26th, 2026, regular meeting of the city of

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cypress city council. City clerk, please call the roll. Council member. Strong.

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carnahan here. Council member. Burke here. Council member. Pete here. Mayor pro tem chang

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here. Mayor medrano present. All present. Thank you very much. Next on the agenda is

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invocation. The invocation will be provided by pastor mandy gonzalez, cypress neighborhood

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church. Please join us at the podium. And everyone else, can you please stand as you are

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able to. Very thankful for being here tonight. And thank you for allowing me to share

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our prayer for you tonight. Gracious lord in heaven, we thank you for the blessing upon

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us. Thank you, lord, for giving us this great country, this beautiful state and wonderful

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city. Lord, we honor you for who you are and the power you offer. Everything and everyone.

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almighty god, we have promised that you have people humble themselves and recognize you.

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your great mercy and love. You will hear them and bless them abundantly. I thank you, lord,

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for all these men and women who they have devoted their life to serve you and work for the sake

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of our safe, prosperous and dynamic community. Grant them wisdom, love, justice and

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integrity as they perform their duties and responsibilities upon us and these wonderful

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city that you have placed them to be a public servant. Lord, I ask you to lead them, guide

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them, and give them a cheerful heart as they serve this community every day. Thank you

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for their willingness to give their time, their effort, and their ability to carry such a

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responsibility for the sake of the other lord jesus, may your blessing be upon each of them

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and their families. Give them the health and the strength they need every day to make our

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community better and prosperous. And so every us enjoy living and work and safely send our

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kids to school, parks and places of entertainment. We also thank you for protecting

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us and watching over everyone who was affected by this evacuation that we recently

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happened, that the safe. And thank you for all the authorities and people who work

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during this dangerous situation that has been happening to us now. Lord, I pray that you

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blessing upon each member of this council. Reward the service with your peace and

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goodness every day as they serve their fellow citizens in this beautiful city. Bendito

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dios damos gracias por bendiciones sobre nosotros. Gracias, senor. Este pais.

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estamos o estado de esta maravillosa ciudad de cyprus, senor ramos. Por cuanto si por

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el poder sobre todo sobre todos te glorificamus, senor. Si tu pueblo reconoce to gran

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misericordia de los cielos los. More abondante sous vidas. Gracias, senor. Por todos estos

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hombres y mujeres a trabajar en beneficio de nuestra comunidad para ser la segura dinamica.

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entonces senor sabiduria amor justicia integridad mientras responsabilidades sobre

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nosotros y esta maravillosa ciudad llamado servir esfuerzos y su tiempo para el beneficio

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de los demas bendiga cada uno de ellos familias desde la salud, la fuerza necesitan cada

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dia para ser de nuestra comunidad mejor para para cada ciudadano de la ciudad

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disfrutar de la vida, el trabajo y sus hijos de forma segura, el colegio a los parks

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a los lugares de entretenimiento. Cuidado y protegido todas las personas.

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peligro de intoxication. Gracias a dios por todo el trabajo para seguridad en esta

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situacion peligrosa ahora senor sobre cada uno de los miembros del consiglio compensada con to

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pass amor y bendicion. We pray this in the lord jesus christ. Amen. Thank you. Can you please

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remain standing? Face the flag. Put your hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I pledge

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allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it

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stands. One nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Next on the

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agenda. Report of closed session, mr. Weiner. Thank you, mr. Mayor. And members of the

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city council, ladies and gentlemen, participating with us in person or remotely. The

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city council met in closed session tonight to talk about one matter of pending litigation, to which the city is a party. The title of that litigation is marquez versus

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city of cyprus federal district court. Case number eight colon two four dash cv dash 01835-0.

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d w. The mayor and council member peat voluntarily recused themselves from this

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participation. Council member peat recused herself on the advice of legal counsel. There

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was a privileged and confidential briefing on the status of ongoing negotiations

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to potentially settle this litigation. The city and miss marquez have reached a

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settlement in principle, subject to formal documentation of the same, and the city will

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be bringing back a formal settlement agreement for authorization at a future

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council meeting in a public agenda item. Thank you, mr. Mayor. Thank you. Next on the

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agenda, oral communications. This portion of the meeting is set aside for public comments

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regarding any matter within the jurisdiction of the city council. Comments on non-agenda

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items will be heard at this time. Comments related to a specific agenda item will be

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heard following the staff report for that item and prior to the city council action,

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unless the speaker prefers to make the comment during the general public comment period, the city council cannot discuss nor take action on matters not on the agenda for this meeting,

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but council members may provide brief responses. Please complete a speaker's card to

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address the city council in person. Please follow the instructions at the end of the agenda and wait for the mayor or city clerk to call on you to address the city council

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virtually. Speakers providing in-person comments will be called. First time allotted for

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public comment is three minutes now. I will call speakers up one at a time. Thank you, thank

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you. First is brooke, followed by ann mallory.

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good evening, mayor and city council. I just wanted to, first of all, thank

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everybody that helped with the incident. And I know I'm going to leave some agencies or

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people out, but our wonderful cypress police department ocfa the cert team, and I'm not sure

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if people are aware, but we have residents that are also on the cert team that were

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evacuated working, and some of those in district five were also employees, such as randi

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harper for orange county social services department. And I'm going to apologize. Oh, orange

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county sheriff's, it could go on and on, but obviously I was impacted and had to evacuate as

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well as my father, who's on hospice in a long term care facility in the city of

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staunton, and he remains evacuated at this time. And I also wanted to acknowledge that

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at the community center on friday, I saw mayor medrano handing out food to residents,

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and I saw council member pete handing out food, and her and her husband, former council

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member john pete, got over 100 and my numbers are off. It was a lot. Over 100 meals delivered

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to the community center. And to me, I just. Council member pete goes above and beyond. Some

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people are natural born leaders in emergency situations, and I saw that. I saw it at the

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incident command center multiple times. I happened to be staying in a hotel next to

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that command center. I saw leo there. I saw bonnie there. I saw david briefly, I think, at

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the community center, but I unfortunately didn't see mayor pro tem chang, and I didn't see

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rachel, but I think rachel was at the command center from what I heard. So I just wanted to

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acknowledge specifically, mayor medrano and council member pete. I know council member pete, you

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went. I'm speechless. Above and beyond. I think it's important for residents to know in times

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like this, in emergencies, leadership counts. It's very important that you have elected

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leaders that can handle emergencies. I have 20 years with the american red cross,

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and I served a six week stint during katrina, which is to this day, I think, the largest

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natural disaster. I served in nola. And then I served in houston, and I was there when

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we evacuated for rita. I worked at the houston astrodome, reliant city. We had over

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50,000 evacuees there. And I got to see it this time from the other side as somebody that

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had to evacuate. So now I got to see the other side of the coin. I hope in the future,

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when after action briefing or whatever action after action report, I think might be the

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name of it. The ocfa and the other agencies do that. The city of cypress will spin back

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around and look at, you know, a larger event. Are we equipped? There's new technologies and

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things out there. Maybe that could be on next year's strategic plan to step back and

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look. And I'd like to see a citizens ad hoc somehow participate in that. But thank

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you, everybody, and thanks. If I left out any group of people. Thank you. Next is anne mallari,

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followed by randi harper. Good evening and thank you. I'm here to congratulate the city of

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cypress, particularly the city staff, for their quick and effective response to the need

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to evacuate ocfa and our wonderful police department. We're very visible. And jeff, I

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really wanted to call out your department. You guys stood up the cypress community center in,

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you know, just moments on a holiday weekend and really provided that safe haven while

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things were unfolding. So special congratulations to you and your team. As you know, we

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still have more than 16,000 people in orange county that are still evacuated.

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fortunately, the cypress residents have returned home. But I do want to highlight the

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fact that we have residents who work in the areas that were evacuated and that continue to

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be evacuated. And for many people, losing a day's work is a significant impact on their

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ability to meet their financial obligations. So in my capacity as ceo, we care, orange county,

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I just want to remind you that we care stands ready to help. The we care website is we care.

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orange county.org. And if you know somebody or perhaps you yourself are in need, you can

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go to our website. You can send an email with a request for help. And we will do everything

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we can to ensure that you have the assistance that you need to see you through a difficult

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time. One of our mottos is we never want a crisis to become a catastrophe. And we saw the

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community pull together to ensure that our residents were safe and, and the ripple

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effects of being pulled out of the houses and perhaps being unable to work are going to

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continue to affect people for a while. So we're here and, and I know cypress residents are here.

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so just a reminder to knock on your neighbor's door and see how they're doing. That's the

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thing that makes cypress particularly wonderful place to live, work and play. Thank you.

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randi harper. Hello, members of city council, how are you? I just wanted to tell you. So

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again, as a firefighter and emergency manager for like 40 years, I've been to lots of

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calls where evacuations took place. But this was the first time where I was actually in

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the zone that was being evacuated. And I got to say, it's a it's an odd feeling. You

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know, fortunately, my wife was well planned. And that's what I would advise everybody to do is

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make sure you have a plan, make sure you have a place to go, have the car packed up ready to

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go, take care of the animals and all that kind of stuff. So during this event, I was one of

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the 71 emergency managers that the governor arranged to have active during this call. What

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my position was, I worked for ssa, orange county social services agency, and we're

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charged with mass care and shelter for for the county during these times. So I was a

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field liaison. We got a chance to set up seven shelters where last night, I believe the

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highest total was about 1300 people. So just a really great effort. I really do applaud the

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staff of cypress coming from a small city originally. You know, it's, it's a challenge to, to

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get folks together and get things in place and really did stand up and support not only

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yourselves, but the citizens of staunton as well. I did want to also comment on I'm not sure I

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would imagine that the city is aware of it, but there is an sb, a program that is going to be

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set up. I have documents I can give to the clerk. Yeah. And if you go to the website oc,

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gov.com, you can get copies of it. And it not only helps those businesses that were affected,

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both brick and mortar, but also potentially folks in homes, you know, home businesses, but the

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county, the operational area, actually needs to have a certain number of claims so

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that it can be considered for approval. There's also a dollar amount that needs to be reached.

