City Council - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon. The time now is 4-11 on December 10, 2025. I would like to start with a closed session of city council meeting. At this time, I would like to ask for the call for order. I want to call the call for order, and would you please go ahead and take a roll call?

Mayor Nguyen.

I'm here.

Vice Mayor Monzo.

I'm here.

Councilwoman Van West? Van West here. District 3 Councilmember Nguyen?

Here.

District 4 Councilmember Nguyen? Mayor, you have a quorum with District 4 Councilmember Nguyen absent.

All right, thank you very much. Mr. City Attorney, I understand that you have something to address.

Yes, so the public is aware. In a moment, the city council will be asked to consider a motion to add an item to the agenda. We can talk about it at that time. It would be to do two things. Number one would be to make a finding that this matter came to the attention of the city after the agenda was posted. And number two, that it is important that this item be handled immediately because this is a matter of some urgency. So that would be the request. The item would be, had it been posted on the agenda, it would have stated conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, significant exposure to litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9, subsection D2. So with that, we can hear public comment.

All right, thank you very much. At this time, I would like to open up for oral communication for closed session. Is there anybody signed up for this?

Mayor, I have one speaker.

Okay, please.

Connie Cohen.

Good afternoon.

It's nice to see you all. I was going to speak to one, two, three, but I'll add five that you're going to consider adding. It's really hard to know what that would be about, but if it's in the interest of keeping our city safe, I'm all for it. Question one, I believe Ms. West and Mr. Wynn should recuse themselves. My question is, if Mr. Wynn walks in after you adjourned to do your closed session and I'm gone, is he still part of the quorum? That's my question there. Regarding question two, it's unfortunate that that's going to be appealed. I hope that that, I hope the city succeeds there. Regarding contracts, I just wanted to say this. In my entire life, all the different careers I've had over time, they've always been my number one job has been to keep people safe. I was a swim instructor, a lifeguard. I'm a parent. I did a lot of volunteering around children. I teach. All those things keep people safe. I think your job is to keep people safe as well, to keep our community safe. So I hope that in all decisions you make, today, tomorrow, going forward, as members of our city council, that you'll think about what is best for the entire city in regard to that. And I would like to say that I strongly support our employees who work in our district, sorry, I think I'm in a school board meeting, in our city, and really hope you get a good contract for all of them. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Mayor, I have no further speakers.

All right, thank you very much. At this time, would you please go ahead and, oh, I would like to add on, work on the item that the city attorney just mentioned about. So my motion is to work on that item. Second it.

I have a motion made by Mayor Nguyen, seconded by Vice Mayor Monzo to add the walk-on item. District 1, Councilwoman Fan West. Fan West, aye. District 3, Councilmember Nguyen.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Monzo.

Yes.

Mayor Nguyen.

Yes.

Motion carries.

And at this time, would you please read the items that we are going to discuss.

The City Council will recess to a closed session for the following purposes. Conference with legal counsel, existing litigation pursuant to government code section four nine, I'm sorry, five four nine five six point nine D one, name of case, City of Westminster versus Amy Phan West, conference with legal counsel existing litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9 , name of case, Joseph Long Ngo versus City of Westminster, conference with labor negotiators, city designated representative Jody Greiner, director of human resources, employee organizations, Westminster Police Officers Association, Westminster Municipal Employees Association, management, administrative, and confidential employees, and executive employees. Number four, public employee employment appointment, title city attorney. Number five, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, significant exposure to litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9 .

City Attorney, do you have anything to add?

One item, and just so that the public is aware, on item number one, which is the litigation regarding City of Westminster versus Amy Fand West et al. Of course, Amy Fand West will not be participating in that closed session item, nor will Nam Kwan Win. That is all. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. At this time, the City Council will recess for closed session, and we will be back at 6 o'clock. Thank you. Good evening. The time now is 6.16 on December 10, 2025. Welcome to the Westminster City Council meeting. I would like to reconvene the City Council successor agency to the Westminster Redevelopment Agency meeting. And the meeting is called to order. Please take the roll call.

Mayor Nguyen.

I'm here.

Vice Mayor Monzo.

I'm here.

District 1, Councilwoman Fen West.

Fen West, aye.

District 3, Councilmember Nguyen.

Here.

District 4, Councilmember Nguyen. Mayor Yabokoram with District 4, Councilmember Nguyen absent.

Thank you very much. Salute to the flag today. It's going to be Vice Mayor Menzo, and the invocation will be Councilmember Mark Nguyen, District 3. Please stand.

Ready? 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.

Please remain standing. Heavenly Father, enable those who gather this evening to discharge their duties with honesty and integrity. May we be all blessed in the knowledge of your truth and sanctified in the observance of just laws. We ask your assistance in providing all those in attendance with wisdom, understanding, strength, and patience. Bless and guide this evening's deliberations. Amen.

Please be seated. And the next thing is I just want to thank Vice Mayor Menzo and Council Member Mark Nguyen for salute to the flag and invocation. Next is City Attorney closed session report, please.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We did meet in closed session. There is no reportable action taken. I will note for the record that, of course, Council Member Fan West did not participate in closed session on item number one, and nor did Colin Nguyen. Thank you very much.

All right, next is export, exportee communications. Is there anything from the dais? Seeing none, hearing none, so moving on to city clerk report, please.

Thank you, Mayor. Item 5.4 has been withdrawn by staff and will be brought at a later date. And item 5.3, there was a typographical error in the staff report. The resolution is correct. The minimum wage amount is $16.90.

Okay, so item 5.4 is being withdrawn. Withdrawn. All right. Thank you. Just wanted to make a note of that for everyone. Next, I see the manager report, please.

Thank you, Mayor, members of the City Council, and everyone in attendance. Happy holidays. So first off, we'd like to provide just a little bit of a tip from the Police Department regarding package theft this holiday season. So these are some five tips that will be helpful for you to make sure that you are protecting your packages. So number one, use package lockers or pickup locations. Number two, schedule deliveries for when you're home. Number three, require a signature for delivery. Number four, install a doorbell camera or security system. Number five, consider using a parcel box or secure delivery vault on your property. And these strategies can significantly lower the chances of your packages being stolen. For more crime prevention tips, please visit the Westminster PD's website as well as their social media. A few meetings ago, we announced our holiday home decorating contest. And so now it's time to show off your festive spirit. So enter our holiday home decorating contest for a chance to win in one of three categories. First, the best overall display, your elftastic display. For the best use of lights, merry and bright display. And then judges' choice. The application deadline is December 17th. Public voting will be from December 19th through 21st. and the winner in each category will receive a prize generously donated by Home Depot store number 647. For more information, visit the city's website or follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Last weekend, if you missed our Santa traveling through our parks, well, Santa's making his tour this Saturday. You're in luck. He'll be making his way around town again on December 13th, College Park from 10 a.m. to 11.30 a.m., and then Bolsa Chica Park from 1 to 2.30 p.m. Enjoy holiday crafts, treats, and activities. This is our fifth year doing Santa on a Go, and we're just really proud of seeing all the community members coming out and enjoying the events. Special thanks to our community service, public works, and all the others who put their time, energy, and efforts into making these events successful. Coming up on Wednesday, December 17th from 11.30 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Senior Center will be hosting a festive afternoon filled with cheer, community, and holiday magic at their annual holiday party. Tickets are $5 and on sale now at the Senior Center, or you can call 714-895-2878. The Year of the Horse is galloping closer to Westminster. Save the date for the 2026 Tet Parade happening on Saturday, February 21st. Parade participant and sponsor applications are now being accepted, so join before entry rates increase after January 9th. And for more information, you can visit the city's website or email tetparade at westminster-ca.gov. That concludes my report for tonight, and again, happy holidays, everyone.

All right, thank you very much for your report there. Next is special presentation. We have none today, tonight. But I have good news.

Mr. Mayor? Yes. May we move item after the public speaking?

Not yet, not yet. We are at the special presentation right now.

There's no special presentation.

But I'm... I will get back to you, okay? At this time here, we have none special presentation, but I do have a good news to share to every one of us tonight. And we, the city council and city staff and our residents in the city of Westminster have accomplished so much this year for our community. Santa has noticed all of your hard work and decided to come to town. So in fact, he chose to join our meeting today to greet all of us. So let's, welcome him to the dais. So would you please go ahead and put your hand together. So Sandra, would you please? Sandra. Would you please come to the dais here? Come up to the dais. All right, so this is something new, right? And we all enjoy. This is a time of the year that we have Santa's coming to town, but not only that, he is coming to the meeting, City Council meeting. So you want to say something, Santa?

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. Yeah, take care of everybody. We need help. We need people not to be hungry, homeless. And thank the council who have done a great job. They did the tree trim and made our city look good. The new tree is wonderful. You all beat Found Valley Street.

I would like to ask all the council members, city attorney, city staff, stand up so that we can have a picture with our staff. All right. So is there anybody? Yeah, come up here.

Okay, everybody. Yay. Happy New Year. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Merry Christmas. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Merry Christmas, everybody. Thank you.

Have a good one.

So yes, at this time, again, thank you very much for coming here. At this time, before I open up for oral communication concerning the agenda items only, Council Member West, what do you...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Since we have people here in support of Sylvia Mendez, I was thinking if we move agenda item 9.1 after the public comment, and so in that way we can respect her supporter to speak. I motion to approve that.

I understand that you mentioned it to me before the meeting that the And I'm willing to do that. And when you mentioned it to me, you said that Mrs. Mendez will be here. And she's 86 years old. Is she here tonight?

I'm saying that her supporter is here.

Okay, well, we have a lot to discuss tonight, so if she's not here, I'm willing, if she's here, but she's not here right now, so I'm not, I don't think that I want to say that, or I don't want to suffer the agenda. Is there a second to that?

Just respectful to have.

I understand, that's your request. You motioned it already, so is there a second to the motion? Hearing none, so we are moving on. So at this time here, I will open up for the public comments for agenda item only. So city clerk, would you please go ahead and read the instruction into the record?

This is the time of the meeting that members of the public may address the City Council regarding any items on the agenda except public hearing items. Members of the public wishing to address public hearing items shall do so at the time of the public hearing. Unless otherwise extended by a majority vote of the City Council, comments shall be limited to three minutes per speaker. Any person wishing to address the City Council in person should complete a green speaker slip, which are provided at both the entrance of the theater I'm sorry, in the lobby and submit a card to a city clerk staff member. When your name is called, please step to the podium at that time, state your name and city of residence for the record.

Before you call the first speaker, on behalf of the city council, we welcome all of you here tonight, and we want to hear from you. But at the same time, for those people who come here the first time, I just want to mention it to you. This is the time for public comment concerning agenda item only. Anything with agenda items that you can speak about. But if not, I will have to stop you. I want to mention that to you first. Okay, we'll go ahead and call the first speaker.

First speaker, Jessica Lastenau, followed by Michael Varengia.

Good evening, I'm Jessica Lostenow, a resident of Westminster, and I'm here tonight to speak in support of naming a street after the Mendez family. Their contribution to our community and to civil rights history cannot be overstated. And Sylvia Mendez has continued this legacy of advocacy through her life, and in 2011, earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom, making her our city's only recipient of this honor. The family's courage changed the course of history, and honoring them with a street name would bring a deep sense of community pride and would tell the world that Westminster values justice, equality, and the brave individuals who fought for these principles. This recognition is not only appropriate, it's long overdue. However, I want to address a broader concern related to the agenda item. The previous decision to rename a street was divisive and highlighted a gap in our city's processes. While I support tonight's proposal, we need a more transparent and inclusive system for future street renaming decisions. I respectfully urge you to establish a formal community input process for street naming proposals. This could include public notice requirements, community forums, and clear criteria for historical significance. Such a process would ensure that future namings unite rather than divide our community. And it would tell residents that they have a meaningful voice in shaping the identity of our city. The Mendez family deserves this recognition, but our community deserves a seat at the table for these important decisions. Thank you for your time and for your leadership in Westminster.

Michael Vrengia, followed by Deborah Mariscal.

Please reset the clock. Good evening.

I'd like to speak on, my name is Michael Varengia. I'd like to speak on 5.8. The city is going to spend $55,268 on the design and development for the Little Saigon Archway, but you didn't want to spend any money on the Rose Center. You have a beautiful, I don't want to say cultural center, you have a beautiful city center over there that can be used for all kinds of things. But you're going to spend $55,000 on an archway for one segment of this city. It's like spending money where it's not really needed. How about if we have all those people down there donate money into a pot to pay for this instead of all our tax dollars going for it? Let's do something for everybody in this city. The other thing, renaming Main Street Sylvia Mendez way. I don't have any issue with renaming it. The only issue I have, this isn't a heartfelt request to rename it. This is political posturing at its finest. Right here, right in front of us. It's not heartfelt. This isn't something that's been worked on all year. and brought up in front of the city, brought up in front of the community itself to see what their input is. Nobody here has a problem with it. Everybody knows about the Mendez family. Everybody knows what they did and what they had to go through to get that. But just doing this for a political posturing, I would love to have seen one of the Mendez family stand up here and say, thank you very much. I appreciate the thought. But no, it's a political stunt and nothing more. It's like Charlie Kirkway. I had no problem with, I didn't agree with everything Charlie Kirk agreed with, but he didn't live in Westminster. There's no reason to name it. Why didn't we name it Sid Goldstein way? A real Westminster hero, a World War II hero, winner of the Distinguished Service Cross. Not only did he do it in the war, but he did it without having to kill a number of enemy. He took them live prisoner instead. That shows the mettle of the man and what he was really like. That street, if you're gonna rename it, should be Sid Goldstein Way because it goes right down to Sid Goldstein Park. And let's not piss money away on an archway. Let's get those people down there to donate money to help defray the cost. Thank you.

Deborah Mariscal, followed by Nick Papaduke.

Good evening, Deborah Mariscal, Westminster resident since 2000. As a Westminster resident with a Hispanic last name, I really have a lot of respect for the Mendez family. I'm really glad that we have that historical monument to honor and educate people about the case. Sorry. My apologies. I'm short, what do you want? However, what is the purpose of renaming a street when our city faces many significant challenges? There's absolutely zero reason for this other than political grandstanding at this time. I do think that that would be something to address in the future, but this is just political grandstanding in my opinion. Your focus should be on the things helping Westminster as a city out of our many issues. our financial, our homeless, parking, street, on and on and on. So I am not in favor of renaming the city, I'm sorry, the street at this point in time. And then also for travel and expenses, I don't think there should be any increase in that. And quite honestly, if you can afford to pay for some of those things yourself, you should.

Nick Papaduke, followed by Ida Lynn Viegas.

Hi, my name's Nick Papaduke, and I've come to agree with Jessica, Lostano, and Ferengio that this is political grandstanding. It heartens me that nobody from the family is here. Hopefully they saw through this. This was so cynical. They were scared of you guys. So transparent. It's so cynical and so transparent what you did here tonight. It's really awful and you should be ashamed of yourselves. Using the family, using her.

Sorry, sir.

Using the family.

Stop the clock. What item that you're talking in?

about changing the street name. Using this family and using her as a political football for your own political advancement is unforgivable. It's really irreprehensible. And I'm glad that they're steering clear of this. And if they have a good sense and responsibility, they will stay away from this mess that's here. Believe me, this is awful. This is really awful. There was no excuse for doing this. Nobody's clamoring for this again or anything else, just as with the Kirk fiasco, which we will address later. That's all I'd like to say. This is terrible. This is another example of partisan politics and how it cheapens things. The attempt to put Charlie Kirk and... Sylvia Mendez in the same universe is just the most bizarre thing I've ever heard in my life. And using her as a bargaining chip. Yeah, you give us Charlie Kirk and we'll give you Sylvia Mendez. There is no excuse for that. None whatsoever. This is the worst possible thing you could do. Thank you very much.

