Planning Commission - workshop

Thanks for the presentation. I have a couple questions. One is with the Mike Thompson RV sign. I do drive by there sometimes and see advertisements for the police department. What's our arrangement with them? Do they show it a certain number of times per hour or per day?

All right. Yeah, well, I'd just like to shout out to Mike Thompson for doing that for us. Really appreciate it.

And then next question is, do you know how many we have in the Explorer cadet program right now, approximately?

Oh, okay. So that's a lot of potential future.

Okay, and last question is, you mentioned this ESOP program, which is reducing the background check time. Can you give an example of some of the, like before the ESOP and after the ESOP, like one thing that sort of how we did it before and how the new program does it for the...

Yeah, because cutting three months off, it just seems like...

So it's mostly a paperless process. Okay, great. All right. Thank you. That's all the questions.

Do we need a motion on it? You want a motion on this?

Yeah I would defer to the rest of the council if if if there is only one that wants to attend I'll be the second one but I'm happy to have the three of three of you go.

Yeah, it's one. I'm the default if we need two and nobody else wants to go.

Yeah, I just want to state that I would be in support of moving forward with the delegation.

Hi. Yeah, this is a fantastic presentation, and I come from a visual design background, so I really appreciate the cohesive visual presentation, the iconography, the use of color. Even though I know it's not final, I like that your firm is already thinking about a strong visual identity for this district that is unique and distinctive, and that's not just kind of a one-size-fits-all. So the fact that the Design guidelines are going to have some flexibility built in, I think is very smart. My question is, have you given this presentation in Garden Grove and Santa Ana, and how have they responde

Yeah. So kind of continuing on that, it's reasonable to assume that having the, these design guidelines in place will give a city more leverage when it comes to applying for grants or other sorts of financial assistance to say like, Hey, it's one thing if I say, Oh, we want to do this and Hey, there's three cities that have the shared vision, but it's another thing to actually have something to show for it. That I think is kind of the intent behind this exercise.

Yeah, are we going to have any problem if we use the name Little Saigon now that you bring it up?

So in the two examples that you provided, Little Italy and Little Tokyo, were those just within the boundaries of one city, or were they also multi-city partnerships?

Well, and I just wanted to make a final point because the map is up that the purpose of these design guidelines is to create a cohesive visual identity for the area, which goes beyond our city limits. But it's a way to say, Hey, if I'm coming into little Saigon and I can tell as I'm driving around, that I am in this special district, I don't want to all of a sudden be outside of that district when I cross into the city of Fountain Valley. So the whole goal is to make sure that if we have people that are already in that area, when they come into our city, they still understand, hey, we're in th

I guess I don't understand the topic. Didn't we already authorize a community survey to go ahead?

Yeah, I'd like to make a comment. First of all, I appreciate the speaker's comments, and I would like to ask for the attorney's input on this. It's my understanding that campaigning is not appropriate on any city property or city events, and so if that is happening, I'd like to just kind of clarify it at this time.

Yeah, I'd like an answer now. I mean, is it appropriate to campaign on city property and city events? Yes or no? Or what's, it should be a quick answer. I think the answer is no, but if it's not, then I'm interested to hear why.

Thank you. On August 19th, attended the PCTA meeting. August 20th, OCTA Finance Committee meeting. Also on August 20th, the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Committee meeting. August 27th, attended the Pickler Ribbon Cutting Grand Opening. Very nice facility over in the old Rite Aid on Magnolia and Talbert. and on the August 24th attended the OCTA board meeting and that concludes my report and the board the OCTA I guess the latest thing happening there is we the they're testing the streetcar in Santa Ana and try I think they're shooting for opening end of this year beginning of next year