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so I encourage folks to go to that site, fill out the paperwork and hopefully get

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some additional assistance. And then just finally, a reminder tomorrow at 230, the board of

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supervisors is having a special meeting. And, you know, it's a really interesting thing to

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watch. There'll be hopefully approving the, the proclamation that they posted for this

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emergency. And with that, I just want to say thanks to all the staff and and personnel for

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helping out during this time. Thank you. Next, marilyn reames, item number ten. Followed by

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brooke, item number 11. Hi, council. Marilyn reames here, cypress resident and I had item

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ten I absolutely yes on that. Which leads me to my next statement, which is the reason

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I really wanted to get up here was to echo what these gals have said, I. I can't I can't

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tell you how proud I am of this city and the people that run it. I can't tell you how hard it

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was for me because I'm like a rescuer by nature. I rescue dogs off the street or whatever

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it is, and it was the hardest thing on the face of the planet for me not to be here and

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helping. It was so hard and I was so proud when I watched the videos that I got to see of

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these wonderful people, these people that are struggling so much, being fed and then

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learned later, thank you. You know, bonnie, putting out that message that that they'd been

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taken to other shelters where they were going to be able to sleep for the night. And I, our

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police department, I just what do you say? It's like we are the luckiest city on the face

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of the planet to have such an amazing police department. And I thank you. I thank you, chief.

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you I mean, it's just like it just ripples down all of it. Every officer, every staff

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person. It's it's from the top down. And it is so beautiful and heartwarming for me. I am

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going to do whatever it takes to, you know, I may be too old to do some of the things, but,

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you know, I want to be prepared. I want to be prepared to help in more significant ways. I'm

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certainly going to help with an. And because that's something tangible, I can do that. And I

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can take my friends who are still in the evacuation zone and have been out and had, you

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know, didn't have enough clothes. And the things we don't think about nightgowns

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and undergarments and all of the things that you need to survive. And how is she going

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to go to work? She still works part time, all of these things. So those are things I can do.

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those are tangible things, and I'm thankful for that. But I just wanted to thank everyone.

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jeff, you are freaking amazing. And anyway, I just, I love this city and I'm so proud to be a

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resident here. Next is brooke item number 11, followed by glenn button, item number 11.

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so mine's ten and 11. I just I made a boo boo, but my first one. So I wanted to thank our

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new city manager. She was there every day and I didn't do that. And same for jeff and the staff

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as well. And in regards to the proclamation that you signed, if maybe that could be posted

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somehow on social media, because people will need that for insurance claims. They may

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have benefits that will pay when there is those proclamations. So that kind of

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goes for that item. And then in regards to number 11, I just wanted to say that in regards

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to the land acknowledgment, we shouldn't forget about other people in cyprus that own land

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in and around our city. What about the mexican spanish landowners whose land was taken

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under the command for fremont and kit carson on orders of president polk? What about

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japanese americans who had their land taken at the outset of world war two? What about

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the portuguese who established the area as dairy land and cyprus as dairy city 70 years

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ago? And what about the area's sugar beet farmers? Shouldn't they be recognized? How many

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cypress residents are requesting recognition of cypress being on land

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previously owned or occupied by indigenous peoples? How many cypress residents are concerned

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about this? How is this proposal related to the city's three primary areas of focus,

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which are public safety, community and recreation services and fiscal management?

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city council and staff should remain focused on the city's strategic plan and not on

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unrelated feel good or self interest actions that don't benefit a significant number of

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residents. Any regular meeting opening statements, such as recognition of indigenous

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people's land, should not come before god invocations or country, which is a pledge of

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allegiance. Thank you for your time. Glen. Item number 11. Good evening, city council,

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city staff, everyone present? I'm glen button, 30 year resident. But somebody lived in

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my house before I did. How many of you care? Yeah, I don't either. Legally, I have clear

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title. So that's the legal position. I have clear title. It doesn't matter who lived

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there before. And what's also interesting is our city has clear title. Our county has

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clear title, our state has clear title. Our country, the united states of america has

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clear title. So what's the point if we're even going to consider a recurring tribute to

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those who no longer hold title, but did have a claim at one point? Let's include the

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conservatives who shepherded our city to the strong position that it currently enjoys, the

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cattle ranchers who incorporated our city 70 years ago, the spaniards and mexicans.

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as was previously mentioned, the indigenous people we know, some of them, I'm sure we don't

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know all of them. And the original owner and creator of not only this parcel of land,

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but the entire world, our creator, almighty god, that's where this comes from. And, you

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know, without acknowledging all of the historical claims, you know, it's silly. Secondly,

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what action could possibly result from this recitation of history? Will we give back

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anything that we legally own? I don't think so. Will we expand to other recitations of history?

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as much as everyone loved history in school? The bottom line what is possibly the point

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of this assumption of city resources? This is, in my humble opinion, a distraction.

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city clerk is there anyone online who wishes to speak? I show no one with their hand

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raised, mr. Mayor. And you have no more cards and no more speaker cards. Okay. Thank you.

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the public comment period is now closed. We will move to the next item on the agenda. The

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consent calendar. All matters listed on the consent calendar are to be approved with one

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motion, unless a council member requests separate action on a specific item. Council members

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voting no or abstaining on consent calendar item may do so without removing the item from

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the consent calendar. Does anyone want to remove anything? No. No? Okay. Do I have a

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motion to consider approval of the consent calendar? Okay. Okay. So. Council member burke

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has requested to speak. You have the floor. Thank you. Mayor, I just have a couple of

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questions about consent. Calendar item number nine regarding the public engagement

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award for the sycamore expansion. So it looks like the contract were potentially

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approving is for up to $2,000 for both outreach and design services. And so one of my

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concerns was what if we do outreach and then what it seems like the residents want, or

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what council wants to move forward with is a minimalist design or something along those

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lines. Is there a way to separate it so that we're not committed to paying the entire

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$200,000? Or how does that work? The contract is phased by outreach, design, final plans

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and specifications. So again, if we do the outreach and we return to council with a

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summary of the results and council decides not to move forward with it, we could just

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cancel the rest of the remainder of the contract and only pay the contractor or the

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consultant for all work incurred to date. Okay, so then we can pay for the outreach

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phase, but it would come back to council before committing to, I guess, pay the rest of the

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money for any design. Is that accurate? So the current plan was to or is to conduct the

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outreach based on the input received. Prepare three conceptual plans to bring back

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to the to the commission and council. If there is consensus among. Council. Council can

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direct staff to return to council with the summary of the results prior to moving on to

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the three conceptual designs. Yeah. Personally, I guess I'd like to know where we stand

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before spending the entire $200,000 and get a sense of what the the outreach yielded.

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and so what I need to make a motion to alter the consent calendar item, or how would

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that work? So is the contract going to be implemented in a phase that before final. The

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final three plans are recommended. The council that there will be additional council feedback? Yes. This would be one additional council meeting prior to receiving the.

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three conceptual design. And at what point how much would be expended as of the time of that

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council meeting. In theory. Half. The phase for the outreach and the conceptual

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design plans is roughly $32,000, so roughly half of that. So. Okay, so it looks like it looks

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like you could pull the plug if you needed to after phase one or phase two, without spending

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the full $199,000. And so do I have to make. No, I don't think so. I, I think the contract

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envisions that process. Okay. Well, then yeah, it doesn't sound like I'll need to make

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any sort of motion on that. And then the other question I have is, I know we've been utilizing

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analytics data and we've gotten some more information about visitors to our parks at some

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point in the near future, before we were to move forward with committing to spend on the

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design phase, can the council have the information on visits to the sycamore park and the

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number of visitors in a given amount of time, and maybe even what portion of those are

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cypress residents? Yeah. So we'll look through and we'll provide all that information to

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the city council. I know before we print it out, or we've given information on all the other

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parks, so we can just update the dates and give you that information back. Okay, great.

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well, yeah, if we can have that info and you said there's sort of opt outs, then I think I'm

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okay moving forward with it. Thank you for the clarifications. Okay. Is there anything else further, council member burke. Okay. Councilmember peach, you have

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the floor. Thank you, mr. Mayor. I just have a question on the technology plan, and I got some

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of it clarified this morning from our chief. So I'm okay with that. But I see that we

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have, if I see it correctly, about $57,000 for some chamber audio visual plus broadcast

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improvement. And I guess maybe I'd like to understand what that is, because we have we've

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had a number of connectivity from people trying to watch from home, and then we've had

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internal within the dais here. We've had problems pulling up presentations and things like

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that. So are we spending it on that type of thing? It's going to give us an improved system

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so that we don't have we have more modern and people have greater accessibility. That's

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my question. I don't know who to ask it to. You could just yell. My apologies on the

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technology. So that particular thing is to upgrade our spectrum broadcast, because

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right now it is an older version of the channel, right? So it would be to upgrade the

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channel. And then we have an ongoing cost with doing that, which is why the city hasn't

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done that before, because right now we're not paying for it. So the channel doesn't cost us

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anything but to upgrade it to actually make it viewable by everyone in a better format,

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the channel would need itself, would need to be upgraded. So that's that component. And then

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there's the other component of the a v, which I'm sorry, my computer is over there, which

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makes up the other half of that 57,000, which is more upgrades to make us compliant with the

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new requirements for our meeting, right? Online meetings. So just to be clear, so people

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that have spectrum today are going to continue to be able to watch on spectrum. And it's

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hopefully just an improved experience. Correct. It would be upgrading the channel. Okay. Does it improve the experience on any of the avenues? Not everybody has spectrum spectrum

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to watch. Will it improve it on all the other avenues that people watch, either through

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our website or things like that? So that particular component of it is just with the channel

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that you watch. Okay. Through cable. Okay. All right. Well, I was hoping at least within the

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dais, because we've had a number of issues that we were, we've been able to do certain

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things. And your you had a good example. Right now, I'm sure it has nothing to do with that.

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but. No, but our fellow council members had the same issue. So. Okay. Thank you for answering

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my question. Thank you. You seeing no other speaker requests? Can I entertain a

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motion to consider approval of the consent calendar? I'll make a motion to approve consent

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calendar items one through nine. I second that motion. Please vote.

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that motion passes unanimously. Thank you. We'll move to the next item on the

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agenda. New business item number ten is a resolution ratifying a proclamation of a

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local emergency in regard to the garden grove chemical leak. City manager, please introduce

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this item. Thank you, mayor medrano, after the posting of the original agenda, we began

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to receive reports that there was a hazardous chemical incident in garden grove.

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initially, it was not expected to impact the city of cypress. However, early friday morning

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we did receive word that a number of cypress residents were being evacuated as the

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emergency responders assessed the situation and the potential impact to our community. The

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evacuation zone was expanded to include a larger portion of southeast cypress. At that

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point, we were also informed that incident command for the issue would be moved over to

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the city of cypress at the racetrack, and we were also asked to open our community

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center as an evacuation center, not only for cypress residents impacted by the expanded

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evacuation zone, but also for residents of cypress and other areas under evacuation. Their

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initial evacuation center in cypress likewise had to be evacuated. As the day wore on.

