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Marcia, can you hear me now?
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Thank you, Councilwoman Campbell. We can hear you.
Thank you.
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Good evening.
I would like to reconvene in Call of the Council Successor Agency
to the Oberland O'Ready Development Agency meeting
to order. The city clerk will now take roll.
Councilwoman Campbell.
Here.
Councilwoman Lim.
Here. Councilwoman Cine.
Mayor Protem Wong.
Mayor Rodriguez.
Here.
Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, which will be led by Bridget Blemm.
She represents a great organization called Four Families of Active Military Bridget.
And, also, remains standing after the Pledge for an invocation by Chaplain John Sioux, the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
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Okay.
So next this evening, it brings me and my colleague's great pleasure to recognize Wayne and Cindy Scott honoring their legacy of service through the hometown heroes event.
So I would like to ask Wayne and Cindy would you please make your way to the lectern.
Well, home towns heroes, what an appropriate legacy for two of our heroes of our communities.
So thank you for being here this evening. On behalf of our council, we'd like to just highlight this great legacy of service.
You've been involved with over the years honoring hometown heroes was started in 2010 by Wayne and Cindy Scott to specifically honor our gold star families in Orange County post 911.
The program has grown to include those who may not fall under certain definitions of gold stars for the last 15 years.
Love ones of those who died in military service have gathered in your Belinda for a special holiday tradition.
The names of those lost are read aloud and their family members received a personalized ornament commemorating our fallen heroes.
Families have come from all over the country to honor their loved ones in this special touching tribute.
The city of your Belinda appreciates your generosity in honorable efforts, which have been an impactful remembrance of our servicemen and women.
We extend our appreciation for your dedication to ensuring that our heroes are never forgotten.
And we will also have some certificates as well.
To present you with from our Congress member, young Kim, Senator Steven Choi, Kelly C. R. To Assembly Member Phillip Chen, the supervisor Don Wagner.
But first I'll ask Colonel Scott and Cindy would you like to say a few words.
What I would like to say is thank you. We have been honored and we have been very grateful to the community for coming out to support the gold star families for the last 16 years.
So we thank the city of your Belinda.
Thank you.
I'm going to steal a quote that's used by the honor flight organization that takes elderly veterans to visit all the monuments in Washington, D.C.
And they use a quote from Will Rogers from the 1930s, where he said, and it applies to us.
We can't all be heroes. Some of us has to stand on the curb and clap as they go by.
And that's really what we have tried to do through this program.
Well, that's a great quote. You guys have done much more than stand by the curb though, as you've been phenomenal.
So with that, council members, when we go ahead and actually have I think we have council member Lynn would like to say.
I just want to say a deep gratitude to the two of you and not only that, I think I think we have your Belinda water district who sponsored this program as well as the OC foundation that did that to for us.
Anyone's ever been to this this memorial to these gold star families or 50 of them I believe was at this event.
It is the most impactful event that really showed how much sacrifice and dedication that these hometown heroes had given us so that we may enjoy the freedom.
And we may enjoy the liberties that we have here in America and it was just a very strong tribute to all of them.
I'm sorry to hear that I think next year that was the last year was this past year, but hopefully someone will take it on and keep going forward.
I've been a part of it for the last five years in attending and I'm telling you I don't walk away there and changed I'm totally moved by it and I think everyone should go is a very.
It is a very I don't know very impactful thing that would have that you would go there and experience so thank you so much for your service and bring that to us in the way that you did it was such dignity and such pride and we're just so proud of you too in our community and just so thank you again for doing that so thank you.
Council colleagues let's go ahead and say hello to our friends.
Thank you.
Very warm and gracious thank you to you from supervisor Wagner and myself thank you.
Thank you.
And at this time our next recognition is of community members in memory of our beloved veteran Mike Anderson and for last would you please come to the lectern those here this evening for.
For Mike we'd like to thank Jessica Lynn and her five children as well as volunteers Bridget and Eddie Blem.
Frank Stefano and Jean and Luis Hernandez who continued the legacy of veteran Mike Anderson in the annual Christmas.
Ham give away your generosity and giving away holiday hands and toys for children brought joy and warmth to countless families this season.
It is especially noteworthy that you were able to honor families of active military members by providing them with special gifts your willingness to reach out and support those who serve our country.
Thank you for your time for your compassion and for your dedication also with us tonight is commander of the Southern California army recruiting battalion Lieutenant Colonel Alvarez welcome.
We would like to recognize these amazing volunteers as well and I'll ask the Lieutenant Colonel to please come and say a few words welcome.
Thank you for the opportunity and to the whole entire council woman Janice Lane thank you you being part of this journey for the last two years and I would like to recognize everybody who have been part of this events.
I have to tell you that last two years being the commander of a here so California I think interact with about 42 different cities and majors I have to actually deal with my dearest responsibilities over here in California.
And you're valenda is a is a really impactful the way you guys actually participating in the events with the military but not only with the military also with the community.
The way you guys actually take away from this community and take care of their people this communities by the way is one of the beautiful communities we have over here.
So I would like to recognize some of the person out over here would you like to come back over here with me because you've been part of this journey and I would like to do this together.
Okay so before we move move forward with that just a moment here I wanted to ask we had.
Jessica Lynn and our five children and Bridget and Eddie Blam and Franks of Fano and Jean and Louise Hernandez to come forward so we can take a photo together so if you would please come forward and council we're going to come on down and take a quick photo and then we'll continue on.
Let's give them a round of applause please.
Okay.
Gotcha.
And then also as we do that we'll have certificates from Congressmember Young Kims Senator Steve Choi and Senator Kelly CRTO Assemblymember Phillip Chin supervisor Don Wagner and also before I step down the lecture and I also like to recognize Eddie Blam.
Happy birthday 94th birthday which happens to be today as well.
We didn't do a rehearsal.
All right if you could look right here please ready one two three.
Happy birthday to you.
And I just want to take a couple minutes to say sincere thanks to Jennifer, who's not here. And I just
mean he's not here with us or Mike. And I want to tell a two-minute story about Mike. And Mike Anderson was a
wonderful man who did a lot behind the scenes. And never looked for recognition. And he loved our military
as to his dad, his dad was a Vietnam veteran. And Mike supported. And when we had the 13
Marines killed at Afghanistan withdrawal, I had put a thing up on the Facebook, a flyer asking for
donations for the flowers for the funeral on the flight deck, which are about $300 a piece just so you
know. And I put it up in five minutes later, Mike called. I'd never met him before. And he called
me and said, you collected any money. And I said, well, just want to maybe $50 right now. And he said,
I'm going to take care of the rest of it. And I said, well, Mike, I don't know you have a mobile
piece of like $300 a piece. He said, I want to do this. I said, okay, so he brings over the check
at that night. And he said, do you need help with anything? And I said, well, I was working with
the city, very gracious of the city, by the way. And we put up 13 flags of the corner village
center drive. And you're willing to boulevard. We had so many heat. He rounded up like 35 volunteers
to come out and help with this. And what about the supplies I needed? I ordered the flags, but he
went up the special lights. And our crews out there and for took a couple hours on that corner. And we
would put up the flags which ran for 13 nights. And that unit, who lost those 13 came home.
