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OK, we're going to start with the pledge of Allegiance that Mayor Pro TEM le will lead us in.
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Thank you, Mayor, please rise, face the flag of our great and Beloved Nation and ready, begin.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the Republic for which it stands one Nation, under God.
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Oh, Liberty and Justice for all.
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Thank you. Please be seated.
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Thank you. Mayor pro TEM, could we please have roll call?
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Yes, Madam Mayor Council member Chiao, then Council member Lu Council Member Tie here, Mayor Pro TEM low. I'm here Mayor Lions. I'm here too.
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OK, we will start with special presentation certificates and proclamations.
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Mister City Manager Do you want to announce who will be speaking?
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Good evening, Mayor and council. I would my pleasure to introduce Paul Healer, a director of government and community relations for the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments is going
to provide us with an update on the Diamond Bar Golf Course Renovation Project.
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Thank you. mister Fox, Madam Mayor, members of City Council, Paul Kubler with the Central Valley Council of Governments, which is responsible under agreement with LA.
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Metro and Caltrans for implementing the construction and right away phases of the State Route 57 60 Confluence Chokepoint Relief Project.
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If we could, please go to the next slide.
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I'm here to talk about, and to announce to the City Council, and will later be announcing to the public at large, starting this Thursday, the temporary closure, and renovation of the
diamond ball diamond bar golf course, which is required as part of the State Route 5760 Project, which I'll get into a little bit later.
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We're working with LA County Department of Parks and Rec, which is the operator, the owner and operator of the golf course.
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On the golf course, renovation projects, it's, as I mentioned, part of the plan freeway improvements, more than 57, 60 project, which has been a project that has long been a top priority
for the City of Diamond bar.
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Given the existing conditions which are unacceptable, from a traffic congestion standpoint, among the top 10 or 11, truck choke points in the entire country.
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The number one truck Chokepoint, West of the Rockies.
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And the number two truck accident in bulk location in Southern California, the project proposes to add auxiliary lanes and ramps that would help to reduce the truck and passenger vehicle
weaving that currently occurs in the confluence and often results in spillover traffic to your local streets.
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As part of the project, we are required to acquire a 9.5 acre. It's roughly of the golf course.
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Essentially, west of Grand Avenue, and then, because we're acquiring those that acreage we will be required to reconfigure a number of the holes, and frankly, all 18 golf course holes
will be modified as part of this project.
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The golf course will be temporarily closed, starting this September first and scheduled to re-open within approximately 17 months.
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So, by early 20th, all golf course facilities will be closed.
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And you see the number there for folks to call, if they want to arrange, for future golf tournaments or banquet information reservations to use the facilities there wants to cook or
... re-opens just by calling that number.
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If we could, go on to the next slide, And I was also, I need to, because we look at this image, I need to introduce the team that's joined me here today from the Central Valley Council
of Governments, Chief Engineer and Director of Capital Projects, Eric Shen, is available to answer questions or Senior Project Manager for this this big project.
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Renee Coronel also available, and community relations manager, Ricky Choice.
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Also joining you, I believe, in your Council chambers, is former Senator Bob Huff, a former Council member on the Government of our City Council, and maybe a half of strategies, there,
among the consultants who are assisting us with some of the community and stakeholder outreach on this project. Here, you see a graphic, I'm not sure how easy or difficult it is to
read, given this small format.
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But roughly, two due to the acquisition, as I mentioned, a corner of the golf course. And then some frontage along, the 60, the south side of the 60.
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And that corner is basically to the west of Grand Avenue up against the freeway will be acquiring that property. It's currently occupying occupied by the hole.
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And some rough, we'll leave that for additional ramps that will be put in.
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That then requires the reconfiguration of force, essentially, as you see from this map, holes 9 and 3, essentially swap location. There are other other holes, and fairways that need
to be reconfigured, in order to make the golf course whole, again.
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If we could go to the next slide.
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As I mentioned, redesigned, at the end of 17 months, she is redesigned 18 hole layout: Improved fairways and greens will be three new teas added: For a total of five ..., Chol sand traps
will be added to increase the challenge.
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New maintenance facility, because the existing maintenance facility, it's right up against the freeway.
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Where we'll be doing our improvement work, that existing facility will be relocated.
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And though acquire a much larger, will build a much larger maintenance facility replacement of the entire course irrigation system, it's an aging system, that is some decades old and
that will be replaced with a brand new modern irrigation system and of course important to the users.
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Of course, the of course, par will remain the same as will the yardage.
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You could go to the next slide.
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As I mentioned, some of this already, essentially the 57 60 chokepoint Relief project improvements will reach, are intended to reduce vehicle weaving and will result in the re-alignment
of the Grand Avenue on and off ramps.
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On the Grand Avenue Bridge, over crossing the current Grand Avenue bridge will need to be reconsidered demolished and reconstructed are not new, each found on rent bypass lane from,
sorry, 60.
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Um, these, these improvements, again, are intended to, in the end, result in higher peak hour traffic speeds, so that the conditions that all of you know, so well there, the congestion
there will be ease and higher average traffic speeds will be realized.
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You could go to the next slide, please.
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So, these are the alternate while the golf course is closed, we're going to be directing golfers to these nearby county operated facilities that are in the area.
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And then, of course, at the end of the 17 months, we'll undertake an effort to encourage golfers and other patrons of the facilities at the Diamond Bar Golf Course to return the golf
course.
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We want them to come back and enjoy unimproved facility overall.
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We could go to the next.
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All right, and this is just the images.
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On the right is the, the handout that we have prepared and we'll be distributing to the public, we'll have this translated to Korean, Spanish, and Chinese.
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Given the demographics of the players, the golf course users, and then the left is an image of a popup banner, We will be setting up table or booth at the golf course on their busier
days, and that will be staffed with multilingual staff.
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Who will explain, you know, when the golf course will close.
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Again, it's September one, how long and the improvements that will result once the golf course Rio.
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We can go to the final slide.
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This summarizes some of our outreach activities. As I mentioned, we'll have a booth.
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In addition to which electronic versions of the the, the fact sheet about the closure will be sent out to the players groups by the operator, American Golf.
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There's a number of folks folks can be able to, can text to, to receive and sign up for.
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Construction, renovation updates will be posting to social media, both English language, social media, as well as Chinese language, Korean language, or social media.
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We'll have updates on our webpage. You see the address there, and we have an 800 number and a project e-mail.
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We're planning, as well, to do a flyer or postcard drop in the neighboring community to notify the immediate neighbors of work that might, that might notice re-occurring on the golf
course proper.
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Um, in addition to which we have an extensive outreach team that we've assigned, key stakeholders to provide them with updates such as this.
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And with that, I'd like to call on Bob half of our strategies to provide some more detailed information on the stakeholder outreach.
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Bob?
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Thank you, Paul. And good evening, Madam Mayor Council members, Pleasure to be with you. ever since. I have been in this city was just 19 83. As certainly ever since the Council incorporated
in 19 89, it's from the highest priority of the community on the City Council to fix this mess. Now, we're calling it the fifties, SRE, 50, 760, freeway confluence.
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You know, all that stuff project now, but we know what is the big mess that's in diamond bar, so it's a privilege, as a former mayor and council member to be involved in, helping fix
this.
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Even though this is, we like to call it the first phase, but it's not the first phase, it's a bunch of different phases precede this.
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As, as Paul mentioned, I'm part of the outreach team. I'd like to represent Wayne Brown, who represents the lead of our team from TRC, who was able to make us join us tonight. And it's
an exciting project.
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As you look at the demographics of Diamond bar, you recognize it there, we have quite a job to do, that's why we have five different languages printed in our handouts that were shown
previously. We just showed you the English, but trust me with simplified and traditional Chinese and Korean in Spanish, as well as English. But the stakeholders that we're reaching
out to, we tried to be logical and emanate out from the center of the Golf course, so to speak.
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So, I am your liaison in Diamond Bar. So if any of you council members have any questions or whatever, feel free to call me, Your city manager has my cell phone, most of you do, but
if you don't, it can get reach me anytime. You know, I answer the phone if I'm available in.
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So, we will also be communicating with the City of Chino Hills, because a lot of them come through Diamond bar, they also played golf, because while that of course, Roland Heights reaching
into, convened in West Covina Pomona, while a Unified School District, in that ammonia have golf teams, as is Mount sac in Cal Poly Pomona. So, we're reaching out to the educational
communities. We have Asian business community, Chinese associations, chambers of commerce, transfer, transportation agencies, such as Caltrans and Metro and Metro is providing funding
for this, as well as first responders.
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Not to mention our federal, state, county elected officials, so it's a pretty wide reach. We want to keep people involved in this thing.
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We're focused just on the golf course portion and Paul did talk some more about some of the freeway.
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That's going to be happening in the next phase. But this project will take about a year and a half.
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And when we get through it, this, our goal is to have engaged the people that are using the golf course.
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We will have sign them up to get updates. We will have kept them updated. They will be happy to come back to a renovated golf course, which will be an amenity of the community can be
proud of. There's also bankrupt facilities and driving range.
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Everything will be shut down, but you can make reservations for those through a phone number will be available to people and our little information kiosk will be setup right outside
of the Starter Shack and then working with the golf course manager will move that aside when we're not there.
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So people coming by can still pick up flyers and do it without the people that can facilitate different languages, but, you know, we're looking forward to this exciting thing. It's starting
September first right around the corner. So that concludes my presentation, and Paul and his team, and I are ready to answer any questions, if you have time, and any questions?
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Let's see if Council has any questions. Council member ..., I don't know if the question is for you. Bob or for Paul is September first, a hard and fast date, because I thought it was
supposed to be July, so they know it's going to be September first. We put it in print, that is September first, so something else falls, AS its final final.
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He's still a wise guy, OK, ..., do you have any questions?
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I think I have two questions. one, at both the facilities be renovated.
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They're doing a new maintenance shed as part of it, but the rest of the facilities to my knowledge are not all. You got anything to add to that.
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This was not part of our project to renovate the if you're talking about the banquet facility, where the clubhouse or the snackbar area that's not not not affected by our project. And
so we're not, we're not upgrading those facilities.
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We are, as Bob mentioned, we are rebuilding the maintenance facility and we are putting in as a Betterment and the request of the counties and the counties paying for it or brand-new
irrigation system.
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Apparently the existing system is fast, is very antiquated and and sort of jury rigged in parts of it.
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So that's the major.
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And then the improvements really are, to the course, proper to the fairways and the greens.
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The teas, and the sand traps that that's worthy, you'll see the most most of the improvements.
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OK, thank you. My second question is, if you can talk a little bit about how this will impact the, the residents and intermediate neighborhoods.
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So that's a good question Council member, we will be notifying neighbors, more than just the minimum, you know, but certainly the homes that are, on the golf course, surrounding the
golf course. Likely, the racquet Club in other areas to let them know what's going on because whenever you touch that golf course, they think their development is coming.
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And while that may happen down the road at that other one over an unincorporated area, they've got an exciting community meeting coming up soon. That's not happening here. This is going
to remain a golf course for some time with the investments we're putting into it.
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But we will be reaching out to them, most likely walking a piece to them, but possibly mailing. We're still putting the final costs together on that to make sure which is most cost effective. But
we will keep the neighborhood engaged. Just to build on something that Paul talked about before, This irrigation system will be really important. Because right now, if they have any
problem over there, they shut the water off of the hole golf course. And so it's never looked as green in his prime as it should. If you've ever played it, in addition to be noisy,
it's it's brown, often.
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Different parts of it.
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Council member, Chiao, did you have any questions?
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I do. Thank you just quickly. So, one of the concerns we have since the golf course backup to several homes on, I believe, doesn't work and on a golden primal strive.
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So if the residents on the street at some point you have concern either with noise or dirt, or any concern about the design, is there a direct number or somehow they can contact the,
the folks in charge already go through the city and we'll be in touch with you guys? What's the best way?
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Well, good question. The best way is to find the website, and there's a contact number there, or you can also call me, having somebody call me. I'm happy to talk with them via an interface.
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But, there'll be plenty of information out there that will allow them to either do a little more work, but to go on the website and login that way, or just pick up the phone and call. We
will have multiple ways to keep track.
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We'll also have social media, so, again, the social media, there'll be contact information as well.
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Mister ..., when you send the postcards out to the community, will the website beyond that postcards OK, can easily find out? OK, Council member Chow. Did you have any other questions?
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That's just so wanted to, A little bit concern on behalf of all residents. Thank you.
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OK, Mayor Pro TEM. Thank you, Mayor. Welcome, Senator. Thanks for joining us. When the renovations started, a number of great number of really mature, beautiful trees were removed, what's
the plan for of replacement of those trees?
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I suggest you talk to your Chief Engineer, David, actually, that is not a part of this plan, so I can't really speak to that. But they will have landscaping that they replace when they
get through that current widening project.
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And that's part of what's confusing, because this what do you see going on there right now? It doesn't have to do with our project in the overall scheme of things. It does.
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That it's a wide Neva grand in in the bridge and some other things that are city of industry is helping spearhead. But as to what they're doing, I don't know.
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Perhaps your city manager knows, OK. And then my second question is, You mentioned that the you Are You mentioned that there would be no improvements to the facilities for the banquet
facilities and the wedding facilities.
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If somebody were to suggest an improvement in those facilities, you know, structurally, as well as service, where do you direct that inquiry, that would go to the county? Because ultimately,
they, they own it. They're responsible for it in what the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments is doing is taking care of mitigating anything that they're responsible for, but
the banquet facilities, you know, it's not part of that.
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Great, thank you. So that would go to Supervisor Haun. That's why we need we need a meeting with our supervisor on that.
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I'm sensing. Is that it. Mayor Pro TEM. Yes, thank you. Mayor Mayor.
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Facility was remodeled with Rotary used to meet there before the pandemic and that facility was completely remodeled.
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They were going to get ready to remodel the bar and the the coffee shop when this took on a life of its own and decided that they'll wait to do that.
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So I don't know that they would remodeled or remodeled.
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Well, perhaps it's just the coffee shop in the bar that need to be maybe model.
