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Is, the high quality ingredient, especially the avocado oil. It costs us $3,000 more per month to use avocado oil instead of canola oil, but we made the decision to do it because we care for the health of our customers, our employees who eat our food every day, and for our family. If you want cozy countryside warm feeling, you could eat eat inside the restaurant. And if you want a, like, a more modern feel, you can eat at a veranda and the backyard, which is everyone's favorite. It's like having a picnic.

You can relax and enjoy, you know, nice Southern California weather. We're very grateful as we continue to grow. So we plan to increase hours, and we're gonna open for dinner. So, you know, people can now enjoy avocado house all day long. We started a coffee shop called Rabbit and Bean in Lejabra, and it's really doing well. So we wanna open a second coffee shop here. So, you know, customers enjoy specialty coffee and matcha. We're very excited. First, you know, don't focus on money, profit, but just focus on giving joy and happiness to your customers and employees. Always serve, you know, high quality food that you would serve your own family.

People will notice, and they'll come back. And also take good care of your employees because they'll take good care of your customers.

On January 31, the city of Chino hosted the first annual Lunar New Year's event, an event that celebrated culture, heritage, and new beginnings in the city of Chino. Senryu Taiko and the Lao Material Club lion dance began the festivities with a fascinating performance as part of the opening ceremony. Afterwards from council member Mark Lucio, the festive confetti popped as the celebration began. Performances by Shaolin Kung Fu showed off incredible martial arts moves with weapons, and the Chino Valley Chinese Alliance Children's Choir brought smile to the crowd's faces with singing and dancing. Vendors were all around the Chino Civic Center with festive merchandise, art, and a fun zone, making every moment fun and exciting.

Food vendors were plenty, giving residents a chance to try out various tasty treats. Lunar New Year is a time for family, gratitude, and connection, and an event like this brings Chino together, honoring diversity while celebrating what unites us. For more information on this and any upcoming events, please visit www.cityofchino.org/events.

So my dad came, like, forty five years ago in City Of Chino. He thought that City Of Chino was a good opportunity to open a new business, and he was right. First of all, I want to thank the community of City Of Chino because all these years, we they support us and they love us, and I want to say a big thank you to them. Quality, the good quality for the products, the good customer service, and I think they love what we're doing for that. So we opened the first location four years ago, and now we moved, like, two years ago over here with a big and nice location with drive through.

Because it was the first project for us, it was a little bit hard at the beginning. Thank god we make it with the help of the city of Chino, the help of the people of Chino. We're here now to serve them.

We knew Chino was in demand for restaurants, but we also knew that the location that we were gonna be going into, that there was a lot of growth, and there was gonna be a lot that was gonna come in. But we also knew it was gonna take time to get there, but still just with it, like how it is right now, we're still doing really good. Like, we knew coming into it, we were gonna be busy right off the bat. It seemed like a great, place for the second location for us to grow and, you know, make our name bigger. The customers, you know, have been awesome with us.

You know, we've been busy. It's been a year, and we've been busier and busier every day. You know, we've sponsored a lot of the youth, baseball teams, football teams. We know customers on a first name basis, and, you know, we have a good set of regulars. So, you know, the community has supported us tremendously, and they're keeping this place open. They're keeping they're keeping it going.

So We

always knew that this is

what we wanted to do. You know, both the owners always, you know, wanted to own their own restaurants. You know, I knew them closely. I wanted to own restaurants as well. And that was just the goal behind it was, hey. Let's let's turn, you know, Kenwoods into a household name. You know, we love when,

you know, even the kids that come in here, hey, we wanna go to Kenwoods. Like, that was the goal to be the next big thing. I would say, what sets us apart, one thing is we are scratch kitchen, so everything is recipe based. Everything is made fresh. Everything is made fresh daily. One thing that we really preach is giving the best service possible. Again, it all falls back to, you know, you can have great food, which we do, and a great atmosphere, but at the end of the day, the customers are coming back for the experience, for the service part, and we try to teach our staff, you know, every day, hey. Make each visit count. Put a smile on someone's face. Get to know them on a personal level.

You know, when that customer comes in, we want them saying, hey. Is so and so working today? You know, we have a lot of good things going on, live music, we do a taco special, we have a brunch, we have a happy hour from three to six, Monday through Friday. So as, you know, the community, you know, hears about us and finds this thing out, we just continue to grow. My name is Matt Mraz. I am the general manager of Kenwood's Kitchen and Tap in Chino located in the Preserve Shopping Center off of Chino in Maine.

Chino is an absolute beautiful community. My husband and I are from Los Angeles, and so we were trying to get closer to family. We have a little toddler. And in LA, there's wellness bars on every corner, whereas here, we kind of noticed that there was missing link. You know, there's lots

of

big corporations and franchises, and so we decided this would be the absolute perfect location to bring a little bit of that here. The community in Chino has been the most important part, I think, of growing this business. Word-of-mouth in this community is so major. Everybody knows somebody, and it's such a tight knit community, especially in the wellness world. And so it's just been incredible to, you know, grow with the community.

You know, there's smoothie bars everywhere, but do they truly, you know, care about the ingredients? What's in it? Are they organic? And so, really, I don't think there's anywhere here in the area that really brings that to the community. So that's truly what sets us apart and the aesthetic, of course.

Sana in Arabic means brilliant praise, and in Spanish, it means healthy or healing, and mana is the bread that God made rain, the nourishment, God's nourishment. And so altogether, it means praise, God's healing nourishment, which is really just taking it back to the root of how he intended us to eat, not the processed foods, really just nurture our bodies with whole food ingredients. And then really the intention behind Santa Monica, it's there's such a bigger picture with the community and how we wanna grow. This is our first location, and we have exceeded what our expectation was within the community, and so it's so beautiful to see. Yeah.

Stay rooted in faith. Stay rooted in your beliefs. And when the tough when it gets tough, keep going because there was tons of times where we wanted to give up. But just stay true to, you know, your calling and what you what you believe in your vision, and you'll succeed.

At Chino's twenty twenty six State of the City, something unexpected happened. A surprise appearance from Oral Ferschiser delivering big news for Chino. It was a night that brought the community together as the city of Chino welcomed residents, businesses, and community leaders for its annual state of the city presented in partnership with the Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce. Mayor Eunice Ulloa highlighted the progress shaping Chino today while sharing a look at what's ahead, all centered around this year's theme, always home. From continued investments in infrastructure and public safety to a growing business community, the momentum is clear.

The evening also honored those making a difference, including business of the year recipients, royalty cakes, and BNB lock and security, and spirit of achievement honorees Dale and Sandra Subright whose impact spans decades. The Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce also highlighted the continued growth of Chino's business community and the opportunities ahead. And then a surprise appearance from none other than Dodger legend, Oral Hirschweiser, interrupted the mayor's speech to formally announce his partnership with Chino's legacy business, MK Smith's Chevrolet, to rename the dealership Oral Hirschweiser Chevrolet, a moment that captured the energy of a city on the rise while staying rooted in what matters most. This is cheap, always home. Watch the full state of the city at cityofchico.org/sotc.

We are here because we're brewing up business. Chino is absolutely a phenomenal place to be. Multigenerational city. We've been here over a hundred years and very business friendly. You're gonna love Chino.

Want see something for everyone. I want our kids to be able to stay in town, have entertainment, places to go. I also want all kinds of entertainment for every age group. We need to stay here. We work here. We live here, and we play here. So I'm looking for businesses that are gonna fill any void that we have.

So welcome to the business roundtable. This is the brokers edition.

I was first elected in 1984. Chino used to be very, very heavily agricultural. And over time, we have evolved into something for everyone when it comes to housing stock, which is wonderful, and also businesses. We're growing by leaps and bounds. Very, very proud of our community, multigenerational. So we have grandparents, parents, kids. So Chino's a wonderful place to be, and I'm very, very proud to represent.

Community support since we opened was pretty good, you know, very incredibly supportive. What I understand from the city part, the mayor and all the people around the city was very helpful since we started operation of construction and then, you know, fully operational opening in December 2023. Our business sets apart, I would say, being a Marriott hotel, we more focus on service as well as local community, what we support, and more hospitality, I would say. So it's not only just a basic room and, you know, the guests can come and sleep, but we focus as a whole hospitality more warm and welcoming. That's what our goal normally we follow.

Business grown every year pretty much, I would say, since opening 12/06/2023. Right? Now we are at about one and a half year plus, but every year we see significant growth. This year is much more, I would say, 10 to 20% more than what we were in the first year. Surrounding area, what we see, a lot of opportunity still considering our location.

And one of the biggest location, I would say, about the BAPS Swaminaran Temple. That helps a lot. Lot of weddings and a lot of events happening there. Guests do come and stay here. Besides that, we do get a lot of teams. That give us a good growth opportunity, and we are still seeing a lot of opportunity around the businesses in the area, which we are trying to explore too.

On 04/09/2026, the city of Chino, in partnership with Adrian's World, hosted an event at the Chino Police Department called Safe and Sound. This inclusive event is for the neurodivergent community to interact with first responders of Chino Police Department, Chino Hills Sheriff's Department, and the Chino Valley Fire District. Various vendors like the Autism Society Inland Empire and the Special Olympics of Southern California were present giving out information as well as special needs coffee with their unique brand of drinks. Public safety vehicles like a fire engine and bear cat were on display for exploration and photo ops. There were also demonstrations including the blue envelope program, which helps police officers identify and interact with a person with special needs.

The Chino Valley Fire District showed off their defibrillator, and Chino PD focused on a civil interaction between officers and pedestrians. Safe and Sound is another event bringing inclusivity to residents of all abilities while making it fun to interact with our first responders. Thank you to our sponsors for this event. For more information, please visit www.cityofchino.org.

Well, interestingly, I opened up the very first LA Fitness that was the very first ground up they'd ever built here in Chino in December '96. And I just had become a new yoga teacher and decided I wanted to open up my own studio and FitBody was nice enough to let me sublease space from them and it grew from there. About eleven years ago, we opened up the space you see here behind me and this weekend, we celebrate our fourteenth year anniversary, and this just has become my home community. Most of our advertising is simply word-of-mouth, and so the fact that people continue to tell their friends to come here is something that we're eternally grateful for beyond words. Not only do we have yoga, but we have heated kettlebell classes where people do barefoot kettlebell to the good music in hour long heated room.