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a number of resources were brought in from across the county. A number of residents

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arrived at our community center needing assistance. Community center, volunteers and

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employees reported, even though they themselves were evacuated and provided meals and water

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and assistance to members of the community. While our police resources assisted with

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evacuation and security and coordination with unified command that was at incident

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command. A unified command was with orange county fire authority garden grove police.

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since the initial incident arose there, and orange county sheriff's department as they

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cover the city of staunton. When it became clear that the city resources would be

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insufficient to address the full scope of the incident, I consulted with the city

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attorney and our staff and also worked with our city clerk to develop your proclamation of

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local emergency, as is provided for under the government code and your own city charter. So

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on the amended agenda that was reposted on friday is a request to ratify this proclamation of

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emergency. It is available on our agenda packet, but online. But we can make that available

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on the city's website more easily. Ratification of this proclamation affirms the city ae

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was a local emergency, and positions their application for reimbursement for the costs

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incurred should that become available. That has not been guaranteed at this point, but

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we are aware that all of the other cities involved in this local emergency have proclaimed

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an emergency. The county proclaimed a local emergency, the state proclaimed this a

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local emergency, and that was also ratified by the federal administration. So we're simply

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at this point gathering costs and documenting what the city resources were that were used

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throughout this last five days now, and we will provide that to the office of emergency

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services and fema and see how all this shakes out. At this point, we would like for you to

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ratify the existence of the emergency, and we can do one of two things either allow it to

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lapse should incident command and the rest of the emergency. Sort of. Demobilize in the next

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couple of days. Or if we do need some ongoing resources to address the the residual

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impacts of this emergency, we can re agendize it for you for an extension of that local

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emergency. But at the moment, we would like you to ratify the initial proclamation that

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occurred on friday at 7 p.m. Okay. Thank you. At this time, are there any comments,

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questions from city council? Okay. Seeing no hands raised this emotion. Right. Okay.

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would someone like to offer a motion? I'll move to adopt the resolution ratifying the

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proclamation of local emergency in regard to the garden grove chemical leak. I will second

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that. Please vote. That motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Next item on the agenda. Items

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from city council members. Item number 11 is brought forth by council member strongheart and

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a discussion of indigenous people land acknowledgment by the cypress city council

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council member. Strong. You have the floor. Thank you very much. I appreciate everybody

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coming this evening to share your comments and your thoughts. I wanted to recognize we didn't

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have it in our packet, but I also received an email from robin m itzler stating that she

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was not in agreement with the acknowledgment as well, and I just wanted to make sure that

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was read into the record and that her opinion was noted. For myself, I just want to state a

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really brief case for why I think this is important and valuable for our city and for

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our country. Cypress sits on traditional homeland of the tongva-gabrieleno and people

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who have stewarded our land for generations, and whose communities are still present

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today. Recognizing that history is a simple and meaningful way to acknowledge the full story

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of the place that we serve. This is not a new or unusual practice. Our local schools,

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school district and cypress college already include land acknowledgments at the beginning of meetings where official business is conducted, and they include one on the

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footer of all of their websites. In that sense, we would not be introducing something

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unfamiliar, simply aligning the city with our what our own educational institutions are already doing. We already begin our meetings with shared moments of reflection. We say

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the pledge of allegiance. We listen to an invocation. A land acknowledgment fits very

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naturally. Alongside these, it offers a brief, civic minded opportunity to reflect on the

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history of this land itself, something that connects all of us, regardless of our backgrounds or our beliefs. Importantly, this is a small step. It requires no funding,

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no staffing, and no structural changes. But it does demonstrate something meaningful that we are city that values awareness, inclusion, and respect for all

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communities, both past and present. Los angeles county has already taken this step,

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formally adopting a land acknowledgment recognizing the indigenous peoples of this region. Cypress has the opportunity to show similar leadership at the very local

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level in a way that reflects our own community values. At its core, this is about unity,

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not division. It is about taking a moment to recognize where we are together, to do so

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with respect and with thoughtfulness. This is a small, no cost, respectful addition

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that aligns with what our schools already do. It reflects our shared civic values, and it

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helps us better understand the place that we call home. A simple step towards unity,

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awareness, and respect. If we would like to include other members of the community who we

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feel have been wronged or treated unjustly in the past, I'm completely open to that.

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council member chang, you have the floor. I'm sorry. Mayor pro tem chang. Thank you. See, I

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think there are two main options for if we want to have a land acknowledgment at our

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council meetings. One is that we could have a land acknowledgment given at every

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meeting, or we could also have the option of inviting speakers to give an acknowledgment at

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our meeting. And if there are two people that that on this council that do want to have a

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land acknowledgment at every meeting, I would support them. But I lean toward having

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inviting speakers to give land at a land acknowledgment for two main reasons. The first is

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that I think a land acknowledgment should be optional, as is our invocation

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and our pledge of allegiance. If someone doesn't want to participate in our invocation,

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they don't have to. If someone doesn't want to participate in our pledge of allegiance, they

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have every right to not participate. And so it I think it should be the same with our

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land. Acknowledgments. I wouldn't want the mayor or the city manager or whoever was in

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charge of giving that land acknowledgment to feel like they would have to give a land

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acknowledgment if they didn't want to. And also this, this, this current council might be

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okay with it. And the current city manager might be okay with it, but I'm not sure about

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future council members or future city managers to. The second is actually because of a

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email that I received from a resident. They sent an email of their land acknowledgment that

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they asked chatgpt to give them. And I realized that one of my assumptions was wrong. I

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erroneously believed that while the invocation is religious, that a land acknowledgment was

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not. But I realized after that that a land acknowledgment could be religious, too. And so

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that line between what secular and what's not, and between what a land acknowledgment is

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and an invocation became a little bit more blurry for me. And so because of that, I, I'm,

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I'm actually in favor of inviting someone who would be knowledgeable about the culture,

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who would be sensitive about the experiences of the people here before us, and to give

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them a land acknowledgment, either, you know, as part of the invocation or just a

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separate piece. And then people would have the option of participating if they want to,

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and the land acknowledgments. And then there are also other good options that we could have.

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I talking to the city manager, we could increase our information available on our

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websites about the original people here, or we could also include a land acknowledgment

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that would accompany our 70 year anniversary or our proclamation next year. And

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because I do think that it's important that people know about the the people that were

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originally here. Thank you. Council member strong. You have the floor. Thank you, mr. Mayor.

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additionally, I just wanted to offer especially for the remarks about whether or not these people lived here and whether or not anyone cares. The reality in this city is

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that the current building, that is the boys and girls club on moody, was originally the

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cypress public library, and when the excavation was conducted for that building to

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be built, the remains of an over 400 year old chumash skeleton were on the premises.

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so I don't think we can have any doubt as to whether or not, you know, this isn't some sort

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of nebulous idea where these people here, who are these ghosts? These were actual people. They lived here on this actual land. And I get the problematic, you know, then

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what do we do? Do we give all of our land back? That's absolutely valid, if that's

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what you want to say. What we're acknowledging here is that there were people here stewarding this land before us. And in keeping with good government, we want to make

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sound and thoughtful, careful decisions that don't exclude anyone. That is the spirit

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that's intended here. Councilmember pete, you have the floor. Thank you, mr. Mayor.

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I'm kind of on the side of many of our residents that came up and spoke this evening. I, I

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look at what we went through this past weekend, and I look at the community that pulled

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together, and I look at the residents that pushed us and voted us in place. And from my

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opinion, it is not to do land. Acknowledgments and ownership. It is to figure out how to make

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their lives better is to figure out, to make sure that they are safe and to implement our

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strategic plans. I don't see this as one of our specific agenda items. I appreciate

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special interests and people wanting to bring it up to our attention, but I don't believe

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that's in the best interest of all of our residents, all 50,000 of our residents. So

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with that, I'm going to vote no. Councilmember burke, you have the floor. Thank you. So I've

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said this previously in regards to sort of resolutions that have come forward before the

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council, and I know this is a bit different to me, the idea of sort of resolutions and

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proclamations fall under a similar umbrella as what a land acknowledgment. And regardless

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of what the specific issue is, my position is typically been that I previously served in a

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another elected role. And I saw that the the group or the council became, in my opinion,

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too focused on those types of issues outside resolutions that were a little bit outside their

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jurisdiction or, or proclamations. And I want to keep our focus primarily on, on

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city business. And so we're this brought forward. I'd probably abstain just in the to

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try and be consistent with the principle principle that I've applied in the past. I do want

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to say I, I certainly don't think it's a bad thing in any way to acknowledge history and

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be more cognizant of local history, the history that council member strong carnahan

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shared about the old library site, and to step back and gain perspective, I think along with

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something mayor pro tem chang said, I do think that's more of a personal choice in terms of

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how you do that. And so I'm I'm inclined to think it's not something that I'd vote for in

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my capacity as a council member. I view it as sort of every individual council member and

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residents decision to how they want to interact with history, our local history and be

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cognizant of that and embrace that. And then I also mayor pro tem mayor pro tem chang also

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made a good point. I thought, which is I know we have our invocation policy, but of

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course, if we want it to be as inclusive as possible. And so, of course, if there's a member

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of the native american community that would like to participate, I encourage them

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to please feel free to to reach out because you may not be on the sort of list of houses of

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worship in cyprus that we proactively reach out to. But as I said, we want we want that

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to be as inclusive as possible. So thank you. Thank you. I'd like to make a comment. I

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believe resolutions, proclamations are outside of our jurisdiction. This has us

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going outside of our assigned jurisdiction and what we agreed upon at the strategic plan. So

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I will be voting to abstain on this matter. Councilmember strong, you have the floor.

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thank you, mr. Mayor. I just have one last point I'd like to make. And there seems to be a

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lot of discussion about the representation within the community and the percentage of people that that this applies to or that we should care about. And there were some other

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really wonderful arguments brought up, glenn, I want to say specifically noting the japanese americans and the other commenter, I believe, also mentioned the japanese

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americans. Excuse me if I'm speaking incorrectly. Yes. I think that that's an incredibly valid point. As we know, they were taken from their land and placed in internment camps,

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which is horrific. There have been lots of different dark moments in our history as a nation. There's no doubt about that. The reality is this is a group of people who are not as

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present in the community of cyprus because they, like the japanese who were sent to those

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camps, were forcibly removed in many cases from their land. And so when you are stripped from

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your land, stripped, stripped of your rights, you lose the ability to remain visible for the community, even if it was a community you once populated. So I just want that to be noted

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for everyone. This is not something that, you know, we shouldn't care because they're not here. If history had unfolded differently, of course our community would look

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differently. City attorney, you have the floor. So while I enjoyed this robust discussion,

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the issue before you is, is there a second to put this on a future council agenda? That's

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the only issue before you. I thought the issue I thought the issue was first, there needs to

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be a clear motion and there is no motion yet. I think the council member has made a

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request to add this to the future agenda. So let me clarify, is the request to add

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it to a future agenda, or is a request to have a motion put forth? Well, it would have to

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come back as a separate agenda item. All it's it is an agenda item tonight. I don't think so.

