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Everybody, we're going to go ahead and get started. Welcome, welcome to our regular council

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meeting. It is 704 January 28. I like to call this meeting to order and invite the city clerk

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to conduct a roll call. Council Member Keldron. Here. Council Member

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Trung is absent. Council Member Lewis. Present. Council Member King. Here. Council Member Finley.

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here. Mayor Pro Tem Mardin Del Campo. Here. Mayor Garcia. Here.

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I like to invite at this

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time the members of the Mayor's Youth Council that are present to do the Pledge of Allegiance.

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If you could please come forward.

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Hello council members and everybody could you please stand,

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place your right hand over your heart, ready, begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

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indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you.

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Thank you Hope. We got a

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full house tonight. I love to see it like this. Welcome.

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Now I just want to let you

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know that we did not meet for closed sessions since we did not have a quorum

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for that item. So we'll be moving the item to to adopt the agenda on the

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next item. So City Manager, I believe that City staff would like to request that the City

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Council add urgency items to tonight's agenda. Thank you, Mayor. Due to an imminent public

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health threat that occurred after the posting of this agenda, staff is requesting the addition

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of two items, Special Item 8C, Environmental Protection Agency presentation regarding

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the hazardous materials processing site at Lario Park and Business Item 14B, consideration

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to adopt resolution number 25-04,

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opposing the United States Environmental Protection Agency's

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use of Lario Park as a hazardous waste sorting site

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for the eat and fire due to the harm

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to public health, safety, and welfare.

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All right, so I'm going to call for a motion

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to add the urgency items to the agenda.

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Motion.

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Second.

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We got a motion from Council Member Finley

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and a second and a third from Mayor Pro Tem

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I'm Martin Del Campo and Council Member Kang.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Motion carries.

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So I'd like to.

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I'm sorry, Mayor, sorry to interrupt.

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We do need to do a roll call vote to add the item.

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Perfect.

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I'll let you conduct that.

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Council Member Keldron.

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Aye.

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Council Member Lewis.

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Aye.

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Council Member Kang.

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Yes.

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Council Member Finley.

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Yes.

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Council Member Martin Del Campo.

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Yes.

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And Mayor Trong.

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Yes.

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motion carries and I'd like to invite a motion to

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adopt the agenda as amended.

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So moved.

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Second.

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All in favor.

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Motion carries.

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So we're gonna skip item seven,

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since we did not have a closed session.

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Item eight, special items,

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we'll start with the mayor's youth council.

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Welcome back, Hope Peoples.

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Hello.

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Good evening, Mr. Mayor and council members

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and our audience tonight.

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My name is Hope Peoples,

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for those of you who do not know, I am this year's Mayor's Youth Council president and

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here's our report to you this month. The Mayor's Youth Council is wrapping up its homeless

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care package drive and we will be partnering with the foothill kitchen in Monrovia in February

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8th to distribute the items. And this past couple weeks, the Mayor's Youth Council

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hosted a popcorn sale fundraiser and raised over $600 for our spring retreat beach

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trip. We would like to thank everybody who supported our fundraiser. Thank you.

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And the Mayor's Council presented its Community Stakeholders Award, which is presented to a community member who gives back support to youth and families in our community.

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The award was presented to Mr. Ulysses Gutierrez at the Teen Center Winter Holiday Festival. That's what I have for you.

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Thank you so much. Colleagues, any questions, comments or hope?

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Thank you. Thank you. Hope we were just so grateful for everything that you do for your peers in your community and you're a great leader.

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Thank you.

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Up next we have special item be public safety department update and the presenter for that will be director Larry, but he said.

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Yes, mayor. Thank you so much and thank you to the council. This evening. I'm going to be. I'm very, very happy to announce actually.

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that the city of DeWordy has in their part one crimes category,

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it has a reduction of 8.95% reduction in our part one crimes.

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And that is in relation, absolutely right.

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Now, something to especially note about that number

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is that's in relation to our prior year numbers.

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So last year in 2023, we ended our part one crimes

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with a reduction of 15.3%.

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so this is on top of the 15.3 percent we had in year 2023. Some

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of the key

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successes that attribute to this number is I think a lot of it has to do with

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the dedication and hard work of our deputies and public safety staff. They

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go in day in and day out they're very passionate about what they do but not

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only that they work well with the community members and the community

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members are well received by us as well because of that relationship and

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partnership that we have with them. They're able to direct us to key patrol efforts as

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well as share information with us. Hey, there's situations going on here. Hey, there's suspicious

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persons there. Hey, you might want to follow up on this. There's all these different things

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that really open the lines of communication for public safety to take effect. So it's

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really not only the deputies and the public safety staff, but it's also the residents

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and the businesses that truly care about the city of DeWarty that help with the

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overall crime reduction in the city and the numbers do not lie. They are

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significant and they are well. Something else that we've incorporated this year

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is in 2024 is we did our e-bike patrol program. So in addition to that we had

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our e-bikes so what we did is we went and patrolled preventing crimes of

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opportunity for individuals patrolling parking lots, businesses, alleyways,

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things of that nature. That allows us to get one-on-one contact with

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people both in the public, generally using their stores and walking the streets, as well

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as seeing people that might be canvassing the area for crimes of opportunity as well.

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So a lot of that visibility and interaction truly has helped us in the overall reduction

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of our part one crimes, because as we see in the numbers, our larceny thefts did go

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down as well.

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And a lot of that also has to do with our creation of our business watch program.

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So our business watch programs allows us to communicate with our retail establishments

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and again set that set for that communication efforts between the two

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and then it allows us also to conduct education material to them and also

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conduct special operations that allow us to actually work with their security

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offices and actually set up operations where we're inside the business location

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as they see people trying to steal from our businesses we actually capture

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them upon their exit and we've had very very successful outcomes with

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that operation we've done several of those and those are the type of things

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things that we're going to be capitalizing on for the year 2025. In addition to that

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for 2025, what we're going to be looking at, which council did approve in the past, is

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the adoption of our flock camera system, so our automatic license plate reading camera

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system throughout the city of DuWerty. So that's going to be another crucial source

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of information and resource for our deputies to conduct their investigation, as well as

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proactively identify vehicles that might be of concern

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are involved in criminal activity.

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So these are some of the things that we're gonna be working

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on to make sure that we can further expand our reduction

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and our part one crimes in making Duarte a safer place

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to live and work.

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Something else I would like to especially note

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is that we've did receive a grant

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through Senator Rubio's office

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with the Tri-City Partnership with Duarte Azusa

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as well as Army Corps and Engineers

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and that's for the riverbed area.

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So, we did receive funding for that, and what that allowed us to do is send our deputies

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and our outreach personnel into the riverbed area and provide services and resources to

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those that are unhoused in the area, as well as conduct operations for cleanup.

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So, we've already conducted a few of those operations.

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You may have seen some of that activity over there, and we're going to be continuing

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to leverage that opportunity as well, so that, again, we can kind of further enhance

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our general public safety, as well as take care of those that are unhoused.

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So with that I think there's a lot of successes that we have and without going

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over the entire report I would leave this opportunity for council if you guys

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have any questions or comments or concerns. Yes, Council Member Finley. Thank

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you. Larry I was down in the went down to the riverbed the other day and was

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riding my bike along the bike path there. There's a lot of junk down there.

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Who's responsible for cleaning that up? I know it's the Army Corps of

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engineers, property, how come they aren't cleaning it up?

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Well, they do clean it up, but it takes some time for them.

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They're federal governments.

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They take a long time to conduct that operation.

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They don't take a long time.

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I've seen them move real fast lately.

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Touche.

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Touche.

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Thank you.

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That's right.

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Very good.

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Very good.

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Madam Finley, while they're down there,

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you can tell them to pick up the trash colleagues I just wanted to thank you

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Larry I did bring a concern just from the clean out of the riverbed there was

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increased just unhomed activity throughout the city I did discuss it with

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you and since then I've noticed a huge increase of patrol outside of the

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McDonald's area as well as many of the other areas where I had concerns and

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I've seen the reduction so I really appreciate the fast action there

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absolutely no problem thank you Larry thank you as well the last couple

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All the weeks there's been a German Shepherd roaming around the city with a lot of us were worried about a lot of residents were concerned about and I know you the team has some trouble getting it.

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It's now at the San Gabriel Humane Society. So I hope it gets the carrot. It definitely deserves. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you for your update.

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Thank you, Mayor and Larry thank you so much for your leadership and you've been so responsive with with the fire with the windstorm with all the outages and so on and now we're having this kind of issues.

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In addition, I just want to appreciate Sergeant Fielder and your team, you guys have been tremendous and you guys such a great team and able to go and work with you guys whenever.

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gosh, you don't even need to go ahead and see my text.

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You knew exactly what I was looking for

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and I'm able to go ahead and apprehend these people.

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I really do appreciate that.

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We need to go ahead and make our city safe

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and we need to beautify our city,

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make our city strong for all of us.

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Thank you.

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Absolutely.

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I want to highlight, well,

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we have so many people in the audience.

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Google or crime rates, they are amazing

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and it's thanks to the whole team

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we're discussing right now.

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Word of mouth is so important

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and there is a lot of effort.

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I know it's easy to see the negative things

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that we see when we're driving around the town but you have to recognize and if

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you ever need help recognizing reach out to one of us what we what they do do to

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make the city so safe for us thank you concern with us how you doing Larry good

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sir first I want to apologize for bugging you so much I know I didn't I

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didn't nearly call Brian as much as I do you no problem I might start calling

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Brian Moore. Hey, you guys give me a number to your assistant. He said he would enjoy that sir.

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Well one thing I would just like to also thank you for you know like I said I've called you for

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several issues and you got on them right away and I just want to just thank you from for my

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constituents. Thank you sir. Welcome sir. Thank you Larry. Appreciate it. Before we move on

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Welcome to the next item. I do want to recognize the elected officials and representatives that

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are here tonight. We have school board member Tom Reyes, school board member Rosa Olguin,

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former school board member Cece Carroll, former school board member Frank Figueroa, former

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Mayor Luis Gaston. Thank you. Vicky Paul from Katherine Barger's office is here.

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We have a field representative from Hilda Supervisor Hilda Solis's office. Welcome.

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and Director Marquez, bienvenido, good to see you.

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If I miss somebody, I am so sorry.

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I didn't bring my glasses.

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We're gonna continue now with Special Item C,

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the Environmental Protection Agency presentation

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regarding the hazardous materials processing site

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at Ladio Park.

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The presenter is Tara Fitzgerald.

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She is the EPA Incident Commander

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and I do wanna let the folks know

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that there is a Spanish translation available.

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She is in the lounge to take questions after the meeting if you need Spanish translation. Tara.

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Good evening and thank you for having me here to discuss the Lario staging area.

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The EPA understands that the community has concerns about the use of the staging area to store the household hazardous materials that are going to be collected from the destroyed homes in the Eaton Fire footprint.

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It was not EPA's intention to exclude Doherty from this process, but we have been tasked

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to move quickly under an emergency response order in order to begin collecting these

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hazardous materials so that the properties could be cleared of debris and the property

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owners could start the process of rebuilding.

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building. We are going to be utilizing the temporary storage area to store the hazardous

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materials that would be taken from those areas and they would be stored temporarily at the

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staging area and would then be packaged and shipped for disposal at permitted facilities.

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So I just want to be, before I talk a little bit about the storage.

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I just want to be clear that the area we are planning to use it temporarily and leave

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it as we found it before. And we do this routinely during natural disaster responses, including

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all of the fires that we've had recently throughout California that EPA responds to. We are hearing

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concerns about the health and safety of the community because we will be using this as

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a storage area.

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And as I said, we do this quite often, but I want to be clear that these materials will

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be packaged properly and stored on site in a way that they are not allowed to release

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to the environment and that they are also not allowed to come into contact with the

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ground.

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We will be using perimeter air monitoring, which is to ensure that even though we have stored these materials properly so that they cannot release into the environment, we will also be doing the air monitoring around the facility in order to ensure that we know that nothing is actually leaving the facility that could be of harm to the residents.

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We also will be utilizing, we sampled the site before we got there and we will sample

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it again after we leave in order to ensure that we did not leave anything at the staging

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area.

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And I understand that this is, there's a bike lane there, that there's also like a

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public park that is, State Parks utilizes this area from the Army Corps.

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So that is how we're going to utilize it in a way that will keep the community safe but

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also allow us to move forward with taking the materials from the burned areas so that the

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rebuilding process can begin.

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The reason that we chose this area is because of the speed that we were asked to move as

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an emergency response.

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This was the closest available area that was appropriate for use, essentially large enough

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with the ability to get our trucks to it and also able to store the materials on a flat

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surface that we didn't have to do a lot of work to prepare because it was already a

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staging area to begin with.

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We worked with Army Court, which as has been mentioned, owns the parcel to secure

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it.

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Without the staging area, we can't continue to collect the hazardous materials which is a necessary step for the first, but necessary first step for recovery.

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But again, I said we've had experienced news of fires and we have never had an issue with our temporary storage areas.

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We're confident that we will leave the site in as good shape as we found it.

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And we will do our best to ensure that we're communicative in everything that's happening.

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And now that we have these lines of communication that we're ensuring that we are being transparent

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about our actions.

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So thank you for advocating for your community and allowing me to come here and talk and

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appreciate the opportunity to engage with you now.

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We do have a community engagement team available to speak with residents in English and

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Spanish and provide fact sheets on the staging area.

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Thank you, Tara.

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We're going to do questions at this moment.

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We'll leave comments for after.

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So strictly questions just for the flow of the meeting.

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Council Member Finley.

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Thank you.

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You started out, and thank you for being here.

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I appreciate this.

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We haven't had this big a crowd in my 34 years of doing this.

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I don't think it's ever been quite this big.

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So you're terribly popular, Tara.

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You said it was not the intent to exclude us.

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Was the intent to include us?

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I mean, this is, there are three cities that are right here.

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Who wasn't thinking when they thought that, oh, these cities won't care?

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I mean, and I know it's more of a rhetorical question.

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And honestly, and I've talked with your EPA people, they are as nice as they can be, and

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I really appreciate that.

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But every time I ask a question, it's kind of like this, you know, who did it?

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So who do we say, who do we go to and say, what were you thinking?

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Why didn't you get a hold of the city managers or the city council or something instead

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of just starting to move stuff in?

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Well, unfortunately, due to the emergency response nature of this, we moved immediately.

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We have been asked by the county, by the local and state agencies to move as fast as

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possible.

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I'm confident that most of the people have heard those requests.

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And we secured the location as quickly as possible and started moving.

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But we all have these.

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I have mine on 24-7 all you needed to do and again I'm not blaming you but

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somebody should have thought to at least call the city managers so then they

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could call the councils. I have a few more questions but all like some of our

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other colleagues. I just want to tag on to Councilwoman Finley's comment is I've

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done emergency management. I was in San Bernardino County Office of Emergency Service OES.

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We deal with emergencies. Emergencies is what we do. And I'm baffled because plans and intel

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from your ICS should be able to go ahead and disseminate that information to all the

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information on NBC four. And I was like half asleep. And then everyone I'm sure all my

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colleagues phone started blowing up. And then I started talking to the state state

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state senator state assembly. Congress. No one knew about this. But you guys were

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already mobilizing and putting all that stuff at L'Oreal Park. So you guys knew this

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all along, but where is that miscommunication? Why did you guys do that? It doesn't make sense

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to me. There's no SIMS and NIMS. I'm curious.

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SIMS and NIMS meaning national incident management

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systems and that's NIMS. SIMS is state incident management systems. There are protocols for

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this and somehow you guys are not using it or is this intentional? I don't know, right?

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We're trying to go ahead and figure it out and you're the IC you're the incident commander. We need to go in and hear from you

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Yes, we did work with as I said Cal OES and the local agencies to

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Site this to determine this site and they were aware of it, but we did fail to inform

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the city of Dworkie

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and the city of Azusa and

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Senator Rubio and

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and everybody was failed to be informed.

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Tara, you mentioned you were asked by the county

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to move as quickly as possible.

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I watched today's county board meeting

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and they said they were unaware

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and that they were bypassed by the federal government.

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Can you talk on that?

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I am not aware of that.

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So, Tara, I got millions of questions

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and one more question I wanna ask is,

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first of all, I concur completely with Mrs. Finley

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in regards to your staff, they are so wonderful.

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They are blunt, they tell the truth,

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and so I really appreciate that.

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My question is that this is not your first option.

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There were A, B, C, D, E, F, G,

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and this is pretty much your last option.

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What were the first few options

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and were there a lot of pushbacks from those folks, right?

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because we were obviously not at the table and you know there's oh saying this person actually told

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me is if you're not at the table you're on the menu so I just I cannot comprehend it's so close by

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you have the Rose Bowl you have all these other places that you're able to go ahead and do this

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you only need five acres I really apologize to say this but I'm further empathetic and

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sympathetic about about the eaten fire with with Altadena and and see a

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moderate and so on but half the city got the got destroyed unfortunately my

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cousins house got burned my friends got house I'm sure all of you guys have

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friends that have their houses burned even some of their people the people

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are saying why bring all these toxic stuff and and it's already

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contaminated over there bring it over here 15 miles away when you can just

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just probably clean it up over there, allocate that five acres, and then start doing, and

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then surround it with a parameter, make it safe, and then start doing the sorting, and

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then you can, you can, you know, set them all out over there.

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Now you want to go ahead and drive through four cities.

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You want to go to Siamadre.

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You want to go to Arcadia, Monrovia, Gordy, Irindale, Azusa.

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Now you're exposing all these risks to probably 100,000 people.

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I think that's where I have an actual question.

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Like how are we to trust that you are going to keep us safe during the process and years after the process?

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Because there's been a failure to communicate that it was even going to happen.

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So how do we know, how do we trust that there's going to be communication if there are any risks?

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That's right.

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Answer my question. Why this place?

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I mean it looks like Maline's it's got to be it's got to be

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Closest as much as possible if I have a hazmat containment on a 105 freeway or the 210 freeway

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I'm gonna go and bring it to the 105 freeway. That doesn't make sense to me

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I really do want to see if there's a response to let's allow Tara answer a couple questions

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so you discussed the Rose Bowl and we also looked at the Santa Anita raceway and both of those because we're

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occupied by the fire response at that time. So they are now demobilizing from those areas

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and we actually need additional footprint and are looking to move into those footprints as well.

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Tara, you talked about communication, the lack of communication we've talked about trust.

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Yesterday the local mayors were at the site. We were told that material would not start

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making its way until Wednesday, Thursday. We know now that material was started moving

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today. So once again, the information is not matching. There's a disconnect somewhere.

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How can we fix that?

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Yes, we certainly continue to be pushed on our timeline to move fast in this response.

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And we are going to have to do a better job of discussing with you. And that consists

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and we do have our community involvement coordinators who can be available to discuss this more.

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But I think that we have the lines of communication and we now have the the contacts and and we are able to reach out if we

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Need to in case in the event that there's an issue and yet I just want to emphasize that

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We've done these fire responses since 2015

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On an almost yearly basis throughout the state and we've had to build these facilities every time

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That we've done this and we have not had an incident of

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or exposure to the community, and we have not had an incident of making the land actually

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worse afterwards. So we've been able to do this safely every time we've had to respond

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to these natural disasters. We have a proven trace record.

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How fast are you being asked to be finished with this operation phase one? I heard months,

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then I heard 30 days, and it's six to eight months now.

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So, for phase one, which is what we're using the staging area for, that's to take the hazardous

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material, these are the bulk hazardous materials from the site.

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So these are things like pesticides, propane tanks, lithium ion batteries that we need

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to be taken away before debris removal can start.

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So that's only phase one is the work that we are doing.

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So that we are being we've been tasked to complete in 30 days, but the temporary storage location would remain for several months based on our need to continue to package the material and ship it correctly to permitted facilities.

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So having the staging area, then would you use it for phase two?

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So EPA does not conduct phase two operations.

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So yeah, we wouldn't have any action after we complete our phase one work.

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Who makes this decision?

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I think you're just kind of the messenger here.

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Who makes this decision so that we can talk with them?