And we have ice bath classes in the backyard where people come together and get into the ice. We have sauna and lockers and showers. But I think really what sets us apart more than anything is this vein of mindfulness that we try to thread throughout our offering. You know, to go from a small boot camp spot subleasing behind Sprouts to this large 4,000 square foot space with lockers and showers and two big yoga rooms is beyond our original vision and literally a dream come true. We're just super grateful that the community continues to show up for us.

As long as they do, we're so excited about continuing to show up for them. Continue to persevere. Grit, work ethic are is something that goes a long way when you own your own business. We're just super grateful to be here. So, I would say more than anything, just the sense of humility that the challenges have brought, created this grit and gratitude for what it is we do.

President of the city of Chino, do you recycle your bottles and cans? Here's something you should know. Bottles and cans are good for the environment when recycled properly. The city of Chino encourages its residents to recycle their bottles and cans on trash day in their curbside recycling cart or by taking them to a certified collection center for a cash refund. Do your part. Keep Chino clean and recycle your bottles and cans. For more information, visit the city of Chino's website under recycling or call (909) 334-3289. This program is being brought to you by the city of Chino.

Chino has both modern side and countryside charm. My husband, he likes the countryside. I like the modern side. He loved eating here. He'll even bring his clients here. And when it was up for sale, he took the opportunity and we bought it. And we're very happy because we get to eat food here more often for free, and I don't have to cook as much. First, I really need to thank Larry and Shelly. They're the one who started the avocado house, and they're the one who made this a Chino favorite. When we took over, we kept the same recipes.

We just upgraded ingredients, switched oil to the avocado oil, and added new menu items. The support from community is awesome. Police officers, city staff, residents from Chino, and all around cities, they come and support us. So we're very grateful.

What sets your business apart?

First, food. It's food homemade food made with love like grandma would. And that was Shelly's model, and we really like it, and we're keeping it too. And second is the high quality ingredient, especially the avocado oil. It costs us $3,000 more per month to use avocado oil instead of canola oil, but we made the decision to do it because we care for the health of our customers, our employees who eat our food every day, and for our family.

If you want cozy countryside warm feeling, you could eat eat inside the restaurant. And if you want a, like, a more modern feel, you can eat at a veranda and the backyard, which is everyone's favorite. It's like having a picnic. You can relax and enjoy, you know, nice Southern California weather. We're very grateful as we continue to grow. So we plan to increase hours, and we're gonna open for dinner. So, you know, people can now enjoy avocado house all day long. We started a coffee shop called Rabbit and Bean in Lahabra, and it's really doing well. So we wanna open a second coffee shop here. So, you know, customers enjoy specialty coffee and matcha.

We're very excited. First, you know, don't focus on money, profit, but just focus on giving joy and happiness to your customers and employees. Always serve, you know, high quality food that you would serve your own family. People will notice, and they'll come back. And also take good care of your employees because they'll take good care of your customers.

On January 31, the city of Chino hosted the first annual Lunar New Year's event, an event that celebrated culture, heritage, and new beginnings in the city of Chino. Senryu Taiko and the Lao Motilu Club lion dance began the festivities with a fascinating performance as part of the opening ceremony. Afterwards from council member Mark Lucio, the festive confetti popped as the celebration began. Performances by Xiaolin Kung Fu showed off incredible martial arts moves with weapons, and the Chino Valley Chinese Alliance Children's Choir brought smile to the crowd's faces with singing and dancing. Vendors were all around the Chino Civic Center with festive merchandise, art, and a fun zone, making every moment fun and exciting.

Food vendors were plenty, giving residents a chance to try out various tasty treats. Lunar New Year is a time for family, gratitude, and connection, and an event like this brings Chino together, honoring diversity while celebrating what unites us. For more information on this and any upcoming events, please visit www.cityofchino.org/events.

So my dad came, like, forty five years ago in City Of Chino. He thought that City Of Chino was a good opportunity to open a new business, and he was right. First of all, I want to thank the community of City Of Chino because all these years, we they support us and they love us, and I want to say a big thank you to them. Quality, the good quality for the products, the good customer service, and I think they love what we're doing for that. So we opened the first location four years ago, and now we moved, like, two years ago over here with a bigger, nicer location with drive through.

Because it was the first project for us, it was a little bit hard at the beginning. Thank god we make it with the help of the city of Chino, the help of the people of Chino. We're here now to serve it.

We knew Chino was in demand for more restaurants, but we also knew that the location that we were gonna be going into, that there was a lot of growth. There was gonna be a lot that was gonna come in. But we also knew it was gonna take time to get there, but still just with it, like how it is right now, we're still doing really good. Like we knew coming into it, were gonna be busy right off the bat. It seemed like a great, place for the second location for us to grow and, you know, make our name bigger.

The customers, you know, have been awesome with us. You know, we've been busy. It's been a year, and we've been busier and busier every day. You know, we've sponsored a lot of the youth baseball teams, football teams. We know customers on a first name basis, and, you know, we have a good set of regulars. So, you know, the community has supported us tremendously, and they're keeping this place open. They're keeping they're keeping it going. We always knew that this is what we wanted to do. You Both the owners always wanted to own their own restaurants. I knew them closely.

I wanted to own restaurants as well. And that was just the goal behind it was, hey, let's turn Kenwoods into a household name. We love when the kids that come in here, hey, we wanna go to Kenwoods. That was the goal to be the next big thing. I would say what sets us apart, one thing is we are a scratch kitchen.

So everything is recipe based. Everything is made fresh. Everything is made fresh daily. One thing that we really preach is giving the best service possible. Again, it all falls back to, you know, you can have great food, which we do, and a great atmosphere, but at the end of day, the customers are coming back for the experience, for the service part. And we try to teach our staff, you know, every day, hey, make each visit count. Put a smile on someone's face. Get to know them on a person level. You know, when that customer comes in, we want them saying, hey. Is so and so working today?

You know, we have a lot of good things going on, live music. We do a taco special. We have a brunch. We have a happy hour from three to six, Monday through Friday. So as, you know, the community, you know, hears about us and finds this thing out, we just continue to grow. My name is Matt Mraz. I am the general manager of Kenwood's Kitchen and Tap in Chino located in the Preserve Shopping Center off at Chino in Maine.

Chino is an absolute beautiful community. My husband and I are from Los Angeles, and so we were trying to get closer to family. We have a little toddler. And in LA, there's wellness bars on every corner, whereas here, we kind of noticed that there was missing link. You know, there's lots of big corporations and franchises, and so we decided this would be the absolute perfect location to bring a little bit of that here.

The community in Chino has been the most important part, I think, of growing this business. Word-of-mouth in this community is so major. Everybody knows somebody, and it's such a tight knit community, especially in the wellness, world. And so it's just been incredible to, you know, grow with the community. You know, there's smoothie bars everywhere, but do they truly, you know, care about the ingredients?

What's in it? Are they organic? And so, really, I don't think there's anywhere here in the area that really brings that to the community. So that's truly what sets us apart and the aesthetic, of course. Sana in Arabic means brilliant praise, and in Spanish, it means health.

Good evening and welcome to the May 5 council meeting. If you would please stand, councilman Lucio is going to lead us in the flag salute.

Put your right hand over

your heart. Ready to begin.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Thank you very much. You may be seated. Our first proclamation this evening is National Mental Health Awareness Month. It's my honor this evening to proclaim this month, May, as National Mental Health Awareness Month in the city of Chino. I'd like to call up Angie Garcia, community services parks and recreation coordinator, and Lainie Lapas, board member for the National Alliance on Mental Health Pomona Valley.

And our proclamation reads, whereas on behalf of the citizens of Chino, we recognize the month of May 2026 as National Mental Health Awareness Month. The city of Chino and Chino Valley Unified School District and Healthy Chino Coalition recognize that mental health issues can affect all people. It's estimated that more than one in five US adults live with a mental illness. Misunderstandings exist about mental illnesses and our social culture often wrongly imposes stigma on these conditions. The city of Chino recognizes the importance of addressing both mental and physical health concerns as being essential to everyone's overall health and well-being.

And asking for help is a sign help is a sign of strength and the first step towards achieving mental wellness. The city of Chino offers mental health services to youth, adults, and families, and the city of Chino partners with National Alliance for Mental Illness, Greater Los Angeles Pomona Valley to provide free support groups to educate, inspire hope, and decrease the stigma surrounding mental health issues. And whereas the city of Chino encourages you to reach out to your support network, a family member, friend, teacher, or counselor. Now therefore, I, Unisa Miloa, mayor of the City Of Chino, do hereby proclaim May 2026 as National Mental Health Awareness Month in the city of Chino and encourage each citizen to continue to be compassionate and understand the importance that mental health services provide.

Thank you.

Okay. Thank you very, very much. And, what Madam Mayer says is absolutely true. The reason that NAMI began, it was a grassroots organization to take the stigma out of a mental illness. No one has a problem saying my mother has high blood pressure or my cousin has diabetes, but heaven forbid you say they're schizophrenic or they're depressed or they have anxiety. So our number is very much available. I can give you the number afterwards. Angie has our number. We have support groups. We have classes.

And if anyone's interested in volunteering on my helpline, please let Angie know, and I would be the one training you. And we take care of hundreds of people every month that reach out and ask us for help. And that was perfect. It shows strength when you ask for help. I told my students asking a question doesn't mean you're dumb. It means you're smart. You wanna know the answer. So reach out if you need us. Thank you very, much.

Yes, we appreciate NAMI being here today and we're proud to be a partner as well. And I just wanted to share about the services that we offer within the city of Chino. We do offer counseling at the Carolyn Owens Community Center for all ages. And there you will find on the second floor over 30 counselors providing quality caring service to our community. We same so kind of echo what you guys have already spoken on.

We know that counseling can be intimidating at first, but the truth is that everyone does need support sometimes and the fact is that we are all not alone here in this room and beyond. So thank you for being here to recognize this month with us and yeah, we're just grateful to be part of serving the community.