Ida Villegas. Before you move on, I just want to mention it to you. Okay, you can talk about renaming the Mendes Street, but you are not talking about the Charlie Kirk today. If you want to, you can talk at the time that we have non-agenda item. Charlie Kirk is not on the agenda item today. So I just want to mention that to you. The name change, the name change today. If you read. Please, please, please, please. The name change if you read the items. The item talk about the mandates. They're not talking about the Charlie Kirk. I am not going to argue with you. I'm not going to argue with you, okay? Okay? I am mention it in general. Right now you are done with your speech, okay? Sir, if you want more time, I'm going to give you the first warning, okay? And three warnings I have to ask you to go to leave. All right?

Mayor, I think it's reasonable since these are two items. The item that's on the agenda is amenders. of naming of the street, but it's comparable to what just happened at our last meeting, and it's very understandable that somebody would mention it, to at least reference it. To at least reference the, to at least reference it. So, we need to, we're here to protect, and supposedly, and to honor Charlie Kirk, supposedly he was somebody of First Amendment rights, let's at least give them the First Amendment right to say what they want to say.

Well,

That is the First Amendment right, but we have the agenda that we have to follow. And you can refer, I don't have any problem with that, but if you use that to go back and forth, back and forth about the Charlie Kirk things, I am not going to let that happen.

sir this is the second second warning to you okay so i need all right thank you ex excuse me um may i so the public is aware um what he what the mayor means by a warning is you know this is the time that we'll go on with the rest of the meeting but what he means by a warning is you can't it's illegal to disrupt the meeting so there's everybody gets their turn to talk And now is the time for the city council to hear from you. But you need to, when he's warning you, if you continue to speak, if he's warned you, he has a legal right to remove you from the meeting, okay? Nobody here wants to remove anybody. So just understand how that works, okay? So anyway, we can move along with the meeting. Thank you.

All right, thank you very much, city attorney. Next speaker.

Thank you, Mayor. Ada Lynn Villegas, followed by Robert Harrison.

Good evening my name is Eileen Villegas I've lived in Westminster since 1997 and a couple of years before that I went to Westminster High School and I met a council member fan a couple of weeks ago at the Native American event that happened at Santa Ana College and when I heard that she you know a council member of my city was there I did a beeline to her afterwards after the luncheon that happened there and I told her this cannot happen. this name change cannot happen. And she said about the Mendez family. And I told her something about the Mendez family that she did not know. Their children did not know that their parents did this for our community. There's a documentary done by PBS by Sandra Robbie. And the name of that documentary is For the Children, Para Los Niños. I don't know if it was Sylvia or one of her sisters. They did not know their parents did this for them and their family and for all the Mexican families here in Westminster. She was in college at Riverside, and she opens up her history book, flips over the page, and she sees a picture of her parents. And she questioned her parents, hey, what'd you guys do? Oh, yeah, so you guys could come to school in Westminster, not having to go to the Mexican school. That's what that school was named, the Mexican school, that had barbed wire, that had, it was, you know, the electric barbed wire to keep the cows away because Westminster was farmlands back then. Not only that, their family took over, I forget the Japanese family's name, their farm, so their farm wouldn't be taken over because at that time, the Japanese were being interned, the Japanese Americans, in internment camps, concentration camps in World War II in our country, okay? They took over their farm to help them out so they wouldn't lose their property. This is what this family did. And I'm sorry that they're not here. I wish they were here because if you haven't seen that documentary, look it up on PBS. It's called For the Children. And if you don't want, you know, if you don't want the Mendez family to have their name on it, there's other people here. There's Joy Neugebauer's picture right there. She was one of our mayors here. She was also part of the Westminster Historical Society. Without her, we wouldn't have those buildings that are still erected right there, just down the street over here. There's other people. I know there's a park for Mr. John, I forgot his first name, Mr. Fireburger. And if you want somebody abstract, hey, Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue went to Westminster High School, okay? We don't need somebody's name that inspires separate, you know, sorry.

Your time is up, sorry about that. Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Connie Cohan, followed by Richard Martucci.

Hi, Connie Cohan. I'm gonna start with Sylvia Mendez and work backwards. The Mendez family did amazing things. We have the Mendez Chamber at the Westminster School District, and at the corner of Westminster Boulevard and Olive, we have the Mendez Tribute Monument Park, which I really encourage everyone to go to. It's an amazing little tiny piece of land to show a very, very big, huge, change for the American country, leading to Brown versus Board of Education. So if you're going to rename a street, I consider renaming Olive or Westminster Boulevard. But that's a different issue. Whatever Ms. Mendez wants, I'm all for it. Let's go back down. And I apologize that I may not have heard this correctly. because you mentioned something about changing uh... things in the five points section under uh... under salary schedule i hope that's enough money for it to get those employees those part-time employees uh... great do that uh... under uh... the one that's uh... The ones where you're taking money from one section and putting it to another, and you're considering moving money that was used to help with our homeless population, we still have a huge homeless population. So make sure if you're taking money for something else, if it's critical, you gotta do it, but make sure you do not leave us not taking care of that population because it's a big problem. And then I'm going to go to this one. 5.2, dissolve your personnel commission. I'm thinking we don't have that personnel commission because those have been political appointments and sometimes people show up and sometimes people don't. I personally think that human relations for a company or a entity, their main responsibility is to that company, that entity, and then a personnel commission also makes sure that while, yes, we're following the law, we are double checking, triple checking that we are making sure that the employee is recognized as well. And although I am in no way, shape, or form qualified to do that job, I would do it rather than you cancel.

Thank you very much.

Eric Christopher Cota, followed by Louise Larson.

Hello, good evening. My name is Eric Cota. I am a lifetime resident of Westminster. In fact, my family has been in Westminster since the early 1900s. I'm a fourth generation American, very proud Mexican lineage. This is in relation to 9.1, which is to name the street Sylvia Mendes Way. When my great-grandma was born, she was born in Westminster on a farm in Bolsa Chica. She was not allowed to go to the school where all the other kids were going because she was Mexican. She was sent to a school called the Barrio School, otherwise known as the Wetback School, which was a derogatory term that was used towards Mexicans. We ask that the Mendez family and her foundation are not associated with this name change because it's clearly part of a political grand setting from Amy Pham. This is... This movement, this city.

May I stop you for a minute? We are not clocking.

Oh, is the clock not on?

Sorry.

All right, go ahead. So the city prides itself on multiculturalism. I'm Mexican-American. My family is Vietnamese-American. I'm very proud of this community and how we've come together. And I think that the Mendez family should separate themselves from this divistic rhetoric that's clearly part of a political pawn from a clearly desperate Congress campaign. It's very obvious. On a website for this Congress campaign, you're claiming to be a business person, clearly not the beauty or fashion business. But I think that it is important that we separate ourselves from a divisive rhetoric. And I believe that they're not here for a reason. I find the comments inappropriate of, you're scared. I find that, frankly, a little bit weak to come forward. with those kind of comments to your constituency. Clearly, if these comments are bothering you, you are not in the right profession. So again, I ask for the city to, and the Mendez family, I wish they were here, to consider not accepting this gesture, which is clearly not genuine and clearly has some sort of desperate political gain to it. Thank you.

Louise Larson, followed by Kimberly Chai.

Hello I'm Louise Larson chair of the Democratic Club of Westminster and I'm speaking to agenda item nine point one the naming of Sylvia Mendez way. How can I possibly outdo some of the eloquence I've heard here today from Jessica lost to know and Eric Cota and everybody in between. It is an insult to the Mendez family to have their name pulled in to this P.R. nightmare. of the Charlie Kirkway name fiasco. If you really do, Amy, want to honor Sylvia Mendez, rescind that vote and then bring this to the table, because that would give her her due. And that is what we should do. We should be honoring the Mendez family, but it's not a political stunt. And we should be doing it as its own day, its own issue. It's long overdue, speaking of due. It's years overdue. Their legacy, their history is so beautiful in a national way. That should be the jewel in our crown of Westminster. Brown versus the whole story of what happened. That changed everything everywhere for schools and for people that were minorities to have a place at the table. Why didn't they have their own street before now? Ask yourself that. Why? Because it didn't help your political career. That's why. So if you really, really, really mean it, and really mean it means you'll do it after you rescind the vote on the Charlie Kirk way.

That's all I have to say on that.

As to other things, I'll bring it up in the open comments.

Mr. Mayor, can I make a brief comment now, or should I wait? Mr. Mayor, should I make a brief comment?

No, why don't we wait until the end? Okay, I can wait. Thank you.

Hello, good evening, Mayor Nguyen, council members, and neighbors of Westminster. My family has lived in Westminster for more than 30 years. I attended Hayden Elementary, Warner Middle School, Westminster High School. I have so many fond memories of this city, volunteering at the Westminster Library, trick or treating at the Westminster Mall, grabbing ice cream with friends. It was a place that welcomed everyone, no matter their background, religion, or race. This is my hometown. I've never been to a city council meeting before, but as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, the time is always right to do what is right. And that's why I came here today, because enough is enough. The city I grew up in feels increasingly divided, politically charged. Our city, our home, is spending thousands of dollars on things that don't serve the people. Last month, this council voted to rename All-American Way to Charlie Kirkway, and frankly, that is a waste of money. Some said he inspired youth, and yet not, I didn't see any single young person here. And now before you tonight is another proposal. Hold on for, hold the clock, please. Remain.

I'm sorry, what item that you're talking about?

Sylvia Mendez.

Okay, thank you.

And now before you tonight is another proposal to rename Main Street near Westminster High School to Sylvia Mendez Way at an estimated cost of thirty five hundred dollars. Let me be clear. I honor Sylvia Mendez. Her story is one of courage and justice. But this isn't about her. This is about priorities because these new street signs. They don't feed families. They do not fix roads. They do not clean up parks. They do not lower taxes. They do not heal our divisions or rebuild public trust within the council. While Westminster faces budget deficits, we can't afford to keep spending taxpayer money on decorations and distractions. Every dollar spent on symbolic renamings is a dollar not spent on fixing potholes, improving public safety, or keeping the Rose Center Theater. This council has a choice. Continue chasing the headlines for the register or start restoring public trust. Stop the waste, stop the politics. You are elected by the people to serve as nonpartisan leaders. That means free from any political party affiliation. So serve the people, not your political ambitions. Let's make Westminster known for progress. It's time to restore trust. It's time to listen to the people who live here. To lead with integrity, not ambition. To remember that public service means serving the public because the time is and will always be right to do what is right. Thank you.

Stephen Anderson, followed by Michelle Burkidge.

Good evening, everybody. I had a script and I rewrote it based on what's going on. So, Amy, what's really scary is your little Trump flag. It's not rocket science to connect the timing of this street naming to the other street naming. Oh, I'm sorry. As political theater, to use and abuse the Mendez name and not help the community, is there no other important issues? That's it.

Michelle Burkidge, followed by Nan Nguyen.

Hello, I'm Michelle Burkidge, longtime resident of Westminster. And this is also my first time coming and speaking to you. But I thought it was so important So I work for LA County for election services. So for me, my job is to make sure that everyone can come out and vote on election day. And I take that job very seriously. That's why I'm here. Even though I would rather be home, But I felt the importance of this. So for me, having that job, I want everyone to come out and feel that their vote counts. And then we are ensuring the democratic process.

Excuse me, what item that you're talking about? 9.4.

So I feel that one, the money that the speaker before had said, it's not going to where it needs to go. The Mendez family is not here. They do not support that as well because, as others have said, it is a political situation, not something true from the heart. To me, if you're renaming and the day of recognition, it's an insult to this democratic process. Someone that thought hate-mongering as well as bigotry and the like is what this country is about, that represents someone that should be shunned, not celebrated. If you want to rename a street after someone, we have a great example. What about a firefighter? Someone that's done good in our community. WAGS, the foundation and the founder of WAGS, the local animal shelter, they do more. Someone that doesn't even live in my neighborhood and we're naming something after them. It's just ridiculous to me. I believe that we need to uplift the city and not bring it down. And this is a very much a divisive situation due to the fact that it's not bringing us together. It's making us further apart, and there's no need, as I said, to spend the money, but I don't feel that there's that transparency where this should have been something that should have been put to everyone, and as others have said, it felt like very much a division someone doing it for political gain and not the true spirit of something. But if you need to rename the street, do it for someone that represents Westminster and what Westminster means to all of us that are here today that took the time to come. And as I said, the democratic process that I work so hard for every day for LA County, it's just being dumped on, I feel, from their day of recognition as well as the street name. Thank you.

Nan Nguyen followed by Gigi Vo.

Good evening, Mayor.

Can you lower your mic?

Vice Mayor. Council members, city of staff, and all present here tonight. My name is Ngan Nguyen, a community activist in Little Saigon for over 40 years. I would like to respectfully ask the mayor and council approve agenda item 5.8, to select a company to design and build Little Saigon Welcome Gateway. Throughout the nation, you will find recognized ethnic historic districts from Little Italy, Little Tokyo, Koreatown, and Little India to Chinatowns all across the country. Of course you will find Chinatown Arts Way in every corner of most towns you visit. The Vietnamese community has been here for 50 years and it's about time we have something in Little Saigon. It will truly be a famous landmark. Please approve. I am pleased to recommend appointing Councilman Mark Nguyen as our new Vice Mayor on Agenda Item 5.9. His proven leadership and extensive public service experience make him exceptionally qualified for this role. Councilman Mark previously served as president of Midway City's sanitary district. His background in public administration, problem solving, and collaborative decision making has prepared him well to take on the responsibility of vice mayor. With his experience and dedication, Mark will be an asset to our city leadership team and will continue to serve our residents with integrity and professionalism. Thank you.

Gigi Vo followed by Monique Nguyen.

Hello, Mr. Mayor, Deputy Mayor, members and staff, and everyone who is here today. My name is Gigi Vo. I have lived in the Lido community for more than 40 years. I am very concerned about the lives of the city, the community, and the United States. I am here today to give my opinion on the 5.8 project. I fully support the design and construction of the Lido Saigon Bridge. The Vietnamese community and the Lido Saigon area have long been an important part of Westminster. Cổng chào Little Saigon sẽ trở thành một biểu tượng đáng tự hào, tôn vinh di sản văn hóa của chúng ta và chào đón du khách không chỉ từ các thành phố lân cận mà còn cả khách du lịch từ khắp cả nước và trên toàn thế giới. Cổng trào này là một khoản đầu tư vào tương lai của thành phố Westminster như một thành phố đa dạng và hòa nhập. Tôi khuyến khích việc phê duyệt dự án này. Dự án này sẽ tôn vinh di sản văn hóa của chúng ta và tăng cường bản sắc cộng đồng. Tôi kêu gọi ông thị trưởng và hội đồng thành phố nhanh chóng xúc tiến dự án này. This bridge will become an important symbol of our city and pride for future generations. I would like to invite Mr. Mark Nguyen, Deputy Mayor, because he is very capable, from his education to his career, and he used to be the chairman of Midway Sanitary District, so he will have the ability to help the city when the mayor has to face any reason. Thank you.