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it is okay. My I stand corrected. Okay. Okay. So then I would like to make a motion

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that we include a direct staff to include a land acknowledgment at the beginning

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of our city council meetings, along with our pledge of allegiance and our invocation

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council. Is there a second? Very well. We'll move on to the next item, number 12. Item

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number 12. Discussion of changes to the city council meeting. Agenda structure proposed by council member burke. Councilmember burke, you have the floor. Thank you. I

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don't have a lot to say about this. I just thought that these proposed changes would improve

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the linear flow of our meetings a bit. The first change is to move items removed from the

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consent calendar up in the meeting to right after the consent calendar, as it is now,

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if we go through the consent calendar but an item is pulled, it might be 90 minutes before

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we got back to that item. I think it would make more sense to just have items pulled from

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the consent calendar discussed right after the consent calendar. And then the second

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proposed change was to move the council member items for future consideration to right in front

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of, rather than after council member reports from city affiliated boards and

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committees and remarks, I just. I felt like the council member. Reports and remarks are more

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intended to end the meeting on a positive, more communal note, and sometimes the items for

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future consideration can be surprising or potentially controversial. So I just

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thought it made sense to move those up. So those are the two suggestions that I had and open

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to hearing from my colleagues if they have any thoughts. Doctor chang, you have the

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floor. Thank you both. These make sense to me. I've been in favor of these. I think I might

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have talked about it in a previous council council meeting, but I did want to make another comment. I think today went well in terms of our public comment, but it feels

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like in the past that sometimes we have multiple public comments on items. Sometimes

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it's the beginning of the meeting. Sometimes it was like right before our items that are

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discussed. But I like how it flowed today. It felt like there was a a discrete section

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for the general comment and then a discrete section for comments for our items. And

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then we didn't have another comment period right before like these items. 1112 that

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we're doing right now. So I like when there's only kind of, we try to limit the comment

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periods instead of having different periods, just just one, one comment period. Thank

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you. Thank you, councilmember pete, you have the floor. Thank you. The second one, I second

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comment I have no issue with and that makes sense. I just wanted to bring up the reason

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as to why I believe the items removed after from the consent calendar were moved further

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down the agenda. When we remove items from the consent calendar, it becomes kind of a new

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business item because we it wasn't intended to be talked about individually. It was

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intended to be part of a consent. So if we move it, we're now adding a potentially

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new business item. If you want to say that we're moving out of consent and moving it into new

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business, because we're going to ask to be separately talked about. Now, that may be the way

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we want it to be, but the reason it got moved below public hearings in new business

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is because we looked at what our our folks here in the audience are, are here for, and

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they may specifically want to talk about public hearings or new business and not

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necessarily here further discussion on a consent item. So I just want to make sure

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people understand why sequentially it was put in that way. If we want to do it

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differently, we can do that. I'm just I'm just bringing up why it was put in that way when

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we originally did this. So. Thank you. Seeing no more speaker requests, I'm going to

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close the discussion. And would someone like to offer a motion. I'll make a motion to approve

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the changes. Recommended. And mr. City attorney, do you need me to spell them out in detail

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or I would do it just in case? Sure. And this is going to require an ordinance amendment.

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all we can do it by. We'll have to bring back a future resolution that will make this

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change. So you're just going to make a motion to direct the staff to make these changes.

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okay. Then I'll make a motion to direct the staff to make two changes to the ordering of the

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agenda. The first is to move items removed from the consent calendar to immediately

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following the consent calendar. And the second is to move council member items for future

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consideration to immediately preceding council member reports from city affiliated

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boards and committees and remarks. Now second, the motion. Thank you. Please vote.

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that motion passes with four yes votes and one dissenting vote from council member strong carnahan. Thank you. Next item on the agenda. Council member

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reports from city affiliated boards and committees and remarks. Council member strong.

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karen, you have the floor. Thank you. I attended the police open house, which is a

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wonderful event. That's such a fantastic building. And I think that the mark of the chief's

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wonderful leadership is very evident on it. That was a really fun time, so thank you

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for that. I also attended the luncheon where we were able to celebrate some of our service

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members here in the community. That was a great event as well. It was also my first time

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seeing the drone. Pretty exciting. I attended quite a few briefings with this recent

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emergency situation, and I'll say more about that in a minute. I also attended the celebration

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of the sort of modified lexington commencement celebration for eighth graders

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going into high school next year. And interestingly enough, the principal of lexington will

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be moving on. And so the anaheim union school district created a wonderful town hall

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event where parents and students alike could come and give some feedback on some

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great qualifications and leadership skills they'd like to see in whoever they hire as

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the next principal. And I really appreciated giving an opinion and getting an opportunity to address that. Let's see. I also went to, like I said, many briefings. I want

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to express my very sincere gratitude for the emergency response in the city of cyprus

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for police, local police and fire of the oc fire authority, all of the different officials

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that came tirelessly to these meetings, city staff, the wonderful job everybody did at

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the shelters. It was just a really inspiring moment to see the community pull together. I

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think everybody up here will echo that as well, but it was nice to see people come in, you

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know, various days to come to this briefing. It was an honor to get to be at the command

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center and hear sort of the strategy unfolding, see how much science was behind what was going on. I really appreciated that. I also appreciated the transparency

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and the amount of communication and the trust that was placed in us as city officials to help

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manage that communication. I think everybody did a great job of having consistent messaging

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and consistent voice for myself, my own part of it. As you know, I have a dance studio. We have

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a large community that was impacted by the evacuation, so it was nice to be able to pass

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on some resources, even though that was still available on different city websites. People come to you with questions. You want to be able to provide answers. So I think that was

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amazing. And yeah, other than that, I spent the weekend caring for my mom who was also

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impacted by the evacuation of the stanton elder care facility. So around the clock, 24 hour

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care has been exciting, but we are really thrilled to be able to provide, you know, a home

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for not just my mom, but anybody else that needed to come by and just get a rest,

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get a break. So it was a great holiday weekend for lots of different reasons. Celebrating

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togetherness in a sort of unorthodox way was was wonderful. So thank you. Thank

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you, councilmember pete, you have the floor. Thank you, mr. Mayor. I'm going to work

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backwards. The most defining time that I've had on city council was this past weekend.

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so I've lived I've been on the council now for, what, three and a half years or so. And

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this weekend brought it all to light. And I, I can't thank everybody individually, but

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when you see people in action, when you see how. And I'll start with here. When I was

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over at the command center on friday morning hearing some of the stories, they said cypress

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community center had been opened up and I was by there earlier. There were probably 50

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people, give or take. So I decided, okay, I'm on my way home. I'll I'll swing by there.

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there wasn't one parking space, and there were hundreds of people from sitting out in

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front to sitting in the in the conference rooms, etcetera. Jeff, I can't tell you enough.

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you are a superstar. It was it was handled so well by he and his team. And he had a smaller

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team because it was a friday before a three day holiday. And and jeff, you you knew what to

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do, who to pull, how to how to get people to come out. Okay. For those that may or may not

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be aware, but costco again, another superstar came in with water, food, you know, you name

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it, okay. They just dropped things off. Kiwanis came in. They they did what they always

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do and and provide hot dogs. We had katarina's club from anaheim that called us because

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they couldn't deliver the meals that they normally do to kids in need. So they gave us 180

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premade meals. We had a church that came by and said, hey, my church is my my thing has been

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canceled. Can you use the food? I it was the most blessed experience I have had in

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watching people who have just evacuated from their home have a look of being just grateful

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for having a place to be and a place to eat. It took us a while to get there. Okay. But

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everybody that stepped up, I. I can't say enough. I appreciate everybody that also volunteered

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okay, or wants to volunteer. And it was kind of like, you know what? There's plenty of

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people that are out right now. And mister mayor, thank you. You know, I know you were there

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as well when we got some of the kiwanis activity, etcetera. At the command centers, the police,

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the sheriff's ocfa oc health, I, you know, again, blah, blah, blah, and very well coordinated.

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the command center worked extremely well. And the updates, I agree completely with my

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fellow council member that it was coordinated where there was messaging for public officials

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so we could make sure that we had the information we needed for our cities. But as well as

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what do we say publicly to our residents? So I, I heroes, that's all I've got to say. I

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absolutely lessons learned. I agree with someone here that said, we probably need to do a

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reflection when it's appropriate time and do a reflection as to what went

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really well. And there's a lot of things that went really well. And then how do we make sure

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the next time when there will be a next time of something? How do we make sure that we

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have everything that we need and engaged in the right things and things like that? So again,

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thanks to everybody. And if I, if I forgot somebody, I apologize. So prior to that,

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since our last meeting, I went to a league of cities roundtable for elected

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officials. I'm just going to pass this on because this is something we're struggling with as well. The big topic was reno, and the big topic for cities was the cost to implement the

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housing requirements that had been put on us by the state, and specifically the cost of

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putting low, low income and how the city supplement have to supplement to get it done. And

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there was a lot of discussion about what can we do as cities to get more help. Okay. Because

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there's millions of dollars that we ourselves have already spent, and it's going to

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continue as we implement our plan. So more to come on that tonight in the budget workshop.

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stephanie. Thank you. Nice job. The police open house. Outstanding job. Greatly

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attended and great to see the community out and and our business population as well.

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police foundation. Congratulations to all the award recipients. Recipients.

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great time. And I was a little worried the the drone was going to hit my head. But you know

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you know it's his hair up here that kind of sticks up. I went to the west comm board meeting

584
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that meets every six months and probably the longest meeting I've been to. But it was good.