Thank you. My pleasure.

Next, it's my honor this evening to proclaim the week of May third to May ninth twenty twenty six as professional municipal clerk's week in the city of Geno. I'd like to have our mighty city clerk team please join me up front. What am I doing? Yet. Oh my goodness.

I'm not used to having staff come up like this. Oh my goodness. So whereas the office of professional municipal clerk, a time honored and vital part of local government exists throughout the world. The office of professional municipal Municipal. Municipal clerk is the oldest among public servants, and the office of professional municipal clerk provides the professional link between the citizens, the local governing body, and agencies of government at all levels.

Professional municipal clerks have pledged to be ever mindful of their neutrality and impartiality, rendering equal service to all. The professional municipal clerk serves as the information center on functions of local government and community. Professional municipal clerks continually strive to improve the administration of the affairs of the office of the professional municipal clerk through participation in educational programs, seminars, workshops, and the annual meetings of their state, province, county, and international professional organizations. And whereas it's most appropriate that we recognize the accomplishments of the office of professional clerk. Now therefore, I unisemiloha mayor of the City Of Chino do hereby recognize the week of May third through the ninth as the fifty seventh annual professional municipal clerk's week in the City Of Chino and further extend appreciation to the city of Chino city clerk's office and all professional municipal clerks for the vital services they perform and their dedication and commitment to the communities that they serve.

Natalie.

Thank you, mayor. We appreciate the support of the city council in recognizing the fifty seventh annual municipal clerk's week. As always, thank you for all of the support and the recognition of the municipal clerk's profession. Thank you very much.

Would you like to introduce the other lady?

Yes. This is Maritza Sanchez, our deputy city clerk, and Hannah Barbie, our records

records technician. Thank you.

Congratulations. They're used to being behind the scenes not in front of it. Okay, next recognition of our teen advisory committee members. The teen advisory committee or TAC is comprised of Chino residents who are students in the Chino Valley Unified School District. I want to recognize what a great group of leaders we have in our community.

Since the beginning of the school year, the TAC has accumulated five fifty eight hours volunteering at every citywide event, Chino youth museum event and more. During the year, the TAC completed three service projects. The first service project was collecting donated Halloween costumes that benefited the care closet. The second service project was assisting in the transformation of the Chino Youth Museum into Santa's Village for the Chino Youth Christmas Parade and Fair. Finally, the third service project was the beautification of the teen center by assisting our public work staff with planting flowers to enhance the center's curb appeal.

These future leaders are a true asset to our community and their efforts should not go unrecognized. Tonight, have certificates of appreciation for each TAC member and we will also recognize our graduating seniors. I'd like to call up Brisa Castillo, CSPR coordinator. Would you please join me up front?

Well, you, Mary Iloha and members of our council. And as always, thank you for your continued support of our teen advisory committee. To our TAC members, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all of your time, effort, and dedication to our community. It does not go unnoticed. So thank you. Okay. First, have Benjamin Martinez. We have our chairperson, Flora Hernandez.

We have our vice chairperson, Caricia Rojas. We have our secretary, Kathleen Chang.

There you go.

We have member, Sofia Henderson. We have member Drew Ramirez. We have member Julia Baraza. We have member Leah Jung. We have member Chen may fear key.

We have member Abigail Flores. We have member Chelsea young. And last but not least, we have member, I'm sorry, Ariel Merrill Cuevas, there we go.

Oh, we missed one. We missed one. Oh, I apologize Ariel, we'll get you a certificate. Somehow we slipped it. Ladies and gentlemen, these are some of our future leaders.

Let's give them another hand. The short people in front. Thank you all for your participation. Next, we have our businesses of the month. Twenty seven years in business is no small feat, but this business has stood the test of time.

For the month of May 2026, I would like to congratulate CE Mechanical as one of our businesses this month. I'd like to call up, President Dave Tikhanov, Vice President Nick Tikhanov and Administrative Assistant Caitlin Tikhanov. Please join me up front. Oh, we're missing one. Specializing in air conditioning and heating systems, their team services hospitals, universities, data centers and manufacturing plants.

CE Mechanical is also very involved in our community. They participate in Christmas toy giveaways, back to school backpack initiatives that assist students in need. These efforts are only some of the ways CE Mechanical shows their commitment to giving back, supporting youth development and strengthening the communities they serve. CE Mechanical started as a small family owned business operating out of a garage in the Chino Chino home. They have remained in Chino to preserve their family oriented culture and stay connected to their roots, and they plan to continue growing within the community that helped them get started.

Please join me in congratulating one of our May 2026 businesses of the month recipients, CE Mechanical. I'd like to present this certificate of congratulations to you for remaining in the city of Chino and being such a fantastic company. Would you like to say a few words?

Yeah, thank you very much. I would like to say that I have been a resident of Chino for fifty years. Moved here, didn't,

you know.

Enjoyed all the cows and everything that came along with them. The city and the services have made it a pleasure to live here. And I'd like to thank the city and fire and police and all the city services for everything they've done to make it a pleasure for us to be here. I'd like to also thank my staff. What I'd like to really focus on is Richard Montillo and his wife.

He is Richard. Yeah, come on up here, Richard. Richard is always instrumental has been extremely instrumental in getting us to participate and engage with the city. And it is He's very involved. Yeah. It just makes it better for everyone.

That's him.

So thank you very much.

So you treat some family. Gino's a family.

Gino is a family.

Well, thank you very much. Thank you for all your good work and your good reputation and and for having Richard with you. He's a treasure. All right, all three. One, two and three. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Our next business of the month is newer to our city and we're happy to have them.

For the month of May 2026, I would like to congratulate West Coast Sourdough Chino as one of our businesses. I'd like to have owner Jordan Cabrera please join me upfront. West Coast sourdough sandwiches and soups keep customers coming back week after week. Customers praise their quick and kind service and only have great things to say about their delicious sandwiches. A little known fact is that they can also make pizza out of their sourdough.

This business also offers discounts to first responders and when they can, they enjoy shopping local here in Chino. West Coast Sourdough service is not Jordan's first business in Chino. He also owns the Waba Grill next door. The success of his first business inspired him to invest more in his business and in our community. Please join me in congratulating one of our May 2026 businesses of the month recipients, West Coast Sourdough of Chino.

You. A flat congratulating you. Would you like to say

thank you, please? Thank

you so much, mayor. Thank you, council. Most importantly, thank you to the city of Chino. Without you guys, we would not be here. Like the mayor said, we are fairly new. We've only been open for about a year, but with continuous support of the city that we've been seeing, we could be in business for hopefully twenty seven years or something like that, right? But again, thank you guys so much. If you guys are unfamiliar, we are on the corner of Philadelphia And Ramona, right next to the Waba Girl. That is my dad's also by the way, not mine on that one, but that one is his. Absolutely.

Absolutely. But thank you guys so much. If you guys have any issues in the store please come to me. Okay? But thank you guys again so much. Thank you mayor. Appreciate it. Be

sure to visit them. They have excellent food. Next we have the Mayor's Home Beautification Award. It's my honor to present, this month May 2026 to Lena and Gregory Fellows of Angelina Court. Would you please come up?

We have a certificate of congratulations for your absolutely beautiful home. We have a picture of your house. We have two pen sets. I know you get all kinds of goodies.

This is fantastic.

We have two lapel pins. Very nice. And we have the coveted. Coveted. The coveted award. Awesome. That should you should should you choose, you can put it in your yard and tell all your neighbors.

I think I think they're nice.

I think they're nice. Would you like to say if you would

Well, I'd just like to say, thank you, mayor, for this recognition. My wife and I, we appreciate it. We've been in Chino for thirty five years, and we've had the opportunity to make a lot of different changes with our yards, but this one was the most significant. So, we really appreciate the recognition. Also I wanna give a shout out to one of your employees, Ben Orosco.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. He came he came I don't know if he's here or not.

He's right there.

Oh, there he is. He he came out to our street and and helped us with some, minor improvements, and it made our street look even better, even better. So Ben, thank you very much and thank you to all the city staff.

Well, thank you very much. Now, who maintains your property?

I do.

You do all the maintenance? Wow, honeydews, right? You tell him what to do? Okay, let's get a

picture. Okay.

Okay. Prior to the council meeting this evening, we had a closed session. I'd like our city attorney to announce, the item.

You, mayor and members of the council. And, for all those present, the city council met in closed session and held the discussion as to the single item listed on the closed session portion of the agenda, namely conference with legal counsel one item of anticipated litigation under the heading initiation of litigation. City Council received a briefing, including from attorney Matt Silver, provided direction and no further reportable action was taken. That concludes our report, mayor.

Okay. City manager Wright, do we have any additions or changes to our agenda?

No changes, mayor. Okay.

Thank you very much. Next on our agenda is public announcements. First, do you have any unwanted items cluttering your home? You're invited to our free residential community cleanup this Saturday, May 9 from eight to one at 13793 Red Redwood Street in Chino. In partnership with Waste Management, this is your chance to get rid of bulky items such as furniture, appliances, electronics, mattresses, tires, scrap metal, green waste, and so much more, all at no cost to you.

This event is for Chino residents only, and you must be prepared to unload your own items. No hazardous waste, sharp needles or syringes, or commercial vehicles will be accepted. For more information, please call Waste Management at 804239986. Next, Chino cyclists of all ages are invited to join us for a beautiful morning bike ride during our annual Chino Bike Day this Saturday, May 9, from 07:30 to 11AM at Ayala Park. Chino Bike Day is a fun and family friendly morning featuring a bike obstacle course, kids activities and crafts, and a community bike ride at 07:45, and a family bike ride led by the Chino Police Department at 09:30.

For more information, call Carolyn Owens Community Center at (909) 334-3258, and we'll see you there. Finally, I invite you to join us for Chino in Action, reaching new heights on Saturday, June 6 from 10AM to 2PM at Steuve Family Park located at 16050 East Preserve Loop. Be among the first to get up close with Chino's brand new police helicopter. Explore a touch a truck showcase featuring police, public works, and Chino Valley Fire District vehicles, and enjoy activities for kids, a delicious barbecue hosted by the Chino Police Officers Association, and more. This is a one of a kind opportunity to experience your city in action from the ground to the sky, and we hope to see you there.