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I feel kind of impotent here so to speak because we don't know who to talk to and I hear this came from the White House.

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Okay, that's great, but I'm just letting you know I heard it came from the White House.

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That's what we heard too.

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And so I'm sure people of the White House didn't go, Lario staging area.

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No.

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Who made this decision, Tara, and how can we talk with them?

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Well, you're talking to me.

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I am ultimately responsible for the decision.

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It was a group effort.

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We worked with the Army Corps.

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We worked with FEMA.

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We worked with the county.

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We worked with Cal OES to locate this staging area.

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But ultimately, in an emergency response,

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the decision was made.

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And ultimately, I'm the incident commander for this response.

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OK, so that's why I'm here today.

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The buck stops here is what you're saying. That's why I'm here. Okay. Then you said this was the only

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available area that was appropriate.

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That's hard to believe because it's not an appropriate area.

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Absolutely.

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So, I just, the San Gabriel River watershed area, someone yelled out and it's one that

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I thought about too.

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What about the abandoned Irwindale Speedway, close to the freeway?

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It's been abandoned for right now.

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They've already had I think everything toxic and hazardous go on in that place that can.

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If you've ever been to a night of destruction, so what what can we do at this point to change it?

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And I know you're saying it's already we've already got the staging area set

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Well, I know that but

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Have us somewhere closer

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Yes, so around zero as

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a

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So as I've mentioned we are looking for additional

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staging areas closer to the burn footprint now that the incident command has left.

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Okay.

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I think my concern, too, is just the rush. You keep mentioning that your timeline keeps getting moved up.

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Now, I know that they've relaxed a lot of the environmental laws to allow for quick rebuild,

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and I know they deserve one, a rebuild.

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But when you rush things like this, these laws are in place, and they keep California safe because they are in place.

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So if we keep bypassing them and making rush decisions,

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I'm just fearful of the impact on this community.

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So I do want to be clear that our storage facility

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is not relaxing, is not a result of any relaxed

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environmental laws.

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We will process the waste as it needs to be done

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and send it to permitted facilities.

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And we are not allowing it to, like I said,

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release into the environment.

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It's not going to be something where we're being

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less careful at the storage area

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because of the emergency, the purpose of taking this material from the burn areas,

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because right now it is open to the air and open to the community and open to the watersheds.

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So we remove it and put it in a place where it's stored properly, where it cannot be at risk of wind

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or rain or anything like that. And then we take it to the, you know, we finally dispose of it

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correctly. What other like emergency areas have you done? And how did they compare

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in size and scope to this project.

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Well, there was the campfire in 2018, which is, you know, 12,000, 13,000 residents that

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were destroyed.

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We responded to the Woolsey fire and we had a staging area in Los Angeles at that time

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as well and we did this work safely and there were no releases to the community.

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We've done the Sonoma Napa fires, all had staging areas.

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because most recently we worked in Maui in Lahaina and had a staging area there as well.

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So we've done this quite often.

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Were you guys required to use federal property for those areas as well?

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00:33:29,180 --> 00:33:31,300
We're not required to use federal property.

461
00:33:32,780 --> 00:33:39,000
We used a park, the Maui Department of Parks in Lahaina.

462
00:33:39,220 --> 00:33:43,200
So it was within the city where the incident occurred and everything could be in proximity?

463
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:49,960
It was actually it was not it was unfortunately not close. There's also issues with land there. So we had to go

464
00:33:50,780 --> 00:33:53,300
It was like a 20-minute drive south. So

465
00:33:54,500 --> 00:33:56,480
Council member King. Thank you mayor.

466
00:33:58,660 --> 00:33:59,220
I

467
00:33:59,220 --> 00:34:05,820
Got a question real quick is how many parcels are we talking about that were burned down?

468
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:11,660
How many structures so keeping in mind that we're looking only in the Eaton fire

469
00:34:11,660 --> 00:34:18,840
We're responding to all of the fires, so speaking just to the eaten fire, we're looking at about under 7,000.

470
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,460
Okay, so that's great.

471
00:34:23,140 --> 00:34:32,260
I have also been told that perhaps some of the Pacific Palisades toxic materials will be coming over.

472
00:34:32,580 --> 00:34:34,420
Is that a true statement or not true statement?

473
00:34:34,580 --> 00:34:37,420
So we have a separate staging area for the Palisades.

474
00:34:37,780 --> 00:34:38,740
Great, thank you.

475
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:47,700
So, we'll talk about 7,000 structures or because I read it somewhere it's about 9,500 structures.

476
00:34:49,020 --> 00:34:50,660
Okay, yes.

477
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:59,500
So, the structures versus parcels, we evaluate a resident's parcel, so like your lot versus

478
00:34:59,500 --> 00:35:05,200
a structure, so one lot can maybe have many structures, but what we're doing is doing

479
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:10,060
the phase work that allows the property owner to look at their entire lot and say phase one is

480
00:35:10,060 --> 00:35:16,800
done on my lot I can move forward to phase two. So when we talk I know there's a lot of different

481
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:22,240
numbers and it's all in the thousands but what we look at just parcels when we talk about

482
00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:28,540
completing our work because that whole lot must be done in order for the resident to move forward.

483
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:33,760
Okay so I just have a question in regards to because you've been doing this for so many

484
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:39,840
fires, one lot average-wise for phase one, how many tons of toxic waste?

485
00:35:40,380 --> 00:35:51,960
So I should be clear, we are taking the materials that present an exposure risk very early on.

486
00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:55,360
We're not taking all of the debris, we're not taking all of the ash here.

487
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,880
And if I wasn't clear about that, I apologize.

488
00:35:58,380 --> 00:36:03,700
So we're taking a smaller amount of debris that sometimes presents explosive risk before

489
00:36:03,700 --> 00:36:04,560
or it's treated.

490
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:06,900
So we would take like propane tanks,

491
00:36:06,980 --> 00:36:08,280
we dehead them in the field,

492
00:36:08,420 --> 00:36:12,080
we reduce, we stop the risk in the field at the parcel

493
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,100
and then we bring back the essentially,

494
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,700
empty material to the site.

495
00:36:17,940 --> 00:36:20,000
But we also do collect things like pesticides

496
00:36:20,580 --> 00:36:21,320
and herbicides.

497
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:22,980
So when you think about a house

498
00:36:22,980 --> 00:36:24,560
and you think about how many things

499
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,200
that you would have at that house

500
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,660
that would, you couldn't throw,

501
00:36:28,780 --> 00:36:30,860
like you'd have to take to a household hazardous waste

502
00:36:30,860 --> 00:36:33,020
site instead of throwing into your trash.

503
00:36:33,020 --> 00:36:35,620
That's what we're looking at for each house.

504
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,660
But of course some people have more materials.

505
00:36:40,020 --> 00:36:42,620
They may have hobbies or things that they do.

506
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:44,280
And so they may have more,

507
00:36:44,380 --> 00:36:46,820
but this is nowhere near tons.

508
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,320
This is as if your property,

509
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:51,520
if you had to take everything

510
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:52,860
that you couldn't throw away now,

511
00:36:53,340 --> 00:36:54,480
and that would be the amount.

512
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,000
And they're all going to be processed

513
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,840
at the Lario site, is that correct?

514
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:03,000
So they'll be packaged for the transport,

515
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,200
and put on the trucks so they're packaged in a way at the site so that they can't release,

516
00:37:07,420 --> 00:37:11,540
they're put onto the truck and then they're transported to the site where they're essentially

517
00:37:11,540 --> 00:37:17,360
bulked so they're put into larger areas where they can be stored and then shipped off.

518
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:24,040
So I think you have about maybe 15 to 20 of these flatbed class 4 or class 5 trucks

519
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:30,000
with your current vehicles and so on. How long do you think it would go

520
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:35,100
go ahead and take to, to, to remediate the entire burn site.

521
00:37:35,620 --> 00:37:37,380
I'm curious, we're trying to go ahead and figure out

522
00:37:37,380 --> 00:37:38,460
how long you guys gonna be here.

523
00:37:39,380 --> 00:37:41,720
We've been given 30 days to do the work.

524
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:42,560
30 days?

525
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:42,940
Yes.

526
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:44,880
Do you think that's gonna be a smile on?

527
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,060
We've been given 30 days to do the work.

528
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:50,360
Good luck.

529
00:37:51,220 --> 00:37:52,020
Thank you.

530
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:53,060
Ms. Tara.

531
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:54,440
Give me one second.

532
00:37:54,940 --> 00:37:55,680
Council Member Calderon?

533
00:37:56,020 --> 00:37:56,760
Yeah, I have a question.

534
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,320
So if this were to move forward,

535
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:03,260
how long after you leave decides do you guys continue testing for contaminants? And more importantly,

536
00:38:03,380 --> 00:38:07,900
how will our residents be able to get those results and get their questions and answers once you

537
00:38:07,900 --> 00:38:14,700
guys move on? So we would test, so as we test before and then we would test once after. So we

538
00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:19,520
would take the test that we took, the samples that we took originally and then we would compare

539
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:25,420
the samples that we took after to show that there's nothing there. And, you know, most

540
00:38:25,420 --> 00:38:32,860
recently in Lahaina and Maui, I made that information available to the parks department.

541
00:38:33,380 --> 00:38:38,100
So I provided that information to them to show that we had, you know, left it the way that

542
00:38:38,100 --> 00:38:38,680
we found it.

543
00:38:39,460 --> 00:38:43,040
And that would be something we would be able to do, you know, here.

544
00:38:44,660 --> 00:38:45,620
Councillor Ember-Lewis.

545
00:38:47,770 --> 00:38:53,990
Ms. Tara, realistically speaking, do you actually think you're going to be able to do that

546
00:38:53,990 --> 00:38:54,550
in 30 days?

547
00:38:54,550 --> 00:39:04,810
now I I've been out to I've been out to out to Dina and there's no way that you're

548
00:39:04,810 --> 00:39:08,970
gonna be able to get all those toxins unless you have somebody out there 24

549
00:39:08,970 --> 00:39:13,930
hours a day seven days a week for the next 30 days and then you and then you

550
00:39:13,930 --> 00:39:19,030
still not gonna be finished can you can you honestly give us a realistic

551
00:39:19,030 --> 00:39:26,050
number because just like the mayor said I also watched the presentation that was

552
00:39:26,050 --> 00:39:31,330
given to the board of supervisors today and the information you're giving me is a

553
00:39:31,330 --> 00:39:37,870
lot different than the information they gave me or and I also was told it was

554
00:39:37,870 --> 00:39:43,050
30 days and then they said it realistically speaking is gonna be more

555
00:39:43,050 --> 00:39:46,570
like six months that the encampment is going to be there.

556
00:39:46,690 --> 00:39:48,570
She said 90 days plus.

557
00:39:50,670 --> 00:39:53,150
I was told six months.

558
00:39:53,670 --> 00:39:56,330
I'm not aware of where the six months would come from.

559
00:39:56,990 --> 00:40:04,290
Like I said, I don't understand how we're getting different information, different information

560
00:40:04,290 --> 00:40:11,110
than the Board of Supervisors, and it's not a unified message.

561
00:40:11,110 --> 00:40:16,290
and then you expect us to trust you when we're getting three different

562
00:40:16,290 --> 00:40:26,800
informations and and we was notified and then you say you know well and I and I

563
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:32,720
was also waiting to hear the answer from my colleagues how was this what was the

564
00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:39,840
other spaces that were options and why was this option chosen opposed to those

565
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:48,400
other options because I, I know as well, Altadena has a huge park that burned down in Altadena

566
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:56,920
and it's flat. And you could, and I, and you already have the park there. And why not just

567
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:01,260
take the stuff to the park? Then you don't have to go across four cities.

568
00:41:06,930 --> 00:41:07,730
And if you

569
00:41:07,730 --> 00:41:11,510
need it's more space, Dodger Stadium right now is empty.

570
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,480
It's empty that parking lot

571
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:20,440
of Dodger Stadium. It's more than five acres. That's because you're a, that's because you're

572
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:24,820
a Giants fan. That's why you're proposing that site. Matter of fact, you could put it on home

573
00:41:24,820 --> 00:41:25,100
plate.

574
00:41:27,260 --> 00:41:28,100
Well, that's our answer.

575
00:41:30,700 --> 00:41:31,300
I think,

576
00:41:34,450 --> 00:41:37,310
I think the question was what site. So I did

577
00:41:37,310 --> 00:41:47,610
mention like the Rose Bowl, the San Anita Raceway. But, but, but we did move to be able to

578
00:41:47,610 --> 00:41:52,410
be able to obtain the access to the parcel and we were able to negotiate with the Army

579
00:41:52,410 --> 00:41:53,790
Corps quickly to do so.

580
00:41:55,430 --> 00:41:58,990
I do want to let the members of the audience, you'll have a moment to speak.

581
00:41:59,510 --> 00:42:01,330
The town hall is tomorrow for Q&A.

582
00:42:01,770 --> 00:42:04,310
We'll give everybody three minutes to talk if you turn in the car.

583
00:42:04,690 --> 00:42:08,030
Let's get to the questions first and then we'll give you a chance.

584
00:42:09,910 --> 00:42:10,730
I have a question.

585
00:42:11,010 --> 00:42:13,230
You talked about lithium batteries and that's one of my biggest concerns.

586
00:42:13,450 --> 00:42:15,010
I've been on Telemundo speaking about it.

587
00:42:15,010 --> 00:42:22,850
But I heard from a captain from the LA City Fire who was a PIO that talked about the dangers

588
00:42:22,850 --> 00:42:27,370
of lithium batteries and how they have the potential to be explosive.

589
00:42:28,550 --> 00:42:34,090
Bringing that type of material to the San Gabriel River that is a high-risk area for

590
00:42:34,090 --> 00:42:40,150
a potential fire, we have seen how one small spark and the right amount of wind, the

591
00:42:40,150 --> 00:42:41,190
damage that can occur.

592
00:42:42,170 --> 00:42:48,190
What guarantees do we have or what safeguards are being taken place to transport and ensure

593
00:42:48,190 --> 00:42:50,670
that something like this won't happen?

594
00:42:51,690 --> 00:42:57,050
So we have specialized teams that are going to obtain the batteries, the lithium ion batteries

595
00:42:57,050 --> 00:43:03,310
from the areas including like electric vehicles and battery storage systems from solar systems

596
00:43:03,310 --> 00:43:12,490
etc. And they do maintain a risk of fire after they've been damaged, and that's why we're

597
00:43:12,490 --> 00:43:13,130
removing them.

598
00:43:13,770 --> 00:43:19,410
So the teams are specialized and are able to safely transport them.

599
00:43:19,730 --> 00:43:26,830
We actually make them not at risk at the storage area so that they no longer pose a

600
00:43:26,830 --> 00:43:29,150
risk to cause fires.

601
00:43:29,150 --> 00:43:47,810
And so we successfully did this and Maui was the first time we did it because it was the first time that we had had such a large amount of batteries and we created a storage area and actually, you know, we there we crushed the batteries in order to basically make them not able to cause any fire again.

602
00:43:49,570 --> 00:43:53,230
So there's still that risk of a possible explosion.

603
00:43:54,010 --> 00:43:59,410
The batteries aren't large enough that we keep a large enough perimeter around the staging

604
00:43:59,410 --> 00:44:03,090
area so that if there was an explosion, there's a safety buffer.

605
00:44:03,330 --> 00:44:08,090
So we would not put them right against, say, like, brush or right next to the river where

606
00:44:08,090 --> 00:44:11,690
something like an ember could, you know, move away from it.

607
00:44:12,950 --> 00:44:13,510
So,

608
00:44:16,730 --> 00:44:21,510
Tara, it's quite interesting, full disclosure, I'm actually a chemist.

609
00:44:21,510 --> 00:44:33,730
I make batteries. So I can ask all kinds of different questions. It would be so much easier

610
00:44:34,290 --> 00:44:47,150
for you guys to do the commission of these batteries at the site. How do you have a spontaneous

611
00:44:47,150 --> 00:44:54,330
is combustion. Sometimes it has to do with thermal runaways, right? Sometimes because

612
00:44:54,330 --> 00:44:57,610
if there's a normal kind of battery, it's because there are dandrites growing at the

613
00:44:57,610 --> 00:44:59,770
cathol and the anil and it touches each other.

614
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,880
And that's how you spark. You have that spontaneous combustion.

615
00:45:05,720 --> 00:45:14,800
And for this thing to, for all the batteries to drive over 15 or 16 miles to come on over,

616
00:45:15,720 --> 00:45:25,840
you are actually increasing the risk of having these batteries somehow shorted if there is still energy.

617
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:30,320
If you don't go ahead and crush it over there and neutralize it over there, you bring them

618
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:36,840
over there already, the structure is already pretty much all worn out from the degradations

619
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:38,160
from the heat and so on.

620
00:45:38,660 --> 00:45:46,600
And if it's not having that spontaneous combustion while driving it over here as they short

621
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:52,540
as the cathode and the anode starts touching each other, you can have the potential to

622
00:45:52,540 --> 00:45:54,240
go ahead and cause that spontaneous combustion.

623
00:45:54,240 --> 00:46:01,500
So I urge you to have those batteries and it just neutralize it at that location rather

624
00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:04,760
than bring it over here like what my colleagues are saying.

625
00:46:05,420 --> 00:46:07,460
This is the St. Gabriel River.

626
00:46:07,780 --> 00:46:10,380
This is where our water source is at.

627
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:15,640
I'm not sure if you're from here, but it's like this is where we drink our water, millions

628
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:16,340
of people.

629
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:22,000
Actually, my grandmother raised my aunt and my father in Doherty.

630
00:46:22,940 --> 00:46:25,720
My grandmother raised my aunt and my father in Doherty.

631
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,840
I'm from the San Fernando Valley, but they grew up here.

632
00:46:29,100 --> 00:46:33,820
Yeah, so you know how important it is, not just for Doherty,

633
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,260
but for millions of people downstream from this river.

634
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:41,020
We all use this river and having this risk

635
00:46:41,020 --> 00:46:43,860
to bring them over here 15, 16 miles away,

636
00:46:44,220 --> 00:46:46,900
I just don't find it to be reasonable.

637
00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:50,980
So if you can reconsider, we would be much appreciated.

638
00:46:50,980 --> 00:46:51,600
Thank you.

639
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:52,260
Thank you.

640
00:46:54,780 --> 00:46:58,620
As you mentioned that you're aware with the area, you do know that this is one of the

641
00:46:58,620 --> 00:47:02,460
most successful superfund sites that we've had, but there's been a lot of investment

642
00:47:02,460 --> 00:47:08,520
and resources put into cleaning up the water that was left from the improper disposal of

643
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,100
contaminants 30 years ago and plus.

644
00:47:11,420 --> 00:47:17,580
So you can understand folks' concern and the nervousness that we all feel having

645
00:47:17,580 --> 00:47:24,620
to think, you know, 10, 15 years from now that if that potential, I mean, today we found

646
00:47:24,620 --> 00:47:30,360
out that federal funding has been frozen. So the chance for grants, for APA grants for water

647
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:35,140
quality are not available. So there's a lot of nervousness. There's a lot of fears and I will

648
00:47:35,140 --> 00:47:39,140
let Councilwoman Finley ask a question, but I just want to make sure I put that out there.

649
00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:44,920
Thank you. And I'm really glad we're talking to the decision makers. So thank you for coming.

650
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:51,700
I've been over to the staging area three times now, and I've seen the trucks that this

651
00:47:51,700 --> 00:47:52,960
is going to be hauled in.

652
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:59,260
I think they're stake bed trucks, they have like poles on the sides.

653
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:07,180
Every other hazardous material hauling I've ever seen, they are in enclosed containers.

654
00:48:07,180 --> 00:48:15,380
Are these trucks even, are they rated to haul hazardous materials?

655
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:24,420
I don't understand. I don't know the specific rating that's required for this.

656
00:48:26,870 --> 00:48:30,510
Well, let me be more clear. They are rated to haul these materials.

657
00:48:31,010 --> 00:48:37,610
We are able to do that. We've done it safely throughout multiple fires.

