City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome to a meeting of the Ontario City Council. First order of business madam city clerk is the roll call.

Thank you, Mayor Leon. The record will reflect all council members are present for tonight's meeting.

All right, thank you. And by law, I'm obligated to ask if anybody here has a conflict of interest on any item on the agenda tonight? Seeing none, we'll move on. And our pledge of allegiance will be led by council member Bowman, and our invocation will be led by my good buddy, pastor Sean Thurman from Calvary Chapel, Ontario.

With liberty and justice for all.

Good afternoon, council members. I am, as

God,

a business owner in this city and a minister, as a resident for gosh, twenty seven years now. It's such a privilege just to be here and not only that but to exercise one of our privileges or freedoms that we have in this nation and that's to to worship our god. So, in the Hebrew scriptures, the book of Exodus, we're told to not revile god nor curse the ruler of the people and in first Samuel, we're told that the rulers are appointed by god. Paul writes in the letter of Romans that says, let every soul be subject to the governing authorities for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. We're told also to render therefore their due, taxes to whom taxes, guess we gotta run a city, to the customs to whom customs and honor to honor.

And in Deuteronomy, an entire nation was told to choose wise, understanding, and knowledge people from among them, not unlike today in our elections. That's why you're here. We also read in the book of of Proverbs that when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice but when a wicked man rules, the people groan by the blessings of the upright, the city is exalted. Let's pray. Father, even as as it is written that this city council would continue to be a servant to the people, and I pray you would continue to place upon them a spirit of servanthood that you would fill them with wisdom, understanding, and make them knowledgeable, able to handle difficult matters.

And, Lord, that they would continue to be a blessing to the people of this city. I pray that there would be respect for those that lead this community. And as as your word tells us that when we speak that we should speak as the oracles of god, that we should have edifying speech toward one another. And lord, we thank you for giving us a form of government that is representative of the people and the ability to have open dialogue, to have personal effect in our own community. I lift up the needs that are represented here tonight and that the people who have concerns or need direction that they too would be treated with respect and and dignity.

For the decisions that need to be made that would be done in orderly and godly manner. And I also pray that this would be a productive time completing the business that's at hand. And lord, as I mentioned earlier in Proverbs, I pray that those here would be righteous in their authority, that the people can truly rejoice, and that this would also be a city that is exalted. And lastly, that there would be that they would be here to serve heartedly, wholeheartedly as unto the Lord and not to man, knowing that the reward comes from above. And lastly, again, that we just pray you would do these things in our lord's name. Amen. Amen. Thank you. God bless. Thanks, John.

Well, we're gonna have a special ceremony this evening, and it'll be about a special recognition of Historic Preservation Month. With this proclamation, it's an opportunity to reflect on our city's unique history from our roots as a model colony to the character and identity we continue to build today. So tonight, the City Council is pleased to proclaim the month of May 2026 as Historic Preservation Month. And so I invite you to stay tuned for next month when we celebrate our Model Colony awardees as we honor outstanding achievements in historic preservation. And that takes us to our public comments and you will be limited to three minutes.

Speakers will be alerted when you have one minute remaining. In accordance with state law, remarks must be limited to subjects under counsel's jurisdiction. All those wishing to speak, including the counsel and staff, need to be recognized by the chair before speaking. Do we have any emailed public comments?

Yes, Mr. Mayor there is one emailed public comment for item number seven of the agenda was printed placed at the dais and will be entered into the record.

Okay, I got you. So I have blue cards and we'll begin with Roxanne Gracia. And I also just want to remind everybody that this is a time when, and not referencing you, just generally speaking, Anyone can come up and say what's on their mind and we are not allowed to engage in a conversation because it's not an itemized agenda item. And so that's the law. And I will say this too that over the years I find that not everything that someone says is necessarily so.

But we still can't comment either way. So thank you for allowing me to say that. Your three minutes are beginning.

Good evening, mayor, mayor pro tem, council members, city clerk, city manager, and our assistant city attorney. My name is Roxanna and I am the district director for assembly member Michelle Rodriguez. It's a pleasure to be here tonight. I am here to make a couple of announcements. One is that the assembly member is hosting a workshop next Friday, and she is calling it stay safe, stay independent.

It's a senior safety and driving workshop, which is a partnership between AAA and the California Department of Insurance. This workshop will be hosted next Friday, May 15 from ten a. M. To 11:30 in the morning at the Moncler Senior Center. This is a great opportunity for our seniors, caretakers, family members to come out, learn about safe driving tips, tools for independence.

