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Hey everybody, my name is Garrett and I'm here 
hosting this week's episode of City Council Recap.  

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uh the show where we sit and we as a 
community discuss the events that occur  

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at Monrovia City Council meetings together. Um 
I'm joined by Jason. Hello. Yep. And tonight,  

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let me run that back. Tonight we're recounting 
the uh meeting from Tuesday, February 17th.  

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Um we discussed uh 
many things in this one and uh we first started  

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with our pledge of allegiance uh which was 
uh performed by uh Sergio Himenez and then  

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invocation was led by uh police chaplain Steve 
Martinez and the roll call for everyone at that  

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uh particular council meeting was uh full. 
Everyone was there. All members of staff were  

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there and all council members was there. I'm going 
to be calling out a time when I start discussing  

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these and this time refers to a timestamp to the 
YouTube live stream which will be included in the  

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description. So if you want to follow along what 
we discuss and go and see in the actual meeting,  

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it's good to sort of you know see for yourself 
especially if you have your own thoughts. Um so at  

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10 minutes and 53 we also we also have like there 
there's also in the um in below the um below the  

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video you can actually see a link to where you can 
actually access more information from the city of  

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Monrovia's website because as we're going to talk 
about tonight there are some budget reports and  

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stuff that were given by staff and while we're not 
going to go into a whole bunch of detail in those  

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um those slides are available to the public and 
you can check those things out too. Yes. And  

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that's that's always good is that they're all like 
very easy downloadable PDFs. Um I mean I'm'll be  

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honest, I can access most of the stuff just from 
my smartphone. Yeah, super easy. Yeah. Um so 10  

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minutes 50 seconds in, we get into proclamations 
as our order of business. Uh returning we have  

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Pasadena Humane Society and their pet of the 
month. We they had girly pop. She is a lab pit mix  

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who is four years old, hoping to be adopted soon. 
Um, and they were uh highlighting their field trip  

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program in which uh people who are interested 
in adopting pets can come and walk the dogs. Uh,  

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which is good because it, you know, takes that 
pet out into the public and gets visibility. Yeah,  

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it's actually a great program. It's it's a newer 
program that the Pasadena Humane has done where  

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they um you can kind of sign up. They said like 
at least a month or up to a month ahead of time  

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and you can even actually with some dogs take them 
overnight and it's actually resulted in a whole  

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bunch of new um adoptions. Yeah. Which I guess 
is the goal, right? Find homes for them. Yeah.  

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Like a trial run. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, 
for sure. Um the next order of business was Oh,  

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you know what else they talked about? They talked 
about the kitten Oh, I did have that. Yeah. So,  

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um March 14th from 11 to 2, Pasadena Humane. uh 
they're going to have um like a kitten seasonally  

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you're always anticipating like batches of 
kittens and so this is kind of like raising  

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awareness like hey we're going to get a huge 
litter of kittens soon. Um there's always a  

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need there's always a need to adopt kittens. 
There's a lot of cats that are dropped off or  

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kittens that are dropped off or there are kittens 
that are birthed there that need to find home. So  

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um yeah March 14th 11 to 2. um look into that. 
That was that was pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. I would  

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I would always encourage getting a kitty. Y um 
they also proclaimed February 19th, 2026 as world  

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uh collangio carcinoma day and February 2026 
the whole month as collangio carcinoma awareness  

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month. As you can tell, carcinoma being about 
cancer and this is a rare form of cancer that  

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um manifests at least medically um well not 
medically visible um in its later stages which  

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makes it particularly dangerous. Yeah, it's a 
bileduct cancer and um um they don't show a lot of  

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um there's not a lot of symptoms and so a lot 
of times when it's found out is it's when it's  

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um spread and we had um somebody there 
that was um Wendy Wendy, right? Wendy. Yes,  

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Wendy was there um to receive the um proclamation 
for February. um she herself is um is dealing with  

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um with that bioduct cancer. Um but wow, she had 
a real positive attitude and I guess that's what  

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you really want to have. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's 
definitely and she was like there's there's hope,  

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you know, in in spreading this awareness that 
you know there's definitely treatment available.  