658
00:48:37,610 --> 00:48:48,990
Okay. Okay. And then my question is, I'm going to go back about four or five years. And I

659
00:48:48,990 --> 00:48:56,350
happened to be back in Washington, D.C. for lobbying for regional government back there.

660
00:48:56,530 --> 00:49:03,470
And I've always been a real fan of Grayson and Politanos. And the city congresswoman

661
00:49:03,470 --> 00:49:09,550
Grace Napolitano. She is no longer our congresswoman, which I'm very sad to say, because I really

662
00:49:09,550 --> 00:49:15,510
had a great deal of respect for her. The city manager called me when I was back there and

663
00:49:15,510 --> 00:49:22,830
said, hey, just to let you know, they're going to be hauling 90, what was it, 900?

664
00:49:22,830 --> 00:49:33,590
But I mean, a truckload of debris and infill from the Santa Fe Dam area, which is, I think,

665
00:49:34,050 --> 00:49:41,590
part of the Army Corps of Engineers' responsibility is keeping the sediment that flows in there.

666
00:49:43,020 --> 00:49:48,230
They had to go ahead and basically purge that area so there'd be a lake and it wasn't

667
00:49:48,230 --> 00:49:50,850
just going to be a swamp.

668
00:49:50,850 --> 00:49:57,670
So he said, and it's going to be going along Central Avenue and DeWardy Road,

669
00:49:59,110 --> 00:50:06,650
which City of Hope is along DeWardy Road and Central Avenue is where two of our schools are in the community.

670
00:50:07,310 --> 00:50:11,030
So he said, when you're back there, my city manager said, when you're back there with Grace,

671
00:50:11,510 --> 00:50:14,050
just see if we can go ahead and get this rerouted.

672
00:50:14,050 --> 00:50:21,870
But it doesn't make sense that it goes on our roads and Irwindale, which basically is

673
00:50:22,380 --> 00:50:25,190
all businesses, why it shouldn't go there.

674
00:50:26,010 --> 00:50:31,530
So I said to Grace, I explained the whole thing to her, and she said, Margaret, let

675
00:50:31,530 --> 00:50:32,310
me make a phone call.

676
00:50:32,970 --> 00:50:42,290
She made a phone call, and she had those 900 truckloads diverted so they went through

677
00:50:42,290 --> 00:50:42,930
Irwindale.

678
00:50:42,930 --> 00:50:50,610
Erwindel didn't care. I mean, again, they were businesses, so they didn't care. So my question is,

679
00:50:50,730 --> 00:50:55,830
or actually I'll tell you what I've told a lot of people, and that is where there's a will,

680
00:50:56,150 --> 00:51:05,130
there's a way. And where there isn't, there's an excuse. So I really believe that this is not

681
00:51:05,130 --> 00:51:13,170
not the best place for this. And I believe that you can do something about this. So, again,

682
00:51:13,470 --> 00:51:19,590
it's not a question. It's an ask from all these people. Again, I've been doing this

683
00:51:19,590 --> 00:51:28,470
for 34 years. I've never seen this kind of response for anything. And people are absolutely

684
00:51:28,470 --> 00:51:33,170
passionate about this. I hope you'll listen to us.

685
00:51:37,010 --> 00:51:49,670
Thank you. Thank you, Tara. I'm going to take item 14b. Then we're going to have the public comment. I know you're going to still be here and you will take residents questions in the lounge as well if they don't get an opportunity to speak tonight.

686
00:51:49,850 --> 00:51:52,490
Yes, we'll be here after after the meeting as well. Thank you, Tara.

687
00:51:56,740 --> 00:52:04,560
I also want to recognize school board president James Finley. Dr. James Finley. Thank you for being here tonight. City manager. It's all yours.

688
00:52:06,420 --> 00:52:12,560
Thank you Mayor and Council. First off I want to start off by saying we stand in solidarity

689
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:18,380
with the cities of Altadena, Pasadena, Sierra Madre. I think we all in this room probably

690
00:52:18,380 --> 00:52:24,040
know somebody or lots of somebodies that lost homes or impacted by this fire. This isn't

691
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:30,460
a case of NIMBYism. I'm not on social media for a very big reason but I hear that other

692
00:52:30,460 --> 00:52:35,980
cities. Oh, the Nimbis. I don't want to my backyard. There are several articulable facts

693
00:52:36,900 --> 00:52:42,940
that we can state as to why we should adopt a resolution opposing this site. Some of them

694
00:52:42,940 --> 00:52:50,180
are first and foremost, you know, you can't overlook the fact that no one was notified.

695
00:52:50,620 --> 00:52:55,880
There was no chance for public comment, no comment from you or our residents of any

696
00:52:55,880 --> 00:53:01,240
of the cities. We all learned about it on the news. It's the worst way to ever learn

697
00:53:01,240 --> 00:53:09,380
about something when you're in government. This is really a case of ask for forgiveness,

698
00:53:09,620 --> 00:53:19,340
not permission, and that's what happened here. Second is we, meaning Azusa Irwindale and

699
00:53:19,340 --> 00:53:24,240
the city of Gordy have spent a lot of time and effort. I've been in the city now, one

700
00:53:24,240 --> 00:53:31,340
capacity or another now 25 years, working on that river bed, cleaning it up, the

701
00:53:31,340 --> 00:53:36,780
encampments, trying to correct the fire hazards that are in there. I know LA

702
00:53:36,780 --> 00:53:40,100
County fire for at least the last 10 years has been looking to do a brush

703
00:53:40,100 --> 00:53:45,800
management plan. Part of it includes a controlled burn and that they've been

704
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:51,080
denied time and time again by the EPA. But now the site by the EPA is good

705
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:58,740
enough to have hazardous waste, I don't get that. The third is that this is a

706
00:53:58,740 --> 00:54:04,940
watershed area. It supplies a lot of water to numerous cities. The county

707
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:10,520
recognizes this area as a significant ecological area, of which there are only

708
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:12,920
38 in the county. It's significant.

709
00:54:15,340 --> 00:54:19,720
Fourth, when we had our 2016 fish fire, we

710
00:54:19,720 --> 00:54:28,660
had debris flows after. We had to maintain all of that debris in the city of Duarte prior

711
00:54:28,660 --> 00:54:33,060
to sending it out of the city. It had to dry. It had to be tested before it could leave.

712
00:54:33,660 --> 00:54:38,060
So why does this not apply? I get this is an emergency. So is that.

713
00:54:44,260 --> 00:54:44,960
And last but not

714
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:50,980
least, you know, there are two alternate sites. And I heard them both, Farnsworth

715
00:54:50,980 --> 00:54:57,080
Park, Altenia Golf Course, both those areas are burned, they're unusable, but

716
00:54:57,080 --> 00:55:01,500
they're right in the impacted area. So if you're going to have a sorting site, why

717
00:55:01,500 --> 00:55:07,660
are those not being used? And why? Because you could say, well they belong to

718
00:55:07,660 --> 00:55:11,240
the unincorporated county, but the county on January 22nd gave up their

719
00:55:11,240 --> 00:55:15,200
lessee rights to this property over at Lario Park. So they could do the same

720
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:18,300
over there, which is right within the community of where they're burned. So

721
00:55:18,300 --> 00:55:23,320
So based on that, and there are many other facts, it's staff's recommendation that council

722
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:30,020
approve and adopt Resolution Number 25-04, opposing the EPA designated collection and

723
00:55:30,020 --> 00:55:31,520
processing center at Lario Park.

724
00:55:32,140 --> 00:55:32,760
Are there any questions?

725
00:55:35,130 --> 00:55:37,730
Before we take a motion, thank you, Mr. Villalobos.

726
00:55:38,230 --> 00:55:42,650
I do know that members of the audience have turned in some cards for public comment,

727
00:55:43,150 --> 00:55:44,930
and we're going to go ahead and get started with that.

728
00:55:46,450 --> 00:55:49,310
I'm assuming there's going to be a lot of public comments tonight.

729
00:55:49,310 --> 00:55:55,130
So if you feel that your question got answered or if you feel that someone said something

730
00:55:55,130 --> 00:56:00,230
that you're going to say, feel free to abstain or say I agree, there will also be an opportunity

731
00:56:00,230 --> 00:56:05,830
tomorrow at the town hall to address the EPA and Cal OES at 6 p.m. at the Performing

732
00:56:05,830 --> 00:56:06,250
Arts Center.

733
00:56:06,690 --> 00:56:11,590
We'll give everybody three minutes and city clerk, if you can go ahead.

734
00:56:12,870 --> 00:56:17,610
First card is Bernie Moore followed by Teresa Bakowski.

735
00:56:28,380 --> 00:56:29,660
Good evening, everyone.

736
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:33,740
For Brian Villalobos, thank you.

737
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,360
You answered my questions about the different locations.

738
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:36,940
That's wonderful.

739
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,180
I grew up belonging to the Calvary Chapel Church in DeWartie.

740
00:56:41,900 --> 00:56:44,980
And one of our pastor's homes was lost in the fire.

741
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:49,800
I'm a retiree from LA County Sheriff's Department.

742
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:51,300
I spent 35 years there.

743
00:56:52,020 --> 00:56:52,980
I've learned a lot.

744
00:56:52,980 --> 00:56:58,940
the place that I work at designates calls to all of LA County from Catalina

745
00:56:58,940 --> 00:57:04,240
Island to Mount Baldy every the desert everywhere you can think of our

746
00:57:04,240 --> 00:57:11,000
emergency operation center is 10 seconds walk from where I worked everything and

747
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:17,960
anything that happens goes there from the president if if we were under

748
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:27,660
attack if he's here. Everything happens at my work. So I've made a lot of friends,

749
00:57:27,900 --> 00:57:32,340
commanders, chiefs, the sheriff of LA County came to my home, sat there for a

750
00:57:32,340 --> 00:57:38,260
long time. The pastor at our church wanted to just see if this house was

751
00:57:38,260 --> 00:57:43,320
still there. I thought I could pull some strings and just make a phone call.

752
00:57:44,460 --> 00:57:51,220
But I didn't because I realized so many people lost their homes and he shouldn't be special.

753
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:57,880
When he did go to see what was left, he wasn't there long.

754
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:04,640
It was a matter of seconds and he was in complete gear, his wife, and they were overcome

755
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:10,520
by fumes and all of a sudden they were like, whoa, we're going to pass out and they

756
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:11,080
had to leave.

757
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:12,280
They weren't there that long.

758
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:20,340
Time and history has showed us that when there's been problems, catastrophes like this, in

759
00:58:20,340 --> 00:58:25,280
the years to come, their children end up with cancers and their grandchildren because they're

760
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:29,440
on property that was affected by this.

761
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:38,060
And if I'm not a scientist, I'm not a chemist, but there are other places where this can

762
00:58:38,060 --> 00:58:43,100
take place. And even though people don't have those homes, they'd rather be on

763
00:58:43,100 --> 00:58:50,680
property where they can rebuild. If something happens to our city, Irwindale,

764
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:53,200
Azusa, we're homeowners.

765
00:58:55,460 --> 00:58:58,320
Our homes are going to go down in value because we

766
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:04,220
didn't take the time to properly see how this is going to affect us,

767
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:08,040
the

768
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:12,200
the woman from the EPA, I'm sure that she knows what she's doing, but I don't think

769
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:18,700
any of that came from L.A. County Sheriff. It might have, but I don't see that happening.

770
00:59:19,620 --> 00:59:25,320
And I think a place in the desert, someplace where nobody goes. Maybe that's the place

771
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:33,760
to take all these things. And I appreciate you for asking the questions that you did

772
00:59:34,420 --> 00:59:36,560
to the young lady standing here. Thank you.

773
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:38,720
Thank you so much, City Clerk.

774
00:59:43,250 --> 00:59:49,430
If I can have, as I call your name, have the speakers come up and form a line just for the sake of time, please.

775
00:59:50,590 --> 00:59:56,150
Next card we have is for Teresa Bakowski, followed by Beth Fuller and William Murphy.

776
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:09,300
Hello, my name is Teresa Bakowski, and I live at 3303 Fish Canyon in Duarte, California.

777
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:17,380
I'm about a half mile from the Lario site. And yes, Mrs. Finley, I have been down there.

778
01:00:17,540 --> 01:00:19,860
I saw them putting it up on Saturday morning.

779
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:31,460
I have several concerns having lived there for 38 years now, and groundwater downstream is one of them.

780
01:00:31,460 --> 01:00:38,540
I represent Adventist Health Emergency Planning in Manabello, which is downstream from here.

781
01:00:38,780 --> 01:00:46,900
And that is one of our concerns about the water that comes from the dams up in the mountains.

782
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:55,580
Okay, the other thing is I have strong concerns about security on site.

783
01:00:55,580 --> 01:01:01,220
having lived there for so many years, how are we going to secure that site because

784
01:01:01,220 --> 01:01:06,300
when I drive up in Kano and someone dropped something off on the sidewalk or

785
01:01:06,300 --> 01:01:12,620
on the side of the street on the Azusa side, I can blink and it's disappeared. So

786
01:01:12,620 --> 01:01:18,540
I want to know how we're securing this stuff because this stuff will always be

787
01:01:18,540 --> 01:01:27,740
available to the purchase and the loss and to will be carried to other places that

788
01:01:27,740 --> 01:01:32,140
we don't know where they're going. I've lived on this my father-in-law lived on

789
01:01:32,140 --> 01:01:37,760
the Santa Ana River we had the same problem we lost tons of things I mean

790
01:01:38,620 --> 01:01:46,140
anything that was out there outside would be lost within a half hour and we

791
01:01:46,140 --> 01:01:49,680
We know that there were trucks driving by picking that stuff up.

792
01:01:51,140 --> 01:01:52,760
I've actually observed it.

793
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:59,080
So that is a behavior that can occur on that river, and that's one of my concerns.

794
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:04,100
The other concern is that it's a Pacific flyway, and one of the things about a Pacific

795
01:02:04,100 --> 01:02:09,740
flyway is that where they're going to start having migrations, I get ducks in my backyard

796
01:02:09,740 --> 01:02:10,420
pool.

797
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:19,020
They fly over the river and there are concerns about them picking up contamination.

798
01:02:19,940 --> 01:02:22,060
So that's a concern that I have.

799
01:02:23,100 --> 01:02:30,220
And the fire hazard, she did address that, but the fires, we do have fires on that river frequently

800
01:02:30,220 --> 01:02:36,400
from those that decide to have some time on the river, whatever they choose to do.

801
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:45,380
So warming fires probably and cooking fires are one of the sources of small fires there.

802
01:02:45,740 --> 01:02:51,120
So I have concerns about that that leads back into the security issue.

803
01:02:53,560 --> 01:03:03,920
I'll let it go at that, but theft in fire and security and Pacific Flyway and groundwater downstream.

804
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:06,740
stream. These are all my concerns. Thank you. Thank you.

805
01:03:18,220 --> 01:03:20,300
Good evening. Beth Fuller,

806
01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:27,320
resident of Duarte. First and foremost, I'd like to thank our city council for taking action

807
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:33,100
once you are made aware that the county, the EPA and FEMA were creating a hazardous situation

808
01:03:33,100 --> 01:03:39,960
for our community. As a resident of Duarte, I have the utmost empathy and compassion for

809
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:45,820
residents in Alcadena and Pasadena and Sierra Madre. Just like many others, I have friends

810
01:03:45,820 --> 01:03:53,880
who have lost homes. I do not believe for one minute that our county supervisors were

811
01:03:53,880 --> 01:04:02,880
unaware of the plans of the EPA and FEMA and had developed that they had developed

812
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:09,760
a plan to transport and sort toxic materials from the Eaton fire. How were the EPA and

813
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:19,360
FEMA even aware of that obscure piece of property known as the Lario Staging Area 1500 feet from

814
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:27,320
homes on Incanto Parkway their backyards back right up to that street and 500 feet if that to

815
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:28,980
the riverbed if

816
01:04:31,220 --> 01:04:35,600
someone I believe someone in the Parks and Recreation Department because they

817
01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:43,020
see that property offered it up said here we have a spot for you because they just like

818
01:04:43,020 --> 01:04:47,740
you guys already addressed they think that they're just going to pull one over on us and

819
01:04:47,740 --> 01:04:51,520
that we're going to sit back and just take it and allow them to do this to our city.

820
01:04:54,590 --> 01:05:02,980
I am sure I am sure that if you and the councils of Azusa Irwindale and Baldwin Park

821
01:05:02,980 --> 01:05:09,420
had been consulted, which is really a slap in the face that you weren't, a much

822
01:05:09,420 --> 01:05:13,940
more logical plan would have been developed, reducing the potential harm

823
01:05:13,940 --> 01:05:18,400
to tens of thousands of residents, including the cities of Arcadia and

824
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:22,980
Monrovia, as toxic materials are driven across 15 miles of residential

825
01:05:22,980 --> 01:05:29,940
streets. Toxic materials from the Palisades fire are being sorted on much

826
01:05:29,940 --> 01:05:34,460
smaller parcels, I don't know how many homes in the Palisades have been destroyed, but

827
01:05:34,460 --> 01:05:36,140
I would say it's probably equitable,

828
01:05:38,660 --> 01:05:42,220
on unused property on PCH and Topanga Canyon. Now if

829
01:05:42,220 --> 01:05:51,320
you've ever been there and they had video aerial pictures of the space on PCH and Topanga

830
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:56,580
today, it's a much smaller parcel. Why was that not an option in the Altadena area?

831
01:05:56,580 --> 01:06:02,720
area. That area is already contaminated. Why contaminate larger areas? This plan truly

832
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:08,440
uses no logic. FEMA and EPA and the county need to realize we are not just going to accept

833
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:14,620
their actions and their lack of consideration of our community. This is not over. And

834
01:06:14,620 --> 01:06:20,840
the EPA, I filed a complaint many years ago regarding the homeless people dropping feces

835
01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:25,600
and urine in our riverbed. And you know what I was told? We can't really do anything

836
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:30,620
about it. Yeah, we know it's an issue. That's unacceptable. Thank you.

837
01:06:37,180 --> 01:06:38,880
Next speaker, William

838
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:42,420
Murphy, followed by Ryan Serrano and Lucia Atencio.

839
01:06:49,490 --> 01:06:51,010
Thank you, Mayor and council members.

840
01:06:52,590 --> 01:06:58,670
I have two main concerns. Margaret, you addressed it with the streets. I know that the government's

841
01:06:58,670 --> 01:07:03,030
a big machine. I know once it gets rolling, it's hard to put the brakes on it. So my

842
01:07:03,030 --> 01:07:05,130
My concern is for the residents of Doherty

843
01:07:05,510 --> 01:07:06,950
and all the surrounding communities.

844
01:07:07,330 --> 01:07:10,050
And I would be very interested in establishing

845
01:07:10,050 --> 01:07:13,130
some type of street use that eliminates going

846
01:07:13,130 --> 01:07:13,870
through our town.

847
01:07:14,250 --> 01:07:15,830
If they can come in on Irwindale,

848
01:07:15,970 --> 01:07:17,090
however they have to do that,

849
01:07:17,110 --> 01:07:19,150
because I'm pretty sure they're not gonna stop

850
01:07:19,150 --> 01:07:19,810
their progress.

851
01:07:20,750 --> 01:07:22,110
The other concern is,

852
01:07:22,170 --> 01:07:24,650
is this gonna be designated as a hazardous site?

853
01:07:24,850 --> 01:07:27,750
Because anybody that sells their property in Doherty now

854
01:07:27,750 --> 01:07:29,230
is gonna have to list that.

855
01:07:30,850 --> 01:07:32,350
It's gonna have to be declared

856
01:07:32,350 --> 01:07:35,230
that you live within so many miles of a hazardous land,

857
01:07:35,570 --> 01:07:36,410
hazardous site.

858
01:07:37,050 --> 01:07:38,850
And I'm very concerned about that.

859
01:07:39,150 --> 01:07:41,750
So I don't know if there's any kind of stipulation

860
01:07:41,750 --> 01:07:43,130
that the EPA can do,

861
01:07:43,230 --> 01:07:46,490
or some way that they can do their process and procedures

862
01:07:46,860 --> 01:07:49,510
so that it eliminates that area being established

863
01:07:49,510 --> 01:07:50,970
as a hazardous waste site.

