City Council Meeting - Jan 15th, 2020

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[0:00] Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we'll go ahead and get our City Council on Fire Protection District meetings by calling them to order this evening. On January 15th, we were dark on January 1st, of course, because that was New Year's Day, but we're all back in our places this this evening, the third Wednesday of the month. So tonight, I had the opportunity of having a young man in my office here about a week and a half ago or so, looking for getting his merit badge for scouting.
[0:30] project and they came tonight to be in the audience to see City Council doing their business.
[0:36] So I'd like to ask for both Alexander, who's a scout, and his brother, Finley is going
[0:42] to assist tonight to lead us, and their last name is Hartley.
[0:47] And they're going to lead us in the pledge to our nation's flag tonight.
[0:51] So, young men, why don't you come up, the future leaders of our country here, right here,
[0:56] coming up.
[0:57] Okay,
[1:05] you can stand right here and the rest is up to you.
[1:10] Audience, please place your right hand over your heart.
[1:15] Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.
[1:17] Ready, begin.
[1:19] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
[1:24] and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
[1:29] indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
[1:34] Thank you.
[1:35] Wonderful.
[1:37] Let's give them a round of applause.
[1:51] We'll move on to roll call.
[1:52] Mayor Michael is present.
[1:54] Mayor Pro Tem.
[1:55] Lynn Kennedy.
[1:56] Present.
[1:57] And council members, Ryan Hutchinson, Christine Scott.
[2:01] Present.
[2:01] And Sam Spagnolo.
[2:02] Present.
[2:03] Tonight we have a couple of announcements, one announcement
[2:06] and one presentation.
[2:08] A very solemn presentation this evening, ladies and gentlemen.
[2:12] I'm sure a lot of you in our community certainly
[2:15] have read the papers or seen it on on social media or on the internet but very tragically
[2:21] a few about a month and a half ago or so. You know when hikers go up in the mountains
[2:28] and hike and in terrible conditions things can happen and things that kind happen aren't
[2:34] necessarily good. In this particular case we had a search and rescue volunteer with a search
[2:42] and rescue team of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department and his team were up
[2:46] in Mount Baldi searching for a lost hiker and tragically,
[2:51] Tim Staples of Rancho Cucamanga who was also a teacher at Damian High School involved in that
[3:00] search slipped and went down an ice shoot and lost his life. It was a very tragic situation for
[3:06] their community but most importantly for the students at Damian High School and most important
[3:12] certainly a young family that he left behind.
[3:16] And so tonight we have them here with us tonight, and I'd like to call up Dan and
[3:21] Barbara Staples who are Tim's parents, Katie Staples, Tim's wife, and
[3:28] her parents, Chris and Christy Armheim.
[3:38] We will be adjourning this meeting this evening.
[3:42] Of course, they're going to go ahead and go on about their family business.
[3:46] But we'll be adjourning in Timothy Staples' memory this evening at the conclusion of our meeting.
[3:53] So I have this certificate of deep sympathy on behalf of the City Council, all of our employees,
[4:02] and the residents and the people that care about this community and the people that live in it.
[4:06] The people that spend their lives as a volunteer risking their lives to save other people's lives.
[4:13] And that's the highest calling that I think you can find in any human being is someone
[4:18] that decides, hey, I'm going to go out and vary in climate conditions and do my very
[4:23] best to recover, find somebody hopefully still alive.
[4:26] And sometimes those are very risky situations, and in this particular case, it's just a
[4:32] real sad, sad tragedy that has occurred, but the loss will go on in our memories.
[4:38] His time here with the search and rescue team was invaluable.
[4:42] It was a key member of that group of men and women, so in this certificate reads the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamanga.
[4:50] A adjourns their meeting on January 15, 2020 in memory of Tim Staples and by this token extends our deepest.
[5:00] And sincerest condolences and the consolations to the bereaved family and friends and members of the family. So I'll present this to his wife. And we all want to at least shake your hand and pay our respects. Thank you.
[5:40] Okay, I think we can take our seats because the next presentation will be down here at the podium. If I'm not mistaken.
[5:56] I'd like to call up. Are you coming up here?
[6:00] chief or oh
[6:05] that's right never mind I got Donnie Mahoney here.
[6:14] Where's that
[6:15] went at?
[6:18] I know she has a proclamation but I've got just just one second maybe I've
[6:23] got a page missing that I missed. Okay the next presentation and thank you ladies
[6:29] is a presentation of a proclamation declaring the month of January 2020 as
[6:35] national mentoring months. So on behalf of the San Bernardino County
[6:40] Children's Network and mentoring task force, I'd like to call up
[6:43] Paris Anderson of big brothers and big sisters, which is an
[6:47] incredible organization that represents the inland empire. So
[6:51] Paris, if you would come up, I will hand them a mic and you can
[6:54] share a little bit about what your organization does and the
[6:57] importance of mentoring. And after that, our Mayor Pro Temlin,
[7:02] And Kennedy who has retired from educational field as a doctor of education will present the proclamation.
[7:12] Thank you.
[7:13] Good evening, city councilmembers and Mayor Eltonis, Michael.
[7:17] Thank you for your city's investment in youth and social capital.