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I don't know, but I do agree it, it needs something needs Updating, so, mister Half or mister Heuer, can you tell me if you know it's in the notes somewhere, who thought it would be
a good idea to add three sand traps?
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All right.
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Yeah, you've done plenty out. Is that right? Out of 10 trips? We do, I believe.
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They hired a professional. They did hire a professional golf course designer.
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Of course, my understanding is it makes it more challenging and there will be a different experience, for sure, for the golfers who are used to that course.
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By the way, Steve, excuse me, mister Council Member. It will be the same distance, same handicap so that part will change and perhaps a it but the sand traps there to keep it from, bouncing
out, Going out in the traffic somewhere, slow down some of them.
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So I think what Senator Huff Hossain, Councilmen retires, you'll be able to do as well as you've always done on the golf course. This new golf course is not going to affect my score. I
assure you that.
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Thank you, Senator Huff, and thank you, Paul, Keebler, very much for coming tonight.
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Something to look forward to for sure, especially if you're a golfer.
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OK, we're going to move on to the City Manager Reports and Recommendations, mister Fox.
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Good evening, again, I'm going to ask our assistant city manager Ryan McLean, to provide an update on the 2021 Strategic Plan.
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Thank you, Mayor Alliance, members of the City Council. I am here tonight to provide a brief update on the fiscal year 20 21 through 20 24 Strategic Plan. That was adopted by the City
Council. We're one year into the plan already. And my goal tonight is to highlight a few of the key initiatives that have progressed in the last year, consistent with the goals of that
plan.
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So just a little background, what is the strategic plan? Well, the Strategic Plan is a document that was approved by the City Council in the spring of 2020, and it follows on the heels
of the fiscal year 20 17 through 2020 strategic plan, that saw over 95% of the councils key initiatives completed.
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When we created this current model of the Strategic Plan, we use the Lessons Learned from the 2017 through 2020 plan, And this edition was revised to set the framework for a broad level
vision for the next three years.
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So, as submitted, the plan is, as you see on the screen, an aspirational roadmap that guides the organization, shapes policy success.
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It's essentially the vision for where the Council wants to go over the next three fiscal years.
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It's developed with high level goals and strategies in mind, to meet the needs of diamond bar residents and businesses, It essentially sets the path for getting to the places the Council
wants to go with those overarching goals.
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And then finally, the key initiatives that are developed each year with the budget are consistent with the plan. And these are the specific steps that are taken to meet the goals and
strategies contained in the plan.
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So, fiscal year, 20, 21 marked the first of three years, in the most recently adopted City Council Strategic Plan. And, obviously, with goes without saying that it's been a year, unlike
any other, in our memory. Lots of extremely difficult challenges that have changed the way we all live and do business.
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So, these realities have had impacts across the board, but they have not stopped progress on the key initiatives that the Council has identified. And the next few slides will demonstrate
that with some examples from each of the three primary goals.
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So, the Council's first goal contained within the strategic plan is responsible stewardship of public resources.
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And that goal focuses not only on the overall fiscal health of the city in dollars and cents matters, but also in the maintenance of public facilities and infrastructure.
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And on the screen you'll see a few of the key initiatives in this category that were substantially completed in the last year. This is not a exhaustive list, but it does identify some
key.
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Progress that we've made, the first being refinancing of the diamond bar center bonds that will result in savings of about $150,000 annually.
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The City Council also launched the business recovery program using cares Act funding, and that provided $5000 grants to local small businesses to help them during the difficult koven
19 time.
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We've also gone live with the Enterprise Resource Management System, that is an enterprise finance system, and this is, essentially the hub for all of the city's financial accounting.
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City also completed a risk management evaluation through its insurance provider, the californias Joint Powers and Shirts Authority. And we got good marks on that. And that's an important
item because it makes sure that the city is taking all of the proper risk management precautions to limit losses associated with liability.
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We've also made good progress on a number of park and facility maintenance projects.
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A short list includes Diamond Bahr Boulevard, resurfacing Diamond Bar Center Slope Stabilization Project, Maple Hil restroom roof replacement, Washington Park Playground resurfacing,
and some Hardscape improvements at Penn Tarah Park.
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Then finally, Safe and Secure network infrastructure and expanded online services.
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This is an item that was very important, as you can imagine, over the last 15 months, when the world has gone largely remote, pleased to say that our Information Systems Department has
done a very nice job, making sure that the city's servers, online services and so forth, are safe and secure, and available to those that need city services.
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The second goal on the city Councils strategic plan is open, engaged, and responsive government, and this is a goal that aims to enhance and expand public participation in their local
government.
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So some key initiatives that were implemented in the last year to do that include the Managed Uncertified, the general election. In November, there were two items, a City council seats
plus the Measure DB. That was both handled by our City clerk.
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City also launched Open data dashboards on our city website, and if you haven't had an opportunity to check those out, those give the public access to E data in a number of categories. Our
initial launch includes public safety, animal control, fire department data, public records, and other items related to the City Clerk's office, and we have plans to expand those datasets
moving forward.
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City Council meetings were also expanded to allow for online and phone in participation. Again, that was very important given the restrictions that we all face during the pandemic but
it also has allowed for more participation in our meetings and more voices to be heard.
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Another component of the finance system was the Human Capital Management piece and this is a section of that module of that system that brings new efficiency to our human resources functions
and provides access to key documents, tax forms and so on for employees.
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We also launched a new onboarding suite to modernize the process for bringing on new employees.
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In May, we launched the Virtual Citizens Academy, and this was a program that was held virtually this year, but we have plans to do, in person, wants it is safe, and meets all the requirements.
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But essentially, this program is an opportunity for residents to learn about the local government, the services it provides, and the laws, and, and other items that make local government
work.
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And then finally, the customer service working group.
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This is a cross departmental group that was launched in the last couple of months, and it's charged with re-imagining customer service over the long term. And a few of the items that
it has started with, include the appointment based system. That has been successful thus far since it was launched back in June.
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The third and final goal that is included on the City Council Strategic Plan, is the safe, sustainable, and healthy community. This is a goal that focuses on the overall well being,
and quality of life. You're in Diamond bar, and some key initiatives from the last year that contribute to that, include over $200 million in funding for the 5760 project. That was
referenced in the previous presentation. That money comes from state, SB one Funds, as well as a successful federal infra grant.
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Again, over $200 million really positive accomplishment.
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Earlier, in this year, the City Council and the Planning Commission met with representatives from the Urban Land Institute to look at various options for the town center, as spelled
out in the recently approved and adopted general plan.
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Our public safety team, with the sheriff's department, came up with a creative way too, deal with the rising regional trend of catalytic converter theft through etch and catch public
safety events.
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Those events are usually held in a large parking lot area where residents can bring cars, representative from the sheriff's department, well then Etch the Vin number into the catalytic
converter, which provides investigators, at least with an opportunity to try to capture those that may have stolen, those catalytic converters.
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Our Parks and Recreation Department really went above and beyond to try to find ways to offer the programming that the community values so much.
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It's very difficult for a department that exists to meet face-to-face with people and offer programming to the public in an environment where we can all gather. It's very difficult for
them to come up with things when we can't do that.
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But they did a great job coming up with virtual and drive through events throughout the year and I know that we're all happy to see the concerts in the park available at this time.
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The city manager's office also worked on the Homelessness Response Plan which lays the groundwork for the city to receive Measure H funding in the future, and then also allows to conceptualize
some programming.
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Then finally waste hauler audits were completed. This is a process in which a consultant is hired to look at each of the waste hauler contracts and review them for compliance and to
address any issues that come up during that review.
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And so these are just a few examples of the work Plan items that were carried out in the last year. That does not mean that the work stops, or that we've completed everything that needs
to be done.
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And you'll see on the screen that there's much work to be done in the future, including focusing on long term financial sustainability, Maintenance of our public facilities and infrastructure.
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Increasing public engagement and accessibility of city programming, access to quality services and programs moving forward, Continuing to focus and prioritize public safety and building
community, and then improving mobility, both on our city streets and on the freeway interchange that surrounds us.
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I'd also like to note that we do have quarterly updates that we put out at the end of each quarter during the year. Those are posted to our city website. And so, if there is any interest
from the public in checking those out, they are available online.
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And I'd encourage you to look through those for little more details than I am able to provide in the presentation today.
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And with that, that wraps up my presentation. I'd be happy to answer any questions from the council. Thank you.
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Thank you very much, mister McLane.
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That was a long list of stuff that was accomplished. And I think, if we look back a year ago, knowing that what was going to happen with the pandemic, I don't think we ever would have
predicted. We could accomplish those things, so, it's pretty awesome. Does any council a comment on this?
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Hearing none, OK. Thank you so much.
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All right, it is now time for public comments.
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Public comments is the time reserved on each regular meeting agenda to provide an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the Council on consent calendar items or other
matters of interest on the agenda that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council.
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Although, the City Council values your comments pursuant to the Brown Act, members of the City Council or staff, a briefly respond to public comments if necessary, but no expended extended
discussion, and no actual unsubsidized matters may take place. There's a five minute maximum time limit when addressing the City Council. And ... call up the speakers who've submitted
a speaker card first and then our City clerk Santana will ask Collars joining the teleconference one at a time to give their name And if there's an agenda item on which they wish to
speak.
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If you wish to speak on a public hearing Item or Council consideration item, you'll be called upon to speak at that point in the agenda.
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So I do have several of you that want to speak on a Public hearing item or Council consideration on them.
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So that'll happen No later on in the meeting, So don't think we've forgotten about you. We haven't.
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OK, so the General Speaker cards I have here, the first one I have is mister George Davidson stuff you'd please approach the podium and introduce yourself and tell us why you're here.
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I can take this down at all right.
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Um, Mayor Lions Council Members, my name is George Davidson almost a 30 year resident of diamond bar.
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I'm also a beekeeper and was recently appointed to be the Vice President of the beekeepers Association of Southern California.
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I submitted for the public and for you all. A little presentation, I put together a PowerPoint To kinda give you an update on what's going on with bees in the United States. And, more
importantly, what's going on locally.
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The overview of the United States is this: the being formed, a partnership, which reports on the last 15 years reports on the colony losses that we experienced in the United States. Reported
that just last winter, we lost 45.5% of the colonies in the United States.
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It's a huge number, now, I don't want to scare anybody, look, we lose colonies every winter, but 45.5% is a much bigger number and it's been trending up for 15 years.
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Things that are affecting that are climate changes are hurting the bees because flowers are blooming earlier or later in the seasons and they're not prepared or, or they're prepared
too early.
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Parasites and viruses.
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There's one in particular called the Varroa mite, which is just reeking all kinds of havoc and destroying colonies, pesticides, and other thing that not just commercial pesticides, but
residential pesticides. In the presentation I sent you, there were pictures of three hives. It had just nothing but piles I did these. two of those are literally from our city diamond
bar.
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These are people that I mentor, that, know somebody, you know, people don't know the best practices and they'll spray their plants and they get the pesticides on the flowers, the bees
are out foraging and they bring it back. They walk around the hive and it just decimates everybody. There was 25,000 bees, and one of those hives and they were gone in three days.
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So all these things are affecting the bees and obviously causing the bees to struggle, and I'm hoping that we all agree, that we should do what we can if we have the opportunity to do
that. So that was the first part of the presentation. I wanted to kind of give you guys an overview of that.
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The second part of the presentation is what I wanted to focus on more, and that's the local issues that we're seeing as beekeepers and rescuers.
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The African ization of the bee populations in our areas is getting more prevalent.
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The bottom line is africanized bees, which are these It gives you the history, they tried to breed bees to be more aggressive in their forging because then they can produce more honey,
right? It's human greed. That does it usually. And they got out and unfortunately they're also more defensive. They have a patrol bigger areas to protect their hives and so they cause
problems.
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I don't want to scare anybody to thinking that we got killer bees all over the place. That's not what it is. You look at the belt from Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas
Hollow out, the Louisiana. That's where all the africanized bees thrive and 90% of those bees have some sort of degree of that innovation.
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So when we do rescue is we may come across a hive that says, let's say it has 3% africanisation and it's OK. It's an easy to work with because it's a low percentage but sometimes you'll
run across hives that are higher percentages. The africanized bees are just better at everything. They're just better at producing brood foraging and they're thriving and so they're
migrating into our areas and there's nothing we can do to stop it.
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But the idea, one of the things that we can do is beekeepers, is we can mitigate that, that genetics. We get a hive, like, when I do a risk, and I gotta have that, I determined is more
africanized. I can put a new queen in, that's a nice docile queen, and in 6 to 8 weeks, she will take over the hive, and all the offspring is a week's lifespans of these lifespan of
six weeks. And 6 to 8 weeks, the whole hive is now docile bees.
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And so my proposal that I put to you guys, and it's really just to start the dialog, is that if there was a way for us to control the genetics of the drone male bees that are flying
over our city, and just to tell you, a queen mates was 15 to 20 drones. 50% of the genetics come from the queen. 50% comes from the drones. She stores that sperm and she uses that her
whole life and all these that she produces.
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So if we can control the population of the drones of our city and our city is only six miles long, right, three miles wide.
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If you can have two strategic locations, that's why I'm proposing it. Where we can populate those with good docile genetics, inconceivably any of the migrating africanized bees coming
into the area are going to mate with our fossil bees and produce more docile offspring.
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In addition, beekeeping clubs can put out what we call swarm traps that are designed to lure, any migrating swarms into the area into the trap. So we can take those and then reclaim
those.
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So that's kind of the idea behind it. That's what I wanted to present to you guys.
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Not to mention that if we had these eight areas, that we would finance and build, that are safe, that have, you know, eight foot study. I think you guys saw the pictures of the one that
didn't long beach, we can use those as a great teaching opportunity to bring people in. Anybody wants to learn about these. We see them up. We have insurance that covers everything. We
teach them about a so you can have a great teaching opportunity, keep the population that draws and the people in the cities safer, because the population of the ... is lower and help
the piece. So, I'm hoping that opens up a, dialog is a lot to throw out there, I appreciate your time. Thank you very much. And we did get your presentation was e-mailed to us, OK,
so are you have any questions?