864
01:07:52,230 --> 01:07:53,390
That's it, thank you.

865
01:07:58,820 --> 01:08:01,480
Mayor, if I can, just real quick,

866
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:04,520
not because we're gonna sit here and answer all questions,

867
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:10,760
but I do did want to point out that in working with Eric Knowl who is the site supervisor

868
01:08:11,300 --> 01:08:17,360
Over there for the EPA. They are going to transport on the 210 state instead of taking surface streets

869
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:23,500
That's supposed to start occurring tomorrow small victory. Obviously the bigger victory is not having it at that site

870
01:08:24,560 --> 01:08:30,100
Yeah, I don't know we don't we don't they they have yet to give us any routes even what surface streets

871
01:08:30,100 --> 01:08:36,960
But that was the insurance that at least it would be the 210 so I don't know what route or what the off-ramp is

872
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:41,560
Mr. Savannah. Thank you, sir

873
01:08:42,100 --> 01:08:46,560
Good evening. Mr. Mayor City Council city staff and all those in attendance to tonight

874
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:52,640
My name is Ryan Serrano, and I serve as Deputy District Director with the office. Excuse me of Supervisor Hilda Solis

875
01:08:53,420 --> 01:08:57,160
And I'm here tonight to provide a statement on behalf of chair pro temp and

876
01:08:57,160 --> 01:09:01,340
Supervisor to the first district Supervisor Solis the statement begins

877
01:09:01,340 --> 01:09:06,940
I am deeply concerned by the Environmental Protection Agency and their decision to designate

878
01:09:06,940 --> 01:09:10,980
Lario Park as a collection and processing site for hazardous materials.

879
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:17,100
Left behind by the Eaton fire, including lithium ion electric vehicle batteries, these

880
01:09:17,100 --> 01:09:21,500
materials pose significant environmental and health risks, especially in residential areas.

881
01:09:22,240 --> 01:09:27,300
The EPA as a federal agency holds authority over this matter and its actions supersede

882
01:09:27,300 --> 01:09:32,940
local jurisdiction given the projects takes place on federal land. While I

883
01:09:32,940 --> 01:09:35,860
recognize the importance of addressing the aftermath of the fire and

884
01:09:35,860 --> 01:09:39,800
ensuring proper disposal of hazardous waste, this federal project has not

885
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:44,040
included consultation or consideration of the local communities that will be

886
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:48,040
directly affected. The potential risk associated in the hazardous materials

887
01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:51,760
particularly lithium electric vehicle batteries which are highly

888
01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:55,400
flammable impose environmental contamination risks and are a matter

889
01:09:55,400 --> 01:10:00,400
of significant concern, the removal of these materials should not come at the cost of creating

890
01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:05,820
a toxic environment for communities already disproportionately impacted by pollution.

891
01:10:06,700 --> 01:10:11,380
To that end, my office has joined a site visit at Lario Park with Congressman Gil Cisneros

892
01:10:11,380 --> 01:10:15,260
and local leaders to raise critical questions directly with EPA representatives.

893
01:10:16,040 --> 01:10:20,460
As we continue to learn more about the operations plans, I urge our federal agencies

894
01:10:20,460 --> 01:10:24,780
to keep constituents well informed and to mitigate these impacts on our communities.

895
01:10:25,780 --> 01:10:26,240
Thank you.

896
01:10:34,500 --> 01:10:40,480
Good evening. My name is Lucia Atencio. I'm a resident in Fish Canyon in Duarte here.

897
01:10:42,020 --> 01:10:47,080
And I don't think that Tara answered the question about the Irwindale Speedway.

898
01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:50,720
Did she answer that question about looking into that?

899
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:56,360
I want to know why that wasn't looked at as an option because that

900
01:10:56,360 --> 01:11:00,620
That does seem like a good, other than the Altadena area, the parks over there.

901
01:11:01,620 --> 01:11:08,420
And then that area, the Laurier Park is a highly windy area.

902
01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:15,560
Between the two mountains, the Azusa Canyon and the Fish Canyon Mountain, I want to know

903
01:11:16,380 --> 01:11:20,560
how does the EPA monitor the air in a windy corridor?

904
01:11:21,420 --> 01:11:27,380
By the time the contaminant is in the air and sets off alerts if it does, the contaminant

905
01:11:27,380 --> 01:11:32,660
is gone and then it's too late, a little too late, and I'm just wondering what the protocol

906
01:11:32,660 --> 01:11:33,600
on that is.

907
01:11:35,360 --> 01:11:41,580
And if the protocol was not followed to notify the surrounding cities in the first place,

908
01:11:41,980 --> 01:11:45,960
how can we be confident that they're going to follow protocol when they are handling

909
01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:48,300
these contaminants, these hazardous materials?

910
01:11:52,850 --> 01:11:55,650
They've already lost their credibility as far as I'm concerned.

911
01:11:58,540 --> 01:12:03,500
And I think that, yes, that eat and fire should be your number one priority, clean up, yes,

912
01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:09,960
it should be, but not at expense of the other people of us here in Duarte and the surrounding

913
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:10,540
communities.

914
01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:12,360
And that's all I have.

915
01:12:12,500 --> 01:12:12,820
Thank you.

916
01:12:13,180 --> 01:12:13,500
Thank you.

917
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:25,740
Next speaker is Lucia Atencio, followed by Leticia Martinez and David Ranic.

918
01:12:34,730 --> 01:12:35,610
So Leticia Martinez.

919
01:12:35,610 --> 01:12:36,610
Well,

920
01:12:40,460 --> 01:12:49,380
good evening to all. I speak Spanish. So, I want to know why they chose the middle

921
01:12:49,380 --> 01:12:57,920
of the city, in the middle of so many cities to put their garbage.

922
01:13:01,260 --> 01:13:04,140
Before they are putting

923
01:13:26,310 --> 01:13:31,550
Her question is why was this location chosen to be put between three cities?

924
01:13:31,550 --> 01:13:34,350
Oh, we have a translator.

925
01:13:36,230 --> 01:13:37,610
Did you want to?

926
01:13:39,250 --> 01:13:41,090
I'm sorry, I just got here.

927
01:13:42,350 --> 01:13:42,650
Oh, perfect.

928
01:13:42,870 --> 01:13:47,070
She just wanted to know why was this location picked to be put in between three cities.

929
01:13:48,290 --> 01:13:52,850
If the residents are nervous and scared at this moment before the materials are even here.

930
01:13:53,310 --> 01:14:00,670
How do you think the residents will feel if years from now there are any diseases or effects from the material that was disposed

931
01:14:00,670 --> 01:14:03,010
or process for giving me in this area.

932
01:14:08,180 --> 01:14:08,900
Thank you.

933
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:22,060
Hi, Mr. Mayor, Council members.

934
01:14:22,480 --> 01:14:26,760
My name is David Ronk and I live at 617 Mel Canyon Road

935
01:14:27,460 --> 01:14:30,440
right across Mel Canyon from Encanto Park,

936
01:14:30,580 --> 01:14:33,780
very close to the Lario Canyon area.

937
01:14:35,040 --> 01:14:38,380
My concern is mostly why they put this site

938
01:14:38,380 --> 01:14:39,540
right next to a river

939
01:14:39,540 --> 01:14:41,600
where people get their drinking water.

940
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:50,500
And I also had a concern with one of the contaminants that wasn't listed as being moved but asbestos

941
01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:59,740
Many of the houses up and out the Dina were built in the 20s. I had a friend who lost one the houses were full of asbestos

942
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:04,420
And the trucks just driving through the area are going to pick that up, they're going to

943
01:15:04,420 --> 01:15:07,700
carry it with them, they're going to carry it on their wheels, they're going to bring

944
01:15:07,700 --> 01:15:14,580
it into the Lario Canyon area and that asbestos as we're just getting into our rainy season

945
01:15:14,580 --> 01:15:18,400
is going to end up in our river and it's going to end up in our drinking water.

946
01:15:19,500 --> 01:15:26,240
So even though they're not actively picking that up, it's, I talked to somebody just

947
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:31,560
on Sunday, who is one of the people who goes in and decontaminates houses with asbestos.

948
01:15:32,180 --> 01:15:37,320
And he was telling me that just from the fire, I should be taking my shoes off and watering

949
01:15:37,320 --> 01:15:43,520
down my lawn just to get rid of the asbestos that blew over on the winds without having

950
01:15:43,520 --> 01:15:46,740
somebody driving it in and putting it into our water supply.

951
01:15:47,500 --> 01:15:48,280
Thank you very much.

952
01:15:48,480 --> 01:15:48,660
Thank you.

953
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:59,840
Next speaker is John, followed by Mary Somerlott and Andrea Herrera.

954
01:16:08,500 --> 01:16:10,240
Good evening. Thank you very much.

955
01:16:11,260 --> 01:16:12,720
I live in the Doherty.

956
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:17,960
I heard Ms. Tara mention the word emergency a number of times.

957
01:16:18,660 --> 01:16:25,540
It seems to me that when you have an emergency, you have the license to act as an emergency.

958
01:16:25,540 --> 01:16:33,040
but there apparently is something called the emergency planning community

959
01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:41,740
right to know act and apparently the community has the right to know when

960
01:16:41,740 --> 01:16:48,420
there's emergency planning I don't know if the attorneys know about this act I

961
01:16:48,420 --> 01:16:51,700
don't know if this is a violation of the act I don't know if you know about

962
01:16:51,700 --> 01:17:01,800
the Act, but it's very self-evident, emergency, planning, community, right-to-know Act. That's

963
01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:04,500
all I can tell you. Thank you.

964
01:17:14,520 --> 01:17:22,520
I'm Mary Summerlott. I live very close to the site. I'm on the golf course area, Rancho

965
01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:31,300
I find it ironic that it should be called the

966
01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:38,960
protection agency because I sure don't

967
01:17:38,960 --> 01:17:40,960
feel that we are being protected,

968
01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:50,140
not being protected by bringing untold thousands of

969
01:17:50,140 --> 01:17:56,740
tons of hazardous waste to our community and to the shores of the San Gabriel River.

970
01:17:56,740 --> 01:18:00,100
What could possibly go wrong?

971
01:18:02,660 --> 01:18:09,040
The residents of Duarte are horrified that this situation has been inflicted upon us,

972
01:18:09,780 --> 01:18:11,860
and it must be stopped.

973
01:18:12,120 --> 01:18:12,800
We are scared.

974
01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:15,800
Please, please stop it.

975
01:18:16,220 --> 01:18:16,680
Thank you.

976
01:18:17,640 --> 01:18:18,520
Thank you.

977
01:18:23,460 --> 01:18:28,540
The next speaker is Andrea Herrera followed by Melanie Pitts and James Finley.

978
01:18:33,220 --> 01:18:33,700
Hello.

979
01:18:34,040 --> 01:18:34,780
I'm Andrea Herrera.

980
01:18:34,940 --> 01:18:35,940
I'm a resident of Duarte.

981
01:18:35,940 --> 01:18:40,220
already have a nine-month-old baby and a five-year-old that currently attends Royal Oaks.

982
01:18:41,460 --> 01:18:47,800
We have the site that is really close within a mile to a mile and a half of three of our

983
01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:51,020
schools, so concerns for children.

984
01:18:52,480 --> 01:18:58,060
I also heard, it was said right now, that there will not be tons of materials.

985
01:18:58,880 --> 01:19:02,840
So if it's not tons of materials, how come they cannot be kept there?

986
01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:07,540
So, it seems that you don't need that much space if you said it's definitely not tons.

987
01:19:08,620 --> 01:19:14,160
Also as per head of the LA EPA office, it says that stage one will take two to three

988
01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:14,460
months.

989
01:19:14,800 --> 01:19:16,700
This was via Zoom meeting.

990
01:19:17,220 --> 01:19:21,260
So definitely not 30 days and that was head of the LA EPA office.

991
01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:24,920
You also said that you needed an area with no wind.

992
01:19:25,020 --> 01:19:25,960
Somebody brought up a great point.

993
01:19:26,080 --> 01:19:29,660
It's a canyon and canyons have wind, that's what they're known for.

994
01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:31,660
So definitely not a great place to do it.

995
01:19:31,660 --> 01:19:38,000
You also said that ashes are not going to be brought here, so our concern would be like,

996
01:19:38,240 --> 01:19:39,680
I don't know much about fires.

997
01:19:40,300 --> 01:19:47,900
But how is it that a pesticide bottle that burned and now it's ashes not going to be brought

998
01:19:47,900 --> 01:19:50,100
here as ashes?

999
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:55,860
So if those need to be transported because I've also been in Altadena, I have many friends

1000
01:19:55,860 --> 01:19:56,840
that are in Altadena.

1001
01:19:57,080 --> 01:19:57,880
My heart goes out.

1002
01:19:58,000 --> 01:19:59,260
I've been volunteering in Altadena.

1003
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:04,260
So bringing that here as ashes are going to be volatile,

1004
01:20:05,260 --> 01:20:06,540
they're going to be spread everywhere.

1005
01:20:06,840 --> 01:20:08,800
And if they're going to be brought through the back streets,

1006
01:20:08,900 --> 01:20:10,020
they're going to be crossing schools,

1007
01:20:10,500 --> 01:20:11,500
they're going to be crossing parks,

1008
01:20:11,780 --> 01:20:12,820
they're going to be crossing homes

1009
01:20:12,820 --> 01:20:15,820
for at least two to three months, as it was said.

1010
01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:20,320
So are we going to be provided with filters?

1011
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:21,880
Are we going to be provided with masks?

1012
01:20:22,080 --> 01:20:23,700
Like what's going to happen at our schools

1013
01:20:23,700 --> 01:20:25,920
for our children, no outdoor play?

1014
01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:27,980
Like what's going to happen also from the city

1015
01:20:27,980 --> 01:20:31,920
and from the school board, what's going to happen to our schools that are around that area,

1016
01:20:32,280 --> 01:20:33,700
when winds do pick up.

1017
01:20:35,380 --> 01:20:38,700
So we're told not even to blow our leaves.

1018
01:20:39,360 --> 01:20:40,740
Ellie County said don't blow our leaves.

1019
01:20:41,020 --> 01:20:45,400
But here we are with those beds, and as you said, they were not with the blue bins

1020
01:20:45,400 --> 01:20:46,040
with lids.

1021
01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:48,240
They were not completely sealed.

1022
01:20:48,580 --> 01:20:55,180
So we're having these ashes just flying around when they told us we cannot be even

1023
01:20:55,180 --> 01:20:56,300
blowing our yards.

1024
01:20:56,300 --> 01:21:01,920
So how come we're spreading this with truckloads because that's what my understanding is even if it's not tons

1025
01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:03,540
It's gonna be a certain amount of

1026
01:21:03,540 --> 01:21:08,460
Liquids that were burned and now you need to pick those up and bring them over here to be sorted again

1027
01:21:08,460 --> 01:21:12,580
So this needs to be done on site and I see that you see knows like, you know, I wish it

1028
01:21:12,580 --> 01:21:15,800
Yeah, so so so that's what you know, like are understood

1029
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:21,980
This is where my mind of somebody who doesn't know it's going so it's going to like I cannot let my kids play on

1030
01:21:21,980 --> 01:21:25,840
My backyard because I live right up on Huntington and now all of this is gonna be

1031
01:21:26,440 --> 01:21:31,480
Blowing 24 seven to be able to meet that that line of the two to three months

1032
01:21:32,040 --> 01:21:32,600
Okay

1033
01:21:34,940 --> 01:21:36,060
Thank you

1034
01:21:36,060 --> 01:21:41,180
For future comments folks if you can please address them to us on the council

1035
01:21:41,780 --> 01:21:47,200
Tomorrow's town hall you can address your questions directly to the EPA. No, yes, but just for future and Tara

1036
01:21:47,200 --> 01:21:49,280
The the backwards was brought up again

1037
01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:55,180
Can you confirm that the 210 freeway will be utilized since you are the decision maker on that?

1038
01:21:57,700 --> 01:22:03,640
Okay go ahead. Hi and my voice might be a little shaky because I feel so

1039
01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:08,820
passionate about this like the last speaker I have a small child who loves

1040
01:22:08,820 --> 01:22:13,820
in Canto Park and loves to play outside and we live off Huntington and I feel

1041
01:22:13,820 --> 01:22:19,020
like I'm not gonna be able to have him drink water or even go outside because

1042
01:22:19,020 --> 01:22:24,200
of this like most of us I know several families who lost everything and both

1043
01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:30,560
eaten in Palisades fires actually, and what has happened is horrible. But I want to turn

1044
01:22:30,560 --> 01:22:36,220
to the Lario Park plan. It's frankly negligent that no one in this room knew a single thing

1045
01:22:36,220 --> 01:22:41,880
about this until we heard about it on the NBC4 report. My educational background is

1046
01:22:41,880 --> 01:22:47,020
public health. I have 15 years experience in the public health industry. And those

1047
01:22:47,020 --> 01:22:52,420
of us in public health know that the worst atrocities occur when the public is kept

1048
01:22:52,420 --> 01:22:59,900
in the dark. My main concerns are two-fold. Number one, the water. We need continuous monitoring

1049
01:22:59,900 --> 01:23:04,780
of the water throughout the whole process, not just the beginning and the end, because

1050
01:23:04,780 --> 01:23:09,400
things could have, you know, floated downstream by then. We need continuous monitoring throughout

1051
01:23:09,400 --> 01:23:13,380
the process. I know there's a lot of media here today. If I could stress one thing

1052
01:23:13,380 --> 01:23:20,200
to LA County, it's that some aspect of your water comes from the San Gabriel River,

1053
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:24,480
which is in feet. We're not talking miles, we're talking feet of these

1054
01:23:24,480 --> 01:23:30,080
activities. The second piece is the air. Some of the biggest frustration voiced by

1055
01:23:30,080 --> 01:23:36,800
those in Altadena has been that the AQI does not adequately monitor asbestos

1056
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:42,420
in lead and it actually takes some really advanced monitoring that's

1057
01:23:42,420 --> 01:23:46,020
going on. The city of Pasadena is working with Caltech to monitor this

1058
01:23:46,020 --> 01:23:51,440
ongoing. So we need that level of monitoring because I cannot trust the AQI. I have not

1059
01:23:51,440 --> 01:23:57,860
been trusting the AQI the last month. I have not gone outside without a mask because of

1060
01:23:57,860 --> 01:24:02,720
it. And then finally, I just want to address a comment that was made on the NBC4 story

1061
01:24:02,720 --> 01:24:06,420
that EPA crews don't want to do any of this type of activity out there in the

1062
01:24:06,420 --> 01:24:12,180
middle of the community. Duarte, Azusa, Irwindale, our neighbors are unhoused in

1063
01:24:12,180 --> 01:24:18,980
riverbed we are all a community this is literally happening in the middle of our community um and

1064
01:24:18,980 --> 01:24:23,780
our health our physical and mental health matters I've yet to hear a single reason

1065
01:24:24,350 --> 01:24:30,320
shared today of why the already burned down areas in Altadena cannot be used um for this

1066
01:24:30,320 --> 01:24:35,960
activity there's literally been no response to that so thank you thank you

1067
01:24:41,080 --> 01:24:42,720
next speaker is

1068
01:24:42,720 --> 01:24:44,460
James Finley, followed by Terry Browning.

1069
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:48,980
Good evening, Council.

1070
01:24:49,500 --> 01:24:50,400
My name is James Finley.

1071
01:24:50,580 --> 01:24:53,540
I do live over in the Fish Canyon area.

1072
01:24:53,940 --> 01:24:57,820
I was there for the fish fire several years ago,

1073
01:24:57,860 --> 01:25:01,380
and then the floods subsequently that happened afterwards.

1074
01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:04,840
And as was pointed out by Mr. Villalobos,

1075
01:25:05,100 --> 01:25:09,420
that material all had to stay in our neighborhood

1076
01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:12,400
until it was tested and found safe

1077
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:14,420
before it was taken somewhere else.