Good evening, mayor, council members, staff, and everyone here tonight. My name is Gigi Bo. I live in Little Saigon for over 40 years. I am very interested in the event and activity in the city, the community, and throughout the United States. I am here tonight regarding item 5.8 and 5.9. For agenda 5.8, I strongly support approving a company to design and build the Little Saigon Welcome Archway. The Vietnamese community and Little Saigon have long been a vibrant and vital presence in the city of Westminster. The Little Saigon Welcome Archway will serve as a proud landmark, celebrating our cultural heritage and welcoming visitors not only from nearby cities, but also tourists from across the nation and around the world. This archway is an investment in Westminster's future. This project will honor our cultural heritage and enhance the identity of our community. I urge the council to move it forward as soon as possible. This archway will become a major landmark for our city and a source of pride for future generations. As a diverse and inclusive city, and I encourage its approval. For the 5.9, I also support the nomination of Councilman Mark Nguyen for the position of Vice Mayor because he's very capable from his academic background to his professional work and having previously served as Chairman of the Midway Sanitary District Board. He will be more than capable of assisting the city when the mayor is absent for any reason. Thank you.

Monique Nguyen, followed by Nat Lin.

Good morning, good evening, I'm sorry. Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Member, and everywhere present tonight. Good evening, Mayor Charlie and council members. My name is Monique Nguyen. I am here tonight to voice my opinion for a couple of agenda items, the 5.8 and 5.9. Regarding 5.8, I would like to express my strong support for approving a company to design and build the Little Saigon Welcome Archway. This project is an important investment in preserving and showcasing the cultural identity of our community. A professionally designed archway will serve as a landmark that honors the history, heritage, and contributions of the Vietnamese American community in Little Saigon. It will welcome visitors strengthen the community pride, and enhance the culture, character of our city. I respectfully urge the council to move forward with this project and approve a quality company to bring the Little Saigon Welcome Archway to life. Regarding item 5.9, I recommend the appointment of Councilman Mark as Vice Mayor. His strong record of public service and leadership makes him highly qualified for this role. As former president of Midway City Sanitary District, Mark demonstrated effective governance, sound judgment, and a clear commitment to the community. With his experience and dedication, Councilman Mark is well prepared to serve as Vice Mayor and contribute to the continued effectiveness of our city government. Thank you.

Nat Lin followed by Jody Boyd.

Hello, Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and all city councilors. Hello, everyone. My name is Nhật Linh. I'm a resident of Westminster. Today, I'm here to discuss two items, 5.9 and 5.8. Về nghị trình 5.9, tôi xin được đề cử ông nghị viên Mark Nguyễn vào vị trí phó thị trưởng trong agenda 5.9 này. Với góc độ nhìn của tôi, tôi đánh giá về thành tích phục vụ công cộng xuất sắc, phong cách lãnh đạo điềm tĩnh và sự chính trực không lây chuyển của Mark Nguyễn khiến ông ấy... According to my assessment, he is very suitable for this role. He used to be the chairman of the Midway City Sanctuary Board. Mark Nguyen has led the board effectively, supervising important activities and showing accurate judgment. strategic vision, and financial responsibility. On a professional level, Mark Nguyen also manages his team's daily activities in Orange County. This proves his leadership and management capabilities. With his experience, dedication, and commitment to our community, Mark Nguyen will contribute greatly to the stability and effectiveness of the Westminster City government. I don't know. for this city and for Little Saigon. That is the reason why a bridge is not only a worthy recognition for its rich history, but also a smart investment for Westminster. An investment that will promote tourism, support economic development, and enhance the cultural identity of Westminster. Cổng chào Little Saigon sẽ trở thành một biểu tượng nổi bật không chỉ cho Westminster mà còn được cả quốc gia và thế giới biết đến. Xin đề nghị hội đồng thành phố và tất cả quý vị hãy chấp thuận để Westminster có thể tiến hành thiết kế và xây dựng cổng chào trong một ngày gần nhất. Xin cảm ơn.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council Members. My name is Nha Linh, a resident of Westminster City. I would like to recommend Councilman Mark Nguyen for the position of Vice Mayor. His strong record of public service, calm leadership style, and unwavering integrity make him exceptionally well qualified for this role. As president of the Midway City Sanitary District, Mark let the Board effectively oversaw key operations and demonstrated sound judgment, strategic oversight, and fiscal responsibility. Professionally, he also managed day-to-day operations for his team at the County of Orange, further reflecting his proven leadership and management skills. With his experience, dedication, and commitment to our community, Mark is well prepared to serve as Vice Mayor and will contribute greatly to the stability and effectiveness of our city government. Regarding item 5.8, approval for a company to design and build Little Saigon Arts Way. Since 1975, for 50 years now, Vietnamese people have made Westminster their home. Our community has contributed immensely to the city and to Little Saigon. That's why a gateway arts would not only be a well-deserved recognition of that rich history, but also a smart investment for Westminster. One of that will boost tourism, support economic development, and enhance the city's cultural identity. This act will become an iconic landmark, not just for Westminster, but one that will be celebrated across the nation and around the world. Please approve so the city can move forward with design and build the Oxway as soon as possible. Thank you all for listening.

Jody Boyd, followed by last speaker, Terry Raines.

Good evening and happy holidays. It is a pleasure to be here this evening with you. It's an honor and it's a pleasure to be able to stand here before you to speak on two agenda items, because in Charlie Kirk's way and eyes, I should not exist. Okay, 5.8, your gateway arch. Do you, I've looked at the population. If every Vietnamese person in this city and the other people who wanted to donated one dollar towards that arch, you would not have to take tax dollars out of the rest of our pockets. So to you, Mr. Mayor, who has changed your stripes, I no longer like you or your ties because you are just as discriminatory and divisive as Trita and the gang. No arch. You guys don't deserve it. Further, Sylvia Mendez Way, to co-name or rename a street sign. My answer, and I have utmost respect for Sylvia and her family, but my answer is no, because this is politics playing to November 2026. And we see it. I think, and they're not afraid to be here unless somebody has fed their heads through of nonsense. If they were here, I would change my opinion. But no, this has to stop. This is ridiculous. Mark, I'll support you as vice mayor. If you step away from your family and do the right thing, don't follow him and treata and Andrew Doe and Van Tran to prison. Thank you.

Donald Lenk followed by Terry Raines.

Donald Lenk. Good evening, Dias. Let me begin by saying in connection with 9-1, it is my intention to add the very prestigious nickname parade by first, in addition to Tweedledee and Tweedledum, I'd like to add Tweedledoo. And it's proven nepotistic backing of the grand drastic self-serving partisan naming of streets. Stop it. I'd assume Sylvia Mendez did not want this grand standing on her sacrifices and the death of another individual. You are trying to benefit from their actions and not yours. You are like crabs in a barrel. Proverbs 16, 8. Pride goeth before destruction and a haunty spirit before the fall. It's coming. Charlie, you are now Charlie Chee tuna. Chicken of the sea. Maybe one day a street may be named after you. How about tuna lane? I end by saying, well, I didn't all the way end, by saying, sorry, Charlie, and I apologize to anybody born after 1975, although the chicken of the sea commercials are now running again 40 years later. With 5.8, I'm fine with the Little Saigon Arch if the little Saigon businesses want to pay for it. With 5.9, reappoint Carlos as vice mayor or not at your peril. With 7.2, please approve the Traffic Commission recommendation as trying to drive south of Westminster on Magnolia. Is that your actual peril to anyone who attempts it? Thank you.

Last speaker, Terry Raines.

Hello, item 5.5, the city didn't renew the Be Well contract. The reason, given the effectiveness of the homeless liaison team, park rangers and the navigation center, there's no need to continue with Be Well. But Be Well didn't just provide services to homeless individuals, they deescalated mental health crisis for housed individuals as well and helped families cope. Is that the real reason? for non-renewal is tied to the controversy surrounding Be Well. I do support the ARPA fund reallocation to Axon and the reallocation from administration to Infinity for IT support services. Five, six. Five, seven, support the Midway City Sanitary District at the gold level $2,500 as a community partner to benefit our residents, not our politicians. Five, nine, vice mayor, soon to be mayor, 2026, Carlos Manzo. Serve with grace, honor, and distinction, something the rest of you are incapable of doing. Disappointment will be made, I predict, based on some shady quid pro quo deal or nepotism. Right, Mark? Brother-in-law of Charlie. 7.2, I spoke to two traffic commissioners when this was on their agenda. I live in the immediate area and frequent the segment of Magnolia daily. I support the parking restrictions and the concept of three traffic lanes, but adding another lane of traffic and removing the need to merge left south of Westminster will not solve the dangerous situation that exists near that intersection due to the congestion of people pulling in and out of the shopping center and at the bus stop. 9-1, full stop on any street renamings or redesignations until an official street renaming policy is created and adopted similar to the city's facility naming policy. First, a bunch of street signs honoring historical figures from Vietnam, then Charlie Kirk. Don't politicize or dilute the Mendez family recognition. The city built a wonderful interactive Mendez tribute monument park in 2022, and the Mendez historic freedom trail will be completed soon. In 2019, the school district unveiled their new district sign in honor of La Familia Mendez. Added to it, the museum also has a great exhibit of the Mendez family, and their landmark case is finally getting into school textbooks. Multiplying honors too much actually dilutes the single importance of a person being recognized. Charlie, Amy, just stop with your campaign bullshit from the dais. Mark and Nam Kwan, stop going along with it. As you can tell by the crowd outside and inside these chambers, this committee is done with your campaigning bullshit and we're done with the four of you. Your Charlie Kirk signs and day in the Rose Center Theater votes were our last straw. The entire committee stands united against your hateful bigotry and against you. As foreign-born leaders who came here after the fall of Saigon, you want to strip the inclusivity of All-American Way in honor of racist Christian nationalists who despised immigrants. Kirk said, we made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act. Bottom line, you wouldn't be here and you wouldn't be holding office if Kirk had his way. More later. I'll be back.

Time's up.

Mayor, we have another speaker, Roger Mindrum.

Good evening, Roger Mindrum, resident of Westminster. Couldn't make it here earlier. I was at home, but I was watching on YouTube, and I wasn't sure what all these reserved seats were for until I've come up now and see that they're reserved for the Mendez family, but where are they? Did anybody actually invite them? Because it seems like it's just like this street naming, just like everyone else spoke about earlier, was just a political stunt. And Amy Fen West didn't even bother speaking to anybody in the Mendez family or inviting them. Or they just plain, like a few other people have said, that they see this as a political stunt and slap in the face because of the... last meetings uh renaming and i have to agree with everyone here that's spoken about the uh street naming the basically almost everybody that that has spoken tonight and thank you very much everyone for being here i agree with uh except for the archway um you're going to spend 50 some thousand dollars just on a study for a design And we all know it's going to cost over a million dollars because that was the money that Andrew Doe had given and then wanted to take away. So I agree with Jody Boyd and every Vietnamese person who thinks they deserve it, pony up a dollar and pay for it because everybody else should not have to do that. And contrary to what Charlie will say tonight, it's not a good investment. It's a bad investment. I never needed an archway to know where to get to Bolsa Avenue, or nobody else did either. And I also support Carlos Monzo for the next term as vice mayor. Thank you.

Mayor, I have no further speakers.

All right, thank you very much. I want to thank you for your comments. Before we end with this, before I close the public comment for agenda items, I believe that Council Member West, you have something that you want to say.

I appreciate that, Mr. Chair. You know, I... Appreciate that you guys come out and speak and share your concerns. You can call me, you can call all the council here, whatever names you guys want. And it's okay because it comes with us being elected official. And, you know, but the thing is that you cannot disrespect the Mendez family. Sylvia Mendez is a woman who fought against segregation.

Please, hold on. Sylvia Mendez. Just a brief comment, okay? Just a brief comment.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Sylvia Mendez is a woman who fought against segregation and stood courageously for civil rights.

So the thing is that it's very important. Council Member West, would you just respond to them, okay? Just respond to them briefly. We don't need to go back to this history anymore, please.

Please, please. So basically we are better than that. We need to give honor where honor's due.

All right, thank you very much, Ms. West, I mean, Council Member West. I think we are done with that, okay? All right, at this time, I've closed public comment for agenda items. The next item is going to be consent calendar. All matters listed under consent calendar are considered routine and may be approved by a single motion. followed by a roll call vote. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless members of the city council or staff request that specific items be removed from the consent calendar for separate action or discussion. So I will motion to approve the consent calendars.

Mayor, I would like to pull item 3.6. 3.6? Yes, and I'll second you, approve the remainder.

Okay, anything else? Okay, so I will revise my motion to exclude the 3.6 being pulled by Vice Mayor Manzo.

Second.

Second. Motion and second on the floor.

I have a motion made by Mayor Nguyen, seconded by Vice Mayor Monzo to approve the consent calendar with agenda item number 3.6 pulled for separate discussion. I'll go ahead and call roll. District 1, Councilwoman Fenwest. Fenwest, aye. District 3, Councilmember Nguyen.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Monzo.

Yes.

Mayor Nguyen.

Yes.

Motion carried.

3.6 being approved by Vice Mayor Manzo. So adoption of plans and specification and authorization to solicit construction bids for the 2025 CBDG residential street overlay, Vice Mayor Manzo.

Thank you, Mayor. I just had a question for our director, Don. Was the existing sidewalks in those whole areas inspected for any damaged or lifted sidewalks?

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Councilmember. Yes, absolutely. Staff have gone through, walked the area, and also improved all any damaged sidewalk, curb and gutter, driveway approaches, and also a wheelchair ramp. So they are included with the project.

yeah yeah, but I want to if we're going to be working in there, I want to make sure that we correct any damaged sidewalks or if there's a lifted. You know what I mean lifted areas that we can repair while we're there, yes, Sir, they are included, but there is some.

There are some yeah yeah we have we have a lot of concrete improvement in on the street as well Okay, is was there where they noted on here.

Yes. I just saw just the ADA ramps.

Yeah, they are noted on the plans for the sidewalk improvements.

Okay. I saw one small section of sidewalk, but I just want to make sure that when we're there, we'll get the work done. We're going to touch and make sure we do a complete job. Yes, sir. All right. Okay. A motion to approve, Mayor. Second.

I have a motion made by Vice Mayor Monzo, seconded by Mayor Nguyen, to approve the plans and specifications for the 2025 CDBG residential street overlay project, plan number P2665. and authorize the city engineer to approve minor modifications to the plans and specifications to accommodate requested revisions for public safety and utility agencies and authorize the Public Works Department to advertise and solicit construction bids for said project. I'll go ahead and call roll. District one, Councilwoman Fan West. Fan West, aye. District three, Councilmember Nguyen.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Monzo?

Yes.

Mayor Nguyen?

Yes.

Motion carried.

All right, tonight we have three items, public hearings items, and my intention is not to stop during, in between. So at this time, I would like to take five minutes recess so that we can take a resume break, and then I ask, please don't take any, please don't step out while we have the public hearings items. So, find me to get a roll call, please. Ask for roll call. Yes, I'm here.

Vice Mayor Monzo?

I'm here.

District 1, Councilwoman Fenwest? Fenwest, aye. District 3, Councilmember Nguyen?

Here.

Mayor, you have a quorum.

All right, thank you very much. For the item 4.1, public hearing, continue from November 12th, 2025, regular meeting, public hearings, and appeal our planning commissions to life 2nd, 2025, approval of case number 2024-0160 for a new industrial warehouse building proposed at 15172 Golden West Circle. For this one, because it's a continued item for uncertain date, so we don't know when it's going to come back. So at this time, I want to exclude that from the public comment. And that was recommended to me by the city attorney. So city attorney, can you elaborate on that?