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Horrible, OK, thank you.
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OK, next we have Michelle Yeoh, so if you'd come to the podium, please.
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Hello, City Council members and staff. Thank you for having me tonight.
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So, back to the story of a developer millennium, now watching, who had their track map approved by Nancy Lion, Steve Tie booths role back in 2016.
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Millennium Developer took out about 2000 and ancient oak trees way before the tracking that was ever recorded, and you guys all know that We came to this meeting and told you about this
many times, but you guys just ignored the whole thing.
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The 2000 ancient old trees were never replaced, or there's no remedy so far, so that 2000 oak trees, like on period and they did a grading. Took out entire vegetation out of the hill
that the home of endangered species it's very viral and read lacked mounted frauds.
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So several years before the extra met was approved.
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Now, the country residence many country rages, who brought all this illegal activities of the development, are in front of you almost dozen times, but we were ignored.
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And here 2016 millenniums watching sued us for the access to the country road.
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In the middle of the lawsuit, between the developer and country, you three council members, decided to go ahead and approve the map, despite of all the wrongdoing of the developer and
despite of all the country, residents, plead to postpone, watching either map.
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The fire department and several other agencies were yet to give the permission to build, but youth Council members approved the met subject, the developer putting $7 million dollar bond.
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The key point here is that they were not ready, but you still approved it, knowing that we were in the middle of a lawsuit.
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And you are.
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Because it teaches, 'cause teachers last lost it. Because, the developer already got the tracking that the court sided with your approval of the met.
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That is how important and powerful your job means.
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But, you didn't have a single word we brought before you.
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Was it because you received campaign funds from them?
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What else could you have been been there? It's so hot, I mean.
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It's a millennium watching client of your husband's investment bank.
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I don't know that She's story behind this. I'm sorry to accuse you of this, but this is really odd because the med was approved now, 2016.
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Now, five years later, five more than five years later, the Hill is still sitting there.
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They're not doing anything.
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It's just stripped of all the beautiful Asian trees.
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And it's just bare, bare hills.
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It's been five years like that. I don't know when they're going to ever built.
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Why did you have to rush?
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Why was it so urgent that you have to approve the mat?
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We doing the mitigation.
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Nancy Lyon, Steve tight Ruth's role.
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you need to answer this question for many years to come.
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But for now, you guys do we, our country residents deserve your sincere apology or approving the math that was not ready, and even if it's not ready today, but you approved it five years
ago during the litigation, just to help them all.
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I don't know the answer to that.
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The answer. You guys need to apologize. We had to put out almost a million dollar because of the loss of our residents.
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Thank you for having me by.
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Next, we have Pitching ****.
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Good evening, Madam Mayor Member, City Council, City staff, and Members, .... My name is Pushing Hall from the Law Library.
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I'm very happy to announce the opening of our friends, the bookstore. Basically, books inside a Dharma Law Library.
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If all volunteer staff bookstore re-opens a store since yesterday, August second.
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There are business hours for August on Monday, 11 AM to five PM, Tuesday, 12 PM to five PM, Wednesday, 11 0 AM to four PM, Thursday, 12 PM to four PM, Friday 11 AM, 2 five PM, closed
Saturday and Sunday.
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We cannot yet accept book donations, but we'll keep you updated on this issue.
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And, as always, the perceived benefits to them about a library.
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Thank you, and welcome back.
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Thank you. Next, we have Allen Wilson.
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Good evening, Madam Mayor, members of City Council. My name is Alan Wilson, and I'm very glad to be here.
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Sunday at Martha. I moved here 25 years ago. I never vision literature for 25 years that he had changed for, good, for the better, and get him with citing. However, that he had chance. I've
never vision live inherent at all, and looking back at us, like, it's like a gift, you know, come to community printer for the long. I'm good to be home for 25 years. Who knows what,
the next 25 years? I have a couple of questions. I appreciate Ryan Kevin's presentation on the strategic plan.
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I like to clarify on it, and the plan about pop a fun and any other restricted funds of funds to be spent for a certain purpose. We're not going to change the font for general, general
fund dollars, and in regard to pop A, I'm curious, where are we on converting some of the pension tour bus shelter? Catchphrase says, it, now, what else in our $4 a gallon? And I'm
hearing that made me go to $5 a gallon, but people need municipal transportation services needed by Foothill Transit. But I'm curious what area? And I said hey, I want to convert. So.
49:46
Pension, but sheltered and other project for pop a fund. That we're not use the funds for general fund dollars and that would be entered for the committee. Thank you.
49:59
Thank you. Is there anyone else in this room who would like to address council in person?
50:04
If so, OK, is, are you one of the bodell, sir? OK so the, that item is coming up a little bit later in the agenda.
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We're going to be discussing that and I'll definitely call you up at that time.
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Already. thank you.
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Seeing no one else, Let me ask our City clerk Santana, if there's anybody on the phone.
50:29
Yes, Madam Mayor and as you mentioned previously, mister George Davidson did submit an e-mail public comment and that comment was forwarded to the City Council.
50:38
If any member of the public joining this meeting via teleconference would like to address the City Council, please select the raised hand icon in your goto Webinar program.
50:47
I will unmute callers on the line one at a time.
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You will know it is your turn to speak when I announce your name and you hear a recorded message: Unmuted, I will unmute the first color, mister Paul Deibel.
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Hello? Can you hear me?
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Yes go ahead, mister ..., OK, thank you.
51:07
Good evening, Madam Mayor members of the City Council, my name is Paul ...
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and I'm a diamond bar resident in Pomona, and I just wanted to briefly commend the City Council on its adoption of the accessory dwelling unit ordinance.
51:20
On first and second readings over the past two city council meetings, I was not able to attend the public hearing on July sixth And then looking at the minutes, I don't think there was
any public comment at the hearings.
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I just wanted to register the comment that, I think this will have very significant benefits for the community as it will allow single family home owners to invest profitably in their
own property, in a way that will provide an additional market rental unit for individuals or families in our community that are being forced out due to the high cost and relatively
small amount of existing rental housing. And Diamond Bar.
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As I have spoken in the past, in relation to the housing element update, our kids who grew up here in Diamond bar and who want to stay in established families and live here, have a very
difficult time, or can no longer do so, in many cases, due to the high cost of them entry level and in other rental housing here.
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Moreover, the design requirements of the ordinance will ensure that any new accessory dwelling units will be visually subordinate to the existing main house and generally will not even
be noticeable from the street.
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So, there should be no significant impact to the character of existing single family residential neighborhoods.
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So I think this was a positive, sort of, a win-win step forward for the city.
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I was frankly surprised that it was not adopted, unanimously.
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So that's another reason I wanted to make this belated statement of Support for the ordinance's adoption and now implementation. So thank you very much.
53:04
Thank you, mister table. Is there anyone else joining this teleconference that would like to address the city Council? Please raise your hand. I see Miss Rosie Fabian.
53:16
Ms. Fabian, please unmute yourself.
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Thank you, I think I was able to figure that out.
53:32
Good evening, I'm here to speak regarding Agenda Item. Number 6.2, this is the proper time, or should I wait until the item comes up? Yes, we will call you when that item comes up.
53:43
Thank you. OK, thank you.
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OK, Mayor, I do not see any other hands raised.
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Thank you.
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Is there anybody else on Earth is Terry Mused Stallone ms. sorry. I'm here, I'm sorry, I forgot how to raise my hand.
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I'm glad our city manager remembered that yes we need to hear from Ms. Tearing these, please go ahead.
54:10
OK, great, good evening, Mayor, City Council members and Diamond Bar Community. My name is Terry Muse, and I'm the Public Sector Solutions Representative for Waste Management.
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I'm here tonight because recently you may have been experiencing service disruptions or longer wait times for your collection services, and for this we truly apologize.
54:30
Unfortunately, like many industries, waste collection of services are being impacted by several extraordinary circumstances that put pressure on our systems, including unprecedented,
nationwide driver shortages.
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one of the reasons for the driver shortage, according to the American Transportation Association, is that the workforce is aging. The average age of a truck driver is 55 years old, and
main drivers opted for early retirement in the last year do the pandemic, or they chose to pursue pursue alternative careers outside of trekking due to cover 19 related Health Concerns. I
can tell you, for Waste management, San Gabriel Valley, that definitely rings true.
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In 20 20, the average length of service for our drivers was 25 years, and we had many that were there 30, 5, 30 and 40 years.
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After the first of the year, many of these long term employees retired, And we've not been able to fill those positions due to all the reasons that other businesses are having a hard
time recruiting and retaining employees.
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But please be assured, we're committed to using all of our available resources to focused on trash and green waste collection.
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We borrow drivers for other waste management areas whenever possible, and if we have to rollover service, we try to keep it to recycling.
55:42
Since this way stream is clean and dry, only the last resort we rollover green waste or trash service. And when I say rollover, it means that that service will be rolled over to the
next day and picked up in the morning.
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We've also tried to get innovative and creative with how we're hiring and how our staffing. For example, we are overhearing.
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It's been hard to retain our new hires and plus we anticipate more retirement's this year.
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So we're hiring more employees than we actually need. We also are trying to train the future workforce for opening to driver positions that do not require class, C commercial license,
No experience is required and only requires a California driver's license. These drivers would do bulky item pickups and cart delivery. but if the employee's interested we will train
them So they can get their class the license and hopefully become a trash truck driver for us.
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When restaurant is short staffed, they limit the number of customers they serve or shorten their hours are unique in that we serve as every single house once a week.
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It's not that easy to be able to recover thousands of households when you are short staffed, plus not just anybody contrive a trash truck, they need to be licensed and trained in order
to safely pick up your trash.
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While we're working diligently to mitigate possible service disruptions, you can stay informed through service alerts by making sure we have your current contact information on file.
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Whenever we have a service delay, you'll be notified that day by whichever method of communication you'd have chosen as your preference, such as phone, text, or e-mail.
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And if you're not getting your notifications, please either e-mail us at CES, Los Angeles, at wm dot com, visit our website, which is W M dot com.
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We have a chat feature there where you can chat with the customer service rep and update or confirm your contact information, or you can do with the old-fashioned way, and call us, at
826-6551.
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And I do have to say that we have not had to use this customer notification system to the extent that we have had to since kogod.
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So we're finding there are bugs to work out.
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And we're still working on him.
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I promise we're doing everything we can to make sure we contact you, and we always tell the city whenever there was a service delay.
58:03
So, I've been asked, Why do we wait until the day of service to let our customers know? We will be rolling over their route to the next day?
58:10
And that's because we truly do not know, until that day.
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If we will have scip calls, staff available from other sites, or any other factor that affects our staffing, we try and notify our customers as soon as we know there will be a delay.
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And also each route has an average of 1200 stops We have managers reviewing the routes and what stops have not been service throughout the city.
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This allows us to make important decisions such as moving services to other drivers who might have finished their route and can help out where needed.
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And as you can imagine, there are things that we cannot predict, such as traffic, accidents, flat tires, or construction that might delay us getting a route completed.
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We truly apologize for the inconvenience.
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These extraordinary circumstances may be causing you. As we have demonstrated resilience in the face of covered 19. We're confident we will tackle these challenges with your continued
support and patience as we work to return schedules back to normal as soon as possible.
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So that concludes my presentation. I don't know if there's any questions.
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Ms. ..., can you just hold onto the very end in case there's any questions? Because we do all that at the end.
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OK, sure. Just until the end of public comment. Thank you.
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Mayor, I do not see any more hands raised.
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Thank you. Mister Fox, do want to respond to any of these.
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Do not believe any of them require any type of response at this point.
59:38
Ms. means, I do have a question for you. I'm wondering, you know, that we, most of us, have three different trash cans.
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So, we ended up getting three different messages and I'm wondering if that could maybe be combined to have you guys selected that at all.
59:57
Noah, that's a very good point.
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I will, I'll check it out, I'll check on that.
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Yeah, you know, because if they're all three and I can be picked up, it seems like no one message would be sufficient.
1:00:09
Correct. Yeah. Fortunately, we haven't all 3 at 1 time, so that's that's something I hadn't thought about, but I will check on that.
1:00:18
OK, thank you very much. Looks like council member Type. Question for Ms. Smith. Thank you for your presentation.
1:00:24
I have a question for mister Fox or perhaps, mister De Bary.
1:00:31
I I find it extremely frustrating to sit here and listen to somebody deliver misinformation.
1:00:38
So I realize it's not an agenda item.
1:00:41
But the.
1:00:45
Misinformation relative to no remedy trees. The fact that indeed, the folks that came forward, never ignored. I guess what I'm asking is, I'd like, we followed the direction of the city
attorney. So, I would like the city attorney to share with the public why the question is, why is the rush to approve the track map?
1:01:07
It wasn't a rush, and maybe the city attorney could share with people what was involved, and actually, I think the only thing that the speaker had right, was, I think she said on more
than one occasion. I don't know.
1:01:20
I don't know, and I would agree with her. She doesn't know. So if we could hear from the city attorney, mister Fox?
1:01:29
They're high council member tie in members of the City Council.
1:01:33
So, obviously, it's been a few years when all of this happened, but I do remember quite a few the issues going on in that particular case up initially.
1:01:48
I found it somewhat interesting that the speaker was blaming the city for the delay in the project, and that enlarge part.
1:01:56
one could argue that the reason the project has not been developed day is because the dash board at the countries HLA refused to grant access.
1:02:08
two millennium after it had started the project.
1:02:12
And there was some linking of approval on the final map, too, um, Millennium Wayne, It's a lawsuit against the country.
1:02:23
And that's not true.
1:02:25
Either The final map had nothing to do with whether or not millennium had access to the site.
1:02:33
That was governed by a track map which was recorded probably at least a decade earlier.
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And in fact, before the litigation even began, the city had looked at that tract map and concluded.
1:02:47
And it did provide access to Millennium.
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Obviously, the Sea's opinion was not relevant in the lawsuit, but ultimately, it was.