1078
01:25:15,600 --> 01:25:18,340
And so I really think that that should be the model

1079
01:25:18,340 --> 01:25:19,360
that should be followed.

1080
01:25:20,400 --> 01:25:24,140
I also am a member of the school board president,

1081
01:25:24,300 --> 01:25:26,280
the school board here in Duarte.

1082
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:30,360
And I would really like to echo what that mother,

1083
01:25:30,740 --> 01:25:32,040
the two mothers before me said.

1084
01:25:32,620 --> 01:25:36,640
There is very real concern among our families

1085
01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:38,780
about what is happening.

1086
01:25:39,940 --> 01:25:43,520
And it is if anyone who's ever ridden their bike

1087
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:49,360
up the Lario Trail knows about that headwind that you're going to go into. There is always

1088
01:25:49,360 --> 01:25:57,880
wind there. Always. And having that material blown around our city is an inevitability.

1089
01:25:58,700 --> 01:26:06,320
These fires in Eaton Canyon happened 15 miles away. Everybody on Wednesday morning woke up

1090
01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:14,600
with ash on their car. It is not going to stay there. And as has been brought up, we

1091
01:26:14,600 --> 01:26:22,420
have, you know, a very important water source right there next to that site. And one question

1092
01:26:22,420 --> 01:26:28,140
that I really would like to get to wrap my head around, I think everyone would, if

1093
01:26:28,140 --> 01:26:35,240
it is not safe for it to be there, why is it safe for it to be here? And I'd really

1094
01:26:35,240 --> 01:26:42,340
like that answer. Thank you. Thank you Dr. Finley. Do you have any more cards Ms. Juarez?

1095
01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:45,300
Thank you.

1096
01:26:46,640 --> 01:26:52,520
Hello my name is Terry Browning and I live on Las Lomas Road above Royal Oaks Park.

1097
01:26:53,500 --> 01:27:00,220
And my biggest concern was with the testing, the testing that's going to be done once

1098
01:27:00,220 --> 01:27:06,460
once, or has been done once at the start of this activity and will be done once again

1099
01:27:06,460 --> 01:27:07,120
at the end.

1100
01:27:08,560 --> 01:27:15,720
My concern is that the test is faulty because we've all been getting those emergency alerts

1101
01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:16,760
with the air quality.

1102
01:27:17,420 --> 01:27:23,920
And so the tests that they're getting are going to be tests that have all these particles

1103
01:27:23,920 --> 01:27:27,060
in the air that are coming from the fire and who knows what.

1104
01:27:27,060 --> 01:27:33,380
And so when they do the test again at the end of the 30 days, those particulates are still going to be in the air.

1105
01:27:33,660 --> 01:27:38,320
It's going to be that same faulty test.

1106
01:27:39,180 --> 01:27:47,020
So how are they going to ensure that our air quality is good and that those tests are valid when they leave

1107
01:27:47,020 --> 01:27:49,460
and they say that they're leaving it like they found it?

1108
01:27:50,460 --> 01:27:51,320
And that's it.

1109
01:27:52,560 --> 01:27:53,240
Thank you.

1110
01:28:06,350 --> 01:28:12,550
I want to voice my appreciation for you. You took this very seriously. You acted upon it

1111
01:28:12,550 --> 01:28:18,790
right away. I was a concerned citizen that sent some texts. I was one of the folks that

1112
01:28:18,790 --> 01:28:25,850
was speaking on Facebook. I don't know, next door, but I do know about it. And so I want

1113
01:28:25,850 --> 01:28:32,790
to make sure that you are honored and we come here and we say thank you because a lot of

1114
01:28:32,790 --> 01:28:33,410
this reaction,

1115
01:28:35,760 --> 01:28:42,020
a lot of the reaction and the consequence of it is because of your work

1116
01:28:42,020 --> 01:28:47,220
and so I'm very grateful about it. What I would like to ask from you is to please

1117
01:28:47,220 --> 01:28:50,060
continue with

1118
01:28:53,260 --> 01:28:55,660
the educated questions for the EPA.

1119
01:28:57,980 --> 01:28:59,800
I was listening to some of the

1120
01:28:59,800 --> 01:29:02,800
questions and I was flabbergasted by some of the responses.

1121
01:29:03,880 --> 01:29:10,220
You see the transportation of those hazardous materials is the EPA who says how to do that.

1122
01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:13,440
Seal containers.

1123
01:29:14,940 --> 01:29:16,660
You can go look in there right now.

1124
01:29:17,300 --> 01:29:18,380
Go to the EPA site.

1125
01:29:19,160 --> 01:29:22,300
It actually spells out how to transport asbestos.

1126
01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:25,040
It says how to do it and how not to do it.

1127
01:29:25,480 --> 01:29:26,840
It references to CIFRA.

1128
01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:27,900
Okay?

1129
01:29:27,900 --> 01:29:30,620
The actual federal law on how you're supposed to do it.

1130
01:29:31,080 --> 01:29:35,700
If you want to reference more than that, then go to the California CHP website, which also

1131
01:29:35,700 --> 01:29:36,380
tells you all that.

1132
01:29:36,940 --> 01:29:37,540
It's all there.

1133
01:29:38,640 --> 01:29:46,420
I was flabbergasted to hear officials not really be able to answer that.

1134
01:29:46,780 --> 01:29:52,900
And perhaps the question may not have made sense at the moment, and so I want to ask

1135
01:29:52,900 --> 01:29:59,580
you to please press them on that because if we're seeing state-bed trucks

1136
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:08,240
Transporting asbestos laden material. Okay. On an open canvas bag. There's a problem.

1137
01:30:09,220 --> 01:30:20,660
If we're dumping this material, you guys can go look at it, on dirt that we put a tarp on the floor.

1138
01:30:22,020 --> 01:30:25,460
I don't know how that's supposed to stop leakage. A tarp.

1139
01:30:26,460 --> 01:30:29,580
The same as we can go to Home Depot, all right?

1140
01:30:31,160 --> 01:30:31,900
That's what's there.

1141
01:30:32,300 --> 01:30:32,860
Go see it.

1142
01:30:32,880 --> 01:30:33,820
It's not being made up.

1143
01:30:33,960 --> 01:30:35,640
It's there, okay?

1144
01:30:36,260 --> 01:30:37,940
So please continue to press that.

1145
01:30:38,040 --> 01:30:38,760
I really appreciate it.

1146
01:30:39,220 --> 01:30:39,800
Thank you.

1147
01:30:40,640 --> 01:30:41,220
Thank you.

1148
01:30:47,930 --> 01:30:48,630
Council, thanks.

1149
01:30:48,790 --> 01:30:50,010
My name is Travis Patterson.

1150
01:30:51,090 --> 01:30:54,150
It's going to be hard for me to even talk because I'm so upset.

1151
01:30:55,790 --> 01:30:59,970
I live probably in one of the closest houses to the site, about 1,500 feet.

1152
01:30:59,970 --> 01:31:04,510
And I'm extremely concerned for my family and my children.

1153
01:31:05,090 --> 01:31:07,410
We don't even think we're going to be able to stay.

1154
01:31:11,230 --> 01:31:17,470
Unfortunately, based on what's happened this evening, I think the EPA has very little credibility.

1155
01:31:17,970 --> 01:31:24,590
And I honestly, with all due respect, I don't believe that they are our ally or our friend in this.

1156
01:31:26,010 --> 01:31:34,510
I believe that they went behind our back and set this up on purpose so that we

1157
01:31:34,510 --> 01:31:39,530
wouldn't have a chance to fight back against it and try to stop it.

1158
01:31:42,620 --> 01:31:45,800
I think

1159
01:31:45,800 --> 01:31:53,640
they gave some very concerning answers. Mr. King said will debris from the

1160
01:31:53,640 --> 01:31:59,840
other fire be brought here and the answer was there's another site for for that

1161
01:31:59,840 --> 01:32:06,200
debris. It was a yes or no question and you were not given a yes or no answer. So

1162
01:32:06,200 --> 01:32:12,120
was that a workaround answer? Was that trying to give us an answer without

1163
01:32:12,120 --> 01:32:16,500
giving us an answer? Will that material be here? It's a yes or no question. Is

1164
01:32:16,500 --> 01:32:20,840
coming over here or not? The answer was it's going, we have other sites.

1165
01:32:23,560 --> 01:32:24,400
The one

1166
01:32:24,400 --> 01:32:30,800
month thing, I don't believe that for a second, and I worry that as soon as they

1167
01:32:30,800 --> 01:32:36,100
say one month, phase one, what's going to be done with the site next? What will

1168
01:32:36,100 --> 01:32:41,700
they try to exploit that land for next? What's coming after this even when

1169
01:32:41,700 --> 01:32:44,860
they're done with phase one? They say, well we already got a site here, it's

1170
01:32:44,860 --> 01:32:50,080
already set up how you know let's just bring this here too you know we have

1171
01:32:50,080 --> 01:32:55,240
not been forthright with us and I implore you the council in the city to do

1172
01:32:55,240 --> 01:33:02,040
everything in our power to stop this immediately I'm hoping I

1173
01:33:05,400 --> 01:33:07,640
implore the the

1174
01:33:07,640 --> 01:33:16,200
lawyers and the city itself to sue to stop an injunction and let let let

1175
01:33:16,200 --> 01:33:22,540
Let residents know what lawyers we can contact to file class action when our property values

1176
01:33:22,540 --> 01:33:31,820
are destroyed and we have to mark our properties as potentially contaminated properties and

1177
01:33:31,820 --> 01:33:36,360
who we call when we start to have, when we can start to develop respiratory illnesses

1178
01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:44,020
because I work in the private sector and I know that there's a due process which

1179
01:33:44,020 --> 01:33:49,640
was not followed here and I have there's no doubt in my mind that they are not

1180
01:33:49,640 --> 01:33:55,140
gonna be able to contain it thank you thank you Travis I

1181
01:33:58,690 --> 01:33:59,930
I want to make sure

1182
01:33:59,930 --> 01:34:02,850
we give everybody the opportunity to speak that wants to speak so just for

1183
01:34:02,850 --> 01:34:06,850
the for time we're gonna do two minutes we have more cards I have one more card

1184
01:34:06,850 --> 01:34:10,970
mayor okay we do we'll do three minutes after that we'll go down to two minutes

1185
01:34:10,970 --> 01:34:17,070
and I remind residents that there is a town hall tomorrow speaker is Joel

1186
01:34:17,070 --> 01:34:17,510
Gregor?

1187
01:34:27,110 --> 01:34:32,770
Thank you for, you know, being here and giving us all the information. My name

1188
01:34:32,770 --> 01:34:39,590
is Joel Rigor. I moved here two years ago. We bought our house on Highland Avenue. So

1189
01:34:40,130 --> 01:34:44,690
I just feel like I have to talk because I used to work with asbestos for seven years

1190
01:34:44,690 --> 01:34:51,150
and it's guaranteed that asbestos is in the air, right? And when I did asbestos,

1191
01:34:51,150 --> 01:34:53,490
is we would have to contain the area.

1192
01:34:53,990 --> 01:34:57,490
And I worked in fire zones where you have to contain it.

1193
01:34:57,610 --> 01:35:00,030
It has to be bagged, triple-bagged, double-bagged.

1194
01:35:00,370 --> 01:35:02,850
And then it's loaded into a container or a truck

1195
01:35:02,850 --> 01:35:05,550
that's also bagged and has plastic in it.

1196
01:35:05,870 --> 01:35:08,250
So if they're saying that they're bringing that over here,

1197
01:35:08,430 --> 01:35:10,710
it's not in a sealed container.

1198
01:35:11,030 --> 01:35:14,370
So on the way here, it's giving to everyone.

1199
01:35:14,810 --> 01:35:17,230
So it's guaranteed that there's gonna be a species

1200
01:35:17,750 --> 01:35:20,070
here in the air and on the ground

1201
01:35:20,070 --> 01:35:26,030
because it's not being properly sealed and that's basically my main concern and

1202
01:35:26,030 --> 01:35:28,410
why I had to talk. Thank you sir.

1203
01:35:34,100 --> 01:35:36,760
Two minutes. Doris Anderson.

1204
01:35:38,780 --> 01:35:41,180
Rosalba Breseda a resident

1205
01:35:41,180 --> 01:35:48,320
from Irwindill and Miss Tara I don't believe you're the one that makes the

1206
01:35:48,320 --> 01:35:54,280
final decision. I believe there's someone else behind all this and

1207
01:35:54,280 --> 01:36:02,220
And I brought these waters just to show that maybe this might be some of the water that's

1208
01:36:02,220 --> 01:36:09,640
going to be the last good water because those toxics are very close to all of us.

1209
01:36:10,540 --> 01:36:15,640
And there was a comment on the news that said, we can't take it to the desert because

1210
01:36:15,640 --> 01:36:18,140
the animals might get hurt.

1211
01:36:19,000 --> 01:36:19,940
What are we?

1212
01:36:20,400 --> 01:36:22,080
Mr. Mayor, what are we?

1213
01:36:22,080 --> 01:36:30,700
You know, I feel that right this moment, if all the mayors of the city surrounding affected,

1214
01:36:31,660 --> 01:36:42,160
Irwindale, Baldwin Park, Azusa, Duarte, and I believe Arcadia, should get together and

1215
01:36:42,160 --> 01:36:48,460
send those talks back, send them right back, just like they brought them in, with no permits

1216
01:36:48,460 --> 01:36:54,140
permits because they do need permits to bring those trucks in. Send them right back because

1217
01:36:55,120 --> 01:37:01,220
what do they want? Now, all of us dying instead of burning, now we're all going to die with

1218
01:37:01,220 --> 01:37:08,960
toxins and stuff. Please. And I believe we need more representatives from the EPA and

1219
01:37:08,960 --> 01:37:15,120
FEMA so they could answer all these questions. Ms. Tara, it was a lot of questions for

1220
01:37:15,120 --> 01:37:21,680
you. I commend you for being here and standing here and taking it from all of us, but there's

1221
01:37:21,680 --> 01:37:27,160
somebody else besides you that decided to bring them to this area. Thank you very much.

1222
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:28,340
Thank you.

1223
01:37:32,210 --> 01:37:38,270
Next speaker is Doris Anderson, followed by Tina Ermickson, and looks like

1224
01:37:38,270 --> 01:37:39,830
Joe Chapjin.

1225
01:37:42,230 --> 01:37:47,910
Good evening, Tara. First of all, I want to thank you very much for

1226
01:37:47,910 --> 01:37:54,010
coming out and trying to answer the questions, quite to answer the questions.

1227
01:37:54,810 --> 01:38:03,350
However, based upon the amount of people who are here, you know that this community does

1228
01:38:03,350 --> 01:38:05,110
not want this situation.

1229
01:38:06,910 --> 01:38:13,030
Sometimes it's hard to say, I made a mistake, or we made a mistake.

1230
01:38:13,030 --> 01:38:21,170
I think that you should communicate to your supervisors that they have made a

1231
01:38:21,170 --> 01:38:29,710
mistake and that they should keep this situation in the Al Tadena area. I thank

1232
01:38:29,710 --> 01:38:37,070
you. Oh Tara, thank you because you are writing the notes down. Excellent. So go

1233
01:38:37,070 --> 01:38:44,470
back and tell them that you have a community that is very very upset and we

1234
01:38:44,470 --> 01:38:49,530
shall remember this when it comes time to vote. Thank you.

1235
01:38:55,250 --> 01:38:58,470
Thank the city council for letting us know.

1236
01:38:58,550 --> 01:39:00,890
Thank you Doris. You are Nura Uno.

1237
01:39:06,460 --> 01:39:10,840
Hi my name is Tina Irmakasen and I'm a homeowner here in

1238
01:39:11,780 --> 01:39:19,680
And I want to say thank you to the council for taking up your regular meeting to address

1239
01:39:19,680 --> 01:39:21,040
this very important issue.

1240
01:39:22,430 --> 01:39:30,980
I just want to point out that this meeting and the comments from the EPA created more

1241
01:39:30,980 --> 01:39:36,520
confusion for me because I heard the word storage and I heard the word sorting.

1242
01:39:36,520 --> 01:39:41,080
And then not from the EPA, I heard processing.

1243
01:39:42,100 --> 01:39:46,000
So what exactly is going on on that site?

1244
01:39:46,580 --> 01:39:48,620
Is it storage and sorting?

1245
01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:57,780
Is it just storage of materials that are already sealed and in U.S. DOT approved trucks?

1246
01:39:58,720 --> 01:40:00,740
What is the situation?

1247
01:40:01,920 --> 01:40:08,620
from the people who talked about the asbestos and the trucks coming with all of the debris,

1248
01:40:09,180 --> 01:40:15,600
will the trucks be cleaned before they leave Altadena and travel through six different municipalities?

1249
01:40:16,480 --> 01:40:17,740
What is that situation?

1250
01:40:18,940 --> 01:40:24,420
So I think from the beginning we need to know what is the difference between storage and sorting.

1251
01:40:24,820 --> 01:40:25,780
What is processing?

1252
01:40:26,260 --> 01:40:27,560
Is that going to happen here?

1253
01:40:27,560 --> 01:40:31,360
I mean, we don't even know the basic gist of it.

1254
01:40:32,660 --> 01:40:33,320
Thank you.

1255
01:40:33,600 --> 01:40:34,880
Thank you.

1256
01:40:40,000 --> 01:40:40,740
Ms. Juarez?

1257
01:40:43,340 --> 01:40:44,900
The next speaker is on her way up.

1258
01:40:45,140 --> 01:40:45,640
Okay, thank you.

1259
01:40:46,420 --> 01:40:47,740
And that would be followed by,

1260
01:40:47,940 --> 01:40:50,600
this speaker would be followed by Neil Furukawa.

1261
01:40:51,560 --> 01:40:52,360
Good evening.

1262
01:40:52,760 --> 01:40:53,900
My name is Zoe Chapchin,

1263
01:40:54,600 --> 01:40:56,540
and forgive me, my heart's already racing

1264
01:40:56,540 --> 01:40:58,880
and I don't like getting up and speaking in front of people.

1265
01:41:00,400 --> 01:41:04,180
I agree with everything everybody is saying, a thousand percent.

1266
01:41:04,680 --> 01:41:09,080
I'm very sympathetic especially to these young families who have kids at Royal Oaks in Valley

1267
01:41:09,080 --> 01:41:09,260
View.

1268
01:41:09,360 --> 01:41:13,860
I worked at Valley View for 25 years and we have a lot of babies in the community and

1269
01:41:13,860 --> 01:41:15,000
it does affect them.

1270
01:41:16,400 --> 01:41:22,460
I'm not going to repeat what anybody says other than do not allow it here at all.

1271
01:41:23,160 --> 01:41:32,380
Our son has been the first responder with the gas company and eaten since day one and they were told you have to wear a mask, you have to wear a mask.

1272
01:41:32,840 --> 01:41:50,680
Because everything there is just as dangerous as 9-11. And I don't know how true that is, but we all know what happened to people first responders in 9-11 months after, years after, fire department, police officers, all of them,

1273
01:41:51,760 --> 01:41:57,140
lung cancer, this and that. So we don't want that in our community here. I know

1274
01:41:58,360 --> 01:42:02,060
this, again, I've been here for 35 years and there's been a lot ups and downs in

1275
01:42:02,060 --> 01:42:07,100
this community and we've always pulled through, we've always done whatever we

1276
01:42:07,100 --> 01:42:11,380
have to do but this has to stop. There's no negotiating what they're

1277
01:42:11,380 --> 01:42:13,440
going to do, what they're not going to do, they're just not going to bring

1278
01:42:13,440 --> 01:42:18,100
it here. Please, these people are very concerned and we don't want it in our

1279
01:42:18,100 --> 01:42:22,760
community. Thank you so much. Thank you.