And when we went out, I had called Frank, like at the last minute and said, we're going out to meet
the plane at March Air Force Base. And it was COVID. Don't forget. So we couldn't cook any food or
do anything. Frank put together a couple hundred lunch boxes for us. And Mike and three of his
employees, and I can't remember who is missing me. It wasn't Eddie though. But somebody went with me
and we six of us were there to greet a plane. And if you ever want to see photos of this,
here we were at an empty airport with these men and women getting off the plane to come in and it was
one of the most profound moments in my life just to watch how they conducted themselves. And they were
torn up and tired, but they were happy to be home and then they were bus from there to Camp Pendleton.
But that's one story and Mike. And here we have these great leaders here with us. And I don't think
anybody understands how hard recruiters work. But it's a very stressful, stressful job.
There's a lot demanded on them. So I can't think the army enough, the Lieutenant Colonel and his sergeant
and everybody that does it. And Frank, all you do for our community, really. Thank you so much and
taking in Cindy and Wayne. Thank you for everything. So happy birthday, Eddie.
Yes. Frank, I want to say thank you for every year for the community and for what you
want to do. And we have with so many companies, just smoke maybe to do it with the first one.
So, Jean and Luis are nervous?
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Okay.
Well, so far this evening you're getting a snapshot of Willy what makes your
Orlando extremely special and it was really nice to be able to have all of the ceremonies thus
far.
I'd like to move ahead with our Yorba-Linda Chamber of Commerce annual report and businesses
of the month so we'll have a presentation from the Yorba-Linda Chamber of Commerce's annual report
and businesses of the month of recognitions and I'd like to invite Chief Executive Officer
Susan Wann Ross to the lectern to provide the annual report.
Welcome, Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
Good evening all, Mayor and City Council members and residents.
That's a hard act to follow, it's not going to be very fun.
Well I'm happy to present our annual report for 2025.
We had a very successful year and I have some slides to share so the next slide.
We're the 501-C6 nonprofit organization for we're in association of businesses, our
members, our all business associates and we are here to support and advocate for our businesses.
Next slide.
Our Chairman Circle members, they are sponsors of the Chamber and so port us all year round.
Next slide and we installed our new Board of Directors in December and we have our new
Chairman of the Board, Juan Carlos Vasquez and our chair-elect is Simone LeComptoos in the
audience and Anthony Johnson and our government affairs chair on the board.
Next slide.
We have some spotlight events that we support the community and our businesses so I'll
share some of those little highlights.
We have 48 new members from this past year so our member count is 269.
We move to a different type of membership so we are now at a tiered, do's membership instead
of fair share which is basically, we used to do it by the count of the employees now.
It's on the membership level of what you want to do with the Chamber how much activity
your sponsorships you want to be involved in.
Next slide.
We have great engagement for our social media for our monthly averages or 13,000, almost 14,000
people on Facebook and then on Instagram and it's 15,000.
You're of a days that's held the first Saturday in May that's held in the Old Town
Part of Europe, Linda.
We have a car show and we have our business expo and last year, I think we had over 4,000 attendees
walking around checking out the cars and all of our businesses.
And then our mayor's prayer breakfast, we are only a supporter of the mayor's prayer breakfast.
It is run by community members who volunteered to put this together and our speaker this
past year was the producer and director of the movie Regan and he has a book on making Regan.
It was fun to listen on a different side of making a movie.
These are signature event for the year.
We have quite a few people that like to enjoy the evening and it's a last Friday in July and this
year we've got some great things planned for 2026 for Taste of Europe Linda.
Our economic forecast, we share that with three other chambers.
The Chino Valley Chamber, Corona Chamber, Andrea Chamber, we share and who's hosting
it and this past year we went out to Corona and we recognized our business advocate of the
year who was Josh Alexander and our economist was Dr. Chris Thornberg who presented all the
economy happenings and what to expect for the year.
In the state of the city, I know it's the community's favorite event to attend at the Nixon
Library and we look forward to hosting that again for 2026.
First responders, we did something a little bit different.
We went a little retroactive to what we did in 2020.
This past year we did a drive through first responders appreciation breakfast and it was actually
kind of fun.
We're looking at doing something similar for this coming year.
Our close business recorded between the Chamber of Members that meet on a weekly basis was almost
$2 million for the year.
We know that there is business exchanged.
We just don't know how much from the other members that don't attend our community connection
lunches.
And of course, we support shop dyeing support in Europe Linda because every dollar that spent
in Europe Linda supports all of our services within Europe Linda.
Our certificates of origin for all of our exporters is 591 certificates which is great, at
least we know that we're doing business in other countries.
In December we had our board installation and the best of Europe Linda awards and we also had
a little bit of fun, which I know everybody enjoys the 12 days of Christmas.
We have to throw a little bit of holiday fun in there.
Something else that we do is we have a foundation which is our nonprofit for the Chamber and we
actually have a lot of...
A lot of programs to help with workforce development with our youth. So we basically give back to the community because we want to make sure that our community will be sustainable for the future.
We raise funds for the scholarships that we give out annually to the high school seniors that graduate, and we also have a program called Future CEO, which is a business class online for our youth.
We have some great business entrepreneurs that are under the age of 12, and we have a market day twice a year, and the kids get to learn how to sell their wares, and we make them tell us what their net profit is, and we hope that they will actually get a business license and sell their product.
We also have a job fair choice of year also.
So the next slide shows our numbers. So scholarships, we awarded $6,000 worth of scholarships.
Our EWAC events, the money that we get from the EWAC that's collected goes directly into our scholarship fund.
And we had two job fairs, and we had 150 job seekers out of that.
And this last year we had 18 Future CEO students that went through our program, and their average gross profit per their market days was $350.
And then something else that we did this past year was our National Civics B. We are very proud to be the first Chamber of Commerce to bring it to the state of California.
And we had 20 middle school students from across the region, which we actually did have some in Northern California, but that finals was unable to travel down here for the program down at the Nixon Library.
And so five of the students actually made it in the finals, they went to the state. So we had 20 kids from our event, go to the state championship at the Reagan Library.
And one of our kids actually went to represent us in Washington, see Washington DC, and that was our low.
So now we've launched our applications are open, along with applications for judges.
The deadline is February 3rd, so if anybody is interested in either participating as a judge or potentially encouraging their middle schooler to participate in the National Civics B, there's $100,000 for grabs, so we encourage everybody to go online and apply.
We recognized our members at the month in October, Priority 1 Sound.
And then in November we had the Yorbal and the Women's Club.
And then our member of the year is the one and only Frank Stefano.
And I want to thank all of you for your partnership, collaboration that we have with the community in the city.
We have a new addition to our team, Chad LeChance, who's in the background.
He's waving back there and he is part of our membership team.
So if anybody's interested in learning more about the chamber, they can reach out and you'll hear from Chad.
So I want to thank you again.
Thank you for your report, appreciate the scope of services the chamber provides.
In addition to helping our small businesses focusing on helping them navigate through these difficult challenging times.
It's always great to see how the membership continues to grow.
Your intention rate continues to remain at a high level.
And also I'm gratified to see recognition like we're going to have just a moment for well-deserving businesses and organizations.
And also just the fact that the chamber continues to invest in our youth through it, whether it's a civics B or the young entrepreneur program.
It's just a well-rounded great service that you all provide.