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Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Um the next order of 
business was the recognition of our um now  

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former um community services director Tina Cherry. 
In fact, like right now we're taping at right now.  

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We're taping at 5:00 pm on Thursday and right now 
um at the community uh center there celebrating  

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uh Tina her 12 years that she has given to the 
city of Monrovia as well as you know more than  

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30 years of you know community service you 
know in her field and you know I I I tell  

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you wherever wherever I am Tina was always there 
and always willing to help and so um she got a  

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lot of praise and support from everyone you know 
Uh, lots of praise for the like the joy and the  

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energy that she brings. Like and I mean I mean a 
lot of Monrovians know her as like she's hosted  

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a lot of the parade. Oh gosh. And she's just got 
that energy and she's great. She's done a lot of  

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good work. I mean what she's done for our library 
programs, our our recreation programs. Um who was  

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it? I forget who said I think it was uh Mr. Fe 
that said um she has a give a damn factor. Yeah,  

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the give a damn factor. Which I thought was was 
great. So, it was a really nice tribute to uh  

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to Tina. Yeah. Yeah. And an introduction to um uh 
Rebecca Reeba um you know and uh as our new I mean  

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she's been she's been around she's been around for 
a long time. She's worked with Tina for years and  

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had some beautiful things to say about her and 
um was looking forward to the responsibility.  

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Her family was there and uh so the newly accepted 
um community service director. So congratulations.  

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Congratulations. Yes. Yeah. Um after that uh 
they introduced the current cabinet or club  

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presidents of the senior club of Monrovia which I 
believe they are sort of the board that oversees  

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the various senior classes and activities and uh 
organizations. Uh uh yeah. and Tiffany Peterson  

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show uh came to introduce who they were and what 
where they were at and they got to take a photo  

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with the uh city council. Yeah. And for those of 
you who aren't aware, I mean right now they have,  

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you know, there's like 150 active seniors in our 
communities that are participating in the senior  

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activities. There's so many different things 
going on. if you know if you get our community um  

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wreck guide and they talk about all the different 
activities that are available. I mean, it's food,  

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it's activities, and if you are um if you're a 
senior, actually, I think it's if you're over 50,  

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you can um you can actually participate in uh 
these activities and and you know, it's just so  

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many different things to keep everybody active and 
keep people, you know, involved in the community.  

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And it was just a great showing of a lot of people 
there that are willing to stand up and and show up  

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and be involved. No, it was great. Yeah. Um we 
did not have a student government liaison report  

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uh that night. Uh so then the council moved 
into our consent calendar actions which are  

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uh just standard order of business uh motions that 
are adopted like in bulk, right? You've explained  

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on this show many times, consent calendar is 
just a bunch of stuff that's scheduled. Yeah. Um,  

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and it's not to be done in a shady or weird way. 
In fact, like we were saying, you can pull up all  

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of these um documents and ordinances on your phone 
and see exactly what gets um uh passed. Yeah. It's  

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the everyday business workings of the city, right? 
Yeah. Right. Um so they did and they didn't pull  

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anything for discussion. They just approved it 
with a motion and a second. We are now moving  

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into 55 minutes uh on this uh live stream and we 
got to our public input section which is where  

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your voice can be heard if you actually attend 
um the city council meeting or I believe you  

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can zoom in as well. You can phone or zoom in. 
There's all instructions are all always printed  

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um through the city clerk. You can contact Alice 
Atkins our city clerk and you know share any  

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information. You can also email and the um emails 
will be shared, not read but shared with the  

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um with all of the council members on there. 
Yeah. And it's not necessarily a talkback. It  

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is a chance for the council and staff to hear you. 
You are not guaranteed a response. Um talk back.  

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Most of the time they can't respond. Sometimes the 
city manager will give an update but not respond  

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directly to those things. Exly. Yeah. So, first up 
was uh our our hostess with the Moses, Chris Los.  