1:02:58
the white board denied millennium access to its property when it was pretty clear from the maps that recording that it did have access.
1:03:08
And the reason millennium are the reason the country lost that lawsuit and I had to pay millennium $3 million was because age old board ..., board wrongly denied access to millennium.
1:03:22
It had nothing to do with the final map and effect.
1:03:26
There was litigation pending between millennium and and the country it was irrelevant whether the final map was to be approved that would have been a legally impermissible reason to
not approve the final map.
1:03:38
Finally, when the State Council consider the final map, its job is to determine whether the final map is consistent with the tentative with the tangent map. And that's, that's its job.
1:03:51
If it is, it's required to approve the final map. And so that's why the city council ultimately approved the final map.
1:04:00
And I found all I can recall.
1:04:03
And if you could addressed the $3 million judgement, I know you're saying it was the fact that they were denied access. But, in fact, if I recall correctly, one of the witnesses was
called out as not being the least bit credible.
1:04:21
So it's again, I made notes of some of the things that the speaker said, and one of them was I'm sorry to accuse you, I don't think she's the least bit sorry. I think that was exactly
her goal. So thank you, mister Berry, I appreciate your input.
1:04:37
Mister Berry, this Izmir, Lyons, aye.
1:04:41
Is frustrating this. This is, believe me, frustrated. I don't think there's anything that the City Council can do to keep Ms. Yee or anybody else from saying things that aren't true
during public comments. Right?
1:04:58
Sure. Yeah. There is the First Amendment, and certainly all the public speakers are entitled to, I guess, their opinions or their version of the facts, but it doesn't mean that they're
always accurate.
1:05:09
OK, that's, that's the way I understand it, so it's, it is frustrating, Councilmen tie, You know, I had one more thought, mister Fox. With regard to the bees, does the Inland Valley
Humane Society do anything with bees?
1:05:28
No, I don't believe they, they deal with though, those are typically vectors. And so we would be probably co-ordinating with LA County Vector control.
1:05:39
Would you suggest then that this gentleman talked to LA County vector control?
1:05:45
He can certainly do that. Certainly, OK. All right, thank you. Alright, it is time to move on to the consent calendar. All items listed on the consent calendar are considered by the
City Council to be routine, and will be acted on in a single motion unless a council member or a member of the public request otherwise, in which case, the animal would be removed for
separate consideration.
1:06:10
Mister Fox, do you wanna go over the items?
1:06:12
Good evening, though. We have a very short consent calendar item for you this evening.
1:06:17
We have the approval of the regular City Council meeting minutes from July 20th, and there should be a red line version with some minor comment revisions that were provided to earlier. And
then we have the ratification of the check register dated July 15th through July 28th, and that concludes the consent calendar for this evening. Thank you, does anybody on the City
Council want to pull an item off the kind of this very small consent calendar?
1:06:44
I'll move approval of the consent calendar. Thank you, council member tie is there a second? Yes. I'll second that. Thank you. Mayor Pro TEM call the roll, please. Yes Madam Mayor Council
member Chow.
1:06:56
Council member loupe Yes, Council member time. Yes.
1:07:00
Mayor pro TEM low yes, marilynne Yes, OK, now we are onto public hearings. Public hearing 5.1.
1:07:08
I'm going to turn it right back over to or city manager.
1:07:14
Good evening, again.
1:07:14
I'm going to ask our Associate Planner may nakajima to give the staff presentation good evening, Mayor Lanes and members of the City Council.
1:07:26
This request is for a development Code Amendment enact to enact regulations for the development augmentation and relocation of small wireless facilities. in accordance with state and
federal laws, this code amendment will apply citywide.
1:07:43
Wireless data consumption has grown remarkably remarkably in the last few years. It's outpacing the capacity of current infrastructure. Our smartphones, tablets, and devices that we
use to live chat with friends and stream videos has created a huge demand.
1:08:01
Small wireless facilities are a type of cellular network facility capable of delivering high transmission speeds, but at lower ranges.
1:08:10
So unlike cell towers, referred to as macro cells, they typically take the form of smaller antennas which are placed on existing infrastructure, such as Streetlight poles.
1:08:22
These facilities are critical to the wireless industry's deployment of five G services.
1:08:29
So this is a photo simulation of a small wireless facility for Manhattan Beach.
1:08:34
In this example, they have attached antenna's, width related equipment on top of the pole, optical optical fiber cables are then carried the data to and from the data centers.
1:08:48
In 20 18, the Federal Communications Commission adopted its Decluttering ruling, third Report, and Order, to accelerate wireless broadband deployment by removing barriers to infrastructure
investment.
1:09:02
The order establishes a new category of small wireless facilities and limits the ability for southern cities to regulate them, both inside and outside of the public right away, and also
imposes strict processing requirements that cities must adhere to.
1:09:18
This is in addition to preexisting federal requirements that prevent cities from effectively prohibiting the provision of wireless service.
1:09:26
The order is intended to facilitate the growth of small wireless facilities, to ensure the deployment of five G technology.
1:09:35
To fully comply with the FCC's regulations, the proposed ordinance would create an administrative permanent review process or these facilities in the city.
1:09:45
On July 13th, the Planning Commission adopted a resolution recommending that the council adopt the draft ordinance.
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The order defines small wireless facilities as follows.
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They are either mounted on structures, 50 feet or less in height, including their antennas are no more than 10% taller than other adjacent structures, or existing structures are not
increased in height beyond by 50 feet or by 10%, whichever is greater.
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The antenna is no more than three cubic feet in volume, excluding associated antenna equipment.
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All equipment associated with the antenna and any preexisting equipment is no more than 28 cubic feet in volume.
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And finally, the facilities do not expose people to radio frequency radiation in excess of FCC standards.
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So, the ordinance would create an administrative process and also limits the extent to which cities can impose fees, which will be explained further on the following slide.
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The ordinance includes: a list of submittal requirements, design and development standards, installation and operational requirements, standard conditions of approval, abandonment or
discontinuation, requirements, and an appeals process.
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So just a quick comparison of the current process versus our new process. Under the new, under the current process, new wireless facilities on utility poles requires planning commission
approval, through a conditional use permit. At a public hearing, the ordinance would exempt these small wireless facilities from these requirements, and we would have to process them
administratively.
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The order also mandates reduced timeframes for processing these applications.
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These shot clock periods for public agency to review, comment, and make a final decision are 90 days for new builds and 60 days for co-location.
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It should also be noted the that service providers can include multiple sites in one application.
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Existing 150 and 90 day shot clock periods for facilities other than small wireless felicities facilities remain unchanged.
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Um, finally, the order further limits to the extent to which the city may impose fees, including fees for processing applications, the use of the public right away, and the privilege
of using structures in the right away that are owned by the city.
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So if the audience is approved, staff would follow up with the recommended fee schedule, specifically for small wireless facilities.
1:12:28
The Order establishes safe harbor fee amounts that are presumed to be reasonable, not to exceed amount, to cover the cost of processing these applications.
1:12:41
So staff recommends that the Council approve the development code amendment and schedule for second reading for adoption at the August 17th meeting, and that concludes my presentation.
1:12:53
Thank you. I think I open the public hearing first. Correct. It is 743. So moping in the public hearing on this item. is there anybody in the room that would like to speak to this?
1:13:07
And is there anybody on the phone City Clerk? Santana.
1:13:11
Wants to speak to this. Yes, Madam Mayor.
1:13:15
There were no e-mail submitted for this item, but I do see one speaker, mister Paul Deibel.
1:13:22
Thank you. This called a diamond bar resident, and I just had a question regarding whether there would be any notice and the new administrative approval process.
1:13:32
Too, particularly residential property owners within some proximity to a proposed new smart wireless facility.
1:13:42
And the reason I'm asking that is Whether and what would be any exposure of those residents to or frequency or electro MS, electromagnetic fields that would be associated with such a
facility.
1:14:01
I think I would have concern if one's being all of a sudden installed in Leo, like, pull in front of my house. So I was just asking that question, if it could be addressed, at some point,
in the hearing, thank you very much.
1:14:16
Can you address that? Is that right?
1:14:18
Yes. With the new process, it would not require notification to adjacent property owners. In terms of the RF exposure compliance report, that is something that we can require for these
sites to make sure that they don't exceed the FCC thresholds.
1:14:37
Thank you. City Clerk. Santana.
1:14:39
Is there anybody else on the phone there with their hand up? Yes, Madam Mayor. I see mister does this.
1:14:46
OK, thank you.
1:14:50
Mister Barr, Con, please unmute yourself.
1:14:55
There we go. Sorry about that.
1:14:58
Madam Mayor members of the City Council. I'm Douglas ..., and I'm commenting on this because I am a ham radio operator. So I'm familiar with the regulations regarding.
1:15:13
R F, and I'm doing a presentation for a local club on the 11th via Zoom on the new requirements for ham radio operators to do an RF evaluation on RF emissions that were, that were grandfathered
in under under guidelines. It allowed us not not to do things as an exemption now. That's changed.
1:15:38
Fortunately, the majority of ham radio is not really going to be a problem for.
1:15:48
Controlled area. What should be like the users and their and their location? And the uncontrolled area, which should be the neighbors and things.
1:15:57
Normally, when you have a ham radio tower, unless you're doing significant power, like one thousand watts or something, it's not going to be a problem.
1:16:12
As far as I understand, five G, the power is nowhere. near that level. It's it's like micro watts as I understand it, or maybe low walk very low wattage.
1:16:24
The antennas are designed not to affect residents around them.
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Doesn't mean it's not going to happen, but they're designed to not be a problem.
1:16:38
The providers have to do an evaluation of the local area as how it would affect it, Fortunately the RF graphs, I believe it's, it's as a, as a square of the distance. It, read, it, reduces
that, that that dramatically.
1:17:01
So it's not really a problem, The, I think the bigger issue is that it's it's on 24 7, unlike a ham radio that's just going to be on at different time periods, for short durations. So
I don't really see it being a problem, but perhaps esthetically, having a box on a light pole in front of a house won't look good. And when you mentioned 28, I think it was cubic feet,
I don't know what that stands for, because that, because that's not going to be on a light pole. That's going to be a structure somewhere, or a box, or evolved, or something.
1:17:40
So, I don't quite understand that, but, also, there has to be be cokes and power Brought to that unit, I suppose the power is coming from the street light poles.
1:17:53
That's an, an issue that's at a non point.
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Basically, but, we need to know more information about the power output of these five G systems.
1:18:07
What the wattage is, what the antennas are alike, the antenna gain, to understand how that, out, that power is, is actually magnified from the base power, not including.
1:18:23
Cable losses, for example, and and gain, from the antenna itself, It's a, it's basically the effective radiated power we need to know about, and the ... of it.
1:18:35
So that will be my question, that we need to have that providers present the city with that information.
1:18:43
And that concludes my my comment.
1:18:48
Thank You: City clerk. Santana. Is there anyone else that wants to speak on this? There are no other hands raised me OK. Thank you. Let's go ahead and close the public hearing at 749,
and bring it back to the council to see if they have questions, and let's start with council member Chiao. I just want to make sure we don't forget him. Council members, how do you
have any questions?
1:19:11
Thank you, Mayor. And I do two questions. one question about a safe harbor fee. So, my understanding would at least the current sailor, stations that we have.
1:19:22
Some of the parks, for example, they do pay us a rental fee, and it sounds like the Safe Harbor exceeds a one-time fee. You just want to get clarification on that.
1:19:39
So, for re re-occurring fees, we are limited to charging about $270 or, you know, poles in the right away, or I'll simply antennas in the parks. But, for a one-time application fees
were also limited to only charging $500. Or co-location in $1 thousand dollars for new builds.
1:20:10
I see, So we have, we said, it sounds like, just as a company, we do have the ability to charge something on an ongoing basis, somewhat like a rental.
1:20:18
See that we will receive the Correct.
1:20:21
Yes, we're just limited in how much we can charge or got it. And second question, there was a good point. I was brought up in terms of notifying the neighbors in the immediate area. I
believe you have mentioned that because this will be administrative approval process. The immediate residents are not required to be notified.
1:20:44
That's correct, Since then, I've seen, You know, I have a question for our city attorney. Does that expose the city to any sort of liability?
1:20:53
If someone would later come and claim that they were somehow affected by the radio frequency that's being emitted by the stations?
1:21:04
Do we need some sort of language to say that we're following FCC guidelines or just to cover ourselves?
1:21:11
Yeah. Thank you, council member Chow.
1:21:13
I can't say that the city would be exposed to any liability for radio frequencies, and those are governed by the POC and the FCC and not the city.
1:21:23
So we really don't even regulate in that particular area, um, and then it's, and part of the reason we don't notice this, as you indicated previously, It's, it's administrative and administrative
permits by nature, have to meet the city standards, and there's not any public hearings or like.
1:21:44
And because of these short shot clocks that we have to review these applications, there's really no, no timeframe especially for the 30 day shot clock team will actually notify the residents
and get any input anyway.
1:21:57
Um, and I'm sure that the, The operators, or the developers of the small cell sites would object to notify the neighborhood.
1:22:06
Because it's supposed to be based on the depth of standards in the city's code, and not complaints from from the neighbors.
1:22:16
And it's one of those items where, where, where the FCC has come down in, you know, taken taking some of the local, regulatory aspects out of our hands in it.
1:22:28
No. It's.
1:22:31
That has happened in a lot of situations, like with cable operations, and telephone corporations, and now with small wireless cells.
1:22:39
Honestly, I just want to make sure that the city has been exposed, and also the resident to understand that.
1:22:44
That, the process. Alright, thank you so much.
1:22:52
Mister Company, do you want to say something?
1:22:56
I just wanted to elaborate a little bit in regards to the, the fees, the Safe Harbor fees, and in rental revenue. This ordinance only applies to the new category of micro cells. Macro
cells, which are the large cell towers, such as the, the the field, lighting, pull mounted, antennas at enter a park, for example.
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Or the, the the fake trees at the diamond bar center, or semi Ridge Park.