Right, so the motion would be to open the public hearing, which we've done, and then to continue the item to a date uncertain.

Right, okay, thank you. With that, I move to approve the item to continue at some other date. Yeah, second. All right, we have motion and second for item 4.1.

I have a motion made by Mayor Nguyen, seconded by Vice Mayor Monzo, to continue the public hearing for case number 2024-0160, to a date uncertain to allow the applicant time to address the issues raised by the appellant. I'll go ahead and call roll. District 1, Councilwoman Fan West. FAN WEST, aye. District 3, Councilmember Nguyen.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Monzo.

Yes.

Mayor Nguyen.

Yes.

Motion carried 4-0.

Public hearing 4.2, first reading of case number 2035.0227, a request to repeal and re-adopt chapter 17.6.4.0, appeals to this motion. Municipal Court to provide a call for review procedures for the City Council and Planning Commission and making the minor assessment, I would like to ask for a stop report, please.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council Members. Ken Fichtelman, Principal Planner. So we're here tonight for Case 2025-0227. This is a zoning code text amendment to repeal and readopt chapter 17.640, appeals of the Westminster Municipal Code to provide for a call for review procedure. For background, Chapter 17.640 of the Westminster Municipal Code provides the procedures for appeal of any planning commission or director's level decision. Planning commissioners or council members must currently provide a reason for their appeal when appealing any decision. Having to provide for this reason creates a bias before facts and evidence are heard and could disqualify either a commissioner or council member from being able to vote on an appeal. Planning Commission recommended approval of this item 5-0 at one of their regular meetings.

The proposed changes for the chapter are fairly simple.

We're adding a section for call for review. This will allow for planning commissioners or council members to initiate a review of a decision without providing a reason, therefore eliminating any bias before they hear that at a public hearing. It will also have a cleanup of the chapter that will amend for clarity and consistency and review planning commissioners and council members from the actual appeal portions of the chapter. This project is not a project per sequa. And with that, staff recommends that you introduce the ordinance for first reading, read by title only, and wait for further reading. That concludes staff's presentation, and I'm here to answer any questions.

All right, thank you very much. And I would like to open up for comments and presentation. Applicant, if applicable, is there anything for that? No, Mayor, staff, the city was the applicant. All right, okay, so we can move on. Comments from appellant? No? All right, yes or no? Public, no. Then I will move on with mayor and city, hold on.

Yeah, yeah.

It will be mayor and city council question for staff. Is there anything from the council, from the dais here?

No.

No? Okay, then I will open up for public comment. Is there any speaker sign up for public comment?

We have one speaker, Terry Raines.

Hello, as a side note, when you present a resolution formally approved by the Planning Commission in a city council agenda staff report, the final resolution with the assigned number and the signature should be presented, not a draft as was done here. It's amusing that staff prematurely assigned a number to the PC resolution for this before it was approved and then removed the number for this version. I support this revision to the municipal code specifically adding a call for review procedure for elected and appointed officials to bring cases up for review without having to state a reason. I asked about this a few years ago as the bias optics were strong when the official had to openly state the reason why they felt the case needed to be brought back for review. The opinions that came out of the city attorney's office at that time were ambiguous and inconsistent. This is one of those revisions that makes me wonder, what took so long? Sadly, our municipal code is filled with inconsistencies, errors, and noncompliance with state and federal laws. A robust effort to correct the code, all sections, should be made sooner rather than later. Vote yes on this item. Well, I didn't have it tuned up. Well, anyway, I'll play it later for you. Thank you.

Mayor, I have no further speakers.

All right, thank you very much. I will close public comments. And at this time, Mayor, Council Member, discussion and Council action. With that, I don't have anything to... for staff. So I will move, I will agree with the Planning Commission recommended City Council approve case number 2025-227 by adoption of this proposed ordinance.

Is there a second to that? I agree, Mayor, a second. Yes, and I have some experience with this because this was something that was very confusing and We have been doing this for many, many years, and finally we're getting to a point where we're trying to clean up our codes and actually become a real city, really. So we're doing a good job. Staff, thank you for addressing this and bringing it to the commission and to our council, city attorney. Thank you for finding these type of opportunities I know you were working hard on finding issues in our code, so thank you very much.

All right. If there is no further comment on this, then we can vote. We have a motion and second on the floor.

Thank you, Mayor. I have a motion made by Mayor Nguyen, seconded by Vice Mayor Monzo, to introduce for first reading an ordinance entitled An Ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Westminster, California, Repealing and Readopting Chapter 17.640 of the Westminster Municipal Code Appeals to Provide for a Call for Review Procedure for the City Council and Planning Commission and Making Other Minor Amendments, read by title only and waive further reading. Go ahead and call roll. District one, Councilwoman Fan West. Fan West, aye. District three, Councilmember Nguyen.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Monzo.

Yes.

Mayor Nguyen. Yes. Motion carried 4-0.

4.3, public hearing, case number 2025-0223, a request to approve zoning tax amendments to repeal and readopt chapter 17.570, affordable housing density bonuses and amend section 17.500.10. authority for land use and zoning decisions relating to density bonus law. Government Code Section 65915 and Amendment Section 17.700.010, definitions of specialized terms and phrases of Westminster Municipal Code. I would like to ask for a swap report, please.

Thank you, Mayor and fellow council members. My name is Alice, too, associate planner. So tonight I will be presenting case 2025-0223, which is a zoning text amendment to the city's density bonus law. The California Density Bonus Law is found in the state's government code. It allows developers to build more housing units, or in other words, at higher densities than what the city zoning allows if the developer provides a certain amount of affordable housing units or senior housing. Over time, the Density Bonus Law has evolved with numerous amendments to further encourage affordable housing developments, allowing for higher percentages of density bonuses and incentives. The city's current density bonus law was adopted in 2010 per the California density bonus law. On February 5th, the Planning Commission initiated a zoning text amendment to update the density bonus law to ensure compliance with current requirements. On November 5th, the Planning Commission held a public hearing and unanimously voted and recommended approval of this zoning text amendment to the city council. In this zoning text amendment, chapter 17.570, which pertains to density bonuses, will be repealed and readopted. We are also amending two other sections of the code, one of which pertains to the review authority for each permit type or entitlement, and the other is our definition section. These amendments are to ensure that these code sections are consistent with the proposed density bonus chapter. we are also adopting the state density bonus law by reference into our code. And now I will go over several of our key changes that we're making for chapter 17.570. One major change is that we are changing the process or the review authority and the need for findings. Our current code requires that the city council approve a density bonus followed by the planning commission's recommendation. It also lists specific findings for approval. Since the city must approve a density bonus if the developers meet density bonus requirements, these requirements are dated and are inconsistent with state law. The proposed code will instead require that the density bonus be considered and approved by the review authority for the housing project. So if the project requires a city council level review and approval, then the density bonus will be reviewed and approved by the council. Otherwise, it will be reviewed and approved by the approving body for the underlying project. The proposed code will also eliminate the need for findings. Another major change is that a new section will be added that lists specific development requirements. Most of these requirements are created to ensure that the affordable units are provided similarly to market rate units. For one, affordable units must be constructed concurrently with market rate units. So the developers cannot construct the market rate units first and then there's a lag in developing the affordable units. And second, the affordable units must have the same amenities as market rate units. The affordable units should have equal access to all onsite amenities that's made available to the market rate units. And if the project contains for sale units, these affordable units must also be for sale. Lastly, the proposed code will clarify submittal requirements and procedures. Our current code provides general information about the application process and procedures. It refers to submitting items in the application packet. However, the proposed code will be more specific. It will add an application content section that includes specific information that the applicant must provide for the density bonus. FOR EXAMPLE, THE APPLICANT MUST PROVIDE THE NUMBER, PERCENTAGE, AND INCOME LEVELS OF THE AFFORDABLE UNITS MUST BEING PROPOSED. THIS PROJECT IS CATEGORICALLY EXEMPT FROM CEQA FOR THE COMMON SENSE EXEMPTION. THESE TEXT AMENDMENTS ARE NOT FOR ANY SPECIFIC PROJECT AND THEREFORE WILL NOT HAVE ANY IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT. The staff recommends that the City Council uphold the Planning Commission's recommendation to approve the text amendment and introduce the first reading read by title only and waive further reading. And this concludes my presentation. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you very much. Thank you very much. At this time, I would like to open for comments from the applicant or from the appellant, if there is any. It looks like none. So we'll move on to Mayor and City Council for questions for staff, if there's any.

I have one, Mayor.

Right, okay, please.

On page three of five, where it says about adding specific development requirements, item number C, it says if the project contains for sale units, then the affordable units must also be for sale. And the affordable units, would they be for sale at an affordable rate or at a market rate?

I'm sorry, the affordable units?

Yeah, it says if they're going to be for sale, they must also be for, if they're going to sell the market rate units, they must sell the affordable units as well. And the affordable units will be sold at the lower income level, right?

To meet the density bonus requirements, so they're providing affordable units. If those affordable units, yeah, they must be affordable.

Yeah.

They must be affordable.

At the affordable rate.

So Vice Mayor, the way this would work is they would give us the affordability level that they're shooting for for the units during the entitlement phase. The state has income guidelines worked out the buyer of those homes would have to fit into that guideline, and per federal guidelines, they are not allowed to spend more than 33% of their income on housing, so the sale price would be based upon that 33% of the set income levels, and the price would be accordingly to that income level. To that rate, okay, thank you.

All right. If no more question for staff, I would like to open up for public comments. Is there anyone sign up for that?

I have one speaker, Terry Raines. Okay.

The only corrections I suggested that were made to this ordinance were minor typos. After several emails, I thought it best to share my concerns with this council. On page seven of the proposed ordinance is the following definition. Affordable housing agreement, a legally binding agreement between an applicant and the city to ensure housing remains affordable or available to senior citizens in accordance with provisions of applicable law or a negotiated development agreement. When I asked staff why they added seniors to the definition. The reply was, the term senior was inserted because it is used within the Destiny Bonus Law as a defined separate category of units. Importantly, the passage you, me, are stating does not apply only to senior housing. Yeah, I knew that. It applies to that housing that remains affordable or available to senior citizens.

Those affordable housing agreements- I'm sorry, may I stop you for a minute? Clock, please.

Those affordable housing agreements would apply to an income level or specifically to low income seniors. This response did not make sense to me. This is merely a definition of an agreement, not a passage. In my opinion, the definition should read something like a legally binding agreement between a developer and the city recorded to guarantee specific units remain affordable for a set period. ensuring compliance with state density bonus laws government code 659 15 at sec period by putting in a single category it's no longer a general definition even with the or phrase on page eight is the following definition extremely low income households households whose income does not exceed 30 percent of the orange county median income as published and periodically updated by the State Department of Housing and Community Development as more specifically set forth in Section 50105 of the California Health and Safety Code. When I asked why Section 50105, originally cited incorrectly as 50150, was cited instead of the actual state law that defines extremely low income households, section 50106, staff's response was section 50105 was used due to be, which states that very low income households include extremely low income households, as defined in 50106. This response still didn't make sense. Why direct the reader to one code only to be redirected to the correct specific code? Definition expressly states in part, quote, as more specifically set forth in section blah blah blah, it should be 50106. On page six, section H reads, any project utilizing the density bonus provision shall be subject to all replacement requirements for low and very low income housing as required by state law. When I asked why lower income wasn't used to encompass all, the response is we are not using the term lower income because that term is vague and not defined in state law, whereas low, very low, and extremely low are defined in state law. and have specific income thresholds. The response didn't make sense. Government codes section 659.15 literally states in part, if the dwelling units have been vacated or demolished in the five-year period preceding the application have been subject to recorded covenant ordinance or law that restricts the rents to levels affordable to persons or families of lower or very low income. Two, the proposed Section 8 omits moderate, which must also be replaced, hence why 659.15 uses the term lower. Again, these are corrections that I presented to, when it went before the Planning Commission, I sent emails to you and the city attorney about these changes. Again, I don't do it for my health, but I think if we're fixing the code, let's fix it up right. And that's my comments for this, thank you.

I have no further speakers.

All right, thank you very much. At this time, I will entertain if there is any motion.

Mayor, before we proceed, can somebody from staff respond to those inquiries from the member of the public?

Yes. So, Vice Mayor, the ordinance has been run through the city's attorney's office on multiple occasions. The ordinance was crafted by the city's attorney's office with input from staff. We are confident that everything in the ordinance meets what is required by state law. And the idea between this is we are adopting state law by reference with this ordinance. That means that instead of codifying everything within our code, we are taking state law and saying we are making it our code. This keeps us from having to continuously readopt the ordinance every time the state makes changes. So the majority of the law is being adopted by reference. So we are adopting directly state law. The other sections, as I said, have been run by the city's attorney's office and have been found to be consistent with what the state requires for those sections.

Is that city attorney?

Correct. We had one of our land use specialists, actually the Planning Commission Council, who's been doing this for a very long time, and she's a very smart woman, and she looked at this very carefully. So if she tells me it's great, I listen to her.

Okay. I move approval. I second it.

I'm sorry, I missed the motion.

Motion by Council Member McLean.

Thank you. I have a motion made by District 3, Council Member Nguyen, seconded by Mayor Nguyen, to introduce for first reading an ordinance entitled, An Ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Westminster, California, Approving Zoning Text Amendments, Case Number 2025-0223, to reappeal and readopt chapter 17.570, affordable housing density bonuses and amend section 17.500-010, authority for land use and zoning decisions relating to density bonus law government code section 65915ETSEQ, and amend section 17.700.010, definitions of specialized terms and phrases of the Westminster Municipal Code, read by title only and waive further reading. I'll go ahead and call roll. District one, Councilwoman Fan West. Fan West, aye. District three, Councilmember Nguyen.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Monzo?

Yes.

Mayor Nguyen? Yes. Motion carried 4-0.

All right, that will move us into regular business. 5.1, lease agreement with United States Postal Service, USPS, for city-owned property located at 13761 Golden West Street. I think this one, do we need to have a staff?

Motion to approve, Mayor.

Okay. Second. All right, motion and second on the floor.

I have a motion made by Vice Mayor Monzo, seconded by District 3 Council Member Nguyen, to authorize the City Manager to approve and execute the lease agreement between the City of Westminster and the United States Postal Service for the property located at 13761 Golden West Street, and authorize the City Manager to approve and execute the commission agreement between the City of Westminster and Jones Lang LaSalle Brokerage, Inc., and approve a budget adjustment to general fund, general city contractual account, 2000-43090, and to account for this transaction. I'll go ahead and call roll. District one, Councilwoman Fan West. Fan West, aye. District three, Councilmember Nguyen.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Monzo.

Yes.

Mayor Nguyen.

Yes.

Motion carried 4-0.

5.2, adoption of the personnel policy manual and introducing the first reading and ordinance to update sections of the municipal related to personnel and the dissolution of the personnel board. I move to approve.

Second. I have a question for 5.2. As far as the personnel board is concerned, it's here that The board has not actively met for 2013, 15 and 17. Is that because we haven't had any cases for them to hear on or what's the reason?

Yes?

Both.

Because we haven't had any.