Next item on the agenda is public communication. This is the time and the place for the general public to address the council on items that do not appear elsewhere. We would be glad to hear your concerns, but we cannot take any action on any item that's not on the agenda. Our first request to speak is pastor John Mata from Cavalry Chapel Chino Valley. Please join us if you'd like to participate in an invocation.

Thank you, madam mayor and mayor pro tem and council members on behalf of pastor David Rosales in Calvary Chapel Chino Valley. Thank you for this opportunity to pray. Let's pray. Father, we come before you this evening in the name of Jesus with gratitude for the opportunity to gather and lead in service of our community. Thank you for the city of Chinon for the men and women who faithfully serve in it.

Tonight, we lift up our madam mayor, mayor pro tem, city council members, and city attorney and city manager. Grant them the wisdom and unity and the integrity to make the decisions for the good of all. May they lead the community with humility, courage, and a heart to serve. We also pray for those who protect and respond of time of need, our police officers, including the police captain, our firefighters and fire captain, and every first responder. Surround them with your protection and strength.

Give them peace in danger, wisdom in crisis, and honor in their service. Let this meeting be guided by justice, clarity, and compassion, but most of all, by your spirit. And may Chino continue to be a city marked by peace, purpose, and unity. And we pray all these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you.

Thank you, John.

Next

is request to speak. Golly, whiz. Next request to speak is Sofia Cohen.

Hi. Good evening, mayor, mayor pro tem, city council, and city staff. Again, my name is Sofia Cohen. I'm with assembly member Michelle Rodriguez's office, and I'm excited to announce that our office is host is having a call for nominations for our community awards at our second annual summer barbecue happening this June. The categories include small business of the year, veteran of the year, and teacher of the year. Nominations can be submitted at b I t period l y slash February q nominations or by calling our office at (909) 902-9606. Thank you.

Thank you, Sofia. Next is Melissa Campani.

Well, evening mayor, council members, staff, and of course community members. My name is Melissa Campani, and I'm here representing York County Supervisor, Kurt Hagman. And I have a quick question for you. What do you think might be of interest to many of our constituents? Maybe meeting someone from Aging and Adult Services, perhaps someone from the Assessor Recorder's Office, or maybe you'd like to talk to someone from the Office of Emergency Services.

Well, great news, Supervisor Hagman is hosting his annual SpringSummer Open House and those departments and many more are actually coming to his district office in Chino Hills. It's a great opportunity to speak with departments that maybe you've had questions for or just wanna know a little bit more about what they do. In addition, we will also be having resources that serve our 4th District of San Bernardino County. For instance, OmniTrans and the Ontario International Airport. So it's a great opportunity.

We encourage everyone to come out on Wednesday, May 20. This event is from five to seven p. M. And it's gonna be a large event. We close the the street in front of the office so that we have plenty of room for lots of people to join in the fun. The let's see. If you visit each booth, we're gonna have an opportunity drawing for fun prizes. So we encourage you all pre register and attendees will receive an extra raffle ticket. You can respond, RSVP to supervisor hagman dot eventbrite dot com. Always a good idea because food will be provided by the Chino Valley Professional Firefighters and Chino Police Officer Associations.

Snacks will be provided by Chino Hills C O Cops. We just wanna make sure to have enough food for everyone, and it is really a wonderful event. If you get a chance, bring your family, bring your neighbors, bring your council member and come on out and have a good time. Whew, that's a mouthful. One more terrific event that's a fun one and I will be there will be taking place on Saturday, June 6.

This is an event with Supervisor Kurt Hagman in partnership with our beautiful city of Chino and it's time for that document shredding event. So let's get rid of all those papers that you don't want to be placed in the wrong hands on Saturday, June 6, 9AM to noon or until the trucks reach capacity. And it's gonna be happening right here. The location is Chino City Hall. The address is 13220 Central Avenue in the city of Chino.

We do ask you you limit your shredding materials to three standard size filing boxes and no batteries, CDs, binders, DVDs, that sort of thing. Let's make it easy for those machines to crunch up all that paperwork. And if you have any questions, of course, we are available at supervisor Hagman's office to answer any questions. 9AM is a super busy time in my experience. I'm usually here helping people. So I would suggest maybe 10AM if you don't wanna wait in line. Some people wanna come get that all, squared away right away. And there again, we are asking people to preregister at hagmanshred0626.eventbrite.com so we can get those lines moving. And it's all free. All these events are free.

Thank you so much. Thank you, Melissa. Next, we have Richard and Lisa Montijo.

Hello. Hello. I passed out all my flyers, so I'm gonna have to read from my my phone number.

Richard, do you want one to show?

No. I got it right here on my Okay. Oh, the chief gave me one sec. So we we wanted to share tonight about our upcoming events that we have planned. But we have a new collaboration that we're doing with Chino PD.

Our whole purpose was or is and when we first started partnering with the Chino PD, think it was over like twenty years ago, we started doing I think our first event was our Pack Pack giveaway that we did, and we did it at our house. So the main purpose was that was to help with the relationship with the PD and our community here in our vicinity right here, but it's reached out to more than just right here on 6th Street and this side of Chino or Central and then that side of Central. So we have a new collaboration that we're starting to do. I just wanted to read something real quick, but it's called Chino Community Connection, connecting people and and strengthening the community. Chino Community Connection is a collaboration between the Chino Police Department, You Choose Positive Youth, and our community, of course.

Through engagement and open dialogue, this partnership is designed to strengthen relationships and build a safer more connected Chino. So with me and big boss, we feel got some more energy still to go. I'm excited about this thing that we're doing. I want to give a shout out to Lieutenant Olden and Trish Dinko at the PD and Alex Wright too for helping us. We're getting you know, we have a strategic plan that we're putting in place with the chiefs okay, you know.

But on on Saturday, I was passing out this flyer to everybody, so hopefully, can get this out. But Saturday, May 30 is our new pop up event event from 10AM to 1PM at Via Park. We're gonna have food, raffles, games, tons of fun. We're hoping to have a dunk tank there too. So it it's gonna be good for our community to help with the relationship between our our police officers and the the citizens of of Chino.

So, we're hoping to collaborate and do this. We have a few other events planned. We're gonna be hitting Heritage Park, the homecoming over there. I think the homecoming, we don't have a flyer out for that yet, but it's June 24. June 24, we're gonna be hitting that area too.

But our our our hope is to is just to help support our p our our police department in in their policing job easier, but also with the leaders too governing the the bodies here over there at homecoming here in our community also. Also, we're getting ready for our backpack giveaway, June 25. So that'll be we'll be we've grown to over or about 500 backpacks that we give away to the kids in Chino Valley, the school district, with partnering with the city, the Chino Police Department, and Chino Valley Fire also come support. So we just wanted to share this new thing that we got going on, Chino Community Connection. Hopefully, everybody got a flyer, But I I we come to share that because we you know, with everything that we do, we need support, you know?

So if if if people wanna help or or they're interested, just contact Trish Dinko at Chino PD or find a way to contact my wife and I, and we'll point you in the right direction to either volunteer or just help with with finances or whatever it is because we want we wanna make a big difference here in in our community and and and keep going keep keep the kids going in a positive direction. Right?

Well, you already have made a big difference, Richard. You and Lisa both. But I have a question for you. Who are you gonna put in the dunk tank?

Oh, they're saying, one of the officers. I don't know yet, but, we're we're, they're they're I'm gonna have to let the chief and them, decide about that,

you know.

You know, I think you would probably get a lot of people there if it was, the chief of fire department and the chief police department.

Actually, mayor Chris said he'll volunteer to get in the dunk tank.

Oh, Chris is gonna get in the dunk tank?

We'll put we'll put him in his Speedo and then put

him in the dunk tank.

No. There's limits. Alright. No speedos. And the water the water

is not heated, Chris.

The weather is not heated. No.

So we're gonna be posting up these flyers all over Chino and then hopefully get the community involved. It's our it's our first thing that we're doing, so we're hoping to get the families and the and the youth out there to support

Your family has just been absolutely stellar in our community for years and years and years. Your dad had made a big impact, Lisa. You know? So I wanna thank you personally for everything that you've done for so many people.

I wanna thank all of you, the chief and all his guys and all of you guys for supporting because we can't can't do what we do without your support. It it just helps with so that we can make a a big difference, you know, and and make our community we wanna do what we can to make our community better. You know? Right?

Takes the team. Yeah. Takes the team. Let's give them a hand. Okay, next we have Alex Lopez.

Good evening, mayor, council members, and community. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak tonight. My name is Alex Lopez, and I'm an outreach specialist for Reach Out. Reach Out is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to serving the city of Chino and the Inland Empire for over fifty years. And I'm here tonight to share some information about some of our programs and services to the community.

Our organization offers substance use prevention programs such as in school drug education presentations, and the topics we cover include alcohol, cannabis, vaping, opioids, along with coping skills and healthy alternatives for students. We also facilitate opioid overdose response training for community members who are interested in learning how to safely administer NARCAN to prevent an opioid overdose and potentially save a life. I would also like to invite you all to our National Innovative Communities Conference, which will be on June ninth and tenth at the Riverside Convention Center. Our conference theme this year centers on trust, exploring how we can intentionally build, restore, and strengthen trust between people and the systems that shape their lives while inspiring new ideas, deeper collaboration, and meaningful progress. Our conference will feature more than 25 different breakout sessions covering topics such as health and wellness, leadership building, and workforce development.

And for parents who are excite who would like to attend, we're excited to offer a dedicated youth track for students so you can bring the whole family and enjoy engaging experience for everyone. While there is a cost to attend this conference, I am part of the registration team and I would be more than happy to accommodate any of our community members who would like to attend by receiving a a sponsorship voucher. Please find me afterwards and we can connect. Lastly, I would also like to highlight one of our community coalitions called Partners for Innovative Communities. Now this is a group that is made up of local stakeholders and community members that are interested in learning more about substance use trends and strategize different ways to tackle substance misuse within their communities.