The program is called keeping the keys. So as we're aging, we're making sure that our drivers are maintaining safety and that we're sharing resources as well. The California Department of Insurance will be talking about how to spot and avoid scams. They are very prevalent nowadays, and with the development of AI, artificial intelligence, they're getting more sophisticated. So we wanna make sure that our seniors are being educated, that they're learning the tools and the red flags how to stay safe and alert.

There will be resource booths. There'll be giveaways. There'll be raffles, so please join us next Friday for this wonderful event. In addition to that, I also wanted to share that our summer barbecue is coming up, and you all will be get you will all be getting an invite and the community as well. We are looking for nominations for three categories.

So if you know of a veteran in the city Of Ontario that you'd like to nominate, a small business in the City Of Ontario, or a teacher in the City Of Ontario, we have a link on our website, and we created a Bitly link so it's easier to access. It's bit One minute remaining. Lee backslash twenty twenty six summer barbecue nominations. If you go there or to the assembly members website, you'll see a big button at the top where you will be able to nominate those folks and hopefully be chosen so they could be recognized at the summer barbecue, which will be happening on June 20. It always happens in the same location behind our district office.

We closed down all the streets. We have over 40 vendors. We have the Chino Valley Fire Department come out, barbecue, hot dogs, free food for the community. We'll have music. We'll have fun. So please consider joining us, and you have a wonderful rest of your night. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Michelle Feinstein. Okay, Michael. Sorry about that.

Great. Michael Feinstein. I am a former mayor and city council member in Santa Monica, co founder of the Green Party of California and a candidate for California Secretary of State. And I wanna talk about representation for your city in light of the gerrymandering fights that we're having across the country. A few months ago, you remember we had the Prop 50 fight between California and Texas.

Texas gerrymandered for the Republicans. California gerrymandered for the Democrats. What do we learn from that? If we are depending upon single seat districts for representation exclusively, then how we draw district lines determines who gets power and who doesn't get power. Why doesn't everybody get representation in our legislature?

So especially now after the Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act, we need to be thinking about how we're sending people to Sacramento and to DC. Most of the countries that we're compared to around the world use systems of proportional representation instead of only single seat districts, where instead of electing one seat at a time, you elect many seats at a time. If one party gets 25% of the vote, they get 25% of the seats. 30%, they get 30% of the seats. In that way, from a geographic area, you have Democrats, Republicans, Greens like myself, Libertarians.

You have a diversity that represents the diversity in that area because as the old adage goes, if you aren't at the table, you're on the menu. What I'm specifically recommending is in a larger state legislature, half the seats elected from smaller single seat districts by ranked choice voting, and then half the seats from regional proportional representation districts. Why regional? We are a nation state and a state of regions, and our transportation corridors, our housing, our economic realities, Central Valley is different than the Bay Area here, etcetera. But we don't send people to Sacramento One

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Out of regional public policy debates. Where your city has a voice is through SCAG. You send people to SCAG. SCAG lobbies in the state legislature, but we aren't actually holding a public dialogue to elect people and send them to Sacramento out of discussing our regional dynamics. It's very likely after the fiasco in the governor's race with all the votes winning and who's going to survive till November, etcetera, that there's going to be a ballot measure to overturn the jungle primary in California and go to something else.

Rather than just going back to our old system, I think we need to have a meaningful dialogue about looking at proportional representation so that everybody in this state gets representation, and then we can have majority rule. Right now, we have majority rule after eliminating voices before we even get to the table. Thanks for your time.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Kizzy.

Thank you, Mayor of City Council. Assistant City Attorney, is that Giboa? Correct? Okay. Let's see if I can put it in terms that maybe you appreciate. We'll start with introduction. My name is Kizzy. I live in the city. Love the city. Been here for some decades.

I wanna see it continue to do better, continue to be growing, continue to be a place where people have a valued quality of life and they can live and do what they wanna do as long as it's within the walls and realms of our society. I formed a group of my neighbors in District 3 March 17. And we came and addressed this group regarding situations and problems that we were having in District 3. We got good feedback from the mayor. We got good feedback from D. C. Lopez who's now Chief Lopez. Introduction, background, background and introduction. Where do we go now? Okay, we go into argument.

My argument is the Grove Plaza. I addressed this with you guys and for some reason it seemed that it ruffled some fathers. I addressed Ms. Messias to which I got admonished by Mr. Bowman and admonished by the city attorney. I addressed issues that happened and there was nothing done about it. No one reached out to me or said anything about my allegation or what I said occurred which led to me stating what I said. After that, I sold one of my businesses, as I told you, Mr. Bowman, so I could have more time to focus. Now many people in this room have stated that the Grove Plaza can't be fixed.