[7:20] Research shows that mentors can play a powerful role in providing young people with the tools to make responsible choices attend and engage in school and
[7:30] reduce and avoid risky behavior like drug use. Yet, the same research shows that 9 million
[7:36] young people between the ages of 8 to 18 years in our country will grow up without a mentor.
[7:43] This is called the Mentoring Gap in America. Although mentoring is trending upward in recent years,
[7:49] the number of youth and need of a mentor is also increasing. The need for quality mentors is evident.
[7:55] No matter the size or type of mentoring program offered.
[7:59] For example, at Big Brothers Big Sisters last year, we served 1,301 youth region-wide.
[8:05] And thanks to the support of City, we offer youth a corporate mentor through our Workplace
[8:11] Mentoring Program at Citizens Business Bank, and we just launched our first Bigs with Badges
[8:16] Program in the region thanks to the leadership of the captain of Rancho Cucamanga Police Department.
[8:21] We are proud to connect police officers to mentor youth at one of National Corps's residential locations in the city.
[8:29] We have 300 youth on our wait list and one person can help us ignite potential.
[8:34] Individuals interested can go to iebix.org or the mentoring task force at the Children's Network for more ways to get involved.
[8:42] Thank you for your time and partnership to ensure that we mentor youth and change futures.
[8:47] Thank you.
[8:48] Thank you.
[8:49] And as the mayor mentioned, I am a lifelong educator, but every one of the council members believes
[8:56] in the mentorship program, and we thank you for that.
[8:59] And so we have a proclamation stating that January has been designated as National Mentoring
[9:06] Month to focus national attention on the need for mentors, as well as how each of us, individuals,
[9:13] businesses, government agencies, schools, faith-based communities and nonprofits can work together
[9:21] to increase the number of mentors and assure brighter futures for our young people.
[9:28] And whereas students who meet regularly with mentors and you mentioned some great statistics,
[9:34] more than 52% are less likely than their peers to skip school,
[9:41] 46% less likely to start using drugs,
[9:46] and 27% less likely to start drinking,
[9:51] and youth who face an opportunity gap,
[9:55] but have a mentor are 55% more likely
[10:00] To be enrolled in college, and whereas 18 to 29-year-olds are more than twice as likely
[10:08] to cite having a mentor in their childhood than those over 50. But only a quarter of youth
[10:15] have the mentors that they need. And whereas the third Monday in January is recognized nationally
[10:22] as Martin Luther King Jr. Day and brings forth the ideal opportunity to highlight the
[10:29] the importance of mentoring.
[10:31] Now, therefore, be it proclaimed that the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamanga does
[10:38] hereby recognize the month of January 2020 as National Mentoring Month.
[10:45] Thank you so much, and here is a proclamation that we hope you will display in the Boys and Girls Club.
[11:44] Okay, we will now move on to communications from the public. This is a time in the place
[11:50] for the general public to make to address the city council and fire protection district
[11:54] on any item listed or not listed?
[11:56] One more presentation.
[12:01] You know what, it's 2020, give, please, I apologize, please don't give me.
[12:06] We have our last presentation, probably in a very, very important presentation to share
[12:13] with our community about the recognition that we've received for our public safety.
[12:18] Rancho Cucamunga Police Department and City Manager's Office are fire chief, are police
[12:23] Please Chief Donnie Mahoney, Rancho Cucamanga Police Department, and Jennifer Camacho-Curtis
[12:28] from Community Affairs Officer.
[12:29] Would you please come forward and make your presentation?
[12:32] Thank you.
[12:36] Any other things?
[12:48] Good evening, Mayor and members of the Council.
[12:50] This evening we are proud to share with you and the community that the City of Ranch Cucamanga
[12:55] once again ranked high in Wallet Hubs annual analysis of safest cities in the United States.
[13:02] According to the report published in December 2019, California ranks 49th out of 182 cities across the United States.
[13:18] Not only did the city rank high on the national level, but locally as well.
[13:24] Rancho Cucamanga ranked third in California and number one in the inland empire.
[13:29] This analysis is based on three categories.
[13:33] communities safety and natural disaster and financial safety.
[13:42] This first category, home and community safety rank, which you see on the screen are 14
[13:48] key indicators for the scoring methodology used by Wallet Hub to rate the 182 cities.
[13:54] Points were signed based on data in indicators such as presence of terrorist attacks, violent
[14:00] crimes, sex offender population, and the number of law enforcement employees.
[14:05] as
[14:08] well as active firefighters and other emergency personnel, the perception of safety and traffic
[14:14] fatalities per capita.
[14:19] So on the other category, this is the second category that they are ranking
[14:23] us on, and this is a natural disaster and risk rank. This ranking is unfortunately nothing that we
[14:31] have control over because of our geographic location. We are susceptible to the earthquakes, the flood,
[14:37] and wildfires.
[14:40] So with that preparedness, we take very seriously.
[14:47] We have 55 trained cert members, currently volunteering actively, with nearly 40 trainings
[14:56] per year, which include cert basic and advanced training.
[15:00] The ready RC Academy for our community, BERT, business emergency response team, and the auxiliary communications services. We also have extensive community engagement and outreach efforts for the community in preparedness efforts, as well as a state of the art upgraded EOC.