585
01:03:51,933 --> 01:03:51,933
and and the chief was there as well as our, our city manager. I had an eagle scout board

586
01:03:57,733 --> 01:03:57,733
review of a cypress young man and exciting to see just the the things that they're doing

587
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:06,800
to make their community better, as well as where they're going to be in the future. So it's

588
01:04:11,366 --> 01:04:11,366
just outstanding. I had a neighborhood meeting about two weeks ago where a lot of my

589
01:04:18,633 --> 01:04:18,633
residents were complaining about illegal fireworks, and so we pulled everybody together to

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really understand what the issue is, how big is it? And I have talked to the police

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department as well about how big is it across cypress and and things like that. So thank

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you for your input. I've been able to pass a lot of that on. I met with meaning with frank

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sharon. This is regarding the lasalle racetrack. Good summary. And then of course, most

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01:04:48,166 --> 01:04:48,166
recently the thing. So I I've had a lot of discussions with our city manager and who would

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01:04:56,700 --> 01:04:56,700
ever say, hey, you know, in your first 90 days, let's have a disaster. And let's see,

596
01:05:02,866 --> 01:05:02,866
that's your test to see how you do. And, and again, I talked about jeff, but everybody and

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then shannon, just an outstanding job communications. We were never left in the dark.

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so if you passed the 90 day test. So just fyi, that ends my my statements. Thank you. Thank

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you councilmember. Thank you. As our city's representative with the orange county fire

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authority, I attended a couple of subcommittee meetings recently, the budget subcommittee and the legislative and public affairs subcommittee on the legislative

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subcommittee. We decide what bills we're going to support at the state level or oppose. And

602
01:05:50,433 --> 01:05:50,433
we had our budget subcommittee meeting, which is much like our city's budget workshop, and

603
01:05:55,666 --> 01:05:55,666
they happen to fall on the same day. So I got to do over four hours of budget discussions,

604
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but it was actually good to be in that mindset and happy to report that the orange county

605
01:06:05,533 --> 01:06:05,533
fire authority is in a strong financial position, and we're certainly grateful for their

606
01:06:11,466 --> 01:06:11,466
efforts recently and with the good stewardship over, they're optimistic that that will

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continue unabated. I served as our representative on the city selection committee meeting,

608
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and that's where representatives from cities vote to elect various

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01:06:27,866 --> 01:06:27,866
individuals to serve on sort of outside larger boards or subcommittees. I also attended

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the cypress pd open house. And so thank you to our police department for their

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hospitality, to our local firefighters, for our hospitality, to the community partners who came out. And a special thank you to bmx bike rider jeremy, who jumped his

612
01:06:49,866 --> 01:06:49,866
bike over my head without injuring me. So thanks a lot, jeremy. I attended the police

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foundation luncheon as well and was impressed by the drone demonstration and then, along

614
01:07:02,733 --> 01:07:02,733
with mayor pro tem chang, I attended the cypress school district ad hoc subcommittee

615
01:07:08,333 --> 01:07:08,333
committee, and that's where we meet with representatives from the cypress school district.

616
01:07:13,766 --> 01:07:13,766
and we talked about their financial situation, which you may have heard. They've

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experienced some challenges recently, and we had a good discussion about that. Interim

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01:07:23,900 --> 01:07:23,900
superintendent mcclellan told us that he's optimistic that there will be financial

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stability, and that they're going to be able to take steps to avoid similar kinds of

620
01:07:34,333 --> 01:07:34,333
layoffs in the future. And largely, what happened is that a lot of a lot of personnel

621
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were hired during and post covid at the district. And so staff kind of increased in size

622
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and then didn't decrease afterwards. And so they're adjusting to that. But we had a

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very good discussion. And we also talked about strengthening the partnership to the extent

624
01:07:58,700 --> 01:07:58,700
that we can with the city and the school district. You know, to me, we have we have our city

625
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:04,600
city council, we have our parks district, which is technically separate, but we're the same

626
01:08:09,466 --> 01:08:09,466
governing board. We have the school districts. But honestly, it's all they're all cypress

627
01:08:16,433 --> 01:08:16,433
and they all impact our quality of life. And we want to make sure that each one is thriving.

628
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and so it's a pleasure to serve on that committee. And then regarding the the chemical tank

629
01:08:28,966 --> 01:08:28,966
incident, yeah, just a lot of appreciation. So, you know, I want to thank the members of

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the orange county fire authority, chief interim chief mcgovern. Really everybody I

631
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:46,000
interacted with over there, I was so grateful that, you know, chief mcgovern called me

632
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:51,000
directly, told me what was going on. And I think this was a new situation for all of us

633
01:08:56,966 --> 01:08:56,966
council members. And I tried to figure out, okay, what's what's our role here? And I thought

634
01:09:01,833 --> 01:09:01,833
that for me, I landed on just trying to hear from residents and voice their concerns to try

635
01:09:08,133 --> 01:09:08,133
and get answers, and then also try and put factual information out there in the community and

636
01:09:13,566 --> 01:09:13,566
make sure that rumors didn't take hold. And so, you know, I was I was getting texts and

637
01:09:19,133 --> 01:09:22,833
calls. I was looking at the facebook community groups. And then I appreciate the fire authority staff members, because I would come up to them directly at the command center

638
01:09:26,733 --> 01:09:26,733
and ask them the questions that residents had. Hey, how confident are you about this

639
01:09:32,366 --> 01:09:32,366
evacuation zone? Is it going to get bigger? Should we should we be worried? And as far as I

640
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:36,800
could tell, you know, nobody ever gave me a bs answer. Everyone gave me honest answers.

641
01:09:41,700 --> 01:09:41,700
and I was able to to respond to comments online or talk to residents. And I think that

642
01:09:46,833 --> 01:09:46,833
that helped put some people's minds at ease in what was a difficult situation. You know,

643
01:09:52,533 --> 01:09:52,533
obviously a huge thank you to our our local police and our city staff members. You know,

644
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jeff, your praises have been sung. We could go on for a long time. We had employees who

645
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weren't scheduled to come in that day, go to the community center and help out. We had so

646
01:10:13,100 --> 01:10:13,100
many residents who stepped up, whether it was volunteering, bringing food. I talked to

647
01:10:19,566 --> 01:10:19,566
residents in the evacuation zone who were knocking on doors one by one to check in on their

648
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elderly residents and make sure they knew what was going on. And I also want to thank our

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01:10:32,166 --> 01:10:32,166
city manager, delong, for her leadership throughout the throughout the crisis in that,

650
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you know, as it continues, but hopefully continues to deescalate. But, you know, as

651
01:10:44,133 --> 01:10:44,133
council member pete said, this is relatively relatively new into your term here, but I

652
01:10:50,166 --> 01:10:50,166
think everybody was very grateful for your leadership. And I certainly appreciated

653
01:10:54,533 --> 01:10:54,533
your your clear, honest communication with us and always trying to keep us fully

654
01:11:00,300 --> 01:11:00,300
informed. And you answer it every text and call promptly. And so thank you very much for

655
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that. And then one thing I was going to say, maybe this isn't very smart. I haven't thought

656
01:11:13,100 --> 01:11:13,100
it through all that thoroughly. But, you know, I couldn't help when I was at the community

657
01:11:18,233 --> 01:11:18,233
center and I was hearing about everything people were doing. Well, you know, politics and

658
01:11:29,100 --> 01:11:29,100
government and all that can be so nasty sometimes. And, well, it hasn't been very long ago

659
01:11:35,900 --> 01:11:35,900
that here in cyprus, a lot of these meetings have just been, frankly, like so divisive and

660
01:11:43,100 --> 01:11:43,100
embarrassing. And sometimes my friends will ask me or residents will ask me, they'll

661
01:11:48,866 --> 01:11:48,866
say, why are you sure you want to keep doing this? Or how? Or I would never want to run for

662
01:11:55,233 --> 01:11:55,233
that office because I've seen what happens. And I tell them, I say, most people are not like

663
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that. I say, I've knocked on so many doors. I've met so many cyprus residents. The

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01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:08,600
overwhelming majority of people in the city are so good and decent, and you can't let a few

665
01:12:15,800 --> 01:12:15,800
obnoxious or divisive people bring down your view of our city or our residents or

666
01:12:23,933 --> 01:12:23,933
humanity or anything like that. And I think that was so, so clearly on full display

667
01:12:29,533 --> 01:12:29,533
throughout the city during the the crisis in the evacuation zones and at the community

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01:12:35,966 --> 01:12:35,966
center. And that's, that's the cyprus that we know and love. And, and I hope we can just

669
01:12:42,500 --> 01:12:42,500
hang on to that mentality, you know, where people's where someone's political affiliation

670
01:12:47,200 --> 01:12:47,200
doesn't matter where some of these minor issues don't matter. And where we're just, we're

671
01:12:54,033 --> 01:12:54,033
just there. We're just here to live in the same community, help each other out when we

672
01:12:58,600 --> 01:12:58,600
need it. And, and, you know, try and work together to, to make our community the best

673
01:13:04,100 --> 01:13:04,100
city we can and be there for each other. And so thanks for everybody from resident level

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01:13:09,300 --> 01:13:09,300
to staff level for pulling together. I really thought cyprus is true colors came

675
01:13:14,100 --> 01:13:14,100
through. Thank you. Mayor pro tem chang, you have the floor. Thank you. Mayor. I attended

676
01:13:22,433 --> 01:13:22,433
the cyprus police department open house with my two kids and also went to the cyprus po

677
01:13:28,900 --> 01:13:28,900
lunch. I also went to the orange county mosquito vector control subcommittee and also

678
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their main meeting. And also I got a chance to tour the korean american special education

679
01:13:42,666 --> 01:13:42,666
center. It's actually a brand new center that they're opening up next month. They provide

680
01:13:47,666 --> 01:13:47,666
special education services, mostly working with people with autism throughout the life

681
01:13:54,133 --> 01:13:54,133
there. Again, their grand opening is next month, june 20th, and they're located next

682
01:13:59,066 --> 01:13:59,066
to costco. Just a just a beautiful new center that that's going to be open up

683
01:14:03,900 --> 01:14:03,900
right here in cyprus. I went to the a presentation on demographics and trends, which

684
01:14:10,666 --> 01:14:10,666
included the loss of medi-cal for many of our residents right here in cyprus too. And on next

685
01:14:17,933 --> 01:14:17,933
sunday, I just want to let you guys know that that's world no tobacco day on sunday. And I'll

686
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:24,000
I'll be at oak knoll park on sunday at 10 a.m. Picking up trash with the clean air

687
01:14:29,833 --> 01:14:29,833
coalition and lgbtq center oak. And I want to take this time to thank the city manager, city

688
01:14:37,666 --> 01:14:37,666
staff, cyprus police departments, and also the orange county fire authority

689
01:14:43,133 --> 01:14:43,133
for for doing a phenomenal job. I'm. I'm actually glad that we were able to examine our

690
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:49,600
communication policy prior to this event. So for you all that aren't familiar, we we have a

691
01:14:55,866 --> 01:14:55,866
new communication policy we adopted a few months ago. We defer to the city for important

692
01:15:01,066 --> 01:15:01,066
messages, but in emergencies, the orange county fire authority, as you all saw, or

693
01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:06,600
the cyprus police department, they'll take over and provide messaging to the to the

694
01:15:11,866 --> 01:15:11,866
community. As elected officials, we're actually privy to information before others,

695
01:15:17,700 --> 01:15:17,700
before you all. And it's often tempting for us to share this information with you all before

696
01:15:22,966 --> 01:15:22,966
it gets released to the public. But I think it's important that for many of the reasons stated

697
01:15:27,866 --> 01:15:27,866
that we only have one point of contact, you know, especially when it comes to getting

698
01:15:32,066 --> 01:15:32,066
misinformation or wrong information or information that might be retracted later.