We haven't had interested folks to serve on to create a quorum and at the same time we haven't had anything for them to consider.

well I think this is one of those situations I personally think one of the situations where I think as a council, we should be always looking to have a community input on situations. I mean, if we take them out, then we're excluding the community in the process of this, of the process of policymaking. And if it's not such a big deal, let's just, I think we should be wanting and trying to get the community's input is my position. So I'm against the disillusion of the personnel board myself. I mean, I understand what you're saying, but maybe we can...

know times change maybe now we have enough members of the public that would sign up to serve on this board so all right you don't mind if i answer this one so we went back through the years and we could not find any meetings that had been put together with the commission but in addition to that our mous specifically state that any issues that need to be resolved go through arbitration So that takes a lot of the responsibility that would have been commissioned away from them into the hands of arbitration. And then lastly, we are one of the only cities that still has that as a commission with the city. And so at this point, we don't really, I don't really know which direction to go in with a personnel commission.

So you're saying the MOU commission Doesn't have a policy to listen through, have it go through a personnel board?

No, if there's some discrepancy, we go to an outside arbitrator, and that is a negotiated understanding between us and the unions that we cannot bypass.

Is there another method that, I mean, there'd be certain cases that would, that don't need to go to this arbitration that could go to a personnel board?

We would have to change the MOUs, so we would have to go back and negotiate that with the unions again.

Well, is that coming up shortly?

It is.

So maybe we can approve the remainder, but come back and revisit this during that time?

Would it be helpful to kind of get some examples of what a personnel board would even consider? Sure, sure.

Well, for me, I would love to have the community involved and share the workload. But at the same time, if we haven't used it for the last several years and we don't have a good reason to come back and create the board, then why doing that? So unless you have a good reason that we need to have people on this board to help City Council or to help the city, then I will vote for it. But at this time, I don't see anything. We haven't even talked about it for the last couple years. So I still stand by with my motion of this solution of this personnel board.

I second it.

Well, can you give me some examples of... when something like this will go before the Personnel Board?

So we can certainly get back to you on examples, but in my experience it's very rare that a city would have a Personnel Board. It's not a typical function. There are some instances that I'm vaguely aware of, but I would have to do more research to get back to you specifics, but it's certainly not typical. One of the main reasons is that you're adding an extra level of staff already has their own bosses and then you have a third party that is interjecting in business and it makes lines of communication and who do I work for much more difficult to administratively cities historically are moving away from this model which is not to say that you can't do and it serves functions we could certainly look into what that would be but in my experience is fairly limited but again I would have to do more research

May I ask you, I believe that if I hear you correctly, you said that the city of Washington is the only city have that right now.

One of very few. When we tried to find them, we were having a hard time finding other cities that had a personnel commission.

All right, thank you. What kind of process do they have in other cities typically?

Well, remember our MOUs are really what we go off of. So we go through a long and intensive negotiation that decides how we're gonna move forward. And then if during any random day, if something is a discrepancy, then we go through arbitration. We go through a process of grievance and then arbitration. So a personnel commission wouldn't sit on or hear that the way that our MOUs are written. And I believe that our, I feel comfortable speaking for the union that they're quite comfortable with going through a third party arbitrator at this point. We haven't had a commission in over 20 years.

To answer your question on what other cities do, they also include it in their MOUs.

Okay. I just want to make sure that we have every opportunity to involve the community in decisions here in our city. That's my point. All right. Thank you.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. All right. I believe that Council Member West just seconded it, but I do have Council Member Mark Nguyen seconded my motion. So between you guys, you can motion and second. I can withdraw mine if you want to.

I thought you motion, I second it.

He seconded it before you.

Are you okay with her to second it?

All right, so motion by Mayor Nguyen and then seconded by Council Member West.

I have a motion made by Mayor Nguyen, seconded by District One Councilwoman Fan West, to adopt a resolution entitled A Resolution of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Westminster, California, Adopting the Personnel Policy Manual, and introduce and conduct the first reading of an ordinance entitled An Ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Westminster, California, Dissolving the Personnel Board by Repealing Sections 2.68.060, Personnel Board Appointment Membership Term Vacancy Filing, and 2.68-070, Personnel Board Powers and Duties Generally, and Amending Section 2.68.090, Personnel Officer Powers and Duties Generally, and 2.68.120, an authorized absence resignation of the Westminster Municipal Code read by title only and waive further reading. I'll go ahead and call roll. District 1, Councilwoman Fan West. Fan West, aye. District 3, Councilmember Nguyen.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Monzo.

Yes.

Mayor Nguyen.

Yes.

Motion carried 4-0.

5.3, resolution to update their salary schedule for part-time city employees effective January 1st, 2026. Is there any question on this? Or if there is any motion?

I motion to approve.

Second. Second. Motion by Council Member West and second by Council Member Monkley. Yep.

All right.

Thank you, Mayor. I have a motion made by District 1, Councilwoman Fan West, seconded by District 3, Councilmember Nguyen, to adopt a resolution entitled, A Resolution of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Westminster, California, Updating the Salary Schedule for Part-Time Employees of the City of Westminster. Councilwoman Fan West? Fan West, aye. District 3, Councilmember Nguyen?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Monzo?

Yes.

Mayor Nguyen?

Yes.

Motion carried 4-0.

5.4, withdrawal by staff, so we're not going to talk about that. 5.5, consider reallocation of America Rescue Plan Act funds from the Be Well project to the Exxon projects. I believe that this is very self-explanatory. We can't move the money. I believe that there was a public comment moving this funding to the different one. But I believe from the staff, I understand that you can only move in a certain area that's funded. So I move to approve this item.

I second it.

Motion and second on the floor.

I have a motion made by Mayor Nguyen, seconded by Vice Mayor Monzo to approve the request for reallocating ARPA funds in the amount of $1,752,568.52 from the Be Well project account number 212319 to the Axon project account number 212308. I'll go ahead and call roll. District 1, Councilwoman Fan West. Fan West, aye. District 3, Councilmember Nguyen.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Monzo.

Yes.

Mayor Nguyen. Yes. Motion carried 4-0.

5.6, consider reallocation of American Rescue Plan Act funds from the general administration allocation to the critical infrastructure technology upgrades for digital security projects and approval of amendments number two to the professional services agreement with the infinity technologies. This is the same as the previous item, so move to approve. Second.

I have a motion made by Mayor Nguyen, seconded by District 3 Councilmember Nguyen, to approve the request for the reallocation of ARPA funds in the amount of $800,000 from the general administration allocation, account number 212300, to the critical infrastructure technology upgrades for digital security project, account number 212305, and approve amendment number two to the Professional Services Agreement with Infinity Technologies, increasing the not to exceed amount from $150,000 to $1,410,000. and increase the term from 12 months to 36 months and authorize the city manager or her designee to execute amendment number two to the amendment in a form approved by the city attorney. District one, Councilwoman Fan West. Fan West, aye. District three, Councilmember Nguyen.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Monzo.

Yes.

Mayor Nguyen.

Yes.

Motion carried 4-0.

5.7, consider sponsorship for Midway City Sanitary District open house.

Mayor, I motion to do the gold sponsor of $2,500. Second.

Motion and second on the floor.

I have a motion made by Vice Mayor Monzo, seconded by District 3, Council Member Nguyen, to approve a sponsorship in the amount of $2,500 to the Midway City Sanitary District Open House. District 1, Councilwoman Fan West. Fan West, aye. District 3, Councilmember Nguyen.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Monzo.

Yes.

Mayor Nguyen.

Yes.

Motion carried 4-0.

5.8, approval of professional services agreement with MIG Inc., qualified consultant for the design and development of the Little Saigon Archway. Is there any motion for this one? Motion to approve. Seconded.

I have a motion made by District 3 Councilmember Nguyen, seconded by Mayor Nguyen, to approve the professional services agreement with MIG to design and develop the Little Saigon Archway in an amount not to exceed $55,268 and authorize the city manager or designee to execute the agreement on the city's behalf. I'll go ahead and call roll. District one, Councilwoman Van West.

Before I vote, briefly, you know, Archway is very important in this community. Majority, you know, of the population are refugees, but there's issue that we cannot talk about in closed session. I have to abstain, so my answer is abstain.

District three, Councilmember Nguyen.

yes vice mayor monzo um before i just want to make something clear i mean i know there's some cultural um you know pride that goes with this but To me, this is supposed to be inclusive of everybody. So I'm in agreement to have it. And I stated that many times because many, many communities throughout our nation have these type of archways depending on the community. But I just want the Vietnamese community to know this is for everybody. This is not just for the Vietnamese community. This is supposed to be an investment into hopefully that we generate more revenue out of that business district. and it should be accepted by all, and it should be by all, not just for one demographic. So my vote is yes.

Mayor Nguyen?

Yes.

Motion carried 3-1 with District 1, Councilwoman Fan West abstaining.

So the vote was 3-0 with an abstention. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Thank you for clarification on that. 5.9, appointment of vice mayor. First of all, before we go deeply into that, I want to thank Vice Mayor Manzo for his dedication and, you know, with working along with him. Over the year, we have a lot done for our community. So I want to take this opportunity to thank him for the time and the effort that he put in. And since this is a rotation, Vice Mayor, so I'm going to move to a point or a motion to have Council Member Mark Nguyen as the Vice Mayor for the next year. Is there a second to that? I second it.

I have a motion made by Mayor Nguyen, seconded by District 3 Councilmember Nguyen to appoint District 3 Councilmember Nguyen as Vice Mayor for a one-year term. I'll go ahead and call roll. District 1 Councilwoman Fan West. Can you come back to me?

I think that we need to move on. We can come back, you know, because you need to move on with vote.

Then I abstain.

I don't see why. Okay.

District 3, Council Member Nguyen.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Montauk.

I'm just going to make a comment here. I mean, I want to be honest with you guys. I originally was going to abstain from this, but in the spirit of being a team player, I want to support Council Member Mark Nguyen because I also believe that everybody should take a turn to be vice mayor. I just, you know, hope that he can carry that with integrity and make sure that he's his own person going forward. So, yeah, so in that spirit, I'm going to vote yes.

All right. Thank you. And it's a surprise for me that I believe last year both Council Member Nam Kwan and Council Member West going for Council Member McQueen, which she's just swearing in. so we uh i personally don't agree with that but uh you know this year i know that uh council member mark win already you know um on board and he was also a president if you don't know about it he was a president of the midway city senate hair district and he ran effectively yeah you know and so i i my vote is yes thank you uh motion carried three zero with one abstention All right, thank you very much to Vice Mayor Menzo, and now our new Vice Mayor is going to be Mark Nguyen. So congratulations to you.

Thank you, Council, for the vote.

The next item is going to be the commission and committee item, and we are talking about 7.1, Measure Y and E, Citizens Oversight Committee Annual Report. May I ask, is there a person presenting this? Thank you. Is it Michael Varengia?

Mr. Michael Varengia?

I don't know, but... His name's on there. Who is going to present this?

Good evening. I can give you a quick summary of the report, and then the committee chair is here, Mr. Varengia, and he can speak, too, if you have questions. But just a quick summary. As part of the Measure Y and E report, approval, a citizen's oversight committee was established and it's made up by council appointed members who meet twice a year to review the budget and the financial statements and part of their responsibilities are to prepare an annual report and present it to the council and that's what is attached to this report. The committee met several times and reviewed documents. So they met on January of 24 to get an update on Measure Y. They met again on March 26 of 2024 to review the annual comprehensive financial report for fiscal year 22-23. They met in May of 24 for ethics training. They met in November of 24 to review the budget for fiscal year 24-25. On April 2nd of 2025, they reviewed the annual comprehensive financial report for fiscal year 23-24 and the mid-year budget review for fiscal year 24-25. And also on June 3rd of 25, they reviewed the fiscal year 25-26 proposed budget. And then just to recap the revenue that the city has received from measures Y and E since implementation are as follows. In fiscal year 22-23, this city received $3.6 million from measure Y. In fiscal year 23-24, the city received $15.4 million from measure Y. The estimate for fiscal year 24-25 was 21.8 or 21.9 million, and the budget for 25-26 is 22, almost 23 million. And like I said, Mr. Ferengia is here if you have any questions.

Yes, thank you very much for your report. I may ask Chair Michael Ferengia for additional report.

Thank you, Mayor. I'll put on my other hat now. I'm no longer the private citizen. I'm the chair. Please don't ask me about anything technical about the report. That's way above my pay grade.

I understand. You just stepped into this role not too long ago, so don't worry.

Absolutely. One thing that we were really, I guess you'd say, excited about was the fact that Westminster had a balanced budget. A lot of cities work hard to get to that point. A lot of cities really aren't quite able to do it. But it looks really good. I would love to see this continue on to the next year. But that's up to you folks and how you spend the money, what you spend it on. There was a couple of things that you voted on this evening that are extremely important. And that's the Axon program and also All of you are cut. I just went blank. I'm sorry. My wife's going to kill me for this.

No worries. No worries. Thank you very much. I know that, you know, I mentioned that you just stepped into this role, but you already take charge as a chair for the committee. So I appreciate, you know, for taking additional responsibility. Thank you very much, Mayor.

It's been different for me because I'm not – somebody who dealt with a lot of that. Going back a lot of years when I was on the school board, I was a little bit different. But it's getting back into this. But Ms. Bax keeps us going in the proper direction that we're supposed to be going.

You make me proud because I remember I was appointing you into that. That's correct, sir, you did. So you step up. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. With that, I move to approve, receive and file.

Yes, I have a question for the finance director. When does the report get out to the community, do you know?

We were waiting for this to be presented to the council, and then we'll send it out.

Okay, thank you.

All right, I think I have motioned it to receive and file. Is there a second to that? Second. Second. All right, second by Council Member Mark Nguyen.

I have a motion made by Mayor Nguyen, seconded by Vice Mayor Nguyen to receive and file.

All right, I'm sorry. I have to call you Vice Mayor now. All right, thank you.

I'll go ahead and call roll. District 1, Councilwoman Fan West. Fan West, aye. District 2, Council Member Monzo.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Nguyen.

Now it's your turn.

Mayor Nguyen.

Yes.

Motion carried 4-0.

All right, 7.2, request for parking restriction on the west side of Magnolia Street between Westminster Boulevard and Hazard Avenue for the third southbound traveling, T.C.92-105. Is there any question on this? Or any motion?

Motion to approve, Mayor.

Second. There's motion and second on the floor.

I have a motion made by District Two, Council Member Monzo, seconded by Vice Mayor Nguyen, to adopt a resolution entitled, a resolution of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Westminster, California, providing for no parking or stopping at a certain location on the west side of Magnolia Street, south of Westminster Boulevard. I'll go ahead and call roll. District One, Councilwoman Fan West. Fan West, aye. District Two, Council Member Monzo.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Nguyen?

Yes.

Mayor Nguyen? Yes. Motion carried 4-0.

Okay, we still have a time and at this time before we go into auto communication concerning non-agenda items, are we okay to continue or you want five minute recess?

No, I'm good.

Continue.

Continue, okay, all right. So I will open up for auto communication. But before that, would you please read the instruction in the record and also ask for the first speaker.

Thank you, Mayor. This is the time of the meeting that members of the public may address the City Council regarding any non-agenda items that are within then the subject matter jurisdiction, unless otherwise extended by a majority vote of the city council, comments shall be limited to three minutes per speaker. Any person wishing to address the city council in person should complete a yellow speaker slip, which are provided at the entrance to the council chambers. Submit the card to the city clerk's department. When your name is called, please step to the podium at that time and state your name and city of residence for the record. First speaker, Michael Varengia, followed by Deborah Mariscal.

Okay, the other hat's on now. It's all right, I'll wait.