I don't understand things and there's so many owners and we've done this and we've done that. Well, this is what I did. I went and found the owner of the Grove Plaza, and I went to his house. Took me three times, and I finally got a call. Well, after I got a call, I got a new property manager. After I got a new property manager, I got a security guard. So now the lady who was allegedly selling drugs in the parking lot, the prostitution that was allegedly going on, the acts in front of the young ladies working in Baskin Robbins employment store have all stopped. People are not living in the parking lot anymore. This is an example of what we can do. I implore you guys to do something about our city in areas that need concern, areas that need attention.

If I can do this, then you guys can do this. Individuals may be upset about me coming in here speaking and I want to remind you of something. I only came because there was a problem. If there was no problem, I would have kept jogging down Park Hill and Walnut and you would never heard from me. But there was a problem and it needed attention and I came here. And then there were other problems that were addressed by my neighbors and that caused me to come back. And then people said that there's things that we can't do. Our hands are tied. Well, how can Kizzee get it done? And I'm not a city council person. I remind everybody in here, and this is for department heads and for city council members, not going to you, Mary Leon or Ms. Parrotta, you guys get a salary. You get paid by our tax dollars. Do your job and you won't have people like me coming in here. Thank you.

All right, thank you. Our next speaker is Janet Ricardes.

Hello, Mayor Paul Leon, I remember working on your campaign. And I wanted to let you know that I recently had a yard sale. My whole point is the yard sales and the garage sales. And it rained on Sunday and didn't do too well. But neighbors were telling me, wouldn't it be great if we could have yard sales three days out of each month versus three days out of every three months?

And the reason why is because you look at it this way, twelve days out of the year, we're allowed to have yard sales. And what happens is there are a lot of people that depend on that little extra cash to bridge the gap for the month, like seniors that are on a fixed salary, families, people that have lost their loved ones, and they're having to support their family. So yard sales gives them a chance to get rid of some of the things that they've been accumulating. And I'm not saying going out and buying more and trying to sell it. No.

There are a lot of people here in the city that have extra storage stuff in their backyard, and they're trying to get rid of it. And I'm one of those people because recently well, three years ago, my husband passed away. So I have a lot of things that's accumulated from him. Some things I've donated to Teen Challenge, some things I haven't. So I do need the extra cash. I'm on a fixed salary. We don't have two salaries anymore. And I'm not the only one. I've been talking to other people, and they're saying, wow, yeah, we only get to have it three days out of the month. And when it rains, oh, well, you miss those days.

And the other thing I would like to request, and I implore you to consider, if it rains, let them do it the following weekend. Well, Friday, Saturday, Sunday is the days. And that's basically it's about yard sales and garage sales. Now people who violate that and who violate then try to use it for another reason, well then they could be notified saying, you're not allowed to do this. There are rules. But people who really need the extra income, I think it's a good idea to consider having it more often, like once a month, three days out of the month. So that's what I am here to talk about. Okay? So that's it.

All right. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

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for listening.

Thanks Janet. Our next speaker is Chris Robles.

Good evening Mr. Mayor, City Council. My name is Chris Robles. Just a few moments ago, you declared this month historic preservation month and there was

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proclamation which you didn't show anyone, but I think it bears reading parts of it. Whereas the city's historical foundation should be preserved and promoted in order to foster an understanding of the city's past and provide future generations the opportunity to appreciate, enjoy, and understand Ontario's rich heritage. Whereas historic preservation is an effective tool for managing smart growth, revitalizing neighborhoods, fostering local pride and maintaining community character. Lastly, whereas it is important to celebrate the role of history in our lives and the contributions made by dedicated individuals in helping to preserve the tangible aspects of the heritage that has shaped us as a people. I agree with all of these, but I'm wondering why you're doing nothing to reopen and preserve Jay Littleton Ballpark.

Here you are dedicating this proclamation, wonderful sentiments but you're not living up to the words. We are now at least 2,239 of closure. It's probably far more of that ballpark. There is no reason to not reopen the ballpark. And I ask you, live up to the proclamation you just decided upon and live up to those words of our history and our heritage here in Ontario. Thank you. Alright.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Marty McBride.