And the next pick meeting will be on May 28 from twelve to 01:30PM at our Reach Out Upland office,

and I

can provide more information and have flyers for that as well. Thank you again for your time. I look forward I look forward to connecting with folks afterwards. Thank you.

Alex, for the viewing community, do you have a phone number for people to call if they'd like to find out more information?

Yeah. They can call my phone number. I have it right here. Give me one second. They can contact me directly. It's (951) 335-0094.

Okay. Thank you very much, Alex.

Thank you.

Next we have Donna Marchesey, Arc and Sherman's Garden. And I see you brought mister Bob with you.

Yes. Mister Bob is here. Yes. Okay. First, we'll go over ARC real quick. If you have a cat problem

Donna, speak into the microphone. Hello. Hello.

If you have a cat problem, you call ARC, and they will help you. They will give you a voucher for a free spay and neuter, and they will give you a trap very much like this. They don't give you any instructions on how to do it. They don't tell you that you should put paper in the bottom of this trap so the cat has something besides wire to live on. They don't tell you how to set it up.

They don't tell you how to cover the cat after you catch it, so it calms down. So I asked them a week ago, Sunday two weeks ago, Sunday, if they had instructions because Terry Carver and Kelly Frombach prepared instructions to hand out with the traps. They said yes. Couple days later, I'm over at Ontario spay and neuter, and this cute little Asian gal comes in, little lady. She's got a cat in a trap.

No paper, no cover, no nothing. Kelly starts asking questions and what she could get out of her because her English wasn't real great was, that cat had been in that trap for two days, no food, no water. That's not good. So I'm hoping my purpose to come to you is to impress upon the directors of ARC. When you find problems or areas of improvement, please ask them to try harder.

I know they're they're stressed. So but that needs to change. You can't have an animal in a trap like that for days, and they need a little bit of comfort. Little bit of newspaper isn't much to ask. So and my second thing is the garden, mister Sherman's garden on Monte Vista. He got cited, he got fined for having a very unique garden in his front yard, was approved in 2019 because I remember when he first got approval and he started setting it up. And as yards do, and the other people said they have evolved over the years with their yard,

it

has changed. It's it's quite unique. But they are saying that it differs significantly from neighboring properties. So when does everybody have to look alike? That doesn't seem right, and a lot of people on the Internet are wondering why we get dictated that we have to be the same. Some people have all rocks. Some people have a lot of succulents. I like grass. So I went by your house today because I know where you live. I don't know where anybody else lives.

Your neighbor across the street has all rock, and it's not that pretty because they're not keeping the weeds and stuff up. And another thing what he got cited for was stuff's too tall. There needs to be a three foot line of sight. Never heard of that. Your neighbor to the north of you, their hedge is over three feet. There's a lot of properties like that in Chino. I know. It's got to

get out of the driveway.

We've got these silly little rules, and it's unkempt and overgrown. Maybe he could thin it out a little. I don't know. But he's got huge papaya plants. I've got giant bird of paradise in my yard, potentially potentially attracting pests. He got cited for that, and is there any evidence that there are pests? I've been to his house several occasions. I don't see rat droppings. I don't see critters running around, so that doesn't seem right. Vegetation exceeds three feet.

Well, when you have people have fruit trees in their front yards. People have large rose bushes. There's stuff more than three feet in a lot of yards here. And the one that's interesting is they cited him for crops. Now I've lived here seventy five years. I know what a crop looks like because I lived where Don Lugo was green feed and cord for the cows and weeks roses. Those are crops. This is a front yard. This is a garden. This is not crops. So they want him to have a great big huge setback, like 15 feet. He'd have a garden about three foot by three foot. He doesn't have crops. So the city, I think, would be nice if they could work with him a little bit better. Maybe he could thin out a couple things.

Maybe he could prune a little more. I don't know. But it just seems like the city came down on him pretty hard, and maybe there's some wiggle room here. So I don't know if you know the situation, but I'd like somebody to try to work with him a little more. Thank you, Donna. Thank you. Bye bye.

K. Next written request to speak is Maureen, Mo Mendoza.

My name is Maureen Mo Mendoza. I want to begin by sincerely apologizing for my comments at last month's meeting regarding the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire. In my frustrations, I made a statement that came across as disrespectful, particularly to council member Burton, and I truly regret that. That was not my intent, and I take responsibility for how it was said, and I'm glad you spoke out and said something because who knows what I would have said next. I went off script, and you should never go off script.

I do, however, remain concerned that the level of detail provided during the budget presentation regarding ARC has been insufficient for the public to fully understand how funds are being allocated. I respectfully ask that future presentations include a clearer breakdown so the public can better understand how those funds are being used. And my next comment is, I am here to address a vacancy with the friends of the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire. As you are aware, which I believe you guys already know, that Misty Fram, who represented the city of Chino, has resigned due to relocation. I respectfully ask that this position continue to be filled by a Chino resident to ensure our community remains properly represented.

I would like to recommend Donna Marquise for this role. Donna has proven proven background in animal welfare and and shelter operations. Through her work with the West End Animal Shelter, she served in multiple capacities including animal care, facility support, fundraising, demonstrating a well rounded understanding of the shelter operations. She also remains actively involved today volunteering at the Animal Resource Center every Sunday where she cleans cat kennels and feeds the cats. This reflects her ongoing commitment and hands on involvement.

Additionally, Donna has worked with the office of Kurt Hagman on animal welfare matters. Her engagement with the public agencies and community efforts speaks to her qualification. Several members of the council already know Donna and her dedication to the community. She brings both experience, commitment, qualities that are essential for this role. For these reasons, respectfully ask that you consider Donna for this position and ensure Chino continues to have a strong local representative. Thank you.

Thank you, Moe. Kurt?

I I do appreciate that information, Moe. We do have a current we do have current representation for the city of Chino. The goal is to have representation throughout the JPA. So I believe, if I'm not mistaken, that we didn't have representation from the city of Montclair. So I will confirm that, and I'll get back to you for sure. But I believe we're gonna need to maybe pass that over to the city of Montclair.

Next written request to speak is is it Maria Richardson? Marcia. Marcia Richardson.

Good evening. My name is Marcia Richardson. I believe I sent most of you emails last three or four days. And I'm sorry if I start crying because I'm it's very sensitive for me. I'm a 68 year old citizen, senior citizen on low income. I'm just trying to get by. I'm disabled. I eight years ago, I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. And then along with that, since through the years, I've developed peripheral neuropathy, spinal stenosis. I could keep going.

Severe arthritis in my knees. I mean, you know, the list goes on and on with what I have. But I'm in pain a lot, of course. I am on a low inflammation diet that helps with my pain, which helps a lot. I just discovered this a couple years ago, so I'm very grateful for that.

But I have to keep moving or I would get worse, so I do try to keep going. Some people think I'm fine because I am moving, but they don't understand the limits that I have with that. And since I I had to take an early retirement about seven, eight years ago due to this, so now I only make 14,852 in my Social Security. I don't have any other income other than that. It it would I tried working at jobs, but it's really hard with you you're in pain, and you gotta take off time or whatever.

So I started to sell online, yard sales, and have yard sales. And such nice friends and people were donating things to me that would help me support myself. I've lived in my home in Chino for thirty nine years. I just love it here. And I tried to get my yard in order, but when people were donating so many things at the same time, I couldn't find any help to help me organize it in my yard, the backyard, the front yard.

It was just overwhelming for me, but I was very grateful to it, too. And so I decided to do that because then I could work when I can, we'll say, and then I could rest other days. So my my my thing is I kinda we'll work, let's say, on Monday, and then by the next day, I'm wiped out, and my body's just aching. So then I could work and then rest, work and then rest kind of thing. It was hard for me to find a job like that.

And it just got away for me and overwhelming. I couldn't get it all cleaned up and organized by myself. Like I said, I couldn't find help. The city did offer helpers, but it was hard for them also when I talked to code enforcement to get helpers. Also, they were busy with other helping other people, we'll say too. And so I was turned over to the receiver. They even told me that they could help me, but what ended up happening was that he kinda took over. I didn't know anything about what a receiver does. I I'm really good at googling. I do that a lot.

I tried to find an attorney to maybe help me understand it. I couldn't find one back then either. And I just they said they could help me get organized, but it didn't happen. I constantly ask for help everywhere. So finally, the I finally found help the end of last year, I'll say, or something.

A couple guys and my neighbors noticed I was cleaning stuff out from the backyard, and they donated their time to help me. I mean, a lot of time. I was so appreciative. So the receiver had three guys at a trailer come for two and a half days to take trash out, And they took even some stuff, though, that was my stuff. And I was there trying to help them also, telling them or explaining to them what the things mean to me and stuff.

So I was able to keep some things, which I organized very well. I thought at least the guys did. I was kinda telling them what to do and being a boss over them, I guess I'll say. And so now, after all that, I'm being charged a $100,000 from the receiver. And as of April 30, and also $20 a day in interest, I can't afford that. They put five liens on my property. I applied for four reverse mortgages. I'm so sorry. I'm crying. I thought an appraiser was gonna come out because one said, yeah.

We I think we could do that. We will pay the liens off with your your equity. That didn't happen because they said the liens they couldn't do it with the liens. I have to pay the liens off first with a personal loan, they told me, to wipe them off, and then I can apply for the risk mortgage and I'd be okay. But in the meantime, I thought those appraisers were coming out and they canceled like two days before.

So I I took cash advances out on two credit cards I have. I did a I did a I you went I went online and asked for loans, and, of course, you get a whole mess of people of companies gonna give you a loan. Well, one gave me $5,000, so I got that payment now to make. So I was able to get a roof put on because it needed a roof. I had two leaks in the house, and those are repaired now. And the house painted so that way the appraiser would at least see that it looks good, and then they canceled. So I did all that for nothing right now. So, now, I'm in debt with that also. So, I just need help. And

I don't know

what has expired.

Okay. I'm sorry. I didn't know it took that long.

No. That's okay.

And that was a and it Fred. After all, that's all. Sorry.

Thank you, mayor. That's Although I usually advise that we not speak about active code enforcement cases, I did speak to the city's prosecutor about this case, and I understand he has spoken to the receiver, and the receiver is willing to make a compromise on the outstanding fees to address the concerns raised this evening. So I understand the receiver will be reaching out to her, to address that that amount.