[15:21] And the third category that we were ranked on was financial safety rank. This is based on unemployment rate, job security, and financial savings of our residents.
[15:34] Well, you see on the screen are some of those indicators.
[15:43] And this is a little specific information about rancher cook among on how we ranked.
[15:48] We have an exceptional unemployment rate at 2.9 percent.
[15:52] That was from November of 2019's last report, 45 percent of our residents have a bachelor's
[16:01] degree or higher, and according to many economists, the unemployment rate under 5% it translates
[16:10] to full employment in the local economy.
[16:17] Another report that we wanted to piggyback on to this one was released later in the
[16:21] fall as well from 24-7 Wall Street.
[16:25] And this information came directly from the FBI's 2018 Uniform Crime Report.
[16:31] So as you can see, we scored exceptionally high on this one as well.
[16:36] 36th United States, 10th in California, and 4th in the Ellen Empire.
[16:43] At this time, I will turn this over to Captain Mahoney, who will share some of our specific data and information on our law enforcement,
[16:53] crime prevention, and community outreach efforts.
[16:55] Thank you.
[16:57] So as we are proud to say that we're one of the safety cities in California and the United States.
[17:02] One of the first things that comes in mind is the public safety in regards to fire protection and police protection.
[17:10] So in talking about some of the statistics related to their data collection, from 2018 to 2019, our calls for service have dropped.
[17:21] One percent, that means the public didn't call us and need our help approximately 8,500 less times than the last year than they did the year before.
[17:29] which also equated to about a 1% drop in us taking reports meaning that a crime
[17:34] actually did occur and we did some type of investigation. So all in all the
[17:38] need for our bad things happening in the city and need for police presence has
[17:43] dropped down by 1% and then of course our need for additional investigation is
[17:47] dropped.
[17:49] At the moment our status with our personnel
[17:55] Now, compliment is 141 deputies and that ranges from the sworn staff, from the deputy that's in a patrol car, patrol in the streets all the way up to my position.
[18:04] We also have another 41 professional staff that work through the office and out on the streets to assist us in doing our patrol and prime prevention functions.
[18:15] We put in there that we tend to have eight to about 30 people on the streets, patrolling the streets at any given time now.
[18:22] Obviously, we use our resources effectively and times of need, we double our ships on Friday nights because that seems to be when we need the most effective response patrol, but Sunday morning at 8 o'clock in the morning that we have eight or so deputies out in the street, which you'll find is a lot because you'll still see their cars driving because there are a whole lot of cars on the street at a clock in the morning and on Sunday, so you'll still see a lot of ours.
[18:45] Also with the help of the city and the city manager's office we've upped our compliment to six school resource officers, which is the top in the county for the sheriff's department.
[18:55] Nobody else has as many as many school resources and needed so because we have over 12,000 high school students, which was where we have most of our concerns.
[19:04] And so we have one dedicated deputy sheriff to each high school here in the city.
[19:09] And then we have another two roving deputies to handle the other 31 schools.
[19:14] Our met team has just been re-designated and we now have two specific teams that are
[19:19] led by a corporal in each team and three men are what we call our cream of the crop.
[19:24] So debuts have performed very well throughout the city doing normal patrol functions and
[19:29] have a knack for finding bad guys, as I like to say it, have been moved to the met team
[19:34] and we're out fighting violent crime as it occurs, as specifically yesterday we had a shooting
[19:40] and our met team was called in response, got there,
[19:45] buttoned everything down, figured out the situation,
[19:49] have a couple of people in custody,
[19:51] and closed the case pretty much in a very, very rapid amount of time.
[19:56] At the same time, we got word the day before that there was a mayoral...
[20:00] We want to grow inside the city and within a days time our met team had compiled all the necessary information, got search warrants, did surveillance, and took down the marijuana grow in a house and got somebody in custody over that case. And so they're being very effective, but the response is quick, and it deals with violent crime as well as our marijuana grows. And additionally, we've complemented our SOAP team, which is our solution-oriented policing team, and it's manned by a sergeant, a corporal, and five deputies.
[20:28] Those deputies work with the homeless outreach program, the hotel compliance, massage
[20:34] potters, liquor licensing compliance, and then also our active shooter programs.
[20:39] So they're very, very busy, but their focus is on things that start out to be small things
[20:46] and can grow into big things if we don't stand on top of them.
[20:49] So their gradual problems throughout the city versus something that happens instantly and
[20:55] we need to get on it real quick.
[20:57] And then recently our crime prevention team had their annual that program, which it teaches young ladies the signs and the pitfalls of human trafficking, in other words, we try to help them to identify when somebody's trying to play them and get them into the human trafficking business, which is they can be tricked is very easy to be tricked into it, but we hold the program once a year for young ladies as well as their parents, so they get to see it a lot of times.
[21:25] what's going on now with these programs is, if you will, are trying to pull in young
[21:32] ladies into the business through social media and so if parents are watching through
[21:37] the social media, their kids social media is something that they might miss and the kids
[21:41] might understand they're getting dragged into something like that.
[21:43] We also do something similar for boys as well because it is a fair factor for them and we
[21:49] teach them self-defense.