Good evening, mayor and city council. I'm going to be relatively brief because I have spoken on this topic before. I spoke at the last city council, I think two city council meetings ago, regarding the unnecessary interruption by poor Claudia who probably has the worst job on earth here today, having to interrupt every single speaker to remind them of what is right in front of them in terms of the time amount that they have left to speak. In addition to just being a distraction, an inconvenience, and just plain rude, I want to say that this is a violation of parliamentary procedure. When you have a speaker speaking, that speaker has the floor and that means that nobody else gets to speak during that person's time including city staff.

So I want to ask again that the city council consider amending their their not policy but their procedure at all city meetings where public is invited to speak and allow the public to speak uninterrupted. Thank you very much.

All right. Thank you. Our next speaker is Randy Beckendom.

Good evening, mayor and council. Randy Beckendam, Executive Director of the Southern California Agricultural Land Foundation. And as I stated before, our nonprofit SCAF managed the Prop 70 lands from 1990 to 2006. As a current executive director, I'm duty bound to follow the Prop 70 issue closely. So I have here a printout of the proceedings, a portion of the proceedings, April 7 at the County Board of Supervisors where they voted to dispose of the Prop 70 lands.

And I'm going to read just a couple of lines here. It says the county proposes to sell one Prop 70 dairy site, approximately 74 acres to the City of Ontario. Proceeds

from

the sale will be deposited into the special fund and used to begin identifying, appraising and acquiring land within the Grand Park footprint. There's an important step that's not recorded here, I think conveniently left out. The county is going to sell to the city. The city is going to pay the county market value, which we estimate to be about $90,000,000 So now the county has $90,000,000 The city has 74 acres and it's South of Eucalyptus. The next step that's not recorded here is that the city is gonna sell that to a developer who will build the warehouse, then the city will take that money and buy land for the Grand Park.

This is motivated by developers wanting the Prop 70 land. There's not transparency here.

One minute remaining.

And with that I'm going

to finish. Thank you. Thank you, Randy. Mr. City Manager, do you have any comments on that? You don't have to.

Yeah, it's not on the agenda tonight but there's a misunderstanding on the gentleman's part.

Okay. All right, well that ends our public comment and we'll go to agenda review and announcements.

No changes, sir.

All right, thank you. So then we'll go into consent calendar and all matters will be enacted by one motion. There'll be no separate discussion unless a member of the council pulls an item. We do have blue cards. We have two. Actually, Mr. Robles, you get one bite at the apple. You have two cards but you get one bite, okay? So we'll hear from you first.

Bite a is number four and bite b is number eight. Items four and eight. So item four is the third quarter budget update and the city is talking about economic uncertainty, inflation, tariffs, slower economy growth and exploding pension costs including a 105% increase in pension costs over the last five years. But at the same time the city is moving forward with a massive spending and debt. The report includes 130,000,000 in lease revenue bond proceedings which is coming up on the public hearing, nearly 67,000,000 in property acquisitions, 30,000,000 more tied to the Ontario Sports Complex, that's a whole other issue and over 5,100,000 in additional police overtime.

So questions, what is the total there should be a presentation about this. This is this is our tax money. You treat it the same way you treat the budget when you pass it in July.

One minute remaining. You don't

talk about it publicly. You hide from it. So what is the total repayment cost of a 100? You know what I'll submit these questions because I need to get on to item eight. So item eight is about has no minor purchase $17,300,000 in furnishings and other items for the sports complex. There should be again a whole presentation about spending $17,300,000 of our tax money and you're just putting it on consent. This is ridiculous. Any other city and there would be at least an hour presentation discussion and people would understand what's going on here. So you're just hiding these things. There's a whole agreement.

There's nothing about the the the process for the bids. This is somehow connected to some other contract. This is not how to run a city not a transparent one for certain. Thank you.

Alright thank you. Our next speaker is Tommy Michigan.

I'm speaking about number nine. Your flight tower restaurant is that seems like you're dumping a lot of city money into some entity that nobody wants around there. It doesn't fit in with the community standards. And why do you have to keep dumping more money? We don't need another hotel there. Well, micro hotel. Because there's already two Hyatt Place hotels in the city of Ontario. So we're have this other one. And as a reminder, the Ontario Sports Empire, don't know where you dreamt that up, but every empire has fallen. The Roman empire, the Ottoman empire, the empire strikes back.

So that means you gotta think of something else. And, you know, oh, what's another thing? So no flight to a restaurant. It's it's pain in the butt. What are you gonna do with the soccer park on the North Side Of The 60? With your electronic billboard sign? You're keep that? Because you're already bringing more soccer fields down to your new park.

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Thank you. Making up money off that electronic billboard sign right there. But yeah, nobody wants in my area, nobody wants a flight tower restaurant.