1280
01:42:30,740 --> 01:42:33,800
Yeah, this is for Tara basically before

1281
01:42:33,800 --> 01:42:39,360
tomorrow's mail. Could you please, please, I'm sorry. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, basically,

1282
01:42:39,940 --> 01:42:46,920
we'll be here, Neil. Oh, oh, for you. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, my question is, the

1283
01:42:46,920 --> 01:42:51,180
fellow over here mentioned it, and it's a really good question. Our answer is

1284
01:42:51,180 --> 01:42:57,580
scrolls canyon closed down. It's a landfill. It was actually built for trash. Why don't

1285
01:42:57,580 --> 01:43:00,860
they take it over there if they would have took it to scrolls canyon which is a lot

1286
01:43:00,860 --> 01:43:08,540
closer than Duarte. It's on the other side of Pasadena and you could make that nobody

1287
01:43:08,540 --> 01:43:15,100
would have even cared about it because it's a landfill. I don't know if you understand

1288
01:43:15,100 --> 01:43:19,340
what I'm saying but yeah you might want to look into it. Skulls, yeah. It's canyon.

1289
01:43:19,340 --> 01:43:25,300
opinion, I would suggest why wasn't that used? And there's still time to move everything

1290
01:43:25,300 --> 01:43:28,300
up there. And I don't think there's anything built up there either.

1291
01:43:29,280 --> 01:43:29,720
Okay.

1292
01:43:29,840 --> 01:43:30,220
Thank you, Neil.

1293
01:43:35,440 --> 01:43:37,120
Is that the conclusion of the public comment?

1294
01:43:37,500 --> 01:43:38,260
I have no further questions.

1295
01:43:38,780 --> 01:43:39,220
Okay.

1296
01:43:45,880 --> 01:43:49,500
Is there anybody else who did not turn in the corner who would like to speak? Okay.

1297
01:43:58,370 --> 01:44:01,490
My name is Sergio Campos and I live in Duarte. I've been here about 20 years.

1298
01:44:02,150 --> 01:44:05,390
One simple question. How do we stop this? That's it.

1299
01:44:06,350 --> 01:44:10,730
It's all I want to know. How do we stop this? Thank you.

1300
01:44:14,300 --> 01:44:17,140
Thank you, sir. We got the presentation.

1301
01:44:17,540 --> 01:44:24,300
We got a public comment. We have staff's recommendation, which is to consider adopting this resolution

1302
01:44:24,300 --> 01:44:31,620
where we oppose the EPA's designated collection and processing center at Ladiopark. Motion

1303
01:44:31,620 --> 01:44:36,840
to approve. We have a motion for Mayor Pro Tem. Second. A second from Councillor Finley.

1304
01:44:36,840 --> 01:44:39,900
and we're going to conduct a roll call at this time.

1305
01:44:41,560 --> 01:44:47,120
Hold on, before we do that, I think the last gentleman brought up a very salient question.

1306
01:44:48,480 --> 01:44:49,660
What are we going to do?

1307
01:44:50,140 --> 01:44:56,640
And I know it was almost more of a rhetorical question because we really can't take any action right now,

1308
01:44:56,640 --> 01:44:59,980
because the city attorney is going to go ahead and be all

1309
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:11,020
It's all over me. But can we do some sort of injunction, a temporary injunction? I know we're

1310
01:45:11,020 --> 01:45:16,780
probably going to have to approach this legally. And again, you don't necessarily have to answer

1311
01:45:16,780 --> 01:45:20,840
this now, but I think we've seen that there are a lot of people that are very passionate

1312
01:45:20,840 --> 01:45:26,200
about this. So take it away, Ty.

1313
01:45:28,300 --> 01:45:31,360
Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Finley. Yes, so

1314
01:45:31,360 --> 01:45:34,920
there are legal remedies that the City Council may choose to pursue. That would

1315
01:45:34,920 --> 01:45:38,560
be something that we would like to, if that is the path that the City Council

1316
01:45:38,560 --> 01:45:42,820
so directs, would be placed on the agenda for a closed session as that's a

1317
01:45:42,820 --> 01:45:46,920
potential litigation matter. And in the meantime, we would be working

1318
01:45:47,660 --> 01:45:51,600
tirelessly to obtain as much information as possible from the EPA

1319
01:45:51,600 --> 01:45:53,180
and tell OSHA regarding this matter.

1320
01:45:53,780 --> 01:45:54,240
Thank you.

1321
01:45:55,740 --> 01:45:56,200
Thank you.

1322
01:45:56,540 --> 01:45:58,820
We have a motion and a second

1323
01:45:59,580 --> 01:46:02,160
to formally oppose this site.

1324
01:46:02,980 --> 01:46:03,940
We'll do a roll call now.

1325
01:46:04,800 --> 01:46:06,020
Council member Keldron.

1326
01:46:06,320 --> 01:46:06,580
Aye.

1327
01:46:07,240 --> 01:46:08,000
Council member Lewis.

1328
01:46:09,280 --> 01:46:09,880
Aye.

1329
01:46:10,320 --> 01:46:11,000
Council member Kang.

1330
01:46:12,240 --> 01:46:13,220
Absolutely yes.

1331
01:46:13,760 --> 01:46:14,700
Council member Finley.

1332
01:46:14,960 --> 01:46:15,160
Yes.

1333
01:46:15,540 --> 01:46:16,980
Mayor Pro Tem-Martin Del Campo.

1334
01:46:17,220 --> 01:46:17,480
Yes.

1335
01:46:17,960 --> 01:46:18,480
Mayor Garcia.

1336
01:46:19,220 --> 01:46:20,740
I feel like David and Goliath,

1337
01:46:20,740 --> 01:46:23,100
but yes. Motion carries.

1338
01:46:37,810 --> 01:46:41,510
We're going to continue now folks with item nine

1339
01:46:41,510 --> 01:46:44,530
announcement of upcoming community events we have Joana Ji from the Dory

1340
01:46:44,530 --> 01:46:50,370
Library I do want to invite everybody again to the town hall to a town hall

1341
01:46:50,370 --> 01:46:56,670
tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center and thank you again for the

1342
01:46:56,670 --> 01:47:01,010
other members of the EPA who are here today to to discuss and give a

1343
01:47:01,010 --> 01:47:04,710
presentation, they are going to be in the lounge. There is Spanish translation available

1344
01:47:04,710 --> 01:47:09,590
if anybody has further questions that do not get answered tonight. Item 9,

1345
01:47:09,910 --> 01:47:11,030
Jo energy from the Dory Library.

1346
01:47:17,530 --> 01:47:20,090
Good evening, Mayor. Good evening, City Council. Just wanted to

1347
01:47:20,090 --> 01:47:25,750
let everyone know that the library is still closed for renovations. We did paint the exterior,

1348
01:47:25,950 --> 01:47:30,310
so as you pass right by, you can see the difference. It is not hidden anymore,

1349
01:47:31,230 --> 01:47:35,850
and book drops are still open. If you have any questions, please let me know. We do pick

1350
01:47:35,850 --> 01:47:40,530
up our books every day almost almost every day and so we're very diligent in

1351
01:47:40,530 --> 01:47:42,490
checking those in. Thank you. Any questions?

1352
01:47:45,080 --> 01:47:48,860
Thank you Joanna. Up next we have

1353
01:47:48,860 --> 01:47:50,720
assistant to the city manager Andres Vanghel.

1354
01:47:55,400 --> 01:47:56,160
Good evening honorable mayor

1355
01:47:56,160 --> 01:48:01,480
city council. Just a couple events here. The first one senator Susan Rubio will

1356
01:48:01,480 --> 01:48:05,040
be hosting a town hall regarding Lario Park tomorrow at the PAC Center starting

1357
01:48:05,040 --> 01:48:10,680
at 6 p.m. local mayors the US EPA and Cal EPA will be in attendance to

1358
01:48:10,680 --> 01:48:14,600
provide updates regarding Lauderdale Park followed by a Q&A session where residents can

1359
01:48:14,600 --> 01:48:19,380
participate. It's time to celebrate the year of the snake with Duarte at the Lunar New

1360
01:48:19,380 --> 01:48:23,980
Year celebration on Saturday, February 8th from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Duarte Civic

1361
01:48:23,980 --> 01:48:28,580
Center. Enjoy cultural dancers, delicious food, arts and crafts, activities and live

1362
01:48:28,580 --> 01:48:32,180
performances. And finally, the city is seeking volunteers from our local community

1363
01:48:32,180 --> 01:48:35,900
to participate in the year's 2025 homeless counts happening on Wednesday.

1364
01:48:39,220 --> 01:48:39,840
I'll have

1365
01:48:39,840 --> 01:48:45,240
to confirm the date. I believe it's February 19th at 8 p.m. The meeting point for this

1366
01:48:45,240 --> 01:48:51,060
year's counts will be at the Duarte Senior Center. To sign up, please visit daycountswillu.org.

1367
01:48:52,020 --> 01:48:58,640
All into any questions? Any questions? Thank you so much, Andres. Appreciate it. Thank

1368
01:48:58,640 --> 01:49:04,900
you. Are there any members of the audience wishing to announce upcoming events?

1369
01:49:07,010 --> 01:49:07,490
Seeing

1370
01:49:07,490 --> 01:49:10,990
Seeing none, we're gonna continue now with item 10,

1371
01:49:11,290 --> 01:49:13,430
oral communications items, not on this agenda.

1372
01:49:13,970 --> 01:49:15,390
If you wish to speak on a matter

1373
01:49:15,390 --> 01:49:17,590
that is not on this agenda, you may do so at this time.

1374
01:49:17,910 --> 01:49:19,570
Each member of the public will have a total

1375
01:49:19,570 --> 01:49:20,890
of two minutes to speak.

1376
01:49:21,010 --> 01:49:22,610
The council cannot discuss or take action.

1377
01:49:22,730 --> 01:49:24,450
The matter is not on the agenda for this meeting.

1378
01:49:25,510 --> 01:49:28,230
Ms. Juarez, do we have any cards?

1379
01:49:28,990 --> 01:49:29,710
No cards, Mayor.

1380
01:49:30,670 --> 01:49:31,550
Okay, anybody?

1381
01:49:32,930 --> 01:49:33,750
Seeing none,

1382
01:49:36,130 --> 01:49:38,270
we're now at Consent Calendar.

1383
01:49:39,050 --> 01:49:45,870
Is there a what our colleagues like to pull anything from yeah, I'd like to pull I'd like to pull seven please excuse me Jay

1384
01:49:46,470 --> 01:49:48,950
We are pulling item Jay

1385
01:49:50,370 --> 01:49:51,330
Anybody else

1386
01:49:53,950 --> 01:49:54,510
Okay

1387
01:49:55,630 --> 01:50:00,310
So let's discuss Jay before okay, the only thing I want to take it all together

1388
01:50:01,070 --> 01:50:05,430
That's fine. The only thing I wanted to talk about was

1389
01:50:06,110 --> 01:50:08,310
Who already did win in court?

1390
01:50:09,110 --> 01:50:18,530
back in 1987, when the Rotary Club in California, in Duarte, California, 10 years earlier,

1391
01:50:19,230 --> 01:50:25,990
went ahead and said, we're going to admit women and the Rotary International through Rotary,

1392
01:50:26,530 --> 01:50:31,250
the Duarte Rotary Club out, and they were the ex-Rotary Club of Duarte.

1393
01:50:31,250 --> 01:50:40,870
So at that point, some attorneys from Monrovia and DeWarty picked it up and said we'll do it for pro bono.

1394
01:50:41,310 --> 01:50:47,350
Well, 10 years later the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of the Little DeWarty Club,

1395
01:50:47,750 --> 01:50:56,570
and they have now been called the mouse that roared because they were able to get not just women in Rotary Club,

1396
01:50:56,930 --> 01:51:00,310
but Kiwanis, Lions, all of the service clubs.

1397
01:51:00,310 --> 01:51:07,450
So, Wartie has had a history back then of winning in court, so who knows what we can

1398
01:51:07,450 --> 01:51:08,310
do these days.

1399
01:51:08,690 --> 01:51:10,710
Anyway, that's what I just wanted to say.

1400
01:51:11,170 --> 01:51:18,970
And that will be, we will be having this women in rotary event, and it will be on

1401
01:51:18,970 --> 01:51:24,690
March 7th, it will be at the Performing Arts Center, and I appreciate the support

1402
01:51:25,150 --> 01:51:27,450
from the city on something like this.

1403
01:51:27,450 --> 01:51:31,490
it's going to be just kind of in kind support.

1404
01:51:31,990 --> 01:51:37,370
Nevertheless, it will be important for getting as many people there as possible to this event

1405
01:51:37,370 --> 01:51:41,730
to show that, you know what, DeWarty can win and win big.

1406
01:51:42,810 --> 01:51:43,990
Thank you, Council Member Filney.

1407
01:51:44,090 --> 01:51:47,590
We discussed, Jay, so is there a motion to approve consent as a whole?

1408
01:51:47,790 --> 01:51:48,330
Move approval.

1409
01:51:48,830 --> 01:51:49,250
A second.

1410
01:51:49,550 --> 01:51:49,950
I second.

1411
01:51:50,630 --> 01:51:51,630
Got a motion and a second.

1412
01:51:51,750 --> 01:51:52,230
All in favor?

1413
01:51:52,690 --> 01:51:52,910
Aye.

1414
01:51:53,690 --> 01:51:54,210
Any opposed?

1415
01:51:55,250 --> 01:51:56,130
Motion carries.

1416
01:51:56,130 --> 01:52:02,710
Up next we have public hearing, Assembly Bill 2561, and the presenter for that is Ms. Peterson.

1417
01:52:08,510 --> 01:52:16,590
Thank you, Mayor and City Council. In September, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2561 into law.

1418
01:52:17,250 --> 01:52:22,630
It created a new obligation for public agencies to publicly address the status of their vacancies.

1419
01:52:23,270 --> 01:52:29,990
AB 2561 requires that public agencies present the status of their vacancies in a public hearing

1420
01:52:29,990 --> 01:52:33,610
before their governing board at least once per fiscal year.

1421
01:52:34,070 --> 01:52:35,930
We've decided that this would be timely

1422
01:52:35,930 --> 01:52:37,750
when we're preparing for the mid-year

1423
01:52:37,750 --> 01:52:38,750
coming to the council.

1424
01:52:40,330 --> 01:52:43,550
As part of the approval of our 24-25 budget,

1425
01:52:43,710 --> 01:52:45,770
the city council approved 45

1426
01:52:45,770 --> 01:52:47,890
and three-quarter full-time positions.

1427
01:52:48,130 --> 01:52:51,110
This was an increase of one full-time position

1428
01:52:51,110 --> 01:52:52,250
from the prior year.

1429
01:52:53,270 --> 01:52:55,550
Currently, there's only one vacancy.

1430
01:52:55,890 --> 01:52:58,350
Well, I wrote that in the staff report last week.

1431
01:52:58,350 --> 01:53:00,730
At the time I wrote it, that was true.

1432
01:53:01,170 --> 01:53:06,110
We actually just got an announcement last week that one of our animal control officers

1433
01:53:06,110 --> 01:53:09,370
will be leaving us and going out of the area.

1434
01:53:09,790 --> 01:53:12,090
So now we do have two vacant positions.

1435
01:53:12,910 --> 01:53:19,330
The real purpose of AB 2561 was to ensure that cities are not holding on to vacant

1436
01:53:19,330 --> 01:53:24,590
positions in order to show savings or in order to have cushions within your budget.

1437
01:53:24,590 --> 01:53:30,930
Well, I can assure you that with the one vacancy in Parks and Recreation, the manager

1438
01:53:30,930 --> 01:53:38,930
position, that was advertised January 22nd, and we are accepting those applications until

1439
01:53:38,930 --> 01:53:43,710
February 21st, and we are very excited to hopefully fill that position.

1440
01:53:44,290 --> 01:53:49,730
And our animal control officer position, who just resigned last week, actually gave

1441
01:53:49,730 --> 01:53:52,750
a two-week notice, well, we've already posted it on our website.

1442
01:53:52,750 --> 01:53:58,270
And we will be accepting applications for that position for the next 30 days, those

1443
01:53:58,270 --> 01:54:00,610
close on February 23rd.

1444
01:54:00,950 --> 01:54:06,470
So I am reporting out that we currently have two opportunities for people to apply for

1445
01:54:06,470 --> 01:54:07,490
the City of DeWarty.

1446
01:54:07,890 --> 01:54:12,490
We are not one of those cities that can afford to have vacant positions.

1447
01:54:12,710 --> 01:54:17,230
As you know, we operate a pretty mean, lean fighting machine, and we need every

1448
01:54:17,230 --> 01:54:19,310
person and every position filled.

1449
01:54:19,850 --> 01:54:25,330
So this report is recommending that the City Council just receive and file.

1450
01:54:25,970 --> 01:54:30,530
There's no fiscal impact and I'll be coming to you once a year to give you this report.

1451
01:54:31,150 --> 01:54:33,170
That concludes it unless there's any questions.

1452
01:54:33,790 --> 01:54:34,490
Receive and file.

1453
01:54:34,690 --> 01:54:35,130
Receive and file.

1454
01:54:35,670 --> 01:54:37,450
This is a public hearing.

1455
01:54:38,330 --> 01:54:40,770
So we're going to open public hearing.

1456
01:54:42,710 --> 01:54:45,330
Seeing nobody rush to the podium at this time.

1457
01:54:45,470 --> 01:54:46,950
Is there a motion to close the public hearing?

1458
01:54:47,150 --> 01:54:47,630
So moved.

1459
01:54:47,630 --> 01:54:50,550
Second, motion and a second all in favor?

1460
01:54:50,990 --> 01:54:51,350
Aye.

1461
01:54:52,130 --> 01:54:52,370
Nice.

1462
01:54:52,370 --> 01:54:52,770
No approval.

1463
01:54:54,110 --> 01:54:54,630
Second.

1464
01:54:55,250 --> 01:54:55,450
Second.

1465
01:54:55,910 --> 01:54:56,410
All in favor?

1466
01:54:56,810 --> 01:54:57,130
Aye.

1467
01:54:57,570 --> 01:54:57,750
Opposed?

1468
01:54:58,810 --> 01:54:59,850
Motion carries.

1469
01:55:00,770 --> 01:55:08,410
Ms. Peterson, do you have to, for the dog, animal control, you got to deal with dogs?

1470
01:55:09,610 --> 01:55:10,990
Aye, we know where this is going.

1471
01:55:13,130 --> 01:55:15,710
Yes, you do have to deal with dogs.

1472
01:55:15,710 --> 01:55:17,690
So I'm not sure you would be qualified.

1473
01:55:18,430 --> 01:55:20,010
I'm not qualified, ma'am.

1474
01:55:20,270 --> 01:55:22,190
Your parking spot will be at the dog park.

1475
01:55:22,570 --> 01:55:27,010
We're now moving to business items, 14A request

1476
01:55:27,010 --> 01:55:29,810
for direction regarding the voter approved measure QQ.

1477
01:55:30,310 --> 01:55:32,130
And we have assistance to the city manager again,

1478
01:55:32,350 --> 01:55:33,970
Andres Angel presenting this item.

1479
01:55:34,710 --> 01:55:35,830
Thank you again and good evening.

1480
01:55:36,290 --> 01:55:38,750
Just for a really quick bit of background.

1481
01:55:39,170 --> 01:55:41,310
As you all know, the certification of elections

1482
01:55:41,310 --> 01:55:43,170
took place on December 10th of last year.

1483
01:55:43,830 --> 01:55:44,370
Sorry, Mr. Angel.

1484
01:55:44,370 --> 01:55:47,250
And do you mind getting that microphone just a little closer to you?

1485
01:55:47,390 --> 01:55:48,070
Yeah, can you hear me?

1486
01:55:48,150 --> 01:55:49,830
Our speakers are on their way.

1487
01:55:50,470 --> 01:55:51,510
Our back speakers.

1488
01:55:52,070 --> 01:55:52,410
No worries.

1489
01:55:53,370 --> 01:55:53,990
So there we go.

1490
01:55:53,990 --> 01:55:54,190
There you go.

1491
01:55:54,550 --> 01:55:54,930
I love it.

1492
01:55:55,510 --> 01:55:55,830
Yeah.

1493
01:55:55,970 --> 01:55:59,270
The certification of elections took place on December 10th, which included the passage

1494
01:55:59,270 --> 01:56:00,370
of measure QQ.