So for all those out there that haven't joined yet, what are you waiting for?
Join the Global Indigene for getting involved with a dynamic group of leaders of business.
Before we present certificates to priority one sound, your Berlin's Women's Club, and to our business of the years.
To find those golden baked hams, we'll have certificates in addition to our city here from Congress, Oregon, Kim, Senators, Steven Choi and Kelly CRTO.
Assembly and Philip Chen and supervisor Don Wagner.
Also, not that I don't mind getting steps, but I'm going to have us as council go down once and also go into after we do the presentations for those three or me down there.
And also going to recognize our city's business of the quarter recognition.
So while we're all here, let me just take a moment to tonight.
We want to recognize our city business of the quarter and ask to stand by Karen Goodsell and Maria Tashira to also make your way to the lectern in addition to our friends from priority one sound.
The Berlin does Women's Club and Frank Stefano.
And just some comments about our business of the quarter.
Sheak revelations boutique. Congratulations, ladies.
Not only do you sell beautiful high quality women's apparel, they also have fun giving back to the Oberlin community.
Sheak revelations boutique promotes local yorbal into businesses beyond their storefront and even mainstream by co core dating.
Fun community wide events, such as the Roper romp, a progressive shopping experience, mothers day shopping bingo.
A holiday on Maine and many others.
We really appreciate the time you put into those efforts.
They're ongoing supporters of local charities through donations like fashion shows, judges and marketing in addition.
They assisted with our cities in inaugural holiday, excuse me, inaugural Holly, the holiday horse scavenger hunt.
That was fun.
We will come down and present you a certificate. Again, from all of the elected leaders I mentioned, momentarily mentioned a moment ago, I should say.
And while you're there, ladies, congratulations. Would you like to say a few words?
Yes, please. Thank you so much.
We are incredibly grateful and honored for this opportunity.
And we couldn't thank you enough for your support of our small business.
Just we look forward to going and being together through this journey.
So thank you.
We're just very grateful. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you everyone.
We're honored. And we love serving our city.
We love being part of the community.
And hopefully we can be of service in the following year.
So we're grateful. Thank you.
You guys are so modest. Please.
We're going to get my round of applause.
But please tell everyone, what are some of the best selling items at that?
Sheek. There we go.
Very nice.
Right there. I pray everyone to see.
So congratulations.
We're also going to ask priority one sound.
So ladies, this hang tight right there.
We'll take a photo.
And we'll have, actually I'd like to ask if priority one sound would like to say a few words.
And then if a representative of the U.S. woman's club.
And then Frank, we'll have you say a few words.
So first our congratulations for October.
And what a beautiful angel.
Hi, I'm Angela.
I'm in Deris, priority one sound.
This is my daughter, Alyssa, my granddaughter, Ashlyn.
We start them young here.
She works with me as well.
And I just want to say thank you to everybody.
And we're grateful to be part of this community.
I've been in Europe all in the past 26 years.
My kids have all gone through the school district.
And I'm proud to be part of a city and a chamber that honors the military
for everything that they've done all the residents that contribute to this community.
And the businesses and the youth.
Because I don't think there's a lot of positivity right now.
But I'm really grateful to be part of a community that honors that.
And shows how much we respect all of those aspects of this community.
I want to say thank you to everybody.
Well said, thank you.
Thank you.
So ladies hang tight right there.
We won't, we'll try to move quickly because we don't want the baby to wake up.
We have a representative with you all along the women's club.
Welcome and introduce yourself and this is where the representing women's club.
And very excited and appreciate very much this honor from that chamber.
A lot of the things that were mentioned on the screen.
Your women's club is involved in in some part.
This past year we did great with our craft fairs, which by the way is coming up March 7th and 8th.
We give, we gave out over $71,000 last year for our community.
So in scholarships and different on profit events.
Wait.
Let's clap for that.
Thank you.
So I know I'm speaking from myself and for our team of women.
We love your Belinda.
We participate in as much as we can and want to make the city the best we can.
Thank you.
Business of the year.
Stefano's golden baked hams.
Frank Stefano.
Welcome sir.
Thank you for having me.
It's always a pleasure to be here doing business in the city of your Belinda has been an absolute pleasure for 23 years.
Those of us that have been here for 23 years a longer.
We know what this was like many, many years ago.
And it's come a long way.
We thank you for all that you're doing.
We thank you for promoting our businesses.
And we thank you for supporting us.
Thank you very, very much.
Thank you.
Frank, what's one of the best sellers these days?
Our Kubano sandwich for you Carlos.
All right.
I love it.
Thank you.
Puerto Ricans.
Number 1, number 1, number 1, number 714, 993, 8 J and MS.
Fantastic.
All right.
So Council, please join me and we'll take door photos in a little bit of the line here.
All right.
Thanks.
I'm sure.
No, it's okay.
I'm behalf of Supervisor Wagner for Priority 1 and we've done all of these, we've got certificates for everybody.
I'm not going to spend all the time talking.
I just want to say thank you on behalf of Orange County Supervisor for all of what you do in our communities to making our community as gracious as it always has been and always will be.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Okay, we're going to go ahead and continue on with our business this evening.
We've just had a chance to congratulate some of the best and brightest and
the business community and also, at this time, when it comes to public safety,
you're Berlin to second to none.
The key reason why is the leadership that we have, both for police and fire and at this
time, please on behalf of our council to make an introduction to our new division chief Michael
Morgan Stern.
When I come on up in the invite shed, let's welcome Chief, happy new year, welcome before you say
a few words.
I want to brag a little bit about you at that, okay?
Sure.
All right.
So I'm excited to introduce you, Mike, as our new division chief, congratulations, OCFA division
for Chief Morgan Stern began his assignment in November.
We actually ran into each other at the holiday tree lighting, so you said a low and took
a moment and it's good to have you here this evening, thanks for your hard work.
You now oversee fire services for your Belinda, Tustin, Philopark, and nearby unincorporated areas.
With more than three decades of fire service experience, Campbell, even three decades.
Chief Morgan Stern has advanced through the ranks since joining OCFA.
He helped establish the agency's helicopter rescue program and developed its first active shooter
response program, his leadership spans, emergency operations, technical rescue, hazmat, training,
communications, and incident management.
He also serves as a nationally recognized expert in active shooter preparedness and represents
OCFA at the Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center, Chief Morgan Stern succeeds
division chief Kevin Fetterman, who retired after nearly 30 years of dedicated service.
Please join me in welcoming Chief Morgan Stern to his new role to team, your Belinda.
Welcome.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and City Council, I appreciate the opportunity to serve you sort of the community
of your Belinda and all the communities that I serve.
It's an honor to be in this role.
I look forward to the partnerships that we're going to build together.
I know I have a lot of big, big shoes to fill behind Kevin.
Kevin is an extraordinary individual, very articulate in his own ways, so I hope to find new
good ways to communicate with the City Council with our community.
I actually have family members that live in the City of your Belinda, so it's really nice to represent
this city.
I represent my agency, but I also do as a servant leadership.
So the big fire engines and trucks that come out of the stations to serve your communities
is my number one priority to get them to the citizens that need help.
Also supporting community events, but the main reason is that people combine one one, it is
their worst day.
And we, as the Orange County Fire Authority in our partnership with Orange County Sheriff's
Department, want to serve your community and be there in their time and need.