699
01:15:39,933 --> 01:15:39,933
listening to all the heart wrenching stories coming from those who were evacuated,

700
01:15:45,500 --> 01:15:45,500
trying to find shelter in the middle of the night. Not sure where to go, especially for

701
01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:50,600
those who were older or might be vulnerable. I read online about a 95 year old woman who

702
01:15:57,266 --> 01:15:57,266
was trying to find a place, and they were stuck outside in the cold, trying to get into the

703
01:16:01,966 --> 01:16:01,966
shelter. And those who who might not have family or friends with whom we can stay

704
01:16:06,633 --> 01:16:06,633
with, it's a reminder of how close we all are to homelessness, how any small

705
01:16:12,733 --> 01:16:12,733
thing can make you homeless and set you back no matter what station you are in life. And I

706
01:16:18,833 --> 01:16:18,833
saw the outpouring of support from the community and sympathy from the community. So I'm I'm

707
01:16:23,633 --> 01:16:23,633
hoping that, you know, we can how everybody came together in that time of need to, you know,

708
01:16:28,933 --> 01:16:28,933
rise up and and get together and help lift these people up. And I'm hoping also that, you

709
01:16:33,133 --> 01:16:33,133
know, we can keep that going forward. And, and, you know, whatever we need to provide,

710
01:16:38,566 --> 01:16:38,566
get all that goodwill together so we can help those struggling with homelessness or in danger

711
01:16:43,466 --> 01:16:43,466
of being homeless, you know, in that similar situation, but already affected by

712
01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:49,800
homelessness. Thank you. Thank you for me on 513, obviously, we had the special meeting, a

713
01:16:59,033 --> 01:16:59,033
budget workshop. I want to say thank you very much to all the staff members who put together

714
01:17:03,866 --> 01:17:03,866
very informative information on that budget workshop. 516 I attended the police department,

715
01:17:08,900 --> 01:17:08,900
open house and served drinks as part of kiwanis and and a great, great open house to all the

716
01:17:15,700 --> 01:17:15,700
police officers on 516. Later on that day, I attended hope concert and a neighborhood

717
01:17:21,966 --> 01:17:21,966
education project. I handed out certificates at new praise church and I was very impressed

718
01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:26,600
by the performers there. On 519 attended the cypress police foundation luncheon on. I was

719
01:17:32,666 --> 01:17:32,666
two equally impressed by the drones being able to fly in such close proximity and all

720
01:17:38,500 --> 01:17:38,500
the functionality they're able to do. 522 attended cypress college foundation scholarship

721
01:17:44,533 --> 01:17:44,533
awards and saw a numerous number of students receive a. A university students receive

722
01:17:49,633 --> 01:17:49,633
awards and was very impressed by the amount of good that's happening at cypress college

723
01:17:54,233 --> 01:17:54,233
and how much the community goes out to support cypress college with all the different. Whether

724
01:17:59,700 --> 01:17:59,700
it's technical or always looking for new degrees and so forth. So I was surprised at

725
01:18:04,866 --> 01:18:04,866
the breadth of offerings at cypress college. 526 I met with frank sharon today, owner of

726
01:18:12,266 --> 01:18:12,266
cypress town center and common specific plan 2.0 area. I say owner as in the fact that he's

727
01:18:18,900 --> 01:18:18,900
really the I believe the administrator because the owner is doctor aldridge. So he he

728
01:18:26,333 --> 01:18:26,333
gave an update to me and the director of planning of what's going on really nothing new.

729
01:18:33,533 --> 01:18:33,533
and then this afternoon I attended a representative trans town hall, an update of what's

730
01:18:39,233 --> 01:18:39,233
going on with respect to what he's doing with respect to what happened this weekend. And I'm

731
01:18:45,666 --> 01:18:45,666
going to go through a list of thank you to people who I think made a huge difference. And I

732
01:18:52,166 --> 01:18:56,000
know at the beginning, right now, I'm going to apologize because there were so many people involved, but I just I'm going to go through a list very quickly of some of the people

733
01:19:01,333 --> 01:19:01,333
that I just first, I want to thank lori. She got volunteer of the year a couple years ago,

734
01:19:06,366 --> 01:19:06,366
and once again, she did a great job volunteering. I want to thank costco for and all the

735
01:19:11,166 --> 01:19:11,166
other vendors, including in and out people that brought stuff to help the people. I want to

736
01:19:16,733 --> 01:19:16,733
thank the red cross. I want to thank all the volunteers. Needless to say, I want to

737
01:19:20,900 --> 01:19:20,900
thank cypress police department. I've heard stories of people working 910 days straight and

738
01:19:25,766 --> 01:19:25,766
still you could not tell. It seems like someone. Some person. Yeah, I was up working since 3

739
01:19:32,333 --> 01:19:32,333
a.m. I could not tell at the 10 a.m. Meeting. That person looks a lot sharper than me. I want

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01:19:37,166 --> 01:19:37,166
to thank the ocfa. I could go on and on for all the stuff they did. I want to thank the

741
01:19:42,766 --> 01:19:46,733
directors and staff here. I want to thank the city manager and city attorney for working continuously to go ahead and make sure that communications happened. I want to thank my

742
01:19:51,400 --> 01:19:51,400
fellow council members for following the chain of command. Like doctor chang said, we're

743
01:19:57,400 --> 01:19:57,400
privy to information, and sometimes it's very tempting to give out that information ahead

744
01:20:01,700 --> 01:20:01,700
of time. But they didn't. And also, following the chain of command, all the communications

745
01:20:07,233 --> 01:20:07,233
went through the city manager. And so it made things look very professional from with respect

746
01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:11,600
to information outflow and also following the chain of command for ocfa. To my knowledge, we

747
01:20:16,633 --> 01:20:16,633
didn't release anything without first getting clearance from ocfa. So we were putting out

748
01:20:20,666 --> 01:20:20,666
good information following the procedures. And and it's tempting. I see a lot of

749
01:20:25,466 --> 01:20:25,466
emergencies where people bypass the chain of command and it comes back to bite them. So I

750
01:20:30,033 --> 01:20:30,033
want to thank everyone here who did that. I also want to thank the orange county board of

751
01:20:35,500 --> 01:20:35,500
supervisors. Janet nguyen's office did a lot of work also. So did many of the other board

752
01:20:40,666 --> 01:20:40,666
of supervisors and making sure that we got the emergency. Approvals so we can go ahead

753
01:20:47,666 --> 01:20:47,666
and move forward. Also tree to strickland. They went forward and also worked hard to get

754
01:20:53,433 --> 01:20:53,433
that those approvals so we can get the funding in the future. Representative tran and

755
01:20:57,833 --> 01:21:01,833
representative correa also worked on that. Senator adam schiff and the governor's office. Office and the president approved the funding so that we can go and get that

756
01:21:07,933 --> 01:21:07,933
emergency funding. I talked about in and out. I want to thank there's a lot of things

757
01:21:12,833 --> 01:21:12,833
going on as, as you probably know, director of planning and and business manager, but chris

758
01:21:19,833 --> 01:21:23,433
wong, I was at the meeting earlier with representative tran. There's a small business development center office there, and I got the person's card and he said, yeah, we're already

759
01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:28,200
working with your people in cyprus to go and figure out, for example, how to get

760
01:21:32,400 --> 01:21:36,233
unemployment checks for those people that miss work. So there's a special way to go ahead and get that. Even though they missed one, two, three days of work, maybe they can

761
01:21:40,900 --> 01:21:44,766
apply for that. I want to thank all the various police departments and sheriffs and other police departments, all their patrols that happened when we were asleep. The

762
01:21:48,733 --> 01:21:48,733
patrols didn't stop and it kept looting to a minimum. I believe it was seven, seven people that

763
01:21:54,900 --> 01:21:54,900
were arrested. It could have been much worse. But the stuff that they did that no one

764
01:21:59,266 --> 01:21:59,266
really saw because they were patrolling the evacuation area and they were patrolling in

765
01:22:03,466 --> 01:22:03,466
harm's way because something bad happened. They could have been literally part of that

766
01:22:07,733 --> 01:22:07,733
explosion. Same thing with ocfa. People went into harm's way. I was there at the 10:00

767
01:22:12,266 --> 01:22:12,266
briefings, and they made it very clear how dangerous the actions that were being taken

768
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in order to gather the information, in order to do the assessment, in order to read the gauges, in order to make sure that things are set up so that if something did go south,

769
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:26,000
things wouldn't wind up in. If there was a leak, things wouldn't wind up in the

770
01:22:32,200 --> 01:22:32,200
waterways. I want to thank lee racetrack, frank sharon. He was able to go ahead and give us

771
01:22:37,700 --> 01:22:37,700
all that land and to use it temporarily so that we could staff. If you walk by there,

772
01:22:42,400 --> 01:22:42,400
you could see it was many, many command vehicles. Oak health utility companies, o.c. Medical

773
01:22:48,033 --> 01:22:48,033
staff, epa, other council members reaching out and saying, hey, how can we help? And I

774
01:22:52,666 --> 01:22:52,666
also want to take and I can go on and on and on, but I also want to thank the conservative

775
01:22:59,200 --> 01:22:59,200
approach that both the city attorney, city manager, ocfa cypress pd, it's tough to say,

776
01:23:05,366 --> 01:23:09,333
hey, let's do the right thing. Let's go ahead and follow procedure. Let's go ahead and be conservative and not put people back into the evacuation area until we check and double

777
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:13,600
check. Always measure twice, cut once. So I really want to thank everyone there who did

778
01:23:17,933 --> 01:23:17,933
all this. Like I said, I'm missing a ton of people, but I want to thank all the

779
01:23:22,733 --> 01:23:26,266
dedication and professionalism that was exhibited over the past few days, and it's still being exhibited today. And I guarantee you tomorrow morning when I go out there, there'll

780
01:23:30,100 --> 01:23:30,100
be more professionalism. Thank you. Next item on the agenda. Council member items for future