Can I hold up for a minute, please? My apologies, I do have the comment before this oral communication so that you can understand. Before I open for public comments, I want you to know that we welcome your inputs. Please keep your remarks respectful and polite. I also want to address some rumors that have been circulating around as they do not reflect the facts. Let me be crystal clear on a few points. Regarding to the rural center, I've mentioned at our last meeting, nothing is changing at the center except that we are beginning a fair and open process to select an operator who meets our city new objective and requirements. That's very clear. Please, please, it's my time. Use of the center. The use of the center will remain the same. The term multicultural center was mentioned and emphasized that it will continue to serve as a cultural venue for all ethnic cities within our community. This was discussed at the last council meeting in response to the question that Council Member Nam Quang went. The third thing is the financial expectation. The city will not subsidize any expenses for the qualified operators selected to run the center. In fact, the city may request for a fair share of any revenue generated. City access, we want to make sure that the city will reserve the right to use the center for certain city hosted events throughout the year, such as breakfast, Christmas breakfast that we just had, or the council's weighing in, you know about that already. So I just want to make sure that city And then from the last meeting, city staff have been directed to work with the consultant and the city council to develop necessary requirements before issuing our FP in search for a qualified operator. With that, I would like to open up the floor for public comments, and I'm sorry to interrupt you, so you may continue now. Thank you.

All ready? Yeah, thank you. Okay, thank you. That brings up one of the points that I was going to comment on, and that was the Rose Center. That's something that really needs to be used for this entire city. There's all kinds of things that can be scheduled there. There's plays, there's concerts, performances. You could probably even turn it into a movie theater with the right equipment, but I don't want to see that sit there. vacant while people decide what they want to do because we don't want to lose something like that. The other thing, the personnel commission, I'm really disappointed in that. From what I understand, there were not a lot of people that applied for it. Unfortunately, I was one of the few people who probably applied for it. I thought that I had a good enough background being a, oh, yeah, never mind. Stop my time, please. It doesn't matter. Thank you.

Yeah, so we'll stop the time and we'll wait. Thank you.

You should probably know the rules by now, but sorry.

Was it something I said? I guess so.

I guess so.

It's called spin, spin, spin, inaudible spin.

You spin, political spin, to shut us up, to try to intimidate you.

Vice mayor.

Vice mayor.

Let's just call for a five-minute recess.

Mayor Nguyen.

I'm here.

Vice Mayor Nguyen.

Here.

District 1, Councilwoman Fenwest. District 2, Councilmember Monzo.

Here.

Mayor, you have a quorum with District 1 Councilwoman Fan West absent.

All right. My apologies. So why don't we start before beginning, please? Thank you.

Okay. Very good.

Actually, we're all used to... Before beginning, three minutes for him.

Well, that's okay. Thank you. As I was saying, Mayor, we're used to her not being here anyway, so that's not going to make any difference in this. But... The Personnel Commission, it's a shame that we didn't get enough people that applied for this. As I said, I was one of the people that applied for it, and the background in dealing with unions and being a union steward, and currently I am in another union, and I'm a union steward for that union. Being on the school board, I had background dealing with personnel issues there. So it's a shame we couldn't get enough people, because it is an important function of a city, just like it's an important function of the school district. But the people that spoke up here about the Mendez issue, and it's obvious that that family is staying away from it because of this. It's not a heartfelt issue. It was never brought up at the last meeting. And I already said my points of view on Charlie Kirk. I'm a conservative Republican. But he doesn't live here. He didn't live here. He didn't work here. He didn't go to school here. So there was no reason for his name on that sign. I would have much rather somebody brought up Sid Goldstein. It goes right down to Sid Goldstein Park. And there's a gentleman who would represent the best of Westminster right there. But that's kind of besides the point now. There's been a decision made on the sign. And there's nothing that can be done for it. But thank you for extending my time here. I appreciate it, Mayor. And good luck to everybody running for office. Good luck with that. Been there, done that. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of time and a lot of expenditure to those that go into this. It's not for fun. It's to represent your district, your city, depending on what you're running for. And I wish all of you the best. Thank you for the time.

Again, thank you for serving the community. Thank you.

Devorah Mariscal, followed by Sonia.

Council, Devorah Mariscal, Westminster resident. I really try to be respectful. That is something that needs to go both ways. Renaming the All-American Way, what an honor that we were given so many years ago to have that name and to add to it or change it. What's the point here? I mean, I've heard of Charlie Kirk before, didn't really delve into his networking or his philosophies. I still haven't done it. I've got a lot of other things on my plate. What I do know is that he had no impact or relevance on Westminster at all. Could even, could, hold on, hold on. Could even spell Westminster, because a lot of people who live here can't spell it right either. There is absolutely no reason for this change other than for political grandstanding, as we said before. And we have gotten a lot of attention nationally. I have friends on the East Coast that call me and say, what the heck is going on with Westminster? Repeal your decision on that. It's not what the residents want. I think we've made that pretty clear. As for the Rose Center, again, Charlie, we had a hard time understanding what you said, but their contract should be extended. I've been to several things there. We want all of Westminster to be represented there, different plays, concerts, whatever it is. If we need to make more revenue for that, then maybe the contract can be renegotiated. but it shouldn't just be stopped. And I think a lot of other people, hold on guys, come on. Let me have my five seconds. I think other people will probably say it a little more eloquently than I have, but we need to let them continue. Okay, so my last point, you were all elected to represent Westminster, not the county, Not the state, not the United States. Westminster. Focus on Westminster. Do what's right for Westminster. Carlos, I so appreciate you standing up, you know, against some of the other things that other people have had. Now I'm going to quote Leonard Nimoy as Spock. The needs of the many. outweigh the needs of the one, the one, the one, the one.

Sonia, followed by Nick Papaduke. Nick Papaduke, followed by Robert Harrison.

First, I'd like to apologize to Mayor Nguyen. Patience is not my forte. So if you can forgive me for my outburst. Let's see, where was I? Oh yes, I was going to address the Charlie Kirk decision this time. This is a mistake for two reasons. The first reason was that you chose, obviously for very political reasons, the most divisive figure on earth. And I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you have no idea who this guy is or was, that somebody told you that this would be a good idea. The person who told you that this would be a good idea, they are not. very good advice for you because this was a mistake and it wasn't going to be made better by doing this. I hate to bring up another agenda item, but it's directly related to why these seats are empty right now. And there's a good reason that they're empty. And I think you realize what it is. They didn't want any part of this. This Charlie Kirk business has nothing to do with Westminster. Freeman Boldy would have been better. Myrtle Nowse would have been better. Eldon Gillespie would have been better. I can give you a dozen names of people in Westminster and what they all have in common is that they supported multiculturalism. They were not uniculturalists. the way Charlie Kirk was. He believed that one culture, that a civilization couldn't survive multi-culturally. This is what he thought. This is his belief. He is against immigration. He's against what you've accomplished here. I assume you have no idea who this person was and you have no idea what he was doing and what he was saying. Now that you realize it, you have to step up and do the right thing. You have to be a man, admit that you were wrong, you were uninformed, you took bad advice, and you're going to make it right. You're going to have to do that without a bargaining this for that. That's, you can't do that. That cheapens something that somebody did that was valuable, that was historically meaningful. This Kirk guy is gonna be forgotten in three years. He's another podcaster. That's all he is. That's all he's for. And you've done that. You've betrayed the public trust, really. We trust you to not pull stuff like this. to not change names for political gain, which is all this was, and it's transparent. Everybody sees through it. They saw through it. And I hope that you do the right thing and step up. Thank you very much.

Just briefly, you apologize and I apologize, but I just want to let you know that we have the non-agenda item and non-agenda item, so that's why I didn't stop you at this time.

Mr. Mayor, city council staff, I want to start out with integrity. November 1st, 2002, the city of Westminster wants to pay homage to a local hero, Sid Goldstein, one of the most acclaimed, decorated soldiers of World War II, received the Distinguished Service Cross, our nation's second highest honor. He received the Italian Cross of Valor for Korea, the Legion of Valor. Sid Goldstein resided in Westminster for 41 years, served as mayor, and was active in veteran and civic activities. Freedom Park was named for him and the Vietnam War Memorial placed there. The city later renamed a small section of Monroe Street All-American Way as a testament of the sacrifice, honor, and patriotic service of Sid. And all that paid the ultimate price during the Vietnam War, the 58,000 Americans, 300,000 South Vietnamese, are honored with Freedom Park and All American Way. More integrity, Marjorie Rice, Kermit Marsh, Frank Fry, Tony Lamb, Russell Paris, Charles Smith, Greg Mandeville, they represented all of the city of Westminster and not any political party or special ethnic group. This needs to be said. Hate me if you want. Westminster, an all-American city made up of Asians, 50%, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, white, about 24%, Hispanic, 25%, others. A predominant controlled city council by the Vietnamese does not represent all of the citizens and keeps trying to change the landscape of Westminster for Vietnamese only. Forward to 2025, November, Charlie Kirk, patriotic, modern day St. Paul, great Christian values, probably never been to Westminster, never served in the military, that Freedom Park and all American way is meant. I like Charlie, okay? However, his name does not belong. It's a political, a couple of council members running for higher office honoring Charlie Kirk by adding his name to All-American Way to enhance their political appeal. But the national matter, it's not for just Westminster. This has created community division, conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, Republicans, Being on the city council should be an honor, focusing on city fiscal challenges.

Thank you. Division. Thank you.

Janice Roby, followed by Connie Cohan.

What happened? My name is Janice Roby.

No, no, go ahead. All right.

My name is Janice Roby. I've lived in Westminster for 39 years. I'm going to read an obituary of Charlie Kirk. So Charles James Kirk, 31, died from a gunshot to the neck at Utah Valley University campus event, just as he was trying to deflect a question about mass shootings by suggesting that they were largely a function of gang violence. He died with a net worth of $12 million, which he made by espousing horrific and bigoted views in the name of advancing Christian nationalism. The foundation of his empire was the group he co-founded and led, Turning Point USA, which is a key youth recruitment arm of the MAGA movement. Kirk was able to launch Turning Point at the age of 18 because he received money from Tea Party member Bill Montgomery, right-wing donor. Foster Feis and his own father, also a prolific right-wing donor. He was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist. who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct. I don't think you should name that street after him. Thank you.

Connie Cohan, followed by Donald Link.

Okay, first I'd like to say before I forget, I want to give kudos to the Public Works Department. And I have a really hard time finding the way to really mention their name in public where everybody hears it. And I'm going to forget the name of the woman who answers the phone. It might be Jessica. I may have that wrong. And Mr. Wade. During the rains, we had graffiti that was in our neighborhood, and he managed to... I called a few days before, and then I was wondering, well, when is this going to happen? And they managed to take care of it before the rains, which was a really big deal because then it was going to be... lot of mud to get through so I want to really just thank them very much and I know that there are very few hands to do those jobs so any monies you can get toward more employees to take care of that we'd love that when I think of the Rose Center and thinking of it as being reimagined into a cultural center, I have to say you have to commend the people who've been running it for many years because even last year, Even last spring when I was there, hearing Mr. Nelson's voice telling us no food in here. We're going to keep this very nice forever. And they have. So I really recommend that you figure out a way to work with these people because they have taken care of that building and take care of the community and bring children into it. So I really appreciate that. And... I am not a friend of Charlie Kirk, nor would I ever be, and I strongly encourage you to change your decision. Thank you.

Donald Link, followed by Richard Martucci.

Questions that I don't really know the answer to. Is the Rhodes Center owned by the city? Yes. The building that the city owns? Yes. Okay. Well, don't you pay for your buildings when you own them? Go ahead. So why do we complain about there's, what, $50,000 a year to take care of the Rhodes Center? And say it's the money that you've been losing?

It's just money you pay in your bills.

You got a million dollars for an arch that would take care of the Rose Center's expenses for 20 years. Right? And that would be for everybody. You know, people from outside this city come to the Rose Center. How many things do you have that attract people from outside this city? They choose other places to go in Orange County. They took care of the places they got and developed them to attract people. We're trying to just keep people away, I guess. Like I said in a post I did, you kind of try to build not a cultural center, but a cultural wall. We don't need that. Is there going to be conflicts of interest to whoever you give to run the Rose Center? There was no conflict of interest with the friends of the Rose Center, and nobody could disagree with that statement. They were doing a good job as you paid for a study to say that that's what was a fact. They were running the place pretty good. They were underfunded and undermanned. Need to pay, spend more money, you probably would make more money. But it shouldn't, and conflicts of interest are gonna come up, and the question of conflicts of interest are gonna come up with the catering part of it, with the cultural part of it. So I'd watch myself, thank you.

Richard Martucci, followed by Don Anderson. Don Anderson.

I'm Don Anderson, president of the Friends of the Rose Center Theater Board of Directors. On November 12th, 2025, Mayor Wynn, Vice Mayor Wynn, and Council Member Wynn voted to not renew the lease with the Friends of the Rose Center to operate the Rose Center Theater. The Friends has been operating the theater for the past 20 years. During that time, over a million guests have been in the theater and thousands of individuals have performed their community groups and others. Ironically, The consultant hired by the city to evaluate the theater told you the Friends of the Rose Center Theater was a professional, well-run nonprofit organization and a perfect fit to operate the Rose Center Theater. When you voted not to renew the lease with the Friends of the Rose Center, you took away from the residents of Westminster a wonderful community theater for some as yet unknown use. I believe there is a solution to keep the Friends of the Rose Center Theater at the Rose Center and accommodate the unknown use. Have the City Council bring this matter back for reconsideration to use the large vacant banquet facility for the unknown use and renew the lease with the Friends of the Rose Center Theater to operate the theater.

Chuck Tyson followed by Dylan Slayton. Chuck Tyson. Dylan Slayton.

Good evening, Council. My name is Dylan. I'm an alumni from Westminster High School. And I'm also, during that time, I was a proud member of the Orange County Academic Decathlon Team. And the varsity team leaves the team. I'm proud to have advanced to the third place in the competition in 2020. That being said, nowadays, I am a constituent and voter of District 1, and I'm also a licensed engineer in training in the state of California. In my studies for becoming an engineer in training, I took a course called economic analysis, or cost-benefit analysis, depending on where. And I see this as relevant to the renaming of Charlie Kirkway, because I see a particular problem with it, which is that People are going to want to steal a sign. And so there's really one of two options. Either you put enough security in preventing the sign from being stolen, or you just let it happen and just buy a bunch of copies in bulk and pay for the labor of replacing them as well. And I can't tell you which is cheaper, but I can tell you that there is a cheaper alternative to either of those, which is to not rename the street to Charlie Kirkway. And with that money saves, we could also fund the Rose Center. Thank you.

Ken Tran, followed by Eric Cota.

Hello. Good evening, Westminster City Council members. My name is Ken Tran. I'm an American-born Vietnamese Westminster resident of District 1. I'm here tonight to ask the council to rescind the decision to re-designate All-American Way as Charlie Kirk Way. So as a recent graduate at Cal State Long Beach, I got the opportunity to meet Charlie Kirk to rally on campus this past May. And when I went to the rally, I just went past the class, and I just wanted to see what was happening, right? And I wanted to see an honest discussion between students and the guest speaker, because, you know, Supposedly, he's this person that brings college students to engage in civics. But however, I saw a performance meant for social media. Students who asked questions were talked over, interrupted, dismissed, and later, only the most embarrassing clips were shown online, making these students look unprepared and making them look, making him look superior. That's not the kind of person, behavior, or leadership we should honor with a street name. Like many Vietnamese Americans, my parents came to this country fleeing communism and working hard to rebuild their lives. Immigrant families like mine and many like yours helped build Los Leones and shape the identity of Westminster. But Charlie Kirk has said word for word, we have way too many legal immigrants coming into this country. He claims that people like us take jobs and train the system. That's insulting and it's simply not true. We work, we pay taxes, we run our businesses, we contribute every single day. This decision also creates real economic risk for our city. The Charlie Kirkway news has already spread beyond Westminster. It makes us look divided and extreme and affects how people view our cities. Businesses may not want to open here. Visitors may choose to spend their money on other cities like Garden Grove or Fountain Valley. Our tourism, our restaurants, and our small business depend on Westminster being seen as welcoming. We're kind of controversial. And we have to acknowledge the biggest fact about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk has never done anything for Westminster. He has never lived here, has never served here, never volunteered here, until now he has never stepped foot into our city. There is no meaningful connection between him and Westminster. All American Way already stood for unity, patriotism, and all of us working together. Renaming it after a polarizing outsider damages our reputation and divides our city, I respectfully ask the council to rescind the decision, restore All American Way, and choose symbols that honor our real community. Thank you.