Thank you.
We're grateful for your service and please extend our heartfelt gratitude to all of
your colleagues who keep us safe.
Congratulations.
Thanks, sir.
At this time, I'd like to turn them microphone over to our presentation in our law enforcement
services update by Chief of Police Services, Captain Dianne Wiggington.
Thank you, Mayor Rodriguez, members of the Council, just a quick note on statistics.
They are all unofficial at this time and subject to change due to neighbors, the National
Instant Based Reporting System at the Sheriff's Department uses.
In September and October, we had 13 injury traffic collisions.
We elevated a little bit to 17 for November and December, non injury traffic collisions, dropped
a bit to 31 from 36 hazardous citations, 122 and non hazardous is 256.
For priority one response times, November listed, five minutes and 12 seconds.
I believe I gave you a little bit of an explanation as to why that number came in.
And that's largely attributed to Perigrant System being a system that we are not able to modify.
Even though a priority one response might have been downgraded.
I did the same mathematics with December's priority one response times.
And once I adjusted the times where perhaps OCAFA arrived on scene prior to the Sheriff's
Department, or if they had been canceled while they were in route, that came down to just under
four minutes, four and a half minutes.
So that's our priority one response times.
For crime data, tracking property crimes, commercial burglaries, residential burglaries,
auto thefts, we had a sharp increase in auto thefts.
I will say there are specific vehicles in our city that criminals really take a liking to.
And one night we had the same vehicle stolen from three different locations in the city.
So the same type of vehicle, and they're literally splitting up, dividing forces and going
and finding that same vehicle.
So we have our auto theft team working very diligently on that.
Vehicle burglaries, please, please lock up your cars, don't leave valuables inside your vehicles,
but you have to remember that in December we had a little bit of an uptick and that's due
to holiday shopping and people leaving gifts inside their vehicles.
On theft, petty thefts, pretty similar numbers, vandalisms, a little bit increased up to
17 and then fraud, and a lot of that is holiday based as well.
Residents of burglaries, we marked four in the month of December two in the month of November.
Arrests, the deputies have been quite busy.
I was sad to note, at my last update that we only had 82 arrests and we've made a marked increase
on that.
We logged 123 for November in December, 34 of those were felonies, 27 were misdemeanors or
incestities, misdemeanors citations, 45 and war in arrest, we had 17.
Significant arrests, we had deputies respond to one of our bicycle stores in the city, it was
trying to purchase a $10,000 bicycle, the staff thought that was suspicious because the identification
card and the credit card didn't match what they didn't match and the deputies arrived.
They determined that they did not belong to that suspect.
They were able to contact the owner of that credit card.
Thankfully, that person answered the call, a lot of times deputies find that people victims won't
answer their phone because nobody wants to answer a spam call.
That day we got lucky and we were able to take these people to Orange County jail for the
fraud.
Another day we had three suspects attempting to steal several items from one of our grocery
stores.
As they exited, they got into a scuffle with the loss prevention or the store employee and deputies
set up a perimeter.
They used one of my favorite resources, Duke, our helicopter, that helicopter helped the deputies
locate all three suspects and all three of them were charged with robbery conspiracy and theft.
For crime prevention, we held a neighborhood watch meeting and that was at the Estoncia
community.
We had a wonderful showing there, great information provided by the investigator, Schneble, who
you see in this photo here.
We also went and joined the Reach Foundation, the Yorval and the Women's Club.
We had such a wonderful, wonderful event at Target where we were able to treat a couple of
children from the post-Centure Yorval and the Unified School District and we really just got
a chance to love them coming into the holiday season.
That was really nice thanks for the partnership with Target as well.
We were present for Lakeview Elementary's jogathon, had an absolute blast.
I tried to get Sergeant Leetsorran and he said absolutely not.
That is all I've got.
Any questions?
Colleagues any questions?
Councilmember Lynn?
Not really a question, but just a great gratitude and thank you over the holidays and just the
last few months there was an uptick and I don't know if it was just in my neighborhood.
But your response time was impeccable.
I mean, all my neighbors really thank you for just really responding.
There's just from multitude, from speeding to just theft, break in and mail fraud.
You got them all and so that's incredible and I'm also proud of you guys, I just want to say
thank you.
I know we just look at these, that's just numbers that we roll through, but 123 arrests.
That's big and I think that should be applauded for you guys, thank you so much.
But that's, I don't have a question but I just want to say thank you.
Thank you very much, I appreciate it.
Okay, thank you colleagues and the other comments.
Thank you once again for keeping a city safe for the I appreciate all your efforts.
Just a question was on the e-bikes.
How have you noticed any after we pass the ordinance on the accident wise or e-bikes safety?
If you can just comment on those a little bit of the great.
Well, Councilman, saying we have now we have a tool that we have to be able to enforce.
And the 15 or 16 sections that are enforceable on that e-bike ordinance are very helpful.
I will say we've had some struggles with being able to catch them.
And when I say that our department has a very staunch policy regarding not pursuing those on e-bikes and really because of the inherent danger.
So the deputies are trying to be creative in how they.
Happen upon some of these kids on the e-bikes.
We have impounded or in the 20 to 25 range double checking with Sergeant Lee.
And we have those that we have impounded have all been illegal motorcycles that are modified to make it look like their legal.
So we are snatching those up as fast as we can because of their danger.
And I just have to say that we are out there and we are trying and I am so thankful that the council was willing to allow us to push forth.
This ordinance I do not believe that the ordinance is all of our answers I think that parents being present being aware of what their children are doing.
Parents being involved in the purchase of these of these bikes is important because of the classes that they're designated into.
We've had so many parents in the holiday season and I celebrate this.
Actually I I know it's not a surprise to any of you in the room but I wrap my arms around this mom because she said my son is showing me this bike and he says that it's legal because his friends say it is and I said no.
That is $2,000 that I'm going to I will make sure my deputies impound it because it's unsafe to be on the roadway.
So I'm thankful for the parents that are willing to do the research to ask the questions to not believe their kids who are trying really hard to get them to buy something that I already know.
I already know is going to get impounded immediately so thanks for the community for your involvement.
Yes, we monitored social media we're watching the buzz we're looking at your will in the news you can use we even have a council on your will in the uncensored we see it and we see you and.
Give us a wave in the in the city and we're still in doing the engagement efforts as well.
Thank you for the big captain also thank you for those creative signs on the equestrian trails very important to thank you so much.
I remember seeing that was 100% city staff.
And they should be applauded for their efforts on all of the signage on the trails and trailheads. It's incredible.
Thank you, City staff. One round of applause for that. That was great.
Hey, thank you for your report and this time I'd like to have our city manager for quite a quick update.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Our administrative services director David Alba, the sort of master of all things that don't have a natural home in the city.
Also heads up the group that's responsible for communicating with the community about coyotes and coyote management.
And if you've got questions for him, he can't answer were fortunate enough to have a representative from Orange County Animal Care Services with us this evening as well.
So we're going to go from packs of wild kids on bikes to packs of wild animals in our neighborhood's Mr. Grant's ask me to keep it under 40 minutes. So I will do my best to do that.
So I wanted to introduce you to our wild neighbors. This little lady here is the Canis Latrans better known as the coyote. This picture is actually sent to me by city staff just two weeks ago.