Thank you. Alright, thank you. So I'll entertain a motion and a second.

I'll make a motion that we pass the consent calendar, but I'd like to speak to number seven after we do.

Okay.

Second.

So we have a motion from Veradis, second by Bowman. Take an electronic vote on the consent calendar. Passes five zero. We'll come back to item number seven for comment.

Number seven is in regards to the San Bernardino County and the JPA that they're forming to help with the housing shortage and to help with the nonprofit and money towards housing, which I totally agree with. So I'm all for that. But I'm worried about when it forms and whoever one of us sits on that. I'm hoping that we will also ask for conflict of interest code that make sure that that's doing the right things and also too that all members, including the attorneys and the consultants file a 700 form. And the reason that I asked for all of that because there's a couple of issues that we have going on with some of the other agencies that we're involved in that don't have these things.

And so, and we're trying to fix it, so I would like to start that JP off right from the start and make sure that we do. So thank you.

All right, so that moves us into public hearings. Madam city clerk, item number 15.

Thank you. This is a public hearing for resolutions authorizing the issuance of lease revenue bond series twenty twenty six c, federally taxable, and twenty twenty six d, tax exempt, and related matters. Notice the public hearing has been given. Affidavits of compliance are on file, and we have no written communications.

Okay. So I'll open the public hearing and let the record reflect that there are no written communications. And I'll close the public hearing and entertain a motion discussion from counsel. I'm sorry. Ma'am. It was behind the other ones. Our first okay. Let's go backwards then. Let's I'm sorry. Didn't see this. So we'll we'll begin again by opening the public hearing. We do have two blue cards. Mister Robles.

Good evening, mister mayor, city council. So I wanna speak about this these lease revenue bonds. You're issuing up to $330,000,000. I understand the city wants to invest in projects but taxpayers also deserve a lot of transparency and caution when this level of long term debt is being proposed. Again, no presentation.

Tonight we're talking about obligations that could extend to through at least 2057. That's that is decades of financial commitment and the future that future councils and taxpayers will assume and inherit. At the same time, the city budget warns about economic uncertainty as I spoke earlier. Inflation recession concerns tariffs, rising healthcare costs and rapidly increasing CalPERS pension obligations. The city's own report states that pension related liabilities have increased dramatically including a projected

$1,000,000

So my question is simple. How does the city plan to safely manage hundreds of millions in additional debt on the backs of taxpayers while these other financial pressures are growing? I'm also concerned that the bond documents state that there is no reserve fund established for these bonds and that no additional bonds can still and I'm sorry, and additional bonds can be issued by you later. This is not about opposing investment in Ontario but this is about asking for accountability, transparency and long term fiscal responsibility before you lock us, the tax payers, into this decades long of repayment obligations. So I encourage you to, before you vote, before you do this, that you get, you tell tax payers total repayment costs including interest, the annual payment obligations, the long term risks and what protections exist if economic conditions.

Thank you.

Alright. Thank you Mr. Robles. Tommy Michigan.

Item 15, correct me if I'm wrong, but I looked online. It said calculated to the final maturity of the bonds in 2057 which is beyond our 2050 plan is June So I'd like to bring that to your attention. And can I be a municipal advisor for the city? I've been here all my life and I'm not going anywhere. Instead of Urban Futures Incorporated. Who is Urban Futures Incorporated? What do they want? Build everything out? Build no agriculture? Mayor, do you wear the same tie all the time?

And then another thing is I didn't see anybody at the Shoreline Mafia show because, you know, your venue's a little small. And I had to like turn my the whole like, it was uncomfortable. First time ever at that arena you have. But, I mean so no urban futures.

Alright. Well, thank you. We'll go once again. We'll close the public hearing and I'll now entertain motion or discussion from counsel. Move the item. Moved by mister Bowman. Second. Second by miss Perata. We'll take an electronic vote. Item passes five zero. Moves us to staff matters. Mister city manager.

Nothing tonight, sir.

Council matters. Miss Macias.

Nothing tonight.

Mister Bowman. Nothing at this time. Mister Wattenberg.

Thank you, mister mayor.

It was about

a month or two ago that we had an agenda item dealing with J. Littleton Farm Park and we had a pretty good discussion. However, at some point discussion shut down. There was a motion to table and that motion went through even though I opposed it. I was a bit concerned because a motion to table means you're killing the project. It's done, it doesn't come back to the council. Perhaps a motion to continue would have been better if we could continue the discussion. In any case, we still have a field out there, it's not being used and at a minimum I think it's time to see kids out there playing ball. I know that dad was still alive, he'd be really upset about what's going on because dad was all about watching kids play ball, teach them how to play ball, get them out playing ball, not politics or anything else. And we certainly appreciate that.