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The city, those, those would be the types of antennas that are still subject to conditional use Permit requirements, and the City, can still enter into its lease agreements with the
carriers. And so, the, the those sources of revenue are not affected by this ordinance.
1:23:57
Can I ask a question on that point? Yes, go ahead, thank you.
1:24:01
Mister Goldman on the fees are are they subject to cost of living raises at all?
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Are these kind of fees.
1:24:10
Yes, sir, Are fee resolution, as it's based on a, an extensive fee study.
1:24:20
A time and motion study that was done a few years ago, and then there's A A cost of living or or a CPI inflator, that automatically kicks in based on what the reported CPI is every year. So
they applied to these types of devices, right?
1:24:41
That's correct. Thank you.
1:24:44
Council member, Ludy, do have any questions?
1:24:47
Thank you, Madam Chair.
1:24:50
What does the we know the difference between a micro and a macro in terms of power Oh, how does that compare micro to macro?
1:25:00
So these small saw wireless facilities there.
1:25:06
Like mister Barkow, instead it transmits data at a lower range.
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So that's why so many of them are needed and they are not capable to transmit data sometimes through buildings.
1:25:21
And so, that's why they are called small cell wireless facilities because you need so, many of them.
1:25:30
That part I understand in terms of power let's say how to cover that.
1:25:35
How many micros equals to one macro that I'm not sure.
1:25:42
Is that it Councilmen Berlin?
1:25:44
That's it OK. Thank you. Council member tied to a question. Yeah, I wanna get back to the clarify the the rent. So.
1:25:52
We're talking macro.
1:25:54
As you indicated, mister Goldman at Summit Ridge and Pen, Tara and Peterson A Catholic church has facility. So, it's private property.
1:26:05
You're entitled to get going. Right.
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Correct.
1:26:09
Yes, that's correct. Thank you.
1:26:11
And, and so may, when you were talking about the revenue would be limited, you're what we're talking in micro is on, on Paul's on, on utility, cool.
1:26:23
Those aren't tars anyhow We wouldn't, we wouldn't ever get that money right, that that would be up to either Edison or, or, uh, Any other company that has applied.
1:26:34
I'm at a loss to figure out who that might be, but that would be, They're domain, correct.
1:26:41
Well, there's a, we do have a cell towers on Edison Pols currently.
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But there is a difference with the cell towers versus the small wireless facilities were limited to be able to charge on small wireless. But as Greg mentioned, we can still continue
to charge for cell towers for macro. Yeah, OK, thank you.
1:27:08
In, and just to add the fees that we're talking about in this ordinance, are only pertaining to the cost of staff time to process, review, and approve these.
1:27:21
So, that, that's, that's just the time and materials fee to approve the application, as opposed to the, the collection collecting of rent either on Edison assets that go to that company
or to any, any non micro facilities that are subject to that lease agreement on, private or public property.
1:27:55
Thank you. I think that's probably all the questions that we have from council tonight. Excuse me. I'm sorry. Yes. Go ahead and pretend you.
1:28:03
My question concerns the the genesis of this or the necessity for but this ordinance in the first place.
1:28:11
According to the background report, it indicates that the federal communication commission adopted some, they are the ones that you should in order that prescribe all the rules and regulations
to which this ordinance confirms conforms. So my question is, isn't the FCC a federal agency? What do they get to supersede the city's power to and make our own rules this the county
as well as the state of California?
1:28:43
Why does the federal agency get to promulgate these orders and then we subsequently have to adopt adopt them?
1:28:54
This is David. Very. I can take a shot at that, if they'd like.
1:28:59
It is because they utilize the federal government utilizes the inter-state Commerce Clause, which essentially provides that the federal government can regulate in areas that affect inter-state
commerce.
1:29:10
And what they have concluded is that and that sense, these since the Internet, I, and in total, crosses state lines.
1:29:24
And it has the ability to regulate in this area the rationale or the FCC enacting these rules. Well, I'll go back a little bit.
1:29:36
Initially, Congress enacted some statutory provisions which, essentially it prohibited cities and and local jurisdictions, and the state from enacting regulate, enacting regulations
that have the effect of prohibiting service.
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So then the FCC, as the implementing agency then enacted its regulations, which essentially brought forth this ordinance that we're trying to comply with those regulations.
1:30:11
Interpreting the statutes were enacted by Congress.
1:30:15
The, the FCC's regulations were challenged by the City of Portland.
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And in the Ninth Circuit decision, the Diack Circuit did find it at least in two areas.
1:30:27
The FCC had overreached and enacted regulations that weren't consistent with the statute.
1:30:33
Um, but the rest of the The rest of the rule in order of the FCC has been upheld.
1:30:41
So, by virtue of that, in that order and that case in Oregon, then the delegation of the power to promulgate these regulations is actually a lawful delegation of authority by Congress
to their to the FCC then.
1:30:59
All right, Yeah, it's similar to what happens in the State when the State enacts various statutes.
1:31:06
And it has its own departments, such as the Fair Political Practices Commission and the Housing and Community Development which then enact regulations to implement the statutory provisions.
1:31:18
It's very similar to that.
1:31:20
OK, thank you so much.
1:31:23
Is there anyone else on council that has another question?
1:31:29
OK, seeing and hearing None. Mister Fox, do we need a motion on this then?
1:31:35
Yes, please.
1:31:37
OK, so, Would somebody like to make a motion?
1:31:44
Make a motion to approve Item 5.1, ordinance summer 2021, as listed here in the agenda.
1:31:52
Thank you. Would someone like to second that?
1:31:57
Mirror second.
1:31:59
OK, thank you. Mayor pro TEM. Could we have roll call, please? Yes, Madam Mayor Council, member Chao.
1:32:06
Yeah, Council member ... yes, council member time. Yes. Mayor pro TEM low. Yes.
1:32:12
Yes, OK, now we're on the councilor consideration.
1:32:17
Item 6.1 and this will be the one that the abode else will come up and speak out so we want to discuss an idea we have for a reward. I'll let me let mister Fox started out if you want
to, or want me to.
1:32:34
Please go ahead, OK? All right.
1:32:36
So we were very saddened and disgusted to hear about this crime that took place I think it was the fourth of July, and the fact that nobody's turn themself in and nobody's been caught. And
so we're considering putting up a reward of $10000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons, or person responsible for the death of Bruce Bodell.
1:33:02
So I think what we'd like to do is hear from the Family First in terms of what this means to you, and then we can go on from there.
1:33:11
So, I know we have a Jessica, and we have, let's see, here, isn't Jean, OK, so first one of you, and then the other and just identify yourself, and you have five minutes to tell us what
you think.
1:33:32
My name is Jean Bodell, and I'm the brother of Bruce ..., is my older brother, and he lived out here and in Diamond bar and I lived in Simi Valley.
1:33:42
We didn't see each other a lot but we would go back and forth, you know? He's a great guy. He worked at Chevron or many years as an engineer there.
1:33:53
We both grew up in an area, not well, quite a ways, from here called silverlake and he was out doing his exercise, trying to stay healthy, vegetarian.
1:34:05
Never smoke, never drank, you know.
1:34:08
And on the fourth of July crossing the street and he got hit buy a car moving, as I am aware of any way, moving quickly and didn't stop.
1:34:23
And just kept on going.
1:34:25
So from what we can what we know from the video, you've probably seen some of the videos on TV on the news.
1:34:34
And he was at the Pomona Medical Center and I want to say what a great job they did in trying to save his life.
1:34:46
David and he was in the trauma center there for about, you know, four days he finally died on the eighth.
1:34:53
Fortunately, I don't think he ever regained consciousness.
1:34:58
But it busted him up pretty good.
1:35:00
And when you're 72 years old, no, it, you're not gonna come back to quickly from that. So, and I understand Diamond Bar, although I don't live in. the area.
1:35:12
Is a very peaceful area, and when something like, this happens, they want to, you know, bring it to a resolution, find a resolution for it, so, I know that there is a lot of interest
in doing that.
1:35:31
And so, it would be very helpful, It would be great if the person just came forward.
1:35:38
And maybe what they did, and maybe that would help them, and help us all.
1:35:44
It was a very, very sad time for us.
1:35:47
And, Jessica, do you want to say thank you, Jessica, do you want to say a few words to you?
1:35:57
It's been almost a month since he died, and we've got no resolution.
1:36:03
I really think the reward might be the only way someone will come forward.
1:36:07
It would be helpful.
1:36:09
Could you speak a little closer to the mic? Because it's, it's very hard to hear, you know, this is tough, but say it again.
1:36:16
It's been nearly a month, no one's conflict.
1:36:20
So, I think the reward might be the only way that somebody will come forward and say something.
1:36:29
Thank you. I know, that was really tough.
1:36:31
And I'd like to ask our law, Enforcement officer, Aaron ..., just to kind of give us an update on on what law enforcement knows, and if he thinks a reward might be helpful.
1:36:49
Well, it's great to see everybody. I'm Deputy. Erin Sheller with the LA County Sheriff's Department and your Community Relations Deputy. Thank you, Mayor Alliance.
1:36:57
And Ruth, podium and City Council.
1:37:00
Yes, so this is a tragedy. No.
1:37:03
And unfortunately, someone hasn't turned themselves in and how sad is it that we've come to a time that we need to put up a reward?
1:37:11
But I do think in this time, it's a good time to do it because it will help maybe leverage somebody to give some evidence. We know that in this traffic collision due to the security
footage and we can see that there was damage to the car. We know that there was physical damage to the bumper and to the windshield.
1:37:27
So that person, somebody knows And if this is an opportunity to help encourage them to come forward. I think it's really important to do so.
1:37:38
Unfortunately, we did have a a conference at the station where there was the Sheriff Alex Inouye who came down with our captain Steve ... to put out information regarding this incident. And
asking for any information.
1:37:57
And we did receive a few phone calls, however, it didn't result in finding any suspects or the suspect vehicle at this time. So we are encouraging anybody that knows any, anything about
this situation, please.
1:38:11
We will exhaust whatever we need to do in order to find and bring some some just resolve to the family in such a tragic situation. You can call the Walnut Diamond Bar Share Station (909)
595-2264. If you don't feel comfortable calling, you want to remain anonymous, that's fine, you can also call crime stoppers. And I believe it's 1 822, 2 tips.
1:38:41
1, 822 2 tips. And I just encourage anyone that has any information, please come forward. Unfortunately, we did look at any video. We went to anyone that could possibly witnessed the
incident and at this point, unfortunately, we just haven't got anything that's really led us to a suspect at this time.
1:39:02
Thank you, I I think that might be it. And I was hopeful that the Sheriff Department could match the reward that the City Council might put up.
1:39:11
Is that possible deputy Schiller? Yes. So from my understanding, any reward that's gone goes to the Sheriff's department goes to the Board of Supervisors.
1:39:20
So we'd have to reach out to the board of supervisors to put up reward out for this sus incident. I believe I'd have to look into it a little bit more. I don't think it's something that
directly, due to the Sheriff's department, I think they have to get approval to reward up.
1:39:35
OK, I think, thank you. So, should we decide to put out a reward from the City of Diamond Bar? We can also, you know, look to see if we get the match on that from LA. County Supervisor
Han probably is what you're saying. So just Council have any comments on that Council and I do know what Deputy Shovelers, right.
1:40:02
This isn't an unnecessary tragedy.
1:40:04
It's, it's sad that a reward needs to be provided, but in the overall scheme of things, if that will get somebody to do the right thing, then this is the right thing. Somebody out there
knows who did this.
1:40:21
Someone has seen a vehicle that's damaged without any explanation, whether it's a friend or a family member, and I'm asking you please to do the right thing and share what you know with
the Sheriff.
1:40:33
It's not that difficult again. If you want to do it anonymously, do it, and honestly, but please come forward.
1:40:38
This is not the right, I can't even imagine putting myself in that position.
1:40:47
two, to lose a loved one, a brother, a father, that that goes on punished.
1:40:56
It's, it's, it's a sad thing, so I hope that somebody out there will do the right thing and I hope the county will match it.
1:41:05
Thank you, Council member, Mayor Pro TEM Load, you have a comment? Oh yes. Thank you, Mayor, I absolutely agree with council member tie, it's horrible that we have to do this, but I
think this is something we ought to do.
1:41:20
They do, these rewards do work, and somebody out there knows somebody's seen it. Somebody may have caught a glimpse of the car, somebody may have even talk to somebody overheard somebody
say, hey, you know what I hit somebody today.
1:41:34
By overhearing, maybe that's the person, or they know somebody so so we really need to encourage that.
1:41:41
It's horrible, and it's a horrible event. Horrible tragedy to the family.
1:41:47
Um.
1:41:50
And I also would ask that we reach out to the supervisors to see if they would match our award.
1:41:58
Thank you. Council member, Chiao, did you have a comment?
1:42:02
Yes. So, thank you, Mayor for bringing this up for discussion. I think this is the least we can do at the city. I actually had the opportunity to attend the Press Conference, along with
the victims' families, and, I'm sorry. I can't be there in person today to, to greet both of you. But, you sure, you're, you're sorrow in all of this, and I think this the lethal can
do one thing that I wanted to bring up. I spoke to Jessica as the press conference. And she hadn't mentioned that perhaps we at the city can look into some, through traffic, calming
devices alone, that stretch of light coming. I believe this is the stretch that before the school, so I actually went down there and took a look.
1:42:46
I know the stretch right in front of the one elementary school already has to be bumps to slow people down by the part that the east of parents, were the accident happened, does not
have speed bumps to actual escalated the concern to a city, manager foxy, resulting. Perhaps that's something we can look into account point. But for now, I think the 10000 is the least
we can do to help bring justice to the Dell family. Thank you.
1:43:12
Thank you, councilor ...
1:43:13
alluded to have a comment, I think in the mirror, Jessica, mister ..., So, sorry for your loss, it's breaking.
1:43:25
You can say to our community, it's, Please reach out.
1:43:30
Anything that you know, and then there's no tip that's too little, I agree with everything that our city Council has said. And thank you, Madam Mayor, for bringing this up.
1:43:41
And definitely, let's talk to county supervisors, see if they can match and that get this resolved this. So, sorry for your loss.