Current residents of Southern California here populations of coyotes are found from coast to coast as far north as Alaska as far south as Panama.
In fact, they just crossed to the south side of the Panama Canal and have been seen down there for the first time they've been here for 40,000 years. They're the third most common animal in the Liberia tar pits.
They've been here a long long time and they're really common.
But we get to live with them because we live in this wildland interface. In fact, you've probably been seeing and hearing a lot more of them lately because it is coyote mating season.
So from January to March, they are out there wandering the neighborhoods looking for their new mates and looking for food sources and finding dense sites. So they're very active right now.
Those of you who live close to the golf courses close to the wildland interface. You've heard them a lot lately.
And a few months, you're going to see them a lot more as well as the new puppies start emerging from the dense with their mothers going into the summer. That's going to be an April or May and they'll come out and start learning to hunt.
As coyote activity naturally increases this time of year, the sightings and encounters are going to be more common. You're going to see them. You're going to run across them more.
This is due to our proximity to wildlands to abundant green spaces and the fact that our urban environment provides water sources, food sources and dense sites for the coyotes as well.
So working with the Orange County Animal Care Agency and the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, the city is developed and published a coyote wildlife management plan.
It's available on our website and our goal is to reduce conflict and increase the public's understanding of how to manage these coyotes in our neighborhoods.
Since this wildlife like all wildlife is a natural part of our community and belongs to everyone.
We liked promote policies that support preventive measures and don't harm wildlife or their habitats.
Coexistence is kind of the foundation and the philosophy behind our wildlife management programs.
The plans available on the city's website and I encourage everyone to review it, especially if you're seeing and hearing those coyotes this time of year, but I want to cover some of the more important aspects of the plan here.
We focus on education and we focus on notifying our residents because they play a huge role in our management plan.
It's a community challenge that requires community action in order to effectively manage it.
Those actions can help make your homes and neighborhoods less attractive to coyotes and we want to cover some of them here.
So one of the most important things we can do is make sure that we are never feeding coyotes.
This means not leaving pet food outside on your patios overnight keeping your trash containers closed removing drop fruits and seeds that can serve either as a direct food source for the coyotes or can attract other vermin that become the prey of those coyotes.
This can include even bird feeders, you know, they get messy with their eating, they drop a lot on the ground, the mice come along and the mice become a food source for coyotes which make sure you are very attractive.
Feeding wildlife can not only be a violation of the municipal code in your billinit and can result in fines or citations, but it leads the animals to associate people with food and lose their fear of humans.
We don't want them to do that. Water sources like fountains, ponds and water dishes for pets can also be attracted.
We ask that residents limit available standing water or cover the water sources in their yards that they can.
For your pets, keep your cats and small dogs indoors or in the close presence of an adult remember that coyotes see other small animals as prey their food source for them.
You have rabbits, chickens or other small pets outdoors those habitats should also be fully enclosed including over the top.
Coyotes can jump like eight or ten feet in the air in some cases, so fully enclosing those can help protect your animals.
Finally we ask that folks keep their yards free of thick brush or weeds, they enclose the bottoms of porches or decks and make sure that storage sheds and other outside structures are in good repair to help limit habitation sites or densites on your property.
In addition, when you're away from home and you're out in the wild, there are a few common sense steps that you can take to protect yourself and discourage coyote habitation.
Beyond discouraging visits to your property, we're going to ask first that you remember that coyote see large dogs is competition and they see small dogs and other small pets as a food source.
So when you're walking your dog use the leash that provides good control of your dogs don't use a really long or retractable leash where they can run away from you certainly don't walk with an unleashed dog.
In areas where coyotes are known to be when possible walk your dog with another person if you can because coyotes are naturally apprehensive of humans.
If you're encounter a coyote you can pick your dog up move it behind you or place yourself between the dog and the coyote and stand tall yell throw something at them and try and scare them remember if you turn and run if your animal turns and runs you may trigger a predator instinct in the coyote is okay to back away maintain eye contact but make yourself big.
Likewise small children should never be left alone in areas where coyotes habitat.
We've all seen those handfuls of videos of small children at parks being bitten by coyotes or attacked by coyotes the few cases of confirmed human deaths in California that are related to coyote attacks were small untended children.
We're talking toddlers barely able to walk or crawl who got away from their families in wild land areas and we're unfortunately attacked so fortunately these types of encounters are extremely rare and can be prevented if you keep children close.
When you do have close encounters with the coyotes one of the most important things you can do is haz them hazing a coyote is the process of responding to human a manner that makes them uncomfortable and makes them want to leave.
So that's what we're trying to do with them it consists of standing your ground again making yourself big yelling at the coyote or making other noises until a coyote backs away.
More aggressive hazing can include stomping your feet spring them with a hose or otherwise creating loud noise and fear.
Some people use noise makers like whistles or shaker cans which are just aluminum or 10 cans that may have marbles or coins inside of them to make a lot of noise.
Some folks will throw rocks or carry sticks or tennis balls with them that they can throw at the animals hope your dog doesn't go play fetch.
After that tennis ball but could be effective to scare off the coyote and some folks like to carry walking sticks to clack on the ground to swing to make themselves big and scary.
Remember hazing has to continue until the animal leaves otherwise a coyote will learn to wait until a person gives up they know they can back away and that person's eventually going to leave.
This creates an animal with resistance to hazing instead of reinforcing that image that humans are scary.
And remember the purpose is to scare them and not to hurt them and injured animal becomes less predictable and more aggressive so we don't want to be shooting them with things trying to hit them with things that can really injure them because that will actually make them more dangerous.
But I think the thing I really want to emphasize here is the more often an individual coyote is hazed and the more different ways we do it and the more people who are doing it the more effective it is.
And the more it changes that animals future behavior again this is a community effort if you are doing this and scaring them out of your yard and your neighbor is feeding them in their yard.
We're not helping the situation any so we all need to be a part of this.
Finally if you do site coyotes um sightings can be reported and shared with community or viewed by the public by visiting the coyote catcher link in our website and in those rare cases where a coyote does get aggressive or attacks a human being.
Call 911 um it won't show up as an arrest but it's the right thing to do to protect yourselves.
And with that I wanted to thank you for your time. If you have any questions I'm joined tonight by our link in terror or principal risk and safety analyst who runs our coyote program locally and lieutenant Kevin Freger who is a supervising animal control officer for Orange County animal care.
He does a lot of our community presentations and council member saying council member Lyme I know you've been at his presentations before he's fantastic so we're here's a resource for you.
Thank you for your report I'd like to invite.
Probably in control and lieutenant Kevin Freger to maybe say say a few words for the community just to kind of build upon the great presentation today.
Welcome.
Thank you for having me tonight that was a really good presentation.
And like David said we are getting into coyote season they're going to start mating here pretty soon you're going to see a lot more coyote activity.
Probably now until the end of spring so just those are really good pointers the biggest takeaway.
Or I could say is coyotes are very smart they're one of the most intelligent animals that we deal with.
Hasing a coyote is is key you want to just keep that fear in them where we where we see areas with the biggest problems with coyotes are areas are neighborhoods.
That kind of just leave coyotes alone.
Coyote is a really smart smart they'll learn hey I can go into that neighborhood they're going to leave me alone that's where we see an increased attacks on pets.