1495
01:56:00,970 --> 01:56:05,350
And just a quick reminder, measure QQ authorizes the city council to adopt an ordinance to

1496
01:56:05,350 --> 01:56:09,650
permit no more than two storefront cannabis dispensaries and tax cannabis businesses

1497
01:56:09,650 --> 01:56:10,710
up to 10%.

1498
01:56:11,450 --> 01:56:20,890
Now, staff is therefore requesting direction from council to either move forward with the process of adopting an ordinance, conduct more research, or not move forward with adopting the ordinance.

1499
01:56:21,610 --> 01:56:32,190
For reference, Measure KQ passed by a 52-248 simple majority vote, and included in your staff report is also a voter breakdown by district. So this concludes staff's presentation.

1500
01:56:33,550 --> 01:56:38,890
I have a quick question on that. Is there an option to possibly delay any decision or

1501
01:56:38,890 --> 01:56:42,830
direction mainly because I don't want us to spend a ton of money researching something

1502
01:56:43,550 --> 01:56:47,170
that's going to even cost more money for the city when we have a lot of ongoing projects

1503
01:56:47,170 --> 01:56:50,550
and we have a lot of things pending where we're waiting to hear back on final budgets,

1504
01:56:50,770 --> 01:56:54,470
final amounts, and you know we're paying a lot of these experts and specialists to

1505
01:56:54,470 --> 01:56:59,710
research things for us, which is great. I want that for this as well. I just don't

1506
01:56:59,710 --> 01:57:02,850
know that we should be spending our money on that right now. That's my

1507
01:57:02,850 --> 01:57:07,950
decision. I think there's a possibility to maybe do the research in-house and not

1508
01:57:07,950 --> 01:57:15,010
have to get consultants on Mr. Villalobos. That is correct, Mayor. If we were to

1509
01:57:15,010 --> 01:57:20,790
move forward with an ordinance and zoning, I have talked to directors

1510
01:57:20,790 --> 01:57:26,490
Brasita and Hensley. We feel confident we could handle that in-house and any

1511
01:57:26,490 --> 01:57:30,470
research in-house without the aid of a consultant or paying for any more

1512
01:57:30,470 --> 01:57:37,230
consultants so or and you discussed postponing it you can't always push

1513
01:57:37,230 --> 01:57:42,390
this back to another meeting and we can bring it back for discussion at a

1514
01:57:42,390 --> 01:57:49,590
different time. Mayor, I agree with Tara and that is you know what we got a lot

1515
01:57:49,590 --> 01:57:54,870
on our plates right now yeah and I think we need to concentrate on this

1516
01:57:54,870 --> 01:57:55,950
for the time being.

1517
01:57:56,730 --> 01:57:58,930
So that would be my motion is to table this

1518
01:57:59,470 --> 01:58:03,130
until a time in the future, but let's-

1519
01:58:03,130 --> 01:58:04,310
And I second that.

1520
01:58:04,490 --> 01:58:06,150
Let's take care of our residents first.

1521
01:58:06,870 --> 01:58:07,370
Council Member King.

1522
01:58:07,610 --> 01:58:08,950
I completely agree.

1523
01:58:09,130 --> 01:58:10,350
Is there a statute of limitation on this?

1524
01:58:10,550 --> 01:58:11,730
I mean, no, no, right?

1525
01:58:12,890 --> 01:58:13,710
Let's table it.

1526
01:58:13,850 --> 01:58:14,290
Let's table it.

1527
01:58:14,290 --> 01:58:16,050
I think we have a motion from Council Member Finley

1528
01:58:16,050 --> 01:58:17,030
to bring this back.

1529
01:58:17,390 --> 01:58:18,950
A second from Council Member Lewis.

1530
01:58:20,150 --> 01:58:21,430
We'll do a roll call real quick.

1531
01:58:24,680 --> 01:58:25,720
Council Member Keldron.

1532
01:58:26,100 --> 01:58:26,340
Aye.

1533
01:58:26,340 --> 01:58:26,420
Okay.

1534
01:58:26,660 --> 01:58:27,780
Council member Lewis.

1535
01:58:28,260 --> 01:58:28,780
Aye.

1536
01:58:29,060 --> 01:58:29,760
Council member Kang.

1537
01:58:30,100 --> 01:58:30,260
Yes.

1538
01:58:30,600 --> 01:58:31,540
Council member Finley.

1539
01:58:31,840 --> 01:58:32,000
Yes.

1540
01:58:32,380 --> 01:58:33,780
Mayor Pro Tem Martindale Campo.

1541
01:58:34,060 --> 01:58:34,240
Yes.

1542
01:58:34,560 --> 01:58:35,000
Mayor Garcia.

1543
01:58:35,480 --> 01:58:35,740
Yes.

1544
01:58:36,320 --> 01:58:36,660
Motion carries.

1545
01:58:36,680 --> 01:58:39,100
I do want to recognize Carla Cardenas representative

1546
01:58:39,100 --> 01:58:41,380
from Senator Susan Rubio who's in attendance tonight.

1547
01:58:41,540 --> 01:58:42,200
Thank you so much.

1548
01:58:42,680 --> 01:58:43,860
Sorry I missed you earlier.

1549
01:58:44,860 --> 01:58:45,640
Great, thank you.

1550
01:58:45,860 --> 01:58:46,660
Thank you so much, Andres.

1551
01:58:48,140 --> 01:58:50,600
Item 15, continuation of oral communications.

1552
01:58:50,880 --> 01:58:52,060
Do we have any public comment?

1553
01:58:53,200 --> 01:58:54,180
No cards, Mayor.

1554
01:58:54,180 --> 01:59:01,840
anybody like to speak at this time come on up you have three minutes I came

1555
01:59:01,840 --> 01:59:05,420
because of the e-invier and I'm happy with how everyone presented so I'm not

1556
01:59:05,420 --> 01:59:09,460
gonna be talking about that I wanted to talk about the cannabis I don't think

1557
01:59:09,460 --> 01:59:13,020
we should have one in Doherty I think it would be a really bad mistake to have

1558
01:59:13,020 --> 01:59:16,740
one in Doherty I've been raised here I went to elementary school and high

1559
01:59:16,740 --> 01:59:22,680
school here I actually went to high school with the mayor so I know that

1560
01:59:22,680 --> 01:59:27,240
you know, we have a lot of youth here and some of them are in different positions. Some of them

1561
01:59:27,240 --> 01:59:30,400
are really focused on their education. Some of them are really focused on other things. I mean,

1562
01:59:30,440 --> 01:59:34,660
you guys have seen the graffiti. Not only is it going to impact the youth that we have here

1563
01:59:34,660 --> 01:59:38,680
in Doherty, but it's also going to bring a lot of people here. And if you've ever been to a

1564
01:59:38,680 --> 01:59:44,280
cannabis dispensary, it's littered with trash. It is not a desirable, it's a homeless hangout.

1565
01:59:44,460 --> 01:59:48,520
I don't think that it's a good idea to bring that to our city, especially with all

1566
01:59:48,520 --> 01:59:53,100
the movement that's been made to make it such a family friendly all our beautiful events that we

1567
01:59:53,100 --> 01:59:58,860
have and you know the upgrades we keep doing this would be a major downgrade to the city. So I just

1568
01:59:58,860 --> 01:59:59,980
wanted to put that out there.

1569
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:05,380
Thank you. Go Falcons. Go Falcons. Falcons all the way.

1570
02:00:09,030 --> 02:00:20,990
I just want to tell you that present and the other thing is that you look so gorgeous in

1571
02:00:20,990 --> 02:00:30,630
the screen in that conference room. All of you. I'm serious. I'm not kidding, especially

1572
02:00:30,630 --> 02:00:38,090
this side. No, I'm serious. Thanks. Bye. It's it's the new cameras that we just

1573
02:00:38,090 --> 02:00:43,210
saw. What is he saying? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Pars. What

1574
02:00:43,210 --> 02:00:44,710
anybody else like to speak at this time?

1575
02:00:50,330 --> 02:00:53,910
Barbie Bills Mahouten and 865 Cinnamon Lane

1576
02:00:53,910 --> 02:00:59,710
Duarte. I'm just here to say thank you. I'm on my 41st year. I've been

1577
02:00:59,710 --> 02:01:07,870
serving since 1984. And I will serve through the end of February and then resign. But don't

1578
02:01:07,870 --> 02:01:14,850
feel like you can't call me or ask anything that's historical. I'm happy to help. But

1579
02:01:14,850 --> 02:01:16,790
thank you for the opportunity to serve.

1580
02:01:17,490 --> 02:01:19,510
Barbie, 41 years.

1581
02:01:24,380 --> 02:01:30,000
That is huge, you know, to volunteer your time for that long and

1582
02:01:30,000 --> 02:01:32,780
and contribute to the betterment of this community

1583
02:01:33,260 --> 02:01:34,400
in the Parks and Rec Commission.

1584
02:01:34,780 --> 02:01:38,280
I hate to see you go, because you're a great asset.

1585
02:01:39,140 --> 02:01:41,500
But please also call us if there's anything

1586
02:01:41,500 --> 02:01:42,620
that we can do for you.

1587
02:01:43,060 --> 02:01:43,960
I hope to see you this Friday.

1588
02:01:44,920 --> 02:01:45,620
Good, good.

1589
02:01:45,800 --> 02:01:46,520
Thank you so much, Barbie.

1590
02:01:47,140 --> 02:01:47,420
Appreciate it.

1591
02:01:49,160 --> 02:01:51,620
Moving on now, item 16.

1592
02:01:51,960 --> 02:01:54,280
Items from the city council, housing authority,

1593
02:01:55,100 --> 02:01:55,660
violence authority.

1594
02:01:57,600 --> 02:01:58,480
Mr. Ruseida.

1595
02:02:00,000 --> 02:02:00,940
Nothing to report.

1596
02:02:01,900 --> 02:02:02,800
Mr. Hensley.

1597
02:02:04,020 --> 02:02:04,980
Mr. Enriquez.

1598
02:02:05,800 --> 02:02:06,280
Ms. Peterson.

1599
02:02:07,020 --> 02:02:11,900
I did want to share with you that before I came to the meeting, I ran over to Sushi Fire real quick

1600
02:02:12,520 --> 02:02:15,880
to grab a bite and to get my laptop from my husband.

1601
02:02:16,600 --> 02:02:17,760
So I left it at home.

1602
02:02:18,320 --> 02:02:22,620
But while I was there, I had two different families approach me,

1603
02:02:23,300 --> 02:02:25,920
overheard me talking, the meeting might be late,

1604
02:02:25,920 --> 02:02:30,480
and said, I want you to know I'd like to thank you

1605
02:02:30,920 --> 02:02:34,760
for what the city does and that we trust

1606
02:02:34,760 --> 02:02:36,160
you're gonna do the right thing.

1607
02:02:36,320 --> 02:02:37,560
We've been watching the news.

1608
02:02:37,840 --> 02:02:39,360
Good to hear that there's gonna be a meeting

1609
02:02:39,360 --> 02:02:40,960
at the councils on top of it.

1610
02:02:41,320 --> 02:02:43,380
And in not so many words,

1611
02:02:43,500 --> 02:02:46,140
they were letting us know that they weren't coming.

1612
02:02:46,860 --> 02:02:49,460
But a lot of the times I think we all know

1613
02:02:49,460 --> 02:02:51,560
that sometimes the people who believe

1614
02:02:51,560 --> 02:02:54,180
in what you're already doing already know

1615
02:02:54,180 --> 02:02:59,560
that they can trust in what you're doing aren't the ones that always show. So there are also those

1616
02:02:59,560 --> 02:03:04,800
out there supporting from afar. Thank you so much for that. Mr. Villalobos.

1617
02:03:07,280 --> 02:03:08,560
Thank you mayor. Just to

1618
02:03:08,560 --> 02:03:14,620
report out I was officially appointed to the Liability Trust Fund Committee as an alternate.

1619
02:03:15,000 --> 02:03:21,580
So I am now representing the city as an alternate in our East Patrol division. I'm still sitting

1620
02:03:21,580 --> 02:03:29,540
on with four other city managers, contract cities, and JPIA on our negotiation team for

1621
02:03:29,540 --> 02:03:34,080
the LTF Viability Trust Fund. If you remember, we passed everything else on the five-year

1622
02:03:34,080 --> 02:03:40,820
agreement, but we held that out for more negotiations. Slow moving. We're still hopeful. Hopefully

1623
02:03:40,820 --> 02:03:47,540
we come back with good news. Last but not least, I do sit on the League of California

1624
02:03:47,540 --> 02:03:50,240
California City's Fire Insurance Committee.

1625
02:03:50,800 --> 02:03:51,320
Oof.

1626
02:03:54,180 --> 02:03:56,020
That sums it up right there.

1627
02:03:56,420 --> 02:03:56,580
I mean.

1628
02:03:56,840 --> 02:03:57,800
Good luck with that.

1629
02:03:58,120 --> 02:04:01,640
Yeah, I've been on California Fair Plan personally

1630
02:04:01,640 --> 02:04:02,980
for the last 12 years.

1631
02:04:03,840 --> 02:04:06,000
So everybody that's continuing to get dropped,

1632
02:04:06,300 --> 02:04:08,740
I feel your pain, my rate's tripled.

1633
02:04:09,620 --> 02:04:12,000
I'd like to say there's a good outlook,

1634
02:04:12,200 --> 02:04:14,460
but this fire almost put the nail in the coffin

1635
02:04:14,460 --> 02:04:15,860
of the California Fair Plan.

1636
02:04:15,860 --> 02:04:23,900
A lot of talks so federal and state bailout and rewriting of what we do, reinsurance,

1637
02:04:25,320 --> 02:04:29,280
you know, hazard mapping that are all things requested by the insurance.

1638
02:04:29,620 --> 02:04:31,960
But it's looking kind of bleak right now.

1639
02:04:32,160 --> 02:04:35,100
But I will keep you informed as we keep going down that road.

1640
02:04:35,660 --> 02:04:36,560
And that's all I have.

1641
02:04:37,420 --> 02:04:38,480
Thank you so much.

1642
02:04:38,860 --> 02:04:39,380
Ms. Fan.

1643
02:04:41,120 --> 02:04:42,820
Mayor Pro Tem, Martin Del Campo.

1644
02:04:43,300 --> 02:04:47,260
nothing to report just thank you to this whole team up here we always think

1645
02:04:47,260 --> 02:04:50,860
staff I still do you guys have been amazing this last week but also this

1646
02:04:50,860 --> 02:04:57,520
group up here the way we all kind of work together to get right on things and

1647
02:04:57,520 --> 02:05:00,580
work with staff is pretty cool and I'm really impressed with everybody this

1648
02:05:00,580 --> 02:05:06,480
week thank you council member covered it on nothing to report but I echo mayor

1649
02:05:06,480 --> 02:05:09,200
pro times words thank you to everyone that showed up and thank you to our

1650
02:05:09,200 --> 02:05:13,360
City staff. Council Member Finley. Thank you.

1651
02:05:16,400 --> 02:05:18,500
This was a pretty amazing turnout

1652
02:05:18,500 --> 02:05:30,340
tonight and I think it is just a real measure of the the passion and care that

1653
02:05:30,340 --> 02:05:37,080
people have for our community and how disgusted they are with what the feds

1654
02:05:37,080 --> 02:05:44,900
have come in and done. It would seem to me, if the fair plan looks like they may go belly

1655
02:05:44,900 --> 02:05:53,080
up, why would we be spending the money and there is a ton of money invested in this hauling

1656
02:05:53,080 --> 02:05:58,400
this waste all the way over here? It doesn't make sense.

1657
02:06:00,680 --> 02:06:02,740
Honestly, I base a good part

1658
02:06:02,740 --> 02:06:10,940
of my life on pragmatism, but to go ahead and see what is happening here, I think we're

1659
02:06:10,940 --> 02:06:17,000
probably going to need a closed session maybe sooner than later before all this kind of gets

1660
02:06:17,000 --> 02:06:17,340
going.

1661
02:06:17,540 --> 02:06:23,640
I think the people that came here tonight expect us to be doing something.

1662
02:06:24,160 --> 02:06:30,040
So whether it's going into a room and talking and coming out and going, can't do anything

1663
02:06:30,040 --> 02:06:34,520
I think it was EPA or doing something much more.

1664
02:06:34,820 --> 02:06:39,640
I think we owe it to all of the people here in the San Gabriel Valley

1665
02:06:39,640 --> 02:06:43,120
because this isn't just affecting our city.

1666
02:06:44,040 --> 02:06:48,420
And frankly, it's going to affect generations to come.

1667
02:06:49,080 --> 02:06:52,940
So if we can maybe kind of figure something out sooner than later,

1668
02:06:53,380 --> 02:06:57,000
we know you are the city manager who is a man of action

1669
02:06:57,000 --> 02:06:59,020
because I've seen it all these years.

1670
02:06:59,800 --> 02:07:01,860
So anyway, that's all I have for tonight.

1671
02:07:02,020 --> 02:07:04,920
And again, thanks to my colleagues and our staff

1672
02:07:05,600 --> 02:07:09,420
and most importantly, the citizens of our great city

1673
02:07:09,420 --> 02:07:10,600
for coming out tonight.

1674
02:07:11,040 --> 02:07:11,220
Thank you.

1675
02:07:12,480 --> 02:07:13,520
Council Member King.

1676
02:07:14,960 --> 02:07:15,720
Thank you.

1677
02:07:15,860 --> 02:07:16,260
Thank you, Mayor.

1678
02:07:18,000 --> 02:07:19,040
Where do I start?

1679
02:07:21,780 --> 02:07:26,640
Gosh, we've been through so much for a few months now.

1680
02:07:28,000 --> 02:07:37,300
non-stop with all these emergencies with all the fires you know this is not our

1681
02:07:37,300 --> 02:07:45,760
first rodeo and great team what a great team to activate the EOC working with the

1682
02:07:45,760 --> 02:07:55,760
sheriffs fire my colleagues staff this is just it was it was like hey we're

1683
02:07:55,760 --> 02:08:02,200
just doing it again, doing it again, right? It was pretty easy until when I thought everything

1684
02:08:02,200 --> 02:08:12,700
is like a little bit subsided now. And guess what? We all got blindsided by EPA. And it

1685
02:08:12,700 --> 02:08:21,680
was pretty interesting. I mean, I'm just still baffled the fact that they didn't

1686
02:08:21,680 --> 02:08:26,900
Communicate with any one of us. I mean locally

1687
02:08:28,020 --> 02:08:32,180
First of all, you shouldn't be you got to go ahead and get all the key stakeholders

1688
02:08:32,920 --> 02:08:37,020
You didn't even contact the state Senate or

1689
02:08:37,980 --> 02:08:38,680
assembly

1690
02:08:39,760 --> 02:08:41,260
Or even Congress

1691
02:08:42,820 --> 02:08:49,620
But it's like it's from the federal side pushing it down now. I'm still

1692
02:08:49,620 --> 02:08:58,960
thinking right I mean I have my my my assumptions about County but it's like

1693
02:08:58,960 --> 02:09:04,980
what someone said it's like this is like preempt it just gives you that

1694
02:09:04,980 --> 02:09:09,160
perception I'm not saying it is but it just gives you that perception it's sad

1695
02:09:09,160 --> 02:09:13,140
we should have that interoperability especially when you're putting

1696
02:09:13,140 --> 02:09:19,420
something that's so significant to our city or regionally right next to

1697
02:09:19,420 --> 02:09:27,420
this water source that we drink every day and like what Mrs. Finley said it's like

1698
02:09:27,420 --> 02:09:33,560
we got to be rational be pragmatic about this me as a practical person I just

1699
02:09:33,560 --> 02:09:38,740
don't get I still don't get it why all of a sudden they pick this place out of

1700
02:09:38,740 --> 02:09:44,580
nowhere 16 miles away and don't even do sorting when you can sort it right

1701
02:09:44,580 --> 02:09:51,760
there. I'm not sure you guys know this term called Six Sigma. It's like, why do you want

1702
02:09:51,760 --> 02:09:55,940
to go ahead and do more when you can just go ahead and do one time right at that location?