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Uh he showed up to talk about March 15th, 2020. 
Put it on your calendar. Yes. Put it on your  

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calendar right now. House Party. House Party at 
the Park from 1 PM to 5:00 p.m. at Library Park,  

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Monrovia, California. Good music, good vibes. 
Um it was started out as a way for alumni,  

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MHS alumni to reconnect and it kind of just 
expanded into this like big community gathering.  

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Uh they this is now the third year doing this and 
each year we pass out the MTON awards in which  

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the community fills out a poll and they nominate 
particular people that they're like you know what  

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this person was outstanding in this regard. Um 
and yeah it's really really cool. Definitely don't  

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miss it and it's a good chance to connect with us 
as well and talk about a way that maybe you could  

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get involved in this show as well. So there'll 
be lots of different people there. music, food,  

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just connecting the awards. Bring your bring your 
lawn chairs um and your blankets and bring the  

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kids and play around in the uh library park. It's 
in the it's in the back where the clam shell is.  

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So is when where they host it. Again, that's March 
15th from 1 to 5. It's just open to the public.  

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You don't have to be a Monrovian. Um and and uh 
yeah, it's no fee. It's free. Come come hang out.  

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Yeah, it's a great time. Yeah. you to get more 
information about that you can go to community  

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uh re-imagined.org um and uh that's Chris Los's 
um uh community organization and you know they're  

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working really hard to not just support the 
community with the house party but a lot of  

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different ways. So yeah, so that's that's a good 
thing. Mhm. Next was Sher L Sher Lner and Marty  

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Mack returning to discuss uh the topic of ICE 
raids uh that have been occurring in our community  

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and the country at large and the connection 
between the two. Um bringing it to the attention  

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of our city council and our city government. Um, a 
great quote that was brought uh a quote. This is a  

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quote and of a quote brought from Pablo Alvarado, 
the co-ed uh the co-ex executive director of  

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Endilon, National Day Laborers Organization 
Network. Um, uh, we should all be worried about  

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state sanctioned violence. Um, and it's just 
very important that people keep showing up and  

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keep talking about it and keep bringing awareness 
about it. Um so yeah they came to discuss that. Um  

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uh yeah and then next was Adriana from the 
assembly members office. Um wanting to thank Dr.  

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Kelly in her role uh for this past was what was it 
like year and a half or so? Yeah just about just  

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over a year. Um each each year the city u chooses 
one member of city council to be the mayor prom.  

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You know we have an elected mayor position. Yep. 
Um and then uh you have the elected city council  

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positions and um they developed a new protocol. 
Um and so the new protocol designed based upon  

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um like uh city council seniority. They kind of 
passed the torch for the pro for the city council  

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member to then become the mayor prom. So that 
would step into the marial duties if the mayor  

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was not able to be able to do that. And um DTK or 
Dr. to Tamara Kelly. Tamila Kelly um finished and  

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was recognized by the uh congressman's office, but 
also was recognized by the whole the whole staff,  

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the staff and the and the whole um yeah, city 
council. She's been very involved here at the  

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studio as well as the liaison. Um and we we love 
her. She's she's a very very good person. We do.  

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Yep. Um all right. And with that, uh, public 
comment was closed. And an hour and six minutes  

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into our stream, we get into the, uh, reports 
of city staff and city council members. Um,  

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I don't believe that the city management had a 
whole lot to say this. Yeah, I can just kind of  

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You want me to just kind of go through? Sure, 
if you don't mind. Yeah, I'll do that. So, um,  

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our city manager, um, Dylan Fe, um, you know, you 
can actually see this. He's got a city manager,  

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city council's directives on different things that 
he works on. Um, and the city council just had a  

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um a close session in which they kind of created 
more directives that will soon be add to that.  