Eric Cota, followed by Louise Larson.

Hello again. I kind of made my point earlier, so I'll be succinct. Like I mentioned, I come from a multicultural background. I have family who are Vietnamese. I have an honorary Banoi. I love Banru. I love the culture, and I think that that is part of what makes Westminster great, is this multiculturalism and the diversity. So when earlier the motion, I believe it was five point, in regards to the archway in Little Saigon, I think it's... a great way to celebrate different cultures. Financially, I'm probably not the best person to make fiscal decisions, but I do understand the need for community in having icons such as an entryway to Little Saigon. However, I do see the irony in having that when you are promoting a street name for someone who is racist, who has made racist statements as demonstrated by my fellow constituents speaking earlier. Additionally, as this gentleman said, you are losing the trust of your people when there's like almost like a flagrant and seemingly intentional um to a point where it can be laughable disregard for our opinions seemingly and i do you know i respect that you've sat here and taken a lot of criticism i'm sure this is one of the first meetings where there's been a flame under your your guys's chairs um so i respect you know thank you for listening to us but again that is your job so um i would implore you to listen to your constituents and rescind a decision that seems to be fiscally irresponsible as well as culturally divisive and just not good PR for Westminster. Someone was saying people on the East Coast are mentioning Westminster and it's not like all good press is, like bad press is good press. People are gonna know the city for that and it's gonna cheapen the look of the city. People aren't gonna wanna do business here and it's just not, it seems like a net loss. I don't know who would want that. I don't know who's winning from it. So it just seems like something that needs to be thought about more and I just ask kindly that you rescind that street name. Thank you.

Louise Larson followed by Nancy.

Good evening, council. I'm Louise Larson, resident of Area 1, and also the chair of the Democratic Club of Westminster. And I'd like to start my comments out tonight by saying, calling on all of you, hang on, Mayor Wynne, you must be a fan of Donald Trump's because he falls asleep in meetings too. I would really appreciate it. You're just resting your eyes, okay. Well, I would appreciate it. We stayed up late. You're being paid to be here. And we are here to talk to you, okay? So, what I would like to say is all of you should please rescind your vote immediately, pronto. And the reason why is because you don't care about the ethics on it. You don't care about how ugly it looks. You don't care that you've basically sold your own people downriver for some weird vote. But I just want you to understand it has an economic fallout. I want you to pay attention. There is something called conscious consumerism. And if you don't understand what that is now, oh boy, are you going to. I want to explain to you that every decision that you've made about the naming of the American Way with Charlie Kirk's name on it is going to ripple through the community. And the day that sign arrives, you're in trouble. There is going to be a lot of costs with signs being taken, but it's a national issue. You're going to have complications that are going to affect your businesses. That means people are going to be embarrassed to buy things here, everything from the things that target to You know, Honda and Toyota of Westminster, Lexus of Westminster. I mean, we are, this embarrassing, hideous story is going to ripple through American culture, and many, many people are going to boycott buying here, specifically because of your dumb vote. Okay, I really beg of you to rethink this and rescind it. pronto the other thing I want to mention before I run out of time is that you you didn't extend the lease or you didn't want to extend the people to keep on working at the Rose Theater. That's another economic loss. What kind of thing... Do you not want Westminster to have income and revenue? Let me explain to you something. Just sitting dormant for the next year, you already have a problem with, what is it, like 140,000 of... dollars that cost the city just in catering losses alone. And that's not counting the income that the Rose Theater brought in. I believe I just checked, they brought in over $500,000 last year.

Thank you.

Nancy, followed by Holly Margulies. Good evening, Councilman.

I'm a resident of District 3, and I'd like to say thank you for being the only one that stood up and not voted like the rest to rename the All-American City Street to a bigot. Amy Febwest, to you, you told me to get my facts straight. My facts are straight. Facts is that Charlie Kirk did not believe in the civil rights movement, meaning you wouldn't be up here if that was actually true. So with that, I would just like to be done with it. So please rescind your vote if you guys want to be up there again.

Holly Margulies, followed by Julie Kennedy.

Good evening. My name's Holly Margulies. I've been here since August 1972, and I was born on D-Day, so you can figure I'm 18 reversed. Anyway, Amy, you're in my district. Charlie is my neighbor. So I appeal to the whole board that... I want you to appeal your thought and save the Orange County Rose Society. I belong to the Rose Theater, I'm sorry. I belong to the Rose Society and we planted those roses that are there. So I would like the Rose Theater to continue. It has been available to all of the Orange County citizens to experience under the talented Tim Nelson, who I had the privilege of working with when I taught at school. His leadership is really wonderful. It's not only good for the adults, but hundreds of children were able to experience his theater. I hope because they got to experience dancing, music, and seeing the actors afterwards. It is marvelous. They're not watching movies. They're not on the telephones. They are experiencing something wonderful. If you do away with it, you're taking away from the community. It is for the whole community. No matter what nationality or ethnic background you are for, it's a loss to the city of Westminster and to Orange County. And if you get older and you walk those aisles to get into your seats, you've got plenty of room. It is a gem. Do not lose it. Do not deny the children, Mark. Charlie, Carlos, and Amy, the opportunity for them to do. It is a draw point for everybody. And also, American Way is for all of us Americans, all of us, unless you were born here, years and years ago, are all immigrants. And as Charlie said to me one October before he ran, you need to vote for me because I'm an immigrant. Well, I'm an immigrant and all of us. We need to keep our city, Charlie, Amy, Carlos, and Mark viable. We have the Westminster Mall. If you wanted to make that a terrific culture center, go for it. Thank you.

Julie Kennedy, followed by Joe Krall. Julie Kennedy.

Joe Krall.

Michelle Burkich. Alex Voss.

Good evening, Mayor Nguyen, council members, and staff. I'm here tonight because the community is deeply concerned about the city's decision to remove the Friends of the Rose Center Theater after 20 years. This change impacts far more than a building. It affects families, students, cultural groups, and the identity of Westminster itself. For nearly 10 months, the Friends worked in good faith with the city during contract negotiations. During this time, the city commissioned a $30,000 study, which placed the Friends in the top 20% of theater operators nationwide and praised their financial strength, leadership, and operational excellence. The study recommended co-management. The city would handle the ballroom, and the Friends would continue to run the theater. This would have allowed the city to expand cultural programming without eliminating the theater program. Yet the council voted 3-2 to reject that recommendation without identifying a single performance issue, operational concern, or financial deficiency. In fact, the city repeatedly acknowledged the Friends have been doing a really good job. Even more concerning is the city's new vision to repurpose the building into a cultural center, overlooking one critical truth. The Rose Center Theater is the cultural center. The theater hosts an extraordinary range of cultural organizations, Vietnamese dance academies, Tet celebrations, Korean cultural showcases, choirs, Chinese orchestras, cultural associations, Filipino community events and youth festivals, Asian American ballet schools, taiko drummers, and multicultural groups. These cultural organizations make up nearly three quarters of the theater's annual rental calendar. The Rose Center is already doing the work the city claims it must repurpose the building to do. Financially, the Friends raise over $450,000 a year independently. The cities only cost $70,000 in utilities, which the Friends agreed two additional fees to offset. That amount is less than the cost of maintaining a single small park in Westminster, and far less than the millions spent on projects like that bike lane no one uses. The friends asked for no funding from the city, no subsidies, no increase in taxpayer costs, only continue serving this community. Meanwhile, the community has spoken. On change.org, there's over 1,500 signatures on a petition to save the Roe Center in less than two weeks. So tonight, I ask you, why was the DNA study rejected? Why eliminate a top-ranked, self-funded operator with no performance issues? Why create a second cultural center when Westminster already has one, and when the theater already fills that role? And if these questions can't be answered clearly, why not reconsider the vote? Thank you.

Sharon Han.

Good evening.

I don't have any fancy speech. written or I just came up here because I saw a post on the West Newland community thing and there was going to be a peaceful protest in regards to you naming or not even naming, renaming some of it to Charlie Kirkway. And I just wanted to come and give my support because I commend you for trying to do something that maybe is positive for the community. And I kind of felt that you wouldn't get any of that here. And so I wanted to come and give my support. I was a huge follower and I've heard a lot of things out tonight. I'm on a lot of different posts everywhere. I follow a lot of stuff and I firmly believe in researching information and I've heard a lot of comments about things that were said or what beliefs are for Charlie and those aren't true. And if you do, extensive research instead of just what people post as, oh, he said this, but you have to look at the whole picture, which they do to a lot of companies in the communities and they bash people. but they only take out tidbits of what's being said, and then they try to polarize that in the community. So I wanted to just come and give my support for it. My understanding, because I tried to do a little research before I came in here, is that you aren't renaming it All-American Way to Charlie Kirkway. You're actually just putting a subtitle underneath, which I think is commendable to you guys. So I do appreciate that, and I just wanted to come. I hear a lot of... I kind of was a little confused because I've learned parliamentary procedure when I was younger, and I was like all over this agenda because I was very confused. Nothing was going as according in the order. There was a lot of people outspoken, and that's not typically... allowed and then I hear a lot of name calling and all kinds of stuff and I'm like this is really crazy. I haven't been to a city council meeting in years and years. I went to one I believe. I'm a 31 year resident. I would also like to say that I apologize for people that I don't know Sylvia Mendez and her history. I Googled it when I was sitting over there. I did see the wonderful tribute that you guys made to her years ago when you did it. But honestly, I don't know the history and I hear people throwing out there that everybody knows who she was and etc. I honestly don't being a 31-year resident here. I didn't know, not even until I saw the tribute of the statues that they had put up.

So, excuse me? That's okay. Go ahead and continue.

Anyway, I just wanted to come here, and there was a lot of things that had been said. I'm not even sure about the Rose Center, but I think it's time that I kind of started following along what's going on.

Thank you. Your time's up.

Zuan Bon Nguyen? That's you.

Hello. So I live in Westminster for over 30 years. And there were many stupid decisions that went on, but I've never seen anything like this. How could you, four of you, that foreign-born foreign-born people that voted for a guy against foreign-born. You know that he was against foreign-born people? I mean, if it's up to him, you wouldn't be here. So why? And I think, why are you doing this? You're running for Congress, and you want to use the city as a stepping stone. And you don't care about what the residents say. You just want to step on us and get your way. And you know what? That's a wrong thinking, because you think people will vote for you for this? People won't. People won't. You're showing people that you're not listening to the resident of the city, which you won't listen to your constituents. Right? Am I right? You just want to be selected. So I am asking you, If you still want to serve the city, if you still want to serve the city, resign your votes. Otherwise, step down, because you're not serving the city of Westminster.

Brian K followed by Brian Hong. Brian K. Brian Hong.

Hello, my name is Brian Hong. I'm a resident of Westminster, born and raised, 22 years. As a lot of people have already said, you know, Charlie Kirk did awful things, said awful things, all that sort of stuff. Everyone, you know, everyone gets it. One thing I want to mention as a member of the younger generation is that Charlie Kirk is kind of a joke now. There's a lot of memes going out, things being Kirkified, the whole Charlie Kirk AI song. So just renaming the street to Charlie Kirk way is kind of embarrassing. Someone asks where I'm from. Someone asks, oh, where's your city hall? Oh, yeah, it's on Charlie Kirkway. Like, that's kind of embarrassing. And then the fact that it's not going to be the whole street, but just a subtitle is a little more embarrassing, because why not just go the whole way? Anyway, I think the decision is, at best, frivolous and indicative that you guys don't really care about what's going on in Westminster or don't know what's going on in Westminster. It seems kind of incompetent. Menzo, thanks for saying no, at least. I'm sure you do other cool stuff. One of our district members isn't even here, which is a little annoying, because I've noticed there's only maybe two meetings a month, and they're often canceled, so we can't even speak to you guys. For Amy Phan, I've seen your Instagram. You're a little weird, a little strange. Are you recording me right now? Oh, she does that? Hi. Maybe I'll see myself on the live. But anyway, I'm really hoping that in 20 years, I don't have to take my kids around Westminster and explain to them why there's a street called Charlie Kirkway and who Charlie Kirk was. I'm definitely not going to explain to them who you guys are because you guys will not be remembered then. Because what are you doing for us? You're changing the name to someone who has done nothing for Westminster. has no relation to Westminster. My own mother, who's sitting back there, has done more for this town. Most of the people sitting in here has done more for the people in this town than Charlie Kirk ever has and ever will. What he's mostly known for is spreading hatred and vitriol and divisiveness and getting shot. And now that he's dead, what he's known for in my generation is a bunch of really poorly made AI-generated jokes and a really bad AI song. Thank you.

Thang Tran, followed by Helen Tran.

My husband is Thang Tran. We came with our little girl, and she couldn't sit through the whole thing, so we had to take her home. I'll speak on behalf of both of us. My name is Helen Tran. I know I don't look like a typical Tran, but my husband really does look like one. Honestly, this is really, really hard for me. I'm painfully shy and petrified of public speaking. So it's just a testament of how important this is to me and how much the Rose means to me, my family, and really our entire community. My family has been going to the Rose for years. Our elementary school takes field trips over there to watch shows. I serve on the board of my son's middle school music department, and we have one musical a year, and that's at the Rose. You take away the Rose, then our students lose their home. You already know that an independent survey determined that this is not fiscally responsible, so obviously there's other reasons why you want to remove it, and I understand that there's more things that are important than money, which is why you should keep the rose. The Rose Center has value beyond profit. It is where schools perform, it is where churches gather, and it's where children's lives are forever changed.

My eldest is almost 15 now.

Three years ago, you honestly wouldn't have recognized her at all. She gained confidence, strength, and joy, and she got it all from the Rose. And as personal as this feels to me, she's just one number of thousands of kids and adults and seniors whose lives has been profoundly changed by having the safe, loving environment where they can create on stage. People flock from everywhere to see them, to spend their money in Westminster and support the local talent. And now it's being taken away. And it's not just from a Middle Eastern Vietnamese family, but from families of every culture and every background. And that is just heartbreaking to me. So I assume the rose was chosen. for the New Vietnamese Cultural Center because of the memorial next to it. But that memorial honors American soldiers and the Vietnamese who fought with them. Together, it represents a shared history. So the Rose should remain a shared space. Thank you for your time.

Jody Boyd, followed by Travis Blank. Jody Boyd. Travis Blank.