Yeah. I believe that there are city staff also that's trying to figure out how to help her.

That is correct.

Marcia, there are people that are gonna try to help.

I appreciate that. Thank

you. I'm sorry.

No. It's okay. It's okay. Okay. Those are the oh, yeah. Those are the only written requests that we have to speak on items that are not on the agenda. Is there anyone in the audience that would like to address us on any other item that's not on the agenda? Stubby, I have your item on number seven.

Okay.

There is one other lady also. I'll call on you as soon as Stubby's done. Okay? Stubby.

Good evening, counsel and staff. They've already left. I tried to get your attention when the teen advisory committee was up here. I just still want to go on record. Every year, those kids work hard. They're just exemplary examples of future leaders. This year, though, was exceptional. These kids this year were so enthusiastic that it was contagious. I mean, literally contagious. We had the Earth Day thing out there recently at the IEUA Wetlands.

And they have three third graders walking around, right? And they're giving them cactus, right? And they're just, of course, jumping with joy, right? And all the booths were like that. This is a tough thing to teach kids about recycling and except at our Advisory Committee. Those kids, they were right in their hands on, everybody was smiling, kids were coming up crowding the booth. It's just amazing. And this particular group, hopefully they'll hear about this. Like I said, I tried to flag you down, but too many people in the way. A fine example of what the city can do and help these kids learn to be good leaders and good citizens.

Just So want to get that out.

Thank you for the compliments. Ma'am?

It's not about agenda item, right?

Right.

Hello, Mayor, staff, council. My name is Joanne Jenness. I'm actually a resident of Chino Hills. I just want to thank you for acknowledging and giving the proclamation for NAMI. As many of you remember, you might remember my son, Cody Jenness, who was a homeless drug addict with mental health issues, and on top of ADHD, neurodivergent. But I have went through our county. There are mental health programs. It's a long process, unfortunately. And he was killed after seven days after they released him after an evaluation, which we're still trying to get that squared away. But I wanted to also thank Juneau P.

D. And Officer Bernath, who they actually found the driver in the hit and run within a month. They worked hard, and God bless them. They found him. We're going through the court system now with this driver. But thank you for acknowledging NAMI. I actually belong to a group, a support group for caretakers for mental health, and we've had NAMI actually there and speaking for our little group, and it's a wonderful group. But thank you for acknowledging. And by the way, the court system, being in the court, the judge was a little upset when she heard my son was killed and ordered somebody from Arrowhead to come to the hearing. And this is the list from them, actually.

Nine changes with the Lawyer's Law, they called Assistant Outpatient Treatment, AOT evaluation. And it's almost like that crosswalk, the needing a signal, you know, when someone dies, I think this is the change that happened because I have been so proactive and speaking out that, and this is new. These mental health programs in our county are new, and they're learning, and they've only had two other AOT cases at Arrowhead. So this is learning for them, and they're making changes for the better, which unfortunately, maybe my son's, that's where it came from. But thank you for letting me speak, and I can't thank the PD enough for what they've done to help me. Thank you. You have a good evening.

Thank you for

being Mayor, I know you're, I'm sorry, condolences to you for your husband, and I know the grief. My grief is still there. My heart's with you. Thank you. Is

there anyone else in the audience who would like to address the council about an item that's not on the agenda? Okay, excuse me. We have a tradition in our city, and that is when we have students here from schools, we like to call them up and have them introduce themselves, say the school that they're from, their teacher, the the class that they're taking. So I understand that we have several students in the audience, and so I'm gonna call you to come up and introduce yourselves. And if you don't wanna come up, we have policemen here that can They can escort you.

Come to the lectern, sweetie.

Hi. We're from Ontario Christian High School. We came here for our government class with mister Zeitema. My name is Avery. This is Sophie and Maya and Brady and Matthew.

Well, thank you for being here. Now what is the class that you're taking? Government.

Okay. Yeah.

And so you need to report to your teacher that you came tonight?

Yeah.

Well, you're also filmed and on TV. So if he doesn't believe that you're here, all he has to do is watch the council meeting. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much for being here.

Yes. Thank you for having us.

I have two grandsons that graduated from Ontario, Kristen.

My daughter did.

And his daughter, and Kurt's daughter. Okay, is there anyone else in the audience that would like to address any item that is not on the agenda? Okay, then we will move on to the consent calendar. We do have one item to be discussed, and we have a request to speak, and that's from Stubby Barb for item number seven.

Good evening again, Counsel. So, this particular development, which is about ten years or so in the making, is not compliant with accessibility laws. And there are other issues with regarding other, laws and regulations. I have done two written reports on this project, one at the request of the city, the first one, the second one as a follow-up. And then I read this report, which says that, hey, we allowed them to fix everything per the agreement that was made in 2016, which is fine except that's against the law.

The government code, the exact law that tells government how to operate happens to be section forty four fifty one, I believe it's paragraph c, that requires that at the time of construction, any accessibility law that is in place must be followed, period. It doesn't matter when the project was approved. There is an exception for projects that require a building permit, but, of course, building permits don't apply to work that's done in the public right of way. So in addition, I want to bring to your attention something that I have never gotten an answer on. Excuse me.

I should know better than to move. I'm sorry. So they required the developer to widen and do the street improvements on the west half of Central Avenue. Those of you who have been here as long as I have know what it used to look like before they built that. The interesting thing is they didn't have them widen it to the ultimate width, which often happens.

You'll widen it maybe to two lanes when it's going to be three lanes. Except in this particular case, the ultimate width is only two feet further than the curb that they had them install, which means in the future, when the city widens the street to the ultimate width, they have to move the curb and gutter. In that particular location, they're gonna have to repave at least the curbside lane. They have to move all of the street trees, which means they'll chop them down and put in saplings, and they'll have to remove the retaining wall that runs all the way along in front of the the project on Central Avenue. No one has ever been able to give me an answer as to why that is, and it makes absolutely no sense.

It just puts a huge burden on the city in the future for something else that the developer should have been responsible for. So please keep that in mind when you approve this. Thank you.

Thank you, Stevie. Do we have any staff comments, Linda?

Good evening, mayor and council members and community members here tonight. So, this has been a project in the making for ten years. It was first approved by the council back in 08/16/2016. Construction did occur in 2016 through 2019 based on the history that we've recovered. And for a period of time between 2019 and 2023, there was a gap where the city and the developer did lose connection.

We had COVID-nineteen happen during that time. We had staff turnover, and we also had the developer's consultant team also turnover. So, this has been a project in the making for ten years. For us as new staff, you know, we were working with the city attorney's office to and, you know, going back to some of the things that we've learned about settlement agreements, buckets A, buckets B, buckets C when it comes to development that was constructed December 3136 and earlier, where the project's accepted as constructed, no funds from the developer and city responsible for maintenance moving forward. We could potentially go back to the developer and say, hey, maybe we can have you do some of these improvements, but we've somewhat set precedence with some of these development settlement agreements we've done with other developers.

So, in line with that type of format, said, let's just move forward. Do these meet the best ADA requirements? No, they're meeting twenty sixteen requirements. And again, if we were to go back to the developer, we'd probably go back into some sort of potential settlement agreement. We've already set precedence with some of the other settlement agreements we've done with other development.

So that's why it's staff this new staff chose to go that direction with trying to close this project that has been in the books for the last ten years. To answer the question about widening of Central, I can't speak for the staff that was here ten years ago. But in talking with new staff and my public works director, I don't know if the city would widen Central more than it already it is. It's already three lanes in southbound and three lanes in northbound direction based off of a Google image I just looked at. So I don't know why we would go wider than what it already is today.

So, I personally think as your city engineer that Central Avenue and this portion of the area is already at ultimate and we would just leave it like that unless something down the future happens where that would cause a change. But at this point, as a city engineer, I wouldn't recommend doing any more widening because that just means more maintenance for city staff down the road to maintain a wider road. Just add another foot or two that just adds us a little bit wider capacity on the far out lanes. So I don't see the necessity for it at this time and maybe into the future. So those will be my responses.

Thanks very much, Howard. Do we have any council comments or questions? Kurt?

Is that portion of Central, as far as the lanes are concerned, are they within the legal requirements as far as the width of each lane in that portion?

I haven't I have not personally measured those lanes, but just looking off of these images, they range anywhere between twelve eleven foot lanes. Sometimes having an 11 foot lane is pretty good because it kind of creates that narrowing effect to slow down vehicles. And instead of making a wider lane where you end up having an increase in speeds, having that variety between eleven and twelve feet is actually pretty good to kind of introduce more of a traffic calming measure.

But you're not aware of any legal requirements as far as what the minimum width has

to be? The minimum width is no less than 10 feet.

No less than. Okay. Thank you very much.

Karen, did you have a comment? Thank you, Mayor. This is really hard. Mr. Barr, I want to just thank you for your comments tonight. We've had a lot of these projects come between us in front of this council that we've had to just basically kind of roll up our sleeves. And we've acknowledged it in both infrastructure committee meetings as well as publicly to the council where we acknowledge we've made mistakes. I don't know why at the time. I think to your point, Albert, I appreciate your candor on this because there's really no beating around the bush about it. I think to Mr.

Barr's point, it's just to our staff sitting here tonight, it's imperative that we follow our own plan or our own rules when we review these plans. And we've had a lot of discussions as of recent with our staff and with our city manager. I I don't know why it wasn't done in the past. I also think it's hard for a council. You're looking at these, and you're trusting in your staff at the time that these plans are going along as as that are proper.

I just wanna acknowledge the public that, hey, there were certainly mistakes on this. It's been hard for us, but certainly the answer now isn't to go and tear this out and reconstruct it. It's servicing our community in probably not the manner that we would have liked it to, But the widening of that would have when I think about it, would have severely impacted several businesses that run south of there, southbound on Central Avenue as well, including an optometrist and a little market that serves that area as well. It's one of those things where, in hindsight, do I wish maybe we would have done some things differently? But I think now, to Albert's point, I think it would be unfair to go back to the developer at this point, especially after we've entered into these agreements.