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Um he did respond to a couple of things and 
saying that the city is um in response to  

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Sherry's comments about trying to get more 
information upon the death of Carlos Valdez  

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um and uh the city is still reaching out 
um to the CHP to get more info. Actually,  

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they reached out to both the state and the federal 
government as well to see and they haven't heard  

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anything back. So, um just a quick update from 
uh from Dylan and then we went into the rest of  

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the city council's um updates. And I'm just going 
to kind of lump them into bigger things because  

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um they just actually attended the California or 
the League of California Cities. Yeah. where all  

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the different um city councils and town councils 
from across the state kind of come together just  

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to kind of get you know share ideas and have 
different um um you know conferences and groups  

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and that they belong with um and um you know it's 
I mean the I mean Sergio really kind of kicked it  

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off by really talking about how important it is to 
really work together and to support one another.  

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They attended um different um uh commissions on 
housing and transportation and the Olympics and  

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all these different things. And um you 
know um some of the things that Sergio  

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um wanted to highlight was we're here at KGM and 
KM was nominated I wanted to shout that out. Was  

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nominated for eight different eight nominations at 
the Wave Awards. Um and two of those nominations  

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uh went to one particular video that they had made 
uh last year. Yeah, it was last year. Uh which  

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was the eaten fire carathon. We had shot a um 
hellathon prior and we want to start experimenting  

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with that format, you know, just that sort of 
production. So I remember after the fire there  

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was that conversation of we got to do this like 
this has got to be like a really important thing  

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for the community to come together and basically 
be a hub of information almost like the idea of  

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this. Right. Right. And yeah I think that is so 
vindicating to hear because the wave awards is  

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like a big deal to get best of show. Best best in 
show and best live format. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty  

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amazing. Congratulations. K. Yeah. Yeah. our 
little KG gem that that could um he also talked  

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about the state of the city. So a couple of last 
week, two weeks ago, there was a state of the city  

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um and it's the annual kind of like a state of the 
union or state of the state where everybody kind  

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of comes together and each of the council members 
kind of report out upon what's been happening. Um  

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and uh it was just really successful. Um it's 
usually held at our local theaters on Myrtle,  

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but that uh the Look theaters closed. Um and uh 
thanks to our fast working, you know, city and  

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the people in the office were able to to move it 
to the high school. Um I attended it was great.  

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Yeah. Um I enjoyed it. It was really nice to hear 
all these different things. That's good. You know,  

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the parks, the opening of the new parks, our 
job centers. I mean really talking about and  

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we'll talk about this a little bit more is that 
the strong financial place that the city of  

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Monrovia is in and this is something that each 
of the council members talked about with that  

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um League of the California cities is that you 
know there's a lot of cities that are in a lot  

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of financial troubles right now. Yes. and because 
of some really really smart financing decisions by  

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the city, um the staff, the council, and everyone 
involved is that we have an A++ credit score um  

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rating. And um so we're in a good place where we 
are right now. And I guess we'll get into that a  

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little bit more. Um uh Dr. Dr. Tamil Kelly talked 
about um uh let's see u really talking about  

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some priorities of affordability um housing 
affordability housing supply um um they also  

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many of them attended the San Gabriel Valley COG 
which is the COG is an acronym for the council of  

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government so it's everyone in San Gabriel Valley 
that kind of comes together on a regular basis um  

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and talks about um what's happening the COG itself 
is working really hard with the Olympic Committee  

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for 28 to ensure that we can work together to draw 
people to our city uh whether it's for hotels,  

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for events, for you know getting athletes um 
from other countries to to come here and Dr.  

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Kelly has been working really hard to to do that 
and it's kind of continuing. Um she talked about  

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uh we're celebrating Black History Month right now 
and um on February 24th from 2 to 4 at the library  

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there'll be some events that'll be celebrating 
Black History Month. Um uh Council Member Larry  

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Spicer talked about um what he attended at the 
League of California Cities. Yeah. Um he talked  

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about um our community services, our health fair 
for seniors that's happening on February 27th.  