1:43:57
So the City Manager, Fox, it seems like we would make a motion to adopt this, and then, would we include, in that motion that we would like you to investigate with Supervisor haan to
get a match, or, would we just do that separately?
1:44:15
You can combine it all into one motion. That'd be, that'd be fine.
1:44:20
OK, so I'm gonna go ahead and make the motion that we authorize a reward of up to $10000, for information leading to the arrest and conviction of persons responsible for the death of
Bruce
Bodell, and that we pursue getting a matching reward of $10000 from our LA County supervisor's supervisor.
1:44:42
A second thank you, Councilman .... Could you call the roll, please? Yes, Madam Mayor Council member. Ciao.
1:44:49
Yes.
1:44:50
Council member, Lu. Yes, Council member Thai. Yes. Pro TEM. Low? Yes, Mayor Lion. Yes, OK, thank you.
1:44:58
We'll, we'll be in touch and we'll let you know, know what we hear. Cordell Family, so thank you for coming tonight. I know, it's quite a drive.
1:45:08
Yeah, thank you.
1:45:09
OK, so we're now ready to go on to Item 6.2, health officer, order on indoor face mask covering requirements.
1:45:21
And this one, should we go right into public comments? Mister Fox?
1:45:27
OK, well, let's go run into public comments. And we do have one in person by Ellen Watson. So why don't you start it off?
1:45:39
Again, my name is Alan Whilst I'm a 25 year veteran instead of Dunbar: I just want to say, for public record, I should check the County Public Health, what? They aren't city at that
77% fascination rate. And we should be very proud of our theory of though to have at least one dosage on the faith faith.
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Math faith method very controversial.
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And I don't quite understand that the Lochner they complement tie wanted to have a vote no to confident for the county public health department.
1:46:12
We did a vote of no confidence that shortcut gun. I wanted to have about nor pamphlets on our district attorney.
1:46:20
But, for the public or the county public health department, no. I'm not crazy about the director.
1:46:26
I'm not crazy about the director, who has a PH D in social work?
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And her salary that's over $400,000, but that's another issue of the facial, is the math to issue a controversial enough for the country.
1:46:41
And I'm at a point where I want fascinated people to get your fat theme.
1:46:49
I am sick and tired of hearing it. For 16 month you try to be here and repair person lifting. Every one of them out, it's not easy for me.
1:46:59
I go to work, I wear a mouth, because I want, I chose the word of mouth, the very idea of Harvard Law, Conference of the County Public Health department. These are professional.
1:47:09
I don't have to agree with them, but they're trying to protect our community.
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And I appreciate, I'm mayor of the Maryland.
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It's a tall complement tie timeout, no. We should write a louder.
1:47:22
I think the latter, it made a good method to work with the county public health department spatial map.
1:47:29
So controversial, we have for governor of Florida who have issue with ..., of water spanning locality, banning masks.
1:47:39
I'm at a point where I'm going to agree with the State of New York.
1:47:42
You want to go to Vineyard, you want to go to Iraq draw, Sharia Rafting cards.
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You can say humped, we're an ...
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We need to protect our community and protect our brothers and sisters.
1:47:55
That's a controversial one, now.
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I am sick and tired of hearing about them now.
1:48:00
Odd thing, I want everyone together about things, but you know, why we have to count the number on the day. I will not worry that the mayor and the council member and read it on the
agenda.
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If you like to turn the meeting in person, please note the fake covering the required to warn them at all time.
1:48:19
For me, but not for the two Council members are not wearing the map.
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This is ridiculous than the latter gifted over with Councilman ... wanted to vote no. On the county public health department, or doing their fiduciary duty to protect our county. I don't
have to agree with them but we need to do something. That would bet that the focus on affairs.
1:48:42
Is there anyone else in person that would like to speak to this issue?
1:48:47
OK seeing none. I think we have at least one person on the phone: City clerk. Santana. Yes, Madam Mayor. I'm also for the record, Christina good Adrian ....
1:48:59
Douglas Barkan, Stacy Lee, Cynthia, Robin Smith, and Mindy Ferebee submitted Public Comment e-mails, and those e-mails were forwarded to the City Council earlier today.
1:49:10
I see a couple of people on the line, and, again, if any member of the public joining this teleconference, would like to address the city Council, please select the raised hand icon
in your GoToWebinar program, and we'll unmute callers on the line one at a time. You will know it is your turn to speak when I announce your name and you hear a recorded message. Unmuted.
1:49:28
I will now unmute the first color, Ms. Adrian ....
1:49:41
Yes, but I didn't read it.
1:49:44
Ms. Contrail, please go ahead and unmute yourself.
1:49:49
Hi, can you hear me now?
1:49:51
Yes, go ahead.
1:49:52
OK, thank you, sorry, I submitted written comments, but I wanted to make sure to be at this meeting, to summarize what I have to say. I do not think we should be sending this letter. I
do not think that members of the Diamond Bar City Council should consider themselves to no more than trained epidemiologists and public health professionals about what is needed to
curb the recent surge and covert 19 cases, fueled by the Delta variant. A letter complaining about resumption of requirements to wear masks is not only ill advised and ignorant of science.
1:50:24
It's embarrassing, as I believe most diamond by residents support doing all we can to prevent the spread of the virus, to protect our children under 12 who cannot be vaccinated. And
are immuno
comprised? Residents who can't mount an immune defense despite being vaccinated who are unable to be vaccinated? And certainly to prevent further mutation of the virus to even more virulent
forms. There are published data on the effectiveness of mask wearing and direct opposition to statements in this letter. And as recent data gathered by the CDC has made abundantly clear,
vaccinated, people can harbor large amounts of the virus in their noses and spread the virus. Masked wearing is not difficult. I expect their community leaders to do everything in their
power to protect the well-being of residents, to support our public health professionals and to not spread misinformation. And certainly not to pander to those who spread false information
about what is needed.
1:51:17
None of us are happy about the virus, but we can't make believe it isn't still here causing death And long lasting morbidity, many diamond by residents have died from this virus where
I've had friends, family, and relatives hospitalized, or living with the ill effects of blind coven.
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This letter is an affront to their suffering And to the majority of residents who do not wish these things to happen to their loved ones themselves or the wider community. Instead of
expanding energy, fighting mask wearing, and the authority of our health professionals, our City officials should contemplate ways to encourage the unvaccinated to get vaccinated.
1:51:51
Many of our residents are vaccinated. We should be proud of that. It should be made a policy that all City Hall employees and contractors, new and continuing be vaccinated as a condition
of employment. I believe we should also explore requiring vaccination to participate in community indoor activities. At the very least, there should be outreach to the unvaccinated
enlisting the help of community foundations and religious leaders.
1:52:15
This propos letter should not be sent.
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And, when it comes time to vote for City Council members, I will remember that Steve Ty and Nancy Lyons prefer political posturing and pandering overture leadership, and telling the
truth to the community. And doing all that they can, to protect our residents. Thank you very much.
1:52:38
Thank you Next is mister Greg Richey.
1:52:46
I'm sorry that name Is pronounced frictional.
1:52:50
Let me introduce myself my name is Greg Fritch or can you hear me?
1:52:54
Yes? Go ahead. Yes. My name is Greg ... and I'm a resident of neighboring walnut And I was a candidate in the last five elections. For the State Assembly, 55th District, which includes
both Diamond Bar and one that I wish to remind the City Council that the Kobe making does not stop cold of the city limit. Thousands of people from other communities visit ... of our
everyday to conduct business and or visit friends and relatives. And conversely, every day, thousands of diamond bar residents visit surrounding communities for the same reasons. Therefore,
any
decisions made by the city to address public health issues for its residents will affect many people, well beyond city limits. It is inefficient, imprudent, and potentially dangerous.
1:53:36
To make drastic changes to the mechanism, or even to suggest changes to the mechanism of delivery of public health services during a public health emergency, without verified scientific
evidence suggesting that such changes are necessary without delay.
1:53:51
I'm aware of no such evidence presented to or by the city council justifying such a change. Yet, members of the City Council, who, to my knowledge, have no background in epidemiology,
has suggested, have suggested the possibility of severance from the City diamond from the services of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and Formation of a separate
public health authority for the city.
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Can the city provide its residents with verifiable information for qualified medical experts on epidemiology that justifies just proposed change?
1:54:22
Further, in regards to the objections by some council members to the counties reinstatement of the recommended requirements for face covering some public spaces, places, excuse me, even
for those already vaccinated, as recent evidence has shown, even those already vaccinated, are still capable of carrying and transmitting Coburn ... in particular, the increasingly
prevalent delta variant without their knowledge, which effectively effectively refutes the argument of those council members that we're no longer in need of a so-called one size fits
all approach.
1:54:51
Further, the argument of the city letter that this effectively punishes those already vaccinated is in itself, effectively labeling masks as a punishment.
1:55:04
Master, not a punishment.
1:55:05
They are a precaution, and I'm personally willing to take that precaution, and I am doing my part. I received my second modern a dose back in May, but I continue to wear a mask in public. I
do not feel punished.
1:55:17
By doing so, and I don't need it council, my city Ernie neighboring city to tell me that I'm being punished by doing so. Thank you.
1:55:28
Thank you. Next is Ms. Irishmen.
1:55:34
Hi, City Council, Mayor, and City Council, I, too, I'm against taking action, some non scientific based on opinions And what looks to be just political posturing the Delta variant is
200 percent more transmissible and results in up to one thousand times higher viral load compared to the previous variance. This is not a time to ignore the epidemiologist and scientist. And
this issue with Delta vaccinated people can spread the virus just as easily as non vaccinated people, There
are people who will never know they even had it and can spread it to people who will die from this and will get very sick. Why do we want to take steps to hire the chances of that spreading
masks? What we do know is that masks are here.
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What they do, they not only protect the wearer but more so.
1:56:40
They protect spreading, protect from spreading the virus. It is a, it is a good neighborly thing to do.
1:56:50
To wear a mask when the chance of spreading is is much higher now, and more likely to affect people who do have comorbidities or do have some issues that make them more likely to get
that. Why do we want to do that? Why do we want to take non-scientific steps?
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So please don't don't take any action that contradicts the epidemiologist and scientists. We really want to do things to protect our citizens. not to make us less safe. Thank you very
much.
1:57:26
Thank you, next, is mister Kevin Hayakawa.
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Can you hear me?
1:57:34
Yes, go ahead.
1:57:36
Good evening, Mayor Lines, City Council members, staff, and diamond residents. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight.
1:57:42
Am speaking tonight to express my strong support for both the ends or mask mandate, and the LA County Public Health Department as a whole. And my disappointment that facial coverings
continue to be politicized by the city Council. I find it warrants that at the last City Council meeting, Council member Thai requested that a vote of no confidence be placed in the
LA County Department of Public Health. Just because they are following the science and asking residents to wear masks and doors, despite the fact that several states, counties, and
cities across the country are also instituting mass mandates, including San Francisco, saint Louis, Kansas City, and the entire State of Louisiana.
1:58:22
I encourage all council members to vote no on agenda item 6.2.
1:58:27
As of yesterday, hospitalizations in LA County or at 1096. The worst they have been since the week of March sixth.
1:58:35
We were only at 275 hospitalizations here in LA County on July third. So, hospitalizations have essentially quadrupled over the past month.
1:58:45
The reinstatement of the mask mandate is not quote, back pedaling as some members of the media might have you believe.
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And to call it such as irresponsible, the public health response to this pandemic is the most visible example of the scientific method in progress.
1:59:00
Our guidance and best practices are malleable and change to follow the best available evidence.
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And the best available evidence is telling us that the Delta variants is a serious threat to all individuals, especially unvaccinated individuals.
1:59:14
The mask mandate is a preventative measure.
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We can't all just sit around and walk mask lists, and crowded into our public spaces and wait for cases to spike before deciding to take action. Lives and lifesaving ICU beds are at
stake.
1:59:29
Another factor we need to consider is the fact that Diamond Bar as a tri county city, located at the intersection of Los Angeles Orange and San Bernardino counties, with two major highways
running through the city.
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And literally combining into one at the 1760 Confluence or a gateway between these three massive counties and cannot just blindly look at LA County Code one thousand statistics and ignore
what activity is occurring in our neighboring counties.
1:59:57
For example, there is no indoor mass mandate in Orange County. And they recorded almost exactly the same number of new covered 19 cases as we did yesterday.
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OC had 1996 new cases, and LA County had 2361 cases.
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However, Orange County has a population less than one third, the size of LA County.
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OSC is currently dealing with the consequences of their lack of enforcement.
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Over there, masked quote, recommendation and their lack of personal responsibility. And indulgence is a quote, personal choice that will have negative consequences on diamond bar residence.
2:00:34
The entire debate over unmasks is distracting from the real conversation we should be having over vaccines.
2:00:41
We know that getting backstage is the most effective step we can take to slow the spread of the virus.
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However, emerging evidence shows that even vaccinated individuals can not only contract covered 19, but spread it to others.
2:00:53
To be clear, the vast majority of cases are still occurring in unvaccinated individuals, as are hospitalizations and deaths rather than fighting against our own public health department,
We should be taking steps to increase vaccination rates here at home. Consider and implementing a vaccine mandate for our city employees and requiring proof of vaccination status, French
roots of bars and restaurants, like so many other municipalities around the country and around the world.
2:01:19
Anyway, I digress, and tonight I want to stress that my message is to vote no, on agenda item, 6.2, the letter to the public health department, asking to consider appealing to into our
mass mandate. Thank you very much.
2:01:33
Thank you, next is mister Paul Deibel.
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Yes, Madam Mayor and members of City Council, again, this is Paul ....
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I am a diamond bar resident, I live in a multi-family household with a four year old, and I completely agree with everything that prior speakers cottrell for children.
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And high Kawa said, I thought.
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That it was an extremely bad idea.
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You heard about this first discussed at the last meeting?
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I think it's an even worse idea at this time, with the Rapid Increase kovac 19 in the county over the past few weeks, as the staff report indicates, and especially given the particularly
worrisome characteristics of the delta variant.