[21:50] Additionally, we teach another program, our crime prevention experts teach another program
[21:55] called the Brave Workshop in which we teach children from ages of five to twelve to fight
[21:59] off abductors, attackers, to prevent kidnappings and things like that.
[22:05] And so we teach that I think three times a year and we do that through several coalitions
[22:09] throughout the state that works on child abjections.
[22:15] And then lastly our active shooter program which you know is probably the most robust after
[22:20] shooter program in the county if not in the state.
[22:24] And to show for that, we did over 50 training exercises in 2019,
[22:29] and those exercises were addressed to businesses, these schools, city employees,
[22:38] and the community itself, and so we reached out and actually trained over 15,000 people just in 2019 alone through our 50 different seminars.
[22:46] And as seven of us go from just presentations sometimes to actually hands on and exercises
[22:54] for our deputies, we also train collaboratively with outside agencies.
[22:58] FBI joins us, ATF, Upland PD, Ontario PD, and other adjacent agencies, which is evident
[23:06] through the IRC event that occurred that when that, when the call came up for that, there
[23:11] was I think 14 different agencies that showed up to the IRC shooting.
[23:15] So you know that if you're training together, you're going to work collaboratively together when a bad event occurs.
[23:20] And so we conduct training with those groups as well.
[23:23] But 15,000 was a big number for us this year.
[23:25] We really pushed hard to get it, get the messages out to the city and the people who live there.
[23:31] So with that, that concludes our presentation.
[23:33] So we're welcome to answer any questions that you may have.
[23:36] Any questions or comments from council members?
[23:39] Just a quick comment.
[23:41] Thank you for your public safety service to our community.
[23:45] and allowing those numbers to show just how safe the city is.
[23:50] Rancho, we still have a lot of room to build on, but we do our best.
[23:55] And being ranked that high in the nation and then to be ranked that high in the state, that's pretty awesome.
[24:02] That's very good.
[24:04] Well, if I can add to, I wanted to say, I think there's,
[24:08] It was a 15 different categories that were in there and one or two of them really pertain to the
[24:17] Police or the Sheriff's Department if you will. What I
[24:20] What I see and what really grabs my attention when they talk about the different categories is all of these other factors that have to do with the work
[24:28] That's done here on a on a daily basis in the city itself
[24:32] The fact that people feel the perception of safety is what gets our attention
[24:37] We get complimented all the time, just in passing, going out to lunch at our citizen meetings and things like that.
[24:44] People feel that this city is safe.
[24:48] It's because of all of this that the city is safe.
[24:51] Just the way the city looks, the way it's up kept, the money that's put back into it.
[24:56] The job opportunities that are here, the income analysis.
[25:00] So there's all of that, and there are good people here that are living and working here every single day. And they're so helpful to us because they want to make a better community. So we don't have to, I've been at different areas within the, within the county that the citizens won't even talk to us. Even if there are victim, they won't even talk to us. Let alone come up to us and just offer, hey, I've got a video. I think I'm going to cut something on my video, come see this, and they're offering to help us on a regular basis, because that's how strong this community is. And so we say it's, you know, we take a lot of credit for it.
[25:29] But really what I'm going to say is everything that happens here in the city is what makes the city safe and everybody feels safer.
[25:37] I was going to say those very words, Captain, is that we have excellent first responders, our fire and our police are doing an outstanding job.
[25:46] But we have the residents of this community who are vigilant and who think of you as a partner in what they do every day and making sure our city is safe.
[25:56] So thank you so much.
[25:57] I think it's very evident that the relationships are key between the public, between the business
[26:05] community, and between our public safety officers both in the fire and in the police departments.
[26:11] So building those relationships, builds trust, and people, then maybe you got a handful
[26:18] that started years ago, and now you've got a whole village of people that are believing in
[26:22] what we're doing and wanting to help solve problems rather than be a creator of problems.
[26:28] So, thank you so much for what you've done, and thank you for the report.
[26:32] That was a very, very nice presentation, I appreciate it.
[26:35] Thanks, Mr. Mayor.
[26:36] I just want to add, I do want to make sure I think a lot of credit needs to go as well to Sheriff John McMahon.
[26:43] So I can tell you, I've worked in cities with their own police department, and
[26:49] I've worked in cities that had contracted with other county sheriff's department.
[26:55] and we're very fortunate here, the relationship between police and fire, police and the city manager's office and the other departments, all of that is really good, and we have some amazing officers, amazing deputies, captains and others, but a lot of it comes from the leadership at the top, and that's Sheriff McMahon, he's probably one of the finest county sheriffs that I can say I've ever seen in my career, and he sets that tone from the top,
[27:24] and that expectation and that really carries down from there and we've been fortunate county has a history of some great sheriff's but you know you're not going to get any better than John McMahon and the example that he sat so I want to make sure that there's some credit there because it is well well-earned.
[27:42] Thank you for that John.
[27:43] Can I say one more thing, Councilman Hutchinson, I don't want to put you on the spot, but I am because you had an experience and the professionalism of one of our officers and an encounter he had with an officer in a resident of actually a different city.