781
01:23:36,233 --> 01:23:36,233
consideration. Have any items they'd like to request for future consideration? Council

782
01:23:42,300 --> 01:23:42,300
member jennifer. Thank you, mr. Mayor. I mentioned earlier about neighborhood meeting I

783
01:23:48,100 --> 01:23:48,100
had on fireworks. And specifically, as everybody knows, fireworks is not allowed

784
01:23:53,333 --> 01:23:53,333
in cyprus, not even the safe and sane. However, I'm specifically want to put an

785
01:23:58,733 --> 01:23:58,733
item, if I may, on the agenda to talk about illegal fireworks. One of the things I found out

786
01:24:06,866 --> 01:24:06,866
as I was doing the research, talking to the neighbors, talking with police, is we've

787
01:24:13,633 --> 01:24:13,633
kind of tied police's hands because we don't we don't give them the ability to put out any

788
01:24:20,466 --> 01:24:20,466
fines. We don't, you know, like other cities, if you've read some recent articles, they've

789
01:24:26,300 --> 01:24:26,300
allowed their their police to fine. So if a individual or a home even has illegal fireworks

790
01:24:34,900 --> 01:24:34,900
or, or puts out fireworks, they're able to place a fine on them. And it starts at 1000 and

791
01:24:40,500 --> 01:24:40,500
goes up from there. And it really does deter the use. And as I talked to police, it's not

792
01:24:47,500 --> 01:24:47,500
just limited in my neighborhood. It appears to be a much broader thing because of access to

793
01:24:52,133 --> 01:24:52,133
fireworks. So I would like to and especially with 4th of july coming up, I would like to see

794
01:24:58,266 --> 01:24:58,266
and put it on the agenda to have a discussion about doing an ordinance, specifically

795
01:25:03,766 --> 01:25:03,766
providing a broader ability for police to issue fines and things like that. In a case

796
01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:11,000
where someone is using illegal fireworks. Doctor chang, and I think specifically you're

797
01:25:22,133 --> 01:25:22,133
talking about social host ordinance when it comes to. Yes, possibly. Okay. Yeah. Well,

798
01:25:26,566 --> 01:25:26,566
there's a there's a, I like to, I want to, I believe because of the 4th of july coming, that we

799
01:25:33,200 --> 01:25:33,200
probably need to do like an emergency one in the near term because our ordinances won't be

800
01:25:37,833 --> 01:25:37,833
approved until july. Okay. But then in addition to that, do a as you said, a social host,

801
01:25:44,366 --> 01:25:44,366
which means that it's not just an individual, it's the home, it's the it's the owner of the

802
01:25:51,600 --> 01:25:51,600
property. Because in some cases, it could be an apartment, it could be other. And just

803
01:25:57,300 --> 01:25:57,300
providing the ability to put something in place like other cities to issue fines and give

804
01:26:05,100 --> 01:26:05,100
the police some teeth behind rather than just knocking on the door and nobody answering

805
01:26:09,633 --> 01:26:09,633
the door. So yes, thank you for that. Okay. Is there anything else, councilmember pete? Okay.

806
01:26:16,433 --> 01:26:16,433
is there anything else? Because the reason is I don't want to cut you off, but I want to

807
01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:21,400
bring in the city manager and the city attorney on this. The reason is I'm I'm not trying to

808
01:26:26,266 --> 01:26:26,266
be. Can if you can help me clarify the timeline because in order for this to go into

809
01:26:33,500 --> 01:26:37,366
effect, obviously 4th of july is coming up. People are going to buy their fireworks ahead of time and we have council meetings. We have only. So if this gets put on the next

810
01:26:41,966 --> 01:26:41,966
council meeting, which will be june, june 9th, then right. It needs to go ahead and have

811
01:26:48,533 --> 01:26:48,533
essentially two, even if we're able to get it approved on the next one, then it has to have

812
01:26:53,166 --> 01:26:53,166
right 60 days after the reading. And I understand there's now an emergency. So I want to

813
01:26:57,200 --> 01:26:57,200
understand how, how pragmatic or, or is this even feasible without having to create an

814
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:07,666
additional. I want to be mindful because I think you have a great idea. Council member pete. But at the same time, I want to be mindful of city city resources so that

815
01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:12,200
we're not having to necessarily do emergency things. Because I would say, I would say this is

816
01:27:17,866 --> 01:27:17,866
a good idea. Let's put it on the strategic plan and really talk about it. But that

817
01:27:22,066 --> 01:27:22,066
strategic plan is august 23rd, I believe. So your thoughts, city manager. The the the legal

818
01:27:31,333 --> 01:27:31,333
answer to your question is it is feasible to have an ordinance in place before july

819
01:27:36,466 --> 01:27:36,466
4th. State law allows the adoption of an urgency ordinance that takes effect

820
01:27:43,866 --> 01:27:43,866
immediately. It would require a 4/5 vote of the council of the entire council. It will require

821
01:27:50,733 --> 01:27:50,733
us to prepare findings to demonstrate that there is an urgency and given the fact that

822
01:27:57,100 --> 01:27:57,100
the proliferation of illegal fireworks in many communities is, I would say, rampant, I

823
01:28:05,533 --> 01:28:05,533
think it will be relatively easy to make that finding. We'll have to. If you give us

824
01:28:12,333 --> 01:28:12,333
permission to do that, we'll we'll do our best to put it together. But we could have

825
01:28:17,033 --> 01:28:17,033
something in place by the fourth. And then after that, we would do a more detailed study

826
01:28:24,166 --> 01:28:24,166
and follow the. The traditional track of drafting an ordinance with a first reading and a

827
01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:30,000
second reading. It's a 30 day delay for implementation. So it is possible to accomplish both

828
01:28:37,566 --> 01:28:37,566
what councilmember pete's would like and what you're concerned about as well. Mayor. And then

829
01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:44,400
my other concern would be the resources involved. I know sometimes we said in the past,

830
01:28:50,100 --> 01:28:50,100
we want to introduce new laws or ordinances and so forth. People then question, well, how

831
01:28:56,900 --> 01:28:56,900
are we going to have the resources to do that? Because I remember there were questions

832
01:29:01,100 --> 01:29:01,100
about some of the stuff you introduced. How are we going to have the resources to introduce

833
01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:09,200
the smoking? So we're obviously introducing something that's going to be, I think, difficult to enforce. And it's easy for me to run my mouth here all day, but I'm not the guy doing the

834
01:29:15,266 --> 01:29:15,266
enforcing. So I want to be fair to law enforcement to make sure that they're able to weigh in

835
01:29:20,100 --> 01:29:20,100
on this and give their assessment on that. So, councilmember burke, for. Yeah,

836
01:29:26,600 --> 01:29:26,600
I don't know, mayor, I, I mean, I agree, I think I think everybody's probably open to

837
01:29:36,133 --> 01:29:36,133
solutions to address illegal fireworks. Should I, I don't know if anybody knows the

838
01:29:43,200 --> 01:29:43,200
answer to this, if it's chief or city attorney or city manager, but is it are we do we

839
01:29:47,766 --> 01:29:47,766
know that we need additional penalties and to strengthen an ordinance? And that would.

840
01:29:55,633 --> 01:29:55,633
because we're coming at it from the perspective of. Come back to us with an ordinance that

841
01:30:00,300 --> 01:30:00,300
strengthens it, but we're not we haven't yet discussed the state of the current ordinance

842
01:30:04,433 --> 01:30:04,433
and what would need strengthening. What we do know is that we have no enforcement

843
01:30:08,566 --> 01:30:08,566
mechanism. Currently, we have a prohibition, but we have no way of enforcing a prohibition

844
01:30:15,033 --> 01:30:15,033
other than the general misdemeanor provisions of the municipal code. Every violation

845
01:30:21,566 --> 01:30:21,566
of the municipal code is a misdemeanor. You go to jail for a year, but no court would ever

846
01:30:26,566 --> 01:30:26,566
enforce that. The administrative fine process has had some success in curtailing

847
01:30:33,066 --> 01:30:33,066
illegal fireworks. There are enforcement issues. There are personnel issues. That's also

848
01:30:38,600 --> 01:30:38,600
true of code enforcement. You know, to some extent, this can be complaint driven. To some

849
01:30:47,066 --> 01:30:47,066
extent it will it will involve identifying properties where illegal activities are

850
01:30:54,300 --> 01:30:54,300
occurring. I think the one element of this that that would help that process is you don't

851
01:31:02,333 --> 01:31:02,333
have to be the person who's. We don't have to catch the person setting the fireworks off. We

852
01:31:08,266 --> 01:31:08,266
just have to find the property that is allowing the fireworks to occur. And that makes

853
01:31:14,400 --> 01:31:14,400
enforcement somewhat easy. Which is not to say that it will be easy. I grant you that.

854
01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:20,200
okay, so okay, so I'll sort of leave it. Yes, I'll leave it to you to, to suss out whether

855
01:31:28,433 --> 01:31:28,433
it's feasible and necessary. And we don't want to discuss it too much. Okay. I want to say I

856
01:31:33,933 --> 01:31:33,933
have to be mindful of what's the actual rule where you can't actually discuss an item too

857
01:31:40,366 --> 01:31:40,366
much when it's introduced. Otherwise, it bypasses the what's that rule called? It's,

858
01:31:45,233 --> 01:31:45,233
it's you can't discuss items that aren't on the agenda, but this discussion is whether to

859
01:31:49,800 --> 01:31:49,800
put an item on the agenda. So is that is that a way to bypass that within reason? That's a

860
01:31:55,033 --> 01:31:55,033
way to bypass. So okay. Yeah. So so I don't want to bypass the rule. I don't want to be

861
01:31:59,900 --> 01:31:59,900
we're not quite there yet. Okay. We don't want to talk about the details of the ordinance. We

862
01:32:04,700 --> 01:32:04,700
just want to know, do you want us to try to craft something? Yeah, I guess I'm asking for

863
01:32:09,633 --> 01:32:09,633
let's have it on the agenda. Let's discuss it. And if it seems like it's going to be

864
01:32:15,900 --> 01:32:15,900
intense from a implementation, we'll have time to talk about that as well as we'll look to

865
01:32:21,933 --> 01:32:21,933
the experts like the, the police. But but what I will say is when I, when I went to the

866
01:32:30,366 --> 01:32:30,366
police and they said, yes, they've received several calls about implementation. They've

867
01:32:36,933 --> 01:32:36,933
gone down there and it's hard to catch somebody in action. In the one case, though, they,

868
01:32:42,233 --> 01:32:42,233
they found a place that did have illegal fireworks. They were putting it off when they

869
01:32:48,233 --> 01:32:48,233
were in front of the home. However, no one answered the door. No one. They could. They

870
01:32:54,633 --> 01:32:54,633
were unable. Well would you. Okay. And so the they had their hands tied because they weren't

871
01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:01,000
weren't able to take any action. So I'm just asking saying let's put an ordinance together.