That's why the field was named after Jay Littleton because that's what he stood for, community in baseball. So I guess the question then to Mr. City managers, what would it take for us to be able to get the field going again so kids can start playing, it's a safe environment for them to do that. What would that take?

For the netting and the outfield and fencing for backstop and some bleach time, somewhere between 150,000 to 75,000.

But before we go any

further on this, this is just a counsel comments. I don't want to get caught in a brown hat or any kind of violation by having a conversation on this. And I actually I agree with Mr. Wattner. Can I speak? It's still your floor. So I'm okay. So the reality folks is that we shelved what was being presented which was a splash park in place of the field. And the future of that conversation would be actually I think what Mr. Wattner is asking for which is how do we get the current field back in operation.

And actually and I don't want to go any further with that other than that we should have another council meeting and talk about what we really want there and how we're gonna do that. Does that sound reasonable? Yes,

however if we can circumvent some of that time and we're still looking, I'm sorry, Graybord Olive House is still sitting there. It's been years. I don't wanna see this linger for years. I wanna see kids out there playing baseball. So that was the question to the city manager. What would it take to at least get it going? We could continue any other conversation, but least get kids out there playing.

Yeah, we'll have to have that conversation in open session, right? Not right now. That's the way I see it. That's what I think is legal.

If the council was to agendize that conversation, sure you could put that on. But I hear Mayor Pro Tem Wapner two different things. One, conversation from counsel about what to do with the field long term with the park and separate from that, doing something in the short term just to get kids on the field. That's it. That's what I.

Could I add something to Mr. Baum. I would agree with that, with Councilman Waffner that, you know, the necessity, I think we have an opportunity and obligation and I think we all agree to let the kids play

ball. Yes.

I'm just saying maybe perhaps we could bring that back. But in the meantime, it's going to take time to put the bigger picture together, but the season is marching on. And I think that's what's being on the table is what in the interim can we do to facilitate opening the park for the kids now?

Yeah. And I think that's reasonable. But we, I Mayor? The city attorney, you need to I think this has gotten into a conversation I'm really worried about. I think we need to agendize it and bring it back at the very next meeting. I think that makes sense Mayor. Yes Debbie.

I'm tending to agree with this so can we then ask for it to be put on the agenda at the next time with what it would take to make it playable until we can make whatever that decision is. I totally agree with Alan.

Yeah, yeah. I think it's due. Okay, okay. Anything else? Debbie?

Yes. So we have some stuff coming up and we need the public participation here. So July 4 is, you know, our 200 birthday. It's the city's 130 birthday. It's Granada's one hundredth birthday and it's the old post office's one hundredth birthday. A lot of good birthdays are happening this year. And from what I'm hearing at the Parks and Recreation Department is that we have plenty of cars but we don't have enough floats. So, anybody out there that would like to put together a float for the fourth of July parade would really love to have it, but you have to submit your application before the fifteenth. So, please do that. And then another event that we have coming up is National Night Out is August 4, Mean Neighborhoods.

So, if you think that's a lot of work, it is but it isn't, so I would love to talk to you about it. So please, we need more neighborhoods too. I'd love to have an additional twenty, thirty neighborhoods this year to have a national night out so you can get to know your neighbors. What that involves is you maybe can just do desserts or just drinks or something. And then, can have different city departments come to your neighborhood. You can even invite one of us, but all I ask is to be gentle and we'll go from there. And so hopefully you'll do that too. Thank you.

Okay. Yeah, speaking of asking for one of us to appear and then be gentle, was, I went to the Esperanza development last week in the very far southeast of town right next to Eastvale. And their issue is that it smells bad down there. There really are some things that were not in our current role here on earth. I don't know if we can solve everything but we do want to hear.

What really came out of that meeting for me was that they were just happy that I showed up. At first they weren't happy that I was there because they wanted to say why don't you stop this smell. And I explained that this has been a hundred years of developing that smell into derriere. Get it? And so

I'm

trying to stay legal. So with that, I'll just say thank you all for being here and always invite us. We're all happy to go wherever it is. I think anyway, I'm happy to go. And so we'd like to see you at our next meeting. This meeting is adjourned. So we'd like to see you at our next meeting which will be on May 19 and this meeting is adjourned. Okay, thank you.

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