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Um and then uh the Monrovia Darty Black Alumni 
Association um is also celebrating um a hundred  

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years of faith that endures and the churches 
that the um that uh that are you know present  

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in our communities. He named um a couple 
of different like I think it was like three  

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or four different Yeah. um churches and that's 
going to be on February 22nd um from 2 to 4. Um,  

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Council Member Belden, um, oh, actually a couple 
of people talked about the Chamber of Commerce,  

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um, gala that was the Awards Gala was just 
beautiful apparently, you know, just like very  

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set in the 20s and um, was it the 20s? It was a 
um, funny cuz our our musical is kind of the same  

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genre. It's the step into the spotlight. Okay. 
Where it's all like film like golden age golden  

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age. Golden age. Okay. Well, yeah, it sounded 
like it was just really beautiful and you attended  

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um thought it was uh that was great. Um but that's 
and then uh the mayor um also reiterated a lot of  

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things that people were talking about with the 
California cities event. Um then we she talked a  

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little bit more about the newly adopted protocol 
to determine who the mayor prom is going to be.  

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And then there was a little bit of back and forth 
where we um thanked Dr. Kelly for her service and  

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welcomed um uh our new prom mayor as of Tuesday 
night, Sergio Jimenez um saying that he's just  

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a member of the team and is just going to make 
sure that the team still keeps working together.  

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Yeah. Um um Mayor Chevlin also talked about 
celebrating the new Lunar New Year um with the um  

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Yang Firehorse every 60 years. Um um it wasn't it 
was uh back in the 1960s that there was the Yang  

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fire horse. So there's been different years of the 
horse, but this is the yang fire horse. So if you  

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think the yin and the yang the yin is more kind 
of calm and the yang is impulsive and so this is a  

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year of maybe some exciting events that are going 
to be happening. So so happy lunar new year to  

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um to all. Um, she also, Mayor Chevlin also talked 
about um that the uh Congress member Gil Cisneros,  

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our uh one of our local representatives along um 
uh with others um uh that rep that that represent  

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us um was just really willing to listen to our 
community. Congressman Sinesis Neros has always  

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been available to our community and and so it's 
nice that he's doing that. She talked about, hey,  

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we're trying to get more people um in here for the 
Olympics. And finally, she talked about one city,  

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one story. And that's a book prog u um the 
bear project. Yeah. That is kind of going  

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on in conjunction with Monrovia Reads. Yes. Um 
and that's going to be this Saturday, I think,  

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at Library Park from 9 to 10. Yes. So, that 
was good. So, I think that kind of covers Yeah,  

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that was that was they they Yeah, the bears the 
bear is going to be interesting. It's basically  

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like the the whole city including students are 
having all reading the same book at the same time  

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and it's all going to culminate. Now after that 
after our um uh city council and staff reports  

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we moved into our administration reports uh where 
things that are brought to the city council for  

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them to vote on or just read through. Um uh that's 
usually toward the end of meetings. Um at an hour  

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and 37 minutes in, uh they brought forth AR-1 
amendment to Monrovia Municipal Code section 2.230  

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related to city council compensation pursuant to 
SB 329. So this has to do with the compensation  

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uh that council members get which I think was like 
a year or so ago there was like a cap and now this  

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cap has been kind of moved a bit. Yeah. And now 
they're kind of discussing what that looks like.  

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Uh this was the first reading of this. So what the 
council voted on on Tuesday was to keep looking  

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into this essentially to have further reading. 
It'll be it'll be voted on officially next next  

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um I think next council meeting or next month. 
Actually I think it's March that they're going  

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to be doing it. So, so basically, um, uh, the 
idea behind this is that there are some state  

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regulations that, um, allow for only a certain 
amount of money that, um, uh, city council  

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members and that can receive, uh, per month. 
And currently, right now, they receive $1,270,  

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$75 per month. Um, this new ordinance would 
increase it to 1,359. It can only be, I believe,  

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about 5% annually. Um, this is being voted by the 
current city council. Um, it is really nominal  

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compensation. Um, for the amount of time that they 
put in, um, it's it's I agree. It's a no-brainer.  