2:02:24
Moreover, and look at the link, looking at the language in the proposed letter to the county supervisors.
2:02:30
Um, you think are some particularly unfounded statement's, particularly in Paragraph four, which has two sentences.
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The first sentence says, The latest Health Officer order effectively punishes.
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those who choose to get vaccinated while rewarding those that continue to remain unvaccinated well, as a fully vaccinated person.
2:02:53
I do not feel in any way punished by having to wear a mask inside a store or other building that's open to the public on the contrary.
2:03:04
I do feel punished by individuals who are unvaccinated and who, at least until the recent LA county health officer order calling for interim asks. Let's say they'd begin to abide by
that.
2:03:20
They're the ones that apparently not wearing their masks inside stores in public buildings to the county, as and so we're back into a pandemic situation. Also, the second sentence sounds
ludicrous to me. There has been no data made available to date. That would suggest, how the latest mask requirement for all persons, regardless of vaccination status, would further
reduce the increasing hospitalizations or deaths related to ... that we are currently experiencing.
2:03:48
That that term, that sounds like misinformation to me.
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Nor is there any source, or attribution, in a letter, for such a statement. And there's a lot of misinformation about vaccines. And I certainly hope that we do not contribute to that.
2:04:04
So I, for one, think that sending the letter would be highly embarrassing to us as a community. We reflect badly on the diamond, our community.
2:04:15
And I would also note that everybody, that I know, everybody that I see in Diamond bar are wearing their masks in the stores that I go to ..., I don't know if you can hear me knocking
on wood, as I say that.
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So, please, don't undermine the implementation of valid public health measures.
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in our community By sending any such letter, would also express support for the professionals in the County health department.
2:04:43
I mean, if it comes to a vote of confidence about public health related matters, you know, my confidence would be on the very well qualified professionals at the County health Department
who are responsible for such decisions, and who are accountable.
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But not by some kind of a, you know, lack of confidence from the diamond bar City Council. In that regard, my confidence would be with the public health burden.
2:05:08
So, and I'm also surprised and disappointed to hear that, since I'm not there, I can't see.
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two of the council members are not wearing their mask in violation of the current order.
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And I'm certainly shocked to hear that anybody would be considering withdrawing them.
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Diamond Voir from, we know, from being, under the jurisdiction of the county health department, as if it's that simple, to just start up a account.
2:05:35
And a competent county health department from scratch that that that would be ludicrous. So anyway, those, those are my comments. On the matter. Please don't send any sort of a letter. Let's
thank you.
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Thank you, and that is the last speaker on the list.
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Well, I don't know.
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We already closed public comments in person, so yeah, I don't, I don't think we can do that, can we?
2:06:07
All right, well go ahead then.
2:06:08
Yes, but just come back and introduce yourself again, because if you don't speak at the podium, they won't be able to. George Davidson, I was at the big guy.
2:06:19
All I wanted to say was this, just kinda a thought, maybe when you guys are making the decision on what to do.
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Know, the ... came into this room, I landed on that law.
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I'm pretty sure everybody in the room and looked at me, to give them guidance on getting out of the situation.
2:06:35
And trust me, I don't like wearing a mask like anybody, is what it is. I don't work for me. I work to protect the people that are vulnerable.
2:06:42
So, maybe the thing to do, is it just follow the guidance of the people that know like you would follow the guidance of me in a situation.
2:06:51
Just let them tell us what we needed to do to get through this.
2:06:54
I mean, I just, I didn't want to comment, I really didn't, But after hearing the comments, I just felt maybe that's the way we gotta think about it, maybe, that.
2:07:04
That's all, I appreciate. OK, thank you, Mayor. We have one more hand raised.
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Let's go ahead with that then.
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Ms. Rosey Fabian.
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Evening council members and city representatives. I'm here to speak on the 6.2 item for the Public Health Order. I realized that Diamond bar has very good statistics, we are a highly
vaccinated community and our caseload is it's fairly low compared to other cities.
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But um, we have a good partnership with the county of Los Angeles for more than 30 years, and we still receive county services like Fire, Sheriffs and the Library to name a few. So I
want to continue that relationship, and I think sending a letter to the draft I saw posted on the agenda was addressed to Hilda Solis Chair of the Board.
2:07:58
Well, the County Board of Supervisors, we cannot simply ask them to overrule and to overturn a public health order, because the public health officer doesn't need permission from the
port supervisors to issue a public health order. So I was thinking, maybe this item could be continued and discussed among yourselves, and maybe vote at the next meeting, giving you
a little bit more time. Perhaps. The letter should be addressed to the public health officer, and raised the point about, some communities within the county, are not a large metropolitan
area. And we have good statistics. That would support an exemption to the mass quarter, and that they could put in place a formal exemption request, and cities who are, similar to diamond
bar could apply, to have no mask within the city boundaries. But, even if you chose that route, I'm not even sure I'm in favor of that, because I went to work, and I'll hamra today.
2:08:59
And I wore a mask. So now I'm home.
2:09:01
And so, if we don't have a mass quarter here, I can take it off, and I can go to any business all around all around the city. But I could be a carrier. And I could be exposing people
who are vaccinated or unvaccinated.
2:09:14
So, I don't know, even know, until the public health officer says that the cases are going down, more people are vaccinated, the delta variant is under control and we can remove the
mask until they give the order. I will abide and follow their recommendations.
2:09:35
So, um, perhaps you would continue the item, and not sent a letter to the Board of Supervisors, but maybe send a letter to. The public health officer asked for an exemption request being
put in
place, or cities can apply, and, you know, check off. if they have the certainty statistics, they would be eligible to not have a mask order.
2:09:56
And then, we can file an exemption request with them. Now, it's really good to maintain our relationship with the county and not say, well, we want to overturn the public health border. And
remember, we're going to be asking the County for $10000 reward money and then on the other hand, we're going to be condemning the public health order instead of abiding by the public
health officer.
2:10:25
Thank you.
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Thank you, Mayor. That's the end of the speakers. OK? I've just closed public comments.
2:10:34
Now, normally, I would have the rest of the Council comment before I do, but tonight, I'm going to turn the tables and comment first.
2:10:42
So, at the end of our last Council meeting, we were talking about the mass mandate, and I admit the whole idea of going back to the mass mandate made me angry, and I felt it was very
arbitrary.
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And I felt that would hurt business, and I'm a bar, and is one of our speakers pointed out, We're, you know, right at the corner of two other counties.
2:11:01
And you can do your shopping in one of those counties and not wear a mask. And I thought it was could really hurt our businesses.
2:11:08
Services, could, you, know, lose out. And, you know, that bothers me, however, that aside, you know, I've thought more about it. And we have two more weeks of data.
2:11:17
And I'm still not happy, but I'm personally not going to fight the mass mandate.
2:11:22
But what I would propose is that we send a letter to the Board of Supervisors asking for a couple of things. And these are three things that I think we should ask for.
2:11:32
The public needs to get the data that's broken out by vaccinated and unvaccinated. And it needs to be easy to understand.
2:11:39
So for example, every day, the number of new cases for each, know how many vaccinated people just got coven. How many unvaccinated people got coven?
2:11:50
The number of hospitalizations for each number of deaths for each maybe the number of those in intensive care for each. So if the county can show that the problem is real for the vaccinated,
I think it's going to be easier for everybody to wear the mask. And I did hear our speakers saying they don't mind wearing the mask well, there. I've there's people that do mine wearing
a mask. And we've been hearing from them, as well. So, I think, if we get some numbers out there that, know that could be helpful. The second thing is, the vaccine needs to come off
the emergency status because some people are afraid to get vaccinated because the vaccine is still classified as an emergency satisfaction.
2:12:31
And the third thing is, we need to improve our contract rate, contact tracing. So we need to know if those getting the virus have, say, been to be crowded events, such as concerts. That
might be a real clue on things that need to change. So those are my thoughts of kind of pivoted here. And I'm going to call on each of you to give me your thoughts, and then we'll see
if we have some common ground.
2:12:56
So, let's go to council member, Chiao, Please give us your comments.
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Thank you, Mayor, and just for the record, I do appreciate you, in terms of recognizing the changing data from the past two weeks, to not fight the door mask mandate, I think, is important
for us to stand for our local businesses and residents. Alike.
2:13:21
Certainly, you know we're a year and a half into this pandemic. I just can't believe that. We're still arguing over the effectives effectiveness, or mask, so I'm glad and I do apologize
for, for dropping back.
2:13:35
Dad asked on the agenda, with that said, I also want to add that I have a foil and most of you know, and she's been attending daycare for the last few months after teacher gold vaccinated
and she wears a mask eight hours a day. Now, if you've met her, you know, she's not that your child to deal with. And, she's very opinionated.
2:13:57
And she throws a tantrum every other minute. But you put on a mask eight hours a day.
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Why? Even though the teachers and the staff are vaccinated fertility is to protect those who are still yet unvaccinated.
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either by choice or just by age. She was four years old. She can now get vaccinated. As you wanted to add, to be honest, when this agenda item came up, I was adamantly against it. And
I still am.
2:14:23
But I'm glad that we're changing the conversation a little bit.
2:14:26
But with that said, no, the point that you brought up, I think they're well thought out. I mean, I think they're valid point. I think that something for each Council members to consider
and perhaps put on their own letterhead if they were to question or want to ask for additional clarification, I think the first point, I brought a mayor in terms of asking for more
data. I think that's pertinent to Dunbar.
2:14:48
That's something I can support in terms of getting data that's specific to Dunbar, because that helps guide our science based decisions.
2:14:56
I think we have, I think the second point, if I recall, it, was to ask about the vaccination, if I recall.
2:15:03
I think that was something that more up to individual council members to pursue. And I think the third about contact tracing, I think that's certainly the Health Department they have,
that, they have that in place already. There's a statewide abdo, concentrations people, it just people refuse to use the app.
2:15:21
Now, I know many other states already have that, as a mandate, and they don't mess around. You fly to Hawaii, for example.
2:15:26
It's a mandatory tended quarantine unless you're back, made it fully vaccinated, or unless you can show a negative vaccination card tests with impact and that you are. So a lot of other
states and I met around with it and they're able to contain the virus ... a little bit more than some other state.
2:15:45
Anyway, just to conclude, I do applaud the changing the conversation, but I don't think that a letter to the health department should come from each individual Council members on letterhead,
because I don't think the content on the council that we need to be questioning the decisions made by the Public Health Department. And with that, I'll, just so that you understand,
the letter that I'm proposing is to go to the board of supervisors, not the health department.
2:16:14
Got is a sampling from a thank you.
2:16:17
OK, all right, Council member Lu.
2:16:22
I have no comments, OK. Council Member Tai.
2:16:27
I think perhaps for the first time ever, I agree with Alan Wilson.
2:16:32
Upon further reflection, it really makes no sense to have a vote of no confidence in the LA County Health Department Director.
2:16:39
Uh, regardless of how I feel about doctor for our, her boss. The big difference between an elected official like Diego's gone is he's elected we can hold him accountable. And really
what we're talking about here with the health department is their employees.
2:16:57
So you don't, you don't have a vote of no confidence in the employees. It doesn't matter if it's parks and recreation or, or the health department or the library system, their employees. So
it really serves no useful purpose to pursue that.
2:17:15
I do like the idea of, of the three points that you have put forward.
2:17:20
And I think it, it sends a more conciliatory message and certainly the, the information that we saw from the South Bay cities and looking to be excluded because, honestly, I can't remember
who it was.
2:17:35
It was, it was either mister Hayakawa, mister Frictional, whoever it might have been, it was, it's a very good point to say, you know, we're at the end a three county area where, I think
we heard from Ms. Fabian, that you know, she went all the way to Alhambra today, Put a mask on where she was required to put a mask on comes home. If she doesn't have to wear a mask,
she doesn't wear a mask. But, that doesn't mean she's not a carrier So, I think it'd be useful to have this data that you're referring to mair's a very good idea. Thank you very much.
2:18:06
Thank you, Council Member ty, Mayor Pro TEM.
2:18:09
Thank you, Mayor, and I really appreciate your thoughtful comments. It looks like you really spend some time thinking and considering everything's, I really appreciate that Your thoughtfulness
as well as your leadership on this, I think that we do need more data and it's, and every week we are getting more data.
2:18:28
Um.
2:18:31
I think that, that, that's a good thing to have.
2:18:34
one of the things that we do, as as council members that we try to speak for, everyone in the community, There are certain people in the community that well, or well, able to speak for
themselves and for other people. And they, and, and that's perfectly fine.
2:18:52
But then, there are a lot of other people who feel a different way and if, if the council members don't speak for them, who will?
2:19:00
So, so, that's, you know, that's a different point of view.
2:19:03
And that and then then to be to be labeled.
2:19:09
And when you're trying to do that process to represent the entire city to be labeled ants in some fashion, is doing, the people who are doing labeling is doing exactly what they say
they're not doing so. And I know what you know. I think, you know what I mean. So, so that, I don't like that, and because, that's, that's not fair.
2:19:36
We are, I really think that we are all here, too, to do our best, speaking for the entire city. I've got a mask on, I hate it.
2:19:46
Um.
2:19:50
I see the value in that.
2:19:52
Um, so so that's kinda where we are. I like the idea that that we asked them to reconsider. I think that the letter says, allotted.
2:20:05
A lot of good things.
2:20:06
It's not like we're fighting them, but we just want to clarify, And we just want them to know that it's not a one size fits all. And I think that's really valid. Anybody who says, well,
we have to wear masks, we'll help you think about it.
2:20:21
We have individual freedoms and that's really important as well.
2:20:24
And somebody, some unelected, bureaucrats committees, should not be able to dictate everyone in the community, what should what should be mandated, and what shouldn't. And we talk a
lot about science. Well, let's follow that.
2:20:38
Let's get some numbers to see what those, What does science, what the science and data is?
2:20:44
Maybe, let's get some more data. Let's go two more weeks, and see what the data shows.
2:20:50
Um.
2:20:52
Maybe things. so turn around. I know that in my line of work, we are seeing more and more positive cases, but I think they're going to be people who are not vaccinated.