Hi, council members. Thank you for taking all of our comments tonight. I appreciate it's been a... little heated at times, but I'm just here to kind of echo on the previous speaker from a personal standpoint, what the Friends of the Rose meant to me, to my family, and I think also to the city of Westminster. So my son is, you know, he's a performer and Sometimes it's hard for boys to be in performance. It's not necessarily a thing that you see often or a thing that's embraced in a lot of families. But he grew, and he was really embraced in the family of the Rose. And Tim Nelson, who's the director of the Rose, if any of you haven't taken the time to meet him personally and to take the time to have conversations with him and see what he's done in the community he's created, I would encourage you just to have that conversation. And after that conversation, if you still in good conscience feel that you can keep the same vote that you had originally, then that's up to you. But I would take the time, understand what it is that's going away. There are performances, one coming up this coming weekend. There's another one at the end of the month. If you're not going, please take the time. Just see what comes in through those doors and watch and feel the people. You'll see that it's valuable for this city and for all of us. In addition, I think it's beyond Westminster. These performers, these children who come up into this environment, they go out into the world. My son's in New York now. He's at his first year in university. And I promise you, he thinks of The Rose as his home. It's his place. And he talks about it to the people there in New York. He will be on Broadway one day. I'm very confident of that. There are other performers who've come through that cycle with The Rose and they also are on Broadway now or have been on Broadway. They talk about these things in a larger scope, these things of love, inclusivity, things that matter to all of us in this room, no matter what. I don't want to get into the whole sign thing, I think that everybody in good faith is voting their conscience. I mean, if you think Charlie Kirk was a good man, put up a sign. If you don't, you'd be against it. I do know, because I've personally experienced it, the Rose Center Theater is nothing but good. And the Friends of the Rose were founded in 2006 by Mayor Rice. She was a big proponent of the arts. And I don't think it's something we'd want to lose in Westminster. And actually, in all... In all transparency, I'm from Fountain Valley. My son's from Fountain Valley. But these neighboring communities come to and look to the Rose as a place where we can go. We can still go because the arts are under siege. Around the world, it's just undervalued. So thank you for your time. Thank you.

Dean Bobar, followed by Roger Mindrum.

Hi, thank you for this time. I, too, am not currently a resident of Westminster. I live in Huntington Beach. My family and I have lived there for 16 years. But for several years, I actually grew up as a youth and then a young adult in Westminster. So it's part of my history, part of my heritage. Just lived right down off of St. Mary's Circle, just right down the road in Westminster. And when I lived there, had neighbors, a couple that participated in the Rose Theater And I also know church members at a church that I've been connected with, and most of all through my own kids who have participated in Rose Center Theater. And I'm not here to speak so much against the cultural center idea, but to speak for the Rose Theater. And I don't know all the ins and outs of the cultural center I just want to urge you guys to get creative and think of some solutions to honor both. How can we pursue both things, whether it's at that building, whether it's both working in there or another place for the cultural center or find another space to make both things work. I just want to speak a bit about what it means to my family and I. We were shocked when we heard about it when the e-mail came through through our connections on Thanksgiving week. Part of that is, It's just been a great time where we've experienced so many shows. Our oldest daughter and our second child, our son, have done many shows there. And like Helen, our kids have really grown up. They've gained confidence, skills. They've learned about endurance, being part of a team. That's our sports. And so I really don't want to see that loss for our family, lots of other families, for the community. It's really an intergenerational place. where community gets to come together around the arts, experience joy. And so I just really want to encourage you guys to think outside the box and think of different ways to honor both the Cultural Center idea and the Rose Theater, and just to really reconsider that. And I don't know what that looks like, but I think that perhaps there might be other solutions. Thank you.

Roger Mendrum, followed by Bonnie Castry.

Good evening, Roger Mendrum. So basically, I'd like to speak about the Rose Center. I implore you to change your mind on this. Hopefully, I doubt if you've read all of the emails. I've read some of the emails from some people. And please, read those emails, people's stories. of their families and their children and what's helped them. My daughter was in theater from elementary school through high school, and it's the outcasts you see in school that might be sitting by themselves that a theater program When they're kids, they take them in. They're safe. That's their safe place. And I've gotten to know a lot of the theater kids when my daughter was in theater. And that's their family. And the cast... that's in the Rose Center, that's a family. And you can see kids all the way through, pretty elderly adults. And reconnected with a friend actually Saturday when I went to the gala show there. And he's done 34 shows there. Mr. Tim Nelson was his sixth grade music teacher. And I don't know how old he is, but he's up there probably close to me. Another thing is a really quick Google search, Friends of the Abbey was what the original name was. This is a simple Google search, 2003. Friends of the Abbey, I guess they're now the Friends of the Road Center. The organization's, their mission Organization primary purpose is to help defray the cost to the city of Westminster for the construction and operation of a community Cultural Center in the city of Westminster. It's already a community center. So What should have been done? Before you voted on this, I don't believe you guys did much homework at all. For one, you need to go back and reread that theater DNA study. I don't know how much it cost. Was it $10,000 or was it $30,000? You paid for that. And then you just blew it out of the water. It's already a cultural center. There has to be enough time in the yearly calendar that you can put on more events. The building is just a building. The building is a gem. It's a great theater. But the people who run it, the actors and the singers and the cast and the crew, they're the gem. And we are going to miss it. You have no idea. I hope you have an idea. I hope you get a clue of what this city and what this community will miss if that's gone. If Mr. Nelson is a, the guy's a genius. He's playing four instruments right in front of us doing the music for the play. There's three or four other musicians there too, but I can see he's playing a flute. He's playing several instruments. So please reconsider.

Bonnie Castree, followed by last speaker, Terry Raines.

Good evening, Mayor Nguyen, and honorable members of the City Council. I'm Bonnie Castry, a longtime member of the Huntington Beach Union High School District Board of Trustees. As you know, I've spoken with you in the last couple of meetings regarding the Rose Center. It's important that the Rose Center continue to be run by the current management team in my opinion. I'll not reiterate all of my comments from the last couple of weeks because I'm sure that you already have heard them and had an opportunity to review them as they're always on your tapes. I was here the afternoon that you all received the verbal report from your consulting team whom you hired to investigate the center's operations and to make recommendations regarding those operations of both the banquet operation as well as the theater. The Rose Center, as you are separately managed, in that report they acknowledged that the theater was very well run and among the top theaters in the United States. They recommended the continuation of the current arrangement with the Rose Center. And they recommended to you and told you that it's a respected community cultural resource. I emphasize cultural. Therefore, I was surprised to learn that you failed to act positively on this part of the report. I'm here tonight to appeal to you to revisit the report and to read its full recommendation again and to reconsider your 3-1-1 vote to discontinue the contract with the current management team. Reconsideration of that decision can be handled quite easily parliamentarily with a member who voted yes to simply make a motion for reconsideration of the decision. Then if the motion is seconded and approved, the issue can be discussed again and you can reconsider your vote. I think you've heard from our community tonight, our large community, not only the city of Westminster, but of the community of Orange. I suggest this is the theater. at the Rose Center is the cultural icon for all cultural modalities, including visual and all performing arts. Moreover, as the study apparently found, its activities support all ethnic groups. And it has a high concentration of Vietnamese participation, which my understanding is that you're looking for more of. It would indeed be tragic to lose this wonderful, culturally diverse center for the performing arts, art lovers. Thank you. Thank you.

Last speaker, Terry Raines.

United we stand, divided we fall. Only one council member lives by that motto, Vice Mayor Manzo, who God willing will be our next mayor in 2026. The rest of you are hell-bent on dividing this community along racial, religious, and partisan lines. The decision to honor Charlie Kirk on an all-American way is an insult to the very people that define our city, the very people you're supposed to represent. Westminster is one of the most racially diverse and immigrant-rich cities in California with a large population of Vietnamese, Latino, and other communities who built this city culturally, economically, and historically. This Kirk redesignation of All-American Way is not only unwanted but fundamentally misaligned with our values and our people. Honoring a national political figure known for strong rhetoric against immigration sends the wrong message about who belongs here. Listen up, Charlie, Amy, Mark, and Nam Quan. You're foreign-born immigrants from Vietnam who came after the fall of Saigon. Kirk's comments were often hostile towards immigrants and people of color and were socially exclusionary and dismissive of multicultural communities like ours. If Kirk had his way, you would not be living in this country, let alone holding public office. Kirk's outspoken promotion of Christian nationalism clashes with Westminster's multi-faith landscape, which includes Buddhists, Catholics, Protestants, and the Jewish community. The street redesignation is a blatant, hyper-partisan campaign maneuver that will literally destroy a unifying landmark in favor of a divisive activist with zero ties to our city. Don't politicize our inclusive civic space. All American Way is home to the Peoples, City Hall, Police Department, Roe Center Theater, Coastline Colleges, Le Chiao Campus, Sid Gold, St. Faria Park with the Vietnam War Memorial, and the Library and West Justice Center are right around the corner. The name All American Way is inclusive to us all. Westminster won the All American City and Community Award from the National Civic League in 1996 for dealing successfully with racial and ethnic diversity and discord. It was the only city to receive the award that year, soon after All-American Way was born. Newsflash, your constituents are not all Republican or Vietnamese or Christian, and they don't even agree with this. City Council is a nonpartisan, nonreligious seat, and you must represent us all. California's Constitution explicitly states that city elective offices shall be nonpartisan. So listen up. We're done with your bad decisions, and we're done with you, Charlie, Amy, Mark, and Nam Kwan. We deserve fair, nonpartisan, secular leadership that supports all immigrants, respects all faiths, represents all ethnicities, and protects all of our city assets. You four are not it. Don't vote for Charlie or Amy for Congress in 2026, and don't vote for any one of these four for city council ever again. And I have something for you, Charlie, that I want you to hear because it's your own words and we agree.

I am a piece of shit.

Yep.

I am a piece of shit.

I'm so glad that's the one truthful thing you've said.

Thank you.

Mayor, I have no further speakers.

All right. Thank you very much.

Mr. Mayor, may I briefly address?

No, I'm first.

Okay, go ahead, Mr. Mayor.

Let me finish my first, okay?

Not a problem.

I'll be briefly talking about it.

Yes.

You know, attracting or curting the whole speech that I have is not the right thing to do. And that's a shame, whoever doing that.

Now...

Let me briefly tell you about two things, about the Charlie Kirk way or American Charlie Kirk way. I respect you for your opinions. You have your opinions. I hear you, okay? Leave it that way. about the Rose Center. I have told you everything already. I'm not going to repeat that again. But some of the things that you don't know, let me tell you. Number one, this is the second extension that Friends of Abby asking to extend it. Okay, this is not the first time. The second time they asked to extend it. Now the second thing that I have for you, I want to reaffirm you that we are not doing away We are not doing away. It's just that we have, the organization have ran this, operate this for 20 years already. We need to have a fair process to open up for anybody and we welcome, we already said that, we welcome to have a fair enough lobby. Go ahead and submit it to, you know, and apply for it. And so that we can, you know, we can review, the council will review and then vote on that. It is an open process and it's a fair process. You think that there is a non-organization operated for 20 years that you sign contract with them for another 20 years, do you think it's fair? I think it's not fair. We need to open up for people to come in and vote for it. No. No. Yeah. Well, I hear you.

Mayor, we're supposed to make brief comments.

I understand. But please, let me finish. I am done, okay? I'm done with that. So at this point here, We are open for the open fair process, and we welcome Friends of Abbey to apply for it. Let us, like I said, not do away, but we are going to work with the consultant to come up with new requirements. That's it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. For those of you who came up to talk, spoke about the Rose Garden, Rose Theater, I really appreciate that. Because for me, as a council, I'm really saddened that the majority three, Mayor, his brother-in-law, Mark Nguyen, and also a councilman Nam Quang, have voted to stop the theater from happening in our city. And as a mother, wife, and a resident in the city of Westminster, my husband and I have been in many plays growing up, and we love theater. And not only that, we have our kids in theater as well. I know, I vote no. I vote no with Carlos Monzo. So you guys can go back to it and look at it. But anyways, what I'm saying is that we can change this course around if we have the mayor or his brother-in-law or Nam Quang to reconsider with Monzo and I to bring this back for addressing it. But the thing is that I understand deeply the value of arts and culture enrichment at the Rose Center Theater. It brings our community together completely and I agree with that. And every Christmas, my children do plays for the homeschool group, and I understand how valuable it is because they get to show and they find confidence in those play and playing. So I think it's important when we take away the theater, we're taking away their avenue of finding confidence in another way of growing up and building that characteristic. So for me, I plead with the mayor and the vice mayor, Mark Nguyen, and, you know, Nam Quang, Councilman Nam Quang, to reconsider. I think it's very important. We're taking something away that is valuable to this community. But not only that, I believe that the people have spoken, and I think we need to hear that.

Mayor, you know, first of all, I think we're getting out of what, you know, parliamentary process that we're supposed to be making a brief comment. And time and time again, we're doing these big, hard-out comments and speeches and not at the appropriate time. We should be waiting. These type of comments should be way to the end.

So go ahead and make your brief comment.

No, that's my point. My point is that we're not being professional up here and following the proper process in city attorney.

And I got you. Go ahead and make your brief comment right now.

Yes, I am. I can go on here and tell you many, many reasons why canceling the... agreement with the Friends of the Rose Center is so irresponsible and destructive. I mean, and I'm going to speak on that later on, and I just want my colleagues in between now and then, I hope to you and your conscience can see how you're just destroying lives, destroying lives of thousands of people in our community. So between now and the end of council comments, I hope you guys think about that, and I'll make some more comments later. So thank you.

All right, thank you. This time, please. Okay, this time I've closed the oral communication for non-agenda items. No more discussion. we will move into business matters from city council and agency members. And that is 9.1, consider request to change street name sign at the intersection of Golden West Street and Main Street at the entrance of Westminster High School in honor of severe amends. Is there any question on this? I believe, let me go back. This item brought in by Council Member West, so why don't you take the first shot at it.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, council member. I really appreciate that. Tonight, this item 9.1 in honoring, basically honoring to bring forward an agenda item. I am honored to bring forward this agenda item that hold deep historical significance, not only for Westminster, but for our entire nation. I am proposing that we rename the west portion of Main Street with staff help, which is off of Main Street and off of Golden West, to Sylvia Mendez Way in honor of a woman and a family whose courage helped change the course of America's history. Mendez versus Westminster in 1947 was one of the first federal court decision to strike down the school segregation in the United States, declaring the separation of Mexican-American children unconstitutional and paved the way for Brown versus Board of Education. As California governor at that time, Errol Warren supported the case and signed the bill that ended school segregation in our state. Later, as Chief Justice of Supreme Court, he wrote the anonymous Brown decision that extended those same principle nationwide. Mendez versus Westminster was not just a California victory, it was the crucial first step that made Brown versus Board of Education possible and help secure equal education for every child in America. This is not just a story we read about in textbooks. This is Westminster's story. This is our legacy, and we have a responsibility to preserve it. The location I'm proposing for Sylvia Mendez Way lead directly into Westminster High School. No better place than that. Every day, hundreds of students walk, bike, and drive down this road on their way to pursue education. An opportunity where Sylvia Mendez and her family fought to secure all children regardless of their background or ethnicity. By renaming this street, we are ensuring that the future generations understand the impact this family had. We are reminding our youth that justice often began with ordinary people choosing to do extraordinary things. And we are publicly acknowledging that Westminster played a pivotal role in the fight for equality in America. This renaming is more than symbolic. It is a commitment to honor the past, educate our present, and inspire our future. I encourage my colleagues tonight in the community to join me in recognizing Sylvia Mendez and her family for their historical contribution. Let us honor them in ways that withstand the test of time. And now, Mr. Chair, I ask for a second to my motion to approve this agenda as is.