1703
02:09:56,140 --> 02:10:01,940
It just makes no sense to me. And then all the traffic that they were going to go ahead

1704
02:10:01,940 --> 02:10:09,360
and induce and we push so hard and staff put so hard to push back and say, this is

1705
02:10:09,360 --> 02:10:16,060
huge concern for you guys to say, these are back roads. We're not in the 1800s. That's

1706
02:10:16,060 --> 02:10:23,240
Huntington Drive. And whenever there's a 210 freeway accident, Huntington becomes 210.

1707
02:10:24,080 --> 02:10:28,980
And I don't think, you know, these people were well thought out and they didn't bring

1708
02:10:28,980 --> 02:10:36,740
in the key stakeholders like us to consult. So it's just very, very sad. It's surreal.

1709
02:10:36,740 --> 02:10:41,280
It's surreal and there's a few things that you know a lot of the constituents actually said

1710
02:10:41,280 --> 02:10:47,660
I want to go ahead and ask is and Ty if you can can you help me out with this in regards to if

1711
02:10:48,500 --> 02:10:53,380
That site is going to be deemed as a hazardous site if that's the case

1712
02:10:55,060 --> 02:11:03,480
Do you be residents when they sell the property or the agents have to go ahead and report that as near hazardous site?

1713
02:11:03,940 --> 02:11:06,460
That's important. I don't know the answer

1714
02:11:06,460 --> 02:11:08,780
to that off the top of my head that we can find out for you.

1715
02:11:08,780 --> 02:11:09,880
Thank you, I appreciate that.

1716
02:11:10,740 --> 02:11:14,800
The second one is the asbestos that they were saying,

1717
02:11:16,970 --> 02:11:20,890
yeah, when I was there and a lot of my colleagues were there,

1718
02:11:21,450 --> 02:11:23,390
we were trying to go and seek out

1719
02:11:23,390 --> 02:11:24,730
and what are they gonna go ahead and do?

1720
02:11:24,950 --> 02:11:26,810
Yeah, they're not gonna go and process asbestos,

1721
02:11:26,890 --> 02:11:28,870
but you actually in the back,

1722
02:11:28,950 --> 02:11:30,110
you actually set this right,

1723
02:11:30,250 --> 02:11:32,690
is you're gonna be driving all over

1724
02:11:32,690 --> 02:11:34,410
and you're spreading asbestos

1725
02:11:34,410 --> 02:11:36,310
all over all these six different cities.

1726
02:11:36,310 --> 02:11:47,090
I mean, is that, is that protection? Right? It just doesn't make sense to me. And the third thing is

1727
02:11:47,090 --> 02:11:57,330
storage, sorting, and processing. You keep on changing these terms. I didn't hear about storing

1728
02:11:57,330 --> 02:12:02,350
before. You were just going to go ahead and process this. Now you're going to go ahead and

1729
02:12:02,350 --> 02:12:08,230
over here. Why I'm still made a lot of unanswered questions, right?

1730
02:12:11,410 --> 02:12:16,150
Again, I really appreciate everyone. I appreciate everyone for

1731
02:12:17,250 --> 02:12:24,290
for working together and regionally. We have Susan Rubio coming in

1732
02:12:24,290 --> 02:12:30,470
tomorrow doing a town hall and she's a great advocate. I mean, she's on fire.

1733
02:12:30,470 --> 02:12:37,350
And she's so passionate about helping us to hopefully we can have an injunction and stop

1734
02:12:37,350 --> 02:12:39,990
this and move it back perhaps to different locations.

1735
02:12:40,710 --> 02:12:44,810
And then next week, Gilsa Sceneros is also going to go ahead and do another town hall

1736
02:12:45,310 --> 02:12:46,970
in Azusa.

1737
02:12:47,350 --> 02:12:50,370
He's also been a great advocate for us too.

1738
02:12:50,930 --> 02:12:53,650
So these two leaders really have been helping out.

1739
02:12:55,250 --> 02:12:57,190
And also my colleagues, thank you so much.

1740
02:12:57,350 --> 02:12:58,170
You guys have been great.

1741
02:12:58,510 --> 02:12:58,990
Thank you.

1742
02:12:58,990 --> 02:13:09,970
And lastly, today is actually, I got three more hours is Chinese Lunar New Year or Lunar

1743
02:13:09,970 --> 02:13:10,470
New Year.

1744
02:13:10,930 --> 02:13:13,730
So, I didn't even celebrate.

1745
02:13:14,010 --> 02:13:18,750
I mean, I'm supposed to be with my parents or my family right now, but we're here because

1746
02:13:18,750 --> 02:13:21,650
we're passionate about helping us.

1747
02:13:22,270 --> 02:13:23,950
We want to go ahead and make the city better.

1748
02:13:24,290 --> 02:13:25,110
So, anyways.

1749
02:13:25,630 --> 02:13:26,870
We'll get you out in time then.

1750
02:13:26,950 --> 02:13:27,110
Yeah.

1751
02:13:27,110 --> 02:13:36,270
Anyways, happy Lunar New Year everyone. It's the year of the snake. It's supposed to be a good lucky year, but we'll see

1752
02:13:36,790 --> 02:13:39,150
Thank you. Thank you customer. Can customer Lewis?

1753
02:13:40,630 --> 02:13:43,170
Thank you mayor and

1754
02:13:43,730 --> 02:13:45,410
Sam I would like a red bag

1755
02:13:48,510 --> 02:13:55,130
Red envelope, okay, you know red bag envelope. I'd rather have a bag, but I'll take an envelope too

1756
02:14:00,770 --> 02:14:07,910
first up I would like to I would like to thank all my colleagues and as well and

1757
02:14:11,170 --> 02:14:19,320
for the representative from the EPA I mean I have more questions now than when

1758
02:14:19,320 --> 02:14:26,160
I had when I came in and I saw a presentation from the board of supervisors

1759
02:14:26,160 --> 02:14:35,120
today and that presentation from the Board of Supervisors were a hundred times more informational

1760
02:14:35,120 --> 02:14:48,200
than what I just received. And I'm not, what I don't understand is if it's good enough

1761
02:14:48,200 --> 02:14:54,480
for the Board of Supervisors it should have been good enough for us. We're just, it's

1762
02:14:54,480 --> 02:14:59,640
in our backyard. And so we should have got the same information.

1763
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:10,820
The same people that made the same presentation and we have to make, because I just, you know,

1764
02:15:10,920 --> 02:15:17,780
some of the questions, you know, that she couldn't answer was, I mean, it's,

1765
02:15:20,380 --> 02:15:21,280
I don't know nothing

1766
02:15:21,280 --> 02:15:28,520
about EPA, but I know if you transport, if you transport hazardous materials, it has

1767
02:15:28,520 --> 02:15:34,660
to be an enclosed and it had to be placard. I know that and I know you can't transport

1768
02:15:34,660 --> 02:15:43,220
on a stake site because the fire department, we used to have to transport our foam and they

1769
02:15:43,220 --> 02:15:48,920
considered foam a hazardous material so we had to transport, we couldn't transport it

1770
02:15:48,920 --> 02:15:49,720
And in the steak side,

1771
02:15:52,090 --> 02:15:53,510
well, well, EFFF, yeah.

1772
02:15:54,010 --> 02:16:03,950
Now that we know it is chemical, but so if, and if I, like I said, if I know that, I mean,

1773
02:16:04,250 --> 02:16:04,710
come on.

1774
02:16:06,150 --> 02:16:11,730
I mean, I'm not a chemist like my colleague, but I got common sense.

1775
02:16:12,730 --> 02:16:23,790
And, I mean, if there's just questions that all of us ask, okay, why was this site chosen

1776
02:16:23,790 --> 02:16:25,590
opposed to all the other sites?

1777
02:16:26,390 --> 02:16:29,530
I still haven't heard an answer that was sufficient.

1778
02:16:32,250 --> 02:16:39,990
And if it was, and if you don't know, just, I mean, at least you want to be transparent.

1779
02:16:39,990 --> 02:16:51,630
Just say, hey, I don't know, there's a lot of things that you ask someone, or for me,

1780
02:16:51,790 --> 02:16:58,530
I don't know everything, but what I don't know, I'll look for the answer, or I'll find

1781
02:16:58,530 --> 02:17:05,230
somebody that do know the answer, and that's all we're asking, you know, just to be transparent

1782
02:17:05,230 --> 02:17:11,010
parent and to be honest, and you want us to trust you now that you come in our backyard

1783
02:17:11,010 --> 02:17:19,010
and and dump something and says, oh, it's not going to affect you, but it's 500 feet away

1784
02:17:19,010 --> 02:17:20,090
from our water system.

1785
02:17:21,070 --> 02:17:22,750
And you're the EPA.

1786
02:17:23,150 --> 02:17:25,870
You're supposed to be protecting us from that.

1787
02:17:26,370 --> 02:17:28,530
That makes no sense to me.

1788
02:17:29,890 --> 02:17:31,950
It makes zero sense.

1789
02:17:31,950 --> 02:17:44,180
but and like and and now to Dina there's there's like I said there's a park big

1790
02:17:44,180 --> 02:17:52,360
old park that is flat and it's nothing around that park is burnt the park a

1791
02:17:52,360 --> 02:17:58,460
nothing around that park is burned down so you're not gonna impact anyone for

1792
02:17:58,460 --> 02:18:06,460
miles, you know? And, you know, I, one of my best friends that I was a county explorer

1793
02:18:06,460 --> 02:18:16,280
with, his, his, his, his childhood home burned down. And this guy was literally on the fire

1794
02:18:16,960 --> 02:18:23,840
at the time his childhood home is burning. And there's, there's basically nothing

1795
02:18:23,840 --> 02:18:33,060
he could do, you know? And so for us to say, we don't care about the residents, you know,

1796
02:18:33,240 --> 02:18:43,240
yes, we care about them, but we don't want to process their trash, you know? And it's the risk

1797
02:18:43,240 --> 02:18:55,620
of the future. And what's the environment? What's the overall study? And her response was

1798
02:18:57,540 --> 02:19:03,880
that we've done this before and there was no impact anywhere else. Well, have you went back

1799
02:19:03,880 --> 02:19:10,100
there to check and see the impact there? I'm sure you haven't. What if there was?

1800
02:19:10,100 --> 02:19:19,160
was. I know in the Oakland fire, in 1991 in the Oakland fire, 10 years later they were

1801
02:19:19,160 --> 02:19:26,060
still getting, they were still getting cancerous air particles in the Oakland fire, 10 years

1802
02:19:26,060 --> 02:19:34,180
later. And I guarantee you, they did an environmental study there and they said it was safe to

1803
02:19:34,180 --> 02:19:43,500
go back I just you know and we're the city of health the city of health is in

1804
02:19:43,500 --> 02:19:51,480
our motto that that would have been common sense would tell me well if this

1805
02:19:51,480 --> 02:19:55,200
the city of health I'm not gonna bring chemicals and put it in the city of

1806
02:19:55,200 --> 02:20:04,220
health right by the city of hope oh well you know I could go on and I'm

1807
02:20:04,220 --> 02:20:07,300
I'm not, because I know Sam's trying to get home

1808
02:20:07,300 --> 02:20:10,260
to Lunar New Year, and I'm trying to get my red envelope.

1809
02:20:12,660 --> 02:20:14,940
And so, but,

1810
02:20:17,050 --> 02:20:22,350
you know, I'm trying to make light of it,

1811
02:20:22,750 --> 02:20:25,350
like I said, you know, I mean, this community,

1812
02:20:25,630 --> 02:20:30,830
I mean, deserves better, you know, and I address this to,

1813
02:20:31,610 --> 02:20:34,430
I talked to the Board of Supervisors today,

1814
02:20:34,430 --> 02:20:45,750
And my supervisor, I spoke with her staff and they all assured me that they had no idea.

1815
02:20:46,450 --> 02:20:55,610
But the more I hear, the more details, I mean, it's hard to believe.

1816
02:20:55,990 --> 02:20:59,050
I mean, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't lie to me.

1817
02:20:59,050 --> 02:21:10,630
I'm really praying and I'm hoping that she wouldn't lie to me, but it's hard for me to

1818
02:21:10,630 --> 02:21:26,790
believe and I'll just keep my comments about other things to myself, but I'd just like

1819
02:21:26,790 --> 02:21:36,010
have a question for the city attorney is there no way that we can get injunction or or just

1820
02:21:36,010 --> 02:21:44,030
to stop it? I prefer not to answer this legal answer in open session. Yes ma'am. Yes ma'am.

1821
02:21:44,030 --> 02:21:52,870
That was my that's my attorney. You know she won't say no she no liability. Yeah. Number

1822
02:21:52,870 --> 02:21:58,490
For one customer, I call her a lot too, thank you Ty for saving me.

1823
02:22:00,230 --> 02:22:10,910
And that's all I have for tonight and believe me, you can hear from myself and all of our

1824
02:22:10,910 --> 02:22:16,470
colleagues and the mayor, we are not going to stop until we have some answers that

1825
02:22:16,470 --> 02:22:20,490
we can give our constituents and we can give our residents.

1826
02:22:20,490 --> 02:22:24,570
so you can rest assured we're on the case.

1827
02:22:25,070 --> 02:22:26,150
Thank you, Mr. Lewis.

1828
02:22:26,310 --> 02:22:26,850
Councilor Finley.

1829
02:22:30,030 --> 02:22:31,770
And Tony brings up a good point.

1830
02:22:31,930 --> 02:22:33,810
It says effective January 22nd.

1831
02:22:33,830 --> 02:22:36,050
This is that letter that Vin sent to us.

1832
02:22:36,610 --> 02:22:40,490
Basically LA County Parks ceded

1833
02:22:42,270 --> 02:22:47,030
all administration to the EPA at that point.

1834
02:22:47,390 --> 02:22:49,650
So they knew, somebody knew something

1835
02:22:49,650 --> 02:22:59,290
on the 22nd of January and if they did this without reporting to the county

1836
02:22:59,290 --> 02:23:06,790
supervisors I don't know who did it but you know what they ought to be fired but

1837
02:23:06,790 --> 02:23:17,610
then yeah you're fired no now also one of the point didn't she just say this

1838
02:23:17,610 --> 02:23:23,670
was going to be done in 30 days. Yes, that contradicts what was at the board meeting.

1839
02:23:24,110 --> 02:23:32,870
Okay, so, and she's the one making the decisions. I am, this is a one-sided bet. You guys don't

1840
02:23:32,870 --> 02:23:38,890
have to give me anything if it doesn't happen. If it happens, and I'm going to give them

1841
02:23:38,890 --> 02:23:44,350
a little bit of latitude here, March 1st, if they pack up and they move out of there

1842
02:23:44,350 --> 02:23:51,410
by March 1st. I'm buying everybody here a cup of coffee from Starbucks. Okay, I'm

1843
02:23:51,410 --> 02:23:58,030
talking. I want dinner. Well I can tell you, I can tell you right now, y'all don't

1844
02:23:58,030 --> 02:24:01,410
worry about getting no Starbucks because it ain't gonna happen. Because there's

1845
02:24:01,410 --> 02:24:11,270
7,000 plots. So you said 7,000, even if they did in a day, it's gonna happen.

1846
02:24:11,270 --> 02:24:30,130
Okay. Thank you so much. First, I do want to thank staff. Our city manager was very proactive as on Saturday morning when we found out just the same way that everybody else did, calling other city managers and getting the ball rolling on this. I really appreciate it.

1847
02:24:30,130 --> 02:24:41,130
Our PIO has been breaking a sweat the last two days handling all the media-related inquiries.

1848
02:24:41,610 --> 02:24:45,410
So I just want to make sure that we continue highlighting all of our staff.

1849
02:24:45,650 --> 02:24:51,510
And while we're talking about one federal agency and Starbucks, yesterday, while we

1850
02:24:51,510 --> 02:24:56,490
were dealing with all of this, I got a couple of calls from concerned residents about

1851
02:24:56,490 --> 02:25:02,390
immigration vehicles at our local Starbucks on Buena Vista and Huntington Drive. After

1852
02:25:02,390 --> 02:25:04,610
further investigation they were just having a coffee.

1853
02:25:07,210 --> 02:25:10,930
However, however, it does

1854
02:25:10,930 --> 02:25:17,370
raise a lot of concerns and it does have people feeling uneasy. If there's

1855
02:25:17,370 --> 02:25:21,210
something that I want to say is I want our immigrant community, our Asian

1856
02:25:21,210 --> 02:25:25,050
community, our Latino community to feel safe in our city. I want them that if

1857
02:25:25,050 --> 02:25:30,810
victims of a crime to feel at liberty to report those crimes as we heard today from our director

1858
02:25:30,810 --> 02:25:37,330
of public safety. It is through seeing something and saying something that we are able to have these

1859
02:25:37,330 --> 02:25:43,530
low part one crimes and have these low crime numbers. I want folks to feel safe to seek

1860
02:25:43,530 --> 02:25:51,870
medical attention. So I just want to, if director Brasita, do our staff, do our sheriff

1861
02:25:51,870 --> 02:25:58,790
deputies, would they participate in any immigration sweeps roundups?

1862
02:25:59,670 --> 02:26:03,010
No, the policy of the Sheriff's Department is not to participate in those type of

1863
02:26:03,010 --> 02:26:07,250
suites. It's handled by that agency in particular. And furthermore, you mentioned

1864
02:26:07,250 --> 02:26:10,650
something about the protection of those that are victim of crimes or

1865
02:26:10,650 --> 02:26:14,870
witnesses of crimes. There is a Pina Code section that actually protects

1866
02:26:14,870 --> 02:26:19,070
those individuals from immigration deportation. So if they do witness

1867
02:26:19,070 --> 02:26:21,550
this crime or a victim of a crime,

1868
02:26:21,630 --> 02:26:23,370
they cannot be deported in that situation.

1869
02:26:23,570 --> 02:26:25,290
That actually is a state penal code.

1870
02:26:25,830 --> 02:26:26,630
Thank you, sir.

1871
02:26:26,770 --> 02:26:29,590
I am working on getting a fact sheet out

1872
02:26:29,590 --> 02:26:33,310
on my social media on immigration resource center

1873
02:26:33,310 --> 02:26:34,310
in Monrovie that's a nonprofit

1874
02:26:34,310 --> 02:26:38,090
and working with our senator, assembly member

1875
02:26:38,710 --> 02:26:42,730
on know your rights cards that we can possibly hand out.

1876
02:26:44,590 --> 02:26:48,810
Barbie, happy 41 years of serving your community.

1877
02:26:48,810 --> 02:26:51,130
I mean, I just can't believe it, it's incredible.

1878
02:26:52,090 --> 02:26:53,770
Happy Lunar New Year to everybody.

1879
02:26:54,110 --> 02:26:56,330
On February 8th, we'll be celebrating here.

1880
02:26:56,490 --> 02:26:58,530
It's our second annual Lunar New Year celebration

1881
02:26:58,530 --> 02:27:00,070
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

1882
02:27:00,530 --> 02:27:02,770
There'll be multiple performances.

1883
02:27:02,970 --> 02:27:04,750
It's gonna be even bigger than last year.

1884
02:27:04,990 --> 02:27:07,090
I invite everybody to please join us.

1885
02:27:08,070 --> 02:27:10,910
I do want to adjourn tonight's meeting.

1886
02:27:11,870 --> 02:27:14,090
A friend of mine passed away due to cancer.

1887
02:27:14,710 --> 02:27:17,750
Stephanie Gano, she also went to Duarte High School

1888
02:27:17,750 --> 02:27:23,030
and I am sending the Kano family my heart during these times.

1889
02:27:23,450 --> 02:27:27,670
She was a 25-year fighter, so if we can please adjourn

1890
02:27:27,670 --> 02:27:29,990
in her memory tonight, I'd really appreciate it.

1891
02:27:30,810 --> 02:27:35,740
And with that, take it away, meeting adjourned.

1892
02:27:35,840 --> 02:27:36,360
Thank you so much.