And, you know, the public is right in this one. At one point, should we decide to change something up there, it will cost us where we could have had done it differently in the past. But hindsight's always twentytwenty, but thank you the comments tonight, thank you to our staff. And that concludes my comments, mayor.

Thank

you. Thank you, Karen. Any other comments? Okay. With that, I would entertain a motion and a second for our consent calendar.

I'll make the motion for the consent, mayor.

Okay, motion from Councilperson Comstock, second from Mayor Pro Tem Burton. Please vote. And the item passes unanimously. Next on the agenda, mayor and council reports. I have item number nine.

We each have a lump sum of funds to support different community groups, and I'm always probably horribly procrastinating to the last month before before I do mine. So there's a ton of them on the agenda, and I encourage you to look at them if you choose to know where the funds are going. But I would entertain a motion in a second, please.

I'll make the motion, mayor.

There's a motion from Councilman Flores, second from Councilman Lucio. Please vote. Well, nuts. There. Item passes unanimously. For my report, it's going to be very quick. Thursday, April 23, I attended, oops, wait. Wednesday, April 22, I attended the Omnitrans Plans and Program Committee meeting. Thursday, oh shoot, hang on. I just touched my screen wrong.

I hate doing things on the little phone. Okay, Thursday, April 23, I attended the Watermaster Board of Directors meeting in place of Mayor Pro Tem Burton. Saturday, April 25, I attended the Kiwanis Corn Feed Car Show and had the privilege of escorting Oral Horsch Hirschheiser around the car show, which was a lot of fun. Good heavenly days people know who he is. He sure does.

And he's like nine feet tall. Huge guy. That man loves our community, and I don't know if everyone is aware of it or not, but he purchased MK Smith. He and his partner purchased MK Smith, and they intend to be very, very active in the community, and I'm sure they will be. The car show turned out nice like always.

A lot of attendees, people having a good fun good time, and it's very interesting to see the community groups that get together. It's like kind of a family reunion. On Thursday, April 30, I attended the CDA Finance Committee in place of mayor Burton. Friday, May 1, I attended the senior center May birthday celebration. Last night, I attended the rotary Cinco de Mayo bingo, and I didn't win. Dog on it. I never win bingo. Well, I can't say that. Did win one time in forty three years. And then tonight, I met with, city manager, Reich and Jackie Melendez prior to the meeting and then attended closed session.

Mayor Pro Tembert, you have item number 10.

Thank you, mayor. And I would request approval of community support funds go to the Chino Valley Rotary Club.

Okay. Motion and a second, please. I'll second. Motion from Councilman Lucio, second from Councilman Flores. Please vote.

Item passes unanimously. Your report, please.

Thank you, mayor. The reason I wasn't able to attend those meetings, and the mayor was, thank you very much for for filling in for me. Council member Lucio, myself, and some staff traveled up to Sacramento the twenty second through the twenty fourth. We attended the League of California Cities legislators days up there. We contacted our legislators, senator Rubio, and assembly member Rodriguez.

A lot of good things happened as a result of those meetings. So it's it's good that we go, and we are able to make that face to face contact with those folks. On the twenty fifth, I also attended the corn feed run. I attended with my eight year old grandson who was just overwhelmed by everything going on. He had no idea who the nine foot tall guy was with the mayor, I had to explain to him that was Oral Hirschweiser to which he just kinda responded and he shrugged his arms. And I said, okay. You know, I I understood that. But I explained it to him, and he

He's young.

He is very young. But he thought that was pretty cool after I told him that who he was. Yeah. But it was a great, great show. Lot of people there.

The twenty seventh, I attended a meeting with a representative from the ag pool agricultural pool with the Chino Basin watermaster. Then I had my one on one with the city manager. On the twenty eighth, I attended a personnel management committee meeting with the water facilities agency. I after that, I attended a briefing with the director of ARC, who, by the way, I will make contact with the ARC, and I will make some requests in reference to some directions for the cat traps. I don't think that's unreasonable.

So we will take care of that. And then after which I I attended, I had the honor of attending our volunteer recognition dinner down at Chaffey College community center. I am so blessed by the amount of volunteers that we have here. And if I can just give you a couple of stats from January to December 2025, 1,396 volunteers donated over eighteen thousand seven hundred seventy six hours of service to our community. Now when you look at that, their service is valued at nearly $673,000 to this community through volunteers.

That just amazes me. I am so thankful to our volunteers in this community. We've always had a strong volunteer group and core. City manager Wright, thank you very much for helping to continue that that group. It is definitely worth our while, and it pays off for sure.

On the fourth, I attended a affordable housing one zero one policy meeting with Chris, our staff member Chris Corbin out in Los Angeles. Then I had my one on one with the city manager. And then later, my wife and my daughter and I attended the rotary bingo de mayo with the mayor was there, and I bought some raffle tickets, and I was very fortunate. And I won a I won a two some to Los Serrano's Golf Course, which I'll use with my eight year old grandson. So that'll be pretty cool.

On the fifth, I had a meeting with a city manager and a resident. That actually was this morning. And then I, had the great honor of attending the walk of honor for Chino police sergeant Jason Larkin who retired today after nearly twenty years of service with this police department. He just class act that young man. I call him a young man because he's younger than me, But he he just really deserves to to retire and enjoy his family at this point in his life.

Before he was a police officer, he served in the United States Army. And a lot of he just had that service servant's heart about him. Really neat guy. And I would also like to add, we have some newly promoted police officers chief. If you don't mind, I'm just gonna mention these.

In attendance tonight, captain Dustin Thomassek. Can you stand up, please, Dustin? Dustin was just promoted to captain. Dust Dustin has been with the police department his entire life. And I say that to say his father was a sergeant with the Chino Police Department back in my day. He was my very first sergeant, Fernando Tomasek. And I remember sergeant Tomasek bringing his young boys around. Dustin and his brother would just run wild through the police department over here. And he still does. He's just out of control.

But captain Thomasick, congratulations. Joe McCartle was promoted to lieutenant. Franklin Ike was promoted to sergeant, and Corey Friedel was promoted to corporal. So congratulations to those, gentlemen. They're gonna do an awesome job. The chief always promotes quality individuals. I have the utmost faith, and confidence that they they will continue to do to do the right thing. And, mayor, that's all

I have.

Kurt, also tell, the audience about the car that's at the police museum.

There is a 1973 oh, Nova?

76 Nova.

1976 Nova that is in our police museum. And what is the other car?

69

Plymouth Belvedere, both on display in the Chino Police Department Museum. If you haven't seen them, I encourage you to go and look at those. Those were both restored by sergeant Fernando Tomasek given to his son, Dustin, and and he's so graciously allowed them to be displayed in our museum. They're just they're great old police cars. If you haven't been to our museum, I encourage you to go take a look. It's pretty neat.

Thank you. I do have to tell the audience a cute thing about you, though, last night at bingo. When they called out the n numbers, the first n, Kurt looks at his bingo card and he goes, I don't have an n because it was a symbol over it and you couldn't see the letter n. I went, oh, no. He can't find the n.

But I found me out. Mind.

Oh my goodness sakes. Anyway, council member Comstock, you have item number 11.

That's a

hard act to follow, mayor, but I'll try. Thank you, mayor. I am requesting also the council support on a donation of $500 to the Chino High School sport sports boosters, but more specifically to the girls flag football. So if you don't know John Munger or the Munger family, he's a legend in this community with a steel trap mine. He was actually a very well respected football coach when I was at Don Lugo High School and finished up his career over at Chino High.

He's you know, CIF winning coach, actually. And when they started this live football program over at Genoa High School, they actually approached coach Munger and asked him to coach it because they were having a hard time finding somebody to engage in it. These these young women, coach Munger has explained to me, flag football is actually taking off across the Southern California. And he was telling me that some of these young women have a hard time affording some equipment, including their banquet, and asked if I would make a donation to it. So I'm happy to. I will be contacting them, letting them know that this this donation is coming his way. So so to the Chino High girls flag football program, you know, keep fighting the good fight and keep playing. So that concludes my report on that, Mayor.

Okay. We need a motion and a second, please. Motion from councilman Lucio.

I'll second, mayor.

Second from councilman Flores. Please vote. Item passes unanimously. And coach Munger is bigger than life. Yes. If if you get near him anywhere, you can just hear him.

He is. He is. Yes. And the memory he has is actually phenomenal. Mhmm. I wish I had his memory. On April twenty four fourth, I decided to take a trip back out to Chino Market Night since it has restarted and I enjoyed that. I picked up some small items up there, but that's actually a very well attended and well received event by our community. On April 28, I attended a meeting with Supervisor Hagman along with Council Member Lucio. We discussed some development projects of mutual concern and other things that are happening within the county with the supervisor.

I thought that was a very good meeting. May 2, I attended the Corporate Challenge opening ceremonies and gave some opening comments. It was a good turnout there. We have a lot of participation. I stayed through the one of the events that day is the corn hole, And we actually had some newcomers in, two of our directors in Hye Jin and Kim, who took home the women's gold in Corn Hole.

I mean, who would have thunk

it, right? They've never played before. And there was no alcohol involved in the whole event. If you know anything about cornhole. So congratulations to team Chino. We actually had some good places out there that day. We had a lot of fun. It was cool in the morning and it burned off nicely. That somewhat concludes my report. I want to thank the TAC members, as already been mentioned tonight. Those two businesses that are in town are really well respected businesses. If you haven't been to South Coast Sourdough, give them a shot. Their sandwiches are great. And, again, Dustin, it's already been mentioned, but we're really proud of all the promotions that have been made there. I'm particularly proud as well as yours.

I know you're gonna serve in your command just wonderfully. Your father would be so proud. I'm another person that had the opportunity to work for your father. People wanted to work for your dad, Dustin. He was one of you know, how it is. He was one of the first sergeant shifts to get signed up for because they respected him and enjoyed working for him, and I know you're the same type of leader. So congratulations. And that concludes my report for tonight. Oh, one more thing. I feel especially grateful this year, this season, god willing, to still have my mom around, and this coming weekend is Mother's Day.