[28:03] the day before New Year's Day. I was getting my smog checked because my
[28:08] registration was due on New Year's. And there was a gentleman who walked out into the
[28:13] middle of the street off of Massey behind the 24-hour fitness. And he was in the
[28:18] middle of the road, in the middle of the day shaking his fist, cars and acting
[28:22] erratically. And so after watching for a few moments and then screaming at
[28:28] top as long and then he made his way over towards the opening, the doors, the elephantness
[28:34] and so I went up and said hey, if you had anything to eat lately trying to de-escalate
[28:40] the situation and so I went up to Jack in the box and got the guy a little bit of food
[28:44] to eat and sat down and as I sat down with him on the side of the curb, I tried to get him
[28:48] to calm down and by that time he made a bit of a ruckus in front of the gym there and an
[28:54] officer pulled up and came to speak to us, and this is kind of a perilous situation with
[29:02] a guy who's out of control a moment ago. I'm not quite sure how he's going to react,
[29:07] but the officer who came that day, younger guy, I think it was Dee Alonzo, was his name,
[29:16] and he was as cool-com and collected as he possibly could be with the gentleman who was clearly
[29:23] distraught in acting erratically. And so the fellow who's munching on some jack in the
[29:30] box tacos, who's got food coming out of his mouth as he's speaking. And the officer
[29:34] asked him, you know, have your name, your date of birth. And where this guy who, you know,
[29:40] wore his acting erratically didn't seem too dangerous. Actually had some very, he had a worn
[29:45] out for his arrest. It had some very serious violent crimes that he had a worn out for.
[29:51] And so as the officer begins to handcuff him, the guy starts acting a little more
[30:00] Spitting in the officer's face by accident. And all the officer says, sir, would you please move your head to the right while I'm, you know, making sure you don't have anything dangerous on you. Turns around again, sir. We please move your head to the right. Completely respectful at all times, no matter how this guy act, didn't let how the individual act affect him in any way. Kind, compassionate, and patient. And so much so that I remarked it to our mayor Pro Tem. As I saw a couple of days later, how proud I was.
[30:29] because they had no idea that I was a city council member, I had a five day beard on, and Jack had to have any city markings on it, and I told them afterwards, like, I am so proud of what our police force, how lucky we are to have a county police force in Ranch Cucamonga, and the professionalism that you exhibited in this moment, you didn't know who was watching you, but there's no way I could have done it better myself, and I know that's part of the train
[30:59] that we go through in our academy, that Sheriff's go through the academy from the leadership that you have is our police chief and captain here and like our city manager said from Sheriff John McMahon and this is something I got to see firsthand rest as a civilian and can't say enough good things about our force and how thankful I am to have you guys.
[31:19] Well, thank you for bringing that to our attention, so obviously those are the expectations we have and sometimes it can get a little out of control, especially dealing with an indirect person, so thank you so much, and that's what we hope, and that's what we're trading for.
[31:32] Very good. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
[31:37] Now we'll move on to public communications.
[31:38] This is the time and place for the general public to address the Fire Board City Council on any item listed or not listed on the agenda.
[31:45] the comments to be limited to five minutes per individual or less depending on the number
[31:50] of people desiring to speak. Public communications period will not exceed one hour prior to
[31:56] the business portion of the agenda. We have three speakers tonight. You have five minutes
[32:02] to make your presentation at the podium. The red light here, when it's on, you're free
[32:06] to speak. And there's a timer that is up on the screen. When that light goes off, you've
[32:11] reached your five-minute time frame.
[32:13] Our first speaker is Janet Walton,
[32:19] followed by Alex Weaselberger, I believe,
[32:25] and you can correct it if I'm wrong.
[32:27] Go ahead.
[32:28] Thank you.
[32:29] Good evening, and the most blessed, happy new year
[32:32] to all of you, praying that God will just continue
[32:35] to give you wisdom and guidance in this new year.
[32:38] And as we've said, it's the year of 2020,
[32:40] so kind of like our vision.
[32:42] So God give us greater vision for our city to even go greater.
[32:47] I ran across this prayer from a Christian organization called Gospel for Asia that I'd like to read,
[32:54] and then I'll say my own little private prayer, but it just kind of really sums up so much of my heart,
[33:00] but I'm sure the heart of many of us that as we pray.
[33:04] So I'm going to pray this prayer as I read it, and then I'll pray my own self.
[33:08] Dear Lord, I commit my family to you this year.
[33:11] I pray for the anointing of the Holy Spirit to work upon their lives.
[33:17] I speak your peace over them and invite you, Holy Spirit, to work in them.
[33:23] Bring healing where healing is needed and comfort of the Spirit in moments of their loss.
[33:29] Turn their eyes always towards you.
[33:32] Fan them in the flame of hope and help them to trust you more this year.
[33:37] Be their guide, their companion, their counselor, their provider, and their very present help
[33:44] in the time of need.
[33:46] Help them to see that you are there, and you are God Almighty, Heavenly Father.
[33:53] May they follow your feet and awe of who you are.
[33:56] May they know your love.
[33:58] May they know your care.
[34:00] May they feel it and embrace it.
[34:02] Help them to say yes to your will and to find freedom and surrendering to you.
[34:08] You may you be their joy and their reward.