872
01:33:06,700 --> 01:33:06,700
let's say what that might look like. Let's have the discussion of what that might look like.

873
01:33:11,100 --> 01:33:11,100
and if it becomes too intensive for our our police, then we can say, you know what? It doesn't

874
01:33:18,600 --> 01:33:18,600
make sense to do it here. But I, I just asked for it to be a discussion item and ask for an

875
01:33:24,200 --> 01:33:24,200
ordinance of what that might look like, which is similar to what other cities have done.

876
01:33:28,300 --> 01:33:28,300
okay, city attorney, you have the floor. So the city manager and I were just chatting about

877
01:33:34,800 --> 01:33:34,800
this. This process gets a little more complicated because all we can really do tonight is

878
01:33:40,333 --> 01:33:40,333
to put on the agenda a discussion about whether to be directed to draft an ordinance.

879
01:33:45,266 --> 01:33:45,266
so we need to get after this if it's going to happen. Councilmember. Councilmember,

880
01:33:56,033 --> 01:33:56,033
yeah. Can you just tell us directly what. I don't think any I don't think any of us

881
01:34:04,066 --> 01:34:04,066
want to rush something that's not going to actually go into effect before july 4th. If if

882
01:34:08,900 --> 01:34:08,900
we're going to discuss it at the next meeting, and then we have you come back with an

883
01:34:14,066 --> 01:34:14,066
ordinance, I guess, is it realistic that this would be in effect by july 4th or not? If

884
01:34:20,200 --> 01:34:20,200
we can make the urgency findings? And the answer is yes, it could be in effect before

885
01:34:26,300 --> 01:34:26,300
july 4th, but we have to make special findings as well. And it will take four votes of the

886
01:34:30,800 --> 01:34:30,800
council to do it. Okay. And we I don't okay. But again, what we want to know is, is there a

887
01:34:40,666 --> 01:34:40,666
second? Is there additional one of you that would like us to talk about that process at the

888
01:34:45,733 --> 01:34:45,733
next council meeting? Yeah, yeah. And that's and that's the that's what I was going to get

889
01:34:50,200 --> 01:34:50,200
to. We've had a discussion and kind of has gone back and forth quite some time. So I have to

890
01:34:55,200 --> 01:34:55,200
kind of hit pause here and say, okay, we understand council member pete has put something

891
01:34:59,800 --> 01:34:59,800
she wants to put on the agenda for future consideration, obviously, at the six nine

892
01:35:05,500 --> 01:35:05,500
meeting. So I have to hit pause here, and I'm going to shut down the discussion and go

893
01:35:10,566 --> 01:35:10,566
ahead and say, is there another council member that would like to see it on the agenda? Yeah,

894
01:35:16,800 --> 01:35:16,800
I'll go ahead and and second, bonnie, bonnie. Councilmember. Pete, I this is something I was

895
01:35:21,933 --> 01:35:21,933
actually saving for the, the six month strategic plan. But, but I, I'm pretty sure we can

896
01:35:28,900 --> 01:35:28,900
find special calls for this. There was a little girl that died in buena park last july

897
01:35:33,800 --> 01:35:33,800
4th. And so because of illegal fireworks. So I'm sure we would get that qualified. And I, and

898
01:35:39,966 --> 01:35:39,966
I, I think we can also discuss next time when this is on the, the agenda, whether we want to

899
01:35:46,200 --> 01:35:46,200
decide instead to move it to a, a back to the strategic plan. So I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll go

900
01:35:53,033 --> 01:35:53,033
ahead and second it for now. So, so let me sorry. Give me one moment here. Instead of. So six

901
01:36:14,666 --> 01:36:14,666
nine we put it on the agenda to create an ordinance. 623 we have an ordinance vote, right.

902
01:36:20,466 --> 01:36:20,466
then 4th of july happens and our next city council meeting is when you would not have

903
01:36:25,833 --> 01:36:25,833
another city council meeting until the july 21st. I'm sorry, july 28th meeting. That should

904
01:36:35,233 --> 01:36:35,233
be your notification that evacuation orders have been lifted. So if I'm understanding

905
01:36:41,466 --> 01:36:41,466
council's direction at this point, according to council policy, there are two council

906
01:36:46,300 --> 01:36:46,300
members interested in a discussion item on the june 9th meeting as to whether an

907
01:36:53,133 --> 01:36:53,133
ordinance should staff, whether staff should be directed to create an ordinance, and

908
01:36:58,566 --> 01:36:58,566
certainly at that time, we can share more on the parameters of urgency versus regular

909
01:37:03,633 --> 01:37:03,633
ordinance. But the mechanics would work should city council be able to make the findings

910
01:37:08,666 --> 01:37:08,666
and provide us direction? A draft of the ordinance could be on your june 23rd meeting, and

911
01:37:15,266 --> 01:37:15,266
you could decide at that point, if you want to do regular urgency or both or none. Okay.

912
01:37:22,333 --> 01:37:22,333
and I, I know we can continue to talk talking on this, and I'm going to clear the speaker

913
01:37:27,666 --> 01:37:27,666
queue because we got the you have enough information to put on the agenda. I know there are

914
01:37:32,966 --> 01:37:32,966
some concerns and questions and so forth. So I would like to ask the council members to hold

915
01:37:38,300 --> 01:37:38,300
off on that until the june 9th meeting, unless the council member feels that they need to

916
01:37:43,866 --> 01:37:43,866
speak about it immediately. Right now, I want to make sure that I'm not cutting anyone off,

917
01:37:48,266 --> 01:37:48,266
but I also want to make sure that we're not violating the the state laws and so forth by

918
01:37:54,133 --> 01:37:54,133
trying to bypass discussion of an item by discussing the item. So I see council member chang,

919
01:38:01,900 --> 01:38:01,900
I'm sorry, doctor chang, and thank you. Just a quick suggestion, council member pete,

920
01:38:07,733 --> 01:38:07,733
if you want to make this direct the city to actually make this a city ordinance instead of

921
01:38:12,466 --> 01:38:12,466
just a discussion, I would back you on that too. In terms of social host ordinance, we on

922
01:38:17,200 --> 01:38:17,200
the books, we do have $1,000 fine for firework. And that's not just total. That would be

923
01:38:22,600 --> 01:38:22,600
per firework if I'm remembering correctly. And so I would back you on that. Yeah. I would like

924
01:38:28,633 --> 01:38:28,633
to do the ordinance. And just in just to be clear, july 4th means nothing to me. It is not

925
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:34,000
about july 4th. It's about 12 months a year that we're having a legal fireworks go off. So I

926
01:38:40,066 --> 01:38:40,066
appreciate the urgency for july 4th. It's really in the neighborhoods in general. So

927
01:38:44,433 --> 01:38:44,433
yes, I would like to the ordinance and I would second all support. Okay.

928
01:38:49,900 --> 01:38:53,766
councilmember pete and city manager. I have enough information to go forward with that city manager. I know because we've been going back and forth. So just just one

929
01:39:00,566 --> 01:39:00,566
moment here. I'm not sure that you can direct us tonight to bring an ordinance back at the

930
01:39:06,400 --> 01:39:06,400
next council meeting. You can bring you can direct us to bring back a discussion of

931
01:39:10,500 --> 01:39:10,500
creating an ordinance at the future council meeting. That's just the two step policy you

932
01:39:15,900 --> 01:39:15,900
all have. So yeah, yeah, yeah. And for, and for those people listening and so forth and

933
01:39:21,466 --> 01:39:21,466
watching this, you may say, why is he so pedantic about all these ordinance discussions,

934
01:39:26,566 --> 01:39:26,566
agendas? Why it just because, because you're a man after a lawyer's heart. Yeah, I, I, we

935
01:39:33,166 --> 01:39:33,166
have to follow the process. We have to follow the procedures. And if not, then we can go and

936
01:39:37,833 --> 01:39:37,833
get the city of cyprus in trouble. So that is why I'm being so. And I need you to go

937
01:39:42,833 --> 01:39:42,833
ahead and cut us off. City manager's city attorney. When you see us. Hey, you're doing

938
01:39:46,900 --> 01:39:50,766
more than just what's in the agenda. You're actually talking about something outside of the agenda. And you can get the city in trouble or get us in trouble. Okay, so I'm now going

939
01:39:55,333 --> 01:39:55,333
to ask a second time, do my colleagues have any other items they'd like to request for

940
01:40:00,633 --> 01:40:00,633
future consideration? Okay. Seeing no hands raised and speaker queue city manager

941
01:40:06,100 --> 01:40:06,100
remarks, do you have any closing remarks for us tonight? City manager, mayor and members

942
01:40:10,133 --> 01:40:14,100
of the city council. I'd like to echo all of the prior remarks from public speakers and and from yourselves with regard to the tremendous efforts of our city staff. You

943
01:40:18,766 --> 01:40:18,766
are right. There are a number of our city staff who have been working for more than a week

944
01:40:24,466 --> 01:40:24,466
straight without a day off, and that is commendable. They will never let you see them sweat.

945
01:40:29,500 --> 01:40:29,500
so I do want to lift them up and and say thank you so much to all of those efforts. I also

946
01:40:35,533 --> 01:40:39,066
want to recognize our partners at anaheim union high school district and cipher school district for their communication and their efforts to make sure we had all the

947
01:40:42,700 --> 01:40:42,700
resources that we needed. This truly was a regional endeavor. There were busses from other

948
01:40:48,333 --> 01:40:48,333
cities transporting our our evacuation center folks at almost midnight on friday night.

949
01:40:55,833 --> 01:40:55,833
and certainly there's been a sharing of resources from public works to all of the

950
01:41:01,200 --> 01:41:01,200
institutional knowledge in our finance departments across the cities. And I do want to

951
01:41:05,800 --> 01:41:05,800
express appreciation. Also, he's already left. But to captain rich. Who was here in

952
01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:16,700
case there were some additional questions. But to reiterate that message that you did receive just a minute ago, evacuation orders have been lifted with the exception of

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three specific properties, and western will still remain closed between chapman and garden grove. That I have no more. No further comments. And and we'll adjourn this meeting

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in the next regular meeting will be in. Adjourned. Regular meeting to be held on tuesday, june 9th, 2026, at the beginning at