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It's a no-brainer for me. Um, but what's also 
important is that even though they're voting on  

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this as a council, that those compensation factors 
will not change until the new council is set um,  

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starting in November. So, um, unless they're 
if they're reelected, if they run and they're  

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reelected, then they can then they can, um, 
they'll benefit from that. But, um, and then also  

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same thing goes, um, yeah. So, yeah, that was it. 
So, that's they just did a reading of it and then  

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there'll be a further vote on it at a future 
city council meeting. Yep. Next was AR2. Uh,  

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and this is more discussion about our fiscal 
year, our 25 to 26 fiscal year budget update.  

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uh schedules of fees, charges updates. Um this 
is any time that they just bring stuff to the  

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council and say this is kind of where we stand. 
You know, it's a lot of complicated stuff. Uh the  

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slides and stuff like that, but it's good news 
in general. Yeah. What I I gathered. Yeah. So,  

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this what they did is they kind of looked back at 
the um the the previous year and kind of take a  

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look at what the budget was, what the expenditures 
was, and then how the books kind of ended up.  

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Again, you can go to the city council agenda 
or go to the city's website and get all that  

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information. You have access to those slides 
and um did a really nice job in kind of just  

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laying out what that looked like. Um and kind of 
the summary, if you will, was overall the city  

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of Monrovia is stable financially. Yes. Um and 
that is a really really good thing. Um you know,  

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um last year we were under u our budgeted uh 
constraints and there was a $2.6 $6 million  

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uh surplus, right? Um the revenues are stable, the 
expenditures are stable. Um and even in quarter  

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two, um there was a 1.6 million surplus. And um 
they talked about uh measure K. So uh for those  

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of you um who aren't familiar with measure K, 
measure K is a sales tax that um occurs in the  

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city of Monrovia and a an additional sales tax 
that's on top of that. And all that money comes  

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back to our community, which has which goes 
to fixing our roads, developing our parks. If  

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you've driven down Mountain in the last couple 
of months, that's where your money is at work.  

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You'll see how nice that it took a little while 
to get it all fixed and stuff, but it's really,  

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really beautiful. I drive it every single day. Um, 
so that's really nice. Um, that, you know, our our  

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new parks. Uh we talked about some fee changes for 
park use, trying to get fees waved for use of or  

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rental space of our parks for our city residents, 
right? Um which is actually really nice. Um talked  

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about the 38 different capital improvement product 
projects that are happening around the city.  

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Um and uh I guess kind of the overall was that 
for the whole previous year, the 24-25 year,  

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um $1.76 million better than the budget. So, um 
I'd say that's pretty good. That's not bad. And  

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listening to um I remember talking to Dr. Kelly 
at the state of the city and she was saying, "Oh,  

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just getting back from this League of California 
cities and there's so many cities that are just  

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in the red and that can't do things." And so, 
you know, we're really fortunate. We've got a  

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really really wise city manager, staff and council 
that is um you know conservative but also puts the  

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money where the community needs it. Yes. Yes. 
Yep. Yeah. Um and with that there was nothing  

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else to discuss. Uh and they adjourned uh so 2 
hours and 2 minutes is the length of that. Uh if  

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you want to go watch that on your own or listen 
to this where we just kind of blew through it in  

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something like 25 minutes. Yeah. Which is awesome. 
It was uh adjourned in the memory of Romana Rednik  

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um a Monrovia resident and the next meeting 
is scheduled for March 3rd at 7:30 p.m. in  

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council chambers. Yep. Cool. Cool. Yeah. Um 
again, this show is not a closed session. It  

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is an Yes. Uh it is open to any of you that 
wish to join us and if you have thoughts  

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uh when you watch this or things that you uh want 
uh clarification on. We are not experts. We get  

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stuff wrong. Uh but we learn together. Yeah. 
And uh that's why that's what makes this show  

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uh I think really special. So um with that, thank 
you very much for watching this week's episode of  

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City Council Recap. And we will check you out. 
Uh we will we'll see you in March. Yes. Yes.