[34:12] Let them be a light to those around them.
[34:16] Help them to recognize those in need and to recognize the nudging of the Holy Spirit
[34:20] to act and go outside of their comfort level.
[34:24] May they fully be yours and live as your light to this generation.
[34:29] Heavenly Father, I thank you so much for this prayer.
[34:32] It just says so much of what my heart, but I'm sure the heart of many of us feel and ask.
[34:38] And thank you for.
[34:40] And as it said about comfort, and tonight, Lord God, I just thank you so much for the Tim
[34:45] Staples family.
[34:47] I just cannot even imagine what they're going through, the anguish and the pain, but you
[34:52] do.
[34:53] And you care.
[34:54] and it doesn't change who you are that you are a good good God and I pray that
[35:00] You would just give them the comfort through this trying time. You walk alongside them that you would just be their comfort, be their strength, comfort their hearts in the nights when the tears just won't seem to stop. I've been there, I know, and I know your strength. I know your comfort. And I'm so grateful for it. And we don't understand why we have to go through these things, but it's so much an opportunity to trust you and to know that you are a good, good God.
[35:29] I thank you for our service personnel and our first responders and their families what a beautiful
[35:36] report tonight. How grateful I am to you for just the guidance that you are to them, the
[35:42] strength you are to them. And that truly this is, I always feel a very safe, a very good
[35:49] community. I am so proud to be able to live in this community and work in this community
[35:54] and I have my family in this community, so I'm very grateful, Father.
[35:59] Thank you for this time to openly worship you and praise you and thank you for who you are.
[36:05] Jesus the Christ, I continue to pray that we would be one nation under God
[36:10] and that it would be as our money says in God we trust.
[36:16] Thank you for the opportunity when we feel so weak
[36:19] and we don't understand things that we can just lean into you and not away from you.
[36:25] I thank you for all of this and the precious name of Jesus, amen.
[36:30] Thank you, Alex, Waisenberger.
[36:52] Hello and good evening and a happy new year.
[36:55] This new year brings with it the opportunity to solve challenges that are both old and new.
[36:59] The greatest of those remains the maintenance and stewardship of our world-class economy.
[37:03] With this in mind, I've noticed a particular demographic whose market power this city has yet to tap into college students.
[37:10] The Refuel Agency in 2018, which is a marketing firm that specializes in studying millennial consumer trends.
[37:17] Put out a report that totaled a nationwide college spending by a college student that $574 billion of that $574 billion.
[37:26] three hundred and sixty two billion was for non discretionary items, so think textbooks, the price of tuition, items of that nature.
[37:33] And two hundred and twelve billion was for non-essential indulgences such as personal care products.
[37:38] Fifteen billion dollars clothing at twenty billion dollars and thirty billion dollars on automotive related items.
[37:44] The largest purchases were made on food at sixty five billion dollars, which is significant to ranchals economy.
[37:49] Page 5 of the adopted 2019-2020 budget lists ranchals core industries, the largest of which being restaurants at 12.6% and the page 42 of that budget lists a 2.3% expected growth for that industry.
[38:04] So as a consumer group, college students possess great potential to prefer further or already thriving restaurant industry.
[38:10] Millennials especially, being the largest block of college students, they're an estimated 9 million of us enrolled in college.
[38:17] and a 2014 Forbes reported that we spend 44% of our food budget or $2,921 annually on dining out compared with baby boomers who only spend $40 or $2,621.
[38:33] The study I used earlier detailing $574 billion in nationwide spending by college students estimated there to be 21.4 million college students enrolled that year.
[38:41] This amounts to an average annual spending power of each of those students at $26,822.43,
[38:50] which to the IE, which when you correlate those numbers to the IE, in 2018, Complete College
[38:56] America approximated there to be 200,000 college students living in our region alone.
[39:01] So in other words, there are 200,000 students living in our region who have the ability to contribute
[39:06] just shy of $27,000 to our region's growth.
[39:09] Both.
[39:09] In attracting student consumers, I propose this body encourage currently existing and
[39:14] future businesses to offer student discounts.
[39:18] This market mechanism will have benefits to both our budget and the businesses in our
[39:22] city.
[39:23] It is no surprise anyone to the rise of e-commerce and the rise of e-commerce has had a
[39:27] largely negative impact on our brick and mortar businesses.
[39:30] And with 300 million US online shoppers expected by 2023, these problems will only persist.
[39:35] In today's cutthroat economy,
[39:38] brick and mortar businesses must be creative,
[39:40] it must be creative and inclusive if they are to remain alive.
[39:43] A study by forest or consulting found that 77% of shoppers
[39:46] are influenced by discounts.
[39:48] When deciding where to shop,
[39:50] in 48% reported that discounts over product selection
[39:53] or great customer service assisted in purchase selection when encountered.
[39:57] Two-thirds of shoppers refused to shop unless a discount is
[40:00] They're provided, or they will look for a discount prior to shopping. Given the market power behind them, offering student discounts can be the brick and mortar response to the incentives offered by online retailers, such as same day delivery and free shipping. Student discounts would also have a positive, would also have positive ramifications on our city's budget. The data I previously discussed indicates that students, student discounts incur further spending, thus generating higher sales tax revenue. Being the largest contributor of revenue to the city's general fund, the ability to conduct day-to-day business and meet our financial obligations.