Sometimes unfortunately it's rare but we will see sometimes attacks on people and it's within those neighborhoods that are kind of just leaving the coyote alone and not doing anything so hazing is really key to keeping the coyote attacks and with pets and people down.
So just want to say hello my names are lean and Kevin and I also coordinate a lot of community events or educational forums and things like that so if you're interested in having us come over to your HOA and discuss like some preventive issues and go over our plan just reach out to me you can email me call me and we'll coordinate something and go out and.
Talk to the community so yeah.
Thank you.
I appreciate the great resources that have been shared today and I'll just ask any council members have any questions.
Okay.
Do hear those coyotes regularly in the evening it's like many that have kids they're like where is the dog or is like chilling moment of you know the dog outside so just you know have heard.
I think we all have heard these stories of pets that are lost so it's again.
Helpful to to get this information today.
Appreciate the time and continue to effort to get the word out so thank you so much.
Okay, this is the time for public comments any member of the public may address the council and items on the consent calendar or matters of interest to the public which are under the council's jurisdiction.
See we have.
A number of cards let's start with Richard DeVrouen.
This is not speedy though.
Thank you mayor.
Well I'm timing in on the e-bike issues in 2026 and it's great to heard that our captain of course has well control over this issue here in your bowl in the.
Thank you captain.
I'm of your opinion after many discussions with some e-bike owners and other neighborhood residents that e-bikes are becoming more sophisticated.
Which means faster.
With posters or risk on sidewalks and horse trails.
Do we see regular none e-bikes on sidewalks?
Of course not.
They use the traffic lanes and in some cases the bike lane.
Where the MP set the rules the cars must pass them by at least three feet.
Or change lanes.
And should not 20 to 35 miles per hour e-bikes use the roadway or bike lane.
On fair months I saw regionally a few times e-bikes in the middle of the road.
And almost hit the truck who was not driving in the bike lane.
e-bikes should all have a my opinion red reflectors.
Use helmets, horns, bells, like in other countries.
And we should require a license since these latest e-bikes are really becoming motorized bikes.
Region-wide e-bikes really should take the test and traffic rules.
Like it's required for other motorized vehicles.
Recently it happened at Bedfort, even you.
The Mr. Jagger Sir Urbolinda was hit head-on by a fast moving e-bike.
And had to spend five and a half days in hospital.
I hope they empower that e-bike.
Some reports from other areas in cities indicate daily e-bikes related interviews.
This was...
Printed and reported by the Spectrum News. Some e-bike owners mentioned to me that e-bikes on the streets
can be dangerous. I responded that all traffic, if we don't follow the rules, can present the
danger. In California, on the average, each year there are about 250,000 car accidents, over
50,000 due to speeding. If we don't educate our kids to learn the traffic rules,
be licensed and equip the e-bike with at least red reflectors, bells or horns, which are required
for any other motorized vehicle, then don't buy a mini bike. Based on this crisis I had in the
last few months, the non-e-bike owners generally agree with what we were discussing. While a few
e-bike owners displayed a basic level of understanding and acceptance. I traveled a lot
in best Europe over the years, and as so many two wheel scooters and motorized vehicles similar to most of
the latest e-bikes here, and millions of regular bikes, but none of these are used on the
cypodes. Two, some of these countries have often wider and better bike lanes. Then here, but mostly
outside city limits, but within city limits they all share the same road with all the remaining
traffic. I like to suggest that we are to permit changes to our e-bike journal guideline policy,
such as licensing, education of traffic rules, certification, and add some e-bikes, security,
enhancements requirements. These revisions will be aided by the recent announced efforts planned
by the hybrid boat, and soon by DOV. Right now, by the way, this year, red reflectors are now
required on e-bikes. Of course, policy revisions and equipment requirements are, of course,
up to our city leaders, wish our residents. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for your comments.
We have Janet, our next public comment.
No problem. We'll have Janet come on up and then you can be followed by our next neighbor.
Hello. I've been here since 1976. I've seen your ability to change a lot. Sometimes for the better,
sometimes for the worse. We're here today because we want to talk about the safety of the cell
phone towers. We found that there was a lot of information back in 2006, 2016. Maybe that
change.org did some type of like a boat or something to try and change it to stop it, and we've
called the companies that own it, and they're safe and they hang up. I'm like really, so what we want to
know from you all since you've been here is our research shows that they're not safe, and they're
at the little league fields, and we play there every week. I sometimes come home feeling a little different.
And somebody owns them. I know that they got money, so I'm wondering what can we do to guarantee that
they're safe? Are you all willing to sign a thing that we're not going to get brain cancer,
playing little league? You know that's concerning. I haven't gotten my cell phone to work any faster.
I know that the cell phone has some stuff. It's just as dangerous using a cell phone, but when you're not
on your phone and you're underneath these towers, they're dangerous, and it's like putting yourself in a microwave.
The EMF, and she's got some reports that she's been carrying around this device for a couple of weeks.
Now we've been kind of checking all the towers, and they're not registering safe.
So it's alarming. We want to know what you guys are willing to do about it.
Where I lived, I just moved, and they did not notify us that they put one on top of the, I think it's
so long, Rousseau right there by, like, view in your vulnerable arm. And my neighbor told me,
because, yeah, it's a cell phone tower now. You can get Verizon in here. Well, that's where's my notice.
You know, we never got to notice. And I knew as moving, so I was like, I don't care. But I do care
because I'm at Westervant, a little like five, seven, seven days a week. So to mom, children play,
children have played. It's alarming. It's scary. And I do know of some children that go to the public school
close by that have had brain cancer and died. So I'm wondering if that might have contributed to that.
So it's alarming as a mom. So that's all I have and I'll let Andrea come up. Do you guys have any
information, or are you guys willing to sign a waiver that says, it doesn't do that?
We're going to take in notes here. Right. I know I know I know how it works. Very good. Then we'll
let you our next friend come on up. Thank you. Hi, Andrea. So I know we came together. But so yeah,
so I see them all over. And I started noticing there's two veterans park. I have one child that's at
your blend of middle school and another child that's at a preschool across the street. And a
son that plays baseball. We've been there for many years and you know it happened to notice,
are to notice in these towers and kind of started looking into, you know, are they safe? What do they
emit? It's my understanding the emit EMFs, radio frequencies. So I'm just a concerned parent with my
kids being around, you know, they're in, there's two at Veterans Park. What is, is there a safe distance
from the towers? There's no notice on them. Is there any data? You know, if they're safe or not,
because when I start researching, you know, it says, you know, maybe a 400 meter distance from those.
But if you're standing right at this field and where my kids are, I don't believe that is a
400 meter distance from them. But, I mean, there are, there is some research that they're not safe or
the research is still ongoing from like the American Cancer Society. So, you know, I guess that's just my,
my concern with the towers and are, is it safe to be around? And then I have a, a reader that I did
purchase, that's reading the EMFs, the EFs, and the RS, and this is at my son's school across the street,
where it's coming up, cell tower, you, you can see it says for a Wi-Fi or, so it's reading the cell tower,
and it's reading high. So, and then high, you know, I know time, distance, shielding, you know,
is important. But if my kids are spending all day next to these towers at school, you know,
I don't know. There's anything we can do. I don't know. That's just my concern.