So I wish all the moms out there a great Mother's Day, even to the ones that may be grieving for for different reasons. But there's a you know, I I I happen to try and live in a state of perpetual gratitude. I'm very grateful for my mother and the impact she's had upon me and my family's life. So happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there, and to you as well, mayor, and to you, Doctor. Reich, and all of our directors as well.

Thank you. Councilman Flores.

Thank you, Mayor. So on the twenty fifth, I along with probably the rest of the council attended the car feed car show. And that day, I didn't know this, but I guess Walt Pocock, he was honored that day and I was just so felt I the sense of gratitude, you know, being able to see him be honored that day. I guess he's stepping down from running the car show and he's he's I call him a walking living legend and that's what he is. So, cheers to you, mister Polkak. On that same day, I attended the grand opening and ribbon cutting for M and W aesthetics and wellness. Melissa, you were there as well. We had a great time. And it was a I didn't know this. Botox is a big thing now. I'm not sure if that if you guys know about that, but

I said, hey, I have

a lot of subject matter here, I may be I may be coming to visit you guys soon.

You want Botox, Chris?

On the twenty eighth, I attended the West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District. We had our meeting that day. And two things, again, sure happy Mother's Day to all the beautiful, lovely mothers out there and to the ones that are grieving as well. And Richard Montejo came up with his wife today and they presented. I'm definitely open minded mayor to jump in that you're right.

That's disgusting.

But I am not jumping in the speedo.

I'm gonna

put that out there and have that for the record.

But the funny thing is I I haven't heard the word speedo in a long time. What I know it as is a tantaran. Remember tantarans? Anyways. But I love the work they're doing and chief to the police department, you know, again, the partnership is always amazing. So kudos to the to the Motijo family for continuing their their mission and trying to bring the community together. But that concludes my comments.

But there's one more thing you need to talk about. What is all this stuff right in front of you, Chris?

Yeah. So I need

to show.

I along I got I'll show the cake.

No. Show the sign too.

Yeah. I'm a graduate this year. I'm a graduate this year. I'm graduating from law school. It's been quite the run and it's been a lot of ups and downs, but we're done. May 16, I'm graduating. I take my last final tomorrow, remedies, and I'm preparing to take bar in July. July 2829.

Awesome. Congratulations.

This young man is one of the most determined young people I have ever met in my life. He has a real estate license, a broker's license, goes to law school, graduates from law school. Now he's gonna take the bar exam. He's on the council. Rides a skateboard. Rides a skateboard around town. He comes to council meetings sometimes on his skateboard. But, Chris, I think we're gonna see very great things for you from you in the future. You are a very unique individual, and it's a privilege to know you. Thank you. Yeah. You're welcome. And I know your family is very proud of you. Councilman Lucio.

Yes. First, I want to say congratulations, Dustin. Good job. Well deserved. And I just wanted to I was going to give my report, but one of the things that's been coming up a lot, and I know that you're working on it, Chief, but there's been ongoing complaints on social media and complaints about the e bikes.

And I can tell you there's constant things that come up about kids getting killed in different communities. I think one was recent in Baldwin Park where a kid got hit by a car and got killed. Then we had one in Irvine and different neighborhoods. And I can tell you I was out there with Stubby walking his the Ivy. Ivy, the Ivy.

And there was a kid that was probably, you know, older than 10 years old riding an ebike. First, he was on the sidewalk, no helmet. Then Then he was on the street riding and then as he's riding, he's running the stop signs, you know, going on the hooks. And then I see them all gathered up in front of the clubhouse. They're at College Park and they all take off and they take up the number two lane doing wheelies.

So I think we really need to move on this and start doing some enforcement on it before, you know, we make the news that one of our kids gets killed because they're not they're becoming more blatant. They're having disregard for the safety of the people on the sidewalk. Now they're driving around, doing tricks on the streets, and a lot of these are just basically electric dirt bikes. So I think we really need to come up with a policy that we can all look at so that we can change our code, so we can do some enforcement on it because obviously the parents don't know what their kids are doing or if they do know what their kids are doing, they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing and enforcing them not to be doing those kind of things on the street. But I think it's time that we take that step and we start doing some enforcement on that.

And I know you're working on it, so I just I'd like to see it hopefully before the summer because once the summer comes, it's just probably going to get worse because they're going have a lot of time on their hands. So that's all I have. And for all the mothers, my wife, my mom and for all the mothers here in our community, I don't know where I would be without my mom. My mom was probably the bigger influence on me than my dad was. So I definitely want to wish everybody a happy Mother's Day. That's all I have.

I have to echo what you say about the e bikes, even in our neighborhood. It's amazing. Even the adults that are on them. The other day, was going down Benson, and there was an adult, full grown man flying down Benson going right through stop signs. If there was nobody on the opposite direction, he just went through. And then he crossed over actually on the wrong side of the street going southbound and then made the curve to the left. It's just I don't know. It it's almost like stop sign speed limits and things are suggestions, not the law anymore. But it is scary. It's frightening. City manager, do you have a report this evening?

No. We're apart from here.

City man or city attorney?

I I would just say on the ebike issue, one pretty significant deterrent that, I think it just may spread beyond Orange County is the Orange County district attorney, has, filed criminal, criminal action against the the mother of one of the, individuals that collided against the older gentleman who ultimately succumbed to his injuries, but that I was reading a story that about the theory of liability and that may be pushed in other jurisdictions beyond what district attorney Spitzer is doing in Orange County. So it's something to for parents to keep in mind. Just wanted to say congratulations to council member Flores. I I spent the my entire time when I was studying in law school just studying, and was plenty. So it's commendable that you did it while you were doing other things.

So I

And we do expect him to pass the bar the first time. Okay. Any director reports this evening? None. Okay. Chief Minson?

Yeah. Just real quickly, the ebike. So we are working on that municipal code section, and it's we're working with traffic engineering to create that. It's priority. When we discussed this, this came up probably about six weeks ago, two months ago. So there is vehicle code section that it applies right now, and that's what our officers and we we rent their officers that we are doing enforcement. It's hard because we can't stat it because it's just a lot of these the violations that they're writing is being unlicensed because these bicycles, they're they're they're calling a boys bicycles. They're really not. They're motorized motorcycles.

Mhmm.

And so there is no they're they're completely illegal no matter how old the person is to be out on the street. So our officers have been out there. They've been issuing citations for those and they have been actually impounding them. So but we've we've done some social media posts. We've done some education, but it it is. It's and it's a problem everywhere. It's a problem regionally. But we're gonna come up with some some new things that we can do, some more innovative stuff. I know there's some things the schools that we've seen some surrounding cities that have done, but we're gonna do that. Where the immunity code will help us it'll help us to also to better track it and it'll also be more applicable for the violations when they take place that we issue for the municipal code as opposed to just a very broad California vehicle code.

So we're we're working on that, and I hear it will make this a top priority. And just with this being National Mental Health Awareness Month, I just wanna point out that the Chino Police Department, we have 17 members of the department that are specially trained. It's called our crisis intervention team. It's been in place for for just over ten years where we get they go and get trained by NAMI. They they go to a conference and they provide classes.

And so when you have an individual within the community that has suffers from some type of mental illness, they get assigned to one of these members of our crisis intervention team. They work with department behavioral health. So we do a lot. Obviously, we've seen mental wellness and the challenges of them significantly increase last five years or so, and and we could

get

into my theories of it and with with narcotics and the lack of consequences with laws. Obviously, I do think as proposition 36 and now that it's passed, as it now can hopefully get funded, obviously, it was twofold. It was the retail theft side was to address that, which was important, but I think that and that was what captured a lot of people. But the other side was the drug usage and being able to have some consequences with the drug usage to get these individuals forced mandated to get help. And that's where right now there's a lot of big push to try to get funding to prop 36 to help this.

Because these people that are have used drugs for so long with no consequences, their brain has just been destroyed on these drugs, and now it turns into a mental health issue. And that's not everybody, but that is a large portion of the people that we're dealing with. So and then just lastly, you know, we're as you know, we're we're heavily involved in community events and doing different things that we've done for a lot of years, but really excited about some of these new things. And Richard and Lisa talked about the one that we're having at Villa Park, and we're going down to homecoming. But the other one and I know, mayor, you read it in your opening comments, that the Chino in action on June 6 down at Stevie Park is we're really looking forward to that event.

We are gonna have our helicopter down there for kind of a ribbon cutting ceremony. On top of that, we're gonna have city booths from all the different departments in the city to be out there. There are different trucks, our Bearcat, fire truck would be out there, public works trucks. We're really, really looking forward to to having that event down the preserve. So and then just lastly, on a personal note, so I will be going out to Texas next week. My daughter will be also graduating from Texas Tech to getting her master's degree after after five years. So extremely proud of her. So

Is she gonna move back home?

She's gonna come back home temporarily, then she's gonna be looking real quick to try to find her own place, I'm sure. So that that concludes my report unless you have any questions.

I do. A couple of meetings ago, a gentleman came and talked to us about substances that are being sold that are really dangerous. What the status of that?

You have quote here to talk about it? Yes.

So that was a seven zero eight here. It's also commonly called the Kratom, and we're working with city attorney Fred Galante's office to create that municipal code. We got some examples from other agencies, and we're working closely, hoping to have that here really quick.

Great. Thank you very much. Any questions from Kevin? Comments? Nope. Thank

you very much.

Chief Williams.

Good evening, mayor. Just wanted to make one notification to the community members. This Saturday, May 9, from eight to one at our training center, 5092 Schaeffer. We're having a sharps collection. The only requirement is that you have to have a city ID to show that you live in the city, number one. And number two, the sharps have to be in a proof container, sharps container. And so between eight and one, come on out if you need to get rid of your sharps, and that's all I have.

Okay. Thank you very much. Anything else for this evening? Okay. With that, we oh, Thursday at noon here at City Hall, we will be hosting the National Day of Prayer. So, Calvary Chapel Chino Valley, usually, their band is here, and there's prayers from different ministers and stuff. So if you're not doing anything at noon on Thursday, come on out and join us at City Hall Steps. With that, we are adjourned to our next meeting, which will be held on Tuesday, May 12 at 06:00 with closed session starting no earlier than four if needed. We are adjourned.

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