2:21:02
And I think that the county, as well as the State of California, has done a horrible job in incentivizing people to get vaccinated. It's ridiculous paying people.
2:21:13
It's the dumbest thing ever and I'm gonna put on record saying that's a dumb way to do it. We have to get people vaccinated by reaching out to them.
2:21:20
I'm meeting, we're meeting them where they are and convincing them that this is something that is necessary for you and for those that you love.
2:21:29
The way that we are wearing our mass, that this is necessary for you and protecting the ones that you love, so. So I think that that should be something that we should tell our County
leaders, that the way you're doing incentivising is not effective at all.
2:21:45
So, um, so those are my comments And Mayor, I would just piggyback on that Mayor pro TEM, if $15 million from Governor Newsome didn't increase vaccination rate, I honestly don't think
money is the answer.
2:22:02
It's, it's gotta be another another different route to get people to get vaccinated.
2:22:12
I agree. OK, some more good comments. So, what is the consensus of the council? Do we want to hold this for two weeks? Do we want to ask our poor city manager to do another letter?
2:22:26
Why?
2:22:27
What's the consensus?
2:22:31
Well, I think the letter that we have isn't appropriate this time, if we're right, That's what, I think we definitely need a new letter.
2:22:38
But the question is, To what, I mean, what do we want to three points? And I think when I think, makes it a world where Pro TEM just made another good fourth point. To agree with two,
sure.
2:22:49
So, but I think the most important thing is that comes from the city council, not five different council members.
2:22:57
And if you if, know, that the mayor signs the letter, our names are on the letterhead, that doesn't necessarily mean you have to support it, but it should come from the from the city
council.
2:23:12
So, is the consensus that we would like to get new letter with these four points, and maybe a few of the things that were in the original letter or the appreciation, nice stuff, or is
the consensus we'd like to wait two weeks? Or is that consensus? Something else?
2:23:31
Mayor, this is a customer murcia Yes. Go ahead.
2:23:36
Thank you.
2:23:37
I think if, it sounds like we have consensus on some aspects of the letter, specifically sounds like we want more data, But if all we're asking for is more data, I think that can come
from staff level to their staff, to.
2:23:52
ultimately, that data is with the Department of Public Health on this stock level.
2:23:56
So I think if, all we're asking for data, and the staff or staff can send the official letter from city managers office asking for the data, I think when we get, a city council, may
involve the becomes more, I guess, more than an opinion piece in my mind. If we're asking for data, I think that can just come from.
2:24:16
So, you should be asking, for my opinion, I don't think we need to drop the letter at the council. I think we, kind of just have to stop dropping a letter.
2:24:25
Council member, chiao, I would disagree with you because, I think that, as Council members, we do have quite a bit of data, and our city manager, you know, gets this data.
2:24:34
But I don't think the people on the street really have the data about, you know, the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated. I really don't think they do. It would really surprise me if,
you know, we walked up to 10 people at concert in the park tomorrowland and asked them, hey, I think that's something that needs to be out there.
2:24:55
Then, perhaps we can hear directly from the horse's mouth and have staff organize a presentation from the Department of Health on the related data, so that we can have public involvement
as well.
2:25:07
Well, I kinda think they need to see it every day, It's like every day, this data should be out there, and it should be out there that, you know, everybody can see it be, that, that
it's, you know, posted online because that it's whatever and then the data.
2:25:21
The data is published on a daily basis through LA County, is that way, it council member cheh, it's not where people look, it's, it's not where people like That's my point, I agree with
you, can find it.
2:25:35
But it's not where P, it's not easy for people to look.
2:25:40
I look at data on a daily basis. On their Instagram, on Twitter, and Facebook, and that you know, the amount well, for those are kind of a newsletter, but I get your point.
2:25:49
I mean, I think if the content isn't there to send a letter, you know, obviously we will take a bow and it will be what emotion.
2:25:56
But from my personal opinion, I think it would be probably more helpful to maybe have them come in and actually give a presentation on the latest data so that we can all be on the same
page.
2:26:11
Thank you.
2:26:13
I don't know Council member leur Mayor pro TEM.
2:26:16
Do you favor asking our city manager to rework the letter or do you not?
2:26:26
Let's, let's ask our city manager to rework the letter and then we can come back. I'm so sorry, mister Fox, right now.
2:26:35
And I think that it's, you know, this this is about leadership, right?
2:26:41
This is not about sloughing off on staff. This is when we have an issue with the county.
2:26:46
We go see our hour.
2:26:51
Supervisor. We go see Janice Hannah will talk to the other supervisors. If we have an opportunity, when we had an issue with the Department of Transportation, we went to Washington,
DC, we did.
2:27:00
We went with staff, and, and I agree, David Lewis the expert relative to transportation.
2:27:06
But, this is that letter coming from the council says, oh, this is another city heard from, this is makes another one we've heard from.
2:27:17
So, we have to be very, very clear on that, that we're representing the city of Denver, and this is the information that we'd like to see on a regular basis going forward.
2:27:28
OK, Council member Lu, did you want to add anything?
2:27:38
If the data is already there, are always saying that it's hard to find the data, and then that payment to see the data. Are we asking to put the data in an area that we can easily see,
such as our website, or such? Well, I, my personal opinion, is when.
2:27:56
Health.
2:27:58
Let's see, so the health Director miss for our when she gives out the data that she should give out the data like that.
2:28:05
She should just vaccinated unvaccinated.
2:28:10
Know, and it should just be really clear, it shouldn't be in the, oh, we're so sorry that people died and they're in the hospital, and you know, I mean, oh, that's true, true, true,
but why don't lead with the facts to me?
2:28:23
I get to, which, I get, what you're saying there, that I appreciate that, and they're going to do, appreciate it, change the direction, and council member tie.
2:28:32
You know, as evidenced and how rabidly, how much we really understand this virus is, two weeks ago, we thought, was a pretty, we had a different opinion on what, what the virus is doing,
what reality was, and two weeks later, it's different.
2:28:51
So, um, yeah.
2:28:57
I do single point in the data. It's pretty, chances are, today's is out, there is asking them for, to define them that way.
2:29:07
And simple, OK? Yeah.
2:29:09
My point is simple, OK. I don't think we need a motion to ask you to rework the letter dewi city manager.
2:29:20
That's, it sounds like there's consensus on not to send the letter.
2:29:24
That is, yes, it included in yes Hackett.
2:29:27
Yes, and we'll be happy to take a stab at bringing back something at your next meeting, with a revised letter talking about the four points that were mentioned about making data more
more readily accessible. And focusing on the vaccinated versus unvaccinated numbers, which we are seeing The data is available on the website.
2:29:51
But it's not being kept up, at least from what we can find on a daily basis, but more on a weekly basis. So, I think, certainly, something like that might be helpful.
2:30:03
As well as contract tracing, Encouraging the emergency use, or to remove the no emergency authorization for the vaccine, as well as try to figure out a different round of incentives
to get
more more people vaccinated. I think those were kind of the four point. Those are the four points, right, that the million dollar lottery doesn't seem to be doing anything, you can be. They
should give more of those out because I didn't get it because you're vaccinated.
2:30:35
So I'd be happy to. If that's the consensus, I'd be happy to take another stab at that.
2:30:41
Bring back something at your next meeting on the 17th and again, we'll continue to monitor the data as we always do, and, and the cases, and see where we are in a week.
2:30:52
And I'd like, excuse me, I also like if it's possible to include the fact that I think mister Wilson says Diamond bars, 77% vaccinated. I think that we should provide that number, and,
and whatever the latest number is, because that's a really good number, And maybe, you know, this is the whole one size fits all thing. We're 77% by the time you did this letter, maybe
we're 80%.
2:31:16
And I think that, you know, somebody mentioned Hawaii, Hawaii says that if you've got 70% vaccination, nobody needs to wear a mask.
2:31:24
So, you kind of have, we have to look at stuff like that when, when we make a final decision.
2:31:33
That's true, and maybe we have our own Diamond Bar campaign that I think we're at 78% today. But we have our Own Dime of our campaign that it's, you know, our goal is just pull us out
of the air 88% or let's get, let's get demo BARDA, 88% or some some sort of pride.
2:31:52
Know, and that's ages 12 and up. That's not, you know, below a great idea, Mayor. That's a great idea, right. And this is about leadership and, and that's where we can lead.
2:32:04
OK, so, mister Fox, if you would humorous thank you. Again, I, I said there's two weeks ago.
2:32:09
I don't, I don't think that a letter was going do anything.
2:32:13
I don't think that that supervisor Elise's was inclined to to do what we were calling out foreign in the letter and I don't think it's going to hurt anything to wait two more weeks. And
maybe we never send the letter, you know, in two more weeks.
2:32:29
Maybe it's changed for the better, so it's a moot point.
2:32:32
But I agree with reworking letter letter that may never be sent. That letter.
2:32:40
OK, I think we're leave discuss that items death. Let's go with the Council Subcommittee reports, and let's go to Council member Chao.
2:32:52
Thank you, marianne's always appreciated discussion we have as a council will make.
2:32:57
Not always agree, you know. But, you know, we always respectful, and I think that's been a day. We're here to do the people's work. So I do want to thank the staff for the concert in
the park that was put on last week.
2:33:08
We had a little bit into them where the sprinklers came back.
2:33:12
I don't know if some of you were there by the sprinkler came on, but luckily the fearless leader, Ryan right, went on clean and we shut it down within maybe two minutes.
2:33:22
So luckily with the talks about the new flippantly feature that we can consider adding the future, do want to thank the staff? And again, our diamond by malware, that means 7% vaccination
rate.
2:33:34
I do also agree that we probably want to do that, why campaign to get that number up, as high as we can, and also continue to make policies that help our most vulnerable and continue
to make policies to help help doing business easier in our city. So with that, I'll, thank you.
2:33:52
Thank you, Council Member, Child Council member Lu.
2:33:56
Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you, Stafford.
2:34:00
The presentations. And I really appreciate the lively discussions we have this evening, and we started one thing, as we got more information, and better inform and lead to do a Diamond
by Vaccination campaign. That would be amazing leadership. And I like to give a quick translation out to Kathleen Zang, receive a Congressional gold medal at war.
2:34:25
And thank you, Madam Mayor, for taking the time to meet with her in person, like, to thank the community, for checking up on each other.
2:34:34
As we're going through those Heatwaves, The, then the final concert at the Park event will be tomorrow and I'll be at Motown Tribute and the kids will be going back to school next week. And
best wishes for the upcoming year. Please be safe and enjoying the journey.
2:34:58
I, like, as I said, again, thank you everyone for keeping our community safe.
2:35:02
I would say connect.
2:35:04
Thank you Council member Lu Council Member Tie.
2:35:08
As a community, let's do what we can to find the person that killed Bruce Burdell. Please remember the sheriff.
2:35:15
If you have any information, (909) 595-2264, let's let's find these people and pay out that reward.
2:35:25
I want to thank Terry Mews for for addressing.
2:35:32
The council on the challenges that waste management faces yet, the city manager will tell you how many times I call and say, I can't believe they didn't pick up in this name, but I can't
believe they left that. Then I can't believe, you know what? In the overall scheme of things with the, the, the service disruptions and the driver shortages and, and the different things
that they're facing.
2:35:55
National corporation. Imagine that. Multiply times 50.
2:36:00
I can't imagine the difficulty that is so, right, we, we kid about it, right, these are first world problems. You know what?
2:36:09
My recycle bin wasn't picked up today, can you believe that?
2:36:12
Well, that's something I think that we can tolerate.
2:36:15
Especially when you realize that a long time, waste management employee gave his life, he finished, he, he, he, didn't finish his route, he got out of his truck and, and he passed away.
2:36:31
So the, the last thing that he did was his job, and that really puts things in perspective I think we can all get by with a day or two delay. Once in a while, I think overall they do
a great job. So thanks very much for that. Thanks for sharing that information. And with that, I hope to see you tomorrow night at the concert in the park. With that I'll say goodnight
and God bless you.
2:36:51
Thank you Council member time. Mayor Pro TEM, Low? Thank you, Mayor and thank you Mayor for a great meeting. thank you for your leadership in all the different things that are happening. And
you don't think that a lot is going on, but there really is. Thank you staff for just the excellent report regarding our strategic plans.
2:37:10
We can all agree that last year was so very difficult, but yet staff continue to push forward, continue to think of new ideas, and so many items were completed. So, thank you so much
and all of this is to benefit our, our community.
2:37:23
So, so big thank you on behalf of the rest of the community And I'm looking forward to 1.5 years later, when our new new golf courses completed, I hope to learn how to play golf by then. I
can
take advantage, and in the meantime, I think I'll just go to the concert in the park tomorrow with that I'll say goodnight. Thank you.
2:37:45
I will have to have a council golf tournament. Win. This thing opens for not or not. Sand traps, are you, OK? Again, I would agree, I really thank the Council for their Spirited and
thoughtful discussion tonight.
2:38:00
I really like the way we can discuss things and not agree, but be polite and gentlemanly. I'm very happy that we voted to offer a reward to apprehend, the killer of Bruce .... And I'm
hoping that supervisor Han will match our $10000. And thank you to Assistant City Manager McLane for an excellent presentation on the strategic plan.
2:38:28
It's just a good reminder of all the things that have happened over the last year, and we kind of focus on, you know, the bad. It's really good to be reminded of the good, Thank you. And
I want to express my appreciation appreciation to Public Works Director, David Lou, because David has been so helpful to me in understanding all the nuances of the 1760 choke point,
and I really appreciate his time.
2:38:55
I will see you all tomorrow at the concert in the park. Looking forward to Stone Sol, and I will adjourn the meeting at 9 O 9 in memory of Jose or Jail Garcia.
2:39:08
This is the Waste Management employee that Council Member Ty was talking about that, you know, is in the middle of his route, and he got out of his truck, and in diamond barn and unfortunately
passed away, so we will adjourn in his memory, and that'll be it for tonight. Thank you.
2:39:31
Yeah.
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Yeah.
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