So, thank you.
Okay, thank you for your comments. If you stick around, don't leave after your comment. We'll see if we can
at least point you in the right direction or provide an initial comment, okay?
Thank you for your, both of you for your comments this evening.
And I had you, that was Andrea Coleman, correct? All right. Thank you, Andrea.
Our next speaker is Anthony Johnson.
Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Members of the council. My name is Anthony Johnson. I am here tonight on behalf
of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as it's government affairs representative. I want to think
the council and the city staff for taking the time and the effort into developing the city's
legislative platform. The Chamber appreciates the clear priorities, the platform sets for the year ahead.
The business community values thoughtful, consistent advocacy, and this platform reflects issues that
matter not only to the city, but to our local employers, entrepreneurs, and residents. In particular,
the Chamber strongly supports the city's focus on transparency, community, and economic
development, public safety, taxation, and transportation. If the council adopts this legislative
possible platform, the Chamber would welcome the opportunity to work closely with the city as a true
partner in advancing these priorities. This year, our goal is to be more active and engaged. That includes
setting position letters, when appropriate, participating in in-person advocacy and organizing
legislative perceptions that bring together business leaders and policy makers. We see, we see our
role as collaborative and solutions oriented, and we look forward to aligning our efforts with the city
to advocate effectively at the regional, state, and federal levels. Thank you for your leadership,
and thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening. Thank you, Anthony. I appreciate the continued efforts
of the Chamber, and on that front as well, we'll look forward to opportunities for collaboration.
Okay, we're going to do we have any more common cards? No? Please, by all means, Happy New Year.
No, down. Okay. All right. You know, I'll fill out a card. I hope everybody had a great holiday
and Happy New Year to everybody. My name is Pat Nelson. I moved to y'all blend in 1976.
Yeah, it's not the same. It's not the same. On consent calendar, number nine, about that lemon drive,
there was a sink hole or something that I had to be fixed. So it looks like from what I see that you're
signing off on it. That means it's done, and we're all good, because I worried the weather in this last
five or six weeks has been, lots of rain wind, and I just want to know how the city did,
and one of the things I did think about this G, I hope that thing that they were fixed and didn't
break again. So I just want to know how the city did in the weather, because it was an extraordinarily
large amount of rain. Good news was not too many people were out on New Year's Eve, though. So my little dog
didn't end up under the bed shaking. So not too many loud noises in the rain. I would like an update on the
car wash property on Imperial Highway at Los Angeles Street. It has been months and months of I can't
see any activity on fixing it up or whatever. It just, it's all fenced off with no trespassing signs,
and I just wonder what's happening there, because I keep getting told, I can't get a no, no, you turn in
the island on a kind of that driveway from that business. And I think in their businesses, all up Imperial,
and none of them can turn left, and this one place at Los Angeles Street is because of that.
Well, that's not open, it hasn't been open. I just want to know, is it ever coming? Because if not,
I have a stronger case to get that little sign that no, no, turn there. Thank you for the information on the
vehicle burglary. I really want to know what vehicles are the vehicle of choice for these burglars to see if
I need to, you know, do more than what I already do for my vehicle. So I'd really like to know what that is.
Thank you. See you in two weeks. Thank you, Pat. Any other public comments?
On items that are on the, go right ahead.
My name is John Delap. I live at 4625 Ohio Street. I've lived in our Europe of London now only two years.
I've spoken once before, and I'd like to, again, speak with the guards or comment. I should say,
regarding the proposed 62 unit condominium community, which really doesn't belong in that spot.
There will be many more vehicles coming going from the single entrance.
Many pedestrians walking in the, in the dark on semi rural streets, without sidewalks to their
parked vehicle because the project does not have enough planned onsite parking.
And I saw the developer even requested in their offer to the Shabbat to purchase the Shabbat's
northern vacant parcel area requested along with that offer a permission I assume with compensation
to park in their parking lot. That's just one example of the developer being already aware that this
sub levels of parking this project will have. I drove the heritage site over near the Ford dealer
and unlike that neighborhood, the neighborhood on Ohio and Palm is semi rural.
Most of the streets have no site.
Friday at walks, it proposed more narrow, more congestion, pedestrian traffic, question traffic,
car traffic, e-bike traffic, and accordingly, a lot more safety issues, and we don't want more
safety issues, I know that. We don't want more vehicle burglary from cars lining up far from the
actual dwelling. Oops, that's my phone. Sorry about that. I recently learned that cities are
basically creatures of the state, and this is based on the legal principle of police power.
However, we, as an independent city, are on the front line of lawsuits for all kinds of things, including safety
issues that will arise from the proposed 62-init project at 19081, Gargalinda Boulevard, and they will happen.
And when someone is injured, it will be on the record that the city approve this project in spite of
the hazards inherent with its can compatibility with this semi-world neighborhood. The city will be sued, not the state.
The project doesn't fit. So two weeks from now, you must reject it. For now, I would like to say, based on the assorted lawsuits on today's agenda, which I took a look at,
there's what four or five consultations are updates that the council is going to receive, that it looks to me, like your building,
it could benefit from some new city council stewardship to help prevent lawsuits that are very expensive to defend. I appreciate your attention this matter. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Hi, my name is Nancy Fyfer and I live at 4722 your Berlin in your Belinda, moved here in 1968.
And I do live in the same neighborhood as the proposed development at 19080 when your Belinda Boulevard.
I'm a resident of the Belinda for 58 years. I have actually lived in the same house as I do now as when I first moved to your Belinda.
And I have watched your Belinda grow from a town of 10,000 people to somewhere around 6768,000.
The whole lot has changed in that time and over the years I've watched the density of homes greatly increase, which has brought about more congestion and more traffic.
But what has not changed are the streets in our semi rural neighborhood.
They are still narrow, without sidewalks or spaces to walk, bike and ride a horse. These streets have no street lights.
And I rode these streets on my horse as a kid. And then my kids grew up and they rode the same streets.
And with the same dangers and now my grandkids are riding the same streets.
It's not ideal, but these streets provide access to an extensive trail network that we have in your Belinda.
In order to access these equestrian trails, we have to ride on roads that we share with cars, bicycles, baby strollers, joggers, trash cans, etc.
For the most part, these roads do not have shoulders and sidewalks and there's not space.
And there's also several places where there's a blind line of sight where you crest a hill.
These narrow roads will also be the roads that will be heavily traveled by many of the new residents of that proposed development.
You're willing to privilege to sit right next to Chino Hill State Park.
Our trail system is extensive and the new sections of our city have built good trail network.
But the older sections do not have connected trails. We must weave our way from one side of the road to the other, going down streets like Ohio, Oriente and Pong.
These three streets were not covered in the traffic study. This was an oversight.
There's no room for additional cars here, whether we are talking about traffic and safety or parking, which will no doubt be a problem with this type of development.
There's simply not enough room for what already exists without adding more people and cars.
I'm not speaking against growth. I am speaking for responsible growth.
I believe our neighborhood is in danger of decline. We do not have the infrastructure to support more cars.
And you're willing to have a very rich heritage rooted in things like ranches, orange groves and equestrian life.
We have a responsibility to protect this legacy by preserving the horse-friendly policies and ensuring safe connectivity to the hundred miles of trails.