[40:29] is impacted by the confidence of Cucamunca consumers.
[40:33] A large portion of sales taxes that are generated
[40:35] when individuals outside our city,
[40:37] patron are many fine establishments.
[40:39] When businesses implement student discounts,
[40:41] they are appealing to students across our region.
[40:43] The IE is home to two universities,
[40:45] two public colleges and a multitude of other schools,
[40:48] teaching trades and other useful skills.
[40:50] Students in the IE not satisfied
[40:51] with the academic opportunities afforded by our region,
[40:54] may decide to brave the journey to neighboring counties,
[40:56] mainly LA and OC.
[40:58] This trek brings many through Rancho, for the providing businesses with potential consumers, or I'm sorry, customers.
[41:03] It is important to always keep an eye to the future.
[41:06] Student market power lies not in current earnings but is realized in the potential for future earnings after a degree is obtained.
[41:11] This is vital, because the consumers, this city attracts today, will become the future residents of our city.
[41:17] According to the United States Census Bureau, the median income for individuals with only a high school diploma stands at $35,256.
[41:24] Well, those who have earned an associate's, stand at $41,496, and those are the bachelor's degree at $59,124.
[41:33] Thank you.
[41:34] Thank you.
[41:35] Frank at three.
[41:46] All right.
[41:51] Yes, it's 2020 and the way this,
[41:57] these termites who collectively called themselves,
[42:00] the Rancho Cucamanga City Council have been hiking, all kinds of fees and fines.
[42:07] It's left and right up and down.
[42:10] I don't think we have to worry about the student market
[42:14] remaining untapped.
[42:16] Yes, the students will be tapped one way or another.
[42:21] I suggest the students or their parents
[42:24] try to reserve a room at one of the city's facilities,
[42:30] such as the Lewis Gladys S. Lewis facility, for example.
[42:34] more commonly known as the Central Park.
[42:39] Fees are up through the roof,
[42:46] thanks to this destructive body called the Rancho Cucamanga City Council.
[42:51] So yeah, this food and market will be tapped.
[42:55] I just wanted to clarify the few things for the umpteenth time.
[43:02] We don't have a police department in the city of Rancho Cucamanga.
[43:07] So there was a sheriff's department, but there was no police department, and there was no police chief, because there is no police department.
[43:15] And our celebrated sheriff's station captain, Donald E. Mahoney, I actually turned in to the San Bernardina County office of fraud and abuse for investigation, because he had decided on his own that he was going to close the office, because apparently he thinks that's his business.
[43:38] business, that's his office, he owns that office 15 years early.
[43:44] And to borrow the words of Rancho Cucamanga's two bit lawyer, James Markman, for any students
[43:54] who are here tonight, I have to go to the county because this worthless body collectively
[44:01] known as the Rancho Cucamanga City Council wasn't going to do anything about it.
[44:10] So now we know why this destructive body called the Ranch Cucamonga City Council has consistently
[44:19] been hiking, fees, fines, rates all year long.
[44:27] I've attended these shows, you call council meetings regularly for over a year now.
[44:37] And at every opportunity, you destructive termites have raised hiked these fines,
[44:47] the revenue,
[44:48] any which way you can collect.
[44:50] And now we know last month we found out why that is.
[44:57] Thanks to this Trojan Horse name.
[45:01] Ryan Hutchison, who wants to give himself and his fellow city council members a salary.
[45:12] What a novel idea. The guy runs for office and he thinks, gee, you know, I really don't have to work anymore. I can just do this for a living. This would be my lifelong gig. How nice.
[45:29] You should be voted out of office. You shameless termite.
[45:33] You have the audacity to sit there and you know drone on and on this waste of time.
[45:42] I wonder why this City Council puts a time limit on the speakers who actually have
[45:50] worthwhile information to share, but no time limit on worthless tall tales that are told
[45:58] by some guy who just decided he doesn't want to work for a living anymore.
[46:03] He just wants to get paid to be a politician.
[46:12] Don't shake your head at me.
[46:14] I do whatever.
[46:15] I don't care what you do.
[46:20] You mean nothing to me?
[46:22] Thank God, good riddance.
[46:25] Senility has set in.
[46:26] Yes, it's 2020, and yes, the senility has been proven once again.
[46:32] Can't even keep track of your own meeting.
[46:37] And lastly, yes, we're spending all this money on law enforcement.
[46:41] You ought to do something about all these fatal accidents
[46:43] that we have in this city.
[46:48] That concludes our public communications for this evening.
[46:51] We will now move on to our consent calendars.
[46:54] There will be acted upon at one time without discussion.
[46:58] Any council member may remove any item for discussion so they so desire.
[47:03] Our first consent calendar item is our fire protection district.
[47:09] Second.
[47:10] Please vote.
[47:14] Motion carried unanimously.
[47:15] consent calendar housing successor agency move for approval second please vote motion carried unanimously consent calendar successor agency move for approval second please vote
[47:36] motion carried unanimously consent calendar public finance authority
[47:41] Committee.
[47:44] Second.
[47:46] Please vote.
[47:49] Motion carried unanimously.
[47:50] And lastly, the consent calendar for the City Council.
[47:53] Mr. Mayor, I need to abstain from item G3 due to possible conflict of interest with my
[47:58] employer, Southern California Gas Company.
[48:00] Okay.
[48:01] Do we have a motion to-
[48:02] Move for approval.
[48:04] Second.
[48:05] Please vote.
[48:08] Motion carried unanimously with Council Member Scott abstaining on item G3.
[48:13] Thank you, Madam Clerk.
[48:16] We have no consent ordinances nor administrative hearing items, so we'll move on to advertise public hearing.
[48:22] We have one consideration to approve an amendment to the community development block grant.
[48:27] Otherwise known as CDB-DG, annual action plan for fiscal year 2019-2020.
[48:37] Mr. Gillison, Hannah.
[48:41] Good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of the council.
[48:45] I am here this evening.
[48:47] Oh, there it is, thank you.
[48:56] For, to propose an amendment to the 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan, just as some background
[49:05] every year, the city submits a council-approved action plan to the Department of Housing
[49:10] and Urban Development, detailing how the city intends on spending its community.
[49:15] development block grant allocation. This programming includes capital improvement projects,
[49:21] administration, and public services programs. Can this council approve the 2019-2020 action plan
[49:28] on June 5th of 2019?
[49:33] The proposed amendment will reclassify sub-recipient inland fair housing
[49:37] mediation boards to fair housing activities. Under the public services category, these being
[49:43] landlord tenant counseling in the amount of $8,200 and fair housing services in the amount
[49:48] of $9,700 into one fair housing services activity under the more routinely used administration
[49:57] and Category.
[50:01] As there's a 15% cap on the public services category, reclassifying this total amount of $17,900 dollars. Well, the report will provide the city with a little bit more flexibility to fund other public services programs in the future. Additionally, reclassifying this activity to fall into the admin category will ease the reporting requirements on the sub-recipient. The agency currently offers mediation services over the film, and as such, they struggle to
[50:30] will capture and record the HUD-required reporting documentation that are required for public
[50:35] service programs.
[50:40] The staff recommends both public comments on the draft amendment to the 1920 annual
[50:46] action plan and to approve an amendment reclassifying the fair housing services and landlord
[50:51] tenant mediation services activities under the public services category as one fair housing
[50:56] services activity under the admin category.
[50:59] Again, this proposed amendment will reclassify a total of $17,900 in CDBG funds.
[51:09] Thank you.
[51:10] Very good, thank you very much.
[51:13] Any questions of staff before we open the public hearing?
[51:18] Public hearing is now open, is there any members of the public that would care to address the city council on this matter?
[51:26] Okay, seeing none, we will close the public hearing.
[51:29] Okay,
[51:32] and now, do I have motion to approve staff recommendation?
[51:38] Second.
[51:42] Please vote.
[51:46] Motion carried unanimously.
[51:48] Thank you for that amendment.
[51:50] Appreciate it.
[51:50] Thank you.
[51:51] I have a wonderful evening.
[51:55] Our next item is under city manager staff reports.
[51:58] Consideration to approve an amendment to the city manager's employment agreement.
[52:02] And that is our human resources director Robert Newbauer.
[52:13] There's three vows in a row.
[52:15] It's a sonility, except then.
[52:22] Honorable Mayor and City Council, before he, you have an amendment to the City Manager's
[52:27] Employment Agreement and in accordance with Government Code 54953C3, Staff will summarize
[52:36] this item before the City Council takes final action on the item.
[52:40] The City Council approved the employment agreement for John Gillison in July of 2011, and
[52:46] that agreement has been amended time from time since then.
[52:49] This is the eighth amendment and includes a 3% merit increase and a 2% base salary contribution
[52:55] increased to its 401A plan.
[52:57] Staff asked that you approved the amendment to the City Manager's employment agreement.
[53:01] Thank you.
[53:02] Very good.
[53:03] Any questions?
[53:05] This item has been discussed in closed session as a part of also an evaluation of our city manager.
[53:11] So I will entertain a motion for approval of this amendment to his contract.
[53:16] So moved.
[53:17] Second.
[53:18] Please vote.
[53:22] Motion carried unanimously.
[53:24] Thank you.
[53:25] And thank you, Mr. City Manager, for your great leadership.
[53:30] Council announcements, any council announcements, any inter-agency updates,
[53:37] saying none, before
[53:39] we identification for items for next meeting, the only thing I'm going to make a remark back
[53:44] in December, if you recall, on December 18, due to some conflicts on February 5, which
[53:50] is our next regularly scheduled council meeting, we chose to reschedule that to a special meeting
[53:55] the following Wednesday on February 12th. So we will be dark here on February 5th but we will
[54:01] hold that very same agenda on a week later on February 12th and then the following week
[54:07] will be back here again for a second meeting in February. So with that, as I mentioned earlier,
[54:16] sadly we are now going to be adjourning this council meeting with the moment of silence and the
[54:22] a memory of Tim Staples, so if I would ask for just a moment of silence in his memory and prayer for his family.
[54:40] Thank you for attending this evening, we stand adjourned.