As one of the last of question friendly neighborhoods in Orange County, this culture is not only rare, but it's invaluable.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comments. Any other comments?
Seeing none, we'll close public comment.
That'll bring us now to the Consent Calendar.
Just pause for a moment.
I wanted to just have staff taking an initial crack at responding to comments by Andrea Coleman and Janet.
Janet, what's your last name?
I'll just say this, appreciate you coming out tonight.
I think any parent always has a concern about the health of their children and if they're being put in jeopardy in any way shape or form.
So I can appreciate that not only whether that school or if you're taking your children to a little league practice and just hear you loud and clear on that.
And at the little league fields, experience and what you're highlighting to us are a lot of questions that aren't necessarily in our jurisdiction.
But even though we're local government, we're not in a silo.
So we do have relationships with those at the county and the state and federal government who would have answers and whose jurisdiction that falls under.
So while they're regulated at a federal level, if there's other nuances to how they're regulated at other layers of government, our staff can help navigate and help help you all engage to get those answers and to find out about some of the questions that you were highlighting today.
So it's not a not an our jurisdiction good luck.
It's we hear you, those concerns are valid as far as not having the information.
So let's work together to find out those answers and we'll help facilitate those opportunities to get that information with the appropriate levels of government.
I'll ask Peter and then Todd, if you have anything you'd like to add based on those initial questions.
I think your response Mr. Mayor was pretty much with Todd and I would have said fortunately both ladies provided contact information and a member of the city manager's office will be in touch with you in the next couple of days.
To point you in the right direction to get some of your questions answered as well as the level of government as the mayor mentioned that's preempted us where you can lobby for some.
Ability at the local level to regulate these sorts of facilities and we talk a lot about the loss of local control in cities one of the first and biggest places we lost it was the telecommunications active I think is 1995.
There we go yeah long time ago but took away a lot of local ability to regulate things related to communications.
I don't know if you're going to be able to be able to be able to be radiation those sorts of things rest at the federal level but we can help you figure out how to advocate down that path.
Todd you have anything you want to add.
Sure so basically that works if a cell tower comes in to be permitted.
If the proposed uh cellular facility meets those standards we cannot deny it on that ground.
Generally we have them commission a study to show to city staff that it does meet those standards and if it does that we are powerless to prohibit it on those grounds.
So we're preempted by federal law is the city manager noted in that regard.
So we do have your contact information and again this is the beginning of that fact finding process and do again really appreciate you coming out tonight to express your concerns and we'll do the best we can to help you facilitate that additional dialogue.
Thank you so much.
So we're going to go ahead and move to our consent calendar with any council member like to pull any item from the consent calendar.
If not you I have a motion to approve the balance of the consent calendar.
I moved to approve the consent calendar mayor.
I have a second.
Second any discussion.
Okay seeing none will do a roll call vote please.
Councilwoman Campbell.
Yes.
Councilwoman Lim.
Yes.
Councilwoman Singh.
Yes.
Mayor Protem Wong.
Yes.
Mayor Rodriguez.
Yes.
Motion passes unanimously.
Okay thank you colleagues we're now at the city manager's report and by city manager Grant.
Thank you Mr. Mayor not much to report.
Ms Nelson is nice to see you back at a meeting.
We weathered the weather quite well in no small part to the good preventative work that our public works crews do ahead of time.
The sinkhole at Lemon and Imperial.
Well not resolved is no longer in a state of emergency and it is progressing with normal repairs.
You've also asked about the car wash at Imperial Highway and Los Angeles street.
That is moving through the entire one process.
We have to have the planning commission in the next couple of months.
Nothing else for me that Mr. Mayor.
Thank you.
We'll start with our dedicated colleague who's not here in person but is on the phone.
And Councilmember Campbell.
Good evening and take on any report.
Thank you Mayor.
No report today.
Thank you and Councilwoman Lim.
I just want to wish everyone a happy New Year's and I've been to a lot of different community events within the last month.
And I just want to say this all been great and it's good to see our city being engaged as it is.
So thank you and happy New Year's.
Thank you.
Councilmember Singh.
Thank you.
I just want to again wish happy New Year to all of you and looking forward.
Thank you to the city staff or city manager.
Police services.
Fire services.
Welcome.
The chief again to the city.
Looking forward to making global into again more safer.
Working with collaborative collaboratively with our city staff and city council members.
To make it better.
You're willing to land a British stepping.
Thank you.
Mayor.
Tim Wong.
Thank you.
Happy New Year's everyone.
I have no further reports.
Okay.
Thank you colleagues.
Again, just want to wish everyone a happy New Year.
I want to remind you that supporting our local businesses is one of the most impactful ways.
We can invest in the future of your Belinda.
When you shop in down locally, you're helping strengthen our local economy.
Supporting essential city services.
And creating jobs right here in our community.
As we kick off the new year.
I encourage you to make shopping locally part of your everyday routine.
We had a number of those businesses here tonight.
So go out and see them and do some business with them as soon as you can.
Whether you're picking up daily necessities, finding the perfect gift.
Or trying a new restaurant.
Those choices directly support the businesses that make your Belinda special.
So remember shop local, dying local and support your Belinda here in 2026.
We also have an art gallery reception.
A step into an evening of art and community on January 22nd from 530 to 730 at the Cultural Arts Center.
This is free public art gallery reception offers a chance to view the language of leaves.
Exhibit featuring art work inspired by the four seasons.
You can find out more at yobalinda.ca.gov slash cultural arts center.
And it's not too early to plan for Valentine's Day.
So celebrate Valentine's Day with us on February 14th.
At the yobalinda public library 1115 to 1230.
Just before that romantic dinner.
Enjoy family, friendly program with Valentine theme crafts and sweet treats.
Registration is not required.
And I also want to take a moment to thank our captain for the coffee with the cop event.
I recently enjoyed attending that with a number of my colleagues.
Again, I think that continues to demonstrate how our law enforcement's part of our community.
And it's anything but adversarial.
We guys are important part of what makes you're willing to special.
So that's all we have on reports.
Do you have a few memoriams that I'd like to adjourn in memory of our former Mayor Barbara
Kiley and also Eliso Viejo City Manager, Mitzi or T's first, I'd like to adjourn tonight's meeting in the memory of our former Mayor Barbara Kiley.
Barbara dedicated many years to our city.
Having been elected to the Oberlin City Council in 1992 and serving until 2000 during her tenure.
She was appointed Mayor in 1994 and served multiple terms as Mayor Pro Tem from 1996 through 2000.
Her commitment to the community and steady leadership helped guide the city during an important time in the Oberlin City history.
And we'll say one of the first meetings I had when I was considering running for city council.
I remember having a chance to sit with her and talk a little bit about her history of service.
And the importance of always putting our city first.
So we extend our heartfelt sympathies to all of Barbara's family and friends.
And I'd also like to adjourn in the memory of Eliso Viejo City Manager, Mitzi or T's who passed away suddenly last month.
Mitzi dedicated her career to public service and lead with integrity, compassion and deep respect for the community she served.
Our sincere condolences to our friends and family.
My family when I love one passes away.
We'd like to say the memory eternal.
So memory internal to our dear friends, Barbara Kiley and city manager Ortiz.
This meeting is now adjourned to the next regular city meeting on February 26th.
Thank you and God bless.
Thank you.